Chapter 27
To eat or not to eat. That is the question.
He briefly lifted a necklace made of pure gold to examine it, then carefully tucked it into his subspace.
After sorting out the recovery scrolls from the useless items, a book caught his eye.
[Ding! You have obtained the spellbook: Ice Lance.]
He had seen the power of that spell firsthand when a mage used it, so it would be great to learn it—if only he could. But instinctively, he already knew.
[Ding! Only mages of Circle 4 or higher can learn this spell.]
I knew it. Now that I think about it, it might be good to eat some high-circle stones.
But since they wouldn't show up, he couldn't consume them.
Come to think of it, even the dropped spellbooks are pretty random, huh.
It reminded him of an old online game he used to enjoy.
It was a brutally difficult game where dying meant randomly dropping spells or items, but that unpredictability had its charm, and he had fond memories of playing it.