Chapter 450

[You have acquired the fifth legacy of the Death Lord, the Gauntlet of the Supreme Sovereign of Death!]

Kim Minwoo slowly pushed his hand into the gauntlet.

Chak—.

A perfect fit, as if it had been a part of his body from the very beginning.

At the same time, system messages began to plaster his retina without a gap like a waterfall.

[You equip the Gauntlet of the Supreme Sovereign of Death!]

[The set item effect resonates, and the true power of the gauntlet is unlocked!]

[Gauntlet of the Supreme Sovereign of Death]

[Rank: Mythical]

[Description: The gauntlet used by the absolute who ruled over the death of all dimensions in the past when reaping the lives of his enemies. It squeezes out the essence of all living creatures it touches and converts it into the caster's power.]

[Effect 1. All stats +250]

[Effect 2. Grip of Death — Forcibly reduces the power of all physical and magical strikes touching the caster's hand by 50%, and immediately absorbs a certain percentage of the damage inflicted on the enemy as the caster's health and mana.]

[Effect 3. Collection of Death — Only once a month, forcibly collects the essence of the target touched by the gauntlet. Extorts all the target's stats and life force for 10 minutes, overlaying them as a buff on the caster. After the duration ends, permanently absorbs a portion of the target's highest stat. (Cooldown: 30 days)]

"……Wow, shit."

An exclamation bordering on a curse naturally leaked from Kim Minwoo's mouth.

The ignorant raw stat pumping of +250 to all stats was rather cute.

First, the second effect.

Forcibly reducing the power of all strikes touching the hand by 50%.

Just looking at the sentence, it seems like an ordinary reduction option, but the essence was completely different.

In the first place, this gauntlet itself is Mythical-rank.

Its hardness and defensive power go without saying.

On top of that, it meant the power would be halved just by letting it graze the fingertips.

There is no need to take a sword head-on.

There is no reason to cover his entire body in fireballs.

Just one palm. Just the back of the hand once.

Just by touching, half disappears.

Added to that was the absorption effect that sucks up the inflicted damage exactly as it is into health and mana as a bonus.

"……This is just a cheat."

It doesn't matter if it's a swordsman swinging a sword in close combat or a mage pouring out magic from the rear.

Transcending class and combat style, it was an item that would immediately elevate whoever held it to the first-rate.

But the real highlight was the third.

'Collection of Death……'

Kim Minwoo's pupils slowly expanded.

Only once a month.

With that single touch, he extracts everything from the opponent whole.

Extorts the enemy's stats and life force for 10 minutes, overlaying them as his own buff, and after the time ends, permanently cuts out and eats a portion of the most shining stat.

Kim Minwoo let out a hollow laugh.

"Demen."

As Kim Minwoo clenched and opened his fist, blood-red death magic power intertwined like snakes between the bone patterns of the gauntlet, causing sparks to fly.

This overwhelming sense of omnipotence grasped in his hand distantly surpassed the common sense of mortals.

"You're saying there are still five more legacies left?"

Tapping his gauntlet-clad fist, Kim Minwoo pulled up his mouth corners viciously.

The fact that there were still five more jackpots left to collect couldn't be more reassuring.

"Done everything here. Guys, pack your bags. Let's go up."

Kim Minwoo turned his steps without lingering attachment.

The four Legion Commanders and the Dragon Tooth Soldiers quickly lined up behind Kim Minwoo's back.

Seuseuseuseu—.

Escaping the Sea of Destruction, breaking through the distorted space and time of the Extreme Sea by pressing it down with the power of Descent, and lightly piercing up through the water pressure of the Deep Sea, the party finally reached the Inner Sea zone.

[You have entered the Abyssal Sea — Inner Sea!]

[The thick fog of the Inner Sea attempts to interfere with your mind…….]

"Hayangi. Time to eat."

― Kkuu!

Before Kim Minwoo's words could even finish, Hayangi, sitting on his shoulder, opened its beak wide like a vacuum cleaner and sucked up all the trauma-inducing thick fog of the Inner Sea.

Ssuaaaaaap—!

Breathing in the cleared air of the Inner Sea, Kim Minwoo gave a big stretch.

"Shall I try the experiment I put off at the bottom of the Sea of Destruction earlier."

Stabbing Hell Rhapsody into the floor with a tuk, Kim Minwoo's two eyes shone with interest.

As Kim Minwoo threw open his inventory, the gap of a massive subspace tore in the empty air, and a house-sized lump of flesh poured down onto the floor with a heavy roar.

Kugugugugung—!

The ultimate durability that endured the overwhelming water pressure and void of the Sea of Destruction for eons.

It was the massive corpse of the Primordial Abyssal Beast.

The twelve pupils had lost focus, but the hardness of its hide and the magic power waves spewing from its tentacles were still atrocious even in death.

"Who should I mix and feed this to, to be rumored that I used this expensive material the most deliciously."

Stroking his chin, Kim Minwoo slowly scanned the summons behind his back.

The first to catch his eye were naturally the four Legion Commanders. However, as confirmed at the bottom of the Sea of Destruction earlier, the Legion Commanders were transcendent entities that had reached the apex in their respective fields.

Their status was too distantly high to overlay merely the corpse of a single Abyssal Beast, so harmony could not be established.

'Then the Divine Dragon Gleipnir that Cedric rides?'

That was eliminated too.

Gleipnir was already a completed model perfectly assembled with the bones of a Primordial Ancient Dragon and the blood vessels of an Abyssal Lord.

If he forcefully attached something like squid tentacles to it here, it was obvious that it would only ruin the balance.

'Should I give it to the Bone Dragon flock?'

Kim Minwoo snorted with a pik.

Although the Bone Dragons were powerful, they were still fresh greenhorns who had recently joined Kim Minwoo's legion. How dare those newbie skeleton bastards covet the Lord's first compression experimental piece and the premium ultra-special grade material from the Sea of Destruction.

'Should I feed it to Hayangi? No, if it gets too big, it might be hard to sit it on my shoulder.'

As Kim Minwoo eliminated the list of summons one by one like that, his gaze finally rested on the most cornered part of the inventory window.

Excluding the Legion Commanders, the named summon that had stayed by Kim Minwoo's side for the longest time and boasted the highest seniority.

"Dolsoe. Come out."

Kuuung—!

With Kim Minwoo's call, the earth shook, and a massive rock-like bulk composed of giant bones descended onto the floor of the Inner Sea.

― Kkueoeoeo!

Bone Golem Dolsoe.

Seeing the guy raise both arms high and let out a dependable roar upon appearance, Kim Minwoo's eyes turned exceptionally soft and warm.

"It's been a long time since I took our Dolsoe out."

Since the past newbie days, he was the reliable soup-like tanker who took charge of all aggro at Kim Minwoo's very front line and shared numerous life-and-death moments.

The skillset Dolsoe possessed was truly close to perfect as a tanker.

Taunt, which forcibly draws enemy aggro to protect the caster.

Defense Posture, which immediately cuts all received damage by 30% upon use.

And Blood Explosion, the ultimate self-destruct and area-of-effect damage skill obtained when Kim Minwoo injected dragon blood through the Blood Water Jade.

It was an atrocious skill that used dragon's blood as a detonator to shove massive damage equal to 3 times its maximum health into the enemy.

The synergy of these three skills was truly overwhelming, and for a while, Dolsoe firmly held the position of the immovable main tanker of Kim Minwoo's legion.

However, as time passed and the difficulty of the hunting grounds skyrocketed vertically at an absurd speed, the situation changed.

The biggest problem was precisely inflation.

The skeleton flock inhaled the essence of an Ancient Dragon, and a thousand of them fused together, evolving into an out-of-standard troop type called Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

In front of the performance of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, who swapped forms in real-time into heavy infantry holding tower shields through their formless skeletons and formed perfect formations, Dolsoe's raw stats and durability, which were merely clumped bones, naturally began to show limits.

Its bones were often vainly melted by a single breath from a dragon or an area-of-effect skill fired by top-tier powerhouses from higher dimensions. Eventually, Dolsoe was pushed out of the main stream of battle and couldn't avoid warming the bench.

"Our Dolsoe has so much seniority, wouldn't it be sad if he was pushed out by his skeleton juniors and was warming the bench."

Kim Minwoo lightly patted Dolsoe's massive leg bone.

The utility of the skills themselves was still top-tier.

The problem was the poor hardware.

Look at the corpse of the Primordial Abyssal Beast sprawled over there.

It was the ultimate lump of flesh boasting absolute durability and density, evolved solely to endure the terrible pressure of the Sea of Destruction for eons.

"This seems to be a perfect match for Dolsoe?"

The fact that it was a corpse was even more perfect.

A corpse has no ego.

Therefore, even if he overlaid and fused the flesh of this ignorant monster, it meant there was absolutely no chance of Dolsoe's dependable and steadfast ego, which dedicated loyalty to Kim Minwoo, being eaten or corrupted.

"Now then, let's dress our Dolsoe up in new clothes."

Kim Minwoo raised Hell Rhapsody and aimed at the corpse of the Primordial Abyssal Beast and Dolsoe simultaneously.

[Using the skill, Compression!]

[Targets: The overall corpse of the Primordial Abyssal Beast + Bone Golem Dolsoe]

Paaaaaaat—!

As soon as the command fell, the authority of a Higher God strongly constricted the space of the Inner Sea.

The house-sized corpse of the Abyssal Beast began to shrink rapidly, letting out bizarre rupturing sounds.

The massive flesh, tough outer shell, twelve blood-red eyeballs, and hundreds of pitch-black tentacles were condensed and condensed to the limit, transforming into a high-density liquid magic power mass as pitch-black as obsidian.

As Kim Minwoo flicked the tip of Hell Rhapsody, the compressed abyssal extract poured down like a tsunami toward Dolsoe's massive skeleton.

Kwagagagang—!

[The compressed physical body of the Abyssal Beast fuses with the skeleton of the Bone Golem!]

[Due to abnormal dimensional fusion, the target's existential traits are completely reconstructed!]

Dolsoe let out a rough roar toward the sky.

Over the pure white skeleton, pitch-black abyssal flesh and muscle fibers intertwined and stuck like snakes.

The clunky appearance of the golem was seamlessly coated with the smooth and atrocious abyssal armor plating that endured the pressure of the Sea of Destruction.

From its back, the Abyssal Beast's tentacles sprouted, swaying like a monarch's massive cape, and in the eye sockets of its skull, instead of the original blue flame, twelve blood-red eye glints flashed bizarrely.

The creepy moment of birth created as bone and flesh perfectly fused.

Finally, the cluster of light cleared, and a massive golden system window filling his vision floated up.

[Fusion Success!]