Chapter 532 – The Cursed Throne
Argent is unexpectedly unconcerned with Seongil’s question. However, unlike the way he speaks, Seong-il feels that the detective’s intuition warns him like crazy.
“…In that sense, hand that ring back to me. Then I’ll save your life.”
“…Are you trying to break the deal with me now?”
Although he already knew that he would do tricks, Seong-il deceives Argent by making a puzzled expression when he sees Argent change his attitude 180 degrees as soon as he gains knowledge.
At the same time, he uses telekinesis to move the three-line puppet unit in his chest toward his hand.
“Breaking it? I handed over the ring to you. But… Since the deal is over… I’m trying to make another deal.”
“Would you like to rob in a word?”
At Seong-il’s answer, Argent instead of answering with a round smile. In addition, he begins to cast powerful magic as if to show off by spreading fearsome magic around him.
“To be honest, killing one of you is too easy.”
“Then why don’t you kill me?”
Seong-il is dumbfounded by Argent’s shameless words, so he laughs and replies with a sarcastic tone.
“If I use powerful magic here to kill you, the temple and the magic tower may find out my identity. Then I’ll be a bit of a nuisance, right?”
“Okay.”
“That’s why I gave you the ring and told you to get out of here because I’ll save you.
“Under…”
Seeing Argent treating him like a bug, Seong-il throws off his mask for the first time and shows a murderous side to him.
“Choose. Die… Or save your life.”
“…It can’t be helped. Inside, I’m an idiot, so I’ll return it.”
After those words, Seong-il throws the three line puppet club and the ring at the same time towards the floor.
Jiik!!
“Hmm…?”
The sound of paper tearing while trying to retrieve the ring using telekinesis magic. At the same time, Argent feels a strange power flowing from the vicinity of the ring.
“This…!!”
A terrifyingly ominous feeling. Argent, an old monster who has lived for over a thousand years, opens his eyes wide and roars toward his holy day.
“You bugger…!! Showed your teeth when Jim showed mercy?”
“What are you talking about. About the ghost of an empire that collapsed a thousand years ago. Do you still think you bastard is the emperor?”
“…!!”
When Seong-il seems to know his identity, a ray of astonishment flashes in Argent’s eyes. But, that’s for a while. Argent, a seasoned mage, shouts keywords in his mind to instantly explode the powerful defense magic hung on his body.
“…?!”
However, for some reason, my own defensive magic doesn’t activate. In preparation for a crisis situation, more than twenty powerful defense magics had to be activated at the same time, but as there was no sign of any magic being activated, Argent’s expression began to harden.
“What kind of scroll is that…?!”
Argent realizes that the scroll is having a strong effect on him, even though he only feels an ominous energy and has not sprayed any power on himself.
“Shit more, you skeleton bastard.”
“You bastard…!!”
Argent stiffens his expression at Seong-il’s provocation and decides to throw off her fake body and return to her true body.
“…!!!”
However, the magic still doesn’t activate at all. He could definitely feel the magic flowing through his body, but he couldn’t control it in the slightest.
“Noyeeeee…
Even now, his body is terribly slowed down as if under a terrible slowdown spell.
“Neeeee nooooo…”
Argent’s eyes were red with anger. Even though his magic and powers are perfectly sealed, Seong-il sees that Argent emits vicious energy from his body.
“Eat this, you bastard!!”
Seong-il throws a black ball at Argent without delay. Then, from the ball that fell on the floor, void energy that gave off an evil atmosphere comparable to that of Argent, and Argent, who was hit directly by that power, was restrained and began to be drawn into the ball little by little.
“No eh eh eh…!!”
“…!!”
A body shattered upon contact with void energy and a hideous silver skull emerging from within. Instead of eyeballs, the skeletons with red rubies emitting evil light glared at the holy day and let out a terrible roar.
“Kuaaaaa!!!!”
However, Argent, a lich whose past, present, and future powers are all sealed in the Three Lines Puppet Club, is unable to project any power to Seong-il, despite trying to go mad. Long time to do that. In the end, he is pulled by the void energy emitted from the black ball and is completely consumed by the ball.
“Whoa… You’ve finally subdued him… But you have to make sure you finish it off.”
Worried that there might be a problem, Seong-il quickly picks up the black ball and throws it into the inventory to eliminate the variable.
“…Is Verisa dead?”
The figure of Verissa lying with her mouth frothing and her eyes turned upside down. Her holy day approaches her and projects her emotions.
“…The magic aftereffects caused by the forcible severing of the connection with the owner caused a serious blow to the mind. I’m sure I won’t die though…”
When Veri Sa seems to have only suffered her blows, Seong-il pours her healing potion into her mouth.
“Um…”
After pouring several bottles of healing and mana potions into her mouth, Verissa’s breathing normalizes.
‘I’ll have to suffer for a while… But I don’t think I’ll get handicapped or anything.’
When Verisa’s body doesn’t seem to have any problems, Seong-il takes out the Ethereal Stone of her mind he bought from her a while ago and projects the power into her mind.
‘Should I delete all the memories related to me after watching it…’
Seong-il tries to reveal Verisa’s entire memory using the stone’s power. Originally, it would have been very difficult and delicate work, but since Verisa’s mind is thoroughly ruined by Argent, it is easy to touch, and the time to delete it is also close, so Seong-il succeeds in erasing her memories without difficulty.
‘Whoa… I have to cut off the tail…’
Seong-il summoned his alter ego and cleaned up the surroundings. That’s not enough, he uses the teleport magic of the magic imprint to hide her traces and return to the dorm.
‘If I’ve done it this far, there won’t be any problems…’
Seong-il, who succeeded in subduing the dangerous enemy, sits on the bed of the inn and breathes a sigh of relief as she touches the incomprehensible ring.
‘Come to think of it… I only read the story related to the ring, but I couldn’t check the performance… Shall I check it?’
In this way, Seong-il projects his emotions on the ring again.
『Incomprehensible Ring』
* Passive skill
– Immune to non-magical poisons and diseases.
– Can survive without air.
– Infrared vision.
– Permanent regeneration magic.
– Grants strong physical and magic resistance abilities.
* Active skill
– Blessing of Nazarus three times a day.
– Break through Nazarus’ powerful spell three times a day.
– The terrible death of Nazarus twice a day.
– Once a day, Nazarus’ Magic Absorption Trap.
– Once a day ? (Sealed state)
* When an enemy spell is absorbed by a spell absorption trap, the active skill of the ring is charged. (Except Spell Absorption Trap.)
“Mi… Crazy…”
The ability of the ring to be fraudulent enough to make stuttering words come out of Seongil’s mouth. He is astonished at the enormous number of strong passives and no less active skills.
“Fuck… Passive is also a fucking scam… Ah… Active is also formidable!? There are even 9 class and 8 class magic among them?!”
Among the 9 class spells, ‘Spell Absorption Trap’ is famous as the strongest magic defense spell. This spell was famous for being a spell that protects against attack magic after covering an energy sphere around the user.
The problem is that this spell, like a 9th class spell, is not simply an excellent magic for defense. In line with the word absorption, the shield was a powerful magic that had the ability to restore the caster’s spent spells after dissolving and absorbing the enemy’s spells into primal magic.
‘Well… It’s not invincible because the barrier will break if you cross the threshold… But where is this!?’
Along with that, another incantation that makes the heart pound on the holy day.
‘I don’t know what Nazarus is… But I know all too well the terrible death. Because it’s one of the strongest wide-area skills in the cursed throne…!!’
The 8th class offensive magic that Seongil used most when playing a wizard in the Cursed Throne. The spell was a ruthless spell that spreads gas in a radius of 30m to evaporate all the moisture of surrounding creatures and dry the enemy to death.
‘I would have been surprised if it was once a day, but to allow me to use this spell twice a day… And even use the spell absorption trap to reuse it…’
Seong-il continued to read the item description with shaking hands.
‘It’s because the top two magics are so open-minded… In fact, breaking through powerful spells is also crazy magic. It’s a 7th class spell, so if you overcome the fatal flaw of slow casting speed and somehow hit the opponent’s magician, all defense magic below 6th class will be destroyed.’
‘Wait… Casting speed? Is this…’
A flashing thought ran through my head. Seong-il, just in case, summons one of his alter egos and tries to use the Breakthrough spell on him.
“Break through powerful spells!”
Piying!!!
A spell that is instantly fired at the clone like an arrow. Seong-il feels the thrill of seeing it.
‘Poetry… Shit… Immediate casting!? The notorious downside of this spell is its casting, and it offsets that downside… Maybe another spell!?’
Feeling his blood boiling with curiosity, Seong-il carefully casts an inner plane and moves to a place where no one is.
“…A terrible death!!”
Seong-il raises his hand and trembles as he tries to use the terrible deadly magic. Then, as expected, a ball of gas quickly shoots out of the ring, just like in the spell breakthrough magic.
Sheaaaaa!!!
A brown orb that quickly reached the location Sungil wanted to target. After reaching the target area, the sphere begins to rapidly spread gas in all directions with an ominous noise.
“Oh ah ah !!”
A terrible scream emanating from the mouth of the previously summoned clone. The alter ego is deprived of all the moisture in the body and becomes dry like a mummy.
“Ugh… I only encountered the old game’s crappy effects, but seeing the spells in person is bloody brutal. But… What the hell is a guy called Nazarus doing? I’ve never heard of him at the time of playing the game… And what is the sealed skill…?”
Seong-il inspects the ring and inadvertently mutters the name ‘Nazarus’ written on the status window.
『Sha**Vala**deLua**Xa…』
“…!!”
Then, an eerie whisper echoed in his ear. Seong-il falls to his knees and starts to tremble because of the sinister ominousness of the whisper.
“Sir… What the fuck is…?”
Soon after, the whispers disappeared, but the eerieness of the voice lingered in Seong-il’s mind and made him fearful.
‘…Could it be that the ‘forgotten god’ is Nazarus? Or, is Nazarus the being that the forgotten god saw in the abyss?’
Seong-il decides to stop thinking about Nazarus, realizing that no matter who the identity of the two is, he will do nothing good for him if he is called by that name.
‘No way…Would wearing this ring have a negative effect on the wearer!?’
Just in case, Seong-il draws in the energy of his entire body to the maximum, then converts that power into emotion and projects it onto the ring.
‘Umm… There’s something secret hidden in the ring… But it’s not very dangerous. Rather, it is more likely that the ‘name’ is more dangerous.’
Seong-il feels a slight sense of relief as he understands the situation.
“Last order… Can I just say ‘bless you’?”
Unable to call out the name Nazarus at all, Seong-il stares at the ring and recites the abbreviation of the last active skill, ‘Blessing of Nazarus’.
“…!!”
Seong-il just shouts ‘blessing’, but feels a strange power flowing from the ring and covering his body.
“Invisibility…?! Does this blessing cast five spells simultaneously: ‘Enhanced Acceleration’, ‘Strength’, ‘Invisibility’, ‘Mute’, and ‘Steel Skin’!?”
When the ring casts as many as five buff spells at once, Seong-il looks horrified.
“Joe… It’s a fucking scam item… It’s really ridiculous.”
Perhaps because he got a ring with overwhelming performance, Seong-il feels it is not a waste to consume two items worth 100,000 points to subdue Argent.
“I have to buy this right now! Customs!!”
『Incomprehensible Ring: 200,000 points.』
“…Fuck.”
The price of the ring beyond imagination. Seeing that, Seong-il opens his mouth and spat out swear words.
