Chapter 97

Chapter 97

Level 2 Player

The End of Greed (2)

“I will do whatever you tell me to. Sob sob! So please stop...”

“Please kill me. I dislike pain. Hwaaaang!”

Robert and Okamoto pleaded to Jin-su with voices full of pain and despair.

‘To think they cannot even endure one day. Why do guys who are guild masters of huge guilds in name have no grit like this.’

Jin-su clicked his tongue for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“Both of you, open the status window.”

“Yes, I will!”

“I opened it!”

As soon as Jin-su’s words fell, Robert and Okamoto opened their status windows. Jin-su carefully confirmed the stats and skill levels of Robert and Okamoto and recorded them all.

‘Now I will be able to confirm in real time.’

Then it was time to start the full-scale test.

Thud!

Jin-su lightly struck Robert’s side with the scabbard.

“Keok! W-why on earth are you hitting?”

Robert sent a gaze full of questions to Jin-su while tears flowing and with an expression of dying from unfairness. Robert was really unfair. He said he would do everything as told, so why on earth is he hitting again?

“I hit lightly. Exaggerating with just that...”

Jin-su clicked his tongue while examining Robert’s status window.

‘The lowest mental power stat decreased by about 17, and the skill level only dropped by barely 9.’

Jin-su activated Stat Predation and Skill Predation while attacking Robert a little while ago.

That result was this.

‘I have to find out the limit.’

Thud! Puk!

Jin-su beat Robert while in a state of activating Stat Predation and Skill Predation.

“Aak! It hurts! Please stop! Uek!”

Whether fear of violence accumulated, Robert screamed that he was dying even though it was not hit that strongly.

‘At this rate, it will really take an eternity.’

Jin-su felt strong regret while grasping Robert’s stats and skill levels that decrease in real time.

‘It will be of some help in actual combat.’

It seemed hard to display enormous activity like before regression.

‘The levels of Stat Predation and Skill Predation are still properly broken.’

This also meant that the levels of Stat Predation and Skill Predation escaped the influence of the Blessing.

‘Is it because a skill possessed by a summon was shared? Or because of the specialness Leo possesses?’

Leo ate the class change certificate and acquired the class skills. On top of that, he even collapsed the existing class level system.

This was absolutely not an ordinary situation.

“Leo.”

“Nyaang?”

“Now you try.”

“Nyaaaang!”

At Jin-su’s words, Leo approached Robert excitedly and swung his front paws.

Papapak!

Leo’s nyang nyang punches still had rock-bottom attack power. However, enormous changes were occurring in real time on Robert’s status window floating in front of Jin-su’s eyes.

‘With one attack, the mental power stat decreased by as much as 104.’

The skill level also decreased by 78.

‘This much with one attack?’

With Leo’s continuing nyang nyang punches, Robert’s mental power stat became zero in an instant. Once the mental power stat bottomed out, this time the mana stat decreased at a fast speed.

Skills were the same. The skill levels changed to 0 quickly in the order of low levels.

Jin-su continued to observe Robert’s status window who was being hit by Leo’s nyang nyang punches.

‘Stats of 200 or above have no change.’

Skills were the same. Skills that exceed level 200 did not decrease. Once all of Robert’s stats and skill levels of 200 or below became zero, Leo seemed to lose interest and no longer threw nyang nyang punches.

Thud!

Jin-su struck Robert in a state of activating Stat Predation and Skill Predation.

‘There is no change at all.’

This meant that the limit of Stat Predation and Skill Predation shared by Jin-su was the same as Leo.

‘The limit is the same, yet the efficiency difference is extreme.’

It was an enormously abnormal thing.

‘What on earth is the reason?’

Jin-su diligently turned his head. However, no matter how much he deliberated, he could not know at all what the cause was.

‘Let’s confirm one more time.’

Jin-su turned his gaze not to Robert but to Okamoto.

Thud! Crack! Creak!

Then he did not hit lightly like earlier but beat Okamoto with all his power.

“Keok! Aak! It hurts! It hurts! Why only me!”

Okamoto looked at Jin-su with a gaze full of unfairness. He hit Robert lightly, so why is he beating himself with full effort like this?

However, from Jin-su’s perspective, it was only an action for the test to the end.

‘Even if attacking more strongly, the skill effect does not change.’

Regardless of the damage the opponent suffers, the skill activated the moment attacked, and the power was the same.

Thud! Puk! Crack!

Jin-su lowered the intensity a bit and beat until Okamoto’s stats and skill levels of 200 or below became 0.

“Keuuk!”

Okamoto foamed at the mouth and fainted.

‘As expected, it takes enormously long.’

The speed difference with Leo was enormous.

“Leo?”

Jin-su called Leo while pointing at Okamoto.

“Nya? Snort!”

Leo snorted and ignored Okamoto.

‘It seems he lost interest because I predated all the stats and skill levels.’

Leo seemed to know whether stats or skills that can be predated remain on the enemy or not.

‘Is it because he is a magical beast that he knows instinctively?’

It was really amazing that Leo knows just by looking at things that Jin-su cannot know until confirming the status window the opponent opened.

‘Thanks to those guys, the test was done certainly.’

Jin-su’s gaze headed toward Robert and Okamoto who foamed at the mouth and fainted.

“Hiiik! Trying to hit again! Don’t do that! Just kill me! Now please kill me!”

Robert was startled and pleaded to kill him.

“Yeah, now go.”

Jin-su swung the Blood-Sucking Sword and gifted eternal rest to Robert and Okamoto.

‘Now, shall I try the last test. Army Summon.’

Jin-su revived the souls of the dead Robert and Okamoto as Army Summons.

‘The appearance has nothing particularly different.’

The problem was the content.

Jin-su immediately entered the test. And he was greatly disappointed.

‘This damn.’

The combat power of the Army Summons made based on the souls of Robert and Okamoto was low to a miserable degree.

‘I thought there might be no influence because it is a method of making summons with souls, not bodies, as material.’

It seems that was not it.

Robert and Okamoto were in a state of being enormously weakened by Stat Predation and Skill Predation right before dying. Even after being reborn as Army Summons, that weakness remained the same.

‘Is the state right before death imprinted on the soul? Or is the status window system the standard?’

He expected that since it is made based on souls, it would unconditionally show the combat power of the prime. Yet, that expectation missed.

‘Then I have no choice but to become careful in the use of Stat Predation and Skill Predation.’

Perhaps he might have to restrain the use of Stat Predation and Skill Predation to increase Army Summons.

Jin-su who deliberated for a moment made a decision.

‘Let’s not care.’

The influence of Stat Predation and Skill Predation is still insignificant to the degree of only being able to influence stats below 200 and skills below level 200.

‘Monsters or players weak to the degree of being influenced by Stat Predation and Skill Predation are of no great help to power reinforcement anyway.’

Army Summons have to be filled only with individuals possessing powerful combat power as much as the number is constrained.

‘Existences weak to the degree of being influenced by Stat Predation and Skill Predation have no value to make into Army Summons.’

Jin-su made the decision that there is no need to restrain the use of Stat Predation and Skill Predation considering even making them into Army Summons. Then his heart became light.

***

After the collision with the large guilds of Floor 150, Jin-su returned to daily life again. However, the aftermath Jin-su caused was truly enormous.

Because due to this matter, the balance of power on Floor 150 that had been maintained for a long time was completely shattered.

The Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild lost the guild masters Robert and Okamoto and at the same time suffered a blow close to annihilation of the elites.

Although not as much as the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild, the guilds that agreed with them also had their points enormously extorted, and an abnormality temporarily occurred in the fund flow.

However, this became a type of opportunity for the guilds that did not antagonize Jin-su and kept the line.

‘This opportunity cannot be missed.’

‘We have to take as much of the interests of the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild as possible.’

‘It is a golden opportunity to grow the scale of our guild.’

The huge guilds including the Daehan Guild that had no damage raised the level of pressure toward the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild.

The pressure proceeded in various forms.

They gradually took the hunting grounds and open dungeons that the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild used like private land, also coaxed and recruited existing guild members, and increased influence on the starting city to make new players join their guilds instead of the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild.

Once the situation became like this, an ultra-emergency was declared on the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild. The scale of the guild shrinking was already the same as a confirmed fact. However, the command of the huge guild could not be lost.

The leadership of the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild felt a sense of crisis that if done wrong like this, the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild that were huge guilds might fall to just so-so mid-small scale guilds.

“Absolutely do not retreat!”

“Endure with the resolve of fighting a guild war!”

The Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild fiercely resisted as opponents who joined forces. As a result, they could fortunately block the offensive of other huge guilds to some degree.

The problem was the point that once the external crisis quieted to some degree, internal conflict broke out. The Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild lost the guild masters to Jin-su. That was why currently, the guild master position was vacant.

When external attacks poured in, they united tightly to survive even in a state of the guild master being vacant. However, once a way to live was created, greed bloomed. The executives who seized power began to fight tooth and nail to occupy the guild master position.

***

“I heard the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild are in chaos these days?”

“Yeah, if the faction fight influences even the starting city, the words are all said.”

“Those guys are not fools, so why are they fighting each other. Even if they do that, the ones who see benefits will obviously be other large guilds.”

“They are fools who do not know even an inch ahead. Or they know the future but dislike yielding themselves.”

After that day, news about the internal power struggle of the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild was also conveyed to the ears of Jin-su and Shin Su-a who were immersing themselves in hunting and spending an ordinary daily life.

‘Human greed really has no end.’

Jin-su who learned the fact of the internal conflict of the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild while eating clicked his tongue. Jin-su neither felt a sense of responsibility for the internal conflict of the Phoenix Guild and Minamoto Guild nor had the thought of intervening.

“The Phoenix Guild seems to have been cleaned up to some degree. The Minamoto Guild is not, right?”

“The Ogawa faction and Fujiwara faction seem quite even.”

However, with the continuing words, his thoughts changed.

‘Ogawa faction?’

Ogawa was the person in charge of the Sasaki pursuit team who pursued Jin-su and then became Jin-su’s slave in reverse.

‘He said he was executive rank 22 of the Minamoto Guild.’

It seems he seized the opportunity because the upper ranks were all swept away by the Bone Dragon’s breath.

‘It was good that I sent him alive at that time.’

Ogawa was affiliated with the Bone Dragon subjugation team of the Minamoto Guild. Ogawa does not know, but him surviving by avoiding the Bone Dragon’s breath at that time was not pure luck.

Jin-su deliberately sent Ogawa alive.