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Chapter 8: Hero Killer (2)
4.
The era of the Mystic Gate was a ti of opportunity for adventurers.
Conversely, it was a ti of chaos for those who were not adventurers.
Those who could not open the Circle could no longer survive in the old way.
The rchants were among them.
It was no longer possible to make money in the old way.
‘You can’t make a big fortune with common sense.’
Ebisu knew that too.
That’s why.
‘1 million sos.’
When El Pau asked to borrow that huge sum of money, Ebisu couldn’t help but let out a furious roar.
Of course, it didn’t an he was convinced.
‘This guy is crazy.’
El Pau’s request was so absurd that even a madman would curse, it was that ridiculous.
‘That’s why it’s valuable.’
Ebisu was drawn to him because he was such a madman.
Adventurers have always been like this.
‘Those adventurers who are good at using calculators can’t be asked to do anything difficult.’
The first adventurer said.
He said that the greatest romance of an adventurer is to explore the unknown.
However, there were very few adventurers who actually pursued that romance.
Most of them preferred to explore the known rather than the unknown.
They chose safety over recklessness.
And that was the norm.
After all, wealth and fa, those sweet things, can only be tasted if you are alive, right?
In particular, the Mystic Gate has enhanced the calculation skills of adventurers.
The fact that the difficulty can be estimated using the gate color, the number of entry restrictions, and the number of wounds.
In many ways, it has beco easier for adventurers to risk their lives, and so it has beco natural for them to risk their lives.
‘But there are so crazy guys.’
Of course, there were still so adventurers who acted like adventurers.
‘They either died or went up to the top.’
However, they were not in Ebisu’s hands.
That was one of the reasons why Ebisu was attracted to El Pau.
‘There is no madman in my hands who can venture into the Red Rank.’
The Mystic Gate is divided into grades according to the color of the gate.
And the number of circles that can be entered is determined according to that grade.
In the case of a Red Rank Mystic Gate, adventurers with more than 3 circles cannot enter at all.
Is there a madman who can enter the Red Rank Mystic Gate in such a situation?
It’s quite an attractive card.
‘He did get to 2 circles, but that’s thanks to luck. I don’t know what abilities he has yet. Above all, circle up and hunting ability are separate. There are many people who only have high circles but can’t hunt.’
Of course, El Pau’s ability has not yet been properly verified.
‘1 million sos.’
So Ebisu hesitated and soon made a decision.
5.
“It’s 1 million sos.”
With those words, a check appeared in front of El Pau. It was a check for a huge sum of money that El Pau had never seen before in his life.
A contract was placed next to the check. It wasn’t the first ti he had seen it. He had seen it once before.
“It’s a debt contract.”
Before returning to the past, El Pau saw the exact sa contract at the Gafor’s Top.
And he had signed that contract, and that mont was still vividly in his mind, even in his long mory.
“Let explain…….”
Every word of the long story that the Gafor’s Top employee had told him with this contract in front of him was clear.
That was why.
“No need.”
“Yes?”
The mont El Pau confird that the contract was exactly the sa as the one he had seen before, he signed it without hesitation.
After picking up the check, El Pau walked out of the Gafor’s Top building.
‘Ebisu, you bet on .’
For now, El Pau thanked Ebisu at this mont.
‘Barely.’
El Pau himself also knew very well how absurd his words were.
It was sothing he would never have said if he didn’t know Ebisu’s situation.
In other words, El Pau knew that Ebisu now needed a madman like him, even if he was only 2 circles or lower.
‘Because the 100-man gate has appeared.’
The 100-man gate, as the na suggests, was a Mystic Gate with a capacity of 100 people.
A Mystic Gate with 100 people entering was not uncommon. Rather, there were Mystic Gates that boasted a capacity of over 1,000 people.
‘100 is the maximum for the Red Rank.’
However, there had never been a Mystic Gate where more than 100 people could enter in the Red Rank.
In addition, the number of people who can enter the Mystic Gate signifies the difficulty of the Mystic Gate.
The more people who can enter, the more difficult it is inside the Mystic Gate.
In other words, the 100-man gate ant the most difficult difficulty among the Red Rank Mystic Gates that could appear.
‘The higher the risk, the greater the reward.’
And it was worth that much.
That’s why the 100-man gate was the top priority of all guilds.
The problem was that only 2-circle or lower adventurers could enter the Red Rank Mystic Gate.
Even though they would like to include 5-circle adventurers, they couldn’t.
It was also not easy for a single guild to clear it on their own.
It ant that they could lose the best prospect in the guild if they made a mistake.
That was not all.
‘There are many people who want it that much.’
What if the competition cos in when it’s not easy to just go on an adventure?
It’s a headache in many ways.
That’s why the 10 guilds in Liss Harbor agreed.
‘We have to break it together after all.’
They agreed that no one would monopolize the 100-man gate and that the 10 guilds would join forces to attack it.
Of course, there were cases where it was hidden, but in that case, no one recognized the ownership.
Anyway, now that the 100-man gate had appeared, the 10 guilds were in the process of forming the best mbers they could field.
Gafor’s Top was naturally also forming a team.
‘The Ibob Party will be entering from Gafor’s Top.’
And El Pau knew very well who had entered from Gafor’s Top.
It wasn’t because he had a good mory.
Although the 100-man gate raid was a big event in the world of adventurers, it wasn’t even that big in El Pau’s life, which was full of huge events.
The reason why the gate raid remained in El Pau’s mind was simple.
‘Anyway, they all died anyway.’
It was because the gate raid was a historic disaster.
‘Even after that.’
They had tried to raid it three tis, but they had failed.
That’s why he rembered it.
Of course, his mory only went so far.
He had no mory of what happened to the Mystic Gate after that.
He wasn’t interested at the ti.
But now it was different.
‘Whatever happens, I’m going to raid it this ti.’
El Pau was determined to raid it.
And El Pau was confident that he could clear it.
El Pau was now a 2nd Circle, and he could use both telekinesis and fire arrow magic.
This alone allowed him to exert the power of a hundred n, or even more.
Crucially, he had the experience of the Last Adventurer, who had hunted more monsters than anyone else.
‘More surely.’
That said, El Pau was not complacent at this mont.
He couldn’t be.
If he were to die for so reason, the world would face an even more miserable destruction.
‘I don’t know the purpose of the one who sent to the past. But he wouldn’t have wanted to die a horrible death.’
It was a ti when the best possible preparation was needed.
That’s why he borrowed 1 million sos.
Of course, it was not money he borrowed to pay for his own life.
That would have been pointless in the first place.
Borrowing money from Gafor’s Top to pay off a debt to Gafor’s Top? That’s a ridiculous joke.
It wasn’t that he was trying to buy items either.
The fire arrow and telekinesis skills that El Pau currently possessed were classified as ordinary Rare-grade skills, but even Epic-grade items, which were the next grade up, were worth about 1 million sos.
The Unique-grade items that El Pau wanted, items that were the only ones in Maple World, were impossible to purchase with sos in the first place.
1 million sos was a lot of money to begin with.
It was an unimaginable amount of money for ordinary people, but it was not that much money by the standards of adventurers or guilds.
After all, wasn’t it 1 million sos that was spent to buy El Pau as a slave?
To be precise, it wasn’t money, but it was the Black Plague cure that was priced at that level, but in any case, that was all that could be bought with 1 million sos.
‘All you can buy with this money is a slave.’
El Pau knew that too.
That’s why he borrowed it.
‘Then I should buy a slave.’
6.
The status of a slave did not exist in Maple World.
But everyone knew.
“Humans are slaves to sos.”
That everyone is a slave to money.
Adventurers were no different.
No matter how they packaged it, they were just people who risked their lives for adventure because of money.
Of course, a small number of people did whatever adventure they wanted without being bound by sos, but they were literally a small number.
The slave market was thriving for these reasons.
“Welco to the Human Resources Market.”
It was disguised as a very plausible and cool packaging called the Human Resources Market.
“You are an adventurer.”
Moreover, adventurers often visited such human resources markets.
“Do you have a preferred type? Are you looking for bait?”
The most commonly sought after are bait slaves.
However, not everyone was looking for bait slaves. In fact, only the Gafor’s Top handled bait slaves.
On the contrary, most of those who were traded in the slave market were people who had not been able to open their circles, but had various abilities.
“I’m looking for a warrior.”
So of them were good at fighting with weapons.
“How much are you looking at?”
The price of those who were quite good among them was quite high.
At least in the Red Rank, even those who couldn’t use skills were a force to be reckoned with.
“I’m looking for Dibo.”
Of course, what El Pau was looking for was not a very good level.
“Dibor?”
The expression of the Liss Harbor Human Resources Market employee hardened at El Pau’s request.
It wasn’t hardened in a good way.
It was a hardened expression of worry and concern.
That expression was enough.
“Do you know who that guy is?”
What kind of person is Dibo, the one El Pau is looking for.
“I know.”
Of course, El Pau knew very well who he was looking for. If not, he wouldn’t have co here in person.
But the employee was different.
He didn’t believe it.
“You an you know him and you’re still here? You’re going to hire that crazy dog?”
He thought that if El Pau really knew him, he wouldn’t hire Dibo.
El Pau nodded at the employee’s expression.
“Yes, I’m going to hire that crazy dog, Dibo.”
He knows him well.
‘Dibo. We et again this ti.’
No, he couldn’t forget.
‘The hero killer who killed Aran, the Polearm Hero.’
Dibo, the na El Pau knew him by, was sothing he could never forget.
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