Chapter 25: Evan's upgrade
Chapter 25: Evan's Upgrade
After both Ash and Robin entered the market building, a window popped up in front of Robin and Ash.
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Do you want to trade using the text feature of the market-building?
Or
Trade with both parties' physical presence (extra mana charge because physical presence costs mana from the market-building, and recovering mana is necessary).
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Ash and Robin selected option 1. After that, they browsed the market-building's trading platform and the pill category, where they could see various types of pills and their descriptions. Ash found some interesting pills in the pill trading section.
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Name: Recovery Pill (consumable resource)
Status: Average (pill)
Ability: Helps to recover mana instantly after taking, highly useful for level 0 persons, gives 100% mana recovery instantly, and useful for level 1 persons, giving 60% recovery in a minute.
Level: 1
Description: Made by a level 1 alchemist.
Price: 10 (mana points)
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Name: Healing Pill (consumable resource)
Status: Average (pill)
Ability: Helps to heal a person from injury quickly.
Level: 1
Description: Made by a level 1 alchemist.
Price: 30 (mana points)
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After seeing the recovery and healing pills in the market store, Ash was thinking of buying the healing pill for Ram and the recovery pill for emergencies in a battle. But he considered his finances and knew that he had only 62 mana points.
50 mana points were for purchasing the red pill, leaving him with 12 mana points for buying other things.
Now,
Ash felt deep in his mind that his poverty before transmigration had attacked him again in this world. After a few words of encouragement by Ash to himself in his heart, he decided on a second new goal in this life: never to be poor again. His first goal in this world was to create the most powerful altar city in the Eldros world that nobody had seen before.
After Ash began to search for the red pill in the pill search column,
a few moments later, Ash found the red pill in the search section, where he cross-checked the red pill's status.
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Name: Red Pill (consumable resource)
Status: Good (pill)
Ability: 99% break-through chance from level 0 to level 1.
Level: 1
Description: Made by a level 2 alchemist for breaking through from level 0 to level 1 when he was teaching his student about making pills.
Price: 50 (mana points)
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Then, Ash bought the red pill for Evan. Later, both Ash and Robin searched for useful items under the price of 12 mana points. But they tried to find one and did not find any useful items under the price of 12 mana points.
After both Ash and Robin exited the market building, Ash's face told the story of his depressed and dull mood because he was not able to buy various useful items.
After all, Ash knew deep in his mind that "all useful items are life-saving items in this dangerous world."
So, having a dull and sad mood was normal for his nature.
Ash's mood lightened with Robin's encouragement, and Ash thought he would buy those items later after earning lots of mana points from monster hunting.
Then,
Ash and Robin met with Ram near the market building entrance, where Ram seemed to be waiting for them.
Ash said to Ram, "How is Evan's mana refining going?"
Ram: "My lord, Evan is doing better, and I think he only needs a pill after that Evan's upgrade is absolute."
Ash: "Good."
Then he said, "Let's go meet with Evan and deliver the red pill for Evan's breakthrough."
A few minutes later, Ash entered the altar room and delivered the red pill. He said to Evan, "Best of luck with your level upgrade."
Evan: "Thank you, my lord, and I will always remember your kindness to me."
Ash nodded, and he tried to see Evan's status.
A window popped up in front of him.
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Name: Evan (altar subject)
Age: 18
Status: Healthy
Abilities: None
Level: 0 (98/100 mana mist level 0)
Loyalty: 85
Weapon: None
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After Ash said to Evan, "I put your axe and shield near the exit door of the altar, so after the level upgrade, get your weapon near the altar room's door,"
Evan: "Okay, my lord."
After that, Ash left the altar room because Evan needed a silent environment for the level upgrade.
Ash was thinking in his mind that Evan was like a junior brother to him and his first subordinate, so he was feeling a deep satisfaction in his heart for playing a role in Evan's level upgrade.
Then, he met with Ram and Robin, and he saw that both Ram and Robin were excited and nervous. Then he questioned them, "Why are you nervous and excited?"
Again, Ash learned that they were thinking about Evan's level upgrade, which is why they seemed so excited and nervous.
Ash said to Ram and Robin, "Don't be nervous about Evan's upgrade because I gave him a red pill that has a 99% breakthrough chance from level 0 to level 1."
Then, a sudden window popped up in front of Ash.
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Time left before monster attacks: 7 hr. 30 min
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Seeing the window pop up, Ash informed Ram and Robin of this information and decided to order Ram to go to the mana tree to heal his injury and prepare for the monster battle.
After that, Ash thought in his mind that Evan's level upgrade would be completed before the monster attack, so he felt that it was good news for him.
Then, both Ash and Robin decided to go out of the city to check and maintain the pit traps.
15 minutes later,
Ash and Robin checked all the pit traps, then they began to construct more pit traps for monster defense against the new monster invaders. They also fixed some pit traps for hunting monsters.
Again, Ash tried to see "how many woods he had for creating more pits."
So, Ash said, "Status window."
A window popped up in front of his eyes.
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City: Nexus City
Ability: Territory defense doubled
Description: In the event of city defense, all attack power and defense power of people and buildings become double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (woods * 1000, stone * 250, 50 * mana core (level 0))
Production: Mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: Very small village
Mana (money): 12
Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level
Building: Guide mark * 1 (active), Market (5 free trades per day)
Blueprint: Low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25)
Warehouse: Wood * 39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1 * 1, Stone * 10
Population: 4
Specialty: Mana tree (produces level 0 mana * 4 per day)
Resource point: Stone Mountain level 1 (310 * mined / 1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (925/1000)
Description: City's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (6000/10000)
Description: City's defense power level against enemies
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Seeing the quantity of wood, Ash decided to use all the wood for pit making because monster attacks were becoming more severe after every successful defense of the city.
Ash said to Robin to dig the soil, and he started sharpening the wood for pit creation.
Again, both Ash and Robin started to do their work very carefully.
2 hours later,
Robin dug the soil, and Ash sharpened the wood with his knife. Then Robin waited silently there. An hour later, Ash completed the creation of the pit.
Again, Ash and Robin placed the pit in the soil for creating the pit trap. A few minutes later, both completed the creation of the pit trap.
Ash decided to see the remaining time left before the monster attack, so he said in his mind, "Time left."
A window popped up in front of him.
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Time left before monster attacks: 4 hr. 05 min
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After they entered Nexus City and rested for a few minutes, exactly 10 minutes, Ash started to practice with his knife, and Robin was also doing small push-ups there.
Then Ash decided to see Robin's status. After that, a new window popped up in front of Ash.
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Name: Robin (altar subject)
Age: 48
Status: Healthy
Abilities: None
Level: 2 (10/100 mana mist level 2)
Loyalty: 45
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Seeing the status of Robin, Ash knew that Robin's loyalty had increased toward him. Ash began to ponder, "How to increase the altar's level quickly?" He thought he needed to make lots of mana mist because in the market-building,
he found various types of resources and blueprints for the city's development and magical weapons for purchase, but he didn't have enough money to speed up the city's development. He felt that his only trump card was the mana tree, but it was in the infancy period for the growth of the city, so he couldn't depend on the mana tree.