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Chapter 417 - That Name (5)

Chapter 417: That Name (5)

You can usually glean a lot of information from a person just by hearing their name. For example, names like Smith and Johnson conjure up the image of Americans, while Mariana or Antonio are easily associated with Latin-Americans, Xuan is a Chinese name and Oizuki or Oitsuki are Japanese names.

In that respect, the name Jiwon Lee must be the name of someone from South Korea where I came from , or North Korea. But that name itself was not unusual or rare. It was a very common name. So much so that at least one of the 100 people with the surname Lee had that name.

So I could not help but be bewildered to hear that name from this guy Fashant who was the king of this Royal District that managed 13 Rookie districts, 8 Regular districts, and 4 Major districts.

‘Who the hell is Jiwon Lee?’

I was also curious about that name, so I thought of pretending to know so I could obtain some more information naturally.

But if I conversed with this guy a little more, he would discover that I knew almost nothing about Jiwon Lee and was simply talking nonsense.

Anyway, I could not figure out who Jiwon Lee was or what kind of capabilities this person had. Even the intelligence department of the Myongjin Guild had never reported that name to me before.

Even though I could not definitely say this guy was the absolute ruler here, I did not want to look like a liar from the beginning to Fahsant, who was called the incarnation of the Spirit King and was one of the strongest here.

So I said casually, “Well, I can’t say I’m close to that person, but I think I may recognize that person’s face…”

Perhaps I might have seen that person in question. Even though I didn’t know that person directly, I might have come across a person by that name at least once during my life. Even if I might not have passed by them on the street, I might have seen them on various media such as on TV or in newspapers because this name was not very common.

In other words, what I said was not a complete lie.

But the guy reacted negatively.

[You don’t know.]

Obviously, he might have realized I was trying to deceive him. Or he might have been surprised at my fast reply.

But I shrugged at his response, raising my arms and shoulders slightly, and made a strange gesture as if I didn’t know what he was talking about because I didn’t have to admit I was caught lying.

[Alright, I don’t think you know him because he has lost all his power. So he couldn’t contact anybody in advance. By the way, who the hell are you?]

“Juyoung Hong.”

Of course, I knew he wasn’t just asking for my real name. But I just answered with an innocent expression as if I didn’t know anything. Then he opened his mouth again with a slight frown as if that wasn’t the answer he wanted to hear.

[Alright. You don’t need to know. Unexpected things can always happen, and what happened this time was such an example. That means if I take out the unexpected variable, things will go back to the original condition.]

“Well, do you think that’s possible?”

If I name the strongest person I’ve ever confronted, it was the black liquid man that I have got rid of recently. While I was fighting him, I used all my available skills, even including my limited skill and hidden weapon, ‘Savant’.

By the time the tide of the battle turned in my favor my health was less than 30%.

Of course, it might not matter because I defeated him at the end of the day, but considering my immunity to all debuffs thanks to my trait, ‘All Buffs, All Debuffs,’ a whopping 70,000 stamina, plus more than 8 million health and the top 0.001% of items, I suffered huge damage during the fight. Moreover, I had a 10% reduction in all incoming damage from imprinting the Titan trait.

But this guy standing before me made me sense the same kind of ominous feelings as when I confronted the black liquid man. To be honest, I felt he was stronger than the black liquid man.

So lots of thoughts came to my mind while I was talking with this guy. For example, I was considering retreating for now. In other words, a strategic retreat.

As a matter of fact, it’s been only five days since I got here.

Of course, I had a decisive winning card, my limited skill ‘Savant.’

In fact, I used Savant to smash the black liquid man who claimed he was close to invincible by nullifying his ability to regenerate himself.

But I didn’t want to use Savant because I got here only five days ago.

Of course, I used to make the case for using the winning card right at the start of the fight, but Savant was a limited skill with as long as 10 days of cooldown. So I wanted to keep it in reserve just like I was keeping the Ancient Cooldown Removal Charms in reserve.

But I felt tempted to use it this time.

‘Well, it’s too good for me to give up…’

So far I’ve fought enemies mainly in these areas that were not good enough to fall into the category of Rookie District, let alone Regular District.

Of course, I had some reason to do so.

If I had known in advance that this area consisted of four Major Districts, eight Regular Districts, and 12 Rookie Districts with the 7th Royal District in the center, I would have attacked the Major or Royal District first.

More precisely, I would have tried to find and attack Fashant, the incarnation of the Spirit King in front of me.

In that case, Fashant would be totally unprepared and would have to confront me without knowing anything about me or my capabilities which would have increased my odds of victory.

But I didn’t know anything about the Royal District or the other areas in advance. I only came to know about it by obtaining information little by little while fighting the enemies here.

Then Fashant suddenly appeared in front of me, but it was definitely a good opportunity for me because he met me before rumors about my capabilities spread further.

When I faced Fashant, the ruler of the 7th Royal District, I sized up the status of the black liquid human to some extent. He must also be the ruler of one of the ten Royal Districts. That said, if this guy was such a strong man, I would definitely have to kill him when I could because it would give me a big headache if he joined hands with the other big shots, even if it was not easy for them to do so.

Of course, I didn’t make such a decision because I could not afford to miss this good opportunity. I was also confident in defeating this guy, no matter what. I could kill him even without using ‘Savant’ because I was in reality, not within Revival Legend.

This meant that I could make use of my reality actualization rate that was higher than anybody else. When I faced the black liquid man in Argentina, my reality actualization rate was only 107%.

Then, how high is my rate now?