Chapter 107: After the Battle
Most people had very little understanding of just how much killing power weapons like bows and compound crossbows actually possessed.
Because of this, they were not truly afraid of Joo Joowon.
Seeing him occupying the supplies from so many floors all by himself, it was impossible for them not to have at least a few thoughts about it.
However, Jin Hunseok’s arguments were not without merit.
In the end, everyone stopped objecting.
When Jin Hunseok saw that they had finally settled down, he could not help letting out a sigh of relief.
Although the existence of a team helped spread out the risks, it also meant dealing with a mix of personalities and motives.
Unfortunately, for someone like Jin Hunseok, who did not possess any particularly outstanding abilities, relying on a team was almost the only way to live comfortably after the apocalypse.
Even now, he understood very clearly that their group was nothing more than a pile of loose sand.
Any slightly stronger player could probably wipe them out completely.
That was exactly why, after receiving information from Joo Joowon, Jin Hunseok immediately abandoned his original plans without hesitation.
This was no longer a world where relationships and favors alone could support a person.
Strength was what truly mattered.
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After overhearing a little of their conversation, Joo Joowon quietly slipped away.
Perhaps because they had grown accustomed to relying on their numbers to intimidate others and because people usually chose to compromise when dealing with groups, these people possessed almost no awareness of counter surveillance.
It had been ridiculously easy for him to eavesdrop on them.
After all, the other party had an entire team.
Even if Jin Hunseok himself had no bad intentions, there was no guarantee that someone else within the group would not start getting ideas.
Joo Joowon never placed much hope in other people, so he was also perfectly capable of accepting the consequences that came from his own actions.
After returning home, Joo Joowon laid out all of his gains one by one.
There were eighteen normal grade equipment cards in total.
Most of them were duplicates.
Only one item was new to him, a hat.
Aside from that, there was also a normal grade Hemostatic Powder.
Its effect was simple: after consuming it, the user would immediately recover seven points of health.
At present, neither players nor ordinary monsters were able to see health bars, so Joo Joowon had no way of knowing whether seven points was considered good or bad.
Still, considering that it was only a normal grade item, the effect probably was not particularly impressive.
Even so, the fact that it could restore health instantly already made it extremely valuable.
Getting injured during the apocalypse was basically the same as racing against death itself.
If a wound failed to heal quickly enough, then waiting for death was often the only outcome.
There would no longer be doctors willing to spend several hours performing surgery and pulling someone back from the brink of death.
The beginner hat increased Physique.
Its appearance was that of an ordinary baseball cap with the logo of the Age of Apocalypse printed on it.
Joo Joowon planned to cut off the brim and see if he could still make use of it.
Otherwise, the equipment would be completely useless.
Compared to beginner equipment that provided almost no defensive value, helmets were still far more practical.
After equipping those two pieces of equipment, the only remaining empty equipment slot on Joo Joowon’s body was the accessory slot for a waist pendant.
The drop rate for that slot was absurdly low.
Up until now, Joo Joowon had not even seen one appear on the marketplace.
After finishing with the common grade cards, Joo Joowon turned his attention to the drops from the elite monsters.
There were four Zombie Core (Rare), one piece of rare grade equipment, and seven pieces of common grade equipment.
The equipment dropped by the elite monster he had killed previously had all been common grade equipment, so Joo Joowon had assumed that would always be the case.
After all, low level elite monsters probably should not be capable of dropping anything particularly valuable.
Unexpectedly, they actually could drop rate gradebequipment as well.
The drop rate was simply very low.
The rare grade equipment had come from the Pig Chimera.
Although it was not particularly bright, it had at least been generous enough with its loot.
Joo Joowon examined the equipment’s attributes.
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[ Pigskin Armor ]
Grade: Rare
Durability: 3/3
Equipment Slot: Upper Body
Equipment Bonus: Strength +3, Physique +2
Equipment Requirement: Level 5
Description: A breathable yet durable leather armor. Weapons of white quality and below are incapable of piercing its defense.
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Joo Joowon immediately removed his Beginner Shirt and replaced it with the Pigskin Armor.
A single piece of equipment providing five attribute points could already be considered a top tier item among its category.
After all, his Compound Repeating Crossbow only provided one point of Agility.
Of course, the weapon possessed a special effect, so it could hardly be considered a bad item.
After equipping the armor, Joo Joowon’s Strength attribute surged forward and nearly caught up to his Mental Power.
It had directly reached thirteen points, only one point lower than Mental Power itself.
Meanwhile, Agility, which had originally been his highest natural attribute, had now actually fallen behind.
The seven common grade cards contained one Mental Recovery Potion (immediately restores 5 Mental Power), one Stamina Recovery Potion (immediately restores 3 Physique and 1 Strength), and one Agility Recovery Potion (immediately restores 4 Agility).
Despite all being recovery potions and sharing the same quality, the amount of attributes they restored differed from one another.
Joo Joowon guessed that perhaps they worked similarly to medicinal pills in cultivation novels, where there were distinctions such as low grade and high grade versions.
After storing away the three potion cards, Joo Joowon glanced at the remaining four cards.
All of them were extremely ordinary common grade equipment.