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[SK Skeleton Soldier Il-wol – Lv.24]
Strength: 60(+1) Agility: 60(+1) Health: 60(+3)
Intelligence: 24 Magic Power: 61(+3) Resistance: 2(+1)
Sense: 31(+3) Recovery: 7(+1)
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The stats gained from leveling up were invested in sense, which was becoming increasingly important, the rising consumption of magic due to the increase in skills, and health was also invested to match the final numbers.
Having defeated 4 out of 11, my stats increased by a total of 4 from the achievement [Summoner’s Assistant].
‘It seems you need to defeat them yourself to get the achievement effect.’
“Ah…”
Seeing Yeon-hee standing there blankly while swiftly moving her eyes, she was clearly checking her own achievements similar to mine.
Guhuk.. cough!
The one I had left alive must have been stomped by the Lizardman, as both of its arms were disjointed.
“Tell me. What were you doing here? And what happened to those people?”
Pointing at the ten or so heads separated from their bodies, Yeon-hee asked. After coughing for a while, the man finally opened his mouth.
“W-we just did as we were told… We know nothing…”
“You clearly conducted the ritual! You did such things without knowing what it was? And you still call yourselves humans?!”
Yeon-hee’s voice was rising a few tones due to her growing anger.
“Cough, cough… If that skeleton killed the priest, he might have known something.”
*Thud—*
‘Ah… Did I kill him for no reason? No wonder my stats increased by 2; he was higher tier than the others.’
From now on, I should try to keep the strongest ones alive…
‘Damn, will that even work? If possible, I should kill the strongest one first with an ambush.’
“And what do you gain from that? What do you even get by killing people?!”
“Damn! Of course, it’s money and equipment! Kah! Haah…”
It seemed the guy was fed up and spat his anger towards Yeon-hee.
“I have heard a bit about you! A Summoner? Second Awakening? How lucky to get your abilities! Your earnings must have skyrocketed, right?!! What about me?! I’m stuck grinding low-grade dungeons with some pathetic attack skill, worrying I might get hurt and die? But this organization gives you a shadow cloak just for joining. But you refuse to join? Murder? Damn it, strong guys only do their deeds from behind? How many have you killed—”
*POW!*
“Hik! Il-wol…?”
*Clap! Clap!*
‘Why am I listening to this nonsense calmly? What a waste of time.’
In the end, he rambled on about how he killed people for easy money.
Thud thud thud!!
As the message didn’t pop up, I decisively ended his life.
– [Summoner’s Assistant] achievement is activated.
Magic Power: 62(+1)
‘Oh, nice magic power!’
Smiling at the achievement effect, I clapped in front of Yeon-hee, who was biting her lips.
*Clap!*
Of course, it only made a loud bone noise, but it was enough to snap her back to attention.
“Hah… We can’t just leave the people here, right? My inventory is…”
*Clap—*
‘Being so naive…’
In the end, we began collecting the bodies of the victims and stuffing them into both Yeon-hee’s and my inventories.
“Ah, I can only take three. Can’t you fit more, Il-wol?”
‘Hmm… Huh? It’s still fitting? What’s going on here?’
“Whoa? It all fits? Why?”
‘Exactly… Usually, you can only fit 2-3 corpses…’
I was quite surprised, but for now, I continued shoving everything in. I dug through the pockets of the blue-eyed ones, hoping to find something, but as expected, none dropped even a single Rune of Vitality.
‘Did I at least get this one?’
I pulled out the Rune of Magic from the pouch tied to my waist. The spiral pattern engraved on the crimson stone revealed its identity.
Rune of Magic (Low-grade)
– Magic +8
‘Wow, this guy was holding something good.’
I handed the Rune of Magic to Yeon-hee, who was pouting for not getting any loot.
“Hmm? Was this what the priest had?”
*Clap! Clap!*
“Hmmm… Il-wol should keep this. I’ve already received too much, so I can’t take anymore. Here—”
‘Hmm, I still have a lot to give you, so this early would be troublesome.’
Anyway, having received the rune from Yeon-hee, I immediately pictured the Rune storage in my inventory, and the rune disappeared smoothly.
Magic Power: 70(+8)
I now had enough magic power to fire 70 fireballs in quick succession.
‘Wow— this feels solid.’
While widening my senses to see if there was anything else around, I suddenly sensed the magical aura emanating from the black board laid out to conduct the ritual.
‘Huh?’
I casually placed my hand on the board, and soon darkness engulfed my sight as I lost consciousness.
…
I felt as if my body was being pulled into a massive vortex, and when I regained my senses, a small fireball sat in my hand.
“Ah hot! Damn! What is this?!”
Startled by the fireball, I was shocked to find I had skin on my hand, and even more surprised when my voice came out, I awkwardly jerked my shoulders.
“I can tell you’re trying hard to get the attention of those above, but do you really think they’d care about people like us? They say if you just remain still, you’ll be fine.”
“U-uh, right.”
‘What the hell is this place? Why am I not a skeleton?’
[Calm]
My briefly confused mind settled down due to the trait effect, and as I raised my arms to look again, the texture seemed strange for human skin. It was like a mannequin.
The face of the person who spoke next to me was also vaguely distorted, only the eyes, nose, and mouth were there, making it hard to recognize as a human face.
Looking around, I noticed there were quite a few people scattered around in a space the size of a soccer field, all facing the same direction.
In front of them stood something resembling a human figure about 3 meters tall on a pedestal. That thing, like the fellow next to it, also had a blurred face.
‘Seems like just like the others, I can’t recognize it in this state?’
– Ah, everyone seems to have gathered. Some regions won’t have much time, so let’s start with the collection.
The moment the long-legged figure spoke of collection, the small fireball in my hand quickly dimmed and soon extinguished.
– Hmm… Not bad. To you, this may seem trivial, but these small things will eventually accumulate to create great deeds.
He looked contently at the huge fireball gathered in his hand and uttered a concluding statement before disappearing.
As many in the space began muttering something, they quickly started to vanish from their spots.
“…We will burn the flesh to hinder the descent of the gods…”
The guy next to me also solemnly muttered some sort of incantation and gradually disappeared.
“Till we meet again, brother. May Ah-Shuran be with you.”
“…Ah, may Ah-Shuran be with you…”
I instinctively echoed the words and he smiled faintly before vanishing.
‘Now how do I get out of here…’
After contemplating for a moment, I strongly wished to return to where I originally was.
‘…Dammit, cannot do it?’
Swirling-
Luckily, something changed as the space around me began to swirl, and I lost consciousness again.
…
“…Il-wol? Il-wol!”
“…Clap Clap Clap!”
Once I returned to the space where I was before, I realized Yeon-hee was looking down at me with my head on her lap, and I immediately sat up.
“What happened? You suddenly collapsed and couldn’t get up for a long time… I was so scared to release the summoning because I was worried something would go wrong…”
She seemed very shocked as tears streamed down her face. I gently wiped her cheek with the traces of tears and raised both arms to signal that I was okay.
Finally at ease, Yeon-hee smiled brightly and began to check my body.
‘Damn blue-eyed bastards…’
I felt a surge of anger as I thought of those guys who made her cry.
Srlak-
“Mmm…”
Momentarily soothing her hair, I began to reflect on how I ended up in that gathering of those bastards.
‘Surely, when I pushed away the priest, the ritual was still ongoing… and he fell over the altar as the offerings toppled too.’
Pat…
Looking at the black board where the ritual was taking place, blood from the severed head had soaked the altar, and the faint magical aura was gone.
I approached the board and grasped it to check the info.
Lesser Altar of the Blue-eyed Ones
– An altar made from Blackwood so that the Blue-eyed disciples can conduct rituals anywhere.
‘Blackwood? Was there such a tree?’
Anyway, the info coming out meant it had some utility or value.
I cleared the blood off the altar and stuffed it into my inventory. Even though I had stuffed in eight corpses, I felt no signs of limitation in the space. Normally, you instinctively feel a tightness as you approach the limit.
‘It’s definitely confirmed that the inventory space has widened more than when I was human. Hm… well, it shouldn’t hurt, right?’
There’s no need to overthink why it happened; doing so would only give me a headache.
We left the corpses of those guys behind and quickly stepped outside, neatly placing the victims right in front of the hidden space before making our swift exit.
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