Chapter 257 – Kang Seong-Ki, the Strongest Man in Korea (78)

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As circumstances arose, today’s dungeon raid had no choice but to become more intense.
Originally, it was said to attack the final floor in several days, but it was no longer possible.

Still, since it was the last floor, it would be difficult to attack all of them in one day.
We concluded that we should attack as much as we can today and finish tomorrow.

The final floor of the dungeon was definitely different in air itself.

The owner of the dungeon, in other words, the floor where the dungeon boss is located has a different atmosphere from other floors.
Rather than the mana emitted by the owner of the dungeon being powerful enough to affect an entire floor,
It was because the last floor could be called the core of the dungeon.
If we assume that a dungeon is a living organism, if the last floor is conquered, the lifeline will be completely cut off.
For several months until regen, this place would lose its vitality.

There were many powerful monsters and the map was wide in the final layer.
Even if it didn’t touch the skin because it didn’t have any difficulty in clearing up to the A-rank dungeon, that kind of feeling was already learned.

I thought it was a good thing to take a day off yesterday.

‘Although it was different from what was planned.’

I met Oksana in the morning and spent most of the afternoon developing my own weapon.
As much as that, there was no choice but to have enough time to upgrade the other members’ equipment and weapons.

‘I have to work harder.’

I thought I had to work harder on today’s attack, even to offset the feeling of sorry.

Apart from that, I had high hopes for today’s attack.
Because I have a new weapon.
Although it needs further refinement, the basic form is already in place.
I’ve never used it in practice, but I’ve already confirmed it several times that it works.

It was human nature to feel the urge to try out new equipment or weapons.
Besides, the weapon I got was completely different from the existing ones.

The idea came from a crude device made by the soul mage organization, but in the process of improving it, it became a completely different object.
It was a weapon that drew out the soul, that is, the opponent’s mana.
A weapon that can be absorbed by discarding the discarded parts and filtering out only the parts that can be absorbed.

In order to use this weapon, minimum conditions were required.
That the opponent must be in a state of power loss.
At the very least, it was easy to extract mana when it was impossible to resist.

It would be nice if you could draw mana out of living monsters and hunters as you wish, but it wouldn’t be that simple.

The girls showed interest in the new weapon I was wearing.

“What is that?”
“How does it work?”

I simply explained the principle.

“Yeah?”
“Draining mana?”
“Do you mean that it directly hits the monster’s mana?”

The women had expressions that they could not understand at once.
Of course.
Because the soul magician’s ability itself is far from common sense.

It was this weapon that I equipped on my forearm that realized that ability as a device.
In fact, extracting and injecting mana was something the women and I had always done.

Even though the fundamental principle was the same, exchanging mana in the relationship between me and the women and extracting mana using the soul mage ability were quite different.
When I draw mana from women, women don’t lose that mana.
Rather, it has grown.

I could have grown them even more using the mana I got from them.
In general, it was almost impossible for a Hunter to absorb other mana into the body.
Baek Seong-hun, who is an S-class hunter and has the ability to become a soul mage even if he is not perfect, was also killed while absorbing mana.
My ability also played a role in enabling women to do it.
It is to experience extreme pleasure and growth at the same time through mana interaction through sexual activity.

If I were to judge whether my ability was high or low, my unique ability, ‘Like for no reason’, was a few numbers higher.
No, it was impossible to even compare in the first place.

It was only after seeing the girls use it that they learned how my new weapon worked.
I held out my weapon toward the monster whose head was cut off by Sein Kim.

It was my first time using it, so I was a little worried.
Because it was the only weapon in the world that had never been made before.
Moreover, it was the first time to use it against S-class monsters in an S-class dungeon.

‘I have to believe it.’

If you don’t trust Kim Yeon-hwa and Choi Na-ri, which engineer and designer in the world can you trust?

I activated my weapon.

Juwoong-

The weapon activated with a dull feeling.
The monster, struggling even with its head cut off, was enveloped in the light emitted from the weapon.
The monster’s body was engulfed in the light and flashed for a moment, and then a round light came out of it.

Mana in the shape of a round ball of air flew towards me quickly.
The monster’s mana was sucked into the weapon, and the device made a keying keying sound several times.

Push meat-

Dark purple smoke escaped from the weapon.
I could see that it was a toxic part of the monster’s mana.
The poison was removed and the rest of the mana was absorbed into my body.
A weak light emanated from his entire body and then subsided.

I felt the little bit of tiredness disappear in an instant.
It felt similar to when I drank the potion, but it was different.

The feeling that the mana I just absorbed continues to stay in my body.

It wasn’t very pleasant because it was absorbed from the monster, but that wasn’t the important thing.

‘It’s different from what I thought?’

I focused on other parts.
I was also in the process of developing this weapon.
It was true that I also contributed quite a bit of energy to the development process.
Even though theoretical knowledge is lacking, it was the same as having the mana of an engineer and designer at the same time to get inspiration.
Rather, it had the advantage of being able to exert inspiration without bumping or limiting as it had two mana at the same time.
So, I expected that this weapon would exert some ability.

What I expected was that I would be able to increase the absolute amount of my mana and instantly recover from fatigue and wounds.
That this is correct has been confirmed by experience.

But what I felt was more than that.

‘This mana…’

What I was overlooking the unique ability I had.
The monster’s mana did not mix with other mana.
I thought I could do it if I forced it to melt it, but I didn’t feel the need to.

I put the ideas I just came up with into practice.

He activated his weapon at a monster that had become rigid due to Kang Ah-jin’s magic.
This time it worked a little differently.
In other words, the mana I just absorbed was fired along with the weapon’s activation.

Pop!

I was surprised to see the mana fired like a cannonball.
Not only that, but it has strong physical power, so it exploded immediately when the monster collided with it.

“Kiyiik!”

With a high voice, the monster suffered from shock.

It showed quite strong physical power, but it wasn’t enough to kill a monster in one shot.

But that wasn’t the end.
The mana that exploded upon hitting the monster’s body did not disappear and continued to cling to it.

It did the work of extracting mana, which is a function inherent in a weapon.
The monster’s “Turn off.” It collapsed with a sound, and the mana that flowed from it merged with the existing one and flew to me.
A large portion of the mana that was shot was lost while it exploded with physical force.
However, since they returned after extracting new mana, they were bigger and stronger than before.

The device emitted poison from the absorbed mana with a ‘push-‘ sound.

‘Isn’t that amazing?’

I was stunned by the weapon’s ability.
I didn’t know it could be used like this.

In fact, absorbing the monster’s mana and increasing my absolute mana didn’t seem very effective.
I knew from experience that absorbing other mana doesn’t work like 1+1.
Even in the case of Lisa, she did not display her ability by combining all the mana within her.
Using each of them separately when demonstrating their abilities.
Of course, it is possible to unleash a stronger ability by releasing the same type of mana all at once.
Still, like sticking clay, it was essentially impossible to combine different mana with each other.

In that sense, the monster’s mana was something I didn’t really need to have.
However, if you can use this to perform a physical attack, and if it is possible to extract mana from the impact.

I changed the device settings.
Towards not removing toxicity.

After all, I was also a first-class poisoner.
Even if it was a monster from an S-class dungeon, each individual did not demonstrate S-class abilities.
It means that no matter how strong the monster’s poison is, it won’t work on me.

I blew the mana I just absorbed onto another monster.

Perong!

A gunshot rang stronger than before, and mana exploded with stronger physical force.
Mana was extracted from the shocked monster faster, and it flew to me and was absorbed into the device.