Evolution Theory of the Hunter (ETH)
Volume 1 Chapter 47
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“With a vote of 5 people for and 1 person against, we have determined that the Stalker will be purchased by Mr. Han Joonseok for the price of 100,000 dollars.”
“Yes!”
Han Joonseok, whose face had been void of emotion until just a moment ago, was all smiles.
Jung Sooah then said.
“But why did you vote against it?”
“Because of the next item we will auction out.”
Jung Sooah looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“The next item ‘Silver Glasses’ will be up for auction.”
Since this wasn’t something even for sale at the hunter market, we didn’t really have an official name for it. There was no one laying claim to it.
I spoke.
“I’ll put out an initial bid of 120,000 dollars.”
“Whew…that’s alot of money.”
Jung Sooah said with wide eyes. Hm. I guess I needed to do some explaining.
“Though it is a common skill for people to find out an opponent’s skill and level, being able to do so without using up a skill slot makes this a great item. I would say that it would be worth purchasing this item even if I were to spend every dime I had.”
“Hm…is that right?”
Jung Sooah held her chin as she went into deep thought.
Even with my explanation, there wasn’t one person who made a higher bid.
“120,000 dollars is a steal, people. If this item were to go up for sale on the market, we would be able to sell it for 300,000 dollars at the very least. Since it is also pretty much one-of-a-kind…it might sell for even more than that.”
I explained it like this but my plan was to keep this for myself. The ‘manual’ that these glasses referred to was bothering me but, most of all, being able to know another person’s skill level would be amazing.
I was pretending that I didn’t want it as a reverse psychology tactic.
“I’m against it.”
“Me too.”
As soon as Jung Sooah said she was against it, glasses girl immediately followed suit.
These girls. Why are you foiling my plan!
“SunbehOppa. You realize your face just turned to stone just now?”
“Shut up.”
“Hm…I’ll vote against it too.”
Han Joonseok said as he nodded his head. Cho Youngoo stared at the three in surprise until Han Joonseok tapped him with his hip. With that, Cho Youngoo responded as if he were doing it reluctantly…
“I…I am against it as well.”
“I’m against it too.”
With Manager Kim’s answer, the vote was unanimous.
Ah….this wasn’t what I wanted.
But I couldn’t backpedal now and say that I’ll give them 300,000 so that I can keep this instead of selling it at the market.
“Due to…er…a unanimous decision..it has been determined that…”
“Before we move on to that. These glasses. They were dropped from a dead person. Who would actually buy this?”
Jung Sooah said haughtily.
“The hunter’s market most likely will not buy an item of unknown origin. Further, we can’t know what level this item is nor can anyone be certain it is safe to use.”
“Su…sure. That was my thought too. That this wasn’t something we could sell.”
“It would be a problem even if the market did accept it. If we sell something like this, we could get some serious bad luck. I’m not just saying this. We need to keep it to remind us of what we did.”
Manager Kim said.
It somehow made this whole conversation seem legitimate hearing Manager Kim say those words with such a serious face.
“Then. I’ll hold on to these glasses. Just for now. In the future, if the need arises, we can then decide on whether we reauction the item or sell it at the market.”
“I agree with SunbehOppa’s decision.”
“I too think party head’s decision is the correct one.”
“Honestly I don’t really care…”
Cho Youngoo responded with a yawn.
A laugh tinkled in the air.
I’m not an idiot. It’s not as if I didn’t know what was going on.
Everyone had noticed I wanted this for myself so they were all playing along to help me keep it without it seeming awkward. This is nice.
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I didn’t put the Honcheon sword nor the shield up for auction. Reason? Because they weren’t dropped items. They were items we had gained from killing people. Though there wasn’t a procedure on what should be done in this kind of a situation, we were all in agreement that an auction was not what should happen.
It was also clear that selling it was not an option either. Keeping two good items was a much better value than trading it for money.
The items that I could now make using the Item Fusion book was one bloodysword. Now that I had the blisolnite, I thought it was a good time to try my hand at putting the Item Fusion book to use.
But there was something I had to do first.
“…SunbehOppa…um…”
I covered Sooah, who was asleep and rubbing her face on her pillow, with a blanket. Her shifting shirt kept revealing what I had no business looking at so I needed to cover her up.
It had now become a bad habit of hers to sleep over at my place.
“I should make some bean sprout soup.”
But I couldn’t really say anything because again I was the one that had to be piggybacked home after a hard night of drinking with the members. I had low tolerance. I was a drunken mess from just one bottle of soju.
It was a relief that I was a well-behaved drunk at least.
Boil boil.
While the beansprout stew was boiling on the stove, I took out the silver glasses from my backpack. From the look of it, though it did look a bit on the elegant side, it still just looked like regular glasses. And there was no problem wearing it since it didn’t have prescription lenses.
I put it on.
“Hm…”
Now my face looked like it belonged more in a library than a dungeon. I didn’t really lilke that.
Because if you look weak, people tend to want to start trouble.
I stared at the sleeping Sooah with the glasses on.
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Skill type: Friendship, can grant self and up to 5 allies 20% increase in ability
Additional ability: Super Friendship, can give just 1 person 50% increase in ability. Cooltime of one day after use.
Proficiency: 16
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Super Friendship. The one person buff’s name was that, it seems. To think that it can give information the skill’s owner didn’t even know. But I didn’t put this on to check for this.
I closed my left eye.
-Would you like to reboot the manual?
That same message popped up again.
What am I supposed to do now? There wasn’t like a button or any other indicator so that I can say yes or no.
“Yes.”
-User acceptance received. Manual is booting.
A shower of green numbers, english letters, korean words, and a mix of other special characters began to jumble together. It felt like the matrix. Then finally the rain of characters formed a square box.
It felt like I was staring at an arcane computer interface I might have seen in a museum one time.
-Manual booting complete. Thank you for using delta v0.1. Before starting, please read the tutorial. All menu options are accessible via word prompt.
“Tutorial.”
As soon as I said that word, a whole slew of texts began to appear.
The contents generally looked like what you would find in a manual. What caught my eye was a section on skill types and their relationships.
“Skill Window.”
-The active skill is ‘Effort’. The stats for this skill are as follows.
Strength 200, Endurance 300, Reflexes 150, Focus 150, Defense 150
“Oh…”
I was super impressed. This meant I didn’t have to keep track of everything anymore. All I had to do was put these glasses on, close my left eye, and reboot or turn on the manual.
There was a [+] button next to each of the abilities.
This was an extremely intuitive interface. This meant that I didn’t have to beat myself up in the area I wanted to raise anymore. All I had to do was press that button to invest my reward points…right? So does that mean these glasses are a cheat since I technically wouldn’t have to put in the effort of pushing myself to the limit anymore?
“Sunbeh…? The soup is overflowing?”
Sooah said as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
“Ah…!”
I ran to the stove and turned it off. Half of it seemed to have evaporated. More flavor, I guess?
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endy budi
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Jarred McFarlane
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Thanks
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dan weiss
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thanks for the chapter
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Juan Topasna
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Thanks for the chapter.
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Sheriff
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Why did he go against that first bid thing because of the 2nd item to be auctioned? It doesn’t make sense…
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God's Song Sect
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Now this is a game player status
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ApexAstral
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That’s useful
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german bonivento
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thanks for the chap
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shrykos
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Thanks for the chapter.
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Samuel Lin
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Thanks
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antowibowo
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That is one salty soup. Kinda weird that no effort will be used in The effort skill.
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LightNovelBarista
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It is a bit odd. He does have to put in some effort though since he still needs reward points to activate any upgrades right?
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justchillin29
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Thx bruv
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samdiggidy
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thanks for the chapter
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sfasf asf
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thanks for the chapter
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Tom Yusov
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thAnks
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The One with the Branded Mark
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Thanks for the chapter. Bad karma to sell dead people’s item, but if this is an Asian horror, they will be haunted by the murdered’s ghost instead XD
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Attolis Black
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Those glasses are more useful than I thought they would be!
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victor tiilikainen
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Thank you for the chapter!
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plouf
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Thanks for the chapter!
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criticalmind
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Thanks for the chapter!
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wrobe
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time to read ^^
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Dave Nguyen
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GG Picked up some cheat glasses to make his cheat skill even more OP.
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KiwiCaramelo
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Thanks for the chappie. Barista
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fdsa msdfa
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Thank you
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Timmy Tim
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Why does MC keep manager kim and that guy that underpays for the stalker arrow anyway? Him and that buff girl hes staying with can pretty much solo the dungeon. Now i know that MC takes pity on the glasses girl and helmet guy seems cool, but the other two…needs to go.
I just hate it when writers make MC super OP with worthless members in his party, with him always ending up carrying the shitty party. Seems this type of story with OP MC and shitty team is common among KR novels, had to drop a similar novel in japtem cause billionaire MC always end up carrying his useless team and giving them free shit for no reason or to fill the authors virtual harem.
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So Manager Kim is actually very useful. When they have a large number of opponents, his sleep skill can put several of them to sleep from the onstart making the rest of the fight much easier. Of course that’s all he does…but it doesnt discount the fact he contributes. Guy who bought the stalker…I feel like having that new weapon will make him a stronger ally no? Since it can hit whatever target.
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Yes, of course it would, but if that’s the case I’d much rather have the glasses girl get it instead, she’ll be more useful with it and she’ll actually be grateful for it, as shes constantly improving. While Kim is not totally useless, his team is getting carried by MC. MC could probably find better players by now, with his reputation and whatnot.
Manager Kim is a minimalist, while attempting to reap in the most rewards(sometimes I do that in mmorpgs, lol), as for the other Cho w/e archer guy, he’s just a snarky ungrateful noob getting carried(from years of playing LoL and fed up of carrying teams, when it’s not even my role, which I eventually start feeding or throwing the game as team shows no signs of improvement)
The ideal choice would be to replace these two as they as not dependable in an actual real life situation, but it’s not because this is make believe, and it makes the MC or perhaps the authors self insert Opness stand out more in the spotlight.
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Manager Kim will be useless once MC starts entering Level 3+ Dungeons, since his Sleep Skill is only Level 2 (worse against higher mobs,) so he’d either have to upgrade his skill, or leave.. He’d be useless.
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ce05
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i actually like the manager he makes me chuckle most of the chapters recently
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Nivanio Costa
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Thanks for the chapter.
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Derand Demaj
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thanks for the chapter
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Time 939
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Thanks
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Skoll
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Ah ! I was wrong, but it IS a cheat ! XD thanks as always 🙂
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Gantz
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So everyone just witnessed 5 people being butchered and evaporated but decide to ignore it and get drunk… No regret, pings of conciseness or bawling after the fact. These are some rather hearty folks. They spent more time discussing money then the lost of live. Dungeon dives must of built up their resolve and resistance to such acts.
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Lol, your kidding, right? These guys tried to extort everything they had on them, that’s after provoking them by stealing all their drop loot, why would they give a rats ass to some dead scumbags? A person can take so much before they snap, and it seems you forgot that people don’t go to dungeons to play games(well not the poor people). You want them to mourn for their enemies that said they would kill them if he didn’t give them all their loot, good to know which side your on.
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someguy
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This is a korean novel and they seem to have a strange attachment to money.
In many cases money>= life
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Anime Fan
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Thanks for the chapter!
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ChopChop
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LOL. I found it funny that he’s making and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he cooks his own bean sprout soup instead of getting delivery.
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None Beeswax
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Thanks
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Albert Imbar
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Great excuse…
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hello world
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da an
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thanks
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Matt Damon
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thanks for the chapter
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Leo Sam
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thanks!
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Max Müller
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thanks for the chapter
looks like the beginning to the next arc
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Simon C
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this novel is really quite interesting, cant wait for more 🙂
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drukness
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Ty chapter
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amja
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Thanks for the chapter.
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copy331
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Thanks
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Lorenzo Maria
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thanks for the chapter
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Nicolas Seiler
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I kinda liked the old system where he had to actually get to the limits of his body to get stronger.
Now he just kinda has to press a button and it works.-
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True…but is it really? LOL Guess we’ll have to wait for him to actually try using it that way.
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It’s nice that he can see what a level 0 skill does now though instead of having to perform trial and error.
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Yes, who knows maybe with a manual he will be able to unlock new natural talents, like magic or an intel stat.
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Gav Yn
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Ty for the chap.
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nekosama9x
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Ho. New website. Gw guys
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MoreCoffeePlease
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Thank you as always, Barista. Our MC has one hell of a luck.
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babywolf
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thanks for the chapter!
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tsun dere
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First?
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That you are 🙂 Welcome to the new site that hopefully doesn’t have anymore hosting issues!
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Where did the “recent post” thing go? it was really convenient to see if there were updates without having to go to the fiction page.
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Ill put a section for that back up
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ok check the last tab on homepage
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