86. Refuse.
“Group? I decline.”
The other person looked dumbfounded, as if he didn’t expect to be rejected so quickly.
“Haha… Black Scythe. I don’t know if you know, but the boss is not an easy opponent. See that guy over there that looks like a cow?”
Where the group pointed, a Minotaur that looked strong at a glance was wandering around.
“That guy is the boss we need to catch, and he’s a very formidable guy.”
“How do you know that? Have you ever bumped into it?”
“That’s right. It’s not us, but we’ve already seen other parties try on their own and get wiped out. When we saw that, we realized. We need to cooperate with each other as well.”
“Do it yourselves. Don’t worry about us.”
“Still, wouldn’t it be good if we help each other? I’ll give you preferential treatment, especially if you take the last hit first, so think about it….”
Ryumin glared at me sharply before answering.
“Don’t make me say it three times.”
“Oh, I understand. Sir, excuse me…”
The group, overwhelmed by charisma, became fed up and retreated.
They go to where the party is and talk to each other.
“I tried to attract the black scythe, but it didn’t work.”
“Did you say you’d let me catch it first?”
“Even though I told you, they don’t like it. Let’s catch it ourselves.”
“Why? Even the black scythe has to kill the boss, right?”
“I don’t know. Maybe I was scared by the boss, tsk tsk.”
“Hmm, I guess we have no choice but to challenge this ourselves?”
“Anyway, even if Black Scythe refused, we were going to do it ourselves.”
The nodding group soon prepared to hunt the Minotaur.
The guy is so massive that he makes a thumping sound every time he walks, and is only 6m tall.
A bull that walks like a human walks around holding an ax as big as its own head.
A party of five approached the Minotaur.
gulp-
I didn’t notice it when I saw it from a distance, but when I got closer, it seemed bigger than I thought.
“Hey, you can win, right?”
“Well, then. There are twenty of us.”
Contrary to his words, his expression lacked confidence.
“Huh?”
At that time, the Minotaur sensed that he was popular and turned his head.
The players who were quietly approaching stopped moving as if they had been caught by a tagger.
“Kwaaaaah!”
The guy gets excited when he sees the human and runs away.
“f*ck you! Hit me!”
“Waaah-!”
Twenty players rushed to their deaths.
Ryu Min watched the situation calmly.
‘Really, how many minutes will it take to catch it?’
I didn’t think I would fail.
The Minotaur is not as difficult a boss as it looks.
Although he is ignorantly holding a large axe, his attacks are neither skillful nor fast.
Because of its somewhat slow movements, it is easy to predict and avoid.
‘If 20 people rush at you, no matter how bad you are, you won’t be able to move.’
However, the Minotaur’s strength is its tenacity, which is harder than stone.
From his point of view, humans are nothing more than flies.
‘What would be scary if twenty flies rushed at you? … .’
At the very least, a skill that disturbs the line of sight or is used once in a while may target a critical point.
Wouldn’t it be right once out of dozens?
‘Then the Minotaur is no different.’
Instead, it will lead to a long-term war.
Indeed, as expected.
“Hey, this guy is so hard!”
“Concentrate on dodging as much as possible!”
“Hey, there! Be careful!”
It’s been 3 minutes since the battle continued and there is still no sign of catching up.
Although it was a waste of time, Ryumin still decided to watch calmly.
Because seeing the boss die gave me a reason to focus on hunting.
Eventually, when 7 minutes passed.
“Kwaaeook…….”
The Minotaur, who was crying mournfully, hit his head on the floor.
Kuung-!
“Okay, gotcha!”
“I finally killed it!”
Although the party members were happy, there was no damage.
‘Three out of twenty people died.’
There are no injuries. That’s because even a passing glance would have resulted in death.
Still, taking down the boss without major damage was an achievement worth bragging about.
“Who took the last hit? I don’t think it was our team.”
“Our team! Our team got it! Hahaha!”
As shouts of victory rang out, a pillar of light shined down from the sky.
Among the four teams, the last team was surrounded by translucent pillars.
“It looks like our team survived!”
“When I looked at the quest progress window, it said success!”
“Great!”
“Mr. A, you only do good things to others.”
Those who were stuck on the pillar liked it, and those who couldn’t catch the boss grumbled, but that was only for a moment.
“But… should I stay here like this until time runs out?”
“I have to be locked up like this for more than 5 hours?”
“I guess so?”
“It’s good to rest early, but I feel like I’m losing something….”
It was a good thing that I defeated the boss first, but it was very unpleasant to spend the remaining time trapped in the pillar of light.
“Huh, then let’s go find another party. I think we’ll need supplementary troops.”
“Let’s do that.”
The rest of the party looked at the black scythe, but quickly shook their heads and walked away.
Even if you tell them, you know they won’t cooperate.
Regardless, Ryumin recited his feelings after seeing the battle.
“Thank goodness. If I had caught the boss early, I would have been stuck and wasted the rest of my time.”
“I see. It’s just as Black Scythe expected.”
“The right answer was to hunt like now and catch it as late as possible.”
Ryu Min shook his head without changing his expression once and spoke to the group.
“I’ve had enough rest, so let’s go now.”
‘Please follow me.’
Once again, the party members started running.
* * *
While Ryumin hunts centaurs.
Other teams were working together to hunt the boss.
“Are we the fiftieth?”
“I don’t know what rank it is because it doesn’t show up.”
“What do you think? You survived because you caught the boss, right?”
“Let’s lie down and rest for the rest of the time.”
The players at the pillar of light lay down.
Even though I was trapped, I was safe from monsters inside.
Even if the Minotaur came, he couldn’t touch it.
No, they were often treated as invisible people, as if they couldn’t recognize them at all.
“Huh? Look at that, that.”
At that time, the player saw a black scythe moving with a scythe in hand.
There are also four party members who follow him non-stop.
Creep- boom! Creep- boom!
Each time the scythe passed, the centaur’s head fell off.
“It’s a black scythe, right?”
“You’re going to catch that thing in one hit?”
“Huh, it’s level 40 as expected.”
Killing a centaur with a single sword was surprising, but I wasn’t jealous.
Because they were winners who had already killed the boss and were taking a break.
Rather, I just don’t understand the Black Scythe’s actions.
“Why do you only kill centaurs and not the boss?”
“Isn’t it better to catch the boss quickly and take a break?”
“No. Even if we catch it now, it’s below 50th place. Since we’ve already missed the rankings, we’ll just go hunting.”
“Ah! Is that so?”
“It’s a shame. I thought we would take first place again this time.”
“No matter how black the scythe is, you can’t be first forever.”
“Still, your judgment is good. Seeing as you’re trying to increase your experience points.”
They thought that they had already captured the boss and had an advantage over the Black Scythe, but they didn’t know it yet.
The record of 11 minutes and 30 seconds it took to hunt the boss was the longest record and one of the last.
Ta-da-da-da-da-da-ta-da-ta-da-ta-da-ta-!
Ta-da-da-da-da-da-da-ta-da-da-ta-!
Ryu Min was running non-stop and focusing only on hunting down random mobs.
‘hmm?’
I had to stop as if I had slammed on the brakes when a message suddenly appeared.
[The location of the target ‘Centaur’ cannot be found.]
It was a welcome message that it could no longer be found.
‘I guess I finally got it all.’
Ryumin looked at the number of kills and time limit.
[Current kill count: 1,920/100]
[Time remaining until round end: 00:20:43]
‘I caught 1,920 fish in roughly 5 hours and 40 minutes.’
There were a total of 2,000, but the rest seemed to have been caught by other players.
‘At this rate, we caught it much faster than expected.’
At that time, Ryumin turned his head at the sound of panting coming from behind.
“Ha, ha, ha, Black Scythe. Is it finally time for a break?”
“Okay. The hunt is over now.”
“Ah, the hunting is over…?”
“I used the tracking skill and it turned out that there were no centaurs left on the field.”
“ah…….”
Only then did the companions check the time limit.
“There’s only 20 minutes left, right?”
The last time I checked was 3 hours ago, but I never thought time had already passed so quickly.
I was so busy following him that I didn’t even have time to check.
“Huh? Everyone, check your level.”
“Why? Huh?”
At Ahn Sang-cheol’s words, the party members opened the status window and were confused.
“Re, the level is….”
“I can’t believe it has risen this much….”
To be honest, it was so hard to keep up with it that I didn’t even have the energy to open the status window.
Ryumin hunted with almost no time to rest.
Of course, there were occasional messages saying that the level had risen.
I just couldn’t leak it all.
Later on, I was so busy chasing after him that I couldn’t even pay attention to messages, so it was natural for me to be embarrassed.
“I wonder how much it went up?”
“Well, it was 20 at first, but now it’s 34.”
“Same goes for me.”
Ahn Sang-cheol and Seo A-rin went from 20 to 34.
“What about democracy?”
“I went from 21 to 35.”
“Well, I was 23, but now I’m 36….”
At the end of Heo Tae-seok’s answer, Ryu Min hesitated.
Everyone has risen to levels 13-14.
‘Well, it’s surprising that the first digit changed from 2 to 3.’
Ryu Min’s front seat also changed.
The level that was 40 suddenly became 54.
This is thanks to the round buff that multiplies experience by 3 and the title that multiplies experience by 1.5.
There were many items obtained as more than 1,900 were caught.
19 magic stones, 9 normal equipment items, other miscellaneous items, and… … .
‘Even the ingredients needed for god grade combinations.’
Ryumin checked the item information once again.
[Glossy horse tail]
-Category: Belongings
-Description: As the name suggests, a shiny horse tail. I feel a slight magical power.
‘This is more important than anything else.’
As a result, god-grade combination materials were the key.
Perhaps because he obtained the target material, the corners of Ryumin’s mouth automatically rose.
After all, the hard work is worth it.
‘Now I just need to find two more ingredients… … .’
At that time, exclamations flowed from the team members’ mouths once again.
“Everyone, check it out! We’ve collected a ton of gold.”
“Well, me too.”
“115,000 gold….”
Most of them are probably similar.
Because it was a party, gold was distributed equally.
‘Of course, there may be some differences depending on the luck stat.’
Unlike other team members, Ryu Min had 150,000 gold in his hands.
Since the luck stat was over 350, there was a high probability of obtaining additional gold.
“What should I do with this?”
“Are you embarrassed to suddenly have a large amount of money? Haha….”
The team members said they didn’t know where to use it, so Ryu Min gave some hints.
“If you don’t have money to spend, buy common skills at the store. Be sure to buy presence detection, body vision enhancement, and basic resistance. Save up the remaining gold, and if you see something you need in the item of the day corner, buy it.”
“ah…….”
“Are you sure we should do as Black Scythe says?”
“All right.”
The companions nodded and accepted Ryumin’s advice.
There was no reason not to listen to what he had to say as he had great insight and experience.
While the team members were busy shopping untimely, Ryu Min opened the quest progress window.
[Applicable area C-ESKS007]
└Participants: 1,010
└Achievers: 455/505
Looking at the number of achievers, there are 50 people left.
‘That means there are only 10 Minotaurs left.’
I immediately decided to track down the Minotaur.
[The location of the target ‘Minotaur’ has been discovered.]
[It is currently 198m away.]
Ryumin saw that he was quite close and took the lead.
“Follow me. We have to catch the final boss.”
“Ah, yes!”
After jumping a few times, I saw the Minotaur.
However, three teams were already waiting nearby.
“Uh, you’re Black Scythe, right?”
“Black Scythe! Please party with us!”
“Let’s catch it together!”
Ryumin shook his head without even thinking.
“No. I have no intention of sharing the contribution with you.”
“Yes? Then….”
Ryumin said indifferently.
“I will catch the boss alone.”
