Chapter 40

The Korean Internet community had gone wild.

[Title: To the user Petal Kim.]

If you return the armor that I dropped, I will forgive you. It was an improvised raid, but is it really okay that only your party members ran away and let the others die? Other users have already uploaded screenshots and videos, but anyway, everyone has selfish mistakes, so I won’t blame you. Please return the armor. I won’t ask for the items you got from the brown bear.

-OXOX: Looking at the video, it seemed like the 5 people waited for the right moment. … And what would be the reason?

What the heck! Then, did they do it on purpose to let the other raid members die?

-100: Yeah, they ran away and came back later, and it seemed like they kept the Brown Bear for themselves.

– They’re all shit.

[Title: Attached Evidence: Petal Kim recruited another raid team from O-Renu Village!]

I am one of the members that participated in a 30-person raid team. At most, I went and searched, but there were no items belonging to the users who had died before, let alone the field boss. Aren’t dropped items supposed to remain for 3 hours before they disappear? We understood why there were no corpses but, did they need to recruit a second raid team if they already swallowed all the items? I just wasted my time for nothing.

When I heard the story of the first raid team, it was a spectacle… … People should not live like that.

Check the attached video. There’s also a conversation, so you can be the judge.

What kind of level 25 – 30 players are so shameless?

– There’s nothing petal-like about him.

– I watched the video, and he’s such a bastard.

-This is getting on my nerves. Please give back the users’ items.

-If that goblin bastard comes to the village, don’t let him join your party. If a tanker has that kind of mindset, they will never be useful.

-By the way, weren’t they good enough to catch the Brown Bear by themselves?

-Of course, they 100% got the field boss.

The field boss before dropped leather pants, I think it could be used until level 60? And users can wear it as early as level 20.

-1_ Whoa, that’s OP. If there’s something like that then, it would be worth it for that Petal Kim person to do what he did.

“These stupid bitches!”

Bang, bang, bang!

The man struck the desk repeatedly. His Middle Earth nickname was Petal Kim. Even after his desk cracked and the keys bounced off his keyboard, it did not relieve his anger.

“This is unfair, we didn’t even find it.” Kuang!

“What do they mean, I ate all the benefits?”

Bang!

Nothing would change even if he shouted.

It was rumored that Petal Kim and his party planned a proxy PK using the Brown Bear and got all the items for themselves. Afterward, they formed a second raid team in order to waste everyone’s time.’

A dirty and vicious player, Petal Kim.

Once public opinion was formed, it was irreversible.

No matter how much he tried to clarify, and even after he uploaded his inventory and equipment window, no one trusted him, so his anger soared more and more.

‘Which bastard got all of it? What the hell is going on?’

Petal Kim was the only one who actually wanted to know who had taken the items. On the Internet, everyone thought that their party got all the items.

Even his party members, who could testify for Petal Kim’s innocence, did not reveal themselves. Maybe they also thought that Petal Kim got the items secretly?

‘They’re all idiots. Anyway, I have to find the bastard who defeated the brown bear. If these rumors make me look bad, it will be difficult to play properly, damn it… I need to prove my innocence, in order to play Middle Earth smoothly. I have to find the guy who caught the brown bear and ate the items dropped by the users.’

‘But who the hell is it?  The musketeer couldn’t have caught it. Was there any other person hiding nearby? I should check the video.’

If it’s like this, I might never be able to find the culprit.

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“It’s a set item.”

The moonlit night also returned periodically from Middle Earth. Leeha made a torch and walked thinking about the Bear Leather.

When going somewhere, normal users would log out at night. Leeha’s attitude, however, was surprising. In fact, this was thanks to his frequent night marches in the military.

Walking alone in the forest at night without any lights like streetlights was really difficult for ordinary people to experience.

“The Set effect for 5 pieces gives 50%  flame resistance. This means that at least five or more parts of armor can come out of that brown bear.”

Which other parts are there? The coat, boots, and cap came out, so the two probable parts should be leather armor and pants, right?

Although Leeha was already equipped with three, greed did not disappear that easily.

His fire resistance increased by 30% thanks to the three items he had equipped.

If he got 2 more items, he could have gotten 50%.

Currently, the effect of the equipment he got raised his ‘Fear’ resistance by a total of 50%. However, fire resistance is much more useful than fear resistance.

Even if you looked at the internet bulletin board, the most important resistance was deemed as resistance against fire.

‘Even the Brown Bear spit out a fireball.’

It’s only natural to get fire resistance on desert and lava areas, and there are many other monsters that deal fire damage.

It was said that even humanoid monster archers shoot fire arrows. Which means that the benefit of increasing fire resistance was tremendous.

The same applies while going against users.

Wizards using the flame system is pretty much the same thing.

Pyromancer Ram Hwayeon also specializes in Fire Magic. Even magicians who deal with elements like elementalists often used fire-based attack magic.

Even wizards and other magicians who often used common-type magic also usually chose the Fire-type for its attack power.

Compared to that, resistance to fear…

“No, it’s much better than nothing. Thinking like this while I was wearing beggar’s clothes just a moment ago, huh, I really am too greedy.”

Leeha looked at himself and sighed.

“By the way, are those two doing well?”

Biyemi and Jin Gonggong.

The bipedal lizard and the crow-rearing giant, how far are they from their destination.

After a while, he opened his Friends List window and checked their connection status.

Biyemi was in the Tamba Jungle, and Jin Gonggong was in the Emerald Forest.

Leeha looked at the two’s locations on the map and they were a considerable distance east from the capital, Aelstock. Leeha didn’t think he would meet them for a while.

“When will I arrive? I have covered a little over half the distance now.”

Leeha was on his fifth day of travel towards the capital.

‘And… Cryomancer Ram Hwajeong and Pyromancer Ram Hwayeon were located at the “Watching Peak”.’

‘Watching Peak? Where’s that?’

Leeha looked at the map, their position could not be seen in the official map of the Fibiel Kingdom. If so, it must be somewhere outside the border.

‘It must be a mountain, based on the word ‘Peak’.’

Grrrr.

Hearing the growling sound, he put the map in his bag.

“Now, then, let’s go hunting.” Bears still appeared on the way to the capital, but he was no longer afraid.

Leeha was now on the fifth day of his journey to the Capital. After catching the Brown Bear on his first day, Leeha had already caught more than a dozen bears. He was already Level 23.

Krrng, Krrng.

A small bear was scratching its back on a tree.

A human could not distinguish whether it was scratching its back or breaking the tree but the motion it made as it hit its back on the tree and made nasal sounds seemed cool.

About 60m away from the bear. Leeha crouched in the bushes.

‘It would be good if it died in a single shot.’

He pulled his index finger.

Paaa!

A gunshot resonated in the forest.

Kuoong!

The bear was struck just above its armpit,  and it slumped down. The bear was barely breathing, and it could not move as the bullet had pierced it near the area where its heart was.

Leeha tried several times to find a bear’s weakness and found the answer.

A bear’s weakness was its heart, not its head. It was just below the ribs or just above the armpits.

Of course, if you were below level 12, it wouldn’t have done so much damage. However, Leeha’s attack power, which was increased by his agility, was above level 50.

“Amitabha.”

Leeha finished loading quickly.

When the second gunfire rang, the bear’s torso swung back.

Two shots.

Users who do party hunting to catch bears might give up if they saw Leeha’s ridiculous attack power.

‘Usually, it would take three to four shots, but this guy is small.’

It was smaller than the guys he had been catching. Since the characteristics and HP of each individual are slightly different, it was understandable that a smaller one would die quicker. Leeha stood up to get the bear’s meat.

Krrrng—.

And there is always a guardian next to a child.

‘It’s big! That’s three, no, it’s four shots.’

Of course, other players’ faces would darken if they heard Leeha saying three or four shots!

However, it did not matter to Leeha, who was facing the big bear.

It meant that even if he reloaded and fired at the highest speed, it would take more than four minutes to hunt it.

However, as he looked at the mother bear standing on her two feet next to the young bear’s body, he was not flustered.

He pulled out the gunpowder bag and started reloading calmly.

It was big… Kwing.

The mother bear did not approach Leeha.

“As long as you are wearing the skin of the Bear king… bears cannot approach.”

He wasn’t simply able to raise his level to 23 through luck alone.

In the first place, he didn’t think about raising his level by hunting bears.

If he had touched a bear and had not killed it in one shot, he would have died. Nevertheless, he tried hunting with the thought of getting some meat…

‘It was absurd, really.’

There was a situation that caused Leeha to stop trying to do the reload on the move.

Knowing how fast the bear was, he was prepared to fight to the death, but the bear only growled from a distance and did not come any closer to him.

He was convinced that it was something that he had done by accident, but this continued to happen.

The bears did not approach because he was equipped with the Leather of the Brown Bear, Agonia Orso, the king of bears.

“Whew, it was not enough that I killed its baby, I have to kill the mother as well. I get sad at times like this.”

Still, the law of the jungle is unforgiving.

Leeha finished reloading his musket, fired, and killed the mother bear in four shots.

‘I will only hunt those that are on my way. It’s not too late to hunt bears after arriving at the capital first.’

Bears will not be able to counterattack as long as he has the items.

From now on, there was no need to rush to hunt. Besides, he might be able to save gunpowder by learning skills or changing weapons.

In order to solve his hunger, he was only hunting enough bears to get meat.

(To be continued…)