IGTL Chapter 10

Chapter 10 – Get Paid Items (For Free)!

My Room.

That was the personal chamber assigned to every player, accessible through the Transfer Gate “Yggdrasil.”

To enter My Room you needed either the time-limited paid item “My Room Access Right” or “Move Yggdrasil.”

I could enter My Room without issue. The reason Kyle couldn’t was likely that his paid item had expired, or he simply didn’t own “Move Yggdrasil.”

After transferring in, I immediately touched the in-room terminal and opened the Warehouse menu.

“Good. At least the warehouse items are intact…”

Still, I couldn’t be complacent. Now that this world had become reality, it wouldn’t be strange if My Room stopped working at any moment.

I had to move the warehouse contents into my Item Storage while I still could.

Up to now I’d relied on the warehouse, so I’d only expanded Item Storage to the bare minimum.

From here on out, that was a different story. Before My Room suddenly became unusable, I needed to expand Item Storage, fast.

“Hm? What’s this…”

Did this item even exist before? And this quantity, it felt absurdly large… Whatever. If the items were here, not using them would be a waste.

I pulled out “Item Storage Expansion +50” from the warehouse and used it at once. “Item Storage Expansion +50” was a paid item that increased Item Storage capacity by fifty slots. I had no idea why a paid item I’d never purchased was sitting in my warehouse, but this was an emergency. I would put it to work.

The warehouse held “Item Storage Expansion +50” as one hundred items × one hundred sets = ten thousand total.

At five hundred yen apiece in real-money terms, that was roughly five million yen worth of expansions sitting in the warehouse. On top of that, identical items stacked up to ninety-nine per slot in Item Storage.

I tapped “Item Storage Expansion +50,” chose the quantity, then tapped “Use Item.”

A soft bluish effect flared.

“Did that do it…?”

Checking Item Storage, I confirmed the capacity had increased by exactly the amount I’d used. I couldn’t help a low whistle at the near fifty-thousand-slot jump.

“Whoa. paid items really are something else…”

Not many people would blow five million yen of real money just to expand storage.

“Let’s see what else we’ve got.”

Searching for other paid items I definitely hadn’t bought, I found a dragon’s hoard of things ordinary folks would hesitate to purchase:

Elemental Acquisition Ticket

Elemental Enhancement Ticket

Rare Drop Rate +500% (24 hours)

EXP Gain +500% (24 hours)

Monster Respawn (60 minutes)

Booster Pack

Premium Pack

Scapegoat

Any one of these would normally run at least a thousand yen. I had zero memory of buying them.

“Oh? Elemental Acquisition Tickets, nice.”

Elemental Acquisition Tickets were paid items to obtain Elementals, spirits of each element that supported the player. Elementals could shield you from attacks and fight alongside you. Because they required paid currency and I’d never truly needed them, I’d skipped them until now. Since they were right in front of me, I might as well try them.

I tapped “Elemental Acquisition Ticket,” selected the quantity, then hit “Use Item.”

Four Elementals appeared before me.

They were the earth spirit Gnome, the water spirit Undine, the wind spirit Sylph, and the fire spirit Salamander.

Freshly summoned, each was still small and frail; four faint motes of light bobbing in the air.

“So these are Elementals… Alright, next…”

I tapped “Elemental Enhancement Ticket,” chose the amount, and used them.

The pale motes deepened into distinct colors. The four lights circled me once and settled at my shoulders.

When I paced around My Room to test them, the Elementals followed, keeping a neat distance.

“Good. I’ll hit a dungeon to grind and see what these guys can do… but first, move every warehouse item into Item Storage.”

After migrating everything, I used “Move Yggdrasil” to transfer from My Room straight to the beginner dungeon, “Sleeping Forest.”

The instant I arrived I popped the paid items “Rare Drop Rate +500%,” “EXP Gain +500%,” and “Booster Pack.”

“Rare Drop Rate +500%” was exactly what it said: a paid item that made rare items drop more often. “EXP Gain +500%” quintupled experience from defeated monsters. “Booster Pack” doubled my stats for twenty-four hours.

Now that DW had become reality, dying here wasn’t just a game over. If a monster killed you, that was it. You’d truly die.

Gripping my Mob-Fenrir Bazooka with full vigilance, I opened the map and moved through the woods. Four Forest Wolves appeared on the display.

“Forest Wolves, huh…”

Forest Wolves didn’t drop items, but they gave solid EXP. They also howled for nearby monsters when cornered.

With my level reset, that EXP was precious.

I deliberately stepped out of the brush so they would see me. Normally, I’d hide and one-shot them with the Mob-Fenrir Bazooka, but they wouldn’t use “Howl” unless they recognized me as a target.

“Alright, come get me!”

If I used the Bazooka, I’d erase their HP in a single shot. This was the Elementals’ audition.

“Okay, Elementals, do your thing!”

The instant the wolves lunged, a beam lanced from the red light and incinerated one in a single stroke.

“…Huh?”

While I stared, dumbfounded by the sheer firepower, the other Elementals began their own assaults.

The brown-gold light flashed and a fissure yawned under a wolf’s feet, swallowing it whole. A blue torrent roared like a water-jet cutter and cleaved another in two. A green wind blade unfurled, mincing the last wolf to ribbons.

The Forest Wolves dissolved into black motes without even a final yelp.

I stood there, slack-jawed at their overwhelming force.

“S-So they were this strong…”

Honestly, I hadn’t known Elementals could hit that hard. When I opened the menu and checked “Elemental Info,” every support level read MAX.

As expected of “Elemental Enhancement Tickets.” I’d dumped what had to be hundreds of thousands of yen worth of value into four spirits, and it showed.

Not that I remembered buying any of it!

One problem: this made efficient EXP grinding… tricky. While I mulled it over, I remembered the “Monster Respawn (60 minutes)” in my storage, a paid item that caused monsters to keep respawning within a fifty-meter radius for an hour.

That one was used for power-leveling or to farm with “Rare Drop Rate +500%.”

Even if my level had been reset, I had the paid Mob-Fenrir gear and four MAX-support Elementals.

This would be fine.

I selected “Monster Respawn” from storage and tapped “Use.” A red ring spread on the ground with me at the center, and monsters began pouring in.

Mob-Utan, the orangutan-type monster, and its evolute “Utan”; DW’s mascot, the Mob-Fenrir; the vulture-type “Fang Vulture”; Forest Wolves; the armadillo-type “Al-Majiro”, everything that spawned in this dungeon surged forth and was promptly culled by the Elementals.

Each time, a green effect rose from my body.

That’s the power of stacked paid-item boosts.

“Well then… looks like I don’t even need to lift a finger.”

At this rate the Elementals could handle everything. I left interception to them and focused on scooping up drops from the ground.

Basic Potions, Intermediate Potions, even Advanced Potions!?

The “Rare Drop +500%” plus “Monster Respawn” combo was no joke. Normal runs could never compare.

While monsters screamed around me, I safely vacuumed up the loot.

An hour later, before I knew it, I’d hit level 30.