The Status Window Disappeared

Get status bar back (1)

Chris, who easily annihilated the pursuers of the black flag, arrived at the terminal station after running without rest.

The ring tied around his neck with an iron chain points to a strong castle wall, proving that he is not in the wrong direction.

‘Illidary Kingdom… Is it also here?’

I roughly guessed it when there were only two or three days left, but seeing it with my own eyes gave me a new feeling.

Illidary is a medium-sized kingdom located on the periphery of the continent.

It’s a remote and quiet neighborhood, so it’s a perfect place for Black Flag’s minions to hide.

After taking a deep breath, Chris hid in the city and pretended to be looking for a suitable inn, following the signal from the ring.

Triangulation around the outskirts of the city will give you an approximate location.

As a result of spending such a considerable amount of time to identify the place.

The place where the thief was hiding was the center of the city where the royal palace was located.

The person with the status window wouldn’t be doing chores, so in a way, this could be taken for granted.

The question is, what exactly is his current identity?

Normally, I would have taken the time to investigate as safely as possible, but… … .

This time, the time limit is tight, so I can’t do it.

It’s already been two days since the black flag chasers were defeated.

If it is discovered that they were massacred, the other side will also be on alert, so even if it’s enough, we’ll have to see a game within the next three days.

‘Considering that I will prepare a lot of things before the fight, I have to find it within today.’

First, I used the ghost horse to look for the black flag, but unfortunately there was no noticeable sight.

It seems that he changed his method because of the previous incident.

Chris was impatient and decided to use a slightly risky technique.

Locked in a room at an inn, he silently used the mirror ring, and a clever clone was summoned.

Chris closed his eyes and concentrated, trying to control the clone himself.

It was not to simply give a command and make it move automatically, but to manually control each action one by one and share the senses.

I did something similar the other day when interrogating a fake player in the kingdom of Milta, so in theory it should be possible.

Even though it was close to the clone body. At that time, were not the interrogators as well as the palace guards fooled by his double body?

“… did it happen?”

Chris, who went into manual control with the feeling of being possessed by the clone, moved the clone’s hand to remove the ring from his neck.

And then quickly put on the hood and went out of the inn.

If you don’t do it, you can lose your ring as well as reveal your identity.

However, it is still better than scouting by yourself.

Chris approached the palace, avoiding the eyes of the guards, and threw himself in the direction of the ring’s trembling.

Fortunately, the place where the status window thief was detected was an area on the outskirts of the palace.

Looking at the surrounding facilities, Chris easily guessed their use.

‘A training ground for the Royal Knights?’

This is a national facility in its own way, so the boundaries are strong.

The walls are high and there are regular patrols roaming around.

Because of this, it is not easily accessible by the status of a shabby traveler.

However, Chris believed in his plan and dared to infiltrate.

He hid in the surrounding alleys and tracked the patrols’ movements, and immediately disarmed them at the slightest sign of being caught.

The ring the clone was wearing was secretly hidden in a corner, and the next clone was sent to retrieve it.

The slightest anxiety caused him to disappear like a ghost, so the patrols never noticed his presence.

After several attempts, Chris figured out where and when the security was relatively weak and climbed over the wall before the sun went down.

The clone made of the ring of mirrors was made of magic, so it was quite light in weight.

If you invest more mana, you can make it look like the real thing, but it is a function that is not needed now.

Since the workday wasn’t over yet, numerous knights were engrossed in training in the large training ground.

As Chris was slowly examining them, the ring the clone was wearing vibrated strongly towards a man.

The man pointed out by the ring was wearing the epaulettes of a knight commander.

Concentrating on guiding his subordinate knights, he looked very sincere and seasoned.

He is tall and has a handsome face, but to Chris, he just looks mean.

Chris calms his racing heart and slowly analyzes his nemesis.

It was easy to see because he hadn’t put a seal on it, but the magic power possessed by the knight commander was truly unrivaled.

Not only did he simply have a status window, but he must have accumulated additional magic power through training.

Chris noticed that and bit his tongue to gauge the difference between him and himself.

‘No matter how small it is, it’s more than 1.5 times my mana. Thanks to the status window, he’ll have vitality bonuses and skills, so there’s no hope in a head-to-head match.’

At first glance, an opponent with no chance of winning.

But it’s still too early to despair.

Fighting opponents stronger than himself is Chris’ specialty.

Having risen from the bottom, he had little experience fighting enemies weaker than himself.

Each time, he mobilized all his resources to fight his mighty enemies, and eventually defeated them.

The experience and effort accumulated at the risk of one’s life will never betray the owner.

Moreover, he now has two powerful epic items in his hand.

Chris soon devised a plan to make the most of those two treasures.

Soon after, when the sun went down, Chris buried his ring in the corner of the training ground and disarmed his body.

Then, the exhausted body from the arduous trip lay down on the bed.

Although I couldn’t sleep because of the excitement, I still forced myself to close my eyes.

If you think about your plans from tomorrow, you must rest unconditionally.

the next morning.

Leaving the city before sunrise, Chris searched the forests around the kingdom for a suitable location for the final battle.

Fighting in the city with the leader of the knights is suicidal, so we need to find a suitable battlefield.

He wandered through the woods until the sun rose in mid-heaven, until he finally found a suitable spot.

It is a considerable distance from the city, moderately vegetated, and sparsely visited by travelers.

‘Okay, then let’s work here… … .’

After getting off the ghost horse, Chris took out various items from his backpack and wandered through the woods.

What he had prepared was strong fishing line and rope, a night shovel and a caltrop.

If you’re not good at it, you have to use traps.

Because of this, when he was a mercenary, he learned to set traps over his shoulder.

Of course, since the opponent is the opponent, it will be difficult to see a big effect with this… … .

Still, it would be far better than nothing.

Chris, who even took out his crossbow and turned it into a trap, memorized the location of the trap and returned to the city again.

Of the three-day time limit, two days were spent preparing, so tomorrow must be a decisive battle.

Chris, who was in the best condition by repeating rest and training, got as much sleep as he did yesterday, and headed to the place where the trap was set as soon as the day was bright.

Of course, before leaving the inn, he did not forget to summon his clone and infiltrate the Knights Training Center.

After settling in the middle of the battleground surrounded by traps, he took refuge in the ghost horse and summoned the demonic palace of the phoenix.

The body of the magic palace, which had been covered with bandages, was very cool as before.

This epic item is the core of this plan.

It was a bait to lure the unscrupulous thief into a decisive battle.

Chris, who drew a bowstring while consuming a large amount of mana, restored the connection with the clone body and put the target in sight.

The biggest advantage of the Phoenix’s Magic Bow is neither its strong destructive power nor its fast activation speed.

The reason this weapon is treated as more than a decent tactical weapon is because of its heinous range.

If you have this, you can even target the assassination of the enemy’s commanders, as well as nobles and royalty.

The Demon Palace of the Phoenix is a weapon that can disrupt the balance between nations.

The original owner of this bow lived deep in the mountains because of that.

Originally, Chris, who didn’t even have a status window, let alone a hunter class, couldn’t use this devil’s bow to his heart’s content because he lacked the ability to search… … .

He successfully compensated for his weakness by using the Mirror Ring.

Chris, who filled the magic bow with plenty of magic, aimed at the target in his left eye, and calculated the trajectory of the arrow with his right eye.

If it’s a hit, Magung will take care of it, so he just needs to make sure that the projectile doesn’t get caught on a branch or something.

Time that seemed like eternity passed.

Chris’ hand finally let go of the protest.

A fireball fired from the demon palace soared into the air and flew an absurd distance to hit the knight commander at the training ground.

“Kuuu!”

The Knight Commander, who was attacked out of the blue, let out a screaming spirit, gritting his teeth in the heat of the heat.

The strong magical flame burned his clothes and melted his flesh, but the health bonus provided by the status window kept him alive.

The wound, which was so deep and serious that the bone was visible, healed in an instant, and the hair that had been burning with the momentum of evaporation was regenerated.

Although he had recovered close to being completely cured, because of that, his vitality bonus was almost gone.

If it hadn’t been for that, he would have died instantly from the previous blow.

The time it took for the knight commander who stood on the verge of death to fully recover was only about 5 seconds.

Chris fired a second arrow, trembling at the tenacious vitality unique to players.

The heat from the first arrow also affected those who were far away.

Because of this, not only the leader of the knights, but also several trainees nearby suffered severe burns and collapsed.

Before Chris could even apologize to them, the second arrow he had shot earlier landed.

He hit the knight commander who was hastily raising his magic power once again.

“Hey! uh, what is this… ”

The knight commander, who lost a lot of magic in the second attack, regained his sanity and used his defense skills.

At the time of playing Arios Online, Chris’ class was a balanced tank, a shield knight.

Because of this, the knight commander who stole it could defend against this attack with near perfection.

Knowing that well, Chris had no intention of firing an extra hit with the phoenix’s magic bow.

This bow is literally a demon that eats mana, and even he, who is in the best condition, can only shoot up to 7 shots.

The advantage of surprise has long been lost.

Considering the fight in the decisive battle, further attacks here would only waste magic power.

I only fired two shots, but I already feel like my arms are shaking because of the symptoms of mana depletion.

The Knight Commander, who belatedly released the defense skill, found Chris’ body hidden in the training ground and cut it down.

Considering his original search ability, he should have been caught a long time ago, but… … .

Maybe it was because it was her own courtyard, so she must have been very relaxed.

“Is this a fake!”

“Captain! be careful. More attacks may come!”

The clone body melting into the air caught the members’ concerns.

After a brief agony, the knight commander throws himself out of the training ground.

He whistled and ran out, looking like the hero of a heroic tale.

‘With the stolen ability, he’s in good shape.’

As he is also a member of the Black Banner, he must have guessed that this attack was caused by the Demon Palace of the Phoenix.

So you can’t survive without finding the attacker.

If we don’t catch the attacker, we’ll suffer another untimely blow.

Chris smiled quietly as he looked at him with the second clone he had prepared in advance.

The beginning of the fight was very good, whether it was worth the effort over two days.