Chapter 7 - Hidden Nad Hunting Preparation (1)
After Asrian Online ca out, SeoHyun's schedule beca full.
First, he goes to the university for attendance check-in. Once he finishes that, he walks out of the campus.
Thankfully, he hadn't signed on to any course that required group work.
SeoHyun, who was hooked to Asrian Online, spent more ti gaming than ever.
His day really began once he ca back ho from school.
He began his daily routine by checking the stock price of NFM.
After Asrian Online ca out, the stock price of NFM had reached new highs, and it was in the middle of a bullish trend.
Most gaming-related sites were full of news related to NFM.
NFM was originally by no ans a small company.
But in just three months, the stock price had risen 80 tis. It was receiving the attention of the whole world, and it was in the process of re-writing the history of the entertainnt industry.
Asrian Online was a worldwide bestseller, and the stock was reaching new highs every day.
Sadly, SeoHyun didn't know how to do stocks. He didn't have a single share of NFM, but seeing Asrian Online get bigger and bigger made him happy.
"Now, let's visit the next site."
SeoHyun entered Asrian's community boards.
Weirdly, there wasn't much information about the ga on the official website.
Did the developers want people to learn about the ga slowly by actually playing the ga?
That was the reason why SeoHyun only entered the official website to read news about updates. The rest of the ti, he always visited community sites.
Most of the ti, he laughed at the s that people posted. But sotis, he found useful information or news.
There was a thread about a leveling-up strategy.
Hyun wasn't interested in it since he had already surpassed level 15.
He scrolled down to read the next post.
Another title caught SeoHyun's attention.
It was a post by the user 'dical Student Wannabe.'
The first few lines were enough to draw his full attention.
- How critical hits work in this ga is easy: if you hit the opponent at a vital point, you'll be able to deal critical damage. One thing to rember is that you need to hit it with extre precision.
- I've discovered a total of 11 parts; among them are the head, the heart, the stomach, the arm, and the legs. Basically, they have the sa weaknesses as us. If you hit the opponents in one of these parts, you'll be able to deal critical damage.
It was a very useful thread, but it was sadly full of nonrelevant, dumb comnts.
- Girls have one less weakness compared to n. Isn't this too unbalanced?
- If you're mad, just create a female character, lol.
- Hey asshole, it isn't that easy to change the gender of your character. If you're not going to do it for , just shut up.
SeoHyun focused on the useful post rather than the useless comntaries.
He didn't have enough ti to care about keyboard battles.
While reading the thread, he rembered the previous day’s battle.
'So this is how Ain manages to land critical hits all the ti... This is different to how it used to work in Asra Online.'
If you land an attack on a vital point, the opponent receives a critical hit.
While dueling, Ain had aid at his vital points with a smile on her face.
While dueling, he had ford a suspicion that it was how critical hits worked, but the thread had just confird his theory.
A battle system that resembles real life…
Sothing like that worked only because Asrian Online had sensory synchronization.
"I need to get used to the new system."
After finishing reading the thread, he closed the tab.
Once he did that, SeoHyun's daily routine was almost over.
He had already checked out the stock price and read through the community boards.
He had ran for lunch and then took a cold water shower.
He needed to do many things beforehand if he wanted to ga for ten hours straight.
After completing preparations worthy of a pro gar, SeoHyun logged in to Asrian Online.
[AIN has logged in.]
He got a ssage that notified him that Ain had entered the ga.
She always entered Asrian Online between 17:00 ~ 18:00 and logged off at 03:00 am.
In a way, Ain, who played Asrian Online every day until dawn, was a ga addict.
…Although she didn't spend as many hours as him.
Suddenly, he started to wonder sothing about Ain.
Judging by her playti hours, she seed like a student.
Her height and face made her look really young, and she seed like a high school student at most.
Not asking the age in video gas was an unwritten rule, so he decided not to pursue it anymore.
AIN: Are we ghost hunting today?
Ain sent a private ssage as soon as she got into the capsule.
Hyun and Ain stayed in Kantas Castle for four days in order to hunt ghosts.
At first, because of the difference between the levels, she didn't get a lot of experience points.
Up to a certain point, they just hunted together. But once their levels beca similar, they ford a party; that allowed them to gain an equivalent amount of experience.
Hyun Lv.42
Ain Lv.40
Thanks to that, both of them had surpassed level 40.
He still rembered her face when he showed her the ghost farming thod.
"Th... This is amazing... Even for you..."
Hyun smiled in high spirits.
They had 20 levels of advantage over the top-ranker in the hall of fa, so there wasn't any user with a higher level than them.
'But this much isn't enough. If the only advantage is the level, they'll eventually catch up to us.'
Hyun knew better than anyone how to keep the distance between them.
Even if the distance between top rankers shrank and beca on par with each other, he'd be the exception.
'I should start moving before it's too late.'
Thanks to the online communities, he knew that the biggest guilds were busier than ever.
There was only one reason for them to be busy: Nad monster hunting!
'I'm sure many guilds will soon try to hunt down nad monsters.'
He was confident that in two weeks, a lot of guilds would start a fierce competition among each other to hunt down nad monsters.
Everyone was after the accomplishnt of the first nad monster kill!
The first kill always gave more rewards than the successive ones.
So nad monsters increased your stats permanently, so everyone was probably after them.
So guilds would probably try to hunt nad monsters to get free publicity.
That's why it was the perfect ti to do it.
He was planning to move faster than the others.
'I won't be able to kill every nad monster that lives in the Asra Continent since it's so big.'
The nad monsters Hyun was after were the special ones! He was especially interested in the ones that increased your stats permanently.
The accomplishnt of killing a nad monster for the first ti would be given only one ti, so he should move faster.
'I should take Ain too, right?'
The ‘Close Range Magician's’ specialty, «Fla Claws», could deal a ridiculous amount of damage in exchange for an absurd amount of Mana.
It wasn't very useful for farming, but while hunting a nad monster, the most important thing was to deal as much damage as possible in a short amount of ti.
There shouldn't be anyone better than Ain for that.
'The only weakness is that she is fragile. But I, as a Support, can cover that.'
First of all, he decided he should check out both of their stats and skills.
"How many stat points do you have left? You haven't used them yet, right?" Hyun asked Ain.
"Uh... I have 70."
"70?"
Hyun rapidly did so math inside his head.
Ain was at level 40. Every ti you leveled up, you received two stat points... So she should have 78 left.
Hyun thought that maybe he had made a mistake in the calculations.
‘Why are there eight stats missing?’
What Ain said next solved Hyun's doubts regarding her stats.
"I've used eight to increase my strength."
"Strength...?"
"Yes."
‘Why would a magician need strength? Is there sothing I'm missing?’
This new doubt was also quickly answered by her.
You could see cold sweat dripping from her forehead.
"I mistakenly thought that I was still a werewolf. You know... The fighting style is very similar to before, so I just used those stat points without thinking about it. I... It should be okay, right? Maybe having more strength could be good in the future."
"Hmm..."
"Even if I made a mistake allocating so stats, I should be okay with my level of control. Right?"
After hearing Ain's excuse, he got a Deja Vu.
How she tried to excuse herself reminded him of a certain sobody.
It was like seeing that guy who had mistakenly chosen Support as a job.
‘Trying to excuse oneself is a personality trait of the hidden job?’ For a little while, he thought of sothing as ridiculous as that.
"Let's... Use the rest of the stats more carefully."
"Okay..."
In silence, Ain upgraded her stats.
Ain (Lv. 40)
HP: 200/200
Mana: 1000/1000
Job: Close Range Magician (Hidden)
[Strength: 23] [Agility: 30] [Vitality: 5] [Magical Power: 85( 15)]
[Fla Claws Lv.0]
- Your claws get covered in flas, and you deal [Magical Power] x5 extra damage.
- It consus 10 mana per second.
[※ You have 39 unused skill points!]
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Of course, the most useful stat for a ‘Close Range Magician’ was [Magical Power].
Even if you didn't allocate any stats in vitality, your HP still goes up when you level up, but if you don't increase your Magical Power, your Mana won't increase.
There was nothing too hard to think about since there was a minimum mana requirent next to most of the magician's skills.
…And a little bit of agility helped deliver the skills.
Since Ain was a Close Range Magician, she also needed to take care of her combat skills.
Her Magical Power and Agility needed to be balanced; only by doing that would her skills and stats be well balanced and show great synergy.
'Her Vitality is on the lower side, but since I'm here, she should be okay, right?'
There were so nad monsters whose attacks couldn't be blocked, but he wasn't planning on hunting them.
The ones he was after were the nad monsters they could counter with their synergy.
'Let's leave skills alone for the mont.'
They still had a lot of unused skill points, but there was no need to hurry.
Ain's fla attacks had already surpassed 500.
That amount of damage was so much that he couldn't completely neutralize it with his «One Second Immortality» skill.
Considering that she was level 40, that amount of damage was simply ridiculous.
If you don't take into account the high amount of Mana that the «Fla Claws» skill requires, the Close Range Magician was probably one of the hidden jobs that could deal the most DPS (Damage per Second).
'The damage is more than enough.'
According to his calculations, they could take out a level 50 nad boss in under five minutes.
From then on, the problem wouldn't be damage dealing, but all the other things.
…And he was probably going to be the one that needed to cover all the other things.
Translator - Daniel Shin
Proofreader - ilafy
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Arneng, Hell Dust.
The two of them had been playing the ga together from the start, so they were really close.
The first ti they had played together, it was by coincidence. By pure luck, they began hunting together; that's why they ended up entering the sa guild.
They quickly beca good friends.
The main reason behind their friendship was that gaming was the primary source of inco for both of them.
"I think that things are stabilizing."
"Yes, that's true. Even though the server has been open for just over a month, we're earning enough money to survive."
"That clearly shows that there are a lot of people playing this ga."
Asrian had only one worldwide server.
There were more than a hundred million players, and at any given ti, millions of people were online.
The world had never seen a ga so polished and with such a big scale as that one, and the number of players was increasing day by day.
Arneng smiled.
"This ga is still growing, so our inco will keep growing too."
"Yes, that's true," answered Hell Dust whilst also smiling.
Arneng and Hell Dust were sure that they would be able to achieve financial success with Asrian Online.
After all, they were already level 30.
Considering their rankings, they were among the top 0.01% of players.
Basically, they were in the heavenly realm.
The only thing other users could do was look up at them.
"The number 10 in the ranking is at level 35, right? We'll probably be able to catch up soon. The difference between us isn't that big."
"If we level up at this pace, shouldn't we be able to beco rankers?"
"If we're lucky enough, we'll probably be able to beco rankers."
"All top rankers earn a lot of money, right? Once that happens, I want to buy a building in LA."
"I just want to get a sports car."
"Once we beco rankers together, let's et up in real life. How does that sound?"
"That sounds good... It's going to be a eting between two mbers of high society."
Rankers were people among the top 1000 players in the Hall of Fa.
The top 1000 may sound easy to achieve, but the truth is that those people were among the top 0.001% of players—they were the one in a million kind of players.
Arneng and Hell Dust thought that they could get to that level.
But their confidence was by no ans vain.
A few days ago, a guild mber had discovered important information related to hidden nad monsters. Everyone within the guild had gotten excited.
Information about normal nad monsters was already considered confidential information, but soone had just discovered sothing above that, a hidden nad monster.
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