Closed Beta I Played Alone

Chapter 238

238. Ready.

Of course, the black liquid human who appeared in Argentina just before was not a matter to be overlooked.

Obviously, it was because he was a different person from the ones who appeared in Osaka.

Moreover, the place where he first appeared was in the middle of the now ruined and vanished stronghold of the Talagapa Guild.

Of course it could have been a coincidence.

It wasn’t that common by chance, but it wasn’t that it didn’t exist either.

However, it was very ingenious to dismiss it as a mere coincidence, and in the end, the starting point of the investigation was not after the appearance of the black liquid human, but why the Talagapa Guild fell.

The Sayens Guild, which shook the dying Talagapa Guild to make it fall faster and absorbed its power, could not stop the flow.

And then the key of judgment and the place called ㅇㅇㅇ were mentioned.

In the end, the guild leader and successors of the Talagapa Guild, as well as those who played a pivotal role in the guild, used the key of judgment to move to a place called ㅇㅇㅇ and could not return. because it’s messed up

Anyway, as the Talagapa Guild came to Myeongjin with the key of judgment, the fact that only a small number of people, including me and Myungjin’s leadership, knew about it, was revealed to the world.

Of course, I was able to conclude that there is a 99% chance that even a black liquid human came from a place called ㅇㅇㅇ, not 100%.

However, the message is that we are recruiting an advance squad going to a place called ㅇㅇㅇ.

It wasn’t just me that the message sounded, so I could hear the hum of those who were far away.

“If it’s ㅇㅇㅇ, isn’t that where the black liquid human came from?”

“It’s also the place where all 30 of the main characters, including the guild leader of the Talagapa Guild, did not return.”

“Then isn’t it very dangerous?”

“Of course it is not dangerous. Honestly, the presence of Hong Jooyoung prevented the black liquid humans. Imagine if Hong Jooyoung didn’t exist.”

“……”

“……”

“……”

“Damn it! It’s a situation with no answer at all.”

“But even if it’s not necessary to be a black liquid human, if the people who showed up in Osaka, Japan, have average skills… So if it’s a place teeming with them, isn’t it a complete hell?”

“Ugh… I’m not going to die.”

“me too! Why do you go there because you are crazy!”

“However, if 300 people don’t come voluntarily, they say 3,000 people are randomly selected?”

“Could I take it?”

“right. How many people are there!”

“I don’t know.”

“I do not know. After all, I will never go!”

First of all, when I first brought the Judgment Key from the Talagapa Guild without knowing anything, I refused their offer.

Obviously, as they said, even if you do nothing and hide there for 30 days and then come back when the cooldown of 30 days is over, even though you get a huge reward.

Of course, there were several reasons for that choice.

But the most decisive reason was that there was no need to take any risk.

At that time, my growth was definitely not bad.

Moreover, if it was an enemy I had to fight unconditionally, I had a strong desire to meet after I became stronger.

Anyway, by directly mentioning the place called ㅇㅇㅇ, the message that had blown away the interest in mutant monsters echoed again and again as if the end was not yet.

[This is the rule of the event ‘Planning Team’.

– Exactly 10 days after the current time, a message to participate in the advance squad rings to everyone who has raised even 1% of the realization rate.

At this time, acceptance or rejection is possible, and if there are not at least 300 acceptors within 24 hours, a selection team of up to 3,000 will be randomly selected.

-After that, all of the advance squad will be moved to ㅇㅇㅇ.

However, there is a 30-day cooldown to return to Earth from there.

-When you die in ㅇㅇㅇ, you die as it is.

-Once a decision is made, it cannot be overturned.][This is a reward for the event ‘Squadron’.

– When participating in the selection team.

: Unconditionally increase by 10 levels regardless of the current level.

: Acquired 1 billion golden rings.

: Acquire 500 remaining stat points.

: Acquired 10,000 coins.- Upon successful return to Earth.

: Unconditionally increase level by 50 regardless of the current level.

: Acquired 5 billion golden rings.

: Acquire 2500 remaining stat points.

: Acquired 50,000 coins.

-In any case, the 3000 or more advance squads selected at random because they failed to recruit more than 300 people are not voluntarily participating, so no rewards are given when participating in the selection team.

However, it is possible to receive the rewards given ‘when you successfully return to Earth’.]

The rewards were pretty spectacular.

No, it was definitely awesome.

Moreover, unlike other events or quests, this time, there was a reward that was given priority to participation, rather than a reward after clearing it.

The reward given after clearing it was even greater.

However, it was not possible to see that the compensation was great.

Because the big reward is the surest proof that the risk is that much.

First of all, there were still 10 days left until the event started, so I stopped thinking there.

Instead, he left the Janssen Guild Leader of the Steyr Guild, who immediately finished tidying up the surroundings and gave thanks over and over, and moved to Myungjin Shelter.

***

next day.

The land of the ancient spirits at level 1800 hunting ground.

puck. puck. bang. bang.

hunted

Of course, the discussion about the advance squad, which is currently noisy around the world?

There are still 9 days left.

I also needed time to seek information from Chief In-su Seok and the intelligence department.

And I made a choice in my heart.

But I haven’t told anyone my thoughts yet.

The moment I express my thoughts, especially to Director Seok In-soo, the investigation into the event ‘selection squad’ is inevitably my intention.

So, rather, we kept some distance from the event ‘startup’ and focused only on hunting.

Continue down for 3 days.

next day.

Myungjin Shelter small meeting room.

A few people, including my father, older brother, older sister, and me, were seated, and soon after, In-su Seok stood up and opened his mouth.

“First of all, I’m sorry. In the past, I went to various places, including the information guild, but I couldn’t collect any particular information.”

In-su Seok, head of the department, starts with an apology.

However, not only me but everyone in the room expected it to a certain extent, so no one pointed a finger at Insu Seok.

In fact, it hasn’t been long since ㅇㅇㅇ first appeared.

After that, Director Seok In-su opened his mouth again.

“So we changed our approach to the event ‘startup’. It’s just who will participate and how much. It’s roughly tofu. One is that this event has a minimum of 300 people, and there is no limit on the maximum number of people. The power of scale cannot be ignored.”

It certainly wasn’t bad.

It may sound particularly cruel, but having a large number of people also meant that one’s survival rate would rise that much.

“The other one?”

And then, in response to his father’s question about the other side’s opinion, Insoo Seok opened his mouth straight away.

“The other is to approach it cautiously. In particular, the power of the black liquid human could never be ignored, and the person who appeared in Osaka, Japan just before that was clearly strong. If there are a lot of strong people of that level in a place called ㅇㅇㅇ to move, you will end up in a limb on your own.”

This also made sense.

After all, I don’t know anything about a place called ㅇㅇㅇ.

First of all, the small meeting room was enveloped in silence for a while.

However, Director Seok In-su glanced at the scene and opened his mouth.

“The decision of the Ministry of Information is the latter. Myungjin as a whole is not participating in the event ‘selection team’. To be honest, only Jooyoung-kun could oppose them. Against the black liquid humans, I could clearly see that it was not a large mountain of dust, but a dust no matter how much dust was collected. Moreover, the first group of moving all

One of the agenda items is that Jooyoung-kun must work together to protect them. We never have to follow their stupid idea of ​​simply using Jooyoung as a bodyguard rather than saving Jooyoung, who has the potential to be the last hope of the planet.”

A pretty long statement from Insu Seok.

No one responded to that.

In the meantime, Director Seok In-soo continued to speak.

“The first group of opinions is generally for those who move individually, and those who advocate the second opinion are large guilds or groups. So maybe the trend will be the second opinion. Of course, in the meantime, if those who support the first opinion take care of themselves by participating in the advance squad and occupying their seats, I would be rather grateful.

It is.”

First of all, it was decided.

Everyone in Myungjin is not participating in this ‘selection squad’.

Even though it was mentioned that they would move with me, everyone waved their hands saying that no one wanted to hold onto my ankle.

But then, after being silent, I opened my mouth.

And I agreed with my decision, but no one interfered.

Now everyone knows I’m not stupid enough to make such decisions without thinking.

***

next day.

The main square of Kotum Castle.

[Currently, there are skills that can be acquired.][There are currently upgradeable ice-based skills.]

There were two skill points among the things obtained from the previous ‘Destroy the Pylon’ quest.

And I was a little worried about how to use it.

Because there are so many things I want to do with it.

However, just before acquiring new skills or upgrading, he spoke quietly.

“Check inventory.”

First of all, I had quite a few things in my inventory.

If I had to pick the most valuable among them, I could narrow it down to about four.

as soon as.

[1 100% Enhancement Success Ticket.][Ancient Scroll to Remove Cooldown Chapter 5.][1 item option creation order book.][1 maximum skill level increase stone.]

Among them, the Gahwa Guild that occupied the pioneer city, which was almost abandoned, was expelled and made into an active city with the name of ‘Ashirante’, and the skill max level increase stone acquired was taken out.

With him, I selected one item that is currently equipped.

[Functional Ring: Skill (Legendary)

-It is a functional ring that increases the performance of a skill.

: No wear restrictions.

: Reinforcement is impossible.

-effect.

: Select one of the skills you have and raise the skill’s usage level by one level.

– Once selected, 30 million gold rings are required to change to another skill.

: Increases the power of the selected skill by 10%.

: If you select a skill that achieves the maximum level, there is no level change, but additionally increases the skill’s power by 10%. (Finally, the power increases by up to 20% by overlapping with the above options.)

-Physical Defense: 500 Magic Defense: 500

-Durability: 2550000/255000

-Currently applied skills.

: blizzard.]

Blizzard has a total of 7 and 9 levels activated by the skill functional ring.

And as a skill functional ring, the current level 7 blizzard was being used as a level 9 blizzard.

Considering that it takes 2 skill points to upgrade a 7th level blizzard to 9th level, it is a very surplus business.

However.

“I can make and use a level 10 skill with these… I’ll have to try it.”

To be honest, when I reached level 1400 and learned the 9th level skill, Ice Breath, I was a little worried.

In the meantime, I have spared enough stones to increase the maximum skill level.

“great. lets do it!”

First of all, Blizzard, not Ice Breath, was able to upgrade to level 9 with the two skill points received after completing the quest “Destroy the Pylon.”In other words, it was possible for Blizzard to make it to level 10 by using the maximum skill level increase stone.

However, it had to be the skill that the maximum skill level increase stone would be used for.

Just Ice Breath.

“Use the maximum skill level increase stone.”

[I used the maximum skill level increase stone.

– You can increase the maximum level by selecting one of the skills below.

: Ice ball.

Increases up to 3 levels of ice balls up to an additional 4 levels.

: Ice Bolt.

Increases ice bolts of up to 3 levels up to an additional 4 levels.

:

:

: Ice Tornado.

Increases Ice Tornado of up to 8 levels up to an additional 9 levels.

: Ice Breath.

Increases Ice Breath of up to 9 levels up to an additional 10 levels.]

“Ice breath selection.”

There was definitely one way to become stronger.

It’s about making powerful things stronger.

[I have selected Ice Breath.

-Level 10 is created in Ice Breath, where there is only level -9.]

Ice Breath at the end of level 9.

However, as soon as the message sounded, the 10th level was engraved next to the 9th level.

Of course, skill can be used up to level 9, so it is impossible to use level 10 ice breath.

But there was something that made it possible.

It’s a skill functional ring.

That’s why we used the 7th level blizzard as the 9th level blizzard.

First of all, I clicked the currently applied skill part of the skill functional ring.

OK.

[The skill applied to the current skill functional ring is ‘Blizzard’.

– Do you want to replace it?

30 million Golden Rings are required to replace it.]

“Replace with Ice Breath.”

[The skill applied to the skill functional ring is changed to ‘Ice Breath’.

-10 Level Ice Breath can be used.]

The minimum level to learn the level 9 skill is level 1400.

So, as far as I know, no one has acquired the current level 9 skill.

But in such a situation, I was able to use a whopping level 10 skill.

In particular, considering the level 9 skill that showed tremendous power, it was obvious that the level 10 skill would be even more enormous.

But before I went to the test, I chose to upgrade my skills.

By subtracting Blizzard from the current skill functional ring, the skill level 8 or higher that can be said to be a real high-level skill is Ice Tornado, Punishment Ice, and Ice Breath.

[Do you want to upgrade level 7 blizzard to level 9 blizzard?

-Upgrade requires 2 skill points and 25 million golden rings.]

“Upgrade.”

First of all, I used the two skill points to upgrade Blizzard and turned my body back.

Because now everything is ready.

There are also 5 ancient spells to remove the cooldown that you can use right away if you are faced with a dangerous situation.

Of course, I didn’t want to use them as much as possible because they were for making the Ice Emperor’s Guardian Sword with 15 enhancements.

Anyway, I turned to the hunting grounds like that.

There are still 5 days left until the start of the event ‘Selection Squad’, and I have no intention of wasting that time.

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