13. Pickpocket Kid
“Let’s see.”
I opened the status window. For reference, the status window is not visible to the viewer because the broadcast setting is set.
[Character status window]
Name: Kay
Level: 11
race: human
Occupation: unemployed
Status: Commoner
Honor: 0
stats
Strength: 40 (+5) (+5)
Agility: 20 (+5) (+5)
Intelligence: 10 (+5)
Will: 25 (+5)(+5)
Health: 144/350
Mana: 150/150
Undivided Stats: 5
resistance
Fire Resistance: 3
Freeze Resistance: 3
Shock Resistance: 3
Poison Resistance: 3
skill
Skill Eater [Myth Level] [Tier 1]
– True Berserk [Level 1]
Achievements
1. Giant Golden Rat Hunter [Rare]
“Two-thirds of my health was gone at once.”
If it doesn’t fit, it won’t wear out, but each one is fatal. It’s still in the early stages, and the character’s growth concept has been fixed to some extent, so it will get better later, but this risky tightrope walking is not good for health. I put all my undivided stats into my will. Originally, I wanted to raise my strength, but since I filled up my attack power to some extent with the Longsword of Sacrifice, I need to raise my willpower, which is in charge of vitality and resistance.
‘I need to get a survival skill… … .’
At level 10, I got one more skill slot, and I’m going to fill it with survival skills. There are many types of survival skills, but the one I need the most right now is a magic type survival skill based on mana. You can purchase a skill book of at least advanced level from the auction house. Of course, it’s not because I don’t have money. My current balance was 136 gold because Hyemi noona sent me 100 gold through the mail. The only reason I delayed the purchase was because all the market prices for useful high-grade survival machines were going crazy. I don’t want to pay more for it when I have to save even a single penny. It’s a bit sad now… … .
“Let’s do some farming.”
I put my hand on Gnoll Strider’s corpse. In the middle of the square window, you can see a jewel emitting red light.
[Kang Hwa-seok]
– Equipment can be enhanced by consuming enhancement stones.
“Here comes Ganghwa-seok.”
It’s not expensive, but it’s a necessity, so it’s a consumable that maintains an average market price of about 1 gold per piece at the auction house. In Seion, there were several ways to improve the performance of weapons or armor, and the most representative of them was this enhancement.
“Shall I apply it?”
Reinforcement has a probability of failure, and failure is, of course, the evaporation of the item. Of course, it is not unconditionally destroyed, but there is a safety enhancement level, so items do not evaporate up to 5 for general and 3 for advanced. However, after level 1 of the rarity level, the item has the possibility of evaporating.
However, there is a great success as a counter benefit, and with a very rare probability, it can be enhanced to the 3rd or 5th level.
“Damn your luck. I don’t even want it until step 3.”
If you’re lucky, it’s step 2. It’s just greed to wish for something better… … .
It is common to run a specific routine or to reinforce only in a specific place, rather than trying after failing in a row, all in vain. I wonder if it is similar to the psychology of a person looking for a good place to buy a lottery ticket. I’m not swayed by that! Well… Shall we pray?
Anyway… … .
I took out an enhancement stone from my beginner bag and put it on my Longsword of Sacrifice.
[Do you want to strengthen?]
okay.
The red light flowing on the surface of the strengthening stone became stronger, and the longsword of sacrifice that was in contact with it also began to glow red. By the way… … .
“what?”
Crispy!
A funny thing happened. Shallow white lightning rose from the sacrificial longsword. According to what I saw on Witube, when this happens when reinforcing, it is usually reinforced at least from 2nd to 3rd level. But this is not serious. It is said that the level of enhancement increases according to the number of lightning strikes, but it is already the 4th!
“please!”
Without realizing it, I am praying with my hands quietly gathered. When he was 10 years old, he was taken to church by a friend and was beaten in the back of the head by an orphan for eating 5 choco pies. please! please! If you open this, I’ll be sure to be nice!
[great success!]
[Congratulations! The +5 Sacrificial Longsword is complete.]
“Whoa!”
The jackpot hit.
+5 [Sacrifice Longsword] [Rare]
– It is a famous sword created by craftsmen using precious black iron.
-Attack Power 30(+15)~35(+17)
– 80/80 durability
-Skill [Blood-soaked blade]
-Sacrifice 50 HP to double damage once
15 to 17 of the attack power gained from reinforcement goes into defense ignorance. In a word, it means that the stronger the defense, the more effective the monster. Even unenhanced longswords of sacrifice cost at least 300 gold at auction. If it’s +5, you can get three times as much, so it’s almost 1,000 gold… … . It became a treasure worth about one million won in Korean currency. Of course, not all rare weapons are this expensive. The reason why the Longsword of Sacrifice is particularly expensive is that 50 HP doesn’t affect high levels as much as low level ones, so if you can only upgrade it to a high level, you can see performance comparable to that of a legend.
“ha ha ha!”
How about a glass cannon? The shell is a uranium bomb!
* * *
“To think there were so many knolls on the second floor of the underground waterway… I’ll have to inform the chief of the guard as soon as possible. You suffered.”
“Thanks to Horace-nim for lending me the sword.”
“hahahaha, maybe that’s because of the weapon. It’s all because of you.”
Horace’s Shortsword and 100 Gnoll’s Ears from the Beginner’s Bag are missing.
-You have completed the quest ‘Cleaning the Nol Habitat’.
-Reward: EXP 300 exp, 5 silver, Intermediate Bag
A message notifying the completion of the quest and a reward came into the beginner’s bag.
By replacing the beginner bag with an intermediate bag on the spot, the bag increased from 9 spaces to 12 spaces.
‘It’s good.’
It’s only 12 squares now, but it feels refreshing to think that I’ve shaken off all the things labeled as beginners on my body. It’s really refreshing. In particular, the flashing +5 Sacrificial Longsword on one side of the bag seems to blow your mind just by looking at it. It’s worth a million won. one million won!
“Then see you next time.”
“Tough.”
After saying goodbye to guard Horace, I walked lightly to the auction house. If I feel like I am now, I think I will be able to happily pay for a skill book with a crazy price raised by a kid with nursing care. Of course, before that, do you have a place to go?
“Wow! okay. congratulations. Then I will reward you.”
Event npc Ranelda rummaged through the gift package and took out three red cards, the same as before, and handed them to me.
“Have a great day~”
“OK!”
I greeted Rinelda happily and looked at the three cards in my hand.
[Normal~Legendary Item Draw Ticket *3]
Last time, only garbage and rat droppings came out and trampled on my mood mercilessly, but for some reason I have a feeling that something huge will fall.
“Whoa… … .”
Take a light deep breath… Like the last time, I tore three sheets at once. After a while, pure white light rising from the three cards begins to gather in the air.
“great! float!”
Without realizing it, I put my hands together politely. Oh God! This time, just like before, just one hit!
Fish meal… … .
[Chopsticks] [Normal]
[Magic Scroll- Light] [Normal] [Level 3]
[Toy wooden sword] [Normal]
I’m an idiot for expecting the right to pull roots like fodder in Heaven’s Gate. The other day, a small potion came out, and the plague… … . Magic scrolls were a more common consumable than mini-potions. Of course, the price varies greatly depending on the enchanted magic, but a magic scroll enchanted with light magic that simply illuminates light won’t cost even 3 silver.
“I’m going to go buy some skills.”
After passing the main street and walking for about 3 minutes, an auction house with a large circular roof appeared.
Hundreds of people sit idly in the vacant lot around the auction house, and their ears hurt from the sound of people talking in and out of the building.
“The frames are dropping.”
No matter how up-to-date virtual reality games are, it seems that there is no business in crowding people.
In particular, the capsules I use are older, so they are more severely affected.
‘Rotten Merchants’
This is my second visit, but I’m not used to them.
Those who manipulate the market price of the auction house to realize profits… … . Because Seion makes so much money. Recently, it is a place where there is so much talk that even large corporations are involved in manipulating market prices with billions of dollars.
After entering the auction house, I opened the auction window and searched for what I wanted to buy.
[purchase]
48001156 Mana Shield [Advanced]
-Starting price: 95 gold
-Instant purchase price: 99 gold
-Posted by: Private
48002122 Mana Shield [Uncommon]
-Starting price: 95 gold
-Instant purchase price: 99 gold
-Posted by: Private
48003844 Mana Shield [Uncommon]
-Starting price: 95 gold
-Instant purchase price: 99 gold
-Posted by: Private
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“Fuck… … .”
The price is higher than when I logged in in the morning. When I entered the community, it was found that merchants are flocking to newbie cities these days, and everything that makes money is raising the market price. The mana shield I wanted to buy was a skill that forms a mana-based shield, but none of my skills currently consume mana, so I picked it as one of my survival skills.
The problem is the price… … . Currently, the total wealth I have is 156 gold, of which 99 gold is massive bleeding. You can buy a general-grade mana shield by lowering your eye level, but the difference in performance is so great that you can’t easily get your hands on it.
“If you fall for the merchant, let’s buy it.”
Anyway, the reason why I wanted to buy a mana shield was to prevent me from being killed by a blind attack. As long as you refrain from risking your life, you will be fine for a few days. Quest 3 decided to raid the chief to play with the Bussan child party, so it doesn’t matter. If you struggle like that for two or three days, you should be able to get to level 15 and graduate from the underground canal. At that time, the market will be normal… It was time to organize a plan in my head and leave the auction house.
widely!
Someone hits me on the back and walks past me. When I turned my head, I saw a child in rags running between people. Feeling uneasy for a moment, I hurriedly opened the intermediate bag.
“Sickness… … .”
The gold in the bag has been robbed.
belt ring-
[Sudden Quest-1] “Watch out for your pockets.”
-Catch the pickpocket kid!
-compensation: ?
A characteristic of Seion’s quest system is that there is no main quest. Instead, there were numerous quests hidden all over the world, and the number reached 100,000, and it was said that even 10% of the quests had not been completed yet. In addition, it could be said that there are many hidden quests that have not yet been known, unexpected quests that appear through interactions between NPCs and NPCs, or NPCs and players, which are almost infinite. However, what I don’t like unconditionally for quests is that there are some quests that have only negative rewards, not positive rewards for the player. And it seems like I’m stuck on that quest right now… … .
“This isn’t the time to say things like this! fuck! I will be thrilled.”
All the gold in the bag is gone. Fortunately, it is not all property. Among the items that drop randomly when you die, gold is also included, so I leave most of them in storage according to Hyemi’s strategy book to always carry the minimum amount. The problem was that he had just gone down the aqueduct and disposed of the japtem, so he had put almost 20 gold in his bag.
The kid ran even faster as if he noticed that I was chasing him. The chase, which I thought I would quickly catch because of how cleverly I ran away, continued for almost three minutes. Then, at some point, the surrounding landscape changed to a slum area with shacks that looked like they were about to collapse. There are no guards patrolling this place, which is full of beggars in dirty rags, so I was taught not to go too deep.
The kid disappeared into a narrow alley. As I follow it, I look through the dark shadows of a dead-end alley where all sorts of junk are piled up, and I see a man wearing a hood and grabbing the kid by the collar.
“What? Got a tail? You crazy bastard!”
“I’m sorry.”
“If you know you’re sorry, you should be beaten.”
puck!
“Ouch!”
The kid’s waist was folded in half by his fist. As the kid fell to the floor, his feet trampled on his whole body.
belt ring-
[Surprise Quest-1 “Watch out for your pockets” has been completed.]
-Reward: Unexpected Quest-2 “Dangerous Alley”
[Sudden Quest-2] “Dangerous Alley”
-Save the pickpocket kid from the bully.
-compensation: ?
The sudden quest has been updated. The content was simple.
“I mean save that rotten guy.”
He’s a mean kid who robbed his pocket, but he has no intention of harming him as long as he finds the money. I told you to save it, so if you deal with that guy, the little guy will calmly return the money. It was when I was about to walk into the alley. Whenever I listen to it, I can hear the former girl’s voice along with a pleasant sponsorship alarm tone.
[Thank you for the 1,000 won support, Mr. Kei-chan.]
– Mr. Kay! Stop~ Stop~ Trap Trap!
“yes?”