Chapter 61

Chapter 61

Level 2 Player

Victory

Churrrrrk!

The Blood-Sucking Sword greedily absorbed Jucheonguk’s blood.

‘Then shall I clean up the aftermath?’

Jin-su, who collected the items Jucheonguk had been wearing and the class change certificates that dropped, headed toward where the remnants of the Hwangryong Guild were.

‘As expected, some ran away.’

When Jucheonguk fled and Jin-su pursued him while bringing the shadow archer and shadow assassin, the Hwangryong Guild members who had been fighting the shadow knight, shadow warrior, and Stone Golem immediately chose to flee while enduring the barrage of attack magic from the shadow mage.

‘There is no need to find and kill them all.’

Jin-su was using the Mask of Lies skill just in case. The Mask of Lies skill that had risen to level 522 could increase or decrease not only the body type but the height itself.

Accordingly, Jin-su had completely changed his appearance by reducing not only the face, pupils, and hair color but also the height.

‘If I hadn’t changed it, Jucheonguk wouldn’t have had a chance to escape midway either.’

Due to the changed height and body type, a slight sense of incongruity occurred during combat, and thanks to that Jucheonguk was able to preserve his life for quite a long time.

‘Let’s go back and rest.’

Jin-su decided not to clean up the remnants of the Hwangryong Guild that had fled. This was not because the remnants were pretty, but a measure to drag the dead Jucheonguk’s honor into the mud.

“Hyun-su. Are you okay? You’re not hurt anywhere?”

Shin Su-a, who had been hiding her body next to the shadow mage, quickly approached and asked Jin-su.

“Yeah, I’m fine. You’ve worked hard so far. Let’s rest properly now.”

While dealing with the elites of the Hwangryong Guild so far, Jin-su and Shin Su-a had to keep moving their bodies without properly sleeping or properly eating.

Naturally, the accumulated fatigue of Jin-su and Shin Su-a was not light.

Since even Jin-su with high health stats felt fatigue, there was no need to mention Shin Su-a whose health stats were remarkably low.

“Yeah, we should rest. First, I’ll dispel the curses.”

Shin Su-a used dispel and purification skills to dispel the curse skills stuck to Jin-su’s body and purify the corruption skills.

“Thanks. Let’s go quickly.”

Jin-su and Shin Su-a moved toward the city.

‘I need to do the item sorting work.’

There was a full load of items that the dead Hwangryong Guild members had possessed and the class change certificates and skill books that dropped. Distinguishing between those to use or learn directly and those to sell was also work.

Jin-su was organizing the accumulated fatigue so far and the things he had to do from now on in his head, so he did not properly check Shin Su-a’s expression. That was why he did not confirm Shin Su-a’s infinitely dark face.

***

Jin-su and Shin Su-a arrived at the city and booked lodgings.

“First, let’s rest and do the sorting tomorrow.”

“Okay, got it.”

At Jin-su’s words, Shin Su-a agreed, and the two entered their respective lodgings.

“Haah!”

A long sigh burst from the mouth of Shin Su-a who returned to the lodging alone after parting with Jin-su.

‘I am of no use to Jin-su at all.’

Shin Su-a curled up her body on the bed.

‘Am I not an existence like a tick that steals experience and tears off items from Jin-su?’

After Jin-su learned the healer’s class skills, Shin Su-a’s self-esteem dropped extremely. That dropped self-esteem took a direct hit in this battle with the Hwangryong Guild.

‘I did nothing.’

She had only cast a few blessings and protection skills. When the battle actually broke out, what Shin Su-a could do was only watch Jin-su’s appearance from afar.

‘I resolved that next time I wouldn’t just watch from afar and would definitely fight together.’

That resolve at the time became meaningless. Following the war with the Chabel Guild, even in the war with the Hwangryong Guild, Shin Su-a was nothing more than a burden.

‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Jin-su.’

When hunting monsters normally, there were roles that only Shin Su-a could do. Things like installing Sanctuary, blessing, protection, recovery, dispel, and purification.

Except for recovery, there was no overlap with the dark-type shadow healer or Jin-su’s healer skills. Shin Su-a felt great pride in the fact that she was helpful to Jin-su with things that only she could do.

The problem was battles with players.

Shin Su-a’s holy-type healer skills were all things that exerted great power only when used appropriately at the right timing while the battle continued.

The problem was that Shin Su-a did not participate in the battle and only watched from afar. Naturally, Shin Su-a’s skills were of no help at all to Jin-su who fought a fierce battle alone.

‘At least I cast blessings and protection skills in advance, but.’

When judged coldly, even if Shin Su-a’s blessings and protection skills were not there, there would not have been a great influence on the overall trend.

‘I am useless no matter what.’

The fact that she was not helpful to Jin-su hurt her heart too much. There was another problem.

‘Even now I can give at least a little help to Jin-su. But will I be able to do so later as well?’

Jin-su can freely go back and forth between holy-type and dark-type classes. In the case of dark type, unlike learning skills of multiple classes, in the case of holy type he is only maintaining the mage class.

‘What happens if Jin-su learns healer skills in the holy-type class as well?’

Then she really becomes useless no matter what.

No, rather she becomes harmful. Because she was stuck to Jin-su’s side like a parasite sucking experience and items.

‘I don’t want to be abandoned.’

She no longer wanted to be alone. She wanted to continue being together with Jin-su. And to do so, she wanted to become an indispensable person who is helpful to Jin-su.

Shin Su-a unfolded her curled-up body.

There was a faint smell of blood.

It was because when she was curled up, she put strength into her grip and her nails dug into the flesh of her forearm.

“Rapid Recovery.”

When Shin Su-a cast a recovery skill, the wound healed in an instant.

[The level of Rapid Recovery has risen.]

At the same time, the level of the Rapid Recovery skill rose.

Shin Su-a, who was dazed for a moment, took out a self-defense dagger from her inventory and stabbed it into her thigh.

Thud!

Flesh tore and red blood flowed out in bubbles.

“Rapid Healing.”

Shin Su-a repeated self-harming and using recovery skills every time the cooldown returned.

“Blessing of Strength, Blessing of Reinforcement, Blessing of Robustness...”

After that, she cast all kinds of blessings on her own body. After casting all blessing skills, she cast protection skills.

The advantage of a healer was the point that one could raise skill levels by casting skills alone. Of course, the growth speed is slower than experiencing actual combat. However, it is better than not doing it.

Shin Su-a cast skills over and over that night until her mana was completely depleted and then fell into a deep sleep.

***

The next morning.

Jin-su and Shin Su-a, who had rested well and finished breakfast, gathered at the lodging and sorted items.

‘Most of them are largely useless things.’

For weapons, there are the Baekcheon Divine Sword and Blood-Sucking Sword and the Staff of the Ice Dragon. Weapons that are not main ones were about a staff for dark-type mages whose main force is flame-type magic, a staff for healers, a bow for archers, and a dagger for assassins.

‘Upgrades are possible to some extent.’

If there is an inventory, items can be swapped in an instant. That was why, from Jin-su’s perspective, the more good equipment the better.

‘This seems usable.’

It was a bow and leather armor used by one of the archers, and it was an item with a set effect.

‘The level is a bit low, but.’

That can be solved with item level fixing.

‘Let’s set it aside for now.’

He planned to swap it immediately if a better archer-exclusive item came out. Jin-su quickly sorted the items.

‘There are many ambiguous ones.’

From Jin-su’s standards, there was not a single item worth using continuously from now on. However, there were quite a few items at a level that was not bad to use right now.

‘Won’t at least one come out?’

Even just the Bracelet of Shortening that Kim Young-cheol, the guild master of the Daehan Guild, gave to Jin-su was a truly good item that was really hard to obtain on Floor 100. Giving such an item meant it was the same as possessing even better items.

‘It’s not like the Hwangryong Guild is lacking in power or scale compared to the Daehan Guild either.’

Then there was a high probability that the Hwangryong Guild also possessed items at the level of the Bracelet of Shortening or even better.

‘Since not even half is finished yet.’

Jin-su continued the item sorting with expectation.

“Um, Jin-su. Do you want to try equipping this once?”

At that time, Shin Su-a, who was sorting items together, held out one bracelet to Jin-su and said.

“It’s a bracelet. Huh?”

Jin-su received the bracelet and while trying to check the item information had no choice but to be quite surprised. Because the appearance looked exactly the same as the Bracelet of Shortening.

Jin-su quickly checked the information of the bracelet.

“The name is the same too?”

It had the same name as the Bracelet of Shortening that Jin-su had received from Kim Young-cheol, the guild master of the Daehan Guild.

“The level and option effects are the same too. Could it be a set item?”

At Shin Su-a’s words, Jin-su checked the option information of the Bracelet of Shortening and put it on his left arm.

Click!

The two Bracelets of Shortening stuck together as if attached by a magnet and changed into one bracelet.

[The Bracelet of Shortening set has gathered. The set effect activates.]

“It’s real.”

It was really a set item.

‘The number of uses increased by 1 each.’

The set effect activated.

‘It must have originally been one set.’

But it seemed the owner was divided into two.

‘Well, cases like this are common.’

It might have been an item that came out as a hidden dungeon reward and the party members each divided it, or a dispute arose or a battle broke out and it was forcibly separated.

The Ring of Recovery and Ring of Worsening that Jin-su possessed as a pair of rings were also set items, but they could also be divided into two and used by different people.

‘Of course, in that case the set effect has to be given up.’

As much as a Daehan Guild member and a Hwangryong Guild member each possessed one, in a normal situation the set item could not gather, but he was lucky.

“You did well. Thanks. Su-a.”

“Okay, I’ll look for more.”

Shin Su-a, who got excited at Jin-su’s praise, entered the item sorting work again. Jin-su also continued the item sorting.

“Huh? Su-a. This seems good for you to use.”

“Thanks.”

Often usable items came out.

They were items that strengthened the power of specific skills or decreased the skill casting speed. However, there were no good items like the Bracelet of Shortening.

‘Is this the sword Jucheonguk used?’

The level was high and the options were good, but compared to the Baekcheon Divine Sword or Blood-Sucking Sword it was inferior.

‘I should just sell it.’

The sorting of equipment items was finished.

‘Are my eyes too high?’

He picked up quite a few items usable for a while, but there was not a single item usable continuously. Jin-su and Shin Su-a who finished sorting equipment items entered the sorting of class change certificates and skill books.

This side had quite high expectations.

As much as they could become materials for Jin-su’s synthesis skills, it seemed he could use more parts than equipment items.

‘This will be usable later. This is okay too.’

Once he moved to class change certificates and skill books, there were definitely many usable ones. Especially in the case of common skill books that can be learned regardless of class, there was nothing to discard.

‘If I learn them, I can unconditionally use them later.’

Thanks to the Blessing, there is no need to pay separate attention to raise skill levels, so this was really convenient. Jin-su just learned common skills. If there were two of the same skill book, he set them aside separately. To acquire them on the holy-type status window.

‘There are many usable class change certificates too.’

Compared to the dark-type status window that possessed quite a large number of synthesis skills, the holy type did not have even a single synthesis skill.

‘The synergy between the Staff of the Ice Dragon and the Ice Dragon Mage is too good.’

If he made all the Ice Dragon Mage class skills into synthesis skills it would be a problem that is solved, but his heart did not easily move.

The reason was simple.

‘If I make them into synthesis skills now and change class to another class, I can only acquire the basic skills of the Ice Dragon Mage class.’

Unless the Blessing grows and rises above class level 2, it was a situation where he was slightly reluctant to touch it before that.

Since the Ice Dragon Mage is a reward obtained while hunting the out-of-spec monster White Drake, the grade of the class change certificate was quite high.

‘It’s not unique grade, though.’

It was not a type of class change certificate that could be easily obtained later.

‘And it’s not like there is a mage class change certificate of a higher grade than the Ice Dragon Mage right now either.’

After deliberating for a moment, Jin-su ultimately decided to maintain the holy-type class Ice Dragon Mage a bit longer.

‘Since there is nothing urgent right now.’

There was no need to hastily acquire skills of other classes while giving up the mid-to-high class skills of the Ice Dragon Mage class.

Jin-su carefully sorted the class change certificates and skill books one by one. Even while doing so, the items he had put up on the auction house continued to sell.

‘Quite a few points have gathered.’

He obtained many points from the war with the Chabel Guild. And he obtained even more points from the war with the Hwangryong Guild.

‘Even though I used a lot of points in the meantime, this much has piled up.’

Even though the points consumed to make synthesis skills were enormous, Jin-su’s current points were approaching 10 billion.

‘Then shall I do some proper shopping once?’