Chapter 156 – 156. An Unexpected Blessing

The skill enhancement is roughly finished. As I was checking, I felt that there was more overlap than I thought.

Skills, like items, seemed to have clear limits to their diversity. It feels like the skills that awakened people acquire are ultimately there.

“But I can’t stand maintaining quality.”

Quality maintenance was originally Yeongsik’s exclusive domain, but Agaf has now taken on that role.

After learning all about quality maintenance, I passed it all on to Agap and made it SSS level. As if that wasn’t enough, they even took care of SS level quality maintenance.

I’ve learned everything about maintaining quality.

[Quality maintenance (SS)]

[Effect: Registers five items and maintains durability at a constant level.]

[Handicap: If you cancel registration, the registered item will be destroyed immediately.]

[Quality maintenance (SSS)]

[Effect: Registers ten items and maintains durability at a constant level.]

[Handicap: If you deregister, the entire durability of the item is cut in half.]

With this, you can now register 15 items. Even in the case of items registered as SSS level quality maintenance, the overall durability was cut in half and the specifications were such that they would not be completely destroyed even if replaced.

Anyway, of course, during strengthening, all the previously registered items were released, so I had to register them again.

First, of course I registered the long sword of the annihilator and the shield of the wall, and also registered the rosary with the wish that allows me to use the exorcism. Moreover, the watcher’s faded eyes and several other accessories were also registered.

Even after registering everything, there was still plenty left. So, in the remaining spare slots, I put firearms that I didn’t mind being destroyed while replacing them.

If you shoot frantically with a bullet weave that erases the penalty, the gun will break down first. In order to properly use the power of infinite bullets, shouldn’t the gun be strong?

“Are we almost done?”

[Now I hope I can receive that blessing.]

“I guess so.”

I decided to get some blessings by depriving myself of my rights.

There are 6 blessings you can receive.

[Rights Deprived (S)]

[Effect: You can kill intelligent beings and take away their right to survive. You can receive God’s blessing by consuming 100 stolen survival rights.]

[Handicap: When hair grows, the skill changes back to accelerated hair loss.]

[Penalty: Each time you consume a right to survive and obtain a blessing, one trial is granted.]

You can get 1 blessing per 100 people, so I can currently receive 6 blessings.

They killed over 600 people in the forest. I killed a lot of people.

If you add up all the people killed so far, I think it’ll be close to four figures.

‘You have truly built a tower of slaughter.’

It feels like I’m standing over a corpse.

With the lives of over 1,000 people, I gained a relatively safe base.

I am quite satisfied. The fact that I and my family are safe is more important than the death of someone whose name I don’t know.

Moreover, I am even feeling a bit of pride in the fact that most of the people I killed were Chinese.

I think it has contributed to human health.

‘But now the real problem is how to catch and kill the survivors in the future.’

The problem is where to source survivors. That’s because when the winter night begins, most of the survivors will die.

‘Up until now, I have become stronger by killing others. Only when the survivors’ ecology is stable can you kill them and move up.’

My strengthening means someone’s death.

However, once the winter night begins in earnest, an incredible number of people will die.

There are still more survivors than expected. But what if the winter night soon begins and vampires and ghouls begin to spread in earnest?

‘In that sense, this is a kind of flytrap. It won’t be long before humans will be drawn here, right?’

It’s getting warm around here. I’m going to plant a luminous tree near the base, so light will come out.

If warm warmth and light were created on a cold, dark winter night, how many miscellaneous things would be entangled.

Everything from monsters from the other world to vampires and ghouls, and even survivors like you, will be involved.

Like a fly. So I have to target them.

A group of all kinds of miscellaneous intelligences and survivors from other dimensions who get caught up like flies.

We had to use them as food for our base.

‘There must be an army there too.’

From soldiers who will soon turn into outlaws and civilians who will go crazy due to the call of the other world.

A future is depicted where fanatics run rampant and awakened soldiers seek salvation and commit massacres.

That’s terrible. But the more they flock here, the more sapients I can kill to strengthen my base and become stronger myself. Rather, it is good.

Of course, some crazy people could commit the highest level of trolling of all time by shooting nuclear missiles here or scattering white phosphorus bombs, saying that we should all die together. If I go that far, I think I’ve gone too far.

They’re probably trying to steal the yolk land from each other, and the crazy guy who wants to destroy it all is likely to have sifted it through a strainer before that.

Because crazy people usually search the fastest.

It is difficult to survive unless you are smart. And out of all the people I’ve encountered or met up to this point, there wasn’t a single one who was crazy.

Hehe.”

Well, anyway, if you’re going to come, please come. Whatever comes, I will kill them all and receive the reward.

“Okay then, let’s get a blessing.”

This is enough to think about the future. Now is the time to receive blessings.

“Handing over 100 rights to survive.”

Soon a notification window appeared in front of my eyes.

[Choose a blessing.]

[One. [Two teleportations]

[2. Time stop once]

[3. 1 daily regression]

“What is this?”

[Teleportation: You can move anywhere you want.]

[Time stop: Time can be stopped for 5 minutes within the labyrinth.]

[Daily Reversion: When you die, you can go back one day.]

What should I choose? Honestly, this is a blessing I never thought of.

“Is it better to return when I die? Or.”

[Is there a place to go by teleportation?]

“Not really?”

[Under what circumstances will time stop?]

“I think I can kill them all before then.”

[Then it wouldn’t be a bad idea to just get daily regression as insurance. I wonder if there will be a situation where you die.]

No matter what it is, revived items are the best. This isn’t even just a simple resurrection; it takes you back to a day ago. You can wake up again with memories of the future.

Therefore, I chose daily regression.

At that moment, a warning message that looked dangerous appeared in front of me.

[Caution!]

[Ordeal imposed!]

As soon as you receive a blessing, you are given a trial. What kind of ordeal is this?

[Ordeal Name: Contract Murder]

[Details: When you next enter the makeshift labyrinth, three hitmen will appear to kill you.]

“Heh, heh.”

Three hitmen. What kind of people will come? I’m really looking forward to it. I wanted to kill them all and get the reward.

“Next.”

[Choose a blessing.]

[One. Labyrinth renovation 1 time]

[2. Labyrinth fixation 1 time]

[3. Labyrinth expansion once]

[Labyrinth modification: You can modify the infinite labyrinth you own.]

[Fix the labyrinth: You can fix one simple labyrinth that you have conquered.]

[Labyrinth expansion: You can expand the infinite labyrinth you own.]

“Wow. “This might be a bit difficult.”

[Hmm.]

Agaf also couldn’t come up with an answer readily.

Should we remodel the base labyrinth or expand it? Otherwise, it turns a simple labyrinth into an infinite labyrinth.

“It’s difficult.”

[Isn’t fixing the labyrinth better?]

“I see.”

Because another farming site is created.

I chose the labyrinth fixation. As expected, as soon as I chose the blessing, an ordeal arose.

[Trial Name: Labyrinth Runaway]

[Details: When you next enter the simple labyrinth, all normal monsters will be changed to elite monsters, and the boss monster will enter a rampage state.]

“Hey. It’s killing me.”

Elite monsters drop skills. Moreover, the boss monsters run rampant. There is nothing better than that.

“I think it’s pretty good because it’s not just a curse but an ordeal.”

[You like it.? As expected, it is difficult for me to follow your materialistic desires.]

Agaf seems to not understand me. Isn’t it good to get more rewards?

“Well, that’s okay. Next.”

[Choose a blessing.]

[One. Kidnapping of merchants 5 times]

[2. Store robbery 3 times]

[3. Market building session 1]

[Merchant Kidnapping: You can kidnap and prey on merchants in dimension stores.]

[Shop Robbery: You can kill the merchant in the dimension store and take over the store.]

[Market building: You can turn an infinite labyrinth into a dimensional market.]

“Wow, I’m going crazy.”

No, what happens if you kidnap a merchant?

It seems like a blessing that allows you to attack an unattackable opponent.

“Are you going to turn merchants into slaves? Are you going to kill the merchant and become the owner of the store? Or are we going to create a dimensional market? Hmm.”

[I have no idea what it is. Still. Isn’t market building the best for scalability?]

“Okay? If you just capture five people and make them slaves…”

[But if you take over the store, can you become the store owner?]

“I don’t know. No, what kind of blessing is this? The explanation is so vague.”

Agaf and I had a hard time.