## Chapter 146 – 146. Dungeon Survival
146. Dungeon Survival
[The game is terminated.]
[Experience calculation begins.]
[Pessus’s Affinity Level is 3.]
[Riesel’s Affinity Level is 2.]
[Elnoa’s Affinity Level is 4.]
[Sherin’s Affinity Level is 2.]
[Fatima’s Affinity Level is 3.]
[Nephia’s Affinity Level is 1.]
[Aisha’s Affinity Level is 1.]
……
Returning to reality, I looked around and then stretched my neck to loosen my muscles.
The body in the ‘Baekhwan’ world was that of a teenager, around middle or high school age. It wasn’t fully grown yet, so my real body felt strangely awkward.
‘I stayed too long because I liked the situation in the Baekhwan world so much.’
The current Baekhwan world was like heaven to me. It was a peaceful period where Kyle, the protagonist of the original story, was growing, and for me, it was a time when I could focus entirely on internal affairs without external interference.
‘I wake up and have sex, I have sex while eating, I have sex while sleeping… it’s heaven, heaven.’
I am the master of Tevra. No one defies me. All the rebellious local big shots were assassinated by Yuria.
‘But I can’t just play around. I need to start interfering with Kyle soon….’
I can’t just let Kyle grow up as he is. If he gets too strong, it will be difficult to use him, and he might even become an obstacle.
I sat on the sofa and took out my smartphone. I hadn’t had any reason to use points, so I had accumulated quite a lot.
[Sung Yu-jin
Level: 44
Strength: 23 Stamina: 23 Agility: 22 Intelligence: 20 Virility: 30 Mana: 27]
[Available Points: 441]
441 points.
It was an astonishingly large amount.
‘There were a lot of bonus points for achieving Affinity Levels.’
I had many slaves, including dwarves. By getting along with them moderately, I could easily achieve Affinity Level 1.
Also, I had been having a lot of sex with the maids at the mansion every day, so the bonus points from their Affinity Levels were quite substantial.
‘And for some reason, it feels like Affinity Levels are increasing more easily than before. Maybe Affinity Levels increase more easily as the level gets higher.’
I couldn’t be sure because I didn’t know exactly how much Affinity Level experience I was getting. It might just be my imagination.
‘My current level is 44. When I reached 40 last time, my inventory and the number of selectable game worlds increased by one.’
I had no intention of selecting a game world and entering it right away.
First, I planned to focus on reality for the time being. The ‘Baekhwan’ world suited me too well. If this continued, I might forget my sense of the modern world and start living like a medieval aristocrat even in the modern world.
‘The important thing is points. Now, where should I use them?’
I felt depressed when I was about to use them.
It was because I needed a whopping 150 points to reach level 8 in the Yeongcheon Style.
‘I don’t need to raise the Yeongcheon Style right away….’
It was true that proficiency in the Yeongcheon Style was important. But Jin Se-young, who could be called my master, told me to get used to using mana rather than the Yeongcheon Style for the time being.
‘I think I need to get used to handling mana rather than the Yeongcheon Style right now.’
I raised the levels of my Marksmanship and Lightning attributes, excluding the Yeongcheon Style. I used 50 points for Marksmanship and 120 points for Lightning, raising them to level 2 each.
[Do you want to increase the level of Lightning (雷電) Lv.2 by using 200 points?]
‘It takes 200 points to reach level 3. Well, Lightning is a powerful ability, so I can understand.’
It took 100 points to reach level 3 in Marksmanship.
‘I need to pay attention to Marksmanship as a necessity.’
Marksmanship affects shooting lightning or throwing daggers. The Marksmanship attribute can be used effectively in real combat.
‘I have 271 points left. Hmm….’
[Do you want to increase the level of Acceleration Lv.5 by using 5 points?]
My gaze turned to the Acceleration skill.
‘This is a surprisingly good skill.’
If I suddenly become faster, the opponent won’t be able to react. It’s a skill that’s valuable enough as a trump card. It’s also useful for escaping.
‘Above all, it doesn’t require many points.’
[Do you want to increase the level of Acceleration Lv.7 by using 10 points?]
A total of 40 points were consumed to reach Acceleration Level 10.
[The skill Acceleration has reached Master level and its effect changes.]
[Acceleration Lv. Master
‣Acceleration
Accelerates the body for 10 minutes.
‣Moment
Momentarily accelerates.
Current charge stacks: 5
Stacks can be consumed to use Acceleration or Moment. Stacks recover by 1 every hour, with a maximum of 5 stacks.]
“Oh.”
Moment.
It was a skill that sounded quite impressive just by its name.
I glanced around. It goes without saying, but I wanted to use it right away to see what kind of skill it was.
‘Acceleration is ultimately a skill that has no effect unless I move.’
So, I used Moment right away. Then, I knew how to use it in my head.
I moved my hand as if I were swinging a sword in the air.
[Moment is used. Remaining stacks: 4]
My hand moved incredibly fast. It was the fastest hand movement I had ever made.
“……”
My mouth was open. The incredible speed of Moment was surprising, but that wasn’t the reason.
When I activated Moment, I felt like time was slowing down. In other words, Moment affected not only my body but also my perception speed.
“This is awesome?”
I put a smartphone timer next to me and activated Moment.
This time, I stayed still without moving.
[Moment is used. Remaining stacks: 3]
And after 5 seconds, the stack decreased. Moment was released even though I didn’t do anything.
‘Crazy. I felt like it was 35 seconds.’
Time is a relative concept, so it’s not strange.
‘If I use it well, it can be incredibly useful. If I had known it was such a great skill, I would have mastered it a long time ago!’
The problem was that if I used Moment and moved my body, the Moment state would be released immediately.
‘It’s a disadvantage, but the advantages are greater, so I don’t really care.’
I was thinking calmly, but I was quite excited. With this, I might be able to land a blow on Jin Se-young, a B-class hunter.
‘Wait. Acceleration changed to an amazing effect when it reached Master level. Then, this seemingly useless Gill Breathing skill… it has potential, right?’
I had 231 points left. With this, I could easily handle the Gill Breathing skill.
[Gill Breathing Lv.1
You can breathe underwater. Lasts for 1 hour.
Cooldown: 24 hours.]
No matter how I thought about it, it was a useless skill.
‘I have an inventory. If I want to stay underwater for a long time, I can bring an oxygen tank and use it.’
A total of 32 points.
That was the amount of points consumed until the Gill Breathing skill reached level 10.
[Gill Breathing Lv.10 has met the conditions and evolves into Blessing of Water Lv.1.]
[Blessing of Water Lv.1
‣Gill Breathing
You can breathe underwater.
Consumes vitality little by little.
‣Underwater Life
You can move more freely underwater.
Consumes vitality little by little.
‣Water Walking
You can walk on water.
Consumes mana and vitality.
‣Underwater Recovery
Regenerates a small amount of health underwater.]
“…Wow.”
It was beyond my imagination.
I never dreamed that the trash skill would evolve like this.
‘The fact that there’s no cooldown but it consumes mana and vitality means that I can activate the skill whenever I think about it.’
Gill Breathing, Underwater Life, and Water Walking were on/off skills. Underwater Recovery didn’t consume anything, so it seemed to be a passive skill.
‘I don’t know when I’ll use this… but Water Walking seems really awesome.’
Walking on water. I could probably run too.
‘Heh…. With this, I might be able to enter a suitable uncivilized game world, become a saint, and establish a church.’
I was making a fuss, but walking on water wasn’t a big deal. A magician could walk on water using magic. Even if they weren’t a magician, a hunter with excellent mana control could walk on water.
‘There are very few A-class hunters who can walk on water.’
Whether it was part of their talent, there were things that C-class hunters could do that A-class hunters couldn’t. It was said that they had to be able to control extremely minute mana, not just the amount of mana.
‘I have 199 points left. Let’s raise my stats.’
[Sung Yu-jin
Level: 44
Strength: 23 Stamina: 23 Agility: 22 Intelligence: 20 Virility: 30 Mana: 27]
[Available Points: 199]
‘First, it’s Virility.’
I was feeling the lack of virility in the Baekhwan world. There were so many women I was dealing with that I was running out of strength.
‘The best ability for a man is virility. Virility must be the highest.’
I spent 50 points to raise Virility by 5. It seemed a bit too much that it cost 10 points to raise 1 point.
[Sung Yu-jin
Level: 44
Strength: 30 Stamina: 30 Agility: 28 Intelligence: 25 Virility: 35 Mana: 30]
[Available Points: 4]
These were the stats I raised. I was satisfied with the balanced stats. To be honest, Intelligence still seemed like a useless stat, but I raised it because it would look bad if it was too low.
‘The remaining 4 points are for the gacha!’
[Spirit Orb
A gem imbued with the pure power of nature.
Spirits will be very happy if you give it to them.
Price: 20 points.
※Caution
Only effective on spirits.]
[Grind Everything Mixer
Grinds everything.
Price: 1 point
※Caution
Contains exaggerated advertising.]
[Magnifying Glass
A normal magnifying glass.
Price: 1 point]
‘…It’s not a complete loss.’
The Spirit Orb was something that had appeared before. It wasn’t a complete loss. And I still had one more chance left.
‘Let’s go! Give me a skill!’
[Absolute Hypnosis Sticker.
Write the hypnosis content on the sticker and stick it on the target’s skin to put them under absolute hypnosis.
Price: 3,000 points
※Caution
Hypnosis may not work depending on the target’s mental strength. Once hypnotized, the hypnosis cannot be undone except with the ‘Absolute Hypnosis Release Sticker.’
There is no rule that you must write only one hypnosis content. However, if there are two contradictory contents, neither will be applied.]
“Jackpot!”
I shouted and ran around the room. I couldn’t contain my joy. I thought there would be hypnosis-related items in the random gacha, but I never thought it would come out now!
However, after checking the precautions, I soon frowned.
“Hypnosis may not work depending on the target’s mental strength…? Damn it. What’s the standard for that?!”
I wouldn’t know until I experimented myself. And I couldn’t think of a suitable target to experiment on.
‘Should I use it on Elaine? No. Elaine is an intermediate magician, so her mental strength is high. And I can get Elaine without this.’
If I were going to rely on such an item to get Elaine, I would have used an aphrodisiac long ago.
“Hoo.”
I don’t know. I’ll put it on hold for now.
I took out a box from my inventory. The name I gave it was ‘Special Box.’ It was a box for storing special items. I put dangerous or precious items in this special box and stored it in my inventory because it was unsafe to keep them in my room.
The inventory was the best safe. There was no place as safe as this.
‘Let’s see. I’ll rest today and go to university tomorrow…. Damn it. I’ve been in the game world for too long, so I can’t remember my real-world schedule. Should I write it on a calendar?’
I looked at the calendar and then went out to the veranda for no reason.
It was pouring rain. I stared blankly at the pouring rain and then activated Moment.
‘Moment.’
My perception sped up, and the raindrops falling from the sky began to look relatively slow.
‘If I use Moment, I can avoid the falling rain… no. That’s a bit difficult.’
Moment was released.
[Moment is used. Remaining stacks: 2]
“Hmm?”
I tilted my head.
When I used Moment in the house earlier, it was about 35 seconds, but now the perceived time of Moment had increased to about 40 seconds.
‘The skill level is Master, so it can’t go any higher. If it suddenly increased… it must be because of my stats.’
It was the difference between before and after raising my stats.
‘Is it because of the Intelligence stat?’
Acceleration and Moment were skills that didn’t use mana or vitality. They were not affected by mana or virility stats. On the other hand, Intelligence was a stat that affected the efficiency of skills.
‘The Intelligence stat is quite useful too.’
Of course, it was far less useful than the virility stat.
