Chapter 41
Chapter 41
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 41
Chapter Title: The Point Generator
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Type: Active
Option: Casting resets the cooldown of the next spell.
Cooldown: 24 hours
Description: Resets the cooldown of one spell used by the caster.
Type: Passive
Option: Mana recovery +20%
Description: Increases the wearer's mana recovery speed.
"Unbelievable."
To be honest, Lee Sang had roughly guessed the options from the skill names on the equipment.
Just looking at the names made the effects obvious.
So he figured Mana Charge would boost mana recovery speed, and Refill Spell would recharge a skill.
In fact, it wouldn't be wrong to say he checked mainly out of curiosity for Refill Spell's option.
He was wondering exactly how it would refill a spell.
And now he knew.
'So that's how it works.'
With his new gear acquired, Lee Sang thought.
'I've caught 339 so far, so 326 monsters left to hunt?'
The hidden mission for the fourth trial that Hae-jin had told him about.
It was to catch exactly 666 monsters, including the lich.
But on that note, Hae-jin had said:
『Roughly, after doing as I told you, you'll usually have just over 300 left even after getting the weapon and main armor for 1,000 black magic stones. If you're confident, I recommend just heading to zone 9 and filling up to 665.』
If you really wanted to clear the hidden mission, Hae-jin said to catch the final 665 monsters excluding the lich in zone 9.
Lee Sang had asked why, for some reason.
If you're filling them in zone 9 anyway, wouldn't zone 10 be better?
According to Hae-jin, zone 10 had fewer monsters.
Zone 9 had 9,000 monsters, but zone 10 only had 666 including the lich.
At Lee Sang's question, Hae-jin chuckled and answered.
『I'd rather face 9,000. The lich and his elite force of 666 are tougher. I don't recommend trying to fill 665 out of overconfidence and dying, wasting points.』
Better to face 9,000, said Hae-jin.
He even explained why afterward.
So Lee Sang thought.
'Do as the Leader says.'
So far, there was no downside to following Hae-jin's advice based on the info he'd given.
No, what downside? It was always good.
So why defy Hae-jin's instructions?
Lee Sang moved as Hae-jin directed.
'Just up to zone 9.'
Afterward, as Hae-jin urged, Lee Sang decided not to push to zone 10 and stop exactly at zone 9.
Hae-jin had inherited from Joo-hyuk, so he could just ignore and rush to zone 10.
But that was only possible for Hae-jin.
So how was Lee Sang supposed to safely pass zone 8 and reach zone 9?
The method was ridiculously simple.
'Stick to the walls, right?'
Lee Sang had heard from Hae-jin that undead usually follow the summoner's orders, and otherwise instinctively charge at sounds.
So if you moved carefully, minimizing footsteps and hugging the walls, you could slip to the next zone.
Using the method Hae-jin taught, Lee Sang passed zone 8 and entered zone 9.
There, undead troll warriors, mages, and other monsters a step above regular trolls formed legions.
Seeing them, Lee Sang said.
"Alright, shall we fill up 665 here?"
As he spoke, Lee Sang also kept the very last one in mind.
'Fill 665 here, then hammer the lich for points, smash the Life Vessel, and survival is guaranteed.'
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[Point: 1,431,540.]
[Point: 1,431,550.]
[Point: 1,431,560.]
[Point: 1,431,570.]
…….
Points skyrocketing.
Points applied in Hae-jin's fourth Trials' Arena.
The points kept rising due to hits on the lich.
Among the questions Lee Sang had asked, Hae-jin had shared one more fact about surviving by catching only 666.
Namely.
'Attacking the lich gives 1 point, and proper damage gives 10 points each.'
In truth, the lich regenerates eternally unless its origin, the 'Life Vessel', is destroyed.
In other words, if used well.
'A point generator for surviving the fourth Trials' Arena.'
Of course, to rack up 10 points, every hit had to deal fatal damage to the lich.
And Hae-jin's points were rising by 10 each time.
Every slash Hae-jin landed on the lich counted as fatal damage.
Current points exceeded 1.4 million.
Number of undead Hae-jin caught in zone 10: 655.
Converted to points: 6,550.
Roughly calculating current points nearing 1,423,000 meant Hae-jin had shredded the lich's regenerating limbs over 1.4 million times.
Normally, the lich wouldn't flinch mentally, but after 1.4 million limb regens and shreds, even Terry Prisoner's mentality started crumbling.
An immortal lich who couldn't die without its Life Vessel destroyed.
In that state, Terry Prisoner wailed.
The lich, Terry Prisoner, couldn't endure the constant regen-and-shred cycle and begged to be killed instead.
Anyone else hearing this would be stunned.
A lich's mentality shredded, offering its own Life Vessel to be killed—a spectacle unseen anywhere.
"Unbelievable. An undead calling someone else a demon? You're closer to a demon yourself."
But regardless, Hae-jin chuckled and kept ripping Terry Prisoner's limbs.
Terry Prisoner shouted back.
"Psh, I'm more human than any demon."
Hae-jin, retorting against being compared to demons.
On that, Terry Prisoner insisted Hae-jin was worse than any demon from his perspective.
"Why not? If I didn't do this to you, anyone else coming here would die and become your undead. Right?"
Terry Prisoner had no rebuttal.
As Hae-jin said, if humans encroached on his zone, he'd kill and turn capable ones into undead minions.
But what use was that thought now?
He was helpless, limbs shredded upon every regen by Hae-jin.
Regardless, Hae-jin spoke to the speechless Terry Prisoner.
"So I'm protecting people. Of course I'm human. Right?"
Begging for death.
Hae-jin replied indifferently.
"I'm killing you. The problem is you won't die."
Won't die.
Obviously.
Lich was immortal.
Frustrated, Terry Prisoner yelled.
He'd revealed the Life Vessel's spot to let himself be killed.
Yet Hae-jin ignored it, shredding his regenerating limbs nonstop.
Replying to Terry Prisoner who'd spilled the location.
"You don't need to tell me that."
Terry Prisoner wondered what that meant.
Didn't need the Life Vessel location?
Normally, locating the Life Vessel was priority one to beat a lich.
Unfathomable from Terry Prisoner's view.
But to the baffled lich, Hae-jin explained why he didn't need it revealed.
"I already knew where your Life Vessel is."
Terry Prisoner fell silent at Hae-jin's words.
What did that mean?
Hae-jin already knew the Life Vessel's location.
Then why not destroy it and torment him like this?
Terry Prisoner asked Hae-jin.
Hae-jin countered the question.
"Then why were you tormenting all those people and dwarves?"
Why had Terry Prisoner become a lich to kill or enslave countless people and dwarves?
Natural for a lich.
Lich grew stronger with undead legions.
And beyond lich goals, as human Terry Prisoner, he had a purpose.
Revenge, so he did what he had to, claimed Terry Prisoner.
In truth, Hae-jin knew all about Terry Prisoner's circumstances.
So he didn't ask what the revenge was for.
He already knew.
But he had zero intention of helping with it.
Just cheering him on.
"Yeah, get your revenge. If you don't vanish here, that is."
Cheering an impossibility.
At Hae-jin's support for his revenge, Terry Prisoner urgently shouted.
Revenge didn't matter anymore.
Just escape this mentality-shredding hell.
As Terry Prisoner voiced his wish, Hae-jin nodded while slashing the ever-regenerating body.
"Yeah, yeah. I'll make you vanish."
"When the time comes."
Wondering when he'd grant the vanishing.
Hae-jin answered.
"When the others arrive here?"
"They're probably hunting zone 8 by now."
"Then stay my point generator until then."
As a non-player, Terry Prisoner couldn't grasp Hae-jin's words.
To such a Terry Prisoner, Hae-jin called him by name, not lich, for the first time.
"You don't need to know that. Spend a bit more time with me, Terry."
Wondering how Hae-jin knew his true name.
To him, Hae-jin grinned while severing another regenerating limb.
"Because this isn't our first meeting."