At the level 1500 hunting ground Land of Titan the next day.

  Puck! Puck! Bang! Bang!

  Since level 1300 was not my goal, I continued to hunt like before, and soon a message rang.

  [The event ‘Collect More Coins Than Others’ has now started-

  If you shout ‘Start Event!’, you will be immediately moved to the hunting ground assigned to you for one week-

  If you log out during this one week, you will automatically exit the hunting round, but you will receive the same death penalty as if you died in there.]

  “Man, if anybody dies even once, they are just finished.”


  Since this was a one-week event, receiving the one-week death penalty meant the same as being automatically eliminated from this event.

  But that had nothing to do with me.

  So I immediately opened my mouth.

  “Start Event!”


  [You are now participating in the event ‘Collect More Coins Than Others.’
-

  Lumen, Asirante has been allocated the level 2700 hunting ground-

  You are now being transferred to the Garden of Gods.]

  As soon as I heard the message, I felt like I was being dragged somewhere, but a wide green field and all kinds of colorful flowers did not appear before my eyes.

  Instead, I was greeted by the black land as if it had been burnt, and a gloomy sky as if it was about to storm right away.

  So I had no choice but to say something.

  “Man, these guys called gods have a very unique taste!”


  It was definitely called the Garden of Gods, but it was far from the image of a garden that I had expected, no matter how closely I looked at it.

  Anyway, I quickly looked around and prepared for any possible attack by monsters, but I could not see any single monster.

  “Hmm. Do I have to get out of this safety zone that I’m stepping on?”


  The safety zone was spread out over a fairly wide area, probably to prevent the players from suffering an accidental death as soon as they entered the hunting ground.

  So I moved to the end of the safety zone using Blink, then stepped out of it.

  Then, suddenly a message rang.

  [You are restricted by debuffs.]

  “Uh?”


  This was quite an unexpected message. So I couldn’t help but be a little perplexed, for the words “restricted” could not mean anything good.

  Moreover, I also had the traits of All Buffs, All Debuffs.

  As if they didn’t want to give me time to think of the trait, another message rang.

  [Anybody can set debuff restrictions as long as they have the desire and passion to take risks and pull ahead of others-

  You can set restrictions in increments of 10%.

  : When you set 10% restrictions, your combat power is reduced by 10%. However, the drop frequency of coins and the number of dropped coins will increase by 30%.

  : When you set 20% restrictions, your combat power is reduced by 20%.

  However, the drop frequency of coins of coins and the number of dropped coins will increase by 60%.

  :

  :

  : When you set 90% restrictions, your combat power is reduced by 90%.

  However, the drop frequency of coins and the number of coins dropped will increase by 270%.]

  [You can set restriction settings when you move out of the safety zone. In order to change the existing restrictions value or to make a new setting, you must move in and out of the safety zone again.]

  [Currently, Lumen, Asirante’s restrictions are 0%.]

  “…”


  First of all, I carefully examined the rather long message.

  Then I had no choice but to let out a sigh at the last line.

  Obviously, it was a fair event because each participant was given a hunting ground befitting their level. But the fairness was gone because of the restrictions.

  The problem with the restrictions was that those with a lower combat power were in a more favorable situation. If a person with 100 combat power chose the 10% restrictions, he would have 90 combat power. That was enough for such players to fight monsters at their level.

  However, I obviously had at least 10,000 or more combat power.

  In other words, if I set only 10% restrictions, my combat power of 10,000 would be reduced significantly to 9,000.

  That’s why I couldn’t help but laugh in frustration.

  A little later, I chose not to set any restrictions and left it at 0%.

  Was it because I might die from such restrictions? Of course, that was not my reason.

  Even though I was given the level 2700 hunting ground, I was not weak enough to be in danger because my combat power would drop by 20 or 30%.

  However, since the event had just started, and I didn’t know which monsters would appear, I thought that I didn’t need to be hasty.

  So I just left the safety zone and walked a few steps when I suddenly thought of something

  Tramp- Tramp-

  So I turned back and moved back into the safety zone, before exiting again.

  A message rang at that moment.

  [You are restricted by debuffs-

  Lumen, Asirante’s current restrictions are 0%.

  – You can set new restrictions.]

  When I first moved out of the safety zone, the same message as this one immediately rang, and I questioned ‘Why?’ because I had the trait of All Buffs, All Debuffs.

  In other words, I was not supposed to be affected by the debuffs.

  But when I saw the message about the restrictions, I assumed that my trait ‘All Buffs, All Debuffs’ would not work because this was not the same as debuffs, limited skills or traits used by users.

  A little later, however, I wondered whether my trait, ‘All Buffs, All Debuffs’ would not work because my restrictions were 0%.

  In other words, 0% was obviously a nominal debuff that would inflict little damage.

  Maybe that’s why the ‘All Buffs, All Debuffs’ message didn’t ring.

  “Alright. This is just a test anyway, Let me set the debuff restrictions at 10%.”


  [You have set the debuff restrictions-

  Restrictions: 10%-

  In return for decreasing your combat power by 10%, the drop frequency of coins and the number of dropped coins will increase by 30%.]

  I just set the restrictions at 10% casually, but I was really nervous.

  I was not sure if it worked, and even if it didn’t work, I didn’t know if I could get the results that I wanted.

  Anyway, I waited for the next message nervously, and soon the message rang.

  [You currently have ‘All Buffs, All Debuffs’.-

  You are not affected by debuff restrictions.]

  [Lumen, Ashirante’s restrictions are 10%-

  In return for decreasing your combat power by 0%, the drop frequency of coins and the number of dropped coins will increase by 30%.]

  “Wow!”


  I was half in belief and half in doubt.

  The message showed exactly what I wanted.

  So, I immediately moved back in and out of the safety zone, and again quickly opened my mouth when the message about restrictions rang.

  “90 percent!”


  [You currently have ‘All Buffs, All Debuffs’.-

  You are not affected by debuff restrictions.]

  [Lumen, Asirante’s restrictions are 90%.

  – In return for decreasing your combat power by 0%, the drop frequency of coins and the number of dropped coins will increase by 270%.]