Chapter 109 - Cursed

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three continuously gunshot resounds in the forest and the three hobgoblins were killed on the spot with each of them having been headshot before they could even muster any resistance against their enemy. When three hobgoblins had fallen and shattered to glittering lights, a feminine figure suddenly jumped out of the shadow and appeared next to them before picking up the drop item on the ground. 

"Ehh, Again, it's only golds but nothing else. Why is the drop item from hobgoblin is so stingy? Is it because I have used all my luck for the past few days?"

Sheila couldn't help but complain at the unfairness as she picked up the gold off the ground. She had been killing the hobgoblin in the double digits by now, yet all the only dropped she get is only gold, the only good thing about it is that she had leveled up by one. But skill is much harder to level up since you need to use it more often to get the experience required, and now that she was focusing on increasing her level, Sheila solely fight using the handgun rather than using her other abilities. This way her grinding for EXP is much faster than ever, though she needs to take a break once in between to replenish her lost mana. 

It's been six hours since then, Sheila decides to leave the Trial Tower since she had accomplished her goal anyway. Though she likes leveling up to make herself stronger, she also needs to complete the quest or else all that leveling will go to waste when the punishment arrived. 

When Sheila regained her sight, she could still see Ria focusing on studying on the same spot. Picking up her phone and looking at the time, it seemed that only 30 minutes has passed even though she had spent 6 hours in the Trial Tower. As for Ria, if no one called her out for dinner, she would have stayed and continued studying, that was how much focus she put into her studies, which makes Sheila feel sort of guilty as she didn't need to prepare so much and still could score pretty high with the help of her skill. 

Sheila had looked up into the shop and found the Photographic Memory skill book much more expensive than Telekinesis. The reason why the price is much higher than Telekinesis is that the skill is already maxed level and a passive one at that, Telekinesis is cheaper due to it starts off as weak and required to use a lot to level up the skill, but that is not the case for Photographic Memory. The moment you learned the skill, you can even remember the memory you had once thought forgotten as a baby and can use it immediately without any cost whatsoever. So long as you have seen it with your eyes, everything will be remembered and stored within your brain, leaving none forgotten. Though being amnesia might be a different case.

Sheila actually had enough gold to buy the skill, but she needs the gold to buy something else, something much more important than that. No matter how strong one is, that doesn't mean they could protect everyone around them. Sheila had been eyeing a certain item within the shop, and though she already has enough gold for it, there's also another few items required to make full use of it. No need to explain further as all of those are very expensive, much more expensive than the one she's eyeing. If Sheila could get her hands on this, she doesn't have to worry about the lives of people living within the house when she's not around. 

"Oh? You are done with your business?"

Feeling the presence behind her, Ria turned her head before asking the question. Sheila nodded her head in response and plop down onto the bed while saying.

"Yeah, I leveled up by one. It's pretty hard to level up the higher the level. For now, I'm going to take a short break before heading out to for the quest."

"Heading out? Specifically, how are you going to investigate? Though we have a few clues which are much better than zero, it still nowhere enough. Are you seriously going to investigate person per person?"

Hearing Ria's words, Sheila heaved a helpless sigh and with a tired look, she opened her mouth and said.

"What else can I do other than that? For now, I'll investigate the most suspicious one of all targets, that red-haired girl, Angelica Ernest."

"Mhm, that's a good idea. I also think that she's the most suspicious of all, even without you telling me about the aura around her, just the fact that she suddenly transferred to our school at this time of year is already enough to put her on the list. But are you sure you can completely hide your presence from her? You did tell me once that her aura seems very strong, like for example; Detection skill or something like that."

"It's possible but if I didn't let my guard down, even if she knows that I was following her and fight might occur, I could escape safely if I put everything on the line even without using the 'teleportation' from the Trial Tower."

Ria let out a relieved sigh after listening to Sheila's words.

"That makes me feel much better as knowing you, a problem would definitely arise, so long as you can escape from it safely, I won't have to be worried."

"What does the problem appearing got to do with me? I'm not the type to make trouble, you know?"

"That's the problem, you didn't create trouble yourself yet, it always able to able finds you. It's like you have been cursed or something the moment you got the system in your hands which worries me to no end."

"Come to think of it, yea, you're right. But even if I want to let go of this system, I couldn't do anything to make it disappear from my phone. I even tried getting a new phone just for that yet, when I woke up the next day, the system was already sneaked into my phone without me noticing anything at all....I guess I'm really cursed, huh? hahaha..."