Chapter 44

Chapter 44

Seol stared holes into the Shades Grace.

[[Shades Grace]

Quality: Treasure

Required Class: Shadow Summoner

Recommended Level: 15-25

Damage: 50

Durability: 75/75

Weight: 0.3kg

A crystal ball made to imitate the ability of Shades, the Shadow Black Spirit. The ability to control shadows was maximized through extensive research but because of it, there were unavoidable side effects.

Basic Effect: +5 Intelligence, +15 Wisdom, +2 Spirit

Bonus Effect: Shadow Hand increases by 1 rank. Shadow Space expands by 30%. Your Shadow Summons stats are decreased by 20%.]

Ah

Seol couldnt help but sigh.

There were really good effects but he just couldnt let go of one thing

- Is this good or nah?

- Ah hes fucked LOL

- WhyWhyWhyWhyWhy?

- Its an item for someone else.

- For someone else? Its a Shadow Summoner exclusive item though?

- There isn't just one kind of Shadow Summoner.

Like Seols viewers suggested, the direction Seol was heading as a Shadow Summoner was completely different from the type of Shadow Summoner this item was suited for.

This weapon is specifically useful for the Shadow Summoners who use many low-rank summons

A Shadow Summoners Shadow Summon could be split into two main categories.

The first was the Shadow Summoners like Seol who had a small number of extremely powerful summons.

For those cases, effects that give an increase or bonus to the summons stats were the most important.

But this weapon decreases the summons stats

The other category of Shadow Summoners were those that had an endless amount of low-level, weak summons.

For those cases, having more Shadow Space was more important than the individual summons stats. Since they were low-level summons anyway, the decrease didnt even affect them too much.

- Ah Blaine LMFAO

- I trusted you Blaine hahaha I guess hes a bit of a ditz.

- Can he just take it back? LOL Ask him to give you something else!

- Blaine: I prepared this for you because I thought you might need it ^^ (proud)

The weapon Seol was currently using was this.

[[Full Moon Staff]

Quality: Rare

Recommended Level: 1-8

Damage: 22

Durability: 32/32

Weight: 0.8kg

A staff that absorbed energy from the holy moon. It is quite heavy.

Basic Effect: +10 Wisdom

Bonus Effect: All of your stats increase by 5% at night.]

The key stat, Wisdom, was not too different from Shades Grace and the bonus effect was usable.

Thats why Im having a hard time

Seol thought for a moment then ended up putting the Shades Grace back into his inventory.

I guess I have no choice. I just have to go there.

Seol finished organizing his equipment and entered Nobira.

And because of the issue with Shades Grace, Seol immediately headed to a place where he could solve his problem.

You over there! Dont cut in line!

Ah, Im sorry.

Hmph!

It was a place that didnt have just rough-looking muscular men, it also had refined women and greedy child merchants.

Theres a lot of stuff thats been released into the market from the recent ruin expedition.

Did you see that? Im talking about the treasure.

Oh, that? I saw it the moment they put it up.

But I wonder why they put that on auction

I dont know, maybe its because it hasnt found the right owner yet.

I mean it makes sense. Even if the items rare, who would pay that much money to buy it at that price?

From what I heard theyre not trying to sell it at that price but trying to trade it for another item.

Thats crazy What about the auction house fees?

I mean all you have to pay if it doesnt sell is the registration fee so I guess its none of their worries.

Ah, thats true. Anyway, its nice to see something like that.

Hello, I am Rita, one of the auction houses managers. Are you here to register an item at the auction house?

Yes.

Then please place your item here.

With a hint of regret, Seol placed the Shades Grace in a spot where other people couldnt see.

Place.

The managers face grew stiff the moment she saw the item.

Th-this is

Why? Is something wrong?1 to

No, not at all. Its just quite the item hm What would you like the minimum bid amount to be?

Seol remembered Gallottas Tongues minimum bid amount and said the same number.

Please make it 200 platinum coins.

A-Are you sure youd like to set the price that high when a buyer might not appear?

Its fine.

Seol had plenty of time and he wasnt in a rush to change his weapon.

There was also a chance that the owner of Gallotas Tongue realized his intentions and requested a 1-to-1 trade as well.

The odds of that are low though.

Regardless of whichever of the two happens, Seol was happy with it.

Someone could buy Shades Grace and Seol could use the money from that to buy Gallottas Tongue or the person who owned Gallottas Tongue could request a 1-to-1 trade with the Shades Grace.

Rita, the manager, then asked another question.

Would you like us to proceed as a proxy sale?

Yes, could you please do that?

Understood. However, we would like to request that you visit the auction house every day considering the item you are selling is something like that.

Okay.

Seol sold a few more items then left the auction house.

And a few moments later, Rita left the auction house through a back door and handed a note to a rough-looking man.

* * *

Seol then headed to the Adventurer Association to see if anything had changed in Nobira while he was gone. And as expected, the best way to learn about recent news was the community.

[ (NEW) [<WereFucked>s Post]

[Post Date: Just now]

[Title: You guys said Nobira would be peaceful now that Borgo was gone.]

Whoever said that Nobira would be peaceful should go and repent Nobira is fucking crazy right now

Is this a new cold war?

- Seriously, Im worried Ill get stabbed while Im walking down the street

- That fucking Heka, the Lion of the Ruins? Or whatever his name is, is fucking annoying.

- Can you say that to Hekas face?

Heka?

Seol had also heard quite a few things about Heka while looking into Chao.

Before Borgo died, Nobiras big-shot ruin hunters were split into five factions.

And after one of the factions disappeared due to Seol, the other four factions started competing more closely with each other.

Did something happen during that tense time?

[ (NEW) [<DieHeka>s Post]

[Post Date: A week ago]

[Title: How did things become like this? The people who know, know.]

You all know that Heka sided with Doju and Kibo sided with Shur, right? Everyone knows this much at least, right? Apparently, the two factions thing was going well for a while until something happened to Kibos faction. Heka and Doju noticed that Kibo was getting weak so they started getting aggressive to take over all of Nobira. You all know it too, right? Even though this place is a gathering of low-lives, theres a lot of money being moved around so whoever ends up taking over everything will become massive.

- What happened to Kibo and Shurs faction?

- I know for a fact that its something that happened to Kibos side. Theres nothing wrong with Shurs faction.

- Kibo sensei our lone wolf

- Please protect Nobira, Kibo-chan!

- I think Im going to go crazy Kibos faction is the moderates so theyre nice to transferees but Hekas side uses transferees like fucking meat shields so its obvious whats going to happen if they take over Nobira.

- I just barely found my footing in Nobira too, sigh Should we leave Nobira now?

- Would it be better if we go to Kongory? I heard its livable there now with Han Yeo-myeong and the guild alliance there

- Im just being careful because Im worried I wont be able to find a party after going there

Seol had a general idea of what was happening after reading this post.

So the balance is messed up. I guess theyre all tense now?

Since Seol wasnt tied down to hunting ruins like the others, it was entirely someone elses worry to him. He was also no longer somebody who had to worry about getting swept up in conflicts like this either.

Seol kept looking through posts to see if there was any other news.

Hm?

And as he was, he found a post related to him.

[ (NEW) [<BreakingNews>s Post]

[Post Date: Just now]

[Title: Private showed up in Nobira.]

Posts about Private started to appear on the community.