One Man Army

Chapter 169 [Episode 87] Dragon Heart 1

@ Dragon Heart.

Hwarrrrkkkk.

Sang Hyuk synthesized the last book of the Divine Thunderbolt and the last Heavenly 72 Whip techniques book.

“Come out!”

Sang Hyuk didn’t think it would help, but he still shouted out hoping for a tiny bit more luck.

Are things going his way? Divine Thunderbolt didn’t disappear after it shone with light.

Flash! Swirrrllll.

All the hidden conditions were satisfied.

The hidden ancient Martial Arts the Ritual of the Thunder God was created.

“Good!”

One scroll flashing with golden light appeared instead of the Divine Thunderbolt and Heavenly  72 Whip techniques scrolls that Sang Hyuk handed to the Synthesizer.

It was exactly the 197th Ritual of the Thunder God.

Sang Hyuk surpassed his goal of 150 books and created 197 books, a staggering number of the Ritual of the Thunder God.

As a reference, the Ritual of Thunder God lasted for exactly 20 days when it mounted on the Awakening Skill Slot, so if he had 197 books, even if he uses it continuously, he would be able to keep using the Ritual of Thunder God for about 3,940 days.

At 365 days a year, it would be available for more than 10 years.

It seemed that Sang Hyuk didn’t need to worry that he would run out of the Ritual of the Thunder God.

“Wow…. It really burned white.”

Sang Hyuk used up all the materials that he gathered with so much difficulty after a very long time in a single day.

Of course, it was unfortunate because he only produced 50 books over his expectations.

Gold Mountain might be a bit unsteady due to the aftermath of this big rush, but he didn’t hesitate because he created Gold Mountain to become the best player anyway.

Sang Hyuk immediately pulled out one of the 197 volumes of the Ritual of the Thunder God and opened the scroll. Then a system message appeared straight away.

Awakening Skill Slot has been detected.

Do you want to register the Martial Art the Ritual of the Thunder God?

The Ritual of Thunder God registered in the Awakening Skill Slot will remain for ’20 days’.

Sang Hyuk registered the Ritual of the Thunder God immediately without reading the rest.

The Ritual of the Thunder God contained a total of 16 Martial Art Soul Skills and all of them could be utilized with the weapon, the Blood Wire of the Full Moon.

‘Well….. should I try to use it?’

Chwarrrk.

Sang Hyuk used the Thunder Slash, the most frequently used of the Martial Art Skills in the Ritual of Thunder God, as the commemoration of obtaining the Ritual of the Thunder God.

Flashing, kwagwagwagwagwang!

Then the blood wire slashed laterally, splitting the air.

The damage amplification rate of the Thunder Slash was only 20% but instead it was a skill with cooldown time that was incredibly short and could be used in a variety of combat situations.

Even the progamer that Sang Hyuk respected used the Thunder Slash the most out of the Ritual of the Thunder God.

To quote that progamer’s words, if you’re a user of the Ritual of the Thunder God then you should be able to cast the Thunder Slash accurately even with your eyes closed.

‘It even felt good.’

Sang Hyuk smiled pleasantly as he recoiled the blood wire. Even though it wasn’t a perfect Thunder Slash because this Martial Art skill was actually designed for the ‘Thunder Whip’ instead of Blood Wire, the power never lagged behind the original Thunder Slash.

After using Thunder Slash about a few times, Sang Hyuk, who got the feeling of it, left the warehouse behind him.

‘By the way, I have to quickly create the Dragon Heart……’

He wanted to make the dragon heart as soon as he could, but it was impossible to make it right away because he didn’t have all the ingredients.

‘If I prioritize all the NPCs in the Gold Mountain to get the ingredients of the Dragon Heart, I think i will be ready in a week..’

Sang Hyuk was thinking about producing the Dragon Heart as soon as possible.

After getting the Ritual of the Thunder God, it seemed possible to hunt in the Continent of the Sun if he also had the Dragon Heart.

‘Fiuh, there are lots left to do in the Continent of the Sun….. I’m really busy. I’m busy.’

Sang Hyuk, since his return had no time to play in the Middle Layer.

If only he could finish his tasks, he could have more spare time because there were limited things he could do in the Middle Layer, but he had no choice but to be busy again because he had a lot to prepare for and to plan for the Continent of the Sun.

* * * *

Gye Baek and Dark Knight were also busy, although not as busy as Sang Hyuk.

Because Sang Hyuk stayed in the Middle Layer for a long time, they had nothing to do as if their employment closed down temporarily for remodeling.

What they could do in the Continent of the Sun was to do quests to gain the Sun people’s favor. And there was no need for the three of them to do it.

So, for the time being, they decided to go separately and focus on playing by themselves as they came and went between the Hagye and Heavenly World.

Of course, Sang Hyuk’s top priority was making the dragon heart.

Sang Hyuk planned to go back to the Continent of the Sun after he finished it.

The Gold Mountain was running well even without Sang Hyuk.

Of course, it was able to run well without much problem only because Ilya was there and also because he automated operations as much as possible to create a stable flow of money.

Because of that, Sang Hyuk had a constant source of gold or items. Since Sang Hyuk had a steady flow of resources by using the Gold Mountain, a flow that didn’t require his intervention, he had no complaints.

Rather he thought it was good in many ways to let it simply run on autopilot for a while.

When the Gold Mountain stopped explosively increasing its business, numerous ‘Top’ people expanded their influence at the auction house.

Now, in fact, the big player of the auction house was not Gold Mountain but the ‘Black Market’. The Black Market was rising as the biggest player of the auction house through aggressive investment. However, Sang Hyuk did not really think that this was serious.

The reason was simple. It was because a more important market was open.

Continent of the Sun was a new market completely blocked from Hagye.

The power they had on Hagye was nothing at the Continent of the Sun.

Of course, it will not go down to the level of dying, but as the larger market opened, the users were going to move on.

A minor league in the Continent of the Sun would be a major league on Hagye.

But if it wasn’t easy to get a place at the Continent of the Sun and the users themselves would need quite a bit of time to advance to the Continent of the Sun, so the Hagye’s Auction Houses would be able to continue its popularity for at least half a year.

Anyway, for this reason, Sang Hyuk did not intend to restore his economic dominance on Hagye again. He intended to build the power on the Continent of the Sun more than anyone else then build a second Gold Mountain there.

‘For doing that, first I have to start by finishing the dragon heart……’

To achieve what Sang Hyuk wanted, the first thing he needed to have was STRENGTH.

Because the Sun People worship strength, so they won’t even associate with weaklings.

The class system called ‘Kamishu’ which exists among the Sun People, was thoroughly ranked through strength.

The Continent of the Sun would force you to live as a slave for lacking strength.

The reason Sun People hated dimensional travellers was that the existence of these ‘Immortals’, who refused to die even after they were stepped on like ants, made them scratch their heads.

Of course, the users who they regarded as ants were going to become stronger and surpass the Sun People one day but as always, it would take a very long time.

The atmosphere of the Auction House changed dramatically as the Gold Mountain’s NPCs moved aggressively for the first time in a long while.

‘The Auctioneers’ of the Black Market, who led the Auction House when the Gold Mountain ran as quiet as a mouse, were starting to sense something strange and respond to it.

Black Market did not utilize the NPCs like Sang Hyuk. They used players who could be smarter and rather ‘cheaper’ than the NPCs.

The players hired by Black Market were attached to the Auction House as if they were working at the company and worked hard to manipulate the prices.

They outperformed the Gold Mountain’s NPCs in many ways. Sang Hyuk acknowledged that. However, in the end, the key to controlling the Auction House was not the ‘hand and feet’ that executed the purchases and buys, but the ‘brain’ that penetrated the future and accurately read changes in values, so when Sang Hyuk took care of the Gold Mountain himself, the Black Market couldn’t exceed Gold Mountain, even if it died and reincarnated back. (TN: Most Koreans still believe in reincarnation and also that they can have a better life in the next life or achieve something they couldn’t do in this life.)

Of course, the Black Market could not know this.

They just mistakenly believed that they would eventually become the last winner.

Therefore, it was impossible for the Black Market’s Auctioneers to block the Gold Mountain’s NPCs, which are actively moving with Sang Hyuk’s return.

The Black Market’s Auctioneers totally had no idea why the Gold Mountain’s NPCs were aggressively buying and selling.

Although the ingredients needed to make the dragon heart were rare, because they were not particularly valuable, it became even more unpredictable.

In the end, it wasn’t Sang Hyuk’s intention but the Auction House became very noisy and oddly the Black Market and other big top players started fighting hard.

Gold Mountain, which can be said to be the ignition point of all these fights, quickly found and purchased the objects specified by Sang Hyuk and left them behind

After Sang Hyuk got everything he wanted, he didn’t care whether they fought among themselves or not, or whether or not they won or lost.

Anyway, Sang Hyuk’s interest was all focused on the Continent of the Sun so he had no time to play with those losers on Hagye.

* * * *

It took longer than he thought until he collected all the ingredients of the dragon heart. He thought one week would be enough, but in reality, it took half a month to obtain all the materials needed to produce the dragon heart.

The most troubling one was the ‘Spartoi’s Skull’. (Spartoi or Dragon Tooth Warrior)

The problem was that this item was the most essential ingredient in making the Necromancer’s favorite summon, the ‘Death Knight’.

As a result, it did not go up to the Auction House, but was traded for large amounts by direct transaction and in the end, Sang Hyuk was forced to go through item trading sites to get it.

After suffering such hardships, he was able to obtain Spartoi’s Skull by giving a huge amount of 50 million won in cash. (EN: Almost $41,000 US!!!)

It was the last one.

Sang Hyuk already had the ‘dragon blood’, which is hundreds of times more difficult to obtain than Spartoi’s Skull.

Now the only thing left was…..

The production of the dragon heart.

“Hyuu…”

Sang Hyuk put all the ingredients together and put on the title ‘The Real Dragon Slayer’.

Then, naturally, a system message appeared in front of him.

‘All the materials needed to build the dragon heart have been detected.  Would you like to produce it? (Y/N)’

“Yes!”

Sang Hyuk nodded and vigorously tapped the Y icon with his hand. Then all the materials that were collected gathered into one and floated into the air.

Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk !

The items began to emit the red light and began to merge. And after a few seconds…..

The red light exploded in the air and shot a red glare everywhere.

Flash!!

You have produced a Mythical item, ‘Dragon Heart’.

So, Sang Hyuk got another mythical item.

This time, it wasn’t just an item, but a mythic class consumable item.

Chapter 169 [Episode 87] Dragon Heart 1 – End

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