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– 1 Wolf King’s Pelt

– 1 Wolf King’s Fang

– 1 Wolf King’s Gauntlets

– 1 Karu’s Necklace

“Nice!”

Fortunately, the Wolf King had dropped Karu’s Necklace . Soo Hyuk collected the drops and opened his quest tab .

When he scrolled down to the Karu’s Heirloom quest, he could see the ‘Complete’ button .

“I wish the other inheritance quests were this easy . ”

Soo Hyuk currently had many other specials quests in his quest tab, but they were too difficult for him to complete at this point in time . While wishing that they were easier, Soo Hyuk completed the quest .

[You have completed the Special Quest – Karu’s Heirloom]

[Rewards Received . ]

Soo Hyuk opened his inventory after he checked the message window . He wanted to know what the rewards were .

“……”

Soo Hyuk made a puzzled expression when he opened his inventory .

“What? A map?”

The reason for his puzzlement was because the reward was a map . Soo Hyuk checked the map description .

[<Heroic>Karu’s Treasure Map]

Soo Hyuk was filled with anxiety when he checked the description . It was too vague .

‘Heroic?’

Moreover, the rarity of the map was heroic . Not normal or rare, it was heroic . It was the next best rarity after God and Legend!

‘No, a map is still a map . ’

Soo Hyuk pulled the map out, while trying to suppress his nervousness .

“……?”

When he opened the map, again his nervous expression was completely replaced with puzzlement .

‘Matab Library?’

The reason Soo Hyuk was puzzled, was because the words ‘Matab Library’ were written on the top of the map . Karu’s Treasure Map showed the interior of the Matab Library .

‘Huh, is there a treasure hidden in the library?’

A library? It was too unexpected, even for Soo Hyuk . He then spotted a red dot which marked the location of the treasure .

‘This is a bookshelf……’

The red dot was indicating a specific bookshelf . Why was it pointing at a bookshelf, which had nothing but books?

‘……No . ’

Soo Hyuk tilted his head as he thought,

‘It probably won’t be another quest . ’

It wouldn’t be another quest . There might be something hidden within .

‘What should I do?’

Soo Hyuk thought as he put away the map .

‘Should I go to the library now? Or should I keep hunting?’

According to his schedule, it was still time to hunt .

‘Well, I’ll go there anyway . Let’s keep hunting for now . ’

Soo Hyuk decided . He was planning to go to the library after hunting anyway, but he met his next problem after deciding to keep hunting .

‘What should I hunt next?’

His problem was that he couldn’t decide what to hunt next . He had no reason to hunt wolves anymore, as he had already completed the quest related to them .

‘Let’s skip the bears . ’

Normally, players at Soo Hyuk’s level would hunt bears, but from looking at the number of players crowding the entrance, he could already tell that it would be a waste of time .

‘Goblins? Treants?’

He had two options . The Goblin Fields in the Northern Hunting Grounds, or the Bloodless Forest west of the wolf territory . The Goblin Fields had monsters around level 20~40 and the Bloodless Forest had monsters around level 30~50 .

‘Let’s just go to the Bloodless Forest, since it’s closer and the trees are weak to fire . ’

After making up his mind, Soo Hyuk made his way out of the wolf forest . His destination was the home of the Treants, the ‘Bloodless Forest’ .

Treant Habitat, The Bloodless Forest .

Monsters around level 30~50 inhabited the Bloodless Forest . They were…

– Graaahhh…… . Raauuuggghhhh~

The Screaming Ironbarks, a zombie tree with screaming leaves and…

Clang! Clang!

The Bloodless Treants . Using their numerous whiplike branches and enormous mouths with deadly precision, they bullied players into submission . . Those were the two species of monster in the Bloodless Forest .

“Flame Dance . ”

Soo Hyuk cast Flame Dance at the steadily advancing trees and a small ball of fire flew towards a Screaming Ironwood .

The Ironwood was instantly reduced to ashes and disappeared . The little fireball then reappeared and shot towards the Bloodless Treant . Like the Screaming Ironwood, the Bloodless Treant was incinerated in less than 3 seconds .

[Level Up!]

After the Bloodless Treant was killed a message window appeared . It was a level up notice . Soo Hyuk collected the drop items and opened his status window .

Occupation: Archmage’s Descendant

Level: 31 Experience: 1%

Health : 8600 Mana: 36780

Satiation: 51%

Strength: 20 Agility: 25(+6)

Stamina: 164 Wisdom: 1840

Bonus Stat Points: 5

When Soo Hyuk had just completed ‘Karu’s Heirloom’ and first entered the Bloodless Forest, he had only reached level 18 .

‘It’s really fast . ’

A day hadn’t even passed since then and Soo Hyuk was already level 31 . Besides, wasn’t his job the Archmage’s Descendant, which required five times more experience to level up? This speed couldn’t be compared to his leveling speed while he was hunting wolves .

‘Isn’t it obvious though?’

The difference between treants and the wolves was like heaven and earth . This included their levels and the amount of experience they gave . Soo Hyuk assigned all his stat points into stamina and closed his status window .

‘If only I knew that it was this easy earlier……’

Players didn’t usually hunt wolves because they were difficult to hunt, but also because their drops were bad . This meant that there was no competition .

Was it because they were weak to fire? Hunting Ironwoods and Bloodless Treants was similar to hunting wolves . Rather, it was easier since treants didn’t usually team up like wolves did . If he had known this earlier, he would’ve entirely skipped wolves .

‘Yeah, my wisdom was high enough anyway . ’

Soo Hyuk’s wisdom didn’t belong to someone at level 31 . To get to Soo Hyu’s level of wisdom, one had to invest all their bonus stat points on wisdom, until level 360 .

‘I also have lots of health . ’

Since he didn’t need to invest any stat points into wisdom, he had assigned all of them into stamina . As a result, he had way more health than other Magicians .

‘I need to have more confidence . ’

(TL: This warped perception…)

He needed to have more confidence in himself .

‘If my progress slows down, let’s immediately go to a higher-level area . ’

His progress would slow sooner than later . He was going to head straight for higher-level areas when it did .

Of course, he would carefully choose what area he would go to . After all, he had to be able to hunt the monsters there .

His attack power was high enough, but the monsters’ attack power would rise as well . No matter how high his health was, it was still to the standard of a level 30 . He could die from one mistake .

– Raaauuurrrghhh

A Screaming Ironbark appeared next to him and opened its mouth to swallow him .

“Fireball . ”

Soo Hyuk continued hunting .

‘2 hours left . How many levels can I gain?’

He thought while burning down more treants .

* * *

Yang Joo Hyuk and Jang Yool conversed while staring at a monitor .

“The Archmage’s Descendant deserves to be a top tier job . It needs five times more experience and yet……”

“Yeah……”

The subject of the conversation was Soo Hyuk .

“Why did he suddenly start hunting?”

Jang Yool couldn’t understand . Why did Soo Hyuk suddenly start hunting?

“He was cooped up in the library until now . ”

Soo Hyuk hadn’t bothered to learn any of his new skills previously .

“He was reading like his life depended on it . ”

For months he only read books . What had suddenly driven him to start hunting?

“He didn’t finish all the books either . ”

They could understand if he left after finishing all the books in the Matab Library, but there were still a lot of books he hadn’t read yet .

“Although we don’t know the exact reason . ”

Yang Joo Hyuk started . The reason Soo Hyuk, who looked like he started Pangea to read books, started hunting .

“It probably has something to do with Pavian . ”

They didn’t know the exact reason why Soo Hyuk suddenly started hunting, but Jang Yoo Hyuk was sure that it had something to do with Pavian .

“Since he’s started hunting after he met him . ”

Soo Hyuk had started hunting after he first met Pavian .

“Pavian didn’t give him a hunting quest though . ”

Pavian had given Soo Hyuk a quest, but it was completely unrelated to hunting . All it required was for him to visit the Tower of Poison everyday for 30 days .

“It should have something to do with Pavian . ”

Jang Yool nodded at Yang Joo Hyuk’s assumption .

“Ah!”

Jang Yool suddenly exclaimed in surprise when he looked at the monitor again .

“He leveled up again……”

The reason for his surprise was because Soo Hyuk had leveled up again .

“Level 40 already……”

Yang Joo Hyuk mumbled .

“Even the Hunting King isn’t this fast……”

The Hunting King . A tester who used his prior in game experience to dominate other players .

Of course, he wasn’t Rank 1 . But if he had registered for the rankings when the game was first released, he would’ve got Rank 1 without exception . But even the Hunting King didn’t level as fast as Soo Hyuk .

“At this rate, he’ll reach level 100 soon . ”

Jang Yool asked Yang Joo Hyuk .

“He probably would . ”

“Then he would unlock the second door, right?”

Jang Yool continued asking, after Yang Joo Hyuk nodded .

“Well……”

Yang Joo Hyuk tilted his head, unlike his last reaction .

“Unlocking doors becomes more difficult after the first one . Even if he’s the Archmage’s Descendant, he shouldn’t be able to unlock it straight away . ”

The first door had no requirements, but from the second door onwards, there were special quest which had to be completed to unlock more doors . They were also immensely difficult, even for the Archmage’s Descendant .

* * *

Soo Hyuk silently looked down at the map once more . In front of him was the bookshelf marked on the map .

“Hah……’

He sighed deeply .