Chapter 9

There was still some time before Baek Mokho arrived.

I needed to recover somehow before he got here.

Meeting a suspicious bastard while my mana was completely depleted would be dangerous.

Inside the Gate.

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Creating two S-rank dungeons had earned me an enormous number of points.

‘Fortunately, I’ve got just the thing.’

P 42,012,000

These were the System Points I’d accumulated so far.

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I’d fulfilled the outsourced requests, even if I’d been forced into them. avalanche Now it was my turn to benefit.

Welcome to the Employee Exclusive Store.

◈ SYSTEM STORE

‘I’m pretty sure there was a mana recovery potion in here somewhere…’

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Mana Recovery Potion. atlas A product whose very name suggested it would restore magical power.

Because that was so inefficient, everyone wanted an item capable of restoring mana.

Normally, the only way an Awakened could recover their mana was by sleeping.

And with demand so high, such items were extraordinarily expensive.

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I’d been planning to take advantage of that, but…

There were so many products that finding anything was a nightmare.

But the System Store offered them at a surprisingly low price.

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Whatever. ability I’d do it myself.

The store didn’t even have a search function.

‘What kind of website is all flash and no substance?’

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Mana Enhancement Elixir

I opened the Developer Tool and entered code to filter the products, displaying only those with “mana” in their names.

When I checked the results, I found.

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Mana Modification Tool

Mana Reset Code

Mana Recovery Potion

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There were some downright terrifying things mixed in there.

The System hadn’t provided any way to convert a person’s mana capacity or physical stamina into numerical values using computer code.

Because of that, I couldn’t quantify my own mana reserves.

I’d ignore those for now.

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According to the description, a single bottle of Mana Recovery Potion restored 10,000 mana.

‘It’d be useful if I could put numerical values on my body’s capabilities.’

Which meant I had no idea how many recovery potions I’d need to restore my mana completely.

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Couldn’t I estimate my total mana capacity by calculating how many bottles it took to recover fully?

If I treated my current, completely depleted state as zero…

One Mana Recovery Potion cost only 1,000 points, so the price wasn’t a concern.

‘Let’s give it a try.’

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◈ SYSTEM STORE

Thank you for your purchase.

I started by pressing the purchase button for a single bottle.

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At the same time, it began printing itself into a tangible object.

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When I moved the purchase confirmation window aside, I saw a hologram of a can-shaped recovery potion suddenly appear above the webpage.

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Soon, the completed recovery potion dropped into my hand.

No matter how many times I witnessed it, this technology never failed to amaze me.

‘Oooh.’

It was about the size of a soda can.

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I wondered what it would taste like.

It certainly didn’t look like something made on Earth.

The thin, aluminum-like container was covered in unfamiliar writing.

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“Urgh.”

‘What a disappointment.’

…Did someone mix alien juice into seawater?

I couldn’t even feel my mana recovering.

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The tenth can.

It was cheap, anyway.

I’d try drinking some more.

***

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All I had was a mouthful of alien-juice flavor.

Still nothing.

‘…Could my mana capacity be so enormous that this amount isn’t enough for me to notice?’

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It was possible.

The thirtieth can.

I’d keep drinking.

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The fiftieth can.

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My stomach was starting to slosh.

‘Not yet? adapt Just a little more.’

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I’d somehow drunk approximately one hundred cans of Mana Recovery Potion.

And a little while later…

After drinking so much, I couldn’t taste anything anymore.

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I felt so full I could die.

‘And they have the nerve to sell this crap as a recovery potion?’

I’d recovered a whopping one million mana, yet I only felt as though I’d taken a thirty-minute nap.

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Just as I opened the product page to leave a negative review, my gift box opened automatically, and a complimentary item appeared before my eyes.

Thank you for your purchase.

◈SYSTEM STORE

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★The No. 1 Mana Recovery Food Among System Employees!★

[MANANA]

Thanks to your support, Mana Food Co., Ltd. has evolved to the next level.

We’re giving first-time customers a complimentary gift!

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(Our Previous Product) HANA MANA

> 35,000 P for 75,000,000 mana restored

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Here’s what makes MANANA different.

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The amount of mana it restored was… a hundred million?

> 45,000 P for “100,000,000” mana restored!

MANANA

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‘There was a mana recovery item like this all along?’

No, the garbage in my hand.

I threw away the Mana Recovery Potion in my hand.

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Because the System translated everything into Korean, I’d overlooked the perfectly ordinary possibility that a product might have an English name.

I’d assumed searching for “magical power” would be enough.

I’d let my guard down.

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‘Fuck! auction I should’ve at least tried searching for “mana” one more time!’

I immediately pressed the Claim button.

It was a banana wrapped in a garish, rainbow-colored peel.

A single MANANA was printed into reality and dropped into my hand.

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It looked like something straight out of an RPG Maker game, but after drinking alien juice, nothing scared me anymore.

The texture was bizarre, like biting into a stuffed toy.

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The fragrant aroma of herbs and the refreshing sensation of eating something fresh filled my mouth.

A pleasant sweetness from the fruit’s juices blended perfectly with the other flavors.

‘Wait, this is delicious.’

But as I chewed…

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To think I’d drunk a hundred cans of alien juice when something this delicious existed.

Neither its taste nor its effectiveness could be compared to that alien juice.

‘Urgh…’

What a sucker I’d been.

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I should’ve checked my gift box sooner.

I was grateful, but this wasn’t something an AI would normally do.

‘But giving me ten of these is a little… excessive, isn’t it?’

I’d bought a single Mana Recovery Potion, yet they’d given me ten MANANAs as a complimentary gift.

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But who was that employee? athlete Where was the company operating the System? arena And what the hell was Mana Food Co., Ltd.?

Was someone watching over me and helping me?

It was almost as though someone had taken pity on me for being such a sucker and decided to give me a hint.

‘A System employee…?’

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Maybe that was just because the game company I’d worked for had been such a shitty little sweatshop.

Whoever it was probably wasn’t human, but I had a feeling they weren’t a bad person.

There was no way to find out right now.

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Just how high was my maximum mana capacity?

I’d finished an entire MANANA, which supposedly restored an enormous amount of mana, yet I didn’t even feel halfway replenished.

‘I’ll put that aside for now.’

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I was too full to eat any more.

This much was more than enough to clear an S-rank dungeon, but it was frustrating that I still hadn’t figured out the exact number.

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After setting up a notification to alert me if anyone entered the Gate, I closed my eyes.

I climbed up into a giant tree in the dungeon’s safe zone and lay down.

I’d be better off getting some sleep.

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I hadn’t fallen asleep even once in the past ten years.

Or perhaps I was simply stuffed.

But perhaps it was the sense of security that came from being in my own perfectly safe space.

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…A chill.

Either way, my eyes closed on their own.

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‘Wait a second.’

When I came to my senses, I realized I was no longer in the safe zone where I’d fallen asleep.

What was that?

Why did I have such an ominous feeling…?

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‘Holy shit, how long was I asleep…?’

I’d been sleeping in it like a baby bird.

I was in something resembling a nest made of soft leaves.

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When I activated my skill, I discovered a ridiculous number of notifications waiting for me.

‘…Well, these things happen.’

I’d slept through every single one.

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Thanks to the good night’s sleep, my body felt wonderfully refreshed.

If I didn’t take my own side, who would?

When people were sleepy, they could sleep right through their notifications.

End of self-reflection.

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And yet, I had a pretty good idea who owned this modernized traditional Korean overcoat.

It was the first time I’d seen anything like it in this dungeon. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

“……”

I stretched as I got up, then noticed a white durumagi draped over me.

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My body wasn’t injured, and I hadn’t been tied up.

“Hmm.”

Whoever had found me hadn’t harmed me in the slightest while I was fast asleep.

Even after ten years, there was only one Hunter who would still dress like this.

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He was my only fellow disciple under the same master, and a comrade with whom I’d shared life-and-death situations more times than I cared to remember.

In truth, Baek Mokho was just as difficult to suspect as Myeong Eunseon.

He’d even used a skill to protect me from monsters before leaving.

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I couldn’t completely rule him out as a suspect.

I tossed the durumagi aside and climbed out of the nest.

But that also meant he knew me extremely well.

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‘If he’s not around, I guess he’s off exploring the dungeon.’

It was a forest created from extraterrestrial vegetation, forming a unique ecosystem.

The source material had come from the library of Create Your Own Dungeon♪.

This dungeon contained a forest that he’d absolutely love.

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He was such a plant fanatic that he’d personally spearheaded the establishment of a research institute dedicated to dungeon flora.

Baek Mokho would undoubtedly see even more in it than I could.

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The ecosystem was so intricately designed and wondrous that I could never have imagined anything like it on my own.

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In fact, there was a reason I’d needed to enter this dungeon personally.

That worked out perfectly.

While he investigated the new dungeon ecosystem, I had something of my own to do.

By now, he was probably happily indulging his obsession, collecting leaves and fruits from plants he’d never seen before. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

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Drinking the sap of this tree, which preserves the sage’s sorrow, allows one to recall a past memory that must be remembered.

[Primordial Great Tree]

A tree nourished by the tears of a sage.

It was a resource I’d discovered while incorporating extraterrestrial vegetation into the dungeon.

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I needed to see the face of the bastard who had thrown me into the ocean.

I left the nest and climbed to the top of the tallest tree in the dungeon.

With this, I might be able to fill the gaps in my memory.

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It was bitter.

I dabbed a little onto my fingertip and tasted it.

When I peeled away some bark to extract its sap, droplets of highly concentrated liquid began to form.

And just as my face twisted into a grimace.

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A memory flashed through my mind.

Pale-colored hair fluttered amid swirling dust.

— You see, I think the System is involved in all of these problems. silence That’s why…

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But it lasted only three seconds.

A familiar voice was speaking.

That voice was…

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It wasn’t the moment I’d been betrayed and attacked from behind.

The memory passed so quickly that it cut off in the middle of the sentence.

‘What the hell is this?’

Even when I drank more sap, the rest wouldn’t play.

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The words of someone who was already dead were the past I needed to remember?

It wasn’t even the moment nails had been driven through my hands and feet.

It wasn’t the moment my skill had been stolen.

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Just that one remark about suspecting the System?

“……”

And not even anything particularly revealing.

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The System didn’t lie.

A cold breeze swept through the forest, rustling leaves of mysterious colors.

I looked up at the sky to shake off my sense of emptiness.

A tiny star shimmered in the clear orange sky.

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And that was especially true of a memory drawn out by the Primordial Great Tree itself.

…I’d consider that a fortunate discovery.

If so, there was no doubt that person had known something.

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Because the person who knew them best was right here in this dungeon.