A Veteran of Infinite Buffs - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86

Drawing on memories from my previous life of crafting a stone axe, I pressed the horn against the Sumoq and bound it together with cord.
No special status or skills were generated.
The work was far too simple for that.
I had merely secured it firmly enough to ensure it wouldn’t fall apart.
“It looks done. Let me check the options.”
“Alright.”

[Sumoq Approaching Truth (Mythic)]
[Attack Power: 137~201]
[Durability: Indestructible]
[Approaching Truth: Can open an Ancient Dimensional Gate.]
[Call of the Ancient One: Can summon an Ancient One.]
[Blessing of the Sun: The Ancient One can wield the power of the sun.]

The attack power remained unchanged.
It was only natural, since the horn itself had no impact on attack power or durability.
However, a new line of text had been added.

[Blessing of the Sun: The Ancient One can wield the power of the sun.]

“Wow. This actually works?”
“What do you mean? What is it?”
“An option line was added. Apparently the Ancient One can now wield the power of the sun.”
“The Ancient One? You mean the weapon summon you mentioned earlier?”
“Yes. If we’re talking about options, it’s correct to say a summon enhancement option was attached.”
“What does it say exactly?”
I hesitated for a moment, wondering if I should tell her the exact wording, but my companion was Bella.
She was my complete ally and Chae-rim’s patron.
I decided to trust my judgment.
“The Ancient One can now wield the power of the sun. If I had to guess, I’d say we’ve gained an attribute-based attack method.”
“Wow! Then if we encounter that goat again, we could subdue it easily?”
“Probably. Let me summon it first.”
“Okay!”
I held Sumoq and opened a Dimensional Gate.
Zing—
A silhouette came rushing out at full speed.
It looked oddly urgent.
“Kael! We have a problem!”
“Huh?”
“Wow! The Ancient One!”
Unlike Bella’s reaction, Tuuram
“Huh? I haven’t seen this female before. But Kael! We have a problem! Something’s wrong with my eyes!”
“Tuuram. First, take a deep breath. I’ll explain.”
I had a rough idea of what happened.
It was highly likely that Tuuram could now fire the beam that shot from the goat’s horns.
The problem was that it came from his eyes.
“My eyes! My eyes are shooting light!”
“No accidents happened, right?”
“The Mukemuke I was trying to bring got burned!”
In Tuuram’s hand was what appeared to be Mukemuke, now charred black.
“Damn. Can’t you control it?”
“I don’t know! When I thought about cutting off its breath, light shot from my eyes!”
It seems the condition for firing the beam is likely murderous intent.
“You’ll need to control your killing intent. It’s better to only harbor thoughts of cutting off your enemy’s breath when facing a certain opponent, Tuuram.”
“Really? I’m so anxious I can’t even go back to the settlement!”
“Yeah. Just bear with it for now. I’ll figure out how to improve this.”
I had already roughly conceived of an improvement method.
I was thinking that if I left the adjustment to Chae-rim, something might come of it, though the idea still felt vague.
Then came Bella’s bewildered response.
“Kael. You can communicate with the Ancient One?”
“Yes. There’s no significant difference between them and the residents here.”
“Even though they call me female?”
“Ah, so that was the issue. Tuuram, this is Bella.”
“A female’s name, then. Understood. You are Bella.”
“Ugh. Let’s move past it for now. We’re inside the Dungeon anyway.”
“I’m sorry, Bella. Tuuram just defaults to that.”
“So you’re called Tuuram? Hmm. I understand.”
Bella would naturally be displeased, but there was nothing to be done about it.
It was the difference between a modern person and an Ancient One.
I understood it myself, after all.
“Now that Tuuram has joined us, shall we continue forward?”
“Yes.”
I relayed instructions to Tuuram as well.
Elemental attacks seemed to be the answer in this Dungeon.
“Tuuram. We’ll encounter enemies soon. Don’t strike them—kill them with your gaze. Can you do that?”
“It may be difficult since it’s a new power.”
“Just think of the monsters as Mukemuke.”
“I’ll try.”
We didn’t have to wait long before encountering the next monster.
This time, it wasn’t a single creature.
It was a flock of crows emanating a pitch-black aura.
“Caw-caw-caw!”
“Tuuram. Kill all of them. With your gaze.”
“Very well. I’ll kill them.”
In that instant, beams of light burst forth from Tuuram’s eyes.
Boom-crash-flash!
The rays pierced straight through the flock of crows and detonated.
Was this the power of the sun?
The crows were swept away in an instant.

[Level increased!]
[Level increased!]
[Level increased!]
[Level increased!]

I’d leveled up by a whopping four levels this time.
It seemed that all the experience from the monsters Tuuram defeated flowed directly to me.
“Aaaaahhhhh!”
But destructive beams were still pouring from Tuuram’s eyes.
“Die!”
“Tuuram. Stop. They’re all dead.”
“Huh?”
A character that fires devastating lasers from his eyes.
I remembered seeing something like that in an American television series.
It was an incredibly overpowered character, but reality was different.
To be precise, the firepower was indeed overpowered, but Tuuram’s field of vision was extremely limited.
Moreover, since it was sunlight, I had the additional concern of blindness.
‘I’ll need to adjust the direction of the laser emission somehow.’
The laser’s firepower hadn’t diminished in the slightest.
It was nearly on par with the beams the goat had fired.
For now, it seemed best to conserve the laser as much as possible.
“What’s going on with that laser firepower?”
Bella was equally startled by the laser.
Even though it was an aerial monster and harder to deal with than the goat, it had ended the situation in one strike.
“Right? I’m surprised myself—it’s more than I expected.”
“Does that laser have any mana limitations? How’s your mana, Kael?”
“One moment.”

[Name: Kael]
[Class: Eternal Adventurer (Hidden) (1st Awakening)]
[Level: 68]
[Unallocated Points: 4]
[Strength: 205 Agility: 219 Vitality: 226 Wisdom: 128 Luck: 149]
[Eternity: 38 Mana: 6]

My status showed no changes.
Perhaps Tuuram himself was consuming his mana or some form of status resource.
“My mana is fine for now. Still, it might be wise to use it sparingly. Since the beam is fired from my eyes, I’m concerned about my vision.”
Tuuram, the spectacled Ancient One.
Every single word clashed violently with his appearance.
“Is there perhaps a buff that could help my eyes?”
“Hmm. For vision-related buffs, there’s the transcendent gaze I cast earlier, or archer-specific buffs.”
“Nothing for eye protection, I assume?”
“Correct. Darkness resistance falls under blessings, so priests learn it, but light resistance is completely rare.”
“Then would it be alright to ask for at least a defensive buff for Tuuram?”
“Yes. I’ll apply something that increases overall resistance.”
Bella cast various buffs on Tuuram, who stared at the charred crows that had plummeted from the sky with a shocked expression.
The sight of him glowing in rainbow colors while stunned was quite refreshing.
“Kael. Did I really do all this?”
For Tuuram, who had always engaged in physical combat, such a result was shocking.
“Yeah. The Blessing of the Sun, they called it? You can now wield the power of the sun.”
“The power of the sun. I see. So I’ve gained the power of the sun. I’ll have to ask the Shaman about this when I return.”
Tuuram came to terms with it in his own way, and Bella’s buffs were nearing completion.
“Phew. Phew. I focused mainly on protective buffs lasting over an hour. Let’s observe the effects first.”
“Tuuram. Are your eyes alright?”
“Hmm? A warrior’s eyes are always strong.”
He seemed fine for now.
Now it was time to farm the items dropped from the flock of crows.
“This time the items are in the form of orbs?”
“These must be crafting materials as well?”
“That’s quite likely.”
Since there were multiple dropped items this time, we could each check their options.

[Necro Corbus’s Spirit Stone (Advanced)]
[A rare spirit stone found only in the Twisted Timeline. It contains the souls of those who rejected the sun. Used in dark magic.]
This was closer to a consumable than equipment crafting material.
It was also an item that Seoguang, which cultivated Dark Mages, would likely appreciate.
“By any chance, does the Lumiere Guild have any Dark Mages?”
“No. We don’t have any in our guild.”
The reason we had to have this conversation was that most kingdoms fundamentally prohibited dark magic.
The Meriam Kingdom was no exception, and neither was Belhard across the sea.
That meant even disposing of it to an NPC could become problematic.
“Hmm. Then Seoguang would be the only option.”
“That’s right.”
Seoguang’s Dark Mage battalion already had considerable notoriety.
It was widely known among players, but no NPC knew of Seoguang’s Dark Mages.
“Are things okay between you and Cha Eun-kyung?”
“Well… it’s complicated, but that’s separate from Seoguang. I have connections with the guild master there. We hunted together when I was a newbie.”
It seemed that rankers from the same nation did have some level of interaction.
In that case, there appeared to be no problem with disposal.
“That’s fortunate then. Let’s dispose of this in Seoguang.”
“Yes. Leave it to me.”
“Oh, you’ll do that?”
“Yes! It’s been a while since I’ve seen the guild master anyway, so I’ll stop by while I’m at it.”
“Thank you. I’m getting quite the benefit from this.”
“Oh, don’t mention it. I’m doing this because I want to.”
The dungeon conquest resumed.
After that, we encountered many more monsters.
They basically had animal forms, with an additional twisted element of some kind included in each.
“Cough!”
“A-are you alright?”
“…Yes.”
I tried attacking first just in case, but what came back was massive reflected damage.
Thanks to that, the dungeon conquest proceeded as automatic hunting with Tuuram leading the way.
“…The dungeon is incredibly easy when we clear it like this.”
“Right? Tuuram, you’re okay, aren’t you?”
“I am Tuuram, the Warrior of the Sun! I am unharmed!”
The buffs seemed to have some effect.
I’d need to arrange a long-term solution, but for now I could breathe easy.
“Alright. Shall we continue?”
“Just follow me, you two!”
“Quite the confidence.”
“Heh. Tuuram is very different from Kael, isn’t he?”
“Exactly. My influence barely affects him, so you could say he’s a raw Ancient One.”
Bella seemed to have shed her unfavorable impression of Tuuram as well.
It was something I’d anticipated—she’d never been particularly vindictive by nature.
We continued clearing the dungeon in a comfortable, automated hunting rhythm.

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