Hoarding in Hell Novel

Hyunmoo quickly pulled out his hand. However, the official did not even look at Hyunmoo. He gestured, and several other officials ran and looked at the monitor with him.

The other waiters also raised their heads and grinned, wondering what was going on.

"Is this a malfunction? It's the first time I've seen a number like this."

"Hey, I also saw Lee Ji-tae measure. It didn't come out like this back then. It must be a malfunction."

"Are you the one who came to get your registration today? Then it's level 1."

After the officials whispered for a while, Hyunmoo pulled out his head with a bewildered expression.

"Uh, hey. I'm sorry, but I think I broke the machine."

"Uh, huh? Ah, ah, ah! Yes. It's okay. It's something that happens often. When you play against talented people, breakdowns are common. It's a consumable anyway. Sorry, can we try one more time?"

"Yes."

Other officials opened the status check and replaced a few parts inside.

After getting ready, Hyunmoo put his hand back in and waited for his marble to arrive. Suddenly, I felt something moving inside.

Knowing what would happen and preparing for it, the movement of the marble seemed to be visible despite the invisible space.

'What do you do with this?'

Also, I thought it would break if I grabbed it inadvertently.

"Grab it tight."

Then the official next to me said: Hyunmoo grabbed the marble without any regrets.

beep.

There was no cracking sound this time. There must be a reason for moderately controlling the power. A sound was heard when the measurement was finished.

Hyunmoo looked to the side, wondering if it was over. However, all the civil servants present were looking at the monitor, forgetting to say anything.

"...is it a software problem? Is that it?"

"How do you do this? Should I report it first?"

"Isn't that the best before?"

'What's the matter again?'

Hyunmoo chuckled and looked at the officials. He couldn't stand the stinging glances of those waiting behind him.

"It's done?"

Officials raised their heads and looked at Hyunmoo. He had a face as if he had seen a ghost.

“Uh… well, I’m sorry, but I want you to check one more time…”

***

After three tests, Hyunmoo's test result was 'deliberation pending'.

"No, I was careful not to break it, but why are you doing that?"

Surprisingly, there were a lot of breakages, so it didn't seem like a power control problem. Hyunmoo grumbled, folding his test strip in half.

It doesn't matter if my abilities are exposed, but I wanted to avoid making things bothersome like this. Withholding the deliberation, it is the same as not receiving anything.

The place I was guided to to test my skills was a large gym. In fact, it was the place that took up most of the space of the Talent Management Bureau.

Inside the fairly large space was a track and a large wall with lots of scratches and burns and shattered marks. There was also a large target in the center that looked like it had been painted over several times.

Hyunmoo and a group of people stood in the middle of the gym, waiting for instructions. Then a man stood in front of them.

Unlike other civil servants, he was a man with a colored employee ID around his neck. Hyunmoo recognized at a glance that he was capable. Except for Hyunmoo, he was the strongest of the talents gathered here.

"I'll divide it into three lines from now on. Those who have all of their skills in 'Attack', stand this way, those with all 'Defense', stand this way, or those who have buffs, debuffs, heals, or neither, please stand here! "

People hesitated and lined up in a cluttered line. It also seemed to have ambiguous abilities, but those with the most offensive systems, followed by the defensive ones, and the ones that were neither Neither nor Neither had the fewest. Hyunmoo was the most difficult to choose among them.

'What if I don't have one skill?'

Seeing other people choosing them without much difficulty, it seemed like they were one or the same series. People without skills could not even come in.

Hyunmoo's skills were poison, battle helper, and control. There were two legendary skills in one rare skill, so it was likely to cause a commotion no matter what.

Hyunmoo hesitated, then stood in a line that was neither here nor there.

Offensive people went in front of the wall and showed their abilities, while defensive people showed off their abilities in front of a pitching machine.

Hyunmoo felt a little drained when he saw the talented players struggling to hit the slow-flying baseball.

'I think it can be stopped even if you're not that talented.'

Just then, the official came to me.

"What skill do you have? If it's a non-lethal debuff, you can try it on me."

A talented public official had a dwarf body, but he seemed accustomed to dealing with talented people. Hyunmoo noticed a faded scar on him, recognizing that he was a retired hunter. Hyunmoo thought about what kind of skill he should show.

"It's poisonous."

It was Hyunmoo's first and only skill that he could use for attack. The official's eyes widened in surprise.

"A rare skill?"

Hyunmoo nodded his head. The official looked at him as if he was lucky.

'If you don't mind, you can also roll in hell and try to get it.'

Hyunmoo looked at the civil servant with an unbroken gaze. He died nearly thirty times, and it was a skill that he barely acquired.

He even talked about taking control or a battle helper, but it's hard to prove whether a battle helper just fights well or not, and he doesn't even know what a skill is. He thought that it would be better to have certain poisoned blood only then.

Anyway, Hyunmoo didn't come here to show off, he came because he wanted to acquire a hunter's qualification through an imposing path.

'Besides, the battle helpers and the takeovers, both become more useful when they are not revealed.'

"It's a little vague... But if you use it as a weapon, it's a pretty powerful skill. It's going to have a lot of trouble in your life, but it's going to be uncomfortable. You'll get hurt a lot."

"I'm used to it."

The official, who was a Hunter, smiled. It was a ridicule of what ordinary people who could not see a single scar would know about wounds even if they were injured. Hyunmoo smiled at that smile.

“Well, some hunters famous for their poison-blooded skills say that they periodically draw blood packs and use them whenever they need it… so if it’s poisonous, then a biological test would be necessary.”

A government official beckoned somewhere, and a man who looked like a subordinate came running with a small plastic water tank. Inside was a small slime.

As soon as Hyunmoo saw the slime, he unknowingly pulled his face back. The official saw it and laughed.

“No need to worry. Slimes like this are harmless, so some people keep them in fish tanks as pets.

"Ah yes."

Hyunmoo smiled hard with a hard expression on his face.

'Let's be calm. This isn't hell, is it?'

Hyunmoo had seen slimes even in Hell. but from afar. The guy Hyunmoo saw looked like he had inflated the slime in this tank to the size of a shopping mall on the 3rd floor.

It devoured the whole building where the monster was hiding, and then melted and ate everything in it. In Hyunmoo's eyes, the two men next to the tank looked like they were already dead.

I only saw the terrible monsters of hell, so in reality I felt more nervous than necessary. As Hyunmoo seemed nervous, the official even put his hand inside the tank.

The slime started to climb onto the back of the official's hand, but it fell off with a light swipe.

"It's cute, isn't it? It's been captured for skill testing. If you feed it, it divides, so it's easy to raise. Would you like to activate the poison-blooded skill?"

Hyunmoo cleared his breath and slowly walked towards the tank. The official tried to hand over the knife to cut the wound, but Hyunmoo did it by putting his hand on the water tank and clenching his fist. A few drops of dark red blood dripped onto the tank as if squeezing out juice.

"Is that okay? Slimes are weak, but they're monsters with a lot of body fluids..."

At that moment, a former Hunter official bit his mouth. As soon as Hyunmoo's body fluids touched the slime, the color instantly turned black, breaking the shape and starting to melt in all directions.

The body of the degenerated slime was twisted and dried out, and at the same time, the liquid that spewed out was bubbling. A great stench wafted all over the place, and everyone looked at it.

The hunter-born supervisor grabbed his nose and hurriedly waved his hand. A subordinate official hurriedly covered the tank and ran out of the gym.

"No, what the hell is this..."

"Is it pass?"

The official from Hunter looked at Hyunmoo with a bewildered expression.“Uh, um. Su, it’s clear that he has the skills, but it’s a little different from the previous case… I’ll discuss it with my boss and my superiors before making a decision.”

***

"Ability judgment is pending review? Well, that machine is a bit of trouble, so please forgive me. Come back later, and the grade judgment will be sent to you by phone. 'I need this'? Is this what you mean, cow?"

After all the procedures were completed, the official in charge of finishing it was a woman who looked to be about forty years old. She seemed to have a higher rank than other civil servants, and it seems that Hyunmoo had many of her withholding judgments, so her final judging was passed on to her.

"I just need to confirm that I have the skills, I know what kind of Sejong Institute employee they are. All right. Hyunmoo. First of all, the basic judgment is pass. And... are you going to take the Hunter ability test?"

"Yes."

In response to Hyunmoo's answer, the official looked at Hyunmoo with a glance.

“Then, the test will start a little later, so don’t go and take the brochure. This time, it will be very different from the previous test as it will be taken in collaboration with the Taeseong Clan. Even those with experience will participate. Because it's the atmosphere I want."

As the official said so, she let out a long sigh.

"Don't hate it even if you sound like a nerd. I'm telling you because you still look young. Being a hunter may look gorgeous and cool, but you risk your life to work. It's like a mercenary. There are quite a few people who die. Just collecting crystal moss in a 1-star dungeon. And I don't know if you're going to make a living by selling goblin slime accessories, but there's nothing good about seeing people like Lee Ji-tae, Park Do-ryung, and Oh Dae-seong and be greedy."

She spoke like an old-timer, but in her weary voice there was full of remorse.

“If the hunters who came to update their stats suddenly disappear, there are usually four endings. They died. They became maimed. They went to a mental hospital. They went to prison. ."

"okay."

"Hey, who are you? Even though I got a 4 star rating, there were people who didn't play Hunter and said that they were academics. Was it Maria Keller? Anyway, people laughed at her when they saw that, but I thought I wasn't doing anything like a Hunter because I was smarter. Hunter anyway. Among them, there are only a few people who make good money, so why are they risking their lives for a hunter like that?"

“It may not have to be because of the money.”

Hyunmoo replied with a shrug of his shoulders. She lifted her tired eyes and looked at Hyunmoo.

"Then what? Honor? Power?"

“A sense of duty to protect mankind?”

Hyunmoo was half joking. After all, Hyunmoo was content with the idea of ​​grabbing all of his money, fame, and power.

But he was half sincere. Hyunmoo already saw a dead end. And Hyunmoo had no intention of living in such a future. She intended to die greedy for wealth and honor in a peaceful and sunny future.

"You never know. One day, the difficulty of the dungeon may rise to a point that mankind can't handle."

For example, fine dust kills people in an instant, swarms of mosquitoes flying around enough to be mistaken for clouds, human extinction and monsters replacing the population.

I didn't give such specific examples, but it was enough to get the government official into thinking. After thinking for a moment, she nodded her head.

"It could be. At that time, I would be a fool who thought the Hunters were fools."

She picked up the stamp and pounded the stamp on Hyunmoo's certificate of ability. And, along with her registration card, he handed over a thick file.

"It's the Hunter Registration Test Guidebook and the published by the Almighty. It contains things to be aware of in the dungeon, hunting tips, etiquette between hunters, emergency contact information, and dictionary information about monsters. Read it. It will help you survive. The Hunter Ability Test also said that the theme was a dungeon."

Hyunmoo grinned.

"I'm really curious. What the dungeon will look like."

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