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nShadow Cloak Unique

n-A cloak with the power of shadow that the rare monster Ghost Knight drops at a very low chance. It is considered more special since it’s the first Shadow Cloak in existence.

nBasic stats All stats 5( 1)

nSpecial stats Concealment effect 20( 4)%, resistance to all attributes 10( 2)%

nSpecial effects 〉I can see in the dark (A) : Darkvision increases by a large amount.〈, 〉 Hide’n’seek : Concealment effect increases.〈

nItem skill Shadow Curse : Curses the target’s shadow to make the opponent unable to move for one second and decrease target’s movement speed by 30% for 5 seconds after that. However, named monsters and users with a higher level than the caster will only be affected by 15% for 3 seconds. Cooldown time 1 minute

nBonus effect HP 10, Intelligence 15

n‘This is a double plus too……. I see so many plusses nowadays that I think plusses on items are natural.’

nChecking the Shadow Cloak, Sanghyuk laughed. Of course, plusses on the item was a good thing.

nHowever, it was in fact very rare for plusses on an item to take the item to a godly level.

nNowadays, the items Sanghyuk acquired were normally double plus items, and there were even some triple plus items as well, but they weren’t things that were easy to acquire.

n‘It definitely is an item that Thunderbolt should have regrets about. This Shadow Curse especially, isn’t this considered as one of the top-tier item skills among the rankers? So it was here.’

nSanghyuk liked the Shadow Cloak a lot.

n‘There aren’t many good things among the other things. Then……. I guess I’ll sell them.’

nIf Sanghyuk put all the items on sale in the auction, then the users that died that day would notice that someone had picked up their items.

nHowever, there was nothing they could do just because they noticed. It was impossible to trace the auction, and it wasn’t like there were any witnesses that day.

nEverything was perfect.

n‘Well, the ones with enough money will buy their own stuff back.’

nHe didn’t feel sorry for them at all. After all, it was due to their own greed that they became like that.

nHe might have felt guilty in his previous life, but in this life, he wasn’t so considerate that he would feel sorry for any of them.

nHaving put up all the items on the auction, Sanghyuk started focusing on his last objective in the Land of Dusk; the Cave of Giants.

nThe Cave of Giants itself was like a public dungeon, and it was simultaneously the pathway to another continent.

n‘The Cave of Giants isn’t an easy place to break through. Especially by myself……. that will be even more difficult.’

nIn his previous life, Sanghyuk had cleared the Cave of Giantswith 6 other high-level users of the workshop. They went as a party of 7 since the limitation on the Cave of Giants was 7, but even when they were the most powerful 7 of the workshop, they had trouble getting through.

nAt the time, Sanghyuk had also suffered a lot, so he remembered the Cave of Giants relatively clearly.

n‘If it was me of before, I would have never dared to think about going there alone, would I? However, I can do it right now!’

nSanghyuk was trying to clear the Cave of Giants solo when other people wouldn’t even dare to try even with a full party of 7.

nHe put on the Shadow Cloak and stood up from his seat.

nHis preparations were almost done.

nWhat was left now was to challenge.

n***

nThe Cave of Giants was split into four floors.

nThe 1st underground floor was the floor of ogres. Ogres were considerably strong monsters, albeit not as much as wyverns.

nTo rank them, it would be around the 2nd or 3rd strongest beings in the Land of Dusk.

nThe twin-headed ogre at the doorway to the 2nd underground floor was a pseudo-named monster, and he might fail if he made a slight mistake since its attack power was very high.

nEven a full party of 7 with all the members at level 45 might fail if they have no senses for battle, or take the wrong composing members, or if they had bad equipment.

nGoing beyond the twin-headed ogre and into the 2nd floor, large stone golems would meet the users. Stone golems were almost on par with wyverns.

nStone golems had very high defense power so users couldn’t advance if they lacked damage dealing power. The last stone golem of the 2nd floor, mithril golem, was a pseudo-named monster like the twin-headed ogre and had an even higher defense than stone golems.

nAccording to Sanghyuk’s memory, the majority of users despaired because they couldn’t get past the mithril golem.

nGoing past the 2nd floor and to the 3rd floor, this time, it wasn’t the monsters but various traps and confusing mazes that stumped the users.

nHowever, this was easily conquered once information about this floor spread around. The monsters appearing on the 3rd floor were giant skeleton soldiers, and they were even weaker than ogres.

nThere wasn’t a pseudo-named monster blocking the way to the 4th floor either.

nGoing past the 3rd floor was the fourth and final floor.

nUnlike the previous three floors, the fourth floor was very short and simple corridor. There were no normal monsters either and just a few traps.

nInstead, the one that blocked the exit on the 4th floor……. was quite the thing.

nSpecial named monster ‘Sky Giant’.

nActually, there weren’t that many named-tier giant-type monsters. The famous ones were ‘Lava Giant’ in the Heroic Lands and the ‘Brilliance Giant’ from the Solar Continent, and they were bosses that boasted insane difficulty, so users had to raise their characters for around two years before they dared to challenge those two.

nNamed-tier giant-type monsters all had incredibly high difficulty, and the reason was a common feature among all of them.

n‘Endurance of the Giant’

nThe effects of this ability that made the users call them ‘disgusting giants’, decreased all damage dealt to them by 30%, and at the same time, recover half of the decreased damage as health.

nIn other words, the damage was practically reduced by 45%.

nThanks to this passive ability possessed by giants, the users always lacked damage when they fought against named-tier giant monsters. Not only that, named-tier giant monsters all had frightening attack power and insane HP.

nTheir defense was considerably lower than named monsters of similar level, but that didn’t show much due to the Endurance of the Giant.

nIn the users’ perspective, such a passive ability attached to a monster was just hellish.

nWith that being the case, named-tier giant monsters placed 1st in in monsters that users didn’t want to hunt.

nIt was always the named-tier giant monsters that took first when a survey was carried out through users in his previous life.

nAt first glance, dragon-type monsters may seem like the hardest to hunt, but anyone with experience hunting both would say the contrary.

nNamed-tier dragon monsters possessed a clear weakness in terms of attributes most of the time, but giant-type monsters were attribute-less, so it was impossible to find a shortcut.

nSanghyuk was challenging a mission with the difficulty of ‘Insane Nightmare’. However, his expression was full of confidence. He had already challenged the Cave of Giants around 1,000 times in his previous life, so it was no wonder that was the case.

nThe easiest way to kill the twin-headed ogre was to focus on the two eyes on its right head to take away its sight for a brief time while severing the left head.

nOnce the eyesight on its right head was gone, there would be a dead angle in its vision, and the angle was much wider than when the eyes on the left head were taken away, and it would become easier to kill the other head.

nOf course, this may sound simple but was difficult in practice. However, Sanghyuk wasn’t so weak that he was stumped by a mere twin-headed ogre.

nHe broke through the 1st floor in moments and went to the 2nd floor. He also broke through the 2nd floor in a similar manner.

nThen he was met with the mithril golem.

nNormally, he would have been stumped here once, but Sanghyuk knew that the attribute of the mithril golem was weak towards was electricity.

nThis was why he easily defeated the mithril golem using the cost-3 Fusion Card ‘Spear of Zeus’ he had prepared beforehand.

nOf course, he had to use up 14 Spears of Zeus, but the important thing was that he succeeded.

nAnd the third floor was even easier than the two prior floors. Sanghyuk already had experience wandering on the 3rd floor hundreds of times. So, not only the traps, the maze-like paths didn’t hinder him either.

nHe learned ‘Trap technique(general)’ on one of his basic skill slots in order to disarm a few of the traps, but he could just use some karma to erase them later.

nSanghyuk could arrive at the 4th floor after clearing the 3rd floor easily.

nThere were marking zones at the entrances of each floor, so Sanghyuk marked the 4th floor.

nLater, there would be high-level users who acted as ‘marking busses’ and help low-level users mark these places for money, but that was much later into the future.

nNot to mention marking busses, no one had even broken through the 1st floor yet.

n*Shhhhhh, flash!*

nAfter he marked the place in his marking book, he looked up ahead. The path that made him repeat the same thing again in his previous life to the point of vomiting had appeared in front of him.

n‘How much would it take this time…….? At least ten times, right?’

nWhat was fortunate was that the penalty for death differed according to time and situation.

nBeing killed by a monster would take 1% of total karma and restrict access for 2 hours while being killed by users would restrict access for 12 hours, but did not take any karma.

nHowever, dying inside the dungeon was slightly different, and as long as the user wasn’t killed by another user, the access restriction was only 10 minutes, and no karma was consumed. This was why it was possible to repeatedly go against a dungeon boss.

nIn one word, dungeons had a lower penalty to compensate for its higher difficulty. Of course, in the case of malefactors, they would lose 20% of their black karma no matter where they died in compensation for the ability to acquire black karma through killing other users.

n‘Twenty tries! I’ll definitely do it within that number!’

nEven Sanghyuk seemed to need 20 tries to defeat the Sky Giant.

nIt was the greatest named monster in the game right now.

nHaving finished marking, Sanghyuk returned to Falcon City and restocked his Fusion Cards since he used almost all of them against the mithril golem.

nHe had prepared a total of four types of Fusion Cards to fight against the Sky Giant, and Sanghyuk’s current cost limit was 55.

nSanghyuk estimated the number of cards he would need against the Sky Giant and filled his maximum cost limit accordingly. He also didn’t forget to bring some cost 0 cards.

nWhat was left now was to just clash against the boss.

nIf users with a lot of raid experience were asked if there was any trick to conquering named monsters, they would all reply that the trick was to keep challenging.

nChallenge and challenge again.

nThat was the only trick to a successful raid.

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