Evolution Theory of the Hunter (ETH)
Volume 1 Chapter 55
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Sooah made a face as if she was annoyed about something.
“What?”
“Isn’t this where you’re supposed to hide like porn and stuff?”
“This girl…what kind of guy do you take me for….”
There’s no way I would hide that kind of stuff in such an obvious spot.
I made it so that even if you did a word search, you wouldn’t find anything.
And the whole reason I did that much is because of her. Stop making my single life so complicated. Jeez.
“Waaa.”
Jung Sooah lay down on my bed and started going through a comicbook as if it were her own home.
Glasses girl sat at my desk and resumed surfing the internet.
I somehow started feeling as if I were the one out of place in my own room. What the hell.
“Today’s a rest day. Don’t you guys have plans?”
“Speaking of rest days, don’t you have any plans?”
“I like staying home. I don’t like going out anyway. I’m an introvert. And even if I did go out, there’d be nothing for me to do. It’s not like I have any friends to hang out with either.”
“You have a friend right here.”
“Here too.”
The both of them raised their hands.
“So are you saying we should go out and do something?”
“I mean the weather is nice – maybe we should go out to the park.”
I nodded my head. I guess that could be fun.
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Swoosh Swoosh!
“I’m wearing a dress..”
“Come on! Proper posture!”
Tap.
“Ok.”
Sooah responded as she lowered her upper body.
Since we were coming out to the park, we decided to get some practice in. Because if you didn’t practice these kinds of things often, your body starts forgetting.
I made glasses girl do some shooting with the practice bow I had from my college days.
“How peaceful.”
I finally felt ok. It was the first time I felt so uncomfortable in my own home. There was a weird kind of aura in that room that I couldn’t figure out. But this was good.
While the two of them kept at it, I looked through my manual.
The item storage was already full. I checked my stats next.
Skill type: Effort (0). Skill has the ability to use reward points to increase physical abilities.
Extra skill/option: None
Proficiency: 19
Reward Points: 4530
Abilities: Strength 200, Endurance 300, Reflexes 150, Focus 150, Defense 150
Upgrade: 26/100
I had saved up quite a bit of reward points.
I should have used them to raise up my abilities at Baeksapyoung (Flat Sand Bar) dungeon, but things got so crazy I wasn’t able to get around to doing it.
Luckily I didn’t have to go through all the crazy training to raise my abilities anymore. I was actually worried for a moment that I might have had to run a cross country marathon at some point.
Hm. What should I raise up next though.
Not including Endurance, I could probably raise up everything else at least two times with the points I had. Since I have some reliable equipment now like the Honcheon sword, I guess it would make more sense to raise up reflexes and defense rather than strength.
I pressed the reflexes tab.
Tap.
Whoa. It felt like I really pressed on something real. So real.
- Would you like to use your reward points towards increasing your reflexes?
Yes, No. Two options appeared. I pushed my finger to the “yes” option.
- You have successfully increased your reflexes. Proficiency has been raised to 20. Level 2 dungeons are now scheduled to be erased.
“What?”
What the hell does that mean?
“SunbehOppa?”
“Partyhead?”
Both girls stared at me with concern in their eyes.
This is wrong.
We finally came to a point where we could confidently clear a level 2 dungeon.
But now it’s saying they’re going to be erased…? So we have to start from scratch again?
SHIT SHIT SHIT! EFFING SHIT!
Shouldn’t they at least give us some time to get used to clearing level 2 dungeons and gain more experience so that we don’t die in level 3s?
“Cancel! Cancel! No. Shit. What the hell am I supposed to do now?”
Since there wasn’t a cancel button, I kept yelling the word out loud like a crazy person. But the manual didn’t respond.
I hurriedly took off the glasses. Maybe if I’m not wearing it, it’ll stop whatever crazy thing it was trying to do.
Like hell.
I put the glasses back on.
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Reflexes 200, Reward Points 2530.
Proficiency 20.
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I should have realized the correlation earlier. It was all there. Right? It makes sense. As I increase the proficiency of my skill, it resulted in erasing of dungeons.
Now that I think about it, it was when I clocked in 10 in my proficiency that Level 1 dungeons had disappeared. 10 minutes hadn’t even passed when I got the call from Han Joonseok with that bit of happy news.
Ring!
Yeh. Like now.
“Hello?”
-Party head! BAD NEWS!…
“Level 2 dungeons are all gone?”
-What? What are you talking about? What do you mean level 2 dungeons are gone?
Hm? What the hell’s going on then?
“Wait. Then what do you mean bad news?”
-The Yellow Sea…the Yellow Sea disappeared!
“….what?”
I almost dropped my phone.
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Once we got back to my place and searched the internet, Han Joonseok had gotten it wrong.
It’s not that the sea disappeared.
Land had appeared out of nowhere.
“What in the world…”
Jung Sooah had her mouth wide open.
The new land that had appeared was huge.
It was strange that new land of this size had appeared without so much as an earthquake or tsunammi.
Just looking at this it was obvious that this was not natural.
“This is crazy.”
The news was lit. I wonder if they had felt this way 50 years ago when the monsters had first shown up.
“They’re saying it’s not just in our country…”
In Africa, a new island appeared next to Madagascar.
In North America, the Yucatan Peninsula was now connected by land with Florida, Alaska, and Siberia.
“Wow…does this mean we need a new world map?”
Jung Sooah said in wonder.
“We’re lucky if that’s the extent of it…”
It wasn’t clear if this was it. It probably wasn’t.
“Isn’t it good that we now have more land? Our country was too small as it was.”
“No. We have a lot of land…we just can’t use it properly because of all the monsters.”
I continued surfing the internet for some answers.
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-[A number of monsters found on the new lands. These monsters are found to be low level monsters of levels 1 and 2s. None others are reported to have been found as of yet.]
-[About 10 minutes ago, coinciding with the upheaval of the new continents, disappearance of level 2 dungeons have been confirmed. It is reported that the government feels the two incidents are related in some manner and an investigation is under way.]
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Damn it. So the level 2 dungeons did disappear.
The government had decided to name the new land as “The West Sea”.
But now there was the not so small matter of Korea being connected to China.
The idea of joint management of the new land was quickly ignored.
China became so adamant that the new land was theirs that they deployed a large number of hunters to forcefully seize it.
And the Korean government immediately followed suit.
Then the Chinese government made the threat that they would not trade any agriculture to which the Korean government threatened to remove all hunter markets.
And so finally China was forced to take a step back.
At the time, the removal of hunter markets would spell disaster for China.
So in the end, they came to a kind of agreement.
***
“So what happened?”
Cho Youngoo asked. We had all met up at the Cafe in Shinchon to talk about the recent events.
“It seems they will be sending out as many hunters as they can to the West Sea. In terms of hunters, Korea has the most and of the highest levels.”
“Well, that’s all thanks to Wheeseung teacher.”
He was the first real hunter…and the strongest of them all.
It was thanks to him that Korea was able to corner the hunter market and raise the levels in a shorter amount of time than other countries – though most of them were at level 3 and 4.
Anyone at and above a level 5 were considered the best of the best.
These were the hunters who had been raising their skills since 50 years ago.
“In general, our hunter power is at least 3 times that of those in China. But the problem is…”
“That China’s population is 30 times that of Korea.”
Han Joonseok finished.
Since the day of the disaster when the monsters first appeared, the population of Korea near the Yellow Sea had stayed at a steady 20,000 while the population of China along their border was at 500,000.
“But it would be difficult for China to exert their power.”
“How is that? Now that the level 1 and level 2 dungeons are gone, even if we just stationed those hunters who are now out of jobs at the West Sea…the sheer population of China…”
“Well the real problem is whether or not the West Sea is even worth fighting over.”
Everyone became quiet and lost in thought at what I had just said.
There was plenty of land filled with monsters.
But that wasn’t the issue.
The issue was that we couldn’t lay around while we had perfectly good land snatched out from under us…even if it was riddled with monsters.
“Well, even if it isn’t worth fighting over…we now have no choice to go to that land. Since all the level 2 dungeons are gone now, that’s the only place we can really hunt now. Who knows, maybe the hunt might be even better since they did say that only level 1 and level 2 monsters were seen there. But before that.”
I looked to Jong Sawon.
“Can you come with us?”
“…I will do whatever you ask.”
“The Yellow Sea is very big. We might not bump into that monster for another 6 months.”
“It doesn’t matter. No matter the species, a monster is a monster.”
“Understood. Then we’re all agreed.”
“But would we be able to move in the same parties? Don’t you think the government will likely form groups themselves based on equipment and skill levels?”
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marcosayde
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gracias
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azeem khan
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tthanks for the chappy
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Hidayat Adi Kurniawan
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Moving on.
Thanks for the chapter
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endy budi
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thanks
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Jarred McFarlane
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Thanks
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Juan Topasna
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Thanks for the chapter.
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Sheriff
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He wouldn’t need a complicated single life if he just stopped having a single life, if you know what I mean. 😛
And RIP Level 2 Dungeons.
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God's Song Sect
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Thanks for the Chapter
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Time 939
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Thanks
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ApexAstral
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Yup porn, lucky guy has 2 girls that like him and hasn’t given either a shot. Looks like everything is tied to him though.
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german bonivento
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the Author is screwing the MC on purpose right, hahaha. thanks for the chap
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Samuel Lin
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Thanks for the chapter
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samdiggidy
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thanks for chapter
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Gabriel Miranda
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Cool
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victor tiilikainen
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Thank you for the chapter!
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Andune C
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Of the two, I pity Glasses girl more. Even though he knows her name, he still referred to her with that moniker. Plus, he single handedly screwed everyone up just by pressing the yes button to increase his reflex level. Better stay silent on that my dear MC.
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fr0zen422
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maybe he really is a dense MC…
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amja
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Thanks for the chapter.
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hattorisan
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Thanks for the new chapter
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copy331
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Many thanks~~
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Attolis Black
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Thanks for the chapter! I wonder if the new land is more special than it seems. Maybe they can actually start mining those magical ores now.
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antowibowo
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Ah, his level.
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MoreCoffeePlease
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Holy shit, even though I somehow already guessed that he was connected to the dissapearance of Lv 1 dungeon, this plot still blows my mind.
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babywolf
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thanks!
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plouf
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thanks for the chapter
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Matt Damon
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This is so weird. I still don’t understand in what direction this WN is going.
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ousshaki184
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Thanks for the chapter
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Grimm Lord
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Thanks for the chapter
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Max Müller
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thanks for the chapter
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vultix93
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Thanks
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Skoll
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So when he hit 30 level 3 dungeons will vanish, he should just hunt like crazy until say 28/29, and stop upgrading the skill, then collect tones of points, and then upgrade to 39 ! Like that he can safelly go to more difficult dungeons !
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approve
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Pyown
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Thanks
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shrykos
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Thanks for the chapter.
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None Beeswax
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Thanks
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da an
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thanx
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Raiken
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great chapter
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Paul Alexander
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He better decrease his density.
On other news, i doubt he’ll horde points until he reaches 30 in proficiency but would prefer to raise his teammates skills and proficiency instead. That would be his best move actually. -
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thanks
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Andrew Vin
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thanks for the translation
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Timmy Tim
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thanks!
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M. Ravi Suryadi
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ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha
that was funny. he was the core of mankind new problem ahahaha
like this twist.. well thx for chapter..
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ebookmaniac
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hahaha, guest in his own house
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KiwiCaramelo
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Thanks for the Chappie, Barista, Thank goodness you came back with my dose, XP
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LightNovelBarista
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^^ sorry for the delay over the weekend! I was having too much fun frolicking in the huntington library 🙂
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Micheal Sho
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You live on long island?
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Lol nope huntingon library in pasadena, ca
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sfasf asf
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Thanks for the chapter
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Gantz
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“And the whole reason I did that much is because of her. Stop making my single life so complicated. Jeez”
XD
These uninvited house crashers are making him jump through hoops in order to relieve his stress. Poor guy.-
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i mean…he could just relieve his stress if he wasn’t so dense LOL
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tsun dere
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“Today’s a rest day. Don’t you guys have plans?”
“Speaking of rest days, don’t you have any plans?”
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did you forget to delete a redone line or confusing conversation?-
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Nevermind i reread it and they were asking him back
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So MC is saying it’s a rest day why arent you guys out doing something. So Sooah responds by saying..well it’s a rest day…so why aren’t YOU doing anything?
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Kyozo Noctis
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Thanks for the chapter!
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realfries
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I’m only commenting because I can’t read the chapter.
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Better than none.
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Indeed. Thanks for the chapter.
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ChopChop
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Wow. It seems pretty crazy that one person’s skill level can affect the entire world’s dungeon levels. I like the plot twist!
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YAH! I had to quickly sneak a peek back on the previous chapters to confirm that the level 1 dungeons disappearing did coincide with his proficiency level. AND YEP. It did. Mind blown. lol
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Woot!
MC is the root of all evil. At least he now knows its his fault. haha
He will definitely horde points and gear before hitting 30 now that he knows what will happen. -
inbetweenaction
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you didn’t see that? i seem to remember it being up for conversation in the comments at the time… My memory must be worse of than i though. better reread the entire story to be safe XD
maybe eat some ice-cream to be sure that it’s still delicious to eat out in the sun aswell…. better safe than sorry eh ^^
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Leo Sam
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thanks for the chspter!
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