Chapter 138

Chapter 138

Level 2 Player

Spar (2)

Jin-su did not only desire Cheon Mu-seong to become strong as a martial artist. He hoped he becomes strong as a martial artist and as a player.

‘But he is not a person who will listen if saying with words.’

Actually, the fact itself that Cheon Mu-seong obtained enlightenment in the middle of mixing swords after rushing saying he will give teaching to Jin-su was a surprising matter close to a miracle.

‘Thanks to that, the matter was solved easily.’

He succeeded in erasing the rejection toward the system by meeting Cheon Mu-seong at a far earlier time than before regression. To think that Cheon Mu-seong even changed class and learned class skills.

‘However, it is not that everything is over.’

In Cheon Mu-seong’s heart, the thought of looking down on skills other than martial arts as sorcery still existed.

‘Well, it is understandable.’

Around Cheon Mu-seong’s age, personality, thoughts, preferences, and character are all bound to be completed and harden firmly. Also, often even while knowing that he is wrong, he sometimes throws useless stubbornness to set pride.

‘The old man is a person whose thoughts are far more open in such aspects.’

If realizing that he is wrong, he immediately made efforts to fix it. This was by no means an easy matter.

Because not only elderly people of about Cheon Mu-seong’s age unnecessarily, but in the case of adults whose heads have hardened to some degree, there were quite a few cases of throwing absurd stubbornness while enduring losses out of the heart of not wanting to acknowledge that they made a mistake that they are wrong to set pride.

‘The problem is that the old man is also a person.’

Breaking existing thoughts with a few words is a case possible only if very lucky.

‘There is a saying that seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.’

Like realizing its usefulness after changing class to Immortal Knight and being surprised after experiencing the Sanctuary, a person can change clearly only by seeing with two eyes and directly experiencing.

In that aspect, Jin-su was thinking of thoroughly showing Cheon Mu-seong the scariness of the class skills he ignores as sorcery today.

‘With the old man’s martial arts skill, he will be able to chew up most skills.’

That is only because here is a lower layer.

‘If going up to the higher layers, one will thoroughly feel the scariness of the skills he ignored as sorcery.’

Jin-su was thinking of informing Cheon Mu-seong of that scariness a bit earlier this time. So that he does not see large loss when meeting a really strong opponent later.

‘Incidentally, since there is the Immortality skill, he will not instant die.’

As long as not instant dying, he could attach the life line as much as one wants with Jin-su and Shin Su-a’s heals.

‘First, I will have to inform of the scariness of curses. Black Hand, Restraint Shackles, Thorn Crown, Body Weakening, Twisted Footsteps.’

The curse skills Jin-su learned covered Cheon Mu-seong all at once.

“Keuk?”

Cheon Mu-seong’s face distorted miserably. The front of the eyes became blurry, and the head came to hurt as if it would break. Also, the body felt heavy as a thousand pounds, and the footsteps slowed.

‘Mere curse.’

Cheon Mu-seong operated the Unrestrained Heart Method with full power. Clear internal energy moved to shake off the curse surrounding the body.

“Huh?”

Cheon Mu-seong’s face was dyed with perplexity. Until now, most curses did not even take well, and even if taking, if operating the Unrestrained Heart Method with full power, he could easily shake them off.

Yet, this time the situation was different.

The curse did not disappear and stuck tenaciously, covering Cheon Mu-seong’s eyes and ears and pressing the body.

Actually, the reason Cheon Mu-seong could ignore curses until now was thanks to the harmony of the high mental power stat and the Unrestrained Heart Method.

Thanks to the high mental power stat, low-level curses did not even take to begin with. Even if taking, if operating the Unrestrained Heart Method that harbors pure internal energy to the degree of being located at the top among righteous path martial arts with full power, he could quickly shake them off.

This was because the Unrestrained Heart Method that possesses pure nature was skillized and a weak resistance to skills like curses, magic, and shamanism was generated. But that was all.

With the weak resistance that can be obtained with the high mental power stat and Unrestrained Heart Method, he had no choice but to only shake off low-level low-grade curses.

Of course, the level of the curse skills Jin-su who cannot raise the level of synthesis skills learned is also not that high. But Jin-su’s mana stat and mental power stat were as much as 1,622, and additionally a 92.2% increase Blessing was attached here.

With this degree, he could lightly cover the point that the level of the curse skills is low.

‘If the old man possesses dispel-related items or can receive a healer’s help, the situation would have changed.’

To the current Cheon Mu-seong, there did not exist even one dispel-related item.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa!

Cheon Mu-seong wrapped protective force on the whole body and emitted pure white force in streams from the sword in hand and rushed toward Jin-su. At the appearance of Cheon Mu-seong drawing the best path and attacking even in a cursed state, Jin-su was not a little impressed.

‘But curses are only the beginning.’

Jin-su threw mage type attack skills toward Cheon Mu-seong.

Saaaak!

Creak!

Cold energy pierced the protective force and froze Cheon Mu-seong’s body covered in curses, and ice arrows and ice spikes flew.

Kwaang! Kwaang! Kwaang!

Cheon Mu-seong swung the sword even in a situation where vision is restricted and shattered the magic attack skills in an elegant posture and narrowed the distance.

In response, Jin-su changed armament to a bow and pulled the bowstring.

Creeeak!

Shushushushuk!

Arrows containing cold energy and restraint skills flew toward Cheon Mu-seong.

Clang! Boom! Crack!

Cheon Mu-seong displayed the art of striking away dozens of arrows by swinging one sword. However, perhaps because of the cumulative damage of curses and magic attack skills, it was not perfect.

Thud!

One arrow containing cold energy pierced Cheon Mu-seong’s protective force and was driven into the left shoulder.

Cheon Mu-seong simply slightly hardened his expression and stubbornly rushed toward Jin-su. Cheon Mu-seong’s two eyes were burning vigorously with the will of somehow wanting to feed Jin-su one shot.

However, the distance between Jin-su and Cheon Mu-seong was not easily narrowed. Because Jin-su retreated while continuously shooting arrows and placed constraints on Cheon Mu-seong’s movement.

“Udeudeuk!”

Cheon Mu-seong fluttered the beard and hair full of frost and bit his molars and calmly advanced forward, gradually narrowing the distance with Jin-su.

Whirik!

At that time, Cheon Mu-seong’s feet narrowed the distance with Jin-su in one moment along with a strange footwork. Jin-su was continuously shooting arrows without changing the weapon to a sword.

Cheon Mu-seong’s eyes flashed. Finally, the opportunity to properly feed Jin-su one shot came.

Tak!

At the moment Cheon Mu-seong stepped his feet forward to swing the sword toward Jin-su who is pulling the bowstring.

Saaaak!

A powerful curse energy burst from under Cheon Mu-seong’s feet and covered the whole body.

“Uek!”

The headache that was already confusing the head became worse, and the body became heavy like a stone lump. At the same time, both ankles became heavy as if even shackles of ten thousand pounds were attached.

It was the result of being caught in the curse trap Jin-su had installed in advance.

“Udeuk!”

Cheon Mu-seong bit his teeth and swung the sword as is. However, in the meantime, Jin-su’s equipment was in a state of changing from the bow to swords again.

Whoosh!

Cheon Mu-seong’s sword cut the air. Because Jin-su’s presence and appearance suddenly disappeared as is.

‘Behind.’

He confirmed Jin-su’s position with excellent qi sense and quickly turned his body, but.

Kwaaaaang!

As much as the reaction was one step late, he could not properly flow Jin-su’s attack.

‘I have to maintain the current distance.’

Cheon Mu-seong tenaciously stuck to Jin-su and swung the sword. However, it is Jin-su whom he could not win against even in a normal body state.

There is no way he can win against Jin-su in a body state where all kinds of curses are stuck and gnawing at the flesh and mind and the left shoulder is pierced by an arrow.

‘One hit. I want to hit even just one hit.’

There is no way Cheon Mu-seong does not know this fact. That is why Cheon Mu-seong’s current goal was only hitting Jin-su just one hit. However, the cold energy continuously spewing from Jin-su’s body continuously made Cheon Mu-seong’s movements slow.

On top of that, since Jin-su’s body instantaneously disappeared blurry and even hid the presence, dealing with him was pickier.

‘With the orthodox method, it is too much.’

At the moment of realizing that fact, Cheon Mu-seong’s two eyes were dyed with madness.

Whoosh!

Kwaaaaang!

At the same time, Cheon Mu-seong’s movements changed to attack-oriented. He abandoned defense or whatever and showed movements only to feed Jin-su a valid hit.

Slash! Splat!

In an instant, Cheon Mu-seong’s body changed into one full of wounds. Since he abandoned defense, it was a natural result. Cheon Mu-seong continued the fierce attack while aiming for only one opportunity even while the whole body is dyed in blood.

In the middle of that, finally the opportunity he had been waiting and waiting for came. Cheon Mu-seong ignored Jin-su’s sword flying aiming at his abdomen and aimed at the gap and stabbed the sword.

Thuk!

Jin-su’s sword pierced Cheon Mu-seong’s abdomen. The pain of the abdomen with many organs being pierced by a cold blade was beyond imagination.

That was not the end.

Since the Blood-Sucking Sword that pierced Cheon Mu-seong’s abdomen absorbed blood at a scary speed, it was to the degree where the head spun for a moment. However, Cheon Mu-seong endured the pain and confusion with mental power and blew even more internal energy into his own sword that he stabbed toward Jin-su’s shoulder.

Crack!

Cheon Mu-seong’s sword pierced Jin-su’s protective force.

‘Success.’

At the moment Cheon Mu-seong let out a cheer inwardly.

Clang!

The sword Cheon Mu-seong stabbed bounced as is right before touching Jin-su’s shoulder.

“How can this be...”

One word full of emptiness flowed from the mouth of Cheon Mu-seong whose face became pale from having too much blood sucked by the Blood-Sucking Sword.

Swoosh!

Jin-su who pulled out the Blood-Sucking Sword stuck in Cheon Mu-seong’s abdomen cast a recovery skill and simply did emergency treatment.

“First, let’s end here today. Su-a!”

At Jin-su’s call, Shin Su-a quickly approached and unfolded recovery skill, dispel skill, and purification skill consecutively. The wounds on Cheon Mu-seong’s whole body recovered quickly, and the curse and cold energy covering the body disappeared quickly.

“How is it after directly experiencing the skills of other classes?”

At Jin-su’s question, Cheon Mu-seong made an empty expression and opened his mouth.

“Honestly, I was surprised. I thought the skills of mages, shamans, and healers are not greatly threatening... it was not. It was only that they were weak, so I could not feel the threat.”

It was the correct answer.

Because Cheon Mu-seong was too out-of-spec a strong person, the skills of the players he met until now looked ridiculous.

“Lord, why did my sword bounce at the end?”

Cheon Mu-seong asked with an expression full of curiosity.

“I used the healer’s protection and the tanker’s protection skill. Both skills can be utilized by Elder Cheon. The protection skill can be received from Su-a, and the protection skill is fine if using directly.”

“Is that so.”

Cheon Mu-seong made a bitter expression and bowed his head deeply. He thought the healer’s protection skill or the tanker’s protection skill is only something like paper that tears if lightly swinging the sword once.

Yet, that was only his own misconception to the end.

‘Even so, to think my sword cannot even graze one of the lord’s hairs.’

Cheon Mu-seong received a large shock from this spar. Also, he was not a little surprised that the skills of other classes are this threatening.

The curse he looked down on was too powerful, and the magic attack skills and archer attack skills were also threatening. The assassin’s stealth skill and surprise skill and the tanker’s defense skill were also sharp and picky to the degree of deciding the win or loss of combat in a fleeting moment.

‘This is not simply because the lord is strong. As the skills of each class harmoniously blend, it is really scary to the degree of being picky to deal with.’

Probably even if the opponent was not Jin-su but a skilled party that matches well, the result would not change greatly.

‘If slightly careless, I almost became the appearance of a tiger being hunted by hunters.’

If there was no experience of the spar with Jin-su a little while ago, Cheon Mu-seong would still have looked down on the skills of other classes, and someday he would have suffered greatly.

Right now, there is no skilled person who can cause harm to Cheon Mu-seong that he has met besides Jin-su. However, just because it has been so until now, there is no law that it will be so from now on, so this time as well, it was no different from receiving a large favor from Jin-su.

“This dull me learned many things from the lord.”

“From tomorrow, I will inform of the weaknesses or response methods of each class skill step by step through spars.”

At Jin-su’s words, cold sweat flowed on Cheon Mu-seong’s face. The first spar of clashing using only martial arts had many things to learn and was really fun to the degree of going crazy. However, the second spar of using all skills of each class was only being beaten one-sidedly and he could not even properly mix swords with Jin-su.

Easily speaking, he wants to do the first spar a hundred times and a thousand times, but he does not want to do the second spar again.

“Then shall we return now?”

At Jin-su’s words, Cheon Mu-seong forcibly nodded.

If following his heart, he wanted to say cannot we just do the first spar and not the second spar, but...

It did not seem Jin-su who is making a refreshing smile as if all the pent-up anger until now has been resolved would listen to Cheon Mu-seong’s request. And decisively, Cheon Mu-seong also recognized the necessity of the second spar.

Because Cheon Mu-seong himself was too ignorant about other class skills.

In the lawless zone of the Tower, it was not a matter of not improving even after noticing one’s own weaknesses.

‘But why do I dislike doing it this much.’

From after seeing Jin-su’s refreshing smile, he gradually disliked doing the second spar more and more, but...

Unfortunately, to Cheon Mu-seong, the choice itself of not doing the second spar did not exist.