NOVEL NEXT Chapter 4
The Shocking Truth
After all, I finally got out of the marsh dungeon after circling the boss for about six hours and walking straight home.
By the way, nobody came to the boss’s room for six hours, so I just hunted mega-slimes.
But the result.
“I’m finally over 100 levels.”
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Amamiya Kaede
Level 112
HP: 1140/1140 MP: 580/580
Offensive Power: 184(+52)
Defense: 134(+12)
Agility: 184(+57)
Dexterity: 284(+147)
Mental Strength: 409 (+292)
Luck: 50
BP: 0
SP: 170
Skills: [Magic Arrow Lv.10] [Archery Lv.5] [Hawk Eye Lv.2] [Item Box Lv.1] [Lock-On Lv.1]
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“My mental strength is the only thing that’s badly skewed.”
Well, that’s because I put all my BP into mental power to increase the attack power of [magic arrows] when I leveled up.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to defeat it and collect magic stones.
“But from now on, I’m going to spend my BP on my other statuses as well.”
I’ve been good so far, but if I go to a higher-ranked dungeon, monsters will hit me before I can shoot an arrow.
I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to get a good enough BP for this.
“Well, I’ll think about that next time…I’ve saved up a lot of SP.”
I stare at the SP of the status.
The number I see in my vision is 170.
“I’ve saved up this much SP, so it’s time to use it. What should I do?”
I think for a moment as I say this.
Well, there are some skills I want now.
Oh, but I also want to raise my skill level.
“……Okay! I’ve decided!”
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[Appraisal Lv.1]:10SP
[Item Box Lv.2]: 10SP
[MP Increase Lv.5]: 80SP
[Lock-On Lv.5]: 70SP
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“I guess it’s these four.”
I mumbled to myself as I manipulated the status screen, taking skills and raising skill levels.
The most important thing to remember is that I can’t get a better price than this.
The three skills, except for the [Lock-On] skill, are all skills that I thought I needed.
The [Appraisal] skill is at lv.1, but I took it to check the HP of monsters.
At lv.1, I can only see the monster’s name, HP, and MP, but since I used it to check the monster’s HP only, I have no problem with that.
The next skill, [MP Up], literally increases MP, and its effect increases by 100 per skill level. So my current skill level is 5, which means I have 500 more MP.
That increases the number of times you can use [Magic Arrow] by 25 times.
That’s pretty outrageous when I think about it.
But it also increases the number of times I can defeat the boss, so I think I made the right decision to set the skill level to 5 the moment I took it.
The rest is [Item Box] and [Lock-On] skill, but [Item Box] is just because I wanted to increase the capacity.
And the [Lock-On] skill is…
“Nothing unusual and …… No, why!”
I spent 70SP and its effect hasn’t changed.
“However, it’s strange that nothing has changed… let’s do some research.
I took out my phone and searched for [Lock-On].”
I’m sure the great Dr. Booble will be able to tell me more about it.
“Huh? I can’t find it, can I?”
Funny, I did indeed look up [Lock-On], didn’t I?
But it doesn’t show up?
“No way.”
I tap the word [Lock-On] again with a bad feeling and search.
The first time I did this, I made sure there were no mistakes in the words I’m Boobling for it, so it should be fine.
If this doesn’t come up, I’ll go to …… or I remember this behavior.
Specifically on my birthday last year.
“Nope.”
I scrolled through the screen of my phone, carefully searching one by one, but the result was the same.
No matter how much I searched, there was no information about the [Lock-On] skill anywhere.
“No way!”
I was stunned, unable to believe the reality.
“I knew it was a unique skill.”
I covered my face with my right hand and looked to the heavens.
This is bad. It’s really bad.
I remember what I did just now on the street.
I did something similar on my birthday last year.
“It’s not good if they find out about this. I’ve never heard of anyone having two unique skills.”
It is no exaggeration to say that the economy of the world today is based on dungeons.
The dungeons are the source of energy and materials for monsters that humans use for various purposes.
It is the explorers who go there to retrieve them. In other words, each country is desperate to secure excellent human resources.
The synonym for excellence is a powerful skill called unique skill.
Except for a few unique skills like mine, unique skills are all powerful skills.
In other countries, polygamy and polyandry are allowed to increase the number of people with unique skills.
If someone knows I have a second unique skill in that situation.
“Experimental subjects, guinea pigs. At best, a life of surveillance all the time.”
You may think I’m overreacting, but that’s how important unique skills are, and if people knew that I have two unique skills, I would never be allowed to live the free life I have now.
“What should I do?”
This was a real problem.
Fortunately, people can’t easily discover [Lock-On] skill by looking at me, and it’s also easy to fool people with it.
“I’ll do that.”