Main Character Hides His Strength

One bow and arrow appeared in front of Sung-cheol Kim.

A common bow and arrow made of cherry blossom branches.

[Pick up your weapon.]

A shout echoes across the wilderness.

Kim Sung-cheol raised his bow and arrow without any objection.

It's something I've experienced a lot.

Quests that create a specific situation and determine whether it can be achieved according to its corresponding countermeasures.

But these are outdated.

Such authoritative quests become a rite of passage that loses its first will and rewards the moment the best answer is shared.

However, in the absence of prior information, such quests are able to fulfill their original purpose.

‘It won't be easy. ’

The most difficult type, especially for those who have forces outside the specifications like Kim Sung-cheol.

Kim Sung-cheol was anxious for the first time since he came to Aegean.

Soon, there was a bright light behind Kim Sung-cheol.

They were pockets full of dungeon tokens, with their noses hanging, surprisingly as if they were faces, and they even laughed themselves out.

“It's full of things you like. ”

Bertelgia smiles and says.

There are nine of them.

They stood in a constant line behind Kim Sung-cheol.

‘What are you trying to do? ’

Kim Sung-cheol, holding his bow, stared at the starlight shining in the darkness beyond the desert.

[Conditions are as follows.]

I heard shouting from beyond the wilderness.

[On the other side is one archer and behind you are nine reward pouches containing 10,000 to 100,000 Dungeon Tokens each.]

“Th... 100,000?! ”

Vertelgia emerges from her pockets and gazes at the reward pockets. The one who was filled with thousands, 10,000, was sitting behind him on the left side of Kim Sung-cheol, making a strange laugh.

After a little silence, the voice shouts again.

[The archer will shoot your reward pouch one at a time and the final arrow will fire at you and disappear.]

[Your mission is to:]

[Shoot the archer with one single arrow given to you. Hitting the archer solves the trial, otherwise the trial ends in failure.]

[Meanwhile, once you have resolved the trials, any Dungeon Tokens left behind in your Reward Bag will all be yours.]

Hearing that, Kim Sung-cheol's eyes immediately flashed with greed.

The number of dungeon tokens behind him is roughly 300,000.

It's a ridiculous number.

Given that all the reward pouches can be saved, the challenger can buy all the items in the dungeon store, such as a second firecracker, without enough Spirit Essence to get all the stats shot at 999 at once.

With one success, the unsub will rise to the ranks of the immortals.

How much more is Kim Sung-cheol who has already joined the ranks of the immortal?

I don't need anything else

Kim Sung-cheol can make great progress just by saving a 100,000 reward bag.

‘Is this a hidden ordeal? That Marrakhian. He asked for something big. ’

Kim Sung-cheol tightly grasped his bow, recalling the old tales of gratified radishes, crows, scrolls and swallows.

[Remember, all you can use is your head and body, the bow and arrow given, and everything else is forbidden.]

[Then I will begin the hidden trials of Aegean.]

Shhh.

An arrow flies from across the side before the shout ends.

Kim Sung-cheol instantly stared at the light of thousands of stars that were flourishing beyond the desert and measured the archer's position, but it was too far away.

‘As soon as we started, they attacked us. Not bad.’

The arrow that had already flown hit the face of the reward bag smiling in the bright light past Kim Sung-cheol, who was waiting for his next chance.

“Hahahaha! 10,000! 10,000 of them are flying! ”

The arrow hit the reward pouch falls to the floor for the first time speaking and pours a large number of dungeon tokens into the ground.

Awesome.

Thousands of dungeon tokens have vanished with a reward pouch, rolling around the floor in a fading light.

10,000 Dungeon Tokens evaporated.

“Ugh…. What a shame.”

Bertelkiah mutters and shakes his head as if trying to empower Kim Sung-cheol.

“Good luck this time. ”

“… Of course. ”

Kim Sung-cheol was already fully focused.

Now only one has flown away.

Moreover, the bow is not a weapon Kim Sung-cheol often handles, but it is also a weapon that can be handled like a foot to him who is proficient in all weapons.

Once the enemy's location is specified, it can be pierced with a single arrow.

Kim Sung-cheol focused his senses on the other side of the desert while halfway through the protest.

‘There's more than one archer. ’

Many things are lurking beyond the darkness.

One of them moves.

“?! ”

Kim Sung-cheol's eyes followed a moving object with a sharp eye like a hawk's.

Soon, Kim Sung-cheol noticed the identity of the moving monster and couldn't help but disappear.

“Are you after me? Trying to?”

He calls himself the Idol Master Circubus.

Other than that, there were many bosses of the ultimate crucible that Kim Sung-cheol had defeated so far in this black desert.

It was a kind of choreography, but their appearance was enough to scatter Kim Sung-cheol's nerves to some extent.

Shhh.

The archer's arrow flies between the cold-blooded monsters.

Kim Sung-cheol immediately pinpointed the archer's position, but he was unable to pull the protest.

‘Damn it.'

Kim Sung-cheol hesitated that there was only one arrow he could shoot.

Another arrow pierced the reward bag after Kim Sung-cheol resigned.

“Hahahaha! Arrogance! 50,000 dogs are flying! ”

Bummer.

This time it's a pretty big loss.

A painful move.

Shhh.

Kim Sung-cheol's eyes reminded me of a song.

Another arrow flies.

But I couldn't cope.

Because the direction in which the arrow flew was not forward, but backward.

As Kim Sung-cheol was chasing after the protest, he could feel the disappearing mechanism in the darkness that was unfolding beyond the falling reward bag.

If you pull it now, you might be able to hit it.

But you might miss it.

My sense of archery whispered to Kim Sung-cheol.

‘We can't leave uncertainty to chance. ’

Kim Sung-cheol unravelled the protest and looked forward again.

“Yuck! 20,000! 20,000 Tokens Flying! ”

Three reward pockets disappeared in an instant.

Jobasm, along with the loss, made Kim Sung-cheol nervous.

‘I can't lose any more. Next time, it must be handled at once. ’

Kim Sung-cheol changed the operation.

Instead of looking at the opponent and responding, he straightens his arrows in an instant, as soon as he senses the archer's strength.

Kim Sung-cheol's sense of identity, power, and archery will enable immediate retribution no matter where an enemy appears.

Only monsters who come and go when they're annoyed. Kim Sung-cheol thought to himself, looking at the obstacles.

‘Maybe they are the true intentions of this hidden ordeal. ’

A quest that gives you a specific role and allows you to perform it must have the intention of the person who created it.

It was the same with the ultimate culinary challenge that I had previously completed.

He had clear intentions and rewarded those who uncovered and acted accordingly with the sweet fruits of success.

The trials Kim is experiencing right now will also have a similar purpose.

Kim Sung-cheol suddenly remembered that the dungeon of God Aegean Hios is a dungeon that symbolizes will.

Kim Sung-cheol's eyes flashed like lightning.

‘I see. This hidden crucible... lies in the extension of another crucible. ’

In other words, the purpose of this hidden crucible is to test the will of the challenger.

A tree that rises on top of Tae San Joon.

It would be such a firm will that the maker of this crucible demands the challenger.

Kim Sung-cheol felt relieved.

The mind that was shaken by the large number of dungeon tokens subsided and quietly rose as the expression of a strong will he could but could not do something else.

"Come, archer. ’

“ ……. ”

Interfering with Kim Sung-cheol can no longer be disturbed. Even though they tried to shout, move, and provoke Sung-cheol Kim, the strong will of Sung-cheol was excluded as if they were not there, and Sung-cheol Kim had the freedom to only look at his enemies.

The silent change could also be felt by Bertelkia, who was closest to his heart.

‘You've finally found your way. ’

I let go.

Moreover, there are still many Dungeon Tokens left and a 100,000 reward pouch is healthy.

Ping-.

You hear a faint sound in the clutch.

The sound of protests that had never been heard before.

However, Kim Sung-cheol's face was uncomfortable.

‘Oh, my God. ’

It's too far. The origin of the sound.

Concerns soon turned into reality.

Shhh.

An arrow fired from the meadow range pierces one of the reward pockets in a large parabolic line, as if plunging it from top to bottom.

“Hahahaha! 10,000, 10,000 flying! ”

The loss of 10,000 Dungeon Tokens hurts bone.

However, it was a reality that it was impossible to react to Kim Sung-cheol's pain.

Even if Kim Sung-cheol possesses a divine power, the limit of the destructive power an arrow can wield is determined by the bow and the elasticity of the bow's demonstration.

Therefore, no matter how shrewd Kim Sung-cheol is, in order to hit an arrow with the same target range, he has to pull the bow toward the sky almost like an archer in the darkness, and send the arrow in the same direction.

I can do that.

However, what the archer aims at is a fixed target, and what Kim Sung-cheol aims at is a moving target.

The fundamental difference in the pursuit has come to a harsh reality that cannot be addressed.

Shhh...

Another arrow flies and another reward pouch disappears.

Archers were firing Yeongcheol's arrows to make Kim Sung-cheol into an incarnation of despair, destroying Kim Sung-cheol's share.

Kim Sung-cheol's calm heart was shaking this time when he met a vortex called anger.

"Son of a bitch..."

Kim Sung-cheol's eyes lit up with a flame of anger.

“Relax. There's still one left. One hundred thousand of them. ”

Bertelkia looked back and told him the important facts by counting Kim Sung-cheol's mood.

Kim Sung-cheol was relieved that there were 100,000 left.

‘100,000. One hundred thousand is enough. ’

The archer in the dark has remained motionless for a while, as if he were picking his breath.

Kim Sung-cheol insisted on protecting the 100,000 reward pouch that remained behind no matter what.

No, I made a commitment.

One question came to mind deep in Kim Sung-cheol's eyes, which alternated between cold, warm and cold.

‘Wait. Maybe I'm making a big mistake. ’

Shhh.

Another arrow flies.

“Hahahaha! 50,000! 50,000 dogs are flying! ”

One of the last two reward pockets vanishes.

Before, Kim Sung-cheol would have felt a painful loss of bones, but not now.

‘I see.'

Rather, what came to Kim Sung-cheol's mouth was a faint smile.

Stretched protests loosened.

Kim Sung-cheol lowered his bow and stared beyond the darkness.

“W-what are you doing? Are you really gonna give that up? It's 100,000!”

Bertelkia scolded Kim Sung-cheol for his ambitious attitude.

Kim Sung-cheol is still unresponsive.

“ ……. ”

He was staring into the darkness.

Soon, a young man appeared in the darkness.

Not human.

A Goblin Archer that can be easily defeated by even a humble, novice adventurer.

It was only Goblins who angered Sung-cheol Kim, who was called the enemy of the world.

“Th-that guy! I can take that from the edge of my book! ”

Bertelkia was furious at the thought of flying away and killing the arrogant, insignificant archer, but Kim Sung-cheol's mind was at peace.

‘So that's it. ’

A Goblin pulled a demonstration in front of Kim Sung-cheol.

Kim Sung-cheol didn't move.

Ping.

The Goblin drew a protest and the straight arrow pierced the reward pocket containing 100,000 Dungeon Tokens.

Thousands of tokens fall to the ground, making a brilliant sound.

The Goblin gives a rotten smile to Kim Sung-cheol.

The next moment, Kim Sung-cheol pulled up the protest and raised his bow.

A fright and horror appeared on the Goblin's face.

The Goblin measured an arrow in a cowardly protest and pulled it towards Kim Sung-cheol.

“Th-that guy! ”

Bertelkia shows hostility.

Suddenly, Kim Sung-cheol suddenly turned around.

He showed his back to the Goblin.

“What I came here for... ”

Kim Sung-cheol's bold voice rang out.

His eyes turn back to face the darkness behind him, leaving nothing behind.

There was nothing in his eyes that sank like a calm sea, but I could feel Kim Sung-cheol.

Like a tree at the top of Tae San Joon, only those with unwavering will can see it.

In other words, an archer to defeat.

“Just to resolve this ordeal. ”

Kim Sung-cheol protested.

Ping-.

Finally, one of his arrows left the protest, and the arrow hit an unknown foe.

[Excellent.]

A shouting voice echoes across the wilderness.

Kim Sung-cheol sighed and lowered his bow.

The darkness that lies on the other side of the desert begins to spread.