The Status Window Disappeared

Chasing and being chased (3)

William, who was watching the hostages, was delighted when Chris said he had found something.

However, when he realizes that it is not a clue to the black flag, he can’t hide his slightly sullen expression.

Chris saw his reaction and turned his guesses into certainties.

‘As expected, the Cadral Church doesn’t like this kind of thing.’

Clues are clues, though not the kind the Order wanted.

William couldn’t refuse Chris’ offer to find out more about the marble.

Chris first questioned William, not the prisoners.

“Can you use some detox spell or something?”

In any case, if the beads contained poison or something, there was a high chance that they would have to use the help of an antidote spell.

Chris can also use spells, but even so, it is difficult to keep up with divine spells in areas such as detoxification and healing.

William answered without difficulty.

“A simple poison can be easily treated. However, extreme poisons such as ‘wife’s nagging’ require the help of a priest specializing in detoxification.”

“What the hell is that poison… … .”

When Tyrone, who was by his side, started to argue, William dutifully began to explain.

“It is an extreme poison that not only harms the body, but also the mind. A phenomenon like tinnitus or hallucinations makes people go mad… … .”

“aha! I will be as careful as possible.”

While Tyrone nodded shyly.

Chris stepped in front of the tightly bound researchers.

Seeing the beads in his hand, their expressions darkened.

‘As expected, it’s an important item.’

As he walked up the cellar, he watched the marbles roll in his hands and squeeze them so tightly that they almost broke them.

However, the beads did not show any change to that extent.

It is certain that some power lies dormant inside, but I cannot bring it out.

All that’s left now is to actually break it or eat it.

However, you cannot blindly eat it just because it looks valuable.

Eating this in the first place might be the right way to use it.

William, noticing his troubles, came to his side.

“Are you going to interrogate me right now?”

“no. I have no intention of playing leisurely as an oak barrel pirate man.”

“Are you playing the oak barrel pirate man?”

As Chris said, recalling the interrogation method he had seen at the temple of the Cadral Church, William tilted his head.

Chris made up his mind whether he did or not.

If you stay still like this, reinforcements from the Cadral Church will arrive.

Chris, who had a hard time meeting proper priests, was thinking of avoiding the place before then.

However, it is rather embarrassing to interrogate them yourself.

It seemed that a member of the Black Flag gang would be able to give false information while being interrogated.

So Chris chose a relatively easy and simple method.

He violently shoved a marble into the mouth of one of the researchers.

“Ah!”

“Hey, what are you doing!”

The Black Flag researchers were frightened by Chris’ sudden behavior, but they showed no signs of worrying about their colleagues.

They are simply lamenting the waste of their research achievements in vain.

indeed. The researcher who swallowed the marble while being beaten by Chris did not show any abnormal symptoms.

“For now, it doesn’t seem to be very harmful to the body.”

Chris kicked the researcher in the stomach, causing him to vomit the orb.

As he brought a new bead to his mouth, Tyrone demanded to dissuade it.

“What if it’s a slow-acting poison?”

But Tyrone’s words were in vain.

“If it is a slow-acting poison, it can be cured with the help of the priests. Even if it’s not that, there’s a health bonus on the status window, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

Just like Louis experienced right after getting his status window back.

The status window had a kind of commentary function.

When a significant change occurs in the user’s body or status window, the status window informs about it.

Chris was thinking of borrowing the power of that function.

He currently has two orbs left in his hand.

If one is wasted in vain, there is no need to worry because there is the last one.

Chris stuck out his tongue, smeared saliva on his lips, and shoved a marble into his mouth.

Then pretend to swallow it and observe the reaction of the researchers.

The researchers put on expressions of pain in their stomachs, as if they were going to die because it was a waste of what went into Chris’ mouth.

‘As expected, this seems like the right way to use it.’

Then, as I swallowed the marble, I felt my stomach heat up slightly.

The power trapped in the beads is released one by one and quickly spreads throughout the body.

Chris watched the status window he had opened earlier with his eyes wide open, waiting for his interpretation.

As he expected, the status window informed him of his change without delay.

[Unlock Predation]

“Hmm?”

Chris’s expression becomes strange when he hears the ban in a direction that is very different from what he expected.

In fact, as Tyrone said earlier, Chris expected functions such as receiving bonus stats and adjusting his growth direction.

However, this seems a bit far from that kind of functionality.

Tyrone and William, who were watching him, secretly made gestures as if prompting an explanation.

But Chris couldn’t give them a clear answer.

Even if it’s predation, what on earth is it preying on?

At first glance, it is a function that does not make sense.

He moved to the mage player who had died earlier with a feeling of trepidation.

Although his status window returned to the original owner, he had accumulated considerable magical energy as he was selected as a fake player.

“I-how should I use this… what?”

Chris, who was contemplating, ‘should I even eat his corpse?

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Magical energy leaked out little by little from the body of the dead wizard, and it was suddenly sucked into him.

People around him were stunned by the sight, but Chris knew the phenomenon all too well.

‘The magic of sucking! Could it be that predation is a function similar to the magic of sucking?’

Of course, he didn’t use the secret magic of sucking magic he had learned from Elgar.

I wouldn’t know again if I was alone like usual.

How could he use such magic in front of the paladin William?

Because of this, Chris had sealed the magic spell tightly from a few days ago.

So, this phenomenon is not because of the magic of sucking, but because of the newly acquired function called predation.

Before Chris, William, and Tyrone’s astonishment ends, all of the wizard’s magic is absorbed.

Soon the second predation began.

This time, the red energy escapes from the wizard’s corpse and burrows into Chris’ arms.

Chris immediately realized the identity of his newly acquired energy.

‘vitality! The predation function absorbs mana as well as life force!’

A body that has been dead for a long time.

It was also a predation made with the corpse of a wizard as a sacrifice, so there wasn’t much life force absorbed.

However, the increase in life force, which had no way to increase it unlike magic, excited Chris very much.

You don’t have to be stabbed to use life force.

As Chris benefited from in the previous battle, the rapid regeneration of wounds is a formidable advantage for a warrior like him.

While the others were too shocked to say anything, the life force leaking from the wizard’s body finally stopped.

Chris, who had successfully finished his first predation, quickly checked his life force and magic power.

As he felt, the increase in vitality was not so great because the opponent was the opponent.

However, the total amount of mana increased noticeably.

If he had used the magic of sucking rather than the sedation function of the status window, he would not have achieved this level of achievement.

Chris, who had been using the magic of absorption so far, naturally compared the two powers.

Despite repeated improvement after improvement, there was a feeling that the secret art of absorption was slightly inferior to the predation function.

Aside from not being able to absorb the opponent’s life force, the absorption of mana is also less efficient.

If Elgar, who created the secret magic of absorption, found out about this, he would be very angry.

As Chris feels a little sorry for Elgar, Tyrone trembles and approaches.

He and William also seem visibly agitated, as if they had noticed the identity of the predation function.

“Did that just absorb life force and mana?”

“It seems so. In fact, I’ve witnessed a similar kind of authority before.”

Chris said, thinking of the magic theory professor who was a spy of the Black Flag.

No, to be precise, the professor of magic theory recalled the monster that had mutated.

Now that I think about it, the appearance he showed may have been the result of research to unlock this predation function.

Although it failed miserably… The monster in the example really showed great vitality and magical power.

While William was making a rather complicated expression, Chris threw a new topic at them.

“Isn’t the player’s status window a program for cultivating the followers of the ancient gods? But why does it have such an obnoxious feature?”

Of course, Chris wasn’t dissatisfied with the predation feature itself.

However, he should also consider the possibility that Hebra may have deceived him.

William, who belongs to the Cadral Church, shakes his head as if he can’t guess.

“That I don’t know either. Maybe it’s a new feature invented by Black Flag researchers… … .”

“I don’t think these guys have the skills to do that.”

When Chris spoke openly with the black flag researchers in front of him, the faces of the prisoners who were tied up were crumpled.

But they couldn’t deny Chris’ words.

Chris, who put off the question that could not be solved right away, carefully put the remaining marble into his chest.

Seeing this, William hurriedly asked Chris to transfer the marbles.

From the church’s point of view, as an important investigative resource, William couldn’t have overlooked it either.

However, Chris tactfully left a comment to get out of the situation.

“I will hand it over to the church for spitting it out of the guy who fed the beads earlier. OK?”

Hearing Chris’ words, William nodded as if he couldn’t help it, with a dumbfounded expression on his face.

Not only was the achievement itself up to Chris, but if he wasn’t going to kill him and take it away, he had to be content with receiving at least one of them.

Tyrone licked his lips at their negotiations, but that was it.

The role of the marble is to unlock the locked function of the status window.

So, even if people who do not have a status window take it, it is difficult to see the proper effect.

Chris, meanwhile, realized the new good news and secretly laughed inwardly.

For him, who travels across various battlefields, the predation function is a very valuable gift.

But that’s not what’s important right now.

‘Now I can properly cooperate with the people of the Cadral Church.’

Chris originally planned to distance himself from the priests of the Cadral Church as much as possible.

It’s because it’s hard to see good things if his secret magic of sucking is discovered.

But now we have a good excuse: predation function.

If someone notices the secret magic of sucking magic, they can just pretend it’s because of its predation function.

In fact, the two powers were very similar in their roles and how they worked.

Of course, if the priests investigate properly, they might get caught, but… … .

Since Chris is a collaborator of the Cadral Church, he wouldn’t go that far.

While Chris smiled happily, Tyrone looked at him with envy.

William, who glared at the agitated prisoners and silenced them, took a posture as if praying for a moment.

Soon after, he stood up while shaking his legs and approached the two of them.

“Soon the collaborators and brothers and sisters of the Church will arrive. Is there a group or person that you are afraid to come across?”

“yes? Priests and paladins don’t have much to worry about… Are there outsiders like us?”

When Chris, taken aback by the unexpected words, asked, William replied proudly.

“About 30 people. There are many players who are hostile to the Black Flag, like Chris and Tyrone, and adventurers who sympathize with our church.”

“30 people?”

Chris and Tyrone’s mouths opened slightly on a scale beyond imagination.

This time, only 30 collaborators were mobilized by the church.

If you add up all the priests and paladins accompanying them, no matter how little you catch, 50 will easily pass.

Well, if you think about it, it makes sense.

In the eyes of the church, Chris and Tyrone probably weren’t chosen because they were famous.

I chose Chris because I wanted to, but the fact that he was stronger than I thought worked as a good thing… … .

Tyrone had very useful information, but the Church didn’t recruit him for that.

He is like a bonus that came along with Chris.

But even they were offered an alliance with the Church.

In other words, you can think that all the guys who do their own thing received the same offer.

It seems that the people were carefully selected because the case was a case, but the number is by no means small.

Upon learning the details, Chris chewed his tongue involuntarily.

He has driven his sword through the backs of countless players.

Even if that’s not the case, being a mercenary is a job that has no choice but to build up a grudge.

“hmm… So I guess I’d better step back for now? He’ll be in the next mountain over there, so tell me when it’s all sorted out.”

“Are you stabbed a lot?”

Being a member of the Imperial Inspection Department, Tyrone, who had little interaction with people outside the island, said with a smile.

Chris stared at him fiercely and climbed onto the ghost horse to avoid people’s eyes.