Chapter 15 – Second Summoning (2)
We arrived at the lakeside near the village.
“I’ll watch the surroundings, so come take a shower.”
After making sure that no one was around her, Ellie took off her armor and took a dip in the lake.
The sight of Ellie at the lakeside was like looking at a beautiful painting.
Her breasts, which had given her an unforgettable feeling yesterday, were swaying to the movements of her Ellie, and her body, with a small waist compared to her breasts, was like an unrealistic picture of her.
Moreover, her wet pink hair clings to Ellie’s body, increasing her glamor.
Ah… That sucks…
Ellie watched her washing, not knowing how time passed.
And after washing her body, Ellie came over and dried her with the towel she had brought.
“Did you wait long? It took longer to wash than I thought.”
“No, I enjoyed it quite a bit too.”
Ellie didn’t understand me right away at first, but the moment she started to understand, her face turned red.
“Jinunim is more lecherous than I thought.”
“Ellie, I’m only saying this to you. You’re something I’m proud to have raised. You’re pretty, smart, strong, and can do anything. Ellie, I think it’s a blessing that you came to me.”
Ellie was embarrassed by my praise, covering her face with her hands.
Of course, she was lovely even like that.
“Let’s go quickly and complete the quest.”
Ellie was embarrassed and turned to another topic.
It’s fun to tease Ellie, but today is later than planned, so she has to leave quickly.
Ellie dressed in all her gear and started moving to catch her monster.
“Summoning you is important, but can I also become stronger? I don’t want to be too much of a burden.”
“Jinu, there is no need to go out. Please leave the work of breaking down the dimensional door to us.”
“Still, I think I can’t just leave everything to you and sit back. What do you think, Ellie?”
Ellie began to think deeply.
“First of all, it is true that Jinu-sama has no magic power. It would be correct to judge him as a weak being by the standards of this world and the world I was in.”
I guess so too.
“But. Judging by the fact that I can feel a very weak amount of power in Jinu-sama’s body, I can’t imagine what would happen if that ability were fully developed. Jinu-sama’s power was really extensive.”
“It’s a power… Isn’t it just something that remains to summon you here?”
“Jinu-nim may know much more about power than we do, but from what I can remember so far, I don’t remember any of Jinu-nim’s powers shown in my world summoning anyone.”
This power that Ellie is talking about was used to strengthen the character using the game system.
I summoned myself to connect this world with the game world, and I thought that that power was the power that Ellie was talking about.
But what if power and summoning are separate entities?
If I could strengthen myself just as I strengthen my game character, wouldn’t I be able to become stronger as well?
“I never thought about it like that. Maybe this power can help me and you become stronger here too. I don’t even know how I can use it yet.”
“I think we can figure it out little by little. To be honest, I’m not particularly happy about Jinu going into battle.”
Ellie looked a little sad.
Eli probably imagined me getting hurt fighting on the battlefield.
It seemed like he really, really hated that.
“Don’t worry too much. I don’t want to see you guys sad because I get hurt. Even if we fight, we should do it in a way that isn’t too unreasonable.”
“I’m really begging you. Then I guess we can just go catch the monster. Would you please wait here?”
It seems like he’s probably thinking of pulling it all off by himself like he did last time.
“Okay, I’ll wait here. Don’t bother catching more like last time. I have a lot to do today.”
“Yes. Then I will go.”
Ellie gave me a simple buff like last time and she ran into the forest.
I sat down and thought about what Eli was talking about: my power.
What I can do with the character through the game system is to increase the character’s stats by leveling up, replacing equipment, and adding skills.
Level up is triggered automatically when you encounter monsters or do game quests.
However, in this world, it is unknown whether levels exist.
The people who live there don’t know about levels, and even Ellie doesn’t seem to know about leveling up.
So, I think it would be a good idea to rule out getting additional stats through leveling up.
The same goes for taking skills.
In games, as you level up, don’t you acquire skills appropriate for that level?
Ellie also appears to be aware of the existence of skills, as she herself speaks of skills and ultimate skills, but she feels like she learned about them on her own.
If the game has been running for a long time, the skill tree will naturally change infinitely depending on character balance patches.
I also always changed the skill tree to suit the game meta, and from Ellie’s perspective, there may have been times when the skills she originally used suddenly stopped working.
But Ellie didn’t show any such expression.
I guess she thinks she learned the skills on her own.
I’ll have to ask when I get back.
The last thing left is strengthening items.
A devilish system that succeeds with a low probability of success by exchanging money.
I took out the gram I had brought from the stone chamber.
It was a two-handed sword weapon in the form of a Viking sword with a crude handle.
Obviously, this is a sword that looks exactly like the one we’ve seen in the game.
If so, wouldn’t it be possible to at least know how much reinforcement there is?
I stared at Gram.
In Elion, equipment begins to shine slightly differently depending on the level of enhancement.
It usually appears a soft blue color from level 11 onward, but changes to red from level 13 onwards, and glows golden yellow from level 15 onwards.
Someone looked at the dummy data and found that it glows white from level 20 onwards, but no one has ever been to level 20, so I have never checked.
Oh no. I remember there was only one person.
Who was it… I can’t remember because it’s been so long.
However, what is certain is that I heard that the level 20 weapon disappeared without even being used properly.
The user frantically put it into the intensifier with the intention of folding it, but this continued to be successful.
It is a common belief that the game is a ploy by the operator to lure away users who are about to quit the game.
But I guess they didn’t have any intention of continuing, so they strengthened it and exploded… I don’t remember that part.
In any case, from the moment Elion’s enhancement fails from level 10 to level 11, the item is destroyed.
In the past, even if you made it to the top 11, you seemed like a great person. They attempted to strengthen it by risking the equipment being destroyed.
So the 20 points above are really crazy weapons.
Then the operators released a consumable item that prevented the weapon from being destroyed in case of failure.
Instead, the reinforcement value drops back to 0.
The moment this came out, it had the negative effect of increasing the character specs of people in the Elion game overall.
Originally, it was common to physically lack the ability to challenge yourself to upgrade due to a lack of high-level equipment, but now a situation has arisen where you can challenge yourself like crazy as long as you have the money.
Of course, I also jumped on the bandwagon and remember one time sacrificing my entire salary to strengthen all of my characters’ equipment.
The operators are crazy about money…
Did you have to take it all to feel relieved? Fuck you guys…
Anyway, Seokpan said that his weapon was the strongest weapon, so it must have been highly reinforced equipment.
So I checked here and there to see what color it glowed.
But I didn’t really see a big difference.
Aren’t you mistaken when you say the Slab guy isn’t that strong?
Like the protagonist of a novel I read in Korea, I shouted out words that I thought could bring out information, such as confirmation, emotion, view, etc., As many words as I could think of.
But now this was a dirty reality.
“Ha… Am I mistaken? Is the power that Ellie speaks of just for the purpose of torturing hope, which only exists in the end?”
I looked at Gram and muttered.
Then, I realized that I was only trying to look at the item information, so I looked at Gram and imagined equipping it on the character like in the game.
“Would you like to equip ‘Gram’?”
Eh? What is this again?
Is this a system in my head?
Are the system window settings that often appear in Internet novels applied?
But up to this point, even if I thought about using a sword, spear, shield, etc. Like I did now, nothing like this had appeared.
What’s the difference?
But this question was quickly resolved.
The equipment I was planning to use before came from the Arpe Continent, but the Gram here came from the game world.
In the end, does this mean that my authority only applies to those from the game world?
So no matter how many times I tried, it didn’t work at all.
Then, I tried installing Gram.
Gram, who I wasn’t even holding at that moment, was summoned into my hand.
And doesn’t it glow softly white?
What is this?
Out of curiosity, I stared at the installed Gram.
And the information window that popped up I couldn’t believe my eyes.
「+20 grams」
No, why is this really…
