I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 243

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Chapter 243
243: Davy Jones’ Lair (1)
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The Aerial Port at the apex of Safe Zone Borg’s towering spire, where ships were moored, bustled with unprecedented activity. There weren’t particularly many vessels, but upon closer inspection, most of the figures moving about were laborers transporting cargo rather than passengers.
The supplies being loaded onto the ships were potions, provisions, and consumable items—quantities that, to the uninitiated eye, might suggest preparations for war.
Within the ship, members of the Deviants Attack Squad were inspecting the cargo, and Jiyuchan, mingling among them, muttered as he checked items.
“That’s quite a lot.”
“Aha… well, when you prepare for a subjugation, this quantity is pretty standard.”
Vera, who had been checking alongside Jiyuchan, answered with an awkward smile.
Had it been anyone else, they might have dismissed Jiyuchan’s remark as mere astonishment, but Vera had already experienced the Dohyun Party firsthand, so she explained, sensing that Jiyuchan didn’t quite understand why this amount was necessary.
And indeed, she was right.
“I see, I understand.”
Though Jiyuchan said so, his expression still betrayed confusion. For a party that hunted without even a Healer, supplies of this magnitude could only seem wasteful.
It wasn’t frugality—he genuinely didn’t understand why they were necessary.
Vera, knowing Jiyuchan’s situation, simply let it pass. After all, for a party of Dohyun’s caliber, such consumables truly were unnecessary.
‘Now that I think about it, they were truly remarkable.’
The battle against Dohyun’s avatar, the Plague Lord, had certainly been impressive. Particularly striking was when Jiyuchan, at the end, sacrificed himself as a barrier to contain both his own and the Plague Lord’s attacks, allowing Hanalin’s final strike to land.
While one might argue such sacrifice was possible in a sparring match rather than actual combat, the fact that such an action emerged even in a duel that felt more realistic than real battle itself suggested that Jiyuchan would genuinely make that sacrifice in true combat.
That’s why Vera found it difficult to comprehend.
Though Celestials were said to be a noble and gentle race, those capable of sacrificing themselves for their comrades were exceedingly rare.
In fact, that was true of all living beings.
So Vera spoke to Jiyuchan.
“…I hesitate to mention it, but if you’d had a potion at the end of that sparring match, you might have endured without collapsing.”
“Oh, you’re absolutely right.”
At Jiyuchan’s positive response, Vera smiled slightly, and Jiyuchan thought for a moment before speaking.
“I know I should learn about and use potions, but since I’ve always been accustomed to recovering after combat ends, I suppose it simply didn’t occur to me in the moment.”
“That’s understandable. Still, since your party lacks a Healer, it would be wise to be more cautious.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
As Vera and Jiyuchan conversed and nearly finished their inventory check, a loud voice echoed from the Aerial Port.
A familiar, playful voice.
“Hey! Jiyuchan!!! I brought your items!!!”
At Dohyun’s voice, Jiyuchan’s face brightened and he grinned, then sought Vera’s permission.
“Ah! It sounds like he’s looking for me—would it be alright if I went for a moment?”
Seeing Jiyuchan’s beaming smile, Vera readily nodded in response.
“We’re almost finished, so I’ll handle the rest. Go ahead.”
“Thank you!”
Seeing Jiyuchan’s obvious excitement, Vera couldn’t help but let him go. As she watched his eager figure dash away, she chuckled softly and resumed her inventory check.
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When Dohyun called out loudly for Jiyuchan at the Aerial Port, he chuckled to himself as Jiyuchan came running in no time, thinking, “That’s Jiyuchan for you.”
And Hanalin, watching Jiyuchan’s enthusiasm, shook her head with an exasperated expression.
I had wondered if items could really be that good, but in the early stages, Jiyuchan barely got any items anyway, so it was fortunate that he was finally using them now.
In fact, during this recent confrontation with the Plague Lord, didn’t he utilize all the items well? If he hadn’t used them properly, I wouldn’t have wanted to give them to him, but soon he was using them well and even handling them better than anyone else, so I couldn’t help but keep giving them to him.
Watching Jiyuchan rush over, Dohyun tossed him the platinum scabbard while speaking.
“It’s completely your exclusive artifact. When you infuse your mana into it, the platinum blade technique activates. When you insert the sword, it hones both the blade’s durability and its aura. It also has an effect that can create protective barriers, and when you use iaijutsu or draw techniques, it grants an effect that ignores defense.”
“Whoa!?”
As Dohyun spoke rapidly in one breath, Jiyuchan’s eyes widened and he stared at Dohyun with trembling eyes.
As if asking whether that was really true.
Despite the rapid explanation, it was legendary how he caught every word of his own artifact’s description.
With wide eyes at Dohyun’s explanation, Jiyuchan looked at the platinum scabbard, discarded Goremeu’s old scabbard from his waist like worn-out shoes, and inserted Goremeu’s greatsword into the platinum scabbard.
Then.
Shhhhk.
With a smooth sheathing sound, as Goremeu’s greatsword was sheathed, even Dohyun watching this couldn’t help but be startled by how satisfying it felt.
It was like watching puzzle pieces fit together perfectly, as if there were no size discrepancies at all.
Or perhaps it felt like opening a yogurt lid and peeling it off so cleanly that nothing stuck to the edges.
In any case, a wonderful feeling washed over him.
What about Jiyuchan, who had directly sheathed the sword in the scabbard?
He was absolutely ecstatic, nearly losing his mind.
“I never imagined the scabbard would be as important as the weapon itself… This is really incredible.”
Watching Jiyuchan speak with a dreamy expression, Hanalin looked at him with a hint of envy.
“Sigh, I’m jealous.”
“Huh?”
At Hanalin’s words, Jiyuchan made an uncertain expression, and Dohyun nodded.
“This time, only you and I obtained artifacts.”
“Ah…”
“So the 10 million Points we received will all go to Narin, so understand that.”
“Of course!”
Well, there were the 10 million Points received from Hezway and artifacts too, so Jiyuchan had nothing to regret. Besides, since lately only he was receiving good things, he felt a bit sorry toward Hanalin.
Dohyun also decided to give Hanalin 10 million Points that way.
Still, Hanalin’s mana circuits had expanded well this time, so her combat power wasn’t unchanged.
As Dohyun gave the platinum scabbard to Jiyuchan and Jiyuchan was checking it out a bit, Hezway shouted from above the ship.
“We’re departing soon! Everyone, please board the ship!”
At Hezway’s words, all the members of the Davy Jones Attack Party looked up at Hezway.
Now it was truly beginning.
“We’re heading toward Davy Jones’ Lair!”
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The interior of the ship heading toward where the Strong Man’s Compass pointed was deathly silent. Though we couldn’t know how long the ship journey would take, what was certain was that we would be fighting Davy Jones within days, so it was natural that nerves were on edge, and everyone held their breath.
In the quiet cabin, the Dohyun Party was also concentrating, checking the resources they could use, with Dohyun putting in the most effort.
Naturally, the combat power I could currently deploy included utilizing my two clones, but the problem was.
‘Using clones causes significant mana loss.’
So it was useful to create strong clones in advance while resting like this, but the issue was that clone techniques had a limited duration.
Typically, even if it meant a loss, most would use it immediately in combat, but Dohyun had found a way around it.
First, he plucked strands of his own hair up to the point just before creating a clone, and infused one of them with every last bit of mana he currently possessed.
Now all he needed to do was embed his soul into it, and in this state, Dohyun activated his trait toward the hair and the mana he had imparted.
None other than 『Fusion』.
Dohyun’s Fusion merged the hair and mana into a single entity.
And then.
“Oh!”
Breaking the silence, an exclamation escaped Dohyun, and both Hanalin, who had been studying, and Jiyuchan, who had been meditating, glanced toward him before their eyes widened at the sight of Dohyun’s hair undulating like threads of mana.
As they looked at Dohyun as if asking what that was, he explained.
“It’s material I prepared in the state just before using the clone technique. Since I poured all my mana into it, it should be far stronger than my usual clones.”
“…It was already strong, and now it’s becoming even stronger?”
“…This is insane. With two additional members, we’re essentially a full party.”
“A full party without a Healer.”
Dohyun responded with an amused murmur to Jiyuchan’s remark, while both Hanalin and Jiyuchan paid his words no mind, instead swallowing hard as they stared at the hair he held.
Though he had answered so casually, both of them recalled his words about infusing all his current mana into it and thought to themselves.
‘…If all of Dohyun’s mana is embedded in it, isn’t that essentially Dohyun himself?’
‘So there will literally be three Dohyuns.’
The prospect of Dohyun’s exact combat power multiplied threefold was terrifying. Moreover, one could argue these versions possessed slightly superior strength compared to Dohyun himself.
After all, Dohyun had been defeated by 『Ruin’s Dragon Solvent』.
Dohyun drank mana potions and, as his mana fully recovered, created one more material for the clone technique.
He would have liked to create a hundred if he could, but that seemed impossible.
‘No matter how many I make, I can only use two at a time with the clone technique.’
In game terms, there was a cooldown, which was somewhat disappointing, but what could he do.
Thinking this was sufficient, the moment he was about to prepare something else, Dohyun sensed something and hurriedly left the cabin for the deck, with Hanalin and Jiyuchan belatedly sensing it as well and following after him.
And as the Dohyun Party emerged onto the deck, Baeryujin, Hezway, Jerome, and Vera all climbed up onto the deck as well.
And Captain Ines, looking at those who had come up onto the deck, spoke.
-We’ve arrived. At Davy Jones’ Lair.
At Ines’ words, everyone gazed at that place, and realizing it was a location they all knew well, they all stared in disbelief at where the Compass of the Strong pointed.
It was a place lined with cliffs on one side of the cliff that encircled the Central Zone, not far from the Central Zone itself.
So this was what they meant by the lamp being darkest beneath its own stand.
Surely not.
“To think he would establish his lair so close to the Central Zone.”
Everyone was astounded by this unforeseen revelation, yet only Dohyun remained unfazed and spoke.
“Let’s prepare. Raid.”

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