Chapter 19

Chapter 19

Level 2 Player

Holy Saintess

‘Is level up or achievement acquisition also possible?’

A test was needed first.

Jin-su gave the instruction to the Shadow Summons to continue hunting monsters and headed toward the village.

‘There’s no problem yet.’

Level ups were also continuing.

‘Let’s go back and rest like this.’

The moment Jin-su was about to be convinced that auto hunting was possible.

[The distance between the Shadow Summons and the summoner is too far. If it becomes farther, the Shadow Summons will be forcibly reverse summoned.]

Suddenly a problem arose.

‘Is this the limit already?’

After calling the Shadow Summons to his side, Jin-su put them into the shadow.

‘Roughly about 10 kilometers...’

It was a bit ambiguous.

‘Auto hunting seems possible though.’

While Jin-su was in the city, only hunting nearby was possible.

‘There aren’t many monsters near the city.’

Since players were swarming, it was natural.

‘Well, better than not doing it.’

Having arrived near the city, Jin-su released the Shadow Summons hiding in the shadow. After that, he entered the city alone and headed to the lodging.

Creeeeak!

The moment he opened the lodging door, everyone’s gazes focused.

“Uh, he came back alive?”

“Yeah?”

“I thought he would have died of course.”

The composition of those in the 1st floor restaurant was similar to the morning.

“Why aren’t those guys visible?”

“What happened?”

It seemed strange that he left together with the Kim Ji-seon party but returned alone.

‘They didn’t talk about meeting me, it seems. Well, they might not even know it was me.’

Jin-su glanced at the Cha Hee-su party. At that time, Cha Hee-su slightly lowered her head toward Jin-su.

‘Did she realize it was me? And yet she kept her mouth shut.’

But it seemed she didn’t tell that fact not only to other players but also to the party members.

‘Smart.’

Not telling information about Jin-su to other players was a wise thing. Because spreading information about other players in the Tower wasn’t a very good choice.

‘It seems she didn’t even say the fact that those guys died.’

There’s no need to care much whether other players know that or not.

‘Even if you receive attention, it only increases troublesome things.’

He declined only flies gathering without any gain.

After having a simple meal, Jin-su said to prepare bathwater and entered the lodging.

‘How many sold?’

Jin-su opened the auction house. The auction house can only be opened in the safe zone.

‘All sold except one.’

Elixirs that raise stats. Therefore, even though the price was high, they sold quite well.

‘If I lower the price, they’ll sell faster.’

Since points aren’t urgently needed right now, there was no need to do so. Jin-su additionally put up 9 elixirs at the auction house.

‘There are no items whose auction has ended.’

There were also no additional items to purchase. Since he did large-scale shopping yesterday, it was natural. Jin-su decided to gather points as is for now.

‘I need to gather points to at least the hundreds of millions unit.’

Only then can he purchase items that are somewhat usable.

“I brought the bathwater.”

The lodging staff brought the bathwater. Jin-su immediately started bathing.

‘Good.’

Washing the body with warm water is something that can be done simply by turning the faucet on Earth.

‘But in the Tower, it’s different.’

If you stay in a high-class lodging above the middle floors, it’s possible, but.

‘That’s still far.’

Right now, he had to pay points and wait a long time to receive warm bathwater.

‘Let’s rest well today.’

After bathing and having a simple dinner, Jin-su went to bed.

Of course, even in the meantime, thanks to the Shadow Summons, the level was steadily rising.

Well, it dropped as soon as it rose though.

As soon as he woke up in the morning, Jin-su opened the auction house and confirmed the quantity of sold items.

‘All sold.’

Moreover, there was one more piece of good news.

‘The sales item quantity increased from 10 to 20.’

Perhaps because the price of the elixirs was high, it increased faster than thought. Jin-su registered 20 additional elixirs at the auction house.

After that, after simply washing, Jin-su went down to the 1st floor, had breakfast, purchased food to eat for lunch, and headed to the hunting ground.

‘Break through Floor 50 as fast as possible.’

For players, Floor 50 was a branching point where other choices could be made. But for Jin-su, it was merely a passing point that he had to clear the absolutely necessary achievements and hidden dungeons and cross.

***

Jin-su, together with the Shadow Summons, hunted the monsters of Floor 50 at a terrifying speed, broke achievements, and cleared hidden dungeons and open dungeons. Saving eating and sleeping time as much as possible, he moved like a machine without resting even for a moment.

In the meantime, there was something Jin-su was separately investing time in.

It was finding party members.

‘Most newbies form parties.’

In fact, it was natural. Forming in party units is advantageous for survival, and although the Floor 49 mission is extremely vicious, anyway if they survived, they maintained a scale of about 3–5 person parties.

Jin-su received the mission of guiding newbies. Of course, he didn’t clear it. Because the reward relative to time was too stingy.

‘But if you receive the mission, you can know when newbies arrive on Floor 50. And how many.’

Jin-su continuously examined the newbies newly coming up to Floor 50. Whether party or individual, if there was a usable player, it was to make them a party member.

‘Even if other classes, I absolutely need a guy who will become a healer.’

While reaching Floor 50, Jin-su has done solo play rather than party play. Because that was the method that was most efficient and could climb the Tower while growing quickly.

‘But from Floor 51, the situation is different.’

There is a safe zone called the city on Floor 50, but from Floor 51 the situation is different.

There is no city and no lodging.

‘The biggest problem is that if there is no safe zone, you can’t use the auction house and shop.’

Also, the point that Jin-su needs meals and sleep was a problem.

‘The difficulty is different from Floor 1 to Floor 49.’

It’s different from the food backpacks or large numbers of mimics that appeared in the middle. As if the tutorial ends at Floor 50, there are no food backpacks at all, and mimics appear very rarely like beans in a drought.

‘Well, the reason itself that you can stay for 5 years on Floor 50 is the intention to acquire a class, become as strong as possible, and prepare thoroughly before challenging Floor 51.’

Along with that, it was also the intention to find compatible party members.

‘But it doesn’t mean challenge as a solo player. Although putting food into the inventory and treasure pouch and standing night watch with Shadow Summons can cover to some extent.’

The problem is that the next area where a safe zone appears is Floor 100.

No matter how much you stockpile food and procure it directly on site, it was obvious it would run out in the middle.

‘While clearing Floor 49, I obtained a holy-type healer class change book and also pre-purchased the healer exclusive skill book Sanctuary at the auction house.’

The problem is that he hasn’t found a player worthy of changing class to healer and learning the skills yet.

‘It would have been good if the Shadow Healer Summon could learn skill books.’

He tried, but the Shadow Summons couldn’t learn skills through skill books.

‘In a way, it’s natural. The existence born from skills acquired through skill books acquiring skills with skill books itself is a contradiction.’

In a situation where the achievements and hidden dungeons obtainable on Floor 50 are almost bottoming out.

‘If it really doesn’t work, should I just change class to healer myself.’

But to do that, he has to give up the Flame Combat Mage class.

‘Why doesn’t a mage have the Sanctuary skill.’

Really regrettable, but it couldn’t be helped.

Because the Sanctuary skill is a healer exclusive skill that only players who changed class to healer can acquire, like blessing, curse, protection, recovery, worsening, and purification.

‘Healers have low combat power. Even if I give up Flame Combat Mage and change class to healer, it’s a loss.’

Recently, the times of utilizing the holy-type class Flame Combat Mage status window have become rare because of utilizing the Shadow Summons.

‘Even so, I can’t give up Flame Combat Mage.’

Even for the Tower clear plan set for the future, changing class to a higher mage class is one thing, but he can’t give up the class of mage itself and change class to healer.

‘There is a method of changing class to healer and later changing class to mage again, but.’

Because there is no spare in the class skill level fix stacks, this was also rejected.

‘No matter how high the Mana and Mental Power stats are, if the skill level is 2, there is bound to be a limit.’

The conclusion was one.

He had to find a healer as fast as possible.

‘If possible, it would be good to continue together, but if that’s hard, even just playing the stepping stone role until Floor 100 is fine.’

The problem was the characteristic of Floor 50.

‘There are too many players who, even after obtaining everything, try to dawdle as much as possible for 5 years.’

On Floor 50, players whose disposition doesn’t match Jin-su who wants to clear the Tower as fast as possible were the absolute majority.

‘Moreover, the racial pool is too small.’

Like other floors, there are multiple Floor 50s. Among them, the Floor 50 Jin-su is on has only Earth people, and among them only Koreans.

‘When you arrive at Floor 100, the situation changes.’

The problem was that to reach Floor 100, he unconditionally had to find party members.

‘I have to find either a newbie who has just come up or a player or party trying to go to Floor 51 beyond Floor 50. Just matching the minimum cutoff is enough. Finding a player of a moderately usable level is harder than thought.’

There are quite a number of players on Floor 50. But among them, a player who has the will to climb the Tower quickly and is usable right now couldn’t be found even if he washed his eyes.

‘There is still time.’

Jin-su suppressed the heart that was trying to become urgent and headed to the hunting ground.

“When on earth are you thinking of going up!”

“We go up when preparations are finished! It’s only been 2 years since we came to Floor 50!”

“Yeah, no need to think urgently. There’s still 3 years of leisure.”

He witnessed a group of players fighting.

“I don’t have leisure!”

“Haa, stop being unreasonable. Honestly, among the party members, your skill is the lowest.”

“When your level rises more, let’s challenge then. The gatekeeper is strong, if you do it wrong, you die as is.”

“Uik! If you keep doing that, I’ll leave the party!”

“Don’t be unreasonable. Honestly, because it’s us, we keep you as a party member out of the feelings so far.”

“That’s right. That’s right. If it was another party, no way.”

“I’ll really leave!”

One player who shouted loudly separated alone.

“Then leave if you want. Then for us. It’s comfortable and good.”

“First, let’s go among ourselves.”

“Let’s do that. Anyway, Su-a unni doesn’t help much.”

“Su-a noona, stop talking nonsense and just cool your head at the lodging.”

The other players left for the hunting ground without caring.

Jin-su also intended to ignore and go to the hunting ground.

Until he heard the name Su-a.

‘Su-a? Perhaps Shin Su-a?’

Jin-su looked at the player called Su-a.

‘The appearance is too different. Just a namesake?’

The player Shin Su-a that Jin-su remembers was a pretty girl in her late teens with a docile impression, white hair and red eyes, with a height of about 160 centimeters. But the player named Su-a in front looked over mid-20s no matter how he looked, with black hair and black eyes, and a height over 170 centimeters.

Even the face was a cold beauty with a cold impression rather than a pretty girl with a docile impression.

‘Even if hair and eye color can change while changing class, the difference in face, age, and physique is too big.’

Players are ageless. The body doesn’t grow or age. Even if it grew, it’s normal for height to increase and age to advance, not the opposite of height decreasing and age becoming younger.

‘Mana possession amount also looks below average.’

Jin-su judged it a namesake and moved the footsteps he had stopped.

“Su-jeong unni said she’ll definitely return.”

The footsteps Jin-su had moved stopped as is.