Owner of Twilight Intuition – Chapter 154

‘Another flame magic.’

This Skillbook, obtained after catching Deronak, was also flame magic. If I had chosen to be a mage, I would have learned it without a second thought. However, since most of the skills I had acquired were focused on Strength and Stamina, I had no intention of learning magic.

‘Why are only flame skills popping up since yesterday?’

“Oh?! There’s someone in the boss room!”

“……?”

Huh? Who is it?

Hearing a voice completely different from before, I turned my head and saw about five guild members looking this way and shouting that there was someone. And someone walked out from among those people, and it was someone I knew well.

“Oh my? It’s Rudin-nim.”

“Hwaryeon-nim?”

I thought she would have come with an executive since ordinary guild members couldn’t come this far, but I didn’t expect it to be Hwaryeon, so I was momentarily surprised.

“Rudin-nim, you’re even coming to dungeons. I should have come with you if I had known.”

“This is the first dungeon I’ve entered today. But did you come to catch the boss?”

“Yes. The boss here uses a skill called Great Explosion Flame. I came here thinking I might be able to get that skill if I caught it.”

‘Great Explosion Flame?’

The Skillbook I’m holding right now is Great Explosion Flame. Did Hwaryeon want this? Even so, since it was a B-rank Skillbook, it was a high enough rank to be registered on the Real-Time Auction House, so I had no intention of giving it away.

“If we catch it today, it’ll be the fourth time we’ve caught it…… It doesn’t seem to come out easily.”

“Don’t people usually give up after that many tries?”

“Hey~ You have to try at least 10 times. But since Rudin-nim caught it, there’s nothing we can do. We’ll have to postpone it for two days.”

Hearing her say two days, it seems that the dungeon boss’s respawn time is two days. A long time if you think of it as long. Then, Hwaryeon looked at Luter, who was next to me, and spoke with a puzzled expression.

“But aside from the others, is the person next to you an acquaintance of Rudin-nim? The equipment he’s wearing looks like the equipment that drops from the Giant Ant.”

As soon as Hwaryeon saw Luter, she seemed to have grasped that he wasn’t skilled enough to come here, along with the equipment he was wearing. So, thinking he might be an acquaintance related to me, she asked that, and I thought for a moment and shook my head.

“I received a lot of help on the way here. I had nothing to offer in return, so I came here to catch the boss.”

“Ah, I thought he was an acquaintance of Rudin-nim, or a guild member who entered this dungeon using Rudin-nim, but I was wrong.”

She was smiling, but Hwaryeon was looking at Luter with a sharp gaze. Is this the first time I’ve seen Hwaryeon with that expression? She always had a smiling impression in front of me, so her current appearance was even a little unfamiliar.

‘But she’s not wrong.’

Luter, who tried to enter this dungeon using me. Well, the difference is that I knew it and played along.

“Anyway, since there’s no boss, we’ll be going now.”

“Yes, go ahead.”

“And if you’ve caught the dungeon boss, please mark it on the guild window. We come to the dungeon after seeing that.”

“Ah, is that so?”

“Yes. Since it’s your first time today, Rudin-nim, you wouldn’t know. If you open the guild window and look at the secret bulletin board, there’s a space where you can mark when you caught the dungeon boss. You can mark it there.”

‘Mark……’

Come to think of it, if there was that mark, it seemed like I could easily know which dungeon had a boss. Do all the executives search for dungeon bosses that way? Anyway, as Hwaryeon and the guild members who came here left, I could hear Luter’s sigh of relief from beside me.

“Whew, thank you. Vice Guild Master-nim.”

“For what?”

“Isn’t it true that I instigated the Vice Guild Master-nim to come to this dungeon? If you had just relayed that information as it was, I don’t know what would have happened to me……”

He’s worrying about unnecessary things.

“I came here because I said I wanted to, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

“Yes. Ah, but still, thanks to the Vice Guild Master-nim, I was able to raise my Contribution Points, so I’m grateful.”

Hearing the word Contribution Points made me feel a little bitter. Even if I earn money by catching the boss, I have to exchange that money for Contribution Points. In Luter’s case, it didn’t matter since he caught the boss with me today, but I thought it wouldn’t be easy for other guild members to earn money.

This is because even if you catch monsters that appear in the dungeon, they don’t drop gold, so the only way to earn money is through requests or selling items dropped by dungeon monsters.

“Well, since we’ve caught the boss, let’s stop hunting here.”

“Yes.”

“Vice Guild Master-nim. Let’s hunt together next time!”

“Thank you so much today!”

“……See you next time.”

I told the guild members I hunted with that I’d see them next time and then left the party and took out a Return Scroll. As soon as I took out the Return Scroll, I heard Luter’s words of gratitude, and I answered briefly and used the Return Scroll.

[Using Return Scroll.]

Pababat!-

‘Now that I’ve tested the newly acquired skills……’

Should I think about ranged skills again?

Or, since I’ve exceeded level 80, I can raise the skill levels. Even if it’s not a crafting skill, there are many skills to raise, so if I choose this, today might be quite busy.

“Oh? Rudin-nim.”

“……What are you doing?”

Suddenly, I checked the voice I heard and found Sina reading a book on the sofa.

“I’m reading a book until Yua comes. I heard that players famous for Exploration explore based on books like this.”

“You don’t even have the Exploration skill, do you?”

“I’m going to tell Raz-nim later.”

Seeing Sina answer like that, I had nothing to say. By the way, are books like that helpful? Now that I have the Exploration skill, I’m interested, but seeing Sina like that made me curious.

“Ah, by the way, did you catch Arnela?”

“Of course.”

To be precise, I just sealed it.

Anyway, I nodded and answered, and while looking at Sina for a moment, the Sealing Orb I got from Purom earlier came to mind.

What if I give the Sealing Orb to Sina, who has no combat ability?

Even with the drawbacks of having to raise it from level 1 and having to give up one skill, I thought that if she raised it to a certain extent, it would be able to do the work of one person.

Moreover, it would be a jackpot if the 10th experimental subject came out.

“Rather than that, how many skills have you learned?”

“Skills? I learned all 20.”

“What about deleting one and learning the Monster Summon skill?”

“Monster Summon? I have to learn Monster Crafting to learn that. I don’t know how to learn that.”

“Do you know about Monster Summon?”

“Um, I think so. I think it drops when you catch a monster in a certain dungeon. It keeps appearing on the Cash Transaction Window.”

At those words, I opened the Cash Transaction Window and searched, and there really was a Skillbook called Monster Summon. The price was 500,000 won, probably because it was a D-rank skill. It was an expensive skill if you think of it as expensive, but considering the money Sina earned from the Real-Time Auction House last week, it wasn’t an amount she couldn’t buy.

“Why are you telling me to learn Monster Summon?”

“I’m going to give you this.”

I used the Trade System to give Sina Purom’s Experimental Subject Sealing Orb. Sina received the Sealing Orb and looked at it with surprised eyes, then turned her head back towards me.

“It’s the finished product of Monster Crafting. Is it okay to give me this?”

“You can think of it as a reward for helping me in the Iot Kingdom. Even though there’s the hassle of having to raise it from level 1.”

At my words, Sina seemed to be contemplating. It seems she recalled that she wasn’t particularly helpful in the battles so far.

“But is the experimental subject strong?”

“……Well.”

Honestly, excluding the 9th experimental subject, they were guys that would be finished with two Thunder Strike attacks, so it was ambiguous to answer if they were strong. Of course, the 10th experimental subject could come out of that orb, but it’s hard to expect that kind of luck.

I thought that even if only the 6th to 9th experimental subjects came out, it would be sufficiently useful.

“Rather than that, I don’t see Yua-nim.”

“She went to the Promotion Instructor NPC. Aren’t you going, Rudin-nim?”

‘Promotion Instructor?’

I remembered something I read before about a specific NPC giving a title if they acknowledged you. Is she aiming for a title? Titles in Twilight sometimes have better effects than most items, so it wasn’t a bad choice.

But I couldn’t understand the question that followed.

“Why would I go?”

“I heard that the level doesn’t go up anymore after 100. They say you have to do a Promotion Quest to level up. Yua went because they say you can do the Promotion Quest once you’re over level 90.”

In other words, Yua’s level has exceeded 90?

“You said the level doesn’t go up after 100, right?”

“Yes. That’s why people who have reached level 100 are in an uproar. You have to do a Promotion Quest to level up, but it seems like that Promotion Quest isn’t easy.”

‘I’m not even 90 yet.’

I opened the Status Information Window and checked, and it was level 83. That was also because I leveled up by catching Deronak and in the Tower of Darkness, otherwise, it would have likely been in the early 70s.

“Promotion Quest……”

Even if I was interested, it was a situation where the challenge itself was impossible. It seemed like I had to focus on raising my level somehow.

‘Do I have to catch another raid boss?’

The level I gained from catching Deronak was about 4. That was even after the experience was reduced because other guilds had already attacked it. If I had caught it from the beginning, I might have gained 5 or 6 levels.

‘The problem is that the only raid boss left is Heights.’

“……”

My contemplation didn’t last long. I decided to at least try.

“Anyway, learn Monster Summon.”

“Ugh, I don’t want to spend money in a place like this…… Huh? Where are you going?”

“To hunt.”

At my words that I was going hunting, Sina nodded as if she understood and turned her gaze towards the air. She was probably looking at the Cash Transaction Window. Seeing Sina like that, I headed to where the Teleportation Device was to go to the Karzen Kingdom.

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