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Huh!

The boss attacks again towards me, who briefly retreats.

It looks like they don’t plan on giving me time to plan a strategy.

But I can’t just let it happen.

I ran toward him with a dagger in my hand and told Rosellnia the plan.

“Rosé! Block his path with lightning around him!”

“If you do something like that, even Ryuk is in danger!”

“Because it’s okay!”

It felt slightly numb, similar to when I was hit by Rosellnia’s lightning earlier.

Of course, unlike before, which was weak, now we have to block the boss’s movements, so the power will be stronger.

Wow…

I had to endure this much.

Honestly, I thought the first job change quest would be easy.

If it was this difficult, I would have leveled up and challenged myself further.

Even if you regret it now, it’s already too late.

I swung the hand holding the dagger at him.

It’s a short and light dagger, so you can’t attack it unless you get right in front of it.

??

The boss also seemed to slightly tilt his head as if my behavior was strange.

I did this because I had something to check on him.

That’s right. To check if the boss is a counter that thinks like a human.

Now it turns out that this guy has an idea.

If a player acts aggressively in the game, the counters attack without even having time to think.

Those counters who don’t have an idea.

But now, he paused for a moment at my strange behavior and became wary of his surroundings.

“Roselnia! Now! Come out and shoot around this guy!”

“Okay… Lightning Spear!”

A spear of lightning that flies towards the surrounding area rather than the boss. Lightning Spear.

It struck the floor at regular intervals and an electric current began to spread around us.

This makes his bragging speed useless.

Now it was a one-on-one brawl.

To use my highest STR, I put the dagger into my inventory and raised my fist.

Then, the boss also threw his dagger on the floor.

“What.. are you saying you want to have a fist fight with me?”

“…”

The boss was speechless.

Instead, he raised his fists toward his chest and made a boxing stance.

Since I didn’t learn boxing, I don’t know where to dig in and attack.

‘If it’s reality.’

No matter how realistic this place was, it still had elements of a game.

I already had experience playing a fighter among the warrior classes in the game.

Even though I didn’t do it for a long time, I learned basic skills, posture, and how to attack.

so.

It will happen here too.

Just like him, I raised my fist, took a stance, and slowly moved forward.

Let me move forward. The current spread by Rosellnia gradually narrowed.

Before I took my stance, I already sent a signal to Rosellnia with my hand, and she seemed to have noticed.

?!

The boss was embarrassed by the decreasing current and appeared to be rolling his eyes at his surroundings.

Of course, I don’t know if it was really like that because he was wearing a mask on his face, but the circumstances say it was like that.

Hung!

After checking the surroundings, it must have decided that there was no way to escape, and rushed forward towards me.

Sorry, I was looking for this too.

I didn’t tell Rosellnia to block the street for no reason.

The only way for him to get out of this place is to defeat me.

In that case, all he had to do was rush at me in a straight line to take me down.

“Stupid!”

I extended my fist towards the boss.

When the boss saw my fist, I saw him dodge to the right and gather magic power in his hands to attack me.

Now!

“Steel!”

[Use skill ‘steel’.]

[The target’s skill ‘Management of Magic’ has been taken away.]

It was great!

With this, the magic power is drained from his body…

“Kuhek?!”

Uh.. how..

I could clearly see the magic disappearing from his fist. It couldn’t have been possible for him to have this kind of power.

A fist that contains no magical power?

A boss is a boss?

I let my guard down.

I tried to get up, but my body couldn’t move easily.

“Damn..”

The boss that reached me.

The face is not visible through the mask.

I just feel like they are laughing at me.

thud!

*

“Huh!!”

I jumped up from my seat and took a deep breath.

dead. I felt my head explode from the guy’s fist.

“Ugh..”

My body is shaking.

I have already died once due to fire. I know the pain of fire.

That’s why I was careful. I had no idea that a fist containing no magical power would explode my head.

“Ryuk!!”

Rosellnia’s crying voice is heard from afar.

Dammit… I was supposed to not make her cry. It rang again.

I was angry at my own weakness. It can’t go on like this.

There will be many stronger guys in the future, but all I can do is sit here and do nothing.

I gave up getting up and sat down to think.

I definitely could have been more careful.

The reason I lost this time was because I didn’t do the research properly.

I thought back to the boss and battle again.

The method was not wrong. If there’s anything I overlooked, it’s that I underestimated the boss’s power.

Even though I expected it to be strong, this went too far.

‘Slowly… let’s think slowly.’

First, check the skills I have.

The only things that can be used right now are the fireball and the magic power stolen from him.

Since I had already used the fireball to my heart’s content, I turned my attention to using magical power.

[Do you want to use the skill ‘Magic Management’?][Y/N]

‘yes.’

As the skill activates, magical power begins to seep in my body little by little.

It’s hot… no, it’s not hot.

Even though I can feel it boiling over.

I closed my eyes.

I knew the skill of magical power management.

It was a basic wizard-only skill that imprinted the magical energy produced in the body into the body and increased the size and amount of magical energy.

Not being a wizard yet, I was quite lucky to be able to get this.

Is this also an effect of the luck skill?

I decided to think positively.

Wasn’t it a skill you would get after clearing the job change quest anyway?

If you activate it in advance, you will be able to use magical power more easily than when you get the wizard job.

Magic power slowly entered my body.

Starting with the back of the hand, then the arms, feet, and finally the torso.

He succeeded in infusing magical energy into his entire body except his face.

Let’s slowly open our eyes to see what happened.

“Ryuk.”

“….Wow!! Wow, what a surprise!”

Rosellnia’s face and tearful eyes were looking at me before my eyes, and I was startled a beat late.

“Rosé.. I’m sorry about that. I should have done better.”

“No. Ryuk did a good job. That boss was strange. Even when I was a boss, I never had a boss that was that dangerous. I was surprised too.”

Rosellnia was also surprised by something that had never happened before.

As he looked back on his memories, he told me about the abnormal conditions that had occurred in the 30 years since the cataclysm.

“Variation of counter. Increase in quest difficulty. And… in the past 30 years, there have been very few people over level 150?”

At level 150, you were at the level to receive the 4th job change quest.

In the game, level 150 was a basic requirement that had to be achieved.

To defeat the final boss.

Many people are dying due to counter variations and increased difficulty.

It seemed that the number of people risking their lives on adventures had decreased.

Except for the guys who leveled up 30 years ago.

“Good. Let’s go out and finish this story. For now.”

“Yes. I have to kill the boss who killed Ryuk first.”

Rosellnia’s eyes became quite scary.

I think it just glowed yellow… I don’t know.

I stood up and asked Rosellnia to block the guy’s distance just like before.

“Are you really okay with that? I can die again…”

“It’s okay. I have an idea.”

“I understand. Because Ryuk says so.”

I moved back to the boss’s room.

While moving, the staff revived and took the fireball with ‘Steel’ again, raising their level.

When I arrived at the boss’s room entrance, I first tried to activate Steal.

Tiring!

[It failed to be taken away because the skill ‘Management of Magic’ exists.]

It seems that once a passive skill is taken away, that’s it.

Even if you want to take away other skills. Other than this, the guy had no other skills.

‘I can’t help it!’

Let’s rush towards him the same way as before.

From behind, Rosellnia blocked the surroundings with a Lightning Spear and leveled the distance between me and the boss.

Just like before, he also raised his fist towards me.

I can see magical power gathering in my fist.

Regardless of whether I take away the mana operation or not, I will kill him with one shot.

so. Move to avoid it as much as possible.

Since he was faster, his fist struck my head first.

It’s obvious.

I crouched down to the floor, dodged his fist, gathered all the magic power in my legs, jumped up, and attacked the guy’s chin.

-puck!

“?!!”

The guy is unable to come to his senses due to the precise attack and stumbles.

This was an opportunity.

I continued hitting hard without stopping.

Doo doo doo doo doo doo!

The guy must have come to his senses while being hit, and put his hands together to guard.

I want to take a break, but I’m waiting for the moment when his gaze stops looking at me. I couldn’t stop.

[Fatigue 60]

Fatigue rises steeply.

If this continues, I will fall first.

‘Fireball!’

Instead of firing, I hit the fireball floating in the air with my fist and caused damage to the guy.

Hwareuk..

My hands are burning.

sick. I want to stop right now and get treatment.

“Before that! Kill your baby first!!”