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Kill the Hero Chapter 7
TL: Uncle Choi
Editor: Bait
At the Urban Park Gate Entrance, a man appeared from beyond the gate .
“Thank you, Mr . Kim Woo-jin . ”
It was Kim Woo-jin .
After the arrival of Kim Woo-jin, the gate distorted then disappeared from the world .
“Wooah!”
“It’s over!”
All the soldiers saw it from a distance, then cheered and applauded .
With the gate gone, their mission was now over .
It was natural for them to be happy .
Therefore, Kim Woo-jin did not put much thought into the looks of admiration and cheers of the soldiers .
In a sense, he was used to receiving cheers more than anyone else .
For the Messiah Guild, every action made under their banner was cheered frantically and whole-heartedly by the whole world .
Unfortunately, not everyone looked at Kim Woo-jin this way .
There were a few people who gave him a distinctly leery stare .
It was Bang Ju-seop and his companions .
‘So he was alive . ’
While the soldiers saw Kim Woo-jin as a hero, the four were looking at him like a monster .
It wasn’t odd for them to do so .
‘That b.a.s.t.a.r.d, who is he?’
‘Didn’t they say this was his first dungeon? He still managed to clear it by himself?’
‘I don’t know . I’m scared…’
While they were fighting a few goblins and struggled for two days in vain, the person that they thought was a burdensome leech ended up killing all the goblins on his own .
Of course, to Kim Woo-jin, that kind of rumor was beneficial to his reputation .
However, right now, that wasn’t important .
“Did you hear the report of what happened on the other side?”
Kim Woo-jin asked Koo Sung-hoon, a member of the support team, who replied after a nod . “I heard about it . They just said the dungeon was suddenly cleared…”
Koo Seong-hoon’s expression was not good .
“How did you do it?”
As a member of the support team, it was his duty to write a report on how the dungeon was cleared . For him to write such a report, the players in the dungeon had to explain how it was done .
After crossing the gate, however, Bang Ju-seop and his party only said that the dungeon was suddenly cleared .
Furthermore, they didn’t say anything about what happened in the dungeon .
It was hard to understand from the perspective of Koo Sung-hoon .
‘Based on the current condition of Bang Ju-seop’s party, they probably weren’t able to fight properly . ’
In everyone’s view, Bang Ju-seop and his companions were the main players in the attack .
Kim Woo-jin was just a free gift attached to the group and it was thanks to Bang Ju-seop and his companions’ presence that the Phoenix Guild even permitted Kim Woo-jin to partic.i.p.ate in the attack .
However, given the present condition of the party, it was hard to say whether they played a part in the attack .
‘But that would mean that Kim Woo-jin had to eliminate all the monsters on his own…’
In other words, Kim Woo-jin cleared the dungeon by himself .
Kim Woo-jin explained his strategy to Koo Seong-hoon .
“By doing well . ”
“Yes?”
Koo Seong-hoon was perplexed by Kim Woo-jin’s explanation .
‘What do you…’
He couldn’t help but panic .
At this rate, wasn’t he about to write that Kim Woo-jin caught the goblins “by doing well” in his report?
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtKim Woo-jin, however, didn’t seem to care much about Koo Sung-hoon’s circ.u.mstances .
“I pretty much caught them all . So please tell them to deposit 90% of this dungeon clear rewards into my account . ”
While talking, Kim Woo-jin gazed at Bang Ju-seop’s party .
Koo Sung-hoon’s gaze followed Kim Woo-jin .
Bang Ju-seop and his party instinctively avoided his gaze and looked away .
“If they object to my request, please prepare a room where I can be alone with them for a while . ”
Faced with such a spectacle, Koo Seong-hoon did not know what to say .
The man in front of him was so fearsome that even Bang Ju-seop’s party avoided him .
“If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take a short break . ”
Someone like Koo Sung-hoon would not dare to confront Woo-jin just to get the information out of him .
‘Ah s.h.i.t, the team leader is going to yell at me again . ’
At that moment, Koo Sung-hoon braced himself to be yelled at by his boss .
While looking at Koo Sung-hoon, Kim Woo-jin thought to himself .
‘I can probably talk to the team leader after about 30 minutes . ’
Kim Woo-jin pa.s.sed by Koo Sung-hoon and moved toward one of the temporary waiting rooms made of tents .
‘I guess I can look at the catalogue while I wait . ’
“Catalogue”
As soon as he shouted the command, a thin booklet appeared in front of Kim Woo-jin .
It was a booklet that was slightly larger than a palm, made up of a material similar to parchment paper, and was about 5 mm thick .
It was an ordinary looking booklet .
However, to players, it was the most precious kind of books in the world .
It was because inside the catalogue were choices for items and skills .
A page in a catalogue literally contained choices for either an item or a skill .
When you tear up a page, you can obtain what you saw on that page .
‘The color is…’
The most important feature of catalogues was that the color of the light emitted by the page . It was what determined the rarity of the item .
Normal grades don’t give off any light but rare grades give off a silver light, unique grades a gold light, and as for legendary or mythical grades the texture of the page itself changes .
Meaning, if one was lucky enough, they would be able to receive a legendary grade item .
‘This catalog only has white colors . ’
Of course, miraculous drops would never happen for Kim Woo-jin so easily .
Kim Woo-jin, an Emissary of the Underworld, did not see any light leak out from his catalogue . Kim Woo-jin’s luck with catalogues was not great in his past as well .
Kim perused through the catalogue slowly without giving it much thought .
The catalogue that Kim Woo-jin received had 3 pages in total .
‘It’s all skills . ’
All three pages were skill pages .
[Energy Bolt] [Energy Bomb] [Skeleton Soldier]
First two skills weren’t even worth looking at .
The Energy Bolt was a skill used to make magic arrows by consuming mana . Energy Bomb was a basic skill that allowed the user to throw condensed energy bombs .
These skills increase in power as the skill rank increases and more energy or mana is consumed depending on the level of its rank .
These weren’t skills that Kim Woo-jin even needed to consider .
‘Skeleton Soldier…’
However, the Skeleton Soldier skill was different .
‘I’m getting some bad flashbacks . ’
It was because one of Johann Georg, the King of the Undead’s signature skills was Skeleton Soldier .
His skeleton soldiers were like a physical manifestation of fear .
The scene of thousands of players rushing in to fight hundreds of Johann Georg’s skeleton soldiers, only to turn that into thousands of skeleton soldiers; that was something that could not even be seen in h.e.l.l .
‘It was a nightmare . ’
Compared to such a scene, Kim Woo-jin’s actions against the goblins was nothing but child’s play .
Of course, there were also disadvantages to the skeleton soldier skill .
‘We would avoid fighting him in areas where corpses remained . ’
The Skeleton Soldier skill also only allowed the user to use corpses from ent.i.ties killed by the user .
Above all, skills for summoning Death Warriors, Death Knights, and Liches, which were considered to be better versions of the Skeleton Soldier and could be used at anytime and anywhere . However, the Skeleton Soldier skill always needed a sacrifice to cast .
It was his fatal flaw .
‘Without such a limitation, it would have been impossible to kill him . ’
By taking advantage of these weaknesses, Kim Woo-jin fought the King of Undead alone and was ultimately able to kill him .
‘I really was lucky . ’
After reminiscing about the day when he fought with the King of Undead, Kim Woo-jin started to ponder .
Right now for Kim Woo-jin, choosing one of the three skills was crucial, and Kim Woo-jin had to focus .
There was actually no need to think about it .
‘I would rather fire an arrow or throw a bomb than use an energy bolt or bomb . ’
At this point of time, it was actually more useful and effective for Kim Woo-jin to throw stones than to use energy bolts and bombs .
‘On the other hand, Skeleton Soldier is…’
Unlike the other two skills, the Skeleton Soldier skill could be of some use to Kim Woo-jin .
‘At the very least, it could probably buy some time . ’
Of course, he didn’t have much expectations .
The only thing skeleton soldiers could do for Kim Woo-jin was buying him a few seconds .
However, Kim Woo-jin knew better than anyone how important a few seconds was . Also, he had the ability to make the use of those few seconds .
Jjiig!
So Kim Woo-jin tore up the Skeleton Soldier skill page from the catalogue without hesitation .
After he tore up the page, the Skeleton Soldier skill was obtained .
[You Have Learned The Skeleton Soldier Skill]
[Skeleton Soldier]
Skill Rank: F Skill Effect: Using a corpse as a sacrifice, a skeleton soldier is summoned . Number of Skeletons That Can Be Summoned: 1
Kim Woo-jin, who finished checking his skills, checked his left wrist .
He was checking his watch .
‘It’s about time for him to come…’
It was at that moment .
“Ex, excuse me…”
Koo Sung-hoon had an apologetic expression . He pa.s.sed his smartphone to Kim Woo-jin then spoke .
“Sorry to bother you but the team leader wanted to talk to you about certain information pertaining to the report…”
Kim Woo-jin smiled at those words .
‘I guess I’m done messing around . ’
The dungeon gate is no different from a bomb .
No one in the world knows when the monsters inside will appear .
What was troubling was that humans, the players handling that bomb, were just as volatile as the monsters .
Since the formation of the Phoenix Guild, players often caused incidents near the dungeon gate rather than behaving properly and setting a good example to the people .
The dungeon’s support teams were responsible for clearing up the incidents .
Therefore, Jung Woo-suk, the team leader of the Phoenix Guild’s dungeon support team, was not fl.u.s.tered when he received the dungeon report from Koo Sung-hoon .
‘Another weird crazy b.a.s.t.a.r.d must have joined recently . ’
He just thought of it as having one more freak to manage .
I’m on the phone
“Ah, Mr . Kim Woo-jin . ”
Of course, he didn’t show his true colors .
“I’m calling about the report . As you know, your cooperation in writing the report is very important . More so since Mr . Kim Woo-jin was the player with the most remarkable and outstanding performance in this dungeon clearance, and we are in desperate need of your account on the matter . ”
He skillfully tried to work with the freak .
“I know that it must be very tiring but please cooperate with us . It will also help us evaluate your performance . ”
I wheedled it in .
Of course Jung Woo-seok knew .
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm‘I wouldn’t have to call him in the first place if he can be persuaded with just words . ’
He knew that the conversation would not end here .
‘Those who recently became players tend to have s.h.i.ttier personalities . ’
That was what the species known as players were like .
There were players who thought they were chosen by G.o.d, as well as those who viewed ordinary people as plebeians .
They were the type of people who thought that it was only natural that everyone else had show them respect .
‘The a.s.s kissing is complete . ’
The reason why Jung Woo-seok spoke in a persuasive manner was to show that he has already done enough to stroke his ego .
‘If he doesn’t want to cooperate, we don’t have any reason to cooperate with him either . ’
If Kim Woo-jin ignored this and did not cooperate, Jung Woo-seok was also determined to be uncooperative .
Just when Jung Woo-seok thought Kim Woo-jin would remain being uncooperative…
Ah, I’m sorry about that .
‘Yes?’
‘Yes?’
Unexpectedly, Kim Woo-jin’s reaction was not within Jung Woo-seok’s expectations .
I didn’t know what to do because it was my first time . It seems like I have caused great trouble to the support team for no reason . I will help Mr . Koo Sung-hoon with his report right away .
‘Wha, what the heck?’
It wasn’t just out of his expected range, it was very far removed from it .
I apologize once again for the inconvenience .
“No, not at all . ”
Jung Woo-seok was embarra.s.sed for a moment .
“Thank you for helping me with the report . ”
“No, we should help each other . Thanks to the support team, players like me can focus solely on clearing the dungeon . ”
Thanks to such words, Jung Woo-seok’s expression eased .
‘He’s an okay guy . ’
“It’s nice of you to say so . If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know . ”
He was more than willing to cooperate with those who were willing to cooperate back .
Is it possible for you to introduce me to a dungeon level that I want to clear? That is if it’s not too much trouble .
“Of course, it is our job to find the dungeon for players anyway, it’s not difficult at all . ”
So when a simple request for cooperation came out, Jung Woo-sung didn’t really worry .
If there is a 1-story dungeon that appeared recently in a metropolitan area that is permitted to those below Lv 10, around a B difficulty, and related to goblins, I would like to clear it .
Hearing Kim Woo-jin’s request, Jung Woo-seok began to type the keywords using the keyboard in front of him .
Then, one result immediately appeared .
“Oh, there is one in Seongnam . Clearing the Siek Goblin Tribe, below level 10, difficulty level B-rank…”
Jung Woo-seok saw it and replied .
“By the way, you need to get an approval from the guild for a B-Grade difficulty dungeon . Is that alright?”
At such question, Kim Woo-jin replied .
“I guess I’ll have to work even harder on the report to get a signature of approval . ”
Jung Woo-seok laughed at his reply .
“Haha, I guess you’re right . ”
A player’s evaluations were made in part through the reports .
At this moment, Jung Woo-seok already made up his mind .
‘Looking at the dungeon signup registrations, there are already three decent party applications, so getting the authorization for a run is not a problem . The rest of the members will just be letting him on a bus . It would not be bad for me to let the inexperienced players in and let them gain some experience . ’
Jung Woo-seok would gladly give Kim Woo-jin special treatment using his status as the leader of the support team .
“If you just send me the report, I’ll apply for you right away . Though whether you’ll be accepted is not certain,”
Kim Woo-jin answered .
Thank you . If it all works out well, a meal is on me .
That was the end of the call .
Jeong Woo-seok, who put his smartphone down, smiled with content .
‘I’ve never met such a nice, hard-working, and cooperative player before . ’