Volume 1 - CH 13

I thought I would just go and roll the gacha right away, but I was quite hungry. For the time being I started preparing for dinner. I have salt today. I stabbed a piece of meat from a fang cow I’d hunted on the way back onto a skewer.

I made this skewer with blacksmithing technique. Then I sprinkled some salt on it and placed the meat by the fire. While watching the meat cook with cooking technique, I started getting ready for the gacha.

Please give me a good skill… Right now, I was more concerned with increasing my silver and gold skills rather than rainbow. I reached out my finger and touched the eleven-time gacha.

A chest appeared with a rainbow light. …Okay. Well, I mean I’m happy about getting rainbow skills. Then three bronze, four silver, one gold, and three rainbow-coloured orbs came out.

…Wh- what? Three rainbow!? Does this mean that the chest shining rainbow signifies that there are at least two rainbow orbs?

I’ve come to realize that this gacha is pretty fearsome. It’s guaranteed that I can get at least one rainbow orb, but at the same time I could also end up getting skimped out on gold orbs like this time. Maybe if I get unlucky, I could even end up with ten bronze orbs and one rainbow orb.

I bet there will never be a case where no bronze orbs come out. It’s probably the one with the highest chance of appearing after all. I’m definitely guaranteed to get at least one bronze and one rainbow orb. Also, the number of rainbow orbs can go from one to three depending on the chest. Perhaps if I get unlucky more rainbow orbs will come out, but for now I’ll consider it capped at three.

In that case there are only eight spots remaining. Since three bronze orbs always come out, then the remainder is 6 spots. Since gold and silver skills always give me life improvements, I really want those ones.

The gacha is pretty harsh. No use whining about it though. I can only pray that I don’t pull the worst case. Alright, starting with bronze.

Well, nothing to say about this part. It becomes important from now on. Let’s see what comes out of the four silvers.

I’ve yet to see harvesting technique or map making technique. What kinds of skills are they? I appraised them immediately.

…I see. So basically, the stuff I’m growing now will have a higher quality, so I’ll be able to make better potions and food from now on. As I thought, the silver orbs are often superior.  

Next up is map making technique.

Oh! I can use this for my expeditions from now on. Right away I displayed the map in my vision. Nice, everywhere I’ve been so far has been mapped out nicely. The river flows from around my first cave towards the ocean.

I haven’t gone to the upstream portion of the river yet. I’ve yet to explore the northern area beyond where I can see the big tree.

Since my current position is displayed, it seems like it’ll be impossible to get lost from now on.

Although they aren’t particularly showy, I’ve managed to get two very handy skills. Feeling that a load has been taken off my chest, I was looking forward to gold. I took a look at the gold skill.

Ah, a new kind of magic. Bestowal magic. If I remember right, it’s a kind of magic that allows you to bestow attributes to weapons?

…I see. I guess I have various things to check out when I go hunting tomorrow.

Last up is the rainbow orbs. Well, the three of them are probably just the special skills. I’m glad I can raise their levels, but there were a lot of good things in the silver orbs.

I couldn’t help but with I could have a little bit more time with those ones. Without caring about my feelings, the rainbow orbs began to shine.

…Nice, I got all of them. For the time being I combined all of the overlapping skills. I wish they just combined automatically though.

Is there some way to use them other than to combine them? For now, I checked my basic stats so I could see my growth for the day.

This actually confirmed various theories I’d had about my status. First of all, it showed me the minute numbers in detail. Then this time there was a +2 inside one of the brackets, so that basically confirms my hypothesis.

For starters, think about the meaning of the status. Are the numbers in the brackets reflected in the numbers on the left? Or are my actual stats calculated by adding the numbers in the brackets to them.

It seems like the latter is the case. The following explanation makes it easy to explain why.

I began to think that maybe my stat enhancement type skills might actually be increasing my stats by a percentage. My agility enhancement skills is currently level 3. But it only got to upgraded to that level from this gacha pull. Up until now agility enhancement has been level 2. But as soon as it became level 3, the number in the brackets switched from +1 to +2.

Given that Its numeric value is at 67, I figured that level = percentage strengthened. For example, suppose my actual status was 63. Then with level 3 agility enhancement it would increase by 1.89.

Then the number inside the brackets wouldn’t increase. However, with it at 67, then 3 percent would be 2.01. It’s just barely there, but that makes the number inside the brackets go up to +2.

I was lucky to be able to confirm this. I was under the impression that it was just a terrible status improving skill. If god were actually getting that number from some genius formula, then I wouldn’t know what to do.

I’m not actually that smart, so if it were a more complicated calculation method then I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. Next, I checked my skills.

The thing that catches my attention most here is the appraisal skill level. Do all the rainbow skills have a max level of 3? Is it okay for it to only take four of them to strengthen fully? Rather now I feel like it’s not really hard to get them to max level.

Rather, is it like that precisely because they’re only out for a fixed interval? But if it’s like this then I’m really worried that rainbow skills really will be miss pulls.

If I pull appraisal next time, is there any way for me to use it? I ate my dinner while thinking this through. The way the salt mixes with the meat juices really creates a flavor I couldn’t have imagined.

Salt! To think it would change so much! I ate it all in the blink of an eye. Just one steak wasn’t enough, so I ate some more.

My life is now truly dependent on meat. I ate it with chuchu grass since that was all I had currently in terms of vegetables. I’d really like to find some vegetables in the future and multiply them with cultivation.