Chapter 51
Shortly afterward.
The Myth Guild's temporary barracks in the Orange Zone.
“L-Little sis!!! N-No, Si-yeon! Come with us!!”
“Little sis! Please come with our party!! We'll draw all the aggro, so you just hide in the back!!”
“You bastards!! Si-yeon was supposed to be assigned to Squad One, but Squad Two snatched her away!! She was ours to begin with!!”
Senior guild members were crawling across the floor and clinging to Si-yeon.
The reason was clear.
It was because of an experiment ten minutes earlier.
- What's this now?
The Lesser Health Potion Si-yeon had made from medicine bought at the pharmacy vending machine.
When she brought it over—the so-called red pot—the seniors didn't even acknowledge it.
- A potion that rapidly heals wounds?
- If something like that existed, wouldn't the System be selling it?
- I-I'm telling you, it's real...! If you don't believe me, I'll pour some on that injured senior over there...!
Si-yeon approached a guild member from another team who had injured his shoulder while out farming and poured the red potion over him.
Sizzle-!
- Gaaah!!! Aaargh!... Huh? Huhhh?!
As soon as the potion touched him, white smoke rose, and the guild member's torn shoulder began healing as if time were rewinding.
No casting time. No symptoms of healer's mana depletion.
It was instant healing that didn't even leave a scar.
- C-Crazy...!
- I-It's real...!
- Th-There are potions...?
The seniors' eyes bulged to the size of ping-pong balls.
And at that moment, they realized.
The value this potion would have once Si-yeon began producing it.
That's how they lost their minds and prostrated themselves at Si-yeon's feet.
“S-Si-yeon! You know I only told you to leave the farming party earlier because I care about you and was worried, right?!”
“It's dangerous outside!”
At the seniors' excuses, Si-yeon hunched her shoulders, gripping the broom standing in the corner with both hands.
“Sigh... But... I'm a healer with rock-bottom cost-effectiveness, just gobbling up mana stones without doing much... right?”
She timidly averted her gaze and muttered, but her words carried a barb.
“N-No!! Take it back! Take iiiit baaack!!!”
“I'll take back that outrageous statement!!!”
“So... I'll just do as you seniors said and quietly clean the barracks... Swish-swish. Scrub-scrub-swish.”
As Si-yeon pretended to sweep the floor dejectedly, the seniors' faces turned ashen.
“Little sis!! Please come with us!!!”
“We'll all die without you!!”
“Just make potions from the back!!”
Si-yeon listened to the seniors' desperate pleas for a while.
She soon stopped sweeping and glanced cautiously at the party leaders.
“W-Well... if you're really that worried... I won't stop you from buying these potions before you head out to farm...”
“I-I'll buy them!! Absolutely! How much?!!”
“One hundred fifty mana stones per bottle.”
“Why did the price go up?!!”
“Then don't buy one.”
“Gnnngh...!!”
At Si-yeon's words, the senior who had been putting on a servile expression soon held out a pouch of mana stones.
“Here are 1,350 mana stones...!! Gugh, half my entire fortune...!”
“Thank you, senior! We look forward to your continued patronage!”
Once Si-yeon confirmed that the seniors had disappeared outside the barracks, she.
“Hehe...”
She soon stroked the pouch of mana stones and cried out softly.
“System, you're the best!!!”
The System sure is convenient, suddenly rolling out a user-friendly patch like this.
“I have to brag about this to Troll NEET!”
*****
Title : I'm a newbie, okay!!! They installed a tile here in Cheonan too!!!!!
(Some random shiny vending machine photo.jpg)
No, suddenly there was a flash beside the restroom, and a giant vending machine three times a person's height appeared!!!
Of course... there's only one installed in Cheonan, so it's a little lacking...
Still, beggars can't be choosers... There aren't that many people here, so it's okay hehe
Everyone here is lined up waiting to buy from it right now ㅠㅠ
What would we have done if the Gallery hadn't been unified!!
ㄴ Love you, Head Mod, for letting us in...
If it weren't for the System, we couldn't have joined here either ㅠ
ㄴ Wow, a pharmacy vending machine appeared in Cheonan too??
ㄴ They're taking care of even the southern regions without missing a beat
Newbie who figured out why people post lewd pics: skeleton
ㄴ I'm posting one now.
ㄴ Lol, okayㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ Finally getting used to it, newbie.
“There aren't even that many people here, so it's okay” << What a thing to say lol
ㄴ Pretty damn self-deprecating lol
ㄴ Lol, okayㅋㅋㅋㅋ
While even the newbies in the southern regions were crying and cheering at the pharmacy vending machine's grace.
One post with the most explosively rising energy adorned the Gallery.
Title : [Unlucky Gallery Doctor] Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
The System is on my side!!!! On my side!!!!!!
You're showering me with miracles to save these patient bastards!!!!
I've been stitching up patient bastards' wounds on top of toilet lids after paying 10 mana stones every ten minutes to enter the restroom because there was no sterile room all this time, fuck!!!!!
I performed procedures while sweating bullets, afraid I'd be ejected outside when the time ran out!!!
I extended their lives while draining every mana stone I'd earned doing that!!
Now patient bastards with abrasions or lacerations will buy disinfectant and ointment from the vending machine and handle it themselves!!!!
Now I only need to focus my healing on people who are on the verge of dying and critical patients!!!!
This is a medical revolution, you son of a biiiiitch!!!!
Everyone, come to Orange Zone First Aid Station!! I'll save you all, bwahahahahaha!
Doc's finally gone crazy lol
ㄴ Dopamine exploding in real timeㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ So they were paying out of pocket to extend restroom time while performing surgery?
ㄴ Patient bastard (affectionate)
They love their patients more than anyone ㅠㅠ
ㄴ Imagine being forced out mid-procedure when ten minutes were up
ㄴ Then paying mana stones to get back in, fuck lol
ㄴ System-nim... please give Doc some mana stones...
But seriously, wasn't this intentional?
ㄴ Once the pharmacy vending machines appeared > people treat relatively minor injuries themselves
ㄴ People like Doc can use their remaining mana and efficiency to save the truly urgent patients first
This too must be System-nim's grand design...
ㄴ Kyaa
ㄴ I told you, the System really is a constellation!!!!!
ㄴ Ah lol, okay, we get itㅋㅋ
That's why most healers are reacting positively too...
ㄴ Because they only have to heal the truly urgent patients
ㄴ Until now, healers were worked like dogs...
There are actually people living in the Yellow Zone who are heading to the Orange Zone right now.
ㄴ Same here. I saw Doc's post and I'm packing up with my family and heading toward the first-aid station ㅇㅇ
ㄴ Of course. There are restrooms, pharmacy vending machines, and a real doc...
“Ahh, Doc. Such a wonderful attitude.”
Ten minutes really must have been limiting for Doc. But there was nothing to do.
“It's not something I can set myself...”
I hope clearing achievements later increases the usage time or something.
Title : I'm fucked, two lines appeared, fuck
(Photo of the combined restroom and pharmacy-vending-machine lines.jpg)
The restroom line and the vending machine line combined into two lines^^
?
ㄴ Fuck lolㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ “Two lines,” my ass
ㄴ Lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
But it is two linesㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ But that's not wrong.
Wow, the line really is fucking long.
ㄴ Right now there's one pharmacy in the Orange Zone and one in the Yellow Zone
ㄴ Since they installed one in each southern region...
ㄴ Everyone's flocking there, so of course the line's long ㅇㅇ
ㄴ For real
Look at everyone standing in such orderly lines.
ㄴ How does this make any sense?
ㄴ Lolㅋㅋㅋㅋ they should be cutting in line at this point.
Title : You bastards, now isn't the time to buy medicine—go buy condoms first
(Some random condom photo.jpg)
This thing is surprisingly waterproof and durable as hellㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Members collect Odasoo PET bottles, wash them, and reuse them, but non-members should use this as a canteen ㅇㅇ
Fill it with water and it's perfectly usable as a temporary water bottle ㅇㅇ
Fuck, I got baited by the title and clickedㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ For real, that's fucking ingeniousㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ Those without PET bottles should do this.
ㄴ And the price is 5 mana stones <<< GOAT
But wait, does that work with the lubricant?
ㄴ For real
ㄴ Bullshit. Just wash it all off with soap in the restroom, dry it, and use it ㅇㅇ
ㄴ Oh? There's a method like that?
ㄴ Oh.
ㄴ Carry several around like water balloons, then forget them.
[Unlucky Gallery Doctor] Use them in place of gloves in an emergency, at least.
ㄴ Wait, fuck, is that okay?
ㄴ [Unlucky Gallery Doctor] Even unwashed, they're a hundred times better than your bare hands ㅇㅇ
ㄴ Gasp
ㄴ Huh, true.
ㄴ He's right.
Isn't it much better just to use disinfectant or wash your hands in the restroom and perform first aid?
ㄴ “In an emergency.”
ㄴ Ah.
Are these bastards assuming the best-case scenario over and over because they're too comfortable now? lol
ㄴ Exactly lol
ㄴ Are you all eating well enough to be this comfortable now? Is the apocalypse over or something?
The best we can do is choose the best among countless second-best options, ㅇㅇ
ㄴ Exactly;;
ㄴ That's how we've always done it...
ㄴ Hmm.
But seriously, condoms <<< these things have an absurd number of uses.
ㄴ Even scavengers are putting condoms over their gun barrels to extend their firearms' service life ㅇㅇㅇ
ㄴ There's a method like that...?
ㄴ Seems like firearms rust and get contaminated, causing malfunctions pretty often.
ㄴ They put a condom on and can fire right away when needed. Pretty ingenious, ㅇㅇ
Or use them as waterproof pouches for things like matches ㅇㅇ
ㄴ I carry matches inside one too.
ㄴ Ohh.
“Oh... so that's how you do it...?”
One by one, ingenious uses for the items registered in the vending machine were being discovered.
“Wait, people use condoms... like this?”
It was a method I never could have imagined.
But does anyone here use condoms for their original purpose?
ㄴ Bro...
ㄴ Even before the apocalypse, only a limited number of people used them for their original purpose...
ㄴ I'm finally using a condom I never got to use before the apocalypse...
ㄴ Me too...
ㄴ I never thought I'd end up opening a condom...
ㄴ 22222
The apocalypse had already arrived...
ㄴ This is fucking heartbreaking ㅠㅠㅠ
ㄴ Lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
But... this too must be System-nim's grace...
ㄴ Great System
ㄴ Great System, for making us use condoms
ㄴ Wait, you said you didn't use them for their original purpose either.
ㄴ “We used them for something, anyway.”
ㄴ “But we did open a condom.”
Wait, you haven't used condoms?
ㄴ Hey.
ㄴ You think we're all like you?
Wait, you use condoms?
That's a cryptid.
“And this may be a bit of a line-crossing joke, but even if that ever happens, don't use a condom!!!!”
Of course, that's a long way off, but you all need to thrive, because that makes me happy!
But... there's a pregnancy test here too...
ㄴ Any use for it?
ㄴ W-Would you like to give me a reason to use one with you...?
ㄴ ? Are you serious?
ㄴ I saw your abs when you posted a lewd pic last time... Hmm...
ㄴ Sure, let's meet ㅇㅇ
ㄴ Let's meet in Slum 9 hehe
Wait, fuck, is this actually happening?
ㄴ For real, this is actually happening?
ㄴ Please suck me, please suck me, please suck me, please suck me
ㄴ Fuck, the world was supposed to end.
Do the deed and then come running over here.
ㄴ Skiiiieeeeeek!!!
ㄴ Eeeeeek!
ㄴ It's like a horror movie;;
ㄴ For real.
"Je Kko Sam."
Fuck, they really aren't using it.
“Yes. This is a positive development.”
Then I turned my attention back to the status window.
[Building Master Main Quest 7: Copy one more tile of a different type]
[Reward: ???]
The quest was cleared when I copied the pharmacy tile.
“I wonder what the reward is!!”
[Building Master Main Quest 7 Complete!]
[Reward will be issued!]
[New Authority Unlocked: Appoint Branch Manager (Lv.1)]
“Branch manager...?”
What's this? It's a somewhat unfamiliar concept.
[Appoint Branch Manager (Lv.1)]
[You may appoint an operations proxy to manage one of the offline tiles copied by an Awakener.]
[The appointed branch manager will reside in the area, manage the facility, and be responsible for security.]
“Ooh?”
What an interesting skill.
Until now, I'd only copied tiles. Was this essentially a skill for hiring employees?
“What good does this do?”
Can I hire just anyone?
[Appoint Branch Manager (Lv.1)]
[Privilege] : A branch manager may register items they possess or own as permanent merchandise for sale at that tile > The branch manager also determines the item's price]
[*The quantity of each item is registered at the maximum limit thanks to the Shop Owner's privilege and synchronized with other tiles] > [Current maximum registerable quantity per vending machine: 300]
[Condition] : [The Shop Owner receives a portion of the mana stones earned from items sold by the branch manager]
[The Shop Owner must pay the appointed branch manager mana stones in the form of a salary. (If the salary is not paid, branch manager authority is automatically revoked)
- Current number of branch managers appointable: 0 / 1
“Huh?”
The branch manager can register and sell items they own too??
“How unusual.”
It was a skill that let me pay a salary in exchange for having someone manage a store and register items they'd farmed or crafted outside as stock.
“Damn, this is fun!”
To sum it up, it was just hiring an employee.
“Hmm. Should I hold an event?”
Ah, but if I hold another event, it looks like there'll be a power struggle again.
“Tsk.”
Just like with the VIP members, it's really hard to pick someone specific and appoint them.
“Or should I just choose someone myself?”
Technically, I could just do whatever I wanted.
The moment I started browsing the Gallery, thinking I might as well search first, a featured post caught my eye.
Title : *Featured post—fuck, our guild's youngest developed a crazy item lol
(Some random dazzling red potion photo.jpg)
Can you see it?
The red potion our farming party's youngest, Si-yeon, crafted?
I just gave it to a guy whose shoulder had been sliced open, and fresh flesh grew back without a single scar the moment he drank it ㅇㅇ
Casting time? Healer mana depletion? None of that. Just drink the thing ㅇㅇ
Our Myth Guild farming party is invincible now, peace out lol
?
ㄴ It heals just by drinking it?
ㄴ Is this a game?
ㄴ No way something like that exists ㅇㅇ
It's real, bro. If your stomach hurts, come to Myth ㅇㅇ
ㄴ It was Myth?
ㄴ It was Myth!!!!!
ㄴ [God of War] Wait, Myth has something like that?
ㄴ [Ironclad] Fuck off
Wow, who is it? A real talent...
ㄴ If they mass-produce that, it'd be insane...?
ㄴ That's nuts.
ㄴ She's a total ace.
The youngest? I'm so damn jealous ㅠ
ㄴ Our guild's youngest plays rock-paper-scissors with Walkers...
ㄴ Lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ Adorable lol
ㄴ For real, definitely the youngest lol
What is this?
“A red potion...?”
A potion that heals when poured? A fusion of advanced technology and fantasy?
“Fuck, this is it.”
There was no need to think deeply.
“Ms. Si-yeon. Let's work together.”
You're a branch manager now.