Chapter 6 – 6.Valendia (6)
In addition to their unique combat skills, each character selected through the gacha in Lucedia Phantasm has unique passive skills that are helpful when enjoying the game.
Things like making the dash move faster, increasing the yield when mining ingredients, or increasing the amount of food produced.
And Sasha’s unique passive skill, Thrifty Savings, was a very useful passive skill in the long run when playing Rupan.
Reduces the cost of strengthening weapons or purchasing items from NPCs by 20%.
When selling materials or useless surplus equipment to NPCs, he had a passive skill that was befitting the setting of a trader: a 20% increase in sales.
Lucedia Phantasm is a character trading game, so payers like me pick new characters on a regular basis.
Even if you are not a payer, users who hit the ceiling by collecting the goods scattered in the game, or are lucky, still draw new characters, even if the frequency is low.
If you pick a new character, the first thing you need to do is train it.
Raise your character level, raise your skill level, and raise the level of weapons and equipment appropriate for your character.
And in this process, of course, each character level experience point material, skill level material, and weapon and equipment level material are input.
In all of these procedures, Rupan’s in-game currency called gold is used.
Gold can be earned by completing main quests, sub-quests, event quests, character bonding quests, selling equipment or materials dropped by killing monsters, and entering a gold dungeon with a limited number of entries per day.
Most Rupan users were always struggling with this gold shortage problem.
The ways to obtain it are limited, but there are many characters, skills, and equipment to develop.
Fortunately, nuclear billers like me were able to get some relief from such worries.
This is because, if the number of daily entries to the Gold Dungeon was exceeded, additional entries were possible using the bond stones required for gacha.
Of course, the number of times you can enter using a bond stone is limited, so even though you can breathe easier than other non-paying users, you still have a narrow shortage of gold.
When a new gacha character comes out, I want to set the final settings right away, but I don’t have enough gold so I stop in the middle.
That moment was truly painful for me as a biller.
And among the nuclear, small, medium and no-payers, it is Sasha’s passive skill that solves the gold goods problem to some extent.
As the saying goes, gold consumed decreases and gold sold increases by 20%, so the frequency of losing money during training has decreased.
Therefore, the nickname given to Sasha as she became loved by users was Meow Pay.
Without Sasha, I was teased as being without Meowpay.
Perhaps that’s why, when Sasha Gacha was reprinted, Lucedia Phantasm became the number one selling game in a day.
And now, before my eyes, is Sasha, who has been loved by Rupan users for a long time, literally from the first gacha appearance until the moment the crazy event boss appeared.
The moment I saw Sasha, this thought immediately came to mind.
‘It’s really cute.’
I liked the look of Rupan’s graphics, but seeing Sasha in this real-world version was also very nice.
It feels as if the character in the game has jumped out of reality and it has actually come true.
As a Rupan user who has been playing for 10 years, she felt warm and emotional inside her.
‘It would have been better if it wasn’t a situation where you had to defeat that stupid final boss.’
Suppress her emotions as much as possible and gather her mind.
What we need now is not emotion.
In order to defeat the final boss, you have to make a proper connection with Sasha.
I opened my mouth, thinking of something unusual about the man.
“Who are you?”
To emphasize the feeling of seeing a suspicious person, she raised the skin under her left eye slightly and looked down at Sasha and asked.
Sasha placed her hand on the center of her own chest.
“My name is Sasha. She is a trader in Valendia.”
That’s one of Sasha’s standby motions.
All you have to do is draw a big semicircle and say hello.
“So?”
“Like I said before, I spoke to my brother because he had a very good story.”
Sasha makes the most of her cute appearance by frowning and winking.
I’d like to start a consultation right away, but I’ve only been in Valendia for two weeks.
So the choice to take here is.
“Miscellaneous merchant envoy.”
First of all, bounce.
Passing by Sasha, she took her steps.
“Wait a minute, wait a minute, oppa~.”
In a hurry, Sasha blocked my path again.
“Miscellaneous merchant! That’s too much! Don’t you know the name Sasha? I am Sasha, the merchant at Cats Store!”
“I don’t know.”
“That can’t be possible… !”
Sasha is surprised, pricking up her ears and tail.
But she says that’s just acting.
If the settings in the game were still the same, Sasha would have come to me with my prior information.
“If she lives in Valendia, it makes no sense that she doesn’t know about Cats Store!”
“Is that so? I’ve been in this city for two weeks, and I’ve never heard of Cat’s Company.”
“Huh? Are you not walking around the streets often?”
“No.”
She pointed to the west with her hand.
“I’ve been around that area, but I’ve never heard of Cats Company.”
“Oh no! The Cats Company is in the east area, not the west area! If you had even set foot in the east area, you wouldn’t have known about the Cats Store!”
“Okay. Then, that’s enough.”
Second bounce.
As I tried to pass Sasha again, she grabbed my sleeve.
“Wait a minute! Why are you leaving again? We’re not done talking!”
“So, miscellaneous merchants refuse…” ” .”
“I’m not a miscellaneous merchant! I’m the owner of Cat’s Company! I’m Sasha, a trader!”
It would be okay if it bounced this much.
She stopped in her tracks and looked at Sasha.
“It looks suspicious?”
“What’s suspicious? Where is this cute me?”
You call yourself cute.
She is like Sasha, who also considers her appearance as one of her trading factors.
‘Because it’s really cute.’
Trying not to reveal her true feelings, she threw away Sasha’s hand that was holding her sleeve and crossed her arms.
“Why is the owner of a famous and cute business in Valendia talking to me?”
Here, he frowns slightly and glares at Sasha.
“I don’t think there’s anything for me to eat, right?”
Even if you don’t have anything to eat, there are definitely things you want to receive.
And. After briefly admiring her, Sasha touched her hand and raised the corner of her mouth.
“You have a good head.”
“Are you kidding me?”
“No! Not at all! I was just impressed! It was a slightly different impression from what I heard.”
“I heard it? “What did I hear?”
“Hmm, my legs hurt if I just stand here and talk, so how about we sit somewhere and talk?”
“Tell me first what you heard.”
Sasha clenched her fists and held her hands in a cat pose, bending her wrists up and down.
“Hey, don’t be so harsh. I’ll tell you everything. Even why I came to visit you. Oh, how about that cafe? Let’s have some tea and talk calmly. I’ll take care of it.”〈 Br〉
“Apple pie.”
“Yes?”
“I also order apple pie.”
The cafe that Sasha pointed to is the one I visited yesterday.
The apple pie was really delicious.
“Ah! Yes! Order as much as you want!”
She went into a cafe with Sasha and ordered tea and apple pie.
After ordering from the clerk, Shasha immediately asked me.
“Then I’ll tell you why I talked to you.”
“Okay, why?”
Sasha pointed her finger at her amulet.
“The amulet that my brother bought me. I really like it. Where on earth did you get that amulet?”
“I guess you have something to say before that?”
“Is this something you want to talk about?”
If possible, I want to get the conversation going right away, but to truly have a conversation, there has to be a back and forth.
She can’t look like a pushover by answering right away when Sasha asks.
“What do you mean you heard about me?”
“Oh, about that.”
“Okay. I’ll start answering your questions later.”
“I understand.”
Sasha’s tail is gently swaying.
“Did you know that? You’re famous in Valendia, too?”
“Famous?”
“Yes. A different species that appeared two weeks ago and has been coming to Valendia to target only bandits. It is a bandit hunter.”
“Was that nickname going around?”
“Yes. That’s right! I heard that they even caught a bandit executive recently? That’s amazing!”
After a brief clap clap clap, Sasha clapped her hands.
“That’s all I heard about you.”
“Really?”
“Yes! It’s true.”
“What do you mean the impression is different?”
“They say rumors are exaggerated, right? Like there’s no blood or tears, or like, I was tired of bandits, so I set out to hunt bad guys. I was just misunderstanding my brother for a while because there were strange rumors like that.”
“I see.”
Hunting bad guys.
Where on earth did such a strange rumor come from?
“Is this the answer? Then it’s my turn now, right? Oppa~ Where did you get that amulet?”
Sasha looks at me with the corners of her mouth forming a half-moon shape and her eyes also drawing a curve.
Even though it looks like she’s smiling, Sasha’s eyes must be cold and sunken.
Who am I?
You’ll want to properly determine why you got this amulet.
This amulet is so important to Sasha that it makes sense to act like that.
“It’s a trophy.”
“Loot?”
“I got it after defeating a bandit. It happened to be owned by the bandit executive you just mentioned. So I don’t know where it was sold.”
“Ah, I see. A bandit executive had it… “
Sasha’s eyes hidden in her smile she felt even colder.
“Are you doubting my words?”
“No! Not at all! Indeed! My brother, who is a bandit hunter, has it, so of course it is a trophy obtained from defeating a bandit! If you think about it a little, it is obvious!”
Sasha put her palms together and started rubbing them.
“So, brother, I really like that amulet. Are you thinking of selling it to me? I’ll buy it for a good price. Isn’t it nice that you also sell the loot you got from bandits at a high price?”
He spoke firmly towards Sasha who was bargaining.
“I don’t like it.”
“… Yes?”