episode_0064

Jo A-lin was nervous.

‘shit. As expected, there are loopholes in the Ark system…’

That was the reason for patrolling with the leader.

Villains can invade at any time where the security of the Ark system is breached.

As expected, the villain invaded through the old campus.

Even though it is a dungeonized area.

There is no need for a villain who has obviously ingested chaos to feel fear in the dungeon.

‘Is this a villain who uses electrical system skills?’

Electricity is a combination of water and wind.

So this means that he is a villain who has already completed his second awakening.

‘Even if I can’t do it, I’ll be B-level.’

Because it is not easy to combine those two attributes to create a skill with complex attributes.

“You two, get behind me!”

Fortunately, no one seems to have been hit by an unexpected blow.

‘Is it protected with a shield?’

An Yu-min blocked the electric attack with an ice shield.

Ice properties are also a combination of water and wind.

Judgmentally, it has the same properties as electricity.

So both An Yu-min and Lee Jun-woo were safe.

Jo A-rin shouted to the two people.

“Run away first!”

If the three work together, they might be able to catch the villain.

But the sun was already setting quickly in the dungeon.

Of course, night in the dungeon is monster time.

The villain can properly avoid monsters with that chaos attribute.

It was very dangerous for three people who were not villains to move around at night.

‘You shouldn’t waste time.’

Even if there was a confrontation, the interior would have been better.

The two people who heard Jo A-lin’s words immediately moved.

Of course, An Yu-min was much faster on his feet.

Jo A-rin was surprised by the words she heard at that moment.

“Not that way! It’s night now, so we have to go inside the building. Buildings in relatively good condition are less likely to contain monsters.”

Lee Jun-woo made the right decision again.

An unexpected villain attack.

Although that was also a strong enemy that used complex skills.

Lee Jun-woo was surprisingly calm.

Rather than her.

“Junwoo is right! I’ll take my time, so you two go first… Chiit!!”

I don’t know what to do –

The villain fired an electric spell again.

A small bolt of lightning was created in an instant and struck Jo Ah-rin’s head.

“Don’t act relaxed. Because I know you’re scared. Haha!”

A woman’s voice was heard.

A villain with impressive gray hair and big breasts.

However, since there was no villain that immediately came to mind after seeing that impression, it didn’t seem to be named.

‘I was scared?’

And at those words, Jo Ah-rin was instantly enraged.

“I prepared it specifically for you… no, it’s a spell I prepared for you. Accept it gratefully.”

A blue flame flickered on her magic wand.

‘I have to protect you two. So, use the strongest skill from the beginning.’

A high-temperature flame that is much higher level than red flame spells.

The main skill of the power called Detonation, which made her the strongest in Theia.

Flowers and birds.

A huge bird burning with flames flew very quickly towards the villain.

“What, what is it?”

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak-

Soon the bird exploded.

I think I made a good hit.

“Is it still not enough?”

But it didn’t die.

I must have already taken Chaotic, because even though I took a direct hit from her skill, I was not reduced to ash.

“Wow… Well, there are all these crazy bitches…”

Contrary to appearance, it seemed to be a black priest, not a warlock.

This means that you are skilled in protection spells.

However, he seemed to be afraid of Jo Ah-rin’s spell, which was much stronger than expected.

He was already preparing to run away.

‘I have no intention of letting you go. Some villain is provoking me. We need to show the gap in power…’

When trying to finish off by attacking once more.

Lee Jun-woo’s voice was heard from afar.

“Senior! Do not work too hard! Just because you catch that villain doesn’t mean you can leave the dungeon like this! It’s better to save your strength!”

At his words, Jo A-rin’s head became cold.

At that moment, her bad habits almost came out.

Reacting too sincerely to a provocation.

And now she was more excited than usual.

Actually, I didn’t want to admit my true feelings.

Since I was in front of Lee Jun-woo, I wanted to look even better.

‘Lee Jun-woo understands the situation more calmly than I do.’

As her fire skills are very powerful, they consume a lot of mana.

Using flowers and birds once again here is pretentious and a waste.

That villain definitely isn’t the end of what’s going to happen tonight.

“Jo Ah-rin! What a bitch… we’ll see!”

The villain ran away, leaving behind a line that wasn’t scary at all.

If it were her personality, I would definitely catch her and see it through to the end.

Because Lee Jun-woo called her.

Jo A-rin held the broom tightly like a gentle sheep and flew back towards the two people.

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The three entered the large building.

It looked relatively intact, so I could roughly guess what kind of building it was.

It seemed like it was probably the main building of the old campus.

And I spent some time killing the monsters there.

‘Jo Ah-rin performed better than expected.’

Theia is the strongest.

She rose to the top among the golden generation.

So I thought I would be able to deal with the B-level villain Ashmonk.

It surpassed that level.

‘I played with it a lot.’

Although it can create a large amount of barriers, it was different from bone china in that its main body had low durability.

Ashmonk is a black priest whose body has been trained considerably.

So in the original work, Jo Ah-rin and An Yu-min worked together and were barely able to drive her out.

So, it means that it was stronger than the original.

In particular, her signature skill ‘Hwajo’ was a great help to me.

Even in the original work, you achieved the ‘Enlightenment’ achievement, which was not a common event.

[I encountered a huge talent. I gained new insight.]

[The experience value of the power ‘Burning Fire from Mana Heart’ increases significantly.]

[The level experience of authority-dependent skills increases significantly.]

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Of course, the achievement is not successful simply because the attributes and classes are the same.

‘This is possible because Jo A-rin’s power is special.’

Jo A-rin’s second power explodes.

That power is a rare 4-star power even among awakened people.

The level 4 skill created based on the 4-star power is Flower and Bird.

I personally witnessed Jo Ah-rin truly using that special skill in real life.

‘I gained greater insight than listening to a hundred lectures.’

Above all, train the firepower of the passive skill ‘Fire Burning from Mana Heart’.

It was effective that the activation mechanism of the firepower training was similar to the way Jo A-rin used the spell.

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▶ Passive skills

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* Firepower training (lv.1)

: Mana acceleration for fire spells becomes faster.

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The way this power works is to accelerate mana and amplify the attack power of fire spells.

Jo A-rin also used fire spells in the same way.

I learned a lot from her in many ways.

‘Well, there may be more reasons than that.’

As an unknown person, the full potential I have has not yet been revealed.

If there is anything to be gained from the genius’s fighting methods.

Maybe it meant that my potential was much greater than before.

[The level of the passive skill firepower training has increased. / lv.2 —> lv.3]​

Anyway, there was nothing bad for me.

Even deep inside the main building, there were monsters already established.

Together with my companions, I organized the inside.

‘I used what I learned.’

I deliberately used fire magic instead of using the paladin sword, and I also acquired a new skill.

[The new skill ‘Flame’ has been acquired.]

A very useful rare skill based on the original work.

There is no longer a need to be tied to the class called Paladin.

‘Good.’ If you gain higher fire attribute powers like this…’

Like Jo A-rin, it was possible to grow up as a fire mage.

Of course, the pure firepower is much better there.

An Yu-min, who had cleared out all the monsters around him, came towards me.

“Is your senior okay?”

I nodded to An Yu-min.

Jo A-rin was on my back.

“I… I’m fine. You can drop it off!!”

Jo A-rin shouted as if she was embarrassed.

I didn’t drop her off.

“Because mana recovery is faster if you don’t move at all. It stays the same.”

“…… Yes… I will.”

Jo A-rin obediently followed my instructions.

There were more monsters in the main building than expected.

Among them, monsters with the confusion attribute were dangerous.

Jo A-rin was overexerting herself by saying she would handle it quickly.

‘I’ve been using spells since the moment I entered the old campus.’

No matter how genius she is, she is not a complete hunter.

Of course I was exhausted.

In the current party composition, there is no healer like Ha Ye-eun.

Still, some relaxation space was provided within the main building.

The three people took a seat in the conference room where demonic energy was spread as little as possible.

‘If you’ve come this far, this quest is almost over.’

There is nothing more dangerous.

Surely the A-level villain hiding behind Ashmonk will appear sooner or later.

At that time, the old campus’ Ark system will be operational.

‘We just need to buy time until the ark system operates.’

And the system will allow the three people to enter a special area.

‘Hotel of Mirrors.’

I thought about what was happening in that special area called the Mirror Hotel.

The quest is an event that directly confronts the inner self of the awakened person.

In the original work, An Yu-min faces his own weakness and grows further by overcoming it.

‘This is the inner side of An Yu-min.’

So I deliberately tried to be kinder to her on this mission.

With a mental strength of 90, I should be fine in the Mirror Hotel.

I was confident even if something unexpected happened.

Some time passed like that.

The full moon was visible beyond the conference room window.

It’s soon time for the villain to attack.

I prepared a new skill, Flame, in my right hand.