Wolf

After going through and stocking up on health and stamina potions – fortunately without having to deal with antidotes – I move on to search through the System Access Store to see if there are any menus I would like to buy right now.

And fortunately, there are a few menus that I am curious about.

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Player Auctions | 200 SP

This will allow you to access the Player Auctions menu in your Status.

The Player Auctions allow a player to access the Auctions, Buy, and Sell sub-menus.

The Auctions sub-menu allows the player to search through the items and skills that are being auctioned by other players, and teleport to a separate dimension created by the System for an auction over any of the items or skills listed. SP, items, and skills may all be used as currency for these auctions

The Buy sub-menu allows the player to search through a list of items being sold by other players and purchase them right away through SP.

The Sell menu allows the player to either put something up for auction or put up something for the Buy sub-menu.

Purchase

Close

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System Map | 150 SP

This will allow you to access the System Map menu in your Status.

The System Map menu allows a player to see a map that contains their location, any location that they have been, any nearby players within a 100-meter radius that are not shielded by an item, skill, or privilege, any totem, any safe zone, and any dungeon.

Purchase

Close

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System GUI | 100 SP

This will allow you to access the System GUI menu in your Status.

The System GUI allows a player to change the layout of their status and their interface.

For the status, this includes changing what information is shown where, hiding menus that clutter up the status, and making shortcuts to particular sub-menus in the status.

For the interface, this includes creating small shortcuts and buttons on the side of your vision, manipulate how large or small notifications are when they show up, and where they show up, and displaying certain information on the corner of your interface, such as EXP.

Purchase

Close

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What’s more is that I can afford all three of them right now!

Barely.

In regards to gathering SP, I pity the non-competitors. The only real way that I am gaining SP is through my profits sub-menu, so everyone outside of the Administrator Dungeon must be having a pretty big problem when it comes to getting SP.

Putting my pity aside for the moment, I select purchase and confirm on all three before getting three notifications telling me about new menus being added to my status.

Now then, let’s check out the System Map first!

I open my status before selecting the System Map.

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System Map

Mini-Map | Off

Full Map

Full Map Planet | Administrator Dungeon

Note: Select the Full Map Coordinates to designate what specific planet the Full Map menu should show on your map. If you are not within 100 meters of a player or other markable object or location, then it will not be shown as an icon on the map.

Return

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Interesting…

I select Full Map before a very large map appears in front of my vision showing me the same things that I would assume is on my Administrator Dungeon map.

That’s not very helpful…

I select Full Map Planet and enter ‘Aegis’ as the planet before closing out of the Full Map and reopening it to reveal a map of the safe zone and forest on Aegis. Although it only appears to be showing what it was like the last time I was there, which makes sense considering how broken it would be for spying purposes.

All in all, this System Map is pretty useful.

I close out of the Full Map before selecting Mini-Map.

“Oh?” I utter out loud as a small map appears in the top right corner of my vision.

Now that’s useful!

An actual mini-map!

I can’t help but smile at the thought of it as I close out of the System Map menu – leaving the mini-map in the corner of my vision – before moving on to check out the System GUI while leaving the Auctions for last.

Right as a screen – similar to the one on the System Forums – opens, something slams into the door to the Store.

“Sorry, whatever you are, but you aren’t coming in here,” I mutter as I turn to the door while looking at the new screen as whatever it is continues slamming into the door with no results. Aside from irritating me that is.

The screen itself contains what almost looks like an emulator of the status menus and my general field of vision. It even lets me go from menu to menu in it!

Next to the emulator is an edit button that – after I press it – makes several parts of the status and what I am guessing is my interface – based off of the description for the System GUI that is – changeable.

My smile widens as I begin to play around with the interface to change some things, while also making my status a little bit cleaner by removing the menu that works passively – aka the System Clock.

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Name: Wolf Adler

Class: Harbinger of Eternal Winter

Privileges: Competitor

Soul-bound Ability: Ice Reaper

Species: Harbinger

Level: 113

EXP: 126/11300

System Points: 21.47

Skills List

Inventory

System Communications

Administrator Dungeon

Administrator Dungeon Competitor

System Terminal

Player Auctions

System Map

System GUI

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After that, I select save before moving back to my status as I look at the new changes to the boxes and other System stuff in my vision.

On the top right of my vision is still the mini-map, but I placed the amount of EXP I need to level up below it, along with my total SP and current level. Meanwhile, below that I placed a shortcut to the System Forums and to my Inventory.

Other than those changes, I also decreased the size of the notifications on the side of my vision and made it so that the level-up notifications only appear on the side of my vision instead of in the middle. Strictly because that is annoying in the middle of a battle.

I nod my head in satisfaction as I look at everything one more time before I move on to the Player Auctions menu.

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Player Auctions

Auctions

Buy

Sell

Return

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Okay, on second thought, I don’t actually have any SP to buy anything, so maybe I should check that out when I actually do have some.

And as for my Call of the Undead skill? It obviously won’t be useful on any of the next ten floors, so it would probably be best to sell it. Despite that, though, I am going to hang on to it for a few more floors until I have more skills.

Who knows? Maybe I might end up finding a use for the skill out in this jungle!

Anyways, I return to my status before closing it and opening the store again to get dinner.

Executive Stream

“He is doing pretty well so far,” Leo comments before turning to Diane from the screen and asking, “so why do you look so irritated over there?”

Diane turns from the screen to Leo with a light glare before it softens as she says, “I’m sorry, it’s just that I have been trying to figure out how to get him to agree, but I haven’t been able to come up with anything as of yet.”

Leo raises an eyebrow and asks, “I thought that you weren’t going to try anything until after he reaches the fiftieth floor?”

Diane looks at him as if he was an idiot as she says, “Because I still have to figure out what I am going to do before I can try anything at that time.”

Leo’s lips part in minor surprise before he closes them again and says, “So you are planning on doing something on the fiftieth floor, and not after it…”

Diane just nods her head with a smile before she turns back to the screen and says, “He seemed to be interested when I mentioned giving his family my protection, so that is definitely going to be on the table, but it’s honestly a little bit difficult to figure out what he would want.”

“Yeah,” Leo says before turning to the screen himself as Wolf begins eating a pizza, “he is a strange person. Sometimes he seems to have no ambitions at all, while other times he is madly driven to get what he wants.”

“Trying to figure out what he might want is like a damn roller coaster! The only thing aside from protecting his family that I have thought of so far is things that might lessen how much work and crap he would have to put up with if he did accept!” Diane complains out loud with a frown.

“That would work for getting him to be okay with it afterwards, but it won’t be very helpful in getting him to accept in the first place. At least, not the becoming a werewolf part,” Leo says as a glass of wine appears in his hand. “If it helps, from what I can tell at least, the things he seems to care about the most are his own freedom, and his family.”

“Which fits an ice variant harbinger’s personality to a tee,” Diane mutters as she taps her fingers on her leg in contemplation.

A few seconds pass in silence before Leo mutters, "I am kind of curious about what he will be like if he does turn into a werewolf. He would be the first werewolf harbinger in existence! Or, to be more specific, I guess he would be the first ice variant werewolf harbinger."

Diane ignores his words as she stares at the screen while still tapping her fingers on her leg.