Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 323

[ Quest conditions have been met. ]

[ Quest has been completed. ]

[ Your level has increased. ]

[ All stats have increased by 1. ]

[ You have acquired 1 bonus stat. ]

And immediately after, a series of notifications related to the quest’s completion came flooding in.

But the notifications didn’t stop there.

[ Gate has been cleared. ]

[ The MVP of the gate raid is ‘An Su-ho.’ ]

[ Additional EXP awarded for MVP selection. ]

[ 1 bonus stat granted for MVP selection. ]

[ You have solo-cleared a high-difficulty gate. ]

[ For this remarkable achievement, the system has awarded you 5 bonus stats. ]

[ Your level has increased. ]

[ All stats have increased by 1. ]

[ You have acquired 1 bonus stat. ]

[ Your level has increased. ]

[ All stats have increased by 1. ]

[ You have acquired 1 bonus stat. ]

[ Your level has increased. ]

[ All stats have increased by 1. ]

[ You have acquired 1 bonus stat. ]

The usual barrage of notifications that came after clearing a gate came pouring in.

But the rewards were even better than expected.

For starters, his level had gone up by a full three levels from just one raid.

“Wow.”

A brief exclamation.

A satisfied smile formed on his lips.

Still, it was only fair compensation.

After all, he had cleared a gate designed for 300 people entirely on his own.

Thus, a new system message appeared as well—a commendation for solo-clearing a high-difficulty gate.

The system recognized the feat as a major achievement, awarding him 5 additional bonus stats.

Seeing that new message—something he hadn't seen in a while—Su-ho smiled.

‘Nine bonus stats in a single clear, huh.’

And that wasn’t all.

How many more levels had he gained just from clearing all the quests within the gate?

‘This is why large-scale gates are the best.’

The standard for large-scale gates begins at level 200, and they must allow over 100 participants.

Extra-large gates have even stricter requirements.

Naturally, extra-large gates offer significantly more rewards than regular large-scale ones.

Su-ho immediately checked his status window.

[ An Su-ho ]

– Lv: 215

– Class: Rage Crusader

– Traits▲: <New Blood> <Candidate of Heracles> <King of Ruin> <Sealed Power of the Moon> <Power of the Sun>

– Strength (B): 14

– Magic (B): 29

– Perception (G): 50

– Leadership (N): 34

– Bonus Stats: 21

Level 215 with 21 bonus stat points.

Su-ho narrowed his eyes.

‘I should check the World Chart later.’

The World Chart, as the name implies, aggregates player data from across the globe.

Normally, it wasn’t something he’d pay much attention to—but now, it was worth a glance.

Last he recalled, the top-ranked player on the World Chart had been somewhere in the 210s.

‘No matter what, once I finish the Northern Campaign, I’ll become the world’s top player.’

Not just in level, but in achievements, stats, combat power—everything, comprehensively.

Maybe that’s why... he was already looking forward to the reactions of UN and Chinese CMC representatives.

And let’s not forget the president and ministers who still didn’t understand what was truly important.

After a brief deliberation, Su-ho invested all 21 bonus stat points into Magic.

Then, he shifted his gaze to the Thoughtform of the Greedy Thrones, which still writhed in the air.

Squirm... squirm...

The Thoughtform of the Greedy Thrones had certainly been destroyed.

And yet, it still lingered before his eyes.

This wasn’t a single entity connected through runes like the Thoughtform originally was—rather, these were the remnants of the once-complete Thoughtform.

A Thoughtform, at its core, is will—a will born of regret.

That’s what makes it powerful, and difficult to erase.

Especially one that had lingered on this land for hundreds of years.

That’s why this was the greatest loot to be harvested from the Loganhell Gate.

‘According to the report from my previous life, attacking the remnants caused the vast quantities of blood, flesh, and magic stored within it to erupt.’

The reason the Thoughtform could exist in the first place was not only its own powerful energy—it had also amassed a tremendous concentration of magic over time.

In the era of the Great Cataclysm, magic was the energy that pierced through everything—both inside and outside the gates.

Thus, magic had to be used to its fullest if available.

The challengers in his previous life destroyed even the remnants of the Thoughtform.

To them, the treasures stored within the Thoughtform were what mattered—not the raw magical energy it contained.

But Su-ho was different.

He needed an enormous supply of magic energy—all because of the sealed necklace of the Great Blacksmith.

Of course, if only magic remained, it wouldn’t have been absorbable.

But the Thoughtform of the Greedy Thrones didn’t just store magic.

It was, quite literally, a mass of greed.

Greed, tangled together from hunger, possessiveness, and the lust for domination—and over hundreds of years, it had devoured and stored everything from countless humans... no, any living beings with life force.

That’s why the rulers of the Greedy Thrones could raise undead even in lands where not a single corpse remained.

The Thoughtform of the Greedy Thrones didn’t just absorb magic and life force—it took everything: blood, flesh, bone, skin.

‘And it’s precisely because of that immense greed that I can make use of it.’

In that sense, the Thoughtform had another use for Su-ho.

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