1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 1 Episode 11

11. Depart! into Initium

As the dust cloud lifted, I saw Hoya standing tall and holding her breath, and a subspecies that had just turned into grains of light and disappeared.

[Defeated the field boss monster 'Ent subspecies of the Contaminated Forest']

[Level has risen.]

[Level has risen.]

[Level has risen.]

[Level has risen.]

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I'm glad it worked out the way I thought it would.

As Hoya collapsed on the floor, Krauss and Reina came up to him.

"Good job, Hoya."

"Ah, hyung... No, Master. Thank you."

"Good job. Hoya-san."

"Ah......."

To Reina's words, Hoya answered with a tired smile on her face.

"Thank you, Mr. Reina... I wouldn't have been able to do it if Reina hadn't helped."

Critical Hit!

Reina felt a pain in her chest she had never felt before.

'What, why are you doing this?'

It was a feeling she had never felt before.

As she looked at the man in front of her, her protective instincts boiled over for some reason.

"Hey there. Won't you just call me noona...?"

"Yes?"

Hoya's face hardened awkwardly as Raina spit her words out without filtering with a moment's desire.

"Ah, ah ha ha..."

"Hahaha... After all, it can't be, right?"

Hoya mustered up the courage.

"......sister."

Hoya said softly, very softly.

He was kind of a token of appreciation for Reina for helping him, but he wasn't confident enough to speak out loud.

But how did she hear it again, Reina lit her eyes and pushed her face to Hoya.

"Yes? What did you just say? One more time, please!"

[Raina's favorability has increased.]

As Hoya ran back, Reina continued to push her face close to her.

In the end, Hoya immediately hid behind Krauss.

Klaus, who was caught between the two, scratched his cheek and spoke as if he was embarrassed.

"Hey, shall we go back to the village before the ents rush in?""Oh, that's right! It's moving fast."

"Hoya is picking up items."

At Krauss' words, Hoya picked up a bark-like thing that had fallen on the spot where the subspecies had died and followed them.

At the time Hoya was following Krauss and Reina back to the village, a small commotion was taking place in a broadcasting station's office in reality.

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One of SBC's main programs, 'Start! Into Initium'.

It has been over two months since the program aired.

However, despite being aired at the same time as weekend entertainment programs with a large number of fixed viewers, it is a program that is playing a significant role in SBC's first broadcast ratings of 12.7% and settled in the 20% range.

SBC's 'Departure! Into Intium' team's youngest writer, Lee Soo-ah, sat in her seat and kept pressing the refresh button of Initium's ranking list.

Click, click.

All preparations for today's interview have been completed.

So, there was no work left for her today, except that later she went to meet her partner at the appointed time.

'Start! Into Intium' team's office is also equipped with two capsules for access.

So, rather than going to one's house an hour away from the broadcasting station or going to a capsule room where you don't know if there will be a seat, it is better to connect directly to the capsule in the office, finish the interview, organize the interview, and then go home to work. it was best

Therefore, the time in the middle was blown away, and she was chasing her fantasy that she had momentarily seen about two weeks ago.

She said, 'Ha ...... It was a really great material .......'

About two weeks ago, during a short break in the middle of her work, as usual, she browsed Initium's official website and headed to her ranking list.

The stories of the rankers were the best material for the program.

People were passionate about showing the rankers hunting scenes for even a moment or winning an interview.

Therefore, as the youngest, her main job was to find a plausible person in the ranking list, determine their popularity, and report it to the main PD, inquire about the ranker's location, or find out contact information and hold an interview.

But on that day, there was no one who felt anything like this.

Already famous rankers were in the process of being recruited or rejected.

Some of them were taken away by Initium-related programs from other broadcasting stations that were created to contain SBC's uptrend.

I blankly looked down the ranking list and finally reached the very end.

'There is nothing to dry.......'

As she was thinking about it, the nickname of a user at the end of the ranking list came into her eyes.

[#4,996 Level 116 Hoya]

The reason why she stopped at the bottom of her ranking, which immediately fell out when she saw a gap.

It was because there was no job mark next to the user's nickname.

There are three main things that Initium's ranking list shows.

It was the nickname, level, and job mark of the person who put his name on the ranking.

A large sword for a warrior, a shield and one-handed sword for a knight, a large hammer for a blacksmith, a cross for a priest, a round vial for an alchemist, a dagger for a rogue, etc.

Although it did not tell the exact occupation of the ranker, there was a mark of a simple picture hanging next to the name that could tell what type of occupation it was.

However, there was no mark next to the user's nickname, Hoya.

'What, why not? ......no way!'

You haven't changed jobs yet?!

That thought ran through her mind.

If that's true, then this was great stuff.

Although it is the end of the lowest 5,000 people in the ranking, the number of capsules sold so far has exceeded a whopping 10 million units.

Even now, capsule production lines around the world are running rapidly, but the supply is not keeping up with the demand.

Of the 10 million Initium players, the top 5,000, or in percentage terms, only 0.05% can become a ranker.

As time goes by, the more capsules you supply, the more difficult it will be to get your name on the rankings.

However, a person who had not even changed his job entered the 0.05%.

If this isn't great material, what is it?

A man who made a name for himself in the rankings without a job change! What is his identity and secret?

No, could she be her?

He was a sub-title that drew people's attention even when he thought about it.

This should be reported right away!

With that in mind, she took off her butt and headed straight to the seat of the main PD, Park Bong-seok.

"PD-nim!"

"Ah! Surprise! Did I tell you to show up and go?"

Park Bong-seok, who was watching from her seat, was startled by Lee Soo-ah, who spoke loudly with her face sticking out from behind her own monitor, and rolled the wheel of the chair back behind her.

At the sound of Soo-ah Lee's loud voice, the people in her office looked at her for a moment, but it didn't take a day or two for her to act like that, so they immediately turned their heads again and focused on what they were doing.

"I'll try my best next time."

"Don't try, do it, do it! So what's the point?"

"I've been looking for a great broadcast material!"

"Awesome material...?"

Park Bong-seok's reaction was lukewarm.

"Hmm. My time is expensive? Just don't do it."

Soo-ah Lee started telling Park Bong-seok what she had just discovered.

About a person who did not change jobs and made a name for it in the rankings.

But even when he heard the story, Park Bong-seok's reaction was only somber.

Click, click.

"Hmm... not?"

"Yes?"

Bong-seok Park, who heard Lee Soo-ah's words, checked Initium's ranking table on his computer, but the nickname Hoya was not in his ranking list.

Embarrassed by Park Bong-seok's words, Lee Soo-ah moved to the back of Park Bong-seok, lifted her head, and checked her ranking table.

[4,996 Level 117 Fire Fist]

really wasn't

I checked the ranking below and also checked the top, but it was not really there.

"Hey, I can't do this... It really was!"

"Haha, the youngest. As you said, it was real. So what are you going to do?"

"Yes?"

"How are you going to find that user?"

"That, that..."

There was no way to find the person with only the nickname.

Whisper was only possible when there was a character in front of you or was added to your friend list.

Adding a friend was possible only when the other person's character was in front of you.

There is currently no way to find him.

"If you're a famous ranker, you can find out by word of mouth, but isn't the person you're talking about a complete rookie? If what you said is true, it's a big hit, but for now, it's just a fictional character.""Okay......"

Now, two weeks have passed since that happened, Lee Soo-ah was able to find the nickname Hoya in the ranking list once again.

[4307 Level 129 Hoya]

Startled, she shuddered from her seat with a loud rattling noise, but she quietly sat back down in the gaze of those around her.

'Come, come! It's finally here!'

The jackpot is back!

Something caught in her sight as she was so happy.

'House......?'

A house-shaped mark was drawn next to Hoya's nickname.

'Ah... Did you change jobs in the meantime?'

What kind of job was the house-shaped mark?

Lee Soo-ah's face, as she rolled her head to pull out what it was in her memory, turned to contemplation, and then her flower bloomed again.

'Three, my God... If it's a house, you're a villager! Is this guy crazy? ...Wait, is this going to be okay?'

villager.

It was the weakest job among the weak jobs.

I entered the rankings with such a job!

There was a high probability that it would flash and lose for a while, but it was enough to be a topic of discussion.

Soo-ah Lee immediately went to Bong-seok Park and reported the incident.

"It really exists. It's good enough as a material. So... How are you going to find it?"

At Park Bong-seok's words, Lee Soo-ah bit her mouth.

She was there because she didn't think of it at all.

“At a time like this, prepare thoroughly for Daehyun’s interview. Do you know how hard it was to get an interview with that person?

Lee Soo-ah prepared for her interview right away without saying a word.

Ah, even if you can't really do it, it's a hit material....

It was a pity, but now it was just a picture cake.

After accessing Initium, she headed to the promised place.

"Let's see... I think it was around here. Uh, over there?"

When she entered a small cafe with stone walls, there were several rooms lined up with partitions.

She told the staff the name of the person making the reservation and entered the room where she was guided.

In the room, a handsome man with sun-like blonde hair was sitting in a chair, a little vague to be called a handsome man.

"I should have come first, I'm sorry, Lee Dae-hyun."

"It's still before the appointment time, well. I've just arrived. And since it's in the game, please call me by my nickname Eriman."

"Yes, Mr. Eriman. Then we will start the interview right away."

Lee Soo-ah, who set the filming screen towards her smiling warmly, immediately started the interview based on her pre-prepared questionnaire.

"Mr. Eriman, about the process of clearing the dungeon and the human ant cave that was successfully cleared a while ago, many people say that without Mr. Eriman, he would not have been able to clear it. What do you think about this?"

"Haha, if it hadn't been for all the guild members, I wouldn't have been able to clear it. Without me, our guild members would have definitely succeeded in clearing it. I think so, so I think the evaluation given to me right now is overdone."

Eriman laughed softly.

It's like a ray of sunlight coming through the clouds.

With his smile, Lee Soo-ah felt healed.

After that, the interview continued without any noise.

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