Episode 31 – Miracle on the Frontier (1)
‘I did achieve something.’
It wasn’t an ordinary game to begin with, but I’ve never felt such a sense of accomplishment while playing a game. The feeling of literally accomplishing something.
Of course, I only cleared Chapter 1 in a game that has Chapter 9.
Although a lot of things have changed right now, there is a high probability that the big picture will not change, so I predicted that this game, which other people could finish in at least two days if they played it with intention, might take more than a month.
Actually, there is nothing strange and it is natural. Because what you get from that game is more than just a sense of accomplishment. I am like this, but I wonder how much emotion Riena must have felt.
I could guess it just by looking at her expression at the last moment.
‘Why are you doing that?’
As I sat down in front of the monitor with a quick snack, I saw Riena’s behavior on the screen, hurriedly rummaging around in front of the villagers who welcomed her, and I had questions.
It is a reaction as if something has been lost. It looks like she still has the knight’s long sword she grabbed and the potion I gave her, but what on earth is she looking for?
“Oh no way.”
As I watched the snack while chewing it, a thought suddenly occurred to me. Gold coins she picked up from the ruins while playing the game. Since I couldn’t receive it, Riena clearly took it in her arms.
I’m sure I’m looking for it. In fact, she was in a state of tears and was unable to find the gold coin she wanted.
‘Can’t you take something that isn’t an item in the first place?’
I haven’t tested it in detail, but it seems like not everything you get in the game world can be brought to the desktop. The first game was a sandbox game, so everything in the background was an item, so there weren’t any restrictions, but the second game wasn’t.
In fact, there were quite a few gold and silver treasures piled up in the lordly castle that Deus had controlled in the first place, so if it were possible, they could have brought all of them.
“–, —.”
“—.”
As she seemed very disappointed, the villagers comforted her without knowing what was happening. Although I was also disappointed, I didn’t obsess over it any more.
You will be able to earn enough additional income in the future. Other things were more important now.
[Achievement Points: 6000P]
I used the master program to check the points I have now. The total points earned as a reward for clearing Chapter 1 through Riena for the first time are 6000P.
This is the result of saving and saving to use it as efficiently as possible. If you save a little more, you can activate desktop destruction, which eats up 10,000 points.
I haven’t checked the actual power, but if the power of destroying the desktop is as I expected, I will feel much more at ease because I will have one more reason to believe in it.
‘When will I save money?’
But there were things to do before that. Since it is more efficient to open as early as possible, I had to spend the points I had worked so hard to save once again.
[Unlock Dark Blood Level 2]
[Increased number of people deployed]
[Activate hunting ground]
‘I can’t believe this is happening now.’
As I sipped my coffee, I checked out the newly added features in return for unlocking them by spending points. As expected, the number of people that can be placed in the game has been added.
Above all, hunting mode, a feature that was included in the game from the beginning, has only recently been created.
Hunting mode is literally a mode for ‘hunting’ monsters that appear in the game.
Regardless of the story, it was possible to freely defeat monsters that respawn to your heart’s content and use the rewards you earned to advance the story.
Additional personnel assigned to this game cannot enter story mode. Instead, you can immediately awaken to your job and do adaptation training in hunting mode.
“—!?”
To do that, I picked up Varun, who was working on the first game, with the mouse and dragged it to the desktop.
He seemed to be embarrassed, struggling, holding his back and landing in the center of the village, following my mouse.
His leadership skills will be needed when controlling the residents, but since there are many veterans in the first game, I thought that nothing major would happen even if he was away for a while.
‘Riena, Varun, and one remaining seat.’
A total of two people can be newly assigned. It is correct that one spot goes to Varun, who has fully developed his magic characteristics. But the one remaining spot had to be filled.
I still don’t know much about the world the residents live in, but at least I know from what Riena showed me that warriors with superhuman strength are important.
Whether the opponent is a hostile tribe, a bug, or a monster in the game, the power of such beings is important and much needed.
So…if there is an opportunity, it must be increased first and foremost.
That was one strategy I prepared for them.
[Tribal Chief’s Daughter Riena]
[Characteristics: Knight (1% growth rate), leadership (potential)]
[Batch: -]
I looked at Riena’s information. Currently resting in the village, she has grown to a higher level this time, and even the name of her attribute has been changed from Martial Arts to Knight. From there, you can use the Capture app to see more detailed information, including growth rates.
From Noble mtl dot com
In this way, it is clear that characteristics refer to the potential they have.
And when I looked at all the newly joined residents using this capture app. There was one person who had a latent trait that seemed rare.
[Orphan Girl Shura]
[Attribute: Dagger Skill (Potential)]
She is a girl with short black hair who works in a corner of the village helping others.
If the characteristics that the people who immigrate to my desktop have are truly their potential that only I can see, then the characteristic of Shura’s dagger skills is extremely rare.
Even among all the potential traits that have not been developed, he is the only one who possesses traits that are directly related to martial arts rather than vague traits such as super strength and agility.
‘How do I awaken it?’
I was seriously concerned when I saw Shura helping with leather care with other children.
Because only I can see the potential they have, I thought it was my duty to guide and help them develop it.
Their growth is my growth. While fiddling with my mouse, I opened an Internet window.
I don’t know what other people would know about my current situation, but I vaguely thought that the answer might lie in the items in the game I had activated so far.
***
“You’re here! “Where on earth has the chief gone?”
“You, don’t worry too much. “It seems he called.”
Farmer Rousseau, who was quietly farming, was delighted to see Kuhn, who had returned from a visit to the village. Kun, who was embarrassed by the sight of Varun suddenly being dragged into the sky and disappearing, went to the village, found out what happened to Varun, and returned.
When Kun called him and told him that Varun had disappeared, everyone nearby sighed in relief.
“I don’t know what happened, but why didn’t you come with the chief?”
“Anyway…I guess the chief can’t come here anymore.”
“Is that really true!?”
However, when Russo, who looked relieved, asked why he did not come with Varun, Kun smiled bitterly and shook his head. This was quite a shocking fact for those who had adapted to this place under Varun’s leadership.
“I tried to come, but the crack rejected me, Chief. The chief is in great trouble right now. “I wonder if he might be displeased with me.”
“Well, could that be possible? “The tribal leader is always sincere towards him.”
Since he was completely excluded from the batch, Varun can no longer enter this block world. The villagers, unaware of this fact, trembled with anxiety, fearing that they might have been hated by the transcendental being who governed this world.
“Hey, look over there!”
“Huh!”
And that moment. He suddenly appeared in front of them. Although it is similar in height to them, it is a strange creature whose entire body is made of angular blocks.
In an instant, everyone at the scene looked at me and flinched. Although the facial features were visible, it was absolutely impossible to read emotions or expressions on the face, which was made up of square pixels.
‘W-what’s going on?’
Moreover, he walked slowly and approached the storage block built in front of the bomb shelter. Warehouse blocks, which store large quantities of items, are something only he can handle in this world.
He opened it and put on the iron armor he had stored inside.
And it didn’t stop there, even scattering the armor taken out of the box on the floor.
The residents who met Varun in his absence stopped what they were doing and became tense.
“Oh, hurry up and arm yourself. hurry!”
Immediately after, he looked at them with his characteristic blind eyes and waved his arms one after another at the armor that had been spat out on the floor. The frightened residents abandoned everything they were doing and put on their armor and weapons.
‘What on earth do you want?’
When the eight residents at the scene finished arming themselves, he nodded in satisfaction, sat down and stood up repeatedly as if asking them to follow him, and then started walking somewhere.
“It’s clear they’re going to fight. Ha, but we don’t have a chief, so can we do it on our own?”
“Don’t make me lose my temper. It’s not like we’re going alone. “At least a few of those little guys are enough for us.”
As he repeatedly hit the jump key and jumped forward into the distance, the residents diligently followed behind him on horseback.
They already had experience chasing and killing goblins that had attacked them and then escaped. In addition, I have experienced enough conflicts with monsters that occur during the resource gathering process.
It is true that the residents felt anxious, but at least the residents were relieved by the fact that he was with them.
‘The chief said he was fond of us. They only do things that will help us. So, this will definitely be helpful to us.’
Kun, the most senior miner among the residents at the site, grabbed the spear in his hand and strengthened his resolve.
It was because I remembered what Varun had told me earlier about his intentions. Whether it was fighting or gathering resources, he always did only things that were helpful to the residents. There was nothing for one’s own self-interest. Varun realized it.
“Hey, look over there. “What on earth is that?”
Continued movement thereafter. As the sun was setting in a sandbox game that circulated particularly quickly compared to the outside world, they noticed something in the distance and their eyes widened.
It was one of the field bosses in this game and a kind of nest inhabited by an enemy that dropped a core item containing special energy when killed.