Chapter 7

Kill the Hero Chapter 7

TL: Uncle Choi

Editor: Bait

At the Urban Park Gate Entrance, a man appeared from beyond the gate .

“Thank you, Mr . Kim Woo-jin . ”

It was Kim Woo-jin .

After the arrival of Kim Woo-jin, the gate distorted then disappeared from the world .

“Wooah!”

“It’s over!”

All the soldiers saw it from a distance, then cheered and applauded .

With the gate gone, their mission was now over .

It was natural for them to be happy .

Therefore, Kim Woo-jin did not put much thought into the looks of admiration and cheers of the soldiers .

In a sense, he was used to receiving cheers more than anyone else .

For the Messiah Guild, every action made under their banner was cheered frantically and whole-heartedly by the whole world .

Unfortunately, not everyone looked at Kim Woo-jin this way .

There were a few people who gave him a distinctly leery stare .

It was Bang Ju-seop and his companions .

‘So he was alive . ’

While the soldiers saw Kim Woo-jin as a hero, the four were looking at him like a monster .

It wasn’t odd for them to do so .

‘That bastard, who is he?’

‘Didn’t they say this was his first dungeon? He still managed to clear it by himself?’

‘I don’t know . I’m scared…’

While they were fighting a few goblins and struggled for two days in vain, the person that they thought was a burdensome leech ended up killing all the goblins on his own .

Of course, to Kim Woo-jin, that kind of rumor was beneficial to his reputation .

However, right now, that wasn’t important .

“Did you hear the report of what happened on the other side?”

Kim Woo-jin asked Koo Sung-hoon, a member of the support team, who replied after a nod . “I heard about it . They just said the dungeon was suddenly cleared…”

Koo Seong-hoon’s expression was not good .

“How did you do it?”

As a member of the support team, it was his duty to write a report on how the dungeon was cleared . For him to write such a report, the players in the dungeon had to explain how it was done .

After crossing the gate, however, Bang Ju-seop and his party only said that the dungeon was suddenly cleared .

Furthermore, they didn’t say anything about what happened in the dungeon .

It was hard to understand from the perspective of Koo Sung-hoon .

‘Based on the current condition of Bang Ju-seop’s party, they probably weren’t able to fight properly . ’

In everyone’s view, Bang Ju-seop and his companions were the main players in the attack .

Kim Woo-jin was just a free gift attached to the group and it was thanks to Bang Ju-seop and his companions’ presence that the Phoenix Guild even permitted Kim Woo-jin to participate in the attack .

However, given the present condition of the party, it was hard to say whether they played a part in the attack .

‘But that would mean that Kim Woo-jin had to eliminate all the monsters on his own…’

In other words, Kim Woo-jin cleared the dungeon by himself .

Kim Woo-jin explained his strategy to Koo Seong-hoon .

“By doing well . ”

“Yes?”

Koo Seong-hoon was perplexed by Kim Woo-jin’s explanation .

‘What do you…’

He couldn’t help but panic .

At this rate, wasn’t he about to write that Kim Woo-jin caught the goblins “by doing well” in his report?

Kim Woo-jin, however, didn’t seem to care much about Koo Sung-hoon’s circumstances .

“I pretty much caught them all . So please tell them to deposit 90% of this dungeon clear rewards into my account . ”

While talking, Kim Woo-jin gazed at Bang Ju-seop’s party .

Koo Sung-hoon’s gaze followed Kim Woo-jin .

Bang Ju-seop and his party instinctively avoided his gaze and looked away .

“If they object to my request, please prepare a room where I can be alone with them for a while . ”

Faced with such a spectacle, Koo Seong-hoon did not know what to say .

The man in front of him was so fearsome that even Bang Ju-seop’s party avoided him .

“If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take a short break . ”

Someone like Koo Sung-hoon would not dare to confront Woo-jin just to get the information out of him .

‘Ah shit, the team leader is going to yell at me again . ’

At that moment, Koo Sung-hoon braced himself to be yelled at by his boss .

While looking at Koo Sung-hoon, Kim Woo-jin thought to himself .

‘I can probably talk to the team leader after about 30 minutes . ’

Kim Woo-jin passed by Koo Sung-hoon and moved toward one of the temporary waiting rooms made of tents .

‘I guess I can look at the catalogue while I wait . ’

“Catalogue”

As soon as he shouted the command, a thin booklet appeared in front of Kim Woo-jin .

It was a booklet that was slightly larger than a palm, made up of a material similar to parchment paper, and was about 5 mm thick .

It was an ordinary looking booklet .

However, to players, it was the most precious kind of books in the world .

It was because inside the catalogue were choices for items and skills .

A page in a catalogue literally contained choices for either an item or a skill .

When you tear up a page, you can obtain what you saw on that page .

‘The color is…’

The most important feature of catalogues was that the color of the light emitted by the page . It was what determined the rarity of the item .

Normal grades don’t give off any light but rare grades give off a silver light, unique grades a gold light, and as for legendary or mythical grades the texture of the page itself changes .

Meaning, if one was lucky enough, they would be able to receive a legendary grade item .

‘This catalog only has white colors . ’

Of course, miraculous drops would never happen for Kim Woo-jin so easily .

Kim Woo-jin, an Emissary of the Underworld, did not see any light leak out from his catalogue . Kim Woo-jin’s luck with catalogues was not great in his past as well .

Kim perused through the catalogue slowly without giving it much thought .

The catalogue that Kim Woo-jin received had 3 pages in total .

‘It’s all skills . ’

All three pages were skill pages .

[Energy Bolt] [Energy Bomb] [Skeleton Soldier]

First two skills weren’t even worth looking at .

The Energy Bolt was a skill used to make magic arrows by consuming mana . Energy Bomb was a basic skill that allowed the user to throw condensed energy bombs .

These skills increase in power as the skill rank increases and more energy or mana is consumed depending on the level of its rank .

These weren’t skills that Kim Woo-jin even needed to consider .

‘Skeleton Soldier…’

However, the Skeleton Soldier skill was different .

‘I’m getting some bad flashbacks . ’

It was because one of Johann Georg, the King of the Undead’s signature skills was Skeleton Soldier .

His skeleton soldiers were like a physical manifestation of fear .

The scene of thousands of players rushing in to fight hundreds of Johann Georg’s skeleton soldiers, only to turn that into thousands of skeleton soldiers; that was something that could not even be seen in hell .

‘It was a nightmare . ’

Compared to such a scene, Kim Woo-jin’s actions against the goblins was nothing but child’s play .

Of course, there were also disadvantages to the skeleton soldier skill .

‘We would avoid fighting him in areas where corpses remained . ’

The Skeleton Soldier skill also only allowed the user to use corpses from entities killed by the user .

Above all, skills for summoning Death Warriors, Death Knights, and Liches, which were considered to be better versions of the Skeleton Soldier and could be used at anytime and anywhere . However, the Skeleton Soldier skill always needed a sacrifice to cast .

It was his fatal flaw .

‘Without such a limitation, it would have been impossible to kill him . ’

By taking advantage of these weaknesses, Kim Woo-jin fought the King of Undead alone and was ultimately able to kill him .

‘I really was lucky . ’

After reminiscing about the day when he fought with the King of Undead, Kim Woo-jin started to ponder .

Right now for Kim Woo-jin, choosing one of the three skills was crucial, and Kim Woo-jin had to focus .

There was actually no need to think about it .

‘I would rather fire an arrow or throw a bomb than use an energy bolt or bomb . ’

At this point of time, it was actually more useful and effective for Kim Woo-jin to throw stones than to use energy bolts and bombs .

‘On the other hand, Skeleton Soldier is…’

Unlike the other two skills, the Skeleton Soldier skill could be of some use to Kim Woo-jin .

‘At the very least, it could probably buy some time . ’

Of course, he didn’t have much expectations .

The only thing skeleton soldiers could do for Kim Woo-jin was buying him a few seconds .

However, Kim Woo-jin knew better than anyone how important a few seconds was . Also, he had the ability to make the use of those few seconds .

Jjiig!

So Kim Woo-jin tore up the Skeleton Soldier skill page from the catalogue without hesitation .

After he tore up the page, the Skeleton Soldier skill was obtained .

[You Have Learned The Skeleton Soldier Skill]

[Skeleton Soldier]

Skill Rank: F Skill Effect: Using a corpse as a sacrifice, a skeleton soldier is summoned . Number of Skeletons That Can Be Summoned: 1

Kim Woo-jin, who finished checking his skills, checked his left wrist .

He was checking his watch .

‘It’s about time for him to come…’

It was at that moment .

“Ex, excuse me…”

Koo Sung-hoon had an apologetic expression . He passed his smartphone to Kim Woo-jin then spoke .

“Sorry to bother you but the team leader wanted to talk to you about certain information pertaining to the report…”

Kim Woo-jin smiled at those words .

‘I guess I’m done messing around . ’

The dungeon gate is no different from a bomb .

No one in the world knows when the monsters inside will appear .

What was troubling was that humans, the players handling that bomb, were just as volatile as the monsters .

Since the formation of the Phoenix Guild, players often caused incidents near the dungeon gate rather than behaving properly and setting a good example to the people .

The dungeon’s support teams were responsible for clearing up the incidents .

Therefore, Jung Woo-suk, the team leader of the Phoenix Guild’s dungeon support team, was not flustered when he received the dungeon report from Koo Sung-hoon .

‘Another weird crazy bastard must have joined recently . ’

He just thought of it as having one more freak to manage .

I’m on the phone

“Ah, Mr . Kim Woo-jin . ”

Of course, he didn’t show his true colors .

“I’m calling about the report . As you know, your cooperation in writing the report is very important . More so since Mr . Kim Woo-jin was the player with the most remarkable and outstanding performance in this dungeon clearance, and we are in desperate need of your account on the matter . ”

He skillfully tried to work with the freak .

“I know that it must be very tiring but please cooperate with us . It will also help us evaluate your performance . ”

I wheedled it in .

Of course Jung Woo-seok knew .

‘I wouldn’t have to call him in the first place if he can be persuaded with just words . ’

He knew that the conversation would not end here .

‘Those who recently became players tend to have shittier personalities . ’

That was what the species known as players were like .

There were players who thought they were chosen by God, as well as those who viewed ordinary people as plebeians .

They were the type of people who thought that it was only natural that everyone else had show them respect .

‘The ass kissing is complete . ’

The reason why Jung Woo-seok spoke in a persuasive manner was to show that he has already done enough to stroke his ego .

‘If he doesn’t want to cooperate, we don’t have any reason to cooperate with him either . ’

If Kim Woo-jin ignored this and did not cooperate, Jung Woo-seok was also determined to be uncooperative .

Just when Jung Woo-seok thought Kim Woo-jin would remain being uncooperative…

Ah, I’m sorry about that .

‘Yes?’

Unexpectedly, Kim Woo-jin’s reaction was not within Jung Woo-seok’s expectations .

I didn’t know what to do because it was my first time . It seems like I have caused great trouble to the support team for no reason . I will help Mr . Koo Sung-hoon with his report right away .

‘Wha, what the heck?’

It wasn’t just out of his expected range, it was very far removed from it .

I apologize once again for the inconvenience .

“No, not at all . ”

Jung Woo-seok was embarrassed for a moment .

“Thank you for helping me with the report . ”

“No, we should help each other . Thanks to the support team, players like me can focus solely on clearing the dungeon . ”

Thanks to such words, Jung Woo-seok’s expression eased .

‘He’s an okay guy . ’

“It’s nice of you to say so . If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know . ”

He was more than willing to cooperate with those who were willing to cooperate back .

Is it possible for you to introduce me to a dungeon level that I want to clear? That is if it’s not too much trouble .

“Of course, it is our job to find the dungeon for players anyway, it’s not difficult at all . ”

So when a simple request for cooperation came out, Jung Woo-sung didn’t really worry .

If there is a 1-story dungeon that appeared recently in a metropolitan area that is permitted to those below Lv 10, around a B difficulty, and related to goblins, I would like to clear it .

Hearing Kim Woo-jin’s request, Jung Woo-seok began to type the keywords using the keyboard in front of him .

Then, one result immediately appeared .

“Oh, there is one in Seongnam . Clearing the Siek Goblin Tribe, below level 10, difficulty level B-rank…”

Jung Woo-seok saw it and replied .

“By the way, you need to get an approval from the guild for a B-Grade difficulty dungeon . Is that alright?”

At such question, Kim Woo-jin replied .

“I guess I’ll have to work even harder on the report to get a signature of approval . ”

Jung Woo-seok laughed at his reply .

“Haha, I guess you’re right . ”

A player’s evaluations were made in part through the reports .

At this moment, Jung Woo-seok already made up his mind .

‘Looking at the dungeon signup registrations, there are already three decent party applications, so getting the authorization for a run is not a problem . The rest of the members will just be letting him on a bus . It would not be bad for me to let the inexperienced players in and let them gain some experience . ’

Jung Woo-seok would gladly give Kim Woo-jin special treatment using his status as the leader of the support team .

“If you just send me the report, I’ll apply for you right away . Though whether you’ll be accepted is not certain,”

Kim Woo-jin answered .

Thank you . If it all works out well, a meal is on me .

That was the end of the call .

Jeong Woo-seok, who put his smartphone down, smiled with content .

‘I’ve never met such a nice, hard-working, and cooperative player before . ’