In Otherworld Leveling

Chapter 10

For now, since it looked nothing like the other items I got from the Hell Slime, I appraised it.

[Black Moon Necklace] :: Rare drop from Hell Slimes. It can increase various stats if worn at night. It also collects sunlight and converts it into magic power, and constantly restores the wearer's magic power.

It was a rare drop. Well, it didn't say anything about the slime being fashionable. Kind of disappointing. But the effect seems quite good. Even if it's only at night, it can increase stats, and can also restore magic power. Though I don't know how to use magic power anyway. Since it was the first time I got a rare drop, and I'd never worn a necklace before, I decided to try equipping it.

"Does it look good on me?"

I wasn't asking anyone in particular, but only said it involuntarily. It wouldn't have been very suitable for me a couple days ago, but now that I'd lost a bit of weight, I wanted to believe it looked good on me.

A message appeared while I was distracted with that.

Level Up

You have acquired the skill [Presence Detection]

"Huh."

No, wait a minute. Do I have to taste that severe pain again!? It's true that the opponent's level was higher, and I can understand my level going up, but even if I recognize that, should I just accept it? I don't wanna!

I still wanted to escape from reality, even if temporarily, so I checked the skill.

It went up quite a bit.

Or rather, isn't everything just too good? Is that a thing? Well, whatever. It's fine, since it's easy to think about.

"Okay. So, time to allocate BP."

After thinking about it for a moment, I started spending BP. This was the result.

[Kira tengen]

Occupation: None

Level: 150

Magic: 2000

Attack: 4500

Defense: 4500

Agility: 4500

Intelligence: 2000

Luck: 6500

BP: 0

Skills: [Appraisal] [Endurance] [Item Box] [Language Comprehension] [True Martial Arts: 1] [Presence Detection]

Title: [Master of The Door] [Master of The House] [Otherworlder] [Person Who Visited A Different World For The First Time]

Unlike last time, I didn't allocate BP into magic or intelligence. Instead, I allocated about 2000 to luck because there I'd gotten something like a rare drop item just now.

It's pure speculation, but if my luck stat is high, I might get more of those rare drop items like before.And it kind of makes me happy to be lucky. Those were the morning's events, and by now it was noon, so I went back to my house at once.

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Once I got into the house, a message displayed asking whether to cash in the items again or not, and I decided to cash in [Magic Stone: Rank C] and [Hell Slime's Core].

And then...

[Hell Slime's Core] cashed in for 500,000 Yen. [Magic stone: Rank C] cashed in for 500,000 Yen.

So, I ended up getting a large sum of money again, a total of 1 million yen. It was almost bewildering to think that I got 2.5 million yen in just two days, but I managed to get back home to have lunch. In addition, I immediately tried using the ingredients I got from the field that morning.

The menu this time was "Super Power Tomato salad", "Invincible Pumpkin and Winter Radish of Wisdom boiled in soy sauce", and "Meat and Godspeed Potato stew". All these dishes were made with Holy Water from the [Infinite Watering Can].

The idea for cooking these wasn't particularly different from tomatoes or potatoes from Earth, I was only nervous about the taste. However, that ended up being needless anxiety.

"D-delicious!"

It was surprisingly delicious. My cooking skills were average, so this flavor could only be coming from the quality of the ingredients themselves. After finishing the meal, I checked my status, and there were various changes.

[Kira Tengen]

Occupation: None

Level: 150

Magic: 2500

Attack: 5000

Defense: 5000

Agility: 5000

Intelligence: 2500

Luck: 7000

BP: 0

Skills: [Appraisal] [Endurance] [Item Box] [Language Comprehension] [True Martial Arts: 1] [Presence Detection] [Cooking: 1]

Title: [Master of The Door] [Master of The House] [Otherworlder] [Person Who Visited A Different World For The First Time]

"It really went up!?"

My stat values had risen by 500. In addition, [Cooking] had been added to the skill list. The reason for my stats increasing and for me to gain skills was all because I ate the ingredients from different worlds. Somehow, the food ingredients of the other world are a cheat. It's so enviable. No wait, I'm the one who got the benefit of it just now.

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I thought about what happened before, and the fact I'd gained the strength to handle those weapons. I decided to go to a nearby secondhand bookstore to find something about martial arts.

I didn't want to go to the library because there were a lot of people, and every time I went there, I only got an unpleasant gazes from the people there. Since the secondhand bookstore I was going to now was small, it was perfect for me, because there wouldn't be any people.

I finished preparing and left home immediately, going straight to the secondhand bookstore. There was no sign of people along the way, and even when I arrived at the bookstore, I was the only customer.

Hmm, where was the martial arts section again...

"Whoa, amazing..."

I eventually found the shelf I was looking for, with a huge amount of books on martial arts and the martial way. [1] On top of that, there were a wide variety of books, not only about standard swordsmanship, but also about the spearmanship and pole arts I wanted, and even sickle and chain arts and assassination techniques.

Where am I supposed to use assassination techniques!? That's scary!

I didn't know if the library had these kinds of books, but at this rate, I was sure there were a lot of old books there. As I thought, I didn't have the confidence to buy or read everything, so when I was looking at the shelves, my eyes naturally stopped on some books.

These books were all about those scattered weapons and schools, and weren't consolidated, but somehow my instinct seems to whisper to choose them. Was that the influence of the [True Martial Arts] skill? I wasn't sure, but it would be easy to buy a few books and go back, so I bought them without thinking too much about it and went home.

After that, I immediately read one of the books until I took a break for dinner, read it some more after dinner, and before I knew it, I got a new skill called [Fast Reading], and read the whole rest of the book. However, it was already late at night, so the actual battle would be tomorrow. After taking a bath, I prepared a futon and went to sleep.

── And then I experienced that terrible pain again, and blacked out.