Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Level 2 Player

Survival Mission

‘It really doesn’t come out damnably.’

Jin-su was right before clearing Tower Floor 49 beyond Floor 32. Until now, he had swept all the hidden dungeons of each floor, but not only the Dark Body Pill but even the Mana Circuit Expansion Pill didn’t come out.

‘Instead, a lot of skill books and elixirs came out though.’

At least there were quite a few skill books that were usable right away. However, elixirs that raise basic stats were completely useless to Jin-su.

‘Well, if I sell the elixirs at the auction house, it becomes quite a lot of points.’

If he climbs one more floor and reaches Floor 50, he can use the auction house. Thinking that he had gathered in advance the points to purchase necessary items at the auction house, there was nothing bad. The problem was the Dark Body Pill.

‘When on earth is it trying to come out.’

Every time he climbed the Tower one floor at a time, his heart gradually became anxious.

‘Should I look for it at the auction house.’

However, the probability of it being at the auction house looked extremely low. Even if it exists, it was obvious that it would be an expensive item impossible to purchase with the funds Jin-su has.

‘I need to go up first.’

Jin-su headed toward the clear location to cross to Floor 50.

[Do you wish to challenge the clear of Tower Floor 49?]

[Yes.] [No.]

For the first time, a clear mission appeared.

‘Finally Floor 49. It was enormously difficult.’

But if it was now, clear was possible without big problems.

Jin-su selected Yes.

Hwaaaak!

A cluster of bright light enveloped Jin-su’s body.

[The clear condition of Floor 49 is survival for 24 hours.]

[We wish the Challenger survival.]

Jin-su arrived at the center of a fortress that had turned into ruins.

‘It was the place where the survival mission first appeared.’

It was the first time that survival rather than subjugation came out as a mission. And it was that difficult.

‘All kinds of monsters gathered and I suffered enormously.’

Before the regression, together with comrades, he used the collapsed fortress as a shield, hid his body, avoided combat as much as possible, and ran away, and barely survived in the end.

‘Because the number of monsters was too many, winning by fighting was impossible.’

It wasn’t simply that the numbers were many, but the quality was also quite high.

‘At least because it was 24 hours, we could endure.’

If more time had been given, we would have been annihilated unconditionally.

‘Still, the reward was quite generous.’

Even though dozens of people combined strength, they produced over 10 sacrifices and barely survived. Even so, the memory floated up that as clear reward, elixirs and skill books were given to all survivors.

‘Even if you just hide and run away and survive, you can clear.’

If beyond surviving, you hunt all the monsters?

‘It will give an even more enormous reward.’

The Goblin Champion was an unhuntable monster. But when the hunt succeeded, it gave a reward that could absolutely not come out on Floor 1.

The survival mission is the same. Subjugation rather than survival is an impossible thing. If you accomplish that impossible thing, naturally it will give a reward that can absolutely not be received at Floor 49 level.

‘I did prepare. But is it possible?’

Jin-su’s stats far exceed the limit of Floor 49. However, subjugation rather than survival was a non-existent mission whose clear itself was impossible from the start.

‘Let’s try.’

Shrrng!

Jin-su drew his two swords. Although the fortress has turned into ruins, it hasn’t completely collapsed.

‘The paths the monsters can enter are fixed.’

Before the regression, he looked for a place to hide his body until the monsters charged in. But now he chose a place where he could hunt the monsters as efficiently as possible.

Dududududu!

The ground vibrated and the fortress that had turned into ruins shook.

‘How many is that exactly?’

It’s not the level of a few hundred.

‘It seems at least 7–8 thousand.’

Maybe it exceeds 10 thousand.

Jin-su swallowed dry saliva. With a frontal confrontation, it’s a number you can’t win even if you die and come back.

‘Go with guerrilla warfare.’

The monsters mobilized for the Floor 49 mission are many in number and high in quality, but.

‘Their feet are on the slow side.’

Moreover, the scale of the fortress is also enormously large, a scale that can sufficiently accommodate not 10 thousand but hundreds of thousands of monsters.

Seogeok!

Jin-su blew off the neck of the monster that had just entered inside the fortress.

“Kiiiik!”

“Kyaaaaak!”

The monsters that discovered Jin-su let out roars and charged.

Seogeok! Jwaak!

Jin-su swung the swords held in both hands and quickly cut down the monsters.

‘I have to distribute stamina well.’

Also, he had to be careful not to get surrounded.

Using the collapsed fortress walls as a shield, Jin-su swept away the monsters at a terrifying speed.

“Kwooeek!”

At that time, one large orc let out an angry roar and charged toward Jin-su.

It was an Orc Warrior.

Hwiik!

After lightly dodging the axe the Orc Warrior swung, Jin-su stabbed his sword.

Puuk!

The Bloodsucking Sword pierced the Orc Warrior’s neck.

“Krurruk!”

The Bloodsucking Sword that pierced the Orc Warrior’s neck sucked blood at a terrifying speed.

Jjeojeojeok!

The Orc Warrior instantly changed into the form of a mummy with moisture completely drained.

‘The Bloodsucking Sword is more usable than I thought.’

Leaving everything else aside, the option of absorbing the enemy’s blood to raise physical abilities and recover stamina exerted the greatest utility.

That’s not the end. The Bloodsucking Sword is a growth-type item whose level rises.

‘Although the level of the prey is lower than the Bloodsucking Sword.’

There is no business in quantity, and so the level of the Bloodsucking Sword also rose steadily.

‘If used simultaneously with the Blood Demon Swordsman’s class skill Bloodsuck, a greater synergy occurs.’

Jin-su calmly assessed the situation and cut down the monsters. In the midst of that, as the monsters that climbed over the fortress walls or flowed in through collapsed gaps gradually covered all sides and began to set up an encirclement, he flew his body toward the center of the fortress.

“Kwaaaaak!”

“Krurrurung!”

The monsters let out angry roars and pursued Jin-su from behind. Then the encirclement collapsed in an instant.

‘Simple guys.’

The monsters that appear in the Floor 49 mission don’t have high intelligence.

‘Most are guys that move according to instinct.’

In fact, it was natural. Because if the numbers are many, the quality is high, and the intelligence is also high, clearing the survival mission itself would have been impossible.

‘Slow feet and low intelligence.’

Because there are such penalties, challengers can clear the survival mission against an overwhelming number of monsters. However, Jin-su’s purpose was subjugation rather than survival.

Seogeok! Jwaak!

Jin-su cut down the monsters that were running tangled into one with the encirclement collapsed.

‘It’s a complete mess.’

Because they crowded into the narrow path all at once, the monsters collided with each other and fell. So there were many cases where they were trampled by other monsters that could be called comrades rather than by Jin-su’s sword and their breath was cut off.

Jin-su took a spear out of the treasure pouch.

Hwiik!

He filled the spear with mana and threw it toward the monsters.

Peobeobeok!

The spear Jin-su threw pierced the torsos of the monsters at the front.

“Kuwoeek!”

The monsters pierced by the spear like skewers twisted their bodies. At that moment, the monsters pushing in from behind pushed and trampled the monsters pierced by the spear and came forward.

Hwiik! Hwiik!

Jin-su continuously threw spears. Then the narrow path was blocked in an instant by monsters pierced by spears.

“Kaaaang!”

“Kuaaaak!”

The monsters that followed tried to push and trample the monsters pierced by the spears and advance forward, but the bottleneck phenomenon was not easily resolved.

‘This seems to be the limit. Status window switch.’

After Jin-su changed the status window to holy type.

‘Purifying Flame.’

Jin-su used the newly obtained holy-type mage exclusive skill toward the monsters trapped in the narrow alley.

Hwareureuk!

Pure white flames covered the monsters’ bodies.

“Kwoeek!”

“Kaaaang!”

The monsters screamed and struggled. And in the process, the pure white flames transferred to other monsters.

‘It burns well.’

The holy-type mage exclusive skill Purifying Flame that came out as a hidden dungeon clear reward.

‘The power is rather on the side of falling short of the Flame Combat Mage class skill Flame Storm, but.’

Purifying Flame had a special advantage different from Flame Storm.

‘The pure white flames that bloomed from Purifying Flame don’t extinguish easily.’

Also, it has the characteristic of swallowing enemies at a close distance. Additionally, there was no need to supply mana. Because the pure white flames continue to burn while gnawing on the monsters’ life force and mana.

Decisively, the stats are overpowered.

No matter how weak the basic attack power of the skill is, the high Mana stat of 922 corrects it. Along with that, if you add the effects obtained from class passive skills and the blessings?

‘Guys of this level can be annihilated in an instant. Still, they’re stupid guys so it’s fortunate.’

If the monsters hadn’t crammed their bodies into the narrow alley, this level of efficiency would absolutely not have come out.

“Kaaaaang!”

At that time, the boss monster Orc Great Warrior revealed its appearance piercing through the pure white flames.

‘As expected, the limit is clear.’

No matter how much you pour mana, even receiving the correction of stats, class skills, and the blessings, the innate limit that the attack power of the skill itself is too low still exists. Therefore, it couldn’t deal large damage to a monster of a somewhat high grade like the Orc Great Warrior.

‘It’s a typical skill for bullying the weak.’

Hwiik!

The Orc Great Warrior whose body was scorched here and there swung an axe enveloped in gray mana toward Jin-su.

Pagang!

While striking away the Orc Great Warrior’s axe, Jin-su assessed the battle situation.

‘At least over 500 will die.’

Maybe more will die. Even now, monsters were stubbornly crowding into the narrow alley from all sides.

‘Let’s deal with it quickly.’

He enhanced the two swords held in Jin-su’s hands with mana.

Saaaak!

The longsword and Bloodsucking Sword were enveloped in blue haze and blood-red haze.

Pagang! Pagang!

Jin-su struck away the Orc Great Warrior’s axe with the sword held in his left hand. Even if the class is a mage, Jin-su’s Strength, Agility, Stamina stats and swordsmanship skill remain the same.

‘Even without the assistance of warrior skills, this much is easy.’

Seogeok! Jwaak!

At the same time, with the Bloodsucking Sword held in his right hand, he created large and small wounds on the Orc Great Warrior’s body.

‘Worsening.’

And he activated the Ring of Worsening option.

Puaaaak!

The large and small wounds on the Orc Great Warrior’s body opened widely and spewed red blood.

“Kruruk!”

The moment the Orc Great Warrior twisted its body.

Puuuk!

The Bloodsucking Sword held in Jin-su’s right hand accurately pierced the Orc Great Warrior’s heart.

Saaaak!

The Bloodsucking Sword sucked the Orc Great Warrior’s blood at a terrifying speed.

Jjeojeojeok!

The body of the Orc Great Warrior whose breath was cut off instantly changed like a mummy.

“Huu!”

After cleaning up the Orc Great Warrior, Jin-su looked around.

The monsters that had crowded into the narrow alley were dying wrapped in the flames caused by Purifying Flame. However, the number of monsters crowding in was more than the number that died.

Especially, there were ones that climbed the walls without crowding into the alley, and the monsters scattered in various places of the fortress that heard the commotion were charging all at once from all sides.

‘Too many are crowding in.’

It would be good if they only crowded toward the side where Purifying Flame is burning, but there was no way that would happen.

‘Let’s avoid first.’

Jin-su hid his body in another alley of the fortress and carefully left the center of the commotion.

‘It’s a complete mess.’

Having come up to the spire of the fortress, Jin-su observed the movements of the monsters.

‘Purifying Flame has extinguished.’

The monsters’ intelligence is low, not non-existent. When the monsters that had forcibly put on Purifying Flame while pushing and being pushed died, other monsters were startled and distanced themselves.

‘Still, the effect is quite good.’

He thought he could catch about 500, but looking now, it seemed he cleaned up about 1,000.

‘I think I can do it sufficiently.’

The level of the monsters was lower than Jin-su’s memory before the regression.

‘It’s not that the monsters became weaker, but that I became stronger.’

Decisively, acquiring the skill for bullying the weak called Purifying Flame was a big help.

‘As soon as acquired, the skill level becomes 22 so this is good.’

As the blessings grew, it became possible to fix not only class skills but also the levels of 2 ordinary active skills and passive skills at 22.

‘Right now, it’s the best choice.’

The active skill level fix due to the blessings applies across holy type and dark type.

‘I contemplated between mage and warrior, but.’

To deal with many alone, it was correct to use it on the skill for bullying the weak, Purifying Flame. It was using the only 2 ordinary active skill level fix stacks, but there was no need to worry.

‘Because the possibility of increasing later is high.’

In the case of stats, it increased from 2 to 922.

‘Then in the case of skills too, if the blessings grow, the level that can be fixed will rise.’

It would be a loss if the number doesn’t increase more, but.

‘Looking at the pattern until now, the probability of increasing is high.’

Even if not, there was no room for choice. Because from the start, if he hadn’t raised Purifying Flame to Level 22, hunting all the monsters that appear in the Floor 49 mission would have been impossible.

‘Let’s move again.’

Jin-su found a place as far as possible from where the commotion occurred where the monsters could cause a bottleneck phenomenon like earlier. And he used the Purifying Flame skill on the monsters that caused a commotion and gathered, gradually reducing the number of monsters.