Light of Arad: The First to Walk - Chapter 155



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It was a situation that Jinseong couldn’t understand at all.

‘It’s a deleted skill? How? Why?’

This is probably a skill that users who have raised a summoner character in the female magician profession since the second half of 2017 may not even know exists.

A summoner similar to Black Knight Sandor, but with the ‘Taunt Aura’ that makes it easy to draw aggro from monsters, but its attack power is similar to or lower than Black Knight Sandor, making it less efficient.

A summoner who was so famous that there were even jokes saying that ‘Sandor’ was like a rank or title because he could summon both ‘Black Knight Sandor’ and ‘Wrathful Black Knight Sandor’ at the same time, but he eventually disappeared.

‘I used to call him Bundor to distinguish him from Sandor. I guess the name Manager Bun was coined along those lines… … But! That’s not important right now!’

Jinseong wanted to ask.

What the hell happened, how did you learn the skill you just used, and why is it still there?

Do you even know that the skill has been deleted and disappeared?

But questions weren’t the only things rising in my throat.

At the same time, something else came to Jinseong’s mind.

Why does remain with Chili Shrimp?

Based on the information we have so far, there are possibilities that come to mind when we infer the time he was possessed… … .

Jinseong, who was speechless at the thought of two things, had to first look at the situation.

It was not easy to get between Chili Shrimp and his summons while dealing with the Flying Granite that was buzzing around right away.

“Protect your energy!”

“Protect your energy!”

“Manager Boon is so fit! Manager San, be good at cutting!”

The chili shrimp shouted in a loud voice.

The two Sandors who were pointed out ran away, shrugging their shoulders.

“Woahhhhhhhhhh-!”

“Yes, I will make you feel comfortable.”

After watching the scene and nodding for a moment, Chili Shrimp quickly gave instructions.

“Chief Lou, Ice Needle!”

“Ahahaha! Okay, I get it!”

Kwaaaa …

Summoned creatures that move briskly whenever Chili Shrimp gives detailed instructions.

I could tell the truth.

“. Increased attack and movement speed of summoned creatures… And the last one is ?”

, a skill that allows you to issue additional commands through communication with contract summons.

Jinseong, who had been thinking about the skill for a moment, shook his head.

‘No, Sister Louise’s communion skill will be Meteor. And is… … . It’s also a new skill that was added with the 2017 Summoner Renewal.’

It was a result of inference about why the chili shrimp could have skills from the past.

If Chili Shrimp has the summoner skills from before the May 2017 rework.

If you have the skills based on the time of the iceberg.

It is highly likely that there will be no summoner skills after the reorganization.

Jinseong stared intently at the chili shrimp.

The summoner, with his small stature and short red hair, must have felt the gaze, but he paid no attention and continued to clap his hands and give orders.

“Okay, okay, there’s no time to play, let’s go to the next room! Now we have to clean two more rooms before we can be the boss! When Patrice comes out, Manager Ka-.”

“Huh, I thought I said I wouldn’t meddle. I won’t interfere unless it’s Furman.”

“-Oh, I see. Then I guess I’ll have to call Deputy Director Etche, Deputy Sel, and Deputy La from Patrice’s time. Let’s go, move! Move!”

How on earth should I explain the sight of him waving both hands and sending out his summoned creatures?

How should we interpret that behavior, in which he not only used his skill in front of Jinseong himself, but also carelessly dropped another clue!

‘Sal, La. If what Chili Shrimp was talking about just now was Salist and Latria… … then it’s confirmed.’

These are spirits that users who have only recently started raising summoner characters may not even know of.

Nowadays, you can summon lower spirits, upper spirits, mixed spirits, and spirit kings, but in the past, it was different.

Before the existence of mixed spirits, there was an ‘intermediate spirit’ that was located between the lower and upper spirits.

‘Sally, an intermediate spirit with the fire attribute, and Latria, an intermediate spirit with the water attribute. Since intermediate spirits can create one entity with each of the two attributes, they mostly use two attributes, fire and water, instead of the somewhat less efficient light or dark attribute intermediate spirits… … . Indeed.’

Chili shrimp will also have a skill to summon advanced spirits.

However, the reason why he deliberately summoned an intermediate spirit is probably because, ‘for the chili shrimp,’ the difference in damage between an intermediate spirit and an advanced spirit is not that big.

‘In terms of DPS, it’s probably… … a mid-level fire attribute salute was like a fire attribute high-level flame hulk. Ugh, if Vivi was here, she would have calculated it for me. But it’s probably about right.’

Maximum efficiency with minimum investment.

Rather than just pushing through with quantity, Chili Shrimp showed off how to use summons like a summoner.

The problem is that from the perspective of a true observer, one cannot only feel the joy, excitement, curiosity, and admiration of encountering past skills and the operation of chili shrimp.

‘Then this is contamination…? Is it contamination that there are users, or rather, possessors, who still have the deleted skills?’

A possessor with deleted skills.

If this is contamination, what should Jinseong himself do?

Gulp, while Jinseong was swallowing his saliva, Sandor, Bundor, and Louise had already completed their brisk advance, annihilating all the Flying Granites and others.

Chili Shrimp looked back for a moment as he was faced with the boss of the Trombe Power Plant, the thrilling Patrice.

“ah.”

“yes?”

“Um… no, no. I’m going~!”

Chili Shrimp walked away with a slight smile on his face, as if he was about to say something, and a somewhat playful expression on his face.

That too was a somewhat uncomfortable action for Jinseong.

It wasn’t just because of skill.

‘Just like going for a walk… … Patrice the Thrillist can’t be such an easy boss.’

Even if it is not part of the main scenario quest flow, and even if it is a level of difficulty that applies to the possessed, the pattern itself is not difficult.

But in the past, wasn’t it the overwhelming damage that Patrice unleashed that tormented users who had to clear this place repeatedly for item farming and other purposes?

‘Let alone the summoner. It was impossible to control the attacks that Patrice spread across a wide area to prevent them from getting hit. For a dungeon of a reasonable level, let alone one that a possessed person had to clear, it would be on a completely different level from the two power plants mentioned above.’

Thud, thud, thud-!

The chili shrimp made a cheerful sound.

Chijit, chijijijit────… … .

The moment when electricity flashed.

Finally, the boss of the general dungeon Trombe Power Plant, the Thrilling Patrice, has revealed herself.

“How ridiculous…….”

A being made of electricity itself, born by absorbing electricity, spoke.

Every time the voice rang out, every time the strange body moved, sparks flew everywhere.

“You say it’s funny, Chief Ka?”

“I told you.”

“I think I told Manager Ka. Are you really not going to come out?”

The chili shrimp taunted Casillas until the very end.

Casillas wasn’t the type to fall for something like that.

“That’s why I told you. I won’t deal with this kind of pyramid anymore! This damn guy whose name I don’t even remember-”

At that moment, he frowned and got angry at the chili shrimp.

Patrice, who was a woman despite her appearance, shouted.

“Destroying this place won’t be enough to defeat me!”

Kwaaaaang, as soon as she hit the ground, electricity spread out from her body.

PATSUTSUTSUTSUT──────────!

In response, ‘trash mobs’ including granites began to fly in from all over.

“If you don’t come out deadly- Eight, Vice President Eche! Deputy Sally, Deputy Ra! Everyone, come to work!”

The chili shrimp expressed his displeasure to Casillas, but immediately swung his whip.

With the activation of the skills , , and , the ‘intermediate spirits’ that cannot be seen in the current patch version of the game Dungeon & Fighter have appeared in front of Chili Shrimp.

* * *

“Just do what you always do! Your goal is Patrice!”

Chili Shrimp immediately took something out and threw it at Patrice.

The identity of the projectile flying around in circles was unknown, but its effect was obvious.

‘It’s the skill.’

The skill that forces summoned creatures to be the top attack target and the strategy of not caring about ‘trash mobs’ like Granites were parts that Jinseong could understand.

“Ugh!”

“Kkaaaaaaang-!”

“Is this all I need to catch?”

“Die in the name of the Spirit King.”

Sandor, ‘Bundor’, Louise, and the Spirit King Echeverria.

In addition, Patrice’s blue electricity rippled in front of the attacks from Salist and Latria.

Jinseong was watching the scene from a step away from the battlefield.

‘It’s not bad. One of the annoying things about Patrice is that she has a lot of health. With Casillas gone, it’s better to just deal with the attacks of trash mobs with summons and focus on dealing damage.’

Chili Shrimp’s ability to deal with Patrice so skillfully was impressive, as expected.

They’re showing great moves on offense, but how will they fare defensively?

Patrice shouted in front of Jinseong, who was struggling with the two concepts of pollution and chili shrimp.

“Ugh, you guys… I’ll show you something fun!”

Patrice slammed his fists hard against the floor and stretched out both arms.

Chachachachacha-!

“Eww?!”

An electric shock that spread out radially along the floor in an instant, startling even Jinseong.

It wasn’t a simple attack.

Because the broken power lines started popping up all over the floor as if they were reacting to the electricity.

The cross-section of the wire, which was as thick as an adult’s thigh and throbbed like a living, squirming eel, was covered in red and blue electrons like dew.

‘… … It’s a pattern. This is one of those annoying patterns.’

A pattern where red electrons inflict damage to the user, and blue electrons restore Patrice’s HP.

One of Patrice’s attacks, where electrons are shot out randomly from seven wires that rise up individually, and if one of the electrons floating in the air hits it and then it gets hit again by an electron of a different color, it causes an explosion effect!

Jinseong bit his lower lip and made a decision.

Even if he couldn’t help the chili shrimp’s attack right away, Jinseong tried to block it at least with his blue electrons.

If Jinseong were to absorb only the blue electrons without being hit by the red electrons, Patrice’s HP would not recover, so Jinseong threw himself straight into the blue electrons.

‘Hmm, it stings a bit, but you won’t take any damage. Just be careful not to get hit by the red electrons. It’ll be a particularly chaotic and confusing pattern for the Chili Shrimp, which has many summons, so indirectly, this much… … is… … ?’

It was Jinseong’s decision to help like this.

I wanted to help him directly, but since I hadn’t yet sorted out my thoughts between ‘pollution’ and chili shrimp, I planned to talk to him after I finished this dungeon.

But what about the chili shrimp you see right now?

Jinseong looked at the girl with short red hair with wide eyes.

“How…when….”

Patrice’s pattern started a little while ago.

Before seven transmission lines popped out, the summons were all gathered together and attacking Patrice. And yet they were all evacuated to a safe area so quickly?

That too ‘as soon as the pattern starts’?

‘As if I knew.’

As if someone knew in advance that this pattern existed and that it would be triggered at some point?

The chili shrimp was also looking at Jinseong with its eyes wide open.

The summoner said.

“……You’ll see what happens if you live long enough. No one remembered the Patrice pattern. How did you know that I barely figured it out after experiencing it several times? Even that Berserker, who pretended to be so smart, had fallen for the pattern…….”

In the midst of his muttering that did not match his youthful appearance at all, Jinseong was able to transform into one person at first. Chili Shrimp met Ah-hang.

However, at this moment, it was not very important information. What was more embarrassing than meeting Ah-hang was… … .

‘… How many times have I experienced this? How many times?’

Jinseong repeated those words.