Arcana’s status system was on the simple side.
All initial stats started at 1 point.
1 point was given per level up.
Players just had to distribute points to the desired stats according to their class characteristics.
I looked at my status window.
[Name: Grandfell Claudy Arpheus Romeo]
[Class: Demon Hunter]
[Level: 67]
[Stats]
Strength: 21 / Agility: 26 / Mana: 11 / Luck: 1
[Available Points: 12]
Naturally, demon hunter had no class-specific stats.
And as if that wasn’t enough, stats invested haphazardly.
‘This couldn’t be helped.’
At the time, demon hunter had no proper development method.
Even setting aside performance, the absolute number of players was also small.
True to an ambiguous class, I had no choice but to invest in all stats ambiguously.
‘Well, even now nothing has particularly changed.’
This wasn’t because I didn’t know, but to keep possibilities open.
Since there was such a difference in thinking, it should be fine.
I invested points.
[Stats]
Strength: 23 / Agility: 28 / Mana: 18 / Luck: 1
[Available Points: 1]
2 points each in strength and agility.
After investing 7 points in the relatively low mana, 1 point remained.
Originally, I was planning to invest the remaining 1 point in mana as well.
However, for some reason.
The luck stat with only 1 point bothered me.
『Grandfell Claudy Arpheus Romeo, hereafter Grandfell, the sole survivor of his family, walked the path of a demon hunter to take revenge on that demon.』
“…….”
Why did that setting suddenly come to mind?
Though it was a setting for Grandfell I’d written down arbitrarily, he really had no luck.
It was such a troubled life that I wondered if he’d experienced such adversity because his luck was only 1 point.
It wasn’t that I felt guilty about that.
Wouldn’t feeling it be strange?
Because I was the one bearing Grandfell’s setting.
So this was closer to pity.
[Available Points: 0]
Pity for myself who would struggle in the future.
While at it, pity for Grandfell’s troubled life.
‘For pity, this is quite a big investment.’
Well, because the treatment of the luck stat in Arcana wasn’t very good.
It was because luck was a stat without intuitive feel like other stats such as strength.
To use a common expression, it would be correct to say it had poor cost-effectiveness.
Only non-combat classes, and even then only extremely limited classes, paid attention to luck.
I even remembered that wasn’t a core stat.
Luck: 2
Though it was only 1 point.
Wasn’t it a matter of how you thought about it?
Let’s think that luck had doubled.
Of course, I wondered if it would even show when extremely bad luck was doubled.
.
.
.
However, the effect of doubled luck was revealed immediately.
And clearly at that.
The next day at dawn.
“……?”
A system message appeared to me as I opened my eyes.
[You have met the conditions.]
[Quest has started.]
……A quest?
***
When Arcana was still a game.
Quests were common.
“Ah, another junk quest.”
“Just refuse it. The reward isn’t even good?”
“But the intimacy drops. After all the effort to raise intimacy.”
“Even if you go to the chain quest, it ends with giving a few potions. If it were me, I’d hunt more in that time. If you get even one item drop, you’d earn more than the potion cost, right?”
To the degree they could select and perform them while weighing rewards and difficulty.
However, now that Arcana had become reality.
Quests had become the privilege of high-level players.
The reason was simple.
Because there weren’t many NPCs giving quests in reality.
At the same time the Mage’s Tower rose.
The mage NPCs residing within it also appeared in reality together.
Like that, Arcana’s NPCs existed in reality.
“How on earth did this happen……”
“To think I’d experience such a thing in my lifetime.”
“So this is the adventurers’ world. The sparkling in the darkness is beautiful.”
Like us, the NPCs were also adapting to the great upheaval.
“I can’t just stand by and watch forever.”
“Rifts! No matter how you look at it, that’s the cause of this problem!”
“I can’t trouble the adventurers’ world any longer.”
It meant they gave out new quests suited to that environment to players.
However, only high-level players could perform new quests.
“Hmm, no matter how I look at it, you seem to lack training?”
“I’m afraid it would be too much for you, adventurer.”
“That request has already been accepted by another adventurer……”
Quests in reality made the gap between upper and lower players even more solid.
Therefore, it was natural for players to be sensitive about quests.
-Hey, I heard a sudden quest popped up in a rift?!
-For real? Where? I’m going right away too
-It’s really sad that I’m in a position to run to sudden quests ㅠㅠ
-If I knew this would happen I should have quit my job and just played Arcana sigh high levels are clearing chain quests and rankers are starting to touch main quests but what about us??
……Right, that was the new common sense.
I checked the quest window again.
[Class Quest: Prelude to Counterattack]
“……A class quest.”
What is this?
Class quest.
I had no information about it.
Just looking at it, it seemed like a quest related to the class, demon hunter……
Exorcism, training, meditation, etc.
Suddenly, the quests I’d performed in the Arkshan base came to mind.
‘No, those were ordinary quests.’
The grandiose modifier “class” wasn’t attached to them.
Naturally, I didn’t worry.
I immediately searched for class quest in the search bar.
-Paladin Class Ranking 1st place, ‘Gaiber’.
Class Quest Begins…….
Will the first paladin class player be able to enter player ranking top 10?
Voices of expectation growing…….
Information about it could be found without difficulty.
Class quest.
It was a quest given to only one person.
Among the many players who had the same class.
The content of that quest varied and couldn’t be known.
But I could understand.
Why that grandiose quest had appeared to me.
“It seems I’m truly the only one left.”
[Class Quest: Prelude to Counterattack]
Last demon hunter.
Let the demons know that the time for counterattack has come.
─Defeat a demon. (Success)
Right, because I was the only demon hunter.
That magnificent class quest had appeared to me.
The quest starting seemed to be thanks to me defeating a demon, an imp, as shown in the quest window.
……Looking at this makes me feel desire.
Though I’d only roughly read the article.
The reward for the class quest seemed impressive at a glance.
Seeing them make a fuss that just starting it made an article appear and could allow entry into ranking top 10.
However, that desire was never expressed.
Wasn’t that natural?
To Grandfell, all of this was extremely natural.
Having defeated a demon.
Becoming the protagonist of a class quest because of that.
Even the reward I would obtain by succeeding in that class quest.
Grandfell…….
No, I was accepting all of it as natural.
Far from my heart pounding with excitement.
The heartbeat that beat no different from usual was proof of that.
I shook my head slightly.
‘My extremely plebeian values are being overturned.’
As if I’d really become the successor of a great family.
However, I had no choice but to accept it.
To live as a player, moreover as a demon hunter, Grandfell’s setting was essential to me.
However, let’s keep this one thing in mind.
“……I’m still too young to be immersed in the past.”
The fact that Grandfell was merely my dark history.
Right, dark history wasn’t for immersing in but for overcoming.
The quest window in my vision that I’d resolved thus blinked.
“!”
A new quest objective had appeared.
─Train your weakened body.
A memory from the Arkshan base suddenly came to mind.
‘……Wait, this quest couldn’t be?’
Isn’t this that vicious and painful quest that made numerous demon hunter players delete their accounts?!
I lamented.
It seemed the effects of luck had worn off.
However, that emotion also wasn’t expressed outwardly.
“……I should have invested 1 more point.”
How pitiful, Lee Ho-yeol.
As expected, I was the only one suffering because of the damn setting.
***
Arkshan base.
The demon hunters’ garrison.
When said like that, someone who didn’t know would think it looked quite impressive.
Even I, crazy about style, was fooled by it and chose the demon hunter class.
However, experiencing it directly, the reality was shocking.
Poor facilities!
Job change quests no different from manual labor quests!
Even NPCs that only yelled instead of boosting morale!
Of course, there were plausible reasons attached.
“Demons constantly watch for human greed. Therefore, demon hunters must always be upright.”
“A strong spirit dwells in a strong body. Do you want to become a demon hunter? Then making a strong body comes first!”
“Living as a demon hunter, unexpectedly losing your life is a common thing. Since demons also target the sense of loss of those left behind, excessive bonds are poison to demon hunters. Don’t try to get close to me.”
……Thinking about it after growing up, it was an absurd setting.
No wonder it wasn’t popular.
However, the past me heard those settings and was even more fascinated by the demon hunter class.
It meant I endured all kinds of unreasonableness and eventually obtained the demon hunter class.
‘……It means I really had a severe case of middle school second-year syndrome.’
All kinds of thoughts come to mind since I’m going through hell.
“Huuu─”
I continued doing push-ups.
My forearms felt like they were going numb.
[Class Quest: Prelude to Counterattack]
Last demon hunter.
Let the demons know that the time for counterattack has come.
─Defeat a demon. (Success)
─Train your weakened body. (In Progress) ▼
‘Shouldn’t something at least change?!’
It’s a class quest.
A quest that only one person can perform, right?
But how is it no different from the Arkshan base quests from the start!
Moreover, this wasn’t virtual reality but real reality.
It meant I was the one who had to bear the aftereffects from the training volume.
─Train your weakened body. (In Progress) ▲
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20KM run (Success)
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Push-ups 1,000 times (In Progress)
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Pull-ups 500 times (Success)
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Burpee test 300 times (Success)
Today made it one week.
Since those quest objectives were updated daily.
It meant I’d been digesting that training volume without missing a single day for a week.
Of course the muscle pain showed no signs of disappearing!
However, my complaints only remained in my head before disappearing.
As if I’d been waiting for only this quest.
Because I was sincerely achieving the objectives.
『Grandfell’s lofty pride didn’t come from the background of his family. It was innate. Literally a heaven-sent nature that didn’t change before any ordeal.』
So I had no choice but to be sincere.
I had no memory of attaching settings of sincerity or diligence to Grandfell.
Wouldn’t it also be strange in its own way if a middle school second-year syndrome patient was sincere and diligent?
Everything was only to protect that excellent pride.
Tremble─
A clear day without a hint of wind.
Even seeing my forearms trembling from pain.
“There’s a lot of wind today.”
I could say this shamelessly.
However, what was certain was that without this pride.
‘……I absolutely couldn’t have done it, right?’
I wouldn’t have been able to endure even one day.
I probably would have given up early on during the running, right?
“This is the last one.”
……Anyway, well done, me.
I sincerely performed the manual labor quest today too.
A message different from usual appeared to me.
[You have met the conditions.]
[Reward will be given.]
At those words, I opened the system window.
The inventory was…… the same.
Instead, the status window was blinking.
I checked the status window.
“!”
The level was the same, but there was a change in stats.
……Class quest, it’s worth making a fuss about, isn’t it?
