Emperor of solo play

Chapter 63 : Deep Canyon Spring (2).

Simulations of battles quickly flashed through Hyrkan’s mind, causing him to smile. It seemed that the result of the battle he imagined was satisfactory. With his smile still intact, Hyrkan threw a Skeleton Fragment on the ground. The fragment immediately turned into a Skeleton Warrior.

The Skeleton Warrior made from a Black Orc was carrying a scimitar-like sword, and its black bones easily blended into the darkness. Hyrkan drew a cross on its forehead, and two horns sprouted out from its skull.

Madness Helm.

In addition, Hyrkan casted Bone Armor on the Skeleton Warrior. White bones filled the Skeleton Warrior’s empty upper body, and its arms became covered by gauntlets. The D-Rank Bone Armor was now able to create both the breastplate and gloves.

Then, Hyrkan imbued curse magic onto the sword it was holding. Demon Curse, Slow Curse, Corrosive Ghost, and the recently learned Blind!

Once Hyrkan was done with his preparations, the Skeleton Warrior looked unlike a Skeleton Warrior. The black Skeleton Warrior wearing the white Bone Armor made it look like a knight. Its sword, imbued with several curses, also gave off a mysterious glow.

Watching his Skeleton Warrior, Hyrkan couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

‘There goes my magic power.’

As he wasn’t facing a boss monster, it was a waste of mana to use so much magic power. It was unlike Hyrkan who was trying to save as much magic power as possible. In other words, his situation had taken a complete turn, as compared to when he had begun.

To replenish the lost magic power, Hyrkan began to chew on a 30 gold magic power recovery gum.

‘It’s literally raising proficiency with money.’

In the past, he was frugal with his magic power due to having no money at all. Now, it was different. Although it wasn’t to the point he could change his car to a sports car, he had enough to buy any skillbooks or consumable items he wanted.

Thus, Hyrkan’s focus fell to raising his skills’ proficiencies. The only way to do so was to use the skills repeatedly. The magic power lost because of it would then have to be filled with magic power recovery items. It was truly buying skill proficiency with money.

As such, Hyrkan couldn’t help but laugh at himself.

‘You don’t even eat a 3,000 won per half a gram pork in real life, but you’re chewing on a 30,000 won gum in game. You are one crazy bastard.’

His laugh quickly turned into bitterness.

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‘Oh?’

After entering the dungeon, Hyrkan began to explore it with his Skeleton Warrior in lead.

The tension on his face could be felt behind his hahoe mask, and it wasn’t until his first encounter with a monster that his expression changed.

‘A slime?’

The monster he encountered was a slime.

Slimes were common monsters in Warlord. Although they weren’t like pebbles on the side of the road, anyone could find one if they desired. However, slimes whose insides glowed was a different story.

The slime Hyrkan encountered was such a slime. Its translucent body glowed with a red light. When Hyrkan saw the slime, he knew what he was up against.

‘This is a spirit-form monster dungeon!’

Spirit-form monsters were one of the rarest monster types in Warlord. Appropriately, they were quite expensive for a rather simple reason. The items they dropped were used in creating attributed items.