Volume 1 - CH 4

The moment I pressed the eleven-time gacha button, a treasure chest glittered. Then eleven orbs popped out. H- huh? Bronze, silver, gold, and rainbow coloured; four different types came out.

Four were bronze, four were silver, and two were gold. And finally, there was one that was rainbow coloured.

Thinking back on it, they explained this sort of thing in my dream about the gacha skill. Gacha has skills with differing rarities. Rainbow coloured is the best type, followed by gold, silver, then bronze in that order.

So basically, I managed to pull an item of the highest rarity. For now, I checked all the bronze skills at once.

That’s what came from the copper ones. What the, I pulled two of that strength enhancement skill. This one was definitely a bust. *check*

Next up is silver. I checked all the silver skills at once.

I guess sword type skills and gathering type skills like to come out of silver? Not that I can say anything with certainty here, but it seems to give support type skills.

W- well, it’s not bad, but I can’t really use dagger technique here. Next up, the gold orbs. The skills up until now, honestly aren’t that good. Please…

Magic!? This is definitely not bad at all! Both of those are indispensable for making life out here comfortable. Plus, I can cook meat with fire magic. With this I’ll be able to make a living out here.

Time for the last one. The rainbow-coloured orb gave off a bright light before showing what skill it was.

It’s Appraisal! That’s a big one. As I expected, it seems like the rainbow orbs contain the specialty skills listed for this gacha?

Well, anything’s good. Right away I gave appraisal a try. …Oh crap, everything I could see changed at once.

It seems I can use this to see if something is edible. But it’s only level one, so there seems to be a limit to what I can investigate. I was given that level of knowledge about it in my dream.

In order to raise the level of a skill, I need to combine it with another skill. Since all the skills that come out of the gacha are level one, in order to raise their level, I need to roll the gacha a lot.

This also might be like I saw in my dream. If I’m not wrong, this should be my abilities. So, I guess the number written in the brackets would be related to my bronze skills?

Since they’re only level one skills they don’t really give much of a bonus.

Anyway, I don’t really know whether my status is high or low. There’s no one else I can really compare it to either…

Other than checking them in my gacha window, I can also check the skills I have out here. …Skills. Right now, I have the eleven skills I just got.

But it seems like I can combine any of the redundant skills I have. Synthesis, huh. Synthesizing skills seems to level them up. This is how they look cleaned up.

For now, strength enhancement went up to level 2. But that doesn’t mean it has raised my status. As far as status correction is concerned, it would be better to think of it more for peace of mind than anything else.

Essentially, it’s like this.

Bronze enhances abilities such as strength. Silver supports techniques like sword technique and mining technique. Gold gives magic type skills. Rainbow gives the limited time skills.

Right now, I can’t really feel any difference from the bronze skills. That’s why I’d be happy to pull basically anything other than bronze. But for now, I’ve decided what I need to do.

Kill monsters and get points. After getting enough points, roll the skill gacha. Any new skills from the gacha will steadily improve my abilities.

For now, this all seems doable. Before heading over to my cave, I gathered some trees. Then I used fire magic on them.

…I could only produce about enough fire to fit it in my hand. That seems to be the power of a level 1 fire magic skill. Regardless, I managed to light up the wood in about ten minutes.

I checked if I could eat things using the appraisal skill. There were no problems with wolf meat.

I cut the wolf meat into easy to eat chunks and then skewered them onto the tree branches. Then I confirmed that it was properly roasted in by the fire. Appraisal was able to handle that much. How convenient.

When I put the meat into my mouth its juices dribbled out. So good!? I’d heard that monster meat tastes really good. Whenever it appeared on the city market I would always get sold for a high price. I was able to have it once myself on my birthday when I was little.

It’s really good even without any seasoning. If I managed to get myself some seasoning… If I recall correctly, I should be able to make it with the cooking skill.

That kind of skill might just come out some day. I might even be able to get blacksmithing and carpentry type skills. In that case I would be able to make my own weapons or build myself a house.

…I can’t wait. After I was full, I moved through the forest while using my appraisal skill. There seemed to be quite a lot of edible fruits and berries. Thanks to the appraisal skill I could tell that sort of thing.

I found a peach like fruit that was clearly much larger and took a bite out of it. Even though it was big, it still kept its sweetness. I was even better than the ones in the upper world.

It doesn’t seem like the lower world is all bad. I got to the cave I had found and then used earth magic. …I thought I would hide the entrance like that but as expected I couldn’t use earth magic that much.

The best I could do using a ton of magic was closing about half of the entrance.

Well, it’s fine. I laid down to rest. It was when I closed my eyes.

‘There’s no one except myself who would accept having garbage like you as their fiancé. So, make sure you listen to everything I tell you.’

‘You’d better not be thinking of leaving me, right?’

I suddenly shivered. There was no one around. Relived to see that, I once again closed my eyes.

My childhood friend and fiancée Ellis. She was incredibly selfish, and always treated me like her slave.

But now I’m finally free. Right before I was banished from house, this is what I told Ellis: “I will not be your slave!”

Now I can start my new life here! I can relax and live without anyone else bothering me!