I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 23
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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 023
Weekly Dungeon Conquest (4)
“Yes, what’s the matter?”
Baek Jin-woo tilted his head.
Wasn’t everything already finished with Headquarters?
“We are from the Head of Player Association’s direct secretarial office. We are positively reviewing the proposal that Player Baek Jin-woo made last time…”
“Ah, that.”
Swoosh.
Baek Jin-woo raised his hand and cut off their words.
“No need.”
“Excuse me?”
“Didn’t Headquarters express their refusal last time?”
“…To be precise, it wasn’t a refusal. We said we would provide support if you brought solid evidence. And now that Player Baek Jin-woo has presented solid evidence, we are conducting a positive review.”
The staff tried their best to speak as gently as possible, but that was just their tone.
There wasn’t a single word that pleased Baek Jin-woo.
What a contrast to Yu Ji-a!
Yu Ji-a who readily offered big money when he had nothing, versus Headquarters who now hurriedly talks about ‘reviewing’ when they see something profitable.
Who looks more appealing?
It’s painful to even say.
‘True help should come when you really need it to be appreciated.’
Even the Headquarters staff’s attitude had a slightly stiff feeling to it.
Their thoughts were obvious.
No matter how successful a player you are, 1.3 billion in a lump sum when you’re not even ranker level?
Of course, Baek Jin-woo knew it was an unreasonable request.
But Yu Ji-a had granted that unreasonable request and even gave it as a generous gift.
“Sorry, but that proposal from back then… I no longer need it.”
“Excuse me?”
“And.”
Baek Jin-woo smiled slightly and spoke gently yet firmly.
“I’m already affiliated with a company. If you have anything you want to discuss with me, please go through Yu Ji-a of Yubak Management.”
“Yubak Management…?”
The staff member’s eyes wavered.
“Well then, I’ll be going.”
With a silent bow to them, swoosh! Baek Jin-woo walked past them.
The staff couldn’t bring themselves to stop his resolute figure.
More than anything, they were curious.
“Senior, what is Yubak Management? And Yu Ji-a? You don’t mean that Yu Ji-a from Daeseong Group, do you? The one who recently visited Headquarters?”
“…Let’s investigate immediately.”
The Secretary Manager bit his lips tightly.
He had a strong feeling that they had missed an important opportunity.
After finishing the Thursday Dungeon, Baek Jin-woo immediately headed to a nearby building rooftop.
‘Friday Dungeon is different from everything so far.’
The method itself was completely different.
If before it was about summoned creatures hunting monsters?
Friday Dungeon requires the player to move directly.
Two new summoned creatures would be used this time.
The C-grade Sky Dolphin and B-grade Sky Wyvern.
Their special feature is that players can ride them!
“Phew.”
Baek Jin-woo felt nervous.
‘Will this work?’
Riding a golem and riding a wyvern are completely different matters.
A wyvern actually flies through the sky.
Even if the protective barrier prevents fatal falls, being scared is unavoidable.
This too is the gap between game and reality!
‘But I have to do it.’
For the Friday Dungeon time attack, he needed to control both summoned creatures freely.
“Sky.”
– Kiruurururu!
When Baek Jin-woo called, the Sky Wyvern roared as if it had been waiting.
At the same time, it flapped its wings and lowered its posture.
A gesture to climb on.
“Heave!”
Baek Jin-woo boldly climbed on and patted the creature’s head.
“Let’s go to the East Sea.”
If he practices flying with the wyvern?
He needs to practice swimming with the dolphin.
Both are necessary to take shortcuts in Friday Dungeon.
Whoosh, whoosh!
The wyvern slowly began to fly into the sky.
‘This is working?’
With good practice, he might not need to take taxis anymore.
There would be detailed aspects to flying and swimming, but he wasn’t worried.
Baek Jin-woo had Hunkyo.
Half a day was enough to get used to flying.
Baek Jin-woo had more talent than expected.
– My lord, you are amazing.
“Enough with the praise.”
– No, I’m serious. Your speed of learning is quite fast.
“I said enough.”
That Hunkyo.
He has quite a talent for flattery too?
– It’s really true.
This time Pokryong, who had been watching from the side, stepped forward.
“Hm? What’s really true?”
– We’re used to it because we have memories from the past… At first, riding wyverns was incredibly difficult. Motion sickness, vomiting.
During the Battle of Summoners era.
Hunkyo and Pokryong were veteran summoned creatures who had experienced everything.
They had to be.
They had climbed the Tower of Trials together, which boasted the highest difficulty.
In that process, they too had to control wyverns and dolphins.
“Is that so?”
– Yes, as expected of Jinugod. You’re worthy of being our master.
Pokryong’s appearance, gripping her staff with both hands while praising, was so cute.
Unable to resist, Baek Jin-woo ruffled her red hair.
“Thanks. Next is Sky Dolphin riding, right?”
Current location: Yangyang Offshore.
He came to the East Sea because he needed to go to quite deep waters.
‘Swimming, well.’
He was somewhat confident about it.
I learned it when I was young, and I originally liked water.
However, keeping up with a dolphin’s swimming speed and withstanding water pressure were different matters entirely.
I needed to practice with Hunkyo.
– My lord, please hold on tight here.
Hunkyo was kind, and the swimming practice ended quite successfully.
Friday morning.
Today as well, breaking through the journalists lined up everywhere, Baek Jin-woo naturally dove into the Lower Friday Dungeon.
Naturally, while wearing his equipment.
‘Phew, I’m excited.’
In fact, the decisive reason Ilcheon was called the god of time attacks was precisely this Friday Dungeon play.
A dungeon that gives special runes!
The Friday Dungeon, which felt like a fun mini-game during Battle of Summoners, was enjoyed by many veteran players, and they would share videos with each other in communities, doing time attacks while “shaving” time as they called it.
Lower level is easy.
Intermediate is difficult.
Advanced is hellish.
Supreme makes you want to vomit.
[‘Player Running’ will start in 10 seconds!]
[Reach the destination as quickly as possible!]
The background was a corridor.
Baek Jin-woo could see a line drawn on the floor in front of his view.
After 10 seconds.
He had to start from here.
‘Lower level should be fine. They won’t suspect me even if I go all out, right?’
He stretched his body and prepared to run.
At the same time.
“Wind Falcon.”
– Kiyooot!
“Cast a speed buff on me.”
Whooom!
As a cool breeze brushed his nose, he felt strength filling his entire body.
‘This is the speed buff.’
Seconds passed.
[3]
[2]
[1]
One second remained.
Baek Jin-woo lowered his stance.
[0]
[Go!]
As soon as the line drawn on the floor disappeared, he kicked off the ground and sprinted.
“Huff, huff, huff!”
He breathed rhythmically while running at maximum speed.
Numerous obstacles appear while the player runs.
Avoiding them while running is the point of this Friday Dungeon!
Of course.
The sequence of all obstacles and shortcuts were perfectly stored in Baek Jin-woo’s head.
Whiiiish!
He lightly dodged a small stone flying from far away by ducking, and naturally found the flat spots on the randomly swaying floor to step on precisely.
Fluid yet clean movements without a single error!
‘Good.’
Baek Jin-woo felt the emotion of fun for the first time in a while.
Yes!
This is it!
It felt even more exciting than when he controlled it through a screen.
‘And.’
There’s a section that appears after about a minute.
There’s a fairly wide floor with water filling it completely.
‘The first hidden route!’
Baek Jin-woo’s eyes lit up.
Originally, crossing that water and continuing to run forward is the official route.
But?
If you use the Sky Dolphin to move underwater, you can avoid all the tricky obstacles above.
“Sky Dolphin!”
– Kiiiii!
As he naturally grabbed the handle on top of the Sky Dolphin that appeared in mid-air.
“Hup!”
He held his breath.
And.
Splash!
Baek Jin-woo diving underwater!
He didn’t need to worry about his equipment.
It had waterproof functionality.
Swoooosh!
The Sky Dolphin swam through the water at tremendous speed.
Even in the midst of this, Baek Jin-woo kept his eyes wide open and controlled the dolphin.
This was the result of practicing all night yesterday.
As soon as 30 seconds passed.
Pwooooosh!
The dolphin jumped above the water!
“Okay!”
This way, the tricky section was over.
Baek Jin-woo shouted while soaring through the air.
“Sky Wyvern!”
– Kiruruurururu!
Then the wyvern appeared with perfect timing and positioned its body beneath Baek Jin-woo!
“Wahoo!”
Baek Jin-woo let out a cheer at that tremendous thrill.
‘From now on, it’s flight time!’
If the first background was a corridor, from here the sky was open.
This meant flight was possible.
From intermediate level and above, there’s quite a bit to control even while flying, but for lower level, you just fly straight through.
After all, there are only ground obstacles.
‘Wait.’
Didn’t I go too seriously from the beginning?
‘Well, it’s fine.’
To be sure this time, I checked the world record.
[Friday Dungeon Lower Level]
[World Record 1st Place – Rachel]
[Clear Time – 00:01:25]
It was still a time that Baek Jin-woo couldn’t break no matter what he did.
To break through that, I’d need to raise the Wind Falcon to its limit and fully set up the runes too.
I’d also need to maximize the speed of the wyvern and dolphin.
‘I should be able to clear it in about half a year.’
Of course, that’s because this is low-grade.
What about the highest grade?
The difficulty is so high that even Rachel would stick her tongue out.
Of course, she could clear it, but she can’t take shortcuts and has to follow the official route.
The method of summoning creatures and smashing through every single obstacle.
‘I’ll try that later.’
– Kiruurururu!
As we approached the destination, the Sky Wyvern let out a joyful roar.
And not long after.
[Arriving at destination!]
[Dungeon Clear!]
[Clear Time – 00:02:16]
‘2 minutes 16 seconds!’
Not a bad speed!
By the way, Friday Dungeons also have ‘auto battle’ mode.
If you just put in summoned creatures without the player, a virtual player replaces them and moves exactly the same as before.
And this too.
[Congratulations!]
[You have broken South Korea’s best record!]
[You have achieved a special Achievement!]
It was a natural result for South Korea.
That night.
Baek Jin-woo’s father, Baek Jin-chul.
His mother, Hwang Myeong-hee, came home late from work and was preparing dinner.
“Honey.”
Hwang Myeong-hee asked as she set down the hot steamed eggs.
“What do you think our Jin-woo is up to these days?”
“Well. He said he registered as a player last time, so isn’t he probably going around dungeons or something?”
The couple was extremely busy.
They were usually so busy with work that they rarely watched TV and were quite insensitive to news.
“Should we try contacting him?”
“Never mind. He takes after me, so he’ll do well on his own. If we keep contacting him because we’re worried, it’ll just burden him more.”
“Hmm, I suppose so.”
Still unable to resist, Hwang Myeong-hee picked up her phone.
She was going to call their daughter, Baek A-jin.
Still, daughters were more comfortable than sons – A-jin kept in regular contact.
– Yes, Mom!
“Do you know what your brother’s been up to lately? We haven’t heard from him at all recently.”
– Brother…?
A brief silence followed with a question mark.
It was because Baek A-jin, who answered the phone, pressed her lips tightly shut.
Should I tell her? Or not?
Part of her wanted to tell her right away.
That brother of mine.
He’s hitting it big right now.
But.
‘He told me not to tell them first.’
And the B-grade Shadow Wolf he had promised kept floating around in her head.
A summoned creature worth 500 million won.
After hesitating for a moment, she opened her mouth again.
– Don’t worry too much. He seems to be living well? And he said he’d visit soon.
“Oh really? Come with him when he does.”
Hwang Myeong-hee smiled and had various conversations with her daughter before hanging up.
And then dinner began.
During the meal.
Baek Jin-chul pulled out a white envelope from his pocket.
“What’s that?”
“The bonus I got this time. 2 million.”
“Oh my.”
“Use it for living expenses. And let’s give Jin-woo more allowance. It must be hard for him to wake up from his coma and adjust, but it’s admirable that he’s trying to live earnestly.”
“Should we?”
Hwang Myeong-hee smiled happily.
Actually, there were times when she felt heartbroken because of her son.
It was because of occasional gatherings with friends…
Someone’s child became a proper player and joined a major guild.
Or someone else’s child got into some big company as a new employee and was so busy they were dying.
Every time they met, they would subtly brag about their children, but Hwang Myeong-hee had nothing to say.
Of course, that much was fine.
But.
There were some annoying friends.
– Is Jin-woo okay? I heard he awakened recently! Congratulations. You know, success doesn’t matter? Health is really the most important thing.
– Still, I’m worried. A three-year gap in his mid-twenties… Oh well, he’s young. He’ll get back on his feet. What’s he going to do? Take the college entrance exam again?
Because of friends like these, veins would slightly bulge on her forehead, but.
“Hehe.”
Hwang Myeong-hee just smiled as she looked at the envelope Baek Jin-chul offered.
‘Still, it’s fortunate.’
A-jin and Jin-woo.
They’re both growing up healthy and beautifully.
The couple still had no idea that their son was currently featured prominently on the news.
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