(Demon’s Gauntlet of the Admired One.)
Grade: Transcendent.
Durability: Infinite.
Defense: 564
Restriction: Level 300 or higher.
Special Abilities:
·All stats increase by 1.2%.
·Critical hit chance increases by 20%.
·Active Skill: Mine.
·Passive Skill: Plunder.
·Passive Skill: ???
·The modifier Admiration is imbued in it.
Description: Demon’s Gauntlet of the Admired One, crafted by Master Blacksmith Hyun after drawing inspiration from Plunderer’s Gauntlet. It removed unnecessary elements and filled itself with what its creator needed, making it a functionally far superior, one-of-a-kind artifact in this world.
“......”
Hyunsoo’s eyes grew damp as he looked at it.
Low, the legendary plunderer.
The one and only “Plunder Artifact” in the world, made by that outstanding man.
Hyunsoo had doubted and regretted endlessly over not choosing it.
Because the original Plunderer’s Gauntlet had also been an excellent and incredible artifact.
It was simply that, when seen through Hyunsoo’s eyes, it had many unnecessary and insufficient points.
Stealing an opponent’s cooldown to shorten one’s own was that broken.
What if......
What if Hyunsoo had come across that Plunderer’s Gauntlet at the auction house?
He would have felt an enormous desire to possess it.
And just as he would have felt that desire, every user would have rushed in with bloodshot eyes to obtain it.
At present, the value of Legendary artifacts was steadily dropping.
When they were being traded for around 500 million won, Plunderer’s Gauntlet would likely have shown a value of more than 1.5 billion won.
But what about the finished product now?
First, he recalled the appearance of Plunderer’s Gauntlet.
Honestly, it was the worst.
Silver and black had been mixed together.
It had first of all strayed from the basic common sense that gauntlets should match the color of the armor.
No one wore armor that mixed silver and black.
It had also been clunky, and because chain mail had not been used efficiently in the parts where the hands needed to move, it looked uncomfortable to move in.
The mineral itself had not been handled well either, so its defense was low, and he knew without even trying it on that it would have made creaking sounds.
The original Plunderer’s Gauntlet became Legendary on the strength of that one ability alone.
Then what about the transformed Demon’s Gauntlet of the Admired One?
Clack—
As Hyunsoo put the gauntlets on both hands, exclamations burst out.
“Oooh......”
“It looks amazing.”
“My God......”
It was superior to the original Plunderer’s Gauntlet even in appearance.
From one side, it looked black, but when it caught sunlight, it showed a color mixed with violet, giving it an almost mysterious feeling.
“It’s like a demon’s arm.”
Exactly as Hyunsoo had intended.
It had a cool appearance, like the arm of a demon.
Also.
The original defense had been 140, and it had contained a 15% increase in lightning attribute resistance and equipped weapon mastery +2.
Its Durability had also only been 2,500.
But now.
Its defense is 564, and its Durability is infinite. It even gained an all-stats increase effect, and critical hit chance rose by 8%.
Of course, it was a shame that the equipped weapon mastery +2, which applied no matter what weapon one equipped, had disappeared.
Also, the original Plunderer’s Gauntlet’s “Plunder” had been newly reborn.
(Plunder.)
Passive Skill.
Grade: Transcendent.
MP Cost: None.
Effects:
·When striking a target, steals cooldown, MP, status ailment resistance, and other effects, each applying at a 15% chance.
·Steals 2% of the target’s MP and restores 4% of your own MP.
·Steals 15% of the target’s status ailment resistance and increases your own status ailment resistance by 30%.
·Steals 8 seconds of cooldown and reduces the cooldown of a skill you wish to use by 16 seconds.
·In the case of cooldown, it steals in order from the target’s most important skill.
·The mode can be changed by pressing a button. When set to cooldown, the Hyun insignia changes to gold; when set to MP, it changes to blue; and when set to status ailment resistance, it changes to silver.
·At a 4% chance, steals everything, including cooldown, MP, and status ailment resistance.
Hyunsoo had created a button in the crafting method from the very beginning.
Click—
When he pressed the small button on the back of the hand, the color of the Hyun insignia changed.
[The mode changes.]
[MP mode.]
Click—
[The mode changes.]
[Status ailment resistance mode.]
Click—
[The mode changes.]
[Cooldown mode.]
Like this, depending on the mode, it could steal whatever he wished to steal from the enemy, and if the 4% chance activated, it would steal everything at once.
Damn......!
This was not something Hyunsoo had designed.
Just like this, not everything came out exactly as written in the crafting method. Sometimes it came out worse, and sometimes it came out better.
In this case, it could be said to have come out better.
Why was that?
Because of its completion.
Because its completion was higher than what had been written in the crafting method.
Of course, it still had not reached Mythic despite that high completion, and that was why something like this had happened.
There was also something Hyunsoo had wanted so badly.
It was this gauntlet’s only Active Skill, “Mine.”
Hyunsoo had pinned a great deal on this Active Skill, Mine.
While drawing the crafting method, he had been certain that “if this kind of Active Skill exists, it will create synergy.”
The problem is whether the effect came out as well as I wanted......
With that expectation, Hyunsoo checked Mine, the skill that would become the core.
*****
“......Why is the name like that?”
Lee Sejin said with a puzzled expression, and Lee Jihui answered.
“Users can usually name skills, so I suppose User Hyunsoo decided on that while crafting.”
“......”
The name did not necessarily have to follow what was in the crafting method.
Sometimes, if a user had a better choice, they could change it during crafting.
The Active Skill Mine was a representative example.
“Still, Mine? Isn’t that skill name way too absurd? He made the artifact with so much care, and then what is this......”
Lee Sejin’s words were reasonable.
Naming a divine beast Lucky Lump.
Naming the brightest moon Pretty.
Naming the hell gatekeeper Cerberus Hope.
His bizarre naming sense remained unchanged.
Even so, was this not a little too much?
Sejin seriously hoped Hyunsoo would develop a more refined naming sense.
In any case, he, too, clearly had expectations for the skill Mine. When he looked at Lee Jihui and nodded, she clicked the mouse.
Click—
(Mine.)
Active Skill.
Grade: Transcendent.
MP Cost: 4,000
Effects:
·Can only be activated on a single target.
·Steals the activated target’s status ailment resistance, skill cooldown, and 30% of their MP, filling your own.
“......?”
Lee Sejin was taken aback after seeing the skill.
As if speaking for him, Lee Jihui answered.
“......Mine is more appropriate than expected.”
It certainly was.
They had thought the name was ridiculous, but after seeing the skill’s contents, “Mine” suited it rather well.
“Impressive......”
Lee Sejin honestly admired it.
Team Lead Lee of the Story Team also nodded.
“At this level, it seems to have become twice as good as the original Plunderer’s Gauntlet.”
Lee Sejin also looked at the artifact’s level restriction.
“Level 300? If it’s Level 300, doesn’t that mean most decent users can wear it?”
Level 300 was a level any user could reach.
That meant the restriction on the wearer was practically nonexistent, so its value would be much higher.
At that moment.
Hyunsoo spoke from the monitor.
—Come to think of it, there was also power added by the modifier, right?
Modifiers usually did not reveal themselves immediately upon being obtained.
Hyunsoo said,
—What exactly does Admiration mean?
The moment Lee Jihui heard Hyunsoo’s words, she grew curious as well.
True. What is the real meaning of Admiration?
Inside the monitor, User Hyunsoo was also looking up the meaning of Admiration.
Taptaptaptap—
He tapped on the keyboard and searched it on a portal site, and the definition appeared.
[Admiration]
[A deep longing for something, thinking only of it.]
“......?”
Lee Jihui was taken aback after checking it.
Hyunsoo seemed to have seen it as well, because for a long time, he wore an expression as if he were chewing it over again and again.
Then, soon, he looked dumbfounded.
—I’m screwed......
It was understandable that he would be dumbfounded.
Lee Jihui, who was watching it right now, was equally baffled.
On top of that, Hyunsoo looked around and said,
—Pureum, you bastards, are you telling me to become Casanova or something?
Until just moments ago, Hyunsoo had been delighted about obtaining the modifier.
As it turned out, it looked extremely bad.
Lee Jihui was also negative about the quest reward, the modifier “Admiration.”
“Are they really telling User Hyunsoo to become Casanova? It seems like a strange modifier no matter who it’s applied to, not just User Hyunsoo.”
A user had to personally test a modifier to know what kind of power it held.
For now, Lee Jihui, who did not know that, had no choice but to infer from the meaning of the word.
Lee Sejin answered.
“That can’t be right.”
“......Pardon?”
Usually, a modifier created a power suited to its meaning, did it not?
So why was he saying that could not be right?
Lee Sejin said,
“Of course the word Admiration can be used toward the opposite sex. But in what cases do you usually use it?”
Lee Jihui thought carefully.
In the past, she had once thought she admired Team Lead Kim Taeseok.
Because he had graduated from a university in the United States and was a super elite even Pureum recognized.
Also, in the past.
“When I saw incredible stars, Olympic heroes, or amazing people, I thought that I admired them.”
That was right.
Lee Jihui had “admired” them.
It was different from the emotion of love.
Because it went beyond the feelings of respect and esteem, she had “admired” them.
Team Lead Kim explained.
“That’s right. Admiration is an awkward word to describe as love.”
And Sejin said confidently,
“The peak of various emotions such as respect, envy, and the desire to become like someone—that is ‘Admiration.’ In the power of modifiers, it stands above even ‘respect.’”
After explaining that, Lee Sejin looked at employee Lee Jihui and said,
“When one admires someone like that, what special thing do you think happens?”
“......?”
Lee Jihui thought carefully.
When admiration was higher than respect, and one harbored the desire to become like that person.
“If they were an ordinary person, they would want to be with that person because they want to become like them.”
That was the core of the modifier Admiration.
*****
Where am I supposed to use this?
Hyunsoo was weak in Korean.
He believed the dictionary definition literally, exactly as written.
Secret Quest: Admiration.
After going through the trouble of completing it, this was the modifier he got?
Then suddenly, he wondered whether this might actually be a priceless opportunity for him, a man who had been single since birth for twenty-one years and had never even held a woman’s hand.
Oh, now that I think about it, it’s good, isn’t it?
Ehehehehe, Hyunsoo began laughing.
Nick, watching him, looked puzzled.
At first, Hyunsoo had teared up while looking at the gauntlet, then he had gotten angry, and now he was laughing gloomily?
“What is wrong with him?”
The blacksmiths’ answer was simple.
“He is always like that.”
“He does that often.”
Hearing that, Hyunsoo cleared his throat with an ahem. Though it was a shame, he quickly shook it off and thought,
I want to test it quickly.
It was human nature to want to test a good artifact when one had it.
“Let’s see......”
Swoosh, he looked around.
Then he could see all the blacksmiths watching his expression.
Nell did say I should refrain from testing artifacts on guild members or blacksmiths.
Back when Hyunsoo had first obtained the King’s Sword in the past.
He had tried using the King’s Sword on guild members in the territory, and rumors like this had circulated.
—Hyunsoo’s true face. If he’s in a bad mood, he beats up his own guild members.
—Even Kabel got beaten up. It’s true. I saw it.
—???
Kabel had not particularly clarified anything, and Hyunsoo had suffered a bit because of that image.
Nell is definitely right.
So Hyunsoo thought deeply about whom he should test it on.
In the middle of that, one being came to mind.
Perfect.
Thinking of him, Hyunsoo moved toward the forest.
Now that he thought about it, he did have a being who could serve as his sandbag.
We had an ill-fated connection.
It had by no means been a good connection, and it was still ongoing.
Then Hyunsoo took a sword from his waist.
It was Full Bloom.
Hyunsoo drew Full Bloom and murmured,
“Summon.”
Following that, Full Bloom turned red as if dyed by cherry blossoms.
“Grout.”
And the sandbag once called the Blood Demon began to be summoned.
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