I Never Run Out of Mana - Chapter 157

Chapter 157

157 . Demigod

A black marble the size of a fist .

The surface glowed, reminding me of a black pearl .

Other than that, nothing looked out of the ordinary .

I thought back to the time I defeated Joker and obtained the King’s Marble .

I have taken good care of it all this time, still being held within my armor .

The marble was much smaller than the black marble I’ve obtained, but the effect was insane enough to make the size of it not matter at all .

Not only did it restore my health and mana to full, but it made me immortal for a minute, and on top of that, it granted me twice my strength for a full minute .

It was a very powerful item .

Currently, via hunting in the Unknown Dungeon, I had 11 of those marbles with me .

However, unlike Status Denial and the ring that allowed the wearer to come back to life, I wasn’t using them as a survival method .

It was because I had to consume the marble in order to activate the effect .

After all, I couldn’t use this when the situation turned critical, unless I had it in my mouth to begin with .

Not only that , but the Demon King’s attack power wouldn’t even give me the time to swallow one of them .

Also, even if I succeed in swallowing the marble and increasing my attack power by twofold, my attacks wouldn’t hit the Demon King .

If I was only a bit stronger… . If only I had an attack that could break through his defenses .

The King’s Marble will still massively affect this battle though .

This was pretty much my final card against the Demon King after all .

If the King’s Marble provided both offensive and defensive benefits, this black marble seemed to only benefit me offensively .

However, this item wasn’t lacking by any means .

No matter how weak the owner was, it would allow them to rise as one of the strongest .

Like the ring in the movies .

It was that incredible .

The information that the Eye of Insight showed me regarding the black marble was as follows .

-A Piece of Space and Time-

*All attacks have a 100% chance to succeed .

*Ignores all enemies resistances .

*Prevents opponents hit by attacks from recovering .

*Allows the user to wield all of their strength .

*However, effects are activated only after passing a god’s test .

“Using Eternal Rest didn’t feel like a waste at all…… Chimera, you clever little thing . ”

Once I consumed the marble, I would obtain amazing abilities .

Isn’t this enough to make anyone exclaim with glee?

Just from looking at the first effect, anyone could tell that this was no ordinary item .

My main attacks involved using skills .

Each of these skills had their own ranks .

Depending on these ranks, an opponent’s defensive capabilities and resistance can make the attacks deal no damage .

However, this single effect allowed my attacks to bypass that wall .

This meant that even if I used Frost Orb, it would deal some form of damage to the Demon King .

Secondly, ignoring resistances .

Monsters have some form of innate resistance, either physical or magical .

Holy damage ignores resistances, but they usually don’t deal a lot of damage .

This basically rewrote the rules of what was and wasn’t a viable attack method .

Even an enemy with a 100% resistance to physical attacks could be defeated with sword skills .

I could laugh at an enemy’s 100% magical resistance while killing them with magical attacks .

Thirdly was the ability to prevent healing .

I already had a skill that had that effect .

It was a necromancer’s B ranking debuff skill that prevented the opponent from healing themselves .

However, due to the fact that it was only a B ranking skill, not only did it not work on most Awakened, but most monsters as well .

If the effect of all attacks succeeding was true, it would allow the Unrecoverable spell to go through as well .

However, this saved me the trouble of having to cast it every single time and also being at the mercy of the spell’s duration .

With the three effects I went over so far and properly spacing out the use of the King’s Marbles, I would not only be able to beat the Demon King, but even his grandpa if he were to exist .

But that wasn’t the end of it .

The best one was saved for last .

The fourth effect was hard to believe .

It allowed the user to use all of their powers .

To put it in simple terms, it allowed me to freely use my magical energies, which was something I still couldn’t control or even see .

From my travels throughout Earth and the demonic realm, I had slaughtered countless monsters and have obtained their magical energies .

Me, while being a human, had enough magical energy to be considered the one with the 3rd most amount of it in the demonic realm .

If I was to obtain the ability to wield it as I pleased?

I would be able to attack with both the abilities of the Awakened and the power of magical energies at the same time, obtaining combination attack capabilities .

In other words, the Demon King would be toast .

Not only that, but I had Archangel’s Fall, which allowed me to deal bonus damage against monsters .

Each line of the descriptions on the marble artifact were amazing .

However, the last line filled me with doubt, almost as if throwing a question at me .

“A god’s test? I thought everything was going smoothly, but what is this nonsense? If you’re going to give me abilities, should just give it to me without all this hassle… . . ”

To be able to use the artifact’s effects, it seemed that I had to meet the requirements, similar to how a skill book beyond ranking does .

As confirmed with the Eye of Insight, the requirement here was to pass a test, and that test was from a god .

I couldn’t fathom if this was some kind of joke or not .

There probably wasn’t anyone who had information regarding this item either .

The informant of the demonic realm, Karin, and the one who is in a shaky alliance with us, Belkoseu, wouldn’t have intel on this .

After all, artifacts were only related to humans .

“So there isn’t anyone who could give me a clear answer… . ”

I did have my worries about this, but I was leaning more towards just consuming it .

No matter what angle I look at this from, there just wasn’t any other way out for me .

The Demon King . Ladin . Belkoseu .

Just hearing their names gave me a headache .

Not only that, but it wouldn’t be long before the Gate that leads to Earth would be discovered .

As time passed, it was us that would be at a greater disadvantage, and it was us that were in a hurry .

Since I’ve used up Eternal Rest already, I had no way of stopping Belkoseu after I defeated the Demon King .

My only way of annihilating Belkoseu had disappeared altogether .

And I couldn’t even face that problem until things worked out well enough for us to defeat the Demon King in the first place .

I held the orb up .

With a slight moment of hesitation, I moved it towards my mouth .

It was then .

“Min-Cheol!”

“……”

“Keruuu… . . Min-Cheol!”

“Has that much time passed already?”

Jong Ho and Karin yelled while being carried by Belkoseu at incredible speeds .

I thought for a second how lame they must’ve felt when I carried them like that .

Karin’ face was wet from something that I couldn’t tell if it was drool or tears .

Jong Ho’s expression was calm, as if he couldn’t be surprised anymore .

He must’ve known that I was alive via Karin’s ability .

And seeing that the orb in the sky hadn’t disappeared, Jong Ho must’ve have foreseen that I would use the skill on the Chimera .

That was probably why he had kept that expression .

Arriving near me nearly in an instant, both of them hopped off from the arms of Belkoseu and landed on the ground .

“Whew . I didn’t know that being carried around while being held looked so ridiculous, you know?”

“You! Only good at running your mouth . ”

“So, how does it feel to be taxied around by him?”

“Yeah! A lot more comfortable than you, that’s for sure . You okay?”

“Of course . It doesn’t seem that you were worried at all by the looks of it, right?”

“You think you’re a normal person? At this point, I’m not even surprised anymore at these day to day occurrences . ”

Jong Ho snuck a glance at Belkoseu while carefully speaking to me .

After all, he knew what I was thinking better than anyone else .

The missing Chimera . And I was alive, completely fine to boot .

With an expression that anyone would be able to tell it was filled with suspicion, Belkoseu spoke .

“Human… . What happened?”

“What?”

“Why has the Chimera stopped its activities, and how are you alive without a scratch . ”

“Hm… . . Are you saying that I should be dead or something? I feel a bit sad, but since it’s something to be curious about, I’ll let it slide . ”

“…… . ”

“I escaped the Chimera . Of course, it is hard to believe . ”

“Kuhum……”

“You don’t think I actually killed the Chimera, do you?”

I pointed at the sky while asking .

The sky still had one of those burning orbs floating there .

Looking at it, Belkoseu cleared his throat in an attempt to regain composure in his voice .

“That’s right . I didn’t believe for a moment that you defeated the Chimera . However……”

“What did you want to ask?”

“Maybe! Are you hiding your true strength?”

“Do you think I came here to waste time playing hide and seek with the Demon King?”

“…… . ”

“Of course not . I’m pretty sure that you saw yourself? I had received a severe injury from the Demon King’s attack before while I was trying to go through the Warp . I’m not into getting hit . Stop wasting your time pointlessly doubting me, okay?”

“Hm…… . ”

“Well, I have something to discuss between the three of us, so leave us be for now . ”

“……”

Without even hearing his reply, I turned his back and brought Karin and Jong Ho with me .

Belkoseu seemed pretty shocked, but since these kind of situations were common, he didn’t make much of a fuss .

Casting Silent, I continued the talk between us .

After all, what we were about to discuss wouldn’t do us any good if Belkoseu heard them .

“Hyung-nim, as you are aware, I used Eternal Rest . ”

“Right . There wasn’t anything else you could’ve done . You did well . ”

“Yes . I did survive the Chimera, but… . . ”

“Now we lost the only way to defeat Belkoseu… . . ”

“Thankfully that’s not the case . ”

“Hm? I thought that Eternal Rest could only be used once? Or perhaps… Nah . There’s no way that the Chimera, who doesn’t even have any magical energy to begin with, could drop any gear . ”

“No, that’s what happened . ”

I took out the black marble that was tucked away in my chestplate and showed it to Jong Ho .

I told him about the marble’s effects .

Each time he heard one of the effects, he couldn’t help but be surprised .

However, as expected, his expression did look too good when he heard about the last line of description that mentioned a test .

Jong Ho asked as if he knew what I was going to say next .

“You’re going headfirst into an unknown territory again . Are you confident?”

“You know that Jong Ho’s dongsaeng is just a corpse if you take out his confidence, right?”

“I’m an idiot for asking . So what do you need to do?”

“Not sure . I wouldn’t know unless I consumed this… . ”

“I think we need to move to a safer location . We’ll also need Belkoseu’s ability to hide our magical energy signature . ”

“Yes . However, there is one thing I’m concerned about . ”

“I’m more surprised that you only have one thing to worry about . You little! What is it?”

“How do I swallow something this big?”

“Listen well . Be glad that you’re stronger than me . If that wasn’t the case… you would’ve died . ”

We headed towards where the demon god Ifrit resided before .

If we hide our magical energy signatures here, we would be able to completely avoid the Demon King .

He would never expect us to go back to a place where we already did our business and hide there .

After arriving, I consumed the marble .