Trait Hoarder Chapter 126

Episode 126: Heavenly High Castle -1-

That’s right.

Gigigigig.

Elder Joe turns his head creaking.

Movements like a broken tin robot.

The underworld’s iron and the magic circuit’s true nature were opposing each other.

The radiating magical flames were enough to blow up an entire village.

Elder Joe fixed his gaze on me.

One side is a magic eye.

The other side is a mechanical prosthesis.

He smiled, his teeth jagged and grinding together like a creature from a cheap horror movie.

“You little rat. You came here looking for a place to die.”

Elder Joe extending his hand.

The hand opens with a click.

It is not a special body for reinforced soldiers such as the magic gun or magic machine gun.

Instead, his entire arm had been modified into a magic wand.

The arm bone is the body of the cane.

The hand is a magical gem that mimics a human hand.

I quietly pulled out my sword.

“Set up your heavy weapons.”

“yes yes!”

Kim Magic hurriedly ran to one side.

Elder Cho’s gaze follows Kim Ma-beop.

We must not allow Kim’s magic to be attacked.

I gave strength to my stomach and shouted.

“Come at me, you mechanical skeleton!”

“……her?”

“I’ll send you next to your disciple! Your disciple, your stupid nephew, is waiting for you in hell!”

“Heh heh heh.”

Elder Cho laughed as if he found it ridiculous.

How ridiculous it would be.

Level 7 vs level 5.

As the elder of the Magic Tower, which is considered one of the top 6 among the four major powers, he gets cursed at by Naburangi, a warrior from the back alleys who came from humble beginnings.

Soon, pitch-black flames shot out from both eyes.

“How dare you!”

Now I don’t even pay attention to magic tricks.

Only I can see it.

It focuses its gaze only on me and generates magical power.

Wow!

The air has changed.

A huge amount of magical power flowing in from the high place, the black sun.

It discharges cracklingly and gets stuck in the right hand.

Black lightning that pops out without even aiming!

“Huh!”

I barely managed to get it out.

If it weren’t for my intuition, I wouldn’t have been able to stop it.

The sword expert’s parry, the defense of real combat, was activated, and a jet-black beam of light bounced off to my side.

Kkwarreung!

A sound reached my ears belatedly.

The spot where the lightning struck was completely ruined.

There were deep scratches on the ground.

At least ten meters deep.

If it had been true, I would have been blown up and disappeared, leaving only the silent sword behind.

“joy.”

Elder Joe snorted.

The ring I was wearing on my left hand floated up on its own and started spinning around.

There a dark light rose steeply.

The right and left hands are connected by a ring.

And the fireballs that flicker like candles!

I swallowed a groan as I watched the trajectory being drawn in a fiery manner.

An all-out bombing attack was expected.

Not just me, but Kim Magic too.

Elder Cho was now planning to kill me as well as Kim Magic.

That won’t do.

If Kim Magic fails to install heavy weapons, I will also end up dead.

“Cho Ok-bun!”

I shouted out the name I saw in the elders’ office.

“Do you think you can defeat the Tower Lord just by reaching level 8?”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“No way! You can never beat the Tower Lord! You’ve never been able to beat him in your entire life, right? That’s because you’re from the Eclipse School! A third-rate school like the Eclipse School, a total idiot, a total loser, can’t beat the Sun School even if they come back to life!”

For a moment the air rippled.

A spark flew from Elder Joe’s eyes.

An inferiority complex that has built up throughout one’s life.

When you stimulate it, the magic power reacts.

“This f*cking son of a bitch!”

“Isn’t that right? The name is also Sun Tower! It’s not Eclipse Tower, it’s Sun Tower! If the Eclipse School thought they could beat the Sun School, they would have changed their name to Eclipse Tower a long time ago! Stop dreaming and just kill yourself! When the Tower Lord comes, you’ll never die a pretty death!”

“How dare you, how dare you! You dare to mention the Japanese school of thought in front of me!”

A provocation that would normally be dismissed with a sneer.

Elder Joe came over without a doubt.

Since we are proceeding with imperfect consciousness with imperfect knowledge, both our common sense and reason are easily shaken.

I felt my throat getting itchy and quickly checked my characteristics again.

It’s because of the [provocation] characteristic.

It’s good to have a new trait, but you can’t have the provocation trait equipped.

Elder Joe waved his hand.

Under the protection of [Ear Eyes] and [Sixth Sense], the red trail appears again.

Focused solely on me.

A murderous intent that contains the will to kill me at all costs.

Papapapat!

The light pours down.

It flies in almost at the speed of light.

The moment lightning strikes, it already hits me.

I also moved quickly.

He took a step forward and swung and shook his sword.

It was truly a close call.

If I had been even 0.1 seconds late, if I had been even a little late in changing my traits, I would have been hit by the pitch-black ray.

If that were the case, I would no longer be a human being in this world.

Kwakwakwakwang!

A black halo spread in all directions.

The subdimensional labyrinth shook as if it were going to collapse.

A shockwave erupted and shrapnel pelted me.

The aftermath alone is this bad.

I stood upright, even though I was injured and coughing up blood.

Elder Joe’s face is distorted in a grotesque way.

“Kkaaaak!”

“Gyaaaah!”

The half-spirited phoenix and mechanical crow embedded in his shoulder burst into tears.

“You stopped it?”

Oh, I blocked it.

My hand felt like it was going to break, but I stopped it.

At that moment, a welcome voice was heard.

“I’ve installed the weapon! I’ll activate it!”

“what!”

Elder Cho turned his head urgently.

He belatedly raised his staff arm and aimed at Kim’s magic, but it was too late.

The magic dice were emitting light.

A rainbow of colors poking into space like a sharp awl.

The space is torn apart, and identical rainbows fly in from all directions.

So they combine with each other.

Interfering with space and subdimensions, the labyrinth finally collapsed.

Kookookookook!

The space itself is broken.

It turns into a shard of glass and falls apart.

Because it was such a huge labyrinth, it took a long time for it to collapse.

Before we could fully return to reality, a pistol appeared, tearing through space.

bang!

A loud gunshot.

The space around the gun broke apart and a person squeezed in.

An old man wearing a suit and with neatly styled hair.

It was a rooftop terrace.

“Hey, it’s my waist.”

“I guess I’ve been working hard for a long time, so I’m going to have a sore throat.”

“Oh my, what the hell is this labyrinth?”

“I told you Elder Joe has really bad taste.”

“You declared that you would abandon black magic, but why is the labyrinth like this again?”

It wasn’t just the rooftop terrace.

The elders also came in line.

Elder Joe tilted his head and looked up at the sky.

The black sun, to be precise.

The sun, which should be shining black due to a total solar eclipse.

It was already broken.

The surface, which should have been like a black plate, was cracked here and there.

Failure of consciousness.

Naturally, the backlash comes.

Phew!

Black liquid spurted out from Elder Cho’s body.

Maybe oil.

The magical liquid, made by grinding together various rare ingredients, was being sprayed without any countermeasures.

“You! You!”

Elder Joe creaks and looks at me.

“You alone! You alone I will kill!”

Perhaps the ritual would have been successful if it had only lasted a few hours.

Even if he was half-mad and had reduced intelligence, and even if he was not human but rather a mutant or a corrupted being, Elder Cho would have become a level 8.

But you failed right before level 8?

Because of the warrior Naburang who didn’t even care about the dirt on his toes?

It’s natural for your eyes to roll back.

Elder Cho charged at me, unleashing his magical power.

Kwaaang!

It sounds like a jet engine exploding, radiating so much horsepower.

The moment when black wings were imprinted in the air.

Elder Joe arrives right in front of my nose.

A desperate moment when no one can help.

At that moment, the magic jewel hand expanded like a giant bomb!

I swung my sword instinctively.

Boom!

“Ugh!”

A tremendous shock.

A power that seems to evaporate one’s mind in an instant.

The traits could not be replaced.

Instead, he activated Iron Fist.

If the steel plate and magic light hadn’t protected me, I would have died instantly.

My body flies like a leaf.

It flies not just a few meters, but tens of meters.

I looked ahead, trying to calm my mind as it started to get dizzy, and saw Elder Cho pointing his cane arm at me.

At the end, a black flame swirls from the magic jewel’s hand.

Was it a coincidence?

The eyes of the top priest met.

The eyes that were usually smiling were cold.

This time he’s looking at me as if he’s going to check my bottom for sure.

After all, a wizard is a wizard.

No matter how friendly it may seem, it makes it impossible to let your guard down.

I rolled around on the floor a few times and then got up.

As if it had been waiting, black flames engulfed me.

“Eww!”

The duration of the Iron Fist is already ending.

You can’t use magic resistance or quadruple shield.

Instead, I threw myself.

Into the air.

And again, into the air.

“Golden Oshin!”

Elder Cho belatedly checked my shoes and ground his teeth.

“You! What on earth are you? Are you the son-in-law of that crow? How come you have the Golden O set?”

Are you seeing it now?

Sure enough, I’ve become stupid.

The warrior is better than you, dude.

Shushushung!

Magic is flying.

Black fireballs are fired in rapid succession.

Black lightning strikes from the air.

The pitch-black mine explodes with a bang.

The dark blade secretly targets the vital point.

It was all meaningless.

I kicked them all out and blocked them.

The momentum with which it had initially flown in like a giant monster was nowhere to be found.

Now, it seemed like I was looking at a 6th level wizard, not a 7th level wizard.

All he does is stand still from a distance and cast powerful but lacking subtle magic.

This way, you can’t do anything to me.

When you should be building up step by step and then striking with a single blow, you’re just firing magic?

It was enough even without the trait change.

I calmly swung my sword and focused on defense.

“Ugh, ugh.”

Elder Cho let out a gasp as he was attacked.

It gets weaker in real time.

From level 6 to level 5, from level 5 to level 4, from level 4 to level 3.

Finally, up to level 1.

Not only was the magic wave flowing, but the magic being shot out was also weakened.

Finally, a lump of candles that is embarrassing to even call level 1 flies in.

I put away my sword after seeing Elder Joe.

A lump of candlelight hit me straight in the face.

A glimmer of anticipation appeared in Elder Cho’s eyes for a moment.

Soon, the mass of candles went out with a clicking sound.

“Oh, this can’t be happening!”

Elder Joe cried out loud.

“This can’t be! This can’t be! My magic, my power, my world!”

That was the end of it.

Elder Cho, who was stretching out his arm, his cane arm, while creaking.

The whole body collapses.

Jin’s magical circuits fell off on their own, the underworld iron was weathered and turned to dust, the phoenix’s head turned to flames, and the crow’s head turned to scrap metal and scattered.

All that remains is a grotesquely carved tin can head and a hand-crafted staff arm made of delicately carved magic gems.

Oh, one more thing.

A dark ring worn on his left hand.

“joy.”

The top priest laughed.

“Well done. You piece of trash.”

He just raises his phlegm and spits it out coolly.

On the other hand, the elders did not look good.

“Tsk tsk.”

“They say life is fleeting.”

“Leveling up requires following the orthodoxy.”

“Where on earth did you get such misguided knowledge?”

“It’s obvious. Didn’t Elder Jo’s disciple go to the Geum-Oh Group? He must have applied the magical circuit and the knowledge of the Japanese eclipse school there.”

“People really, without even verifying it… … .”

“If you set your eyes on leveling up, what can’t you do?”

“I am a wizard too, but that is the nature of wizards.”

I won.

I hunted a level 7 wizard alone.

Oh, isn’t that it?

If the Matapju and the elders hadn’t come in from outside and ruined my consciousness, I would have dried up and died.

“You are truly amazing.”

The top priest came closer and said.

The eyes that had been emotionless just a moment ago, as if evaluating food ingredients, had now returned to their original state.

A gaze that is moderately greedy, yet moderately kind.

Suddenly, goosebumps appeared.

It was even scarier to be able to act like myself so freely.

“You used to seem like a warrior specializing in magic, but today you seem like a real-life warrior. Supernatural powers are something that comes from a person’s life, so how can they change like this?”

“Haha. I’m a bit special.”

“Yes, yes. You are truly special. Well, that’s why Tiger Master gave you the Mukho Sword.”

The top of the tower catches a glimpse of my waist.

The look in his eyes changed for a brief moment.

With extreme greed.

It’s like they want to take him away and do some kind of biological experiment.

A cold sweat broke out.

I’m glad I have the Silent Sword, and I’m glad I didn’t show my true colors even a little bit before.

If they had found out then, it wouldn’t have ended with just a bet.

“Hmm… … I’ve heard of it before.”

Matapju frowned as if trying to recall a memory.

“A thousand, a thousand… … What was it? That’s right. It was called a thousand-kalpa high-level star. I heard that if you are born with a thousand-kalpa high-level star, you will have infinite talent and ten thousand superpowers.”

Oh, I’ve heard this before.

That’s right. That’s what the magic spirit said when he made the reconstitution potion.

But isn’t this different from my trait change?

I can’t learn traits that have series restrictions.

I pretended to look surprised.

“Wow, that’s awesome. I wish I was born with something like that. A thousand years, a thousand years… What did you say?”

“It’s a thousand-year-old supreme being. Hmm, that can’t be true. A thousand-year-old supreme being exists only in theory. Unlike a thousand-year-old being or a self-made being.”

After saying what he wanted to say, Matapju walked towards Elder Jo’s body.

He picks up the debris, frowning.

Cane arm.

And the ring.

The rest were trained by young wizards who followed the elders.

It was so damaged that it couldn’t even be used as material.

But since he was an elder of Matap, they will hold a funeral for him.

“Take this.”

Matapju handed me the ring he had collected.

“This is compensation for the incident.”

A dark ring of simple shape.

I swallowed when I received the ring.

I don’t know what it is.

The elders immediately stood up and opposed it.

“Lord of the Tower! That won’t do!”

“Isn’t this the treasure of our tower?”

“You’re handing over the eclipse ring to an outsider!”

“Absolutely not. Absolutely not!”

As elders, we have no choice but to act like this.

[SSR Eclipse]

The greatest treasure of the Japanese school of thought.

The symbol of the school and the strongest weapon.

also.

Because it was one of the eight treasures of the Tower of Magic.