Level Up with Skills - Chapter 3

Translator: Mamanrecing

Suddenly there was a loud cheer coming from the crowd.

“Oh. Another player must be here. Today it’s a good day.”

“I don’t think so.”

When a player comes, it usually appears in the middle of a city.

But this time it was on the side of the barrier.

Yeah, realized that.

“I guess Lee Taeyeon is here.”

There is no one here that is still seeking beauty and hobbies in this situation.

Most of the city’s houses were on the verge of collapse.

But there was one neat house located in the middle of the city still standing strong.

That one house didn’t even have any dust on the walls, as if there were someone who constantly managing it.

“You are still being a perfectionist about this.”

Taesan was still questioning this in front of the house.

When the door opened and the interior was visible, Taesan was even more stunned.

“Whew.”

Taesan could see all kinds of ornaments and murals.

The house is pretty nicely decorated, but in this crazy world, no one would care about decorating.

If there was, it probably just some random crazy person.

Taesan clicking his tongue while waiting for the woman to come.

“Can’t you get rid of this strange habit?”

“I don’t want to hear you mocking about my precious hobby.”

The woman who is sitting in the luxurious red leather chair grumbled.

She proudly pointed her fingers to the beautiful portrait.

“Isn’t that pretty? I brought it from the art museum this time.”

The portrait is four times the size of a human body, had no dust, or even detect…

Taesan sighed.

“Why the strongest human being would have to be a woman like you?”

Lee Taeyeon.

The only human being to be able to clear the Alone mode.

She was considered the strongest human being on Earth, even Taesan wouldn’t dare to mess with her.

Lee Tae-yeon smiled.

“In this situation, obsession with something is important to relieve stress.

Why don’t you have a hobby like me?

I always wondering about what art meant in the previous time, but now I noticed that all have their own uniqueness. Look at this portrait I brought this time.”

“Let’s discussed it later when we have time.”

Lee Tae-yeon has a habit to lose concentration the more she talks.

Tae-san knew from his experience that it was best to talk directly to her.

“What’s your problem here?”

The reason why Taesan came here was that Lee Tae-yeon called him.

Lee Tae-yeon laid her arm on the armrest.

“Did you just teach that Hard Mode Player a lesson?.”

“It’s only because there’s no one else to do it but me.”

“Easy player destroying Hard Player, it is a weird story whenever I heard it.”.

Lee Tae-yeon opened her mouth while looking at Taesan impressed.

“Status window.”

Lee Tae-yeon’s status window appears.

[Lee Tae-yeon]

[Level: 258]

[Physical strength: 45810/45810]

[Manna: 7020/7020]

[Power: 10152]

[Intelligence: 9899]

[Personnel : 13254]

[Attack + 5421]

[Defense + 8456]

Everyone would become envy whenever they saw this stat.

Her light  attacks was equivalent to Hard Mode Player best attack

Seeing the stats make Taesan face sullen.

“What, are you bragging your stat?”

“I’m curious, Taesan. Show me your status window, too.

I  just wanted to show it. I feel sorry for you, Easy Player.”

Tai Shan grumbled and opened the window.

[Kang Taesan]

[Level: 57]

[Physical strength: 1021/1021]

[Manna: 820/820]

[Power 105]

[Intelligence: 100]

[Agility: 98]

[Attack + 49]

[Defense + 58]

Lee Tae-yeon nods.

“You’re as weak as dirt.”

He crumpled his face.

“You want to fight?”

“But that’s pretty good enough. Easy players usually have much worse stats than you.

At the first glance, Taesan essentially seemed easy to fight to.

The maze was extremely different depending on the difficulty, the harder the level the stronger you will get.

The moment you clear the maze, all stats stopped to grow so it was impossible to get stronger.

Hard players are usually ten times stronger than Tae-san looking at the stats.

But nearly all of them couldn’t even get a hit on Taesan.

Lee Tae-yeon was also unable to guarantee a clear victory against Tae-san.

It was all because of the skills that Taesan had.

“Did you have 200 skills?”

“About two hundred and thirty.”

“…that’s a ridiculous number.”

“HAHAHA”, Lee Taeyeon fake her laugh.

She has about fifty skills. There are approximately twenty hard players who have that amount of skill.

Besides, the skill that Tesan has, it is not just with high quantity but varies differently.

Lee Tae-yeon getting ready.

“Stay still.”

[Lee Tae-yeon summoned the Addition. Half of the basic offensive force is added.]

[Lee Tae-yeon summoned the Addition. Doubling the offense stat.]

[Lee Tae-yeon summoned the Accuracy. This attack is sure to hit the target.]

[Lee Tae-yeon’s attack.]

Ten-time magnitude damage that can kill Taesan if it hit the target.

[Kang Tae-san’s use Absolute Neutralize the first attack has been nullified.]

[0 Damage to Kang Taesan]]

“What are you doing?”

“Nothing.”Said Lee Taeyeon with a bitter smile

She used her best skill for accuracy, but yet it was useless in front of Taesan.

“The Absolute Neutralize, Absolute Judgment, Multiply, Multiple Overlaid Attack, Copy,

It’s just a bunch of crazy skills.”

Skills that can make you a powerful person with just one skill and Taesan had over two hundred  skills.

So even if Taesan has the stats lower than most the hard players have, he could overpower everyone else merely because of the skill.

“Did you get the skill by clearing the tower step by step?”

“It’s not a tower, it’s a maze. Why do you call it a tower?”

“Actually most people call it a tower, only a few of them call it a maze. I need you to answer my question.”

“Hmmm. In Easy Mode we can obtain some skill, actually in all difficulty you could get skill”.

Lee Tae-yeon dropped her head and pondered.

“We should have cleared the tower just right like you. I should have trained to get stronger until I passed my limit instead of immediately clearing the maze…”

But they all didn’t except for Taesan.

Surrounding with fear, obsessed with clearing the tower as soon as possible, and getting out, they missed most of the elements that could lead them to be stronger. Lee Taeyeon belatedly noticed this simple fact.

“Well.”

Taesan spoke in a deep voice.

If others had acted like him, would they have become as strong as him?

Not in his eyes.

Now Lee Tae-yeon’s words were like, “If everyone lived like Edison, would everyone invent the light bulb?”

“The day has already passed anyway.”

“That’s not exactly what it is.”

Lee Tae-yeon smiled.

Taesan looked at her with a curious look, but instead of answering Lee Taeyeon already changed the topic.

“You’re great anyway. If you’d played in alone mode, we could have survived together.”

Right now, Taesan couldn’t even use a tenth of his skills because most of them required high stats to be able to work properly.

.

If Taesan were as good as an ordinary hard player, mankind would be able to go twice as far.

Taesan shooked his head nervously.

“That’s enough, isn’t it?”

If he had played in Normal mode.

If he had played in alone mode.

I’ve heard that word until now.

Now he was annoyed.

“Just get to the point. Didn’t you go for exploration?”

“That’s right, the next wave is about to start.” Lee Tae-yeon said with a serious look.

Taesan frowned.

This time the monsters will go all-out attack.

In the first wave, humanity was deprived and flattened Seoul into a crumb.

In the second wave,  nearly half the hard player died.

In the third wave, all players could only defend a small city outside.

Every time the wave started, many people died and our area was greatly reduced.

Now it was the fourth wave.

“How many monsters?”

“Two S-levels, dozens of A-levels, hundreds of B-levels and also apostles.”

Lee Tae-yeon spoke calmly.

He nodded his head. “It’s over.”