Solo Hunt

Chapter 7: Mission Possible?

Dugudugdudgud!

The ground began to shake violently causing tremors inside the cave. Rock on the ceiling began to drop down the ground. Jin avoided the falling rocks and cleared the window interface.

"Damn! What the hell? I didn't knew about this?"

Jin immediately sprint out of the cave and check at what was happening. The cliff on which Jin had entered was slowly dispersing into pixels like this hunting ground was some sort of virtual reality.

He didn't had second thoughts and went running as fast as he could back to the entrance. Using his skill [Thunder Clapper] and [Flash] at the same time, he dashed like a bullet that seems to not slow down and it's even getting faster.

Dugudududug! Crack! Gurugurug!

The ground shook more violently and cracks began to form. As he gaze behind him everything was getting swallowed into a void.

"I'm not gonna make it!"

He estimated his time at arriving at the entrance was about 30 mins at full speed. Added with the cooldown, it would increase by 40 mins. He wouldn't make it at this rate since the time before everything disappear was only 10 minutes.

"God! Please! I don't wanna die! Save me!"

Jin begged for God, he was hopeless at times like this and would rely fully on God if there was an emergency and if there was not, he would disobey God and even defy his greatness as he believe that he was just a failure of an omnipotent being.

Just as he was about to go in despair, a window interface popped up in his vision giving him slight hope.

Ting!

You have reached level 20! Class advancement is now available.

Available Class:

Thief- A stealthy and dexterous class that is able to disarm traps, pick locks and pickpocketing. Increases the loot drops, experience, and special rewards.

If you switch to Thief class, [Flash] will be deleted.

Assassin- A fast and nimble class that specializes in burst attacks and critical hits. Can deal an additional amount of damage against low HP hunters, like mages, clerics and marksmen.

If you switch to Assassin class, [Greed] will be deleted.

Bandit- A flashy type of class that is that contains high amounts of health and deal explosive damage. Though it is the slowest Rogue class, it is the only class that can endure high artillery damage.

If you switch to Bandit class, [Flash] will be deleted.

"Fuck what do I choose?"

Jin hurriedly read the class descriptions. It was hard to choose at the three since Jin had to sacrifice a skill. It was hard to even delete one as each one had it's own use and purpose.

"Fuck it! Assassin class!"

The purpose of Jin on picking this class is that from the hunters' experience, it was the fastest type of class. Though it is easily killed by a few skills, it had the most insane evasive response and movement.

Other than that, even if he had to sacrifice the skill [Greed], the skill only had a 20% chance so it was not a 100% probability that the skill would work.

Ting!

You have Advanced to Assassin class!

[Greed] has been deleted!

Class Skill:

[Ambush](DMG, BLINK): The user will arrive instantly in the specified target in 20-meter area vicinity. His attack will deal 1,500 damage (+80% STR). High probability of dealing a Critical effect if the attack is hit from behind the target. If the target doesn't find your presence, a 100% chance of the Bleed effect will activate dealing 1% up to 10% of the target's HP lasting for 10 seconds.

Mana Cost: 100 

Cooldown: 3 minutes

[Light Steps](SPD, BUFF): Movement Speed and Evasion will increase by 50% to 150% in every step made. Each step increases by 2%.

Mana Cost: 30

Cooldown: 1 minute

Duration: 50 seconds

[Hunter Strike] has advanced into [Critical Strike]!

[Critical Strike] (DMG, AOE): Daggers will be deployed in a 15-meter fan shape area each dealing 50% of STR, each dagger will deal with an additional Critical effect. Each dagger will decrease the target's Physical Defense by 3% stacks up to 10 times that lasts by 10 seconds. 

Mana Cost: 60

Cooldown: 100 seconds

"Hurry up! [Light Steps]!"

Jin didn't had time on reading the descriptions, he quickly looked at the skills which contain buff effects and there he saw the skill [Light Steps] quickly activating it.

Thud Thud Thud

When he stepped on the ground, a small wave that was the size of a frisbee echoed. The sound it made was very vibrant and gentle that Jin felt like he was moving in the clouds, light yet soft.

"Woohoo! This is crazy!"

The vibration in the grounded that caused Jin's posture to become imbalance was completely absorbed. This must have been the effect of the heightened increase of his evasion that made him outstandingly balanced like a peacock in a riverbank.

Jin finally got away with the pixelation effect on the place. In just 8 minutes, he arrived at the entrance of the hunting ground and manage to safely escape in the grasp of death.

"Phew! That was tiresome as hell!"

Jin dropped down the ground completely exhausted. He panted excessively trying to catch some breath.

Dugudugdug!

The time had now dropped to zero. The giant gate which served as the entrance of the hunting ground collapsed in the ground. There were no more hunting grounds seen and the only thing that could be found in the naked eye is a part of the forest.

Jin stood up from the ground as he pat his back to remove the dirt. He sighed knowing that the hunting grounds where countless of hunters entered to fight monsters with their lives had disappeared into nothingness.

"So killing all the monsters and discovering the entirety of a hunting ground will trigger the hidden quest? Sounds absurd."

The reason why no one had able to accomplish this type of task is because it was almost impossible. You had to exterminate all the monsters in the hunting ground while moving around to open the whole parts of the hunting grounds in the system map which sounded ridiculous.

The reason why this task was near impossible was due to the fact that some monsters respawn fast. If the hunter was able to accomplish on exterminating all the monsters, he had to check all the parts of the hunting grounds which wasted a lot of time meaning there might be some of the monsters that had already respawn so the condition of the quest wouldn't be met by the user.

But for Jin, it was possible for him because every time he killed a monster, it wouldn't revive anymore since time had also been frozen.

"Does this affect all the other hunting grounds?"

He questioned it as a plausible hypothesis. This might also be the way to find the 4 missing keys.

It will also be a tough mission to perform as a kingdom had 20 to 30 hunting grounds ranking from lowest to highest level of difficulty. Also not to forget the fact that there are 7 kingdoms in total, meaning Jin had to search all of the hunting grounds in this supercontinent to be able to find the 4 missing pieces.

"Must I do this? No, I'll have to do this if I want to return!"

He gritted his teeth and clench his fist. Firstly, he had to check all of the hunting grounds in this kingdom for his running start. 

"I should return back to the first hunting ground I entered, I still hadn't killed all of the monsters there."

Jin was about to dash back but then he had realized something.

"If I want to grow stronger, I should need to equip some items and speaking of items, I have a ton in my inventory!"

Jin began to scan the usable items in his inventory, as he looked at the descriptions on each item, he was awestruck by one of the items that suit him perfectly.

"Dainsleif!"