From the ground in the hills nearby, the Undead arose and headed toward the outer fortress like a tide.
“Drive out the Undead, gain courage knowing that you are reclaiming freedom for our land””
Elves, dwarves and barbarians fought fiercely. From the chaos occurring in the outer fortress, Weed felt a serious chilling.
‘Three Bone Dragons…”
Normal Bone Dragons were already scary enough, but these Bone Dragon were masterpieces made by Balkan himself.
‘I guess we have no choice.’
Indomitable will that burned when he was driven into poverty and stepped on!
“Sahyung, we need to fight the Bone Dragons at the central tower to kill Balkan. What do you think we should do?”
He asked the Geomchis for their opinions just in case they had a good idea.
“We beat them down.”
“And leave perfectly good swords lying around?”
Instant agreement!
Truthfully, Weed also felt something was missing when he considered not going after the Bone Dragons.
“This way.”
There were more Undead reinforcements in the hallway as they moved toward the central tower. If they keep taking care of the approaching Undead on their way to the central tower, it will take a lot of time and they may be annihilated.
“We have to take a shortcut. I’ll go first. Please keep some distance and follow me.”
Weed broke a window and went out to the outer wall. Outside where the cool wind blew, gargoyles were flying around.
“A human.”
“Kill it!”
Skeleton archers standing guard on the fortress wall or lookout towers started shooting arrows towards Weed. Weed grabbed protruding parts and climbed along the wall.
“Quadruped run!”
SHASHASHAK.
He moved like a spider between the raining arrows, jumped on a destroyed part of the fortress wall or the portruding stones and hung on to it.
“Shoot the human first.”
“He seems like the worst guy. We must kill him first for Balkan-nim.”
Skeleton archers focused their attack on Weed.
KEEEEAK!
Even gargoyles approached and pecked Weed with their beaks.
“Moonlight Sculpting Blade!”
In a disadvantageous situation, hanging on the castle wall, Weed used his handicapped left hand to swing the sword. He drew the focus of the enemy so Geomchis, Marey and the priests could reach the top safely.
“Kill the man hanging on wall completely.”
“Let’s show the greatness of Undead.”
On the ground, skeleton mages gathered magic on their hands and shot also. Messages indicating he’s been hit kept popping up.
- Remaining health 36,789.
‘I am gonna die at this rate.’
Weed reached the roof of Vargo Fortress through climbing the wall. The roof of the inner fortress is was skewed and tilted. He was able to see many other large towers standing taller than the roof.
Following after Weed, gargoyles and bats attacked him with spells and arrows continuing after him. Only about 15% of his health was left. He had to buy enough time for Geomchis and priests to reach the top of the central tower from the other direction.
“With the situation as it is, I guess I have no choice..”
Weed took out a sculpture. A fine sculpture made of bronze called, ‘Japtem Embracing Merchant’.
“I didn’t want to use this again... but I’m not in the position to be picky when I have to fight the Bone Dragons. Sculptural Destruction! Let everything turn into agility.”
He crushed the sculpture with his own hand.
At that moment.
Weed’s body shone with light.
- You used the Sculpture Destruction.
Sorrow! Agony at the destruction of a fine sculpture.
5 art stat disappeared permanently. Fame decreased by 100.
Art stat transformed to agility with 1:4 ratio for 24 hours.
Because your art stat is too high and agility stat is low, the conversion will not happen instantly.
850 agility is converted into advance level 8 skill, ‘Wind Sprinting’. By consuming your mana, you can ride on the wind and run.
650 agility is converted to advanced level 8 skill, ‘Avoiding Art’. You can dodge enemies’ attacks completely. It draws more capabilities out of leather armor.
410 agility is converted to advanced level 4 skill, ‘Lucky Intervention’. Coincidental lucks occur frequently and you can use three-times stronger attribute attacks.
520 agility is converted to advance level 6 skill, ‘Accurate Attack’. Chance of critical hit has risen and attack increased.
- Proficiency in sculpting increased.
Weed’s body literally felt light as a feather.
“It good enough to run a 100-meter race.”
In Royal Road, changes in stats also result in physical changes. At beginner level, it takes nearly 30 seconds to sprint 100-meter. If you are wearing armor, it may take more than a minute.
But by raising strength and agility, speed would gradually increase and later it was possible to get 10 seconds like the actual athletes, and as the level increase the running speed would become even faster than that.
His endurance changed as well. He was able to complete a marathon as long as his vitality keeps up with him.
- An arrow passed by causing a scratch.
Health decreased by 130.
The flying arrow from skeleton didn’t hit Weed precisely and fell. It was the effect of agility where he naturally evaded without moving much.
“Then should I counterattack now?”
Weed took out a bow of high-elf Yurika. The price for arrows was regretful but now was the time to use it! If wood and steel was available, using his blacksmithing skill he could produce arrows so he premade 300 of them.
Weed ran on top of the tower and roof. He was too fast for bats and gargoyles to chase after him. He placed arrows in the string and shoot them towards skeletons. They seemed to be flying in completely wrong direction but they slowly changed their direction and precisely hit the enemies!
- Spirits of water inflicted additional damages.
A whirlpool of water appeared and swept the skeletons.
“Hit him!”
“Kill that human first.”
Weed slashed approaching gargoyles and shot arrows toward the skeleton archers while he was running around the roof. Arrows from skeleton archers all focused on him and gargoyles sitting on the fortress walls and towers flew in unison for a battle.
A thrilling pleasure coming from reckless speed!
Weed ran around the incomparably dangerous Vargo Fortress freely. As Weed pulled out his hand, an arrow shot from a skeleton archer was unbelievably caught.
- You obtained a steel arrow.
He shot the arrow immediately and returned it.
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Pale looked at Balkan with his eyes filled with fear.
“This monster, really its too much!”
Even though there were Necromancers, they weren’t able to summon every corpse as Undead before Balkan. The Undead summoned by Balkan were at least at the level of a Doom Knight.
Elite Doom Knight.
Captain Doom Knight.
Slaughterer Doom Knight
Plague bringing Doom Knight
They were all at the level of named monsters.
Even five Vandal Knights were summoned. Rather than attacking Balkan, paladins and Geomchis had to keep fighting Balkan’s royalguards while suffering from all kinds of curses.
Balkan was even withstanding Turn Undead spells from the priests. Due to Death Aura, he drained health and mana through Undead to survive. The paladins could not help but feel daunted.
“I think the number of Undead are continuously increasing.”
“Is Balkan going to die soon?”
“Can we even kill him? I think we are the one who will be annihilated!”
Romuna was deeply touched.
“If it’s not too late, should I change my profession to a Necromancer? Even if it’s difficult, if I become a Lich…”
The strength of a Lich that can control a kingdom even when being restricted by a sacred sword was revealed beyond doubt.
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At the same time the broadcasting stations were engulfed in pleasant worries. The battle in the basement where Balkan was, Undead versus paladins, contesting priest, it was enough to call it a battle of good and evil.
Geomchis were making great plays but Balkan’s Necromancer spells were so terrifyingly powerful that when there were casualties, his Undead force slowly increased. Another problem was that they had to block the Undead Legion coming from upstairs so their forces were divided.
On the other hand, Weed was running around rooftops of Vargo Fortress and fighting.Shooting arrows while sliding down the roof, leaping without any fear and slashing gargoyles with colorful Moonlight Sculpting Blade. A heart pumping battle scene with Vargo Fortress as a background.
It would be enough to reach the top place in the Hall of Fame. With them showing the best moments the viewers could not keep their eyes off.
“Which side do we have to broadcast?!”
Overall they felt the battle against Balkan was clearly important so they broadcasted that side but due to opinions of viewers curious about Weed, they changed the scene again.
What is happening with battle against Balkan?
Show us Weed moving around the roof.
How can he fight in a monster filled place as if he’s in an open area? Is it because he is Weed? I’m getting bored of dungeons, if I become a high level player, will I be able to fight like Weed? But still, I think fighting against the swarming monsters in a place like Vargo fortress is suicide.
They can only win the battle if they kill Balkan… Show us Balkan.
What are you doing, I was watching it! Turn back to Weed!
With fiery requests from viewers, broadcasting stations were bound to be sweared at with whatever they did.
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