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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈

Chapter 13: Julian, the Hero of Interest (1)

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After seven whole runs.

Yulian was a hero who had written his story alongside the Constellations.

No human had interacted with the Constellations as often as he had. As a result, unknown glitches were surfacing in Moon Jun-il, the human who could be called Yulian's original.

Perhaps Jun-il's ability to use a portion of Yulian's power, and to sense the Constellations' words and presence, were all part of those glitches.

When Ram opened this place as a modern-fantasy dimension, Jun-il's glitches grew worse.

He could sense more things now.

[Current Watching Constellations: 56]

[Inheritance of Incarnation 'Hero - Yulian']

[0.56% in progress]

The things Jun-il had only vaguely sensed now took fully tangible form before his eyes.

'So this is what it was?'

Jun-il was surprised.

He had sensed something all along, but seeing it directly was another matter.

'Yulian's power really is being inherited?'

And somehow, that inheritance seemed linked to the number of watching Constellations.

Those matching numbers could not be a coincidence.

'Oh. One more joined.'

[Current Watching Constellations: 57]

There were now fifty-seven Constellations.

Then...

'Huh?'

[Inheritance of Incarnation 'Hero - Yulian']

[0.57% in progress]

The inheritance had increased too.

The number of Constellations kept rising and falling, and the inheritance progress rose and fell with it.

Each Constellation passed down 0.01% of Yulian's power.

'That's all?'

Jun-il thought the exchange rate was rather stingy, but then he looked at the goblin corpses strewn before him.

'There was a reason I felt unusually good today. I was definitely different from before.'

Only 0.57% of Yulian's power was being inherited, but that was not a trivial amount.

This was Hero Yulian's power.

By the final chapter of his story, Yulian had possessed enough power to kill even the ruler of the world, the Demon King, over and over again.

By the seventh run, he had become practically a demigod.

'When I put it that way... this isn't bad.'

Even a tiny fraction of that power was overwhelming by goblin standards.

Of course, that was only by goblin standards.

Jun-il wanted more.

'How many would I need for the full inheritance?'

Let's do the math.

One person per 0.01%.

For 100% inheritance...

Ten thousand Constellations.

'Hah. How fitting.'

Ten thousand Constellations.

Pam's words came back to him.

"To get an A, you need to maintain ten thousand all the way to the end."

They had been talking about an A grade.

It was a level neither Jun-il nor Pam had managed to reach in the end.

That was the number he needed to fully inherit Yulian's power.

But Jun-il still had no answer for how to get an A.

'Something special...'

Pam said he needed "something special," but Jun-il was not special at all.

So his strategy remained the same.

'Even a B+ will do.'

All of Yulian's power?

A 100% inheritance?

Sure, it would be nice, but honestly, it was excessive.

His goal was not to defeat this world's Demon King.

'I've already reached seven thousand before. Can I get to seventy percent?'

Seventy percent would be enough.

With only seventy percent, he might even be able to kill an ogre with a flick to the forehead.

It was more than enough to survive among monsters and interfere with that protagonist bastard, whoever he was.

'Then I'll stick to the original plan. Yulian's way.'

Jun-il decided to keep using the plan from his days as a hero.

No specialness. Just reliably secure a B+ grade.

- Why's he spacing out?

- What, is he buffering?

- Is it just me, or did he freeze?

As Jun-il stared into empty space, the Constellations grew curious.

'Right.'

Jun-il gave a pointless cough, then muttered for the Constellations to hear.

"Ahem. I should find a goblin den or something..."

As though he had been deep in thought trying to locate goblins.

- Yeah.

- There are probably lots in the mountains?

- He's looking for their den lol. Makes sense, he's almost wiped them out.

- A goblin den? Did they already make one?

"Hmm..."

Pretending to ponder, Jun-il walked up to a goblin corpse and examined its blood.

The blood meant nothing.

He was only imitating a detective from a movie.

'Anyway, I already know where they are...'

He turned his head and glanced at the goblins' soles.

'Just as I thought.'

Their feet were covered in dirt.

This was asphalt.

"Soil...?"

He deliberately said the word aloud.

"Did they come from somewhere with soil?"

- What did this guy even do before?? Damn.

- Oh, is he deducing things?

- Is he a hunter?

- He didn't figure anything out lol. He's just showing off lol.

'It barely counts as deduction.'

Goblins could never live in the middle of a city.

They were surprisingly nature-loving creatures, so they could not live anywhere that carried even the slightest human scent.

That had been true in the medieval world. How much worse would it be in the modern age?

Even the ones born in the subway had likely moved near the neighborhood hills by now.

There was only one mountain around here.

"Cheongsongsan?"

Cheongsongsan.

It was not much of a mountain, just a local hill where residents could take a light walk.

- Ooh.

- What? He's fucking smart.

- For real?

- He's smart too? Damn.

- As expected of a student at a prestigious university. Damn.

The Constellations liked that.

Jun-il smirked and headed for Cheongsongsan.

* * *

At the midpoint of Cheongsongsan, where he eventually arrived.

'What's that sound?'

Boom!

Boom!

Strange noises rang out.

When he took a look...

'Crazy.'

The adaptability of Koreans was something else.

Two burly men were spraying skills at goblins and killing them!

- ?

- Whoa lol.

- Their adaptation is top-tier.

- Who are these guys?

- Oh... They're fast.

Even the Constellations were surprised.

'Shouldn't they be scared?'

Even if everyone had become Awakeners now, standing before a goblin should still have inspired fear.

The answer was in the skills they used.

"Bang!"

Boom!

They had a ranged skill.

[Air Bullet]

It compressed air and fired it like a bullet.

It worked quite well on goblins, and since it could hit from a distance, they did not have to face the goblins directly.

But that was not the important one.

[Vine Binding]

The other man had a skill that summoned tree vines and bound the goblins.

Craaaack!

They bound every approaching goblin, then finished them off with Air Bullets.

'Good combination.'

Those two had lucked into very advantageous skills early on.

That was when Jun-il noticed something.

'But I've seen all these skills before.'

The skills randomly assigned by rank were all skills he had frequently seen during his days as a hero.

Air Bullet was used by wind-elemental mages, while Vine Binding was used by druids.

'In the end, Story Fairies make similar things.'

The systems were apparently made by the same company, so the principles seemed to be the same.

Jun-il watched the two men hunt for a moment.

Boom!

"Wow! Fuck! Got another one! Level up!"

One of the men shouted excitedly.

"You're level three too?"

"Yes, boss. Looks like we'll need to kill about fifteen more to reach level four."

Jun-il blurted out loud without meaning to.

"Crazy. Level three?"

- Lmao.

- That's fucking unfair.

- What rank are they?

- F-ranks level up slowly too lol.

- Is this even possible?

How many goblins had he killed already, even earning the Goblin Slayer title?

Ram supposedly specialized in game fantasy.

'What kind of garbage game is this?'

Muttering to himself, Jun-il strode toward the two men.

'I can't let them take all the goblins.'

He had worked hard to find this goblin den.

It was time for him to start hunting too.

"Ahem. Excuse me. Want to hunt together?"

They had arrived first, after all.

Jun-il tried to persuade them in a friendly tone.

"...?"

"Huh?"

The two men frowned and tilted their heads.

"What's your poten?"

"...Poten?"

"Potential. Your potential rank. Show it above your head."

They told him to display his rank.

Of course, Jun-il could not.

He was F-rank.

"If you don't want to hunt together, that's fine. I'll just stand here and hunt too."

At Jun-il's words, the man using druid magic spoke threateningly.

"Can't you see this is our spot?"

- Their spot lol.

- "Our spot," my ass.

- Their spot~

- Do they think this is actually a game?

- Territorial claim, damn.

What an absurd thing to say.

"What spot?"

Jun-il had intended to let it slide if possible.

"Whoever kills them first owns them."

"...What?"

There was no helping it.

Shhk.

He took out a box cutter.

'Life is hard for an F-rank.'

Jun-il needed to level up more urgently.

'Spot or no spot, I need to live too.'

Sorry, but they would hunt competitively.

Jun-il was confident he could kill goblins faster.

"Hah? You think you can kill them faster than us?"

"Yes."

But the two men clearly did not agree.

They did not even know Jun-il was F-rank.

Why were they so confident?

"Hah? Let's show him, boss."

"Yeah. Take a good look, punk."

Ding.

They displayed their ranks above their heads.

[C+]

[C+]

"If I say we're C+ magic classes... does that explain it?"

- What lol.

- C+, damn.

- Oh, that's high lol.

- Those muscleheads are mages? Fuck.

- They look like tanks, but they're mages?

Jun-il was surprised.

Because they were C+?

That was only half the reason.

'Wait, ranks have pluses too?'

C was not the issue. He had only just learned that ranks could have pluses and minuses.

'Then just how lowborn am I?'

He had thought E-rank was directly above him.

Did it start at E-minus?

It was like thinking every department had one manager, then joining the company and finding that everyone except you was a manager.

'Seriously.'

Jun-il's anger flared for a moment, but thirty years of hard-earned composure quickly calmed him down, and he argued back.

"Ahem. C+ is nice. If you're both so confident you can kill them quickly, then it won't matter if I'm here."

The two men blanked for a moment, then looked at each other.

'That makes sense?'

'It does.'

While they were still taken aback, a goblin crawled out of the den.

"Boss! One just came out..."

Flash!

Jun-il vanished, and the goblin's head flew off.

Slaaash!

"!?"

"!"

The two men froze as they watched the goblin's head fly through the air.

"Wha... What was that?"

"Fuck, snap out of it. He took it from us."

When they saw the next goblin emerge, they immediately fired their magic.

"Now!"

"Bang!"

It was pointless.

Slaaash!

Slash!

Jun-il darted this way and that, cutting them down in an instant.

"How is he faster than magic?!"

"...W-what is he?"

Slaaash!

Jun-il cut down every goblin that came charging out with murder in its eyes.

The two men could not bring themselves to say anything like "our spot" again.

Then Jun-il leveled up.

[Level Up!]

[Lv. 1 -> Lv. 2]

- Ooh!

- Finally!

- Nice.

- Probably the first F-rank to level up lol.

- Damn.

[All Stats +1]

He had become just a little stronger.

"Hah... I finally leveled up."

Even after leveling with such difficulty, Jun-il's strength had barely changed.

'Damn F-rank. Does it make any sense for the level-up rewards to be this small too?'

Getting one more watching Constellation seemed far more efficient than leveling up.

'Should I change my strategy and focus on drawing the Constellations' attention?'

As he considered that, the two men suddenly changed their attitudes and began groveling.

"Uh, well... Boss? What the hell are you? Aren't you A+?"

"Y-you crazy bastard. Not A. This is S, S!"

- Lmao, calling him boss.

- What a change in attitude lol.

- He looks at least ten years older than them, and they're calling him boss lol.

- He's F-rank, though?

"What the hell are you, boss?!"

'What's with these guys?'

At first, Jun-il looked a little annoyed.

Then...

'Huh?'

As though something had occurred to him, Jun-il said to them,

"If I say I'm the Line 4 Goblin Slayer... does that explain it?"

The two men stared wide-eyed and clutched each other in shock.

"Eek?!"

"Y-you're... the Goblin Slayer, boss?!"

- These guys' reactions are fucking adorable lol.

- Holy shit, what are those poses lol.

- In front of an alpha male, they're just schoolgirls lol.

- What the fuck am I looking at?

- If they find out he's F-rank, they'll pass out.

- Why are their legs all twisted up lol.

"I-I can't believe it. Boss, it's an honor to meet you!"

"I-It's an honor for me too!"

Jun-il had a reason for bringing that up.

"Can we take a picture with you?"

He had expected this reaction.

"Cover my face."

"O-of course, boss!"

Click!

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Today, we partied up with the Line 4 Goblin Slayer and hunted lol. Damn, he's insanely skilled lol. Even if the world's fucked, heroes still show up!

#GoblinSlayer

#GoblinHuntLog

#RealMenHuntGoblins

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Jun-il's number of watching Constellations increased even further.

[Current Watching Constellations: 78]

As a result, more of Yulian's power was inherited.

[Inheritance of Incarnation 'Hero - Yulian']

[0.78% in progress]

Hummm!

The change in power was immediate.

It was several times greater than an F-rank level-up.

'Ooh...!'

Jun-il was beginning to get a rough idea of how he should grow stronger from now on.

'This is it.'

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