I Start with 13 Hidden Traits- Chapter 17

CH-17   (No one can reach)

 

 

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Swish!

Dragon wings burst out, tearing through the back.

It was ‘Michela’s’ set effect, ‘Heavenly Dragon’.

It activates when all three items, sword, armor, and helmet, are collected, but in the beginning, they were hard to get, so I bought them through the secret auction house.

‘I was lucky enough to have the hardest to get, Michaela’s sword.’

Armor and helmet were relatively easy to get compared to swords. That’s why there was no sword, but armor and helmet were each listed on the secret auction house for an instant purchase price of 200,000 gold.

‘There were also many trap items that had twin talismans attached to them.’

Twin talismans.

Two talismans had an option that made them share each other’s locations.

If you bought them without knowing anything, you would be revealing your location to the seller.

Some even hid the names of the twin talismans as ‘Secret Scrolls’.

They were mostly used in items that would be used in the level 1 to 5 range, and their low prices made them perfect for beginners.

‘No matter how much I think about it, I can’t shake the thought that they’re looking for me.’

The Hall of Fame rankers would have known that I completed the main quest 2, and they would have known that I needed a lot of equipment to complete quest 3 with excellent results.

They were putting up the exact equipment I needed at a very cheap price, and they were trying to kill me after phishing to find out my location.

This may be an over-interpretation, but it can’t hurt to be careful.

Of course, the rewards were too sweet to give up the secret auction house.

‘··· I never thought I’d get this.’

I looked down at the ground and smiled faintly.

I was lucky. I never thought I’d get this at this time.

In an instant, related information came to mind.

【Hermes’ Shoes (Epic) (1)】

★ Shoes that imitate the feet of Hermes, the ‘God of Wind’. It is said that they flowed in from the Golden Temple. If you wear them, you can run as fast as the wind, but you can’t enter the ‘Temple of Wind’ while wearing them.

★ Wearing Restrictions: All stats 40 (50-10) or higher

★ Talisman (Tears of the Fairy Queen): Reduces the wearing restrictions (all stats) by 20%.

★ Agility +3

★ ‘Swift’ usable

An extremely rare item with an epic-level skill attached to it.

It is an all-purpose equipment that can be equipped with talismans, ability options, and skills. However, due to the wearing restrictions, it was originally an item that beginners could not use.

All stats 50.

Even with decent talent and class, you would have to be at least level 8 to meet this condition.

Usually, the main stats increases the most, and less relevant stats increase only a little.

However, every time I level up, all of my stats increase by 12. Not only that. With Tears of the Fairy Queen, I also greatly reduced the wearing restrictions.

‘It’s a bit disappointing in performance to wear at level 8, but there is no better equipment for me to wear at the moment.’

Above all, the ‘Hermes Shoes’ were a perfect match for Michela’s set option, ‘Heavenly Dragon’.

– I’ll melt everything.

Cheet Mamba spewed out a thick venomous fog. Acidic poison that corrodes and melts everything it touches.

Flutter!

Whoosh!

However, the acidic poison could not spread due to the strong wind.

This was because the Heavenly Dragon’s wings and speed combined to create small gusts of wind.

Whoosh!

The gusts blew away not only the poisonous fog but also the Cheetworms in an instant. Cheet Mamba frowned as he was hit by the strong wind.

– Wind magic? Then try to block this too!

Cheet Mamba pulled out his hidden tail. The venom at the tip of his tail was like that of a scorpion. It was fired at such a high speed that it was impossible to see and dodge.

However.

‘Right.’

If you know in advance which way he will shoot, you can easily dodge.

Cheet Mamba twisted both his hands before the stinger on his tail was shot. There were exactly 26 different beat patterns, and the direction in which they were shot also changed subtly.

‘Roll.’

I rolled, flew, and ran to avoid all of Cheet Mamba’s stingers.

-You little rat!

Cheet Mamba was furious.

However, Cheet Mamba was helpless as neither the poison mist nor the stingers worked on me.

I quickly ran, and now all I had to do was cut Cheet Mamba’s neck and it would be over.

‘Stop.’

I put all my strength into my thighs and brought my entire body to a sudden halt.

In an instant.

Swish!

Countless thorns shot up right before my eyes.

Poisonous stingers hidden in the ground.

-He, he avoided that far?

Cheet Mamba’s eyes were filled with astonishment.

‘Charging.’

Cheet Mamba, who had used all of his patterns, would have become ‘confused’ for a moment.

For a very short time. If I didn’t decide it in one go, Cheet Mamba would become stronger as time passed.

Tzaaaak!

I raised my greatsword and expanded every muscle in my body.

I charged and slowly approached Cheet Mamba, who was in a state of confusion.

‘Swift.’

In an instant, the speed at which I swung my greatsword increased significantly.

Swish!

I cut off Cheet Mamba’s neck cleanly like flowing water.

As soon as Cheet Mamba’s eyes, in despair, touched the ground.

《Eliminated the elite monster ‘Cheet Mamba’!》

《Contribution 100%》

《Absorbed the ‘Broken Piece of the Golden Rule’ (10 minutes).》

《The remaining time for the ‘Broken Piece of the Golden Rule’ is 47 hours, 56 minutes, and 39 seconds.》

《The darkness retreats for a moment.》

《9.1% until Pangenia collapses》

《Acquired the ‘Lucky Dice’.》

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“Gyaaaaah!”

Kim Ha-na was barely able to regain consciousness after hearing Kim Seo-yeon’s scream.

Blood splattered on the floor.

Jung Jin-woo’s severed arms.

And······.

‘That man back then.’

The man who had saved her from the Giant Mantis was right there.

Wearing a helmet and armor that she had never seen before.

Red-brown wings sprouted from his back.

He was a little different than before, but it was definitely him.

“Ah, ahh······.”

Kim Seo-yeon sat down, shaking.

A vague fear. She couldn’t move at all.

-Smash!

“Wake up!”

Kim Ha-na shouted, slapping Kim Seo-yeon on the cheek.

It was dangerous to stay here.

Those who were going to live had to live.

Kim Ha-na lifted Kim Seo-yeon’s by shoulders, got up from her seat, and looked around.

“By the way, where’s Hyun-myung?”

Park Hyun-myung.

He was nowhere to be seen.

“Could it be that he ran away······?”

At that moment, Kim Ha-na furrowed her brows deeply.

She didn’t even sense that he had run away. He had clearly been there when the bugs appeared, but he had disappeared as soon as that boss monster appeared.

It’s better than just standing there and getting killed by a monster, but even so, I never thought he’d run away alone.

Kim Ha-na groaned and led Kim Seo-yeon.

The most urgent task was to get as far away from here as possible.

“The back door is also swarming with monsters! Come up to the second floor!”

As Kim Ha-na was about to head to the back door, one of the employees on the second floor shouted.

The outside of the building had already been taken over by giant bugs.

“Please help me!”

When Kim Ha-na shouted, several people on the second floor came down.

Whoaah!

Clang! Clang!

A gust of wind blew.

The man blew away the poisonous fog the monster was spewing in an instant.

Kim Ha-na, who barely managed to hold onto the railing, turned her gaze.

‘Ah······!’

The monster was shooting poisonous stingers.

At a speed that was too fast to be seen.

If the man didn’t kill the monster, the monsters would slaughter the remaining people in an instant.

There was no way out.

All she could do was put her hands together and pray.

“Please, please······!”

“He’s a Dimension Warrior too, right?”

“Ha, but the other Dimension Warriors attacked us? It’s too early to relax!”

The people gulped and watched the situation on the first floor tensely.

That man was the last bastion.

But the other Dimension Warriors, Jung Jin-woo suddenly went crazy and attacked the people.

It was not something you could completely rest assured about, just because it was that guy.

“It’s okay. He’s on our side.”

Kim Ha-na reassured the people.

In the current situation, there was nothing good about increasing the confusion.

Every time the poisonous needle was fired, the people shrugged their shoulders.

They were worried that the man might get hit and be in big trouble.

Swish!

However, the man dodged the poisonous needle with such ease that their worries were in vain, and cut off the monster’s head with a single blow.

The moment the monster’s head hit the ground, another change occurred.

“T-You won?”

“The monsters are melting!”

“We’re alive!”

The people cheered.

When the boss monster died, all the other bug monsters melted and disappeared.

“······.”

The man turned his gaze and looked at the people hanging from the railing on the second floor.

Then.

Bam!

He put on his cloak, and the man’s figure disappeared without a trace.

“Where did he go?”

“He suddenly disappeared?”

It felt as if they had seen a ghost.

How could a person disappear like this?

She pondered that for a moment.

“Are you okay?”

Kim Ha-na turned her head at the familiar voice next to her and asked with a frown.

“······ Mr. Hyun-myeong? Where have you been ?”

“I was in the bathroom.”

In the bathroom?

‘Blood···?’

Kim Ha-na had a keen eye.

She noticed a small drop of blood stuck to the skin between Park Hyun-myeong’s ankle and the top of his foot, slightly exposed by his rolled-up socks.

Of course, it wasn’t strange for blood to be on him in this situation.

And it wasn’t because he was injured, it was because someone had splashed it.

But the only one who bled and was badly injured was Jung Jin-woo.

And Park Hyun-myung had already hidden himself before Jung Jin-woo became like that.

If he had been in the bathroom, he wouldn’t have come into contact with anyone else.

Whose blood was that?

‘No way?’

Furthermore, the timing of the “man’s” appearance and the timing of Park Hyun-myung’s disappearance, as well as the timing of Park Hyun-myung’s appearance and the timing of the “man’s” disappearance, were strangely intertwined.

‘No way······.’ She shook her head forcefully. It didn’t make sense.

Kim Ha-na looked back and forth between the place where the ‘man’ had disappeared and Park Hyun-myung.

“Is there something on my face?”

“No, it’s not like that······.”

······ That’s right. It must have been a mistake.

Park Hyun-myung couldn’t possibly be a Dimension Warrior.

But what if one in a million, one in ten million, Park Hyun-myung was a Dimension Warrior?

What if he was the man in the photo that she considered a talisman?

Kim Ha-na’s two eyes looking at Park Hyun-myung became complicatedly intertwined.

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The next day.

The world was once again thrown into chaos.

The attacks from another dimension had already been repeated twice.

This time, the Dimension Warriors were active and blocked it, but the intensity of the attacks was gradually increasing.

Some Dimension Warriors warned that such attacks would continue in the future and expressed their opinions that cooperation with the government was necessary.

However, not all Dimension Warriors, or Players, were like that.

“Isn’t this guy Randolph?”

Inside a dark, closed room.

About ten people were chasing Randolph.

To be exact, there were people looking for ‘Phantom’.

They were investigating by looking through all the videos uploaded to SNS and YouTube.

There were exactly 178 videos of ‘Player’ uploaded from Korea. This was more than 1.5 times more than the previous 100 or so. Those who had been hiding were starting to show themselves.

Randolph could have been one of them.

And now, a steakhouse in Cheongdam was being displayed on the computer screen.

“Hermes’ shoes. Those must have strict restrictions on wearing them, right?”

“Now that phantom have completed Main Quest 2, he won’t be able to wear the Hermes Shoes.”

That’s right.

The Hermes Shoes’ wearing restrictions were so high that even beginners wouldn’t dare to wear them.

Now that he’ve only completed Main Quest 2, he’d be at most level 4 or 5.

It’s still too early for phantom to wear those shoes.

“But aren’t those wings ‘Heavenly Dragon’?”

“Even if you can get the helmet and armor at the auction house, how did he get Michela’s sword?”

“It’s the same character that had ‘Hydragon’ last time.”

However, even if it wasn’t Randolph, there were questions.

Michela’s sword, which dropped with an extremely low probability.

It was an ultra-rare item that was released in 10 or so at best.

What about the Hydragon’s soul?

It was the only soul that was known to be owned by only one person on the server.

No one knew who the owner was, but rumors spread that the owner was the administrator.

“So that person is the ‘admintrator’?”

“Look at the way he hunts the ‘Cheet Mamba’. He avoids all the patterns by the edge of a single sheet of paper.”

“······ That’s right. Is there anyone who can dodge with a pattern like that? Anyone who can do the same?”

“······.”

All ten of the people gathered here could kill Cheet Mamba, but no one could figure out all of his patterns and narrowly beat him by a hair’s breadth.

That’s understandable, since Cheet Mamba’s patterns are notoriously tricky.

They’re incomparable to Hydragon or Giant Mantis.

That’s why no one figures out all of his patterns and beats him.

They’d rather level up and beat him later.

But the man in the video was doing everything with precision.

“Wow.”

Even when I look at it again, it’s still crazy.

It’s really a hair’s breadth.

Inducing the pattern, dodging, inducing confusion, charging, and finishing him off with a single stroke. All of these actions flow like water.

There’s absolutely no unnecessary detail to add or cut.

‘This is true art.’

It was truly the work of art.

It was enough to make my mouth drop just by looking at it.

If I hadn’t known, I would have thought he was reading the future.

Clap, clap, clap!

The man in front of the computer clapped his hands and said,

“The number one recruit is still the same.”

“The number 0 is ‘Mint Choco Delicious’.”

“Hmm. Regardless of their rankings, it’s clear that both are the talents our ‘union’ needs.”

“Anyway, the others are also moving. We need to make a statement as quickly as possible before the first crack starts.”

They were the players of ‘Hero’ union.

The difference from other player unions was that they were sincerely preparing for the crack.

In a situation where they didn’t know what would pop up, the most urgent thing was the presence of ‘Phantom’.

If they had him, they would be able to deal with any situation.

However, other player unions were also slowly moving behind the scenes.

If Phantom and Mint Choco Delicious were to be stolen or lost to another union, it would be a painful loss for the union that advocated for ‘Heroes’.

So they absolutely had to find them.

The only consolation they had was that there was a high possibility that both of them were Korean.

The man in the center wearing a black mask spoke in a heavy voice.

“Let’s start by exploring that area.”
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“Cough!”

Hudson spit out the coffee he was drinking.

Immediately afterwards, he looked at me with a desperate look in his eyes, hoping he had misheard me.

“······ That, that··· You used··· the Fairy Queen’s tears?”

 

 

 

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