The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 165

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Chapter 165

Episode 165.

“Oh.”

Looking at the ten cards flashing before his eyes, Dohyun let out a small sound.

It wasn’t admiration.

After all, intermediate skill gacha tickets were limited to common to rare grades. At best it would be a rare skill, so what was there to admire?

However, he was definitely in a good mood.

‘Four cards isn’t bad odds.’

Six brown cards, four silver cards.

A whopping 40% chance of getting a rare skill.

As expected of a sacred ground that produced a legendary, it was quite a decent ratio.

At least for Dohyun. Now the problem was which card to pick.

Left, right, or maybe the middle?

‘The curse of the middle has been broken.’

The powerful curse that had bestowed Dobong upon him was defeated by the brilliant Thunder Dragon Descent.

Then Dohyun paused at a sudden thought.

‘Wait, then if I hadn’t avoided the middle thinking about the curse back then…’

What if he hadn’t had the Eye of Truth?

He definitely would have avoided the middle and picked something else. And he would have shed tears of joy thinking he got a hero skill. Never imagining he had missed a legendary.

No, maybe he would have picked a rare instead.

‘Wow… That’s too terrifying.’

Such a thought suddenly occurred to him.

Maybe he had been avoiding legendary cards all this time?

Not simply having bad luck, but being the second coming of cursed hands.

At that thought, Dohyun got goosebumps beyond just chills and hurriedly shook his head.

[Eye of Truth is currently active.]

Then he nodded while looking at the message before his eyes.

‘Let’s not imagine such terrible things. I have King’s Eye now.’

There’s no more shit-tier Kaiser.

Dohyun now has the overpowered unique trait Eye of Truth!

Dohyun steeled himself and reached out his hand.

‘At times like this, something I’ve never tried… The very end!’

Not the middle, not left or right either.

The very corner. If he had to specify, the leftmost end!

Ding-

When he picked the silver card that was glowing softly alone in that spot, a message appeared.

[You have acquired the rare skill ‘Fire Ball’.]

[Fire Ball]

-Grade: Rare

-Restriction: Fire attribute mage class

-Description: An attack magic that is like the foundation for mages who handle fire.

Though it belongs to basic magic, novice mages find it difficult to handle Fire Ball which contains aggressive flames.

-Effect: Can create a sphere of fire and launch it at enemies.

Upon impact, an explosion occurs dealing great damage.

-Cooldown: 17 seconds

‘Jackpot!’

Dohyun caught the cheer that was about to burst from his throat.

If he made a frivolous sound here, attention would immediately focus on him. He didn’t want to taste the humiliation of being hugged by Charlie again.

Just a rare skill.

And a simple Fire Ball at that – one might ask what the big deal was, but for Dohyun it was an equally moving skill.

‘Ah, finally a proper magic skill appears…!’

He had obtained two magic skills so far.

And they were even hero skills.

However, among those skills, there wasn’t a single one that was truly like a magic skill. They were just used to make close combat base a bit better.

He had never tried launching something from a distance like other mages.

‘What would Fire Ball feel like? The hand sensation must be thrilling, right?’

If you had to pick the most popular class in Godseeker, it would undoubtedly be mage.

Casting flashy magic in virtual reality, not crude 3rd generation VR, was the very fantasy they had dreamed of.

‘Of course, they become rare as you go to late game.’

Like all RPG games, mages cost a lot of money. In Godseeker where prices went crazy, if something cost a lot of money, no words were needed.

Linnich would look cute in comparison.

Only those with wealth enough to handle that and who were serious about Godseeker could afford it.

Anyway, he could finally use such magic!

‘I have to endure.’

He wanted to try it right away, but Dohyun held back.

There was still one more pull left. He had to borrow the energy of this sacred ground and use this momentum to pull Charlie’s skill too.

‘I’ll go with a quick decisive battle.’

After taking a deep breath, Dohyun immediately tore open the second card pack.

[Using Guardian ‘Charlie’s random skill gacha ticket.]

Then light burst forth once again.

However, it was slightly different from before. There was clearly less silver light, but Dohyun saw it.

A yellow card shining among them!

‘Yes, what was meant to come has come…!’

Finally Charlie would also get a hero-grade skill.

The Sword of Light he had from the beginning was a growth-type skill so it didn’t have a grade.

Charlie’s class was knight-type.

‘There are many knight-type hero skills.’

Knights especially had high dependency on hero skills.

Most useful skills were in the hero grade. Dohyun, who could think of several skills right away, immediately reached out his hand.

There was no hesitation. There was only one yellow card.

Ding-

[You have acquired the hero skill ‘Oath’.]

‘Huh? Oath?’

Surprised, Dohyun immediately checked the Skill Information.

[Oath]

-Grade: Hero

-Restriction: Knight class

-Description: A knight’s oath is absolute and symbolic.

This can make a knight strong or weak.

-Effect: Make one of the following oaths with a target

[Protection: When the one who made the oath is within a certain range, defense, magic resistance, and health greatly increase.

However, when outside the range, the above stats decrease by 30%.]

[Judgment: When the one who made the oath battles a target they wish to judge, the knight’s attack power greatly increases.

However, deals 30% reduced damage to enemies other than the judgment target.]

[Sacrifice: Once takes powerful damage that the one who made the oath would receive instead. When taking fatal damage instead, health becomes 1%.]

-Cooldown: 100 seconds

‘Wow, this one appeared.’

Looking at it from every angle, it was definitely the skill he knew.

Oath.

It was safe to say this was the first word that came to mind when thinking of knights.

Everyone knows about the Knight’s Oath since it’s so famous. Covenant was a skill that actively reflected the concept of such a knight’s oath.

‘Depending on how you use it, it could become a transcendent hero-grade skill, or it could become a trash skill.’

If the party members you make a covenant with are terrible or don’t mesh well, it becomes a suicidal trash troll skill.

But conversely, if you have good synergy with the party members you’ve made a covenant with.

Or if you use it in the right situation, it demonstrates ridiculous efficiency.

‘They say Ahdeo always brings knights with him.’

Ahdeo, who always moves in teams, was famous for utilizing this the best.

How else would there be talk that if the current Ahdeo with his covenant had attempted the Outlaw Challenge, there might have been a possibility.

Besides Ahdeo, countless other rankers also utilized it well.

This was why knights were in the spotlight as sub-tanks and sub-dealers.

‘They’re ambiguous as main tanks or dealers. But if you think of them as subs, their concept is clear.’

Knights who assist their lord.

Sometimes becoming a sharp sword, sometimes becoming a solid shield.

It properly brought to life the concept of such loyal knights.

And this ‘Covenant’ could be called the symbolic skill of knight-class professions.

The only drawback was that synergy with the knight was important, so there needed to be trust…

-My lord, I feel some firm resolve in my chest. I feel like I can assist my lord even better somehow.

-Oh, I know that feeling too. Did you get something good as well?

-Yes! Isn’t it all thanks to my lord’s virtue. I am extremely pleased. Please trust only this humble sword, my lord.

“Yeah, thank you.”

There seemed to be no need to worry about that.

Charlie was a Guardian whose loyalty had been maxed from the beginning.

There was no reason not to trust him.

-Risa! Risa risa!

-Eliza, you want one too? Hmm… But you don’t have other abilities.

-Risa!!!

-S-sorry. It’s because you’re not an adult yet.

‘Come to think of it, Eliza is registered under Jihad, right?’

A subordinate Guardian who grows together as Jihad grows.

The advantage was that she grew on her own even if left alone, but the disappointing point was that there was no skill gacha.

-Risa…

“It’s okay, Eliza. You’re fulfilling your role well enough.”

-Risa?

“Yeah, really.”

Did Dohyun’s words give her strength?

Eliza’s eyes, which had been completely dejected, became bright and sparkling.

Dohyun smiled slightly while stroking Eliza, who was rubbing against him, with his index finger.

Of course she was fulfilling her role.

Her web and parasitic abilities were sufficient as support roles, and above all, wasn’t she cute?

[You have obtained Heartwood Tree Root Leaf.]

“One for now.”

Dohyun grinned after digging under the heartwood tree and obtaining one root leaf.

‘Well then, shall I go try out the skill now?’

He had finished all his card pulling.

It was time to try out his first offensive magic skill.

* * *

Had he walked for about 10 minutes?

While there couldn’t be absolutely no people, Dohyun stopped walking after confirming there were fewer people than before.

He could have tried it back there, but Dohyun couldn’t tolerate that.

‘I can’t defile a sacred ground.’

No skill usage in sacred grounds.

That was the implicit rule followed by the gacha people, the pulling nation.

Though he wasn’t a member of the Gacha Gallery, Dohyun was already one of them in spirit.

-…Do you really understand that?

-Mm. Comradeship is important.

-Right. What was I expecting.

Ignoring Jihad chattering behind him, Dohyun took out Heavenly Transformation.

He intended to transform the weapon as usual. But Dohyun, who had been thinking for a moment, suddenly stopped.

‘I should have gotten a staff too.’

He had neglected it because it was useless until now, but thinking about it, he didn’t have a mage weapon.

In the end, wanting to at least get the feeling, Dohyun maintained the basic form and lightly swung it once through the air.

This made him feel like he was holding Harry Potter’s small wand.

“Abracada… Ahem, that’s not it.”

Dohyun trailed off, then searched the surroundings and discovered a troll standing alone before activating his skill.

[Using Fire Ball.]

Then a notification appeared and flames bloomed in front of Heavenly Transformation.

“Ooh…”

His admiration at the air heating up with a whoosh was brief.

Soon the flames grew larger, then condensed and took the form of a sphere.

The flames rippled while maintaining the spherical form, and the air around it shimmering was more realistic than expected.

It really felt like he had become a mage.

Swoosh- Boom!

When he sent it forward, the fire ball that had been burning the air flew toward the troll at high speed.

Then came the explosion sound as it burst upon contact with the troll.

“Wow…”

It wasn’t that there was a tremendous roar or flashy effects exploded.

But Dohyun was feeling moved.

A different kind of hand feel and exhilaration from close combat was transmitted.

Setting everything else aside, the visual effects and the strange addictive thrill that made his chest tingle were electrifying.

Graaah!

Judging by the reaction of letting out a roar, there seemed to be considerable damage.

Well, even without a magic staff, Dohyun’s magic stat was at a level that could slap any same-level mage.

He was essentially beating them down with pure magic power.

‘A 17-second cooldown isn’t bad either.’

Mages basically had a structure of dealing damage with skills.

So lower-grade skills had shorter cooldowns compared to other classes.

Since it was a class without anything like basic attacks.

Conversely, powerful magic had cooldowns so outrageous you’d wonder if they were right, but considering their power, that’s what balanced things out.

Wouldn’t it be nonsensical if wide-area lightning strikes had short cooldowns?

[Transforming Heavenly Transformation into ‘Brilliant Taksinel’s Blue Sword.’]

[Using Shroud in Darkness on Heavenly Transformation.]

To finish off the staggering guy, as he was instantly transforming Heavenly Transformation into a sword and shrouding it in darkness.

‘Huh? Wait a minute.’

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Shroud in Darkness could be used on anything confirmed as belonging to the caster.

Just like it could be used on Heavenly Transformation, undead, and himself.

Then…

‘Can I shroud Fire Ball too?’

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