[Jung Si-woo]
[Underground player]
[Lv.51]
[Strength-184 Agility-188 Stamina-202 Magic Power-46]
[Passive Skills-Chaos Tail Lv.1, Ignorance is Brave Lv.5, Poison Resistance Lv.7, Fire Resistance Lv.2, Soul Collect Lv.1, Living Lv.2, Heavy Weapon Battle Lv.2]
[Active Skills-Grant Lv.21, Slam Lv.15, Battle Sprint Lv.15, Magic Shot Lv.6, War Cry Lv.6, Stone Skin Lv.4, Cruel Charge Lv.2]
“That was fun.”
Jung Si-woo’s refreshed smile made him look younger. He still couldn’t believe that he had raised his level just by defeating some low-level monsters.
Soo Ah-rin was likewise surprised. Naturally, as Jung Si-woo, an underground player, grew, the level of his supporters Soo Ah-rin and Yong Se-ha also rose.
“If you catch the liberated monsters, your level should also rise… Does this apply to everyone?”
Soo Ah-rin couldn’t help but think if this was the case for all players or if it only applies to Jung Si-woo, who was an underground player. She suspected it to be the latter. Because this was an Ant Cave area rather than a Sky Castle area, she thought it might have something to do with the monsters dealing with Jung Si-woo.
“Let’s check it with them.”
Jung Si-woo turned around. The gaping survivors regained their awareness and set themselves straight.
“You guys, did you ever level up after killing monsters?” Jung Si-woo asked straightforwardly.
“No, we didn’t. We have caught a considerable number of monsters, but leveling up can only be done after completing a Sky Castle dungeon.”
“Are you sure?”
Jung Si-woo realized the existence of the helmet and quit trying to scratch his head. He then stepped up to them. The players seemed frightened but did not run away.
“The injured guys, are you okay?”
“W-We’re okay. If we’re to return to heaven, we will most probably be healed…”
The least injured among all of them quickly got up and bowed his head to Jung Si-woo in deference.
“Thank you for your help.”
“Oh, don’t mention it.”
“Maybe you are the one in Sanha-dong…”
Jung Si-woo ignored the accurate observation and swiftly diverted the conversation.
“This is going to be more dangerous in the future, so just head down slowly and silently. Got it?”
“Oh, that, yes. Okay.” The warrior quickly shut his mouth. Then, while supporting the two injured players to get up, he bit his lips gently for a moment.
“The dead colleague…”
They silently stared at the dead bodies of their companions, who were neither falling nor disappearing. They were not familiar with a situation like this. They were used to seeing defeated fellows fall from the Sky Castle and disappear. However, these players who fought and died in the real world had left their corpses behind.
“We can’t just leave them like this.”
“But how? There’s not much we can do…”
Jung Si-woo sighed as he watched the players who felt embarrassed being seen like this.
“Maybe, you can store them in your inventory and transport them that way.”
“O-Oh, right!”
No one viewed his suggestion as inhumane, for they knew it was more ideal than leaving them in this hillside to be food for monsters and animals. The warrior and the two wounded people hurriedly tried to put their three dead companions in their inventories.
However, before they could do that, the bodies glowed and melted gently on the spot.
“Huh!?”
“Noooo! Damn it!”
“…?”
While the players shouted in protest, Jung Si-woo experienced a strange thing. As the players’ bodies melted away, a group of golden lights appeared and flew to Jung Si-woo.
Was it invisible to the others’ eyes? With the players still shouting in surprise, several lights seeped exactly into the back of his left hand. Yes, to the very spot where the pattern of Soul Collect skill was engraved.
[Soul Collect skill has raised to Lv.2]
[Total Souls Collected: 4]
“…”
Jung Si-woo looked at the phrase and was silent. He didn’t know what was going on, but it didn’t seem like a bad thing. It was of utmost importance!
He rubbed the pattern on the back of his hand and opened his mouth, confirming that the force’s reality was still present.
“The corpses of the original players aren’t here anymore. I told you, there’s not much we can do, so please stop crying about it.”
“But…”
“Fine! Go ahead and cry, but be prepared to be monster food. I’ll be heading out.”
“Well, wait!”
Jung Si-woo waved his hand and started walking. For a moment, he thought he had acted too coldly and harshly, but he waved this thought away. In his mind, a more critical thought emerged, and a complicated calculation began.
‘Other players do not grow even if they catch monsters on the ground. However, I am different. It’s highly likely that they’re bulging from the Ant’s Cave, but it’s pretty good to get experience and mana on the spot even if you don’t have to clear it.’
Also, the souls of the dead players somehow got sucked into Jung Si-woo himself. It was a little odd to call it ownership, but for Jung Si-woo, it was very strange that it happened just because he had the Soul Collect skill.
Many things remained unknown, as always.
“But overall, it was not a bad thing either. From now on, we will actively rescue people.”
After his declaration, Jung Si-woo ran through the dense forest, looking for monsters to kill and humans to save. He had encountered several monsters in Mt. Seoraksan, and while he faced them head-on, he immediately found himself getting frustrated.
“I still lack the means of a long-range attack.”
“Isn’t breaking the head of an orc just by picking up a stone and throwing it considered as one, Oppa?”
Jung Si-woo, while grumbling over the orc corpses he had just annihilated, refuted Soo Ah-rin’s ridicule. Again, he, who could not find mana’s purpose, continued to worry while sprinting down the mountain path.
“Ranged weapons… What would be good?”
“How about a sling?”
“It’s the same as picking up stones one by one.”
Jung Si-woo sought a ranged skill that could wipe out enemies while shooting like a machine gun. Soo Ah-rin thought that killing an orc by just picking up a stone and throwing it was enough, but now she understood his worries as he knew he had to run through a large space and deal with many enemies at once.
“So. let’s practice Magic Shot. Oppa! You particularly neglected this skill.”
“Oh, Hyeong! Are you also learning Magic Shot!? That’s a very rare skill!”
“What could you do with a rare skill… ”
While running, Jung Si-woo fired a magic bullet at a nearby tree. The bullet got stuck in the middle and penetrated the tree, but that was sufficient. This level was enough to kill goblins. Of all his active skills, only Magic Shot was stuck in place.
“Shall we add rotational power?’
“In cartoons, things become stronger just by rotating it.”
By adding rotation to the bullet, the center was fixed, and it did not deviate from the track. The destructive power also overwhelmingly increased. However, an insane idea of this nature could only be conjectured by a middle-school student who saw NaruX. Why had no one ever tried something like that? Everyone had failed.
Jung Si-woo gave up after realizing that injecting rotational power into a Magic Shot was more difficult than creating a new passive skill. Instead, he thought of merging it with other skills.
“Magic Shot is already one of the applications of Critical Hit by itself. Then, wouldn’t it be possible to combine it with sprinting like Cruel Charge?”
“How can I do it when I can’t even get it?” Jung Si-woo asked, evidently frustrated.
Battle Sprint needed to process mana’s nature more destructively in order to maintain it. Even though it looked like a simple skill, it was a fairly advanced skill that touched the mana’s nature.
As soon as he realized the peculiarity and trained intensively, Jung Si-woo was able to handle mana from Battle Sprint as naturally as breathing, and it was thanks to his command over it that enabled him to create Cruel Charge.
“Would it be easier? Cruel Charge puts battle sprinting mana all over the body and rushes it to the point of smashing, and in the meantime, Oppa turns mana in a different direction and will even be able to use Stone Skin.”
“I think my head will burst just by listening to the words… Hyeong, how did you create such a skill?”
“I told you. My Oppa’s mana amount, at least in terms of application power, is unmatched.”
Soo Ah-rin admired Jung Si-woo’s courage, and she was proud to have been part of his journey. While the newly recruited Yong Se-ha was confused, Jung Si-woo transformed his ideas into action.
The trick was to apply Battle Sprint to a minuscule amount of mana concentrated on the fingertips. If you left it as it is, your fingers would be twisted, so the moment you create mana, you should immediately activate the magical skill and shoot it out! Jung Si-woo imminently tried this trick then…
[Bang!]
A rock that had been struck by a magic bullet while lying in the ground recklessly burst into pieces.
“…”
[… …]
[… …]
Jung Si-woo, who fired the magic bullet without thinking, and Soo Ah-rin and Yong Se-ha, who were both quietly watching, dropped their jaws upon seeing such unimaginable power. The shattered rock that Jung Si-woo threw himself, sprinted in battle and struck the rock with a smash.
“…No way, why didn’t other people do this simple thing?”
“It’s not that simple, right? The fusion of skills isn’t that simple as you think. I already told you. Starting from the battle sprinting skill, it’s not that easy.”
“Your tongue, Oppa. Will you be able to speak?”
“Speaking is rather easier. I won’t do it now, though.”
“That’s a wise judgment…”
Using a Magic Shot skill with Battle Sprint consumed more mana than using only Magic Shot, but it was not enough to put a burden on Jung Si-woo’s body, who had already passed level 50.
After just doing a simple experiment, Jung Si-woo smiled satisfactorily. Suddenly, a violent mana reaction occurred in his body. It was similar to the experience he felt when he developed Cruel Charge.
The only difference was that this shock felt like the evolution of an unprecedented skill; it felt like this skill in his possession was developing in a different direction.
[Active skill Magic Shot has changed to Critical Bullet.]
[Critical Bullet Lv.1]
[Synthetic evolution skill. It can destroy the target by shooting specially processed mana bullets.]
“The skill has changed!” Soo Ah-rin gasped while still in shock.
“It’s almost the same skill. Anyway, it has been solidified with one skill, so I can handle it more comfortably.”
“You can create two active skills and one passive skill in a short period of time… You must have been blessed by God,” Yong Se-ha commented, his religiosity evident.
“It’s sick,” Jung Si-woo added, making fun of himself.
He thought it would not be too bad to get a dedicated artifact dealing with Magic Shot if there was a chance later. Meanwhile, Critical Bullet’s destructive power was enough to kill goblins, slimes as well as orcs!
Read latest Chapters at WuxiaWorld.Site OnlySoo Ah-rin was astonished that he had been given a ranged means of attack right after he wished he could have one. No one could stop him anymore. It was natural that Jung Si-woo’s search for Mt. Seoraksan was accelerated.
After a swift three hours, Jung Si-woo found himself at level 53.
[That Naruto reference tho.]
[Jung Si-woo]
[Underground player]
[Lv.51]
[Strength-184 Agility-188 Stamina-202 Magic Power-46]
[Passive Skills-Chaos Tail Lv.1, Ignorance is Brave Lv.5, Poison Resistance Lv.7, Fire Resistance Lv.2, Soul Collect Lv.1, Living Lv.2, Heavy Weapon Battle Lv.2]
[Active Skills-Grant Lv.21, Slam Lv.15, Battle Sprint Lv.15, Magic Shot Lv.6, War Cry Lv.6, Stone Skin Lv.4, Cruel Charge Lv.2]
“That was fun.”
Jung Si-woo’s refreshed smile made him look younger. He still couldn’t believe that he had raised his level just by defeating some low-level monsters.
Soo Ah-rin was likewise surprised. Naturally, as Jung Si-woo, an underground player, grew, the level of his supporters Soo Ah-rin and Yong Se-ha also rose.
“If you catch the liberated monsters, your level should also rise… Does this apply to everyone?”
Soo Ah-rin couldn’t help but think if this was the case for all players or if it only applies to Jung Si-woo, who was an underground player. She suspected it to be the latter. Because this was an Ant Cave area rather than a Sky Castle area, she thought it might have something to do with the monsters dealing with Jung Si-woo.
“Let’s check it with them.”
Jung Si-woo turned around. The gaping survivors regained their awareness and set themselves straight.
“You guys, did you ever level up after killing monsters?” Jung Si-woo asked straightforwardly.
“No, we didn’t. We have caught a considerable number of monsters, but leveling up can only be done after completing a Sky Castle dungeon.”
“Are you sure?”
Jung Si-woo realized the existence of the helmet and quit trying to scratch his head. He then stepped up to them. The players seemed frightened but did not run away.
“The injured guys, are you okay?”
“W-We’re okay. If we’re to return to heaven, we will most probably be healed…”
The least injured among all of them quickly got up and bowed his head to Jung Si-woo in deference.
“Thank you for your help.”
“Oh, don’t mention it.”
“Maybe you are the one in Sanha-dong…”
Jung Si-woo ignored the accurate observation and swiftly diverted the conversation.
“This is going to be more dangerous in the future, so just head down slowly and silently. Got it?”
“Oh, that, yes. Okay.” The warrior quickly shut his mouth. Then, while supporting the two injured players to get up, he bit his lips gently for a moment.
“The dead colleague…”
They silently stared at the dead bodies of their companions, who were neither falling nor disappearing. They were not familiar with a situation like this. They were used to seeing defeated fellows fall from the Sky Castle and disappear. However, these players who fought and died in the real world had left their corpses behind.
“We can’t just leave them like this.”
“But how? There’s not much we can do…”
Jung Si-woo sighed as he watched the players who felt embarrassed being seen like this.
“Maybe, you can store them in your inventory and transport them that way.”
“O-Oh, right!”
No one viewed his suggestion as inhumane, for they knew it was more ideal than leaving them in this hillside to be food for monsters and animals. The warrior and the two wounded people hurriedly tried to put their three dead companions in their inventories.
However, before they could do that, the bodies glowed and melted gently on the spot.
“Huh!?”
“Noooo! Damn it!”
“…?”
While the players shouted in protest, Jung Si-woo experienced a strange thing. As the players’ bodies melted away, a group of golden lights appeared and flew to Jung Si-woo.
Was it invisible to the others’ eyes? With the players still shouting in surprise, several lights seeped exactly into the back of his left hand. Yes, to the very spot where the pattern of Soul Collect skill was engraved.
[Soul Collect skill has raised to Lv.2]
[Total Souls Collected: 4]
“…”
Jung Si-woo looked at the phrase and was silent. He didn’t know what was going on, but it didn’t seem like a bad thing. It was of utmost importance!
He rubbed the pattern on the back of his hand and opened his mouth, confirming that the force’s reality was still present.
“The corpses of the original players aren’t here anymore. I told you, there’s not much we can do, so please stop crying about it.”
“But…”
“Fine! Go ahead and cry, but be prepared to be monster food. I’ll be heading out.”
“Well, wait!”
Jung Si-woo waved his hand and started walking. For a moment, he thought he had acted too coldly and harshly, but he waved this thought away. In his mind, a more critical thought emerged, and a complicated calculation began.
‘Other players do not grow even if they catch monsters on the ground. However, I am different. It’s highly likely that they’re bulging from the Ant’s Cave, but it’s pretty good to get experience and mana on the spot even if you don’t have to clear it.’
Also, the souls of the dead players somehow got sucked into Jung Si-woo himself. It was a little odd to call it ownership, but for Jung Si-woo, it was very strange that it happened just because he had the Soul Collect skill.
Many things remained unknown, as always.
“But overall, it was not a bad thing either. From now on, we will actively rescue people.”
After his declaration, Jung Si-woo ran through the dense forest, looking for monsters to kill and humans to save. He had encountered several monsters in Mt. Seoraksan, and while he faced them head-on, he immediately found himself getting frustrated.
“I still lack the means of a long-range attack.”
“Isn’t breaking the head of an orc just by picking up a stone and throwing it considered as one, Oppa?”
Jung Si-woo, while grumbling over the orc corpses he had just annihilated, refuted Soo Ah-rin’s ridicule. Again, he, who could not find mana’s purpose, continued to worry while sprinting down the mountain path.
“Ranged weapons… What would be good?”
“How about a sling?”
“It’s the same as picking up stones one by one.”
Jung Si-woo sought a ranged skill that could wipe out enemies while shooting like a machine gun. Soo Ah-rin thought that killing an orc by just picking up a stone and throwing it was enough, but now she understood his worries as he knew he had to run through a large space and deal with many enemies at once.
“So. let’s practice Magic Shot. Oppa! You particularly neglected this skill.”
“Oh, Hyeong! Are you also learning Magic Shot!? That’s a very rare skill!”
“What could you do with a rare skill… ”
While running, Jung Si-woo fired a magic bullet at a nearby tree. The bullet got stuck in the middle and penetrated the tree, but that was sufficient. This level was enough to kill goblins. Of all his active skills, only Magic Shot was stuck in place.
“Shall we add rotational power?’
“In cartoons, things become stronger just by rotating it.”
By adding rotation to the bullet, the center was fixed, and it did not deviate from the track. The destructive power also overwhelmingly increased. However, an insane idea of this nature could only be conjectured by a middle-school student who saw NaruX. Why had no one ever tried something like that? Everyone had failed.
Jung Si-woo gave up after realizing that injecting rotational power into a Magic Shot was more difficult than creating a new passive skill. Instead, he thought of merging it with other skills.
“Magic Shot is already one of the applications of Critical Hit by itself. Then, wouldn’t it be possible to combine it with sprinting like Cruel Charge?”
“How can I do it when I can’t even get it?” Jung Si-woo asked, evidently frustrated.
Battle Sprint needed to process mana’s nature more destructively in order to maintain it. Even though it looked like a simple skill, it was a fairly advanced skill that touched the mana’s nature.
As soon as he realized the peculiarity and trained intensively, Jung Si-woo was able to handle mana from Battle Sprint as naturally as breathing, and it was thanks to his command over it that enabled him to create Cruel Charge.
“Would it be easier? Cruel Charge puts battle sprinting mana all over the body and rushes it to the point of smashing, and in the meantime, Oppa turns mana in a different direction and will even be able to use Stone Skin.”
“I think my head will burst just by listening to the words… Hyeong, how did you create such a skill?”
“I told you. My Oppa’s mana amount, at least in terms of application power, is unmatched.”
Soo Ah-rin admired Jung Si-woo’s courage, and she was proud to have been part of his journey. While the newly recruited Yong Se-ha was confused, Jung Si-woo transformed his ideas into action.
The trick was to apply Battle Sprint to a minuscule amount of mana concentrated on the fingertips. If you left it as it is, your fingers would be twisted, so the moment you create mana, you should immediately activate the magical skill and shoot it out! Jung Si-woo imminently tried this trick then…
[Bang!]
A rock that had been struck by a magic bullet while lying in the ground recklessly burst into pieces.
“…”
[… …]
[… …]
Jung Si-woo, who fired the magic bullet without thinking, and Soo Ah-rin and Yong Se-ha, who were both quietly watching, dropped their jaws upon seeing such unimaginable power. The shattered rock that Jung Si-woo threw himself, sprinted in battle and struck the rock with a smash.
“…No way, why didn’t other people do this simple thing?”
“It’s not that simple, right? The fusion of skills isn’t that simple as you think. I already told you. Starting from the battle sprinting skill, it’s not that easy.”
“Your tongue, Oppa. Will you be able to speak?”
“Speaking is rather easier. I won’t do it now, though.”
“That’s a wise judgment…”
Using a Magic Shot skill with Battle Sprint consumed more mana than using only Magic Shot, but it was not enough to put a burden on Jung Si-woo’s body, who had already passed level 50.
After just doing a simple experiment, Jung Si-woo smiled satisfactorily. Suddenly, a violent mana reaction occurred in his body. It was similar to the experience he felt when he developed Cruel Charge.
The only difference was that this shock felt like the evolution of an unprecedented skill; it felt like this skill in his possession was developing in a different direction.
[Active skill Magic Shot has changed to Critical Bullet.]
[Critical Bullet Lv.1]
[Synthetic evolution skill. It can destroy the target by shooting specially processed mana bullets.]
“The skill has changed!” Soo Ah-rin gasped while still in shock.
“It’s almost the same skill. Anyway, it has been solidified with one skill, so I can handle it more comfortably.”
“You can create two active skills and one passive skill in a short period of time… You must have been blessed by God,” Yong Se-ha commented, his religiosity evident.
“It’s sick,” Jung Si-woo added, making fun of himself.
He thought it would not be too bad to get a dedicated artifact dealing with Magic Shot if there was a chance later. Meanwhile, Critical Bullet’s destructive power was enough to kill goblins, slimes as well as orcs!
Read latest Chapters at WuxiaWorld.Site OnlySoo Ah-rin was astonished that he had been given a ranged means of attack right after he wished he could have one. No one could stop him anymore. It was natural that Jung Si-woo’s search for Mt. Seoraksan was accelerated.
After a swift three hours, Jung Si-woo found himself at level 53.
[That Naruto reference tho.]
