Owner of Twilight Intuition – Chapter 245

‘Beluin’s Thoughts……’

This wasn’t something to take lightly.

Beluin’s Thoughts were now twice as strong.

I thought that many people would probably fail at this part, and I thought about Yua and the others who hadn’t received the quest yet.

‘Yua might be able to handle them somehow, but Sina and Rine might struggle a bit.’

Still, I thought there might be a way if I helped them.

“Then, brother, I’ll leave it to you.”

“Ah, yes.”

Anyway, now that I had received the quest, I could consider my business with the Church of Light finished, but I wasn’t planning on going out and hunting down the Thoughts right away.

‘I need to change my skills first.’

The Divine Manifestation skill I learned previously only applied the Light Attribute to weapons, so it wasn’t very efficient.

So, I was contemplating whether I should delete this skill when I saw a post on the bulletin board saying that I could use Divine Contribution Points to upgrade skill ranks. I decided to give it a try.

‘How much money did I spend to learn this skill?’

I couldn’t delete it.

I paid a whopping 2 million won to acquire this skill.

I thought it would be better to upgrade the rank even if it meant spending more Divine Contribution Points. I grabbed a nearby NPC and asked where I could use Divine Contribution Points. The NPC guided me to where the High Priest was.

“Welcome. What brings you here?”

“I want to upgrade the rank of my Divine Manifestation skill.”

“To gain greater power, you need to pay the price. Excuse me, but may I ask for your name, brother?”

This was probably to confirm my Divine Contribution Points.

“Rudin.”

“Rudin-nim…… Oh.”

The High Priest, who repeated my ID, had a surprised expression.

Well, it was only natural, wasn’t it?

My Divine Contribution Points had exceeded 250,000, thanks to defeating the Demon King before.

And 250,000 Divine Contribution Points were not a small amount, so I could understand the High Priest’s expression.

“You have contributed greatly to the development of our church. Yes, I think it will be sufficient. Please show me the skill first.”

Moreover, after confirming my Divine Contribution Points, the High Priest became even friendlier. I was curious how he would have reacted if my Divine Contribution Points had been low.

Anyway, if he wanted to see it, I had to show him.

“Divine Manifestation.”

Flash!━

I took out Roar of the Thunder Dragon and used Divine Manifestation. A bright light enveloped my Roar of the Thunder Dragon.

But didn’t this so-called High Priest know about Divine skills?

“That’s enough. I just wanted to confirm. Then, can I ask which direction you want to develop this skill?”

“……Are there multiple directions?”

“Yes, there are. To explain briefly, there’s a direction that allows you to transfer the Light Attribute to others, and there’s also a direction that makes it even stronger than it is now.”

Well, it seemed like it wasn’t just about raising the rank.

‘Does that mean I can decide the direction too?’

The direction of being able to apply the Light Attribute to others was also quite appealing to me.

However, with Thoughts appearing here and there even before the start of the second main scenario, almost everyone had acquired the Light Attribute, so the direction of being able to apply it to others was meaningless. I decided to stick to my original plan.

“Is it possible to apply this Light Attribute to a shield?”

“To a shield? Yes, it’s not difficult.”

Oh, as expected.

“Then I’d like to request that.”

“Understood. I will charge you 70,000 Contribution Points.”

“Yes…… Yes?”

“I will charge you 70,000 Contribution Points.”

“……”

70,000?

These were the Divine Contribution Points I had saved up to acquire an S-rank skill, although I had given up on it for now.

The Divine Contribution Points required for the S-rank skill I saw back then were 400,000.

At that time, I diligently accepted quests from the temple, determined to collect them, but soon I realized something.

It was incredibly difficult to even collect 10,000 Divine Contribution Points.

Knowing that, the High Priest demanding 70,000 Divine Contribution Points from me seemed like a robber.

‘Maybe deleting the skill and learning a new one…… wouldn’t work either.’

It went without saying, but there were no Light Attribute skills to be found now.

Eventually, realizing that I had no other option, I let out a small sigh and nodded.

“Yes, please do that.”

“Understood. Then……”

Snap━

As the High Priest, who replied affirmatively, stretched out his hand, a light emerged from my body, and soon a message appeared as well.

[70,000 Divine Contribution Points will disappear.]

‘……Why did he have to use the word ‘disappear’?’

Well, aside from the Divine Contribution Points, the message I wanted also appeared.

[C-rank skill ‘Divine Manifestation’ will be changed to B-rank skill ‘Shield of Light’.]

[Skill level will be reset.]

“Now, it’s done. Please check it.”

Leaving aside the disappeared Divine Contribution Points, the process was surprisingly quick.

After confirming through the message window that the Divine Manifestation skill had been changed to the B-rank Shield of Light, I moved to the detailed information to check the effects of Shield of Light.

[B-rank Shield of Light Effects] (LV1+3)

━Transforms the shield into Light Attribute for 90 seconds.

━All defense is additionally applied based on Faith stat.

━Light Attribute Resistance increased by 4%.

━Darkness Attribute damage reduced by 200.

━Penetration Defense probability increased by 8p.

*Consumes 112 Magic Power upon use.

*Consumes 3.4% Stamina upon use.

‘Not bad.’

While it was no longer possible to change the weapon to Light Attribute, I didn’t mind since I didn’t have any skills that used weapons anyway.

Moreover, I was quite satisfied with the thought that I could wipe out Beluin’s Thoughts by using Giant’s Sprint or Thunder Strike after using this skill.

“How is it?”

“It’s good. Thank you.”

“I’m glad you’re satisfied. May the blessings of light be with you.”

I bid farewell to the High Priest who blessed me and left the Church of Light. I started to contemplate whether I should tackle the quest now.

Now that I had a means to attack with my shield, the Thoughts were no longer a problem.

However, if I proceeded with the quest alone again, the gap between me and Yua and the others would widen, so I pondered for a moment but decided to ask them. I sent a conversation request to Yua.

[Connected to the conversation.]

━Yes, Rudin-nim. Did you complete the quest?

“I did, but…… I contacted you to see if we should wait and do the next quest together.”

━Is it difficult?

“It’s just about killing 50 Thoughts. It would be easy for you and me, Yua-nim, but I thought it might be difficult for Sina-nim and Rine.”

There was no need to hide anything, so I answered honestly.

And after hearing my answer, Yua talked with Sina for a moment, and then she seemed to have come to a conclusion.

━Go ahead and proceed first.

“Just me?”

━Yes, Sina says waiting is a waste of time. Proceed first, and if it doesn’t work out, we can do it together then.

But what would happen if I completed all the quests first?

I thought about it for a moment, but then I realized it was a pointless worry.

If I completed the quests first, I could just help Yua and the others.

“Then I’ll go ahead and proceed.”

━Oh, Sina says if you have time, watch the broadcast.

“Broadcast?”

Why the sudden mention of a broadcast?

━I heard that Beluin appeared in the Kingdom of Pronia and is fighting.

“Ah…… Yes, then I should watch it.”

I wasn’t particularly interested in the Kingdom of Pronia, but the mention of Beluin piqued my interest.

After all, Beluin would be at the end of the quest I just received.

So, if possible, it would be good to know how Beluin fought and what skills he used.

‘I can’t fight him without knowing anything.’

It went without saying, but there was a significant difference between knowing and not knowing what skills your opponent used. So, I answered that way and as soon as the conversation ended, I immediately accessed the Twilight homepage.

‘The entrance ticket is……’

It was cheap, if you could call it that. 5,000 won.

They had prepared quite a number of tickets, probably because it was the weekend.

However, since they hadn’t advertised it in advance, it seemed like not many tickets had been sold. Still, I could see that about 10,000 to 20,000 people had entered.

━Is that Beluin?

━The Kingdom of Pronia is doomed now lol.

━Would the entire kingdom be doomed just because one village is attacked?

━More importantly, what happens if Beluin can’t be defeated permanently?

━Twilight will be doomed.

In addition, countless posts were being uploaded, perhaps due to the number of people.

Anyway, I took my eyes off those posts and turned my attention to the video. In the video, there was something black that seemed to be Beluin.

‘Beluin?’

Presumably the final boss of the second main scenario, Beluin, as his name suggested, was entirely black.

The God of Deep Darkness, was it?

He wore impressive black heavy armor with dark black haze rising from it, and his face was barely visible, formed by a mass of black smoke.

And finally, the Sword of Destruction in one hand.

At first glance, it looked like a giant warrior wielding a massive sword.

‘And there are a lot of Thoughts too.’

There seemed to be at least 10,000 of them gathered.

Honestly, the doubled-strength Thoughts would be stronger than most players, and considering that, the chances of the Pronia Kingdom players winning were ridiculously low.

‘But it’s too early to be sure.’

Who knew?

Perhaps hidden S-rank players would emerge and turn the tide.

With that thought, I watched, and soon I saw a massive number of Thoughts charging towards the walls.

━Oh, the fight begins!

━Who will win? Obviously Beluin, right?

━Don’t you need to complete the Church of Light quest to fight properly?

━I wonder if anyone can complete that.

━The Emperor Guild might be able to, but I doubt they’ll step up and fight.

━Yeah. All we can do is hope Beluin heads towards the Harpe Empire.

‘Hmm.’

It seemed like everyone considered it someone else’s problem.

They were all talking nonchalantly, even though they didn’t know where Beluin would go after this battle ended.

But I wasn’t much different, so I glossed over it and looked back at the video. I saw the Thoughts climbing up the walls like they were rock climbing.

“……”

Wait, why were they climbing the walls?

Of course, the players weren’t just standing still.

They were casting various Light Attribute magic, trying to knock the climbing Thoughts down. Unfortunately, their numbers were overwhelmingly large, and as more and more Thoughts climbed over the walls, the players crumbled with ridiculous ease.

━Lol. They’re doomed.

━Wow, they’re getting destroyed so easily.

━It seems like there are no skilled players at all.

━They’re probably all doing quests.

“Sigh.”

Well, 5,000 won was a truly insignificant amount to me now, but this time, I felt like even that money was wasted.

I at least wanted to see Beluin fight.

Anyway, after seeing the scene where the Pronia Kingdom players were wiped out by the Thoughts alone, the video ended. I sighed and started walking.

I should just do the second quest.