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‘A wind golem?’

Soo Hyuk thought while looking at the message .

‘Do I just have to kill this golem?’

The system message only said to defeated the wind golem . Was this the only condition?

‘I’ll know when I’ve actually defeated it . ’

Soo Hyuk looked around to determine where the wind golem was spawning .

‘It’s spawning in the middle of the room . ’

The magic circle appeared in the center of the room and slowly formed the golem from the head down .

‘Do I have to wait until it is completely summoned?’

Soo Hyuk thought while looking at the golem . It was not completely summoned yet .

“Magic Missile . ”

Soo Hyuk cast a magic missile at the wind golem being summoned . The Magic Missiles disappeared as they struck the golem .

[Wind Golem is being summoned . ]

[Attacking is impossible until summoning ends]

‘It doesn’t work . ’

Soo Hyuk waited patiently after reading the message .

‘……How big is it? ‘

Soo Hyuk tensed up as he waited for the golem’s summoning to complete . The ceiling of chamber was really high, yet it seemed as if the golem’s head could almost touch the ceiling .

-Test Start

The golem announced the start of the trial .

“It knows how to talk?”

Soo Hyuk said to himself as the golem spoke .

“Magic Missile . ”

Is it because the summoning was over? The Magic Missile did not disappear this time as it did before . The Magic Missile flew at the golem at high speed, but the golem’s next actions was completely unexpected .

-Dispel

Shuaakk!

Magic Missile suddenly disappeared .

‘What?’

Soo Hyuk stunned at this sight .

‘It used Dispel?’

Soo Hyuk never thought the golem would use Dispel . Before he could recover from his shock, the golem moved towards him . The golem was not too fast, but his body was so large that it quickly closed the distance between them . Soo Hyuk hurriedly recovered from his shock as the golem advanced towards on him and yelled,

“Fireball!”

This time, he cast Fireball .

The golem didn’t react to the Fireball speeding towards him and let the Fireball explode on it . Looking at the wind golem that had stiffen due to the Fireball, Soo Hyuk thought,

‘It has cooldowns!’

Fortunately, the golem’s Dispel seemed to have a cooldown .

* * *

“Uh…?”

The voice of Jang Yool echoed through the office .

Yang Joo Hyuk turned his head to look at Jang Yool .

“He somehow managed to reach level 100 . ”

Level 100 . Pangea wasn’t in it’s beginning stages anymore, yet Jang Yool was only reporting about a level 100? However, he soon realised who he was talking about from Jang Yool’s nervous attitude and opened his mouth to ask .

“The doors?”

“He’s doing the quests right now . ”

Yang Joo Hyuk rose from his seat and moved behind Jang Yoo .

“Which element did he choose?”

“Wind . ”

“Wind? Not poison? ”

“Yes, I think he chose wind because of its synergy with fire . He probably also thinks that Pavian could teach him poison magic . Maybe he doesn’t know that he can’t learn other skills except through skill quests . ”

Yang Joo Hyuk thought after listening to Jang Yool’s reply .

‘Wouldn’t it be hard if it was the wind?’

Fire and wind had good synergy . Of course, wind also had a resistance to fire . It was never easy to set the wind on fire .

Fire and wind had no distinctive weaknesses against each other . In other words, the difficulty of the opening quests was relatively high, especially if he had only just reached level 100 .

‘At his current state, he’ll only be able to unlock Poison . ’

Yang Joo Hyuk, who thought Soo Hyuk would open the door of Poison, asked again as soon as he returned to his seat .

“What is the situation?”

The opening quests are really hard, but Soo Hyuk’s stats were nothing to scoff at . Yang Joo Hyuk was curious about how things were going .

“Because of his high vitality, he’s holding up well… …”

“The golem?”

“No . Soo Hyuk . ”

Yang Joo Hyuk nodded and muttered to himself .

“He’s doing better than I thought . I wonder if he’ll be able to open any door other than poison…”

* * *

[Movement speed is reduced by 30% . ]

Soo Hyuk couldn’t pay attention to the message . He already guessed its contents as he felt his movements slow down drastically . The reason he couldn’t turn to look at the message:

-Bang!

The golem was repeatedly battering at Soo Hyuk as he desperately retreated .

“Fire Ball!”

Soo Hyuk threw himself out of the golem’s range and cast Fireball at the golem .

-Dispel

The fireball, however, disappeared as soon as it appeared . Soo Hyuk bitterly thought to himself while dodging .

‘Dispel’s cooldown is already over?’

If he had known that Dispel’s cooldown was already over, he would have used a Magic Missile to offset it instead .

While sporting a expression, Soo Hyuk hurried cast Magic Missile .

“Magic Missile!”

The Magic missiles flew to the golem at high speed . However, despite being hit by the Magic Missile, the golem only paused slightly as if nothing had happened, the golem reached out again . Soo Hyuk jumped sideways to dodge the golem’s fist .

‘How much health does it have?!’

Soo Hyuk was in a situation where his skills were all on cooldown, but the golem showed no signs of collapse . Rather, it was Soo Hyuk who showed signs of falling .

‘I already used up all my potions…’

Without potions, Soo Hyuk had no way to heal and he would eventually be defeated by the golem .

‘Is running away the option?’

If he continued like this, he really might die . Soo Hyuk continued fighting, but with the intention of running away .

“Firebolt!”

Soo Hyuk cast Firebolt and the Firebolt flew towards the golem at high speed . But when the Firebolt hit the golem, the golem stopped moving .

Shuuak!

Then the patterns hidden within its body starting shining intensely .

‘What? Why is it shining? Is it finished?’

As Soo Hyuk was confused over the golem’s suddenly change, a system message appeared .

[The Golem of the Wind has dropped below 50% health . ]

After seeing the message, Soo Hyuk was speechless .

‘I attacked it so much, bot only did 50%?’

Soo Hyuk frowned at the following message . He had struck the golem numerous times with all of his spells, yet the golem only lost 50% of its health .

[The Wind Golem begins its first awakening . ]

‘And what is this awakening?’

Soo Hyuk thought while frowning heavily at the message .

Awakening in a situation where he was half-dead? In addition, the message stated that it was its first awakening . That meant there could be a second awakening or even a third one . Soo Hyuk then turned to the look at the shining golem .

“Fireball . ”

Soo Hyuk fired a Fireball at the golem .

Bang!

The golem showed no response, possibly because it was awakening .

‘Did it take damage or not?’

It was a problem . What if the golem was invincible in this state? The skill would be wasted . While Soo Hyuk worried, another message appeared .

[The First Awakening is complete . ]

-Five

Golem’s voice was heard again alongside the message .

-Four

Golem was counting down .

-Three

Soo Hyuk wondered as the golem counted down .

-Two

‘What’ll happen when it reaches one?’’

-One

When the countdown reached one, the golem suddenly vanished . Soo Hyuk looked around in surprise, trying to find the golem .

‘Huh, where did it…’

-Wind

Soo Hyuk heard the voice of the golem above him and reflexively lifted his head to see the golem falling from the sky . Around the golem was a semi-transparent barrier of wind circling around its body .

Soo Hyuk instinctively had a strong feeling that he would die if the golem hit him and tried to throw himself out of the way .

Bang!

Unfortunately, Soo Hyuk could not completely avoid the golem’s strike . The glancing blow sent Soo Hyuk flying into the air .

‘I’m not dead . ’

Fortunately, although he was caught in a blast, he survived . If Soo Hyuk hadn’t avoided a direct blow, he would’ve died .

Soo Hyuk checked his remaining health and froze in astonishment .

‘200?’

It was because he only had 200 health remaining .

‘Damn . ’

Soo Hyuk’s face crumpled . Even though he still had health left, it wasn’t enough to even endure a single blow from the golem . He was also flying through the air from the blast at the moment . That meant that he had a high chance of dying from fall damage .

‘Damn it, am I going to die like this?’

Soo Hyuk turned his head to check where he was flying towards . It was a wall .

Bang!

[You were defeated by the Wind Golem . ]

[You have failed the Trial of Wind . ]

[Only the access penalty will be applied . ]

[The Door of Wind is closed . ]

‘Uh?’

After seeing the message, Soo Hyuk was dumbfounded .

‘Only the access penalty?’

There are a total of four death penalty for death . A decrease in levels and stats, dropping items, and an access penalty . But only one of these four penalties was applied .

‘Is it a special situation?’

It was likely that this was a special situation .

‘The door of the wind closed . I can probably choose another door, but the test is no joke . ’

After logging out from Pangea, Suh Hyuk exited the capsule . The conditions for opening the door were too difficult .

‘If only I stocked up on potions…’

Even if Soo Hyuk had more potions, it would still be hard . One attack from the awakened wind golem had depleted a majority of his health .

‘It was that strong after only the first awakening, too…’

The problem was the primary awakening . What is the second awakening be like if this was the first awakening? The secondary awakening would not be weaker than primary awakening .

‘Elements also have strengths and weaknesses . Just as fire and wind are synergistic, there are properties that are weak to fire . Perhaps I should use that?

Weak to fire… …’

Soo Hyuk remembered what element was weak to fire and frowned .

‘There’s only poison?’