Chapter 262: 262
Chapter 262 – The Hoarder (2)
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[This is the 26th floor, the Wailing Wall . ]
Yeon-woo slowly opened his eyes in the light . When the light faded away, a cold air that bit at his bones surrounded him .
Then, a snowstorm rushed towards him .
Yeon-woo fought away the cold by spinning his Magic Circuit around . At the same time, he turned his Magic Armor into a robe and covered his face with a hood . The crisp wind bothered him less .
Everything around him was white .
All he could see was snow, and snowflakes as big as a person’s fists came down from the sky . It was hard to stand in the storm .
He also couldn’t see easily .
However, when he looked around closely, he realized that he was standing above a large city wall .
Flags fluttered in the wind, and the city wall was so tall that he couldn’t see the bottom .
It was a fortress surrounded by mountains of different sizes
This was the 26th stage .
‘This will be annoying . ’
Of course, he wasn’t saying that it was going to be annoying subjugating the floor . Walking down a new path with every floor had never been annoying .
What was annoying were the gazes he felt around him . They weren’t just curious; they were on their guards .
“That person… . . ?”
“Yeah . It’s the Hoarder . ”
“I heard he disappeared after the Summer Queen incident . Is he starting to climb again?”
“S***! That means this attempt is a fail for us . ”
The players of the lower floors all knew that ‘There’s nothing left where the Hoarder passes through . ’ Of course they would be wary of him .
「Hehe . Our master’s pretty popular . 」
「You don’t have to worry about the good-for-nothings . 」
Shanon burst out laughing, and Hanryeong shook his head .
Normally, Yeon-woo would’ve just ignored the looks he was getting . He didn’t care about what others thought .
But this stage would be tiring if others were on their guard .
Just then, a new message floated up with a scary wind .
[The trial of the 26th floor is beginning . ]
[Trial: The ‘wall’ built on the snowy mountains of Nahatma symbolizes the blocking of the snow monsters from the north . However, countless people have collapsed in front of this ‘wall . ’ so it earned the name Wailing Wall .
However, information has been received about unrest among the snow monsters, and it is predicted they will attack .
Their leader is at least a spiritual-body level .
For the next month, protect the ‘Tears of Ra’ that is inside of the Wailing Wall . ]
Yeon-woo frowned looking at the message .
‘I need the help of other players to protect the Tears of Ra . ’
Easily said, the Wailing Wall was a defense game . Once every day, when the moon is high in the sky, monsters come from beyond the snowy mountains .
They definitely weren’t normal monsters . Each of them was specialized for the cold, and they didn’t feel pain even when their limbs were cut off . Rather, they were excited at the smell of blood .
If thousands, no, ten-thousands of those monsters came running……it was horrible just thinking about it .
The most important thing was to protect the castle walls . Of course, even the strongest person couldn’t do the work of 10 people, so working with other players was key .
You could block them off for the first two weeks by yourself . Even though there were a lot of monsters, there were also many players and soldiers inside the castle walls as well .
The problem came with the third week .
There would be a lack of food, and the soldiers would be hurt .
The snow monsters that were 10-meters tall appeared at this time, and their attacks were enough to make the firm castle walls crumble .
And of course, with the suddenly raised difficulty, there would be tension between the players .
It definitely wasn’t easy to spread resources among them . Unless someone with leadership arrived to distribute it fairly, if things weren’t done in a democratic way, everything would become a mess .
We suffered because of this too . When we entered the 4th week, the internal enemies were worse than the external ones .
A month definitely wasn’t a short time . Furthermore, the attacks from the enemies wouldn’t decrease but increase .
The exhaustion and lack of resources pushed the players onto the edge .
Yeon-woo was planning on having the players protect the Tears of Ra when the stage began, but it was obvious what would happen .
‘There goes that idea . ’
Even if he asked for help, it was likely that it wouldn’t be done properly .
Of course, he could force them to do it, but… . .
‘There’s no need to go that far . ’
It could be a bit annoying, but it seemed there was nothing else he could do except to do it himself .
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He thought that wasn’t too bad of an idea either, since he could show them that the Hoarder was really a hoarder .
‘Ah, I wonder if it’ll be hard to find people like this . ’
Yeon-woo didn’t think it was too important . If they were skilled enough to stand out, he would notice them one way or another .
Checheche—
Yeon-woo organized his thoughts and moved the Monster Portents inside the Despair of the Black King .
His shadow stretched out in the shape of a thorn bush that went all the way up to the iron door that led to the base of the castle .
The players who had been trying to scout the base stopped in their tracks .
They would’ve ignored it if it was just a shadow, but there were eyes embedded in the shadow . Tens of eyeballs met them .
They all got shivers down their back . The eyes were like those of a wild beast that was after its prey .
“What are you doing, Hoarder?”
The players all glared at Yeon-woo . They didn’t attempt to chase the shadow away . The monsters inside the shadow would probably swallow them up easily .
However, Yeon-woo just said what he wanted to regardless of the glares he was getting .
“Don’t worry about anything else and just focus on the guarding . I’ll hand out resources for you when you need them . I’ll protect the Tears of Ra . ”
“What are you… . . ?!”
Yeon-woo didn’t care about what the players were saying and lightly jumped atop the castle walls .
The players all had stiff faces . A few of them had faces that were asking ‘Maybe?’ These castle walls were extremely high . The winds were also sharp and fast as well . Even if he used magic, he would be swept away by the strong winds and become a pile of bones and blood .
Also, even if he arrived on the ground, the snowy mountains were surrounded by snow monsters .
Most of the players here had challenged this stage before, so they knew how tenacious and evil the snow monsters were .
The general-rank monsters that were leading the monsters were enough to swallow the players in one bite .
This was a mission to ‘protect the castle,’ not ‘destroy the enemies,’ after all .
However, Yeon-woo didn’t respond to their gazes and dropped down with his wings of fire spread apart .
“Huh? Wait!”
“He’s crazy… . . !”
Yeon-woo softly slid down, riding the wind . The snowflakes blocked his vision, but nothing bothered his sharp Extrasensory Perception .
Also, because of his strengthened Consciousness and soul power, it was much easier to move his body .
Tak!
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Yeon-woo landed on a snowy mountain close to the castle walls . The snow reached up to his knees, but his path was cleared when he exuded heat waves .
[Wind Path]
When he took a step forward, a whirlwind started to swirl around him . With his opened Draconic Eyes, he could see the crushed flaws splitting into different sides .
Option, Pathfinder .
In the different split paths, Yeon-woo took the path that was intended for him .
Gust .
Kwang!
Sweeek—
Yeon-woo began to dash, raising a fierce wind . In the gust that followed him, there was also a heatwave . It was because of his new title, Controller of Fire .
[Controller of Fire]
Summary: The quality of fire is emitted from skills and Authorities . Also, you have control of the fire property .
It was a passive skill of the fire property coming from his every movement . He had stolen it from the Summer Queen . Because it didn’t use up a lot of magic power, it was very useful to Yeon-woo .
The gust that Yeon-woo created swooshed around the mountain, and he expanded the range of his Extrasensory Perception to a nearby snowy mountain .
He could feel things from all over . Beyond the snowy mountain, there was an army of ten thousand that was ready to move towards them at any second .
As Yeon-woo ran in that direction, he opened his hand . A shadow came up, and a round bead appeared on his palm .
It was a shiny bead that looked like it was made of rubies . It was the Tears of Ra that they had to protect on this stage .
‘There are two things I have to get from this stage . The Tears of Ra and the Apophis’ Poisonous Fang . ’
The motif of the 26th stage was the battle of the sun god Ra and the magical creature Apophis .
The snow monsters born from Apophis would attack when Apophis’s Grace was the strongest – at midnight . Then, there were two ways to solve this trial .
You could last a month like the summary, or you could steal the Apophis’s Poisonous Fang that was in the middle of the snow monsters .
Of course, if he could get both of them, he would earn a pretty nice item .
An item that could help him grow instantly .
If Yeon-woo’s growth hadn’t stopped, he wouldn’t need it, but because his latent potential was deeper, Yeon-woo was desperate for whatever he could get . Hoarding the items was crucial for his new plans .
Stealing Apophis’s Poisonous Fang was incomparable to the difficulty of stealing the Tears of Ra .
Running into a place bustling with monsters was hard, even for rankers, especially as he got closer to their center, but Yeon-woo had his faithful servants .
‘Shanon . Hanryeong . ’
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His shadow stretched out, and his Death Lord and Death Knight appeared . Inferno Sight flamed under their helmets .
Shanon and Hanryeong let out the demonic energy they were holding in at once .
A silent energy shook the mountain . Urrrr . An avalanche came from high above them . The snowy mountain was trapped in a loud commotion as the white dust flew around .
Shanon and Hanryeong, who had also been training like Yeon-woo, didn’t hide their strength anymore .
Yeon-woo released his strength, too . His heat erased the snow and created a desert effect . As the vapor clustered, it became a fog to cover the snowy mountains .
Just then, Yeon-woo met the monster army .
There were about ten thousand monsters lined up like a human army .
However, each of them looked different .
There was a lion with wings, a chimera with an elephant for a face and a human body, and lean zombies atop beasts that looked like rhinos .
One thing they had in common was that they all exuded a cold aura .
It was an aura that you would freeze from . The sharp wind around them was like knives .
They were magical creatures of the night, the monsters that Apophis created .
They shrieked after discovering Yeon-woo, who had a completely different property from them, but it was impossible to understand what they were saying because of the avalanche .
Of course, Yeon-doo didn’t plan on listening .
His mission was just to sweep them away . He didn’t know how he would deal with all of them, but Yeon-woo had a nice card up his sleeve .
‘Wave of Fire . ’
Yeon-woo pulled out Vigrid from the subspace and swung it around roughly .
A loud thundering noise that was incomparable to the avalanche and light and heat that could blind people covered the snowy mountain .
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