Chapter 7 – The Difference Between You and Me (2)

I was generally kind to everyone.
Staring at people as if threatening was something he had rarely done.

But I couldn’t stand it towards Park Jong-gil.

What he did
I vividly pictured what I had done because of my stupid inferiority complex.

“Whoa…”

I took a deep breath and calmed myself down.
And I tried to move my gaze back to the front.

But at that moment,

[Would you like to activate the special ability ‘Scouter’?]

‘Huh?’

At first, I did not immediately understand this phenomenon.
But soon I remembered my special ability.
This was an ability he did not have in his previous life.

Through ‘Scouter’, I was able to quantify my ability into status and see it.

‘Didn’t I say I can see other people’s abilities?’

Perhaps my long-time look at Park Jong-gil was the trigger for the “Scouter.”

I used my abilities to check his status.

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Name [Park Jong-gil]
Height [177cm]
Weight [66kg]

Rank [E]

Strength [?]
Agility [?]
Health [?]
Mana [?]

Skill [?]

Special ability [?]

Special item [?]

Likeability [?]
Current state of mind [?]
Significant [?]

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‘What’s this?’

There was a big difference between when I looked at my status and the information provided.

Above all, there are too many question marks.
All I could find out about Park Jong-gil was his height, weight, and grade.

‘Did I say there is a level?’

Special ability is also affected by level, and it is said that the ability improves as the level goes up.
So, the reason I couldn’t look into Park Jong-gil’s information was because the ‘Scouter’ was level 1.

‘How do I level up?’

【The level of skills and special abilities can be raised using experience points.】
[The other important factor is the frequency of use of skills and special abilities.]

‘I see.’

Just like doing a lot of anything, it seemed the same was true for skills and special abilities.
However, the difference between me and others was that the level was displayed systematically, so it was easy to visually check it.
Of course, other hunters don’t get experience points just because they play NTL.

Other than that, what was different from my status were the three items listed at the bottom.

Likeability, current psychological state, and special issues.

This seemed to be information for me rather than indicative of personal characteristics.
Favorableness will, of course, be goodwill toward me, and things like the current psychological state and specifics were information that would be useful when I got them.
In any case, they also could not be confirmed at all now.

The existence of Park Jong-gil was soon forgotten.
The anger rising toward him wasn’t as great as I thought.

He wasn’t so strong that I couldn’t do anything about it.
Rather the opposite.

Park Jong-gil was such an ugly guy that he decided to do such a thing with a strong sense of inferiority.
Either in the past or now.
The only thing he managed to take away from me was an insignificant woman named Seulgi Lee.
When I looked at my entire life, Seulgi Lee was insignificant.
She just didn’t realize it in her previous life.

‘Because what I did doesn’t disappear.’

Just because I no longer feel more than a certain level of resentment toward him doesn’t mean I don’t have to get revenge.
In order to live a new life, you have to unfasten and refill the buttons that you put on wrong before.

Unlike my previous life, the initiative was with me.

The professor entered the classroom and the lecture began.
If I remember correctly, ‘combat practice’ was always divided into two parts.

The first part was to learn in advance how to deal with the monsters to be brought into practice.
It was a theory part, and the difference from other lectures was that it focused on one specific monster, and how to deal with it in real combat.

The monster that became the subject of today’s lecture was ‘Aquitas’.

A relatively common monster in dungeons.
Hunters in the field called him ‘one-eyed spider’.

The professor floated the figure of the gnome through the hologram.

The expensive system vividly reproduced the appearance of the monster.
It was 80-90% the same as the Aquitas I had hunted numerous times.

‘If…’

I glared at the monster that emerged as a hologram.

‘I can’t.’

‘Scouter’ did not activate.
It didn’t seem to activate on holograms that weren’t really living monsters.

Taking a theory class on monsters, I felt a lot of it was wrong.
Aquitas was never a strong monster.
However, all monsters had a strategy called strategy.
No matter how weak a monster is, it’s easy to get a big nose injury if you look down on it.

Having been a hunter in the field for more than 15 years, when I saw it, the monster theory of 20 years ago was far less than that of the future.
Upon entering the dungeon based on this theory, there was no choice but to suffer greatly.

‘That’s why there are seniors.’

Hunters who graduated from ‘Hunter College’ start their careers according to their respective career paths.
A guild is like a workplace.

Learning from seniors who have experience in the field, you gradually become one person.

After the theory lecture, the practice time came as expected.

The professor in the ‘Combat Practice’ lecture was a bit mischievous.
His gaze swept across the students.
The students deliberately lowered their heads or avoided eye contact to avoid eye contact with him.

The corners of the professor’s mouth, who had chosen the target, went up.

“Park Jong-gil!”
“…Yes?”

A panicked voice came from the back of the classroom.

“Did you hear the lecture? You have to deal with this guy yourself.”
“Yes…?”
“You can’t do it if you don’t want to. However, you will receive a negative score on the Aggressiveness section. There is no such thing as practicing after going out of society. Like it or not, you should be grateful to be able to experience it here at least once.”

Because he was a professor without field experience, there were many loopholes in the theory he taught, but at least he knew how to say the right thing.
As he said, there can be no such thing as practice once full-fledged hunter activity begins.
Practicing one more time now will become bones and flesh later.

I rested my hand on my chin.

‘It’s been fun.’

I don’t know if this actually happened in my previous life.
However, even if the same thing had happened, I would not have thought so much.

Park Jong-gil reluctantly stood up when he heard that it would be reflected in his grades.
As he descended the stairs, he looked like a prisoner being led to an execution.

It was natural.
Because we were all freshmen.
No matter how weak a monster was, I was afraid to deal with it.

Because he knows that, the corners of the mischievous professor’s mouth are also raised.

As Park Jong-gil stepped forward, the professor asked.

“You use your weapon? Do you have it?”
“Yes.”
“I lowered the output to the maximum, so there is no need to be scared if you are not wearing any equipment. You won’t die, so just do what you learned in class.”

‘I shouldn’t have done what I was taught.’

I thought so and watched this exciting spectacle for the time being.

Park Jong-gil seemed to have a troubled expression for a moment, then he took out a weapon from his inventory.
The weapon he uses is a long sword.

It wasn’t as expensive as a freshman’s, and it wasn’t great either.
However, while dealing with Aquitas, I didn’t need a good weapon.

Lowest output.
That meant about 1/3 of the actual monster’s combat power.

From my point of view, as the professor said, there was no reason to be afraid.

“Okay, I’m going to miss it, so try it yourself.”

The professor stepped back toward the seats where the students were sitting.
He sat down in an empty seat in the front row, crossed his legs, and activated the remote control.

Then Aquitas, who had been still, began to move.

“Keeik! Kiik!”

As was his custom in dungeons, Aquitas started by searching for opponents.
It uses its developed sense of smell to grasp the opponent’s body and psychological state.
If the opponent’s level is high, he is healthy, and he is full of confidence, he will run away while making fun of his feet.

But he did not run away from Park Jong-gil.
He just stared straight at him through the large single eye set in his face.

Park Jong-gil was clearly frightened.
Without even thinking about swinging the sword, I just watched how the monster came out.

That was the patch

Cheer up!-

Aquitas spun his body around and thrust his butthole towards Park Jong-gil.
The thread that escaped from there began to wind around Park Jong-gil’s body.

“Oops!”

The realistically implemented system exerted a binding force on Park Jong-gil as if it were entangled in the thread spun by Aquitas.

Chaeng-Geurang from his tightly bound hands! The sword fell with a sound.

The professor who was watching shook his head.

“I’m sorry.”

It was an inevitable evaluation.
No matter how inexperienced a freshman he is, he never thought of wielding a sword.

The professor turned his head toward the students without even thinking about freeing Park Jong-gil from being tied up.

“Where are there applicants?”

The students looked at each other, but no one stepped forward.
Because Park Jong-gil suffered so pitifully, the presence of Aquitas, who was actually nothing special, grew bigger.

“I will do it.”

What can I do?

I have to step in

If you see what I do, it will be much more helpful than lectures by professors who are hard to use in the field.
Because he’s a veteran with more experience than anyone sitting here.

He was a distant senior, I.

Seeing me raise my hand, Park Jong-gil’s expression contorted as he was tied up and unable to move.