Chapter 30 - The Conclusion of the Gathering (1/2)

“Just what am I doing?”

Jang Yool sighed while frowning.

“That’s not it.”

He had ignored it at first, but now he just couldn’t understand. Jang Yool turned to stare at Yang Joo Hyuk, who was leaning on his chair on his break.

“Team leader.”

Jang Yool called Yang Joo Hyuk.

“Hmm.”

Yang Joo Hyuk answered back without moving. He was still leaning while closing his eyes.

“This user, Soo Hyuk. He just keeps reading books.”

It was already 7 days since he changed jobs to ‘Arch Mage’s Descendant’, and six since he chose his first element. But after that, he just kept reading books. Apart from reading, he only bought bread from the local bakery. He wasn’t even attempting any quests.

Jang Yool could understand not doing the inheritance and the stat quests as they were currently too hard for Soo Hyuk. But why wasn’t he even attempting the skill quests?

Does he not want any skills? Jang Yool couldn’t understand Soo Hyuk, who was still reading books. Is he not the ‘Arch Mage’s Descendant’? It was so good that they were monitoring his activity at the Tier 0 level along with other top rankers. If he has this kind of job, why was he still reading?

“Do we need to keep monitoring him at Tier 0?”

Soo Hyuk hadn’t even fired ‘Magic Missile’ once. No matter how powerful his job was, all he was doing was reading.

“I think he’s playing Pangea just to read book, so we don’t need to constantly monitor him.”

All the Tier 0 players were players that could massively affect the game. But reading wasn’t going to do anything, right?

“Can’t we just lower him to Tier 1? There are lots of Tier 0s popping up recently so it’s more tiring to even monitor all of them.”

Soo Hyuk himself wasn’t the only reason as well. The other users on Tier 0 were acting like Tier 0s, with the forums exploding every day with stories of them.

“Mmm……”

Yang Joo Hyuk thought about Jang Yool’s words.

“Well you’re not wrong.”

Jang Yool wasn’t wrong. They had made the job with the expectation that it wouldn’t be discovered for a while. That’s why when Soo Hyuk was made ‘Arch Mage’s Descendant’, they put him in Tier 0 straight away. But unlike their worry, he was just cooped up in the Matab Library, reading books every day.

“But the thing is……”

Just because it wasn’t wrong didn’t mean that it was a good idea. Yang Joo Hyuk wasn’t going to remove Soo Hyuk from Tier 0.

“If you think about it……”

Yang Joo Hyuk slowly said to Jang Yool.

“Soo Hyuk is basically like a nuke right now.”

“……Ohh.”

Jang Yool nodded to his words as if he had just realised something.

“Even if could be never used, are you just going to not care about it?”

The destructive potential of ‘Arch Mage’s Descendant’ was like a nuke right now. Just because he’s reading now didn’t mean that he would read forever.

“You definitely wouldn’t.”

Yang Joo Hyuk was sure that he would erupt someday.

“Maybe if the books were infinite……”

Soo Hyuk was only reading books until now. Maybe if the books were infinite, he would keep reading, as he seemed like that sort of person. But the books at Matab weren’t infinite.

“Ahh……”

Jang Yool sighed deeply.

* * *

Matab Central Spire 7th Floor.

Unlike other towers in Matab, the Central Spire didn’t have a lord. It wasn’t that there wasn’t a spot. The person who founded Matab, Arch Mage Lapis. Lapis was the lord of the Central Spire, but there was no one else after that.

For another to appear, there has to be a unanimous decision between the 10 Spire Lords, but who would gain the approval of all the Spire Lords? It was impossible unless they were an Arch Mage.

And so, the Lord of Matab Spire was left empty after Lapis. But that didn’t mean there couldn’t be a Vice Lord in the Central Spire.

Unlike the Lord, the Vice Lord didn’t need the approval of the Spire Lords, so there was a Vice Lord of the Central Spire. He was Vice Lord Koel.

Vice Lord Koel was currently staring at a crystal ball. The crystal ball was spewing light. This crystal was like a Wisdom Ball, except Kako hadn’t made this. It was made from far more rarer materials and had a different purpose from the Wisdom Balls. Of course, since it was so expensive, there was only one, and it had been passed down from the previous Vice Lord.

It was passed down from the first Vice Lord of Central Spire.

“Finally……”

Koel thought as he stared at the crystal ball.

“A successor has appeared.”

Arch Mage Lapis, also the Lord of Matab Spire, and Matab City. The crystal ball’s purpose was to detect when the successor of Lapis had appeared.

“Although I don’t know where the successor is.”

The crystal ball couldn’t locate the successor, only detect when they appeared.

“I will wait for you……”

When Matab was founded, Lapis was the Lord of the Spire and City itself. And in that era, the Central Spire held absolute authority.

But when Lapis passed away, the Spire’s authority began to decline. Although it was still the biggest and most popular tower, the other Spire Lords held all the authority over the city. But if the Lord of the Spire came back? Then they would turn the situation around.

“May you grow quickly.”

* * *

“Then the new talent will go to the Tower of Poison.”

The long gathering had finally ended.

“YES!!! HAHAHAHAA!!!”

Pavian screamed internally while smiling.

“But……”