Chapter 94 (1/2)

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How to Use Experience Points (1)

My question centered around the man who planted the [Mercadius’ Seed] in the Celestial Dragon.

‘He must be a subject under the watch of the Union since he is a being that finished the tutorial. But why was he left alone?’

The poodle replied.

“Again, it’s not that simple. We need to look into the treaties according to the cases…”

He became lost in thought for a moment before continuing.

“If there is a report of such Awakened, the higher-ranking members of the Union will decide whether to punish them or not.”

Huh?

“It’s also important in which method and how much they intervened, but the key point is this: If the behavior of the Awakened ultimately leads to the entry to the main quests, I doubt we will need to intervene.”

Upon hearing that, I completely erased the thought of revealing the presence of the ‘man,’ who was the owner of the seed.

The poodle looked at Adam as if it made a mistake.

“Of course, moderation is important. I’d like for Mr. Adam to keep this in mind, too.

“Tsk.”

“Now, then.”

The poodle approached the black-haired young man with a rattling pace.

Sitting and knitting, he put what he had in hand in his backpack and reached out to the small dog.

The alien gave some final words in the arms of the expressionless man.

“Lastly, don’t forget that we’re always watching.”

Leaving those words behind, the alien and the young man entered the distorted space.

As soon as they completely disappeared, Adam spat very humanly, with a look of being caught of shit luck.

“Anyway…. The Union bastards are always assholes. Look how they talk.”

I agreed with that part.

*

When the observer left, the People’s Army seemed to have begun to enter beyond the barricade with great timing.

I could hear something heavy and thick breaking and collapsing.

“Shall we move?”

Swish!

I flew up in the sky with Adam as I organized my thoughts.

What that encounter convinced me of was that the aliens, who were called observers, didn’t come to protect the Earth’s people actively.

Rather, it’s more like a referee who supervised the game for the sake of fairness.

‘No, that’s wrong, too.’

I soon shook my head.

‘If a fair game is their goal, they should not let the others intervene at all.’

They were more like the power behind the curtains that manipulated the game to roll in the direction they wanted.

It’s so secretive that no human being in the past had ever noticed their existence.

‘Oh, right.’

I suddenly remembered something.

“Wasn’t it on purpose that you led the observer to waste his experience points?”

I raised my right hand and asked Adam.

When I infused Mana, a complicated pattern was revealed on the back of my hand.

It was an insignia for those who had received the screening quest.

“This is clear evidence that one is still working on his or her tutorial. I heard that when you enter the main quest, the system changes?”

Showing the insignia on the back of my hand was the simplest and fastest way.

However, Adam deliberately pressured the observer to waste 580,000 points.

He grinned at me.

His smile was smeared with feelings of gloat over his misery.

“Yeah! Instead of necessarily telling him what he wanted, I encouraged him to self-destruct. He deserved it!”

His bitterness toward the Union seemed to have rooted deep into his heart.

“If I weren’t around, He would have pressured you more instead of using his points. If it weren’t for me, and it wasn’t for that pattern, you’d be in bad shape.”

“You said they’re harmless if I didn’t taunt them first!”

“That’s how it’s supposed to be. I didn’t expect him to have a delusion of you being an alien.”

My impression of the observer was gradually shifting to the worse side.

“Oh, yeah. You got the experience point, didn’t you?”

He didn’t even ask how much I got.

It didn’t seem to matter to him, and he demanded the price that he wanted to receive.

“I propose 100,000 for this project. What do you think?”

Only that much?

Adam didn’t know it yet, but the total amount of points I received that time was 2.68 million.

100,000 was less than 10% of that.

When he noticed my expression that it was unexpected of him, Adam gave an explanation.

“Consider that the first deal was discounted. And I didn’t contribute much this time either, did I? Except for throwing out thousands of humans. It’s not mutually moral to ask for more here.”

Anyway, he’s the alien that’s most sensitive to mutual respect that I’d ever come across.

“Think of it as a stepping stone to maintain a smooth relationship. I’m looking forward to the future.”

Snickering, he explained to me how to transfer the points.

I knew how, but I just listened.

In the past life, most of the points that our guild members received were transferred to Angelica.

I was used to it as I saw and heard how other colleagues did.

– Do you want to transfer the points?

When Adam made a deal, a message came to mind.

“I want to transfer 100,000 points.”

– Transferred 100,000 experience points to the other party.

The points reflected by the system were reduced from 2.68 million to 2.58 million.

I asked out of curiosity.

“What are you collecting points for? You must already have enough to use it as a toll fee to go back to your original dimension.”

He replied with a grin.

“The more experience points you have, the better. As you progress in the main quest, there will be many parts that cannot be solved with just the dungeons’ items and skill cards. Now then, I’ll stop by somewhere, so see you at home.”

After waving his hand, Adam changed his route and moved away.

The direction was north.

‘… He’s not following the observer, is he?’

But I couldn’t think of any motivation for him to do that.

It must be a coincidence that their directions were alike.

‘Now, then.’

When Adam disappeared completely beyond the horizon, I asked the system.

“How much are the experience points required for purchasing the [Destructive Sword]?”

The dagger that Angelica was holding in my previous life was the only means to break the dimensional bird’s egg.

After the SSS-Class break, most of the surviving Hunters forwarded their experience points to Angelica, and she exchanged them for the [Destructive Sword].

‘Now that I think about it, it was all a show. It’s as if we trashed our points away.’

That was when the guild members, including me, died in the past life, and the tutorial finally ended.

Angelica would’ve stayed on Earth and not only avoided accepting the main quest, but she wouldn’t have broken the dimensioned egg.

She would’ve hatched the egg, opened a whole bunch of gates far more than before, and then left to a different dimension.

The fate of the hunters and humankind would’ve obviously been left behind with the helplessly innumerable gates.

‘This life will be different.’

The system replied.

– That item cannot be purchased at this stage.

It seems that its item information wasn’t disclosed until the Tower of Choice appeared.

‘Well, I didn’t mean to buy it now anyway.’

I wasn’t even determined yet to break the egg in my current life.

The purpose was to check if the points needed were the same as my previous life, but it wasn’t possible at the moment.

‘Then, as originally planned…’

I inquired again.

“What are the experience points required for purchasing the [Aurora of Stability]?”

– 200,000 points at this point.

That’s pretty good.

‘It’s a lot cheaper than the points it required in the previous life!’

If it’s that way, there was no problem buying as much as I needed.

“I’ll exchange eight for experience points.”

– 1.6 million points are required in total. Would you like to purchase it?

It’s a huge amount of experience points that I’d never received or consumed in my previous life.

Furthermore, I had never heard anyone use up that many experience points before the Tower of Choice rose.

‘There were so many competitors who received the screening quest.’

After experiencing the SSS-Class break, all hunters were united, but before the Earth was devastated, each country and guild’s power was divided.

At that time, there were even fewer cases where one person had more than 500,000, let alone 1 million.

Therefore, it was unimaginable in my previous life to buy eight [Aurora of Stability], but…

I didn’t think it was a waste.

‘If we continue with the quest, we’ll get more points.’

I answered without hesitation.

“Purchase!”

The moment I replied with determination…

Shhh!

A ray of light poured in front of me while I was flying.

I grabbed the item with my psychokinesis without stopping.

“I haven’t seen you in a long time.”

The eight crystals were similar in shape to tulip flowers processed from jewels.

‘Now, shall I proceed with the next step?’

*

“Mr. Guild Master, you’re back sooner than I thought. You said it could take a few days.”

I responded by nodding my head to Secretary Kim, who welcomed me at the office building.

“It worked out quickly.”

“What about Mr. Abrams?”

“He said he was stopping by somewhere. By the way, could you set up a meeting with the Hunter Management Department?”

“Even though you’ve just arrived?”

He looked boggled, but instead of asking more questions, Secretary Kim immediately prepared to take notes.

“I’m sure the person of interest for the talk is the Hunter Management Department Minister?”