Chapter 95 (1/2)

How to Use Experience Points (2)

Adam flew north after splitting with Seo Jin-Wook in Beijing.

Flying at a fast speed, he thought about the observer he met that day.

However, he wasn’t chasing after the observer like Seo Jin-Wook suspected.

He recalled what he saw with calm eyes.

‘That bastard, he was definitely a Ghenut.’

Just a while ago, when the observer, Adam, and Seo Jin-Wook had a three-way meeting, Adam deliberately took out the tubes from his collarbone in front of them.

Thanks to the advanced biotechnology developed by his species, he had transplanted tens of thousands of species of body tissues into his body.

Dakegamas mole’s sensory organ was one of them as well.

Adam took the tubes out for a moment, pretending to show off, and scanned the alien disguised in a poodle shell to identify it.

‘They have a very long history since they started the main quest.’

Their long history had created a high reputation.

There was a consequence that they suffered in return for a long time.

‘The growth of their civilization has already been dampened. The whole species is suffering from a chronic point shortage. That’s why they don’t usually apply for observation jobs.’

It was in a position where it was difficult to build achievements in the Union and earn experience points as salary.

‘The greatest achievement a being in an observative position can make is to detect and deport unique illegal aliens that rarely exist.’

It was the fundamental reason why he suddenly pressured Seo Jin-Wook and treated him as an alien.

Its species desperately needed merit and experience points in the Union.

They were beggars with a flamboyant appearance.

‘He thought he had a case, so he just rushed in. When the observation skill failed to read Seo Jin-Wook’s information, the doubt would have changed to conviction.’

Adam’s eyes narrowed when he recalled that fact once again.

‘The eyes skill failed….’

His train of thought had shifted from the observer to Seo Jin-Wook.

The scene he witnessed that day was unusual in many ways.

‘Although I knew he was a peculiar one…’

It was a much more interesting subject than he thought.

In the first place, he stuck by him because he knew that he was that kind of a man.

‘He must think that I’m still stuck with him because of that little piece of experience points, huh?’

Adam thought about the 100,000 points he had just received.

‘The linked 2nd quest was the same in the sense that he did it all by himself. Summing up the two quests… Must he have received about 250,000 points?’

It was almost an accurate guess, with a little room for error.

‘He must think of my request as a respectful gesture. Since I can’t work for free, it’s a reasonable offer of… Tip for the sake of it?’

But that wasn’t true.

The 100,000 points to Adam wasn’t even considered as an allowance.

‘Well, at this stage, I’d appreciate it if he thought so that way.’

There was one thing that Seo Jin-Wook didn’t know about Adam.

The alien was one of the richest beings in the world, a point tycoon.

Even the poodle, who was in charge of observation, if he knew the exact figures, it would’ve been enough for it to foam around its mouth and tremble with jealousy.

He checked the system message.

– Current Experience Points: 58,326,120.

The 100,000 he received that day made no difference to it.

He once acted in front of Seo Jin-Wook that the admission fee of 1.4 million was a huge price to pay.

When in fact, he already had enough points to take dozens of round trips between his home and Earth.

Nevertheless, he offered a deal, acting as if points mattered to him, to create a justification to stick around.

There was a reason why he decided to accompany him by using such means.

“…!”

Adam, who was crossing Mongolian territory, stopped flying.

Before him was a vast meadow that looked like there’s nothing unusual at a glance.

He went down to the ground and reached his hand out.

Weeing!

The air fluttered, and the door to the barrier that only Adam could enter was opened.

Waiting for him inside was a subtle light-emanating gate.

It was the same as how Seo Jin-Wook had a gate in Korea and the U.S. where he only could enter without others knowing.

Adam had that type of gate all over the world.

– You entered the dungeon!

– You have already paid the entrance fee for the origin dimension. Re-entry does not consume experience points.

– Re-entry point exemption will be reset as soon as you enter another world.

Adam, who stepped inside the dungeon, opened an inventory item.

The tissue cut from the giant worm was so large that it filled to the capacity.

Wu-du-du!

From a black hole organs, muscles, and other end-of-body organs of various living things that were well kept by the storage skill poured out.

The dungeon served as a storage facility for Adam’s collection.

A place where even the eyes of observers covering the entire planet didn’t reach.

No one knew what Adam did with the ‘materials’ gathered there.

‘Looking at it now, the number of observers dispatched to this world is also odd.’

Through the list shown by Seo Jin-Wook, it had already been known that there were six observers.

Although the number was large compared to the planet’s area, he only thought six low-level ones were dispatched.

‘But a Ghenut was mixed in among the observers! Due to the nature of the species, he must be able to cover an entire planet of this size… Having to necessarily dispatch six means that there is something here.’

Some of the peculiarities were already identified by Adam.

His attention was focused on the collection that was orderly being kept throughout the dungeon.

Stretched out in front of him was the reason why he stayed on Earth for a long time after more than ten years when he only stayed to a maximum of one year in other dimensions.

‘Even if it’s considered to be in the tutorial’s early days, the dungeons’ levels connected to it are too high. There are countless kinds of monsters as well. Moreover, SS-Class dungeons are already opening up… At this rate, the appearance of an SSS-Class dungeon wouldn’t far away. The pace is way too fast. It’s as if the system is in a hurry.’

There was one more peculiarity he noticed.

‘Seo Jin-Wook’s presence.’

The dazzlingly fast growth might be only considered as being a genius.

However, the interpretation of the characteristic changes as soon as it was connected to another discovery.

‘He has a bizarrely large collection of Imperial Heritages.’

He even had the item that had stolen his attention the moment they first met, the [Door of Hope].

The process of acquiring items related to the Sebrarian Empire was not important.

Considering the results, the fact that the empire’s heritage, whether by fate or by chance, were so concentrated on a single mortal reminded Adam of a certain possibility.

‘If I go somewhere and tell people that the heritages are making their way back to their owners, I’ll be treated as a lame joke. But have there been people who have gathered them to this point during the tutorial phase?’

Furthermore, he witnessed the scene of the [Observer’s Eyes] failing to work.

He put all those together.

He couldn’t help but remember a story that was considered lame lore whenever it was mentioned. It wasn’t too known among the species in the main quest.

‘Does it exist?’

It’s been a long time since he had remembered that word again.

‘Successor!’

A tale that only those nerds that had roamed around various dimensions, like Adam, would know.

‘If it’s real…’

It was like a ray of light that would help him achieve his long-cherished yearning.

Adam, who was so lost in deep thought in his personal space, renewed his determination to stay nearby Seo Jin-Wook for a while.

He wanted to build trust while maintaining a friendly relationship with him as much as possible.

‘The biggest factor of interference would be…’

The first thing that came to mind was the Union.

He soon shook his head.

‘It’s unknown why the Union dispatched so many observers, but what is certain is that Seo Jin-Wook himself is not the goal. If he were, they would have made much bolder efforts. It couldn’t have shown a mediocre reaction of misunderstanding him as an alien and tried to arrest him, then withdraw immediately after learning that he was not.’

In the end, it led to the conclusion that the being that Seo Jin-Wook was desperately looking for… The alien that had phenomenal skills, according to his words, was more dangerous than the Union.

‘We need to put the risk factor away in advance.’

Not long ago, he had filed a search through his origin dimension, but the answer that returned was ‘there is no information about species or beings that possess such abilities.’

Adam hasn’t told Seo Jin-Wook about that yet.

‘But there’s another way.‘

He pondered about it for a while before making a decision.

“System.”

He proposed a deal toward the system.

It was a much more general form of transaction, different from what Seo Jin-Wook had tried before.