Do you know someone?
Take a long breath and focus your mind.
slowing down world.
The fact that the world has slowed down is not a metaphor or anything, but a literal meaning.
The sleet, which had been blowing violently, slowed down enough to be counted, and the flow of air against my skin was palpable.
It was an area that only those with deep discipline or extreme concentration could enter instantly, but Meteor was able to enter that area very easily just by repeating the structure of the Surah Gamgakdo.
Sigh.
Maybe it was because I pulled the protest too hard?
A sound came from the bent bow.
Yuseong, who witnessed the target’s body trembling, which had not even moved, put a protest without hesitation.
‘I missed.’
The one who should have died in one blow is struggling to live.
Yooseong, who clicked his tongue briefly, immediately shot a second arrow toward the target.
This time, the target didn’t even hit it calmly.
The target, who avoided the arrow by lightly tilting his head, spread his wings while looking at the place where the meteor was.
Aye ae ae ae!
The rogue bird flew toward the meteor with a terrifying speed that was not suitable for its size.
In the blink of an eye, the distance started to decrease, but Yooseong took out a new arrow and walked on the protest without panic.
third arrow.
In order not to slow down, Gojo tried to avoid the arrow by turning slightly, but in the end, it was a wrong choice.
The arrow that Yooseong shot this time was not an assassination arrow that he used earlier, but a bomb that caused an explosion.
aaang!
As the rogue bird, swept away by a huge explosion, began to fall, Yuseong threw away the sniper bow he was holding and grabbed the repeater bow.
Little girl!
Explosion, Freeze, Thunderbolt, Poison Mist, Gust, Wave, Decomposition, Curse.
Swept away by countless different types of abilities, the rogue bird fell to the ground screaming desperately.
Yooseong, who fired a few more arrows, confirmed that the rogue bird was no longer moving and nodded with a satisfied face.
“As expected, you pay a high price.”
The price of the arrows I just used was at least 100 gold per piece.
Considering the number of arrows, it was like throwing thousands of gold worth of money into the air in the blink of an eye, but Meteor didn’t regret it at all.
Thousands of gold at most.
Considering the circumstances of his own pocket, it was an amount that did not even go to the liver.
Yooseong, who came down from the foot of the mountain, immediately started slaughtering the rogue bird.
Yooseong, who gently cut off the feathers with steel-like strength using a specially designed mithril slaughtering dagger, took only a few parts from the corpse of a wild bird and stood up.
There were still a lot of parts that could be made money, but in terms of opportunity cost, it was more profitable to kill other monsters than to slaughter more than this.
“It would have been more convenient if it could have been solved with money.”
Quite a few things could be bought at the shop with money, but the ability level could only grow through fighting monsters.
In addition, as monsters drop special items or skills that are not sold in stores, hunting was not an option, but a necessity.
Little girl!
Squeak!
The cries of monsters can be heard in the distance.
As I put on the hood, the meteor’s appearance began to melt into the objects around me.
It doesn’t raise a lot of stats, but in terms of stealth ability, there was nothing like this.
The only regret is the murderous price of 30,000 gold?
Of course, it was not a big problem for Yoosung.
Yoosung walked away leaving the dead bird behind.
‘I’m almost there.’
There are boss monsters in four areas except for the central area.
The existence of the boss monster became known because of an accidental accident.
While hunting in the southern section, a group of party members accidentally found an endless cliff.
Nothing would have happened if it had just been passed, but one of the party members suddenly fired magic at the bottom of the cliff.
And after a while, a huge worm appeared from the bottom of the cliff and started attacking the party, and the party was all but annihilated except for one who barely escaped.
People called the worm a boss monster because of its strength, which was on a level different from that of ordinary monsters, and it wasn’t long before they were able to find places where boss monsters were presumed to be located in other areas.
The problem was that the boss monster was so powerful that he couldn’t dare to catch it.
I wondered if I could barely catch it until the end of the preparatory stage, when I had to build up my strength and have a party with the top talent.
People regarded the boss monster as a gag or made a promise for the future, but Yooseong had a different idea.
“Let’s go catch the boss monster.”
-… … Did you hear the same story as me? How do you come to that conclusion?
“I heard you read a lot of genre novels. Have you ever seen a novel in which the main character gives up because the enemy is too strong?”
-Isn’t that possible because you’re the main character?
“There is a saying that you are the main character of your life.”
It was not a simple impulse or unfounded confidence, but a conclusion reached after careful investigation and calculation.
The shop was selling items called special arrows with various abilities.
Due to the price of at least 100 gold and the fatal drawback of being disposable, it was common for ordinary archers to not even dare to buy one or to carry only one or two in case of an emergency, but Meteor was different.
one or two feet?
Thousands of feet were no problem.
“According to rumors, I can catch enough by myself.”
Boss monsters were not for decoration.
It’s just that other people can’t catch it right away, but it’s enough to catch it if you form a party and attack on the last day of the preliminary stage.
In Yooseong’s opinion, his own firepower that allowed him to freely use special arrows was at a level that was never inferior to the firepower of top-tier players who had finally grown.
‘Hey there.’
An ice palace built on a huge frozen lake.
No one had ever gone inside, but this Ice Palace was the only place in the northern area where a boss monster was likely to be.
Yuseong uses a sniper bow with a special arrow that maximizes penetration and activates the Hawk Eye skill that expands the field of view.
“yes?”
Yoosung tilted his head.
According to people’s testimonies, there should have been an ice golem on the wall of the ice palace that kept an eye on all directions 24 hours a day, shooting ice arrows at anyone who approached.
However, no matter how much I opened my eyes and searched, I couldn’t find anything like it, let alone an ice golem.
I looked around the lake just in case, but I couldn’t find a single ice golem.
Yooseong, who was worried, moved cautiously toward the ice palace.
While going to the front gate, there was no attack, and no monsters appeared.
Squeak!
The inside of the palace was miserable.
From the unsightly melted ice decorations to the shattered walls and pillars as if they had been hit by a bombardment, to the horribly broken ice golem, not a single thing remained intact.
The further we went inside, the more ghastly the scene became.
And the moment he reached the deepest part of the palace, Yooseong was able to find what he was looking for.
– No way, is that a boss monster?
“maybe.”
on a splendid throne.
A snow-white woman made of ice was sitting.
There is a large hole in the chest, one arm has been cut off, and the body is melted here and there.
Surprisingly, the boss monster in the northern section had already been captured.
‘How did this happen?’
There is no one other than himself who has the ability to catch the boss monster right now.
‘If all the people who are currently in the top 10 of the rankings gather… … . No, that’s impossible.’
Everyone who was presumed to be in the top 10 of the rankings had a separate watch attached.
It would be impossible for two or three people to go hunting for a boss monster, but it was impossible not to notice it.
“… … for a moment.”
Yuseong, thinking of a possibility, received a shock as if he had been hit in the back of the head with a hammer.
It was an absurd possibility, but it was definitely a possibility that I had thought about before starting the quest.
‘If you catch an ice-type monster, the next target is probably… … .’
Coming out of the palace, Yuseong put on his hood and started running in a straight line in one direction.
I ran into monsters midway through, but they didn’t even look at me.
Now was not the time to waste time.
Meteor, who ran with minimal rest, was finally able to arrive at the desired destination.
A volcano spewing smoke as if it were about to explode
It was the location of the boss monster in the western area.
bang! bang! bang!
An explosion was heard from the crater of the volcano.
A much smaller, more irregular sound than a natural explosion.
The moment I diligently climbed the mountain and arrived at the crater, the meteor’s doubts turned into certainties.
“Back off!”
“It’s okay! I can hold on a little longer… … .”
Wow!
“Cuck!”
“Didn’t I tell you to back off!”
“Mi-I’m sorry!”
“Jia! Focus on the recovery skill man! I’ll be the tank until you recover! Joong-seok is the dealer!”
Inside the crater, a lava monster and a party were fighting.
A party fighting an equal battle against a boss monster.
And among the party members, there was not a single face in Yooseong’s memory.
‘I didn’t know of people who were strong enough to defeat the boss monster?’
It was unbelievable.
From the first day until now, Yuseong remembered all the people who stood out even a little bit.
The fact that he did not know people with this level of skill was impossible to explain other than that he thoroughly concealed his skills.
Zeng! Jjoong!
The most overwhelming among them was the young man fighting the boss monster head-on.
Fighting for superiority against the boss monster.
It wasn’t just a good fight.
Swordsmanship, combat sense, practical experience, improvisation, etc., were impeccable in all respects.
Even though he hadn’t mastered swordsmanship, Yooseong, who had mastered martial arts and fighting skills, could see traces of his long years in the young man’s skillful movements.
Kwajik!
As the boss monster, whose core had been pierced by the young man’s sword, lost its shape and collapsed, Yooseong immediately stood up and started descending the mountain.
If the opponent was what he thought, there was nothing good about hanging around.
-Well, who is that person?
Kim Hyun-jun asked in a trembling voice.
It’s not a lightning bolt from a dry sky, it’s one step higher than those in the top 10 of the rankings… … No, it was embarrassing to see someone stronger than a few levels suddenly appear.
Yooseong, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth only after coming down completely from the mountain.
“Maybe someone you know?”
-Is this the first person you’ve ever seen?
“You’ll know right away when you hear the name.”
Yuseong, who turned his head and looked at the mountain, spoke in a low voice.
“Regressor.”
this is not a game
