Ch.317317 – Backpack Millionaire
by fnovelpia
<317 – Backpack Millionaire>
At the 70th floor of the Training Tower, a special facility <Enhancement Shop> opens.
It’s a rather reasonable arrangement.
It’s considerate, preventing rookies below a certain level from going bankrupt after throwing all their wealth into enhancements.
Plus, you can escape to outside cities through the <Teleportation Magic Circle>, the special facility on the 60th floor, to buy and collect plenty of enhancement materials before returning.
Heroes, and their companions.
Or players.
It’s properly structured for the strong to grow stronger quickly.
But shortcuts exist everywhere in the world.
The Living Armor shortcut is a path allowed only to veterans.
Having benefited from that advantage, Sing has been keeping his mouth shut and staying vigilant for quite some time.
Well, after experiencing the Living Armor’s strength firsthand, he probably can’t help but be on edge.
Each of those armors is as strong as a hero or even more dangerous—if we had tried to pass through normally, it would have been difficult even as corpses.
Clank!
Exiting through the 69th floor exit and removing the Living Armor’s armor from the inside, I easily succeeded in clearing the 69th floor.
[You have cleared a floor that would have been impossible with your current level. Your cunning is genius.]
[You acquire 100,000 points.]
[Strategy Planning experience +15]
[Hiding experience +10]
[Mimicry experience +5]
The emptied armor resumed normal operation, closed itself back up, and returned inside the floor.
This was due to the tower’s rule that beings inside a floor cannot attack living creatures staying on the external stairs.
[You have reached the 70th floor.]
[You acquire access rights to the 70th floor elevator.]
[You can now use the special facility <Enhancement Shop>.]
Enhancement Shop.
Sing flinched as soon as he saw that name.
“Are you trying to do the same thing as Titosoga?”
“A +5 enhanced lighting rod? Hmm~ that’s not bad, but Titosoga’s lighting rod couldn’t select options! Here we can choose options.”
“Options…?”
“Titosoga’s lighting rod consumed an enormous amount of mana in exchange for enhancing its role as a lighting device, right? Usually, weapons that consume that much mana are considered cursed equipment that drain all your mana just by holding them. So we need to replace it with different options!”
“That blacksmith, giving such an insane equipment to a kid…”
Sing, with his abundant little-sister sensitivity, apparently considered Titosoga someone who could be in his little-sister category.
It was quite reassuring to see him firmly determined to slice someone when we return to the ship.
“It’s better to change negative options to something you’re already strong in. Strong people increase the weight of equipment, those with excellent senses add dizziness—basically using your advantages to overcome the negative options!”
“What exactly are you trying to enhance?”
“That’s what I’d like to know as well.”
70th floor.
A place only reachable after clearing the Living Armor floor.
The Chairman suddenly appearing in such a place.
Sing must have been quite surprised by this.
He jumped as if a knife had been pressed against his throat.
He must not have noticed that I cast [Silence] when getting off the elevator to surprise him.
“Ah, Papa!”
“Jona is waiting. Shall we go down to the restaurant together?”
“I want to use the special facility first!”
Papa naturally followed me in.
He must have been curious about what I was going to enhance.
“A sword or a staff. Which one are you enhancing?”
“Neither!”
What I took out in front of the enhancement machine was a backpack.
Inside the backpack was… another backpack!
And inside that backpack was… yet another backpack!
In that fashion, I took out loads of backpacks and fed them into the enhancement machine.
After stuffing it full with backpacks of various sizes and activating the machine, an options window appeared above the mana board.
[When randomly selecting Plus enhancement functions, performance increases.]
[When manually selecting Plus enhancement functions, performance decreases.]
[When randomly selecting Minus enhancement functions, performance decreases.]
[When manually selecting Minus enhancement functions, performance increases.]
Should I leave it to luck and receive high options, or choose the options I want and receive lower stats?
Conversely, should I leave the penalties to luck and receive minor penalties, or choose specific penalties and receive greater ones?
The enhancement machine’s system was quite reasonable.
But the options and penalties I would choose were already decided.
[Selecting specific functions and penalties.]
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+1: Backpack storage area increases.
+2: Backpack weight capacity increases.
+3: Backpack durability increases.
+4: Backpack magic resistance increases.
+5(Special): Your backpack can now store up to 99 of the same item in a single slot.
+5(Penalty): The backpack can only store one type of item.
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A feature not even supported in games.
But here, a specialized lifestyle item was born from the accumulated enhancement knowledge of veterans.
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【Equipment】
Accessory(Ring) – <Titosoga’s Friendship Ring(Bound)>
Accessory(Necklace) – <Jona’s Whistle(Bound)>
Body(Clothing) – <Gift Academy Uniform>
Main Weapon – <Cracked Short Sword>
Secondary Weapon – <Cracked Wand>
Bag – <+5 Enhanced Backpack Backpack(Backpack)>
Misc – <Gold Pouch><Mana Stone Pouch><Candy Pouch><Junk Pouch><Absolute Priority Judgment Sticker Bundle><Indulgence><Boarding Ticket>
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And this magic backpack can be enhanced further if I have enough backpacks.
[The Enhancement Shop’s grade is high.]
[Original enhancement target will not be destroyed up to +7.]
And surprisingly, this facility has many backpacks.
There are still plenty of enhancement backpacks in the “underground.”
“Aren’t you taking the elevator? If you want to enhance more, we need to go underground right now!”
“Hmm. This is exciting. The world is vast and full of wonders—even I didn’t know there was an unknown space beneath my own home.”
The Chairman followed me into the elevator with a pleased smile, while Sing looked as tense as someone who’d been invited to stick his hand into an alligator’s mouth.
Together, we passed through B1F <Waste Floor> and descended to B2F <Recycling Floor>, then boarded a rail heading even deeper.
[Entering B3F <Sorting Floor>.]
Numerous rails and occasional items visible above them.
The sight of blood-covered objects piled like mountains everywhere had a rather majestic feel.
Perhaps it’s similar to the emotion one would feel seeing a battlefield where corpses have rotted away, leaving ownerless weapons scattered everywhere?
Yes, that seems right.
It’s exactly right in the sense that masterless items are piled high.
“This is… a place where items lost by adventurers who visited the tower are gathered.”
“That’s right! Since Papa didn’t know about this place, I can use what’s here, right?”
“Well now. This is clearly part of my residence. Just because the homeowner didn’t know about a basement doesn’t mean the basement belongs to someone else.”
“Then please let me have just one type!”
“One type… Very well. I can concede that much.”
Actually, saying “one type” is a bit misleading.
There’s only one surplus item type down here.
[Entering B4F <Surplus Resource Storage Floor>.]
Metal is melted down at the forge installed on the sorting floor and used to make training tools.
It’s also used to build iron frames inside wooden dolls and to create trap facilities.
Most items are like that.
If they’re not directly used in the Training Tower, they’re disassembled and remanufactured for deployment on site.
If there’s one item that escapes this fate, it’s cloth backpacks!
Even Papa, with his considerable power, couldn’t hide his shock at seeing backpacks spread across the entire fourth floor.
“This place… has nothing but backpacks.”
And my backpack is a backpack-storage specialized backpack that can hold up to 99 backpacks per slot.
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Making a +1 backpack requires 2 backpacks.
Making a +2 backpack requires 4 backpacks.
+3 needs 8, +4 needs 16, +5 needs 32.
Following the same doubling pattern through 64, 128, 256, 512, making a +10 backpack requires at least 1,024 backpacks.
Enhancement is guaranteed up to +7, but considering item destruction from +8 onward, the actual number of backpacks needed could easily exceed hundreds of thousands or even millions.
But there’s a useful tool here.
The cheat item <Sticker Bundle> that takes priority in all judgments.
Stickers that instantly activate micro-instant enchantment magic cheat keys just by attaching them!
A masterpiece created by an upperclassman pursuing multiple majors across magic and production departments in a school where graduating with just one major is difficult!
These stickers, which can even break through the Foundation’s boarding ticket security to create the infinite money duplication cheat, can also be used for enhancement assistance formulas that ignore destruction probability.
The so-called [Guaranteed Enhancement] sticker!
Thanks to this, collecting the backpack series was completed in one go.
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<Mana Stone Backpack of Stacked Storage(Artifact(+10), Bound)>
Grade – Rare Level 4
Description – A backpack created by enhancing accumulated backpacks from the Training Tower. Only mana stones can be placed in this backpack. Growth stops during wear due to the backpack’s curse.
Effect 1 – Expanded Capacity(100 slots)
Effect 2 – Stacked Storage Function(up to 99 items per slot)
Effect 3 – Protection against physical damage below 3rd tier
Effect 4 – Protection against magical damage below 3rd tier
Effect 5 – Protection against status effects such as submersion, corrosion, etc.
Effect 6 – Search function allows searching and importing contents
Effect 7 – Only mana stones can be placed in this backpack
Effect 8 – While wearing this backpack, height and weight will not increase
Appraisal Value – 1,000 gold coins, 100,000 points
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Backpacks like this are neatly stacked one by one inside the backpack backpack.
<Weapon Backpack>, <Armor Backpack>, <Accessory Backpack>, <Wood Backpack>, <Ore Backpack>, <Mana Stone Backpack>, <Stone Backpack>, <Herb Backpack>, <Insect Backpack>, <Toy Backpack>, <Meat Backpack>, <Candy Backpack>, and so on!
It’s no exaggeration to say I’ve secured thousands of inventory slots.
Of course, I upgraded backpacks where quantity matters for storage capacity, but backpacks where variety matters followed a different upgrade tech tree.
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<Food Backpack of Time Freeze(Artifact(+10), Bound)>
Grade – Rare Level 4
Description – A backpack created by enhancing accumulated backpacks from the Training Tower. Only food can be placed in this backpack. Growth stops during wear due to the backpack’s curse.
Effect 1 – Expanded Capacity(1000 slots)
Effect 2 – Time Freeze
Effect 3 – Protection against physical damage below 3rd tier
Effect 4 – Protection against magical damage below 3rd tier
Effect 5 – Protection against status effects such as submersion, corrosion, etc.
Effect 6 – Search function allows searching and importing contents
Effect 7 – Only food can be placed in this backpack
Effect 8 – While wearing this backpack, height and weight will not increase
Appraisal Value – 1,500 gold coins, 150,000 points
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Now I don’t need to receive just one food per meal from the chef.
I can have them make all possible varieties of dishes, store them, and eat them one by one whenever I want.
The same goes for collectibles.
No more need to leave behind less valuable items due to inventory limitations or forcibly carry one item per day until collection judgment is complete.
I can just put everything I pick up into the backpack!
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