chapter 45
45 – Suspicious Meeting
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[Skeleton Soldier Ilwol – Lv.24]
Strength: 60 (+1) Agility: 60 (+1) Stamina: 60 (+3)
Intelligence: 24 Power: 61 (+3) Resistance: 2 (+1)
Sense: 31 (+3) Restoration: 7 (+1)
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I invested the stats I gained as I leveled up, the sense of increasing importance, the increased magic power consumption as my skills increased, and my physical strength to make ends meet.
’60, 60, 60.. Feeling at ease…’
As a result of killing 4 out of 11 people, the [Summoner’s Helper] Achievement has increased your stats by a total of 4 more.
‘To get the achievement effect, you have to kill it yourself.’
“Ah…”
Seeing that Yeon-hee is also standing blankly and moving her eyes quickly, she must be confirming that she has received achievements similar to mine.
Keuheugh.. Cool!
The only one left alive was probably trampled by a lizardman, and both arms were bent on their own.
“Tell me. What were you doing here? And what did they do?”
Yeonhee asked, pointing to the 10 or so heads that had already been separated from the body. Then the man who had been cooing for a while opened his mouth with difficulty.
“That… Just… We did as we were told… We don’t know anything…”
“You must have performed the ritual! You didn’t know what it was and just did that? Are you guys even human?!”
Yeonhee’s voice was a few tones higher than usual, as if she was getting hotter.
“Kuluk, kuluk… The priest that the skeleton killed… Might have known something.”
“Tak-“
‘Ah… Did you kill me for nothing? He somehow raised his stats by 2, so he must have a higher class than the others.’
From now on, I’ll try to keep the strongest guy alive…
‘Damn it, would that work? If I can, I should kill the strongest one with an ambush.’
“What do you gain by doing that? What do you gain by killing people!”
“f*ck! Money and gear, of course! Kahak- Ha… Ha…”
As if he wanted to become what he was, he said angrily to Yeon-hee.
“I’ve heard roughly about your years! Summoner? 2Nd Awakening? How about luckily acquiring the ability? How many times more did the income increase? Huh?!! Then I!! I can do low-level dungeons with just one f*cking skill. Wandering around, scared to get hurt and search around? But this organization gives you a shadow cloak just for coming in. But you don’t come in, are you sick?
Fuwook!!
“Hick! This, Sun Moon…?”
“Clack!!”
‘Why are you listening to all this bullsh*t? Waste of time.’
In the end, he talked at length about killing people to make money easily.
Puffpuffpuff!!
When the message didn’t come to mind, I made sure to kill him.
– The [Summoner’s Helper] Achievement is activated.
HP : 62 (+1)
‘Oh, the magic is good’
I smiled inwardly at the effect of the achievement and clapped my hands in front of Yeonhee who was chewing on her lips.
Tak!
Of course, only the bone noise was loud, but it was enough to wake her up.
“Ha… Can’t we just leave those who got hit here like this? Wow, there’s room in the inventory…”
“Tak-“
‘Being nice…’
In the end, I gathered all the bodies of the victims and began to share them with Yeon-hee in my inventory.
“Oh, 3 people is the limit. Ilwol won’t go in anymore, right?”
‘Hmm… Huh? Are you still going in? Why are you like this?’
“Huh? All in? Why?”
‘I see… Normally only 2-3 corpses can be stored…’
I was very suspicious, but I put everything in and saw it. And I rummaged hard to see if there was anything to take from the bosom of the blue-eyed guys I killed, but as expected, no one dropped a rune of vitality.
‘Did you get one of these in the end?’
I took out a magical rune from the pocket on my waist. The spiral pattern engraved on the dark red stone revealed the identity of this stone.
Magical Rune (Low)
– mana +8
‘Heh, bastard, he was carrying something quite nice.’
I handed the rune of magic to Yeon-hee who was poking out her lips without taking any loot.
“Huh? Was this the priest holding it?”
“Clack!”
“Hmm… Ilwol has this. I’ve received more than I deserved these days, so I have no shame in taking more. Now-“
‘Well, I still have a lot to give you, but it would be difficult if I do this already.’
Anyway, after receiving the rune from Yeonhee, I immediately remembered the rune storage in my inventory, and the rune slowly disappeared.
HP : 70 (+8)
Now you have enough magic to fire 70 flame bullets.
‘Kya- I’m strong.’
And I widened my senses to see if there was anything else around me, and suddenly I sensed magical energy subtly from the black board I had laid down to raise my consciousness.
‘Huh?’
I inadvertently put my hand on a board about 1.5 Times the length of the school desk, and soon my eyes went dark and I lost my mind.
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I felt my body being sucked into a huge whirlpool, and when I came to my senses, I saw a small fireball in my hand.
“Aww! f*ck! What is this?”
I was startled by the fireball, once surprised that there was skin on my hands, and once more surprised that there was a voice coming out of it.
“I know you’re trying to catch your eye somehow, but would the people above you care about guys like us? If you just stay still, you’ll go somewhere in the middle.”
“… That, yes.”
‘What the hell, where is this again? Why am I not a skeleton?’
[Calm]
My mind, which had been confused for a moment, cooled down with the effect of the attribute, and when I looked at it again, I saw that it was an awkward texture for human skin. Like a mannequin.
And the face of the person I spoke to next to me had only eyes, nose and mouth, but it was blurry like a watercolor painting, so it was hard to see it as a human face.
I looked around and saw that there were quite a few people scattered all over the space the size of a football field, all standing looking in one direction.
From where they looked, there was something in the shape of a human, about 3m tall, standing on top of a podium. He, too, had a blurred face like the one next to him.
‘I don’t think you recognize me because I’m in this state like the others?’
– Ah, it seems everyone has gathered. Some areas won’t have much time, so let’s start with collection.
The moment the kkeokdari on the podium said to collect, the small fireball in my hand died down in an instant and then went out.
– Hmm… Not bad. Even if this seems very insignificant to you, these little things will eventually become the strength to achieve a great cause.
He said while looking at the huge fireball gathered in his hand with satisfaction, and soon disappeared from his seat with the closing remarks promising the next time.
Then, many people standing in the space muttered something and soon began to disappear from their seats.
“··· I will burn the body and build a bridge so that the gods will descend······.”
The guy next to me muttered something like an incantation for a while, then slowly disappeared and said.
“See you next time, brother. May Ah-Shuran be with you.”
“… Ah, may Ah-Shuran be with you…”
I took notice of the guy next to me, and he smiled and disappeared from the seat.
‘Let’s talk about how to get out of here…’
After thinking about it for a while, I had a strong desire to return to the original place.
‘······ sh*t can’t it?’
Willilic-
Fortunately, something changed as the space around my body swirled, and I lost consciousness again.
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“···Wolah? Sunwolah!”
“······ Crackle!”
Returning to my original space, I immediately raised my upper body after realizing that Yeon-hee was looking down with her head on her lap.
“How, what happened? You suddenly fell down and couldn’t get up for a while. You… You can’t do anything because you’re afraid that something will go wrong if you cancel the summon…”
She was already in tears as if she was very surprised. I carefully wiped the smudge off her cheek, then raised her arms to signal that there was no problem.
Yeonhee looked at my body here and there with a smile, as if she was relieved then.
‘Blue-eyed puppies like dogs…’
I felt like it was those guys who made Yeon-hee cry, so I instantly got angry.
Sararak-
“Ehh…”
I calmed down by touching her hair for a moment, then pondered how I had been transported to the space where they gathered.
‘Obviously, the ceremony was still in full swing when the priest was pushed out… He fell on the altar and the sacrifices were overturned as well.’
Jerbug-
Looking at the black pandegi performing the ritual, the foundation was soaked with the blood shed from the severed head, and the magical energy that had been radiating subtly had disappeared. I approached, grabbed the plate, and checked the information.
Simple Altar of Blue Eyes
– An altar made of black steel so that blue-eyed followers can hold ceremonies anywhere.
‘Heukgangmok? Was there a tree like this?’
Anyway, the fact that information comes out must mean that it has its own usefulness and value.
I roughly brushed off the blood from the altar and put it in my inventory. Even though eight corpses were put in, there was no feeling that the limits of the subspace would be filled. Usually, when you get close to the limit, you feel a sense of crampedness that you instinctively feel.
‘It’s clear that the inventory space is much larger than when you were human. Well… Well, there’s nothing bad about it.’
If I had to think about why that happened, it would only make my head hurt.
We left their corpses behind and quickly left, leaving the victims neatly arranged right in front of the hidden area.