Level -99 Archmage - Chapter 24

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Episode 24. Constitutional Improvement
Elixir.
A substance infused with divine and miraculous power, or medicine of proven efficacy.
The effects are potent enough to raise human limits, so the principle is to consume only one type at a time.
If different energies mixed before being fully absorbed, contamination could occur. Moreover, allowing too much energy to permeate the body risked becoming a cripple.
Even the quantity recommended was minuscule.
Overusing a single type of Elixir could rupture one’s meridians and lead to death.
Excess is as bad as insufficiency.
This idiom fit no better than with ‘Elixir.’
But Park Chan-woo was different.
‘If it’s been converted to a Buff Effect, that means it’s being recognized as volatile.’
Perhaps it was because his body couldn’t properly receive the Elixir’s effects.
His pure stats were fixed at one due to the Status Abnormality ‘Weakest,’ so the medicinal potency had been converted into a ‘Buff Effect’ that lasted only one hundred hours.
Buff Effects could be stacked by the dozens without side effects.
Since they were volatile anyway, they’d fade with time.
Of course, if Buffs had opposing properties or cancelled each other out, they couldn’t be stacked together.
But that didn’t apply to Park Chan-woo either.
‘I have Eternal, so even if the properties are opposed, there’s no penalty for me.’
The effect of ‘Eternal’ that had driven him to impulse buying at the nightclub.
It nullified the side effects that arose from having opposing elemental properties.
This effect wasn’t limited to magic alone.
It also neutralized the opposing energies inherent in Elixirs.
Because of this, Park Chan-woo could consume Elixirs without hesitation, as many as he found.
Once he’d consumed over twenty types of Elixir, his Attack and Defense both surpassed one thousand.
‘……This is absurd.’
The absurdity made him let out a dry laugh.
His current situation had crossed far beyond the realm of comprehension.
If this had been someone else’s story, Park Chan-woo himself wouldn’t have believed it.
He might’ve even rebuked them for spinning lies without conviction.
After all, reaching Attack and Defense of one thousand required surpassing at least level thirty.
And even that was only possible with the assumption of wearing all manner of high-grade equipment.
Meanwhile, Park Chan-woo’s level was negative ninety-five.
Logically impossible—but since Park Chan-woo’s very state already belonged to the realm of impossibility.
It felt like multiplying negative by negative to get a positive.
‘Thank you, Yu Han-seop.’
He offered genuine gratitude to Yu Han-seop.
The map that Yu Han-seop had spread out.
The countless Elixirs marked upon it.
Park Chan-woo was collecting them all without exception, wandering through the Water God Abyss as if it were his own home.
‘Speaking of which… constitutional change.’
The medicinal effects of the Elixirs had mixed together and altered his constitution.
Along with the Title ‘Elixir Addict,’ changes began occurring throughout his entire body.
What exactly was changing.
The moment that thought reached him, as if it had been waiting.
“Nngh.”
Park Chan-woo let out a small groan and gripped his chest.
Heat circulated through his body in scorching waves.
It felt as though all manner of efficacies from the Elixirs were mixing together.
His body, already frail to begin with.
Due to the Status Abnormalities ‘Sickly’ and ‘Frail,’ he was always lacking energy and susceptible to illness and curses.
This meant even small changes affected him acutely.
As fever suddenly surged, the world spun and sweat poured out like a flood.
“Hup—!”
Park Chan-woo quickly covered his mouth and nose.
He instinctively sensed the Elixir’s energy trying to overflow.
The energy that couldn’t escape then intensified his body’s heat all the more.
Every single cell screamed.
Part of him wanted to scream along.
‘Endure. Park Chan-woo.’
He bore down with inhuman resilience, again and again.
Constitution. The act of improving the body’s entire disposition.
If it weren’t painful, it would be a lie.
Park Chan-woo knew from experience that if he allowed the Elixir’s efficacy to escape here, he would be left with a result that was neither this nor that.
Every time he broke through a Limit Level, a similar revelation had found him.
Humanity encountered a ‘Limit Level’ every ten levels, and only by breaking through it could one advance to the next tier of levels.
The higher one climbed, the more difficult the ordeal became, and the greater the pain.
Without enduring, one could not overcome.
Compared to the vertigo he had felt when surpassing level ninety, this pain now was nothing at all.
An ordinary person would have fainted a hundred times over.
‘I’m used to this.’
For him, it was a familiar ordeal.
It was not merely that he had grown accustomed to breaking through his limits so often.
To survive, he had endured every conceivable suffering.
Even when captured by the ‘Human Hunter’ and struck by molten metal boiling over, or tortured by having his fingernails torn out and salt rubbed into the wounds, Park Chan-woo had never once abandoned himself.
When the demon called the ‘Butcher’ flayed him piece by piece for thirty hours, and when the ‘Fantasy Sprite’ bound him and tormented him with terrible hallucinations for thirty days—even then.
Park Chan-woo had endured it all.
So what was mere suffering like this?
No matter how weakened his body had become, it made no sense that he who had returned from a terrible future could not bear this.
Soon his expression softened.
A composure even settled into his eyes.
As his spirit stabilized, another message came to mind.
《Constitutional Improvement has been completed successfully!》
《’Hundred Poisons Cannot Breach’.》
《Ordinary toxins cannot poison you, nor can they breach your defenses.》
Ah!
A smile bloomed at Park Chan-woo’s lips.
The countless Elixirs had spread through his body as if they were poison themselves.
Their overwhelming efficacy was no different from toxin.
By adapting to all that power, he had reached ‘Hundred Poisons Cannot Breach’.
Had he not blocked the energy from escaping through his mouth and nose, he would have attained only ‘Ten Poisons Cannot Breach’ or a mere pittance of poison resistance.
‘In the Abyss, poison-related resistance is always valuable, regardless of how you gain it. All the more so with Hundred Poisons Cannot Breach.’
It was not mere resistance—his very constitution had become immune to toxins.
Ordinary ‘poison resistance’ only provides immunity to toxins within that resistance’s numeric threshold, but when the constitution itself changes, it allows one to withstand even the most potent deadly poisons to a significant degree.
That difference could not be ignored.
It meant he would never meet an ignominious death by poison.
Soon enough, Divine Envoys who wielded poison actively would begin to appear.
Abysses where poison flowed throughout entire regions might emerge, and monsters bearing toxins powerful enough to bring death would show their faces.
Resistance to other attributes mattered, but poison resistance could be called essential.
‘I’ve obtained something rare.’
It was beyond rare. At this stage, it was something that should be impossible to obtain.
Mere poison resistance was not it—’Hundred Poisons Cannot Breach’ was something only the rarest few could achieve.
Of course, once one reached around level eighty, one would automatically gain an equivalent ability, but that too was far from easy.
‘Could I reach Thousand Poisons Cannot Breach or Ten Thousand Poisons Cannot Breach by consuming more Elixir?’
Ambition stirred naturally.
After consuming twenty types of Elixir, he had achieved Hundred Poisons Cannot Breach.
The map Yu Han-seop had laid out showed over fifty Elixirs marked upon it.
If he consumed all of them, might Thousand Poisons Cannot Breach or Ten Thousand Poisons Cannot Breach become possible?
Especially ‘Ten Thousand Poisons Cannot Breach’—a state where toxin itself becomes ineffective.
No matter how potent the deadly poison, it would be useless before Ten Thousand Poisons Cannot Breach.
And as far as Park Chan-woo knew, only one person had ever reached ‘Ten Thousand Poisons Cannot Breach’.
‘Ten Thousand Poisons Cannot Breach, Water Cannot Breach, Diamond Indestructible…… that bastard had them all.’
One man possessed three conditions that could make anyone the strongest—abilities that only one person should ever need.
That creature who had first reached level ninety-nine.
Such a repulsive son of a bitch he didn’t even want the name in his mouth!
Park Chan-woo shook his head deliberately.
At least at this point in time, Park Chan-woo was surpassing that bastard.
Even if it was limited to one hundred hours, he possessed overwhelming offensive and defensive power.
If he had his way, he’d sweep away all the Divine Envoys here, including that creature.
‘Killing the Water God comes first.’
If he didn’t, that creature’s ‘Undetectable State’ would become useless.
If the Creators and the Water God caught on, every plan would crumble to dust.
Killing the Water God and having South Korea reach 5,000 points—that had to come first.
Park Chan-woo wiped the sweat from his brow and emerged from the cave.
Until he’d consumed every last Elixir, he had no intention of resting for even a second.
More than anything else.
‘That bastard’s Elixirs. There’s a strong chance they’re in the Toxic Fog Swamp.’
Back then, he’d definitely obtained Elixirs from this place.
He’d come in searching for Elixirs and deliberately obstructed people so the Water God Abyss wouldn’t be cleared.
Since the history of that bastard, who’d played the “Savior” for quite a long time, was fairly well known.
There were even eyewitness accounts from that period of him leading people and “creating miracles in the Toxic Fog Swamp.”
That location couldn’t be far from here.
And from what he’d seen on the map, the most difficult-to-obtain Elixirs lay scattered across the swamp where the toxic fog spread.
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‘I am the strongest.’
Yu Han-seop was powerful.
It wasn’t merely that he possessed the talent to form the Twilight Fellowship and lead people.
He knew how to hide his emotions, was cruel and vicious, and felt no fear of blood.
Because of such a nature, he’d been chosen by a powerful Creator and granted the position of Divine Envoy, receiving all manner of benefits.
He had talent.
He was ambitious, and his efforts were never half-hearted.
A finished prodigy, through and through.
His martial prowess was so exceptional that he far exceeded predicted survival rates in the Abyss, and in the First Night Abyss, he’d even achieved a Contribution Rank of 10 while facing the Dragon God Commanders.
‘Even Divine Envoys are no match for me.’
Crackle!
Gazing at the burning corpse, Yu Han-seop smiled.
That made three.
The number of Divine Envoys he’d killed.
Even the Divine Envoys who’d grown with the Creator’s full backing proved no match for Yu Han-seop.
However, a Divine Envoy was meant to be a leader of humanity—a being who stood above mankind.
It wasn’t that they were weak; it was simply that Yu Han-seop himself was uniquely strong.
Unlike ordinary humans, when Divine Envoys died, their entire bodies burned in flame and charred black, so distinguishing them was straightforward enough.
《The contracted Creator, greatly satisfied, presents you with a Gold Box.》
And each time a corpse burned away, the Creator would be satisfied and hand over a Gold Box.
Thieves who’d stolen what he’d arranged.
This was the reward for Yu Han-seop punishing them.
Yu Han-seop opened each gift the moment he received it.
《Opening the Gold Box.》
《Obtained Mana-Infused Earring (Level 7, Rare).》
《Opening the Gold Box.》
《Obtained Amber Knee Protector (Level 7, Unique).》
《Opening the Gold Box.》
《Obtained Wild Shoulder Pauldron (Level 7, Rare).》
‘……Unique. Not bad at all.’
One of the three was Unique grade.
It wasn’t merely acceptable—it was excellent.
Among the rewards dispensed from ordinary Gold Boxes, this was a solid grade.
The highest-grade equipment Yu Han-seop currently possessed was the Silver Knight’s Sword (Epic) that he’d obtained from a Gold Box (★) in the First Night Abyss.
‘Normal, Rare, Unique, Epic. No grade higher than this has been discovered yet.’
Probably, at this point in time, the highest grade humanity had reached was Epic.
He’d never heard of any grade beyond that existing.
Yu Han-seop gazed at the newly acquired equipment with trembling eyes.
Name: Amber Knee Protector
Level: 7
Grade: Unique
Description: A knee protector embedded with amber.
Equip Slot: Knee Protector Type
Defense: 23
Durability: 2,000
Unique Option:
(1) Maximum Health increases by 2.
‘Oh. A Unique Option!!’
Yu Han-seop clenched his fist with a smile.
From Unique grade and above, items came with something called a ‘Unique Option.’
They typically boosted stats or granted the user special abilities.
At a time when even a single point of stat increase mattered.
A whole two points added to vitality—where else could he find such generosity?
“Thank you, my Creator! I shall redouble my efforts, devote my full strength to punishing these thieves.”
Yu Han-seop bowed deeply toward his Creator, gratitude pouring from him.
Now he had the foundation to throw himself fully into hunting Divine Envoys.
Equipped with the Amber Knee Protector and his newly acquired gear, Yu Han-seop unfolded his map and headed toward the location marked with an Arrangement nearby.
Though the Arrangement had already been stolen, any Divine Envoy unaware of that fact would still come looking for it here.
And it wasn’t long.
‘They’ve come.’
Someone arrived, exactly as anticipated.
The fact that they’d come to this place meant, with high probability, they were a Divine Envoy.
But the moment Yu Han-seop saw who had appeared, he couldn’t help but furrow his brow.
‘……Who is this man?’
The man who’d killed the Dragon God Commander in a single stroke in the First Night Abyss.
……Lee Hyeok-su had appeared.

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