The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 114

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Episode 114
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Why was he putting on such airs?
Was he trying to ask for something?
Yoo Sung-hyun, curious, asked Leonik.
“Are you trying to ask for something?”
-How dare I!!! Make a request of my lord!!! Such insolence would be utterly unforgivable!!!
“….”
It wasn’t impossible, was it?
He was being so rigid in his denial.
I couldn’t say anything in response.
All I could do was swallow it down.
As I remained silent like that.
Leonik continued speaking.
-I had postponed this matter as my lord appeared occupied, but I come not to make a request of you, my lord, but rather to share what I believe might be valuable information.
“Valuable information?”
I tilted my head in bewilderment.
Noctrinium and Fiora, like Leonik, were kneeling on one knee with their heads bowed.
I suspected Baltar was in the Underworld attending to Dracanoss.
In any case, did they have something important to tell me?
Seeing this, I nodded as if to say go ahead.
-Based on my assessment of my lord’s abilities, I am certain that should you visit a place where multiple souls have settled, you would surely be able to utilize your power to great effect.
“Souls?”
An unexpected topic.
A place where souls had settled.
If anyone else had said this, I would have dismissed it as nonsense.
But since it came from Leonik, who had been in a spiritual state.
I listened intently and focused.
-In truth, there exists a Knights’ Hall that predates the destruction of this Dune Wild Trail.
“The Knights’ Hall?”
Just hearing the name, it sounded ominous.
It reeked of a hidden dungeon, so to speak.
I had obtained Leonik’s memories.
But I couldn’t access them freely.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t see it.
That made me all the more curious.
I asked back with keen interest.
Pleased at the response, Leonik spoke with heightened enthusiasm.
-It is a place where knights go to undergo trials, and it likely has no connection to mages, but should my lord venture into that isolated space now, you would surely obtain tremendous power.
“Oh? It has no connection to mages?”
-That appears to be the case. It’s an excellent place to build proficiency with knight skills, and since you’ve mastered both magic and swordsmanship equally, I believe you’ll gain considerable benefits.
“Leonik speaks truly. Since you’ve demonstrated aptitude with the blade as well, my lord, I would strongly recommend you visit.”
-Huh, huh-eh? I-I think it looks good for Master too.
With all my subordinates in agreement.
Yoo Sung-hyun’s interest surged even higher.
The Knights’ Hall.
The moment Yoo Sung-hyun smiled with intrigue.
[You have obtained a clue to the hidden field ‘Knights’ Hall’.]
The system message amplified that interest even further.
0.
What happens when you dump overtime work on an office worker right before quitting time?
What can I say—their expression naturally turns sour.
In severe cases, curses might even fly.
That’s exactly what Lee Won-sang was experiencing.
He genuinely wanted to pick a fight with Yoo Sung-hyun.
Does this even make sense?
“Wow… Thunder Anemor, Lightning Anemor… Oh! Thunder Anemor’s name changed to Kalisha? Anyway, you got two or more legendary-grade summons at once. Isn’t that mythic-grade?”
“….”
Even hearing Oh Jin-hyuk’s words, Lee Won-sang said nothing.
Should he just punch Oh Jin-hyuk, who was obliviously rubbing salt in the wound beside him?
He was seriously considering it.
He’d definitely need to contact the Skill Management Team about this.
It was a critical error.
‘If this continues like this, he’ll keep pulling mythic-grade summons for free through Add More…’
Add More was already a legendary-grade skill, quite high-ranking.
But it couldn’t compare to mythic-grade summons.
Add More—a skill like a star in the sky for summoners, mages, and spirit masters who deal with summons.
However, those summons themselves had their own tier classifications.
Some users raised summons purely for their cuteness, so to avoid diminishing affection through strict ranking, the tiers weren’t displayed to users, but internally they were divided this way.
Among them, mythic-grade summons were classified as the highest tier.
Both of these Anemor were summons belonging to that mythic-grade classification.
‘This is insane.’
Since the display wasn’t shown to users.
Add More itself hadn’t recognized it either, generating an additional Anemor beyond the skill’s grade.
‘There’s no way to do a silent patch, is there?’
It was an error in the first place to generate additional summons through Add More from summons created by Transcendent Death.
The problem was that this error was also the developer’s fault.
Eternal World had declared it would guarantee all user freedom.
In other words.
“Huh? Then if you fix this error, senior, I guess you’ll need to give compensation on top of it?”
“…Haaaaah.”
“H-hiek!?!”
Lee Won-sang glared fiercely at Oh Jin-hyuk, but.
Oh Jin-hyuk’s words were correct.
I had to add compensation, and the Skill Management Team would have to work hard too.
The proposal had to come from me, after all.
It was only natural to feel awkward about it.
I exhaled a deep sigh and shook my head as if I had no choice.
“What can I do? I’ll have to do it.”
“…I, I understand, sir?”
What could I do?
All I could do was report it and correct the error.
While preparing reports for various submissions, I observed Yoo Sung-hyun’s every move.
Watching him dispatch the vast horde of Red Minotaurs in mere moments, I couldn’t help but sigh.
“Ah.”
“Wow… He’s just sweeping them all away?”
At least his level didn’t increase—that was something to be grateful for.
We’d reached a point where leveling up had become truly difficult.
As I breathed a sigh of relief and processed other tasks simultaneously,
I heard an odd remark from beyond the monitor screen.
-…There exists the Knights’ Hall.
At Leonik’s words, I gasped in astonishment.
The Knights’ Hall.
How in the world does that monster know about it?
“Insane!”
Am I obtaining another hidden piece!?
I bolted upright at the thought, but.
In that instant, I recalled the Knights’ Hall and pondered carefully.
The hidden field—Knights’ Hall.
Even in the Eternal World, which had been running for over a year and a half, it remained undiscovered.
Hidden fields didn’t technically have rankings,
but if they did, the Knights’ Hall would surely be among the highest tier—an absolutely extraordinary place.
And now it was falling into Yoo Sung-hyun’s hands?
I examined the monitor again with a grave expression.
“Wait a moment….”
“S-senior? Isn’t the Knights’ Hall that field where skills are sealed and unusable?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
It’s particularly useful for knights rather than mages.
Should I be relieved that Yoo Sung-hyun, a Dark Mage, is the one entering it instead?
No, that’s not it.
Yoo Sung-hyun possesses tremendous swordsmanship skills as well.
One thing is certain—this won’t be favorable.
But what if the other skills are sealed?
Even if I summon my subordinates, they cannot interfere with the trial.
“Ohhh!!! Then, then wouldn’t the Dark Mage user Yoo Sung-hyun struggle quite a bit there???”
“Hehehehe, that’s right, that’s right. He’ll gain some advantage from the hidden field’s characteristics, but… it will be difficult to obtain the hidden piece that can only be acquired through a perfect clear of the Knights’ Hall. The conditions aren’t even revealed, so it’ll be frustrating.”
I had initially worried about obtaining another hidden piece.
This time, Lee Won-sang chuckled.
Since the conditions are hidden.
There’s no way he’ll break through this time.
Well, let’s just see.
Even if the Yoo Sung-hyun user has excellent stats and superior swordsmanship, he’ll have a tough time in the Knights’ Hall.
After all, he’s a mage, and it’s a special place where he cannot rely on the power of subordinates or summons.
The benefits obtainable while staying in the Knights’ Hall?
There are some, but it’s fine.
For Yoo Sung-hyun, who has rushed here at breakneck speed with such versatility, it might be difficult to endure.
Moreover, it’s a place cut off from the outside world.
It will certainly be challenging.
Probably.
‘…He’ll struggle…, won’t he?’
As I pondered this, Lee Won-sang grew slightly anxious.
But he didn’t dwell on it too much.
Since taking one day off had generated quite a lot of pending matters.
And new issues had arisen even now.
It seemed.
“Senior, aren’t you heading home?”
“What do you mean, heading home?”
“Yes?”
“You have plenty of reports to write too!!!”
“Ah, ah!?”
He’d pulled an all-nighter yesterday, and now tonight as well.
Oh Jin-hyuk felt miserable but couldn’t say anything in return.
Lee Won-sang beside him was also working while clutching at his deepening dark circles.
It seemed he too would have to stay.
1.
The overtime caused by Yoo Sung-hyun wasn’t limited to Lee Won-sang’s team alone.
The Rapid Guild he belonged to.
Especially the guild master.
There was so much to handle.
It was merely the first broadcast, yet its aftermath was considerable.
Two promising talents from other guilds had already requested transfers, and on top of that, I’d even gotten entangled in a collaboration with the Sick Brothers.
Beyond that, public reaction was far from ordinary.
There was plenty of work related to Yoo Sung-hyun’s backup team.
And revenue distribution from this live stream still needed to be settled.
“Ugh…”
Rapid let out a sound as if her soul was departing, briefly removing her monocle before collapsing into her chair.
She’d been busy before, but it seemed like she’d become more than twice as busy because of Yoo Sung-hyun.
They say you have to row when the tide comes in to go far.
‘But this is like a tidal wave.’
Rather, the water was rushing in so violently that I was nearly drowning in it.
It was inevitable that my complaints were piling up.
But what could I do about it?
I just had to push through.
As Rapid was gathering her resolve to start working again,
a message arrived from Yoo Sung-hyun, the very person who’d caused all this busyness.
‘Well, at least the first live stream was successful.’
Just as I was about to offer some praise,
[Yoo Sung-hyun – I might have trouble contacting you for a while. Please let me know through calls or through my sister!]
[Rapid – ???? What are you talking about, Yoo Sung-hyun?]
[Yoo Sung-hyun – I found a hidden field and I think I’ll be there for quite a while. But the system is partially blocked here, so the messenger probably won’t work either. After that, I’ll contact you by phone.]
Rapid’s expression, which had been playful at first, suddenly twisted.
Rapid knew well enough.
That Yoo Sung-hyun was the one who’d just caused such an enormous event.
But now he’d discovered another hidden field?
Did that even make statistical sense?
[Rapid – ??? What are you saying???]
[The user is in an area where the messenger cannot be received.]
“…???”
What on earth was happening?
Rapid stared at the final message with an incredulous expression.
I didn’t know the details, but
‘He’s going to bring me more work…’
I’d have to ask Yoo-na to tell Yoo Sung-hyun to let me know when he could go live.
Though I wasn’t sure if it would work in a blocked area.
At least so we could film something.
[Rapid – Yoo-na, can you tell Yoo Sung-hyun to let me know just a few hours before he goes live? And if that doesn’t work, make sure to film it no matter what.]
I could have sent a message directly to Yoo Sung-hyun by phone.
But since things were urgent,
asking Yoo-na was faster than going out and texting.
With that, Rapid sent the message.
A message appeared immediately.
I checked it, wondering why it had been sent so quickly.
[This user has the messenger turned off.]
[Please try again later.]
‘These two siblings really are perfectly matched…!!!’

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