Chapters Chapter 218: Death Calling (1/2)
“…”
“…”
Podolski and Nieu didn’t know how to respond. They just kept quiet.
“Hu-hu… hu-hu-hu… Kang Chul-In better reward me well for this. I have this dungeon that requires some help to clear, so I shall get him to do my bidding!” Dorian revealed his everlasting confidence.
It wasn’t surprising, as even Kang Chul-In acknowledged Dorian’s skills. In fact, everyone in Pangaea knew that he was the best dungeon conqueror in the world.
“What do you plan to do?”
“We shall sneak in.” Dorian replied to Podolski.
“It’s gonna take an eternity to guess the password, plus deceiving the voice-recognition magic is difficult. If we break the wall, then the alarm will probably sound. There’s only one way. Let’s just not touch the wall.”
“…May I beg your pardon, your Majesty?”
“Exactly as I said. If we don’t touch the wall, how would we get caught?”
“I don’t quite understand...” Podolski and Nieu tilted their heads in confusion. Dorian’s plan was far too strange for them to comprehend.
“This.”
Dorian shook a flask with a silver liquid.
“Ghostifying potion.”
“...?”
“This secret drug turns its consumer into a ghost for 30 seconds! With this, is there really a need to open the door? We can just go through the wall!”
“W-Wow!” Podolski was amazed.
“How did you obtain this magical potion...” The same went for Nieu.
Both of them had never even heard of a wonder drug that could turn someone into a ghost.
“Haha your Majesty, that was a nice bluff.”
“Your Majesty… if you wish to lie, please make it less obvious...”
In the end, both Podolski and Nieu stared at Dorian with disbelief. They both thought Dorian was making things up.
“W-What’s up with those stares?” Dorian was fl.u.s.tered.
“Your Majesty, can’t you just say honestly that you don’t have a method to enter the Nekromantik bay?”
“Lying is bad!”
Both of them criticized Dorian.
“Grrr!” Dorian exclaimed.
“I’m serious! Just trust me!”
However, Podolski and Nieu continued to stare at Dorian with disbelief.
It wasn’t their fault.
Dorian’s story was too fantasy-like to believe. It was natural for some skepticism to brew.
“Hey, I’m an Overlord. Do you think I lie about these things?”
Nod nod!
The two of them nodded their heads vigorously.
“Should’ve taken care of my image...” Dorian regretted, but it was too late.
People already recognized him as the clumsy idiot, hence it would not be easy to fix this image.
“F.u.c.k it, watch carefully then! Hmph!” Dorian huffed and immediately gulped down the whole ghostifying potion in the flask. He distributed a flask to Podolski and Nieu each.
“Erm...”
“Hmm...”
The pair hesitated for a moment but decided to follow Dorian suit. They had nothing to lose.
“Hold your horses!” Dorian shouted in excitement.
Gradually, the transformation began.
Ssssss...
The three of them started to lose color in their skins, then eventually turned translucent.
Moreover,
Swoop, swoop!
Crack!
Thump!
All of their clothes, equipment and accessories dropped onto the floor.
They were n.a.k.e.d now.
In their current ghost state, their bodies were not physically present. The items could no longer remain on their bodies hence.
“Kyaa!”
Nieu, a demi-human girl, turned around immediately with a loud scream.
“Oh, right. I forgot to tell you guys that we will become n.a.k.e.d. Sorry Nieu...” Dorian scratched his head awkwardly.
He himself wasn’t totally n.a.k.e.d.
He still wore his boots and a huge leather backpack, making him look like a pervert of some sort.
These epic items were the ‘Almighty Combat Boots’ and the ‘Hole of Avarice’, which were compatible with the Ghostifying Potion’s effect.
“Where are you looking! Turn around right now!” Nieu covered her private parts and hissed loudly at the men.
“S-Sorry...”
“Shut up!”
“...”
“You pervert! Molester! Trash! Kyaa!” Dorian apologized but the poor girl’s heart was already devastated. Dorian would have to expect many scratches on his face afterwards.
“Haha...” Dorian laughed timidly and then,
“Run!” He instantly dissolved into the wall. He had used the ghostifying potion’s effect to escape to the Nekromantik bay!
“D-Damn it!”
Podolski also dissolved into the wall in panic. He didn’t want to be the next victim.
“Dorian, you pervert!” Nieu’s cry reverberated in the sewers.
Nonetheless, it was a success.
They could pass through the wall without even touching it!
***
Kang Chul-In was familiar with the Death Calling’s options.
In the past, Aleister had boasted to Kang Chul-In about the Death Calling while hunting the Blue Dragon.
Its options were as follows:
[Epic] Death Calling
I will kill you, Overlord of Blood and Iron!
-The ruler of the black desert, necromancer Homedie Hamelin, loathed.
Equipment Type 1: Musical Instrument (Flute)
Equipment Type 2: Consumable (single use)
Restriction 1: Necromancer only
Restriction 2: Level 55 and above.
Durability: 1/1
Option 1: Dark Mana +1000
Option 2: Undead Affinity +7 levels
Option 3: Undead Monster Summon Mastery +7 levels
Option 4: Magic Attack +280
Penalty Option: Unable to attack multiple enemies at once (single target)
Unique Activation Option 1: Summon the Rats.
-Upon activation, 100,000 level 70 death rats (immortal) are summoned (Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds)
Unique Activation Option 2: Aura of Death
-Upon activation, select one entity as the target. The summoned death rats attack only the target with the aura (Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds).
* Warning: Death Calling disappears after its consumption.
That was it.
Death Calling was not a top-class magic that brought instant death or summoned meteor showers on the victim. Instead, it was an item that summoned an insane number of death rats to bite a single target to death.
In other words, it was bullying.
One might question what the big deal with those rats was.
However, a death rat was a horrifying undead monster that could never be thought of as a harmless animal.
[Death Rat]
Type: Undead/Demon/Rodent
Level: 70
Health: Infinite
Life Span: 5 minutes 30 seconds
Strength: 500 / Intelligence: 500 / Agility: 1000