Chapter 54

Chapter 54

Level 2 Player

Undead Hidden Dungeon (2)

The newly created level-fixed Blessing was precisely constitution.

‘Both Holy Body and Dark Body were level 2.’

Thanks to the growth of the Blessing, the levels of Holy Body and Dark Body had become 22.

‘Is there a new skill this time?’

Jin-su examined the Blessing. Unfortunately, there was no Blessing-exclusive skill.

‘The item fixed level has grown.’

Like the skill fixed level, he could now make 322 items into level 422. On top of that, the constitution level-fixed Blessing he had obtained not long ago had grown, making Holy Body and Dark Body go from level 22 to level 122.

‘Let’s fix the item levels first.’

The Shining Longsword, Ring of Revival, and Blood-Sucking Sword were the top priority targets.

‘The Blood-Sucking Sword also hasn’t been able to grow for a while.’

The Blood-Sucking Sword, which grows by absorbing blood, could not grow in the undead hidden dungeon. Except for zombies that shed rotten blood, there were no monsters that possessed blood at all.

‘Still, first the Shining Longsword.’

Jin-su fixed the level of the Shining Longsword to 422 with an expectant expression.

Hwaaaak!

At that moment, a cluster of bright light burst out from the Shining Longsword. And its appearance changed splendidly. The appearance that was like an ordinary cheap longsword with no particular characteristics changed into a form that looked extremely high-class at a glance, with a pure white blade and splendid decorations.

The name was also no longer Shining Longsword.

‘Baekcheon Divine Sword.’

The strongest divine weapon that had been in Jin-su’s memory.

‘To think the real thing has entered my hands.’

He had known that the Shining Longsword would grow into the Baekcheon Divine Sword. However, when the real thing actually entered his hands, the emotion was different. Jin-su checked the option information of the Baekcheon Divine Sword.

‘It’s there.’

One of the reasons the Baekcheon Divine Sword was called the strongest divine weapon.

[Skill Nullification – Level 422]

The strongest skill that can nullify all types of attack skills and defense skills the moment they are cut.

‘Well, the level is important, though.’

Skill Nullification is a passive skill.

The moment the Baekcheon Divine Sword is swung, a mage’s magic attack skill, a tanker’s protection skill, and a healer’s protection skill can be extinguished.

‘If the level of the Baekcheon Divine Sword rises further, it means I can even cut intangible skills like blessings or curses.’

However, that was only when the level difference was not large. If the level difference was large, Skill Nullification could not activate properly.

‘The saying that level is king is not for nothing.’

The current level of the Baekcheon Divine Sword was 422.

‘At this level, I can completely ignore all skills at the Floor 100 level.’

A bright smile bloomed at the corners of Jin-su’s mouth.

‘Then let’s raise the rest as well.’

Jin-su fixed the levels of items including the Ring of Revival and Blood-Sucking Sword to 422. Previously, he had saved the number of level fixes just in case. But now there was no need for that.

‘Nice.’

Sure enough, as the Blessing grew, the speed of becoming stronger became far faster. But he was also slightly disappointed.

The reason was simple. Because the Blessing he wanted had not yet appeared.

‘Class level and synthesis skills are still completely silent.’

There was also no new Blessing-exclusive skill.

‘To think the constitution level fix would grow consecutively.’

It was an unexpected result and not the reward he had hoped for. But he did not feel bad.

‘Because the constitution level fix rising is not a loss.’

Anyway, it meant Jin-su had become stronger. Also, the constitution level fix was a new Blessing that had not existed before.

‘That means the class level fix and synthesis skill level fix that have not appeared until now can also appear at any time.’

It was a situation where Jin-su’s prediction that all problems would be solved just by growing the Blessing had hit exactly right.

‘Now there’s really not much left.’

With this growth, the stat growth rate had increased to 82.2%.

‘After 92.2%, something else will grow.’

Just like how the stat fix had stopped after level 922.

‘I hope the base stats rise a bit next time.’

Jin-su’s base stats of 922 were by no means low even by Floor 100 standards. On top of that, if you added the stats, attack power, defense power, and recovery power that had increased by percentage, he was overwhelmingly stronger compared to a player with the same stats.

However, human greed has no end.

Jin-su had achieved an overwhelming victory in the war with the Chabel Guild, and after that had also won against one party of the Hwangryong Guild. It seemed like an easy win, but from Jin-su’s perspective it had been a quite close victory.

‘Compared to below Floor 100, the gap with other players has narrowed quite a lot.’

That meant the overall level of the players had risen that much. Because the situation was like that, from Jin-su’s perspective, the fact that his base stats had remained stagnant for quite a long time felt considerably frustrating.

‘If the base stats increase, the influence of the stats that increased by percentage will also become stronger.’

Jin-su was growing at an extremely fast speed as he climbed the Tower. However, once the gap with the players on the same floor of the Tower narrowed, a feeling that his growth was relatively slow arose.

If other players had known Jin-su’s true feelings, they would have been shocked. Because it was the appearance of a player who was only in his first year in the Tower overwhelming the top-tier players of Floor 100 who had over ten years in the Tower and still considering it insufficient.

‘Let’s raise the base stats with this opportunity.’

The undead hidden dungeon, which infinitely supplied monsters of the same species, was a treasure-like hunting ground where the Blessing could be grown quickly.

***

After that, another two weeks of time flowed by. The Blessing continued to grow upon growth and finally hit 92.2% stats.

‘Now one stage left.’

With the growth of the Blessing, the skill and item fixed levels hit 422 items at level 522. The constitution also grew and became level 222.

‘There’s no new Blessing skill this time either.’

It was slightly disappointing. But the results so far were still tremendous. Because the skill fixed level had risen, he had the capacity to make synthesis skills, and the item fixed level had increased sharply, so he could raise the level of his main items to 522.

‘First, let’s raise the item levels.’

Jin-su made the levels of his main items 522.

‘It would be better to make synthesis skills later in a safe lodging.’

For now, hunting was the priority.

“Grrr!”

“Kwoaaak!”

The undead monsters were still swarming, and Jin-su looked at that sight with a satisfied smile.

‘When are the higher undead monsters coming out?’

Not even once had higher undead monsters like Dullahan, Death Knight, or Banshee appeared yet.

‘Only variant versions of zombies, skeletons, and ghouls keep coming out.’

He thought that this might be the limit that the undead hidden dungeon possessed.

‘Actually, if you think about it, it’s only natural that the undead monsters that appear in the undead hidden dungeon are of a lower grade than the undead monsters controlled by Demirich, the Floor 100 gatekeeper.’

Jin-su also had no memory of seeing higher undead monsters like Dullahan, Death Knight, or Banshee when he cleared the undead hidden dungeon before regression. Even so, he had harbored a “just in case” feeling, but it seemed it had been excessive expectation.

‘Well, it can’t be helped.’

If higher undead did not appear, he had no choice but to extract everything he could from zombies, skeletons, and ghouls.

“Huh?”

But something was strange.

‘Why isn’t the number increasing?’

Until now, even if Jin-su and Shin Su-a beat the undead monsters at a terrifying speed, the undead hidden dungeon had continuously refilled monsters. But now it was different. The undead monster refill had stopped.

“Jin-su, the undead monsters aren’t increasing?”

“Yeah. Why is this happening?”

Only a month had passed since they entered the undead hidden dungeon. Thanks to the financial treatment, their mentality had also become sturdy, so they had been thinking of staying at least another half year.

“Why is this happening?”

In the end, all the undead monsters were wiped out.

“Is it broken?”

But no new undead monsters appeared.

Jin-su and Shin Su-a’s gazes turned toward the Dark Magic Orb, the core of the undead hidden dungeon.

At that moment.

Crack!

Large and small cracks appeared in the Dark Magic Orb.

Shatter!

And it shattered into pieces just like that.

[You have succeeded in the mission – Destroy the Dark Magic Orb.]

[You have achieved the achievement of exhausting all the dark magic contained in the Dark Magic Orb.]

[The title Undead Slaughterer is granted.]

[The title Dark Magic Destroyer is granted.]

[The title Undead Dungeon Destroyer is granted.]

[Mission clear rewards – Class Change Certificate of the Dominating Necromancer and Class Change Certificate of the Reigning Necromancer are granted.]

[You can leave the dungeon.]

“Damn it!”

Jin-su’s face twisted with disappointment. While Jin-su was climbing to Floor 100 of the Tower, the Blessing had steadily grown. Just as levels became harder to raise the higher they went, the Blessing was the same.

As a result, the growth speed of the Blessing had slowed sharply.

The undead hidden dungeon was a honey jar where he could explosively grow the Blessing in the midst of that. In reality, he had sweetly sucked honey for the past month. But he had never imagined even in his dreams that the honey jar he thought he could still eat for a long time would run out this quickly.

“No, why is that durability so weak?”

Jin-su said as he looked at the Dark Magic Orb that had shattered into pieces with a hollow expression.

‘I don’t think that’s the case.’

Shin Su-a thought that the durability of the Dark Magic Orb, which had spewed out millions of undead monsters and died a glorious death, was truly amazing. But she did not spit those thoughts out of her mouth.

“Haah! It can’t be helped, I guess.”

After letting out a long sigh, Jin-su picked up the Class Change Certificate of the Dominating Necromancer, which was the mission clear reward.

‘It looks good at a glance.’

The Class Change Certificate of the Dominating Necromancer and Class Change Certificate of the Reigning Necromancer that came out as rewards were higher-class change certificates at a glance.

‘To begin with, the necromancer class itself is a high-tier class, and Dominating and Reigning are attached to it.’

Jin-su checked the information of the Class Change Certificate of the Dominating Necromancer and Class Change Certificate of the Reigning Necromancer.

‘Unique grade.’

They were class change certificates of which only one existed. They were rewards of a level that absolutely could not come out at the Floor 100 level.

‘The Dominating Necromancer is holy type, and the Reigning Necromancer is dark type.’

Even if he did not know about the dark-type necromancer, for a holy-type class to be a necromancer was truly an extremely unique class.

‘I don’t know the exact power, but if sold at the auction house, they would be worth at least tens of billions of points.’

Perhaps there would be people who would buy them even if put up for hundreds of billions of points.

‘Let’s think about it.’

Jin-su needed many class change certificates.

Especially the higher the class of the class change certificate, the better. In the case of class change certificates of which only one existed like unique grade, their value rose exponentially.

‘The problem is that there’s nowhere to use them.’

They were too expensive to use as materials for synthesis.

‘The problem is that there’s no class level-fixed Blessing.’

No matter how good a class change certificate is, at level 2 only basic class skills are given.

‘Using a unique-grade class change certificate as material just to make a few basic class skills into synthesis skills is too wasteful.’

No, beyond wasteful, it was an enormous loss.

In the case of the class change certificates that Jin-su had used once as consumables to make synthesis skills and then discarded, as long as he had points he could repurchase them anytime.

‘But these two are not like that.’

They were too wasteful to use once and discard.

‘That said, neither I nor Shin Su-a can use them.’

Jin-su’s classes were set as mage and warrior.

Shin Su-a is a healer.

She also has a future waiting for her where she will make a name as the Holy Saintess and become one of the best healers in the Tower.

Giving the occupation of necromancer, which is an unknown domain, to Shin Su-a, whose talent as a healer overflows, is absurd.

No matter how good the Dominating Necromancer and Reigning Necromancer were, they did not have enough merit for Jin-su and Shin Su-a to change their current classes.

‘Let’s think a bit more.’

Jin-su first put the Class Change Certificate of the Dominating Necromancer and Class Change Certificate of the Reigning Necromancer into his inventory.

‘Even if a class level fix appears, it will be hard to use immediately.’

Because at first it will grow starting from level 22.

‘When the class level fix has grown enormously later, use them as materials for synthesis skills. Or when a player to recruit as a party member appears, use them then.’

In simple terms, it meant there would be no use for them for the time being.

They were expensive skill books that could earn many points if sold at the auction house, but Jin-su had no intention of selling them at all.

“Shall we go out now?”

“Yeah, let’s do that. We’re going straight to the city, right?”

“We have to. I want to sleep soundly on a fluffy bed.”

“I want to shower with warm water first.”

Jin-su and Shin Su-a planned to receive compensation for their hardships so far and left the undead hidden dungeon where they had stayed for a month.

“Huh?”

“They came out?”

What greeted Jin-su and Shin Su-a who had exited the undead hidden dungeon was a group of players.

‘Who are they? Why were they waiting for us?’

Jin-su’s expression became colored with puzzlement.

“Well, then I guess we’ll just go.”

“Yeah, it was a waste of time.”

The players muttered as if disappointed and left the place just like that.

“Those people must have discovered the hidden dungeon we entered and waited.”

At Shin Su-a’s words, Jin-su also nodded. It was rare for two parties to discover the same hidden dungeon with a time difference, but it was not something that never happened.

‘There are often cases where they wait for the next turn while hoping the party that entered first gets wiped out.’

But there were too many points that bothered him to just pass it off as a coincidence.

‘If I hadn’t stopped by this dungeon, it would have remained uncleared the whole time.’

Before regression, Jin-su’s party discovered and cleared the undead hidden dungeon several years later than now. In simple terms, that meant that until then the undead hidden dungeon had not been cleared by anyone.

‘That party might have been wiped out, but.’

For that, the party’s level looked quite high.

‘Their movements, the equipment they’re wearing...’

In Jin-su’s view, they absolutely did not look like just average-level players.

‘At that level, it seems they would be able to clear the undead hidden dungeon as well.’

If it was a level where a party of that level would get wiped out, then the party Jin-su belonged to before regression would also never have been able to clear the undead hidden dungeon.

‘On top of that, the fact that they were waiting in front of the hidden dungeon is also strange.’

Jin-su and Shin Su-a had been in the undead hidden dungeon for over a month.

Unless that party had coincidentally discovered the undead hidden dungeon a few hours ago and was trying to rest while they were at it, there was no need for them to sit and wait at the entrance.

‘They could just check on the way back after hunting.’

That was a more efficient and convenient method. Decisively, the language they used bothered him.

‘They used Chinese.’

The target of the last trouble that occurred before heading to the undead hidden dungeon was precisely the Hwangryong Guild. And the Hwangryong Guild members were all composed of Chinese people.

‘If those people are affiliated with the Hwangryong Guild?’

Why, unlike before regression, players of that level had discovered the undead hidden dungeon.

Why they had been sitting in front of the undead hidden dungeon instead of checking on the way back after finishing hunting.

‘All the questions are resolved.’

Since you never know, it seemed there was a need to check once.

‘Go.’

Jin-su ordered the shadow assassin to tail the players who had been guarding the front of the undead hidden dungeon.