Emperor of solo play

Chapter 13 : A Mess of a Character to Others (2).

As a result, when players visited the Subjugation Association, they could see a mob of people fiddling around with their watches.

They were looking for easier, more rewarding, and less time-consuming quests.

‘Incompetent people sure have it hard.’

Hyrkan didn’t intend on being a part of such mob.

Picking quests? If you were confident in your abilities, there was no need to carefully consider each option. You could just pick one at random and do it.

Plus, Hyrkan understood the Subjugation Association’s quest system better than anyone else. He had once studied everything related to the Subjugation Association. People even told him that he would have made it to a prestigious college if he studied like that during his senior year of high school. Hyrkan even paid money for valuable information. It was the one and only time he had unhesitatingly spent money for the pursuit of knowledge.

‘The quests at this level range is more or less the same. If anything, older quests are better.’

Hyrkan sorted the available quest list according to date. Quests that were old signified no one had done it, or several had failed to complete it. They were essentially thrown away.

For Subjugation Association quests, the reward went up as more people failed to complete them. This was something not many people knew. In Warlord, information like this didn’t spread as well as one might think. As Warlord dealt with more and more money, information like this acted almost like a corporate secret. It could go for several million or tens of million won. No one in the right mind would post it online just to get some likes.

Furthermore, there were people posting false information just to get some attention. Because of this, there were many false rumors about Warlord.

This wasn’t all. There wasn’t much competition for old quests. Most players sought out newly generated quests. They assumed the good ones would have already been completed. It was more likely for new quests to have better rewards.

And when new quests were generated, they would all be focused around a specific area. Warlord’s maintenance system utilized the quest system to control user distribution. It often created quests in the same area to lead players to unpopulated areas. This was why conflicts often arose between players, parties, and guilds.

Of course, level 10 players, who were feeling confident after getting out of the Training Dungeon, wouldn’t have any way of knowing this.

Whenever the time came for quests to be generated…

“I just pulled a rare-rank quest. I’m looking for two swordsmen to party with.”

“I’m a level 15 fire-attribute wizard. I’m looking for a rare-rank quest. I can vouch for my skills.”

It was like a raucous marketplace, as everyone screamed here and there.

Looking at this chaos, Hyrkan sneered. They were serious in their own right, but to Hyrkan, they seemed like kids playing around.

‘How cute.’

At that time, he ran across a certain quest.

‘Hm? Mt. Bima?’

A keyword caught his attention.

The word ‘Mt. Bima.’

He wasn’t too familiar with it, but he had definitely heard of it before.

Hyrkan searched his memories.

‘Ah!’

Surprisingly, Hyrkan managed to remember.

‘The list of quests where you could obtain the Rising Star title! That’s where I saw that word.’

Hyrkan immediately checked the content of the quest.

[A Cave in Mt. Bima]

-Quest Rank: Rare

-Quest Level Range: 10~25

-Quest Content: Mt. Bima is located east of Figur’s Castle. Monsters in Mt. Bima has become ferocious lately. Find out the cause and fix it.

-Quest Reward: 10 gold and an additional reward.

Additional reward.

It was an ambiguous expression, but Hyrkan knew it was the Rising Star title.

‘My god, I can’t believe I have the chance to get the Rising Star title.’

Rising Star title. It was a title only players under level 15 could receive. It raised the class-specific stats by 3 percent. For magicians, that would be intelligence and magic power.

This effect even applied to stats from items.

The problem was that players had to be below level 15, and that quests where one could receive it was extremely limited.

As a result, someone had taken the effort to compile all the quests that gave out the Rising Star title. It was an open-for-all information just in case a similar quest appeared in the future.

Of course, new players memorized the list as if their lives depended on it. Because it was impossible to memorize all the quest titles, most just memorized key terms. It was thanks to this that Hyrkan could remember Mt. Bima.

‘I remember memorizing this just in case… who would have thought it would come in handy here…’

Hyrkan, someone who hadn’t memorized a single English word for the SATs, had painstakingly memorized the quest list. He would never have thought studying would pay off. Life was full of surprises.

In any case, there was no way Hyrkan would miss this opportunity.

[You have begun the quest, ‘A Cave in Mt. Bima]

Hyrkan confirmed the quest.

‘The Rising Star title…’

A smile spread across his face. A title that gave a percentage increase was one of the best in the game.

‘On top of the Rising Star title, if I can get my hands on the Supernova, Dragon Slayer, and Hero of the Great Battle titles…’

There was a term for characters that acquired several percentage increasing titles.

‘Rather than a mess of a character, I’d be a cheat.’

A cheat.

It was the dream of all gamers.