Chapter 6. Legendary Title, Stage 1
[You… said I told you to go to the Tower?]
[Yes! That voice!]
Cha Junhyuk snapped his fingers.
[Me? I did?]
But the female ghost, who had no idea what he was talking about, could only widen her eyes.
Didn’t Cha Junhyuk say that he had never seen the female ghost before in the first place?
[Why would I do that?]
[I don’t know! I don’t know either!]
“…”
Is this what you call saying something without taking responsibility for it?
I thought it would be better to just ignore him.
More importantly, there was something I wanted to ask.
“Do you remember your name?”
[Yeah. Do you remember your name?
[Yes! I have a name!]
“What is it?”
[Chae Seonhwa. Seonhwa. That’s my name.]
[It sounds kind of old-fashioned.]
But it suited her.
The female ghost had a delicate, graceful appearance overall.
And the name wasn’t particularly unfamiliar to me.
It was the kind of name that made me feel warm when I thought about it, a name that reminded me of someone I missed.
After driving for an hour from the airport, we arrived at our accommodation.
A completely different world unfolded before us.
Exotic trees, a sky beginning to glow with the colors of sunset, the blue and transparent sea rolling toward us, and black basalt stone walls lining the roads.
[Jeju Island is really beautiful!]
Chae Seonhwa twirled around happily as she lightly floated along the stone-wall path of Jeju Island.
But she was wearing a traditional white burial dress.
[Homeowner, when are we going to the Tower?]
“Tomorrow.”
[Why?!]
Why? Because it’s already past working hours today.
Before entering the Jeju Island Tower, I decided to check my current status first.
“Status Window.”
<Name: Lee Jihoo Lv. 2
Class: Spirit Summoner
Rank: Not Yet Measured
Country: Korea
Title: Sealed
Stats: View Details
Skills: Summon Spirit 1 (S), Exorcism 1 (A), Materialization 1 (A), Eye of Truth 1 (A).
S-Rank Seal.
Collect information after defeating the Floor 40 Boss.
Benefits after unsealing:
Priority is given in all judgments related to spirits. >
It was the same as before.
Oh, right.
“Cha Junhyuk.”
[Why, homeowner?]
“What is a title seal?”
But when Cha Junhyuk heard my question, he looked rather dumbfounded.
[…]
“What?”
“Title seal. When does something like this happen?”
Like a pendulum swinging between extremes, Cha Junhyuk suddenly became extremely excited.
[Are you serious? Homeowner! Are you serious?!]
“It says it’s an S-Rank seal and that I need to collect information after defeating the Floor 40 boss.”
[Collect information after defeating the boss?! You’re serious! Again!!! What else does it say?
“It says there’s a benefit after it’s unsealed.”
[What kind?]
“It gives me priority in all judgments related to spirits.”
[Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!]
Cha Junhyuk immediately started pulling at his own hair.
[You’re going to go bald.]
Chae Seonhwa seriously worried about Cha Junhyuk’s hair.
Do ghosts even get hair loss?
[Homeowner! You’re really something!! You’re state power itself!!!
This time, Cha Junhyuk frantically flew around the ceiling of the room.
He laughed like a mad scientist.
Then, all of a sudden, he stopped moving completely.
[Homeowner, what did you do before this?]
He should already know that.
“I was a civil servant.”
[Anything else? Didn’t you have some long-term career or some incredible talent that suddenly exploded? Something like that? You know, something from when you were young?]
An exploding talent?
I was extremely ordinary, almost completely unremarkable.
But when he mentioned my childhood, one particular memory suddenly came to mind.
Was I seven years old?
It was a summer day with a pleasant breeze.
I remembered eating watermelon and lying down with my head resting on my grandmother’s lap.
Then I closed my eyes for a moment…
‘You are a child loved by the gods.’
I had heard those words faintly while half-asleep.
“I could see ghosts until I was seven.”
After my mother and I moved away, however, nothing like that happened again.
[Really? Does something like that count?
Cha Junhyuk once again grabbed his head and groaned.
[Anyway, homeowner, listen carefully! That’s a seed!]
“A seed?”
Yes, the seed of a legendary title! That’s why it’s an S-Rank seal!]
Cha Junhyuk’s expression was extremely serious.
Once you unlock it, your hard times are over and your happy days begin! It’s like winning the lottery! Do you know that the current world rankings 1st, 2nd, and 3rd all have legendary titles?!
[Really? Then our homeowner…!]
The eyes of both ghosts began to sparkle.
[Let’s stay together forever, homeowner!]
[Homeowner!!! Me too!]
“…”
[Oh, but homeowner!]
“What?”
[Do you have any other information? Like information about fertilizer for the seed?]
“That’s all the explanation there is.”
[Really? Then will this work? I’ve never dealt with a Legendary Title before, so I’m not sure.
[What do you mean?]
[You know my title, ‘Strongest in Korea’?]
[Yes?]
[That’s a unique grade.]
[And?]
[I grew it through three stages from the seed stage. I received rewards three times too. It was pretty good.]
“How?”
[The first time was… Right! Homeowner, do you have any essence?
“If you mean Essence of Earth, I have eight.”
[That’s enough! Put them into the title seal information in the Status Window!
S-Rank Seal.
Collect information after defeating the Floor 40 boss.
I took out the Essence of Earth from my inventory and brought it close to the Status Window.
Pop!
The essence was instantly sucked into the Status Window.
[Oh, it works! It’s disappearing!
[That’s amazing!]
At the same time, a new status window appeared.
<The title owner’s class has been identified. >
“Seed Quest?”
[Quest?? Do Legendary-grade titles give quests too? What! What is it?]
“It says to find the traces of a collapsed tower according to the guide.”
More information appeared.
<A Spirit Summoner is a class that uses mana and spiritual energy together. Therefore, you need to practice seeing the world from a different perspective than ordinary Awakened individuals.>
<Stage 1 Seed Quest for the Title has been created. >
<Because the current title owner is below Level 10, the guide will be presented in two stages. >
<Guide 1. Find the traces of a collapsed tower. >
-Distribution Areas
Europe: San Marino.
United States: Grand Canyon.
Korea: Uninhabited Island, Ganghwa Island, West Coast.
-Reward for completing Guide 1: Oath of Death. Blocks one attack that would result in death, and the seed stage decreases by one level.
-Hint: Use Eye of Truth.
The information had also changed.
S-Rank Seal.
Collect information after defeating the Floor 40 Boss.
Stage 1 Seed Generation: 10%
Stage 1 Quest in Progress: Guide 1>
I put in all the remaining essences I had, and the percentage rose to 80%.
[What about the reward?!]
“Oath of Death. It blocks one attack that would result in death inside the Tower…”
Cha Junhyuk’s
