Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Level 2 Player

Auction House

“The explanation ends now. I wish you luck in future matters. Then see you next time.”

With those words, the woman sharply turned her body and disappeared at a fast speed.

‘The mission clear message must have appeared.’

Before the regression, Jin-su had also tried the newbie guidance mission. So he knew what the mission clear conditions were.

If you finish the minimal information explanation and guidance, the mission clear message automatically appears.

‘First, I should secure lodging.’

There were many things to do on Tower Floor 50.

Step by step.

Jin-su left the street lined with half-collapsed shabby inns and arrived at a street where relatively clean-looking inns were gathered.

Creeak!

As Jin-su entered the inn, the gazes of the players sitting in the restaurant-cum-tavern on the 1st floor all gathered at once.

“Who is it? An unfamiliar face?”

“Yeah, is it a newbie by any chance?”

“Maybe.”

“Then they’ll disappear on their own before long.”

The players snorted and sneered.

Jin-su ignored such players and headed to the counter.

“One single room, please.”

“The daily lodging fee is 200 points.”

Compared to shabby inns, it was a price as much as four times more expensive.

“I’ll pay the lodging fee for 10 days in advance.”

“Prepaid for 10 days? Then I’ll discount 10%.”

The counter staff treated as an NPC said while smiling brightly, and Jin-su paid 1,800 points as the lodging fee.

“That guy is spending points generously.”

“Yeah, does he have plenty of points?”

Ignoring whatever the players were chattering about, Jin-su received the key and entered the room guided by the staff.

‘Still the same.’

Jin-su burst into a slight smile. This inn was a place Jin-su had also used before the regression.

“Haaaa!”

Jin-su let out a long sigh and plopped down on the bed.

‘It’s been a long time.’

The fluffiness of the bed and the softness of the blanket were truly after a long time.

‘First the things to do.’

Jin-su opened the status window and opened the auction house system. The auction house could only be opened in the safe zone.

All kinds of items were irregularly listed in the auction house.

“Activate search function.”

[To activate the search function of the auction house, you must pay 1 million points. Will you pay 1 million points and activate the search function?]

[Yes.] [No.]

Jin-su pressed Yes.

“Search Shining Longsword.”

As soon as Jin-su’s words ended, the Shining Longsword appeared on the auction house system window.

[Shining Longsword - Level 187]

[Minimum bid - 3 million points]

[Instant win price - 4 million points]

[Remaining period until auction ends - 28 days]

‘Fortunately.’

He was worried what if it wasn’t at the auction house. Fortunately, the Shining Longsword existed at the auction house.

‘It seems not long since it was put up for auction.’

The auction period was a maximum of 30 days.

‘Instant win.’

Jin-su selected instant win without hesitation.

Being able to buy the White Heaven Divine Sword that was called the strongest sword along with Jin-su’s Black Heaven Demon Sword before the regression for only 4 million points was the same as getting it for free.

If he waited 28 days, he might have saved 1 million points. But not using the Shining Longsword during that period was a bigger loss.

Decisively, Jin-su doesn’t know when the person who purchased the Shining Longsword before the regression won the bid for the Shining Longsword at the auction house.

‘There’s no need to take a risk just to save a mere 1 million gold.’

[You have instantly won the bid for Shining Longsword - Level 187 at 4 million points.]

Hwaak!

Along with a cluster of bright light, the Shining Longsword revealed its appearance in front of Jin-su’s eyes.

‘Good.’

Jin-su picked up the Shining Longsword while smiling brightly.

‘The options are ordinary.’

Only these three: self-recovery, increased cutting power, and increased durability. It was a price that felt extremely expensive even for the minimum bid of 3 million points, let alone the instant win price of 4 million points.

‘Although it’s growth-type, if you coldly calculate, even 2 million points is an expensive price.’

So it would have remained as bad stock in the auction house for a long time.

‘Then shall we start shopping.’

Jin-su first searched for items he had used or known before the regression.

‘As expected, it can’t be searched.’

Although he activated the search function, it wasn’t that he could examine all the listings in the auction house.

‘Points are important.’

If you don’t possess points equal to the minimum bid, you can’t even look at the auction items.

‘It’s fortunate that I obtained the Shining Longsword.’

With the points currently possessed, he couldn’t even search for the items Jin-su wanted, let alone purchase them.

‘First, let’s go cost-effectively.’

In the case of classes, for now, Blood Demon Swordsman and Flame Combat Mage were sufficient.

‘Also, buying class change books with current points is too inefficient.’

Generally, players think of obtaining class change books of the best possible classes as the most important. The reason was simple.

‘Because of class level and class skill level.’

After changing class to a lower class, they painstakingly raised the class level and class skill levels to the thousands. They also raised stats to suit the class, and set common skills or specific class exclusive skills learned by purchasing skill books to match the class skills and raised the levels to the thousands.

In the midst of that, even if you obtain a class change book of a better higher class, can you unconditionally change class without asking or questioning?

‘No matter how much you obtain a class change book of a higher class, deciding to change class by abandoning the achievements piled up so far is absolutely not an easy thing.’

Moreover, changing class to a higher class doesn’t unconditionally make you stronger. Even if you set aside the existing class level or class skill levels, you also had to consider the synergy effects with the stats piled up so far and the common skills or specific class exclusive skills whose levels were raised.

‘Also, no matter how much it’s a lower class skill, you can’t ignore the level.’

The saying that level is overpowered was a kind of truth to players.

‘Moreover, in the case of higher classes, the skill level growth speed is also on the side of being enormously slow.’

Changing class as a higher class was a kind of gamble the higher the level.

‘Well, it doesn’t matter to me.’

Jin-su can’t raise the levels of class skills and common and specific class exclusive skills through training or monster hunting anyway.

They are unconditionally fixed at Level 2.

‘The problem is skill level fix.’

Currently, Jin-su is in a state where the exclusive skill levels of Blood Demon Swordsman and Flame Combat Mage classes are fixed at 22.

‘What if I change class to a higher class?’

If you change class to a higher class, the class change skills of the existing class disappear.

‘Will the blessing’s level fix effect disappear together with the disappeared skills? Or will it be given again?’

A test was needed.

In fact, as the blessings grow from now on, the number of skills whose levels can be fixed will continue to increase, so it could be thought that there’s no big problem. Also, even if the skill fixed at Level 22 disappears, if you fix a better skill at Level 122 or Level 222, that’s enough.

‘But thinking optimistically is too dangerous.’

The number of skills whose levels can be fixed might be limited. If not that, it might not be designating the level of a new skill additionally, but the skill level fixed at Level 22 existing might automatically rise to Level 122.

‘Let’s confirm.’

Currently, the number of items Jin-su can fix at Level 22 is 2.

‘Since one was used on the Ring of Resurrection, there’s only one spare.’

He intended to use this one spare for this test. Jin-su took out one Level 7 longsword from the subspace.

‘This much should be appropriate.’

A so-called junk item with no value to put up at the auction house.

‘If you take it to the blacksmith, they’ll give a few points as scrap metal value.’

It was an item with almost no value that even if it disappears, there’s no particular loss to Jin-su.

Jin-su used the level fix created by the blessings toward the Level 7 longsword.

[Longsword - Level 22]

The longsword’s level was fixed at 22.

‘Anyway, Level 22 items aren’t greatly needed by me.’

It meant that even if one item that can be fixed at Level 22 due to the blessings disappears because of this, it doesn’t matter.

Holding the Shining Longsword, Jin-su granted mana and at the same time brought it to the Level 22 longsword.

‘No reaction.’

Jin-su’s face distorted.

‘The growth method is different from the Black Heaven Demon Sword.’

The Black Heaven Demon Sword grew by devouring other items. But the Shining Longsword seemed not to be that.

‘Then what do I need to do for it to grow.’

That couldn’t be known right away. Because not all growth-type items grow in the same way.

‘There are cases that grow by absorbing the blood of living beings like the Bloodsucking Sword, and cases that absorb part of the experience points of monsters the owner hunted.’

If not that, there were cases that grow by eating rare metals like mithril or points.

‘There are also extreme cases that grow by sucking the owner’s life force.’

However, the most common method was devouring other low-level items like the Black Heaven Demon Sword.

‘I’ll have to slowly confirm what method the Shining Longsword grows by.’

The thought came that it probably isn’t a common method.

‘Let’s think positively.’

If the growth of the Shining Longsword was an easy form, the previous owner wouldn’t have sold it at such a cheap price at the auction house.

Growth-type items are extremely expensive. But if the owner doesn’t know that fact?

‘They get treated as junk items and sold cheaply like the Ring of Resurrection or Shining Longsword.’

Jin-su looked at the longsword that became Level 22, held it with both hands, and applied force as is.

Kigigigik!

The longsword twisted while screaming.

Pajijik!

Then cracks gradually spread.

Pagang!

The blade shattered as is.

‘How did it turn out?’

Jin-su checked the information of the blessings.

‘Damn.’

Jin-su’s face distorted miserably.

Even though the item fixed at Level 22 disappeared, the number of the blessings was not recovered.

‘It means that once you grant the level with the blessings, that’s the end.’

From now on, he had to grant the blessings more carefully.

‘It’s a waste.’

It’s not that it’s a waste that one count of the Level 22 blessing disappeared.

‘How will the blessings grow.’

If the blessings grow and it becomes possible to fix a new item at 122, there’s no problem.

‘But if it’s making the item fixed at Level 22 into Level 122, it’s troublesome.’

Then Jin-su was no different from having permanently extinguished one Level 922 item.

‘Because there’s no way the growth of the blessings ends at Level 922.’

Maybe he suffered an even more enormous loss.

‘It’s fine.’

But there was no choice. Because the test had to be done unconditionally.

‘Rather, if I did it later, I would have suffered a bigger loss.’

Right now, finding out information about the blessings was the priority.

‘The result is regrettable.’

The level fix count of the blessings was one-time use.

Common skills like Inventory are fine. Because that’s a skill all class groups can acquire.

‘I should use skill level fix carefully for class change skills and class exclusive skills.’

Skills obtained through class change disappear the moment you change class to another class. That’s the same even if you change class to the same type of class.

‘At least class exclusive skills learned through skill books can be maintained.’

But even that was only in the case of changing class to the same type of class.

The moment a warrior changes class to a mage, whether skills obtained through class change or skills obtained through skill books, warrior-related system skills all fly away.

‘Just in case, unless it’s absolutely necessary, let’s not use it as much as possible.’

It was wise to use it after the blessings grow and it becomes possible to fix item or skill levels at Level 122.

‘It was fortunate that I fixed the level of Purifying Flame rather than Flame Storm at 22 on Floor 49.’

Flame Storm is a skill obtained through class change.

It’s a skill that will disappear if you change class to another class.

However, Purifying Flame is not a class change skill but a mage class exclusive skill learned through a skill book.

‘As long as I continue to maintain the holy-type class as a mage, I can continue to use it.’

At least it was fortunate. Because common skills could have their levels fixed without a big burden under the premise of continuing to use them from now on.

‘Well, still, I should choose carefully though.’

He intended to continue maintaining dark type as a warrior and holy type as a mage class from now on. But variables could arise, right?

‘First, let’s continue shopping.’

Jin-su still had an enormous number of items left to buy.