In the next few weeks, rumors will circulate that catching bad guys can get more karma than catching monsters, and that you can get a pretty good title as a bonus. In an instant, the seed of the wicked would dry up.
And then, until a few months later, the famous evil user 'Killing Machine' appeared, it became almost impossible to see evil users.
'ah! Come to think of it, I forgot the title.'
In an instant, Sanghyuk thought of a title he hadn't thought of. No matter how Sanghyeok he was, he couldn't remember everything, so he couldn't help but miss something like this.
"Why is this bastard reacting like this?"
"It must be because I was afraid. It looks like a beggar at first glance, so let's kill it quickly and find the next target."
The three evil users were evil PKs (Player Killers) who had already killed dozens of users, and they thought that Sang-hyeok was scared.
However, Sanghyuk had a completely different idea.
'All three are perfect evil users. That said, even if you kill them all according to the self-defense system, there will never be any bad karma, and you will be able to earn karma.'
Rather, Sang-hyeok is giving a reverse estimate. Of course, his level was lower than the PKs in front of him, and he was inferior in number of items as well as items, but even so, Sang-hyeok did not think that he would be defeated.
Sureureung.
The three PKs simultaneously drew out rust-strewn iron swords. This iron sword was the cheapest weapon in Falcon City.
"Again, I think it was just unlucky. Instead, I will let you go without pain."
The wicked approached Sang-hyeok, talking as if they had already killed him. It was only four days after the open beta started, so most of the users did not even know how to obtain 'ancient knowledge'.
So, if three people came together and attacked one user, they couldn't respond properly and had no choice but to die.
In a situation where they couldn't use skills like each other, of course, having a lot of heads and a weapon had an advantage. However, in normal cases, that meant that.
'I'm new to holding a sword.'
Sang-hyeok was a user who did not fit in with the normal situation at all. Although he was bare-handed and unequipped with ancient knowledge, he was not at all nervous.
To Sanghyuk, PvP (Player vs Player) at EL was more familiar than eating. He had no weapons or ancient knowledge, but Sang-hyeok's experience had greater power than them.
The moment the guy in the front jumped towards Sang-hyeok and swung his sword, Sang-hyeok rather narrowed the gap with him and immediately struck him down with his right hand precisely on the wrist.
Bawk!
The rusty iron sword he was holding grazed right next to his body, but Sanghyuk didn't blink an eye. In the past, when fighting among top-level users, it was natural for them to dodge narrowly enough to let the sword lightly brush their skin, so this level was nothing.
"Ah!"
Because Sang-hyeok, who had invested all 10 growth points in strength, hit it with all his might, the evil user immediately let go of the sword and screamed.
However, Sanghyuk's attack did not end there. Sanghyuk snatched the rusty iron sword that the evil user had missed with his left hand and immediately turned around. Like this, Sang-hyeok was able to steal the weapon his opponent was holding because he was an evil user.
At least at this point, no one knew that this was possible. Is that why? The evil user who had his sword taken away was very flustered and couldn't do anything for a moment.
Squeak, "Gagging!"
The moment Sanghyuk's body turned quickly, the rusty iron sword cut deeply into the belly of the wicked user who missed the sword.
Thanks to various adjustments, it felt completely different from the feeling of cutting a real person, but Sang-hyeok was rather used to this feeling.
Sanghyeok knew that with this level of feeling, novice users with low levels at most and who would not have gained ancient knowledge would not be able to endure. Therefore, he quickly ducked and avoided the swords wielded by the two villains who were running after him.
In fact, from the point of view of Sang-hyeok, the sword wielded by these three evil users, it was like a child's play. If it was to use a skill to wield a sword, it would not have been easy to deal with, but that was not the case either.
To give an easy-to-understand example, Sang-hyeok was in the position of a grown-up who watched kindergarteners wield toy knives.
Papat, Sanghyuk twisted his upper body from side to side twice, easily avoiding the two swords wielded by the two evil users. Then, he drove the rusty iron sword he was holding right into the head of the evil user on the right, and at the same time wrapped his left arm around the neck of the evil user on the left.
Wooded deuk, "Kreurreuk."
Sanghyuk tightened his left arm and twisted the neck of the last remaining evil, the user. The evil users who had pitiful vitality were easily defeated by Sang-hyeok.
A lot happened in just a few seconds. As the first evil user fell helplessly to the floor, another evil user was stabbed in the head almost at the same time, and the last remaining evil user's neck was broken right after.
Sang-hyeok, who accomplished this task in a matter of seconds, which was difficult to put into words, threw the corpse of an evil user who died from a broken neck on the floor with a nonchalant expression on his face.
Instead of red blood, white powder was scattered all over the place, but it was true that the rather brutal-looking scenes continued. However, Sanghyuk's expression was really calm. In fact, the biggest reason he was able to be calm like this was the 'User Mind Calibration' program, which was developed 10 years ago and contributed the most to the development of DN games.
If a scene or situation that could damage the user's mind even slightly was created, the user's mental correction program was triggered unconditionally, and in this way, the user felt that everything that happened at that time was like a dream.
Of course, it didn't exactly match dreaming, but anyway, it made it feel very similar to dreaming, so the user's shock was reduced as much as possible.
Thanks to this program, almost all of DN's games were officially licensed and were able to open their services to the general public.
Without this program, users could suffer tremendous psychological shock, so this was an essential element unconditionally applied to all DN games.
Even if this was applied, Sang-hyeok's movements were not restricted or Sang-hyeok's ability to control his body was not hindered. It was known that there were some such things in the early days, but at least not at this point.
It was only that the part where he had brutally killed the enemy was forcibly purified and felt nothing. This is such a complex mechanism that I felt something contradictory when I explained it in words, but when I actually experienced it, I could understand exactly what I was talking about.
Occasionally, there were people who were shocked by the existence of this system, but such people had no choice but to limit their use of DN.
Lastly, and most importantly, Sanghyuk had so much experience in this field. That's why he was able to accept everything so naturally.
By eliminating the wicked, we have taken away some of the bad karma (black karma) they have accumulated.
congratulations. As Karma accumulates, the level rises.
The three wicked people scattered on the floor scattered white light powder everywhere and disappeared on the spot. Not only did they gift Sang-hyeok a significant amount of karma, but at the same time, they dropped and disappeared many of the items they stole from here and there.
Sanghyuk picked up all the items. He didn't have anything like a space expansion bag yet, so he had to carry it himself.
"Honestly, these are items that will be trashed later, but they are things I can't sell because I don't have them right now."
The items that the bad guys had raided and robbed other users in the meantime were things that could be sold for quite a bit, at least at this point, so of course there was no reason to throw them away.
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Returning to Falcon City, Sang-hyeok put all the items he brought on consignment sales. Consignment sales was a slightly different system from the auction house. If the auction house could trade the entire planet without paying an expensive fee, the consignment sale was a system where NPCs sold my goods in the city at a low fee.
Now, since almost all users were playing based on Falcon City anyway, there was no need to pay expensive fees and use the auction house.
After disposing of all his belongings, Sang-hyeok went straight to the public bank and took out the 'traveler's treasured sword' that he had stored in the storage room.
Originally, Sanghyeok tried to monopolize several other items after obtaining the first mountaineer. However, he changed his mind after defeating the three villains.
'The first evil hunter. I can't give that sweet title to someone else!'
In particular, it was a title with a high possibility that you would not even get a chance to acquire it for the time being if you did not acquire this title at the current timing when bad users are springing up.
It's nice to get these things when you can get them. In particular, I couldn't miss it all the more because the title with 'first' was the only one that existed in the game unconditionally.
"But what was the effect? I only remember that it was pretty good, I can't remember the exact effect..."
The problem was that I knew there was a title called the first evil hunter, but I didn't know what kind of effect it had. However, since it was the right situation to go even if you couldn't eat right now, Sang-hyeok immediately started preparing some things for the evil hunt.
"The Great Library. It was probably there, right?"
The place Sang-hyeok was heading to was the Great Library of Falcon City. The reason he went there was, of course, to obtain 'ancient knowledge'.
Sanghyeok had already decided what ancient knowledge to fill the four soul halls he drilled. The four ancient knowledge he chose were not things that could be obtained and filled right away, so he had no choice but to obtain the easiest to obtain first.
The reason Sanghyeok goes to the Great Library is because one of the four ancient knowledge he thinks is there.
To be precise, the first ancient knowledge to grow into one of the four ancient knowledge was there.
Ultimately, what Sanghyeok wanted was the ancient knowledge called 'Shadow Knight' or 'Shadow Knight'.
This was by no means rare ancient knowledge. It was the common ancient knowledge that would be loved by many users even after a year or so.
It was also relatively easy to obtain, so it was one of the ancient knowledge that was revealed earlier. First, get the 1st ancient knowledge, 'Knight', and calmly develop it into the 2nd ancient knowledge, 'Blade Knight', and finally, call it 'Shadow Thief'. It was obtained through ancient knowledge and knowledge synthesis.
Since the shadow thief was ancient knowledge that could be obtained fairly easily, the shadow knight was an ancient knowledge that belonged to a low class when it comes to rarity alone.
Nevertheless, the reason why Sang-hyeok, who knows a huge number of ancient knowledge combination methods, chose this one... It was because it was the ability to hold the center in the Quadra Soul that Sang-hyeok was envisioning.