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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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As the landslide-like impact struck the peak, the trolls, swept up in a frenzy, scattered in all directions. It seemed that even when their inner evil awoke, the primal emotion of fear remained.
Swoosh.
Kang Seol’s expression quickly turned from hope to despair. On the dust-settled battlefield, the tattered shadow of Karuna and Jamad stood.
Had the fight between the two, which had boasted such immense power, ended in a draw? He couldn’t accept that. It was no different from a defeat.
‘This is… hmm?’
But something was strange. Why were they just staring at each other without moving? He found the answer in Jamad’s words.
“Demon… no, shadow summoner.”
Swoosh.
Jamad turned around, even though Karuna’s eyes were blazing. A gruesome gash ran down his chest. He looked like he was about to die. He left his last words.
“Cough… take… me. I… I can’t end here! There’s something I must… do…”
Thud!
Finally, the moon had cut down the great mountain. Jamad collapsed, withering in the moonlight. At that moment, Kang Seol’s system messages lit up like a fire.
These were the messages that were supposed to appear.
A flood of messages. The onlookers cheered.
‘Future Dream’ donated 200 madness!
“Mom, I want to be a snowman when I grow up! Mom, I want to be a snowman when I grow up! Mom, I want to be a snowman when I grow up!”
– Take it, with the strongest iron lump! – The late Jamad –
– Fuck! Who is making this indomitable man, Oh Myeong-tae, cry so much… Snowman… what the hell are you!!!
– Snowman punch! Snowman punch! He’s a god!
‘I was so surprised watching the play while eating gukbap’ donated 300 madness!
“Because the gukbap was so delicious.”
– What’s with the gukbap product placement! Explain!
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– Rewarding good and punishing evil! Well watched!
‘Public opinion at this time’ donated 200 madness!
“Murmur… gurgle… throb…”
– The public opinion is very… colorful.
– For real, look at everyone flocking to this room lol
– Is this the best reward? Is it?
‘Snowman has turned the mountain upside down!’ donated 100 madness!
“(╮°-°)╮┳┳ Achoo~~~~!! (╯°□°)╯ ┻┻”
– Ugh… my heart hurts. The passion of a man is beating inside me!
– What’s with the dinner table emoticon lol, it’s cute lol
– But why are there three titles popping up ㄷㄷ
Three titles in one adventure. Usually, getting one title in one adventure was considered a success, but he had far surpassed that.
‘So, what are the effects?’
Titles usually didn’t have huge effects, but they could become a great source of power when accumulated over the long term. He had taken his first step smoothly.
Now that he had obtained the titles, he thought that no other messages would appear before he obtained the rewards. But he was mistaken. The change had not only come to him.
Hooooong…
The intense light was withdrawn from Karuna, whose Moon Stage had ended. His exhausted-looking body was emitting a faint heat.
– Crazy, now the summon is even growing on its own?
– They say it’s a characteristic of the Shadow Summoner. What a strange system.
– What a crappy… 20% was already so strong, so 40% is like One-Punch Man?
– Why is the summon wearing a title ㅅㅂ lol
– Information) The great match system is surprisingly tricky, so it doesn’t activate often.
– Fact) But it activated now.
He quickly checked the abilities Karuna had obtained. First, Heroism. It was a continuous effect, and when the enemy’s stats were 20% or higher than his own, his own stats would increase by 10%. (Applied to only one target at a time.)
‘It’s an ability that only activates against relatively strong opponents.’
It was a good ability. Especially for a summon with sealed monster-like stats like Karuna, this kind of stat percentage increase option showed excellent effects. Next, the title.
– Isn’t it too much to mess with experience points?
– But it’s not mob experience, it’s boss experience lol?
– Ah, that’s right lol, how many bosses stronger than Karuna are there at this point;
– I’m scared, Snowman!
He equipped the title to Karuna and took a breath.
“Phew…”
Now, he had only two things left to obtain from this adventure. One was, of course, the reward he had obtained by aiming for the highest score, and the other depended on what he was about to do.
It was shadow summoning. Standing in front of Jamad’s corpse, he hesitated for a moment. It was because of Jamad’s last words.
‘Cough… take… me. I… I can’t end here! There’s something I must… do….’
Usually, monsters hated becoming shadow summons. It was more than a matter of preference. It was because they were forcibly dragged out of death, which could be considered a form of rest, to serve the master who had killed them. But Jamad had actually asked to be taken.
‘Why?’
What lingering attachments did he have in life? Kang Seol thought of Jamad as an irregular. The starting point where the flow of the game board went awry was precisely these irregulars who acted outside of prediction.
That was why he was hesitating now. Would taking this irregular be a gain or a loss for him?
‘No, there’s no choice. I’m taking Jamad.’
If he couldn’t take him, his achievements in this adventure would be half-hearted. Kang Seol turned his palm downwards and let out a stream of shadow energy. An emotionless voice flowed from his lips.
“Serve me.”
Swoosh…
Crackle!
Jamad’s muscles twitched. Just as Karuna had been given new life and had risen before, Jamad was also being reborn as a shadow.
Crackle—
Jamad opened his eyes wide and got up. His whole body was covered in black shadow. His huge body stood up and looked down at Kang Seol with now-red eyes.
“Hoooooo…”
A breath came from Jamad’s mouth.
The transmission was also successfully completed, but Jamad didn’t react. He just stared at Kang Seol.
‘Did it go wrong?’
At that moment, Jamad spoke first. “Demon, I will be with you.”
At those words, Kang Seol was able to calm his anxious heart, as if a weight had been lifted. But Jamad’s words weren’t over yet.
“But, there is still something I must do.”
“A condition?”
The condition Jamad set was surprisingly simple. He found the corpses of his brothers, including Makgata. Makgata, the youngest, had been burned to death, but Jamad somehow found his remains.
Whoosh—!
Jamad took the power from his brothers’ corpses. This was clearly not an ordinary power. Kang Seol confirmed his extraordinary point.
‘It was because of Shamanistic Absorption. He’s an irregular.’
Jamad had a special talent that was impossible for the player to choose. Reading the description, it seemed that he took the power of a deceased shaman.
– Isn’t that OP!
– But there are few shamans…
– Then the dog is deleted!
– It’s OP!
He looked at Kron’s scattered corpse for the last time and smiled bitterly. “At least we die together.”
Whoosh—!
“The mountain… will embrace you.”
Jamad closed his eyes for a moment and then turned to look at Kang Seol.
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“Run! Jamad is dead! The other brothers are all dead! The Rock Tusk is finished!”
“It’s over! It’s over!”
“Death still lingers on the peak!”
Rumble, rumble!
The Rock Tusk, having awakened from their madness and confirmed what they had done and the deaths of their leaders, began to abandon the settlement and flee.
‘Changing world.’
Another characteristic of the Eternal World. The change of the world. When a player achieves an achievement, the world changes accordingly.
The scale was hard to imagine, so it was no wonder Kang Seol had enjoyed the Eternal World for 17 years. This game was impossible to get tired of. When Kang Seol could no longer find them, messages poured out.
Kang Seol had achieved everything he had set out to do. From clearing the adventure alone to obtaining the top-tier reward.
“Haa…”
Dawn had broken, and it was getting close to noon. For him, it was a morning that reminded him of the cigarettes he had quit.
“The last one.”
– There’s more?
– The boss is crazy!
– No matter how much you peel, there’s always more ㅡㅡ
As Kang Seol manipulated the interface in front of him, a box decorated with bone appeared before him.
Clank.
Hwaaaaaaak!
He opened the box without hesitation. An immense light shone on the items inside.
“Mountain Fist!”
– Mountain Fist!
– Mountain Fist, you say?
– It dropped?
– That dropped?
– OP!
– Crazy OP item! Unfair!
– If you got it?
– God game. I broke the ceiling lol
– Stalin: Won’t you share that?
Kang Seol equipped the Mountain Fist to Jamad.
Clank.
Jamad swung his hand a few times and showed no particular reaction.
‘Not bad.’
Kang Seol took off his shabby outer garment and changed into the stylish Robe of Rock. With the Full Moon Staff and the Robe of Rock, he looked like a different person.
– Why do you look so strong?
– Be moderately strong, Snowman!
– Ah, you’re really crossing the line;
– After the Moon Seed, you too…
Kang Seol put the root in his pocket. Of course, he planned to consume it through cooking.
‘The rewards are pretty good.’
After the adventure was over, his body was engulfed in a halo of light and disappeared somewhere.
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Zzzzing—
Kang Seol was transported to a new place. It was packed with people. They didn’t look like the original inhabitants of this place. They were wary of their surroundings, as if they had just been transported, and were shouting.
“A-Are you all Korean?”
“Where is this place?”
“Hye-in! Hye-in! Mom is here! Where are you?”
A place no different from a marketplace. But their attention was soon drawn to a single line of message.
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