Dungeon Hunter - Chapter 34
Chapter 34: Episode 9. Krathra and Krithli (2)
A few message windows popped up suddenly.
The first attacking skill, ‘Lightening God Power’, was successfully added.
‘Good,’ I thought.
I felt something prickling my body. I felt strange, as though a snake was licking me while twitching its body. I took a deep breath.
Then, I invoked the power of Lightening God, which had spread all over my body.
Spark!
As though there were electric static charges discharging, sparks came out from my body, lightening up the surroundings.
‘Not yet.’
If this was all this skill could do, Lightening God Power should not be graded as unique. Even Yoo Eunhye could create sparks that were as big as what I just saw.
I just learned the skill, so I could not expect that I would master it right away. However, I still had few other things to test.
I closed my eyes.
I then thought about Lightening God Power.
I could think of this skill as a snake.
The snake was very sensitive and moved slowly but efficiently.
When I let go of the snake, it put its body against the floor. It then swept the floor and fluttered its tongue.
My body was the place where this snake took its first step. The snake was alerted and busy looking around.
After looking around for a bit, the snake began to move into the paths that it had deemed safe. The snake widened the path as though it were paving a new road, using all parts of its body from the tip of the tail to the very end of its head.
After a while, the snake began to feel hungry and devoured the mana that was circulating in the bloodstream. When it had consumed mana until its belly was about to explode, it slowly laid itself down in a nest under his bellybutton.
And as if it were excreting, the snake scattered my mana around its nest, which it had modified to suit itself well.
My mana originally did not have any types. Just now, the type had changed into lightening.
All I ever did was open the way for the snake to move freely.
However, I was slightly worried.
The mana circulating in the blood was related with the heart of Hell Lord.
Fortunately, this snake-like fellow did not cause any frictions with the heart of Hell Lord.
Rather, it did not come anywhere near my heart. Shivering, it intentionally kept distance from my heart, as though it was aware of the presence of something scary.
Still, it paved the passages clearly. The passages would allow me to use Brain God Power more efficiently in the future.
[We have succeeded in creating the Lightening God Group. You skipped the two stars stage where you feel and communicate with the Lightening God and you reach three stars stage where you can that form a cluster of energy.]
[You can now hold 400 million Watt (4MW) of electrical power in your body.]
I thought about the Lightening God.
Was it not the name of god that governed lightening, but the name of this snake?
I laughed out loud.
It was such a grand name.
I watched the place where the Lightening God fell asleep.
There was a clump of mana that had a type of lightening on the bellybutton.
This clump was the Group.
‘It is equivalent to 4 million Watts of electricity.’
The power seemed to double the number of stars. The sum of the circling lightening mana and energy that was sleeping inside of me was roughly four times as large as the amount of energy that I got in the first place.
It was such a large amount compared to the efforts that I put in, which was merely paving new roads and creating the Group.
‘I am very tired.’
The labor of transforming the types of mana was surely taxing.
It was natural that I would be tired both physically and mentally after the work.
However, I shook my head.
‘I want to check out other items that I got from the auction.’
I had not checked out Paranormal and Anger.
Now that I tried the first item from auction, I made up my mind to check all of the items that I purchased.
I took out Paranormal, which had the form of a ring, from my magic pocket.
Paranormal was a unique grade item and had additional useful options. If the wielder was lucky, he or she would be able to flip tables when losing.
Name – Paranormal (U)
Description: Paranormal is a ring that gives one of five blessings at random. The wielder can choose one from the five: increasing all of the abilities by two for an hour, recovery, increasing mana by five for half, obtaining strong charm, infinite energy.
The three blessings, increasing all abilities by two, recovery in urgent situations, and increasing mana by five were very useful. The other two blessings, strong charm and infinite energy, seemed somewhat useless. However, the odds were still pretty good, which was three out of five.
I immediately put Paranormal on my left index finger.
There was no reason for putting it on the index finger.
I wore it on the index finger hoping that I would get the blessing I wanted from the ring.
I used the left index finger to point directions and send out orders. I had clear goals to achieve, and every time I used my fingers to make moves, Paranormal on my index finger would remind me of the goals that I aspired to achieve.
Even without such psychological reasons, I preferred the ring on my index finger because the size of the ring fit my finger just right.
“Paranormal.” I pronounced the name of the ring out loud.
If one wanted to activate an item, he or she would pronounce the name of the item out loud.
Soon, a message window popped up and I received a blessing.
[You have received one of the five blessings of Paranormal, ‘infinite energy.’]
[You get unlimited amount of energy for a day. With such a large amount of energy, you can be called the Viral King.]
“…” I remained speechless.
The blood in my vessels started to flow towards my lower body and groin.
I did not send the blood to my groin, but the blessing of Paranormal did.
‘Huh, I did not know there was such a title?’
After all, I was a simple man. It would be a lie to say I did not have any sexual desire.
I had a small burst of lust, but it was only a small one, not like something that would drive animals to go look for mating partners.
However, I was only concerned that there was such a title.
‘I will have to deal with the title later.’
Titles were hard to get. Even titles that seemed useless could later help with increasing abilities later. I told myself that I could take a chance later. Then I took out the last item from auction, Anger.
I thought about Anger.
The item was epic graded.
Furthermore, Anger was one of the seven sins.
The weapon looked strange and special.
Anger had a handle that looked as though it were stained with black. The dagger was sharp but did not reflect any lights. Its end was bent like a scimitar, but it sure was not a scimitar, which only had one sharp side. The body of sword was about one meter long, and it was thick. Anger did not look or feel like a longsword or broadsword.
The weapon was indeed a mystery!
Why did Oswen make a weapon like this?
Once again, I opened the Eyes of Mind and read the explanations.
Name – Anger (Epic, Set Item)
Description: The weapon is known as the legendary blacksmith Oswen’s last work. It is said that the blacksmith was so talented that even the gods were fascinated by his works. The motif of this weapon was the seven sins. However, Oswen put so much of his thoughts and ideologies into this weapon that he went mad after creating Anger.
“Be angry, pure evil!”
Option: Anger allows the wielder to use an epic graded skill, ‘Anger’, once every seven days. In addition, the weapon increases the wielder’s strength by seven.
Anger looked strange and powerful. Moreover, it allowed me to use an additional skill.
It was very rare to find a weapon that offered two different options. I was amazed at the fact that Anger was also one of the collections.
I stared at the ‘Anger’ skill.
Then came an explanation of ‘Anger’ in my mind.
Skill:
Anger (Epic) – The skill increases the strength, agility, and health power of the user by a large amount, which cannot be achieved by the intrinsic mana of the user. The skill also transforms the user into a berserker. Unfortunately, the intelligence of user drops. Any abilities that increased or decreased will return to their original values over the course of one week. However, if the intelligence is too low, then the user of the skill can be caught by the urge of destruction.
In a word, the skill would dramatically increase the physical abilities of the user.
However, I was little concerned about the decrease of intelligence by using this skill.
Even if I could recover the original intelligence over a week, I could not tell what would happen.
Above all, my intelligence had dropped by 10 already due to the penalty at the auction house.
‘I do not have to use this skill. It will only activate if I use it.’
I did not care too much.
Just because my intelligence would drop did not mean that my mentality would drop as well.
I was in control of everything, and intelligence was merely a supporting role.
Even if I got caught by the desire of destruction, I could cope with it if I had a strong will.
Moreover, there was no such thing as permanent ill conditions. I may not be able to recover to the original conditions right away after using this skill, but this was my dungeon after all, and I had a complete command of it.
No one could dare threaten my life in my realm at any moment.
“Anger.”
I calmed myself down and pronounced the name out loud.
Something happened immediately.
[You receive additional mana, and your strength, agility, and health power will increase by eight.]
[Your intelligence drops 20.]
[You are caught in the state of ‘Anger.’ Your defense dropped to 15%. You fail to defend because of your low intelligence.]
I lost my memories.
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I opened my eyes.
Suddenly, I felt a terrible headache. It seemed like my eyes would fall off.
I bit down so hard that I felt that my jaw would shatter.
Furthermore, I had sore throat. I must have screamed quite loudly.
“Well.”
I could not help but moan.
The top floor where I stayed seemed devastated.
Lyhee was looking at me, trembling with fear.
“It has been a while, hasn’t it?”
“L, Lyhee is sorry, Dungeon Master. From now on, I won’t sleep much, I won’t talk much, I won’t bother Dungeon Master. Please, forgive me. Please do not hurt me.”
Lyhee bowed and shed tears.
My face became stiff.
‘Damn it. The side effect of skill was beyond my imagination. I never thought I would become completely unconscious…’
I could not move my body as I wanted, and it was very unpleasant.
I had no desire for destruction, but my mouth felt bitter.
I could not imagine what happened to Lyhee, who used to be such a bright and cheerful fairy. Now she was terrified.
“Lyhee, I am not going to hurt you.”
Lyhee looked up.
“Really…? Are you sure you won’t hurt me?”
“I was testing my skills and I got a little bit out of shape. I did not mean to destroy the surrounding landscapes like this.”
Fortunately, I did not destroy the Dungeon Core.
My instinct must have restrained the urge for destruction.
‘I suppose the skill cannot go against my instincts. If I really want to protect something, I will not destroy it even when I am under a spell.’
I sighed heavily and took out the Flower of Eternity from my magic pocket.
“Take it. It is nothing much. It is a flower that I bought from the auction house few days ago. The flower can live without water, so please do take good care of it and keep it beautiful.”
“Hing…”
Lyhee flew cautiously to me and took the Flower of Eternity. She was still sniffing.
Although she was young, Lyhee was a fairy of the Dungeon Core. She could exert this much of force as such a being.
After checking out Lyhee, I asked, “Do you know how many days have passed since I fell into this situation?”
“It has been seven days. Lyhee was very scared and hid under the Dungeon Core. If Dungeon Master hurt Lyhee, Lyhee would have been really sad.”
“I will make sure this does not happen again. ”
“Yes, Master,” Lyhee answered, wiping her nose and tears.
I clicked my tongue.
I underestimated the skill, Anger.
I thought that nothing serious would happen, even if I fell into an abnormal condition.
‘I should be more careful in the future.’
I did expect that I would completely become unconscious.
From now on, I needed to make my moves more carefully.
Everything had been running smoothly, and I was in a rush, to be honest.
If I learned from today’s mistake, then I would never repeat the same one in the future.
‘I am concerned about the low intelligence.’
I thought that despite a supporting role, my intelligence was perhaps too low.
Touching my forehead, I opened the status window in front of me.
Name: Randalph Bruciel
Job: Duke of Magic (Dungeon Master)
Title:
*Some of the titles that Randalph Bruciel hold are: Unrelenting Warrior (Ex U, increases all abilities by two) and The First One to receive the Blessings of Fairy (U, increases mana by six).
Statistics:
Strength 79 (+9) Intelligence 64 (+2)
Agility 74 (+2) Health point 80 (+2) Mana 82 (+8)
Potential (379+23/500)
Electrical power: 4MW
Comments: The character transplanted the Heart of Hell Lord.
Skill: Skill combination (R), Eyes of Mind (Ex U), Lightening God Power(U), Anger (Epic)
After a week, all of my abilities were restored to their original values.
The abilities which decreased due to penalties were also restored to their original values. The option of Anger increased my strength by seven and created a new skill.
There was no problem with the status window itself.
‘If it is not an emergency, I should not use the skill of Anger.’
The real problem was when I invoked the skill of Anger.
My strength, health point, and agility increased, but my intelligence dropped.
No one used any abnormal condition skills on me, but I activated the condition myself. As a result, I could not see through and figure out what was going on, even with the help of Eyes of Mind.
Because of the skill, I turned into a mad warrior and destroyed whatever that was in my reach.
Of course, the skill of Anger was fascinating enough to use even at the cost of such a penalty.
It was very rare that one could increase their abilities by using skills.
Furthermore, the skill of Anger increased all the physical abilities by eight. The item itself also increased the strength by seven.
If I only count increased strength, it totaled up to 15.
With the increased strength of 15, I could become as powerful as a twin-head Ogre.
My intelligence would still be low; I should avoid using the skill of Anger unless I was in a special circumstance.
“Oh, and Dungeon Master, I have another thing to inform you. Dark Elf Krathra has wanted to see the Dungeon Mater since a few days ago. If I had brought him to you a few days ago, I thought that you might have killed him, so I told him not to come. He has been still wanting to see you, though. What should I do?”
Holding the Flower of Eternity, Lyhee spoke as though it just popped up in her head.
I nodded my head. “Go and bring him. I am okay now.”
“As you wish. By the way, Dungeon Master, you look very tired. Lyhee did a little beekeeping. You can get delicious honey. Drinking honey water will relieve your fatigue.”
I snickered.
Terrified until just a minute ago, Lyhee’s mood changed very quickly.
She must have been glad that I regained my consciousness.
It sure was hard to hate or dislike the fairy of Dungeon Core.
I regretted ignoring fairies in my previous life. I was too self-righteous.
“Bring me the honey water.”
“Yes! Dungeon Master, wait a minute. I will mix it well. You can talk with Krathra afterwards.”
“Sure.”
Lyhee, who got very excited, soon left to collect honey make honey water for me.
She was holding the Flower of Eternity hard.
Looking at Lyhee leaving, I thought of Krathra.
‘Krathra must have been in hurry while I was out of my mind.’
I was expecting Krathra to visit soon.
I did not mean to, but I ended up not seeing him for a week. It was no surprise that he must have been in hurry.
‘What are you going to offer in exchange for Elixir?’
I got interested in what Krathra would offer.
No matter how promising Krathra and Krithli were, nothing was free in this world.