23 – Butterfly Effect (2)

On the second Friday of every week, time for circle activities is guaranteed for the mental health of cadets.

Since spending time is a cadet’s right to freedom, you can do club activities or spend your personal leisure time.

Friday morning. I was sitting on my bedside in the dormitory, checking the digestive capacity of my tentacles.

[Void Tentacles]

– Digestive capacity: Ready to eat

After 96 hours, the digestion was completed and the health ability increased.

What shall we feed this time?

There is also a way to feed items purchased at the point shop like last time, but honestly, the points are not worth it.

It’s not a loss when it comes to the rate of exchange for stats, but I want to save points.

“… Hmm.”

Come to think of it, during the hunting circle, there were pieces of magic crystals obtained while hunting.

Shall I feed it?

Thinking about it, I immediately withdrew my decision.

It was a piece of the lowest-grade magic stone, so it seemed like it would be rather damaging to feed it.

Because waiting 96 hours for digestion is a waste of time.

“… Wait.”

Then, I suddenly questioned the digestion ability itself and tried to feed it with a piece of the lowest grade magic stone.

Wheek.

The tentacle, which had been moving at my will, this time protruded from my back and swallowed the magic stone like a vacuum cleaner.

[The fire extinguishing ability has been used. Void Tentacle mastery increased by 0.15%.]

[All general stats are permanently increased by 0.015.]

After all the remaining lowest level magic stones were eaten, the time to wait for digestion came out.

[The fire extinguishing ability has been used. Void Tentacle mastery increased by 0.15%.]

[Time remaining until digestion is complete: 2 hours….]

[After digestion is complete, all general stats are permanently increased by 0.015.]

“As expected.”

My prediction was correct.

Depending on the object to be absorbed, the degree of satiety and digestion time are different.

The digestion time of 96 hours was not fixed.

In addition, depending on the object, the type of ability level rise is also distinctly different.

All normal stats.

The increase is not insignificant, but it is not insignificant considering the benefit of all general stats rising.

Does all normal stats go up when I feed magic stones?

“… If this is the case, magic stones seem to be the best food.”

It’s a guess, but it’s a reasonable decision.

In that case, it would be more efficient to feed high-quality magic crystals rather than these cheap magic crystals.

“Hmm.”

I’m very tempted to experiment right away, but magic stones are not sold at the Contribution Shop.

As expected, the only way to find them is to hunt them down.

Even if it wasn’t so, today I was planning on going outside the academy.

There was someone I had to meet inevitably for my future livelihood.

Gyeomsa Gyeomsa A lightweight engraving on the pocket of the subspace. I also hunt.

“… Shall we go?”

I left the dormitory and headed to the portal site.

* * *

Incheon Booyeong Park Dungeon is not a dungeon, but rather a field-type hunting ground made by fielding a tunnel in the past.

Due to the specificity of the area, it was made into a hunting ground by missing the time to be occupied and turning it into a field.

“… We repair equipment. If you repair 3, you get 1 free.”

“I sell potions. It works well and is cheaper than the market price.”

“I sell old books. I am selling a lightweight backpack. We have basic equipment.”

At the entrance of the tunnel, many people are sitting on the tables and occupying their seats.

Most of them repair equipment, engrave or sell goods.

Among them, there are management employees from large guilds, and there are managers who work as individual businesses.

We are looking for fixed mercenaries to work with “Raccoon’s Hunt Management. We will give you the best hunting ratio. If you sign up for a fixed date today, the fee is waived. We also accept personal simple transactions.”

In this world, the process of hunting and selling monsters is set by law.

This is due to the government’s efforts to secure taxes after the hunting authority was expanded due to the increased demand for various monster resources.

So there are people who hunt and gather monsters through hunting activities and people who receive and sell those monsters.

Management and management were the concepts that came about that way.

If a person with hunting authority hunts and hands over the carcass of a monster to the manager, the manager sells the carcass and deducts the tax before delivering it to the hunter.

There is a limit to selling monster corpses by individuals unless you are a professional dealer, so it is a reasonable system in its own way.

According to the established law, even equipment and items obtained from monster subjugation must be sold through management, but this part is almost private.

This is because the subject of surveillance has limitations and there are not many people who keep it.

So, I usually made a contract with the manager to sell the monster’s corpse.

“We will do our best to sell. This is Lee Chung-pal, the handsome manager. If you sign a long-term contract today, we will give you 5 Hansung gift certificates worth 100,000 won.”

“We sell at the highest price. I am Yoo Cheong-han, a boram manager who sells with a sense of worth. If you sign a contract today, we will provide you with a box of potions.”

And while the managers who gained a lot of wealth in this process were called management companies, most of them remained as individual business managers.

“… ….”

I looked at them indifferently and moved on.

A manager I knew was sitting sadly in a corner.

Crunchy hair. A grotesque moron.

But for some reason, only those eyes are shining brightly.

“… ….”

Even at a glance, this woman who seems to be skipping meals is an extra like me.

So, it was her personal connections she got to know while serving as a mercenary in her past life.

“… Just like the complaint.”

She said at her drinking party one day.

It was really hard during the days of Incheon’s Booyeong Park.

The girl 15 years ago was the same as the girl 15 years later.

“There, handsome brother.”

“… ….”

“Aren’t you a hunter looking for a manager to contract with? Come here and sign a contract.”

Shin Jae-eun.

It’s a name I miss no matter how many times I roll it on my tongue.

I looked at her carefully, her face, her thick talk.

She is not a top player in the management industry.

She has no talent and is just an ignorant person who knows how to make an effort.

She is also a typical tragic figure whose family was destroyed by the devil.

But…

A person you can trust.

He is also the only person I trusted in this world.

“Why? What’s on my face? What are you staring at….”

“No.”

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Because it’s pretty.

“Are you going to sign a contract?”

“Let’s make a contract.”

It seems that you didn’t know that I would ask you to sign a contract at once.

“Uh, uh, uh….”

Shin Jae-eun made a dumbfounded noise.

“Don’t you have a contract?”

“No, uh… wait a minute. For a moment! I’ll take out the contract right away. I didn’t know that gold nugget would roll….”

At that time, she still had a bubbly and fresh side.

We had a deal to sell her and I took her out on her hunt. On the way, I stopped by a place where equipment was engraved, and there was no problem in collecting the corpse of the monster when she went hunting.

Half a day has passed.

After the hunt, I settled my eyes.

It seems that he earned roughly 500,000 won from the corpse alone.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get any items or special materials, but I got two intermediate magic stones, so it’s not a losing trade.

I took out the magic crystals and essence separately and handed over the subspace pouch.

“Take it.”

“Ugh. Why this?”

Shin Jae-eun made a dumbfounded expression.

“It’s much more efficient than a backpack. Keep writing in the future. Management can’t do without subspace pockets.”

“… Can I?”

“Yes.”

“Hmmm, I’ll take it as a borrowed one.”

“And the manager will keep the price of the corpse sold today.”

“Eh?”

Shin Jae-eun made another stupid sound.

“No, you can’t do that. You wrote it in the contract. 8 To 2.”

“Take care of my little brother.”

I know her circumstances.

“Uh, how?”

“Because you look like you have a younger brother.”

“… Don’t play around. No matter how young you are, if you make fun of me, I will beat you. Anyway, a contract is a contract, so I’ll sell today’s amount and contact you right away. I’ll treat the subspace pocket as borrowed and I’ll definitely pay it back.”

She spoke boldly, bowed, and turned her body.

I beamed into her eyes as she drifted away from her.

The girl who was her first love and her first girlfriend in this world is disappearing.

[Hidden Achievement: First Love achievement!]

[I got 5,000 points as an achievement reward.]

[Hidden Achievement: First Goodbye Achievement Accomplished!]

[I got 5,000 points as an achievement reward.]

I guess these achievements have conditions to achieve depending on my emotional state.

You can get this when your affinity for a target goes up to a certain level for the first time and then falls below a certain level for the first time.

[Hidden Achievement: Short Encounter Achievement Accomplished!]

[I got 10,000 points as an achievement reward.]

“… What else is this?”

Is it because your liking suddenly went up and down?

I sighed briefly and returned to the academy.

* * *

“Wow, sir….”

I was almost late for my return to the academy.

For some reason, when I return to the academy, I feel like my heart has become young again.

Is it because of my mood?

It must be because of my mood.

I was on my way back to the dormitory with that thought in mind.

It was dinner time, so there were a lot of people at the front door, so I headed to the back of the building, but I heard a shout somewhere.

“You bastard. Did I say chocolate milk? Do you dare to buy banana milk?”

“Sorry.”

“If you’re sorry, let’s get beaten up.”

There, beings who had not yet become heroes were randomly expressing their incomplete personalities.

I pretended not to see and passed by.

As I passed by, I glanced up and saw the face of a child caught by the collar.

Uh… That’s him

A guy who turns black around the end of the second semester and becomes a demon.

But why are you already being beaten by the bread shuttle?

Once I thought about it, it seemed that it had something to do with helping Ko Soo-young.

Originally, around this time of year, it is normal for delinquent children to look at Ko Soo-young.

… I mean, the schedule has been pushed back.

In that case, he might turn black a little faster.

If you turn into a mine quickly, you’ll be more profitable in terms of points.

Choi Ji-seong would have been able to stop it, but not me.

I’m not a nice person.

“… It’s dark, Mom.”

But I can’t f*cking ignore it and pass by.

“Oh, f*ck.”

I don’t know.

I blocked them without my knowledge.