Chapter 132 – End of Summer Vacation (3)

After sending Seo-yeon to her dorm, I tried to go up to the dorm as well, but somehow I felt like I was missing something.

‘I didn’t go to the gym today.’

Since she couldn’t really feel the growth of her body, missing it once wouldn’t change much, but she still wanted to get a stamp of attendance, so she headed to the fitness center.

Perhaps because it was a little late, a banging sound could be heard inside the fitness room at a constant speed.

It looks like Vulcan Ludric is hitting the meter.

Using earplugs is another option, but I used Shadow Armor to cover my ears and went inside.

Vulcan Ludric continued to hit the meter, as if he didn’t notice the sound of me coming in or if he didn’t pay attention to who else came in.

1000, 1000, 1000.

I don’t know how they can do that.

I felt a long time ago that controlling my strength would help me grow, but have you ever fought with less strength since then?

I think I always did my best even when fighting zombies that were weaker than I.

I should have been able to control my strength through fighting, but even then, I just fought with all my might.

When I aimed the wooden sword at Namgoonghyeon’s heart, I felt a little embarrassed.

What did the old Sword King think of me?

When Vulcan Ludric finished hitting the measuring instrument and looked back at me, he removed the shadow armor covering his ears.

“Yusian, were you waiting?”

“Uh… Yeah. I was waiting.”

Since I wasn’t doing any individual exercise and was just staring blankly, I can only say I was waiting for that.

“I want to see you play, too. You seem to have grown a lot during the vacation. You seem more confident than before?”

“Yeah, I’ve grown quite a bit.”

Vulcan noticed last time that I could handle negative attribute mana.

At the time, I just glossed over it, but when the second semester starts, I will eventually show everything.

Using the Flame Magic, I changed the mana inside my body into heat.

I’m low on mana since I used Shadow Circle a lot earlier, but I can still get three hits.

I used the Yeomryunken Ilryun and thrust out my right fist.

Kwaang.

This time, I made a fist with my left fist and punched out.

Kwaang.

Then, he gathered all the heat scattered around him into the Yeonyeom Shingoku and used the final Yeomryun Fist Ilryun.

Kwaaaaang!

‘Three consecutive hits is quite difficult.’

In the first place, it was a technique to apply a lot of force at once, but I thought that firing it in short bursts was not very efficient.

I slowly stepped back and checked the meter.

The 1st and 2nd strokes could not be confirmed, but the 3rd stroke was measured at 960.

I thought the third attack was pretty strong, but is it not enough to hit Vulcan Ludric?

Considering that that guy could control his strength and hit 1000, it was still not enough.

“It looks like you’ve been doing a lot of quests throughout the vacation, right? This is the first time I’ve seen you use flames? Last time you had a cool energy, but two conflicting powers? Interesting.”

“As I did my best, two things came to me.”

“Good. I knew very well that you meant it when you said last time that you would destroy the entire Q class.”

“When did I ever say that?”

Did that kid have a strange talent for understanding what he said?

When I asked Vulcan Rudrik in a confused voice, he smiled and said.

“Class Q must have that level of goal. I and the others are aiming to be at the top of class Q. Shouldn’t we break that Julian Loa’s arrogance once?”

After saying that, Vulcan turned his back to leave the fitness room.

Could it be that he has some kind of bond with me, who comes to the gym every day?

“Vulcan, are you free the day after tomorrow?”

When I asked that to Vulcan’s back, Vulcan stopped and said.

“I usually leave the morning and afternoon free, right?”

Did you just hang out all day and then hit the meter in the weight room?

I was a little taken aback by how simple the routine of a guy who was much stronger than me was.

“Vulcan, wouldn’t you like to go to the dungeon with me?”

I just blurted it out without thinking.

“Okay. Then, let’s meet at the dungeon management office tomorrow. You can make the appointment.”

“Uh, okay.”

After saying that, Vulcan left the fitness room without looking back.

“Uh… What is it?”

Why did it work out?

I looked blankly at the door where Ludrick the Vulcan left and then returned to the men’s dormitory.

*

“Vulcan Ludric is coming with you? He’s a huge, gray-haired student from Class Q, right?”

When Seo-yeon was informed that Vulcan Rudric was going with her tomorrow, she asked in a high voice.

“Yes. I suggested it without thinking, but you said you would go together?”

“Wow. So you’re not friends then?”

“I don’t know. I think we’re friends, but we weren’t in the same grade before.”

“I guess it’s because they think of you as a friend now? That’s good. Then wouldn’t the advanced dungeon be enough?”

“But three is still a small number.”

No matter how strong Vulcan Ludric is, considering the Orc Druid last time, I felt that he was a bit lacking.

I think it would be okay to have one more person…

“Okay. Then, shall we meet tomorrow around 11 o’clock? I think that would be appropriate if I buy some medicine.”

“Okay. I’ll tell Vulcan to meet me at the dungeon management office at 11 o’clock.”

“Yes. See you tomorrow.”

Seoyeon hung up the phone and I lay down on the bed.

“You won’t suddenly hit me in the back of the head in the dungeon, right?”

Vulcan Ludric was still a person who could not be truly trusted.

But he was also the most conscientious person I’ve ever seen in Class Q.

Coming to the gym every day to exercise and hit the meter is difficult unless you have the willpower.

Let’s hope that Rudric, a Vulcan with that grit, doesn’t hit you in the back.

I was lying down comfortably like that and trying to fall asleep, but then I straightened my back.

I can’t sleep right now because there’s still more to search for.

The first thing I searched for was the King of Shadows.

There were a lot of strange contents, but among them, only two were related to me.

A person who has mastered all shadow magic or a person who can control shadows.

What I showed the female zombie was a combination of two Shadow Circles, Shadow Mastery, and Flame Magic.

First, the Shadow Circle contained some of the power of Shadow Craft.

So, you may have thought that I was the king of shadows because I applied Shadow Craft, which can be said to be the ultimate in shadow magic.

Or perhaps they called me the King of Shadows after seeing how I could quickly supply mana through shadows by combining Shadow Mastery and Flame Magic.

Or maybe they saw both and called me the king of shadows.

‘But is that title universal?’

I’m not sure about that.

When I searched on the internet, it came up, and I just skipped over it, but I think the name King of Shadows is quite heavy for the Raven family that passes down Shadow Mastery.

Because I didn’t know about Cyan Raven until I heard about it from that guy.

And when I searched for towers and tops, I found neatly organized content.

A place where higher beings give you the opportunity to climb the hierarchy, where people from various worlds gather to prove their transcendent power.

I guess it’s like an ordeal for climbing the hierarchy.

When I think about layer climbing, when I entered the Global Academy, I heard that those with quest abilities have the potential to become layer guardians or layer climbers. Where would I be now?

When possessed by Lee Sian, I think that Lee Sian definitely qualifies as a class climber.

However, I still don’t know much about other possessed bodies and Yusian.

If we return the story to the beginning, the woman becomes the one who fell from the tower.

‘Among the zombies that the Lord of Plague continues to drop on Isian’s hierarchy, are those that fell from the tower included?’

And what if the being who fell from that tower and had the power of transcendence was resurrected due to a twisted death?

Unlike other zombies, his body had the status of transcendence, so I thought he might have been resurrected with some of his original power rather than being resurrected as a synthetic zombie.

How many more zombies like that are hiding in the world?

As expected, I thought that it was a world where there were too many things and enemies to fight even if that class wanted to stay still.

The last thing to look for is the woman’s occupation, necromancer, and it was full of complex information, like the book about shadow magic earlier.

Turning her bones into weapons could be said to be fairly beginner-level content, but creating something as smooth as the white sword she gave me was in the advanced category.

It can be said that he is not a necromancer who has reached transcendence for nothing.

But the tower is the place where such women also die, right?

‘I don’t want to be possessed by the possessed body in the tower.’

It’s not like I can control it the way I want, but I did it anyway.

I think that experiencing death once is enough to die of old age.

*

At night, I linked Shadow Mastery and Flame Magic and had a fortune-telling breakfast. Even if I fell asleep at 5 a.M., I was able to wake up at 9 a.M. Thanks to the battle sleep.

This seems to be because the efficiency of combat sleep has increased as the level of survival rules has increased.

【Yusian】

【Level: 3】

【Combat Power: 488】

[Owned skills: Underworld Possession (A), Establishment of Self (A+2), Survival Rules (A+2), Skill Link (C), Shadow Mastery (E+2), Smoke Flame Magic (5 stars)]

【Awaiting Quest (8/8)】

I was satisfied with the status window I checked when I woke up in the morning.

The last person I possessed was a low tier, so his level and combat power were very high, so I felt weak just by looking at his combat power, but since I had a lot of mana, I could beat him.

I spent some time lying on the bed looking at my smartphone, and since it was getting close to my appointment time, I took a shower and headed to the dungeon management office.