Chapter 81 – 81. Guys Who Are Difficult to Become Friends With

“Hmm…”

I felt like I was muttering to myself, so I put the gag on my mouth again and pondered between three options.

In some ways, number 3 seems the most acceptable, but if you dig into numbers 1 and 2, they are also quite good.

‘Number 1… ‘

Number 1 is a skill that turns the target with the skill into an intelligent being. It is safe to say that there are no handicaps or penalties since they are actually the price of gaining intelligence.

‘If you use this to repeatedly give intelligence to those spawning in the labyrinth, kill them, and take away their skills… ‘

Wouldn’t it be possible to infinitely use spiritual and physical transactions that can trade intelligence? Moreover, it is easy to secure souls for summoning the dead.

First of all, you need a soul to summon the dead. However, this soul can only be collected if you have the soul collection skill that can be obtained by catching a necromancer.

Furthermore, the soul collection skill can only collect the souls of intelligent beings, so it is impossible to collect ordinary souls. Of course, you can erase it with a golden seal… But since you can only seal three, it’s difficult to use.

Anyway, let’s say you have to catch the necromancer one more time to collect souls, and it is important to have a steady supply of intelligent souls, and the High Holy Spirit skill may be a good solution to that.

There is no need to search for humans or highly intelligent creatures. If you just give skills to the monsters you catch on the spot and slaughter them right away, you can get them like cutting out the soul of an intelligent being.

‘The problem is that you can’t give skills to the animals… ‘

[Skill Stealing (SS)]

[Effect: You can kill an awakened person and take away one of the awakened person’s skills. You can transfer stolen skills. If you transfer the skill, you can absorb a small amount of the opponent’s hair.]

[Handicap: Skills can be transferred to awakened people.]

[Penalty: Each time a skill is taken away, 30 strands of hair fall out. If there are no more hairs to fall out, you can no longer use Skill Steal.]

Due to the handicap of skill theft, skills cannot be given to non-awakened targets. However, a contradiction arises here.

‘You could have given it to the dark spirits…’

I’m not sure whether dark spirits fall into the comprehensive category of awakened people or not, but my blood demons and skeleton dark spirits took the skills well.

‘Even if we assume that the dark spirits are within the scope of the effect since they are summoned with my skill… There is a high possibility that this will not be the case with fresh beasts freshly caught from the labyrinth.’

I’ll have to experiment to find out, but I probably won’t be able to give the skill to regular monsters other than dark spirits. Of course, there is a solution to this too. All you have to do is seal it with the golden rule seal mentioned above.

By using this opportunity, which only happens once, you can give the skills you stole through skill theft to anyone. This is a pretty reasonable usage. If the handicap is erased with this, even ordinary people who are not awakened will be able to transfer their skills and become awakened.

‘I don’t know when I will be able to get another skill enhancement ticket, and even if I do get it, I don’t know whether the skill robbery will be able to enhance it one more time, or whether the handicap will disappear if I strengthen it…’

Therefore, it might be much better to just seal away the handicap of skill theft and make infinite copies of intelligent souls.

‘You can even turn the baby of the black snake that will be born today into an intelligent being and make it your companion…’

There is no need to slaughter it and use it as a skill to copy intelligent souls. It is quite useful simply because you can turn a strong beast into a companion you can communicate with. Of course, it is much better to have a communicative and active colleague than a dull and stupid colleague.

Anyway, you can use skill 1 like this. Next skill number 2…

‘If you remove this handicap with the Golden Seal skill…’

You can go beyond the limit of only getting two skills and get brain-eating skills. The good thing about this is that I don’t have to eat it.

‘You can get a semi-skill theft if you just hand over the skill to the dark spirit and make it eat your brain…’

The good thing about this is that I can feed the skills I couldn’t get to my summons.

Since skill stealing can only obtain one skill from a killed target, you must simply discard any skills you did not obtain at that time.

However, if my pet has Predatory Predation, it allows me to steal one more skill by feeding it brains. Predatory predators do not necessarily have to eat only those they kill with their own hands. Anyway, if you can just take out a dead guy’s brain and eat it, the skill will activate.

‘The best advantage is that there is no need to throw away skills..’

Summons are strengthened for free.

“Hmm…”

Looking at it this way, skill number 3 is the worst. Honestly, it’s not much different from my bioelectricity. One useful thing is that it is possible to make current flow in projectiles, even if only slightly.

I slightly spit out the gag and asked the Blood Demon resting on the stairs.

“Hey, blood demon.”

“…”

“Do you want to eat my brain?”

“…?”

The Blood Demon looked at me strangely, as if asking me what kind of bullshit it was.

It makes me feel bad to see all of that bastard’s facial expressions on a pitch-black subject. Moreover, seeing a man as big as me with Western looks looking at me with that expression made me even more grumpy.

Yes, that guy is my pet anyway, so even if I get grumpy, there’s nothing I can do about it.

“Is it possible for a dark spirit to change gender? Aren’t you curious?”

“…?”

Actually, I wanted to test this a while ago, but since gender change cannot be changed without mutual consent, I needed to get the blood demon’s consent. Since he’s already being grumpy, I guess I’ll have to make this guy’s gender female.

“Hey, blood demon. “Why don’t you try becoming a woman?”

“…What…”

“What?”

“No.. Don’t say anything weird.”

“No, this bastard..”

When I finally opened my mouth, I was told not to say anything strange. More than that, this guy was able to speak normally!

“You can’t do it. Agree quickly. It’s an order.”

“Ugh… “

A blood demon who frowns and rebels. I paid no heed to him and forced him to agree to become a woman.

Mosquitoes that suck human blood are even more unlikable because they are men. Why bring a male vampire when you can make a female vampire with the same performance? This is ridiculous.

“Keueuuuuu!”

“Good. Handshake. “You agreed?”

“This.. This..!!”

Through this, I was able to find out another fact. The mutual consent required by skill also includes consent obtained through coercion.

Yes, even if consent is obtained through threats, the opponent’s gender is reversed without any concern for skill.

“Kwaaah…”

The blood demon’s body shrunk. When standing in front of me, the huge blood demon’s back that blocked most of my vision gradually became smaller and its hair grew longer.

Of course, even if it changed like that, it was still a dark spirit, so its entire body except for the eyes was pitch black, but now that it had the appearance of a woman, it became much more acceptable.

However, perhaps because the clothes the blood demon was wearing were too big, they all came off. Even looking at the naked body, it didn’t feel obscene, perhaps because it was as black as a shadow. It’s just an amazing feeling.

“Oh.”

“…”

When I stared at it, the blood demon gave me a disgusted look.

It might be better for this guy to go to eternal rest rather than suffer this humiliation and act as my summon. Just look at the immediate resistance. It’s a look in his eyes that wants him to be killed cleanly before he sees more dirty things.

Haha. It’s much better, man.”

“Why on earth are you doing this to me…?”

“Are you going to talk to me properly now?”

“…”

“Well, actually, there’s no particular reason. I guess I was just a little too stressed. I want to laugh, but I don’t have the courage to do so. Sorry. “I will cancel the summons.”

“…”

I de-summoned the blood demon that was staring at me again.

“Ha.. Fuck.. Let’s go home..”

She sighed and left the obstetrics and gynecology clinic. The night air is cold. Fortunately, the moon was up so it wasn’t completely dark.

“Whoa…”

I think I may have been deeply hurt inside without even realizing it. Because the psychological damage inflicted is different between killing an adult and killing a child.

Because the situation was urgent, I thought they were all monsters and gave up worrying about them, but as the situation became a little more relaxed, I started having more random thoughts. It’s all because of the penalty for observing traces. It’s all good, but these random thoughts are a bit too much.

“Haa…”

It would be better to first seal the penalty for observing traces with a golden seal. The more useless thoughts I have, the more quickly my mind seems to become exhausted.

“First of all, by lightning discharge.”

I picked a skill on the way to the apartment.

Numbers 1 and 2 can be useful if you use them properly, but while these are fixed skills that can be obtained by catching and killing a smart ghoul, you don’t know when you can get Lightning Discharge if not this time.

Once you get the brain attribute, it will be useful.

“Oh.. But this.. If I clap my hands with another person, can that person also use the skill..?”

I don’t know. It was nice to be able to transfer the penalty for bioelectricity, but I think this will only be known when it is used properly.

“Ah. That’s right.”

As I took the shortcut to the apartment, I remembered the truck and the deserters’ belongings that had been left behind.

“I took all the guns…”

Their tools and daily necessities that they may have captured are left there. I couldn’t even bring my car because the truck was stuck on a utility pole.

“Haa.. Shiba.. What should I do..”

It’s very difficult to move all that stuff in the middle of the night. It seems better to just bring Saeyeon early tomorrow morning and put everything in the inventory.

Moreover, from what I saw earlier, it looks like there were no items.

“Did you gather them all at their base? Haa.. Fuck.. I don’t know.. It’s hard.. Let’s go home.”

There are so many powerful people walking around that this guy’s neighborhood is in trouble. It may be fortunate that I haven’t encountered any Korean-Chinese people yet. Now that I think about it, where have all the ethnic Koreans living in this neighborhood gone?

“Ah, shit… I guess everything was searched…”

Again, I had a lot of random thoughts. Anyway, I don’t want to do anything today. It’s tough. I need to get some rest. If I sleep for just 4 hours, my fatigue will go away, so I should go home first, check on my companions, and get some rest.

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“Tskcha..”

I struggled up to the 7th floor and stood in front of the house.

Beyond the front door, I could feel the popularity of Saeyeon, Ayun, and Hyuna.

-Hey!!!! Ah, Ah Yuna! What should I do with this?

-Oh, sister!! Wait for a second!! Hey, calm down!!!

-Ugh…!! Hurry, someone please take it off…!!

Something was very noisy. Why are you doing that? Are there cockroaches in your house?

-Rattle.

“What’s going on, sister! I will save you… Huh?”

“Ah, Inho..!!”

As Saeyeon enters the house in a huff, Saeyeon extends a helping hand.

“That’s…”

“Well, it suddenly hatched.. Ugh.. I’m scared of snakes…”

There was a small baby snake coiled around Saeyeon’s neck.

It seems that the black snake’s egg hatched while I was away and chose Saeyeon as its mother.

“Haha..”

As a result, she ended up losing her place as the owner to her older sister.

I wanted to become the master of the Black Death…