Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Level 2 Player

Trash Cleanup

‘First the Inventory.’

Since there’s Inventory on the dark-type status window, there’s nothing greatly inconvenient. But when on the holy-type status window, not having Inventory was too inconvenient.

Jin-su searched for the Inventory skill book.

‘As expected, expensive.’

[Skill Book - Inventory]

[Minimum bid - 9.98 million points]

[Instant win price - 9.99 million points]

[Remaining period until auction ends - 24 days]

‘This is the cheapest at least.’

Decisively, the difference between the minimum bid and instant win price was only 10,000 points. Since the instant win price has to be unconditionally more expensive than the minimum bid, it seemed set that way as a last resort.

‘Let’s buy it.’

Points can be earned anytime.

‘Anyway, the market price is about 10 million points.’

Later, he might obtain an Inventory skill book through hunting or dungeon clear.

‘If I sell it at the auction house, that’s enough.’

Then it’s the same as breaking even anyway.

Well, it’s extremely rare so I don’t know when it will come out.

Jin-su purchased the Inventory skill book.

‘The next thing to buy.’

Starting from purchasing the Inventory skill book, Jin-su started purchasing skill books and items. And the points that were close to 40 million instantly reduced to about 1 million points remaining.

‘First, I bought all the urgent ones.’

He bought cheap ones or ones needed right now by instant purchase, and in cases that weren’t, he participated in auctions at appropriate prices.

‘The points tied in auctions are about 10 million.’

Points bid in auctions can be returned when the auction ends if you don’t win the bid.

‘Rather than returning as points, return as items.’

Thinking that, Jin-su learned the newly purchased skill books. He put the items in the inventory.

‘It would be good if the dark-type and holy-type inventories were shared with each other.’

Not being able to do that was slightly inconvenient.

‘Well, that can’t be helped.’

Still, because the items were divided, there wasn’t great inconvenience.

Because for dark type you store warrior equipment and for holy type you store mage equipment, that’s enough.

‘The points reduced sharply.’

It was the result of shopping excitedly.

‘Points can just be earned again.’

Anyway, 1 million points was an amount more than enough to use as living expenses on Floor 50. Moreover, Jin-su was in a state where he had put up the elixirs obtained so far as listings at the auction house.

‘Since I set the minimum bid according to the market price, they’ll mostly sell.’

He set the instant win price a bit expensive.

What was regrettable was that there is a restriction on the number of auction items that can be registered at the auction house as a seller.

‘Right now, I can only put up only 10.’

To increase the registered items at the auction house, you have to sell many items or sell expensive items.

‘It would have been good if the purchase quantity or price was also reflected and increased.’

Increasing the number of sales items was only possible through sales performance.

‘Well, it will increase someday.’

The elixirs Jin-su put up are few in quantity but high in price. As much as that, if he continues selling, the number of auction house sales items will also increase quickly.

‘Anyway, since most of the essential items have been purchased.’

For the time being, it’s enough if he just sells elixirs and accumulates points.

Jin-su simply showered and put on the completely worn-out clothes he originally wore. He did purchase a metal armor set of a suitable level as armor. But there was no need to particularly wear it and go out.

‘Metal armor has many inconvenient points in daily life.’

Only when fighting, take it out from the inventory and automatically equip it, that’s enough.

After hanging only the Bloodsucking Sword at his waist, Jin-su came out of the lodging.

‘First, let’s eat.’

It wasn’t that he went around hungry until coming to Floor 50. But there was also no memory of having a proper meal. Because the food obtainable below Floor 50 was not a meal for enjoyment but a survival tool that you unconditionally had to eat to live.

Step by step.

As Jin-su arrived at the restaurant-cum-tavern located on the 1st floor, the gazes of other players sitting at the tables all focused at once.

“Did he come down after sleeping soundly?”

“Probably.”

“Well, there must be many amazing things. He wouldn’t have noticed the time passing.”

The players whispered and watched Jin-su as if looking at an interesting toy.

‘This is still the same too.’

A newbie who has just come up to Floor 50 is always a subject of interest. It’s not simply because they’re bored or curious.

“Oppa, you seem to be alone without comrades. Would you like to join our party? We were also about to replenish party members?”

A girl with a docile-looking puppy-like face approached Jin-su and asked.

At the same time, a faint favorability toward the puppy-like girl was felt.

‘She used a skill.’

Even if it’s a girl with a docile-looking face and an appearance that only looks like a high school student, she’s a person he’s seeing for the first time in his life anyway. Although faint, there’s no way favorability would be felt.

‘If it wasn’t me, it would have been quite strong.’

Jin-su obtained physical skill and magic skill defense through the blessings. However, there was no resistance to mental-type skills like curse, hallucination, confusion, and charm.

‘But the Mental Power stat is on the high side.’

Jin-su’s current Mental Power stat is a whopping 922.

Mental-type skills of Floor 50 player level can be chewed up with the Mental Power stat.

Moreover, Jin-su is a veteran among veterans.

Regardless of stats, the will and mental power themselves are different. There’s no way Jin-su who overcame the mental domination of the Bloodsucking Sword with pure will would fall to such a crude mental-type skill.

‘They seem to intend to work on me.’

A newbie with little information about Floor 50 is only prey that is good to peel for players who already have a lot of information.

Item extortion, point plunder, using as meat shield or porter, etc.

The methods to extort the newbie’s assets and labor were more than enough.

Well, the easiest method is killing, but.

‘If you PK, you can snatch the points the dead player possessed as is.’

That’s not the end.

Monsters occasionally drop items. However, players, when they die, drop class change books or skill books with 100% probability.

‘I seem to look easy.’

Probably if Jin-su had comrade players who came up together, the situation would have been a bit different. Because numbers become a big force in any situation. But Jin-su was alone.

‘They seem to think I luckily survived using the sacrifices of comrades as a foothold and came up to Floor 50.’

The clear mission of Floor 49 relies a lot on luck.

‘There’s no need to particularly refuse.’

Anyway, he had to leave the city and go to the hunting ground to find hidden dungeons. Thinking of it as doing a bit of volunteer work in the process is enough.

‘Trash cleanup has to be done steadily for the environment to become clean.’

Not all players peel newbies who have just come up to Floor 50. Rather, there are also those who help by showing goodwill without any compensation.

‘If the trash that peels continue to prosper, guys who are tempted for no reason might come out.’

Trash had to be cleaned up as soon as seen.

“Is it really okay?”

At Jin-su’s acceptance, the puppy-like girl smiled brightly.

“Of course. Oppa. We were also looking for new party members.”

The puppy-like girl showed a bright smile thinking she had done one more.

‘How many points does he have.’

The moment the puppy-like girl was recalling in her head a method to cleanly extract Jin-su’s items and points and even labor as much as possible.

Step by step.

A group of players came down from upstairs.

“Are you trying to eat a newbie again?”

A cat-like woman with a sharp impression around her early 20s standing at the front of the player group that came down from upstairs opened her mouth.

“Unni, why are you picking a fight with me again? Can you stop talking nonsense?”

The puppy-like girl distorted her previously docile-looking face and said as if growling.

“What unni when you’re older than me. How many people among the newbies who went out with your party went missing. Shouldn’t I naturally worry?”

Along with the cat-like woman’s words, the two women glared at each other.

“Hey, you. If you want to live long, it would be better not to join that party.”

Ending with those words, the cat-like woman went out of the inn together with her companions.

“You don’t need to care about that unni’s words. Because our relationship with that party is bad, she always goes around badmouthing. So I don’t know how hard it is to recruit party members.”

The puppy-like girl said to Jin-su while smiling a docile-looking smile again. At the same time, Jin-su received the feeling that favorability toward the puppy-like girl was rising.

“There are always people who are jealous of others.”

At Jin-su’s answer, the puppy-like girl’s face brightened.

‘I thought things would get twisted because of that Heesu bitch. The skill seems to have gone in properly.’

He seemed like a guy more stupid and lacking in skill than thought.

‘Even if a newbie, there should be a few tens of thousands of points.’

Moreover, the sword hanging at the waist looked like a quite high-level item just by looking.

‘Is he a lucky guy?’

Or it could be the belongings of comrades who died on Floor 49.

‘Well, that’s not the important thing.’

The important thing was the fact that it seemed like he would hit quite a jackpot this time. Leaving everything else aside, even just one sword hanging at the waist had enormous value.

‘At least a few hundred thousand points worth.’

If won at a high price at the auction house, he might even earn over a million points.

“Then shall we have a meal first? I’ll buy. Oppa!”

The puppy-like girl said while gently holding Jin-su’s arm in a friendly attitude.

“Then thank you.”

“Come this way. I’ll introduce the new comrades.”

Jin-su followed the puppy-like girl and moved to the table.

“Welcome. You’ve suffered a lot until now, right?”

“You can relax your mind now.”

The puppy-like girl’s comrades spoke to Jin-su while smiling kindly. The atmosphere of conversing while eating was extremely heartwarming.

‘They’re not ordinary guys.’

If it was a newbie who had just come up to Floor 50, it was a kind smile and eloquence to the degree of completely falling for it.

‘From the start, the overall impression is on the kind side.’

Including the puppy-like girl, the faces of the others also looked kind and docile just by looking.

Especially, the age group was on the young side.

‘You can’t trust the appearance visible on the outside in the Tower.’

Players dragged to the Tower from other dimensions are ageless existences.

‘Whether you spend 10 years or 20 years in the Tower, it doesn’t matter.’

Naturally, even if the appearance looks young, you can’t guarantee that the real age is young.

‘If the words of the woman who advised earlier are true, the actual age is at least early to mid 20s.’

Jin-su moderately went along with the conversation.

“Floor 49 mission, was it hard to clear?”

“We also lost comrades there.”

“How was it for Mr. Jin-su?”

Then they matched words to dig out Jin-su’s information stealthily.

“I luckily barely survived alone.”

“What skills have you learned? Please tell me together with the level. Because I think it would be good to know to determine the party position.”

Jin-su smoothly told the information they wanted and acted as if a sucker.

“Then since the meal is finished, shall we slowly go?”

At the words of the puppy-like girl Kim Ji-seon, the others agreed.

“Yeah, we should match the rhythm.”

“The law is that you have to hunt diligently day by day to eat and live.”

The party members consisting of 8 people stood up from their seats and packed their weapons. Jin-su also naturally stood up together with them.

“Then let’s go.”

The 8 people left the city with Jin-su in the center.

“On Floor 50, mainly orcs come out. But if you let your guard down thinking they’re the same guys as the orcs you saw on the lower floors, big trouble happens. Because they’re much stronger.”

“That’s right. I also almost died by letting my guard down at first.”

Even after leaving the city, everyone kindly provided information about Floor 50 to Jin-su.

‘When will they reveal their true colors?’

Their acting was quite excellent. But Jin-su didn’t think they were a player party with truly kind hearts. Rather, he was convinced they were vicious PK players.

‘If they truly had kind intentions, they wouldn’t have dragged me to the hunting ground right away like this.’

And that right after digging out information about Jin-su through conversation.

‘The gaze handling was also a bit clumsy.’

In their own way, they carefully avoided Jin-su’s gaze and glanced at the Bloodsucking Sword. But in Jin-su’s eyes, the greed filling their eyes looking at the Bloodsucking Sword was too clearly visible.

‘If they reveal their true colors, let’s clean up right away.’

Since there’s a one in ten thousand chance, he had no intention of attacking first.

Around the time Jin-su organized his thoughts that way, a group of orcs revealed their appearance.

“Shall we match the rhythm once?”

The vanguard standing at the front said that and lightly hit Jin-su’s back.

“Sure.”

Jin-su readily stepped forward. The other vanguards advanced forward matching pace with Jin-su.

“Haap!”

Jin-su deliberately showed his back to the other vanguards and fought the orcs. He also didn’t forget to show clumsy skill.

Pagang!

“Uuk!”

Slow speed and clumsy movements.

He imitated a greenhorn fighting relying only on the performance of the Bloodsucking Sword. Then the work immediately came in.

Shuuuk!

One vanguard stabbed a spear not at the orc but toward Jin-su’s side.

Pagak!

Jin-su caught the spear blade flying toward his side with his left hand and broke it as is.

Hwiik!

And threw the broken spear blade toward the opponent’s neck.

Puuk!

“Keok!”

The breath of the vanguard whose neck the broken spear blade dug into was cut off in an instant.

Thud!

“Wh, what?”

“Changsu!”

Everyone was flustered by the sudden death of a comrade. But Jin-su calmly continued the trash cleanup.

Hwiik!

Along with swinging the Bloodsucking Sword, the neck of one party member flew.

Seogeok!

In Jin-su’s left hand, the Shining Longsword taken out from the inventory was already held, and his body was in a state covered with metal armor.

Puuk!

“Keok!”

“This crazy guy!”

“Kill him!”

Those who belatedly grasped the situation swung their weapons toward Jin-su.