Used to Strengthen Lifetime Luck - Chapter 57 (57/196)

Episode 13. Fire at the King (4)

The fired by Ted was boosted by the power of +19 and began flying toward Denno’s head at supersonic speed.

Ted’s level was 400. Because the connection rate of his was 40.0% and his had reached 100%, his attack power was multiplied by 2.5. When various additional effects were stacked on top, his attack power became 52,730.

In that state, raised Ted’s attack power by roughly 30%. Thanks to that, Ted’s attack power became 68,549.

It didn’t end there. The moment before he fired, Ted had chugged a potion mixed according to his own personal recipe. As a result, his attack power rose by another 12%.

Ultimately, the attack power of the bullet Ted fired was 76,774!

Furthermore, his Magic Penetration and Defense Penetration combined totaled 45%.

Shuuuuuut—! Crack! Crack!

The powerful flying bullet shattered over a dozen protective magics guarding the king in sequence. On top of that, it tore through the mana nets transparently guarding the throne—the —and advanced.

Even so, sufficient power remained, and the bullet accurately pierced through ’s head.

Throughout the battle, the proficiency of Ted’s had already risen by more than 40%.

Thus, the bullet—whose power had been halved upon contact with the protective magic—brought forth massive damage once more when it struck Denno’s head.

For someone bearing the title of Master of the , —who had been unable to hunt much due to lack of time—had a level in the late 500s.

His head exploded from a single attack, and he died, splattering blood on the throne’s backrest.

Soon, his body began to transform into mana and disappear.

It was at that exact moment.

‘Now! Go, Tisai!’

From right after Ted fired the bullet with a lion’s roar, there was someone who dashed out with quick feet. Namely, .

‘That Ted bastard… He’s pretty good at designing doping recipes, huh?’

Tisai inwardly acknowledged Ted as he felt his body become astoundingly lighter.

There are thousands of types of potions that raise character performance.

Users consume several such doping potions simultaneously during important moments, but many of them become poison if their effects overlap. Therefore, each user had their own doping recipe.

Two days ago, Ted had purchased several types of potions.

What Tisai had consumed now was a speed-increasing doping recipe that Ted had personally designed himself.

It demonstrated the finest efficiency among all the doping potion combinations Tisai had consumed in his life.

‘I’m stealing it!’

Employing several of his movement skills in rotation, Tisai reached the former king, , who had been about to hand down the crown.

At that moment, Tisai’s concealed body was revealed. He had been caught in the laid beneath the throne, canceling his skill.

However, his revealed hand was already grasping the crown.

“Ugh! Who are you!”

The moment cried out in panic, Tisai began to flee in a flash of lightning, lifting the crown high.

“The crown! He took the crown!”

Pixie III belatedly reached out his hand, but Tisai had already fled far away!

It was truly a situation that had unfolded in the blink of an eye.

“What the hell is that!”

“Rankers! Hurry up and move!”

The venue was belatedly dyed in chaos. The attending NPCs and users began scrambling about.

In the meantime, Ted quickly moved toward where Tisai was using and .

However, Pixie’s faction had not been idle during that time.

Numerous , NPCs waiting here and there, leaped to capture Ted.

“Damn, who the hell are they! Shouldn’t we step in too?”

“Captain Musashi. Shouldn’t we step in as well?”

Several rankers of the <5 Bon> spoke to Musashi.

“No. We don’t need to step in.”

However, Musashi shook his head.

“There are fifty guards here. Twelve of them are captain-class guards with levels in the mid-to-late 600s. For now, we watch from the rear. If a hundred people rush at three men, they’ll only get in each other’s way. Besides, the escorts here aren’t just any guard unit; it’s . They’re far better suited for this sort of thing than us. Well, truthfully, even if we catch them, we could only kill them, not interrogate them, right? For now, watching is the best course of action.”

Musashi made an accurate judgment that saw through the situation.

The security organization in charge of protection was , the Pixie Royal Family’s direct guard unit.

was a guard unit directly under the Pixie Royal Family, composed of twelve NPCs above level 650.

, the captain of , possessed a level in the late 700s and was the officially recognized strongest NPC in the Pixie Kingdom.

Because an event that defied common sense was unfolding before their eyes, their response had been delayed.

No ranker or NPC throughout the Caron region could kill a ranker in a single blow while breaking through twelve layers of magic cast by high-level mages in the 600s.

But the fact that such an unbelievable event had occurred was no reason to panic.

“Lucas is stepping in. The situation will be over soon.”

At Musashi’s words, the rankers stood awkwardly by and watched the situation.

“Stop!”

To accurately assess the situation and the terrorists’ objective, , who had begun moving slightly later by a difference of a few seconds, urgently moved to capture Ted and Tisai.

However, there had been a few rankers who had reflexively moved in excitement according to the situation.

Bang bang bang—!

But they were hit by suppressing fire from Ted and Sibori. These were also suppressing attacks that came out instinctively, just as they had practiced.

‘Hoo… For now, I have to get out of this building.’

Ted recalled the structure of this place.

First, the territory.

This place was a territory called , not far from Count ’s territory.

After being conquered by the Pixie Kingdom, a building called the had been hastily erected in .

The was built using Pixie architectural style and Japanese roof tiles, and its height reached a whopping ten stories. It was an extremely tall and massive structure rarely seen on the Face Continent.

And the place where the had been held until just now was , located at the very top of the ! Where Ted was now was precisely that place.

‘From now on, I have to send Tisai and Sibori outside the territory first according to plan. ’

Ted, who was leaping through the air to join up with Tisai, discharged the lightning he had stored up.

Fzzzzzt—!

“Whoa!”

“Argh!”

The flying lightning shattered a section of the spectator seats as well as part of ’s wall.

“How can that be?”

Around then, officials inside Skyscraping Hall groaned.

The main building, the , possessed a facility called the . A pillar continuously supplying nearly millions of mana to high-grade protective magic throughout the entire building!

Thanks to the power of such a , the building possessed durability rivaling that of an ordinary castle wall.

And now, that wall had been destroyed by a mere single attack?

“Who the hell are they!”

“How is that possible?”

They raised their voices in shock.

Tisai and Sibori reached the hole smashed by the at roughly that time. The height to the ground was about 30 meters.

Behind them, Ted was running, and behind Ted, was chasing Ted at a frightening speed.

While running to the wall, Tisai scattered several traps that only Ted could recognize.

However, they did not work on the NPCs of .

‘So the monsters are chasing us.’

This was a situation Ted had vaguely feared.

‘Their levels are mid-to-late 600s… From what I know, the one in the middle is late 700s. Even if we somehow get out of the building, all three of us would be caught 100% before escaping Altina County.’

The two excluding Ted wouldn’t stand a chance even if they fought.

In this situation, what Ted had to do was—

“Jump for now!”

At Ted’s order, the three hurriedly leaped outside the building.

“Now pull off the strategy you thought of!”

Tisai, whose entire body had already leaped outside the building, spoke urgently.

For several days now, Ted had continuously explained the overall plan, and when mentioning the final escape, he had said he had an .

“Ted, hurry up with the plan!”

“Quickly! I think we have to do it now!”

The two men shouted urgently at Ted.

“Don’t be surprised. Here I go! !”

He began to cut through the air as if riding a surfboard using .

But hanging from both of Ted’s shoulders were Tisai and Sibori.

“Hurk!”

“Yaaaaah! You bastard Teeeed!”

Having run and jumped into the air, as Ted—made even faster by —pushed them to accelerate, they were launched as if shot from a slingshot, receiving another bounce in mid-air to fly away. They completely soared through the sky, drawing a parabolic arc at roughly a 40-degree angle.

“Hey! You! You’re dead for thiiiiis!”

Tisai reached out toward Ted as he flew away.

But unlike those two, Ted was losing propulsion and falling to the ground.

He had thrown himself to save them.

‘I can die, but it would be troublesome if the NPCs died… The fall damage will be severe, but since Tisai is a Great Thief, they probably won’t get seriously hurt.’

Two days ago.

Ted had invested a fortune to purchase a potion called alongside his doping potions.

An ultra-expensive potion that reduced the death penalty to one-tenth!

Indeed. Ted had been prepared to die.

‘With that, there won’t be much risk even if I die. Plus, escaping won’t be a problem either.’

Ted was relieved.

Because most high-ranking NPCs and users were gathered at the , there would be no personnel inside the county to capture Tisai and Sibori.

Thinking so, Ted plummeted to the ground.

The impact of jumping down quickly from a height of 30 meters was not small. Ted’s HP was drained by more than 50% at once.

, who had followed him and landed stably from mid-air, approached such a Ted.

“Hold.”

However, they could not pass by Ted carelessly.

The attack power Ted had displayed above put them on high alert.

“Initiate Arrest Phase One.”

“Yes! !”

“!”

Soon they began applying various skills to Ted. Though they did not directly inflict harm, they opened his status, dispelled his active doping, and canceled any skills whose effects were ongoing.

“Pursuit team. Chase the escapees.”

“Yes!”

Soon, several NPCs moved at his words to chase the fleeing Tisai.

Bang—!

But then Ted unleashed a threatening volley at them.

They stopped, unable to move rashly. Soon, a strange standoff ensued.

Someone soon broke that silence and stepped forward.

“I shall face him.”

It was Lucas, the captain of the Pixie King’s direct guard unit, , and the officially highest-level NPC in the Pixie Kingdom.

‘This is a bit dangerous…’

An enemy he could not help but tense up against. Cold sweat trickled down involuntarily.

An NPC with a level in the late 700s. And his job was .

The moment he was caught, he would be dragged to the depths of the Pixie Kingdom’s underground prison and eat nothing but cheap, healthy bean rice for four years!

‘Why aren’t the others coming?’

Originally, the plan had been to be beaten to death by the users of <5 Bon>, who would rampage in anger over Denno’s death around this point.

But for some reason, those composed guys had not moved directly.

Their guild master had been shot dead before their very eyes!

‘Hmm, he’s late 700s… And a Guard. No matter how much I’m wielding a +19 and am level 400, there’s no way I can win in my current state.’

Now there was only one method remaining.

‘…’

It was Ted’s second ability. .

However, Ted had never used before. Because the cooldown was a full seven days, he had been unable to test it, afraid he wouldn’t be able to use it when needed.

‘Hoo… Whatever you are, please help me kill myself, !’

Ted called out to in his mind.

Soon, a massive and majestic reverberation rang inside his head.

Ted hesitated for a moment, and after listening for a long while, he could belatedly understand. It was a kind of voice.

It was when Ted was frozen blankly at that voice, which seemed like a person’s yet simultaneously was not a person’s.

“Prepare yourself!”

Iron-Blooded Guard Captain Lucas unleashed a wave of condensed mana and swung his club at Ted.

At that moment, a status window popped up.