1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 4 Episode 16

16. New Shadow (1)

Poppies is a hidden craftsman who runs a general store and even makes items as a hobby in his spare time.

Its perfection was never at the level of a hobby.

Although she was not good at making equipment items for combat, items that showed secondary effects such as tracking something or grasping the surroundings in an instant were her specialty.

Hoya had previously been interested in purchasing items made by Parpis and used them, but she was surprised by the effect that was greater than expected.

So she came to Pappys.

As a result, she found that although Papys' words were uncertain, her face was full of confidence.

After three days, Hoya promised to come back to Evan, and immediately returned to the Dark Forest and headed for her appointment.

"Hoya-sama, here it is!"

Hoya, who met Lee Kyun at the meeting point, arrived at the Grim village under his guidance, and returned to the Consanuga village after a while.

There was a slight tinge of fatigue on his face that had never been seen before.

Even if it was a legend, he had been moving without a sigh for over ten days, so it was inevitable that he would be a little tired.

Perhaps an ordinary person would fall to the floor and not even get up.

"Are you okay...?"

"It's okay, it's okay. It's been a while since I've felt this tired. Are you here alone?"

She thought she would come with Mo An, but when Hoya came alone, the conservator expressed doubts.

Hoya told Con Seonu, who was puzzled, about the condition of her Mo Ahn and that it took a while to ask someone other than Mo Ahn.

"Is that so. But in the end, I'm happy."

If it was Evan, Consenu knew it too, so she accepted Hoya's words positively.

He told Evan about the Grim family in order to do a favor, but he wasn't the kind of person to float it around.

“Sister, you must move right now.”

Toyun approached Consonu, who was relieved, and told him what was going on.

As rumors about the dark forest spread, many of the players who could try hunting in the dark forest were following the rumor.

As the number of players that Consonu and the Grim had to deal with increased, they were much busier than when they met Hoya.

Since the number of combatants that can be removed from the Grim tribe to subdue the adventurers is limited, the Grim tribe and Consonu were doing more work than before.

Now, little by little, the players were digging in.

Listening to Hoya's story was also very time consuming.

Concenu wanted to borrow even a cat's hand.

"......"

"...Have you got anything on my face?"

As the conservator stared at him, Hoya tilted his head.

Come to think of it, there was a tiger's hand right next to it, not a cat's hand.Consonu grabbed Hoya's shoulders quite a bit and said.

"Hoya, lend me your hand until the barrier is complete."

[Quest 'Access prohibited' has occurred.]

[Forbidden]

As the number of players pioneering in the direction of the Grim village increased, the number of times the Grim and Consunu moved to stop them also increased.

More people are needed to ensure that players can't enter.

Help Consonu and the Grim keep players from approaching until the barrier is complete.

*If you attack a player while performing a quest, a system message will not be sent to the opponent.

*If you attack a player while performing a quest, your cao will not increase, but if your opponent dies, your cao will increase and you will receive a PK penalty.

Completion Conditions: Subdue players until the barrier is complete, preventing Shadow Veil from entering their field of vision.

Success Reward: Experience points proportional to the number of defeated players.

Failure Penalty: The existence of the Grim is known to the continent.

"Come on, wait a minute."

Hoya looked at the quest that had occurred and was immersed in thought.

The difficulty of the quest was seriously high.

In a way, it's a simple quest to stop players, but in reality it's not.

When attacking players, the cao value does not increase, but when the opponent dies, the cao value increases and a PK penalty is given.

That meant to subdue rather than kill.

"I don't think it's too difficult. All you have to do is pass it out."

It looks easy when you look at what Consonu says, but it is by no means easy.

Hoya doesn't have the ability to cause stun.

If you deal 1/2 HP of damage with a single attack, there is a chance that you will be stunned, but the probability is low, and your HP will run out before you are stunned and your opponent will die.

Moreover, he needed to hide his identity, as it would be complicated later if it became known that he had blocked the players.

He was saying that he could not use the blade of raging cold that only he possessed.

If you look around the auction house, you can get weapons in a hurry, but they are too expensive.

It was unreasonable for Hoya, who had the money sense of a small citizen, to pay a large sum of money to spend once.

It was also difficult to inflict that amount of damage to players who would be wearing armor without a weapon at once.

"Hey, don't worry about that. Have you forgotten who the person in front of Hoya is?"

Consannu's hands, holding Hoya's shoulders, took a little strength.

"Since I don't have time, I only learn martial arts by attribute. I'll let you know when this is done."

"Ah, yes, yes..."

Concenu's flawless smile seemed a little scary at this time.

* * *

"Okay, we're moving forward little by little."

After the rumors about the dark forest spread, as the number of players increased, the pioneering, which was blocked by black NPCs, was progressing very little by little.

And players were dreaming of a coveted reward behind the black NPCs and increasing the speed.

crumble.

At that time, a black NPC appeared in front of the players who were pioneering.

"Isn't it a little faster?"

"Yeah."

Although they were puzzled by the appearance of the black NPC that appeared earlier than expected, they did not worry about their situation.

It was a known fact that black NPCs only stunned players, not killed them.

They didn't have to worry about the death penalty, so they looked relaxed.

I was stunned for over an hour, which blows the connection time limit, but it was far better than the death penalty.

Besides, videos of black people turned into money.

"To the viewers, please give me gold for your support."

- Oh, it's out.

- First of all, I'll give you this. If you win, you get 10x.

-You mean you won't give it to your superiors at all, right?

The Dark Forest was now a bigger concern than the search for magic.

As long as you encounter a black NPC, a lot of small gold rain poured down through streaming.

The longer it survived, the more gold it rained.

All players combined so far have only held a record of 3 minutes or so.

Those 3 minutes were the duration of the 'dew of truth' that made all status ailments immune.

'Let's see...'

Judging from the physique of the black NPC in front of me, it looked like the NPC who used the shadows.

There is only one black NPC that uses physical skills, and it is a little taller and has a stronger physique.

"It's Formation B."

"okay."

"okay."

They made preparations for the attack of black NPCs using shadows.

When they cast their shadows, the shadows flicker briefly just before they move on their orders.

If we focused on that phenomenon, we could barely avoid it right before the attack.

But their expectations were completely wrong.

Puff-!

"Great!"

A black NPC who knew how to move shadows suddenly clenched his fists.

Even those who moved the shadows used their fists when they got close, but it was the first time they had thrown their fists out from the beginning.

"Cheet!"

When one was hit, the player next to him swung his blunt towards the black NPC.

However, his blunt weapon was swung so strongly that it could not even rub against the hem of his robe even though the NPC was right in front of him.

"---."

As the NPC mumbled a small mumble, his movements accelerated noticeably, jumping between them, knocking them all down with one or two strikes.

When the player who was streaming passed out, the screen turned black and the streaming ended, but the chat window was still alive.

-I really wanted to give 10x, but I couldn't win ㅠㅠ!

-By the way, was the guy who punched him originally with that physique?

- Isn't it just that you didn't use the shadows?

-I came across a summary of black NPCs, but there has never been an NPC with that hair length. It didn't matter what I stayed in.

People thought that the NPC that wiped out the party was the new NPC that appeared.

In the summary article made by collecting screenshots of NPCs on the best postings in the current community, there were no NPCs with similar physique but the same hair shape.

It was also not about loosening the heads that had stayed.

The appearance of a new NPC, people were accepting it as such.

No one knew that it was a player, not an NPC.

Its identity was Hoya.

His green hair was dyed black, and his clothes and mask were borrowed from Toyun.

A black cloth was wrapped around his hands and feet, leaving nothing to recognize that he was Hoya.

It was just yesterday that Hoya received a quest, experienced hell, and learned a skill from Consonu in 20 minutes.

[Crude Consanupa Martial Arts]

Proficiency: X

It is a martial art of the Kwon family independently developed by the legendary martial artist Consannu.

Since it is an incomplete skill that is learned as an attribute in a short time, the available skills are limited.

You need to receive proper training from Consanu to change into 'Beginner Consonupa Martial Arts'.

[First Strike - Weakness Insight]

See through the enemy's weaknesses with sharp eyes.

When using a skill, red and blue dots are displayed on the opponent's body.

If you hit the red dot accurately, you can inflict a critical hit, and if you hit the blue dot accurately, there is a 50% chance to cause a status abnormality 'stun' to the target.

MP Used: 10 MP for 1 second duration, no limit on duration.

Cooldown: 30 minutes

* When you learn beginner Consonupa martial arts, you can use the 2nd and 3rd attacks.

It felt like his body was still throbbing.

I thought that the sandbag wearing the training mask was only for Krauss, but the Concenu was no different.

Still, the quest became much easier thanks to the insight into the weak points learned in a hurry.

Hoya was thinking that the quest he was carrying out was a small siege.

The village of the Grim clan is the castle, the castle that you protect, the players are siege.

And now, due to an item on the side of Mercury, the battle time was getting a little longer.

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