#64
Episode 64
Ditarterone (1)
Jeong Do finished updating his Mana Watch after defeating the Class A promotion instructor in Mana Virtual. From now on, you are definitely a class A user. He was a top-class talent, of whom only about 500 people exist in Korea.
“Congratulations. Gentle user. If you have time, I would like to introduce products that our association sells only to users of Class A or higher. ”
“it’s okay. then.”
I hurried out of the renewal office, leaving behind the association employee who gave me a comment that sounded like an insurance company.
“Nice to meet you, user. My name is Jeongyeop Lee from Duel Guild. Could you please talk for a moment… ”
“User. “I am confident that our Impact is a more suitable guild for users than Duel.”
“What are you?! “As you said last time, don’t all Impact guys have any morals?”
“What’s wrong?!”
It was a mess.
The situation is completely opposite to when I first came out of Awaken after completing my awakening. At that time, the attention Seo-yoon received, or even more attention than that, was being focused on Jeong-do.
Jeongdo explained that he already had a guild to join and escaped the scouts.
‘Ugh. ‘Can’t promotion exams be held privately?’
As with Awaker, the reason for this tragedy was that the promotion results were made public. I understand the intention to revitalize the user market through events like this, but… To be honest, from Jeongdo’s point of view, it was annoying.
In fact, Class A users are valuable, but they are not enough to receive this much attention.
The reason for this was the association’s announcement of readjustment of dungeon ratings.
Dungeons where ‘intelligent monsters’ appear start from B level. In other words, according to the readjustment standard, it is Class A, and the minimum condition to reliably deal with intelligent monsters is to be a Class A user.
This was the reason why so many guilds were now looking for Class A users.
After completing his errands at the association, he returned home.
‘Then now.’
Let’s try to make a plan diligently. First of all, I opened the status window.
Name: Jinjeongdo
Level: 36
Reserved Mana: 71(+8)
Strength: 69 (+16) Stamina: 80 (+18) Reflexes: 73 (+18) Mana Responsiveness: 73 (+16)
Talent: <Communication-lv.3>, <Game-lv.3>, <Patience-lv.1>
Possessed skills: <Information Draw (Enhancement)>, <Bonding Draw>, <Combination Draw>, <Dual Rod>, <Dragon Attack>, <Host Bombardment>, <Lion’s Rear>, <Changryongbo (Enhancement)>, <Dragon Blood Awakening>, <Kaumka’s Fighting Spirit>, <Observation>, <Status Window>, <Immortality>, <Dungeon Map>, <Inventory>
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Information Box (780/999)
“Hmm… “This is it.”
I’m speechless. Jeongdo admired his own status window. Based on pure abilities alone, he had reached the A level, and when including the effects of various items, he had reached S level.
‘I gained a lot from this expedition.’
Not only level up, but also draw a diamond once. In particular, the reward for Chief Kaumka, whose rank was raised, was enormous.
Stamina +20. Plus the skills.
To a certain extent, I checked the skills obtained as a reward.
<Kaumka’s Fighting Spirit>
<The Kaumka people consider fighting against the strong as the greatest joy of life. Their fighting spirit cannot be broken no matter how strong their enemy is. That’s how they survived and grew against the strong.>
<When dealing with an opponent of a higher level than you, all abilities increase by +5. Experience penalty is removed.>
It was a great skill that increased all abilities. Although there was a condition that he had to face an enemy stronger than himself, his level was far too low compared to his abilities anyway. As long as you go to the dungeon according to your level, you will be able to apply it unconditionally. However, Jeongdo focused on other effects than increasing ability levels.
Experience penalty removed.
Just by looking at the letters, I could smell the scent of honey.
‘I’ve never heard of the concept of experience penalty.’
It must be a concept that has not yet been discovered on Earth, or even if discovered, it must be information monopolized by a very small number of people.
‘The reason I couldn’t level up in the dungeon was because of the penalty.’
If so, shouldn’t we try it? There was also a decent dungeon. No, exactly, it was meant to be.
The degree retrieved one piece of information from the information box.
<July 30, 2030. A dungeon is created in the mountains near Cheorwon, Gangwon-do. A skill stone can be obtained as a reward. The specific coordinates are (784,29).>
This was the information from the golden capsule obtained when loading the wire for the first time.
“Time flies.”
It seems like only yesterday that I became a user, but three months have already passed. During those three months, I grew to the point where I could say I was a different person.
July 30th.
It was tomorrow.
“I decided to test the experience penalty and Changryongbo tomorrow.”
<Kaumka’s Fighting Spirit> was not the only skill that Jeong Do acquired.
As much as I loaded the Diamond grade Lu Bu, I acquired one more of Lu Bu’s skills. The degree reminded me of when I recently loaded Lu Bu.
<Then Confucius. See you again next time.>
After defeating the chief, Lu Bu left those words and left.
Tiring!
<You have succeeded in loading an object of extremely high rank. Some of the target’s abilities reside in the user’s body.>
<Mana increased by 3, strength by 8, reflexes by 4, and mana sensitivity increased by 1.>
When the notification window popped up to this point, I prayed earnestly in my heart.
‘please. <Summon Red Tomato>. Please God. Buddha. Lady Luck, please!!! I’d like to ask you to give me one more skill to get!’
The <Summon Red Toma> skill, which was originally not possessed by Diamond grade Lu Bu, has been unlocked through reinforcement. Although I desperately wanted that skill, having personally experienced its deceptive nature.
<You have acquired the skill <Changryongbo>!>
Lady Luck did not allow Jeong-do to eat his life raw. No, she didn’t do that, she just gave away the skills she already had.
‘This is a lot of diamond load, but it’s a duplicate!’
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Although it was somewhat despairing, Lady Luck showed at least some mercy.
<Skill <Changryongbo> already exists. Skills are strengthened. The effect of <Changryongbo> is improved. Mana consumption is reduced.>
That is how <Changryongbo (Ganghwa)> was born.
Since it is a key skill, I planned to use it in the dungeon tomorrow until I got used to it.
“Then what’s next?”
There were still more results to be gained from this expedition. Jeongdo opened the inventory.
In the inventory was the corpse of a monster and a flail.
Chief Kaumka’s corpse and the flail he used.
Of course, Jeongdo took care of it. First, he took out his flail and used observation.
Tiring!
<Iron Flail of the Kaumka Chieftain>
<Grade: Legend>
<This is a historic flail that has been used by Chief Kaumka for generations. The reason the Kaumka people worshiped the sun and the moon was because their lifestyle was closely related to agriculture. However, most chieftains preferred harvesting their enemies to harvesting grain.>
<Effect 1: All abilities increase by 3.>
<Effect 2: The pain felt by the hit enemy is doubled.>
<Effect 3: Skill <Flesh Separation> can be used.>
‘… For torture?’
I looked at the flail with some uncertainty.
Of course it’s a good weapon. All abilities increase and even vicious skills. Even if you search around the world, you won’t find many items like this. However, for the King of All Diseases, weapons were meaningless.
‘But it’s a waste to sell something like this.’
Let’s save it for now. Jeongdo put the flail back into his inventory.
‘The problem is the Chief’s Sichende.’
There were two uses that immediately came to mind. One is to process it and make it into a weapon. Actually, I was planning on handling it like this.
<Master! Loyalty. Loyalty. Loyalty.>
There was also an option to feed it to Ixia. In this expedition, Ixia’s growth rate is close to 100%, and of course the seal will be broken by feeding the chieftain’s corpse.
‘however. That’s possible with other monsters too.’
Is there any reason to use the corpse of a precious boss monster to break the seal?
<Lord, master! With that corpse, you will be able to unlock my seal one step and proceed to many of the next steps!>
“… “How many levels are there?”
You’re not even the main character of a novel, so how far are you going to inflate your power?
“Let’s put the body on hold for now.”
Up to stage 3, it seemed like I had to break the seal with a normal monster and then judge by seeing how much Ixia’s abilities had increased.
“Ixia. “What kind of entity is the Elder Arch Lich?”
<This is a very hard-to-see undead. In the world I was in, there was only one entity for five thousand years. And it’s very strong. Liches are usually born when wizards abandon their bodies for eternal life. If you get a higher rank there, you become an Arch Lich. The Arch Lich alone is treated as a disaster for a nation, but the Elder Arch Lich is a monster that is one level more powerful.>
“So, this guy called Ditarteron is a national-scale monster.”
Is inflation real? Jeongdo sighed at the bleak future ahead.
<Actually, the combat power of the entity itself is not that strong. If the master loads a diamond-level character through the draw, he will be able to defeat it one-on-one. But the problem is that lich is usually not alone.>
Yes. Was it not for nothing that he was given the title of immortal king? It was clear that numerous undead legions were guarding the Elder Arch Lich. No matter how diamond level it was, it didn’t seem easy to break through the undead army and defeat the lich with the load time set.
“Anyway, I need to find out what dungeon he is in.”
A monster of that level is most likely an SS-level monster. I didn’t know that if I selected only S-class dungeons and checked them through observation, I might be able to find them faster than I thought.
‘Because I have time to spare.’
It was fortunate that this crisis information had no time limit. As long as someone else doesn’t target the dungeon where Ditarteron is and cause a break, it will be fine.
‘I guess that won’t happen. Dungeon breaks have been quiet lately.’
With that in mind, I started preparing for tomorrow’s dungeon.
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Did you say that words become seeds?
The group that could cause the dungeon break was in the middle of a meeting.
The man in the robe opened his mouth.
“He had foresight. “After some time, a dungeon containing powerful monsters will appear.”
“indeed. The final use of the blood jade has been decided, right? “How powerful is this monster that he says that?”
“Even he said he couldn’t predict victory or defeat. Of course, this may be a statement of humility, but that doesn’t change how powerful it is.”
The man in the tiger mask whistled at the robed man’s words.
“Wow. It’s awesome. So where will that dungeon take place? Is it really Korea this time?”
Rob nodded in agreement to the tiger mask man’s words.
“I just don’t understand that little country. “If you look at the abnormally high level of users compared to the population, it is clearly a blessed land, but looking at the dungeon that will appear this time, it doesn’t seem that way.”
“It must be closely related to the ‘spirit vein’ he mentioned. We just have to carry out His commands.”
“Everyone is noisy. So, where in Korea?”
The woman in the butterfly mask spoke nervously, as if she was not satisfied with the conversation going astray, and the man in the robe answered.
“Dokdo.”
The next battleground they chose.
It was a small island located at the eastern end of Korea.
