Chapter 10 Part1 (2/2)
”No, I understand. Very sincerely.”
The reason Lee s.h.i.+n Woo could decide to fight without much difficulty as soon as he was dropped into the Empire was because he could revive 99 times. If he had arrived with the same skill Jin had, he would've done the same as him.
'In any case, when I compare his ability to mine, it's kind of subtle.'
After listening to him, it seemed as though Jin's ability didn't have a limited number of uses, but it also seemed like Jin's ability would require him to gather a tremendous amount of mana to activate the skill.
In other words, he could futilely die before he gathered the required mana if he was unlucky. That probably contributed to him becoming more of a coward. He suddenly thought that G.o.d was truly ill-tempered.
”What about curse resistance and holy resistance?”
”I have both of them. They're maxed out. It seems like my curse absorption is the evolved form of maxed out curse resistance.”
”As I thought.”
His absorption was the evolved form of maxed curse resistance... Lee s.h.i.+n Woo decided he'd store away that information for now, and nodded his head. Jin felt relieved when he saw Lee s.h.i.+n Woo unperturbed and nodding his head, even after hearing about his revival ability.
”So you received an ability similar to mine, huh. I wondered whether I was the only one like this.”
”Yeah, though my revival conditions are a bit different.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo explained the effects of Invisible Heart to him. Jin could've been really uncomfortable hearing it, but he didn't want to lie to someone he sympathized with. As expected, Jin was jealous of him.
”You have 97 more lives!? I'm so jealous...!”
”But the number of lives is annoying. So my goal right now is to die as little as possible. Acting as though I only have one life, and that I'm not undead.”
”...Yeah, I agree with you.”
From the start, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's att.i.tude was something that Jin also wanted to learn. That att.i.tude, where he didn't succ.u.mb to despair and endured firmly, despite being in a similar situation, and pressing forward!
However, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo seemed burdened by Jin's blazing gaze (though in reality, it was always blazing), and slightly turned his head away and spoke.
”That's not all, right? Isn't there more that you got?”
”Ah, yeah... In the process of becoming a Skeleton Horse, or more precisely, a [Dark Bone Horse], I became level 4. And lastly, I got a skill called [Child of Light].”
”What's that? Does it let you kick at the speed of light or something?”
Amongst the several lines he'd always wanted to say, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo mentioned one of them. Jin then cold-heartedly shook his head and spoke.
”By receiving the Blessing of Light, my agility growth rate increases by three times.”
”...Growth rate is kind of vague, so what does it mean in more detail?”
Even as he thought that Jin should be called the Child of Char[1] instead of the Child of Light, he asked for more details. Without hesitating, Jin elaborated. Without even realizing how amazing his own ability was.
”Whenever I gain agility, for whatever the reason, I gain three agility when others gain 1. That's my karma or whatever.”
”Whatever the reason...!?”
That's bulls.h.i.+t! Three times the agility no matter what? Increases in agility from karma, skills, and drinking the shop's medicine would be three times that of any other person! Though it was a cheat skill he could gain only after becoming a Skeleton Horse.
”It seems like it's an ability that's so good that it surprises even you. Well, my agility did shoot up as I continually ran, when my skills leveled up, or when I received some karma for running really fast. I feel like my agility was around 500 at the beginning, but right now it's close to 800.”
”800!?”
He already surpa.s.sed Lee s.h.i.+n Woo with just his agility! Now he could understand his fearsome growth rate. If he were to exclude the increase in effectiveness of his other stats, he already had agility that rivaled a level 6's!
'Wait a sec.'
At that point, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo suddenly thought. If that's the case, then would his ability activate when he reinforces his bones, too...?
If that's actually true, then his compatibility with Jin would result in an absurd outcome beyond his imagination. Jin could naturally attain a tremendous result, and Lee s.h.i.+n Woo fighting in battle from his back...!
'Did G.o.d not expect this?'
These two unusual individuals' karma met and would create a ridiculous synergistic effect. If it's her, who was the G.o.d of this world, she probably could've predicted this.
If that's the case, then G.o.d had predicted that they'd work together at some point... and there's a possibility that she'd guided them such that they would. She didn't just make them undead simply due to her ill nature, but perhaps she wanted them to accomplish the tasks that 'couldn't be accomplished by normal humans'.
...Though she could've just done it on a whim.
”Do you also have a different ability?”
”Yeah.”
He was in deep thought, so he forgot that Jin was right in front of him. He saw Jin waiting for his response, and extracted a level 2 bone from the leather bag; he raised it, smiled mischievously (that kind of feeling), and replied.
”Yeah, I do have one. From the start, all of my abilities are because of this skill.”
”What kind of ability could it be for it to...?”
”I'll teach you using your own body.”
”What...!?”
”Be careful, since your head might hurt in the beginning.”
For some reason, Jin was shocked and stepped back, but Lee s.h.i.+n Woo wasn't concerned by that and yelled.
”Bone Reinforcement!”
[1] T/N: Char is a character from Mobile Suit Gundam. I don't really understand the reference here, but it's probably a meme of some sort.
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