Chapter 202

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“Absorb!”
[You have absorbed the energy of death. Gain 3 hit points].
With his stamina boosted by the absorption, he smiled and began walking again. As he walked, he opened his inventory and muttered to himself as he looked at the mark of Agranecto that occupied a space in his inventory.
“I feel like I’m using a cheat key.”
Agranecto’s Mark was an item with a truly deceptive effect. After all, a demigod rating is a demigod rating. I closed the inventory and opened the character window.
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Age: 25 Occupation: Death Mage
Prestige: 3000
Level: 180
Life: 54000
Mana: 70280
Strength : 300 Dexterity : 40 Constitution : 700 (+300) Intelligence : 1734 (+700) Wisdom : 1330 (+340)
“If we keep hunting here. I’m gonna hit 200 in no time.”
Thinking that if he continued to hunt at this rate, he could hit level 200 in no time, he closed his character window and started walking to get back to hunting.
Squeak… Squeak.
A moment later, a sound from up ahead stopped him in his tracks.
“Wow… That’s big.”
A skeleton of gigantic proportions was rising from the ground. At first, I thought it was a skeleton, but upon closer inspection, I realized it wasn’t.
“Well. Whatever.”
Of course, it didn’t matter if they were skeletons or not. Sansal rose from the ground and pointed his staff at the skeletons staring back at him.
“Death Ball! Death Ball!”
Then, as usual, he began firing death balls at the skeletons.
Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!
A large number of Death Balls appeared around the skeletons and began to explode, but despite being bombarded by Death Balls for quite some time, the skeletons showed no signs of falling.
“I’m not dying. How high is your health?”
Shi Yan frowned. Compared to the monsters he’d killed so far, the skeleton seemed to have a very high level of health. Of course, just because it showed no signs of going down didn’t mean it would stop attacking, so he continued to throw death balls at it, thinking that it would eventually die.
Interlude…
After a while, one of the skeletons that had been holding firm began to fall, and Sansal watched it fall with a smile.
Thump!
[Level Up!]
Soon, the skeleton collapsed, revealing a level-up message, and the rest of the skeletons began to fall.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
[Level Up!]
The last skeleton fell and the level up message appeared once again.
“Oh, the view is so salty.
Sansal looked at the skeleton, surprised to see the message.
“How high level is this guy?
I had no idea how high the skeleton’s level was. What I did know was that it would be higher level than any other monster I’d ever caught.
“If I can just catch this guy… I’ll be up there in no time.
Thinking that it would take him a long time to hunt, but he could level up quickly, he decided to go around and hunt skeletons.
“Oh, and items.
Finishing his thoughts, Sansal quickly walked over to where the skeletons had fallen and began scanning the area for any dropped items.
“Oh?
Scanning his surroundings, Chansal soon spotted a large purple orb about the size of his head and stopped walking.
“What the heck…?
Undead monsters don’t have a good drop rate. Even the items that do drop aren’t very valuable, but every once in a while, they drop something you could call a jackpot. This seemed to be one of those times.
Sigh
Chansal quickly reached for the purple orb.
-You have acquired the Death Crystal, which contains 1000 years of magic.
“…This is awesome.
After checking the item name of the purple orb in the acquisition message, he realized he had hit the jackpot. He quickly opens his inventory, adds the orb, or rather, the spirit stone, and checks the spirit stone’s item information.

The Death Gemstone contains 1,000 years of magic, and you can feel the aura of death just by being near it.
“…I’ll use it later to make a weapon or a pet.”
After confirming the information, Chansal smiled and closed his inventory. He then looked around to see if any items had dropped. Unfortunately, there were no drops except for the Crystal Stones, and with a slightly disappointed look at the skeletons, he opened his skill window to check the cooldown of his Absorb skill.
“Perfect.
The cooldown of the absorption skill was reset at this point, and Ssangsal immediately used the absorption skill on the skull.
Siaak
Black energy emanated from the body of the skeleton closest to him and was absorbed into the staff.
[You have absorbed a powerful death aura. Gain 50 hit points].
“…Huh?”
Upon seeing the message, Sansal couldn’t help but panic.
“…50?”
Sansal quickly opened the character window.
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Age: 25 Occupation: Death Mage
Prestige: 3000
Level: 182
Life: 54000
Mana: 70280
Strength : 300 Dexterity : 40 Constitution : 700 (+300) Intelligence : 1784 (+700) Wisdom : 1330 (+340)
Bonus Stets: 20
You weren’t mistaken. Just as the message said, his health had increased by 50. Chansal closed the character window and stared at the skeleton, still puzzled.
“…”
I couldn’t say anything.
Srarak
After a while, the skeletons began to disappear.
“Wow.”
Staring at the skeletons in disbelief, Ssansal snapped out of it and muttered a short, hollow laugh as the bodies disappeared.
“Holy shit. I’ve got 50 hit points. This is bullshit.”
The 50 health boost doesn’t mean the cooldown is longer. The cooldown of the Absorb skill is the same as it was when it went up by 1 or 2.
“It was a loss to absorb the mobs.”
Recalling how happy he had been whenever he had increased his power through absorption, Shanshan couldn’t help but feel a bitter twinge.
“More reasons to grab this…”
Even if he didn’t, he was only going to kill skeletons to level up. Now that he had more reasons to kill skeletons, he began traveling in search of them again.
Jab!
As he walked toward the skeleton, he was stopped in his tracks by a chilling sensation. Shaking himself, he looked around with a furrowed brow, sensing that someone was watching him.
“Maybe it’s the mood.”
But there was no one around, and Sansal chalked it up to his mood and started moving again.
Jab!
It wasn’t long after he got back on his feet that he was forced to stop walking again.
“Human?
In the distance, four people, presumably human, stopped in their tracks and stared at him.
“How do I…?
This was the demon realm. Humans were not supposed to be here. Just then, the man in front of me opened his mouth and shouted.
“Excuse me, are you… Mr. Chansal?”
“Huh?
At the man’s shout, Sansal couldn’t help but cringe in embarrassment.
“Do you know me?
Somehow, the man knew himself. Shanshan looked at the man and called out in a cautious voice.
“…Who are you?”
“Oh, you’re right.”
The man smiled and nodded at Chansal’s words. Seeing the man’s smile made him feel uneasy for a moment, and he tightened his grip on his staff. He looked at the man warily, and then said, “I’ll tell you what.
“I don’t know you, how do you know me?”
When he heard Sansal’s words, he smiled broadly and opened his mouth to speak.
“It’s called Minghu.”
“Minghu?”
It was a name he had never heard before. Shanshan looked at Ming Hu with a mixture of wonder, wariness, and embarrassment.
“Huh? Don’t you know me?”
In response to Chansal’s counter-question, Myung Hu looked at Chansal with a puzzled expression. Ji-yeon and Min-hyung, who were standing behind Myung-hoo, looked at him, wondering what he was talking about. At their reactions, Shiksal realized that something was wrong and nodded his head.
“No, I don’t know.”
“Uh…?”
Ming Hu looked very puzzled by Shanshan’s answer. He then continued with an expression of disbelief.
“I can’t believe you don’t know… I’ve never seen you in person, but I’ve met you twice in my tower. Do you really not remember?”
“The tower?”
“Yes, the Black Moon Tower.”
“…No way.
Shi Yan frowned at Ming Hu’s words, a memory suddenly coming back to him. When all the mages of the Black Moon Tower were killed, he went to the tower to see what had happened and was killed twice. From what he’d heard, it was Ming Hu who had created the black orb that killed him. Shi Yan looked at Ming Hu and his group standing behind him, who were looking at him as if to say, “Do you remember now?
“…can we win?