Damn Necromancer - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21: Achievement Shop

Achievement Shop

‘This exists?’

Many people had hunted Lee Seoyoon before.

However, he had never seen a message related to this before.

‘The one who opened the horizon…….’

It might be something related to that.

Well…….

Come to think of it, this was also the first time he had achieved an EX-rank achievement.

If it was related to that, it wasn’t that strange that it only appeared now.

Is the shop a structure that opens like a status window?

‘Achievement Shop.’

[Opening the Achievement Shop!]

[Rank: Bronze]

[Owned Achievement Points: 30]

[Item List]

[1. Limit Break Potion]

[Required Achievement Points: 100]

[2. ???]

[3. ???]

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There seemed to be a lot of items, but he couldn’t see the details.

In the end, there was only one currently available item.

[Limit Break Potion]

[Increases level potential by ’50’.]

‘What?’

What?

What is he looking at right now?

Kim Minwoo rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

The content he saw was that unbelievable.

Still, the content was the same.

“……Crazy!”

– Master, why are you suddenly like this?

“Cedric! This is amazing! Amazing! I caught a big fish!”

– ……Big fish?

“Yeah, man! Now I can break through level 200!”

– ……Are there people who can’t do that?

Unfortunately, this undead could not share in his joy at all.

‘This is why people with talent are like this.’

Well, it wasn’t that he didn’t understand.

After all, usually just by Awakening, one could raise their level to 300 as a basic.

Of course, being able to level up and actually doing it were two different things.

This was because as the Awakener became stronger, the monsters they faced also became stronger and stronger.

In order to gain meaningful experience, one had to hunt monsters of a similar level.

From a certain level, it became difficult to even hunt monsters of the same level.

‘It’s common to give up on leveling up at that point.’
Between levels 151 and 250 was what was commonly referred to as the stagnation zone, or the C-rank zone.

Conquering C-rank gates with a party still meant risking one’s life.

Until now, the thought of going to the gate to make some money had been accompanied by excitement and anticipation.

But from here on out, the anticipation of returning alive began to be the default mindset.

In any case, Cedric seemed to not understand the concept of being stuck at level 200.

‘Surprisingly, it’s possible.’

There was a miraculous genius who couldn’t even reach level 300, which even the neighborhood F-rank Awakener could reach.

Kim Minwoo was a remarkable example of this.

‘I searched for a way for 6 years…….’

But ultimately, he couldn’t find it.

So, he had no choice but to fight against the Dragon Lord at level 200.

But now, he had found the way!

‘If I only have enough achievement points…….’

He could raise the level cap.

Moreover, there was a fixed value of ’50’, so he didn’t have to pray like when drinking a potion.

‘This is an incredible effect.’

Levels didn’t just come with the effect of a stat increase of 4.

They were interconnected with many factors such as equipment and skill books.

And since he was a Necromancer, the level cap of his summons would also be increased.

‘The limit has been raised much higher.’

Far beyond what he had imagined.

Now the important thing was how to earn achievement points.

Kim Minwoo thought back to the message he had seen earlier.

– You hunted down one of the supporting villains, ‘Lee Seoyoon’!

– The story begins to undergo some changes!

‘Supporting character, huh.’

When he saw that, he didn’t think that simply defeating a villain would necessarily award achievement points.

He had to defeat villains who held some weight in the story.

Hunting main and supporting villains.

That would be the first way to get points.

‘But it’s going to be tough to hunt them right now.’

He knew of many villains in this game that could be considered main or supporting characters.

However…….

The problem was that it was difficult to hunt them easily unless he had a coincidence like today.

They were all high level.

Except for a few, their spawn locations were random.

He couldn’t catch them right now, unless he raised his level much higher than now.

‘Another way to get points is…… to change the story.’

A supporting villain died.

The story changed and he got points.

There must be other ways to earn points besides just killing enemies.

‘What if I influence an important character?’

The main characters of this game.

These were the protagonists that players could control.

Park Siwoo, Han Siah, Namgoong Min, and Seo Yerim.

Originally, they wouldn’t all appear together on one stage.

But now it was different.

When he started the 6th stage, he remembered the message:

[All main characters in the game will gather in one world!]

The main characters existed in this world.

Like Seo Yerim.

‘If I influence them…….’

He might be able to earn points.

The reason he didn’t get points from Seo Yerim was likely because he didn’t bring about a ‘significant’ change in her.

He had only made some witty remarks and tricked her with swordsmanship; it wasn’t a decisive change.

On the other hand, although Lee Seoyoon was a supporting character, her death completely erased the existing story.

So even though she was a supporting character, her death must have had a significant impact.

Out of the four, the character with the easiest difficulty level to influence was Park Siwoo, who had only one star.

Kim Minwoo went back to the time when he was underage, reversing the time period by a lot.

‘He must be at the orphanage by now.’

Hanbit Orphanage.

That was the name of the place.

‘He must be unawakened there.’

The time when the player directly controlled Park Siwoo was a bit further into the future than now.

He would be awakened then, so he must be unawakened now.

He knew Park Siwoo’s awakening conditions.

Plus, there was the situation with the message about humanity’s potential being enhanced or something.

“If I awaken him to something beyond S-rank…”

He was already a swordsmanship genius.

If such a guy became SS or SSS-rank?

Regardless of how the story turned out, would he be able to recruit him?

‘It would definitely have an impact.’

If that happened, he would be able to get much more points than he did from hunting Lee Seoyoon.

It was easy to approach him, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to attempt the awakening.

There was no reason not to do it.

‘If I don’t get the points, then…….’

He could just create a guild and lead them like puppets.

Since he is a talented person, he would just explode if he was given the right equipment.

There will come a day when he will be useful.

‘I should go and meet him once I get out.’

But before that, he had to get his equipment.

He looted Seoyoon’s body.

Assassin-class equipment came out.

Despite being B-rank and a rookie, the quality of the equipment was decent.

Unfortunately, due to job restrictions, he couldn’t use it, so he planned to sell it at the auction house.

He could probably get around 30 billion.

And then.

“Oh, jackpot.”

He was able to get one very nice item.

[Ring of the Shadow Tracker]

[Rank: Unique]

[Required Level: 51 or higher]

[Effect 1: Increases all stats by 15]

[Effect 2: Can use Thermal Tracking (C) using mana.]

[Effect 3: Increases damage by 10% on critical hits.]

“Isn’t this a luxury accessory?”

An accessory with no job restrictions and a wearable level that was considerably lower than its performance.

This kind of thing was impossible to get in a normal Gate.

‘She cleared a hidden quest.’

It was an item that could only be obtained by finding hidden conditions, activating a hidden quest, and completing it.

“It’s something you can’t buy with ordinary money.”

It was only natural.

Awakened people would just keep using it unless they were retiring, so why would they sell something like this during their growth?

She had probably been wearing it steadily even though she was high-level.

Accessories were originally difficult to set up due to the lack of quantity, and the combination of assassin and critical damage increase was one of the indispensable combinations.

Not to mention the increase in all stats.

He put Seoyoon’s body and equipment in the dimensional ring.

Now it was time to conquer the gate.

He was excited.

Meeting Seoyoon allowed him to gain 10 levels without even thinking.

Current level: 40.

Just 11 more levels to reach 51.

The next range where he could absorb the next potion and skill book. It would completely change his power level.

“Let’s go.”

Cedric and the skeleton army nodded.

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He raised his level by meticulously defeating monsters within the gate.

[Level up!]

[You have reached level 51.]

He managed to reach level 51 before reaching the boss room.

He took out some low-rank potions.

[Low-rank Mana Potion]

[Rank: D]

[Required Level: 51 or higher]

[When consumed, slightly increases mana. (Applicable up to 150 in stats)]

Here, the potion referred to the inherent stat points excluding additional stats from titles and equipment.

Inherent Stat Point meant?

The Basic Stats you had from the start and the Statsyou increased with potions.

And the Stats you get from leveling up.

All of these added together are the original Stats Points.

To be more precise, it also includes Ability Values that are naturally increased through training or actions.

‘That doesn’t apply to him.’

Kim Minwoo had never seen his stats increase while training.

So it was better to just ignore it.

Conclusion.

Each stat mentioned in the potion is currently 100.

He just needed to increase each of them by 50.

Then the total stats will increase by 200.

The Royal Road was complete.

And so he absorbed the first potion.

[Low-rank Mana Elixir is absorbed.]

[Amazing! Your terrible body has defied all odds and absorbed the full effect of the potion!]

[Mana increases by 2!]
[TL/N: Even the Status Window Disrespects his body ?]

“What?”

A straight increase of 2?

Kim Minwoo was astonished by a message he had never seen before in his life.

[You have obtained the title, ‘Ultra Lucky Guy’!]

“……But they’re giving me a title for this?”

Didn’t you have to do something really hard to get a title?

He never thought he would get a title just by doing something that everyone else does.

For the first time, Kim Minwoo realized that his body had some advantages.

He immediately checked the effect.

[New Title List]

[1. PK Expert]

[Defeated an Awakened with an overwhelming level difference.]

[Effect: Attack power increases by 10% against Awakened who are 200 or more levels higher than you.]

[2. Ultra Lucky Guy]

[Defied all odds and realized good luck.]

[Effect: You seem to be luckier.]

‘You seem to be luckier…….’

It was a pretty vague effect.

Anyway, it was better than nothing.

And so he absorbed all the potions.

“……Isn’t the effect amazing?”

He was a bit surprised.

The potions were absorbed very well by his body.

“I managed to achieve all this with just eight hundred potions…”

He could clearly see how amazing this was by comparing it to when he was level 1.

Back then, he had taken over 1,000 potions.

He even had to retrieve about two hundred more from the household warehouse, fearing it wouldn’t be enough even after buying from Choi Yuna.

But now, it seemed like he could just return them all.

“Lucky me.”

Indeed, he was lucky.

Minwoo chuckled and learned a skill from the skill book.

[Skeleton Mage Summon (E)+9]

[Skill has been strengthened to the limit.]

[Consumes 20 mana to summon 2 (1+1) LV1 Skeleton Mages.]

“Nice.”

Level 9 was always a beautiful effect to behold.

Although it consumed twice as much mana as regular skeletons, it was worth it for a mage.

It was time to slowly exchange for the next set of equipment.

He took off the equipment he was wearing and opened the status window.

[Name: Kim Minwoo (23)]

[Occupation: Necromancer]

[Level: 51]

[Possessed Skills (4/20): Death Lord (EX), Cedric Summon (SSS), Skeleton Mage Summon (E)+9, Skeleton Summon (F)+9]

[Mana: 1,920/1,920]

[Titles: 15]

[Stats]

[Strength: 181(+18)] [Agility: 181(+18)] [Vitality: 152(+15)] [Mana: 175(+17)]

“This is insane.”

These weren’t the stat points of a level 51 awakener.

And this was excluding the stats from the new equipment.

The Ring of the Shadow Tracker that he could now equip after reaching level 51.

And the rare set item he purchased from the auction house this time.

[You have equipped the Ring of the Shadow Tracker!]

[All stats increased by 15!]

[You have equipped the Harvester of Destruction Set!]

[Strength +15, Agility +15, Vitality +15, and Mana +50 are increased!]

[Drain (D) is activated!]

His mana was boosted by another 65, and with the added effect of the Indomitable Soul, it increased by another 6.

Mana now stood at 263.

Pure mana alone was 2,630.

If this overlapped with Death Lord’s mana cost reduction…

“Rise, my minions.”

[452 Skeletons are summoned!]

[300 Skeleton Mages are summoned!]

An army of over seven hundred rose to their feet.

It was an excessive number to defeat just one gorilla boss.

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