Weed was okay with whatever criticism people had of him.
“The most important thing about art is self-satisfaction.”
The completion of the sculpture was seen by many people gathered in the square and those who were watching through the live broadcast.
The noise of mayhem and chaos coming from the walls was indescribable. Each group was readying themselves to escape. With this frantic activities in the background, Weed hid himself in a large fabric and activated his skill.
“Sculpture Transformation!”
Sculpture Transformation has been activated.
The endless love for sculpting has created the bridge between sculptor and the sculpture!
Weed’s body became bigger, his belly bulged out. His skin became completely white. The white, rather than giving off a noble or pure feeling, just made him look more dangerous due to his fierce expression.
Because of the mismatched size of your equipment with your changed shape, most of your equipped weapons and items cannot be used.
You can now wear the intermediate steel armor.
Please acquire necessary equipment based on your race or appearance.
Due to the effect of Sculpture Transformation, your strength and health has increased greatly. Because of the race trait, your health regeneration became faster. Intelligence and Wisdom has been reduced to an insignificant level. Failure rate of battle related skills has been steeply increased.
Intelligence, Wisdom, Art, Faith, Charm, Dignity has all declined greatly.
Applicable till Sculpture Transformation has been released.
Affinity to Nature has been applied, strengthening the cold effects emanating from the Ice Troll. +239%
Weed liked the change to his physical condition.
“With this overflowing strength, the only thing left to do is fight. Status Window!”
Character Name
Weed
Disposition
Monster
Level
406
Race
Ice Troll
Health
376,271
Mana
1,650
Strength
1,428
Agility
1,395
Vitality
1,684
Wisdom
15
Intelligence
11
Fighting Spirit
719
Endurance
662
Perseverance
959
Art
70
Charisma
462
Leadership
751
Luck
3
Faith
5
Charm
8
Resilience
881
Dignity
6
Concentration
152
Courage
170
*Ice Troll race traits are active.
Health and Vitality regenerates faster, cold is emanating from the body.
Following the change, skill mastery has been adjusted to beginner level 8.
Such one sided conditions! Stats increased proportional as level went up and it could be increased further with effort. Through questing, Weed had managed to raise his battle and sculpting stats quite high. But all that was converted to strength, agility, vitality, resilience and perseverance.
“This is good.”
Weed’s voice changed, becoming deeper but still resonated loudly.
When the fabric was pulled off people became shocked in finding that the number of Ice Troll sculptures increased to two. The new Ice Troll’s skin was snow white and even began to move. This was a huge reveal to the rest of the world on the secret of the Sculpture Transformation but it did not matter as others could not use the skill until they learned it.
Weed shouted loudly rather than using the Lion’s Roar, due to the mana expenditure and the possibility of failing the technique.
“I am Weed!”
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaa!”
*****
Surka, hearing the news about Serabourg Citadel, was restlessly worrying with her party members.
“What if something bad happens to Weed-nim? Moreover, Weed-nim has many enemies already.”
In Royal Road, it was a common occurrence for the auspicious players to find a knife behind their backs or be ambushed in dungeons. And for a player that Hermes Guild was publicly targeting to be trapped in a castle surrounded by the Embinyu Church! Could there be anything more awful than this?
Pale patted her softly.
“Someone of Weed-nim’s caliber can escape from anywhere so don’t worry too much. Even if someone wants to kill him, he won’t die.”
“Yeah, you are right. No matter how many weeds you pull out they just grow back, even if you spray insecticide on cockroaches they just don’t die.”
“Yes, you are totally right.”
If it was Weed, he would be perfectly fine. He was a person who would try to make money by creating a hot spring in the fiery pits of hell!
The party was currently hanging out in Morata’s tavern, watching the broadcast about the situation. Though the Embinyu Church’s invasion force was tremendous, they were confident that Weed, a user of any unscrupulous methods, could escape easily.
But as the view turned to someone who was making a sculpture, people in the tavern turned white.
“Could it be Weed-nim…..”
“Maybe?”
For a person to be making a sculpture where all the newbies were!
“I just can’t imagine Weed-nim to be doing something so out of character.”
This was the same Weed who grumbled about how hard it was to exploit the newbies, they remembered this vividly. Was it really this Weed who stayed behind for these beginners?
On the screen, it showed Weed turning into an Ice Troll and shouting.
“I am Weed!”
At that moment the deafening cheers of newbies and players gathered at the square of Serabourg was shown on the broadcast.
“Haccck!”
“It’s Weed-nim. Weed-nim is in the Rosenheim Kingdom!”
“War God Weed is on right now.”
The streets of Morata were in a pandemonium.
“Since when did Weed-nim go to Serabourg Citadel?”
“As expected! There is no way he would leave the weak behind and run away by himself. I knew it.”
“Do you think he knew the Embinyu Church would attack and went ahead? You know, to save the people there.”
“Yeah, it might be like that.”
“We don’t respect Weed for nothing.”
The players in Morata were once again misled about Weed!
Pale, Zephyr and even Mapan were becoming uncertain.
‘Is it really like that?’
‘I don’t think I knew Weed-nim’s true character till now, he’s a soft hearted and very kind person.’
‘I thought he was greedier than me. Now I know that’s only the disguise he wears with the intent to value and save the people.’
Seeing how Weed’s closest associates, those who met with him regularly and thought they knew all about him were so shaken in their beliefs, there was no need to speak about the state of the players of Morata.
All development of Morata was started by Weed and a staggering number of policies for the players were currently in progress. Even though he was a sculptor, no one who specialized in Arts and Culture could compare to his planning!
‘Weed-nim has a big heart, he can definitely pull it off.’
‘He did not spare anything and used his own funds to develop Morata from the ground. Other lords only cared about taxes.’
No one could help but admire Weed if they saw the various successes in Morata.
“How could such righteous person exist in this world...”
“It’s because there are people like Weed-nim that the Versailles Continent is not swept up in darkness.”
“Grass Porridge! Grass Porridge!”