Grow With In-App Purchases

6. Strange Secret Merchant (2)

I hid myself in an alleyway and glanced behind me.

I can see him hesitating as if he has no regrets, and then quickly moving his seat.

I took off my suspicious-looking hood to see if anyone else could see it.

“after…”

Is it because it is also an academy city?

There are too many things to take care of.

It must be that the difference in life between commoners and nobles is so great.

‘It’s ridiculous that they won’t let you in if you don’t care about their behavior.’

Commoners who failed to manage their appearance, and nobles who managed their beauty through various means.

This is a world where looking good is known as a noble virtue.

Even among the nobles, there were ugly people, but if they were consistently managed, they recognized them as nobles.

No matter how basic a commoner is, the reason why they are not mistaken for aristocrats is because their unique ‘managed posture’ is not easy to imitate.

In the first place, it was not even in their heads that commoners had to take care of their appearance.

But to me, the life of aristocrats was not so unfamiliar to me.

Isn’t he a man from Korea, a beauty powerhouse?

‘I know roughly how to take care of it.’

A pack that my girlfriend sometimes gave me.

The days when I had to apply sunscreen forcibly.

In the game, there was a function that could increase the character’s attractiveness with items to increase sociability, and I generously applied items that increased the attractiveness to my face to enter Academy City.

Thanks to that, I succeeded in changing my face, which had not been maintained, into a smooth ‘managed beauty’.

‘Fortunately, nobles are tolerant of scars.’

Perhaps because of the situation of nobles who had to enter the contaminated area and fight monsters, scars on their faces and bodies were tolerated.

I spent as much money as possible on clothes, so I bought a dark blue suit and wore it.

As for his identity, he had already worked on it for a long time, so there was no problem, and he only needed to avoid doubts about his appearance, and that was also covered with an item.

“When this came out, I really wanted to throw it all away… Still, since I have it, I have a place to use it.”

If these beauty products were sold to nobles, they would sell well.

However, in terms of the game system, the beauty products were no different.

After you spin it hundreds of times to pull out a kid’s weapon, you’ll see hundreds of beauty products piled up.

‘It’s not a bad thing to increase sociability, which increases the relationship due to character synergy, but it was an annoying factor that made me click a few more times.’

However, now that the game has become a reality, it can be used quite usefully.

‘Wouldn’t it be nice if I gave it to the girls as a gift?’

Who among women is not interested in beauty?

I’ll think about that later when we get to know each other, so I’ll leave it alone… .

I entered the inn and sighed deeply.

“It was really hard.”

It took 14 years, no, almost 15 years to get here.

During those long years, he changed his body to come near the academy.

The amount of time it took for a commoner to reach an aristocrat presumptuously.

14 years.

‘f*ck, adjust the level of difficulty well.’

However, even after I infiltrated the academy, my suffering did not end easily.

Before retiring, when I went near the contaminated area with the mercenary group after receiving the last request to purchase special products.

I was able to safely purchase special items.

He safely caught the monsters he had met since the Kobold, and gained confidence in his skills.

And I think it was the best until then.

‘I shouldn’t have caught on so easily… .’

It seems that he was overly excited about catching a monster using this ability.

I was also full of mulberries thanks to the power I gained from scrolling.

What can the boys who are filled with uncontrollable confidence in catching a monster with this ability do?

‘It’s an accident, what.’

It’s a good accident to die.

I was greedy to catch more monsters before the scroll’s usage time ran out, and I was thinking that one mercenary leader was not enough.

we really… Kungjjak fit well.

Then it didn’t work.

‘In the end, I wrote another tracking scroll.’

Then, not realizing how close I was to the contaminated area, I followed the monster with my eyes wide open.

Unfortunately, we met the monster shortly after.

A powerful monster that we dare not even scratch its body.

‘It’s a waste of my scroll.’

In order not to die, I had to write without sparing the scroll.

Thanks to that, I killed the monster using a very rare magic scroll that only had one.

‘I made money, but… .’

To be honest, I still feel sick to my stomach that I used that scroll there.

‘Thanks to that, I sold him and bought a special item and still had money left over. That’s why I was able to pick him up too.’

Once again, I thought of the girl I had just met.

After coming to the academy, I realized once again that this world was in a game.

It had to be.

‘Because the character selection window has finally opened.’

A large city built around the academy.

Only aristocrats whose status has been thoroughly verified can enter, and commoners can enter only those who have been guaranteed by nobles.

What if I came in with a warranty and got into an accident?

The noble who gave the guarantee must bear all the responsibility.

That is why nobles were reluctant to give guarantees to commoners.

There is none except when it is really necessary or when it is a trustworthy person.

There are people who say that it is necessary to check entry and exit so thoroughly… .

‘The justification that the academy should be thoroughly protected was stronger.’

Thanks to that, I also had to put in a lot of effort to enter this place.

That period was 14 years.

‘Actually, it took 14 years to arrive, but I was worried that the character I knew would not exist after graduating.’

14 years of time.

It was a time when it would not be strange to enter the academy and graduate.

For character-only weapons, when a special package came out, I always paid for it, but I didn’t think I could sell all of them.

They thought that it would be better to sell exclusive equipment to characters who have already graduated rather than wasting time to meet characters that they would not be able to meet.

however… .

‘It’s not easy.’

Even after arriving at the academy and watching the students come and go for days, there was not a single character I knew.

At first, I was disappointed that I had arrived at the academy too late, and I was worried about how to contact those who would have enlisted in the military.

Then, as soon as I arrived at the academy, I thought that there must be a reason why the character draw was opened, so I used the remaining cache to draw a character.

“I thought charging would have been the answer.”

The shock is still there.

When I did the first character drawing while sprinkling colorful light effects, the first kick was fine.

Because the SSR character came out.

Of course, what shocked me was not that I was told that a good character came out.

The moment the character is summoned.

The problem was that the character appeared in real life in front of me.

“Huh? What am I doing here?”

10 characters that appear when you draw once.

[R] [R] [R] [R] [SR] [R] [R] [R] [SSR] [R]

There were no duplicates, and all 10 characters made puzzled expressions and then scattered to wherever they wanted to go.

Among the ten, the placenta was of the R and SR ranks, which were not worth raising.

I was so flustered that I couldn’t stop 10 people from going their own way, and only after belatedly coming to my senses did I finish grasping the situation.

‘It’s not that it didn’t exist because it was late, it just didn’t exist at all.’

I still get goosebumps when I think back to that time.

It was the academy that found the 10 characters who had disappeared somewhere.

They laughed and chatted nonchalantly with the other students and lived as if they had always existed.

An aristocratic family was born, and no one questioned it, as if they had existed.

‘Then you’re saying I’ll have to pay the bills and at least get all the kids’ business cards?’

What would be the impact on the world if the character didn’t exist at all?

The performance of characters drawn by charging will be better than those of extras, even if they are not used directly.

‘And if those kids graduate from the academy and go to war to reduce the pollution rate even by 1%…’

In the end, billing had to continue.

The survival of the world depends on how hard I put in the gacha.

I don’t know why a guy like me got this ability, or why he’s putting such a burden on me.

‘It’s money again.’

The answer was simply to make money.

It was exhausting, but since I came to the academy, I think my life will be much better than when I earned money while working as a mercenary.

I pulled out the character by robbing it with the remaining cache.

But unfortunately, the only character worth raising was the SSR I picked at the beginning.

And the SSR character I picked is the same girl I just talked to.

[Name: Shine (SSR)]

[ Grade: B grade ]

[Skills: ＜Double Shot＞ ＜Fire Shot＞ ＜Power Shot＞ ]

[Stats: Power (B) Stamina (C) Agility (B) Magic (C) Charm (C) ]

If you look at the character window, the basic stats are not good.

In order to function properly, you have to draw the same character multiple times here and raise the rating to 5 stars.

In addition, you have to raise your stats by clearing the scenario quests that foster your character.

Among those various stats, SSS should be attached to the main stats Power and Agility, and at least SS must come out for mana to be a 2nd tier character.

‘It’s better if there’s character-specific equipment in there.’

And fortunately, there was Shine’s unique equipment in my item window.

A great weapon that Shine would never cut without buying it.