100 Floors All Master - Chapter 202

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All Master of 100 Floors Episode 202

45th Floor. Forest of All Life (1)

[Title: 45th Floor… Something feels strange.]

[Easy if you call it easy, difficult if you call it difficult. It feels odd to say I achieved results… I did obtain materials, but how am I supposed to use these? The Blacksmith says this isn’t really his specialty. He says he can handle it but can’t handle it properly. Is there a separate use for it?]

[Olivia Turner (54th Floor): So you’ve cleared the 45th Floor. What you obtained there are magical materials. I heard they can be used through an Enchanter, not a Blacksmith. …Though I’m saying this despite never having met her myself.]

Three days later, when he visited the Blacksmith, he handed over a bluish armor.

[Mana Concentrated Armor]

[Part: Upper Body]

[Grade: Advanced]

[Strength + 4]

[Speed + 4]

[Mana + 10]

[Defense + 30]

[Equipment Ability: Possesses weak resistance against magical attacks.]

[Armor perfectly crafted using dragon scales and essence. The high-purity mana contained within protects the user and increases magical power.]

It had 10 more defense than the dark armor. Not only did it have 10 mana points attached, but it also provided resistance against magic.

Considering that enemies who use magic would frequently appear in the future, it was excellent equipment. Kang Jun-hyeok expressed his gratitude and entered the Tower.

[45th Floor Quest]

[Achieve meaningful results in the Forest of All Life for one week.]

The 45th Floor Quest began.

What he saw was a massive forest. All kinds of trees, plants, and vines grew chaotically, blocking his view.

The peculiar thing was that there was absolutely no uniformity among those plants.

Cacti that would appear in deserts were entangled with vines that would be found in jungles. All kinds of vegetation that grew pickily according to environment were blooming together in one place.

And there were two more peculiarities.

Despite having so many plants, there was no sign of animals or insects at all.

And the plants emanated powerful mana.

[Oh ho.]

Eldyria showed interest.

[The vegetation existing in this place. All of it serves as catalysts for magic. And they’re not ordinary ones either. They’re quite precious, things that are hard to obtain in the universe.]

They were catalysts for magic, like the Dragon Heart that Kang Jun-hyeok had obtained before.

In front of Kang Jun-hyeok, the leaves of a massive tree were swaying.

[Rudbram. A tree that feeds only on dew that forms at dawn. Each leaf contains high-purity mana, making its value comparable to gold of equal volume.]

The number of leaves was roughly hundreds of thousands even at a rough count. Kang Jun-hyeok lightly touched a leaf. At that moment, the leaf shook and the mana contained within exploded.

Puhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhng!

Intense waves swept in all directions. If not for his high defense stats, he would have taken considerable damage. After the mana exploded like that, the mana contained in the leaf had completely disappeared.

[The problem is that the moment life approaches, all the mana it contains explodes and scatters.]

[That cactus over there is a Chungying Cactus. If handled well, it’s excellent as a catalyst, but acquisition is tricky. The moment external stimulation is transmitted, it shoots thorns at near-sonic speed.]

The other plants here weren’t much different from Rudbram. They were all highly valuable but extremely difficult to handle.

45th Floor. Forest of All Life.

This place was precisely a forest of troublesome catalysts.

Here, Players had to achieve meaningful results.

He could immediately guess what those results meant. It would be somehow figuring out how to recover the catalysts and obtaining them. It was a floor close to a bonus where one could obtain various precious catalysts.

However, the materials obtained here couldn’t be properly handled by the Blacksmith.

The catalysts here had characteristics closer to enchantment or refinement rather than forging. They had to be handled by making them into pills or elixirs, or by granting magical abilities to equipment.

In other words, it was the Enchanter’s job.

Various NPCs exist in the Tower.

The Shop Owner who sells skills and equipment.

The Blacksmith who makes weapons and armor when provided with materials.

The Madman who makes weapons and armor with Victors’ materials rather than ordinary materials.

And the Enchanter who performs enchantment and refinement using catalysts.

The Enchanter could create items that increased stats themselves, like pills and elixirs. That alone was excellent, but the best ability the Enchanter possessed was something else.

The Enchanter could grant and transfer equipment abilities to equipment.

Specifically, Kang Jun-hyeok possessed Kraken’s Tentacle Mass.

[Kraken’s Tentacle Mass]

[Part: Shoes]

[Grade: Intermediate]

[Strength + 1]

[Speed + 3]

[Defense + 6]

[Equipment Ability: Can freely walk on walls, ceilings, etc. using Kraken’s tentacles.]

[Shoes made by cutting Kraken’s tentacles. Though the main body is already dead, the strange power of that body still remains.]

That equipment ability was free movement on walls and ceilings.

It was a very rare and excellent effect.

Since other shoes didn’t have such abilities, he couldn’t help but be quite troubled when replacing equipment.

But if there was an Enchanter, such equipment abilities could be transferred to new equipment.

It was an NPC with value comparable to the Blacksmith for climbing the Tower.

The problem was that the Enchanter wasn’t an NPC that just anyone could meet.

That part was the same for the Blacksmith. You had to wander around the entire mine on the 15th Floor to collect three fragments, fit them into the golem at the end of the mine, activate it, and defeat it to finally meet him.

The percentage of all Players who met the Blacksmith was at most about 5%.

Then what percentage would it be for the Enchanter?

100 people.

That was the number of Players among all Players in the universe who had met the Enchanter.

It was only an extremely small number that couldn’t even be called a percentage. Even he in his previous life had never seen the Enchanter’s face.

That’s why he wouldn’t miss it this time even more.

Kang Jun-hyeok walked through the Forest of All Life, recalling memories he had heard in his previous life.

‘I’m sure they said to head in the direction where the sun rises. About two days’ distance from the starting point. At the destination, there’s a Seed Tree.’

Following his memory, he saw a house-sized seed protruding from the ground.

That was the Seed Tree.

The Enchanter was somewhere around here. Kang Jun-hyeok expanded his senses and looked around the area.

But he felt nothing.

His senses were now infinitely sharp. He was enhancing his senses with internal energy and mana while controlling everything around him with his Control skill. Even though he wouldn’t miss a single passing insect, he felt no particular sense of incongruity.

‘What?’

Was there really an Enchanter existing around here?

If it weren’t for the information he had heard beforehand, he would have judged there was nothing and passed by. After thinking for a moment, Kang Jun-hyeok raised his head.

[Pixie’s Treasure Intuition.]

Kiiiiing!

He felt nothing except the surrounding catalysts. Not stopping there, he activated it once more.

[Reset. Enhancement. Pixie’s Treasure Intuition.]

Kiiiiiiiing!

As the skills overlapped, only then did a strange sensation reach Kang Jun-hyeok.

There was something in a tree at 11 o’clock direction.

Kang Jun-hyeok approached the tree and placed his hand on the bark. When he lightly brushed downward, he felt a sensation as if something was caught. At that moment, he stopped his hand and pulled it as it was.

Chwaaaaak!

Then the tree opened, revealing a massive cave inside. Manbyeonggi and Eldyria were surprised.

[Oh ho?]

[Was something like this hidden? I didn’t sense it either.]

Camouflage so perfect that even two Transcendents couldn’t detect it.

The Enchanter was beyond this.

‘Now that I think about it, it’s amazing that even 100 people found this.’

Kang Jun-hyeok grumbled inwardly as he entered inside.

As they entered the cave, countless catalysts hung along the passage. In terms of outside value, they could probably buy an entire planet. After passing through the long passage and entering inside, a massive room came into view.

The sound of bubbling and boiling echoed. Luminescent ore embedded in the ceiling illuminated the interior like electric lights.

And in a chair at the far end, a woman was sitting.

“…I thought I sensed someone’s presence. Well. It’s been a while since I’ve had visitors.”

She spun her body around. Her long black hair swayed. Brown eyes turned toward him. Manbyeonggi hesitated upon seeing her.

[You are.]

“Nice to meet you. I am a resident of the 45th Floor, and to you Players, I am known as the Enchanter.”

She smiled brightly.

[The Observer of the Great War. The Enchanter has appeared.]

A system window different from all the previous ones appeared.

She was an Observer of the Great War, not one of The Defeated Ones. Eldyria muttered in a sunken voice.

[It’s been a long time. So now you’re an Enchanter.]

“Huh. What? Eldyria. Is that you? And… even Manbyeonggi is here?”

The Enchanter’s eyes widened.

“Did you two guide him here?”

[No. We did nothing. He found this place on his own.]

“Oh?”

Interest flickered in the Enchanter’s eyes as she looked at Kang Jun-hyeok.

“Well now. I thought he was just another troublesome Player who found this place through dumb luck as usual, but it seems he’s somewhat different.”

[You.]

Eldyria’s voice was filled with anger.

[You didn’t participate in the Great War and just watched. Despite having outstanding talent, you stood by and watched as the universe was defeated. And what did you do afterward? You crawled under the new Master of the Universe. How utterly disgraceful.]

“I didn’t have noble ideals like you all.”

The Enchanter smiled brightly.

“The power of the new Master of the Universe. You saw it too, didn’t you? We had no chance of winning. Rather than participating in a war where throwing away our lives was obvious, isn’t it more rational to side with the victor after everything ended?”

[…You.]

Emotions of rage surged forth. That materialized power tried to distort space. The Enchanter stepped back with a pale face.

“I’d appreciate it if you didn’t blame me too much. In the end, didn’t you lose? Unlike you all, I didn’t have any great power. I wouldn’t have been much help anyway.”

[Calm yourself, Eldyria.]

[…]

Eldyria fell silent and suppressed her emotions. Kang Jun-hyeok quietly watched the conversation between the two.

‘Just as the story goes.’

The Enchanter didn’t participate in the Great War.

She observed, and after everything ended, she sought out the Master of the Universe and entrusted herself to them.

As such, her relationship with The Defeated Ones wasn’t good. When she was mentioned, The Defeated Ones would show anger and try to rush out to kill her immediately. Of course, since they had entered the Tower, they couldn’t do anything.

From the perspective of those who fought risking their lives, they absolutely couldn’t accept her.

Of course, it was a story that had nothing to do with Kang Jun-hyeok.

“So… are you the Player who has earned recognition from those two?”

Interest gleamed in the Enchanter’s eyes as she looked at Kang Jun-hyeok.

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