Chapter 17 – Part 1 Hunter – Hunter’s First Step (3)

A hunting ground that was moved through the transmission room portal, Gray Forest.

People were crowded around the portal. Not only hunters and guild employees, there were also many merchants who made and sold food or brought arrows and potions to sell.
Most of the people here are dressed in casual clothes similar to mine, and have only one or two pieces of proper armor at most.
That said, this is a complete novice zone.

I think the correct answer was to not wear SSR equipment. If I wore something like that, I would have been noticed in a place like this market. I like getting attention from beautiful women, but I hate getting attention from stinky guys.

I moved away from the densely populated area around the portal and into the forest. Because there were so many people, there were no monsters to catch nearby.
I went deep into the woods for about 5 minutes, made sure no one was around, and put on my full gear.

SSR Stormbow Lacey’s Left Hand (shortbow)
SSR Stormbow Lacey’s right hand (quiver)
SSR Falcon Hunter Beryl’s Hood (Leather Hat)
SSR Falcon Hunter Beryl’s Heart Guard (Leather Top)
SSR Falcon Hunter Beryl’s Hunting Gloves (Leather Gloves)
SSR High Elf Gracias’ Boots (Leather Shoes)
SSR Holy Blood Witch’s Star (Necklace)

The rest of the area is SR.

If you put 300 iron arrows in the quiver, the preparation is perfect. Now only the monsters will come out.

And when I moved to find the monster, it felt much faster than usual just by simply walking.
Is this the effect of the equipment? The body is light and the field of view is wide. I don’t think I’ll ever wear it, though.

I looked down at the equipment on my body and sighed.

Especially the upper [Falcon Hunter Beryl’s Heart Guard].
A piece of leather the size of a palm was barely large enough to cover only the left chest where the heart was. In other words, all parts except for the right breast, stomach, navel, shoulder, etc., Are completely open.

Who the hell benefits a man from exposing this much? First of all, is this a defense? You have no defense at all!

‘The smaller the area of ​​the armor, the higher the defense.’
When I first heard this, I admired it, saying, ‘What a wonderful system!’, But I didn’t think that it was applied without gender discrimination. Damn it.

The fortunate thing is that since I was young, I thought that muscles are necessary no matter what I do, so I have been working hard, so I am not ashamed to show off my body to others.
However, I don’t have a hobby that I’m going to show off to men or the elderly even if I don’t know about women who suit my taste!

Besides that, the hat with the word ‘hood’ written on it looked like it was wearing a bird’s head. Where the hell do you see these ‘two hoods’? No matter how you look at it, it’s not a hood, it’s a bird’s head mask, right?
The only good thing is that this bird’s head covers my eyes, so it’s hard to recognize me. Even if you meet someone you know, you can pretend you don’t know.

And the rest of the glove has bird feathers attached to it, so it looks like a dove’s wing rather than a human arm. At least his fingers are protruding, but he only looks like a psychopath.

This is a set of three.

And I haven’t gotten it yet, but just imagining the bottom called ‘vital guard’ in the set list makes my balls tremble. There is no doubt that it is equipment that can barely cover only the important parts of a man. The rest of the shoes must also look like new feet.

Isn’t this a completely pervert set! The only thing I can see is the future of being arrested as a red-handed criminal by the guards for walking around the streets at night wearing a full set.

…Let’s do our best to collect the High Elf Gracia set. I don’t know if I’ll be able to collect it if I try…

“Ah. Found a goblin.”

After walking for about 3 minutes, I found 2 goblins in the distance. Maybe it was because there was still a distance, but the goblins hadn’t noticed it yet.
I quickly took an iron arrow from the quiver and put it on the string.

To be honest, I’ve never shot a bow in my life. I had never even touched the bow itself.
So, of course, I didn’t think that I would be able to shoot a bow well from the beginning.

However, my body was moving naturally, as if it had always been this way.

String the bow, draw the string, and aim at the goblin. I didn’t move because I thought I would do this, but I always acted like that, so I moved on its own as if it had become a habit in my body.

“Ohh… Is this the feeling of shooting a bow…!”

Strangely moved, as I pulled the bowstring, the gauge marked ‘Aim’ on the interface went up. The gauge filled up in about 0.5 seconds.

And ‘Distance 85%’ displayed next to the aiming gauge. Does this mean that the target is at 85% of the range?

Anyway, now that the aim is set, let go of the demonstration. The iron arrow flew with a wind-breaking sound.

“Kihik!”

Immediately after firing the arrow, the target goblin’s head exploded with a short scream. The number -2482 floated above the spot where the blown off goblin’s head had been.

“Oooh…”

My head exploded…?
They didn’t hit it with a hammer, they just shot arrows at it, so why does it explode?!

“Guggyaa!”

One of the remaining goblins belatedly runs this way.
However, it is slow. It felt so slow that I wondered if it was crawling rather than running.

I leisurely set the next arrow.
Aiming is already done. Just wait for the goblin to come a little closer to check the effect of the range. The display of the range gradually decreased from 85% to 80% to 75%.

…That’s slow. Can’t you come sooner?
When it reached 50%, I couldn’t stand it and let go of the bowstring.

As before, the goblin’s head explodes, and Critical! The number -10,302 came to mind.

“Wow.”

The goblin that lost its head soon turned to ashes and disappeared. Along with the smashed head and blood.
By the way, isn’t the difference between the two numbers too big?!

There is a difference of about 30% between the pure damage at 85% distance and at 50% distance due to the weapon’s ‘Damage increases the closer you get’ option.
In addition, the critical damage is doubled, and the ‘critical damage increase’ option increases the damage by 50% or more.

Applying all of these increases the damage by about 390%… Comparing the difference in the number of damage to the two goblins, it seems to be roughly correct.

In other words, if you fight close to the monster anyway, the damage will increase!
Theoretically, the damage will be the strongest when shooting from zero distance.
But even if you shoot from a moderate distance, the goblin will die anyway. You don’t have to force yourself to run.

[Quest. Goblin Subjugation 2/10]

The number of goblins subjugated in the quest line had definitely increased.
And I got a pair of N-rank shoes from the goblin I defeated. Of course, I tried to sell it because I didn’t need it, but I was told that I could only sell it in a safe zone. I can’t seem to sell it until I take it back to the city.

These N-rank shoes cost 120 gold. It’s too cheap. When I bought it at the shop, I received 2,000 to 5,000 gold. What kind of thief Simbo is.

Anyway, I ran around looking for goblins. Find goblins, shoot arrows, blow heads. It was just repeating such a simple routine.

When I caught the 7th, I found another party for the first time.

A four-member party of two men and two women. They were aiming for three goblins gathered not far away.
I wanted to see other people fighting, so I decided to hide and watch them fight.

First, a female archer shoots an arrow from a distance.
Wooden arrows in a crude wooden bow. That must be an N-rank bow.
The arrow that was shot, oh, missed. And the goblins noticed it and started running toward it.

When I aimed again and shot, this time I hit the goblin in front of me in the side. Damage shown was -16.

…Damage is 16? Aren’t you too weak?
When the third arrow was shot, the party and the goblins clashed.

A man and a woman who appear to be melee jobs each deal with one goblin. And the other man seems to be a priest. The priest raised a wooden staff and faced the goblin who had been hit by an arrow first. And the archer steadily fires arrows from behind the priest.

The damage that came out when melee classes hit was about 15 to 35, and the priest’s attack was about 10.

By the way, archers are weak. I’m watching him carefully because he’s the same archer, but he’s really weak. It also misses a lot.
Weird. No, it is rather bizarre. Even though he shot right in front of his nose, he misses for no reason.

Hmm… If the hit rate is low and the opponent’s evasion rate is high, is it true that the attack that should be hit is also judged to evade in that way?
That archer is shooting his 8th arrow in the fight right now, and he hasn’t killed a single goblin yet. Above all, it seems that half of the arrows miss. 1 wooden arrow is 5G, so 8 arrows is 40G. If that’s the case, isn’t it a deficit even if you catch a goblin?

Haha. Somehow it doesn’t seem like anyone else’s work. If I hadn’t paid, I would have bought a 5,000G N-grade wooden bow from the store and fought with a 5G wooden arrow, so it must have been just that much damage and that kind of accuracy.

“Philly! Why can’t you guess!?”

The cleric exclaims annoyedly. Complaining is understandable. It’s because the goblin doesn’t die quickly enough that he’s being beaten.

“What can I do with the low accuracy of the weapon!”

The female archer also refutes it, but it is unavoidable. It’s not that she couldn’t shoot a bow herself, so she didn’t get hit. It’s just that the weapon hit rate is low.
Wearing even her armor with her finesse would make it a bit more fitting, but she didn’t even have that to her.

Eventually, while she was wasting her time and making a fuss, the other goblins abandoned her. It’s three again this time.
Isn’t it dangerous to join them now? Seeing the new goblins, the four of them are nervous.
Having judged that, I decided to deal with two of the three new ones myself.

“Wow?”
“What?!”
“Kukii profit!”

Suddenly, the heads of the two goblins exploded, causing both the human and the goblin to scream at the same time. In the meantime, however, the male swordsman swings his sword to finish off one goblin. It has the highest damage and seems to be the only one among them to have an R-grade weapon.
After defeating a goblin, the swordsman immediately joined the female thief next to him.

Soon, all three goblins fighting in front of him were knocked out, and the newly joined goblins were left alone, and they died quickly after receiving a concentrated attack.

When there were 3 goblins, I was fighting pretty well, but at the moment there was only one left, this was it. Conversely, if there were 3 goblins and 1 of us fought solo, the hunter side could have lost.
Again, if the number is the same or less, the fight becomes very difficult. That’s why the guild receptionist must be saying that a party is essential.

As I was analyzing alone, a prosecutor approached me.

“Wait, you.”

Heh what? You don’t need to say thank you?

“Did you just steal our prey?”

Aang~ Is that it?
I tried to help, but it had the opposite effect.

“Jeron. You were rather helpful, right?”
“As a result, it’s true that we ate raw during the fight.”
“It’s true that it would have been difficult if we had continued to fight.”

The female thief still provides support. I’m going to cry because I’m grateful.

“I was thinking of helping you, but it seems useless. I’ll give you this as an apology, so please forgive me.”

I threw 4 potions from my inventory, 1 for each person. It was the same potion I bought after being scammed by the Myoin Tribe at the weapon store.
It’s a whopping 3,000G potion each. Save it.

Actually, there is no need to do this, but unnecessary trouble is tiring.

“Oh, well, I’m grateful for what I give.”

The man who complained probably didn’t know that he would receive something like this. He’s a little shy.
And I said to the archer who was staring blankly at the potion in his hand.

“And the archer there.”
“…Yes? Me?”
“Is the arrow only a wooden arrow?”
“Oh, yes. By the way.”
“Then write this.”

I bet her trade on her and posted 3 bundles of her 300 iron arrows.
The archer who accidentally pressed her deal was taken aback by my sudden action.

“Uh, so many?”
“Wait, what are you doing?”

While the archer hesitated, the swordsman intervened.

“What are you doing? I’m just giving you arrows.”
“Why?”
“Are people with the same ruined job as equals?”
“It’s useless meddling. And archers aren’t a ruined job. Philly is helpful enough.”

At that, I see an archer. And see the other three.
Honestly, compared to the other three, only the archer looked poorly dressed. Even though Archer is a woman, it seems that she has no time to decorate her makeup or clothes.

They do quests together and earn money and divide it fairly, but the archer seems to be unable to afford her daily life because she pays for arrows with that little money.

I sighed and said.

“No, that’s what you think. Don’t pretend you know about the prosecutor.”
“What? What do you mean I don’t know?”
“Do you know the nervousness of fewer arrows? Do you know the misery of having to weigh the cost of arrows and the payoff every time and figure out whether it’s a loss or a gain? If you care about the price of arrows, how does it feel to be disparaged by saying, ‘It’s just a few bucks’? I even tell my friends I trust. How does it feel to suffer alone?

To my words, the prosecutor couldn’t answer anything and just stood there stunned.

“Don’t pretend to understand the test subject.”

No, actually, I’ve never experienced anything like that, so I don’t really know. Whoops.

“Arrow, thank you.”

Archer Ye completes her deal in the meantime and bows her head in greeting.
Heh look at it didn’t it work

“Phil, you can’t accept it! Look at the way this guy is dressed. It’s not normal! I approached you because I had a dark mind…”
“Jeron! Really stop!”

Kut. Are you going to trip and fall with your clothes on?
It’s wrong to treat people as abnormal based on their appearance! Of course, it’s true that I approached it because I had a dark heart! But that’s because it’s originally a pervert, regardless of the clothes!

“Well, then do your best. Also, please get along well with your friends. Once separated, there’s no turning back even if you regret it.”

I waved my hand at them and walked away.

To be honest, it’s true that I had dark feelings, but it’s also because of the overlap between me and them.
I’m already tired of ‘what if’ stuff, but maybe I had a party like them. It might have been the same, suffering alone, and being coldly treated as being of no help.
That’s why, I wanted the same archers to be a little less painful.
It is a little self-satisfaction.

“Hey! Can’t you just know the name?”

The archer asked from a little further away.

“I’ll let you know if I have a chance to meet you next time. Also, there’s a swordsman! Being an archer isn’t a profession where you can afford to choose equipment based on design! A man who doesn’t pay attention to how a woman dresses is not popular!”

So I just said what I had to say and left in good shape.
And I was thinking of something like ‘If you shoot arrows at every beauty archer you meet, you’ll harvest them someday.’