78. Busiest On Earth

With the Magic Guns launched, Indra is hoping that he can get XP from them every day. If tools that use his Magic are used to kill monsters, then he will get big shares of the monsters' magic power to absorb.

However, it doesn't turn out as he hoped it would be. The rate of him receiving XP doesn't increase too much even though the Magic Guns are sold out very quickly.

He tries to gather information and finds out that most of the Magic Guns are not used to hunt monsters. They are mostly just being tested on monsters a few times before being kept for emergencies.

Each country that buys the Magic Guns doesn't get a lot of them yet, after all. So they prioritize using them for emergencies and keep them in safe places.

Most countries plan to rent the Magic Guns to low rank hunters. It will reduce the casualties a lot and low rank raids will be much safer with better weapons. But because low rank hunters can't buy the Magic Guns, it's better to rent them.

The problem is there aren't that many Magic Guns to be used by low rank hunters. After all, the countries also want to equip their law enforcers that deal with Hunters with Magic Guns too.

His company predicts that it will take at least a year before the countries can start renting the Magic Guns to low rank hunters with their current production rate.

There's nothing Indra can do about that because the production can't be hastened. He needs to get involved directly to activate the Rune Magic carved on the Guns and ammo, after all, but he is only one person.

So for now, he can only continue what he usually does. Luckily, he can accumulate a lot of XP from all of his hunting and the gears with his Rune Magic that they sell.

He has gained a lot of levels since the first S-Rank Raid. The passive XP he gets from the gears with his Rune Magic that many hunters used are higher than the XP he gets from hunting personally because the number of those gears keep increasing.

[Name: Indra Smith

Level: 216

XP: 1,279,720/2,452,000

Job: Battle Healer, Awakener

Title: Reincarnator (+50% XP), Hunter King

HP: 245,600/245,600

MP: 403,100/403,100

Fatigue: 0

Strength: 266

Agility: 251

Sense: 271

Vitality: 266

Intelligence: 561

Free Points: 0]

Indra almost passed level 200 before the 2nd S-Rank Raid and now he finally reached level 216. His stats have improved a lot, especially his Intelligence stat and MP.

Using Devour skill to absorb monsters' magic power actually increases his MP even without raising his level or intelligence stat, so he always makes sure to use it before killing the monsters.

Thanks to his high MP, Indra can make more clones and use them to do a lot of work. He now can focus on using his clones to do other work because Jin Woo's shadow soldiers are helping him scout potential S-Ranks.

His clones have the same abilities as him. Meaning they can also use Rune Magic, so they can replace him putting Rune Magic on weapons, armor, and the Magic Guns.

He can even send them to awaken or upgrade Hunters' power. But he needs to make sure they have enough mana to travel long distances and awaken the targets.

There was another big change that happened after he reached level 200. He got the title of Hunter King and it has an incredible effect.

The Hunter King title's effect is he gets XP from the monsters that are killed by the Hunters he awakened and upgraded.

However, just like the case with the gears that have his Rune Magic, the XP he gets from them is not full.

The XP he gets from the monsters those Hunters killed are a quarter, 25% of what he should get if he kills the monsters himself.

But it's still more than the XP he gets from the Hunters that killed monsters using gears that have his Rune Magic as they only give him 10% of the full XP he could get if he kills the monsters himself.

The rest of the monsters' Magic Power that those Hunters killed spread to the world, like how it was originally supposed to be, to strengthen the Earth and awaken more people.

Well, even the Magic Power that the system converts into XP isn't the monsters' full magic power. If it's their whole magic power, then their cores and carcasses will be useless.

The magic power that the system absorbs is just what leaks from the monsters upon their death. That's what Jin Woo explained to Indra when he asked out of curiosity about how the system works.

However, even if that is the case, the magic power his system absorbs from his own kills or the others' kills is enough to grow his power to an unimaginable level as long as he works hard on it.

Thanks to him receiving some shares of XP from the Hunters he awakens, Indra's level can grow faster even though the Magic Guns are still not too helpful to get XP.

The S-Ranks he awakens are very diligent at their job to raid dungeons and kill monsters. They are also mostly raid A-Rank Dungeons. The monsters are strong and give him quite a lot of XP to fill his XP bar that keeps getting higher.

So now, even if he doesn't hunt actively, he still can get XP quite steadily even if it's not so high. After all, he can get XP worth of an A-Rank Dungeon from 4 A-Rank Dungeon raids done by the Hunters he awakens.

It's still more effective and faster than hunting by himself. But he still needs to hunt routinely to maintain his battle sense.

Though he needs to restrict himself because he will kill the monsters too easily if he uses his full power.

That's why he always hunts after making clones and gives most of his MP to them. He also uses debuffs on himself to lower his stats as much as possible to make sure the fights against the monsters are still quite difficult.

If he doesn't do it like that, then he feels his battle skills will become dull. Just having high raw power is not enough. He can't fight the Monarchs and other powerful beings if his battle skills are rusty.

Time passes quickly and around a year has passed since the 2nd S-Rank Gate, so it has been 4 years since the appearance of Gates.

Currently, the world is getting into another crisis. The Eternal Slumber, an illness caused by intolerance toward magic power. It mostly affects those who are staying next to awakeners for a long time.

Those who catch this illness will start sleeping longer and more often until they are unable to wake up from their sleep, hence the name of Eternal Slumber.

Currently, the researchers have succeeded at making a device that can keep the patients alive using the crystal cores from monsters.

But they can only be used to keep the patients alive, not curing them. Furthermore, to use the device, they need to pay a high amount of money because the crystal cores are expensive.

Indra was not putting too much attention to this problem before. He doesn't know much about this illness and there were just too many things to do before.

But now, he can't ignore this illness anymore because 2 of his cousins start showing symptoms of this illness.

Both of them work in his Guild and their jobs are mostly interacting with Hunters. They have just started working a few months ago after graduating from their colleges, but now they are having such problems.

So Indra tells them to stop working for now while he thinks of a solution. His big family members are close to each other and those 2 cousins are also very close to him, that's why this is a big crisis for him.

"Jin Woo, do you know how to cure Eternal Slumber?"

<Yeah. >

"What?! Really?"

<Of course. It's not as hard you think. But what will do after knowing it?>

"For now I want to cure my cousins. But I also want to do something to cure all the Eternal Slumber patients on Earth. This will be the era of Magic Power, so it just doesn't feel right for many people to be intolerant of magic power."

<That's right, we are here to save the Earth, so also need those people.>

Jin Woo then explains that the cause of Eternal Slumber isn't intolerance. It's because the victims' bodies can't circulate mana properly.

Mana moves like blood in the bodies through "veins", but the victims' mana veins are blocked, so the mana they start to absorb can't circulate properly.

<Most of these victims are actually in the process awakening. But because problem their mana veins, that can't circulate overwhelms bodies until brains handle it anymore and they lose consciousness.>

"I see, so I need to find the blocked mana veins and open them?"

<That's right. If we are lucky, there may be S-Rank potentials among those Eternal Slumber patients.>

"Alright then, I will do my best for this."

Jin Woo is actually very thankful to Indra for choosing to be a Healer because of this. It will be easier for the public to accept that a Healer "finds" the cure for Eternal Slumber.

Especially now since he is a National Level Hunter and without a doubt the best Healer on Earth. So people will believe him easily.

With this new work entrusted to him even with all the work he has, Indra is without a doubt the busiest person in the world now.

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