155 – Skill Work
The face of the woman who collapsed after being punched was also rapidly darkening.
-She has an enemy that has fallen into a status ailment [Stagnation].
– Agility temporarily increased by 2.
A woman who was hit by [Stagnation Snakey Drain] Had her abilities taken away at the same time as the abnormal condition.
“……!”
She seemed very surprised by her unexpected surprise.
It is natural. She had just finished preparing to cook ramen and came into the room when she was suddenly hit in the stomach.
She would not dare to imagine the fear she felt now if her abilities were absorbed by her status ailments.
I brought the dagger close to her neck.
“Keuheugh… Uh, stealth…?! Who, who…”
I had her kneel beside her chair and stare at her computer screen.
Above the notepad on the screen, the letters I typed in advance were arranged.
[I know everything. Tell the truth about everything you’ve done From what I did recently.]
“……!”
She shook her shoulders and her body shook once, but she seemed to struggle to make any active movements in [Her stagnation].
“Eh, if you say- cool! Sa, are you saving me…?”
‘No?’
However, the opposite of my heart was rewritten on the notepad.
[Yes. But there must be no lies. The moment you lie, I will burn your toes first.]
“Uhhhhh…! No, I’ll tell you, please get rid of it-“
Wow!
She vomited her excrement on the floor of her stretcher as if her head was dizzy at the sudden situation. Then she pressed her forehead and with difficulty she began to spit out her words.
“I, I, I… hehehe… I… Oh, I participated in an experiment to make children… ‘Evolutionary Stone’…”
‘… What? Why are evolution stones suddenly appearing?’
Does the nefarious group the system is talking about include those related to evolution stones?
“But! Cool- I really just did as I was told! Otherwise, he threatened to kill my boyfriend… hehehehe…”
‘Um… I don’t care if it’s true or not that she was blackmailed… It doesn’t change the fact that she did it.’
[What experiment did you do?]
“It wasn’t much… I’m a simple manager, watching over the kids so they don’t run away… Scolding those who resisted swallowing runes as an example… That’s all! I didn’t even know you consumed it that way. It really is!”
‘Eat… The choice of words is beautiful.’
I took a wooden stick from my inventory and hit her on the head lightly.
[Stagnation Snakey Drain]
f*ck!
“Huh…! … On?”
After self-confession, she looked up at me curiously as I hit her on the head with barely enough force.
– Magic has been temporarily increased by 3.
– Enemy level down by 1!
“······!! Huh?! My, my level…!”
She couldn’t hold herself properly due to [Her stagnation], But when her level dropped, she bounced her body like a fit.
“This, this… Wraith’s… What the hell, who are you- Whew… That, stop…!”
The woman looked for a while, then the effect of her stagnation gripped her head again.
She tapped the distressed woman on her chin with a stick and tapped her to look at her notepad again. She still had the message written earlier on the notepad.
“Well, other than that, I’ve done nothing wrong…”
She brought her fireball close to the woman who said that, and then she began to solve her past mistakes one by one.
Among them, there were things she did in the socially accepted line of ‘you can do that if you live’, but there were also things that I wanted to cross the line a bit.
For example, she was a daycare teacher when she was young, and confessed that there were several times when the crying children made them drink water with sleeping pills dissolved in them because they were noisy.
‘Sleeping pills for children… Aren’t they very dangerous? This is a total joke.’
She
She also said that after she awakened as a hunter, she had bullied her boyfriend for three years, showing off her strength.
‘Three years… Oh man.’
She also follows a man she likes on her way to work, finds out the location of her house, breaks into it at night, and forcibly …
‘Stop it. I had to stop. Should I just kill him right away?’
It’s not that she didn’t disbelieve the system’s ‘sneaky’ judgment, but actually hearing it made her feel more trustworthy. It would be desirable for a brighter society that such people disappear.
But it’s a waste to kill them right away, so I’m thinking of using them to test things I’ve been curious about.
Perfect! Right! Right!
“What, what are you doing…”
– Temporarily increases strength by 2.
– Enemy level down by 1!
– Temporarily increases HP by 3.
– Enemy level down by 1!
‘There is a cooldown of about 3 seconds after taking the ability once.’
So, even if you apply [Stagnation Snarky Drain] Twice in a row in 3 seconds, it only works once. There are elements that are not revealed in the skill description, so you need to check carefully.
– The level of [Stagnation Snarky Drain] Has risen!
‘Good! It would be nice if the Fireball also rose like this.’
The level went up faster than I thought, whether it was thanks to how many times I used it in ‘Closed School’ or if I used it on Hunters to get bonus points.
Then let’s try until we can.
Perfect! Right! Right! Right! Just-!
“????”
While being attacked by me, the woman was perplexed as to what the hell this was all about.
‘Magic power is already like this.’
No matter how top-of-the-line magic circuits you have, if you use Snakey Drains that consume 8 mana in succession, your mana will sink to the floor in no time.
– HP has dropped below 30. Magic recovery speed increases by 300% for 10 minutes!
The effect of the magic circuit is activated, and the supply and demand of magic power is greatly improved.
‘Kyaa…! How should I repay this favor to Tania?’
While the buff lasted, you continued to hit the woman using her skill.
– The level of [Stagnation Snarky Drain] Has risen!
‘That’s right!’
As a result of using the skill while squeezing out the last mana, I was able to raise it to level 3.
Stagnation Snakey Drain Lv.3
– Temporarily absorbs one of the stats of the damaged target at random.
– Applies abnormal status [Stagnation] To the target that has dealt damage.
– Absorption : 2-3
– Power Consumption: 8
– Duration 12 minutes
‘Hmm… Again, only the duration has increased. I don’t have the ability to make you my subordinate yet. Could it be that with this ability, no matter how much I level up?’
The expected ability might be possible only if you catch a race in a higher dungeon. If so, it would have taken quite a bit of time, which was a pity.
“Khehehe…Hegheg… That, stop…”
The woman fell deeply into [Stagnation] And clung to the floor, moaning.
At some point, she couldn’t even take her abilities away. Seeing that the message that the level has gone down doesn’t sound, it must be that the girl’s current level has reached level 1.
“hehehe… Please…”
What are you crying about?
Looking at a cross-section of her life history, it seems that she has lived her life without any major restrictions on venting her desires.
Then she wondered if it would be right for her to prepare her mind for the possibility of being wronged by others.
I forced her to stand up and look at the screen again.
[Where was the experiment conducted?]
Then the woman shook her head vigorously as her body trembled.
“If you do, if you do, you will live…”
‘If you don’t say a word, you die.’
Suddenly, I remembered the explosion of a member of the Blue Eyes organization in a dungeon.
[Are there restrictions such as self-destruction?]
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“As soon as I say it… Euweeaek- please, buy, save me…”
‘Those who make evolutionary stones… Aren’t they small fish?’
It’s not an ordinary thing to put such complex conditions on a living person, so it must be a large-scale organization. There will be quite a few talented people.
Is it the same organization as the Red Riding Hood you defeated last time? It was unknown.
“Please, please-“
There was nothing more to see with this woman. I wanted to slowly build a level with a fireball, but it would leave too many marks in such a small space.
Death, Geoeok–!
Without hesitation, he cut off the throat of a woman begging for his life.
Took- Degurur-
I put the corpse in my inventory and left the room without regret.
– Defeat enemies using daggers while stealthed. (101/10,000)
– You have slain the sinister group that threatens the safety of this world!
– Randomly increase your stats!
– Sense: 71 (+1)
‘My stats have gone up.’
The last two mutants left behind ‘contaminated fragments of the elixir of life’.
However, since this woman did not become a mutant, the fragments were not left behind. However, it seems that she gives a reward that randomly increases her ability by one, just like when she kills a blue-eyed follower.
It became clear that there was one more organization identified as an insidious group by the system. When I saw the scale of the blue eye organization, I thought that the organization related to this ‘evolution stone’ would not be easy.
‘Why are you like this more and more? How comfortable I lived in my previous life.’
It was only after Yeon-hee was killed by the Orc Corps commander that he questioned Jo Ki-man and went about digging for hidden secrets.
But behind the scenes, these things were going on. Of course, it would have been a different development from now, but the big trend would not have changed.
‘Ha! That’s not even funny. To think that I was an ignorant child.’
On the way back home, I was carrying one more load on my shoulder than when I left.
When I got home, Yeon-hee was still in a deep sleep.
‘Huh-‘
The sneaky group that I thought would be blue eyes was an organization related to the ‘Evolutionary Stone’…
It is a night to deepen your thoughts.
‘Well, isn’t that bad? They’re all things I have to get rid of anyway.’
Ingredients for increasing abilities are swarming everywhere. Let’s think so positively.
Just when I was thinking about that, Ran flew in and started talking to her. It seemed that the summoning had not been lifted because Yeonhee’s magic power was still remaining.
He looks cute, but he’s an old man who doesn’t have the slightest bit of cuteness.
(Where did you go?)
‘Sheesh, don’t you know anything?’
(Hey! The guy who needs to protect the master’s comfort…!)
‘……Then did you improve your fighting ability? Come to think of it, why aren’t you evolving? We’ve been together since the beginning.’
(Heh, fighting with guys who are inferior to me is not very helpful.)
‘Hmm… I see… This dungeon was still a D-class dungeon, but it was a dungeon that corresponds to the middle-lower level.’
Truly, according to Ran’s words, it means that Ran gains experience points only when he goes to places where there are many low-class orc warriors, or to Nargul’s dungeon.
‘Since the grade was high from the beginning, there must be a big change if I evolve.’
I nodded and thought about the dungeon I would enter tomorrow. In fact, there are more things to worry about tomorrow than the dungeon, but for now, I should focus on finishing the exploration safely.
‘The spawning grounds of Harpies… It’s because the terrain along the cliffs is narrow, Neos Harpies aren’t that special. The guy on the cliff is a bit annoying, but it’s easy to deal with with my skills.’
Nevertheless, anxiety stuck to one side of my heart.
‘Now I’m more concerned about the sudden variable than the dungeon itself. Are you afraid to live as a hunter?’
Of course, it’s strange that our party got caught up in a lot of strange things, but why do I feel like such things will happen more often in the future?
That must mean that drastic changes are taking place around dungeons these days.
‘I hope it goes smoothly this time.’
Having such a wish, he spent the night making bombs and training in swordsmanship.
And the next day.
Aside from Arin, who had already visited this place tirelessly, the other three people swallowed saliva spontaneously at the sight in front of them.
– Kyaaa!!
– Kihyaaa!!
A stairway on a cliff that is dangerously cut just by looking at it.
You have to deal with the ‘Neos Harpies’ that are embroidering the sky in pitch black while climbing towards the top.
“That way… I have to go up?”