Chapter 8 - Upvote
[Tower of Wishes Floor 2 – Evergreen Forest Zone 1]
[★☆☆ : Defeat all enemies.]
[★★☆ : Win without anyone falling.]
[★★★ : Purify the zone within 7 minutes 00 seconds.]
Was the time limit originally 7 minutes?
I felt like things were starting to differ slightly from the early stages of the game I remembered.
Our tutorial saint Yohena too, had an extremely kind and gentle personality.
Earlier.
Before entering the tower.
“Ark-nim. Please maintain proper behavior. …Since the Revealer is absent, please take this seriously as if you were the Revealer.”
For some reason, she suddenly nagged.
“Ah, yes.”
Did I do something wrong?
I couldn’t think of anything particular.
I was always serious, so I felt a bit unfair.
There must have been some minor misunderstanding.
Men prove themselves through actions.
If I serve her sincerely and respectfully, the misunderstanding will be cleared.
“Let’s go.”
That’s enough reminiscing about the past.
Now it’s time to move forward.
I didn’t lead the way…
“Ari. Let’s start.”
“Okay!”
As archers are naturally superior in eyesight.
I threw our party’s main dealer cum scout forward.
…I should recruit a front-line tank or dealer soon.
I feel a bit guilty.
Floor 1, Land of Fresh Verdure was literally flat.
If that was a place where the view was bright and clear.
Floor 2, Evergreen Forest was densely wooded.
The densely wooded trees obstructed the view.
Of course.
“Hey, this is nothing~!”
The wild boars fell one by one as they were hit by Ari’s arrows.
One shot, one kill.
They collapsed cleanly.
It was a linear structure where we just had to find the right path and move forward.
Ari deals with the wild boars.
I pick up the loot dropped by the wild boars.
Yohena?
She just does whatever she wants.
Originally, she would cast heal on me or buff Ari whenever she was bored.
Or open her book and give a lengthy explanation every time we encountered a tutorial encounter.
…Although it was all content I already knew.
“As expected, Yohena is amazing! You know everything!”
“Hehe, it’s all written in the revelation, so this too must be the goddess’s blessing.”
They say even dolphins dance when praised.
So I kept praising her steadily.
I was bored anyway.
And so the hero party.
No, Ari’s solo parenting party cleanly broke through to Zone 3 of Floor 2 of the tower.
…Of course.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing.
“Huh? Ark! Watch out!”
“Hm?”
Ari’s scream reached me as I was looking around, unable to bear the boredom.
The moment I turned my head──
“Squeeee!”
“Kyaaaak!!!”
A wild boar struck my side.
Intense pain rushed in.
It hurt, it really fucking hurt…!
“A-Ark! Are you okay?! Heal!”
Thanks to Yohena’s heal properly exerting its Season 1 healing effect, the pain soon subsided.
“A-Ark…! I’m so sorry…!”
Ari, who belatedly shot an arrow and popped the wild boar, ran over with a tearful expression.
While there were such hardships.
As the saying goes, misfortune might be a blessing in disguise.
A hopeful future was also approaching us.
That is.
We’ve gathered 180 divine stones again!
This time is different, this time!
“Yohena. The time has come.”
As I whispered with a solemn face, Yohena also nodded resolutely.
“What kind of revelation?”
“The beginner’s revelation.”
I don’t know exactly how the prayer mechanism works, but.
Revelations─ gachas were divided into several types like in reality.
Beginner’s Revelation. The character pool is limited, but guarantees 1 5-star SSR after 50 pulls.
Normal Revelation. You can get contracts for all heroes, but the so-called pity is at 100.
Besides these, there’s the Pick-up Revelation where the appearance rate of specific heroes is increased.
Select Revelation where I can increase the appearance rate of heroes I want…
I set aside my doubts about why there are such extremely ‘game-like’ revelations as pick-up or select.
The tower.
The status window.
Even I, who carries around a smartphone, am an unrealistic existence. So it could be possible.
“I’m ready, Ark.”
While pouring in the divine stones, I checked our future prospects.
There are 10 5-stars that appear in the Beginner’s Revelation.
…To be honest.
As long as it’s not Yohena, it’s fine.
If possible, a tank would be best.
As a result of the refreshing experience of having my ribs crushed by a wild boar earlier.
I needed a melee dealer just in case.
If not, I should at least recruit a 3-star tank this time.
Honestly.
A super veteran player gets incarnated into the game, and dies pitifully not even above the 10th floor, but in the lower floors?
They might as well play it as a dead movie at my funeral.
Then I’d die twice.
The second cause of death would be from shame.
“Now, let’s pray.”
The three of us offered our prayers reverently.
And.
“Beloved…”
Yohena’s prayer began.
It’s chilling.
A dagger flies and pierces my chest.
But I’m not worried.
Because my faith is MAX right now…!
……
However.
Golden flames flared up.
It’s okay.
It’s trivial.
It’s a trivial matter.
After struggling to manage my expression, I followed the traces of white stars falling from the sky with my eyes.
Anyway, I need to collect 3-star contracts to raise Ari to 4-stars before she can show her true performance.
“Rainbow! Rainbow!”
Watching her shout the cheer she learned last time with gusto.
Indeed, the goddess of beginners.
The supreme 3-star dealer.
Great Ari, Light Ari, Golden Ari.
She’s so good.
I tried hard to control my mind.
“Huh, huuh?!”
As I was staring blankly at Ari’s side profile like that, suddenly Ari jumped up.
What’s this, did a wild boar respawn? I thought as I shifted my gaze to where Ari was looking.
“Gasp! A big one’s coming!”
The shooting star falling from the sky.
Changed from white──
To gold.
Variable probability!
“Rainbow! Rainbow!”
“Rainbooooow!!!!!!!”
I shouted with all my soul and faith gathered.
“Rainbow…!”
The saint also chimed in timidly.
At that moment.
The shooting star shining in pure gold flickered momentarily.
And.
The shooting star began to emit a brilliant rainbow-colored light.
At the same time, the color of the flames emitted by the holy grail also sparkled in full rainbow colors!
“It’s heeeere!!!!!!!”
Unable to control my body from the excitement rushing in.
I ended up hugging Ari tightly.
The goddess of luck was smiling upon me.
The great feat of saving up to 30 pulls!
The best situation for a F2P player!
…No.
Let’s stay calm.
The enemy is still alive…!
I awkwardly released Ari, whom I had pulled into my arms.
“Ahem, hem.”
I returned to my always calm and wise self.
Yohena, who was glaring at me sourly, rummaged through the brazier.
As if teasing me, she slowly took out the papers.
“I hope you’ll behave a bit more properly.”
“Ah, yes.”
After dropping one word of nagging, she handed me the stack of papers.
Quickly flipping through the 3-star generic contracts.
The long-awaited 5-star I was expecting.
Who is it!
I hope it’s Saha!
My tank! Main tank! Saha!
“……”
And I fell silent.
“What is it? Who is it?”
“What’s wrong, Ark?”
“Kuhup.”
I felt like crying.
…It’s a duuud…
“I’m so, so happy…”
But I can’t say it honestly…
It’ll lower morale…
The next morning.
“So you’re going to bring the new teammate, right? Ari and I will wait at the Guild House.”
“Take care, Ark!”
“Yees…”
There was no strength in my steps.
As I made my way to the square where Lumi was, I fell into reminiscence of the past.
[Last Felix Gallery]
[Author: LoveFireLoveSaha]
[Title: CAUTION) Hit pity on pickup, did you get her? lololol]
[(Picture of obtaining Lumi from gacha pity)
Really… I’m posting because I got her…
Ugh… My La-bung…
I want to make a meme post…]
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Lumi upvote
Gallery owner upvote lol
Mod, isn’t this a spoiler? Not salty?
ㄴ Are you new? You don’t recognize the gallery owner lol
This guy is really famous for loving Lumi lol
It seems the thread of fate continues even after being incarnated into the game.
“Sigh…”
5-star. Earth attribute dealer. Lumi.
Nicknames. Puppy, Pup-Lumi, Gallery owner, etc.
It’s not easy to rise to the position of ‘gallery owner’ in a subculture mobile game gallery.
Like Denden who boasts overwhelmingly superior booba exposure.
Or Caerreung who boasts overwhelmingly superior betrayal.
Or Jjang-Li-Jjang who boasts overwhelmingly superior beauty.
One must excel in a specific field.
It’s even better if their in-game performance is good too.
However.
Lumi.
Boasted overwhelmingly superior suicide skills.
Although she’s a melee dealer.
Her range is shorter than tanks, so she always goes out alone in front and dies getting hit.
Her skill set is also.
Her enhancement skill “Lumi will protect you woof!” is.
Temporarily using taunt to gather aggro while strengthening her own attack power.
Her range and skills create an exquisite synergy.
Videos of her falling in 3 seconds in high-difficulty areas collected numerous upvotes and Lumi-votes.
…It was so absurd that I recorded and uploaded it myself.
“Ahahah! It tickles woof!”
“Onee-chan, lift me up again, lift me!”
When I arrived at the square, her unique presence immediately caught my eye.
Why does she have three heads?
She really stands out.
Seeing her playing nicely with the children in the square while shaking a pouch of upvotes wrapped prettily with a red ribbon.
It warmed my heart.
The kid is nice.
Just grow up healthy.
“Um, Lumi?”
“Woof? Who are you woof?”
As if emphasizing her character setting as a dog beastkin.
Taking in her blatant way of speaking with ‘woof’ at the end of every sentence.
“Take this.”
The rule is not to speak at length.
I held out the contract to Lumi.
Then.
Lumi’s already big eyes widened even more.
Just like a real puppy, she received the contract with both hands raised.
As soon as the bracelet signifying the contract’s establishment disappeared.
“Mashteer!”
“Ugh.”
She suddenly jumped and hugged me.
“Finally met you woof, it’s the mashter woof!”
I couldn’t open my mouth.
Because I was perfectly mounted, perfectly crushed by two enormous peaks.
So soft…
“Kek, kek──”
The soft death was crushing my respiratory system and guiding me to the netherworld…
This much is a good death…
“They say Lumi-woof is killing someone~”
“They say the flat guy is dying squished~”
With the children’s chattering voices as the last thing I heard.
My consciousness faded.