Ken dodges the incoming attack and pierces a leg of the monster–as it lets out a shriek.
By now, all of its tentacles are gone and it can't even regenerate them anymore.
"How do you feel about getting stabbed?! You have done a lot to me. So this won't hurt much, would it?"
As the monster tries to grab him again, Ken slashes its hand. The warden's strength has dropped significantly compared to before.
It tries to attack again by lunging at him–but Ken dodges it.
"I have gotten much faster than before you see, and you are just too slow." Ken says mockingly.
Suddenly a tentacle attacked him but wasn't really effective, as it didn't even pierce him in the first place.
"My constitution went up by more than 10 points. And if you consider the buff from this sword… It's around 17."
The monster–battered, could only lift its arm to try and attack him.
Ken stepped forward, closer to the warden.
"You know what? Your skin is really tough, I admit it. But not in front of a SSS grade weapon." A smirk forms on his lips.
[Some constellations tell you not to do it.]
[Some constellations are panicking.]
As he stabs it with his sword. His heartbeat started to rise, as he saw a notification come.
[You have successfully slain a tier 7 demonic species. The dark keeper.]
[You have received 1,000 coins.]
[The demon king, Devil of lust and fury has been notified of your existence forkilling the tier 7 demonic species, The dark keeper.]
[The demon king, Devil of lust and fury will hunt the incarnation who killed the keeper until the incarnation dies.]
[The demon king, Devil of lust and fury will lay a terrible curse on the incarnation that killed the keeper.]
"Ah shit… why is it Asmodeus of all people again… didn't he screw Han Myungoh already?"
[The probability of the demon king, Devil of lust and fury, is not enough to turn the incarnation's worst fear into life.]
[Demon king, Devil of lust and fury is incredibly confused.]
[The curse is trying to turn another fear into life.]
[The curse has turned one of your worst fears into life.]
"Uh… what happened just now?"
Ken felt confused, as this curse was supposed to turn the worst fear real. But it didn't manage to do just that.
[Constellation "The masochist of Joseon" frantically asks you if anything feels weird.]
[Constellation "The dead man who came back" doesn't know what to say.]
[Constellation "Merchant of Venice" gives you 100 coins.]
[Some constellations give you 750 coins in total watching your growth.]
"Well… thanks. It kind of feels weird knowing I nearly died so many times in just 7-9 days I think." Ken says while looking at the corpse of the monster.
After just standing there for a while, he starts to butcher the monster with his sword.
"It kind of feels weird butchering a humanoid monster, while I, myself, don't have any experience in it."
[Constellation "The masochist of Joseon" is panicking seeing you use the sword in such a way.]
After cutting it open, Ken finally found what he was looking for. "The nucleus of the dark keeper!"
It was the same thing Dokja used when he upgraded the Unbreakable faith. I still don't understand why mine is only SSS grade when that one was constellation grade… even though both are linked to a constellation… Heck! I even gave an S grade item. He thought.
After taking it out, he started to head towards his bag–which he left near the chest when taking out Art's heart.
He puts the nucleus in the bag and starts heading out from the same tunnel he came here from.
While heading out, he remembered something, which caused him to ask. "By the way, do any of you know why the dokkaebi in whose channel I originally was in. Why did he abandon mine even though he clearly said I was promising?"
[Constellation "Merchant of Venice" says that you were just alone.]
"What does that mean?" He asked, not understanding what the constellation meant.
[Constellation "The dead man who came back" says that you were alone, so there were nothing that interesting constellations to watch.]
[Constellation "The masochist of Joseon" says that you also did a lot of boring things early on. You are just lucky that the dokkaebi didn't put any sub-scenario with a death penalty.]
[Constellation "The dead man who came back" says that you are alone with nothing interesting, and also really boring.]
[Constellation "Merchant of Venice" says that we are the crazy ones to be watching that boring thing.]
[Constellation "The masochist of Joseon" says that it was worth the wait.]
[Some constellations agree with each other.]
Seeing all these, Ken felt weirded out, as when reading ORV, he never heard of anything like these.
After a while, he finally gets out of the tunnel.
In the past, I was kinda afraid of the dark because of my delusions where I would imagine some batshit insane level of ghosts… this Reader's pov is quite literally a dream come true. He thought to himself.
After getting this skill, he started to see everything like it's some kind of anime filter, which made even visceral scenes look like it's straight out of fiction.
He knows they are real, but this still creates a sense of detachment. Not just that, it makes him see things entirely out of an anime of sorts, so even when there should be complete darkness, he still can see some lightning, which allows him to see in dark.
As he continues to head towards a random direction, he comes across another station. Strangely, it was completely empty with a flag on the pole, but no one to guard it.
For a thought of taking the flag hovered in his mind for a moment, but he shrugged it off and moved on. As taking over the station is too much work.
As he continued walking, he suddenly realized that he forgot his way back.
He started to randomly walk in a direction and happen to find a similar tunnel to the one from before.
"... Just how many of them exist?!" He exclaimed, as finding another tunnel to habitat of the ground rats weren't lucky enough, he found another one.
But the thing that made him not like it is the fact that. "Originally, in ORV… they only kept one of them as it was a mistake of Bihyung… but how is singshong supposed to explain this?!"
He entered the place anyway, getting another chance for a high grade item wasn't something he could just miss on.
But before entering it… I think I should check my status window. Haven't checked it in a long time. He thought before calling out to it.
[Some constellations are confused as to why you call the attribute window, the status window.]
"Hm? Is… it called that?" He asked, confused. Dokja never really used his window much in the series, as the fourth wall blocked him from doing it, which is where his misconception came from.
[Some constellation nods affirmatively.]
Seeing this, one misconception was cleared. Even he was surprised at how many misconceptions he had. But ignoring all that, he looked at his attribute window.
[Name: Ken]
[Age: 15]
[Attributes: Regeneration(rare),Delusional(generic),Avid reader(rare),ADHD(rare)]
[Personal skills: Reading (lvl 4), Reader's pov (stage 1), Regeneration (lvl 4), Body control (lvl 3), Hyper-thinking (stage 1), Hyper-creativity (stage 1), Poison resistance (lvl 3), Shooting (lvl 3), Blade proficiency (lvl 1)]
[Stigma: Indomitable]
[Stats: Strength (lvl 34), Constitution (lvl 31+5), Agility (lvl 22), Magic power (lvl 60)]
[Coins possessed : 2,937]
"So that is why I felt like I was suddenly better at using the sword–" Before he could finish his sentence, he noticed something that made him pause.
"Ain't no fucking way I only have 3,000 coins left!"
He knew that he used a lot of coins in order to improve his stats, but he didn't expect that to leave him completely broke.
Even the coins he has right now were gained from the constellation's sponsors and the killed Dark keeper.
He panicked for a while before looking at his stats again, which gave him a sense of relief that he is stronger now.
"Ha... at the least, these stats are comparable to Joonghyuk right now, no?"
He skimmed through his attribute window again before finally heading out.
"If there's another dark keeper, I just hope I don't get another curse from killing it."