episode_0011
by admin“So. Roel?”
“Yes. Yes…”
Why are you so scared?
I reached out and stroked the brown hair of the girl who introduced herself as Roel. There is no need to be scared because I am a rational intellectual who tries to resolve issues through dialogue as much as possible even with people who are blindly hostile to me.
I waited until Roel fainted and woke up, but what big a mistake would that be? Since the sun was setting anyway, I decided to camp here, and I wasn’t bored as I waited while cleaning up the mess around me. I even woke up just when the sun was rising.
“First of all, I raised my hand because I wanted to live, but I guess I raised my hand because I have a very useful talent, right? I have a disease that tears the jaws of those who behave badly.”
“Hipp. Yes, yes. ”
To sum up the long, stuttering explanation briefly, Roel was a guide, knew a lot of things, and knew how to do various things.
“A guide.”
It is true that the guide is a rare NPC, but it is not very popular with users. The guide couldn’t understand the users who accepted the world as a ‘game’, and the users didn’t dare to accept the NPCs telling them what to do.
Of course, I am no longer a user, but I had no intention of following the directions given by the guide.
A ‘real man’ is someone who navigates the world according to his own will and does not give in to numerous hardships and adversities.
However, this did not mean that Roel was useless. Even excluding the useless function of giving advice, the guide can be used as a walking encyclopedia, a very accurate navigation tool, and an all-rounder that makes it harder to find what it can’t do.
It’s not for nothing that the price of a guide is so fucking high. In a world like this where the law is far away and fists are always thrust in front of the eyes, to receive that much ransom, of course, one’s abilities had to be recognized.
Moreover, isn’t Roel a ‘female’ guide? If it had been a hairy man, I wouldn’t have taken her with her, even if she wasn’t a guide but a guide’s father, but fortunately, Roel was a cute girl. A girl with light brown hair that reminded me of a golden retriever when I saw her. The fact that it resembles a golden retriever is also a significant plus. Because I liked dogs much more than cats.
As expected from a guide, he was quick-witted. I’m sure Roel, like those damn mercenaries, felt hostility toward me, but he never showed it, and he never harbored any unnecessary curiosity about Ariel, the most beautiful girl in the province, who was standing behind me, or about me, who had ugly, rough skin.
She’s a cute girl, knows a lot of things, and is quick-witted?
This is an angle that has no choice but to become my subordinate by striking out and passing.
“Passed. I passed. I allow you to be my subordinate.”
I took out a necklace with a small finger bone from my arms and hung it around Roel’s neck.
“It’s a shame that it’s not the Show Me the Money passing necklace, but I’m wearing this at least. If you try to take it off without my permission, it will explode.”
“Hiik… I will never take it off…”
Of course, it is an ordinary bone necklace with no such function. Does the enchantment look like crap? It was a prick, but unfortunately I didn’t have a prick. It just scared me so that I couldn’t get away from it easily.
Moreover, if Roel’s head explodes like that, who will be my companion and companion? Walking around alone for days without saying a word was so boring that I couldn’t bear it.
Although Ariel was always by my side, that was also a problem. Because it was getting harder and harder to resist my cravings. I didn’t have a hobby of being voyeurized by anyone, so I always needed someone to observe me and be a suppressor of my rationality.
“Now then, here is the first task. Go and get the things you need for the journey ahead. First, make sure to bring seasonings, and bring the rest mainly in cash or other easily convertible items. There’s no need to be too greedy, just take it in moderation.”
“Yes. Hey… what can I call you?”
Oh right. You didn’t tell me your name. If you are a mature member of society, exchanging business cards comes first. It’s been so long since I’ve had normal communication with people that I forgot.
“Cain. Call me Cain.”
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“Let’s go. Guide me to Verce.”
“Yes…”
It didn’t take long for Roel to gather his luggage.
As a guide, I knew all of the baggage on the upper deck, so I picked out only the valuables and took them with me. The mercenaries were bastards who wandered around with only one body to trust, so there was nothing to take with them, so I just took off their equipment and gave it to the undead.
It’s starting to look a bit different now. During the journey, I eliminated all the zombies that had begun to rot, and only those that were useful were made into skeletons and taken with me. The smell of a rotting corpse was fragrant in its own way, but it was so strong that I stayed in the neighborhood! Because it was like advertising.
The mercenary’s corpse was not worth turning into a skeleton. The human skeleton was too thin, lacked strength, and was structurally weak compared to the monster skeleton. Therefore, humans were not worth reviving unless they were the corpses of those who were skilled at manipulating mana.
In fact, even if you are good at manipulating mana, why bother? Even a third-level warrior who is good at strengthening his body using mana and can emit a weak sword aura beyond the mana sword that strengthens his sword by loading mana with it. If he fights one-on-one with an ogre, the moment he runs out of mana, he will be hit by the palm of the ogre’s swing as if catching a fly. If you get hit and fly away, you’ll be caught and your arms and legs will be torn off, and you’ll end up like a dragonfly caught in the hands of a child.
The difference between humans and monsters was that big. Moreover, while ogres can be revived by infusing them with enough mana, they show their youthful strength, but humans have to go through various minor magical processes to be able to handle mana, which requires a lot of work. It would have been worth the effort to become a 1st-level swordsman, known as a sword master.
Grades and ranks are the criteria for dividing people. This is a standard created by the members of the Kaljae Gallery who were envious of the popularity of ‘Hierarchy’ in the Wizard Gallery. In case anyone thought it was a mistake, it was divided into levels 10th to 1st, and 1st to 9th dan, borrowing the same pattern from Baduk.
There was a hoarse smell here first. If you want to do it in descending order, do it in descending order. If you want to do it in ascending order, do it in ascending order. Why mix them up? Thanks to this, I often see blood among young people these days who don’t even know what baduk is.
Since I went from level 10 to level 1, I could have thought that I would naturally start from level 9.
Moreover, even the method of ranking the grades was extremely ignorant.
There was a designated monster for each level, and if you could catch this, this, and this, what level would you be. Because the supply was filled in this way. The ‘hierarchy’ was created to prevent people from falling behind by doing things that don’t fit into their means, but ignorant bastards fell behind by doing things that didn’t fit into their means to know their level.
but. If I had the intelligence to think about such things, of course I would have become a wizard.
Anyway, to briefly break it down, level 10 was a civilian, levels 9 to 7 were warriors who trained their bodies, levels 6 to 4 were warriors who started to manipulate mana, and levels 3 to 1 were commonly called sword experts.
Starting from the 1st level, they were called Sword Masters and were equivalent to the 5th level of a wizard. You have built a solid foundation and just quietly walk your own path toward an unknown end.
I also need to completely wipe out the capital, Verce, and quickly reach rank 5. Even though I accumulated as much work as I could in a short period of time, the wall of the 5th rank was thick. Each time you surpass a level, you become exponentially stronger, so it’s strange that you can overcome it in just a few days.
No matter how shitty the Kingdom of Sardinia was, there was, of course, at least one sword master who could serve as the leader of the knights of the royal guard protecting the king. Of course, since I don’t have any abilities, I’m probably stuck in the countryside, and at most I’ll be a 1st dan.
Nevertheless, he was so strong that he could not even be compared to me, so I had to make it to the 5th rank and face him. If it were the same level, I was not confident that I would lose, as I am extremely talented.
So how do we overcome the hierarchy that we have not been able to overcome so far?
The answer is herding hunting. Even dust-sized tasks given by incompetent civilians could become mountains if they were piled up like dust.
“Roel. What is the population of Berce?”
“2, I believe it is around 20,000 people…”
20,000 people would be enough to kill someone. According to my calculations, killing about 5,000 people would be enough, but I had no intention of letting the rest go. Once you complete a task in this way, Gensei will come in one way or another, so you should pile it up while you can.
The problem is that we have to kill it quickly before the Sword Master notices…
Well, if you go and figure out the internal situation and do some groundwork here and there, you will find a way.
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