The hunt proceeded very quickly.
As Seongjun simultaneously tanked and dealt damage, and with the addition of regular Death Knights, elites, and the boss Death Knight King, the small group of Cerberus was cleared out in an instant.
It was nearly an hour after continuing the hunt so relentlessly.
[The level of the skill [Darkness Conversion] has increased.]
The level of Darkness Conversion increased from 1 to 2.
“Oh! The Darkness Conversion Level has finally increased. Shall we see how much it has changed?”
Seongjun thought there wouldn’t be much of a change since it had only gone up from 1 to 2, but he still decided to check.
[Active] Darkness Conversion [2/10]
Convert Dark attribute monsters and use them as summoned soldiers.
– You can obtain a new summon [Reformed Monster] by purifying a Dark Attribute monster’s Magic Stone with Dark Reformation and equipping it to the monster’s corpse.
– The converted monster is registered as a summoner and absolutely obeys the summoner’s commands.
– [Summon] and [Dismiss] commands are available.
– If a summoned creature runs out of life and is forcibly unsummoned, it can be summoned again after 23 hours.
– Up to 15 registrations possible.
Cast Time: [Instant]
Duration: [2 hours 10 minutes]
Cooldown: [4 hours 1 minute]
Seongjun wore a surprised expression after finishing the skill check.
“Huh? You can register 5 additional units just by leveling up? That changes things.”
Once forcibly unsummoned, the time required to resummon has been reduced by 1 hour to 23 hours, and the duration has been increased by 10 minutes.
In the case of the reuse cooldown, it was reduced by 30 minutes, but that was a reduction of 30 minutes from the original time, and with the reduction effect added to it, it actually resulted in a reduction of just over 10 minutes.
However, more important than that is that we can now register up to 15 monsters, whereas previously we could only register 10.
“So, if I level them up to 10, I can command a total of 55 of them, right? If I fill them all with bosses… Ha! That’s incredible. With this, I don’t know if I might actually be able to clear an S-rank dungeon.”
It is true that it is somewhat burdensome to clear S-rank dungeons just by reaching SS rank.
Even if I filled it with about 10 boss-level monsters, I still felt it wasn’t enough to defeat an S-class boss.
However, if 5 units are added per level, it means you can register up to 55 units, and it seemed like it might be possible to clear the S-rank even if you only filled half of them, 25 units, with bosses.
“Shall we fill in a new box first?”
Seongjun took out five Death Knight corpses and five magic stones from the subspace.
I considered registering Cerberus, but it is true that Death Knight is stronger than Cerberus among regular monsters.
And so, 5 additional Death Knights were registered.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Even though it’s only an increase of five, I feel somehow reassured.
Seongjun felt reassured upon seeing a total of 15 reformed Death Knights, including the boss and elites.
However, there is not much time left until the release from the summons.
At that time.
[You defeated 100 monsters within 2 hours of entering the dungeon for the first time. The closure conditions have been met, so the dungeon will be
closed.]
[From now on, it will be impossible to enter the dungeon from the outside.]
[The lockdown will be lifted only if the dungeon is cleared or if all players
who entered the dungeon are wiped out.]
[The experience points given by monsters in this dungeon will be significantly increased.]
[Additional rewards will be given upon clearing the dungeon.]
A notification popped up saying the dungeon was closed.
“Oh! The closure notice finally popped up.”
The condition was met exactly a little over 50 minutes later.
Of course, more than 60 percent of that was achieved by Seongjun.
“Anyway, my Guardian power and buffs are starting to wear off, so I should move to a safe place.”
If the Guardian’s power and buffs run out, the party will be unable to hunt in
A-class dungeons.
That is why the buff time had to be strictly maintained.
***
At the very moment Seong-jun and his party were continuing their hunt in the closed dungeon, the world faced another massive upheaval.
[The advantages [Weaken all monster abilities by 30 percent], [Forced
monster intelligence reduction], and [Faithful to Instinct] effects granted to the Earth Dimension have been removed.]
[From now on, all monsters appearing in the Earth dimension will unleash 100 percent of their original abilities.]
[From now on, monsters appearing in the Earth dimension will regain their
original intelligence.]
[Some of the monsters that previously acted solely on instinct may now form groups and display strategic movements.]
[This does not apply to dungeons currently being cleared.]
[The spawn rate of all types of dungeons increases.]
It was truly a bolt from the blue announcement.
This notification was not heard only by the Awakened, but was heard equally by all of humanity on Earth.
Just like when the dungeon first appeared.
In other words, everyone became aware of this change. Naturally, the association was in an uproar, and the president convened an emergency meeting.
“What on earth are you talking about? Are you saying that the monsters we have faced so far possessed abilities that were weakened compared to their original powers?”
“It seems that was the case. The problem is that it doesn’t just stop at the monsters being strengthened by 30 percent; the monsters, which previously acted solely on instinct, will start to move intelligently. If, by any chance, the monsters start forming large groups and moving strategically, the damage to the hunters will be enormous.”
Monsters that moved only by instinct, with their intelligence erased.
Therefore, they merely roamed the dungeon in small groups and could not think of making strategic moves or forming their own groups. However, now the monsters’ original abilities, intelligence, and sealed habits have been fully released.
What would this mean?
In the future, hunters will fight monsters that are more powerful, more intelligent, and move more systematically.
Of course, there might be some monsters among them that rely solely on instinct from the start.
Furthermore, it was stated that the spawn rate of all types of dungeons will increase.
This means that the frequency of Break Dungeons will also rise significantly.
Even now, the frequency of Dungeon Breaks has increased greatly across the globe; if it increases even further… it could lead to tremendous chaos.
The fact that monsters became stronger was a problem, but the increase in the number of dungeons created was also a big problem.
It means that far more Break Dungeons will be generated than now.
“What about the guilds? They must have heard this notification too; what are they doing right now?”
In response to the Association President’s question, the Director of the Awakened Management Bureau spoke with a solemn expression.
It appears the leaders of the nation’s top 10 guilds held a hasty meeting, but they do not seem to have reached any meaningful conclusions.
To my knowledge, all they decided to do is temporarily ban entry into the newly created dungeon.
Since it was impossible to know how much stronger the monsters had become or how they had changed, each guild prohibited rashly entering the newly created dungeon.
Instead, since they said that the new changes would not apply to dungeons already being tackled, it seemed they intended to focus on those dungeons and make a plan slowly.
“Haa, what on earth is going on? Anyway, to minimize the damage to the hunters, we need to redefine the stats and patterns of the newly changed monsters. To do that, the help of the nation’s top 10 guilds is essential. I think I’ll have to speak with them separately. Contact the guild leaders immediately. We need to schedule a meeting as soon as possible. Oh! And contact Healer Kim Seong-jun as well.”
All that could be done in the current situation was to figure out how the monsters had changed with the new changes applied.
This is because the detailed information about the monsters must be updated in this way so that guilds can create new strategies based on it.
However, to do so, it was necessary to directly face monsters and record the changes, and for that, the help of each guild was desperately needed.
That is why the meeting was convened in a hurry.
***
Three days have passed since the alert that swept the world was released.
Although only a few days have passed, the number of incidents and accidents occurring within the dungeon has increased several times over, and there have even been situations where all the hunters who entered were completely wiped out.
Meanwhile, Seong-jun and his party were fighting the boss without knowing how the outside world was going.
It seemed that the notification probably did not appear to the target that had entered the dungeon.
There isn’t much left! Everyone, unleash your skills!
After successfully blocking Bloody Lord Cerberus’s ultimate attack, Hellfire, the tide of battle rapidly turned in favor of Seong-jun and his group. Although five regular Death Knights were forcibly unsummoned during the battle, the Elite Cerberus, Elite Death Knight, and Death Knight King remained intact.
This was because Gwangtaek, who was serving as the main tank, was also holding his ground firmly, allowing Seongjun, Yuseon, and Changsu to focus
solely on attacking.
Bang! Crash! Bang! Bang!
“Wow! Damn! I’m completely out of it! This guy’s attack speed is no joke!”
Cerberus itself is an agile monster, and the boss possessed tremendous movement and attack speeds that did not match its massive body.
The flame attacks spewing from the three heads were each truly powerful, and the claw attacks delivered at tremendous speed were enough to completely overwhelm the opponent.
It was only because I was able to unleash S-rank abilities through the
Guardian’s power that I was able to block the boss’s monstrous attacks; otherwise, disaster would have struck long ago.
“Just hang in there a little longer! It’s almost over!”
Just as Seongjun said, the boss’s vitality was rapidly plummeting toward the bottom.
The boss increased the intensity of his attacks the more he was attacked, but Gwangtaek was somehow managing to keep the aggro and block them
well.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Crash!
Bang! Crash! Crash! Crash!
In the end, Bloody Lord Cerberus collapsed before the relentless barrage of brutal attacks.
“Ku Boom!
That huge, heavy body collapsed onto the floor, and thus the boss raid came to an end.
They conquered a whopping A-class dungeon in just three days.
“Wow! That’s it!”
“Wow, I thought it would take at least four days, but to think we cleared it in just three! Sungjun oppa’s monstrous summoned soldiers really played a big part.”
Thanks to the Death Knights who could easily wipe out small groups of Cerberus, the hunting speed increased tremendously, and as a result, the A- class dungeon was cleared in just three days.
“Phew, with this, I’ve secured two A-class bosses. Still, there is a long way to go. Dark Enlightenment.”
Following the Death Knight King, now the Bloody Lord Cerberus. I have secured a total of two A-class bosses.
Seong-jun, who purified the Bloody Lord Cerberus’s magic stone by casting Dark Enlightenment.
Let’s take that to the boss’s corpse.
Whoosh!
The color of the Cerberus boss, which had been dark red, instantly changed to white.
“Oh! I guess everything turns white when reformed.”
The sense of unease has been significantly diluted now that it has turned white.
Of course, the power remains the same, though.
Having achieved his initial goal of adding an A-class boss as a summoner, Seongjun soon approached the reward box.
You’ve all worked hard. Let’s hurry up and check our compensation and go out for a rest.
Due to the closure privilege, the number of boxes that originally came out as one had increased to three.
Click! Click! Click!
A party that opened three reward boxes almost simultaneously.
“Hmm, there are three S-rank artifacts here. A dagger, gloves, and a
bracelet.”
“This is…… Oh! SS rank! Wow! An SS rank came out of a Silver Box!”
With the addition of a reward box as a benefit for the closed dungeon, the reward, which was originally 1 gold, has been increased to 1 gold and 2 silver.
Naturally, the rewards from Silver are bound to be lower than those from Gold, yet an SS-grade artifact dropped from Silver.
“Wow! Really? Since you’re guaranteed at least one SS rank in Gold, that means two SS ranks are guaranteed? But what is it?” “This? Ha, haha, it is SS-rank, but it doesn’t really mean anything. Ah! It might mean something to Seongjun. Remember what you chose last time after clearing the A-rank dungeon with Genesis in Taiwan? The Unknown Crystal Shard. That’s it.”
That was the case. The SS-grade artifact that came out of the polished silver box was none other than an unknown crystal shard.
“Really? Huh! I was wondering when I’d ever gather the rest, but to think it’ll come out like this?”
Seongjun, who received an unknown crystal shard from Gwangtaek.
Take the existing crystal shard out of the subspace and bring the two shards together.
Whoosh!
Two crystal pieces were combined into one.
“Huh! The crystal shards have merged into one?”
At that, Seongjun hurriedly checked the crystal fragments that had merged into one.
The two crystal pieces were combined, but nothing particularly changed.
It was just that the single mark had changed to two.
“Hmm, it looks like you have to collect all three for something to change.”
Given that it was of SS grade, it was certainly an extraordinary item, but it was unknown what kind of artifact it would turn into.
“Still, don’t we just need to collect one more? Wow, I wonder what on earth it will turn out to be once we gather them all. Since it requires three SS-rank items, surely something amazing will come out, right?”
“Well, I guess I’ll know for sure once I gather everything. I chose it because I had a hunch, but human intuition isn’t always right.”
When he first discovered an unknown crystal shard in the reward box, an intense feeling that he absolutely had to choose it dominated Seongjun’s
mind.
It was as if I were being drawn to something. It was an unknown crystal fragment chosen in that way, but in fact, even Seong-jun was not certain about it.
That is why he felt sorry for his companions after choosing the crystal shard, which was of no help at all.
Even now, having been lucky enough to collect two, that feeling has not changed.
Until the last one is collected, the unknown crystal shard is nothing more than a useless burden.
“Seongjun, your intuition is always right. Anyway, let’s hurry up and check the rest.”
I’ve checked both silver boxes, and now all that’s left is the gold box.
“Hmm, what kind of bead is this? It’s really flashy. Oh? What! This little bead is SS-grade?”
A small bead emitting a brilliant multicolored light.
However, that bead was an SS-grade.
“What? That tiny bead is SS-grade? What is it? What kind of bead is it?”
What on earth is this bead that it is rated SS?
Seongjun immediately checked the information about the beads.
[SS Grade] Level Up Orb.
– When consumed, the level of the corresponding class increases randomly
by 1 to 3.
-Applies only to awakened ones.
– Cannot be applied when the maximum level has been reached.
– Remaining experience points are reset upon leveling up.
Seongjun’s eyes widened as he checked the information on the bead.
“Huh! W-what is this! A level-up orb?”
Naturally, I couldn’t help but be surprised. After all, it has been known until now that there is no means to artificially raise levels other than through hunting.
To put it bluntly, when you first discovered the Holy Water of Experience
Enhancement, didn’t you think it was an incredible item?
However, this was an artifact that not only increased experience points but also raised the level itself.
And that is randomly from a minimum of level 1 to a maximum of level 3.
“What? Raises your level? I didn’t know such a thing existed?”
“Huh! Really? You mean my level goes up immediately just by taking that? Wow! That’s insane!”
The party members were also fascinated, as it seemed like the first time they had seen an item that raises your level just by taking it.
“In a situation where I can’t be sure if I’ll advance to the next level, this is a hidden card that guarantees me an SS rank. Moreover, if by some slim chance I do reach SS rank in the next level, and if I level up two or three more levels from there, I could even head straight for SSS rank. To think something like this would appear right now… Is the heavens really helping me?”
It seemed like I could advance to the next level if I just cleared a few more A-rank dungeons.
However, the problem is whether it is possible to reach SS rank in the next level.
In this situation, the Level Up Orb was a sure-fire winning card that secured an SS rank.
Seongjun gathered his thoughts, looked at his companions, and slowly opened his mouth.
“I’m really sorry to say this, but I want to use this bead. Oh! Of course, I’ll distribute it according to its value, so don’t worry about that part.”
At Seongjun’s words, Gwangtaek patted Seongjun’s shoulder and said.
“Haha, what is there to be sorry about? If you need it, just use it. To be blunt, I don’t know about the others, but I wouldn’t have a single complaint even if you took everything that came out of here. So if you need anything, just feel free to tell me. Just so you know, I don’t need a share, so keep that in mind. Anyway, once we start trading A-class monster carcasses and magic stones, hundreds of billions will come in every week, so what’s the big deal about distributing these artifacts? Just take care of the kids.”
At Gwangtaek’s words, Yuseon scowled sharply and said.
“Ah! Why does he always act like that? He makes it seem like he’s the only good person and we’re just petty people expecting a share. I don’t need a share either. And it won’t be the same in the future. If you need something, just use it. We’re going to do the same. Let’s save the sharing for when something unnecessary comes out, and if we each need something, let’s just take what we need.”
“I think that would be better, too. We have more than enough money anyway, so there’s no need to go through the trouble of getting a headache
over something like this, right? Haha.”
For them, money was no longer a consideration. After all, just by selling monster carcasses and magic stones, one can earn an enormous amount of money that an ordinary person could never touch in a lifetime.
That is why I decided that unless I were distributing unnecessary items through an auction, it is better to just use them if someone needs them.
“Alright, let’s do that. Anyway, thanks, and let’s collect the artifact and head
out.”
The rewards in the gold box were nothing particularly special, except for the SS-grade level-up orb.
And so, Seongjun and his party cleared the Class A closed dungeon in just three days and left the dungeon.
I Became an EX-Class All-Purpose Priest Episode 133
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