Chapter 163.

Shoong—

The storage box from before the start of the tutorial appeared in front of me . A window popped up with the list of items I had stored inside .

From the list, I picked three items to take out .

[Aether]

[The armament, Aether, will have its battle prowess restricted by 50% . ]

First was Aether .

Aether, which I hadn’t seen in a while was sagging down like a sad slime . I reached out to Aether . When I made contact, Aether twitched like a cute caterpillar before trembling and coiling up my arm .

I smiled at it and took out the next item .

[Smartwatch]

I put the laptop-linked smartwatch on my wrist . Aether seeped into the smartwatch and made it look more elegant . It looked somewhat like a Patek Philippe watch . Aether really had great taste .

[Desert Eagle]

And finally, I grabbed the Desert Eagle . The platinum handle’s coldness and thickness felt too nostalgic .

“Hm… . ”

I examined the Desert Eagle then tried fusing it with Aether .

Shotgun mode, sniper rifle mode, assault rifle mode… After trying out each mode once, I was able to confirm that the Desert Eagle had one magazine loaded for each form .

One handgun magazine, one assault rifle magazine, two shotgun shells, and five sniper rifle bullets . That was all I had .

“Um, System-nim?”

Feeling like this wasn’t enough, I raised the Desert Eagle, showing it to the Tower’s system that should be watching over me .

The storage box contained a box full of magazines . Of course, since that box had hundreds of bullets in it, I didn’t expect to get the entire thing . Even a small portion of it was enough .

“Um, you see, this is a gun . Although it might be a bit special, a gun can’t be used without bullets…”

I tried to ask just in case .

—Extra7 used Lv . 2 Haggling .

—Extra7’s Lv . 2 Voice of Trust activates .

I was hoping that the system was getting such messages .

“With that in mind, can you give me some extra magazines? I don’t need too many . ”

…Even after a long time, the system didn’t reply . Dejected, I put my hand down . It seemed the system couldn’t make an exception .

Just when I was thinking so…

[Considering that this weapon is a gun, your request has been accepted . ]

“Oh!”

I bowed respectfully as soon as I heard this message .

[However, we hope that you will not use the 「mysterious power」 you possess at lower levels of the Tower . ]

[There is a chance that the administrator of the lower levels will consider it an unfair advantage and punish you accordingly . ]

“Understood . Thank you . ”

I nodded . The ‘mysterious power’ was most likely referring to Stigma .

It didn’t matter too much since my use of Stigma was restricted anyways . Currently, I could only use two streaks of Stigma at most . Any more than that and my body wouldn’t be able to handle it .

[Magazines will now be transferred over . ]

Soon, various magazines appeared in the air .

Two handgun magazines, one assault rifle magazine, three sniper rifle bullets, and six shotgun shells .

Since I only wanted some spares, this was more than enough .

I put them all into my inventory .

[After 24 hours of rest, you will be able to advance to the Tower’s 2nd floor . ]

[From now, you may use all system functions . ]

[Here is a brief explanation . ]

[About the ‘personal waiting room’]

—Normal Entrance

*When there are no hostile Players nearby or when you are not in a combat zone, you can teleport to your waiting room .

—Emergency Teleportation

No matter where you are what or situation you are in, you will teleport to your waiting room . (This function has a cooldown time of 96 hours . )

—Personal Waiting Room Entrance Ticket

You can provide other Players with entrance tickets to your personal waiting room .

[‘Deaths’ in the Tower]

—After the end of the tutorial, Players are given 7 lives in total .

Once killed, Players will revive at the nearest Residential Area and they will receive a penalty that differs based on their circumstance . (Note . If you die on the 2nd floor, you will lose all stat gains you’ve acquired, and you will restart from the tutorial . )

[About the ‘auction house’…]

I already knew everything, and there wasn’t anything new or changed from the original setting .

As such, I turned on my smartwatch . Then, I stared at the egg sitting on my bed .

[???]

I wasn’t able to read the egg’s information with the current Tower system . However…

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[Lv . 6 Muninn’s Egg] [Tower – Mythical]

—The egg laid by Muninn, the Eagle of Memory .

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My smartwatch could perfectly read the egg’s item description . As I thought, my laptop was superior to the Tower’s system .

“Hm… what do I do now?”

24 hours of rest .

Although it seemed needlessly long, it was actually barely enough to utilize each of the system’s functions . Currently, members of the various guilds should be having conferences together .

“Oh right . ”

I remembered something to do .

I unleashed Stigma’s magic power at Muninn’s egg . In case something went horrifyingly wrong and the egg ended up being fried, I infused Stigma’s magic power into the blanket covering the egg rather than directly feeding it to the egg .

As a result, the little blanket nest I made for Muninn’s egg turned incredibly warm .

Next…

“24 hours, huh…”

I lied down on the floor as I thought about what to do .

[Remaining time – 23h 35m 39s]

I couldn’t waste an entire day doing nothing .

I got up once again .

“…I’ll fix up this place until Random Dice’s cooldown ends . Once I get more material using the Random Dice, I’ll start making some equipment . ”

I came up with a plan .

“Um, can you please bring up a list of items from the Player Shop that could be used to renovate the waiting room?”

I asked the system which immediately pulled out a list of items from the Player Shop’s ‘miscellaneous’ category .

[Lv . 1 Marble Slabs – 30TP]

[Lv . 1 Timber – 20TP]

[Lv . 1 Warehouse – 300TP]

[Lv . 1 Training Room – 500TP]

…

…

“There’s even a training room?”

I bought the marble slabs . I could make a warehouse or a training room myself .

Shoong, shoong—

A bundle of marble slabs was transferred to my waiting room . Although it was only Lv . 1, marble was still better looking than wood . I began to tear out the waiting room’s wooden flooring and began to install the marble tiles .

Of course, with my stats being so low, even doing such a menial task took a lot out of me .

[Your strength increases by 0 . 003 points . ]

[Your vitality increases by 0 . 003 points . ]

[Your strength increases by 0 . 003 points . ]

[Your vitality increases by 0 . 003 points . ]

…

Doing the same thing for about six hours, I received many similar alerts .

“…If only I had the Goblin Tablet with me . ”

I murmured as I wiped off the sweat from my forehead .

Tiring—

At that moment, a message popped up in front of me .

[Player ‘PhantomThief’ has invited Player ‘Extra7’ to a group chat . ]

[Would you like to accept?]

PhantomThief was Jain’s nickname .

It seemed she figured out how to use the messenger system .

I accepted the request .

[Extra7-nim entered the chat room . ]

PhantomThief: 「Hey Newbie~」

PhantomThief: 「There’s even a group chat . Isn’t this interesting?」

Goryeo’sStrongest: 「Whadup?」

PhantomThief: 「Look at Cheok Jungyeong trying to type ㅋㅋㅋ what an idiot ㅋㅋ」

Goryeo’sStrongest: 「The screen is too small for my fingers . You’re next to me anyway, so why do I even need to chat?」

[‘Boss’ entered the group chat . ]

PhantomThief: 「ㅋㅋㅋ Hey Boss~」

Boss: 「Hi . 」

PhantomThief: 「Look, our nicknames are similar . 」

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