NOVEL WEB Chapter 10
Episode 10
How loud I shouted… The monster shuddered in terror.
King!
But who am I… I scooped up the skin of its foot. Red blood soaked its feet, and when I felt very bored, I severed its ankles. Perhaps the reason I’m laughing and enjoying this is because the blood spilling is nothing more than flesh-colored rubber soaked in red paint.
Bam!
The footless giant collapsed. The vampires scrambled to avoid being crushed. I crawled up to the giant’s face. I looked into his eyes and saw that they were filled with tears. The vampires had aged him rapidly while he was being drained.
“Tsk… Poor thing.
Even I was moved to tears of pity. I decided to find a way to put this monster out of its misery. Even though I was a pervert, how could I torment a monster that was crying?
“Monster… I’m too bad even for my good. Vampires, back off!”
The vampires backed away, and the monster looked up at me gratefully. Still unable to get up, it just lay down and closed its eyes to rest. I raised my sword to do a good deed(?).
“Emperor’s Sword!”
I raised the sword and sliced the monster’s throat in two in one swift motion. I smiled.
“Well, well. It’s best to give a suffering animal eternal rest by killing it.
“Kk… khahahahahah!”
“You have fulfilled 2/3 of the Master Quest. You now have two copies of the master skill Emperor’s Sword.”
* * *
“Boss, he has reached the final stage.”
“Ah… do you think I’m blind?”
“I’m sorry.”
The boss wondered what was so urgent and reported Karen’s behavior. He couldn’t understand why she would do that when he was monitoring her. She couldn’t be doing that unless she was trying to get him in trouble. No… it couldn’t be.
Karen would now perform the final step of the quest. The original Master Quest was not meant to be done perfectly. No one could kill tens of thousands of monsters.
It’s impossible, especially for a swordsman who is only level 100. The point of the Master Quest was to determine who could last the longest, who could kill the most monsters, and reward them with Master Skills and items accordingly.
Karen had the shortest quest time, even though she killed all the monsters. There are seven master items. All questers can choose one of three common master items. Master items are more valuable than most unique items.
And if you killed more monsters and lasted longer than the average player, you could choose between two normal master items or one of three higher master items.
There were seven master items in total, three normal, three higher, and one supreme, which could only be earned by completing a master quest. None of the users had gotten them yet.
But this man, Karen, would have a 100% chance of completing the Master Quest.
The first gateway was originally called the Dark Gateway. This is the gateway where the dark races converge, and the ultimate goal is to slay all of them. Formally, of course.
Since that’s impossible, the real goal is to live the longest. Of course, as soon as you die in the first gate, the quest is complete and you move on to the next gate. If you give the Master Quest your all, you’ll get good rewards and skills, but if you do it half-heartedly, you’ll get lesser rewards and items.
The second gate is the Gate of Giants. Again, they are a race that has a hostile relationship with the human race, and you must kill them all. Of course, if you die, you’ll move on to the next gate.
The third gate is the most difficult of all, the gate of mirrors.
You don’t see a mirror, you see yourself. A fight with yourself. The system of Middle-earth analyzes and copies its opponent. Without a single difference.
This gateway can be easy depending on how well you know your character and how well you combine your skills, but it’s also a difficult gateway because the other person you’re fighting is an A.I. with perfect knowledge and perfect skills.
This is the final gateway. After completing the Master Quest, you’ll be able to choose your reward item. In Karen’s case, he would definitely have a top-tier Master Item…and he would probably beat the Master Quest in the shortest amount of time…so he would have the option to choose the top Master Item.
Another thing is… he caught a level 300 Blood Emperor at level 98, so he should have leveled up about 100, but it all counts as extra points for the master quest, so hopefully he’ll get at least 6 of the 7 master items. This shouldn’t have happened normally.
These are unique items that would be very helpful to have, and I shouldn’t be giving them away so easily.
Heck, leveling up to 100 in three days was enough to get me reprimanded by the boss, but now I had to give away six unique items.
The best uniques that aren’t even normal uniques…….
“Oh, and by the way, isn’t the item he’s holding right now also a joke?”
With the addition of the Vampire race, the Vampire Castle attracted a lot of high-level players. Of course, vampires have a very strong sense of kinship, and when a master player appears, they will leave the low-level players they were playing against behind, and all gather around the high-level players to attack.
Even if you’re level 200 or higher, you’ll be unable to use a single skill if 20 vampires attack you at once. Vampires were fast and strong monsters. Furthermore, the higher the level you are, the greater the penalty for dying. Sure, you lose 1 level whether you’re high or low, but that’s it!
If a level 200 drops to 199, the experience required to get back to 200 is equivalent to gaining 10 levels from level 50 to 60.
Of course, the monsters they catch are stronger and have some experience, but the losses are still greater than for lower-level players.
Items will drop with a certain probability from the five most expensive items in your inventory. Items dropped by players can be eaten by other players, but usually by monsters. Monsters also have inventories, and when they die, they drop items at a higher rate than you do. Karen has already gotten a lot of unique items. That’s because she’s caught so many monsters, and they’re strong.
“Yes, she has the Hammer of Thor, the Holy Sword, and the Dragon Slayer, which are high-end uniques that are not spread across the entire Human Server, and the Obedience Set she’s currently wearing is also a high-end unique set. There are many other rare high-end uniques, and countless rares. The boss didn’t set a limit on the size of her inventory, so this situation could have happened.”
“Ugh…….”
You’re the one who didn’t set a limit on the size of your inventory, and you’re the one who allowed monsters to eat your items. It’s all your fault.
“When does Shin Eun Kyung plan to approach Karen?”
“After the end of the Master Quest.”
“I hope he succeeds in that.”
* * *
I was confronting an extremely handsome man.
He was dressed in an ugly black cloak and pure black clothing, but the fabric was very fine and very handsome. He had a handsome face and slightly red eyes.
He glared at me, but he was handsome enough to make me want to look away.
…It was me who was staring at him. He looked exactly like me, and he was wearing the same items. This handsome bastard(?) looked at me like he was going to kill me, but I let him because he was so handsome.
‘Hmmm, he’s so handsome, he’ll make a woman cry. Hmmmmm.’
I mumbled the truth (?), and suddenly this handsome guy disappeared.
“Where did he go?
I suddenly felt a chill down my spine. He was behind me, stabbing me with a replica of my knife.
‘How dare you… stab me in the back!’
I quickly dodged. He must have been learning my dark steps, his movements were hard to see. If I caught him, he was just a black afterimage.
His speed was such that I couldn’t distinguish between his body and the afterimage. Of course, I was moving at a similar speed, so I could see his movements to some extent. No matter how fast you move, if you move at the same speed in the same direction, it looks like you’ve stopped, right?
‘Kkkkkkk, I’m smart after all.’
Suddenly, this handsome bastard’s sword was filled with black light. My body was sucked towards his sword by the force of dynamics. The Emperor’s Sword was stronger than I thought. No… it was like an invincible technique. Even if I struggled to escape, I was sucked in by the wind, and the sword was still thrusting out at a high speed.
“Then!
I did not resist the wind but rather leaned into it and ran. With great speed, I reached him and tried to strike him on the head with my sword, but a black curtain rose and blocked my blade. I recognized it at a glance.
“The Enclave!
Enclave is a basic skill of high-level demons. Demons, including Blood Emperors, of course. When I created my class as a Blood Emperor, I got class skills, and Enclave is one of them. Enclave is a passive skill.
It’s a shield, but it’s passive, not active. It’s a wall that disappears on impact but becomes infinitely stronger with mana. Enclave gives the caster a second chance even in dangerous situations.
‘Damn, I didn’t learn it because it was too much trouble, I didn’t realize it was so good, I should learn it!
When did this flower boy(?) wake up, this time he was muttering under his breath. That must be a Blood Emperor’s unique skill. Probably one of the black magic.
What I know about black magic is that it’s very destructive and has a very high chance of killing you instantly if you’re hit, but the downside is that the spell is a bit long and has a large delay.
“Emperor’s Blood, Chapter 2, Emperor’s Sword.”
My sword began to glow with life. It felt like a faint blood wind was blowing, but it was a very strong wind.
The red buds dazzled the black beauty’s gaze, but the blood wind was sucking at his body, sharply cutting through his flesh. This was also a very majestic, yet cruel technique.
But the handsome man disappeared before he could be sucked into my sword.
“……!”