343 – I hope we can go one step further (3) (Complete to the main story)
Kaaang-!!
The iron swords in Park Jin-woo and my hands collide strongly with each other.
No special items or skills are used.
They only rely on their own abilities and sword runes to gauge each other’s skills.
Currently, we were only utilizing abilities specialized for hand-to-hand combat.
Kang!
Kagang-!!
An enormous shock flows through the clashing swords.
However, thanks to the auxiliary runes and durability stats that supported us firmly, there was no sign of exertion on our faces at all.
“Ugh- how much strength do you have?”
… Correct.
I guess I was the only one who wasn’t struggling.
Park Jin-woo looked at me with an expression of disgust and asked.
I decided to answer him honestly.
“118.”
“What, what?! No, the pure strength is that high. “You also have separate ability pumping skills.”
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Starting from the Academy’s underground dungeon, I have been fighting with Park Jin-woo almost every time I hunt as a party.
As we had been fighting together for a long time, he knew my abilities well.
“We’re usually a bit fast. “Aren’t you similar too?”
“Oh, you crazy guy. “I’m not that organized.”
Kang-! Kagang-!
The speed of the striking sword increases.
Even if you don’t need to use any special abilities.
Even if you don’t put magic power into the attack-.
The power contained in a single sword is at a level that cannot be ignored.
I am the youngest S-class holder.
Jinwoo Park is still an A-level holder, but he is likely to be the next S-level holder after me.
You can tell just by looking at the grade and series.
We…
They were the strongest holders when using a sword.
Kagaga River-!!
“Sigh! Hey! However! That! “Do you remember?”
Park Jin-woo asks, putting his energy into one attack at a time.
“What! Thing!”
I also answer while putting more effort into my sword strike.
Our sparring was always like this.
Fight using only abilities, martial arts runes, and ordinary items.
That’s because after both parties reached a certain level, using magical power itself became dangerous.
Maybe that’s why, even when I had something to say during a sparring match, I was able to speak with my swords touching like this.
“Us! First! Even when fighting! You have superior strength! “I was ahead in speed!”
“What?”
And.
Park Jin-woo, who had been pushing without hesitation, grins.
“Isn’t that probably the same now?”
Jinwoo Park, a master of the quick sword.
This guy lit the fire in Dalian again today.
* * *
“It was applied really miserably….”
Park Jin-woo, lying down on the floor, spoke as if it were meaningless.
I burst out laughing at that sight.
“I told you. “After I got the strengthening-related runes, I don’t lose well in hand-to-hand combat.”
“No matter what, the difference is too drastic.”
“If you feel unfair, improve your skills and come back.”
“Ha… “I can’t even remember now how many consecutive losses we’ve had.”
I haven’t counted the exact numbers, but I’m sure the 10-game losing streak will definitely be over.
I don’t remember losing to that guy since I got the [Pride of the Forgotten Dragon Knight] Rune.
Park Jin-woo sighed heavily while lying down, but then burst out laughing as if something was funny.
“What? Are you finally crazy?”
I feel guilty when I see my friend losing his mind.
In fact, I was a bit shocked by the fact that my speed was even higher… ?
Jinwoo Park laughed like that for a while and then quietly called me.
“Hey.”
“Why, man.”
And.
“Thank you.”
Jin-Woo Park barely says that line.
I held my head in extreme disgust.
“Ugh! Why are you doing this, damn it. “Did I eat something wrong today?”
“Crazy guy. “Even if I say thank you, it’s a mess.”
Park Jin-woo put his hand on the back of his head and looked at the sky.
And then he laughed quietly.
“To be honest, I lived without thinking until I turned 20. “I just practiced fighting to beat outholders when I met them, and when I actually fought, it was fun, so I trained to fight better.”
Park Jin-woo’s self-objectification was accurate.
This guy was a guy who purely loved training, practicing, and fighting.
In fact, in the original work, there was no particular goal until Park Yoon-seo, who was a family member, was kidnapped.
“But after becoming a holder and coming to the academy, a new goal emerged. Ah, I want to fight that guy and win. I want to fight better when I fight with that guy… “I only changed one goal, but miraculously, my whole life changed?”
Park Jin-woo, who was like that, has changed.
Blind fighting gave birth to goals, and repetitive training gave birth to passion.
And at the center of that change…
Ironically, I was an outsider to this world.
‘… Ah.’
It was only then that I realized.
This world was .
Or that I was an outsider who was possessed by someone.
Those things were no longer important.
The important thing is.
In the world we exist in today, we change under the influence of each other.
It’s not about what the past was like and what a similar world was like -.
Living in the present, thinking about how to draw the future.
Whether it is a friend, a rival, or a colleague.
Anyway, each in their own way…
Being able to take one step forward.
I could feel those sentences shining in a corner of my heart.
“… “What were you trying to say?”
But Jinwoo Park foolishly asked himself for a moment.
He said something cool, but he didn’t seem to have thought of a concluding statement.
The guy immediately scratched his head and said.
“Anyway, thank you, asshole.”
“Puhahahaha.”
I laughed and lay down on my seat like a guy.
I was filled with emotion and wanted to see the sky, but unfortunately, since it was a training ground, all I could see was a black ceiling.
… As expected, this is not a feeling that suits me.
“Okay. You should be grateful to me for the rest of your life. “He is the benefactor who connected me with Camilla.”
So, I press Jinwoo Park’s seizure button.
Udangtangtang-.
The guy got up from his seat, as expected.
“So tell me how many times. Camilla confessed to me first? “We were going to be connected anyway.”
“So who created that situation?”
“Oh! Wake up. Float again.”
… It was a peaceful scene at the training ground.
* * *
[Amazing achievement! A monumental tower that no one has built yet, the ‘descending evil spirit’ has been slain! All the power you have in your incredible achievements will lead to rapid and remarkable growth.]
[All normal and special abilities are acquired by 5 each, and all resistance abilities are acquired by 3 each.]
[The level of all runes you own increases by 1.]
[Amazing achievement! A group of evil imitators, the Ludenarch School, has invaded the area to which they have fully adapted! …… ]
…
…
After completing the Strategy.
There were countless information windows that appeared to me.
There are so many that I can’t recite them one by one, but to sum it up, “I completed a series of amazing achievements and the rewards were pouring in!” It can be interpreted that way.
… I used a very frivolous expression, but it is a fact.
Based on all of these achievements, my general abilities increased by approximately 10, and my special and resistance abilities, as well as my existing rune level, also achieved significant growth.
In particular, the mythological rune [Noble Divinity] Copied from the evil god Rumiel, or the epic rune [Essence of Magical Knowledge] Obtained as a reward for conquering ….
The performance and effects of the newly acquired runes were at a level that could not be ignored.
And only then can you feel it.
-The long saga of strategy has come to an end.
The incredible level of rewards came in all at once, and it felt really real.
But among these, there was something else that really caught my attention.
[Amazing achievement! ‘Rune’, the exclusive property of the chosen ones, was obtained up to the additional limit (50). Special powers are granted due to an incredible first achievement.]
[A mysterious power resides in the Rune Hunter. From now on, if you acquire a new rune, you can delete the existing rune and register a new one.]
50 Runes finally filled through this strategy.
This time, once the limit was reached, a new effect appeared.
An effect that allows you to delete existing runes and register additional runes….
For me, who had no choice but to possess runes that were slightly less necessary, it was a special effect that was perhaps the most necessary.
After reading this effect…
For some reason, I can’t help but laugh.
The reason was simple.
“This wasn’t the end.”
Actually, I had been vaguely thinking about it for some time.
Although various effects have been created to organize the owned runes, such as ‘higher rune’ and ‘rune grant’, such organization will definitely have its limits.
If you finish everything you can and fill up all 50 runes.
Eventually, the [Rune Hunter]’S abilities will reach their limits.
Even for hunters who are now quite veteran…
There will definitely be a day when retirement approaches.
I used to think so vaguely.
“hahahaha….”
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But it wasn’t the end.
If you arrive at the final station, go back to the beginning.
If you got a new rune today, get a new rune again tomorrow.
The system and [Rune Hunter]…
They were asking me to move forward one more time.
What lies ahead?
If you keep going, will there really be an end? .
Honestly, I’m still not sure.
The path I have walked so far has always been a series of uncertainties, even though I thought it was certain.
I thought I had overcome it, but new mountains always appeared.
So I am not sure that we will do well in the future.
But.
Nevertheless, I will keep going.
“Because we have been making it that way all this time.”
There has never been a coincidence in the tower I have built so far.
It was a huge inevitability where everything was connected and connected.
I entered into that inevitability…
I was thinking of throwing myself again.
“What have you been making?”
And then somewhere.
A voice that responds and responds to my self-talk.
Slightly cold impression and style.
However, she is a woman with a warmer heart and character than anyone else.
From the beginning when everything started to now…
My lover who has always been by my side, Kim Chae-eun.
As always, she was looking at me with a playful smile on her face.
A composition and question that I’m sure I’ve seen somewhere before.
I smiled at that familiar scene.
“Everything I have accumulated so far. And my precious people.”
To that answer…
Kim Chae-eun also smiled prettily and bowed her head.
“Does that include me too?”
“Do you want to get scolded? “You call that a question?”
“hehehe.”
She approached me and crossed her arms.
I walked with her down the long street, holding her arms gently.
On my way forward.
Like this, my people will always be with me.
Today too.
Tomorrow too.
Perhaps even the tomorrow of tomorrow.
I hope that those steps will always last forever.
In the falling leaves, I sent such a small hope.
…
…
“But how are you going to punish me?”
“What is it? “What about that expectant expression?”
“Tell me quickly~ How are you going to scold me?”
“I’ll let you know when I get the pudding.”
“It really tastes like grapes? “Huh, I can’t even buy that at the supermarket in front of my house anymore.”
“Then just don’t scold me, okay?”
“Oh, what are you-!”
– (Complete to the main story) –