Chapter 3 – 3.Valendia (3)
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As expected, choosing bandits was the correct answer.
Although he was a mere soldier, the bandit had much more money than 3 goblin magic stones.
When a monster dies, it leaves behind a corpse and a magic stone.
When a bandit dies, he leaves behind his body, equipment, and possessions.
If it’s a high-difficulty monster, it’s better than a bandit, but for me right now, a bandit is better than a monster that I have to travel far away to find.
For the next two weeks, he continued to hunt bandits and raise capital.
After defeating the bandits, farming the equipment and money, and when you feel like you have enough, go down to Valendia.
When you arrive in Valendia, hand over the hood, which is evidence of defeating the bandit, to Deisi to receive a reward.
I, who was new to Valendia, was worried that people might get suspicious if I told them I had caught bandits, so I showed them the heads of three bandits with particularly scary faces. At that time, I could see Dacey, who always smiled, looking shocked.
“Mr. Lee Si-han! There is no doubt! So there is no need to bring your head forward!”
I was also glad that it was a hassle to cut off each head.
And even if I didn’t mind killing it, I couldn’t feel good about cutting up parts of the corpse.
More than anything, it’s disgusting.
After completing the payment, sell the farmed equipment at the blacksmith shop to earn additional money.
After doing this for two weeks, something unexpected happened.
[Achievement: You have obtained the title Bandit Hunter.]
[Achievement achievement reward: 2 points. Reputation 2]
“Huh?”
While hunting bandits as usual, a message appeared saying that the achievement had been achieved.
‘I never thought the achievement function would be implemented like this.’
In Rupan, if you complete a quest or perform a specific action, you will receive a notification that you have achieved an achievement and a small amount of gacha goods.
‘I got the points quickly.’
After entering the academy, I thought I would get points by completing the tutorial, but I had the opportunity to find out what points were sooner than I thought.
In addition, he rose to a level of fame whose abilities were unknown.
‘Status window.’
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Name: Lee Si-han
Gender: Male
Abilities
Stamina: 6
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5
Magic attribute: 2
Luck: 3
Fame: 2
Points held: 2
Possessed skills: Penetration (EX), Spear Mastery (MAX)
Title: Bandit Hunter.
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New points and title sections have been added to the ability score.
The fact that it appears in the ability score window means that points can be distributed not only to skills but also to ability scores.
First, I checked the title column.
[Bandit Hunter: Bandits are just prey.]
A phrase that is brief and seems to have no particular effect.
It was literally just a title.
I stopped paying attention to the title and focused on the points.
‘Where should we distribute it?’
It was enough to follow the trajectory to kill the bandits.
If you learn skills, you will be able to make more powerful attacks…
‘As expected, it would be better to raise the stats.’
I decided to acquire skills after entering the academy and distribute them to my stats.
I still have plenty of stamina, so I pass.
Since I’m a spear character, I think there’s a little need for me to use magic, so I’ll pass on this one too.
I don’t know how luck will work, so pass.
Reputation also passes.
1 point each was distributed to strength and agility.
[Do you want to distribute it like this?]
When distribution was completed, a confirmation window appeared.
A method of checking rather than applying it immediately after taking a picture.
“…”
I pressed No and clicked on Reputation.
[Reputation cannot be increased with points.]
A warning window appeared.
‘I did it just in case, but it turned out to be me.’
I thought that the reputation gained from achieving achievements would be somehow different from other stats.
As expected, reputation scores had their own way of increasing, unlike other abilities.
You can think of popularity as being the same.
Now that the confirmation is over, I distributed the points to strength and agility and pressed the yes button.
As soon as the point distribution was over, an unknown vitality surged through my body.
My body gained strength and I felt lighter.
‘I need to try it out.’
I wandered around the mountain some more to test how much the increased abilities affected the battle.
“I found it! It’s you. The guy who’s been hunting our kids these days!”
Meanwhile, I encountered a bandit with a scar on one of his eyes and a uniquely scary face.
The bandit wore a blue bandana, the mark of a bandit cadre, on his head and had six men with him.
‘He’s an executive.’
Soldiers wear brown bandanas, elites wear green bandanas, executives wear blue bandanas, and bosses wear red bandanas.
Up until now, it was just soldiers, sometimes elites.
But after raising my stats, I met an executive.
‘You’re lucky.’
The bandit elite had more money and better equipment than the soldiers.
So how much money and good equipment does the executive have?
“…! Rubid! Look at that guy’s eyes! Those are cruel eyes that think of us as mere prey!”
One of the soldiers trembled and spoke to the executive.
“Yeah! That’s how I see it too. Very cheeky eyes.”
The bandit executive frowns and glares at me.
‘… Wait, Rubid?’
At that time, the name of the bandit executive mentioned by the soldier flashed through my mind.
If that bandit executive is the Rubid I know… I might have the item I’ve been looking for.
‘Then you must never miss it.’
We must catch that guy.
So that they cannot escape.
I’m provoking that executive so that he never thinks of running away.
“Hey, you.”
He continued speaking while aiming his spear at Rubid.
“Looking at you, are you a little proud mountaineer?”
Rubid grinned and raised the corner of his mouth.
“Yes. As for me, I am Rubid, an official of the Velkendan! You have killed many of my subordinates so far… Consider that today is the end of your life!”
“Hot!”
I snort once, feeling like I’m intentionally getting on someone’s nerves.
“… What’s funny?”
“Of course it’s funny. A bumbling bandit is an official or something, so wouldn’t this be funny and cut down?”
I rattled and shook the window.
“Stop talking nonsense and just attack me, you little pig.”
It was then.
[Pierced through provocation resistance.]
‘What?’
An unfamiliar mechanical sound was heard.
“Okay… Right? You call me a pig… ?”
Rubid’s face, which was just glaring, turned red.
The originally frowned eyebrows his become even more wrinkled and the sound of teeth grinding can be heard.
He trembled and snorted loudly.
“Lu, Rubid?”
The soldier right next to him was taken aback as if Rubid’s change was strange.
“Right now! Kill that bastard!”
“Yes?”
“Can’t you hear me? Kill me!”
“Oh, I understand!”
At the officer’s command, four bandit soldiers and two bandit elites come running.
‘Tsk, he didn’t come forward directly.’
As I adjusted my stance and held the spear, I now felt a familiar trajectory.
‘Oh.’
And I was able to feel the results of raising my stats right away through the trajectory.
The number of trajectories has increased.
Not only that, the range and range of the trajectory have expanded.
I felt instinctively what it meant.
As my strength increased and my agility increased, my possibilities for action increased.
It is now possible to attack actions that I could not do with my previous strength and agility.
‘I have to test my new power.’
He kicked off the ground and moved a greater distance than usual in one go, arriving in front of the bandits.
“Ugh… !”
The bandit soldier panicked and tried to swing his sword, probably because he didn’t expect me to charge in.
But that brief moment of hesitation.
That was enough.
Phew!
He stabbed the bandit in the neck quickly and quickly, then swung the spear blade stuck in the neck to the side and pulled it out.
Originally, the method of pulling the window back was used because it would require unnecessary force.
However, thanks to my increased strength, I didn’t feel like I was using too much force even if I moved a little sloppy.
Thanks to this, I was able to move straight toward the next goal without stopping.
One of the bandit elites pulled a protest towards me.
A new trajectory will appear, but there is no need to hit the arrow.
The fact that you can see a trajectory that can be hit means that you can guess how the arrow will fly.
The moment the arrow is fired, move slightly out of the arrow’s range and deal with the bandit soldiers.
“Oops!”
“Whoop!”
When the arrow hit the tree behind him, he killed two bandit soldiers.
All that remains are Rubid, two bandit elites, and one bandit soldier.
“Ah, ah…”
The bandit henchman was scared and stopped charging.
“You idiot! Why stop!”
The sword-wielding elite bandit right behind you gets angry.
Taking advantage of the moment of hesitation, he fires his spear at the elite bandits behind him.
[Pierced through the bandits.]
“Wow!”
“Uh… Big!”
He skewered the bandit lackeys and the bandit elite and immediately pulled back his spear.
‘Even if you drill them all at once, the machine sounds only once.’
“Hey, these pathetic bastards… ! You’re only going to be defeated by one guy! You! Go now!”
Rubid, whose face was still red, got angry at the remaining bandit elite.
“B-But Rubid! That guy is a complete monster…”
“Are you going against my words now? You useless bastard!”
Ruby Dew swung his sword at the bandit elite.
“Ugh! Lu, Rubid…”
The bandit elite who decapitated him fell to the ground, clutching his own throat.
‘With the bandit personality.’
If I had proper common sense or character in the first place, I wouldn’t have become a bandit.
“Whoop! Whoop! I’ll kill you myself!”
I wonder if he is still hearing the effects of the provocation, and even when he sees his subordinates dying, he still shows his anger towards me.
Rubid approaches with heavy footsteps.
“Die!”
The thick sword on his waist was pulled out and swung at me.
‘It’s definitely different since he’s an executive.’
Even though he had a heavy body, the speed at which he wielded his sword was clearly different from other bandits.
Above all, the reduced number of trajectories showed the strength of the bandit cadres.
But.
‘It’s just that the numbers have decreased.’
The sword Rubyd swung flowed along its path and his spear was hurled towards the exact center of Rubyd’s chest.
Phew!
[Pierced through the bandit cadre.]
[Achievement: Defeated the bandit leader Rubid.]
[Achievement reward: 1 point, 3 reputation]
“Cough! No way… My, I… This my… Go…”
The spear was pulled back before Rubid’s body completely lost its strength.
I searched for Rubid’s body, which had fallen to the floor with a thud.
And.
‘I’m really lucky today.’
I found the item I wanted.
