I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul - Chapter 2

Episode 002

I feel like I want to bow in all directions to a god I don’t even believe in.

thank you thank you.

You didn’t abandon me.

I don’t think you’ve ever picked it up, but thank you very much anyway.

I opened the status window with a trembling heart.

I had just awakened, but I already knew how.

Rankers, Hunters of the Month, and Rookie Hunters who appeared on TV shows every evening talked about their awakening experiences, so this was already common knowledge.

The status of my awakened person, which I faced with excitement…

was miserable.

No wait.

What is this?

When you become an awakened person, aren’t your physical abilities strengthened?

Didn’t he lift the car with one hand? No

skill

bonuses.

Skill

S-Class 〈Gathering〉(Active)

Hidden 〈It wasn’t there, but it was there〉(Active)

Is this it? Is this it?

It is said that the status values are slightly different for each awakened person, but I swear this is the first time I have seen such a shabby and simple status window.

And why is there no ability weighting?

what. Give me back my abilities.

no.

No, there must be something more.

This can’t be the end.

Yes, you definitely said it was a hidden skill.

A hidden skill would be great.

Let’s stay still and an explanation….

Hidden 〈It wasn’t there, but it was there〉 (Passive)

Details: The best collection is always possible.

hey? Is this all there is? I’d like to know more details.

Do you have any combat skills that can help with my current situation?

Is my awakening ability all about pulling out grass in the best condition?

You said it was hidden.

It’s hidden!

I was so devastated that I hit my head on the wall, forgetting for a moment where I was.

What should I do with this?

You want me to pull out the best grass, put it on my body like a herb, and then eat it deliciously for insects?

Wait a minute, did I become a gatherer because I pulled out the grass?

So, if you had attacked the Chungwangryu that was passing by earlier, you could have awakened to the combat world?

I became even more frustrated with the sudden realization that came to me.

If only we hadn’t been so careless!

Damn it!

No matter how you get the hidden skills, you always get trash.

If you’re not lucky, you can’t be like this.

It’s all wrong now anyway.

I need to find out if there is a poisonous plant nearby that will allow me to die as comfortably and comfortably as possible.

Feeling on the verge of tears, I activated the only skill I had, Gathering.

At the same time, a subtle golden light appeared on my hand.

This is actually something you commonly see on TV.

To obtain items from the monsters you have conquered, you must use this skill and pick them up.

That way, you can obtain magic stones or rare items in a well-processed form.

This skill itself is a basic skill that no one possesses.

Wow, I awakened, but I only have one basic skill.

I can’t even say anything about this.

Anyway, it’s amazing to use something I’ve only seen on TV in my own hands.

Anyway, when I put my hand on the stem of Evita Nice, the entire plant disappeared from the roots along with a crunching sound.

The missing Evitanis was in my inventory clean, whole, and perfectly trimmed, unlike the Evitanis whose stems were broken when I tried to pull it out earlier.

Petals, stems, leaves, roots, and nucleus of Evitanis.

These five species are in the inventory in the form of items that can be processed…

Wait, Evitanis’ core?

This is very rare and expensive.

If you ask what the most valuable by-product you can obtain from a dungeon is, everyone will unanimously answer that it is magic stone.

Magic stones are items that can be obtained very rarely when hunting monsters, but they can be used for so many purposes that it is difficult to list them all.

And if monsters have magic stones, non-combat creatures living in dungeons have cores.

The core of Evitanis was such a rare item that you could obtain one out of 1,000 Evitanis roots.

The price was estimated at at least 50 million won.

Not only Evitanis, but all the cores of all plant species are priced around that price.

Even though it was so expensive, there was a shortage of stocks, so the cores of the plant species were often sold out when they were listed on the Hunter Market.

I couldn’t believe it, so I took out an Evitanis core from my inventory.

Evitanis’ Core (Grade: S)

What is S Grade?

The best hack on the market so far was Class A.

Even the D grade was 50 million won.

Oh my god, oh my god.

I am holding a foreign car in my hands.

oh my god.

Now my life is blooming too.

If you just take this and sell it, you can immediately hit the company.

As soon as I went out….

I felt excited for a while, but the moment I remembered reality, I became discouraged again.

Nuclear or whatever, what’s the use of all this?

What good is it to become a billionaire?

In this place where you never know when you might die!

I was disappointed for a while, but in the end, there was only so much I could do.

Avitanis and unidentified plants fill my eyes.

Let’s collect this.

The only skill I have is gathering, so what should I do?

I reached out to another plant next to Avitanis.

It looks like blue-purple mugwort, and if I see something like this in the wild, I’m 100% sure it’s a poisonous plant.

Now use the gathering skill.

Next, four items came into the inventory.

The leaves of Pymtopis, the stems of Pymtopis, the roots of Pymtopis, the nucleus of Pymtopis.

Wait a minute, nuclear again?

Wasn’t obtaining Evita Nice’s core earlier the result of using up all the luck in one’s life just before death?

Is it possible to obtain a nuclear weapon this easily?

I opened the skill description window again.

Hidden 〈It wasn’t there, but it was there〉 (Passive)

Details: The best collection is always possible.

Best collection.

It’s the best gathering.

This can’t be right….

At that moment, I felt a certain truth.

If my thoughts were correct, it was clear that that hidden skill was more powerful than I thought.

I activated my gathering skill and collected all the countless Evitanis in front of me.

The result was as expected.

Evitanis core (grade: S)x22

Evitanis root (grade: A)x22

Evitanis petals (grade: A)x22

Evitanis stem (grade: A)x22

Evitanis leaves (grade: A)x22

As I checked my inventory, I felt goosebumps running down my spine.

The core, which is said to appear only once in 1,000 Evitanis, came out with a 100% probability by collecting 22 Evitanis.

To unlock 1,000 Evitanis, you had to raid the dungeon for several days and comb through it.

That’s why this hack is expensive.

However, if I only have a hidden skill, the word rare item itself becomes meaningless.

Whatever it is, you have a 100% chance of getting it.

Click, click, click.

My body, which had been trembling with joy, froze.

My flushed cheeks cooled and my joy disappeared as if washed away.

Instead, fear came.

The sound of Chungwangryu’s footsteps heard from afar.

I quickly hid behind a rock.

The rhythmic sound of footsteps, which I had heard several times already, slowly got closer.

So far, I’ve survived without being detected, but there’s no guarantee that I’ll survive this time either.

If I had just awakened to become a combat hunter, there would be no need to hide like this.

Well, even if you awaken to the combat world, there is no guarantee that you will fight well right away, so you may have died upon awakening.

While I was holding my breath, Chungwangryu passed by the rock where I was hiding and slowly disappeared toward the dungeon passage.

Fortunately, I guess I’m not destined to die now.

After passing another hurdle, I felt a sense of exhaustion and hunger.

that’s right.

Now that I think about it, I was so hungry that I woke up while trying to tear the grass to eat something.

I took out the petals and stem leaves of Evitanis from my inventory and started chewing them roughly.

The taste was really bad.

It feels like chewing some kind of persimmon tree leaf.

How nice it would be to have some fruit or something hanging on it.

Fruit.

I took out an Evitanis core from my inventory.

The core was about the size of a cherry and was emitting a soft light.

The texture was as hard as a tangerine.

I’m planning on eating porridge anyway, so I guess I’ll give it a try.

I threw a hack worth at least 50 million won into my mouth.

It had a refreshing scent that was hard to put into words, a subtle sweetness, and a slightly astringent taste.

Does it look like a mango with a lot of water?

Anyway, the texture was better than the leaves.

But I know for sure.

It’s not expensive because it’s delicious.

I was rummaging through my inventory, wondering if I should eat a few more, when a notification window popped up in front of me.

Ingested Evitanis Core temporarily increases Agility by 1.

That’s why it’s so expensive!

I knew that Evitanis’ core was expensive, but I didn’t know exactly why it was expensive.

I only vaguely knew that it was used as a material item for various production items.

If you’re a crafting type hunter, you might know more details, but most of the hunters I’m in charge of are combat type…

Anyway, I just ate it without processing it, but the increase in agility means that if I use it to make something like an ability increase potion, it will work with higher efficiency. Right?

If I make it into a potion, will it go up by about 10?

I opened the status window.

Ability

Agility 0 + 1 (+1 Evitanis Core)

Time limit: 4 minutes 59 seconds

An agility value that did not exist before was added.

The time limit seemed to be 5 minutes.

It’s shorter than I thought.

Just in case, I ate one more and my agility increased by 1 more.

It is applied in the form of increased stacking of abilities.

Ability

Agility 0 + 2 (+2 Evitanis Core)

Time Limit: 4 minutes 59 seconds

Unfortunately, the time limit did not increase even if you ate multiple pieces.

However, when a new nucleus was consumed, the time limit seemed to be reset to 5 minutes.

A plan I had been vaguely thinking of began to take shape in concrete form.