Chapter 10 Part3 (1/2)

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[The Low Rank Combat Sprint skill has become Lv8. Agility has increased by 2. Your instantaneous acceleration, as well as dynamic visual acuity increase proportionally to your agility.]

[The Low Rank Horseback Riding skill has become Lv3. Agility has increased by 1. By communicating with what you're riding, you can control it more easily.]

How long had he been holding out on top of Jin's back? At the end of this rigorous albeit short period of time, his extreme training resulted in his Low Rank Horseback Riding skill to rise to level 3; Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's and Jin's senses were very gradually starting to overlap as a result.

”Ugh!?”

”Hoo, I feel like I'll survive now.”

Since their senses had started to overlap, Jin had no choice but to slow down his pace. If he ran at a speed beyond Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's ability, then he would start feeling dizzy as well!

”Wouldn't it be better if you didn't level up your skill!?”

”No, since you've been running around like you've been lugging around a package on your back. You've been running up until now like a freight train and now you've barely 'cla.s.s changed' into a trolley, you know?”

When they began to converse, Jin definitely slowed down for the first time, and it was a speed that Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was likewise able to bear for the first time. To be honest, if he didn't use his Combat Sprint to its very limit, even this speed would've been too fast for him, but in any case, it was important that he was able to endure it.

”It's too slow. I'm bored...”

”For me, it still seems like the surrounding landscape is pa.s.sing by a little too fast...”

By the time he noticed, they were near where Jin started running. In other words, in a few hours, they were able to run a lap around the city! ...No, it might've even been a few laps.

”We haven't found anything yet. Let's take another lap.”

”It can't be helped I guess...”

Jin began to sprint again. For the first time, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo realized that he was riding atop a horse and galloping away, and started to survey his surroundings.

Ever since he had acquired Mana Bone, his mana senses had become more sensitive, and after using these senses to search the area, there was something that stood out immediately. From behind at that.

”Hey, the undead are following behind us!”

”It's only natural that they'd be following us around like that. After all, we've been running around in the same city, and on the same route. Honestly, while we were travelling around the city, I got rid of a few of them.”

Hearing Jin's calm response, it seemed like this wasn't his first or second time doing something like this. Well, all this guy did was run until now, so it made sense that he'd have experience with the undead chasing behind him.

By running around the city, Jin had gathered all of the undead, and managed to gather them all into one group; such control was amazing.

”Hey, have you thought about talking with them?”

”What kind of conversation could I have with monsters like them!?”

This won't do. This guy's head isn't normal! He's been just idiotically running away from them, even though they were also undead; if he just lied to them, he would've been able to pa.s.s by without incident!

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo just shook his head, but he didn't realize that he was in actuality, the one who was strange between the two. After all, not everyone could obtain the Acting skill.

”There's no good way of kiting the mobs... Wait. Kiting the mobs?”

”...I don't really know what that means, but why does it feel slightly ominous?”

Kiting mobs was a term commonly used in RPG settings; when it was too troublesome to hunt down the monsters one by one, a nimble player would aggro all the mobs in the area, gathering them all into one group.

If they worked together with a cla.s.s who could use wide area skills, their effectiveness would increase by an absurd margin, and right now, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had...

”Alright, let's take care of them and then move on.”

”Ugh, as I thought...”

Humans could always turn danger into an opportunity to grow. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo naturally turned around. No, to be exact, when he thought about wanting to turn around, his will was relayed to Jin, and Jin instinctually turned his body around. The effects of the leveled up Horseback Riding skill were definitely showing.

”Guh, this feels really weird.”

”Sorry, but try to bear with it since it'll help in battle from now on.”

As he spoke, he thoroughly surveyed the surrounding area. While he desperately endured so that he wouldn't fall off from Jin's back, Jin had very shrewdly drawn all of the mobs, so they were clumped in one place; the undead chasing after them numbered at least several thousand.

They were mostly skeletons, but he quite frequently saw Ghouls mixed in, as well as animals and monsters which had died and become undead. But since zombies were so slow, they lagged behind in the back.

”So you drew all the undead in this city, huh.”

”It seems like it's the undead's nature. When the mob begins to gather, they cause a commotion, and that commotion causes other undead to gather as well; when they get a hold of themselves, they seem to form a huge group like that.”

Seeing the calmly replying Jin, the stunned Lee s.h.i.+n Woo seemed to blurt out.

”If a newbie hero was unlucky enough to get involved during that process, they would've died right there.”

”T-That's... I didn't think there'd be any other heroes besides me...”

”No, it's fine as long as you don't do it from now on. You won't need to do it from now on either.”

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo raised his hand, extended his index finger, and aimed at the undead that were grouped together in one place while also chasing after them. Then, Jin asked doubtfully.

”I know how powerful your skill is, but will you hit them with it...? You're still at least 1 kilometer away. Should I get closer?”

”No, it's fine. Since I have something I need to prep before I shoot it.”

The first skill Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had to activate wasn't his Catapult skill, but his Acid Poison Spray skill.

Of course, he wasn't talking about spraying his Acid Poison everywhere. He recollected how the Acid Ghoul and the King Slime concentrated their Acid Poison into a single point, and focused his attention on the tip of his index finger. The poison, which converted into mana, began to gather at that single point!

[Guwoooh...]

”They're gradually getting closer.”

”I'm almost done.”

If he hadn't acquired the Mana Bone skill, which was considerably helpful in processing the mana that saturated his bones, it would've taken a considerable amount of effort to complete the task. The skill made the difficulty of controlling his Acid Poison much simpler.

”Good, then.”

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo pushed all of the Acid Poison he could into the tip of his index finger, and next, activated his Flames of Revenge. Poison on the inside, flames on the outside!

With his know-how, just like last time, he focused on his flames, and those flames darkened to their limit; it felt as if there was dark matter in that s.p.a.ce. At the same time, he also saw the presence of the flames disappear, as if the middle of his index finger had been cut off.

[The Low Rank Flames of Revenge skill has become Lv2. Magic has increased by 3. The diffusion force of the flames has increased.]

Was it because he concentrated the skill into one place? It had been a long time since his Flames of Revenge had leveled up. At the same time, the flames blazing atop his index finger intensified. It was at that moment that Lee s.h.i.+n Woo figured out a new way of training his skill.

”I don't have flame resistance, though.”

Jin started to feel a gradually increasing heat from atop his back, and shook as if he were uneasy. Because of the Acid Poison Resistance skill book he had received from Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, he learned Acid Poison Resistance and was able to resist Acid Poison to some degree, but he wasn't resistant to this level of fire!

”It doesn't burn allies, so don't worry. Then... I'm firing it!”