Chapter 131
Chapter 131
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: Gacha
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I woke up to find myself alone on a vast bed...
No one was there.
'Busy bunch...'
I sat there blankly for a while before perching on the edge of the bed, pondering what to do with my remaining skill points.
The Prisoner Hunting Team had turned out to be surprisingly... useless.
In ten days, we'd barely spotted two mid-level Corrupted Beings.
A few prisoners had died, but that wasn't worth worrying about.
'The limits of auto-hunt, huh...'
Still, every little bit adds up, and thanks to it, I had 8 spare skill points.
Just the right amount to upgrade Inventory.
Too far off to save for Body Strengthening now.
I had two skills I could level up, but Login—whose utility didn't click for me—was obviously lower priority.
Inventory capacity was always better the bigger.
In the end, I neatly invested the points into Inventory, where they fit perfectly.
Inventory skill has reached level 5.
Hero's Sanctuary has been unlocked.
"Hero's Sanctuary?"
〔 Hero Summon Ticket 〕
I'd hoped for a skill when I hit level 10 this time, but with no system response, I'd let it slide...
Turns out skill acquisition required not just base level, but separate conditions.
Un-ho Lv 11
Two new entries had appeared.
One seemed derived from Inventory.
The other was the Hero Summon Ticket, unlocked by leveling Inventory.
I decided to check them one by one.
What was Hero's Sanctuary like? Naturally curious, a familiar rectangular door appeared.
It resembled the mechanism I entered for Login.
I stepped inside.
As I entered Hero's Sanctuary, the entry door vanished immediately.
'This is...'
First impression: a pure white world.
I stood atop a smooth, white star.
A small star you could circle on foot in 30 minutes...
Calling it a star felt a bit grandiose.
A wondrous space.
Wondrous, but... nothing to see. Truly just a blank white world.
The white floor was pristine enough to roll on without a care.
I tried jumping.
My body shot upward swiftly.
The star shrank and receded below.
Figured I'd jumped too hard.
'Not gonna drift off into space like this, right...?'
But soon, I was pulled back to the star.
There was gravity.
Strength similar to Earth's.
"Can I store stuff here?"
Felt like I'd gained an ordinary-but-not warehouse.
I plopped down on the floor to check the other new item.
Anyone who's played mobile games would recognize that familiar vibe.
This was... gacha?
I had one Hero Summon Ticket. Probably a teaser.
Since it was buyable from the Dimensional Shop anyway, it wasn't rare.
Seemed I could choose gender.
No brainer.
Female, obviously.
A cluster of brilliant light danced in midair.
But the flashy glow shrank and vanished.
-Pssshhh...
"What?"
At least some trash-tier thing should've popped out...
Failure meant literally nothing?
Harsher than mobile games.
"Probability reveal!!"
Nothing like that.
"Open Dimensional Shop."
〔 Hero's Sanctuary Decoration Items 〕 New
〔 Hero Summon Ticket 〕 New
Some weird stuff had hit the shop.
"What's this... Sanctuary decoration?"
A quick scan showed it could alter the Sanctuary's environment.
From bland white orb to forests, apparently.
'Artificial sun?'
But prices... way too steep.
Couldn't even afford one with my current Mana Stones.
Not planning to invest that much here anyway.
'It's clean and fine as is.'
Would be different if I could bring other people.
Per description, only me and summoned heroes could reside.
〔Hero Summon Ticket 100 coins〕
About 10 million won a pop...
Unlike games, but still felt pricey.
Free labor for 10 mil? Bargain maybe.
'Thinking that way, it seems cheap...'
Converted Mana Stones to coins and bought 10 anyway.
Ten-pull is the meta for this stuff.
"Go."
Ten clusters of brilliant light flashed around me.
And.
-Pssshhh...
They mercilessly shrank and vanished.
"..........."
Not a game, sure, but... at least something should've come out... this was too much?
Blown 100 million into the void.
A bad feeling crept in.
'Should I quit?'
But quitting with nothing felt wasteful.
That regret led to an 80-pull—800 million vaporized.
"Total nine... hundred million...... Probability reveal!!"
No system response, as expected.
My hands trembled.
Suni must've pitied me, trying to dissuade.
Stubbornness kicked in.
"No choice now. Pulling till I get one."
Flash flash.
-Pssshhh...
Another 100 million gone.
"Insane... this can't be real... not dropping after this... do these bastards have no pity timer!!"
100 pulls... no, free ticket included, 101 summons, zero heroes.
"Huff! Huff!"
Hero Summon Tickets themselves a virus snuck into the system to drain my Mana Stones...?
100 ten-pulls... a billion burned, and I finally realized something was wrong.
"O-one more... time..."
Yeah, one last ten-pull, then quit.
Grimacing, bought another 10 tickets.
"Come out. This is your warning. No more tickets if you don't."
Flash flash!
-Pssshhh... pssshhh...
One by one, the glowing clusters winked out.
"F-fuc...!!"
Just as curses bubbled up, one light kept sparkling, refusing to fade.
Then it burst radiantly.
"Fi-finally..."
A vision materialized before my eyes.
"Of all things, a puppy in this situation? What were they thinking."
The man disliked the girl doting on her puppy in their desperate world.
"She's sharing her rations with it anyway, so ignore her."
"Ahem."
The girl was an Awakener.
So the man held his tongue.
Time passed, and monsters finally breached the survivors' camp.
"Mary, stay quiet here. Sis'll be right back."
-Woof. Woof.
The girl petted the puppy's head and charged into battle against the monsters.
But one unhandled monster slipped through, approaching the hiding non-combatants.
A massive, dog-like quadruped beast.
Everyone huddled silently, holding their breath.
-Sniff. Sniff.
The monster followed their scent, closing in slowly.
Just one, but those inside were powerless kids, women, elderly.
Awakeners alerted, but it'd massacre them all before help arrived.
Then.
-Woof! Woof!
The little puppy's barks drew the monster's attention.
It lured the beast away somewhere.
"Th-that's... Betty's puppy..."
The girl rushed back, spear dripping monster blood, hearing of the breach.
No monster in sight.
"Where's the monster?"
"Th-the puppy lured it... that way..."
Realizing it was hers, she paled and sprinted after.
She found the little puppy collapsed, bleeding before the monster, and screamed.
"Ma-Mary!!!"
Her furious spear pierced the monster's skull, killing it.
But the puppy's wounds were fatal.
"Mary... sob."
-Whine...
The puppy had lured the monster, saving the survivors, and breathed its last in the girl's arms.
".............."
The hero's saga unspooled like a panorama...
The light faded, leaving a fluffy white puppy standing cutely, tongue lolling.
-Pant. Pant.
"You f... freaking... puppy...... 1.1... bill......"