Chapter 5: Shopping

Chapter 5: Shopping As you might have already guessed the screen in front of me is the system.

You see, the system screen for all individuals could only be accessed by them. In other words, no one can see my system window except for me and vice-versa.

A system can tell the rank of artifacts, potions, and stuff but you have to touch them. It does tell the rank of monsters without needing to touch them. As for humans, dwarves, elves, demons, beast folk, and vampires? Yeah, the system doesn't tell anything.

The only one who has a unique system is the protagonist. His system has a shop, quest, achievement points, and rewards.

Useless piece of meat still died...

When compared to that my system is lacking a lot, then again everyone has the same system as mine. It's just the protagonist's system that is built differently.

Back to the point, the system screen is currently hovering in front of me saying it had done the job I asked it to do.

"You seriously completed the job?"

[I did. ^.^]

In just half an hour? Holy hell.

I shook my head recalling the time when I found out about it.

You see, the system has a conscious.

A damn conscious!

Full-blown conscious.

Why am I repeating it? Because it's important!

This information wasn't something told in the novel!

How did I find out? I tried talking to it.

Who talks with their monitor? I do.

I still remember back then when I tried to talk to it, there was never a reply. I tried to punch it and the only thing that happened was my hand passing through the system like with holograms. After that, I kept trying to talk to it, straight for a week and I never got any response. Not like I was looking for one. I just kept talking bullshit to it until one day it replied with an emoticon.

It scared the shit out of me.

Honestly, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me but from that point on, it started replying to everything I said. Maybe it's a requirement you have to fulfill that's why no one ever found out about a system having a conscious? I don't know the deal here.

[I have prepared the map you asked for.]

I looked at the map system created for me.

That's right. I asked it to prepare a map.

Now, do you realize how much of a big advantage it is to know your system has a conscious?

The system can almost go anywhere.

I mean, literally, anywhere.

Add the fact no one can see my system screen.

Do you get it?

That's right!

I can practically send the system anywhere and ask it to map things out for me!

It's the greatest scout!

Hell, I can ask the system to stalk someone and it will!

The map I asked for the system to create was simple.

I asked it to go take the world tour!

In other words, I have currently a map of the whole world. From human land to Eleven, Dwarven, Beastfolk, Vampire, and demon lands!

All the secret treasury that has been hidden!

All the secret hideouts of all the criminal organizations/hidden organizations!

All the hidden dungeons spread around the world!

Everything!

That's the map right in front of my eyes!

Op doesn't even begin to describe it!

"System-san, I love you."

[Sorry, feelings are not mutual. I am not designed to feel such emotions :( ]

That's why I love you!

It means despite having consciousness you are never gonna change! An AI who you don't have to fear of taking over!

And I am an absolute asshole who will make use of it.

Ahem ahem.

Back on topic, I looked at the map.

"System-san, can you point all the hidden dungeons on this map with a red marker or something?"

[On it.]

Soon after, the red dots appeared on the map.

Shit.

33 dots appeared on the screen.

33 hidden dungeons.

What in the flying fu*k!?

In the novel, the protagonist challenges 3 of them, 1 by a villain and 1 by ..an organization.

In other words, a total of 5 hidden dungeons were all I know about, thanks to the novel.

Each hidden dungeon gives a really good reward. I mean, overpowered one.

But of course, they are only overpowered when you think about 1st half of the novel. In the second half, those rewards weren't that great.

And you are telling me there are 33 of them? It's not that I didn't expect more hidden dungeons to be available but not to this extent. I recalled the information about them.

Hidden dungeons. As the name suggests, they are hidden dungeons spread throughout the world. There have been 17 hidden dungeons found and challenged till now. 10 cleared. 2 by Humans and Dwarfs each, 3 by Elves and Demons each.

7 resulted in failure. The consequences of it? The area where hidden dungeons were found was blown up into smithereens. Area of damage? Same as a nuclear bomb just a bit larger and instead of radioactive radiation and stuff, the mana in the surrounding area becomes distorted and it becomes far more dangerous to go near it.

The government declared those who find hidden dungeons must report it immediately.

But of course, hidden dungeons are hidden from everyone. So, it's not like the government can control anyone from not reporting so they put a reward for those who report it.

What makes hidden dungeons dangerous is that no one knows what sort of thing might be waiting for them inside it, even the humanity's strongest ended up coming all battered from clearing just a single one of them.

If you put the risk of hidden dungeons away then the rewards are worth it.

The rewards from hidden dungeons are treated as National Treasures.

And I was planning on clearing these hidden dungeons. I needed those rewards to survive. I mean, I am seriously dying here.

A desperate situation requires desperate measures. I don't have any other choice.

My death is approaching and there's seriously nothing else I have to go along with to save my ass. So yeah, it's a do-or-die.

Not like I plan to die, not before reading the end of the manga I have been following for so long!

There was something else I needed to confirm as well.

What? Why am I confident I can clear it?

Well, remember what I said about one of the hidden dungeons being cleared by the villain? The villain was F ranked.

This leads me to believe that hidden dungeons are based on the ranks of the individual challenging them or something along those lines.

I am a G+ ranked. Sure enough, weaker than the villain but I can bridge that gap with my money!

Walking towards the desk I opened my laptop to look into my bank account.

I have a little over 2 billion.

Nice~

What? When did my money increase?

Remember the 20 million I gave to the information gatherer? Yeah, I asked him to do some hardcore advertisements for my novels.

You see before this world changed it was similar to my own.

But after that day or as people like to call it 'The Great Disaster' happened, things changed. Continents were destroyed, and so were the countries, the people there, and also their culture. It all happened 300 years ago.

Now then, how many people do you think remember the masterpieces written from back in the day?

Yeah, sure they know about Shakespeare but about other's. More accurately, the stuff that falls under the category of hidden gems.

A blatant plagiarism. I mean, there's no guarantee that this world is really an exact copy of my world. The stuff I am plagiarizing are hidden gems from my world.

Well, whether this world is an exact copy of my own or not doesn't change anything about my plagiarizing.

But who cares?

In the future, there might even be some guys who would want to make a movie of my novels or manga.

Ah, yes. My future self will surely be busy but that's his problem.

A sure-fire way of earning money without having to worry too much about it. I have already uploaded 2 complete novels so people can binge-read them to evaluate my work. This way, my new novels will gain an audience easily and I can rack in cash.

Rest of the my work will only slowly upload according to the timer I have set for them.

I really have been working hard for the last 2 weeks.

Well then, time to put the money to some good use.

I opened the website to buy materials needed to deal with the hidden dungeon. I knew what lies in the hidden dungeon and what to expect because of the novel.

'Time to put all the stuff in my cart..'

I already had planned on the things I needed to buy, so all I had to do was simply search for them and buy them.

First, let's buy some potions.

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Healing Potion (Low) - 15,000E x5

Description - Heals small injuries such as cuts, bruises, sprain, strain, etc. Takes 5 minutes before it starts working, healing time depends upon the level of injury.

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Healing Potion (Mid) - 45,000 E x10

Description - Heals injuries from small to mid-level such as cuts, bruises, sprain, strain, broken bones, laceration, internal bleeding etc. Restores stamina, and helps energize and sleep. Takes 3 minutes before it starts working, healing time depends upon the level of injury.

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Healing Potion (High) - 1,00,000 E x15

Description - Heals injuries from small to serious ones such as cuts, lacerations, bruises, sprains, strain, broken bones, squashed flesh, internal bleeding, etc. Restores stamina, helps energize and concentrate, dealing with many side effects of sleep deprivation. Takes 1 minute to start working, healing time depends upon the level of injury.

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Mana Recovery Potion (Low) - 10,000 E x5

Description - Restores 10 percent of your mana in an hour.

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Mana Recovery Potion (Mid) - 40,000 E x5

Description - Restores 50 percent of your mana in about 30 minutes.

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Mana Recovery Potion (High) - 90,000 E x10

Description - Restores 90 percent of your mana in about 10 minutes.

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Poison (mid) - 400,000 x10

Description - Lethal liquified poison. Takes effect in 5 minutes after entering the body system. Lethal to anyone below E+ rank.

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Elixir - 1,000,000,000 E

Description - Restores all injuries and mana. Takes instant effect.

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..And there goes a 1,007,775,000 E.

Healing potions and mana potions sure are expensive.

What? What's E?

Another world. Another currency, more accurately human currency.

Sheesh, that elixir sucked 1 billion away. But in case anything goes wrong I really will need it. Better safe than sorry.

Alright to the next section of stuff, we go~

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Night vision goggles (E rank) - 80,000 E

Description - Allows users to have better vision in places with low-level light.

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Silence Boots ( F+ rank)- 50,000 E

Description - Allows the user to suppress the sound of their footsteps.

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Dimensional Storage ring (D rank) - 500,000 E

Description - Allows to user to put his belongings into it. Easy to carry around and takes a load off your shoulders. The capacity is 400 sq meters

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Protection Necklace (D- rank) - 10,000,000 E

Description - Protects the user from attacks by forming a protective shield around him. The necklace could with-held the strongest attack from an E+ ranked monster. Activates when mana is channeled inside the necklace. Useable 3 times. The usability decreases when the shield shatters.

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..and 10,630,000 E.

Sheesh, costs so much just to protect yourself.

Finally fire-power.

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Sleeping bombs (mid) - 200,000 E x 10

Description - As the name describes, it puts one to sleep. Within 5 minutes of entering the body, the potion starts taking effect. Affects anyone below D+ ranked. Range - 30 meters.

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Acid bombs (mid) - 150,000 E x 5

Description - The bomb once explodes releases liquified acid. Range -15 meters. Lethal to anyone below E+ ranked.

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Explosion Bombs - 1,500 E x 50

Description - Explodes dealing damage to the person. Range -20 meters. Damages only those below F-ranked.

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Assault Rifle along with 100000 bullets - 30,000 E

Description - Damages only those below F-ranked.

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Dark Dagger (D-rank) - 500,000 E x2

Description - Sharp blade made from a C-ranked monster's ore. It could easily slice through any monster below E rank with little to no effort.

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Short sword (D rank) - 800,000 E

Description - Sharp blade weapon made from a C ranked monster's ore. It could easily slice through any monster below D- rank with little to no effort.

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This makes a total of 4,745,000.

Adding all the previous amounts, it all totals up to 1,023,150,000.

And here I click the button buy. seaʀᴄh thё nôᴠel Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Click~

Alright, the delivery will be here by tomorrow.

That takes care of one thing.

I closed my laptop as I stretched my hands in the air.

Alright, it was time to start with another job.

"System Status: Mana proficiency"

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Mana proficiency: F+ =========================================================

Yeah, Noah's proficiency in mana is actually pretty good.

It was probably because of this that in the last two weeks, I have managed to get the gist of the mana that flows inside my body.

Now it was time to try to mess with my brain.

I remember reading it being a delicate process. Hope, I won't die so young.

Here goes nothing.