Chapter 228
“Helena?”
“Hahaha! As I said, you just can’t do without me!”
Helena appeared, breaking through Severance.
No matter how skilled Seonghyun was,
He couldn’t help but be surprised to see Helena.
He’d thought he had lost the magic sword,
But just in time, she arrived and grabbed it!
“Thank you!”
Seonghyun said with a somewhat excited voice.
Helena cleared her throat at Seonghyun’s sudden gratitude.
She had only helped Seonghyun as a vassal and senior.
Hearing such thanks made her a little shy, so she turned her head and said,
“I-it’s obviously something I have to do!”
Seonghyun chuckled softly at her words.
At the same time, Helena quickly began using skills on the magic sword.
Binding it with the abyss and simultaneously wrapping another layer with heavenly power, infusing it into the magic sword.
Suddenly, a message appeared to Seonghyun.
[Your vassal, 『Monarch of Heaven and Abyss, Helena』 has sealed the magic sword, 『Nemesis』.]
[『Magic Sword - Nemesis (Sealed)』 cannot resist.]
A message confirming Helena had sealed the magic sword.
Then, a series of long messages suddenly appeared.
[Hidden Unique Raid Boss, 『Owner of the Magic Sword Ragna Ekrion』 has been defeated.]
[Hidden Quest, 『Ragna Ekrion』 cleared.]
[Partial clear rewards granted.]
[Massive experience gained!]
[Level Up!]×6
[Reached Level 185.]
[Reached level multiple of ten, Almighty-rank item, 『Overlord's Tome』 activated.]
[Reached level multiple of ten, Almighty-rank item, 『Tome of Blood』 activated.]
[Reached Level 180, new skill of 『Overlord』 unlocked.]
[Almighty-rank skill, 『Malice Thunder』 acquired.]
[Additional rewards can be claimed from Leon Banzar.]
[Contribution exists for only one person.]
[Counted as a single raid.]
[Defeated single-handedly.]
[Rewards enhanced.]
[First-time defeat.]
[Rewards enhanced.]
[Since it was a single raid, all rewards are given to user 『Seonghyun』.]
[As a defeat reward, Almighty-rank item, 『Magic Sword - Nemesis (Sealed)』 acquired.]
[First to defeat hidden unique raid boss 『Owner of the Magic Sword Ragna Ekrion』.]
[Title, 『Magic Sword Slayer』 acquired.]
[Keywords 『Magic Sword』 and 『Weapon Infused with Magic』 acquired.]
The length of the messages showed just how much a hidden unique raid boss mattered.
The rewards gained were experience points, the magic sword, plus the title and keywords as expected.
Seonghyun was relieved he hadn’t lost the magic sword if it had tried to escape.
Thanks to Helena, he obtained it, truly a blessing.
As he thought this, he inspected what he had acquired.
First, he decided to skip over the keywords.
‘Seeing them now won’t tell me much anyway.’
The first thing that caught his eye was the magic sword Helena had obtained.
What exactly was this?
『Magic Sword - Nemesis (Sealed)』
→ Almighty-rank
→ A magic sword infused with mana, harboring a wicked spirit.
→ Nemesis, a magic sword maddened by revenge, can only be strengthened by human blood, and its stats and powers increase when enhanced.
→ Currently sealed.
→ Without the skills, title, or ability to wield this magic sword, one would be consumed by it.
→ It might guide to other mana-infused weapons.
Since it was sealed, detailed options couldn’t be seen.
But it was clearly powerful.
Being an Almighty-rank sword, that was no surprise.
‘It can only be strengthened by human blood.’
That was unsettling.
It was similar to the ‘Bloodthirsty Karmin,’ Carmine’s spear from before, but the phrase about being infused with mana was notably different.
And it mentioned a wicked spirit.
Seonghyun decided to put it in his inventory for now.
He had no one among his vassals to give it to use.
Coincidentally, Helena seemed to think similarly and said,
“You made a good choice. That one’s pretty vicious.”
“Vicious?”
He thought magic swords were all vicious.
“Yeah. Among mana-infused ones, there are some that are good. It’s just that some aren’t wicked spirits but rather picky, and those sometimes corrupt their owners.”
“...?”
Wasn’t corrupting the owner inherently evil?
He thought this for a moment.
But since Helena said so, he accepted it.
Deciding to let it go for now,
Seonghyun then checked the next title.
『Magic Sword Slayer』
→ Unique-rank
→ A title granted to the first user to defeat the owner of a magic sword.
→ Immune to mental domination by magic swords.
→ When facing mana-infused weapons, all skill power increases by 10%.
‘Oh.’
This seemed quite useful.
Though unique-rank, it was practically legendary in performance.
From this, he realized,
‘There are unique-rank magic swords too.’
Nemesis, which Seonghyun had obtained, was evidently a higher-tier magic sword than he’d thought.
Seonghyun thought he might have to use it reluctantly later on.
But since it could only be strengthened by human blood,
He felt there was no real need to use it.
He wouldn’t kill NPCs just to grow stronger.
Besides, he was already strong.
So he moved on from the titles.
Only the skills gained by leveling up remained.
‘Malice Thunder.’
After using the Spear of Annihilation, it seemed he had learned a skill related to lightning.
He had hoped for some lightning-type skill anyway.
Wondering what kind of skill it was,
Seonghyun looked over it with some expectation.
『Malice Thunder』
→ Almighty-rank
→ [Lv 1] [Growth Type]
[Instant Effect] [Active]
[Cooldown: 10 minutes]
A lightning bolt that corrupted even the heavens, a cursed thunderbolt no god dares to block falls.
→ Overlord-exclusive skill.
→ Summons cursed and dark property lightning to strike the target.
→ On hit, blocks all healing effects and causes paralysis for 3 seconds by irresistible lightning.
Integrated into Lord of Darkness.
‘Oh?’
Lightning imbued with curse and darkness.
Thanks to the integration with Lord of Darkness, its power was significantly enhanced.
That was satisfactory enough.
Having checked everything,
Only one task remained: finding Leon.
The long, long quest finally ended.
After Seonghyun’s victory over Ragna Ekrion,
The NPC Management Team 2 who had been watching erupted in chaos.
“Whoa!?! Crazy!!!”
“He actually beat it!?!?”
“No vassals either!?!?”
“And he hadn’t even used all his other skills yet!!!”
Everyone had thought he would fail.
So it was understandable.
Honestly, it seemed like he was losing.
But to turn it around with the terror of loss like that…
Had he caught the exact weak point?
Some staff began analyzing what they had seen.
“Not all mana-infused weapons would break like that; the opponent was good.”
“It might not work on other owners of mana-infused weapons.”
“But others don’t have Severance. They’d fight with their vassals, right?”
“Definitely...”
They were chatting like that as they excitedly discussed.
Amidst all the chatter, one person was lost in deep thought.
And he saw Helena step in right after Severance activated, attempting to break it.
Of course, she didn’t do it alone.
She gathered the power of all the other vassals, concentrated it, warped the dimension, and broke Severance to escape the Netherworld.
But it wasn’t something that could be done just by pooling power.
‘Manipulating dimension...’
An impossible feat without clear spatial manipulation ability.
That made Lee Jaekyung scratch his cheek.
Unless it was the real Helena, this Helena was clearly just a homunculus, a mere outer form.
Not the original Helena who toyed with dimensions like playthings.
And she achieved the same feat as Helena?
‘What is going on?’
Perplexed, he decided he had to report this.
This wasn’t something only apparent on the surface.
There was definitely something deeper.
Perhaps,
‘It might be connected to the ’unknown power‘ Seonghyun possesses.’
That was Lee Jaekyung’s conclusion as he began writing the report.
He then thought of Seonghyun.
‘Now that he has the magic sword, maybe he’ll gain connections to other mana-infused weapons nearby.’
He’d certainly acquire keywords.
Lee Jaekyung smiled as if he found Seonghyun truly fascinating.
Other managed users, like ranker users or Almighty-rank class users were not under his management.
But somehow, he felt Seonghyun was on a different level altogether.
‘Well, the chairman will handle it.’
Thinking so, Lee Jaekyung busied himself writing the report.
3.
Leon Banzar.
Seonghyun returned to the wounded knight with Ragna Ekrion’s severed arm.
“......”
Leon Banzar stared at the arm for a long time, lost in thought, then turned his head towards Seonghyun.
Then, kneeling on one knee, Leon spoke to Seonghyun.
“Thank you truly for avenging me.”
There was a sincerity pressed into those words, and Seonghyun felt a faint sense of fulfillment.
Leon then muttered to himself.
“To think he wielded a magic sword... To think he’d be like that one...”
That one?
Suddenly?
Seeing Leon’s reaction, Seonghyun’s eyes gleamed.
Could it be?
“Who do you mean by that?”
“...You wouldn’t know. In our Sysbalt, there was someone like Ragna Ekrion who wielded mana-infused weapons. Not as sinister as Ragna Ekrion, though.”
“Oh?”
Hearing that,
[You have obtained the keyword for 『Another Mana-Infused Weapon』.]
Maybe this connects to something he could find?
The magic sword Nemesis he got, mentioned it might guide to other mana-infused weapons.
Seonghyun smiled recalling that.
Anyway, Leon handed Seonghyun something he’d been holding.
“I don’t know if this will be useful to you, but it’s the best I can give.”
[Leon Banzar gives you Legendary-rank skillbook 『Aura Blade』 as a quest reward.]
Although it was a skill Seonghyun could not learn,
It was a Legendary-rank skillbook.
Using the Tome of Despair, black magic skills could be obtained at Legendary rank.
Seonghyun thought,
“Isn’t this the sixth skill obtainable from the Overlord’s Tome? And about three from the Tome of Blood.”
Muttering to himself, he said,
“Now’s a good time to tidy up my skills.”