Chapter 108 – 31. Reserve Platoon Strength Assessment (3)
A notification window popped up in my field of vision.
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「Improved Imperial Sword / Rune Enchantment」
* Rating: Rare+
* Performance: It is an imperial sword with significantly improved attack power compared to normal imperial swords. Special effects are activated through runic enchantments.
### Rune Enchant 「Will」
: Due to the effect of the rune word ‘Will’, the damage of attacks using mana increases.
: Creates a shield that resists magic power.
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As you can see, it is an imperial sword enchanted with runes. Considering that the imperial sword’s item grade is ‘normal’, the performance of the item has been greatly improved. Especially damage.
‘The Lion Heart Sword and the damage increase effect go well together.’
Of course, if only that level of performance improvement is all there is to it, it cannot be graded as a rare + that exceeds normal rare. The key is, of course, the rune enchantment.
Cecilia engraved runes with the meaning of ‘will’ on the blade of the imperial sword.
As a result, special effects were added to the imperial sword.
Increased sword damage through mana. And more important than that is to create a shield that resists magic power.
‘In this way, there is no need to waste mental energy using the divine power needlessly.’
Pantheon swordsmen are generally Paladin style, a mixture of Knight and Holy Priest. That’s why the survival rate is high even in dungeons full of demon power curses.
However, the class characteristic of using part of mana as divine power is sometimes a disadvantage. Being unable to fully concentrate all mana on attack power.
However, if there is a rune enchantment called this will, the consumption of holy power can be eliminated.
As a result, the original mana could only be used for the Lion Heart Sword. And, of course, that method was more suited to Reinhardt’s swordsmanship.
Before I set out on a full-scale dungeon raid. I checked once again the rune that appeared on the sword body, ‘will’.
‘Of all things, the inscribed runes are the will. Cecilia must have liked me.’
The dragon’s blood has not fully awakened yet. So, although the runes cannot be completely interpreted, the feeling comes to some extent.
A rune containing the creator’s wishes.
Thanks to me, Cecilia was able to enter the Pantheon she so much wanted. In addition, she made it possible for me to receive the sponsorship of Aitern Co., Ltd. Under the best conditions.
So it must have been the feeling of an ally I met for the first time in the middle of the enemy camp called the Imperial City. Besides, because of the blood of the demons, they must naturally have a crush on me.
You must be relying on me in the middle of the day. So it seems that the rune of will was engraved.
‘It was a fairly high-level rune in Demon King’s Slaughter.’
That wasn’t all. I read another meaning hidden within the rune of will. Friendliness. Trust. Especially for older men…
‘My older brother.’
It feels a bit more antique than my older brother, so it must be closer to my older brother. I felt that emotion strongly in the runes. That emotion activates the divine power shield.
And when I think about it, Cecilia is the noblest demon, the demon tribe. Of course, my father, the demon king Lucifer, was also a member of the demon king family.
Of course, unlike the human royalty, the Demon Kings are not created by blood. Demon King is a word that refers to the clan that produced the Demon King. However, there is a certain order among the demon kings.
‘Still, my father was the Demon King. I’m higher in rank.’
Anyway, I really like the feel of the imperial sword.
Just in time, the cry of a goblin came from a moment ago. I quickly moved my feet and headed there. Sylph, the sub-spirit of wind summoned in advance, flew there first.
Soon, the sylph sent a sound through the wind and whispered to me.
‘Five?’
One of them looked like a demon. I properly used the direction of the wind Sylph told me so that they wouldn’t notice me.
Against the wind, approach them cautiously. Because monsters and beasts have a sensitive sense of smell.
I concentrated the mana circulating throughout my body into an instant mana heart. Then, the mana strengthened through the mana heart was lightly blown into the imperial sword.
Soon, one lion heart sword and two types of slashes flew in the back of them.
Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwam-
Then, at the same time as the flash of mana, a ferocious explosion sounded. It was a sound so loud that it shook the ground.
‘What is this power?’
It is clearly the result of my slashing. It was such a power that I was bewildered for a moment.
I tried to raise the sense of blood moderately against monsters. In other words, preparation. But before that, the five monsters literally perished on the spot, leaving no fragments behind.
‘There must have been a Type 4 Witch among them.’
Only 2 meals of one lion heart sword. I didn’t expect that a light cut would have such an effect. It wasn’t even the white night, the mystery of chapter 1.
I checked my mana heart again. Through the aura of the Snow Wyvern, the Mana Road was completely pierced.
The central point where the mana circulating through the mana road gathers in one place is the mana heart. My mana heart was now reaching the level of the third tier.
However, my mana heart was on a different level from the mana heart of ordinary mana users confirmed by the medical school. A special mana heart with a polyhedral structure unique to the Reinhard lineage.
Among them, each of the polyhedrons developed in complexity like a net, and my mana heart increased the momentary explosive power of mana.
‘A total of 3 mana rotations in the 3rd level. So it’s weaker than the mana rotation of the 5th tier that creates auras. Does this level of power still come out?’
Even with 3 rotations, the mana amplification rate seems to have doubled due to its complex multilayer structure.
I thought while moving my feet busily. My body has developed beyond my imagination.
Perhaps, if it had not been for the imperial sword Cecilia had made for her, the sword would have been damaged without enduring the rapid mana injection.
‘My eyes were correct. After all, Chloe is a craftsman to covet. Cecilia.’
And the center of gravity of the sword that Cecilia adjusted to match the lion heart sword. She lowered the center of gravity closer to the hilt of the sword, making it possible to carry the unique majestic spirit of the lion heart sword.
‘It must be the result of all of that combined.’
Considering Chloe’s help to some extent when dealing with similar monsters in the last mission. It has grown remarkably in a short period of time.
However, as powerful as it was, another homework arose.
Just a while ago, the mana blade created with the lion heart sword consumed a lot of mana.
Reward mana obtained through quests can be used for alchemy or spiritism, but cannot be used for mana blades.
‘So I must win first place.’
A platoon commander’s badge that can be obtained through force evaluation. Among them, the badge awarded to the first place has a permanent mana increase effect.
Currently, my original mana is 80MP. It hasn’t been half a year since she awakened her mana, so it’s an amount that can’t be said to be too much for her. It will increase if you continue to practice mana practice.
Of course I can’t afford that.
‘Until the nest is attacked by any means. I’ll make my body right.’
To that end, we should first focus on evaluating our current strength.
Following Chloe’s genealogy stored in the system, I found the shortest path to the dungeon and made my way through the unpleasant fog.
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The layout of the dungeon, so the composition of the dungeon was very dirty.
In a normal dungeon, the monsters and monsters that appear are usually determined according to the terrain of the dungeon.
However, the current dungeon is an artificial dungeon created with hallucination and fantasy magic. So regardless of the mountainous terrain, monsters came out in a jumbled mess.
‘This is why it will take a long time to break through without a genealogy.’
Monsters with the four attributes of water, fire, wind, and earth are evenly distributed. And hordes of monsters, whether airborne, ground, or underwater, appeared everywhere.
Moreover, what makes the strategy even more difficult is the ominous fog mixed with demonic spirit power. Of course, the curse has no effect on me due to the rune enchantment effect. It was very uncomfortable to have the view obstructed.
‘So it must be more fortunate for Chloe.’
In this way, Rosette will not be able to fly around with the magic wand. Because it was a special fog created by magical spirit power, the view was blocked even at a fairly high place.
In addition, there are air type monsters, and there are monsters that specialize in long range attacks.
So, bouncing up in the air means rather getting hit by the concentrated fire of those monsters. This fog doesn’t affect monsters at all.
Because of that, Rosette’s dungeon clearing speed was not overwhelmingly fast, even in Demon King’s Slaughter.
‘Even if I don’t have a genealogy, I won’t be able to beat Rosette.’
The theory lectures I took in my spare time for a month after school started. Among them, he recalled the basics of dungeon raiding.
The dungeon disappears when you defeat the boss monster located near the dungeon’s core.
So, if it’s a lower dungeon, it’s often that you skip hunting for subordinates and monsters and go straight to the boss area.
However, as the difficulty of the dungeon increases, the story changes.
If the subordinate beast remains without dying, the power of the boss beast, the owner of the dungeon, increases. A buff effect due to the loyalty of a subordinate monster.
So, in order to clear the dungeon, it was essential to attack that subordinate monster first. And in this special test dungeon, there are so many subordinate beasts to strengthen the boss.
If you ignore those subordinates and enter the boss area, you will have to face an absurdly strong boss due to the buff effects of the subordinates.
‘That’s a specification.’
Even if it’s a type 3 monster, judging from the shape of the gate, it’s a tricky beast that’s closer to a type 2 monster. If there is a full buff on it, it becomes more difficult to attack.
Of course, it’s not to the extent that I can’t attack it now.
The problem is that this evaluation is a time attack. It takes too long to single-handedly defeat a fully buffed boss.
So, no matter what, I had to grab a subordinate and go. That was the intention of the platoon headquarters that created this evaluation dungeon.
‘But it’s inefficient to grab everyone and go.’
Then time is also a problem, and my mana won’t be left. It was the need for a strategy.
Of course, I have a genealogy. The optimal movement line has already been perfectly woven into the system.
Like the navigation, the system guided me through the dungeon. Originally, he would have confused his sense of direction through hallucination magic.
Reinhardt’s blood heated up after catching the monster. And with the help of the genealogy entered into the system, I was able to quickly break through without wasting time.
Then, he slashed the head of the demon in front of him.
“Khehehe-“
“Noisy.”
Undead this time. Among them, it was a flame ghoul whose whole body was burning.
The heat alone made my skin dry, so I summoned Undine and drenched my clothes in water before defeating him.
“Is there one last one left?”
The ghoul I just killed was a high-level monster, almost like a type 3. Five monsters have been defeated so far. Including monsters that are not monsters, there are close to 50 of them.
I checked the mana remaining in my mana heart with the system. 60MP. I used the natural mana as much as possible.
Alchemy and Elementalism. Because he used those two methods together in battle, and only used 1 or 2 types with low mana consumption for the lion heart sword.
After entering the dungeon, the elapsed time was about an hour. Now, if you defeat one more subordinate monster, you can head straight to the boss area.
‘If you defeat that demon. I can make a shortcut.’
A dangerous monster that a normal cadet would never deal with. But I had to defeat him.
Because that witch really makes a literal shortcut. So it was the core of the genealogy that Chloe had obtained.
I stood on top of a terrain slightly higher than the surroundings and looked around the area where the demon was.
On the outside, it is an ordinary earthen area that looks no different from any other place. And there were no demons or monsters around it at all.
However, if you are a cadet who diligently listened to the theoretical lectures, you will not be able to know. If you look closely, the dark black soil is distinguished from other places. And there are no plants, animals, or even monsters nearby.
I summoned the lower spirits of the earth, the gnomes, and moved them over the soil. A gnome that looks like a bearded dwarf. When he reached the area, he screamed and melted away.
“Hey profit-!!”
Just like that, the gnomes were forced to return to the spirit realm.
Undoubtedly. A place made of strong poison in that area. And under that soil, a giant centipede monster, Poison Centipede, must be hiding.
And likewise, if you are a cadet who listened intently to the theoretical lectures. You must have been familiar with the professor’s explanation to avoid dealing with that guy and avoiding it.
I decided to disregard the advice out of maddening instinct. Then, I opened the system window and checked the skill.
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[You have completed creating a new skill.]
* Lion Heart Sword Chapter 1 Five Nights
: Satisfied the required attribute level (A) and 3rd tier mana heart. (Generated)
: 50MP of mana is consumed.
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Poison Centipede, a centipede monster that is more difficult than the normal type 3, equivalent to a dungeon boss. It was a very suitable opponent for the dark night, the secret weapon that was finally able to be used.
I jumped onto the dirt field.
