Chapter 111

Chapter 111

Level 2 Player

Skillization

While Jin-su was watching how Ak Chanseo and Changseongmun would come out.

“Ignoring my shame, I want to make one request to you. Please spar with me formally.”

Ak Chanseo politely bowed his head and requested a spar.

‘As expected, it becomes like this. Why do Musung origins like sparring so much.’

Jin-su could roughly guess what kind of thought Ak Chanseo was harboring.

‘He is thinking that if he did not carelessness and did his full power, he could have won.’

Even so, the thing itself of saying thank you for putting consideration in the hand while thinking like that was evidence that Ak Chanseo is a person who walks the righteous path.

‘Well, the exact will be known after a bit more time passes.’

Musung origin players care a lot about face. That is why the actions done in such a public place and the actions done in a private place were often different.

“Good. First, let’s move the place. I have no thought of wanting to become a zoo monkey.”

“Understood. Follow me.”

Once Ak Chanseo led the way, Jin-su followed behind.

-Is it okay to follow?

At that time, Shin Su-a asked Jin-su using the message skill.

-It is fine. If they do useless acts, I am thinking of repaying double.

-Got it.

At Jin-su’s answer, Shin Su-a moved her steps with a comfortable expression.

Coming to Floor 200 and meeting players of other dimensions with unfamiliar appearances and using new languages, she was not a little surprised. However, Shin Su-a could not even imagine the appearance of Jin-su losing to them or falling into trouble.

‘They are going to the start city guild house.’

Jin-su knew the path Ak Chanseo was going. It is the place where the Changseongmun branch was before regression. As Jin-su expected, Ak Chanseo guided Jin-su to the guild house of Changseongmun.

“It is here. Come in.”

At Ak Chanseo’s words, Jin-su and Shin Su-a calmly moved their steps. On Ak Chanseo’s face who saw such appearances of Jin-su and Shin Su-a, surprise bloomed.

Although it ended well somehow, there was a time of force collision, and that much, it is a matter of when and how they might turn into enemies.

‘Yet, to step into the main sect without any hesitation.’

This was the appearance of walking into the tiger’s mouth on their own.

‘The confidence in one’s own skill is really amazing.’

Ak Chanseo thought Jin-su was excessively arrogant.

‘Through this spar, I will have to give a lot of teachings.’

Ak Chanseo was convinced that if properly competing without carelessness, he would become the winner of the spar. But even if a miracle occurs and he loses, he had no thought of harboring resentment and causing harm to Jin-su.

However, the Tower had various human groups, and among them, there were not a few evil people who repay goodwill with malice.

‘No matter how excellent the skill and overflowing with confidence, such a careless attitude and arrogance are of no help in the Tower.’

Ak Chanseo resolved to directly teach Jin-su through the spar the fact that the world is wide and there are that many numerous strong persons.

“How about doing the spar here?”

Ak Chanseo said while pointing to the empty vacant lot located in the center of Changseongmun.

“Let’s do so.”

This vacant lot was a space familiar to Jin-su as well.

‘It was a place where the players of Changseongmun sparred frequently.’

Jin-su also had sparred here before regression.

“Come first.”

Ak Chanseo said in a state of holding the spear with both hands.

‘This means he made thorough preparations.’

Ak Chanseo’s two eyes were fiercely watching Jin-su. The muscles were tightly pulled like a bow, and mana was rotating throughout the body in a state of having finished preparations to activate a skill anytime.

‘How shall I deal with him.’

The spar Ak Chanseo wants is a flesh combat of directly clashing spear and sword.

However, there is no need for Jin-su to grant such a wish of Ak Chanseo.

It is fine if shooting a bow, it is fine if throwing a magic attack skill, and it is fine if binding the feet with a curse. Also, without the need to directly do exorcism, if summoning and deploying summons, Ak Chanseo can be easily suppressed.

‘Let’s just do as he wants.’

There was no need to inform in all directions that he has skills of several classes unnecessarily. Also, he did not want to torment Ak Chanseo by using nasty methods in a place where good memories before regression linger.

Decisively, Jin-su had the confidence to lightly win even if sparring purely with only swordsmanship and spearmanship without the help of skills against Ak Chanseo.

‘Although understanding that Musung origin players have pride in their own martial arts.’

Occasionally, that pride was excessive and often led to the arrogance of thinking that if competing purely with only martial arts excluding skills, they unconditionally win.

‘Today, I will break that arrogance.’

This was also goodwill toward Changseongmun that formed a good connection before regression.

Tak!

Jin-su threw his body first.

‘Fast.’

Ak Chanseo who was making thorough preparations was astonished. Because Jin-su’s movement was fast to the degree where it was hard to follow with his own two eyes.

Whoosh!

At the moment Jin-su’s sword flew, Ak Chanseo’s body reacted instinctively.

Clang!

Ak Chanseo who blocked Jin-su’s sword with the spear blade tried to counterattack by swinging the spear shaft. At that time, Jin-su’s sword flew again.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

‘What is this.’

Ak Chanseo gritted his teeth and barely blocked the two swords Jin-su was swinging.

Seeing that Jin-su is carrying two swords, he thought he was severely into superficial style. Ak Chanseo could not even imagine that the Earth origin player Jin-su is a master of dual swordsmanship who freely handles two swords.

‘Too fast and accurate.’

On top of that, gaps were not visible at all.

‘That person is clearly rich in experience of dealing with martial artists holding spears.’

Ordinarily, martial artists who use swords do not have much sparring experience with master-grade martial artists who use spears, so they are bound to be surprised or flustered at the various changes of spearmanship.

Yet, there was no such sign at all in the opponent.

‘Even so.’

Even if the opponent has a lot of sparring experience with martial artists holding spears, the current result was too humiliating.

The spear is the easiest weapon for beginners to learn, but the most difficult weapon to reach the master realm. Because the wide attack range can be an advantage and also a disadvantage.

Ak Chanseo was a master of such spearmanship. Using the long range of the spear, he can even drive from afar to the degree where the opponent cannot approach. There, even if engaging in super close combat at a distance where each other’s breath is felt with an opponent holding a longsword, he was to the degree of rather pushing using the advantage of the spear.

Yet, such an Ak Chanseo was driven into a corner to the degree where he cannot even try an attack once.

‘How can he have such high and high-level swordsmanship two at a time at such a young age...’

The two swords Jin-su was swinging attacked Ak Chanseo while drawing completely different separate sword paths as if masters of the sword who learned different swordsmanships each were attacking.

That was not the end.

Even while playing separately and attacking, when the time to join forces comes, they coordinated breaths as if when was that and pressured Ak Chanseo.

From Ak Chanseo’s perspective, it was to the degree of feeling the illusion of fighting with 2 masters of the sword who realized the essence of joint attacks.

‘It is truly amazing swordsmanship.’

What was more amazing was the appearance of Jin-su who unfolds those high swordsmanships alone simultaneously and handles them freely.

‘I was arrogant.’

There was the arrogance of thinking that if properly competing, he can unconditionally win. He ignored because the opponent is an Earth origin player and young. He was convinced that if only not being careless, even if the opponent uses a powerful high-level skill, he unconditionally wins.

Yet, it was not.

The opponent was a master positioned on a higher line than the first-class martial artist Ak Chanseo even with only pure martial arts.

‘To think such high-level martial arts existed on Earth as well.’

Ak Chanseo mistakenly thought Jin-su was a high martial artist who learned dual swordsmanship from before coming to the Tower.

However, the swordsmanship Jin-su is currently unfolding was the same as made and completed in the Tower. When first arriving at Floor 200, Jin-su’s swordsmanship foundation was poor.

From the perspective of Musung origin players, Jin-su’s dual swordsmanship was at the level of a second-class martial artist or mid-grade wanderer at best. However, Jin-su continued to grow.

There was also his own effort, but the power of skill predation that was a class skill was also large.

Because if the skill predation level exceeds the limit, an option that can own the predated skill is added.

‘Well, although the limit was clear.’

Holy type or skills of other classes could be predated, but ownership was impossible. Also, it is not that a skill can be owned with one predation. There was the constraint that ownership is possible only if perfectly predating the opponent’s skill over several times.

‘That alone became enormous power. Thanks to that, I predated swordsmanship skills and mana control skills of several dimensions and made my own swordsmanship.’

After regression, the swordsmanship skills or mana control skills he possessed all annihilated. However, just because there is no skill, it is not that the learned swordsmanship or mana control cannot be used.

‘It is only that it was not skillized, so it did not receive the system’s assistance.’

Even now, Jin-su’s swordsmanship was not skillized, and naturally did not receive the system’s assistance.

‘But from now on, it changes.’

Unlike players of other dimension origins who possess several skills the moment they awaken, Earth origin players have not even one possessed skill the moment they awaken.

This is because Earth origin players do not possess any kind of transcendent power such as authority, aura, magic, martial arts, arts, or shamanism.

‘Instead, Earth origin players can acquire various achievements and skills starting from Floor 1.’

Many players had the question of why the floor of the Tower they first enter differs according to the origin dimension and initial ability values at awakening.

If an Aurus dimension origin player called a demon race by Earthlings with superior physical ability and authority started from Floor 1, they probably could have easily swept all achievements and become stronger even faster.

However, the system did not allow that.

‘So two hypotheses came out.’

The first was the hypothesis that the system does not want the conquest of the Tower, and the second was the hypothesis that there exists an absolute law or large risk that even the system cannot help.

‘Most players support the second hypothesis.’

The reason was simple. To players, the hypothesis that the system does not want the conquest of the Tower was too cruel.

‘Because that ultimately means the system wishes for all of us to die in the Tower.’

That is why the second hypothesis gained more power. ‘There exists an absolute law that cannot deploy a existence with strong power to the lower layers.’, ‘The stronger the existence, the more system resources are needed to awaken.’, ‘Making a weak existence awaken and deploy to the lower layers to make strong is good for system resource efficiency.’, ‘If awakening a strong existence and deploying to the lower layers, the system resource efficiency drops enormously.’, and so on.

No one knows whether the hypotheses the players established are correct or not.

‘Actually, the hypothesis is not important.’

What was important to Jin-su was that all players start on different floors according to the power they possessed before awakening. From the perspective of Earth origin players who have no excellent physical ability, no mana, no authority, no magic, and no martial arts, it was the same as receiving a lot of consideration.

‘But there is exactly one thing that suffered a loss.’

Precisely the point that unlike other dimension players, the originally possessed ability cannot be skillized.

Even if not transcendent power like the mighty authority of Aurus origin players or the martial arts of Musung origin players and the magic of Arius origin players, from the perspective of Earth origin players who learned and mastered kendo, archery, martial arts, special forces martial arts, traditional martial arts, and so on, the fact that their specialty is not skillized was a clear loss and discrimination.

However, the reason the system blocked this is not particularly because discriminating against Earth origin players.

‘It is only temporarily blocked.’

Floor 200 was the place where players of other dimensions are met for the first time and the place where the skillization constraint of Earth origin players that was firmly blocked so far disappears.

‘Like right now.’

[The specialty is skillized.]

[The skill Muhon Sword Art is generated.]

[The skill Aurus Magic Sword Art is generated.]

[The skill Muhon Footwork is generated.]

[The skill Charnod Aura Cultivation Method is generated.]

[The skill Muhon Heart Method is generated.]

...omitted...

The swordsmanships, footworks, and heart methods of all kinds of dimensions that Jin-su learned and unfolded so far began to be skillized quickly.