Author: Black Ajin
Category: Action
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Leveling with the Gods
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Chapter 14
Choi JaeHyun couldn’t believe what unfolded in front of his eyes.
“How… is this even possible?”
YuWon didn’t make any big movements. He simply stood in his spot, cutting down people one at a time as they entered the circle. So when he finally left the circle…
“Uhh, ahhhh…!”
“P-Please save me—!”
“Ahhhhck!”
The people that were attacking YuWon started fleeing instead. But it was useless. With his high Dexterity stat, he caught up to them in the blink of an eye, chopping off their heads. Around the time he had decapitated another 10 people, someone dared to grab one of YuWon’s essence.
Slash—
“Ahhhh!”
YuWon immediately ran back, cutting off the guy’s arm without any hesitation. It was total chaos. A massacre by a single man. Even the witnesses couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
‘So numbers didn’t matter.’
JaeHyun thought he was adjusting to this world pretty well. His base stats were high from the start, and after leveling quickly by hunting, he thought he should have been ahead of everyone else.
That was a misculation. From the moment he thought an individual couldn’t win against numbers, he had failed to grasp the essence of this world.
Stab—
With his knife, YuWon pierced the heart of the man that crossed into his circle. And with that, YuWon’s massacre of the enemies that tried to steal his essence ended.
“… What a mess.”
YuWon picked up his box and moved spots.
Slosh, splash—
Not minding the pool of blood around him, he crossed over it and walked right up to the gate, as if he had planned on being there from the beginning.
[02 : 04 : 18]
Not a lot of time remained. After picking his spot, he drew another circle on the ground, setting up right in front of the gate.
Woom, woooom—
The gate started howling. Seeing the once transparent gate inch closer to activation, people started getting really nervous.
There was no longer anyone who dared to challenge YuWon.
‘Since he’s there, I can enter the gate right after I purchase the essence.’
‘I have 43, so I only need 700 points…’
‘What do I do? I only have 200 points…’
Everyone in the crowd scrambled around, anxiously observing each other.
That’s when JaeHyun stepped forward, “I’ll buy it.”
Surprised, DooShik tried to stop JaeHyun.
“Hyung-nim!”
“What?”
“Are you really going to buy them? Do you even have the points…?”
“I asked the Lackey earlier, and he told me he’d give me 500 points for this,” JaeHyun said while waving the weapon in his hand. It was the most expensive item he was able to buy in the Shop, having paid 1,000 points for it. Despite having only used it for a few days, its value had plummeted by half.
“But still…”
“Try and think this through, DooShik.”
“Huh?”
“What do you think will happen if we try and kill someone here?”
DooShik had a confused look at JaeHyun’s question. Frustrated, JaeHyun let out a deep sigh before whispering, “None of the essence he has was stolen. It was all obtained by hunting.”
“How do you know that?”
“How many monsters do you think he had to kill in order to get that strong?”
DooShik went mute at JaeHyun’s question. He couldn’t even fathom the sheer number of monsters that YuWon must have slaughtered the past three days to become that strong. It finally clicked in his brain how YuWon was able to collect so much essence. He had hunted that many monsters to raise his level so much.
‘Besides, that guy…’
JaeHyun stared at YuWon who was waiting in front of the gate to conduct business.
‘Despite being able to, hasn’t taken any of the essence from the guys he just killed.’
It was because of honor. If YuWon took and sold someone else’s essence, that would ruin his plans. He wouldn’t be “trading,” but “thieving” instead. In order to convince the rest of the people to buy his essence, he couldn’t take anyone else’s. Additionally, with his display of force, he had proved to the crowd that all his essence was fairly obtained by hunting monsters.
“If anyone tries to kill someone else first, they will become everyone’s target.”
JaeHyun originally thought that the Tutorial was a lawless zone. However, he realized he was wrong. Even though the laws of the old world no longer existed, it was impossible for something like a truly lawless zone to exist. As long as more than three people were present, there was bound to be at least some unspoken laws and rules.
‘In this world, the law is written by the strong,’ JaeHyun thought, and currently YuWon was the one calling the shots.
Step, step—
JaeHyun approached YuWon.
YuWon didn’t do a thing, as JaeHyun held his hand out, showing that he intended to purchase essence.
“Please give me seven.”
YuWon nodded his head and shook hands with JaeHyung.
[You obtained 700 points.]
The first trade was made. YuWon grabbed seven essence from the box and handed it to JaeHyun.
Having collected 50 essence, JaeHyun crossed over into the gate.
After that…
“M-Me too!”
“Me too…!”
“Seven for me!”
“Ten for me…!”
“Does anyone have any spare points? I promise to pay you back in the next Tutorial…”
The street had turned into a marketplace.
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SeongChan had a disappointed face after hearing that from YuWon, but they had half expected it. Still, disappointment is unavoidable when your hopes are crushed.
YuWon shrugged his shoulders at the expressions on their faces. “Besides, even if I wanted to go, I can’t. Because I’m not going.”
“What?”
“What do you mean you’re not going?”
JooYeon and SeongChan were confused.
YuWon flipped over his inventory pouch. Not a single thing fell out from inside it.
“It’s because I don’t have any more essence.”
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