The Novel's Extra Chapter 158

“Who is it…?”

There was someone on the island . He didn't look too unfamiliar . Although I couldn't remember his name, he was likely a high-intermediate rank Hero who often appeared on variety shows .

“Wait…”

Could it be that all Players in the highest difficulty level shared the same sea? It was something I never thought about when writing my setting .

—…O-Oi! Oiii!

The man seemed to have discovered my boat as he waved his hand .
I sailed forward . Although I had no intention of letting him on board, I was willing to give out some of the food I was overflowing with .

“…Must be a green ticket . ”

The man didn't have anything with him, not even the basic weapon and food supply provided by the tutorial .
In reality, choosing the hardest difficulty with a green ticket was akin to committing suicide . The system should have warned him about it as well, but it seemed he wasn't the type to listen .

—Here! Here! Uhaha! Over here!

The man jumped excitedly . I took out a glossy seafish from my inventory .
It was then .
A dark shadow was cast underneath the island .
I didn't have much time to think about what it was or why it was here .

Puaaaa—

Suddenly, the mouth of a giant fish shot up from the water . There were two sharp fangs growing on each side of its jaw, which promptly swallowed the island whole .

[You spotted an Island Devourer . ]
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○Monster Encyclopedia
[Island Devourer] [Tutorial-only Monster]
—This monster hates those who stay on one island . However, who it seeks is solely dependent on luck .
===

A system alert popped up .

“Whoa, whoa . ”

I broke out into cold sweat and stood a bit dazed .
However, I didn't have time to sit still . The shadow that swallowed an island whole was now creeping up on me .
I quickly began to paddle away . However, the shadow was only getting closer . I couldn't do anything against it with a mere paddle .
I quickly opened my inventory .

[Inventory]
[Random Dice x3]

I could keep a maximum of five Random Dice . Since it could become anything depending on my desire, I was saving them up to use in emergency situations .
I picked up a dice and thought hard .

'Please become something that can save me from that thing . '

Something like an engine that can be attached to my boat…
Drrr—
I rolled the dice with my dearest wish .

“…What?”

However, the dice mercilessly betrayed my wish and became a strange mango . At first, I didn't even know it was a mango . It was yellowish-orange but was as big as a watermelon .

[Lv . 3 Big and Juicy Mango]

If it wasn't for the status window, I would have thought it was some exotic fruit .

“The hell is this?”

I checked the item description just in case .

===
[Lv . 3 Big and Juicy Mango]
—A big, juicy mango . It is a very precious fruit that is sometimes used as medicine .
○Lv . 2 Vitality Recovery
○Lv . 4 Satiability
===

A Lv . 3 item!
As most items in the tutorial were only lv . 0~lv . 2, this mango was certainly a good item .
The problem was that it was useless in this situation . What would filling up my belly do when I was about to enter a belly myself?

—Drrk .

“Shit…”

The Island Devourer's fin grazed my boat . I had a strong hunch that it wanted to eat me .
My heart thumped violently, but I was used to it by now . As a mercenary, I had lived through much more dangerous situations…
Now, I didn't even have time to throw another dice .
I racked my brain frantically .
Mango .
A delicious, juicy mango .
A lightbulb went on in my head .

“…H-Hey! Eat this instead of me!”

I held the mango forward and wafted it back and forth . The shadow slowed down, or at least, that's what it looked like .

“This is a precious food you can never taste in the tutorial . ”

As I said before, Lv . 3 items could not be found inside the tutorial .

“So… take it!”

I threw the mango as far away as I could .
Whiiish—
With Master Sharpshooter's support, the mango drew a beautiful arc and landed 400~500 meters away .

Plop!

Water splashed on my face . The giant creature underneath my boat changed course and began to swim towards the mango .

“…Whew . ”

The giant shadow was getting farther away .
Thud .
I fell on my butt . Although I didn't do much, I was out of energy .
I most certainly didn't put such a creature in my tutorial .

“…I knew this would happen . ”

But I wasn't too surprised .
In the original story, I often had comments saying, 'isn't the highest difficulty tutorial too easy?'
My excuse was always, 'it's not that the tutorial is easy . Kim Suho's Gift is just broken . '

“Haa…”

In any case, I just barely avoided death .
The scene of an entire island being swallowed still lingered in my mind .

“Mango, mango, mango…”

I murmured the same word in a daze .

“…Auu, I'm getting seasick . ”

Six days had passed since then . Today, the waves were fiercer than usual .
The past few days have been quite spectacular and dynamic . I almost fell overboard from a sudden storm, and I was almost eaten by an intermediate-rank grade-8 sea monster .
Both times, I barely managed to survive using my red crystal weapons and Random Dice's power .

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[Lv . 2 Sea Tiger's Oil]
—An oil that drives away sea monsters .
○Lv . 1 low-intermediate rank or lower monster repellent
○Lv . 1 Shock absorbent, waterproof coating

[Lv . 2 Magical Repair Ointment]
—A mystical ointment that works on items .
○Restores durability of items under Lv . 1
===

These two items were especially helpful in my journey .

“I want to be on land . ”

After staying on a boat for six days, I was starting to miss land .

[Your Sailing technique improves to Lv . 2]
—You can now cross waters more easily .
—Your sense of direction on sea improves .

No, please just give me a land of some sort!
I widened my eyes and peered out into the distance .
In the distance, I caught a glimpse of a small island .

“…Nice . ”

With my new destination discovered, I began to paddle towards it .
Sploosh . Perhaps because of my improved Sailing technique, the boat seemed a bit faster than before .

After about 20 minutes of paddling, I could finally see a portion of the island .

“Eh?”

When I saw the island, I exclaimed in shock .
There was a familiar face on the island .
I shot up and shouted .

“Boss!”

Seoul, Essence of the Strait's team leader office .
Yoo Yeonha was chatting with Yoo Jinhyuk .

[Why are you so curious about this?]

[I'm not curious, I just want to know the truth . ]

Yoo Yeonha shared what she knew about the Kwang-Oh Incident with Yoo Jinhyuk . However, Yoo Jinhyuk still kept some matters secret, which Yoo Yeonha was now in the process of investigating .
Under the assumption that Kim Hajin was really the survivor of the Kwang-Oh Incident, Yoo Yeonha wanted to know why Chae Joochul's assassin didn't kill him and who the assassin was .

[To be completely honest, I don't know . ]

“…He's lying again . ”

Yoo Yeonha frowned .

[You're lying . ]

[No, I'm serious . ]

[You said you saw him being admitted to the orphanage . ]

As she typed, Yoo Yeonha suddenly wondered .
How would Kim Hajin have looked like as a baby? She found it a bit difficult to imagine his face on a baby's .

[Yeah, some kid left him there . ]

[Kid?]

[Yeah, 5~7 years old or 8 at most . Black hair… er, actually maybe it was covered with a hijab or something . ]

[Do you have dementia?]

[Heh, I'm getting old . Time travel isn't like what it used to be . ]

As inaccurate information introduced needless bias and noise, having more information wasn't always better .

[Anyways, it was a young girl . ]

[…Okay, thank you . Ah, by the way, have you thought about my offer?]

[No . ]

“…Tsk . ”

Yoo Yeonha suggested Yoo Jinhyuk to enter her information guild, Falling Blossom . As far as she was concerned, he was lazing around most of the time in his office .

[Think about it, I'm already being watched by Chae Joochul . What would he think if he sees you so close to me?]

[I get it . ]

[Good, then send me some assault rifles . ]

[…What do you need those for?]

[I decided to form a small militia . You know how to go about it without being discovered, right?]

[Yeah, no . ]

[What? Oi, Niece, you—]

Yoo Yeonha left the chat and leaned against her chair .
Ssss—
Her eyes closed automatically .

“…It really is amazing . ”

If she were to describe this sensation, she would say it was like leaning on an angel's wings or sleeping peacefully in Noah's Ark while the world was crumbling down .
As she spent 16 hours a day in her office, her new chair was the best gift she's ever received .

“Hnnng…”

Buried in the chair, Yoo Yeonha thought about many things .
Her guild members who were in the Tower of Wish, the high-intermediate rank monsters, the Dungeons her guild was planning to conquer, a cup ramen… hamburger… ssp .
She began to drool .

**

Boss seemed to have gotten skinnier since the last time I saw her . I wanted to give her a big hug out of joy, but we were both too dirty from staying in the wild for several days .

“It's been a while . ”

Boss smiled leisurely as she said that . However, she didn't look to be in all that good a shape .

“Boss, did you eat?”

“I did . ”

She nodded affirmatively, but I was a bit suspicious .

“What's your vitality right now?”

“Vitality?”

“Yes . ”

She looked at the air blankly . She was probably checking her status window .

“…90 . ”

“90?”

“…Yes . ”

Boss nodded .

“Are you sure it isn't just 9?”

“…Pft, as if . ”

Her unnatural smirk confirmed it . Her vitality was definitely 9 . In fact, it couldn't be anything but 9 . Boss' stat restriction had to be incredibly high . Kim Suho received an 80% stat restriction, so Boss' should easily surpass 90% .

“It was hard at first, but I got used to it . ”

“You've been here the whole time?”

“No, I went back and forth to find food . ”

“Ah…”

Thankfully, it seemed she wasn't targeted by the Island Devourer .

“Then let's eat something first . ”

“…Okay . ”

I opened my inventory to take out a seafish . But before that, Boss moved first .

“Follow me . ”

With a kind smile, she turned around and began to walk into the forest .

“Boss? Where are you going?”

“I thought this might happen, so I kept some emergency food supply . ”

“Ah… okay . ”

I followed her for now .
Boss walked to the middle of the forest and stopped in front of a giant palm tree engraved with an X mark . She moved the leaves underneath it and took out the tutorial-only food supply bag .

“Here . ”

Boss opened the bag proudly .
Inside, there were all sorts of seafood: clams, sea pineapples, crabs, snails, and two small fish . They were certainly good enough for a meal .

“Wow . ”

I was genuinely surprised . Boss' main stat was 'magic power' . This stat displayed exponential power as it grew but unless it surpassed a certain point, it was more or less useless .
In other words, Boss had fished all these up without any tools, using only her physical abilities .

“There's a lot . ”

“Of course . Thanks to this place, I got to relive the old days of training . ”

Boss stuck her chest out proudly .
Since she kept the food inside the tutorial bag instead of her inventory, she clearly had a good survival sense . Unlike the inventory, the tutorial bag kept food fresh .

“You must be hungry since you paddled all the way here . Wait . ”

Boss seemed to be worrying about me as she quickly took out a burner and frying pan and began to cook the seafood .
Tsss .
I stared at Boss who was watching her food cooking on the frying pan . After flipping them a couple times, she turned the burner off and gave the frying pan to me .

“It's done . You can eat . ”

“…What about you, Boss?”

“Ehem, like I said, my vitality is at 90 . ”

She was saying she didn't need it .

At that moment, I felt something warm rush into my heart .
Was this why she was the boss?
Was this the duty of a boss?
Feeling a surge of emotion that was hard to put into words…

“Aren't you going to…”

I took out a fish from my inventory .

“…eat?”

It was a large glossy seafish .
Boss' eyes lost focus as she glanced back and forth between the frying pan and my glossy seafish .
On the frying pan were tiny seafood gathered together . On the other hand, the glossy seafish was too big to fit in the frying pan .

Boss' face turned red .

30 minutes later .
We ate all the glossy seafish in my inventory .

[Cooperation is an important factor in climbing the Tower . ]

While I was sitting on the ground digesting my food, the system messaged me .

“Alright, let's start moving . ”

“…Moving?”

“Yes . ”

The second tutorial's performance-based points used both an absolute and relative evaluation . In other words, even if you achieved first place overall, you had to surpass a certain threshold to receive the reward .

“Let's set sail . It's dangerous to stay on the same island . ”

“Sail?”

“Yes, there's a monster called Island Devourer . It attacks you if you stay on the same island . ”

“I don't quite understand but sure . ”

Boss and I went back to the beach where my boat was .

“…Hmm . ”

But now that I looked at my boat, it seemed too small .

“We're going to ride that thing?”

Boss had doubts as well .

“Mm… hold on . ”

I took out a Random Dice . Since I had five, it was fine to use one .

“…I don't know if this will work though . ”

I thought as I rolled the dice, 'a boat or materials to build a new one . '

Tk .
The dice became stuck in the sand without rolling . It seemed my wish was too big as the first dice turned into a wooden plank .

“Oh? What was that dice?”

“Uh… hold on . ”

I rolled another one .
Tk .
It got stuck in the sand once again . But this time, the dice was shaking strangely . Then, the dice grew in size…

“Oh?”

And it transformed into a boat . Although it was only half as big as my sailboat, it was shaped like an actual boat .

“What is this mysterious thing?”

“Newbie?'

Newbie?”

I couldn't reply to Boss' question .
I just felt… betrayed .
Why did I cut down trees, shave them, tie them together, and repeat tiring tasks? All I had to do was roll the dice a couple times…

After tying my old sailboat to the new boat, Boss and I set sail .
Voyaging became more fun with someone to talk to . I obtained food by fishing, and Boss focused on training her magic power .

“Ah, my magic power stat just rose by 0 . 3 points . ”

After about 6 hours of sailing, Boss spoke with a bright face .

“Wow, it's increasing fast . When do you think you'll be able to hunt sea monsters?”

“Now . ”

“What is it at?”

“2 . 3”

“…Let's just eat . ”

“Okay . ”

While Boss continued to meditate, I began to cook .
Today's menu was seafish sashimi . Although sashimi was low in calories, eating it had a chance of increasing magic power .
While I was cutting up the fish…

Pssssh—

A large waterspout shot up from the ocean . At the same time, the surface of the water split, and a house-sized fish shot up .
It had fierce eyes that took up half of its face and a mouth that protruded out sharply . The ugly fish blocked our boat as it stared down at us .

[You spotted a giant fish . Its information has been recorded in the Player Encyclopedia . ]

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○Monster Encyclopedia
[Giant Fish] [Intermediate-rank grade-9]
===

“Boss?”

“Don't worry . ”

Boss stood up and reached out to the fish blocking our way .
Gueeee— The fish opened its mouth with a strange roar . It was clearly trying to swallow us, but trying to fight Boss from a close range was foolish no matter how much her stats were restricted .

—Pervading Shadow .

Along with a soft whisper, black magic power shot out of Boss' fingers, entering the fish's mouth . Soon, the fish's body began to distort as though something was trying to dig its way out .

Gueeee—

A different scream rang out .
The fish was in pain . However, the pain didn't last long as black thorns pierced out from inside its body .

Boss sat down on the boat with a peaceful look .
I pulled the giant fish's corpse near . I checked to see if it had any useful materials, but there was nothing .

**

[The second tutorial will end in 10 minutes . ]
[Good work surviving until now . ]

A system alert notified the end of the 14-day tutorial . Boss spoke from next to me .

“The tutorial is ending soon . ”

“I heard . ”

Boss looked at me and smiled .

“Good job . ”

“Thank you . But Boss is just dead weight here . ”

“Dead weight… is too harsh . Didn't I kill all the sea monsters?”

“That's because I kept us fed . You were starving every time you used your magic power . ”

Boss narrowed her eyes . She seemed to be glaring at me, but it wasn't scary at all .

“I'm kidding . Good work . ”

“You too, Newbie…”

We smiled while looking into each other's eyes .

[You cleared the second tutorial . ]
[Player Extra7 obtained 2008 performance points . ]
[You are currently ranked first out of the 78 Players who cleared the hardest difficulty tutorial . ]
[You are the only Player who surpassed 2000 points – you will be given the second tutorial's reward of honor . ]
[You will be transferred to your waiting room in three minutes . ]

Who is it There was someone on the island . He didn t look too unfamiliar . Although I couldn t remember his name, he was likely a high intermediate rank Hero who often appeared on variety shows . Wait Could it be that all Players in the highest difficulty level shared the same sea It was something I never thought about when writing my setting . O Oi Oiii The man seemed to have discovered my boat as he waved his hand . I sailed forward . Although I had no intention of letting him on board, I was willing to give out some of the food I was overflowing with . Must be a green ticket . The man didn t have anything with him, not even the basic weapon and food supply provided by the tutorial . In reality, choosing the hardest difficulty with a green ticket was akin to committing suicide . The system should have warned him about it as well, but it seemed he wasn t the type to listen . Here Here Uhaha Over here The man jumped excitedly . I took out a glossy seafish from my inventory . It was then . A dark shadow was cast underneath the island . I didn t have much time to think about what it was or why it was here . Puaaaa Suddenly, the mouth of a giant fish shot up from the water . There were two sharp fangs growing on each side of its jaw, which promptly swallowed the island whole . You spotted an Island Devourer . Monster Encyclopedia Island Devourer Tutorial only Monster This monster hates those who stay on one island . However, who it seeks is solely dependent on luck . A system alert popped up . Whoa, whoa . I broke out into cold sweat and stood a bit dazed . However, I didn t have time to sit still . The shadow that swallowed an island whole was now creeping up on me . I quickly began to paddle away . However, the shadow was only getting closer . I couldn t do anything against it with a mere paddle . I quickly opened my inventory . Inventory Random Dice x3 I could keep a maximum of five Random Dice . Since it could become anything depending on my desire, I was saving them up to use in emergency situations . I picked up a dice and thought hard . Please become something that can save me from that thing . Something like an engine that can be attached to my boat Drrr I rolled the dice with my dearest wish . What However, the dice mercilessly betrayed my wish and became a strange mango . At first, I didn t even know it was a mango . It was yellowish orange but was as big as a watermelon . Lv . 3 Big and Juicy Mango If it wasn t for the status window, I would have thought it was some exotic fruit . The hell is this I checked the item description just in case . Lv . 3 Big and Juicy Mango A big, juicy mango . It is a very precious fruit that is sometimes used as medicine . Lv . 2 Vitality Recovery Lv . 4 Satiability A Lv . 3 item As most items in the tutorial were only lv . 0 lv . 2, this mango was certainly a good item . The problem was that it was useless in this situation . What would filling up my belly do when I was about to enter a belly myself Drrk . Shit The Island Devourer s fin grazed my boat . I had a strong hunch that it wanted to eat me . My heart thumped violently, but I was used to it by now . As a mercenary, I had lived through much more dangerous situations Now, I didn t even have time to throw another dice . I racked my brain frantically . Mango . A delicious, juicy mango . A lightbulb went on in my head . H Hey Eat this instead of me I held the mango forward and wafted it back and forth . The shadow slowed down, or at least, that s what it looked like . This is a precious food you can never taste in the tutorial . As I said before, Lv . 3 items could not be found inside the tutorial . So take it I threw the mango as far away as I could . Whiiish With Master Sharpshooter s support, the mango drew a beautiful arc and landed 400 500 meters away . Plop Water splashed on my face . The giant creature underneath my boat changed course and began to swim towards the mango . Whew . The giant shadow was getting farther away . Thud . I fell on my butt . Although I didn t do much, I was out of energy . I most certainly didn t put such a creature in my tutorial . I knew this would happen . But I wasn t too surprised . In the original story, I often had comments saying, isn t the highest difficulty tutorial too easy My excuse was always, it s not that the tutorial is easy . Kim Suho s Gift is just broken . Haa In any case, I just barely avoided death . The scene of an entire island being swallowed still lingered in my mind . Mango, mango, mango I murmured the same word in a daze . Auu, I m getting seasick . Six days had passed since then . Today, the waves were fiercer than usual . The past few days have been quite spectacular and dynamic . I almost fell overboard from a sudden storm, and I was almost eaten by an intermediate rank grade 8 sea monster . Both times, I barely managed to survive using my red crystal weapons and Random Dice s power . Lv . 2 Sea Tiger s Oil An oil that drives away sea monsters . Lv . 1 low intermediate rank or lower monster repellent Lv . 1 Shock absorbent, waterproof coating Lv . 2 Magical Repair Ointment A mystical ointment that works on items . Restores durability of items under Lv . 1 These two items were especially helpful in my journey . I want to be on land . After staying on a boat for six days, I was starting to miss land . Your Sailing technique improves to Lv . 2 You can now cross waters more easily . Your sense of direction on sea improves . No, please just give me a land of some sort I widened my eyes and peered out into the distance . In the distance, I caught a glimpse of a small island . Nice . With my new destination discovered, I began to paddle towards it . Sploosh . Perhaps because of my improved Sailing technique, the boat seemed a bit faster than before . After about 20 minutes of paddling, I could finally see a portion of the island . Eh When I saw the island, I exclaimed in shock . There was a familiar face on the island . I shot up and shouted . Boss Seoul, Essence of the Strait s team leader office . Yoo Yeonha was chatting with Yoo Jinhyuk . Why are you so curious about this I m not curious, I just want to know the truth . Yoo Yeonha shared what she knew about the Kwang Oh Incident with Yoo Jinhyuk . However, Yoo Jinhyuk still kept some matters secret, which Yoo Yeonha was now in the process of investigating . Under the assumption that Kim Hajin was really the survivor of the Kwang Oh Incident, Yoo Yeonha wanted to know why Chae Joochul s assassin didn t kill him and who the assassin was . To be completely honest, I don t know . He s lying again . Yoo Yeonha frowned . You re lying . No, I m serious . You said you saw him being admitted to the orphanage . As she typed, Yoo Yeonha suddenly wondered . How would Kim Hajin have looked like as a baby She found it a bit difficult to imagine his face on a baby s . Yeah, some kid left him there . Kid Yeah, 5 7 years old or 8 at most . Black hair er, actually maybe it was covered with a hijab or something . Do you have dementia Heh, I m getting old . Time travel isn t like what it used to be . As inaccurate information introduced needless bias and noise, having more information wasn t always better . Anyways, it was a young girl . Okay, thank you . Ah, by the way, have you thought about my offer No . Tsk . Yoo Yeonha suggested Yoo Jinhyuk to enter her information guild, Falling Blossom . As far as she was concerned, he was lazing around most of the time in his office . Think about it, I m already being watched by Chae Joochul . What would he think if he sees you so close to me I get it . Good, then send me some assault rifles . What do you need those for I decided to form a small militia . You know how to go about it without being discovered, right Yeah, no . What Oi, Niece, you Yoo Yeonha left the chat and leaned against her chair . Ssss Her eyes closed automatically . It really is amazing . If she were to describe this sensation, she would say it was like leaning on an angel s wings or sleeping peacefully in Noah s Ark while the world was crumbling down . As she spent 16 hours a day in her office, her new chair was the best gift she s ever received . Hnnng Buried in the chair, Yoo Yeonha thought about many things . Her guild members who were in the Tower of Wish, the high intermediate rank monsters, the Dungeons her guild was planning to conquer, a cup ramen hamburger ssp . She began to drool . Boss seemed to have gotten skinnier since the last time I saw her . I wanted to give her a big hug out of joy, but we were both too dirty from staying in the wild for several days . It s been a while . Boss smiled leisurely as she said that . However, she didn t look to be in all that good a shape . Boss, did you eat I did . She nodded affirmatively, but I was a bit suspicious . What s your vitality right now Vitality Yes . She looked at the air blankly . She was probably checking her status window . 90 . 90 Yes . Boss nodded . Are you sure it isn t just 9 Pft, as if . Her unnatural smirk confirmed it . Her vitality was definitely 9 . In fact, it couldn t be anything but 9 . Boss stat restriction had to be incredibly high . Kim Suho received an 80 stat restriction, so Boss should easily surpass 90 . It was hard at first, but I got used to it . You ve been here the whole time No, I went back and forth to find food . Ah Thankfully, it seemed she wasn t targeted by the Island Devourer . Then let s eat something first . Okay . I opened my inventory to take out a seafish . But before that, Boss moved first . Follow me . With a kind smile, she turned around and began to walk into the forest . Boss Where are you going I thought this might happen, so I kept some emergency food supply . Ah okay . I followed her for now . Boss walked to the middle of the forest and stopped in front of a giant palm tree engraved with an X mark . She moved the leaves underneath it and took out the tutorial only food supply bag . Here . Boss opened the bag proudly . Inside, there were all sorts of seafood clams, sea pineapples, crabs, snails, and two small fish . They were certainly good enough for a meal . Wow . I was genuinely surprised . Boss main stat was magic power . This stat displayed exponential power as it grew but unless it surpassed a certain point, it was more or less useless . In other words, Boss had fished all these up without any tools, using only her physical abilities . There s a lot . Of course . Thanks to this place, I got to relive the old days of training . Boss stuck her chest out proudly . Since she kept the food inside the tutorial bag instead of her inventory, she clearly had a good survival sense . Unlike the inventory, the tutorial bag kept food fresh . You must be hungry since you paddled all the way here . Wait . Boss seemed to be worrying about me as she quickly took out a burner and frying pan and began to cook the seafood . Tsss . I stared at Boss who was watching her food cooking on the frying pan . After flipping them a couple times, she turned the burner off and gave the frying pan to me . It s done . You can eat . What about you, Boss Ehem, like I said, my vitality is at 90 . She was saying she didn t need it . . At that moment, I felt something warm rush into my heart . Was this why she was the boss Was this the duty of a boss Feeling a surge of emotion that was hard to put into words Aren t you going to I took out a fish from my inventory . eat It was a large glossy seafish . Boss eyes lost focus as she glanced back and forth between the frying pan and my glossy seafish . On the frying pan were tiny seafood gathered together . On the other hand, the glossy seafish was too big to fit in the frying pan . Boss face turned red . 30 minutes later . We ate all the glossy seafish in my inventory . Cooperation is an important factor in climbing the Tower . While I was sitting on the ground digesting my food, the system messaged me . Alright, let s start moving . Moving Yes . The second tutorial s performance based points used both an absolute and relative evaluation . In other words, even if you achieved first place overall, you had to surpass a certain threshold to receive the reward . Let s set sail . It s dangerous to stay on the same island . Sail Yes, there s a monster called Island Devourer . It attacks you if you stay on the same island . I don t quite understand but sure . Boss and I went back to the beach where my boat was . Hmm . But now that I looked at my boat, it seemed too small . We re going to ride that thing Boss had doubts as well . Mm hold on . I took out a Random Dice . Since I had five, it was fine to use one . I don t know if this will work though . I thought as I rolled the dice, a boat or materials to build a new one . Tk . The dice became stuck in the sand without rolling . It seemed my wish was too big as the first dice turned into a wooden plank . Oh What was that dice Uh hold on . I rolled another one . Tk . It got stuck in the sand once again . But this time, the dice was shaking strangely . Then, the dice grew in size Oh And it transformed into a boat . Although it was only half as big as my sailboat, it was shaped like an actual boat . What is this mysterious thing . Newbie . Newbie I couldn t reply to Boss question . I just felt betrayed . Why did I cut down trees, shave them, tie them together, and repeat tiring tasks All I had to do was roll the dice a couple times After tying my old sailboat to the new boat, Boss and I set sail . Voyaging became more fun with someone to talk to . I obtained food by fishing, and Boss focused on training her magic power . Ah, my magic power stat just rose by 0 . 3 points . After about 6 hours of sailing, Boss spoke with a bright face . Wow, it s increasing fast . When do you think you ll be able to hunt sea monsters Now . What is it at 2 . 3 Let s just eat . Okay . While Boss continued to meditate, I began to cook . Today s menu was seafish sashimi . Although sashimi was low in calories, eating it had a chance of increasing magic power . While I was cutting up the fish Pssssh A large waterspout shot up from the ocean . At the same time, the surface of the water split, and a house sized fish shot up . It had fierce eyes that took up half of its face and a mouth that protruded out sharply . The ugly fish blocked our boat as it stared down at us . You spotted a giant fish . Its information has been recorded in the Player Encyclopedia . Monster Encyclopedia Giant Fish Intermediate rank grade 9 Boss Don t worry . Boss stood up and reached out to the fish blocking our way . Gueeee The fish opened its mouth with a strange roar . It was clearly trying to swallow us, but trying to fight Boss from a close range was foolish no matter how much her stats were restricted . Pervading Shadow . Along with a soft whisper, black magic power shot out of Boss fingers, entering the fish s mouth . Soon, the fish s body began to distort as though something was trying to dig its way out . Gueeee A different scream rang out . The fish was in pain . However, the pain didn t last long as black thorns pierced out from inside its body . . Boss sat down on the boat with a peaceful look . I pulled the giant fish s corpse near . I checked to see if it had any useful materials, but there was nothing . The second tutorial will end in 10 minutes . Good work surviving until now . A system alert notified the end of the 14 day tutorial . Boss spoke from next to me . The tutorial is ending soon . I heard . Boss looked at me and smiled . Good job . Thank you . But Boss is just dead weight here . Dead weight is too harsh . Didn t I kill all the sea monsters That s because I kept us fed . You were starving every time you used your magic power . Boss narrowed her eyes . She seemed to be glaring at me, but it wasn t scary at all . I m kidding . Good work . You too, Newbie We smiled while looking into each other s eyes . You cleared the second tutorial . Player Extra7 obtained 2008 performance points . You are currently ranked first out of the 78 Players who cleared the hardest difficulty tutorial . You are the only Player who surpassed 2000 points you will be given the second tutorial s reward of honor . You will be transferred to your waiting room in three minutes .

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