Chapter 18 Part5 (1/2)

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Around the time Lee s.h.i.+n Woo decided that there weren't any more enemies left remaining and lowered his Bifurcated Snake Spine, a message appeared before him stating that the battle was over.

[You have defeated a corps under the direct command of the 12 generals! You have acquired 3 permits to G.o.d's secret shop. All stats have increased by 10. Proficiency in all combat related skills has increased. The Intermediate Combat Sense skill has become Lv5, and Agility has increased by 10.]

[You single-handedly manipulated the corps and ultimately destroyed it. Your achievement is unbelievable. You have acquired the t.i.tle, 'Corps Destroyer'. All stats have increased by 20. Whenever you fight against a force of at least 1,000, the effectiveness of all skills increases by 30%.]

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo could only laugh upon seeing that his achievement had increased his stats by a total of 80. If he added in G.o.d's reward, then his stats had increased by 120! [1]

If he told his seniors about this... No, even if he were to tell Kratia, who was up on that wall, she wouldn't believe him.

”Corps Destroyer, huh. That's my kind of t.i.tle.”

”You weren't really the one doing the destroying, though...”

Jin recollected the chaos and destruction Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had caused and shook his head. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo clicked his (nonexistent) tongue and Jin ridiculed him.

”Well, what matters is that we cleaned everything up nicely.”

”That kind of result-oriented thinking is what makes kids with so many dreams feel so wronged. ...Though it was clean.”

Because Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had split the undead force into two and made them fight against each other, all of them had died.

To be honest, that wasn't completely accurate, but during the chaos, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had either taken care of them himself, or had the golems take care of it; ultimately, he was satisfyingly able to ensure mutual destruction!

[Completed task. Standing by.]

[Absorbing mana to restore damaged parts.]

The level 4 Bronze Golems had sacrificed their cores, so they had been completely annihilated, but the level 5 Iron Golems were different; they either killed the level 5 undead or began to fight seriously once the undead were afflicted with status ailments, so they were safe.

Though their armaments were heavily damaged, they would automatically be restored when they replenished their mana. Of course, it would probably take quite a bit of time, but it was much better than them being completely destroyed.

”Good work. Rest and replenish your mana.”

[It's an honor.]

[Captain!]

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo knocked on the Iron Golems and complimented them. At that moment, the final partic.i.p.ants of the battle approached him. They were the Pauls.

[Captain, are you alright!?]

[Paul Zero!]

”Ah, they were here too.”

The Pauls were the only factor that he hadn't taken into account. How would he have known that they'd come back at such a good time!?

Because they had intervened after chaos had reigned over the battlefield for some time, they were able to partic.i.p.ate without any casualties. Honestly, one could call that a miracle.

”Good work all of you. I see new faces joining us.”

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo smiled broadly and faced them. He'd been thinking about how he'd dispose of the relatively useless level 3 bones strewn across the battlefield anyway.

[It's been a long time, Paul Zero. I'm surprised you took these guys as your subordinates, but seeing you do all this, it makes sense somewhat.]

[Captain, you're really amazing!]

”Enough with the flattery. You all, scatter and collect all the loot and bones. I have something I can do for you as well.”

[Perhaps...? It's an honor, Captain!]

[We have bones we gathered from our own hunting, so please look after us!]

”Alright. I'll let you inherit the wills within those bones. Now get a move on.”

Jin's goblin fire swayed, seeing Lee s.h.i.+n Woo use the Pauls whenever he wished, but Lee s.h.i.+n Woo completely ignored him. The Pauls moved enthusiastically, and it wasn't long before they cleaned up the battlefield of all the loot.

[Captain, we're back!]

[Here's the Perium. This is all your karma, so please don't hesitate and take it!]

”Alright. Then I'll take it. Good work all of you...”

[You have acquired 17,291,080 Perium.]

”...”

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo accepted the Perium the Pauls had brought him all at once and couldn't believe his eyes. It wasn't 170,000 or 1.7 million, but 17 million? He'd only received 2 million Perium from cleaning out the entire city!

What's worse, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had separated the loot from the level 5 Elder Knights that Kratia had killed with her Grand Ice Spear, yet this was how high the total was!

”It wasn't calculated wrong, was it...?”

”It doesn't seem like it?”

However, when he thought about it calmly, this seemed only natural. The undead in the city had been level 2, and the undead in the corps were level 3.

No matter how little a level 3 undead drops, they would drop at least 1,000 Perium; 10,000 of those would drop 10 million Perium. And if he added the level 4 and level 5 undead to that, it seemed only natural that he'd acc.u.mulate this much.

”Ha, haha... I think I could buy a level 7 elite bone with this much...”

”I knew you'd say something like that.”

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo suddenly realized how impressive it was that he'd crushed the undead corps. However, the truly impressive part was starting now.

[Captain, we'll leave the weapons over here!]

[We'll divide the bones based on level and place them over here, Captain!]

Most of the undead corps carried weapons. There were several exceptional weapons that were at least level 2. There were a few level 3 weapons that were good enough that Lee s.h.i.+n Woo wanted them.

However, the bones were more exceptional than the weapons! There were too many level 3 bones, so he couldn't count them all, while there were around 400 level 4 bones, and 78 level 5 bones.

'Was there only one level 6 bone; the one from the Corps Commander that I've already absorbed...? At the beginning, I thought there would be dozens of level 6 Corps Commanders, and even some level 7 undead as well, since it's under the direct command of the 12 generals.'

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo looked upon the separately divided heaps of bones and suddenly had that doubt.

Arema Steelworker, who was one of the 12 generals, was level 8, and his subordinate, Guillotine, was level 7. But Metafel's Corps Commander was only level 6, even though Metafel was one of the 12 generals? They were both generals but there's a huge difference in the strength of their forces.

”Even so, is it because they're mercenaries? Or did this corps only consist of the leftover troops... If not that either, then maybe the golems are a special case and are especially powerful.”