Chapter 86 - Continued Search (1/2)

“What?”

Yang Joo Hyuk couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise at Jang Yool’s reply.

“Wasn’t he just level 120?”

Although he couldn’t remember exactly, he recalled hearing that Soo Hyuk’s level was around 120 this morning. But now it was 167?

“Did he go to a high-level hunting area?”

This wasn’t impossible. Yang Joo Hyuk knew Soo Hyuk’s abilities very well. With his stats, he could manage high-level monsters well. In other words, Soo Hyuk could get experience unthinkable for those around his level easily.

“Yes, he’s hunting level 200~250 ogres on the Crimson Mountains. The twin headed ogres as well.”

“Why did he go there?”

“He has a quest where he has to find a named triple headed ogre. He looks like he’s hunting on the way.”

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Soo Hyuk was silent.

’11:57.’

His log out time had come.

‘Just,’

Soo Hyuk frowned as he stared at the system time.

‘Where is it?’

He had roamed around the mountain range in search for the triple headed ogre, Orem. However, he couldn’t find him in the end. All he found were normal ogres and twin headed ogres.

Of course, he hadn’t searched the entire mountain range yet. The Crimson Mountains were wide, so he had only managed to search a portion of it.

‘A promotion quest is a promotion quest.’

He had thought that he would breeze through this quest, but it was a B-rank promotion quest after all. Soo Hyuk opened his quest window.

[King of the Mountain Range]

The reason ogres of the Crimson Mountains are moving in groups, is because a king has appeared on the mountain range. Find out who the king is and report to the agency!

[Triple Head Ogre Orem: 0 / 1 ]

[Quest Reward: B-Rank Promotion]

[The quest will be considered complete once Orem is found.]

[The quest will be cancelled on death. Note: if the cause of death is from Orem, the quest penalty will not apply.]

Soo Hyuk looked at the quest and thought,

‘He didn’t get killed already, right?’

He wondered if the boss was killed by others already. Soo Hyuk had seen people that only hunted boss monsters before. It was definitely a possibility.

‘If it was…’

What if Orem was already dead?

‘Kuu…’

It was difficult.

‘I can’t just cancel the quest.’

The penalty caught his mind. And also, even if he did get another promotion quest, it didn’t guarantee that he would save more time. Soo Hyuk scrolled down further and checked Romian’s quest, ‘Preparation Time’.

[Preparation Time]

Romian hadn’t expected that you would bring back the key so quickly. He thought that you would’ve taken at least one week. Also, Romian himself needs one week, as his body is still injured and he needs to prepare for the exploration. Find Romian again after one week!

[Key to Phantom Thief Celta’s Secret Cave: 1 / 1 ]

[Time Left: 7 days ]

[Quest Reward: Quest – Cave Exploration]

‘Can I find Orem before then?’

7 days later, Soo Hyuk had to go to Romian. Would he be able to complete this quest before then?

‘Yes, 7 days should be enough.’

7 days was enough to scour through the mountain range. He would be able to find out if somebody was hunting Orem, or if he was just searching in the wrong place.

Soo Hyuk closed his quest window and opened his character window. Although he couldn’t find Orem, he hadn’t just wasted his time. There was some gain.

Class: Archmage’s Descendant

Level: 167 Experience: 23%

Health: 111600 Mana: 70300

Satiation: 62%

Strength： 40 (+10)

Agility： 35 (+16)

Stamina： 1108 [554 (+10)]

Wisdom： 3515 (+10)

‘It rose a lot.’

Soo Hyuk’s level was approaching 170 now.

“Well, I don’t even know how much I’ve hunted now.”

While searching for Orem, Soo Hyuk had killed every ogre on sight, whether they were normal or twin headed. It would be weird if he didn’t level up after all that.

After checking his character, Soo Hyuk closed his character window then with a deep breath, logged out of Pangea. Exiting the capsule, he sat in front of his computer and started browsing through the Pangea official homepage. His searches were things like ‘Crimson Mountains’, ‘Tripled Headed Ogre’, ‘Orem’, etc.However, nothing came up. More precisely, there some articles, but none of them were what he was looking for.

Failing to find the information he wanted, Soo Hyuk turned off the computer and stood up from his seat. He then walked towards a bookshelf and while pulling out a book, he thought,

‘I want to go there quickly.’

He wanted to enter the Hadrac Library even one second faster.

‘How much longer will it to become A-rank?’

He wasn’t even sure how long the B-rank promotion quest would take. Then how long would the A-rank quests take? Soo Hyuk, who had arrived at his desk, stopped thinking about his quest and hungrily dived into the book.

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-What?

The guild master of the Kain information guild, Kain, exclaimed in surprise.

“Is that true?”