Record of a Thousand Lives-Chapter 16

The treasure of the Yultika Ruin was a bracerembedded with a silver maneand a large steel chain.

[Silvermane Bracer]

Rating: Rare

Strength: 67

The mane of amagic-wieldingwerewolfhas been embedded in this bracer. The user will be able to use the strength of a werewolf, and may summon the spirit of an ancient wolf when facing a powerful enemy.

[Chain of Obedience]

It is enchanted with obedience magic and can be used to tame an animal-type monster. Taming difficulty will increase if the level difference between the user and the monster is great, and success rate will increase if the monster is exhausted or inflicted with statusconditions. Tamingwill be successful once the monster acknowledges the user.

[The Yultika Ruin has been conquered.]

[Conqueror: Kang Yoon-Soo]

[Rank 1 Achievement: Shaneth Elogran]

[You have conquered the Yultika Ruin.]

[You have absorbed the ruin’s magic power.]

[Your reflexes have increased slightly.]

[Your physical abilities will increase when exposed to moonlight.]

[Criticalchanceagainstwolf-typemonsters hasincreased.]

[Conquered Ruins: 1]

[729 monstersremainin the ruin.]

[The werewolves will not forgive you if you do not honor your promise.]

“That’s amazing. I didn’t know they showed the achievement rankings. I guess itwouldbe easier for clans to distribute the rewardslike this,” Shaneth said while flicking her finger in mid-air, eyes wide as she stared at the system messages.

Kang Yoon-Soo equipped the Silvermane Bracer. An accessory that increased the user’s strength was very rare, and the Silvermane Bracer was able to compensate for his low level. He said, “Let’s go.”

“You meanleavethe ruin?” Shaneth aske.

“Yeah,”Kang Yoon-Sooreplied.

“But… The ruin is still filled with werewolves. Don’t you think it’llbe difficult to convince them this time since they’reangry?”Shaneth asked, her brow furrowed. She did not want to imagine being ripped apart by 700werewolves.

“It’s alright,” Kang Yoon-Soo nonchalantly replied, showing herthe Chain of Obedience in his hand.

Theywent backdownfromthe altar and stepped out of the room. The silver beast was still lying on the ground, exhausted. Kang Yoon-Soo dashed toward the beast and put the Chain of Obedience on its neck.

“Kreuuung…!”The beast roared, trying to resist, but it could not win against Kang Yoon-Soo.Ittried to cut the chains with its claws, butfell tothe ground before it could.

[You have successfully captured the Silver Beast of the Wild.]

[Do you wish to tame this monster?]

“Yes,I’ll tame it,” Kang Yoon-Soo answered.

[You have successfully tamed the Silver Beast of the Wild.]

[The Silver Beast of the Wild has been freed from the Yultika Ruin.]

[Please name the tamed monster.]

Kang Yoon-Soo looked at the silver-white fur of the beast and said, “White.”

[White]

Level: 104

Race: Silver Beast (Werewolf Variant)

[Strength]: 71

[Reflex]: 27

[Instinct]: 6

Skills: Wind Claw (Lvl3)

A werewolf variantthatwas chased out of its pack for being born with white fur, and evolved into a werewolf after chasingthemoonlight. It became the boss monster of the Yultika Ruin after being caught up in the ruin’s magic power. It has a nasty temper andaskeptical personality.

TheSilverBeast hadbecome a named monster. Named monsters were able tolevel up,unlike normal monsters.In other words, theSilverBeast, White, hadbecome a boss monster.

Kang Yoon-Soo pulled out the daggers he had embedded in White’s body, thentook out a landworm’s feelers and a wooden bowl. He ground the feelers up and mixedthemwith some of the leftover mead,turning the mixtureinto a yellowish liquid.

“Drink it,” he commanded.

“Urno...”White began.

Kang Yoon-Soo kicked thebeast in the jawbefore it could finish speaking.

Pukeok!

“Yelp!”White whimpered and rolled around the ground in pain. Kang Yoon-Soo had kicked one of its newly grown fangs.

Kang Yoon-Soodid not miss theopportunityto pourthe liquid down White’s throat.

Gulp!

The liquid Kang Yoon-Soo had madecould regeneratemuscles. White’s eyes suddenly opened wide after swallowing the liquid, and its muscles miraculously started to recover.

Kang Yoon-Soowrappedthe chain around White’s neck as iftheywere reins and hopped onthe beast’sbroad back. White growled and tried to stand up in refusal, but the Chain of Obedience madeitobey the man’scommands. White glared atKang Yoon-Soowith evident fury,but it wasunable to shakehimoff its back.

“Get on.” Kang Yoon-Soo held his hand out to Shaneth.

“Is it really alright?”Shaneth asked nervously.

There were some cases of highly skilled tamers using wild wolves as their mount, but to ride a wild werewolf? It was something noonehad heard of, nor was it something anyone had imagined.

“It’s alright,”Kang Yoon-Sooanswered.

Shaneth hesitated.‘Can I trust this man…?’she thought to herself. However, her hesitation did not last long, and she took Kang Yoon-Soo’s hand and hopped on the beast.‘I guess trusting him a little won’t hurt,’she thought as she sat down behind him. She wrapped her armstightlyaround his waist because she was afraid to fall.

“Run,” Kang Yoon-Soo commanded.

“Kreuuuung!”White shotforwardlike an arrow and started running.

“Kyaaaaah!”Shaneth screamedonce White started running.Shehadexperience riding a horse,but this was just too fast. Her vision started togrowhazy, herhairbecamealltangled, and she could not even hold her head up.

Kang Yoon-Soo pulled on the chains and changed the direction White was runningin, and whenever White changed directions, Shaneth felt as if sheweregoing to die.

“Keung! Keung!”

“Grrrrrr!”

The werewolves started to chase after them once they left the center of the ruin, but no matter how fast thewerewolves were,they could not catch up to White’s speed. The werewolves bared their fangs as they kept running, but they soon gave up after running out of stamina.

Some werewolvesblocked their path. Perhaps White did not want to kill its own kind, however;it surprisingly chose to howl and avoid them, much unlikeits usual aggressive temperament.

Shanethhadnot expected to have a calm ride like a trip in a carriage, but she had to clench her teeth to avoid biting her own tongue because of how roughitwas.“Alright?! What do you mean it’salright?!” she complained.

“I lied,”Kang Yoon-Sooreplied.

Shaneth felt like killing him for real this time, and she sympathized with White for a moment.

“Urnokra!”the silver beast that was carrying thepairroared.

***

Hiledanwasa city famous for its alchemy;it was a stark contrast from Kerlin,whichwas located on the other side of the wilderness.Ithad rows of buildings and numerous pedestrians walking its streets. It wasmore developed thanKerlin, which was nothing more than a provincial territory.

The city was filled withall sortsof people;among them were a merchant trying to make a saletoa stubborn customer, a bard performing on the street for somechange, and travelers that had wrist devices like Kang Yoon-Soo.Travelersbusily toldtales of their adventures in pubs. Hiledan was a bustling city with a peaceful atmosphere.

Shaneth closed her eyes and slowly opened them again. Shewas excited, her heart racingfrom seeing the bustling and unfamiliar atmosphere in front of her. “The city is an awesome place,” she said as she looked on, awestruck.

“Hiledan is a small city,” Kang Yoon-Soo replied.

“Really? You mean thereare citiesbigger than this?”Shanethasked in surprise.

“Yeah,”Kang Yoon-Soononchalantly replied.

“We plan to go there too…Right?”Shaneth asked expectantly.

“Yeah,”Kang Yoon-Soo repeated.

Shaneth smiled like achild excited to goon a field trip the next day, while Kang Yoon-Soo was expressionless as usual.

‘I have to roam the continent and get stronger to kill the Demon Lord,’Kang Yoon-Soo thought to himself. He was different from Shaneth;there was no place in the continent that he looked forward to visiting. He had already visited every single placeonthe continent,from a certain kid’s hideoutto the lair of the Dragon of Destruction.

If he wereasked to choose some places that still thrilled him, it would be the magic tower and the forbidden areas of the continent. He could die in those places in an instant, even with all the knowledge and experience he had from his previous lives—those places were forbidden for a reason. He had visited those places in his previous life, but he had still barely cheated death numerous times despite leveling his stats up to thehighest possible limit.

‘I won’t be going to those places anyway,’he muttered to himself.Those places allowed him tolevel up quickly,but the risks were too high, and Kang Yoon-Soo did not plan to die before killing the Demon Lord.

‘What I have to do in Hiledan is…’he thought as he started to reminisce.

He had gone through all sorts of troubles and hardships when he arrived at Hiledan in his first life. Hehad been unable to imagine what kind of danger lurked in this peaceful town. However, itwas different this time. This Kang Yoon-Soohad regressed until he was sick of it. Heknew exactlywhat he had to do to maximize his profits from thiscity.

‘I have to kill that guy first.’

The first thing Kang Yoon-Soo planned to do in this peaceful city was, ironically,murder.