N-M Chapter 340
Chapter 340
[Sung JiHan, have you already become a Cardinal? The Waiting Guild is in contact, asking if you have any intention of receiving sponsorship from players.]
[Yoon Sejin, who became the first sponsored player by Cardinal Sung JiHan. When asked for his impressions, he responded, "I don't feel a big difference yet, but there will be tremendous effects once I become an official Cardinal."]
[Despite the fact that the effects of being a Cardinal are still unclear, the majority of players have expressed their desire to receive sponsorship from Sung JiHan.]
The next day.
It was revealed that the Waiting Guild secretly proposed Cardinal sponsorship to the players.
They all have exceptional talents, but they are players who do not yet have the status of a Cardinal.
People showed interest as they read the pouring articles.
-Wow, you can already receive sponsorship as a Cardinal candidate? That's amazing.
-If Yoon Sejin says so, then the effects must not be that great...
-Still, they seem more trustworthy than the alien Cardinals, lol.
-Are there only aliens? When I think about what happened during the Gilgamesh incident... I can't trust even the Cardinals from humanity, sigh.
-Considering the speed at which Sung JiHan is leveling up, it would be good to receive sponsorship in advance.
-For real, already at level 400, wow.
Even though they are currently receiving limited sponsorship.
Considering Sung JiHan's rapid growth rate, it seemed like a matter of time before he became a Cardinal.
Even though the perception of humanity has improved compared to before in the alien world.
Most of this improved perception is attributed to the player Sung JiHan, while other human players still had low scores.
Sponsorship from alien Cardinals was not actively taking place.
In the midst of this, with only three slots left after excluding Yoon Sejin and Lee Hayeon.
[Sung JiHan, recruiting 5 more Cardinal sponsors.]
[This time, sponsoring nurturing experts? Proposing sponsorship to players responsible for the nurturing part of each guild.]
Sung JiHan not only stopped at the existing 5 sponsors, but recruited more sponsors.
This time, focusing on players with nurturing abilities for supporting gifts.
-Why support nurturing experts? The Waiting Guild is already the strongest, so why bother raising other people's experts?
-It must be something Sung JiHan has thought through...
- Does it mean that Sung JiHan is also raising talented individuals from other guilds to help humanity grow faster?
- Was Sung JiHan really a sage? LOL
- A sage? Where did they find Sung JiHan? The contributions he made to humanity far outweigh those of 100 sages.
- Seriously, has Confucius ever made me healthy?
Most people were puzzled as to why Sung JiHan was sponsoring talented individuals from other guilds. However, due to the bonuses the race had received, public opinion towards Sung JiHan was overwhelmingly positive, so they thought it was for a good cause.
"American First, along with the People's Council, has agreed to sponsor talented individuals, including five people."
"Understood. Let's go right away."
Sung JiHan looked at the list handed over by Lee Ha-yeon and added five more people.
Originally, there were only five slots.
After seeing Lee Ha-yeon's rise in reputation, Sung JiHan had already made investments in the Cathedral Store.
The points he put in were for the expansion of the sponsorship slots.
Although the upgrade required 1,000 points of Cathedral reputation,
"It's worth spending that much."
Considering that he could receive five more people through the slot upgrade, it was a worthwhile investment.
Even if he only earned about 20% of what Lee Ha-yeon earned per person, he would be able to recover the investment points in a month.
Sung JiHan went further and upgraded the Cathedral's special characteristics.
[Cathedral characteristics are enhanced.]
[Efficiency of growth in dominance and autonomy of Cathedral increases slightly.]
[As the level of dominance and autonomy increases, the efficiency increases even more.]
[Cathedral characteristics are in OFF state. Cathedral characteristic enhancement effect is not activated.]
"There's no visible effect even if I raise it now. It will be different when the characteristic is in ON state."
Enhancing the dominance and autonomy effects at the same time through the Cathedral's special characteristic upgrade.
However, it was still in OFF mode, so there was no noticeable effect.
Still, this was ultimately an item that had to be raised in order to upgrade the Cathedral Store to LV.2.
Sung JiHan looked at the items in the Holy See Store, thinking of them as investments for the future.
[Holy See Store LV.1]
Upgrade Holy See Store - 50000P
Holy See Trait 'Dominance' LV.2 - 100000P
Holy See Trait 'Autonomy' LV.2 - 100000P
Enhance Holy See Traits LV.2 - 50000P
Expand Sponsorship Slot LV.2 - 20000P
Create Special Sponsorship Item - 500P
As the level increased to 2, the point requirements for the lower items increased significantly.
To raise them, it was a prerequisite to upgrade the Holy See Store to LV.2.
"I don't have 50000 points yet."
Due to using up the Holy See's reputation this time, Sung JiHan still lacked points for store upgrades.
Now, the only place to spend points was the last item.
"There's only the option to create a special sponsorship item."
"Should I try it?"
500 points.
It may seem like a considerable amount, but it's also a relatively small number.
With 10 sponsors gathered, Sung JiHan became curious about what kind of item he could give them, so he clicked on it.
Then.
[A special sponsorship item will be created....]
['Gift Bestowal - Random A-grade (for combat)' item will be created.]
[This item can only be used by players who are sponsoring the Holy See.]
Along with this message, a scroll appeared in Sung JiHan's inventory.
If he uses this, does it mean that the Holy See gives gifts to the players?
"It's a waste to spend 500 on an A-grade item."
In the first place, players who are sponsored by the Holy See are often already born with good gifts.
For humans, they had to be at least S-grade, and on average, SS-grade, to attract the attention of the extraterrestrial Holy See.
Who would give an A-grade gift to someone?
"At this level, it's a failure. Can I put it up for auction?"
Sung JiHan tried to sell the scroll.
[Special sponsorship items cannot be registered in the auction house.]
He couldn't sell the item.
It was just a gift certificate that would take up space in the inventory, useless.
"...Should I try one more time?"
Feeling the urge to draw a failure, Sung JiHan pressed the button to create another item.
Then.
[A special sponsorship item will be created....]
['Gift Temporary Enhancement - 2-month pass' item will be created.]
[This item can only be used by players who are sponsoring the Holy See.]
This time, something that seemed more useful than before came out.
"A gift enhancement... There must be someone to give this to."
Sung JiHan looked at Lee Ha-yeon, who had been quietly observing him.
A cultivation gift that had reached SSS-grade.
If this gift, which was already benefiting Sung JiHan, was enhanced, the growth rate bonus would increase even more.
"I'm currently at level 400, so I won't be able to enjoy this benefit for a few days... But let's use it for the overall growth of the players in the waiting guild."
With various bonuses stacking up, Sung JiHan, who had already reached a level where the growth rate amplification was sufficient, used the gift enhancement pass.
Then.
"A special sponsorship has been given to the sponsored player."
"The Holy See reputation obtained from the sponsored player will temporarily increase."
When the message for sponsorship items came up...
"Uh..."
Lee Ha-yeon, who was watching Sung JiHan, opened her eyes wide after seeing it.
"Master... have you been granted the Seat Bonus?"
"I tried it once. How is the effect?"
"It's amazing! It increases the gift efficiency by 50%!"
"Really, 50%?"
Perhaps because there was a deadline of two months, the temporary strengthening ticket had a better effect than expected.
After seeing the effect, she felt a little regretful that she didn't do it a few days later.
"Well, I can just draw it again next time."
Thinking that way, Sung JiHan looked at the reputation points that Lee Ha-yeon had earned.
The reputation points that she used to earn 1 or 2 per hour...
After the gift enhancement, the number had increased from 2 to 3.
"With this much, it's more than worth it in terms of reputation points."
The first one was a failure, but the second one was successful.
Sung JiHan thought about stopping here, but...
[You have 1 remaining opportunity to create a special sponsorship item in the Level 1 shop.]
When the message saying that this opportunity was the last one came up...
"Let's just use it all before upgrading the shop."
He created another special sponsorship item.
And then...
[The 'Seat Ability Granting Ticket - Unique' item has been created.]
[This item can only be used by players who are sponsoring the Seat.]
[It can only be applied to items of Unique grade or higher among the Seat's stats.]
"Oh...!"
An item that was worthy of being called a special sponsorship item appeared.
---
A fraudulent item that gives unique stats to the sponsored player.
However, there were conditions.
It could only grant stats of Unique grade or higher among the Seat's abilities.
But for Sung JiHan, this condition wasn't much of a constraint.
"It's my ability, and all of them are of Unique grade or higher."
The Unholy and Void.
The Enemy and Eternal.
Each and every one of them had abilities that surpassed the Unique grade.
Among them, he could give one to the sponsored player.
"Hmm... who should I give what to? No, first, what abilities are possible?"
Sung JiHan tried using the item once.
"What ability would you like to grant?"
And then, four stats came to mind.
Except for the Unholy.
The Void, Enemy, and Eternal were all marked with an X.
"These abilities can't be granted."
Even if Eternal was an incomplete stat.
Is it inappropriate to grant Enemy or Void to human players?
When he touched the X mark...
[Eternal - Cannot be granted with an incomplete ability.]
[Void - Cannot be granted.]
[Enemy - Can be granted by lowering the grade to 'Dragon Flame' stat. However, it can only be granted to the 'Dragon Race'.]
The reason why it didn't work became clear.
"The enemies and the enemy mines would be combined... but it seems that cannot be applied. Does that mean there's only the soul left?"
Sung JiHan looked at the soul.
[Soul - Unique stat, can be assigned with 'Power' to lower its grade. However, Power must be written in a special way.]
The soul that had been upgraded by combining Power and Force.
Among the stats that could be given to supporting players, only Power was possible.
Fortunately, the conditions for assigning Power were not too difficult.
The item that needed to be written in a special way.
It meant 'Brush of the Eastern Destruction'.
"There were definitely multiple broken brushes of the Eastern Destruction."
Sung JiHan recalled memories from his previous life.
With the eyes of an F-grade Gift Wanderer, he lived day by day, betting and surviving.
After learning that the broken brush of the Eastern Destruction was a condition for the soul to gain Power, he asked around to find it.
And when he looked into it, there were definitely multiple broken brushes of the Eastern Destruction.
Sung JiHan opened the auction house and searched for the brush of the Eastern Destruction.
"It's not here."
There were no items related to the Eastern Destruction currently listed in the auction house.
Did all the brushes disappear?
Or...
"Maybe they didn't list it in the auction house because they thought it was useless junk with a high grade."
Sung JiHan thought this possibility was likely and said to Yi Ha-yeon.
"If someone has the broken brush of the Eastern Destruction, can you announce that I will buy it at a high price?"
"The broken brush of the Eastern Destruction... Is that the name of the item?"
"Yes, it should be an A-grade."
"Understood. I will announce it on a large scale!"
"Yes, I will also add a word during this promotion. I'm buying the broken brush of the Eastern Destruction."
"Then there's nothing to worry about! People from all over the world will be watching the promotion, so the broken brush will come up soon."
Not satisfied with being the first to join the Master League in human history, Sung JiHan's movements to promote to the Grandmaster League in just one month.
Compared to other promotions, it was natural that the attention of the world would be focused here.
"Yes, I just hope I have the item."
And the next day.
[The Grandmaster League promotion is in progress...]
"The player is a candidate for the Seat."
"A player worthy of the upper league."
"Automatically promoted to the Grandmaster League."
"...Automatic promotion?"
They automatically promote me just because I'm a candidate for the Seat?
In the past, they used to assign me to difficult maps, but now they don't even do that just because I'm a candidate for the Seat.
"The rewards here were quite generous."
Sung JiHan had a disappointed expression.
When he was feeling disappointed,
[Through a special mission, you can go up to Space-2 Area.]
"Will you challenge the special mission?"
"I will."
I should at least do this.
When Sung JiHan accepted it,
Flash!
He was summoned somewhere.
And in the changed world, what appeared before him was...
"...Nuna?"
Petrified and moving, it was the Witch of Emptiness, Sung Ji-ah.