#52
Episode 52
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Jeong Do quietly took out an arrow again and shot it at the string.
Natural movement like flowing water.
Some may say that it is a fuss to just organize a protest, but the movement unfolding at this level was unusual.
The moment I recognized that I had pulled out the arrow, the arrow was already caught in the string and aiming for the target. It was a movement that excluded all unnecessary movements and pursued extreme efficiency.
If there is such a thing as understatement, wouldn’t it be something like this? Anyone who has reached a certain level of martial arts will have no choice but to exclaim in admiration upon seeing his movements. In fact, Eucerin was also thrilled when he saw Jeongdo.
Of course, there is only one person here.
The Man in the Monkey Mask. When Won saw that action, he felt fear rather than admiration.
‘shit!’
An ordinary steel arrow from an ordinary bow was aimed at him. I could not feel the energy of mana or any signs of her skills. No, it wasn’t just bows and arrows. He is the man who is currently aiming an arrow at himself. He couldn’t sense anything special about Jin Jeong-do either. If I had met him in that state on the street, I would have judged him to be just an ordinary person.
But what are the results?
The ordinary arrow fired by that ordinary human not only shattered his shield, but also took off one of his arms.
What this meant was clear.
‘He is too strong for me to judge!’
When D or E level users encounter S level or higher users, they are often surprised by their mediocrity. It was only when I reached the C-class level that I could vaguely feel their strength.
However, if you can’t feel the strength of the other person even at the SS level, what level is that person?
‘We must run away.’
But even that was extremely unlikely. No matter where you move, that arrow will pierce you. Only after not moving the space itself…
The masked man had to bet everything on one possibility.
Warp scroll in my arms.
That was the only way to live.
Jeong-do aimed his arrow and opened his mouth to the man.
“What is your identity and affiliation?”
“… “Was it intentionally kept alive?”
“I know very well. You also know that you have no chance of winning, right? Obediently spit out information.”
As the man said, he could have easily killed him with the first hit, but he only took one arm to get information. An overwhelming power difference. However, the masked man thought this was an opportunity.
The man secretly prepared a magic spell while pretending to give information to Jeongdo.
<Blink>
If the warp scroll was an artifact that allowed one to travel long distances, <Blink> was a skill that allowed one to instantaneously travel a short distance. Of course, although the distance was close, there was a large difference in distance depending on the skill of the magician. If he was at the level of the current Masked Man, he could travel quite a distance.
‘And just go to <Blink> and use warp scroll right away!’
The man made up his mind and slowly opened his mouth.
“My affiliation? “You already guessed it, right?”
“Is it also karma?”
“what? Karma?!”
Ryu Se-rin was rather surprised by the tone of voice that said it was just as expected and glared at the masked man.
“Who are you? “Why are you doing this?”
“Whoa… “It’s stagnant.”
After saying that, the masked man slowly raised his remaining arm. Ryu Serin was surprised by the action and aimed his sword at him, but the man simply held his arm up to his mask.
Are you trying to take off your mask?
Everyone expected that, but the man’s behavior was a little different. The man tapped his mask with his hand and then spoke.
“Wearing a mask is to hide your identity. And if you don’t know anyone, there’s no need to hide your identity, right? Calm down?”
“… what?”
If that’s true, it means that the man in the mask is someone who is well-known. Jeongdo was taken aback by those words.
‘now!’
And the masked man did not miss the opportunity and activated <Blink>, which he had secretly prepared!
Paaaat!
Sensing the scent, Serin swung her sword at the masked man, but it was a little too late.
Just before the sword touched the man, the man’s body disappeared in an instant. Realizing that she had missed it, Serin spat out her profanity and spoke to Do-do.
“shit. hey! What to do now… ”
But her words did not last until the end.
Just like the masked man, Jeong-do’s appearance had already disappeared.
* * * * * *
The man sensed that <Blink> was a success. The surrounding scenery had changed. A space quite far away from where we were before. It was not a distance that could be narrowed in a short period of time.
‘good. Now all you have to do is take the scroll out of your pocket!’
It was a successful escape from that terrifying monster. The man heaved a sigh of relief and put his hand into his arms.
however.
The man’s relief was long overdue.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
With the sound of tearing the air.
“Kwaaaaaaah!!!”
Once again, the monkey masked man’s horrifying scream rang out. The arrow that flew broke the shield again and exploded the moment it touched the man’s leg. The man looked at his lower body, his body trembling in pain.
This time, the entire right foot disappeared, starting from the thigh.
“uh… how… ”
The man panicked.
‘no way? Predicting where to escape with <Blink>?’
You shot an arrow there? This is nonsense. How sensitive do you have to be to the movement of mana to be able to do such a feat? Moreover, this time, she only intentionally blew off her leg…
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‘On purpose this time?’
As soon as I thought about it, my body trembled with fear. no way. no way. The masked man looked behind him in fear.
And there.
“Take off your mask.”
There was a degree of aiming an arrow with cold eyes.
“This monster… .”
The distance narrowed in the blink of an eye? Is this a force that a mere human can possess? Perhaps stronger than ‘him’…
‘Come to your senses!’
I had ungodly thoughts. If this is the case, how can they be called officials who serve Him? He was already wrong to live. If so, the remainder of his life will be consumed and become a feeble help in his path. The man decided to commit suicide using all his remaining mana.
“Take off your mask? If you want, take it off yourself… !”
I tried to explode the mana inside my body with those words.
Shook.
The arrow fired by Jeongdo split the mask and lodged in the man’s forehead.
“Ugh.”
A short scream.
It was a vain end for a Karma executive.
Even to the very end, his intentions were completely shattered by Jeong-do. No, to be precise, one intention succeeded.
The face revealed when the mask split was a face that Jeongdo had never seen before. I was definitely fooled in that part.
‘There’s still a long way to go.’
Jeongdo laughed self-deprecatingly and approached the man’s body. Because, apart from the end of the battle, there was something I needed to take care of.
Jeongdo searched the man’s chest and found a pendant and a warp scroll.
“Is this Ixia?”
<Yes! I’m sure. I can feel tremendous energy from that pendant.>
A mythical artifact.
It’s a huge treasure. Of course, it wasn’t enough to leave something like this behind. The moment Jeong Do took possession of the artifact.
“Oh.”
I felt a tremendous sense of helplessness.
Lee Seong-gye’s load has ended. However, starting from the black level, there were no stat increase notifications or skill acquisition notifications, although I don’t know if it was originally like that or because it was a trial version.
And right after the feeling of exhaustion hit.
dump.
I just fell to the floor.
It was a rebound of <Dragon Blood Awakening>.
Jeong-do heard a voice calling him from afar and passed out.
* * * * * *
The first thing I saw when I came to my senses was the pure white ceiling.
‘… ‘Where?’
In my still hazy mind, I realized that I was under a warm blanket. Perhaps Seo-yoon or the woman she was with moved her after she passed out. I tried to get up to understand the situation.
“Ugh.”
My body couldn’t move properly. A rebound from <Dragon Blood Awakening> that I felt once before. The helplessness she felt at that time was taking over her entire body.
‘No, is it worse than then?’
In addition to the rebound from <Dragon’s Blood Awakening>, there were also injuries due to the game’s talent leveling up.
Although my body was very weak, I was able to slowly build up my upper body over time. And looked around him.
“… “Hanok?”
A scenery that was only seen in historical dramas unfolded around me. A large folding screen in a pure white room. And even the chest of drawers and blanket decorated with mother-of-pearl lacquerware. In addition to that theme, the ceiling light was modern, so the room had a strange feeling.
“hmm.”
There was no one around. However, seeing as there was a cushion next to the blanket where Jeong-do was lying, it meant that someone was there. Although it seemed like he was away for a while now. There was no one to explain the situation, and he himself could not move. I have no choice but to wait until someone comes…
“No, there is someone who can explain. “Ixia.”
<Yes. master! I’m glad you’re safe!>
Ixia responded as if she had been waiting for the call.
“Can you explain the situation? “What happened after I passed out?”
<Not long after the owner fainted, Seo-yoon and another woman came to visit. The two men had a hurried conversation when they saw that the master had collapsed. What did it say? It was a word that didn’t exist in our world… Is it Jua?>
“Do you wear coins?”
<That’s right! That was it. Anyway, the master was in critical condition and a masked woman came here carrying him on her back. After that, the master was treated and Seoyoon continued to nurse him, but just as the master was about to wake up, Seoyoon went to call someone.>
Don’t buy coins… It seems that my physical condition was more serious than I thought. Anyway, if Ixia says so, Seoyoon and others will arrive soon. Jeongdo looked back on the battle that had just taken place until they arrived.
‘It was strong.’
This enemy was really strong. In addition, the luck of the drawing did not work out, so it was a truly hopeless situation. If he had failed to level up his game talent, he would have died.
It was a gamble. It was unclear whether the game talent would level up safely, and even if they succeeded in leveling up, it was unclear how <Game-lv.3> would be applied. But the gamble paid off handsomely.
<Game-lv.3>
I expected that there would be a way to overcome the current situation somehow, but I never expected that the drawing skill would be recognized as a game and strengthened.
Black level.
It was truly amazing. It was difficult to find an opponent just at the diamond level, but Black was at a level that made even the diamond level shabby. At least from what he felt, Lee Seong-gye was more than twice as strong as other Diamond characters. It was truly an overwhelming difference.
King Taejo Lee Seong-gye.
It was the first black grade that he loaded this time.
He is considered the best shrine in the history of the Korean Peninsula, along with Jumong. His military achievements recorded in history are truly unrivaled. There was no disagreement about his fighting prowess.
but.
The people chosen for DIA’s business cards so far.
Lu Bu, Siegfried, Jang Ki, Jeong Yak-yong, Jo Woon.
Except for Jeong Yak-yong, a non-combat figure.
Compared to these people, was Lee Seong-gye really such an overwhelmingly strong person?
That won’t be it.
‘There are two main possibilities.’
Was the Diamond character nerfed? Or did the black character get a buff? Or it could have been both.
And in his opinion, the former seemed more likely.
The first thing that came to mind was the level of the Diamond characters.
Except for Jeong Yak-yong, a non-combat character, all were fixed at 99. At first, I thought that 99 was the limit level that humans could have, but this was proven not to be the case with the introduction of the black level.
So wouldn’t level 99 be a kind of lock? There is a limit to the number of characters that can be loaded at this level. If you think that it is a diamond and level 99, it fits the angle.
And with the advent of the black grade, the lock was released.
Wouldn’t Black Lu Bu and Black Siegfried also exist?
And there was other evidence to support this hypothesis.
The <Drawing> skill was very similar to the Korean drawing game in many ways.
Lucky mangame. And we added a combination of reinforcements and even practical judo.
And in addition, another feature of Korean lottery game!
The same person could be given different grades!
We also talk about whether it’s a 4-star joun or a 5-star joun.
A way to differentiate by adding a prefix such as (jin) to the front of the card.
A power inflation system that game companies introduce when content is slowly running out. An essential element of Korean lottery games!
Of course, they were the same person, but the 5-star Jaune was much more powerful and the (true) Joun was much more powerful. In the same context, if you think that diamond joun and black joun exist, then everything falls into place.
‘… Then black may not be the end.’
Lee Seong-gye of the black business card was level 178. And since Winry’s level is 999, if we assume that is the end, how many characters will exist in between?
Moreover, with the recent update of the drawing skill, it became possible to draw characters that existed only in records. What if beings with godhood like Zeus or Odin would be grouped into the same black class as historical figures? Of course, the range of black grades could extend up to level 999, but if you were a game developer, you would probably set a few more grades.
‘To confirm, I’ll have to select another Black level person.’
Of course, it wasn’t something he wanted to do. Diamonds don’t come out like that, but black… It was dark just to think about it. Anyway, power inflation was a good thing. If this were a game, the enemies would have had a corresponding power inflation, but the draw skill was a stark reality. The enemy will not suddenly become stronger.
That’s when I finished analyzing <Game-lv.3>, satisfied with the quality.
The door opened and two women came in.
One is Seo-yoon. The other one was a woman I had never seen before.
He seemed to be around Seo-yoon’s age. A black-haired woman who looks good with her short hair. Although she was a woman I had never seen before, I was able to guess her identity.
The leader of the masked people who attacked Jeong Do and Seoyoon.
‘Ryu Se-rin.’
It had to be her. She walked over and sat down next to Jeong-do.
“Let me check your Mac for a moment.”
“uh? uh?”
Before Jeong-do could say anything, she took his hand, closed his eyes, and checked his pulse. And soon she smiled with satisfaction.
“Good. My pulse stabilized. “It can be said that we have now passed the critical point.”
Jeong-do was speechless and dumbfounded by her sudden action. But her unexpected behavior had just begun.
After confirming that she was stable, she suddenly fell down on Seo-yoon and hit her head on the ground.
thud!
“I treated him as you said. Please. Please use the power of the saint to save one person!”
She said that to Seo-yoon with all her might.
