Chapter 62 – 062. Random Gacha Shop
062. Random Gacha Shop
“Ugh! Aaaargh! Krrrgh…!”
Back in reality, I collapsed onto the floor, writhing in pain. My whole body was screaming. A burning heat, as if my skin was being scorched, and an intense, bone-crushing agony surged through me.
I looked down at my skin. It was flushed red.
It was the aftereffect.
The aftereffects of the game world affected my real body.
I already knew about these aftereffects from the stinging in my genitals after returning to reality after having as much sex as I wanted in the game world.
And of course, I knew how to deal with it.
“Wow, full recovery…!”
As soon as I activated the skill, my body instantly returned to normal. The red skin returned to its original color, and the bone-crushing pain vanished.
I just lay there on the floor. My body was fine, but I was mentally exhausted. I lay there blankly for about ten minutes.
“……I didn’t die. It hurt like hell, but I didn’t die.”
I had expected it to some extent.
The me in the game world was like an avatar. But I couldn’t be sure. The aftereffects that sometimes came after finishing the game world were the source of my anxiety.
Every time I felt the aftereffects, I had this thought.
What if I die in the game world, and the real me dies too?
But today, I completely shook off that anxiety.
Even if I die in the game world, the real me doesn’t die. I do experience pain that feels like death, but it’s bearable. And I have the Full Recovery skill.
‘I can play as much as I want without worrying about the consequences. It’s a game life, just like the name says.’
I chuckled and got up.
Next to me, on the floor, was a palm-sized, round object. It was the hologram device I brought from the Code: XTK world last time. When I tapped the hologram device, a hologram woman appeared above it.
The hologram woman, with her pretty face and stunning figure, slowly began to pole dance.
“Heh. Electronic babe! You’re amazing every time I see you! I’m glad I brought you.”
I watched the electronic babe’s pole dance for a while. Her breasts swaying, her hips moving seductively. Watching her made me feel better and better. After recovering my mental state to some extent with the hologram electronic babe, I turned on the Game Life app.
I checked the logs that popped up one by one.
“…Ending achievement? There was such a thing.”
[You have achieved the ending achievement, ‘Anger Management Issues’.]
[You have acquired the Emotion Controller.]
The name of the ending achievement was Anger Management Issues. It was a name I didn’t like, but I couldn’t argue with it. Thinking about it now, I could have acted more calmly, but I got so angry that I acted recklessly.
‘No. I still had a plan. I was going to end the game and return to reality before the Ecless fusion reactor exploded.’
I would escape to reality, and my avatar would die in my place. That was my scenario.
But the timing was a bit off from what I had expected. I had no choice but to die.
In that moment of death, I couldn’t feel anything. My body disappeared faster than I could feel the pain.
“What’s an Emotion Controller?”
The Emotion Controller was in my inventory, and there was also an explanation for it.
[Emotion Controller
By selecting a target, you can perfectly control their emotions.
Simply press the button in front of the target.
It is a one-time use item.]
The Emotion Controller I took out of my inventory looked like a square remote control with only one button. I examined the remote control.
‘I can control emotions? Does that mean I can control my own emotions too?’
I felt uneasy. Controlling emotions. It was undoubtedly an amazing ability. But people’s emotions are interesting because they can’t be controlled. Controlling your own emotions as you please?
‘It sounds like it’ll be boring. I shouldn’t use it on myself.’
It would be more fun to use it on a woman than on myself.
‘Hehe. Making them get angry, making them sad at the flick of my finger…. It sounds fun just imagining it. Controlling emotions means I can make them like me, right?’
Love-hate.
It means I can make someone like me while also making them hate me.
‘The kind of play I can do with this is….’
Endless.
Isn’t this like hypnosis, a common trope in adult comics and novels!
‘Come to think of it, it’s a shame it’s a one-time use item. I feel like I could knock down Han Harin with this right now.’
No.
I want to knock down Han Harin using my own abilities, not with this kind of thing.
I should save the Emotion Controller for later, and use it on a woman who seems completely hopeless.
‘The Emotion Controller is a keeper!’
I decided to put it away in a corner of my house for later.
[Sung Yujin
Level: 24
Strength: 16 Stamina: 13 Agility: 12 Intelligence: 5 Virility: 15]
[Available Points: 99]
A whopping 99 points!
A smile spread across my face. The 66 points I got as an ending achievement bonus were huge.
‘If I had just one more point, it would be exactly 100 points!’
They say human greed is endless, and that was exactly the case.
I naturally tried to level up my Spirit Heaven Style trait, but then I stopped.
[Do you want to use 80 points to increase the level of Spirit Heaven Style (影天流) Lv.5?]
80 points. If I level it up, I’ll only have 19 points left.
‘Spirit Heaven Style is a good trait. It’s my favorite trait too. Thinking about the future, leveling up Spirit Heaven Style is the right thing to do. But….’
But do I really need to level up Spirit Heaven Style right now?
I thought about it carefully and came to a conclusion. The answer to the question was ‘no.’
I don’t feel like my current Spirit Heaven Style is lacking. If it becomes level 6, my Spirit Heaven Style will become sharper, and its proficiency and power will increase, but I think my current Spirit Heaven Style is enough.
‘…Let’s level up Full Recovery this time. This is a skill that can be a real trump card.’
Even if my heart is destroyed, I can survive as long as I can use the skill. Didn’t I feel it this time?
[Full Recovery Lv. Master
Fully recovers. All status ailments are removed, and wounds are healed.
Cooldown: 12 hours]
Full Recovery was maxed out at level 5. It cost a total of 55 points to reach level 5.
I had 44 points left. Half of my points were gone. But I didn’t feel regret. I was happy instead.
‘That means I can use Full Recovery twice a day!’
I know how amazing Full Recovery is. No matter how tired or exhausted I am, the moment I use Full Recovery, I become refreshed. It’s a precious skill that does its job properly in exercise and even in sex.
‘Hacking… I don’t need to level it up now. I also have the Illusiter, so I can move around comfortably in the Vampire Detective world even without a hacking skill.’
One trait caught my eye.
[Mental Resistance Lv.1
You gain resistance to mental abnormalities. You will not be easily swayed by ordinary things.]
It was a trait I got as a bonus from my first game.
To be honest, I didn’t really understand what effect it had.
‘Not easily swayed by ordinary things? Does it affect my emotions?’
It didn’t seem to affect my emotions. I’ve never felt like something was interfering with my emotions.
‘Swayed. Swayed…. Swayed…….’
I couldn’t figure it out even after thinking about it. What’s the standard for ‘ordinary things’?
‘The level is low too… Let’s just level it up. It’s the first trait I got, so it’d be a shame to just leave it.’
I invested 15 points and made it level 3.
[Mental Resistance Lv.3
You gain resistance to mental abnormalities. You have resistance to mental interference.]
‘Good things are good, I guess.’
I read the changed description of Mental Resistance once and moved on.
29 points left.
‘…Let’s do a random gacha. I haven’t done it lately. I feel like I’m going through withdrawal. And today, I have a feeling… I’m going to get an amazing skill.’
Come to think of it, recently I’ve been investing all my points in skills and traits, and I haven’t been able to do any random gachas.
‘First, let’s put 9 points into stats.’
[Sung Yujin
Level: 24
Strength: 16 Stamina: 13 Agility: 12 Intelligence: 10 Virility: 17]
[The power consumed when using skills is reduced by 0.2%.]
[The cooldown of skills is reduced by 0.2%.]
I made my intelligence stat 10 and invested 4 points into virility.
‘No matter how you think about it, virility is what makes a man.’
I carefully stroked the most precious part of my body with my right hand. Maybe it was because I increased my virility, or maybe it was because I hadn’t used it while focusing on the Code: XTK game, but it started to react immediately.
Now I had 20 points left.
‘20 points! Random gacha, let’s gooooo!’
The result.
1 skill and 19 pieces of junk.
What was annoying was that 4 of them were useless potential potions.
‘I got a skill! The random gacha was a huge success! My intuition is always right.’
[Special conditions have been met.]
[The Random Gacha Shop is now open.]
[You can purchase items that appeared in the random gacha and items acquired through bonuses by spending points.]
And this was a newly opened feature from this random gacha.
‘…A shop? Spending points? Nice. Nice.’
I tried hard to be happy. But my face didn’t brighten. The Random Gacha Shop sold items, not skills. And most of the items they sold were useless things that came from the random gacha.
I turned my gaze elsewhere. Right. Towards the skill I got this time.
‘……It’s a skill, but what am I supposed to do with this kind of skill.’
[Gill Breathing Lv.1
You can breathe underwater. Lasts for 1 hour.
Cooldown: 24 hours.]
If I used the skill, I could breathe underwater for 1 hour. That was it.
‘……Am I supposed to have sex with a mermaid? Bullshit. I wouldn’t stick it in a fish’s pussy, unless it was a pretty human woman.’
Most fish reproduce through external fertilization. The Little Mermaid would probably do external fertilization too.
‘What’s the point if only I can breathe underwater! The woman can’t breathe!’
The skill was a dud. I sighed and turned my gaze away.
The Random Gacha Shop was a newly added feature.
I could repurchase the items I had gotten from the random gacha so far. The problem was that they were expensive.
[Summoning Pill.
All stats increase by 1.
Price: 800 points.
※Caution.
Only effective when taken for the first time.]
“What? It’s only effective the first time?”
I was shocked. When I first took the Summoning Pill, there was no such warning. The expensive price of 800 points was secondary, but I didn’t like how they didn’t tell me something important.
“The potential potion was the same last time!”
[Potential Potion
When consumed, it unlocks some of your potential. You may discover unexpected talents.
Price: 30 points
※Caution.
If you have no potential, it will have no effect.]
I glared at the description of the potential potion, grinding my teeth.
Then a question arose.
‘30 points? Why is it so cheap compared to the Summoning Pill?’
The potential potion is an excellent item. It has the effect of quickly unlocking your potential and talents. Depending on how you think about it, it could be the best potion.
‘…But it has no effect on me because I have no potential.’
I changed my perspective.
What if the potential potion wasn’t cheap, but the Summoning Pill was expensive?
‘……The Summoning Pill increases all stats by 1 when consumed. That means….’
Even if your stats are 1, they increase by 1, and even if they are 100, they increase by 1.
I deliberately stopped thinking.
If I continued to think, I would definitely flip out.
[Emotion Controller
By selecting a target, you can perfectly control their emotions.
Simply press the button in front of the target.
It is a one-time use item.
Price: 20,000 points
※Caution.
It also works on some inanimate objects. It is recommended to use it when there is nothing in front of the target you want to use it on.]
‘They sell the Emotion Controller too. 20,000 points is a bit much.’
The biggest advantage of the Random Gacha Shop is that it has a ‘Caution’ notice, right?
I looked at the other items I could buy.
[Holy Water
If you drink or apply holy water, good things might happen?
Price: 2 points]
[Heavenly Wet Wipe
A wet wipe made of heavenly clouds. Very soft.
Price: 1 point]
[Thermos
An ordinary thermos.
Price: 1 point]
“……”
I quietly rubbed my eyes.
There wasn’t a single useful thing. It was just a waste of points.
“Damn it. Let’s check the Illusiter.”
I took out two Illusiters from my inventory.
I was going to use one right away and keep the other as a spare.
‘The Illusiter is rechargeable. If I leave it alone, it will automatically charge with the Ecless in the atmosphere.’
I was gleeful, but then I realized a flaw.
Ecless is an energy that exists in the virtual world. Ecless doesn’t exist in reality.
Anxiety began to rise in my heart. I quickly checked the Illusiter.
〉Charging. Estimated time remaining: 14 hours 41 minutes 22 seconds.
“Phew. It’s charging, thankfully. …No. Wait a minute. According to the original settings of the Illusiter, it should be fully charged in 6 hours!”
Feeling strange, I reflexively looked at the Game Life app. And there, as if to mock me, a notification window popped up.
[Items with special abilities or effects obtained from the game world have reduced effects and abilities in other worlds.]
“……Huh?”
I rubbed my eyes. I thought I had seen it wrong.
My eyes were perfectly normal.
‘Why does this damn app always tell me important things later?!’
I was furious, but there was nothing I could do. There was nothing I could do.
I couldn’t just not use the Game Life app because I was annoyed. The Game Life app was everything in my life.
‘…Let’s think positively. Even if the effects are reduced, I can still use it in reality.’
