107 – 2. ■■’S Summoner (52)
#107
The aftermath of the battle writhed bloody chunks of meat beneath the city, which was now rightly called a ruin.
“This, my body… Lost… Oops, stupid…”
“Whoa, damn it… You’re a filthy persistent bastard.”
Should we praise the regenerative power of a vampire who can move even in such a state? Or should I admire the tenacity of a man who did not give up on life even in such a state?
It doesn’t matter either way. No, you just don’t have to. I lead my exhausted body and headed towards him for a confirmed kill.
“Down!!”
Kwaduk!!
Shadows were molded in the form of thorns on the soles of the shoes and trampled on chunks of meat.
Simply stepping on it isn’t enough, as if grating vegetables on a grater, manipulating the shadows to crush the guy’s meat pieces. It was the last step to draw out as much blood as possible. I went through that hardship, but there should be this level of benefit.
The last thing is for Ceres.
“Keep it off…!”
It is baked in real time, and the movement of the guy who used to scream from a place other than the vocal cords is gradually reduced. Did he finally die?
[You have defeated the named [Founder – Brilliant Mellotance].]
He’s dead. I was able to let out a long sigh when I saw the system notification announcing that it was completely destroyed.
There is no place in the city that has not collapsed, and there is no place that is not covered with blood.
The sight of the corpses piled up to form a mountain and the blood pooling and splattering was like a realization of the word blood loss.
At first, I also took a leisurely look around. It’s a problem because that brief peace was shattered in less than an hour.
While we were dealing with the moderately influx of vampires, a number of people suddenly began to arrive from all directions, equal to an army.
Unlike the self-proclaimed knights, the angular appearance was indeed the knights themselves. There’s no way those high-nosed parasites would act like that without the instructions of someone, a higher-ranking conductor.
In response to that fact, Heize quickly looked around and, sure enough, found a quite heterogeneous vampire among vampires.
It was belatedly known that it was the true ancestor called the highest peak of the vampire race, but the fact that the enemies started to move in earnest was a sign that it would be a tough fight.
In fact, it became a melee that could not be covered with only summoned monsters.
Even with the use of Kalion, which was reserved for emergencies, the gap was not easily narrowed. Gradually, when I was at a point where I had to move, that guy appeared as if I had been waiting.
Jinjo. A vampire from the beginning, also known as the source of the blood that spread. The guy showed up.
To be honest, dealing with him wasn’t easy. It wasn’t a joke, it was because it was a much stronger entity than the boss.
Still, I won. To be precise, Carrion won.
Looking at his specs alone, he was clearly a strong guy. Perhaps because he was a true ancestor, he was immune to divine power to some extent, so Echidna’s attacks were not very effective against him.
However, Kalion’s characteristics were an exception.
Although it has divinity, its nature was close to rejection, rejection, and exclusion, so Jinjo, who overlooked this, was killed in an instant.
The words were too trivial compared to the value of the name Jinjo, but it was also a possible ending because most of my summons were hard counters to him.
If I hadn’t had a existence called Carrion, it would have been me who was dead by now, not him.
Moreover, another decisive reason why I was able to win was that this place was a ‘dungeon’.
At first I was dubious, but as the fight went on I became convinced.
Even that Jinzo couldn’t escape the dungeon’s rules.
He was stronger than the boss, but because he was treated as a ‘named’, not a boss, he couldn’t exert more power than the boss of the dungeon compared to his worthy name, and as a result, he only repeated extremely ambiguous attacks.
Originally, you can exert more power. But I couldn’t. I’m sure I’ve seen a lot of moments where I feel like I’m stuck in a lag and stop moving.
In terms of games, it is safe to say that certain skills and abilities are sealed.
Of course, let’s just say that it was a fierce and tense battle that made me think I would lose three times out of ten, even if I was asked to fight again.
Thanks to that, I got plenty of by-products, and the levels of me and my summons went up like crazy. The only thing left is the boss who is going to die if you hit him.
I want to finish everything here and get out, but I decided to give up quickly because there is no guarantee that another true ancestor-level vampire won’t come out after being so late.
To be honest, the biggest thing was that I lost all energy in catching Jinjo.
“Siege.”
“Huhhhhh…”
Shizu from My Call reduces the size of the fire on her lantern. She is to stop the [Hell] That she activated.
The boss, who had already reached his limit a long time ago, died as the vampire weathered into dust just because the effects of my skills [Sadism] And [Torture] Had fallen.
Literally, he was living because he could not die, and when the opportunity came, he died without delay.
How can the named be more f*cked up than the boss? As he grunted and cursed God inside, the system sounded an alarm as if it had recognized that there were no more vampires in the city.
[Dungeon Clear!]
[Settle the reward.]
Chijik!
The reward settlement window stopped with noise. The sudden thing stopped me for a moment. I forgot to exhale again and glared at the system because of the chilling sensation.
[Cannot be settled.]
[Acquisition has exceeded the maximum reward that can be obtained in the dungeon.]
[Looking for a new way.]
[…Check list of alternatives, done.]
At the same time, the voice of the system that was heard was inorganic, but the feeling of bewilderment was felt intact, adding a more heterogeneous feeling.
At that fact, my eyes naturally widened. Someone intervened in the system. The clear evidence of that now appeared before my eyes.
However, there was no way for me to confirm that. How can I catch a target that even Heize, the spirit of space, can’t get her way around?
It’s okay though. Possibility was seen. The point is that an exceptional situation that exceeds the limit set by the system should occur.
[Acquire [Bloodstone] As a reward.]
[A Is paid for your amazing feat.]
As if he had finished his work, the owner of the sense of incongruity immediately disappeared.
Like debugging to fix an error, ‘that’ appears to define a new level of content that cannot be judged only by the framework of the system.
Before, I wouldn’t have noticed such a minor difference. However, all the powers were intertwined and intertwined, and it became possible to capture the fragments of that.
Gulp
I am steadily approaching them. It turned out to be a confirmation of that fact.
Let’s just move on for now. But not next. No, I’ll definitely catch it next time.
“…Clear.”
As soon as I declared clear, my vision was engulfed in light. When I blinked and opened my eyes, what I saw was the entrance to the dungeon. The time is now in the early evening just before sunset.
In my hand was a golden ticket and a stone with a red jewel on it.
The ticket disappeared as if it was absorbed into the status window right away, so all that was left was a red stone. After putting it into the shadow’s clothes, I immediately checked the device.
After chewing everything up, I checked what was left, and found that Lucia had sent a notification of the class results and Hong Soo-ah to the students.
I was a bit surprised that Lucia sent me something like this, putting aside Hong Soo-ah.
Right away from the private training room, I had nothing to do on the way to the building where the training room was located, so I decided to slowly look at the contents.
First of all, about the class, I passed without worrying about it.
This is a natural result as it is an event intended to awaken the spirits of those who have fallen short in the first place.
“Huh…?”
But as soon as I read the last part of the article, my brows furrowed. There was a text about tomorrow’s class and the meeting place was the 1st stadium.
The problem is that it is a joint class for the entire first and third year.
In terms of feeling, being in charge of man-to-man for a day is to look back on yesterday’s failure and further realize the path to growth, or the way to grow.
But my gut is telling me. This is the cornerstone for the main character to meet with the third grader, who has little contact.
There is no doubt that he is going to proceed with another story.
“…Whoa”
A sigh came out first because I thought I would already get caught up in something troublesome. Worrying about it now will only give me a headache, so let’s skip this.
Tomorrow’s affairs will be taken care of by tomorrow’s me. Cancer, no way.
So today’s me is to quickly finish today’s work and take a rest. With that resolution, I entered my own space by recognizing the device at the door of the training room.
I immediately made a chair using the shadows and sat down and called all my summoned creatures with a snap of my fingers.
Starting with Hive and ending with Siege, the space that I thought was spacious quickly became crowded.
“Hive.”
Food Deok!
A guy who didn’t cry at my call flew in. I stretched out the shadow to make a cradle for him to rest on, and he sat there.
After sweeping the hive’s beak and neck in turn, I promptly pulled out the [Summoning Book] And checked its status window.
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[Name: Hive] [Type: Guild Raven] [Lv: 23] [Evolvable]
[Abilities]
[Muscle: 22] [Skill: 38] [Intelligence: 25] [Luck: 17]
[Attribute: Crow Group]
[Possessed Skills]
[Dark Run Lv 10M] [Violent Violence Lv 10M] [All Things Lv 7] [Group Leadership Lv 10M]
Points available: 10
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Compared to other summons, the overwhelmingly well-skilled skill stood proudly.
Should I say that I am satisfied just by looking at it? I was proud of the fact that I was raised like this.
But there is something more important than that. Looking at the sign next to the level, I flicked my fingers out of habit.
As I expected, the moment Hive reached level 20, the [Evolvable] Sign came to mind.
Including the 10 levels accumulated through repeated evolution, it means that you can evolve a second time to 30.
There is no problem up to that point. Rather, it is something to be welcomed. If it was me just a moment ago, I would have pressed evolution naturally.
But there is a problem. No, should I call it a variable? It means that the hive is over level 20.
If my hypothesis is correct, hives should not level up any more than level 20. However, the level of the hive exceeded 20 and became 23 as soon as the dungeon was cleared.
After pondering what this could mean, I came up with another hypothesis.
As I’ve evolved so far, I’ve thought that what appears on the evolution list reflects what I’ve experienced during the leveling process.
But if you think a little deeper, there are some things that are not necessarily reflected in evolution.
The biggest example is the influence of my title [Burner].
Thanks to this title, my magical power has a faint attribute of fire. The effect is thicker than I thought, and it appears in the color of my pupils or hair.
So I thought that something like this would come to mind in the evolution tree of the summoned beasts who picked up and ate that mana like a stone.
But it was Echidna that broke first.
Her If I had to pick one that was the most distant from her summons so far, I’d choose her. Because she has gone through her ex, not only she has evolved.
Thinking back on that time, Echidna’s job change itself had nothing to do with fire.
Here I got a hint. What is the difference between evolution and former? I differentiated it into summoned and non-summoned.
If the conditions for evolution are possible only if oneself meets the conditions, if external forces are added, then job change is only possible if oneself meets the conditions.
In the first place, the preconditions were different.
Summoned beasts do not eat the magic of fire and become accustomed to it, and the corresponding evolution is not open.
Just because I have the magic of fire, the conditions for things related to fire are checked on the summons evolution list.
Intuitively, it can be seen as ‘I had the ingredients in advance.’
I received a quest, but I accidentally farmed the materials needed to clear it.
If you change the quest to ‘evolution’, the necessary materials to ‘condition’, and the farmed state to ‘satisfied state’, it fits perfectly.
It did not appear on the list of evolutions through experience, but evolution was possible only because the conditions were met.
In the beginning, summoned beasts did not level up beyond that no matter how much they struggled at level 10. Because that is the limit of the number of initial summons.
But what next?
If you think about it carefully, it was strange that the level was reset by repeating evolution. At the time, it was just that kind of spec, I just believed that invisible levels were accumulated, but what if that wasn’t the case?
…From here on, it’s just my hypothesis.
If you compare it to a game, the previous Crow Hive was 1 star. The limit of a 1-star crow was 10 levels, so further growth was impossible.
You need to go up to 2 stars to achieve better growth. So the crow met the conditions and became a 2-star guild Raven.
A question arises here.
Are 1-star crows and 2-star guild ravens the same entity? Or is it a completely different entity, completely reconstructed with only the underlying elements?
From my point of view, ‘evolution’ is the latter.
It is not replacing new parts in the body of the computer, but taking out the hard disk from the old computer and transplanting it to the completely new computer.
Then, naturally, the contents of the computer are preserved and the performance can be improved.
The reason Echidna’s level was not initialized is because a new part named [Dark Priest] Was added to her existing body.
The reason why the level of Hive and other summons was reset is because the concept of [Hive] Was extracted and transplanted into the body of the newly created [Guild Raven].
If you think about it like this, it fits perfectly.
Then, it is also possible to explain the [Evolution] Of the hive at level 20. Among the evolution routes of [Guild Raven], There is only a path that meets the condition of [Level 20], But not all other summons can evolve to Level 20.
Now it is time to check whether this hypothesis is correct or not.
Finally, Growl’s level is 20. If I open the status window of Graul and the [Evolvable] Mark does not come up, my hypothesis is correct, and even if not, I will reach level 30 with Kalion, who will be level 20 later. You just need to verify it with Echidna.
Since assumptions must originally be concluded through several experiments and cross-validation, I plan to consider the opposite case as well.
I closed the status window of Hive and immediately opened the status window of Growl.
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[Name: Graul] [Race: Berserk Wolf] [Lv: 20]
[Abilities]
[Muscle: 57] [Skill: 28] [Intelligence: 5] [Luck: 2]
[Attribute: Blood]
[Possessed Skills]
[Deep Wound Lv 10M] [Blood Lv 9] [The Joy of Battle Lv 8] [Berserker’s Fighting Lv 10M]
Points available: 9
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“…Bingo.”
What used to be complicated became clear.
I can’t be sure yet, so I’ll have to go through a few more verifications, but I think it’s okay to trust about 60% of the information.
What is only 60% after such a lengthy explanation? It’s because of the mischief of God’s bastard who doesn’t know. You should always think of the worst so that it hurts less even if you get slapped on the back of the head later.
“Is this a fork in the road?”
Iljigamchi evolves the hive.
No, I’ll delay it a little longer and see it up to level 30.
After organizing my thoughts, I stopped my twitching fingers.