novelraw Chapter 128 : Chapter 128
Chapter 128 : Chapter 128
Chapter 128: School Supplies Store
[School Supplies Store]
[Fatigue Recovery Potion (5,000 SP): Wounds disappear along with fatigue! Grants the user temporary 'Intermediate' healing power!]
[Sweat-Soaked Gym Uniform (17,000 SP): Essential for endurance training! Reduces stamina consumption by 30% when worn! However, beware of the terrible smell!]
[Low-Cost Randoseru (50,000 SP): Can freely store items up to a certain weight! Can be summoned freely and upgraded using SP!]
[Memory-Fixing Mechanical Pencil (20,000 SP): Contents written with this pencil are perfectly remembered for 3 days! Dedicated leads must be purchased separately.]
……
The Mimic's pages stopped at the [School Supplies Store] page.
A list of items that were useful but had one or two flaws each was stretched out.
‘I’ve used the Fatigue Recovery Potion a lot, though.’
There wasn't any particular use for the other items yet.
In fact, I had already purchased the Sweat-Soaked Gym Uniform, but the sweat smell was terrible, just too terrible.
It was absolutely unusable.
Even after washing it, the damn smell wouldn't go away.
‘Couldn't put it anywhere, so I just dug a hole and buried it…….’
If I had to pick the number one moment when SP was wasted, that would definitely be it.
I mean, 17,000 SP doesn't just appear if you dig the ground.
Anyway, the time has come to start using this store in earnest, which until now has been nothing more than a Fatigue Recovery Potion launcher.
What I'm buying first is this.
[Low-Cost Randoseru]
An inventory-role item with a significantly high price.
The problem is that the design happens to be a Randoseru.
What is a Randoseru?
It was an item from the neighboring country, something that kindergarteners wear.
Literally an alien item.
Let's simply picture using it in reality.
‘……Won't I get reported?’
Even if not reported, I'd likely receive glares asking what that guy is doing carrying that around.
‘Still, can't be helped. It’s a necessary function.’
I sighed while pulling up the SP window.
[Tactical Manual]
[SP: 226,700 SP]
My original plan was to purchase Instructor Kang Mooseong's ‘Nullification Zone’.
To learn that skill, I need 250,000 SP.
A cheat-like spell that neutralizes magic power.
Kang Mooseong used this ability right in front of my eyes to deal with the Chief, an executive of the Villain Alliance.
Of course, even if I obtain this technique, I won't be able to use it at Kang Mooseong's level.
Because that man just deletes magic power in a range of tens of meters entirely.
It's at a level where a monster is pretending to be human.
However, even if the performance drops a bit, putting it extremely, even if it only wraps around my palm, it has to be useful.
That's why I was saving SP.
‘But now I have the Moonlight Stone.’
This requires changing the plan.
Because the Moonlight Stone itself is a field of opportunity.
If I invest in it, I can receive a stable supply of SP.
Perhaps beyond that, I might be able to obtain ‘Magic Power’.
Until now, because of the reason that I have no magic power, I couldn't utilize a significant number of the knowledge I possess.
The system of the game [Heroes Zero] progresses cultivation centered on magic power.
Fast and elastic growth is also based on magic power.
But I don't have it, that thing called magic power.
Instead, I was in a position relying on something similar to a curse given by the monster book guy.
‘If I use the Moonlight Stone and go there, perhaps…….’
Of course, it's not free.
So preparation is needed.
Among them, the essential preparation item was the inventory.
I stared straight at the Tactical Manual window.
[Would you like to purchase ‘Low-Cost Randoseru’?]
[Y / N]
‘Why even ask.’
Of course I'm buying.
I pressed Y without hesitation.
FLIP FLIP FLIP-!
The Tactical Manual closed quickly and returned to its original form.
The guy's cover faced me.
The eye placed on it spun round and round, staring at me.
[KEEHEEHIT! KEEHIT! It’s coming out! Coming ooooouuuut!]
“Ah, this.”
The guy shouted excitedly and started laughing like a madman.
[URCH- URCH-! UUUURCH-!]
It made the familiar sound of regurgitation.
PTOOEY-!
The guy spat out the Randoseru just like that.
Exactly into the center of my face.
A black leather bag flew straight at me.
The green sticky slime covering the object was a bonus.
“Ha…….”
I'm tired of cursing now.
Does it really have to be like this?
Is there a disease where it dies if it just hands it over to me normally?
“I’ll bear with it. Ha.”
It's not like the guy would listen even if I said something anyway.
Let's just consider it as having done patience training once today.
I roughly wiped off the green sticky stuff on my face and picked up the Randoseru that fell on the floor.
The green slime disappeared as if evaporating quickly.
Although a faint stench seemed to remain in my nose.
The size of the Randoseru itself wasn't big.
Since it's a bag that kindergarteners wear in the first place, it was natural.
‘How is the inside?’
Looking inside with my head down, there were likewise no unusual features.
It just looked ordinary, except I felt a slight sense of incongruity somewhere.
There was a foreign feeling as if something was warped.
‘Spatial distortion pocket.’
Let's see, what's around.
After looking around briefly, I picked up a paper cup next to me and tried putting it into the bag.
The cup was sucked inside naturally.
At the same time, its size started to shrink. Roughly to about 1/10.
The volume of the object didn't actually decrease. It just looked like that.
Since the space inside the bag is structured to be expanded tens of times more than reality, distortion occurs when viewed from outside.
I tried cramming in tissues and even a hotel pillow.
As long as it could pass through the bag's opening, it was okay.
‘Performance is good.’
DING-!
As I was frantically filling it with items.
[Low-Cost Randoseru]
- Paper Cup
- Pillow
- Black Self
……
A new system window popped up in front of my eyes.
It was exactly the inventory window I saw in the game.
A design where items are displayed as icons inside square boxes.
WHOOSH-!
When I stared at the icon and gave a command to take it out, the cup popped out from the Randoseru opening just like that.
But the moment I put down the Randoseru from my hand while picking up the cup, the inventory window disappeared.
‘Does the bag have to be touching my body to activate?’
Only after touching it again did the inventory window turn on again.
‘In the end, it means I have to carry it around.’
Damn it.
If anything, they should have made it a regular backpack or a crossbody bag, or at least a tote bag.
Why a Randoseru of all things, making me conscious of people around me.
Complaints leak out, but there's no helping it.
If the shop owner sells the product like that, I just have to deal with it.
Anyway, performance check complete.
At this level, I could use it without problems.
Since the place I'll be going to soon is also a place where I don't need to mind others.
‘And while I’m spending SP…….’
One more thing, there was something I thought I should purchase if I had spare SP.
What I opened this time was the [Skills] page of the Tactical Manual.
[You have discovered ‘Human Body Construction Art’.]
[Would you like to learn this skill? Y / N]
[Required SP : 60,000]
[Possessed SP : 176,700]
I learned the skill immediately.
[Tactical Manual]
[Healing Spell]
- Human Body Construction Art
- Grade: Grade 4
It was the spell I saw at the Hero Land recovery site.
The healer had personally treated Instructor Kang Mooseong's finger, which had been cut off by the Chief.
[Human Body Construction Art: Consumes a certain amount of calories to reconstruct the body. The required calorie value is determined by the mass and structure of the regenerating part.]
‘Let’s see.’
I took off my socks.
Part of my big toe, near the toenail, was gone as if gouged out.
It was the part that broke slightly while I was mimicking a stone when falling from the Sanctuary.
When I returned to human form, the damaged part ended up like this.
Looking back, it's dizzying.
If I had crashed into the ground while still a stone, my body might have shattered into pieces just like that.
It's a dangerous technique in many ways, this guy called mimicry.
Shaking my head lightly, I took out an alcohol swab I prepared in advance and wiped the affected area.
A stinging pain arose, and my brow furrowed automatically.
I thought while staring at the wound.
‘Is this how you do it?’
Heat slowly rose in my body.
Cold sweat formed on my forehead, and a strange energy swept under my skin as if calories were being burned.
The moment I learned the skill, my body and mind naturally understood the structure of the spell.
Like water naturally flowing along a newly drilled hole.
As I reached out to the severed part, the change began.
Red tissue covered the split cross-section.
Flesh filled the empty space little by little, forming a shape.
It was like a small 3D printer building up a model layer by layer.
The sight of my body being assembled in real-time was disgusting yet strangely marvelous.
It's an incredible sight. If there is a problem, it's just one thing: the speed is very slow.
“Ugh.”
Sweat poured down.
It's overwhelming; much harder than swinging a sword.
It's probably an aptitude issue.
From the first possession, I was basically a swordsmanship type.
Swordsmanship is embodied relatively easily and mastered quickly.
But other weapons, techniques of other types were in poor condition.
I understand the spell clearly.
I know how to do it too.
But implementing it ‘well’ was another realm.
‘Ah, this is a bit problematic.’
The regenerating tissue was bumpy.
An untidy appearance.
It's just a big toe, and only a part of it at that; does it have to be this tough?
Healer Oh Misik, the original owner of this spell, regenerated Instructor Kang Mooseong's finger in an instant.
They said she was also the one who revived Spike Blue's arm.
It's natural that I fall short of that.
But even so, I couldn't accept myself not being able to properly restore even a minor injury.
Holding onto my mind, I focused all my attention.
I recalled the shape and structure of the big toe.
Where the veins should connect, how the muscles are composed, and even how the curvature of the surface was.
It was to the point where I found it amazing that I was nitpicking details one by one like this.
But if I don't do this, the shape of the toe would become strange.
At worst, I might have to live with a toe that looks like a hammerhead shark.
That's why I didn't lose focus.
‘……Done.’
Finally, the toe regained its shape.
The final result was quite plausible.
Ambiguous to call perfect, but sufficient enough to be satisfied.
The tissue is still squishy, but this will improve over time.
‘I’m hungry.’
What I felt while wrapping the bandage as a finish was hunger.
They said it uses calories as the cost for activating the spell, and it was true.
Just a part of a big toe shouldn't cost much.
Is the efficiency low because my proficiency is low?
Hunger rushed in rapidly.
VROOOM-!
It was then that my smartphone vibrated.
[The dinner banquet for the last night in Jeju Island begins at 7 PM. All participating cadets please gather at the 2F Grand Ballroom on time.]
Come to think of it, they said they were holding an event since it's the last night.
If it's a banquet held at a hotel……
‘I’ll eat until my stomach bursts.’
I can't miss this.
Just as I was about to get ready to leave while smacking my lips.
DING-!
[‘Settlement’ begins.]
The system informed me of the fact that there is a separate basic cost for using the spell.
“KYAAAAAK!”
Damn it.