The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 53
—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————
Chapter 53
[Welcome to the Final Colosseum.]
[200 users have been placed in the Final Colosseum.]
The Final Colosseum that he entered only after enduring the 2nd round and finishing the 3rd round.
Since it was a colosseum composed only of users who had survived round after round, the atmosphere was certainly extraordinary.
‘Every single one of them is over level 100.’
In the 1st Colosseum, users over level 100 could be counted on one hand.
In the Final Colosseum, it was harder to find users who weren’t level 100.
And over 95% of them were users who had completed Rare grade job advancements.
‘It’s difficult to advance to Epic in the 2nd Job Advancement.’
New World is a game where leveling up is extremely difficult.
Even if things go smoothly up to the 2nd Job Advancement, leveling after level 100 is hellishly difficult.
If he failed now, he’d have to aim for Epic grade during the 3rd Job Advancement, which would mean he could only attempt Unique in the 4th advancement.
Considering that amount of time, he couldn’t give up on Epic grade here.
He even spotted 1-2 Epic grade users.
They were definitely aiming for 1st place like Jung Hoon.
“….”
Unlike the riffraff from the previous colosseum, they were analyzing their opponents first.
Knowing that making it this far was never easy, they couldn’t afford to let their guard down.
And when their eyes turned toward Jung Hoon, they paused for a moment and didn’t move.
Jung Hoon, meeting their gazes, slightly raised the corners of his mouth.
‘I can clearly see what they’re thinking.’
Lower Martial Artist 1st.
Not only a Martial Artist, but a Common grade made it this far?
That’s probably what they were thinking.
Of course, unless they were idiots, they wouldn’t let their guard down just because he was a Martial Artist.
[The final round of the Final Colosseum begins.]
[The 200 users placed in the colosseum will be moved to ‘Lv.150 Eerie Dark Street’.]
[There, you must survive while performing various tasks.]
[The round continues until only 1 person remains, and users cannot kill each other.]
In other words, survive as long as possible while performing tasks.
“Tch.”
Several users clicked their tongues.
They must have been planning to massacre users right from the start to end things quickly.
‘Lv.150 Eerie Dark Street….’
Jung Hoon knew that street.
Because he had entered that Eerie Dark Street in the past when he was in the mid-to-late 100s level range.
That’s why he could once again realize how vicious the Development Team that hosted this event was.
[The final round begins.]
With that message, the bodies of 200 users including Jung Hoon glowed and disappeared.
* * *
[Lv.150 Eerie Dark Street]
Eerie Dark Street is a dungeon that hasn’t been released to the public yet at this point.
Therefore, there was virtually no information about this dungeon.
The users who had made it to the Final Colosseum couldn’t hide their bewildered emotions at the dungeon’s scenery.
“What? I can’t see anything?”
Darkness had descended, making it impossible to see anything with the naked eye.
“Damn, even using Light is useless.”
The Mage tried to deploy magic to illuminate the surroundings, but the magic didn’t work at all.
It couldn’t be helped.
‘Because we’ve been blinded.’
Jung Hoon had been just as flustered when he first entered Eerie Dark Street.
[Status Abnormality: Vision Blocked]
If not for this status abnormality, they could check the dungeon’s condition with their naked eyes, but it was impossible due to the dungeon’s inherent debuff.
As the ancestors used to say, if the body is worth a thousand nyang, the eyes are worth nine hundred nyang.
The eyes were that precious, yet they were blocked by a debuff, making it incredibly frustrating.
“Could this be a debuff? If so, with Divine Power….”
Users who had given up mana to walk the path of priests used Divine Power to try to remove the debuff.
“Ha, damn it. It’s not working….”
Of course, it was all in vain.
‘This is a Lv.150 space.’
So unless their Divine Power was at least 200 or higher, they couldn’t remove the debuff.
Jung Hoon channeled his Divine Power.
[You have escaped from the status ailment.]
As the debuff was lifted, the surrounding space came clearly into view.
A landscape that couldn’t be seen before regression.
The Eerie Dark Street, which he could barely escape by relying on senses other than sight, could finally be seen with the naked eye.
‘So this is what it looks like.’
The Eerie Dark Street was literally an urban street.
The background wasn’t even medieval European style like the New World village, but a downtown district commonly seen in South Korea.
In that downtown district, there were currently 8 users positioned, including Jung Hoon.
‘Looks like we were separated.’
Anyway, users couldn’t fight each other.
It wasn’t possible in the first place.
Monsters were slowly approaching from this direction.
[Lv.150 Dark Knight]
From knights dyed black
[Lv.150 Dark Mage]
To mages dyed black and so on
They were shadows shaped like humans.
[The first task begins.]
Even while afflicted with status ailments, New World’s tasks could still be confirmed.
“Task?”
“Fuck, they want us to do tasks in this state?”
Users who hadn’t yet escaped from the status ailment cried out in despair.
[Defeat 1 Dark Soldier.]
The first task was to defeat one Dark Soldier.
After confirming the task, Jung Hoon deployed his Divine Movement.
“A human?!”
As Jung Hoon moved, confusion spread across the faces of the approaching monsters.
They hastily raised their spears and shields, but Jung Hoon was half a beat faster as he unleashed his Myeongwang Fist Technique.
“Keuheuk!”
When he struck the throat of the closest one with his fist technique, it screamed and fell backward.
Jung Hoon immediately struck its neck once more to cut off its breath.
[You have completed the first task.]
[Proceed to the second task.]
“What, what’s that!”
“What’s going on?!”
Users whose vision was blocked and couldn’t understand the situation quickly heightened all their senses as combat unfolded.
As expected of users who survived to the Final Colosseum, they were quick to grasp situations.
‘They’ll survive on their own.’
The Colosseum was thoroughly individual combat.
Jung Hoon checked the next task.
[Find NPC Isaac.]
The next task was to find an NPC.
An NPC hiding somewhere in this wide street.
It was also an NPC he had encountered before regression when he was desperate to survive.
If not for that NPC’s help, he wouldn’t have been able to safely escape the Eerie Dark Street.
‘He’s probably there.’
Jung Hoon hurriedly left that place.
* * *
“Many strangers have come.”
Isaac, who had been hiding between buildings watching the situation while avoiding the Dark Soldiers, secretly slipped out and hid inside a shop.
It was a dirty shop that wasn’t currently operating and had no maintenance at all.
“Keuak!”
Through the window, he could see a stranger being pierced by an arrow and dying in real time.
“Tsk, this isn’t a place to enter carelessly.”
This dungeon had an unknown power residing in it, causing the absurd phenomenon of vision being blocked if one entered rashly.
Even Isaac, who first entered, had struggled for several years to escape from this status ailment.
Currently, the status ailment had faded considerably to the point where he could distinguish things with the naked eye to some degree.
“Keuak!”
“Keoheuk!”
As time passed, the screams of strangers increased one by one.
Isaac sat on a dust-covered chair and spent his time.
How much time had passed?
Creak.
The shop door opened and a stranger entered.
His appearance was far too neat for someone who had passed through the streets.
“….”
But what was this?
He had the illusion that he had just made eye contact with that stranger.
“Found you.”
As if it wasn’t an illusion, the stranger approached him and grinned.
* * *
[You have completed the second task.]
[Proceed to the final task.]
Smooth progress.
Judging by Isaac’s reaction, it seemed he was the first to clear the second task as well.
===
[NPC Information]
-Nickname: Isaac
-Level: 160
-Class: Saber (2nd Tier)
===
An Epic grade Saber.
An NPC with enough combat power to survive in the Eerie Dark Street.
‘Same as before, nothing has changed.’
Before his regression, Isaac had revealed his level and class as 160, Saber.
It seemed that was how he was programmed, so it hadn’t changed.
“Can you see me?”
Isaac asked, unable to hide his bewildered emotions.
“I’m standing here like this because I can see you, aren’t I?”
“…That’s true.”
[Please help Isaac escape from this street.]
[To escape, you must guide Isaac to the Hidden Portal.]
Jung Hoon’s eyes widened at the third task.
‘Help Isaac escape from here?’
Isaac was an NPC assigned to this Eerie Dark Street.
That’s why years later, when Jung Hoon entered New World and got trapped in the Eerie Dark Street, he was able to meet him.
To think that helping Isaac escape from here was the third task.
‘Ah, so that’s how it is.’
Isaac was originally assigned to the Eerie Dark Street for the task.
But since no one could help Isaac escape, he became trapped there.
‘Then there’s no time.’
This round would forcibly end when only one survivor remained.
So he needed to move quickly.
“Don’t you want to leave this street?”
At Jung Hoon’s question, Isaac nodded vigorously.
“If it’s possible!”
He had tried every method to escape the street, but failed spectacularly.
Currently, he was resigned to accepting reality and living with it.
“Then let’s go.”
“Where to?”
“There’s a Portal nearby, right? Let’s go there.”
Jung Hoon knew the location of the hidden Portal.
“What… That Portal doesn’t work.”
And Isaac also knew its location.
It just wouldn’t activate because the conditions weren’t met.
“There’s no time. Won’t you come?”
It was an urgent situation.
Very few Users had survived to reach this point.
The round would end soon if this continued.
Even if it ended like this, Jung Hoon would take first place, but he didn’t want to leave Isaac, who had helped him, trapped in this Eerie Dark Street.
Perhaps sensing his goodwill, Isaac nodded with a determined expression.
“…Alright. Let’s go right away.”
He had wanted to grasp at straws, but there hadn’t even been any straws to grasp in the past.
Now a small hope had appeared.
There was no reason not to seize it.
He headed toward the hidden Portal with Jung Hoon.
The Portal existed beneath a stream connected to a sewer 5km away from the shop.
“So it’s here.”
Jung Hoon looked around the stream and nodded.
Before his regression, he had fallen into a status abnormality where he couldn’t see anything, and the stench of the gutter hit him so hard that he dry heaved and struggled.
Being a novice at the time, just having his vision blocked threw him into extreme confusion and made him flail about.
“…Phew, do you think it’ll work?”
Isaac asked in a trembling voice.
“We’ll know once we go.”
The round wasn’t over yet.
Jung Hoon entered the sewer with Isaac.
When they went deep into the sewer, they could see a Portal rippling before them.
“Huh?”
Isaac’s eyes widened at the Portal’s condition.
When he had discovered it, the Portal wasn’t working at all, but now it was functioning perfectly.
And in front of it, some monster was guarding the Portal.
[Lv.170 Guardian of Darkness]
A Guardian of Darkness at Lv.170 no less.
The situation was that it was a full 10 levels higher than Isaac who was Lv.160.
And it boasted a gap of 69 levels with Jung Hoon.
It seemed they had no choice but to hunt that monster to cross the Portal.
[The Final Round doesn’t have much time left.]
[Current survivors: 4]
Four survivors.
If 3 more were eliminated, the round would forcibly end.
They had to finish within that time.
“I’ll face it, so please provide cover!”
Isaac drew his sword.
[The Guardian of Darkness uses ‘Status Abnormality: Enhanced Vision Blocking’.]
Then the Guardian of Darkness manifested its ability.
At the same time, the status abnormality that had been affecting Isaac was further enhanced, and even Jung Hoon’s vision, which had been fine, was blocked.
Isaac groaned at the sudden darkness.
“You cannot pass here!”
The Guardian of Darkness raised its dual swords and charged at Isaac.
A monster charging at an NPC meant to perform the Quest in cooperation with the NPC.
“Ridiculous!”
Isaac swung his sword to deflect the Guardian’s dual swords.
Having his vision blocked was a major flaw, but Isaac had fully absorbed the years he spent on the streets and his instincts as a knight.
Compensating for the flaw was nothing to him.
“You must remain here. Forever!”
The Guardian of Darkness muttered that and swung its dual swords frantically.
A dark red aura settled on the dual swords.
Sword Aura that could only be manifested after completing the 2nd Job Advancement.
A mere monster had manifested it.
“Shut up!”
Isaac also deployed his aura and faced the Guardian of Darkness.
Clang! Clang!
Even through the continued exchanges, Isaac wasn’t easily pushed back.
“Pathetic fool!”
[The Guardian of Darkness uses ‘Status Abnormality: Morale Reduction’.]
[Isaac’s stats decrease overall.]
Isaac’s level, which had been Lv.160, instantly dropped to Lv.100.
As his strength decreased significantly, he began to be pushed back in the power struggle against the Guardian.
“Kugh!”
Isaac groaned and staggered backward.
It was a body that had been constantly trained even while wandering the streets.
However, he had no choice but to kneel before the tremendous difference of 70 levels.
Clang!
Unable to withstand the heavy attack any longer, Isaac collapsed.
His knees buckled and blood flowed from his nose and mouth.
He had suffered internal injuries from the impact.
‘Am I going to die like this…?’
He hadn’t trained so hard just to die here!
Contrary to his feelings, his body wouldn’t move.
That’s when it happened.
“Ho, another worm-like bastard dares to block me?”
Jung Hoon intervened in the middle.
“Dan, dangerous! Run away right now!”
Isaac shouted.
The stranger before his eyes was certainly strong, but weaker than himself.
There was no way he could face the Guardian.
“It’s fine. I have a method.”
In a situation where there was no time, he couldn’t just stand by and watch the Guardian of Darkness run rampant.
So it was time to use a different method.
‘Brainwashing.’
The Return of the Greatest All Master (Serial)
Author │ Yeon I Yo
Publisher │ Kim Ju Hyeong
Published by │ J Plus Media Co., Ltd.
Marketing │ Han Jae Hyeok
Address │ 288 Digital-ro, Guro-gu, Seoul, Room 204 (Guro-dong, Daeryung Post Tower 1st)
Email │ [email protected]
Website │ www.jayplemedia.com
ⓒYeon I Yo 2024
※This work is published by J Plus Media Co., Ltd. under contract with the copyright holder, and no part of the content may be used in any form or by any means without permission from our company and the author.
Violation of this may result in criminal and civil legal liability.
—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
