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My eyes were fixed on the sagging corpse of the Orc Legion Commander.

The problem was that my body was far from normal. I started to feel like my body was falling apart.

I suddenly lost consciousness.

But then, all of a sudden, it came back up again.

[Level up!]

[Lv.6 → Lv.8]

[The ‘Strength’ stat increases by 11.]

[The ‘Agility’ stat increases by 11.]

[The ‘Stamina’ stat increases by 12.]

[Mana value increases by 8.]

2 levels of increase.

Even when I defeated Queen Anthranthrop, the boss of the first stage, it didn’t happen.

I killed a commander who wasn’t even a boss, but I saw that he went up by 2 levels. If I hadn’t acquired the skill ‘Doombringer’, I would have literally died for sure.

It seemed that the stat increase had not yet reached a plateau.

I never thought to turn on the status window.

Because I felt eyes on me.

The gaze that looks at me like a monster, regardless of whether I’m an orc or human.

Phew──Wooo!

The sound of a horn being blown rang in my ears.

The orcs began to retreat like the tide. I killed two with my remaining javelin and one with my straight sword, and my pursuit was over.

Because the orcs fled on a giant boar hidden in their camp. Was it because their leader, the commander of the legion, had disappeared?

The orcs fled faster than expected.

Why doesn’t the second stage end even after killing the legion commander?

Pandemonium.

This fucking difficulty.

I examined the corpse of the orc commander in front of me.

I had suffered a lot, but it didn’t seem like there was anything I could take away from this guy.

No matter how I look at it, the axe this guy is using is too big for me to handle.

So much so that I don’t like it.

My gaze moved to the commander’s waist.

Oh oh.

I saw something useful. It had a one-handed axe that I could use. I ripped it off and put it in my inventory.

And now that we’ve confirmed that the terminal is invisible to the NPCs, we can’t just kill the Orc Legion Commander and forget about the authentication photo.

I took a picture of the commander’s body and put the terminal away.

I felt a presence.

“Meteorite.”

The person who came to me calling my name was Liselin.

Liselin slowly looked over my body from top to bottom. I seemed to be taking a beating when we were fighting, but after the battle, I looked fine, so I guess she felt strange.

“… Are you hurt anywhere?”

yes.

There was definitely an injury.

It disappeared without a trace.

“First, after killing the commander as Yoo Seong said, the orcs retreat. Let’s go inside the castle.”

“Okay.”

As I entered the castle walls, I felt people’s eyes on me.

No, it was a gaze I had felt ever since I killed the Orc Legion Commander.

I looked at the phrase positioned at the right edge of my vision.

Five days left until the exchange meeting.

There was still plenty of time left, but in a few more days, time would be running out.

It didn’t look like any more orcs or other monsters would appear today.

It should be over within three days at the latest.

Only then did I look at Liselin, who was putting down her weapons.

“By any chance, what is the name of the former commander of the Lucerna mercenary corps?”

“… Suddenly?”

Liselina’s eyes widened.

Yeah, it might feel strange to ask such a question. I thought it was worth asking since I had already done my best.

First of all, I’ve already proven that I’m not a weirdo.

“Yes, the Lucerna Mercenary Corps. I think I’ve heard of it somewhere.”

I decided to gain some weight so I wouldn’t be treated like a weirdo.

“The name of the leader of the mercenary group is Delissa. She’s my mother. They’re a famous mercenary group. It’s all thanks to the honor they built up in the past. They’re currently resting in their hometown.”

One of the members of the Lucerna mercenary group standing nearby heard Liselin’s words and smiled bitterly.

“If we compare it to the previous era, it’s only natural that we would be miserable. It was the time when the great hero Helion was with us.”

The agent with the stylish mustache spoke and then suddenly bowed his head to Liselin.

“Sorry for my slip of the tongue.”

Although she looked older than Liselin, she seemed to respect her position as the leader of the mercenary group.

There was no time to wonder why that statement was a slip of the tongue.

“It’s okay. My father passed away not recently. I was ten years old.”

Helion.

I engraved that name in my head.

To tell the brothers in the gallery.

There’s one thing I forgot to ask.

“Is Ed okay?”

At my words, Liselin sighed faintly and nodded.

“I’m currently receiving treatment. My life was saved thanks to Yoo Sung.”

I scratched the back of my head.

“I thought I pushed a little too hard.”

Lucerna slowly shook her head.

“If I hadn’t pushed you that hard, you might have died. Ed is grateful too.”

Lucerna pointed to a tent on the left.

As I lifted it slightly, I saw the sleeping figure of Ed, the leader of the Lucerna mercenary group.

Looking at the bandages wrapped around his upper body, I couldn’t bring myself to touch it.

I was given a private tent on the ramparts, probably because I was so impressed by the sight of the legion commander being killed.

I lay down in my sleeping bag.

As a result of leveling up, the wounds on my body were completely healed, but the mental fatigue was not recovered as well.

Well, it would be stranger if the feeling that was disorganized suddenly improved as the level went up and showed an upward curve.

I was about to open the gallery, but then I remembered something I needed to check first.

It was a status window.

Name: Han Yoo-seong

Race: Human

Lv.8

Strength: 47

Agility: 45

Stamina: 46

Mana: 26

Skills: Pain Suppression Lv.3 Composure Lv.3 Cover Lv.1 Crisis Detection Lv.2

Expanded field of vision Lv.1 Concentration enhancement Lv.2 Projection movement Lv.3

Magical Body Strengthening Lv.2 Doombringer Lv.1

Considering that he was level 3 right after entering the second floor stage, his growth rate was frightening.

I wonder if it’s because I’m playing on Pandemonium difficulty that I’m growing so fast, but I guess I’ll have to ask the gallery.

I took out my terminal and opened the Transcendent Gallery.

Title: Guys, kill the Orc Commander. But this guy originally appears on the 2nd floor?

Author: ㅇㅇ*

– I almost got completely defeated. I barely managed to kill him. But what’s even more surprising is that the commander isn’t a boss monster. Even if you kill him, the stage doesn’t end. Haha …

As soon as I posted the post, the comments started pouring in like rain.

you ?

you ??

No, no, no

N???? ㅔ?

Why is the orc commander on the second floor? LOL

N Why are you coming out, it’s because it’s PanㅋㅋㅋDemoniumㅋㅋㅋEomㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The world is at a level where you should just die, so how did you manage to survive? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

n Pioneer) Well, Pandemonium is real. I only saw it when I reached the 5th floor of the Legion Commander.

n Sword of Light) There are also cases where hard disks appear on the second floor. I think I wrote it down in the appendix. Hmm, I didn’t look closely.

ah.

I remember seeing it briefly. It was a list of monsters with a high probability of appearing on the second floor. But at the time, I was so out of it that I got hit by the sparring golem mk.2 you sent.

From the 3rd floor onwards, I need to get a list of monsters that appear from the gallery.

n Hard difficulty is also crazy. I’m on normal, and the Orc Commander appears on the 12th floor. I faced him then and got tired of it.

N You met that guy on the second floor? And you killed him? Hahahahahahahaha This climber has no sense of humor.

N I told you he’s a very talented person. For a 21st century Earthling.

(N Archmage) I told you, the person who has a chance of clearing the quest is the one summoned.

Well, this time I almost died for real, so the Archmage’s words didn’t really hit home.

n Sword of Light) Well done.

If it weren’t for the advice from ㄴㅇㅇ*), I would have lost. If I hadn’t gotten the Doombringer, my body would have been torn in half right away.

(Sword of Light) Oh, you acquired the Doombringer skill. As expected, my eye for people hasn’t gotten any rusty.

N You got the Doombringer skill?? And on the second floor? Damn… That’s talent.

ㄴ ㅇㅇ*) Isn’t Doombringer just a skill that you get by connecting when you reach level 3 of the fighter’s movement?

N Yeah~~ No~~ The movement of the fighter itself doesn’t come out well on Easy and Normal difficulties. Only a very small number of the top players acquire the movement of the fighter, but there’s not a single player who got Doombringer by reaching skill level 3~~

n Pioneer) There are many who learn the movements of a fighter even on hard difficulty, but it is rare for someone to acquire Doombringer by reaching level 3.

what.

When you reach level 3 of the ‘Projector’s Movement’ skill, wasn’t it just a linked skill?

N ㅇㅇ*) You too?

n Pioneer) Yeah, I got the fighter’s moves and got them to level 10, but I still didn’t get Doombringer.

(N Archmage) I can’t say for sure what skills you can definitely get from within the tower. Even if each player experiences the same thing, they gain something different.

As my mind began to clear up, it occurred to me that I had the answer to the hottest topic in the Transcendent Gallery right now.

Title: Find out the name of the father of the Liselin mercenary group leader.

Author: ㅇㅇ*

-He’s called Helion? Do you know who he is?

After a brief silence, comments began to pour in.

N haha …

N hey, but he’s not a regular knight lol he’s a hero

N Yeah~~ Even so, it’s just a low birth. Monarch <<<<<<<