The 31st Piece Turns the Tables

Chapter 44



Chapter 44

Chapter 44

Seol stared holes into the Shades’ Grace.

[[Shades’ Grace]

Quality: Treasure

Required Class: Shadow Summoner

Recommended Level: 15-25

Damage: 50

Durability: 75/75

Weight: 0.3kg

A crystal ball made to imitate the ability of Shades, the Shadow Black Spirit. The ability to control shadows was maximized through extensive research but because of it, there were unavoidable side effects.

Basic Effect: +5 Intelligence, +15 Wisdom, +2 Spirit

Bonus Effect: Shadow Hand increases by 1 rank. Shadow Space expands by 30%. Your Shadow Summons’ stats are decreased by 20%.]

“Ah...”

Seol couldn’t help but sigh.

There were really good effects but he just couldn’t let go of one thing...

- Is this good or nah?

- Ah... he’s fucked LOL

- WhyWhyWhyWhyWhy?

- It’s an item for someone else.

- For someone else? It’s a Shadow Summoner exclusive item though?

- There isn't just one kind of Shadow Summoner.

Like Seol’s viewers suggested, the direction Seol was heading as a Shadow Summoner was completely different from the type of Shadow Summoner this item was suited for.

‘This weapon is specifically useful for the Shadow Summoners who use many low-rank summons...’

A Shadow Summoner’s Shadow Summon could be split into two main categories.

The first was the Shadow Summoners like Seol who had a small number of extremely powerful summons.

For those cases, effects that give an increase or bonus to the summon’s stats were the most important.

‘But this weapon decreases the summon’s stats...’

The other category of Shadow Summoners were those that had an endless amount of low-level, weak summons.

For those cases, having more Shadow Space was more important than the individual summon’s stats. Since they were low-level summons anyway, the decrease didn’t even affect them too much.

- Ah... Blaine LMFAO

- I trusted you Blaine hahaha I guess he’s a bit of a ditz.

- Can he just take it back? LOL Ask him to give you something else!

- Blaine: I prepared this for you because I thought you might need it ^^ (proud)

The weapon Seol was currently using was this.

[[Full Moon Staff]

Quality: Rare

Recommended Level: 1-8

Damage: 22

Durability: 32/32

Weight: 0.8kg

A staff that absorbed energy from the holy moon. It is quite heavy.

Basic Effect: +10 Wisdom

Bonus Effect: All of your stats increase by 5% at night.]

The key stat, Wisdom, was not too different from Shades’ Grace and the bonus effect was usable.

‘That’s why I’m having a hard time...’

Seol thought for a moment then ended up putting the Shades’ Grace back into his inventory.

‘I guess I have no choice. I just have to go there.’

Seol finished organizing his equipment and entered Nobira.

And because of the issue with Shades’ Grace, Seol immediately headed to a place where he could solve his problem.

“You over there! Don’t cut in line!”

“Ah, I’m sorry.”

“Hmph!”

It was a place that didn’t have just rough-looking muscular men, it also had refined women and greedy child merchants.

“There’s a lot of stuff that’s been released into the market from the recent ruin expedition.”

“Did you see that? I’m talking about the treasure.”

“Oh, that? I saw it the moment they put it up.”

“But I wonder why they put that on auction...”

“I don’t know, maybe it’s because it hasn’t found the right owner yet.”

“I mean it makes sense. Even if the item’s rare, who would pay that much money to buy it at that price?”R/ê/Ad lateSt ch/a/pters at novelhall.com Only

“From what I heard they’re not trying to sell it at that price but trying to trade it for another item.”

“That’s crazy... What about the auction house fees?”

“I mean all you have to pay if it doesn’t sell is the registration fee so I guess it’s none of their worries.”

“Ah, that’s true. Anyway, it’s nice to see something like that.”

Nobira’s auction house was one of the bigger auction houses in South Pandea.

“Then please place your item here.”

With a hint of regret, Seol placed the Shades’ Grace in a spot where other people couldn’t see.

Place.

The manager’s face grew stiff the moment she saw the item.

“Th-this is...”

“Why? Is something wrong?”1 to

“No, not at all. It’s just quite the item... hm... What would you like the minimum bid amount to be?”

Seol remembered Gallotta’s Tongue’s minimum bid amount and said the same number.

“Please make it 200 platinum coins.”

“A-Are you sure you’d like to set the price that high when a buyer might not appear?”

“It’s fine.”

Seol had plenty of time and he wasn’t in a rush to change his weapon.

There was also a chance that the owner of Gallota’s Tongue realized his intentions and requested a 1-to-1 trade as well.

‘The odds of that are low though.’

Regardless of whichever of the two happens, Seol was happy with it.

Someone could buy Shades’ Grace and Seol could use the money from that to buy Gallotta’s Tongue or the person who owned Gallotta’s Tongue could request a 1-to-1 trade with the Shades’ Grace.

Rita, the manager, then asked another question.

“Would you like us to proceed as a proxy sale?”

“Yes, could you please do that?”

“Understood. However, we would like to request that you visit the auction house every day considering the item you are selling is something like that.”

“Okay.”

Seol sold a few more items then left the auction house.

And a few moments later, Rita left the auction house through a back door and handed a note to a rough-looking man.

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Translator - goguma

Proofreader - Karane

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Seol then headed to the Adventurer Association to see if anything had changed in Nobira while he was gone. And as expected, the best way to learn about recent news was the community.

[ (NEW) [’s Post]

[Post Date: Just now]

[Title: You guys said Nobira would be peaceful now that Borgo was gone.]

Whoever said that Nobira would be peaceful should go and repent ???? Nobira is fucking crazy right now...

Is this a new cold war?

- Seriously, I’m worried I’ll get stabbed while I’m walking down the street...

- That fucking Heka, the Lion of the Ruins? Or whatever his name is, is fucking annoying.

- Can you say that to Heka’s face?

‘Heka?’

Seol had also heard quite a few things about Heka while looking into Chao.

Before Borgo died, Nobira’s big-shot ruin hunters were split into five factions.

And after one of the factions disappeared due to Seol, the other four factions started competing more closely with each other.

‘Did something happen during that tense time?’

[ (NEW) [’s Post]

[Post Date: A week ago]

[Title: How did things become like this? The people who know, know.]

You all know that Heka sided with Doju and Kibo sided with Shur, right? Everyone knows this much at least, right? Apparently, the two factions thing was going well for a while until something happened to Kibo’s faction. Heka and Doju noticed that Kibo was getting weak so they started getting aggressive to take over all of Nobira. You all know it too, right? Even though this place is a gathering of low-lives, there’s a lot of money being moved around so whoever ends up taking over everything will become massive.

- What happened to Kibo and Shur’s faction?

- I know for a fact that it’s something that happened to Kibo’s side. There’s nothing wrong with Shur’s faction.

- Kibo sensei our lone wolf ????

- Please protect Nobira, Kibo-chan!

- I think I’m going to go crazy... Kibo’s faction is the moderates so they’re nice to transferees but Heka’s side uses transferees like fucking meat shields so it’s obvious what’s going to happen if they take over Nobira.

- I just barely found my footing in Nobira too, sigh... Should we leave Nobira now?

- Would it be better if we go to Kongory? I heard it’s livable there now with Han Yeo-myeong and the guild alliance there...

- I’m just being careful because I’m worried I won’t be able to find a party after going there...

Seol had a general idea of what was happening after reading this post.

‘So the balance is messed up. I guess they’re all tense now?’

Since Seol wasn’t tied down to hunting ruins like the others, it was entirely someone else’s worry to him. He was also no longer somebody who had to worry about getting swept up in conflicts like this either.

Seol kept looking through posts to see if there was any other news.

‘Hm?’

And as he was, he found a post related to him.

[ (NEW) [’s Post]

[Post Date: Just now]

[Title: ‘Private’ showed up in Nobira.]

Posts about ‘Private’ started to appear on the community.


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