Chapter 488: That Guy Among the Four Heavenly Kings... 3


    When Han Se-ah hastily began explaining after noticing my threatening aura with clenched fists, ready to give her a good smack upside the head if she was making decisions based on donation amounts.


    "There''s a reason - enhancing my staff with the lightning stone probably won''t boost Call Lightning''s performance much. I''m actually planning to learn an advanced spell I had my eye on at the Magic Tower."


    Summon Ice Storm was more of a CC skill for holding mobs than a pure attack spell. Call Lightning could be either AoE or single-target depending on how it was controlled, but lacked raw power.


    When she said "lacking" about a high-rank magic that could drop dozens of lightning bolts, I wondered what she meant - but she quickly explained further.


    Now that enemies had enough HP to not get completely shredded by the holy sword, she wanted to maximize burst damage against mid-bosses and boss monsters by using fire enhancement to achieve something like an all-out barrage.


    In other words, she wanted to throw bombs.@@@@


    ''...Should I hit her or not?''


    Since our party had plenty of gold and Grace''s arrow issue was solved, Han Se-ah planned to fill her inventory with alchemically crafted bombs to throw alongside Hell Fire. It wasn''t a completely ridiculous idea - the others nodded along as if it made sense.


    The party seemed to understand Han Se-ah''s obsession with explosives by now. They didn''t even question her absurd reasoning that she wanted to learn advanced fire magic to use bombs more efficiently.


    Still, there was no reason or way to stop a player who wanted to use bombs. Though she should probably be called a demolitions expert rather than a mage, she was helpful regardless. It''s not like her bomb obsession had ruined the game - her various acids and explosives had actually helped many times.


    [Special Enhancement Stone - Condensed Rage]


    [A crystal of magical power that eternally boils like uncontained fury]


    [Special Enhancement Stone - Instant Destruction]


    [A crystal of destructive magical power that incinerates everything in the blink of an eye]


    And so Han Se-ah''s staff received the fire attribute enhancement stone, while my warhammer got the lightning one. Some viewers argued enhancing a staff stand was wasteful, but... the holy sword was pure divine energy created as a skill, so enhancement was impossible. No matter how skilled the stone dwarves were, they couldn''t enhance divine power with enhancement stones.


    If that had been possible, we would have slapped every enhancement stone on Irene''s sacred law and gone with a divine tank rush strategy.


    When the enhancement results appeared, Katie was naturally the most excited. After practically hugging Grace''s bow wrapped in pale green wind, she darted over to us. Her excitement was as obvious as a dog begging for a walk in the snow.


    It was adorably cute how she agonized over whether to examine the staff emanating heat haze or the sparking warhammer first.


    "First we should check all the equipment effects, right? Let''s find an open space to test them."


    "Yeah, we can''t go into life-or-death battles without knowing what we''re wielding!"


    Han Se-ah smoothly directed the situation seeing Katie''s enthusiasm. Of course, this wasn''t just to satisfy Katie''s curiosity - the viewers were threatening to set the chat on fire if they didn''t get to see the item effects immediately.


    Some stone dwarves were already watching us anxiously after the wind arrow incident with their wall.


    No wonder they were worried, seeing these squishies enhance their equipment with stones then suddenly squeal excitedly before attacking a wall. So ignoring those concerned looks, we headed to an open space outside the city.


    It was more like an undeveloped cavern plaza than an open space. Being an underground city of blacksmiths and alchemists, there were clear marks where other high-rank adventurers had tested their weapons, shattering and melting the rocks.


    "Looks like others tested their weapons here too. We can experiment here."


    "It might get a bit noisy, is that okay?"


    "The stone dwarves'' buildings are well soundproofed. And the streets are already noisy from the workshops, so it should be fine."


    Grace naturally aimed her bow at the rocks. Having gotten a taste after accidentally embedding an arrow in someone''s wall, her eyes sparkled with anticipation almost as much as the bouncing Katie beside her.


    Grace seemed quite interested in this kind of thing, though not as much as the kid Katie. Once she confirmed there was nothing to worry about in the empty plaza, she drew her bowstring without hesitation.


    This time we could clearly see pale green mana gathering into an arrow on the empty string. Earlier we probably missed it when she carelessly plucked the string.


    "So it creates arrows from mana. How''s the mana consumption?"


    Creates wind attribute arrows without user''s mana consumption


    Increased mana cost on rapid fire with higher speed and power


    Mom: Earth attribute special enhancement stone ''Starfish''


    Not certain but seems to add durability to defensive sacred law


    Roland''s finger pokes used to crack the sacred law before


    Now needs proper punches to crack it


    Seems to increase minimum damage threshold that can be ignored (estimate)


    Teacher: Lightning attribute special enhancement stone ''Instant Destruction''


    Sparks fly from warhammer, growing stronger with bigger movements


    Lightning shoots out on big movements or impacts


    Could be broken if lightning also triggers on reflect damage, unknown since rock target


    Fire attribute special enhancement stone ''Condensed Rage''


    Additional fire projectiles launch with each spell cast


    Not explosive, sticky lava-like effect for DoT damage


    Forum admin plans to load projectiles with bombs


    ┗Hey one person''s title is weird


    ┗Emotions overflowing beyond just being deeply invested lol


    ┗Hibung, just accept the difference in gacha luck


    ┗BTW if lightning procs on reflect lol anyone who shoots Roland gets struck by lightning?


    ┗No joke, isn''t that divine punishment? lololololol


    ┗Attack the holy sword owner of the hero party and get struck by lightning? Instant Bible chapter


    ┗But wind arrow damage seems kinda iffy


    ┗Considering 80% crit ignore damage, might get some solid hits


    A detailed post summarizing that long journey of laughing and testing weapons in the plaza without any fast forwarding.


    There was intense interest since Kongline Kim Seok-hyun hadn''t yet discovered how to buy special enhancement stones from season 1, rather than ogre mana stones. So while people wondered how to obtain enhancement stones, they were even more curious about their performance.


    And what greeted us when we returned to the base camp before floor 60 amid fervent interest both in and out of game was--


    "What do you mean?"


    "Th-the Four Kings guy suddenly dug tunnels and c-came out...!"


    The bizarre news that the boss monster was attempting guerrilla warfare against humanity.


    ...Was he actually insane?