12
* * *
[Chat┃Magnetic currently using training floor with Slope lol (132)]
Isn’t this a comeback angle? Looks like he’s really joining Yeoun…?
(132 comments)
-Did this bastard search for Magnetic all day in the access records? Almost real-time reporting lolololololol
└Reporting X Broadcasting O
-They said they saw him at Yeoun Guild building before too, so it’s real…?
-I believed in Lightgnetic, damn it
-Even if he comes back, when’s he gonna clear all the floors he’s behind on… starting from floor 45, oof
└Loser who hasn’t even reached floor 30, welcome
└└How’d you know it’s a guest account?
└└└I guessed lol?
└└└└Fuck
-Is our country finally gonna catch up to America..?
└America has gone too far. Our country hasn’t even cleared 55 yet but America is attempting 59. National-level support can’t be ignored either. Unless three or four guilds unite, it’s impossible. Overtaking them is premature.
-Saw maknae and Slope at the tower entrance..fuck, he was handsome too. I wish his thing was smaller than mine ㅠ
└Why don’t you try talking to him?
└└I’m just C-rank trash so I got scared… If he hit me once, like three ribs would just fly out;
└There are many female hunters too, please be careful with your word choice tsk
└└I didn’t say dick, I said “thing,” so why are you freaking out?
└└└Ah;;; seriously, come on…
-When that bastard comes back, I’ll get tired again from all the fangirls making a fuss. Ugh, I’m sick of seeing them
└Are you perhaps Timer?^^
└Your life,,,. let’s cherish it,~ It’s precious to everyone^^ @^^@
└What, he didn’t do anything but already making a fuss lol what’s with the victim complex
└What did he do to be called a bastard? It’s unpleasant to see, so let’s use nice words. Is it good to call someone’s nickname like that?
-I’m affiliated with Yeoun and if Magnetic joins our guild it’d be fucking great… I want to ask about mana management methods..
└The secret to using all your skills even with three straws stuck in you lololololol
-How did Slope seduce Magnetic? Must be the face after all
└What’s this again; what good does it do that a guy with the same thing is handsome?
└└Ah, you must be ugly so you don’t understand^^; I get it~
└└└? What are you talking about?
└└└└lololololol got roasted so hard
-Timer’s current status at this hour: ‘Hyung did wrong, I even bought artifacts to give you, but that money was sponsored’
└So pathetic…
└Can’t even turn on broadcasts because of the investigation ㅜㅜ
* * *
**[Chat┃Am I the only one who feels weird about calling him “bastard”? (28)]**
What did he do wrong?
At most, he just got his spine sucked dry by Timer like a sucker
Oh and his face is annoyingly handsome too
But he didn’t really do anything wrong, right?
(28 comments)
-Male hunters’ appearance jealousy,, it’s unsightly,,,
└lolololololol so funny lololololol
-Why nothing, fuck, with that face he should just go outside and suck money from women, why crawl out claiming to be a hunter
└Is this a compliment or an insult?
└└Obviously the highest praise
└Ah~ so Magnetic was born with a great face and great abilities, so instead of coming into the tower and staying #1, he should be a celebrity, right?
└└Translator performance is killer
-Whether you call him Magnetic or Lightgnetic or bastard, it’s all because there’s affection lol
└call X called O
└└Ah yes;;
└There’s affection so you call him bastard? What kind of twisted affection is that…
-He’s just staying quiet, so why are other bastards freaking out? So fucking peculiar. I’ll have to take a break from Vertanic for a while because I’m sick of seeing maknae fans
└That’s your only job, so if you take a break are you gonna go around picking up magic stone powder ㅠㅠ?
└└Look at this, it’s already starting. It was better when that bastard wasn’t around
└└└Have a safe delivery^^! Study some Korean too… Fighting!
* * *
**[Chat┃Training room not recorded? (17)]**
I want to see Magnetic training, anyone who knows please answer
(17 comments)
-Training rooms don’t have recorded videos
└Thanks for the answer, but why not?
└└I don’t know that much either;
-I work in data-related field currently, and we’re speculating among related people that there probably isn’t enough system storage space to provide training videos too
└Ooh that seems reasonable
-Why do you want to see someone else training? He’s probably just picking his nose inside
└Looks like you pick your nose in the training floor haha?
└└I don’t pick it, so why the sudden attitude?
└└└No, you made the speculation that he picks his nose inside, so I was wondering lol;;
-But I want to see it too..
* * *
Doun gripped the staff in his hand tightly. The weapon that had spent the longest time with him provided comfort even though he was holding it for the first time in a year.
‘This was the feeling…’
He turned his head to look around and saw fragments of monster flesh and bone pieces convert to holograms, sparkle, and disappear. Even the blood that had splattered on his shins evaporated with a slight coolness.
A place solely for practice where neither magic stones nor points accumulated. Doun exhaled, remembering the simple explanation he’d heard from Samin.
His face was calmer than expected as he lightly shook his staff downward. It was because Doun had spent too much time in the tower to be amazed by its mysteries.
‘So this is what it feels like to have no burden.’
It had been a very long time since he calculated mana solely for his own skill operation. From the moment Doun entered the tower, he always had to divide his mana into at least three or four parts.
Excluding the bastard who was the guild master, the other two or three. The members changed from time to time, but they all took it for granted and drew from Doun’s mana. At one time, he thought that was natural too.
‘Should the #1 ranked guild hear that they can’t even back up their guild members? All other guilds do this too. We help each other live. People above pull up people below, right?’
Ridiculously, when guild members who freely used his mana occasionally said thanks, Doun even felt proud. Now he knew that was all deception.
He remembered using skills in an oddly slow and anxious state at private training facilities. It might have been because he was overly conscious of the staff at the reception who recognized him and asked various questions.
“…Hyung. Shouldn’t we sue that private training facility?”
At Samin’s voice from far away, Doun turned around. Samin, whose hair looked disheveled as if he’d been pulling at it, was crouched on the ground in a poor posture.
“The measurements must have been wrong.”
Doun answered with a slightly excited voice, feeling the thrill he hadn’t experienced in a long time. Then Samin, who had been beating his chest in frustration, chattered on.
“Isn’t that doctor bastard a quack too? How does depression affect skill power? I looked it up in the taxi earlier, and while I’ve seen cases where skills couldn’t be used at all, there were no cases of weakened power.”
“Maybe there aren’t enough samples yet so it hasn’t been discovered.”
“…From what I can see, that definitely wasn’t weakened power.”
“You think so too?”
Doun approached Samin with a slightly flushed face. Even to himself, his skills operated normally without problems. The power also appeared without much deviation from what he had estimated.
“Yeah. I’ve watched your conquest videos so many times. What you just used was that one, right? Flash.”
“…Yeah.”
Doun’s eyes widened as he answered. He couldn’t hide his surprise. He hadn’t expected Samin to know even the name of the skill he used.
Just hunters’ skills alone numbered in the thousands that were known. With various acquisition methods, information was being shared through word of mouth, but it was realistically impossible to know all the names. Yet Samin not only recognized Doun’s skill but even knew its name.
“Here, the hat and mask. Oh, would you like to try a few more skills? From what I can see, the power seems fine. If anything, it might have gotten stronger.”
Receiving the hat and mask he had left with Samin in case they might interfere with skill use, Doun asked with sparkling eyes.
“Something else? Good. What should I try?”
Even as he said it, Doun thought ‘oops.’ Just because Samin recognized one skill didn’t mean he would know all of his other skills inside and out. They had never conquered towers together, and they’d only just met twice.
‘What kind of self-consciousness is this, Lee Doun. So embarrassing…’
Just as Doun was putting the mask over his ears and pulling the hat down low.
Separate from his deflated feelings, at the thought of being able to see the skills of a hunter he respected right in front of him, and in a space with just the two of them, Samin muttered in a slightly excited voice.
“Then can I mention that one?”
“…Huh?”
“The skill you used when killing the floor boss on the 20th floor. I don’t know the name. I’ve asked around everywhere out of curiosity but no one knows. That one where aurora-like light bursts.”
Doun blinked for a moment then gripped his staff tightly. Samin really knew his skills in detail. That skill was one he had used exactly once when facing the floor boss on the 20th floor and never used again since.
“You never used that skill again after that.”
He even knew that. It felt like his expression might become uncontrollable. Doun pressed his lips together behind the mask and nodded.
Moving his feet to create distance from Samin, he immediately called up the system window to check the training monsters he could generate. His choice, made without a moment’s hesitation, soon summoned a monster form to the ground.
[Alert: Generating 20th floor boss ‘Lich Queen of Silence’.]
[!Warning! If the system determines a threat to the user’s safety, the floor boss will immediately be destroyed.]
Doun scattered the bothersome alert window and stared at the monster that appeared before him.
A bizarre and massive life form that floated quietly in the air, looking down at him without breathing sounds or ominous cries. The monster undulated while emanating an overwhelming aura.
“…!”
Samin’s eyes widened in surprise at the suddenly generated floor boss.
At that moment.
Centered on the staff in Doun’s hand, blindingly eerie threads of light stretched out and became streams, instantly creating a mist made of light.
Just as the floor boss sensed danger and retreated, the brilliant light mist that seemed to have gathered every color existing in this world swallowed what had been the monster.
Blink.
As Samin blinked his eyelids, the mass lost its form and scattered as particles along with the light. It was a sight that made one feel as if something beyond the five senses was exploding inside the viewer. Doun turned to look at Samin, who had even forgotten to breathe, and smiled with relieved eyes.
“Annihilation.”
A voice that stuck clearly in Samin’s speechless mind chanted the eerie word.
“That’s the name of the skill you were curious about.”
“Haha…”
Samin laughed while clenching his hands that had cold sweat seeping out. It was one hell of a chilling night.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
