Leveling Up through Eating

The Informant, Abel, had recently heard Guild Master Genie singing ‘Summoner, summoner~’ so he had called and met Kerry the number 1 in the summoner’s rankings. Unfortunately, Kerry said that she was currently a part of her friend’s guild so she couldn’t transfer to Legend Guild. But the woman, Kerry, told him……

“Why don’t you ask the Envoy of Incarnation to join Legend Guild?”

“Envoy of Incarnation?”

“Ah. Yes. You don’t know? Well…… There’s only a few among the summoners who knew about him.”

Abel tilted his head in confusion as he listened to Kerry explain about the Envoy of Incarnation. His identity was hidden behind a veil but small bits of information were gathered one by one which eventually led to his information being formed.

When Abel heard his story, he couldn’t help but be impressed.

‘There’s such a user in our country?’ 

He could tell that the user was a bigwig just by listening to his story and the more he listened to Kerry, the more he realized how tremendous his powers were. Then, Kerry said……

“I heard that he was an African boy.” 

“Yes? An African boy?” 

Abel frowned.

An African boy? There’s an African boy in the country?

Then, Abel remembered Genie saying ‘I have found a dongsaeng. His name is Kaistra and he’s African. He’s extremely cute!’. 

“By, by any chance…… his name……”

Having a faint premonition, Abel asked her in a trembling voice.

“I think it’s Kaistra?”

***

Dash!

Genie hurried outside.

“These crazy fXckers!”

Her eyes widened in shock. There were dozens of magical attacks running rampant and attacking the entire estate.

“Evacuate the people first!”

Genie quickly shouted an order to the soldiers as she began to run.

[Guild Master Genie: Bachran Guild launched a surprise attack. Head back to Valhalla right now!]

They even went to look for a time when most of our guild members are out, huh? They’re this bold, huh?

She was clear that they would incur tremendous criticism from this. When she thought about it, she believed that they would probably gain much more than the damage that they would receive.

Then, at that moment Genie saw something incredible.

‘W, what the hell is that? Anubis?’ 

It was a jackal. However, this creature had the face of a dog while having the muscular upper body and walking on two legs. Hundreds of these creatures were attacking the entrance of the estate.

“Keuaaaaack!” 

“Ugh, aaaaaack!” 

“Sa, save me!” 

In addition, the troops that were guarding the site easily fell down in one sword strike. They couldn’t even resist once from their attacks. This meant that they were at least around Lv300~370.

“Goddamnit!” 

Genie quickly sent an order to the captain of the Knights that were protecting the territory.

“I’ll block the entrance first. Quickly evacuate our citizens to safety!” 

If their citizens died then the level of satisfaction would drop and the level of their land would also decrease. And once they lose the trust of their citizens then this territory would definitely be over. Genie hurriedly ran at a violent speed.

“Locke!”

“What the hell is going on?!”

“Fight first!”

Locke quickly ran together with Genie.

Crackle!

[Blazing Whip!]

[Powerful and blazing flames can extinguish your enemies in one go.]

Her whip stretched out and lashed at the Anubis.

Puhaaaa!

The entire body of the Anubis was engulfed in blazing flames as her whip easily struck its body. But there was a problem.

‘It didn’t die……?’

She estimated that these creatures had enormous HP and magical defense so that they wouldn’t die.

“Keuhahaaha! Come on!”

Locke blocked the monsters pushing through the entrance as he struck at them indiscriminately with his axe.

Chiiiiiik!

Locke’s Crazy Priest’s Heal had kicked in and landed on their bodies making their bodies rot quickly.

“Keuooooooo!”

“Keuaaaaaaack!”

But the Anubis was much stronger than what he thought. And the problem got bigger once the guild members of Bachran Guild showed up one after the other.

“Die!” 

“Start with the Guild Master!” 

“……Shit!” 

Their guild members were not yet here. She bit her lips in trepidation.

‘Today……’ 

Several of her guild members gathered earlier to play football.

Anyway that football is a bastard!

Anubis and the Bachran Guild Members continued to flock towards the entrance. Locke and Genie began to get tired and exhausted. Even though the troops rushed out from the inside of the territory, they still fell down helplessly in front of such strong adversaries.

At that moment……

A user wearing a Pharaoh’s mask appeared. Then, he lifted his staff encrusted with jewels in the air.

[Pharaoh’s Curse.]

[All stats temporarily reduced by 15%]

[Attack hit rate has been reduced by 10%]

[Critical hit rate has been reduced by 20%]

[Pharaoh’s Shackles]

[Reduces attack speed and movement speed by 10%]

“……!” 

It was a wide area debuff effect. Even Genie who had more resistance against these was affected, what more of the troops behind her? Eventually, Genie, Locke and the rest of the troops were pushed back.

Then……

“Noona.”

“……?”

Genie looked around in puzzlement. She saw Kaistra wearing his rubber gloves in the vicinity.

“Kaistra! Go behind this noona! It’s dangerous!”

“Please let me join the guild. Didn’t you say that you will let me join?”

Genie had already asked her guild members and decided to accept Kaistra as their guild member. Of course, they believed that Kaistra was a weak African boy but their guild members were happy to accept him when they heard his sad and pitiful(?) story.

“Huh?”

“I want to stay with Minhyuk-nim. And this place belongs to Minhyuk-nim, no, the Lord-nim.”

“……”

Genie couldn’t understand what he was trying to say.

What’s wrong with him? Can’t you see the urgent situation in front of us?

For now, Genie believed that she should just let him in the guild and take him to a safer place.

[Would you like to accept Kaistra as a member of Legend Guild?]

Genie nodded her head in answer. Not long after, a notification about Kaistra joining the guild popped up, then Kaistra suddenly said……

“Noona, it’s dangerous. Please stay back.” 

“Kaistra. You……!” 

Kaistra walked forward blocking Genie and Locke. He could see a huge number of Anubis’ coming through the entrance. He quickly took off his rubber gloves and tucked it safely in his inventory.

“I really think that this suits me too.”

Along with his words, a scimitar appeared in his hands.

Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle━

The black leather armor that he had hidden popped out of his wrist as it began to curl and wrap around Kaistra’s body. Then, a helmet that was shaped like a wolf also appeared on his head.

“You, you……!” 

Genie’s eyes widened in surprise. With just one glance, she could tell that something was completely different from him. She could also faintly feel the strength and energy flowing from his body. This was something that she had not seen from him before.

At that moment, Genie received a whisper.

[Abel: GM-nim. That dongsaeng of yours, Kaistra. He’s an African boy, right?]

[Genie: Abel-nim, that’s not important right now! Come here quickly! The territory is in danger right now!!!]

Whenever Abel collected information, he always turned off his guild chat. He said that it was so he could concentrate. So it was possible that he was still unaware of the mess that was happening in the territory right now.

[Abel: Kaistra. He’s the African boy that became your dongsaeng. Genie-nim had told me about it before, right!]

She could feel a faint sense of urgency from Abel’s whisper so Genie answered him with curiosity.

[Genie: Yes, that’s right. But why……?]

Then, Genie looked back at Kaistra. She saw the space being torn apart as a white wolf appeared out of the crack. Then, Kaistra climbed on the back of the wolf.

[Abel: Envoy of Incarnation. Kaistra. He owns the only one of the five incarnations currently known in the country. He’s 9th in the unofficial world rankings. And in our country……]

Bang!

Genie’s head turned to look at the commotion so she was unable to check the contents of the whisper.

She saw Kaistra sitting on top of the white wolf. Then, the two of them turned into a flash of light as they weaved through the throngs of Anubis destroying them one by one and graying the users flocking at the entrance.

The incarnation of light jumped in the middle of the battlefield. As soon as he landed in the middle, Penrus howled loudly.

“Awoooooooooo━”

[Penrus’ Blessing]

[All abnormal status will be released.]

[All guild members’ stats will increase by +8%.]

[All abnormal status of Legend Guild in Valhalla Small Town will be lifted.]

Along with the notification, a sphere of light that came from Penrus’ mouth slowly floated in the air. Then, it split into dozens and dozens of smaller spheres before becoming a beam of light that struck the nearby Anubis’.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

Dozens of Anubis had disappeared in one shot. Genie turned her head and saw that the abnormal condition of the troops behind her had been lifted and released.

That’s dozens of people!

Her expression stiffened and turned solemn as she checked her whisper once more.

[Abel: He’s the unofficial number 1 in our country’s rankings!]

***

Carn along with the other assassin class members were hurrying towards their destination. He was tasked to kill the Vice Lord by Crone.

Isn’t the Vice Lord that crazy old grandpa that I saw yesterday? Then it will be easy.

He quickly found the old man and moved together with the five assassins. 

Currently, there were 200 members of Bachran Guild present and since they had Pharaoh with the God Class, he was sure that all of the guild members in this small town would die in less than an hour. And since there was a penalty and they wouldn’t be able to log in, they would definitely suffer a lot of damage and would allow them to collect the artifacts that they had dropped.

Carn grinned wickedly at the thought. Then, he soon found the old man in a huge restaurant. He had also found him here yesterday. He rushed straight to the door. Carn believed that it was such a waste to use his assissanation and concealment skills just to kill an old man like that so he just pushed through.

This was a mistake. Naturally, assassins should be careful and meticulous. He should have checked the exact number of people inside the place but since he was thinking about the stupid old man that he had seen yesterday he just rushed straight through the door. This was his mistake.

As soon as he entered, Carn couldn’t help but tilt his head in confusion.

He could see ten people sitting in front of a large table with the crazy old man leisurely sipping his tea at the end of the table. The ten of them had their heads on the ground and were the epitome of ‘buried heads’.

Old Man Ben was really quite angry right now. It was because the ten of them learnt that Minhyuk, the ‘Lord’, had told Old Man Ben to make coffee and they couldn’t stop themselves from cursing him out in rage. Ben couldn’t let that go and just when he wanted to put their resentment and grievances out all at once some young people suddenly broke into the restaurant.

“What the hell? Gramps? Shouldn’t we get along.”

But, Carn couldn’t figure out the situation that he was in right now as he giggled loudly. However, the guild members that were next to him were a different story.

‘I’m sure he said that he was a senile old man……’

‘What the hell is this?’

“Gramps……”

A small smile grazed Ben’s lips as he picked up a pair of chopsticks on the table. Then, he inserted some mana in the chopsticks.

“Since you called me gramps, then I think I should start with you.”

Fwoosh!

Ben threw the chopsticks with a lot of strength. The chopsticks flew through the air and stabbed through Carn’s neck and even tore the cheek of the assassin that was standing behind him.

“Keop!”

[You have been hit on your vital point.]

[You are experiencing heavy bleeding and difficulty in breathing.]

[If you don’t stop the bleeding within 5 seconds, you will die.]

“Keok!”

Carn blindly grabbed his neck. He tried to stop the bleeding but he stumbled and hit his head on the ground. His posture was literally a ‘kowtow’.

Then, Ben slowly stood up from his seat as he grabbed his spear. And one of the guild members who came with Carn couldn’t help but let out a hiccup in fright.

“H, hic! Hic!”

‘Y, you said he was a senile old man!’

He looked completely different from the information that they had heard. His aura was completely menacing so they couldn’t stop themselves from shrinking in fear.

Then, they heard Old Man Ben mutter.

“Gramps? Tsk. Kids these days really couldn’t do anything.”

“……”

“……”

The guild members were left speechless when they heard his words. Then, a tactless guild member suddenly spoke up.

“He, he was the one who said it. We didn’t say it so can’t you just let us go……?”

That guild member’s voice was filled with despair and tears. Then, Old Man Ben smiled softly at him as he said……

“Yeah. Impossible.”

***

TL’s corner!

Ahhhhhh. Let’s go. Where are you Minhyuk???????