The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 357

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Chapter 357
Chapter 357
[ You have completed the Main Scenario Quest ‘Omen of Great Evil (7)’. ]
[ Your level has increased. ]
[ Your level has increased. ]
….
First came the experience points from completing the Quest.
The Purple Mechanical God itself granted an enormous amount of experience, and with the Quest bonus added on top, my level skyrocketed.
It’s common knowledge that once you surpass level 500, you enter a genuine hellish grinding phase where leveling takes an astronomical amount of time.
Yet my level, defying such conventional wisdom, was already approaching the mid-500s.
[ Main Scenario Quest ‘Omen of Great Evil (8)’ has been created. ]
Rank: Epic
Description: As one who has transcended to All Master, you must follow the guidance of fate and prevent the emergence of great evil.
Objective: Search for the eighth omen of great evil.
The next Main Scenario Quest unfolds before me.
I had originally been counting only the Evil Gods I faced during my time in First, believing there weren’t many left to overcome.
Now I’m not so certain.
The Purple Mechanical God I just defeated was itself the first Evil God I encountered in First, after all.
Perhaps the journey to vanquish all the Evil Gods will be far longer than I anticipated.
[ You have annihilated the seventh omen of great evil. ]
[ As a reward for achieving your second feat as All Master, you may strengthen one of your All Master abilities. ]
The next reward was the enhancement of an All Master ability.
After defeating the Blue Spirit God, the ability I had strengthened was ‘Hierarchical Assimilation’.
At this point, there was no need to deliberate which ability to strengthen first.
The number of remaining abilities was dwindling, and truthfully, the ones left didn’t promise particularly impressive enhancement effects.
So I simply selected the first ability that came to mind.
[ ‘Talent Development’ is being strengthened. ]
[ Talent Development+: Dramatically increases various fundamental talents such as affinity required for specific classes like Summoners or Tamers. ]
While I said the enhancement effect wasn’t promising, it wasn’t entirely meaningless either.
When it says ‘affinity required for specific classes,’ that would include elemental affinities like fire attribute affinity and water attribute affinity.
And naturally, that would strengthen the power of elemental magic.
Looking at it from another angle….
‘Summoners and Tamers, etc. That’s the key part.’
Affinity with spirit realms and demon realms would increase, strengthening my ability to summon spirit beasts, demon beasts, and divine beasts.
Affinity with animals and monsters would improve, making taming more effective.
Spirit affinity would increase, allowing me to contract with higher-grade spirits.
Even death affinity could rise, enhancing my aptitude for necromancy.
‘Should I start delving into that path as well?’
It’s something I’ve been considering for a while now.
If I formed contracts with summoned creatures and trained powerful monsters, I could dramatically increase my combat power immediately.
Yet the reason I hadn’t bothered with such things until now was….
‘The efficiency wasn’t worth it.’
It was a matter of efficiency.
What good would summoning creatures do when I hadn’t even reached level 500 yet?
The caliber of tameable monsters would be low, and the spirits’ grades would be equally mediocre.
Besides, since all of them required mana, I reasoned it was more advantageous to attack directly with that mana rather than deploy half-baked summons.
‘Now I’m finally at a point where I can aim for worthwhile summons.’
My level had already surpassed 500.
Summons with excellent abilities.
Powerful tamed creatures.
Now I could even aim for high-grade spirits.
And since I’d strengthened ‘Talent Development’, the efficiency had improved as well. Once I finished wrapping things up and returned to my territory, I’d need to give this some serious thought.
Next came the long-awaited moment.
“Luke, it’s feeding time.”
– I humbly accept, Master.
[ Luke has consumed the ‘Purple Mechanical God’. ]
Luke’s feeding time had arrived.
Whoooosh!
“Ohhh.”
“No matter how many times I see it, it’s remarkable.”
“Is this truly the ability of Marquis Mir that we’ve only heard rumors about? Hehe, extraordinary indeed!”
“Even if it is an Evil God, it’s still a monster, so the corpse will disappear with time—not that it matters much—but the items….”
Luke’s Black Flame wrapped around the now-motionless Evil God.
The name matched my expectations precisely.
The Purple Mechanical God.
Most were watching in fascination as the Evil God’s body burned black, but a few looked uneasy.
I had brought down the Evil God, yes, but that didn’t mean I’d conquered it alone.
Many had contributed to felling the Evil God, and they’d naturally believe they deserved their share.
But if things proceeded like this, I could monopolize all the rewards from the Evil God.
Their anxiety was understandable.
“The rewards will be distributed fairly according to contributions.”
After leaving those words for them.
I checked the System Message that had appeared from Luke’s consumption.
[ Luke’s stats have increased by 300. ]
[ You accept the nutrients left behind by the ‘Black Flame Dragon, Lucknir Desperate Ignoxtan’. ]
Luke’s stat increase was the maximum of 300.
And since the Evil God had been so powerful, the unabsorbed stats were transferred to me.
The amount of stat increase exceeded my expectations.
Well, even though this was the first Evil God of its kind I’d faced, it was the most powerful Evil God I’d ever encountered.
A substantial stat increase was only natural.
Thus, Luke completely consumed the Evil God.
– Master, what should I do with the spoils?
“Let me check right away.”
Spoils.
In other words, the items the Evil God had dropped.
Since I had already given everyone a heads-up beforehand, I issued instructions so we could all examine them together.
“Display them all so everyone else can see.”
– Yes, Master.
Luke spread out all the items and displayed them as they wished.
To be honest, I hadn’t held great expectations.
The Evil God wasn’t particularly generous with item drops to begin with.
Since I’d been disappointed countless times after getting my hopes up, I simply wondered what type of skill book this Evil God’s offering would be.
But then.
Whoosh!
The number of items Luke had spread out was.
“Absolutely enormous!”
“Are all these items from the Evil God?”
“The grades! What are the grades?”
Staggeringly abundant.
So abundant that easily over a hundred items lay before us.
The Evil God dropped this many items?
Did this even make sense?
The Evil Gods I’d defeated alone had only dropped one or two items at most.
The Black Insect God I defeated first had only dropped the Evil God’s Tome.
Could it be that….
‘Am I just unlucky?’
The thought came unbidden.
When I hunted alone, I’d get at most one or two items.
But now that I was hunting Evil Gods with other users, the number of dropped items had increased.
Realizing this, I couldn’t help but sigh.
Well, my item luck hadn’t been great even back in First.
Still, the unfairness was unavoidable.
Anyway, before examining the other items.
“This is my Quest reward, so I’ll be taking it. Besides, the usage restrictions are set so only I can use it anyway.”
“Hmm, I see.”
“I concur.”
“Wait, let me verify that claim first…!”
Smack!
“Ugh!”
“Verify what? You had the lowest contribution here. You should be worrying about whether you can even claim a single item from those over there.”
“Jeok-hwa, no matter who you are, such rudeness is unacceptable!”
Smack!
“Want another?”
“Ugh….”
I picked up the Evil God’s Scripture.
I checked it immediately.
[ Evil God’s Scripture – Purple Iron Propulsion ]
( Non-tradeable )
Type : Skill Book
Grade : Mythic
Restriction : Those who defeated the Purple Mechanical God, All Master
Description : A training method that visualizes the movements of the Purple Mechanical God and helps implement the efficient propulsion inherent to machinery.
‘A training method?’
An unexpected format for a skill book had appeared.
It was neither an attack technique nor a movement technique.
A training method?
Since I couldn’t learn more information beyond that, the only way seemed to be to learn it directly and verify it myself.
There was no need to waste time anyway, so I used the skill book immediately.
– You have acquired the skill ‘Purple Iron Propulsion Lv 1’ by using the ‘Evil God’s Scripture’.
Along with the skill acquisition message.
[ The skill experience of the Flexibility skill is being absorbed into ‘Purple Iron Propulsion’. ]
[ The skill experience of the Resilience skill is being absorbed into ‘Purple Iron Propulsion’. ]
[ The skill experience of the Regeneration skill is being absorbed into ‘Purple Iron Propulsion’. ]
….
[ The skill level of ‘Purple Iron Propulsion’ has increased. ]
The related skills were absorbed into Purple Iron Propulsion.
Watching this, I could deduce what Purple Iron Propulsion was.
‘This is a passive skill.’
The absorbed skills were basic passive skills I had learned from skill books.
Flexibility, which increased evasion rate.
Resilience, which increased defense.
Regeneration, which increased health recovery, and so on.
A considerable number of passive skills were all absorbed.
That meant Purple Iron Propulsion was a superior passive skill that encompassed all these many passive skills.
I opened the skill description next, and sure enough.
[ Purple Iron Propulsion Lv 25 ]
A training method that visualizes the movements of the Purple Mechanical God and helps implement the efficient propulsion inherent to machinery.
– The efficiency of all detailed stats including strength, agility, vitality, wisdom, intelligence, health, mana, and vigor increases dramatically.
Purple Iron Propulsion was a passive skill.
The skill I obtained from the Evil God’s Scripture was actually a passive ability.
Truthfully, passive skills aren’t particularly efficient, so it’s normal not to expect much from them.
‘All detailed stats?’
The Evil God’s mythic-grade passive skill, Magnetic Propulsion, was different.
Most passive skills, like those I possessed, merely boosted minor detailed stats—increasing evasion rate or health regeneration.
High-performance passive skills could elevate the five core stats like Strength or Agility.
But honestly, their performance wasn’t particularly impressive.
‘However, Magnetic Propulsion is different.’
Not only the five core stats, but evasion rate, critical hit rate, various regeneration abilities—
Magnetic Propulsion elevated every stat displayed in the status window, along with even the detailed stats that weren’t properly listed.
And befitting a mythic-grade skill, the stat increase was quite substantial.
While absorbing other passive skills gave it a starting skill level of 25, as time passes and the skill level rises, its efficiency will continue to improve.
‘Better than I expected.’
Honestly, I’d begun to think that even decent skills wouldn’t be of much help anymore.
I never imagined a passive skill with such potent effects would appear.
Magnetic Propulsion even granted positive benefits to magic-related elements.
I couldn’t have been more pleased.
As I was absorbed in this thought—
“Ahem.”
“If you’ve finished confirming, wouldn’t you check the other items? I’m dying of curiosity.”
“That… I agree with you.”
“Since we’ve defeated the Evil God, surely mythic-grade materials dropped?”
The voices of those around me reached my ears.
I’d spent too much time confirming the Magnetic Propulsion skill I’d learned from the Evil God.
To satisfy those eager to see the items, I shared the Item Information.
‘Ay, surely not.’
What came to mind was the Silver Storm God.
The Evil God’s silver feathers.
Six feathers had dropped, but they were all legendary-grade.
Could this be a similar case?
Or perhaps, since far more items dropped this time, they might be epic-grade materials.
Thinking thus, the items I confirmed were—
[ Purple Mechanical God’s Gear ]
Form: Material
Grade: Mythic
“H-heavens!”
“Did a mythic-grade item really drop?”
“Mythic-grade material!”
It was a mythic-grade item.
Moreover—
“This is also mythic-grade material…?”
There was not just one Mythic-grade item.

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