I Became the Childhood Friend of the Middle Boss

“I became a childhood friend of the middle boss”

Chapter 10.2

But even now, the blue current was still surging in front of him.

Ten lions

Although it was incomplete compared to before, Do Gyeon Woo was still swinging his sword with the blue current wrapped around his body.

In the end, I had to admit it.

“What the hell have you realized”

Do was speechless as he marveled at his son’s growth.

“Mr. Branch Chief, do you think you need us?”

“Of course.”

In the end, Do Sang Joon forgot about reality and watched Do Gyeonwoo fight.

The goblin mage’s head was blown off, and the charter tilted completely toward him.

Then….

The breath of all the goblins was cut off.

[They attacked the gate].

* * *

I swung my sword frantically.

I blocked incoming attacks, dodged them, and reacted to them on the fly.

I barely had time to remember how I fought.

[I attacked the gate].

I was fighting to the death, and by the time I woke up, I remembered the message.

That’s when my evasion instinct stopped working.

“Hmph, hmph….”

In that instant, I was unleashed, unable to overcome the recoil, and lay face down on the floor.

I could barely move.

I gasped for air as I stared up at the blue ceiling.

Then, another message appeared.

[Flesh has broken through the limit].

[Your health has increased by 1].

[Strength increased by 1].

[Strength increased by 1] [Dexterity increased by 1].

‘If you’re going to climb, you’re going to climb in battle, why are you only now.’

I sighed.

The game 『Brave Hearts』.

In this game, levels didn’t exist, so there were no points to invest in physical abilities like in other games, which you get when you level up.

Instead, you could increase your physical abilities through experiences like training, battles, and academy classes.

So it wasn’t easy to improve your physical abilities.

But that was part of the fun.

On the other hand, since “Brave Hearts” is designed to be played over a series of episodes, we were able to transfer our existing data to the next episode.

As a result, the stats of the protagonist and his companions kept increasing as the game progressed.

“The difficulty of the story also dropped dramatically.”

So in this non-game world, where you can’t replay, you have to focus on building up your power even more.

I need to be as strong as possible.

I pushed the message away.

Just then, particles of light gathered in the air above me.

Hwaah!

The gate key fell onto my stomach.

I checked with my eyes and sank back down to the floor.

I didn’t want to get up.

It was then that my father approached me.

“Hey, son, are you alive?”

“I don’t think so, I don’t have much strength in my body right now.”

“No wonder, after the way you moved.”

My father smiled bitterly.

I chuckled unintentionally.

Then I blinked in confusion at the sound of my father’s words.

“By the way, I was really surprised when you set off the lightning. I think you’re probably the youngest person to ever set off a lightning strike.”

“What? What?”

“You set off a lightning strike.”

“…I did?”

“Yeah, man. You didn’t realize it, with all that flashing and moving around.”

“….”

I set off a firewall.

I immediately recalled the battle we had just fought.

“I guess so…

It was only a brief glimpse, but I seem to recall a blast of blue light around me.

I thought it was just mana flying around as I focused on the goblins, but I hadn’t realized it was a lightning bolt.

“I don’t know if I can do it again, I don’t remember much.”

“Don’t worry. You’ve already done it once, so your body will remember, and if you train hard enough, you’ll be able to do it again. Good job, really.”

He patted my head.

I nodded softly, wincing at the lack of clarity in my memory.

“I guess I’ll just have to do what you say.

Was it my avoidance instinct kicking in?

I don’t know.

As soon as I regained my strength, I grabbed the sword and practiced.

Then I suddenly remembered.

“But, Dad, what about Hongcheol?”

“Hongcheol? He’s working over there.”

“Working?”

“We came in through the artificial gate, and we need to get what we can out.”

“Oh.”

My father gestured with his chin.

I turned my head in that direction and soon found Bae Hong-chul crouching with his back turned to me.

He was searching through the goblin corpses, intently looking for something.

Finally, he pulled a blue jewel from the goblin’s heart.

“Let’s rest a bit and go help him. He’s going to be grumpy if he’s left to carry the load alone.”

“Yeah, right.”

Unlike in the game, in this world, defeating monsters doesn’t automatically drop gems or other items.

They had to be picked up by hand.

So even though we had captured the gate, we weren’t done yet.

My father and I decided to take a break and get up.

“Can’t we get that crystal?”

“If you touch it and get a message, you can take it outside, but it’s unlikely you’ll get a message because I haven’t heard of anyone getting that crystal from this gate.”

“Then we’ll just have to search the corpses.”

“Some of the goblins wear pouches, and they’re a real handful. Let me know if you find one.”

Unfortunately, I didn’t see any goblins with pouches.

I took the gem from the goblin, and it turned to ash and disappeared.

The goblin’s blood on my hand also turned to ash and fell to the floor.

The gem was the very essence of the goblin’s existence.

Meanwhile.

“What?

I caught a glimmer of light near the ashes.

Something more than a gemstone.

I dug through the ashes until I found what I could grasp.

As I brushed the ash from the surface, the stone glowed.

“Dad, here’s a law stone!”

Unlike the blue gemstone, this one had a yellow glow to it and was slightly smaller than the one he’d found earlier.

It was a Law Stone.

In the game, it would drop at a certain rate when you killed a monster.

“In the game, gems could be exchanged for money or used as materials to craft artifacts and other things.”

The stones contained providence, so characters who were in tune with them could absorb them and turn them into stats.

Or use it as an ingredient, like a magic stone.

It was the same in this world.

I lifted the stone in my hand and showed it to my father and Bae Hongchul.

“Good find. Compared to magic stones, law stones are rare.”

“What do you get from a goblin archer? Hmm”

My father and Bae Hongcheol walked over to me and examined the stone carefully.

Then they kindly told me what kind of stones usually come from goblin archers.

“Well, it’s hard to tell without an emotion.”

“That’s something we’ll have to find out later.”

But there’s no way to know what kind of providence the stone holds until it’s read.

He could only speculate.

“In the game, players could freely check item information.”

Of course, I was able to determine the identity of the stone even if I didn’t receive an emotion.

I strained my eyes and looked at the stone, and a message appeared in my vision.

[Lowest-ranked Agility Spirit Stone].

Consumable Classification

-Law Stone

Description.

-Imbued with a power that contributes to the recipient’s agility.

Detailed Effect

-For targets with Dexterity less than 60, increase Dexterity by 1 when absorbed.

It was a stone that increased physical abilities.

A skill would have been fine, but this wasn’t bad.

I held the stone in my hand and thought to myself.

“How can I eat it?

Technically, I had gotten it as loot from killing a goblin.

The gemstone was to be given to Clan Regulus, but I wanted to keep it.

So I convinced my father to find a way to get it for me.

However, it became unnecessary.

That’s when Bae Hongchul said.

“If the stone is favorable, why don’t you just give it to Do Hyeon woo? After all, Yue Wu caught it all by himself, so you should at least give him something as a souvenir.”

“Hong Chul, you’re a good socializer, thank you.”

“So, are you going to promote me?”

“I’ll have to get something expensive.”

Bae Hong-cheol, who my father brought in, was a very shrewd man.

Thanks to him, I was able to get a seat without having to go out of my way.

“Thank you!”

“Ugh, you’re not too grateful yet. Let’s see if the stone responds. Try energizing it with mana.”

I quickly energized the stone to see if it would respond to me.

I already knew the outcome.

“Sure, it’ll respond to me.

Unlike the skill-embedded gemstones, the ones that boost physical abilities can respond to anyone.

So, having already confirmed the identity of the stone, I pretended not to know and waited for the results.

Then.

“Oh, it works. The stone is now yours. Absorb it well.”

The stone glowed in response.

My father patted me on the shoulder, and I squeezed the stone.