Overjoyed Weed’s first negative thought!
‘I should have came here alone….’
Geomchis, priests and Marey who followed along so he could compose a new song, because of them he had to share. As Weed was the one who led the quest, he had the ownership of 30% of all treasures that were found, the rest were divided based on the number of participants.
In a world where it’s heart-breaking to share even a small pea, how can you share mountains of gold, silver, treasures and items!
The second thought that came up in Weed’s head was that the sharing of treasures wasn’t even a problem. They could only take the gold, silver and treasure if they won the battle.
Weed’s face hardened.
‘Balkan’s Life Vessel isn’t here.’
Based on the fact that this place was in the center of the inner fortress with very heavy guards, he was certain this was the right place.
However…….
Weed sent a whisper to Mapan in haste.
• What is the situation with Balkan?
A reply came back without delay.
• Balkan’s withstanding by continuing summoning Undead.
• His health?
• Priests are almost out of mana, he drained health and mana from Geomchis and paladins so he’s still fine.
As long as he couldn’t destroy the Life Vessel, they couldn’t kill Balkan and will fail the battle as well. It became possible that all of the humans that entered Vargo fortress might be buried in here.
‘We must find the Life Vessel. It's definitely inside Vargo Fortress. There can’t be any other places. This place was the most safe and heavily fortified by the Undead.’
In critical situations, Weed’s brain only worked faster! In the room Balkan was, there was no apparent place to hide. Even so, the Life Vessel would not be hidden in a wine bottle in the basement.
‘It has to be a place where Balkan feels much safer and secured than this place where it is guarded by the Vandal Knights.’
Looking back through his memories calmly, he came up with a possible place where the Life Vessel was. There was a place several times safer than the outer or inner fortress. It was the top of the central tower in Vargo Fortress where Three Bone Dragons were flying around!
Everyone was exhausted from infiltrating the inner fortress of Vargo Fortress and breaking through the Undead. But now, they were in a situation where they had to fight against the Bone Dragons.
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United army of elves, barbarians and dwarves could not collapse the outer part of Vargo Fortress and continued to fight. If every warriors of each races came, they would have conquered the outer fortress already but their main forces didn’t get deployed as they had to protect the fairy queen.
Fortunately for the united army, the Undead force was divided as well. In the inner fortress, there was a limitation to number of soldiers that can fight due to the narrow hallway.
“Kill them all.”
“For glory!”
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.