The Buffs I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 10

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Episode 10.
[Item Name: Azure Breeze]
[Buff Type: Mana]
[Compatible with your body.]
“!?”
Tap.
The shard slipped from my fingers and fell.
‘Compatible……?’
How was that possible?
Wasn’t this something that had no use for me?
“Ugh……!”
Sudden pain bloomed through me.
A cool, creeping ache spread from my heart outward, consuming my entire body.
My body was shifting into the same state as my sister’s yesterday.
Blue veins bulged across my skin in scattered clusters.
[Mana Amplification in Body Tissue]
[Body Tissue Activation]
“Act—activation, you say……?”
Thump-thump!
I felt my heart pumping like a piston inside my chest.
The pain began to fade.
I gripped the armrest of the nearby chair and pushed myself up.
Crack!
“What the—!?”
Crash-bang!
My body collapsed straight down instead of rising.
I rubbed my waist and looked at the chair.
“……Ah.”
The chair lay in splinters.
‘……Did my strength just increase?’
Was this what activation meant?
But it wasn’t over yet.
[EX-rank Skill ― World Tree’s Retainer Activated.]
[Locked functions are now unlocked.]
“Locked functions?”
An ability whose purpose had remained a mystery beyond the EX-rank designation.
World Tree’s Retainer.
“S-status window.”
[Name: Jung So-hyuk]
[Affiliation: Republic of Korea]
[Level: 1 LV]
[Ability: World Tree’s Blessing]
[Exclusive Skills: World Tree’s Blessing, World Tree’s Retainer]
[General Skills: None]
With trembling fingers, I clicked on the second exclusive skill.
World Tree’s Retainer.
[EX-rank Skill ― World Tree’s Retainer]
―Makes a blessed being into a World Tree’s Retainer.
―The one who bestows the blessing can now freely use the retainer’s abilities.
―Current Targets: 3
‘One line was added……!’
The ability that originally only allowed the designation of retainers.
It had been upgraded to something greater.
“An upgrade…… right?”
To be honest.
The description alone doesn’t quite make sense to me.
“Freely use the retainer’s abilities…….”
Currently, there are two people registered as World Tree’s Retainers.
My sister, Jung So-hyun, and
Baek Yul-heon, the Guildmaster of Baek Ryeon.
“……What?”
There had to be a reason.
“Why are there three?”
The number of Retainers registered under World Tree’s Retainer.
It was listed as three, not two.
“Let me…… check.”
I pulled up the information carefully.
A list unfurled before me.
[Target — Jung So-hyun (Sky-Splitting Great Sword)]
[Target — Baek Yul-heon (Wind-Thunder Fist Technique)]
[Target — Jung Cheong-un (Enhanced Senses)]
“Jung…… Cheong-un?”
I’d heard that name before.
“Wasn’t he the director of the Seoul Awakener Management Bureau that Baek Yul-heon mentioned?”
‘How on earth did Jung Cheong-un end up eating my plant?’
I pulled out my phone and checked my messages with Baek Yul-heon.
The most likely scenario was that Baek Yul-heon had used my plant for his large-scale guild promotion exam.
“He asked me to spare a few Cherry Tomatoes…….”
I doubted Baek Yul-heon would have revealed my identity.
He probably used them as supplementary material for my sister’s fifty-floor breakthrough.
And he’d have hidden the source well enough.
“In the end, is this a gain?”
Having more Retainers couldn’t hurt.
“Enhanced Senses, is it…….”
I wondered if there’d be any additional description.
I clicked on the ability section a few times.
Then.
[Would you like to rent the skill Enhanced Senses from your Retainer Jung Cheong-un?]
“Huh.”
‘Rent?’
That was a loaded word.
“Could it be…… that I can copy someone else’s ability……?”
That couldn’t possibly be true.
Did it even make sense to copy an ability just by feeding someone a single fruit?
“…….”
Yet for some reason.
I kept entertaining the outlandish notion.
EX-rank.
If it were an ability that transcended even S-rank, which stood at the top of the global rankings.
Wouldn’t something like this be possible?
‘……I don’t even know.’
“I’ll rent it.”
I squeezed my eyes shut and waited for the change to take effect.
One second, two seconds, three seconds…….
“…….”
I felt nothing different in my body.
“……Right, of course not. Ha-ha.”
What was I even expecting?
Thinking that, I opened my eyes, which had been squeezed shut.
“Hm.”
[Synchronization Rate with Retainer: 10%]
[Ability degradation detected.]
[Estimated rank, B → D]
[Would you like to proceed with the rental?]
“Final……confirmation?”
This sort of thing happened to me all the time.
I’d start a download and head out.
Then come home to find that without a final confirmation, the download never even started.
“Ha-ha…….”
A hollow laugh escaped me.
“Yes, I’ll lend it to you.”
[User approval confirmed.]
[Beginning ability replication.]
[Replication target: Enhanced Senses, Jung Cheong-un]
“Huh……?”
Whiiing―.
Suddenly a ringing sound erupted in his ears.
His fingertips and toes went numb with cold.
The scent of Azure Breeze on the dining table flooded over him with overwhelming intensity.
The lamplight blazed so bright his eyes shut involuntarily.
“What, what is this……!”
Every sense bristled with such sharpness it bordered on pain.
He could barely manage to stand.
‘Jung Cheong-un has been enduring this constantly since his awakening……?’
What’s more, the Enhanced Senses I’d copied were D-rank.
Jung Cheong-un, the original owner, was B-rank.
Even D-rank Enhanced Senses were incomparable to the agony he was experiencing now.
“D-disable it! Disable the ability! Cancel the rental!”
He finally couldn’t endure it and deactivated the ability.
Fortunately, deactivation was entirely under his control.
“Huff…… huff…….”
Thud.
Cold sweat poured down like rain.
His body felt as heavy as a soaked rag.
“What was that…….”
He lay his sweat-drenched body down on the floor.
He covered his eyes so the lamp wouldn’t assault them.
They still felt raw and burning.
“Heh heh…….”
His body ached as though it might die,
yet somehow he began to laugh.
Though his frame remained utterly exhausted,
the sheer absurdity of it all, he thought, had broken something loose inside him.
After laughing like that for a while, he drifted off to sleep.
* * *
“Let’s grow a new plant.”
“……What?”
Amid the cheerful din around him,
his sister touched his shoulder and spoke.
“What did you say?”
He squinted and asked her to repeat herself.
In the noise of the crowd, he couldn’t quite make out what she’d said.
There was no music playing, nothing like that at all.
‘People’s voices alone can be this loud……’
This place was…… in other words, the Banquet Hall.
A Baek Ryeon building.
A party hosted by the guild master.
‘……Wasn’t my sister doing something like this during our call last time too?’
Baek Yul-heon.
He’d thought the man lived for work alone, but apparently he was quite the party enthusiast.
I was an outsider dragged here by Baek Yul-heon against my will.
Even though I’d insisted multiple times that I didn’t want to come.
‘How can I host a proper party without So-hyuk!’
‘……You could just have it with the Baek Ryeon guild members.’
‘Think of this as a party for you, So-hyuk! What’s the point of a party where the main guest doesn’t show?’
……It went on like this.
I’d been forcibly brought along.
‘……I don’t even like alcohol.’
Sip.
He wet his lips slightly with bitter liquor.
“Hey! Can’t you hear me?”
“Huh?”
My sister had been muttering beside me the whole time I was sipping my drink.
She must have figured that no matter what she said, I wouldn’t hear her properly.
So she dragged me toward the back of the Banquet Hall.
“Ugh…… it’s so loud. I said I didn’t want to come, and here you are dragging me anyway…….”
She cursed Baek Yul-heon while picking at her ear with her pinky.
For once, I couldn’t disagree with her.
“So what’s up?”
“So what’s up∼? That’s how you talk to your sister? Getting a little rebellious now that you’ve grown, are you?”
“Ugh…… I…… sorry.”
My sister snorted and spoke.
“Let’s grow a new plant.”
“What?”
A new plant?
“Don’t tell me you’ve got plant seeds from another tower…….”
“No, not yet. Do you know how expensive those are? Why do you think they pop out so easily?”
‘……She threw that expensive thing at a unemployed guy without even knowing if he could grow it?’
I don’t mean to be harsh, but.
My sister is really single-minded.
“You can grow all sorts of plants, not just ones from towers. You can grow regular vegetables like Cherry Tomatoes, can’t you?”
“Regular vegetables…….”
I’d been so overwhelmed by the sheer dopamine rush of tower plants that I’d forgotten about them.
“If you expand the variety of plants you can mass-produce, like Cherry Tomatoes, then the number of applicable buffs increases too, right?”
“Hmm…….”
“So? What do you say? If you want, I’ll support you every step of the way.”
My sister’s eyes sparkled with excitement.
At the sight of that.
I asked carefully.
“……But why the sudden interest?”
“Huh? What?”
I appreciate her taking an interest in me, but.
Normally, my sister’s attitude toward me is.
‘Do what you want, don’t do what you don’t want.’
That attitude didn’t change even when I was holed up in my room.
So why is she suddenly being so proactive?
That’s what made me curious.
My sister rolled her eyes and spoke.
“Well…… actually, yesterday I challenged the 51st floor without telling the guild.”
“……What?”
‘Without telling them……?’
My expression hardened.
My sister said defensively.
“No……! The guild has this mandatory Awakener Rest Period, right? It applies to tower climbing too?”
“……And?”
“I couldn’t forget the feeling of fighting Lykansthorp on the 50th floor…….”
“So you just went in?”
“Yeah…….”
Wow…….
“……How’d it go?”
“Of course I won! Usually the floors after a Boss Room every ten levels are the same difficulty as the Boss Room or easier.”
“The guild doesn’t know about this, right?”
“Well…….”
A sigh escaped me.
“So? You challenged the 51st floor, and then what?”
“What? What do you mean then what?”
“You’re asking me to do more work because there’s something you need, aren’t you?”
“Ah, it’s just…… the monster on this 51st floor happens to be a Spirit-type…….”
Spirit-type?
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Ah, they’re small creatures made of mana, you see. Incredibly fast too. Their attack power isn’t weak either.”
I began to picture it in my mind.
My sister wielding a greatsword larger than her own body against spirits darting through the air.
“So you’re saying raw strength alone won’t cut it anymore?”
“Exactly! You’ve got it!”
From what I’d heard, the boss on the 50th floor that my sister cleared was a Lycan Stroph.
A creature known for aggressive tendencies.
The sort that charges at humans first and asks questions later.
That made it possible to handle purely through brute force.
But with faster opponents like spirits?
There was no way to land a hit with a building-sized greatsword, no matter how much you swung it.
‘She must be thinking about the 60th floor.’
She didn’t want to dampen the guild’s buoyant mood right now.
‘Same as always—hates worrying people.’
“Fine, I’ll cultivate a few of them then.”
“Whatever you need, just say the word and I’ll support it all.”
“What do you need?”
“Mana potions.”
Mana potions.
Given how absurdly overpowered the ability was, growing plants required no effort at all.
The only real strain was running low on mana.
“Can you work with potions too?”
Mana potions.
Emergency supplies to drink when mana runs dry.
Their effect is a temporary boost to natural mana recovery.
‘I read online that if you drink it and sleep, you don’t feel any fatigue at all.’
“Potions? Well… I’ll see if the guild has any spares.”
“Deal.”
I’d need to swing by a convenience store on the way home.
“Hehe… oh! So-hyun! So-hyuk! There you are!”
“Ugh, the smell of booze….”
The dim space suddenly burst with light.
And in came a flood of drunken revelers.
“Tonight’s stars! So-hyun and So-hyuk!”
Clap, clap, clap!!
The roar of applause.
‘I want to go home….’
The party, which seemed poised to drag on all night,
was mercifully cut short when my sister finally lost her patience and caused a scene.
The Buff I Raised Was Too Overpowered
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