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°•○● Table of Gods! - Chapter "9" -/ T
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Eren tried not to think about what happened last night. But every time he opened his mouth or started any task, it was the first thing that came to his mind. That event, that alien - sorry, it was the woman named Maevis played with his body.
Sometimes he would ask himself if it was racist to see Maevis as an alien, and then he would get angry with himself for overthinking these.
"Maybe I'm intrigued now because I think she smells good. But my family would never approve. Right?"
Eren stupidly stared into space, wondering how a human and an alien could have a wedding. But Maevis, who came from behind and patted the back of his neck, cut off his dreams.
"What you did yesterday was very dangerous, so I'll admit it. You don't have to clean it all at once the moment you enter each floor. You have the right to leave the room twice on the first five floors and once on the next floors. But you have to find the exit yourself. Usually this is the Temple. it hides emergency exits in very silly places.
Eren was angry for a moment, then fell silent, thinking about the things he and Maevis had talked about for hours yesterday.
"So I need to improve. To reach the 10th floor."
"Yes. You don't stand a chance with your current state and the small weapons you use. You just feel how much the difficulty level has changed from the first floor to the second floor, right? That's nothing!
The lower floors are not designed for you, but for the warm up of those from higher races. These floors care about number, not creature quality. The first five floors will be weak but filled with more and more enemies. But even if you somehow get past the fifth floor, the probability of you dying on the sixth floor is 100%."
It wasn't the first time Eren had heard this. But when he listened again, he took the watch-like Com from the bar table and put it on his left wrist. Something inside Com (what he hoped was a pin) slipped into his wrist, and Com's screen lit up.
Eren had just had his breakfast and didn't know the Z he had earned yesterday. On the main screen, this time he entered the place that says "profile".
He ignored his own body values, which would appear average or healthy to people, but which were extremely low here. For a while, he didn't want to think about those things at all. He focused on where it says "Savings" below.
*Savings: 370 Z
Maybe Eren was wrong, but there was a huge difference between the money the spiders made for him and the half robots. Moreover, he had much less money than he had anticipated. He looked at Maevis suspiciously and asked. "I killed maybe 2-3 times more spiders on the 2nd floor than I killed on the first floor. Not to mention the robots. I thought I would reach four digits. What am I calculating wrong?"
Maevis used the Com on her right wrist to look for something. When she found it, she pressed it and created a colorful graphic that suddenly appeared in the air. Eren only knew the bottom two of the creatures in his thumbnails. Spiders and shity-robots.
The panel showing the entire body of the spider had the words 3 - 1 Z #1, next to the crystal collected from the Robots' body, 5-1 Z #2.
"Why isn't there a single number.. Do their values change?"
Maevis showed a #1 on the floor next to the graph. "This sign and number shows how many times you will have the advantage. Spiders will calculate from 3 Z each, specific to the first time you encounter them. For robots, their value will be calculated as 5 Z for two times. But then both will be fixed at 1 Z. From now on, kill tens of thousands of spiders if you want and move their corpses here, spiders will always cost 1 Z."
Maevis showed the graph again as if she had read Eren's mind.
"The Temple at this lower level doesn't even consider the floors you're fighting for your life as a real floor. Even the creatures it puts before you up to the 10th floor, it throws plenty in front of you as mere insignificant beings. It's just for warming up and training. This place wasn't designed for the likes of you."
Eren accepted this sentence to the end.
Looking at the prices of higher creatures, Eren also noticed that there was a huge difference. Killing one of these precious and powerful creatures cost hundreds or even thousands of spiders. If Eren wasn't so weak, he would want to rise up like the rest of the Universe.
It was the advantageous and logical choice. But Eren only sighed, since for a human to go up meant death.
But as he thought about what to do next, something important came to his mind.
"Well, can I re-enter the floors I've already completed?"
Maevis smiled at Eren. "Yes. But their value is so low that it's hard for you to even save up. I know you want to buy some very strange weapons from your homeland, but even the cheapest is billions of Z. How many of those Robots can you kill with that body?"
Eren admitted that Maevis was generally very intelligent. But she didn't know what young people who grew up in the age of computer and phone games could do. The 17-year-old, who grew up with what is called MMORPG and Moba in the modern world, grinned with a strange expression.
"You have no idea. About the power of farming....Hahahaha"
Eren asked Maevis if there was a daily entry limit to the floors. But as he had guessed, the fact that the Temple didn't care about these floors as real floors gave Eren a slight advantage. Because after the 10th floor, each floor had its limits of being finished and being in it. Maevis said a few more strange and mysterious things. For example, there are things that each floor will get bigger and that will force Eren's logic.
"Even if corridors are as wide as runways, the logic is always the same. What's surprising? We just have to kill everything."
Eren took a deep breath and slapped him on both cheeks. As he felt more energetic, he focused on the watch on his wrist and started the subject that Maevis was forbidden to help.
"Shopping time!"
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An hour later, Eren was playing with his new toys, putting aside the pistol he had before. Because robots have so much muscle and size advantage, he was determined to kill spiders, not them. He wasn't able to aim well anyway. There were always big risks if he got too close to the robots.
"I'm still too young to die even by accident."
For this reason, he bought the longer versions of the short knives he had used before, with a larger handle and at the price of 50 Z. Another reason they were so expensive was that they were rustproof, resistant to blunting, and extra light. In fact, when Eren took these knives in his hands, he realized that they were the same weight as the previous cheap ones.
He was wearing a cold and heat resistant jacket priced at 120 Z, a T-shirt priced at 20 Z, shoes with auto-repair features, which he got free as a gift from Maevis, and a pair of gloves to protect his hands from bites (60 Z). So 300 Z was gone. By taking 2 boxes of painkillers and a bottle of liquid that covers the wounds, the remaining 70 Z' was finished.
*Savings: 5 Z
[This money I spent, I will earn more in the future.
So it's impossible for a person to rise up in the Temple and see the 10th floor. I'll remind you of this sentence...now whoever created the temple!]
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Taking into account that the food that Maevis has given free for now will not be free after a week in total, Eren decided to spend all his days hunting spiders. There was nothing better to do anyway. He wasn't given Universal Internet Access, which the temple's staff, like the Maevis had.
Eren walked to the edge of the room, thinking that his survival here depended on getting off to a good start. "Let's go back to the 1st floor."
Maevis made that expression that looked like a smile. Eren was starting to think that expression was sweet. In fact, he was staring at Maevis so intently that he barely noticed the whole bar and room was shaking.
Just as he was wondering how old Maevis was, he heard the door-like wall opened behind him.
He took another deep breath and picked up his knives.
And the moment he stepped in, he saw his first spiders further down the dim and narrow corridor.
"Come on kitty kitty.."
He made cat-calling noises and prayed that his eyes would adjust quickly to the low-light environment.
"Swiss..."
He pretended not to see the spider that had jumped right over him from the top. Eren walked up, raising his right hand and skewering the spider. He also quickly cut off the oncoming and jumpy spiders.
A spider bit his glove 'cos he couldn't use his left arm well. Seeing the mark, which looked like two dots but didn't pierce his glove, he felt that there was nothing to be afraid of spiders.
Then he thought of taking his phone out of his pocket and putting on his earphones and listening to music.
"It would be nice to hunt creatures while listening to AC/DC. Not a good idea. For now. "
Talking to himself, Eren turned the first corner and single-handedly kicked a spider and hit it to the wall. Compared to the slightly wide corridor of the second floor, the narrow road here gave Eren an advantage.
The floor, where he spent almost the whole day in the first time, was finished in just 6 hours with the right moves this time. When he killed 71 spiders and came out, he was very sweaty, his whole face and body were red with excitement and stress. Most of his body was covered with spider blood, and Eren's head ached.
"How many hours has it been?"
"6 hours and 11 minutes. I didn't expect you to be this fast."
"No, I'm too slow. I'm not even close to optimum time yet."
"What time?"
"Farming is something that is calculated by the amount of benefit received and less time spent. In my case, if I'm always going to earn the same money, I have to be very fast. The optimum time to get me upstairs is probably half an hour."
Eren wasn't exaggerating. If he didn't want to live here with the dream of the 10th floor for years, maybe all his life, he should speed up and earn more money.
"How much is that light that heals me? I have a headache, but I don't want to use my meds for now."
Maevis raised his hand and pointed it somewhere in the room. "The price goes up depending on the work done on it. For a Universe-wide solved problem, like a headache, you might not even pay for it."
Eren felt that his body was filled with energy with a light coming from the air to his body. The headache went away in seconds, and he felt himself returning to the energy he had before he started on the first floor. "Great. I'll use this every time I come back from the 1st floor from now on."
Eren went to the bar table and took the Com and put it on his arm.
*Savings: 4 Z
"It's just 2 Z for headaches and making my body energized. It's the same as saying it's free."
Eren threw the bag on his back to Maevis and watched her catch it by flying it through the air. Maevis, who put 71 creatures where Eren could not see, said that Eren had 75 Z in his account.
"Your method will be very slow."
"Don't worry. And I don't want to wait to empty my bag every time I come." As soon as Eren finished his sentence, he entered the market of Com's Zzz_zxz on his arm. He wrote only bags from the filters and ignored some normal bags used in the Earth. He needed something that was quite roomy but didn't take up much space.
Something that named as "Enchanted Bag" was coming after regular bags. Eren saw that the cheapest one had the power of lightening effect on the bag. A little later, he found an Enchanted Bag, which was a small bag on the outside but was as big as a room inside.
"I wonder what story I read this from and I'm seeing it here. I wonder if H*rry Potter had a bag like this? And it's too expensive for now."
Eren gülümseyip kafasında küçük bir hesap yaptı. Sonrada Maevis'e bir şey demeden 1. kata tekrar başladı. 5.5 saat sonra odaya döndüğünde Maevis'le anlaştıkları gibi sadece odanın ortasına yürüdü ve üstüne gelen ışık bittiği anda 1. kata geri döndü.
Sadece bıçak gibi mermi yemeyen silahlarla en fazla ne kadar hızlanabileceğini ve katı tamamlayabileceğini test ediyordu. Katları temizlerken de kendi kendine marketten ne alması gerektiğini düşünerek hayaller kuruyor ve daha hızlı olmaya çalışıyordu.
When Eren was about to finish the 1st floor for the 3rd time, he paused at one of the water sources he always passed by at the end of the floor. He was very thirsty and there was no water left in his bottle. Just as he was drinking water from his bottle, he saw a strange crack on the wall. When he stopped drinking water and touched the crack, he saw that it was breaking easily. With a little force, he had destroyed a sheet that was as thin as paper but seemed hard on the outside. On the other side, the area where Maevis was waiting was visible.
"So the first floor's emergency exit was here. It's nonsense to use this door and get out after making it this far. The builder must be joking."
Eren earned 217 Z by killing spiders for 17 hours in a row. He tried to finish the floor with both positive and negative thoughts and did not use the emergency exit.
Eren was distractedly examining his Com as Maevis took the bag from his hand and made the calculations.
*Savings: 220 Z
Eren interrupted his thoughts and was surprised to see an amount above the money he had already calculated. According to the calculation in his head, he should have had 217 Z's.
"Isn't it always the same number of creatures when the floor has a reset?"
Maevis laughed a little and shook her head, mimicking Eren. She was getting used to Eren's body movements too. "I really don't know. You're my first guest here. But apparently, floors are never the same."
Eren looked at the currently closed door behind him and asked Maevis another important question.
"How long can we keep that door open?"
Eren got an answer he never expected to hear.
"There's no limit. These lower floors don't have many rules to begin with."
Eren almost dropped the glass of water he was holding in his hand. He looked at Maevis's face first, checking for if she was really serious, and then to the 1st floor door. In the last three times he went there, despite all his efforts, he had made little money with slow pace.
Of course, this was only the first day and it was going to get faster. But he needed something extra.
Then he dreamed of something crazy.
..
Perhaps the temple had created these first floors carelessly and unsupervised. But one of the reasons for this is those who enter the temple;
1- generally want to go to higher floors as soon as possible,
2- aiming to reach better resources and opportunities, and most importantly
3- being able to go upstairs easily.
A weakling like Eren had to find and use tricks and bugs that no one would even condescend to before.
The black-haired boy imitated his father, rubbed his chin as if he had a beard, and daydreamed as looking at the walls. After a few minutes, he looked up as if he had made up his mind.
"I'm very hungry, Maevis, let's eat something. Then I need to get some sleep. Tomorrow is a new day and I have a lot of things to test."
Eren whispered to himself as Maevis went to get food.
"..spider farm..."
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