Return of the Frozen Player

ite direction of the hallway.
“I’m counting on you for the autograph! Tell him I’ll make it my family heirloom!”

“…You like him that much?” Seo Jun-ho looked down at the book that she’d given him and chuckled.

 

[Great Figures of Korea – Specter]

 

“She really is obsessed.”

The book had been published 26 years ago when he’d been active as Specter.

 

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Seo Jun-ho arrived at the training room and changed into light workout clothes.
Before he began, he checked his status window as he stretched.

 

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[Seo Jun-ho]

Level: 29

Title: The One Who Opens Spring, (2 more)

Strength: 96               Stamina: 112

Agility: 100                    Magic: 143

 

Including Helper of Ascension and Limit Breaker, he had a total of three titles.
The status window had shortened it to make it easy to read.

And if I equip Black Armor on top of all this… His stats would be insanely high.
He even wondered if he’d match the stats from when he was level 60.

But even if it gets that high… He wouldn’t be the unstoppable force he was in the past.

This was just the beginning.

Once he reached the 2nd floor, Seo Jun-ho would truly become a rookie.
That was why he was using his fame to use the Big 6’s resources to gather information.

I’m an investment for the Association, but we’ll need time to increase their influence and ability to gather information.

It was already publicly known that humanity had dominated up to the 2nd floor.
But that didn’t mean that every nook and cranny had been explored.

I heard that there are a lot of uncovered areas.

And the players who’d been to the 3rd floor were a small minority.
Just as the 2nd floor required you to reach level 30, the 3rd floor had its own requirements.

Until the Association creates a better information network, I’ll use the Big 6 to help them grow. He didn’t feel guilty for using them.
It’s not like he was using them for free, and he hadn’t been the one to give them a bad image.

“Now, then…” He pulled on a glove that was in the training room.
It was the same item he’d used while taking the player license test, and it let him touch holograms.
“Is this how you use it?”

He connected to the training room’s system and pressed a few buttons.
A human-shaped sandbag hologram appeared in the center of the room.

“Let’s see…” Seo Jun-ho landed a straight punch without magic.
He heard the sound of the impact, and the sandbag turned red.
Words appeared to its left.

 

[Congratulations! 9,523 points!]

[An outstanding destructive force!!]

 

“This reminds me of the punch machines they used to have in old arcades.”

He slowly unraveled his magic, his arms overflowing with power.

“Hup!”

His fist struck the head again with a violent force. Boom! The sound was much louder than before, and the numbers rose.

 

[Congratulations! 101,518 points!]

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[A score that’s unattainable without magic! You’re a player, aren’t you?]

 

“Phew…” Seo Jun-ho let his magic disperse as he saw the score.
The punch was over ten times more destructive than before.
This was the technique he’d been using this whole time.
He would charge his strikes with magic at certain moments.
It allocated magic to a very fine degree, so it was a magic-efficient technique.
He’d used it when he hadn’t had a lot of magic as Specter.

But there’s a downside to it.

There was a slight delay when he summoned his magic, and it wasn’t as powerful.

It’s a given.
I made the technique to optimize the use of my limited magic. So he’d created another technique to make up for its weaknesses. Skaya helped me a lot with it.

They’d put their heads together.
If you lacked control, focus, or mental willpower, it was a useless skill.

Booster.

His circuits started to burn like wildfire, circulating his body at high speed.

One lap, two, three…

His magic didn’t know how to stop.
It kept going.

“Keuk…” Seo Jun-ho groaned.
His body temperature rose, and he started to drip cold sweat.
His magic was circulating thirteen times faster than usual.
This was why he needed fine control, focus, and mental willpower.

The only downside to this skill is that it consumes a lot of magic… And it made you hot.
If it weren’t for those two things, it would’ve been a flawless support skill.
It served a single purpose: to strengthen the entire body.

When Seo Jun-ho used this technique, he became a superhuman.
No enemy had ever defeated him in this state.

“Well, it’s been 25 years since then, so there are probably a lot of people now who use a similar technique.”

His body overflowed with power.
Seo Jun-ho tapped on the settings and summoned a full-body mirror.
Vigor spilled from his body, and his eyes sparkled like stars.

I’ll have to be careful when using this. The person in the mirror was no longer the simpleminded Seo Jun-ho he’d been masquerading as.
He was a dangerous, powerful man.

Seo Jun-ho turned to the hologram sandbag.
“I wonder how high the score will be this time.”

His body flew forward like a ray of light, and his fist made the head explode.
The entire quality of the sound was different.
It was like the roar of a bomb.

“……”

Seo Jun-ho’s lip curled as he read the words that appeared.

 

[Congratulations! 215,748 points!]

[Are you a ranker in the Frontier?]

 

In his Booster state, the output of magic shot up.
So even if he used the same amount of magic, the destructive force would be twice as powerful.

Of course, the aftermath was also strong.

“Ack, I won’t be able to use this for long.” Seo Jun-ho quickly released his magic before his body became even hotter.
In a moment’s notice, his body had become as hot as a computer that had been on for a long time.

I think it’ll take about… one week to tame this technique.

“If I can pull in the reins on Booster, I’ll go to the Winter Castle.”

And if things went as expected, it would be the last Gate he would clear on the 1st floor.