Chapter 82 – The Merit of Being a Regressor

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I left the GP headquarters and called Shin Hye-yeon.
She answered the phone as quickly as if she had been waiting.

– It’s Sungkyu!

She was the one who felt a lot more natural once she let go of her words.
Inevitably, when dealing with her, I sometimes thought of her Leah God.
She is a woman who is destined to succeed no matter what.
Because she is talented and even works hard.
Such hunters cannot fail.
I’m like that, too, but my problem was somewhere else.
The curse of NTR.

Shin Hye-yeon was the first proof to me that her life had changed in the opposite way.

“What are you doing?”
– I was reading a book.
“What book?”
– It’s a book about swordsmanship, but I don’t know. I guess I also lack talent.
“What kind of trouble are you talking about me? There is no other kid as talented as you.”

It was real.
If Hyeyeon Shin doesn’t have talent, she wouldn’t be able to talk about her talent as 99 percent hunters.

– You are the real talent. Do you know how deprived I feel every time I practice with you?

I was an exception.
He looks like a 20-year-old college student, but in reality he is a 40-year-old veteran with more than 15 years of experience.
Anyway, I couldn’t say that to Shin Hye-yeon.
I didn’t know that it might not be a very bad thing to be mistaken for not being talented.
Because she will be her driving force that will make her try harder.

“Do you want to come out? Let’s go eat something delicious together.”
“It’s not time to eat yet. Why are you doing anything good?”
“Okay, I’ll meet you and tell you.”

I met Hyeyeon Shin at her cafe.
I reserved a room in a hotel and thought I should stay there with Shin Hye-yeon today.
Tomorrow is Saturday, so we can spend a long time together.
I spent the night with Park Eun-ha yesterday, and I wanted to compensate Shin Hye-yeon as much as possible.

First of all, I was sitting in a hotel cafe, and I suddenly remembered the reward I got after completing the quest yesterday.

‘Random Skill Acquisition Ticket’.

The ‘Random Quest Creation Right’ had already been used, and it was a reward obtained at the same time.
The ‘Skill Acquisition Ticket’ is literally a reward that allows you to acquire any skill at random.
The story would be different depending on what skill you get, but it was clear that it was a huge reward anyway.
In the world, you can suddenly acquire a skill without any effort.
Hunters all over the world would be jealous of me if they knew this.

‘It’s not like I didn’t put any effort into it.’

It was the reward for the ‘Emergency Quest’.
As the message said, the rewards of the ’emergency quest’ were greater than those of other sub-quests.
You said more than twice as much, but you were right.

Even so, I couldn’t hope for ’emergency quests’ to come out often.
It would literally be a quest given in an emergency.
I shouldn’t have hoped that something would happen to Shin Hye-yeon or Park Eun-ha out of greed for a reward.

I looked around the cafe.
There were a few people by the window, but maybe it was mid-hour, so there weren’t that many customers.

I took the reward out of my inventory.
Ticket with ‘Random Skill Acquisition Voucher’ written on it.

When mana was blown into it, a bright light was sprayed out.
It was a fairly bright light, but it was broad daylight, and the sun was shining through the glass, so it didn’t attract much attention.

Anyway, where the light disappeared, the ticket also disappeared.

【You have acquired the skill ‘Flame Shot’.]

“Ah…”

It was public.
Dealing with Kim Cheol was the content of an urgent quest, but the skill he obtained was also the skill he used.
It was difficult to dismiss it as a mere coincidence.
It’s a random skill acquisition ticket, but I thought it might not be very random.
Of course, it’s just a prediction, and only the system knows the details.

‘It’s not bad…’

I remembered Kim Chul’s ability.
Of course I will be able to shoot flames using this skill.
However, it was clear that he would not be able to use his skills as powerfully as Kim Chul.
Because he had not only the ‘flame shot’ skill, but also the ‘fire attribute’ special ability.
Attribute skills are a matter of course, but when there is a special ability of the same attribute, the power is much greater.

‘It must be greed to want that far.’

For now, I decided to be content with the fact that I had gained another skill that I had never had in my previous life.

I got a new skill like that, and after a while, a familiar person appeared towards the entrance of the cafe.

It’s not because I’m waiting for her, Shin Hye-yeon has an aura that makes everyone pay attention to her.
In the past, I had a strong impression that I was trying not to stand out on my own, but somehow these days it has become brighter and more lively.
At her school, when we walked down the street with her, there were many people looking at us, regardless of her gender.
Clearly, all eyes were not on me.

It was the same even now.
As they talked among themselves, the other guests, who were not very interested in anything else, looked toward the entrance as if they had promised.

A woman of such extraordinary beauty found me and smiled.
She walked this way in a straight line.

“Did you wait long?”
“No, I didn’t wait too long.”
“But why did you ask to see me at the hotel?”
“Tomorrow is Saturday. It bothered me that I didn’t spend much time together after entering the academy. If it’s okay, I want to be with you until tomorrow. Are you okay?”

At my words, Shin Hye-yeon’s face turned red.

“Okay, I’m fine. Happy.”
“Great.”

I then shared another good news with her.

“I went to the GP headquarters today.”
“GP?”

Hyeyeon Shin didn’t understand whether I went to the shopping mall or she went to work.

“I met the CEO. I have a contract to make.”
“Contract? What? Have you decided to join the company?”

Shin Hye-yeon tilted her head.
It is natural that you do not understand.
I didn’t tell her much about her ‘her recovery potion’.

It was only after training with her that she gave her potion.

It’s strange that a college student suddenly gets into GP.
Besides, I’m not even an artisan class hunter.
However, Shin Hye-yeon seemed to understand that because she recently showed an unusual move to attend Gaon Academy while attending university.

“The recovery potion.”
“Huh. Ah!”

Shin Hye-yeon seemed to understand now.

“Did you decide to give me the recovery potion recipe? To your sister’s company?”
“Yeah, it’s a waste to have it alone. Good things should be shared.”
“Of course~ Unnie must have liked it, right?”

Shin Hye-yeon was excited about the story I brought out as she had seen the effect of the ‘recovery potion’ on her own.

“Yeah, there was also a vice president named Kang Mi-ra at the company, and he confirmed the effect himself. That’s why I signed a contract today.”
“You mean the license agreement?”
“Huh. But that condition is too unconventional.”
“What are the conditions?”

Shin Hye-yeon’s eyes lit up at the interesting story she heard for the first time.
If I hadn’t been a regressor, but an ordinary college student hunter like her, I would have been interested in this story too.

Occasionally appears in the news.
The story of people who find a rare item in a dungeon or learn a recipe for a valuable item turns their lives around.

It was a dreamlike story for Hunters who did not have a high level.

Of course, Shin Hye-yeon was not the type to covet that kind of luck herself.

“Five percent.”
“You mean 5 percent of the gross? So much?”
“No. 5 percent of total sales.”
“Wow!”

Shin Hye-yeon also opened her mouth in amazement.

“Definitely good conditions. ‘Recovery Potion’. It’s obvious that any Hunter will find it.”
“I also received a down payment. He gave 3 billion. He said he could give you more, but there’s nowhere to spend it even if you have that much money right now.”
“Wow, great!”

Shin Hye-yeon was delighted as if it were her own work.
Life reverse.
What every hunter dreams of happened to me.

I thought about the blessings I enjoyed.
So far, I’ve just focused on overcoming NTR’s curse and getting blessings.
It was still the center, but I thought there was no need to limit my thoughts to it.

When you complete a quest, you get a reward.
And with that reward, I was able to quickly become stronger.

But I had another tool that no one else could use.
Remember right away.

I knew what was going to happen in the next 20 years or so.
I remembered most of the big things that happened in the Hunter world, not just my life and what I had been through.
It’s not because I joined the guild right after graduating from college.
Even though I myself did not become the main character, I was at the center of history.

‘It’s not just the recovery potion.’

Come to think of it, there were many things that only I knew that no one else knew.
Information about dungeons and monsters as well as items.
And even Hunters who will be great or ruined in the future.

If I use them, my life will definitely be different from my previous life.

Shin Hye-yeon in front of me was just delighted with the ‘recovery potion’, but I just had a bigger ambition.