Level Up Inquisitor [EN]: Chapter 183

Rank In (2)

[‘The Secret Seeker’ expresses deep interest!]

[‘Mother of Life’ shines her eyes at the emergence of a new problem solver!]

[‘The Ruler of the Volcano’ looks at you with worried eyes.]

The messages from the gods began to appear one after another.

The appearance of a ranker was not a light matter, even from the perspective of the gods who were watching from a distance.

Pey, who appeared before Eile, was a ranker at 989th place, which meant that Warlord recognized him as a top-tier player without a doubt.

They held a position that could be counted on one hand even within the top 6 guilds, and they could receive the best treatment wherever they went.

Such a being appeared before him with a weapon in hand.

“I thought the tracking was unusually fast……”

“Yeah, it was a bit of a struggle to chase you all the way here.”

Pey was a ‘Hunter’ user of the archer class.

As the name of the job suggested, skills for tracking naturally existed, and for a ranker, chasing down a person was a piece of cake, no matter how well they hid their tracks.

“Why did you show up here when you’re not even affiliated with the top 6 guilds?”

“Why? Have you never seen a mercenary in a guild war? It’s natural for mercenaries to flock to a war, not to mention such a large-scale conflict.”

He was a personal ranker not affiliated with a specific guild.

He was hired by Apollyon for a separate fee and joined this war as a personal mercenary.

“Besides, you’re not affiliated with the top 6 guilds either, are you?”

“It’s a bit different from that. You should know.”

Eile replied to Pey, who was making a playful remark.

There was a clear difference between users who participated in the war following a force like a guild or a religious order and personal rankers who acted and made decisions entirely on their own.

Personal rankers were basically those who had the power to operate without any backing.

Therefore, if the opponent was a regular guild, there was no particular problem with doing whatever they wanted to them.

However, even rankers had no choice but to avoid being disliked by the top 6 guilds, who were also the parties involved in this war.

As a personal ranker whose all guilds were clients, there was nothing good to be involved in such a noisy battlefield.

That was why he was skeptical when the names of some personal rankers appeared in the quest window.

Pey just smiled at Eile’s words and closed his mouth, and he didn’t seem to want to say anything more.

‘Anyway, that list was real.’

The list in the quest given by Lugh when participating in this war included the names of several personal rankers, including Pey.

Most of them were not deeply related to the Apollyon Guild, and they were not the type to get involved in these guild disputes often, so since Pey had appeared, it had to be assumed that the remaining rankers had already participated on Apollyon’s side.

‘More than anything, I never thought those rankers would be attached as my trackers…….’

He was racking his brains about the ranker who had come to him, but he couldn’t easily figure out how to deal with it.

“Well, I can take a breather now. There are still many inquisitors hiding in the back, but if I take care of you here, the rest of them will shrink back.”

In this kind of war, the influence of a named player representing a force was significant.

Moreover, Eile’s significance in the Order of Light recently was even greater than that, and they intended to send a ranker, a definite force, to shrink the Order’s movements.

“Then shall we see your skills!”

Pey was the one who took the lead with a spirited step.

He quickly approached and swung his curved dagger.

Clang!

The sharp swords collided in succession, creating sparks.

Even though one side was an archer class and they were fighting sword to sword, it didn’t take on a one-sided aspect.

It wasn’t unexpected since archer class jobs like rangers or hunters usually invested in close combat as well.

But still, he was a ranker, and it was amazing that he could show this level of movement.

[‘Light Judge, Lugh’ reveals his anxiety.]

‘The possibility of being caught up is high even if I run away. I’ll look at this opportunity for now……!’

Eile hardened his resolve while still engaged in sword combat.

No matter how great his skills were, he was still a swordsman against an archer.

No matter how different the level or number of skills were, if they engaged in close combat, Eile would naturally have the upper hand.

This situation could rather be an opportunity.

Clang!

Eile, who had created an opening by deflecting the dagger with force, used the Flash skill from the front.

But at that moment, Pey had a smile on his face.

Roar!

At that moment, a large tiger appeared and attacked them.

The two, who were facing each other, couldn’t react in time and rolled down the slope with the tiger, and Eile slid down.

“Kugh…….”

Thud!

Eile pushed the tiger’s corpse, which was hanging over him, to the side.

In that short gap of falling tangled together, he had torn the tiger’s belly, and it had become a corpse like this.

But he had missed Pey in the meantime, so he looked around.

He looked carefully, but there was no trace of Pey anywhere.

The surroundings were very quiet, as if he had run far away in the meantime.

‘Wait, could it be?’

Rather, Eile’s senses were activated by the silence.

The opponent’s job was a hunter, and he was also a top-tier player in the rankings.

‘The guy who rushed in just now must be a tamed beast… If he had been watching this spot from the beginning…….’

Eile, who was very nervous, carefully stretched his foot forward.

The moment his third step landed.

Clatter!

As expected, the activated trap targeted him, and Eile quickly pulled his body away.

If his reaction had been even a little late, his ankle would have been caught in the trap and he would have been helpless.

‘As expected… he had set up a spot here from the beginning.’

Hunter was an archer class job, but it was a unique job group that actively utilized other elements as much as its main weapon, the bow.

The trap that was activated just now was also one of the powerful auxiliary means.

If he had been watching the spot in advance, even if it was impossible to distinguish with the naked eye, it was obvious that there would be a lot of traps around.

“Hey, Eile! Do you know why I accepted Apollyon’s offer?”

Pey, who had concealed his presence, spoke to him in a situation where he couldn’t move rashly.

“At first, I didn’t want to get involved in this troublesome thing either. But I realized that if I wanted to do Warlord in the future, it would be safer to stick with this side. Unfortunately, you guys have chosen the wrong side.”

“I was wondering what you were talking about. Useless words.”

Eile, who had appropriately responded, turned his gaze here and there.

He tried to figure out his location by chasing the sound, but he couldn’t because the sound echoed from all directions. It was the effect of the passive skill that Pey had.

It meant that it was impossible to chase him with sound alone, and the only clues left were the view obscured by the dense forest and the attacks flying from all directions.

Whoosh!

The flying arrow barely grazed his face.

At the same time, Eile, who was preparing in advance, dug straight in the direction from which the arrow had flown.

Eile, who approached between the trees on the left, raised his sword straight, aiming for Pey who would be there.

“This is……!”

But what was placed beyond the bushes was not a person but a small crossbow.

It was a disposable crossbow that Pey had installed in advance, and the explosion trap right below it was activated.

Kaboom!

‘Damn it, that’s why hunters are annoying.’

Eile frowned as he barely pulled his body out.

He used nasty tricks as he had always heard.

When Warlord users ranked the most annoying opponents to face, the hunter who had settled in was always in the top ten.

A play style that uses various traps, beasts, and poisons, hides in the terrain, maintains distance, and constantly gnaws away.

It would be fun from the perspective of the one who was making fun of him, but the one who was being ridiculed couldn’t help but get angry.

But if the opponent was a ranker, it was no longer a problem that was just making him angry.

‘There’s no chance of winning if we fight in here.’

He turned his eyes here and there, but Pey’s skill in killing his presence was perfect.

He had completely hidden himself in the forest and could not estimate his location, and there were dangerous traps everywhere.

Furthermore, Pey’s level listed in the Warlord rankings was exactly 264.

It was obvious that he had equipment and skills at the top level befitting a ranker.

It was not a situation where he could just pass it over like when he was dealing with the necromancer Grom before.

Eile, who objectively grasped his power, only thought that he had to get out of this place somehow.

‘Even if I get caught up and fight again, I have to get out of here first.’

Eile, who had made a decision, quickly threw his body.

He tried to escape from the spot that Pey had set up, avoiding the arrows flying from all directions.

But the opponent was a ranker.

It wasn’t easy to get out of a place once you fell into it.

Pey, who had predicted the escape route in advance, had set up traps in every path he was heading to.

Kaboom!

“Kugh!”

Eile, who was bounced off by a large explosion, grabbed the floor.

Fortunately, he wasn’t hit head-on, but his health was somewhat reduced.

But at that moment, unlike his expectation that an arrow would fly, Pey, who had appeared right in front of him, stretched out his foot with all his might.

Bam!

A kick using a martial arts skill.

Eile, who had not even thought that he would reveal himself directly, was helplessly hit and pushed back.

‘It’s an opportunity!’

Even though he was greatly knocked back, he didn’t lose his balance, and Pey’s location, who had been hiding, was revealed.

But that thought was only for a moment.

The ground under Eile’s feet suddenly collapsed, and he fell into a pit dug below.

Sharp spears were stuck in the deep pit, and Eile, horrified, barely reacted and grabbed the ground to climb up.

Stab!

An arrow allowed as the price for getting out of the pit.

The arrow poison stuck in his left arm seeped into his body.

[You have been poisoned by a deadly poison!]

[The effects of the poison will be applied until you take the antidote!]

The effect of Pey’s unique skill.

It was a powerful arrow poison that reduced health until death before taking the antidote.

‘I have an antidote, but… this is a bit too dangerous.’

Eile’s expression was dark as he glanced at his inventory.

The opponent was not someone who would give him time to drink the antidote, and he tried continuous healing through the Light of Healing, but the damage of the poison that accumulated faster ate away at his health.

Now he was in a situation where he would be helpless if he just dragged on time.

“There’s no chance of winning with this. Why don’t you just give up now? Judging by your reaction speed, you seem to have talent… but that’s not enough.”

[‘Mother of Life’ welcomes your death with open arms!]

[‘The Secret Seeker’ expresses slight regret.]

‘What do I do now…….’

A situation where he was helplessly cornered.

Certainly, he was a difficult enemy to handle at this stage.

Since he was poisoned, he didn’t have much time left, and the option of running away had disappeared.

Now it was time to throw a gamble.

‘Hoo.’

Eile, who took a short deep breath inside, gathered his concentration.

Then he ran forward with all his might.

Flash!

Eile, who narrowed the distance at a rapid speed with a bonus upon approach due to the effect of the passive skill.

Before he could reach him, the trap that was activated as expected soared from below.

But he was heading forward even though he knew there would be a trap.

‘I’ll break it!’

Kaboom!

Eile swung his sword imbued with sacred fire and smashed the trap.

Unlike the cheap installation items he used when he was at a low level, he succeeded in destroying the trap from the front even though it was a high-grade trap that was difficult to react to under normal circumstances.

But Pey’s expression, which was visible from the front, was still not embarrassed.

Clatter!

‘What……!’

Beyond the destroyed trap, the traps on both sides were activated, and the long spear shafts stretched out and aimed at Eile.

He couldn’t avoid it this time.

It was impossible to react because there were so many.

[‘Light Judge, Lugh’ closes his eyes tightly!]

At the moment of crisis when death was approaching.

Eile’s eyes glowed gold.

[Current synchronization rate 103.5%]

[System overload detected, entering overdrive state!]