Chapter 470: Face-to-face Contact with Him (1)

Exactly 30 minutes later.

“Gasp, gasp, gasp, gasp!”

I was trying hard to catch my breath.

While I was gasping for breath, I heard a message ring.

[Your limited skill ‘Savant’ has expired.]

Obviously, my limited skill, Savant, had expired, and my enemy was still in front of me.

He opened his mouth.

[Oh, great. Your eyes! You eyes that seem to have lost hope! I wanted to see those eyes again!]

I had no intention of showing it, but it seemed it leaked onto my face.

Of course, I still had lots of health because my stamina and defense power were still overflowing.

But this was not a fight that I could win simply by enduring forever.

In the end, I was doomed to lose again.

But I didn’t want to run again. This was my last push, and I poured out all my attacks.

So if my desperate effort didn’t work again, I’d rather die.

As it turned out, I failed again.

Nonetheless, I kept attacking him.

“Ice Storm! Multiple Ice Arrows!”

Puck! Puck! Puck! Puck!

Even though my limited skill Savant expired, I kept up the fight until my remaining health dropped below 10%, then further dropped to 5%.

My roots? Of course, they appeared early on to help me out.

But even the roots were not much help this time.

Hundreds of roots appeared at once, and wrapped around him, but he escaped using lava punch and lava eruption. Even the white roots didn’t help me much.

So when my health dropped below 1%, I closed my eyes and waited for my final moment.

However, there was a message that rang before his attack.

[The roots have destroyed the springboard to break their limits and evolve.

– The roots that have lost their grounds for existence will be deleted.]

The message rang all of a sudden.

Right after the message, his lava punch hit me hard.

And it was too hard for me to block his punch with my health less than 1%.

[…]

But his lava punch didn’t do much damage to me because another message rang.

[This is a list of outstanding achievements that the roots have achieved so far.

1. After extinction, the roots have been upgraded and reborn.

2. Absorbed part of the parasite.

3. Absorbed the Ancient Energy to deal with monsters.

4. Absorbed the mark of those who have achieved 100% reality actualization rate.

5. Absorbed the Fragment Ⅲ of Origin.

6. Absorbed Denayan’s wood shards.]

[You have obtained the following, including the outstanding achievements, through the extinction of the roots, and the destruction of the roots’ springboard to evolve.

– Stamina increases by 175,000.

– Agility increases by 133,000.

– Health increases by 300,000.

– Willpower increases by 249,000.

– Intellect increases by 750,000.

Then another message.

– Your health increases by 10,000,000.

– Your mana increases by 5,000,000.

– The cooldown of all remaining skills has been deleted.

– You have acquired the title ‘Legendary Scammer’]

“…”

This was a totally unexpected message. But I couldn’t be happy about it.

During the level 900 limited quest, the roots burned themselves to reach the starting point on my behalf, but that resulted in me losing the roots.

And this time reminded me of the bitter feelings I felt at that time.

As for the title ‘Legendary Scammer’ at the end of the message, I didn’t dare to confirm it because I couldn’t shake off the impression that I obtained the title by inducing the roots to break the springboard that would allow them to break their limits and evolve.

Anyway, my stat points soared so high that I could not believe it.

So I didn’t get hurt at all when he attacked me.

Obviously, my health of over 10 million helped me defend against his attack.

Puck! Puck! Slam! Slam!

I could block his repeated attacks easily after that.

Only then did he sense something wrong.

[What the heck?]

But I didn’t respond.

I shouted right away, “Use Savant!”

I immediately used Savant whose cooldown was removed

[Currently, among strength, agility, stamina, willpower and intellect possessed by Lumen, Asirante, the most outstanding stat is intellect.

-Current intellect value: 914,751

-Intellect value will be changed to 1,829,502 for 30 minutes.]

Then I casually opened my mouth after overlapping my skill five times.

“Ice Breath!”

Bang!

The sound this time was so loud that it could not be compared with the ones before.

Of course, it wasn’t just a banging noise. I not only crushed the ruler of the 1st Royal District, to whom I had never done any harm before, but also threw him far away.

He was now staggering before me, immensely startled.

So I got close to him using Blink, then opened my mouth.

“Gosh, I almost regretted it. Thanks for not dying at once.”

I almost made a huge mistake, for I should have hacked him to pieces instead of killing him in one shot nicely.

[What the heck? No way, you can’t do this!]

“Ice Ball! Ice Bolt!”

Puck! Puck!

Instead of responding, I launched my lowest level attacks first because I didn’t feel obligated to answer. After that, I kept hitting him hard.

Of course, he also counterattacked, but aside from my enormous health, my stamina that had increased by more than 300,000 and my willpower that had increased by more than 250,000 provided me with an immensely different defense power than before.

“Ice Punishment!”

Bang!

[Khuuuuuuk!]

Flop!

I thought harassing him would be my best revenge, but it still did not improve my mood.

So I attacked him with level 9 Ice Punishment, which pierced through his chest. But when the guy who boasted of an almost invincible power was killed with a shriek, I still felt so empty for some reason.

Of course, I wished I had gained this power a little earlier.

But I shook my head because I gained this power only after the roots destroyed their own springboard to outgrow their limits and evolve.

Flop!

I flopped down before I knew it.

There were lots of people watching me, with their eyes open wide.

Some of them were from Earth, and others from Kuhana.

But I didn’t care because I could not afford to pay attention to them.

Then a message rang suddenly.

[The winner of the battle between Kuhana and Earth has been decided.

– Winner: Earth.

-As of now, everything belonging to Kuhana will disappear, and Earth will absorb all its power. ]

[The Land of Despair and the Energy of Despair will disappear. ]

As soon as the message rang, the entire red and black earth changed to its original color. And those belonging to Kuhana, who had their eyes wide open from afar, turned into smoke in an instant and vanished.

“Honestly, I thought you had only 0.00001% or 0.00000001% chance of defeating him.”

I heard somebody next to me saying that.

I sprang to my feet, and immediately turned my head to the side.

And a man holding a long spear came into view.

“Jiwon Lee?”

Of course, I’ve never seen this guy before. But I instinctively realized that he was Jiwon Lee.

He nodded at my question, and said “That’s right. I am Jiwon Lee.”

“Are you the one who has created all this?”

“Yes,” he answered my question casually..