Chapter 56
Translator: MagicFishCat
Proof-reader: TheMonitor
Yang Joo Hyuk and Jang Yool were chatting while watching the monitor .
“Wow, he finally finished the quest . ”
“Time truly passes quickly . It’s already been a month . ”
The subject of the conversation was Soo Hyuk .
“But what will he do now?”
“Do what?”
“He’s learnt that he can’t learn magic from Pavian . Won’t he try to open the Door of Poison now?”
“That’s definitely possible . ”
Yang Joo Hyuk nodded . Jang Yool’s words had credibility as Soo Hyuk now couldn’t learn from Pavian so he could end up choosing the Door of Poison .
Of course, nothing was certain . There were 8 choices and at the end of the day, the choice of all up the Soo Hyuk .
“If he chooses the Door of Poison…”
As Jang Yool trailed off, Yang Joo Hyuk finished the sentence for him .
“It would be a piece of cake considering his new title . ”
He might even feel that the Door of Poison was too easy . With the Poison Maestro title, the difficulty of the Door of Poison would drop to the point where it would feel like the Door of Wind was a scam .
“Oh?”
Jang Yool suddenly exclaimed .
“He went to the subspace . ”
After the quest was completed, Soo Hyuk engaged in some small talk with Pavian before putting the books in the inventory and leaving .
‘All right . I’ll challenge the Door of Poison . ’
Previously, he was thinking about the Door of Wind, but that had now changed . He had to open the Door of Poison .
‘But is it possible?’
There was still one thing nagging at his mind .
‘Although the boss would take more damage,’
Fire was strong against poison . He would be able to deal a lot more damage to the poison golem than the wind golem .
‘The problem is the amount of damage that I take . ’
In the second awakening of the wind golem, he had taken more than 20,000 damage in one hit . Even if his health had doubled, would he be able to handle the poison golem?
‘Let’s try first . ’
If he was being honest, he didn’t really need to unlock another door straight away . He had planned to level up more and acquire better gear .
But since the situation had changed like this, shouldn’t he at least try once? Wrapping up his thoughts, Soo Hyuk opened his character window .
Occupation: Archmage’s Descendant
Level: 102 Experience: 62%
Health: 56200 Mana: 41200 Satiation: 54%
Strength: 40 (+10)
Agility: 35 (+16)
Stamina: 1108 [554 (+10)]
Wisdom: 2060 (+10)
‘There’s no stat change . ’
Soo Hyuk looked at his character status first before he challenged the Door of Poison . Is stats hadn’t changed at all . Next, Soo Hyuk clicked on his list of titles . Then he checked the information for ‘Poison Maestro’ .
“…?”
Soo Hyuk burst into a bright smile while feeling admiration .
-Poison Maestro (1 . You will not be poisoned by your own poison . 2 . You will not be poisoned by ordinary poison . )
‘Isn’t this really good?’
It was almost a jackpot . The main reason why poison magic was unpopular was because the users had a chance to poison themselves when casting poison magic . But the new title completely removed that disadvantage . Plus, he wouldn’t be affected by ordinary poison .
‘Now it has to be poison no matter what . ’
After pledging to choosing poison again, Soo Hyuk closed all his windows and warped to the subspace .
[Warping to the Archmage’s Subspace . ]
The space around him was distorted with the message then he arrived safely at the subspace . As soon as the space around was stabilised, Soo Hyuk headed towards the Door of Poison .
After stopping in front of the door, Soo Hyuk reached out and touched the door with his hand . Then a system message appeared .
[Would you like to open the Door of Poison?]
Soo Hyuk pressed YES and more windows popped up .
[Opening the Door of Poison . ]
[Number of attempts: 1]
[Summoning the Poison Toad . ]
[Survive for 30 minutes or defeat the Poison Toad . ]
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“Hmm…?”
Soo Hyuk noticed unlike the Door of Wind, the boss for the Door of Poison was a toad, not a golem .
‘Poison Toad? Is it different for every door?’
It seemed like the clear conditions for every door was different .
‘Survive for 30 minutes . ’
Instead of defeating the toad, he could choose to survive for 30 minutes . What did this mean? It meant that the Poison Toad would be harder . He would have to be more cautious .
Soo Hyuk turned around to see the toad being summoned . There was the same magic circle in the middle of the chamber, and the toad was gradually forming from its head .
“Magic Missile . ”
Soo Hyuk fired a magic missile at the toad .
[The Poison Toad is being summoned . ]
[Attacking is impossible until it is completed summoned . ]
‘This is the same . ’
Soo Hyuk couldn’t attack the toad while it was being summoned like the wind golem, so he waited for the summoning to finish .
-The test is starting .
The toad croaked after it was completed formed . It sounded noticeably different from the Wind Golem .
“Magic Missile . ”
Soo Hyuk cast magic missile once again . It was to see if it would dispel like the wind golem or use another method .
Bang!
But the poison toad didn’t do anything . The magic missile managed to land a solid hit on the toad . At that moment .
Shuaa!
The moment the magic missile exploded on its skin, it started to emit green gas from its pores . The gas travelled at a tremendous speed and filled up the entire chamber in no time .
‘Poison?’
The gas was released from its body . This was probably the reason why there was another way to clear the trial . The poison gas filled up the entire chamber, so Soo Hyuk couldn’t dodge in any direction . Then something magical happened .
[You have resisted . ]
[You have resisted . ]
[You have resisted . ]
[You have resisted . ]
Endless messages appeared .
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“…?”
Soo Hyuk was momentarily confused by the endless messages before realising .
‘…Ah!’
‘The Poison Maestro!’
This was the effect of the second function of the ‘Poison Maestro’ title .
‘Then is this ordinary poison?’
The green gas around him appeared to be composed of common poison .
‘Is this it?’
The first way to clear this trial was to survive for 30 minutes . This looked ridiculously easy as he kept resisting all the poison . That meant, all he had to do was stand there and he would win .
‘No, there’s got to be something else . ’
There was no way that it would be this easy . Soo Hyuk could make out the toad’s shape as he looked through the fog .
‘Should I attack? Or not?’
The toad had started releasing poisonous gas when it was hit by the magic missile . What if the gas got stronger every time he attacked it?
‘It could also get stronger over time . ’
Waiting was also dangerous . What if the poison got stronger as more time passed? Then was a possibility that his title’s ability wouldn’t be able to resist the poison anymore .
‘The poison is getting stronger even now . ’
The green colour was getting darker . He would be poisoned at this rate .
‘Right, there are more chances anyway . ’
He didn’t forget the fact that his aim today was to test the waters . Soo Hyuk made his decision as he considered this fact .
“Firestorm . ”
Soo Hyuk cast Firestorm . The casting bar appeared and due to him taking no damage so far, he was able to safely cast the spell .
Huaa!
The flaming tornado appeared around the poison toad .
‘Oh, it’s disappearing?’
The green fog started getting lighter when the firestorm appeared .
‘The fire is burning away the poison . ’
Soo Hyuk thought as he stared at the still motionless toad . The firestorm was burning the poison as it left the poison toad’s body . As a result, the surroundings were gradually getting clearer every second .
“Fireball, Inferno, Firebolt, Flame Dance . ”
Soo Hyuk continuously fired spells at the toad .
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‘Does it also have phases?’
The wind golem had the 1st and the 2nd awakenings . Would the poison toad have something similar? At that moment .
-Congratulations for passing .
He heard the toad’s croaky voice .
‘Pass?’
AS he was confused from the sudden situation,
[You have defeated the Poison Toad . ]
[You have fulfilled the conditions . ]
[The Door of Poison is opened . ]
[Skill ‘Archmage’ has been strengthened . ]
[Skill quest ‘Acid Blast’ has been generated . ]
[Skill quest ‘Poison Fog’ has been generated . ]
[Skill quest ‘Poison Sphere’ has been generated . ]
[Skil quest ‘Poison Field’ has been generated . ]
[…]
‘…The end?’
‘It’s this easy?’
It too was easy . Like a walk in the park . Soo Hyuk felt uncomfortable even as he looked through the messages .
‘The difficulties are too far apart . ’
Soo Hyuk frowned heavily . He could feel his anger rising even though he had already decided to unlock poison . Even if fire was strong against poison, wasn’t this too much? Afer checking the messages, Soo Hyuk opened his quest window . He wanted see the conditions for the quests .
‘Good . ’
Soo Hyuk’s gloomy frown reverted back to a bright smile as he read the completion requirements . The conditions were what he expected .
‘Now should I go to get the materials?’
Soo Hyuk closed his quest window and opened his skill window . The ‘Archmage’ passive was strengthened like when he unlocked the fire element . He was excited to see the new improvements .
“…”
Soo Hyuk’s smile stiffened when he read the information .
“These crazy…”
Curses automatically came out of his mouth .
“This dog fraud…”