Chapter 170
Chapter 170
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 170
Chapter Title: Wave Incoming in 5 Minutes. Bring Booze and Babes
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[Title: Wave in 5 Minutes. Bring the Booze and Babes]
(A smashed frog grinning maniacally meme)
Time for the heroes to rally and snag some hero coins!
[Upvotes 9810] [Downvotes 151]
- Holy shit the upvotes lmao
- Alright~ Let's fuckin' go~
- lmao lmao lmao
- Motherfucker that's hilarious lmao
- (It's hero time! Elf edit)
└ (Hero bro time to eat~ Knight edit)
Wave.
The terrifying time when ferocious beasts pour out.
"That's all old news now."
These days, it was just straight-up lotto.
Sure, if the rift was ridiculously huge like during the mob tower bullshit,
or if you straight-up ignored it for ages like with Edelrin, then yeah, that was a problem.
[Title: EMERGENCY! SUPER EMERGENCY! WAVE EXPLODING!!!]
(Toilet corner rift meme)
(Rift spewing goblins with wave signs meme)
YY My hero (Alex/Unemployed/39) has a rift in his toilet that's popping a wave
Helping me deal with this shit = sharing the hero coins YY
[Upvotes 1921] [Downvotes 94]
- Hero x Trash-tier sludge o
- Goddammit I fell for it again
- You asshole I thought it was a real emergency
└ So where do I go?
- Can I join too? I'm a mage tho
└ OP) YY What's your specialty?
└ Ice magic
└ OP) It's summer rn where you gonna get ice?
└ (Spear mage meme)
└ Can't get it YY gotta fight with spears
└ This guy's so damn confident lmao
└ lmao no ice at all why even say mage
└ OP) lmao ok fine
"But if it's a rift in unemployed NEET 39-year-old Alex's toilet?"
That's waves for ya.
There were countless rifts in the world.
Not every one of them popped a wave.
And not every wave turned into a species-wide catastrophe.
"Plus, you never know what'll come out of a wave."
Most were low-tier beasts like goblins, zombies, merfolk, or slimes.
That shit you could handle by gathering the village for a party and poking 'em a bit.
"The problem's when a goddamn dragon variant pops out of nowhere."
Those were the real issues.
Winged giant sandworms were one such example.
In this medieval isekai, they were disasters you couldn't handle or fight.
[Title: Ah fuck give us some welfare pls]
(Village folks gathered in front of rift meme)
(Skeletons jumping out of rift meme)
Ah if bones show up early in the wave doesn't that mean bone dragon confirmed?
Fuck Judak hook us up with some grenades pls
[Upvotes 392] [Downvotes 12]
- Whoa a bone dragon's coming
- (Give up bone edit)
- Damn you hit the jackpot jealous
└ OP) Bone dragons beat knights wtf you talkin' jackpot
└ In cases like this Judak helps so it's easy 4real
└ OP) Oh yeah?
- But this fucker's just chilling huh Judak
└ Fr u leave ur stuff with him?
└ Judak? Who the fuck you think you are...
If I, Judak, the gallery lurker who's always online 24/7, wasn't around.
That's why I'd always wondered.
"Why do the beasts that come out vary every time?"
The outside world I'd seen was one massive place.
A ruined world full of all sorts of wreckage.
If rifts connected there to here,
shouldn't all sorts of random beasts mix and flood over?
Luckily, there was an outside expert right nearby. Super nearby.
"Beasts hang out in their own groups."
Penny poked her head out from under the blankets, wriggling around as she munched on jelly.
"No eating in bed, I told you."
"Beasts might look dumb, but they got their own factions and shit."
Ignoring me, Penny kept explaining while chowing down.
"Outside, rift cores are scattered everywhere."
"Yeah, I know."
Rift cores were literally the things that spawned rifts.
"And rift cores are like beast habitats."
"Huh?"
"Cuz the cores share their power."
So basically, rift cores were like houses.
Different beast packs lived clustered around cores outside.
Drew power from 'em, guarded 'em so no one took the core.
"When enough power builds up, the core opens a rift. That's your wave."
"So that means..."
"Yep. That viscount guy's rift last time? One of those types."
Department store.
There was a rift core in that massive underground parking ruin.
Like a game dungeon.
Beasts wait for the rift to open, guarding the core.
"Guarding against who?"
"You, Judak."
Penny stopped eating jelly, face turning serious.
"You're the only one who can destroy rift cores."
That's when I recalled the orb's explanation about cores being destructible.
But one thing still bugged me.
"Why a department store tho?"
The outside I'd seen was ruins.
Tons of structures you wouldn't see on modern Earth.
"I dunno what a department store is but..."
Penny thought for a sec.
"The outside has no limits."
"Huh?"
"Space just keeps expanding."
According to Penny, the outside was like a universe.
Endlessly inflating space.
Even she didn't know why, but one thing was clear.
"Waste piles spawn in droves every time. Ruins, nature, whatever."
Not just growing—unfathomable ruins kept popping up.
Like some monster devouring shit.
I mulled it over and asked.
"But why tell me now?"
"Huh?"
Penny's eyes went wide.
Long story short from her words: plugging or wiping rifts so far was pointless.
I had to go in and smash the rift core myself for it to vanish.
So why hold out till now?
"That, uh..."
Penny's eyes shook wildly, then suddenly scrunched up.
She curled up, voice all mopey.
"...I just found out too."
"Huh?"
"I told you... I was a loner..."
Penny the total loser even among the Seven Deadly Sins.
No one played with her properly; they all found her annoying.
So she had no clue how the world or outside worked.
"Found out after absorbing Envy this time..."
"Oh."
I patted her head, sorting my thoughts.
'Rift cores gotta be smashed...'
Ultimately, cores were the root of all evil.
They spawned variants.
They spawned rifts.
"Gotta smash 'em, right?"
But to get one, dive into the rift, clear the guarding beasts.
"But who's gonna do it."
Armor? Plenty.
Healing? Short.
"Potion performance is kinda..."
Healing potions?
They hurt.
Like, memory-loss hurt.
Faint times varied wildly.
Hours at best, half a day, days at worst.
"Who's got time for that in a rift."
If it was mild pain, sure, tough it out. But this was torture-level.
Could use 'em for interrogation.
"If we had better recovery potions, we could storm rifts..."
Recovery potion dev still lagging.
Witch Morone was helping.
But with newbie witch Estella just joined, no way it'd be done yet...
Estella: Lord Judak, all done!
Judak*: ?
"All done?"
Shockingly, it was.
Tweaked mid-grade potion: less pain, more heal. Mk2.
Looked like some game's 50-cent red potion.
Estella's potion-making skills were better than expected.
Judak*: Cool, deliver?
Effects seemed solid enough.
Requested delivery, but got vague reply instead of item.
Estella: One issue tho
Judak*: YY? What
Estella: Need one more ingredient...
"Expensive?"
Trailing off like it was rare.
Morone did that too—over-apologizing for supplies.
Judak*: No prob say it straight
Estella: Need some of Lord Judak's hair
"Wut?"
Never saw that coming.
My hair for potion ingredients?
"Hmm... sketchy?"
Why mine?
But witch recipes got sugar, salt, frog legs... so whatever.
['Judak*' shipped '10 Strands of Hair'!]
Judak*: This enough?
Estella: Perfect!
['Estella' shipped 'Mid-Grade Recovery Potion, Real Real Final Version... Mk2'!]
Shipped hair, reply in under a minute.
Title like some stressed office worker's file.
"Looks clean."
Judak*: Thx gonna test later
Red liquid in neat glass vial.
Planned to test on chicken or rat first.
But even chill Estella hit me with urgent chat.
Estella: Nooo!
Judak*: ?
Estella: Uh, you gotta drink it now. Shelf life issue.
"Yeah, whatever..."
Judak*: Ok testing on chicken rn
Estella: NOOO!!!
Judak*: ???
Estella pushed hard. Like I had to drink it myself right now.
Estella: Lord Judak you gotta drink it. Please.
"Hmm..."
Me specifically. Not anyone else.
[Mid-Grade Recovery Potion, Real Real Final Version... Mk2]
Safe for health if consumed.
Standard recovery potion effects.
"No system warnings?"
Short debate, popped the lid and chugged.
Big mistake.
Trusted the system too much.
"...!"
Sudden heat in my chest.
Head filling with fire too.
"Wh-what the..."
Staring at gallery in shock!
['Estella' changed nickname to 'JudakLoveDog'!]
JudakLoveDog: Heh heh heh
JudakLoveDog: Come here boy!