Possessing Nothing Novel (쥐뿔도 없는 회귀)

Chapter 55 - Variable

As though Ludd's warnings and advice had never happened, Xeon did not directly pressure Sungmin at all. However, Sungmin wasn't still completely calm yet. There was nothing to lose by being wary.

It had been 3 months since Sungmin had become an S-rank in the Behengerr mercenary guild. During this time, Sungmin carried out three missions through Erebrisa. As there was a limit to the missions he could take, he couldn't do more of them.

When his financial status became satisfactory, Sungmin paid an additional fee to Selgerus. Although Sungmin had paid 27 million erre as the reward, he paid more to fill 60 million.

And with the remaining money, he bought spiritual medicine from Erebrisa.

The pill that Sungmin bought was named the Everlasting pill (無窮丹). It was hard to compare to the Lesser and Greater Restoration pills that Xeon had in his possession, but It could be compared to the Holy Spiritual pill he got from winning the Xenavis Colosseum fight. These pills were also dozens of millions of erre in value, so he ended up using all the money he got through those missions.

He had no regrets. Rather than learning additional martial arts, his priority right now was to complete what he had learned. Qi was necessary in that process.

Sungmin felt a bottleneck.

He had plenty of qi in his dantian. Although his qi increased through the Everlasting pill, it was still impossible for him to have a breakthrough sheerly through the quantity of qi. He would require several times the qi he had in order to forcefully break through, and there was no guarantee that he would be able to break through even after eating the Greater Restoration pill.

Bottleneck.

Whether it was circulating the Purple Cloud Divine Art, or carrying out the moves of the Nine Skies Infinity Spear, or when he was moving according to the steps of the Shadowless Phantom, he felt the presence of an obstacle. It was too high to jump over, and too sturdy to break through. Although a clear form of growth was given to him when he was training in mount Msh, He was not able to earn those growth supports now that he had left. The growth support he had right now was only his no-class and the low-rank martial skeleton. Even adding effort on top of that, his martial arts showed barely any signs of increase.

His Shadowless Phantom was still at 5th success, while the Purple Cloud Divine Art and the Nine Skies Infinity Spear were at 6th success. Even though it had been three months since he left the mountain, there was not much progress. Although he became proficient in his own skills, he had not gained anything beyond that.

He needed the magic armor.

Gaining the magic armor may allow him to break through. A mercenary at the level of 3rd rate had reached the realm of peaks purely through the magic armor. As such, Sungmin longed for the magic armor. If he, who was already a peak-level expert, gets his hand on the magic armor, he may reach the realm of exceeds.

Well, that was what he hoped for.

"It took a longer time than I expected."

Selgerus had become quite tattered after these two months. She was still wearing the dirty apron and large gloves like last time. Sungmin nodded his head towards Selgerus.

"It's fine. I wasn't really urgent in getting a weapon."
"It's because you gave me additional money mid way. That made me take longer time than expected."

Selgerus leaned down while saying that. She picked up the spear that she had put on the ground.

"I haven't named it."