[DING]
[CONGRATULATIONS. YOU HAVE CLEARED THE TOWER TRIALS]
A mountain of goblin corpses piled up at the center of the Trial room as the stench of death filled the air. And at the helm of the goblin corpses, Jeong sat, drenched in goblin blood.
[CALCULATING CLEAR REWARDS BASED ON YOUR PERFORMANCE…]
[YOU OBTAINED 2,750 DXP FOR KILLING OVER 500 GOBLINS ]
[YOU HAVE OBTAINED THE ACHIEVEMENT 'GOBLIN SLAYER'.]
[YOU HAVE EARNED 1100 COINS AS A CLEAR REWARD]
[BASED ON YOUR PERFORMANCE, YOU RECEIVED THE UNIQUE TRAIT "ACARTHIC RECORDER".]
"... though the old man explained the basics of surviving in the tower, he never said anything about a unique trait. Huh? I even got an achievement."
[UNIQUE TRAIT]
ACARTHIC RECORDER [F]
PROFICIENCY–0%
BASIC EFFECT – RECORDS EVERY INFORMATION OF ANYTHING THE USER DESIRES.
ADDITIONAL EFFECT [1] – YOU CAN COPY THE STATS, SKILLS, AND APPEARANCE OF ANYTHING RECORDED. FOR AN HOUR. [COOLDOWN: 4HOURS.]
ADDITIONAL EFFECT [2] – YOU CAN CREATE A PHYSICAL COPY OF ANYTHING RECORDED. THE NUMBER OF PHYSICAL COPIES YOU CAN CREATE DEPENDS ON YOUR RANK.
"With this skill, my chances of surviving in the Tower increases. Though I got the basic information about the Tower Tutorial trials from the old man. But now that the trial has ended, I have no prior knowledge to rely on. Now I can only rely on myself.
[DING!}
[PLEASE MOVE TO THE WAITING ROOM.]
A portal appeared at the bottom of the mountain of corpses. Jeong notices it, stood up, and jumped down.
*BANG*
After landing, he received a notification.
[WOULD YOU LIKE TO RECORD GOBLIN X 550 AND WEAPONS X 600.]
[YES] [NO]
"Yes…"
Jeong said as he stood up and walked through the portal.
[information has been recorded]
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WAITING ROOM
"So, this is the waiting room, not bad. At least it has more room than the one I rent in the real world."
After coming through the portal, he arrived at a large room with a gray wall and no doors, and a single-sized bed.
Jeong takes off his bloodied shirt and threw it on the floor.
"Sniff… sniff. Damn, I smell terrible, and it looks like there is no way for me to wash off the smell."
Annoyed at his situation, Jeong walks towards the bed and lay down facing the ceiling. The room was silent as he was alone, with nothing to distract the unpleasant thoughts he had been trying to suppress.
"What am I doing? Even if I got stronger by climbing the tower, I am still a weak coward who could not keep his inheritance. I am not some sort of novel main character that takes back everything after becoming stronger.
And even if I got my dad's company back, I have no idea how to run it. While my dad tried his best to teach me how to manage the company, I ignored him. Wasting my time spending money on girls and parties.
… Keuk!, I am sorry dad… am so sorry for being a useless son."
Jeong said in a sad tone.
[DING!!]
"Huh...?"
[YOU MAY USE THE FOLLOWING FOUR COMMANDS BELOW.]
[STATUS, STORE, COMMUNITY, INVENTORY, FLOOR.]
[SAYING THE FOLLOWING WORDS WILL ACTIVATE THE COMMANDS.]
Jeong seats up as he stared at the information on the screen. Though he knew about the 'STATUS' command beforehand, the other four commands were new information to him.
Then he remembers that he had not checked his status since the trial was over.
*SLAP! *
Jeong slaps himself with both hands.
"Instead of feeling sorry for myself, I should be preparing myself for the upcoming challenges… STATUS."
[Player Name: Jang Jeong]
[Age:19 ]
[Race: celestial/human]
[Destiny]: GOD>> [LVL]: 6/∞ >> Luck: ??? ]
[DXP: 1200/1600]
[Strength: 36 >> ATK Power: 72 >> weight: 36] [+]
[Agility: 28 >> ATK Speed: 27 >> Defense: 28 >> Movement Speed: 29] [+]
[Endurance: 27 >> HP: 2700 >> Stamina: 1,680] [+]
[Intelligence: 28 >> MP ATK: 94 >> MP: 0] (celestial power) CP: 10 [+]
[Vitality: 100 >> MP Recovery: 5 per second >> HP REGEN: 5perseond] [+]
[STAT POINTS: 18]
Jeong glanced through his stats and was shocked to see how strong he had become.
"These are not the stats of a level 6. What the hell is going on with my stats? …maybe it's the same for everyone. Let's gather some information first."
… COMMUNITY. As it sounds. It should be where players can communicate just like in video games.
[DING!]
[YOU HAVE ENTERED THE COMMUNITY.]
[PLEASE ENTER AN ALIAS.]
[...]
"Hmm… What should I use as an Alias? Using my real name would be foolish since I don't know what sort of people are in the community. So, I will go with this…
[YOUR ALIAS HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM 'JANG JEONG' TO 'IKOL' ]
"This was the name the old man in my dream said before he disappeared. I don't know what it means. But it sounds cool."
After Jeong entered his alias, a chat screen opened.
[SK: SERVER– ONLINE: 100K/700K.]
. – BUTTERFINGER:
HEY, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THIS IS? CAN I LEAVE THIS PLACE? I WANT TO GO HOME
– MADHOUSE:
HEY! 'BUTTERFINGER' HOW DID YOU SURVIVE THE TRIAL BY BEING SUCH A PUSS? LOL.
– THE PRINCE:
BUT SERIOUSLY, WHERE ARE WE?
– WEEB 101:
COUGH… COUGH. IT SEEMS YOU GUYS NEED MY EXPERT KNOWLEDGE.
– MADHOUSE:
LOL. WHAT EXPERT? I CAN TELL YOU ARE JUST A NERD.
– WEEB 101:
AHEM!... AS I WAS SAYING, THIS SITUATION IS A VERY COMMON SETTING IN THE SACRED TEXTS. IT'S CALLED 'CLIMBING THE TOWER BY LEVELING UP TO SAVE THE WORLD EVENT' OR 'CTBLTSWE' FOR SHORT.
– MADHOUSE:
PFFT… HA-AHAHA. I KNEW IT. YOU WERE A NERD. YOU SOUND SO LAME LOLLLLL…
— MR. PARK:
OI, 'MADHOUSE' SHUT UP AND LET 'WEEB 101' FINISH HIS EXPLANATION. STOP BEING ANNOYING, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING?
– MADHOUSE:
OLD MAN PARK, I DON'T CARE WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE, BUT DON'T EVER TELL ME TO SHUT UP AGAIN.
– MR. PARK:
SHUT UP. AND I AM NOT AN OLD MAN.
– BUTTERFINGER:
MR. WEEB 101? CAN YOU TELL US HOW WE CAN RETURN HOME?
– WEEB 101:
WELL… IN SETTINGS LIKE THIS, THE ONLY WAY WE CAN LEAVE THIS TOWER IS BY CLEARING ALL THE TOWER FLOORS. BUT JUST LIKE THE TUTORIAL TRIALS WE ALL DID BY KILLING SLIMES, WE WOULD FACE STRONGER MONSTERS THE MORE FLOORS WE CLEAR.
– ICE QUEEN:
WHAT DO MEAN BY SLIMES? I HAD A WILD DOG CHASE ME FOR 20 MIN.
– MR. PARK:
I ALSO FOUGHT A WILD DOG.
– MOTHEROFDRAGON:
WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT? I GOT CHASED BY A GOBLIN AND ALMOST GOT KILLED.
"It seems the difficulty of the Tutorial trial differs for each person. But what criteria did the Tower system use to select each player's difficulty level? I should gather more information from the community chat."