The Gardener in a Hunter World - Chapter 13

13. Suspicious old book (2)

“Noona, did you get this from the sky bookstore?”

“Huh. The boss there complained that it keeps coming in for returns. Isn’t the book ancient? It’s from the dungeon though. So, they sold it cheaply for decoration, but all the people who bought it said they couldn’t own it, so they sold it back. Aren’t you curious?”

“I see… It’s kind of weird because there’s no content. I think something need to be written.”

“It looks like it’s under magic, but I don’t like books like this either, Evie!”

When SeonYeong was about to take the book, Yoo Ji-Ha grabbed it.

“I will buy this.”

“Huh? What are you doing with it when it has nothing?”

“I just thought it would be good for decoration.”

“Yeah, then.”

Knowing that she is an ancient book enthusiast, she handed over the book without considering it to be strange.

The owner of the Sky Bookstore joked that he would come back here again.

“I assure you; this will be back to the store in less than a day or three.”

“Shouldn’t that be left alone?”

“I’ve done it twelve times so far. Unless you have great talent… The result will be the same.”

The bookstore owner made a bold prediction.

Well, if you’ve sold it twelve times and keep coming back to the bookstore, you might think that some kind of ghost possessed it.

But Yoo Ji-Ha thought differently.

‘You have struggled to come to me. Let’s go to my house together.’

Infinite magic book.

He doesn’t know what it is, but isn’t it a great name?

Yoo Ji-Ha liked the mystery hidden in the mist.

So, even when reading old books, he used to think deeply about the real meaning and metaphor hidden in the sentences.

Most of them didn’t mean much, but this seemed to be something else.

Such a feeling came.

The two went back to their respective homes after the shopping trip.

Yoo Ji-Ha tried to write with all kinds of pens on the inside of the magic book, but in vain.

“I really don’t know.”

At this point, he wonders if some real magic is in interest.

He stumbled across it by chance, but where do he get the Thunderbird feathers and ink?

‘Thunderbird… I’ve never heard of it.’

When he searched on Hunternet, an information article appeared.

[Thunderbird: A rare creature that appears in various dungeons except the polar, desert, and ocean. It is a very large bird with a wingspan of about 25m and there was a movement to capture it, but it was not achieved due to factors such as time limit. According to the battle report #15-16563, a nest and eggs were found.]

Unfortunately, this was the end of the information.

Why didn’t they finish it properly?

In fact, most of the hunters’ interests were focused on monsters, so there was relatively little interest in the flora and fauna in the dungeon.

At best, zoologists were interested, but very few people went into the dungeon to study.

‘Because there is nothing to study in the first place.’

Yoo Ji-Ha turned off Hunternet and paid attention to the ancient magic skills and good writing skills that were proudly engraved on the status window.

It’s an ancient magic skill. It’s not difficult like alchemy, but the problem is…

‘Is ‘good writing skills’ a characteristic or something?’

When it comes to the characteristics of hunters, it was like a passive skill.

Park SeongHo’s stone skin, Seo HyeJin’s sword riding, Hwang SeonYeong’s paper skill, etc. were very effective in combat.

There were about 40 classes and hundreds of characteristics, and none of them were considered unimportant.

But good writing skills…

‘Am I just becoming good at writing?’

Yoo Ji-Ha scratched his head, put away the magic book, and started writing in his notebook.

scribble… scribble…

The pen moved back and forth on the paper, printing neatly written letters.

Originally, Yoo Ji-Ha’s writing was only good enough to look at, but now the writing on the notebook is quite beautiful.

Anyone who sees it will mistake it for a print.

He put down his pen for a moment and looked at his writing.

‘It’s pretty, but… Where am I going to use this?’

It was unknown.

He looked at the text for a while and then smiled slightly.

Yeah, what’s the big deal?

It’s enough that it gives a little joy in life.

Yoo Ji-Ha practiced writing for a while.

The good writing skill level has risen to 2, and now it is almost no different from the printed ones.

And then, a dungeon opened.

“It opens here.”

Originally, when a dungeon opens, the surrounding ether shakes.

The wavelength is large enough to be detected by hunters as well as people who are sensitive to ether.

When he felt a shaking as if an earthquake had occurred, and Yoo Ji-Ha looked around the store.

The gate was opened in the alley where no one went through.

“Is it Category 0?”

He can’t be sure before entering, but based on his experience, there was a high probability that there were no monsters in the dungeons found in these corners.

Did Yoo Ji-Ha’s Forest in his dream open like this?

‘Let’s go in.’

He packed his backpack and stepped inside.

[Difficulty: Category 0

Type: Meadow, Valley

Objective: Thunderbird’s Feather

Time limit: 1 hour

Target Restriction: Workers]

‘Huh? Weird?’

This is the first time he has seen a quest window like this.

Yoo Ji-Ha thought it was absurd, so he blankly looked on the window.

In Category 0 dungeons, it was common to have no goal and no time limit.

And so far, target restrictions don’t even exist.

‘What is the feather of a thunderbird?’

Isn’t this like a dungeon tailored for him?

It seems to be inviting him to enter this dungeon and pick up the Thunderbird’s Feather…

‘I think someone opened the dungeon for me.’

That someone might have something to do with the dream forest.

Yoo Ji-Ha firmly determined, stepped inside.

There was a high valley in the vast field, literally just grassland and valley.

What’s unusual is that the huge tree roots seen in the Polar Dungeon are also here.

It was so out of the blue that he doubted if it was supposed to be there.

“How big is it that there are tree roots all over the place?”

Yoo Ji-Ha squatted in front of the tree roots and stroked the bark.

Perhaps this tree supports the whole world.

‘Wait, there was a huge tree out of that book.’

The myths of each race were intertwined with the huge tree, he remembers reading it quite interestingly.

He fell into the forest of his dreams while reading it.

‘Then was it this tree that called me here?’

It was unknown because the tree did not respond.

After staring at the tree for a long time, a large bird suddenly flew and landed on the tip of the root of the tree.

[Thunderbird]

‘It is a Thunderbird.’

It was so big that he couldn’t tell if it was a bird or a monster.

It is a Category 0 dungeon, so it’s probably an animal.

The guy looked down at Yoo Ji-Ha and tilted his head, spread his wings, and shrieked.

An intense shock wave spread out, and Yoo Ji-Ha curled up with his ears covered.

‘That’s why it’s called thunderbird.’

Thunderbird because its shrill are like thunder.

As he was crouching for a while, several feathers gently landed next to him.

Thunderbird lost interest in Yoo Ji-Ha and flew away.

“…What is this?”

This series of situations in which the magic book was retrieved, the dungeon was opened, and the Thunderbird threw feathers felt very artificial.

When he enters the forest tonight, he would not be surprised if the Theradrones would bring ink.

‘Do you want to let me know that you are helping me?’

How crazy is he to even imagine something like this?

Anyway, what happened has already happened.

After examining the inside of the dungeon, Yoo Ji-Ha came out with the Thunderbird’s Feather.

A hunter who had been lingering around him under Kim HyungSeok’s instructions hastily reported.

“Yes, chief. Yes. I’ll check it now. It seems to be a Category 0 dungeon. He went in with a backpack, but it was not confirmed what he brought back. I’ll go in now.”

He reported that he tried to enter the gate where Yoo Ji-Ha entered but was pushed out by a strange force.

HyungSeok tilted his head upon receiving the report.

“Is there a dungeon that excludes people? Are you telling me to believe in that? What force do you think is pushing you away? I get it. Let’s keep an eye out for a little bit more.’

He put down his phone and folded his arms.

It seemed clear that luck had come to the young man named Yoo Ji-Ha.

“He said he was a hunter with no skills or characteristic… That’s the character, isn’t it?”

A characteristic that frequently opens dungeons around him. Isn’t that a very good characteristic?

HyungSeok concluded that it was Yoo Ji-ha’s characteristic to have a dungeon open around him.

There are all kinds of characteristics, so who can say for sure that there are no such characteristics?

‘It’s ambiguous.’

It was unclear if he must keep paying attention or stop the attention at all.

Certainly, the potion he created was great, but he hadn’t made it since.

Is it because the fruit is all gone?

‘I have no choice but to watch a little more.’

HyungSeok sat down and took out the documents from the safe.

A report came from an alliance guild in Busan.

It was the bizarre content of the discovery of giants.

He couldn’t believe it, but they were claiming that the giants were the ones who annihilated the monsters in the devil ant dungeon.

The proof is a huge handprint.

The Busan Seagull Guild leader desperately tried to cover it up, but as dozens of people participated, in the end, information was leaked.

‘A giant… Were there any myth grade monsters I didn’t know about?’

Tap tap tap tap tap tap.

Kim HyungSeok’s finger tapped the keyboard.

Hunternet, an information site favored by hunters.

This site has secrets that most hunters usually don’t know.

Single Numbers hunters, descendants of the first nine awoken.

Except for Han SeungHyuk, who is missing, the 2nd to 9th places is granted access to specific bulletin boards.

People called this bulletin board, Mir Wiki.

Although the species name and risk level of the monster were posted, there was no way to post or edit a separate article.

Even who created Hunternet in the first place is still a mystery.

They don’t even know where the server’s data is being sent.

HyungSeok searched for information about giants while navigating through myth-grade monster information for a while.

‘It could be that it’s not updated.’

The information on Mir Wiki has not changed from the very beginning until now. Going back to the beginning, if more than one person is talking about it, then there must be something.

‘Is it just a new monster?’

But isn’t it too big for a new monster?

Judging by the size by the traces of the palm, it is said that it is almost the size of a building.

It was common knowledge that the bigger the monster, the stronger it was.

To achieve that size, it must exceed the extinction level.

‘There’s also something about the claw monster found in the polar dungeon.’

HyungSeok’s troubles deepened.

“Ancient magic… Here it is.”

Yoo Ji-Ha read the book with the huge tree again.

According to the contents, a huge tree was said to have passed on magic to the first races.

However, since this magic is so complicated and difficult to learn, it developed a kind of trick to make it easier to use.

That is rune magic, Runewords!

Runewords are also usefully used by modern hunters.

Ether stones are processed to make rune stones, and runes are written on them and placed on staffs, etc.

A magician with this runeword wand was able to create firepower beyond imagination.

It’s possible to call them ‘Nukers’?

Taking a magician to any dungeon will solve it neatly and quickly.

Recently, the importance of magicians who remove monsters over a wide area is indescribable.

But this says that rune magic is just a shortcut to ancient magic?

“Creation… Harmony… Change… Destruction.”

As he read further, he discovered that ancient magic was divided into four categories.

The magic of creation is not to be touched by mortals, but it is said that the magic of harmony, transformation, and destruction can be used.

“Well… Magic is the law that changes the world, and magic is just the art of destruction.”

If the world is the sea, then it would be accurate to say that magic is the ocean current in it.

However, it did not show how to learn magic.

It would be nice to have Runewords as an example.

After looking at the book for a while, Yoo Ji-Ha fell asleep.

When he opened his eyes, an unexpected situation awaited him.

“All of a sudden…”

The branch planted on the ground had grown into a mature tree.

And there were letters engraved on the stems glowing green.