Chapter 1094 – 1094. Level 80
[Activating Heavenly Luck. Current probability is 100%.]
I pressed the draw button.
The smartphone screen shone brilliantly.
With a single draw, I got the character I wanted.
‘It’s a character you could get for a few hundred thousand won with money… Hmm. Come to think of it, I lost out using 10 points.’
Smiling contentedly at the character, I turned on another game.
Warblood.
It was the most notoriously pay-to-win game in South Korea. At the same time, it was the game most played by middle-aged men in South Korea.
It wasn’t my kind of game, but I was playing it because of the Leisure Life app. You never know. I might end up going into this game world later.
The character in the game immediately headed to the blacksmith. The most important systems in this game were drawing and enhancement. I was planning to enhance.
‘The time has come to enhance the Knight King’s Sword (+6) that I bought for 6 million won.’
In Warblood, ridiculously, items are destroyed upon enhancement failure starting from stage 3. To protect the item, you have to buy a separate 9,900 won enhancement destruction prevention ticket. Warblood was a game that got a lot of flak for its absurd business tactics.
A notification window popped up above the chat window.
In this game, enhancement was a kind of content.
-A +6 Knight King’s Sword? That’s worth over 6 million won! Are you really enhancing that?!
-lol, 6 million won is going to disappear into thin air like that.
-Let’s goooooooo!
Nearly 3,000 spectators gathered. I raised the corners of my mouth. The spectators’ reactions made the enhancement more exciting.
“Let’s gooooo!”
With Heavenly Luck on my side, I could only succeed.
[Using Heavenly Luck. 3 points are required to increase the probability by 10%.]
“Huh, wait. 3 points? Not 1 point?”
I was briefly flustered by the unexpected, but it wasn’t strange. Even if the probability was the same, the enhancement in the pretty girl game and this game were a little different. Warblood was also a more mainstream game.
‘Even if the probability is the same, the value is different.’
I hesitated at the 3x point consumption, but I used the points to experiment. I could afford 3 points. It was the same as 3 random draws, but still, I could afford it.
[Activating Heavenly Luck. Current probability is 20%.]
‘I just need to do it 8 more times.’
[Activating Heavenly Luck. Current probability is 100%.]
-Oooooooo!! +7!!
-6 million won just jumped to 10 million won. Great investment ㅆㅅㅌㅊ
-Seksjis Zone, go for +8 ㄱㄱㄱ
-But you can’t use enhancement destruction prevention tickets from +7, right?
That’s right. You can’t use enhancement destruction prevention from +7. And the enhancement success rate written in the notice was 3%. 3% might seem doable, but… this isn’t like gacha. A 10 million won item could vanish in an instant.
‘It wouldn’t be bad to make it the final stage, +9, and write a legend.’
I prepared to enhance the item.
[The activation conditions for Heavenly Luck have not been met.]
‘…What are you talking about?’
I activated Heavenly Luck again.
[The activation conditions for Heavenly Luck have not been met.]
“……”
My face contorted.
I hadn’t done anything wrong. But the fact that the activation conditions weren’t met meant…
‘There’s no probability in the first place?’
I searched the internet. I looked for recent cases of success at +8. It was about 2 weeks ago. The person who succeeded was the master of a famous guild.
‘Something’s weird.’
[Using Hacking.]
I hacked into the guild master’s personal information and found out that a relative of his was one of the Warblood executives. And the game’s enhancement probability was blocked from +8. You could try +8, but the success rate was 0%. It was rigged to only fail.
‘…Those bastards.’
Even though I had no affection for this game, as a gamer, I was furious.
‘It’s fine if this kind of game goes down.’
I decided to quit this game as of today.
To commemorate quitting, I hacked the game and fixed the enhancement probability to 100%. I also removed all the executives’ authority. To stop the game, they would have to physically shut down the server.
‘In the meantime, the users who realize the bug will try to enhance.’
+9 items would spring up like mushrooms, and the game would be completely destroyed. Server rollback? I’ve already manipulated the data. There’s no way to stop the game from ending.
‘Hah. Another long-running game has gone down like this.’
If the conditions were right, hacking was an absurdly terrifying skill.
Next was the Acceleration skill.
[Acceleration Lv. Master
‣Acceleration
Accelerates the body for 10 minutes.
‣Moment
Accelerates instantaneously.
Current charge stack: 7
Stacks can be consumed to use Acceleration or Moment. Stacks accumulate 1 per hour, up to a maximum of 7.]
The maximum stack used to be 5, but it had increased to 7. It felt minor, but it would be quite a difference when experienced directly. Moment was also a skill I used frequently.
‘Next is stats.’
[The lowest stat increases by 8 upon reaching level 80.]
[Sung Yoojin
Level: 80
Strength: 100 Stamina: 100 Agility: 100 Intelligence: 100 Vitality: 100 Mana: 100]
[Usable points: 7,120]
‘Nice. Clean.’
All stats at 100.
Intelligence, which was the lowest stat, increased by 8 and became 100. I was hoping something special would happen, but nothing happened.
I left the points unused. It was better to keep some points in reserve to use probability skills or random summoning skills.
‘I might need to buy something from the store in a hurry.’
It might not be a bad idea to save up emergency points because of this incident.
‘Next is Pygmalion’s Love. This is….’
[Pygmalion’s Love is acquired upon reaching level 80.]
[Pygmalion’s Love
Materializes a figure.
Price – 2,000,000
※Caution
Can only be used on a single figure.
The figure must have detailed settings.
The quality of the figure must be high.]
‘Pygmalion… he’s the guy from Greek mythology. The guy who fell in love with the sculpture he made, right?’
The sculpture came to life with the power of a god, and Pygmalion lived happily ever after with the sculpture.
‘The power to turn a figure into a human.’
I looked around. There were no figures in my house. Even if there were, I had no intention of using it right away, so I moved on to the next one.
[Upon reaching level 80, you can adjust the penalties and advantages when starting a Leisure.]
[Advantages are proportional to penalties.]
‘This is a new feature. Penalties were an existing feature, but… you get advantages the stronger the penalty is.’
My body was itching.
I wanted to use this feature right away.
‘To do that, I need to choose a Leisure to start… but I haven’t decided yet. For the next Leisure… let’s think about it.’
A Leisure is a Leisure.
I would choose the next world solely for my own enjoyment.
•••
The next day, in the afternoon.
After much deliberation, I chose a new Leisure to start.
[Dark Moon has been selected.]
[An avatar is being created.]
[There are 3 selectable avatar settings.]
Dark Moon.
It was an open-world game that was popular in the vampire detective world. It was a game that ran on future computers, and the basic capacity alone was a whopping 3TB.
‘It was the most fun when I played as a mage in this game. In this world, I’ll become a mage.’
[1. Eugene Frontier
-Baron of the Frontier Barony. 31 years old.
-Leading the railway business.
-Level 3 Steel Mage]
[2. No Name
-Orphan and slave. 16 years old.
-Victim of the Battle Mage Project.
-Has a level 9 mana affinity. (Talent unawakened)]
[3. Yu Jin (唯 進)
-Direct descendant of the Yu family (唯家), one of the seven families of the Tae Kingdom. 19 years old.
-In the midst of a succession battle.
-Has a level 7 physical ability. (Talent unawakened)]
After checking the 3 avatar settings, I made my choice right away.
Eugene Frontier was a noble with a title, but his limits were clear. A level 3 Steel Mage at 31 years old.
The open-world game ‘Dark Moon’ was divided into levels.
Dark Moon had levels.
Level 1 was from level 1 to level 9.
Level 2 was from 10 to 19
Level 3 was from 20 to 29.
‘In the game’s setting, level 3 is above average, but… I can’t be satisfied with just that.’
Yu Jin (唯 進) had a level 7 physical ability. Unawakened meant that he hadn’t fully awakened his talent yet.
‘He’s out because of physical ability. I’m going to be a mage this time.’
So, that left number 2. No Name. It wasn’t strange for a slave to have no name.
‘Level 7 is the realm of a superhuman, and to have a level 9 mana affinity, an absurd talent… This is the only option.’
I didn’t like the fact that he was a slave, but I could overcome status. It would be stranger if I couldn’t overcome it with a level 9 mana affinity.
[An avatar has been selected.]
[The original starting point cannot be selected.]
[Penalties and advantages can be selected.]
[Penalties are required to gain advantages.]
‘I have a penalty in mind. No stat application.’
A penalty that doesn’t apply the Leisure Life app’s stats! It was a huge penalty to lose my superhuman physical abilities.
‘Instead, I want to gain magical talent.’
[By excluding the sharing of Strength, Stamina, Agility, Vitality, and Mana stats, you gain an additional 100% Intelligence stat, limited to ‘Dark Moon’.]
‘That’s not what I wanted. Wait a minute. Does the Intelligence stat affect magical talent?’
The Leisure Life app didn’t answer. It wasn’t as friendly as the system in the God’s Atlantis world. But I was 100% sure that intelligence affected magic. After all, the most important stat for a mage in the game was intelligence. The power of magic, efficiency, casting speed, etc. Intelligence was a stat that affected everything magical.
The problem was.
‘I have to give up Vitality?’
I squeezed my eyes shut.
‘……It’s okay. There are many ways to increase Vitality in the Leisure world. There might even be magic to increase Vitality.’
[Penalties and advantages have been selected.]
This alone felt a bit lacking.
I wrote down a penalty I had been considering.
[Items from the Dark Moon world cannot be brought out. Points must be paid to bring items out.]
[By sealing all memories, you gain a level 13 mana affinity (unawakened).]
Level 13 mana affinity.
It was above the level of transcendence, since it was above level 10.
‘…It’s a crazy talent as a mage, but the penalty is too severe. It’s a world more dangerous than reality. If I don’t have my memories, I could die as soon as I start.’
[Items from the Dark Moon world cannot be brought out. Points must be paid to bring items out.]
[By sealing most memories except for Dark Moon, you gain a level 12 mana affinity (unawakened).]
‘The level dropped by one. Level 13 is right in front of my eyes. It’s hard to give up. Should I add another penalty? Give me a level 13 mana affinity talent in exchange for giving up all other talents except magic.’
[This is a penalty that cannot be set.]
‘Shit. The avatar’s base is me.’
It meant that I basically had no talent. Of course, it was impossible to set it as a penalty. And I didn’t want to add a penalty that would make me a cripple.
‘……Can I use the Selective God’s Blessing?’
Like a game, there were gods in Dark Moon.
[Would you like to use the Selective God’s Blessing?]
[Selective God’s Blessing
Can be used in worlds where gods exist.
Receive the maximum blessing of the selected god.
Price: 1,000,000 points
※Caution
Other restrictions may also arise from the blessing.
You must know about the selected god.]
It was a reward for the ‘Religious Unification’ achievement I got after seeing the ending of [Level Up System] in the past.
‘I guess I can use it. I’ll receive the blessing of the ancient god Meltes.’
In Dark Moon, the ancient gods were forgotten gods who existed in the past in the setting. However, it is revealed in the later part of the game that they actually exist.
Meltes was the god of magic.
[Meltes’ blessing has been bestowed upon the avatar. You gain a level 13 mana affinity (unawakened) and the qualifications of an Archmage. Additional effects are added to all magical actions.]
The maximum blessing written in the description of the Selective God’s Blessing. This was enough to be called the maximum blessing.
‘Heh heh. A ridiculously overpowered character has been born.’
[Starting the Leisure.]
[Due to the intervention of penalties and advantages, some of the Dark Moon settings will be changed.]
[The Leisure will automatically end after 30 days.]
•••
Cough.
I opened my eyes with a dry cough. I reflexively raised my upper body. My stomach felt bloated. It wasn’t indigestion. Something else was filling my body.
But what was more painful than that was my head.
My memories were jumbled.
“You’ve finally opened your eyes. First, gather your mana. Number 211.”
A man sitting next to the bed said in a cold tone. He was wearing a white gown, so he looked like a doctor.
I was flustered, but I gathered my mana as he said. I naturally knew how to do it in my head.
‘…Why are my memories like this? I’m Sung Yoojin, a F-rank hunter from South Korea… Number 211, a slave from the Freecell Kingdom…?’
Among the memories that had sunk below the sea, one piece of flotsam floated up.
Dark Moon.
This world was the world of the game called Dark Moon. My current setting was also similar to the character settings that could be selected in the early stages of Dark Moon.
In other words, I had fallen into the game world.
