[Episode 04] Quest Reward (2)
《Party Quest Grant》
Quest Content: Demonstrate awakening abilities.
Time limit: 1 hour 00 minutes 00 seconds
Reward: Increased strength.
Failure penalty: Sleep in the hallway.
[Do you want to grant the quest as is?]
[Yes / No]
“hmm?”
As soon as we started the experiment, something unexpected popped up.
‘Party Quest?’
Instead of giving quests to individuals like Moon Byung-ho and Kang Deok-su, a system was introduced where parties could form and complete quests.
‘What does it mean?’
In my experience so far, there has never been a feature that appeared without any meaning to my abilities.
There must be something about party quests that is better than regular quests, but I don’t know what it is yet.
‘Let’s proceed like this for now.’
As you try different things, you will learn the differences between regular quests and party quests.
‘Quest granted.’
Kang Deok-su looked at the quest window that appeared before his eyes and made a face as if he had no idea what was going on.
“So what Jaehyun is saying is, I’ve awakened? Like Donggun?”
“Yes.”
“A knight of steel? What kind of ability is that?”
“The ability to summon steel armor and a halberd.”
“yes?”
That was when.
Shushuk
“Huh?!”
Moon Byung-ho suddenly appeared in the middle of the living room.
Successfully used the awakening ability, teleportation.
Kang Deok-su, who witnessed the scene with his own two eyes, froze with his eyes wide open.
Moon Byung-ho slowly looked around and soon realized that he had teleported.
At the same time, a pleasant notification rang.
[Citizen Moon Byung-ho’s trust level increases.]
[Citizen Moon Byeong-ho’s loyalty increases.]
He bowed his head toward me and expressed his gratitude.
“Thank you, thank you!”
Then suddenly he approached the living room window.
Just by looking at him, I could tell why he was doing that.
I spoke to him, who was very excited.
“Stop.”
“yes?”
“It looks like you’re going straight to your grandmother’s house, but it’ll probably be difficult.”
“Why?”
“Mr. Moon Byung-ho’s ability is an ability that is activated using mental power as a raw material. However, the further the distance to be moved, and the more people there are to move together, the more mental power is required.”
“ah···.”
“Even if you can see Grandma’s house from here, you probably won’t be able to get there right away. In the worst case, you might end up moving into thin air.”
If you were to teleport into the void of nothing, there was only one ending.
Falling.
“So, right now, it’s important to first understand your own abilities. Find out what your maximum movement distance is, and how much mental power is consumed when you use your abilities.”
“···All right.”
While stopping Moon Byung-ho’s sudden rash actions, Kang Deok-su also succeeded in using his abilities.
Woohoo!
A pure white light emanated from his body and took shape in an instant.
Silver armor covering the entire body and a halberd with a fierce blade.
The steel knight appeared there.
“Oh, is it really true?”
[Citizen Kang Deok-su’s trust level increases.]
[Citizen Kang Deok-su’s loyalty increases.]
at the same time.
[Citizens Moon Byeong-ho and Kang Deok-su completed the quest.]
[Quest cost is 212,317 won.]
The quest was completed and a little over 200,000 won was taken out.
‘Is it about 100,000 won per session of muscle strengthening?’
Although it was a pity, it was a little comforting to think that we had invested in the strength of the two people who could be called the main force.
Anyway, this proves that you can use quest rewards to strengthen specific abilities.
‘I feel like their stamina and physical strength are similar. So, would this be possible?’
This time, I gave the quest only to Moon Byung-ho.
《Quest Granting》
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Quest Content: Use Teleport.
Time limit: 1 hour 00 minutes 00 seconds
Reward: Increased Teleport Proficiency.
Failure penalty: Sleep in the hallway.
[Do you want to grant the quest as is?]
[Yes / No]
‘It works.’
It also seemed possible to increase the proficiency of abilities.
Moon Byung-ho, who was given the quest, used his ability right away and was able to clear the quest without difficulty.
however.
[Citizen Moon Byeong-ho completed the quest.]
[Quest cost is 70,133 won.]
‘huh?’
This time, I expected that it would cost around 100,000 won, but the actual cost was only 70,000 won.
The price was 30% cheaper than expected.
‘no way?’
I realized it instinctively.
The quest content and reward are related.
‘You can adjust the cost depending on the quest content!’
I wanted to put my newly discovered knowledge to the test right away.
“Mr. Byungho.”
“yes?”
“How are you feeling?”
“great.”
“is it so?”
I asked, pointing to the apartment across the street outside the living room window.
“Do you think you could use teleportation to get there?”
Moon Byung-ho carefully measured the distance and nodded.
“It seems possible.”
“All right.”
This time, I increased the overall difficulty of the quest.
《Quest Granting》
Quest Content: Use the teleporter to go to the rooftop of Apartment Building 113.
Time limit: 3 minutes 00 seconds
Reward: Increased Teleport Proficiency.
Failure penalty: Sleeping outdoors.
An apartment rooftop a few dozen meters away, a short three minutes, and the penalty of sleeping outside.
Although their numbers had been greatly reduced through herding, there were still goblins swarming outside.
Sleeping outdoors was essentially the same as not being able to sleep.
“This is···.”
Moon Byung-ho looked flustered when he realized that the difficulty level had suddenly increased.
I spoke to Moon Byung-ho with all my heart.
“You must succeed.”
“···yes.”
Moon Byung-ho began to look at the rooftop of the apartment across the street with a nervous expression.
‘The Eyes of the Absolute.’
During this time, I prepared for any eventuality.
This is in case Moon Byung-ho’s mental strength is lacking and he appears in the air.
If anything happened, I planned to use my citizen summoning skill to summon him right away.
‘Please succeed.’
After about a minute.
Shush!
Moon Byung-ho disappeared from our house and appeared on the rooftop railing of the apartment across the street.
Immediately after that.
[Citizen Moon Byeong-ho completed the quest.]
“Phew.”
Fortunately, the quest was successful, and the results were much better than expected.
‘It didn’t cost anything.’
Perhaps because the quest difficulty itself was increased, there was no cost to enhance teleportation proficiency as a reward.
‘I see. So this is how it is.’
Just before I let go of the tension as I watched that scene.
“!!!”
Moon Byung-ho’s new body, which was standing on the rooftop railing, staggered.
‘Summon the deceased, Moon Byung-ho!’
Surprised, I immediately used my skill and was able to summon Moon Byung-ho, who was about to fall from the rooftop.
Shush- thud!
‘···It was close.’
It was fortunate that we had prepared in advance, but if we had been even just a little late it could have been dangerous.
‘You’ve lost your mind.’
Perhaps because he had suddenly traveled a long distance and had used up too much mental energy, Moon Byung-ho had fainted.
You must have really pushed yourself to your limits.
She whispered softly in his ear.
“Thank you for your effort.”
Thanks to this, we were able to confirm that rewards can be given without cost if we just adjust the quest details well.
He spoke to Kang Deok-su, who was watching blankly while wearing silver armor next to him.
“Mr. Moon Byung-ho, could you please move me to the sofa?”
“yes.”
He asked Kang Deok-su, who was laying the unconscious Moon Byung-ho on the sofa.
“Mr. Deoksu. Are you good at sports?”
“yes?”
Kang Deok-su tilted his head for a moment, then nodded and said.
“I’ll do it a little.”
I couldn’t see his face because he was wearing full body armor, but I wondered if he was anxious.
She smiled gently at him and said:
“Good. Just do 100 push-ups and 100 squats. Of course, while wearing your armor.”
“······.”
《Quest Granting》
Quest Content: Exercise while wearing armor.
-Push-ups (0/100)
-Squat (0/100)
Time limit: 10 minutes 00 seconds
Reward: Increased strength.
Failure penalty: Sleeping outdoors.
I kindly explained to him who was blankly staring at me.
“You won’t have much time. There will be goblins roaming around outside. Will you be able to sleep?”
“······uh?”
Only then did Kang Deok-su realize the seriousness of the situation and begin to exercise.
Still, Kang Deok-su, who finished his homework quickly as expected from someone who was a member of an athletic club, knelt in the living room and gasped.
No matter how much I leveled up and my strength and stamina increased, it wouldn’t be easy to exercise while wearing heavy armor.
[Citizen Kang Deok-su completed the quest.]
[Quest cost is 56,149 won.]
‘It’s gotten a lot cheaper.’
It was almost half price.
‘But I guess it’s not enough to completely eliminate the cost.’
I would have liked to increase the number of times or the intensity, but I felt like if I did that, Kang Deok-su would fail the quest.
He spoke to Kang Deok-su, who was panting.
“I’ll take one more set.”
Kang Deok-su, who was given the same quest as before, protested with a tearful face.
“Do I really have to go outside and sleep?”
“Sure, that’s a bit excessive, isn’t it? I’ll fix it for you.”
Failure Penalty: 1000 push-ups.
Kang Deok-su, who saw the newly updated failure penalty, started exercising without saying a word.
Even though he was trembling, he filled in the number of reps one by one.
[Citizen Kang Deok-su’s loyalty increases.]
‘Huh? Why is this coming up?’
Loyalty is rising.
Is this why the military pushes people to their limits?
[Citizen Kang Deok-su completed the quest.]
[Quest cost is 39,783 won.]
I was able to confirm that the quest cost was further reduced, indicating that the change in failure penalty was effective.
“I’ll go just one more time.”
“Ahh!”
Kang Deok-su completed the quest with both evil and brute force.
[Citizen Kang Deok-su completed the quest.]
[Quest cost is 35,249 won.]
‘It’s shrunk again.’
This time, the cost was reduced even though the conditions were exactly the same as before.
‘No.’
There was one other thing though.
‘Because Kang Deok-su’s condition was different.’
I was extremely exhausted from the previous two quests.
If you try to complete a quest in that state, the difficulty level is bound to increase relatively.
‘I guess I have a rough idea of what it is like.’
Ultimately, it is a system in which the higher the difficulty perceived by the person performing the quest, the better the efficiency.
When Kang Deok-su finished all three sets, a notification with new content appeared.
[Citizen Kang Deok-su has used up all the quests he can complete today.]
‘Is three the maximum, excluding party quests?’
Then I can fully understand why there are separate party quests.
‘It was a system for granting additional quests.’
It seems that additional quests can be granted by granting party quests when all daily quest limits have been exhausted.
It was at that time that I was organizing my thoughts.
[Evaluate the quests performed by citizen Kang Deok-su.]
‘huh?’
[······ Under evaluation······]
‘What is this?’
It looked like it would be a task that would take some time.
While the work was in progress, he spoke to Kang Deok-su.
“Thank you for your hard work. You can go to sleep now.”
Kang Deok-su, a man wearing a silver-shining full body armor and holding a halberd, spoke in a tired voice.
“Thank you for your effort···.”
When I checked my watch, it was already past 1:00 in the morning.
I came home a little after 12 o’clock, so I had been repeating the process of giving and clearing quests for almost an hour.
As Kang Deok-su took off his armor, a thick smell of sweat wafted in.
He said.
“Excuse me, can I take a shower?”
“Of course. You can use the bathroom over there.”
“thank you.”
The results of my various experiments were satisfactory.
‘I gained more than I expected.’
First of all, Moon Byung-ho and Kang Deok-su were able to clearly recognize and use their awakening abilities.
This would increase the power several times over.
What was especially great was Kang Deok-su’s ability.
‘If we just tank from the front while wearing armor, it will be possible to carry out operations with much greater stability.’
It was a positive thing in many ways.
As these parties grew stronger, it meant that there was more they could do.
‘There is hope.’
Maybe we can send them out soon to rescue our families.
‘You can do it.’
That was when.
[Evaluation completed.]
It seemed like the evaluation of the quest that Kang Deok-su had performed had finally ended.
[Strength increases slightly.]
‘uh?’
Suddenly, I felt like my body became lighter.
‘This is···.’
It was clear.
My strength has increased.
Perhaps it was because all three of Kang Deok-su’s daily quests were focused on increasing strength.
‘Then the story changes a little.’
A justification for manipulating citizens has arisen.
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