This story begins like so many others: an unknown, powerful force divided space and time, leading to an invasion of monsters from another world. Humans managed to survive, and they called this apocalypse the Magic Wave. To balance the universe, humans were given a system of professions that expanded their abilities.
They could awaken random starting talents within the system and choose different professions. Such awakened people were called Professionals. In order to successfully continue fighting monsters, people created academies where they trained future warriors based on real events.
Thanks to the system of integration into the game, students could train in real conditions. After completing all the theoretical courses of the academy, the students awaited the momentous day of awakening their talents, as well as their first steps into the Copies, which was the name of the dungeons in this world. The academy principal was confident that after so many years of training, they were ready to become professionals.
Their future task would be to protect humanity, even if it required sacrificing themselves to do so. After such a loud and enthusiastic speech, it was time to undergo the talent awakening ritual. Our hero, named Lin, was also one of the students who were to undergo the awakening today.
He had been looking forward to this day and was now joyfully excited. Talent awakening was crucial for a future professional; talents were divided into ordinary, rare, legendary, and finally, mythical. Although there were rumors about mythical talents, in reality, there had been no confirmed existence of a mythical talent since the awakening of mankind.
When it came to professions, swordsmen and mages were the most desired, followed by assassins, summoners, and warriors. Priests, on the other hand, were the most disrespected of all professions due to their low healing, poor mobility, and complete lack of attack abilities. The other professions were able to clear normal Copies alone with their powerful equipment and high-quality talent, which was not the case with priests.
In extremely difficult Copies, Mages and Summoners would often replace the role of the priest. That was how the priests, who were forced to hide behind the team, became a complete, useless laughing stock. While our hero was pondering this, he was called over by his childhood friend and asked what profession he wanted to choose.
Lya replied that there was no point in thinking about it now because he would only be able to realize which profession suited him when he awakened his talent. With a disgruntled snort, she said that she had asked just for fun. Her name was Su Mumu, and like him, she was also a student of the academy.
Because of her beauty and personality, all the guys considered her a goddess and wished that she would look in their direction at least once. However, the only one she allowed to treat her well was our hero, for whom she was like a little sister whom he took care of in every possible way. Naturally, the other guys were very annoyed by this.
They did not understand how such an ordinary guy like him could be friends with such a beautiful girl. In their opinion, he had always deliberately made himself cool, although he was actually a complete loser, and they were very interested to see what kind of talent he would awaken. At the same time, a bright pillar of light fell from the sky; some guy had awakened a talent called Powerful, which gave a 50% increase in strength skills.
The appearance of such a rare talent caused admiration and excitement. This talent was perfect for the Power Warrior profession, and everyone was sure that he would definitely become the best warrior in this competition. However, right now, this guy was more interested in what talent Lin would receive.
He was just as annoyed as the others that Mumu was treating Lin in a special way. Mumu at this time wanted to shout at the guys to stop saying bad things about Lin, but he stopped her and told her to ignore them. The girl grudgingly asked why he never paid attention to other people's opinions.
The reason for this was quite simple: he was always sure that he would become the strongest, and so there was no need to worry about such trifles. Besides, this was the only way he could avenge his past and the death of his parents and make sure it wouldn't happen again in the future. After the death of his parents, he had been rescued by Mumu's family, and so now he felt it was his duty to protect them.
Just at this time, it was his turn for talent awakening. After stroking the embarrassed Mumu's head, he went to the magic circle where his fate was to be determined. As soon as he stepped on the circle, it shone with a bright light.
Already in the next moment, our hero fell into an unknown dimension. In the middle of this space shone a bright golden light, which was supposed to be the place of awakening of talent. As soon as Lin touched the bright light, two dragons instantly burst out from there: a light dragon and a dark dragon.
They possessed him, causing his body to glow with a bright light. A system window appeared in front of Lin, informing him that he had obtained a mythical talent called Heaven and Earth Reversal. The system also immediately asked if our hero wished to hide it.
The first level of this skill could cancel and enhance all the skills imposed on him if upgraded to a higher level; however, it could change the very nature of skills. At the moment, the current reinforcement effect reduced mana consumption by 10%, and the transformation effect changed buffs to debuffs and vice versa. In simple terms, he could.
. . freely undo any effects applied to him.
If one skillfully used this skill, then theoretically enemies would never be able to defeat him. However, the problem was still common physical attacks, as well as the use of the priest's healing skills on him, which could break his invulnerability and directly harm him. This was the reason why this talent needed to be hidden.
After all, no one had to know about his strengths and weaknesses. Upon returning to the real world, the system informed everyone that our hero's talent was hidden. Lena had not even told this yet to the excited Momo, who was eagerly waiting for this moment.
The others, however, thought that he had hidden his talent because he was worthless and was ashamed of it. However, Lena didn't even think of paying attention to their words. It was only to his advantage that they thought of him as a weakling.
At the same time, it was time for Mumu to awaken his talent. Lina, on the other hand, had to choose his profession through the goddess statue standing nearby. All he had to do was pick a card with the profession he wished to obtain.
Based on the strength of his talent, our hero was certain that his talent was a divine skill. In order to maximize its power, he had to be sure to compensate for his weaknesses. That was why he chose a card with the profession of a priest.
Even the unprejudiced statue asked him to confirm his choice of profession once more, as he was currently the only student in this session who had decided to become a priest. However, this was no mistake, and Lena confidently confirmed his choice. The very next moment, a golden light burst out from the card and enveloped him.
The change of profession was officially complete. Our hero received a cool priest's cloak as well as a staff in the shape of a cross. In addition, he now had a status window that displayed all of his characteristics.
With the choice of profession, he got two skills: Healing Art, as well as Clarity Art, which restored the Mana of the target. In addition, L currently possessed the Heaven and Earth Reversal Talent, which turned healing into an attack. As he expected, the skill was interpreted as reducing health rather than dealing damage.
It was because of this that the target's defense and armor were not hindered, which was equivalent to true damage. The total amount of damage dealt in this way was slightly less than the initial damage from mage skills, but if the enemy had magic resistance, the advantage remained with our hero. His second skill was the CL Art, with which he could create an imperceptible Mana drain that could prevent mages from using their main spells at a crucial moment.
With this strategy, the approach to combat was pretty clear to our hero. The only thing he had to be wary of were the healing skills or buffs of his allies, for with his talent, it could do more harm than good. Seeing that Linya had chosen the profession of a priest, the other students began to scoff, for they were sure that he just wanted to hide behind the backs of his teammates.
At the same time, Mumu awakened a legendary talent called Bionic Tears, thanks to which she could summon spirits from another world to fight for her. Naturally, this caused even more admiration in her direction, while our hero became even more hated. When it came time to choose a profession, she chose the profession of a mage.
It was a profession that really suited her, according to the people around her. A mage with a legendary talent definitely had the potential to become a full-fledged member of the professional alliance. The principal of the academy, however, was interested in something else entirely.
It had been a long time since any of the students had chosen the profession of a priest. However, from the mood of the guy who had chosen it today, one could not tell that he had done so reluctantly. Finished with his choice of profession, Mumu excitedly immediately ran up to Lena and offered to go to copies together.
However, he refused, explaining that he had other plans. His words shocked the girl because she could not believe that he was going to go through the challenge alone. The very next moment, the system announced the start of the novice competition and called for students who had completed the talent awakening and profession shift to form teams.
Right after that, some confident guy approached our hero and asked him to talk to Mumu for him and offer her to join his team. As a reward, he promised to take him along in case he followed his orders. L was completely uninterested in this, so he refused.
Suddenly, the academy principal appeared near them and reminded them that teamwork was needed in the competition and that even with enough talent, it was very difficult to face the hordes of demons alone. He suggested that our hero put aside his differences and accept the offer. However, L had a completely different opinion on the matter.
He believed that going through the competition alone gave more experience and rewards. This was indeed true; however, according to the principal's opinion, soloing with the priest profession was impossible. He again advised L to think carefully because, after all, what happened in the competition affected reality.
If he encountered danger, he could indeed die. However, even after saying that, our hero did not change his mind. He needed to raise his level as quickly as possible because until his strength was powerful enough, he wouldn't be able to reveal his divine talent in front of others.
The academy principal didn't know this, so naturally, he didn't understand why he was so confident as soon as L approached the. . .
"Teleport," the system warned, "that it was dangerous to go through the Newbie challenge alone," and then asked if he was really confident in his choice. But even here, our hero did not change his mind. It was from this moment that his becoming the strongest professional of this world began.
After passing through the portal, he entered the competition area which was called the Forest of Wolves. The system recommended newcomers to take this challenge in a team, as the difficulty of the challenge was determined to be high. The location itself was a forest with packs of bloodthirsty wolves.
Even in our hero's opinion, the Forest of Wolves was quite a difficult level for students who were taking part in the challenge for the first time. Going through it cooperatively, it was possible to avoid getting lost; however, getting a B- rating was already considered a good result. Around the middle of this area, there was a healing spring where all professionals could restore their health.
Because of it, the priest's status and usefulness in this location were reduced even more. However, there were also many dangers in the challenge. Very often, negligence in not eliminating wolves along the way or going deeper into the forbidden zone led to fatalities.
However, since our hero had a Divine Talent, he simply couldn't be satisfied with an ordinary ranking. The legendary forbidden lands were his target because only there would he be able to raise his level as quickly as possible. As soon as our hero went deeper into the forest, he immediately encountered several wolves.
They were quite formidable in appearance, but they were only level one and had only three abilities: bite, bleeding, and howl. Upon seeing our hero, they instantly rushed towards him. Lena immediately activated his ability, and in the next instant, he used healing on the wolf.
However, as you might have already guessed, this was no ordinary healing; it was inverted healing, and it dealt 50 points of true damage to the wild wolf. The first wolf was defeated; however, two others immediately rushed at our hero. One of the wolves managed to get close to him and bite him, but as it turned out, it was of no use at all.
Even on the contrary, his attack added to our hero's health. This was the reverse effect; the wolf's skill was also inverted. Our hero was not going to stop there and applied the reverse mode of the Clarity skill, which was the Imprisonment technique.
In an instant, the wolf was bound in chains, and its mana began to decrease. This technique depleted the opponent's mana, causing the target to remain unable to move. It was quite effective against low-level mobs with low mana reserves.
With the second one unfinished, the last opponent remained. After dodging the attack, he once again used the healing technique, which, just like last time, destroyed the wolf. The first time one mob gave 10 experience points, so if our hero destroyed all the mobs in this area, he would be able to gain level four.
His real target, however, was the last hidden boss, and even with a one-level difference, he wasn't a problem. The wolves continued to attack while he continued to destroy them one by one. He had thoroughly prepared for this day, and he had every chance of winning.
Turning off the reverse mode, he used the Clarity Art technique to recover. He was rewarded for reaching the second level with two free attributes and immediately put all the points into intelligence, without a second thought. The reason for this choice was that his ability was healing without taking damage and constantly recovering mana at the same time.
The academy principal, who was watching the trial, was shocked. This area was forbidden to explore during school; yet, he had not only entered it but also intended to fight a hidden five-level boss. It was almost impossible to do it alone.
If that one wasn't purposefully seeking death, he probably had a hidden talent of at least legendary level. Well, since he wasn't going to reveal it just yet, the principal decided to take a closer look at other worthy candidates first. Some unknown man standing next to the principal laughed and said that he was betting that this desperate guy would break the record.
Though he had heard from the principal that there was one girl worthy of being a candidate, in his opinion, she lacked fire. By that girl, they meant Mumu. She and her group continued to advance and soon came across Ross, a wolf.
Mumu immediately used the Frost Flash technique and instantly killed the wolf. However, the problem was that two more opponents suddenly appeared. Mumu immediately grabbed her companions and rushed to run away; however, thinking that this way her goddess status would be completely violated, she decided to stay and give battle.
She still had a trump card up her sleeve, so she activated her Bionic Tears talent. Without a second thought, her exact copy appeared beside her, and together they attacked the wolves with Frost Flash. As expected, she was able to win, and now they were safe.
At the same time, Lena continued to kill wolves and was soon able to reach the third level. His level-up rate was even faster than he had planned; reaching the fourth level was very close. Soon he was able to find his target, namely the dark descendant of the Wolf King, which was that five-level boss.
Its characteristics were much higher than the other wolves. Upon seeing any creature, he would ruthlessly attack it, while the other wolves throughout the forest were his subordinates who obediently followed his orders. For newcomers, he was considered a forbidden monster; for it was because of him that countless gifted students were killed.
However, even knowing this, our hero was not going to back down. He noticed. .
. That most of the Wolves were almost always near their King, but even they sometimes had to leave to go about their business. It was during these times that Ly would find them one by one and mercilessly destroy them.
He continued to stick to his tactic: destroy all the weak mobs and then go for the final boss. While the King's number of subordinates was decreasing, Lena's level was increasing. After a while, he managed to reach the fourth level.
It was about time to destroy the final boss. After noticing his subordinates missing and sensing that something was wrong, the wolf boss turned around, but it was too late; Ly was already here to deal with him. The Wolf King really had a terrifying amount of health and high attack stats that exceeded that of ordinary wild wolves 50 times.
If some newcomer were to face him, he would be killed with just one blow. However, for our hero, his attacks were nothing; moreover, they were healing him as well as strengthening his muscles and bones. It was a true divine talent; he could deal with such a strong opponent just by standing still.
After a while, the wolf was exhausted, and Ly's healing technique had already been recharged by then. In the next instant, he attacked the wolf. However, the latter wasn't that easy either.
Even after losing some of his health, he attacked our hero with a basic claw attack, and this was already dangerous. It was very much like the wolf had realized everything. He also used the rage skill.
However, even so, it was impossible for him to win. If he had his pack with him right now, Ly might have had a hard time; however, since he was only alone here, he didn't stand a chance. A notification appeared in front of our hero that the recharge of the healing skill had been completed.
Just a moment later, a huge bright beam of light fell from the sky, which fell directly on the Wolf King. He had no chance of surviving after such a thing. For killing him, Ly received a thousand experience points, thus raising his level to fifth.
He also received an entry-level bronze chest, but it still wasn't all reward. For completing all the hidden achievements—killing the final boss, Dark Wolf King, without using any destructive skills and killing 30 wild wolves—Ly's score for completing this location was upgraded to SSS level. An additional reward he also received was an advanced-level silver chest.
Our hero was satisfied with the result. If his reverse healing was considered an attack skill, he might not have been able to achieve such a grade. At the same time, the information that some student had completed the test and received an SSS grade appeared in front of everyone watching.
Everyone present was shocked, for they had just witnessed a true historical event. The academy principal knew that it was only possible to achieve such a result by completing all the hidden achievements. From his data, only Linya dared to enter the Forbidden Lands.
The second condition, however, was to pass the level without taking damage. The unknown man couldn't believe that it was possible to do this alone. Mumu was also surprised; she was curious to know who this guy was.
At the same time, our hero decided to finally open the silver treasure chest. He obtained a Divine Healing skill book, five attribute points, and silver-quality equipment: a shadow dagger. The first thing Ly decided to do was test the dagger.
As it turned out, it increased the wielder's attack power by 50, increased armor penetration by 10, and also had a 5% chance of causing the opponent to bleed. Next was the Divine Healing skill, which blessed all allies within a 10-meter radius with holy power and restored their health. Reverse Divine Healing was much more useful; it allowed you to curse all enemies within a 10-meter radius with evil energy.
Enemies in this area lost their health and also received the effect of bleeding. Although this skill had a rather long cooldown and high mana costs, according to Linya, it was not a problem in the early stages. A skill with such high damage was already the strongest skill in the early stage.
Furthermore, when combined with the clarity skill, the recharge time became negligible, creating an endless cycle. With such skills, he had already surpassed even the strongest Mage class. He decided to sell the dagger because he could no longer afford to spend the money of his aunt and uncle, who had already done so much for him.
The five free attribute points were a real jackpot because it was very difficult to get them. Aside from the two points that came naturally after leveling up, the only way to get them was to perform special tasks in the secret realm circles or open hidden chests. All the extra attribute points Ly had obtained, he decided to add to his intelligence.
From this day onwards, he decided to become the ultimate Mage and the most destructive catastrophic priest. As soon as the portal shone with a bright light, everyone present fidgeted excitedly. Since everyone had already passed the challenge, they assumed that only the person who had obtained the SSS rank should remain inside.
However, to everyone's surprise, Ly came out of there. No one could believe that our hero was able to obtain such a rank, so they began to assume that the student who obtained such a rank was still inside. Only Mumu was happy about Ly's appearance, and only she believed that he could obtain such a rank.
However, according to those around her, she was overestimating him because a priest alone would never be able to achieve such a thing. However, their mockery did not last long as soon as Ly took out the dagger. And asked if anyone would like to buy it.
They closed their mouths since the dagger was a silver-grade weapon. The disciples eagerly started haggling for it, constantly raising the price. Eventually, the price reached 50,000, which was an excellent price for a premium weapon.
Our hero was about to sell it for that price, but the very next moment, some woman offered $100,000. This was a huge amount of money, as the total income of an average family was 1,000 coins a year. In L's opinion, although it was a lot, it was quite a normal price for such a first-class dagger.
As soon as the auction ended, our hero was immediately surrounded by a group of his classmates. They were very curious to know what his level was and how he was able to get such a result. The academy principal, as well as the unknown man, were still puzzled by what had happened.
No one had ever managed to pull this off before, so they assumed that our hero had found a team after entering the dungeon. It was impossible to pass the challenge alone without taking damage, even for professionals at the top of the entry level. However, not everyone was happy about our hero's achievements.
In the opinion of his haters, he had cheated, as no priest would ever be able to achieve such a thing. Soon, it was time for the results to be announced. Starting today, they were no longer ordinary students; they were now trainees with extraordinary abilities.
In addition, in 30 days, they were to pass the most important milestones of their lives: the professional test. It was its results that would determine whether they would remain ordinary low-level adventurers or become heroes who would fight against demons. The director also advised that throughout this month, they should visit the initial dungeons more actively and strive to reach at least Level 10.
The prerequisite for this challenge was teamwork. Liy already knew who his partner would be. Despite the eternally cold image, Mumu was the one who needed care the most.
Although she had awakened a powerful talent, there were still many dangers that he had to protect her from. He could no longer allow that tragedy to happen again. Since they still needed to practice a lot, Lin suggested that Mumu skip dinner and go to a more dangerous dungeon.
This time, they arrived at the entrance of the dungeon, which had a choice of difficulty. The system recommended going through it in a group of 5 to 10 people. The dungeon, called The Stone Cave, was filled with countless poisonous scorpions.
The main task for its completion was to destroy the king of scorpions, who would go into a state of berserk if he was not defeated within a certain time. Our hero, without hesitation, chose the most difficult level because the higher the difficulty, the higher the monsters, and accordingly, the rewards were also more valuable. Usually, the initial dungeons had basically three levels of difficulty, but this dungeon had only two.
Seeing the difficulty that Liy had chosen, Mumu was worried. She trusted our hero; however, she was afraid that she could prevent him from passing the dungeon without taking damage. Lin assured her that it wasn't a problem because this dungeon had a skip function that allowed them to avoid monsters.
After analyzing the available data, our hero concluded that the monsters in this dungeon had been fixed and skipping them was quite possible. Mumu was delighted by L's deductive abilities. In fact, she had always known that he was hiding his true strength, and while his classmates were fooling around, he was studying hard.
Everyone thought he was a fool, and only she knew that it was far from true. She firmly believed that he would be the hero who would save the world. Soon, they found themselves in the Stone Dungeon.
Mumu immediately took notice of its beauty, while L warned her that this dungeon was more dangerous than the previous ones. Suddenly, the system informed her that due to insufficient participants, their team would be forcibly added to the other teams. This was not good news for our hero because now their problem was not only monsters but also competitors.
Suddenly, there was an explosion behind them. Some guy flew off and hit the wall. He was the same classmate who had mocked Lin.
He too had come here to level up; however, the dungeon was much more dangerous than he had imagined. When he looked around, he saw L and Mumu walking towards them. He immediately rushed towards them and started asking for help; however, our hero wasn't going to help such trash.
Leaving the guys to continue fighting the scorpions, he and Mumu went on their way together. Before fighting the Scorpion King, L warned Mumu that scorpions were very afraid of water and that they had a small attack range. She had to follow him and do everything he told her; only then could he guarantee that she wouldn't be poisoned.
Rushing at the huge monster, he also warned that they were very sensitive to sound. Lin was able to kill the monster with his one attack. Mumu was amazed at such strength, but our hero ordered her to keep it a secret.
Their primary task now was to take a unique route to avoid the attention of the monsters in the dungeon; they would go straight to the pond. Lin jumped into the water without a second thought. After some hesitation, Mumu followed him.
Once they got to the small island in the middle of the pond, Lin picked up a rock. It was the one he was going to use to attract the attention of the monsters—not only the huge army of scorpions but also their leader. Just when the scorpions heard this sound, they immediately abandoned their positions.
The other hunters rushed towards the pond. Also, this sound did not leave the poisonous Scorpion King unaffected either. Len waited impatiently for it to appear, but it only hissed furiously and did not approach.
Well, if he didn't approach himself, then our hero was going to do it himself. Creating a powerful spell, he attacked the scorpions. He began to continuously receive system notifications about killing monsters and gaining experience points.
The guys watching all of this were shocked at how much damage the priest had done. Mumu was also not going to stay away and created a copy of herself. Together with him, she started raining ice on the scorpions.
As a result, she was able to raise her level to fourth and received one attribute point. But that wasn't the end of it; now was the time to fight the Poisonous Scorpion King. Since all of his subordinates were dead, the king had no choice but to overcome his innate fear of water and rush towards our heroes.
Mumu attacked him with her ice spell but was only able to deal 10 points of damage. She was amazed at such a huge defense, but L assured her that she had nothing to worry about. After all, he already knew where the Scorpion King's core was located— all they had to do was hit it.
The monster continued to attack. Our hero had nothing to do but dodge its attacks together with Mumu, shooting spells at him. But even his spells only did 150 damage.
Once the Scorpion King stood to attack, our heroes had a chance to win. L shouted to Mumu to attack with an ice spell. The Poison Scorpion King only raised its body with this attack, thus revealing its weak spot on its belly.
Taking advantage of this, our hero had no problem defeating it with just one attack. Since they passed the dungeon without damage, the rating was raised to SSS level. They were rewarded with one golden treasure chest as well as five free stat points thanks to killing the Scorpion King and gaining experience.
Lena immediately reached the sixth level. Suddenly, the voices of the guys who were watching were heard; they immediately started apologizing and asking to take them under their wing. However, all our hero wanted them to do was to keep their mouths shut and not tell anyone about what they had seen today.
As they left the dungeon, he warned them that if they didn't, they would face the consequences. After moving into the teleportation space, Lin offered to open the gold chest. Even compared to the silver chest he had gotten last time, the gold chest was considered much more valuable.
The first item that fell out of the chest was a silver-grade two-handed hunting sword that increased attack by 200 units. Next was a gold-grade ice boots that increased dexterity and speed by 30% and also had the passive effect of ghostly footsteps. The gold-grade poison bubble skill book allowed one to store mana in a poison ball, which dealt damage when it collided with an enemy.
Finally, the silver-class emerald ring reduced the cooldown time of all skills by 10% and could also stack with the effects of other equipment. On top of all that, they also received five points of free attributes. Mumu was very surprised by the items that dropped out, while in our hero's opinion, the most valuable item was an emerald ring that reduced the time it took to recharge skills.
At the auction, you could get about a million coins for it. Since the poison bubble book was for mages, Lena gave it to Mumu without a second thought. Unfortunately, Mumu couldn't use it since she had already chosen the ice attribute.
However, to her surprise, the system window reported that the hidden skill "Master of the Five Elements" had been activated. An ordinary mage could only use one element, while she could now use as many as five. Even Lin was a bit surprised and advised her to study her new skill better.
After all, once she fully mastered it, it would be her trump card up her sleeve. On the way to the portal, Mumu asked our hero how he would use the five attribute points he had received, to which he replied that his methods would not be to her liking. At the exit of the dungeon, a group of the same people were waiting for them.
Seeing Mumu, most of the guys, as I expected, came inight. However, when they saw our hero nearby, they started discussing him again. Suddenly, someone's fancy car drove up to the dungeon, silencing everyone, and getting out of the car, its owner said that Mumu was as beautiful as they said she was.
Mumu immediately grabbed L and said that they should leave; she didn't like guys like that and didn't want to be there anymore. However, the guy had no intention of giving up and asked her to listen to him. Introducing himself as the heir of the Hang company, Hang Xao Fong offered to take a walk with him.
From the other students' conversations, it was clear that he had a bad reputation. Hiding behind L's back, Mumu replied that she already had a boyfriend. Shaun came to be puzzled because, compared to her, the guy seemed too ordinary.
This infuriated Shaun so much that he tried to push our hero away; however, he was defeated. Having gotten a reason to fight, he threw himself at Ling, but he lost the moment he decided to use the skill on our hero. For as soon as L activated the reverse looting technique, he turned Sha Fang's attack against himself.
After receiving a blow from himself, he fell to his knees and groaned. He irritably asked our hero what his class was. Lena said with an innocent face that he had.
. . done nothing to him, and that everyone could confirm it.
He was a priest, which meant he couldn't do damage to anyone. Deciding that the guy was just lucky, Shia Fang rushed forward to attack again. However, the very next moment, he realized that he couldn't move.
As it turned out, in addition to stealing damage, the Looting technique dealt additional damage. Even though he had only used half of his strength, the result was excellent. Shaoang still hadn't learned his lesson and started to threaten Linier.
Fortunately, he had a rather smart friend who immediately realized that our hero had a hidden talent. He immediately apologized to Linier for his friend's pranks. After pacifying his rowdy friend, who tried to resist, he advised Linga to be more careful in the future.
Handing him a card with money as compensation, he said that he hoped he wouldn't show his friend's face for the next month. However, Lena refused without a second thought; he was curious to see what he would try to do to him next time. Besides, it would surely be a great opportunity to see what he was capable of.
Now, after a while, there was shocking news on the forum about a speedrun strategy for a difficult level cave that allowed you to pass it in 1 minute and 30 seconds. A complete guide to reach SSS rank cost 5,000 Alliance coins. In addition to the strategy, an emerald ring and a hunting sword were also for sale on the forum.
Almost immediately, everyone started discussing the news vigorously. Some were ready to sell their house just to get the ring, while others thought that the guide was a fake, as it was simply impossible to speedrun dungeons of this level. Mumu, on the other hand, was concerned about the high price for some kind of guide.
However, our hero did not doubt his decision, because he knew that no one could refuse additional free attribute points. At first, professionals really doubted the correctness of the guide; however, interest soon took over, and they decided to buy and check it out. After buying the walkthrough, it turned out that it indeed was true.
As soon as positive feedback appeared on the forum from players who had already bought the guide, the rest of the players also rushed to buy it. More and more players successfully passed the dungeon with the guide, thereby advertising it more and more. As a result, even more players bought it in a short period of time.
His post rose to the top of the trend; absolutely everyone who bought it was praising its creator. Mumu was very shocked at the amount of money Ly had gotten in such a short time. It had gone so viral that information about it had even reached the heads of large companies.
They were very curious to know who the author of this guide was, but the exact information about his identity was not available. It was only known that it was a student of Jang Academy. Smiling, the unknown man said that he had heard that something interesting had happened there this year.
At the same time, someone wanted to buy the item that L had put up for sale. The buyer immediately agreed to the price of 8,000 coins and wished to receive it as soon as possible. As a result, they agreed to meet in a few minutes outside the school dungeon.
Mumu was delighted at how much our hero was able to earn; however, Lena himself had been counting on this from the beginning. Right now, he was more interested in the speed of his level up. They needed to clear more dungeons as soon as possible.
After all, silver rank weapons, although they were the best early on, would still have to be replaced eventually. However, even with the maximum quality weapons, without combat training, one was just fodder in the trials. One had to improve their combat skills as well.
Mumu remembered that Lin wanted to become stronger as quickly as possible and therefore didn't understand why he was wasting time strategizing and trying hard to earn money. A smile appeared on our hero's face; the reason was very simple: this money was to protect the people he cared about. In his previous life, he had no parents and had never experienced the warmth of a family.
Yes, he had come into this world, and things had changed. He was lucky he had loving parents who loved him and protected him at the cost of their lives. However, after his parents died, his relatives only wished for his death.
All they wanted was to take the legacy his parents had left him. Everyone thought he was useless trash, and no one wanted to take him in. Luckily, he was taken in by Mumu's family.
They took care of him and even helped him get his legacy back, not wanting to get anything in return. His relatives, who tried to take away his legacy, were brought to court and received the punishment they deserved. All of this was only because of the care of his aunt and uncle.
That's why he wanted to protect them and make sure they didn't need anything. As soon as our hero approached the school dungeon, a small, cute girl in armor approached him, introducing herself as G. She asked if he was the one selling the hunting sword.
Lena didn't immediately believe that she was the buyer; after all, her nickname on the forum was "Muscular Manro. " However, after some time of persuasion, the girl managed to convince our hero. Lena suggested that perhaps she might have just put all her points into strength.
Before concluding the deal, our hero advised her to check the goods, because after the final sale, there could not be any refunds. Taking out a sword from his inventory, he threw it directly to her. XI, as it turned out, her physical strength really matched her forum nickname; she could freely swing even such a huge sword.
She was satisfied with the quality of the sword and even asked, “Was he really selling it for only 8 thousand, since the price in the market for the same sword was about twice as much? ” However, her assessment was completely wrong, and as it turned out, the reason for this was that she was not good at math and did not know how to count money. Lena advised her to check the market price more carefully next time before buying something.
This was roughly how their transaction ended. After saying goodbye, our hero was about to leave, but the golden light that suddenly hit him stopped him. The system immediately informed him that he had received the Goddess of Luck enhancement.
Now, every time he cleared the dungeon, he could improve the chest by one level. This was this girl's talent; she really wanted to join his group, so she asked him to bring her along. Lena was really surprised because the talent of increasing luck was even rarer than some legendary-ranked talents, and considering that it could also improve its strategic value, was priceless.
Even a person with a bad talent could open legendary or even divine chests under the influence of this buff. Our hero immediately asked if she had told anyone else about her talent, to which he received a negative answer. But this talent also had limitations: it could only be used three times a week and only for one person—Lena.
He immediately warned her not to tell anyone about her talent; it had an incredible immense value which would surely attract the attention of professionals who would want to use it. They wouldn't hesitate to use any dirty methods to get her talent. Going to the professional alliance was not an option either because, although it was a large-scale organization, even within it there were many factions with complicated relationships, conflicts between which often ended in wars and killings.
Since she had nowhere else to go, our hero agreed to take her into his team. This cooperation was to his advantage; he could not only help her survive in the cruel world of professionals but also benefit himself. Lya was incredibly happy because no one wanted to take her on as a teammate before this.
Lya understood the real reason for this; few people believed that one could wield a sword well with such a frail physique. After a while, they met Mumu, who our hero wanted to introduce G to. Their acquaintance went very well.
G never ceased to admire Mumu's beauty. Mumu, on the other hand, was worried that Lya might have his own hidden reasons for taking such a cutie to his team. However, she didn't have to worry about it because all he wanted to do right now was to clear another dungeon as quickly as possible.
It was called the Nightmare-level Goblin Dungeon. Since it was very dangerous, Lya decided to go there first and check everything out. Only by making the guide and going through the dungeon perfectly could they all get free attribute points.
The girls were shocked because the nightmare level was the highest difficulty level in beginner dungeons. Even though there were very generous rewards, not many people risked going through it. Mumu immediately started to discourage our hero because, in her opinion, he was heading for certain death.
Lena tried to explain that he would be fine, but his arguments did not work on Mumu, and she continued to stand on the fact that even for him, it was too dangerous. XI, realizing that she was better off leaving them alone, ran off on her own. After a while, our hero still managed to convince Mumu that he would be okay.
She agreed, but with difficulty, and promised that if he did not keep his promise, she would tell her parents. Lena didn't expect her to be so against it, but even so, he managed to convince her quite easily. He was going to make time for a solo run that night.
Suddenly, there was information on the forum as well as some guy's picture. According to the author, he had found the strongest newbie who was going through the dungeon alone. This news caused a heated discussion; someone thought it was a fake, someone believed it, but no one really knew who that newbie was.
At the same time, Mumu was also browsing the forum. Lya realized that she might have realized something, so he made the decision to just take away her phone. After a while, their family got together to have dinner.
Mumu's parents were very happy and praised her for her hard work. Although Mumu's father did not say so directly, he hinted that our hero should be more careful, no matter how strong he was. After asking his uncle a little bit, Lena was able to figure out what Mumu had complained to him about.
His aunt and uncle made it clear that they had no intention of interfering in his affairs, but they would also be happy if he valued his life more. In their opinion, a healthy and stable life was best. Our hero understood their worries and thus assured them he wouldn't do anything that was above his ability.
Holding out a card to Lya, his uncle said that he could always count on the fact that there was support waiting for him at home. Our hero immediately refused, but seeing how his uncle and aunt were worried about him, he still decided to accept their kindness. He was very grateful to them; they freely accepted him into their home and gave him love.
This time, he was going to treasure the life he had, which had not come easy to him. All it was for their sake that he was going to become stronger. He wasn't going to let that tragedy happen again.
In the first test on his way was The Nightmare Dungeon.