episode_0651
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Among the ways to strengthen my power by consuming mileage, I used the mileage shop the least.
I didn’t use much mileage and mostly just bought small things.
In order to increase your own strength, it was natural to first invest mileage in abilities and inventory.
But that doesn’t mean the mileage shop was useless.
Although it was weak in terms of strengthening strength, it was very helpful in other areas.
There are also [Language Learning Jelly], which is constantly in demand, and [Placebo ID Card], which is always useful for creating identification when traveling to a new destination.
Needless to say, the [Multidimensional Standard Compatible Dongle] that you gave to Maria, which allows you to hack and collect various data in the Nova Empire, and the [Heart of Alephward] that allows you to obtain the souvenir [Dew of Yggdrasil] are useful items.
All items are worth more than the mileage spent to purchase them.
The problem, if there is one, is that you cannot know the exact effects of items in the mileage shop before purchasing them.
There were some items whose effects could be roughly guessed from their names, but most of the items listed in the store were difficult to guess at even when trying to guess their functions, such as [Heart of Alephward], which I had purchased, or [Semipurant] and [Jinsukiu’s Azirang], which I had seen before.
It was natural that the shape could not be confirmed in advance.
In the meantime, since refunds are not possible once you purchase something, I couldn’t help but hesitate to use my mileage at the store.
‘The only good thing is that so far there hasn’t been a product that wasn’t worth the money.’
It could be because I’m so careful about buying things, but I thought that was the case for now.
Now that you’ve invested quite a bit in abilities and inventory capacity, you can make good use of the mileage shop.
Here, ‘utilizing it properly’ obviously means purchasing expensive items.
According to my theory that everything I’ve bought so far has been worth the money, the more expensive the item, the better the results you can expect.
‘That’s why I bought this.’
I looked down at the object in my hand.
[Mirage Mirror].
As its name suggests, it was a hand mirror the size of a person’s face, with a handle that could be held with one hand.
This hand mirror, which may be considered small, was actually a product worth 30,000 mileage points.
It is exactly twice the price of [Heart of Aleph Ward], which was 15,000 mileage.
The most expensive thing I’ve ever bought.
This is something I would not have even thought about buying if my remaining mileage wasn’t close to 400,000 mileage.
Mirages and mirrors.
Considering the price of 30,000 mileage, it was an overly simple name.
However, the reason I bought this is because this time I wanted to buy something with an intuitive name rather than something with a proper noun that I didn’t understand.
Fortunately, looking back now, that thought didn’t seem so wrong.
‘It looks like the craftsmanship is quite fancy, so it could be used as a gift.’
Of course, unless it’s something extremely useless, I wouldn’t just throw away something worth 30,000 mileage as a gift.
When you purchase an item, you can check what functions it has.
I quickly checked the description on the mirror.
[Mirage Mirror]
– A hand mirror in a world where all kinds of anomalies exist. It was not created by someone, but was created by itself according to the laws of the world. You can put your hand in the mirror and take out the object reflected in it. The object taken out maintains its shape for three days, and after that time passes, it returns to the mirror.
*Caution: Living things are not reflected in mirrors. If you put your hand in the mirror for a long time, abnormalities may occur.
‘You can take things out of a mirror?’
It was a mind-blowing explanation.
Doesn’t that mean that one object can be called two things: the object in reality and the object in the mirror?
I decided to test it out right away using the smartphone I had in my hand.
I placed my smartphone on the table and held up a hand mirror so that it reflected my smartphone. Then I held my hand out toward the mirror where my smartphone was reflected.
As the saying goes, living things are not reflected in a mirror, and my body, including my hands, was nowhere to be found in the mirror. The clothes I was wearing were reflected as if they were floating in the air.
Swish-
My hand went into the mirror with a cool feeling, as if passing through water, rather than the solid feeling of a typical mirror.
When I picked up the smartphone that was on the table in the mirror, I felt the familiar sensation of holding the smartphone I was using in my hand.
Even when I took my hand away from the mirror, the smartphone was still in my hand.
The smartphone that was originally on the table still remains there, so there really are two smartphones.
‘Maria, please check this.’
-… It’s exactly the same as your smartphone. The data inside is also the same. How did you do it?
Even Maria couldn’t help but be amazed by the phenomenon that could not be explained by science.
And when I tried to copy it again, I couldn’t see my smartphone in the hand mirror.
‘Is it true that the object that has already been copied is literally taken out of the mirror, so it is not reflected at all?’
If I understand correctly, after 3 days, the copied smartphone in reality will disappear and the smartphone will be reflected in the mirror again.
As soon as I confirmed that the hand mirror worked as I expected, the first thing that came to my mind was the ability to copy rare items.
For example, elixirs.
‘Should I copy it? But it’ll take a while to eat it…’
I became curious about what would happen if I took the copied elixir.
Three days is enough time to digest not only the elixir but also other foods.
If I were to consume only regular food, not elixirs, for three days, and my flesh-and-blood clone were to disappear after three days, would that mean that part of my body would disappear as well?
Then a pretty fatal situation could occur.
And we can’t be sure that the already digested object will return to its original state in the mirror.
What happens when the clone breaks down and returns to the mirror after three days?
I grabbed my copied smartphone because I thought it would be a good idea to test it out.
Jeokjeok-
A spiderweb-like crack has appeared on the screen of my smartphone.
If I go back into the mirror in three days and check the condition again, I will be able to answer some of my questions.
I threw the cracked smartphone on the table and thought deeply.
‘There’s no way there wouldn’t be restrictions on this kind of thing…’
The three-day time limit doesn’t really mean anything. After three days, you can just put your hand in and take out the item that appears again.
Now that I think about it, there were more precautions written below.
‘Don’t keep your hand in there for too long?’
When I saw that explanation, I suddenly felt an eerie feeling.
What does it mean that something like this is happening?
According to the description, the world where the [Mirage Mirror] exists is a place where all kinds of abnormalities exist.
If I put my hand in there for too long, will my hand get cut off like the story about the ‘Mouth of Truth’ I heard as a child?
It didn’t seem like a completely impossible story.
Mirrors have had various magical meanings since ancient times because of their sparkling brilliance and the characteristic of reflecting the world. They have also been consistently used as tools in various mystery genres in modern times.
It was a mirror that could even copy objects, so it wouldn’t be strange if something happened if the warning was disobeyed.
I don’t know how the world came to be like this, that such things could arise naturally.
[Heart of Alephward] is supposedly an item from a fantasy world mixed with Norse mythology, but this doesn’t make sense.
‘Well… I guess it’ll be fine if I use it carefully.’
It was an item that had many ways to be utilized as long as you followed the precautions.
It was worth the 30,000 mileage.
I decided to invest the remaining mileage into abilities.
I spent a total of 218,000 mileage to raise all abilities to 60.
I felt a familiar feeling of exhilaration as my ability increased by about 20 percent at once.
Remaining mileage is 128,200 mileage.
I planned to keep this and use it to expand my inventory or purchase other items from the store.
After finishing my trip, I took a break from my day job of streaming and returning to reality for the first time in a long while.
You might ask how streaming can be considered rest when it’s also work, but doing something you like isn’t really that hard.
Adding to that the inexhaustible stamina was good for both the viewers and me.
Maria set to work applying the technology she had brought from the Nova Empire to real-world applications.
After spending enough time with my friends, I decided to go up to the tower for the first time in a while.
Now that we had finally reached the third floor, it seemed like it would be a good time to start climbing the floors in earnest.
[Dimensional Travel Express Ticket has been confirmed.]
[I hope you have a pleasant trip.]
[You have 23 souvenirs.]
[You have 128,200 mileage points.]
[Please check the amenities provided.]
[Amenities: Safety injection, appearance change]
[Would you like to register your baggage?]
[‘[Mugong – Thunderbolt]’ and 14 other souvenirs were registered as baggage.]
[The world I am currently traveling through is ‘A Guide for Transitioners Climbing Towers’.]
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