Chapter 202

3.

After buying the used compact car and eating with Lee Geondong, he had lost almost the entire morning.

He came home and played E-World even more diligently.

And two days later.

Leveling up was structured in a way that required steady effort.

It took him two full days and half another day before he could see the message he wanted.

Seonghyun looked at the message floating before his eyes and slowly raised his head.

[Level Up!]

[You have become Level 160.]

[By reaching Level 160, a new skill for 『Overlord』 is unlocked.]

[You have acquired the Legendary-rank skill, 『Record of Destruction』.]

[By reaching a level in the tens, the Almighty-rank item, 『Tome of the Overlord』, is activated.]

[By reaching a level in the tens, the Almighty-rank item, 『Tome of Blood』, is activated.]

[A new fate has been added to the Legendary-rank item, 『Random Box』, stored in your inventory.]

[By reaching Level 160, you can now move to the next region.]

‘Finally.’

Seonghyun looked at the message impassively and raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

It had taken a bit longer than he had thought.

Since he hadn't gotten any good quests after that, his progress in gaining experience had been hampered.

After hunting and clearing minor quests, he had finally reached Level 160 after two and a half days.

The long-awaited 160.

Putting aside the fact that he had acquired a new skill, a new fate had finally been added to the Random Box.

‘I can finally open the boxes.’

He hadn't waited that long, but he had high expectations.

‘Of course, before the Random Box, should I look at the Overlord skill I got?’

Since he already had it, checking this first was the proper order.

And the name was 『Record of Ruin』.

It was clearly a skill linked to the 『Book of Ruin』.

‘Shouldn't I be able to guess the effect to some extent?’

With that thought, Seonghyun opened the new skill.

『Record of Ruin』

→《Legendary》

→[Lv 1][Growth-type]

[Instant Effect][Active]

[Cooldown 30 minutes]

The recorded destruction shall manifest in the world once more and repeat the ruin.

→Overlord exclusive skill.

→Must possess the 『Book of Ruin』.

→You can store skills that have been used from the 『Book of Ruin』.

→You can reuse the stored ruin spell at any time.

→As the skill level rises, the number of ruin spells that can be stored increases.

→Currently stored destruction spells: [0 / 3]

‘Oho?’

It was one of the effects he had expected.

The effect of being able to record the randomly appearing spells from the 『Book of Ruin』.

This was quite useful.

Although the ruin spells were all powerful and useful, the fact that they were used randomly was a bit of a shame.

If he could store the spells he wanted?

Their utility would inevitably increase significantly.

‘This is really good.’

Since he was also quite pleased with the 『Record of Ruin』, he hoped that the skills he would get now would also be good.

As Seonghyun thought this, he opened his inventory.

『Random Box』×3

→《Legendary》

→A box that allows you to randomly obtain an item or skill with which you have a fate.

→All items that can be obtained from this box are Legendary-rank.

→Currently fated skill: 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』.

‘I did think about this…’

To think the 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』 would come up this time.

After obtaining 『Blood Monarch』, he had felt that the effects of the 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』 were a bit minimal.

And now a new fate was linked to it.

‘What will become of this.’

Seonghyun pondered for a moment before, as if he had made a decision, taking out another item from his inventory first.

Along with the Random Boxes, he took out a 20-sided die that looked both brilliant and ill-fated with its many colors.

The Almighty-rank item he had obtained recently, 『Destiny』.

Although the Random Box had a strong random element, if a fate was linked, it would definitely give the item.

However, among those fated items, wouldn't there be better and worse versions?

Those aspects were clearly an element of luck.

If so, 『Destiny』 should be able to intervene.

As he took out the die and looked around for a moment…

‘If it's this…’

[The Almighty-rank item, 『Destiny』, discovers a fate it can intervene in.]

[There is room for Destiny to intervene in the Legendary-rank item, 『Random Box』.]

[Will you change the 『Destiny』?]

The message he wanted appeared, just as he expected.

He had been half-convinced it would happen, but…

‘Now that I'm really doing it, I'm a little nervous.’

As it really appeared, Seonghyun, feeling a little nervous, rolled 『Destiny』 from his hand into the air.

Seonghyun wasn't the type to hesitate over something like this.

As Seonghyun rolled 『Destiny』 from his hand, the sound of the die rolling, torururuk, was heard.

After rolling for a while, 『Destiny』 stopped.

[15.]

A fairly high number.

Then.

Hwaaaaa---!

A brilliant golden light erupted from 『Destiny』.

As 『Destiny』 was grasped in Seonghyun's hand again, a message appeared.

[The probability of obtaining a better reward has been increased by 15% by the Almighty-rank item, 『Destiny』.]

Looking at the numbers alone, it was an unbelievable cheat.

One Random Box had been affected by this. And there were two Random Boxes left.

He also had two uses of 『Destiny』 left for the day.

He rolled them both.

One came up with a 10, and the other, a low 5.

It was a bit of a shame, but since it was a percentage increase, was it still a relief?

On average, the probability had increased by more than 10%.

Thinking it was probably good…

‘Now, let’s open them.’

As Seonghyun opened the Random Boxes, a message appeared.

[You have acquired three fated Legendary-rank skills!]

[You have acquired skills with an even deeper fate!]

[The newly acquired skills will be included in the exclusive skill list.]

[The Almighty-rank skill, 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』, acquires the necessary skills and transforms into its true form.]

[The level of the Almighty-rank skill, 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』, rises.]

[The three newly acquired Legendary-rank skills pledge their loyalty to 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』.]

‘Oh?’

‘Did I get a better effect than I thought?’

Seonghyun first opened the newly acquired skills.

『Eye of the Abyss』

→《Legendary》

→[Lv 1][Growth-type]

[Lasting Effect][Active]

[Cooldown 20 minutes]

[Duration 30 seconds]

Even the fear you tried to hide cannot deceive me.

→Overlord exclusive skill.

→Restriction: Owner of Monarch of Abyssal Fear.

→Causes irresistible fear in the target looked upon by the Eye of the Abyss.

→As long as the Eye of the Abyss is watching, the target cannot escape the fear.

→Can plunge even beings who cannot be gripped by fear into fear.

『Specter of Fear』

→《Legendary》

→[Lv 1][Growth-type]

[Instant Effect][Passive]

[Cooldown 20 minutes]

[Duration 1 minute]

Run, but remember. Fear is already waiting where you hide.

→Overlord exclusive skill.

→Restriction: Owner of Monarch of Abyssal Fear.

→Is summoned to a target gripped by fear around the caster.

→When summoned, the Specter of Fear transforms into the being the target fears most and attacks them.

→The attack power of the Specter of Fear is proportional to the target's fear of the being it dreads.

『Fear of Loss』

→《Legendary》

→[Lv 1][Growth-type]

[Lasting Effect][Active]

[Cooldown 20 minutes]

[Duration 3 minutes]

All that which forms your body shall scatter into the smoke of the abyss.

→Overlord exclusive skill.

→Restriction: Owner of Monarch of Abyssal Fear.

→Designates a target and temporarily annihilates a part of their body.

→During the duration, the lost body part will never return.

→During the duration, the target who has lost a body part is judged to be in a state of fear.

‘Oho.’

『Eye of the Abyss』 was a skill that unconditionally plunged its target into fear. It seemed to be a very good fit with the existing effect of 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』.

Next, 『Specter of Fear』 also seemed to have good synergy with 『Eye of the Abyss』.

In a way, should he call it a "fear build"?

Finally, 『Fear of Loss』 was also a very good skill to start the build with.

As Seonghyun couldn't help but marvel at the skills, which were better than he had expected, a thought suddenly occurred to him.

‘If the new Legendary-rank skills are this good, just how strong is the 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』 with its true power awakened?’

As soon as he had that thought, Seonghyun examined 『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』.

『Monarch of Abyssal Fear』

→《Almighty》

→[Lv 5][Growth-type]

[Instant Effect][Complex]

[Cooldown 20 minutes]

The fear lurking in the abyss shall descend upon the land and envelop all.

Those who taste that fear shall worship him.

→Overlord exclusive skill.

→Spreads the abyss in the surrounding area, causing all to be gripped by fear.

→Absorbs health and mana from those gripped by fear within the abyss.

→When fear is rampant in the surroundings, stats temporarily increase by 30% × the number of those gripped by fear.

→If there is no one gripped by fear in the surroundings, the stat increase effect disappears.

‘Heo.’

First, the existing effect had changed to an area-of-effect skill. And on top of that, a stat increase of 30% per target gripped by fear.

It had now become a skill with power befitting a "Monarch."

An effect that made even Seonghyun's jaw drop.

With this, he could definitely establish a fear build.

Just this alone would be a good enough build.

However, Seonghyun suddenly thought of the 『Tome of the Overlord』 and grinned.

‘I have 4 accumulated 『Tome of the Overlord』 and 2 『Tome of Blood』, right?’

Then he could get a total of six more skills.

The blood build was already usable as it was.

Even if he put the 『Tome of Blood』 aside for now, he could get a whopping 4 skills just from the 『Tome of the Overlord』.

With this, it seemed he could make the fear build even more solid.

4.

The largest mansion in the fifth city, Pentamir.

There wasn't a single person in this city, at least, who didn't know the owner of the mansion, which was even more magnificent and outstanding than the lord's castle.

The most powerful organization that shook the continent.

The Over Palace Pentamir branch.

Its branch manager, Penelope, was handling her duties, looking over various reports.

Unlike the branch manager of another branch somewhere, she was just handling her own duties, even though their true heir had arrived.

However, the other executives of the Pentamir branch were restless.

“Sh-Shouldn't we step forward quickly and help the heir?”

“I-It seemed he was looking for a good mission before. C-Can't we create one for him ourselves?”

“W-We want to be of help!!!”

They were fidgeting, wanting to be of even a little help to Seonghyun.

However, the branch manager, Penelope, glared at them coldly.

Unlike Branch Manager Belmore of Pentagrid, Branch Manager Penelope looked quite young.

However, the immense power she held was enough to crush the executives who were making a fuss.

Even if she looked young, the position of branch manager was not something that could be ignored.

“Hic!”

“Keuheuk.”

“B-Branch Manager!?”

The three executives clutched their hearts in shock.

If they relaxed their tension again, they would feel the pain of their hearts being pierced by the branch manager's power.

However, Branch Manager Penelope paid them no mind.

She just handled the duties assigned to her.

But from the executives' perspective, this couldn't be more lacking in virtue.

Shouldn't all their power be used for the heir?

But why was she not even paying attention?

As the executives with such thoughts were about to say something…

“There is nothing we can do for the heir right now. And above all, there is an order handed down from the Black Star. We just need to wait for it.”

“Oooh?! Th-The Black Star!?”

“W-What on earth did he say?”

“If it's the Black Star…”

At the executives' urging, Branch Manager Penelope scrunched up her face as if annoyed and spoke.

“He said, ‘I shall give the heir something great in the sixth region. Do not let the Will of the World be allocated to him any further.’ Do you understand? The more we intervene, the less there will be to offer the heir in the sixth region.”

“Ooooh!!! S-Such a deep meaning!”

“We will keep it in mind!”

“As expected of the Black Star!”

“Finally, I will step forward before he leaves for the sixth region, so do not worry.”

Penelope said that and focused on her work again.

Devotion to the heir was a matter of course.

Therefore, they had to be prudent until the very end.

For that was the Over Palace's reason for existence.