The Genius Assassin Who Takes it All - Chapter 17

Episode 17: Skill Robbery (1)

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Sigh!

“Kurururuk!”

“Follow me if you can.”

Afterwards, what Kanghu did while wandering around the dungeon was to injure the claw lizard.

I didn’t go out of my way to aim for the vital spot.

As soon as I encountered them, I quickly approached them and escaped with only moderate injuries to my body.

It was a very aggressive monster, so just by provoking it like that, it chased after me with its eyes wide open as if it was going to kill me.

Experience points for dungeon monsters are calculated based on two important factors.

The first is contribution.

See what percentage of damage each hunter who added damage to kill the monster contributed.

Of course, in the case of the healer buffer, separate correction values were applied.

For example, it is calculated based on the amount of buff given to the hunter who killed the monster and the increased damage.

The second is the presence or absence of damage itself.

Except for healers and buffers, all other classes had to have a record of inflicting damage to monsters.

Without it, even if you killed the boss monster together, you were excluded from experience settlement.

The groundwork that Kanghu is currently working on was work to meet the second requirement.

First of all, you must have a record of the damage you have put in so that you can later receive experience settlement without missing anything.

“They’re chasing me like crazy.”

Kang-hu deliberately cut his palm, causing further injury.

Then, the claw lizards followed the dripping blood with their nostrils flaring.

Before we knew it, their number had increased to nearly fifty.

Usually there weren’t that many.

Because there are too many.

Even if Ganghu stopped moving just a little bit, he could be immediately surrounded and torn to death.

The reason he was able to avoid that situation was because he was steadily moving according to the ‘mana guidepost’ that Ganghu had created in advance.

It was a signpost made before luring the claw lizards.

Leaving a trace of mana.

Even if you can’t see it, you can follow its location with your mana tracking ability.

Thanks to having done this work in advance, I was able to continue luring it to the desired location without stopping for a moment.

Hehe!

The sandstorm became stronger.

Rather than moving based on what he saw with his eyes, Ganghu was relying 100% on mana milestones.

Rake lizard.

They are very good at hit-and-run combat, so they are difficult to kill through honest combat. Of course the rewards are good.

So, when an opportunity like this comes, if only I could make a sweeping move. It was definitely going to be fun in terms of experience.

Ta-da-da-da-da!

Ganghu began to increase his speed in earnest.

Now is the time. I didn’t come here to play hide and seek with monsters.

I ran and ran and ran again.

As Ganghu’s speed increased, the lizards, paralyzed by the smell of blood, also raced ahead.

How long did it run like that?

The moment when Ganghu senses the absence of the mana milestone and stops being tracked!

Grumble!

Something caught on Kang-hu’s toes rolled down.

At the same time, when I turned my body, I felt a different emptiness than before under the tip of my heel.

to fall off a cliff

It was the end of the road, above the canyon that I had been eyeing ever since, with nowhere to go any further.

Doo-dah-dada!

The view obscured by the sandstorm made it impossible for anyone to perceive the existence of the cliff.

The pitchfork lizard became even more energetic and rushed forward towards Ganghu, who was still standing.

It contained a cruel will to somehow scratch and wound Ganghu and eat the blood and flesh.

Ganghu held on as long as he could.

And the front paw of the lizard in the lead was about 50cm away from touching the body.

Faaah!

I lowered my body closely and used the leap skill.

Then, Kang-hu’s body left the scene, scraping along the dry ground as if skating.

Phew!

At the same time, the lizard, which appeared in silhouette, was targeted and even moved horizontally.

Next, a jump and a sideways move.

By using repeated skills, Ganghu quickly escaped the cliff.

It was a close call, but it was a more perfect avoidance.

They were never able to find Kang-hu, who disappeared in the sandstorm.

The problem started from then.

“Wow! Wow!”

“Kwaaak!”

The guys coming from behind attacked the claw lizard, which had just barely stopped after noticing the cliff.

It was like a series of collisions that occurred on a foggy highway.

“Kuaaa…!”

A catastrophe occurred.

Of course, from the pitchfork lizard’s point of view, it was a double twist from Kang-hu’s point of view.

I gained experience points by taking care of all the claw lizards without having to use skills one by one.

Like rain falling from the sky, claw lizards fell helplessly to the ground from the cliff.

Because the place was so high, there was no way to revive the driver in any way.

in between.

Phew! Pooh wow!

Kang-hu faithfully disposed of several lizards that had narrowly escaped being caught in a catastrophe and falling.

The guys who were so distracted by the screams of their compatriots in front of them died without even making a single sound.

【The level has increased significantly to 27.】

The level, which was 22 before catching Iceman, rose several times to a whopping 27.

【The constellation ‘Master of Mobile Warfare’ is so impressed by your baiting strategy that he can’t stop applauding.】 【

Consumes a small amount of holy power to give you a small buff.】

【Experience increase +0.2%】

It feels as good as leveling up. Support from the Holy See continued. Experience increase buffs are always more beneficial.

【It’s pretty good. It was very good.】

In addition, the dimension stealer’s praise added to the joy.

That wasn’t all.

Just before falling off the cliff, one of the lizards that Kanghu killed dropped a magic stone.

This is a trophy that is usually difficult to obtain from regular monsters, but it seems to have overcome the low probability.

“Blue magic stone. Ten million won. “Then there are two stalks of Solarchium.”

Ganghu picked up a blue magic stone from the lizard’s corpse.

It is the fifth magic stone in the magic stone grading system classified by rainbow colors. Still, the price was considerable.

It was also a part where we could understand why Eclipse was trying to exploit hunters to mine magic stones.

Dungeons are a probability, but mines are certain. The difference is as great as the difference between heaven and earth.

Hwiiing······.

Soon, as if it had been waiting, the sandstorm subsided.

Rather than saying that the timing was right for Kang-hu, it may have been that things went as planned.

If you think about it backwards.

If Kang-hoo had hesitated a little longer at the last minute, the baiting strategy could have failed and put him in danger.

“It’s a pity that it’s a strategy that can’t be used often.”

Kanghu quenched his appetite.

The aggressiveness of the monsters, the dungeon environment, and even the timing.

Since it was a problem that had to be solved as a trinity, it seemed difficult to have fun in this dungeon again.

Anyway, the result was great.

Because I was able to gain experience in one go that other hunters could not obtain even if they worked hard for days or even weeks.

If experience points were food, I ate so much that my stomach would have exploded and I would have died.

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Meanwhile, Cha So-hee was continuing to investigate traces and records of Kang Hu.

I frowned for a moment when I saw Lee Taek-geun’s body reduced to ashes. I guess I was too emotional.

However, I coolly ignored it because I thought there was nothing to regret when I had already ‘killed’ it.

After further investigation, it seemed to be an undeniable fact that Ganghu was level 10.

Cha So-hee called Kang Dong-hyun.

As soon as I heard the reception tone, I immediately dispatched the business.

“Please send me a new complaint.”

– How many times have I told you to kill that guy’s personality? Why don’t you be careful?

Kang Dong-hyun wasn’t particularly surprised either.

Because it happened often.

And cleaning things up like this is not uncommon.

These two people didn’t think it was a big deal in the first place, so it didn’t make my head hurt any more.

“sorry. But the situation was so incoherent that it seemed like I was so angry that I had to take the first step.”

– I will send my successor right away, so I will encourage him and help him figure things out. Do you understand?

“Yes, I’m sorry. In any case, we will conduct a more thorough investigation into Shin Kang-hoo.”

Cha So-hee hung up the phone and looked at the place where the hunter ‘Stalker’, who was the last to be sacrificed by Kang-hoo, was located.

The tracker was a type of human weapon being trained within Eclipse.

Because he has created a body and mind that is completely dependent on drugs, he is usually no better than an idiot.

In any case, the Tracker was created by selecting only hunters with a level of 90 or higher who are skilled in combat.

Such a pursuer was not able to properly resist Kang Hu and died on the spot.

“I like fishing with mana. It was a great tactical decision and it worked well. however······.”

Cha So-hee was constantly bothered by scenes that did not conform to conventional wisdom.

No matter how much you think about it, there is no way the Assassin class could have fooled the pursuer’s eyes with an ordinary jump and lateral movement.

It is a human weapon cultivated directly at the organizational level. I don’t know anything else, but I don’t fall for clumsy tricks.

“There is only one possibility.”

There was only one case that Cha So-hee confirmed through numerous simulations.

That is when Kanghu used ‘Leap’ and ‘lateral movement’, which reached the maximum level of proficiency.

Then, it was possible to get out of the pursuer’s field of vision and take a surprise stab at the underside of the chin.

the problem is.

“Do you mean to believe that a level 10 hunter performed such a ridiculous ‘miracle’?”

This was it.

Even if I think about giving in a hundred times.

There was a gap between Kang Hu’s publicly available information and skills to the extent that it was impossible to even determine the causal relationship.

Cha So-hee, an investigator with a 100% success rate who has never failed to reach a clear conclusion in her investigations.

The reputation she had built at Eclipse was about to be tarnished by Kang-hoo.

Because of this, it seemed like he had to find himself instead of just following Kang-hu’s tail.

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“First of all, two or three solariums are confirmed. “I expected it, but I had no idea it would come together like this.”

At that time, Ganghu met the middle boss while moving to the main boss’ location.

There were three, not one.

Like the Iceman and Fireman series that he faced earlier, it was a middle boss with a brother concept.

The name is Defender.

All three have the same appearance and are humanoid.

To use an analogy, does it feel like watching a rugby player about 2m tall?

Each of these three had their own specialized skills.

Defensive skills.

The expression shield would also be appropriate.

However, the areas in which the three specialized were slightly different.