A time for a bit of rest and relaxation!
They had come out victorious after a lot of difficult battles, but there are still more than 30 castles remained.
“Something like this is an A grade difficulty quest, eh.”
Geomchi2 let out a prideful smile.
“It’s interesting as well. It really sends shivers down my spine!”
Geomchi was already getting prepared to putting an end to resting and go back to fighting.
“C’mon, let’s go. It’s unfortunate that we only have 30 more of these interesting battles.”
For those that enjoy battle, it was something not to get excited about.
Pale and the party mustered up some energy.
The battles were hard but even more rewarding. The focus during the fight was just the battle at hand without a single pause.
The divine beasts they had to battle at this point always numbered above 60. Each and every battle, everybody fulfilled their role without a single one slacking off.
During the battle in the 19th castle against these beasts, Geomchi, the instructors, and all the practitioners crossed the threshold of 293.
The growth rate was incredible.
Aside from receiving the basic experience points from the Unicorns and Pegasus, the additional combat experience was the greatest gain.
After having looked at his level, Geomchi9 said.
“Leveling is easy.”
Geomchi11 agrees.
“I know huh. When we hunted on our own here and there, it was really slow in comparison to how easy it is to level when we hunt with Weed.”
As soon as he heard, Pale’s head began to spin.
Usually when people hear these words, they would jump up to yell.
“Leveling this way is by no mean easier!”
Leveling beyond level 200 was something similar to having stuck in traffic.
As the required experience point to reach the next level increases exponentially, even killing similarly level monsters give little to nothing EXP.
However, the Geomchis do not know the meaning of mental fatigue along with the excessive movements of the body.
18 hours of hunting a day and even more so when having the pleasure of hunting in groups.
Here, Weed is unusually fast.
By simply belong to the party he leads, they are forced to be immerse in the battle he makes.
Ridiculous hunting speed!
Eating and hunting, he pushes them to their limits.
Weed’s level was at 347 at a sudden speed.
But that was just the level not mentioning his other growth.
Fencing, Archery, Magic, and other kinds of combat skills! Attacking skills’ development also had their growth.
To get beyond the Intermediate levels and reaching the Advanced levels of skills, through conventional means was difficult due to having numerous skills; however, it was easier here thanks to the strength of the monsters he battled against.
Precision attacks to increase hit rates against the monsters that are higher level than you are, you can obtain a healthier amount than the usual.
Through this method, the proficiency of his skills, too, rose significantly.
Then, Maylon asked as if it suddenly struck her.
“Oh, Weed nim.”
“Yes?”
“Why haven’t you sculpt a sculpture by now?”
Sewing, Blacksmithing, Bandage, Herbs, Cooking, and combat skills!
Weed had raise the proficiency of all other skill but not sculpting. She was quite curious about the reason why.
To Weed, there were circumstances.
Until now he had been shearing wood to making wooden sculptures in his spare time whenever possible.
But he did not try to create something in the earnest.
‘A large sculpture. There’s no space to make such a thing.’
To create one of ten meters or more meant having to stick close to the sculpture and working on it for weeks.
Procuring the material was also a problem.
So besides having to create a huge sculpture, he would need to find something fitting the size along with the difficulty of it being a worthy material.
Then again, Todeum was a place filled many perfected compositions and a considerable number of sculptures.
They have not discovered Classic or Magnum pieces as of yet, but there are decent sculptures and pictures to gain proficiency through viewing so he did not feel the need to make a piece.
Weed explained it simply.
“The inspiration to create a piece has not hit me as of yet. And in Todeum vampires’ castles, there are a lot of paintings and sculptures yet to be discover.”
“Ah, so that’s it.”
Quickly convinced, Maylon pulled away from going deeper. Hwaryeong seemingly brooded over something, asked.
“Does it need to be some specific tree or stone for you to sculpt something?”
“Huh?”
“That is, I figured if it’s something you’d want to express, such things wouldn’t matter much anyway.”
In the vampire’s castles, the majority of the sculptures founded were carved into the walls or ceilings.
Though some are simply too plain and nothing like the grandly crafted statues to attract much attention.
Hwaryeong wondered.
“Why does it need to be something physical to make the statues?”
Weed recalled the light tower he made in Morata.
Rather than the beauty of the Light Tower itself, the harmony of lights refracted shown an even greater beauty.
He even obtained ‘The sculptor that governs light’ as a nickname!
Due to it being so amazingly creative and expressive!
For a Sculptor, there’s no better praise than that.
In reality, Weed was unaware he was dubbed as such since it surfaced from the forums.
If it was something outside money unlike something as the fox he sculpted and sold for 3 Silvers; rumors and such things was nothing for him to be concerned about.
Hwaryeong was overestimating Weed.
The Light Tower was not something he was susceptible to create at any point in time.
“You made the Light Tower from light, why not do the same with a statue?”
Weed considered seriously.
‘It’s true that I’ve been neglecting sculpture.’
Todeum itself was a very good hunting ground. Because of so, he excessively obsessed with hunting and sculpting remained on the sideline forgotten.
‘Light based sculpture.’
There was some sort of potential seen in sculpting the moonlight. Although it was a bit awkward for him to find his footing, the Moonlight Sculptor has yet to disappoint.
Weed pondered about what to create because he still did not have an idea after all had said.
“Hmmmm.”
“What kind of sculpture will be good?”
“What was made and still have words going around?”
“It has to fit into the limited ability of light being able to take shape.”
Everybody pondered.
Having fought in the castles, they would ponder over this in the middle of break time and still had trouble coming up with something.
‘So this is the pain of creativity.’
‘Art takes more time anguishing over what to make than actually making it huh.’
Even a vague concept as to how to create the sculpture had not been suggested.
After all the contemplations, Sureuka spoke.
“Well, how about this? Conversely of light, how about demonstrating the shadow’s?”
Showing an expression of not being able to get what Sureuka was talking about, Romuna looked at her.
“Shadow what?”
“The shadows of things. Using the shadow as a piece of created artwork.”
“What do you mean by making an artwork through shadows?”
“If there an object, then there’s a shadow. We can create some form by means of shadows like shadow puppeteer, y’know.”
“I think that’s not a bad idea, but is it feasible to create something through shadows and is it worth doing so?”
Romuna was dubious. To use an object and expresses it through its shadow didn’t appear to be tasteful.
But Weed regarded as a very good idea.
The usual Sculptor with common sense wouldn’t have easily attempted this idea, but he saw the advantage that could be found from this.
‘Instead of light, express it with shadows huh. Though this mean, I can make it as big as I can try.’
Composition!
Weed’s desired formation!
There was no need to get the materials also.
There are tons of materials that create shadows!
Weed made the decision in matter of seconds.
“The loot. Ima use the loots to create the sculpture.”
This expensive piece’s materials will come from the items obtained through the hunt so this was an ambitious plan of creating a sculpture!
“Good.”
“Wherever you see.”
Believed in Weed’s ability, Geomchi and the instructors readily pulled out their mats.
Everybody’s loots gathered in one place.
The gathered mats obtained from the land of vampires were a tremendous amount settled all in one place!
Given the fact that the loots were simple ingredient materials, the price of all these gathered here could amount to hundreds of thousands of Gold.
“I think this amount should be sufficient.”
Weed went to a hill located near Todeum to create a tower of loot that was about five meters high.
Ttiring!