24 Everyone's Problem (1)
--- Third Person's POV ---
*Ding*
[Aincrad update has been launched]
[The system has been reworked]
[Mana Status is now available for players, new skills can be acquired across Aincrad.]
[The second floor is now a safe zone. Moving to the third floor is now possible.]
[However, due to the massive buff the player gets, players will now only be awakened via Aincrad's acknowledgment.]
[Aincrad's layout has now been changed]
[All bosses have been redesigned]
[Difficulty of Aincrad has become "Hell mode"]
The administrators have made their move.
Akihito sat on his bed and gazed at the white screen with those notifications.
"Hell mode, huh? I had a feeling they plagiarised this on something but I can't seem to figure it out..."
[The Monkey King is wondering what you mean]
Akihito knew some changes will be made after his... "Conveniently using a feature of the system" which is actually a bug.
But he didn't expect them to change it this much.
He looks to see pictures of the third and fourth floors which were shown on the screen for a moment of flash...
A terrain of lava, and the other was a castle of ice.
It stated that mobs will be over level 50 and bosses are over level one hundred...
Does that make sense now?
Surely they gave some buff for the players, right?
*Ding*
[The Monarch of Beginning donated you 100 COL]
"...donation? That has never happened before..." Akihito blurted out loudly. It seems like a new feature has been added to the game.
*Ding*
[The Monkey King says it's a feature that was unlocked once the first floor for cleared]
He read those messages thoughtfully.
But right after that, a grin of mischieve took over his face.
"I see... then Veldanava-sama, how many COL can you send me?"
That line gained quite a lot of attention from the other constellations.
[The Forgotten Dragon King frantically asks you what are you doing]
[The Monarch Of The Beginning asks The Forgotten Dragon King about his relationship with ID:BallsDeep69]
[The Goddess of Night demanded an explanation]
[The Monkey King berated him with a hundred questions in the span of seconds]
[The Forgotten Dragon King curses at your actions]
Akihito holds a breath of laughter with a hand as he looks at the messages.
But then...
*Ding*
[The Monarch of the Beginning asked you if you really don't have any interest in having a sponsor?]
Akihito stared at the message before sternly replying: "No."
"And would probably never will."
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With Sung Jin Woo,
After making sure his little sister, Jin Ah was alright, Jin-woo took a breather on his couch, trying to let all information that just happened sink in.
He woke up and saw the world moving once more before taking an umbrella and forcing his little sis to bring it since the news says it was going to rain.
In the end, after all that adventure with a certain admin, his sister, Spider, and a slime: He still needed to make money.
So he looks at his normal phone and signed in a raid.
"Isn't that bag heavy? Will you be fine?"
"Yes, I can carry it."
He ended up being a porter as his rank is still officially an E. He met a party without a healer and an overly rich guy named Yoo JinHo.
It was strange. Why did the team have no healer? Even in high-ranked parties, there will always be one healer. Despite that, there are more tanks than they can wonder.
But soon he realized, they were a Lizard. The term for hunters who abuse their powers to commit crimes inside dungeons.
As the things that happen inside dungeons never go public and there are no security cameras around to record crimes if they happen, it's very easy to commit murder or robbery and get away with it, as there's no feasible way to obtain the evidence to prove that they actually happened.
For him to be dragged into this unsatisfactory situation, who exactly is to blame?
But it's nothing exactly he can't handle. After being trapped in the boss room by those lizards, he can't help but defeated the boss.
A giant spider boss, he had met a rather cute one before, a white spider with the goodness of social anxiety. But this one is nothing like her, so he doesn't have any problem dealing with the boss.
"JinHo, stay there... That's mine."
"H-hyung!? What are you trying to do!?"
"Kill it."
And the solo hunter kills it with actual ease. Compared to the first day he got the system, the Orc Disaster, and sparing with Akihito, it was nothing for him.
After a few minutes...
*Alarm*
[NAME: Sung JinWoo]
LEVEL: 50
FATIGUE: O
JOB: NONE
TITLE: Wolf Slayer, Orc Slaughterer
HP: 5600/5600
EP: 4000/4000
VITALITY: 35
STRENGTH: 70
INTELLIGENCE: 100
AGILITY: 80
SENSE. 60
REMAINING POINTS: 3
--Skills--
PASSIVE]
Unknown Lv. Max
Muscularity Lv. 6
Multilingual Lv. 3
Universal Affinity Lv. 1
Self-Regeneration Lv. 1
[ACTIVE]
Sprint Lv. 2
Haki Lv. 1
Composite: Meteor Break Lv. 1
One-handed Sword: Horizontal Arc Lv. 2
With the power of Compendium, Jin Woo had it very easy after buying copies of the skills of a certain admin.
And so, this much was nothing to him.
*BOOM*
As well, as killing a few lizards.
"Oh? Did they survive? I suppose that equipment was enough to kill the boss" A guy from the lizard party thinks Yoo JinHoo was the one responsible for the huge spider carcass in the middle of the boss room.
Of course, things escalated quickly. They were wrong, in a world where dungeons exist and everything turned up a bit like a game, ranks are the only thing humans would ever think about.
But they've forgotten even in video games, competitive ranks were never accurate in the first place.
And it leads to their demise.
[Emergency quest: Kill the enemies!]
"If you guys are hunters, I'm saying you should be ready to become hunted"
Thus, by the command of the system, JinWoo prepares for the haunt.
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To be continued.
