Chapter 83

Chapter 83

Level 2 Player

Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight

“Haah... Even without knowing how strong the Necromancer King Garami Khan is, your confidence is overflowing.”

Lucy looked at Jin-su with a gaze as if looking at a thoughtless child.

‘Well, in Lucy’s thinking, it might be an unrealizable thing.’

Although Jin-su has become much stronger...

Compared to the Necromancer King Garami Khan who is one of the strongest existing in the Tower, there was a difference as much as heaven and earth.

No, to begin with, comparing each other itself was at a level of being rude to the Necromancer King Garami Khan.

‘It does not even seem like Lucy properly grasps the power I possess.’

Even if she grasps it, that thought will not change.

‘Anyway, since it is words said out of worry for me.’

He had no intention of blaming Lucy or convincing her.

“First, show me what that guy gave.”

“Here.”

Lucy held out a staff and robe that gave off thick killing intent to Jin-su.

“The staff is the share of the Corrupted Dragon Heart of the True Dragon, and the robe is the share of the remaining byproducts.”

“Oho.”

As expected of a pushover full of bluff, he handed over not one but two items as exchange goods.

‘Let’s see.’

Jin-su first confirmed the information of the staff.

‘Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight.’

It was a weapon of as much as level 2,492.

‘He deliberated whether to give one below level 2,500 or above and then did this because it was wasteful.’

Although he deliberated hard, the appearance of not being able to discard the petty personality was clearly visible.

‘Actually, this is also excessive. At least, since I said I trust his eyes, he sent it at this grade.’

Probably he thought that if he gave an item of too low a grade, his own face would be damaged.

The options were quite good.

‘Undead monster Skeleton Knight summon skill and buff skills are thickly attached.’

In blunt terms, it was a level where just changing class to a necromancer and possessing only this one item could reign like a king on the lower layers of the Tower.

‘The robe is low in grade.’

It was a level 1,922 item named Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich, and options essential to the necromancer class such as summon skill cooldown reduction, summon skill mana consumption reduction, and mana recovery increase were thickly attached.

‘I gained an enormous benefit.’

Even just the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight was an item that unconditionally exceeded 700–800 billion points. On top of that, he obtained the Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich that seemed like it would go for at least 90 billion points.

“Receive it.”

Jin-su who confirmed the item information handed over the Bone Dragon’s byproducts to Lucy.

“Here.”

Lucy who received the Bone Dragon’s byproducts handed over the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight and the Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich.

Grab.

The moment Jin-su grabbed the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight.

-Obey! I will make you strong!

-Entrust everything to me! Then I will give you power!

-Be loyal! Submit! Be subservient!

-Offer the vitality of the living! Offer the vitality of the living! Offer the vitality of the living!

A wave of killing intent containing powerful thought pushed in. The thought emitted a powerful will and tried to seize Jin-su’s mind.

“Haah, this bastard, where is he being arrogant with petty tricks...”

Jin-su’s face distorted sharply.

Among items, there are cases where residual thought remains strongly and forms an ego.

The Blood-Sucking Sword was such a case.

‘If the residual thought that arose while the Blood-Sucking Sword absorbed countless blood naturally gathered and formed an ego...’

In the case of the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight, it felt like residual thought was planted semi-forcibly by intentionally containing a strong curse and will.

Who did this kind of thing was obvious.

‘Garami Khan, this bastard, where is he playing petty tricks.’

Outwardly pretending to be generous, but the actions are petty and insidious.

That was the Necromancer King Garami Khan.

‘Although the residual thought is strong, its root is not deep.’

Probably if it was another player, they would have had their mind stolen immediately by the residual thought flowing from the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight.

‘Since it is forcibly planted, it will not last long.’

Once the mind is stolen, it is the end just like that. Even if the mind is not completely stolen, the probability was very high that the mind would be contaminated by the residual thought and become a mental abnormal half-crazy.

‘I thought he gave a high-grade item because of bluff, but that was not it.’

He selected a high-grade item to contain a strong curse and thought.

Jin-su lightly ignored the residual thought that the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight emitted. Jin-su possesses a firm mental power that can ignore even if the Necromancer King Garami Khan directly projects thought.

Residual thought blown into an item could be let flow without caring.

‘Is this the same?’

He tried on the Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich.

-Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

As expected.

‘This is a bit simple.’

It seemed that because the grade of the item was low, he could only plant simple killing intent.

‘The Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight is the main, and the Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich is about auxiliary.’

However, with this much, Jin-su’s mind could not be shaken.

“Why? By any chance, is there some matter?”

Lucy asked Jin-su with a puzzled expression. It was an appearance of not knowing that the Necromancer King Garami Khan played tricks on the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight and the Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich.

‘Well, to NPCs, the power of players is fundamentally blocked, so they cannot know.’

Also, if he told Lucy for no reason and the information leaked, it would be troublesome.

‘NPCs cannot harm players, but giving help is possible.’

Lucy is pure to the point where what she thinks inwardly is revealed outward as is. Even just this matter, the appearance of worrying about Jin-su saying he earned the Necromancer King Garami Khan’s dislike was visible blatantly.

‘There is no way that guy does not know that.’

That was why he would have controlled the information more meticulously.

“No, there is nothing. You worked hard going back and forth.”

“If you really think I worked hard, please take care of something. The Necromancer King Garami Khan gives a generous hard-work fee. Jin-su only uses me.”

At Lucy’s protest, Jin-su let out a chuckle.

“Then I will give a hard-work fee.”

“Really?”

Lucy’s ears perked up and her tail soared upward.

“Yeah, but it is regrettable that it is the last. From next time, I will have to find a peddler who does not receive a hard-work fee. Here, receive it.”

Once Jin-su held out his hand, Lucy let out generous laughter.

“Hahahaha! It is a joke, a joke! There is no way I would hope for something like a hard-work fee from the customer after doing the work I should naturally do!”

Lucy’s mouth was smiling, but her eyes were crying. The ears that had perked up upward drooped, and the tail also sank to the floor.

“As expected, right? I wanted to continue transacting with you from now on. I thought our intentions did not match.”

“There is no way that would be. It will not be easy to find a peddler whose heart matches the customer as much as me.”

“That is true.”

A pushover of Lucy’s degree is not easy to find. Also, the transaction with Jin-su was also beneficial to Lucy. Did she not already conclude a large transaction, open a transaction with the Necromancer King Garami Khan, and receive a generous hard-work fee?

“From now on, you must only transact with me.”

Lucy gained an enormous benefit thanks to Jin-su. Although she was dragged along by Jin-su from the first transaction until now, that does not mean she did not gain benefit. As a peddler, she could accumulate credit and connections.

Also, in Lucy’s view, Jin-su was not an ordinary player. The first, second, and third transactions were all transactions of byproducts of out-of-spec monsters. There was no law that that would not continue to the fourth and fifth.

‘I absolutely cannot miss it.’

Jin-su is a player with a high probability of continuously selling items with special achievements accumulated from now on. To the beginner peddler Lucy, it was a precious connection and trading partner that absolutely could not be missed.

“If you just do as now, I also have no intention of transacting with an unfamiliar face.”

At Jin-su’s words, Lucy smiled brightly while inwardly grinding her teeth. It is true that it is a precious connection and trading partner that absolutely cannot be missed, but it was not a little annoying that he always thoroughly scraped her share to the bottom.

“Since the item delivery is also finished, then I will go.”

“Yeah, take care.”

Jin-su waved his hand while smiling, and Lucy left the lodging.

‘This time, I let it go.’

To begin with, he could have demanded part of Lucy’s brokerage commission on the condition of the transaction. Also, he could have extracted points by taking issue with the curse and thought contained in the items the Necromancer King Garami Khan gave.

However, Jin-su did not do so.

‘She worried about me.’

Lucy sincerely worried about Jin-su’s safety. That was why he decided to let it go this once.

‘Well, it is also true that I gained a large benefit from this transaction.’

Although the Necromancer King Garami Khan played an insidious trick...

Actually, there was not a single thing Jin-su suffered loss from. Rather, thanks to that insidious trick, he obtained an item that absolutely cannot be obtained not at the Floor 100 level but even if he rises to Floor 200 or Floor 300, so it could be called an enormous benefit.

‘Since new items also appeared, I should rest well and properly test tomorrow.’

Jin-su first stuffed the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight and the Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich into the inventory.

‘It is extremely noisy.’

The curse and thought emitted by the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight and the Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich cannot penetrate or seize Jin-su’s mind. However, since they were chattering to the point of making the head hurt, it seemed better to stuff them into the inventory when not using them.

‘Since it seems they will naturally annihilate on their own after a few days at most.’

That degree of inconvenience could be sufficiently endured.

***

The next morning, Jin-su and Shin Su-a took Leo and Kkami and went out hunting again.

‘The auto-hunt is going well.’

Jin-su’s summons were diligently hunting monsters without distinguishing day and night. Once the mana of the core was depleted, they rotated on their own among themselves and properly showed what 24-hour infinite hunting literally is.

‘Will these guys be possible too?’

Skeleton Knight.

Actually, in terms of grade, it was a bit ambiguous.

‘Among skeletons, it is high-grade, though.’

The existence higher than soldier skeleton, warrior skeleton, and great warrior skeleton was the Skeleton Knight. However, the skeleton itself belonged to the lowest-grade undead monsters.

‘Still, since there is level power.’

It is a skill contained in a weapon of as much as level 2,492. There was no way its power would be weak.

‘With this degree of level difference, it is a level where even high-grade undead monsters of the Floor 100 level like ghouls or dullahan can be chewed and eaten.’

Perhaps even a death knight might be able to be defeated.

Level is a thug.

This was one of the absolute truths of the Tower.

‘Skeleton Knight Summon.’

Jin-su summoned the Skeleton Knights using the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight.

Creak!

Hundreds of Skeleton Knights of 2-meter size wearing armor made of bones revealed their appearances.

‘As expected, high level is the best.’

Not hundreds but thousands.

‘Exactly 249.’

It was 1 per 10 weapon levels.

‘How much will the combat power be?’

Because the number of heads was so large, anxiety arose whether the combat power per individual was a bit low.

‘No. Let’s trust Garami Khan’s bluff.’

Clearly, it will be certain that it is an item with performance not ashamed of the title of Necromancer King.

Jin-su remembered that the Necromancer King Garami Khan was a guy who was enormously conscious of others’ gazes.

Especially, he did not spare points for matters of establishing his own prestige and pride to hide his petty disposition.

‘I trust, Garami Khan.’

If he even discards this trust in a state of having played tricks on the item?

‘I will make you pay a befitting price when we meet later.’

For reference, paying the price for playing tricks on the Staff of the Cursed Skeleton Knight and the Robe of the Cursed Arch Lich was already a confirmed matter.