Seo Minjun returned to the village.
And the moment he entered the Haendeo branch of the Adventurer’s Guild.
“Adventurer!”
Suddenly, Clorence shouted with delight, jumped over the counter, and ran toward him.
“What the hell…….”
“Why’s he acting like that all of a sudden?”
The beginners murmured at Clorence’s strange behavior; until just moments ago, he had been repeating nothing but “Five goblins at the west gate” in a dry voice.
“I’ve been waiting! This way!”
With an excited expression, Clorence guided Seo Minjun to the VIP room and poured him a cup of tea.
“Please wait just a moment.”
He went outside, then returned together with Henrik, the branch manager of the Haendeo Adventurer’s Guild.
“Clorence informed me that you had slain the Elder Goblin!”
Henrik gripped Seo Minjun’s hand tightly, overjoyed.
“Thank you so very much. First, let me grant you adventurer certification.”
He took out a medal from his bag and pinned it on Seo Minjun. The medal was absorbed into Seo Minjun’s avatar and entered his status window.
[You have acquired the Haendeo Adventurer’s Guild Commendation Medal.]
[Achievement Unlocked!]
▶Haendeo Adventurer’s Guild Commendation Medal
(※For slaying the Elder Goblin, the greatest threat to Haendeo Village, the Adventurer’s Guild has gifted you this commendation medal.)
└All stats increase by 2.
└Recognized as an official Adventurer’s Guild member.
The quest completion rewards weren’t over yet.
[Fame has increased by 100 points.]
In Stunning Life, fame is important. Because NPCs are reluctant to entrust important quests to unknown noobs. In other words, without sufficient fame, quests won’t trigger.
Since simple quests at the Adventurer’s Guild only gave about 1–2 fame points, clearing a single dungeon and getting 100 points was an enormous amount.
Now the reward moved on to the final one.
One piece of equipment Unique grade or higher.
“I hope this will be of help to you, adventurer.”
Henrik handed over a one-handed spear about 1.5 meters in length.
[Henrik’s Spear ※Unique ※Legendary ※One-Handed Spear]
▶A one-handed spear used by Henrik, head of the Haendeo branch of the Adventurer’s Guild and protector of beginners.
▶Requires Strength 40 or higher.
▶Weapon Attack Power: 40–45
▶Throw Attack Power: 65–75
▶Unique Effect: Weapon/Throw Attack Power is doubled against targets Level 15 and below.
—Damn.
Seo Jeongin clapped.
“Is it good?”
—The attack power is high in itself, but the unique effect is really good. Haendeo Village is a place you don’t go above Level 15.
What did that mean?
It meant that all players in Haendeo Village, and most NPCs excluding bosses, would be affected by the unique effect.
—And if it’s a Transcendent Cast javelin…… you can basically one-shot most monsters or players.
“I see.”
Seo Minjun unequipped his tutorial spear and equipped Henrik’s Spear.
“It looks good on you. Just like me in my younger days.”
Henrik smiled proudly.
“Thank you.”
“Adventurer. Would you happen to be free next Friday evening?”
“Yes, I’m free. Why?”
“Then we shall prepare a party for then.”
“A party?”
“Let’s go, Clorence.”
“Yes sir!”
“……?”
—Huh?
“What?”
Henrik got up from his seat and suddenly hung a banner at the main gate of the Adventurer’s Guild with Clorence.
[Festival Celebrating the Subjugation of the Elder Goblin]
▶Starting Friday, August 27th at 17:00 (KST)
***
‘Crazy.’
Panicked sweat trickled down.
‘I caused another incident.’
To be completely honest, Seo Minjun had not wanted to draw this much aggro.
The chaos from the Tutorial legend had been just yesterday.
“What’s that?”
“Elder Goblin?”
“Hey, look at that.”
Players flocked like clouds in an instant.
To the front of the banner.
“Looks like a hidden quest is finally progressing.”
“Is it the 50th anniversary?”
“Is the Elder Goblin hook finally being resolved?”
Some people quickly took out their smartphones, snapped photos, and posted them on community boards.
[OMG lol Elder Goblin subjugation bait dropped in Haendeo Village]
In just an hour or two, all NPCs in Haendeo Village were abuzz with the news.
“They say some hero slew the Elder Goblin!”
“No more suffering from those goblin bastards!”
“Who could have caught that monster?”
“Ask Clorence!”
The beginner village was thrown into an uproar.
That phenomenon had already become the hottest issue among countless players.
“Wow, what the hell is this?”
“What is this all of a sudden?”
“Who put up that banner?”
“The Haendeo branch chief of the Adventurer’s Guild and Clorence came and hung it at the entrance, apparently?”
“Is it a hidden quest?”
Some people were completely off the mark.
“It seems the Elder Goblin quest, the biggest hook in Haendeo Village, has finally been updated. Can you all see this banner here?”
A streamer was livestreaming.
“It’s the 50th anniversary update! I think the quest might be finding that hero.”
“…….”
Surely that’s not really the case, right?
‘Do they have a quest to find me?’
Seo Minjun got on the internet with his smartphone and checked the Stunning Life communities.
They were, of course, in chaos too.
—Yesterday the 50,000-point tutorial monster, today solving the 50-year hook hahaha
—What is happening in peaceful Stunning Life right now…
—Ah fuck I left Haendeo Village yesterday, what’s with this festival
—I want to go to the festival too you Stunning Life bastards
—Let Level 16+ go to Haendeo Village too
—At least let us go during the festival, please
—Hero <- who is this
—Is the hero an NPC? Or a player? If it’s a player, sir, please sign this for me
—If it’s a player, they’re really a prospective ranker
—If that’s a player, isn’t it that 50,000-point guy by any chance?
└Then a real Stunning Life genius is born
└I think that’s right hahaha
└It’s more implausible that someone other than the 50,000-point monster cleared the 50-year hook
—Ah I’m so fucking curious, please just write one post here
—Hey you 50,000-point bastard, aren’t you coming out soon? I’m getting angry from curiosity now
And the beginners in Haendeo Village were feeling a different kind of anxiety.
“Don’t tell me goblins won’t respawn now?”
“No way.”
“I believe in the Super AI…….”
Fortunately, goblin respawn was not a problem.
However, perhaps because Kobalos had been slain, the goblins no longer approached the village entrance. They remained only in the forest.
“I want to find out who did this, how do I get the quest?”
“Who gives the quest?”
Some people genuinely believed such a quest had been created.
“I asked the Adventurer’s Guild NPCs, but none of them gave a proper answer.”
“They just say things like ‘How fortunate that the Elder Goblin was caught.’”
“I heard a rumor that the 50,000-point guy caught the Elder Goblin.”
“Then is that person still in Haendeo Village?”
“I want to see them once.”
“I should ask for an autograph.”
***
“This is a jackpot.”
Seo Jeongin didn’t miss this opportunity.
“This is a MyTube viral angle!”
She edited videos all night in front of her computer, then uploaded them first thing the next morning.
[Nangman TUBE]
The first video uploaded to that new channel had words in the title that made it impossible not to click.
[I Caught the Main Scenario’s Elder Goblin with Transcendent Cast]
The thumbnail was the Elder Goblin with a javelin piercing its chest.
Without any separate promotion, the video swept through every community in just half a day.
Because users who had been searching for “Elder Goblin” due to the strange phenomenon in Haendeo Village saw the video, panicked, and spread it across all communities.
—Wait, what did I just watch..
—50,000 points, is that you?
—That title is so fucking honest, for real lol
—It says [Clickbait Title] in the title, why is it all true
—Hahahahahahaha
—Wait what is this guy;;
The video that broke 1 million views in an instant began with the hidden quest request from Clorence, the Adventurer’s Guild reception NPC.
‘Rumors have been circulating within the guild. They say an adventurer overcame all disasters in the Dimensional Rift.’
Seo Jeongin neither openly boasted about clearing the tutorial nor hid it. She simply let people infer it from Clorence’s lines.
—Dimensional Rift = Tutorial
—Seems like it’s him
—Doesn’t seem like an existing ranker?
—What’s with that helmetㅠㅠ show your face please
—Overcame all disasters in the Dimensional Rift < this means he cleared to the final stage, right?
└100% sure
—Wow but you need 50,000 points in the tutorial for a hidden quest to appear? The entry barrier is insane
—Main scenario level dang
—Sir, please tell us the tutorial story
—Hahahahaha
—Explain what came out in the tutorial
—Please film more main scenarioㅠㅠ please
Viewers were in an uproar from the start, and the player in the video accepted Clorence’s quest.
‘……Please take care of the Elder Goblin.’
Afterward, the five hours spent wandering the western forest were fast-forwarded to five seconds.
Thwack.
Immediately, a crazy scene appeared of him leaping off a cliff.
—Wait, a Leap of Faith
—Hahahaha
—I wondered how he was going to get down, but he just jumped
—Why is there a cave under the cliff, you Stunning Life madmen
—How would anyone find that
—How did he find it lololol
After discovering the hidden location, the monster player massacring goblins looked different right from his visuals.
A giant hunk of muscle at 198 cm, 100 kg. And a Greek-style helmet covering his entire face and head with only the eyes showing, a one-handed spear and shield.
The channel name Nangman TUBE that Seo Jeongin came up with was perfect.
—Fuck, that’s peak Nangman
—Look how honest the channel name is lol
—Look how thick his torso is;;
—Wait, how can a person’s thigh look like that..
—Why is there a person’s waist on his thigh…
—Is he a Roman legionary?
—Sparta? hahaha
—Is the owl on his shoulder a pet?
It wasn’t a horned owl, but an eagle owl. And if the master of the owl is Athena, then Seo Minjun’s character would be Greek rather than Roman, Athenian rather than Spartan.
There were various minor misunderstandings, but the one thing Seo Jeongin intended landed perfectly.
—Leonidas form is insane
—Nangman Warrior damn
—Wow it’s so fucking satisfying
—He’s really a prospective ranker
—‘Nangman melee DPS,’ a supernova injecting tension into the slack trash game of mage efficiency-obsessed loser men
—A fucking ultra-macho Leap of Faith from the cliff = Nangman
—Fumbling around looking for the way down is what loser men do. A Nangman real man just jumps down
└Lololol
└That’s just a madman lolol
—Using shields only for defense is loser behavior. A Nangman real man throws his shield to pop goblin heads
└Look at the melee DPS fans getting excited lol
—I was bloated from lunch earlier but this helped me digest
—‘Captain Nangmanica’
└Hahahahaha
—‘Throw Barb’
└Hahaha
└For real
—The age of warriors is coming…
—Mister Leonidas, please crack all the mages’ heads open
—Mister Barb, please spin Whirlwind just once
And more than anything, what surprised people was, of course.
‘Return!’
The Transcendent Cast.
—???????
—Transcendent Cast was a javelin, seriously;;
—And why is his DPS like that
—What is this, it’s scary..
—Haha wait why did the javelin suddenly become Gungnir
—Why is the javelin so fast? That’s not the javelin I know.
***
Stunning Life’s ‘weapons’ are incredibly diverse. For example, gloves for forming hand signs, talismans, thread, magic cards, and so on.
Among them, one of the weapons treated most like trash was the ‘spear.’
This was because a considerable number of spear-type skills were terrible. You could tell just by looking at the representative skill, Javelin Throw.
The attack power correction tripling on hit was amazing, but it was hard to actually hit.
The spear had large preparation motions before throwing, and the projectile speed was slow, so monsters could deflect or dodge it.
Moreover, unlike bows and arrows, losing your weapon upon throwing it was also a fatal weakness.
However.
Shwaaaaack!
The javelin launched from that superhuman’s hand was somewhat different. Flying at a crazy speed of 100 meters per second, the javelin could not be deflected or dodged, hit with perfect accuracy, and not only dealt five times the destructive power through Transcendent Cast, but also returned to its master.
All weaknesses were overcome, and the strengths were doubled.
—Transcendent Cast makes it totally broken
—Odin form is insane
—I thought he was Spartan but was he Nordic?
—It’s my first time seeing someone use javelins these days
—The reason javelins failed is because the projectile speed is slow, but that looks like he’s shooting a gun from his hand lol
Before the dumbfounded viewers, the monster newbie’s absurd remark burst forth.
‘Disgraced Heavy Infantry is a really good background.’
Seo Jeongin even added subtitles and clipped that scene.
‘They give you the javelin skill from the start. Backgrounds that grant skills as a background option aren’t that common.’
“You put this in to screw me over!”
Seo Minjun panicked watching it, and Seo Jeongin was extremely pleased.
The viewers absolutely loved it too.
—Wait lol this is ridiculous
—It’s good because you’re the one using it!
—What does that make everyone who couldn’t use javelins until now lol
—Let’s meet in the Controversies tab on the Stunning Life wiki, sir
└Lololol
└Hahaha
—And it’s Disgraced Heavy Infantry? Isn’t that top tier among trash backgrounds? lol
—Flying around with a trash background makes it cooler
Amidst the intense and heated reactions.
Seo Minjun gained a nickname.
Just as fans usually attach nicknames to rankers, like ‘Starlight Magician’ Stella.
The second name attached to Seo Minjun was……