Max Level Newbie

"Hahaha, this is so, I'm sorry!"

"Sorry? Are you kidding me? How precious a life is! What a rotten...….”

"Oh, I'm really sorry. I had no idea. I never imagined you'd ever experience death. I mean, that's what you think, isn't it?”

"You don't even know about Naraka?”

"Not interested in demons. When I was active, I was less interested because I didn't have such a strong devil. By the way, it's amazing that Naraka has a means to resurrect even if he dies.”

"Well, it only applies to players, but...... Oh, do you know the player?"

"No, I've never heard of that either."

"Hoo...... I'll explain that first."

Vulcan, who calmed his anger with his eyes closed, slowly explained what was about the player and the system, and Icarus, who heard all of his stories, spoke with his mouth wide open as if really amazing.

"Wow, that's a great ability. There are some of the ancient tribes that are so special that they don't deserve it. There was a reason why you were so strong.”

"Hmm."

The blanks, knowing the other players' situation, remained silent.

Icarus didn't talk about it anymore.

I'm just saying that the process of teaching the blanks in the future will be much easier.

He said so.

"In fact, I felt that the concept of double swordsmanship or wind that I used was completely different from your movements and the way you used magic, so I was at a loss how to teach...... that's a relief. Let's start by learning basic things through the ability to acquire your skill book."

"Yes. Let's get started."

It was a blanks for cooperating with Icarus, ending his dissatisfaction with the visit.

Vulcan spent about a hundred years like that and was taught about magic and swordsmanship.

Of course, teaching was not as one-sided as the relationship between a medal and a schoolboy.

It was true that Icarus was superior to Vulcan in both swordsmanship and magic, but the difference was not huge, and the strengths of each other were also different.

Rather, after some time, the training was conducted by having a discussion with each other, and in the process, the blanks were able to get a lot.

Fortunately, although the two have seen, heard, felt, and practiced completely different things, they absorbed the other's knowledge without prejudice and obstinacy like sponges sucking water.

Occasionally, opinions were divided and quarreled, which led to fierce confrontation, but in the process, new things were realized, and the deficiencies were supplemented, enabling steeper growth.

The Vulcan who trained alone all his life except for one-sided guidance from Powell.

It was the first time for him to share knowledge and spread out branches of thought together, and I wondered if it was more efficient for him to be with others than to be alone in training.

However, the great synergy effect now was just a coincidence that the two beings matched each other very well.

Anyway, the blanks have greatly increased their confidence over a period of 100 years.

Although the level did not rise due to the lack of hunting, the team was able to achieve results that were not far behind Icarus, whose level had risen thanks to discussions with the Bulkans.

"Whoa. I can't believe you can compete at a level similar to level 1720 in just 100 years...... that's Ki-yeon. Maybe we'll win if we level up and replenish the stats."

"I told you, right? You won't regret it."

"......well, let me say so."

"Always be grateful, and don't forget the deal."

"Yes. I see."

Vulcan answered Icarus half-heartedly.

But inside, I was quite satisfied with the current situation created by him, so I was going to comply with his request unconditionally.

'If you can't get Icarus out of the tower...... we can make a wish for Act III. There's no place to use it anyway.’

I am so grateful for Icarus.

Vulcan managed his facial expressions so as not to reveal such thoughts, and said, looking at Icarus.

"Okay, let's finish what we missed yesterday. The late four-second section of the perforated sword, I think that part of the...….”

"No, let's stop now."

"Hmm?"

Vulcan questioned Icarus' expression of determination.

But the blanks had no choice but to nod their heads at his logical words that soon followed.

"Honestly, now you and I have left out everything we can out of each other, right? This type of training was quite helpful until a year or two ago, but now it's over. What I've learned has become so skillful that it's no longer meaningful to train, and what I haven't learned is obvious that I won't be able to do for hundreds of thousands of years. Because I'm not talented in that field. In fact, I can't believe I've achieved enough efficiency in just 100 years, but......but now that it's like this, we don't have to go on any further training.

"Hmm. You're right.”

Vulcan, who expressed his consent, said one after another, eye to eye with Icarus.

"Then is it time to go up to the next floor?"

"You can say yes. My teaching... ... It's embarrassing to call it teaching. That's all for the 51st floor training."

After hearing Icarus, the Vulcan became a bittersweet feeling.

I thought I'd end up leaving here one day, but when it came so suddenly, I couldn't get my feelings straightened out.

But in the end, Vulcan's goal is to conquer the tower and clear Act3.

To go further and move towards a higher level of magic and swordmanship.

There was no need to spend more time on the 51st floor, where there was nothing more to gain.

'And there's only 50 years left until the time Hokulus said......you can stop by and come back if nothing happens, but it's natural you have to save time anyway.’

Having thought so far, Vulcan stretched out his right hand with a look of regret.

Icarus, who shook hands with the hand strongly.

He said so.

"Before you leave, I'll give you one last piece of advice."

"Hmm? What advice?"

Looking at Icarus' very serious expression, I asked back the blanks.

Before taking the form of a debate, he was somewhat nervous because he had never spoken to himself in such a confident tone, except in the early days of the play, in which Icarus unilaterally taught Vulcan.

I think he's going to say something very important.

The prediction of such a blanks hit the mark.

But the content was something he never expected.

"From now on, the player's ability......so you'd better forget as much as you can about the system.”

"......hm. I don't quite understand. What does that mean?"

"I mean the system is no longer helpful to you. It's not bad enough."

"You don't agree with me. I'm not just focusing on the system."

Vulcan was not convinced by Icarus's words.

From Level 1 to your current position, how many times have you been helped by the system? I couldn't count them all.

If he's been ignoring the realization and simply focusing on experience, level-up like other players, so if he's going through limitations, he might agree with Icarus, but it wasn't.

After all, the system is also one of the forces that it has.

It was a blanks that I thought there was no need to deliberately seal the useful means.

But Icarus began to refute each of these ideas.

"Of course I admit that the player's system capability is great. In fact, from what you said, it sounds like you've gotten a lot of help. Your equipment and your great skills were all thanks to the system, and it was thanks to the help of the system that found the hidden entrance to the Tower of Babel. But that's it."

"Until there?"

"Yes. There's nothing more to gain from the system. Do you think you can get something better than what you have now? Through the power of the system?"

Vulcan could not answer immediately.

In fact, after getting a set of demon and a lightning sword of the brain cavity, he did not replace the item for a long time.

Icarus' words went on and on.

"And do you need assistance in the system to learn new skills now? You've already got all these amazing skills. It's much more reasonable to refine the skills we have now. Even if you learn many skills instantaneously, it's no use to you right now."

"Um......."

"Of course, because of the nature of players who can grow only by level-up, we can't avoid the help of the system at all, but even if we don't know about that, if we catch a monster, we'll climb on our own. So from now on, I think it's better to think that there's no system and act

Vulcan, who had heard so far, had no choice but to agree to Icarus's claim.

In particular, the part that pointed out the ability to acquire skill books was the part that the Vulcan felt strongly recently.

But I still don't understand why we need to stay away from the system.

Icarus also expressed his views on that.

"You're too tied to numbers."

"Number?"

"Yes. Level, to be exact. Even before you start a fight, you judge your opponent by the level of his or her level, and you determine the result in advance. And then you limit your movements and your potential to the expected results."

“…….”

"Other than that, there's a lot more of you tied to the system."

Icarus' words continued for a long time.

The system is bound by the "effect of the skill" that it says freely.

They divide their abilities into "skills" that the system has divided into their own, which need not be forcibly.

And not only level, but also the fact that they are bound by the "skilled grade" framework, limiting their potential.

The frustration he felt during the debate with the Vulcan was pointed out, and the Vulcan gradually took Icarus' words seriously.

"......this is what I want to say after all. Strength is beyond measure. This applies to the enemy, to you. I don't want you to be obsessed with the numbers of the system anymore.”

"Um."

"Focus only on your own potential, and the most important force to sustain you, lightning and fire, its pure strength. Don't focus on system windows that poorly quantify your abilities. Oh, of course I'm not saying not to level up. It's stupid to refuse to be muscular and increase mana. But even if you don't have to be aware of it, it's up on your own, so just forget about it. That's all I'm going to say."

Icarus, the King of Heaven, looks as if he's finished his words.

He cut himself, closed his eyes as if to go up to the next floor, and took a defenseless posture, while Vulcan held up the sword with a short sigh.

"I'll keep in mind what you said, climbing the tower."

"Advice is just advice. It's up to you to judge. Do well."

a drawback

a hand-wringing paddies

Vulcan Sword Faster Through Training with Icarus

It passed neatly through Icarus' neck.

Immediately after that, with the effect that the world seemed to collapse, the Vulcan returned to the 51st floor of the Tower of Babel.

He stood like a stone, brooding over what Icarus the Heavenly King had said for a while.

The Vulcan, who spent such a long time pondering and organizing his thoughts.

He soon took a firm look as if he had made up his mind and moved towards the stairs leading to the 52nd floor.

Don't judge me, and the enemy by shame....and I don't have to lock my powers in every skill.’

So, Icarus said, "Don't fit your potential into the framework of the system, but grow as much as you want."

Though not yet fully accepted, it was a painful reminder that came as a very strong shock, as Powell and Naraka's nameless Jinma once said to him.

sincere words that can only be said by those who have watched their present state objectively and closely from the point of view of a third party.

Vulcan climbed the Tower of Babel again, bearing his precious advice in his heart, and another hundred years passed.

It was 200 to 50 years beyond what Hokulus said, but the Vulcan was not aware of it.