Friday, June 7, 2024

Second Coming of Gluttony (manwha until chapter 46 season 1 finale) °

@venerable gula
@gwi chang
@seul/red haired man!/seol ji-hu, mc, gold mark, invited, gold key no.1, warrior class spearman
@seol jinhee, mc's sister
@woosuk
@yoo seonhwa/sunhwa/sun-hwa, manager of a coffee shop
@hanna kim, team leader at shinyung/shinyoung, she gave her gold grade marker to mc as a special privilege of an invitee. ms. foxy
@han, guide/instructor of area 1 tutorial
@maria mariah yeriel, blonde lady, she does a self imposed vow of silence, her mouth is unfiltered
@lee seol-ah, bronze mark, invited, revived sister of sung-ji, archer class
@lee sung-jin, bronze mark, invited, warrior class
@lee hyung-sik/yi hyunsik, bronze mark, invited
@jung min-woo/jeong winwoo, bronze mark, invited
@hyun sang-mi, bronze mark, invited
@kang suk/seok, silver mark, invited, white haired
@yoon seo-ra, silver mark, invited, warrior class
@shin sang-ah, entered the gate through a contract, she's the first to complaint in the auditorium. she was with lee sung-jin after they got out of the auditorium. she got the priest class after her awakening.
@delphine, area 2, a french girl in area two, she uses her magic power to carry all the participants in her area. key no.2, she becomes a magician class after her awakening.
@tong cha, area 5, he wears a robe usually seen from middle eastern countries, key no.6
@salvatorre leorda, area 2, he has a bluish white hair, gold key no.5 or no.4
@hao win, area 7, he wears a business suit, key no.3
@claire agnes, area 2 instructor, sicilia's guide devil
@cinzia, the red haired lady in the neutral zone, boss/general manager in the neutral zone
@burrito, the bump guy who is having an affair with his partner in crime, leech girl.
@alex, a level 3 priesr
@hugo, a level 4 barbarian warrior

#earthling
#paradise high school
#diary of a certain student, something like a "future diary" thing
#invitees, invited, they are given special privilege at the start
#contractees, contracted, they git contracted into joining the gate. they receive no special privilege at the start.
#their are participants in other regions if the world as well. the regions are called area.
#area 1, the place where mc and the other participants he met are here, korean region
#area 2, europe region, a french girl, delphine, kept every participants alive by her eliminating the monsters.
#area 3, german region
#area 4, north america
#area 5, asian region, the invitees in this region took the contractees as hostages. sacrifice are made to keep them from accomplishing tasks.
#area 6, africa region, failed to clear the tutorial
#area 7, china region
#area 8, south africa region, failed to clear the tutorial
#area 9, oceania region, failed to clear the tutorial
#neutral zone, lost paradise, participants must acquire 1000 survival points in order to get to the next level. various ways are given to the participants to accumulate survival points.
#vip area in the neutral zone, accessible to participants with 1k+ points. there are healing and full recovery area in here as well baths and many thing. the vip store is also here. the high points ranker in the tutorial area are each given a key for a room in the vip area.
#vip store in the neutral zo e, 1 its created by the seven deities to aid participants, 2 products sold are unique, only one item exists, once sold they won't ever be restocked, 3 the number of people able to use the store is very limited
#information board/quest board in the reception hall in the neutral zone. participants may take quests posted on the board, if they tear it, they will be immediately teleported to the location of the quest. quests have a limited number if attempts. failure of quests makes the participant/s do over  or face a penalty. success will grant them survival points. party missions requires more than half of the participants to not be in the same area region they came from.
#competence potions, boosts training effectiveness. vip stores are enhance greatly compared to regular bought potions.
#warrior
#archer
#priest
#magician

1 post apocalyptic/war scene, a bloodied and beaten princess struggling to stay concious regrets trusting. an eerie apparation appears. the apparation stops by a man in even worse condition. his name is gwi chang, the phantom spear. the apparation asks the beaten man what his wishes are, since the man fulfilled his end of the deal. (only the apparation could understand the man, the man wanted to regress but he it will be hopeless. the apparation says it can't be done and if it can he will have most of his memories wiped and only his emotion would be retained. the man dies. the beaten princess spoke up. she asks why the apparation can't grant the man's wish. the apparation says the man returning back won't change anything. the apparation regrets he couldn't save the man. the princess takes out her necklace and showed it to the apparation. the princess asks the apparation to keep its promise on the royal throne. the apparation asks what the princess wishes. the princess wishes for the man to regress as the man wished for. the apparation says the man will lose his memories and only his feelings and regrets will be kept. the princess wants it to be done. the apparation does its magic. the princess will also regress? the apparation waits in anticipation for them three once again reuniting.) - ((this is a very confusing scene but perhaps in later chapter things will be revealed))

time regressed. a red haired person can be seen gambling in a casino. the red haired person goes all in with his bet.

2 the red haired person rushes outside. he lost the gamble. two men heard rumors about the red haired man. he used to be great at gambling untip one day things just changed and then he kept on losing. the red haired man needed money. he went to a coffee shop. he tried to scam them. the manager, yoo seonhwa, step in. she knows the red haired man. the red haired man demands compensation. yoo seonhwa transfers money to the red haired man. yoo seonhwa is indebted towards the red haired man and with the money transfered she says she's already paid her debt to the red haired man. the red haired man belittles how yoo seonhwa showed her gratitude. yoo seonhwa starts crying. she once look up to the red haired man and even mentions he was her mental support and out of the sudden, he just changed. the red haired man blames something he had lose.

3 back story of the red haired man. back then, he was able to see lights. when he sees green lights, nothing would happen. but if he sees a different color, something else would happen. the red haired man, when he was able to, tested it this abilities of his in a casino. he kept raking in money. until one day, he became sick and the lights started to grew faint. it was getting hard for him to use his ability to see the lights and finally after, he lose his ability. unfortunately, he had already became addicted to gambling and without his ability, he lost everything. back to the present, the red haired man, is drinking away himself near the pier. there is pocket in his money, it's from yoo seonhwa. he plans on gambling more, hoping he'd have another chance. the red haired man fell asleep. suddenly, a mystical gem appeared above his forehead and it flooded his mind of memories of a post apocalyptic scene. the red haired man woke up. he remembers the crying face of yoo seonhwa. he wanted to change and clean things up. he wanted to give the money back. he checked his pocket. the money is gone.

4 the red haired man panicked. but it was no use. the red haired man then decides to kill himself. he sees himself as a lost cause. the red haired man starts crying and suddenly, lights starts appearing. his ability returned. suddenly, a lady appears. the red haired man suddenly felt a deja vu. the red haired man seemed to have seen this scene in his dream. he saw himself meeting with the lady. the lady, hanna kim, wants to talk with the red haired man. she asks if they could talk. the red haired man went to her. when hanna kim gives the red haired man her business card, the words "meat shield" came to his mind. even ge himself don't understand. hanna kim then give a business proposal to the red haired man. hanna kim showed a bag full of money. she asks the red haired man to go gambling with her. the red haired man says he had already quit gambling and asks how hanna kim knew about him. hanna kim asks why he did and how he'd pay off his debts. the red haired man asks again how hanna kim knew about him. hanna kim says she, as a business team leader, did her research and she wants to hire the red haired man. the red haired man tries analyzing the situation and suddenly the words, "meat shield" came once again in his mind. the red haired man refuses hanna kim's offer. hanna kim does a business tactic to lure the red haired man into her business. the red haired man then says he doesn't want a contract but an invitation.

5 in his dream, the red haired man saw himself fighting an great number of monsters. when the fighting is done and the red haired man is at his deathbed, he made a wish to a god. he wish a do over. and in his dream, everything started with him meeting with hanna kim. back to the present, hanna kim is flustered at how the red haired man knew what to say. hanna kim inquires how the red haired knew. the red haired man refuses to answer. the red haired man then tries to blackmail hanna kim and her company. hanna kim says that the red haired man's statement won't make a difference. the red haired man says he knew it won't but hanna kim will get a penalty from her superiors. the red haired man then once again asks for an invitation. hanna kim tries to negotiated, it was no use. hanna kim then gives conditions to the red haired man. first, he must have never entered the other world once. the red haired man says he hasn't. second, he must tell hanna kim his secrets and how he knew about the other world. the red haired man refuses. hanna kim then entices the red haired man with a special invite. the red haired man says he will in the future if he gets to trust her more. and as for the last condition, if in case the red haired man gets to the other world, he must first make a deal with her before anyone else. the red haired man knows about the slave contract and as per their condition, it is not a contract but an invitation. the red haired man accepts the conditions. hanna kim gets a golden stamp out of her bag and stamped the red haired man.

6 the stamp on the red haired man's palm glowed, gets absorbed and disappeared. hanna kim gives the red haired man documents to read regarding the other world. hanna kim also says there will be a gate opening after an hour. she advices the red haired man to do everything he needs to be done before going to the gate and whatever he do, he must survive. hanna kim then hands over the missing money of the red haired man. she warns her of sleeping outside. the red haired man weny back to the coffee shop of yoo seonhwa. yoo seonhwa lashed out at him and hid in the staff room. the other staffs keep the red haired man from following. the red haired man asks the staff to give the money he got back to yoo seonhwa. the red haired man leaves and goes to an alley, the time for the gate opening is about to happen. the red haired man wants to send a last chat to yoo seonhwa. yoo seonhwa, gets out of the staff room, heard of what the red haired man did and tried following him. she went to the alley that the red haired man went to but before they could meet, the red haired man got teleported. the red haired man's phone was left on the ground. yoo seonhwa saw the phone and checks it. she saw an unfinished chat. it says "I'm sor.." the red haired man wakes up in his room. he checked outside and there were no people. an message alerted in a phone on his table.

7 the red haired man check the phone. he got a confirmation of his registration. then another alert came, he need to get to the auditorium of paradise highschool within an alloted time. he went to the school. on his way, he noticed there were no people around. when he got to the school auditorium a blond lady asks for a verification from him. the people already inside thought that the red haired man has a contract. the red haired man shows his invitation documents. the blond lady escorted the red haired man to a seat. the people already inside were surprised at how the red haired man was treated. when the red haired man got seated, he suddenly remembers something. he was meant tk be standing elsewhere and not where was sitting. it was noticeable there was two groups inside the auditorium, ones who are sitting and ones who are standing. suddenly, man in an army decorated uniform appears. he went to the podium in front and introduced himself as han, the guide. han tells the people inside the auditorium to think or say of the word status window or status. everyone does so and everyone sees their stats. han says the status won't be show to anyone unless the person deliberately reveals it. a person asks the person beside him what an innate ability is. han overhears it and asks if the person asking has it. the person said he don't. han explains it is something humans naturally do not have. the red haired man then asks himself why he has two innate abilities. future vision and an unnamed ability.

8 the red haired man kept his abilities a secret. han then tells everyone to check their marking grade by thinking or saying it. based on the grade, they were given starter packs which contains random items. the red haired man activates his, he got a gold grade marking. han was surprised as the red haired man is the second one obtaining it. the blond lady gives the red haired man his starter pack. the red haired man receives 5k survival points, a mark of survival, an update to a diary of a certain student, and three random boxes. the red haired man open one of the boxes, his unnamed innate  ability gets evolved and turned to nine eyes. after settling in his system, the red haired man suddenly realize he could see other's status windows. he then proceeded opening the two other boxes. suddenly, his nine eyes ability continued to evolve further. han, the guide, knows the boxes contained necessary benefit to individuals, it does not care any balance to what will happen here on. han wants to proceed  suddenly somebody interferes.

9 a lady in the standing group interrupts han. she asks why only the people seated get starter packs while they don't. han explains the ones sitted are invited while those who are standing are ones with a contract. the standing contractees suddenly want to complain. han says they are already late in time. the peope in the auditorium receives an alert message from their open. they have a tutorial mission and that is to escape the auditorium, they have 4 hours. han and the blond lady disappears. suddenly, something wants to enter the auditorium. the red haired man notices a light color of red on the auditorium door. he must not approach it. some of the people starts blocking the door. the thing outside stopped trying to enter the door. the red haired man checks his phone. he reads a diary of certain student, it's like future diary. he can know what would happen. in the diary, it says the door is their means of escape and that now it was block. and in chaos that happen, he would find a hole. one of the invitee, kang suk, decides to investigate. one of the contractee wants to follow and help kang suk. kang suk says they'd be not much of a help. suddenly, the contractees banded up to complain vs kang suk. kang suk along with his own group answers the complain. an argument happens. lee seol-ah, an invitee tries to deescalate. kang suk then asks lee seol-ah along with her brother to join them. kang suk is clear with his intention of segregating the invitees and the contractees. kang suk turns his attention to the red haired man, he asks him to join them. the red haired man uses his eye powers to see the light colors. almost everyone and everything is colored green. kang suk is colored orange. lee seol-ah has no light color. he then noticed the floor, it emits a red light color, danger.

10 an earthquake happens. the red haired man shouts and tell everyone to run. everyone did. suddenly, the floor broke and many hooks comes out. lee seol-ah became the first blood. she got hooked and was sucked into the hole. half her body was left sticking out. her brother, lee sung-jin tries to help her as well many others but it was already too late, when they pull her out, there was nothing remaining of her upper half. and then a huge monster came out of the hole. it was using hooks. the people panicked. one of the contractee took the chair holding the door and threw itnat the monster, it was useless, the monster blocked it with its chain. the monster started attacking. the people panicks as they hurried to open the door. the door gets open and the red haired main stays inside the auditorium. he was calm during the whole situation. he then takes a piece of the broken chain and armed himself. he readies himself as if he's using a spear. he takes a stance and faces the hook monster.

(at this point i'll be calling the red haired man, mc, my apology for not doing it earlier. 10 chapters in and i don't know his name yet. i've no idea if his name is also the one from the post apocalyptic scenario)

11 the people who went outsidr goes their separate ways. the invitees led by kang suk goes the other way away from the contractees. one of the bronze mark invitee notices something. mc attacks the hook monster. it was ineffective but it made the hook monster leave him be. mc is shocked at what he just did. the hook monster heads out the auditorium. the people outside started to panic. mc heads to the hole the hook monster came out of. he noticed the body of the first blood. he regretted that he didn't do anything to let her live. mc heads inside the hole. yoon seo-ra, one of the two silver ranker, who hid in the podium inside the auditorium notices the situation inside have calmed. on mc's side, mc walks a dark corridor. an alert message appear from his phone, kang seok, yi hyungsik and jeong minwoo have already arrive at the waiting room. mc checks out a map of the corridor he's in. a red light appears on one of the door. mc checks behind him, someone appears.

12 mc hides. mc checks the person who appeared. he was emitting green light. mc checks the person's status, he was hyun sang-min, one of the invitees. mc made him visible. mc gets acquianted with hyun sang-min. hyun sang-min wants to join mc. mc checks hyun sang-min's status, it says self centered and has great instinct. mc asks why hyun sang-min wants to join him instead of kang suk. hyun sang-min its more beneficial for him to join the gold grade instead of the other invitee. mc then why hyun sang-min was the first one to try and save the first blood. he replied he wanted to be on the good side of the others. hyun sang-min also says he'll follow mc as a subordinate. mc asks why. hyun sang-min's reply is survival. he has a better chance with mc compared with others. mc accepts to take him in. mc tells hyun sang-min to call him seul (finally after 12 chapters we got a name). hyun sang-min mentions he'll repay mc back. mc questions it and says he hasn't done anything for him yet. mc and hyun sang-min explores and investigates. meanwhile, outside, the contractees as well as lee sung-jin is hiding from the hook monster. they also got the alert that kang suk's team have already gotten to the safe location. one of the contractee sees yoon seo-ra inside a building. one of the contractees gets an idea of what to next.

13 mc and hyun sang-min investigates why they were given a lot of time for a simple task even with a monster hunting them. mc discusses that there maybe more missions for them ahead and with the given time, they are meant to find something that will greatly help them in the long run. the duo heads inside the main building. meanwhile, the hiding contrees and lee sung-jin devised a plan. they looked for something on the school ground. meanwhile, yoon seo-ra is inside the school office, she found a document which was something she was looking for. suddenly, the hook monster appears in the corridor. yoon seo-ra hides. a stone suddenly pierce through the window. this attracted the hook monster. unfortunately, the hook monster notices the group outside the building, the hook monster goes outside and starts hunting them. the group scatters. one of them tripped, he gets the attention of the monster. another person throws a stone on the monster. the one who threw the stone gets the aggro.

14 the group that lee sung-jin joins gets inside a building. the leader, a contratee, locked the door outside. he prioritizes self preservation. the rest of the group are outisde still running or being chased. meanwhile, mc and hyun sang-min find a grocery. they stock up on food supply. they discuss what to do next. mc says he has a hunch of something going on with the map. hyun sang-min is surprised mc has a map. mc says its a gold grade privilege. the marks on the map change color from red to blue after the team of kang suk arrived first and now there only blue marks left. the duo heads to the location of the safe spot, the second floor. they climb the stairs only to fight the path to the second floor is barred. the two went down to the firsr floor. the duo were cautious. when the two opens the door, the find a corridor with blood marks everywhere.

15 mc uses his eye powers, the corridor emits orange light, they must no approach the place. the duo went back up to the barred path. mc uses eye powers to check the bars, the have no color. mc tries something out. meanwhile, the group that are outside are being chased by the hook monster. one of them gets killed. the lee sung-jin group who are trying to get to the safe spot gets heard by the hook monster. the hook monster runs after them. lee sung-jin and a contractee ran together. the hook monster folkows them. lee sung-jin takes a sphere from his bronze bag and threw it at the monster.

16 it was a flash bang. lee sung-jin and the contractee managed to escape. meanwhile, the one who lead lee sung-jin gets to second floor path and find it was also barred. the leader holds the bar and suddenly the bar gets released. the leader is registered as one of the new user, the leader enters unfortunately for him, after he enter, his wife and kid can't follow him. the bar went back and blocked the path. the leader finds kang suk. he begged and pleaded them help. kang suk responds. they arrived at the barred path. they find the mother and child being hooked by the monster. kang suk tells the leader that a button will release the bar but it was already to late. the leader wants to open the path, kang suk dissuade him kang suk mentions if the leader opens the path, they would all be killed by the monster. the mother and child pleaded for the husband, the leader, for help. the leader, can't make the decision. meanwhile, mc touches the bar on his side, he gets registered as one of the new user.

17 mc enters. the path gets block. mc finds the release button. mc pushes it. hyun sang-min enters the safe area. the duo finds the kang suk's group. they heard a scream. the went to the leader side path. the mother and child are still being held by the hook monster. kang suk greets them. kang suk mentions that only the person who was registered can release the bar on path they took. the leader is still at a stand still. until finally the monster kills the mother and child. kang suk leaves. the leader curls on the floor regretting his inability to save them. mc's thoughts were on yoo seonhwa. what would he have done if it was him on the leader's place and yoo seonhwa is on the other side.

18 the duo mc and hyun sang-min discusses about the participant's circumstances why they join and why the place is called paradise. they did not want discussed too much. suddenly, the 6th user appears, it is yoon seo-ra. all 6 paths are now owned. 3 are from kang suk's group, and thrr are from mc, the leader and yoon seo-ra. mc says the other participant only have 50% chance of surviving. a group of contractee arrives at a barred path. unfortunately, the path they took is owned by kang suk.

19 they plead for kang suk to open the path. kang suk refuses. kang suk's aggression is towards the contractee who he had argument with in the auditorium, shing sang-ah. shing sang-ah apologizes. kang suk says he'll open the path but only for four people. shing sang-ah leaves the group. kang suk let 4 people enter. lee sung-jin, one of the 4 people let entered tries openinf the path but it was no use. lee sung-jin tries to force kang suk. one if kang suk's subordinate stops and hold lee sung-jin down. kang suk insults lee sung-jin with him seeing shing sang-ah as his new sister. shing sang-ah outside the bars asks if she would be let in. kang suk orders shing sang-ah to strip down. shing sang-ah strips. mc wants to interfere. hyun sang-min stops mc. mc wants to teach everyone who the actual boss is.

20 mc orders kang suk to open the path. kang suk refuses. his goons surrounds mc. mc is done with not doing anything to help. mc goes ultra instinct??? mc beats the three easily. mc then take kang suk's hand and pressed the button with kang suk's finger. mc orders shing sang-ah to enter. shing sang-ah enters. she is without pants. mc orders one of the goons of kang suk to fetch shing sang-ah's pants, the goon obeyed. everything settles down. except for mc. he's emitting saiyan red aura. his anger hasn't yet abated.

21 with the first mission over a new mission arrives. the survivors must get to a classroom in the fourth floor. they have two hours. meanwhile, in thr taj mahal, the a group of viewer is watching area 1, mc's group. they are arguing that area 1 will be laughing stock after the fiasco that happened with the group's mission 1. afterward, they were very impressed, specifically with mc. the area 1 group finishes the mission 2 at a record time. they are suspecting that mc is already an "earthling." hanna kim is amazed at her invitee, mc.

22 mc and the rest enters the class room. han congratulates them for finishing mission 1 and 2. he calls them classes 1 and 2. hans tells them of the final mission, scavenger hunt. 3000 coins will be scattered around. they need to collect at least a hundred coins to pass the 3rd mission in floor 6. the coins may also be used on the roulette in floor 5 to get random items. random items may be food supplies, equipments, weapons, magic items and even an item that can bring back people who died. the leader contractee and lee sung-jin gets alerted after hearing the last part. mc asks han why they need weapons and items. han says a cryptic reply that dead harbors great feeling of hatred towarss the living. the surviving group discusses about what to do. mc suggests they collect as many coins possible, get weapons from the roulette and then open the 6th floor gate. suddenly, they hear something outside classroom.

23 there are 6 rules for the third mission. 1 the starting room is the base, a safe area. 2 monsters will appear outside the safe area from midnight to noon. 3 the safe area is a guaranteed place, no monster can enter. 4 199 coins are needed to obtain a key and 499 coins are needed to unlock the floor 6 path. 5 the gate opens 30 minutes after the path to the floor 6 is opened. 6 when floor 6 opens, the 2nd floor barred paths also get opened. the invitees have already left. mc, hyun sang-min, lee sung-jin, shing sang-ah and the rest of the contractees are left in the base area. the raises the problem for cooperation. they let things be, mc and hyun sang-min gives food for everyone in the base area. suddenly, a quarrel within the people in the base area happens. a side wants mc to help them, another says that instead of relying on mc, they should do things themselves. mc deescalate the situation and had everyone check the time. the people in the base area starts leaving, they are now starting the scavenger hunt. hyun sang-min goes solo. three contractees who wants to leech off mc goes their own way. shing sang-ah and lee sung-jin goes together. mc is once again left on his own. suddenly, mc receives an alert. he was surprised.

24 mc's future diary reveals the coin locations for him. mc acquires coins. on mc's hunt, mc finds yoon seo-ra. he realizes thag yoon seo-ra also have a map to help her find the coin locations. mc tries his best not to go the same way as yoon seo-ra. moments before the monsters starts appearing, hyun sang-min have 100 coins, shing sang-ah have 70 coins, mc have 1552 coins, yoon seo-ra have zero coins. yoon seo-ra is tied up somewhere.

25 moments before the monsters appearing, mc return to thr base area. he finds hyun sang-min and shing sang-ah. hyun sang-min got enough coins. shing sang-ah is missing a few. mc gave shing sang-ah a few coins. hyun sang-min says that he thought it would be yoon seo-ra who has the most coins. mc suddenly stood up, mc has a bad feeling that yoon seo-ra is in danger. hyun sang-min suspects kang suk. meanwhile, lee sung-jin is in a room looking for more coins. suddenly, his deceased sister, lee seol-ah, appeared. she cares for lee sung-jin. lee sung-jin promises to save her. lee sung-jin gets out safely and continues his search. in the base area, mc is planning to go alone and look for yoon seo-ra and lee sung-jin. hyun sang-min wants to follow mc. suddenly, they hear a scream outside the base area.

26 mc, hyung sang-min and shing sang-ah hurried to the location. they find lee sung-jin. lee sung-jin lead them to yoon seo-ra she is in a bad condition. lee sung-jin says he might have seens disinefectant to help aid yoon seo-ra but it's in the room where he saw the ghost of his sister. unfortunately, it won't be enough. mc suggests they go for the roulette in floor 5. suddenly, someone unlocked the floor 6 path. the floor 2 paths gets unlocked. mc and hyun sang-min goes to the roulette and got items to treat yoon seo-ra.  mc stays behind to gacha some more. hyun sang-min went back. after, mc went back to the base area only to find kang suk is holding the survivors. mc checks what's going on, kang suk received a barrier spell that blocked their path. kang suk says he's also the one that opened the floor 6 path. mc realizes it was kang suk and his group who took yoon seo-ra's coins. suddenly, they all hear the monster from floor 2 below is coming. three leech contractees begged kang suk to let them enter. kang suk lets them. mc has a plan of his own.

27 kang suk tells the rest to leave mc. they all did. hyun sang-min, lee sang-jin and then shing sang-ah. shing sang-ah unfortunately gets abused first. kang suk continues to insult mc. fortunately, mc got a team of his own. hyun sang-min, loyal to mc, used a conceal spell to knock out kang suk's goon. lee sang-jin and shing sang-ah takes care of kang suk. kang suk's barrier gets broken. hyun sang-min mentions that he noticed the plan of mc but mc stopped. he asked why. mc answers he wanted to see how they would all react in a situation if they get backed to a corner. the three were surprised at how mc assessed the situation. after calming down, they suddenly hear the hook monster not far off.

28 they all enter the base area. kang suk's team were left outside. the hook monster appears. it cannot enter the base area. the hook monster starts killing kang suk's team. kang suk manages to get inside the base area, shing sang-ah stops him. kang suk gets hooked. kang suk grabs shing sang-ah's leg. she gets dragged outside the base area. lee sang-jin and hyun sang-min helps shing sang-ah. mc helps by fighting and defeating the hook monster. he used the items he has in his bag. meanwhile, on another side, the leader who left his wife and child die meets with their ghosts. the wife and child were resentful towards the leader.

(after this, i'll mostly be using the first names of the characters)

29 mc wakes up on his classroom chair. he's greeted by sang-min who's eating..the rest of the survivor have once more started hunting for coins. mc heads out, he finds sang-jin. mc decides to help him. they went to the roulette. they find seo-ra. she was having trouble with the roulette. mc let sang-jin pull. sang-jin gets a quill pen and a bunch of magic spells. they couldn't get the revival item. seo-ra then gives them the thing they were looking for, a revival potion. seo-ra says it was to repay sang-jin for helping her out. after, seo-ra leaves them mc and sang-jin checks out the condition for revival. everything check out except for having a piece of body from the deceased. sang-jin realizes where he could get it. sang-jin lead mc to the room he found his sister. they found the lifeless body of the leader contractee. they suspect it was leader's family that killed him. sang-jin desperately searches for his sister. mc reminds sang-jin they have a few minutes left until the hour of the dead ends.

(lee sang-jin should be lee sung-jin from 1 to 29, i made a mistake, i apologize.

30 mc and sung-jin looks for yi seol-ah's spirit. mc finds sang-min. sang-min joins. sang-min finds sang-ah. sang-ah joins. sang-min tells mc to check the auditorium. mc went to the auditorium, he found many living dead inside. meanwhile, the others found yi seol-ah's ghost by the gate on floor 6. mc rushes to the floor 6. there was no one there.


31 mc realizes he's on the other building. mc sees the three along with the ghost of yi seol-ah. there was less than 30 seconds until then ghosts disappears. mc jumps the gap between buildings. mc lands safely on the other building and doused the ghost of yi seol-ah with the revival potions. yi seol-ah gets revived. she doesn't remember anything after her death. after, han and the blond lady appears. the congratulate all of them for surviving until the last mission. the gate will be open but not for long. seo-ra appears with a bag of coins, she appears to be very exhausted, but she made it. sung-jin forgot that yo seol-ah also needed coins. mc says he'll give her some of his. suddenly the leech contractees appears and asks mc to save them as well.

32 mc asks them how much they all needed. after tallying, mc throws the coin off the building and said the three should get it. the three head down to find the coins. meanwhile, han mentions the points they all achievement during the missions 1, 2 and 3. mc nets the highest points of 21k. han mentions that he'll be able to use the vip store for having that much point. meanwhile, the leeches were picking the coins mc gave them. one of them finishes first. one of them got mad and killed the one who finished first. the two leeches arrived on the floor 6. they met with the others. the leeches said nothing. they all handed out their passage fees and heads through the gate. after, han bids the survivors good luck in the neutral zone

33 area 1 team, mc and the rest of the survivor in their region, arrives in a reception area. they meet the other area teams, who are all foreigners. they are then seated in an auditorium. mc meets with delphine. after, a status window appear and says start synchronization. mc felt a bit of shock? and the status window says synchronization conpleted. after, the people in suit who are with the respective teams started speaking. they announce if their team passed or failed. the blonde lady who was with mc's team says they passed. after, a red long haired lady appears on the stage in front of them, shr welcomes the teams to the neutral zone, or in her own words, hell. she then says individuals must accumulate 1000 survival points in order pass on the paradise, the next level?? after, the red haired lady gives out reward to individuals who have already surpassed or acquired the 1000 point. the first person, tong cha of area 5 is announce he could passed through to the next level, he chose to remain. the red lady hands him a golden key with no.6 written on it. next is salvatorre leorda of team 2, he chose to stay. hao win of area 7, he chose to stay. he is given a golden key with no.3 written. next is delphine, she also chooses to stay and she got a key with no.2 written on it. delphine then complained she got the wrong key. the red lady mentions delphine points to be 7500. unfortunately, some is higher than her. the red lady was about to mention mc's name. mc interrupts and says he will be staying. mc acquires the key with no.1 written on it. after the red lady announce the start of the next phase. the doors of the hall opens and the participants each went outside to the reception hall. various participants stands in front of an information board. mc is grouped with his team, sang-min, sung-jin, yi seol-ah and sang-ah. seo-ra,  and the other leeches are not with them. the group wants to look for seo-ra. mc wants to take a rest. mc leaves the group.  mc then meets with agnes, area 2 instructor, same job as the blonde lady. agnes wants to guide mc within the facility they are in. the blonde lady appears. agnes gives up. the blonde lady guides mc in the facility. thr blonde lady wants mc to treat her. mc says he has no money. the blonde lady tells mc he has survival points. in addition to the 21k points he got, he was also given an extra 5k points right from the beginning. the blonde lady says that the currency used in the neutral zone is the survival points.

34 the blonde lady leads mc upstairs. she explains that mc acquires a 100% discount since he's a gold grade and has the highest survival points. mc inquires about the points. the blonde lady says they get points by doing quests posted on the information board in the reception hall. aside that there are also points transfer and loans. the blonde lady also explains that it was good for mc to stay in the neutral store since its here that he'll be able to use the vip area. an area accessible to participants with more than 1k points. there is a place to heal and fully recover participants, place for recreation, baths and many more. the blonde lady gives mc a brochure then leaves. before she could go, mc asks the blonde lady's name, her name is maria mariah yeriel. after, mc takes a rest. when mc woke up, he checked the brochure mariah yeriel gave him. it has the rules and description of the vip store as well the products available. the items are very expensive. mc leaves the vip area and check the information board in the reception hall. mc sees other points ranker. mc takes an escape quest. delphine wants to get acquianted with mc, unfortunately, mc had already tore the quest paper he got before he could reply to her. delphine felt rejected. mc appeared in a dungeon, he have two hours to escape. in front of mc are multiple paths. mc uses his eye power to see where to go next. within 20 minutez, mc finishes the quest. mc returns in front of the quest board. the participants there were surprised at how fast mc did his quest. mc wants to try a higher rewarding quest. mc uses his eye power and check the quest which are alright for him. the papers glowed red, and green. mc notices a 1k points quest but it's color is yellow.

35 the yellow quest is survival. the points rewarded is only 1k. mc wants to try it out. delphine tells mc that tong chai, the first mentioned with points 1k above, died during the maze quest mc easily finished. delphine says that it has already been two hours since he attempted the maze quest and he hasn't yet showed up. mc is surprised at this info. delphine invites mc to have a cup of tea with her. mc accepts but mc had to do the survival quest first. mc leaves. the hao win notices the wuest mc took. they were all surprised and say that on the first day of them arriving in the neutral zone, two high points ranker will die. mc is ported in a dark cave. mc used his phone to shine a light. mc then uses his eye powers. a horde of skeletons are alerted. mc dodges and uses the magic balls he has. mc is at a number disadvantage, the hordes were simply many. a helmet wearing skeleton charges at mc. mc can't dodge and use his pack to block the attack. mc is ported back in the neutral zone reception hall. the people there were surprised.

36 mc went back to his room. his mind is a messed. he was almost killed. he underestimated the situation. it was luck that mc was able to complete the survival quest. mc is in a state of shock. suddenly, he hears a knock outside his room. it was seol-ah, the revived sister of sung-jin. mc tells her his messed up problem. seol-ah tells mc to go run with him to help mc calm dow . there is a quest to do laps, no merits or penalty for the quest. seol-ah wants to do a bit of exercise before she could go rest. mc joins her. the two party up and does the quest. they were sent to a track and field area. the two go at it. seol-ah easily finishes her rounds, mc is exhausted but was able to finish. mc asks how seol-ah is fine. seol-ah tells mc she's part of a track team. mc's mind gets cleared. he thanked seol-ah for cheering him up. meanwhile, in the sleeping area for the other participants, seo-ra is having trouble sleeping. her hands that were broken by the deceased kang suk were hurting badly. in her mind, she is causing trouble to everyone, and so she goes solo. next day, sang-mind, sang-ah, seol-ah and sung-jin are discussing about the missing seo-ra over breakfast. sang-min says they should just leave seo-ra be. sang-min says its proper courtesy to help someone out. sung-jin and seol-ah are indebted to seo-ra and so the siblings wants to help her. meanwhile, mc is planning what to do next. mc remembers a note they got from hans, the area 1 tutorial guide.

37 mc checks the note. a word "competence" is highlighted. mc went to the vip store to get info. mc hands the guide's note to the vip store clerk. mc is shown potions that enchances training effectiveness. the store clerk says the stocks are limited. mc bought them all. mc begins training. meanwhile, in the reception hall, a fight erupted between participants for making bad calls and decisions with the quest. tong chai is still alive. him as well other rankers were discussing about the difficulty of the quests. meanwhile the participants are discussing about how to get points. one of them notices delphine, they demand she give points to them in exchange for money. delphine rejects them and says if they complain they should talk to the red haired lady. the participant backed down. meanwhile, instructor agnes and the red haired lady is watching mc training. they were amazed with mc's dedication. they also talked about telling all the participants of the real deadline. every participants were told they could only stay in the neutral zone for 1 month but in truth they could stay for 3 months. instructor agnes wants to reveal the truth. the red haired lady suggest they just tell the participants they extended the duration. she argues that the participants will get lax if in case they were told the real duration and in turn would not get as much points. she wants to have the participants get as much points they could have. the two then discuss about mc's matter. instructor agnes wants to aid mc but the blonde lady interrupted her. the red haired lady shares a report about mc.

38 mc does the running quest. mc gets exhausted and while at it he thinks negatively. mc falls to the ground, a status window appears. his personslity trait weak will is erased and his stamina stats increased. mc also acquires 10 points. mc gets ported back to the reception hall. instructor agnes meets with mc and hands him a drink. instructor agnes tells mc that she's been observing him. she advises mc to change his training routine as he also need to take resting into account. she also advise mc to eat a balance and healthy food. she also says mc should start alternating his training. instructor agnes says she will help him. mc asks why. a bit of flashback, the red haired lady reveals mc is separate from hanna kim's group and that agnes should be helping mc. back to the present, instructor agnes tells mc that she saw potentials within mc and that's why she wanted to help him. mc asks if instructors could help and if they could he asks for someone great. agnes tells mc, she's the one he's looking for. mc begins his spartan training with instructor agnes guiding him. meanwhile, seo-ra is having her broken arms patched. the doctor recommends seo-ra to have her arms treated. seo-ra replies she doesn't have points. the doctor says she could use her connection with rank 1, mc, to get points loaned to her. seo-ra lives she's is having second thoughts of whether to ask for help, she is down to her last 23 points. she's having negstive thoughts on disappointing her father. suddenly, seol-ah appears. seol-ah invites seo-ra for lunch. seol-ah drags seo-ra. unfortunately, seo-ra bumped her broken arm with another participant. seo-ra fell to her knees in pain. seol-ah calls out to the participant. the participant went mad.

39 seol-ah demanded apology. the participant goes ranting vs the two. they are getting attention from others. seo-ra stood up and walk off. they let things deescalate like that. seo-ra wanted to leave seol-ah. suddenly, sang-ah appears. the three girl went to have a girl talk? sang-ah is mad how they got treated. sang-ah then checks the meds seo-ra is taking. she asks if seo-ra could keep up with the costs. sang-ah suggests asking mc could to help her. seo-ra says she couldn't. sang-ah says they have a deadline to meet. seo-ra says the deadline might not be true. meanwhile, mc is continuing his training. after their session end, mc inquires about the next level, paradise. instructor agnes says its like an rpg medieval game but with their actual lives on the line. she didn't mention to mc a coming war. mc wants to learn skills and techniques. instructor agnes says it's still too early for him and that mc should believe in her. mc says they have a deadline to meet and he'll believe her. instructor agnes asks mc to keep what she'll tell him a secret. meanwhile, back in the girl talk, seo-ra says the deadline of a month is actually three months. she tells the two girls that the participants must first undergo an awakening. back to mc and instructor agnes. instructor agnes reveals to mc that deadline is 3 months and that the participants will be undergoing awakening, this will give them specific class and only after that is their actual class training will begin. mc and the two girls, seol-ah and sang-ah were joyful for the news. meanwhile, one of the leech, the boy leech of area 1, hears the convo of the girls. the boy leech went the girl leech of area 1. the girl leech is having an affair with the man who bumped with seo-ra. they are doing underhanded tactics.

40 the leech girl and the bump guy are taking points from other participants by beating them up. a month passed, the red haired lady, cinzia announces that those without 1k points will be eliminated. the participants voiced complaints. boss cinzia says she'll extend the deadline. after, the participants went to the chamber of awakening to change class. delphine gets a magician class. next up is mc. mc enters the chamber, he hear voices. they argue about mc's class. some of them wants mc to become a magician. mc wants to become a lancer, a warrior class. the voices had a vote regarding mc's class. only one voice did not speak, it was gula's. (these voices are from the seven gods)

41 mc, sang-min, sang-ah, seol-ah and sung-jin are in a diner. they are discussing the classes they got. the discuss how seo-ra is worried since she got a warrior class and her arm isn't still fixed. meanwhile, boss cinzia and instructor agnes are discussing the numbers of the classes from the participants, 1 magician, 4 priests, 22 archers and 51 warriors. instructor agnes wanted mc to become an archer but mc became a warrior. she vows to help mc to become even stronger. mc starts mana training. instructor agnes gives mc a quest note that will transport him elsewhere in order for him to learn about mana in a week. mc uses it. mc does his training and after a short while, mc gets ported back. instructor agnes is very surprised. she asked mc to show her his mana. mc does it on his first try. mc acquire mana application (low) and due to mc's eye powers, the new skill evolved to mana application (intermediate). instructor agnes is surprised but hears that mc rejected the gods turning him into a magician and instead chose to be a spear user. mc then takes a spear training quest in the info board. instructor agnes is getting more amazed at mc. mc does spear training. thankd to the competence he used, mc's training is going well. mc gets a new skill, his eye power enchances the new skill.

42 in the woman's wc cubicle, seo-ra is eating food. she hear a knock on the door. it's seol-ah. seo-ra opens the door. seo-ra is in a really bad condition. seol-ah takes seo-ra to a diner to eat. seol-ah suggests they go to mc to get help. seo-ra says its too late for her. seol-ah says its hard living alone. seol-ah suggests seo-ra should stay with her. it's a way for her to repay seo-ra. meanwhile, participants notices mc have been always taking training quests. in truth, this is instructor agnes's order. after training, mc returns in front of the info board. seo-ra is waiting for him. leech girl approaches seo-ra. leech girl dissuades seo-ra from asking mc for help. after, instructor agnes meets with mc. mc had dyed his hair. instructor agnes tells mc he's now allowed to do mission quests. mc starts the mission quests. rumors in the neutral zone spread, mc have been doing a lot of quests, he had cleared a third of the quests posted. mc is in front of the info board looking for a quest. he is approached by delphine. she says mc will be needing a party if he will tackle difficult quests. mc says he'll consider it and goes off to another quest. the quest took is the survival quest that had messed with him for the first time after reaching neutral zone. mc faces the skeleton horde.

43 it was a revenge match for mc as he mow down each monster headed toward him. mc then defeats the skeleton with a helmet. mc succeeded with the quest. mc acquires points. his total point is now, 85k. after acquirinf 120k points mc bought potions. mc is left with 30k points. mc first drank the potion that will enhance his eye powers. mc blacks out for a moment and then his eye power improved. mc wanted to take another potion but it went missing. suddenly, hanna kim appears. hanna kim tells mc to be acquianted with others. mc then asks what's her real reason of meeting with him hanna kim says they want mc to help yoon seo-ra. hanna kim says by doing so, mc will be reward one way or another, with regards to the golden rule of do something to others what you want done unto you. after the meeting, mc finishes with his potion drinking. mc's eye power once again evolved. mc tested it out. mc spots yoon seo-ra unconcious on the floor of the resting room. mc takes yoon seo-ra to instructor maria. mc asks for help. instructor maria says to have seo-ra's arm be amputated. she can't help seo-ra since she's just a priest 4 and they need a priest 5. instructor agnes says instructord. instructor maria could be granted priest 5 but it has a risk. if she fails, she'll get penalty. instructor maria asks why mc is helping seo-ra. mc says it was a personal request from hanna kim. instructor maria asks for 82k points in order to help seo-ra. after, in front of the info board, delphine is looking for quest to take, mc appears behind her. he's asking to joing her party.

44 mc joins delphine's group, they are all the vip rankers. mc says his need for the 82k points. the rest of the team allows mc to get all the points for the mission. within a day, mc acquires the need points. instructor maria heals seo-ra. seo-ra gets healed. afterward, mc paid off the points loaned to him within two days. mc had instructor agnes personally train seo-ra, sung-jin and seol-ah. this is in a way for the three to repay, by showing they could make it. meanwhile, mc is still in delphine's party. last day for the neutral zone, they are eye for the impossible quest, the last quest in the info board. after a party deliberation, they did not take it. in mc's vip room, he is with seo-ra, sung-jin and seol-ah. mc finds a random magic note he got in the tutorial area, auditorium. they told mc that after the neutral zone, everything that was given to them as a bonus will be wiped. this includes the magic bag and the phone they got. mc wants to use the magic note. mc does the impossible quest, a destruction quest. prizes is 170k points and a vip store coupon. meanwhile, in mc's room where seo-ra is staying, seo-ra receives a letter from beneath the room's door. it contains a swordsmanship training mission letter and something else. meanwhile, leech girl is having a problem of her own.

45 leech girl gets a knock from her door. leech girl opens. it was seo-ra. seo-ra ports elsewhere with leech girl. flash back, leech girl had bump guy beat seo-ra. leech boy tries helping seo-ra by having a duel match or something. leech boy never returned. back to present, it's a revenge match for seo-ra vs leech girl. seo-ra kills leech girl. meanwhile, mc just returned. he beat the impossible mission. mc receives the prizes vip coupon and 170k points. mc's total points is 400k+. instructor agnes was there to welcome him back. mc had a talk with hanna kim on how to beat the impossible mission quest. when mc entered the quest area, mc uses his magic note. the note activates a the magic the user ultimately needed for that moment. mc quickly finishes the quest thanks to the magic note. afterward, cinzia announces to all the surviving pariticipants the completion of their time in the neutral zone. a large gate open and the particpants passed through. they were in the desert. kim hanna is waiting for him. they are returning back since 3 months have already passed and they don't want mc to continue being missing. mc and seo-ra went with kim hanna's group since they're part of the shinyung company, excluding mc. after, mc bids them farewell, seo-ra wants to get acquianted with mc outside the tutorial and neutral zone. she asks for mc's name. mc happily tells her his name.

46 kim hanna asks why mc doesn't share his first name. mc says he doesn't to disgrace the name given to him by his parents. mc enters a portal and mc went back to the real world. mc acquires monet from kim hanna. mc takes care of some business. mc had himself ban from the casinos. he pays back his debt from his family. mc visits yoo seonhwa. mc feels like after returning and repaying his debt, no one believes him. mc went back to kim hanna and asks to be ported back. a scene in a desert, mc is on a carriage with alex, a priest 3 and hugo, a warrior 4 barbarian.

(end season 1)

Monday, June 3, 2024

The Exiled Reincarnated Heavy Knight is Unrivaled in Game Knowledge (manga until chapter 81) °

the last chapter is about the mc and luce meeting, getting acquianted with and saving a noble and her knight guard. this all happened in a dungeon that the adventurer guild kept hidden, the tower of mythic beasts.

@elma edvan, mc
@luce/ruche rubis, jester, first partymate of mc
@maris, a daughter of a branch family of the edvan house.
@lord izas, father of mc
@thomas, butler in the edvan household
@ares, first adventurer mc met when he first leveled up.
@tails/teil, a red mage who participated in the promotion quest of mc from f rank to e
@pole/paul, an adventurer accompanying mc during the promotion quest of mc from f rank to e
@gotan/goutan, d rank adventurer who lead the promotion quest of mc from rank f to e
@klein/clyne, a swordsman, former partymate of luce
@reese, a bandit, former partymate of luce
@matilda, a receptionist in the lacorina adventurer guild
@harlein harolwad/haultodd, adventurer guild chief of the lacorina branch. a distant member of the marquis harolwad household.
@berga, the blacksmith in lacorina that mc employs to make him his equipments.
@hilde, a b rank spellsword adventurer, a disciple of a rank black flame blade, she lose to mc when they had a duel for the sword mc had berga made
@kalos, a rank adventurer, master of hilde
@maybell, a c rank priest adventurer, she joins the raid party of kalos as a healer
@celt, a hunter adventurer, he joins the raid party, he has a rude and greedy attitude
@snow haultodd/harolwad/hawlott, eldest child of the haultodd head of the family, a genius swordsman. ice crystal knight class, magic swordsman focused on ice magic
@isabella, a holy knight, b rank adventurer, directly serving under snow haultodd

#magic world, the vr game the world mc is in
#heavy knight, one of the known worst classes.
#rondalm/londalm, the city mc is staying after getting exiled
#lacorina/lacolina, the second town mc and luce went after rondalm, town of adventurers
#skill tree, leveling up this skill unlocks skills and bonuses. passives, directly boost stats, no skill will be unlock when this is leveled up.
#titles, can give certain bonus to users
#vow of the heavy armor, a skill tree essential heavy knights.
#smoldering fang of madness, a skill tree that boosts the potential for heavy knight class. uses life force to use skills acquired
#dismantled item, loots from slain adventurers
#shattered grimoire hall, the black market mc is told to go while searching for skill books.
#alzaros's dream
#dream lord, dungeon bosses
#nolsung kingdom
#mourning trapezohedron, the black gem which caused anomaly, it attracts monsters to increase monster numbers. it is artificially made.
#zerg, second evolution of boss monsters, they are able to get out of dungeons and create even more havoc. they can easily terrorize and destroy towns
#tower of mythical beasts, a rare dungeon.
#rare dungeons, are dungeons with great reward. if a certain number of monsters are killed inside, the defeated, the dungeon will close, regardless the dungeon boss is not defeated. due to this condition, in the game world, dispute may happen within the player community.

!!my own words
!!zhongli shield, the life shield/barrier that mc wraps around himself
!!saiyan 1, half dead savage dragon buff, when hp below a certain percentage, atk and speed doubles
!!saiyan 2, reduces all the defense stat to zero and converts it all to attack, continuously uses mana while active

1 mc undergoes the divine blessing ceremony. mc's father is expecting a great class for mc. during the ceremony, mc realizes the world he is in is from a game he used to play. mc acquired a heavy knight class from the ceremony. mc is happy. mc's father is greatly disappointed. then, mc's cousin, maris takes the divine ceremony. mc had a bad feeling. maris gets sword saint for her class. mc's father rejoice at maris achievement. mc's father then claims maris as his own daughter and the heiress to the edvan household. maris has eyes of scorn on mc. mc's father disowns mc. mc's father also warns mc of using the edvan name. mc wants to plead, but his words fell on deaf ears. mc gets exiled.

1.2 after the exile, mc stays at an inn. he only have a few items and money he is left and nothing else. mc keeps in his mind what he knows about the game and the world he is in. mc sets up his skills. mc goes out to grind. mc achieves level two. out of nowhere, mc hears a cry for help. an adventurer is running away from monsters can easily deal with. the adventurer insults mc. mc make quick work of the monsters.

2 mc levels up. the adventurer, ares, thanks mc. ares has a change of heart and wants to invite mc to their party. mc declines. ares insists. with a tank class, mc will have a hard time doong solo. mc is firm with his answer. mc does not want to associate with much people or else it may attract the attention of his family and mc wants to go solo for higher loot and exp gain. ares is assertive. suddenly, a monster spider appears, it's level is much higher than mc. ares wants to face the spider in order for mc to escape. mc pulls ares back, mc will face the spider. mc adds all his gained skill points to his skill tree. mc gains a skill to fight the spider.

3 mc vs spider monster. mc's motto: high risk, high return. mc takes on the poison attack of the spider. mc gets two clean hits of debuff vs the spider. with certain conditions met, mc uses his full counter skill vs the spider. mc beats the spider. mc levels up. mc increased his heavy knight skill until it can no longer increase. ares gives up on inviting mc to join his party. ares helps the poisoned mc back to town.

4 mc registers at the rondalm branch adventurer guild. mc starts at f rank. mc need to up his adventurer rank in order to further increase the level of his heavy knight skill. the other adventurer is looking down at the tank class of mc. mc hands over his loots from the monsters he defeated. the adventurers is having second thought with mc. mc then asks the guild receptionist for a rank promotion quest. mc joins a raid quest. the leader is underestimating mc. mc let it be since he needs to get promoted. the quest is a subjugation for a ghoul head monster. mc is doubtful of their party line up.

5 mc wants to ask role distribution and enemy info from gotan. gotan did not like it. mc had to bow his head to be respectful. tails insults mc. suddenly, the battle begins. tail gets surprised. gotan has himself, tail and poles face the ghoul monster. mc takes the lead to order the others to fight the monster subordinates. mc does it remarkably. although, the others were reluctant, when mc showed how he easily dealt with the monsters, the others were amazed.

6 mc and his little squad defeated the subordinate monsters. meanwhile, gotan is having a hard time. tail and poles were unreliable. gotan is having a hard time facing the ghoul head and the few subordinate monsters around. although, gotan is dealing impressive damage vs the ghoul head. mc's little squad wants to join the fight. suddenly, the ghoul head goes phase two. mc warns them.

7 the ghoul head evolved. goutan gets stunned and knocked out. tail and pole are very unreliable. mc rushes and protects gotan. mc orders tail to take back gotan and heal him. mc will hold a the ghoul head while gotan recovers. mc lvl16 vs evolved ghoul head lvl40. mc stsys true to his motto: high risk high return.

8 mc held his ground but he won't last long. mc ups his swordsmanship skill tree to get a sword skill. mc continues his battle for endurance. after sometime, gotan finally recovered and entered the battle. gotan takes the final blow. the ghoul head gets defeated. mc gains a few level after the battle. gotan is impressed with mc.

9 gotan apologized to mc for lacking in terms of leadership and not properly readying the party. as a form of apology, gotan lets mc keep the drop from the ghoul monster. mc gets a level 40 magic stone and shield that raises attack power, it is expensive. gotan then says he'll give words to everyone at the guild of mc's amazing feat and mc will be promoted to rank e. gotan reprimands tail for being unreliable. back at the guild, mc gets a lot of rewards. the adventurers were saying that mc cheated. gotan backs mc up. the adventurers has nothing more to say to mc. mc moves up to e rank. mc then plans what to do next. mc eyes for a specific item that will help mc in the long run.

10 the skill book, smoldering mad fang, when a heavy knight has this as well the heavy knight skill, vow of the heavy armor, the heavy knight class can no longer be considered just a tank class. mc goes to a shop to stock up on supply. mc then inquires about skill books. the shop owner tells mc of the decree regarding skill books. it is ban to trade skill books, it is either for personal use or will be submitted and bought by the adventurer guild which will then be given to nobles or to the church. mc is having trouble. fortunately, the shop keeper told mc to go to a hidden black market which does trade skill books. mc went to the black market store, shattered grimoire hall. mc finds the skill book he needs. it costed 50 million. mc only has less than a million in his pocket. mc asks the skill book reserved for him. the shop keeper asks for 5 million more for as a reservation fee.

11 mc tries drawing plans in ordee to save up 55 million. mc even considered getting allies. from a short distance, mc overhears a party. the party is having an argument with the loot distribution. luce, the jester of the party wants to have a decent share. klein and reese thinks otherwise. luce blames klein for having him decide what skill she wouls get. klein throws it back by saying it was luce who did the skill allocation. the party gives luce the share she wanted in exchange she'd have to leave. mc overhears the convo and realized luce's skill is the one that he need. luce intend to just give up her to stay in the party. mc interferres and asks if luce could join him. luce gets surprised.

12 mc wants to recruit luce. mc even tells that the loot share will be 80 to 20, with mc keeping only 20. klein insults luce. mc assures luce if she's with him everything will be fine. klein keeps belittle luce. mc doesn't care. klein speaks with reese and let mc take luce. mc tells them off. luce accepts mc's offer. klein tells luce the share she was to get will be like a parting gift from them. luce wants to take it, mc told her not to take them. mc tells luce they do not need anything from people like klein and reese. mc and luce went off. mc went out to eat with luce. luce inquires why mc wants to help her. mc asks if his guess is right about luce's skill. mc asks luce has the great fortune skill tree.

13 luce is still doubting herself being helpful to mc. mc reassures her that everything will be fine. mc and luce heads to a dungeon. mc plans to have luce get to level 30 and for them to earn at least 30 million in one raid. mc and luce starts the raid. mc aggro, while luce deals the killing blow. after the first kill, it is apparent luce is traumatized by her former teammates and her having to rely much on her greatfortune skill to get items. mc is fine as long as luce is safe and progressing with her level and experience. only after getting the first loot did luce get to her cheerful self again. after luce gets to a good level, mc plans to fight their main event.

14 mc wants to face the golden frogs, low attack monsters but have great rewards when defeated. mc and luce discuss about the golden frog. mc places the role of defeating the frogs to luce. mc helps luce with her skillpoint allocation. mc and luce goes dungeon crawling while evading other monsters. their focus is the golden frog. mc planned it out in consideration of the golden frog rarity, they'd probably find one or two, in two days. mc tells luce if in case she feels something, she should just speak up. mc will listen. out of nowhere, luce spots a golden frog.

15 luce psyches herself up in order not fail. mc tells her it's alright if they fail in the first try. the duo sets out their plan. luce uses her new skills to get on the other end where the golden frog is and have the frog run straight to mc. mc uses his a skill to root the golden frog.

16 luce thought luce will do the killing blow. mc asks luce to deal the it. luce is having doubts. mc reassures her she's able to do it. luce does the atrack and is able to one hit kill the golden frog. mc and luce levels up multiple times. the golden frog also droppes a rare item.

17 luce is in disbelief of how much the item they just acquired. mc plans to go one more round. after a few hours, mc and luce managed to find and defeat their second golden frog. another rare item dropped. the two also leveled up. while the two are resting and planning on their skill allocation, luce suddenly noticed something. mc immediately knew it's a wondering dungeon boss. mc plans for them to escape, unfortunstely they heard cries for help. there were two adventurers beaten, they were running from the boss. mc takes the initiative. mc will act as bait and aggro the boss while luce take the two adventurers and ran away. luce is doubts mc. mc reassures her its his role as a heavy knightm suddenly, a nut cracker monster appears.

18 the nutcracker is beaten but mc knows its just a subordinate of the wandering boss. luce wanted to stay fight with mc. suddenly, 2 more nut cracker monsters appear. mc gave nasty remarks to luce just for her to leave. mc wants her to live. luce leaves. suddenly, a giant fetus monster appears, its the wondering boss. it can also cast magic. mc vs 3 nutcrackers snd a 1 boss fetus. mc can easily deal with the nutcrackers. after beating one, mc knows the real game is about to begin.

19 the fetus boss revives the defeated nutcracker. mc wants to go with his usual tactics vs the nutcrackers, unfortunately the nutcrafkers also changed tactics. mc is in a pinch. the fetus boss casts a msgic attack vs mc. mc can't dodge it. mc gets sent flying to the wall. mc is stunned. a nutcracker approaches mc. mc felts regret that he didn't ask luce stay behind. suddenly, luce appears and saved mc. mc wants luce to run. luce refuses. mc is losing hope but luce is encouraging him. mc finally got back on his senses. luce joins the fight. mc and luce vs the boss squad.

20 it was useless defeating the nutcrackers as the fetus boss can just revive them. mc plans on having luce focus her attack vs the fetus monster, while mc takes the lead and cover her. mc plan on using luce's lucky strike to defest the boss. they initiate the plan, everythinf went smoothly, unfortunately, luce miss. luce is left hanging in the air and an easy target for the fetus boss.

21 fortunately, luce has her acrobatic skills. she landed on the ceiling and goes for a second lucky strike. this time it hits. the fetus boss gets defeated. the two levels up a few times. mc is impressed with luce. mc went to luce and praised her. mc is glad to have her as his partner. they also acquired a new title. next are the loots, they got swords from the nutcrackers, and a skill book, intermediate wind magic, from the fetus boss. mc immediately hide it. mc is aware of the skill book trade ban and they might get in trouble if anyone else find they acquired one. after, the dungeon starts disappearing. mc and luce gets teleported outside. mc makes a quick account of the loots they gathered, it amounted to 60 million. luce gets into a shock.

22 meanwhile, luce's former party is having trouble, they can't get any loots without luce. when they got back in the guild, they find mc and luce being praised for the achievement they just accomplished. aiside from the loots mc and luce gathered and accounted, they will also be getting a reward for defeating the dungeon. they also get promoted to d rank. luce's former party saw all of this being given to mc and luce. klein immediately went to luce and begged her to return to their party. klein gets ignored. back to mc, mc and luce celebrates their achievement. luce is frugal with her order when she saw the price. mc had luce splurge. they have to celebrate. while at it, they do the loot and money distribution. the total money gained is 57 million, as per mc's and luce's share deal, 80 to 20. lice gets 47 million while mc gets 11 million. luce thought mc was joking back then, she did not want to accept it. mc argues its the standard thing in the game world. luce sees it differently.

23 in the end, the share distribution gets on hold. mc and luce went to the shattered grimoire hall, black market, to asess the items they found. mc wants to sell the loots and the skill boom they acquired. the shopkeep wants to haggle. luce is fine with the price the shopkeep gave. mc is not swayed. mc goes on a price battle with the shopkeep. luce interrupts the two, luce asks if they could trade all the loots and skill book they got for the skill book mc wanted. both mc and the shopkeep sees the advantage of luce's trade. the shopkeep is willing to accept luce's trade. mc wants to decline since by doing so, luce couldn't get her share. luce refuses mc. luce gets to decide. the deal gets settled. the shopkeep praised luce.

24 in the edvan side, mc's father and cousin, maris, caught wind of mc's achievement. they thought mc is using the edvan family name to get what mc wants. the butler thomas gets tasked to observed mc. maris barged in and request that lord izas, mc father, and her, maris must deal with mc personally. back to mc, mc is still regretting luce did't get her share. luce says mc should just take the skillbook as a thanks from her. mc uses the skillbook, smoldering fang of madness. mc is elated. luce is happy for mc. the duo went back to the guild to plan what to do next. suddenly, mc's father and cousin enters the guild hall. lord izas and maris had the guild building emptied. the guild staffs and adventurers obeyed. when mc and maris are leaving, mc's father stopped them. mc already knew it was him they were after.

25 elma is aggressive towards his father. luce is scared at mc's approach towards the lord izas. maris inquires luce about mc. luce don't know what to say. the guild chief was still in the guild building, he asks why lord izas is interested with mc. lord izas warns the guild chief not to feign ignorance. lord izas thought they already knew that mc is a noble and is an edvan. the guild chief is surprised. lord izas orders the guild chief to find the ones who are helping mc. the guild chief obeys and tries finding clues. lord izas confronts mc and reminded mc of being disowned. mc tells his father that he never broke his promise and have never mentioned his family name to anyone. maris interrups the father son quarrel. maris wants to test out the rumors about mc and his acheivements. lord izas find it absurd. mc accepts the mock battle but on the condition that once they acknowledge his strength, they will stay awsy from his life. maris accepts the condition. mc, heavy knight, vs maris, sword saint lvl 45. at the start of the battle, maris's attitude towards mc can be seen smewhat like an obsession. mc sees maris hating him.

26 mc is getting pusher back. mc goes for the counter. maris gets hit. maris goes berserk and used her sword saint skill vs mc. mc manages to block the attacks but mc still at a disadvantage.

27 mc manages to hold on. maris is aiming to deal the final blow. but everything is according to what mc plan right from the start. mc invest skill points to his smoldering fang of madness and acquires genshinimpact hutao E skill. mc uses genshinimpact zhongli shield to compansate for the few hp he have left. mc enters combat mode.

28 mc begins his counter. mc powers up with the smoldering fang of madness skill and add to it the bonus on a new title he acquired. mc attacks. maris definitely felt mc's blows. maris still underestimate mc. maris uses her sword saint skill, mc easily manage to disarm maris. maris goes hand to hand. mc charged at her with his shield. maris gets thrown off a wall. mc won the mock battle. luce hugged mc to celebrate his victory. lord izas is in disbelief of what had just happened. mc asks for the condition he set for the mock battle.

29 lord izas accepts the condition and acknowledges mc. this means farewell for good with mc as an edvan. mc bowed his head to his father to show respect and appreciation for raising him. lord izas carries maris as they leave. but before that, luce interrupts lord izas and demands for an apology for mc. all lord izas says is for luce to take care of mc. next day, mc and luce leaves the town of rondalm. it seems luce misunderstands a few things again. mc and luce arrived in the town of adventurers, lacorina. its a town with mamy high level dungeons. the duo's first order of business are ger upgrades and skill allocation. luce let mc do hers. luce asks for the best build to get. mc tells her to go full crit. and they'll also be needing a special skill book just like what mc got, shinigami's assassin. mc tells luce it goes for hundred million. luce is once shocked when great amount of money is being talked about.

30 after gatherin intel in town, mc and lucr went to a dungeon in a woodland near lacorina. they are aiming for black steels. before they start the dungeon crawl, luce is showing a great deal of dependency towards mc. mc is always grateful for luce. the duo starts. the first monster they fight is a smiling geodude, boulder monsters with smiley face. mc takes the aggro and deals debuffs and pin. luce does the killing blow. it was easily manageable for them.

31 immediately after the first kill, they acquire a black steel dagger for luce and an earth magic crystal. mc wants to get 10 more. they needed money in order for them to get stronger. after, a group of four geodudes appear, one of them is a rare variant. they easily defeat the monsters. they leveled up, and the loots they acquired this time are ingot, a hammer, a sword for mc and a rune to equip on weapon slots. current amount of items accounted, 41 million gold. the duo continues. they need 6 more geodudes. in the distance and unknown to the duo, a new monster lurks.

32 the duo heard an ominous sound. mc suspects its a mythril golem. after thoroughly checking, mc's hunches were right. mc doubts if they could win vs the mythril if in case they face it. mc wants to retreat but his motto: high risk, high return is telling him otherwise. at the moment, mc is doubting whether they should risk it. suddenly, luce interrupts mc's thought and says they should fight the golem. if its with mc, luce believes they can do it. mc felt assured. they begin a plan to fight the golem. they set up the field where they will have an advantage. after discussing the battle plan with luce doing the most damage, the golem appears. the duo readies for the fight.

33 mc nd luce vs mythril golem. with them setting the area for the battle, the two are able to even out the difference with the power. mc can easily out maneuver the hard hits of the golem. luce gets a successful hit, the golems goes down to half hp.

34 the battle continues. luce takes the aggro. mc roots the golem. mc gets the aggro. luce misses a hit. mc is worrying about the auto regen of the boss. mc blocks a hit from the golem. mc barely withstood it. luce once again misses a hit. mc goes cqc to take aggro. the golem hits mc. mc blocks it but gets thrown off the wall. mc still has the aggro. luce sees the opportunity. luce gets a successful hit. the golem monster gets defeated. the two levels up. luce cries for missing two hits. mc praises her for hitting two marks out of four.

35 loots assessment, a big magic stone, a mythril ingot, plus earlier loots. total of 68 million gold. mc wants the mythril ingot be used to make their equipments. luce propose they head back to town. mc tells luce that since the two of them defeated the golem, there would be nothing else in the current dungeon they can't defear. mc propose they defeat the dungeon boss. mc gives info about the dungeon boss. luce accepts mc's proposal of them taking down the dungeon boss. before heading into the boss room, mc helps luce with her skill points allocation.

36 mc and luce heads inside the boss room. the duo goes with their usual plan. mc takes the aggro, luce the damage dealing. the duo easily defeats the boss. suddenly, the dui notices something different from the slain boss. mc immediately tell luce to retreat. the boss suddenly stood up. luce gets thrown off. mc catches luce. the boss undergoes evolution. the boss goes phase 2.

37 boss monsters undergoing evolution is a rare occurence. and for a boss to evolve it must meet a lot of conditions. mc is having speculation that someone deliberately evolved the boss monster they are now facing. mc is having doubts. mc apologizes to luce for getting her in danger. mc did failed to anticipate an boss evolving. luce is hopeful. luce wants to do their usual tactic. mc tells that the evolved boss is way off the chart. luce would need 10 lucky strikes in order to finish the boss and that is if she's able to do all of it. mc can't easily block the attacks of the evolved boss. the boss suddenly attack. mc carries luce away from danger. it was a very close call. mc then formulated a plan but it will be very dangerous. mc asks luce if she's willing to try it out.

38 the duo does their usual tactic. mc throws luce behind the boss monster. luce's target is the monster's tail. mc takes the aggro. mc goes saiyan with his smoldering fang of madness skill.

39 mc kites the boss monster. when the boss monster charges up for a range attack, mc goes cqc. mc hits the boss and at the same time, luce deals a lucky strike on the boss monster's tail.

40 luce gets the aggro. mc tells luce to kite the boss and have it run around a giant boulder. the boss monster chases luce. the boss launches an attack. mc tells luce to dodge. luce dodges. the boss monster attacked it's own tail. the boss monster gets shocked and stunned from it's self inflicted attack. mc levels up his smoldering fang of madness and acquires a new skill. aside with his saiyan buff that doubles his attack and speed when hp goes below a certain percentage, the new skill mc got is also a buff that reduces all his defense stats to zero and converts it to damage. the buff stacks on each other. mc's attack rose significantly.

41 mc goes for an attack. the boss's stun state ends. the boss charges its long range attack and attacks mc. mc's shield catches the attack. mc is unfazed and continuea on. mc beheads the boss monster. the boss gets defeated. the duo leveled up.

42 mc once again apologizes to luce. luce says it was fine since they won. the two get a new title that increases their damage vs dungeon bosses. they acquired the boss magic stone. luce finds a rare loot drop from the boss, a poison dagger. luce is panickinh that they acquired something very expensive. mc calms luce down. back in lacorina, luce is paranoid because of the many loots they acquired during their single dungeon raid. the duo went to the lacorina branch adventurer guild to exchange the loots they got and mc wants to report his findings, only to a high ranking guild official or to the guild chief himself. the guild receptionists underestimates the duo. she sees them as countey bumpkins. mc then shows the loots they are exchanging. the receptionist immediately panic. mc got the money and had an appointment with the guild chief.

43 the duo gets to meet the guild chief, harlein. harlein's speculation of the duo is spot on, from the duo's dungeon knowledge and class confidence. herlein also speculates that mc is a noble from the rondalm town. mc did not want to falter. mc introduced themselves as adventurers. mc did not reveal he's a noble. harlein introduced herself as the guild chief and a noble. mc speculates that with her connection, it must be the reason how she guesses mc is a noble. mc is also having doubts and speculstes that it is the noble household of harlein that deliberately evolved the boss monster. with harlein being a guild chief, somethinf simple as hiding evidences and ordering hidden ans unnoticed quest can be easy. mc suspects it is harlein who evolved the boss monster. mc is having a hard time formulating what to say next.

44 mc thought that if harlein is truly the culprit, mc would just have to report what just had happened and nothing more. mc reports the boss evolved. harlein becomes distressed after hearing the report. mc thinks the chief is just acting. harlein and matilda, the receptionist discusses the serious matter of the evolved boss. mc is still unconvinced and that chief is just acting. the distress and panic with the guild chief seemed geniune. she wanted to hear the rest of the report, of adventurers who died and such. she also asked matilda to set up a quest for the subjugation of the evolved boss. mc continues his report amd says they, as a duo, already defeated the evolved boss. the guild chief is in a daze. mc's speculation for the chief is cleared, she is not to be blamed. the chief harlein ask matilda to fetch the magic stone from the evolved boss. matilda obeys and leaves. mc then continues his discussion of the evolved boss. harlein discloses an unverified report that the same occurence is also happening in the great forbidden forest. mc wants to inquire more but harlein can't answer more. harlein promises mc that she will look into it along with the guild and her ties from her noble family. harlein says her thanks for the duo's report and achievement. matilda enters the chiefs room with the big magic stone.

45 the two continue their discussion about the evolved boss. they didn't gain much info. after, the duo gained the trust of the guild chief. mc and luce gets promoted to b rank. mc's speculates in exchange for getting a promotion, the guild chief would ask them a favor. mc's speculation this time, is not incorrect. the duo declines to do the favor but even so they still got promoted. next up, is the gear up for the two. luce gets to keep the evolve boss poison dagger. luce is showing a very cute down to earth side of her. they look for a blacksmith to forge mc's equipments. they spend half a day trying to find a good one. finally they found one. the meet the blacksmith berga. he's having trouble with a mage swordmans adventurer. mc did not like the attitude of berga and wants to leave. berga insist on the duo to follow him. berga gives good advice to the duo. mc already knows about it. mc then asks berga if he could make a weapon for him. berga at first felt high and that nothing that mc would say could make him want to makr mc a weapon. mc shows a mythril ingot to berga. berga is amazed but is still unconvinced. mc tells berga that the mythril ingot is from a golem they defeated and that both of them are b rank. berga finally changes his mind. berga will be making mc's equipment as well embedding the rune they got on mc's sword. they paid berga for the commission and left. mc and luce goes sight seeing in the lacorina town. a few hours later, the duo went back to check on berga. when they got near berga's place, they hear a commotion. someone is looking to buy the weapon mc commission. mc and luce enters, they find a chibi warrior.

46 the warrior introduced herself as hilde, a disciple of the  a rank black flame blade. she demand mc to her sell the sword berga made. mc refused. hilde launches a feint attack to threaten mc. mc easily evades the attack. hilde demands for mc to duel with her for the sword. if hilde win, she get the sword, if mc win hilde will pay mc the full market value of the sword berga made. mc accepts the duel. hilde fetches a guild staff as a witness of their duel. meanwhile, mc prepares for the battle, mc uses his skill to bring down his current hp. berga notices it. mc says its part of his plan. mc discusses his plans for the duel with luce. mc is going all out at the beginning of the match. mc is mad at the rude hilde, he wants to teach her a lesson. after, hilde returns with a guild staff, it was matilda the guild receptionist.

47 the match begins. mc uses zhongli shield and saiyan 1. hilde charges. mc goes saiyan 2. hilde stops on her attack and starts casting a long range magic. mc hits the ground and caused a fissure. hilde was surprised and yielded. mc knows the number one weakness of most spellblade, they rely mostly on their high damage output, this in effect leave them very vulnerable. if they get threaten, they would easily yield. mc stops his attack and asks matilda to declare the winner. mc won the duel. hilde pleads that the duel continue but matilda stands firm with her decision. hilde asks mc to lower the price but mc says the condition before the duel must be met. berga gives the sword to mc and says the market value of the sword is more than the price hilde was asking for. hilde's price was 30 million, the sword's market value is 51 million. hilde is shocked. hilde pleads to mc to lower the price she has to pay.

48 after two day, mc and luce is in the adventurer guild. matilda informs the two that hilde paid the price of 50 million. suddenly they met with hilde. she has different weapons. she had sold her weapon to pay for the bet she made. the duo wanted to leave, hilde stops them. hilde is not alone, she has her master with her, kalos an a rank adventurer. kalos wants to meet mc. kalos asks what happened. hilde says mc cheated. mc says that hilde threaten then and agreed for a duel. kalos immediately understood. kalos bump hilde's head. kalos apologizes to mc for her student. kalos even asked mc not to give back the money to hilde. it will be some a lesson to hilde. kalos then invites the duo to go else where, she wanted to discuss something. they discuss the strange occurances in dungeons, monster growing in numbers, evolving and such. kalos is doing her own research and investigatio with this matter. after, kalos invites the duo to join her on a dungeon raid. mc is having doubts but with the anomalies happening around them, he had to accept. mc and luce joins the raid party of kalos.

49 the party goes on the raid. kalos is giving hints on her vast knowledge and many experiences as an adventurer. they arrive outside the dungeon. they are greeted with a dungeon break. the party manages the monsters rushing out.

50 the duo gets acquainted with maybell, a c rank priest. they also get to meet celt, a rude hunter who is also part of the raid party. the party arrived in front of the dungeon entrance. kalos gives out order. the party will be divided into five groups. they will investigate the paths and after, will meet up in the center and then they will take down the boss. rewards will be evenly split and the guild will also add in bonus. the duo gets grouped with maybell and celt. celt is the leader for their group. maybell is holding a grudge on celt. the raid party also a has a rule of your kill, your loot.

51 the four man party of mc, luce, celt and maybell, heads inside. celt gives sound order but that is only for his own gain.  they are suddenly attacked by monsters, mc and luce takes the vanguard. maybell in the center and celt in the rear. celt felt greedy and went in front to get kills. celt gets attack and requested healing from maybell. maybell refuses as tells she must conserve her healing.

52 celt notices the unbelievable drop rate they've been having. he also notices that maybell is deliberately outcasting him. celt asks maybell to be nice to him. maybell lashed out and says she's a healer and she's supposed to get treated well. it seems healers had it rough when it comes to adventuring. the celt group continue with their exploration. celt wants to let go of one of their objective, monster subjugation and just head to the meeting location. although mc wants to disagree, with the additional argument of maybell, it would be safer for them to go earlier to the meeting spot. they took a shorter route. they got lost. they enter a room full of skulls. mc thought that it was their leader's entire fault but it the info they got were also unreliable. mc is having a bad feeling of them staying in the skull room.

53 celt decide they go back to their original route. celt take vanguard to lead them back. suddenly a monster enters the skull room. it's a three-arms monster. it's an elite monster in the dungeon. there is supposed to be only one of this inside a dungeon. mc would want to avoid the encounter but with them being in tight spot, they have to fight the monster. mc tells celt to go back to the rear guard. celt refused. celt uses his speed to leave his companions. suddenly, another three-arms monster enters.

54 celt gets thrown back on the side. mc takes command. mc asks maybell to heal celt. maybell wants to refuse but they have a problem with how to get to celt. mc launches luce to aid celt. luce tells celt that if he betrays them once more, he will have to deal with her. luce takes the aggro of the elite. mc holds the aggro of other the elite monster. mc tells them that they go 3v1 one of the elite. mc will hold the other elite. maybell leave mc's side and went to luce and celt.

55 mc easily analyzes the eliten pattern. mc gives out hint to luce. luce will kite their elite while celt and maybell goes for the offense. although mc has the knowledge to hold his ground, he at a hard disadvantage. mc gets knocked back.

56 it was mc's plan. mc goes saiyan 1 and begins his counter. mc defeats one of the elite.

57 on luce's side. luce is having problem keeping up with the kite strat. the offence is not fast with the dps. luce gets hit. the elite was about deal a killing blow, celt saves her. celt gets hit. mc arrives and defeats the elite. celt is not moving. luce is blaming herself. maybell is panicking that one of them is dead. mc is calm, he knew celt is alive. celt has a skill to save him from critical wounds.

58 after a few discussion, they get to find out that celt's misbehavior stem from how hunters were treated. it either be kind and be hater later on and just be hated all the way for him, he chose the latter. but celt is actuallt a good person. mc wants to give a rare drop to celt but celt refuses. the four went back to their exploration, celt will take vanguard as a scout. during their exploration, celt praises mc. luce interrupts them and told celt off. mc is with luce. suddenly, with a skill, celt detected the location if a rare item.

59 maybell wants to head to the meeting spot. they let mc decide. the four heads to the rare item location. when they got there, they found a black gem. celt grabbed it. mc notices and rushed toward celt. mc destroys the black gem. mc knew the gem is the source of the anomaly happening in the dungeon, someone is planting them and the gem is something artificially made. suddenly, the group hears scream. celt tells them what he heard using his enhanced hearing. from the info, mc concludes they are facing a wandering boss and the boss is already evolved. mc has a plan to deal with the boss but first mc wants to see the skills of both maybell and celt. this is in to maximize their team comp. celt wants to refuse. revealing skills to others is a taboo specially with strangers. it will lead to other being exploited. mc says they can defeat the boss and they just have to trust mc. celt reluctantly gives his info. maybell shares hers too. the duo also shared theirs.

60 after, they formulated a plan with their skills in consideration. mc raises his vow of the heavy armor skilltree. mc acquires a new skill that bestows protection on allies. maybell wants to heal the group. mc refuses to be healed but asks for celt and luce to be healed. the group goes to fight. mc goes zhongli shield, saiyan 1 and saiyan 2.

61 the four vs the skeleton centaur boss. mc and luce takes the vanguard. celt is hidden on the side, he'll be doing free hits. maybell will be support and enemy debuffs. with the grest disadvantage they have as well the advantage of being the dungeon boss they will be doing a quick battle. they cannot handle a prolonged battle.

62 the battle is truly hard fought. with the debuffs set on the boss, they can hardly deal any effective damage. suddenly, the boss goes for aoe attack.

63 mc and luce gets knocked back. celt manages to dodge the attack. but boss aggros gets to celt. celt gets hit by the boss. mc takes back the aggro. the debuff in the boss are wearing off. the boss launches a blow on mc. celt gets a free hit, this created an opening for mc. mc takes the opportunity and lands a killing blow on boss. they leveled up. mc thanks celt for creating the opening. celt hides his emotional face.

64 loots assesment, they got the boss magic stone which costs 10 million, and a shield which costs 55 million. mc wantd to keep the shield but takes into consideration group loot distribution. maybell says its fine with her. after, there is a sense of camaraderie between the four. mc concerns for the anomaly is made clear. someone is doing it on purpose, they way their doing it is witht he black gem and the culpritnis most likely with them in the raid party. when they arrived outside, they notice some of their raid mates are already outside, one of them is in a bad condition. 6 people are missing. mc wants to voice out his concern regarding the culprit but is having doubts since they are all already exhausted. they also have no info regarding the culprit. kalos inquires who defeated the boss. mc says it was their group. kalos praises mc's group and thanked him. kalos is even more interested in mc. kalos also whispered to mc that the noble family, haultodd and the guild is involved with the anomaly.

65 the duo discusses their finding in the dungeon with kalos. the map given to them were right on one thing but is filles with errors on hidden paths, it was as if made deliberately to get adventurers killed. kalos tells of a guild employee, who is an ex adventurer, that was assigned with detailed info the dungeon they raided. this said employee have mysteriously vanished. kalos suspects it was the haultodd nobility or someone from the higher ups that took care of the guild employee. they also discuss that with the way things are going, they can hardly think of anyone gaining from such a disaster happening. after, kalos asks if they'd cooperate with her if the need arise. she couldn't trust the guild afterall. mc and luce says they would. after mc and luce left, mc says he is having thoughts that things won't just stop with the dungeons. the culprit may even be planning to getting the evolved boss go for a second evolution and in that way, the boss would be able to get out of the dungeon and may be able to even destroy the town. mc and luce meets with maybelk and celt, they had a toast to celebrate their victory.

66 several days past after the incident with the raid party, the duo went to the guild to find info for their next dungeon raid. mc is set on having themselves getting stronger. the meet celt who happens upon a good info. they left the guild for a private convo. celt informs the duo of rumors regarding a noble family, the haultodd household. the succession isn't by birthright but by candidacy and achievements. a fight for succession is even encourage the by noble family head. one of the candidate, snow haultodd, the eldest child of the head is rumored to be doing great achievement but acquiring them isn't actually by normal means. they discuss that certain factions within the nobility are encouraging and supporting such means. other than that, celt informs the two of a new rare dungeon that the guild is keeping secret. mc asks the name of the dungeon. celt answers tower of mythical beasts. mc is shocked of this revelation. mc wants to dive into it. mc eyes for five items, one of them is a skillbook that will greatly help luce.

67 luce also want to dungeon crawl the rare dungeon. mc invites celt. celt declines, it is too much for him. maybell the priest, also has her own party. mc and luce goes on a duo dungeon crawl. they went to the tower of mythical beasts. because of its condition closing if certain number of monsters are defeated, regardless of the boss getting defeated and the fact that the guild is keeping it secret as well as letting it be open, mc is expecting there to be a competition. the duo enters the tower of mythical beasts. the duo's target is a reaper monster that drops the assassin's reaper skill book. it's like the smoldering fang of madness skill but for jesters. it relies heavily on luck. something luce is greatly blessed with her skill. they will not be diving too much and would retreat in case something dangerous comes up. the duo starts their hunt.

68 the explored the dungeon. they evade monsters and only fight when its necessary. after a while, the find the reaper monster. they managed to defear it thanks to mc's knowledge. unfortunately, the reaper only dropped a scythe weapon, it costs 15 million. luce is sulking for not getting the skillbook. mc encourages luce.

69 they continued their exploration. they find another reaper monster, their third find. they managed to defeat it. luce is getting more used to fighting. the third one dropped a scythe, again. nothing else. luce gets worried. mc calms her down and encourages her. suddenly, a king frog appear, wealthy merchant lana. mc wants to hunt it down. the duo follows their target. on the outside of the dungeon, a few adventurers enters the dungeon.

70 the duo fails to catch the king frog. suddenly, an armored knight and noble lady appears. mc immediately recognize the noble lady as snow haultodd. the armored knight, isabella, wants the duo to leave the dungeon. mc questions the authority of the noble within the dungeon. isabella got mad. snow calms her down and ask the two more gently. isabella is still a bit less gentle with her tone. isabella readies her weapon vs mc to test their mettle. mc accepts the battle.

71 isabella takes the initiative. mc blocks. isabella launches a series of attacks. mc easily blocks and counters. isabella wants to go all out. snow haultodd stops isabella. snow haultodd acknowledges the strength of the duo.

72 mc's realizes the rumor regarding snow haultodd as rude and arrognace are lies. isabella has to accept her defeat. the noble let mc and luce continue their hunt. snow had isabella ask mc's name. mc introduced himself. they recognized mc's name as one of the member of kalos's raid party. snow tries speaking but she ended up exhausting herself, she is extremely shy. they went their separate ways. mc and luce continue their hunt. for their fourth one, they still have no luck with the skill book. mc notices they can only hunt one more with what hp and mp and supplies they have left. mc is thinking of leaving the dungeon, getting a rest and returning but with the rumor getting spread, it may not only be them and the noble snow haultodd's party who are currently in the dungeon. the duo discussed of what to do next. suddenly, mc something from far off.

73 the duo investigates. they found snow and isabella vs a bunch of bandits. the noble's party is clearly at the advantage. from the convo in the fight, they are sent to target snow. the bandits notices the duo's arrival. the bandits hurriedly retreated. the duo meets with the noble's party. they discuss who the bandits were. isabella had a hunch that the bandits were sent to kidnap or assassinate her. isabella suggests they capture one. mc tries asking snow. snow immediately retreated behind isabella. snow is extremely shy.

74 mc suspects that such weak attempt to cause trouble fir snow is a warning from the other faction or candidate in the succession competition of the haultodd household. snow gets wounded on her leg. mc suggested to isabella to take snow and leave the dungeon. isabella says that is her plan. suddenly, one of the bandits return. the bandit aimed his sword on the noble and, suddenly, his head went missing. a wandering dungeon appears, it's a giant bird boss. mc realizes the bandits deliberately lured the boss in order to get snow killed. mc analyzes the situation. thw bird boss is excellent with long range magic attacks and is also good with cqc. mc's skill won't reach the boss and luce isn't well suited in fighting, her class is an assassin type. both snow and isabella are already exhausted from the previous battle. the battle cannot be long and they must do something to damage the boss. mc had a plan but isabella suddenly takes the vanguard. isabella wants to aggro the boss while the rest retreats. the boss uses wind magic, mc goes to the vanguard and blocked the attack magic. mc tells isabella that he is better suited as the tank. mc wants to take on the boss.

75 isabella wants to protect snow and let her escape. mc tells isabella that even snow wants to fight. snow readies her sword, she do not want to leave her subordinate behind. mc tells isabella to get ready. battle commence. the boss launches a range magic vs mc. mc dodges. the boss goes cqc and attacks isabella. isabella gets knocked on the ground. snow casts an ice magic vs the boss. snow hits the boss. it created an opening. luce launches a lucky hit. it hits. luce did barely damage the boss.

76 the boss goes cqc the vanguards. mc blocks. mc's counter can't reach. the boss launches an aoe attack which pushed everyone back. the boss attacks mc. mc is not able to block and gets throwm off the wall. mc barely holds on. mc says if only they have the skill book for luce. snow hears and says they have the book. mc tells mc he'll buy it over the market price as long as snow quickly give it to luce. snow throws the book to luce. luce caught it. luce now havr the reaper's assassin skill book.

77 luce asks mc how to use the book. mc tells her what to dom mc then tells luce what to do with her skill allocation. she puts all her skill points to the reaper's assassin skill tree. luce acquired the needed skill. mc stands up to continue the battle vs the boss. mc takes the command and says they continue what they're doing but this time it will be ending sooner. mc and isabella will be the vanguards, snow will continue her long range attacks and luce will be the main dps. isabella uses her skill to stagger the boss. mc enters cqc to aggro the boss. mc made a mistake. snow launches an attack to protect mc. again, with another opening, luce launches a new skill. it hits the boss

78 luce's hit is a guaranteed crit. the boss struggles to stand back up. suddenly a skull mark appear on the hit mark of luce. luce has a passive thay doubles her crit damage. the skull mark explodes. the boss falls back on the ground. the boss's hp is at half. the boss suddenly float up. mc knows that such tactic from monsters does not exist in the game world he knew. the boss is biding time while waiting for full recovery. suddenly, snow made an ice pillar heading close towards the boss. snow asks luce to run up. luce understood and ran up the pillar to launch an attack. mc shouted to turn back. the boss casted a magic attack vs the ice pillar and luce.

79 luce gets thrown off. snow catches luce with her ice magic. luce launches her new skill vs the boss. the boss starts to charge an attack magic. mc goes saiyan 1 and ran to the boss shadow to cast a root skill. the boss's focus gets disrupted. luce's attack hits. the boss fell on the ground. snow catches luce. the boss is still able to stand. with saiyan 1 still active, mc deals the killing blow. they defeated the bird boss.

80 isabella inquires mc about his skill. she was amaze at how powerful mc is. a dramatic and wholesome master servant scenario of isabella and snow. snow went to mc and luce to express her gratitude. mc says they were also a big help to them. snow says the boss is lured to kill her but the duo just got dragged. suddenly, luce spoke and expressed her gratitude towards snow and isabella. snow suddenly went back to her shy mode. snow retrested behind isabella. isabella inquires about the feats of mc and luce. the duo says they already defeated 4 dungeon boss. isabella counters they also defeated 3 dungeon bosses. after, isabella says that them defeating the tower dungeon boss would make it clear just how great snow is in the noble household. loot assessment time. luce found a wind imbued spear from the boss, 40 million. mc then asks how much the skill book luce got. isabella says they're good if the duo gives up on the boss spear. mc asks if thats an equal trade since the skill book is at 100 million. isabella says they also need proof that they have defeated the dungeon boss. mc and luce is fine with the trade. suddenly, snow spoke up and refuses the trade. snow says she hated adventuring and her doing so is just a mean to give her place a stand as a successor in their candidacy competition. but after seeing the duo, snow wants to try even harder in order to be truly recognized. isabella acknowledge's snow's determination to become a great heir to the haultodd household. isabella then asks mc if they could just sell the spear instead.

81 the four leaves the dungeon. snow and isabella discusses family matters regarding the succession and the assassination attempt. snow says such trouble never once happened within their household. isabella suggests that such order may not have come from within the haultodd heir candidates but from supporters. mc compares how the edvan family works and how the haultodd family works. the edvan nobility relies on strength of the head while the haultodd is much more complicated and internal conflicts happening are much intense. and with regards to what happen with the tower dungeon, mc sees a connection to the kalos's raid party dungeon, regarding the culprit leaving no visible trace or clue to who or where they are. but mc doubts his theory to be the truth since the current tower dungeon incident is lacking motif from the mean. mc voices out his concern that if in case the incident is actually an assassination attempt, it is likely they are being observed from a not far off placs but judging solely on their own senses, they are no traces if anyone else nearby besides themselves. isabella says the duo need not worry for them, the haultodd household will take care of their own problem on their own. isabella once again expresses her gratitude towards the duo. then snow speaks up. she expresses her amazement and gratitude towards the duo. mc respectfully accepted the praises. snow went back to her shy mode. meanwhile, in a castle hall elsewhere, a figure looms in the dark and spoke of not underestimating someone.

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