episode_0023

After taking shortened classes for the CSAT, I took the final exam in November.

Do Yu-geon’s grades improved, perhaps due to the effect of the academy. It will go up because you are forced to study when you didn’t want to.

He liked it because his grades improved, but on the other hand, he didn’t like that the academy was effective.

“If my grades had just fallen, it would have been better to quit the academy.”

“How about raising your grades, taking first place, and negotiating with your parents?”

“That would be so easy.”

Meanwhile, the level continued to rise.

[Level Up]

14 → 15

It is level 15. Schrödinger once said that our party’s hunting speed was fast, but it wasn’t that we leveled up quickly.

Explorers who hunted using firearms easily overtook other explorers and raised their level. Before the class update, the gap was small because the forest was thick, but as the pyromancer easily burned the forest, the gap grew.

Then, the information on the level 15 mob was released through the natural process. Level 15 is a goblin. From goblins, through slimes, to orcs came out, and then back to goblins. Goblins are good. It’s common sense because you don’t melt a forest or break a tree with a single punch.

But this goblin was too common sense. According to the mob pattern so far, there was a lot of speculation that if it was a goblin, it would naturally be a stronger mutant goblin. It’s a game guess. It’s plausible.

But it wasn’t. This goblin is a level 1 goblin. It’s just a group. Just 10. There are 10 of them, as if to match the maximum number of people in the party. It’s as if 1v1 with a goblin would be easy, so 10v10 would be possible, right? It’s like a symbol that says.

The 10 goblins were 5 spearmen and 5 archers. When five of them stand in two rows and approach, the spearmen stab and the archers shoot their arrows. Fortunately, there is no shield.

“What’s happening out of the blue?”

-is that so? I do not know.

Schrödinger was as thoughtless as always.

The Internet was full of cries asking how to catch it. Until now, if you became skilled at cooperating, you could somehow catch it without taking any damage, but this time it is impossible to catch this mob without killing anyone.

―Play gacha! All the answers are in the gacha!

While you’re pretending to have a passive skill, don’t show that you’re in charge of the system at a time like this.

There’s a lot of commotion because of goblins, but it’s actually a separate commotion from our party. If it looks like you can’t catch it, you can solve it with practicality. Do Yu-geon may be reluctant, but he will probably accept it if hunting is impossible.

I saw 10 goblins in the middle of the road made by slime melting the forest.

“Don’t run out of nowhere again like last time.”

“Not anymore.”

I was suspicious and looked at Do Yu-geon. The guy cleared his throat and continued speaking.

“More than that, they don’t shoot bows.”

Although the goblins were in line, the goblin archers only aimed their arrows at the strings and did not attempt to shoot.

That’s because we’re just out of the forest now. Even if they shoot a bow, they can just hide behind a tree, so they’re just being careful to save arrows.

Normally, in a stalemate like this, the wizard would use magic to make the goblin approach and induce a melee in the forest, but… … . There are two people here.

Should we just try magic on a large scale? Then I think I can catch it, but Do Yu-geon can’t even cut it with a single knife. Umm.

“If 10 of them attack me, will I be able to catch them without getting hurt?”

“There is healing magic.”

I didn’t ask that in that sense. The healing magic heals you with even greater magic if you log out, but that’s not the point. Maybe it’s a question of whether or not I have to go through the experience of having an arm cut off and then reattached in every battle.

You level up by killing time, but such experiences are not good for your mental health.

“Even if there is healing magic, if you get hurt, it’s painful.”

“Miss Cha Ha-neul is very worried. I think I can catch ten without harming myself.”

“What kind of confidence is that?”

“Bounded confidence.”

He shook his head and created a fireball. I flew towards the goblin. A goblin archer drew a bow and shot. The fireball was shot down and exploded. The trees swayed in the wind.

“Against that level?”

“Of course it’s possible. I’m a genius.”

Aren’t you embarrassed to call yourself that? It’s embarrassing to be around here.

“I guess so.”

“Oh, I don’t believe this. If you’re in doubt, I’ll show you now!”

Do Yu-geon drew his sword and ran out. You said you didn’t come running in out of nowhere, you liar.

Arrows flew towards Do Yu-geon. It created magical power and disrupted the orbit. The two arrows that came late flew towards Do Yu-geon, but he easily knocked them both away. Phew, you can hit the arrow. That’s amazing. No. Is that realistically possible? What did you see now?

At that time, there was a shock to my shoulder. Mi couldn’t overcome her strength and fell to the floor. A sharp pain came to my shoulder. Ugh, shit, what… … .

I looked at my shoulder and saw that it was an arrow.

-master. Are you a child?

It’s an absurd voice.

―Where did you put the magic barrier and that’s it?

I know.

“Just give me treatment.”

The wounds are now beyond the healing magic that can be used.

-I’m doing it. The lack of pain right now is a magic effect, not an adrenaline effect.

The arrow fell off and the deep wound healed. The drops of blood disappeared and the torn hem of the clothes was mended. Wow, good after-sales service.

“You are surprisingly useful.”

-yes?! What have you been looking at me for all this time?

I ignored Schrödinger, who said something, and stood up, shaking off the dust. When I looked at Do Yoo-geon, I saw that he had come right in front of the goblin.

Five archers aimed their doyuguns and fired their arrows at the same time. The guy dodged three shots and parried two. what? How did you do it?

Five spearmen hurled their spears in unison. Do Yu-geon pushed the spear to the side with the tip of his sword, creating a gap, and then dug in.

“Strengthening one sword.”

The sword was swung once and five spears were cut. Ten goblins threw away their weapons and rushed at Do Yu-geon with daggers drawn.

A melee melee. Golden powder flew and dust rose. Meanwhile, no drops of blood spattered.

Ten goblins were killed, and Do Yu-geon, who was fine, looked this way.

“Haha! It works!”

Why is this happening?

“Miss Cha Ha-neul! Do you have something to say? Your expression is just right!”

“It’s realistically impossible. If you’re going to fight 10 to 1, don’t fight 10 to 1 from the front and do guerrillas.”

Use some common sense.

“It’s still a reality! The world is already a fantasy! Wow!”

The guy raised both arms and spun around. I’m very excited.

I approached him and looked to see if there were any injuries. I’m not sure because it keeps spinning.

“Okay, okay. Just calm down.”

The guy stopped.

“Hmm. There are no injuries, so there’s no need to check. Huh? You got dirt on your pants.”

I checked and it was true. I guess the stains I got on me when I fell earlier haven’t come off. I shook it off.

“I just fell and it’s still buried.”

“You fell while flying? What is that? Does that happen if you lack enough exercise?”

“It happened that way.”

I looked at Do Yu-geon, but fortunately there were no injuries.

* * *

Gachas were added to the system and I gave Schrödinger a heads-up, but I haven’t done any paid gachas until now. Because there were no banknotes.

The very existence of gacha is evil, and it doesn’t work with cards or bank transfers, so even if you have cash, you can’t get it. If I had to do it, I could have done it for a small amount, but I didn’t do it because that amount was too much.

But today is different. After about a month of preparation, we prepared dollar bills.

I grabbed my square briefcase and logged in. It’s 6 in the morning, so as expected, there is no Do Yu-geon.

“Schrödinger.”

I looked around the preparation room and looked for Schrödinger, but he was not there. Where did you go? It’s only there when you need it. Have it when you don’t need it.

-yes yes. Here you are.

A white cat jumped out of the air. The wizard dictionary for apprentice wizards is not even deactivated, but it disappears and pops up at will. Where are you usually?

“I’m going to play gacha, so please help me.”

-Me? why?

It’s out of the blue.

“That’s because I am the master.”

-Wow.

“What is that exclamation?”

―I will sincerely help you!

Schrodinger jumped up onto the gacha machine.

-You can put your money here.

“I know.”

-Do you know! You’re amazing!

What is this. Are you being sarcastic?

I placed the briefcase on the machine and opened the latch.

“Cash recharge.”

100 dollar bills burned. Rides well.

“But if you’re going to burn it anyway, why are you taking the money?”

―The burning thing is just a transmission effect!”

Oh yeah. It’s needlessly amazing.

[$1,000,000]

The recharge amount appeared on the machine. A sentence also came to mind.

[Buy now!]

Item Piece Automatic Combination Ticket $9,900

Unlimited storage of item pieces $9,900

“What kind of mentality is it that you take money for something like this?”

―We are providing a convenient service, but is there something wrong?

“How can I get 20 million won for something like this?”

-master. There is no free magic.

“Do you think this is worth 20 million won?”

-no.

This Schrödinger.

-It’s right to get more.

It’s a firm voice. What is this?

“At least we need to predict demand and optimize price before launching the product. If the price is like this, who will buy it?”

-master. Why did you call me?

“I want to talk about this.”

―You keep saying that, but you don’t know anything about the system. It’s my master’s wizard’s war. Please remember your identity.

It sounded like I didn’t trust him at all, but I nodded. I should quit and get a gacha.

“I’ll pick it 100 times. Oh, but isn’t there an additional benefit for this once every 10 years?”

There was no such thing on the Internet, but the system was originally unfriendly, so I wonder if it was possible.

-That’s a game and this is reality.

I guess so.

I pressed the gacha button. There was a light and a square piece fell.

[F-Class Accessory Piece – No. 4]

I picked a hundred, so what?

―You didn’t use the free drawing today.

“Oh, I see.”

I glanced at it and finally saw the price tag.

[$4.99]

“I’ll pick it 100 times.”

I pressed the gacha button. Square pieces fell together with the light.

[F-Class Accessory Piece – No. 8]

[F-class armor piece – No. 4]

[F-class armor piece – No. 4]

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[E-Class Weapon Fragment – No. 6]

A few pieces rolled down the machine. When Schrödinger, who was buried in pieces, shook himself off, dozens of pieces tumbled to the floor.

There are too many.

I rummaged through the F-class pieces, picked them up, and collected a set up to number 9. I don’t know what this is doing. They squatted on the empty floor and arranged the numbers 1 to 9 in a square shape.

The pieces sparkled and disappeared, spitting out an item.

[F-Class/Bavieon Workshop’s low-quality dagger]

It’s just a dagger. Due to the unfriendly system, there is no item description, but since it is F grade, it is probably just a dagger with no effect.

I looked around the floor. The pieces are scattered. At what point in time are these classified and converted into items? I heard about it online, but it’s very annoying.

The remaining amount now is $999,501… … . Two hundred thousand three hundred pieces. Wow, all I have to do is rummage through the 200,000 pieces to find the useful ones.

I stood holding the gacha machine.

“Purchase association rights and storage rights.”

―An excellent choice!

The pieces that had been left lying around disappeared and the piece details appeared on the machine. It’s comfortable.

I roughly calculated the balance in my head.

“I’ll draw one hundred and ninety-six thousand three hundred and thirty-two.”

I pressed the button. There was no system window, just the machine shining brightly. The details appeared.

S-class pieces: 0 pieces.

I guess so. Even on the Internet, S-class pieces are known to exist, but are treated as a mirage that no one has ever obtained.

Grade A Piece: 0 pieces.

uh… … . I knew the odds were very bad, but I was delusional… … . It’s not good for your mental health. Still, it’s worth 1.2 billion won, but it’s too much.

Class B piece: 1 piece

―You’ve done well with just one B-grade piece.

Why are the odds like this? I lost motivation.

“Gacha system party members private.”

Do Yoo-geon changed the system settings without knowing that the gacha had been made. Should I just go back to my room?

―Master, it’s a natural result. You’ve already seen it on the internet, so why are you doing that?

“There aren’t many reviews on the Internet that are in the hundreds of millions.”

There really isn’t much because companies aren’t investing aggressively yet. Some billion-dollar cases were naturally dismissed as failed cases. Anyway, it’s still B grade. If I had added B to my name instead of A, I would have been selected at this point.

―It’s too much to try to get a B-class item for only 1.2 billion.

You are too much.

―For such a greedy master! Free trial benefits! Try it out now!

Schrödinger hit the floor with his front paw and the cane popped out.

[Class B/Sage Ranbi’s sunshade.]

“Was the title ‘sage’ a low one?”

-no. After the Archmage, there is a Sage. Master is a modifier that doesn’t even come close.

“Then isn’t there something strange about the grade?”

-is that so? I do not know.

I picked up my cane. The design with the star at the end is pretty. But it’s a bit big. Although this one is small, it is too big to carry around, so I used my magic power to float it to the side.

I left the preparation room and went to the hunting ground. I held the cane with both hands.

“Isn’t this dangerous?”

―It’s not dangerous if you use it briefly.

“What if I use it for a long time?”

-I can’t use it for long with my master’s skills.

Umm. He pointed the tip of his staff towards the sky and poured magical power into it. The magic attached to a wand usually comes from the tip of the wand.

Time passed. The wand still consumed magic power. My mind is tired from constantly drawing in magical energy. Unless you have some level of skill, you will fall down like this.

“How long are you going to eat this?”

―It took a long time because the master’s skills were lacking, but now it’s done quickly!

A lot of time has passed again. The wand still hasn’t used magic. The numbness in my arm was unusual, so I adjusted the position of my hand down. What kind of unexpected pain is this?

“You said it would be soon?”

-yes! Right now!

The magic was done. Placement of magic circle and magic power. Something else. A magic mixed with many unknown things covered the sky.

Dark clouds have appeared. It was a dark cloud that covered my vision and went beyond the range of my magical senses. Heavy rain poured down.

―You have talent, so we were able to use it, but in the end, it was small-scale.

Schrödinger’s voice was cut off by the endless sound of rain.

I focused my mind and expanded my senses. I checked the entire virtual space, which was several hundred meters and several kilometers long. Heavy rain fell everywhere.

Is this small scale?

-How are you feeling? Don’t you have a strong desire to play gacha?

“No. Not at all.”

I guess I should go home and take a shower again.