Chapter 28 Part7 (1/2)
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”I'll go bring my horse over.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo firmly declared after the three of them somehow cleared the twenty-first training exercise.
How hard could the training exercise had been if even Kratia had her hands on her knees and was out of breath. Meanwhile, Prince prostrated on the floor like Yamcha who'd been hit by a Saibaman's self-destruct attack. It seemed like she didn't even have the energy to keep up appearances.
”If you wait here, then I'll be right back.”
”Huuu... Huh?”
But when Lee s.h.i.+n Woo spoke as though he'd go immediately, Yamcha... No, Prince barely raised her head and responded.
”Wouldn't it... be dangerous to bring your horse?”
”Kratia takes care of all the training exercise objectives, and I can't leave out my horse in battle.”
”...Is it that amazing?”
”Of course.”
He nodded his head, then looked up at the building in front of them, or the twenty-second training facility, and spoke.
”I feel like this will be the last facility. I'd like to finish it together.”
”Really!? That's the last one!?”
”Yeah.”
Kratia had finally caught her breath, raised her head, and spoke. Even as they had been fighting for more than two days, Kratia had been busy calculating the facility's magic formula; it seemed like she was replenis.h.i.+ng her sugar levels, as she ate an appetizing grape.
”That's the last one. If we just clear that one, then... We can figure out everything there is to know about this facility. We can also get what s.h.i.+n Woo wants, too.”
”Hoo, hooo... Anyway, it feels like I'll reach level 7 soon. I'll partic.i.p.ate and be the MVP again.”
”s.h.i.+n Woo, go ahead.”
”Alright.”
”Hey, don't ignore me!”
He didn't focus on the neurotic Prince's adorable lips... and once he saw Kratia waving at him, who was pa.s.sing out grapes, he retraced his steps.
”Hey, you!”
[Master.]
”Huh!?”
But unexpectedly, he didn't need to go back very far. During the ten days that it had taken for Lee s.h.i.+n Woo to clear up to the twenty-first facility, Jin and Rem had reached the tenth training facility. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo saw Jin, who was stretching and was honestly quite surprised.
”Did you get a bit better at controlling mana?”
”I got good at dumping anything I couldn't do onto the golem!”
[I have carried out your order, Master.]
Jin boasted, but if he didn't actually try, then it would've been impossible to get this far. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo suddenly thought that Jin might've gotten more out of this facility than he did.
”Jin, I brought you something to congratulate you.”
”Fire me. I've done enough.”
”Instead, I'll give you a cute bone.”
”Go away. I don't want it!”
”There aren't that many elite bones, so bear with it!”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had prepared 50,000 level 6 bones for Jin! Honestly, there were tens of thousands more where that came from, but since the types were so similar, they wouldn't really help either Lee s.h.i.+n Woo or Jin. Therefore, he decided to save them for now and was thinking of giving them to the Pauls later.
”Absorbing 50,000 is impossible for me. It won't all go in. I'll die.”
”You can do it. Believe in you who believes in yourself!”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo grabbed onto Jin, who paled and attempted to escape, and executed Bone Reinforcement. But Jin, who'd absorbed ten bones and had increased his health by 1 went 'huh?' and tilted his head.
”It's not as bad as I thought it would be.”
”Your mind's just gotten that much stronger.”
”That sounds like a load of c.r.a.p, but... Phew. Go ahead. I'll do it until I can't anymore, so keep going.”
”Alright. Then let's go a bit faster.”
Since Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had used Bone Reinforcement so many times, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he was a master of the craft. He took Jin's condition into consideration and maintained an optimal speed, repeatedly consuming bones and reinforcing Jin!
Jin gritted his teeth at the repeatedly incoming memories and used the memories of his ten day struggle in the training facilities to endure. In a way, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was right. His willpower had improved ever since his struggle within the training facility!
'...Hoo, it makes me feel like I've gone back to my beginner days as an athlete.'
Back then, all he had was anger and tenacity; he recollected that time, and subconsciously smiled. Jin looked at Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, who was controlling the timing of Bone Reinforcement so that he could absorb as many bones as possible, and his smile deepened even further.
Like that, three hours pa.s.sed, and around the time that Jin had absorbed about 30,000 bones, he said that he couldn't absorb any more and gave up. He had tried really hard compared to normal.
”I really can't absorb any more. Save it for next time. My stats have already increased by 700 you know!”
”I'm above 6,200 now. At first, I wondered when I would reach level 7, but now I'm getting close.”
”Really!? Already!? It hasn't even been very long since you got to level 6! Hey, even after being reinforced, my stats are only a bit higher than 4,500...!”
Originally, there had been a gap between them, but that gap had become decidedly wider within these past ten days. What's worse, this was after Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had used Bone Reinforcement on him with such a large quant.i.ty of bones (there were so many that ”large quant.i.ty” didn't seem like the right words)! Lee s.h.i.+n Woo just smiled bitterly.
”The amount of stats you gain from leveling up high rank skills is, apparently, no joke. Especially my skill that controls mana; when it leveled up to high rank, it increased my magic by 200 all at once.”
”200...”
Plus, the four t.i.tles that he'd gained after surpa.s.sing 1,000 in each stat, 'One Loved by Mana (Magic)', 'He Who Dreams of Giants (Strength)', 'He Who Follows the Wind (Agility)', and 'He Who Resembles Stone (Health)' increased his overall stat gain.
Whenever he gained a t.i.tle, his body would strangely be changed again, and now that he'd acquired all four t.i.tles, he felt like he was in a completely different cla.s.s than before. That difference would likely become greater as he raised his level and stats.