Chapter 254 – Knight of Death (3)
Translator: Seven
Editor: Ana_Banana
The Messiah Guild emphasized one fact for Cho Sung-woo when he was told to take part in the Saviour Guild’s dungeon attack.
“Never interfere with the Saviour Guild’s actions.”
In truth, this was something that didn’t even need to be emphasized since it was common sense.
After all, nothing good would come from provoking or interfering with the Saviour Guild.
For example, let’s say they fought against the Saviour Guild and won. Would it still be possible for them to clear the A+ rank 7 Floor dungeon without the Saviour Guild?
In this situation, they’d already paid a considerable price in order to take part in this ‘trip’.
Since that was the case, wouldn’t it be more profitable for them if the ship safely reached its destination?
Nevertheless, the reason they gave such simple advice was simple.
“I’m saying this because I know Cho Sung-woo’s personality. Don’t push yourself too much.”
Cho Sung-woo had a very competitive spirit.
It wasn’t just him.
In fact, it was natural for the players who ranked at the top of the world to have very competitive spirits.
Therefore, Cho Sung-woo’s temperament wasn’t unique.
Of course, the reason that Cho Sung-woo had been able to survive for so long and even managed to become a key player in the Messiah Guild was because he was not foolish enough to lose his reason because of his competitive spirit.
Therefore, he was only looking for an opportunity inwardly.
‘If Isaac Ivanov doesn’t turn out to be as amazing as they say, it wouldn’t be too bad to compete a bit.’
An opportunity to measure his skills with Isaac Ivanov.
There were many ways to do this.
He could hunt more monsters that Isaac Ivanov, or monsters stronger than what Isaac Ivanov hunted.
There was no need for the players to actually fight each other.
However, these inner thoughts didn’t last for very long.
The first floor!
On this stage where they had to hunt 100,000 Guardians, Isaac Ivanov showcased a very ridiculous performance.
The thoughts that he had been thinking never came out, but that didn’t mean that they had disappeared either, Cho Sung-woo went up to the second floor with an even stronger fighting spirit burning lightly within him.
[Survive for 10 days to proceed to the next floor.]
Then the attack on the second floor began.
No matter how one looked at it, this was a stage where one had to minimize the number of battles they had and save their power.
Yet, it was on this stage that Isaac Ivanov said.
“Now I can hunt monsters as much as I want.”
That he was going to continuously slaughter for the ten days.
Then Isaac Ivanov immediately made his words a reality.
Rattle!
The Skeleton Soldiers, which had already stacked the effect of Ruler of the Battlefield on the first floor and were equipped with weapons made from the bones of corpses that were covered in blood poison, continued their relentless slaughter under the command of the Lich.
It wasn’t just the Skeleton Soldiers either.
The momentum of the Saviour Guild’s members was also different from the others.
“The warm up on the first floor is over, it’s time to pick up the pace from the second floor.”
“Follow Isaac Ivanov!”
“This is a great opportunity to level up!”
That was because the attack on the first floor, which had taken just three days, had really fired them up.
When faced with such a scene, the other five guilds in the dungeon were completely dumbfounded.
Then they all collectively released a sigh of relief at the fact that they didn’t have to fight against the Saviour Guild.
“Oh my God.”
On the other hand, Cho Sung-woo from the Messiah Guild, which was the Saviour Guild’s competitor, could not accept what he was seeing.
‘This is far beyond what we imagined.’
It was at that moment that the fighting spirit that burned inside was thoroughly trampled upon and shattered.
And this was exactly what Kim Woo-jin had been aiming for.
‘Their gazes are more comfortable now.’
The reason Kim Woo-jin had invited others to attack the dungeon with them wasn’t just because he wanted the participation fees.
The real goal was to showcase the Saviour Guild’s power to the other top class guilds in the world.
This was a natural move.
No matter how much of an opponent the Saviour Guild was for the Messiah Guild, the world would always consider the Messiah Guild to be far superior.
First of all, their scales were different.
Compared to the number of players who were gathered under the banner of the Messiah Guild, as well as the number of sponsoring companies and the size of their sponsorships, the Saviour Guild was only a mid-sized company at best.
Therefore, Kim Woo-jin intended to win the game not by the scale, but by the sharpness of their blade’s edge.
He would show that they had many more blades than the Messiah Guild.
And that the sharpness of any one blade would be equal to the best blades in the Messiah Guild.
So he’d set this stage in order to show those who held the most power in the current era.
‘I need to drive it in a little more.’
Because that was his goal, he needed something more concrete.
‘To place my name beside Lee Se-jun’s.’
So that the name Isaac Ivanov would then be compared to the name that no one dared to be compared to before.
‘I’ll reveal that power here.’
And soon, that time came.
[Your level has increased.]
[You have reached level 200.]
On the fifth day after entering the second floor of the dungeon, a second floor that was absolutely littered by Guardian corpses, Kim Woo-jin finally leveled up for the 199th time.
Death Knight!
And he gained the qualifications to finally summon the Death Knight.
Kim Woo-jin immediately opened his inventory, and his eyes immediately fell upon a golden skill page that stood out from everything else.
Then he received a notification from his halo.
[The Emissary of the Underworld admires your amazing growth.]
[The Emissary of the Underworld has sent you an amazing gift.]
[A new item has been added to your inventory.]
Then Kim Woo-jin’s eyes were drawn to the new item that appeared in his inventory
‘Anubis Descent.’
It was a skill page that shined with an obsidian light.
…
“Huh?’
They were currently engaged in a fierce battle with the Guardians.
It was Lee Jin-ah who first noticed the change in Kim Woo-jin, who was currently wearing the Isaac Ivanov mask.
‘He.’
Kim Woo-jin was the type of person who would not arbitrarily pay attention to other things in the midst of battle.
But now it was this same Kim Woo-jin who was currently looking at something else.
This meant that it was something out of the ordinary.
It wasn’t hard to guess what it could be.
‘He leveled up!’
A level up.
Naturally, he wasn’t so excited for a simple level up.
‘Can he use the Death Knight now?’
The Death Knight!
Kim Woo-jin’s level up meant that he would be able to bring that terrifyingly ridiculous monster into the world.
Gulp!
Lee Jin-ah couldn’t help but gulp upon realising this fact.
‘This monster will get another monster…’
Kim Woo-jin’s skeleton army had already reached a point where it completely defied common sense.
But now he was going to add an even more terrifying monster to that group?
It was like adding more to something that already went beyond one’s imagination.
Lee Jin-ah couldn’t even guess what the outcome of such a thing would be.
‘He moved.’
And in this situation, Kim Woo-jin finally made a move.
As he beckoned, the shadows around him began to climb up his body before taking shape around Kim Woo-jin.
‘Dog?’
The shadows on Kim Woo-jin’s head eventually formed into a dog shaped mask.
Lee Jin-ah tilted his head when he saw this.
‘This is different to the Death Knight that I imagined.’
It was then.
While Lee Jin-ah was shaking his head because he’d pictured the Death Knight to be a giant majestic skeleton riding a horse.
The others on the battlefield took notice of the changes that had occurred to Kim Woo-jin.
[Anubis has descended.]
Then they received a never before seen notification.
“Anubis?”
“As in the Egyptian God Anubis?”
This notification caused a stir and naturally, the eyes of all the players settled onto Kim Woo-jin’s figure.
Under that attention, Kim Woo-jin turned to look at an Ogre Guardian.
It was a creature that was already covered in numerous wounds from the battle.
It wasn’t just wounded either. In fact, it was already fatally wounded. Its injuries were so severe that even the Ogre’s resilience could do nothing to prevent its death.
Furthermore, to have such injuries on Kim Woo-jin’s blood poison filled stage was no better than having a pre-signed death warrant.
Roar!
Nevertheless, the Ogre still continued to squeeze out all of its power to continue fighting.
It burned its will to fight until it died.
[Anubis weighs the Ogre Guardian’s death.]
Then a silver scale appeared above the Ogre Guardian’s head.
[The Ogre Guardian has less than 10% of its health remaining.]
Thud!
Soon afterwards, as soon as the scale became balanced in the middle, the Ogre Guardian collapsed like a puppet that got its strings cut.
This monster that was fighting fiercely just a moment ago had died without a sound.
‘What just happened?’
While everyone was being shocked by this fact, Kim Woo-jin received another notification.
[Anubis guided the Ogre Guardian to death.]
It was the moment when the God of Death, Anubis, had descended.
…
Anubis.
The god from Egyptian mythology who weighed the souls of the dead and judged their sins.
The Anubis Descent skill that Kim Woo-jin gained was a skill that allowed him to welcome this god into his body.
[Your magic power is being consumed quickly.]
[You have 30 percent of your magic power left.]
The requirements for the summoning was a ridiculous amount of magic power.
The power that the user gained in return for their magic power was simple.
It was the ability to kill any being that had less than 10 percent of their health remaining instantly.
‘What a terrifying ability.’
It was truly a tremendous ability.
This was different from simply removing 10 percent of someone’s health.
‘This power is more terrifying than I expected.’
By nature, the most dangerous moment was that moment just before a living creature was about to die.
Most creatures would do anything they could to survive, or at least to not die alone.
Kim Woo-jin knew this fact better than anyone.
That was why the Skeletons who took after him never forgot to ensure all of their enemies were dead after every battle.
Beings who were on the verge of death were usually the most dangerous.
But with the power of Anubis, he would be able to prevent that final attack.
‘I really gained an amazing power.’
That was why Kim Woo-jin was so filled with admiration and surprise.
It wasn’t just that.
As soon as Anubis descended, a notification was sent to all of the players around him, and they soon saw Kim Woo-jin… no they saw Isaac Ivanov use Anubis’ power.
‘Is that really an instant death skill?’
And they quickly realised how ridiculous and terrifying an ability it was.
‘The condition… it seems to only work on monsters that are in a near death state.’
‘It shouldn’t be an unconditional instantaneous death. When he used his skill on the Ogre, it was already almost dead.’
They also knew that there would be necessary conditions in order to use such a power, but this didn’t comfort anyway.
In other words, it meant that anything that was in a near death state would soon die in front of Isaac Ivanov.
‘This means that we can’t allow ourselves to get severely injured in front of Isaac Ivanov.’
‘We can’t fight to the limit against Isaac Ivanov.’
There was nothing more terrifying for the players who would often push themselves to the limit in fights since they knew that they could be saved as long as they didn’t directly die.
In other words, the lethality of Isaac Ivanov’s new skill was something that only the top players could truly feel.
And the fear that this fact created caused the atmosphere in the group to become exceedingly cold.
They once again looked at Isaac Ivanov, who brought fear that went beyond common sense.
[Anubis is leaving you.]
[You have 1440 minutes before you can use the skill again.] (TL: 24hrs)
Then Kim Woo-jin released the Anubis Descent in front of them.
He took off the black dog mask which then returned to the shadows.
Only then did the atmosphere in the surroundings lighten up a little.
[Summoned the Book of the Dead.]
It was in this lighter atmosphere that Kim Woo-jin then summoned the Book of the Dead.
The page that he took out was the only one that remained in the book.
[Summoned a Skeleton Knight.]
A Skeleton Knight appeared.
A Skeleton covered in the Nemean Lion’s skin, with the Aegis Shield in its left hand, and Mjolnir in its right.
‘It’s time to make the Death Knight.’
It was the moment when the real ace that Kim Woo-jin had prepared, the Death Knight, was about to make its appearance.