Only My Skill Tooltip Is Strange

47 – 3rd Floor, Uninhabited Island.

Yuki came up with the idea.

It sounded quite plausible.

‘…It seems the ice he creates doesn’t have very good durability.’

Yuki is also a superhuman with ice-related abilities.

He can summon ice blades and break down my ice walls.

He can do surreal things that can’t be explained by Earth’s scientific knowledge.

But he insists on using my Frozen Prison?

It’s like admitting that his superpower is lacking.

‘If I create the ice wall with my skill, its durability will be the best.’

Unless someone melts it, it won’t break first.

“I’ll make it for now.”

I used Frozen Prison to create an ice wall.

Cooldown: 2 minutes, Mana cost: 100.

The mana burden wasn’t much, but the cooldown was annoying.

While waiting, I watched Yuki’s carving.

“Like this?”

Yuki used his aesthetic sense to carve the ship.

“Don’t you have ships on your Earth?”

“We do.”

“Then what is this?”

Yuki’s ship was almost complete.

Its shape was barely an improvement over a sailboat.

Contrary to the creative idea of utilizing the Frozen Prison, the result was pathetic.

“Are you talking about ships, aircraft carriers, those kinds of large vessels?”

“If we’re going out to sea, it would be nice if it were big and grand.”

“…What does it matter if we don’t know the internal structure?”

Yuki chuckled and continued.

“Do you know how a ship moves?”

“Motor?”

“Do you know how it functions? You don’t, do you?”

I nodded.

“If you don’t know, how am I supposed to make it?”

What Yuki could make was only the exterior of the ship, the parts that were directly visible.

“Even if I somehow made it, operating it properly is another issue.”

“…Then we’ll have to row.”

“We have no choice.”

Yuki dusted off and stood up.

“Have you explored the entire island?”

“I have.”

“Just in case. I’ll go check it out too.”

Yuki had come up to the third floor last night.

He hadn’t fully grasped the structure of the island.

So he harbored a futile hope, thinking, ‘Is there any other possibility on this island?’

“Suit yourself.”

I didn’t stop Yuki.

Confirming with his own eyes that there was nothing was also important.

While Yuki wandered around, I didn’t stay still.

Time is gold.

There was no room for waste.

‘Will this thing float on the sea?’

It needs to be checked.

“Ugh.”

I pushed the boat with all my might.

It was incredibly heavy.

Considering the weight of the water, this much weight makes sense.

[Survival Instinct]

I sacrifice my vitality to enhance all my abilities.

By raising my strength to 60, I could push a two-person sailboat by myself.

I rolled up my pants above my thighs.

I made all the preparations to keep from getting wet and launched the boat.

Splash-.

The boat floated gently.

Fortunately, it didn’t sink.

‘Is the first problem solved?’

The second problem remained.

‘Whether it dissolves in seawater or not.’

Whether this boat can maintain its shape semi-permanently.

I needed to know in advance.

If a hole suddenly appeared in the boat during the voyage, it would be the end.

【10,030】

The durability does not wear out.

The sun was shining brightly, but the boat was intact.

There was no sign of it dissolving.

Thud-.

I hit the boat hard.

Then the durability decreased by 11.

‘If I hit it while wearing the golden dagger….’

The final damage was 52.

‘You have to strike with the intent to break it for the damage to apply.’

Just touching or grazing it didn’t wear down its durability.

The discretion of the soul system.

Since it was created by a skill, it had to rely on the system’s judgment.

‘The raft made of wooden planks was classified as a mount. But there’s no mention of this.’

Does that mean the ice sailboat isn’t treated as a mount?

It wasn’t lenient at all.

I kept using Frozen Prison.

The more ice I had to use as material, the better.

There was no need to save the skill.

Ice piled up on the sandy beach.

It was ice that wouldn’t disappear unless I canceled the skill or reduced its durability to zero.

Yuki returned.

“I see an island over there.”

“…An island?”

I didn’t understand what she was saying.

But my body moved first.

I followed Yuki.

‘There was definitely nothing there yesterday.’

Still, there was no guarantee that the Tower of Struggle would show the same scenery as yesterday.

It wasn’t strange if different conditions were added from yesterday.

The opposite side.

The opposite sandy beach from where I was staying.

There was a change there.

“Look. Do you see it?”

Yuki pointed to the horizon.

A lone island was floating not far away.

‘…It’s closer than I thought. Unless you’re blind, you can’t miss it.’

Because of its ambiguous position, I could be more certain.

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That island appeared today.

Or maybe last night, when I wasn’t looking.

“Are you sure you checked properly yesterday?”

“Even if I just glanced around, there’s no way I could have missed that.”

“That’s true.”

The island we’re standing on and the island we can see.

The distance between them is quite ambiguous.

Yuki muttered the same thought as mine.

“It feels like we could reach it with a raft if we tried.”

Tutorial and the 1st and 2nd floors.

We got a taste of the Tower of Struggle.

We understood how it works, got a feel for it.

Players who reached the 3rd floor realized the importance of challenges.

They physically felt the meaning of the saying “If you stay still, you get left behind,” and realized that just avoiding things is the worst strategy.

Including myself, they were ready to do anything to survive.

They could put that determination into action.

Accepting the shitty reality of having to cross the sea on a poorly made raft was also something they could do.

Players who only denied reality were already dead.

“Still, we’re in a pretty good situation. We can add stability to the raft.”

They’re practically telling us to use the raft.

So we should use it.

Of course, we don’t have to use just the raft.

We’ll add ice to it to increase sailing stability.

“First, we need to move the raft.”

We decided to go back to where it originally was and get the raft.

It took about 10 minutes.

Even though it was a big raft, it wasn’t too hard to move.

Maybe because it was treated as a mount, it could be stored in the inventory.

We anchored the raft in the direction of the second island and reinforced it with the ice walls of the Frozen Prison.

‘It’s definitely easier to shape the boat since it has a frame.’

Yuki’s hands moved swiftly.

Scratch, scratch.

Her skill in carving the ice wall was extraordinary.

“Having made one before helped.”

Yuki straightened her back.

“Ugh!”

As she stretched, her ample chest became prominent.

I turned my gaze to check the raft.

The bottom of the raft was reinforced with ice, and sturdy walls were built on all sides.

Points at the front and rear.

[Ice Spirit’s Raft (blue)][D]

Category: Mount

Stats▼

【Durability: 50/50】

Options▼

【Wind Adaptation Lv.3】

【Cold Resistance Lv.3】

【Acceleration Lv.2】

The information was updated.

When I used Frozen Prison to make it with brute force, it wasn’t considered a mount, but now it was recognized as a ‘boat.’

I’m not sure if I should be happy that its durability is 50.

‘Considering the raft’s durability was 5… maybe it’s not so bad.’

Even a fool would recognize the value of having three options added to the durability upgrade and shout that it’s a jackpot.

“The oars were made yesterday, right?”

I made them before carving the wooden planks.

I kept them in my inventory so I wouldn’t forget.

When I took out the oars and spoke as if ready to cross immediately, Yuki stopped me.

“Are you going to cross right away?”

“If we can, we should.”

I jumped onto the raft without hesitation.

I didn’t forget to grab the bananas picked from the tree.

“What are you doing? Aren’t you getting on?”

Yuki stood there, staring blankly.

Out of courtesy, I asked once.

Yuki said something.

“Have you ever thought that more players might come up? Like I did last night.”

If you hypothesize, that could be possible.

“But why? Do we really need to care?”

What matters to me is not the latecomer players.

‘It’s important to get to that island in the distance first.’

Yuki seemed to have some lingering attachment.

She seemed convinced that players would come up.

‘Not bad.’

Honestly, if I could leave Yuki here, it would be beneficial.

There’s no loss in stepping on that island alone.

There was a first clear bonus in the tutorial.

Who knows if there might be something similar.

‘On the other hand, there could be dangers…’

I think it’s worth rolling the dice.

‘It’s just the beginning of the third floor.’

I was confident that the trials set at this point wouldn’t be dangerous for me.

“Then stay here and wait for the next player. I’ll go ahead.”

“…You’re going? Really?”

“Yeah.”

Before Yuki could change her mind, I quickly rowed away.

Yuki’s figure gradually receded.