It's My First Time with a Hunter Association Request-1
It's My First Time with a Hunter Association Request-1
"Appraisal complete."
Jin Mu took the orb handed over by the Korea Hunter Association appraiser and checked the information.
[Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch]
An orb imbued with the loyalty offered to an emperor of an ancient empire that was once powerful, but is now forgotten.
The difference between a good and bad artifact, or what makes one useful or useless, isn't in the name or the description.
What matters is the performance. And what kind of skill is attached to it. If there is one, what kind of skill it is, that's what's important.
In that sense, the orb-type artifact Jin Mu was checking, Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch, was an artifact for typical mage-type Hunters.
The artifact's grade was B+.
It significantly increases the owner's mana capacity.
It also increases the mana recovery speed. Besides that, it increases the efficiency of necromancy-type skills, so the effects themselves are quite useful.
However, that alone wouldn't make it a B-grade artifact.
Even so, the reason Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch was classified as B+ was because of its skill.
A skill with the somewhat simple name, Undead Elite Guard.
The effect of the skill is simple.
You can summon undead.
Anywhere from 4 to 16 of them. And, the types of undead summoned vary each time, so it does require a bit of luck.
Still, being able to summon and control undead was a huge merit.
Especially since there weren't even any real restrictions on using the skill, which is why Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch became a B+ grade.
Seriously.
"To think she'd put an artifact like this up for general auction without even appraising it. Who on earth is that woman..."
Jin Mu muttered in a hollow voice.
At the same time, he became curious.
Kang Yeo-ryeong. An A-rank Hunter. She hadn't been registered as an official Hunter for long, but she was a Hunter who received an A-rank from the start.
The reason was simple.
It's because she's a Hunter specialized in recovery and buffs.
In particular, listening to the staff member who oversaw her exam, they said the effect of her recovery-type skills was absurd.
Besides that, he recalled the staff member explaining that they originally intended to measure her as S-rank, but if that fact were revealed, it was obvious that not only domestic guilds but even foreign countries would try to get her by any means necessary, so they had no choice but to measure her as A-rank.
Of course, there was no problem since they received consent from the person in question through that explanation.
However, that's exactly why he was curious.
She had just become a Hunter. And the only gate she had entered was the Dungeon-type Gate, Mansion of the Dead. Where on earth did she get an artifact like this?
Someone might say that Kang Yeo-ryeong hid a crafting-type skill, made this, and tried to sell it as an unappraised artifact.
However, that's something only a layperson who doesn't know much about Hunters would spout.
In the first place, artifacts made with crafting-type skills don't need appraisal.
Especially since the creator's name is engraved in the artifact's description.
In other words, even if Kang Yeo-ryeong had a crafting-type skill, it doesn't mean she made Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch.
Perhaps.
"Is there something hidden in the Mansion of the Dead?"
Jin Mu muttered again in a cautious voice.
Mansion of the Dead.
It's a Dungeon-type Gate classified as only C-rank.
Everything that could be revealed has already been revealed. Could it be that something not yet discovered is hidden there?
And, did Kang Yeo-ryeong find the remaining secret and obtain this artifact?
He didn't know.
Information was lacking. It was lacking, way too lacking.
But he couldn't dig into her past.
No matter how suspicious the other party was, if it were revealed that the Hun-hyeop had investigated an individual based solely on suspicion... let alone if it was a Hunter. Especially a pure supporter specialized in recovery and buffs. A Hunter who is called by names like Imperial Family or Mother in some circles.
The things that would happen if the truth were discovered would be unimaginable.
Therefore, there was only one thing Jin Mu could do now.
Inform the original owner of the artifact, Kang Yeo-ryeong, about the information regarding Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch.
And furthermore, just register Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch in an auction worthy of it.
As Jin Mu was watching the Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch in his hand with a complex and subtle expression,
Kang Yeo-ryeong had already left the Hun-hyeop building a long time ago.
[Title: Do you guys even know this while browsing the gallery?]
A new post appeared on the Hunter Gallery.
Not the Preliminary Hunter Gallery, but the Hunter Gallery.
However, the newly uploaded post was no different from being a step behind.
That's because the content of the post, uploaded by someone anonymously, was already known to everyone who needed to know.
Besides, countless posts with similar content had already been uploaded.
The main point of the content was about an item registered in the Silver-grade auction house, one of the auction houses where only qualified people can enter, consisting of Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, not a general auction.
The B+ grade artifact, Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch, which Kang Yeo-ryeong once put up for general auction as an unappraised artifact, and whose information was now revealed to the world through the Hun-hyeop's appraiser.
Since it was an artifact that could have caused a bloodbath within the Hun-hyeop if things had gone wrong, the reactions of the comments on the post were obvious.
There were comments mocking the author's information-gathering skills for being a beat late.
There were also comments cursing the Hun-hyeop, saying that the Hun-hyeop forcibly transferred an item that was originally in the general auction to the Silver-grade auction.
Kang Yeo-ryeong said while slowly reading the posts coming up on the Hunter Gallery.
"It's nothing more than a simple toy. It seems there are surprisingly many children who can't even play with a single toy."
If someone had heard Kang Yeo-ryeong's muttering, they would have been terrified.
At Kang Yeo-ryeong, who dismissed an artifact, and a B+ grade one at that, as a toy.
After wandering around various galleries for a while and reading various posts, the last place Kang Yeo-ryeong stopped by was the Preliminary Hunter Gallery.
It was a place commonly called Ye-heon-gal.
[Title: Ugh, Ye-bung-i wants to go outside....]
(Roughly a cute picture)
There are too many weird middle-aged men outside Ye-bung-i's house...
I want to go outside but I can't...
Kang Yeo-ryeong posted on the Ye-heon-gal.
Of course, not with a fixed nickname, but with a burner account.
Naturally, the post Kang Yeo-ryeong uploaded didn't get much attention.
It's a gallery where hundreds of similar posts are uploaded every day.
Even if Kang Yeo-ryeong added a new one now, they weren't the type of people to react.
Of course, that doesn't mean there were no comments at all.
-What kind of concept is this again?
-Must have nothing better to do.
-Tsk tsk, go do some manual labor instead of writing this kind of useless post.
They were all comments dripping with gloomy and sticky malice.
The kind of malice often shown by those who wanted to become Hunters but couldn't.
Kang Yeo-ryeong didn't care.
They are children with tough lives.
Shouldn't they at least vent their stress like this?
More than that, right now.
"They're really persistent children."
Kang Yeo-ryeong said, glancing around.
The scouts who had followed her from the Hun-hyeop were hiding in various places, watching her even at this very moment.
A strange desire was embedded in their eyes.
A desire bordering on madness to somehow make Kang Yeo-ryeong join their guild no matter what.
Kang Yeo-ryeong couldn't understand the madness they harbored at all.
Why on earth were they so obsessed with her?
Because the character Hunter Kang Yeo-ryeong, set up with a clumsy backstory, is a pure support-type Hunter specialized in recovery and buffs?
That alone was a bit lacking.
Of course, she knew that her abilities as Hunter Kang Yeo-ryeong were important to them.
However, it made no sense to show such a strange, almost insane desire for just that.
The memories from her time as a human also agreed with Kang Yeo-ryeong's opinion.
In other words, there is another reason why they want her.
Having vaguely guessed that fact, Kang Yeo-ryeong briefly thought, 'Should I open up the head of one of them?' but.
"Yeah, right. From a human perspective, that would be a bit much."
Kang Yeo-ryeong said, nodding her head.
As soon as she thought about opening their heads, the memories from her time as a human urgently shouted.
That she shouldn't do that.
Didn't she say it time and time again?
To look at them from a human perspective, not a Mother's perspective. And to act according to their eye level.
Kang Yeo-ryeong accepted the feedback urgently given by the memories from her time as a human, and turned her attention away from them.
Instead, Kang Yeo-ryeong turned her gaze back to the gallery.
Sometimes with a burner account. Sometimes as a non-fixed user.
She writes and posts all sorts of things on the Preliminary Hunter Gallery.
The content of the posts Kang Yeo-ryeong uploaded were all meaningless, useless posts or no different from troll posts.
Like the shitposts or lewd pictures she collected while wandering around the gallery for the past few days.
It seemed she posted even more because the memories from her time as a human would have a seizure when she posted pictures of children who were 'a little' old by human standards.
Also, the memories from her time as a human heaved a deep sigh at Kang Yeo-ryeong, who smiled as if she were having fun while posting all sorts of bizarre things.
How on earth did it end up like this?
Was she originally this kind of personality? Or did she change like this after encountering the internet?
Like that, Kang Yeo-ryeong, who was doing things that the memories from her time as a human couldn't possibly understand, had her smartphone suddenly emit a buzzing vibration.
Her gaze shifted slightly to the smartphone screen.
On the smartphone screen, a message sent from the Hun-hyeop was displayed.
The content was simple.
It was a question asking if she could come to the Hun-hyeop right now.
Did something happen?
Or is there some problem with the Loyalty Offered to the Fallen Monarch that they took?
Well, whatever it is.
"As an adult, I can't keep doing these meaningless things forever, right?"
Kang Yeo-ryeong muttered in a low voice, turned off the computer, stood up from her seat, and moved.
As she went outside the house, the mad gazes of the hiding children became even more intense.
However, Kang Yeo-ryeong, as if the obsessive gazes of those children, which were no different from madness, didn't matter at all.
She just took a taxi and headed to the Hun-hyeop.