I’m not a large dog that leans against humans without thinking about my size. Even for her, her shoulders became stiff when a creature the size of a giant building leaned on her.

‘Before, when I caught such a huge creature, I handed it over to Saint to sell for taming purposes.’

Come to think of it, it was undoubtedly something caught in the Tower, as such a huge creature wouldn’t just be rolling around anywhere.

By the way, it’s common sense that a creature already tamed by a tamer doesn’t show kindness to other humans, but it seems to have some gratitude for not killing it outright at the time.

Thinking deeply about monsters having intelligence is quite tiring.

After all, they are invaders, and we have to fight each other for our lives.

Suji no longer accepted the ray’s affection(?) and snatched the receipt attached to its tail.

The receipt had an alias written on it. As long as the payment was made securely, it wasn’t difficult to buy things whether using an alias or a real name.

Hunters of the post-Wave generation were managed by the Gate Stabilization Department under the Crisis Management Support Division of the government. Suji also had a dedicated manager in the Hunter Response Team who handled everything like a secretary.

Having never purchased these things before, she asked her dedicated manager to buy all of them on her behalf.

The quick and efficient dedicated manager, who knew Daphne’s tastes well, didn’t pry into the details and delivered them here in less than two hours.

She was certainly pleased with the handling of the matter.

When Suji signed it, the magic beast lowered its head as if disappointed and floated back into the air.

She no longer even glanced in that direction and looked at the delivery that had arrived in front of her.

Three huge mattresses, a desk, a roll-screen monitor to be installed on the wall, various game consoles, various comic books, a bookshelf, audio equipment, a large and wide sofa, items for indoor and outdoor decoration…

There were so many items rolling on the floor in bubble-like vacuum spheres that it was difficult to count them all.

Even a quick glance showed that they were all high-quality items, and she liked the simple designs.

‘Now I need to move this to the living space.’

It was good that she liked the items, but suddenly she realized that she was a bit short on manpower.

The quiet residential area she wanted, where no one else would approach, was in the deep sea area and was also a place where S-rank monsters frequently appeared, so from here on, she couldn’t ask anyone to help carry the items.

‘I should have invested in the Tamer characteristic.’

If she knew how to control magic beasts, it would be helpful.

She hadn’t raised magic beasts controlled by Tamers because they generally lose their will to fight when encountering stronger magic beasts, but they might be quite helpful in everyday life.

It wasn’t something she had thought much about before, but recalling the ray that had just shown affection to her made her want to try it sometime.

Suji shook her head to clear her thoughts. To move the items piled up in front of her, she would have to make quite a few trips.

It was better to move quickly than to spend time thinking.

She first pushed as many items as she could into the remaining slots of her inventory and stepped into the deep sea area known as the “Land of Death”. However…

“What is this.”

Unlike her dreams, the state of her living space was not very pleasing to the eye.

‘Surely when I thought about buying a living space here, the scenery was very beautiful.’

Although it was named the “deep sea” area, it wasn’t actually underwater.

It was because all sorts of deep-sea monsters roamed around the beautiful beach with sandy shores and the vast, fertile land next to it.

The sight of fish-like creatures with two legs resembling anglerfish or pelican eels floating in the air was really the worst.

Huge creatures that were quite grotesque evolved versions of nautiluses also walked the ground with their tentacles, and there were quite a few sucker-bearing creatures that looked like they would quickly suck blood if caught.

Those creatures, which looked quite similar to deep-sea creatures living on Earth, had a hellish visual appearance, but their ability scores were also nightmarish.

The inside of the gate, which had been quite beautiful when she purchased it, was probably like this because she had swept away all the monsters.

The gate scenery, full of monsters and weeds due to the lack of hunters’ visits, could not be called beautiful by any means.

“…How much money did I spend on my residential area? How dare they ruin the scenery like this?”

Suji gritted her teeth and drew her sword.

The rapier she had obtained as the first clear reward on the 78th floor of the Tower, , was drawn out, emitting a black light.

It was a 9-tier sword.

With each tier, the ability of the item differs by almost 1.5 to 2 times.

By the 9th tier, it’s generally impossible to obtain, and even if obtained, the options that the user must meet to use the item are extremely demanding.

Just with that ominous aura, the momentum of the monsters who had been looking greedily at the human who suddenly crept in was instantly dampened.

Monsters instinctively revere targets that have killed beings stronger than themselves.

So seeing the relic of an S-rank monster appearing on the 78th floor of the Tower, that reaction was natural.

‘In a way, these monsters are easier to understand than humans.’

Suji shouted loudly.

“Any being that wants to die, come forward! I’ll kill you painlessly with a single stroke!”

The warning shouted by an SSS-rank hunter carries powerful force. At the same time, her characteristics were activated one after another.

20% chance to apply status ailment ‘Fear’ to monsters of AAA rank or lower within a 40m radius

Characteristic is activated.

12% chance to apply status ailment ‘Fear’ to one specific S-rank or lower monster within sight

Characteristic is activated.

9% chance for monsters with dark attributes within an 82m radius to lose their will to fight

Characteristic is activated.

1% chance to apply status ailment ‘Charm’ to AA rank or lower monsters that hear the caster’s voice]

Alongside the characteristic activation messages, logs of each characteristic’s judgment also appeared in a row.

Success, failure, success, failure, success, success repeated in the logs, and while watching this, the monsters that didn’t get hit with status ailment debuffs rushed towards Daphne.

“If the status ailment doesn’t stick, I’ll just kill them.”

Suji raised and accurately dealt with the creatures that looked like they would make you lose your appetite just by making eye contact, one by one.

If 10 AAA-rank or higher monster entities within a 10m radius from the declaration point are killed by the caster within 7 minutes, there’s a 41% chance to apply status ailment ‘Fear’ to AAA-rank or lower monsters within a 100m radius]

is a characteristic with a low rank itself. So it can be easily acquired even in regular gates.

It has a high probability of inducing status ailments and a wide range, making it quite good compared to its rank, but in reality, only a few people can meet these demanding conditions.

So people often said that is a skill that only sounds good but can’t actually be used.

If they saw actually being activated, hunters who had dismissed the characteristic would be unable to hide their surprise.

Following Daphne’s subsequent performance, the giant monsters that were floating around or awkwardly walking on two legs with bizarre appearances, covering the sky, all became paralyzed with the fear status ailment and started to retreat one by one.

Perhaps because of their deep-sea fish appearance, instead of dispersing into the air, they walked into the sea, which was quite grotesque.

As the gloomy monsters that had been covering the sky all disappeared at once, the sunlight that had been blocked poured down all at once.

“…Wow.”

Only then did the beautiful scenery that Daphne remembered come back into view.

Although weeds had grown wildly, the vast plains that are hard to see in mountainous South Korea and the beach at its end had a feeling of gently caressing the heart.

In the open sky, two luminous bodies of different sizes were floating at different speeds.

Right in the middle, a white, angular two-story country house bore Daphne’s seal.

In some ways, it might look lonely, but Suji liked that solitary feeling with just one house.

“I’m glad I came.”

She muttered softly, smiling without even realizing it.

Even excluding the corrected values due to item or characteristic effects, Suji’s basic strength stat was so high from her accumulated experience that organizing the house wasn’t difficult.

She could easily lift sofas and bookshelves with one hand.

After that, she unpacked all the deliveries and roughly placed the game consoles, game packs, and video devices in their places.

However, because she had ordered so many items at once, she couldn’t finish everything in just one day.

Just like in SimX games where earning money isn’t as hard as placing furniture one by one and decorating the house to your liking, it was her first time living alone, so there were many things to pay attention to, from hanging a single curtain in an empty space.

“There are many things needed for a person to live.”

There were so many items that she felt she wouldn’t have been able to prepare all these details if she had ordered them herself.

Suji roughly organized only the immediately necessary things and rolled around on the wide and soft sofa.