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I am Smart

Chapter 26

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The basic continuous effect ‘Hunting’ is the essence of a Hunter.

You must guess where your opponent is located among the highlands, lowlands, riversides, thickets, and watchtowers.

If you guess correctly, stacks will accumulate. As stacks increase, skills and attack power get stronger.

Hunters have very low base stats early on. A strong character in the late game shouldn’t dominate from the start.

Thus, a Hunter must avoid enemies at the beginning and observe or predict the opponent’s location alone.

It can only be done when you are the sole observer. If you just hit a one-in-five chance, it won’t be efficient.

Therefore, you must win in psychological warfare against the enemy, or observe effectively to secure at least 2 stacks.

That’s why experience, prediction, and psychological warfare are needed, thus the Hunter is termed a ‘brain character’.

Knowing this, the Wizard waited in the thicket.

One minute passed. A voice from the phone the man flipped over came through: Moon Si-hyun’s voice.

[Because I’m smart, I can guess right away. The Wizard… is here.]

The cry of a falcon echoed. Then, a system notification chimed in.

[Moon Si-hyun (Current Realm/Hunter): ‘Hunting’ activated – specific area: Watchtower – failure!]

[… Hmm. What a pity. Usually, the higher the skill level, the harder it is to read a beginner’s psychology.]

“…?”

‘What kind of person is this?’

At this early stage in the game, it’s impossible to be in the Watchtower. You could make a crazy move and go in, but there’s absolutely no sense in entering a defensive structure at the beginning of the game.

Anyway, with this basic continuous effect falling off, the Central Plains belong to the man.

– Thud thud

Walking towards the Central Plains in the highlands, the man proceeded.

– Bang!!

– Ping!

With that sound, the Wizard’s basic continuous effect, ‘Mana Barrier,’ was dispelled.

“…?”

The bewildered man slowly looked toward where the bullet had flown from.

There stood the Hunter, confidently without any cover.

As if waiting for him.

[I found it.]

The voice of Moon Si-hyun came from the covered smartphone.

A falcon landed on the Hunter’s shoulder. It was the Hunter’s skill, ‘Falcon Search’.

The man stared at her blankly. Suddenly, his understanding of the situation went haywire.

A Hunter with zero stacks cannot defeat a Wizard.

That’s common sense and a formula built by Fiore users.

The range of the Hunter’s musket’s basic attack is somewhat decent, but without stacks, it’s weaker than the Wizard’s basic attack. She has two tracking skills and one attack skill. It’s pathetic in a fight.

Therefore, the Wizard must find the Hunter while the Hunter needs to escape to stack up.

But to find her with a tracking skill and appear so confidently—

‘I found it.’

“Seriously…”

What a total airhead.

The man scoffed and brandished his staff. The longest-range Fireball was activated.

The Hunter jumped to the right to dodge it.

“Hmm.”

He wasn’t too surprised. After all, dodging a skill is a matter of hitting either the mid-left or mid-right.

But the more he unleashed skills, the more information he gathered.

Having noted her rightward dodge earlier, a psychological strategy began.

The man widened the distance and waited for the Fireball’s cooldown, then this time fired to the right.

Reacting to the light of the opponent’s staff, the Hunter predicted and jumped to the right.

‘Gotcha—’

At that moment, the Hunter suddenly altered her path and dashed to the left.

The fireball sailed past her head and vanished.

“… No.”

―――

What the hell?

This is just insane! How do you dodge that?

But could she actually dodge the Priest’s control or the Fireball like that?

What an outrageous beast!

Is there really someone capable of this? LOL

―――

Dozens of chats popped up from the smartphone the man had laid on the ground.

The Fireball missed. The Hunter advanced and fired her musket. It hit the Wizard in the head.

―――

Wow

Aim wow

―――

It was a headshot, dealing double damage, but still not significant. And firing the musket meant she was in the Wizard’s skill range.

The man immediately reacted and used Binding.

At that moment, the Hunter suddenly began to sprint forward. It was an unexpected action. She barely dodged the Binding.

The startled Wizard released a magic wave. But she dodged that too, and the Wizard had no follow-up skills.

– Bang! Bang! Bang!

Now the Wizard has no skills available for three seconds. During that time, the Hunter landed exactly three shots on the Wizard’s head.

The Wizard had no choice but to move forward to retaliate with a basic attack.

That was the fatal mistake.

As the Wizard approached to unleash magic, the Hunter stepped back to match the Wizard’s pace.

– Bang! Bang!

The Hunter’s bullets lodged in her own head, while her attack halted just in front of the Hunter.

As the man stepped forward, the Hunter backpedaled and fired.

If the man grew flustered and retreated, she would close the distance and shoot.

This pattern repeated two more times.

Eventually, the Wizard collapsed on the floor.

―――

???

Holy crap

Wait

How did I not get hit once?

―――

“… No, what the hell.”

The man with the black screen muttered curses.

Dodging the Wizard’s spells, attacking as he entered her range, yet not getting hit by her basic attacks.

It was truly a matter of mere centimeters.

Everyone, including him and the viewers, understood how ridiculous this situation was.

“Huh.”

The man shook his head and concentrated.

‘It’s fine. I still haven’t stacked anything. I just have to avoid mistakes next time.’

A few seconds later, the Wizard respawned.

Suddenly, a notification rang out.