To the Imperial Palace – 1
[ability level]
[Level] 62 (+37)
[Stamina] 1
[Mana] 1
[Faith] 1
[Endurance] 1
[Skill] 1
[Strength] 1
[Mana] 10
[Divine Power] 10
[Durability] 7
‘Hmm… … .’
I was thinking about how to distribute the points while checking my status by placing my hand on the ability confirmation ball. It was a worry that had been going on for three days today.
The experience gained from subjugating Lucia, the experience gained from subjugating the creatures abandoned by the gods, and the additional experience gained from the open areas came in more than I could have imagined.
His level rose by 37 to 62.
Even considering the fact that the process of leveling up until level 100 was relatively easy, and true hell starts around level 200, it was not a figure that could be ignored.
‘The place I really need to go now is the last half field.’
I sighed inwardly. After clearing Abyss Dungeon, the last half field of the DLC, in Holy Kingdom, now I had to head to the final half field of the main story, the Imperial Palace.
Of course, it wouldn’t make much sense to argue with the knights in the imperial palace, but it was bitter.
‘Let’s calm down.’
I calmed down and focused on the status window. The twisting of the story anyway is something I’ve been prepared for since I had to catch a creature abandoned by God at this timing.
Now that it’s done like this, even if you don’t follow all the details, you just need to go straight through the main lines.
‘How much power should I take?’
The build itself was pre-determined. The cleric, who is an extreme anti-aircraft build, and the wizard, who often struggles due to lack of mana while catching enemies, were close to garbage in the Dilla mode, so in the end, all that was left was a melee character.
What we really had to worry about was the distribution of stats. I’ll have to use the buff magic later, but in case of that, I’m going to take mana and faith in advance or just go and think about it then.
‘Because buffs must be present unconditionally.’
In vanilla, it is good to have it or not, but in the della mode, the overall health of the enemies increased considerably, so the difference between the presence and absence of minor buffs was quite severe.
Didn’t he even touch on magic and divine power in order to use the bloody sword’s buff right away? In any case, since he had already invested in his stats, he had to use them as much as possible.
Although the story twisted so drastically that the time to throw away the bloody sword came much sooner than I thought.
Anyway, stamina is just a discarded stat in Della mode. It was enough to think of putting enough stats into mana and faith to put into physical strength in vanilla.
After thinking over and over again for a while, I made a final decision and put my finger on the blue status window.
[ability level]
[Level] 62
[Stamina] 1
[Mana] 10 (+9)
[Faith] 1
[Endurance] 5 (+4)
[Skill] 1
[Strength] 25 (+24)
[Mana] 10
[Divine Power] 10
[Durability] 7
‘Let’s take a picture of faith later if we get a chance.’
Although it was a little regretful that he couldn’t use the solar and lunar eclipses he had obtained so far, it could be replaced with other magic. There was no need to invest stats in faith right now.
If you really want to defeat the devil, there was a way to just ask for help from Seongguk. Seongguk won’t refuse to beat the devil.
Even the Pope and I had such a relationship.
Stamina is something I realized while playing the God-forsaken creature boss fight. It’s better to leave a little bit of leeway than to keep the number of rolls close to the edge.
It doesn’t matter if you just memorize the patterns in the game, but you don’t know what variables will arise here.
I stared blankly at the numbers that popped up next to the stats and finally made a decision. His abilities jumped up at once, but he didn’t feel any noticeable change right now.
I waved my arms around. It was the same. There was no feeling at all that the power had just increased tremendously.
I took my hand off the marble. The blue light that filled the room faded. All that was left was to hope that Minerva, who would soon meet at the imperial palace, would not be interested in my change.
I left the room with the skill check orb and went back to the gymnasium in the castle. As soon as I arrived at the gymnasium, I found Iris and Lisé in full swing fighting.
“Haaa!”
Iris’s longsword swung from the top right to the bottom left, then came back up to the area near her right shoulder with a tremendous whirlwind that blew from her left side.
In that state, he stabbed his arm vigorously. The gray wind entwined around the sword body almost split the gymnasium in half and shot at Rize. Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwam! A loud noise rang out.
Rize didn’t just leave it alone. Left arm to the right, right arm to the left, crossed in front of the chest and swung horizontally. A carpet of sharp frost covered the floor of the gymnasium.
A thick blue fog rose with the sharp sound of glass breaking. The cold air mixed with the wind that blew in all directions. Whirlwind and frost fog collided head-on.
Recalling the method of defeating those attacks in my head, I approached Claudia and Erica, who were quietly resting in a corner of the gymnasium. Erica greeted me with a much thinner face than before.
“Are you here, Mr. Delta?”
“How are you preparing? How are you?”
“… … I think I’m going to die of nervousness.”
Erica made a tearful face. Claudia, who was normally so bold and had no wrinkles, was sitting with her back half bent with her hands clasped under her chin, looking very nervous.
“There was a time when I worked at the imperial palace. Is that still the case?”
“Because of that, I was more nervous. It’s been a really long time since I’m going back to the imperial palace.”
The content of the edict issued by Caecilia was simple. Aurora and the Knights of the Silver Dawn should come to the imperial palace in three days to have an audience with her. Enclosed with the edict was a teleportation scroll for it.
The knight commanders obeyed the edict without saying anything. Aurora, who suddenly had to learn about the emperor with us, was the only one who complained that her work had increased.
Of course, the knight commanders didn’t reveal it on the outside, but it seemed that they were burning inside. Even the reason why the sparring started so suddenly had something to do with the edict.
After preparing to go to the imperial palace for over a full day, he became restless when he had nothing more to prepare, and then said he was clearing his head.
In the middle of the conversation, I was nervous because I didn’t know where Caicilia would bounce, but it wasn’t as much as the knight commanders. On the contrary, my concerns even felt relatively benign.
At this point, I started to wonder about Caicilia’s reputation.
I sat between Claudia and Erica, watching the other two fight, and turned my head at a sudden thought. Claudia must have been there too, it was an opportunity to test her strength abilities.
“Claudia Knight Commander. Could you give me the sword for a second?”
“My sword? why?”
“I have something to do.”
“Do whatever you feel like. But you can’t even hold it? How could you Delta-“
Claudia held out her sword with a single smile on her face, but when she saw me holding it up with one hand, she fell silent.
‘Wow, I hear this.’
The arm holding the greatsword trembled, and it trembled dangerously as if I would miss it immediately if I was careless even for a moment, but the fact that I was able to lift this greatsword was important in itself.
Once again, I could feel how much my strength stat had gone up. If it were me in the past, I wouldn’t even be able to lift it with one hand, even if it was barely, and it would be unknown if I could even move it with my whole body.
‘How many stats did this require?’
I know it was 36 or 37, but now my strength stat is 25, so I can lift it moderately.
When my stats were less than half of the required weapon stats, a warning popped up that I couldn’t lift it because it was too heavy. In other words, I was able to lift a weapon with a strength requirement of 50 with one hand.
I suddenly felt the weight of Claudia’s greatsword. It was a terribly large, terribly thick, terribly heavy sword. I wondered how the hell he was wielding this.
Still, if it were now, I wouldn’t be able to use it at all. If you hold a weapon with both hands, your strength stat is multiplied by 1.5, so you should be able to wield it without reducing damage.
Well, I have no intention of using a weapon other than a one-handed sword, even if it’s for deflecting. I slammed the tip of my greatsword into the floor, tilted the handle, and held it out to Claudia.
“Here it is. After all, it is inexhaustibly heavy.”
“… … .”
Claudia was staring at me with her mouth open and a blank expression. Considering his personality, it was a very rare expression.
No, it wasn’t just Claudia. Erika, who was sitting right next to me, and even Iris and Rize, who were sword-to-hand while destroying half of the gymnasium, were staring at me with a frozen look.
“Why is everyone like this? Do you have something to say?”
“That, Delta, how did you… … .”
“I’ve never been like this before, have I? I guess you can do it and move on.”
I faced Rize, who smiled and looked at me with a shocked face. Originally, I was far from this kind of personality, but somehow, as the days went by, I felt like my brazenness was increasing.
As expected, the reaction of the knight commanders was to wait and see. If I changed my attitude later, I felt like they would kidnap me and keep me in confinement until I told them it was a secret.
“… … .”
Perhaps because of my actions, I felt that the atmosphere was somewhat relaxed. It was not an action intended to renew the atmosphere, but it was good because the result was good anyway.
Even after that, time flew by. Even if there was an incident in the middle where Lize sank after being hit by a direct hit from Claudia who asked her to do an experiment at night to see if her strength on the bed side had improved.
Suddenly, there was only about an hour left until they left for the imperial palace.