Chapter 21. Firehamr Tokan (2)
Perhaps his fatigue had piled over ti, but Sanghyuk had slept for 7 hours when he intended to sleep for 5. As soon as he woke up, he took a shower first and ward up his body by stretching.
Although he overslept by 2 hours, he wasn’t in such a hurry. Being hasty to log into EL just because he had overslept was not his way of doing things.
Oversleeping was just oversleeping. He did everything independent of that fact. He exercised lightly to warm up his body and had a full al as well. Since he only had one or two als per day, he had to eat properly when he did.
Only after preparing himself like that, he did enter to the capsule.
Having entered EL, Sanghyuk didn’t imdiately go to the Golden Anvil and first stopped by the commissioned sales store. Since the items he had put on sale on the commission was considerably good at this point in the ga, everything was sold out.
Sanghyuk paid the fee and checked the ti after he received the gold.
‘It will take a couple of days for the bone whip to be completed so should I put the sewer dungeon up for sale?’
Rumors about secret dungeons were starting to spread among the users. The exact truth was still unknown, but the fact that there were things called ‘secret dungeons’ and how they were juicy hunting zones were starting to spread.
This was the best ti to sell his secret dungeon.
Dungeon trading was done in many ways, and the safest way was to do it through commission or through auction. Since no one put up a dungeon for sale, they just didn’t know that it was possible to do so.
If he put up the 77th Sewer dungeon up for sale, then an item nad ‘D-rank secret dungeon 50/150’ would appear in the commissioned sales store.
The details about the dungeon would be revealed according to how much Sanghyuk wanted to reveal about it. Right now, even if he put all details secret, there would be a lot of users interested in just from the fact that it was a secret dungeon.
The commissioned sales store fundantally guaranteed the safety of all transactions. So the actual transaction of the dungeon was done in a manner so that it had to happen.
In other words, whether it was Sanghyuk, the seller in this case, or the buyer, they could be at ease if they traded through the commissioned sales.
Sanghyuk hunted lightly around Falcon City after putting his sewer dungeon on sale. After around an hour, a trade request ssage ca to him from the commissioned sales store.
A pitch-black tallic armor that covered the entire body…… it looked very crude, but it was a full set.
And this person was wearing a black robe on top as well, so not to ntion face, even the hair couldn’t be seen.
‘Man, this guy looks very stifling.’
In front of Sanghyuk was the user that requested to buy the secret dungeon from him. The figure wasn’t that big, but the problem was the attire.
No matter how high defense tallic armors were, there was nobody that wore full body armors like this. On top of that, wearing a black robe showed the extres of stifling fashion. It felt like this user was trapped in the tallic armor.
But that wasn’t the end.
[Can I receive it imdiately?]
A ssage ca instead of words. Surprisingly, this user was conversing through public ssage instead of words. Although he could see it in Korean due to the instant translation, it could be seen that this user was soone who used English.
‘Whew, type-talking?…… No one uses type-talking in Dream Network after the instant translation was nearly perfected…… this is one peculiar user…… Oh! Black tallic armor over the whole body and the type-talking. Is it the ‘Dark Knight’?’
Two words flashed by Sanghyuk’s head. Although he didn’t think of this when he just saw the armor, he rembered the words ‘Dark Knight’ when that user talked by typing.
‘Is it the sa Dark Knight I know of?’
Sanghyuk scanned the opponent once again.
The Dark Knight seed to have a height around 170 cm, and considering how the full set of plate armor covered the body, the figure didn’t seem to be that tall. A very large black shield as well as trying to conversing through type-ssaging…… this all seem to correspond to what Sanghyuk knew about the Dark Knight.
[Mr. seller?]
“Oh! I’m sorry. I can proceed with the transaction right away. It’s just that you need to have above ‘close friends’ familiarity with the Falcon Security.”
[I am already.]
The buyer, no, the user that could possibly be the Dark Knight answered curtly.
“That’s good, then please follow .”
First, Sanghyuk took the Dark Knight to the basent of Falcon Security office. He kept thinking about what he knew of the Dark Knight on the way.
‘Once known as the greatest tanker of the beginning stages of EL…… but beca a legend by disappearing after the first large-scale patch, ‘The Rise of the Dead’ and the 2nd planet, Tu, was added…… The impact the Dark Knight showed in the 2 years was so large that it was a talk for a long ti even after the disappearance.’
Although Sanghyuk was completely unrelated, he knew quite a lot since the user was very controversial.
‘Is it really the Dark Knight? From what I’ve seen, it’s very likely…….’
Thinking about various things, he arrived at the sewer dungeon quite soon.
‘Should I check if it’s the real Dark Knight?’
Sanghyuk liked being sure about things and wanted to check if the opponent was actually the Dark Knight. That was why he threw a question that wasn’t on his plan before he sold off the dungeon.
“Are you alone?”
[Yes.]
“The recomnded party is 3……. But will you be fine?”
[Is it hard?]
“It’s not too hard, but there are so tricky bits.”
Even though he easily cleared the sa dungeon 100 tis, he tried to scare the other party. Of course, he wasn’t entirely lying. It was because it was Sanghyuk that the clear was so easy. Normally, any user would have a hard ti conquering it alone.
Having put on the bait, Sanghyuk imdiately spoke when the other didn’t reply.
“If you so wish, I can tell you the tricks while running the dungeon around 10 tis. But, it won’t be for free.”
Checking if the opponent was the Dark Knight and dungeon-carrying were separate matters, so he had to receive money.
[Can’t you just do one?]
The buyer put up the ssage after so ti.
‘Confident in your ability? Well, I only need to check if you are the Dark Knight.’
“Okay then.”
Since he had another objective anyway, running the dungeon once didn’t really matter.
‘But is it the real Dark Knight?’ (T/N: Stop, asking, already, urgh.)
Sanghyuk peeked back while registering the buyer in the 77th sewer dungeon. This would all be solved if he entered the dungeon along with the buyer.
Sanghyuk knew of a trait that was more characteristic to the Dark Knight other than the type-talking or the outer appearance, so he just needed to look for that.
***
The Dark Knight was heavily silent to the point that the nickna ‘Silent Tank’ was given. The Dark Knight always put up a ssage when it was absolutely necessary.
Perhaps it could be considered very stifling, but it wasn’t that much so when playing in a party. The reason was…… the easily understandable hand signs as well as the ability to fulfill the role of a tanker at 120% efficiency.
The Dark Knight raised a hand and pointed forward with three fingers. Then rushed forward without any hesitation.
With a huge tower shield enough to cover all of the body, a charge was thrown towards the monsters.
*Clang clang clang*, despite the small figure, a strong power surged forth, and the three monsters at the front were all pushed backward.
Like that, the Dark Knight started beating the monsters to death with the shield.
*Bang bang, crunch! Crunch!*
With the shield, the monsters were literally made into bloody pulp. The Dark Knight definitely wasn’t ordinary.
Sanghyuk nodded his head while watching. He didn’t need to check anymore.
‘Unique hand signs and Shield Charge techniques…… with this, there’s 99% chance of that he’s the Dark Knight.’
All information pointed that the user in front of him was indeed the Dark Knight.
‘I don’t think his level is high, or his equipnt is any good…… but that’s pretty good. Oho, is that shield parry sothing he learned naturally? The rumors I’ve heard definitely aren’t exaggerated.’
Sanghyuk was surprised after looking at the Dark Knight fighting. He had seen many pro gars up close in his life as a director. He also looked at the gaplay of promising amateurs as well.
Since he did, he had the confidence to judge another user better than anyone in EL.
‘He’s using the shield as if it was a part of his body. I don’t think his talent has blossod yet…… but he might beco a better player than the ‘Adamantine Wall’ Qing Yuan or ‘Mr. Perfect’ Ivan.’
Qing Yuan and Ivan were two of the best tankers he knew of. Their performance was quite special even among the highest-ranking people, but from what he saw, the Dark Knight had a potential that surpassed those two.
When Sanghyuk told the Dark Knight the characteristics and walkthrough of the 77th sewer dungeon, the Dark Knight would, in turn, edit the walkthrough to fit the situation.
Just from that, the potential the Dark Knight had as a player could be seen. In the end, the Dark Knight perfectly cleared the 77th sewer quite soon. Considering how Sanghyuk only spoke of the walkthrough and the warnings and did not participate in the actual battle, the Dark Knight practically cleared the dungeon solo.
[Thank you.]
After clearing the dungeon, the Dark Knight gave him the compensation and nodded.
“You’re welco.”
Sanghyuk looked at the Dark Knight after accepting the money.
‘Why did he quit the ga after 2 years? I heard he was a faithful user that always kept his promise and never let allies down……, just what could have happened?’
Even though they just went around a dungeon together once, Sanghyuk liked the Dark Knight quite a lot – the sturdy gaplay style as well as the trendous potential.
Although he had returned in ti and was now trying to beco a ‘main character’ that attracts all attention and not just a side character like the director, Sanghyuk was still very greedy for good players, sothing which he generated when he was a director.
‘I won’t make a loss by knowing him so I’ll leave a connection behind.’
“Can we register as friends?”
[Yes.]
At Sanghyuk’s sudden request, the Dark Knight seed to ponder a little before replying with a nod.
“Nice to et you. I’m called Immortal.”
Sanghyuk put his right hand forward while ntioning his na and the Dark Knight accepted his handshake without a word. ntioning one’s na and offering a handshake was the process of requesting friends. Accepting the handshake was the accepting as a friend.
The Dark Knight, no, ‘Aspice’, was added to Sanghyuk’s empty friends list. Of course, the Dark Knight would also get the na ‘Immortal’ in the empty friends list as well.
“Let’s see each other again when we have the opportunity.”
Although they beca friends, it wasn’t like Sanghyuk had sothing that he wanted from the Dark Knight. He was just purely impressed at the Dark Knight’s performance.
Separating from the Dark Knight, Sanghyuk thought up of sothing and logged out for a mont. Although he logged out of the ga, this didn’t an that he was logged out from the Dream Network.
He searched for a few pieces of information inside his D-room.
‘Byungil shouldn’t have started the ga yet…… so, do I need to just look for Jungwoo and Jungsoo? But I heard these two were complete wimps when they began…….’
The ones Sanghyuk was looking for were those he could call ‘friends’ in his previous life. To be exact, they were the ones who helped him out until the end without betraying him. It was a sad thing that he could only believe 3 people in his long gaplay of EL, but it was fortunate that there were any at all.
Sanghyuk knew that it was a lot more painful when he was betrayed by soone close to him than so complete stranger so he couldn’t make any friends after so ti.
Sanghyuk searched for a while for any traces of Kim Jungwoo and Kim Jungsoo. They were twins. Actually, the two just had an ordinary talent for gaming and beca rankers through sheer effort.
Sanghyuk looked for the two for quite a while, but couldn’t find any traces of them.
‘Well, these two did beco rankers through effort alone, so it would take so ti for them to beco famous.’
He wanted to help them if he could find them, but the problem was that he couldn’t find them. He knew their IDs, but EL allowed multiple of the sa account na, so it was near impossible to find a person through their ID. Moreover, requesting friends was also only possible through eting the opponent and shaking hands while ntioning one’s na, so he could do practically nothing with just an ID.
‘Looks like you two will have to suffer again in this life.’
Sanghyuk wished for the good luck for Jungwoo and Jungsoo who would be suffering in so part of EL before stopping his search.
Instead, he searched about a few guilds and users he rembered. The guilds and users he was looking up right now were not colleagues but targets of revenge.
“So ‘Gold Rush’ is so active even at the beginning. Those f*ckers…… they’re probably threatening little kids in a not well-ventilated basent to work.”
Muttered Sanghyuk after he found traces of Gold Rush in various places.
Gold Rush was the guild the managers of the workshop that made him a cripple after making him work for 5 years, had made. Of course, they were disguised as normal guilds on the outside, but they were actually a trash guild that grew with the insane production ability of the workshop as the foundation.
‘I’ll just be watching since it isn’t ti yet, but I’ll shred you to pieces after you beco fat!’
Crunch, Sanghyuk gritted his teeth and clenched his fist.
After that, Sanghyuk looked up various other powers and users that made him taste the bitter aspects of reality. There were so that turned up, and so that didn’t.
‘Phew, looks like I had a hard life. I was also like so of the wimps in my previous life…….’
Kind, nice, pure – he had no thoughts in wrapping himself to look like that.
He just thought that he was foolish and idiotic.
Actually, that was true. Sanghyuk was always on the losing end because he didn’t know the cruelty of reality. Although he did gain success as a director later, he was betrayed yet again.
‘I will not believe in anyone, anymore. Justice? Friendship? Those have long been disappeared from my head. Now, I will only believe in myself.’
Sanghyuk stood up quietly after closing all the search windows in front of him. He could check that one thing was sure after searching his ties with good people and bad people.
It was that…… he had a lot more debt to receive than to pay.
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