Unable to Pay Tuition, I Have No Choice but to Hunt Demons in Fog City

Gao Man transmigrates to the fog-shrouded city of Lentinion in the Steam Age, where he becomes a poor student at the Institute of Spiritual Substance Research. He has no noble bloodline and no family fortune. All he has is tuition due in a week. And a Hunter's journal he found hidden beneath his dormitory floorboards. 【Power, wealth, knowledge, strength: all of it belongs to you】 【All you need to do is hunt these nightmares and reclaim the Hunter's legacy】 From that day on, Gao Man entered the world of Hunters. Mansions tainted by spiritual substance, servants of the Old Ones, curses from the gods, a 1/4 umbilical cord, the Hunter's legacy… 【Warped spiritual substance: Shadow of the Past, altering perception and will】 【Ancient spiritual substance: 1/4 umbilical cord, cursing the world and everything in it】 【Radiant spiritual substance: Thousand-Faced Blood Maiden, blurring the line between dreams and reality】 Supernatural incidents that others would do anything to avoid became opportunities for him to gain wealth, knowledge, and strength. So he investigated the anomalies while refining spiritual substance. After that, a highly respected professor took him on as a personal disciple, a legendary Hunter joined his firm, a duke invited him to become his son-in-law, and even the queen summoned him to the palace for an all-night conversation. From an unknown nobody to a name known across the land, Gao Man became a legendary Hunter the whole world could no longer ignore. Until one day, a line of text appeared in the Hunter's journal that had never been there before. 【Gao Man's spiritual substance: Old Hunter】 【The night and the nightmares are far too long】 【Tonight, Gao Man joins the hunt】