Record of a Thousand Lives Chapter 16

Chapter 16.  Record of a Thousand Lives

The treasure of the Ultica Ruin was a large iron ring, and a beautiful wrist guard that was decorated with a silver mane ornament.

[Silver mane wrist guard]

Level – Rare

Physical strength: 67

The mane of a werewolf that wielded magic is attached to it.  The wearer will possess the strong physical strength of the werewolf.  When encountering a strong foe, the wearer will be able to summon the spirit of an ancient wolf at will.

[The noose of submission]

A noose enchanted with submission magic.  Able to tame a beast type monster after capturing it.  Capturing becomes more difficult as the level difference between the possessor and the target monster grows bigger.  The probably of capturing a monster becomes higher when it is exhausted or near exhaustion.  If the target of capture accepts the possessor then it is possible to capture the target completely.

[Ultica Ruin has been conquered.

Conqueror – Kang Yoonsoo

Rank 1 achievement – Shanette Elogran]

[You've become the conqueror of the Ultica Ruin.

The Ruin's magic will be absorbed.

Adaptation speed will increase a little.

When under the light of the moon, your physical ability will increase.

The probability of delivering fatal blows to wolf type monsters is increased.

Total number of conquered ruins: 1]

[There are currently 729 monsters alive in the Ruin.

The werewolves will not forgive the conqueror who does not keep his promise.]

“Awesome.  When a ruin is conquered, it lists the achievements in a ranked order?  That must make it easier to distribute the rewards later in large groups like clans.”

Shanette, who was waving her finger at empty air, widened her eyes.

Kang Yoonsoo put on the silver mane wrist guard.

Accessories that increased physical strength were rather rare.

The effect of the silver mane wrist guard was rather good, and it supplemented the shortcoming of his low level.

“Let's get out,” Kang Yoonsoo said.

“From the Ruin?”

“Yup.”

“However…. The Ruin is filled with werewolves.  Won't it be difficult to convince them this time around, now that they are angry?”

Shanette cringed a little.

She did not want to imagine being mauled to death by over 700 werewolves.

However, Kang Yoonsoo spoke.

“It's alright.”

He extended his hand, showing her the noose of submission.

The two walked down from the altar and left the room.

The white beast was still exhausted, complaining about its aching muscles.

Running swiftly, Kang Yoonsoo placed the noose of submission around the beast's neck.

“Kareeeeung….!”

The white beast resisted roughly, but it wasn't able to overcome Kang Yoonsoo.

It tried to use its claws to break the noose that was tightening around its neck, but the white beast fell forward before it was able to attempt it.

[You have successfully captured the wild white beast.

Do you want to tame this monster?]

“I'll tame.”

[The white beast is successfully tamed.

The white beast has been freed from the Ultica Ruin.

Please give a name to the tamed monster.]

Kang Yoonsoo looked upon the white mane of the white beast.

“White.”

[White]

Level: 104

Type: White beast (Werewolf mutant)

Power: 71

Adaptation speed: 27

Wildness: 6

Skill:  Wind Claw (Lv3).

A werewolf mutant.  It was ostracized from its wolf pack as it was born with a white mane.  While wandering the wilderness, it awoke as a werewolf by desiring the moonlight. After, it became a boss monster able to use the whirlwind magic effect of the ruin.  Its character is destructive and it trusts nothing.

The white beast had become a named monster.

Unlike ordinary monsters, it was possible for named monsters to acc.u.mulate new levels through their own efforts.

From this moment on, White, the white beast, had become a boss monster and would be able to increase its level.

Kang Yoonsoo removed the rock-steel daggers from White's body.

He took out the land worms' feelers and a wooden bowl from the knapsack.

He poured the remaining honey wine into the bowl and added the feelers after grinding them down.

He stirred the yellowish liquid in the bowl.

“Drink.”

“Ureuno…. Kaaang!”

Kang Yoonsoo kicked White's jaw.

Puck-!

Being smacked right in the area where a new tooth was growing out, White opened its mouth wide in pain.

Not losing that moment, Kang Yoonsoo poured the liquid mixture down the beast's throat.

Gulp.

White opened its eyes wide as the liquid went down its throat.

Surprisingly, its muscle pains slowly dissipated.

The liquid mixture which Kang Yoonsoo made had the effect of temporarily healing muscle aches.

Wrapping White's noose around his hand, he got on the back of the beast.

White immediately tried to stand on his hind legs with a roar, but had no choice but to submit to the magic of the noose.

White's eyes were filled with sharp anger, but it wasn't able to drop Kang Yoonsoo.

Kang Yoonsoo, on White's back, extended his arm out to Shanette.

“Get on.”

“Is, is it really OK to get on?” she asked with a fear in her eyes.

She has heard that some outstanding tamers roamed around while riding on wild wolves.

However, to ride on that ferocious werewolf?

She had never imagined such a thing, let alone heard of it.

“It's OK.”

Shanette hesitated.

Was it OK to trust this man?

However, her hesitation did not last long.

Having decided, she grabbed Kang Yoonsoo's hand.

Alright.

I suppose it's OK to trust him a little.

Cautiously, Shanette sat behind Kang Yoonsoo.

Fearing that she might fall, she hugged him tightly from behind.

Kang Yoonsoo ordered.

“Run.”

“Kareeeeung-!”

“Krrrraaaah-!”

White dashed like a wind storm.

Although she knew how to ride a horse, her vision still became blurred due to the incredible speed.

Her hair blew backwards messily, and she could not hold her head still.

Kang Yoonsoo pulled the noose hard as he roughly changed White's direction.

Every time that happened, Shanette crossed over the line between life and death and returned.

“Kaaaaaahk-!”

“Krung!  Krung!”

“Kreeeuuuung!”

As they came out of the center of the Ruin, werewolves rushed at them with their fangs showing.

However, even they could not catch up with the speed at which White was running, and gave up as they got tired.

Some of the wolves blocked their path, but even with White's violent temper, it didn't seem to want to kill its own kind.  Therefore, it avoided them and only roared.

The ride, which would cause one to bite one's tongue, and the turbulence that was similar to that of riding a cart, caused Shanette to clench her teeth.

“What do you mean that it's alright… what's alrrrrright-!”

“Right, it was a lie.”

Shanette truly felt death.

And she was able to share White's anger a little, too.

The white beast, with two people riding on its back, roared loudly as it dashed out of the Ruin.

“Urenokr!”

Hiledan.

A city known for its alchemy.

Established beyond the wasteland, Hiledan was a busy city which the Kellyine territory could not compare to.

The buildings were constructed on top of one another, and there was a countless number of pedestrians.

There were merchants who were negotiating with stubborn men, and other merchants who were singing after getting paid.

There were a few travelers who wore devices on their wrists like Kang Yoonsoo.

The travelers moved rather busily, talking about their adventures or going in and out of bars.

The city's atmosphere was one of peace and positivity.

Shanette closed her eyes and then slowly opened them.

The scenery that she was seeing with  .

The familiar aroma and strong wind.

The busy crowd.

Her heart pounded with antic.i.p.ation.

“This city… is truly a wonderful place.”

“Hiledan is a small city.”

“Is that right?  There are bigger places than this?”

“Yah.”

“You're…thinking about going there, too?”

“Yup.”

Shanette smiled like a child who was waiting to go on a picnic the next day.

On the other hand, Kang Yoonsoo was expressionless.

'You can only kill the demon king by becoming stronger as you wander around the continent.'

Unlike Shanette, Kang Yoonsoo could not feel any inspiration from anywhere on the continent.

It was because he had already been everywhere, from the hiding places of a neighborhood child to the nest of a destroyer dragon.

If he was asked to choose places that excited him, they would be like the demon tower, and the forbidden places of the continent.

Those places were the prohibited places where he could easily die, even though he had knowledge from his previous lives.

Although he had been to those places in his past lives, he had still faced deadly situations even when he went there after having grown as much as he could.

'I'm not going there, anyway.'

It was possible for him to experience acute growth there, but the weight of danger was too much.

No matter what, Kang Yoonsoo did not plan on dying until he killed the demon king.

'Things to do in Hiledan are…..'

He went through every sort of hards.h.i.+p when he came to Hiledan in his first life.

At that time, he could not even imagine all the dangers that lurked in this small, peaceful city.

However, it was different this time.

Kang Yoonsoo had reincarnated to the point of exhaustion.

Going forwards, he knew exactly what he had to do in order to maximize his benefits.

'First, I must kill that b.a.s.t.a.r.d.'

Ironically, the very first thing Kang Yoonsoo had to do in this harmonious small city was to commit a murder.

This sentence is almost an exact duplicate of the previous two sentences.  I added the one bit that was missing.

This is an expression that means she's an outsider observing something, which seemed to match well with “newness”.