Maxed Out Leveling Novel

Chapter 23

8. Surrounding the disappearance (2)

The guild members are all mobilized, and each of them grabs their cell phone and makes calls here and there. Thanks to you, the office was noisy.

Since I wasn’t a superior, I was like, ‘Hey, is there anything wrong? does not exist? Then I’ll hang up?’ I couldn’t deal with it at once. Even simple conversations take a while to come and go.

While watching the people shivering in Busan, Lee Ji-hye waited patiently. She’s here and urging her more doesn’t speed up her progress.

After waiting 30 minutes like that, she got a certain result and left the Gwacheonbyeolgok guild headquarters with a slightly lighter step.

“It’s a long wait….”

Unfortunately, information directly related to the disappearances of Seo Kang-jin, Seo Jung-hyun, and Lee Young-hoon was not obtained.

But there was income.

While contacting him, Junsu Han, who realized that he could not contact any of the guild members with chronic long-term illness, quickly informed him.

“It is important to keep in mind that an accident may have occurred simply while running around the dungeon.”

The attendant, Donghwan Oh added.

“well? No matter how low level you are, you won’t die at all. normally. I don’t know if I went to a dungeon that doesn’t fit the fountain, but if that’s the case, I’m just an idiot.”

Lee Ji-hye shook her head flutteringly.

“Did the guild leader say Choi Jin-sang?”

“Yes.”

“If you look through the Constitutional Convention, you may find something.”

“I will direct you right away.”

The website of the Korea Hunter Association is jointly operated by Dawn and Twilight.

Since there was noise coming from one side running it, they just chose to jointly operate it.

In other words, if Lee Ji-hye knew only the target, she could instruct the operator to thoroughly dig into her history of using the Constitutional Association. When and what she posted and with whom she sent and received messages. Even if deleted, the record remains on the backup server.

“Oh, and I just got an email.”

“What?”

“The special police sent me a document, and I thought it might be of some help.”

At Oh Dong-hwan’s words, Lee Ji-hye snorted her.

“No, if there was such a thing, it should have been sent right away on Thursday or Friday. Did you not ask for cooperation properly?”

“I think it’s because it’s something related to team leader Seo, not director Seo. Was it yesterday that you decided that even the team leader Seo was missing?”

Seo Kang-jin was at his house and then disappeared, so he immediately judged that he was missing, but Seo Joong-hyun was on leave that day. He wondered where he would be having fun without contact.

He didn’t actually play, but was beaten hard by Cha Shin Hyeon. This is why a person’s usual behavior is important.

Anyway, he was not contacted all day on Friday, so it was determined that he was missing on Saturday. It was because the information about Seo Joong-hyun had just arrived.

“Are you talking about team leader Seo?”

“Yes. I have forwarded it to the deputy chief’s e-mail.”

Tilting her head, Lee Ji-hye opened her mail on her cell phone.

About a week or so ago, Seo Joong-hyun, who had been attacked by an unknown criminal, was taken to the hospital.

Lee Ji-hye’s eyebrows narrowed gradually as she read her documents.

“Did you fall and get injured? How on earth does she fall and break her face and rupture her organs?”

“It’s definitely Hunter’s work. The problem is, there’s no circumstantial evidence. I couldn’t even figure out what it was.”“If the place was downtown Seoul in broad daylight, and team leader Seo didn’t notice at all… … . It’s ambiguous. Assassin would be impossible, and I would have to look for the Wizard side. But looking at it, it seems that the special policeman also half raised his hand.”

Jihye Lee muttered.

“It is the opinion of the special police that there is no connection between the incident and this disappearance. Isn’t this usually because of a grudge relationship?”

“It could be. Huh?”

Lee Ji-hye, who continued to look at her cell phone, agreeing to Oh Dong-hwan’s words, found her unfamiliar name at the end of the document.

“ Cha Shin Hyeon········”

Her eyes narrowed at the witness’s name.

* * *

The next day, Monday.

After Cha Eun-seol left for work, Cha Shin Hyeon left the house.

She didn’t want to stand out, so she didn’t bring any of her gear. His clothes were plain short-sleeved tee and jeans, and he had left his armor and sword. He is only carrying one bag.

Directions can be easily checked using the Maps app. After using the subway and bus to near Mt. Dodo, Cha Shin Hyeon headed to the mountain instead of heading straight to the dungeon.

He had a few people who came out climbing, but no one could see him. This is due to intentional assimilation with the surrounding environment. He looks like he’s skimming through a tree or a rock, and his brain doesn’t even recognize it with his eyes?

As he was, he looked around the dungeon freely.

Nothing suspicious was found.

He said, ‘He didn’t have anything like a follow-up, and he didn’t have anyone watching.’

I don’t know if Lee Young-hoon’s death is still unknown, or if it is known, he doesn’t know if it’s necessary to monitor the dungeon. At least within a few hundred meters, there was no one there, and there was no sign that anyone had entered the dungeon in the meantime.

‘Then we should go in.’

He may have used some clever trick that he hadn’t thought of before, but if you consider each of those things, there’s nothing the world can do.

Cha Shin Hyeon ran into the dungeon entrance.

Moments later, a landscape identical to his last memory greeted him.

‘You’re right this time.’

Several signs are detected on the island on the other side of the lake. I’m glad I didn’t go in vain.

There was a reason why he waited several days without coming to the dungeon right away.

Of course, it was also to see how things were going, but it was also to give the monsters time to regenerate.

Monsters are not convenient ones that automatically respawn when you leave and enter the dungeon. But it was clear that he had to wait a few days and he had regained the number before he knew it.

No one knows how it works. There was a hypothesis that just as hunters enter the dungeon through the doorway, monsters do the same.

There is convincing. If you don’t touch it, the monsters in the dungeon will continue to multiply, because it’s too fast to say that they increase by breeding.

‘The number may still be small, but…’

Usually, the appropriate period to clear one dungeon was between one and ten days.

Lee Young-hoon and his party said that they organized it last Wednesday, so it took a little time.

But the proper cycle is just saying that if you go too often, it’s cumbersome and difficult, and if you go too infrequently, there will be too many monsters, so it’s difficult, so go in moderation. For Cha Shin Hyeon, who doesn’t fit either, the proper cycle was virtually meaningless.

‘I want to go from there.’

Excluding the current location, there are 7 islands floating in the lake. It was not difficult to make a pilgrimage as it was positioned as if it were wrapped around the starting point in a circle.

Cha Shin Hyeon moved towards the nearest island, where he had killed Seo Joong-hyeon’s gang last time.

There was no need for a boat. The light work of the powerless dapsu was nothing to him.

Clap Clap.

Just as when walking on flat ground, Cha Shin Hyeon walked to the island, stepping on the water.

When he passed through the water and reached the land again, he was finally able to meet a monster that he had never met before.

“Well······.”

Cha Shin Hyeon ruffled her tail at her strange-looking appearance.

It was a monster with a risk of 6, the Iron Armored Person.

Her shoulder height is slightly lower than Cha Shin Hyeon. Her head has short but sturdy looking horns. Her body is thick. Her legs are also thick, but rather short.

Overall, it looks like a rhino with horns on its forehead rather than a nose. If only the leather wasn’t shiny like metal.

He seemed to understand why it was called iron armor. The Iron Armored Cavalry had a strange skin that looked like it was connected with iron plates instead of normal leather.

‘Actually, it was a robber no different from steel.’

Therefore, it was a monster that was difficult to catch with a normal attack. In order to hit with a normal hit, a hunter with high strength stats had to beat it with a fist or a blunt, or he had to use a skill at all.

In general, it was.

“Status window.”

To check in real time, the status window was opened and Cha Shin Hyeon strode forward.

When the area was invaded, the sensitive Iron Armored Musou ran thumping and pounding. She bows her head, puts her horns in front, and rushes forward with a momentum that will catch anything.

Coooo!

If there is a shield, block it with a shield, if not, avoid it. There was nothing good about bumping into that huge body that weighs in tons.

What Cha Shin Hyeon chose was neither defense nor evasion, but attack. Raising his river, he waved his hand roughly.

Whoops!

An iron-clad rhinoceros who had his head smashed in a single blow fell.

[Experience has been acquired.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.]

A system message came to mind.

Cha Shin Hyeon glanced away and checked the status window.

Level: 11

I caught one, but level 4 went up. It wasn’t a bad achievement.

The monster that was killed was also larger than that of the dungeon rabbit and had a distinct red color. Even if you don’t know it, it seems more valuable.

Cha Shin Hyeon, who threw the monster into the bag, continued walking around the island.

Whoops!

As soon as they met, another ironclad samurai died instantly.

[Experience has been acquired.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.]

This time level 2 went up.The level-up speed has already been slowed by half. Even if there is a lot of difference between his level and the Iron Armored Horse, it seems that the level does not go up like an elevator by catching only a few.

‘No, it’s fast enough there.’

Even if you don’t just catch monsters all day, it takes 3 years to get to level 15 in the Hunter Academy.

Cha Eun-seol, who has been graduating from the academy for 6 years, is still at level 31. Even that is faster than others.

If you think about it, it can be said that reaching level 13 in a short amount of time is insanely fast.

‘Well, you can’t become a high-ranking hunter overnight.’

Aren’t you already leveling up as a wild mae (?) using martial arts? He even monopolizes the dungeon at a level far higher than his level, but if he complains that the level rises late, he’s better than the thief Sim.

You need to be grateful for what you have been given.

In the world of the hunter, being treated as a beginner, just getting these dungeons for free is a great harvest. Here, you can level up without worrying about other people’s eyes.

‘First, we aim to reach level 30.’

Pull out everything you can eat in this dungeon. It is a place where you can level up smoothly until level 30, so solve it from there.

‘You decide your career path in between.’

No matter how fast you level up, you won’t be able to reach level 30 today. Considering the regen of monsters, it will take quite some time.

During that time, I think about my career as a hunter.

It didn’t start out of envy for the Hunter, but she started to earn money. However, he had no intention of wasting the level he was going through in the process.

‘Sometimes I wonder what the end of the Hunter will look like.’

Cha Shin Hyeon is an uninhabited man.

However, the hunter is different from the uninhabited.

Just as he is a max level warrior, a max level hunter may appear someday. I don’t know if the Hunter is at the end of level 100 either, but I don’t think he’ll ever be weak.

Cha Shin Hyeon wondered what it would be like to become a stronger hunter, who develops strength in a completely different direction from martial arts.

He was also willing to see himself as if he were a woman. Curiosity about the unknown was the virtue of uninhabited people.

So, choosing a career path was also important for him. As I was not a class holder with a set career path, but a no-class, it was necessary to look around and choose carefully.

‘In conclusion······.’

Well, my thoughts were like this.

You just have to work hard around this dungeon today.

There was no one watching, and there was no reason to waste time. Cha Shin Hyeon, determined to tidy up, stretched his right hand forward. His palms point towards the sky.

Boo woo woo!

A sphere of steel sprang out of his palm. A lump the size of a child’s head floated in the air.

Paah!

Cha Shin Hyeon’s will shattered the sphere into eleven. The shards flew in all directions at an explosive speed like cremoir bursting.

Pupper Pupper Pupper Pupper Puck!

Something exploded in the distance.

The Iron Armored Horse that remained on the island was annihilated in one hit.

‘Good.’

After confirming that he had reached level 17, Cha Shin Hyeon collected the monsters and headed to the next island.

Thirty minutes later, after cleaning up and leaving the dungeon, his backpack was full of 87 monsters.

The level displayed in the status window was 22.