The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 91

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Episode 91
Episode 91
6.
[The Eternal World awaits your return.]
I opened the capsule after reading the farewell message.
The house itself was quiet.
Checking the time, it was already 6 PM.
‘Is anyone home?’
My sister would be in her capsule.
Wondering where Mother had gone, I stepped into the living room only to find it empty.
Sensing no presence in the master bedroom either, I immediately checked my phone.
As expected, there was a message waiting.
[Mom – Your father and I have a couples’ gathering today, so we’ll be back late~ Eat whatever you’d like~ I’ve sent you some money~]
It seemed Mother had gone out for some event.
“Ah.”
She told me to eat whatever I wanted, and Mother had sent a full 100,000 won.
Even with delivery, it wouldn’t cost that much.
And despite Yoo Sung-hyun having plenty of money now, she still looked after me like this.
Feeling grateful, I headed toward Yoo Mi-na’s room.
I could still see the capsule spinning.
I considered leaving a message but decided to leave the room instead.
Since I hadn’t prepared any food, there was no need to call her.
‘I’m not hungry right now anyway.’
I’d order delivery once my sister came out.
With nothing particular to do, I went to my room and lay on the bed, picking up my phone.
Nothing kills time quite like this.
I read through a novel I’d been putting off, but finished it quickly.
With nothing left to watch, I scrolled around until I eventually landed on MeTube.
‘Hmm?’
Was it because I’d been playing Eternal World so frequently lately?
The algorithm was completely dominated by Eternal World content.
Most of it was Guild channels from Eternal World.
However, most of the Guilds I saw were ones I didn’t recognize.
Among them, one channel caught my eye.
‘The Rapid Guild?’
And they occupied the top two spots in the trending videos.
The Echo Willow discipline video and the Fortress of the Past video.
It was quite novel seeing my own videos for the first time.
‘It feels a bit strange.’
Without realizing it, I found myself browsing through the videos.
I already knew the content, of course.
But viewing it with objective eyes gave me a different impression.
Normally, when observing something objectively like this, flaws should become apparent—things that needed fixing, improvements to be made—but that wasn’t the case here.
Rather, I couldn’t find anything to fix at all.
Even if I went back in time, wouldn’t I have done the same thing?
I still don’t understand why this is so popular.
So I checked the comments.
[HotZero: Wow, was it really that easy????]
└[Unemployed Captain: Is that possible? Haha, if it looks easy, you’re probably really good at it.]
└[RaidScaredy: I’m a Necromancer too, and that’s just insane;;; I mean, how is the mana even sustaining? Does that even make sense?]
[AspiringSorcerer: Honestly, I think they’re way ahead of other classes too? Even among Almighty-tier jobs, they seem exceptionally outstanding???]
[Useless Warrior: Yeah I think so too. Looking at the early days of current single-rank rankers, wasn’t there barely anyone besides Yoo-na who showed that much potential?]
└[ChickenBreastLover: That’s a bit;;;;]
└[AspiringSorcerer: That’s not it;;; Don’t single-rankers with Almighty-tier jobs look X compared to this??]
└[MaxLevelGazua: I’ll admit Yoo-na is amazing, but putting down other single-rankers is a bit;;;]
There were far more people praising me highly than I expected.
Well, my sister said something similar too.
The truth was, Yoo Sung-hyun didn’t fully recognize his own strength.
That made sense—the Yoo Sung-hyun in the memories of various ghosts wasn’t particularly strong even now.
Compared to Eddie’s prime when he was an instructor two generations ago, I was still weaker.
Because of those memories, I judged myself as not being strong.
‘But compared to other players, it’s different.’
I’d been feeling it gradually in recent times.
But seeing the internet reactions made me feel it even more.
After all, I even defeated the past version of Hindel.
Even though he said he’d made himself equal to my level, I still won.
No matter how much Hindel held back.
Summons—and not even many of them. If I could only summon Barphor, winning wouldn’t have been difficult.
Considering that.
‘I should acknowledge it to some degree.’
Humility isn’t a bad thing.
But taken to excess, it becomes poison.
Even if I truly believed I wasn’t strong, spreading that belief to others was a different matter entirely.
So Yoo Sung-hyun acknowledged this to some extent and continued reading the comments.
There were certainly opinions that made sense.
[OtakuWarrior: So when is Yoo Sung-hyun doing a live stream?]
└[GaveUpLawyer: I really want to see a live stream soon….]
“Lol I’ve never actually wanted to watch a low-level stream before lol”
└[Rotten Water Master: Hahahaha this is ㄹㅇ No, I’m level 130, so how is it better than my raid???]
└[MonsterTamer: Yep~ job tier difference~]
└[Rotten Water Craftsman: I got scratched, but I can’t really argue back.]
‘Live broadcast.’
Now that I think about it.
They said they’d settle a certain amount from the live ticket revenue, right?
Live broadcast means streaming in real-time.
So they must be showing raids being attempted in real-time.
People come to watch regardless of success or failure?
Watching viewers chat in real-time while doing raids.
‘That does sound fun.’
I haven’t tried it myself.
But the idea of raiding while communicating with others appealed to me.
As Yoo Sung-hyun continued watching more videos.
I heard the sound of a capsule opening from Yoo Mi-na’s room.
She must have logged out.
I set my phone down and headed outside as well.
“Huh? Where are Mom and Dad?”
“They’re at a couples’ gathering. Let’s order delivery.”
“Oh! Great, I’ll pay—”
“Mom gave me money to buy something delicious, so let’s use that.”
“Ah. Okay.”
Yoo Mi-na seemed a bit disappointed that she couldn’t treat us, but she accepted it without complaint.
She went along with it.
Trying to decide what to eat.
“How about tteokbokki?”
“Hmm, sounds good.”
True to form as a tteokbokki fanatic, Yoo Mi-na immediately suggested it.
Since I hadn’t eaten it in a while.
I thought it would be fine and agreed, so I ordered from a spicy tteokbokki restaurant.
Of course, I placed the order with my debit card.
『[Web Notification]
-Nara Bank 3312 Approval Yoo*Hyun
-23,500 won charged.
-Balance: 2,023,678,720 won.』
A payment confirmation text arrived shortly after.
I was momentarily startled by the staggering balance.
A ten-digit sum—an astronomical amount.
I still haven’t gotten used to it.
Anyway, I need to deal with the items I’ve been putting off processing.
Gold is overflowing too, but my inventory is getting full.
I need to clear some space.
As Yoo Sung-hyun was doing so.
Yoo Mi-na emerged from washing her face lightly and asked while drying it with a towel.
“Did you order?”
“Yeah, I even ordered rice balls.”
“Oh! That’s nice. But did you see? The reactions to your video?”
I gave a casual response and changed the subject.
Yoo Sung-hyun seemed a bit embarrassed, scratching his cheek as he nodded.
He had seen it, after all.
Watching him, Yoo Mi-na laughed in an endearing, clumsy way before asking.
“So how was it?”
“Hmm, honestly, I still don’t feel like I’m that strong, so it’s a bit surreal?”
“Huh? You’re incredibly strong at your level. I think you’d be way stronger than I was back then? How many skills do you have now? The grades and counts—regular skills and class-exclusive skills?”
“Huh? I’m not sure?”
“Check it out. You can see it on your phone through the Eternal World app.”
At his sister’s words, Yoo Sung-hyun found it a bit bothersome.
But he agreed and opened the Eternal World app on his phone to check.
After doing a rough calculation.
“Class-exclusive skills: six Almighty grade and six Legendary grade each. Regular skills: three Legendary and Unique, two Epic, six Rare, and one Normal.”
“??????”
“What?”
At Yoo Sung-hyun’s matter-of-fact words, Yoo Mi-na looked at him as if she’d seen a ghost.
Had she misheard?
In an instant, she took his phone and checked directly.
It was real.
Then in total: six Almighty grade, nine Legendary, three Unique, two Epic, six Rare, and one Normal.
These numbers made no sense.
Moreover.
“You’re level 79 but have twelve class-exclusive skills??? If you get three at the start and then one for every 10 levels starting from level 20, you should have nine, so why do you have three extra???”
“Well, doing this and that, I think I unlocked class-exclusive skills three times as initial rewards?”
“???This game is absolutely ridiculous.”
Indeed, the Eternal World.
Even Yoo Mi-na couldn’t help but shower it with praise.
She could be called a beneficiary as well.
But seeing her brother’s state, it was impossible not to let it slip out.
Yoo Mi-na now understood why others cursed the Eternal World when they saw her.
There was no helping the profanity.
Yoo Sung-hyun, dazed for a long while, asked Yoo Mi-na who was staring at him.
“What’s wrong?”
“I… Ugh. Let’s not talk about it. When I was in my 70s, I didn’t have half of this. Three Almighty and six Legendary, three Unique… but you… wow. No wonder you’re ranked like that.”
“…Is that so?”
“Yeah, the Unique rate is a bit low, but if I have Legendaries in bulk, it doesn’t really matter.”
“Hmm. Should I try to get more Unique skills?”
The Unique rate was indeed low.
Right now, I had corpse explosion and corpse poison, along with the detonating poison chain—which was actually more powerful than Unique skills.
So I might not need them immediately.
But eventually, there would come a moment when even this chain would be blocked.
With that in mind, it was good to acquire new chain methods or different skills as well.
As Yoo Sung-hyun said this.
Yoo Mi-na glared at him as if he were being absurd.
Was he joking?
No, his expression was far too serious for that.
“If you get them… it would be nice, but even Unique items are hard to find on the market.”
“Oh, really?? Equipment too?”
“That’s usually the case, but why?”
“Ah, I have quite a lot, so I was thinking of selling them.”
At Yoo Sung-hyun’s words, Yoo Mi-na glared at him as if asking what nonsense he was spouting.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
I immediately pulled out my phone and showed her the inventory list.
It was filled with Unique items that couldn’t be used because their classes didn’t match.
And there were quite a lot of them.
The five types of Unique items I’d obtained from the Treasure Vault—four of each.
That came to twenty in total.
But that wasn’t all.
There were also the Unique items I’d gotten from defeating Echo Willow, and even the Forest Hunter set I no longer used.
“What… did you raid an Echo Willow branch or something?”
“No, they just gave it to me during the raid?”
“A raid? Haven’t you only done it twice?”
“Yeah, and I got this from one of those two times.”
“Why don’t I ever get anything like this!?”
I could hear the genuine frustration in her voice.
But Yoo Sung-hyun ignored it.
Anyway, I figured I could sell all of these.
“Don’t list these at full price all at once—put them up for auction instead.”
“Auction?”
“Yeah, you don’t need to do it for Rares or Epics, but put all the Uniques up for auction. With about twenty-one items, you should make decent money, right? From what I can see, they’re good Unique items for below level 100, so they won’t sell for an insane price or anything.”
“Oh, really? Thanks.”
Yoo Sung-hyun thanked her casually and seemed pleased.
Yoo Mi-na let out a long sigh watching her younger brother like this.
And yet he still thinks he’s weak.
Something is definitely wrong.
‘I heard that Luna Team changed after being influenced by Yoo Sung-hyun… and they even agreed to be a backup team?’
Well, it made sense given the circumstances.
Yoo Mi-na, though her younger brother, couldn’t help but smile wryly as she watched Yoo Sung-hyun anew.
She was curious whether supernatural abilities would work in the game.
She had thought Yoo Sung-hyun might be good at the game, taking after her.
But this wasn’t just being good like her.
He was using something like supernatural powers to achieve tremendous growth and excavate hidden pieces.
There was no way the gap wouldn’t widen.
‘If I don’t want to fall behind, I need to work harder.’
It was still a long way before Yoo Sung-hyun reached his level.
But I had to push myself.
Later, if we teamed up together, it would be fun.
Or if we reached similar levels, competing over who could clear time attacks faster would be entertaining too.
Though that was still a distant prospect.
That evening, the siblings spent time together for the first time in a while, chatting about the game while eating tteokbokki.
0.
The next morning dawned.
It was the fifth day since starting Eternal World.
After eating breakfast, Yoo Sung-hyun logged in immediately.
Hindel and the other companions were NPCs.
Meeting them at the right time in the morning prevented quests from becoming tangled.
As Yoo Sung-hyun logged in.
He quickly dismissed the welcome message and stood up from the Inn bed.
Today, I would complete the sub-quests.
And I needed to obtain clues about the main quest as well.
Anticipating a busy day ahead.
‘Hm?’
Yoo Sung-hyun suddenly noticed an unusual system message different from the welcome message.
Right upon logging in?
This had never happened before.
Looking at it more closely.
[We apologize for sending this message to user 『Yoo Sung-hyun』.]
A system message that began with those words.
Or rather, it felt more like a note from the developers than a system message.
[The effects of the Legendary-grade skill, 『Thousand Blood Swords』, have been adjusted.]
[We have sent a letter with detailed information and compensation to your inventory as an apology.]
[We sincerely apologize once again.]
“Hmm.”
So it finally came.
The response was faster than expected.
Well, there’s nothing I can do about it.
The utility was simply too broken.
It’s unfortunate, but unavoidable.
They said they’d provide compensation anyway.
Let me check it out.
Yoo Sung-hyun first examined how the Thousand Blood Swords had changed.
『Thousand Blood Swords』
→《Legendary》
→[Lv Max][Complete Form]
[Instant Effect][Active]
[Cooldown 30 minutes]
→Dark magic class exclusive skill.
→Consumes mana to create and control a thousand blood swords from the caster’s blood.
→Upon impact, the thousand blood swords deal slashing or piercing damage before exploding to deal explosion damage.
→The number of blood swords created is determined by the caster’s level and advancement tier.
*Currently creatable blood swords – 154. (77×2)
‘The phrase “to enemies” has disappeared.’
This means that every time there’s a hit, it deals damage even to non-living objects.
I can’t use it for defense or as a flying dragon anymore.
It’s unfortunate, but they said they’d provide compensation for it.
Yoo Sung-hyun looked at his inventory with hopeful eyes.
There were spheres like enhancement orbs and a note of apology.
There were two items in total.
The note repeatedly apologized and contained a detailed explanation of the compensation being provided.
‘A total of six enhancements are possible, and using 3 at once can upgrade a Unique to Legendary? Wait?’
Poison Toxin and Corpse Explosion were Rare, and Explosive Poison was Epic, right?
If I upgrade them all to Unique?
‘What would the power level be then?’
With just a Rare, Rare, and Epic combination, it already surpasses Unique and shows power similar to Legendary, but if all grades become Unique?
I couldn’t even dare to imagine it.
‘Indeed, explosions are an art form.’

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