Chapter 6 – Class Quest (1)

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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Arcana’s status system is on the concise side.

Starting stats all begin at 1 point.

1 point is given every level up.

Players simply need to distribute points to the desired stats according to the characteristics of their class.

I looked at my status window.

[Name: Granfel Claudi Arpheus Romeo]

[Class: Demon Hunter]

[Level: 67]

[Stats]

Strength: 21 / Agility: 26 / Magic Power: 11 / Luck: 1

[Owned Points: 12]

Naturally, Demon Hunters did not have class-specific stats.

As if that wasn’t enough, even the stats were invested haphazardly.

‘There was no helping this.’

Because back then, Demon Hunters did not have any notable training methods.

Even putting performance aside, the absolute number of Players was also small.

True to an ambiguous class, there was no choice but to invest all stats ambiguously.

‘Somehow, nothing has particularly changed even now.’

This is not because I do not know, but to leave possibilities open.

It should be fine since such a difference in thought exists.

I invested the points.

[Stats]

Strength: 23 / Agility: 28 / Magic Power: 18 / Luck: 1

[Owned Points: 1]

2 points each in Strength and Agility.

After investing 7 points into Magic Power, which was relatively low, 1 point remained.

Originally, I planned to invest the remaining 1 point into Magic Power as well.

But for some reason.

Luck, which was a mere 1 point, weighed on my mind.

『The only survivor of the family, Granfel Claudi Arpheus Romeo, hereafter referred to as Granfel, ended up walking the path of a Demon Hunter to take revenge on that demon.』

“…….”

I wonder why that setting suddenly came to mind.

It was just Granfel’s setting that I wrote down as I pleased, but he really lacks luck.

His life is so tragic that one would wonder if he experienced such hardships because his Luck was a mere 1 point.

It’s not that I feel guilt over it.

Wouldn’t it be strange to feel it.

Granfel, the one bearing the burden of his settings, was me.

So this was closer to pity.

[Owned Points: 0]

For myself who will suffer in the future.

And also out of pity for Granfel’s tragic life.

‘For pity, this is a pretty huge investment.’

Because the treatment of the Luck stat in Arcana wasn’t all that good.

Because Luck was a stat that did not have an intuitive feel like other stats such as Strength.

As commonly said, it would be correct to express it as having poor cost-effectiveness.

Only non-combat classes, and even then, extremely limited classes cared about Luck.

I remembered that even for them, it was not a core stat.

Luck: 2

Although it was merely 1 point.

Isn’t it up to how you think about it?

Let’s think that my luck has doubled.

Of course, I wonder if doubling terribly non-existent luck will even show any signs.

.

.

.

However, the effect of doubled luck was revealed immediately.

Clearly at that.

At dawn the next day.

“……?”

A system message popped up to me as I opened my eyes.

[You have fulfilled the conditions.]

[The quest begins.]

……A quest?

*

Back when Arcana was a game.

Quests were common.

“Ah, it’s a miscellaneous quest again.”

“Just decline it. The rewards aren’t even good, right?”

“The intimacy will drop. And after all the effort to raise it too.”

“Even if you go all the way to the linked quests for that one, giving a few bottles of potions is the end. If it were me, I’d rather hunt more in that time. You could probably earn more than the cost of potions just by getting one item drop.”

To the extent that people would choose whether to carry them out while weighing the rewards and difficulty.

But now that Arcana has become reality.

Quests became a privilege for high-level Players.

The reason was simple.

It was because there weren’t many NPCs who gave quests in reality.

At the same time the Mage Tower sprouted.

The Mage NPCs residing inside also appeared in reality.

Like that, Arcana’s NPCs existed in reality.

“Just what on earth is going on here…….”

“To think I would experience such a thing in my lifetime.”

“So this is the world of the adventurers. What sparkles in the dark is beautiful.”

Just like us, the NPCs also adapted to the Cataclysm.

“We cannot just stand by and watch forever.”

“Those Rifts! No matter how you look at it, that is the cause of this problem!”

“We cannot cause any more nuisance to the world of the adventurers.”

It meant that they gave Players new quests fitting that environment.

However, only high-level Players could carry out the new quests.

“Hmm, no matter how I look at it, your training seems lacking.”

“It seems it would be too much for you, adventurer.”

“That request has already been granted by another adventurer…….”

Quests in reality further solidified the gap between upper-tier Players and lower-tier Players.

Therefore, it was a matter of fact that Players would become sensitive to quests.

-Hey, I heard a sudden quest popped up in a Rift?!

-For real? Where is it? I’m going right now too

-It’s really sorrowful to be in a position where we have to dash for sudden questsㅠㅠ

-If I knew this would happen, I would have quit my job and only played Arcana *sigh* High-levels are clearing linked quests and Rankers are starting to touch the main quests, but what about us??

……Yes, that is the new common sense.

I checked the quest window again.

[Class Quest: Prelude to the Counterattack]

“……A Class Quest.”

What is this?

Class Quest.

I did not have any information about it.

Just looking at it, it does seem like a quest related to my class, Demon Hunter…….

Exorcism, training, meditation, etc.

Suddenly, the quests I used to carry out at the Akshan Base came to mind.

‘No, those were ordinary quests.’

They didn’t have the grandiose modifier ‘Class’ attached to them.

Naturally, I did not agonize over it.

I immediately searched ‘Class Quest’ in the search bar.

-Paladin Class Rank 1, ‘Guyver’.

Starts a Class Quest…….

Will he become the first Paladin class to enter the top 10 Player Rankings?

Voices of expectation grow louder…….

Information about it could be found without difficulty.

Class Quest.

Among numerous Players with the same class.

It was a quest given to only a single person.

The contents of that quest differed for each, so it couldn’t be known.

But I could understand.

Why that grandiose quest popped up for me.

“It seems truly I am the only one remaining.”

[Class Quest: Prelude to the Counterattack]

O last Demon Hunter.

Announce to the demons that the time for counterattack has come.

─Defeat a demon. (Success)

Yes, because I was the only Demon Hunter.

That incredible Class Quest appeared for me.

It seemed the quest started thanks to me defeating the demon, Imp, just as it stated in the quest window.

……Looking at this, desire arises.

I only read the article roughly, but.

The rewards for a Class Quest seemed incredible just by looking at it.

Seeing as they make a fuss about how just starting it makes the news and allows entry into the top 10 rankings.

However, that desire was never expressed.

Isn’t that obvious?

To Granfel, all of this was extremely natural.

Defeating the demon.

Becoming the protagonist of the Class Quest because of it.

And even the reward I would seize upon succeeding that Class Quest.

Granfel…….

No, I was accepting all of that as natural.

Far from my heart throbbing with excitement.

My heartbeat, beating no differently than usual, is the proof.

I shook my head slightly.

‘My extremely petit bourgeois values are flipping upside down.’

Just as if I truly became the successor of a great family.

But I have no choice but to accept it.

Because in order to live as a Player, and furthermore as a Demon Hunter, Granfel’s setting was essential to me.

However, let’s keep at least this one thing in mind.

“……I am still too young to be immersed in the past.”

The fact that Granfel is nothing more than my dark history.

Yes, dark history isn’t something to immerse yourself in, but to overcome.

As I made that resolve, the quest window in my vision blinked.

“!”

A new quest objective had appeared.

─Train your weakened physical body.

A memory from the Akshan Base suddenly coming to mind.

‘……Wait, could this quest be?’

Isn’t this the vicious and painful quest that made countless Demon Hunter Players delete their accounts?!

I sighed.

It seems the effect of the luck has run out.

However, even that emotion was not expressed outwardly.

“……I should have invested 1 more point.”

How pitiful, Lee Ho-yeol.

As expected, I was the only one suffering due to this damn setting.

*

Akshan Base.

The encampment of the Demon Hunters.

When said like that, it would look incredibly cool to someone who didn’t know.

I, who was crazy about coolness, was also fooled by that and chose the Demon Hunter class.

However, upon experiencing it myself, reality was truly shocking.

Poor facilities!

A job change quest no no different from manual labor!

Even NPCs who only yelled at you instead of boosting your motivation!

Of course, there were plausible reasons attached to it.

“Demons constantly aim for human greed. Thus, Demon Hunters must always be incorruptible.”

“A strong mind dwells in a strong body. Do you wish to become a Demon Hunter? Then building a strong body comes first!”

“While living as a Demon Hunter, unexpectedly losing one’s life is a common occurrence. Demons also target the sense of loss of those left behind, so excessive bonds are poisonous to Demon Hunters. Do not try to get close to me.”

……Thinking about it after growing up, the settings were absurd.

I told you there was a reason they were unpopular, right?

However, upon hearing those settings, the past me grew even more fascinated with the Demon Hunter class instead.

It meant I endured all sorts of irrationalities and ultimately seized the Demon Hunter class.

‘……It means I was truly a severe chuunibyou.’

Because I am suffering like a dog, all sorts of thoughts are popping up.

“Phew”

I continued doing push-ups.

My forearms felt as if they were paralyzed.

[Class Quest: Prelude to the Counterattack]

O last Demon Hunter.

Announce to the demons that the time for counterattack has come.

─Defeat a demon. (Success)

─Train your weakened physical body. (In Progress) ▼

‘Shouldn’t something change at least?!’

They said it’s a Class Quest.

They said it’s a quest only one person can carry out?

But how is it no different from the quest at the Akshan Base right from the start!

Moreover, this wasn’t virtual reality, but true reality.

It meant bearing the aftereffects coming from the amount of training was my share.

─Train your weakened physical body. (In Progress) ▲

●Run 20KM (Success)

●1,000 Push-ups (In Progress)

●500 Pull-ups (Success)

●300 Burpee Tests (Success)

Today marked exactly one week.

Because those quest objectives renewed every day.

It meant I had been digesting that amount of training without skipping a single day for a week.

Of course muscle pain wouldn’t show any signs of disappearing!

However, my complaints merely stayed in my head before fading away.

Like someone who had only been waiting for this quest.

Because I earnestly accomplished the objectives.

『Granfel’s soaring pride did not come from the background that is his family. It was innate. A nature literally bestowed by the heavens, unchanging before any ordeal.』

Therefore, I had no choice but to be earnest.

I had no memory of attaching an earnest or diligent setting to Granfel.

If a chuunibyou patient was earnest and diligent, wouldn’t that be a strange thing in its own way?

Everything was solely to protect that lofty pride of his.

Quiver

A clear day without a single breeze.

Even while looking at my forearms trembling from pain.

“It is quite windy today.”

I could speak shamelessly like this.

However, what is certain is that if it weren’t for this pride.

‘……I definitely wouldn’t have been able to do it, right?’

I wouldn’t have been able to endure even a single day.

I probably would have given up right away during the run?

“This is the last.”

……Anyway, good job, me.

Today as well, I earnestly carried out the manual labor quest.

A message different from usual popped up before me.

[You have fulfilled the conditions.]

[The reward will be paid.]

At those words, I opened the system window.

My inventory was……. the same.

Instead, the status window was blinking.

I checked my status window.

“!”

The level remained the same, but there was a change in my stats.

……Class Quest, it is worth making a fuss over, isn’t it?