The Status Window Disappeared

Demon King’s Mercy (2)

There is an old saying, “Seonbbang must win.”

But to Chris, that was bullsh*t. It’s important to get the head start by hitting first when fighting idiots, but… … .

Even if the level of fighting is slightly raised, taking a preemptive strike will do more harm than good.

First of all, showing your hand to your opponent is the first loss.

The second loss is that you can get counterattacks due to gaps or loopholes in your technique.

However, Gearrick, the death knight, struck Chris first.

It is not a check hit to check the opponent’s hand, but a stab with proper weight.

This is a number that cannot come out unless you look at Chris as water.

It wasn’t even a push with overwhelming physicality, and it seemed that the strength and speed were adjusted to some extent to suit the opponent.

I know that my opponent is much more advanced than I am, but at this point, I have no choice but to rise.

After Chris solidified his defense, he decided to aim for an opening.

It’s a textbook response that seems too obvious, but it’s just as effective and safe.

‘Strengthening the shield, striking the shield.’

The skills of the Shield Knight that Chris had already created as his own were reproduced on his left arm.

Enormous magical power dwells in the shield, and the left hand moves quickly to parry the opponent’s thrust.

Pushing and pulling the shield to drain the opponent’s blows is the basis of shield operation.

However, as soon as Chris’ left arm moved, Gearrick’s thrust changed like a snake.

The tip of the sword that followed him tenaciously and accurately pierced the center of the shield.

Chris backed away hastily, feeling the pain as if his left arm was going to tear off.

‘What, did you read it completely?’

Even if he aimed at the shield rather than the body from the beginning, Gearic’s thrust was too accurate.

If he hadn’t controlled his strength, his shield would have split and his left arm blown off in one blow.

An attack that is difficult to explain with simple skill.

He was reading Chris’ response perfectly.

“The Mirror Ring!”

Chris, frightened by the opponent’s attack, hurriedly used an epic item to call out the clones… … .

Gearrick believed in his own defense and covered the clones’ attacks with his body.

No matter how weak the alter egos are, they have quite a bit of mercenary-level attack power, but Gearic’s armor is so thick and strong that it seems like he’s stabbing it with a toothpick rather than a long sword.

The living armor I met in the sword grave showed a similar appearance, but at least he shook his body every time he was hit by a sword.

Chris, who quickly applied the dash to increase the distance, swallowed a groan when he saw Gearick following him with the same technique as himself.

“Huh?”

“Sigh.”

Chris’s body was slammed downward by Gearrick’s light downward slash.

As he hurriedly rolls back and straightens his posture, an eerie voice calls out to him.

“How do you know the skill of a shield knight? It seems that they didn’t simply use it through the powers of the players, but they learned it themselves, albeit immaturely… … .”

“yes?”

Chris is taken aback by an unexpected question.

Somehow, even though there is a difference in skill, I thought it was too easy to read, and it seems that Gearic also knew the skill of the shield knight.

Gearrick shows his agitation at Chris for the first time and asks in a firm tone.

“I asked where did you learn that?”

“Yes, yes, I learned it through the status window. I am originally a shield knight class.”

At Chris’s answer, the flames that could be seen between the helmets shook slightly.

Gearrick was able to understand Chris’ words because his owner, Elgar, took an interest in the status window and investigated it.

Gearrick soon regained his composure and evaluated his skills.

“It’s okay to learn without a teacher, but it’s too hard. The shield strike is stronger than before, but flexible, and the shield reinforcement is not released even if you die.”

“thank you.”

Chris followed Gearrick’s demonstration, but he couldn’t ignore the question stabbing in his head.

Now that it looks like Gearic knows a lot about Shield Knight’s skills, where did he learn them?

Ordinary people understand the status window as a simple power, not knowing that it is for training.

Having reached that point, Chris began to reason in his own way.

According to the testimony of the Cadral Church, the status window is a program for cultivating followers created in the distant past. The skill system in the status window was originally created to help learn skills.

Chris figured it out belatedly and hurriedly learned the skills of the status window.

By the way, where did the skills registered in the status window come from?

The skills in the status window are organically linked within the same class and complement each other.

This kind of manufacturing can only come out with a long history and tradition.

It is not the result of simply putting in a program for cultivating believers.

‘Could it be that classes such as the shield knight and the berserker were not created by the creator of the status window for convenience, but were occupations that existed in history?’

It seemed more correct to say that the classes registered in the status window were registered for the original, rather than created for the status window.

When Chris couldn’t concentrate on training due to various thoughts, Gearick lowered his cold longsword.

“If you have any questions, you can ask.”

“I… Gearrick-sama, how do you know the skill of the Shield Knight?”

Chris, who hesitated for a moment, asked directly.

“Because I am one of them. Shield Knights have been the guardians of Tommel Kingdom since ancient times.”

“Tommel Kingdom?”

Chris didn’t fully understand what he was saying, but he cheered inwardly.

As expected, the classes in the status window were occupations that existed in history.

As if Gearick had guessed Chris’s question, he naturally continued his explanation.

“Now it is a ruined kingdom. The knights of Tommel Kingdom prioritized shields over any other weapon and developed shield-related skills.”

Thanks to the efforts of the Shield Knights, Tommel’s capital has never been captured in over 500 years. If the king had not pursued an unreasonable war of conquest, he might have endured even longer.

As Chris listened to those explanations, he became more and more convinced of his guess.

“So Gearick-sama was there when the status window was created?”

“Yes. A long time ago, Arios, the intermediate god who created the Status Window, asked to share the skills of the Shield Knights. Our technology was managed very strictly, but during the Witchbeast War, we owed a lot to Arios, so we couldn’t refuse the request.”

“Arios? aha… … .”

Only then did Chris know the origin of the name Arios Online.

The intermediate god Arios created the status window in ancient times.

And the existence that took it away and bestowed it on the players would be Argal.

I don’t know much about the monster war or what, but I didn’t intend to ask about it.

It would be a huge loss if I went against Gearick’s planting by asking useless questions.

Chris decided to ask something more urgent than that.

“Then you must be familiar with the hidden features of the status window.”

“It is not. I died before the status window was completed, and was resurrected only a few decades ago by Elgar-sama’s command. So I don’t know much about the powers of the players.”

“aha… sorry.”

Well, if Gearic was familiar with the status window, Elgar would have known about the Power of Predation as well.

Gearic, an ancient person, was like an answer to the secret of the status window, but unfortunately it was only half of it.

However, what we have found out this time is by no means small.

Chris calmly cleared his mind and organized new information.

First of all, the creator of the status window is Arios.

And Arios Online is named after him.

I can’t be sure yet, but it’s highly likely that Arios Online was created for the selection of players.

For some reason, Arios created a status window, a program for cultivating followers, and received help from shield knights and others to complete the skill system.

Probably, most of the skills registered in the status window were obtained that way.

Gearrick, who took on the role of instructor this time, was the one who learned and supplemented the skills Chris had learned.

So there is no other opponent like him to learn something.

The skill system in the status window is simply good for learning skills, but it didn’t teach me how to apply and change them.

‘Elgar-sama gave me a very proper teacher.’

Acquiring Gearic’s teachings is an opportunity to compensate for one’s weaknesses.

Thinking so, Chris fixed the longsword and shield that had become disheveled in his thoughts.

After recovering his concentration with difficulty, Gearic’s orders fall.

“Of all the classes, learning the skills of a shield knight is a must. If this is a relationship, then it must be a relationship. From now on, unfold what you have learned on your own.”

“All right.”

Chris didn’t mention the class change and tried all the shield knight’s skills from start to finish.

Gearrick seemed to take great pride in the skills of the Shield Knight. So, you don’t have to hurt his feelings by talking nonsense.

At Chris’ demonstration of erasing all distractions and doing his best, Gearrick nodded in satisfaction. However, when the demonstration is over, he shows a curious expression.

Chris takes a deep breath and straightens his back at the question.

“Wait, where is the last skill? The shield knight’s last skill, the armor of absorption. We must have handed it over to you, right?”

“I haven’t mastered the armor of absorption yet because the difficulty is too high.”

Recalling the last skill of the Shield Knight skill tree, Chris tried to escape the crisis with an answer that was neither a complete lie nor the truth.

However, Gearic noticed his intentions with a ghostly gaze.

“Your technique, although a bit stiff, seemed familiar to me. Couldn’t it just be that you didn’t have enough time? tell the truth.”

The fire burning inside Gearrick’s helm did not allow lies.

Eventually, Chris gritted his teeth and confessed his true feelings.

“that is… Absorption armor seems like a bit of an inefficient technique.”

‘Armor of Absorption’, which corresponds to the shield knight’s ultimate skill, is a kind of buff.

It is also a peculiar kind that gives the user the power of ‘damage reduction’.

As anyone who has played the game knows, damage reduction is usually the most valuable of a tank’s stats.

And that fact does not change in Arios Online as well.

However, there were two very big problems with the armor of absorption.

The first is that the amount of damage reduction is so small that it is only 5%.

The second is that it occupies the place of the ultimate skill.

If the normal skill is a buff that grants 5% damage reduction, I’d use it while perceiving it… … .

Since this is the ultimate skill of the class and given to me, I can’t help but swear.

Even as an ultimate skill, it consumes a lot of mana, so it is much more beneficial to use that mana elsewhere.

“The armor of absorption is ineffective?”

“It’s definitely a good skill, but not enough to be used as an ultimate skill.”

When Gearych hears the intimidated excuse and opens his eyes, Chris replies as if he is unfair, recalling his memories of Arios Online.

If you ask if other classes’ ultimates are as bad as Shield Knight’s, that’s not the case either.

The ultimate skill of the priest class, High Priest, is ‘Complete Recovery’.

It is a super save skill that restores all of the life and magic of one of the party members and resets the cooldown of the skill.

If this is one shot, even the dying guy coughing up blood will run around briskly.

The ultimate skill of the magician class, Pyromancer, is ‘Festival of Fire’.

It takes a while to cast, but it can turn a small village into ashes in an instant.

However, Absorption Armor, which has to compete with these ultimates, only grants 5% damage reduction.

Considering the status of other ultimate skills, it should be around 50% instead of 5% to be able to use it satisfactorily.

Hearing Chris’ complaint, Gearrick was speechless for a moment and swallowed his saliva.

There were many good magicians and clerics ultimates, but the warriors ultimates had poor performance.

When Chris recalled it, Gearrick, who seemed to have made up his mind on something, let out a heavy voice.

“That’s not an ultimate skill.”

“… yes?”

When Chris reacted dumbfounded to the nonsense, Gearrick looked him straight in the eye and spoke in detail.

“The armor of absorption is not the ultimate skill of the shield knight. That’s just the preparation stage for using the real ultimate. Properly cast, the shield knight’s ultimate can split mountains and pierce the sky.”

The disbelief made Chris’ expression even more palatable.

But his opponent was not joking.

Gearrick pulled out his shield, used the Absorption Armor, and spoke to Chris, who was standing there hesitantly.

“Wherever you want to try it. I’ll show you my real ultimate.”