I Became a Gallery Newbie Beloved by Transcendents Chapter 8

I Became a Gallery Newbie Beloved by Transcendents

Chapter 8

2nd Floor (4)

 

Day 1.

In the end, I couldn’t land a single effective hit on the damn golem.

It wasn’t a duel, but more like a one-sided beating by the golem.

Thanks to that, some skills leveled up, but I couldn’t feel good about it.

I stopped the golem’s movement to strike my thigh again by pressing the white button.

 

Title: Isn’t This Too Strong

Author: Anonymous*

– What kind of golem with 30 durability is this ridiculously strong?

ㄴ Light’s Sword) It only has 30 durability but the performance remains the same. Good job. Could you see the sword path?

ㄴ Anonymous*) Yeah, it’s gradually becoming visible. Definitely learning faster by being directly hit. But executing it seems different.

ㄴ Heavenly Demon) It’s best not to be too confident in one’s learning ability.

ㄴ Sewer Sword Sage) You can only keep rolling. That’s what training is.

ㄴ What a bunch of know-it-alls.

ㄴ Everyone’s excited because he’s rolling around with a sword.

ㄴ I want to give advice too… But the normal mockery will be intense… Hehe. I won’t do it.

ㄴ Do it. Are we weaker than them? Don’t we have spirit?

 

Day 3.

The golem I reactivated by pressing the black button came charging.

Lightning-like sword strikes flashing before my eyes.

I raised my arm.

The movement was a purely instinctive defensive action.

SWOOSH!

Blocked it.

I had forcibly learned that this was the 3rd technique of the Yongsalgum called Drakabani.

Learning that leaves pain on the body accelerates knowledge absorption.

It was a vertical slash, but it was more complex than such a simple description.

I swung my sword diligently. The sensation of muscles tightly expanding spread through my arms and legs.

[‘Strength’ stat increases by 1.]

The seniors’ words were proven right – that continuously breaking through physical limits causes stat increases even without leveling up.

[‘Stamina’ stat increases by 1.]

The senior experts are always right. Of course.

And then I got hit again.

Sword strikes flashing from all directions.

After two days of only being beaten, something finally became visible.

A proper blocking angle.

There was no instant flash of understanding.

How the golem’s arm moves. How its legs advance when swinging a sword.

I quickly observed the golem’s movements and acted.

I first felt self-reproach about why I realized this so late.

It was as natural as a pitcher on the mound observing a batter’s habits to throw a pitch that catches them off guard.

Like breathing.

Blocking the 1st slash technique.

Blocking the 2nd piercing technique Heart Roar.

Blocked the 3rd technique.

My observing eyes gradually became clearer.

WHACK-!

“Ah.”

But I was directly hit by a simple vertical slash.

For a moment, my vision went dark and my body tilted backward.

THUD-

When I raised my head, I saw the golem walking towards me step by step.

“Don’t come, you bastard.”

I picked up a fallen golem activation cube fragment and pressed it.

STOP.

The golem’s movement to beat me more stopped in its tracks.

That’s it for today.

I gained a lot. I’ll use the remaining time for review.

***

Day 10.

Title: Today Will Be Different

Author: Anonymous*

– I had an enlightenment yesterday.

ㄴ How many attempts is this now?

ㄴ LOLOLOLOL

ㄴ Famous One) If you’ve gained that much enlightenment, isn’t it time to reach nirvana?

ㄴ That’s a real burn~~

Who’s that guy?

Burn?

ㄴ Anonymous*) What’s a burn?

ㄴ Heavenly Demon) It means average opening/breakthrough.

ㄴ Damn… Why is the peak of demons and the boss Heavenly Demon kindly explaining the meaning of that pathetic “average opening” term? The martial world I know isn’t like this. There’s no way this author is the real Heavenly Demon.

ㄴ Don’t you know there’s only one martial world? He is that Heavenly Demon you know.

ㄴ The Heavenly Demon is just thinking about being noticed by the current central climber

ㄴ Famous One) Heavenly Demon’s second coming, ten thousand demons bowing!

ㄴ Why is this crazy guy, who’s both an opening average and opening sect master, shouting that, ARGH!!!! My martial world!!!!! ㄴ This is just adapting to the current world. Didn’t you get the intuition about the sect leader bowing down to Cheonma?

A comment was suddenly attached that seemed to have no interest in the previous comments.

ㄴ Light’s Sword) Do not get tired, just remember the advice I’ve written down.

Although I wrote many words, apart from the sword technique, there weren’t many helpful words.

ㄴ Anonymous*) Why did you write this? ‘In the end, the greatest weapon is the sword.’

ㄴ Sewer Sword Sage) That’s a fact.

ㄴ Light’s Sword) That’s right.

ㄴ Spear King) After closing the training, something strange has happened, someday I will also use a spear….

ㄴ Heavenly Demon) Oh, line up. I will first teach you about the fist (拳).

ㄴ Spear King) That’s the important part of this young one’s thoughts.

Anyway, those crazy about swords.

Although I should have been crazy about swords too, I didn’t want to be part of that group.

I shut down the gallery and activated the golem.

FLASH.

A red single-eyed light blinked in the center of the head.

This, if I keep looking, I might even develop affection. Seriously.

I took a step.

The right hand of the sword-holding golem moved.

My right hand also moved.

Two trajectories colliding horizontally.

My sword and the golem’s wooden sword collided.

Done. Finally.

I neutralized the damn 1st technique, Tursahog.

The first success.

But they say the beginning is half the battle.

I countered both the 2nd and 3rd techniques the golem subsequently unfolded.

My arms trembled.

I had once been lost in useless thoughts about why Light’s Sword sent such a stupid golem to me.

After being beaten by it for a long time, I naturally realized.

The law of not shrinking before an opponent several levels above goblins or anfis.

It was sent to teach me that.

If Light’s Sword says my conclusion is wrong, then Light’s Sword is stupid.

[Acquired Skill ‘Fighter’s Movement Lv.1’]

[Skill ‘Concentration Enhancement’ level increases. Lv.2]

[Skill ‘Risk Detection’ level increases. Lv.2]

Because I gained actual effects.

Moreover, ‘Fighter’s Movement’ was a skill directly emphasized by Light’s Sword in the appendix of the sword technique book.

It was said to be a skill with many uses.

After responding to three attacks, I was beaten one-sidedly again.

After stopping the golem, my action was practicing moving mana.

After obtaining the stat ‘Mana’ when entering the 2nd floor, a naturally formed mana heart.

Light’s Sword had written thinly in the appendix of the sword technique book how to operate the 10 mana points in that mana heart.

I was sitting in a cross-legged position.

It took a week just to recognize the ‘mana heart’ itself.

The result achieved in the next three days was slowly sending mana throughout the body.

[Acquired Skill ‘Magic Body Enhancement Lv.1’]

Although manifesting sword energy was still impossible, I could temporarily enhance my body during combat.

Whether you can handle even just 10 mana or not makes a big difference.

The battle with the golem. And the sword technique book from Light’s Sword gave me the minimum skills to survive in this tower.

A definite change occurred on the 13th day of training.

[Activating Magic Body Enhancement Lv.1]

SWOOSH!

I slightly twisted my shoulder to dodge the wooden sword cutting through the air and striking like lightning.

And I extended my right foot to step on the golem’s right foot. It was instinct, not calculation.

─CRACK

Deploying the 1st technique of Yongsalgeom, Tursahog.

Finally, I reduced its durability from 30 to 29.

And when the training ended, the golem’s remaining durability was 23.

 

Title: Hey, Light’s Sword. Is this a lie?

Author: Anonymous*

– Weren’t you much stronger than this Golem mk.2 when you were seventeen?

ㄴ Light’s Sword) Oh, looks like I’ve been hit once.

ㄴ Anonymous*) Not just once, but seven times.

ㄴ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh, climber. Are you that proud?

ㄴ Light’s Sword) The golem has just rusted a bit.

ㄴ Light’s Sword) It’s not weak enough to diminish the value of what you’ve accomplished. It doesn’t seem like it’s just a bit rusted. 

 

15th day.

Current remaining golem durability is 16.

There was no more time to drag this out. After clearing the 2nd floor and safely reaching the 3rd floor’s stage waiting room, considering I also need to participate in the exchange meeting, today was the deadline for my training battle.

I spread the mana heart’s magic throughout my body.

[Activating Magic Body Enhancement Lv.1]

Ending it.

The training golem mk.2 with cracks scattered across its body.

But I couldn’t look down on it at all.

Because the number of times I got beaten exceeded three digits.

[Activating Concentration Enhancement Lv.2]

The golem continued to beat me without care, scattering fragments from all over its body.

Pain awakens the senses.

I burrowed inside the wooden sword’s range.

A fighter must move like a beast.

Words Light’s Sword scribbled at the end of the sword technique book, which became my behavioral guideline.

I can take hits.

Give flesh and take bones.

I dove in with that thought.

And I could flow through the momentary interval.

I’ve grown. That conviction boiled my adrenaline from the bottom up.

The sword swung horizontally struck the golem’s head. Head, then the exact center of the upper body.

CRACK!

Sides, legs, neck. I lashed the sword towards the golem’s limbs.

Stone and metal shattered.

Yellow fragments scattered in all directions.

SWOOSH!

The golem’s right arm, grotesquely bent, was perfectly split in two.

Fragments scattered on the ground, creating continuous loud noises.

The golem’s head fell to the ground and rolled.

Thirty.

Durability reached zero.

The red single eye completely lost its light.

I stared at the golem’s broken fragments.

“Thank you.”

It wasn’t empty words.

I genuinely felt gratitude towards the shattered golem.

Without it, it would have been impossible to raise my practical senses to this level in such a short time without the risk of death.

Even the pain it gave was medicine in the long run.

I only picked up the wooden sword it dropped and posted it in the gallery.

 

Title: Smashed it.

Author: Anonymous*

– Eating a bowl of pork soup and opening the 2nd floor door.

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[Golem’s wooden sword photo.]

ㄴ OHAHAHAHAHAHA Did you catch a sense of it?

ㄴ Priestess) Hahaha, even took a photo of the pork soup.

ㄴ Light’s Sword) Well done.

ㄴ Ice Queen) Freeze!! So cool! Climber!

ㄴ Sewer Sword Sage) Finished within time unexpectedly.

ㄴ Elf) Good work.

ㄴ Archmage) Don’t get complacent. Hard difficulty is already crazy from the 2nd floor, don’t forget it’s Pandemonium.

I won’t get complacent.

I’m just thinking of charging in as I can.

I ate the pork soup.

The shaman wrote a weak comment about not being able to eat it just by looking at the visuals, contrary to eagerly wanting the photo.

I headed to the end of the 2nd floor’s stage waiting room.

There was a gray door with weak light seeping through the cracks.

I grabbed the handle and opened the door.

SQUEAK-

『Welcome to Pandemonium Difficulty 2nd Floor Stage.』

A scene completely different from the 1st floor, which was just a dungeon, unfolded.

Huge gray walls and gathered warriors.

Screams piercing the ears.

What was spread before my eyes was a scene of a defensive battle.

『2nd Floor of Pandemonium Difficulty is Quest-type.』