#46
46. Let me know my failure (1)
the next day.
Early morning when the day’s schedule was over.
As I was sitting on a chair at the training center wiping my sweat, the sky lit up.
[Welcome to Pick Me Up!]
[Loading has finished.]
[TOUCH ! (selection)]
This is a familiar connection message.
However, there was an alarm indicating a new announcement.
<Notice of apology for server error>
[About the unfortunate disconnection that happened a few days ago… … .]
Below that, an apology was posted explaining that the masters who stayed on the lower floors of the tower were disconnected simultaneously, and that this was due to a sudden server short.
The guy who appeared just before the 10th floor was cleared.
I couldn’t figure out the circumstances behind it, but I could tell that it was related to him.
<Error Compensation!>
[One. Special rewards for all masters! 500 gems will be paid.]
[2. Get rewarded and get one more! 50,000 gold will be paid.]
[3. There is another one. Raise your hero’s affinity! Gift vouchers are paid.]
[4. It doesn’t end here, right? Regarding the day of the week, gye, no, this! All daily dungeons will be open for 3 days.]
After closing the announcement, Amkena went to her mailbox and received her reward.
And he started touching the control panel.
Pyororong.
Isel approached, sprinkling star dust.
[Loki, congratulations on your promotion!]
Bpabang!
Isel set off the firecrackers he brought from somewhere.
“…”
There is no one in training camp.
There were Aaron and Dicka not too long ago, but they went back too.
As I sat still, Issel tilted his head.
[You look upset, did something happen?]
“I met your original.”
[original? what are you saying… … .]
Isel, who was thinking hard, opened her mouth wide.
“Were you the co-CEO of Mobius?”
[Stop, no way!]
I lifted Isel’s open mouth and closed it.
Isel said in a trembling voice.
[How far did you hear?]
I told him a summary of the information I had heard about the game.
Issel nodded with a serious expression. I said with a smile.
“I have no intention of arguing too much. Nothing will change. I climb the tower. You just need to help me with that.”
[Ah Okay… … .]
“So what’s going on?”
He probably wouldn’t have shown up to talk in detail.
Issel erased his stiff face and smiled with a smile. Then, he took out a golden ticket the size of his body from his bosom.
[Do you know what this is? Gift ticket by name! If there’s anything you want, you can do anything!]
Isel held the golden ticket in his hand and swayed as if he were dancing.
‘Is it a gift?’
Pick Me Up has a gift function.
It is to set up a special ball or give a reward to a hero you like.
Of course it’s not free.
Depending on the value of the gift, you have to pay gold, and in the case of a rare gift with a high grade, you need gems or advanced materials. The watch I asked for during the large-scale expansion of the facility was similar to a gift.
“Are you going to give this to me?”
[To be precise, the master! Hmmm! Even that stupid guy knew Loki’s excellence.]
Issel held out the golden ticket.
I took the ticket and checked it out. The figure of a fairy was embossed on both sides of the ticket, and the number ‘10,000’ was written in the middle.
‘Under 10,000 gold.’
Basically, gifts are paid, but you can use the function for free if you use a gift certificate that is very rarely given as an event.
‘It means that he thinks highly of me.’
Giving me a gift certificate with only one gift means that of all the heroes here, they value me the most.
In a way, it was natural.
It’s not just me, it’s the truth.
It’s because he’s the protagonist who broke through two seemingly impossible missions in a row. If you watched the strategy screen, you would have known that I was at the center of it, even though Edith and Iolka were excellent.
it must have been amazing
Even though he didn’t do anything special, the heroes survive on their own.
I had a hard time on the 10th floor, which was out of the normal difficulty level, but I cleared it. The results are even more encouraging. With the loss of only two useless first-stars, the leading member survived.
I sighed and returned the ticket to Isel.
“I don’t need it. Give it to others.”
[‘Han(★★)’ refuses the gift.]
Isel, who received the ticket, widened her eyes.
[Are you really okay? can i get anything Delicious dishes! fancy clothes! Awesome decorations! Can I have them all?]
“Not all.”
There are thousands of items in the gift shop.
A delicacy made from rare ingredients. A splendid outfit worn by nobles. A work of art with an elegant atmosphere. If you raise the conditions a little more, there are things that transcend imagination. Of course, you can’t buy something like that with 10,000 gold.
I got up and left the camp.
And I walked slowly to my house.
Issel followed closely.
“Why are you following me? I’m going to bed.”
[Hey, wait.]
Isel made a great turn on the spot. The star dust scattered from the wings gathered in one place and a small wooden statue was created.
[Purchase a ‘Warring Horse Statue’ with a gift ticket.]
[I present the ‘Warring Horse Statue’ to ‘Han(★★)’!]
[Tips/You can give gifts to your favorite heroes. Get the favorability of the hero as a gift!]
“What is this?”
[Master’s Gift!]
A dignified warhorse with its forepaws raised is engraved.
I took it and looked it back and forth and left and right. The molding isn’t bad. The finish is also well done.
Some heroes would be happy if they received this.
I tossed the statue at random.
The statue hit the side of the fountain and tumbled, breaking its front legs and splitting its upper and lower bodies.
Isel’s mouth fell open.
I lifted Isel’s mouth once more and forced him to shut it.
Then I closed the door and went in.
‘If you’re going to give a present, give it to everyone.’
If you give it to only one hero, the other hero will be dissatisfied.
Although I was the most active, I did not risk my life alone. Appropriate non-gong peddling was the basis of a master. But to throw it away just because you received a gift certificate.
If you don’t use it properly, it’s worse than not using it at all.
‘A warhorse statue?’
Each hero has different tastes and wants.
It’s not that I don’t like being handed anything.
Even I alone know all the hobbies and tastes of Niflheim’s top 100 heroes.
Shortly after getting into bed, the sky darkened.
are you confused
Or do you have no idea
“…”
I can not sleep.
I have to climb the tower.
There could be dozens of reasons.
However, I realized that an obstacle awaiting me many times stronger than the low grade given to me, or the dirty difficulty of Pick Me Up, awaits me.
It is the enemy within.
It’s not like the enemy inside.
If the hero has a problem, I can solve it.
Just like the maned wolf mercenary incident that happened a while ago, you can get rid of mice and birds without even noticing.
‘But if the Master loses his mind.’
Not sure yet.
It was a guessing phase. However, it seems that the guess is correct to the extent of 90%.
‘I’m good at it. I’m sick.’
I’m sick.
It is a slang word floating around among users of Pick Me Up.
The tone is funny, but the result is not.
Pick Me Up is called Lucky X Mangem.
One of the reasons for this is that the initial level of difficulty, when facilities and contents are not open, varies greatly depending on the luck of the first draw. If you choose a good hero, you can climb easily and comfortably, and if you get caught by a bad hero, you will roll and roll wildly while going through all kinds of hardships.
What kind of case is Amkena?
If you look at it objectively, you can’t see it as luck. The first 4 stars were combined with me, and after that, I changed all but one person in the 5-star draw. If so, are you out of luck?
‘No.’
He worked hard in the early days of the game.
The facilities were steadily expanded, heroes were fostered, and items were created.
It was proceeding properly according to the strategy I wrote.
What has changed is after the 5th floor.
After clearing the mission that should have been annihilated with my own power.
It started to deviate little by little.
In a state where the conditions weren’t ready, I did 5 paid draws, and threw the last member to the 10th floor without properly nurturing it. In addition, he made various mistakes.
In this way, people called Masters who relied only on heroes for strategy and did not look back on their responsibilities as sick. It is to mistake the hero’s ability for one’s own ability.
‘Can you take such a bastard up to the 100th floor?’
obviously. At the beginning of the game, the master who repeated countless failures has a much stronger back heart.
It was the next evening that the speculation turned to certainty.
[Han, Jenna, Aaron, Iolka!]
Isel’s cry calling out the members of the first party rang through the training ground.
Jenna, who had been weaving her dagger between the wooden dolls, turned over and said,
“Oh, are you participating?”
“I guess so.”
It’s not a daily dungeon.
All four were combat members.
“eww…….”
Jenna furrowed her eyebrows and got ready to go out.
Aaron sighed and followed Jenna.
Next to the training center, the door with the magic circle on it opened and Iolka jumped out.
Iolka left the training center with the hem of her dress fluttering.
distorted expression.
It doesn’t look good.
‘Of course.’
Due to repeated training and battles, the stress level is reaching a breaking point.
The 10th floor, which was especially fierce, became the catalyst. I’m trying my hand at it somehow, but it’s only a temporary relief. To solve this, the Master had no choice but to step out.
Four people from one party gathered in the plaza.
[Open the space-time gap!]
The door to the space-time gap opened with a bang.
I walked in the lead.
“I’ll finish it right away and come out.”
Three people follow.
The door is closed.
‘Is it the 8th or 9th floor?’
Climbing the 11th floor in this situation is irrational.
Although he had leveled up, Iolka’s level was still low. Since the 10th floor has been cleared, the entry restrictions have been lifted. It was standard for her to grow as much as possible in the stage before that.
If we add a condition here, it is to insert the last member, whether it is 1-star or 3-star.
The sooner you join, the better. It’s not like you can do your part by joining the party right away. It took time to adapt and fit in.
[Climb the tower, save the world!]
[Main Dungeon: Current number of floors to climb – 10]
‘Save the world.’
did this mean
But it doesn’t matter to me.
top attack. Everything else was discarded.
As I leaned against the wall and crossed my arms, a message appeared in front of me indicating the number of floors to enter.
[Main dungeon, current challenge floor is 11th floor.]
[The door opens in 10 seconds. Get ready!]
“…”
‘after.’
It is confirmed.
I snapped my neck.
Then he drew his sword and put on his shield.
“Get ready. It’s the 11th floor.”
“yes?”
As Jenna questioned, the surroundings darkened.
A crescent moon hangs in the night sky.
The crescent moon sprinkled moonlight on the place where we stood.
‘The field is a graveyard.’
Monuments to honor the dead are erected here and there.
Something creaked in the dreary, cold air and stood up.
[Floor 11.]
[Mission Type – Subjugation]
[Goal – annihilate the enemy!]
[Skeleton Lv.11 X 14]
Skeletons standing in the moonlight on top of a graveyard.
It would be a spectacle that would make ordinary people shudder, but the party members, including myself, did not even move. It’s because I’ve been through a hell that’s worse than that.
Jenna said, scratching her cheek.
“Is it a skeleton?”
“It looks like it will break if you hit it.”
I chuckled.
The skeletons surrounded us with their jaw joints crackling. In each hand, they were holding weapons such as swords, axes, and maces.
creak!
The skeleton in the front swung an axe.
Sounds tacky once in a while. I dodged the ax and cut my cervical vertebrae with the edge of the shield. The skeleton, whose bones were broken, could not move again.
I look up at the sky.
Up there Amkena was watching us.
‘I’ll have to deal with these guys first and think about it.’
“To the location.”
“going!”
“yes!”
Like on the 10th floor, it is a triangle.
I’m in the front, Aaron on the left, Jenna on the right, and Iolka in the center.
A fight has begun at the Moonlight Cemetery.
