Most of the low-floor hunters wore expressions of confusion, unable to tell what he was intending this time.
If he was simply trying to brag by saying “Look how good I am!”, he had fought so desperately in the beginning that it looked painful.
Although it became much easier by the second and third attempts, they wondered if it was really necessary to go through such hardship for days just to upload a video.
In that situation, a hunter belatedly left a comment.
―This… looks like sensory training?
L What’s that?
L It’s something you start doing once you pass the 30th floor.
L You’re saying you’re a high-rank hunter over the 30th floor?
L Yeah.
Here’s my verification [Hunter Certificate (31st Floor) Identification Code: xxxxxxx]
While everyone was leaving comments saying they would watch the video again following the high-rank hunter’s verification, another high-rank hunter finished the entire video and left a post containing his opinion.
─I think what Nameless is trying to say is that we should build our foundation from the beginning as we climb.
But looking at it long-term, I think this is right.
It’s possible now that there’s a way to earn a living on floors 1 to 10.
Maybe Nameless is trying to completely negate the existing hunter cultivation system through the means of living he created.
—
Whether other high-ranking hunters felt the same way, agreeing comments began to be posted.
Senses become more important the higher you go.
The problem is that if you climb easily during the most important early stages, you don’t encounter many crises, so you develop the bad habit of relying on your skills.
They say you can just follow the path paved by a few strong individuals, but how long will that be possible?
Eventually, you hit a limit that can be reached with skills alone, and you stagnate there.
The fact that most existing S-class skill awakeners, who have awakened powerful skills, perish between the 39th and 45th floors proves this.
The problem is that the time to clear more high-level floors is slowly approaching.
Because they have always hunted monsters above the score set by the Tower, they passed without much trouble, but those on the high floors already know.
—
—Right now, we can cover it with those in their 30s and 40s, but the time will come when we have to hunt a large number of monsters in the 50s.—
L Agreed.
Looking at how things are going, it doesn’t seem far off.
L Right.
The amount guilds are investing in promising prospects is exploding.
L S-ranks in their 50s are laying low right now.
L Seeing those guys who love to play around aiming for the 60th floor makes it feel like something is happening.
Even ordinary hunters feel that the time they worry about is not far off, but information agencies in each country are blocking information somehow.
It feels like they are doing their best to block it, as if chaos will break out the moment the reality we face is revealed.
Various countries around the world were preparing for the future on their own, but it was a story limited to those who were thoroughly verified.
[100 billion won paid without tax the moment you reach the 50th floor, regardless of skills!]
In Korea alone, such a support plan has been officially adopted.
[Guaranteed status equivalent to S-class regardless of skill grade when breaking through the 40th floor!]
[Guaranteed top-tier benefits when breaking through the 45th floor!]
Such support plans are pouring out one after another.
They are trying to entice hunters to climb to the high floors somehow, and because they know that enormous benefits await the higher they go, high-floor hunters also climb while taking risks.
But it still doesn’t work.
Because they took the wrong first step, they have reached their limit.
―If you look, you can see him becoming more relaxed even against irregular attacks as time passes. On top of that, if he has even mastered Fighting Spirit, floors 10 to 20 might become even easier.―
L Isn’t that just because it’s Nameless?
L There’s that too, but if you look closely at the movements, the Boss Rabbit’s techniques come out little by little.
It seems like sharper movements became possible as those techniques were mastered.
L Then if that’s mixed with Fighting Spirit….
L He becomes a monster.
Right now, he could probably beat hunters who are struggling because they can’t break through the 20th floor.
The analysis, which began with the verification of high-ranking hunters, clearly caught what Min-hyuk intended, and public opinion began to form slowly.
In fact, the fact that the growth limit increases only when building from the basics was a matter already verified among many scholars.
Even knowing that, the reason for skipping the initial stages was because of efficiency.
The cultivation system is already designed for maximum efficiency, so overturning this and making people climb slowly?
It’s not easy.
And providing support to all hunters when they climb floors 1 to 10?
This is also not easy.
The problem is that these two things were filled by Min-hyuk.
─A way for low-floor hunters to earn money has been created, and Nameless is directly showing that this is efficient, so it seems worth a try at least once.─
L For now, those who broke through the 9th floor should stop climbing and try to perfectly clear from the 1st floor.
L Agreed. I think it’ll work if we start by adapting to the Slime King’s irregular attacks.
L Those below the 10th floor, park yourselves for now. Absolutely! [Hunter Certificate (31st Floor)]
L Agreed.
Even if it doesn’t work, you’ll definitely feel something if you try.
[Hunter Certificate (36th Floor)]
L Park until you’re kicked out to the 10th floor and dig from the basics!
[Hunter Certificate (39th Floor)]
Hunters who had passed the 30th floor felt it deeply, so they all advised to park first and hold out as much as possible on the lower floors.
Was it because of that?
The hearts of the low-floor hunters, who had already parked because of the torches, were shaken.
Hunters on floors 1 to 9, who were trying to move on to the 10th floor after safely gathering funds, took courage and attempted the strategy.
―I won’t be able to do it like Nameless, but should I start with the slimes too?
L Only a monster can do a Perfect Clear.
But it seems worth a try after reaching the 9th floor?
L Agreed. Even without monster-like skills, it seems like the 1st floor might be possible according to the strategy.
L As long as the bonfire can be expanded, I think I can try.
L For now, if I succeed in clearing the 1st floor Slime King, I might try the 2nd floor later if it looks good?
Several hunters who took courage declared that they would challenge the Perfect Clear.
A Perfect Clear, which was considered the exclusive property of S-class awakeners.
Of course, there were those who ridiculed them.
―Do they think they’re Nameless?
L Do you think there’s a reason why only S-classes had Perfect Clears?
L Tsk tsk.
Their greed is excessive.
L Truly.
They’ll realize the hunter world’s proverb that you die if you don’t know your place.
There were many people who threw raw insults like this.
But on the contrary, there were many who cheered them on.
―Stop cursing and just cheer. They might discover new things that Nameless didn’t find, but you’re just raining on their parade from the start.―
L Seriously.
If you’re jealous, just say you’re jealous.
L Gloomy bastards.
Instead of supporting them, you’re trying to ruin it.
L Most of them seem to be in their 10s.
They’re at a loss about going to the 20th floor and can’t go back to the 9th floor….
Most of those who knew their growth had reached a limit cheered, saying they sincerely hoped the hunters breaking through floors 1 to 9 would do well.
Because they certainly sense that something big will happen in the Tower someday, and they know they’re unlikely to be of much help, so they’re telling them to
follow Nameless and build up steadily from the basics.
─Low-grade hunters should try it too. Skills can evolve if you keep learning them.―
L Agreed.
You might luckily get a new skill.
L For now, don’t be afraid and just try it once.
L You’ll face danger someday anyway, so it’s better to experience it on the lower floors.
L Take courage and try!
As the relay of cheers from high-floor hunters continued, an atmosphere of cheering for the low-floor hunters was created one by one.
And Min-hyuk, who was watching that scene intently, smiled unknowingly.
“That’s good.”
Even if they failed, there was a clear difference between taking courage and giving up from the beginning.
Hunters who take a long time to break through floors 1 to 9 are mostly low-grade skill holders.
Those who have not received the optimal breakthrough methods or support held by giant guilds.
Even if they reach the 20th floor, they are those who will enter mediocre guilds and be treated coldly.
Min-hyuk had seen it countless times when he worked at the Monster Management Office.
Hunters who brought even monster by-products that didn’t make money in groups and begged to please buy them.
Hunters who begged to be paid even a penny more for mana stones.
Hunters who came with monster by-products instead of treatment because of their child’s hospital bills even though they were injured while climbing the Tower recklessly.
Since this is what he saw just passing by, there must be many more difficult hunters in reality.
A faint hope that could change a future that might end as just a mediocre hunter.
For now, he was satisfied with giving that hope.
“Now all that’s left is….”
He trailed off and looked at his phone.
[Monster Management Office entering a full-scale investigation]
Even though it had been talked about for a while, the Monster Management Office was only now entering a full-scale investigation.
Maybe they could just give up the head and end it.
There is even a possibility that they will get off with a suspended sentence.
While all the issues are focused on him, they might quietly brush it off.
“I can’t let that happen.”
Just as the lives of low-floor hunters changed because of him, he intended to draw attention this time in the hope that the monster butchering industry would also change a bit.
He thought that if he used the attention focused on him, there was nothing he couldn’t do.
Then what is the method?
That is to use the bulletin board of Hunter Net.
[Selling floor 3 aged meat]
– Direct offer
※ Also selling floor 2 rabbit meat and slime mucus.
Min-hyuk left a post on the Hunter Market bulletin board for the first time.
Just like when he first uploaded the strategy video, there were no believers.
However, there are always those who test the waters everywhere.
—Huh? Is this real?—
In case they didn’t believe it, he kindly attached a video.
From the core and mucus made from the slimes in his strategy video, to the rabbit meat, and even the meat caught on the 3rd floor this time.
As he attached a video filmed all together, reactions began to come.
—Are you not putting them on the auction house anymore?
L No.
I’m thinking of selling directly to companies.
L Gasp! An answer!
A hunter was startled and left a nested comment when he answered directly.
Of course, not everyone believed this.
To those who doubted until the end, he read those comments in the strategy video the next day, and from then on, the comments began to increase explosively.
―We are a company specializing in slime mucus! If you sell it to us….―
─By any chance, do you also sell bonfires here?─
—Can I know the meat attributes in more detail?—
As various inquiries poured in, he left answers whenever he had time with all his heart.
Fitting for the Hunter Market, transactions are possible by clicking on the relevant company, so he set a timer like an auction house and traded under the best conditions, and the stock ran out in an instant.
─Out of stock. Please use the next transaction.―
He closed the bulletin board after saying that.
Min-hyuk, who sold items directly for the first time like that, quietly looked at the Hunter Market bulletin board.
Most of the reactions were of regret, but one of them uploaded a post as if they had realized Min-hyuk’s intention.
―This is probably… a silent protest that he dislikes places associated with the Monster Management Office?―
The current Hunter Market exchange was under the management of the Monster Management Office under the Hunter Management Bureau.
Trading directly without using such a place?
Since Min-hyuk had openly shown his dislike for the Monster Management Office, it was a reasonable suspicion.
Then, attention began to focus again on the Monster Management Office, which was trying to quietly slip away.
At the same time, signs of a wind of change began to blow, albeit slightly, in the abnormal structure of Korea that forced the use of the Monster Management Office.
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