One Man Army - Chapter 23

'Now I have one Soul Hole left…… I'll need a lot of time to get this one so I'll have to bear with three Ancient Knowledge for a while.'

'The fusion of Nar'el's Elemental Burst and Choi Sangryul's Heavenly Dragon Card Deck…… what do I call that?'

"Let's just go with Special Deck."

'Let's wrap up elementalism around here and…… should I switch main weapons now?'

Actually, swords had good performance and were easy to use as well. And above all, they were the most common.
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Unlike swords, wire-type weapons were incredibly hard to wield. Even across all of EL, there was almost no weapon that was harder to use than wire-type weapons.

Then why was Sanghyuk trying to use the incredibly rare, and incredibly difficult-to-wield wire weapons as his main weapon?

Of course, wire weapons were extremely difficult to use. Even users with high VRA and good in-game knowledge could just swing it around without hurting themselves at best. This was why wire-type weapons were mostly used as the 4th or 5th main weapon.

Second main weapons received 7%, third 5%, and finally, 4th and 5th main weapons, well, more like support weapons, received 2% increase.

For this reason, many users set their main weapons until the fifth.

Users had to be very cautious in setting a main weapon. This was because an insane amount of karma was needed to switch out main weapons afterward. It was an unimaginable amount of karma at low levels, and a hefty sum even at high levels, so it wasn't a price that many were prepared to take.
The disappearance of karma meant level down. Although not much as the first main weapon, it required karma to switch 2nd to 5th main weapons as well, so the majority of the users did not switch their main weapons once set.

Will you set the Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip as your main weapon? (Y/N)

Sanghyuk nodded his head and touched the (Y) lightly. Since he had thought about this beforehand, there was no need for him to hesitate.

Having set his weapons, Sanghyuk took out the Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip from his bag.

Tokan made 400 pieces of 2 cm sized fragments by hammering the Ten Millennia Goldbone into a thin sheet, and made the Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip by connecting each of those pieces.

*Chrrrrrrrrt, pa-pa-pa-pah!*

There existed proficiency levels for all weapons, and that would increase the more the corresponding weapon was used. Once proficiency rose, a 'force-support' effect would be applied systematically to enable a user to wield the weapon more proficiently.

'There's no shortcut for this. Practice is all you can do.'

For that level, he felt like he not only had to get used to using the weapon but also increase the proficiency level to 100, master-tier. The end of proficiency was 250 (Grandmaster-tier_, but in practice, such things only existed in imagination.

Sanghyuk focused on regaining his senses by swinging around the Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip continuously. Perhaps due to his concentration, his proficiency with wire-type weapons rose incredibly fast.

Sanghyuk swung around the whip for four hours straight on the spot. He nodded his head in satisfaction only after around four hours had passed.

Actually, Sanghyuk's manipulation of the whip was very proficient and couldn't just be called 'got the hang of', but in Sanghyuk's view, he still lacked many things.

Sanghyuk didn't have so much time as to swing around with the whip to his heart's content. Since he got the hang of it, he had to hunt stronger monsters with it.

The Snake Caves was a hunting zone where the majority of users hadn't even broken through the entrance yet. The Snake Caves was like a maze with tangled paths, and there were 22 entrances.
At the current point in time, even the highest leveled users were hunting near the entrance, but after some time, it would become the second most popular hunting field after the Valley of the Dead.

Sanghyuk headed to the least well-known entrance of the Snake Caves, which was the furthest away from Falcon City. His objective today was to find the 'Giant snake' field deep inside the Snake Caves.

Sanghyuk saved the entrance of the Snake Caves on the Marking Book he had finally bought before entering the Snake Caves.

Fortunately, Sanghyuk had no particular rejection towards snakes, so he didn't fear to tread inside the Snake Caves.

When Sanghyuk swung his Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip, the 10 snakes in front of him were sliced to pieces as though they just went through a shredder. According to the angle of the swing, the Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip could slash the opponent as though it was a sword, so shredding snakes was easy.

Around Sanghyuk were at least 100 snakes torn into pieces. It was indeed true that it was very difficult to find a more efficient weapon than a wire-type weapon within the Snake Caves.

In the end, in a place like the Snake Caves, ones with wide-area attacks were very respected, and wire-type weapons could be used in such a way.

The true masters of the Snake Caves were the snake-men race. Snake-men were basically large snakes with two arms on the upper side of their body, which they used as though they were human arms.

The hundreds of snakes at the entrance were merely pets(?) of the snake-men.

Floating Limestones, once set, just floated around the user and emitted light. It was naturally a must-have item in dark caves like this place.

Of course, nothing like that existed in Sanghyuk's mind. Even though Sanghyuk had returned to the past, remembering every single event was impossible. Instead, Sanghyuk had his numerous experiences. The general pattern unique to such types of dungeons…… Sanghyuk knew that pattern well enough so that he could find his way without getting lost in this maze-like caves.

*Hiss, hiss!*

*Whistle, clang*

Although this may be a surprising result for the snake-man, it was an obvious outcome for Sanghyuk.

*Stab, crrrunch!*

'Good!'

The Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip…… this weapon indeed had tremendous potential.