1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 43

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 2 Episode 18

18. Forest of Komia? Spirit Forest!

After receiving Hoya’s key to her coming-of-age ceremony, Ren Xia gathered her own father’s bow and simple belongings and left for her coming-of-age ceremony.

The bow made by Dantals was several times better than the bow left by her father.

But Lencia was a little more inclined towards her father’s bow.

She wanted to try her out with this bow.

Shortly after Rencia left Ordo, Hoya was able to see her system messages.

[You have cleared the quest ‘Nostalgic Friend’.]

Hoya smiled softly at the system message.

* * *

A dungeon video of Hoya and Seol Baek-ho’s dungeon ‘Elves’ Coming-of-Age Exam’ has been released.

After editing only the extracts and re-editing the parts that shouldn’t be shown, the total video time was 1 hour 57 minutes, of which the first 5 minutes were released for free.

The total amount to be paid to watch the remaining 1 hour and 52 minutes of video was 7,900 won.

It was by no means a light price, but 12 million people purchased the video within a week of its release, and the number of buyers is still growing rapidly.

The scenery of the forest surrounded by grains of five colors at the end of the free public video was more beautiful than anything else.

The trailer, which was edited and distributed like a movie was released, was enough to stimulate people’s curiosity.

Spirits like little dolls.

little girl in blue.

Monsters running to attack the Millennium Tree and Snow White Tiger fighting against them.

Clear the annihilation condition of 200 monsters within 3 hours.

A contract with the spirits.

The movie-like video ended at the place where the dungeon was cleared and the gate of light passed.

He hid the existence of the village of elves.

Among the contents of the video that was not missing a single thing, the thing that people cheered the most was the existence of a ‘spirit’.

The story of the spirit exists as a book in the city library or bookstore, so there was a story that spirits would also exist in Initium.

However, this was the first time the real thing was revealed.

Even though it was a huge job until the first release of the spirit, they even signed a contract.

– Wow, did Seol Baek-ho suddenly bring something huge? I haven’t heard of any rumors, how did you come up with something like this all of a sudden?

└My friend’s friend’s cousin’s acquaintance brother is a member of the Seolbaekho guild, and he said he didn’t even know about it.

└ Snow White Tiger information blocking power, isn’t it a joke?

-Wow, crazy…. I want to see the spirits in real life too. ㅠㅠ

-Seol Baek-ho is a dog ;; 200 birds in 3 hours with that number…

– Where are you? Before entering the dungeon, you can see that there are trees all around.

└ This is Komia. Now, people in Komia village are not joking; It seems that all the level 200~ rankers spread out here and there; Seeing the legs support the weight, I think the game is a game.

└The monster in the forest is just before the seeds have dried up…. To find that dungeon, I just shut up and grab it as soon as it is regenerated.

-If I go to Komia, can I see the spirits?

And many rankers visited Komia, aiming for the spirits.

There was no scene where the key was turned to make a door, so people searched for a wooden door somewhere in the forest of Komia.

When people were scouring the forest of Komia in search of things that didn’t exist, the officers of the Arena wrapped their heads.

“Damn… Why did Seol Baek-ho get the key?!”

“Besides, I even cleared it. …I must have reached the village of the elves.”

“Damn… how did we hide it!”

Copy Gill had a headache.

Village of elves.

Luckily, he hunted the bulky clay worm for the first time and found and hid the existence of the key to the dungeon leading to it.

However, he could not clear the fact that it was the first test.

They were not helped by the spirits in the first test site.

The appearance of the Reef Mouse was also the first time I saw the video of Seol Baek-ho.

Without the help of the spirit, I searched for such a thing on my own in the wide forest, so it is natural that I couldn’t find it…

It wasn’t that they didn’t try to get help from the spirits.

But for some reason the spirits did not lend a hand to them.

– That man, I feel bad.

– Are you here again? …that person is still the same.

It was the words I heard from the spirit through two dungeon challenges.

And ‘that human’ was a term referring to Eriman, one of the main members of the arena.

Capigill couldn’t understand why the spirits hated Eriman so much.

Why is he such a nice and friendly guy…

‘Ha, sir… What are all these gazes?’

Even Eriman did not understand why the spirits were doing this to him.

And the gaze of the executives who looked at them as if they were blaming themselves now was also unwelcome.

He wanted to overthrow this position right now, but he was patient to manage his image.

The reason the spirits hate Eriman lies in the spirits’ passive ‘eyes of truth’.

The closer it is to the lower level, the more it can only distinguish between the degree of lies and truth.

However, that was enough to judge the human Eriman.

All his words and actions were full of lies.

So the spirits rejected him, but they didn’t know about it.

Because there was no such thing written in the books in the library.

In the beginning, most of the books about spirits in the library were fairy tales.

“Everyone, please calm down.”

Eriman said with a friendly smile.

“Let’s think positively. Thanks to Seol Baek-ho, we were able to specify the strategy for the dungeon. And we know how to enter the dungeon and how to get the key. I succeeded and signed a contract with the spirit. It is a result of being one step behind Seol Baek-ho, but if you change the perspective, you will be a few steps ahead of other guilds.”

“Haha… Eriman, you’re such a nice person. …well, Eriman’s words have some truth to them. We’re talking like this right now, so the situation doesn’t change. Next challenge Let’s get ready.”

When the guild master and Eriman spoke so much, the others couldn’t say anything.

The Arena’s executive meeting was dissolved as it was, and Eriman disconnected from the game for a while.

My stomach was so stuffy that I had to swear in a cool way.

He came out of the game in danger of being caught and vomited his swear words in his room, where no one could access without permission.

“The Aaa ahahak! Backhoe stand the son of a bitch …! Fuck! Do you incompetent old man were not doing well, I’m not a kkolin!”

Eriman’s expression of anger continued for tens of minutes.

* * *

“…Hoyoung-ah, did you have a bankbook? It’s like seeing your mother for the first time?”

“I went to the bank yesterday and made it.”

“alone?”

“Huh.”

What Hoyoung put on the table was a bankbook that looked like it had just been made.

Lee Ye-sook’s eyes softened slightly.

She was able to go to the bank on her own … She would have had to go through a conversation with her staff essentially in order to open a bank account.

Ye-sook Lee was moved that Ho-young’s condition improved a lot when she heard that she had been making bankbooks, and he felt strange.

She bought the capsules, she thought, she was really good.

Ho-young opened her bankbook and showed it to Lee Ye-sook, who was smiling.

Not the first page where the account number and signature are written, but the second page where the transaction details of deposits and withdrawals are recorded.

Lee Ye-sook’s expression hardened awkwardly as she received the bankbook that Ho-young handed over without thinking and looked at the contents.

“Hey, hey, what is this…?”

“…It’s the money I earned.”

How many zeros are there…?Lee Sook made a very serious expression.

“Son, I’ll have to explain to my mother how this money came to be. The amount is too large to just say it is. It’s not like I’m doing anything illegal, is it?”

“No way!”

Nearly three weeks have passed since the video of the dungeon ‘The Elves’ Coming-of-Age Exam’ was released.

So far, about 23 million people worldwide have purchased the video.

After paying 25% of the platform distribution fee from the profits received from the video and paying all the taxes to be levied, what came into Hoyoung’s share was about 65 billion won in small units.

Moreover, even now, the number of buyers is increasing little by little, so it is said that a small amount will come in steadily in the future.

According to Seol-Young Baek, the ‘small amount’ expected to come in the future was a small amount by her standards.

The expected amount that Beksul gave was by no means a small amount by Hoyoung’s standards.

She frankly said that she was Hoyoung and she didn’t even come up with a single scene in the video, and she wondered if she could take it like this.

However, it was purely thanks to Hoyoung that she was able to enter the dungeon.

Sylphid, who played an important role in clearing the dungeon, was also able to receive help thanks to Hoyoung.

In the second test, he was able to clear with the condition of annihilation, and many things were thanks to Hoyoung.

In the first place, Seol-Young Baek made him understand that the video would not have been filmed without you.

“I know this isn’t illegal money, but it’s still not too much! How can a mother get dozens of times the money she’s earned in her life…… …”

Ye-sook Lee lay down on her table and pretended to cry.

Although she wasn’t actually crying, Hoyoung just scratched her cheek at Lee Ye-sook’s exaggerated behavior.

Ho-young touched her Lee Ye-sook’s shoulder and made her raise her head.

“What did your mother think when she saw this?”

“A lot of money?”

“…No, not about me.”

“It’s a joke, a joke.”

Ye Sook Lee erased her playful face and said seriously, smiling with her affectionate eyes.

“It feels like yesterday when I held my mom’s hand tight… Now I’m fine enough to go to a bank by myself, and it’s a little sad that I already passed my mom, but I think I’ve grown a lot.”

“Then, are your worries about me a little less now?”

“It’s not a little bit. It’s almost enough to make her independent now? Of course, the mother has no intention of letting her son out of her mother’s arms yet. Oh, did she show this because she wanted to be independent?”

“It’s not that, Mom.”

Hoyoung continued the next words slowly.

“……I just showed her now that I want her to spend her time for herself and not for me. I don’t have to worry anymore, now I can go out and do my veil. I wanted to be acknowledged.”

“Huh? Are you using my time for me?”

“Mom, …don’t worry about me anymore and it’s okay to meet Jaegun again. Mommy, son, it’s really good now.”

Lee Ye-sook’s eyes trembled slightly at Ho-young’s words.