The reason I needed a weapon was for the dungeons that were resistant to magic.
For mana stat, no matter how much you raised it, it wouldn’t affect the magic’s damage.
Only the total mana and the recovery rate.
Even the Awakened’s level did not affect the skill’s damage.
No matter how high leveled you were.
If you had the same skill and skill level, you’d do the same damage.
If there is a difference between a low level Awakened and higher leveled Awakened…
Increasing the mana stat to improve your overall mana pool and mana regen, allowing you to continuously cast the strongest skills.
Thus, the important thing to a magician class is the ‘skill level’.
That’s why they would be entering the level 18 dungeon.
If you think about it, it’s a hunt for weapons, but I’m skipping from the level 13 dungeon to the level 18 dungeon all at once.
For the average Awakened, the level 13 dungeon’s requirements was a 5 to 6 man party of level 65 minimum.
However, for the level 18 dungeon, you’d have to be a party of 5 to 6 members, all 85 levels higher than before, a group of lv 150s.
It took a minimum of 4 to 5 years of effort to make it possible.
And if you take account of the experience points and equipment befitting these members, there was a huge gap between me and them.
The amount of experience points you could earn would be on a different level.
The experience you could earn from the manticore dungeon would be 12 million or so.
By clearing the succubi dungeon once, you could receive up to 80 million experience. Just by the dungeon level increasing by 1, there was this much of a difference.
Of course, it’s biased since I was able to defeat the revival succubi as well in the level 13 dungeon.
My current level is 95.
I was able to achieve what would’ve taken others 3 years in only 3 months.
Roughly speaking, I had 12 times the growth speed of others.
A regular Awakened’s year would be only a month to me. But this isn’t the end.
Because the gap will only increase from here on out.
The skill and level growth rate only being 12 times higher?
No. I was sure that at the minimum, it would be 50 times.
It was like hitting the cheat key in BattleNet and casting ‘Psionic Storm’ that a ‘High Templar’ uses?
I didn’t think of stupid thoughts like ‘I’ll go to the level 18 dungeon when my level meets the requirements.’
Raising my main attack skill and shield to level 100! That was my requirement for entering the level 18 dungeon.
It was the time of year that nights became longer than day, and cold winds from morning till evening blew.
Time had passed to the point where I had to flip the calendar past October.
The safe house Jong Ho and I looked for before, we were able to match the timing of moving in with her birthday.
After the move, I went around to my neighbors to giving welcoming rice cakes around, and most reacted like this.
Common welcoming gifts shared around new neighbors, at least traditionally speaking. I think the tradition has nearly died out except in richer/older communities.
‘There are people who still do this?’ or ‘They are coming in because they won the lottery,’ was the general response.
I was a little disappointed.
But I really liked the home that was going to give peace and reassurance to my mother and my heart.
Since I was earning a lot more than what I thought, it was time for me to whip myself back into shape from a period of relaxation.
Happiness I obtained through difficulties.
I cannot have it stolen.
I cannot have it crushed.
I only hope that it’ll stay this way.
Finally today. I was able to reach level 100 in all skills with the exception of ‘Frost Orb’, ‘Heal’, ‘Hold’, and ‘Bind’.
For ‘Eye of the Storm’, since the increase in level didn’t do much, I leveled it up on to 70 and stopped it there.
I only hunted to level my skills, but ended up naturally leveling to 108.
If Jong Ho heard about this, he would probably fall over backwards and faint.
The only reason I was able to achieve such a satisfying result was diligence.
I could get rid of fatigue and physical wounds with Heal.
However, there was the hindrance known as ‘sleep’.
This was something that Heal couldn’t cure.
But I found even time used for sleep a waste. I wanted to grow even quicker.
I even searched for magic that would get rid of sleep.
The time I allowed myself was 6 hours.
This period of time did not only include sleep, but also for eating and taking care of myself.
Other than that, I only focused on hunting. 18 hours a day succubi hunting.
It was a brutal training. However on Sundays, I would take a break no matter what happened.
I was growing stronger for happiness, so I wouldn’t skip time with my mother.