Chapter 44
Of all the resistance skills, the one that was the easiest to raise was the burn resistance.
As for cold and heat, creating the environment for them itself was hard.
Moreover, cold and heat were most dangerous when they started to affect the nervous system and cause error in brain functions.
It seemed this was the reason why the demand for the resistance skill performance itself was a little high.
I was guessing that this was the reason why leveling it up was limited to four when I was at the second floor and doing repeated grinding.
Things like faint or paralysis resistance were also almost impossible to improve all by myself.
Grinding for resistance skills were done mostly at the waiting room or in front of the waiting room portal. Considering this fact, it really was impossible.
The only things left were pain, burn and frostbite.
My pain resistance level was already very high, so I was not expecting much on its growth.
As for the frostbite resistance, I could grow it easily by applying freezing water on my body. However, with the pa.s.sage of time, the freezing effect disappeared as the freezing water hardened.
Because of the limit on points, I could not raise the frostbite resistance any more.
So, in the end, all that was left was the burn resistance.
I could raise it easily with heat stone. Also, before the heat stone’s heat withered, I could create fire on fabrics or woods. That way, I could continue the process with the fire.
As of result, my burn resistance became second highest level skill of all my resistance skills, second only to the pain resistance.
Even the burn resistance’s growth became slower, so I ended up quitting the grinding for it.
Recently, I had been working on not the resistance skills but the power skills gifted to me by the G.o.ds. I had been using power skills by myself to work on getting used to them.
However, when it came to just killing time mindlessly, there was no other grinding that was as efficient as resistance skills.
It had been a while since I raised my burn resistance. Sitting in front of the waiting room’s portal, I looked at the Community window as I fiddled with the heat stone.
Actually, I wanted to look at the Community window while I worked, so I decided to raise my resistance skill levels.
There were new messages coming up in almost every 10 seconds. This situation was…
It was pure chaos and destruction.
No, perhaps not exactly?
Regardless, there was a huge commotion.
It was not that something very bad in particular happened.
The Representative Federation, as usual, did not show up on the Community.
None of them did, not the members, not the victims.
In other words, the people causing ruckus in the Community right now were mostly people who were unrelated to the Representative Federation.
A few hours ago, one of the rankers leaked the information about the day of the great harmony on the Community.
There was not much time left before its commencement anyway.
Also, the opinion was that others should be informed with minimum knowledge about the event at least to minimize chaos. Because of this, the information leak was looked over without much complaints.
The excuse was that this was an accident.
However, from how I saw it, it seemed someone tossed the information to get attention.
Information about tutorial were mostly gathered from the managers.
Also, you could meet the managers after clearing a floor.
Because of these two conditions, knowing sweet information and telling people about it was a form of bragging.
Recently, people in the lower floor started to support rankers. As of result, fandoms and factions were starting to form.
Things like this happened occasionally.
It was similar to overdone fraternization and attention seeking in SNS.
‘Maybe the ranker that got turned to be the p.a.w.n of Representative Federation did it for the same reason? I am not sure.’
I could not get any more information about them.
Coming back to the topic of Community, with the information about the day of the great harmony released, the Community was in a state of festivity.
Round 3, Day 27…
There were many who already used up the 24 hour stay allowances at the waiting room.
The sense of security of being able to rest in a safe s.p.a.ce, away from the stage and the constant danger…
In addition, with the rounds repeating, people could meet their comrades again at the waiting room, and you could even see the faceless people you had been chatting through the Community for the first time.
Finally, the day of the great harmony was a sort of peaceful event that happened for the first time since the Tutorial started.
While being thrown in the deadly and harsh environment of the Tutorial stages, people were either trying to clear the Tutorial or just survive 30 days and wait for the day they could go back to the waiting room. All of those people were overjoyed about the day of the great harmony.
Of course, I was not sure if the day would progress peacefully.
Regardless, looking at the excited Community, it was no different from kindergarteners causing ruckus the day before a fieldtrip out of antic.i.p.ation, although they were liking it a little more than that.
I didn’t bother with joining them in the excitement.
I just continued my work on improving my skill levels.
However, I kept on reading the Community.
Although they were just texts, I got to see people being swept away and acting happy in the atmosphere of festivities. It somehow made me a little excited and happy.
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[Round 3, Day 27, 00:00]
[The day of the great harmony will now commence.]
[The day of great harmony will continue for the next 24 hours. Remaining time: 23h, 59m]
[Please enter. Time left until forced summoning: 5h]
‘Oh, it is finally here.’
As the information obtained by some ranker indicated, the message appeared on the Round 3, Day 27, 00:00.
The forced summoning was also there as the information indicated.
‘Is 5 hours just in case someone is in middle of clearing a Tutorial floor and needs to get out of dangerous area or clear it? Um… It must be the case.
The clear condition for the second floor’s boss room was surviving it for 3 hours.’
[Round 3, Day 27, 00:00]
The timer did not move from Day 27, 00:00.
‘Is the timer not going to move for the duration of the day of the great harmony?’
It seemed that this was done after considering possible negative effect for losing time that could be spent on fighting.
‘Looks like the system thought things through. Although there are b.a.s.t.a.r.ds that try to exploit the loopholes despite that.’
Before I realized, there was a new portal near my feet.
I walked around a little, and the portal followed me around.
‘Oh, I didn’t know a portal could move on its own like this. It is like having a puppy follow me around. This is fun.’
Enter.
I felt the floating sensation that I was used to. I closed my eyes for a moment.
When I opened my eyes, I could see a familiar field in front of me.
[Welcome to the place of the great harmony.]
[Remaining time: 23:58]
[In this place, you are restricted from attacking another.]
[All of your injuries will be healed automatically.]
‘Um… This place is Kiri Kiri’s green