Artifact-Devouring Player Chapter 179

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‘It feels like the total amount of power has changed. Each attack is more destructive and the lines are thicker. It’s like the person has changed.’

Do Kyung-hye’s keen eye had begun to sense that a significant change had occurred in Sang-hyeon.

Of course, I had no idea how enormous the change would be.

However, like when my brother Do Kyung-soo grew up so quickly, he broke the mold by gaining a major realization on his own.

Or, it was predicted that there may have been significant changes in strength, which is a key stat for the test.

Suddenly.

She remembered the phone conversation she had with Do Kyung-soo before the attack with Sang-hyun began.

He had been so absorbed in training that he had lost contact with his younger brother, but then he called me.

[I’m recalling the way Shin Sang-hyun appeared to me during the last large-scale attack.

It was even more amazing than I had expected. There were no gaps in the extremely restrained movements.]

[I also thought about recruiting him to the Sword God-Sword God team. In fact, opinions within the team are quite positive.

But I don’t think he would want to do that. I think the domestic stage is too small for Shin Sang-hyun.]

If Do Kyungsoo had said something like that before he got to know Sanghyun properly, she would have dismissed it as nonsense.

A player that is highly praised by Do Kyung-soo, the older brother that people look up to?

At least it couldn’t exist in our country.

They don’t even recognize the names of sword masters, sword gods, sword masters, or sword tuners.

At least when it comes to judging someone’s skills, Do Kyung-soo is the only person who has a cool head and has ‘only’ praised them!

That person was Sang-Hyeon.

‘Does massacre make sense?’

It was Do Kyung-hye’s biggest question.

This was not a place where the strategy was clearly explained, nor was it a place where anyone could attack.

This is a gate with a special first-time privilege. This means that the level of the monsters and the gate is high.

According to the information obtained, the average level of the monsters in this gate is estimated to be around 275. It is quite high.

At that time.

Normally, for strategy purposes, it is standard to form a group of four players whose levels are close to the average level estimate.

In fact, since the current team consists of only two members, it is true that the number of people is ‘insufficient’.

But the feeling in battle was such that it felt like it would be better if Sang-Hyeon was alone.

Even the process of preparing materials meticulously while being nervous right up until the very end of the attack is embarrassing.

In fact, what was surprising was not only Sang-Hyeon’s one-sided massacre.

[Mad Kobold King’s ‘Killing Roar’ causes a deadly intimidation effect!]

[Player ‘Shin Sang-hyun’s’ title ‘Before the alcohol cools down’ successfully protects you from the overpowering effect!]

One of the most fatal problems with this gate was the roar of the mid-boss monster.

If the pressure effect continues to accumulate, at some point it will change into an effect of despair.

If the pressure is just to the point where you feel scared and intimidated.

Despair refers to a situation where one completely loses the will to fight and does nothing.

It’s like creating a situation where you have to raise both hands and feet on the battlefield where life and death are determined by a single point.

Most players who challenged this gate struggled with the pressure.

Even if you have a resistance artifact, it doesn’t make you completely immune.

So at some point, the pressure builds up and you fall into a state of despair.

The title of Sang-Hyeon protected her perfectly. It had not even the slightest influence.

Maybe that’s why.

Only now, after some time had passed, could she diagnose the reason for the sense of alienation she had felt from the beginning of the gate raid.

‘It feels like I’m playing a game using cheat keys.’

A feeling of unreality.

The feeling of playing a game that was completely out of my league by myself! That was exactly what it was like right now.

The first intermediate boss monster, Mad Kobold King, is a berserker type monster and is quite a vicious monster.

It would take two tank specialists and inspectors to be able to put a stop to the rampage.

Especially without the provocation skill, he was a crazy guy who would cause chaos to the point of being completely uncontrollable.

however.

“I really… … .”

Do Kyung-hye was looking at a situation where she was doubting her own eyes even though she was seeing it clearly with her own two eyes.

That’s the Mad Kobold King.

That is, the mad king of the Kobolds was bowing his head and standing still like a docile lamb in front of Sang-Hyeon.

Just in case, let’s look at the Mad Kobold King’s active information window.

◎ Despair

◎ A state where the character loses his fighting spirit and cannot perform any attack or defense actions. It is permanent due to the title.

I was in a state of absurd despair. Not for a few seconds or minutes, but a permanent state of despair!

It was also a special status effect caused by the title ‘Terror of Massacre – Kobold’ held by Sang-Hyeon.

Sang-Hyeon didn’t even come close to the Cobalt King.

It’s true that the Kobold King has been neutralized, but there are quite a few defensive structures surrounding him.

It was a type of defensive battery that continuously fired shock waves made up of condensed mana.

The battery is structured to activate when approaching within a certain distance, but Sang-Hyeon was outside the detection range.

and.

『Space Crack』

The spatial crack skill was activated at the tip of the nameless sword.

This was the first time I had used it properly in real life.

It is true that it is a destructive skill.

However, the speed of the projectile was slower than expected, so agile monsters were likely to see it and avoid it.

Of course, things are different now.

The Mad Kobold King, in a state of despair, could only stare into the distance with unfocused eyes.

Crackle! Crackle!

The ‘line’ of cracks that left the sword moved forward in a zigzag pattern, as if looking at the ground cracking in a drought.

Where the lines are drawn, the space is distorted and seriously warped to a degree that is clearly visible to the eye.

‘You’re right, oppa. Sang-Hyeon is a mutant. A mutant that can never be contained in one bowl.’

It didn’t really matter to Do Kyung-hye what kind of skill Sang-hyeon was using.

The important thing is that Sang-Hyeon, the ‘inspector’, has the skill to distort space and manipulate it at will.

It may be a prejudice, but.

The ability to manipulate space is clearly something exclusive to the magical world.

There is a reason why they are categorized under the name of ‘계’. This is because each clearly has its own specialized field.

However, Sang-Hyeon had skills that went far beyond the line.

A test that knows how to handle space?

This refers to the class of magicians who are treated as very precious guests in the inspection and magic world.

It also took quite a long time for Do Kyung Soo to acquire magic skills.

The first magic skill I learned was just past level 400.

If you think about it, it was possible thanks to the support of the Sword Ghost-Sword God team and a certain amount of luck… … .

The current Sang-Hyeon was clearly not at a normal pace. He was truly acting wildly.

yet.

Casss …

The Mad Kobold King’s body was shattered into pieces as he was caught in the distorted space created by the space rift.

The scene where each section of the severed body was clearly revealed, as if it had been cut by a sharp knife.

Without even needing to be checked, the Mad Kobold King died on the spot.

The title and skill that Sang-Hyeon possessed were truly powerless without being able to do anything about it.

Kuuuuu… … .

When the Mad Kobold King died screaming, all the defensive batteries also stopped working.

Machines that had lost their target to protect could no longer function.

And the splendid and gorgeous magic stones that fall down like a bluff.

Sang-Hyeon smiled and spoke to Do-Kyung-Hye.

“What kind of guy do you want to take it with?”

* * *

What surprised Do Kyung-hye wasn’t just the spatial crack skill.

The tricky part about this gate was that it fell into quite a few axes, too numerous to count on one hand.

Among them, the issue that most threatened the lives of players was ‘God’s Judgement’.

This issue occurs after defeating the mid-boss monster Mad Kobold King.

As the name suggests, it was a phenomenon in which lightning with tremendous lethal power struck from the sky.

Rather than being the work of a monster, it was a special phenomenon of the gate itself.

Because of this, all players who entered during that time had to keep an eye on the safe zone.

This is because it was not something that could be blocked with defensive skills or shields.

There were many cases where people overlooked the power of lightning and tried to survive based on their high defense, only to be burned to death while standing.

God’s judgment was an element that prevented players from moving around with ease.

In addition, it made it impossible to respond actively even if a fight broke out during movement.

Because you never know when lightning will strike.

However, Do Kyung-hye’s actions with Sang-hyeon were completely different. From the beginning, she didn’t care ‘at all’.

About 5 seconds ago.

If you hear a rumbling sound, which is a precursor to the judgment of God,

Sang-Hyeon immediately used the Perfect Sword skill to make Do-Kyung-Hye absolutely invincible.

Even his own body was perfectly protected by the sword’s song, and he did not suffer even the slightest scratch.

‘There were many times when I didn’t understand what the expression ‘I eat everything by myself’ meant… … .’

The living evidence is right before our eyes.

A person who eats everything by himself.

The first person to make Do Kyung-hye think of herself as a buff shuttle after she started playing!

It was Sang-Hyeon.

* * *

Intermission.

Sang-Hyeon covered Do-Kyung-Hye with his coat when he saw her sleeping soundly in a spot that was well-blocked from the sunlight.

It was a forced march.

This is because during the entire five-hour journey, Do Kyung-hye’s buff never ran out even once.

If we compare it to Sang-Hyeon’s environment, it was like fighting all day without touching the ground even once.

It was practically like overwork that the buffer only gave buffs for five hours.

So I shook off her lie that it was okay and laid her down, and she fell asleep in literally a second.

Since I drank the expensive healing potion I brought before going to bed, my recovery is certain.

‘First of all, defense is 1,024.’

Sang-Hyeon has finished selecting the stats that he has not categorized among the stat rewards he received from the Blood Tower quest.

It was a defense.

The reason was simple.

This is because there was a recipe that would definitely give you a title if your defense stat exceeded 1,000.

There was not even a quantity limit.

[You received this title as a reward for achieving a defense stat of 1,000!]

[Acquire the S-class title, [Iron Wall Fighting Spirit].]

Title, iron will.

A title that allows you to maintain your defense stat increased by 10% at all times.

It was also a recipe that was definitely beneficial as it gave you an additional 10% defense stat for free.

Of course, not many players currently know about the existence of this title.

This is because players who have achieved the conditions and obtained the title are keeping quiet and trying to enjoy the perks alone.

‘The real problem is this.’

Sang-Hyeon looked again at the artifact he had kept in the small bag behind his waist with a worried look.

It was an artifact obtained from eliminating the Predator Trio.

If it were the usual Sang-Hyeon, he would have worn the necessary artifacts and eaten the ones he didn’t…

‘That can’t be happening.’

[Curse of Binding]

Every artifact they had was saddled with a curse that was so unpleasant that you could almost feel it just by looking at its name.