I had fallen asleep as if I had fainted, unable to bear the fatigue of the previous day.
Something had changed when I woke up in bed.
My condition was the best it could be.
“Why does my body feel so refreshed?”
I felt so light, as if I could fly, as if I had slept soundly.
“Huk.”
A moment later, I realized something incredible had happened to me.
“Fi-finally…!”
Something incredibly impossible.
“A status window appeared!!”
I ran around the room, expressing my joy with my whole body.
Even though I had awakened, I didn’t have a status window.
Without a status window, I couldn’t learn skills.
Naturally, even if I caught monsters, obtaining experience points was out of the question.
People called me a half-baked hunter.
I had awakened, but I was an unfortunate hunter with no potential for growth.
I was just a little stronger than an ordinary non-awakened person.
That was it.
How resentful I had been all this time.
Seeing even those who awakened later than me grow quickly made me feel hollow.
Why couldn’t I do that?
I felt indignant.
Even though I graduated from the Hunter Academy, I worked as a porter, not a hunter.
And I received the worst treatment among porters.
This was no different when I went to the El Dorado Continent in another world. In the end, I returned without achieving anything.
Even after returning to Earth, no one welcomed me, let alone contacted me.
Well, that’s my current situation.
Anyway, those trivial things weren’t important.
Status window.
Its appearance meant a lot.
It meant that the possibility of future growth had opened up for me.
Of course, just getting a status window doesn’t mean everything will be solved immediately.
If that were the case, other porters would have already entered dungeons and become hunters who hunted monsters.
[Trait]
– None
[Basic Information]
Health: F-
Attack Power: F-
Defense: F-
Magic Power: F-
[Skill]
– None
As expected, my abilities displayed in the status window were at the lowest.
Traits and skills were marked as non-existent, and all stats were F. In fact, each F even had a minus sign next to it.
Still, I was happy.
Between a hunter whose growth had stopped no matter how much they struggled and a hunter who had at least a little potential for future growth, the choice was obvious.
This was just the beginning for me.
‘Since I got a status window, I should get a proper magic test.’
The notification for a magic test from the government had arrived because I was unreachable during my time on the El Dorado Continent.
Even though I had obtained a status window, I still planned to hide the fact that I had been to the El Dorado Continent.
I don’t know how I got the status window, but it had nothing to do with the El Dorado Continent.
After all, even with the status window, my current abilities were at the lowest.
I wouldn’t be suspected in the magic test either.
“Then I’ll look for porter work again.”
With a status window, it would be much easier than before.
Speaking of which, I looked into the inventory skill.
I connected to the Hunter Market website, which sold various hunter items and skills.
However, the price was the problem.
– Inventory 1 Slot: 10,000,000 Won (Sold Out)
“An inventory with just one slot costs 10 million won…”
A single slot, an inventory that could only hold one type of item, cost 10 million won.
Moreover, it was even sold out.
‘Sigh.’
Of course, it was better than nothing.
The value of a porter who could continuously hold one type of item with even a single-slot inventory was higher than a porter who simply carried a backpack and picked up items one by one.
Even if it wasn’t sold out, I couldn’t afford it right now, and I wasn’t in urgent need of an inventory.
It would literally help with porter work, but my ultimate goal was not to be a porter.
I never intended to end my life as a porter.
Porters were just a means to earn money and experience; my goal was to become a hunter who hunted monsters myself.
Since there was nothing to buy immediately, I closed the Hunter Market website.
My eyes naturally turned to the game.
‘Come to think of it, I think I got an alarm yesterday…’
I remembered something about a sacrifice.
“Ah! A bug!”
I remembered.
It was the alarm the subordinate officer had given me, saying he offered me a sacrifice.
The altar system that newly appeared when I expanded the dungeon size yesterday.
I thought the altar system was a double-edged sword for now.
The dungeon’s invisibility prevented intruders from entering, and most importantly, Celia, the only monster in the dungeon, could not leave.
These penalties would eventually be lifted, but not now.
And my expectation that intruders couldn’t enter was clearly wrong.
“What kind of bug allowed it to penetrate cash shop items?”
I logged into the game and checked the alarm list.
– Yuel’s ability has been absorbed.
The alarm ended there.
“My ability was absorbed?”
I clicked on various tabs, but nothing seemed to have changed. Celia, whom I had set as my subordinate officer, also hadn’t seen her stats increase.
“Hmm.”
It seemed the sacrifice named Yuel was a mob. As a mob, the stat increase would be very subtle, so it seemed no changes were visible.
After all, it was unlikely that a powerful being would attack from the beginning.
The problem was that even with invisibility, such beings could invade the dungeon at any time.
This game was released not too long ago, so there might be many minor bugs.
If so, I had only one thing to do.
It was to proceed with placing traps and monsters that I had postponed.
“As expected, monsters are the flower of the dungeon.”
The basic defense of a dungeon was monster soldiers.
This was true for dungeons that appeared on Earth and those on the El Dorado Continent.
This game was also based on the El Dorado Continent, so it would be no different.
I immediately went to the shop and pressed the draw tab.
– Dungeon Affiliated Monster Draw! (1 time 550 Jewels)
– Dungeon Affiliated Monster Draw! (10 times 5000 Jewels)
It required 550 jewels to draw one monster. I had seen gold, but this was the first time I saw jewels as currency.
“How do you get jewels? Can you buy them with real money?”
Since I didn’t know the price of jewels, I couldn’t gauge whether the draws were expensive or cheap.
I browsed the shop to see if jewels could be purchased with real money.
– 100 Jewels: 1,100 Won
– 500 Jewels: 5,500 Won
– 1,000 Jewels: 11,000 Won
– 2,000 Jewels: 22,000 Won
– 5,000 Jewels: 55,000 Won
– Bonus: Double the jewels on your first purchase!
“Wow, how expensive is this?”
It required 550 jewels for one draw and 5000 jewels for 10 draws.
And 5000 jewels cost 55,000 won.
Furthermore, there were no additional benefits for drawing.
There was no guarantee of receiving a high-rank monster after a certain number of draws.
It was just that the 10-draw was more cost-effective than drawing once…
“Prices are insane.”
Or the game developer is crazy for money.
Whether that was the case or not, I was in a good mood anyway.
Since there was a double jewel bonus, I boldly spent 5,000.
‘Since I got a status window, this much expenditure is nothing now.’
There was no great burden.
– Payment successful.
– 5,000 Jewels will be delivered via mail.
– First Purchase Bonus! An additional 5,000 Jewels will be delivered via mail.
In total, there were 10,000 jewels in the mail.
“Let’s go for a 20-draw gacha!”
As soon as I received 10,000 jewels, I immediately started drawing.
– You have drawn a Skeleton Soldier (★).
– You have drawn a Skeleton Archer Trainee (★).
– You have drawn a Skeleton Soldier (★).
– You have drawn a Skeleton Magic Trainee (★).
– You have drawn a Skeleton Soldier (★).
When I drew monsters five times, my expression contorted.
“What the heck, why am I only getting skeletons?”
Moreover, they were all one-star monsters.
The appearance was hopeless.
The Skeleton Soldier held a worn sword that looked like it would break at any moment.
The archer had a bow made of ordinary wood, which was clearly not good equipment.
“This magic user only has a wooden stick.”
Can you even use magic with this?
The only glimmer of hope was that I had only drawn five times.
I touched the screen to continue drawing.
– You have drawn a Skeleton Archer Trainee (★).
– You have drawn a Skeleton Archer Trainee (★).
– You have drawn a Skeleton Soldier (★).
– You have drawn a Skeleton Magic Trainee (★).
– You have drawn a Skeleton Soldier (★).
Damn it.
It turns out this place only has skeletons for monsters.
Also, if it’s an archer, it’s an archer, and if it’s a mage, it’s a mage.
What’s with the trainee and apprentice?
They’re making it difficult for synthesis.
Originally, I planned to do another 10-draw immediately after the first 10-draw.
However, seeing this situation, I felt like I shouldn’t do it consecutively.
I immediately touched the monster window and looked at the monster tab.
[Owned Monster List]
– Skeleton Soldier (★) ×5
– Skeleton Archer Trainee (★) ×3
– Skeleton Magic Trainee (★) ×2
– Rank: ★
[Trait]
– None
[Basic Information]
Health: F
Attack Power: F
Defense: F-
Magic Power: F-
[Skill]
– None
It was really simple.
– Rank: ★
[Trait]
– None
[Basic Information]
Health: F-
Attack Power: F
Defense: F-
Magic Power: F-
[Skill]
– None
This one was the same.
– Rank: ★
[Trait]
– None
[Basic Information]
Health: F-
Attack Power: F+
Defense: F-
Magic Power: F-
[Skill]
– None
Oh my god. Is this really a game?
It was pathetic.
The three types of skeletons showed slight differences in stats, but the pathetic nature remained unchanged.
Of course, their stats were higher than mine, but this was a game, wasn’t it?
I spent 55,000 won, and only these guys came out?
My mood dropped in real-time.
The only silver lining was that the monsters also had a synthesis system, like the subordinate officers.
– To synthesize a Skeleton Soldier (★), 2 Skeleton Soldiers (★) are required.
It was a system where two identical monsters were consumed for synthesis.
I had five Skeleton Soldiers and three archers.
I synthesized them respectively.
– Synthesizing Skeleton Soldier (★).
– Consuming 2 Skeleton Soldiers (★).
– Synthesis successful! Skeleton Soldier (★) has evolved into Skeleton Swordsman (★★).
– Rank: ★★
[Trait]
– None
[Basic Information]
Health: E
Attack Power: E
Defense: E-
Magic Power: E-
[Skill]
– None
Oh…
There was a slight change when I synthesized them.
Then, when I synthesized the one-star archer trainees, they became two-star Skeleton Archers.
[Owned Monster List]
– Skeleton Soldier (★) ×2
– Skeleton Swordsman (★★) ×1
– Skeleton Archer (★★) ×1
– Skeleton Magic Trainee (★) ×2
Looking at the subordinate officer and the monster draws, it seems the game’s basic mechanism is growth through synthesis.
“Still, only getting skeletons is crossing the line.”
I used 5,000 jewels in the last 10-draw.
I had 5,000 jewels left.
Normally, I would have done another consecutive draw.
However, after seeing only skeletons in the last draw, I lost the desire to do so.
“Could there be a bug in the draws too?”
I clicked on the notices, wondering if the types of monsters that appeared varied by day, but there were no notices.
It seemed better to do additional draws later.
If I only got these guys again, I’d just be wasting jewels.
“So then, I need to deploy these guys…”
The important thing was to deploy them in the dungeon.
Even with the same monster composition, the efficiency would be higher if they were placed appropriately according to the terrain.
However, my dungeon was a cave stretching out long and narrow. Moreover, the width was narrow.
There was no place to take cover.
If I placed monsters here, it wouldn’t be useful.
“Can’t change the internal structure?”
Even if it’s not much, it would be nice to make wide plazas in the middle of the paths…
I went to the dungeon management tab and looked for the internal structure section.
But.
– This feature has not yet been opened.
What? Why are there so many things I can’t do in this game?
“Tsk.”
I clicked the screen with a sigh.
[Entrust all management to subordinate officer]
It would be better for the dungeon manager, the subordinate officer, to do it than for me to place them myself.
I decided to leave the utilization of monsters obtained through draws entirely to the subordinate officer.
Additionally, I set all dungeon-related tasks to be managed autonomously by the subordinate officer in the settings and then closed the game.
Accessing the game will be difficult for a while.
Since I got a status window, I have to take a magic test and look for porter work, so busy days lie ahead.
At least if I do this, they’ll grow automatically like an idle game.
