Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 16

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Chapter 16 6. Golden Rain (2)

‘So there really was something after all.’

Young-woo looked at the newly appeared Trophy Symbol in the corner of his vision.

Then the symbol immediately flashed and filled his entire view with golden light.

“Huh?”

「Welcome to Jung Young-woo07’s Achievement introduction!」

「Change the world through Achievement completion and become a great person.」

‘Change the world… what? A great person?’

Young-woo felt uncomfortable with the grandiose welcome message and examined the Achievement window that appeared next.

Flash!

But unlike the previous message, the nuance of the first phrase was.

〔Your Achievement disposition is “Scoundrel”.〕

||Completed Achievements: 1

|One Who Calls Golden Rain [Legendary]-First

“Uh…?”

Young-woo doubted his eyes.

At the very top of the solemn-looking Achievement interface was the word ‘Scoundrel’.

‘I’m a scoundrel? Who decided that?’

While Young-woo was getting upset looking at the Achievement window, recommended Achievements were listed below.

Probably a list of Achievements the system recommended for a ‘Scoundrel’.

〈Recommended Achievements〉

[Golden Foundation]

|Call Golden Rain in 2 or more regions. (1/2)

[Premium Social Worker]

|Return a Mutant alive.

[Jeweler’s Touch]

|Wear two Hero-grade or higher rings each on your index and ring fingers. (1/4)

[Complete Orphan]

|Find and eliminate your parents. (1/2)

Young-woo, who had been reading through the recommended Achievements in order, flinched at the last item.

Not only was the content about finding and eliminating parents, but the progress was also meaningful.

‘1/2…?’

Given the circumstances, it probably meant only one parent was still alive.

In other words, whether it was ‘father’ or ‘mother’, it meant to find and remove the last remaining root.

‘The more I know, the more fucked up this world is.’

The fact that such a mission was included in Achievements was nonsense to begin with.

Just moments ago, didn’t it say to become a great person through Achievement completion?

‘Still, they’re just recommended Achievements, so I probably don’t have to complete them.’

Since no Achievements other than the recommended ones were visible, the rest seemed to be in a private state.

‘Then next is.’

When Young-woo wanted to see if there was anything else, the Achievement list automatically scrolled up to show the next screen.

「You have 2 unclaimed Achievement rewards.」

「Golden Flash」 – Legendary Gloves

【Steal 50% of enemy’s Sense during combat.】

【Accumulated Golden Rain: 1】

*’One Who Calls Golden Rain’ special benefit.

「Stealth Mark」 – Relic Tattoo

【Can hide titles.】

*Acquired through Achievement unlock.

‘Legendary gloves…’

Even Young-woo, who didn’t know what the equipment grade system was like in this world, could see it was exceptionally good equipment.

The effect of stealing 50% of an enemy’s Sense was already absurd.

‘So if the opponent’s Sense stat is 1,000, I take 500?’

Moreover, since ‘steal’ meant to take away, if the tooltip effect was truly as described, the opponent would fight with their Sense halved.

It meant he would have the advantage in Sense no matter who he faced.

‘Then what’s below.’

Young-woo’s gaze naturally fell on the second effect of ‘Golden Flash’.

【Accumulated Golden Rain: 1】

‘I don’t know what this is. Maybe there are additional effects when the number of Golden Rain calls increases.’

Since these gloves were a reward for the Golden Rain Achievement, it had some validity.

The equipment name was Golden Flash, wasn’t it?

Swish.

After some time passed, the tooltips that had filled his vision disappeared and a message asking whether to claim the rewards appeared.

「Would you like to claim all Achievement rewards?」

‘Of, of course.’

When Young-woo nodded with a reluctant expression, both his hands were immediately enveloped in golden light.

“…Huk!”

Even Young-woo, who had been mentally prepared to some extent, couldn’t help but tremble at this moment.

Both hands were being wrapped in real-time by golden-tinted iron gauntlets.

Every time the cold iron pieces barely grazed his palms and backs of hands, he felt a tingling sensation.

Clank, click!

After about ten seconds, the light surrounding Young-woo’s hands disappeared with the sound of metal clashing, leaving only golden iron gloves.

And finally.

Prick!

“Ugh.”

Suddenly, he felt a stinging pain in his left chest.

Young-woo pulled at his shirt and looked down at his chest.

‘Oh really.’

Young-woo’s brow immediately furrowed.

As expected, it was because a tattoo had been carved.

「Stealth Mark」 – Relic Tattoo

【You can hide your title.】

This tattoo that looked like a spiral flame was embedded quite large on Young-woo’s left chest.

For someone who had never even gotten a tattoo or dyed his hair in his entire life, this change felt unpleasant.

“What’s this now?”

Ye-chan, who had approached right up close, asked while looking at the ‘Golden Flash’. It was natural for him to be curious since Young-woo’s hands were glinting like never before.

“It’s an Achievement reward.”

“Achievement?”

“It seems like compensation for giving up 3 million…”

Young-woo briefly explained the Achievement system to Ye-chan.

Then Ye-chan looked up at the clear sky and asked.

“So you’ll have to keep scattering money around from now on?”

“If I want to keep receiving Achievement rewards, I’ll have to.”

More precisely, if he wanted to maintain the ‘spendthrift’ concept.

It seemed that recommended Achievements also changed according to Achievement tendencies.

‘But seeing that higher-tier Achievements exist, it would be wise to stick with one tendency.’

Young-woo recalled ‘Golden Foundation’, one of the recommended Achievements he had seen earlier.

[Golden Foundation]

|Call down Golden Rain in 2 or more regions. (1/2)

Anyone could see it was an upgraded version of ‘One Who Brings Golden Rain’.

So with very high probability.

‘If I complete that Achievement, another reward will come out. It might give something even better than this one.’

Of course, Young-woo knew well what kind of situations he would face if he continued down that path.

‘To call down Golden Rain in various regions, I’d have to give up massive amounts of Karma each time, and on top of that…’

He would have to compete over mutants. With the person who had been hunting mutants in that region originally.

For instance, that region’s First Sword… most likely someone who had killed the previous mutant and chosen the 3 million Karma.

“…”

Thinking this far, the effect of Golden Flash looked a little different.

「Golden Flash」 – Legendary Gloves

【Steal 50% of enemy’s Sense during combat.】

【Accumulated Golden Rain : 1】

‘It’s a tool for sniping First Swords from other regions.’

The Stealth Mark that allowed hiding titles might have been given in a similar context.

After all, walking around with a First Sword title in other regions would inevitably draw attention.

‘But can I really beat First Swords from other regions just by being ahead in Sense alone? It doesn’t seem easy.’

Young-woo looked around to see if there were any other mutants in Gumi.

However, no other red pillars of light were visible, and instead he made the Sky Villa residents come rushing over.

“Wh-what’s the matter?”

“Is there anything you need?”

Young-woo didn’t know, but these people had been watching his every move since earlier.

That was natural since Young-woo was the Gumi First Sword and a benefactor who had bestowed grace upon them.

As such, they knew well that if Young-woo wanted, he could simply confiscate the ‘Commemorative Coins’ that had been given to them, so they were being cautious like this.

“Well. As for needing anything.”

Just as Young-woo was about to shrug and say this.

Grumble, his stomach made a loud hungry sound.

“Ah.”

“…Oh.”

The crowd stirred.

Come to think of it, dusk was already approaching.

‘What time is it exactly? The sun’s about to set.’

The Reset had first occurred around 10 AM.

From then until now when the sun was starting to set, he had been fighting continuously without eating anything, so it would be strange if he wasn’t hungry.

Grumble.

The problematic sound came again.

“…”

Was it because the tension was released?

Finally, tremendous hunger began to surge over him.

“I wonder if everyone has had their meal.”

Young-woo spoke whatever lines came out naturally while rummaging through his backpack.

And finally found it.

Swish.

The chocolate bar that had turned to stone.

“…!”

As soon as Young-woo picked up the gray chocolate bar, not only the Sky Villa residents but even Ye-chan focused their gazes while licking their lips.

‘For the sake of my quality of life, I need to get rid of these people quickly. I can’t even eat a chocolate bar in peace.’

Young-woo took out a 1000 Karma coin from his backpack and touched it to the chocolate bar’s surface.

Beep.

Then.

[Chocolate Bar : 500]

The price of the chocolate bar appeared.

This was the first time seeing the price of food since the Reset.

‘500 for one chocolate bar… more expensive than I thought. The bicycle was 3000.’

Perhaps the price was set high because it was an item directly related to survival.

Beep.

When Young-woo touched the coin once more to confirm the purchase, smoke burst from the chocolate bar and the petrification was released.

Whoosh…!

“Ooh?”

“Wow, I’ve never seen anything like that.”

As if even the sight of petrification being released was fascinating, the Sky Villa residents took a couple more steps closer.

At this, Young-woo unconsciously felt threatened and clutched the chocolate bar.

It was ridiculous, but in fact, the chocolate bar was an irreplaceable resource in this place.

And at the same time.

Clink.

With a familiar sound, some coin fell from thin air.

“Huh?”

A small blue-green coin.

It was currency worth 500 Karma.

It was the moment a new denomination of currency was discovered, but right now, no one paid attention to this small discovery.

What was immediately important was.

“…”

Only the chocolate bar that Young-woo was rustling as he tore open the wrapper.

Rustle.

Soon, as a black chocolate chunk popped out from Young-woo’s hand, the eyes of the children watching widened in amazement.

And Young-woo subtly avoided their gazes as he took a sweet first bite.

Mmm…

The Chocolate Bar hadn’t melted at all.

The chocolate layer covering the surface was quite hard, giving it a texture that seemed to crack when bitten.

‘So the state right before petrification is preserved indefinitely.’

Young-woo felt the caramel spread beneath the chocolate layer sticking to various parts of his mouth as he slowly breathed through his nose.

‘Ah.’

A completely new type of pleasure and satisfaction came over him.

The kind of joy that comes from restoring and eating a Chocolate Bar that had been turned to stone, right in the middle of downtown where 2-meter-tall goblins could come charging at any moment.

Rustle.

When he had eaten about half the Chocolate Bar, the children finally began to properly register in Young-woo’s vision.

But when he didn’t know when he might have to fight again, he couldn’t carelessly give away these precious calories.

Even if his opponent was a young child who had been starving since morning.

“…”

Young-woo stared at the small mouth the child was unconsciously opening, then withdrew his gaze and swallowed the rest of the Chocolate Bar.

“Mm.”

He was still hungry, but the mental satisfaction was tremendous.

Class 4 Human of the Ruined World (Serial)

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