Overgeared

Three months passed...

‘If I connect Link with Kill, it will help increase the attack power.’

Damian, whose identity changed from the Rebecca Church’s pope to Overgeared God Church’s pope, had grown tremendously over the course of three months. He had already created the two fusion sword dances and he could sense that his fighting power had risen dramatically.

“Ick.”

Pierce with Kill and dig into the gaps with Link.

Damian, who was pressing the field boss with a fusion sword dance also used by Grid, hurriedly set up his shield. The boss’ fist, that had a steel-like wood tied to it like a gauntlet, crushed Damian’s shield. Damian lost his balance due to his bent knees being unable to stand the pressure and literally rolled forward.

Vantner clapped and laughed when he saw Damian crawling under the boss’ crotch. “Haha! It is really unsightly!”

“He just wants to live. What’s wrong with that?” Jishuka scolded Vantner before pulling the bowstring and aiming at the back of the boss’ head. No matter how hard, wood was wood.The wood attribute boss couldn’t withstand the arrows of the Bow Saint filled with the breath of the red phoenix. The boss roared and writhed as it attacked blindly. Damian avoided their blind attacks, hid behind Vantner, and recovered his breath.

‘It’s difficult because I can’t move while the motion of Link is maintained.’

Link was an attack that swung the sword dozens of times in one second. During that one second, the user’s legs must be grounded and stuck to the earth. In order to effectively utilize Link, it was necessary to show such overwhelming attack power that the target couldn’t think of counterattacking, or to have enough defense to ignore the target’s counterattack. It was just like Grid.

Damian had changed classes and his overall stats weakened, so it was difficult for him to properly use Link. He would be in danger if he was hit by the opponent while using Link. In short, it meant he would lose if he was hit. Of course, this was a story when fighting bosses with relatively high specifications. Unfortunately, all bosses of a similar level had higher specifications than Damian.

“This isn’t going to work. I will quit before the next boss.” Damian determined that he was currently unfit to take part in a raid.

It was the laughing Vantner who grabbed Damian, who was leaving the party in order to not cause any inconvenience. “Don’t be like that. Let’s do it together.”

It was the privilege of those skilled in each field to join the raid team. Raid team members exclusively hunted some bosses that respawned across the entire territory of the Overgeared Kingdom. They devoted a certain amount of the items to the guild and received money distributed to them in return. It was a pretty excellent source of income. It allowed them to accumulate money while preventing unique items from leaking outside.

“You are now an Overgeared Guild member. We should make money together.” Vantner persuaded Damian. The other Overgeared members nodded in agreement.

However, Damian refused. “I don’t want to collect the distributed gold without doing anything. I appreciate your kindness.”

It was a matter of pride. It was unacceptable for Damian, who was a famous ranker since the early days, who took part in every National Competition and he served as the leader of a mega-power called the Rebecca Church, to become a so-called ‘distribution freeloader.’

“Tut. You can join at any time. I’ll wait for you.”

on persuading him. He just wanted Damian to

‘Money... I need money.’

paladin. It was that the protection of the Overgeared God didn’t directly increase stats but rather increased the effect of items. For those with very powerful items, the

people were satisfied with rare items and it was difficult for rare items to have a dramatic increase in effect when receiving the Overgeared God’s Protection.

a pain that was difficult for rankers, especially those of

to hurry and

pope was killed by Rebecca’s angels, the Rebecca Church distrusted Damian. There was no reason to stop him when he said he wanted to leave

the pope, the cloak of blessing, and the holy sword that symbolized he was the greatest pope in history. He returned everything he owned

demanded more from him. They warned that everything he could enjoy, and everything he could become, due to being the pope, should be handed in. They said, ‘It can’t be helped. We have always been grateful to you and respect you, but it has nothing to do with this incident. You are the one who did the wrong thing. Taking away what you own instead of executing you

all of Damian’s assets and placed a negative number at the bottom

-159,885,103 gold.

debt. In yen, it was 20 billion. This didn’t mean that the profit gained from serving as pope was so great. Damian had never abused his position for his selfish desires. The reason for his debt was the three Rebecca’s Daughters, including Isabel. The Rebecca’s Daughters whom Damian took

angry, but... it was bravado. In

glad I could keep the items I received from Grid,

They were old.

his shield, the rest were items purchased a few years ago, so higher level

“Hah...”

fee when asking Grid to make an item. Recently, Grid was refusing the rewards, but Lauel accepted them separately and placed them in the treasury. It was based on the theory that the closer they were, the more accurate the calculations should be. Damian and the Overgeared members agreed. In the first place, there was no problem with the procedure because

can grind and get the materials for the item, but I need to pay off the debt first if I want to be able to afford

an item, the gold was automatically sent to the Rebecca Church. It meant he couldn’t even touch

couldn’t brag about having a negative balance in his inventory and he felt frustrated with the

participate in the National Competition in this state, it will be hard to win a

while living alone. Life in a luxurious mansion was often lonely. He should remember his original intentions. Go back to the days when he played games in a small

time when the Overgeared God Church was

The statue of Khan smiled kindly like he did in his life and it was larger and more prominent than the statue of Grid, the

He recalled the way Khan

be happy

“Damian?”

"......?!”

was praying at Khan’s statue when he looked back at the voice calling his name. It was a familiar face. It was the program PD for a famous Japanese broadcasting station. He was the only who insisted that

to be able to serve

felt unlucky every time he saw

was built at Grid’s temple so I came to cover it.