Chapter 19: Auction House
The woman had shoulder-length chestnut-colored hair with small hairpins. Her irises were dull, looking like there was no life in them. She was wearing a long white dress with a sky blue jacket.
The buyer was a man with black and white hair. The man's left iris was blood red with black sclera and his right iris looked normal. He was wearing a short white shirt with black pants.
The man looked flatly at the vendor in front of him. "If you want to lie, please don't tell your lies."
"Misaka doesn't understand what you're saying, Misaka said with a feigned sense of wonder and tilted her head."
Reaching them, El tapped the man on the shoulder. "Is your name Kaneki Ken." Then glanced at the woman with short chestnut hair nearby. "And... Are you Misaka Sister?" asked El with eyes full of curious interest.
Both of them were surprised and fell silent for a moment. The expression on both of their faces seemed to be astonished by the man in front of them. Then, it turned into a suspicious look.
"Why do you know Misaka's name, said Misaka looking suspiciously at the mysterious man before her." Misaka said this flatly.
"Yes, why do you know my name?" Kaneki said with a suspicious expression.
Receiving a suspicious and wary look, El exhaled his breath. El realized what she had just done. Because he was too curious and excited, El casually revealed the identities of the names of the two people he had just met.
'So they're Keneki and Misaka Sister. I didn't expect, Rencarnation Room also made Anime characters as Beyonder.' El said in thought.
Then, El stuck out his right hand. "Please forgive me for making you guys surprised. I thought you two were my acquaintances. Your appearance and voice are very similar to people I know. And, to my surprise, your names are also similar."
Kaneki smiled kindly, then shook El's hand. "Oh, no problem. The Rencarnation Room is connected to other worlds, it's possible that we are your acquaintances in your home world, or another world related to you."
On the other side, Misaka Sister bowed her body slightly. "Misaka is sorry. Misaka thought you were a stalker, Misaka said guiltily." She said that in a monotone voice.
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After apologizing and having a little chat with Kaneki and Misaka Sister, El resumed her original purpose. That was to walk around and look at the merchant area.
"I have 34,570 points. But I'm confused about what to buy first?" El paused to think for a moment. After pausing for a moment, El thought of buying rank equipment to increase his strength.
"I'd better look for equipment that has a rank." El said, then continued walking.
In the Rencarnation Room, anything could be done as long as it had points, including strengthening oneself.
At this moment, El's attributes increased drastically due to the effects of the Sacrifice Leader Title. In addition, El also still has 40 attribute points that have not been used.
As for abilities, El only has the abilities of Six Tomoe Rinnegan and Swordsman. Six Tomoe Rinnegan's eyes of insight have been opened, although other abilities are in a locked state, making the original potential drastically reduced.
Six tomoe Rinnegan cannot be improved in any way. Only effort and practice can increase the level of ability and skill.
Meanwhile, Swordsman abilities can be upgraded with ability points. But, unfortunately El didn't have any ability points yet.
Therefore, El thought of spending the few points he had to increase his strength by buying some rank equipment.
El continued to walk around and browse the trading area. Occasionally, El stopped at a booth and looked at the items that other Beyonder were selling. He saw many weapons, armor and accessories for sale. However, everything sold at the booth was just ordinary equipment. A few had ranks, but they looked rusty, unfit for use.
"~Haah!" El could only sigh tiredly. But, El didn't give up that easily. El continued to walk down the street of the trade area. 1 hour of walking later, El reached the center of the trade area.
There, El saw a large and imposing building that read "Rencarnation Room auction house." Out of curiosity, El decided to walk into it. Inside, the auction house, there were tables and chairs scattered like in a restaurant.
El saw many Beyonders sitting seriously, looking at the void in front of them. Their hands twitched as if touching something invisible.
Increasingly curious, El walked over to one of the empty seats and sat down on it. Nichirin's sword was placed on her lap.
When she raised her head to face him. Instantly El's eyes widened, surprised to see something right in front of her.
Right in front of her, a holographic panel of the system appeared. There were recorded what items were auctioned according to their category.
The items in the auction are divided into 3 categories. Namely, the first category was equipment such as weapons, armor and accessories. The second category, namely items such as rocks and potions. Finally, the third category is abilities.
Rencarnation Room does not sell abilities directly. As previously explained. Abilities can only be obtained in 3 ways.
The first way is the random ability that the system gives when you first enter the Rencarnation Room.
The second way is by learning and mastering them in the world that Beyonder visits while doing missions.
And the last is by purchasing abilities from other Beyonders, through trading with the currency of points.
However, in order to get the transfer of ownership of an ability, a special item is required, the Ability Crystal.
Ability crystal is a crystal that can store abilities that are no longer needed by a Beyonder. Abilities that have been stored in ability crystals can no longer be used by the Beyonder.
In the system catalog, the ability crystal was on sale for 5000 points.
Naturally, El felt interested in buying and owning one of those sold in the auction. However, El's current goal was to buy some equipment. For skills, El could buy later in the future.
At this time, El was still Authority Level 5. Then the equipment that could be used was Black Level.
The maximum limit of attributes in total for a Beyonder at Authority Level 5 was 100. Once a Beyonder was a total of 100, then a Beyonder can apply for a Level Up promotion mission.
Without a Level-up promotion mission, a Beyonder cannot increase their attribute value anymore.
El's current total attribute value is 14 attribute points. Bonuses derived from Titles, abilities and equipment will not be taken into account. Even if El adds 40 unused attribute points, his attributes total 54 points. Still not enough to apply for a Level Up promotion mission.
To be able to apply for a Level Up promotion mission, El needs 46 attribute points to reach 100 points. So, for now, El cannot apply for the Level Up promotion mission.
El's eyes were very serious when he noticed all the equipment being sold at the auction. Occasionally, El also seemed to bid on some equipment that interested him.
2 hours passed. With enough effort and mental pressure from some of his competitors, El managed to get 4 equipment that he thought was suitable and interesting.
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> Black wolf suit
Level: Black
Type : Clothing
Description : Restore stamina 1:10 every 10 minutes.
> Desert worm pants
Level: Black
Type : Pants
Description : Restore 1:10 health every 20 minutes.
> Climbing gloves
Level: Black
Type : Gloves
Description : Increases 20% of hand grip strength.
> White rabbit shoes
Level: Black
Type : Shoes
Description: Increases 20% movement speed and reflexes when dodging.
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A Beyonder can only use 7 pieces of equipment at once. They include Weapons, Armor, Pants, Gloves, Shoes and 2 Accessories.
The black wolf suit costs 2000 points, the desert worm pants cost 3500 points, the climbing gloves cost 1500 points and the white rabbit shoes cost 2000 points.
The grand total of points El spent from this auction was 9000 points. El now have 25,570 points left.
El pounded the table lightly. Happy tears appeared in the corners of his eyes. El was happy to have won the right equipment. 'Thank God, I got the equipment that suits me.'
That's what he said. It wasn't for no reason that El bought the equipment. The reason was that the black wolf suit had an effect of restoring 1:10 stamina every 10 minutes, given Rinnegan's insightful eye ability to use his stamina instead of Chakra.
The desert worm pants effect restores 1:10 health every 20 minutes, considering El's wound recovery rate is quite slow. Later, El will also increase her VIT attribute to make his recovery faster.
The effect of the Climbing Gloves is to 20% increase the grip strength of the hand, in order to obtain the anti-regeneration effect of the Nichirin Sword, if it has awakened the Demon Hunter Mark.
In the anime, the blade of Nichirin's sword will become bright red, if a demon hunter who has awakened the demon hunter mark grips the hilt very firmly.
The last effect of the white rabbit shoes is a 20% increase in movement speed and reflexes when dodging. That way, El can further maximize the insightful eye's ability to move in the event of a sudden attack.
"All that's left is the accessories. No need for weapons since I already have the Nichirin Sword."