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Return of The Bachelor

Ongoing | So yoo - hyun,Oesol | 2019 released
2021-11-18 11:53 marked

Sword Sheath's Child

Ongoing | Hyung min kim,Kyung-il yang | 2019 released
2021-11-26 07:34 marked

Shinigami to Gin no Kishi

Complete | Irono | 2000 released
2021-12-16 09:45 marked

Really well written, very interesting story. Nicely illustrated too. Loved all the different characters. Well balanced.

The Player That Can't Level Up

Ongoing | 가빈지, Aengmusae, PARK Jungjae, Studio Khit | 2000 released
2022-02-03 06:27 marked

Ch 96 as of 23/01/23 - also on Tapas ** End of season 1, Ch 69. - ML is Gigyu Kim. - ML’s family consists of his mother Soojin Lee who has a serious illness and his younger sister Yoojung / Yoojeong Kim. - ML was invited to be a player when he was 18yo. - KPA = Korean Players Association - ML was identified as having a unique ability that was yet to manifest. He’s been working as a guide at the KPA but 5yrs later he still can’t level up past L1. His nickname is “the dysfunctional leveling player”. - 18yrs ago (when ML was born), the Tower appeared. - Gates / portals also appeared, with monsters streaming out. - A small % of humans had awakened powers and became known as players. The world became a player economy where everything revolves around players. - Seokwoo Yoo is a high ranker with a unique ability and is the same age as ML. He volunteered to guide ML when he first entered the KPA. He shared his plans to create his own guild and hoped ML would join him someday. He said levels don’t matter, especially for unique ability users. - Seokwoo has since become the leader and guild master of the Kine / Kayn guild, 1 of the top 10 guilds in South Korea. He treats guild members like his family. - Seokwoo recommends ML to guide his cousin. - 23yo ML takes care of the 4-member party (excluding himself) through the first few floors of the Tower with his expert knowledge. - At the 4th floor, ML senses danger and orders his party to quickly retreat. A guardian (boss monster) makes an unexpected appearance. ML leads his party to safety in a cave as they have injured members. ML goes out to shoot a flare to signal for help. He is attacked by the guardian and has no choice but to escape through the door to the 5th floor. - The test for the 5th floor is surprisingly easy for ML. - His ability is clarified and he could “link with ego.” - His job is “ego’s partner” and his skill is “synchronise”: he can be integrated with a linked ego and he can use an ego’s abilities. - He names his first ego “Lou”. - ML is found unconscious by the door to the 5th floor. - In hospital he is told that his party are all safe. - The guardian was cornered by other players but it got away. - Once out of hospital, ML goes back into the Tower. - He summons Lou for the 1st time by calling it’s name. - He is stripped of almost everything as ingredients are gathered for Lou’s form to materialise. Lou takes the form of a black sword. - After synchronising with Lou who is L7, ML’s nickname changes to “tutorial’s slaughterer.” Lou is the one that gets the experience points to level up and increase stats. Lou absorbs stats through blood so it’s stats are higher than it’s level. - One-time gates: they close once cleared. Higher risk. - Sustained gates: remain open so you may hunt repeatedly. - ML is warned that anomalies with the gates have appeared recently and to avoid entering gates for now. - Despite the warning, ML decides to join a gate-hunting party for the 1st time. The party of 5 enters a F-rank sustained gate. - ML’s performance is impressive. He even kills the boss monster, a ghoul with one strike. Lou acquires the skill “cannibalise”: recover health by devouring corpses. - Songsoo Ha, the party leader. - Harim, Songsoo’s bodyguard. - ML is wary of Songsoo and Harim as they seem to be strong and powerful. ML stops an attempt to kill Songsoo by another member, who was in league with the 5th member. - ML takes the “dagger of paralysis” that was dropped as his reward for saving Songsoo. ML leaves Harim and Songsoo to deal with the 2 party traitors. - After exploring the area, ML returns to the boss room and sees light shining through the cracks in a wall. Lou senses another ego. ML smashes through the wall to find a hidden room. - There’s a white sword in stone. ML draws the sword and links with it’s ego, naming it “Elle” (L8). - Suddenly everything starts collapsing and a giant eye appears. - ML runs to the boss monster’s corpse to enter the reward room. - ML collects 30 violet crystals and a charm of protection pendant that will help his mother. - Crystals: the substance that becomes the material or fuel for various magic tools. Their value changes based on the amount of mana they contain, which also determines their colour. - Long after ML left that sustained gate, it was demolished. - Mass gate formations also occurred at the same time. - ML progresses through the floors of the Tower. - ML sold the dagger of paralysis at auction for $100k. - On the way home, a gate appears. ML is the first to report the new gate to the KPA so he gets priority to enter the gate first. It’s confirmed as a F-rank gate. - ML looks for some armour before he enters the gate. - ML meets a young boy touting the skills of his grandpa. - ML is taken to the store of Jichul Hwang, a blacksmith. - All of the items in Jichul’s store have nameless egos. - ML links with some armour that he names “Brunheart”. - The armour has the ability to reflect damage. - Taeshik Oh, Dept Head, Gate Supervision Dept. - Taeshik was Operations Manager in the Guide Dept and ML’s former boss at the KPA. Taeshik is also a former high ranker whose nickname was “Behemoth”. - Before entering the gate, Taeshik insists on sparring with ML. - In a training room below the KPA, ML manages to scratch Taeshik’s fist when he punched the armour. With this Taeshik is satisfied and he lets ML proceed. - Entering the gate, ML is attacked by a large pack of wolves. He defeats them easily and collects many crystals. ML drinks buff potions that temporarily increase all of his stats by 5+. He faces the boss monster and gate keeper, a huge wolf called Changkyung. - It’s a close match but ML wins in the end and receives a large blue crystal. Lou acquires the skill “Strong Will”: stamina recovery. - With the cannibalism skill, Lou absorbs Changkyung‘s body which disappears. ML has acquired Changkyung’s ego. - ML can’t access the reward room as Changkyung’s body is gone. ML decides to kill all of the remaining monsters. - After that, all the energy of the gate gathers in the boss room. There ML receives an ego fragment. - ML hears from the doctor that his mother has just 3mths to a year left to live. He loses himself as he takes out his frustration and anger by going through the Tower floors 11 to 19 in 2wks. - Taeshik tells ML about a new maze gate that’s appeared in the US. - The only thing that can help ML’s mother is an elixir, a powerful potion that can cure any disease. Only 3 elixirs have ever been given. 2 of those were after a maze gate was cleared. - Taeshik has made all the arrangements for ML to go to the US and Agent Seonghoon / Sunghoon Heo will accompany him. - ML is taken to the top secret International Transport Portal management centre run by the KPA. He goes with Agent Heo through a portal to the US. In the maze gate, Agent Heo initially helps ML adapt to the gate then returns home. - High rankers: Iron Shield (USA), Athena (Europe), Demon King (Sth Korea). - ML saves a teenage girl, Soojung Jung who claims she got separated from her party. She reminds him of his sister. - She has a buff skill that is helpful so he lets her join him. - ML is caught by Iron Shield and the Iron guild. He’s accused of spying. He’s brutally tortured then healed in a vicious cycle for days by the Korean-American player, Rogers Han. - Athena launches an attack with her forces on Iron Shield and the Iron guild. ML is taken aside by Rogers who tries to kill him. - ML uses Brunheart to defeat him, which uses up the armour’s damage tolerance and it disintegrates. ML stabs Rogers in his vitals and leaves him to die. - Soojung appears with her subordinate Baal, and offers to help ML. Her real identity is the high ranker Demon King. - She confronts the boss monster, Demon Commander Heryond and defeats it with her unique ability, Ink Flame. - The defeat of Heryond drops 3 elixirs. Soojung makes ML drink one, which sharpens his senses as well as fully heals his body. - ML is given another elixir to take to his mother. - Soojung makes a contract with ML and makes him a disciple of hers. She tells him to look for her after he’s cleared the 50th floor of the Tower. - After some coaching by Soojung, ML confronts Iron Shield. - With his heightened senses, ML is able to dodge and block Iron Shield. Elle awakens after absorbing divine power from Iron Shield’s holy sword, Kallion. Before Iron Shield can react, ML uses Arachne’s web to disappear and get back to the gate entry quickly. - Arachne’s web was given to ML by Taeshik as an emergency escape measure. - ML returns home exhausted. Agent Heo helps bring his mother home from the hospital. ML gives her the elixir and collapses. - He awakes to find his mother all better and looking younger. Taeshik visits and ML confirms later that Taeshik likes ML’s mother. ML tells Taeshik what happened in the maze gate. - ML plans to seek revenge himself and destroy Iron Shield and the Iron guild. - Taeshik has assigned Agent Heo as ML’s personal assistant. - Agent Heo helps sell item rewards from the gate and even sourced a new house for ML and his family. ML made a lot of money from the maze gate, including the amount he made from selling the yellow crystal that came with the elixir. - ML pays back the money he owes to Jichul Hwang. - ML bought from Jichul a pair of new shoes he named Hermes (L45, speed), and a pendant he named Rain (L51, mana regeneration, aggravate wounds of opponent). - Having taken the elixir, ML and his mother are given a special health examination at the KPA. ML’s physical improvements include his appearance, height gain, and muscle mass gain. - His mana control and magical power are confirmed as SS rank, which means he has the potential to be a high ranker. - ML’s mother is perfectly healthy and even stronger than the average man. - ML didn’t want to take the rank assessment test in case his results drew unwanted attention while the Iron guild are looking for him. - The C-rank subjugation team sent to defeat the 4th floor guardian can’t be contacted. Taeshik asks ML to join the B-rank team being assembled. The orc guardian seems to be hunting players to grow more powerful. - Morning Star guild: Seonpil Kim (archer, Seokwoo’s cousin), Haneul (mage), Seongwoo (swordsman), Jaewon (tanker). - ML saved them before on the 4th floor when he was a guide. - As C-rankers, they’ve joined as backup. The guild was named after ML. Seonpil’s team agree to let ML join as a temporary member so he can go on the raid. - Yeonseok Nam and other players from the B-rank Brother guild are rude to the Morning Star players. ML asks the team leader for a sparring match with Yeonseok. If ML wins, Morning Star switches with Brother to be a part of the main attack force. The match is agreed and ML knocks out Yeonseok with one punch. - The subjugation team follow the standard attack plan but it fails. ML recognises the orc guardian has the same attack patterns as a standard orc on the lowest floors of the Tower. - Using the combined abilities of his linked egos, ML singlehandedly takes down the guardian called Fereth, a lower rank demon. Cannibalism absorbs the body. While Fereth can't become an ego, Lou absorbs the ego fragments. - Donghae Kim, Vice-Leader of the Child guild, B-rank (almost A-rank). Team leader of the B-rank subjugation team. - Donghae tries to scout ML to join the Child guild but ML politely declines. Donghae asks ML to contact him if ML needs help. - The KPA President questions Taeshik on his special preferential treatment of ML. After the subjugation, Taeshik invites ML to have dinner with the President who is Taeshik’s (grand)father, Taegoo Oh. The legendary player Asura is also Taegoo. - ML is asked to be a hired mercenary of the KPA. - Iron Shield authorises Rogers Han (yes he survived) to be the manager of a new Iron guild branch in Korea. - ML agrees to be a mercenary. Taeshik gives ML a special KPA ring to signify ML’s authority is on par with a KPA manager. - ML is given the codename “Morning Star”. - For ML’s 1st mission as a mercenary, he’s sent to a new gate in Yeosu that’s fluctuating between a C and F-rank. When ML arrives with Agent Heo, ML approaches the gate as Lou and Elle confirm that the gate is an ego. Agent Heo pulls ML away from the gate as it turns red, indicating a gate break. - The gate returns to normal and ML enters alone. He fights a skeleton army and a headless horseman but they’re very weak. He’s in a cemetery and a powerful lich, the undead king emerges as the boss monster. - Despite the lich even summoning a giant flesh golem, ML defeats the lich and the gate accepts ML as it’s master. ML names the gate after “Brunheart”. Lou absorbed demonic energy during the fight with the lich and has awakened. - Elle, L89 “Lord of the Holy Sword” - Lou, L?? “Lord of the Demonic Blade” - NB: ML has rings he uses to summon Lou and Elle. - So far only Lou and Elle can talk. - ML’s capacity for wielding egos increases the stronger he becomes. The distance his link remains with his egos also increases. - Agent Heo gives a mask for ML to wear in anticipation of the reporters because of the gate break warning. - The gate closes after ML accepted it as an ego. - ML reveals his unique ability to Taeshik, Taegoo and Agent Heo and describes what happened with the gate. - Despite the best efforts by the KPA, a photo of the masked ML was released and he’s identifiable from his rings and pendant. - ML chooses gauntlets from Jichul to hide his rings. - He names the L27 gauntlets “Oberon” (force: increases strength). The gauntlets can change their appearance to look like gloves. Jichul gives them to ML for free. Instead he asks ML to come to his aid once when he asks for it. - ML spends a week in the tower progressing up the floors and getting to know the abilities of his egos. - Brunheart the gate ego took on the form of the armour. - The gate ego inherited the memories of the original Brunheart and the reflect skill. The gate ego is also able to talk. - Brunheart can grow by absorbing crystals. - Open / Close: ability to open and close a gate. - Absorption: grow by absorbing other gates. - Domination: absorb gates of lower rank and dominate them. - Floor 29: ML detects a fight between players. - ML interrupts when he hears Seokwoo’s name. - The fight is between the Kine guild and the Smurf guild (red players, ie criminal players that kill other players). - After ML defeated some Smurf players, he and the Kine players are suddenly surrounded by 100+ Smurf players led by their guildmaster, Slayer Min Seok Choi the fallen ranker. - ML’s left eye colour has changed to purple since he started killing humans on this floor. He feels an intense bloodlust and killing intent at 1st, and then he finds the killing to be fun. ML thinks this has something to do with his contract with Soojung. - The Slayer invites ML to join the Smurf guild. - ML refuses and they fight. The Slayer boasts that his Flame Dagger accumulates damage against its opponent. ML uses Brunheart to reflect the accumulated damage back at the Slayer and defeats him. Lou cannibalises the Slayer who becomes an acquired ego for ML. - Seokwoo arrives and stops the remaining Smurf players from attacking ML by using his unique ability with ice. - ML heard from the Slayer earlier that they were looking for Seokwoo because of his 2nd unique ability: portal generation. - ML discovers Seokwoo is also a KPA mercenary called “Aroc”. - ML takes Seokwoo to see Taeshik. The KPA will assemble a team soon to take out the rest of the Smurf guild. Seokwoo asks for his guild to join that team. He wants to find his guild member that was captured by the Smurf guild, which is how they knew about Seokwoo’s 2nd unique ability. - ML is about to face the test for the 30th floor. When he did the tests for the 5th, 10th and 20th floors, the level of difficulty was decreased for him. This time a special test has been generated. - In a desert ML fights giant scorpions. Lou tells ML to go to the castle in the distance as he detects his physical body there. - ML arrives at the castle and 2 giant stone golem guards attack him. He deflects their power so they end up striking eachother. - The golems destroyed, ML enters huge doors and faces Lou’s body, the true Demon King, master of the demonic arts and the demonic blade. As ML fights a barrage of demonic swords, Lou lends ML some of his power. ML has gained the skill of Death. With Lou and this new skill, ML defeats the boss monster. - ML’s synchronisation increased and he’s rewarded with new skills. - Synchronisation B: ability to wield 60% of an ego’s power. - Synthesis: ability to synthesise egos. - Embodiment: ability to embody egos. - ML also receives 3 ego fragments, like the one from the new gate near his home. Lastly ML receives bone pieces from Lou’s physical body. Lou is the soul that decided to seal away it’s memories to protect it’s existence. - ML’s family move into the new house and have a housewarming party. The Morning Star guild attend with Taeshik and Agent Heo. ML’s new home has a training room in the basement. - Taeshik tells ML that the Iron guild will be officially opening a branch in South Korea in 3mths time. - ML tests his new synthesise skill with Brunheart and an ego fragment. ML is teleported into the gate with the cemetery where he 1st met the gate ego. ML names the lich “Heart” and makes it the gate administrator. ML spends 4 days defeating monsters in the gate to raise the gate domination over the monsters to 100%. - ML asks to spar with Taeshik. They unleash the full force of their magic powers and demolish the KPA training room. - Taeshik advises ML to register as a ranker. - As a mercenary, ML’s identity will still be protected. - The benefits of being a ranker include being able to influence the KPA’s decisions and having access to more info. Rankers are also part of a global association and therefore have global authority. - To be acknowledged by other rankers, ML will need to fight in an unofficial ranking battle. - Shin Yoobin, guild master of the Mist Flower guild. - She’s a ranker known as “Mist Sword”. - Her deceased father spoke highly of a guide who helped him and whom he learnt a lot from. - ML meets Yoobin in the ranker battle moderated by Agent Heo. The judges are Taegoo, Taeshik and Seokwoo. - Yoobin underestimates ML and he defeats her by disarming her. He recognises her from her father’s funeral. Her father spoke about her often to ML while he was being guided by ML. - ML arranges for Taeshik to accompany his mother as protection, to help him against Taegoo and the threat of an arranged marriage. - IPA = International Players Association - Lee Seonho, guild master of the Einzella guild. - Taeshik and ML suspect Iron Shield made a deal with Seonho. - The Einzella guild supported the establishment of the Iron guild branch in South Korea. (NB: Iron guild are 1 of the top 10 guilds in the world) - Lou’s awakening completed recently and is now L95. - Lou is the Lord of Demonic Blades and Demonic Arts. - Lou confirms that Soojung gave ML a Demonic Eye in his left eye. A portion of the eye’s abilities has opened up and ML can now see the true nature of all things. - With Lou’s Demonic Arts skill, ML can grant demonic power to egos. ML gives Oberon the binding skill which restrains an opponent with black magic. - Go Hyungcheol, player paparazzi and former ranker. - Mr Go was responsible for the photo of ML that was leaked. - ML wants to use Mr Go’s info network to find out about the deal with Iron Shield. Mr Go eventually reveals his true appearance to ML and agrees to a contract. Mr Go accepts the massive payment and also wants info on ML’s relationship with the Demon King (Soojung) and the Demonic Eye. ML says he’s Soojung’s disciple and ML explains the Demonic Eye sees the true nature of a subject. - ML approaches Seokwoo to be his ally against the Iron guild. Besides offering to the Kine guild all interests that arise from the collapse of the Iron guild branch, ML proposes to grant a single request regardless of what it is. - ML spends a month clearing gates assigned by the KPA as a lone mercenary. Mr Go meets ML for the 4th and last time with info that Lee Seonho of the Einzella guild needs an elixir after getting injured while clearing the Tower. Mr Go informed ML earlier that Iron Shield’s leg was severed (he now has a prosthetic). ML suspects Soojung might be involved as she has the last elixir. - ML has been feeding tons of crystals to Brunheart which has strengthened the gate ego and it’s monsters. - ML synthesised Rain with “Blue Star” (tbc Slayer?). - Rain has additional skills, including Elemental Water, Elemental Fire, and Elemental Dark. - Donghae Kim (now guild master of the Child guild) and Seonpil Kim (Morning Star guild) meet ML to request an alliance with him. - ML asks them to join him in a battle against an enormous enemy. - The day of the Iron guild branch opening, Rogers Han leads his guild members from the airport to the branch office location. - As planned with ML, the KPA announce a gate break and the area around the branch office is evacuated. - Grigori, the secret private army of the KPA are deployed to protect the perimeter and stop anyone from entering. - Seokwoo and the Kine guild, the Child guild and the Morning Star guild have gathered. ML opens Brunheart the gate and calls forth his skeleton army led by the headless horseman and Heart. - ML aims to keep the Iron guild teams separated. - He kills the 1st team leader Charlemont and cannibalism is used. Rain has taken the form of a huge wolf and defeats the remaining 1st team players with ML. - Rogers was given the holy sword Nine and is defeating the skeleton army. ML helps Seokwoo against 2nd team leader Rhodes (unique ability: regeneration) and 3rd team leader Carlen. - Seokwoo defeats Carlen by freezing her in an ice wall. - ML stopped Rhodes from regenerating with the aggravate wounds skill. Rhodes changes with his Berserker skill but he’s defeated by ML’s Elemental Dark skill. - Rhodes is cannibalised and acquired as an ego (tbc). - ML faces Rogers alone after sending Heart and the horseman back to the gate. Nine is actually a corrupted holy sword that’s closer to a demonic sword. It absorbs all of its user’s powers and transfers them to its true owner. Rogers is now a L1 with no skills or abilities. - ML is warned by Agent Heo that Lee Seonho is entering the area. ML throws Rogers and Nine into Brunheart the gate. - Lee Seonho will be the only one entering and he promises Taegoo that he won’t reveal to anyone what he sees. - Lee Seonho calls out to Soojung who he knows is watching. She appears with Baal. Lee Seonho’s vessel is contaminated and an elixir will only slow its progress. Soojung gives Lee Seonho the elixir after he promises not to touch ML for a year. - The Iron guild branch in Korea was annihilated on it's 1st day. - Soojung disappears with ML and Baal. ML wakes up in his basement with them. Soojung asks if she can live in his house. - She’s introduced to his family. He distracts them with Rain who has turned into a puppy. - At a cafe using Baal’s barrier skill, ML finds out Baal is an archdemon. Baal pays his respects to ML. Baal was one of those who betrayed Lou in the past. Soojung reveals she can hear the voices of ML’s egos and shares his vision. - The Demonic Eye is the symbol of demons. - Soojung planted the catalyst in ML but he was the one who manifested it's power. The colour of the Demonic Eye shows the demon’s rank. Purple is royalty, the highest ranked demons. - Soojung can use all demonic eyes. She received a demon transplant and has a cat shaped jewel in her chest. She has the other side of Baal and is half demon, half human. The cat side of Baal can devour and absorb other demons. - Back at ML’s home, Soojung removes their shared vision and being able to hear his egos by giving him a kiss. - In the basement, Baal has installed a space expansion barrier and an impact nullification barrier. Soojung spars with ML. She wants to make him stronger than Iron Shield within a year. - Inside Brunheart the gate, ML is torturing Rogers by making him build a pyramid by himself under Heart’s supervision. - Rogers’ rage is now focused on Iron Shield. - Baal draws a magic circle to improve the mana efficiency of the gate by gathering all of the excess mana in one spot. This mana is used to create transparent crystals. - Synchronisation A: able to wield 70% of an ego’s power. - Ability to control death has increased. - ML experiences almost being swallowed up by the darkness. - Soojung tells ML to look for the player with 100 swords. - ML needs a holy sword to strengthen Elle to maintain the balance with his demonic arts. - ML receives a call from Jichul Hwang about his grandson Minsoo. - ML gets to Jichul’s store to find it's been trashed with all of the items taken. Jichul is on the floor and will die soon. - Jichul says he’s one of the Pioneers, ie people who became players on the 1st day the Tower appeared. At first he was a tank but stopped climbing the Tower to focus on his forging skills. - Jichul reentered the Tower when his forging skills hit a wall and he was searching for a clue on how to advance them. - He spent years trying to find the Tower’s basement. - He found the door to the basement and entered a completely different world. He faced a powerful monster but was saved by his future wife (tbc) - Lou says there are countless other worlds that exist. - Jinchul gives ML a map of the 1st floor with the location of the door to the basement. ML also receives a small golden mallet. - With Jichul’s permission, ML activates cannibalism. The egoification of Jichul fails but his fragment is absorbed. - Jinchul’s request is for ML to save Minsoo, who is a blacksmith that will surpass Jinchul. - ML goes to the 1st floor and uses the mallet to open a barrier. - ML questions a guard and learns the Carvan guild plan to sacrifice Minsoo to open the door connected to another world. Minsoo has the same blood as the Gatekeeper. - Minsoo’s father hurt his own father and kidnapped his son. - Minsoo’s father was born and raised in another world where the flow of time is different to Earth. His name is Chae-il Hwang. His other name is Paimon’s Descendent. Chae-il transforms into a Fire Giant demon. ML defeats him with the Death skill. ML activates cannibalism and egoification is successful. - ML’s skeleton army took care of the Carvan guild members. - They carry Minsoo in the coffin through Brunheart the gate. - Lou says Paimon and Andras are archdemons that hold 2 of the 72 seats of power under the true Demon King. Baal has the 1st seat. - Paimon is one of the 2 gatekeepers of hell. He’s also the great blacksmith of hell. - ML tells Soojung what happened. She takes ML to meet with Taegoo and Taeshik. She’s also a KPA mercenary. - Taegoo, Taeshik and ML’s father were all Pioneers. - Theo was a former guide who quit and joined the Carvan guild. - Andras is the Marquis of Discord and the Carvan guild leader. He wants to unseal the Tower’s Rulers and cause the end of the world. - The Tower intersects and connects each of the other worlds. The Tower also acts as the chains and slowly eats away at the worlds it’s connected to. The Rulers of the Tower exist in the upper floors. They are the Masters who created the Tower and are former rulers of other worlds. - With Baal’s help, the barrier around Minsoo’s coffin is broken and ML wakes up Minsoo with a potion. Minsoo has lost his memories, most likely due to trauma and shock. He thinks ML is his father. - ML gives the golden mallet to Minsoo who sculpts a lifelike statue of Jinchul from the stone coffin. - Baal says ML can restore Jinchul’s ego by synthesising Jinchul’s ego fragment and a piece of ego, with the holy sword Nine and a transparent crystal. The statue that is Jinchul’s vessel awakens as an “ego human” guardian. The dead Jinchul has resurrected? - ML assigns the region around his place for Jinchul the guardian to protect. ML gives the house next door to Jinchul and Minsoo. - As an ego, Jinchul can now hear the voices of other egos. - “ Paimon’s Inheritance” was taken from Jinchul by the Carvan guild. The only ones who can use it are Minsoo and Chae-il. - Soojung and Baal leave ML’s place to prepare, now that the Carvan guild are active. - Floor 34: ML fights beholders to increase his psychic attack resistance. Lou reaches L100 and evolves. - Morning Star and Child guilds have merged. - Floor 40 trial: ML faces numerous holy swords that become (zombie?) angels. They become rusty swords after they’re defeated. - The final boss is Elle as an archangel. ML at the last minute hesitates to strike Elle and she pierces him through the chest with her sword first. The link between Elle and ML is broken. - Elle uses Kallion’s ability and sacrifices herself to save ML. - He passes the trial and Elle disappears, leaving behind a rusty egoless version of herself as a sword. As a reward ML receives “Elle’s Token,” a white feather. - ML returns to his basement at home. - ML meditates and sees the enormous void that is his vessel. - Within the void, ML finds the roots (power? links?) of his egos: “Death” for Lou, “Life” for Elle, and then the other egos. - ML reconstructs the territories for his egos in his vessel. He can now wield life as well as death. His ego assimilation is at 80%. - To practise his control over life, ML trains for a month by trying to revive the rusty holy swords collected from the Floor 40 trial. - ML succeeds with the last 3 swords becoming angels. He names them Hamiel, Camael and Anael. He gets the angels to stay inside Brunheart the gate. ML stops a fight between the angels and the undead army led by Heart. - Lou advises ML on how to resurrect Elle. - First Jichul repairs Elle as a sword. Then ML uses life on the sword and she is resurrected as an angel who can turn into a sword. - ML clears the monsters inside a unique gate with the help of his egos, angels and undead. The defeated gatekeeper is a griffin king that becomes ML’s newest servant. - Brunheart absorbs the unique gate and the landscape inside Brunheart changes. Jichul is assigned as the new gate administrator while Heart is demoted to vice administrator. - With Brunheart growing stronger, more headless horsemen have appeared. ML names the original headless horseman “Hal” who becomes ML’s death knight. - Iron Shield has made a deal with Andras … - Rogers begs ML for a chance to take revenge on Iron Shield. - ML kills Rogers and gets Lou to cannibalise him and turn Rogers into an ego. - 5 unique gates of immeasurable rank suddenly appear in S Korea. 20 of these gates in total have appeared globally. - ML examines the 5 gates and thinks they’re related to demons. - All 20 gates are possibly demon occupied territories. It’s highly likely Andras has intentionally caused this to happen. - All 11 mercenaries are summoned to a secret meeting at the KPA. - 5 mercenaries volunteer to scout each gate in S Korea. - Kim Dohyung, guild master of a top 10 guild. - masked mercenary - twin sisters - Yang - ML is sent to the US where many other high rankers have gathered for an IPA meeting. The Pope is among them. - Iron Shield arrives and he’s accompanied by a demon in disguise. - Tao Chen / Beautiful Beard from China - Susanoo from Japan - Oil King from the Middle East - Blood Emperor is from the US and the IPA chairman. - He’s 1 of the first 5 high rankers in history. - After Brunheart evolved, it gained the ability to open more than 1 gate and leave them open at specific locations. The gates can function like portals to allow travel from one location to another. - ML goes to NY to infiltrate the Iron guild HQ. - He uses his new skills: Elemental Water (body can change into water) and Spirit Fusion (able to use a spirit’s skills by fusing with spirits of the same attribute). He also has Elemental Fire and Elemental Dark skills. - ML deploys a gate in the sewers underneath the Iron guild HQ building. As he’s leaving, ML is met by Archangel Michael?

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Ongoing | 인덱스 / 세혼 | 2019 released
2022-02-04 10:06 marked

Webtoon ch 84 as of 12/12/22 - Ch 104 here - ML is Kim Sehan, a college student and video game addict. - The world has become a game run by the game masters and the gods. Monsters have entered the world and there are people who are players that can kill the monsters. A chosen player is one that a god chose to be their avatar. - The gods and demons are spectators that watch for entertainment. - The gods can only pick up to 2 chosen avatars. - The demons can share their powers with multiple contractors and have countless servants. - The game masters (GMs) manage the servers and assign quests. - Observer orbs are the eyes of the GMs and the gods. - The system regulates and maintains the game as the law. - Points are gained each time a quest is completed. - The points may be spent to increase stats or buy items. - 1st playthrough: In ML’s 1st life, he was a cold and selfish solo player. He was the last survivor after the fall of humanity at the end of the game. After completing the game, ML was granted special access to the DLC store. He uses his points to purchase a “2nd playthrough package” that lets him start again. - DLC = downloadable content (ie additional digital content) - 2nd playthrough: ML returned to the day that the monsters first appeared 10yrs ago. The points from his 1st life are carried over. He can also continue to access the DLC store. - ML discovers he can access the game forum used by the gods, including the chat room. - Han Jisu, ML’s college friend. She died in ML’s past life. - She has the “Celestial Slayer” ability that is S-rank. - It’s a trait that makes you stronger when you see blood. It must be used with care as you could lose yourself to madness if you don’t have control of this ability. Main Quest 1: Escape from the college campus (2 days) Difficulty level: E - ML used points to buy 2 VIP brooches for himself and Jisu. It helps with wound recovery and increases points gained. - Before more observers arrive, ML uses points to increase his stats and kills the hidden boss, a hobgoblin. He receives a girdle that increases his strength stat as a reward. Jisu awakened her ability when she was killing goblins. ML buys a multiplayer package that lets him create a party with Jisu. - Yun Hyeongyun, college student council president. - Park Donggwon, college student council vice president. - Donggwon is a chosen avatar for the god “An Honest Life.” He receives rewards based on the number of people he kills. - In ML’s past life, there were hardly any survivors from the college campus. This was due to Donggwon’s manipulative influence, a psycho who screwed over ML countless times. - Hyeongyun agrees with ML to escape ASAP and leads the group from the gym towards the college entrance. A Sentinel in the form of a huge minotaur suddenly appears. Despite being a C-rank monster, it’s stats are limited to F-rank to match the difficulty level of the 1st quest. - ML acts as bait so the rest of the group can escape. - With no observers around, ML increases his strength stat with points. Combined with the extra strength from the hobgoblin girdle ML received, ML is stronger than an F-rank minotaur and defeats it. - Jisu is waiting for ML while the others have left. She knew he was ok from their shared party info. - ML received platinum rank for completing the quest. - His rewards include 2 upgradable abilities: Final Hour (your movement becomes faster for a limited time) and Regeneration. - He also receives “Adaptive Orichalcum”, the strongest metal in the world. - Party members can share abilities in an exchange. ML shares Regeneration with Jisu while he receives Celestial Slayer. - Jisu has rejected 12 invitations from gods so far. She doesn’t like the idea of becoming an avatar or serving a faceless entity. - ML teaches Jisu the “Crimson Asura” skill, a killing technique that is only possible with her Celestial Slayer ability. He learnt Crimson Asura from a martial arts expert in his past life but couldn’t master it as he didn’t have Jisu’s ability. Main Quest 2: Journey towards the Lomae World Tower (14 days) Difficulty level: C - Lee Mina, a teenage girl and expert manipulator who is the chosen avatar for the Young Jester (Loki). She can change into any person, animal or object. Her power lies in her ability to manipulate the senses of other people. - ML found out Mina’s location from her god through the forum. - He takes Jisu to a bank and uncovers Mina pretending to be a police officer to rob the bank. He makes Mina join them until they complete their 2nd quest. - ML takes Jisu and Mina to a safe zone. He opens the regular points store so they can gear up. ML buys a mace and some armour for Jisu. He bought a short sword and a dagger for himself. - They arrive at the Lomae World Tower. - Mina uses her ability to transform into one of the men on guard outside. From the intel she gathered, there is only 1 boss monster at the rooftop. A team of players must all be from the same start location to be able to enter the boss room together. - So far there are 2 teams. Only 1 team can defeat the boss, leaving the other team to die for failing the quest. - ML meets with Hyeongyun, the leader of one team that has occupied the nearby subway. Hyeongyun is relieved to see ML. - ML suggests searching underground for the true boss monster. - The other team are guarding the Lomae World Tower. In ML’s past life, they became a strong and infamous criminal guild called the Sins. This guild was established by Kim Juwon, a chosen avatar for the powerful god Hades. - Donggwon betrays Hyeongyun’s team and tells Juwon about the real boss underground. Juwon goes undergound with his men and Donggwon. They are stopped at the entrance by Jisu and ML. Mina had earlier infiltrated the Sins and transforms back to her real self. - Jisu faces the Sins while ML takes Mina to fight the rooftop monster, a Sentinel that’s a gigantic basilisk called Orga. It’s “petrifying gaze” ability turns everything to stone. - ML has Mina transform into a weasel, which is a weakness of basilisks. As he fights Orga, Mina manages to bite it in the eye which disrupts its gaze ability. While Orga was distracted, ML put training bracelets on its feet. The weight of the bracelets can be adjusted with a coloured crystal. - Explosives were placed throughout the tower by Mina while she was pretending to be a member of the Sins. ML sets off these explosives then sets the bracelets on Orga to their heaviest weight. - The floor collapses beneath Orga who continues to fall through the other floors weakened by the explosives. - Orga reaches the bottom floor and is pierced through by a spear coated in Orichalcum. ML had arranged the spear with Hyeongyun. - Hyeongyun and his team were fighting the real boss monster, a beholder, on the bottom floor. As instructed by ML, they lured the beholder to stay close to the spear planted by Hyeongyun. The beholder was then crushed by Orga. - ML retrieves the spear and says goodbye to Hyeongyun for now. - ML and Mina meet up with Jisu who is guarding Donggwon. - ML puts a training bracelet around Donggwon’s neck. - ML makes Donggwon sign an absolute contract. - It states, “The contractor must be altruistic, sincere and caring from this point onwards. Failure to follow these rules will result in death by their head imploding from the choker.” - ML lets Donggwon go, as ML can track his location. - Mina is given a B-rank stealth ring as a reward from ML. - Jisu and ML go their separate ways for now. They can still track eachother through the party info. Mina decides to stick with ML. - As a reward for defeating Orga, ML received the B-rank skill “Detection”: the user may search an area within a 50m radius. - ML and Mina go to a dungeon entry that’s guarded by other people. ML found out the location through the forum chat room. - ML buys a Dungeon Destroyer’s Excavation Drill. - ML uses Detection and locates the boss room underground. - 5hrs later he has drilled down to where the boss monster is. - ML and Mina fight lesser mantis monsters. ML then takes out the boss monster, a giant mantis. They take the dungeon rewards and leave nothing for the others fighting their way through the dungeon. - ML and Mina go to another dungeon in the subway. - ML also heard about this dungeon from the forum chat room. - He bought 2 x Cloth of Protection scarves which block 5 ranged attacks, one for Mina and one for himself. They’re attacked by arrows from the Ranger of the Night, the dungeon boss monster. - ML finds and defeats the Ranger with Mina’s help. - He takes the Coat of the Night (Shadow Rush ability) and the Night’s Gloves (Guaranteed Shot ability) as his rewards. - Shadow Rush: move to a shadow within a 10m radius. - Jisu has gone to check on her parents. At their apartment, she enters and fights small monsters. After defeating the monsters, she finds the dead body of her father. Main Quest 3: The Amusement Park - ML (C-rank): Escape from the park with rescued survivors. - Mina (D-rank): Collect 5 stamps from the attractions. - ML and Jisu enter an amusement park where civilians are forced to be the park’s employees. The civilians wear collars that can detonate and kill them. For ML’s quest, he has to save the civilians and the players in the park. - ML’s quest is harder than what it was in his past life. - This sinister park is ruled by the crow constellation Karas. - ML tests a collar he coated with Orichalcum. When detonated, the collar is destroyed but it doesn’t break through the coating. - ML makes it through the haunted house and defeats the monsters with a scared Mina on his back. They collect more stamps from the rollercoaster, the flume ride and the gyro drop. - As the park closes for the night, a deadly parade of monsters appears. ML takes Mina to the Safari Park where most of the other players are hiding. - Song Siu, a chosen avatar of the god Hephaestus. - In ML’s past life, Siu was a famous master craftsman who created high quality weapons and equipment. - Song Changu, Siu’s older brother and a swordsman. - Through the forum chat room, ML observes Changu report and provide intel to an agent of Cheolwoong (and Karas) that night. - Cheolwoong, a Bulgasari (metal eating) monster and the Sentinel of the park. ML tested this monster after boosting his stats to the max. ML confronted Changu about being a spy for Cheolwoong. After ML won against Changu’s sword fighting, Changu says he was forced to become a spy to protect Siu, after losing the fight against Cheolwoong and losing his eyesight. - ML makes Changu tell the truth to Siu. Then ML asks Siu for help with creating a weapon to defeat Cheolwoong. ML bought a basic blacksmithing package and he had Mina use her area isolation skill to set up a barrier around Siu’s workspace. - ML gave the blueprints to Siu to create the “Pile Bunker” weapon. - ML and Mina convinced the other players to help the civilians to escape from the park. - With Pile Bunker, ML destroys Cheolwoong. - As a reward, ML receives a grimoire (A-rank) that gives the Bulgasari ability to convert a consumed metal into part of your body. He gives the grimoire to Mina. - ML frees the employees by removing their collars one by one using the Orichalcum. He has an employee with a stamp help Mina and the other players complete their quest. The stamp is the same for all rides. - Karas appears after hearing about the death of Cheolwoong. ML fights Karas in an epic battle. Meanwhile everyone escapes the park which completes the quest for ML. He can now purchase the unlocked “1st playthrough transfer package”. ML defeats Karas with the help of a transferred succession ability, “Proof of Transcendence”. It’s an upgradable, S-rank ability that allows him to critically injure a celestial within 30mins. - The system announces a major update that changes the game to an “open world”, where travel is possible to other regions and multiple quests can be carried out at once. Guilds can also be created now. - ML asks Mina, Changu and Siu to join his guild in the future. - ML receives the Hunter’s Instinct skill as a reward for completing the quest. For defeating Karas, ML becomes the new master of the crow constellation. His new abilities are “Eye of the Crow” and “Veil of Darkness”. ML has been given a divine status, currently at the lowest class. - ML sent Mina to look for a blonde haired family of 2. - Mina finds Luke Taylor and his teenage daughter Lin. - Luke is a chosen player for the goddess of justice, Astraea (Libra). Main Quest 4: A large raid - defeat the raid boss. Main Quest 4: The vanguard of ruin (Daejeon city) Difficulty level: C - A raid boss will appear in each region, eg there will be 4 across Seoul. ML travels south to Daejeon and runs into Jisu there. - Earlier Jisu was busy wiping out the demon contractors (including the Waning Crescent Moon guild) as part of her 3rd Main Quest (?) - ML and Jisu are attacked by the raid boss, a Gunggi (giant black tiger with wings) but then it runs away. Nearby they find a dead Kirin, a divine beast with its horn missing. ML saw the horn in the chest of the Gunggi. Jisu finds an egg, the Kirin’s fruit. To hatch the egg, it needs a player’s blood as the catalyst. - ML and Jisu go and meet Luke and Lin, after Mina notified ML. He uses Lin’s blood as the catalyst for the egg. ML gives Mina a mithril ore that they found near the Kirin. - ML and Jisu return to Daejeon to wait for the raid boss to appear. A crowd of players and military personnel have gathered. ML runs into Donggwon there. - Using Eye of the Crow, ML detects the Gunggi rapidly approaching. He and Jisu fight the Gunggi when it arrives. - ML makes Donggwon use his crowd manipulation skill to get the military personnel to flee. The Gunggi had it’s stats increased by the GM and it evolves into it's final and most powerful form. - The Gunggi flies high into the sky but ML throws chained spears into its wings. He rallies the players to help pull the monster down with the chains. - While Jisu is fighting the Gunggi, she lets herself be swallowed by it. She destroys the monster from the inside. Jisu receives the Dark Gem of Sacred Dissonance (S-rank) as a reward. It contains extraordinary powers from the concentrated essence of the Gunggi and the Kirin. ML receives the Gunggi’s hide. - Arkatus, GM in charge of the Korean server. - In the forum chat room, ML suggests to the other gods to submit feedback about the GM’s interference. That stops the GM from interfering for some time. - ML hears about a group of thugs with dark blood that attacked Mina and Lin. After further investigation, ML discovers the Dark Sky Clan with its demon servants has been growing in influence. - With children being kidnapped, the most likely demon involved is the 27th ranked demon Neviroth. This demon gains his strength by absorbing the sadness and life essence of humans. - Gang Cheonu, boss / guildmaster of the Dark Sky Clan. - Shin Jaun, contractor of Neviroth and a commander in the Dark Sky Clan. He used to be a professional MMA fighter. He’s obsessed with training and growing stronger. - Jaun searches for ML after he destroyed a branch of the Dark Sky Clan. Meanwhile ML saves the children in the basement of the Clan’s HQ. Then ML sends 100 crows with explosives to all floors of the building, which brings the whole structure crumbling down. Cheonu was inside at the time and is most likely dead. Neviroth tells Jaun that the HQ is destroyed. - The Mask of Anguish: An artifact possessed by Neviroth. - It’s made from the flesh of a demon infused with agony. - To complete the mask and increase the mask’s power, children were being kidnapped and killed when they were in a state of great fear and misery. - Jaun was secretly saving the children. He used an orb that made the children appear to be dead, but they were actually in suspended animation. After Jaun removed their bodies and they were safe, Jaun revived the children so they could escape. - Despite Neviroth warning Jaun that ML is too strong for him, Jaun insists on going to where ML’s comrades are. Jaun wants to force ML to face him after he hurts ML’s friends. Neviroth gives Jaun the Mask of Anguish to help him win the fight against ML. - Jaun arrives at the place where ML’s comrades are. He knocks out Luke and Mina. Then he kidnaps Lin on the demon’s orders. Jisu arrives and tries to stop Jaun from leaving on his motorbike, but she’s knocked back by Neviroth through the Mask. This gives Jaun the chance to escape with Lin. - ML locates Jaun waiting for him with Lin near the port. - As Jaun and ML fight, Jaun soon realises he can’t win on his own. Jaun is forced by Neviroth to wear the incomplete Mask of Anguish. The demon possesses Jaun’s body and fights ML. Jaun’s consciousness returns after some strong hits from ML. - Jaun smashes his face with the mask onto the ground to break the mask and end his contract with Neviroth. Jaun continues to fight ML with half his face still covered by the mask and his boosted stats still present. Jaun collapses after reaching his limit and he’s kicked by ML into the ocean. Jaun is saved by Azazel, the demon of sloth and 1 of the 7 ruling demons. - After the attack by Jaun, ML buys a building to use as his guild’s house. All guild houses become safe zones. ML’s guild house includes a training room / gym and a well stocked workshop for Siu. - ML gathers Mina, Jisu, Changu, Siu, Luke and Lin. He invites them all to join his new guild, Deicide. They accept. - The egg hatches and a Kirin infant is born. It’s a girl and will grow up quickly. She has the lifespan and strength of a Kirin, with the appearance of a human. Mina names her “Snowy”. ML leaves the infant in Mina’s care for now. Main Quest 5: Dungeon race (limit: 1mth) Difficulty level: E - Players must be part of a guild to participate. - The guild with the most points at the end of the quest wins. - Dungeon imprint: only people in the same guild as the person who imprinted / occupied a dungeon may enter it. - Many dungeons have appeared across the city. - ML has deduced the patterns of constellations from the dungeon locations. The higher level constellations will have dungeons with the most points. This constellation points distribution relationship is the key to know which dungeons to target. 3 largest guilds in Seoul: - Genesis, guildmaster Park Sunghyuk (god Tyr) - Lycoris, guildmaster Lee Ah-young (goddess Freya) - Outrising, guildmaster Kang Taesung (god Ares) - Witch of Dreams (Yidhra) is the goddess ML chose in his past life. She’s an outer god from another world. - This time ML politely declines her offer to be her chosen avatar. She says he can reach out for her help anytime as she’ll be watching over him. - ML and Changu become party members. ML shares his Final Hour ability while Changu shares his Mind’s Eye ability. - Siu used Gunggi’s hide and the Coat of the Night to create a special A-rank coat for ML. It has the Shadow Rush skill and the new Wings of Gunggi skill. - Soon Deicide are the top ranking guild with the most points. - ML meets Sunghyuk the Genesis guildmaster after defeating Hong Gaeun the vice guildmaster (who attacked ML 1st). Genesis and Deicide are the only guilds aware of the dungeons’ constellation pattern. ML tells Sunghyuk the location of a mithril vein to gain his trust. - ML asks that their meeting is kept a secret from the other 2 top guilds. Then ML asks Genesis to guard the 18 dungeons of the Scorpio constellation, but to avoid entering them. There are powerful monsters hidden in the dungeons that could destroy the city. In ML’s past life, the monsters were giant scorpions that caused a major catastrophe with many lives lost. - ML takes Mina, Jisu and Changu to the Scorpio dungeons. He uses Eye of the Crow and locates the 1st monster that’s hiding dormant in a large crystal. After fighting monsters to get to the crystal, ML has everyone check the special gas masks made by Siu are on properly. ML cracks the crystal and a giant scorpion emerges, releasing a toxic gas. Those toxins were responsible for the large casualties in ML’s 1st life. - The Outrising guild enter the 18th Scorpio dungeon that’s just appeared. Luke follows them but is urged to flee by his goddess. Luke refuses to leave as he wants to be a hero and protect others. - As a massive scorpion emerges from the crystal, Luke tells the players to run away to avoid the toxic gas. Luke blocks an attack to allow them to escape. - In an attempt to save his life, Luke’s goddess invites him to be her proxy. Suddenly ML arrives through the location transfer bracelet he gave Luke. ML asks the goddess to put that proxy invite on hold for now as he knows it’s more than a human body can handle. In ML’s past life, Luke didn’t survive after using the full extent of the goddess’ power given to him. - The massive scorpion is Antares, the Scorpio constellation. Antares’ power is restricted to match the difficulty level. ML uses Proof of Transcendence to injure Antares. Jisu and Luke also join in the fight. Through Luke, ML asks the goddess to summon the scales of Libra. The huge pressure of the gigantic scales descending from the sky crushes Antares. The scales disappear and ML almost kills Antares, but the scorpion causes an explosion then it vanishes. - ML is given the very rare metal Esther (a metal of the stars with the greatest magic power and magic resistance) as a reward. - ML will also get to select an A-rank skill. - In the end, Deicide is 1st in the dungeon race. - Azazel is bored. She can see that Jaun has no goal or purpose right now. Azazel takes Jaun to an industrial site so he can save a girl from a group of demon servants chasing her. - The girl is called Min Soo-ah. She asks to go with Jaun. She says she can see the future as she’s a chosen player of the goddess Skuld. The further ahead in time she looks, the longer is the cooldown period until she can use her ability again. - The Cape of Darkness guild are demon servants. They kidnapped Soo-ah and her older brother Min Sooho. They wanted to force her to use her ability while keeping her brother hostage. Since her future changed and she survived, she fears her brother will have to die instead. - Soo-ah can see the ending of the game as well. - Currently it shows ML as the Demon Lord of Madness who rules over all of the demons. - Subquest - Dungeon of Futile Dreams: the clear condition is an episode relating to someone you desperately wished for. - Successfully clear the quest in your memories. - Difficulty level: B - Reward: Laplace’s Hourglass. An S-rank item, able to call upon the future of a person for 30mins. - Changu notified ML that a dungeon he was looking for has appeared. Changu has been visiting dungeons to grow stronger. - ML takes Snowy to use her divine power to open the dungeon doors. He enters alone and is taken to a memory from his past life. - The memory is a quest he most regretted. The quest involved saving 1 of 2 groups. A group of 1000 players or a group of 10k / 100k civilians. Choose a group and then kill the other group. - In his past life, ML chose to save the players. He had to fight and kill Min Sooho who belonged to Agathram, the strongest guild at the time. They wanted to save the civilians AND the players. - ML also doesn't want to kill Lin Taylor this time. - Yidhra helps ML to find Lee Mina. She’s at her old high school holding her own memorial for her dead classmates. - ML asks Mina to make an elixir for him and some other items. Agathram guild: - Cheon Sanghwan, Agathram guildmaster - Lin Taylor. ML killed her father in this past life. - Min Sooho, chosen avatar of the god Macha. - Kang Junshik, chosen avatar of the god Agni. - Lee Surin, a mage, chosen avatar of the god Morian. - Kim Taehoon, chosen avatar of Baldur the god of light. - A raid party from ML’s side challenges the Agathram guild. - Kim Taehoon alone faces the raid party. ML arrives and makes it appear that he kills Kim Taehoon. He gives the body to the Holy Saint for safe keeping. - Park Sunghyuk, Genesis guildmaster? - Holy Saint Shin Yoohwa, healer - Lee Surin sets off a trap that explodes and sends poisonous smoke throughout the city. ML kills her. - Min Sooho (tempest) and Kang Junshik (fire) face ML. They chase ML and are caught in his magic trap that’s laced with paralysis poison. - Mina suddenly arrives after deciding she’ll help ML to complete the quest. She deals with the other players while ML faces Cheon Sanghwan. ML leads him to a desert location and calls for Yidhra. She makes ML her proxy and he gains the SS-rank Spiritualisation skill to use the goddess’ power. - Just as ML kills Cheon Sang Hwan, Lin Taylor attacks ML from behind. She seems to have the ability to copy perfectly the skills of others (tbc). Astraea the goddess of justice continued to watch over Lin after her father died. Lin asks to become Astraea’s proxy. - Observers and players alike are drawn to watch this unbelievable battle between 2 divine proxies. - ML set the stage for the ultimate surprise grand finale. - ML makes it so that he and Lin stab eachother at the same time. He sees the notification that the quest is complete. Then he breaks the orb to wake everyone up. - Mina explains to Lin that ML asked her to make an orb that puts the target into suspended animation. He also wanted the effect of this orb in concentrated liquid and smoke forms. - The poisonous smoke was actually the effect of the orb on the citizens in the city. ML and Mina used the orb elixir on their weapons when they stabbed the players on both sides. - ML found a way to save everyone and clear the quest. - ML clears the dungeon and receives Laplace’s Hourglass as a reward. Yidhra also gave him a new Imaginary Space skill that opens a subspace in the air momentarily. - Unknown to ML, Jisu entered the dungeon after him and had her own quest from her memories to complete. - She also cleared the dungeon and received Laplace’s Hourglass. - ML plans to help Mina with her 2 school friends Haemi and Jiseon who were contracted to a demon and died in his past life. - Jisu considers wiping out the Cape of Darkness guild next … - Doyoung Park the Iron Horse, Cape of Darkness guild master - Juan and Soo-ah enter the basement of the guild HQ and find Mina’s friends hiding there. They rescue Min Sooho and Mina’s friends follow them to the ground floor. - The ceiling collapses from Jisu defeating Doyoung. - Jisu fights Jaun almost to his death, then suddenly stops and declares she won this time. ML sent a message to stop Jisu from killing Jaun. - ML is watching from the rooftop. Azazel greets him. - She agrees to accept Mina’s friends as her servants. As a higher demon, her contract will overrule the one they have with the Cape of Darkness demon. - Mara Papiyas, demon of lust (1 of the 7 ruling demons) - Arkatus asks to borrow the power of the lust demon’s contractee. He plans to kill ML. - Mental Resilience (A-rank) is ML’s new skill. - He trains it against Jisu’s bloodlust from her Celestial Slayer skill. After 2mths, his skill is upgraded to S-rank. - Jisu has a skill called “I’m Always a Good Child.” She can control her emotions perfectly with this skill. She was always obedient and submissive to her parents, pretending to be a good child. - Jisu is afraid of being abandoned by ML. - Is she obsessed with him? - Event quest: Treasure Hunting - Location: Glastonbury, UK - Akinen, the GM of the England server. - The top 100 players across the servers are selected to complete the quest. The timeframe is 2wks. - Collect the items (A to D-rank) to get points. - There is only one S-rank item. - The server with the most points will get various benefits. - The Sentinel is a dragon. ML recalls from his past life that there’s a surprise 2nd Sentinel. - Eric Sanders (god: Apollo) - Yulian, a German player - Lee Ahyoung, Lycoris guild - Shin Yoohwa the Holy Saint - ML, Snowy, Mina, Jisu and Changu are selected from Korea. - Snowy is registered as ML’s pet so the system transported her with him. She is perfectly capable of protecting herself. - ML and Snowy find the hidden village of survivors called Avalon. It’s concealed by a lake and a mana barrier. - Morgan Le Fay, ruler of Avalon and the Last Witch. - Avalon is a utopia of mages and fairies. Viviane and Nimue used to be the other witch rulers with Morgan. - ML agrees to leave Snowy with Morgan in exchange for Morgan to teach some magic to Snowy. - The secret highest tier item is Excalibur (SS-rank). - It can only be used by it's rightful master. - Arthur is an English player who is crippled and sees visions of his dead family (an illness?). He blames himself for their deaths. - ML knew Arthur from his past life. ML finds Arthur and scares off some bullies. ML asks Arthur to join his party but Arthur refuses. - Chris Bright, contracted to a demon. - She holds hostage a group of players under her charm ability in order to lure out then kill ML. - Lee Ahyoung and Shin Yoohwa arrive. They use their skills to cancel out the charm spell and save the players. - ML kills Chris but she revives elsewhere (?) - Siris, another demon contractor, awakens both Sentinels: - The Red Dragon from the legend of King Arthur. - Behemoth, the Holy Beast of Legends. It gets bigger over time. - ML takes Arthur to Avalon and gets Arthur to draw out Excalibur from the rock before any players are killed. Morgan completely heals Arthur with her magic. Arthur agrees to join ML’s party. ML and Arthur attack Behemoth first. - The Red Dragon speaks with Arthur about the roles given by the system. No one may defy the beings that preside over the laws of the universe. Only humans are given the role of players so they can become avatars of the gods. - The Dragon offers to help Arthur this once and holds down Behemoth for ML to attack. Using the shared Punishment of Faith skill (S-rank) with Arthur and special customised weapons made by Siu, ML obliterates Behemoth. The Dragon flies away. - England has the most points, followed by South Korea. - Mina found many items while everyone else was dealing with the 2 Sentinels. - Hyunsoo Han, Jisu’s younger brother. - He contacts Jisu and confirns that their mother is with him. - He bears the same tattoo / mark as the demon guilds. He’s made a contract with a demon ranked 17th in the hierarchy. - Soo-ah suddenly foresees an unstable prophecy about Jisu killing everyone in Seoul. - ML goes with Jisu to meet Hyunsoo and their mother. - Jisu is infamous among demon contractors as the Slaughterer. - Jisu was abused by their parents. Their mother was afraid of Jisu. - Hyunsoo reveals he’s the Gangnam branch manager of the Waning Crescent Moon guild. He gives their mother’s head to Jisu, saying he killed her and Jisu will soon join her. - Jisu can no longer restrain herself and her insane bloodlust is fully unleashed. With one hand she rips off Hyunsoo’s head and spine. Then Jisu kills the guild members in the room. - ML tries to kill Jisu before she goes on a rampage in Seoul. Her regenerative ability allows her to recover quickly. She severs ML’s legs. Earlier ML sent a message for Mina to come and help. Mina arrives and traps Jisu in a spatial barrier. Then Mina heals ML. - Yidhra appears and offers to help ML in exchange for 100k points. To calm down, Jisu needs to see her mother. - Dungeon of Futile Dreams: Yidhra takes ML back here and uses her powers to change the dungeon. There is a subquest for ML to get Jisu’s mother Song Chaeyeon to willingly follow him out and escape the dungeon alive. - ML enters the dungeon and his abilities are restricted to only 3 skills. He returns to the 5th Main Quest with the dungeon race and Antares (Scorpio). He finds out Hyunsoo is with the Sins guild. - Yidhra appears and ML becomes her avatar (just for the dungeon). He obtains the Shadow Space skill. - Yidhra says Jisu is still alive. ML thought Jisu died in the beginning from his past life but she survived for awhile. - ML finds Jisu and she’s been taken over by her Celestial Slayer personality. She instinctively wants to protect ML. - ML and Jisu infiltrate the Sins HQ. They get to Juwon’s office and ML knocks out Hyunsoo who is there with Chaeyeon. - ML uses his past life experience to kill Juwon. - Hyunsoo is possessed by Hades but is mortally wounded by ML. Jisu dies after protecting her mother from Hades’ final attack. ML decides against taking Chaeyeon with him. - ML leaves the dungeon and gets Mina to release Jisu. He restrains Jisu and synchronises their memories. Jisu returns to normal. - Mina gets a new alchemy skill. - Main Quest 6: Mamajack’s wicked scheme. - Find Mamajack the chameleon constellation (1wk)

The Witch and the Beast

Ongoing | Kousuke satake | 2019 released
2022-02-13 11:47 marked

Ch 48 as of 24/08/22 - incredible art - This world has 8 continents. - The Global Holy Church is on the 1st continent. - The continents are numbered as you go eastward. - Witches represent the pinnacle of sorcery. - The Origins: 17 women were the first witches. - Witches don’t age over time. Their powers are duplicated exactly over successive generations. - The Order of Magical Resonance: - An assembly of the very best in sorcery and magic. - A powerful group that works by magic, for magic and of magic. They will take on any mission that involves magic, regardless of the danger. Each member is given an order signet ring / brand. - Guideau the Beast has no magic power at all and is the natural enemy of witches. - His spirit is trapped by a witch’s curse in the body of a beautiful young woman. He is looking for the witch responsible to undo the witch’s curse then kill the witch. The curse is temporarily broken when G kisses a witch and he returns to his original body. This is only possible once with each witch. - Ashaf, a 1st class mage - He carries around a coffin with G’s true original body. - He uses crows and black panthers as his familiars. - Ione, a 120yo witch and Mary, one of her apprentices. - Mary and the other residents of the city think of Ione as a hero. Over 400yrs ago, Ione’s grandmother was called an evil witch even though she saved the city from hellfire and she was sealed. - On the anniversary of her grandma being sealed, Ione plans to unleash the hellfire as revenge. G and Ashaf stop Ione and save Mary with the other young women who were being sacrificed as keys to unleash the hellfire. - G is getting impatient for their next witch-related job. - After a month, a witch committing serial murder and a grimoire in the city of Hayden is the next mission. It’s called “the witch’s pastime” case. The Hayden mayor is stopping the Paladin Corps from taking over this case. He wants the credit for solving it. - Kiera Haines, the only mage on the Hayden police force. - Reuben Cole, Kiera’s magic teacher and lover. - The witch is targeting the people around Kiera. One of the first victims was Reuben. - Shulk and Loran are Kiera’s adopted teenage sons. - Kiera thought they were killed by the witch. - The boys have a set of 2 grimoires that act as one entity. - Grimoires are forbidden instruments of black magic. - There’s a penalty for using the grimoires. - The boys killed people as sacrifices to use the grimoires’ powers. - The boys are in love with Kiera. She only saw them as her sons. - After G defeats them, Kiera kills them herself. - Kiera gives the grimoires to Ashaf. - Phanora Kristoffel the “profound witch” and a necromancy specialist from the Order. She can summon undead Death Knights. - Johan, Phanora’s assistant and a special undead. - Undead need to be regularly maintained by the one who resurrected them so they don’t go out of control. - Resurrections must be performed with the permission of the patient before death or their close relative. All info about necromancy must be disclosed to the patient so they are fully aware. - Undead can be set to auto, semi-auto or manual modes. - Strays are undead who are illegally revived without any guidance. - Sergeant Jeff Enker, who recently lost his fiancé. - Increased cases of unmaintained undead going crazy. - Phanora uses a special lamp to attract strays. A surprisingly large number appear. Johan takes care of them. - They follow the tracks of the strays and discover an old mansion. - Jeff’s fiancé is one of the strays at the mansion. - Necromancy forcibly removes souls from the cycle of reincarnation. There is no method for those souls to return. - Once the spell fades and the soul experiences it's 2nd death, the consciousness exists in nothingness called “the void” for eternity. - The illegal necromancer conducted forbidden experiments on the undead to try and create the perfect body for his dead lover. - Phanora defeats the illegal strays with her Death Knights. After the necromancer was tortured by Johan, Phanora kills the necromancer and turns him into an undead, forcing him to maintain Jeff’s fiancé from now on. - The Paladin Corps: a magic based military force. - They serve under the Global Holy Church. - Their strategic base is a floating castle. - Lt Col Matt Cugat, the “man of ice” and head of the 6th battalion of the 3rd continent. He is an elemental mage who made a pact with a great ice elemental. - The mission for G and Ashaf is to protect the witch. - Helga Velvette, her lineage traces to the Origin called Quena Velvette the “dauntless witch.” - Ashgan the Demon Sword. It was sealed by Quena and only a witch of her lineage can break the seal. It was the responsibility and duty of the Velvette clan to guard Ashgan. - The Executioners are underground witch-hunting specialists since the Dark Ages. They operate in the shadows of the Church. - Helga was framed for the murder of 6 men. - Ishlingen the Demon Hand is a forbidden instrument made from the skin of 17 kings. It has the power of mind control. - Cugat's paladins were brainwashed by the Executioner. The penalty for using the Demon Hand are living human sacrifices. - The Executioners want the power of the Demon Sword. They found the Velvette clan’s hideout and killed everyone. - Helga was the sole survivor who escaped with Ashgan. - The Executioner used mind control on Helga who gave him the Demon Sword. Then he stabbed Helga with it to break the seal. - The Executioner couldn’t control the true nature of Ashgan. It was a being with no reason or respect. G kisses Helga and possesses his original body. In an epic battle, G defeats Ashgan who reverts to a broken sword. - G severed the limbs of the Executioner, which removed the Demon Hand. Cugat takes custody of the Executioner (presumed tortured to death). - Angela Anne Huell the “wrathful / eternal witch” - She has the power to possess a person’s body. That is why she is the eternal witch since she can switch bodies and live forever. - She is responsible for the curse on G. - G possesses Angela’s original body. When G and Ashaf first met 3yrs ago: - Ashaf arrives at a country village to protect a witch. - The Origin was Luna Farmington the “mystic witch.” - She was a master of magic conjured by speech. - Falvell Farmington can’t cast magic because she can’t speak. She has the mark of a curse on her tongue. - Owent is Falvell’s twin brother. - Craig and his father Sven moved to the village 6mths ago. - They’re actually Executioners. They frame Falvell for the slaughter of livestock in the area. Under the guise of a witch hunt, they go after Falvell. - Ashaf convinces G to protect Falvell, after G realised she wasn’t the witch he was looking for. Ashaf gets Falvell to kiss G. - This temporarily releases both of their curses. G kills one Executioner and Falvell kills the other. - Ashaf takes Falvell and Owen back to the Order. - Ashaf makes a deal with G to work for the Order. - The Fall: an endless hole that connects to 17 other worlds. - Located on a small island between the 7th and 8th continents. - L4 is Orlencia Sett, a world of vampires and humans. - Only vampires wear all black clothing during the day. - Assisting G and Ashaf are Oscar the mage and Dunward Colvect, a vampire. Their goals align as Oscar and Dunward are looking for a vampire queen who has the power of a witch. - NB: Vampires have no innate magic power. - A number of vampire incidents have occurred that violate the urban etiquette code. G and Ashaf are looking for Angela. - A witch’s blood is considered a rare delicacy for vampires. - The Conglade: one of the largest vampire factions. - At a masked gala event, human women chosen as special blood sources are presented for the vampire king’s approval to join vampire society. Dunward presents G dressed in white as an offering for the king. Dunward realises the queen of the night isn’t there and removes his mask to reveal his identity. - There are 2 vampire kings: the king of the Conglade and the king of the night. Dunward was once the king of the night but his title was stolen 100yrs ago by Dornez Guywasse who is now the queen of the night. - When Dunward was king of the night, he married a human woman and they had 3 children. Dornez was his mistress. - Dornez took Angela’s offer of power and betrayed Dunward. While he was away with his men to fight a battle against the Conglade, Dornez told the humans where his castle was. - The castle was destroyed and his family were burned alive at the stake. Dornez used her new power to kill Dunward’s men and burn Dunward to the brink of death. Oscar found Dunward and made him drink her blood. They formed a pact and now Oscar’s blood is the only blood Dunward can drink. (Side story) - Caindel Bichon, a lone sentry on guard at a checkpoint. - Angela was bored but found Caindel interesting for his dedication to the life he led. One day he was sick and asked Angela to be the sentry for him. She refused to let an emergency messenger through who was warning about the coming of the demon army. - Caindel and Angela are arrested. As the demon army approaches, Angela frees herself and destroys the demon army with her magic. - Dowler Wu is the greatest fighter in the Conglade and challenges Dunward to a duel, with G’s blood as a witch on the line. Dunward grabs Dowler’s jaws and rips his head apart to win. - Dunward’s younger brother is the neutral bridge that mediates between the Conglade and the night. Dunward, Oscar, Ashaf and G see him to arrange a meeting with Dornez. - Dunward betrays G and Ashaf, allowing them to be drugged by his brother. Later G and Ashaf break free but they face Dornez. - A witch’s kiss holds power. A pact is formed with a witch’s beloved who receives a gift. Angela bestowed her favour and power when she kissed Dornez. In exchange Dornez provided people for Angela to possess (?) - Dornez unleashes her borrowed power. G gets Ashaf to escape first. Ashaf finds Oscar and Dunward. They pretend that they have captured Ashaf and they are taken to Dornez’ castle. - Dornez intends to kill them to keep the castle location a secret. Dunward removes his mask and fights Dornez and her minions. - Oscar releases Ashaf and they look for G. - Meanwhile in Dornez’ castle, G breaks free and uses a pair of axes that are forbidden instruments to decimate the queen’s vampires. - It’s a full moon and Dunward is the one most cherished by the moon’s magic. He easily defeats Dornez’ minions. - Dornez uses a dagger infused with sunlight to stab Dunward in his chest. G appears and attacks Dornez with the axes. - Oscar finally convinces Dunward to drink her blood. He had vowed to never drink human blood again after the death of his family. The power of the full moon and the human blood combine to change Dunward into a massive, all powerful werewolf. - Dornez had immense power but didn’t have the knowledge and experience needed to wield it effectively. Dunward obliterates her body so she can’t regenerate. Angela gave Dornez the role of stalling G and Ashaf while she escaped. - Dornez admits Dunward’s oldest child and daughter survived. Dornez gave his daughter to Angela as her latest vessel. - A witch’s favour can only be given once in their lifetime. - This doesn’t apply to Angela because she can switch bodies. - There are others who have received Angela’s favours. - The 17 levels connected to 17 worlds each have a creator. - Oscar Orlencia is the descendant of the Origin called Lionelle Orlencia the “great witch.” The power of this lineage is linked to the sun. The world of Orlencia Sett was created by Lionelle. - Oscar summons the sun to rise early to stop the Conglade from attacking the remnants of the night vampires. - The 17 Origins agreed it was taboo for any direct (outside or external) influence on the Fall. Oscar’s role is to eliminate anyone who violates this rule. Angela must be punished for breaking it. - G and Ashaf enter an antique shop that deals in magic tools. - The Recluse Doll is a relic from a witch who died. It’s a living doll. She was once human until she was cursed by a witch. G can hear the doll’s voice. - Matt Cugat was transferred to a frontier outpost. - Karl Oakleave (was Craig) the Executioner is there to recruit Cugat. He wears a forbidden instrument as a pendant on a necklace. - Knight commanders and 1 of the 5 archmages - Commander Gil Dellinger is a traitor (?) - Commander Keith was killed by the group of witches and mages. - Using the magical storm as cover - steal the forbidden instruments in storage - A group of 3 witches and some mages - Lucia is the descendant of Viola Spendrow the “giant witch” with the power to control natural disasters. - a witch that uses the power of the moon - Angela - Phanora, Johan and the Death Knights - Helga uses the repaired and resealed Demon Sword - the archmage summons a dragon - a forbidden instrument began as a seed then rapidly grew into a small child - Ashaf asks G to look after the child

Estio

Ongoing | Gong Deuntab, Tanker, Ppungppa | 2021 released
2022-02-17 17:12 marked

Ch 60 as of 20/11/22 * End of Season 1, Ch 60 - ML is Estio 19yo who has a special mental domination ability. - He can read the minds and hearts of all living beings. This includes seeing memories. ML can also feel and control the emotions of others. ML can let an animal and a person communicate with eachother. ML can also take others inside a person’s mind to see their memories. - ML’s family: Parents, older brother Teriot, older sister Rosette. - ML was always abused and ostracised for his ability by his family and the villagers. He decides to leave his hometown of Selbia after his coming-of-age ceremony. 19yo is the legal age of adulthood in the Empire. - Tsuki is a black cat that ML found and saved when he was a boy. In return, Tsuki has helped ML on random occasions over the years. Tsuki was a failed magic test subject who escaped before it was killed. It can transform into a giant black tiger. - Neju, a white fur monkey. It lost it's family including it’s human mother when hunters came and killed everyone. Neju decides to follow ML. - ML arrives in Gallasia city. The guards give him a large chain and collar for Neju as all beasts must be leashed in the city. - While looking for work, ML is referred to the Ignis guild. - ML applies to join the guild and he mentions his ability. - ML is sent on a request as a test. He goes to a collector of rare animals and quickly identifies the problems. The collector is impressed and ML passes the test. - ML is accepted as an official guild member and receives a badge and uniform. He can stay with Neju in the dorm lodgings in the guild building. - ML is assigned to the Special Support Dept. - Most requests are from high ranked nobility. - Lady Seralin (Sera) 10yo, daughter of Viscount Fabiane. - She’s having behavioural issues with her new dog Hiru. ML helps resolve their misunderstanding by letting them communicate with eachother. - The Viscount immediately understands that ML’s ability with animals extends to humans as well. Shortly after he sends a request through the guild for ML to look into a prominent local gem supply business. The Jefferson Company has the largest commercial share of gems in the city. It’s stores have suddenly closed for business. ML has to find out why from Thompson, the head of the company. If possible, ML will also get the company to resume sales. - ML discovers Thompson’s wife Teal is suffering from extreme stress and depression after losing their first 3 children. Their 4th child Leia survived and is healthy, but Teal abandoned their daughter from birth as she thinks Leia will die soon too. - ML takes Thompson and Neju into Teal’s mind and they experience her memories together. Teal had a lover who killed himself when she became engaged to Thompson. Teal blamed herself for the deaths of her children. She thought their deaths were punishment as she was cursed by her ex-lover. - Thompson tells Teal that it’s not her fault and asks her to come back to him and Leia. Teal revives and reacts to Leia’s cries by rushing to her side. - ML collapses from overusing his ability. - He wakes up after being unconscious for 2 days. - The branch manager says ML now has the highest reputation among nobles in this city and neighbouring cities as well. - ML is summoned by Viscount Fabiane for a secret request. The Viscount wants ML to become his subordinate. ML would be appointed as an advisor who would answer directly to the Viscount only. His role would be to read the minds of those chosen by the Viscount. Even though ML politely refuses, the Viscount tells ML to think it over. - ML takes a cactus that the Viscount was throwing away. ML can hear the voice of the cactus. ML calls the cactus “Ahuru.” - Jeremion, Sera’s older brother, wants to buy Neju. ML says Neju isn’t a product for sale. Jeremion calls the guards to take Neju away. When the guards surround ML, Neju lashes out and injures a guard. - The Viscount arrives and orders the guards to imprison ML and get rid of Neju. ML uses his ability to make the guards kill themselves when they attack him. - Tsuki arrives and transforms into a tiger. Tsuki carries Neju and ML away. After 10 days, ML returns to the guild. He’s been summoned to the guild HQ. On the way, the carriage is surrounded by a swarm of harpies. ML uses mind control to make them go back to where they came from. - ML’s shoulder was injured by a harpie. The blood lands on Ahuru and makes a flower bloom for the first time. Ahuru gives the flower to ML and it heals his shoulder. - ML uses a magic portal and arrives at the guild HQ with Neju, Tsuki and Ahuru. - Hwen Leski, Vice guild master - According to the guild master, ML is now a “guild leader” who’ll be entrusted with special missions. ML receives a new guild uniform, badge and other supplies. Hwen asks ML for a demo of ML’s ability. Hwen draws a sword but instead of attacking ML, Hwen holds the sword against his own neck. - Bernie Parker, a guild messenger and a birdman. - He’s assigned as a support member of ML’s team. - Mubien R. Hygar, a Duke and the Emperor’s cousin. - He’s a body-type ability user and a swordmaster. - The Hygar territory is overrun with monsters. It was bestowed on Mubien by the Emperor who sees his talented cousin as a threat. - ML receives his first request as a guild leader from Mubien. - ML and his team enter a magic portal to the Renox underground cave. They encounter friendly and curious giant sandworms, an underground waterfall, and a pack of cave wolves. They exit the cave to the Hygar territory. - ML meets Mubien whose request for ML is to find a descendant of the black dragons. They will search for a month. - A Hygar ancestor drank the blood of dragons which gave incredible abilities to them. Mubien thinks ML is also connected to dragons as ML’s ability is known as a black dragons’ trait. - In the cave, ML fed some blood to Ahuru. ML’s ability has activated in Ahuru, allowing Mubien to hear Ahuru’s voice. This is similar to the Hygar ancestor drinking dragons’ blood. - Jeria, the 2nd wife of Mubien’s father. - Mubien’s mother died after giving birth to him. - All of Mubien’s family were killed during a monster invasion. - Mubien has insomnia due to nightmares. - The pack of cave wolves followed ML and a wolf cub was injured by Hygar residents. ML fed his blood to the cub. - ML uses his ability to negotiate a deal. The cave wolves will be the guardians of Hygar in exchange for food and their safety. - Mubien wants to visit Selbia village to learn more about ML from how he was raised. They stop at the Gallasia branch on the way. A disheveled Viscount Fabiane is there demanding to see ML right away. The Viscount sees ML and begs for ML to help his daughter who has insomnia after seeing the guards killed. The Viscount doesn’t apologise for what happened before with his son. - ML secretly visits Sera with Tsuki. He tells her what happened wasn’t her fault. He’s there as her friend and not because of the Viscount. Sera refuses to let ML erase her memories of him. If that happens she’s afraid she’ll be like her father. Sera just wants ML to keep being her friend. - As they reach Selbia, they discover someone being burned at the stake. It’s Bella, the prettiest girl in the village. She was accused of being a witch and bewitching men to love her. ML saves her and he’s abused by the villagers. Mubien and the others see how he’s mistreated and held in low regard. - It starts to rain and the fire is put out. Mubien offers money to ML’s family if they answer his questions. He wants to know if they’re blood related to ML. They refuse to answer. - ML reads his father’s mind and sees ML was found in a large crater that suddenly appeared in the mountains. ML looked like a large lump of gold to his father who took it back home only to find ML as a baby with golden eyes. - ML’s mother made his father take ML back to the crater but a high priest from the holy palace was there. There was an oracle about a dragon’s treasure falling from the sky. Dragons are agents of god. - Earlier ML’s father killed the wolf who was ML’s guardian. The high priest was looking for the evil person who stole the treasure. It was rumoured the imperial family would come and execute the thief. ML was confined to the attic to protect the rest of the family. - ML projected his father’s memories for everyone to see the truth. ML goes to the crater which is now a large pond. Mubien asks to become ML’s guardian. For now ML tells Mubien to return home. ML will call for Mubien later. - ML goes back to the guild HQ and is told to take a break until the guild master can see him. - Puppet Master, Ignis guild master - Jen, a living doll - Lina, a warrior (?)

The World After The Fall

Ongoing | S-Cynaan,Sing-Shong,싱숑,Undead Potato,언데드 감자, | 2022 released
2022-03-28 11:30 marked

Ch 49 as of 22/11/22 - also on Webtoon ** The drip feed approach to giving background info details is annoying … Story is interesting so wait and see - ML is Jaehwan, a swordsman and the last Walker in the Nightmare Tower. He started clearing the Tower later than other Walkers. As a result he missed out on getting other skills and items. He devoted himself to improving his stabbing ability instead. - One day the Tower emerged in cities around the world. - People who accepted the summons to the Tower were called Tower Walkers. They climbed the Tower to prevent the fall of humanity and the end of the world. - Walkers received a blessing from the “interface system” and could obtain special items, skills, powers and qualifications. - Tower Impacts: great catastrophes where monsters flood out from the Tower into the world. About a third of humanity perished as a result of the 1st Tower Impact. - Regression stones: turns back time and sends the user back to when the Tower first summoned them. The user’s current memories will remain intact. The stone can also be split up and used. - Many in the Tower chose to regress to the past, rather than continue to climb the Tower or die. - ML was part of a group called Carpe Diem. - On the 85th floor, ML obtained the Wyrmsbane sword. It contains the energy of the sun and moon in order to defeat a dragon. - At the 98th floor, the Chamber of Hellfire: Yunhwan the 2nd last member is too injured to continue. Rather than regress, he decides to jump down the outside of the Tower. - ML rests on the 50th floor at Atopos, a village created by Walkers for Walkers. He learns blacksmithing skills from Jay, the last blacksmith in the village who eventually leaves. - ML has been trying to clear the 99th floor for 10yrs. - There have been at least 10 Tower Impacts so far. - ML is the last Carpe Diem member left. 5yrs later he defeats the guardian, Frostwyrm the ice dragon and clears the 99th floor by himself. ML obtains the Frostwyrm sword. When the user shows their will to fight, the sword blade is revealed. - After 40yrs, ML is the 1st to clear the Tower. - At the 100th floor, ML learns the truth about the Tower. This floor is a control room and ML meets Beastreign, a demon and the master / owner (?) of this Tower. - Conquering the Tower just means completing the tutorial, and not saving the world. Next is the main game where ML has the option to return to the start with his memories intact and climb the Tower all over again. ML refuses to participate in the main game. - There is no item in the Tower that can send you back in time. - Nightmare stone: those who use it are trapped in a dream conjured up by the dream demon. (Falsely labelled as a regression stone) - The Nightmare Tower is also called the Fortress of Regret. It’s the 2nd work of Mulak the dream demon. - The Tower traps those who respond to the call of the Tower into a dream created by the dream demon. The Tower Impacts never happened and no one died, as this was conjured up by the Tower. - While Walkers do not age inside the Tower after decades have passed, outside it’s only been a month or so. - Beastreign shows ML that his body and those of the other Walkers are unconscious and in hospital in the outside world. - ML tries to kill Beastreign by returning every day to the 100th floor from the 50th floor. Beastreign has no intention of killing ML. - ML is a special premium product that Beastreign has to sell to the Harvesters, so (his soul?) can’t be damaged. - A Cultivator (ie Beastreign) ripens and enhances Products (ie ML) in 2 stages (the tutorial and the main game). This is so the Product can safely adjust to the system of the “Great Realm” and give them a chance to advance to a new world. - Good Products are picked out during the tutorial game. - The real ripening process begins in the main game. This 2nd stage is like watering and fertilising carefully selected seeds. - ML’s level and all of his stats have maxed out at 100. - Beastreign explains to ML that this universe consists of one main dimension called the “Great Realm” and countless peripheral worlds that branch out from it. Earth is one of the many smaller planets scattered throughout the peripheral worlds. - The Nightmare Tower is at the roots of the Tree of Illusion. - The 12 Monarchs are the rulers of the Great Realm. - Those who clear the main game and enter the Great Realm will often receive recommendations of power from the Monarchs. - ML can see particles that he somehow understands to be the basic matter of this world. This matter starts to send messages to ML. From these messages, ML knows Beastreign plans to hand ML over to the Harvester known as the Monarch of Darkness. - ML refuses to be a product and has an awakening as an “over-adapted player” who now truly understands “stabbing.” - His whole being becomes “stabbing” and he is continuously stabbing at the world. [ 1st stage of awakening - Doubt / Suspicion ] - The power to break down the true essence by doubting the world. [ 2nd stage of awakening - Understanding / Question ] - The power to understand that broken down world. - Throughout the Tower on various floors, ML came across cryptic messages about the Tower. These were probably left by Mulak. - ML defeats Beastreign who is reduced to a much weaker demon and ML breaks through the ceiling of the 100th floor. - Suddenly ML finds himself in a new land. - ML kills huge horned beasts and collects their horns. - ML kills Green Pieris (butterfly) clan members after they attack. (They are 1 of the 5 noble clans of the Great Realm) - ML is surprised when his Frostwyrm sword devours their weapons. He obtains a small dimensional bag, several spectre crystals (forcefully raises one’s spiritual power by a set value), and a map of “Tree of Illusion - Chaos.” - ML kills a 2-horned beast that was chasing a small group. They are from the ruthless Red Fox clan, except for Minora. - Minora the Witch of Massacre, member of the Shadow Warriors - She was commissioned to kill one of the Red Fox clan members in the group. She warns ML to kill them before they try to kill him. - ML overhears the Red Fox clan members refer to ML’s Frostwyrm sword as a rare and valuable artifact called a spirit weapon, after they see ML feeding other weapons and equipment to the sword. - They gather over half of their clan (40+ members) to attack Minora and ML after he intentionally loaned them the Frostwyrm sword. ML wants to see Minora’s true skills. - Black Fox Klant, 3rd stage adapter, clanmaster of Red Fox. - Minora fights the Red Fox clan members first. She gives ML a return stone that’ll let him escape to the nearest castle. - ML steps up and wipes out Klant and most of the clan members. He retrieves his Frostwyrm sword and takes out the remaining clan members as they flee. - ML and Minora arrive at the north checkpoint of Gorgon Castle. - People are sent to Chaos after dying in the Great Realm. If they die in Chaos, they become food for the Tree of Illusion. - ML sees them appear in the summoning circle, naked and distraught. Soon guards appear to manage the new arrivals. - A certificate is required to enter the castle. Minora bribes the guard with a horn from the 2-horned beast. - “Bull-headed” Carlton Xavier, 5th stage adapter, northern checkpoint chief and the least corrupt officer in Chaos. - ML doesn’t have a certificate and refuses to be certified. - Carlton’s ordinance skill doesn’t work on ML and the chains of Carlton’s silver arrest skill are broken by ML. - Spiritual corruption: a chronic disease that everyone living in Chaos gets. The spirit is slowly corrupted and ghoulification occurs. - Horns from the horned beasts are the only medicinal ingredient that can ease spiritual corruption in Chaos. - Minora’s level of spiritual corruption is measured at above 15%. She’s recommended to medicate ASAP. - The spiritual corruption level can’t be evaluated in ML when Carlton uses the measuring device on him. Carlton thinks this is because ML’s spirit is purer than anyone in Chaos. - Spectre crystals: valuable items that can amplify an adapter’s spiritual power. Only the Green Pieris can possess these crystals and avoid corruption. ML can hold a crystal and not get corrupted. These crystals also prove the identity of Green Pieris clan members. - Minora and ML are allowed to enter the town. ML kills 4 brothers when they attack ML for his Frostwyrm sword. - Twilight’s Fall blacksmith shop and the biggest forge in Gorgon. - Meikal Garnard, Twilight’s Fall vice manager and master artisan. - Meikal challenges the other blacksmiths to make a hole in the horn of a quadhorn beast and they can be the vice manager for the day. ML makes a hole with his finger but it breaks the horn. - ML reimburses Meikal with the horn of a pentahorn beast. - ML wants to make a scabbard for the Frostwyrm sword. The sword evolves after eating another horn of the pentahorn beast. - Meikal names the Frostwyrm sword “Maverick”. - Minora was told to bring ML back with her by some thugs who had taken her friend Clare as a hostage. - He refused to go with her so she returned alone and was forced to fight. ML appears to help her and he sends a blast through the roof that breaks the soundproof barrier. - Carlton arrives with his men and they capture the thugs. At the last minute the thugs use a smoke bomb that accelerates corruption. - The thugs try to escape but ML attacks. The leader turns himself into a ghoul but ML still destroys him. Minora and Carlton are rapidly turning into ghouls. They ask ML to kill them. - Chungheo the Divine Physician - Jahir, 5th stage adapter, Captain of the ghoul extermination squad. - Jahir and his squad arrive to deal with the people who have turned into ghouls. Carlton is saved after ML crushed a pentahorn and fed it to him. It’s too late for Minora and Jahir wants to kill her but is stopped by ML. Suddenly Chungheo arrives to help Minora but his sword breaks (when he sees ML?). - Chungheo borrows ML’s sword and uses his ghoul slash ability to draw a picture of Minora. Chungheo collapses from exhaustion before he can finish it, his energy depleted from treating the castle lord. ML mimics Chungheo and uses ghoul stab to complete the picture which cures Minora. - Chungheo and ML are both awakeners. - ML is a complete awakener with a human heart (?) - Chungheo is an incomplete awakener who kept his emotions (?) - Awakeners are a few extraordinary beings in the Great Realm that have escaped the rules of the system after clearing the (Master’s) Tower. They obtained a powerful strength by rejecting “adaptation.” Their strength can change the power dynamic in Chaos. - Dark Shadow Captain, 5th stage adapter, Dark Shadow squad. - Yurhen Cheever, Internal Commander of Gorgon Castle - The Dark Shadow Captain invites ML to meet Yurhen. - Yurhen asks ML to share what’s happened to him since he arrived in Chaos. Yurhen admits to his men spying on ML from the moment he entered Gorgon Castle. - ML knows his body is in a spiritual state with his real body still back on Earth. He thinks because he escaped the Tower and didn’t join the main game, the Tree of Illusions thought he was an envoy and sent him to Chaos. - Yurhen calls ML a protagonist who has run away from a major faction that is pursuing him. He offers the protection of Gorgon Castle in exchange for ML saving the castle lord. - There is a pact among the 12 Monarchs that they won’t interfere with Chaos. - Steel Region, the 5th region of the Great Realm. - Heoyu of Unbending Steel, the Steel Monarch. - Darkness / Pitch Black Monarch of the 9th region. - Chungheo challenges ML to a duel to see which is stronger: his slash or ML’s stab. Chungheo is (repeatedly) defeated by ML and agrees to answer ML’s questions. - Tower master: Dream demons create towers that can be ranked from F to S. There are demons with no interest in ranks. - Masters have a S-rank apprentice and became a master craftsman early on. Only special towers unrelated to cultivation can be called a master’s tower. Masters are searching for the truth of the world (?) - Chungheo cleared the “Moby Dick” Tower in the martial realm. - Chaos was originally a blessed place. - Souls tired of war in the Great Realm came to Chaos for some rest and peace. Those in Chaos don’t age, get hungry or get drunk. Missing familiar things from their previous life, they mimick actions like eating and drinking in Chaos. - Abyss expedition squad: an alliance to find the resurrection fruit on a branch of the Tree of Illusions. Mulak the dream demon was the squad leader and Chungheo was a squad member. - A dead person in Chaos can come back to life after eating the resurrection fruit. - 900yrs ago, the squad obtained the fruit but the 12 Monarchs were waiting for them at the entrance to Chaos. The Monarchs stole the fruit and have been resurrecting ever since (along with the 5 noble clans?). After the expedition, no one has seen Mulak. - Resurrection Palace: the place of resurrection for the 12 Monarchs and the 5 noble families. It also manages all fruits in Chaos. - Jahir urgently asks ML and Chungheo to see the castle lord. - The castle lord is affected by advanced ghoulification. - They arrive at the castle to find the castle lord has been betrayed by his subordinates who have joined the Golden Sky sect. - Defensive Horn Captain, 4th stage adapter - Twisted Horn Captain, 4th stage adapter - ML defeats the 2 captains who tried to stop them. - The Gorgon castle lord was also a member of the Abyss expedition squad and survived the war against the Monarchs. - The castle lord went out to investigate the appearance of people who can manipulate spiritual corruption. 6mths ago he returned in an advanced state of ghoulification. - The External Commander, Dark Shadow Captain and the other Captains have all betrayed the castle lord. They attempt to use a Ghoul Seal on the castle lord. It’s a secret technique of the Green Pieris clan that requires a spectre crystal. - The castle lord’s spiritual energy will be transferred to the crystal. The one who possesses that crystal will be the master of Gorgon. - ML interrupts the seal with his sudden arrival and he changes the deal with Yurhen. ML will wipe out all of the traitors in exchange for taking Chungheo and forming a new Abyss expedition squad. - ML’s overwhelming power wipes out the traitors. - The Sole King used Ghoul Descension to possess the body of the castle lord. It wields the devastating Void Sword that can turn souls instantly into ghouls. - White Engraved World: Chungheo’s unique world created by his ideal to remember everyone who has disappeared. - Every awakener has their own unique world. - The shape of that world is formed by the keyword (emotion or desire) obtained upon awakening. The more powerful the awakener, the more existences they can bring into their own world. - ML’s keyword is “oblivion” - ML somehow defeats the shadow of the Sole King. - The Sole King leaves the castle lord’s body, saying it will meet ML again at the entry to the Abyss. - The castle lord transfers his spiritual energy to ML and says “Don't forget the human heart” then vanishes. A large tattoo of a dragon (the guardian beast) appears on ML’s arm. He’s now the new Gorgon castle lord. - Aimel Groshek, the last castle lord who died / vanished - During the Flowing Soul ceremony, the story of the soul that has disappeared forever is told repeatedly. The story of the soul will never be mentioned again after the ceremony. - ML wants to unify Chaos so there’ll be no need for a castle lord. - ML challenges anyone to fight him for the position of castle lord over the next month. Anyone who loses against ML must join the Abyss expedition squad that leaves in 2mths. - ML holds a tournament that attracts the strongest fighters. - Yoon Yong, Lightning god sect leader. - Gang Hwang, Flame King sect leader. - Kaiman, Southern Sea sect leader. - There are 10 sects governing Chaos and there are 4 great castles. - The Golden Sky sect eliminated the Lightning god sect a week ago. The Shadow Warrior and Sky Dragon sects were also eliminated. Manticore castle is also under the control of the Golden Sky sect. - Lim Jinhong, Golden Sky sect leader. - Shin Mugeuk, Eternal sect leader. - Zhuge Myung, Forest Scholar sect leader. - Ja Gukryeong, Holy Maiden sect leader. - The tournament is interrupted by an alarm. A horde of ghouls led by a mega ghoul is approaching Gorgon. ML alone kills the mega ghoul and parts the horde like the sea with a powerful blast released from his sword. Everyone rallies around ML to fight. - Later 6 sect HQs relocate to Gorgon. - ML builds a mini Nightmare Tower called Carpe Diem. - He uses the Tower’s much slower time difference inside to help with the sect leaders’ training. On the 1st floor he gets them to learn each others’ techniques to grow stronger. - On the 2nd floor ML trains Kaiman on how to become an awakener.

Street Restaurant of a Returned Hero

Ongoing | Geon ma,Gimmuel,Tangsyug | 2022 released
2022-03-29 11:16 marked

Ch 25 as of 29/03/22 - ML is Choi Kyungho 25yo (35yo) - Level 99 Warrior (mythical), Karma (good) can’t be measured. - Mrs Choi, ML’s mother. Owner of Lucky Restaurant. - Terminal lung cancer, 6 mths left to live. - Mir, an Asian dragon. Guardian god of the spirit realm - Seed of the World Tree: if grown, good for life force recovery - Carnus di Lupus (Whitey), a white wolf, Guardian god of Earth - Succession of the Guardian God of Earth - A divine revelation: “A brave warrior returning to his birthplace shall save earth.” - Great Cataclysm 3yrs ago - Awakeners: people granted magic powers and classes - Ranks D (lowest) to S (highest), ie D-C-B-A-S - Hunter Association - Magic engineering: a technique / procedure where magic and magic stones are used together. Items can be created that imitate artifacts and can be used by normal people. - bladed ostrich heart for recovery - respawn dungeon raid / dungeon farming - It was an opportunity for the Shinhwa guild to grow bigger. - divine beasts or spirits who possess magic power - Shinhwa Group: a global group that is the top financial corporation in South Korea. - CEO / President - Older sister and 1st child - Lee Sungwon 32yo, son and 2nd child - Guild master of the Shinhwa guild (B+ rank) - Level 25 Magic Archer (rare) - Park Jungsoo 30yo, Chief Secretary - Level 34 Swordsman (common) - Kang Minseok, Assassin (evil), suspect - Candy: an invigorating medicine. Used with an artifact. - Lee Taesung, Team Leader, Special Villian Dept Team (1), Police - Wish fulfilling quest: (Lee Taesung) - “I don’t want to get punished by the Chief” - A Guardian God’s divine strength is derived from human faith. - If a wish is granted or a crisis averted, the god’s divine power increases naturally. - Kraken: the sea is now full of demonic beasts - Kim Dahyun 35yo, the Crimson Witch / the Witch of Flames - The Rainbow 6: official Korean group of S-rank awakeners - She’s an orphan and high school friend of ML - Dahyun’s magic power was depleted and she fainted. - ML came and defeated the demonic beasts. Then he filled up her magic power. - Wish fulfilling quest: (Lee Sungwon) - Clearing an A-rank dungeon - Deodeok: medicinal root, good for lung cancer - Golden Bee honey: good for stamina recovery - Sungwon gave a fire resistant luxury watch to Dahyu and a luxury watch to ML’s mother. - The Dwarf Workshop - Soldin the dwarf - Tyler, a wolf beastman, Blue Tooth tribe - Dimensional travel magic / teleportation magic - ML met the dwarf tribe 5yrs ago in the spirit realm. - The dwarves gave ML a treasure from their tribe. It was a magic bow called Black Hawk. - World Tree: mana circuit recovery - Moonlight herb: magic / mana recovery for Tyler - Mole Cricket: divine spirit contracted to ML - Grey: divine spirit contracted to Soldin - A bow and arrow set requested by ML - A-rank dungeon with Dahyun and the Shinhwa guild. - A crack appeared inside the dungeon. Dahyun had already left the dungeon, leaving behind Sungwon, Jungsoo and the cleanup crew. - A huge bladed panther emerged from the crack and badly injured Jungsoo. ML secretly entered the crack and unseen he threw the bow made by Soldin to Sungwon. Soldin killed the panther with one shot from the bow. - The Shinhwa group have bought the land around the Lucky Restaurant for redevelopment. The Shinhwa guild will relocate their HQ there and an awakeners educational institution will also be built. - Shinhwa are sponsoring the upgrade and expansion of the restaurant to cater for the influx of workers to the area. - Jung Miho, new restaurant assistant - The unforeseen quest of the bladed panther awarded enough karma points to level up Carnus so he can now make disciple contracts. Carnus makes a contract with Tyler that allows a connection with mutual benefits. - Yoo Hodon 34yo, Supervisor, Shinhwa Construction - Level 25 Largest Warrior (rare) - Wish fulfilling quest: (Yoo Hodon) - Rejoining the Shinhwa guild as a hunter

Leveling With The Gods

Ongoing | black ajin | 2019 released
2022-03-30 06:47 marked

Ch 60 as of 03/08/22 - also on Tapas - ML is Kim Yuwon, a college student. - ML and his comrades were defeated by the Outer Gods. - Chronos sends ML back in time to the day before the Tower appears. It’s New Year’s Eve and ML is in Seoul with a backpack and a knife. The world changes at midnight. - ML has to start over as he has lost all of the stats and arcane power he had before returning. - 1st Tutorial: Survive the zombie horde. (30 mins) - Theme: Survival - ML focuses on obtaining points, experience and leveling up. He douses his knife regularly with salt water as he knows the zombies are weak to salt. ML attains an “Unbelievable Achievement” for killing 100 zombies in 10 mins and he receives free stat points. At the end of the 1st tutorial, ML receives over 1400 points for the total number of zombies killed and also extra stat points. - 2nd Tutorial: Enter the Safe Zone. (Limited capacity) - Theme: Competition - Outside of the Safe Zone, giant earthworm monsters suddenly emerge from underground. ML heads to the subway to hunt these monsters. Hongdae Station is designated as a “hidden dungeon” as the earthworm nest is located there. ML continues to gain more stat points and levels up as he hunts. He also collects the mana essence dropped by the earthworms. - After a few hours, the Safe Zone starts to shrink and so does the capacity. People are randomly expelled as the capacity is reached. Groups form based on survival of the fittest. - ML reaches L20 and his Arcane Power stat is unlocked. He allocates his extra stat points to Arcane Power. - ML calls out to the hidden observer, the Administrator’s Lackey. From the Shop, he buys a basic Arcane Sword and the Monkey’s Eyes skill (F-rank, increased vision and fortifies all 5 senses when activated). ML knows the Lackeys have started to surveil him as a “special administrative target.” (Son Ohgong, the Monkey King, Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal) - ML defeats the Motherworm, the boss monster which ends the 2nd tutorial and stops the Safe Zone from shrinking. The Lackey gives 3 reward options to ML. He could skip to the 5th tutorial, he could receive points, or he could be sponsored by Olympus. ML decides to take option 2 and is rewarded 10k points. - ML’s request to meet with the Tutorial Administrator for 1000 points is approved. ML tells the Administrator about the illegal interference from the Tower in the tutorial, in the form of Olympus. The Administrator kills the Lackey and rewards ML with the Master of Mana, an S+ rank skill. - 3rd Tutorial: Kill 50 monsters, acquire 50 essence. (3 days) - Theme: Hunting - Groups of people try to kill eachother to steal essence. - ML saves 2 people in the subway after the monsters attacking them disturb his sleep. In the dungeon, Kang Seongchan and Lim Jooyeon agree to lure monsters to ML for him to kill and he’ll share some essence with them. - ML leaves the subway with a large box full of essence. - He offers to sell the essence for 100 points each. - Lim and Kang declare the essence was collected by hunting monsters, and not by killing anyone. - A group tries to take the essence by force and ML kills them. - After that, the essence is quickly sold out. - Everyone, including Lim and Kang, leaves by a gate. - 4th Tutorial: - Theme: Defence - ML didn’t enter the gate as he meant to fail the goal of the 3rd tutorial and stay behind to face the “annihilation event.” - ML uses his points at the Shop. He buys: Mid-grade personal inventory, Arctic Steel Sword, Pyromancy Robe, Magic Nullification Shield, a well sharpened sword, and ice crystals. - Armed with new items, ML charges through a horde of Skull demons that explode when they die. His shield shatters when he’s attacked by the giant Suruhtra, a lower class fire demon. - ML’s Monkey Eyes synchronise with the demon fire and evolve into Cinder Eyes (A-rank). Along with his robe, his Eyes enable ML to withstand and absorb Suruhta’s Fire of Annihilation. - After consuming the ice crystals to cool his body, ML uses his arcane power and the Arctic Steel Sword to take down Suruhta. - ML has accomplished an “inconceivable achievement” by defeating the annihilation of the 3rd tutorial. - From Suruhta’s corpse, ML retrieves the Giant’s Heart elixir (increases strength and mana to that of a giant). - The Tutorial Administrator appears and rewards ML with 10k points and the Heaven Slaying Star skill (A+ rank, all stats increase based on the opponents killed). ML spends 10k points at the Shop to get a Lesser Scarlet Medicine Ball (an elixir that raises magic and constitution stats by 1). - Elsewhere the 4th tutorial ends in a few hours. ML uses this time to rest, with his wounds and stamina recovering quickly. - 5th and Final Tutorial: United World (30 days) - Theme: Teams / Time - Participants from different worlds gather for the first time. - They’re on an island called Barraganda that’s slowly sinking. Kill the boss at the island’s peak to escape the island. - Hargaan, self proclaimed heir of Olympus, descendant of Zeus. He’s a pure blood, born and raised in the Tower and decided to climb it. His specialty is extreme brute force utilising electricity. - He approaches ML to join his team, but ML refuses. - ML finds a cave where he swallows the Giant’s Heart. For half a day ML endures the agonising pain as his body changes after he consumed the lifeblood of giants and demons. His stats slowly increase over time. Cinder Eyes helps him to cope with the Flames of the Giants from the fight within his body between the blood of human, giant and demon. He obtains Colossal Fire (B- rank) and Gigantification (like Hercules) after his body successfully absorbs the elixir in full. - CP Rankings: every action is converted into Contribution Points (CP). So far Hargaan leads the rankings by a lot. - ML (L57) climbs the rankings to overtake Hargaan and claim the top spot. - Hargaan’s team include: - Lee Sungyoon, outstanding mana control - Yolche, a pure blood from a mercenary family that use magic. - Elador and Paladinte, elf and dark elf mixed-blood siblings from Pantemium (a world where magic and swordsmanship are highly developed). - Ranker: a being who has completed all of the tests of the Tower and cleared all of the floors. They obtain power, glory and immortality. - Hargaan’s team arrive at a dungeon boss room and find ML has already killed the boss monster. He again rejects an offer to join Hargaan’s team. ML says his aim is to break through the ceiling at the top of the Tower. ML and Hargaan agree to bet on who defeats the final boss 1st and has the most CP at the end of the 5th tutorial. If Hargaan wins, ML must join his team. If ML wins, Hargaan must help ML once when called upon. - Barraganda is actually a mythical beast. The boss monster that ML killed was the Parasite Dragon which produced parasites to suck the strength from Barraganda. Time has stopped now that the Parasite Dragon is dead. Time will flow again when the system returns to its original state after the Lackeys or the Administrator intervene. - ML uses the time to grow stronger and level up. A few days later the Lackeys have fixed the problem and time flows again. - Many of the participants have gathered at the mountain to take on the final boss. ML goes first, followed by Hargaan’s team. They fight a large group of monsters. ML combines Colossal Fire with his Arcane Sword. - There is a massive sealed Chimera imprisoned inside a cavern. Whoever breaks the sealing crystal will break the seal and have control of the Chimera. ML breaks the crystal and orders the Chimera to smash through a wall. - There’s a passageway and ML enters until he reaches the room of Childe the Chimera Creator, the true final boss. - Childe the Dark Magician is an ex-ranker and ex-test examiner of the 50th floor of the Tower. He was exiled to the Tutorial for using players as test subjects to create his chimeras. While he lost most of his powers, he’s still a formidable opponent. - Childe animates many chimeras to attack Hargaan’s team. ML fights directly with Childe. ML uses Cinder Eyes and Gigantification to tear apart Childe’s body until he dies. The animated chimeras collapse now that their creator is dead. - ML tells Hargaan to forget about teaming up as where ML plans to go, it’s better for him to walk this path alone for now. He can’t guarantee the safety of anyone with him. - The Administrator appears and gives ML the reward for attaining the “impossible achievement” of defeating the Chimera Creator. It’s a Dark Divine Crystal (unrefined). It’s also known as a fragment of the Invisibility Helm used by Hades. - Odin is the greatest magic fighter that led the giant faction of Asgard. ML beats Odin’s record of a week to complete the 5th tutorial. ML gets 50k points for his new record of 5 days. - ML tops the CP rankings by a huge margin. - ML obtains more points and stats. He also receives a mysterious egg that might be related to the Outer Gods. - All of the participants are teleported to the 1st floor of the Tower. There are many guilds waiting to recruit new players. - Jackals: people who gave up on moving to the next floor. They commit crimes (kidnapping, robbery, murder, slavery) to collect points. They are secretly supported by Olympus under Ares. ML plans to eradicate the Jackals. - Player’s Kit: a basic item that is used by imbuing it with mana. Once you’re registered, your player number and info will pop up on the kit. It can be used to search the internet and communicate with other players. - At the next town, ML registers as a player. - ML commissions Vulcaro the blacksmith to refine the Dark Divine Crystal. Vulcaro uses the leftover crystal powder from the refining process to combine it with mithril to create a sword for ML. The refined, pure crystal becomes a beautiful gemstone. - Sir Agamemnon is a follower of Ares (son of Zeus and Hera) and a member of Olympus. He tries to scout ML to join Olympus under Ares. ML refuses to follow ‘deviant lowlifes.’ - Agamemnon orders the Jackals to kill ML. - Hargaan finds ML and agrees to join ML on a job. ML apprehends the King of the Jackals, Mu Wooncheon. He’s a player from the martial world who gave up climbing the tower. - ML pretends to be from Olympus and gets Wooncheon to gather all of the Jackals (1000+), with the false promise of a higher position in Olympus. ML unleashes Colossal Fire, then ML and Hargaan make sure everyone is killed. ML splits with Hargaan the collection money he received earlier from Wooncheon. - To make up for the eradication of the Jackals, Agamemnon is assigned a mission to “arrest a criminal. He leads an army (of 200+) to face Vulcaro who is actually Hephaestus the Olympus blacksmith and a ranker. Joining the army is Chryses, an Olympus high ranker under Apollo. - Hephaestus is temporarily turned to stone when Chryses uses Aegis, a replica shield with Medusa’s face created by Hephaestus. (The shield can only be used once a day) - ML arrives in time to stop Agamemnon from taking Hephaestus back to Olympus. ML was contacted earlier by Hephaestus to come pick up the refined crystal. - After ML decimates the soldiers, Chryses steps up to fight ML. One of Chryses’ attacks smashes ML through the wall of Hephaestus’ workshop. There ML picks up the crystal to use it’s dark power to fight Chryses. A final attack knocks out both Chryses and ML. The petrification wears off just in time for Hephaestus to save the unconscious ML from Agamemnon. - The 1st Floor Administrator suddenly appears and stops Hephaestus from killing Agamemnon. - ML wakes to find Hephaestus watching over him. Hephaestus realises ML already knew his true identity (ML knew from his past life). Olympus is now after ML for helping Hephaestus escape from them. ML recovers in hospital then hunts monsters to level up. - The new sword is finished and it is bound to ML after he names it, “Edge of Nightfall.” It’s a black sword specialised for the night and the dark. Hephaestus also used mithril to make an invisible glove for the crystal to be attached to. - Dark Divine Crystal: a fragment that holds the darkness of Genesis. It contains mana with an unending dark property. - It’s a catalyst that summons power. - Stealth, Hell Summon, increased dark mana resistance and amplification, and decreased dark mana consumption. - Edge of Nightfall: It can accumulate dark mana. - In darkness, it greatly increases stamina recovery, mana recovery and mana amplification. - Shuri, an elven warrior and the 1st floor test examiner. - Colosseum: 1st floor testing site to measure strength. - ML intends to surpass the most number of rounds completed, which is currently 19. ML reaches with unprecedented speed the 20th and final round. He faces the boss monster: the 8th head of the legendary Japanese dragon, Yamato no Orochi. He perseveres and defeats the dragon by using his Cinder Eyes to identify it's only weak spot then stabbing it in the heart. - ML is now L69, and his stats range from 60 to 79. - ML’s achievement of 20 rounds is recorded at the Colosseum. - This is the first time the top rank has changed in 1000yrs. - The rewards include a fragment of the legendary Japanese sword that sealed Yamato no Orochi, and Orochi’s 8th Heart that contains a powerful elixir once the poison is neutralised. - The egg suddenly reacts in hunger and devours the dragon’s corpse. Then it falls asleep. - ML progresses through the floors. - He sets a new record for completing the 9th floor test, by creating new paths in the labyrinth. - ML visits Hephaestus and picks up a new sword that’s highly resistant to mana. Then ML teleports to the 10th floor. - ML arrives at the martial realm, where players need to join a martial arts school and pass their test to clear this floor. - ML travels to the Heavenly Mountain and meets the Heavenly Demonic Cult. He passes their 1st trial by finding his own path to the Heavenly Demon, Cheon Mujin. Before the 2nd trial, ML is challenged to fight in a skills test by Cheon Jaryong, Black Tempest Squad Vice Leader. ML easily defeats Jaryong. ML is rewarded with a Crimson Blood Medicine Ball. - The 4 Heavenly Lords: Fist Lord (Pung Baeklim), Sword Lord (Shin Muguek), Spear Lord, Dao Lord. - For the 2nd trial in 3mths time, ML must dodge or block 3 techniques from the Fist Lord. ML spends the 1st mth locked in the training chamber as his body absorbs the mana from Orochi’s 8th Heart and increases his arcane power. ML uses medicinal herbs supplied by the sect to neutralise the poison. - For the 2nd mth, ML spends time in the martial arts library of the sect. He researches for a way to deal with the Fist Lord. - For the last month, ML returns to the training chamber. - The Fist Lord spent the last 3 mths training in seclusion. - The day of the 2nd trial arrives and is held at the sect training grounds. ML dodges the first 2 techniques and blocks the 3rd technique. They agree to extend the trial and continue fighting. - ML surprises the Fist Lord with his basic Heavenly Demon’s Spirit skill. ML learnt about this from the library. - The Fist Lord concedes defeat when ML finds an opening and slashes the Fist Lord’s chest. - After a day to rest, ML is summoned by the Heavenly Demon for the 3rd and final trial. He is taken to the Heavenly Demon’s Cave where the Divine Flame is. The cult exists to protect this flame and find it’s owner. ML must enter and endure the Divine Flame until it acknowledges him. He senses the flame is related to the Outer Gods. The flame grows by consuming fear. ML says he’s come to destroy the flame’s kind. ML survives and is accepted by the Divine Flame as it’s owner. - ML passes the last trial. He obtains the nickname “Heavenly Demonic Cult’s Vice Lord.” - His Colossal Fire Skill is replaced by the Divine Flame skill. It’s a fire that grows by consuming the opponent’s emotions. - The Heavenly Demon is now free to leave the mountain but is comfortable staying where he is. While ML won’t join the Heavenly Demonic Cult, he’ll return for the Murim Great War. - At the 11th floor, ML buys adamantium. - With a week before the test starts, ML goes to the 11th floor dungeon called Agrea’s Maze. He clears the dungeon after killing the boss monster, Spider Queen Agrea. He obtains Agrea’s Thread. - The 11th floor test examiner is Hypnos, an Olympus ranker. - The test location is the Dark Forest. The test consists of 2 teams competing to capture as many flags as possible while fighting monsters or eachother. The team with the most flags after 24hrs wins. Each team is randomly assigned a “king.” The number of flags the king holds is counted as double. - Olympus wants to kill ML and have set up an obvious trap. - The team members are supposed to be random, but ML’s team (A) has all of the weak players while the other team (B) consists of the strong, talented and well-known players. - Most of the players in team (A) forfeit before the test starts. - There are 51 players in team (A) and 200 players in team (B). - Halliman, a player who has already failed the 11th floor test 3 times. He’s in ML’s team and is the king. - ML kills the enemy players who attack Halliman. He lets other players go after they give up their flags. ML leaves his Heavenly Demon’s Spirit to protect Halliman. - Namgung Hoon is considered a genius player. He’s skilled in the Emperor’s Sword Form of his noble family. His father is an executive of the Murim guild. - Roel is nicknamed “Angel” for her rare healing skills and divine power. She’s from the Zion guild. - The other team use the Heaven and Earth Net on ML and Halliman. It’s a martial arts technique for an enclosure formation that completely surrounds your enemy. - ML faces Hoon who tells ML to forfeit. When ML refuses, Hoon challenges ML to a 1-on-1 fight. After a while ML activates his Divine Flame. Hoon realises ML was the one who cleared the 11th floor dungeon. Hoon took a party into the dungeon and found the burnt corpse of the boss monster. - Hoon decides to retreat with his men. He doesn’t want to needlessly waste their lives facing ML. Roel buffs the remaining players who attack ML. When they see ML easily shatter Roel’s Sword of Execution skill, they also decide to retreat. ML makes them hand over their flags first. - Roel tries to recruit ML to her guild but he refuses. - ML intends to grow stronger on his own and become the centre that everyone in the Tower rallies around. - Guilds and teams become corrupt through pride, greed and distrust. That’s why ML won’t accept any help from them. - ML calls out to Hypnos who has been secretly observing. - Hypnos assigned himself as the king of the other team. - As they fight, ML injures Hypnos. They stop when the Administrator appears. Hypnos tries to take all the blame for interfering in the test. His position as test examiner is revoked. All of Olympus’ authority on the 11th floor is taken away. - Hoon witnessed what happened with Hypnos and the Administrator. He realises the test was rigged by Olympus. - ML intends to fight Olympus until he drags down Zeus. - ML gives the flags to Halliman to complete the test. - ML is at the top of the CP rankings for the 11th floor, far above Zeus, Hercules and Odin. The Administrator gave 10k extra CP to ML as a reward. - The Namgung family: - The largest group besides the Heavenly Demonic Cult. - The central body that leads the Murim guild. - Namgung Jinwoon, head of the Namgung family. - 19th floor test: hit 100 targets within 1hr. - ML destroys 1000 targets in less than an hour. - He wants to increase his arcane power before continuing to climb up the Tower. - Great Scarlet medicine ball: - An elixir that greatly increases arcane power is made once every 3yrs by the Shaolin Temple in the martial realm. - The Murim Grand Competition is on the 10th floor. It’s a grand martial arts tournament with the Great Scarlet medicine ball as the prize. Many guilds come to scout the competitors. - ML turns away all of the guilds that approach him. - Hargaan visits ML who takes him to meet Hephaestus. - The war between Olympus and the giant race is why Hephaestus stopped making weapons for Olympus. It was devastating to see his weapons being used against his friends, the giants. Olympus is planning another war against the remaining giants and wants Hephaestus to make weapons again. - Hargaan intends to ask Apollo and Artemis about the war. - Hephaestus made a new glove for the crystal using adamantine from ML. He named the glove “Kynee.” - When ML puts on the glove, it wakes up the egg and the hatching of the egg progresses considerably. - ML easily wins his preliminary round of the competition. - The Zhuge clan has ties with Olympus. They set up the final round to be a battle royale instead of 1-on-1 fights. Most of the clans agree to target ML only. Hoon overheard their plan and warns ML to be careful in the main arena. - ML defeats most of the fighters with Hargaan supporting him. - ML and Hargaan are the last ones left and they have an epic fight. ML used the mana resistant sword to hide his arcane power from Hargaan. ML defeats Hargaan with a knock out punch and wins the competition.