The Mythical Hunter has Returned - Chapter 2
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Episode 002
A return to the past.
Everyone has probably imagined it at least once.
What if you could go back to the past?
What if you could change your past choices?
What if you could make the mistakes you once made never happen?
What if you could seize the opportunity you missed?
Same things.
Now the situation unfolded before my eyes.
“This place… .”
It was on the subway, and it was on the subway on the way to work.
Ugh!
A text message arrived.
It was a text message from the personnel manager of the Hephaestus Guild, the guild where I went to work for the first time to earn a living.
In those days, earning money was difficult unless you worked with a guild established by God.
‘On my first day working as a porter, I woke up without God’s blessing.’
That’s how I acquired the ‘Unbeliever’ skill.
A skill that will never receive God’s blessing.
That’s right.
‘I really went back to the past.’
I was back to the day when I went to work at Abyss for the first time to earn a living.
Five years after the first Abyss was created.
Five years had passed since the full-scale war between the gods of human history and the gods of the other world began, and it was now an era where people had become accustomed to war.
The countless gods who confronted me were invisible.
There was no corpse of the god of the other world whom I had killed and turned into a cold corpse.
Odin, Zeus, even the sun god who tried to kill me with the force of a flame.
He wasn’t here right now.
The same goes for the Creator God who pierced the spear into my heart.
My last memory was of being pierced through the heart by that bastard, but now there was no wound on my chest.
The numerous scars he had acquired on the battlefield were not visible.
‘You’re really back.’
Even the felt air was different.
15 years from now, when the final battle takes place, even the atmosphere is polluted with demonic energy.
The areas where you could breathe unpolluted air were limited, and even those that did required a lot of money.
The taste of fresh air… .
I took deep breaths over and over again without realizing it as I smelled fresh air for the first time in a long time.
“Whoa.”
I felt the people near me moving away step by step.
You might think it’s strange that you suddenly take a deep breath in a subway full of people.
But I didn’t have time to worry about that.
Understanding the present was most important.
It was then.
-Dive into your love! hello. This train is currently passing the office of ‘Fall in Love’, a marriage matching service operated by Eros.
The sweet voice of Eros, the god of love, was heard through the subway speakers.
It was a time when the gods of human history performed abominable acts.
I raised my head and looked out the window.
An advertisement for cosmetics using Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, was playing on a huge electronic billboard next to the subway.
Another electronic display board across the street was showing an advertisement for a competitor’s cosmetics product using Yang Guibi as the model.
That wasn’t all.
The billboard inside the subway had an advertisement for Tyr, the god of war in Norse mythology, to recruit guild members.
The posture of holding a sword with the arm equipped with a prosthetic arm and pointing at the person looking at the billboard with one hand was very impressive.
The gods were in harmony with humanity in their own way.
The method was very clever.
So much so that no one would ever think that the gods would betray humanity in the future.
In addition, there were various advertisements in which Shin modeled.
The inside of the subway was the front line for companies run by the Guild of Gods.
There were more products promoting gods as models than humans.
In modern times, they have played the role of both gods and entertainers in human history.
Because it penetrated so deeply into everyday life, it was very difficult for ordinary people to find things that were not related to God.
That was the reason I chose porter as a career.
porter.
A being from the lowest level of the ecosystem who procures their supplies behind the main attack force entering the Abyss.
A job mainly held by low-level awakened people who are baptized by gods or heroes with weak spiritual power and do not possess much power.
I tried to experience the awakened world while working as a porter.
How do hunters who have been blessed by the gods fight, and how do hunters who have been blessed but have little effect fight?
Things like how porters survive in this world.
I secretly developed my strength like that for five years.
‘There is no need to work as a porter now.’
I have already experienced so much.
Above all, because I have already acquired the skill.
[God Slayer – EX level]
[Explanation: There is no one who can stop you from blaspheming even God.]
This is a skill obtained by killing Zenon, the other world’s god of destruction, before returning to the past.
[Effect 1: The God Slayer can seal the mythical beings he has killed as a record of the past – a history book.]
[Effect 2: The God Slayer becomes stronger according to the number of history books recovered.]
[History Book Lv. One]
[Created Encyclopedia – 1: Disaster of Destruction – EX Level]
[Disaster of Destruction – EX Level]
[Lv. When it reaches 5, the number of skills that can be registered increases.]
[Currently registerable skills: 2]
[You can use the skills of mythical beings recovered in the bestiary in a limited way.]
[Deal with mythical beings to level up your history book. 0/1]
[Mythical beings that can be registered: heroes, legendary spirits, mythical gods]
Instead of the non-believer disappearing, the remaining God Slayer’s skills remained clearly.
‘I can no longer use the disaster of destruction I gained from killing Zenon.’
It means there is no next chance.
It is a skill that becomes stronger as you kill mythical beings.
This was the skill for me.
If today is the first day of work, Hephaestus’ guild’s target will definitely be Gragas Abyss.
It was a raid team organized by the mid-level rookie blacksmith god Hephaestus to find his holy relics.
‘If that’s true, there’s no need for me to work as a porter.’
From what I remember, Hephaestus’s attack force ended up retreating without being able to attack the Abyss.
Because of that, I suffered a lot.
It usually takes 2 to 3 months for a mid-level guild to attack the Abyss.
If I waste that time in the Abyss, it would be like wasting the time I needed to grow.
I texted the Hephaestus human resources representative.
I received a text message from the personnel manager.
They didn’t seem to care that I couldn’t go.
It was natural.
I was one of hundreds of porters on the expedition, and at least those who wanted to go were waiting in line.
The text strangely irritated me, but it wasn’t the time to be concerned about such things.
My goal is to strengthen my God Slayer skills.
To strengthen your skills, you had to kill a mythical being.
I couldn’t procrastinate for two months in an ambiguous Abyss where even the strategy failed.
As soon as I decided, I got off at the next station, Yeongdeungpo Station.
“now! Just watch it once! A magic box created by Loki, the god of mischief! “This is your chance to enjoy God’s luck for just 100,000 won!”
I turned my head towards the place where I could hear the voice of a street vendor selling at the station.
And there.
‘bingo.’
There were small boxes that glowed an ominously gloomy purple.
A magic box created by Loki, the god of mischief.
It was a good joke, but he was no different from the god of fraud.
That’s why Loki’s pranks always appeared in unexpected places.
If God’s gift was only 100,000 won, it seemed very cheap at first glance… Still, no one lived.
The reason was simple.
Because the items in the box were too poor to warrant paying the price of 100,000 won.
The box I bought for 100,000 won usually contained cigarette ash or hair, candy at best, or even dog feces if I was unlucky.
No one would spend 100,000 won on trash that wasn’t even blessed by God.
Still, as Loki is the god of mischief, some people researched whether there might be some hidden secret.
The boxes came in white, blue, green, yellow, and purple, so I initially assumed that the best items would be in the yellow or purple boxes.
According to the color designation according to rarity that is commonly seen in games, yellow or purple are high rare items.
But no.
Hunter, a YouTuber with over 10 million subscribers, bought dozens of boxes of all colors and uploaded a video.
-Hello, YouTube viewers. This is your hunter ‘Gwang Su-ho’.
Regardless of color, the only things that fell out of the hundreds of boxes he bought were trash items.
And the last remaining white box.
-Now it’s the last time. Even here, if a trash item appears, it means that the Loki box was all trash.
In the last white box.
-uh?
S-class shoes have been released.
It was a single weapon, not a set, but it came from a box worth only 100,000 won.
What an S-class shoe.
-wow! Crazy! Shibaaal!!! It’s S-class! S-class! Guys, this is awesome!
At the time, viewers’ chats exploded with reactions that seemed like the world was leaving.
-Of course it’s Loki. To be honest, I wasn’t even expecting white! It’s so crazy! I played around with colors. oh my god! Everyone, it’s absolutely white! Don’t even look at anything else. Buy the white box!
After Gwang Soo-ho’s broadcast, everyone bought the white box as if they were fascinated.
I don’t know about other colors, but the white one was sold out every time it came out.
It was because everyone wanted to scratch a lottery ticket that might result in an S-class item. It didn’t matter whether S-class items came out after that.
But in fact, the truth about this magic box was different.
‘What’s important isn’t the color. Even that broadcast was Loki’s prank.’
Kwang Soo-ho, a YouTuber hunter with 10 million subscribers, was actually one of Loki’s many alt-characters.
Unlike what was shown on the broadcast, there was something else in the box that you really had to pay close attention to.
Of course, there was no way Loki could sit still after this fact became known, so another complicated pattern arose… .
The secret will be revealed a few years from now, so I am the only one who knows now.
“Is it really 100,000 won?”
I approached the vendor and asked.
“you’re right. The magic box handmade by Loki costs only 100,000 won! “This is for free, for free!”
“okay.”
If it were me before regression, no matter how great the weapon was in this box, I would never have bought it.
Before returning, I had not used any divine weapons at all.
Because I thought the gods’ weapons were cursed, not blessed, and I did not believe in them.
Since I decided never to use anything from the gods, I learned the skill from a dwarf and made a nameless object.
We were of the same mind in that they also did not like God like me.
But it was different now.
I know that in the distant future, the gods of human history will use and betray humanity.
‘If that’s the case, there’s no reason not to use it too.’
It is not a matter of whether you believe in God or not.
To kill God or not to kill God.
To take revenge or not to take revenge?
Not being able to stop God meant not only revenge but also facing the despairing future I had seen.
So I couldn’t miss the opportunity.
“I’ll buy one. “Please give me that purple box.”
All the assets in my wallet were 130,000 won.
Among them, he handed 100,000 won to the merchant.
A strange look appeared in the merchant’s eyes.
His face said that he himself had never thought that the box would sell.
“There is only one white box left. Are you really going to buy the purple box?”
“of course.”
I clearly know your intentions, but would you buy it?
The salesman gave up on persuading me with my confident words and handed over the box in exchange for 100,000 won.
“I wish you luck, Loki.”
“Thank you.”
There was no need to open it in a crowded place.
As I was about to leave with the box, the vendor called me.
“Why don’t you open it right away? “I can dispose of the box.”
“You might win, right? “Just in case, I’ll secretly open it when I’m alone.”
“Oh, you are wise.”
You think I don’t know what you’re up to?
If you open something ‘real’ in a crowded place like this, people’s attention will be focused.
I think they want to attract attention.
‘Absolutely not.’
Only then did the merchant let me go.
He’s cleverly pretending to be human, but I know.
Now, that businessman is none other than Loki, the god of mischief.
‘But there’s no need to show off here.’
Anyway, when the time comes, Loki will come find me on his own.
To find me who read his trick.
I entered a nearby, deserted bathroom and touched the pattern engraved on the box with my hand.
‘Loki’s Magic Box, the answer is not color. What’s important is the pattern.’
The box was engraved with various patterns, large and small, such as dragons, tigers, and crescent moons. And among them, the only box containing relics related to God is the ‘box with a crescent moon engraved on it.’
The street vendors selling magic boxes are all Rocky’s alter egos, and they play pranks on people to prevent people from buying boxes with this crescent moon engraved on them. Unless, like me, you pick exactly that.
So it took a long time for the truth to come to light.
Anyway, there is no need to hesitate since you just got your hands on it.
Whoa!
When I opened the box, purple light surrounded me.
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