1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 60

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 3 Episode 10

10. South Island (1)

It was still close enough to prepare for the trip tomorrow.

Hoya thought so and then checked the elixir.

There were many things, such as creating a fire attribute, creating a dark attribute, and increasing magical power by 120.

One of them was held by Hoya.

[The will to approach]

When used, the stat ‘Affinity’ is created.

Affinity cannot be increased with the remaining points.

Affinity increases by 1 for each NPC who has a favorable affinity for the player by 1 or higher.

An elixir that ‘creates’ stats rather than ‘raises’ them.

I don’t know what the affinity is, but this was the only elixir that made stats among the elixir in this underground warehouse.

I don’t know what kind of stat Affinity is, but it doesn’t seem like it would be bad.

Hoya chose the ‘will to approach’ without hesitation.

After acquiring it, when using it, the particles of light that had been hovering in the small marble escaped and disappeared, enveloping the hoya, and the marble was crushed into powder.

[The stat ‘Affinity’ has been created.]

name: hoya

Occupation: Villager of Ordo

Level: 269

HP: 9,840/9,840 MP: 9,980/9,980

Strength: 545 (+162) Agility: 537 (+161)

Stamina: 553 (+162) Power: 566 (+163)

Holy: 516 (+25) Affinity: 8

Remaining points: 0

Attribute: ice

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Hoya left the basement warehouse satisfied with the ‘friendliness’ engraved on his status.

* * *

“Master, the royal family of Ruzeros has sent a person to meet you.”

“What? You didn’t have an appointment today?”

“Yes. But the face of the person who came to me looks very serious…”

“Um, well, I’m not busy today anymore. I’m asking you to come up.”

Not long after, a knock was heard at the door.

“Yes, come in.”

The person who opened the door to Evan’s answer briefly introduced himself, asked for his understanding, and went straight to the main topic.

“It’s a story to be careful about taking out, but there was an intruder in the underground royal tomb a while ago. Evan-sama must be aware of it.”

“I’ve heard the story. I was going to visit the day after tomorrow to ask for an investigation… Did anything bad happen to me that you came right away like this?”

“Yes….Adora-sama’s sword is back.”

“Uh, really? Did you find it? Isn’t that a good thing?”

“It’s a bad thing that only the sword returned.”

He explained to Evan the cause of Adora becoming a Death Knight and what he had heard from Hoya.

“Hmm, that’s why you came here to get your hands dirty so that it doesn’t happen again?”

“Yes, as soon as possible. Is it possible?”

For now, it would be just a barrier that blocks outsiders from entering and a crime prevention magic that will immediately notify you when the barrier is broken.Because he’s the only one who can break through his magic without a trace right now.

Evan thought so and got up.

“Yeah, let’s go right away.”

Evan used the warp to move right in front of the castle with the one who had come to him.

When they saw Evan who suddenly appeared from the air, the soldiers at the door flinched for a moment.

Evan told the person who came to see him to tell Jeffrey Noh that he had come, and set up a barrier towards the underground royal tomb first.

The guide, who was waiting for Evan to set up the barrier, took him to Geoffrino.

The two faced each other at equal eye level in the drawing room, not the audience.

Geoffrino was greatly relieved to hear that Evan had set up a barrier.

“Thank you very much.”

“If you are grateful, please tell me one thing.”

Evan grinned and continued.

“Who is the adventurer who brought that Adora’s sword?”

An adventurer with enough power to defeat Adora’s Death Knight.

That aroused Evan’s interest.

Originally, it was Krauss, not Hoya, who defeated him, but when Krauss asked him not to tell his story, he explained without Krauss’ existence.

So they thought it was Hoya who defeated the Death Knight.

Either Adora was weakened in the process of becoming a Death Knight, or the adventurer was strong enough to defeat Adora.

Either way, Evan was very curious about him.

“Ah, I’m an adventurer named Hoya.”

“Hoya?”

really?

“Are you still here?”

“Yes, there have been no reports yet, so it must be in the basement by now.”

Evan said goodbye to Geoffrino and immediately asked the members of the royal family and walked towards the basement of the warehouse.

Then he found a soldier and an adventurer walking from the opposite side.

He was an adventurer exactly like the one she had heard of.

The soldier who spotted Evan paid his respects.

Evan, who received his greeting, went straight to Hoya.

“Are you Hoya?”

“Ah yes.”

At Hoya’s answer, Evan chuckled.

[Evan’s favorability has slightly increased.]

why not?

Hoya couldn’t understand why his liking suddenly rose.

Does he have a crush on him that he’s met?

‘Now that I see this person…’

The name and face are somehow familiar.

Hoya, slowly rummaging through his head, knew who he was.

“Are you sure, Chief Mato?”

“That’s right! I’m Evan, the current horseman. Nice to meet you.”

Evan reached out and asked for a handshake, so Hoya reflexively reached out and grabbed his hand.

Evan grabbed Hoya’s hand and pulled him towards him and whispered in his ear.

“I’ve heard a lot from Moan-sama.”

“Yes?”

Hoya blinked his eyes at Evan’s words.

“Ask him directly for details. It’s not worth talking about here, isn’t it? And the person he cares for is also someone I care about… If you need help, tell me. If it’s not outrageous, I’ll do my best to help.”

Evan finished his speech and disappeared from his sight in an instant.

* * *

In the domestic lobby of Seoul Gimpo International Airport, there was a crowd of students who came for a school trip to Jeju Island.

“Ah! Vacation time was great! Why are you going on a school trip!”

Baek Ho-min vomited frustration from the gap between the students.

Seeing this, Min A-ran burst out laughing as if it was ridiculous.

“Huh, I’m stunned, so I can’t speak. Who was the one who sang the school trip and school trip songs as soon as I entered high school? It seems like I’ve been coming in since the first semester of last year and I have a scab in my ear.”

“Ah, that was before I met you!”

The reason Baek Ho-min didn’t want to go on a school trip was because he couldn’t access Initium during his school trip.

To be precise, he can’t meet Hoya.

“Isn’t it the same as not being able to meet even now? The level doesn’t match.”

“You can still whisper! And I tried a lot too!”

After breaking up with Hoya from Liporn, Baek Ho-min wanted to hunt with Hoya again, so he tried his best to raise the level.

Min A-ran also got involved in that effort, so she joined in an unexpected hell leveling event.

Still, because it worked, their party was able to level up quickly.

After school was over, I had finished all my homework, and I had only raised my level.

Thanks to that, as a student, he was still ranked in the ranks.

Still, it wasn’t enough to catch up with Hoya.

If they took one step forward, Hoya took three and four steps.

It was also respectable, but it was a bit disappointing not to be able to hunt again with Hoya.

“Yeah, I’ve been involved in that effort, so I’ve lost 4 kg.”

“Yeah? I don’t see tea at all?”

puck!

Min A-ran punched Baek Ho-min’s head with a fist.

While wrapping his head in her pain, Baekho-min looked at Minah-ran, but he had to immediately turn his gaze away from her.

The girls who heard Ho-min Baek and A-ran Min were staring at Baek Ho-min with great momentum.

“Hey, Homin, did you say everything?”

“How could you say such a thing?”

“Yeah, it’s not 4kg, it’s 2kg, but Aran definitely lost weight, right?”

“Hey! Whose side are you on!”

“Hey hahaha.”

While waiting for their turn while talking nonsense, the children who went through formalities and sent their suitcases gathered in groups inside the departure hall and waited for the flight time.

Thousands of people walk through the departure hall.

‘Ha, why are you going on a school trip for 3 days and 2 nights?’

Baek Ho-min’s head was full of thoughts that would make the children around him nagging if he spit it out.

I searched the internet a few days ago to see if there is a capsule room that I could go to in my free time, but it didn’t exist near the hotel or places on their itinerary.

I was forced to go to Talnitium (Escape Initium) for 3 days without moving.

‘Are those people a couple, they seem to be going on a trip. …Wow, it’s an elementary school group. Good luck to the teachers.’

While waiting to board the plane, Ho-Min Baek responded roughly to Min A-Ran’s words or spent time observing the surroundings.

‘Are these people family? Father and daughter and son? Isn’t it, my son and daughter seem to have a little age difference. Perhaps……! That man is a thief! How could a woman with such an age difference!’

puck!

“Um! Why are you hitting me all of a sudden?”

“Why is it? It was because I thought you were thinking strangely by looking at your expression.”

“Mr. Lee…”

The back view of the family of three that Baek Ho-min had seen had already disappeared from his seat.* * *

thump, thump.

Hoyoung had been feeling his heart beating like this for a very long time because of his expectations.

His face was also slightly reminiscent of how much anticipation he had.

“Are you so excited to get on a plane?”

“Huh? Huh?”

Lee Ye-sook, who was staring at Ho-young next to her, asked Ho-young.

“Oh, no? I’m not a kid, and I can’t.”

“Huh, okay?”

Lee Ye-sook laughed at Ho-young’s reaction.

Hoyoung makes his ears blush when he tells a lie.

And now Hoyoung’s ears are red.

Contrary to words, it is proof that you have high expectations.

In fact, Ho-young was looking forward to the first plane he ever boarded.

kid was right

“I’m looking forward to it a lot, aren’t you, Ye-sook?”

“Of course I’m looking forward to it~. But my son isn’t expecting it, is he?”

Jae-gun, who was wearing sunglasses, raised his sunglasses slightly, and Ye-sook Lee struck her back.

Hoyoung felt that she looked at herself and said, ‘We know it all, so you just have to answer.’

“…I, I’m also looking forward to it.”

Satisfied with Hoyoung’s answer, the two passed away for a while drinking drinks at a cafe inside the departure hall before heading to board the plane.

“Hoyoung-ah, isn’t it?”

“What?”

Hoyoung answered Jaejoong’s question with a question.

“You have to take off your shoes when you get on a plane. You just take them off and hand them over to the stewardess.”

“… Uncle, do you think I will be deceived by such a lie?”

“Isn’t that a lie? You must be watching what you’re doing.”

Jaegun, who took the lead first, went right in front of the stewardess, lowered her sunglasses, squinted her eyes at the stewardess, took off her shoes, and handed them to her.

The incredibly fast and talented stewardess saw the party behind the rebuild and accepted his shoes as he wanted them to.

“Did you see it?”

“……”

Ho-young couldn’t believe what had happened.

No, wasn’t that a lie?

For a moment he wondered if he was really wrong.

When Ho-young, who had completely passed out, made a gesture to take off her shoes, Ye-sook Lee, who was standing behind Ho-young, couldn’t stand it and burst into laughter.

“Hehehe, son, you don’t have to take off your shoes. You don’t even need to play around with that uncle~”

“Here it is.”

At Lee Ye-sook’s words, the stewardess put down her shoes neatly in front of Jae-geon.

Jaejoong quickly put his shoes back on and entered the plane as if nothing had happened.

Ho-young, who saw this, put the shoes he was about to take off, put his shoes back in place, and lowered his head.

Upon arriving at his seat, Reconstruction was sitting and looking out his window as if nothing had happened.

“Hoyoung-ah, what are you doing without sitting down?”

“……”

Yes, I used to be this kind of person.

He hadn’t seen each other in years, so there must have been a lot of beautification in his head.

Ho-young vowed not to be hit next time, and she gave up the seat next to Jae-geon to Lee Ye-sook and sat right next to him with a blushing face.