As Ken was still lying down on the battlefield, he was simply thinking about one thing. "Crap… I missed the whole fight because of the reader's pov."
As he can't always see what is going on during the stage two of reader's pov, he didn't see this one either.
Right now, Jung Heewon was the one fighting with the forty first round Yoosung. She arrived a little bit too late, but she definitely arrived on time. Because, if she didn't, they might as well be dead. Since that last attack threw all of them out, and they had just become too weak to properly fight.
Ken had even run out of mana, the only reason he could still go on is because of this.
[Mana bracelet.]
[Grade: S.]
[Description: A pair of bracelets that greatly increases mana recovery speed. But the main thing about it is that it increases the mana by 2.]
The reader's pov stage two and the hyper-creativity, both use mana in order to stay active. And these bracelet's recovery speed was good enough to at least keep them active.
So, it was more like a loop of mana being recovered and burned until Ken deactivated them. Even then, the reason his regeneration was active was only because it wasn't limited to consuming his mana, but also his stamina.
As he finally got up with the help of his spear, which was now more like a staff. He stood up in a daze, looking at the fight.
The fight was intense, but what Ken felt from it was that it is beautiful. Not that it lasted that long. But he thought that it was beautiful, most probably because of the white flames covering Jung Heewon's sword, which was the stigma granted by Uriel.
As she finally got a clean stab on Shin Yoosung's stomach, even if someone were to call it a stab on stomach, it was extremely close to the chest.
As she fell on her knees. Everyone slowly came in front of her. Ken was also there, but he could not hear anything. Ever since he stopped the reader's pov, he hasn't heard a single thing. Which only made him wonder if he became deaf somehow during the fight.
He did realize one thing after the fight kind of ended, as instead of them, Heewon was fighting. Is that, during the entire fight, he, or more specifically, him during stage two active. Only focused on healing damages that can cause him to either die, or not be able to fight.
But as he saw the scene. One thing was clear to him and that is. 'This shit is too sad.'
Not long after, he healed his hearing back. And he could finally hear again, as Dokja was about to call Jung Heewon for something, he suddenly stops and stares at Joonghyuk and Shin Yoosung, who were looking at each other.
Ken couldn't understand anything. But he was pretty sure Dokja stopped to hear what they were saying in their mind, as Dokja could do that.
And Ken could also feel it just by seeing, they were… talking to each other? Even though they were not.
As her body started to disappear, she looked at Shin Yoosung. Yes, there were two. Because the Shin Yoosung, the catastrophe, was from the fort first round. And they were in the third round right now, meaning the young Yoosung was from the third round, not the same person as the one from the first round.
She simply smiled at the younger version of her. As her body started to break down faster. Suddenly, Dokja came in front of her and placed his hand on her shoulder. His appearance changed to look a lot like how Yoosung does when she uses her skill.
When Ken was reading from chapter one hundred to one hundred and five, he saw how he got this skill. It was only a temporary skill. But again, just like Joonghyuk, they stared at each other, as if they were talking to each other through their minds.
As she completely disappeared, everyone started to tear up. Even Jihye was telling everyone to stop, as she could also get emotional if everyone keeps being like that.
Ken had to say, this was a really emotional scene. But again… he didn't feel much except a sense of dread, compassion, kindness and mercy. Since he doesn't feel sad for anyone he doesn't have much emotional attachment to, and he is someone who doesn't feel sad for anyone that much anyway.
Just then, Ken suddenly realized that he felt one thing towards Yoosung because of her state. And that is… mercy. 'Wait… Mercy?!'
[You have shown mercy to an opponent who has done extremely bad things to you.]
[Your skill, No mercy has taken effect.]
[You have been stripped of the title of The merciless king.]
[You have lost the skill, No mercy.]
[You have been merciless to 729 people till date after you became The merciless king.]
[You have been The merciless king for less than a month only.]
[The star stream is deciding if you still deserve the title.]
At that moment, the only thing Ken could feel was dread. Since that skill was really something that made him stronger than he should be.
[The star stream has decided to give you another title.]
[You have become the Enigmatic merciless king.]
[You have obtained the skill, Conditional mercy (lvl 1).]
[Conditional mercy (lvl 1).]
[Description: You still have to be the same merciless king as ever. And you will not gain the benefits of No mercy, as it is gone. But when some conditions align, you can be merciful. It won't bring much except a slight increase in effectiveness of all skills that affects the mental state each time you show mercy according to the level of the skill.]
When Ken saw this whole thing, he looked around, and sat down. Watching the view of the sun rising.
[The fifth main scenario has come to an end.]
[The rewards are being calculated.]
When he looked at Shin Yoosung, she was bursting out with anger saying what not like saying that she will kill the dokkaebi. But the very next moment, a spark appears in the air and some weird looking entities appear.
Just the moment they appeared, they tied the main dokkaebi in charge, saying that he violated rules of probability.
Ken knew what he did. Even if he hadn't read the chapters earlier, he could still clearly remember how this guy forcibly changed her nature into evil using probability in order to turn her into a frenzied mode.
Which is also why the others had to fight and kill her in the end. If that hadn't happened, she could have been an ally of them. But Ken didn't mind her dying.
Not because he is heartless… Well, he did lose his heart for real once. But that's not how it is.
The main reason he didn't mind was because the cutest character in ORV only came to be because of her death. The cutest character of ORV, Biyoo. Although Uriel is also cute, she only comes in second place.
Just as the dokkaebi enforcers finished explaining the whole thing as to why the intermediate grade dokkaebi, Paul was being arrested and what not.
When they were about to go away with Paul, Dokja suddenly calls them out. When they ask why, he simply states that he wants to have a private meeting with a dokkaebi.
Although it was something reserved for only those with platinum, or above level in a dokkaebi bag, Dokja had that. And when they asked who he wanted a meeting with, it was obvious, Paul.
Just as the enforcers heard it. A creepy grin appeared in their nonexistent faces, which suddenly appeared.
Just as Dokja was about to be transported for the meeting. Ken appeared beside him and punched on his shoulder lightly.
[50,000 coins have been transferred.]
"Give him some extra hits as my proxy. This should be way more than enough, to even cover your part, right?"
As both Dokja and Paul got teleported to a place, just high above the ground. Nothing could be seen from the outside, but one thing could be heard. Sounds of someone being beat up.