Leveling Up to Max

,Kyaaaaak!”

The drake’s ear-splitting roar continues, and then it starts charging toward me.

Behind that bastard, countless drakes were already lined up and running.

These bastards, introduced as a subspecies of dragon, are level 45 elite monsters with more powerful stats than regular monsters.

To hunt them safely in a group, you needed a party with a tank, a healer, and an area-of-effect dealer, but those conditions were meaningless to a Berserker with all skills activated.

Just by looking, there are over 20 of them.

The moment I charge into the center, I’ll surely be torn to shreds by their sharp teeth and claws.

But I charge in anyway. I jump high up and fall right into the middle of them.

Kwaaaang!

As the weapon wrapped in red energy strikes the ground, an area-of-effect spreads out, stunning all the drakes around.

And then, the Whirlwind skill activates.

Kagagagak!

The moment the red vortex spreads wide, the drakes’ scales are instantly ground away, and they begin to fall.

It was a pathetic end that didn’t match their ferocious appearance.

If I didn’t use all the buffs and doping, my damage would be just barely insufficient, so I didn’t skimp on the doping potions.

My plan was to hit max level and then clear the new dungeon to get a new weapon.

Even though [Solaris, the Holy Sword of the Sun God] is a world item, its performance is worse than a level 45 unique weapon.

I checked the items that had dropped on the ground.

Elite zone monsters had a higher drop rate than regular fields.

If I kill about 100 of them, I’ll get one or two rare items in my inventory.

Since the level cap has just been expanded, these field-dropped rare items are selling for a high price.

I opened the auction house and put up the rare equipment I had just acquired.

Level 40-45 rare armor usually sold for around 50-100 gold, and weapons were traded at a higher price of around 400 gold.

In the first place, I was one of the few people supplying these items, so you could say that everything I listed sold immediately.

The gold I earned goes right back into doping potions and potions.

Even so, my gold was steadily accumulating.

At this rate, I’ll definitely have a huge amount of gold by the time the new raid starts.

The main page of the auction house showed the most expensive items that had recently been sold in real time.

The highest-priced item among them was the [Ring of the Red Orc Warrior].

Recent winning bid: 17,000 gold.

Compared to before, that was an absurdly high price.

It was a ring that used to be traded for 1-3 gold each. How many times has it gone up?

On various community sites, people were worrying about nerfs, while others were spreading rumors that it was an overpriced bubble compared to its performance.

As someone who knows the future, I couldn’t agree with that.

It’s not expensive. The item’s value will be preserved. It’s not a bubble either. The limited supply won’t be replenished, and if you don’t get it now, there will be a situation where you can’t get it even if you pay a premium.

Of course, that’s if the future I know is accurate.

Global service is already being prepared. Since there’s a possibility that patches could be made in a direction I don’t know, I couldn’t be sure of anything.

I was just keeping an eye on the current situation and taking as much profit as I could.

It’s almost time.

I drew my sword and stood up from my spot.

The monsters in the elite zone were powerful individually, but they had the disadvantage of having a slightly long respawn time.

If you cleared a wide hunting ground, you had to sit and rest for about 5 minutes.

I felt a little bad about the duration of the doping potions being wasted during that time, but right now, I couldn’t find a hunting ground with better efficiency than this.

At level 44, my experience is at 97%.

If I clear the area two more times, I’ll definitely reach max level.

When I reach level 45, the max level, the 4th rank of jobs will be unlocked.

I could choose a higher-level job, but my choice was already made.

I’ll further strengthen the [Berserker] job.

Of course, there was also the option of choosing the Barbarian job here.

However, the Barbarian’s [Warrior’s Heart] skill and the Berserker’s [Berserk] skill could not be stacked.

This was a phenomenon that occurred because the developers copied and pasted the code for the two skills when they were creating the two jobs.

I start running again.

My legs, kicking off the ground, were full of power, and my movements were incredibly swift.

I reapply the buffs and doping potions that had worn off and gather the drakes scattered in all directions.

,Hiyaaaaaat!”

I shout out a rough cry to my heart’s content.

If someone were next to me, they would have laughed, but right now, I was the only one in this hunting ground.

The refreshing shout washed away the embarrassment that remained inside.

While I was massacring countless drakes like that, a pillar of light soared from my body.

The level-up effect had triggered.

As I reached level 45, my character’s base stats increased.

I plunged my sword into the neck of the last drake and began to equip the level 45 rare items I had prepared in advance.

Every time my stats increased, I could feel my character becoming more powerful in real time.

Now that I’ve reached level 45, it’s time to raise the Berserker’s job rank.

I was about to use a return stone to return to the capital city.

Tang-!

Along with a sharp sound, a powerful hit effect burst out on my shoulder.

My health decreases rapidly, and my body sways.

It was a sniper shot from a [Musketeer], a higher-level job unlocked from the 3rd rank of archer classes.

The hostile alliance was interfering.

They would occasionally gather a raid party to come and interfere with my hunting.

It was a familiar situation since I had experienced it several times already.

I drank a potion and slowly started running.

I couldn’t identify the enemy’s location or numbers.

Instead of rashly searching the area, it was the right decision to leave the area.

Quite a bit of time has passed, so most users have obtained a 3rd rank higher-level job.

A 50 vs 1 fight like before was impossible.

Right now, even the most powerful Berserker or Barbarian is likely to see a gray screen if they just stand there and get hit by long-range attacks from snipers.

As I began to leave the hunting ground, taking advantage of my fast mobility, the red nicknames unique to the hostile alliance began to reveal themselves from afar.

I immediately changed direction and started running. The enemies’ locations were revealed. There was no reason to back down.

,He’s coming!”

A white flash streaks past my rapidly running body.

The musketeer’s unique firing sound follows belatedly.

Tadadang!

There are many snipers. All the archer users who had been oppressed until now are holding guns.

But the accuracy is still terrible.

None of the attacks hit my quickly running body.

I lower my stance and pull my sword back.

At that moment, blue mana bursts from my body, and I start sprinting at high speed.

When a musketeer attacks, a unique hazy smoke is emitted.

The moment my gaze quickly sweeps across the air, I can spot faint smoke rising from under the bushes.

,Block him!”

There’s no way they can block me. A fully doped-up Berserker was like a tank.

I use the mobility of the charge’s movement speed to cut through the bushes.

The figure of the musketeer user lying prone underneath comes into view.

Kwajik!

I swing my sword and chop off his neck.

It’s an attack using my strengthened strength stat.

It wasn’t an accurate attack with the blade sharpened, but his head flew off as if torn apart.

At that moment, an explosion occurred beneath my feet.

It was a magical engineering mine trap.

Kwang!

As the fight with the hostile alliance dragged on, their strategies were also rapidly evolving.

Like this, those bastards often gathered all the items they could mobilize to try and kill me.

I immediately turned around and dealt with the other snipers.

Seugagagak!

The holy sword wrapped in red bloodlust was not an attack that archers with weak health and defense could withstand.

At that moment, a blue ice spike flew quickly from behind.

The number of hostile personnel who came this time was 10.

Among them, 4 were musketeers.

My gaze moves quickly, identifying the jobs of the remaining personnel.

One mage who had learned ice magic, and one priest.

The rest were a tank wearing full plate armor and three two-handed sword warriors with red eyes.

All three were Berserkers, but there was no red bloodlust visible on their bodies.

They didn’t have the ring.

,Kill him!”

The most threatening and annoying one was the mage.

I immediately used Leap Strike to jump over the formation and slam down on the mage user.

Kwang!

With a powerful explosion, the mage user was crushed instantly.

He took a huge impact from the slam that went in headfirst.

Immediately after that, I turn my body and activate the next skill.

Kwang!

The greatly swung holy sword slams down on the ground.

A large shockwave bursts out, and the bodies of the remaining personnel around me are launched into the air.

Activating [Barrage].

System correction continues, and I swing my sword rapidly.

The moment the red bloody sword strikes sweep across the air, the priest user’s body is instantly cut apart.

Seugagagak!

The only ones still holding on were the tank user with a large shield and the Berserker users who had started emitting red bloodlust from their bodies.

I immediately activated the [Frenzy] skill and rotated my body for the next move.

Activating [Whirlwind] in a combo.

The red bloody whirlwind spreads out and instantly engulfs the tank user whose body had become as hard as steel.

He may have used buffs that increased his defense and survival skills that reduced damage, but the Berserker’s attacks ignore defense.

The added [Bleeding] debuff had an excellent effect on the tank with high defense.

Kwagagagagak!

It doesn’t matter where I hit.

At that moment, the remaining Berserker users besides me began to rotate their bodies.

They had already taken heavy damage and were close to death, but thanks to the unique passive skill called [Combat Continuation], they were in an invulnerable state for 2 seconds.

My body is torn apart by the red whirlwinds coming from all directions, and my health begins to decrease rapidly.

But it doesn’t matter. I also have the [Combat Continuation] passive.

The rapidly decreasing health had reached a state where it was fixed at 1.

At that moment, all the skills that had been raging from all directions disappeared.

The Berserker users whose invulnerability duration had ended had died first.

I also stop in place because the duration of Whirlwind has ended.

The tank user who had been holding up his shield had died faster than the Berserker users.

I killed all the personnel.

I won again this time.

I closed my eyes and waited for death.

At that moment, the duration of invulnerability ended, and my small body collapsed.