Chapter 156 Choosing Reward[1]

Choosing Reward[1],

[Ace POV],

"What do you think about repeating what we just did, Emma?" I inquired as Emma turned to face me and asked a question.

"What did we do? She inquired.

Hearing this, I responded by going straight to the point.

"What are your thoughts on sharing rewards?" I inquired as Emma gave a look of realization when she heard this and spoke.

"It's fine; the more the merrier, right? She said this before posing a question.

"However, which reward are we sharing?"

When I heard this, I knew Emma had agreed to my suggestion, and unlike the previous reward, which the entire team shared, this one was just between Emma and me.

And rather than calling it sharing, it was better to call it an exchange. Something akin to bartering. In this case, I'm 'lending' Emma my reward in exchange for her 'lending' me hers.

As I was thinking about these things, I responded to Emma's previous question and spoke.

"We can only share the rewards of excellent evaluation," I explained, adding, "the ones of normal evaluation appear more personal."

When Emma heard this, she nodded and said, 'OK,' and no one spoke again.

As we chose our rewards, we were both on our primordial chronicle.

[Choice the reward of your choice],

[Normal Evaluation Completion],

*Level Up x2

*100 Gold Coins

[Excellent Evaluation Completion]

*Mana Art

*Neutral Spells Grimoire

[Mana art received is set at random],

[Can choose one reward from both evaluations],

A series of thoughts flashed through my mind as I looked at the list of rewards in front of me.

For one thing, I realized my understanding of quests was flawed, resulting in my inaccuracies.

For another thing, even if there was no text indicating how difficult a quest would be, it should be obvious that there would be difficulty levels in the quest.

Some would be easier than others, so even if one were to complete an easy quest with more than one method, there should be no guarantee that the reward received from the easy quest that was completed entirely with different methods would be more valuable than the reward for a super hard quest that was only completed with one method.

This thought and realization came to me as a result of the rewards available on the normal evaluation list.

I'm guessing that this evaluation of a thing appeared as a result of our actions in the dungeon by completing the quest twice.

I'm guessing that the first time we finished the quest, the primordial chronicle evaluated it and gave it a normal rating, and the second time we finished it by killing the oil puppeteer who was the source of the whole thing, the primordial chronicle evaluated us and gave us an excellent rating.

I'm not sure if my thought process was correct or flawed, but since it seemed like a good reason, I stuck with it. If I'm correct, the reason why the primordial chronicle made no mention of evaluation when we wanted to choose our reward was that there was no need to do so because there was only one method we used to complete the quest and there was no need to clarify the rewards evaluation if there was nothing else above or below it.

The evaluation we received for completing the challenge trial quest should be considered normal because simply crossing the bridge to complete the quest could be considered normal in comparison to defeating the guardian.

Now that I think about it, I wonder what reward the primordial chronicle would have given me if I had defeated the guardian.

What grade will the reward be? Rank 2? Rank 3? or perhaps Epic?

This was why I was willing to believe the challenge trial quest was more significant than the dungeon quest.

After all, just because something is difficult for you does not mean it is not extremely easy for someone else, but this does not change the difficulty.

Also, why would a matter concerning the true world be considered simple?

Perhaps I would have died on that foggy bridge and become another pile of bones to add to the list if the guardian had not bothered to let me pass.

There is also the part where the normal evaluation reward list of the Dungeon quest cannot be compared to the normal evaluation reward list of the challenge trial.

As I considered these things, I decided on my first reward and began with the normal evaluation list.

After I made my decision, a white light appeared and then vanished, and a pouch appeared in front of me, making a slight noise as it hovered in mid-air.

When I saw this, I reached out my hand to grab the pouch, and the hovering effect around it vanished as soon as it made contact with my hand.

That's right, I chose the 100 gold coins from the normal evaluation list rather than the two level-ups.

For one thing, because of the basic universal language and the purchase of the building deed, the number of gold coins in my hand decreased from 80 to 64, leaving me short on gold coins once more.

So, to the present me, who needed a lot of gold coins to buy materials that would help me complete my evolution, the 100 gold coins were more important to me than the two level-ups I will eventually be able to get.

Perhaps if I had already been a rank 1 human, I would have chosen the level-ups instead, but I couldn't because leveling up now would affect my leveling speed after I evolved.

After all, the primordial chronicle stated that using my level up to improve my physique to a rank 1 specie while I was still unranked would significantly increase the primordial records needed for me to level up after I evolve, so if I could, I wouldn't want to level up anymore before I evolve because leveling up now will just increase future problems, but I couldn't stop because a weak person like myself could just die anytime because I lacked the strength to defend myself.

As I was thinking about these things, I had already added the coins I had received in the pouch to the total coins I had in the store, bringing the total to around 164 gold coins.

With this, I should have enough coins to buy alchemical materials.

As I considered this, I returned to the reward panel to select my other reward.

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