Closed Beta That Only I Played

Chapter 197: Successful Exploration (2)

“Oh, you are very passionate about leveling up,” he said with a smile.

“Well, don’t you think the surest way to become the strongest is to level up?”

I replied to Chairman Yon with a smile as well.

He said with a nod, “Well that’s no problem. I will allow you to hunt in the Giant’s Grave, Asirante. Of course, I’ll organize a herding team for you as well. However, I wish to limit your use of the herding team to one month? If you agree, I’ll open the Giant’s Grave to you anytime, Asirante.”

“Thank you.”

That was enough for me because it was possible that I would encounter multiple level 1200 monsters during that one month. And as far as I knew, the highest player of the Myongjin Guild was only level 1191.

Perhaps 3 weeks? Or, maybe within two weeks and a few days, there would appear a Myongjin player who would reach level 1200. And the Mirae Guild should be in a similar position.

If the Myongjin Guild produced a level 1200 player first, there would be a big fuss inside the Mirae Guild. Maybe they would regret the fact that they organized a herding team for a month and prevented them from being able to hunt and level up.

But I stopped thinking about it because it was not my concern.

That day, I parted with them like that.

Outside of Kotum Castle the next day.

“Whew!”

Looking at the box in my hand, I let out a long breath.

The message said that this random box had at least a myth-grade item.

But if I obtained a weapon item, it would be no good.

Selling it or exchanging it?

This would not work because myth-grade items were generally hidden and not open to the market.

“Alright. No weapons, please!”

Even if a weapon comes out, there are a lot who can use it because Myongjin has a lot of users, including my family.

But I really wanted an item that I could use. But even if I wished really hard, there was no guarantee that I would get an item I really wanted, so I quickly opened the box to see what it contained.

Pop!

The box emitted a bright golden light, and an item appeared.

“Whew!”

I let out a sigh of relief because it was not a weapon.

But I was not very happy because although this item was myth-grade, it looked rather shabby and ugly.

In other words, it looked very shabby compared to the myth-grade “Ice Emperor’s guardian sword” which looked very unique since it was made of ice itself.

So, I started to check the item first.

“Check item.”

[Forgotten Hero’s Cloak. (myth)

-It is a cloak worn by a hero who ended the ancient war era.

: At least level 700 required to equip.

: At least 5 titles required to equip.

: When wearing the complete set items of the forgotten hero, a hidden option is activated.

-Effect.

: Completely defends against all debuffs inflicted on the wearer with a 50% probability.

For each title, the probability increases by an additional 1%.

: All stat points increase by 100.

An additional 20 stat points increase is granted per title. If you have five titles, all stat points will increase by 200.

-Safety Enhancement: Enhancement impossible. (when the other set item of the forgotten hero is equipped, the condition of enhancement impossible is canceled.)

-Physical defense: 1000, magic defense: 2000

-Durability: infinite/infinite]

It was simple for a myth-grade item with only two options.

However, there was an option I liked very much, namely, the debuff option.

Of course, I have never been properly affected by debuffs until now.

Even though I selected Willpower to be the second stat to grow along with Intellect at only 50%, , my current willpower is over 10,000 and will continue to increase in the future.

But nonetheless, if I had to specify a weakness of mine, it would be my willpower because my stamina already exceeded 20,000.

‘Well, I have nine titles, so the probability is 59%…’

I felt quite satisfied because I would be unaffected by debuffs at least one out of two times without any problem.

If I was lucky, I would be unaffected multiple times in a row.

So I finished checking the first option and turned my gaze to the second option.

Basically, all my stat points are increased by 280 with my 9 titles.

It wasn’t as high as I thought.

Moreover, the effect of Mutual Growth did not apply to stat points granted by this item.

‘Hmm.’

No matter how much I thought about it, I thought it was no good.

However, it was definitely worth wearing only with the first option, so I felt quite satisfied.

Furthermore, wearing other parts of the set would reveal a hidden option.

Of course, it was unclear whether I could obtain the other forgotten hero set items.

Anyway, I put the forgotten hero’s cloak in my inventory and moved to the Giant’s Grave because I currently could not equip the cloak because of the robe set I was wearing.

So, on the way to the Giant’s Grave, I decided that sooner or later I would take off my robe set and change it to a light armor set.

***

At the Mirae Guild’s headquarters.

The Mirae Guild did not celebrate this event simply because they successfully cleared it.

Naturally, its Strategy Department checked various things based on the Memory Bead with which they recorded their members’ activities.

For example, they checked the current level of Japanese users or whether there was anything lacking in the skills of the Mirae Guild members.

However, what they paid most attention to was Asirante’s activities.

As a matter of fact, the Strategy Department of the Mirae Guild closely observed his every move in the Memory Bead and came to one conclusion.

He was indeed exceptional as the rumors say.

All the members of the Strategy Department could not believe their eyes after confirming Asirante’s remarkable power and growth compared to their past info on him.

Then someone carefully opened their mouth.

“How can he still be so exceptionally strong?”

In general, one’s strength usually goes up steeply at first, then flattens out and plateaus. Why? Because it’s harder to level up over time, and it becomes increasingly harder to find higher level and higher grade items to increase their power that way. In other words, you can hardly get stronger very quickly once you reach a certain level.

But in their eyes, Asirante was still soaring without any hindrance as if he had yet to reach the top.

This meant that he could still grow stronger at a rapid pace in the future.

When they were given such a briefing about Asirante, both Chairman Yon and his right hand man Sungyop didn’t show any particular reaction because they already witnessed his extraordinary activities while moving with him in the recent event.

Chairman Yon quietly said to Sungyop, “It’s a myth grade item, isn’t it?”

“Yeah.”

“Hmm…”

Chairman Yon groaned, stroking his chin, when Sungyop confirmed it confidently.

As the Mirae Guild’s chairman, Yon was well aware of the value of a myth-grade item.

Moreover, he confirmed its incredible power when he witnessed Asirante’s attack closeby.

Although Asirante was a wizard, his physical attack power was incomparably strong.

Anyway, Chairman Yon continued, lowering his hand after stroking his chin.

“Let’s organize three herding teams and support Asirante in the Giant’s Grave.”

Chairman Yon originally thought of organizing a couple of herding teams for Asirante, but he decided that at least three teams would be needed given Asirante’s capabilities.

“Understood.”

After Sungyop responded to the chairman’s order, the small meeting at the Mirae Guild headquarters ended.

Of course, they thought that three teams would be enough, but they didn’t realize that they were still underestimating Arsirante’s capabilities a lot.

At the Teleport Zone of Olbini Castle.

“Move to the Giant’s Grave.”

[You have moved to the Giant’s Grave.]

It was only after I moved from Kotum Castle to Rodon Castle, then Olbini Castle from there that I could step into the Giant’s Grave, my final destination.

When I arrived there, a couple of people who I knew very well were waiting for me.

They were Chairman Yon and his right hand man Sungyop Yu.

“Welcome, Asirante!’

“Nice to see you again.”

I could confirm Chairman’s Yon’s trust in Sungyop during the previous event.

He was like Director Insu Sok of the Myongjin Group to my father.

So, I could easily infer how well the Mirae Guild was treating me when I saw him waiting for me with the chairman.

From the way they greeted me, they had obviously finished organizing the herding teams for me.

After exchanging greetings with them briefly, I moved further inside the hunting ground.

There, I met exactly 36 men of the three herding teams.

Sungyop said, pointing at them, “A total of three herding teams with 12 members per team will herd the monsters for you, Asirante.”

Although I wanted at least four teams, I didn’t express my feelings because I didn’t want to look arrogant despite my confidence.

Of course, Chairman Yon might decide to dispatch one more team if I could hunt easily with the three herding teams. Anyway, I met the three teams, but they were not in a welcoming mood. More precisely, they were a bit hostile to me.