NABC Chapter 31
Chapter 31
Runes, skill books, materials, and so on.
Rewards from weekly dungeons and regular dungeons were usually nothing special.
Especially when it came to runes.
If you just kept spinning the wheel until a good option appeared, you might end up pulling a top-tier rune, and if you enhanced it with maximum stats, well...
This would become a "graduation rune".
While the value of a top-tier graduation rune was immense, it was ultimately something that could only be obtained through sheer luck and repetition.
But.
The rewards from the Tower of Trials were different.
They were rare!
At the very least, they were unusual.
Unique!
And sometimes they were one-of-a-kind.
In fact, there wasn't even a list of all the possible rewards, and new items kept popping up.
One such item was the B-rank Rainbow Snail.
The gift that Yoo Ji-ah gave to Baek Jin-woo's mother, Hwang Myeong-hee.
"What could this be?"
When Yoo Ji-ah left, Hwang Myeong-hee looked curiously at the snail slowly crawling along her arm.
Baek Jin-cheol chuckled.
"Read the skill description. Open the status window."
"Status window?"
As Hwang Myeong-hee muttered, information appeared in the air.
[Summoned Creature: Rainbow Snail]
[Species: Snail]
[Level: B-Rank (Rare)]
- Limited to 100 creatures worldwide.
[Level: 10]
[Stats]
Strength: 1, Intellect: 12, Stamina: 1, Agility: 1
HP: 1,000, MP: 100
Critical hit chance: 20%.
Critical damage: 20%
[Skills]
- Slime: Effective for whitening skin and improving wrinkles.
- Moisture: Keeps skin moisturised for a day.
- Regenerate: Helps skin recover.
"Oh my, what is this?"
Hwang Myeong-hee's eyes widened.
Even though she had become accustomed to the changing world, summoned creatures no longer surprised her...
Skin whitening?
Wrinkle improvement?
Was that really a proper use for a summoned creature?
Slowly, slowly!
The snail crawled onto Hwang Myeong-hee's hand.
Its slimy secretion began to spread over her hand, which was wrinkled from years of hard work.
[All the slime has been used up.]
[A 24-hour recharge is required.]
The amount of slime was minimal.
And there was no visible change.
It just felt sticky and wet.
"I guess it's like some kind of cosmetic. You know, like those snail creams."
"Haha, really? The world really has changed, hasn't it? Giving a summoned creature a cosmetic gift."
"Has it? It's cute though."
When Hwang Myeong-hee stroked the snail's shell, it squirmed briefly before returning to its summoning space.
She didn't think much of it and chatted happily with Baek Jin-cheol before going to bed.
And the next morning.
While she was doing the dishes, she prepared to go to work as usual.
"What... what is this?"@@@@
Hwang Myeong-hee was startled.
My hand?
Her left hand, as reflected in the mirror, was visibly different from her right hand.
A transformation of another dimension!
The skin tone had lightened, some wrinkles had faded and her rough hand had become noticeably softer.
All in just one day.
I look almost twenty years younger... How is that possible?
Her heart pounded with excitement as she realised it was the snail slime from yesterday.
What would happen if she applied it all over her body, including her face, every day?
Surely she would look younger.
Every woman wants to look beautiful.
Hwang Myeong-hee was no different.
I will make sure to use it carefully every day.
As she got up to prepare breakfast, her steps felt lighter than usual.
* * *
'Rainbow Snail.'
Still, it's a Tower of Trials reward, so it should be something special, right?
Although, to be honest...
There were quite a few duds.
Especially on the first floor, the lower levels.
The chance of getting a unique item was extremely low.
- My Lord. We will begin training.
Whoosh!
As Hun-gyo raised his sword and spoke.
- What? Right now?
Lamba, who was sitting on Baek Jin-woo's shoulder, pouted.
- What are you talking about? With our current strength, the one-eyed monster is too much. How could we think of resting with such poor skills? You'd better get ready as well.
- Yuk!
Clutching his head and turning his face away, Lamba had no choice but to float up.
Because of Hun-gyo's skill, "Charisma", he couldn't refuse the training.
Baek Jin-woo smiled.
Yes.
Who cares about the reward?
What mattered in the end was constant training and improvement.
No matter how good a reward was, it meant nothing if his summoned creatures weren't strong themselves.
Let's just open it.
Rip!
Baek Jin-woo ripped open the box.
[The 'Random Synthesis Blueprint Box' (B-rank) has been used!]
[Player 'Baek Jin-woo' has obtained a 'Guaranteed Summoning Scroll Blueprint' (B Rank)!
A Guaranteed Summoning Scroll?
What was this?
He immediately opened the information.
[Blueprint]
[Grade: B-Rank]
[Ability to Produce: Guaranteed Summoning Scroll (B-rank)]
[A scroll that guarantees the summoning of any desired B-rank creature can be created.]
[Required materials: King's Insignia (bound) x 1, B-rank Summoning Scroll x 3, C-rank Summoning Scroll x 10, World Tree Leaves x 10]
What the...
An entirely new type of summoning scroll.
It would allow him to summon any creature he wished?
Wait, does that mean...?
Could he even summon the EX-rank creatures he wanted?
This was a tricky one.
During "Battle of Summoners", there were two B-rank summons that JinuGod had received through patches.
Cyclone Slayer and Runecrafter.
Both were overpowered characters.
The question is whether the system recognises them as B-rank or EX-rank.
If they were classified as EX-rank?
Then he wouldn't be able to summon them even with this Summoning Scroll.
But.
You never know.
Lamba, Hun-gyo, and Poryong.
All three of them were EX-rank, yet they appeared in low-rank summoning scrolls.
This could mean that the system still classified them as E-rank or D-rank...
'Wow.
If he could summon Cyclone Slayer and Runecrafter?
That would be insane.
He was already overpowered...
But to add more?
Cyclone Slayer was a summon with absurd abilities in PvP.
And Rune Dwarf could create any rune or option he wanted, given enough time and materials.
A summon that could create graduation runes in a game where those were the endgame content?
Of course, it was a character that had to be nerfed in balance patches.
But the materials are hellish.
[Required materials: King's Insignia (bound) x 1, High-level Summoning Scroll x 3, High-level Summoning Scroll x 10, World Tree Leaves x 10].
World Tree Leaves are a rare reward found in the Saturday Dungeon.
The King's Insignia will be difficult.
The King's Insignia was a bound item.
It was a material item dropped by defeating the king of a species every ten floors in the Tower of Trials.
Of course, being bound meant that it couldn't be traded.
In other words, to make this scroll now, he'd have to defeat the One-Eyed Monster (S-Rank)!
I'll try to make it.
Once it was created, he could see if he could summon the two of them or not.
Cyclone Slayer and Runecrafter.
Deciding which one to summon first could come later.
"Let's go."
Another day of consistent training began.
He planned to move quickly and conquer the tenth floor of the Tower of Trials.