Preparations had begun.There were quite a lot of wooded areas around the village.Due to the cold climate of the region where the village was situated, snowfall and cold weather were quite common occurrences.Indeed, this was why many areas were covered in deep snow.The village, however, was blanketed in a thin layer of snow.Despite their frailty, every woman and many of the children, at least those whose hands were capable of work, had begun clearing the paths with shovels.Altair, meanwhile, had set off with seven women towards the area where the trees were thickest, the very spot the monsters would come from once the attack began.Axes were gripped tightly in their hands, and within three hours, over two hundred trees had been felled.The trees were not very large, at least the ones that are very close to the village, but the work would still take quite some time. Days even.Altair returned to the village grounds with the trees he had added to his inventory and soon mentioned th

The young man was constantly showering the area with arrows.Many arrows struck the monsters, effectively crippling them. Some had their skulls pierced and died, whilst others were struck in the limbs and left immobilised.In short, Altair was leaping from tree to tree, taking up position and swiftly dispatching his enemies.During this process, he had levelled up twice more.Although he hadn’t been able to collect his rewards, he wasn’t in any state to bother with that anyway.After killing the last of the monsters, he had gradually brought the Ice Fire under control, just as he had summoned it, and managed to extinguish it.The young man took a deep breath.The steam that had risen showed him that the air temperature was dropping very rapidly. At that moment, he looked up and saw that a light snowfall had begun.The Ice Fire had vaporised the snowflakes with its heat before they even reached the ground.Altair had to be quick.He could hear the sounds of monsters rising from the for

When the young man began to feel mentally exhausted, he turned around and saw that the passage had shrunk to a mere speck, with only a gap the size of a bag with its zip slightly open remaining.Yet no more monsters were emerging.At that moment, Altair managed to catch a glimpse of an unexpected warning window at the corner of his eye and realised why no other monsters were emerging:[Mission success rate: 98%]Someone in the village had died.Altair immediately turned around and began running through the forest, using his Hyper Charge ability one after another.He cut through the trees; he couldn’t get past and continued towards the village without a care in the world.The young man managed to cover a ten-minute distance in just two minutes, and at that moment, he could sense that dark aura emanating from the village.He managed to burst out from between the trees at full speed and, gripping the Space Cutter tightly, practically flew towards the source of this energy.Thanks to the

[The user has completed the thirteenth floor of Aculon at the 'Excellent-Grade quality'. As a result, the user has been awarded two special prizes:The user has earned 5 million gold!The user has earned 2 Godly-Grade Defence Talismans.]As Altair closed the system window, the two talismans fell before him, and the young man immediately sent both to his inventory.When he looked at the item description in his inventory, he must have been surprised:[Godly-Grade Defence Talisman (Godly+++)This is a type of talisman that can only be crafted by those who have attained the highest levels of grace, peace and eternity.When the user employs the talisman, if the attacker is at least five times stronger than the user, three of that attacker’s attacks will be rendered ineffective.]A small smile had formed on Altair’s face. It was certain that these talismans would definitely come in handy in the future. Those two talismans were practically extra lives.With that, he had closed his inventory

Altair had spent hours reading books on various runic faiths, languages and dialects, and had studied the manuscripts he had purchased.Everything had settled firmly in his mind, so he would have no trouble with this.Yet, even though his hands were not trembling, the thought of making a mistake worried him.Though he was also aware that he could not achieve success without making any mistakes.For this reason, he had taken out a few large sheets of paper to practise the simplest form of the runic language he had first learnt, the standard dialect.Working one after another with the runic paints, he realised that the mistakes he made were minuscule, very, very small.There really was no problem at all.The mistakes were so small that with a little practice, they had begun to disappear.By the sixth hour he had spent sitting in his chair trying to learn, Altair had truly mastered the task.As night fell, the young man carried on working without a care for the sleep in his eyes, and imm