Chapter 62

Chapter 62

Level 2 Player

Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set

Jin-su looked through the high-priced items among the sales items on the auction house one by one.

‘Class change certificates have no meaning right now.’

It was beneficial to purchase them when escaping the shackles of class level 2. Skill books also did not need to be obtained urgently right now.

For ordinary players, it was important to purchase and learn skill books of as high a grade as possible a little faster and then raise the level.

‘But it’s a story that has nothing to do with me.’

To Jin-su who has the Blessing, the level of skills has no meaning at all.

On the other hand, equipment items were different.

The level of equipment items that Jin-su can currently fix is 522. If he purchases equipment items with a level higher than level 522, he can immediately enhance his power.

‘Unlike class change certificates or skill books, refunds are also possible.’

As long as it is not bound equipment, it is fine to use it moderately and sell it on the auction house.

‘Please let something good come out.’

He did not even hope for fraudulent items at the level of the Baekcheon Divine Sword or Ring of Revival. He just hoped that items above the Bracelet of Shortening or Ouroboros’s Ring were up for sale.

Jin-su calmly examined the information of the equipment items. What he mainly looked at was the armor or accessory side.

‘Huh?’

While searching for high-priced equipment items for a long time, an item with a familiar name entered Jin-su’s eyes.

‘Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set.’

The equipment level was a whopping 1,487.

‘This is definitely the armor that guy was wearing.’

It was certain that it was the armor worn by the player who was called a moving fortress and the owner of the Ring of Revival before regression.

‘Later he switched to higher-level armor, but even then he regretted it quite a bit.’

The Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set was loot that came out from hunting a Black Drake. The skills attached as options were also quite good.

Penetration resistance, explosion resistance, physical attack resistance, skill attack resistance, mental-type attack resistance, and so on, all kinds of resistance skills were attached in a row.

‘But this skill is the biggest.’

It was the Curse Predator skill, an option that absorbs curse skills, worsening skills, and corruption skills and conversely raises all kinds of resistance power attached to the existing options and even recovers mana and health.

‘Decisively, the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set has all option skills linked to durability stats and health stats.’

Armor with this level of completeness was really rare.

‘The synergy with the synthesis skill Curse Absorption Recovery seems good too.’

Especially, if he wears the level 1,487 Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set in the Tower where level is king, he could obtain defense power to the point where he could be called invincible for the time being.

‘This is that time.’

The memory floated up of that guy complaining that he really wanted to buy it but did not even have enough points for the minimum bid.

‘Then later he met the person who won the bid at that time and bought it by giving far more points.’

The price of the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set currently up on the auction house was an immediate purchase price of a whopping 10 billion points and a minimum bid of 5 billion points.

It was not an expensive price.

‘Because items also have grades.’

Items below level 500 are traded from a minimum of several hundred thousand points to a maximum of around several tens of millions of points. However, the moment it exceeds level 500, the price jumps nearly tenfold.

‘Items below level 1,000 are traded from a minimum of several tens of millions of points to a maximum of around several hundred million points.’

The next stage, items below level 1,500, are traded from a minimum of several hundred million points to a maximum of around several billion points.

‘The Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set is top-grade among items below level 1,500.’

The current auction price was at a reasonably appropriate level.

‘The remaining time until the auction ends is about 30 hours.’

It is definitely good. However, the limits were also clear.

‘It is not for nothing that that guy later discarded the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set.’

The first was the problem of origin.

Loot that came out from hunting a sub-dragon, not a true dragon.

‘Naturally, it is inferior compared to equipment items that come out from hunting a true dragon.’

The second was the problem of level.

A top-grade item of level 1,487.

It is the best between levels 1,000–1,500, but compared to items of the upper grade of level 1,500 or higher, the performance definitely falls.

‘The level can be covered if the Blessing grows.’

The third was the problem of attack power.

‘The Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set is a typical tanker-type item.’

There is not a single option related to attack, and only options related to defense are stuck thickly.

‘To that guy who is a tanker it would be the best item, but.’

It was not to Jin-su.

‘That said, it is too regrettable to give up.’

Jin-su deliberated for a moment.

‘Buy it.’

In the end, Jin-su made a decision.

It was too wasteful to give up. Also, there was no other suitable listing.

‘To deal with the undead legion of Demirich, the Floor 100 gatekeeper, for a long time, preparation against curses and defense power are important.’

If he was just thinking of subjugating, there is no need to particularly value preparation against curses and defense power. However, Jin-su was thinking of extracting as much as possible from Demirich, the Floor 100 gatekeeper.

Jin-su did not deliberately destroy the Dark Magic Orb of the undead hidden dungeon. And he grew the Blessing while hunting the undead monsters summoned by the Dark Magic Orb.

In the same way as then, Jin-su planned to not defeat Demirich, the Floor 100 gatekeeper, and grow the Blessing to the maximum while only hunting the undead monsters he summons.

For that, preparation against curses and defense power were the most important.

Of course, the most decisive reason was separate.

‘Anyway, it is fine to use it moderately and then sell it.’

As much as it is not bound equipment, when it becomes unnecessary later he can sell it on the auction house again and recover a certain amount of the principal.

‘If I sell it more expensive than the purchase price, I can even earn points.’

For reference, Jin-su knew exactly when, where, and who to look for to sell the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set at a high price.

‘That guy will unconditionally buy it.’

He is the guy who purchased the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set before regression by being ripped off at 14 billion points.

‘It is obvious that it will be the same this time too.’

Jin-su, who solidified his resolve, carefully deliberated on the bid price. Although he decided to purchase, he had no intention of pouring 10 billion points to purchase immediately.

‘If it is over 8 billion points, it will roughly be in the safe zone.’

The problem was how many more hundreds of millions of points to use additionally.

He had to be careful.

Even 100 million points was an amount that could buy dozens of class change certificates that could make reasonably usable synthesis skills.

‘How much did that guy say he was ripped off?’

Jin-su made his best effort to recall the memory from before regression.

‘5.9 billion points.’

After struggling for a long time, Jin-su succeeded in recalling the faint memory from before regression.

‘That’s right. It was 5.9 billion points.’

Then the winning bid price of the current listing was 8.1 billion points.

‘But there might have been some residual tricks.’

Jin-su decided not to be overly greedy.

‘Anyway, as long as I buy it, it is an item that can be sold for 14 billion points later.’

That much, rather than failing to buy it by trying to save points for no reason, it was better to buy it at a price that definitely enters the safe zone.

Jin-su wrote 8.2 billion points as the bid price for the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set auction.

The points that exceeded 10 billion dropped below 2 billion in an instant.

‘Then shall I see if there is anything else worth buying?’

Jin-su looked at the auction house again. However, no particular items worth buying caught his eye.

‘Keep for now.’

In the end, Jin-su finished that day’s shopping by bidding on the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set.

***

Jin-su rested well for one day on the first day. And from the very next day he returned to the original schedule again.

“Nyaaaang!”

The wide-area taunt activated along with Leo’s roar gathered monsters from all directions.

“Kraaaang!”

“Krrrrr!”

Beast-type monsters resembling all kinds of animals such as wolves, lions, and leopards rushed in in piles.

Creeeak!

Pipipip!

The arrows of Jin-su and the shadow archer cut off the lives of the beast-type monsters rushing in first.

‘Flame Storm, Flame Explosion, Flame Barrier.’

Once the distance became a bit closer, Jin-su, who replaced the archer equipment with mage equipment through the inventory, cast magic attack skills together with the shadow mage.

Kwaaaaang!

Huge flames cleaned up more than half of the beast-type monsters that had gathered.

‘Touch of Black Darkness, Shackles of Restraint, Crown of Thorns, Body Weakening, Worsening, Corruption.’

Once the distance became even closer, Jin-su, who replaced the mage equipment with healer equipment, cast curse skills, worsening skills, and corruption skills.

After that, Jin-su, who replaced the equipment with warrior-type again, rushed toward the surviving monsters.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa!

Jin-su swung the Baekcheon Divine Sword that emitted pure white aura and the Blood-Sucking Sword that emitted blood-colored aura.

Slash!

“Kyaaak!”

Splat!

“Keong!”

The monsters that were not many left were wiped out in an instant by the combined attack of Jin-su, the shadow knight, the shadow warrior, the shadow assassin, and the Stone Golem.

‘Sure enough, being able to use skills of multiple classes at the same time is really convenient.’

The first attack is to spray archer skills using the bow with the longest range.

The second attack is to devastate with the mage’s magic attack skills that have a wide attack range.

The third attack is to weaken the enemy using the dark-type healer’s curse, corruption, and worsening skills.

Finally, while engaging in close combat, if he uses the classes of warrior, assassin, and tanker evenly, the hunting ends.

‘To think that synthesizing the basic class skills and common skills obtainable with only class level 2 is this much.’

Just imagining how much stronger he could become if the Blessing raised the class level was enough to cause a thrill.

‘Let’s move diligently.’

Only those who are prepared can seize opportunities. Now was the time to diligently grow the Blessing and pile up plenty of points to prepare for the future.

***

Jin-su, who finished hunting and returned to the lodging, checked the auction house. And he immediately looked at the items he had won the bid for.

‘It’s there.’

The Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set was firmly occupying a place in the auction house winning bid list. Jin-su immediately received the winning bid item, the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set.

‘It is definitely good.’

Perhaps because it was the highest-priced among the items Jin-su currently possessed, even the appearance visible from the outside was on a different dimension. To the point where it felt like seeing a kind of work of art rather than armor.

‘The fact that it is high-level equipment is clearly visible at a glance.’

Even though he had finished hunting and returned, the desire to go out hunting again boiled up.

‘Endure.’

Rest was needed. And the actual combat test of the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set was sufficient even if done tomorrow.

Jin-su forcefully calmed his excited heart like a child who received a new toy.

[The Blessing of Hwangsin has grown.]

[The Blessing of Hongsin has grown.]

At that time, the Blessing suddenly grew.

‘There was value in releasing the shadow summons.’

Jin-su and Shin Su-a entered the city for rest. But the shadow summons were still heating up in monster hunting in real time even now.

The result was the immediate growth of the Blessing.

Jin-su’s face brightened.

‘Has it finally risen?’

Even without checking the information of the Blessing, Jin-su could immediately know what had risen through the change felt in his body.

‘As expected, base stats are the best.’

The base stats that had been in a stagnant period for a long time had increased.

‘Strength stats and health stats have become 1,022.’

Now it was certain that as the Blessing grew, the other stats would also successively exceed 922 and grow to 1,022.

‘After the stat increase ends, will a new Blessing come out this time?’

No one knows that. A new Blessing might come out, or it might stop at the line of existing Blessings growing.

However, the premonition was good.

Because a single stat exceeding 1,000 also meant that the grade as a player had risen.