The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 13

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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 13

Episode 13: Could This Actually Work?

【5th Floor Quest has ended.】

【Returning to the Waiting Room.】

A cluster of light enveloped Mincheol. Shortly after, Mincheol was transported to the Waiting Room where he had first arrived.

“Wh-what the hell was that guy? No matter how I look at it, that wasn’t unaffiliated skill level?”

“Isn’t he really a rookie being raised by a Large Guild?”

“Shit, he fought damn well.”

Upon arriving at the Waiting Room, he saw four people huddled together whispering.

Seeing the four of them, Mincheol felt strange. It was quite awkward to face opponents he had killed just a few minutes ago.

However, Mincheol’s concerns were resolved more easily than expected.

“H-hyung… it’s, it’s him.”

“Aaaaaah!”

As soon as they spotted Mincheol, all four of them were terrified and bowed their heads.

The four couldn’t even make eye contact and trembled. They looked as if fear had been drilled into their heads.

‘It would have been awkward to face them. This worked out well.’

Mincheol was chuckling to himself when it happened.

【The 5th Floor Quest has ended.】

【Rewards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will be distributed according to rankings.】

【Since 3rd place does not exist, no reward will be given.】

【You have achieved 1st place on the 5th Floor!】

【1st Place Reward – You acquire ‘Unique Skill Enhancement Ticket’.】

Items fell from above his head. Mincheol barely managed to catch the item before it hit the ground.

【Unique Skill Enhancement Ticket】

-Grade: Unique.

-Description: Enhances the unique skill possessed by an Awakened.

Mincheol examined the item with a puzzled expression.

‘Don’t unique skills get stronger when your level increases? But why does an enhancement ticket exist?’

The description wasn’t intuitive, so it wasn’t easy to understand. It seemed he would need to research this separately later.

‘But what’s the 2nd place reward?’

The 5th Floor allowed exactly three attempts instead of death. If so, the 2nd place reward must also be extraordinary.

Mincheol glanced sideways at the Bald Man. The Bald Man was showing his 2nd place reward to the three people in front of him.

“Hyung, this is that famous elixir, right?”

“They say you gain a trait just by drinking this?”

The three people were looking at the reward the Bald Man received with sparkling eyes.

“What’s there to be envious of! It’s just a measly 2nd place reward anyway.”

Unlike the three admiring people, the Bald Man didn’t look very satisfied.

He had been confident he would get 1st place, but was pushed to 2nd, so he had no choice but to be angry.

‘So that’s such an amazing item?’

Mincheol looked at the elixir with curiosity. Then suddenly, this thought occurred to him.

‘What would happen if I used Auto Looting here?’

Physical confrontations weren’t allowed in the Waiting Room. Then skills that harmed others probably couldn’t be used either.

But Auto Looting wasn’t a skill that attacked others. It just brought items over.

At worst, he’d break even anyway. Mincheol activated Auto Looting.

【Acquiring all ‘Blue Magic Tower’s Incomplete Elixir’ within a 500m radius.】

【You acquire 1 ‘Blue Magic Tower’s Incomplete Elixir’.】

The elixir that had been clutched in the Bald Man’s hand disappeared completely. The four people’s eyes widened.

“Huh? The elixir disappeared?”

“Hyung, did you perhaps put it in your inventory?”

The three people asked with bewildered faces. But the Bald Man had no time to answer.

“Sh-shit! It’s, it’s gone!”

“What?”

“It’s gone, you fucking idiot!”

“What do you mean by that? Why would the elixir disappear?”

“I don’t know either, shit! You guys look for it right now too!”

The four people immediately began searching the surroundings. Naturally, there was no way the elixir would be found.

“Aaaaaaah! Where did the elixir disappear to!”

Unable to find the elixir, the Bald Man threw a fit. Then he glared at another person and said.

“It’s you, right? You hid it!”

“Daeseong hyung! How could I have hidden it!”

“Hand it over right now, you bastard!”

The man was initially flustered, but his expression gradually became menacing.

“This bastard thinks he’s really above me just because I politely call him hyung? You’re from a different guild too?”

“Bastard? You fucking piece of shit!”

Eventually, a fight broke out between the two. They rushed toward each other.

【Physical confrontations are not tolerated in the Waiting Room.】

But a barrier of light that appeared just in time separated the two.

“If it weren’t for this, you would have died by my hands!”

“Who’s talking! You should consider yourself lucky to have gained a life!”

The two spewed all kinds of curses with the barrier between them.

Mincheol chuckled as he watched the spectacle and said.

“I’m going home.”

【Returning to Earth.】

Light flashed and Mincheol’s figure disappeared.

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Returning to his apartment, Mincheol first accessed the Hunter Community.

It was to learn more about the Unique Skill Enhancement Ticket he had obtained as the 1st place reward.

-Top Newbie: Hyungs, I heard you get something called a skill enhancement ticket for getting 1st place on the 5th Floor. What is that?

-King Burger: It’s not a skill enhancement ticket, it’s a unique skill enhancement ticket. You can’t confuse the two. The price difference is like heaven and earth.

-Top Newbie: That much? But I don’t really understand. Unique skills get stronger when your level goes up anyway. So why do enhancement tickets exist?

-King Burger: When your level increases, only the power of your unique skill increases, but when you use an enhancement ticket, new functions are added to the skill.

New functions?

It was an explanation that couldn’t help but spark interest.

-King Burger : You know Malcolm Bernard, the world ranker? I heard he used a Unique Skill Enhancement Ticket to gain the ability to create weapons.

└Top Newbie : Ah, I saw the video where weapons kept sprouting from the ground and piercing through monsters. That was the additional ability? It was seriously insane.

└King Burger : Amazing, right? That’s why Unique Skill Enhancement Tickets are like the last hope for Awakened. Even if you have a useless unique skill, using an enhancement ticket might change everything.

After finishing his questions, Mincheol put down his smartphone. Then he took out the enhancement ticket from his inventory.

‘So a function gets added?’

He couldn’t keep such a good item stored away.

Especially after hearing about Malcolm Bernard’s case, it became even harder to resist.

‘Weapons sprouting from the ground? Piercing through monsters?’

Maybe he would gain a similar ability? Like summoning weapons from his inventory.

If he really got such an ability, Mincheol’s combat power would increase dramatically.

Mincheol used the ticket with anticipation.

【You have used the ‘Unique Skill Enhancement Ticket’.】

【A new function will be added to ‘Auto Looting’.】

The enhancement ticket turned to powder and was absorbed into Mincheol’s body. Mincheol immediately opened his status window.

【Auto Looting】

-Grade : Unique Skill.

-Description : Acquires designated items that exist within range.

-Designatable targets : 5.

-Range 500m.

-Additional ability : Acquires all objects within a cube (15cm×15cm×15cm).

“…What is this?”

Mincheol rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand. But reality didn’t change.

The offensive function he had hoped for so much was nowhere to be found.

“At least give me something useful…”

Acquiring objects within a cube range? It was no different from the auto looting function.

“No wait, maybe it’s not completely useless.”

Auto looting had its limits. That was the inability to loot objects that were too small, like water or sand.

With the additional function, he would be able to loot such things. Since he could acquire all objects within a specific range.

“Setting aside whether there would be any occasion to loot such things.”

No matter how much he thought about it, it seemed useless, but Mincheol decided to shake it off.

It might be different if the situation was bad. But right now, Mincheol was climbing the Tower with unstoppable momentum.

He couldn’t keep feeling down about something like this. He decided to just consider it like getting bitten by a dog and move on.

Next, Mincheol took out the elixir from his inventory.

【Blue Magic Tower’s Incomplete Elixir】

-Grade : Rare

-Description : An elixir created by the Blue Magic Tower, one of the 7 Great Magic Towers. Upon consumption, the body becomes suitable for mana. However, since it’s an incomplete elixir, it’s unknown what degree of effect will appear.

“I thought it would raise my stats. But that’s not it?”

The body becomes suitable for mana?

This was also an unintuitive description. Mincheol was about to research it on the Hunter Community but stopped.

“Well, they wouldn’t have given me something bad.”

Mincheol opened the elixir and gulped it down. It tasted similar to mint chocolate.

【You have consumed the ‘Blue Magic Tower’s Incomplete Elixir’.】

【Your body begins to transform to become suitable for mana.】

【You have acquired the trait ‘Faint Mana Sensitivity’.】

“Faint Mana Sensitivity?”

Mincheol opened his status window with curiosity to check.

【Trait : Faint Mana Sensitivity】

-Description : Becomes slightly sensitive to mana.

-Effect 1. Mana consumption reduced by 1% when using skills.

“…”

It was a description that left him speechless. It seemed like he had drawn a dud.

“Why is my luck so bad today?”

It was when Mincheol was lamenting.

【The Lucky Coin exerts its effect.】

【Luck is enhanced thanks to multiple coins gathering.】

【The effect of the ‘Blue Magic Tower’s Incomplete Elixir’ is amplified!】

【’Faint Mana Sensitivity’ transforms into ‘Mana Sensitive Body’!】

【Trait ‘Mana Sensitive Body’】

-Description : A body suitable for using mana. Mana sensitivity, mana conduction, and mana absorption are greatly enhanced.

-Effect 1. Mana consumption reduced by 5% when using skills.

-Effect 2. Skill power increased by 5% when using skills.

“Huh?”

It had as many as two effects attached. Even without needing to look it up on the Hunter Community, they seemed like good effects.

“Reduced mana consumption and even increased power.”

This was an incredible harvest. Mincheol lay down on his bed with great satisfaction.

There was still time left until dinner. Mincheol accessed the Hunter Community to kill time.

【Author : King Burger】

【Title : Newbies challenging the 6th Floor must read this.】

-Greetings. In this post, I’ll cover the precautions for the 6th Floor.

-I hope you passed the 5th Floor with good results. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t. Only a very few get rewards from the 5th Floor anyway.

-Starting from the 6th Floor, there’s a fork in the path. It doesn’t matter which way you go since they all converge later.

-So you’re saying it doesn’t matter which way I go?

-Anyone who says that should go bang their head right now. Or I’ll come after you with a club.

-The difficulty completely changes depending on which fork you take. In gaming terms, it’s like the difference between easy and Hell difficulty.

Mincheol nodded as he scrolled down.

As always, the information this person called King Burger provided was really useful.

Especially since it was the same nickname as his favorite hamburger brand ‘King Burger’, he liked it even more.

-If you enter the 1st fork, you’ll face goblins just like before. The location is also a forest. Everything is familiar.

-However, don’t feel relieved just because I said it’s easy. It’s only easy compared to the 2nd fork, but the 1st is dangerous too.

-Remember this. In the Tower, you can die if you let your guard down even a little. You must treasure your life.

-So what kind of place is the 2nd fork? Since no one will challenge the 2nd fork anyway, I’ll explain briefly.

-The 2nd fork takes place in a cave.

Cave?

Mincheol felt puzzled by this unexpected terrain.

-You have to explore a maze-like complex cave while searching for Quest items. Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

-But the real problem is the monsters that appear here. At the 2nd fork, golems show up.

-You all probably have a rough idea what golems are. They appear frequently in creative works. It’s exactly the golem you’re thinking of.

-The exact name is ‘Failed Golem.’ Don’t think it’s nothing special just because of the name. It’s really dangerous.

-To kill a golem, you need to destroy the core inside its body. But the golems that appear at the 2nd fork have the characteristic of forming their bodies by gathering soil and minerals.

-To destroy the core, you first need to pierce through the torso, but since it’s made of earth and stone, it’s hard to cut with bladed weapons and hard to smash with blunt weapons.

-Even if you manage to break the torso, it quickly restores itself since there’s soil everywhere. Doesn’t that sound annoying just hearing about it?

If this information was true, there was a high chance that Mincheol’s prized throwing technique wouldn’t work either.

Whatever he threw would just be blocked by the torso made of earth and stone.

-So you’re saying there’s no need to go to the 2nd fork? That’s right. But there are people who go there.

-Many of you probably don’t understand why anyone would go there. To explain the reason simply, it’s because there’s money to be made.

-At the 2nd fork, you can obtain various minerals. Rare metals are expensive enough to make you faint.

-You can’t leave out the golem cores either. They’re core materials for alchemy, so they trade for enormous prices.

At the mention of money, Mincheol felt curious.

After all, the biggest reason Mincheol climbed the Tower was for money.

‘It seems like I’m going to need a lot of money soon.’

He realized this while purchasing popular skills this time.

The fact that for Mincheol to become stronger, he needed that much more money.

To earn that kind of funds, he needed to increase his income even more than now.

‘But they say it’s the difference between easy and Hell difficulty…’

Making money was good, but he had no intention of risking his life for it.

Mincheol quietly put down his smartphone…

“Wait a minute.”

Mincheol shot up from his seat. He opened his status window and checked his unique skill.

【Auto Looting】

-Grade: Unique Skill.

-Description: Acquires designated items that exist within range.

-Designatable targets: 5.

-Range 500m.

-Additional ability: Acquires all objects within a cube (15cm×15cm×15cm).

The reason the 2nd fork was difficult was because of the soil and minerals covering the golem’s core.

And this time, thanks to the unique skill enhancement ticket, Mincheol had gained the ability to acquire objects within range.

“Could this possibly work…?”

Mincheol stared at his unique skill and fell deep into thought.

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