Level Up with Skills - Chapter 2

Translator: Mamanrecing

“I’ve got a good set of skills, but if I want to dismiss him, I don’t think I could do it.”

“Phew.”

So Mr Taesan, I need your help.”

“What about Lee Tae-yeon?”

“Are you aware that Mr Taeyeon is out for exploration”.

Taesan sighed and headed to the tavern, where the commotion occurred.

In that place a young man with a red face shouting.

“Don’t make me laugh! This can’t be earth and stop fooling around!”

“My fellow friend, the earth is right here. The world has changed a lot while you were in the maze…”

“Don’t joke with me!”

The man lost his control and threw a fist in the air.

The middle-aged man who tried to settle down the situation stepped back.

“This is going out of control.”

“Mr Taesan, please!”

The man who begged Taesan keep pestering him

“Arent you ashamed of yourself to rely on Easy Player.

“This is the time to ignore shame in order to survive.”

“Hufttt.”

Taesan walked toward the man clicking his tongue.

Everyone leaving, Taesan tried to compromise with the man.

“Hey, young man. What’s your name?”

“Lee Changchun.”

“Yes. Changchun. Unfortunately, this is your beloved earth, and we are screwed.

“As you can see, we are on the verge of extinction.”

“I still don’t believe it! There should be many players who stopped the monster,

This is bullshit.” Changchun squeaked.

“And who are you trying to convince me, you are just a low tier player.

After he cleared the maze, he couldn’t accept reality and lost his head.

It was a common thing, and it wasn’t easy to accept.

Taesan clenched his teeth.

“If you going to be like this then there is only one thing to settle this.”

[Application for a duel.]

Changchun read the request with a smirk in his face.

A duel? Who are you?”

“Kangpisang?.”

“Kangtaesan?”

Changchun laughed at his name.

“ You are only an Easy Player but dared to have a battle with me?

“There is already one Easy Player who challenged me and ending up limping for the rest of his life.”

” That’s really funny! How could you be able to fight me who is a Hard Player ?”

Depending on the difficulty level, the power of the player varies significantly.

Even when Easy Player rallied against Hard Players, it was hard just to damage him.

Taesan took off his sword, annoyed.

“Shut up and come at me. If you beat me, I’ll show you the real world as much as you want.”

…don’t regret it!”

“You’ll regret it, HAHAHAHA.” Changchun condescended him.

[A duel is formed]

[Lee Chang-chun and Kang Tae-san begin a duel.]

“People gather there and starting to bet as if it was a horse race.”

“Who are you betting on?”

“A Potato for Kang Tae-san.”

“Five potatoes for Mr Kang.”

“Three potatoes for Kangtaesan.”

Lee Chang-chun’s confidence faded.

“Anybody wanted to bet that young guy? Maybe he could win, right?”

There is no answer to that statement. Everyone here was aware that Lee Chang-chun has no chance against him.

There is only this situation where we really think that Easy Player would beat Hard Player.

Taesan rolled up his arms.

“Come at me, young boy.”

Lee Chang-chun clenched his teeth. Anyway, the duel has begun. You can’t surrender now.

[Lee Chang-chun summoned offensive skill. Half of the basic offensive force is multiplied.]

[Lee Chang-chun summoned concentration. Attack hit with high probability]

[Lee Chang-chun summoned charging. The next attack will give big damage.]

“Oh.”

“You can add some strength? You’re pretty strong.”

“I always admire everyone for their strength, but that’s all.”

“Come at me”.Taesan taunts him.

Lee Chang-chun clenches his teeth.

He runs towards Taesan.

[Lee Chang-chun’s attack.]

[Kang Taesan adds absolute defense. Neutralize all sorts of attacks.]

[ Kang Taesan suffered 0 damage]

“Huh?”

“Are you done?”

Lee Changchun stunned rock-solid, he hasn’t seen anything similar while playing hard mode.

“It’s my turn now, isn’t it?”

Kang Taesan showing his fist. Lee Chang-chun snapped late and wrapped himself around with his arms.

[Kang Tae-san’s attack.]

[Lee Chang-chun adds firmness, reducing half of the damage]

[Kang Taesan summoned Absolute Decision, denied the opponent’s defense skills and defenses.]

[49 damage to Lee Chang-chun.]

“Huh?”

Lee Changchun got cocky.

Too weak, his HP is over ten thousand. This kind of attack only made him  itchy no matter how many times he got hit.”

Lee Chang-chun’s body has hardened.

“Take it, young boy.”

“Wait, hold on a second”

[Kang Tae-san’s attack.]

[9604 damage to Changchun Lee.]

“Whattttttt??? Isn’t that too much?”

“You’re not dead, are you? This is a battle what do you expect from it.”

Taesan grumbled.

Lee Chang-chun was already laid down on the floor, embarrassed.

“Uh…”

“Young friend. Do you understand now? This is the real earth. We are the losers who have cleared that wicked maze but failed to protect the Earth.”

“Woo, don’t be ridiculous……”

Suddenly Lee Chang-chun’s eyes full of water.

“What’s happened to the world? If this is the case, it would be better not to clear the maze.”

A man who was trying to consolidate  Lee Chang-chun smiles bitterly.

“But we all came out. What should we do? Try to save this crazy world.”

The days when the world was living the day like usual, suddenly the sky split and the monster leaped out.

As for humans, four options were given to them.

Easy mode.

Normal mode.

Hard mode.

And Alone Mode.

Each player enters the labyrinth with four difficulties to chose from. The time when the player has cleared the labyrinth they finally can return to Earth.

And Taesan was one of the players who chose Easy Mode.

Junggeun, who was watching from afar, approached Tae-san.

“Well done, bro.”

“Are you watching me?”

“You’re fighting. Of course, I should come and see.”

Junggeun threw the potatoes to him. The cold and warm potato crumpled the Taesan’s face.

TaesanI was too lazy to go back there, so he has no choice but to eat it.

Before he noticed Lee Chang-chun had long disappeared from his sight.

“Ha, you’re amazing. I’m a hard player, but I can’t believe you one-shot him.”

“What’s great about destroying such a weak man?”

“He’s not a weak man..”

Junggeun spoke with slight hesitation.

Changchun was definitely strong.

Summoning is a useful and rare skill that only a few of the hard players have.

Reducing half of the damage received is also a rare skill.

“I would have had a hard time overpowering even if I were considered the strongest hard player.”

He wasn’t the type of easy-to-be-defeated player.

It was just that Taesan was just overwhelmingly strong.

Jung Geun couldn’t contain his curiosity.

“How the hell did you get that multiplication skill?”

A crazy skill that amplified the attack power unconditionally.

That’s not the basic offensive power, but the advanced one.

It inflicted on about 10,000 damage and depending on the attribute of the user. You could even give unlimited damage.

There was one other person who has this skill, excluding Taesan. The other one was Lee Taeyeon.

“What is “Absolute Judgment”? “Ignore Defense”? What’s that skill? “Absolute Neutralize” on the first attack? What is that?

Is that a cheat-like skill? Where the hell did you get it?”

Jung Geun was curious.

If all Easy players had the same skills as Taesan, Junggeun would have wanted to kill himself not to chose Easy.

But only Taesan had such skills.

Taesan replied as usual.

“I got it because of my hard work.”

“And again, is there anything to hide in this situation?”

“That’s all. What do you want me to say?” Taesan spoke in a deep voice.

He could break through the labyrinth because of his hard work. They just need to heed what is important to clear the maze. That was it. But people still couldn’t accept reality; for them, the labyrinth was exactly like hell. Taesan didn’t try to understand why or analyzed what happened to the earth and just move on from the situation.

As a result, Taesan didn’t feel the necessity to explain it thoroughly, so he just said it directly to the point.