Only I Level Up: Ragnarok - Episode 28
Only I Level Up: Ragnarok Episode 28
“for a moment.”
For a moment, Suho felt a sense of déjà vu..
Looking back, all the recent events were connected..
Gwanaksan Field.
hyena guild.
Seoul Station Field.
And they had one thing in common.
“……These are all places that were created a year ago..”
[Kehehe? Come to think of it! I guess the extraterrestrials have been hiding on Earth for a year now.!]
“1It was years ago…….”
Suho decided to start from here..
“Well then, shall we look in reverse order? If you look through dungeons, fields, and guilds created a year ago, you won't find anything else.?”
If we find the devil, we will be able to further strengthen Volkan's horn, and if other traces of outer space are found, that was fine..
[Oh oh! As expected, our Solord is a brilliant man! Hehehe. It seems like just yesterday that we were teaching addition and subtraction.…….]
I decided to ignore Ber who was making a fuss for a while..
Just then a thought occurred to me..
“okay. it was there.”
1The most famous region in Korea a year ago.
The scene of that terrible disaster.
“Magog.”
Suho’s eyes sparkled..
* * *
Hunter Association Surveillance Department.
“……Even if I shake it off, it keeps coming out..”
The more team leader Han Jae-hyuk investigated the headquarters of the destroyed Hyena Guild, the more absurd he became..
Even 100 pages of reports would not be enough to list all the evil deeds that the Hyena Guild has done so far..
Among them, all crime-related matters were transferred to the police hunter..
The areas the association intensively investigated were those outside the scope of the law..
Representative examples include things like ‘stardust’..
……In fact, stardust was not technically a drug..
So it wasn't particularly illegal to use it..
But that doesn't mean we can continue to neglect medicine whose identity is unknown..
The Hunter Association has continued to investigate how stardust was made and who made it, and this time, they finally got a clue from the Hyena Guild's home base..
transaction ledger.
When and how much stardust did the Hyena Guild purchase?.
And then I found a ledger that recorded how and to whom it was sold..
From this, it became clear that the Hyena Guild was one of the distributors of stardust..
If I climbed on these guys, I might be able to find out who is making the stardust..
“But who would have thought that there would be people who bought stardust even while going into debt?.”
“This should also be seen as a form of debt. If you used stardust to go to higher level dungeons, you could have repaid that much debt quickly..”
“With the money he earned, he would have visited the hyena and bought stardust.?”
“In the end, only the hyenas in the middle continued to spend money. There is no such thing as a truly creative economy..”
But the real problem was that most of the hunters in the ledger were ‘missing persons from the past year’..
Most of them probably fell prey to the boss mob that controlled the hyenas from behind..
However, as I continued to examine the ledger, I discovered something strange..
Among those missing, there were people marked with a red line..
Among them, there were many non-awakened debtors who were not hunters..
“What are these people? Is there something different??”
“uh? manager! take a look here!”
A subordinate showed some data to Team Leader Han Jae-hyuk..
“If you look here, the date that a large amount of stardust was received in Hyena and the date that these checked missing people went missing are the same day. without exception.”
“……That's right.”
“Is there something to do with it??”
“Hmm.”
There was only one thing that came to mind right away..
“……No way, I exchanged it for stardust.?”
“People and stardust?”
Team leader Jaehyuk Han looked through the ledgers again from the beginning..
And in the end, I discovered one fact and my eyes lit up..
“Are you sure. Although there is a quantity of stardust purchased by the hyenas in the ledger, there is no information on how much they actually paid for it. It means she didn't pay..”
“Well, really? Could it be that stardust was paid in people instead of money? Why??”
“I'll have to find out about that from now on. If the hyenas didn't make the stardust themselves, then the people who made it…….”
It was then.
An urgent phone call arrived at the surveillance department..
“manager! A report has been received!”
“What report? I'm busy right now…….”
“Who discovered the Stardust Factory?…….”
“Change it right now!”
* * *
When team leader Han Jae-hyuk received the report and arrived in front of the Seoul Station field, the whole situation had already ended..
“What on earth happened?!”
There, the survivors held in the factory and the hunters who rescued them were sitting there, looking exhausted..
“So to speak, it's long.…….”
The attack leader explained everything that had happened so far to team leader Han Jae-hyuk..
“Factory? Are you saying they were making stardust in here? Who? devil?”
The more I listened to the explanation, the more the puzzles of the case I had been investigating these days began to come together in my head..
But now I don't have time to sit calmly and think about it..
“yes? Is that really true? Who's left down there now, fighting the demons alone??”
“yes. He said it would buy us time to escape... … Go first... … Hehehe! Please quickly go in and save me.!”
For a while now, Assistant Professor Lim had been stamping his feet and worrying about Su-ho’s safety..
At least in his eyes, it seemed like Suho had barely defeated the first demon he encountered..
But there were as many as 10 such demons in the factory..
‘Suho told us not to worry and that he would get out on his own, but he was probably just saying it to reassure us. That guy again… … ! He was trying to sacrifice himself for us like he did in the Korea University dungeon.!’
Team leader Han Jae-hyuk, who heard all the explanations, held the weapon he brought with a grim expression in his hand..
“All right. We'll go right in..”
thud!
Team Leader Han Jae-hyuk's weapons were two steel shields large enough to cover half of his body..
The moment the two shields were held in his hands, his entire body was covered with a transparent aura..
‘ironclad speculation?!’
The moment he saw that, Assistant Professor Lim belatedly recognized who team leader Han Jae-hyuk was..
This means that he is Han Jae-hyuk, a C-rank tank whose skills were recognized enough to receive offers from several famous guilds..
Now that I see it, all the hunters lined up behind him look amazing..
‘That's it! Suho is alive!’
Team leader Han Jae-hyuk led the association hunters into Seoul Station with an extremely dependable appearance..
Then, suddenly, I looked back in front of the entrance and asked the last question..
“Oh, by the way, what level is the hunter left below??”
“Huh. that is…….”
The attack leader hesitantly opened his mouth with a slightly embarrassed expression..
“He is an E-class collector..”
“……yes?”
“…….”
The attack leader felt unfair..
Suddenly, the association hunters were looking at themselves as the world's scoundrels..
It was really unfair..
* * *
“I'll have to find out about Magog as soon as I get back..”
Suho finished all his errands and left the factory..
But when I actually tried to go up to the ground, I felt something was disappointing..
It was because of Brockie..
“It's been a long time since I extracted such a strong person as a shadow soldier, but it's a shame to let him go like this..”
The extraction time of the shadow soldier is approximately one day..
After that time, the extraction is canceled on its own and returns to nothing..
Also, I don't know when I'll be able to get a magical beast of this level again, so I wanted to use it as usefully as possible..
[Then, why don’t you take a spin? There are still many lizards left nearby..]
“I should do that.”
While I was leaving, I decided to clean up this field..
“Brockie.”
[Crumble!]
Brockie became a shadow soldier and lost his ability to speak..
But since his intelligence was the same, there was no need to explain this and that at length..
“Grab everything.”
[Kyaoooo!]
For a beast, Brockie had a very good sense of smell..
Upon receiving Suho's order, Brockie searched for the lizards hiding throughout the field and bit them all to death..
And the bodies were brought in and placed in front of Su-ho one by one..
Now, the level of protection has increased so much that the lizards have gained less experience, but it was still a great mountain..
“And it's all about money.”
[Chureup. Solord, may I be presumptuous, but since there are so many, I also take a bite.…….]
“One bite…….”
[A small person is like a bug..]
It was Ver who tilted his head at Suho’s joke..
Suho, who had been hunting lizards with Brocky at the forefront, was suddenly wearing the crow mask again..
Previously, I used it to pretend to be the youngest demon among the demons, but this time it was for a completely different reason..
Actually, this item had one minor function..
[Item: Crow Mask]
Difficulty of acquisition: E
Type: Miscellaneous
Suspicious masks worn by demons.
When used in a dark place, your vision becomes brighter..
You can keep it in your inventory or sell it to the store..
‘It's better than night vision glasses..’
Thanks to my increased sensory stats, I was able to identify objects even in the dark, but it was nice because wearing the crow mask made all the stuffiness go away..
Since each demon had one of these useful items, Suho even brought all the masks of the factory demons..
But the problem started from there.
“It's the devil!”
“huh?”
[Kiek?]
At that moment, the association hunters who entered the field encountered Suho, who was wearing a crow mask..
I had already heard from hunters on the ground that demons were wearing raven masks..
Moreover, next to Suho stood a huge hyena, Brockie, looking extremely evil..
“attack!”
“No, wait…….”
Before Suho could even open his mouth, the hunters' attacks began to pour in, all aimed at Suho..
ring!
[An urgent quest has arrived.]
ring!
[Urgent Quest: Kill the enemies!]
‘There are people around with murderous intentions toward the player.…….
“Oh, not this one. refusal, rejection.”
In the end, because of their survival, they even left the urgent quest..
The moment when Su-ho urgently refuses the quest and takes off his mask to reveal his identity..
Whoop!
“I'm in charge of this guy.!”
Team leader Han Jae-hyuk, who had already come within a stone's throw, swung his shield at Su-ho..
At that moment, the other hunters all attacked Brockie..
“Wait a minute what I said…….”
“ironclad speculation!”
flashing!
A transparent shield aura came towards Suho like a huge barrier..
[Little Lord!]
Ber's urgent cry.
Suho ended up tightly squeezing the hand that was trying to take off his mask..
‘From the moment of suppression.’
Whoop!
In an instant, a black aura was overlaid on his fist..
And a strong blow.
He suddenly threw it into the transparent shield that was pressing on him..
But with that one punch.
[muscular strength : 45]
Wow-!
“uh?”
Team leader Han Jae-hyuk's body, which was attacking Su-ho, was bent at a right angle and bounced off in a straight line along with the shield..
and.
Kwaang-!
It got stuck in the wall far away..
“……uh?”
Suho, who threw his fist, was so dumbfounded that he stopped in that position..
The eyes of the association hunters who witnessed the scene grew wide..
“manager……?”
“What is that…….”
Quarr.
The wall where Team Leader Han Jae-hyuk was stuck collapsed, revealing his face with rolled-back eyes..
I just passed out..
[Hmm. Is this roughly the case for humans? Well, I've been investing all my stats into strength..]
Beside me, Ber was nodding, saying it was an entirely natural result..
Suho took off his crow mask with an awkward expression..
“Let’s solve it through conversation.?”
“…….”
Hunters, both you and I, quickly nodded at those words..
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