Overgeared

“Fine by me. This is written in the language of this world. You won’t have any trouble reading it.”

A large bipedal deer…

Except for its head and body, he was no different from a human, and he was also able to write well. On the parchment paper he threw at Grid, the calligraphy he had just written showed off his elegant brush strokes.

[Breaking Soul Contract]

If either side violates the rules of this contract, their souls will be destroyed and they will die.

1. The two cultivators must compete using the same technique.

2. The choice of mystical art is left to the person who signs the contract, not the writer. However, if the signatory requests a mystical art that cannot be used, the writer has the right to refuse.

3. After the battle of mystical arts, the loser will need to complete three requests for the winner.

‘There are three requests.’

The contract clearly stated this strange aspect.

‘Did this deer intentionally approach me?’

What did he want? Grid was intrigued.

“There is no need for these three requests, is there?” Grid asked. “I just want to ask you a few questions.”

“Yeah, if you win... I’m trying to reduce the number of questions you can ask to three. I don’t wanna be kept here all day, you know?”

‘Does he think I’m an idiot?’

The deer man’s explanation was nothing more than a flimsy excuse. If Grid told him to answer all his questions as one of his three requests, the deer man’s logic wouldn’t work.

‘Well, I just have to win and ask him things that way.’

Grid became more motivated and used his appraisal skill. He wanted to make sure there were no hidden effects in the contract.

The deer man sensed what Grid was doing.

“The Breaking Soul Contract is made by applying the Golden Soul Technique,” the demon cultivator explained. “There is no need to doubt it since it is commonly used in various transactions in the cultivation world.”

‘Is this a type of Golden Soul Technique?’

As expected, the common skills were the most versatile and reliable, no matter the genre of the game.

Grid confirmed there were no problems with the contract and pointed to the signature line.

“Do I write my name here?”

“Yes.”

‘If I win the match, I have to tell him to hand over the latter part of the Golden Soul Technique as well.’

No, he had to ask the deer man to give him everything he had. Grid took out the fountain pen he had received as a gift from Elizabeth a few years ago and signed the contract.

[The Breaking Soul Contract is working.]

system message, the contract glowed red and floated in the air before it was torn in half. One half

binding force. He opened his status window and checked. He found

mystical art do you want

time on useless things. Grid thought the

“The Wave Arts.”

top-notch mystical art. He’d got the gist of it from Noe. Once he learned the Wave Arts, he could easily learn other non-attribute skills and be successful in

was necessary to know how to freely change the power of the

wasn’t a penalty for Grid, who had learned the Profound Martial Technique and made his spiritual root

to

deer man’s expression subtly changed. He tilted his head, and so did his

asked. He was about to tell Noe to take out

haven’t learned the Wave

Wave

the Wave Arts unless you are born with a natural physique, have attained the natural state by becoming an immortal, or learned

on the ashen energy around the

you say that I have

is stated in the second clause,

with this idea... Are you lying when you say you can’t use Wave Arts? At this point, I don’t think this

words and actions are despicable. The others who call themselves gods have

but he was freaking out on the inside. Of course, he knew how to use the Wave Arts. Unless an immortal created it, there was no technique in

huge difference between knowing how to simply use it

years by pure luck. He developed an ego, studied for thousands of years to become a cultivator, trained for tens of thousands of years to reach his current

demon cultivators, the deer man had continued to evolve thanks to his cautious nature. Had it not been for his personality, he would’ve been born as a deer and died

Grid asked. “Have you demon cultivators been

to be gods.’ Grid suspected that the

“Asgard? I don’t know what that

he didn’t know about the concept of heaven at all, nor

Grid didn’t believe him.

encountered a guy

of the surface’ and the ‘Overgeared World’s gods’ were now virtually synonymous with each other. Except for a few, such as Hanul, all the gods on the surface

doesn’t trust me,’ the deer man

any more time and get down to business. Decide on how you want to

confident he could fight his opponent a hundred times and win every time, but he tried not to provide an environment that would prove advantageous to his enemy. This was why he refused the Wave Arts that Grid was most

option, not giving him enough time to think too thoroughly. Grid, seemingly relaxed, stared at

Wave Arts, that means you haven’t mastered the other elemental arts,

it. Most common arts have no attributes. I just haven’t learned any offensive non-attribute arts, like Wave

“Is that so?”

This guy wasn’t a deer. He was a fox in disguise. Grid found

it was, it

the Earth

confident in, but… As

made the earth shift. It was a basic technique, and it was capable of changing the shape of the land or permeating the land, but it could be utilized in many ways. Thus,

said he wasn’t confident enough to use it. This guy was truly insidious. Grid

he was about to pull out a book on earth arts. At this time, the only mystical arts that Grid had learned were the Golden Soul Technique and Memory Searching Technique, so he had to learn other mystical

How could

confident. He was insane. This wasn’t

Noe, whose eyes were filled with worry and dissatisfaction. “Stay

rejecting the Earth Escape Arts

stand this anymore and asked,

skill. The power to move the earth at will… The potential of this technique was endless as it was

to the Earth Escape Arts, which was confined to the framework of