Knights were still tirelessly rushing at him.
Swish! Slash!!
Jongryeo evaded their blades and quickly counterattacked by cutting them down.
However….
‘This will go on forever.’
When he shifted his gaze away just for a brief moment, far more knights than he had cut down appeared out of seemingly nowhere to fill the gap.
Slash!!
One more knight lost its head.
‘I gotta find the mages.’
Jongryeo utilized the shoulders of the headless knight and leaped up before the creature collapsed to the floor.
‘Sprint!’
Jongryeo’s form blurred in an instant. Of course, he wasn’t trying to hide.
What he was aiming for was….
[The mage has used ‘Skill: Eyes of Detection’.]
[The mage has used ‘Skill: Eyes of Detection’.]
[The mage has used ‘Skill: Eyes of Detection’.]
….The ear-piercing mechanical beeps rang out from several directions.
Jongryeo ran on top of the knights and quickly confirmed the positions of the eye-like symbols.
‘Found them! There are a total of five mages!’
Jongryeo targeted the closest mage to him.
“……!”
The mage hurriedly gathered knights around it the moment Jongryeo turned to stare at it, but….
Swish-!!
Vortex Vanquisher flew out of his left hand in a straight line and stabbed accurately in the middle of the mage’s forehead.
Stab!
[You defeated the mage.]
Tumble…
Once more, hundreds of knights tumbled to the ground.
‘Four more left!’
Jongryeo stepped on the knights’ heads and moved towards his next target.
Meanwhile, he sneaked a glance towards the ‘Vortex Vanquisher’ he hadn’t recovered yet. It was time to use his new skill.
‘Dominator’s Touch!’
Jongryeo extended his left hand towards the spear, and as if a magnet was pulling it in, the weapon flew back in.
‘Yes!’
Jongryeo snatched the spear off the air.
Now that he didn’t have to personally retrieve his spear, he could take the most efficient route to his target. In the next second, he arrived before the next mage, and…
“…..!”
Even before the knights could try anything, he cut the b*stard up in half.
[You defeated the mage.]
More knights collapsed again. With that, not even half of the original number of knights remained.
The initiative was clearly with him now.
Jongryeo’s glare became harsher.
‘There are three left.’
Perhaps sensing the threat, the remaining mages all gathered in one spot. It wasn’t only them, either. The knights they controlled also gathered around them.
And then, the mages all chanted a certain spell together. Their ominous and creepy voices reverberated throughout the boss room and soon, they finished their spell.
Crack, creak.
The knights guarding the mages were suddenly pulled into one lump and got compressed as if they were thrown into an industrial crusher. And then, they were reborn as one huge metal Golem which began glaring at Jongryeo right away.
‘Wow, this is no joke, huh?’
Jongryeo leaked out a gasp of pure admiration after sensing the overwhelming pressure emitted by this giant monster.
However, he wasn’t scared by its appearance at all.
Perhaps because he had encountered several life-or-death situations already, he was feeling expectant rather than nervous.
Thud, thud, thud!!
Whenever the large Golem took steps, the ground shook.
What a fearsome presence it possessed.
Swoooosh-!
Jongryeo ducked lower and dodged the Golem’s fist.
Bang!
The stone pillar behind Jongryeo shattered into pieces after its metallic fist grazed it.
‘Well, that is pretty serious power…..’
Jongryeo grinned slyly.
If he hadn’t yet figured out what was going on here, he would’ve been wracking his brain trying to figure out how to deal with this monster. However, there was no need for him to worry about that now. No need at all.
Just as the Golem locked its hands together and raised them high to smash down…
Jongryeo didn’t back away, but used his skill, ‘Sprint’, and pounced forward. And then, he slid on the floor.
In the blink of an eye, he had slid in between the legs of the Golem and shot right past it.
While the lumbering Golem was hastily turning around, Jongryeo had already arrived before the three completely defenseless mages, still busy chanting their spell.
“….!”
“….!”
The shoulders of the panicking mages grandly shuddered.
“You’re done!”
A smile of contentment formed on Jongryeo’s face.
The old saying went something like, by being together, you’d be safe and that separating from one another would mean death. Too bad for them, that was not the case this time around. It was far easier to kill them off because they had gathered in one place.
Jongryeo freely swung his spear about, and….
[You defeated the mage.]
[You defeated the mage.]
[You defeated the mage.]
The remaining three mages also became smoke and joined their already-departed comrades. And the Golem that was trying to hurriedly grab Jongryeo shattered into pieces of armour and scattered all over the place.
Jongryeo didn’t let his guard down, however.
He looked over at Jin woo to see if he needed his assistant but it seemed Jin woo was already done with his part.
‘Is this the end? Or, is there something more?’
He remained alert and ready just in case something else might happen, but then, the familiar beep went off in his head.
Jongryeo swallowed his saliva.
Perhaps to laugh at his unnecessary worries, the System announced the end of the quest, instead.
[The Job Change Quest has been concluded as all monsters inside the examination chamber have been defeated.]
[Your Job will be determined shortly.]
[Depending on the amount of advancement points accumulated, it will be possible to change your Job to a high-ranking one.]
Only now…
Only now could Jongryeo spit out a sigh of relief.
“Fuu….”
What a difficult battle this had been.
If he remained fixated on the Immediate Return Stone, he’d never have figured out how to counter the Job Change Quest monsters.
‘Yeah, I’d probably have been thinking about escaping all the time.’
He got unlucky – or perhaps got really lucky, instead – and lost the Immediate Return Stone. And that forced him to focus solely on surviving this battle. The end result was an unbridled success.
And now, it was time to receive his rewards.
Jongryeo’s gaze drifted towards the timer.
[04:29:16]
The numbers on the timer had stopped moving. He had ‘endured’ for almost four and a half hours. And that wasn’t all.
In a quest that could be cleared simply by enduring the combined assault of the countless enemies for a while, he actually managed to kill them all.
Just from wondering about how many points he got to accumulate and what kind of a class he’d earn from that, his heart began trembling in anticipation.
[The suitable Job will be bestowed upon the Player after your past actions have been thoroughly analyzed.]
‘That’s sounds good.’
If his past actions were used as the basis for the selection of his Job, then the odds of him ending up with something weird and struggling in the future would be close to zero now.
It was probably the most welcoming thing he’d heard in a while.
[The places where the Player stands are the result of the strength of a fighter. Maintaining order is no simple affair. As such, a deft and sometimes firm hand is needed along with a small pinch of truly regrettable cruelty.]
….He thought that this description was a bit too stern and cold, but after looking back, he couldn’t come up with anything to rebut those words.
‘I only did those in order to raise my level, though….’
After entering an instant dungeon, he kept hunting monsters down until his level would not rise anymore. And while inside a regular dungeon, he made sure to find every single hidden monster there and slew them all, too.
Also, although it wasn’t his intention, he ended up fighting other Hunters a couple of times, too.
‘Fighter’, ‘strength’, and ‘maintaining order….’
‘No matter how you look at it….’
Just as he suspected from the beginning, it seemed that his Job would be set at ‘Fighter’ now.
[Also, the Player thirsts for power, never relies on his comrades, and paves a new path for himself with his own strength.]
Nod, nod.
Jongryeo nodded his head in agreement with the System’s assessment.
‘Well, it’s not like I had any trustworthy comrades, to begin with.’
Except for one.
However, he couldn’t understand why those points were being addressed during the selection of his Class. The System’s explanation continued on.
[Your thirst for strong power is intense enough to create life. Through this ancient and mythical practice, can you create your own world with all the things you’ve gathered on your journey, and the army of your own creation that unquestioningly follows all of your commands will pave the road only for you, without anyone’s aid.]
‘………The army of my own creation?!’
Only now had Jongryeo realized something had gone awry here.
Too bad, though.
“No, wait!! Hold on a second!”
Even before he had any chance to raise his objections….
The System read off the result of the selection in its usual dry and humorless voice.
[Your Class has been set as ‘Alchemist’.]
“…..What the hell?”
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