Chapter 21

Chapter 21

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Chapter 21: Achievement Shop

Achievement Shop

‘This exists?’

Many people had hunted Lee Seoyoon before.

However, he had never seen a message related to this before.

‘The one who opened the horizon.......’

It might be something related to that.

Well.......

Come to think of it, this was also the first time he had achieved an EX-rank achievement.

If it was related to that, it wasn’t that strange that it only appeared now.

Is the shop a structure that opens like a status window?

‘Achievement Shop.’

[Opening the Achievement Shop!]

[Rank: Bronze]

[Owned Achievement Points: 30]

[Item List]

[1. Limit Break Potion]

[Required Achievement Points: 100]

[2. ???]

[3. ???]

.

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There seemed to be a lot of items, but he couldn’t see the details.

In the end, there was only one currently available item.

[Limit Break Potion]

[Increases level potential by ’50’.]

‘What?’

What?

What is he looking at right now?

Kim Minwoo rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

The content he saw was that unbelievable.

Still, the content was the same.

“......Crazy!”

– Master, why are you suddenly like this?

“Cedric! This is amazing! Amazing! I caught a big fish!”

– ......Big fish?

“Yeah, man! Now I can break through level 200!”

– ......Are there people who can’t do that?

Unfortunately, this undead could not share in his joy at all.

‘This is why people with talent are like this.’

Well, it wasn’t that he didn’t understand.

After all, usually just by Awakening, one could raise their level to 300 as a basic.

Of course, being able to level up and actually doing it were two different things.

This was because as the Awakener became stronger, the monsters they faced also became stronger and stronger.

In order to gain meaningful experience, one had to hunt monsters of a similar level.

From a certain level, it became difficult to even hunt monsters of the same level.

‘It’s common to give up on leveling up at that point.’

Between levels 151 and 250 was what was commonly referred to as the stagnation zone, or the C-rank zone.

Conquering C-rank gates with a party still meant risking one’s life.

Until now, the thought of going to the gate to make some money had been accompanied by excitement and anticipation.

But from here on out, the anticipation of returning alive began to be the default mindset.

In any case, Cedric seemed to not understand the concept of being stuck at level 200.

‘Surprisingly, it’s possible.’

There was a miraculous genius who couldn’t even reach level 300, which even the neighborhood F-rank Awakener could reach.

Kim Minwoo was a remarkable example of this.

‘I searched for a way for 6 years.......’

But ultimately, he couldn’t find it.

So, he had no choice but to fight against the Dragon Lord at level 200.

But now, he had found the way!

‘If I only have enough achievement points.......’

He could raise the level cap.

Moreover, there was a fixed value of ’50’, so he didn’t have to pray like when drinking a potion.

‘This is an incredible effect.’

Levels didn’t just come with the effect of a stat increase of 4.

They were interconnected with many factors such as equipment and skill books.

And since he was a Necromancer, the level cap of his summons would also be increased.

‘The limit has been raised much higher.’

Far beyond what he had imagined.

Now the important thing was how to earn achievement points.

Kim Minwoo thought back to the message he had seen earlier.

– You hunted down one of the supporting villains, ‘Lee Seoyoon’!

– The story begins to undergo some changes!

‘Supporting character, huh.’

When he saw that, he didn’t think that simply defeating a villain would necessarily award achievement points.

He had to defeat villains who held some weight in the story.

Hunting main and supporting villains.

That would be the first way to get points.

‘But it’s going to be tough to hunt them right now.’

He knew of many villains in this game that could be considered main or supporting characters.

However.......

The problem was that it was difficult to hunt them easily unless he had a coincidence like today.

They were all high level.

Except for a few, their spawn locations were random.

He couldn’t catch them right now, unless he raised his level much higher than now.

‘Another way to get points is...... to change the story.’

Here, the potion referred to the inherent stat points excluding additional stats from titles and equipment.

Inherent Stat Point meant?

The Basic Stats you had from the start and the Statsyou increased with potions.

And the Stats you get from leveling up.

All of these added together are the original Stats Points.

To be more precise, it also includes Ability Values that are naturally increased through training or actions.

‘That doesn’t apply to him.’

Kim Minwoo had never seen his stats increase while training.

So it was better to just ignore it.

Conclusion.

Each stat mentioned in the potion is currently 100.

He just needed to increase each of them by 50.

Then the total stats will increase by 200.

The Royal Road was complete.

And so he absorbed the first potion.

[Low-rank Mana Elixir is absorbed.]

[Amazing! Your terrible body has defied all odds and absorbed the full effect of the potion!]

[Mana increases by 2!]

[TL/N: Even the Status Window Disrespects his body ]

“What?”

A straight increase of 2?

Kim Minwoo was astonished by a message he had never seen before in his life.

[You have obtained the title, ‘Ultra Lucky Guy’!]

“......But they’re giving me a title for this?”

Didn’t you have to do something really hard to get a title?

He never thought he would get a title just by doing something that everyone else does.

For the first time, Kim Minwoo realized that his body had some advantages.

He immediately checked the effect.

[New Title List]

[1. PK Expert]

[Defeated an Awakened with an overwhelming level difference.]

[Effect: Attack power increases by 10% against Awakened who are 200 or more levels higher than you.]

[2. Ultra Lucky Guy]

[Defied all odds and realized good luck.]

[Effect: You seem to be luckier.]

‘You seem to be luckier.......’

It was a pretty vague effect.

Anyway, it was better than nothing.

And so he absorbed all the potions.

“......Isn’t the effect amazing?”

He was a bit surprised.

The potions were absorbed very well by his body.

“I managed to achieve all this with just eight hundred potions...”

He could clearly see how amazing this was by comparing it to when he was level 1.

Back then, he had taken over 1,000 potions.

He even had to retrieve about two hundred more from the household warehouse, fearing it wouldn’t be enough even after buying from Choi Yuna.

But now, it seemed like he could just return them all.

“Lucky me.”

Indeed, he was lucky.

Minwoo chuckled and learned a skill from the skill book.

[Skeleton Mage Summon (E)+9]

[Skill has been strengthened to the limit.]

[Consumes 20 mana to summon 2 (1+1) LV1 Skeleton Mages.]

“Nice.”

Level 9 was always a beautiful effect to behold.

Although it consumed twice as much mana as regular skeletons, it was worth it for a mage.

It was time to slowly exchange for the next set of equipment.

He took off the equipment he was wearing and opened the status window.

[Name: Kim Minwoo (23)]

[Occupation: Necromancer]

[Level: 51]

[Possessed Skills (4/20): Death Lord (EX), Cedric Summon (SSS), Skeleton Mage Summon (E)+9, Skeleton Summon (F)+9]

[Mana: 1,920/1,920]

[Titles: 15]

[Stats]

[Strength: 181(+18)] [Agility: 181(+18)] [Vitality: 152(+15)] [Mana: 175(+17)]

“This is insane.”

These weren’t the stat points of a level 51 awakener.

And this was excluding the stats from the new equipment.

The Ring of the Shadow Tracker that he could now equip after reaching level 51.

And the rare set item he purchased from the auction house this time.

[You have equipped the Ring of the Shadow Tracker!]

[All stats increased by 15!]

[You have equipped the Harvester of Destruction Set!]

[Strength +15, Agility +15, Vitality +15, and Mana +50 are increased!]

[Drain (D) is activated!]

His mana was boosted by another 65, and with the added effect of the Indomitable Soul, it increased by another 6.

Mana now stood at 263.

Pure mana alone was 2,630.

If this overlapped with Death Lord’s mana cost reduction...

“Rise, my minions.”

[452 Skeletons are summoned!]

[300 Skeleton Mages are summoned!]

An army of over seven hundred rose to their feet.

It was an excessive number to defeat just one gorilla boss.

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