1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 5 Episode 17

17. At the end of the tunnel (1)

"Do you like May?"

Isn't there a story that boys intentionally bully girls they're interested in to get them interested in them?

Hoya wondered if Ivern was the same.

"What, what? Oh, no! Even if it's true, I have no reason to answer you!"

Ivern screamed and slapped Hoya in the side with his fist a few times, then ran away and ran away.

I shouldn't be laughing, but Ivern's youthful and cute appearance made me smile a little.

'Oh, this is not the time to be like this.'

I don't know how it is usually, but Hoya thought that maybe Ivern's grumpy behavior today was her own.

Perhaps his existence was a threat to his love.

"I'll go after Ai Byrne. Chibin goes after her May."

"OK got it."

"Can I be with you guys?"

"We're not that young! I'm bright too, so there's no problem."

"Yeah, I'm really sorry."

"Brother, wait a minute."

When Hoya was about to go find Ivern, Matthews called him in.

"Ivern will probably be here."

"Here?"

"That's Ivern's secret base there. It's probably the only place you'll go alone."

"Yeah, thanks for letting me know."

Hoya, who was given a rough map drawn in pencil by Mathius, headed to the place marked with a star on the map.

The map itself was crooked, but it wasn't difficult to find because all the necessary signs were there.

When I went to the place marked with a star, I saw Ivern crouching, crying and giggling under the tent on one side of the empty vacant lot inside the alley.

Hoya walked over to him and slumped to the floor.

"What, what! How did you know you were here!"

"Mathius told me."

"That guy...!"

Ai Byrne, slightly annoyed, immediately bit his mouth.

Hoya was the first to open her mouth in the long silence.

"If you keep doing that, May will hate you."

"...I know."

"Does she want May to hate you?"

"It's not like that!"

"Then why did she do that?"

"......"

Ivern blushed instead of answering.

That alone was enough of an answer.

"Is it because you wanted May's attention? You know. Her brother's friend did the same thing in the past."

"...How's that friend? Have you dated the person you like...?"

“No, before I even confessed, I was just being hated.”Hearing Hoya's words, this time made a face as if he had lost the whole world.

"But Ivern, you may not be hated yet."

"...but I only know that way. What should I do?"

"First of all, don't be grumpy like you used to. And even if you don't be grumpy, you just have to be a nice person that Mei can be interested in."

"hummer......."

Ivern put her head in her lap and pondered.

"You don't have to try to get May's attention right now. You just have to do it little by little."

"...Yeah, I'll give it a try."

After being quiet for a while, Ai Byrne, determined to stay, nodded his head and looked at Hoya awkwardly.

Then he spoke so softly that he couldn't hear it.

"That... I'm sorry for being annoyed earlier."

"Huh? What did you say?"

"Oh, it's nothing! I don't say it twice! You're still my enemy!"

Ivern ran away again, but this time it seemed he wouldn't have to chase after him.

And this boy will later occupy the vacant seat of the Four Heavenly Kings and become a bridge between the demon realm and the human realm.

A future that no one can predict yet.

* * *

A day later, a message from Luna that all members of the Royal Knights had cleared Area 7 arrived, and Hoya left the demon realm.

Just before leaving the Demon Realm, Mayglyn and Ivern managed to reconcile, so I was able to come out with a light heart.

The two of them were still at odds with each other, but that was something Ivern had to narrow down slowly.

"Do you think something good happened in between? Your mouth is about to rip?"

"It's a private matter, so it's a secret."

Hoya lightly overturned Luna's words and moved on.

[Enter the dungeon 'Underground Tunnel - Area 8'.]

They entered the dungeon and confirmed that the clear condition was 'hunting all monsters in the dungeon'.

"It seems that only Area 7 was different. Why was that only different?"

"Isn't it a role like a sieve? It's something like filtering out the kids who cleared on the bus."

"Shh."

Hoya sent a signal to the Royal Knights, who had been talking in a low voice in the darkness that had not yet been lit with lights and torches, to be quiet.

After confirming that everyone was quiet, Hoya summoned Badu and Hieros.

"No...! Ugh!"

Hoya, who blocked Hieros's mouth with his hand, asked Hieros to give him the same buff as before.

After confirming that the buff went to everyone, Hoya explained the situation through a party chat.

[Party Chat Hoya: There are vampires all over the place right now.]

[Party Chat Bane: ...what is the approximate number?]

Hoya looked around again.

There were red and blue dots all over the wall, like stars in the night sky.

It was impossible to guess the number.

The good news is that the dots are still not moving, so the vampires either haven't noticed them yet, or they appear to be asleep.

Hoya he now described the situation he was seeing himself.

[Party Chat Luna: Then blow it out loud from the beginning? I think it would be unreasonable to cut it a little bit.]

[Party Chat Gangnam Fire Fist: What if I run out of skills behind the scenes?]

[Party Chat Luna: If you want to see the back, you have to solve it now. And maybe all the vampires here are.]

In the end, it became something that did not spare the skill.

In the future, you will have to wait for skills with short cooldowns to return to a usable state before moving.

"sanctuary."

When Hoya used her skill, a large shiny circular scaffold was created.

A large circle of light spread throughout the square, illuminating the field of vision without any lights.

Looking around, I saw vampires lying with their eyes closed in a coffin that had been erected as if it had been nailed to the wall.

At first glance, the number is over one hundred.

"Haha, crazy..."

When Gangnam Firefist burst into laughter, the vampires, who were awakened by the light of the sanctuary, stared at them in the center of the square with eyes full of annoyance.

"What rats have crawled in."

"Where are you putting things like that here?"

The vampires who woke up first came out of their coffins and landed on the ground.

And they could feel the constant pain.

"Aww-! What is this...!"

The vampire attribute is darkness, and the continuous damage of the sanctuary has already been confirmed in the previous areas.

The Royal Knights and Hoya attacked the vampires who were unable to act properly due to damage.

It took about 3 hours to hunt vampires without rest, and when all the vampires around them disappeared, they floundered on the floor.

As if they wanted to, the message that the vampires in the square had met the clear conditions came to mind, but it was a little difficult to leave the dungeon right away.

And finally, Badu reached level 50.

The higher the level of Badu, the more difficult it was to raise the level.

He was already boasting better stats than the rankers, though.

Hoya thought that if he was vigilant, he would overtake himself.

[Pet 'Badu' has reached level 50.]

[Badu begins to realize his power.]

[The skill 'Giantization' of the pet 'Badu' changes to 'Increase/Decrease'.]

[Pet 'Badu' acquires skill 'Escape'.]

[The quest 'Big Steps to Increase Strength - First' has occurred.]

[The quest 'A big step to increase strength - the second' has occurred.]

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'Huh? Have you changed your skills?'

There were many system messages due to Badu's level up, but the first thing that caught his eye was that the skill had changed.

Hoya opened the status of Badu to check the new skills as well as the changed skills, and there, he was able to find the changed skills, not the skills.

Name: Badu

Race: Fenrir

Level: 50

HP: 13,750/13,750 MP: 14,250/14,250

Strength: 785 Agility: 835

Stamina: 785 Horsepower: 835

Attribute: fire

skill

[Fireball] [Instinct] [Increase/Decrease] [Blaze Step] [Escape]

Loyalty: 100%

Status: You are feeling a change in yourself. I'm slowly taking steps to get stronger.

[increase]You can adjust the size of your body.

As you grow, you can change smaller and larger.

[Breakaway]

Separated from the player who is the owner, individual actions are possible.

The experience you gain while leaving is not shared with the player and is completely absorbed by you.

Movement is possible while the player is logged out.

The tribe of Badu, which was a question mark, had changed to Fenrir.

Fenrir, a large wolf that is a child of the gods but only has strong power, that is the Fenrir that Hoya thinks of.

"Wow!"

"Woohoo!"

As Hoya was concentrating on Badu's status, something small tuft of fur ran into his face.

Then, in a very natural motion, it climbed up Hoya's face and settled over his head.

Hoya grabbed the bundle of hair and brought it to his face, so he could tell that it was Badu.

"...why did you get smaller again?"

"Ahhh!"

Hoya, who was struggling with the nape of his neck, placed Badu on top of his head and checked Badu's status again, and could figure out the cause.

The reason was the increase/decrease, a skill that was created as a result of the change in gigantism.

Skills that could only grow in size could now be reduced.

"Now that you've rested enough, get up."

"Ah-, not three minutes, one more minute!"

At that time, at Bane's words to Gangnam Firefist, Hoya and the Royal Knights had to leave the dungeon.

When they left the dungeon, an unexpected landscape unfolded before their eyes.

I was expecting to be standing in the dark in front of the earthen wall, but I saw a small light coming from a hole in the distance.

"light......?"

A thought ran through their minds.

The idea is that Sector 8 is the last of the underground tunnels and that light is the exit.

"Let's go!"

"Oh, let's go!"

The rest of the Royal Knights and Hoya followed behind Gangnam Fire Fist running away.

As I came out of the hole, what opened in front of me was a forest.

An ordinary forest, not a dark forest, spread out in front of me.

"Oh! Oh!"

“Oh my God, was it a tunnel that led to another place?”

"Where is the forest here?"

The Royal Knights, who arrived at the hole first, were making a fuss like a child, and Hoya followed them out of the hole belatedly.

Then the same system message was issued to them.

[Great achievement!]

[You are the first player to enter the East Continent.]

[Acquire the title 'East Continent Pioneer'.]

[Do you want all players to know about the discovery of the Eastern Continent? Yes No]

The right to select the last system message belonged to Gangnam Fire Fist, who came out first.

He chose 'yes' without any hesitation.

And through a system message, the discovery of the eastern continent was announced to all players.

with their nicknames.

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