"Don't you get licked"

That's Grandpa's cliché that was Explorer Seeker.

Explorer Seeker - People who literally do business exploring.

Prey can be a treasure to sleep in a ruin, or a ruin itself, an unknown organism, or another criminal.

But Hua will still explore the abyss Abyss, making it the best earner for Seeker.

Explore the abyss Abyss lands and buildings and hunt for the present demons (beasts) that occur when this world is connected to the demonic world Void. That's how Seeker is the most recognized explorer.

The Abyss invades the world indefinitely if left alone, so the country encourages and supports the activities of the Seeker. Purifying the land requires hunting the devil (Beast), the nucleus of the abyss (Abyss), because the expert is the Seeker (Seeker).

This is also why the materials obtained from the demons (beasts) are indispensable to numerous inventions that underpin the current civilization - the magical civilization.

Ships flying in the sky - now that they have been realized to the airship, people were extremes of prosperity by virtue of the benefits of a magical civilization. And the Explorer Seeker, an actor of this era who can gain gold and honor with one arm, was an admirable target (idol) for all.

"Noel, can't a man be licked?"

Grandpa used to be the famous Seeker in the Empire of Wernant, Etrai. Besides, the fierce among the fierce - they've even called me a hero.

"Noel, don't be a strong man no one can lick."

A rocky hand that makes me feel remnants of my active life gently strokes my head.

Grandpa's Function (Job) is a warrior who deserves that giant.

Function (job) is an individual's potential expressed by having an appraiser appraise, which determines the limit value of physical ability and the skills that can be used.

Everyone will get a C-rank function (job) at the beginning, but depending on effort and talent, the rank can rise and reach top positions.

For example, a swordsman who is the most popular combat function (job).

There is a rank-up system called C Rank: Swordsman, B Rank: Gladiator, A Rank: Sword King (Swordmaster).

However, very rarely, there are people who reach a substandard EX rank. Grandpa does.

In Grandpa's case...

Rank C: Warrior, Rank B: Heavy Duty Soldier (Vanguard), Rank A: Mad Warrior (Berserker), and Rank EX: Destroyer.

Being in a higher position does not change the function (job) itself, but it greatly improves competency correction and increases the number of new skills that can be used.

If that strength is expressed by rank, then when the C rank is Ordinary, the B rank is Superhuman, the A rank is Outside, and the EX rank reaches, it is no longer close to God.

When I was younger, Grandpa was really strong. He was strong and rough, arrogant.

But Grandma, who such a grandfather fell in love with and desperately dictated, was a very beautiful and kind man. And my body was weak.

Grandpa, who loved Grandma, decided to retire from Explorer Seeker for Grandma and move from the poorly aired imperial capital to the countryside. I thought about buying land with my previous property, hiring people, making wine and living.

It would be an ideal retirement for some people. Slow life.

In fact, Grandpa, who was terrified of being an 'indestructible evil ghost (Overdeath)' among the Seekers, became just a loving wife, Osama, after pulling into the countryside.

Grandpa loved Grandma wholeheartedly, and Grandma loved Grandpa, too. The two lived together in amicable support, like birds of the comparable wing.

But Grandma, she died when she had her mother.

Even though it's a life-threatening job for a mother to have a child, she couldn't stand childbirth with her grandmother's weak body.

Grandpa fell in grief at the loss of his beloved. But I would never abandon myself, and I decided to raise my mother, who was my grandmother's oblivion, with one hand.

It was also worth the effort, and my mother grew up to be a fine woman. My grandmother, who had a reputation as a beauty, had two melons, and only her hair and eyes were different in color. Grandma had golden hair and green eyes, but Grandma has black-haired and scissor-colored eyes that Grandpa conceded.

When she was an adult, her mother, whose productive functions (jobs) were expressed, worked in Grandpa's wine brewery and married her childhood father.

Then I was born, and the four of us lived together.

But I don't remember Mom and Dad.

My oldest memory is of Grandpa, who is old and muscular, crying out loud. And it was the warmth hugged by my crying grandfather.

"Noel, what a pathetic child... But you have a knob on you. I won't leave you alone. Non... only Non will die no matter what! In the name of the Undying Evil Ghost (Overdeath)!

My mom and dad died in a carriage accident before I got my mind on it.

The mutters say it's the devil's curse. Grandpa has killed so many demons that his family is dying prematurely because of the curse.

Of course, Grandpa wouldn't let those guys. Whoever he was, he beat it to the point where he wouldn't kill him with that iron fist.

And you decide, you say that cliché.

"Men can't be licked. I have to protect my family's honor."

I remember the night I was abused by the bad kids in the neighborhood, after Grandpa got into their house and stormed around.

Grandpa used to tell me stories about the Seeker era. Grandpa, who works in the story, and his people, were heroes to me.

When I grew up listening to such stories, it would be natural for me to start admiring Explorer Seeker.

"Noel, you look just like your dead mother. But Non understands. You have the same Explorer Seeker talent that your mother didn't have."

As Grandpa said, when I was ten years old and had my function (job) appraised, my battle-based function (job) was to be expressed.

But the job function was very different from what I wanted.

Speaker - Function (job) specializing in supporting parties.

It is the function of the Speaker (Job) to increase the power of the party by granting a Support (Buff) effect to the words spoken. It is a so-called support position (buffer).

If it's true, the warrior was good. Not only is it the same function (job) as Grandpa, but it is also an excellent, stable and strong function (job) in both offenses.

By contrast, although support positions (buffers), including Speakers, are excellent at supporting (buffing) abilities, their own combat abilities are worst class among all Combat Based Functions (jobs). Whereas you can only fight by relying on a party, you can't even satisfactorily protect yourself, a peaky and flawed function (job).

The lack of self-defense capability is fatal as an Explorer (Seeker), even if there is a Wall (Tank) responsible for restraint (maintenance of Hate). In the Explorer neighborhood, there is also a tendency to ridicule support jobs (buffers) as the weakest functions (jobs).

Damn, I'm talking about crying.

Grandpa grinned and stroked my depressing head.

"Gahahahaha! Don't cry, Noel! I don't care if you're a magician or not, Noon will raise you to be the best Seeker! Believe in Non!

It's impossible to doubt Grandpa, the hero Hero. I believed in my beloved grandfather's words and was to be trained by Explorer Seeker.

The training begun in that way was relentless and harsh. My grandfather, who was always kind and scared of ghosts, also followed me to the bathroom at night, wasn't there.

Before me, a Seeker apprentice, was a ghost instructor who had once been the vanguard of Seeker, feared by his peers to be an indestructible demon (Overdeath).

"Stand up, Noel! The devil won't wait for me! No matter how much you wound, you stand right in the mood! Yeah, how long will you be asleep! You stupid apprentice!

It's not like we've talked twice or three times about getting scratched and kicked down. He was charged with rigorous training from morning to evening, he was full of geese every day in the beginning, and he has shed blood piss many times.

But no matter how painful it was, I trusted my grandfather, and I felt deeply in love with him during his arduous training.

Just like Grandpa said. The devil (Beast) won't miss my sweetness. If you miss training and remain weak, you will only die as soon as you become a Seeker.

So Grandpa, who doesn't want me dead, desperately taught me the art of being able to fight, even the Speaker, and I was desperate to learn.

And four years after training began. Grandpa's teachings were also worth it, and I was refined in my mind and mind as a Seeker, much stronger than I was before my training.

If you keep doing this, even if you are a problematic Talker as a Combat Function (Job), you will surely be a great Seeker who can't beat Grandpa.

However, in order to obtain the official approval of the Seeker from the State, it is necessary to first become fifteen years of age and be recognized as an adult. So I was waiting for the day to come as I continued to be able to work out under Grandpa.

That incident happened when...

"Look, Noel! You're never getting out of here!

Grandpa, who always made room for the big man, tries to push me into the underground shelter with his servants with an impatient look he has never seen.

That night, all of a sudden, our city became Abyss.

Abyss "avis" conversion occurs when the concentration of magic vegetarian "mana" in the atmosphere reaches constant levels. For this reason, people perform regular rituals of scattering magic vegetables Mana, but for some reason it hasn't worked, and they've been refluxing it all at once.

Moreover, when Grandpa examined it with a measuring instrument, the depth of the abyss Abyss that occurred - twelve within thirteen degrees of danger. Abyss "Abyss" is so dangerous that it is so deeply connected to the demonic world "Void" that a more powerful demon (Beast) is present in the world.

I mean, our city turned into the biggest danger zone. The fact that the demon (Beast) at its core is called the Demon King (Lord) among Explorers "Seekers" was beyond doubt on my part as a Seeker Apprentice.

There is no such thing as a familiar city, just a burning hell spreading. A poisonous, radiant red full moon in the sky. From inside the abyss Abyss, the colour of the moon appears red in relation to the atmospheric magic vegetable Mana.

In a disastrous space, the voices of the devils (beasts) ecstatic and the snorts of those who are preying on them are wooden spirits.

Don't worry, I'll protect you with my life.

Already armed, Grandpa had a powerful grin, ignored my stopping voice, and closed the underground shelter door from the outside alone.

The abyss "Abyss" around the perimeter is vast, and it's difficult for Grandpa to get out of here with me and his servants. Also, where we were hiding together, I don't think the rescue is coming any time soon.

Then he decided that defeating the core demon (Beast) would have a better chance of helping him while he was physically fit.

Eventually, now we hear the demons (beasts) disconnect. The voice will not be a hundred or two hundred. This is proof that Grandpa's battle axe is crushing the demons (beasts). But my anxiety grew.

How many demons (beasts) have come into existence?

I feared from the bottom of my heart the power of the Demon King (Lord) that binds it.

Gradually, the demons (beasts) will not be able to hear the disconnected demons, and instead - intense combat sounds that do not seem to belong in this world.

The battle between Grandpa and the Demon King (Lord) began.

The sound of the battle, which lasted for hours, ceased to sound perfect from one moment to another. The air that is characteristic of Abyss also becomes clearer.

I was convinced Grandpa had won and popped out the underground shelter.

The sun was already rising outside. One side becomes the burning field around, and the bodies of humans and demons (beasts) are rolling around there.

I searched for Grandpa and ran around the abandoned city.

And I found it.

I lost my lower body and my right arm, and my grandfather was falling because he was covered in blood...

Grandpa gave me a weak, fat grin when I ran over to hold him.

"... you can't win the year. The Undying Evil Devil (Overdeath) hears..."

I just cried. I cried so much that I thought I'd run out of water in my body. Grandpa caresses my head gently with his remaining hands.

"Noel is a crybaby. Just like your grandfather."

Grandpa missed his gaze from me and showed his worried face about something.

"… this is the end of Explorer Seeker. You will always have reapers next to you more than making battle your business. Noel, are you still going for Explorer Seeker? You're going down the same path as this old man?

I rinse my nose and wipe my tears. And I laughed and snorted hard like Grandpa.

I was really scared to death. I can't afford to laugh. I've always wanted to cry out loud to Grandpa and tell him not to die. Don't be alone.

But I didn't want to show my weakness to my current grandfather.

As strong as you are, so is your grandson. I wanted to reassure you that much.

Nothing... because it's me who couldn't repay one thing...

"... well. Then be the Seeker you will never lose. Be a man not ashamed of the name of the Stolen family. That's my wish."

Grandpa looks at my face and strokes my head again.

"Noel, can you promise Grandpa something?

"... I promise, Grandpa. I'll be Seeker, the most powerful seeker."

"Ha ha, so... it's the grandson of Non... Noel... I can't keep my word, I'm sorry...... all the time... love... ooh, man..."

That's how my best hero, Hero, closed his eyes in peace in my arms.

Two years after that, I inherited the will of my great grandfather - the Speaker Noel Stolen now lives in Imperial Capital as Seeker.