One Man Army - Chapter 70

Chapter 70

‘Universe dagger, Twilight knife, and Yin-yang copper mirror . Gathering these three allows entry into the Temple of the Seven Dragons . The most tricky one to activate among the three is the Universe dagger…… it seems like these guys at Crusader has a tremendous treasure . ’


Though, Crusader themselves didn’t know how amazing this reassure was . This was why they stored it in the warehouse .
As a unique-grade dagger, the universe dagger had mid to low performance, so there was no popularity as a weapon .

Universe Dagger [Unique]
– The dagger that connects heaven and earth . It can be acquired from monsters that are in the skies and on the ground at a very low chance .
[Basic stats] Health +10
[Special stats] All elemental defense increases by 10% .
[Special effects] , ,
[Universal force 1,297 . 1/10,000: Agility +1]

‘Someone must have tried gathering universal force and given up . ’
Blake smiled after looking at the universal force that was all the way up to 1297 . According to his knowledge, it required no ordinary patience .
It couldn’t be gathered from any monsters, and killing one gave not 1 but 0 . 1 universal force .
Decisively, suffering through hell and killing the maximum 10,000 points only have 10 agility points .
There were practically no people that would do that in order to increase agility by 10 .
Though, Blake knew of the other changes that would happen once the universal force was filled . The ones who don’t know about it may think that it would only increase agility by 10, but in truth, that wasn’t the end .
‘Well, I still have a lot of time, so I can just gather it slowly . ’
Blake took the Universe dagger and nodded his head in satisfaction .
After emptying the storehouse, Blake then started gathering loot from the dead members of Crusader . He skipped the worthless items and only collected the valuable ones, and while he was in the midst of gathering them, the guild members of Crusader came back .
Naturally, they were killed the moment they came back and was chased out of the game .
Blake walked around the Crusader’s guild house like it was his own, and collected the items .
It was very frustrating for Crusader, but in the first place, there was nothing they could do .
And finally, Blake destroyed the guild stone .
Since Crusader was at guild level 5, the guild stone’s durability was considerably high, but since there was no one obstructing him, Blake was easily able to destroy it .
The guild members were massacred, the guild warehouse was robbed…… and the guild stone was destroyed .
At this point, Crusader was inflicted with all the damages that were possible .
The number of members One guild needed to thoroughly destroy the Crusader guild, was one .

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InGamez official EL power rankings

1st) Blake [One] (42↑)
2nd) Gale [One] (16↑)
3rd) Typhoon [Rising] (2↓)
4th) Kun [Terriculum] (1↑)
5th) Dark Dragon [Dark Dragon] (3↓)
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InGamez official EL power rankings

1st) One (22↑)
2nd) Rising (1↓)
3rd) Terriculum (3↑)
4th) Red Line (2↓)
5th) Dark Dragon (1↓)
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The official rankings for this month was out .
Naturally, One guild, who had showed a tremendous achievement this month, had become first in rankings after surpassing many, while the known members of the guild, Blake and Gale, became 1st and 2nd respectively .
In the InGamez power ranking, 1st to 100th represented top rankers while 101st to 1000th represented high rankers . Those within the top 10,000 were generally called rankers as well .
The power ranking for InGamez was calculated based on suitable standards, so it was very reliable and was trusted by many .
perhaps due to that, One guild, and its members Gale and Blake, shot up to the top, and this caused a lot of controversy .
The biggest one was the ‘bubble’ controversy .
There were still many people who saw One guild and their members with bias .


They all claimed that One guild, Gale, and Blake were all blown out of proportion . Many people refuted them using logical reasons, but they still did not sway until the end .
Meanwhile, Sanghyuk, who had taken both the first and second titles, didn’t have much interest in these rankings . To him, something like an InGamez monthly power ranking didn’t matter to him . Though, it would positively influence the live channel, so there was nothing bad about it either .
However, that didn’t mean that he had to try hard to maintain that ranking .
High was good, but not being on it didn’t matter either .
Just because he was ‘acknowledged’ as a top ranker, it didn’t mean that anything was changed .
Normally, a guild or a user would try to maintain their position by doing actions that contributed to the points of InGamez rankings, but Sanghyuk didn’t do that .
He didn’t go his way to use Blake’s avatar to do PvP, neither did he conquer new dungeons using Gale and revealed them to the public .
A ranking, was just a ranking .

Crusader had forfeited after accepting all of One guild’s request . Enduring in a situation like this practically meant that they would disband the guild, so a forfeit was a natural order of circumstances .
Sanghyuk requested 4 million gold from Crusader as compensation . Since they were not able to pay all of that in one go, he allowed for a redemption through installments, and Mutou of Crusader accepted that request .
4 million gold meant over 200 million won in real life (200K USD), but he had to accept the request if he was to maintain his cherished guild .
If Sanghyuk asked for something insanely nonsensical, then even Mutou would risk it all and hold it out, but 4 million gold was just the right spot, so he had to accept it after a bit of thought .
Sanghyuk kindly allowed them to pay back 400 thousand gold ten times over the span of 5 months . In other words, he made them work their bones out to pay him back .
In Sanghyuk’s view, he had already profited immensely just from the guild war itself . First up, he had actually levelled once more and became level 54 .
There was also the hoard of items .
Considering that the guild war only lasted around 3 days, he had profited immensely .
‘I’ll just sell the items at a suitable price… . . and thanks to these guys gathering quite a lot of enhancement stones, I can raise the upgrade value for Ogreslayer and Silvermoon fragments . ’
Sanghyuk was able to make a satisfied smile with the things he acquired through this guild war .
The moment he came to a decision, he put them into action .
He enhanced Ogreslayer and Silvermoon fragments using the enhancement stones he got from the guild warehouse .
Since most of the enhancement stones were mid-grade, he had to use quantity over quality .
The total number of enhancement stones he had gathered was around 2,000, and Sanghyuk thought that it would be fortunate if he was able to get at least +6 on both items .
Actually, it was quite foolish to aim for a high enhancement value using enhancement stones that were low in grade . However, it wouldn’t matter for Sanghyuk even if he spent all of the enhancement stones in his hand right now .
No luck required, quantity was the best!
This action could only be done by the richest of EL .

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+7 Ogreslayer
+5 Silvermoon fragments
+6 Shadow Cloak
+5 Helm of Judgement
+4 Emerald ring .

This was the result of using 740 low-grade, 1,014 mid-grade, and 4 high-grade enhancement stones .
Although this may look like a rather disappointing result compared to the investment, since enhancement was about luck, Sanghyuk didn’t care much about it . He thought that it would become better later if it didn’t work out right now .
For example, if he failed 1,000 times using mid-grade enhancement stones and succeeded with the single ‘highest-grade’ enhancement stone in his possession, that would still be an immense profit .
In other words, all that mattered was success at the right moment .
Since Ogreslayer and the Silvermoon fragments were items that needed to be switched out later, he tried enhancing them without regrets and this was the result .
‘This should do for enhancement right? Rather than that, I need to refine the Flashblack eye, but I can’t scout a jewelsmith…… . ’
Sanghyuk was looking for a jewelsmith through the Hiddenline . First, this wasn’t a thing that an NPC could craft, so he had to find a user with jewelcraft level of at least of the master rank, but he couldn’t find one even through the Hiddenline .
‘It’s about time users with master-rank production skills were appearing……’
Production-class ancient knowledge differed in growth rates according to the talent of the user . Simply crafting many items didn’t work, and what mattered was the number of high-quality products . Simply grinding only led users up to renowned-rank at best .
(T/N: Ranks of production type goes from apprentice – senior – renowned – master – heavenly – divine)
From renowned-rank, the growth speed of the crafters would change drastically according to talent .
‘It’s a pity that I don’t remember a capable jewelsmith . ’
Sanghyuk knew of a few capable blacksmiths, but unfortunately there was no memory of any skilled jewelsmiths .
‘It’s unfortunate, but I guess the only option is to wait until the Hiddenline manages to find one . ’
The flash set would become Sanghyuk’s strength if he was able to make it, but that didn’t mean that he could allow anyone to do it .
Even if he found a renowned-rank jewelsmith, there was also the process of helping that person learn the flash set, so it would take a lot of time for Sanghyuk to get his hands on the flash set .
In any case, he was done with all of the things that he had to do today with the end of the enhancement storm . What was left now was stuff done outside the game .
Sanghyuk was planning to edit the 1 vs guild video footage and broadcast them on today’s evening regular broadcast .
Since the footage was good, there weren’t that much to edit either .
He just had to cut a few parts out and link them all together in order to create a speedy video .

Sanghyuk finished the edits in merely an hour .
Thanks to that, there were 3 hours left until the broadcast, and as always, Sanghyuk headed to the Swordking’s Tomb in his spare time .
He was grinding spiritual pills .
To him, the Swordking’s Tomb was like a mine .
When he grinded, three hours went by in a flash . He had exited the game 10 minutes prior to the broadcast and got ready to do it in those 10 minutes .
Perhaps thanks to having become a top ranker, or that there was a rumor that today’s video would be Blake vs Crusader, the initial income of viewers was much higher than the regular broadcast a week ago .
Sanghyuk waited for around 10 minutes before playing the video .
The viewers only saw that Blake was heading to Crusader’s guild house alone, but already showed a great reaction .
The chat log scrolled down very fast .
90% of it was just cheering .
Then, Blake’s infinity mode video started .
Blake’s figure, as he wiped out the users of Crusader using a single attack on each of them, was literally like a one man army .

[Uoooooooh!]
[Slaughterer! Slaughterer! Slaughterer!]
[It’s instakill! Wow, I’m speechless . ]
[Are you sure this isn’t a bug?]
[Why would he reveal a bug so openly?]
[If it’s not a bug, how is that even possible?]
[Don’t expect common sense from One guild in the first place . ]
[Just enjoy it . I decided to enjoy everything related to One guild . ]
[Go go! Blake!]
[Crusader is trash . You’re finally being dumped . ]
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Blake had overwhelmed the rumors of ‘out of proportion’ on the internet .
Today, he showed his might, as well as One guild’s through the broadcast .