1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 68

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 3 Episode 18

18. What Monster Waves Left behind (2)

A conference room located inside the central temple of Ahesha.

On every chair sat figures dressed in priest’s robes embroidered with gold thread on a white cloth.

A certain monster’s molars were placed in the center of the large round table they sat around.

It was one of the by-products of the corrupted monster sent from the Magic Tower to the central temple.

If it was originally, they were things that Moan should have taken right away without the process of sending them from the horse tower to the central temple.

However, among the players who participated in the Monster Wave, and the players who heard the news through the community, the story entered the central temple through the mouths of players with professions such as priests and paladins.

The item information ‘contaminated with magic’ even reached their ears.

In such a situation, if they insist on not handing the by-products of the contaminated monsters to the central temple of Ahesha, called Eve’s hands and mouth, that they will dispose of them in the tower, it is a challenge to the temple, and in severe cases, a rebellion against the god Eve. situation could be seen.

The high-ranking people in the central temple were very religious and strong enough to be seen.

So, it was necessary to go through the central temple and be returned to Moan.

From the tower to the central temple, from the central temple to Saint Arya for the reason of purification and extinction, and from Arya to Reina.

Although the intermediate process is lengthy, it is eventually returned to Moan.

And now, it was before purification and annihilation in the middle process.

From the point of view of Arya and Reina, it is best to hand over purification and extinction to Moan as an excuse, but the elders have insisted on the necessity of a meeting about this situation before that.

Magi, it was something that shouldn’t have been left in the present age.

The last battle with the demons recorded in history, right after it was over, not all traces of them disappeared.

There were traces of them, such as monsters that were heavily deformed due to magic pollution or monsters that were just strengthened by magic, but now, over 100 years have passed since all of them were sorted out.

But they thought it was quite strange to find these things now, and that was the reason for calling the meeting.

“Brothers and sisters, what do you think?”

Among those gathered in the conference room, the oldest-looking man opened his mouth.

A person who thought deeply about his question carefully opened his mouth.

“…Magyo, they still remain and that they are the cause of what happened in Izbaront seems to be the closest thing to the correct answer in the current situation.”

Before the demons disappeared, a group of people who worshiped demons with a red six-pointed star as a symbol.

That’s what ‘magic’ is.

After the disappearance of the tribes, the group gradually declined, but now it has completely disappeared.

I thought they had disappeared… It seems that their will is still there.

The others nodded their heads to see if they agreed with what he had said.

“I think so.”

“We must find them quickly and uproot them. If we leave them alone, chaos will return to the land.”

“What do you think, Lady?”

At the elder’s question, Arya, who was sitting at the top of the table, clasped her hands and closed her eyes, slowly opened her eyes.

She slowly turned her gaze to Arya, who read the elders’ worried expressions and opened her mouth.”…I agree with the elders.”

After hearing Arya’s answer, the elders continued to talk about the search for the devil.

How will the search be conducted, and how will the demons be distinguished?

But right now, I can’t think of any way to tell them apart.

Just because it was magic, it did not mean that it was tainted with or possessed of magic.

If that was the case, we would have found it right away.

The elders first concluded by looking for hints of the search, looking at the few documents that had records of magic, and then gathering again.

As the elders leave her meeting room in search of her material, Arya, who sees no eyes on her around her, relaxes her body and leans her back against the back of her chair, blankly staring up at her ceiling. saw.

She said, ‘Ah… it’s not magic…’

Arya, who had heard through Raina about the cause of the monsters polluted by Moan, knew that magic was not the cause.

However, it was the reality that she could not tell the elders the story she had heard from Reina, so only her head hurt.

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A dark forest that is currently being actively pioneered by rankers.

At the forefront of that place, there was a person with red hair fluttering and swinging a sword at the monster without a break.

He was the guild master of Akahane, a bookworm.

Around him, the executives of Akahane, who was in a party with him, were hunting monsters with him.

As time passed and all the monsters in the place disappeared, the bookkeeper gave them a short break.

And he looked into the air and wrinkled his brow.

In the eyes of others, he appears to be staring into the air, but he is currently checking the rankings.

[Level 307 Book of the 1st place][2nd place level 307 Doban]

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After reaching the level of 300, Doban, who had always kept a level difference of 1-2 with him, eventually achieved the same level as himself.

Just as the amount of experience required to level up increases significantly when you reach level 200, the amount of experience required to level up increases when you enter level 300.

Going from level 299 to 300 requires 1 experience, going from level 300 to 301 requires 4 experience.

As the experience required to go to the next level increases, the level of 300 is more difficult to raise than before.

It is difficult to keep up with the level of those who are ahead of it.

Although he was still maintaining first place due to the difference in the amount of experience, he was feeling anxious about the level that was eventually caught up with.

To catch up with that big difference to this extent was the story of being able to outdo it in the end.

Because he meant that the speed at which the Doban was increasing his experience was faster than his own.

Doban is a solo who doesn’t have a guild to push and support him from behind, but this level-up speed was amazing.

Even though they went together with infants, it was just a relationship where they stood next to each other equally, not a relationship of support.

How was it possible to level up so quickly these days?

‘…If you think about it, it’s not just infants.’

It was probably from that time that Doban’s leveling up accelerated.

Since the rumors circulated that Doban and Hoya are going together.

It was not a rumor floating around without substance, but a fact that reality existed.

It was also seen in Izbaront’s Monster Wave, and it was already known that the three of them, including infants, went in and out of the cursed underground temple for several days.

Could it be that the villager was able to level up so quickly with Dovan?

Apostle had such a thought.

Now, there was no one who implicitly looked down on Hoya as a villager.

His prowess was proved through the eyes of players in Monster Wave, and once again through Dino’s streaming.

His movements in Dino’s streaming were comparable to or superior to his own.

He hated to admit it, but it was true.

If there is a strong party member, it is natural that the hunting speed will increase and the incoming experience will increase.

Hoya concluded that Doban’s level-up speed was most likely to be the cause.

He didn’t want to lose to Dovan.

He was a rival that had been going on since the early days of Initium’s opening, and he was in a position to take the lead.

He again wanted to keep the gap between him and Doban.

If he couldn’t widen it, he had to keep the current gap.

He thought he needed a little overkill to do so, so he was hunting without wasting an inch of his time.

He focused on efficient hunting by instructing the optimal movement and timing to use the skills of the party members.

He felt sorry for the time he was taking a break like this, but the guild members are colleagues, not slaves.

The leader and the subordinate can give instructions to them due to their differences, but he does not want to force them.

“Now it’s moving.”

“Yes.”

After a good rest, when the librarian said, they began to move again.

There was no one who objected to his words.

Deputy Master Renya was ready to move the fastest.

Renya liked to stare at his back silently behind the bookworm.

When he saw him smiling while looking at the back of the book’s writer, and when others asked him why he was smiling, it was Renya who said, ‘It’s cool’ without any hesitation or shame.

After reorganizing their positions, they started hunting again in search of monsters.

Meanwhile, without anyone saying who came first, they stood tall.

The sudden cold air and the cries of monsters hinting that they were fighting stopped them.

The sound itself was very small because it was coming from afar, but if you listen carefully, you can see that it is the cry of at least dozens of monsters.

The place where the book is currently located is at the forefront of the areas where the development of the dark forest has been completed, especially in Akahane, so it is a place that others do not yet know in detail.

Curious about the party hunting dozens of monsters in such a place.

‘Where are these guys?’

I slowly approached the place where I could hear the sound.

Their feet stopped in a small open space where the tall trees that covered the sky had disappeared.There, people he knew well were hunting monsters.

It was Doban and Hoya.

“glare.”

When Doban said that, a long line of pure white light was drawn in the air, and shining scars were engraved on the body of the monsters where the line passed.

“Gumwoo.”

As Hoya said that, the wave spreads out from a point in the air and draws a circle, and within the circle, swords of ice pour down like rain.

The knives of ice that poured down froze the land and the monster, and with the death of the monster, it shattered like glass and scattered into shiny powder.

“……”

Aeseoga silently watched Doban and Hoya hunting.

With a small number of two people, they were showing a hunting speed that was as fast as theirs, no, faster than them.

If you hunt like that, you can only grow faster.

“……Move to another location.”

They were hunting without rest, so in order not to fall behind them, he had to quickly raise his experience.

Thinking that there would be few monsters returning to them even if they stayed here, the bookkeeper returned to the place where he was hunting a little bit again.

“You’re staring at something very, do you know each other?”

“…even though we knew each other, there was no contact.”

When Akahane left, Hoya, who had hunted down all the monsters, asked Doban.

Doban knew about the No. 1 bookmaker, but there was no point of contact, so he couldn’t understand why he was staring at him with burning eyes.

The rival relationship that the librarian thought of was the one he thought so.

Dovan had no interest in such things.

“Yeah? ……Um, I guess I’ll have to go to the camp sometime soon.”

Hoya, who was checking the inventory while listening to Doban’s story, suggested that Doban go to the camp.

The fact that there is a place to supply potions and Badu snacks relatively close was the reason why Hoya did not go to the hunting grounds that Chibin had told him to go hunting here.

After he tore up the warp scroll and supply the potion, he returned to Ordo and bought the potion from the merchant players in the camp without the long process of getting help from Moan.

These days, the people who were chasing after they recommended joining the guild disappeared completely, so there was no need to hide.

He didn’t think he’d come face to face with a player, though, because he thought he’d gotten too far inside.

Hoya decided to go a little deeper next time and walked to the camp with Doban.

It was the same as the potion of Doban.

In the pioneering camp built in the safe area, there were many merchant players laying on the roadside.

“Uh! Hoya-sama! Hello!”

After purchasing a potion from a merchant player, I heard Hoya calling out to go back.

When he turned his head to the place where the sound was heard, there was a player with his eyes shining.

“It’s been a long time!”

“That… who are you?”

When Hoya said that, the player gave a bewildered expression.