The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 187

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Episode 187
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3.
A major event in the Labyrinth Region.
At a level bracket where leveling had become difficult, players couldn’t help but welcome it.
Even hunting all day in the Labyrinth wouldn’t budge your level, and quests were tediously boring by comparison.
That’s why players commonly called it hitting a slump in the Labyrinth Region.
Eternal World fatigue.
Levels barely rose, and the Labyrinth Region’s structure made it easy to grow weary of.
Without a notable event, it was a tedious stretch.
So when an event opened at just the right moment.
How welcome could the news be?
For Labyrinth Region players, it was like rain after a drought.
[MaxLevelChaser: Finally, how long has it been since a Labyrinth event?]
└[OrcDevourer: Right??? E-World is finally doing something;;]
[GiveHPPlease: A Labyrinth event? I wonder what kind it’ll be. I’m curious.]
└[UselessTank: Maybe new monsters will appear? Since it’s not a unified zone like the Dune Wild Trail, I bet common monsters will spawn fresh?]
└[Poison Mage: Does that sound plausible?]
└[Boss Hunter: Anyway, it’s a relief it’s not a dungeon break or dungeon quest. Seems like it’ll be fun lol.]
The players’ reactions were universally positive.
Events weren’t common, after all.
Players were happy even with simple events.
There were some complainers, of course.
But the prevailing sentiment was gratitude that they were getting an event at all.
At a level bracket now considered intermediate.
Anything was better than nothing.
Then.
Posts like these began appearing on several community boards.
[Title: Isn’t this connected to the Demon King?]
[Author: MasterOfStealth]
『I let it slide during the Dune Wild Trail.
But right after the Demon King arrives in the Labyrinth, another major event?
That’s too much of a coincidence, isn’t it?
Back then, people said the Demon King probably hadn’t leveled up enough yet, so he wouldn’t come to the Dune Wild Trail.
But that turned out to be wrong.
Isn’t this happening because of something connected to the Demon King?
Almighty-class jobs are that kind of profession, after all.』
[NoHealerTrueRunner: Hm? Another Demon King fanboy?]
└[MasterOfStealth(Author): I am a fan, but doesn’t it really seem connected?]
Party member: Hmm, there are quite a few things that don’t add up though lol.
└[Master of Concealment (Author): That’s true, but it seems like the Demon King went to a hidden field recently.]
└[Party Deserter: Oh really? I didn’t know that. I was thinking of buying a cheap ticket to watch the live stream, but it was about that?]
└[Master of Concealment (Author): Yeah, so I wrote this post just in case.]
Opinions began to emerge that this event was something Yoo Sung-hyun had orchestrated.
Two convenient coincidences had overlapped, after all.
It was reasonable to think that way.
However, it wasn’t the mainstream opinion.
Most posts were written with personal speculation and no evidence.
The discussion was drifting toward conjecture similar to conspiracy theories.
In any case, a new event was welcome.
While everyone was speculating about what event would appear, a peculiar post surfaced.
[Title – I’m the Demon King’s older sister, and it’s real.]
[Author – Geom-jjang]
『My younger brother is the Demon King.
It’s real.
The next event is something about blood or something.
Take note.』
A post so brief it was barely a post at all.
It was a post that made it nearly impossible to even speculate about what event would come.
What could “blood or something” even mean?
Because the post was so blatantly attention-seeking, no one even engaged with it.
The view count did go up a bit, though.
[Enhancement Master: Do not feed the troll.]
└[Geom-jjang (Author): Haha, just wait and see.]
└[Enhancement Master: “Just wait and see”—I’ve never seen anything scarier than that haha.]
[Gold Explorer: Ugh, there are still people trying this low-level bait.]
└[Geom-jjang (Author): Hahahaha just wait and see.]
The confidence with which it was posted made some wonder if it was genuine.
But they let it slide.
They could always tear it apart later if it turned out to be false.
So everyone moved on and waited for the next event.
They said it would be in two days.
4.
Yoo Sung-hyun watched Yoo Mi-na scribbling on her phone while eating and asked her a question.
“What are you doing, noona?”
“Oh, I was writing something. I’m done now.”
“You didn’t post what I told you about, did you?”
“…No way.”
There’s something unsettling about the way she’s answering.
Well, at least she didn’t write down anything important.
Sung-hyun let the matter pass without dwelling on it.
No matter how much his sister liked to joke around, she was always serious when it truly mattered.
With that understanding, he continued eating his meal.
Yoo Mi-na watched him and asked a question.
“But is this Blood Lord thing actually real?”
“Yeah, I think so?”
“Hmm, just hearing about it, it seems connected to an Almighty-tier class. Do you think it’ll be unlocked later?”
At Yoo Mi-na’s words, Sung-hyun paused briefly in thought and nodded.
When it came to the game, his sister knew more than he did.
She’d certainly be more accurate than him.
Come to think of it, she had mentioned that lord-class jobs hadn’t been unlocked as much as expected.
Hadn’t a new recruit who joined the Rapid Guild recently have an Almighty-tier lord-class job?
He’d simply moved past it, thinking someone impressive had joined.
He never imagined that person was someone his own subordinate had defeated.
Regardless.
“So what’s your third advancement test?”
“For me, it seems the test starts with going to the castle where the Blood Lord was sleeping.”
“Will you have to fight?”
“Yeah, it looks like it.”
As they exchanged such talk and made their guesses, they simply accepted it as it was.
Speculation wouldn’t change anything anyway.
Ultimately, you had to see it firsthand to truly know.
After that conversation, the two finished their evening meal.
Once Sung-hyun finished eating and returned to his room, he paused to think for a moment.
The Blood Lord, Lazard.
Based on the name alone, he was presumed to be a vampire.
Would he be fighting such a creature?
Or would it be friendly toward Helena, like Nyao?
Since it had supposedly been sleeping until now.
It was possible that it might be Helena’s subordinate.
‘Either way, it’ll be interesting.’
It could become a new subordinate.
Or perhaps it could be an entity that despised Helena.
The mere thought of potentially fighting a lord-tier being.
Sung-hyun felt anticipation building.
Unlike major events, his third advancement could begin as soon as tomorrow.
The Belmore Branch Manager had made a fuss about it, saying various things.
But it wasn’t something he needed to worry much about.
He’d simply been asked to visit the Pentagrid Branch after completing his third advancement.
As long as he fulfilled that request, everything would be fine.
There’s no need to think about that right now.
After my third advancement, I’ll stop by the Pentagrid Branch for a moment.
And next, now that I’ve reached the appropriate level.
I should be able to head to Kah-hoo-koo’s final Treasure Vault hidden in the Labyrinth Region.
To that place where the decisive item that allowed Kah-hoo-koo to amass treasures is stored.
As I thought through my next plans,
I gazed with eyes full of anticipation.
‘In any case, tomorrow is my third advancement.’
What skills would I be able to obtain from this third advancement?
With such anticipation, I drifted off to sleep.
5.
In the Labyrinth Gap, far removed from both Basilica and Ninyaru.
A castle suddenly began to rise from that place.
Rumble, rumble, rumble——!
A castle with an antiquated atmosphere.
It wasn’t particularly large in size.
One might call it the castle of a modest domain.
Yet the thick blood scent contained within it spread in all directions, encroaching upon the surroundings.
The scent was so dense and profound.
It even created the illusion of staining everything red.
Around such a castle,
Rumble, rumble——!!!
Crackle, crackle, crackle——!!!
Lightning descended desolately.
Soon, dark storm clouds obscured the sky.
Deep within the castle’s basement, emanating an ominous atmosphere.
There, upon what resembled an Altar, lay a massive stone coffin.
Beneath the great stone coffin was placed an Altar.
As if absorbing the energy of the lightning, each time it struck, a crimson aura flowed abundantly around it.
That blood-like crimson aura gradually flowed like liquid,
and began to trace patterns.
At first glance, it resembled a pattern symbolizing a family lineage.
Viewed differently, it appeared like a magic circle.
Whisper, whisper, whisper.
As the blood-colored liquid aura finally completed all the patterns,
it shone like a single magic circle,
and the massive stone coffin placed at its center moved.
Grind, grind, grind, grind——.
Or rather, precisely speaking, the heavy coffin lid slowly shifted, and someone who had been sleeping there awakened.
Eyes of pale ashen-white hair and crimson irises as if bloodshot.
His sharp, distinctive features—characteristic of Western ancestry—gave him an air of unmistakable nobility as he rose from the stone coffin.
Black fabric contrasted with an ornate crimson cloth, lending his attire an even more refined and luxurious appearance.
As he naturally rose and stepped from the sarcophagus,
the stone coffin vanished as though it had never existed in that place.
The aura that had stained the Altar like blood dissipated as well, leaving behind the impression that nothing had ever been there at all.
From that place emerged a figure with ashen silver hair flowing freely, his pale complexion and face murmuring softly.
“A new Overlord has been born.”
Speaking thus, he recalled memories from ages past and smiled with an eerie white grin.
“That hateful Overlord. I could not accomplish it in the past, but—”
After a brief pause, as lightning flashed and thunder crashed, he opened his mouth.
“This time, I shall surely make it mine.”
With those words, he took his seat upon the throne of the Castle where he rightfully belonged, and smiled.
Then he waited for the final guest who would soon arrive to grace his banquet.
6.
Those called Lords or Overlords are uniformly powerful beings.
Moreover, this title is bestowed upon both monsters and player classes alike.
Yet if there is a common thread,
it is that this designation appears only at the Legendary tier and above.
Among players, those whose class bears the title of Lord receive far greater recognition.
For it was a designation far more formidable than others of that same rank.
Monsters commonly called Lord-tier were no exception.
Even among Hidden Raid Bosses, those bearing the Lord designation were far more powerful.
In fact, some regular Raid Bosses with the Lord title surpassed even Hidden Raid Bosses in strength.
Such was the prestige of the Lord designation.
Even Yoo Sung-hyun, who knew little of games, understood this well.
Thus, he made thorough preparations.
[Welcome to another world, the eternal Eternal World.]
[May fortune smile upon you, Player Yoo Sung-hyun.]
The moment he logged in, Yoo Sung-hyun checked his status first.
【Status Window】
『Yoo Sung-hyun』
『Lv 150』
『Class』
→『Overlord』
『Titles』
→『Lord (Legendary)』… and 32 others.
『Attributes』
→《Strength: 242(186+56)》《Agility: 267(205+62)》
《Stamina: 267(205+62)》
《Intelligence: 449(345+104)》《Wisdom: 449(345+104)》
《Mental Power: 133(120+13)》《Dexterity: 8(7+1)》
『Additional Stats』
→《0》
‘Hmm.’
Beyond impressive—these stats were absolutely absurd.
Other players at the same level couldn’t even fathom such numbers.
Even among Almighty-grade users, the disparity would be unmistakable.
The real question was whether these stats would prove effective against a Lord-tier monster.
Though it might not even be a monster.
Regardless, preparing for combat was essential.
After cataloging all his items and skills, Yoo Sung-hyun finally withdrew the compass.
[The Overload-exclusive Third Class Advancement item, 『Overload’s Compass』, responds.]
[Using 『Overload’s Compass』 will transport you to the Third Class Advancement location.]
[Will you proceed?]
[Yes / No]
I lifted the compass.
Text materialized before my eyes, and without hesitation, I responded.
As I felt myself being transported somewhere, my body became immobilized.
‘What is this?’
[Your Third Class Advancement as 『Overload』 begins.]
[An event sequence will now play.]
The event sequence began to unfold.

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