Only My Skill Tooltip Is Strange - Chapter 56



56 – Third Floor, Formation of the Navy.

A difference of 1 in strength is quite significant.

It’s not just an increase of 1 in attack power, but it also affects physical abilities.

Of course, there are differences between individuals.

A person who has never exercised in their life and a martial artist who has consistently trained in practical combat.

Even if their strength is both rated at 10, their output is different.

But what if the strength of the former player increases to 11?

Even a difference of 1 can affect the outcome of a match.

Serfs of the middle realm, third-rate martial artists…

Their survival rate is surprisingly high for this reason.

But the survival instinct skill increases all abilities by 50.

It was an unbelievable skill that made the impossible possible.

“Whew.”

Succeeded in defending the pirate ship.

I broke out in a sweat trying to keep it from breaking.

‘My stats have increased quite a bit.’

There was no hesitation in killing them.

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Since I perceived them as bad guys, I didn’t feel any guilt.

‘Actively seeking out these kinds of guys might be a good idea?’

Trash that harasses others.

I don’t think there’s any reason to keep them alive.

Killing them one by one would probably help Earthlings climb as well.

That doesn’t mean I have the heart to practice justice at the risk of my life.

Only to the extent that I can handle, within my reach.

Pirate hat.

Recovered the one that the half-beast was wearing.

Upon checking the information, it wasn’t much different from the one I got a week ago.

Both had the same limit of a C-rank ship.

‘Neither of them is in good condition.’

Stored it in the inventory.

Then I took out my pirate hat.

A pirate hat that I had diligently washed over and over for a week to remove the stains.

Wore it and registered the pirate ship.

[Ship of the Skeleton Pirate Crew (blue)][C]

Category: Mount

Stats▼

【Durability: 432/450】

Options▼

【Acceleration Lv.6】

【Wind Adaptation Lv.4】

【Evasive Maneuver Lv.3】

Its performance was definitely good.

It couldn’t be compared to a mere raft.

Though I didn’t know how to operate it.

Just being on board made me feel at ease.

It felt like owning a house.

I signaled to Hikari.

Meaning I wanted to be moved.

Hikari came over immediately.

The ability to transform into light was incredibly powerful in espionage.

I put the pirate ship into the inventory.

Hikari only needed to move my body.

The feeling of flying in the sky was the best.

Except for the anxiety of falling.

When we returned to the island, Yuki asked with a face full of anticipation.

“Can we go now?”

She had been eager to move to the next island as soon as possible.

She said there was someone she needed to meet.

Unfortunately, I had to pour cold water on her excitement.

“But I don’t know how to operate the ship.”

I took the ship out again when we reached the sandy beach.

I docked it at the shore and inspected the interior.

“Shouldn’t there be an engine?”

Someday, it was said that the half-human, half-beast of the Ox Tribe used magic stones as raw materials.

Then there should be an engine, right?

There was no engine using magic stones on the ship of the White Bone Pirates.

“…Killed them all for nothing.”

We should have left someone to steer the ship.

“It can’t be helped.”

We have no other choice but to learn or wait for someone.

* * *

We headed to Island No. 3.

Since the pirate ship was inoperable, we used the raft Yuki made.

It now had the shape of a proper ship, but to my eyes, it still looked like a raft.

‘It’s hard to consider this a ship after seeing the pirate ship.’

We landed on Island No. 3 and checked what we could gain from here.

The reconnaissance was Hikari’s job.

“There’s a dungeon here. It’s not a temple like on Island No. 2, but it looks like a village.”

“A village?”

“Not a big village.”

A small village with about ten households.

It’s hard to even call it a village.

“It feels like a village decorated like a temple.”

There were people in the village.

People whose faces were completely painted black.

They were not human.

Boom-!

We fired the first shot with a cannon.

Unlike the paladins who barely withstood the first strike, they fell helplessly to the cannon fire.

[You have defeated an unnamed village resident 1.]

The message confirmed the kill.

The people in front of us were not human, but monsters to be defeated.

“It didn’t come out.”

Killed them all.

The difficulty wasn’t too hard.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get anything.

I realize once again how lucky I was to get both the coordinates and the biography at the same time.

“Any other resources?”

“Not really. Except for wood…”

“Then wood must be a resource.”

I tried cutting the wood.

【99】

“……”

The same system as the magic stone was applied.

It meant it wasn’t just ordinary wood.

In fact, its performance was extraordinary.

It had a buff that increased the durability of the ship I made.

“Do we have to work back and forth periodically?”

“What?”

After discovering the wood on Island No. 3, I didn’t rest for a day.

[The Soul System has successfully found potential in the player’s soul.]

[You can acquire ‘Logging (F)’.]

I discovered another skill.

This time it was logging.

But I couldn’t acquire it.

Because the skill slots were full.

‘I need to get artifacts too.’

What if I find a good skill like this?

So if I have to erase mining, I don’t think I can choose because it would be unfair.

“Why are you so fast?”

Hikari murmured in admiration.

I wiped my sweat and checked the status window.

[Mining][Lv.7][C]

[When mining ore, efficiency increases by 『145%』.]

The skill had grown tremendously.

It was beyond human level.

I replied nonchalantly.

“Maybe I have dwarf blood in me.”

I actually borrowed the ability from an illusory ancient book.

Just in case.

【Race – Dwarf】

But ever since I changed my race, something strange happened.

The growth of my mining skill accelerated exponentially.

It might just be my imagination since it wasn’t explicitly stated.

‘To think it could be applied this way.’

When Hikari strikes with the pickaxe, the durability of the magic stone chunk decreases by 1.

When I strike, the durability of the magic stone chunk definitely decreases by 2.

Sometimes it decreases by more than 3, and occasionally, two chunks fall off.

“Can’t you do it all, brother? I’m not much help anyway.”

Did she want to slack off?

It was an unbearable remark.

I glared at Hikari, who was grumbling beside me, with a fierce look.

“…….”

Hikari pouted her lips and swung the pickaxe.

Clang-!

Another week passed.

I periodically visited Island No. 1.

The goal was not to gather wood, but to find players.

So-called player gacha.

“…Why did you kill this time?”

But it wasn’t easy to find players who would cooperate appropriately.

Ability aside, their temperament was the problem.

The third floor of the Tower of Struggle.

We adapted as we passed through the first and second floors.

Everyone has a rough understanding of the structure.

Those who know, know that if they can handle it, they can act as they please.

Those who lived violently outside the tower naturally reach out to do bad things.

“He came into the house.”

Would there be any reason for a man with a scruffy beard to enter a house where two women live alone?

No matter how much you think about it, there isn’t.

This is the result.

The man has become a cold corpse.

“You and I are both being ignored.”

“It’s not all bad, as it can lead to complacency.”

She looks like a clumsy girl on the outside, but that’s not the case at all.

Yuki and Hikari were soldiers belonging to the Public Security Bureau.

They are women so accustomed to blood that they have no qualms about killing.

‘They said themselves that they were like soldiers.’

They must be confident in their combat skills.

“We could be trapped here for a whole year at this rate.”

“So what? Should we just let someone who sneaks into the house and puts his hand on our thigh go?”

“……”

Hikari said she killed him because he deserved to die.

I nodded in agreement.

“Such people should be killed.”

“Right? You would have killed him too, Ryuin.”

We’ve been living together in this small area for nearly two weeks.

We’ve gotten close enough to know each other’s personalities to some extent.

‘Yuki has an immense desire to climb. I don’t know why because she won’t tell me.’

She didn’t seem to want to talk about it, so I didn’t ask deeply.

It must be a personal reason.

‘Hikari is a chick that only follows Yuki’s words.’

Before being summoned to the Tower of Struggle, we had been working together since we were very young.

“About 10 years?”

I don’t have the right to comment on that dimension.

Honestly, it didn’t seem like a good world.

“Even from what I’ve roughly heard, well…”

A dimension where teenagers are used as a special unit to catch monsters.

From my perspective, it’s hard to see it as normal.

“If we wait, they’ll come up again.”

We just had to do our respective tasks.

“Isn’t this ship quite nice?”

Yuki proudly showed off the ship he made.

Compared to a pirate ship, it was far from adequate, but it wasn’t bad for something he shaped alone.

“It feels like a submarine.”

“…It’s quite impressive.”

He claimed that something resembling a torpedo was a submarine.

Does it actually function?

I had my doubts, but I didn’t show them.

I couldn’t dampen his enthusiasm.

I placed Hikari on the chunk of magic stone to automate the mining.

The efficiency was low, but the yield was quite decent.

“Whew.”

Hikari wiped off his sweat.

As the days went by, his clothing became lighter, and now he was wearing something that made me wonder, ‘Isn’t that underwear?’ while swinging a pickaxe.

“Doesn’t it bother you to see him like this?”

“Not after seeing it a few times.”

“……”

Not just the seniors and juniors in the sports club, but even the peers from the neighboring girls’ school.

“Of course, it wasn’t to this extent…”

I had already developed a tolerance.

I had reached a level where I could pass it off without a second thought.

Ignoring Hikari’s gaze, who seemed to be savoring the taste with regret.

Mined until the sun set.

“Hikari. Let’s go to Island No. 1.”

And waited for the player on Island No. 1.

They always came up around this time.

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Lighting a bonfire and waiting for the player had become a routine to end the day.

“I wish at least a fisherman would come up.”

“Can a fisherman handle that boat? No matter how much they lived at sea, it seems difficult to control such a boat.”

“But it’s better than us.”

“That’s true.”

Crackle, crackle-.

The sound heard.

Footsteps.

“They’re here.”

Rushed towards the direction where the sound was coming from.

“Is this the third floor?”

There was an old man with a bent back.