1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 3

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 1 Episode 3

3. Unintentional Bus

‘uh? Were there any trees there?’

There was a large tree that seemed to have grown for several decades in a space where there would have been only grass until recently.

It wasn’t the only one.

As if surrounding Hoya and the man, an unseen tree appeared.

Hoya instinctively felt a chill, and it felt like a cold sweat was running down his back.

blatantly.

Suddenly, there was a sound as if the wood were splitting.

The trunks of the trees that stood around Hoya and the man split apart, creating faces that look like Halloween pumpkins.

Immediately afterwards, the trees opened their eyes, and at the same time their branches were whipped down like a whip.

Bang- quaang!

There was a sound as if a bomb had been falling, and dust rose from the sand.

When the sand and dust cleared, the place was so dented that it was impossible to find the shape of the previous one.

It was the spot where Hoya had been standing before.

“Huh…!”

Just before the branch hit Hoya, a man covered in leaves pulled Hoya towards him.

Thanks to that, Hoya was able to avoid becoming like a hollow floor.

And at the same time, I was able to accurately grasp the current situation.

This man saved himself.

And he was still trying to save him.

“Goo, thank you for saving me……”

“Thanks later and wrap his head around him and stay here.”

Hoya spoke in a low voice, as if crawling, but the man understood it correctly and instructed him to remain still.

The man approached the nearest moving tree, the ent in the polluted forest.

The man muttered a little and made fun of the sword, then swung the sword at the ent in the tainted forest.

And Hoya was able to check the information on the trees to see if the attack of the ent in the polluted forest towards Hoya was recognized as a battle decision.

[Ent of the Contaminated Forest]

Level: 736

[Ent of the Contaminated Forest]

Level: 734

[Ent of the Contaminated Forest]

Level: 737

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“……”

Hoya swallowed his breath without making a sound after checking the monster’s information.

Even if the level of the monsters was high, it was too high.

It had been a little over two months since Initium opened.

He knew that the level of the rankers, who were leading the players, barely exceeded 200.

However, a monster with a level that could easily exceed 3 times or nearly 4 times appeared in front of Hoya.

And what on earth is that person who is moving leisurely while dealing with dozens of such monsters at the same time?

Hoya had a headache.

“Ugh……”

But one thing was recognizable.

If you get hit by the whip of that thin, thin branch even once, you will die.

That much was definitely recognizable.

“What, where are you hurt? Why are you moaning? I’m sure they won’t attack, but I stopped them all……”

While Hoya was resting for a moment in a situation that was too difficult to follow, the man took out all the entrants in the polluted forest.

After that, he returned to Hoya’s side.

On his right waist was a bunch of tree branches.

At his words, Hoya could barely hold onto the cord of his mind.

Suddenly, in the corner of my field of vision, I saw system messages waiting to be confirmed, flickering.

And Hoya, who checked the system message, put his mind at ease again.

[You have killed the Ent in the Contaminated Forest.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.]

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[You have killed the Ent in the Contaminated Forest.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.][Acquired the title ‘Striking a rock with an egg’][You have killed the Ent in the Contaminated Forest.]

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Hoya felt as if his head was hurting worse than before.

* * *

“Captain! Team leader! Just…!”

“I know! Quickly check with Eve and think of a response!”

“Chief! Just before…!”

“Oh, really! Stop posting the same thing and check it quickly! And the management team goes to your team leaders!”

Neo Wars, the developer and operator of VR MMORPG Initium.

Among them, the operation team and the user management team had an emergency.

This is because players who raised their level exponentially in a short period of time appeared.

The operations team was busy checking for bugs.

And the user management team was working hard to convince Eve to check the information of the user who caused this situation.

Users’ information was information that should never be leaked.

Therefore, Eve, an AI, was in charge of all user information management.

Therefore, in order to check or monitor users’ information, the only way was to persuade Eve to obtain the user’s information.

“Captain! I got user information from Eve!”

“Really?! What’s wrong with Eve!”

Eve is basically very cooperative with the management team.

However, Eve was very stubborn and did not open her mouth easily when it came to modifying information in the game, not user information or abnormalities.

So, I left one employee to organize the data to persuade Eve over several hours, and just in case, I sent another employee to Eve to appeal even emotionally without any preparation.

I wasn’t expecting much, but what is this?

Eve immediately put out the user’s information, although limited.

“So, what is the user who caused this situation?”

“The user name is Hoya and the real name was not given. The character creation date is today at 2:39:27 PM.”

“Who’s curious about the character creation date?!　How did you level up more than 100 at once…! What? 2 o’clock?”

“Yeah… It’s exactly 2:39:27…”

“Crazy…! Then you created a character and leveled up over 100 in an hour?! That makes sense!”

A while ago, the reason that NeoWords’ operation team and user management team were put into a state of emergency was because one user was listed in the rankings.

It is not strange that the name of the 4,900 units at the bottom of the ranking where only the top 5,000 users in the world can be listed is changed.

It was a position where it was easy to withdraw from the rankings if the tension was lost even for a moment.

And if you aim for that gap, it was also an easy place to put your name on.

Even if you are at the top of the rankings, you will withdraw from the ranking if you are vigilant, but the top rankers do have their names in the rankings.

The lowest rank is a bloody position where your name will go down from the ranking list if you are careless.

And now the name of a user in the rankings has become a big problem.

Ordinary users could only check the list up to the top 5,000.

However, only for the operation team and user management team, they can check the ranking up to the top 10,000.

However, a user named Hoya was a name that had never been recorded in the top 10,000.

So it was an emergency.

And the emergency took exactly 3:43:42.

“Bur, it’s a bug! This is definitely a bug!”

“That’s… Eve says it’s the result of a normal system, not a bug.”

“Tell me not to lie!”

“It’s not a lie, this leader.”

As team leader Seok-Hoon Lee clasped his head and moaned, Yoo Dae-hoo, the team leader, appeared.

“I checked the system myself, squeezing my teammates down to the last drop… …there were no bugs.”

“Uh… the head…”

My head hurts so much that I want to quit and avoid this job right now.

Fortunately, the user’s name, Hoya, was posted at 4,996th place.

Ordinary users will just think that the ranking has changed as usual.

And the nickname Hoya was removed from the rankings in less than an hour.

It was a ranking entry for a short time.

Therefore, people did not realize that there was no job mark next to the nickname Hoya, and the nickname Hoya was forgotten in the minds of users.

Except for one head.

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Hoya was walking through the forest while being dragged by a man by his wrist.

Meanwhile, Hoya checked his status.No matter how much of a mental shock it was in the game, he did not react at all to the fact that the person he had never met for the first time was dragging him along.

name: hoya

Occupation: None

Level: 116

HP: 1,260/1,260 MP: 1,260/1,260

Strength: 10 Agility: 10

Stamina: 10 Horsepower: 10

Remaining points: 660

style

[Striking a rock with an egg]

skill

The level went over 100 within an hour of starting the game.

Only the Ents in the Contaminated Forest who attacked Hoya were judged to be fighting Hoya.

Maybe that’s why, in the process of the man killing the Ents in the polluted forest, experience points also flowed into Hoya.

It was a total of 19 polluted forest ents who attacked Hoya.

Dozens of monsters with level 700 or higher suffered an experience reduction penalty due to the level difference with the monsters.

And again, I was given a penalty for reducing the experience value due to the contribution in the unorganized state.

Furthermore, the level of Hoya was raised by more than 100, despite the fact that once again the experience was cut and cut due to the penalty due to the level difference between each other.

Hoya could not hide his bewilderment at the completely unrealistic situation.

Hoya’s gaze went down to the remaining points in his level.

‘Strange…….’

After reaching level 116, the remaining points are 660.

This number was odd.

As you level up, you only get 5 points left.

So Hoya’s remaining points had to be 580.

However, there were 80 points higher than that.

‘It’s probably not a bug caused by a sudden level up…’

I’ve never heard of a bug in Initium.

Hoya, who thought it was not a bug, shifted his gaze to his title.

If it wasn’t a bug, this was the only thing that could cause it.

[Striking a rock with an egg]

A title for a player who achieves level 100 without distributing points to any one place with an overall stat of 10 each.

You, who hit the rock with the egg, will now become an egg harder than the rock.

Title Effect: Remaining points are doubled when leveling up.

In fact, this title was put in as a joke by the head of the development team before Initium started its official service.

A hidden piece that no one would ever have discovered.

There will be no perverts who will achieve level 100 with a total stat of 5 each.

It was a hidden piece that was put in with that in mind.

But out of the blue, this deceptive title was revealed.

If the development team leader or higher knew this fact, they would all fall by the back of their necks.

It was fortunate for the development team leader that Eve strictly manages user data.

Hoya, unaware of such facts, said, ‘There are all these titles.’ And I just thought about it lightly.