Chapter 30
Chapter 30
I checked the items I obtained as a reward for clearing the 3rd Floor.
[Phaethon's Obsidian Armor]
Category - Armor
Defense + 90
Effect: Concentrated Defense - When hit, defense is concentrated on the point of impact, efficiently blocking damage.
Usable Level: Level 20 or higher
Description: An old work by Master Craftsman Phaethon, it reacts to the mana circulating within the user's body. When mana is operated, the Concentrated Defense function activates.
Grade: B+
I was in dire need of new armor.
It was a very appropriate reward.
The effect also seemed quite useful.
Next, I checked the reward for ranking 1st on the 3rd Floor.
[True Qi Pill]
Category - Elixir
Effect: Upon consumption, all stats, including mana, increase dramatically. The increase is permanent.
Usable Level: Level 20 or higher
Grade: B+
True Qi Pill. It sounds like a person's name.
It was a small, navy-blue bead.
It was a simple elixir, exactly as I imagined, which was novel.
This time, there wasn't just one first-place reward.
[Transfiguration Mirror]
Category - Shield
Defense + 120
Effect: By injecting a small amount of mana, the size of the shield can be changed.
Description: A shield created by Master Craftsman Viola. The shield's defense only truly takes effect when blocking attacks.
Usable Level: Level 20 or higher
Grade: B+
Transfiguration Mirror.
I held the shield in my right hand.
I understood what injecting mana meant immediately after releasing mana.
Ssssh!
The shield literally grew larger.
From the size of a one-handed shield to a shield like that of a shield bearer on the front lines, pouring all their effort into defense.
If used effectively at the right time in battle, it could yield good results.
I took a picture of the True Qi Pill with my terminal.
Then, I posted on the Transcendent Gallery.
Title: True Qi Pill, they say it's an elixir. Can I just eat it?
Author: oo*
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It looks like something I can just gulp down.
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Yeah, eat it and circulate your mana a bit.
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This guy's already eating what I ate on floor 60.
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Hmm*) Is it better to eat this later?
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Nah, seeing how things are coming out for you now, it seems like appropriate elixirs you need will keep popping up.
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Sword of Light) You should eat it now. It's probably like the comment above says.
Hmm, I should eat it right away.
Just as I was about to take the True Qi Pill out of my inventory.
A post written by someone caught my eye.
It was a post from Ice Queen, a senior who I had never seen write before.
Title: Brrr! After looking at the Climber's score, I've been thinking deeply.
Author: Ice Queen
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In my cohort too, there were people with quite high scores in the very early stages of the Tower. I suspect they might have been the Pandemonium Climbers.
I don't recall any player before floor 4 pulling four-digit numbers twice in a row like the Climber. I do remember seeing it a few times after floor 5... Brrr.
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Scum Sword Saint) I think so too. But it felt like the very, very early stages.
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How early?
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Scum Sword Saint) The ones occupying the ranking window after floor 20 were all people I knew reasonably well. So, before floor 20.
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Pioneer) I stayed quiet because I didn't want to dampen the mood, but it's probably right to say it now. The Climber seems to have the talent to overcome it if they do well...
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Pioneer) It was during the exchange meeting when I was residing on Hard Floor 16, I think. There was a player who helped me then. I remember them because their skill was significantly superior to mine at the time.
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Pioneer) We became somewhat friendly, and at the end of that exchange meeting, they told me they were from Pandemonium. They said they were on floor 13 then. When I said I wanted to be summoned together at the next exchange meeting, they accepted my friend request and agreed.
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Pioneer) I just thought I'd meet them at the next exchange meeting and climbed the Tower I was in. Even if you add someone as a friend, there's no function to send separate messages or anything, so I had no way of knowing their situation.
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Pioneer) But the day before the next exchange meeting, their name turned gray.
Gray?
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They died.
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Jjuhdak) Tsk.
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Spear King) Oh dear.
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...So, if we broadly consider the floor on which that dead Pandemonium player died, it means there's a dangerous zone roughly between floors 14 and 18.
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Archmage) It's realistic that the danger zone starts from floor 14 and continues. It's Pandemonium, after all.
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That's right. That's it.
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As expected, the facts from Archmage DDD
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Yes, I almost died just now too.
They called it Sword Qi explosion.
It was really a hair's breadth.
If I had been a little less lucky, I would have died.
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Secret Room Theorist) It's not for nothing that there wasn't a single person in the Climber Gallery. It means there are absolutely no players who have climbed up to floor 30. It wouldn't be strange at all if they all died before floor 20. - This world is made of a giant secret room.
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Do you remember that person's name?
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Pioneer) Since they don't disappear from the friend list when they die, I remember. I saw the name even before leaving floor 100.
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Pioneer) Ban. That was that person's name.
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Pioneer) Anyway, I'm sorry for telling you this late. I should have told you the information I had from the beginning.
I don't know.
What would have changed if I had known this sooner?
I already think there's a high chance of dying even on floor 4 if I'm not careful.
Instead, I was able to engrave in my mind that the probability of dying increases after floor 13.
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Sword of Light) You just need to become stronger than now by floor 13.
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Archmage) Ah, the mood suddenly turned cold. You must not die, Climber.
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Hahahaha, you were so indifferent until now, why are you acting a little more human?
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Archmage) It's boring without the Climber.
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Dragon King) Beltui - That's right. It's boring without you.
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Okay*) For now, I just have to keep climbing.
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Ice Queen) Brrr! Fighting!
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Shrine Maiden) Hawaawa, I'll engrave good luck on your talismans!
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Water King) Live!!!!! Climber!!!!! Friend of the Catfolk!!!!!
Something noisy has increased by one.
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Absolute Monarch) Try taking a picture of your Sword Qi and uploading it. I'm curious about its color.
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There's a thesis that red auras indicate a bad temper.
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Absolute Monarch) ? Is there such a baseless and worthless thesis?
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Uh, you. You're a red aura user, right??
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Red aura user spotted immediately
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Water King) Hahahaha, the guilty conscience betrays itself lol
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The thesis's credibility has rapidly increased
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Yes*) The 4th-ranker who attacked me also used red Sword Qi.
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Hahahaha, we even have enough examples now.
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Sword of Light) Hmm, my Sword Qi is a deep blue with many shimmering light clusters.
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Sword of Light's evasion maneuver lol
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Scum Sword Saint) Mine is golden ㅇㅇ
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Heavenly Demon) This venerable one's is purple.
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Spear King) Mine is green.
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Seeing these guys, who hold the world's fate in their hands and don't lose to anyone, playing with rainbow colors makes me feel so empty.
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Even guys like that became that strong...
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Maybe they became that strong because they are guys like that.
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Absolute Monarch) You're all too engrossed in gallery browsing to be serious at all.
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Strictly solemn and serious all by himself.
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The data on the thesis about red auras is accumulating.
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Old man, stop hitting him. This is elder abuse.
After that, Absolute Monarch didn't browse the gallery for quite some time.
For now, I closed the Transcendent Gallery.
"Dangerous zone."
It was true that I had a lot to think about.
My life was on the line.
But it had been dangerous from floor 1. Floor 4 would be the same.
I just had to get as strong as possible.
I gulped down the elixir, the True Qi Pill.
Consuming True Qi Pill within the body.]
['Strength' stat permanently increases by 15.]
['Agility' stat permanently increases by 15.]
['Stamina' stat permanently increases by 15.]
['Mana' stat permanently increases by 15.]
Oh.
I would have been content if it increased by just one level's worth, but it increased by a whopping three levels' worth.
Compared to the 2nd Floor Stage, the growth on the 3rd Floor Stage had been disappointing, which had annoyed me a bit.
That annoyance quickly evaporated.
It really was an elixir.
I opened my status window.
<Player Status>
Name: Han Yoo-seong
Race: Human
Lv.21
Strength: 137
Agility: 132
Stamina: 135
Mana: 101
Skills: Pain Suppression Lv.6, Composure Lv.6, Concealment Lv.4, Danger Sense Lv.3,
Vision Expansion Lv.3, Focus Enhancement Lv.4, Warrior's Movement Lv.5,
Mana Body Reinforcement Lv.5, Doombringer Lv.2, Mental Barrier Lv.3,
Trajectory Insight Lv.2
They asked about the color of my Sword Qi.
I picked up the Bloodied Dagger, the lightest weapon I had.
Tsutsutsutsuts...!
And I made Sword Qi bloom on the blade.
I held up my terminal and captured the pure white aura on the screen.
Title: It's white.
Author: ㅇㅇ*
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It seems a bit too conspicuous, but is Sword Qi always like that?
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Wow, it's radiant.
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This pure white is truly rare.
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Sword of Light) Oh ho.
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Scum Sword Saint) It's pretty.
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Hyung Gungchang... That guy you called pretty on the new white Sword Qi, when you didn't even react when Water King noona posted selfies until she got blocked, are you crazy?
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That's why he's strong, because he's like that.
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Hyung Gungchang!!! Snap out of it!!!
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Dragon King) Beltui- It's radiant.
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Spear King) It is pretty.
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Ice Queen) Brrr! Pure white! A sense of kinship! Brrr! Frozen! Heh heh.
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Okay*) For today, I'll just train a bit and pack my bags tomorrow morning to enter the 4th Floor Stage.
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Sword of Light) Train, you say?
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Yes*) Is there anything I can do with an aura?
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Heavenly Demon) In Martial Arts World terms, it's Bodyguard Qi. In the terminology of that other world, it's Custos. It's a technique to cover your body with aura for defense. It's like creating an extra life.
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Yeah*) Nice.
Good.
For now, Bodyguard Qi first.
I have to do everything I can to survive.