The Gardener in a Hunter World

Disclaimer: This is an edited MTL. Thus, I can’t guarantee that my editing to be proficient. But I hope you enjoy this story with me. If there are any corrections, it is highly encourage to leave a comment.

T/n: Thank you Pangvang for supporting me in ko-fi. Three extra chapters this week and another one next week is for you.

[Special Stamina Potion LV2: Recovers 22% of max HP over 13 seconds]

So far, nothing has changed.

However, the moment he looked at the word stamina potion.

[Stamina Potion: A potion that restores the stamina of the consumer.]

A simple explanation like this came up.

“It didn’t come out like this before.”

The system that hunters see in common is quite inconvenient.

They could see their own stats, characteristics, and skills, but they had no way of knowing exactly what kind of effect it would have.

So, if a newly awakened hunter got a skill, they would practice daily in a dungeon with a low difficulty.

Also, status window was not visible even after obtaining artifacts, so they had to try them on and find out the options.

In the case of Yoo Ji-Ha, he could see relatively detailed effects and options, but they were still in the dark on the meaning of the word itself.

‘For example, extrasensory.’

It can be roughly thought of as superior sense, but the exact effect can only be known when the person who has acquired the skill uses it.

But now it was different.

When he focuses his eyes on the extrasensory, doesn’t a message come to mind?

[Extrasensory LV1: Increases all senses and reflexes of the caster by 20% for 30 minutes.]

“The time is roughly right, but it’s the first time I’ve seen a figure of 20%.”

Because the characteristics and skills of a hunter are very important, various institutions have studied it, but it was not easy to calculate the exact number.

Because the caster is a human being, it depends on individual’s feelings.

Yoo Ji-Ha pulled out the dimensional pouch from his backpack.

[Dimensional pouch: Can store things without spoiling them. This also applies when entering another dimension.]

“AHA.”

It also included a function of keeping things from spoiling.

Somehow, he hadn’t thought that the fruits will be spoiled.

Yoo Ji-Ha scratched his head and took out the ether stone and the seal of the Estram Kingdom.

[Ether Stone: Fragment of the World Stone. It emits ether semi-permanently.]

‘World Stone? There’s a huge stone?’

The word world stone does not appear in any ancient books.

It must have been a huge stone similar to the World tree.

If the World Tree is responsible for the ecosystem of Gehenna, then the world stone provides energy.

And the characteristic, charisma of the ruler.

[The charisma of the ruler: People around will naturally follow you, If the resistance is high, it will not work.]

‘Hmm…’

In a way, it seems like brainwashing, but most of the main artifacts are like this.

By the way.

If he can see the effects and options like this, he thinks it would be better to reveal it.

‘I just say that it’s my characteristic. right?’

It doesn’t really matter, because the people around him think that he already has the characteristic of frequently opening Category 0 dungeons.

‘It would be better to write the effect on the potion bottle accurately.’

The moment the hunters know exactly the effect, the shop will be empty.

‘Let’s limit it to three bottles per person.’

Yoo Ji-Ha decided to do so and tore the Infinite Magic Book to pieces.

He can make great scrolls and it’s a bit inappropriate to only use it for explanatory text, but it’s infinite.

‘99, 100.’

He cut the paper with scissors and wrote the description with a feather pen.

scribble… scribble…

As it is not a rune language, the sentence itself does not have any power.

However, the letters Yoo Ji-Ha wrote were neat as if they were put on a printing press.

The handwriting was beautiful that he even admired himself.

‘That’s enough.’

After he put all the descriptions on the potion bottle with the effects, Beom cried out that he was hungry.

He gave him an expensive chicken and he ate it.

‘It costs a lot of money, but it’s okay because it’s cute.’

Recently, the number of customers who come to the store to see Beom has increased considerably.

He goes out to the roadside to groom his hair, and then when female hunters sneak into the store to pet him because they say he is cute.

Then the hunter who suddenly came in, automatically buy something.

‘He’s a total solicitor.’

There would be dozens of potions sold out like that.

Beom was paying enough for his meal.

‘I can sell more.’

Yoo Ji-Ha stretches and opened the door of the store.

***

Since word of mouth has spread among the hunters, quite a few guests came since the morning.

One of them looked at the description written on the potion and said it was strange.

“Isn’t this too detailed? Paralysis potion, this one.”

“Well… In what way?”

“Paralysis resistance isn’t listed as a stat in the first place, isn’t it? I don’t think it can be expressed like this with 35%.”

“Try it yourself and if it doesn’t work, you can get a refund.”

Having said this, the hunter grumbled as to where the refund could be found.

Hunter doesn’t do well with refunds.

They will just never use that store again.

The hunter who bought it rushed into the store in less than a few hours.

“I buy all paralysis potions.”

“One bottle of each type. Up to three bottles in total. As you can see, we don’t have much.”

Hunter stood in front of the shelf regretfully.

“Ugh… I want to buy them all.”

“Did it have any effect?”

When Yoo Ji-Ha asked, he nodded eagerly.

“It really worked. Do you know those desert wasps? Paralysis stinging monsters. I didn’t know the paralysis would go away so quickly. It was solved about 70% faster than usual, which is very strange. What did you see to write down that?”

“It has an explanation.”

The hunter, who was making an expression saying, “No way,” took out a bottle of potion from his belt and showed it.

“This is a cold resistance potion that was expensively bought in the witch’s cauldron. Can you guess?”

“It says, increase cold resistance by 10% for 20 minutes.”

“Woah. So, what about this?”

He took a sword from his back and held it forward.

“It is written as the Sword of the Knight templar. Increases strength and stamina by 5, agility increases by 3, and adds swordsmanship characteristics. Above all else, the skill called the oath of the Knights…”

As Ji-Ha recited the specs of the sword, his eyes widened.

How the hell do he know the specs of an artifact that nobody knows until they wear it?

Did he get any new characteristic?

“Well, maybe, what the skill effect of the oath Of the Knights Templar is…”

Looking at his hesitation, it seems that he who is the sword owner, didn’t seem to know the effect.

Yoo Ji-Ha laughed and explained the effect of the skill.

“The oath of the Knights Templar skill is said to increase the caster’s attack damage by 7% for 5 minutes.”

“Oh. So that’s it… For some reason, if I change to a different sword, the reason why the deal doesn’t work is…”

He murmured for a while, then tried to confirm everything about his characteristic and skills.

As Yoo Ji-Ha responded kindly, he seemed to be thrilled, took out a bunch of bills from his wallet and handed them to him.

“Thank you very much! Take all of this.”

“No, I…”

“I’ll go first! I will come again next time!”

It seems that the number of regulars has increased by one.

At that moment, Beom jumped up, grabbed the bill, and took it to the studio.

“You’re even playing with money now.”

Afterwards, he may even be able to serve customers.

With a happy face, Ji-Ha sat down on a chair and opened a book.

‘I should go to the meeting.’

People are complaining about why he is not coming these days, so he has to show his face from time to time so that he doesn’t hear nagging.

That said, what the hell did that hunter earlier was saying, people are rushing in.

“Boss! Can you really see the spec of an Artifact?”

Yoo Ji-Ha could not even read the book properly and explained the specifications.

It looked like the store had to close late today.

***

Ancient books from the dungeon are quite popular with many people.

As long as it is dropped, it is sold at a high price not only to hunters, but also to scholars and enthusiasts from all walks of life.

Since it is a book that holds the story of another world, some people dig deeper into its contents.

The meeting that Yoo Ji-Ha attended today was also like that.

Also known as a reading group.

Ancient book lovers gather and talk about a certain topic.

Gehenna is a fairly large continent, and the contents of the ancient books vary widely.

Today’s topic was the Estram Kingdom.

Yoo Ji-Ha opened the door to a small office.

The smell of books wafted out, and Hwang SeonYoung and several other people welcomed him.

“Ji-Ha you’re here.”

“Come on.”

“I will really drag you out if you didn’t come out today.”

“Haha. My noona came early. Hello.”

The reason SeonYeong, who is lazier than a sloth, came out so quickly is probably because she can read a new book.

She started poking his side with her finger as she sat down next to Yoo Ji-Ha.

“Ouch, why?”

“Did you hear all the rumors? It said you appraised the artifacts?”

It is said that a horse without feet travels a thousand miles¹Bad news (rumors) travel fast..

It’s been less than half a day since he did it, and when he asked what the rumor was, a post was posted on Hunternet.

The people of the reading group asked in amazement.

“Yoo Ji-Ha, didn’t you say that you don’t have any skills or characteristic?”

“Recently, I was lucky enough to get a few.”

“That’s amazing… It could come out in a few years.”

SeonYoung leaned on her desk like a sloth and looked up at Yoo Ji-Ha diagonally.

“Is that an appraisal skill? They say that some people in places like the US or China have it. How much did you earn today?”

“I didn’t get any money.”

People were shocked.

“Oh my God, you didn’t get paid to appraise artifacts? Are you digging the ground and doing business?”

“Angel. It’s an Angel.”

He was startled when digging land was mentioned.

‘How did you know that I was doing business by digging?’

In fact, Yoo Ji-Ha potions and scrolls can be sold at high prices.

He might consider selling it and donating it to the Hunter Academy, etc., but nature couldn’t help it.

Most of all, he believed that the fact that the World Tree gave him various privileges also meant that he’s supposed to spread it widely.

‘Because rookie hunters don’t have money…’

“Come on, it’s something to celebrate that Yoo Ji-Ha got a skill, but we have to do our purpose. Today’s topic is the Estram Kingdom.”

A dull-looking man with glasses placed a thick old book on the desk.

Everyone could read the official language of the continent, so the title Estram Chronicle was easy to read.

“Speaking of Estram, it is a small kingdom attached to the southern part of the Gemark Empire.”

“The population is small, but it seems to be around 5 million people. Considering the tax revenue and the size of the army.”

“It is said that the royal family vacated the royal palace in the great war against monsters, and there are records of the public dissent because of that.”

Gam YooJeong, who has long hair, said as she turned the pages.

“The one I want to pay attention to is Prince Edinskal. It said that he is really handsome. If you look at this, there are three pages that describe the beauty of the prince.”

Everyone looked at the book and was stunned.

If he was handsome, they wondered how handsome a man would be with this as a description of what kind of beauty he is.

SeonYoung turned the page of the book.

“It is said that Prince Edinskal was the number one knight in the Kingdom of Estram, isn’t this too unfair? He is complete in appearance, strength, and bloodline.”

“That’s how much you need to be a prince.”

It seems that Gam YooJeong is a prince fanatic.

The organizer, Park SeonHong, pointed out a part of the book and said:

“This sentence. I don’t think it’s a continental language or a rune language, does anyone know?”

“Hey, nobody knows about this.”

“Even though linguists have studied so much, they don’t know what it is. In the first place, there are only a few sentences in a book, so there is not much room for research.”

Even if they want to study, they have to have some data.

Continental languages and runes had some similarities, making it easy to interpret, but this language had a completely different shape.

But it’s weird.

Why do he see this?

Unknowingly, Yoo Ji-Ha read aloud the unidentified sentence.

“Whoever gains the seal of Estram will rule the people.”

“…..”

“Huh? Yoo Ji-Ha, did you read this?”

“Ah, maybe?”

People cast a suspicious glance.

It’s a language no one knows, but Yoo Ji-Ha found it out?

SeonYoung narrowed her eyes and said “Oh, my god.”

“Did you read anything?”

“No. I read it because it looked like that.”

“Then, once you’ve seen it, can you write it down? Would you like to try it?”

He’s a pretty serious person, so he hates pranks.

Instead of answering, Yoo Ji-Ha took out a feather pen and the infinite magic book.

scribble.. scribble…

Everyone listened at the pleasant sound of the nib moving over the thick paper.

Gam YooJeong was amazed when she saw the writing of Yoo Ji-Ha.

“You write very well. Was it like this?”

“It looks like some sort of wizard scroll.”

When the sentence was completed, everyone put their heads together and compared it with the sentences in the ancient book.

“It’s the same, it’s the same.”

No matter how they looked at it, it was the same, so SunHong had to admit Yoo Ji-Ha.

“How did you interpret this? A language no one knows.”

“I don’t know either, but I just see it.”

“Isn’t that also a characteristic?”

‘After all, XXX has been changed to the world tree.’

In a way, isn’t this the effect of the World tree’s blessing?

When he focused his attention later, a message appeared.

[World Tree’s Blessing LV2: All stats +5, all resistances +10, etheric, 1.3x great success in production, ancient language interpretation]

‘It’s the effect of ancient language interpretation.’

This solved the mystery.

SeonYoung shook Yoo Ji-Ha’s shoulder.

“Ji-Ha, I really like your handwriting, why don’t you write one sentence for this older sister?”

“What sentence?”

“Please help me find the journal of the Black Lion Knight in the Wholesale Center today! Like this?”

“What you want is too specific.”

Although Yoo Ji-Ha grumbled, he wrote in ancient language.

“Write it in rune language as well. The writing is really pretty.”

When it was written in rune language, strangely, ancient magic rose to LV2, and a sentence shone.

[The Scroll of Creation: Hope.

Your little wishes will come true.]

‘Huh?’

A scroll of creation that mortals should not touch has been created.

• 1Bad news (rumors) travel fast.