Owner of Twilight Intuition – Chapter 36

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 36

[Content: This is our Guild Master’s ability. S-rank skill and title. In addition, our Guild Master has 5 A-rank skills, 11 B-rank skills, and the remaining 3 are C-rank skills.

Do you desire the strongest guild in Twilight? Come!

To our ‘Emperor’ Guild!

Especially those who possess S-rank skills will be treated with the best conditions.]

Emperor or Emporer, who cares? I’m curious about only one thing.

“Just how much money did they spend?”

The post above said they ‘finally’ got an S-rank skill.

Then, doesn’t that mean they kept buying Random Skillbooks?

Surely, with yesterday’s patch, trading the Random Skillbook received as early support became impossible. So, it means they bought Random Skillbooks from achievements or monsters, and the price of that Random Skillbook is 1.2 million won.

I don’t know for sure, but an S-rank skill probably wouldn’t have come out with just 10-20 books.

……Crazy, do they have money to burn?

Regardless of earning money in the game, I was someone who thought spending money was a waste. Since I could get good skills with Intuition anyway, it was a natural thought.

From my perspective, that guy was, in a word, ‘throwing money away’.

“Emperor Guild, huh……”

Reading the comments, some people were shouting that they wanted to join that guild. Is this the power of an S-rank skill?

“Sigh.”

Well, the Emperor Guild is the Emperor Guild. I put aside my thoughts about that guild and gathered other information.

Who cares about guilds anyway.

Click- Click-

“The information I need right now…… is the penalty.”

The penalty for death.

Since I died to Turu, there would definitely be a penalty for it. I wanted to find out about that, so I immediately searched, and the information was surprisingly easy to find.

[Penalty for Death.]

[Content: This Twilight is different from existing online games in that the loss when you die is extreme. First, your level drops. It seems to drop randomly by about 1 to 5 levels. And your skill levels also drop. The fortunate thing is that the levels of all skills don’t drop. It seems like 1 to 5 skill levels drop. Also, the equipment you’re wearing can drop, and this is also random. Some items in your inventory drop, and your money drops too.

So everyone, don’t die. It’s best to somehow avoid dying.]

“……Wow, everything just drops.”

Reading it, all stats except Fame dropped. It seems like I participated in the raid for nothing. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have even participated in the raid.

“If my level drops, I can’t even learn skills, right?”

What should I do? Should I go hunting again?

‘No, right?’

I haven’t done any quests yet. If I do an E-rank quest this time, there’s a possibility my level will go back up. Combat quests like Dorgen’s. On the other hand, if my level drops by 5, I’ll have no choice but to hunt.

“I’ll never die again.”

Thinking about it, I could only sigh. I just hope my level drops by 1 or 2.

And so, as time passed, the clock pointed to 4 o’clock.

‘Hmm, there’s no information about the Royal Castle.’

I don’t know how it happened, but there was no information about the Royal Castle. Has no one entered the Royal Castle yet? Occasionally, there were posts saying the NPCs in the Royal Castle are very beautiful, but they didn’t mean much to me.

And other than the Royal Castle, the other information was……

‘Item grades?’

Reading it, there were a total of five item grades.

Normal, Magic, Rare, Unique, Legend. Five in order, and for reference, even the intermediate Rare grade hasn’t appeared yet. This is just my guess, but I wonder if a Rare grade item would drop if you kill the raid boss, Turu.

‘It’s impossible to obtain right now.’

After facing him myself, he wasn’t a monster designed to be caught right now. It feels like there might be a way, but I can’t die several times just to confirm it.

It was better to just give up.

“Shall I connect soon?”

Thinking that an hour had passed and I could connect again, I got up from my seat and headed towards the capsule.

Praying that the dropping stats would be minimal.

“Game Start.”

[May you find what you desire in the streets illuminated by Twilight……]

Murmur~ Murmur~

Connecting to Twilight, I was able to easily figure out my location. It was the starting point where I first began. In other words, I returned to the village and could see several windows popping up.

[Your experience points will decrease as a penalty for death.]

[Level has decreased by 2.]

[Your skill experience points will decrease as a penalty for death.]

[F-Rank Skill, Shield Bash experience points will decrease.]

[Level has decreased by 1.]

[Stat Stamina will decrease by 2.]

[E-Rank Skill, Spinning Strike experience points will decrease.]

[A-Rank Skill, Giant’s Sprint experience points will decrease.]

[Level has decreased by 1.]

[Stats Strength 6, Agility 6 will decrease.]

[Due to the penalty for death, the equipment you are carrying……]

[Due to the penalty for death, the equipment in your Item Storage……]

[Due to the penalty for death, your money……]

“……Damn, Status Information Window!”

Messages with somewhat ominous content were listed endlessly. Just how much did it drop? It was a considerable blow for just dying once. So, I checked my current stats in the Status Information Window.

[Name: Rudin]

[Title: Shield of Protection]

[Level: 18]

[Fame: 84]

[Health: 2585/2585]

[Magic Power: 600/600]

[Stamina: 100.0%]

[Attack Power: 250] [Magic Attack Power: 35]

[Defense: 336] [Magic Defense: 261]

[Stats]

Strength: 171 (123+48) Intelligence: 35 (18+17) Agility: 126 (48+78)

Stamina: 97 (85+12) Magic: 22 (8+14) Skill: 35

[Acquired Skills: 11/20]

“For now…… is it fortunate?”

My stats didn’t drop as much as I thought. Looking at it, only one Silver Ring and a belt dropped from my equipped items, and the items in my inventory that dropped were useless things I didn’t use, so if things went well, it was at a level where I could recover within today.

“Since the set items didn’t drop, I avoided the worst-case scenario, but.”

It wasn’t all good.

“A lot of money dropped.”

I sighed as I saw the message saying that almost 2 gold had dropped.

How much do I have now?

[8 Gold 47 Silver 81 Copper]

“Wow……”

Wasn’t it originally around 10 gold?

Seeing the money that had flown away directly made my stomach churn, but I believed that if I completed an E-rank quest, I could recover to some extent. And I’d also raise the dropped levels at the same time.

‘Still, it’s a shame.’

2 gold was an amount that could buy a few decent accessories.

“Well, since I thought of it, should I try buying accessories?”

If possible, it would be good to focus on accessories that increase Magic Power. With that thought in mind, I was about to move towards the crowded street when.

“Hello?”

“……?”

Who is it?

I could see a woman I’d never seen before greeting me. Did she mistake me for someone else? Even after looking around, there was no one else besides me who could have received that greeting, but I hadn’t done anything to deserve a greeting from this woman.

‘What is this?’

Is it the Dawn’s Light Guild?

If she’s a member of that guild, there might be a reason for her to approach me. Of course, it wouldn’t be for a good reason. Anyway, with that thought, I kept looking at the woman, and she smiled brightly, unfazed by my gaze.

“I’m Loina. You left a strong impression on me when you were fighting the Goblin Chieftain Turu earlier.”

“……”

“Don’t you remember? I even healed you.”

“Ah.”

Was it this woman who healed me back then? But what does she mean by a strong impression? Well, thinking about it, it could be impressive. Wasn’t I the only one who endured against Turu?

Although the price I paid was considerable.

Tsk, thinking about that made me feel bad.

“But what’s the matter?”

I asked in a tone that unintentionally carried irritation. Perhaps because of my tone, she showed a puzzled expression for a moment, but soon smiled again and stated her business.

“Have you joined a guild yet? If not, I’d like to invite you.”

“A guild?”

“Yes. A guild.”

‘A guild……’

This is the second guild invitation. Two days ago, the ‘Dawn’s Light’ Guild Master told me to join.

“Well. I’m not really thinking about a guild.”

“You’re not thinking about it?”

“Yes. I don’t like grouping up with people I don’t know. Well, I’m not thinking about joining a guild yet.”

An excuse, or a pretext. If I could gain something by joining a guild, the story would be different, but that’s not the case now, is it? The Dawn’s Light Guild even offered me money.

“That’s a shame.”

She said it was a shame, but her expression didn’t match. Was it just lip service? Still, I’m confident enough to say I’m within the top 10 players. Although I was miserably defeated by the raid boss Turu, I’ve never lost to a player.

However, the reason I can’t confidently say I’m number one is because of the Emperor Guild Master I saw on the internet.

The one who acquired the S-rank skill, Sepion’s Extinction Sword.

Thinking about it now, even the title was ridiculously overpowered. 30% damage increase and 50% Magic Power reduction? Doesn’t this mean that even if I use Extinction Sword in the early stages, my Magic Power will only be reduced by 150? In short, it means that unlike me, the burden on Magic Power is less.

Also, that guy had all 20 skill slots filled with S to C-rank skills, so I had a strong feeling that it would be harder than I thought to face him directly.

“As you know, this game has limitations when played alone. The raid boss we faced earlier, for example?”

Indeed, to face Turu, it seemed like a guild was necessary rather than a party. Probably the same goes for other raid bosses? A guild might be needed for those raids as well.

But even so, my thoughts remained unchanged.

“I’ll think about that when the time comes.”

“……It can’t be helped. If you don’t want to join a guild, how about I hire you?”

“Hire?”

What hire? Am I a laborer or something?

“Yes. Hire.”

I thought she wouldn’t back down so easily after I rejected the guild invitation, but hiring? With a puzzled look, I was about to ask her for an explanation.

However, someone intervened before I could.

“Ah! Found you!”

“……?”

A somewhat familiar voice.

Turning my head, as expected, I saw a familiar face.

“You weren’t in the dungeon, so you were here.”

It was the player I owed a favor to from the dungeon yesterday. Was her ID Raz? As soon as she found me, she approached as if she was happy to see me.

‘Why is this bitch acting like this?’

No matter how I think about it, we’re not in a relationship where we’d greet each other happily. Didn’t we have a fight because I barged into the dungeon without permission? After that, I was able to get a set item through negotiation, but from her perspective, I was definitely not someone she’d be happy to see.

“I have something to tell you, do you have time?”

“Time? Right now……”

I’m in the middle of talking with this woman? Instead of saying that, I looked at the woman who said she would hire me, and following my gaze, Raz also turned her gaze towards that woman.

“Huh? Who is she? Your girlfriend?”

Don’t talk nonsense about a girlfriend.

“Someone who said she has something to tell me. But why?”

“I came up with a fantastic plan. How about it? Don’t you want to make some money?”

“Money?”

The mention of money was tempting. However, since I was in the middle of talking with someone else, I thought I should listen to that story first and then listen to hers.

“It’s tempting, but let me hear this story first.”

“Ah, okay. Do that.”

By the way, why can’t I get used to this? I couldn’t get used to Raz talking to me as if we were close friends. However, without showing it outwardly, I spoke to the player who introduced herself as Loina again.

“More than that, you mentioned hiring? I’d like to hear about that.”

“Yes. Actually, there’s a dungeon that our guild discovered yesterday. But we can’t clear that dungeon with our current level.”

“You’re asking for my help?”

“Yes. In return, 500,000 won. And if you catch the boss, we’ll give you another 500,000 won.”

“……”

Huh? Then a total of 1 million won? What kind of dungeon gives 1 million won for clearing it? It’s definitely a high amount. That’s why I couldn’t understand. I asked her with a suspicious look.

“You’ll give me 1 million won if I catch the boss?”

“I told you. It’s a dungeon we can’t clear with our current level. But if you, who endured against Turu, help us, we might be able to do it.”

“……”

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