Evolution Theory of the Hunter (ETH)
Volume 1 Chapter 30
The wolf could do nothing to stop the bloodsword from slurping up its blood. It kept baring its sharp fangs at me in anger and obvious duress, but the chain was even stronger than I had hoped. I wonder how many people knew there was such a simple and easy way to take care of a monster like this. I sure know I didn’t until now.
Stab Stab!
Seeing the wolf trying to bite into the restraining chains, I took my new sword out and poked him a couple sides into his middle. Though I was sure now that he wasn’t strong enough to break free of his bonds, I wanted to make sure he didn’t snap them with his teeth. Better safe than sorry because the cave wolves are known for their tremendous biting strength…good not to underestimate that.
When I kept stabbing at him with Park Jungbeh…oh excuse me…MY sword, the wolf now tried to move backwards out of the hole, instead of through it. But there would be nowhere for it to go but to the mouth of the cave. I kept glancing at my watch, waiting for the time to run out.
I recall that last time, it had taken about 2 minutes for my sword to drink up almost every last drop. Since I couldn’t be sure, I decided it would be best to wait 5 minutes.
Beep.
The timer I had set for 5 minutes went off. I went through the chain and walked to the front and saw a collapsed mound that was the wolf. I pulled out a pepper bomb from my pocket and threw it at the heap.
Even as the pepper smoke plumed into the air, I remained alert. Since it was a mixture of red pepper and black pepper, no matter how hard it tried to play dead, it would not be able to handle it. I think. Once I confirmed the wolf remained ever motionless, I held out my longsword and carefully padded forth.
“Ahem!”
I purposely cleared my throat loudly, but the wolf remained still. I kept my distance as far away from the monster as I could and reached over to try and poke at its eye with my sword.
“Grawr!”
The wolf jumped towards me, jaws wide, as if it was waiting for just this moment. But I had been expecting it this whole time so I kept my cool. I plunged my sword right into its open mouth.
The wolf dropped to its side, throwing up black blood and shivering as it lay on the ground. That should do it. If it got up again this time, I would bet my life it wasn’t a wolf but a damn zombie.
[+1000]
Finally. Those sweet green digits appeared above the monster’s head. The same amount as last time. With this, I should have over 4,000 reward points in all. Now I knew what people meant when they said they felt full even without having eaten a thing. I felt content.
I pulled out my bloodysword from the dead wolf’s side. There was barely any blood seeping out of the wound, as expected, and there was now a black tint to the sword. Just how much blood did it drink for it to be so dark? Jeez.
I placed the bloodysword back on my hip and, before the monster could evaporate, I wiped off the longsword onto its fur. I needed to take care of this so I could sell it later. Unless it was broken or something, there was rarely any case where an item’s value would depreciate, so I could expect 100,000 for this.
As the wolf kept evaporating into dust..then into air..I walked over to the chains and started to collect them back into my backpack. I didn’t think of recycling it again but I didn’t want to leave it behind for Park Jungbeh and his crew to see and learn my now new trick. Of course those idiots wouldn’t figure out what I used it for. But just in case.
After cleaning up, I went back to the wolf.
The wolf had dropped an item.
“What is this?”
I picked up the thing that dropped to the floor and examined it. It looked to be a roll of A4 sized papers tied with a string. I pulled on the string and unrolled the papers to check it out. Luckily, this time, I was able to read it.
‘Escape’
Ok. If I were to take the literal meaning of it, then maybe it was a way to escape this dungeon. I would guess that if I were to face a monster that was too ferocious, ripping up this paper would transport me to safety.
“Ha…I scored another jackpot didn’t I?”
It wasn’t a weapon or a skillbook but, since I have a bad habit of always meeting irregulars, this would seem to be something that would be very useful. If you looked at it in one way, it might even be more valuable than a high level equipment. And since there were 5 pieces of paper, that meant I could use it a total of 5 times.
Wait. No.
Now that I think about it, I would probably have to take into account each party member. As if I could escape by myself and ditch my party if an irregular shows up.
I couldn’t do that even if it meant my life. So I guess it was the same as having just a one time use. And on top of that, if Jung Sooah ever decided to join us then we would be one escape paper shy.
That kind of sucks, but it’s still a great haul. If anything, what made it even more valuable was the fact that this has never before appeared at the hunter’s market. First the level 0 skillbook and now this…something was up.
The raids that had been happening without any change these past 50 years were now going through a lot in a short time. But I don’t mind at all. For a person who’s all the way at the bottom like me, things can only go up from here.
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As soon as I left the dungeon, my eyes met with an all too familiar silhouette. When she saw my face, she made a great big sigh.
It was Jung Sooah.
“You’re alive.”
“Didn’t I personally take you to the bus and send you off?”
“I turned back around. I was worried.”
“Why.”
“I, I came too.”
Glasses girl peeked out her head from behind Jung Sooah. I lightly raised my brows and said.
“You are definitely big for a girl.”
“What, what are you saying? I’m a girl because I’m big!”
Jung Sooah yelled out as her face turned a red hue. I was talking about her size. Why is she talking about her boobs?
“I meant you’re big boned.”
“…”
“I meant you were big because I didn’t even notice Bae Yeongyoung hiding behind you.”
“…”
“Do you think I’m the type of guy who would look at a girl’s breasts the moment I step out of a dungeon?”
“Hm…so mean. Really.”
I should stop picking on her now.
Glasses girl said with a slightly red face too.
“Party head. But where did you get that armor?”
“It was a gift. It seemed there was someone very generous in that party.”
At my words, Jung Sooah began to poke at the armor before saying.
“Wait. Isn’t this Park Jungbeh’s?”
“Yep.”
“You’re saying that bastard gave this to you? As a present?”
“Some things happened. Anyway, let’s go home. I’d rather not stick around and bump into them.”
“Wa…wait.”
“Talk while we walk. While we walk.”
I left the dungeon with Jung Sooah and glasses girl in tow. As we left the Baekoonsa dungeon, I saw Han Joonseok and Cho Youngoo waiting on stand by.
Jeez. Them too?
Han Joonseok came forward first and said.
“I felt like you were trapped into a crappy situation so I came back because I was worried. I thought I could maybe be at least a little help if something happened.”
“I made him come. Joonseok wanted to just leave but I forced him to come back with me.”
“Didn’t I tell you not to say anything stupid?”
“It seems I put an unnecessary burden on everyone.”
I couldn’t get why these people I’ve only met two times cared at all about my well being. Could this be the friendship skill at work? Or is it that they’re masochists and liked being in danger? I usually like to err on the side of caution and think of the worst case scenario. Maybe they thought I would keep them on board to breeze through dungeon clearings if they were nice to me. Who knows. But I decided to take their kindness at face value this time.
Now that we were all together again, we decided to go get something to eat as a group. It was a relief that manager Kim wasn’t here. If he were, then we would probably all be forced to drink like hell again.
“Ha ha ha! You guys weren’t thinking of drinking without me now were you?!”
Manager Kim appeared. Out of nowhere.
“Who the hell called manager Kim?”
There was no way this man came all on his own. Glasses girl raised her hand with a small smile.
“Um..I thought since we were all here…it would be nice to include everyone.”
And so we were off to drink like no tomorrow. Again. Thanks a lot manager Kim.
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SnowTime
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Lol, is this boss a wolf or fox? It sure is pretty crafty
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oddmoonlight
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After reading the chapter and comments I feel like the next item/s could be health potions or a growth weapon.
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Micheal Lee
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Thanks for the chapter. Hope he gets luckier.
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mantas rinkevicius
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thanks for chapter ^^
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Dlorej Mil
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Thnx
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Glayus
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Thanks for the chapter!
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Time 939
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Thanks
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matiasld
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Thanks for the chapter
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plouf
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Thanks for the chapter!
No lvl 0 skill book this time ! -
KiwiCaramelo
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Thanks for the chapter, i never would imagine that he get a item drop, that break the sequence of skillbooks dropping
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copy331
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thx
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Ruz J
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Manager Kim is my second favourite character, lol
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Phij Mega
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Thanks for the chapter I always like daily uploads 😛
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Ari
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Anyone shares the theory that the skill books or items dropped by irregular are in tandem with the situation they are killed in, like the MC put in effort while killing the first irregular – he got Effort as skill, and the next skill book of Friendship dropped when the whole team came together despite the situation.
Unsure about the escape scroll but that was maybe because the wolf couldn’t escape lol
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LightNovelBarista
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hmm that’s an interesting theory. my readers are so smart 🙂
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inbetweenaction
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didn’t think about it like that. but yeah, that would make sense. Also explains why no one else gained anything like this before, after all, using superior gear to easily kill it could just result in “Gear drop”
Or, possibly, Overwhelm lv 0 skill, activation based, acting similar to a Limit break.
maybe if you where to use traps (wish i deem unlikley to work, unless you use ALOT of really strong traps) lv 0 skill Sly, increasing poison damage, trap efficiency and stealth….
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ce05
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ha! that is actually qiote perceptive and i agree that makes quite a lot of sense
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Nathan Schimmel
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At this point, this along with appropriate level gear seems to result in better drops. It’s almost as if you need the dungeons approval to get the good stuff.
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Simon C
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ohh i like that one, what about the escape scrolls, that drop because everyone escaped except from him???
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Lucifer Mephistopheles
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ok… i’ll stop…
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A friendly warning about Spaming for cafebux… fairly certain that there where a warning that you would get penalized rather than rewarded if you spam.
that said, plenty of minor discussions you could try to join if you desperately want some cafebux though.
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definitely! Thank you! And I do reward our readers if I see good commenting etiquette from time to time. Right inbetween? 😉
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That you do 🙂 . and i thank you for it, although i was hesitant to make a post about it (partially because i could find no good place for me to post about it prior to this…)
and seeing how i have yet to say it on this chapter….
THANK YOU FOR THE CHAPTER
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my god it won’t stop!
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Hi lucipher. I have a log and I can see you received 4 each time. Please try not to make such comments as I have to go and double check each time. Thank you!
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2 more from the previous!
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I got 2 from that post!
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I need cafebux…
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thanks for the chapter!
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Stan Lee Stanley
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lmfao when she raises her hand and says i did
manager kim cracks me up
thaanks for the crack
i need crackbux…..yup
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tsun dere
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Man those boss type wolves sure are sneaky!
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ho ha
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cool
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Haniwa
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irregualar now seems like unique monster or hidden boss that drops rare item hmm..
and the party is shaping out very nicely compare to their first meeting
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Kevin Girsang
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I wonder if he ever meet that Park Jerkwad again… but then again, I kinda expect him to again deceive that jerkwad. Thanks for the chapter.
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fr0zen422
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thanks fella
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hope he keeps the scrap weapon, he needs it for when he leaves the bloodsword in the beasts for that sweet sweet bloodloss.
still, gues he will not, he is still to much in the mindsett of the porter that sells everything to save money, and doesn’t invest
(he only gave porter girl that lv 0 due to knowing that it was severely under priced at the market….)
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He gives it away or sells it because it is basically a level 1 weapon. Who keeps their starter sword in an rpg?
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Alex
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I have the feeling that the MC is going to kill manager Kim soon or abandon him.
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nah, he is the but of all jokes in the party, with a good skill. he will not get abandoned anytime soon, although they will complain a shitton about him…
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amja
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its 8.13am here and this is my breakfast. Thanks for the chapter. hihi
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ihsan
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Thx
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giovanniot
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obrigado
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Grimm Lord
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Nice chapter..
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benwu82608260
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I wonder if he is going to sell the item.
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maybe the sword, but not the escape scroll. it’s a lifesaving iteam, he would only sell it if he can buy armor that is good enough to garatee him suvival against highclass mooks (atleast lv 3-4 armor). And seeing how he now has lv 2 protective gear wile only being able to fight lv 1 dungeons (due to him being the only lv 2 gear owner in the party (not counting mage due to him apparently sucking))
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Grandyna
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thank you
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hello world
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ty
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Rafal Listewnik
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Chapter bought with bux from review. No regrets!
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Leo Sam
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Thakns for the chapter
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Tom Yusov
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thx
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Ozan Ride
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thanks
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vonkaiser
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wooh.. An Escape Scroll… now atleast it would guarantee their safety…. lucky mc..
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but as he said, he is still one short
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tanzin bushra
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Hi I have left a review of this on novelupdatea (as tanz). Would I get 50 cb? Thanks
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Albert Imbar
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I did a review on NU and sent you a mail from the contact us button, hope you receive it.
The manager definitely has stealth skill. -
Anime Fan
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Thanks for the chapter!
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Drehon
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Thanks, totally thought he would get a skill
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me to. this might be better for the party though, seeing how he isn’t close enough with glasses girl to freely give her skillboks for hundreds of thousands of dollars….
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victor tiilikainen
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Big thanks for the chapter!! nice new items on mc!
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babygiant4xl
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Thank you for the chapter
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Proteus
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Well that solves that conflict thanks for the chapter
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thanks for the chapter.
And yeah, DOT might be the best buff to have on a weapon you can just leave in the monster, as long as noone steals you gear while you doe it…
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It’d be OP if it were a lifesteal.
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lv 4 weapon? or higher?
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rhorho
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Well if it is lifesteal, we can not enjoy his struggle anymore
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So does the bloody sword increase in power after it absorbs a certain amount of blood? Or is it just a DOT?
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It’s both, sort of. For as long as it’s stays within a beast, it does a dot by bleeding.
That dot is later transformed into an atk up buff
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Derand Demaj
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ty
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ApexAstral
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Thank you for the chapter, how exactly do I leave a review on NU?
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Max Müller
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make a account on novelupdates
go to one of the 2 series and there at the bottom there is a review window similiar to comment window here
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