Chapter 247 (2/2)

*This ring allows you to copy a technique for later use.

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Number of copies: 3

Number of usages: 3

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The plain-looking silver ring didn’t seem particularly special, at least outwardly. Even the aura it emitted was nothing special.

However, anyone would lust over the item for its effect alone.

“Doesn’t matter what technique it is…three times,” Su-hyeun thought.

Not only that, but this item could also be activated without wasting magical energy.

The value of this ring’s effect would wholly depend on how you used it. Depending on which skill you copied, you could use a truly cheat-like skill three times in a row without restrictions.

On the other hand, this item could end up as a mere trinket in the hands of an unskilled awakener. Fortunately, though, this ring found its way to Su-hyeun’s possession.

“Its worth depends on what skill has been stored in it,” he pondered.

Three opportunities.

Su-hyeun decided to think about this topic far more thoroughly than he had done before. Of course, he was definitely not planning to store a skill right now.

There might come a time when he would need to use his current set of skills in a row, and there was the possibility of earning even better skills later down the line.

Su-hyeun put the ring on and stood up from his spot.

Fortunately, he was able to pass the 59th floor’s trial without much of a problem. He also didn’t think he had overexerted himself.

“I’m challenging it right away,” he thought.

The 60th floor.

The sixth difficult hurdle.

Su-hyeun went for it right away.

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Two million points. That was the amount Su-hyeun needed to spend to get the hint for the 60th floor’s trial.

It was indeed an exorbitant amount. However, he had no trouble paying it.

He had an excess of points these days, plus he had also saved up a lot during each of the “10-floor” sections so far.

“Aah, this is a somewhat huge hint, you know…”

The gatekeeper seemed to hesitate for a while after receiving the points.

Su-hyeun didn’t press him on and simply waited patiently. The gatekeeper, or the administrator, wouldn’t eat up the points and pretend nothing had happened, after all.

The only reason for this waste of time was simply to wind him up.

“Tsk. I guess there’s no choice.” Sure enough, the gatekeeper lost interest and opened his mouth pretty easily after Su-hyeun displayed no reaction whatsoever. “Remember that the most dangerous enemy is always near you. This is your hint.”

“That’s surprisingly detailed, I have to say.”

“Well, it’s gotta be worth its asking price, right? I’m not a thug like some other punks, you see.”

A hint this detailed was quite uncommon. Su-hyeun mulled over the gatekeeper’s hint as he walked away.

“The most dangerous enemy, huh?”

The meaning behind the hint wasn’t that hard to figure out.

When it said the “nearest,” it possibly meant that someone he thought of as an ally could actually be not an ally at all.

“I better keep that in mind.”

One mistake and he might get stabbed in the back.

[The 60th floor’s trial is commencing.]

He stepped through the portal in the plaza, and the surrounding scenery began changing along with that message.

The first thing he felt even before his view had changed completely was the stifling heat. Soon enough, though, his eyes caught sight of a tall cliff face, as well as the sky dyed in a crimson hue.

“And where exactly am I?” he thought.

No message came his way either.

He didn’t get flustered by this situation since he had already experienced something similar back on the 50th floor.

Su-hyeun raised his head to look at the cliff face, instead.

When he did…

“Hey, you down there—!”

A loud voice rang out from above.

It came from the top of the cliff that emitted a stifling heat, where he had also been sensing a rather noisy presence for a while.

“Come and help me out, will ya—?!”

Will ya—?! Will ya—?!

Echoes resounded.

The cliff was so tall that Su-hyeun couldn’t even see what’s up there. Therefore, the guy must have had one hell of a pipe if his voice could be heard so loudly from where Su-hyeun stood.

“Can that person see me all the way down here?” he thought.

Su-hyeun narrowed his eyes and concentrated his magical energy on them.

He could see something, but it was so small that he failed to make out what it was exactly. But then, “someone” up there somehow could clearly see him down there.

Whatever the case might have been, the owner of the voice had to be related to the current trial.

Su-hyeun promptly jumped up.

[Leap]

He repeatedly kicked the air. The cliff was so tall that he couldn’t possibly reach the top with a single “Leap.”

Only after using up almost all “Leap” skill available to him did he finally reach the top of the cliff.

And that’s when he saw it.

Rumble, ruuumble—

The top of the cliff was enveloped in blazing flames, and above the flames was a cage that held a man with white hair.

“Oh, you are quite a bit stronger than you look, aren’t you? I figured it would take you a long time to climb up here.”

This man’s eyes were different from a normal human’s and were so crimson that one might as well say they were purely red.

The moment he saw the white-haired guy, Su-hyeun instantly recognized who he was.

“Sun Wukong.”

An existence that is also known as the Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal.