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Yang Joo Hyuk and Jang Yool were chatting while watching the monitor .

“Wow, he finally finished the quest . ”

“Time truly passes quickly . It’s already been a month . ”

The subject of the conversation was Soo Hyuk .

“But what will he do now?”

“Do what?”

“He’s learnt that he can’t learn magic from Pavian . Won’t he try to open the Door of Poison now?”

“That’s definitely possible . ”

Yang Joo Hyuk nodded . Jang Yool’s words had credibility as Soo Hyuk now couldn’t learn from Pavian so he could end up choosing the Door of Poison .

Of course, nothing was certain . There were 8 choices and at the end of the day, the choice of all up the Soo Hyuk .

“If he chooses the Door of Poison…”

As Jang Yool trailed off, Yang Joo Hyuk finished the sentence for him .

“It would be a piece of cake considering his new title . ”

He might even feel that the Door of Poison was too easy . With the Poison Maestro title, the difficulty of the Door of Poison would drop to the point where it would feel like the Door of Wind was a scam .

“Oh?”

Jang Yool suddenly exclaimed .

“He went to the subspace . ”

* * *

After the quest was completed, Soo Hyuk engaged in some small talk with Pavian before putting the books in the inventory and leaving .

‘All right . I’ll challenge the Door of Poison . ’

Previously, he was thinking about the Door of Wind, but that had now changed . He had to open the Door of Poison .

‘But is it possible?’

There was still one thing nagging at his mind .

‘Although the boss would take more damage,’

Fire was strong against poison . He would be able to deal a lot more damage to the poison golem than the wind golem .

‘The problem is the amount of damage that I take . ’

In the second awakening of the wind golem, he had taken more than 20,000 damage in one hit . Even if his health had doubled, would he be able to handle the poison golem?

‘Let’s try first . ’

If he was being honest, he didn’t really need to unlock another door straight away . He had planned to level up more and acquire better gear .

But since the situation had changed like this, shouldn’t he at least try once? Wrapping up his thoughts, Soo Hyuk opened his character window .

Occupation: Archmage’s Descendant

Level: 102 Experience: 62%

Health: 56200 Mana: 41200 Satiation: 54%

Strength: 40 (+10)

Agility: 35 (+16)

Stamina: 1108 [554 (+10)]

Wisdom: 2060 (+10)

‘There’s no stat change . ’

Soo Hyuk looked at his character status first before he challenged the Door of Poison . Is stats hadn’t changed at all . Next, Soo Hyuk clicked on his list of titles . Then he checked the information for ‘Poison Maestro’ .

“…?”

Soo Hyuk burst into a bright smile while feeling admiration .

-Poison Maestro (1 . You will not be poisoned by your own poison . 2 . You will not be poisoned by ordinary poison . )

‘Isn’t this really good?’

It was almost a jackpot . The main reason why poison magic was unpopular was because the users had a chance to poison themselves when casting poison magic . But the new title completely removed that disadvantage . Plus, he wouldn’t be affected by ordinary poison .

‘Now it has to be poison no matter what . ’

After pledging to choosing poison again, Soo Hyuk closed all his windows and warped to the subspace .

[Warping to the Archmage’s Subspace . ]

The space around him was distorted with the message then he arrived safely at the subspace . As soon as the space around was stabilised, Soo Hyuk headed towards the Door of Poison .

After stopping in front of the door, Soo Hyuk reached out and touched the door with his hand . Then a system message appeared .

[Would you like to open the Door of Poison?]

Soo Hyuk pressed YES and more windows popped up .

[Opening the Door of Poison . ]

[Number of attempts: 1]

[Summoning the Poison Toad . ]

[Survive for 30 minutes or defeat the Poison Toad . ]

“Hmm…?”

Soo Hyuk noticed unlike the Door of Wind, the boss for the Door of Poison was a toad, not a golem .

‘Poison Toad? Is it different for every door?’

It seemed like the clear conditions for every door was different .

‘Survive for 30 minutes . ’

Instead of defeating the toad, he could choose to survive for 30 minutes . What did this mean? It meant that the Poison Toad would be harder . He would have to be more cautious .

Soo Hyuk turned around to see the toad being summoned . There was the same magic circle in the middle of the chamber, and the toad was gradually forming from its head .

“Magic Missile . ”

Soo Hyuk fired a magic missile at the toad .

[The Poison Toad is being summoned . ]

[Attacking is impossible until it is completed summoned . ]

‘This is the same . ’

Soo Hyuk couldn’t attack the toad while it was being summoned like the wind golem, so he waited for the summoning to finish .

-The test is starting .

The toad croaked after it was completed formed . It sounded noticeably different from the Wind Golem .

“Magic Missile . ”

Soo Hyuk cast magic missile once again . It was to see if it would dispel like the wind golem or use another method .

Bang!

But the poison toad didn’t do anything . The magic missile managed to land a solid hit on the toad . At that moment .

Shuaa!

The moment the magic missile exploded on its skin, it started to emit green gas from its pores . The gas travelled at a tremendous speed and filled up the entire chamber in no time .

‘Poison?’

The gas was released from its body . This was probably the reason why there was another way to clear the trial . The poison gas filled up the entire chamber, so Soo Hyuk couldn’t dodge in any direction . Then something magical happened .

[You have resisted . ]

[You have resisted . ]

[You have resisted . ]

[You have resisted . ]

Endless messages appeared .

“…?”

Soo Hyuk was momentarily confused by the endless messages before realising .

‘…Ah!’

‘The Poison Maestro!’

This was the effect of the second function of the ‘Poison Maestro’ title .

‘Then is this ordinary poison?’

The green gas around him appeared to be composed of common poison .

‘Is this it?’

The first way to clear this trial was to survive for 30 minutes . This looked ridiculously easy as he kept resisting all the poison . That meant, all he had to do was stand there and he would win .

‘No, there’s got to be something else . ’

There was no way that it would be this easy . Soo Hyuk could make out the toad’s shape as he looked through the fog .

‘Should I attack? Or not?’

The toad had started releasing poisonous gas when it was hit by the magic missile . What if the gas got stronger every time he attacked it?

‘It could also get stronger over time . ’

Waiting was also dangerous . What if the poison got stronger as more time passed? Then was a possibility that his title’s ability wouldn’t be able to resist the poison anymore .

‘The poison is getting stronger even now . ’

The green colour was getting darker . He would be poisoned at this rate .

‘Right, there are more chances anyway . ’

He didn’t forget the fact that his aim today was to test the waters . Soo Hyuk made his decision as he considered this fact .

“Firestorm . ”

Soo Hyuk cast Firestorm . The casting bar appeared and due to him taking no damage so far, he was able to safely cast the spell .

Huaa!

The flaming tornado appeared around the poison toad .

‘Oh, it’s disappearing?’

The green fog started getting lighter when the firestorm appeared .

‘The fire is burning away the poison . ’

Soo Hyuk thought as he stared at the still motionless toad . The firestorm was burning the poison as it left the poison toad’s body . As a result, the surroundings were gradually getting clearer every second .

“Fireball, Inferno, Firebolt, Flame Dance . ”

Soo Hyuk continuously fired spells at the toad .

‘Does it also have phases?’

The wind golem had the 1st and the 2nd awakenings . Would the poison toad have something similar? At that moment .

-Congratulations for passing .

He heard the toad’s croaky voice .

‘Pass?’

AS he was confused from the sudden situation,

[You have defeated the Poison Toad . ]

[You have fulfilled the conditions . ]

[The Door of Poison is opened . ]

[Skill ‘Archmage’ has been strengthened . ]

[Skill quest ‘Acid Blast’ has been generated . ]

[Skill quest ‘Poison Fog’ has been generated . ]

[Skill quest ‘Poison Sphere’ has been generated . ]

[Skil quest ‘Poison Field’ has been generated . ]

[…]

‘…The end?’

‘It’s this easy?’

It too was easy . Like a walk in the park . Soo Hyuk felt uncomfortable even as he looked through the messages .

‘The difficulties are too far apart . ’

Soo Hyuk frowned heavily . He could feel his anger rising even though he had already decided to unlock poison . Even if fire was strong against poison, wasn’t this too much? Afer checking the messages, Soo Hyuk opened his quest window . He wanted see the conditions for the quests .

‘Good . ’

Soo Hyuk’s gloomy frown reverted back to a bright smile as he read the completion requirements . The conditions were what he expected .

‘Now should I go to get the materials?’

Soo Hyuk closed his quest window and opened his skill window . The ‘Archmage’ passive was strengthened like when he unlocked the fire element . He was excited to see the new improvements .

“…”

Soo Hyuk’s smile stiffened when he read the information .

“These crazy…”

Curses automatically came out of his mouth .

“This dog fraud…”