Level -99 Archmage - Chapter 30

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Episode 30. Ultra Regeneration
The Myriad Blood Immortal Pill.
Within it dwelt the lives of ten thousand orc warriors.
Their anguish and sorrow radiated as a powerful curse, bestowing death upon whoever would claim the pill.
But Park Chan-woo was the exception.
He had given their grudges peace.
He had brought rest to the orc priestess Yen, and promised the bankruptcy of ‘Ahimbra’.
At that, the spirits of the warriors sleeping upon the altar began to stir.
As a result, Park Chan-woo was able to absorb the essence of the Myriad Blood Immortal Pill at one hundred percent.
‘Extraordinary.’
He marveled purely at the fact.
It had transcended a mere buff.
The Myriad Blood Immortal Pill’s vitality had influenced the very foundation of his being.
《You have completely absorbed the ‘Myriad Blood Immortal Pill’.》
《Due to its tremendous life force, the Magic ‘Ultra Regeneration (Passive, Rare)’ has been inscribed upon your body.》
《For 100 hours, your Attack Power increases by 2,400.》
《For 100 hours, your Defense Power increases by 2,400.》
Absorbing the essence of the Myriad Blood Immortal Pill wouldn’t change his pure Stats because of the abnormal condition ‘Weakest’, so naturally his numerical values remained the same.
Perhaps that was why.
Instead, he had acquired magic that activated automatically—something akin to divine authority itself.
‘If anything, this is better.’
Ultra Regeneration!
The very name spoke of something extraordinary.
While Stats were certainly crucial to navigating the world, for a mage the most vital foundation was, without question, ‘magic’.
‘This isn’t ordinary regeneration magic.’
Moreover, it was a name he’d never heard before.
Common ‘regeneration’ magic existed, certainly, but nothing called ‘Ultra Regeneration’.
Of course, regeneration magic at its core merely increased regeneration rate slightly—and even higher grades couldn’t compare to an Elixir.
‘I’m curious.’
Desperately curious.
Park Chan-woo immediately scanned the related description.
Name: Ultra Regeneration
Grade: Rare
Usage: Automatic (Passive)
Description: Upon taking damage, wounds regenerate instantly. As the Grade increases, the scope and range of regeneration expands. Currently elevated one Grade due to the World Tree Staff.
Normal – Erases ‘shallow wounds’.
Rare – Recovers ‘deep wounds’ in an instant.
Unique – Can regenerate even if a ‘finger joint’ is severed.
Epic – Can regenerate limbs up to the ‘elbow’ range.
Ancient – Can regenerate an entire ‘arm’.
Legendary – Can regenerate even if half the body is blown away.
Eternal – The entire body regenerates if even a small portion remains.
Zero – Unknown.
Park Chan-woo’s eyes twitched violently.
He had grasped the true nature of this magic.
‘Grand Magic……!’
This was no ordinary spell.
It was ‘Grand Magic’ that encompassed all Grades.
Occasionally there existed magics that achieved maximum efficiency simply by raising their Grade, and these—free of any special restrictions and possessing remarkably superior effects—were called ‘Grand Magic’.
Not only that; this was a final-form skill, a weapon of the highest order, capable of ascending all the way to Zero Grade.
A single mastery of such a thing would leave mages astounded—truly a power equivalent to divine authority.
This ‘Ultra Regeneration’ was one of the undiscovered Grand Magics.
‘As the name suggests, it regenerates wounds in an instant. If I raise it to Eternal Grade, I’d find it hard to die even if I wanted to.’
It bore no comparison to common ‘regeneration’ magic.
Park Chan-woo opened his mouth at once and bit his thumb.
As blood bloomed and a wound appeared on his thumb,
Swoosh!
In a blink, the wound sealed and regenerated.
Not even a scab remained as his body recovered.
It was as though nothing had ever happened—his thumb had simply returned to its original state.
Such regenerative power…
It healed faster than most Elixirs.
Even seeing it with his own eyes, it was hard to believe.
An all-purpose ability that applied automatically in any situation—combat, ambush, anything.
By absorbing all the life force from the Myriad Blood Immortal Pill, he’d gained incalculably precious magic.
‘Reflection, Heavenly Punishment, and Ultra Regeneration.’
He’d already mastered three spells.
For a mage, it was the perfect beginning.
Moreover, the attack and defense power he’d gained from the Myriad Blood Immortal Pill far surpassed the effects of every elixir he’d consumed before.
‘Status window.’
He opened the status window and checked the relevant figures.
《Attack Power: 3559 (3400+159)》
《Defense Power: 3446 (3400+46)》
Park Chan-woo nodded.
‘This should be enough.’
The time had come to hunt the Water Deity.
* * *
Hunting the Water Deity didn’t require elaborate preparation.
Thanks to Non-Existence, approaching it was simple, and he’d already consumed numerous elixirs to inflate both his attack and defense power.
In essence, preparation was already complete.
Park Chan-woo gazed out at the broad Lake.
A god of water.
He half-expected Poseidon himself to surge forth, but the shoreline lay perfectly still.
The Water Deity still lay submerged beneath the Lake.
It would only reveal itself when something drew near to the shore.
Someone had to pull aggro.
Park Chan-woo glanced down at his pant leg.
There, peeking out from inside the Demonic Boots with only his head visible, was Anubis.
Chirp?
Anubis gazed up at him with eyes of utter innocence.
‘I’ll put all ten latent stat points into Vitality.’
《Anubis’s Vitality has increased by 10.》
《Anubis’s status window has been called up.》
Name: Anubis
Level: 5
Strength (28)
Vitality (50)
Agility (22)
Intelligence (16)
Magic Power (16)
Stat Growth Rate: 1.1
Excellent.
Though only Level 5, it seemed capable of holding its own against a typical Level 10 in direct combat.
“Go to the shore and pull the Water Deity up.”
Chirp…?
Anubis hesitated for a moment.
It sensed that the shoreline was no ordinary place.
It had been hiding from the start because of the Water Deity slumbering beneath the Lake.
But now it was being told to go to the shore and summon the Water Deity itself.
“Go on.”
Park Chan-woo urged it forward.
He’d boosted its Vitality just in case.
It should be able to survive even the worst-case scenario.
Unable to resist his insistence, Anubis climbed out of the Demonic Boots.
It then used Gigantification to swell its body before approaching the shoreline.
GURAAAAAAAGH!
……A mouth of incomprehensible enormity erupted from the water.
It was a sight beyond description—grotesque beyond all measure.
Large enough to swallow a hippo in a single bite, its interior bristled with countless teeth like spikes.
That was the Water Deity.
Yelp!
Anubis, every hair bristling on end, wheeled sharply and bolted away.
It was a sight as grotesque as the creature that made it.
A massive mouth had erupted from the lake, and the body attached to it—great folds of flesh—stretched upward into the air as if the mouth itself were lifting away.
Then, descending like a predator from above, it gave relentless chase.
‘That’s enough.’
The Water Deity’s attack patterns had never been thoroughly documented.
So he’d sent Anubis to probe—and the patterns were far simpler than expected.
This much was sufficient to understand the Water Deity.
Park Chan-woo opened his mouth slowly.
“Heavenly Punishment.”
At the same moment.
A deep, resonant hum rolled across the sky.
The heavens blackened.
And then.
A deafening crack split the air.
Heavenly Punishment descended from above and struck true.
A piercing shriek tore through the chaos.
The Heavenly Punishment struck the Water Deity directly, and in that instant, the creature’s entire body convulsed violently.
A roar of vaporization erupted outward.
But the Heavenly Punishment’s effect did not end there.
It expanded its range, evaporating the lakeside itself.
Within mere seconds, not a single drop remained in the vast lake.
That was the end of it.
A hollow thud echoed.
The Water Deity’s enormous body collapsed onto the dry lakebed, motionless.
The torso connected to its mouth remained fixed to the bottom.
It was a monster like an anemone, anchored to the ground with its maw extended, hunting prey that ventured too close.
Yet Park Chan-woo found himself at a loss for words at the sight he had wrought.
‘It shouldn’t have been this powerful…….’
The potency of Heavenly Punishment exceeded his imagination.
No matter how high its attack power, it shouldn’t have been capable of vaporizing an entire lake.
At most, he’d expected it to incinerate the Water Deity—nothing more.
‘Something’s wrong.’
Something didn’t fit.
There were four main factors that determined a spell’s power.
Element, Grade, Class Level, and Attack Power.
By those four criteria, the blow that fell should have been twice as strong as he’d anticipated.
‘Ah—a critical hit.’
Now he remembered: there was one more variable linked to Attack Power.
A stat called Magic Critical Hit.
The ability affixed to the Frost Helm—activated at a 7% chance—had created this spectacle.
Park Chan-woo let out a soft laugh.
A message materialized before his eyes.
《The Water Deity has been slain.》
But that was all there was.
The cascade of additional notifications that should have followed—like links on a chain—were nowhere to be seen.
《The Creator of Water Deity Abyss proposes a deal.》
……Ah.
Park Chan-woo nodded slightly.
The Creator, sensing the bankruptcy he would incur, had apparently frozen time for a moment.
There was no reason to listen.
He moved to refuse outright.
《The Creator introduces himself as ‘Ahimbra.’》
The Creator had revealed his name.
For a Creator to disclose his identity to a human was unprecedented.
Park Chan-woo shrugged.
As if inviting him to struggle further.
《’Ahimbra’ is bewildered by your sudden emergence.》
《He asks you this: Are you, by any chance, of the Dragon Race?》
“If the target is a Dragon Race member, I will award a Dragon’s Heart as compensation for hunting the Water Deity.”
Tsk.
Park Chan-woo clicked his tongue softly.
He’d wondered why the creature bothered revealing its name—only to realize it had never considered him human in the first place.
And of all things, it had to be the Dragon Race, which he despised most.
‘Dragon’s Heart… a dream to every mage, by name alone.’
Consuming a Dragon’s Heart granted immense Magic Power.
But for Park Chan-woo, it was a story from another world.
It was treated as an Elixir that raised pure stat growth, yet he was trapped by the status condition “Weakest”—all his pure stats locked at 1.
At best, it would shift temporarily as a 100-hour Buff, or allow him to become Half-Dragon Hybrid, nothing more.
‘Even as a Half-Dragon Hybrid, I could never surpass the Dragon Race.’
No wonder he found such a proposal insulting.
“Bankrupt yourself quietly, Ahimbra.”
“Aaaaaaagh! This can’t be! What a chance I had—nooo!!”
The organizer Ahimbra has declared Bankruptcy!
You have learned the Creator’s name and forced bankruptcy upon them.
Ahimbra has been stripped of Creator status.
Crushed beneath catastrophic debt, Ahimbra’s diminished form faces annihilation.
You have caused the first Creator to be annihilated.
You have achieved the Achievement “Annihilator of Creators.”
You are awarded 10 Coins.
This was one of the reasons Creators never spoke their names aloud.
If a human learned their name and drove them to Bankruptcy, they would be annihilated.
The only method by which they could be destroyed.
Thanks to this, he’d obtained a full 10 Coins along with the Achievement.
But this was far from over.
You have cleared the Water Deity Abyss.
The Clear Prediction Rate was 0.1%.
Two Creators have declared Bankruptcy.
You are awarded 4 additional Coins.
In honor of one who has transcended the realm beyond all reach, a Platinum Box (★★★) is bestowed upon you.
Your Level has increased.
Your Level has increased.
Your Level has increased.
* * *
Lee Hyuk-soo gazed quietly at the evaporated Lake.
The sight was so overwhelming that one could scarcely believe it the work of any mortal.
Yet Lee Hyuk-soo’s mouth soon curved into a smile.
A man who had achieved what no other could achieve.
The strongest, the unreachable.
As far as Lee Hyuk-soo knew, there was only one human capable of killing the Water Deity with a single thunder strike.
“…As I thought.”
A Prophesier.
It had to be the Prophesier.
He had been here until just moments ago.
‘…So strong. Far beyond my ability to measure.’
He’d thought he’d drawn closer, yet the Prophesier was already walking above the heavens.
It was hard to believe they were of the same species.
And yet.
‘I wish…’
He wished for it.
To meet him again.
To meet him again and ask his name.
Whoosh.
Lee Hyuk-soo drew a deep breath and shook his head.
This wasn’t the end.
He had unwavering faith that if he continued through the Abyss, he would meet him again someday.
* * *
Han Shin furrowed his brow as he looked at Park Chan-woo.
A single window materialized as he confirmed it with the Clairvoyant Eye skill.
The moment his eyes took in the contents written there.
‘……How is there even someone so weak?’
The written information was simply absurd.
Han Shin gazed upward at Park Chan-woo’s head.
And once more, he confirmed the figures that had appeared.
《Strength (1) Vitality (1) Agility (1) Intelligence (1) Magic Power (1)》

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