𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟐𝟒
[You have purchased the cash transaction item, ‘C-Rank Skillbook’.]
[The purchased amount of 2,000,000 won will be automatically withdrawn.]
‘Wow~ Look at the price.’
I found a light attribute skill that I liked, but the price was 2 million won.
A C-Rank Skillbook costs as much as the monthly salary of an average office worker.
At this point, I wondered if it would be better to quit my job and just collect C-Rank Skillbooks.
[You have acquired the C-Rank skill, ‘Divine Manifestation’.]
[Strength increases by 2.]
[Ding!~ A new stat, ‘Faith’, has been created. Faith is absolutely necessary to handle Divine skills. Additionally, the higher your Faith, the greater the power of Divine skills.]
[Faith increases by 4.]
Anyway, I acquired the C-Rank skill, Divine Manifestation, which I bought for 2 million won.
In order to acquire this skill, I had no choice but to delete the relatively low-ranked E-Rank Spinning Strike, which meant that all the skills that used a weapon for attack were gone.
‘Now I’ll be using only shield skills, whether I live or die.’
My thought that only shield skills were left wasn’t too far off, as the newly acquired Divine Manifestation was closer to a support skill.
[C-Rank Divine Manifestation Effect] (LV1+2)
━Converts the weapon to light attribute for 60 seconds.
━Applies additional damage (+) based on Faith.
━Applies additional damage (%) based on light attribute.
*Consumes 70 Magic Power when used.
*Consumes 2.1% Stamina when used.
‘Huh? Looking at it like this, it’s pretty good?’
And after carefully examining the skill details, I realized that it was quite good for a C-Rank skill.
This was because the light attribute was applied as a percentage. Since my current light attribute was 11%, it meant that the damage would also increase by 11%.
If it were a lightning attribute, it would have increased by 41%, though.
Well, if there was anything to be disappointed about, it was that this skill was acquired to deal with Beluin’s Thoughts, so I probably wouldn’t use it often.
‘Then what are my stats now?’
[Name：Rudin]
[Title：Hero of the Present World]
[Level：118]
[Fame：6054]
[Guild：Emperor]
[Health：36862/36862]
[Magic Power：17293/24348]
[Stamina：100.0%]
[Attack Power：8448] [Magic Attack Power：1779]
[Defense：8778] [Magic Defense：5620]
[Stats] (All +20%)
Strength：2833 Intelligence：805 Agility：1444
Stamina：2274 Magic Power：1814 Skill：468
Fighting Spirit：324 Summoning：1010 Command：240
Faith：160 Luck：231
[Elemental Attack Power：All Attributes (11%), Water (5%), Lightning (30%)]
[Elemental Resistance：All Attributes (15%), Water (67%), Lightning (20%)]
[Acquired Skills：20/20]
Upon checking, I could see that my stats had increased in various ways, and even a new stat called Faith had appeared.
Since the items I was currently wearing had the effect of increasing all stats by 130, and the Hero of the Present World title further increased them by 20%, the Faith stat, which had just increased by 4, had now risen to 160.
Besides that, the Summoning stat, which had reached 1000, stood out. It was a number that made me feel proud just by looking at it.
‘If I had focused on Summoning from the beginning, it would have exceeded 3000, right?’
If the Summoning stat were 3000, all stats of the summoned creature would increase by 1500. Health and Magic Power would increase by 15,000.
Perhaps even a summoned Goblin could be useful?
At least, if my Agility reached 1500 due to the stat increase, it would be faster than me now, so I thought it would definitely be useful.
‘But with my Strength not even reaching 3000, the Summoning stat is out of the question.’
I was convinced that if the Summoning stat increased beyond a certain point, it would definitely be of great help, but I concluded that it wouldn’t be easy to raise it and turned my head to look around.
While I was buying and acquiring the Skillbook, the other guild members seemed to be moving to find the fragments.
‘Hmm, should I start moving too?’
Thinking that it would be a waste of time to keep waiting here, I decided to look for the fragments and started to slowly follow the moving guild members.
Of course, in a different direction from the guild members.
We had to spread out to find more fragments.
With that thought in mind, I started walking and soon felt a presence following me.
‘Is it Hwaryeon?’
Since I came here with Hwaryeon, I naturally thought it was her, but when I looked back, it was Illia following me.
“……Why are you following me?”
“Can’t I?”
“I want to be alone.”
I saw that no one else was following me except Illia.
Nothing would happen just because we were alone, but I was suspicious of Illia’s identity and wanted to avoid being with her as much as possible.
“Still, let’s go together. You’re not going to leave a fragile woman alone, are you?”
‘Fragile woman, my foot.’
If she were a fragile woman, she shouldn’t have come to this dungeon in the first place.
Anyway, seeing that she had no intention of turning back, I stopped talking and started walking, and Illia naturally followed me.
“Hmm, that’s unexpected.”
As I was walking through the dungeon with Illia, I heard her voice saying it was unexpected.
“What is?”
“To be honest, I thought you would come back to me. But there’s no sign of that, and you seem to be avoiding me instead.”
“I’m a bit shy.”
But now that Illia was openly following me, I felt I couldn’t just keep avoiding her.
“Well, if you have something to say, go ahead.”
“I want to, but I know you won’t answer even if I ask.”
“It depends on the question.”
Besides, the question she wanted to ask seemed to be one that I wouldn’t answer.
Honestly, I could guess what the question was.
Anyway, Illia, who had been silent for a while, nodded as if she had given up and spoke first.
“You were curious about how I knew about the S-Rank skill, right?”
“I had a hunch, but…… yes.”
My guess was that Illia was either a Twilight administrator or a developer.
Otherwise, there was no way she could know about the S-Rank skill.
“It’s simple. I used to be a Twilight developer.”
And as I guessed, Illia answered that she was a Twilight developer.
Only the past tense, ‘used to be’, was unexpected.
“And now?”
“An ordinary unemployed person?”
Illia answered that she was unemployed, but since I was also unemployed, I had nothing to say about it.
No, I was earning money, so I wasn’t unemployed, was I?
In addition, her mention of being a developer made me realize how she found this dungeon we were currently exploring.
“So you lied about finding it in the library.”
“It was a white lie. Actually, there are only a few dungeons you can find without the Exploration skill.”
‘Come to think of it, she said this was a dungeon found through a quest, right?’
At first, I thought it was an unfamiliar method, but after learning the truth, I felt strangely cheated.
“Anyway, since I answered your question, can you answer mine?”
“The S-Rank skill?”
“Yes, I don’t understand it. It seems like you acquired it through a Random Skillbook, but the probability of getting an S-Rank skill from that is extremely low.”
“……”
I couldn’t deny that the probability was low.
When it was really bad, I spent days just clinging to Random Skillbooks.
“Did you perhaps find a bug?”
She seemed to think it was a bug.
And since Illia answered honestly first, I also answered honestly.
“It’s not a bug, I picked it by intuition.”
“Intuition? I thought you had definitely found a bug that no one else knew about.”
‘Well, it’s not entirely wrong.’
To be precise, it wasn’t a bug found in the Twilight system, but a bug found within myself.
Naturally, I had no intention of telling her that, so I watched Illia frowning and pondering. Soon, as if she didn’t understand my answer, Illia asked again.
“By the way, what is intuition? Is it the intuition I know?”
“I don’t know.”
The answer might be vague, but I had answered honestly, so I didn’t want to explain further.
What was a bit surprising was Illia agonizing over it.
Instead of saying outright that it was nonsense, Illia’s appearance of pondering over the intuition I mentioned made me feel like I had made a mistake.
It wasn’t like she could learn about Intuition, so nothing major would happen, but still.
‘Ah, should I ask about Beluin?’
Since she openly admitted to being a developer earlier, she must know about the main scenario.
In addition, to see if what Illia said was true, I decided to ask about Beluin, who appeared in the main scenario.
“If you don’t mind, can I ask you a question?”
“Yes, go ahead.”
“What happens if Beluin’s Specters merge?”
“It’s simple. As the message said, Beluin descends. And the second main scenario, ‘God of Deep Darkness’, begins.”
‘The second main scenario?’
Come to think of it, even though the seal was released, the second main scenario hadn’t started.
Does the second scenario only begin when Beluin descends?
Since I could only confirm whether it was true or not with time, I decided to move on, but I couldn’t erase the new question that arose.
“If all the countries succeed in sealing, does the second main scenario disappear?”
“If the sealing succeeds, a different substitute appears instead of Beluin. Actually, the probability of that happening is quite low, though.”
“Low, meaning?”
Illia’s following explanation was like this.
“Think about it. There’s only one reward, but there are 10 people who want it. In the end, it’s a structure where they have no choice but to fight.”
“They instigated a fight while inducing failure.”
“Yes. Besides, even if only one place fails, Beluin appears, so his appearance is inevitable.”
In other words, Beluin was designed to appear no matter what.
In fact, the Iot Kingdom and the Ronda Kingdom failed the main scenario due to war, so it went according to plan.
“Do you have any other questions? I’ll answer one more if it’s something I can answer.”
Originally, I was going to ask about Beluin and end it there, but at her offer to answer one more question, I brought up a question I had been curious about within Twilight.
“How do you get legendary equipment or S-Rank skills?”
“You have to follow the traces of legends.”
“……?”
What kind of answer was that?
“That’s revenge for your previous answer.”
When I looked at her as if asking what she meant, Illia left those words and went back the way she came.
It seemed like revenge for my answer about intuition.
‘Tsk.’
* * *
After parting ways with Illia and searching here and there for the fragment pieces, I was fortunately able to find two pieces.
And when I returned with the pieces, I could already see a number of guild members and Aizen.
At first, I wondered when they would arrive, but it seemed they came while I was out searching for the fragments.
In addition, when I asked why they were so late, Aizen told me that they had been collecting fragment pieces from the beginning, and the number of pieces Aizen had gathered was exactly six.
“I will open it now.”
Then Aizen, the guild members, and finally I put together all the fragment pieces we had collected like a puzzle, and soon the place that I thought was a huge wall began to slowly split left and right.
Kuku!!━
In Twilight, most places with bosses were wide spaces.
As if to prove that, there was a huge space beyond the wall that split left and right, and after confirming that space, the guild members and I prepared for the battle that would follow.
‘By the way, is that guy the boss?’
At first glance, it looked like a demon.
A beast’s head and large horns curved upwards.
Reddish skin and wings on its back.
In addition, its size was not to be underestimated. I stared at its size of roughly 7~8 meters with tired eyes, and soon turned my gaze to the letters above its head.
[Cursed Demon of the Demon Realm (BOSS)]
‘A demon……’
Well, no matter how powerful a demon is, would it be stronger than the First Apostle?
Since the monsters that appear here are not easy, it is natural to think that the boss will also be strong, but since it is just a normal boss and not a raid boss, it seemed like we would be able to handle it sufficiently.
“Rudin-nim.”
“I know.”
I gave a short reply to Aizen’s call and ran with all my might towards the demon that was slowly glaring at us, and the guild members also started to move.
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