1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 6 Episode 16

16. New Sky (1)

Decades ago, at Sado Peak in front of Handong Village, a boy with his face covered and a middle-aged man were climbing with a large load on his back.

Their outfits were not that different from ordinary people, but the fact that they were people of high rank was secretly shown due to the material of their clothes.

“I wonder if it would be right for you to go back, too.”

“Hahaha, come all the way here?

"...Sunwoo-sama, I'm still here, so I can go back. If your Majesty finds out, at that moment, I may not be able to be with you any longer."

The boy who was walking before the man's words stopped and took off the mask that covered his face and smiled brightly at him.

"I asked General Cho for help so as not to be found out. Thanks to that, you know that Abamama is a regular training trip. As long as General Cho is quiet, there will be no problem."

"......ha."

At his words, Jo Yeon let out a small sigh.

If he had been able to convince him with words, he would have stopped him before he got here.

"But they are too dangerous. Seon-woo has not yet achieved perfection. If they have bad thoughts..."

"General Joe."

A slightly sad smile was painted on his face after he stopped talking to Jo Yeon.

"They are people just like us. They're just ordinary people everywhere, with unique abilities that are passed down through blood. So it's never dangerous. Rather, they're people who might help our country in the future. So on our side, they wear sunglasses. You shouldn't be looking at it."

"......"

"I know what General Joe is worried about, but I guarantee that it won't happen."

"......Yes, I understand."

At his words, Jo Jo Yeon smiled a little softly.

His words made sense.

The conflict between them and people is already in the distant past, and since there are no records of them since then, many things may have changed in the meantime.

'Like the words of the Crown Prince, if they use their power well, it will be of great help to the country.'

Jo Jo-yeon thought so and followed him without any questioning.

However, Jo Yeon should have stopped at that time, and will regret that decision in the future.

I couldn't even imagine at the time that these things would become an excuse to lose him.

* * *

"Yes? This dress? I just got it."

"From whom did you get it?"

"that is......."

Hoya bit Jo Yeon's mouth while trying to answer her question.

What the Grim people experienced in the past was in their homeland, the eastern continent.

So, he didn't know how Jo Jo-yeon, a native of the eastern continent, would react to them, and his eyes were very burning, so Hoya stopped answering.

"I'll ask again. Who did you get it from?""......"

Jo Jo-yeon had seen the same clothes as Hoya once before.

At a glance, there is nothing special about the clothes, but the width of the sleeves and the shape of the stitching were different from ordinary clothes.

'These clothes are of the Grim tribe.'

Hoya said he was given these clothes.

That said, there was a high probability that the original owner of the clothes was the Grim tribe or someone close to them.

If so... then you probably know the news about him.

Jo-yeon thought so, and that's why her emotions were a little more intense than usual.

"Answer me!"

As Hoya continued to keep his mouth shut, Jo Yeon approached Hoya to brush up on him, looked at him who was sitting with his knees bent, and placed his hands on his shoulders.

And then, Hoya's figure suddenly disappeared.

He ran out of time and was forced to log out.

It was a very embarrassing moment for Jo Yeon.

* * *

"I'm sorry I couldn't be of any help."

As soon as Hoya reconnected the next day, Miho, who was waiting next to the hearthstone that Hoya had set up with Badu, spoke out.

She didn't know the details of what Hoya had done yet, but she had a rough idea by asking Jo Yeon the story last night.

He was troubled by not being able to help when he really should.

"It's okay, you don't have to be sorry."

After reading Miho's melancholy, Hoya gently stroked her hair.

"It was my choice to leave you. I have no regrets."

"Wow, King."

"...thank you both."

Miho readily accepted Hoya and Badu's consideration.

And then, a system message was issued to Hoya.

[You have cleared the quest 'Captive Court Ladies'.]

[Experience increases.]

[The likeability of 23 court ladies including 'Hyangdan' increases.]

[The total number of rescued court ladies is 24, and you will get 48 remaining points.]

'thank God.'

After Hoya disappeared to the hearthstone with Badu, it seems that the court ladies were properly protected as Hoya thought.

If it weren't for them, it was only natural if no one knew the full story of the incident on the surface.

And she was able to earn a lot of residual points thanks to that.

Hoya checked his status.

name: hoya

Occupation: Villager of Ordo

Level: 308

HP: 14,520/14,520 MP: 14,660/14,660

Strength: 598 (+538) Agility: 601 (+538)

Stamina: 606 (+538) Power: 619 (+539)

Holy: 969 (+48) Affinity: 11

Remaining points: 68

Attribute: ice

As a result of this incident, Hoya has risen to two levels in total.

The experience gained by hunting Kwon Il-woo was combined with the previous experience, and the level increased by 1, and at the same time, the level increased by 1 again due to the completed quest.

Despite the level of 300, it was a remarkable level up speed.

As a result, the ranking settled in 3rd place, and now with Doban

There was only a mourning book left.

However, they are both at levels 312 and 311, respectively, so they are still a bit far away.

Still, Hoya thought it was not a place he could not reach.

'Um..., no matter how hard I try, I won't be able to take first place before I go there. It's just two weeks after the wedding.'

It's not impossible if you can continue to level up like now, but that was a very convenient story.

Hoya thought so, checked his status and invested all his stats into his divine power.

Hoya is not a paladin and priest, so his divine power itself is a stat that is applied only when dealing with dark attributes and undead and when using holy magic.

However, now that all stats have risen by 2 per 4 divine power, it is more efficient to invest all stats in divine power.

Maybe he should have done that from the moment divine magic became intermediate.

'No, it should have been like that from the beginning.'

No wonder he did not know that the title effect of the legendary heir of light would grow this much, so he continued to overlook the fact.

After distributing the stats, Hoya confirmed the effect of the title, another reward received by completing the Emperor's quest.

[Swordsman]

A person who corrected the way of the Kwon Dynasty by hunting a vampire who wanted the safety of his life by overturning the emperor's skin.

Your achievements may not be known from the outside, but those who know your achievements will show great affection and trust in you.

Title Effect: You can ask the Emperor of Kwon for anything once only, and this is limited to the realm of the Emperor's reach. (0/1)

When hunting monsters in the eastern continent, you will acquire 20% additional experience and will not receive a preemptive attack.

"Please..."

Being able to ask the emperor was a pretty huge reward, but Hoya couldn't think of anything to ask of him.

In the first place, he hadn't received any compensation from Geoffrino yet.

Moan's magic ceremony was also on the verge of becoming an advanced level through Kwon Il-woo's hunting.

Maybe in the next one or two days or so, he will rise to the upper ranks.

It was a quest that had many things to gain.'The durability of the weapon is... If you don't repair it now, it will break.'

Even though the durability of weapons and armor had been severely reduced.

If you hand over it without repairing it now, the weapon will break in the next hunt.

With that in mind, when Hoya was about to go to Ordo using Return to Village, the Black Dragon Army returned to the garrison, and Jo Jo-yeon immediately sensed Hoya's presence and came to his room.

Jo-yeon, who opened the door and saw Hoya, first apologized to him.

"I'm sorry. Please don't forget what happened last night."

That wasn't the first thing to ask Hoya, who returned, but he unwittingly focused his mind on it.

He was the only hint about him, but he shouldn't have reacted like that.

So Jo Jo Yeon tried to put the question he had asked as something he never had.

The thought of being afraid to get answers to the questions he had posed also tucked in a small corner in the corner.

"Yes Yes......."

"Thank you. Well, first of all, I want to check what happened last night."

Hoya told Jo Yeon about what happened last night.

In order to assassinate Kwon Il-woo, he broke into the bedroom in advance, and found Gong and the imprisoned court ladies under the bedroom, and that Kwon Il-woo was a vampire.

So he told him everything, even that it became a hunt, not an assassination.

"Um, that's consistent with the testimony of the court ladies. It must have been a real monster..."

At first, he was skeptical when he heard the story through the court ladies, but the same words came out of Hoya's mouth, so it would not be a lie.

And in the future, there will be evidence to support that statement one by one.

It wasn't until then that I was going to post the story to Kwon Hyeon-woo, but since Hoya's mouth came out, I thought it would be ok to send Choi Do and talk to Kwon Hyeon-woo first.

Hoya asked a question to Jo Yeon, who thought so.

“What will happen to the court ladies over there?”

"They are under the protection of Kim Cheong-do officials. Based on their stories and circumstances, the reason why they were released is being speculated to be false. If the truth is revealed, they will probably work in the palace again."

It is said that Kim Cheong-do is not afraid of the treatment they are receiving now because he used his strength.

It was fortunate.

After hearing the story from Jo Yeon, Hoya was relieved, thanked him, and returned to Ordo to repair the weapon and headed to Dantals's house.

And he was able to spot an unexpected guest who had arrived there first.

"Concenu?"

"It's been a while, Hoya."

Consannu came to Dantals first.

Judging by the large glass in front of Consonu, Dantals, and Vandal, it looked like they were in the middle of a conversation.

Seeing this, Hoya went outside for a while so as not to disturb Seth, and Dantals caught him.

"No, no. Don't go out. At least, if you're going out, take Concenu with you. He's been waiting for you, Hoya. He's been at my house for days."

"Me?"

"Yeah, that... there's something I'd like to ask you."

As Conservator Nougat was speaking her words with a slight hesitance as usual, Miho stuck out his head from behind Hoya's legs.

"Oh, weren't you that kid back then?"

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