Volume 1 - CH 6

The next day. I rose my body off the ground. Ouch, I used some leaves as a substitute for a bed, but it was still pretty rough on my body.

I was probably able to sleep so well anyway because my body was so tired. My joints popped as I stretched my body out. Well then, guess I’ve got to do my best to roll the gacha again today.

I want to get that feeling of rolling the eleven-time gacha every day. The gacha will be over at the end of April. I don’t know what will happen after that so I need to acquire those skills while I can.

While I’m earning points, I guess try to make some comrades. There should be plenty of people being sent to the lower world for a variety of reasons. A lot of those will be demi-humans.

Since the upper world is a place for humans to live, many demi-humans are cast down to the lower world. So, I should be able to find other people somewhere. I was fine by myself last night, but it’ll be hard to survive from now on if I always sleep by myself. If I were with another person we could sleep in shifts.

That’s why I’d like to look for someone else. With that in mind, I moved around the forest while hunting monsters. Honestly, because the forest looks the same everywhere, I don’t really know where I am walking.

I was somehow able to make my way back by following tracks and tree marks, but I could really use a map. As I hunted goblins and horned rabbits, the sun reached its peak in the sky. I used appraisal on some river water to check if it was safe, and once I confirmed it was potable, I took a gulp. Delicious. The water in the lower world might be different from the stuff in the upper world.

While eating some fruits I’d found, I was met with the unfortunate truth this morning. 25 kills, huh.

Since I couldn’t get any more points from killing wolves, I’d started counting my kills for horned rabbits when I started hunting them. They reached a total of 25. After I got 2500 points from then I was no longer able to gain points from hunting fang rabbits.

This is quite the problem. If I don’t manage to find myself a monster to hunt other than a fang rabbit or wolf, I won’t be able to spin today’s gacha.

I’d made a total of 5000 points from killing wolves, goblins, and fang rabbits yesterday. So, I have to find one other type of monster in order to be able to spin the eleven-time gacha today. While I was resting by the river, a large fish jumped out of the water.

According to the appraisal skill, it’s a monster called a fish arrow. It was a fish with a shape face like an arrow. After launching its leaping attack, the fish arrow pierced the ground.

…What an easy monster to hunt. I defeated it by slicing the gap in its body… and that gave me 100 points.

Do I get a fixed 100 points for killing it as long as it’s a monster? Or perhaps it’s just because all the monsters around here are weak? In any case, I’m glad I could find myself a new monster to hunt. But a fish, huh… According to the appraisal skill, a fish arrow is safe to eat so I used a fire to roast its body. Then I took a bite.

Delicious! It’s so good it’s like I’ve come to realize that all the fish I’ve eaten up to this point were actually fake! It was hard to remove all the bones but was still excellent! Ah, the single greatest joy of life in the lower world is being able to eat food like this.

After eating my fill, I walked beside the river defeating fish arrows as I went. I hunted goblins to get the remaining of their 2500 points as well. I even found a new monster.

It was a rat called a blood mouse. It was about as big as a human child. Its teeth were sharp enough to burrow a hole into a thick tree. I think it might be best if I go my life without being bitten by one of those.

Regardless, since its movements were slow it was actually rather easy to fight. It might even have been easier to fight than the goblins in the forest. Those guys were difficult since they could use the trees to their advantage. I checked the blood mouse meat with appraisal.

It came back that it was dangerous. It seems that the meat of a blood mouse is actually poisonous. Guess I can’t eat it, huh.

That’s pretty dangerous. If I indiscriminately ate all the meat I came across, I would probably die.

While fighting goblins, blood mice, and fish arrows, I stopped being able to get points from goblins. I killed more blood mice and fish arrows before eventually reaching 5000 points. Looking at the sky, it doesn’t look like the sun has gone down yet.

I guess the sword technique skill improved my efficiency. It’s only level 2, but I can feel that I can handle my sword much better. But that doesn’t mean I have no problems.

Since I don’t have anything to sharpen my sword with, it’s becoming less effective over time. I wonder what I should do about this. It might be better if I can find some way to take care of the weaker monsters without my sword.

But if I got injured while doing that, I would lose everything. I need to look ahead, but the present is important too. This is pretty hard.

On my way back to my base, I found a new fruit. There were also various other things I’d never seen before when I looked in that direction. I guess I’ll check that place out tomorrow.

I couldn’t check any of the vegetation back at my original area, and the monsters there might have changed too. It seems that life today is better than it was yesterday. But I guess the only unfortunate thing would have to be that I didn’t find anyone else around today.

I guess I’ll have to go to sleep without knowing whether I’ll die or not once again. I guess that’s kind of like how the gacha is.

After getting back to the cave, I checked the gacha screen. I have 5500 points since I killed some fish arrows on my way back.

Time to bet all of my day’s earnings. I was able to get one rainbow orb yesterday. It would be nice if two came out today.

I offered a prayer to god, and then rolled the gacha.