I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul - Chapter 5

Episode 005

Please register a name to use in the market.

name?

right. You have to register a pseudonym.

In Hunter Market, all hunters used pseudonyms.

Therefore, the anonymity of who buys and sells which items is completely guaranteed.

Isn’t it the perfect underground economy?

But there were exceptions.

A person who belongs to a company like the one I work for and registers items on the Hunter Market.

Or people who went on air and gave pseudonyms.

Or, the circumstances are so fitting that he is a hunter whose identity is secretly known even without everyone talking about it.

For example, the day when Seo Ji-han, ranked number one, succeeded in conquering the evil spirit king Silagis.

Just as a by-product of Silaghis was registered under the name ‘knife’.

Although it hasn’t been officially revealed, everyone thinks Seo Ji-han is ‘Knife’.

In any case, once you decide on a pseudonym, you cannot change it, so you had to decide carefully.

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen hunters regret their careless nicknames like ‘cute Seunghoon’ or ‘Jisoo Love’.

I almost thought about naming it something like ‘Please Save Me’ or ‘Quick Healing Potion’, but I soon came to my senses.

It’s a nickname.

People usually use things like skill names or their own hunter characteristics.

If that’s the case, then there is only one.

Looter.

The act of defeating monsters and obtaining or gathering items is called looting.

The only skill I have is gathering, so this is my identity as a hunter.

Ah, that’s it now, quick healing potion.

There is no way I have enough money to buy a healing potion, so my priority is to quickly dispose of the items I have and make money.

I think the time that showed up on my phone earlier was roughly 1 am.

It’s the best time to shop.

I quickly registered the items I acquired in my inventory.

Since the body was dying in real time, it was sold at a very low price, almost half the price.

I don’t want it to sell late and die for no reason.

Thanks to this, items were sold and sold as soon as they were posted, and cash was accumulating in the market warehouse at a rapid pace.

At the same time, I checked the listings for B-class healing potions.

Healing potions had different effects depending on the level.

The most common E-F level potions were mainly used to treat old scars such as bruises or abrasions.

And the speed at which the wound heals is a bit slow.

Class C to D potions can heal bones that are cut or cracked by a knife, but the healing speed is also slow.

At least a B-level healing potion was needed to treat a wound that was severe enough to pierce the stomach.

The disadvantage is that there are not many items for sale because it is so rare at that level, but it is still effective.

I heard that no one can compare the speed to an F-class potion.

Grade A potions were not released on the market at all.

According to rumors, it is said that it can even regrow severed fingers.

In fact, civilians who are not hunters can buy potions with only the healing ability in mind, but hunters are more picky about the level.

The monsters in the dungeon had grades, just like potions, and the wounds received from high-grade monsters were not affected by lower-grade potions.

The cause is still being studied and the detailed reason is not known.

There was a limit to the wounds that could be treated with potions, so healing hunters were always treated as precious.

And because hunters always crave high-grade potions, the market’s high-grade potions were always dry.

Anyway, fortunately, there were a few B-class potions I was looking for on sale.

The price per piece is 1 billion.

Stone fruit by-products that I didn’t eat because they were poisonous, and even material items obtained from the insects I caught.

If you sell all of this, you could get about 1 billion won.

Okay, already 120 million won.

From then on, it was a battle of time and mental strength.

It’s just a matter of holding on until your money accumulates, or passing out and dying from excessive blood loss.

250 million won.

My vision slowly became blurry.

The pseudonym should have just been ‘Please Save Me’.

Why did you waste time worrying about it?

600 million.

What if I die like this?

I have no feeling in my hands and feet.

cold.

Should I leave a voice message for my mom right now?

I love you mom.

800 million.

Please buy it quickly.

Should I have posted it cheaper? Cheaper than half price?

There were still quite a few unsold items left, so even if I raised it that way, I would have made enough money.

Oh, I feel like I’m going to die.

Please buy it quickly.

10 billion.

done.

It’s finally done.

I bought a healing potion that I had been eyeing.

I immediately took it out of my inventory and poured it into my mouth.

The blood made my hands slippery and I almost missed it several times.

The effects of the healing potion will heal your injuries.

As the liquid, which had no temperature, went down my throat and into my stomach, it became hot as if I had eaten soup.

My body, which had been cooling down, slowly warms up.

Ah, I guess I can live now.

As I lay down and glanced down, I saw a soft light hovering over my pierced stomach.

The blood that was flowing along with it stopped and the pain almost disappeared.

Even though it was a dark room, I could see my wounds healing due to the light from the healing potion.

lived

As soon as I could see that my stomach was healing, I felt relieved.

At the same time, my consciousness suddenly disappeared.

* * *

Beep beep beep beep.

I woke up to the sound of the alarm at my bedside.

Ugh, going to work.

Actually, it wasn’t my first alarm, I had already turned off two alarms, so I really had to get up this time.

Oh, I’m so tired.

I don’t think I slept much.

Still, I couldn’t be late, so I mustered up my will and pulled off the blanket.

I wanted to shout, “Be strong today too!”, but what came out of my mouth was an unformed, half-crying sound.

“Ugh, I don’t want to go to work.”

I somehow managed to walk hurriedly into the bathroom and turn on the water.

I stared blankly at the pouring stream of water, but came to my senses the moment I caught the water with my hand.

“Ugh, what is this?”

The water in the sink instantly turned bright red.

The palms and forearms are a mess of dried blood.

Only then did I remember what happened before I went to sleep yesterday.

Wasn’t it a dream?

I was so shocked that I came out and I didn’t realize it because I was so dazed, but the blanket was also a mess of blood.

Wait a minute, did I really awaken as a hunter?

really?

We need some time to accept reality.

If someone was watching, I would be so shocked that I couldn’t even close my mouth, and how foolish I would be as I fumbled around touching the blood-soaked blanket.

But it had to be that way.

I became a hunter.

You say I became a hunter?

I’m not going to stay like this for a moment.

“Hunter Market Access.”

Trembling with anticipation, I accessed the Hunter Market, checked the items for sale, and covered my mouth.

All the items registered yesterday were sold.

2.5 billion won was piled up in the market warehouse.

2.5 billion.

I became a person with billions of assets?

I lost all sleep.

Writhing with joy, I took out some wads of cash from the market and moved them into my inventory.

Buying and selling at the Hunter Market was basically barter.

When registering an item, it was a way to specify the item you wanted to receive as payment.

Of course, most hunters registered the items for cash dollars.

However, of course, it is not only dollars, but also physical goods such as gold or specific items from each country.

In the end, the Hunter Market is a huge underground economy that only awakened people can access.

There is nothing good for the government, so they are making various efforts to bring the Hunter Market to the sunny side, but there has been no significant effect yet.

Anyway, for convenience, I specified all product prices in Korean Won.

For me, it would be difficult to process if I received a large amount of dollars.

And if necessary, you can change the won back to dollars at the market later.

I took out a wad of cash piled up in my inventory.

100 sheets of 50,000 won book.

It is 5 million won.

I fiddled with the bills with both hands for a moment, then flipped them aimlessly, enjoying the feel of them.

It’s starting to feel real.

Now there’s only one thing I have to do.

I am retiring from my job today.

No, um.

I probably won’t have to go to work in the future anyway.

If you ask me to go for another month, I think I can do that.

I had a happy smile on my face the whole time I was getting ready for work.

2.5 billion.

It’s not a huge amount of money, but it’s more than what a salaried worker earns in his entire life.

Plus, there are still some items left that haven’t been disposed of.

First of all, I’ll give about 1 billion won to my mom…

I can just say I won the lottery as an excuse, right?

Wait a minute, is 1 billion too much?

Let’s give it about 500 million won.

These days, lottery winnings are around 1.2 to 1.7 billion won after taxes.

And the remaining 2 billion will be spent sparingly and well.

Leave the items you haven’t sold yet as insurance.

Every week, when I bought lottery tickets, the leisurely life I had vaguely pictured came to mind.

I go on trips and sleep late.

If I went to the dungeon again and looted more, I could live a more luxurious life, but I have no intention of doing so.

Emphasize. at all! Not at all.

In the dungeon, I almost died dozens of times, took poison, got a hole in my stomach, and was starving while shaking with fear the whole time.

It’s a shame that I woke up and barely caught that insect king.

If even one of the processes that occurred in the dungeon went wrong, I would no longer be in this world.

What kind of person would go through that kind of experience and walk into a dungeon on their own?