I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 163
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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 163
Soul Guardian Stone
Creak!
The castle gate opened.
High ceilings with pure white marble columns.
I feel it every time, but it’s truly fascinating.
To think this familiar space was actually a real place.
Step, step.
The King entered his office, then soon appeared carrying something.
Is it because he gained weight?
He’s coming out extremely slowly.
His eyes were filled with regret.
An expression as if preparing for farewell.
This guy.
He deliberately came out late.
“Sigh, here it is. Haah…”
The King kept sighing and handed over two blue stones.
One to Baek Jin-woo, one to Rachel.
Baek Jin-woo smiled and bowed his head.
“Thank you. Thanks to Your Majesty’s grace, recapturing the castle will become even simpler.”
“Enough. Since when did you call me Your Majesty.”
“By the way, could you provide us with a place to stay? To charge in right away…”
Glance.
Baek Jin-woo pointed toward the Paladin Captain.
“That side and the Royal Guards seem to need some recovery.”
Throb.
A vein bulged on the King’s forehead, but he had no choice.
That man might be God’s messenger who descended after receiving divine revelation.
Whoosh, whoosh!
The King with his hands behind his back waved his right hand.
“Eila.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Guide them to a place to stay.”
“I shall obey your command.”
Clank!
A woman taking position with disciplined movements.
She is the number one person of this Holy Kingdom.
A Champion (S-rank).
Her name is Eila Lunares.
‘She’s incredibly tall.’
Similar to Baek Jin-woo.
Almost 183cm?
She had long silver hair, and her impression was cold and sharp.
However.
Getting along well with her would be good in many ways.
You need to pierce Asmodeus’s chest with the Champion’s Holy Spear to easily clear the 60th Floor.
‘Of course, back then I cleared it without the Champion.’
It won’t work now.
Whatever the case, everything has been upgraded and leveled up.
“Please come this way.”
Eila led the way with an expressionless face, and we leisurely followed.
Annex of the Fortress.
There was a separate small palace to the right of where the King stayed, and its condition was quite good.
I thought he’d give us some place covered in spider webs like a hovel, but it seems he’s trying to show some respect.
“You can stay here.”
Clank!
The Champion made armor sounds and immediately turned back.
It seems she doesn’t like us very much.
Well, it doesn’t matter.
Let’s check the stones we received.
[True Soul Guardian Stone]
[Grade: S-rank]
[When consumed by a summoned creature, permanently increases HP by 100,000.]
“Huh, wait.”
Baek Jin-woo’s eyes widened.
“What is this?”
“Hm?”
Rachel approached with an expression asking what was wrong.
“Check the stone’s stats.”
“Why is this?”
“…The effect increased by 10 times compared to before.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
This was the guardian stone Baek Jin-woo had received in Battle of Summoners.
[Soul Guardian Stone]
[Grade: S-rank]
[When consumed by a summoned creature, permanently increases HP by 10,000.]
The one without “True.”
“Wow.”
This is incredible.
Usually, top-tier rare runes increase HP by about 10,000 on average when equipped as a set.
Only special tanking runes like Jakgeo’s Will rune increase HP by about 100,000.
“This… is insane?”
Even with simple calculations, it doesn’t make sense.
Just feeding that one guardian stone would be equivalent to getting the overlapping effect of wearing 6 top-tier tanking rare runes.
“Here’s what I think.”
Rachel added.
“The difficulty here is honestly at a level we can only endure because it’s us, it’s unreasonable, right?”
“…Right?”
“So the rewards increased proportionally. That’s how the balance works!”
Correct.
Baek Jin-woo agreed too.
That it was the most probable reasoning.
“Get stronger here so we can endure well?”
“That’s right. The Tower will probably get harder as we go to the 70th, 80th floors… I have that feeling.”
“Hmm.”
Whatever the case.
Getting stronger is good.
If we struggle here a bit and then go outside, even the real world Rankers would be like little kids, right?
Even now they’re easy to deal with…
Anyway, the gap will keep widening.
To an absurd level.
“Anyway, I should give this to Jakgeo.”
– Gwor?
Thump, thump!
Jakgeo, who had been keeping some distance, approaches thinking he’s being called.
“Here, eat this.”
– Gwooooor!
Jakgeo got excited.
It must look delicious at first glance.
The consumption was similar to when I fed him the Ice Heart Jade Blood Paste before.
I opened my fist in front of him.
“…Here.”
When I placed the Guardian Stone on it, he brought it to his mouth and crunched, crunched! chewed it.
“…”
No matter how much I see it, I can’t get used to it.
What would the King think if he saw this?
Wouldn’t he foam at the mouth asking how he could crunch up a sacred object like that?
Swoooosh!
I can visually confirm his HP stat rising by 100,000.
Ah.
Now he’s become a truly insane tanker.
Wouldn’t it be even more amazing if he unlocks self-recovery skills later?
Usually self-recovery heals based on maximum HP percentage.
“Hey, Baek Jin-woo.”
That’s when it happened.
Rachel held out a Guardian Stone on her palm to him.
“Huh?”
Baek Jin-woo’s pupils dilated.
“Why are you giving this to me?”
“The HP effect. I don’t need it at all. Baekho is a damage dealer-tank, but… it suits Jakgeo better. This stacks, right?”
“…”
Ah.
‘She’s going to give me something this precious?’
Baek Jin-woo isn’t someone who gets moved easily.
But this time, he was truly touched.
Honestly, if Baekho ate it, he’d probably become an insane zombie tiger.
“You’re also my life savior, and anyway, to survive we need to raise at least one strong tanker. Take it before I change my mind.”
“Thank you.”
Baek Jin-woo quickly accepted it.
This isn’t something you refuse.
It would be terrible if he rejected it.
‘Probably.’
Rachel is looking at the future.
World ranking 1st place?
Making lots of money and enjoying wealth and glory?
Those are lower priorities for Rachel.
Her top priority is the Tower of Trials!
Her intention was clear – when they reach higher floors later, maximize Baek Jin-woo’s abilities to increase their clear success rate.
And crucially, it was Baek Jin-woo who suggested asking the King for Guardian Stones in the first place.
“Jakgeo.”
Rachel placed her palm on the golem’s leg.
“This noona is giving you this so you can grow big and strong, okay?”
– Gwooooooor!
Jakgeo roared to express his gratitude.
And so.
Jakgeo’s HP increased by 200,000 in just one day.
And?
As you know, when raw HP increases, rune effects are properly applied.
[Rune]
[Grade: Supreme (Rare)]
– Limited to 100 worldwide.
[Set Effect: Will]
– When 6 equipped: HP +100,000, MP +100,000.
– If possessed skill is passive, 100% effect increase.
[Level: Max]
[Stat Increase]
Strength +48%, Stamina +48%, HP +60%, MP +60%
Since he’s currently wearing six of these runes.
Just looking at HP, he receives an additional 360% effect.
Truly an insane effect.
[Summon: Small Giant]
[Race: Golem]
[Grade: EX-rank (Isolation Judgment)]
– Isolated due to balance-breaking elements discovered in specific situations.
[Level: 50]
[Possessed Stats]
Strength: 58, Intelligence: 10, Stamina: 58, Agility: 10
HP: 1,610,000, MP: 460,000
Critical Hit Rate: 20%
Critical Hit Damage: 20%
[Possessed Skills]
– Indomitable: Recovers 20% of received damage as HP.
– Magic Absorption: Recovers 20% of received damage as MP.
“Hey.”
Baek Jin-woo looked at Rachel with an absurd expression.
“Yeah?”
“Do you know what Jakgeo’s HP is?”
“How much?”
“1.61 million.”
“…Insane.”
Rachel was also shocked.
In 10 years of playing that game, it was definitely the first time seeing such numbers.
For Baek Jin-woo too, it was a number he’d never seen even when clearing the final 100th floor.
“He just won’t die, will he?”
“Right.”
It seemed like.
When fighting Asmodeus this time, they’d need to properly test that tanking ability.
Yubaek City.
“…Hmm.”
There was no strength at all in Yu Ji-a’s hands as she turned the pages of documents.
Every day she visits the Tower of Trials entrance to ask about records.
They say there’s no record of Baek Jin-woo coming out.
For reference, because of that, headquarters was also on high alert, and they had dispatched only senior agents as permanent staff while maintaining tight security.
Because Yu Ji-a had requested absolute secrecy.
‘Jin-woo is alive.’
She firmly believed that.
That’s why she didn’t tell Baek Jin-woo’s parents about this fact either.
In case it would worry them unnecessarily.
The worry was enough for herself and the guild members to bear.
To most staff members and family, they had coordinated their story to say he was on a long-term overseas dungeon assignment.
Also.
Just in case, she had tried using the ‘Desperate Call’ skill too…
[The use of ‘Desperate Call’ is cancelled.]
[Target does not exist or is too far away.]
It’s always like this.
It doesn’t clearly tell her whether he’s dead or alive.
Sigh.
Let’s just work.
If she keeps working hard, won’t he come back within at least six months?
It’s a vague feeling, but she shouldn’t think too deeply about it.
Then she can’t work.
Rustle.
As Yu Ji-a was turning pages, one report caught her eye.
[2nd Generation Guild Member Selection Test Progress and Follow-up Action Recommendations]
Oh.
Her eyes lit up.
Now that the third week was over, the third test must have ended.
1st Test: Physical Test
– Participants: 100 people
– Eliminated: 50 people
– Remaining: 50 people
2nd Test: Cooperation Test
– Participants: 50 people
– Eliminated: 30 people
– Remaining: 20 people
3rd Test: Control Test
– Participants: 20 people
– Eliminated: 10 people
– Remaining: 10 people
The list of remaining interns is attached.
Fewer candidates than expected have advanced to the final stage.
They are all decent resources.
We would appreciate it if you could decide whether to reduce the numbers further as originally planned, or to have all remaining 10 people complete the 4th final test before selection.
Hong Ari.
Senior Judge.
Rustle.
She turned the page and checked the list.
There were quite a few people she had received reports about intermittently.
Seo I-yun, Jeong Si-woo, Kang Dae-hyeok, Han Yu-na… and so on.
They all survived to the end.
‘As expected, the expected ones made it.’
How could Yu Ji-a not know?
Hong Ari and Hwang Ju-won occasionally come by and go on about the interns.
It’s always those four that come up in conversation.
What does that mean?
‘They’ve already decided.’
Those four will definitely pass!
It seems like they’re asking whether to accept the remaining ambiguous candidates…
“Hah.”
A short sigh escaped Yu Ji-a’s lips.
‘They’ve already grown attached.’
While Yu Ji-a could think rationally since she was far away, those two had spent three whole weeks clashing bodies, crying and wailing, and suffering together while cheering them on.
Even if they couldn’t express it.
They were definitely feeling reluctant.
But while feeling that way, passing the selection authority to her meant?
‘They want me to be firm.’
To steady their wavering hearts.
She nodded and picked up her pen.
Then she wrote.
4
To select exactly 4 people.
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