Chapter 38: Skill Unlocked
Haru kept watching the unnamed skill, only a description was displayed on the screen.
[Defeat all monsters for a period of half an hour.]
[Cost: 50 gold coins]
The value was different, but the same skill could now be purchased whenever he wanted. The other skills, such as Touch of Love and Tongue of Luck, were also being sold, but their prices exceeded one hundred gold coins, so it was not worth paying. That was, it was worth it depending on which floor he was on and depending on the situation, since at certain moments he could not simply be masturbated because the floor was full of other people, in which case it was worth it.
He returned to meditation, but ended up falling asleep.
In the morning, he told Hina that he could now choose the skill he had used on the ninth floor, he did not mention the other skills, since he still wanted to be masturbated and sucked in the future.
"Do you know if there’s a way to increase the time whenever you want?"
"There’s no information about that, we can test it and find out how long we can use it for. Let’s ask Masaru for permission and test that item he gave us."
"But didn’t he already give us permission?"
"Yes, but we need to make sure we aren’t doing something stupid."
Hina was a little less disappointed with him, she was smiling and jumping on top of him, she teased him just to see his reaction, which was that of a virgin who had never seen a naked woman, even after weeks of living together and her always being naked, he always acted as if it were his first time seeing a woman.
His behavior was something beyond a lack of experience, it was a fixed trait of his personality.
They had breakfast and went to the guild, he did not meditate beforehand, as Mio had asked, he did not even care about it, since he considered the meditation before going to sleep sufficient.
Mio was surprised by him, she did not expect him to accomplish something like this so quickly.
"Let’s move on to the practical test, first we need to know how long you can maintain the skill and how many uses you can get."
"The duration is thirty minutes..."
"I’m not referring to how long the skill remains active, I mean how long you can keep the skill being displayed. The skill may appear only once, or a few times and have some waiting time. Or it may be used several times, one after another, or even be activated several times in succession."
Haru had not considered that, he had only considered that the fat man was helping him and that he could always use the skill as long as he paid the price. But what Mio had just said made sense.
They entered the guild, the monsters on the ninth floor were more agitated, but nothing outside the normal, the monsters had simply been enraged by a group that had arrived before them, the group could not handle fighting the monsters and fled. The result was hundreds of meat slimes and bats that would not stop spawning and coming toward them. Haru activated the skill, Mio did not like it, she wanted to have waited longer.
They sat down on the floor, Mio asked him to try activating it again, the button was a different color from the rest of the status screen, he could not activate the skill yet. While they waited for the thirty minutes, Haru was forced to meditate, Hina did the same, Mio stayed awake, she needed to use the collection item. From time to time she collected the drops, Haru had not activated the ODD 2.0 skill, Mio wanted a better moment for the activation.
They did nothing besides sitting and waiting for the minutes to pass. His skill ended, the new monsters were angry, but at the same time confused, it was as if they knew someone was killing them, but could not figure out who. This was perfect, Haru took advantage of it and began attacking with the pistol, Mio used the dagger and, while they attacked, Hina provided support.
Haru opened the status screen and saw the option there again, he pressed it and the automatic kills returned once again, Haru and Mio sat down, she regretted not bringing a towel, her butt was completely dirty with dust mixed with sweat. Hina’s butt was clean, there was only a little sweat, the cloak protected her from all the dirt on the floor of the level.
Haru kept watching Hina’s butt sway while she remained standing, watching the monsters being automatically defeated, the movements from her breathing moved her breasts. She turned around and watched him, then he looked away and opened the status screen. Once again, the option to activate the skill was a different color and was not clickable.
"It’s not possible to activate it again, is it?"
"Exactly, the skill is on cooldown, from what I’ve noticed, I can reactivate it whenever I want, let’s do one more test... no, we’ll do two more and then ask Masaru about that item, about what the best way to activate it would be."
"All right," Mio replied.
"How many gold coins will these monsters give us?"
"I don’t know, but there’s a problem, wasting gold coins like this isn’t the same as destroying money?"
"Yes," Mio quickly replied. "But it’s an easy way for us to get more crystals and other drops, so it’s a reasonably fair price, and at some point these coins will be replenished by someone who has a skill that creates metal or coins, besides, many monsters drop gold, so we’re just adjusting the monetary system."
"You really think that?"
"Yes and no at the same time. Let me clarify, I really think the idea of us using coins for this is something complicated, we’re destroying coins, but at the same time Haru is creating more coins with his skill, many monsters will drop copper coins, at the same time that we removed gold coins, more copper coins will enter the market, there are still more people with similar skills and more money will be inserted into the financial market, so what we’re doing here isn’t something that will impact the entire Empire."
Haru did not want to talk about the coin pouch, the pouch solved the problem of destroying coins, but the item had to remain secret for a long time. Or until he trusted the two of them more.
"You’re right, this time how many coins did we get?"
"Only five copper coins."