While wondering about how rewards are given as a cost and effect she thought of the reward that she would be given , which is the death of a world tree ' What if there was a reward for killing it ? Solo can take the rewards of killing a boss if my contribution rate is high enough '
While the reward for killing a world tree seemed so tempting to Yuni , she avoided the thought ' I might make a lot of enemies because of that , but if I'm staying silent about the information , what do they think I have '
She figured that the massacre was not gonna be enough for them to gift her a branch and the storybook does leak some things , but not everything ' Maybe the prince has something that he wants to hide , probably not anything to do with the massacre anymore '
Yuni put that topic aside , seeing as she is gonna get the world tree branch soon ' For now , let's figure out how I can make stat stones , they'll be useful to enchanting my weapons with blessings from Balance and I can use them to upgrade Balance if I want to '
She takes out the instructions and reads it ' So I can make some by making people do training ' Yuni looked at the setup of the gym that she needed to make to get some stat stones .
The gym would take a percentage of the growth of its members to be used to make some stat stones ' There's even other exercises that aren't just physical . It's too bad I can't make the pure ones and it does say that they can only be made through EXP farming , but if I could find a monster spawner , I might be able to make some '
Yuni looked for Damo and showed him the instructions " You want me to build this ? " Yuni nodded " Okay but it would take a while " "It's fine , I want two built" " But what about House's upgrades ? "
House had several upgrades added to their structure already "You've done so much for them that they've become a war machine" " Okay I'll work on this but what is it for ? " "For these" Yuni showed some stat stones to Damo .
" What are they ? " "they can be used to make you stronger , I'm planning to make more so that I can give them to Balance" " Those weighing scales ? " "Yes if you give them a lot of things they can bless you"
" Won't it hurt ? " Damo thought associating bless with anything holy "No they are very neutral on the matter of blessings" " Oh , Then I'll make this room as soon as possible " "Prioritize the one inside the castle for now"
Yuni opened the portal to the castle and Damo started throwing all the materials needed ' I guess I'll eat out for lunch , those elves will probably take a while until they send me the world tree branch , they better make it big '
Grasil took note of this and decided there was no reason to ignore such a thing and asked the world tree " Good morning world tree , I hope I can have a branch from you "
The world tree snapped off a glowing branch and Grasil didn't take notice about it ' It looks like the world tree is rejuvenating ' Grasil smiled and took the branch away .
Yuni reads the Grasil's storybook , figuring that the world tree wouldn't show any symptoms or Grasil would've figured it out for the whole time ' Fame is great for information , but even that information can have a limit '
She farms some more reward instances so that she can keep her sales ' Maybe there are clues around the city to tell me what the next quest is , the library itself has a lot of information . It did give me some clues through a storybook ' Yuni exits the challenge office and heads for the library .
" Clues for the next quest ? " Yuni nodded and the Librarian looked around " I can tell you but you can't tell anyone else " ' Oh I didn't think another NPC not from the query office , would give info , must be cause of the fame ' "You have my silence" they confirmed it through the storybook and told Yuni .
" There's been some movement with the rest of the people " they cautiously looked at Yuni's storybook just to be sure and watched the words being censored " All of us are packing our things to leave the city and go somewhere else " ' So the location of the next quest is here ? '
"What is it , the purge ? When all crimes are legal" The librarian laughed " No , it's not that , I can only tell you this much . Maybe you can try to ask the query office , they are allowed to say a lot , so maybe you can ask them , but the price will be high , but maybe they could give you a discount "
The query office was bustling and they accommodated Yuni quickly "I wanna ask what the next quest is about ?" " You will have to keep this confidential then " "I will" " It will cost more too " "My wallet has more than enough "
" Then you may ask " "I heard that NPC's are leaving , Why are you migrating ? Is it a push factor or a pull factor ?" " Push " "Elaborate" Yuni pushed some money out .
" It is because there will be a quest that will be a raid season , we are leaving under the excuse that there is work elsewhere and will return once we finish the work outside which means the end of raid season "
"Anything else ?" Yuni pushed more money " No this is all we can give " she sighed and takes the money back "Then takes for the info" Yuni leaves and the readers wondered what the info was ' Since they can't give any information about the raids I'll have to search for some clues but the problem is how can I do that '
Yuni thinks of Balance and figured they could be useful ' I'll eat outside first , maybe I'll be able to figure out more information if I eavesdrop on people's conversation ' Yuni arrived at a restaurant and everyone was starting to whisper .
' They are probably cautious because I did become a crowned demon ' Yuni ate and thinks about the lack of people coming to beg for her to take them to the demon realm .
' That guy Haggis probably was the one who took care of that , he did submit applications on people's behalf , but it is annoying that he expects me to find work for them '
She thinks of how some talents can never be unearthed because she doesn't interact with people that much ' Talent doesn't need to be exploited , but if there are some that show themselves , I will accept them , but I have very high standards '
These words were being written in her book and she gets an idea ' What if I could make use of this , I have the stat stone maker and I could make the gym accessible , but since the NPCs are evacuating , maybe I'll do that after raid season . Moreover , I'm not sure if I'll be staying in the same place all the time and from the looks of it , items are hard to transfer , unlike money '
She recalled that N/A had two reward instances ' I forgot that N/A also includes skills too ' she assumed that skill points can also be generated ' Forget skill points , it might just be the entire skill book . I could make some money with this '
She accepted and found that it was instructions for the creation of skill books ' this will be useful ' she thinks of how much she will be able to gain by selling them ' First , let's see how I can get them first . There must be some kind of condition '
Yuni reads the instruction ' I can make a facility but I need to use the crown of knowledge ? Is it because it's knowledge instead ? ' Yuni looked at the cost of applying this .
' It's a lot , but I bet I'll be able to get back the money very quickly but the problem is a lack of shelves for me to display it , so maybe I could ask for an investment or ask a store to buy from me '
The bookstore sells books with information but also skill books to any of the customers " Oh customer Yuni , what would you like ? " "you know what I want , I have an opportunity for you" " Ehh ? What are you talking about "
"No use playing dumb , I know you've read the book" " Ahh , we would love to purchase some rights to the books , but they don't seem to be on demand yet " ' I knew you'd say that '
"That's not the only kinda of book , I have high-level skills like this illusion magic book I got from the Idol" " Ehm it is tempting " "Darkness magic" The NPC faltered as Yuni gave more books of her understanding .
"Maybe I could give out the mind's eye" " Okay I agree . How much do you need " ... Yuni mentally whistles as her wallet regained some digits ' That NPC knows how to do business , going as far as to contact the main branch for money '
She thought of keeping the stat stones production to herself since they were very useful to her ' Though the skill books only give them the base skill if they want to increase proficiency , they'll need talent . '
Yuni arrived home and felt Haggis sitting by the porch "What are you doing ?" upon seeing the text appear , Haggis looked up to see Yuni " I want to ask if you would let me work on these stat stone production "
' He's gonna volunteer ? ' ' She doesn't know much , but being stuck in a lower level gives me time to explore it , it's how that guy was able to go beyond that because his growth was slow and with my level of talent , I'll need that advantage '
"Why ?" " You're not agreeing to help ? " "Of course I'm not , these facilities hinder your growth , so explain yourself Haggis" Haggis thought of his reasons and the real ones were too dangerous to reveal , even more so through the storybook .
" I just thought it would be nice " "Rejected I planned to use demons to do it , they make much higher quality stat stones" ' Dang it , I really need that gym ' " I'll pay you " ' Paying to work ??? '
This got Yuni curious as to why Haggis wanted to do such a thing that would set him back for that ' If I recall correctly that guy had the challenge of Sluggish , it was sort of a punishment , but also had a benefit if I could imitate the conditions '
"Fine , I'll accept payment , but don't expect a lot of gain" ' I would've paid him , but to think he would just do it for free ' " I'll come tomorrow morning , then " Haggis leaves and Yuni goes in ' What's the next dream gonna be like now ? '
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Yuni found herself inside someone's body , but couldn't tell who it was ' It sounds peaceful , which means something is gonna happen ' as the character walked around , Yuni sensed that her surroundings were feeling familiar .
They walked into a place and ordered some food ' Hmm it's this city's special ' Yuni thought that the city's food was just meant to make them unique , not to help discern the location .
' I should try each city's special if this was gonna be the system's way of dropping clues ' Yuni suddenly heard about a raid boss spawning ' Oh this must be a clue or more specifically , a kind of dream that lets me see the future or something '
She figured she should pay attention and listened as the players all gathered into a crowd " We've just learned that the raid boss is going to be a giant monster , they can be calmed if you give it some people per day "
' Oh so nonchalant about it ' Yuni witnessed as many and many people were being sacrificed to feed the beast and another tragedy came " It wants more ? " " WHAT DO YOU MEAN ? IT WAS LESS YESTERDAY "
' Now that I think about it , this city seems to be different from the one I know about . There are fewer people and they're weaker ' Yuni figured this dream must be from the past , in which the players were much weaker .
" Maybe we should've fought against it " Yuni recognized the voice and located them ' Haggis ? ' She listened as Haggis rallied everyone up and fought against the monster ' This is just weird now , the players were much weaker and it's not the past because Haggis is here ? '
As the character she inhabited fought with everyone else to kill the raid boss , Yuni tries to understand why Delirium gave her a dream in which the players were much weaker and how the dynamics were much different .
" I see if you want that , then I can help you " Yuni heard Carpion's voice and sensed several demons summoned , but were devoured as they cursed Caprion for summoning them ' So this should be a possible future then , but one where I wasn't around '
Yuni figured the dream was gonna end by the time the raid boss timer was done ' But why is Caprion over there and how did Haggis come in contact with him ? ' Yuni decided to leave the thoughts later .
Caprion suddenly lost control of the raid boss after failing to feed it anything and before Yuni could take control to fight ' What ? ' Yuni was confused as to why she couldn't take control .
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' So it's telling me to stay put , there's nothing for me to do other than gathering information ' her character was devoured and Yuni felt her body reduced into tiny and digestible bits , killing the character but leaving Yuni trapped in the body .
' Now that's just weird , but I guess this kind of pain is something anyone would faint from ' as the character's flesh fell into the stomach .
Yuni wondered when the dream would end ' Will I be digested into feces and experience a thousand years just to test my patience ? '
She felt the raid boss digest the bits of flesh and remove the impurities , leaving behind stones ' Hey , these are stat stones ' Yuni thought of her recent acquisition of N/A's progress .
' But it's still weird they're sending this kind of information to me , also I'm pretty lucky to get N/A . Even though I just didn't like to use skills because the previous systems I experienced didn't have something like skillbooks . Stat points are amazing , but I never understood how to make them , so maybe I should implement the stat stones into my system when I clear this game . '
As the stat stones were taken by the raid boss , it burped and Yuni traveled outside ' It's still not down yet ? ' a map appeared in front of Yuni and she checked it ' Oh there's gonna be a raid around my place too ? '
Yuni decided to memorize the information and collect as much data on what kind of raid boss there will be ' It also looks like the raids has some kind of barrier that keeps players who were inside from exiting '
Yuni checked the raids that will spawn around House and figured ' I can leave it to them . Damo made House too powerful , House might become the raid boss instead ' as she was thinking ' No way that can happen right ? '
As she thought of that not-so-unrealistic possibility , she decided to search for how Raid bosses are made , but the information doesn't appear at all ' that's too bad ' Yuni set the thought aside and thought of how the raid bosses appear .
' There is a giant bird at the mountain nearby and there are other types of raids which are spawned as a group , these are mostly the animated dead elves and are the closes to House . '
She realizes that the raid bosses are dependent on the location ' It seems that the raid bosses are dependent on the location , but the strengths are a bit different , the city's raid boss is the hardest to kill , considering it increases and it does take advantage of a city's poor decision-making . '
She grades the raids and their difficulties ' Maybe in the city , it is a singular raid boss that takes advantage of the division of power as groups of people tend to help themselves . But it's different outside , there are fewer people , so the raids can't take as much advantage of the division but maybe it's because they are fewer that the raids are much easier outside '
Yuni found the raid contribution increasing as groups of parties that were outside had managed to defeat the elves and fight against the giant bird by hiding in the caves .
' House can easily take care of the elves , but they might get too used to trapping them . I am getting the world tree branch , so I could just use the elves as fertilizer ' she checked the other bosses like in some small dungeons , which were spitting out monsters for the players to kill .
' Delirium is quite great in giving me a lot of information and maybe I should prepare to take control of that beast first . Its ability to turn people into stat stones means they feed on that , so I should be able to control it , Caprion was able to do the same by feeding it demons '
Yuni wondered what had happened to the demons and figured they were digested and turned into stat stones too ' I might have to figure out how to make those special stat stones , I might be able to make some with just the demon essence but the problem is I lack the thing to do it so I'll have to progress N/A which means I have to clear the quest '
The next day , Yuni lets Haggis into the castle and uses the gym to generate stat stones ' It's a bit weird to want that kind of experience ' Yuni goes out to clear some quests to progress N/A .
Haggis was very happy to finally find a way to earn the challenge Sluggish ' This is the one that made them the strongest in spirit , it's an undetected advantage if you think about it ' while Haggis seems so happy that the information from before the regression was going to be useful .
By the time it was lunch , he wondered ' Why haven't I gotten it ? ' Haggis thinks of how it was acquired according to his memories ' It was a punishment but that's not the only way challenges can be acquired right ? '
He couldn't contact the other person from the other server and so he thought maybe he had to try harder . He was panting from doing his best but was confused as to why no challenge had not appeared yet .
He was gonna be stuck confused because the challenge of Sluggish isn't something he could acquire or rather , he already has N/A , which already puts him at a worse position because Sluggish is just an easier challenge of N/A .
To put it in much simpler terms , Yuni's challenge of Blind is the harder challenge for the eyes , while the easier challenge is Cataracts . There are also a few other challenges that Yuni has , which have much easier conditions too .
Yuni returned home for dinner and found elves inside her basement ' Normally , I would tell House to stop trapping the elves , but raid season is gonna force us to face them , so the best thing I can do is let House do what they're already doing '
Yuni received the branch and gave away Grasil's storybook ' Now let's use this ' Yuni goes into the storybook and appears at the castle . She found Haggis still working and checked the production .
' Wow , he worked almost all day ' "Are you okay ?" " I'm fine " Haggis's voice was accompanied by stress as he exercised ' Maybe he's a masochist ' "I'll just pay for your contribution to the manufacturing"
Yuni was more than happy to pay Haggis with how much he was making " Thank you " Haggis said and Yuni checked the vending machine , which she had told Damo to add ' I intended for that to be an advertisement , but it looks like Haggis was drinking almost everything '
She was surprised how little was left ' Maybe I don't have to waste my time in here , I was planning to farm some stat stones . But with him making a lot , there is no reason to do so . Moreover , with the storybook showing my readers the cost , some might be looking for some employment '
Yuni looked forward to tomorrow and went to the forest where she planted the world tree branch "Caprion make sure to tend to this one , It's a branch of the world tree I traded with the elves"
" Will it be okay ? " "It's already adapted to the demon realm's atmosphere . I'll be bringing some fertilizers , which I will say are very locally sourced and guilt-free too" ' They are animated corpses '
Caprion didn't question what this means and figured it must be related to findign some organic material to be composted . But Grasil , who was reading this , thought she was going to attack the elves .
' I was worried that the branch would wither , but it's adapting pretty well with the demon realm . I have already asked Haggis to leave and have also asked him to bring some workers in to increase the production of stat stones . Still can't believe he agreed to that '
Yuni thought of sleeping in the demon realm and recalled that she never get to do that ' Who knows , maybe there might be something different about sleeping here , maybe something much easier to do than being digested ? ' while thinking of that , she recalled how demons can be digested in both the recent dream and her adventure in the previous major quest .
' Now I'm kinda curious , do demons also burp out the demon souls just like how I burped out demon essence ? ' as she thinks of that disgusting topic , she went to sleep .
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She sniffed the air , feeling that her body was still the same ' There's a hint of demon essence , so am I in a location that is near the demon realm ' " Hello " Yuni turned to the voice and wondered who it was .
"Who ?" " I am Narra , mother of Grasil " "Where is this ?" " You are inside the world tree branch that my son traded to you for confidentiality "
' Okay , now that's unexpected ' "Will the branch be okay in here ?" " Yes , it will adapt to the new environment as it should have when it came to our world " "But why are you here and more specifically , why is it the mother of Grasil here ?"
" I want you to save him " ' Save him from what exactly ' " That child has been in contact with the outsiders too much , he's learned arts that aren't supposed to be learned by him . "
Yuni decided to listen to it since it was a good souvenir to give to Ceil " He's hurting the world tree , while his method saved it . It's endangering the spirits within it " "Spirits ?" " They are what elves become after death , you can think of it as an angel or devil , but leans to the world than moralities "
' So there can be evil spirits ' "Is his method involving massacre to feed the world tree ?" " Yes , but if you want to ask more , but you have to make a promise to me not to tell anyone " ' So I'll have to shut up '
Yuni checks her storybook , which didn't record the dream ' Guess this must be the silence I agreed to , but Narra will probably want me to make another oath since she doesn't know much '
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