Chapter 81

Chapter 81

Level 2 Player

Transaction with the Necromancer King Garami Khan

Tak!

The 12 Army Summons rushed out.

Kwaaaang!

The two black-and-white Army Summons holding huge shields and hammers collided with the monsters first.

Crack! Thud!

The two advanced forward without hesitation like tanks while swinging the huge shields and hammers and swept the monsters away.

Shushuk!

Following them, a pair of archers made of black and white shot arrows at an enormous speed. The other summons also hunted the monsters in pairs.

‘It seems they all possess the skills they learned when they were alive.’

Combat techniques and experience also seemed to be maintained as is. On top of that, the summons born based on the same soul and white had breathing that matched extremely well as if they were made of one body.

‘Since they were one to begin with, is it a natural thing?’

If there was a regrettable point, it was the point that the balance of classes did not match like the shadow summons. Excluding one pair of tankers and one pair of archers, they were all made of warriors and assassins.

‘Since cases where mages or healers become guild masters are rare, there is no choice. There is no need to match class balance either.’

Jin-su made the guild masters into Army Summons only because they were stronger than the boss monsters he had been using as summons. Although there will be no opportunity to make a monster of the Bone Dragon grade into a summon for the time being, he was thinking of replacing them if it was even a monster of the variant lycanthrope grade.

‘There is no need to distinguish between monsters and players.’

From Jin-su’s perspective, he was only replacing the summons with individuals whose martial power when alive was strong for the sake of strengthening power.

‘Although it is also because the level of Army Summon rose, they are quite strong.’

The guild masters who became Jin-su’s summons became stronger than when they were alive. It was thanks to the high level of the Army Summon skill reaching 822.

On top of that, the power of buffs was added.

‘The dark-type Reigning Necromancer buffs enter the Army Summons made with the holy-type Dominating Necromancer well.’

The Army Summons made with the holy-type Dominating Necromancer also accepted the dark-type Reigning Necromancer buffs like Corrupted Heart, Corrupted Armor, and Pitch-Black Holy Fire without problems.

‘This will be possible too?’

Jin-su switched the status window. Then he cast the holy-type Dominating Necromancer buff skills Immortal Heart, Holy Armor, and Radiant Holy Fire on the summons.

‘It is possible.’

The holy-type Dominating Necromancer buffs and dark-type Reigning Necromancer buffs entered at the same time.

‘The problem is the duration.’

The duration of the buff skills that hit level 822 exceeded 80 minutes.

‘Since the stacks of status window switch are 22.’

If regulated well, overlapping the buff skills of the two classes was possible as much as wanted.

‘Very good.’

All of this was thanks to Skill Sharing.

‘Since the summons are maintained even if the status window is switched, the advantage is enormous.’

Once there was no obstacle at all to the maintenance of the summons whether it was the holy-type status window or the dark-type status window, the advantage was enormous.

‘If leeway is created, there will be no matter of Leo and Kkami being forcibly reverse-summoned either.’

Of course, it was a matter of much later.

‘For now, even if Skill Sharing grows, it will have to be invested in combat skills.’

Jin-su continued the tests of the Army Summons along with various attempts while continuing the hunt.

‘The speed at which the level rises is enormous.’

Since the Bone Dragon, shadow summons, and Dragon Tooth Soldiers scattered and hunted monsters, the efficiency itself was different.

‘I might be able to go to Floor 101 faster than I thought.’

Floor 100 is an enormously wide space. That was why even Jin-su expected that not a small amount of time would be consumed in collecting all the titles and clearing the hidden dungeons.

Yet, thanks to the joining of the Bone Dragon and the Dragon Tooth Soldiers made with the 21 teeth of the Bone Dragon, that speed seemed like it would be shortened far more.

‘As expected, it was good that I challenged the Bone Dragon raid.’

The growth of the Blessing due to feats and titles and the enormous loot were also good, but making the Bone Dragon into a summon was the largest.

‘The combat power is also excellent, but the fact that mobility has changed on a different dimension is large.’

No matter how high the stats are, running on two feet and flying in the sky cannot be compared. The joining of the Bone Dragon capable of flying in the sky could drastically reduce the time spent moving hunting grounds.

‘Let’s move diligently.’

The moment Jin-su resolved a forced march.

‘What?’

Shin Su-a who had been diligently casting blessing skills and protection skills felt an unknown chill and trembled her body.

***

Jin-su repeated a life of hunting during the day and sorting items at night while moving cities. In the meantime, Jin-su’s points exceeded 60 billion.

‘I can buy items of level 1,500 or higher, though.’

Then buying just one or two was the maximum.

‘It would be good for now, but in the long term it is a waste.’

Decisively, right now Jin-su’s power itself was perfect over-spec. Unless catching an out-of-spec monster like the Bone Dragon, level below 1,500 or level 1,500 or higher was the same.

Because whether it is a knife for catching chickens or a knife for catching cows, it will be able to catch worms of that degree as much as wanted.

‘There is no need to change the weapons. The armor is the same.’

Not to mention the Baekcheon Divine Sword, the Blood-Sucking Sword also rose in performance more and more as the level rose.

‘Because the weapon the Blood-Sucking Demon used until right before dying before regression was the Blood-Sucking Sword.’

If only the level could be raised, there was no problem with the performance.

‘The disadvantage of the Blood-Sucking Sword has no meaning to me.’

The growth-type weapon Blood-Sucking Sword had to absorb an enormous amount of blood to raise the level.

Especially as the level rose, it needed a large amount of the blood of high-grade monsters like dragonkin or giantkin or the blood of players rather than the blood of low-grade mid-to-low monsters. However, Jin-su did not need to raise the level of the Blood-Sucking Sword by absorbing blood.

Because it was fine if he just fixed the level with the Blessing.

The residual thought remaining in the Blood-Sucking Sword was also continuously quiet, perhaps because he firmly pressed its energy when he first acquired it.

‘Defense gear is also sufficient with the Black Dragon’s Cursed Armor Set.’

Decisively, the class most familiar and strong to Jin-su is the warrior that uses two swords, but although the proficiency drops, the skills of other classes were also quite powerful.

‘Let’s just raise the level of the main equipment of each class to an appropriate grade.’

There was a method to rapidly raise power right now if only the items of shield, staff, bow, dagger, leather armor, robe, and so on were upgraded.

‘I did not use a shield at all, but it is essential to maximize the effect of the tanker’s main skills.’

For the staff and robe, 2 were needed for mage use and healer use. On top of that, if going more detailed, it was better to be able to utilize the class characteristics of holy type and dark type.

‘A dagger is also needed.’

Although it was covered because the performance of the Baekcheon Divine Sword and Blood-Sucking Sword was so excellent, a dagger was still essential to use proper assassin skills.

Leather armor also had different options themselves for archer use and assassin use.

‘Huh, at this rate, the points might be insufficient.’

Although it was 60 billion points that he thought was overflowing at the current level, once he tried to change all the main items to a level exceeding 1,000, magic that looked enormously insufficient unfolded.

‘Still, let’s try first.’

Anyway, if it was something that had to be done, doing it quickly seemed better.

Knock knock knock!

At that time, a knocking sound was heard in front of Jin-su’s door.

‘What?’

This was a city he visited for the first time today. That was why naturally there was no one who would come looking.

Creeeak!

Once Jin-su opened the door, a peddler with a familiar face possessing fluffy fur revealed himself.

“Lucy.”

“Hahaha, it has been a long time. May I enter for a moment?”

Lucy asked while looking at Jin-su and swaying her tail.

‘I expected that she might come looking. As expected.’

It was really amazing by what method she obtained Jin-su’s information and found the location.

‘It seems she really possesses a special skill that detects items containing achievement.’

One or two times can be coincidence. However, if it continues to repeat, that is necessity.

‘Since a pushover came looking on her own, there is no reason to refuse.’

If it was another peddler, it would be different, but Lucy was greatly welcome.

“Come in.”

Once Jin-su opened the door wide, Lucy entered the lodging while smiling.

“Huh? Lucy!”

Shin Su-a looked at Lucy and rushed in as if she was glad and hugged her just like that.

“Welcome! Lucy! You are still cute!”

Shin Su-a said while fiddling with Lucy’s fluffy tail.

“Ha, haha... I am also glad, Su-a.”

Lucy let out laughter as if half enlightened and hugged Shin Su-a with an awkward tone.

‘It does not look glad at all.’

Seeing the appearance of drooping the tail and ears, it seemed Shin Su-a’s action was enormously not to her liking. But it was an expression of trying extremely hard not to show it on the face.

“Nyaaang!”

“Kaaak!”

At that time, Leo and Kkami showed interest in Lucy.

“Sniff sniff sniff!”

Leo moved busily while smelling Lucy’s scent.

“Poke poke!”

Kkami examined the reaction while poking Lucy’s body with her beak.

“They are truly cute guys. Hahaha!”

Lucy stroked Leo and Kkami as if they were cute with a face that was trying hard to smile.

‘It seems extremely uncomfortable and unpleasant. She is enduring while gritting her teeth. As expected, is it because the goal is the Corrupted Dragon Heart of the True Dragon?’

The other byproducts also possess enormous value. But among them, the peak is inevitably the Corrupted Dragon Heart of the True Dragon.

No matter how corrupted, is it not the Dragon Heart that is the most precious among the byproducts of a true dragon anyway?

“But why did you come?”

Jin-su asked Lucy the purpose of coming while smiling.

“Why are you asking when you know everything. Because of the Bone Dragon’s byproducts.”

Lucy said the purpose of coming straightforwardly while twitching her nose.

“A request?”

“Yes, if not a request, how would a poor peddler like me dare attempt to purchase the Bone Dragon’s byproducts.”

Lucy calmly cast self-deprecation.

‘What? Is it a strategy of buying sympathy and appealing to affection to cut the price?’

Jin-su looked at Lucy with suspicious eyes.

“The points I received as the request fee are 90 billion points. Among them, the price of the Corrupted Dragon Heart of the True Dragon is 60 billion points.”

At Lucy’s words, Jin-su’s expression made a puzzled expression.

“You, did you eat something wrong?”

It was not that he was surprised because Lucy proposed an absurd price. It was only that he was surprised because she said a price that attached an appropriate premium to the exact regular price.

“My client is a person called Garami Khan. As a person at the top of the Tower...”

Jin-su’s expression who was listening to Lucy’s words hardened.

“Are you talking about Garami Khan called the Necromancer King who is from the Aurus Dimension?”

At Jin-su’s words, Lucy made a startled expression.

“How does Jin-su know that person?”

Lucy glared at Jin-su with a gaze full of disbelief. She could not believe it at all. Information about the top-tier players of the Tower including the Necromancer King Garami Khan is tightly held by a small number of NPCs. That was why Lucy who was nothing more than a beginner peddler first learned who the person called the Necromancer King Garami Khan was while receiving this request.

‘How on earth do you know information about a person I only luckily learned recently?’

In a situation where Jin-su mentioned information that a player of Floor 100 absolutely could not know even if the sky split, Lucy had no choice but to be astonished.

“That is not the important thing, and you are saying that the Necromancer King Garami Khan requested you to purchase the Bone Dragon’s byproducts.”

The Necromancer King Garami Khan is a resident of the Aurus Dimension. Earth-origin players just called them demons. Because the blue-tinged skin and the bizarre appearance with horns on the forehead looked like typical demons that appear in fantasy novels or comics to the eyes of Earth-origin players.

‘It is only a name attached temporarily like calling the natives of the Tower NPCs.’

However, it was not that they called them demons just because the appearance was similar. Demons have extremely high compatibility with dark-type classes. Also, the majority possess extremely aggressive inclinations with short patience like people with anger control disorders.

‘On top of that, they are strong on a different dimension from Earth-origin people who have no abilities from birth.’

Demons possess a sturdy body, excellent authority, and mighty mana on a different dimension from Earth-origin people even before awakening. That was why, although the number of demons was on the few side, each one was an enormous strong person.

‘Since such guys even awakened as players.’

Unlike Earth-origin players who start from level 1, demons started from at least level 1,000 the moment they awakened as players. Because at the same time as awakening, the sturdy body and mighty mana they originally possessed are converted into high stats, and the excellent authority changes into high-level skills.

‘Well, because the floor of the Tower they start is different, they can at least rub against each other.’

Unlike Earth people who are dragged in an awakened state with no abilities and have to climb the Tower step by step from Floor 1, those from other dimensions are granted levels, stats, and skills matching their original ability values and climb the Tower from Floor 100 or higher, not Floor 1.

It could be said that the starting point itself being different is unfair...

‘If everyone started from a fair starting line without such a system, Earth-origin people would be hard to survive.’

After giving Earth-origin people time to adapt to the Tower and an opportunity to become strong, creating a structure where they can compete with the innately strong from other dimensions could only be praised.

‘Well, even so, the fact that they were forcibly dragged does not change.’

Jin-su is a person who reigned as one of the strongest while suppressing the strong from other dimensions despite the enormous penalty of being Earth-origin before regression. Also, among the players evaluated as the strongest, he was as much as the second strongest.

Nevertheless, Jin-su did not know why the Tower forcibly drags intelligent beings from other dimensions and awakens them as players.

‘I do not know what the purpose of the Tower is.’

It is not that it hopes for players to die. Although it creates a harsh environment, it gives strong power to that extent. As if it is hoping for one who will conquer itself to appear.

‘This time, I will definitely find out.’

He failed before regression. However, this time he will not fail. No matter what happens, he will conquer the Tower, dig into the secret, and then return to Earth.