Monopolizing Skills to the 666th Floor - Chapter 30

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Skill Devouring to the 666th Floor Episode 030

30. Nurse Park Se Hee

‘As expected, trash is trash?’

After beating Jo Do-pal, I pretended to give him another chance.

But it was a deception.

To hear his true inner thoughts.

‘Since I have Parasite, I can hear everything. Whatever you’re muttering.’

Moreover, I even watched from the sky using my Flight Skill.

Jo Do-pal’s behavior without any remorse.

Thud!

I came down to the ground and released my wings.

“You pretended to repent in front of me, then started cursing as soon as you left?”

“Ha… haha… th-that’s not it… I was talking to a friend. Ah, this guy hung up on me. Haha…”

He shows me his mobile phone while telling a ridiculous lie.

“You said your anger management disorder relapsed? Shall we check that out?”

I closed the distance in an instant.

Startled Jo Do-pal reflexively put up his guard, but.

‘It’s useless.’

I was already behind him, delivering a roundhouse kick.

Whack!

“Gaaah!”

Hit in the back of the head and sent flying, he was knocked into a groggy state with just one blow.

Overwhelming speed and strength.

The reason I could become this strong wasn’t just because of the stats I’d accumulated so far.

‘It’s thanks to Dice Roll.’

Jo Do-pal probably used it too, but I rolled the dice as well.

As a result, I got the maximum of 6, and all my stats rose above 22.

‘This level of stats would require a regular Apostle to clear over the 70th floor.’

In that case, how could Jo Do-pal withstand my power.

“Actually, I never had even the slightest intention of letting you live.”

“Ugh… what?”

“After seeing you act like a dog to ordinary people, would you want to let someone like you live?”

Jo Do-pal’s eyes widen in shock.

“Th-then, why this whole show…?”

“I did it to check if you were truly repentant. Wondering if you might have had a change of heart. But as expected, it’s no good. You’re beyond rehabilitation.”

The mana extending from my hand wrapped around Jo Do-pal.

“Go to Hell.”

“Ugh, pl-please… Gyaaaah!”

He writhed like a snake.

It was due to the Neurotoxin skill from the Transcendent Spirit called Master of Poison being activated.

‘It must feel like bugs crawling all over his body. I know because I’ve experienced it too.’

From the 50th floor of the Labyrinth, battle-type missions are given.

They’re missions to fight other Apostles, and before my regression, I had encountered an opponent with neurotoxin.

‘Setting aside the power, the feeling was so damn awful that I had a hard time.’

It was fortunate that my resistance was high, otherwise I would have been writhing like that too.

“Guhhhhhh… Huuuuuuh…”

Jo Do-pal, who had been struggling in agony, soon after.

Thud—

Stopped moving and breathed his last.

I just killed someone, but I don’t feel anything about it.

It’s not the first time anyway, and I knew long ago that he deserved to die.

‘I decided from the moment he kidnapped ordinary people. This bastard has to die.’

I don’t want to put criminals on my Parasite list.

I have no hobby of monitoring Apostles who do dirty deeds.

‘Still, I checked to see if he might have repented, but as expected. Well, even if he had repented, I had no intention of letting him live.’

In other words, Jo Do-pal failed the interview.

To get on the Parasite list, you need to have good character.

‘It’s better to mark people who won’t die for life, who won’t cause trouble. When an Apostle dies, their skills disappear too.’

A message appeared at just the right moment.

[Skill ‘Dice Roll’ is disappearing.]

The skill disappeared with Jo Do-pal’s death, but I don’t feel regretful.

There was another reason for killing him anyway.

‘The energy that appears when a person dies, karma. I need to see if it appears this time too.’

Soon after, a black ripple rose from Jo Do-pal’s corpse.

It appeared this time as well.

Karma.

When I placed my hand on it like when absorbing essence.

[You have absorbed karma.]

[7% until core completion…]

It increased by 1% to become 7%.

‘So it really appears when a person dies?’

Karma had also appeared when I killed Lee Hwi Yong’s group.

This time too, it appeared when a person died.

‘I’m glad I tested it through Jo Do-pal. Now I know for certain.’

However, I don’t know if this applies to all deaths.

Whether karma is generated when ordinary people die or not.

‘So far I’ve only confirmed the deaths of Apostles. This time…’

Let me check the death of an ordinary person.

Then I’ll know for certain.

Where?

‘I can find out there.’

Flap!

I spread my Angel Wings and took flight into the sky.

“Traffic accident patient!”

Emergency Medical Team members rushed into the Emergency Room pushing a stretcher carrying a patient.

The whole body was covered in blood.

Doctors and nurses hurriedly moved the patient to the Operating Room.

But.

“We did our best but… the patient has passed away.”

Unfortunately, the patient died in the end.

Without time to mourn, the next patient comes in.

The place where people die most frequently, the Emergency Room.

The number of people who die in emergency rooms nationwide averages close to 130 per day.

Who witnesses these deaths most closely?

It’s the doctors and nurses.

Naturally, none of them wish for their patients’ deaths.

The same was true for Park Se Hee.

“Let me try. Light of Harmony.”

When she placed her palm on the patient’s body, the abrasions quickly healed.

As if time had been reversed, the wounds were cleanly healed without scars.

The patient’s face, which had been in pain, became peaceful.

“Phew… I think it worked.”

“Th-thank you! Thank you, doctor!”

“I’m not a doctor, I’m a nurse.”

Park Se Hee smiled brightly.

Hearing words of gratitude from families.

This was the fifth time just today.

Could there be any other work as rewarding as this?

“Nurse Park! Please take a look at this patient too!”

“Ah… it’s on cooldown but… I’m coming!”

When the Labyrinth incident broke out.

Park Se Hee thought the world was ending.

But apparently the world wasn’t meant to end.

[Someone has conquered Labyrinth Underground 15th Floor!]

…

[Someone has conquered Labyrinth Underground 27th Floor!]

…

[Someone has conquered Labyrinth Underground 39th Floor!]

[Time remaining until destruction: 413 days 19 hours 40 minutes 54 seconds]

Thanks to someone’s conquest, the deadline for destruction was extended by over a year.

Also, she was lucky enough to become an Apostle and gained an extraordinary skill.

The skill called Light of Harmony.

▷Light of Harmony (S)

―Effect: Heals the target’s wounds while increasing durability for a certain period. Deals damage to targets recognized as enemies and weakens their attack power. Has a 3-minute cooldown.

Thanks to this skill, she instantly rose from a nurse to a doctor-level position.

The remarkably fast recovery was something even doctors couldn’t achieve.

‘Thanks to that, I was able to save many people.’

Is this what you’d call the positive function of the Labyrinth incident?

I thought there were good points to becoming an Apostle after all.

However.

‘There are too many. The patients.’

It was overwhelming to cover the patients flooding in like a tide.

Moreover, the cooldown was 3 minutes.

In a field where every minute and second was urgent, it could be considered a long time.

Of course, there were doctors, but they couldn’t expect the same dramatic effects as skills.

“Dr. Park! Please use your skill on this patient!”

“No! Our side is more urgent!”

“What are you talking about, we came first!”

People who witnessed the Apostle’s miracle all sought out Park Se Hee.

They all clamored for her to use her skill on their family members.

Wouldn’t she want to save people too?

‘I want to use it on everyone if I could. But…’

Because of the cooldown, she had no choice but to select patients.

‘I want to heal more people… but there’s no way.’

That was the sorrow of emergency room nurse Park Se Hee.

She had no idea that someone else was watching her.

‘Park Se Hee.’

A face I’ve seen since the vision in the Bottomless Pit.

I never thought I’d seek her out again with my own feet.

And while hidden at that.

‘Thanks to Camouflage, I didn’t draw attention from those around me.’

Camouflage significantly lowers the probability of being recognized by those nearby.

To the point where even ordinary people passing by wouldn’t notice.

‘I’m not invisible, yet no one pays me any attention.’

In short, I became a person who doesn’t exist in this place.

Of course, it would still be recorded on CCTV.

‘I changed my face so there won’t be any problems. Plus, thanks to Camouflage, I’ll appear like noise in the footage.’

As planned, I witnessed the death of an ordinary person in the emergency room.

‘But no dark energy rose up.’

I thought karma would be generated the moment I saw a person’s death, but it wasn’t.

‘Is karma only created when an Apostle dies?’

In the end, an Apostle must die for me to obtain karma.

‘I’m not certain, but let’s think of it that way for now.’

Anyway, even if I asked Orcus, the God of the Underworld, he probably wouldn’t know.

Though it seems clear he’s hiding something.

‘I’ve satisfied my curiosity, so I should leave quickly.’

I was about to move.

I hesitated.

She keeps catching my eye.

Park Se Hee.

‘This is the first time I’ve seen her working in the emergency room.’

Before my regression, Park Se Hee had been selected as the 11th Apostle among the Twelve Apostles of the Three Gods.

Before being selected, she was an Apostle of Harmonion, the God of Balance.

‘Seeing her use Harmonion’s skill, Light of Harmony, confirms it.’

The same situation as before my regression.

‘It took quite a while to become close with Se Hee.’

She was the only Korean among the Twelve Apostles, but it wasn’t easy to approach her.

At that time, I didn’t have the luxury of opening my heart to others.

However.

‘She was the one who approached me first.’

Perhaps because we shared the same nationality, but we became close through conversation.

‘I didn’t know that would become poison.’

Becoming close with her.

That itself was poison to me.

Because Park Se Hee’s death remained as trauma.

‘I can’t say Se Hee didn’t influence me. After that, I started stepping forward to protect people as a tanker.’

But saving people isn’t something you can do alone.

Rather than saving one or two people, it’s better to become stronger to prevent destruction.

I realized, albeit late, that this is the way to save more people.

‘I wasn’t supposed to get close to her.’

I won’t give my heart anymore.

I’ll abandon my previous life and live a new one.

I’ll only look at myself and focus solely on the goal of conquering the Labyrinth.

‘Even so… I can’t not use Skill Copy. I need recovery skills too.’

I secretly planted it in Park Se Hee’s mind.

A Magical Parasite.

[The target has only one skill, so attempting direct copy.]

[Successfully copied skill ‘Light of Harmony’.]

Harmonion won’t know.

That I copied her Apostle’s skill.

‘But is she not entering the Labyrinth and just using the sponsored skill for healing? The skill she received as sponsorship?’

Harmonion won’t like that.

Anyway, I should leave this place.

I might get discovered if I’m not careful.

After the war-like hours passed, on the way home from work.

Park Se Hee regretted her choice.

‘Ah… I shouldn’t have come this way.’

Someone was following her.

She felt even more anxious because she was passing through an alley with no CCTV.

‘I don’t need to be scared. I’m an Apostle. An Apostle of the God of Balance.’

Although she hasn’t conquered the Labyrinth yet, she still has stats that transcend humans.

Well, they’re basic stats, so calling it transcendent is laughable.

‘Still, I’ll face it.’

She gathered courage because she had a skill.

When she stopped walking, the person tailing her also stopped.

Park Se Hee looked at her stalker.

“…Why are you following me?”

“I have something to say.”

A male voice.

His face was hidden by a hood so she couldn’t see it well, but his build and voice were clearly male.

“Do you know me?”

“I do. Park Se Hee, emergency room nurse at Myeongseong Medical Center.”

Park Se Hee’s eyes widened.

But the more surprising words came next.

“Or should I call you Park Se Hee, Apostle of the God of Balance?”

“…!”

Just when she was quite shocked.

The other person said something unexpected.

“You want to heal more people, don’t you? There’s a way.”

“What… way?”

“Enter the Labyrinth. If you enter and prove your qualifications, you can be selected as an Apostle of the Three Gods. Then you’ll receive various additional skills.”

Enter the Labyrinth?

Does he also know that I haven’t been conquering the Labyrinth?

“Using just one skill like you do now has limits in saving people. Rather, becoming stronger through conquest is the way to save more people. That’s what you want, isn’t it.”

“Wh-who exactly are you…”

“I’m just giving advice. The choice is yours.”

The man disappeared from sight, leaving only those words.

It felt as if she had seen a ghost.

‘Phew. That should be enough.’

She was someone who wanted to save as many people as possible.

She was someone who regretted not entering sooner if she had known conquering the Labyrinth would be helpful.

Knowing this fact, I deliberately waited until her work hours ended to give advice.

‘If I say it like this, she’ll enter the Labyrinth.’

Of course, it wasn’t just for her sake.

This was also for my own benefit.

‘If Park Se Hee is selected as an Apostle of the Three Gods, she’ll receive additional skill sponsorship from other gods.’

Then I’ll be able to copy Park Se Hee’s other skills as well.

That was the reason he helped her.

‘My help ends here. The choice will be hers to make.’

For now, let me inform the Three Gods about this matter.

Just as he was thinking that.

[The Three Gods of All Things say they have something curious to discuss.]

[Through the Divine Authority of Orcus, God of the Underworld, you can temporarily use the ‘Eternal Room’.]

[Would you like to enter the Eternal Room? Y/N]

It seems the Three Gods were also curious about something.

‘Should I go in? I happen to have some instructions to give as well.’

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