Level 1 Player

Chapter 15 Players Association (1)

‘what?’

Hyunseong was not a bit bewildered by the sudden appearance of the players.

When Hyunseong felt the players’ presence, he ran away first.

So far, players have never seen Hyunseong first.

But now it was different. The moment Hyunseong felt his presence and tried to avoid himself, the players appeared.

‘It’s high-level.’

It was certain.

Hyunseong has a huge overspec than the players who hunt in the Red Mane Wolf dungeon.

Normal players were not even aware of Hyunseong’s existence.

But this time, on the contrary, Hyunseong was unaware of the existence of his opponent.

‘It’s so gorgeous.’

The equipment was also brilliant.

It was like wearing tens of millions of dollars on your body.

“Are you okay?”

The woman asked Hyunseong.

“Yeah, that’s fine.”

“You look messed up. Have you ever met him?”

Hyunseong asked the woman’s question with a puzzled expression.

“Is that him?”

“A high-level monster that you can’t see in the Red Mane Wolf dungeon.”

At the woman’s question, Hyunseong was terrified.

‘I met him, but I already hunted him.’

But he couldn’t reveal it.

‘It looks like they are high-level players who have come to catch the three-headed Gradon.’

The situation was roughly assumed.

The existence of the triumvirate Gradon became known and the extermination squad moved.

“Yes, we met.”

At Hyunseong’s words, the woman’s expression brightened.

“Where is he now? Is this neighborhood?”

A woman immediately came up to Hyunseong’s nose and asked.

At that tremendous speed, Hyunseong paused for a moment and stepped back.

“Oh, I didn’t mean to surprise you. Come to think of it, I was too rude to the one who barely saved my life.”

Then he pulled something out of her arms and handed it to Hyunseong.

“You seem to have injured your left arm, so this might help.”

Hyunseong suddenly accepted the thing.

[Potion of Lesser Healing – Rare Grade]

– Heals wounds quickly.

‘It’s expensive.’

It was a rare grade consumable.

“Come on, spray it on your arm.”

Even with the woman’s words, Hyunseong couldn’t help but pour the potion.

His left arm was slowly healing.

Heal skills can also be used when the magic power is restored a little more.

After a while, he couldn’t afford to spend this expensive potion on an injury that could be healed by a skill effect.

“I have something more to tell you. It’s about the monster I met… … .”

“Yes, tell me right away.”

“It was a large three-headed leopard. His fur was dark red.”

“Have you never seen such a monster before?”

The woman tilted her head.

Her colleagues also sent a gesture that she had never heard of a monster.

“He was the size of a house.”

At Hyunseong’s words, the woman’s eyes shone sharply.

If she was the owner of the footprints she saw on the way, she would probably have been that big.

“I went that way.”

“thank you.”

At Hyunseong’s beckoning, the woman began to sprint with a short greeting.

‘It’s very fast.’

Again, the top players were at different levels.

Hyunseong, who quickly grew stronger with the power of leaps and titles, was only a child in front of them.

If the trio had been caught by them, it would have turned into fish meat in less than a second.

‘I’m glad I caught it.’

What if Hyunseong didn’t get the triple mark?

Probably, the trio would have roamed the dungeon and attacked other players indiscriminately before meeting the kill squad.

‘The damage must have been enormous.’

The damage was reduced thanks to Hyunseong pulling the three-headed aggro and hunting alone before the kill squad arrived.

‘The reward was also salty.’

Even if high-level players who are subject to the 20-level rule catch the trio, all they can get is a corpse.

However, Hyunseong took the triple mark and acquired two titles and one skill.

It is a situation where they benefit from each other.

‘Well, they’re going to do some shit training.’

No matter how hard you search, you won’t be able to find the triumvirate that has already become Hyunseong’s skill.

* * *

“Looks like this is the end.”

The kill squad stopped in front of the dimension gate.

I searched the red wolf dungeon like this, but in the end I couldn’t find the trio.

“Isn’t it possible that he passed through the dimension gate again?”

“It could be. But then things get worse.”

He’s the one who came over and tasted human blood.

He never knows when he will come over and attack the players again.

“Let’s report to the association first.”

“all right. I will report.”

The man who took the lead moved quickly.

‘By the way, did that person get out of the dungeon safely?’Shin Yoon-a, the leader of the killing squad, had a worried expression, remembering the player who met in the middle and gave information about the trio.

She said, ‘I think I lost all my party members and barely survived.’

At the time, I was in a hurry and didn’t even think about it.

The fact that the red-maned wolf he encountered along the way is not a big deal to him, but is a threat to low-level players who have lost party members.

‘I should go now.’

“I am waiting here.”

“Where are you going?”

“I’m interested in the player who was left alone, so I’m going to go.”

“You will be fine.”

“You are alone. Red-maned wolves can be dangerous.”

With those words, Shin Yoona ran with all her might to the place where she met the player who had provided information earlier.

Shin Yoona, who arrived at her destination in an instant, moved toward the dungeon entrance.

‘No.’

But there wasn’t.

She didn’t find the player earlier until she reached the doorway.

He thought that he would be struggling alone or rolling his feet in the middle, but he wasn’t.

There was only the corpse of a red-maned wolf that had been slaughtered in the middle of the road.

* * *

Hyunseong arrived home.

He looked like he was going to die of exhaustion.

Fortunately, the injury to his left arm was cured before arriving home.

It was the power of the Book of Immortality skill and the Heal skill.

‘It works better than I thought.’

book of immortality.

It is a skill that has a slow recovery rate, so it is difficult to benefit greatly from self-healing ability.

However, the compatibility with the heel skill was good.

‘I’m tired.’

I was tired physically and mentally tired.

He had stamina and mana all the way to the end.

It was the first time since the player awakened to such a difficult battle.

Today’s hunting had a lot of gains, but there were also a lot of losses.

Obtaining two titles and one skill was definitely an advantage.

However, to raise the stats, I used all the points I had accumulated so far.

In addition, it cost quite a bit to ask for the price of the shield and armor that I rented.

Actually, the two weren’t much of a problem.

You can earn points and money again.

The real problem was something else.

“Are you here early today?”

Hyunseong’s mother, Park Mi-sook, greeted her son with her smile.

But the smile on her face disappeared in an instant.

“Why is your face like that?”

“It’s not a big deal.”

It is understandable that her mother was surprised.

It’s because her own face has aged like 10 years have passed in just half a day.

“It’s not a big deal, but in one day, her face was very bad.”

Active Skill Fire Spear.

The point I used to purchase it was the problem.

“I struggled a bit today. You’ll be fine in a few weeks. I’m more hungry than that. Please give me some rice.”

“You haven’t eaten lunch yet, what have you been doing?”

She spoke bluntly, but Park Mi-sook quickly began to prepare the meal.

‘Ah, this is a headache.’

It wasn’t as dangerous as before because there were points piled up.

It’s only used about 10 years’ worth of life.

It can be restored in 3 weeks.

However, it was quite difficult to use points in a hurry like now.

Tirilling!

Then her mother’s cell phone rang.

“Hello. uh, daughter. What are you doing at work?”

I think my sister was calling.

“ Hyunseong? Are you home now?”

However, the content of the conversation was not serious.

“accident? Did something like that happen?”

Her mother looked at Hyunseong with a surprised expression.

“Did a lot of people die?”

His expression hardened as if he was very surprised.

‘My sister tells all kinds of stories.’

What happened in the red mane wolf dungeon had already been posted as an article on the Internet.

There are always deaths in dungeons.

However, it was extremely rare for a high-level monster that far exceeded the dungeon level to appear and cause a large number of deaths as in this case.

Of course, the article was bound to explode.

The article was quite specific.

The missing persons were identified by keeping a list of players who entered the dungeon and deleting the list of those who escaped.

‘Isn’t the information updated right away?’

Otherwise, I thought that my sister might have called after seeing the article before the update.

“Yeah, I got it. I’ll just cut it off.”

The call between my sister and her mother ended.

“You came early today.”

“Do not worry. I didn’t even see him.”

Even with Hyunseong’s words, the worries and worries on her mother’s face did not disappear.

“I told her that her face was messed up in one day, and that’s what happened. It’s too dangerous You’re just because of us… … .”

“It’s what I love to do.”

Hyunseong responded quickly.

“I like it now. It’s fun to hunt monsters in dungeons and become stronger.”

Even with Hyunseong’s words, her mother’s face did not straighten easily.

“In today’s world, there is no one who is awake and lives a normal job. And this one is like a one-time natural disaster. So don’t worry too much.”

In my mind, I wanted to tell you that I caught a higher level monster.

But I was never able to say that.

Hyunseong was just pretending to be a lucky player to his family.

He said that his income was also reduced.

Hyunseong was wary of being told that he was special.

He was even more frantic to dig up information about himself from the Seowoo Guild.

That he is a level 1 player.

That he has buying and selling as a unique ability.

Thanks to that, he was free from the 20-level rule.

It’s easy to get a title.

This fact was a secret that he could not tell even his family.

It’s not that I don’t believe in my family, but I could endanger myself and my whole family if I accidentally heard this in someone else’s ears.

Hyunseong persuaded her mother.

The general public can also be involved in an accident at work.

He could be in a car accident or injured by falling objects in the warehouse.

Hyunseong continued to emphasize the fact that what he does now is safer than the hard work he used to do before.

In the end, it was decided to close the Red Mane Wolf Dungeon.

It was not a permanent closure.

It was a temporary closure until the investigation into this case was completed.

In the red mane wolf dungeon, where players were prohibited from entering, investigation was in full swing.

“Two lifeguards died here, unable to resist properly. And there is a sign that the trio came in, but there is no sign that it went out.”

At the words of Dongsoo Kim, a player who specializes in monster tracking, everyone’s expressions became blurred.

“Then you are saying that there is a trio in this dungeon now? It can’t be. We have completed a thorough dungeon search.”

Kim Dong-soo opened his mouth with an expression of difficulty at the words of Shin Yoon-ah, the head of the slaughter squad.

“I don’t even know what happened. Let’s trace his trail first.”

“all right. I am with you.”

“thank you. I am very reassured that Shin Yoon-ah is with me.”

Kim Dong-soo shuddered.

Kim Dong-soo is a player with excellent tracking ability but not very high combat power.

From Kim Dong-soo’s point of view, Shin Yoon-a, the strongest of the extermination squads, was only thankful that she took the role of a guard herself.

“Of course, it’s just what we have to do.”

After the conversation, the two began to move along the trail of the tripod.

“You attacked low-level players hunting here. And it went this way.”

Kim Dong-soo explained the situation as if the trio came to life in front of his eyes.

“Well? It’s a little strange.”

“What do you mean?”

“The trio attacked the player. Of course, I thought it would have been a blow, but it wasn’t. Short clashes and escapes.”

Suddenly, Kim Dong-soo’s steps quickened.

“We continued to fight and fight. There was only one player, not many.”

The pursuit continued.

“I can feel the remnants of the flame magic power. However, the agility seems to be quite high. The player who battled the trio is presumed to be a magic swordsman.”

Kim Dong-soo, who had been running for a long time, suddenly stopped at his seat and put the soil on the floor in his mouth and began to taste it.“The trio is seriously injured here. It looks like a lot of blood has been shed.”

“The trio was seriously injured?”

Shin Yoon-ah asked with a surprised expression.

Even the security guards were helpless.

Did such a trio get seriously injured?

She said, “I thought she was a magic swordsman, but maybe she is a wizard-type player with a high agility level. She used some pretty powerful magic skills.”

Kim Dong-soo, who had been looking at the traces for a while, moved again.

“This is where you win.”

“Did you win?”

“Yeah, I thought he was a mage type player… … It doesn’t look like it Here she engaged in close combat. And with a magic-type skill, you stopped the triumvirate. It seems to be a magic swordsman type player. As there are no corpses left, it seems that they have turned into magic stones or items.”

Shin Yoon-ah’s mouth widened and opened.

The magic swordsman-type players, with the exception of a few, were nothing more than idiots.

It was difficult for the magic swordsman-type player to do his part in the party.

However, compared to the Red Mane Wolf Dungeon, how do you cut the breath of a triumvirate, which is a huge over-spec?

Crucially… … .

“Did you report that the highest level of players hunting here was 24?”

level is not correct

Not even the security guards.

Two people who were working at the dimension gate connected to the second dimension were killed in an instant.

The security guards who were working at the dimensional gate connected to Earth did not move due to infighting until the kill squad arrived.

It was clear that the player who was hunting in the Red Mane Wolf dungeon was the one who killed the trio.

“Are you sure you haven’t renewed your player registration card?”

The mandatory renewal period for the player registration certificate is two years.

There are players who update as soon as the level goes up, but there are very few.

Most players only go through the mandatory renewal period to renew.

The reason is that even if you renew in the middle, you must renew your player registration certificate unconditionally after two years from the date of first registration as a new player.

The reason that the mandatory renewal period for the player registration certificate is two years is that it takes up to two years for new players to first awaken.

It is mandatory to update from the level at which safety personnel work is mandatory.

Of course, there are players who cannot finish the first awakening within two years.

The Players Association considers such people virtually incapable of making a living as a player.

“Still, it’s kind of weird. How much do you need to level up before the mandatory renewal deadline? At most, it’s in the late 50s.”

If there is full support from the guild, it could be higher.

However, none of the players who were hunting in the dungeon that day received the full support of the guild.

Kim Dong-su nodded in agreement with Shin Yoon-ah’s words.

“It is certainly strange. Even if an unreasonably strong player managed to get a trio, there is no reason why a player with that skill would be hunting in a lower dungeon like this.”

The Red Mane Wolf Dungeon is a dungeon that players of levels 15-20 focus on.

The estimated level of the triumvirate who easily hunted the security personnel was in the early 100s.

There was no reason for a player strong enough to defeat a monster in the early level 100s alone to hunt in the red mane wolf dungeon.

“Can’t we trace the trail of the player who got the trio?”

“Well, I’ll give it a try.”

Kim Dong-soo answered Shin Yoon-ah’s question in a confident voice and looked at the floor.

Kim Dong-soo specializes in monster tracking, not player tracking.

“After the battle, no trace of the player disappeared. It will be difficult to track that player. The terrain of the dungeon is not a good environment to pursue.”“You accurately tracked the trio and the player’s battle trail.”

In response to Kim Dong-soo’s answer, Shin Yoon-ah asked with a puzzled expression.

“Well, even on hard terrain, heavy monsters leave a trail just by moving. Can you see the footprints here? However, light players rarely leave a mark unless they move with all their might or fight hard.”

The terrain inside the dungeon is different for each dungeon.

In the case of the Red Mane Wolf Dungeon, it was a solid terrain that did not leave a trace easily.

“There is no trace of using the skill after the battle is over. If I had used a skill, I would try to trace it to some extent according to the remaining magical power… … .”

Kim Dong-soo clouded the tail of his horse.

“I made an unreasonable request. sorry.”

Shin Yoon-ah bowed her head to Kim Dong-soo and apologized.

“no. On the contrary, I am only sorry that I was not of much help due to my lack of skills.”

Kim Dong-su, not knowing what to do, bowed his head together.

Kim Dong-soo was the oldest, but Shin Yoon-a was much higher in the player’s association.

From Kim Dong-soo’s point of view, he was embarrassed by the fact that a distant superior bowed his head to apologize.

“Are you going to die?”

“Yes.”

With Shin Yoon-ah’s words, the two of them moved on.

Now that the investigation is over, it’s time to report.

But Shin Yoona had a complicated mind in her head.

The investigation is over, but more questions have arisen.

‘I’ll have to investigate the players who entered the dungeon that day.’

Before the second year, there are players who have become strong enough to hunt monsters in the early 100s alone.

‘If there is such a player, he must be directly under the association.’

Player associations are directly managed by the state.

A guild is a private organization.

They also receive a lot of influence from companies that support them.

During the initial Cataclysm, the influence of the Players Association was quite strong.

The number of players under his direct control was enormous, and the level of players was also the best.

Thanks to this, we were able to respond quickly in a national crisis situation.

However, as time passed, the power of the national organization, the Players’ Association, gradually weakened.

Conversely, the power of the guild, a private organization, grew stronger.

An association that emphasizes patriotism and pampers players with small down payment and remuneration.

A guild that promises fair remuneration along with a large down payment.

It was almost obvious where the players would choose.

Players who were under direct control of the association escaped to the guild one after another.

It wasn’t just the low-level or middle-level players that left.

Even the top players moved their affiliations to the guild directly from the association.

The Players Association, who witnessed this and woke up late, tried to catch the existing players.

However, the players who fell as much as they fell in love did not return directly to the association.

After that, the Players Association went into bone-chilling internal innovations.

The necks of executives from politicians who sat in high places without understanding or proper knowledge about dungeons, monsters, and players flew one after another.

And in that vacant position, an executive from a former player began to be appointed.

After completing the internal innovation, the Players Association entered the competition to attract new players, promising a high down payment and full support, just like a private guild.But the results were not very good.

This is because the image of a player association that forces sacrifices and does not share results is deeply ingrained.

Because of the bad image, all the really substantial new players were taken away by the guild.

Rather, it has become a situation where players who are not particularly special paid excessive down payment to recruit players.

The Players Association did not disappoint and continued to make changes.

As a result, over time, I was able to slightly dilute the bad image of the past.

And in the present, I was able to recover my sanctity to some extent.

However, it only expanded quantitatively, but qualitatively it was quite poor.

‘This is real.’

We found a newcomer with the potential to grow into a top player.

‘Never miss it.’

This time, he had to find and secure it by any means possible.

* * *

Hyunseong returned to her daily routine the next day.

Although the worries of his mother and older sister grew worse, he couldn’t give up his life as a player.

‘I need to finish the red mane wolf hunt.’

The red mane wolf dungeon that Hyunseong first visited was closed.

However, there was not one red mane wolf dungeon.

You can use another dungeon.

However, the distance between the dungeon and the house was a little far for commuting.

Hyunseong felt like going on a business trip and decided to move to another area.

Anyway, I cleared all the dungeons near my house except the Red Mane Wolf dungeon.

It was unfortunate that he had to be separated from the family he had been living with for a long time, but it was inevitable for Hyunseong’s growth.

Hyunseong packed his luggage and headed to the bus terminal.

Still, he continued to worry.

‘How the hell do you grow this?’

[Book of Immortality – Unique Rare Grade]

-Passive skill

-Doesn’t die unless the head is completely destroyed.

-All wounds heal slowly unless you die instantly.

– This is a growth skill.

The passive skill I learned yesterday, Book of Immortality.

I couldn’t figure out how to grow it.

I scoured the internet just in case, but there was no information about growth-type skills.

‘Can I continue to use the skill?’

However, the Book of Immortality is a passive skill, not an active skill.

It cannot be forcibly activated by consuming mana.

‘I can’t even do self-harm.’

My butt hurt.

After thinking for a long time, Hyunseong finally calmed his urgent heart.

‘It is enough just to have the skill.’

The Book of Immortality is a skill that greatly helps Hyunseong’s survival just by being there.

He didn’t know how to grow it right away, but he believed he would find it someday.