Chapter 35: You Can’t Study Because It’s Too Loud? This Is What Concentration Looks Like (1)
Chiiik!
As the Rain of Sodium Hydroxide touched the Vitriol Acid’s body, strong steam rose.
” Griii……! “
It was effective.
The Vitriol Acid’s dark yellow flesh was being washed away as if it were melting.
But that was all.
” Griii! “
Mana surged from its core, restoring the washed-away body of the Vitriol Acid.
It was the effect of its unique characteristic, ‘Ultra Regeneration’.
” Ugh…… It’s even overcoming the elemental disadvantage. As expected of a boss monster called a Unique Dungeon’s boss. “
<Master! To the left!>
Kwaang!
A part of the Vitriol Acid’s body stretched out and attacked Kyung-joon.
Chiiik!
What appeared to be laboratory equipment shattered and melted away in an instant.
Fortunately, Kyung-joon was safe.
If it hadn’t been for Teemo’s notification, he would have been seriously injured even with the Water Shield.
” Tsk…… It’s hard to dodge because of my low agility. It’s a waste of time, but it can’t be helped. “
[Mythical skill 『Dimensional Study Room』 ]
▶Time Dilation: 2.0x
Everything except Kyung-joon and Teemo slowed down exactly twice.
With this, even with his agility of only 10, he could react and dodge sufficiently with Teemo’s assistance.
Kwaang! Chiiik! Kwong! Chiik!
The Vitriol Acid’s relentless attacks!
Kyung-joon barely dodged the attacks and asked Teemo.
” Teemo! How long will it take to catch that guy with Rain of Sodium Hydroxide? “
<With Master’s current mana level, you need to consume at least twenty-five times the amount to completely neutralize the monster in front of you.>
Twenty-five times.
There was a high probability that he would be attacked and die before he could even use it that many times.
Still, he asked just in case.
” The bread had MP regeneration effect, right? How long would it take if I keep using it little by little while enduring with that? “
<It is estimated to take at least 2 hours.>
” I’d die from the attacks before that……! But I’ll eat it anyway! “
[『Deep Mana Infused Soft Bread』’s effect is applied.]
[『Deep Mana Infused Sweet Honey Castella』’s effect is applied.]
▶Increases mana by 10% and recovers 0.5% per second for 1 hour.
▶Increases intelligence by 10% for 1 hour.
▶Tenacity +50% calculation ability +30%
※You have already consumed it more than 10 times. Mana and intelligence will not increase permanently.
His depleted mana slowly recovered.
The 50% boosted tenacity momentarily fueled his burning competitive spirit.
The situation has improved slightly.
He had no intention of dragging it out and going for a war of attrition.
At the optimal moment, he would end it with a single blow.
[Unique skill 『Rain of Sodium Hydroxide (Lv.1)』 ]
[Advanced skill 『Spell Modification (Lv.4)』 ]
He mixed Spell Modification with Rain of Sodium Hydroxide to create a much larger and longer-lasting rain than before.
Chiiiik!
” Griii……! “
It wasn’t a fatal blow, but it was enough to stop the constant barrage of attacks that had been going on until now.
<The duration of the rain is estimated to be about 1 minute.>
He had to complete the synthesis within that 1 minute.
A super strong base that would instantly evaporate that massive body and expose its weak point, the core.
” Teemo! From now on, I’m going to synthesize the superbase 『Sodium Hydride』! “
Not sodium hydroxide (NaOH), but sodium hydride (NaH).
Sodium hydride is a substance with an incomparably stronger base than sodium hydroxide.
A superbase that instantly melts the skin and takes lives upon contact.
No matter how strong an acid is, it is nothing more than weak water in front of sodium hydride.
” Help me with the calculations! “
<As you wish.>
<￣▽￣)b>
With that said, Kyung-joon took out a piece of paper and a pencil.
Scribble. Scribble, scribble.
Soon, he began to write down chemical formulas and calculations at an incredible speed.
He was calculating the amount of mana and energy required to synthesize sodium hydride, as well as the ratio of the necessary materials.
His calculation ability, buffed by 30% due to the castella, and his heated mind from the situation, put him in a state of trance.
[A new trait has been added to the Mythical skill 『Infinite Reading』.]
[Infinite Reading – Trance]
▶When one focuses entirely on one thing, one forgets even one’s own existence. Only then can we truly transcend our limits.
▶Upon entering a state of trance, concentration, including all buffs, is doubled.
▶Skill Type: Auxiliary Trait
▶Skill Rank: Unique
” Equation 2.1, solve.”
<12,475 mana joules.>
” Simplify Equation 2.2.”
<x^3+4*x^2-2fv=0>
” Considering STP conditions, list 10 possible ordered pairs for f and v. Use integers approximately.”
< (f, v)= (3, 4), (17, 8), (14, 13)……>
Kyung-joon’s eyes and hands moved as if they were one.
The Vitriol Acid was still tied up with the Rain of Sodium Hydroxide.
It was too busy restoring its body with the mana from its core to attack Kyung-joon.
” Griii! “
Sagagsagag!
It was quite an avant-garde sight.
Kyung-joon, who suddenly took out a piece of paper and started solving problems in the middle of a fight.
And behind him, the boss monster, writhing in pain as its body melted.
A truly surreal sight that you wouldn’t see anywhere else in the world.
What was even more amazing was this.
Despite the sulfuric acid gas swirling around,
And the Rain of Sodium Hydroxide pouring down,
And the earsplitting roar of ‘Griii!’ that had been going on since earlier…….
Sagagsagag!
……Kyung-joon didn’t care at all and was solely focused on his calculations!
The epitome of concentration!
Soon, the 1 minute passed and the Rain of Sodium Hydroxide stopped.
The Vitriol Acid was still busy recovering.
However, Kyung-joon had already…
” Calculation complete. “
…finished his calculations a long time ago.
Kyung-joon reached out to the sodium hydroxide that filled the floor.
Of course, thanks to Water Shield, Kyung-joon was unharmed.
Soon, mana gathered in his hand.
The task was simple.
Remove oxygen (O) from sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to make sodium hydride (NaH).
[General skill 『Energy Bolt (Lv.8)』 ]
[Advanced skill 『Spell Modification (Lv.4)』 ]
[Rare skill 『Fine Mana Manipulation (Lv.3)』 ]
[Rare skill 『Multi-Casting (Lv.1)』 ]
He began to synthesize sodium hydride using four skills simultaneously.
How much mana would be needed?
How should he infuse it?
How much should he infuse per second initially, and how much after that?
All the information he had just calculated was now in his hands.
Wooong!
A large gray salt crystal formed in Kyung-joon’s hand.
This wasn’t the end.
It was just a slightly peculiar salt.
There was still one more step left.
<Master, according to the calculation results, dissolving it in water will not produce a strong base.>
” Good. Then let’s dissolve it in something other than water. “
Something other than water.
The opposite of water.
Water and oil.
Kyung-joon took out all the butter from his inventory and melted it with Energy Bolt.
He then dissolved the sodium hydride he had just synthesized into it.
Chiiiik!
As soon as the sodium hydride dissolved into the butter, a tremendous amount of smoke began to rise.
It was reacting violently with the few remaining sulfuric acid gas floating around!
It was hard to breathe even though he had strengthened the Water Shield.
This was the power of a superbase.
It was a good thing he had Water Shield. If he had touched it with his bare skin, his hand would have already melted.
[You have created the Unique skill 『Superbase Bubble』.]
[100 hours have been added to the Dimensional Study Room.]
” Griii! “
” What are you grilling about so loudly? It’s noisy. “
Pwong!
Along with Kyung-joon’s nonsensical words, a powerful Superbase Cannon fired from his hand.
Cccchhhhaaa!
A water cannon mixed with gray sodium hydride in yellow butter.
Anyone who saw it would have thought it was just a water cannon with a peculiar color.
If they were to speculate a little more, they might have thought it seemed poisonous.
But that would be a big mistake.
This wasn’t an ordinary poison.
It was a superbase at the extreme end of superacids.
As for the yellow sulfuric acid monster in front of him…
One shot was all it took.
Cccchhhhaaaa!
[You have defeated the boss monster 『Vitriol Acid (Lv.150)』.]
[You have gained 4,543,120 experience points.]
[Level up!]
[Kyung-joon: Lv.67→Lv.78]
” Huh, I didn’t intend to, but… I gained a lot of levels. “
<You’ve gone up 59 levels in one day. Surely, even if we look back 500 years, you’re probably the only one like you, Master. Maybe the previous Infinite Knowledge Seeker was similar to you.>
” As expected, Infinite Knowledge Seeker is the best. “
Greatly satisfied with the achievements he had made today, Kyung-joon began to look around for something.
His original goal was not to level up or clear the dungeon.
It was to find the general chemistry book in this Underground Villa.
That’s when it happened.
[You have cleared the Unique Dungeon 『Contaminated Underground Villa』.]
[You have gained 100,000,000 experience points.]
[Level up!]
[Level up!]
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[Kyung-joon: Lv.78→119]
” Huh……? “
Kyung-joon became the person who reached level 100 in a single day in The World.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
The recommended level for the Unique Dungeon ‘Contaminated Underground Villa’ is 150 or higher.
The amount of experience required for a level 150 player to level up is approximately 4,000,000.
If Kyung-joon had been level 150, he would have only gained 2 or 3 levels at most.
However, Kyung-joon cleared the dungeon at level 78.
The required experience for a level 78 player is 295,000.
The required experience was 295,000, but he gained 100,000,000.
It wasn’t strange at all that he had leveled up to 119.
If anything was strange, it was Kyung-joon, who had cleared this dungeon.
” Is this a trash game? It’s so easy to level up. All trash games are like this. Like Maplestory. “
TL: Not sure it translates ‘trash’(망겜이)
<Maplestory? What is that?>
” It’s a really old game. Everyone there reaches level 100 in a day. It’s a doomed world. “
<If all players can level up that easily, it’s truly a doomed world. It seems the world’s administrator is incompetent.>
” You’re right. “
It was a conversation that would make the developers of The World and other players clutch their chests and faint if they heard it.
The World, easy to level up in?!
Even the top-ranked players took at least half a year to reach level 100.
Again, the strange one was definitely Kyung-joon.
” General Chemistry~ Science Certification Test~ It would be nice if there was General Physics too~♬ “
Kyung-joon hummed a strange tune and began to look around.
However, there were no books, only broken magic experiment tools scattered about.
” Tsk, isn’t it here? “
<Maybe this is a laboratory. How about looking for another room?>
” Yeah. Come to think of it, it would have been a problem if there were books here. “
If there had been books in this room, they would have been ruined by the aftermath of the previous battle.
A battle that took place in the middle of a complete poison, with all sorts of acids and bases flying around.
<By the way, Master, before you go looking for books, wouldn’t it be better to collect the items that dropped from the boss you just defeated? It looks like a Unique item dropped.>
” Teemo, are Unique items important or are books important? “
Of course, books were more important to Kyung-joon.
<Uh, well. Unique items?>
<-_-a;;>
” Oh, you fool. You still don’t know me? Of course books are more important. What good is a Unique item? What else is there to do besides killing monsters? “
<The players in the world right now would be bewildered if they heard that.>
Kyung-joon, who completely denied the reason why we play games!
The very philosophical question of why we play games remained.
Of course, Kyung-joon’s answer to this was:
To study.
” But I should at least pick it up. “
Kyung-joon approached the spot where the boss had died to pick up the Unique item that Teemo had mentioned.
It wasn’t particularly dangerous because of the sulfuric acid.
The sulfuric acid had already been completely neutralized and turned into water.
” Huh……? This is? “
Kyung-joon’s eyes widened like saucers as he checked the item.
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