NOVEL WEB Chapter 59: Fortune on Compensation Slips
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The Next Day.
Fourth Floor City Tavern.
As promised, Aaron and Isabella invited Sokia to re-visit the tavern. There, Sokia was allowed to choose whatever food she liked until she was full. The highest price for a meal was 5000 RL.
With Aaron's considerable amount of RL, the young man didn't worry about money. The most important thing was that his promise to Sokia had been fulfilled.
[ANNOUNCEMENT!]
[Monster Raid in Dark Pillar Tower will open soon]
[All adventurers are requested to prepare]
[Countdown until Monster Raid Gate opens]
[00:11:59:43]
The information panel about the Raid in Dark Pillar opened just as they were having dinner together. This time, Aaron was confident he could join the raid even though the red title was still posted above his head.
Sokia turned aside, seeing two monster raid notification panels appear before Aaron and Isabella. Even so, the panel didn't appear in front of Sokia due to her identity as a mythological race.
Only the human race had the right to join the monster raid, not the mythological race. This is because of the monsters' nature, which considers mythological races to be higher-level creatures than them.
The monsters will submit and obey all mythological races, including the Sokia dragon race. Still, the system had no written rules prohibiting the mythological races from joining the monster raid.
Isabella glanced forward, and Aaron nodded. Without having to speak, Aaron had already known the meaning of the look in Isabella's eyes.
"The monster raid will open at eight in the morning. Maybe you can visit some shops first to buy equipment," Aaron said.
Isabella said yes. She excused herself to leave the tavern to buy something needed. Now, it left Sokia and Aaron sitting together at one of the tables on the second floor.
Aaron opened the attribute status panel, allocating his ability points to several attributes to deal with the Nerf impact of using compensation slips.
[Status Attributes]
[CP: 83068] [+1250]
[STR: 92] [+40]
[AGI: 101] [+30]
[INT: 164] [+90]
[LUCK: 91] [+25]
[DEX: 99] [+65]
[Ability Point: 0] [-250]
With adding such attribute points, Aaron could handle the 20% nerf in STR, INT, and DEX attributes when using Compensation Slips —despite the great power of his two talents.
Sokia occasionally turned her head to the side, clearly seeing the amount of CP belonging to Aaron, which had reached over 80000 CP.
This was the first time she had seen an adventurer with such a high CP; the last human she had seen before he died had a CP of about 45,000.
"You have a big CP, Aaron," said Sokia, still eating the soy sauce-seasoned grilled meat in her mouth.
"Yeah. I have two talents and two soul servants who greatly help me."
"With such a high CP, I doubt any other adventurers will challenge you to a fight."
"Let's hope not. This red title is troublesome enough for me."
Sokia continued to devour the grilled meat menu she ordered, complete with other foods of the same type, such as grilled ribs, fried fish, and so on.
When Sokia was offered to eat vegetables, she refused and was reluctant to be compared with goats.
"Only goats eat vegetables and hate meat," Sokia replied, her mouth full of food.
"Yeah. Hurry up and finish it; we must catch up with Isabella."
Sokia said yes. She ate quickly and finished the food in her mouth until it was gone. Six plates were on the table, all of which belonged to Sokia.
One last serving was finished. As Aaron expected, she felt full of all the food menus presented before her, even though Aaron had only ordered fresh appetizers like yesterday.
'My money will run out if she keeps eating large portions like this,' Aaron said.
[DING! Congratulation on Leveling Up]
[Level 49]
A red panel with white writing appeared before Sokia, saying a notification that she had leveled up. Aaron gasped; he never thought Sokia could level up just by eating.
"What happened?" asked Aaron.
"I leveled up."
"But how can you level up just by eating meat?" asked Aaron.
"This meat has some EXP inside; the amount is uncertain. However, that's probably what helped me level up quickly," replied Sokia, smiling.
Not only that, Sokia explained there were many ways to make her level up. But, the fastest way was to kill humans.
That's because humans have their own profile system. The amount of EXP they have is more than eating a lot of meat.
Aaron squinted, wondering how many adventurers Sokia had killed. Sokia blatantly said she had killed about 10 adventurers and taken their EXP, which allowed her to level up by 20.
Sokia had finished eating all the food she had ordered. Aaron was happy if Sokia loved the food. The young man invited Sokia to leave the tavern to go see Isabella.
He was confident that the woman must have finished buying the necessary equipment.
The two met on the main street of the city. Isabella said she had collected some items needed for the monster raid tomorrow morning. She had stored the items in her digital storage.
"Alright. We'll rest tonight and go raid tomorrow morning."
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The Next Day.
Fourth Floor Dark Pillar Door.
The arrival of Aaron, who still held the red title above his head, suddenly became the focus of attention from many people, not a few of them gossiped about the young man.
Rumors have been circulating among all of them, saying that Aaron is the one who killed Elvan. This became more apparent when Aaron's red title appeared after the murder of Elvan.
Aaron seemed ignorant and didn't care what they said. Isabella felt worried that another group might try to kill Aaron, again. But Aaron ensured that he would not kill them.
"Why are they looking at us with those looks?" asked Sokia, not knowing anything.
"You better not pay too much attention to them, Sokia."
[The Portal Gate of the Dark Pillar Tower opened]
[Portal closed countdown]
[00:11:59:59]
The countdown notification panel appeared. The portal began to open, and people walked through it one by one. Aaron was optimistic.
With the compensation slip in his hand, he was sure he could complete the monster raid this time.
He touched the circle on the compensation slip, putting a speck of his purple energy power into it. A green panel appeared above the compensation slip, bearing the words that said Aaron was allowed to join the raid.
[Compensation Slip:]
[Host with red title detected]
[Name: Aaron]
[Level: 57]
[Host allowed to join raid]
[Host nerfed]
[20% reduction in STR, INT, and DEX]
[Number of available compensations: 2]
[WARNING!]
[Killing another mage within the compensation period will make the compensation slip destroyed]
Slowly, the red title that spelled murderer above Aaron's head began to vanish and disappeared. His condition returned to normal as if Aaron had never made a kill before. Aaron smiled; the compensation slip really helped him.
People stepped into the Dark Pillar. Aaron was the last group to enter the place.
"Always be careful. There are only three of us now. The threat may be much greater."