I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 219

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Chapter 219
219: So They Actually Enjoyed This Sort of Thing Among Themselves!? (2)
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To face the boss of the Central Zone, a bounty notice was absolutely necessary. Similar to the bounty notice for the Aberrant that Dohyun had obtained before, with one crucial difference: the Central Zone’s bounty notices weren’t in Quest format but rather functioned as a means to summon Field Bosses.
Because of this, raids weren’t conducted in the game-like manner of waiting for respawns and hunting; instead, parties first had to locate bounty notices, use them to summon bosses, and then defeat them. This was why, in the early stages, they split up to hunt monsters and search for bounty notices as a priority.
Though Dohyun Party hadn’t known this beforehand, now that they understood, they too were searching for monsters to find bounty notices, but the creatures appeared far less frequently than expected.
“The monster count here is low.”
“But they drop items generously, or so I’ve heard…”
“And growth comes easily too, they say…”
Accompanying Dohyun’s words were the desolate voices of Hanalin and Jiyuchan. Though Dohyun wasn’t much different himself—he was equally frustrated.
Humanity had been classified as a Lower Race from the start, confined to the Outer Regions of all Zones. Had they known such a honey pot existed in the Central Zone, they would have advanced here directly from the F-rank Zone.
That regret weighed heavily on them.
Of course, thanks to that early training, their fundamentals were solid—when compared to Superior Races, they weren’t lacking but rather excelled.
But that was then, and this was now.
Deeply frustrated at having missed the opportunity to reap such rewards, Dohyun Party meticulously combed through their surroundings.
The monster they discovered was indeed markedly different from the countless creatures they’d encountered outside.
“Humanoid?”
“Not entirely humanoid, though.”
“It looks like they used Atavism.”
When Hanalin, who spotted it first, spoke thus, Dohyun and Jiyuchan offered slight corrections. It resembled the Atavism the Stream Reaper Pirate Crew had used before.
A hybrid of shark and mermaid forms—the lower body resembled a shark’s tail, while the upper body had the shark’s fins transformed into sharp, blade-like arms. Its face retained the shark’s visage, making it ambiguous whether to call it truly humanoid.
Somewhere between an Aberrant and a monster, perhaps? The moment they saw it, all three—Dohyun, Hanalin, and Jiyuchan—prepared for combat. Normally, Dohyun Party could dispatch ordinary monsters with casual gestures, but not this time.
It was immediately clear this creature transcended that level.
As expected.
When the creature swung its shark-tail-like mermaid tail from its lower body, its streamlined head lunged forward, hurtling rapidly toward Dohyun Party.
Roooaaarrr———!!!
Violent currents tore through the air, spray erupting around them. Seeing this, Dohyun’s eyes gleamed as he ignited Eternal Flame across both fists and hurled a punch toward the blade shark monster.
Then.
Whoosh!
Whoom———!
The streamlined blade shark monster instantly pivoted, twisting its body to evade Dohyun’s punch, then swept past in a blur, its fin-blade slashing across Dohyun’s flank.
Screeeech———!!!
A metallic grinding sound erupted. Dohyun was pushed back slightly by the blade’s force, but the blade shark monster, turning to regard the sensation of what it had struck, saw Dohyun’s other hand spread open, protected by Eternal Flame, blocking the fin-blade’s slash.
The blade shark monster stood bewildered at how Dohyun had defended in that split second, while Dohyun regarded it with an expression of utter exasperation.
‘So its combat intelligence is that high.’
It was certainly a powerful monster, operating on an entirely different level from those Dohyun Party had faced before. But that was all.
The moment Dohyun finished his assessment, magic suddenly manifested in midair. Without a magic circle, incantation, or Birdman assistance, mana transformed directly into magic. The blade shark monster, witnessing this, recoiled in alarm and moved to evade.
In that instant, a pure white beam shot forth, streaking past where the blade shark monster had been.
Then.
Booooom———!!!
In an instant, the trajectory of the beam froze entirely, and the tail of the Blade Shark monster that had been attempting to evade quickly became encased in ice.
Though its tail was frozen, merely freezing a single appendage proved insufficient to halt the creature—as it thrashed its tail violently, the restraining ice shattered in moments.
Clang———!!
With a sharp metallic ring, the Blade Shark monster broke free from its bonds, but in that brief frozen instant, a platinum-hued arc materialized, and along its trajectory, blade energy erupted at tremendous speed, cleaving through the creature’s upper body.
Shhhhwick!
“Gaaahhhhh!!!”
The sound of the long laceration echoed across the arena, and the Blade Shark monster writhed in agony, its maw gaping wide. As it opened its mouth, water bubbles rose forth, but that was far from the end.
As the platinum arc appeared once more and Jiyuchan prepared to unleash another blade strike, the Blade Shark monster unleashed a torrent of razor-sharp currents from its gaping maw directly at him.
Whoooshshshshshshsh———!!!
The moment dozens of blade-laden currents erupted from its mouth reached Jiyuchan, he raised his sword and unfurled a platinum-hued defensive barrier.
Golden Sword Eighth Form: Golden Mirror Fortress
As he swung his blade, a solid golden mirror materialized before him, completely shielding him from the onslaught, and in that instant, the Blade Shark monster sensed something amiss and ceased its assault, attempting to turn its body.
But.
Whirl——snap.
The world spun rapidly, and in that state, the Blade Shark monster could see its own body. Its neck had been cleanly severed, and it blinked once—that was its final moment.
Though the battle lasted scarcely thirty seconds, the Dohyun Party could all sense it.
“The monsters here are quite formidable.”
“They seem at least fifty percent stronger than the ones we faced outside.”
“Hmm, definitely.”
“So what drops will we get?”
As I spoke with an eager grin, Hanalin and Jiyuchan muttered in exasperation at my enthusiasm.
“Even if the drops are generous, we’ll be satisfied with the first haul… Huh??”
“Right? Dohyun, you’re really something with that greed… What???”
“Huh!?”
As they spoke, watching the Blade Shark monster’s corpse fade away, something fluttered into view—not one, but two items! Upon discovering these fluttering objects, I, Hanalin, and Jiyuchan all stood frozen, staring in disbelief.
Among us, I was the first to regain my composure and examine what had appeared.
『Lawless Vessel, Dreadnought Wanted Poster』
▶「This is the wanted poster for the Lawless Vessel, Dreadnought—the true master of the Shipwreck Graveyard.」
▶「The moment you tear this wanted poster, you can summon the Lawless Vessel, Dreadnought.」
So much for not being satisfied with the first haul—the item I’d been seeking most appeared first. I blinked repeatedly, utterly bewildered.
But this was not the end.
Alongside the wanted poster, a cloak had materialized, and upon seeing this shadow-like garment, I blinked and activated Analysis.
Then the cloak’s description appeared.
『Shadow Veil Cloak』
▶「A pitch-black cloak woven from the abyssal spider silk that completely absorbs light.」
▶「When physical ranged projectiles (arrows, throwing weapons, etc.) flying toward the wearer touch the cloak’s hem, a defensive option automatically activates, consuming mana to gently absorb them into a shadow marsh, nullifying their impact.」
One could argue it was merely an item with a single option, but that singular option possessed an extraordinary effect.
Watching it nullify projectile damage, I swallowed hard. Did I really obtain this on the very first encounter? As my eyes trembled with that thought, Hanalin and Jiyuchan grew impatient and asked.
“Is… that really a wanted poster?”
“What’s the cloak’s effect!?”
Upon seeing Hanalin and Jiyuchan, I nodded and answered Hanalin’s question, then opened my mouth to explain the effect to Jiyuchan.
“It’s called a Shadow Veil Cloak. It automatically consumes mana to block projectiles.”
“Wow….”
“Insane….”
Hanalin and Jiyuchan gasped in unison, and I handed the cloak to Hanalin. It was a better fit for her positioned in the rear than for me right now.
Hanalin, receiving it, looked at me as if asking whether she could really accept something like this.
“I bought you a spear last time anyway, so use this.”
“Projectile defense is supposed to be handled by the rear guard anyway.”
As I said that and Jiyuchan also conceded in agreement, Hanalin thanked us both with genuine gratitude.
“Thank you both so much.”
In any case, Jiyuchan, the most innocent member of the Dohyun Party who had just obtained a bounty notice that would make anyone’s belly full on the first haul, looked at me and asked.
“So we should summon it right away, right?”
At Jiyuchan’s question, Hanalin and I made similar expressions, scrunching our faces as if asking what he was talking about.
When both of us looked at him with that expression, Jiyuchan also startled in surprise, looking at us as if asking why we were looking at him that way. Then.
“Wait, Jiyuchan… think about it.”
“Think about what?”
“If you use the bounty notice now, the hunt ends, Jiyuchan.”
“Huh? Huh? Huh?!”
At my words, Jiyuchan startled in surprise, asking what I meant, but soon after he was able to quickly understand what Hanalin and I were saying.
We had already received a briefing before coming here, and according to that briefing.
“Only one bounty notice can exist at a time, so if we don’t summon it….”
“We can keep hunting.”
“In a honey pot like this.”
My eyes and Hanalin’s eyes gleamed with greed unlike usual. Jiyuchan trembled at the sight.
Was he trembling because he wanted to stop us from summoning it, saying we could come back again later?
No way.
“You two are geniuses?”
“Of course!”
“Obviously!”
As I and Hanalin answered with such confidence, Jiyuchan likewise grinned with eyes full of greed just like us.
Then.
“Let’s start hunting right away!”
“Sounds good!”
“Hahahaha! Let’s squeeze out every last drop!”
While the Dohyun Party was raging like this, the other parties hadn’t felt it yet, but only one person was sensing something ominous.
None other than Baeryujin, who had spent a long time with the Dohyun Party.
Since Baeryujin was also treated as a monster and wouldn’t drop items even if he hunted, he was waiting quietly when a strange thought occurred to him and he muttered.
“Surely Dohyun didn’t get the bounty notice and is not summoning it, right?”
For a moment that thought crossed his mind, but he tried to brush it off, thinking no way.
However.
“…If it’s that bastard, he’d be more than capable of it.”
Baeryujin quickly grasped the situation and set out to find Dohyun, abandoning the hunt altogether.

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