Chapter 22
“Seo Dawon Status Window!”
Seo Dawon – Choi Lee-kyung’s servan
Class: Legendary Mage (8th circle)
HP – 45,000,000/45,000,000
MP – 112,000,000/112,000,000
Loyalty: Very Low.
Disposition: Darkness, Wrath, Charisma, Leadership, Wisdom, Artistry, Inspiration, Curse.
Title:
Dragon Slayer – violent crazed dragon. A limited title given only to the first warriors to slay the Second Company’s ruler, Aestheya.
<The ‘Dragon Slayer’ title increases all physical and magical attacks by 150%>
The Sage of the Magic Tower – A limited title given only to Mages that have created over 100 new styles of magic skills through research.
<‘The Sage of the Magic Tower’ title bestows a 10% increase in intelligence while active.>
Liberator of the Undersea City – A limited title given to those who have completed the main quest scenario of sealing the Succubus Queen Lyris, who pretended to be the ruler of the undersea city of Achilles.
<The title ‘Liberator of the Undersea City’ gives the user access to the Sunken Gardens.>
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Current mood: ‘Seo Dawon’ has low loyalty, so his inner thoughts are hidden.
Durability: Infinite (If Seo Dawon is attacked for more than its total health, he will be reversed summoned back into Choi Lee-kyung’s personal space, and the user will sustain the overflow damage. Re-summon Cooldown time: 24 hours)
Stats:
Strength +480,000
Magic +1,900,000
Stamina +740,000
Agility +640,000
Luck +330,000
Intelligence +990,000
Magical Critical Damage: 4,345%
Max Magic Damage: 3,004%
Min Magic Damage: 2,245%
Crit Chance: 87.34%
Magic Resistance: 20.41%
Vs. Monster Armor Pierce: 97%
Vs Monster Magic Resistance Pierce: 122%
Magic Skill Cooldown Time Reduction: 86.87%
Probability of Causing Status Effect Confusion with Skills: 33.22%
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Main skills: What follows are the top five most proficient skills that are currently available.
-Thunder Calling: Call down a powerful thunderstorm to blow away everything in a given range.
-Gravity: Allows you to counter a powerful enemy by manipulating the gravity of the specified target.
– Summon Hellhound: A magic spirit, in the image of a giant dog, made from hell fire. The hound’s breath does not dissipate until all of his targets are burned to extinction.
– Chronicle: Summons an ice tempest that freezes everything in a specified category or characteristic.
– Wind Storm: Attack enemies with strong blades of wind.
Enhancement: ‘Seo Dawon’ cannot be enhanced.
I couldn’t pick my jaw off the ground while scrolling through his endless status window. Sometimes high-level Users and Rankers would reveal their own stats on the community ‘Ranking Gods,’ but they were insignificant compared to Seo Dawon.
Just as I was about to blurt some words of admiration to Seo Dawon, the floor collapsed underneath my feet, and I started to fall into the void.
“AhhhhhHH”
Bright light flooded my view from below, and I tried to turn my head. However, something held me from behind, and my body couldn’t move a single inch. The intense light enveloped my vision and body, and, in a moment, I was spat out into a different location.
I couldn’t properly see what was in front of me until the light’s shine no longer stung my eyes. When my vision settled, Bae Jaemin, holding his lamp with an ambiguous expression on his face, stood before me.
At the sight of the person I had least wanted to meet, I had almost jumped in fear, but someone had caged my back to his front with unyielding strength and quickly blocked my screams.
“Wasn’t there something here, just now?” Bae Jaemin asked Lim Jisoo, as if he couldn’t see me standing there right under his nose.
Lim Jisoo also walked over, as close as Bae Jaemin, and shone her lamp over my body. She simply looked around roughly, once, and shrugged her shoulders. “Nothing’s here?”
“I just saw something over here though….”
“Maybe you saw something like a flickering shadow out of the corner of your eyes?”
If these two weren’t acting, then it seems that I really was somehow hidden from their view. Only then did I stop resisting the powerful hold of the person behind me and nervously watched the two villains slowly wander away. ‘Please, just go quickly…..’
“Nothing’s here.”
“This side is clear too!”
After the rest of their party members reported no strange discoveries around the wide cave, Bae Jamin and Lim Jisoo eventually moved away from where I was hiding. They searched the opposite side and, after finding nothing, climbed back up the stairs.
When the party’s lights completely vanished from view, the hold that tightly bound my body loosened. As soon as the arms around me lost strength, I rushed to escape and look at the person behind me.
And….there stood a stranger–a man–who I had never seen before.
He had a tall stature, covered in a neat, standard combat uniform. His forehead was hidden by calm black hair, and, underneath his bangs, striking red eyes stared at me….He was probably the most handsome man I had ever seen in my life.
I had expected that the solid body behind me would belong to Seo Dawon but….When I saw a normal man, and not a skeleton, I stopped momentarily.
“I….Who are you?” I asked, warily.
It was better to be vigilant than to be careless.
The man’s lips twisted peculiarly as he heard my question. “Who do you think I am?”
“What? Oh! This voice….”
No way…..Seo Dawon?
“W-what happened?” I retreated, scanning him in disbelief. He was just too different from his skeletal image in that strange spatial distortion.
Seo Dawon glanced over at my body when he saw my suspicious gaze. His eyes dared to ask, ‘What’s wrong,’ as if this change was normal.
Eventually I pointed my finger at him and said, “You were a skeleton just before! But suddenly your face and body….”
“This is how I originally looked, though?”
“……Huh?”
“Stop saying foolish things, and come a bit closer.”
I was a bit furious at being called foolish. However, when he shook his left hand and gestured to mine, I saw the symbol of the binding contract.
No way…. He’s really Seo Dawon?
I mindlessly walked closer, taking in his changed image. He didn’t look like a dead man at all–he looked healthy and alive. Everything felt so strange.
The only peculiarity I could distinguish were his red irises. However, Users generally gained weird characteristics throughout their career, so that wasn’t too particularly strange.
Eventually, standing nose to nose with him, I still couldn’t spot any oddities. I found it hard to find the correct words to say and just stared at him. Seo Dawon brandished his left hand, drawing my attention to the ring finger. I held his hand and rubbed at the contract crest inscribed into his skin.
Holy…the texture of his hand is quite skin-like.
There was nothing strange about the hand I was touching, except that the temperature is a bit cold….
No way, was his body recreated through the contract….?
“Don’t grope so much…”
“G-grope?!!” My innocent curiosity was stopped in its tracks by Seo Dawon, who began to criticize me with a sour expression.
“Even if I’m your servant, I’ll be in a predicament if you ask that kind of service from me….”
“W-what are you even saying!” My face flushed, and I threw his hands aside, as if they were rubbish.
I felt even more ashamed since I noted how handsome Seo Dawon was when I first saw him. However, Seo Dawon did not tease me any further and, instead, observed our surroundings.
I followed his gaze and looked around the empty expanse. My sputters immediately quieted as I was reminded that this cave was his last resting place. His emotionless face, slowly scanning the area, made me nervous.
“There’s something I need to find here,” he said, suddenly snapping his attention back to me.
My blank and confused face prompted further information. He spread his right palm up and, on top, a vaguely diamond shaped black wedge floated out. A hologram reproduction.
“You’ve seen this, right?”
“Um…? Yes!”
I’m sure I saw it when I first fell here…maybe Seo Dawon’s corpse….? That’s the same thing that was stuck in his back?
When Seo Dawon heard my mumbling, he informed me of the diamond shaped wedge’s name. “It’s called the ‘Essence of the Vengeful Ghost.”
“The essence of a vengeful ghost…?”
“There’s probably about 6 of these in the Dungeon…I need your help to find them.”
I looked at him, puzzled.
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