Chapter 103 – Experience Collector (1)

by Heavenly Cat

The next morning, Sun-woo looking at his phone checked the reward contents received yesterday.

[Min Sun-woo: 7 Stars. Achievement Rate 85%]

[Inventory Addition 500p]

[Skill Slot Addition 700p]

[Basic Recovery Potion Addition 100p]

[Basic Drinking Water Addition 1p]

[Basic Hard Bread 2p]

[Item Enhancement Stone 100p]

[Item Transformation Stone 1,000p]

[Summoner Calling Stone 500p]

[Body Regeneration Potion 1,000p] – New

[100,000 won per Point]

[Current Points: 2,220p]

Achievement rate also increased from 50 percent to 85 percent, and points also increased by 1,100 points from 1,120 points to 2,220 points.

It was quite generous reward. On top of that, the bonus money received from the Association was also 20,000 dollars, nearly 30 million won.

Thanks to that, there was absolutely no need to exchange points. With many points remaining, items and skills he wanted to buy overflowed, but Sun-woo didn’t buy any and closed the reward window.

All for today.

<xxxx Time xx. Rank 1> Rank Up: xxx

[An error occurred. Linked to skill in uncontrolled situation. Starting readjustment. Time remaining 0 minutes 22 seconds]

It was time for linking of the unknown skill registered in the skill window since yesterday to begin.

The summoner lodgings were decorated like a hotel room, and quite a while after daybreak, only Sun-woo was alone in the lodgings.

Soon the last 20 seconds passed and the phone began rattling.

With shaking like vibration coming, the phone screen shone brightly in white, and simultaneously Sun-woo felt something like something breaking inside his head.

A feeling of a hidden door opening, or a feeling of a blocked wall crumbling, and after that Sun-woo learned he obtained a new skill.

<Elapsed Time (Reading). Rank 1> Rank Up: 1,000p

-Can partially read past information from objects. Currently up to one day ago maximum.

Commonly called psychometry. It was a skill to find out past information contained in objects. Probably appeared thanks to getting caught up in Sylvia’s ability.

A skill created without using points on Empire land where the Summoner couldn’t intervene, both then and now he felt puzzled.

However, since the Summoner said nothing either, he thought just using it well would be enough.

But he was slightly disappointed that the skill obtained that way didn’t seem very impressive. However, it wasn’t finished yet.

The skill kept changing inside Sun-woo’s head.

-Can partially read and hear past information from objects. Currently up to one week ago maximum.

-Can partially read and see past information from objects. Currently up to one week ago maximum.

-Can experience past information from objects. Currently up to one week ago maximum.

The skill continued evolving, and

…

simultaneously continued growing. Sun-woo could understand what was happening inside his head.

It was because of the <Kraken’s Core>. Like his body underwent body transformation, his head that ate the core also changed to be good for using superpowers.

In that situation, an unknown superpower existed in his head, and that superpower and the brain transformed by the core interacted causing absurd evolution and growth.

<Elapsed Time (Experiencing). Rank 6> Rank Up: 1,000p

-Can experience past information from objects. Up to 500 years maximum.

And the finally stabilized skill became a completely different skill from the skill that was similar to psychometry at the beginning.

Sun-woo took out his sword <Wheel-Turning Divine Sword> from the phone’s inventory window.

He grasped the sword with both hands and activated the newly obtained superpower. His internal energy instantly transformed into superpower making the Wheel-Turning Divine Sword flowing with red energy shine white.

The next moment, Sun-woo stood on a battlefield piled with numerous corpses while holding a sword in one hand.

The dead were all Chinese people wearing old-fashioned armor and clothing, but still a few people remained alive covered in blood raising swords toward Sun-woo.

“Step back. Cannot pass through here.”

Sun-woo learned the situation he was in from the old Chinese flowing from his mouth.

The scene Sun-woo was seeing now was the experience of someone who used this sword in the past. Sun-woo was now becoming the sword’s past owner experiencing together with him.

“Damn it! Why is the Demonic Cult’s Dharma Protector so strong! The personnel gathered to kill the Cult Leader all died to that Wheel-Turning Demon.”

Among the people before him, a large-bodied man holding a giant sword shouted resentfully while vomiting blood from his mouth.

“Amitabha, anyway people to send back were all sent back after knowing the operation failed. Thank you for benefactor’s consideration. But we remaining cannot return. Anyway benefactor has no intention of stepping aside, so let’s see the end.”

This time, a monk with one arm severed continued speaking gloomily.

Already all surviving young masters were sent back. Those remaining were all people resolved to bury bones here.

Looks like the enemies of the man holding Sun-woo’s sword were righteous faction masters. The white-bearded man wearing a Taoist robe, someone resembling Hwangbo Jakyum, and a monk appearing to be an eminent monk, all looked obviously identifiable.

And Sun-woo could know from their words who the man holding the sword was.

Wheel-Turning Demon.

The original owner of this sword and an extremely powerful master of the Demonic Cult from hundreds of years ago.

“Then let’s see the end. Come.”

When words fell from the Wheel-Turning Demon’s mouth, surviving righteous faction masters rushed at him and died in order by his sword.

Sword energy flying toward him, sword projectiles were all shattered by his sword, and enemies rushing from blind spots also lost lives to swords shooting from his hands.

The last was his sword flying through the air and his fists filling the front completely, with the Taoist and monk losing lives ending the fight.

“Huk!”

Right at that moment, Sun-woo bounced out from the sword’s memory. The ability reached its limit.

Sun-woo looked at his sword with a slightly dazed expression. This was a far more impressive ability than expected.

Not just the level of finding out past information of objects, but the level of experiencing from the perspective of people who used those objects.

There couldn’t be better audiovisual teaching materials than this!

Just now too, Sun-woo equally felt and experienced the martial arts and techniques the Wheel-Turning Demon used, and the internal energy flow in that situation.

Of course, due to severe martial arts differences, he couldn’t comprehend profound realms.

However, he definitely experienced how to use martial arts in various situations and how to move internal energy.

Though Sun-woo also properly learned martial arts themselves by raising ranks, completing the form wasn’t the end.

For combat, he had to learn usage methods of forms suited to each situation, but Sun-woo who had no master couldn’t do so.

Therefore, this superpower seeing the past was the best skill that could replace a master.

“If swords are possible, then other things are also possible, right?”

Various ideas surged wildly in Sun-woo’s head. Magic staffs, various relics, and magicians’ and practitioners’ belongings, there was nothing he couldn’t learn.

At first he regretted not being able to see even the future, but now even just this much was more than sufficient.

“But using it long won’t be easy.”

Sun-woo grumbled while frowning at strong headache.

Unlike martial arts or magic, superpowers used mentality so when depleted, it wasn’t easy to come to senses with powerful headache.

It was different from other skills where daily life itself was possible even consuming everything.

Sun-woo could now understand why Hayden groaned every time using abilities.

Shortly after, Sun-woo whose headache subsided rose from his seat and left the lodgings. It was time to meet the spatial ability user.

Spatial ability user Sophia seemed to use one entire female-only lodging on another floor.

Visitation proceeded quite tediously.

They met at a conference room in front of the lodgings, where armed guards stood watching on one wall and surveillance cameras disguised as CCTV monitored inside the room on one side.

At surveillance becoming more stringent than before, Sun-woo frowned. Looks like the Association’s circumstances worsened.

Right after Sun-woo arrived at the conference room, a tall woman entered the conference room with brown hair swaying. Spatial ability user, Sophia.

She brightened seeing Sun-woo. Someone she knew finally appeared. Though the time seen was short, she continuously heard stories about him from Hayden, the prophet, and other people.

“Nice to meet you.”

“You returned safely. Did work go well?”

At Sophia’s words, Sun-woo had no choice but to make a slightly ambiguous expression.

“Though missions were properly performed, some people died and quite different things from expectations happened.”

“Don’t tell me, Hayden also got hurt?”

When she urgently asked, Sun-woo’s eye corners slightly rose.

‘Looks like Hayden has playboy qualities…’

“It’s fine. Hayden decided to remain there.”

“That’s fortunate. Remaining is natural. He must save more people.”

She felt favorable feelings due to Hayden rescuing her.

“And the amplification stone problem…”

“Ah, couldn’t obtain them?”

“It’s a slightly complicated situation…”

Sun-woo glanced around. Speaking here where surveillance and eavesdropping felt natural was awkward. Not learning telepathy in advance was a mistake.

That’s when Sophia opened her mouth seeing Sun-woo’s expression.

“Need to talk separately?”

“That’s true but…”

At Sun-woo’s words, Sophia firmly grasped Sun-woo’s hand.

“No wait a moment!”

At that appearance the guard shouted in surprise, but at that moment Sun-woo and Sophia’s appearances disappeared from the conference room.

The guard sighed looking at the conference room where two people disappeared and reported.

“Again, disappeared. Will wait for now.”

***

At the same time, Sun-woo and Sophia had spatially moved to one remote island.

Large open area and sandy beach, Sun-woo knew this island well. It was the island always passed through when doing dimensional travel to the Empire.

“In this dimension, spatial movement points I can go to are only that building and this island. I requested outings wanting to go around more but they don’t grant them…”

The Association had difficulty handling the spatial ability user who disappeared at will.

Though Sophia was a summoner, she had never come to the dimension Sun-woo lived in.

Such a person confined in a completely unknown Association must have been very frustrated.

“First, obtained amplification stones.”

Sun-woo took out amplification stones from his pocket and showed them to her. Seeing the murky-colored amplification stones, she frowned.

“They’re all contaminated. Can’t use these.”

“I know. But there’s a person who can remove contamination. A person in another dimension, if the Summoner summons here and removes contamination, can use them.”

“That’s fortunate.”

Hearing Sun-woo’s words, Sophia breathed a sigh of relief. A method to return appeared.

“Then if you wait at the Association, will visit after returning amplification stones to original state.”

But Sophia vigorously shook her head at Sun-woo’s words.

“Won’t go there. It’s frustrating so I hate it. And there’s someone I want to meet. Caroline. Thought she was dead but Hayden said she’s alive.”

Sophia who was also from military background seemed to know Caroline.

At Sophia’s sparkling eyes, Sun-woo ended up sighing. Looks like he had to prepare a spatial mover’s escape operation(?).

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