The Only Enhancer - Chapter 197

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Episode 197
197 – The Final Battle (1)
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Ursula, Witch of the Deep Sea, was in the midst of absorbing the Monster King’s core when she felt Mik and Hik, Decan’s subordinates, die far too pathetically—without even buying time. She clicked her tongue in displeasure.
She had used her last remaining soul connection on Decan, so she couldn’t even use them as materials for core absorption. What a waste.
They should have at least known the shame of falling not to Min-jun himself, but to Min-jun’s subordinates.
Even as Ursula entertained such thoughts, she closed her eyes with a slight frown of inconvenience.
The process of absorbing the Monster King’s core still had quite a long way to go.
It would take them time to arrive, but Min-jun had never failed to exceed her expectations before.
So Ursula smiled and cast her will across the surrounding waters.
Though she hadn’t absorbed all of the Monster King’s core, absorbing merely half of it had elevated her to a level where she could project her will across the entire Pacific Ocean.
With just half absorbed!
Ursula’s intoxication with omnipotence and resulting arrogance were hardly unfounded.
-Mmm, then children, buy me some time.
At those words alone, every monster in the Pacific Ocean began converging toward a single point.
From Disaster Level 1 to Disaster Level 5, and even those challenging Disaster Level 6 through cannibalism—all of them.
With merely a single projection of her will, she could command every monster in the Pacific Ocean.
The fact that this was merely a fraction of the Monster King’s power was nothing short of astounding.
Ursula smiled cruelly and reflected.
Of course, it would be difficult to inflict any real damage on them with this.
After all, if Min-jun intervened, these creatures would certainly perish before long.
But buying time would be more than sufficient.
She harbored no intention of tormenting or wounding them with this.
She had sent these creatures purely to buy time.
-It will take them time to reach this place.
She already knew that Min-jun had discovered this location.
When Decan was revived, she had sensed Min-jun’s will brush against her ever so slightly.
The original Ursula would have been cautious even of that and found some way to prevent it.
But hadn’t her mind deteriorated once she began absorbing the core?
She had recovered somewhat while absorbing Decan, but intoxicated by omnipotence, her mind had never fully returned.
Ursula surrendered to that sense of omnipotence, lying there with her eyes closed, serene and untroubled.
If she absorbed everything, Min-jun would be nothing at all.
Floundering in such delusion, she lay there quietly absorbing the core, utterly unaware that her own breath was being strangled away.
1.
The scheme Ursula had sent naturally didn’t take long to reach Min-jun’s Reinforce Ship.
After all, Min-jun had been detecting the monsters in the vicinity, so detection was swift.
At first, it was bewildering—Disaster Level 1 monsters suddenly appeared alongside those at the level called Disaster Level 5.5, specimens engaged in cannibalism.
But with all the executives gathered and every member of the Reinforce Guild assembled, it hardly posed a problem.
Though their sheer numbers were annoying, a single ultimate skill or ability obliterated all Disaster Level 3 and below, and having grown so accustomed to underwater combat, they couldn’t even fulfill their irritating role.
Rather.
“Move those items out quickly over there!”
“There’s way too many! Make sure you grab all the mana stones!”
“If the Evolution Spheres get mixed up, they’ll be hard to find again!!! Keep them separate and bring them to the guild master!”
“Separate the items and mana stones! The items go to the guild master!!! The mana stones go to Gwen!”
It was as chaotic as a marketplace.
Or rather, the Deep-sea Fishing Vessel was literally turning into a marketplace.
Everyone was gathering an enormous quantity of items, mana stones, and Evolution Spheres that appeared sporadically.
Some of the executives were even mass-producing Evolution Spheres by making Disaster Level 5 creatures that hadn’t undergone cannibalism devour each other.
While digesting this immense workload, they continued heading toward where Ursula was. After all, they couldn’t slow down the Reinforce Ship’s speed.
Outside the Reinforce Ship firing at maximum output, the guild members were working frantically as if their lives depended on it, yet their faces were all filled with satisfaction.
Their morale had skyrocketed from the fact that it was helping Min-jun.
They were all delighted by it.
“Wow, Jung Ji-hwan’s curse is incredibly helpful for breeding.”
“Right? Normally we’d have to threaten them and barely get them to eat by refusing to let them engage in cannibalism, but now with just one curse, they think the others aren’t their own kind and immediately devour them.”
“Curses are the best! For breeding, curses are seriously the best!”
Everyone was marveling at Jung Ji-hwan’s breeding skills, and Jung Ji-hwan himself wore a somewhat satisfied expression. The only slight disappointment was that when he made other Disaster Level 4 or different-leveled creatures engage in cannibalism, there wasn’t any particular reaction, which was unfortunate.
However, with Min-jun around, they were delighted even when items of the same level or higher dropped.
So what was Min-jun doing while everyone else was so busy?
To be precise, Min-jun, Gwen, and Andrew had formed a team and were processing the enormous flood of items and mana stones.
First, Min-jun was enhancing like mad while using the efficient mana stones Gwen created to convert them into his own mana and cycle through another round of enhancement.
Moreover, he was enhancing the mana stones Jung Soon had made, putting them through various processes.
And with the enormously enhanced items, he was creating essence and quickly producing items up to +7 enhancement for those creatures with useful skills.
It was no exaggeration to call it a +7 enhancement item factory.
Min-jun endured the mad torrent of items while thinking.
‘I need to do this much to enhance my guild members’ equipment.’
The number of +7 enhanced items being produced this way wasn’t particularly large.
Roughly, it would take about four days to give everyone a +7 enhanced item.
Still, if he could manage that, he judged that Min-jun would have nothing to worry about.
After all, hadn’t Mik and Hik already handled themselves well?
But if he equipped everyone here with +7 items and gave them at least +8 weapons, then no matter what scheme Ursula pulled, he could protect all his guild members—this thought drove him to produce items even more desperately.
While Min-jun was producing items, Gwen was further enhancing mana stones, and Andrew was crafting various tools.
Since he couldn’t infinitely produce +8 enhanced items, he was instead creating magitech devices that could provide protective barriers for each guild member.
After all, another Disaster Level 8 creature could appear.
The workshop ran like mad, and outside was the same—items were being produced frantically.
As they were sweeping up an enormous number of creatures, the conquest of the Pacific Ocean was proceeding very smoothly.
In fact, much of this was thanks to Ursula.
Without her, such a clean conquest would have been difficult to achieve.
They were even joking that they should be somewhat grateful to her.
Moreover, Min-jun wasn’t just enhancing items.
Where else would the massive flood of items and the essences obtained from enhancing them go?
It’s not like it would be anything unusual.
“Wow, wow….”
“N-next person who’ll become Level 7, come in!”
“C-come in order!”
The Reinforce Guild members seemed somewhat awkward as they entered my room and emerged with their Level 7 cap lifted, and as the next batch entered, those who had broken through to Level 7 kept piling up.
Moreover, the executives had prepared a location where monsters poured forth, allowing members to gain Quests and experience, so they could easily reach Level 7 by clearing Quests there.
Everyone went about hunting monsters in that bewildering process, and as more people reached Level 7, the pace accelerated further.
After several days, everyone had reached Level 7.
Just as I had estimated it would take five days to reach Ursula, we arrived at that vicinity in exactly five days, and all Reinforce Guild members had reached Level 7.
Naturally, Hong Myeong, who was a candidate for executive, reached Level 7, and Natalia and Evan also reached Level 7.
Everyone was astonished at the tremendous achievement accomplished in such a short span of time.
Min-jun spoke with an expression showing no fatigue whatsoever.
“It seems like she’ll make a move soon. I suspect she’ll send newly created monsters, so it would be good if you all faced them.”
Both the guild members who had defeated Mik alongside Ma Hyun-seok before leveling up and the executives who had gathered together to crushingly defeat Hik nodded awkwardly.
Normally, when it comes to a final battle, there should be considerable tension and anxiety. So why was this different?
“…Why am I not nervous?”
“…I-I’m not either.”
“I mean, after coming all this way and experiencing that, it just feels like going to work right now.”
“Huh? You too? Me as well?!”
“Hey, me too!”
They all chattered noisily without a shred of tension.
It wasn’t so much that confidence overflowed from reaching Level 7, but rather they possessed the 8-star weapons I had given them, items reinforced to 7-star, and even stronger executives.
What reason was there to be nervous?
Confidence surged within them—they could win without difficulty even if Mik and Hik returned.
Watching them, I nodded with a smile as if it were only natural.
Yes, this was what I had wanted.
With all preparations complete, should I head out for war now?
As I thought this and peered into the Deep Sea, something burst forth along with bubbling foam. Seeing it, I spoke.
“I’ll leave this to you then. I’ll go find my opponent.”
Hearing everyone respond with understanding to my words spoken with a slight smile, I warped down into that space.
There, Ursula, who had absorbed all the factors, sat alluringly upon her throne, and seeing her, I couldn’t help but smirk.
It was too amusing to see her like this at the end.
Ursula before absorbing the factors had been far more annoying and troublesome.
As I thought this and gazed upon Ursula, she began clicking her tongue lightly at the sight of me.
-Tsk tsk tsk, so the situation has reversed now? I can’t fathom what you were thinking coming all this way. Do you want to watch your subordinates die?
Seeing Ursula spout such words, I couldn’t help but smirk.
“You think we’ll lose to the monsters you created?”
-My children surpass even those created by the Monster King.
I burst into laughter at those words.
“Puhahahaha! That level of delusion deserves ridicule.”
How disagreeable.
“Then come and fight me.”
At Min-jun’s provocation, Ursula, Witch of the Deep Sea rose from her throne.
The final battle had begun.

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