18 Chapter 17 (1/2)

Just as Jin-Ah shook her head, Jin-Woo suddenly pushed forward an umbrella to her.

”Why an umbrella?”

Jin-Ah received it and took a look at the sky. As it was still early dawn, the sky remained dark, but it seemed to be more or less clear and cloudless.

”But, it doesn't look like it's going to rain, though?”

”Take it anyway.”

”But, it's heavy, you know?”

”Take it with you regardless. Besides, it's a folding type umbrella so it doesn't even weigh anything. Stop exaggerating, will ya?”

Slam.

Jin-Woo then closed the door.

”Che.... Acting as he feels like.”

Jin-Ah lightly kicked the door a couple of times to express her disgruntlement, folded the umbrella and shoved it inside the empty space in her school bag, and turned around to leave.

'Hang on....'

Her steps came to an abrupt halt after she remembered the difference in the eye levels between her and her brother. Something was rather odd.

His eye level had definitely risen up higher compared to before.

”Do guys continue to grow taller even in their twenties?”

Eii, there was no way that could be true....

Jin-Ah shook her head again and hurriedly walked towards her school.

*

Click.

Jin-Woo locked the door and summoned his Inventory.

”Storage.”

Storage, 'inven', Inventory.

He discovered it through various experimentation and learned that the word used didn't matter as long they meant the same thing.

It was the same story when accessing the mailbox.

As long as the word spoken meant 'open', the desired effect took place without fail. (TL: The author wrote 'open' three times in Korean and in English in this sentence. Thus I had to change it somewhat.)

Jin-Woo then shoved the umbrella he just got from the random box inside the 'digital' storage in front of his eyes. (TL: This is the direct translation from the raw. I didn't make a mistake. This is what it really said....)

”It's no good today again, huh.”

Four days had passed by since he cleared that instant dungeon.

He always remained hopeful whenever he got to open up a random box, praying for another dungeon key to pop out, but unfortunately, he hadn't been lucky so far. It must've been a pretty rare item if it was this hard to get.

'Well, that's that, but now....'

Jin-Woo entered his room and sat on the edge of his bed. There was a matter he had resolve right away.

”Stats.”

[Stat]

Strength: 48

Stamina: 27

Agility: 27

Intelligence: 27

Perception: 27

(Available points to distribute: 12)

He had been saving up the Stat points earned from the quests of the past four days. He made sure to complete the daily quest every day. Of course, he also didn't forget to always check his rewards, too.

However, he hadn't distributed the points until now.

The issue was....

”....This is tough.”

Indeed, he found it rather difficult to come to a decision.

The 'Strength' Stat.

It was a wonderful Stat, that's for sure. He hadn't regretted it once, investing all of his points into this one back when he started this thing.

Agility.

This was also a pretty darn good Stat, too. Against weak enemies, it only helped a little, but as the levels of his opponents rose up in the future, no doubt he'd be relying on this Stat more and more.

Well, the 'speed' was a relative thing, after all.

And then, Stamina and Perception.

It'd be great if his Stamina was high, obviously. And this Perception turned out to be very useful as well.

Finally, 'Intelligence'.

…..This was the problem child.

He hadn't been able to figure out this Stat's uses yet.

His level had increased by quite a lot, but he didn't feel any smarter than before. His memories didn't seem to have improved, nor did his ability to calculate quickly, either.

'I think, it has to be related to magic....'

This Stat might be something he didn't really need for the time being. Which left Strength, Stamina, Agility and Perception.

”....Even then, this is really tough.”

Although he now had one less Stat to choose from, he was still in a dilemma here.

He didn't feel too confident at all.

At least he understood that the synergy between 'Strength' and 'Agility' was very good. Even if he could deal big damage, it would be meaningless if he couldn't hit his target. On the flip side, even if he could hit accurately all the time, as long he could not deal enough damage, it'd be a waste of time, too.

In that regard, one could say that Strength and Agility formed a 'set'.

'Since my Strength Stat is so high, I should raise Agility up to match it.'

If he decided to raise his Agility Stat, then he had to delay raising Stamina, instead. Well, the synergy between Agility and Stamina wasn't so good, after all.

The thing was, when Agility was raised, the odds of getting struck by the enemy would decrease. But on the other hand, Stamina was a Stat that only displayed its true worth when the opponent actually damaged him.

'Of course, I do need at least the bare minimum of Stamina....'

But, raising both Agility and Stamina at the same time was a rather inefficient method, at least from his perspective.

After a lengthy deliberation, he decided on the order of priority.

The first one was Agility. The second, Perception. Finally, Stamina.

His Strength was plenty high enough so he'd defer it for now. And as he was planning to raise his Agility, Perception took priority over Stamina.

After deciding so, Jin-Woo spent 2 points on Strength.

Tti-ring.

[Stat]

Strength: 50

Stamina: 27

Agility: 27

Intelligence: 27

Perception: 27

(Available points to distribute: 10)

Well, he wanted to raise Strength to the round and even 50 for the time being. That was how normal human beings behaved, no?

Then, he spent 8 points on Agility.

[Stat]

Strength: 50

Stamina: 27

Agility: 35

Intelligence: 27

Perception: 27

(Available points to distribute: 2)

The reason for that was also not that special.

He just wanted the last number to be a '5'.

'It's far more preferable to see the numbers ending in increments of 5....'

Strength 50, and Agility 35.

Seeing them end in the multiples of 5, he suddenly felt rather pleased with himself for no reason whatsoever.

'And as for the last 2 points....'

Jin-Woo invested them on Perception next.

With this, the points distribution had come to an end.

[Stat]

Strength: 50