One Man Army

Chapter 122 [Episode 63] Hagye, Middle Layer, and Heavenly World 1

@ Hagye (the Lower Boundary), Middle Layer, and Heavenly World

At the end of the transaction, Sang Hyuk inserted the key into the air. Then a translucent door appeared in front of his eyes and opened naturally.

As Sang Hyuk stepped inside the open door, a new space appeared. This was the ‘Treasure House of the Lost Heroes’.

This warehouse was a place where the treasures left by the heroes who fought against the corps of Mawang (Devil King) at the Heroic Lands were gathered.

There were many treasures in this warehouse, all of which were more than unique grade and less than legendary grade.

There were about four people known to have obtained items using this key in Sang Hyuk’s previous life. Of course, there were only four known, and it was likely many more users used the key to get items out of this place. *

This warehouse was famous, because all of the items obtained using this key boasted great performance.

“Avengers would have come in, right?”

The number of times the key has been used displays ‘2/2′, but since the number of uses does not decreased as long as you do not carry out any items, it was more likely that they came here at least once.

“Maybe they looked it over and concluded that it was not better than the Lion King’s Fury.”

It might be natural for the Avengers to make such a decision. At least at this moment, even legendary-rated items could not get a better rating than the Lion King’s Fury, which is a Double Plus 2.5 grade Magic Armor.

“Now at this point, if I were the Avengers, I would have made the same decision. Thanks to them, only I got the daebak (jackpot).”

Sang Hyuk laughed and looked around happily.

There were several items arranged on the right and left along the straight aisle. Unfortunately he could not see the detailed information by touching the placed items.

He was able to see the details only by going outside with the item. The only information he could see in the warehouse was the appearance, rating and the name of the item.

This was the reason for the Avengers to give up the key.

If they were able to see the correct information about the item, they could have made a more detailed comparison and would not have offered this exchange.

Because it was virtually impossible to judge the performance of the items by rating, name, and appearance, so they chose a winning lottery ticket rather than scratching the lottery that could not be confirmed.

“The Avengers’ judgement is correct. But I…. can see whether I won or not without scratching.”

Because of that, Sang Hyuk was able to choose this key without any worries.

Sang Hyuk slowly walked forward and looked left and right.

Of course, even Sang Hyuk did not know the performance of every item in this treasure house. But at least he has the insight that can’t be followed by the other users.

The regressor insight. It was also the greatest strength that Sang Hyuk has.

Sang Hyuk was going to look at all the items in the treasure house. So he walked forward and did not miss a single item.

Because there were so many things, so even though he only saw the grade, name, and appearance of the items, he spent four hours fully in the warehouse. And through that process, he narrowed his list to four things.

Three items were legendary and one was a unique item.

The Golden Dragon’s coin, the mask of the faceless, The Flag of the Great General, Red Dragon’s Blood (2 items)

First Red Dragon’s Blood was an unique item, but he was going to take it unconditionally. When Sang Hyuk found the Red Dragon’s Blood in the warehouse, he shouted manse(cheering like ‘long live the king’ or ‘hurray’).

It was also a single set of two.

Even if it was the Red Dragon’s Blood, if there is only one of it, he would have to think more about it, but if there are two of them, there is no reason to think.

It was right to take it regardless of the grade.

Other than the Red Dragon’s Blood, three more remained…. The items that he had a rough idea about among the three items were the Flag of the Great General and the Mask of the Faceless.

“Mask of the Faceless is an item that is rumored to belong to the King of the Ninjas or the Great Thief, and Flag of the Great General is an item that belonged to Iron Man DeFrom, the person picked among the best tankers to be the main tanker of the Avengers Guild.

Sang Hyuk knew little about The Mask of the Faceless. Hanjo (or Hangzhou) was known to have established a unique combat style using this item…. But, Sang Hyuk did not know the details.

On the other hand, he knew the performance of the Flag of the Great General relatively well. It was an ornament item with a very powerful party buff.

Thanks to the Iron Man Defrom, who had this ornament, the Avengers had been recognized as the best guild of the top three guilds specializing in raiding.

“I should pick one of these two items, which I know the performance and power…”

Sang Hyuk looked at the Golden Dragon’s Coin, the last choice with a very distressed look.

Honestly, this was the first item Sang Hyuk saw.

Still, the reason he chose this item as the last candidate was because the word ‘golden’ attached to the name.

“The three heroes who believed in the Shadow King… The Golden Dragon which is likely one of the Guardians of the Four-Cardinal Directions…. I know it’s gambling, but it’s attractive.”

With his knowledge, Sang Hyuk didn’t need to scratch the lottery ticket to win. But now, Sang Hyuk wanted to scratch the lottery ticket after using the key.

It was an ironic situation, but because it was a gamble with the possibility of a fail he had to be worried.

Especially since Sang Hyuk had already gained a confirmed reward, the ‘Red Dragon Blood (2)’, so it might not be a big problem to gamble…

“The Flag of the Great General is not really a big need for me, so pass. And the Mask of the Faceless actually not a very useful item for me, but……”

Sang Hyuk, who had been struggling with his thoughts, eventually decided.

“Let’s just scratch the lottery once.”

A man is….not a man without challenges and Sang Hyuk decided to make the decision after considering various things.

If the gambling is successful and the golden dragon, which attached to the item’s name, is really the golden dragon that Sang Hyuk knew, Sang Hyuk was very likely to see various benefits.

Moreover, if we look at the context, it is also true that Sang Hyuk is more likely to be right.

So Sang Hyuk daringly chose the Golden Dragon’s Coin.

Kiiiiik, Clunk!

As soon as the door of the Treasure House was closed, the key held by Sang Hyuk disappeared.

Instead, there are two items added to his virtual bag.

Red_Dragon’s_Blood(2) and Golden_Dragon’s_Coin.

First, Sang Hyuk pulled out the Red Dragon’s Blood to see how much plus was attached. The Red Dragon’s Blood increased its use count by 2 times per plus, so actually it was good enough to see each use increase by one.

It was an item that the plus is that important.

“Only a single double plus. Tsk, such a shame…. It would have been a real daebak (jackpot) if I got even one plus on the second one.”

The first one was Double Plus, and the second one was nothing.

Red Dragon’s Blood combined and the total usage is 8 times.

It was the same number of the first triple plus Red Dragon’s Blood he got.

“Well, it’s been a total of 15 times, so I’m satisfied enough.”

In fact, even 15 times was a tremendous thing.

Sang Hyuk, who confirmed the guaranteed daebak (jackpots), held his breath and pulled out the Golden Dragon’s Coin.

“Please let it be good…”

Sang Hyuk nervously opened the information window of the coin, the unscratched lottery.

Golden Dragon’s Coin [Legend++]

– The wise golden dragon from the north took out a piece of his dragon heart to protect the world and made a special coin. This coin will be a light of the world in many ways.

[Basic Ability] All abilities +70 (+14)

[Special Ability] Highest Basic Ability +70 (+14)

[Special Effect] <Dragon’s Protection (S+): When an attack will lead to death, a coin is thrown and if a golden dragons (face) appears, then you can avoid death and restore the health and vitality by 20%. However, if the Dark Dragon (back) comes out, then you cannot avoid death, but instead defer the death for one minute, during which your health and vitality are reduced to 0%, but the attack power is increased by 20%. After 1 minute, you die unconditionally. This ability can only be used once every four hours.>

[Item Skill] <Great Luck (A+): All choices related to you are likely to have positive results. The effect lasts all the time while wearing the item.>

[Bonus Effect] Wisdom +10, Intelligence +15

“Oooo!”

Sang Hyuk looked at the item window and nodded with a brighter look.

Golden Dragon’s Coin was an ornament as expected, but the performance was tremendous.

The dragon’s protection, which help in avoiding the death with 50% probability, could show the great benefit even if it cannot help you to avoid the death and the great luck, that was attached to it as a passive item skill, felt like it was just icing on the cake, proving the legendary grade of this item.

Sang Hyuk had seen a passive skill similar to the Great Luck in his previous life. One player who belonged to his team had this ability as soul skill and its name was ‘Luck’.

At that time, Luck was a B-grade skill, and according to the player who had it, he said that his attacks hit more frequently than other people, and that his opponent’s attacks had less critical hits.

Not only that, he said that his reinforcement attempts were more successful and he won more often for even such things as rock-paper-scissors inside the game.

This player felt thankful even with the B-grade Luck, so Sang Hyuk was very happy with the skill Great Luck with an A+ grade.

“I have been a little frustrated because I could not find a useful ornament….”

Sang Hyuk was very satisfied and immediately wore the Golden Dragon’s Coin.

“By the way, looking at the item description, the Golden Dragon is surely one of the Guardians of the Four-Cardinal Directions, who occupies the northern throne.”

With the Golden Dragon confirmed as the one in the Northern Seat, the remaining Shadow King, High Elf Stella and Tochun the Fire King surely occupy the other seats, and then the list of the Guardians of the  Four-Cardinal Directions is completed.

Of course, among the four inheritors of the Guardians of the Four-Cardinal Directions, Sang Hyuk knew only of the ‘Firehammer Tokan’. *

“The obvious thing is that if I could get all of the Shadow King’s succession…. Then the possibility to occupy one of the throne of the Guardians of the Four-Cardinal Directions is very high, right?”

The Guardians of the Four-Cardinal Directions and the Heavenly Origin Throne which represent the four thrones.

This was something that would have to be occupied in preparation for a Great War later on.

Getting the good items and getting the useful information.

If this was the result, he felt like it’s okay to give away a few ‘Lion King’s Fury’s.

* * * *

After getting 500 kg of adamantium from the Avengers and adding the collected 170 kg while hunting Iron Golems, Sang Hyuk added the 490 kg purchased through the Gold Mountain, resulting in the accumulated adamantium going over 1 metric ton.

Sang Hyuk thought that the performance of Sky-Grade Ship would be of a Heavenly grade, even though he was planning to make it only at the size of dual grade.

The Sky-Grade Ship ranged from the smallest grade,’solo’, to dual, triple and quadruple sizes.

Of course, large didn’t mean better when it came to Sky-Grade Ships. The small ones had their own advantages, and the big ones had its own advantages.

However, if the performance is the same, it would have been more advantageous to have a larger ship in case of  collisions.

Sang Hyuk knew this fact, but he could not raise the size. As the size increases, the number of people required to move the ship increases.

Sang Hyuk inevitably chose a dual-grade size, because the limit to fly alone was dual-grade.

Anyway, assuming that the Sky-Grade ship is made with the smallest size in the dual-grade standard, it would require about 1.5 tons of metallic material to make the Sky-Grade Ship.

That meant Sang Hyuk could build a nonsensical Sky-Grade Ship made entirely of Adamantium after he collected a little more of the Adamantium.

For reference, the price of Adamantium has already reached 100,000 gold for 10 kg even though the price has not yet risen.

Later, when users started building Sky-Grade Ships, the price of Adamantium was going to go up to 500,000 gold per 10 kg.

“If only a few insignificant parts of the interior are built of steel, then I only need 100 kg of Adamantium, right? At this level no matter how much money needed, it can be bought by Gold Mountain, and quickly completed.”

Sang Hyuk thought that he should make it properly. That way he would be better able to endure the Middle Layer later.

Currently, Sang Hyuk is in Hagye.

Precisely, he is at a place called the Lower Third World.

And the place to use the Sky-Grade Ship after Sang Hyuk completes his task was called the Middle Layer, and the hell-like place that you can get to after passing through the Middle Layer, is the Continent of the Sun, which is called the Heavenly World..

Chapter 122 [Episode 63] Hagye, Middle Layer, and Heavenly World 1 – End

Editor’s Notes: The implication being that once the key is used twice,  it can be found again by someone else.  The author never explains the exact mechanism…

Editor’s Notes: King of Dwarves, he forged the whip for Sang Hyuk…

Editor: Userunfriendly