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Monopolizing Skills to the 666th Floor

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Chapter 27 - Amon Impersonator Exposed

[Author: Amon]

<Title: Does anyone want to meet up at Hongdae Station today at 8PM?>

└ It’s almost 8PM. Has Lord Amon shown up?

└ What does Amon look like? Can anyone give us a live update?

└ Please share your experience with Amon. I’m dying to know.

└ Is Amon even a man? Or was Amon a woman?

└ What time is it? Has he still not shown up?

└ Come on people. Keep us in the loop!!!

└ I’m waiting for the people on the scene to comment.

└ Me too!

On the day of the meet up, Amon’s post was filled with comments from people who wanted to be updated on the matter. When the time came, people on the scene started commenting, but it was different than what the public had expected.

└ Fucking hell!

└ What the fuck…

└ We got got. Damn it.

└ What’s wrong? Did something happen?

└ Disperse, guys. This wasn’t posted by the real Amon.

└ What do you mean it wasn’t the real Amon?

└ It was posted by an impersonator.

└ For real?

└ Impersonator? What?

└ Were you on the scene?

└ Spill the tea homies. With details.

People were dying to know more as additional comments flooded in.

└ Some fuckwad was impersonating Amon. He took us to a secondary location to extort money from us with fake-ass lessons.

└ Shit. Really?

└ I was also there. I felt so bamboozled.

└ And you’re sure it wasn’t the real Amon?

└ He wasn’t. When we asked for proof that he’s Amon, he immediately dipped. Also, he was a fugly-ass man in his 40s.

└ Ah… That sounds like a fake.

└ Yeah! No way Amon is an ugly middle-aged man.

The comments were filled with gossip about the impersonator.

└ Shouldn’t the identity of the impersonator be exposed?

└ What a fucking con man. What a piece of shit. Trying to rip us off.

└ So was this post made by the fake Amon then?

└ Yeah. Meeting up was his idea after all.

└ Man… y'all were baited.

└ I guess it wouldn’t make sense for Amon to hold a fan meet up.

└ How did you guys even find out that he was a con man?

└ Idk, but he confessed it himself.

└ What? Why?

└ Beats me. Maybe he just slipped up.

└ I have that lil bitch’s number. I’ll share it with anyone who wants it lol

└ How did you get his number?

└ He gave it to us, telling us to text him.

└ I have his number too. It’s 010-XXXX-XXXX. kek

└ I should prank call him.

└ I tried calling him, but he didn’t pick up.

└ At first, he would leave me on read, but he stopped checking my texts all together.

└ Time to gear up, fellow keyboard warriors.

The post kept trending even while Tae-seong was busy clearing the Labyrinth. Contrary to the truth, people started framing Dopal and claiming he orchestrated everything.

└ If you’re curious, you can find a video of it on Viewtube.

└ Video? How do I find it?

└ You can find it by searching “Amon Impersonator”

└ I just saw that. It was so stupid lol

└ He self-reports, gets shocked, and turns tail lmao

└ This guy’s a pretty good actor

└ So who uploaded the video? I saw that their nickname was Amon.

└ No way it’s the real Amon.

└ Yeah. Why would the real Amon also have a Viewtube channel?

Dopal stopped scrolling through the comments and quickly looked up the video that they had mentioned. He found it under the title of “Amon Impersonator Exposed”.

“I can’t believe these suckers are falling for it. They really believe that I’m Amon, heheh.”

“What are you saying, Mr. Amon?”

“Wait, why the fuck am I saying my inner thoughts—mmph!”

“You’re not Amon! You’re an impersonator!”

“No! I am Amon. I’m the real Amon!”

“Then, prove it.”

“Well… The thing is…”

“Huh? That motherfucker’s running away! Catch him!”

The video showed him confessing his intentions before running away in humiliation. It ended with people chasing after him.

“Fuuuck!” Dopal cried, furious. He was so mad that he almost smashed his phone. “Who’s the motherfucker that recorded this?!”

Naturally, it had to have been someone who had been there. Whoever it was, they made him a laughing stock. Not just nationally, but globally.

“Amon? Is it that fucker again?”

Out of all the nicknames the uploader could’ve used, they chose Amon. To top it all off, the channel name was “Amon's Labyrinth Guide”.

However, this was the only video they had uploaded so far.

“Son of a bitch…”

Dopal figured that the chances of this being the real Amon were pretty low. Video aside, what upset him the most was the fact that people were mistaken.

“I wasn’t the one who made the post!” he insisted.

Despite the meet up being organized by the real Amon, people had assumed that it was him, and that it was all part of his master plan to con people.

He sighed. “If only I hadn’t blurted that out... I could’ve rendered so many people utterly penniless.”

He still couldn’t figure out why he had spoken his inner feelings aloud. It was a completely involuntary compulsion.

‘It felt like I was being controlled by someone else,’ he thought.

As unbelievable as that sounded, he now lived in a world where people possessed supernatural abilities. It wasn’t out of the realm of possibility for someone to have a skill capable of manipulating people.

Vrrr! Vrrr!

Dopal’s phone continued to ring nonstop. Within the short moment it took to watch the video, he had gotten dozens of calls and texts.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck!”

He turned his phone off to think in silence. He tried his best to recall who could have recorded the video. Whoever it was, he wanted to find them and kill them. Unfortunately, however, he didn’t even know what they looked like.

“Greatest Conman? Sir?” Dopal called, praying to his patron. “Please tell me who recorded me. I bet you know. You were watching me, weren’t you?”

No response came. He was basically talking into thin air like a madman.

“Piece of shit Transcendent Spirit.”

Even when he cursed at the spirit, there was still no response.

That was how Transcendent Spirits were, it seemed. After turning humans into acolytes, they stopped caring.

Either that, or they just didn’t have the ability to respond.

“Stupid transcendent bitch,” Dopal spat. “We haven’t had a single proper conversation after I became his acolyte.”

Grumbling out loud, Dopal put on a coat and left his one-room apartment. He was so stressed out that he needed to vent.

What better way was there to vent than to commit his favorite crimes?

[The 39th floor of the Labyrinth has been cleared for the first time!]

[The 40th floor of the Labyrinth has opened.]

[10 days have been added to the annihilation countdown.]

[Time Left Until Annihilation: 413 days, 19 hours, 40 minutes, 54 seconds]

He was suddenly alerted by the sound of his life being extended. Despite that fact, Dopal scowled at the message.

“Stupid fucking Amon. He has the nerve to focus on clearing the Labyrinth after being a no-show? That asshole…”

Despite doing the entire planet a service, Tae-seong was being chewed out.

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[You have cleared the 39th floor of the Labyrinth!]

[You have obtained a ‘Very Minor Essence of Resistance’ as a reward for clearing the 39th floor normally.]

Grey energy entered my body.

It was only a single stat point, but it would prove increasingly useful as more of them stacked higher and higher.

That was especially true of the resistance stat since it could give you an immunity to various status effects. The higher the better. Not that other stats weren’t important either, of course.

I needed to become much stronger if I wanted to come anywhere near decapitating Amon’s head.

Fortunately, there was a massive difference between how I was now and how I had been before my regression. All because of Skill Duplication.

‘I now have ten more skills at my disposal thanks to it.’

After finding a means of bypassing its restriction, I received permanent access to these skills. Once I upgraded Parasite, I could obtain even more.

‘If I continue to grow at this rate, I might actually be able to kill Amon.’

[Credits have been added to the normal clear reward.]

[You have obtained 7,000 credits.]

‘And these credits are going to play a big role in that.’

Credits were the currency of the Dimension Shop I had unlocked by using the Orb of Darkness. The Orb of Darkness normally only appeared from the 160th floor onward, but I managed to get it by the 25th floor. As a result, I started collecting credits from the 26th floor.

What had started as a 1,000 credit reward had now increased to 7,000 credits. After finishing the 39th floor, I had saved up a total of 60,000 credits.

It didn’t take a genius to figure out that starting at a much earlier point than the 160th floor would result in a massive credit difference.

‘According to my calculations, I should end up with 60% more credits than others.’

Because you couldn’t give your credits to others, they were a resource as valuable as stats. Every additional credit could contribute to your growth.

[You are the first to clear the 39th floor of the Labyrinth!]

[You have obtained a ‘Random Skill Book (F)’ as a reward for being the first to clear the 39th floor.]

‘These add up massively as well.’

F-rank skills shouldn’t be underestimated because of their rank, since ranks could always be increased with Skill Upgrade Orbs.

Theoretically, even F-rank skills could be upgraded to EX-rank.

‘Not that I think anyone would attempt such a thing.’

In my previous life, I made it all the way down to the 666th floor, yet I still failed to obtain an EX-rank skill.

In fact, I didn’t even have any SSS-rank skills. The highest ranking skill I had was the SS-rank sacrificial skill from the Triad. Because I was the 11th of the 12 acolytes, I always got the short end of the stick when it came to getting boons from the gods.

After all of that, who could have imagined that I would be the only one who would challenge Amon face to face?

‘In this life, I’m going to rise to the top alone.’

[Would you like to go down to the next floor? Y/N]

[You can return to Earth by selecting 'N'.]

By selecting ‘N’, I exited the sinkhole.

I needed to put the 40th floor on reserve for now.

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As usual, the first thing I did when I got home was take a shower. Afterward, I inspected my Inventory.

‘I’ve accumulated a lot of items over the course of 39 floors.’

Floors 30 to 39 were all trap missions. Because all of the monsters that appeared had been illusions, defeating them didn’t yield any magic crystals.

‘Although I couldn’t collect magic crystals, I still got quite a lot of useful items.’

A random skill book, a glove coupon, a mana elixir, two random orb fragments, and three random orb shards.

They were all given as normal and first clear rewards.

‘Let’s start with the shards.’

I withdrew all the shards in my Inventory. By combining the three shards I stole from Mina, the two I was gifted by Joshua, and the three I had recently found…

Flash!

...I created a single random orb fragment.

I had received a random orb fragment as a reward on both the 30th and 38th floor.

‘I’ve gathered six fragments in total.’

I managed to gather more fragments than I had anticipated.

‘Before I combine the fragments, I should use the skill book and glove coupon first. And consume the elixir, too.’

[You have consumed a Slightly Minor Elixir of Mana.]

[Mana increased by 2.]

By consuming the elixir I got for first-clearing the 34th floor, I permanently increased my mana.

Next, I activated the skill book.

[Using Random Skill Book (F).]

[Congratulations! You have acquired the skill ‘Rapid Reaction (F)’.]

▷Rapid Reaction (F)

—Effect: You can react a bit quicker.

I rolled a pretty decent passive. This was a good time to check out my status window.

《Name: Lee Tae-seong》

《Race: Human》

《Patron Spirit: God of Time, God of the Underworld, Goddess of Concord》

《Clear Progress: 39th floor of the Labyrinth》

《Credits: 60,000》

【Achievements】

▶ Labyrinth Hunter (F), Explorer (F), Offense Is the Best Defense (F), My Way Is the Correct Way (F)

【Exclusive Skills】

▷Time Pause (SSS), Soul Strike (S), Crystal Clear Tranquility (SS), Skill Duplication (EX), Parasite (S), Dice Roll (A), Nerve Toxin (A), Winged Ascent (B), Camouflage (B), Dragonbreath (A), Death Prison (S), Cloud Protection (S), Mind Control (S), Charming Whip (A), Time Reversal (SSS)

【Learned Skills】

▷Upward Strike (F), Vigor (F), Rapid Reaction (F)

【Stats】

●Strength: 16 / Penetration: 16

●Durability: 16 / Dexterity: 17

●Vitality: 16 / Mana: 17

●Regeneration: 16 / Resistance: 16

This was incredible for someone who had only gone as far as the 39th floor.

I was very pleased.

‘Next up is picking a pair gloves.’

[Using Glove Coupon (F).]

[Please choose one of the following gloves:]

└ 1) Worn-out Cloth Gloves

└ 2) Torn Leather Gloves

└ 3) Lightweight Metallic Gloves

‘I’ll go with #3.’

[Lightweight Metallic Gloves (F)]

―Category: Gloves

―Durability: 100/100

―Effect: +1 Durability, shock absorption upon impact

—Restriction: Must be an acolyte that has at least cleared the 1st floor of the Labyrinth.

―Description: Light and durable metallic gloves. Their shock absorption effect ensures they would not prove too strenuous to wear for an extended period of time.

This was also a very serviceable pair of gloves.

‘Now, finally…’

I retrieved the random orb fragments from my Inventory. When I put four pieces together…

Flash!

With a bright light, it transformed into a completed item.

[The four Random Orb Fragments are combining into one.]

[The property of the resulting orb will be randomized.]

Now, what orb was I about to get?

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