Chapter 28

Chapter 28

Level 2 Player

Dragon Tooth Soldier (2)

“Kiiik!”

“Kyaaaak!”

As the swamp began to freeze, the Lizardmen hiding their bodies in the swamp were startled and jumped out. If they stayed still, they would freeze together with the swamp, so they had no choice.

“Ice Arrow.”

Udeudeudeuk!

As Jin-su used the skill again, dozens of ice arrows appeared and flew toward the Lizardmen.

Pueok! Kwajik!

The Lizardmen whose feet were rather bound because of the half-frozen swamp died powerlessly. While Jin-su cast attack skills, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers and Stone Golem also moved diligently and massacred the Lizardmen.

The Lizardmen whose movement speed had been slowed by Freezing Declaration were nothing more than easy prey for the Dragon Tooth Soldiers and Stone Golem.

The Lizardmen that had ambushed Jin-su and Shin Su-a were wiped out in an instant.

“Let’s go that way.”

Jin-su said to Shin Su-a.

“Okay.”

Shin Su-a controlled the Stone Golem and moved in the direction Jin-su said.

‘The location of the hidden dungeon in the swamp zone is similar to the desert.’

It seemed he could find the hidden dungeon easily this time too.

“Kyaaaak!”

The Lizardmen charged toward Jin-su and Shin Su-a without rest. But as the attacks of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, Stone Golem, and Jin-su’s magic skills continued, they died powerlessly without even putting up proper resistance.

‘The attribute difference is too big.’

If Jin-su’s class had been Flame Combat Mage, it wouldn’t have been this smooth. The attack skills of the Flame Combat Mage that mainly used fire-attribute magic skills were hard to deal proper damage to the Lizardmen hiding their bodies in the swamp zone.

Then the mana consumption would have been larger, and he wouldn’t have been able to bind the Lizardmen’s feet. If that happened, the hunting speed would naturally have no choice but to slow.

On the other hand, the Ice Dragon Mage mainly used ice-attribute magic skills. A swamp is a wetland. Naturally, there is a lot of moisture, and it was an environment where ice-attribute magic skills can exert the best synergy effect.

‘Moreover, the rise in class skill levels will also have an influence.’

The main skills of Jin-su who changed class to Ice Dragon Mage were Level 122. Naturally, there was bound to be a difference in power.

Jin-su moved diligently and cleared the hidden dungeons. The difficulty was at a very easy level.

As the day darkened and night came.

“Let’s rest here.”

Jin-su decided on a place with firm ground that rarely exists in the swamp zone as tonight’s lodging.

“Then I’ll use the Sanctuary skill.”

“Wait a moment.”

“Why?”

“I’m going to send the Dragon Tooth Soldiers outside the Sanctuary to hunt, so send the Stone Golem outside the Sanctuary in advance too.”

“Ah, there was such a method. Okay.”

As Jin-su sent the Dragon Tooth Soldiers out, Shin Su-a also sent the Stone Golem out. After that, Shin Su-a cast the Sanctuary skill.

“The Dragon Tooth Soldiers or Stone Golem won’t break, right?”

Shin Su-a asked as if worried.

“Both are summons with high Durability stats, so they’ll be fine. Although the hunting speed will drop a lot.”

The Dragon Tooth Soldiers and Stone Golem were summons with abnormally high Stamina and Durability stats. Although attack power and attack speed were relatively low, since there were a total of 13 units, there was no great need to worry.

“I’ve ordered them to wander the swamp zone and hunt monsters. Then they’ll hunt on their own until morning.”

“Then even while we’re resting or sleeping, the level will rise. Really good.”

Shin Su-a sparkled her eyes as if tasting a new world. Jin-su had a simple meal with Shin Su-a and then entered the auction house, collected the auction proceeds, and put up new items at the auction house.

‘There’s nothing suitable to buy.’

Jin-su made a regrettable expression.

‘Well, for a while, there won’t be a great need to worry about equipment.’

The weapons of the dark-type class Blood Demon Swordsman were sufficient with the Bloodsucking Sword and Shining Longsword, and the Ice Dragon Mage weapon was currently being diligently made by the artisan Unraelba.

‘Proper armor and accessories can be obtained slowly later.’

The one regrettable point was that he still hadn’t found out the growth method of the Shining Longsword and Ring of Resurrection.

‘I’ve tried all kinds of methods but they don’t grow.’

But there was no great worry.

‘Because just growing the blessings is enough.’

Don’t know the growth method of the Shining Longsword and Ring of Resurrection? Then just grow the blessings and use the level fix to forcibly raise the levels of the Shining Longsword and Ring of Resurrection.

‘Right now the Shining Longsword level is 187, so I can’t use the level fix up to Level 122.’

From Level 222, the situation was different.

‘The Ring of Resurrection can also be applied immediately from Level 122.’

The blessings were really cheats.

‘Let’s hunt diligently.’

That way the blessings will grow even faster.

***

Jin-su and Shin Su-a began to climb the Tower quickly while cutting with 22 hours 22 minutes 22 seconds. It was a forced march reducing meal time, rest time, and sleep time to the minimum.

‘She’s following well.’

It must have been a considerably hard schedule for Shin Su-a, but she followed tenaciously without a single complaint.

Around the time Jin-su reached Floor 62, the common skill application level of the blessings finally increased to Level 122.

‘The number of fixed skills also increased to 22.’

Jin-su immediately made the levels of main common skills including Shadow Summon, Dragon Tooth Soldier, Inventory, etc., 122.

The result was truly enormous.

Kwaaang!

The Shadow Knight whose attack power was on the weak side became strong enough to easily smash a troll’s head by swinging a shield.

Kwajik! Seogeok!

The Shadow Warrior ignored minor attacks and fiercely swung the greatsword, sweeping away dozens of monsters in one blow.

Seogeok! Jwaak!

The Shadow Assassin repeatedly hid and revealed his body in the monsters’ shadows and too easily cut off the breaths of boss monsters.

Shushushushuk!

Peopeopeopeok!

In the case of the Shadow Archer, he showed the trick of piercing dozens of monsters with one arrow. The time it takes to fire one arrow was only 0.2 seconds, firing 5 arrows in 1 second.

‘Not arrows but almost the speed of a machine gun firing bullets.’

Both the Shadow Assassin and Shadow Archer’s attack speed and attack power rose enormously.

Kwaaaaaang!

There was an existence that showed even more overwhelming attack power than the Shadow Assassin or Shadow Archer.

It was the Shadow Mage.

The powerful attack magic skill erased a large army of monsters reaching a thousand at once in one go.

Unfortunately, there was no opportunity to experience the Shadow Healer’s recovery skill. So the Shadow Healer scattered powerful curse and decay skills on the monsters.

Low-level monsters, the moment they touched the curse, writhed in agony and self-harmed or swung weapons at their own kind. Monsters hit by the decay skill slowly died while experiencing the pain of their bodies rotting.

‘There’s no particular need for me to step forward.’

Before Jin-su even stepped forward, the Shadow Summons were sweeping away the monsters. The fortunate point was that as the Shadow Summons’ level rose, they could act farther away from the owner Jin-su.

If the previous activity radius was about 10 kilometers, now it was about 20 kilometers.

‘I should move separately.’

That was better for hunting efficiency.

If there was one problem, it was that the number of monsters being hunted and extinguished was more than the number of monsters newly revealing themselves.

‘I should test the Dragon Tooth Soldiers once too.’

As the Shadow Summon skill’s level rose, the cooldown decreased from 24 hours to 12 hours, a whopping half. So there was somewhat more leeway than before.

‘If the skill level rises more, the cooldown will decrease more.’

In his heart, he thought it would be good if the cooldown disappeared completely, but that was realistically impossible.

‘Even if it only decreases to 1–2 hours, it’s sufficient.’

Jin-su, after the Shadow Summons’ test ended, switched the status window from the dark-type Blood Demon Swordsman to the holy-type Ice Dragon Mage.

After that, he fixed the levels of main neutral skills at 122.

‘Dragon Tooth Soldier Summon.’

Udeudeuk!

12 teeth swelled in size and turned into Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

‘The size is the same.’

But the luster of the weapons they held and the armor they wore changed. Before, it was obvious that they were weapons and armor made of monster teeth. But now it wasn’t.

‘It seems like they’re wearing armor made of well-refined white gold. Let’s see the skill a bit.’

The 12 Dragon Tooth Soldiers started hunting in place of the 5 Shadow Summons.

Kwaaang!

The Dragon Tooth Soldiers fought quite toughly. They received ordinary attacks with their bare bodies and slaughtered the monsters.

‘Even if the same level, compared to the Shadow Summons, the skill is definitely much lower.’

Because they used the teeth of a White Drake exceeding Level 500 with plenty of karma as material and hit skill level 122, they were definitely strong. But they couldn’t compare to the Shadow Summons influenced by Jin-su’s stats and blessings.

‘It’s a bit regrettable.’

It was a result he expected from the start. But the Dragon Tooth Soldier skill had a wide possibility of upgrade open.

‘Whether true dragon teeth or lesser dragon teeth, if I secure as many dragon race monster teeth as possible, I can make a large army.’

The mana consumption when using the skill will increase that much, but Jin-su’s current Mana stat was 922. Dragon Tooth Soldiers of the current level could sufficiently produce not 12 at once but about 50.

‘If the level drops, not 50 but hundreds or thousands are also possible.’

Jin-su took out Lizardman teeth from the inventory. Lizardman teeth were one of the common material items and sold that cheaply. But even if the lowest grade, Lizardmen were also strictly one of the dragon race monsters.

Jin-su used the Lizardman teeth to summon Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

Udeudeuk!

The Lizardman teeth swelled and turned into Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

‘Unsightly.’

The Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from the White Drake’s teeth with accumulated karma looked strong just by looking. Also, they looked quite splendid. But the Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from Lizardman teeth had small sizes and quite unsightly appearances.

‘The armaments are also poor.’

Compared to the Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from the White Drake’s teeth that look like an elite knight order, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from Lizardman teeth looked like defeated soldiers.

Still, it seemed necessary to test the combat power.

‘Go.’

At Jin-su’s command, about 300 Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from Lizardman teeth advanced forward. And they fought quite bravely according to the command.

“Kyaaaak!”

Puseok! Pagak!

But the skill was at best one level below a living Lizardman no matter how well one considered it.

‘The Durability stat is also much lower.’

The Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from the White Drake’s teeth had never been extinguished so far. Even if reverse summoned and returned to the original form of the White Drake’s tooth, there wasn’t even one scratch.

But the Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from Lizardman teeth were destroyed one after another and returned to their original form. And that to a level where they were shattered into pieces or broken so they could never use the Dragon Tooth Soldier skill again.

‘As expected, the difference in materials is greater than the skill’s level.’

If the level is raised higher, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from Lizardman teeth will also become stronger. But considering the consumed mana, it was ambiguous to call it a gain.

‘Well, since mana recovers over time.’

If launching a quantity offensive, it didn’t seem like a bad choice.

‘Because the material level dropped, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers became weak. If the material level is raised, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers will also become stronger.’

If the 6 Shadow Summons are elite special agents each equipped with outstanding abilities, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers were close to a well-trained army.

‘Still, the hunting speed is somewhat similar.’

This was a phenomenon that occurred because the combat power of Floor 62 monsters was overwhelmingly lower compared to the Shadow Summons and Dragon Tooth Soldiers. Whether 6 rankers appear or 12 high-level ones appear in a Level 1 beginner hunting ground, anyway it’s the same one-hit cut.

Well, the about 300 Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from Lizardman teeth were also putting up a decent fight.

‘Let’s move leisurely.’

Anyway, clearing all achievements and hidden dungeons with a 2 hours 22 minutes 22 seconds cut was physically impossible. So Jin-su increased meal time, rest time, and sleep time and climbed the Tower leisurely.