Chapter 20 Part4 (1/2)
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[Intermediate Acid Resistance has become Lv8. Magic has increased by 5. You no longer fear acid.]
[Intermediate Acid has become Lv8. Magic has increased by 5. You are now confident that you can melt all metal and bone.]
[The Intermediate Bursting Thunder skill has become Lv6. Strength and Magic have increased by 5. You should be able to cleave through lightning that descends from the sky.]
[The Intermediate Mana Bone skill has become Lv6. Magic has increased by 20.]
[The Rule of Bone skill has become Lv7. You have become more adept at reinforcing and handling bone with just your will.]
A month and a half had pa.s.sed since he'd come to the forest of the Dryads, training his Acid Resistance, Regeneration, Bursting Thunder, defense zone, a.s.similation, Mana Bone, Rule of Bone, and Bone Armory; though he'd originally come to just train his Acid Resistance. Then, Kratia finally contacted him.
”So... it only happens the first time?”
[Yeah. You get that t.i.tle for the first stat that reaches 1,000.]
Kratia's voice was so cold, even through the chatting channel, that Lee s.h.i.+n Woo could imagine her expression. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo really liked her calm and restrained voice. Especially because he knew what would cause that cool-headedness to break.
[It's kind of like how level 5 determines what path you're going to take. You become specialized in one stat, and in order to become more familiar with it, the stat develops even further. Of course, my stat's magic since I'm a magician, but I heard that others specialize in a different stat.]
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo wasn't a magician, so he ended up becoming a bit uneasy.
”So it only happens the first time, huh... It makes me feel a bit uneasy.”
[If you just consider your combat abilities, you might think that your other stats should've grown first, but when you think about it, all of those abilities are connected to magic, so I think the outcome was inevitable.]
”Tch, that's true.”
[Your bones are magic anyway, so it turned out well.]
She was right. Around that time, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo decided to accept it. Then, Kratia changed the topic. Her voice became slightly sharp.
[So did you find anything good in the place you kept a secret from me?]
”Haha, what are you talking about? There are no secrets between us.”
[...You seem to have gotten a lot out of it.]
He felt like Kratia was trembling, and laughed merrily as he imagined that, but Jin pressed him all of a sudden.
”Left!”
”I know, it's fine. I see everything.”
[Ggiaaaaaaaaahk!]
Obviously, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was in the midst of battle. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo hadn't stopped fighting even once in the last 45 days.
Even though it was possible for him, as he was a skeleton, the mental strain was indescribable; nevertheless, he endured. Though, it was one of the main factors that accelerated his growth. Of course it was the same for Jin as well.
[But it's fine. Since I found something interesting as well.]
He was still talking with Kratia. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo perversely thought that chatting with someone whilst fighting would help train his concentration, and listened carefully to what she had to say.
”Oh? And what's that?”
[It's a secret... is what I'd like to say, but I'll tell you. Since I'm different from you. I'm an adult.]
”Yeah, yeah. You're so mature.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo swung his axe, and shattered the clumped up branches that spun like a drill. Beyond that, the airborne axes flew to the tree's main body and toppled it.
Aside from that, the other Acid Great Trees in various areas were being ambushed by the other axes within the air. He'd summoned one or two axes initially in order to train his defense zone, and at some point, that number had increased to 4. In other words, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was completely naked... or a nude skeleton. [1]
[I've found traces of one of the 12 generals too.]
”Really? If it's this easy to figure out, then our other seniors must know about it already.”
[Probably.]
They hadn't yet realized that they were the greatest of the heroes that had come to this Underground Empire.
[I killed some undead who were formerly royal magicians, and luckily managed to combine their mana into a single magical formula. One of the artifacts that they had responded to that, and released information.]
Of course, the information contained within wasn't very important. If the Empire still existed, then it would've been considered a third cla.s.s secret; it was report data on the plan to expand the training facility for magicians who defended the capital. The problem was the one who prepared that data.
[Head of the royal magicians, Feotane. He mentioned himself that he was one of the 12 generals, so he's definitely one of them.]
”Head of the royal magicians...”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo nodded his head naturally. Not all of the 12 generals would swing a sword or spear on the frontlines and command their troops on the battlefield. It was a fantasy world, so it made sense that a magician was a general.
”You just figured out the name? Nothing else?”
[I learned a bit about their communication system and codes. All that's left is to inspect the training facility recorded in this report. I'm going to go over there right now.]
”Alright. Don't die.”
[It's connected to a magician, so I might ask for your help soon.]
”I'm not a magician...”
[Hoo... Relax. You may not consider yourself a magician, but someone else does.]
”I feel like I've heard something like that before.”
By the time Lee s.h.i.+n Woo finished his conversation with Kratia and raised his head, the area was completely cleared of trees. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo sighed after retrieving the Melting Bone Double Axes that were violently spinning in the air.
”Their juniors are trying so hard, so would it kill our seniors to at least kill one of the 12 generals?”
”You're probably hoping that they sell that bone to the secret shop.”
”Exactly. The effect of a level 7 bone is tremendous, so what would a level 8 bone be like?”
”I don't think any of the 12 generals are going down until we hit level 8...”
Honestly, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo thought the same. Their seniors may be heroes, but they were also humans with only one life, so there was probably no helping it... He sighed again and spoke.
”Let's just do what we can.”