Leveling Up with Skills Chapter 616

Episode 616

616. Easy mode. Simple Time Stop (4)

“That sucks.”

Taesan frowns. There have been many cases where skills were not acquired even after investing a long time.

Taesan was not greatly annoyed by the wasted effort, such as because the acquisition conditions were different or because he obtained a completely useless skill that was different from what he expected. After such a trial error, I was able to acquire various skills.

But Taesan was feeling a rare and strong irritation right now.

‘Why not?’

My narrowed eyes focus on thousands of projectiles. I look at it for a moment, sigh, and then take a step forward.

Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-gak!

Head towards the distorting projectiles. Taesan arrives at the exact center of the room and raises his sword and shield.

I take a moment to catch my breath and move my sword.

Kaaaang!

The first thing that hit was the needle.

A very thin needle collides with the sword and its trajectory is twisted. It collides with other projectiles and instantly creates irregularities. Taishan is within range of interference.

But Taesan was unperturbed. It’s an irregularity that he created to aim for. Even in that irregularity, a pattern existed.

read it My head accelerates. Pick up the shield.

Whoops! The sphere that hits the shield bounces. It collides with the flying shuriken and rushes towards Taesan again.

Taesan pressed the sphere at an angle with his sword.

The sphere bounces off the floor at a diagonal angle and flies out of range.

Just turn around and stab the sword into the ground. The flying projectiles hit the sword and bounce off.

The head continues to rotate. There is no point in looking just one or two moves ahead.

The locations and types of projectiles are constantly changing.

Orbit changes upon collision.

and control of the time at which projectiles collide.

You have to do all of that to reach pause. Dozens and hundreds of people look ahead. The body moves without rest.

[Your first attack’s absolute nullity has been activated.]

Kagak!

Strikes the nullified projectile diagonally. As it collides with the sphere, it flies toward the sky and collides with the blade that was falling in the air. They bounce off each other in opposite directions.

Everything was according to Taesan’s calculations.

Establish tens of thousands of patterns, remember meaningful ones among them, and move your body toward that point.

So after about two minutes.

It is now. Taesan lowers his posture.

Kagagak!

Press the sphere with the shield. The sphere hits the floor, crushing numerous projectiles. The star moving above the head touches the needle. The shuriken needle shuriken all collided with the long blade moving on the left. The sphere in the upper right corner makes a loud noise and shakes back and forth.

Take a big step. Projectiles whose attack nullification has already been activated collide with Taesan’s legs.

0.05 seconds. A fleeting moment.

At that moment, dozens of projectiles collided at once.

Although it was only for a moment, it seemed as if it had stopped.

Except for Taesan’s back.

Ga-ga-ga-ga-gak!

Projectiles collide with a loud noise behind the back. It’s a failure. Taesan clicks his tongue and comes out of the room.

“That’s annoying.”

The reason I felt annoyed by this failure was simple.

It was purely due to his lack of ability.

‘I can’t calculate everything.’

To obtain the skill, all projectiles within the range he can interfere with must be stopped, at least temporarily.

This means that the timing must be adjusted artificially by reading the trajectory, type, speed, and location of the projectiles.

To put it bluntly, it was crazy.

The human mind is not a supercomputer. There were limits to computation and processing.

And Taesan has now reached its limit.

The problem was that the skill requirements had not yet been met.

It was the same as blocking projectiles. Even though I knew the conditions for the skill, I was unable to obtain it due to lack of ability.

“Ugh.”

The reason he was annoyed was because of his own shortcomings. If I had been a little better, if I had been a little more talented, I could have achieved it all. A skill he couldn’t acquire because he lacked it.

In this case, I felt annoyed and angry at my own inadequacy.

Of course, it would be ridiculous if other people heard it.

Thousands of projectiles coming from all directions prevent you from even approaching them for 10 seconds. Making dozens of projectiles collide all at once. They even calculated it artificially and drew it out.

It was impossible for even a genius, let alone a criminal, to attempt it.

But Taesan was truly sad. If I had just a little more talent, I could have gotten it all.

‘Why not?’

The limitations have been identified. By following a set pattern for approximately 2 minutes, approximately 80% of the projectiles could be stopped.

But 20% was absolutely impossible.

It was a limitation of pure ability.

In the first place, there was nothing I could do about the blind spot behind my back. To stop there he would have to really read everything, but his brain couldn’t reach it.

20%.

A figure that his abilities could never reach.

It is not a small number, but it is ambiguous to say that it is a large number.

“….”

The tongue rolls in the mouth. The head that had been stopped begins to roll again.

“It’s crazy… but it is.”

Even Taesan, who had done countless crazy things so far, was confident.

It was really crazy.

But… there is a possibility.

That was enough.

“You really do all sorts of things.”

Taesan shook his head and entered the secret room. I stood in the center of the place, took a deep breath, and moved my body.

Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-gak!

The movement was completely the same as before.

The patterns identified over the past year have been perfectly established in their best form. This is his limit. There is no point in adding anything now.

Two minutes passed and dozens of projectiles stopped again.

Ga-ga-ga-ga-gak!

However, the projectiles behind him were hitting loudly. After hearing the sound for a moment, Taesan was convinced.

20% is a figure he neither predicted nor could reach.

In other words, a completely different collision occurred than in previous attempts.

So stop at 20%.

Not by his ability, but by pure luck.

All projectiles reach the point where they stop.

If you repeat numerous try errors, you will eventually reach it.

‘Should it have been like this in the first place?’

Irregular. In order to obtain skills that cross the line, there are some things that are simply impossible with his abilities.

There are certainly times when you have to rely on pure luck and miracles.

If so, keep trying until you achieve that miracle.

It is an enlightenment and knowledge.

Taishan has now stepped into a separate realm.

Ga-ga-ga-ga-gak!

Leave and enter the secret room and repeat. The two minutes repeat continuously, and the projectiles behind my back keep hitting me in different ways.

Taesan, who was moving his body, started laughing without realizing it.

Even at 20%, there were at least 10 projectiles.

The possibility of those 10 projectiles colliding at once purely by chance. It was ridiculously low.

‘but.’

It’s not impossible.

A long time ago.

An ordinary life on Earth that I can’t even remember right now.

I remembered the article I saw back then.

In this nearly infinite universe, a planet like Earth appears.

A living being is born inside it.

The probability that higher life forms like humans will appear is the probability that a complete watch will be created by throwing a bunch of watch parts into a 25m swimming pool and shaking the pool.

A probability that is infinitely close to impossible.

But the odds actually came true. Although it is now completely trampled, there was definitely life on Earth.

Compared to that, isn’t this probability a very high probability? Just dozens of projectiles collided at once. It’s not difficult at all.

‘Of course.’

Taesan truly believed that.

Leave the room, come back in, and move your body according to the pattern.

After repeating this about ten times, a thought suddenly occurred to me.

‘Did I say re-rolling?’

There was a saying like that in a mobile lottery game. Did you say that you deleted the game and reinstalled it repeatedly to select good characters? I wasn’t interested in those games, but now I was doing something similar. I laughed.

Repeat and repeat.

One day, two days.

And one month.

I don’t know how long it will take. From now on, it’s a battle of pure luck. Probability was like that.

Since it is just a simple repetitive task, block your consciousness as much as possible. The memorized movements are imprinted on the body and repeated over and over again.

A year passes.

Still, I didn’t get the skill.

Taeyeon Lee exclaimed with joy that she had completely succeeded in escaping from the guide of sin. Taesan congratulated him.

More than a year and half a year passes.

I didn’t get the skill.

Two more years there.

Taeyeon Lee complained all kinds of times, saying that the deep space was a crappy space. Still, he said that the place called Manjang’s Library is good because it has a lot of books. I promised myself that I would not leave until I read all the books here.

And another year passes.

The labyrinth became truly quiet.

Now, with the exception of Taeyeon Lee and Taesan, the community was virtually static.

And time continues to pass like that.

At some point, Taesan forgot why he was doing this.

I was truly in a state of thoughtlessness and my body was moving.

Nevertheless, Taesan continued to enter the secret room.

It was like a kind of composition.

Although Taesan himself did not realize it, his essence was trying to reach a higher place.

We strive to overcome the obsession with the body and awaken the spirit to understand the principles of the world.

but.

Crack.

A fragment of dysentery sleeping inside him blocks it. It contaminates, devours, and tramples the high places where it used to stand. Taesan didn’t even realize what was happening and continued to move his body.

And finally.

Kaaaaaaaa!

A crash sound sounds. It was not a loud, irregular sound like before.

It was the sound of all projectiles within a certain range colliding at once and the sound of his goal being achieved.

[You have stopped everything within your reach. Obtained the special activation skill [Simple Time Stop].]