Why Is There Still a Slice-of-Life World?

Beneath the prompt window, there was also an explanation about the "Special Mission World Slot." Zuke clicked on it and quickly understood what this "Special Mission World Slot" was all about.

Simply put, this was an independent slot separate from the permanent mission worlds, and the mission worlds within this slot weren't fixed—they could be refreshed.

The "Special Mission World" could be refreshed once per day. If the mission world that appeared wasn't desirable, one could use this refresh opportunity to change it to another world.

However, once you entered this mission world, it would issue a "Special Mission." Until the mission was completed, this world could no longer be refreshed.

Moreover, this "Special Mission" was different from the "Main Missions"—it had a time limit and had to be completed within that timeframe. Otherwise, the mission would be considered a failure.

Once the "Special Mission" of the "Special Mission World" was completed, the world would automatically refresh. No new missions would generate, and re-entry would no longer be possible.

"A slot that can refresh the world once a day, but if you enter the world, you must complete the mission before it can be refreshed again."

Zuke nodded—although this wasn't exactly a fourth mission world, it effectively increased the number of mission worlds he could explore, even adding quite a few at once.

But there was a downside: these special mission worlds weren't permanent. If Zuke encountered a mission world that deeply interested him, he wouldn't be able to explore it for long.

Unless he deliberately delayed completing the "Special Mission" to keep the mission world around… But since the "Special Mission" had a time limit, he couldn't stall for long.

Of course, failing a "Special Mission" wouldn't incur any penalties; it would just make Zuke feel like he'd missed out—he believed that completing many "Special Missions" would eventually unlock achievements.

"Well, at least this allows me to explore many new mission worlds. It's not a loss."

After thinking it over, Zuke felt this newly unlocked feature wasn't bad. Although he couldn't explore a world long-term, some worlds only needed a single exploration to be fully experienced.

He even suspected that these "Special Mission Worlds" might be short stories from the original works.

After all, Dragon Ball, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and the Type-Moon series were undoubtedly long-running series or large franchises, adding significant exploration value.

Meanwhile, some works were short by nature and had little value in repeated exploration. A single mission would exhaust their potential, leaving them as mere decorations in the permanent mission world slot.

Could it be that those short stories were stuffed into the "Special Mission World Slot"?

With that thought, Zuke returned to the mission world selection interface—he still had one playable attempt left today, and about four hours of game time remained.

Originally, he planned to enter the Dragon Ball world to continue his training, but now he was curious to see what the newly unlocked "Special Mission World" was all about.

Soon, the selection screen appeared before Zuke.

[Respected Zuke, please choose the mission world you wish to enter:

Dragon Ball (Time not adjusted);JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Main mission generating);TYPE-MOON (Main mission generating)]**

[Respected Zuke, your Special Mission World is:

CLANNAD (Refresh attempts left today: 1)]

[Respected Zuke, you have 1 play attempt remaining today]

"Why did a slice-of-life world show up!?"

Although he knew the refresh for the special mission world was random, he hadn't expected to get something this out of place right off the bat.

CLANNAD, one of Key's well-known works, had touched many viewers deeply, and Zuke actually liked this work quite a bit—even though it was somewhat old.

But what use did he have for this mission world? Was it supposed to help him relax from all the battles? Wasn't his real-world life already mundane enough?

Okay, sure—there were evil spirits, angels, and dragons… maybe not that mundane.

But CLANNAD actually had some special elements too, like the "Light Orbs" that could grant wishes.

Though it sounded impressive, Zuke definitely wasn't interested in entering the mission world to collect "Light Orbs."

Because the condition for "Light Orbs" to appear was to bring happiness to others, and a single "Light Orb" was useless. One needed to collect a large number to even have a chance at making a wish…

In the story, it was Okazaki Ushio from a parallel world who used the "Light Orbs" to reverse time and rewrite the future of the protagonist's family.

"This world is completely useless to me. Next."

Zuke reluctantly chose to refresh this special mission world—there was no helping it, slice-of-life worlds like this were just pointless.

This was way too random.

In the next moment, the selection interface for the special mission world changed.

[Respected Kobold, your Special Mission World is:

Bakuman (Refresh attempts left today: 0)]

"…"

Zuke fell silent, gaining a new understanding of just how random the special mission world slot could be.

They really threw everything in here—if the permanent mission worlds were mostly works where you could learn new abilities, the special mission worlds were a total mixed bag.

Bakuman was also a work set in modern society, telling the story of the protagonists striving to become successful manga artists.

It was passionate, sure, but not even as "special" as CLANNAD—at least CLANNAD had those wish-granting "Light Orbs."

Zuke admitted he'd been too naive to have any expectations for the "Special Mission World." He was starting to worry that tomorrow he might refresh into Tom and Jerry.

"I'd better just go train in the Dragon Ball world. I'm still waiting to finish mastering Moro's magic techniques so I can devour him."

His good mood from evolving his Stand in the JoJo world was almost completely ruined by the special mission worlds. Feeling a bit annoyed, Zuke chose to enter the Dragon Ball world.

As for why he didn't enter these special mission worlds… he mainly worried that these slice-of-life worlds would assign some really annoying special tasks.

It wasn't hard to guess—these mission worlds definitely wouldn't give "Defeat XXX" type battle tasks. They'd most likely be related to the theme of the work.

If he entered the world of Bakuman, the special mission might be "Become the top-ranked manga in Shonen Jump." Who had time for that nonsense?

To be continued…

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