On the 70th floor of the Tower of Training, the special facility [Enhancement Room] opens up.
It’s a rather reasonable arrangement.
They considered the possibility of rookies risking their entire fortune on enhancements and going bankrupt.
Moreover, they can use the special facility [Teleportation Magic Circle] on the 60th floor to quickly escape to an outside city, buy tons of enhancement materials, and return.
Warriors, and their comrades.
Or players.
The structure is set up so that strong players can quickly become even stronger.
But of course, shortcuts exist everywhere in the world.
The Living Armor shortcut is a privilege only for veterans.
Sing, who has also benefited from that, has been keeping his mouth shut and staying alert around him for quite a while.
Well, knowing just how powerful the Living Armor is, it’s no wonder he feels uneasy.
Each one of those creatures is as strong as a warrior, if not more. If he tried to pass normally, he would have ended up as a corpse.
Clunk!
Finally emerging from the exit on the 69th floor and taking off the Living Armor from the inside, he succeeded in breaking through the 69th floor with ease.
[You have broken through a floor you absolutely could not have with your current level. Your cleverness is genius.]
[You acquire 100,000 points.]
[Operation Planning Experience +15]
[Concealment Experience +10]
[Imitation Experience +5]
The armor, now emptied, returned to normal operation, closed itself, and went back into the floor.
Due to the tower’s rules, entities inside can’t attack life forms lingering on the outside stairs.
[You have reached the 70th floor.]
[You gain permission to use the elevator on the 70th floor.]
[You can use the special facility [Enhancement Room].]
Enhancement Room.
Just seeing that name made Sing flinch.
“Are you planning to do something like Titosso?”
“+5 enhancement Light Stand? Hmm~ That’s not bad, but Titosso’s Light Stand had no option selection, right? Here, you can select options.”
“Options…?”
“Titosso’s Light Stand greatly increases mana consumption but enhances its role as lighting. If a weapon consumes that much mana, it’s considered cursed equipment because just holding it drains all your mana away and kills you. So you need to replace it with other options!”
“Did that blacksmith guy really give such insane equipment to a kid?”
It seems Titosso was someone who could enter Sing’s precious sister zone.
Satisfied with the thought of cutting someone when he gets back, Sing felt reassured.
“It’s better to switch the negative options to something beneficial. Strong people can increase the weight of the equipment, or those with sharp senses can add dizziness as a negative option to suppress it with advantageous abilities!”
“What exactly are you trying to enhance?”
“That’s what I’d like to hear as well.”
70th floor.
A place only reachable by breaking through the Layer of Living Armor.
Suddenly appearing in such a place was the Director.
Sing seemed quite surprised by that.
He was startled as if a knife had just been thrust into his neck.
Maybe he didn’t notice that the Director had come down from the elevator using [Silence] from the start.
“Ah, it’s Papa!”
“Jonnas is waiting. Shall we head to the cafeteria together?”
“Since we’re here, let’s use the special facility first!”
Papa followed along as if it was a given.
Curiosity about what he was trying to enhance was evident on his face.
“Sword and staff. Which one are you going to enhance?”
“Neither!”
What I pulled out in front of the enhancer was a backpack.
Inside the backpack… was another backpack!
In that way, I kept pulling out backpack after backpack and stuffing them into the enhancer.
As I filled the enhancer with large and small sized backpacks, an options window appeared over the Mana Board.
[Randomly rolling for plus enhancement will increase performance.]
[Randomly selecting a plus enhancement will decrease performance.]
[Randomly rolling for minus enhancement will decrease performance.]
[Randomly selecting a minus enhancement will increase performance.]
Will I trust my luck for high options or choose what I want for low options?
Alternatively, will I trust my luck for low penalties or choose what I want for high penalties?
The performance of the enhancer seemed quite logical.
But the options and penalties I chose were already decided.
[Select random function and penalty.]
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+1: Increases backpack loading area.
+2: Increases loaded weight of the backpack.
+3: Increases durability of the backpack.
+4: Increases magical resistance of the backpack.
+5 (special): Now your backpack can hold up to 99 of the same item in one slot.
+5 (penalty): Items that can be put into the backpack are limited to a single type.
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It’s a function that wasn’t even supported in the game.
But with the accumulated enhancement knowledge of veterans, a lifestyle specialized item was born here.
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【Equipment Screen】
Accessory (ring) – [Titosso’s Friendship Ring (bound)]
Accessory (necklace) – [Jonnas’s Whistle (bound)]
Armor (outfit) – [Gift Academy School Uniform]
Main Weapon – [Cracked Short Sword]
Sub Weapon – [Cracked Wand]
Bag –
Other – [Gold Coin Pouch][Mana Stone Pouch][Candy Pouch][Junk Pouch][Absolute Priority Sticker Pack][Indulgence][Boarding Ticket]
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And this magic backpack can still be enhanced if there’s enough of the backpack.
[The level of the Enhancement Room is high.]
[Enhancements up to +7 won’t destroy the original target.]
And surprisingly, there are many backpacks in this facility.
Down below in the ‘Underground’, there are still tons of backpacks for enhancement.
“Are we not taking the elevator? If we want to enhance more, we need to head underground right now!”
“Hmm, this is exciting. They say the world is vast and opportunities abound, but I didn’t even expect there to be an unknown space beneath my own home.”
With a pleasant smile, the Director followed into the elevator, while Sing, feeling like someone was asking if he would stick his hand into a crocodile’s mouth, was tense.
The two of them passed through B1F [Layer of Waste] and descended to B2F [Layer of Recycling], then jumped onto the rails heading further down.
[Entering B3F [Layer of Sorting Waste].]
Countless rails and occasionally visible items.
The sight of blood-soaked items piled up like a mountain gives quite an imposing vibe.
If you were to witness the sight of corpses rotting away and weapons left without owners scattered everywhere on a battlefield, would it feel similar to what’s currently being perceived?
Yeah, that seems about right.
It’s appropriate since loose items pile up in heaps here.
“This place… is where the lost items of adventurers who have come to the tower gather.”
“Correct! Since Papa didn’t know of this place, can I use what’s here?”
“Hoh. This is, after all, my residence. Just because the landlord didn’t know about the basement doesn’t make it someone else’s possession.”
“Then just concede one type to me!”
“One type, huh… Very well. I can concede that much.”
In truth, saying just one type is a bit of a stretch.
There’s only one overflowing item left down here.
[B4F [Layer of Excess Resources] entered.]
Metals are melted in the blacksmith set up in the Layer of Sorting Waste and used for creating training equipment.
It’s also used to set iron cores inside wooden puppets and for constructing traps.
Most items follow this rule.
Unless there’s a direct usage within the Tower of Training, they are dismantled and re-manufactured for field deployment.
The only item that breaks this role is the cloth-made backpack!
Even Papa, wielding significant power, couldn’t hide his astonishment at the sight of the piles of backpacks on the 4th floor.
“This place… is just filled with backpacks.”
And my backpack is the backpack specialized for holding 99 backpacks in each slot.
The backpacks required for crafting a +1 backpack are 2.
For +2, you need 4.
+3 needs 8, +4 needs 16, and +5 requires 32.
Continuing to double up, it escalates to 64, 128, 256, and 512, meaning that to craft a +10 backpack, you’d need at least 1024 backpacks.
Up to +7, guaranteed enhancement is possible, but from +8 onwards, considering the potential for item breakdown, it’s not surprising that it might take tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of backpacks.
But conveniently, there’s a useful tool here.
An overwhelmingly advantageous cheat item called [Sticker Pack] that has the priority in all determinations.
Just stick it on, and it activates as a micro-sized instant-triggered enchant magic cheat that substitutes mana technique!
A masterpiece created by the upperclassman who juggles a minor in magic and production at a school where just graduating with a single major is challenging!
These stickers are even used in duplicate-debt cheat that can breach the Foundation’s boarding ticket security and can be used for enhancements ignoring enhancement destruction probabilities.
Known as the [Guaranteed Enhancement] sticker!
Thanks to that, the collection of backpack series was completed in one go.
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[Layered Storage Mana Stone Backpack (Artifact (+10), Bound)]
Grade – Rare Level 4
Description – A backpack created by enhancing the endless backpacks accumulated in the Tower of Training. This backpack can only hold Mana Stones. Growth stops while wearing due to the backpack’s curse.
Effect 1 – Capacity expansion (100 slots)
Effect 2 – Layered storage function unlocked (up to 99 items per slot)
Effect 3 – Protection from physical damage below tier 3
Effect 4 – Protection from magical damage below tier 3
Effect 5 – Protection from conditions like immersion and corrosion
Effect 6 – Search function to locate and bring in contents.
Effect 7 – This backpack can only hold Mana Stones.
Effect 8 – While wearing this backpack, height and weight do not increase.
Valuation – 1000 gold coins, 100,000 points
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These types of backpacks neatly stack up in the Backpack Backpack.
[Weapon Backpack], [Armor Backpack], [Accessory Backpack], [Wooden Materials Backpack], [Ore Backpack], [Mana Stone Backpack], [Stone Backpack], [Herbal Medicine Backpack], [Insect Backpack], [Toy Backpack], [Meat Backpack], [Candy Backpack], and so on!
It’s really no exaggeration to say they secured thousands of inventory slots.
Of course, bags reliant on quantity were upgraded focusing on carrying capacity,
but bags where type matters took a different upgrade tech tree.
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[Time-Stopping Food Backpack (Artifact (+10), Bound)]
Grade – Rare Level 4
Description – A backpack created by enhancing the countless backpacks accumulated in the Tower of Training. This backpack can only hold food. Growth stops while wearing due to the backpack’s curse.
Effect 1 – Capacity expansion (1000 slots)
Effect 2 – Time stops
Effect 3 – Protection from physical damage below tier 3
Effect 4 – Protection from magical damage below tier 3
Effect 5 – Protection from conditions like immersion and corrosion
Effect 6 – Search feature to locate and bring in contents.
Effect 7 – This backpack can only hold food.
Effect 8 – While wearing this backpack, height and weight do not increase.
Valuation – 1500 gold coins, 150,000 points
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Now I don’t need to get just one dish per meal from the chef every time.
I can cook all the dishes of each type and store them, eating one whenever I want.
The same goes for collectibles.
No need to leave behind less valuable ones due to insufficient inventory capacity or awkwardly carry one of each for days until the collection judgment ends.
I can just cram everything I find into the backpack!
