The Boundless Necromancer

some, you lose some.

「 Acquiring the skill ‘Sustain Battle (F)’ 」 

Upon seeing that message, I navigated to the bottom of my stat window and pressed ‘See details.’

From there, I clicked on the newly generated ‘Sustain Battle’ skill.

「 Skill – Sustain Battle (F) 」 

「 Proficiency – 0% 」 

「 Effect – If appraised to have taken a deathly attack, all restrictions to movement are weakened for 1 minute.
」 

‘A well-known skill among hunters.’

If you asked any hunter how to obtain this skill, they’d tell you off the top of their head.

Since it activated right before death, so it left a strong impression in my mind.

‘The requirement to obtain it is overcoming at least ten life-threatening battles.’

The number of battles depended on your knack for it, but that was the gist.

The effect was astonishing.

Whether it was from poison or bound by a skill, all ‘restrictions to movement’ were weakened.

Of course, it didn’t completely counteract those effects…

But the higher the rank, the longer the skill lasts and the weaker the rebound becomes.

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‘A lot of people couldn’t learn it because of the harsh requirement.’

Only those who threw themselves into dangerous battles ever saw a glimpse of this skill.

There were only two types of people who had the skill.

Veteran hunters who naturally accumulated experience, and battle-crazed maniacs who live for battle.

It may have not been intentional, but ‘Lee Jinhoo’ was probably part of the latter group.

‘What kinds of trials did he face to have been so close to death?’

I hadn’t been through 10 of those battles yet. 

That ‘Lee Jinhoo’ must have had something different.

Although, it’s strange that he was so frightened with a skill like this.

‘Well, it’s not worth thinking harder about.’

Either way, I’d gained more than I’d lost from that interaction.

Now all that was left was to use the return stone and buy some equipment.

‘Hm, can I take the equipment I bought here back to Earth?’

If I cpuld, I’d never have to worry about money again.

Just selling an E-grade item would be immense.

But when I came to the tower, I lost everything besides my clothes.

I’d still hold on to some items in my hand while I went back, but I didn’t know if it would work.

‘Worrying about it won’t solve anything.
I might as well go back to Earth now.’

I at least wanted to clean myself up a bit.

Take a proper shower, eat a proper meal, and get some proper rest.

I also wanted to get my money back from the training gym.

Just because I got stronger didn’t mean that anything changed about the outside world.

An incompetent player barely surviving off of part-time jobs.

Getting back the 7 years of fees would be important right now.

$35,000 wasn’t a small sum.

‘I have to save as much as possible right now.’

If I didn’t have enough points, I’d have just stayed and forgot about the money.

But frankly, I had more than a comfortable amount of points to buy all the equipment I needed.

‘Maybe it’s because of the special objective, but it’s a decent amount of points.’

Basically, I had more than enough to go back to Earth.

Also—

‘It’ll be more worth it if I take care of some other business at the same time.’

I pushed some mana into the stone I had been fidgeting with in my hands.

「 Challenger Han Sungyeun, confirming intention to return.
」 

「 Consuming the Return Stone to return to Earth.
」 

At that moment, my world turned black.

***

“…”

My heart sank as soon as I opened my eyes.

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A familiar ceiling, and the same old studio as I turned my head.

Seven rules that all hunters must know and follow in dungeons. S-class hunter’s methods to become a better hunter. How to pass the hunter’s exam and the training that follows.

Post-its with all kinds of information stood out from the room.

I had copied them down by hand to pound the knowledge into my head.

For an instant, I thought I had just imagined the whole ‘Tower of Trials’ thing.

A fear that everything I had worked for was nothing but a figment of my imagination.

But—

「 Returned to challenger Han Sungyeun’s residence.
」 

The negative thoughts were pushed aside by the intruding message.

And the next few messages prompted me to get moving.

「 Returning to the tower after 3 days.
」 

「 We wish the challenger a satisfactory time.
」 

I had to take care of all my business within their time limits.

‘Stingy.’

As I lifted myself off the bed, something bumped into my hand.

Tak.

“…No, wait.”

I stared blankly at what I just bumped into.

“…Why is this here?”

A jet-black knife and handle, clearly a masterpiece.

The obsidian dagger I received as a trial reward was laying on my desk.

And on the left side, the deadwood I was holding lay there.

‘No way.’

I snagged at the bedsheets to find another kind of fabric on them.

The item I’d been using since the 2nd trial, assassin’s cloak.

Contrary to my belief, I was able to carry all of my items back with me.

I was flustered for a second, but I decided that it was just a little gift from the tower.

“I guess that’s one more thing on my to-do list.”

There were several things that I needed to take care of.

I lifted the deadwood shield and let out a smile.

‘I thought I might need a little more money.’

Time to make some big bucks.

 

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If that was me I’d lay in bed for 5 minutes and complain that 3 days already passed

 

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