Pick Me Up, Infinite Gacha

Chapter 53

# 53

53. Moving forward again (2)

I took Iolka into the hall.

Dark lanterns illuminated the interior of the magic hall, and the scent of incense candles and old books rose up. Iolka, who came inside, blinked in surprise.

“This is a magic hall. Why did you bring me here?”

“I told you. They don’t make you use your body.”

Closed the door to the outside. The inside became dark all at once.

“What you need to do is research.”

“research?”

“Wait, look.”

I stood with my back against the wall.

An information window indicating the tech tree of the research was displayed.

[Research!]

[Current development is as above.]

[1. Hero Reactivity Research (Lv.0)]

[2. Facility scalability research (Lv.0)]

[3. Dungeon Advanced Research (Lv.0)]

[Tips/Research points can be obtained by placing personnel in the laboratory. Upgrade the waiting room to suit your taste with research points!]

[Researcher recommendation list!]

[‘Iolka (★★★)’]

[Do you want to appoint ‘Iolka (★★★)’ as a researcher?] [

Yes( Choice) / No]

I rummaged through the old books on the bookshelf.

While living in the waiting room, I noticed that I could also decipher the language of Taoni, but the contents of these books remained meaningless. I was familiar with shapes and formulas like magic circles. I remember seeing it a few times in mini-games where you create items.

Isel appeared next to Iolka, who had been absent-mindedly.

Iolka screamed in surprise.

“Don’t show up suddenly from the side! I’m surprised.”

[shut up. Get used to this. I like it too, so it doesn’t appear like this. anyway you See that desk over there? There will be pen and ink. You just have to solve the problem with that pen and put it in the container that looks like Jogi.]

I closed the book and put it back on the bookshelf.

Then he looked towards Iolka. Iolka was hesitantly approaching the desk on one side of the hall. On the desk lay papers loaded with strange symbols in glowing blue ink and a black feather pen. Iolka looked over the papers and said:

“It’s a formula I learned at magic school...”

[Solve the problem and put it in the barrel.]

Issel pointed to the pitch-black circular barrel placed next to the desk.

Iolka asked with a puzzled face.

“Why should I?”

[That’s for research... Anyway, if you want to do it, do it! if you don’t want to get upset The Master ordered it.]

“You guys do it the same way...”

Iolka grumbled and sat down at her desk. Then he dipped his pen in ink and started solving the problem. After three minutes, Iolka wrote the solution on a piece of paper and put it in the bin next to the desk. The paper that went into the barrel burned blue and then disappeared.

[Acquired 1 research point!]

[Current research speed is 10/h. 10 gems are consumed per hour.]

‘Research efficiency is not good.’

In Pick Me Up, gems, which are paid goods, are also used for research.

10 points per hour was the lowest. The facility level was low and Iolka had no research skills, so there was no choice.

[Set the research time.]

[3 hours a day!]

[Tips/Excessive research time settings may cause the researcher to complain! Don’t forget that they also have a daily life.]

“All you have to do is solve this.”

said Iolka, putting the last problem into the vat.

However, Iolka’s expression hardened the next moment. This is because there was a document with a problem on the desk. It was thicker than last time. Isel held up three fingers.

[3 hours every day!]

“3 hours? I hate it! 3 hours!

[‘Iolka (★★★)’ expresses dissatisfaction!] Is

this how it turned out?

It was to be expected. Currently, Iolka’s schedule was on the hard side. Strength training in the morning, magic training focused on psychokinesis in the afternoon, and formation training again in the evening. It was true that there was no time to spare, although we had arranged break times here and there.

If you ask them to invest 3 more hours here, it is easy to resist. No one likes to work overtime.

But you can’t subtract training time. However, the same is true of subtracting research time. Research was one of the important factors determining climbing speed.

Iolka pouted.

“Tell me too. If you do this, you will be a complete slave from morning to night.”

“...”

I pondered for a moment.

How to keep Iolca motivated without wasting time.

‘That’s it.’

I muttered a little inwardly.

‘The time has come.’

The tech tree of research is divided into three parts.

‘Hero Responsiveness Study’, which improves the hero’s responsiveness to missions and commands.

A ‘facility scalability study’ that opens the facility’s detailed tab and enables more direct operation.

‘Intensive dungeon research’ that increases the types of special purpose dungeons and helps smooth material supply.

Each is in charge of a hero (person) facility (inside) dungeon (outside).

Among them, the first research that Amkena opened was

[Teeling!]

[Research ‘Hero Reactivity’ has become Lv.1.]

Hero Reactivity Research.

I had some expectations about the effects of this study.

[Goddess’ blessing falls on the waiting room!]

Pajijijik!

A mysterious halo of light flashed across the sky.

The halo formed dozens of beams and shot down into the waiting room.

One beam of light penetrated Iolka’s chest in the hall.

“uh?”

Iolka stumbled as she got up from her chair.

Iolka planted herself on the floor of her chair and bowed her head.

“Something strange...”

The door to the Magic Hall opened.

The situation was similar for Jenna and Aaron at the training center. He was half collapsed in a huddled position.

I checked his complexion, but he doesn’t seem to be feeling any pain.

It seemed like a temporary dizziness. It wasn’t long before Iolka came to her senses and stood up. His face was white.

“What is this? It feels so bad.”

“I told you. Research.”

“Research? What the hell are you researching?”

I thought it over and said.

“Tell me it’s a stat window.”

“Stat window?

Iolka fell backwards.

There was amazement in his eyes.

‘I can see it.’

I laughed.

“It’s a stat window. It shows your ability as a number.”

Until now, only the system messages such as the stat window and mission details could be seen by me.

But from now on it will be a little different. One of the reasons the 3rd party died without being able to do anything was because they didn’t know the exact mission. They couldn’t see the system. They did not know the conditions for success and failure of the mission. The study of hero reactivity was a way to make this possible.

“Strength, intelligence, stamina, agility. And skill. Can you see it?”

“Intermediate fire magic... Telekinesis...?”

“That’s a skill.”

The light that permeated Iolka’s chest wasn’t a single ray.

All the heroes in the waiting room must have gone through something similar.

“Follow me. I think I’ll have to tell the other kids.”

I took Iolka to the training center.

Aaron was running around the training center.

“It’s a ghost!”

“...What are you doing?”

“Tongue, bro. The strange letter ghost keeps chasing me!”

I ran out and grabbed Aaron.

“Don’t panic. It’s because it’s a ghost and it’s not. Let me explain.”

“Eh, what the hell is this?”

Jenna, on the other hand, had a normal face.

On the contrary, she seemed to enjoy

it. My brother was watching this. Yay!”

Jenna pointed at me and shouted.

“Arise, stat window!”

“...”

“Huh? why don’t you show up Mine looked good.”

“Where did you learn that?”

“I heard my brother muttering sometimes. I felt something strange, so I followed it, and I thought of something interesting? These letters, oppa was looking at them, right?”

I nodded

.

I was going to tell you anyway.