24-Hour Friendly Market, Specializing in Dimensional Items - Chapter 179

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24-Hour Friendly Market Specializing in Dimensional Items Episode 179

 

Episode 179. What’s This Now? (2)

 

Wow, when a person gets too busy, they might not even know their own condition.

 

“You haven’t grown taller at all, have you?”

 

While Alessandro was making a comment that missed the point entirely.

 

I stared at my status window and swallowed my bewilderment.

 

———— Awakener Information ————

 

> Awakener : Lee Hae-won

 

– Unique Title : Open Market Manager (EX)

 

– Affiliation : Dimension-Earth Ι Zone-South Korea

 

– Awakener Grade : E [Locked]

 

> Unique Skills

 

[Dimensional Door Lv.3] [Item Appraisal Lv.4] [Repair Lv.Max] [Merchant’s Mark(P)] [Merchant’s Eye(P)]

 

> Babel Highest Record : Floor 51

 

> Gold Possessed : 361,200,894G

 

> Achievement (2)

 

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I’m used to the enormous amount of gold by now, so let’s set that aside.

 

“When exactly did I level up…?”

 

Dimensional Door skill, Item Appraisal, and Repair – all of them had leveled up.

 

‘This is really absurd.’

 

Since I don’t have stats like mana or stamina, I haven’t had any reason to check my status window.

 

Skill level ups do appear as new notifications, but there aren’t just one or two notifications demanding immediate attention.

 

Market notifications, repair shop notifications, appraisal shop notifications, plus messages from intermediate managers.

 

I get thousands of notifications per day – when am I supposed to check all of them?

 

Honestly, if there’s someone who reads every payment confirmation and advertisement email that comes to their inbox, they’d be a research subject.

 

If only Sam-i were a smart guy who would promptly notify me of skill level ups, this wouldn’t have happened.

 

[⁕ Should I notify you when your skill levels increase? :)]

 

…Wouldn’t it be nice if you did that on your own before I had to ask?

 

I let out a deep sigh, strongly affirmed, and examined my status window once more.

 

First, the Repair skill just reduces gold deduction during repairs and increases repair success rate, nothing else special.

 

[Item Appraisal Lv.4]

 

You can appraise an item’s basic information and Hidden Ability.

 

+ Lv.2 You can check the item’s creator and previous owners.

 

+ Lv.3 You can read the item’s past memories. Memories are played randomly.

 

+ Lv.4 You can appraise basic information of dimensional components.

 

“What’s… this now.”

 

It sounds plausible, but since it’s not explained precisely, I can’t get a grasp on it.

 

‘Dimensional components…?’

 

After thinking about various complicated things, I decided to take it lightly.

 

If it’s something that constitutes a dimension, does that mean I can appraise objects outside the Tower of Babel that aren’t items?

 

Until now, I could only appraise items that came from inside the Tower of Babel.

 

But ‘dimension’ means the entire Earth.

 

In that case.

 

‘That too…?’

 

I looked at the light purple floral apron that Alessandro had chosen as today’s work outfit and used my Appraisal skill.

 

Since it was an apron I bought for a whopping 70,000 won, I thought something would come up.

 

Something did come up.

 

“…Huh.”

 

The problem was that an appraisal window different from my expectations appeared.

 

[This component cannot be appraised.]

 

The Item Appraisal skill didn’t appraise the apron.

 

[⁕ This component cannot be appraised as it does not originally belong to dimension ‘Earth’ :)]

 

I had appraised Alessandro, who was looking at me as if I were strange.

 

“You seem to have left your mind elsewhere today.”

 

I don’t even care that Alessandro is criticizing me particularly harshly.

 

‘…Whoa.’

 

I stared at the appraisal window with my mouth agape.

 

Right, the dimension Alessandro originally belongs to isn’t Earth.

 

He’s just staying at Earth’s Tower of Babel right now with the special privilege of being an intermediate manager of the market.

 

Like a dispatched worker, so to speak.

 

But doesn’t this mean I can appraise all humans belonging to Earth?

 

My gaze naturally turned to Kang Yeon-hee.

 

When my eyes met with Kang Yeon-hee, who was looking at me strangely as I kept making random exclamations without any explanation, a new window appeared before my eyes.

 

[Would you like to appraise ‘Kang Yeon-hee’?]

 

“Seriously?”

 

“Seriously. Where did you sell your mind today? Go out and get some rest.”

 

[Kang Yeon-hee (B)

 

Unique Title : Guardian of All Things

 

Affiliation : Dimension-Earth Ι Zone-South Korea]

 

“Holy shit, crazy!”

 

When I finally slammed the table and stood up, Alessandro shook his head disapprovingly.

 

Isn’t this the kind of overpowered skill you’d only see in web novels or webtoons?!

 

Of course, if it were truly overpowered, it would tell me what skills they have, what those skills do, and how much gold they possess.

 

Even if it’s not to that extent, being able to view others’ grades and titles is an incredible thing in itself.

 

‘…Then can I do it on myself too?’

 

With this new question arising, I immediately headed straight to the bathroom.

 

“Is she feeling sick somewhere…?”

 

“Leave her be. It seems like she relieves stress like that sometimes.”

 

I ignored the two people making nonsensical conversation behind me and firmly closed the bathroom door.

 

Then I stared intently at the mirror, and my haggard self from struggling with mountains of paperwork for days blinked back at me.

 

My appearance is absolutely no joke.

 

I pitied my own situation for a moment, then used the Appraisal skill once more.

 

[‘Lee Hae-won’ will be appraised. Proceed?]

 

“Wow, it’s still fascinating to see again.”

 

Human appraisal, huh.

 

It felt unfamiliar when I appraised Kang Yeon-hee earlier, but being able to appraise myself made me even more nervous.

 

I know everything about myself.

 

Just like when I appraised Kang Yeon-hee, probably the same content written in my status window would appear.

 

But contrary to my expectations, my appraisal had one additional line.

 

[Lee Hae-won (EX)

 

Unique Title: Dimensional Market Administrator

 

Hidden Title: ?? Creator

 

Affiliation: Dimension-Earth Ι Zone-South Korea]

 

And it was about the ‘Creator’ that I’d been wondering about all along!

 

Of course, it’s covered in question marks, so it only raises more curiosity!

 

“What’s a Hidden Title anyway?”

 

Hidden Title is something I’ve never heard of before, so I can’t even ask anyone about it.

 

Sam-i doesn’t seem to know anything either, staying silent.

 

“Will I ever find out what this is someday?”

 

I threw out the question, but Sam-i still didn’t answer.

 

As expected from an AI that only knows how to give sassy responses.

 

[⁕ I’m not an AI, but a helper that assists in smooth market management :)]

 

Look at that, giving such a perfectly sassy response.

 

Anyway, information about the Creator remains a mystery.

 

If I were a protagonist in a novel, I’d find the answer after a long adventure, but I’m just an ordinary awakened person.

 

Maybe I’ll find out someday while climbing the Tower.

 

Though I’m not the one climbing, maybe it’ll be revealed when someone else climbs up.

 

“Let me check Dimensional Door for now.”

 

I tried to calm my mind with a nonchalant tone and checked the next skill’s content.

 

[Dimensional Door Lv.3]

 

You can open doors leading to other dimensions. More functions are available within the Babel System. Only inanimate objects can be traded.

 

+ Lv.2 You can exclusively resell other Creators’ items and receive commission fees. Can be used outside the Tower of Babel.

 

+ Lv.3 You can enter unopened floors. You can view the prohibited trading list.

 

I barely managed to hold back a scream that was about to burst out and covered my mouth.

 

Calming my mind – complete failure!

 

The jackpot was right here.

 

I’ve been going around on reconnaissance missions all this time, cooperating in raising the reputation of the Babel Management Bureau and various guilds.

 

Of course, I had the grand ambition of preventing dimensional destruction, but there was also a personal reason behind it.

 

None other than searching for traces of my brother.

 

Since my brother was last spotted on the 67th floor, I thought I could get clearer clues by going there.

 

But with the Dimensional Door skill, I could only enter ‘opened floors,’ so I had no choice but to wait for the assault team to climb the Tower.

 

Of course, the assault team steadily climbed the Tower, feeding on the people’s trust and Lee Hae-won’s stamina.

 

Currently, Park Ji-woon, Han Ro-mi, Nam Pu-reum, and Jeong Min-gu are in the process of conquering the 65th floor made of swamps.

 

Since I, with my accumulated reconnaissance experience, brought quite a lot of information, if we just trust and wait like this, opening the 67th floor would be a matter of time.

 

‘But this changes everything.’

 

It means I can go to the 67th floor right now, without waiting for the conquest.

 

Forget the 67th floor, doesn’t this mean I can even visit the 100th floor?

 

At that moment, chills ran down the back of my neck.

 

The top of the Tower of Babel that everyone is so curious about.

 

The unknown world that everyone considers the final gateway, but no one knows what you get after passing the 100th floor.

 

I once asked Asmodeus what you could get by climbing to the 100th floor, what was on the 100th floor.

 

Back then, Asmodeus just lifted my chin with a playful smile, saying he couldn’t tell me.

 

‘I didn’t get any information, but it was a wonderful encounter.’

 

Before I could even fall into contemplation, suddenly a dull knocking sound echoed.

 

“Are you alright, my friend?”

 

It was Alessandro, quite concerned about me suddenly screaming and fleeing to the bathroom.

 

I flung the door open.

 

“Sister, are you okay?”

 

“I’m going out.”

 

That doesn’t seem like the right answer to the question of whether I’m okay.

 

The two of them seemed quite used to my erratic behavior by now, looking at me with expressions that said ‘Lee Hae-won did Lee Hae-won things again.’

 

I naturally deflected their gazes and quickly started packing.

 

The rule is to act when you’ve made up your mind, so you don’t procrastinate.

 

While I put what seemed like an expert adventurer’s package rather than a beginner’s into my inventory, Alessandro asked.

 

“How long do you think it’ll take?”

 

“Well, I’m expecting one day, but maybe up to a week if it’s long?”

 

“Sister, no! You said there’s a meeting with a new supplier for Ba-man-jang next week…!”

 

“Oh, then I’ll come back before then.”

 

“You said that last time too, but came back covered in blood during the meeting.”

 

I have a track record, so I can’t argue back.

 

“…I’ll come back by tomorrow at the latest, tomorrow.”

 

“Then I’ll prepare buckwheat soba.”

 

“I’ll definitely come back.”

 

I nodded seriously and made the promise.

 

Alessandro, who became a Japanese cuisine master, makes buckwheat soba the best among Japanese dishes.

 

The two of them stood still the entire time I prepared to leave in 10 minutes and hurriedly put on my shoes.

 

They naturally get ready to see me off every time I go out.

 

‘This scene is familiar too.’

 

I held back laughter and tied my boot laces tightly.

 

Since I’ve roughly seen what the 67th floor is like through the memories of items, I’ll focus entirely on finding traces of my brother.

 

Reconnaissance can be done properly when I go officially.

 

I said with a strangely refreshing yet complicated feeling.

 

“I’ll be back.”

 

Kang Yeon-hee smiled lightly, and Alessandro waved his pot-lid-sized hand.

 

Half hoping I could find my brother, and half excited about going to an unopened floor.

 

…And even a faint anxiety I couldn’t explain.

 

I suppressed my quite confused inner feelings, waved back as if nothing was wrong, and left the house.

 

And as I was taking deep breaths while going down the stairs.

 

Only then did the next phrase catch my eye.

 

“But what’s this prohibited trading list anyway?”

 

Is there something blocked from trading in the Dimensional Market?

 

I’ve never felt anything was blocked while conducting countless trades so far.

 

It was then, as I furrowed my brow at this completely unexpected phrase I couldn’t make sense of.

 

Sam-i, who usually only gives sassy responses, displayed a notification window before my eyes.

 

[⁕ Would you like to view the prohibited transaction list? :)]

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