After the situation was fully cleaned up, Yu IlHan and Liera returned to the Flying Fortress first. Mystic was still slightly annoyed, but he ignored her.
But when he was coming back with Liera in his arms, Yu IlHan thought of one thing: that Liera was not 'Liera' anymore.
"Then what do I call you now?"
"It doesn't matter what you call me. In fact, I'd like any name if it's from you."
Whatever he asked now, he would get an answer like this. Yu IlHan asked with a bitter smile.
"The name you used when you were human... wait, you were human, right?"
"Yeah, although there are quite a few angels who weren't human before, I was a human. But, hmm."
She decided to be honest.
"I don't remember my name from back when I was still a human. So isn't my current name fine? Or should I go back to Lita?"
"No, I don't think there's a need to do that. Let's just go with Liera."
"Okay!"
Yu IlHan first pushed Liera into the path because he was afraid to speak a single word to her, given her near-infinite optimism.
She had experienced a huge-scale healing from her heart to her skin; as she had fallen from 6th class to 4th, there was no way there was no damage to her body. What she needed right now was none other than rest. This was an opinion from the Resting Meister Yu IlHan, so it was definitely correct.
"Together!"
"We have a lot of time together. First, relieve your fatigue slowly by yourself."
"Together~!"
Liera splashed the water and pouted, but Yu IlHan ignored her. In fact, his biggest worry right now was that he was unsure what would happen if he approached her now.
"Hiing."
She pouted, both cheeks, but eventually soaked back up in the water while staring at him. Her light pink lips, half above the water, spat out insults.
"Stingy, coward, erectile dysfunction..."
"Not the last one!"
Leaving Liera alone, Yu IlHan left and finally calmed down with a deep breath.
"Fuuuu."
There should be a limit to how chaotic the situation is turning out. He was about to faint from headaches. He was surprised that he still held out.
[I was about to die from the cringeyness. You learned all of that from books, right? Right?]
[You tried.]
While Mystic was trying to tease him by any means, only Orochi consoled him in a short, stiff voice. Perhaps he understood him because he was male? Yu IlHan laughed and tapped on the Infernal Dragon's body twice.
In any case, he had calmed down now. He finally felt his heart, which had been beating loudly and quickly since Liera went into battle, slow to its normal rate.
"Well, then."
It was time to check the records he hadn't had a chance to look over during the battle, and due to Liera.
The start and the most important point of this change was the evolution of the Language skill into the Record skill. In fact, it was a skill completely different from Yu IlHan's expectations; in short, it allowed him to understand himself and the world from the viewpoint of the Akashic Record.
If other people understood and acquired a portion of the record by defeating a monster, then he would acquire the whole thing. If others had to train with and use an item for hundreds of days to understand it, then for him, it would be enough with a swing or two.
It was not strange for all his experience and skill to leap by two. It was also natural for the critical hit rate to increase against enemies he had fought before.
This skill was just that kind of skill; since he had learned the language of all the worlds, he was now at the starting line of understanding the language of the Akashic Record.
"In other words, it's OP."
[It's OP indeed.] (Orochi)
[It's so OP.] (Mystic)
Declared Yu IlHan. Orochi and Mystic agreed with him.
This skill was more OP than any one of his skills he had learned and used until now. What was the one most relied-upon target after the Great Cataclysm? Wasn't it the Akashic Record? Even higher existences were being swung around by this absolute, unchanging law. But he could now understand how it worked!
Would anyone else have learned this skill? Probably, yes. Perhaps the leaders of each higher existence faction have learned this skill.
'And that means they became stronger through this skill.'
He newly felt that he still had a long way to go. No matter how strong he felt he had become, he was still merely 4th class. No matter how much ability he had, he still could not defeat those in the faraway realm, at least not yet.
'Although I would not need to touch them if they don't try to kill me...'
Although it was annoying to say, at this rate, he had too high a chance of being involved with them. Yu IlHan inwardly resolved himself. At least he had a good start!
He would keep running forward. Like the elementary school athletic meet marathon that he finished despite no one looking at him. Ah, to think back, his dad was cheering for him!
In any case, his understanding of other skills leaped the moment he gained the Record skill and, as a result, instantly mastered Blaze. The blessing of the goddess of fire was given to him as if it was waiting for that moment.
The mastery of Blaze enabled him to wield all flames freely, and the blessing of the goddess of fire granted him a 50% increase in fire-attribute resistance and attack, as well as raising the level of all his fire-related skills.
It was a 'hot' skill, alright, as expected of a goddess. Unlike the blessing of the god of smithing, in which he only gained a tinge of grey in his hair, this time his eyes were dyed red like fire. Of course, only when he was wielding fire using mana.
With Blaze mastered and the blessing of the goddess of fire received, he was immediately able to proceed to 4th class. So, Yu IlHan had suppressed his heart to go save Liera immediately, and proceed to his 4th class on the spot.
Advancement to Hell Bringer from Blazing Reaper. He thought it would be an advanced version of his classes so far, but it was a complete mistake. If Blazing Reaper was an assassin with maximized attack, Hell Bringer was an exterminator with assassination skills.
[You have become Hell Bringer. Concealment increases by 50%, and fire attribute resistance and attack power increase by 50% as well. You are invulnerable to surprise attacks. You are immune to all curses and poison.]
His stat increases from his Blazing Reaper days were: a 20% increase in concealment, a 20% increase in fire attribute resistance and attack, a 40% increase in attack power during surprise attacks, and a 30% increase in attack power against life forms. Perhaps, it could be said that his abilities were reduced by acquiring the class.
However, to him, a 30% additional increase in concealment, his strongest ability, was a bigger plus than the surprise attack power. It was the same with fire-attribute resistance and attack power, which together made up a very large portion of his attacks.
To sum up, he had discarded all the minor supporting stats and maximized his advantages. Yu IlHan was satisfied with that. He could choose a wider variety of battle tactics than before, when he had to end every battle with a surprise attack.
Invulnerability to surprise attacks should come from the title 'Untouchable', and immunity to curses and poison should come from the two resistance skills. Somehow, he became a monster that could no longer be called a 'lower existence'.
With him acquiring 4th class, all the experience he had gained up to that point was also calculated, and perhaps because he had gained the full experience of a 6th class at the last minute, his level had risen to 270. This was an overwhelming contrast to when he had finished his 3rd-class advancement!
However, this was acceptable as well, since at that time, he had killed a little more than 1,000 4th-class dragons and a few tens of thousands of 3rd-class dragons, but this time, not only had he wiped out all the monsters that appeared on Earth for 3 years, he also killed 5th-class monsters and even a 6th class! Moreover, he had killed the 6th-class Chaos Will when his Record skill was active, and that overwhelming amount of experience had doubled.
Considering that, it was strange that he wasn't level 299 immediately, but if he told Erta that, then she would retort that he was a damn thief. Yu IlHan was satisfied with just this much.
There were two other changes, and it was that, like the angels had predicted, the skills that required him to master for 4th class – namely, Blaze, Deathgod, Death collector, Soul enchant, Transcendent regeneration, Extreme poison resistance, and Higher curse resistance – had all fused to become the skill, 'Falling down'.
[You have acquired the skill, Falling down. This skill traps a certain region of space using Blaze, depending on level. All enemies drop by a league in this region and are constantly bound and damaged by flames that contain the power of souls, curses, and poison. In this region, the user's recoverability increases by 500%, and the region's power increases by 5% whenever an enemy is killed. It will not work against enemies in a realm too high above the user, but that may change as the skill grows. The skill uses 70% of the entire mana pool to activate, and 3% more to maintain each minute.]
Truly a suitable skill for a Hell Bringer that wrought the wrath of hell upon the lands! The fact that his recoverability increased with the number of enemies he killed made Yu IlHan like it more.
This was a skill even hard to find among higher existences, let alone lower ones. Everything Yu IlHan had gained on his path up to now was in this one skill.
And the final one was the fusion skill of Superhuman Strength and Critical Hit. Although he had vaguely predicted the others, he didn't have the slightest clue about these two!
In fact, Yu IlHan had almost given up on the fusion evolution of these two skills since he didn't know the conditions; no matter what he did after mastering them, but, strangely, the moment he became 4th class, the fusion requirements were met. So, he hypothesized that skill evolution required not only understanding of the skills and the magic stone, but also the user's league.
Anyway, the skill he had acquired after fusing those two was very simple.
[You have acquired the skill, God Force. Muscular strength increases by 300% at level 1. It puts an enormous strain on the body, so you may require months of recuperation once used.]
How simple compared to all the incomprehensible and hard-to-use skills! However, people said the simplest were the most frightening, and the power behind the God Force skill was very frightening indeed.
Muscular strength refers to the strength stat, and an increase of 3 in the strength stat could mean that his level would increase by a certain amount during that time. This was also a skill unsuited to lower existences.
Of course, as the warning on the skill noted, the penalties were frightening as well. Even though he had the Transcendent regeneration skill, he would have to stay in bed for at least 3 days after using it.
Although this was plenty absurd since months became 3 days, it could be said that it was very hard to use in real battle.
That is, if he didn't have the Falling Down skill.
Yes. His recoverability increases by 500% within that area, and using Transcendent regeneration inside would allow him to use God Force without any side effects. Skill combo referred to this!
[So OP.]
"It is OP!"
[Are you trying to conquer the Earth alone?]
"Oh, that sounds annoying, so, no."
Yu IlHan called out his status on this retina and checked it. A string of words emitting enormous force was visible.
[Yu IlHan(Human)]
[Main Class – Hell Bringer Lv270]
[Sub Class – Angel's Partner, Dragon Rider]
[Title – Pancosmic loner, Untouchable, One hit for him, one hit for you; creator of myths, thousand in one hit, dragon slayer, dragon's ally, the quickest, hero of fire, the frog that leaped out of the well. Blessing of the blacksmith god, blessing of the goddess of fire]
[Strength – 546 Agility – 475 Health – 387 Magic – 554]
[Active skills – Falling Down(Deathgod, Soul enchant, Blaze, Death collector, Transcendent regeneration, Extreme poison resistance, Higher curse resistance Lv7, Mana crafting Lv96, God Force(Superhuman strength, Critical hit) Lv 2, Angel's support Lv 89, Rule 98, Dragonic Blood Lv84, Warp(Leap) Lv 7]
[Passive skills – Angel's protection, Dragon-man resonance lv 87, Physical combat mastery lv max, Blunt weapon mastery lv max, Sword mastery lv max, Whip mastery lv max, Dismantling lv max, Blacksmithing lv max, Record(language) lv 2, Magic engineering lv 99, Excavation lv 99, Spear of Untraceable Trajectory(spear mastery) lv 94, Absolute accuracy(throwing, shooting) lv 96, cooking lv 97]
"Good."
Yu IlHan nodded in satisfaction.
"Not long until higher existence."
[All worlds will exclaim at this.]
"I don't want to hear from you who was born a higher existence."
To him right now, the only problem was that the Falling Down skill's mana consumption was very high, even though it would be the core of his battles. And about that, he had no choice but to focus on increasing the duration somehow. Increasing the skill level would be one method, but...
"That would take a long time, and for now I can..."
Make accessories from the remains of higher existences to increase mana efficiency. That was the biggest candidate. No, if this went well, it might as well solve the entire problem.
"I'll put this to work immediately."
[Working while leaving behind such a woman who's all ready. Sheesh, men are always like this. And here you just said all those sweet words just now, hm?]
"Ugh."
["It's fortunate that you don't have to commit a crime...!"]
"Uggggaaaaahk."
[I, too, love you.]
"Uhaaaaaahk! Kergh!"
That was Yu IlHan's limit. With the continuous provocation from Mystic, Yu IlHan, who awoke to the embarrassment, started rolling around the mansion at speeds that far surpassed sungdaein bolt's previous records! Mystic, who finally produced the scene she wanted, spoke in a very satisfied voice.
[Master, since you're rolling, wrap some rags around you and roll around the dirty corridors.]
[Such a cruel building….] (Orochi)
Orochi sympathized with his master but said no more. He knew of Mystic's frustration well.
But midway through his rolling, Yu IlHan stood up abruptly. He felt a giant ripple of mana, and instantly realized what that meant.
"IlHan!"
It seemed she had realized as well. Liera left the bath and was running outside.
"The dungeon! That dungeon!"
"I know. The dungeon where Mir and the other children were trapped….."
How could he not think of this? The master of the dungeon had disappeared, so it was a natural process for the dungeon to disappear!
Mir and the other children would be liberated with this, and not only that, the perverted demons would be put in the same situation! Although it was fortunate that there were no humans on Earth right now, he had to move now to prevent the annoying stuff from happening later.
"IlHan, let's go! Let's go quickly!"
"Yes, we need to hurry! But before that, Liera."
Yu IlHan spoke in a serious and strict tone.
"Put on some clothes."