My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 130
#130
Interlude (2)
“Oh… that was pretty close.”
I leisurely leaned back on the chair and stared at the window in front of me.
『Karma Store』
『Unique Skill Enhancement (1100000)』
『Status Enhancement – View Details』
『Karma Possessed – 1120122』 It was
only a few days ago that Howard was born, but in the meantime, he received over 500,000 karma and achieved the enhancement conditions.
It was a speed that no awakened person on Earth would have believed, but in fact, it was natural.
‘No matter how much of a minority race vampires are, they ate the Holy Blood that reigned at the top and even usurped the throne.’
If you think about it that way, it could be seen as salty, but this wasn’t the only karma for this incident.
The figures earned now are only an advance payment for events that have occurred immediately.
Afterwards, if you take over the Upersh Clan, expand its power, and exercise its influence as a holy blood, you will be paid separate karma there.
‘Anyway, now it takes 1.1 million to strengthen it once. I wish you would pay that price.’
The number of points needed for the transmitted awakened person to return to Earth was 1 million.
Considering that it took about 10 years on average for them to collect it, it was a ridiculously large number to use for a single skill enhancement.
‘But what does this mean to me now?’
As the avatars have grown up and started playing in the big water, now whenever something happens, karma is poured out in hundreds of thousands.
Afterwards, when the ‘home theater’ begins in earnest, it will be more than it is now, not less.
‘Even if I spend it all now, it will come back soon, so there’s no need to save it.’
It was truly a bourgeois way of thinking.
If people who survive all kinds of life-threatening crises and barely earn karma find out, they will probably be scolded.
I checked the ‘mental strength strengthening’ section again just in case, but the required karma points listed there were a whopping 640,000.
Unlike ‘Unique Skill Enhancement’, the status requirement doubled, so it was already like that even though it had only been strengthened six times.
‘As expected, it is much more cost-effective to increase mental power while strengthening unique skills. Even when I decided to strengthen my mental power by 320,000 won, I regretted it because it wasn’t as effective as I thought.’
After compiling myself once again, I took a deep breath and immediately selected ‘Enhance Unique Skills’.
Stinging—
and after the now familiar headache passed.
A system notification window popped up in front of my eyes.
《The potential of the avatar increases. Growth is further accelerated.》
《Unique skills grow and potential blooms. When creating your avatar, you can choose one of three random skills.》
The result of investing a whopping 1.1 million points.
Fortunately, the expected ‘increase in avatar population’ and ‘significant increase in mental power’ came naturally.
Additionally, what was given was ‘increasing the potential of the avatar’, which has now become a regular comment, and limited choices for skills that had previously been given randomly.
and.
…That was it.
“Whew—I was hoping to come up with at least one useful skill.”
Unlike ‘Status Enhancement’, which grants increasingly stronger corrections instead of exponentially increasing the required points, ‘Unique Skill Enhancement’ does not increase the effect as the number required for one enhancement increases.
Whether you use 500,000 or 1 million, it’s just one level of reinforcement.
But even though I already knew this, I couldn’t help but feel sick when I actually encountered it.
‘There are days like this too. The skill selection isn’t bad either. Rather, I’ve been lucky so far. … Still, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to try to strengthen your mental power next time.’
Now, seeing the number of points needed has increased to 1.2 million, I sighed, but since I’m the only one who has strengthened my unique skills this much, I guess this is just a complaint.
As if to shake off my regret, I immediately started creating an avatar.
At the same time, a “Customization” window appeared in front of me to change my appearance and adjust my abilities.
However, a new sentence was added to the space where the new avatar’s skills would normally be specified.
〈Selection of individual characteristics: 「clairvoyance」, 「freeze resistance」, 「string of binding」〉
‘Are you choosing one of these?’
Initial skills needed to be chosen carefully as they had a significant impact on deciding on a career path.
Of course, now that the potential of the avatar has increased, it is possible to grow quite quickly even without related skills, but there is no need not to use what you have.
Still, it wasn’t a bad thing since the range of choices had expanded unlike before, when I just received what was given.
As the saying goes, there was no consistency in the skills presented.
‘You can understand ‘Clear-eye’ and ‘Freeze Resistance’ just by looking at the names, but what is ‘Tether of Binding’?’
Fortunately, brief information about the skill was provided even at the selection stage to ensure flexibility.
The basic effect of “Tope of Binding” is to give ‘additional correction upon contract’.
And just from that one line of explanation, I was able to know the identity of this skill.
‘It’s a skill that would be good for Harris, the spirit master, to have.’
It was an ability likely to be used by the ‘summoning’ series, which strengthens affinity and bond with the contract target.
Since you already have Harris, it could be seen as a redundant ability, but…
‘Summoner… Sounds fun, right?’
In this world, spirits were not the only summoned entities.
Didn’t Harley have a history of clashing with the summoning wizards of the Oath of Heaven in the northern mountains?
From fantastic species like unicorns and phoenixes to demons and alien creatures, there are endless paths you can take in the summoning industry.
‘No matter how you look at it, I think this is better than “clairvoyance” or “freeze resistance.” Actually, I was thinking of an orthodox wizard as my new avatar, but this direction doesn’t seem to be a bad idea.’
If necessary, I could later use my summons as guards and turn into a wizard, so it seemed like a good choice in many ways.
“Then… this is the decision.”
After all status adjustments were completed, the new avatar was finally revealed.
He was a typical model student with a gentle expression, slightly droopy eyes, and intelligent, shining eyes.
‘Okay, this saved me an hour.’
I smiled happily as I looked at the aspiring summon wizard, ‘Hesperon.’
The first thing Hesperon will do is.
It was to input knowledge to be passed on to Howard, who succeeded Hubert.
Until a suitable position for him to grow is available at Outerica.
***
A private training hall located deep within the Great Temple of Roselia.
Woo-woo-
The holy sword vibrated gently in Heinrich’s hand as he stood in the middle of it.
At the same time, the sharp energy contained in the sword gradually amplified and eventually began to overflow and penetrate into the body of the person holding it.
‘No matter when I experience this, it’s amazing.’
The energy of the Holy Sword, also known as ‘Holy Sword Energy’, which was able to be controlled by obtaining ‘Blessing: Holy Sword’, seemed to be similar to divine power, but had a more aggressive tendency.
When applied to a weapon, cutting power and destructive power are increased to the extreme, and when worn on the body, physical abilities and physical strength are raised beyond their limits.
It was an ability befitting a holy sword forged to destroy demons, punish evil, and protect the world with power, but apart from its outstanding performance, one difficult process was essential in order to properly handle energy—.
It was a communion with the Holy Sword.
Woo-woo-
The sword vibrated again, and the feeling was conveyed to Heinrich.
It was a will based on raw emotion rather than a clear expression of opinion, but it clearly contained the ego.
‘It’s not as clear as when I presided over the Holy Sword Trial. At that time, I thought it was an ego sword capable of communication.’
Perhaps there was a condition that it be limited to trials to select an owner.
After I actually pulled out the holy sword and was recognized as its owner, I realized that my intelligence was not that high.
If I had to express it… would it be like a smart puppy?
Buuuuung—!
At that time, the holy sword began to shake violently and rebel.
It felt like my thoughts were slightly leaking out through the passage I had left open for communication.
-‘No, no. That means they are friendly and trustworthy! I really don’t mean to treat you like a puppy, Logia.’
Heinrich quickly came to his senses and pointed out the holy sword.
‘Logia’ was a nickname for the holy sword given by the first user, and Heinrich also used it as a sign of respect for his senior.
Above all, there was even a skill called “Logia Seongfighting Technique”, so there was no better name for it.
-‘Yeah, you’re nice, right? After all, our loggia is always reliable? ‘Aw, it’s cute.’
Ugh—
the vibrations of the holy sword slowly quieting down.
When I thought about it carefully, I thought I should say he was a child of five or six years old rather than a dog.
‘It may have existed for a long time, but it has such pure will. Is this even possible with a holy sword?’
However, even in the midst of such heart-to-heart communication, there was something that Heinrich was paying special attention to.
Of course, he wanted to prevent his secret from being leaked to the Holy Sword.
‘I’ve taken some precautions, but it would be better to be careful in everything to minimize discomfort.’
By linking “Mind Hub” and “Persona,” where the skill level has reached its peak, I set it so that “my” personal feelings and thoughts do not flow back to “Heinrich.”
So that you can immerse yourself in ‘Heinrich’ more completely in any situation.
Dividing the thinking process into several stages like this increases the consumption of mental power, but by strengthening my unique skills this time, I was able to apply it much more easily because I had a lot of free time.
‘I don’t think it would matter if the Holy Sword found out since the Lord God already tolerates it. … No, it’s better to just keep going like this.’
After feeling the purity of the Holy Sword through communication, I couldn’t bear to betray this feeling anymore.
The purpose of its birth was to fight against evil beings, and it must have fought against countless demons.
If you happen to find out that the hero you recognized as your master this time is on the same side as the Demon King…
‘A pure child must be protected. Since ancient times, there has been a teaching by sages that ignorance is medicine.’
There was no need to introduce uncertain elements.
After a while, Heinrich’s tightly controlled thoughts and the Holy Sword communicated, and he opened his eyes.
The sacred power flowing within his body and the sharp force of the sacred sword harmonized with each other, and a furious force began to radiate from his body.
Kugugoogung—!
A subversive energy continues to spread in all directions.
It was only when the personal training ground, protected by a sacred barrier, was shaken by the unbelievably violent presence of a saint…
“Whew—.”
He slowly calmed down and took deep breaths to gather his energy.
‘But I think I’m pretty good at it now.’
As I went through the trials of the Holy Sword, I became stronger so rapidly in a short period of time that it took quite a long time to fully recover.
Moreover, wasn’t the “Great Blessing: Knight of Light” given immediately after that forcibly raising his status?
Fortunately, I was able to quickly get used to using my body thanks to my initial skill, Boneless, but it still required consistent effort.
After completing his light morning training, Heinrich washed his body lightly and walked towards the central temple.
It was to attend a service hosted by a saint.
“Um, how are you? “Saint.”
…The saint was here.
As always, squatting in front of the flower bed.
“oh! Hello Heinrich? “Good morning!”
It’s slowly getting closer to noon.
This was a part that showed how long she had been out in the flower garden.
I must have been here since the morning and lost track of time.
“Saint. “Just in case, it will soon be time for the noon service to begin.”
“…really?”
“Yes, fortunately, it’s not too late…”
But before he could finish his sentence, the saint stood up from her seat and quickly ran towards the chapel of the central temple and disappeared.
‘Is this a side effect of being busy with work for a while? ‘I seem to be showing a particularly sloppy side these days.’
Recently, the saint had been spending her days living in the garden, pouring out her overflowing divine power on small insects.
It seemed like it was her way of relieving stress, so I didn’t intend to stop her, but…
‘I don’t want to remember the sight of those little bugs running wild, unable to control their overflowing energy… either.’
Heinrich shook his head and followed her slowly toward the chapel.
As you can see from the saint’s appearance now, she was finally freed from all her duties and regained the freedom she had longed for.
All that remains is for practitioners to work diligently to meet the tight schedule.
The ‘Continental Summit’ to confront the Immortal King was approaching.