Chapter 22 - Old Companions and New Problems
The taste in his mouth was sowhat bitter.
The so-called "survivor camp" set up on the subway platform—while they called it a camp—was really no different from a gathering of the holess.
Newspapers, mats, the bare floor... it didn’t matter what it was. If there was a spot to lie down, that was considered a resting place.
Jhin picked a nearby pillar and decided to settle there.
The hard floor sent a chill straight into his body, but he didn’t pay it any mind. Honestly, this place was still rather comfortable for him.
’Compared to Trial nexus, anything is better...’
At the sa ti, another thought crossed his mind.
’I miss that damn semi-basent now.’
He had lived through hell in that place, yet now even the idea of going back to it seed like a luxury.
Now, not even a semi-basent—it had co to lying directly on the underground platform’s cold concrete. The situation felt almost laughable.
He thought he had lived a "nothing" life.
But in hindsight, it hadn’t been all that bad after all.
"Let’s rest for now."
With nothing particular to do, he leaned his body against the pillar and closed his eyes. To be honest, it wasn’t like he wasn’t tired.
His first dungeon. His first kill.
The battles themselves hadn’t been physically exhausting, but ntally, it had been a heavy and burdenso day.
He was a little worn out.
’Ah, co to think of it.’
He suddenly realized that he hadn’t even checked the rewards he got after defeating the dungeon boss.
How busy had he been to forget sothing like that?
’Might as well check now.’
Jhin opened his inventory.
One item stood out prominently: a "pure white sword."
The sword is imbued with the deep resentnt of Master of Chaos, who died unjustly and tragically.
Required Level: 120
Attack Power: 175
Grade: B
- Frostbite: Imbue the blade with a chilling frost.
Only one thought crossed his mind.
’A pie in the sky.’
No matter how good its stats were, no matter how fancy the exclusive skill sounded...
It was a useless burden if he couldn’t even use it right now.
’Even if I dumped every unused stat point into leveling up, I’d barely get past level 100.’
For equipnt, "level restriction" was essentially a shorthand: it ant that your total stat points needed to exceed a certain threshold.
In this case, a level 120 requirent ant you had to accumulate at least 600 total stat points.
Jhin stared at the relatively small and rough longsword tucked into the corner of his inventory.
Looks like he would be relying on that one for a while longer.
’The Tidalcatcher’s Spear was pretty good too.’
For an item requiring level 80, it was rare to have its own exclusive skill. Though it wasn’t high-level gear, the Tidalcatcher’s Spear was imnsely valuable due to its rarity.
Well, that’s why it had been given as a server shutdown reward.
Jhin shrugged, letting go of any lingering attachnt. Levels could always be raised, and weapons could be upgraded by hunting lower-tier monsters.
’Maybe I should check the other shutdown rewards too.’
Two of the server shutdown rewards he had selected were sitting untouched in his inventory. Items he hadn’t bothered to inspect properly, thinking he wouldn’t be able to use them yet anyway.
But seeing Caleb wield the Tidalcatcher’s Spear despite not even being level 80...
Maybe it was possible to use shutdown rewards even if the level didn’t exactly match.
Sure, you might suffer penalties, like with martial might’s Physique, but...
’The problem is that what I brought back isn’t just a weapon.’
He pulled out one of the rewards from his inventory: a book.
As he checked its information, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows.
Cannot be used without the proper qualifications.
Attack: 0
Grade: L (Legendary)
Breaking the seal requires qualifications.
It was completely unusable for now.
Jhin sighed and carefully put the item back into his inventory.
To be honest, he had sowhat expected this.
After all, it was a Legendary-grade item—one of the main reasons he had climbed to the number one rank.
This level of restriction was only natural.
The silver lining was that, unlike others, Jhin clearly rembered how to break the seal on this book.
’Looks like I’ll have to go through hell again soti soon.’
He pushed the sealed book aside and moved on to check his remaining shutdown reward.
This one might be an even bigger issue.
Because it wasn’t just an item.
The mont he pulled it out cautiously from his inventory, he saw it was a stuffed toy shaped like a cute squirrel.
"Long ti no see."
And then sothing completely unexpected happened.
[’Kimmy’ responds to its master’s will.]
"...Huh?"
[’Kimmy’ is starving and clamors for food.]
[’Kimmy’ strongly insists on being fed proper nutrition.]
Then the stuffed toy spun around, looking in all directions.
Kimmy spoke in a rather ridiculous tone.
[’Kimmy’ cheers at the delicious slls coming from everywhere.]
The true identity of Kimmy was a magic beast: Gregory.
The one and only pet that had stuck with K in Exodia, never leaving his side for even a mont.
But this didn’t make any sense.
Because there was only one thing that could make Kimmy react.
’A dungeon.’
Kimmy was a magic beast that fed on dungeons.
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