“All right, I got Super Strength! Hold on, I should check the application before using it. Super Strength… Super Strength… Here it is.”
‘Power is doubled while the skill is in use. However, the effect lasts only one minute, and has a ten minute cooldown before it can be used again. Market price, thirty million.’
I’m not even surprised by these prices anymore. I sure am growing.
Also, last time, it went for more because it hadn’t been put up for auction in a while. Going forward, I should consider these market prices instead.
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Name：Shouta Amachi
Agility：123 (+102)
Intelligence：90 (+69)
Luck：234
Skills：Level Gacha, Appraisal Lv2, Appraisal Obstruction Lv4, Automatic Mapping, Physical strengthening Lv3, Super Strength, Swift, Foresight, Throw Lv1, Fire Magic Lv1, Water Magic Lv1
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“I see, so it’s not something that’s active all the time, it’s limited. But if I can become stronger for a minute, it should still be a useful skill to turn things around when I’m in trouble.
And my level is sitting at eighteen… All right, I still have plenty of time, so let’s hunt some goblins while drawing another semi-circle. And this time, I’ll make sure there’s some distance between me and the corner when I hunt the hundredth one.
And so, I use Swift as I fill the map, heading to the corner where the stalkers spoke to me yesterday.
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“Oryah.”
The hundredth goblin has been slain, and I keep watching it. After a while, I see the smoke swelling, and it moves to the corner. So there’s no problem, because it really does spawn in the corner.
I kept that corner in my sights the whole time, so I can easily follow it too.
“And this rare monster smoke has been appearing every time. I guess it’s pretty much a sure thing when you have over two hundred Luck.”
I think as I watch the hobgoblin spawn.
“Guoooh!!”
“All right, let’s use Super Strength. Uoryah!!”
I decapitate the hobgoblin, sending its head away from its body. So this is double my power… I didn’t expect to just sever it like that…
It’s a bit sad how it went down as soon as it appeared, like it was a character in a show making a funny entrance.
【Level up】
【Leveled up from eighteen to twenty-two】
“Super Strength is incredible. It’s so powerful. I can really tell the difference it makes, and it’s definitely going to be useful against tougher monsters. If I had this when I fought that murder rabbit…”
I start to think about that, but shake my head.
“Well, even if I did, the iron sword wouldn’t have lasted long anyway. Not to mention that I sold it as a way to thank Maki for the way she treated me so well, and Aki for looking after me for three years.
That’s why I’m going around with this ‘ghost’ in hand too. Well… I ended up burdening them in the end though.”
There’s no point in thinking about ifs, I just have to trust the path I’m on. Not to mention that the tough fight with the murder rabbit helped me get closer to Maki.
“Well then, I leveled up, so let’s give the new gacha a try!”
I ignore the second steel sword, medium magic stone, and Super Skill orb in front of me, and instead activate Level Gacha.
And I press the only button on it, the ten spins one.
Clank claaaaaank!
Hn? I feel like the sound effect is different…
And then, one purple, four red, and five blue capsules come out.
『R Physical Strength ＋7』
『R Dexterity ＋6』
『R Constitution ＋6』
『R Magic Power ＋6』
『R Intelligence ＋8』
『SR Physical Strength ＋20』
『SR Agility ＋18』
『SR Intelligence ＋18』
『SR Skill: Physical Strengthening Lv1』
『SSR Constitution ＋40』
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Name：Shouta Amachi
Agility：126 (+120)
Intelligence：99 (+95)
Luck：242
Skills：Level Gacha, Appraisal Lv2, Appraisal Obstruction Lv4, Automatic Mapping, Physical strengthening Lv4, Super Strength, Swift, Foresight, Throw Lv1, Fire Magic Lv1, Water Magic Lv1
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“That was a sick improvement. And SSR gives forty stat points. Honestly, with skills this strong, I think I’m happier about stats at this point. Without the basic knowledge to use skills appropriately, there’s only so much I can do even if their effect doubles anyway.”
And as I feel like I’ve really gotten stronger, I turn to the dropped items. Then a question pops into my mind.
“What’s the difference between skills with levels and skills without them?”
I get the ones with levels. If you get them again, they get stronger, and so do their effects.
But skills without levels don’t grow. They’re finished. Or are they…
What if no one’s ever tested it because they didn’t want to waste a skill, but they actually do grow?
That temptation is alluring.
“Maybe I can’t use an orb again if I already have the skill. Could be… But if I do use it and there’s no change, that’s tens of millions down the drain…”
I struggle with this decision, but reach an answer in less than thirty seconds.
“If it doesn’t work, I just have to take down another one. Let’s do it! Let’s use the Super Strength orb!!”
The orb disappears, showing that it was used, and I quickly check my stats again.
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Name：Shouta Amachi
Agility：126 (+120)
Intelligence：99 (+95)
Luck：242
Skills：Level Gacha, Appraisal Lv2, Appraisal Obstruction Lv4, Automatic Mapping, Physical strengthening Lv4, Super Strength, Swift, Foresight, Throw Lv1, Fire Magic Lv1, Water Magic Lv1
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Nothing changed.
“Dammit!!”
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Maybe the level-less skill orbs (like Super Strength) only have a small chance of giving an additional benefit once the skill has already been acquired (example: 10% chance to boost physical strength by 5 points).
Or else there are just other, hidden criteria to upgrade them. While Level Gacha is an outlier in more ways than one, the fact remains that it is an unleveled skill that improved. Maybe the other unleveled skills require a specific “mission” to upgrade them. Or they could require other skills, like the secondary skill for strength and constitution would combine into a greater physical enhancement, or the ones for agility and dexterity would combine into a greater alacrity enhancement.
That is a waste!!
Thanks.