1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 19

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 1 Episode 19

19. Black Heaven (2)

It was a very bad situation.

He was surrounded by monsters by pulling the wrong aggro in the previous hunt and using all his skills to get out of the situation.

He thought he was out of trouble, but he wasn’t.

When they got out of the crisis, it was another crisis that came to them.

If you die now, the quest in progress will automatically fail.

How much time did it take to bring this quest here?

Even if I died, I couldn’t die.

But there was no way out of this situation.

As soon as the people in the robe appeared, a skeleton struck him lightly and was recognized as being in battle, making it impossible to use the warp scroll.

I couldn’t use it for an important situation, and I didn’t pay a high price to buy it.

It was like a fire with no exit.

There was no way, he thought and thought again and again.

Sung-hoon was spinning his head fiercely to somehow get out of the current situation.

At that moment, a rope came down to him.

[Hoya: Don’t show it, listen.]

He flinched at the sudden whisper in his ear.

Who is it……? Your nickname is not on your friends list.

That means it’s nearby.

…But why does the nickname feel familiar?

[Hoya: It’s on the tree next to you, a little further away. Don’t roll your eyes.]

Sung-hoon managed to prevent his gaze from turning inadvertently.

[Sunghoon: Who are you…?][Hoya: I unintentionally watched everything from the beginning… I’ll help you, so when I give you a signal, keep yourself close to the floor at the same time with all of your party members.][Sunghoon: That…….][Hoya: Trust me.]

His last whisper, unknown to him, seemed to appeal to his emotions.

Er, I don’t know.

It won’t get any worse here.

Sunghoon quickly sent a whisper to the party members.

Everyone sent replies full of anxiety, but everyone quickly agreed to Seonghoon’s words that it was the only way right now.

[Sunghoon: I told everyone.][Hoya: Then… now!]

“Get down!”

Awesome liquid-! Quang!

At Seonghoon’s words, when all the party members lowered their posture, something passed over them.

“……?”

After one loud explosion, a cloud of dust rose and the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

To understand the sudden silence, Sung-hoon raised his head and looked ahead.

Amidst the clouds of dust, Chloe’s very bewildered face came into view.* * *

Hoya felt that things were going strangely.

It was when the people in black robes appeared that they felt the change.

When the black robe appeared, the expression of the person holding the shield in front of him suddenly changed for the worse.

So were the others.

Hoya listened and focused on their voices.

“…If you give me the weapons I’m wearing now at the price of my life, I’ll let you go.”

The words that came after that were very strange.

They were very proud, like people who came to retrieve the things they had left behind.

It was a situation in which the eyes were frowned upon.

And suddenly, at the memory that overlapped with the situation in front of him, Hoya’s eyes and heart cooled coldly.

He knew the scene he was seeing now.

The scene in his memory and the scene now were the same, although his position was different.

The players and undead surrounding the party were him and his friends.

The party surrounded and threatened by them was himself.

Hoya, who was watching them, was the same school students and teachers who could even be described as classmates.

“……”

I wanted to help them.

He thought so endlessly.

Having been in the same position once, I knew that the place was more terrifying than anything, so I couldn’t leave them alone.

Hoya was looking at them and her past self.

[Hoya: Don’t show it, listen.]

Hoya immediately whispered to the man standing in front of the party.

He was perplexed at first, but soon took hold of his heart and listened to Hoya.

[Sunghoon: I told everyone.]

At Seonghoon’s whisper, Hoya came down from a branch, landed quietly on the floor, and placed his hand on the sword he was wearing around his waist.

“Bow slash.”

A blue light began to gather in Hoya’s sword.

The swamp itself was in a dark environment, so the blue light was easy to spot.

Bow slash increases the power as much as the amount of mana consumed, but also increases the charge time.

So it was not a situation where he could use a lot of mana.

There was already someone who noticed the blue light and was about to turn his head.

Hoya immediately whispered the timing, and a blue light flashed over their backs as they prostrated themselves.

Awesome liquid-! Quang!

In the place where the dust cloud that had arisen after Hoya’s skill flew away, there were only the party members of a man named Seonghoon and a woman named Chloe, two Black Heavens, and the number of undead that could be counted with both hands.

The two surviving players probably had the undead as their shield.

He had already lost all his skills from a series of hunting before coming here, so it was too much to attack under the shadow of a tree.

Hoya slowly walked out and stood like a wall between Black Heaven and Sunghoon.

“You… you, you, you! What are you doing!”

“……”

Chloe shouted at Hoya who suddenly appeared, but he didn’t answer.

She knew intuitively.

That the man wearing a strange mask in front of him was the one who changed the situation.

And Sunghoon’s eyes, looking at his back, were full of respect and gratitude.

The back of the man in front of him felt too wide.

“You! I think you’ll be fine even with this! I’m making a video of this right now! Just raise your hand! I’ll make you bury me in the game!”

“…you’re talking nonsense.”

In response to Chloe’s words, Hoya’s voice had subsided heavily.

His eyes were not visible because of the mask, but his eyes seemed to be pierced through.

His expression was completely unrecognizable because of the mask, but he could feel his emotions strongly in his voice.

The emotion was anger.

“Profit…! Hey! Honestly, what are you, meddling in here and ruining it? If you’re an outsider, just go the way you’ve been going!”

“……”

If you turn away, you will become a person no different from you.

Hoya answered inwardly and shot his body forward.

Belatedly reacting to Hoya’s movement, they moved the undead to set up a shield and attack.

However, Hoya naturally passed between the summoned undead like water without difficulty, and only aimed at the summoners.

When the summoner dies, the summons automatically disappear.

There was no need to deal with the summons.

They could not avoid Hoya’s attack.

[The player has been attacked.][Player in Khao state. There is no PK penalty.]

After Hoya swung the sword a few times, the two remaining people also became lights and disappeared.

And when I first used the bow slash, a series of messages appeared again.

They were in Khao state and dropped 2-3 items each.

“Goo, thank you for saving me!”

“thank you!”

Now how do I do this?

As I was thinking about it, Sunghoon and his party members have been saying thanks.

Hoya, who received their thanks, shook her head slightly and expressed that it was okay.

It wasn’t an act of wishing for a thank you.

I just did it because I didn’t want to be like them.

In a way, they may have wanted to assert that they and I were different.

As a token of his gratitude, Sunghoon personally picked up items dropped by Black Heaven.

Kao caught by Hoya, the items they dropped belong to him.

“I want to give something back…”

Sung-hoon wanted to repay Hoya with something because he was not satisfied just by picking up the items.

It looked just like a dog that wanted to poop.

But Hoya didn’t ask for anything in return, and even if he said he wanted something in return, he couldn’t think of anything in particular.

But it seemed he wouldn’t let himself go unless he received anything.

‘Ummm… Ah.’

“…Do you have any Black Lizardman scales?”

They handed Hoya 4 Black Lizardman’s Scales.

If there were more, they would have given me more, but those four scales were all they got while hunting for the day.

After Hoya thanked them and they thanked Hoya again, they were able to part with a good mood.He suddenly had a thought.

If even one of the students and teachers in the same school had held out his hand without turning away from me in the past, would I have changed the way I am today?

Thinking about it now, it was a thing of the past that would not change.

* * *

“Today I really lived and died.”

“It’s really what you say~. If it weren’t for him, he’d be blown away by quests and everything.”

Returning to Leba, they unpacked their artillery at the tavern.

Because it’s a game, no matter how much food they eat, they don’t gain weight and the price is cheap, so after a day of hunting, they went to any food store to eat and unpack today’s canvas at the end of their day.

They weren’t the only ones doing this, so the tavern was full of players.

“It was amazing! What is he doing?”

“Oh, come to think of it, Sunghoon-ah, you whispered to that person. Then didn’t you see that person’s nickname?”

“Huh?”

Their eyes focused on Sunghoon, who was quietly drinking beer.

“Yeah, I saw it.”

“Then let me know. I’ll have to come back later and pay you back properly.”

“Ummm… would it be better to do that as well?”

They also picked up items and gave them the scales of the Black Lizardman, but they thought that was not enough.

Grace is a guy who never ends even if he repays him.

“Is your nickname Hoya?”

“Hoya? Why do you think you heard it somewhere?”

“Huh? So do you? So did I.”

From the beginning, Sung Hoon could not erase the feeling that he had seen the nickname ‘Hoya’ somewhere.

I thought it was just a misunderstanding, but it didn’t seem like a mistake since I heard that a party member from the same party had also heard of it.

“Wow, everyone, that nickname…”

“Huh? What, why are you like this?”

As the two of them were contemplating, the priest widened his eyes as if in great amazement, and said in a stammering voice.

“…you’re a villager.”

“……iced coffee!”

I think I’ve heard it somewhere….

It was the nickname of a person who became a hot topic after climbing up the rankings as a villager.

And on the other hand, I was very surprised that the villagers had such power.

Well, I think it was because of that kind of power that I was ranked as a villager.

“Then, are we the first to witness the villagers?”

“What should I do, what should I do, you seem to have a very good personality.”

“Since I checked the level in the rankings, I might stay here for a while? Will we meet again next time?”

“Shall we brag to the community?”

“…No, don’t do that.”

Sunghoon spoke firmly to those who were excited.

“The fact that nobody knew about him until now means that he acted inconspicuously for a reason, right?

“Oh, that’s also true.”

“Then is it our secret?”

“It’s kind of pounding, hehe.”

They spent the night excited about the fact that it was their own secret.