Chapter 6
EP.6 Monster Draw
The previous day, I fell into a deep sleep, unable to withstand fatigue.
When I woke up from bed, something had changed. My condition was at its best.
“Why do I feel so refreshed?”
It felt like I could leap out of bed as if I had slept deeply.
“Gasp.”
Shortly after, I realized that something incredible had happened to me.
“Finally...!”
It was an unbelievably incredible event.
“I have a status window!!”
I ran around the room, expressing my joy with my whole body.
Even though I had awakened, I didn’t have a status window before.
Without a status window, I couldn’t learn skills.
Naturally, I couldn’t gain experience points even if I hunted monsters.
People called me a half-assed hunter, awakened but with no growth potential, not even as strong as an ordinary person.
I was just a little bit stronger than an average person.
That was it.
How bitter I had been all this time.
Even those who awakened later than me quickly grew stronger, and I felt disheartened.
Why couldn’t I do it like them?
It was an unfair feeling.
Even though I graduated from the Hunter Academy, I worked as a porter instead of a hunter.
Among porters, I received the lowest treatment.
It was the same on the El Dorad continent in this other world. In the end, I gained nothing and returned.
Well, that was probably my current position.
Anyway, those minor things were not important.
The status window.
The fact that it had appeared was significant.
It meant that I now had the potential to grow in the future.
Of course, gaining a status window didn’t immediately solve all my problems.
If that were the case, other porters would have entered dungeons and become hunters a long time ago.
< Lee Kang Hyun >
[Attributes]
– None –
[Basic Information]
Health: F-
Attack: F-
Defense: F-
Magic: F-
[Skills]
– None –
Naturally, my displayed ability scores on the status window were at the lowest possible level.
There were no attributes or skills listed, and every entry had an F, with a minus sign next to each F.
Still, I was happy.
No matter how you rolled the dice, I was a hunter with the potential to grow, unlike the hunters whose growth had stopped.
I didn’t even need to see to know who was better among the hunters with a chance to grow and me.
For me, it was just the beginning now.
‘Now that I have the status window, I should get a proper magic examination.’
While I was on the El Dorad continent, I didn’t receive any contact about the magic examination because I was unreachable.
Although I had gained the status window, I planned to hide the fact that I had been to the El Dorad continent.
I didn’t think anyone would suspect the reason behind me suddenly getting a status window.
“And then, let’s find porter work again.”
Now that I had the status window, it would be much easier than before.
Since the subject came up, I decided to check the inventory skill.
I logged into the Hunter Market website, where various hunter items and skills were sold.
However, the prices were a problem as expected.
– Inventory 1 slot: 10 million won (sold out) –
“A single inventory slot costs 10 million won...”
A mere one-slot inventory, capable of storing only one type of item, cost 10 million won.
Moreover, it was sold out.
Of course, it was better than nothing.
Compared to a porter who simply carried items with a backpack and picked up one item at a time, a porter with a one-slot inventory that could constantly hold one type of item had a higher market value.
In any case, my expression was not pleasant. It seemed that I was not an extraordinary individual, even with the status window I had obtained by chance.
Anyway, even if it wasn’t sold out, I couldn’t buy it right now, and I didn’t urgently need the inventory.
As the name suggests, it would be helpful for porter work, but that wasn’t my ultimate goal.
I never intended to end my life as a porter.
Porter was simply a means to make money and earn experience points, my goal was to become a hunter who hunted monsters directly.
Since I didn’t have to buy it right away, I closed the Hunter Market website.
My gaze naturally turned to the game.
‘Come to think of it, didn’t I receive an alert yesterday...?’
I remembered something about an offering.
“Oh! It’s a bug!”
I recalled.
The alert about the Servant offering something to me.
The altar system that had appeared when I expanded the dungeon size yesterday.
I initially thought the altar system was a nuisance.
The dungeon’s concealed effect prevented intruders, and most importantly, Celia, the dungeon’s only monster, couldn’t leave.
Gradually, these penalties would be lifted, but not now.
And my expectation that intruders couldn’t come had proven to be wrong.
“What kind of bug made it through the pay-to-win system?”
I logged into the game to check the alert list.
– Yuel’s abilities have been absorbed. –
The alert ended here.
– None –
It was a really simple composition.
< Skeleton Archer Apprentice >
Grade: ★
[Basic Information]
Health: F-
Attack: F
Defense: F-
Magic: F-
[Skills]
– None –
This one was the same.
< Skeleton Mage Trainee >
Grade: ★
[Basic Information]
Health: F-
Attack: F+
Defense: F-
Magic: F-
[Skills]
– None –
Oh, heavens. Is this really a game?
It was disastrous.
While the three types of skeletons had slightly different stats, it was still a miserable situation.
Sure, their abilities were higher than mine, but isn’t this supposed to be a game?
I spent 55,000 won, and all I got were these guys?
My mood dropped in real-time.
The only fortunate thing in this misfortune was that the monsters also had a fusion system like my Servant.
– To fuse Skeleton Soldiers (★), you need two Skeleton Soldiers (★). –
It was a system where you could consume two of the same monsters to perform fusion.
Luckily, I had five Skeleton Soldiers and three Archers.
I went ahead and fused them separately.
– Fusing Skeleton Soldier (★). –
– Consuming two Skeleton Soldiers (★). –
– Fusion successful! Skeleton Soldier (★) has evolved into Skeleton Warrior (★★). –
< Skeleton Warrior >
Grade: ★★
[Basic Information]
Health: E
Attack: E
Defense: E-
Magic: E-
[Skills]
– None –
Oh... There was a slight change after fusion.
Next, I fused the 1-star Archer Apprentice, which became a 2-star Skeleton Archer.
[List of Owned Monsters]
Skeleton Soldier (★) x2
Skeleton Warrior (★★) x1
Skeleton Archer (★★) x1
Skeleton Magic Trainee (★) x2
Just like my Servant, and judging by the monster pulls, it seemed like the basic mechanism of this game was growth through fusion.
“But getting only skeletons is crossing the line.”
I had just spent 5,000 gems on a 10-pull.
I still had 5,000 gems left.
Normally, I would have immediately done another 10-pull.
However, after seeing only skeletons in the previous pulls, I lost the desire to continue.
“Could there be a bug even in the pulls?”
I wondered if maybe the type of monsters that appear changes weekly, so I clicked on announcements, but there was no such notice.
It seemed like it would be better to do additional pulls later.
There was no point in wasting gems if I kept getting these guys.
“Well then, I need to arrange them...”
The important thing was to place these guys in the dungeon.
Even with the same monster composition, proper placement would likely increase efficiency depending on the terrain.
But my dungeon was shaped like a long cave, and it was narrow.
There was no place to protect.
Even if I placed monsters, wouldn’t it be useless?
“Can’t I change the internal structure?”
Even if I couldn’t change it entirely, it would be nice to create wide open spaces at intervals, like squares.
I went to the dungeon management tab and looked for the internal structure option.
But...
– This function has not been opened yet. –
Why are there so many things I can’t do in this game?
“Tsk.”
I clicked the screen, shaking my head.
[Completely Delegate to the Servant]
Well, my Servant would probably manage the dungeon better than I would.
I planned to leave it entirely up to the Servant to decide how to use the monsters I pulled from the gacha.
Additionally, in the settings, I allowed the Servant to handle all dungeon-related tasks autonomously, and then I closed the game.
It would be difficult to log in for a while.
With the addition of the status screen, I also needed to undergo a magic examination and find a porter job, so I would have busy days ahead.
At least if I left it like this, it would grow on its own like an idle game.
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