chapter 17
Skill Steal (1)
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hooked!
“Kurururuk!”
“Follow me if you can.”
After that, Ganghu worked hard to roam the dungeon and hurt the claw lizard.
I didn’t bother to aim for vital points.
As soon as they encountered them, they quickly approached them and ran away with only moderate wounds on their bodies.
It was a monster with a lot of belligerence, so just provoking it like that would cause it to chase after it with glaring eyes.
The calculation of experience points for dungeon monsters is done by focusing on two things.
The first is contribution.
See what percentage each hunter who put damage to kill the monster contributed to the damage.
Of course, in the case of healers and buffers, separate compensation values were applied.
For example, it is calculated by looking at the amount of buffs applied to the hunter who killed the monster and the increased damage.
The second is the presence or absence of damage itself.
Except for healers and buffers, other classes had to have a record of inflicting damage on monsters.
Without it, even if they caught the boss monster together, they were excluded from the EXP calculation.
The underlying work Ganghu is currently doing was the work to meet the second requirement.
First of all, there must be a record of the damage, so that you can receive the experience point calculation without omission.
“They’re chasing you like crazy.”
Ganghu deliberately cut his palms, causing more damage.
Then, following the dripping blood, the claw lizards chased after them with their nostrils wide open.
In no time at all, the number had increased to the point of approaching fifty.
It wasn’t usually a lot.
because there are too many
Even if Ganghu stopped moving just a little bit, he could have been surrounded and torn to death.
The reason why he was able to avoid that situation was that he was steadily moving along the ‘mana milestone’ that Ganghu had made in advance.
It was a milestone made before attracting the claw lizards.
Leaving mana traces behind.
Even if you can’t see it, it follows its location with its mana tracking ability.
Thanks to doing this in advance, I was able to lure them to the desired place without stopping for a moment.
Whoa!
The sandstorm got stronger.
Ganghu was 100% dependent on the mana milestone rather than moving with his eyes.
claw lizard.
They are so good at hit-and-run combat, they are difficult to kill in an honest battle. Of course, the rewards are good.
So when an opportunity like this comes, if only I can hit it off. In terms of experience, it was definitely going to be fun.
Tadada dat!
Ganghu began to speed up in earnest.
Now is the time. I didn’t come here to play hide and seek with monsters.
ran, ran, ran again.
The lizards, paralyzed by the smell of blood, ran as fast as Ganghu’s speed.
How long did it run like that?
The moment Ganghu felt the absence of a mana milestone that could no longer be tracked and stopped!
Dorrr!
Something caught on Kang Hu’s toe and rolled down.
At the same time, as I turned around, I felt a different emptiness from the bottom of my heel.
to fall off a cliff
It was at the top of the canyon that I had been eyeing for a while, at the end of the road with nowhere to go.
Put it down!
The view obscured by the sandstorm made it impossible for anyone to recognize the existence of the precipice.
The claw lizard became more vigorous, and rushed forward toward the stopped Kanghu.
It contained a cruel will to somehow scratch and scar Ganghu and eat the blood and flesh.
Ganghu endured as much as he could.
And by the time the front foot of the lizard at the top reached about 50cm, just before that.
Dig!
While lowering his body, he used the leap skill.
Then Kanghu’s body left the scene, scratching the dry ground as if skating.
Psu!
At the same time, the lizard, which was seen as a silhouette, was targeted and linked to horizontal movement.
Then jump, then move sideways.
With repeated use of the skill, Ganghu quickly escaped the cliff.
It was risky, but that’s why it was a more perfect evasion.
They couldn’t find Ganghu who disappeared in the sandstorm.
The problem has been since then.
“Whoa! Wow!”
“Kwaaak!”
Recognizing the precipice, the clawed lizards, which stopped at the edge of the cliff, were attacked from behind by the rake lizards.
It was like a chain crash on a foggy highway.
“Quaaa!”
A catastrophe happened.
Of course, it was from the point of view of the rake lizard, and from Kanghu’s point of view, it was a happy occasion.
It was because he gained experience points while dealing with all the claw lizards without having to use any skills.
Like rain falling from the sky, the claw lizards fell helplessly to the ground from the top of the cliff.
Since it was such a high place, there was no way to revive the knight in any way.
in between.
Fu-wook! Woowook!
Ganghu faithfully dealt with the few lizards who managed to escape the disaster of being caught in the fall.
The guys who were distracted by the screams of their own people heard in front of them died without making a sound.
[Your level has risen significantly to 27.]
The level, which was 22 before catching Iceman, went up several times and rose to 27.
【The constellation ‘Master of Mobile Warfare’ can’t stop applauding in admiration for your luring strategy.]
[Consumes a small amount of holy power to give you a slight buff.]
【EXP increase +0.2%】
The sponsorship from the constellation, which was just as pleasant as the level up, continued. The EXP increase buff is unconditionally the best.
【It’s a good recipe. It was very good.】
In addition, the praise of the dimension usurper added to the joy.
And that wasn’t all.
Right before falling off the cliff, one of the lizards killed by Kanghu dropped a magic stone.
It’s a loot that’s hard to get from normal monsters, but it seems to have broken through the low probability.
“Blue magic stone. Ten million won. Then there are two solacium stems.”
Ganghu picked up a blue magic stone from the lizard’s corpse.
It is the fifth magic stone in the magic stone grading system that is classified as a rainbow color. Still, the price was significant.
It was also a part of why Eclipse was trying to exploit hunters to mine magic stones.
A dungeon is a probability, but a mine is a certainty. The difference is as great as the difference between heaven and earth.
Whiiing·······.
Soon, as if waiting, the sandstorm died down.
Rather than matching the timing to Ganghu, it must have flowed as it should.
Think backwards.
If Kang Hu had hesitated a little longer at the last minute, the luring strategy could have failed and been in jeopardy.
“It’s a pity that it’s a strategy that can’t be used often.”
Kang Hu licked his lips.
The aggression of the monsters, the dungeon environment, and even the timing.
It seemed difficult to have fun again in this dungeon because it was a problem that had to fit perfectly into the trinity.
Anyway, the results were great.
It was because I gained experience that other hunters couldn’t get even if they struggled for days, days, or weeks.
If experience points were food, he ate so much that his stomach exploded and died instantly.
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Meanwhile, Cha So-hee continued to investigate the traces and records of Kang-hoo.
Seeing Lee Taek-geun’s ashes, he frowned for a moment. Because I was too emotional.
However, I wanted to have something to hold on to in the already ‘killed’ yard, so I passed it on coolly.
After further investigation, it seemed undeniable that Kanghu was level 10.
Cha So-hee called Kang Dong-hyun.
As soon as I heard the reception sound, I immediately flew the business.
“Please send me a new warden.”
– Oh, how many times have I told you to kill his personality. Be careful, yes.
Kang Dong-hyun was not particularly surprised.
because it happened often.
And it’s not uncommon to do things like this.
The two of them thought it was nothing in the first place, so their heads didn’t hurt any more.
“sorry. However, the situation is so inconsistent, it seems that I got pissed off and gave up first.”
– I’ll send my successor right away, so please encourage me and take care of it. Got it?
“Yes, sorry. In any case, the investigation into Xinjianghu will be carried out more closely.”
After hanging up the phone, Cha So-hee looked over where Kang-hoo’s last sacrificed hunter, ‘The Chaser’, had been.
The pursuer was a kind of human weapon being cultivated within Eclipse.
It is usually no different from an idiot because it creates a thoroughly drug-dependent body and mind.
Anyway, the tracker was created by selecting only hunters with a good understanding of battles with level 90 or higher.
Such a pursuer died on the spot without being able to properly resist Ganghu.
“It’s good that you fished with mana. It’s a great tactical decision and it worked. however······.”
Cha So-hee was constantly disturbed by the scene that went against the conventional wisdom.
No matter how much you think about it, there is no way that the assassin class could have fooled the eyes of the pursuer with ordinary leaps and sideways movements.
It is a human weapon directly nurtured by the organization. I don’t know anything else, but I don’t fall for clumsy tricks.
“There is only one possibility.”
There was only one case that Cha So-hee confirmed through numerous simulations.
That is when Ganghu used ‘Leap’ and ‘Transverse Movement’, which reached the maximum skill level.
Then, it was possible to get out of the pursuer’s sight and take a surprise shot under the chin.
the problem is.
“Are you going to believe that a level 10 hunter performed such an absurd ‘miracle’?”
That was it.
Even if you think about it a hundred times.
There was a gap between Kanghu’s publicly available information and skills to the extent that it was impossible to even guess the causal relationship.
Cha So-hee, an investigator with a 100% success rate, has never come to a clear conclusion in an investigation.
The reputation she had built up in Eclipse was about to be tarnished by Ganghu.
In this way, it seemed that he had to find himself, rather than just chasing after Ganghu.
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“For now, two or three solariums are confirmed. I expected it, but I didn’t expect it to stick together like this.”
Around that time, Ganghu met the middle boss in the process of moving to the location where the main boss is.
It was three, not one.
Just like the Iceman and Fireman series I dealt with earlier, it was a middle boss with a kind of brother concept.
The name is Defender.
All three have the same appearance, and are humanoid.
As an analogy, how does it feel to see a 2m tall rugby player?
Each of these three had their own specialized skills.
defense right away.
The expression shield would also be appropriate.
However, the fields in which the three specialized were slightly different.