These cute little things, finally revealing themselves.
Awakened Essences.
âI just hit level 63 right now. I only have one skill thatâs over level 90.â
âIs that so? Even if youâre level 63, you donât normally reach skill level 100?â
âOf course. Thatâs obvious. Mana is limited, and the experience required to level up skills is enormous.â
âHm⊠Hyung. I think I found something funny to show you.â
âWhatâs that?â
Jong Hoâs eyes widened as he fumbled through the stones.
He opened his palm to uncover three Awakened Essences.
For over three months, I had spent at least 12 hours a day, or up to 18 hours a day, hunting without any breaks.
Even with that, I was only able to earn 2 Awakened Essences.
But with the mimic, I had just earned three.
Jong Ho did not look like he could close his mouth anytime soon.
Jong Ho said that he was able to earn an Awakened Essence through party hunting once.
But he had to share the profit between 8 members.
The records in the trading center show that since the profit was split between 9 members, it became obvious to anyone that these were low leveled players.
Jong Ho continued to speak.
âIâm continued to be surprised. Really.â
âHyung. Iâm almost scared of opening the duffle backpack.â
âDonât you have one or two skills that are near level 100?â
âOf course. There are a few.â
âPlenty of skills begging to be Awakenedâ is the truth though.
âThatâs good. Youâll need the Awakened Essences soon.â
âStill, you should take one, hyung. It doesnât come by often. Once you get a skill to level 100, how could I let you wait?â
âIâll say I received the skill books because they were warrior class only. But this isnât.â
âShould I feed it to the hounds?â
âYeah. This is something I wouldnât receive even if it was fed to the hounds. Iâve lived my life by reading people and keeping my pride. Donât make me doubt anymore.â
âStubborn.â
âYeah! Being a hyung, how can I live depending only on you? Letâs see the rest of the gear.â
Jong Ho rubbed his nose once with his finger, and began to search through the equipments buried under all the blood stones.
Itâs little habits like this that make it impossible to hate him.
I also joined Jong Hoâs search.
âLooks like all the gear is useless?â
âWhy? You donât have any mana rings. Stop using that skull ring. The ring and necklace raises your mana, so you can use it.â
âNot pretty. I have a thing called preference, so Iâd appreciate it if you let me stick to it.â
âSounds like youâre very spoiled. You sure youâre not going to use it?â
âYes. Stones and the gear are going to be sold, and Iâll give you half. If you wonât even receive this, Iâm not going to meet you again.â
âYouâre just like a pumpkin farmer. Thanks!â
The items we acquired through hunting with Jong Ho were amazing.
Three Awakened Essences, skill books, blood stones, and the rare Titan Boots.
It wouldnât have been possible without the mimic.
It was the first time Jong Ho had seen a mimic, and he had been Awakened for years.
I felt as though the mimicâs tongue that was sticking out would appear in my dreams for the next couple of days.
The amount summoned by âDevil Avatarâ had increased by two.
It was due to arriving at skill level 100.
Due to the 60 minutes cool down, it bothered me a lot.
But thankfully I didnât only earn 1 skill experience for summoning it.
The enemies hit by the summonedâs skills gave experience as well.
Red. Blue. Yellow. These are what they are called.
Personally, I liked Blue, since it could cast frost magic.
With one cast, there would be days when two Blues would come out.
I only had Frost Orb as far as frost magic would go, so I needed frost magic that would slow down my enemyâs movement.
The spot was being filled by Blue instead.
The 4m avatar displayed some incredible destructive force.
At level 100, they could slow down the movement of the level 18 monsters just by being near them.
Something similar to a frost aura.
Avatars didnât only attack with magic.
Each hand held a giant sword.
The shape was something like that of table knife.
Their attacks, both physical and magic, would freeze opponents solid. How much the mobs froze depended on how many times they attacked.
The sword attacks were physical, but it had effects as though if it was enchanted.
From the sky rained icicles while the avatar swung its giant sword.
Kind of made me feel bad for the monsters.
The avatarâs weakness was that they were mortal.
Fire Shock and Gravity Laser caused friendly fire damage.
I could put shields on them and freely cast magic myself.
However, taking care of it myself felt better.
In dungeons where only physical attacks work, it was obvious that they would prove useful.
Also, the summoned would attack until its life force ceased.
Which means that after I summon them, I would be able to freely cast spells with both my hands.
After summoning them for the first time and ending the hunting with themâŠ
I had the worry of âHow will I bring these giants around?â
With the pressure it exuded and its size, people may mistake it as a portal explosion.
But I found out that you could shrink the Devil Avatars to the point where they could fit in your pockets.
Anytime at my will.
Theyâve become something like my own Pokemon.
With their size reducing to that of a finger, they looked a lot cuter than I thought theyâd be.
From using the Devil Avatar, I was able to find out the potentials of a summoner.
Fast skill leveling, destructive power, survivability, and even cuteness.
I became really greedy for another high ranking summoner skill.
Itâs been about half a month since Iâve hunted with Jong Ho.
I had learned âIcebergâ and âMeteor Callâ.
Both were A+ ranking skills, displaying devastating force and price.
But with the vast amounts of B ranking stones and gear earned from the mimic, I was able to amass an earning far more than what I thought I could obtain.
With all the money saved up until now, along with half a monthâs worth of hunting, I purchased them.
When I first obtained the Awakened Essences, I thought to sell them so I could afford to purchase more skills.
While this method would speed up my growth immediately, it would be a heavy lost if you considered the future.
I would only be earning more and more money, to the point where Iâd be sick of it.
But no matter how much money you had, you couldnât obtain Awakened Essences.
Youâd know it just by looking at Yoon Jong-sun, who worked under Ilseong.
I used one of the essences on Reflect Shield.
Compared to the other shields, the Reflect Shield was superior.
It was a worthwhile investment since it would increase the reflect chance as well as the damage reflected back.
The other two leftovers, I was definitely going to use it on the A+ rank spells.
Originally I was planning to buy Glacial Field, as it did more damage than I thought.
It had an AoE freezing crowd control effect as well.
But I could get the freezing crowd control from the Devil Avatar.
Of course due to the summoned being random out of the three types, there was a chance that Blue wonât come out.
But to hunt faster, I needed stronger skills first. That was my choice.
Out of all the skills Iâve learned so far, none of them had a cast time.
But both Iceberg and Meteor Call had one.
At level 1, both skills needed 5 minutes to cast.
And both had a cool down of 5 minutes.
Thus, it took 10 minutes to be able to finish casting it again.
Thankfully for every 20 skill levels, the cool down would be reduced by 10%.
So if I was able to Awaken these skills and get them up to level 100 again, I could use them without any limit.
Itâd only apply to me though.
From level 1, it used up 4,000 mana, and as the spell leveled, so did the cost.
Only a magician who put all his points into the mana stat until level 160 could use one of these spells once when itâs at level 1.
To a regular Awakened, forget about getting it Awakened, you couldnât even reach level 100.
To test the destructive capabilities of these spells firsthand, I entered the dungeon after obtaining the skills.
Since I was equipping the Titan Boots, my movespeed had increased more than two times.
Running to the end of the dungeon didnât even take 5 minutes.
It was a massive upgrade from the Boots of Haste, which took 10 minutes.
Arriving at the end of the dungeon with 10 monsters in tow, I used the skill.
From what Iâve seen at the guild pvp, both skills seemed to exist only for the purpose of complete annihilation.
First test was with the Meteor Call.
Above the rabble of monsters flew down a flaming meteor.
The poison naga was instantly decimated due to its weak defensive stats.
The corpses that were left quickly disintegrated, not even leaving ashes behind.
After the meteor falls, it continues to explode and causes damage over time.
The next skill was Iceberg.
The griffons flying above that wasnât directly hit still flew about without any major injuries.
However.
A massive iceberg came forth from the earth, swallowing them whole.
Without even being able to use Final Attack, they were instantly trapped in the ice and became frozen chicken.
The insides of the iceberg continued to split apart and freeze again.
Almost like mixing puzzle pieces or a rubikâs cube.
Within 5 seconds, the 4 griffons had been ripped apart to pieces until I couldnât recognize them anymore.
Only a level 1 skill.
But the damage it caused was more than sufficient to surprise me.
Since it had a cool down and cast time, I couldnât level it up quickly. However, I was certain that I must level them up by any means possible.
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Entering the dungeon again, I casted both spells at the same time.
Both skills were of the same level.
However, both skills canceled each other out as if to remind me that theyâre both polar opposites, causing zero damage to the monsters.
If I cast a ton of buffs on myself and debuff the enemies, nothing would be a match against these spells. Thatâs if the dungeon mobs werenât immune to spells though.
âDoes casting Meteor Call and Iceberg on each hand still raise the experience? Or doesnât it?â