[Episode 04] Quest Reward (4)
Moon Byung-ho, who used his teleportation ability to arrive at the house one step ahead of the group, hurried inside.
Crash
I pushed the key in, opened the door, and went straight to the living room where my grandmother was.
Moon Byung-ho sighed in relief when he found his grandmother lying under the blanket in the bedroom as usual.
I approached him carefully and spoke to him.
“Grandma, I’m here.”
“Huh?”
The grandmother, who had woken up, was half-asleep for a moment, then rubbed Moon Byeong-ho’s face with both hands. Soon, she burst into tears like a child.
“Ugh. Grandma. I’m sorry. Am I too late?”
While embracing his grandmother and saying goodbye, Moon Byung-ho made a promise.
‘Jaehyun, I will give my life to you.’
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I happily watched Moon Byung-ho and his grandmother reunite.
‘What a wonderful thing.’
From my point of view, Moon Byung-ho couldn’t help but look good.
Rapidly growing trust and loyalty.
Honestly, how many people would hate someone who believes in them and is loyal to them?
Even if he just said the right thing, it would make him look good, but in my case, it was even worse because it made me look like a total shame.
‘Every time he does something, it’s a hit.’
Among the group of Hadong-Geon, he was the first to be accepted as a vassal, and at the same time, he awakened the A-class ability called teleportation and reached level 30.
Even if you play a mobile game, you tend to feel affection towards a high-grade character that you get from a draw.
Moreover, Moon Byung-ho was not a character in a game, but a real person. He also had the highest level ability called teleportation.
But this time, it even gave me skill points.
‘There is no goose that lays golden eggs.’
At that moment, Moon Byung-ho, who had been crying while hugging his grandmother, raised his head with a determined expression, and a new notification appeared.
[Citizen Moon Byeong-ho’s loyalty increases.]
[Citizen Moon Byung-ho’s loyalty has reached 100.]
[Citizen Moon Byeong-ho is already registered as a deceased person.]
[The limit on the number of items you can hold has increased.]
“uh?”
I opened the skill window right away and checked the management tab.
Management of the ᛇ
1. Choi Hyeong-jun (Lv. 20) [+]
2. Moon Byeong-ho (Lv. 30) [+]
3. Kang Deok-su (Lv. 25) [+]
( 3 / 11 people)
The number of people that had actually been 10 had increased to 11.
“ha ha ha.”
I was so happy that I burst out laughing.
‘Moon Byung-ho, this is totally a congratulatory character, a congratulatory character.’
Anyone who has played an RPG game has heard this at least once.
Blessed character.
Whether it’s strengthening, hunting to get items, or opening randomly obtained boxes, this character is much better at it than other characters.
I couldn’t find a better word to describe Moon Byung-ho today.
‘I will definitely raise you.’
I decided to do as much as I could for Moon Byung-ho in the future.
Whether it’s leveling up or a quest reward.
I don’t really care how much it costs
It seemed like it would be useful.
The value of what he has already earned is worth tens of billions.
Leaving everything else aside, the ‘skill points’ alone were worth that much.
‘It was already precarious.’
I was very worried because I was almost filling up all 40 slots.
No matter how I looked at it, it seemed like I would run out of shop slots before I reached level 10.
But now that I had skill points, I didn’t have to worry about that. I could just level up right after filling the slots.
‘Now that I think about it, how much money do I have left?’
After checking, it turned out that there was about 11 million won left in the Absolute’s wallet.
Even though I used a lot of this and that, the fact that I still have this much left is thanks to hunting.
He killed over a thousand goblins at once, so he earned millions of won just from the goblins.
As the area of the corner of my house expanded, the goblins I killed were judged as having been killed by me personally, so I did not receive any bonus settlement, but the number was still huge, so I earned a considerable amount of money.
‘Let’s check how much it costs to level up our soldier.’
I pressed the [+] button next to Moon Byung-ho’s level.
And I was horrified by the amount.
[Not enough cash to level up.]
[To level up Moon Byung-ho, you need 100,000,000 won.]
[Please try again after increasing your cash holdings.]
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I was momentarily frozen in place by the shocking messages that filled my eyes.
‘One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million······ billion.’
100 million.
It took a whopping 100 million won to raise Moon Byung-ho’s level by one.
‘I’m sorry, Byungho.’
Unless something special happens, Moon Byung-ho’s level will probably not rise in the future.
‘But I’ll still give you daily quests every day.’
I was thinking of completing all of Moon Byung-ho’s daily quests, even if it meant spending more money instead of lowering the difficulty.
If this accumulates day by day, Moon Byung-ho will be able to quickly become stronger.
I looked down at Moon Byung-ho, who was carrying his grandmother on his back and returning here, with the eyes of the absolute being and thought.
‘If I hit the jackpot just one more time, then I’ll seriously consider leveling up. Really.’
I don’t expect much.
Seriously, just one more time.
‘huh?’
At that moment, I felt someone arrive on the 30th floor through the elevator.
‘Who is it?’
When the Absolute One turned his eyes to this place and checked the hallway, a muscular man and a woman with a slender body came to him, carrying something in a bundle.
‘It was these people.’
The average level for an adult male is around 7 or 8, but he was a man who was only level 15.
The woman with him was also level 11, which is quite a level for a woman.
They got off the elevator, glanced at our house, then headed toward Choi Hyung-jun’s house and rang the bell.
♬♪♬♩~
Park Hye-won opened the door and came out to greet them.
“who are you?”
“I’m Kim Da-bin, and this is my younger brother, Kim Min-ho. I live in apartment 1701.”
“Oh, yes. But why···?”
“I came here because I have a favor to ask of you.”
Kim Da-bin continued speaking with a serious face.
“I know it’s shameless, but can I just take a shower?”
I thought you were going to ask me something big, but it’s just a shower.
“Are you taking a shower?”
“Yes, shower.”
Park Hye-won nodded readily as if she understood and answered.
“Okay, come in.”
“thank you!”
Kim Min-ho handed a box to Park Hye-won as he entered the house.
“Madam. Where should I put this?”
“Oh my, what is all that?”
“I brought some canned food and other things.”
“Really?”
The box he was holding was full of useful items, including cans of tuna, squid, canned chicken breast, and Spam.
‘You burn all that in one shower?’
In times like these, foods with such a long shelf life could be considered a treasure.
Of course, it was too much for just one shower.
“Oh my. You don’t have to do that.”
“No! If you’re going to barge into someone’s house and ask for something difficult, shouldn’t you at least be prepared for this?”
Kim Min-ho, who had been acting cute, later revealed his true feelings.
“I hope you will continue to take good care of me in the future too… hehe.”
Only then did they understand.
‘Then that’s right. That means you want me to shower you often in the future.’
It could be said that it was a very smart move.
They quickly realized the value of having electricity, water and gas running in a world that was going to ruin.
The idea would be to secure its value from the beginning through bold investment.
But listening to the conversation that followed, it seems that wasn’t the only purpose.
Kim Da-bin looked at Park Hye-won’s expression and then spoke carefully.
“Excuse me… But do the people holding the bow and baseball bat live next door?”
“yes?”
Park Hye-won tilted her head for a moment, then clapped her hands as if she knew who he was talking about.
“Oh, those people. They’re not the people next door. They used to live in a different building… It’s a bit complicated. Anyway, there’s only one person living next door.”
Kim Da-bin asked after hearing Park Hye-won’s words.
“Are you that person with white skin who can create things out of thin air?”
“Oh, right. You knew that?”
Then this time, the answer came from Kim Min-ho.
“Well, actually, we saw them fighting some monsters in the hallway yesterday. Among them, that guy was something···”
Kim Min-ho stopped talking and shuddered once.
Kim Da-bin continued his speech by digging into the timing.
“You had a different vibe.”
“Rather than that, something was… scary.”
Kim Da-bin tilted her head and asked in confusion at Kim Min-ho’s subsequent answer.
“You’re scared? What can you say with a body like that?”
“No, I know. I was like, there was some kind of instinctive fear.”
At that time, Park Hye-won spoke to them.
“First of all, please don’t stand there in the hallway. Come inside.”
“Oh, thank you.”
As they entered the house following Park Hye-won’s guidance, they soon met Choi Hyeong-jun.
Choi Hyeong-jun was doing squats in the living room.
“Oh my, boss! You work out. But if you do squats like that, your knees will be ruined!”
When Kim Da-bin was startled, Kim Min-ho immediately approached Choi Hyeong-jun and corrected his posture.
“Spread your legs a little wider and make sure your knees don’t go over your toes. Push your hips back a little more.”
“Oh, thank you?”
Choi Hyeong-jun looked at his wife, Park Hye-won, with eyes that demanded an explanation.
Instead of answering, Park Hye-won took out a can of tuna from the box Kim Da-bin had brought and shook it.
Meanwhile, Kim Min-ho, who was correcting Choi Hyeong-jun’s posture, said in surprise.
“Member… no, boss. I guess you’ve been working out a lot. You have amazing muscles.”
“That’s not it···.”
“No, but why is the posture···”
Park Hye-won said to Kim Min-ho, who was confused.
“You can shower over there. The shower room in the master bedroom is for Dabin. You can use the towels inside.”
At that point, the Absolute’s eyes were released.
‘Not bad.’
At first glance, they seemed like nice people.
I was already thinking of forming another team with mostly high level people, but I thought that if I just added a few more people to those two, I would have a perfect combination.
‘I guess I’ll have to go after I finish showering.’
Once you register the canned goods they brought, you will be able to level up your store.
‘Let’s meet up and talk a little.’
The idea was to have the newly created team, led by them, take charge of procuring supplies and rescuing survivors from other apartments.
That was when.
[Citizen Choi Hyeong-jun completed the quest.]
[Quest cost is 78,145 won.]
[Citizen Choi Hyeong-jun has used up all the quests he can complete today.]
[Evaluate the quests performed by citizen Choi Hyeong-jun.]
[······ Under evaluation······]
Meanwhile, the quest given to Choi Hyeong-jun ended.
‘It’s inefficient.’
I gave Kang Deok-su a normal strength enhancement quest, but even though I increased the number of times I could do it, the quest cost didn’t decrease much.
‘I think it’s because of the awakened ability.’
For Choi Hyung-jun, who has the strength of a gorilla, bodyweight exercises are probably too easy.
‘I can’t help it.’
Once they were hired as vassals, they were expected to continue to provide room for growth even if it meant spending money.
I also found out that the daily quest bonus rewards were more substantial than I thought, so it was worth the investment.
If we hit the jackpot like in Moon Byung-ho’s case, it would be a huge success.
‘Wait a minute. If you think about it, isn’t exercise a way to train your skills? Then, if you hit the jackpot this time, you’ll get skill points?’
What I had been waiting for was short-lived.
[Evaluation completed.]
[Strength increases slightly.]
Choi Hyeong-jun immediately betrayed my expectations.
‘···Kim Sae-ne.’
Perhaps because there had been such a large additional reward just before, this reward felt so shabby.
But at that moment.
[You have hunted the Red Tiger (Lv. 27).]
[Gain a large amount of experience points.]
[39,783,200 won was deposited into the wallet of the absolute owner of the house.]
[Skill level has increased.]
[You have acquired a new skill.]
‘what?’
I quickly opened my eyes to check the situation at Ha Dong-geon’s party.
“Ugh, ugh.”
There, a red tiger could be seen dead at the feet of Moon Byung-ho, who was gasping for breath while covered in blood.
‘What happened?’
Before I could even properly assess the situation.
‘Ugh!’
The excruciating pain began.
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