Chapter 12 : A Mess of a Character to Others (1) (1/2)

Chapter 12 : A Mess of a Character to Others (1)

[You have leveled up.] [You have received a blessing. All debuffs have disappeared, and your stamina and magic power are now full.] [You have reached level 10. Monsters will no longer appear in the Training Dungeon.]

As soon as he leveled up, Hyrkan turned his head as the Skeleton Warrior pulled his long bone out of a Coal Tiger. The end of the bone was sharp and eerie, and the Skeleton Warrior holding onto the bone was even more ghastly. It truly looked like a cold-blooded warrior.

Watching this scene, Hyrkan rubbed his chin.

‘I hit level 10 but…’

5 days had passed since Hyrkan began Warlord, and he had now reached the highest level possible in the Training Dungeon.

It wasn’t a slow pace. It was faster than the average players and about the same speed compared to diligent players. However, compared to diligent, talented players, it was slow. Talented players that spend most of their days on Warlord can hit level 10 in 4 days. Amongst them, those at the level of Rankers can do it in 3 days.

Compared to them, Hyrkan’s level-up speed was too slow.

‘It took longer than I thought.’

Before he had returned to the past, Hyrkan had hit level 10 in 3 days. It was because of this that Hyrkan was able to boldly decide to make his living in Warlord. It wasn’t that he gambled thinking he may have talent.

In any case, it had taken him longer than he expected.

However, Hyrkan wasn’t mad or disappointed, as he smiled in satisfaction.

‘It was worth the time investment, though.’

His gain was big.

The Skeleton Warrior’s Combat AI was indeed high. He had fixed them up with his personal training, and now they could fight better than average players.

There was more.

‘This is a lot better than I thought.’

Skeleton Warriors had one absolute advantage over players.

The penalty upon death!

If they received damage, they could restore themselves using their master’s magic power.

If they were totally destroyed, they had to be re-summoned. In this case, the Skeleton Fragment was put on a 30-minute cooldown time. If a Skeleton Warrior died after fighting for 30 minutes, it could be summoned again immediately.

In other words, Skeleton Warriors could fight with no fear of death.

This was a huge advantage.

Warlord’s biggest risk was death. As a result, all battles were planned around lowering the number of deaths to as low as possible. At times, of course, it was necessary to give up one’s life. It was a game; thus, it wasn’t the hardest thing to risk losing one’s life. But for Skeleton Warriors, this risk of death was pretty much non-existent.

However, there was something else that Hyrkan found most attractive about Skeleton Warriors.

‘The best thing is that I don’t need to worry about them ever betraying me.’

Skeletons could not betray their master.

Hyrkan’s Skeleton Warrior training consisted of beatings and abuses. Even so, his Skeleton Warrior never showed the slightest sign of a counterattack. No matter what the situation, it showed an absolute loyalty towards its master. It would only bare its teeth when its master was threatened.

This was to be expected. It was AI.

But after experiencing it firsthand, Hyrkan found his Skeleton Warrior to be extremely admirable, even to the point he found it noble.

‘If it were me getting beaten up like that, I would have stabbed a knife through my throat a long time ago.’

If Hyrkan were treated the way he was treating his Skeleton Warrior, he wouldn’t have lasted a day before going on a fit of rage.

In any case, Hyrkan found the Skeleton Warrior more than satisfactory. Imagining himself controlling over twenty of such Skeleton Warriors, he was elated.

At the moment, however, Hyrkan didn’t have the time to enjoy daydreaming.

‘The question now is how I’m going to distribute my stat points.’

He was now level 10, meaning he couldn’t continue to sucking honey off the Training Dungeon. He had to head out to the field, full of competition and violence.

Of course, he wasn’t afraid of fighting at all. In truth, Hyrkan was more the type to stab someone in the back, rather than getting stabbed himself. He received a huge stab to the back before returning to the past, but that was because of betrayal. Usually, Hyrkan wasn’t the type to get conned or tricked.

The problem lied in which direction he would now take.

Hyrkan collected a rather large sum of data on necromancers. He even sent email questions to Helgen.

According to the information he gathered, there were two types of necromancers in Warlord.

‘Should I go the standard build?’

The most typical one was the Summon Necromancer. Upon leveling up, 5 stat points were given for distribution. Summon Necromancers put 4 or even all 5 points into magic power.

The reason was simple. Summoning magic required a lot of magic power. It required a sizable amount of magic power to summon, and more to maintain the summons. It was a class one couldn’t do without enough magic power.

This was the most representative necromancer of Warlord.

But recently, there was a new trend thanks to a high-level information released by Helgen.