Clearing The World That's Inside A Novel

Chapter 11: Dungeon Rewards

I had already decided on the things that I needed from this dungeon.

"The potion or whatever you gave me earlier, what can it do?"

"You should be grateful for tha-mgh!"

Blonde got shut once again by the light blue. This time instead of a simple strap, it was a 'ball gag' that covered the blonde's mouth.

Light blue is really a pervert.

"That was a healing potion, it healed you completely, be it your injuries or your illness. It also restored your blood and took care of your dark circles that you had, you look more handsome now~"

Sheesh, you call that simple healing potion.

Even Elixir doesn't restore blood or cure illness, you know. These guys really have pretty high standards.

"Just to be sure, I am not dying anymore, right?"

That was the most important thing, that was the entire reason I came here to begin with.

"Of course not! You are as healthy as you can be!"

That's good to hear.

"So how many of those potions can I get?"

"Mghgh!!!"

Does this blonde think people can understand her? She looks ridiculous hovering around and shouting like that.

"It was a bit of personal reward of mine to you, so I can't really give them"

..I don't get it.

I can't get that potion for clearing the dungeon? Why?

I will think about it later.

"So, what kind of potion can I get, and how many? What's your recommendation?"

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Potion - High Uncommon Grade

Restore's health, mana, stamina, blood, etc. in an instant on consuming.

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Basically, something even better than an Elixir.

"You can have them around a 1500 or so. They are pretty low-level potions, after all, oh but just so you know it wouldn't help with regrowing your limbs~"

"Was that intentional? You know how shitty the potions in the world are, right?"

"Hahaha! That's true! Even the worst of the rewards from hidden dungeons are a pretty big deal in your world~"

"Alright, light blue. Give me 90 of those potions and give me another 10 potions of higher rank, something that could even regrow limbs."

There doesn't exist anything to help regrow limbs, you can reattach them using a high healing potion but you can't regrow a lost limb.

"..You want multiple things, is that it?"

Hook, line, and sinker.

Her words were a confirmation that I could get it, a potion like that. So, the question is what kind of potion did she give me earlier? A potion that is most probably even higher than what I am asking for but why, why did she give it to me?

I will think about it later though...

For now, focus.

"That's right"

"But before that, these potions, if I turn them into solid meds will they still work?"

I asked, you see the reason healing potions are potions is because they lose their effects when turned into solid.

Even an elixir will lose its effect if not consumed within a day of turning it into solid from liquid.

"Of course, they will"

That's good to hear, I can use them like I did in the fight with Minotaur. I mean, my opponent ain't gonna wait for me to drink a potion during the fight...or will he?

"What other things do you want?"

"You see this necklace I am wearing, I want you to change its settings. Make it so when I wish for it this necklace will teleport me to a safe place and if there's any attack that could insta kill me then I want it to teleport me to a safe place."

For now, I don't want any skills, weapons, or the sort, what I want is absolute safety.

"At best 6. A total of 6 teleportation. Is that okay"

"You can cut that 6 to 4. Upgrade this dimensional ring and change the way it stores things. Make it similar to a game inventory. Also, turn it into soul bound item."

Soul bound.

Anything that's soul-bound cannot be used by anyone except the user not even if you kill the user. The item can materialize and dematerialize on the user's will as well.

"You are asking for too much!"

The blonde shouted. Guess, she can talk again.

"...It is possible."

"What!?"

I like light blue.

"B-but how!? The change he is asking for his dimensional storage item is already pretty big but he wants it to be soul-bound as well!"

"Well, it's because of his achievement~"

What achievement? I did clear the dungeon but I don't think she is talking about that.

"What kind of achievement?" The blonde asked with question marks floating on her head, not metamorphically but quite literally, this blonde used damn magic to make question marks float on her head.

It irked me.

Guess what? I hate the cutesy type.

"You do know you won't become cute even if you do that."

"Huh.." Blonde showed a confused face at first then soon after following my gaze she looked above her head "I-it's a mistake! I didn't mean to do it! It just happens because my mana is a bit much so some of it leaks through my emotions unconsciously!"

"Yeah, sure. I believe you."

She did show her initial confusion but more than that.. just how much mana does this blonde have?

"So, about the achievement. It's related to his system. He is the first person to unlock systems consciousness ~" The light blue said

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What?

How does she know about it?

"W-what!?" The blonde shouted perfectly showing my reaction, then she looked at me bewildered.

I am bewildered too but because of a different reason. I looked towards the blue-haired girl and as if sensing what I wanted to know she began to explain

"You see, we are the ones who designed the system. So, of course, we know about it. We designed it in a way so that once the required conditions are fulfilled it would form a conscious and help out the user tremendously, to the point one could call it a cheat but the required conditions are also simply that hard to fulfill"

Just to be sure...

"What are the required conditions? Just asking... feels good to hear your accomplishments from other people's mouths you see"

"Hm? Sure. The first condition is to realize that the system might be more than what it seems to be. Many people have cleared this condition. The second condition is to give your blood to the system to register yourself as an 'absolute' master. Not many have achieved it. The third is to teach the system, to help it form a personality. No one has done it except you. Fourth and the last condition is to talk with a system for a long period of time, around a week or so without any form of intentions. Again, no one has done it except you."

Okay...

I only cleared the last one.

Those conditions are weird but...

Noah, you damn bastard, couldn't you have like written something about it in your diary!?

I realized, just because I have a B+ intelligence meant shit. Even if you give a full-blown gaming set to a noob, he will still be a noob.

This B+ intelligence might have increased my thought process, gave me almost photographic memory and all but I still think the same way I used to think.

On the other hand, Noah sure was the real deal. He figured out those weird conditions with no clues.

But ..from her words, it was clear she didn't know that I was not that Noah.

I kinda thought she would know about me because these guys have the absolute, highest authority in this world according to the novel.

And I deep down thought that's why she gave me that personal reward of a potion

But...

So, whoever brought me here bypassed them.

An entity who is even higher than them... why the f*ck did I drop the novel. Damn it!

The fact that I am regretting not reading a dog-shit novel completely is enough to make me realize my luck is shittier than I had thought.

"Well, then. Time for your rewards~"

The light blue hair snapped her fingers. A light enveloped my ring and my necklace.

"You can check your rewards~"

I did exactly that

"System Status," I said while grabbing my marine colored necklace

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Protection Necklace - Low-Grade Epic Artifact

The item protects its wearer by teleporting them to a safe location in case an attack that would inevitably take the wearer's life comes his way. It also teleports the wearer to a safe location if the user wishes for it.

Useable - 4/4

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"Low Epic? Does that mean if I hadn't asked for other things, I could have gotten legendary grade?"

Legendary stuff sounds good. I want it.

"Are you an idiot, you don't get legendary grades that easily, actually you can't get even a high epic item"

The blonde trashed my dreams in an instant but it also made me realize that the potion I was given by light blue was at least a high epic grade.

I wanted to ask why I was given such a high-ranking potion but I remembered her words. She has said about it being a personal reward rather than telling me the details, in other words, she doesn't want to tell ..or she can't tell me.

Whatever.

The thing that matters is that apparently, I have gotten more severe injuries than I had thought.

"How do I get it?" I asked

"If you want legendary grade or higher grade items, you will have to challenge higher level hidden dungeons"

Is there a higher grade than legendary? Maybe, a mythical grade or something?

"So, what do you mean by higher level hidden dungeon? Please do enlighten this mere mortal"

Haha, I have a bad feeling.

A really bad feeling.

"There are mainly 3 types of hidden dungeons. Easy, Moderate, and Hard. Blue portal hidden dungeons are all easy, orange portal hidden dungeons are moderate, and red portal indicates hard. No one has ever tried moderate or hard-hidden dungeons, well, they never found them." She said in a disappointed voice but soon after changed her crestfallen expression into one of enthusiasm "But you can challenge them! You have discovered the system secret after all! It would be easy to find all the hidden dungeons because they are no longer hidden from you!"

Pipe down, girl.

You just dropped a bomb on me. A big one at that.

Not only that just trying to clear easy one is already hard enough, what would happen if I tried moderate and hard? Well, it's 100 percent death.

..I am gonna process this information later. For now, I will focus on the matter at hand.

"I understand"

Saying so, I started checking my new modified dimensional ring.

"System status"

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Dimensional Storage Ring - Low-Grade Epic Artifact

Storage capacity - 17/25

You have to touch the object to store it in the ring.

Soul bound to the wearer.

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That's right, the change I asked for was the way it stores stuff.

With a simple thought, a screen appeared in front of my eyes showing 25 boxes of which 17 were full.

One box shows, "High Uncommon Healing potion x90"

One showing "Low-Grade Epic Healing potion x 10"

They must be the potion rewards and other stuff that were the items that I had brought.

In other words, a single box could contain as much amount of the same item as I want.

This is cool!

It's better than the previous type where the amount of area was covered to store the items.

And just with a thought, the item appeared and disappeared from my hands.

Oh cool!

"It seems you liked the rewards, well then, guess this is it~"

I nodded. It was time to go back home. The light blue snapped her fingers.

Soon after, I found myself back in the cave but this time there were no blue portals around anymore. Once you clear the hidden dungeon, they disappear.

I came out of the cave and looked towards the sky. A sigh escaped my lips.

"That light blue..."

I couldn't help but mutter as I shook my head.

Time to head to another dungeon. My plan is to clear 3 hidden dungeons before my academy days start. 1 down, 2 to go.

And it seems like I can't afford to be as reckless as I was before. I hoped to find the answer sooner but guess, I will have to wait.