Chapter 3

The whole body’s muscles started squirming around at a miniscule level .

His body, which he wasn’t accustomed to due to it being from many decades ago, quickly moved according to Hansoo’s will .

Hansoo, who had prepared his body, slowly walked towards the goblins who were running towards him in a crazy manner .

Those are trying so hard to get here so what’s the point of him running?

Every bit of stamina to swing the dagger was important .

Hansoo deflected a goblin’s arm while it was swinging the sword

Keeik?

Hansoo’s body, which seemed to be out on a stroll to watch a mountain, suddenly changed fiercely while the goblin was flustered .

As if he released all the strength he gathered up .

All the runes were gone .

All the skills were also gone .

But the same strength, the same stamina or the same perception had a huge difference depending on how it was used .

The body was basically a tool of battle and depending on the way the tool is used, the final outcome will have a difference between heaven and earth .

Hansoo rushed between the goblins just like that and started slashing madly in all directions .

Kiiieeek!

The goblins, who were running, screamed in a beastly manner and rolled about on the floor .

And in the spot the goblins dropped, two things were left .

A Podao, which was crude but much more threatening than a dagger .

A much tinier rune .

Hansoo spread out his right hand, grabbed the Podao and swinged it hard as he grabbed the rune with his left hand at the time same .

And at that moment a part of Hansoo’s body changed slightly .

‘My luck is good’

[Kang Hansoo]

Strength: 11

Agility: 10 . 1

Stamina: 9

As a rune that rose agility by 0 . 1, Hansoo’s status menu changed .

Agility, which wasn’t needed to be shown, appeared .

In a sense, one’s strength is what made one faster, but agility was a little different .

The user’s time twists and it becomes 0 . 1 times faster and their reaction speed becomes faster as well as the same movement being slightly faster .

As agility rises, the user started to live in a different dimension .

Every rune stat other than strength and stamina, which was already given to humans, all start at 10 due to them not existing prior to that .

Hansoo moved his now faster body without hesitation towards the goblins who were rushing towards them and started to cut them into blocks .

Sometimes it didn’t come out, and only small ones came out when it did, but since numbers were numbers, Hansoo’s rune stats rose slowly but surely .

Of course with his current status, no matter how weak goblins are killing 200 alone was a bit far fetched .

The Podao was so feeble that two or three swings broke it and Hansoo kept changing his weapons as he fought the goblins .

Injuries rose by one and two as well .

And the people who saw that stopped and stared at each other .

At this rate, they will all die .

Not from goblins, but from human’s hands .

And they also started to have greed .

It seemed like runes were very important .

But as one person ate it all they felt anxious .

And as they gained courage as they saw Hansoo, who only seemed to be a college student, fight so well .

From afar, his actions looked very sloppy .

The actions were not flashy but rather only created due to him protecting himself but as they saw the goblins falling to those slashes, the goblins seemed very weak .

“Fuck…eyy shit I don’t know anymore!”

“Uwahhh!”

The people grinded their teeth, but carefully approached Hansoo’s back and started fighting .

Kiiiiek!

The goblins stared at the humans who were charging towards them with a panicked look but then started fighting with a roar .

And then chaos started .

“Ahhhhk!”

“Goddamit! Help me!”

They held one dagger .

They knew they had to fight .

They knew they would get stronger if they fought .

The opponent wasn’t that strong .

But even then, they were just commoners .

And the enemies were armed with a weapon, despite it being feeble, as well as having a large amount of killing intent .

A lot of injuries were occurring from all directions .

But even in that situation, Hansoo continued to kill goblins as he absorbed runes and slowly walked forward .

Honestly there was no need to rush while receiving a lot of injuries .

He could hide between the people and fight slowly as if he was peeling an apple and kill more leisurely .

But there was a reason why he rushed despite receiving injuries .

‘There is no time to dilly dally . ’

Including this location there were countless amounts of adventurers .

‘There are probably over 10,000 . ’

The 100 people here was not everybody .

There are probably a few hundred of these just for Korea .

If we include the world there are many more .

But everyone was new 1st years .

There were no adventurers from previous years .

They probably didn’t come here from kindness because of the newbies .

This location will be protected for three months as the tutorial area .

If things like this didn’t exist all the upper years would come, kill everyone and take their runes .

With only 1 year of experience one can kill 100 of them very easily .

From a point of view it seemed like the benevolence of the fairy but Hansoo’s thoughts were different .

‘How to say it? Created to enjoy the chaotic fight between weaklings?’

It seemed like it was made because it would be boring if a strong person came and wiped out everybody .

Whatever the reason this was a chance .

In 3 months they will have to collide against people who’ve been here for 2 or 3 years .

With that in mind they must become strong fast .

Due to Hansoo flying about quickly in the front, the fight ended rather quickly .

As the battle ended and the tension was released, the people couldn’t bear the fatigue and fell onto the floor .

‘About 16 people died . ’

A much better loss than in the past .

If Hansoo wasn’t here, at least 30 would’ve died .

While the 100 fought 200, the number of goblins Hansoo killed by himself was at least 70 .

And the surrounding people stared at him tiredly .

As the people thought of Hansoo’s mad actions of slashing in every direction with his Podao and Dagger and slowly moved their distance away from him, the fairy appeared .

“Wow . The grade is really good here . Well from now you should know how to survive from this point . ”

‘Fucking son of a mayfly . ’

The people couldn’t curse out loud so they did it inwardly .

It was rather easy to realize who put up the goddamn wall .

“I will get rid of the wall now . From now, do it just like this . Fighting!”

As the fairy disappeared, people started mumbling .

Hansoo shook his head and then checked his stat .

[Kang Hansoo]

Strength: 14 . 3

Agility: 10 . 9

Stamina: 10 . 1

Perception 11 . 2

‘It’s not bad’

Hansoo nodded his head .

As he expected, agility runes don’t come out easily .

And maybe due to it being a tutorial, skills didn’t come out .

But compared to the three he killed when he started off in the past it was not that bad .

As he also got perception runes which increases his overall perception, the start was pretty good .

‘I even got something like this . ’

Hansoo laughed as he saw the sword with a sharp edge .

This well balanced and sharp Podao was one of the more useful items out of the ones you can get in the beginning .

It wasn’t a great weapon but compared to the ones that lost their edge with a few swings, it was much better .

With the dagger attached inside and the Podao attached by his waist, his whole body had multiple scars .

Since he rushed in order to end it fast .

Hansoo, who had finished his basic preparations, thought of the things he needed to do at this moment .

‘Firstly… I won’t be able to meet them . ’

He was a 1st year adventurer .

On the other hand, Keldian, Kangtae and Eres were 19 to 20 years adventurers .

Since they started 20 years ahead, they were probably running way ahead of him .

So Hansoo thought of the next thing .

‘Well telling them about the Abyss is rejected . ’

The dimensional corrosion of the Abyss was sped up depending on how much the corroded dimension knew about the strength, intel and skill of the Abyss .

Like ink spreading in the water .

If intel about the Abyss were to spread, the invasion of the Abyss will start earlier .

‘First, strengthening myself is of utmost importance . ’

He was here to change the flow of water .

But the strength to change that flow of water was the start and of utmost importance .

And with that Hansoo thought of his friends .

Eres, Kangtae and Keldian .

It was planned that they were to all return together with him .

Unlike him, who had become strong by struggling intensively, their every action was close to a guidebook .

And their survival was because of their strength .

‘How did they say they did it?’

They told him in the past .

How they got strong in the beginning .

Eres told him .

‘Rejected . ’

It didn’t fit his personality and more than anything one needed to be at the level of Eres to do that .

Next is Keldian .

And Keldian ate all the runes as he quickly rushed out .

‘In my view Keldian might have stimulated them a little . ’

But Hansoo shook his head .

There was the words of Eres and him, who had come to save the humankind, doing that sort of thing is absurd .

And there was more bad than good on the long term if that were to happen .

If you kill somebody a rune will appear but it didn’t mean that the person who took the rune will become as strong as the dead person combined with them .

Since runes didn’t drop in large numbers .

In reality, the man who died earlier had more than 20 together if you combined his strength and stamina but the only thing that was dropped was a strength rune .

If you see from the point of a society, coexistence was the answer . That was the reason why Eres, who had included everyone, was able to stay as a leader until the end .

More than anything else if he were to think of his plans, killing a person to get a rune is forbidden .

It might be different if they were to kill though .

‘How did Gangtae say he did it?’

‘… . this doesn’t help either . ’

His luck was too good .

Agility was one of the most useful stats out of the beginning stats .

The increase of reaction speed allowed one to easily dominate over others .

And there should be a limit to how lucky one can be, killing a tutorial goblin and getting a regeneration rune .

The methods of those 3 did not fit him .

Actually, their methods were a bit lacking .

He needed a way to leap over their standards and rush forward with dominance .

And Hansoo knew about that .

‘Something like this existed . ’

A long time ago, one of his comrades from the Final Brigade told him .

The tutorial area where 10,000 people were trapped for 3 months .

In this place, there was a hidden dungeon .

For a beginner, the difficulty was out of the question . So getting to the end was a failure . But just getting to that point will allow one to have an immense headstart that cannot be compared to others .

He, who had only gotten to the halfway mark after a long struggle, got strong enough to the point of becoming one of the Final Brigade .

Becoming one of the Final Brigade meant that one was within the top 100 strongest people of mankind .

And for that, it was one of the most important location for the tutorial area .

This world was not fit for mankind to survive but one thing was clear .

Something that was harder, seemed close to impossible will grant a larger reward when completed .

‘First, I must gain that . ’

Hansoo made his primary goal .