Loop Mob – A Mob’s Interdimensional Travel Caught in a Loop

Chapter 61: Sad News

The tragedy occurred on a Sunday night.

I want to graduate from this academy as quickly as possible through acceleration. Once I apply, there will be various complications afterward (learned from experience), so I haven’t applied yet. However, I’ll soon say goodbye to this dormitory room that I thought I would live in for another two years. Four years from middle school, and my belongings have increased considerably. I store all of these in my inventory. Then, I’ll choose only the essentials and keep them at hand.

While looking at the inventory screen, tapping each item to check and thinking, “I still had this” or “Oh, this is nostalgic, I should keep it without disposing of it,” at that moment.

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Learned Skill “Appraisal”
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With a fanfare, a window I had seen before popped up.

I didn’t need this! Cleaning up the warehouse at home was unnecessary!!!

In fact, since learning in the third loop that items in the vicinity of the Slime Dungeon could be stored all at once, I have often relied on simultaneous storage. It was especially useful when cleaning up Ulrika’s workshop after moving to Clarac. After storing everything in the room once and sorting the items in the inventory, I tidied them up one by one. If only I had known about this in the second loop during my time working at the “Tower.” But showing off such a skill in the “Tower” would have definitely led to confinement. I didn’t realize it then because I already had the Appraisal skill. The condition for acquiring the Appraisal skill is “Examine and appraise 1,000 types of items,” and all I had to do was put them in the inventory and check!

Crushed, I slumped on the bed, embodying the real-life “orz.” Well, there’s no use being down. At least I got Appraisal. If there’s a next loop, I can handle it with this. Let’s stay positive.

(Note :The term “orz” in Japan is a visual representation of a person kneeling on the ground with their head and arms touching the floor, forming the shape of the letter “O,” while the rest of the body represents the letter “R” or “Z.” It is often used online to express a sense of defeat, frustration, or a feeling of being overwhelmed. The “o” represents the head, and the “r” or “z” represents the body on the ground. It’s commonly used in situations where someone feels they’ve failed or is facing a challenging circumstance.)

Now that I have Appraisal, I can confidently focus on creating magical tools. Even though I’m used to it after making it many times, failing to create a high-powered magical tool would be a disaster. Appraisal skill is crucial. I rapidly proceeded with the creation of magical tools. There are many things I want to make.

In parallel with magical tools, I also want to create plenty of Max-grade magic stones. The automatic Aetherization device has been improved, first changing the “Small” holy verse to “Medium.” This speeds up Aetherization. Once I confirmed that it’s okay to flow a large amount of magical essence at once, I upgraded to “Large.” Along with that, I enlarged the magical stone pocket, allowing me to insert a large number of slime cores at once. While creating magical tools, I frequently checked the situation, replacing the depleted slime magic stones with new ones.

The performance of a magic stone + Max is “Non-attribute, Weight 0.3, Contains MP 13,310.” However, the contained MP is from the time of transmutation, and the maximum filling is about five times. I also filled it with about 60,000 MP by pouring in a large amount of slime magic stones. The magical essence consumed by magical tools depends on the skill, but it’s usually around 100 MP per use. Running out of magical essence during dungeon rounds is almost unheard of. I want to make several of them.

And about the knife, leather armor, and cloak I bought for camouflage, I also want to enchant them. Even with cheap general-purpose items sold in stores, adding a bit of material around can elevate their performance to that of high-end items. Ah, I’m short on materials. I want to go to the dungeon.

— Right, enchantment. Can’t I apply it?

On Saturday, October 19th, I promptly arrived at the advanced animal dungeon. The main goal was to mass-produce Fire Rat in the Monster House, but first, I proceeded cautiously from the lower floors. With low-level and insufficient AGI agility, I used Autumn Max’s leather shoes to fly, annihilating ground enemies with the flame level 8 Hellfire Fire..

“Hyeh.”

It was a bit dicey in the early stages. I thought I could easily defeat them with the ice storm Blizzard of Water Ball Level 10, but the DEX precision was subtly lacking, and missed shots occurred. I hurriedly fired in rapid succession. Even though I was flying, Fire Rats breathe fire and attack. I barely avoided them while shooting two or three ice storms and managed to defeat them, but my cloak and hair were slightly singed. If the leather shoes had been damaged, it would have been a problem. You can’t fly anymore. I want to give Tracking Homing to magical tools soon.

While carefully hunting rats, I distributed my stats to DEX as I leveled up. Then, I hastily applied the tails I picked up to the cloak in the safe zone. It doesn’t become flame-resistant until you apply it to the maximum, but this way, it gets fire reduction. The advanced levels do have a bit of a bite.

After that, gradually, I conducted stable rounds. I harvested the rat tails and returned.

Name: Alexi Appel
Race: Human
Title: Appel Trading Company Heir
Level: 33
HP: 100
MP: 600
POW: 10
INT: 60
AGI: 100
DEX: 160
Attribute: Earth
Skills:
None
(Stone Bullet)
(Landscape)
(Rock Wall)
(Golem Creation)
(Spear Technique)
(Physical Enhancement)
Equipment:
E Knife
E Leather Armor
E Akitsu Leather Shoes +Max
E Cloak (Flame Reduction)
E Magic Tool – Blizzard
Magic Tool – Hellfire
Status Points Remaining: 0
Skill Points Remaining: 330

I struggled a bit with leveling up and dealing with the rats at the beginning, so I could only complete 30 rounds this time. I obtained a total of 1,080 rat tails, and after applying 10 to the cloak, I have 1,070 remaining. This should be enough.

The Fire Rat’s tail, when applied to armor, increases defense and provides fire resistance. When applied to a weapon, it boosts attack power and adds a fire attribute. In other words, it’s critical against enemies weak to fire. It deals 200% damage or fatal damage to earth attribute or beast-type monsters, like the Murder Bear in the intermediate dungeon.

I secretly entered Senior Camille’s dormitory late at night. I went out of my room’s window, “stored” my favorite short spear through Senior’s room window, returned to my room, and applied 100 Fire Rat tails.

Short Spear
→ Attack Power 5, Weight 2

This became

Fire Mouse Spear
→ Attack Power 305, Weight 2, Fire Attribute Added

Oops. I’ve created something amazing. I released the spear gently from the window into his room again. With this, the issue of Senior Camille was resolved. The next month, we received news that the Murder Bear had been successfully defeated. However, there was a commotion because at that time, flames were seen from the spear or the Murder Bear’s corpse was charred. It turned out that the spear he possessed seemed to be a legendary one, but that’s another story.

By the way, using Akitsu equipment and inventory function, it seems easy to become a thief. I won’t tell anyone about the inventory function from now on.