𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟐𝟐
━Damn it, dodge!
━Shield!
Despite the players’ desperate shouts, the black storm created by the Fourth Apostle swept through almost the entire space.
Beyond the relentlessly sweeping storm, it was confirmed that roughly 20-30% of the players had died, and from their bodies, some sort of black fog appeared and swirled.
━Krrrgh……
The moment the swirling fog disappeared, surprisingly, the dead players slowly began to rise and soon started running towards the nearby players.
━Necromancy!
━Cast purification magic first!
Well, watching them, it seemed like they were responding calmly.
However, while dealing with the corpses for a brief moment, the Fourth Apostle’s attack continued.
Kwa-kwa-kwang!!━
━Ugh, everyone attack! Don’t let him use magic!
The players showed a strong will, not giving up despite the Apostle’s consecutive attacks, but apart from that, there wasn’t much hope.
‘They’ll fail.’
For reference, the video I was watching now was the Anis Kingdom’s Main Scenario.
Having somehow reached the final boss of the Main Scenario, the Anis Kingdom finished their preparations for the day and started the broadcast, and after hearing the news, I purchased a ticket and was watching the battle like this.
It wasn’t without a sense of boredom, as it felt like watching the Karzen Kingdom’s video from a few days ago all over again.
‘By the way, if the Anis Kingdom fails too……’
It would be the second failure after the Karzen Kingdom.
Of course, even if the Anis Kingdom fails, there are three countries left, so if they all succeed, the First Main Scenario can be completed safely.
However, I had no expectations for the remaining three countries.
‘Tsk, they’ll all end in failure.’
The reason I’m thinking this is because there’s a time limit.
Actually, it wasn’t strange that there was a time limit.
The Apostle was breaking the seal, and it wasn’t like he would be breaking the seal for thousands of years.
Anyway, I found out a few days ago that the time limit was 30 days in real-time, and realizing that only 3 days were left, I predicted that all countries would fail.
[The seal of the Anis Kingdom has been released.]
[The First Main Scenario of the Anis Kingdom has ended.]
“……”
And as more time passed, without any twists, a message appeared that the players of the Anis Kingdom had been annihilated and the seal had been released, and posts from people who were watching the broadcast also appeared.
━lol, as expected.
━Didn’t expect anything.
━I spent 10,000 won to watch a 30-minute video.
━They should have lowered the price at least.
━Yeah. Then they would’ve gotten less criticism.
‘Well, I guess it’s fortunate for the guilds that they made money by selling tickets.’
Although the Main Scenario ended in failure, they made money from the broadcast, so I thought they would be able to recover to some extent.
‘It would have been better if they had prepared a little more before challenging it.’
There were still 3 days left, so if they had prepared thoroughly until then, a different outcome might have been possible.
Conversely, it’s also possible that they challenged it because there was nothing more to prepare.
[The broadcast will end.]
Seeing that the broadcast had ended, I went to the Twilight bulletin board just in case.
As expected, the bulletin board was filled with stories about the Anis Kingdom.
━What confidence did they have to even challenge it?
━The Anis Kingdom is ruined too!
━We need to move to the Harpe Empire quickly.
━Damn it, I can’t believe our kingdom failed!
━They should have asked the Emperor Guild for help.
‘Ah, come to think of it……’
I remembered Heron’s words that they were still receiving requests for help from guilds that were in the middle of the Main Scenario.
Of course, the decision was up to Aizen, but Aizen himself, perhaps because he didn’t have a legendary weapon, replied that he couldn’t help, and as a result, the guilds that requested help were expressing their dissatisfaction.
No, thinking about it, it’s strange that they’re dissatisfied.
They’re dissatisfied that he’s not helping them with their own work?
I couldn’t understand it, so I tried not to think about it, but it seemed like Aizen, who was receiving requests here and there, couldn’t do that.
‘They even came to the Guild Castle and threw a tantrum.’
I thought it would be better to find someone to help in the same country, but considering the remaining time, I wondered if it would be possible.
‘Huh?’
Suddenly, a story related to the Main Scenario that someone had written caught my eye.
Click━
[Actually, the Main Scenario was doomed from the start.]
[Content: In the first place, it was a mistake to give the Main Scenario only to the top 10 guilds. No, if all 10 guilds received rewards, things wouldn’t have turned out this way.
But they only gave rewards to the guild that found and solved the seal.
Because of that, the guilds blinded by the reward were only focused on hindering each other, and in the end, most countries failed or are still fighting.
I also think the Emperor Guild is at fault for things turning out this way.
Because they showed that they were the first to succeed in a short period of time, they made it seem like the difficulty was lowered for others.
Thanks to that, the Anis Kingdom failed after the Karzen Kingdom.
Furthermore, considering the remaining countries, the chances of clearing the Main Scenario are almost non-existent.]
‘But to say the Emperor Guild is also at fault.’
Except for that part, everything else was right.
If the reward wasn’t limited, all the guilds might have cooperated to catch the Apostle.
Moreover, the remaining three countries haven’t even reached the location of the seal yet, or are in the midst of a war, so the statement that there’s no chance of clearing the Main Scenario wasn’t wrong either.
“Phew.”
Anyway, closing the Twilight bulletin board, I let out a long sigh as I shifted my gaze to the anvil in front of me.
I had been making weapons for so long that now just looking at the anvil made me sigh automatically.
The problem was the crafting level that wasn’t increasing despite all the hard work.
“It’s level 26 now.”
[S-Rank Dreton’s Equipment Crafting Effect] (LV26+2)
━When crafting, basic quality 180→185 effect.
━When crafting, special quality 27→28 effect.
━When crafting, apply skills as additional quality.
━When crafting, 23→23.5% chance to craft perfect equipment.
━When crafting, perfect equipment quality 160→165 additional effect.
━When crafting, perfect equipment special quality 54→56 additional effect.
━When crafting, perfect equipment has a 10.2→10.4% chance to increase crafting level by +5.
━When crafting, equipment durability 54→56 additional effect.
━When crafting, 1~3 random enhancement effects.
━Hammering limit 250 times.
‘When will I raise this?’
The skill level was capped at 30, so if I just raised the remaining 4 levels, I wouldn’t need to train Equipment Crafting anymore.
‘But on the bulletin board, there are quite a few people who have reached level 30.’
Indeed, if you went to the homepage bulletin board, you could easily find people who claimed to have reached level 30.
However, the common point among those people was……
‘Skill rank?’
As far as I remember, among the people who said they reached level 30, there was no one with a skill rank above C-rank.
If my memory was correct, it seemed like it was easier to reach level 30 if the skill rank was lower, but for me, who had to raise an S-rank skill, it was meaningless.
Pababat!━
At that moment, I turned my head at the presence I felt from one side, and I could see Yua who had returned using a Return Scroll.
“Ah, Rudin-nim.”
“Welcome back.”
“Yes. But were you crafting?”
“Trying to raise my skill level.”
But thinking about all the hard work I’ve done so far, I wondered if it wouldn’t be faster to just hunt raid bosses.
You could raise your skill level by 1 level by hunting a raid boss.
However, I had to craft weapons like this to grow the Infinite Sword, so it was just a passing thought.
‘Well, the Infinite Sword is the same as Equipment Crafting though.’
The growth of the Infinite Sword was also minimal, like Equipment Crafting, but since I had fed it thousands of swords so far, it had no choice but to become a better weapon than before.
[Infinite Sword] (Rare)
Description: A sword that has grown by absorbing numerous weapons. However, it has not yet reached its full potential.
Attack Power: 257 Magic Attack Power: 0
Durability: ∞
*Increases Health by 1,540.
*Increases sword skill damage by 13%.
*Can grow by absorbing weapons.
*Cannot be enhanced.
“……”
Perhaps it’s a usable weapon until level 50?
The process of this Infinite Sword becoming Rare grade was simple.
Originally, when the total additional stats were 50, no matter how many weapons I fed it, the stats wouldn’t increase. So, just in case, I fed it a Rare grade weapon, and the grade increased, and the additional stats started increasing again.
Thanks to that, I wasted a precious Rare weapon, but instead, the Infinite Sword became Rare grade, so I decided to think of the results as the same.
“Hmm? But I don’t see Sina-nim.”
Taking my eyes off the Infinite Sword for a moment, I felt puzzled that Sina, who I thought would come with Yua, still hadn’t arrived, and I asked, and Yua replied with an awkward laugh.
“She went to buy lottery tickets. She said there was no winner last week.”
‘Winner?’
If there was no winner last week, does the prize money accumulate?
If so, if you win this week, you could get a huge amount of money, but winning wouldn’t be that easy.
“……Tell her I wish her luck.”
Anyway, since Yua had arrived, I couldn’t just keep making weapons, so I roughly tidied up and got up from my seat.
I had been using Intuition every day for several days, so I couldn’t help but want to rest.
“But are you okay?”
“What do you mean?”
When I answered Yua’s question of whether I was okay with a puzzled look, Yua brought up the story related to the Emperor Guild.
“You’ve been constantly refusing requests to help with the Main Scenario.”
“Well, you don’t have to worry about it.”
I seemed to know what Yua was trying to say.
The guilds that were still in the middle of the Main Scenario kept coming and asking for help, but Aizen kept refusing, and perhaps because that became a rumor, people were expressing their doubts and dissatisfaction, asking why he wasn’t helping.
Since there were only complaints so far, it didn’t bother me, but the overall atmosphere wasn’t good.
‘But it’s not like we have to help unconditionally.’
Besides, it would be a problem even if we did help.
What would happen if we died while helping?
If I died and dropped a +15 item, I might even wipe out the entire guild.
Pababat!━
While I was talking with Yua like that for a while, a light appeared on one side, and soon Sina’s figure appeared.
She seemed to have used a Return Scroll like Yua.
“Oh? Rudin-nim, you were here too.”
“The guild is a bit chaotic.”
“Ah~ People are asking for help everywhere, right?”
Sina said as if she understood.
Since Sina was faster than me with internet news, it would be strange if she didn’t know.
“I think it wouldn’t be bad to help them.”
“Why?”
“Well…… it’s a seal, right? Even if the Harpe Empire succeeded, wouldn’t the seal be released if the remaining five places fail?”
The release of the seal was something I had thought about as well.
However, since we had worked hard to catch the First Apostle, I wasn’t confident.
‘And there are three seals left, but……’
Considering the situation in the remaining regions, the seal would inevitably be released.
The Pronia Kingdom still hadn’t found the location of the seal, and the remaining two countries were engaged in an endless war.
Moreover, there were only 3 days left, so there was nothing we could do.
“It might be easier to think about what to do after the seal is released.”
“After the seal is released? Hmm, that’s true. There are no guilds left in the remaining countries that are progressing through the Main Scenario.”
‘Come to think of it, I shouldn’t be doing this.’
There was a high possibility that the Second Main Scenario would begin after 3 days.
If the sealing was successful, it would be fine, but considering the current direction, it seemed like Beluin would awaken.
And wouldn’t Beluin be much stronger than the First Apostle?
‘If only I could get a legendary weapon somehow.’
The legendary weapon I gave to Aizen back then had that good of a performance.
Now that I had learned Thunder Strike and was only using that, I thought that if I got a legendary weapon, things might change a little.
The problem was that there was no way to get that legendary weapon.
‘Should I go dragon hunting or something.’
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