49. Omnipotent Rune (2)
[Welcome to the Enhancement Center!]
[Try enhancing or refining your runes!]
Baek Jinwoo headed straight to the Enhancement Center first.
In the meantime, through all that grinding, he had piled up plenty of junk runes to use as materials.
[Would you like to enhance?]
[Y/N]
Rare runes were endgame runes by nature anyway.
There was no need to wash his hands clean or set out a bowl of water and pray just because he was enhancing one.
“Yes.”
Let’s do it all at once!
[Level 2!]
[Strength +12% -> Strength +24%]
[Level 3!]
[Intelligence +12% -> Intelligence +24%]
[Level 4!]
[Stamina +12% -> Stamina +24%]
[Level 5!]
[Agility +12% -> Agility +24%]
[Level 6!]
[Strength +24% -> Strength +36%]
[Level 7?!]
[Intelligence +24% -> Intelligence +36%]
[Level 8!]
[Stamina +24% -> Stamina +36%]
[Level 9!]
[Agility +24% -> Agility +36%]
[Level Max!]
[Critical Damage +20% -> Critical Damage +40%]
[Enhancement has reached the maximum level!]
“Kgh.”
A pretty huge chunk of enhancement materials vanished in one go, but the numbers attached to it were so satisfying that it didn’t feel like a waste at all.
[Rune]
[Grade: Top-grade (Rare)]
One of only 100 runes in the entire world.
[Set Effect: Universal]
When 6 are equipped, all stats increase by 500%, HP increases by 10,000.
2 additional stat options added.
[Level: Max]
[Stat Increase]
Strength +36%, Intelligence +36%, Stamina +36%, Agility +36%, Critical Rate +10%, Critical Damage +40%
“Yeah, this is it!”
Baek Jinwoo continued enhancing.
All six of them.
‘As for polish, there’s no need.’
There was no need to apply polish.
If he used polish too, he could technically get a 100% critical rate, but was there really any need for that?
It was only a near-endgame rune anyway. Meaning, it wasn’t a true endgame rune.
He was planning to use it for now and replace it with something better later.
—My lord, thank you.
Baek Jinwoo fitted all six enhanced Omnipotent Runes directly onto HunGyo.
And then.
[Summon: Training Instructor]
[Race: Human]
[Grade: EX-rank (Isolation Classification)]
Isolated due to the discovery of a game-breaking element under certain circumstances.
[Level: 40]
[Current Stats]
Strength: 315, Intelligence: 315, Stamina: 315, Agility: 315
HP: 30,000, MP: 5,000
Critical Rate: 80%
Critical Damage: 260%
[Skills]
Growth: Grows through training.
Charisma: Overwhelms other summons.
Instructor: Unlocks the latent potential of other summons and amplifies their growth speed.
‘This is insane.’
The stat inflation was monstrous.
Originally, HunGyo (Lv. 40), without a single rune equipped, had 20 each in Strength, Intelligence, Stamina, and Agility.
Then he received six runes with +36% stat increase each, meaning a total rune effect of 216%.
So 20 gained an additional 216% of itself, which came to 63.2.
Rounded down, 63.
And then the set effect of 500%, applied afterward, was multiplicative. Simply put, everything combined was multiplied by 5.
That was how the monstrous number 315 came out.
‘As for how big that number really is...’
An average adult has around 2 Strength. A trained professional athlete has around 5 Strength.
Anything beyond that is superhuman.
It wasn’t exact, but roughly speaking, a gorilla would be Strength 10, a tiger 20... beyond that, I’ll leave it to your imagination.
Honestly speaking, even Baek Jinwoo couldn’t really grasp what 315 Strength actually meant.
Wouldn’t it probably work just fine all the way up to the 60th floor of the Tower of Trials?
‘Let’s just think of it as ridiculously strong.’
—My lord, should I use these well for now and then pass them on to Aso later?
“You knew?”
—Of course. Weren’t you planning to combine 3 Omnipotent Runes through the Rune Dwarf to create Trinity? Trinity is perfectly tailored for Aso alone.
Damn.
He had planned to explain that later...but HunGyo had spoiled it first.
“That’s right. I can’t get anything past you.”
Well.
Of course.
The one who had unlocked the Rune Dwarf’s latent potential had been HunGyo, after all.
Trinity was a unique rune that only the Rune Dwarf could make.
And, it boasted performance overwhelmingly superior to Omnipotent.
To the point that it could be used comfortably all the way up to the 100th floor of the Tower of Trials.
That was exactly why Baek Jinwoo had insisted on gathering 18 Omnipotent Runes!
—I’m fine. Rather, there is another rune that I want.
“I know. The Master Rune, right?”
—Yes, my lord.
The Master Rune was a Rare rune too.
It was a rune specialized for teaching someone, and this one could also be made by the Rune Dwarf.
“I feel joy and exhilaration when I train someone and watch that person rise to a higher level. Omnipotent is good as well, but the one that suits me better is, without a doubt, Master.”
Yeah.
Thanks for saying that.
Baek Jinwoo knew too.
That HunGyo was saying that for his sake. Summons were living beings that thought and spoke too. Of course they liked good and expensive runes.
‘Someday.’
I’ll make one more and give it to him.
Omnipotent Runes numbered 100 in total, after all.
He could get more, and if not, the Rune Dwarf could make them too.
In theory, that meant he could make two or three more sets of Trinity Runes as well!
—Then I’ll go back and continue training!
Maybe it was thanks to the rune effects.
Watching HunGyo disappear with even lighter steps than before, Baek Jinwoo nodded with satisfaction.
* * *
He got a call from Jasim.
If Baek Jinwoo would only save his daughter, whom he cherished more than the apple of his eye, he promised not only five Omnipotent Runes, but an even better gift as well.
He said Baek Jinwoo should come running anytime without the slightest hesitation.
“Mr. Jinwoo.”
Yoo Jia came over and relayed the message.
“They want you to come to Dubai. They sent a private plane and a pilot, so they said you can ride comfortably.”
Wow.
As expected of a Middle Eastern rich man.
He even sent a plane telling him to come in person?
Actually, even though that was how it sounded, Baek Jinwoo felt a certain emotion in that action.
‘Desperation.’
He must really want to save his daughter that badly.
“They must have commissioned countless people until now. Apparently, not a single player among them correctly identified his daughter’s illness.”
“I see. Then does that mean I should go alone?”
“No.”
Yoo Jia shook her head.
“Mr. Jinwoo. Can you speak Arabic?”
“Nope.”
Arabic? Forget Arabic, he couldn’t even speak English.
“That’s why you have to take me with you.”
“...Ms. Jia, you speak Arabic too?”
“Yes, I can speak a little of most languages.”
“Oh.”
Now that was a refreshing kind of elite.
Usually people say they can speak a few languages, but she was saying she could speak a little of most languages?
Wasn’t that just genius?
How many languages even existed in the world!
‘Still, that’s a relief.’
In Battle of Summoners, there had been automatic translation, but reality would obviously be different.
“Then let’s go together. Let me know when we leave. We’ll make a quick trip of it.”
* * *
Rat-tat-tat-tat!
The private plane took off, and Baek Jinwoo and Yoo Jia departed for Dubai.
Inside the cabin, just in case anything happened, Lamba spent the flight stacking enough buffs onto HunGyo.
He had also already stacked buffs onto Gale Slayer, who was waiting nearby under invisibility.
For reference, a summon’s default summon duration was 5 hours, and if it was unsummoned and then summoned again, the stacks had to be built back up from scratch.
—Hinguu!
Because of that, only Lamba had it rough.
“When we get back to Korea, I’ll fill the fridge with cream bread, so hang in there a bit.”
—Okaaaay…..
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!
From the moment they arrived in Dubai until the moment they returned to Korea, they could not afford to lower their guard.
Whether at home or abroad, public safety wasn’t exactly great.
How much time had passed?
Rat-tat-tat-tat!
Before long, they were able to set foot in Dubai. And not at an airport, but on a runway installed at a private residence.
‘This is unbelievable.’
A house with its own runway?
It was the first time in his life he had ever seen something like that.
When they got off the plane, a bearded man in white clothes and a head covering greeted Baek Jinwoo.
“So you are the famous player Baek Jinwoo from the Republic of Korea. It is an honor to meet you!”
“Huh?”
That was fluent Korean he was hearing, wasn’t it?
“The one pecking at feed over there is the one responsible. Do you see the bird sitting on that perch? It’s a limited-edition B-rank translation bird. It turns the surrounding area into a translation zone. Please, just make yourself comfortable.”
“....Oh.”
There was something like that?
Then Yoo Jia hadn’t really needed to come after all.
Glance.
When he looked to the side, Yoo Jia was staring blankly at the bird with a face full of existential shock.
‘Well.’
If I’d studied languages so hard and then saw a bird like that, I’d feel the same way.
“So, you’re Jasim. I’m Baek Jinwoo.”
“I heard you may know the name of my daughter’s illness. And if you are able to cure it, you asked for five Top-grade Omnipotent Rune.”
Jasim did not hesitate.
It showed how urgent the matter was, bringing up the main point immediately.
That was actually better.
“That’s right. But I’m not certain. I just want to take a look.”
“...Even if you’re not certain, that is fine. As long as there is even a possibility... please do everything you can.”
He looked fairly young. But his love for his daughter seemed immense.
“Then shall we take a look at your daughter?”
Jasim led the two of them into a lavishly decorated room.
On top of a pink French-style bed lay a young girl with a deathly pale complexion.
She looked about thirteen or fourteen years old.
“Jasim.”
“Yes.”
“Could you step out for a moment?”
To diagnose that girl, he needed to talk with HunGyo.
It would be uncomfortable with Jasim watching.
“.......”
When the man hesitated uneasily,
“If you want, we can make a contract through the system. Stating that I will pose absolutely no threat to your daughter.”
Baek Jinwoo offered the deal.
But—after a brief moment of thought, Jasim lowered his head and stepped back.
“No. If I have decided to trust you, then I must trust you to the end.”
In truth, Jasim had already completed an investigation into Baek Jinwoo before calling him here.
The national hero of Korea!
A man who might even be the ‘God Ji-nu’ worshipped by world rankers.
There was no way such a man would do something vile to his daughter or threaten him.
No, there had to be no way.
Because if he started threatening him from this point on, even if Jasim stayed here, he would not be able to stop him.
“Thank you for trusting me.”
After sending Jasim out, Baek Jinwoo called for HunGyo.
“HunGyo.”
—Yes, my lord.
“Take a look. She seems to be in pretty bad shape.”
“Huu... ngh...”
The young girl’s body, breathing in ragged gasps, was drenched in cold sweat.
Her body looked cold too, and her complexion was poor.
Step.
HunGyo walked closer, took hold of her forearm, and checked her pulse.
‘As expected.’
HunGyo closed his eyes and nodded.
‘It’s Severed Meridian Syndrome.’
A congenital illness known as one of the incurable diseases of the martial world.
‘And not just that—Nine Yin Severed Meridians.’
Her yin energy was so strong that the nine meridians inside her body were unable to function properly and had become twisted and blocked.
Naturally, her energy could not circulate smoothly, and she would spend her whole life wasting away before dying young.
Originally, there was no cure, but if there was one method, only one existed.
‘An overwhelmingly powerful yang energy.’
“So? Do you think you know what illness it is?”
—Yes, my lord.
“Oh, really? What is it?”
—It is Nine Yin Severed Meridians.
“.....Nine Yin Severed Meridians?”
What the hell was that?
“Can it be cured?”
—Please wait a moment. I am thinking right now.
As HunGyo closed his eyes, a vast sea of knowledge began to unfold inside his mind.
And while searching through that reservoir of knowledge, even HunGyo was surprised.
‘Was it always this much?’
Far more information than before was pouring into his mind.
‘EX-rank.’
Was it because his rank had risen?
Or perhaps because of the effect of the skill he had recently learned, Instructor?
Among that knowledge was even the knowledge of the S-rank summon, the Divine Physician of the Murim, Hua Tuo.
More precisely, it was knowledge for training Hua Tuo, so he could not directly use Hua Tuo’s techniques himself.
But even that knowledge alone was enough to bring the treatment for Nine Yin Severed Meridians to mind.
—Explosive Dragon Sorcerer.
“Hm?”
—We need Explosive Dragon Sorcerer’s flames, my lord. With that, it can be cured.
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