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Soo Hyuk felt the ground shake along with a loud boom . Then a system message appeared .

[Warning!]

[Twin Headed Troll, Arger has appeared . ]

It was the appearance of a boss monster .

‘Ah, the boss has already respawned . ’

Soo Hyuk thought of the conversation between two men 10 days ago as he read the messages .

‘The boss respawns today . ’

The two men had said that the respawn time for Arger, the Twin Headed Troll, was 10 days . It seemed like Soo Hyuk managed to meet Arger again on the day of its revival .

‘What should I do? They could already be chasing this boss . ’

The two men knew about the respawn time of Arger, so they could be approaching this place right now . No, they could already be here . What if he attracted unnecessary resentment because he hunted the boss?

‘Wait . ’

Soo Hyuk frowned as he thought .

‘The boss monster doesn’t belong to them in the first place, so why am I mulling over this?’

Soo Hyuk realised that he didn’t need to brood over this issue anymore . Twin Headed Troll Argor was a boss in Pangea . It didn’t belong to them in any way, so they couldn’t say anything about it .

‘I’m sure there aren’t that many stoneheads . ’

Of course, there was the possibility of the two men not showing the ‘proper’ manners inside Pangea, but it couldn’t be as bad as Adilo .

After finalising his thoughts,Soo Hyuk headed in the direction of the boom earlier . Not long after, he could see Arger advancing in his direction through the thick tree branches .

“Firestorm . ”

Soo Hyuk cast Firestorm while staring at the nearing Arger . 5 seconds after, a tornado of flames appeared around Arger .

-Uuaaaa!

-Uuuaaaa!

Arger’s two heads roared in pain with a painful expression .

“Inferno, Magic Missile, Firebolt, Fireball . ”

Soo Hyuk quickly cast his spells one after another before Arger could recover . He wanted to defeat Arger quickly .

“Flame Dance . ”

When he cast Flame Dance, the left head slackened while closing its eyes . The right head followed not long after .

[Twin Headed Troll, Arger, has been defeated . ]

‘It’s a lot faster than before . My stats aren’t that much higher either . ’

The stats of Soo Hyuk 10 days ago and the current Soo Hyuk didn’t have a huge difference . His wisdom had only risen by a little bit, but the boss hunt had become shorter compared to 10 days ago .

‘Maybe it’s because of the skill proficiency?’

Although his stats weren’t that different, most of his spells had risen to the intermediate proficiency from beginner . That meant his skills were stronger than before .

Soo Hyuk checked the drop window .

-Twin Headed Troll’s Hide

-Twin Headed Troll’s Head

-Twin Headed Troll’s Tendon

-Twin Headed Troll’s Blood

‘Huh, it dropped again?’

Soo Hyuk tilted his head after he checked the drop window .

‘Does the drop rate increase for boss monsters?’

The rare troll’s blood appeared again . Of course, he wasn’t complaining . Soo Hyuk pressed OK and collected the drops from Arger .

“Ah, fuck!”

“What! How?!”

At that moment, Soo Hyuk heard two people’s voices nearing him . Soo Hyuk first hid behind a thick tree and checked the source of the voice .

“Shit, it was hunted again!”

“This, how…”

“This bastard moves so fast . ”

They were the two men from 10 days ago .

“Hah, what guild did this? It’s obvious that it’s one of those top guilds . ”

“Top guilds don’t grow from trees you know . ”

“Shut up . ”

“Nmm…”

Soo Hyuk cast Archmage’s Subspace like before . He had no need to keep hiding .

[Warping to ‘Archmage’s Subspace’ . ]

The distorted space was repaired . After arriving at the subspace, Soo Hyuk stared at the nine doors . He then checked his inventory while walking towards the tunnel on the right .

‘I only have to buy 80 more . ’

There were 420 troll’s blood in his inventory . If he collected 80 more, then he would be able to complete the skill quest .

‘I’ll just buy the rest . ’

Soo Hyuk decided to buy the rest of the blood and closed his inventory .

‘Ah, I forgot . ’

Soo Hyuk then opened his friends window .

‘Good, he’s online . ’

After checking Doran’s status, Soo Hyuk sent a message to him .

– Doran: Wow, thank you for the information!

– Soo Hyuk: You’re welcome~

After thanking Soo Hyuk, Doran faced Pavi, who was resting next to him and said,

“Hey, jackpot . ”

“What’s a jackpot?”

“A title that gives 100 stamina!”

“…What?”

Pavi almost doubted his ears .

“100 stamina?”

A title that gives 100 stamina? Pavi couldn’t believe it . It was plausible if it was an item, but since it was a title, he couldn’t believe it .

“Bullshit…is it true?”

Of course, Doran had already expected Pavi’s reaction .

“What kind of title gives 100 stamina . ”

“It’s true! Someone told me just now . ”

Pavi stared at Doran with suspicion in response to his words .

“…From who?”

“Yeon Jung-nim’s friend!”

“Ah, the person you met hunting orcs?”

“Yep, he hunted 10,000 trolls just now and gained the title . ”

Pavi frowned frowned as he listened to Doran .

“10,000?”

“Yeah! Isn’t it unbelievable? I’m going to hunt trolls whenever I’m free from now on . If it’s 100 stamina…”

Doran chuckled brightly after trailing off .

“Oh, that’s right . ”

Doran once again became serious and asked Pavi .

“What’s the situation with the Desolate guild?”

“About Yeon Jung-nim?”

“Mmm, I think it turned out well since he hasn’t contacted us …”

Yeon Jung had promised them that he would contact them if he needed help . Doran too didn’t have a good relationship with the Desolate guild, but since he hadn’t contacted them, it seemed like it was resolved without significant losses .

“It ended with that Kefan leaving . ”

“Huh? What about that bastard Commander? It all started with that guy PKing . ”

“Commander is the right-hand man of the Nebula faction . Would Nebula let go of him so easily? He drew the line at Kefan . ”

The cause of the situation was a user called Commander . But Commander was the right-hand man of one of the five factions in Desolate, the Nebula faction . Instead of Commander, Kefan was the one who took the blame .

“What about Kefan? That guy’s personality is so rotten . Did he really leave quietly?”

Doran asked . Kefan was famous for his irritable personality and Doran knew that it wasn’t just rumours . Did Kefan, who could be called the symbol of contentiousness, really leave without a fight?

“I don’t know . Something must’ve happened behind the scenes . ”

Pavi replied to Doran’s question . Although he wasn’t certain, there was a high chance that something had happened behind the scenes .

“Anyway, apparently there’s going to be a new guild in Hedlin . ”

“The coastal city?”

“Yep . ”

* * *

“Have a good day, sir!”

“Thank you! I’ll come again . ”

Soo Hyuk bid farewell to Karl and left the Tower of Earth . Then he opened his quest window as he headed towards the library .

[Special Quest – Troll’s Regeneration]

Hunt trolls and drain their blood!

[Trolls : 4000 / 4000 ]

[Troll’s Blood : 500 / 500 ]

[Quest Reward: Skill – Troll Blood]

After selling the drops Soo Hyuk had bought the last 80 troll’s blood . As a result, he had fulfilled all the conditions to complete the quest .

‘What kind of skill will it be?’

The quest reward was skill – Troll Blood .

‘Is it a healing skill?’

He was looking forward to the new skill . Soo Hyuk press ‘COMPLETE’ with an excited expression .

[Special Quest – Troll’s Regeneration has been completed . ]

[Skill – Troll Blood has been obtained . ]

The usual system message appeared as Soo Hyuk quickly opened his skill window . Then he checked the ‘Troll Blood’ skill .

“…Hmm?”

Soo Hyuk suddenly stopped his steps when he checked the new skill . His face was full of disbelief as he stared at his skill window .

‘Did I see wrong?’

Soo Hyuk rubbed his eyes and double-checked the skill again .

‘No, I didn’t…’

[<Passive>Troll Blood]

Special Effects:

1 . Health recovery rate 200%

2 . Increases total amount of health by 100%

‘100% extra health…’

Soo Hyuk was in disbelief because of the second effect of the skill . Increase by 100%? Instead of increasing his health by hundreds, his health had doubled .

‘It’s also a passive . ’

What made it truly fraudulent was the fact that it was a passive skill . In Pangea, there were lots of buffs that increased your total health for a fixed duration . But most of them were actives, not passives .

His skill ‘Troll Blood’ was a passive though, and one that doubled his health at that .

‘What is this cheat skill…’

It even increased his recovery rate by 200%!

Soo Hyuk felt similar to when he had first checked his Archmage passive . A scam . Soo Hyuk closed his fraudulent skill description and opened his character window . He had to check if it was real or not .

Occupation: Archmage’s Descendant

Level: 102 Experience: 62%

Health: 56200 Mana: 40800

Satiation: 58%

Strength: 40 (+10)

Agility: 35 (+16)

Stamina: 1108 [554 (+10)]

Wisdom: 2040 (+10)

“Crazy . ”

After checking his new stats, Soo Hyuk automatically exclaimed with admiration . The difference before and after ‘Troll Blood’ was huge .

‘It went over 50,000?’

His original twenty-thousand health had risen to over fifty thousand .

‘I have more health than mana now…’

Soo Hyuk’s mana was extremely high due to his unbelievable wisdom, but his healthpool had surpassed the amount of mana he had .

‘With this much…’

He thought as he stared at his enormous health .

‘Shouldn’t I be able to open the door?’

The Door of Wind that he had put off for later . Wouldn’t it be possible now with his health?

‘No . This problem can’t be solved with just more health . ’

But after remembering his fight with the Wind Golem, Soo Hyuk realised that more health wouldn’t be enough to beat its speed . Rather than health, he needed more defence and evasion .

After settling his thought, Soo Hyuk closed his character window and continued heading to the library again .