I Live Alone in the Inventory

Episode 13

Jimin opened his eyes, stood up, and looked around.

“woke up?”

Leah, who was sitting across from the campfire, said to Jung-min.

Jung-min asked Leah with a bewildered expression.

“How faint was I?”

“It hasn’t been that long. How are you feeling?”

Jungmin got up from his seat and moved his body around.

“I don’t have any sore spots… Rather, I feel better than before training, right?”

“That’s nice. Would you like to check the status window?”

Hearing Leah’s words, Jung-min opened the status window.

“Status window”

[Jungmin Choi

Strength: 24

Stamina: 25

Agility: 20

Intelligence: 11 (+10) [mp:26/38]

Holding Gold: 410 Gold

Possessed Skills: Gate (lv.1) Space Movement (lv.2) Perspective (lv.1) Emotional Eye (lv.1) Mana Recovery (P) (lv.1)

“Huh…”

Jung-min was dazed for a while, looking at the status window.

‘I think the total sum of the strength, stamina, and agility stats I’ve raised while training alone for a month is 16…

A total of 22 stats have risen with just one sparring…’

“It’s gone up quite a bit, right?”

Jeongmin said as he closed the status window.

“Ah…you’ve risen a lot… It’s only been sparring for a while…”

Leah said with a laugh.

“It was a short sparring, but Jung-Min fought for 10 minutes with extreme strength.

“If this kind of training method is widely known, I’ll be able to clear [Trial of the Gods] in no time!”

Leah shook her head and said.

“As I said, it’s a very restrictive method. It’s going to be difficult for other people to train like this. And this method also has limitations.”

“Any limits?”

“Yes, the limit. The point of this training is to feel the fear of death from the attacker’s sword, and fight while maintaining the extreme power that is exerted. If that happens, you won’t be able to pull out the ultimate power…”

“Ah… I guess so.”

Leah nodded and said.

“Yes, that’s why the skill of the teacher who conducts the training is really important. It is necessary to have the skill of a teacher who can continue to feel the fear of death according to the level of the rising disciple. In that respect..”

Leia blushed slightly and said.

“..Jung-Min is fine. You should be able to do this training for quite a long time. With my skills, no matter how much Jung-Min grows, I can attack with the fear of death…”

“…Oh, I see..”

Looking at Leah, who was shy, Jung-min realized Leah’s strength once again.

“Miss Leah…how is she so strong?”

Leah’s eyes softened at Jung-min’s question.

“It’s because our master was really strong. As we practiced every day with the training method he created, our stats went up at an incredible speed.

After two years of this training, I caught up with all of Master’s stats, but I still couldn’t beat Master. Still, when I was attacked by Master, the fear of death came over me, and I was able to demonstrate my extreme power. It was because of the difference in swordsmanship.”

“Swordsmanship skills?”

Leah nodded.

“Yes, Master was the best swordsman in the world even before [Trial of the Gods]. Master always said that high stats are not everything. You always emphasized the importance of swordsmanship, saying that you can become a master. So… I will teach you master’s swordsmanship to Jung-Min.”

“Leave it to me?”

“Yes, when training individually, reduce the weight of the accessories worn on your wrists and ankles, and train mainly with the swordsmanship I taught you. Please learn it diligently.”

Jungmin nodded enthusiastically.

“Then wake up. You should learn swordsmanship, right?”

Jeongmin got up and asked Leah.

“Yes, learning is good… is it possible? I don’t think I have any particular talent for swords…”

“To tell you something interesting, Master’s swordsmanship is…really easy. In fact…it is difficult to even name it. Even a child can imitate it…Like many other famous swordsmanships, it hides within it. There is a certain trick and a certain method… It’s not this kind of swordsmanship. It’s all three very ordinary movements.”

“Three moves?”

“Yes, three. Would you like to try it?”

Leah showed three movements in front of Jung-min.

Jung-min copied the motion and said to Leah with a dumbfounded face.

“…is that all?”

“Yes, it’s all. Blocking, stabbing, and cutting. There can be applications, but basically these three movements are all. According to Master, at first, Master’s swordsmanship was no different from other swordsmanships. After knocking them out one by one, he said that in the end, these three movements remained. At that time, Master said that he felt a great sense of futility and at the same time felt the joy of discovering a new path. “You named it Ryu swordsmanship.”

“Oh that…”

Leah smiled as if she understood Jungmin’s reaction.

“You want to ask, can this be called swordsmanship?”

“That…how…”

“How is that possible? Master’s method is unconditional repetition. In my case, I repeated each motion 10,000 times a day. But Jung-min has many other things to do… I think it will work. If you get used to it, increase the number gradually.”

“Unconditional repetition… What would Leah-san’s teacher be like? The method of using extreme power, the swordsmanship, and the training method are so…”

Leah nodded.

“I understand what you mean. That’s why many people called Master, who was the world’s best swordsman and renowned scholar, ‘the most learned yet the most ignorant’.”

“…I really want to meet Leah-san’s teacher. I really want to meet what kind of person he is.”

Leah giggled and laughed out loud.

Jung-min felt fresh when he saw Leah for the first time.

“If Master’s swordsmanship… is active in another world… He will be very happy.. After the [Trial of the Gods] is over, if the world returns to its original state and we meet Master again… I can proudly say that Something happened.”

Seeing Leah who is happy looking forward to the future, Jung-min is also happy together.

Leah looked at Jeongmin and said cautiously.

“Today is the first day, so let’s stop here. Training is over… now… are you going back?”

As expected, looking at Leah who spoke with eyes full of regret, Jung-min smiled and said.

“Is it okay if I play for a while? Let’s have some snacks… Oh, I want to wash up and go too. There’s no place to wash my body when I get back, so…”

“Please use it comfortably. It’s a bathing area installed by Jeong-min. How will you use the water? There won’t be any magic to summon water…”

“I’ll just use bottled water. I brought a lot.”

After Jung-min finished talking, he headed to the shower booth.

I went in and took out a 2-liter water bottle and started washing myself.

‘…It seems like I’m washing for the first time after the [Trial of the Gods] burst…I wonder if I can’t smell my body…’

Embarrassed, Jung-min washed up and sat down with Leah across the bonfire.

Snacks and drinks taken out of the bag were distributed to Leah and they talked.

When I told him about what happened today, Leah listened to Jung-min’s story with great interest.

“It’s a ‘stealth’ skill… It’s a pretty tricky skill until you learn the ‘detection’ skill. Among the monsters that came out of the B-level gate, there was a monster that used the ‘stealth’ skill. yeah”

Jung-min asked Leah.

“If there is a ‘detection’ skill, can you detect it even if you use the ‘stealth’ skill?”

Leah nodded.

“Yes, the ‘Detection’ skill is a fairly advanced skill. It blocks not only ‘Stealth’ but also ‘Curse’, ‘Enchantment’ and ‘Appeasement’ skills that act on the mind… Hmm… There must have been an accessory with the ‘Detection’ skill…”

Leia opened her inventory and took out a ring.

“This is it. It’s a ring called the ‘Piercing Eye of Insight’…ah…there’s a stat limit. You can use it only when your INT stat is 200 or higher…”

Leah put the ring back in her inventory.

“It’s a waste. If you’ve ever used ‘stealth’, you’ll need the ‘detection’ skill… well…”

Jeongmin said to Leah who was worried.

“It’s okay. It’s not like the enemy is chasing me to kill me… It’s just that they’re following me.”

“No..Wait a minute..”

Leah pondered for a moment, then looked into space and muttered something.

He gestured several times while looking into the air, then took out something from his inventory and held it out to Jeongmin.

“Take it. Hold it in your hand and break it.”

What Leah handed over was a golden orb the size of an egg.

“This…”

“Go ahead and break it. It will break easily.”

When Leah urged him, Jung-min grabbed the golden marble and gave it strength.

Crisp

A golden orb that breaks with a light sound.

The beads that were broken in Jung-min’s hands turned into powder and soaked into Jimin’s hands.

And a message appeared in front of Jung-min’s eyes.

[Acquired the [Detection (lv.1)] skill]

“Ugh…”

“The skill has been acquired, right? The ‘detection’ skill is basically a skill that is always maintained, so if a skill like ‘stealth’ is used around Jeong-min, it will be revealed immediately. If the caster has no mana at all, the skill will not be activated, so the mana Be mindful of management.”

“Le…Lea-san…”

Jung-min called out to Leah in a panicked voice.

“Yes?”

“Did you buy it at a store?”

Leah smiled and nodded.

“Yes”

“That… didn’t you say that the skills you buy at the shop are…very…very expensive?”

Leah listened to Jungmin’s words and sighed lightly and nodded her head.

“Ugh, that’s right. The skills you buy at the store are really too expensive. Moreover, since they are gold skill beads, they are much more expensive than green skill beads…”

“Such an expensive skill…”

Leah looked at Jeongmin and smiled.

“You don’t have to worry. Well, I have a lot of gold, but I have no use for it other than buying food little by little.

“Yeah, but…”

“You don’t have to worry… Ah… Come to think of it…”

“…?”

Leah blushed slightly.

“Hmm… I’m sure I overspent a little. I have to buy food, but…”

“Um… I guess so?”

Leah said, avoiding Jeongmin’s eyes.

“Yes.. Come to think of it, I think I spent a lot of money.

“Food! If that’s the case, don’t worry! I have a lot of rice and ramen in my inventory. There are also small snacks…you can eat them!”

Leah looked at Jeongmin again and smiled.

“…may I?”

“Yes! Don’t worry. I’ll put it in Leah’s inventory. Take it out and eat it when you need it.”

Leah clapped her hands and said.

“Oh, no… I don’t need a lot. Just enough to eat in moderation…”

“Sooner or later, when a shop opens in our world, I’ll buy you something much better than ramen. Please be patient.”

“It tastes better than ramen…”

Leah’s eyes sparkled.

“I will expect.”

“Yes, please look forward to it. As long as the shop is open… um… By the way, when will the shop open?”

Leah answered Jeongmin’s question.

“I can’t say when the shop will open, it’s exactly when [Trial of the Gods] begins!

I’ve heard that ‘shops’ will open when the number of D-class gates appearing in the world is reduced by half, but I don’t know if it’s certain. In our world, after the [Trial of the Gods] started, it took about one, two or three months? I think it took.”

“I see…I’ll make sure to serve you some really good food when that time comes.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

“I really appreciate Leah-san. She trained me to be this strong…even expensive skills…”

Leah shook her head and said.

“It’s okay. If you want to repay, hurry up and get stronger and destroy the D-class gates quickly. Then the shop will open quickly, right?”

Looking at Leah, who smiled and said, Jung-min said.

“Yes, I will do my best. But…how strong do I have to be to destroy the D-class gate alone?”

Hearing Jung-min’s question, Leah thought for a moment and then said.

“Monsters instinctively use the area around the gate as a base and live within a certain distance. In order to destroy the gate, you must first clean up all the monsters around the gate. will appear

If you kill the gatekeeper, you can destroy the gate.

Note that attacking the gate is meaningless until you kill the gatekeeper. As far as I remember… I remember that the ‘Gatekeeper’ of the D-class gate was the ‘Goblin Lord’.”

After speaking, Leah spread a finger to Jung-min and showed it.

“one week.”

“?”

“Jung-Min in a week will be able to grab the ‘Goblin Rod’ and destroy the D-class gate by himself.”

“…Can it be done in a week?”

When Jung-min spoke in an anxious voice, Leah spoke confidently.

“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure it’s possible. It might be difficult at first, but once you destroy the gate, you’ll get a massive stat-up, so it’ll get easier. Set a target for a week later and train hard.”

Seeing Leah speak confidently, Jung-min could not help but shake off his anxiety.

Jeongmin smiled and said to Leah.

“Yes, I’ll ask you to take care of me again.”

Episode 13