Rookie’s Battlefield (1)
[You have beco a body blessed with mana! All magical abilities are amplified!]
[All movents have beco lighter and quieter!]
[You have beco more attuned to blood. The efficiency of all blood-related skills and artifacts increases. When exposed to a large amount of blood during combat, power, and resilience increases! When not exposed to blood, you are weakened.]
[Advanced Martial Arts has beco Lv6!]
[Interdiate Lunatic Trickster has beco Lv8!]
[Interdiate Fla Magic has risen to Lv10 and evolves into Advanced Fla Magic! By using enough magic power, you will be able to ignite a massive fla!]
[Lesser Shadow Step has risen to Lv10 and evolves into Interdiate Shadow Step! All actions beco stealthier and quieter!]
[Interdiate Black Rose … …]
I brushed all the notifications off my face with the hand and turned my attention to Lee Chan-yu, who was still wary of . The hellhounds beside him were growling right at .
“You’re fat.”
“Is this so kind of joke?”
“It’s . Fate.”
I showed him Blood Shadow. The Baptism of Blood and the Lesser Reaper’s cloak were shrinking to fit my body. So why couldn’t he recognize ?
Lee Chan-yu seed like he was thinking hard.
“Boss?”
“Yeah.”
He found it hard to believe . He could have been thinking that I stole the artifacts I was wearing from myself. So I showed him skills that only I possessed. Lee Chan-yu had no choice but to believe even though he was still a bit skeptical.
“You really changed a lot.”
“I evolved into sothing other than a monster for once. No, this is the first ti that it has happened.”
I realized sothing after speaking. Special evolution was a little different from a normal evolution. It seed like I was starting anew based on what I’ve done so far.
I was expecting that I might have beco an advanced level monster, but life doesn’t always give you what you want. Although I have grown in many ways, my strength has decreased considerably.
Am I an advanced monster? Just judging by my abilities, I couldn’t hunt advanced monsters, but by pure physical abilities? I’d be dead in a flash.
I wasn’t even a total monster. As the inhabitants of Hater in the previous districts called it, I am… Sub-racial.
“Long, pointy ears, an annoyingly beautiful face, Boss…. I think you’re an elf.”
“Figures.”
The ugly word elf was preceded by the ugly prefix crimson. Lee Chan-yu was still unconvinced I evolved.
“This is a change, not evolution. Sothing like… rebirth! The ti when the Demon King has beco a warrior!”
“I still prefer just Demon King.” I responded to Lee Chan-yu and looked at my reflection on a clear puddle of blood. For a mont, I was speechless.
It was a face that was similar to humans. Would I still be targeted if I went and gone into human society?
Compared to the scary face of my bugbear days, this one looked so innocent and fragile.
There was another reason I was surprised, though.
“What’s wrong?”
“I’m…”
I rembered when I t L. The ti when my face was too close to her, the ti when I saw my soul in her beautiful eyes. The appearance of a person who looked so similar to when I was human.
The figure in front of , with black hair that reaches the shoulders, and red and gloomy eyes, was . The only difference was that my skin was redder, instead of being darker,
“Boss, were you this handso before?”
“No way. I was below the Korean average.”
“Oh, sa. And now that I’m born a werewolf, I still looked the sa.”
We both laughed.
There was joy inside . I had thoughts of returning to human society if only my long ears and reddish skin were conspicuous. It was unfortunate that I lost the bugbear’s large and sturdy body, but now I’m probably about 190cm tall at best. Clearly closer to human-like.
Moreover, I was slimr than most humans and a pretty handso face. It was worthy of the word beautiful that we usually wish to see.
But then, the joy was soon stamped out sooner than I realized.
It was because I had no intention of returning to human society until I cleared this dungeon.
Moreover, there was no guarantee that I would beco sothing similar looking to humans if I continued to evolve. And even the thought that I could have been anything else, I was just surprised that I beca an elf out of all races.
Crimson Elf, there must be sothing I don’t know about the unusual race na, but it didn’t matter. This wasn’t the stopping point for .
I wasn’t a monster, but I never thought it would limit my evolution. It was still too early for to stop. Ti to go further…
“You’re looking like that again.”
“What do I look like? My face is completely different from when I was a bugbear. Even when I was a bugbear, it was a bit difficult to recognize. But now that my face looks human-like, my expressions are more pronounced.”
“What expression are you making now?” asked Lee Chan-yu, furrowing his brows.
“An expression that says I’m carrying the world alone.”
“Really?” Lee Chan-yu took a deep sigh before speaking again, “If there’s sothing you want, you take it seriously. How much can your mind relax? Whenever you’re happy, be happy—kind of happy. We’re delving in dungeons right now, and we’ll be deeper in the future. But that shouldn’t stop you from being happy.”
“But there’s a lot of dungeons left, and I’m still weak.”
“If you keep pulling yourself down, you won’t get any stronger faster than that.”
I didn’t refute him and just kept my mouth shut.
Does he really know my circumstance? He died and beca a werewolf. He sohow managed to live within human society. But then his ho was destroyed, and he lost his colleagues.
His self-loathing and anger towards the world was worse than my circumstance. It would have been painful to experience it myself, but while I didn’t, he did.
Despite it all, he never lost his sense of humor. Does that an that the burden in his heart beca lighter? He tried his utmost to get stronger.
Yeah, he’s right. Just because life is gloomy doesn’t an I have to. Why did I forget such a simple thing?
“Boss.”
Lee Chan-yu tapped my shoulder. I forgot that I was shorter than him now and looked up.
“Congratulations on your evolution! Let’s clear this dungeon and get stronger!”
“Okay. And thanks.” I replied with a smile.
It felt like tears would co out of my eyes. I was really fortunate to have Lee Chan-yu with .
[Kang Si-Ha (Fate)]
[Crimson Elf Lv90]
[Strength: 609 | Stamina: 718 | Magic: 828 | Luck-???]
[Skill: Ebon Heart, Predation Lv5, Advanced Martial Arts Lv6, Interdiate Lunatic Trickster Lv8, Interdiate Armor Defense Lv8, Advanced Regeneration Lv5, Advanced Fla Magic Lv1, Interdiate Power Attack Lv7, Interdiate Speed Attack Lv7, Advanced Detection Lv7, Advanced Surprise Lv9, Advanced Fairy Tale Lv4, Interdiate Shadow Step Lv1, Beginner Ubiquitous Lv7, Advanced Leadership Lv4, Advanced Immunity Lv4, Beginner CONTINUOUS Lv8, Beginner Madness Noise Lv5, Lesser Stone Skin Lv2, dium Blackmine Lv5, Interdiate Fire Magic Lv1, Lesser Healing Magic Lv2, Lesser Water Magic Lv2, Lesser Ice Magic Lv1]
The change in my status was extre. My strength had decreased by a whopping 140, and my stamina increased a little. On the other hand, my magic increased by more than 300.
Of course, a strength of 600 wasn’t enough to beat the monsters on the 4th floor, and it’s a problem to reinforce the skills with increased magic instead of reduced strength. I had to adapt to this new change for the ti being.
It’s not because Crimson elves are a race that’s weak physically, but because a bugbear’s body was one that focuses on strength. In particular, a bugbear is fast as well as strong.
Actually, when I moved my body, the strength I could exert was less. But I was faster, probably due to this lighter body. And it’s probably thanks to the muscles developed with an emphasis on speed that’s faster than a bugbear’s.
The changes in my skills were incredible. Almost all of them grew little by little. It was the ones needing magic that had a lot of changes.
In particular, I was happy that most of the magic in the beginner level quickly rose up to the next tier. The best part was that Fla Magic had beco at the advanced level.
A question appeared as expected, but the conditions were absurd.
[Quest Assigned!]
[You started to walk a different path than anyone else. Your footprints are still faint, but the results will vary depending on your karma.]
[Predation of Black Palace 4F District 7 monsters 0/50,000]
[Predation of Curd Wight 0/50]
[Clearr the 3rd floor of Jinma’s Tower 0/1]
[Win the second ga in the Garden of Nak 0/1]
The monsters appearing on the 4th floor of the Black Palace are undead. Great!
Of course, so monsters weren’t undead, and there weren’t any undead at the beginning. I didn’t notice at first, but it was a tactic to trick those entering the dungeon. The deeper you are in the dungeon, the stronger the undead becos.
I clenched my jaw while rembering the undead back on the second floor of Jinma’s Tower. It felt very nice. Not because A hates , no. I hate myself. But apart from that, the trial was essential. It was good that I learned how to eat undead before I went down to the fourth floor.
It felt like the Black Palace is associated with A, Rain, and L.
“So…”
After explaining the results of the reconnaissance, Lee Chan-yu was annoyed. He, who doesn’t usually use any weapon, was now wearing a silver claw in one hand. It was a weapon designed to kill the undead, but one had to be at a certain level to put one in their inventory. I would have done the sa if I knew about the challenge at Jinma’s Tower beforehand. But maybe A would have stopped from using it.
“I think I have to regularly return to the entrance to the fourth floor for food. So, it would be nice if you could get food from that store you always go to.”
“I could do that… But I don’t need to.”
“Why?”
“This.”
I picked up bloody fangs and threw them using Throwing, Power Attack, and Blackmine. A bloody fang shot faster than a bullet and pierced the head of a ghoul that appeared at the end of the corridor.
I used Black Rose to latch onto the fang and pulled it, along with the ghoul, to .
It didn’t take long for to retrieve the blood fangs. I looked at the ghoul and realized that it showed no signs of resurrection yet. Lee Chan-yu was disturbed and lifted his silver claw, but I stopped him.
“You don’t have to do that.”
“Are you going to…?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, thank God.”
“What?”
“I didn’t say anything.”
I ate the ghoul on the spot. Since I beca an elf, my mouth beca smaller, so it took a little longer. But it wasn’t that difficult. After changing death energy into life energy, I was given so money and experience. There were more normal monsters on the third floor, but it had less high-leveled ones.
Judging from the ghoul, it seed that the third and fourth floors did not seem to show much difference in difficulty.
[Predation of Black Palace 4F District 7 monsters 1/50,000]
I licked my mouth and looked at the ghoul. There was nothing left of it.
“Delicious.”
Only
“Are you proud of that? Please think of my position as I watched an elf eating a ghoul!”
The exploration of the fourth floor was smooth. My body felt really light, and monsters could no longer grab . I could eat undead to my heart’s content now, so there was no need to worry about food or beco undead. Lee Chan-yu was the one who suffered from not being able to eat them.
And ti passed.
From the ti of entering the fourth floor, the pocket watch’s hour hand went around fifty tis. About 25 days had passed.
[You’ve leveled up!]
I finally reached level 100. It was hard to raise levels from 1 to 99, so I thought this was the limit. But gear level had risen, and there was still a little more left until the next evolution. I felt a little bit of pleasure that it doesn’t stop at just 100.
[You can now enter the Rookie’s Battlefield!]
Destiny just keeps making up ways to hit on the head.
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