The Return of the Legendary All-Master – 157



Episode 157

How long has it been since I last got hit like this?

I missed my youth so much.

If I were even a little younger I would not have suffered pitifully but on the contrary I would have turned that guy into a deadbeat.

“Ha… You really hit me so ignorantly.”

“If you don’t do this they won’t give it to you.”

“That’s true but… Oh my… It’s Saksin…”

“I will treat you.”

[Use advanced healing.]

Jeong Hoon used Advanced Healing on the old man and treated him.

Then the old man’s eyes widened.

“what? “Do you know how to use healing?”

“yes.”

“…I guess you didn’t use healing every time I hit you?”

“Why not?”

Jeonghoon grinned.

When using healing on an opponent the light of divine power bursts out but when using it on oneself the divine power is contained within the body and is not expressed externally.

So unless he showed it like this it wasn’t obvious that he was using healing.

“You foul! “You damn bastard!”

It’s such an unfair fight.

How can you win if you recover every time you hit?

Jeonghoon looked at him with a puzzled expression.

“Is it right for you to use the sword but restrict me from using it?”

“I am a warrior.”

“I am also a martial artist and a warrior.”

“That’s ridiculous! “You are not a warrior you are a martial artist!”

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“yes? “What happens to the swordsmanship I used?”

“…This guy?”

Goyan guy.

When an adult tells you that there is no blood on your head you just talk back!

“Anyway a win is a win.”

“Winning through fouls is not winning!”

“Do you want to keep being so petty? Or should you try it again? “Let’s fight together with bare hands fair and square.”

The 5 stars of the Netherworld Realm Act were still the same.

If things continue like this until 6 stars 7 stars and beyond the victory will be Jeong Hoon’s.

The old man shook his head as if he had noticed that Jeong Hoon’s martial arts skills were unusual.

“It’s done. “It’s also funny to do something sincere to a child.”

“Oh is that so?”

“Hmm anyway I took a shortcut in the last test so this battle is a draw.”

“A draw?”

“okay. I will give you the relic but I am by no means defeated. Do you understand?”

To put it simply it meant protecting one’s pride.

Jeonghoon nodded his head willingly.

“yes. “If you hand over the relics we’ll call it a draw.”

What you need is a relic.

It wasn’t pride.

“good night!”

As if Jeong-Hoon’s answer was satisfactory an exclamation point blinked above the old man’s head.

[You have completed the quest.]

As he completed the quest he took out a necklace from his pocket.

‘If you think about it you haven’t used the power of the artifact at all.’

Even though the old man had a necklace he did not use it.

Although he was showing off his pride he had originally planned to hand over the relic.

That may be why he meekly cried out for surrender even though he could have struggled a little longer.

“Is that it?”

“okay. “It’s the thing I cherished the most.”

The old man handed the necklace to Jeong Hoon.

A relic that would have originally been destined for James Marcus.

This time Jeonghoon took it.

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[Immortal Bond: Oath of Battle]

– Type: Artifact

– Grade: Legendary

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– Special ability (1): Configurable

Special ability (2): Configurable

Number of reinforcements remaining: 10

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Immortal Bond: Oath of Battle.

A relic that boasted such outstanding performance that James Marcus always wore it.

The advantage of this artifact is that you can set the special abilities of the artifact yourself but it could be said to be a fraudulent artifact in that you can reset the options whenever you want.

“I will write it gratefully.”

“I see. Oh by the way how are you going to strengthen it?”

The old man grinned.

The number of times a Legendary grade relic can be strengthened is 10 times.

In order to strengthen a relic you must use the relic as a material but if it is a legendary grade you must use a relic of the same grade as a material to have a high strengthening success rate.

If you use a low-grade relic you must proceed once and use 10 unique-grade relics as materials to increase the success rate to nearly 50%.

‘If you fail George is a loser.’

If you fail not only will the relic’s materials be lost but the remaining number of enhancements will also be deducted by 1.

Considering the number that increases when you succeed once you can’t waste it even once.

“why? “Do you want to give me some ingredients?”

“of course! However if you pass the test I present I will give you a unique grade artifact.”

Just one unique grade artifact.

I didn’t want to invest the time to get one.

“it’s okay.”

“uh…? “Are you saying you’re going to give up a unique grade relic now?”

I was thinking about what kind of test I could put on to get this guy to eat shit but when Jeong-hoon refused the old man’s face looked blank for a moment.

“yes. Even if it’s not a relic there are ways to strengthen it.”

“How to strengthen? “Does such a thing exist?”

“yes.”

There are ways to strengthen artifacts.

But it just costs too much.

“This is… I was trying to roll it out a little more.”

The old man’s face was full of regret.

The exclamation point blinked above his head again.

‘hmm? Would you have received compensation?’

Are there any new rewards?

[Additional compensation will be paid.]

[You have acquired an old artifact (Legendary).]

Old relic?

It’s even rated Legendary.

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[Old Relic]

– Type: Artifact

– Grade: Legendary

– Special ability (1):

Special Ability (2):

It is an artifact that has lost its abilities. I think it can be used as an ingredient.

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Are you giving away material artifacts for free?

I was dumbfounded by the sudden additional compensation.

Then the old man chuckled.

“I don’t think you’ll come back so I’ll give it to you as a gift.”

“…Why did you say you were giving me a unique one when I had a legendary one?”

“Tsk tsk you only know one thing and don’t know the other. “I said I would give you a unique but wouldn’t it feel better if I gave you a legendary?”

I laughed out loud at the sight of the sophistry being laid out as if it were the truth.

Still I feel good because I got it for free.

I could save some gold.

Jeong-Hoon asked wondering if anything.

“Is there one more?”

“what?”

“No I thought it would feel better if I gave you one and then two.”

“…That’s also true. But there is no problem.”

“okay. “I’ll just go now.”

“Heartless bastard. “Go away quickly.”

The old man snapped his fingers.

Then a portal was created in front of Jeong Hoon.

It was a portal that allowed you to go outside the pottery.

“Thank you I will use it well.”

Jeonghoon greeted politely and went back through the portal.

The old man who was left alone burst into laughter remembering his bold attitude.

“Hahaha he’s a really interesting guy.”

How long has it been since I laughed like this?

He was so crazy about the sword that he neglected his family and only after losing them in the war did he realize how futile this was.

Left alone he was on the verge of going crazy and was barely able to maintain his sanity by turning his back on the world coming alone to this rocky mountain called the Heart of the Warrior and abandoning everything.

But he couldn’t throw away one thing.

It is ‘Immortal Bond: Oath of Battle’.

A precious necklace given to him by his father who was a knight king when he was young.

The necklace was the work of Horus who was called ‘the Immortal’.

Even though I gave up everything name family and honor I couldn’t throw away the necklace.

So he came up with a trick.

If you can’t throw it away shouldn’t you hand it over to someone worthy?

Thinking like that I connected my soul to ceramics and endured it again and again for over 300 years.

‘It’s a good thing I waited.’

He finished his work by handing over the artifacts.

Now it’s time to go back.

The old man quietly closed his eyes.

And soon after his body suddenly disappeared.

* * *

Idenhark.

Finding Yorden was not difficult.

He was said to be the interpreter who found the Evolution Stone and was a famous person in Idenhark.

“Is this Jorden?”

When James Marcus spoke to Yorden the surrounding users were shocked.

“omg?!”

“You’re James Marcus right?”

“What’s going on here?”

The news that a world-famous top star had appeared in Idenhark quickly spread through Wallcom.

“hmm? “Why did I come here?”

He tilted his head as he adjusted his old monocle.

“I want you to interpret this.”

James Marcus gave a hint.

Although he came after receiving a recommendation from Raoul he could not hide his doubts.

You’re only a level 35 interpreter?

It was natural for me to be a super preserver Idenhark but I couldn’t help but have doubts about whether such a low-level NPC would be able to interpret the hint.

“Ah the heart of a warrior? “I think I know where this place is.”

“You understand?!”

James Marcus’ eyes widened.

“okay. “No one uses this expression these days so you might not know.”

Yorden muttered softly and nodded his head.

James Marcus asked in an urgent voice.

“Where on earth is that place?!”

“Do you know that it is a city of warriors? “I think you would know if you were at that level.”

“I know.”

It’s impossible not to know.

Because when James Marcus was level 201 he headed to the city of warriors.

“Then go find the rocky mountain there. “They say the rock resembles a heart so it was called the warrior’s heart.”

Yorden took out the documents he had kept and began to search for something.

And he soon found a document and showed it to James Marcus.

[What is the heart of a warrior?]

It was a document containing information about the rocky mountain in the warrior city.

The document consisted of unintelligible hieroglyphs but New World’s correction automatically converted it into James Marcus’s native language and made it readable.

“…It was a rocky mountain.”

According to the document the location pointed to by the hint was the city of warriors a rocky mountain.

“I don’t know why you’re looking there but is this enough of an answer?”

“yes. thank you.”

James Marcus hurried to the city of warriors.

* * *

That time.

Jeong Hoon left the rocky mountain and visited the currency exchange office.

It was a place that could only be visited by entering the village at level 201 or higher and could be said to have been arranged by New World.

‘You can purchase achievement points with gold here.’

This was not a place to cash out gold but a place to convert it into something called a ‘VIP coin’.

1 gold per VIP coin.

Looking at the selling price of the item it was by no means low.

Nevertheless the number of users using currency exchange offices was greater than expected.

The reason is that it was possible to craft artifacts with VIP coins even without doing quests.

[Yeah~ I don’t do artifacts.]

-It’s okay if you solve it with money. All 10 times can be solved with money.

└Are you rich? lol

└Wow hahaha You’re investing over 100 million won when you could just invest some time?

└Are you crazy? Haha I don’t know if you’re using a coin shop because 1 or 2 aren’t enough but number 10 is too much….

Artifact crafting is the process of making the relics you want to use into full steel.

While some people strengthen through quests there are also those who accelerate the pace by investing billions of dollars in cash.

However the amount needed to make that full steel is about 100 million won based on rare.

You need to invest 300 million for Epic and about 1 billion for Unique to aim for full strength.

Rare relics are mostly used as materials so the amount needed to raise specs using most epic to unique items is 3 to 1 billion.

Since relics like this cost too much money most people thought that it would be better to receive relics of the same level through quests and proceed with strengthening them.

‘I can’t do that because I’m a legend.’

Except for the old man there are no NPCs that give legendary artifacts as materials.

So you need to make a full river using coins.

“I’m glad I received 1 million gold.”

1 million gold received from winning a bet with Sa Jae-hyuk.

Jeong Hoon exchanged 450000 gold for 450000 VIP coins.

Then he opened a coin shop next to the currency exchange office.

There were several categories in the coin shop but Jeonghoon passed them all and opened the relic.

[relics]

-Old Relic (Rare): 1000 VIP Coins

-Old Relic (Epic): 3000 VIP Coins

-Old Relic (Unique): 10000 VIP Coins

-Old Relic (Legendary): 50000 VIP Coins

The amount in each case is hefty.

In particular Legendary relics cost 50000 each.

It needs to be strengthened a total of 10 times which means that a whopping 5 billion won must be invested.

Of course I was able to save 500 million won by getting one from an old man.

‘Considering the capabilities of the legendary artifact it is not that expensive.’

Jeong Hoon purchased 9 of those relics.