I Became a Father - Chapter 10

Translator: Ayana
Editor: Effefille

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The Mirage could be broadly divided into 4 Zones.

Floor 1 – 50. A place full of novice hunters that were less talented and the number of floors occupied half of the Mirage.

Floor 51 – 70. Had integrated servers exclusive to the high-leveled hunters. From this floor on, the hunters would be able to receive patronage and be reborn as a real hunter.

Floor 71 – 90. Might as well be called the rotten floors for the high-leveled hunters. More precisely, the even higher-leveled hunters.

Only hunters that had contracts that could go up until the last zone. The difference between patronage and contract was that patronage was simply when a watcher gave gifts to the hunters, while contracts, through it, the watcher would be able to share their power to the hunter they were in contract with.

The hunters from this zone became hunters with a totally different dimension than before.

That’s why Slender from The Realm Guild got stuck at the 70th floor. He went up to the 70th floor in August. Even so, no watcher had signed a contract with him. Possibly because he didn’t have any qualifications.

The watchers had to be careful with a contract. The watchers might do patronage for fun, but the watchers that would like to make a contract had to choose their hunter carefully.

And lastly,

Floor 91 – …. This level was too difficult to compare with anything. With only very few contractors available. These floors only allowed the Guardian-Level Hunter and a few Class-Level Hunter to climb.
(T/N: “Class-level” are A-Rank, S-Rank, and Ex-Rank)

So the point was, originally, the Mirage had 50 floors. Well, although, both now and originally, the Mirage always looked like it was towering up through the sky. In fact, the construction itself was twice from what the Mirage architect and builder had intended.

Well. Didn’t you realize it?!

From the 51st floor, only the hunters who received patronage could go up. The main reason for this was obviously the watchers. Then, from the 71st floor, only the hunters who received contracts could go up?

In truth, it was actually reversed. The hunters didn’t go up because they received a contract, but they went up and got elevated as a contractor.

The decent hunters that kept climbing the Mirage, found themselves a contract that looked interesting. Then, the vicious hunters gently gave it to the decent hunter and they signed it! That was what you call the watchers.

Anyway, I didn’t try to use the administration’s authority to act as a tyrant. It was just meant for those who had been running the business for free until now to pay a fair price.

Monthly! Rent!

[The watchers are silent on your request.]

Really now?

The Life’s Predators who had been snooping around seemed to be in agreement with this monthly rent. Even the legislature who were united to raise their salaries, they should speak up.

“Hey guys. I’m not trying to exploit you either.”

[Some watchers would like to hear your request.]

Hey, they seemed like they had good business skills. Had they ever traded game items? Or had they been to Yongsan?

I opened my mouth to pretend that I couldn’t win. It was not even fun to bargain with these creatures who were just watchers.

“I’ll just take 25 crystals per month, it’s cheap, cheap.”

Transcendental voyeurism, also known as the number of watchers, currently had a total of 20 seats. If I collected 25 crystals by monthly rent. I could get 500 crystals.

There was little left after deducting Sehwa’s meal costs. It was very simple, right?

“Pay it on the first day of every month, and pay for this month today. This is not like I force you guys to pay 10 years monthly rent in advance, right?”

I even made a shocking suggestion that I wouldn’t collect the advanced yearly payment!

“On top of that, I want you to keep as much secret as possible about me and my daughter.”

As long as it wasn’t an unusual suggestion, the other party wouldn’t be suspicious of it. So I just put a light suggestion on it. Even if she just stayed still, she was still my daughter who always garnered attention from people just because of her beauty, and there was no need to be suspicious of me.

[Your request is accepted by the watchers.]

[The contract below will be created.]
1. The watcher (20 seats left in the Mirage) and the administrator (the initial wizard) sign a contract as follows.

2. On the 1st of every month the watcher will give 25 crystals to the administrator.

3. The watcher swears to keep secret about the administrator daughter to the utmost.

4. If the watcher does not pay the crystal on the specified day, 50% will be added and paid in the following month. In the case of non-payment in the following month, the administrator may ask the watcher for a corresponding price.

5. The watcher may request the administrator once a year for administrative authority, and the administrator accepts this request as much as possible.

6. This Agreement will remain in effect until the Administrator leaves the Mirage.

[Do you agree?]

Point 1 was the contract itself, Point 2 and 3 were my requests. They put point 4 on their own. At some point, the watchers won’t be crowded enough to pay rent, but there should be nothing bad about it.

“I agree.”

Number 5 will take a little time, but it didn’t mean that I had to accept it unconditionally. Even without the provisions of the contract, it was difficult to ignore it if the watchers had asked for it.

If the relationship between the landlord and the tenant was good, doesn’t it mean that they won’t stress each other out and would have a win-win situation, right?

[The contract has been established.]

[500 crystals are paid to the inventory.]

As soon as the contract was signed, the crystals came in.

So, if you are curious whether I felt sad about taking only 25 crystals as payment? Not at all! To be honest, it’s not that I hadn’t thought about it, that I could take 25 crystals from them. With the 25 Mirages in Seoul, and the other Mirages were settled separately. But I won’t do them all. I had asked for it, but there was no answer from the other watchers.

The watchers were the transcendent. They were high-classed, so even if I wanted to cut their stomach, I couldn’t because I had no transcendence. I couldn’t reach them. I couldn’t cut them down and….. ugh.

In addition, even if the opponent was a wizard, the act of paying a price to someone who was not in a contractual relationship would carry a high risk.

So, it was properly presented on the right line.

On the contrary, why did the watchers accept my offer?

The transcendent people probably had their own troubles! They knew I wouldn’t bargain too much. And if they hadn’t accepted my offer, I would have ignored them when they made a suitable suggestion instead, then that way they would lose their class.

There must be transcendence to be transcendent.

After considering all of that factor, the appropriate line was 25 crystals.

[Balance: 1,760,000,130 won]

All of the crystals were registered in the trading screen and the balance was increased.

Huh…? What was the meaning of this? No meaning, actually. I just wanted to try the maximum amount of money. I’ve also finished the deal, so let’s go to the 50th floor.

[You have obtained access to the control room.]

Without having to tear the space, I passed through a door composed of magic and alchemy methods that appeared in the air.

It wasn’t there when I came in, but when I left, it had appeared.

[Save points will be updated on the 50th floor of the Mirage.]

I looked around while checking that the save points were automatically updated.

“This is cool.”

There was no one on the 10th floor, but when I saw from the control room, there were quite a few people on the 20th, 30th, and 40th floors.

Before I climb to the next area. I needed to spend some sufficient time for preparation, such as setting up new equipment or honing acquired active skills.

There was no one here. I had presumed that there would be people from The Realm Guild, like the three boys on the 10th floor.

Oh no, I took that back, there were 3 people blocking the stairs.

50th floor. The resting floor that also served as a reference point for dividing the level between the hunters. There would be no hunter who arrived here after being injured and then needed time to prepare.

“Finally, the 50th floor!”

“Ahhhhhhhhh! I did it!”

“Let’s get the patronage!”

Oh! A good sample has come.

Some primates, similar to mine who had rolled in The Initial Dungeon for about three years, finally reached the 50th floor, hugging each other and running to tears.

“Shut up and take my money!”

(T/N: Originally, the man was talking English in Korean accent, something like ‘teikeu mai moni’)

“Hahaha! Please take my money!”

This was a surprise, The Realm Guild members calmly turned away and let those primates pass after they pay the fee. Oh my, they were professional!

-Urr.

The primates quickly disappeared to the 51st floor. One or two of them would probably be patronized right away.

[List of the death in The 6th Area]

-A primate Mr. Hong (59:22)

-A primate Mr. Kim (59:48)

-A primate Mr. Song (59:59)

The deaths of those friends weren’t caused by monsters, so don’t blame the Realm Guild. It was the work of the so-called Chaos Hunter, who received a patron’s quest from the watchers. No matter how much resurrection happened, it was possible to freely kill people to receive patronage! I couldn’t even imagine that!

Was the patronage that good?

That was the only way to earn crystals, consumable items, or all the materials a hunter needed to build high-end equipment.

Huh…. That was kinda good.

Mirages were located all over the world. This meant that even large guilds that received payments were located around the world. They were trying to stop the bad behavior of Chaos Hunters, but it was not easy.

But that’s bullshit…..

The connection was suspicious. Just as there was no defense industry without corruption. If it was’ a large guild that had a relationship with a large company, wouldn’t it be necessary to have this degree of harm?

Well, that was enough.

In The 6th Area, the list of deceased persons could be seen even without administrative authority. Oh, great control room.

“Eu~~Woo~~“

Then, Sehwa made a long sound. The baby stroller rotated by itself, making a funny scene. Her arms and legs were stretched up and down, her wings flapped, her waist bent like a bow, and her tail stood stiff. Her body moved from side to side.

“……….Pa~“

“Sehwa-ya~”

After stretching, she looked at me with her half-open eyes and smiled wide.

“My daughter! What a filial daughter. How can you wake up right at this time?”

I had come to the 50th floor, took save points, and got my rent, so the complicated work had been done.

While she smiled, I poked her cheeks lightly with my fingers. The texture felt like sticky rice cake! One more. It felt too bad for just two or three times. Wouldn’t it be nice to end with an even number? No, but I had to do things 5 times to feel something right.

“Puuuuuuuuu!”

“Sorry.”

Let’s stop poking.

I ended up wetting my face unexpectedly with her saliva and I hugged Sehwa.

-Ududuk.

Huh? Ududuk? Where did the sound come from? I looked at my body for a while. Indeed. It’s the lumbar spine that made a loud scream.

“Ugh.”

With as much dignity as possible, I collapsed with a minimum of scream.

“Puuuuup!”

I struggled to put Sehwa safely in the stroller, and as a result, I had to kiss the ground with my face.

“Kahahaha!”

When she saw such a father, my daughter laughed hard.

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Dragons were light. If compared to their size, it kind of didn’t match. Even those series of 30km long Death Dragons, could still fly by flapping their wings. A 30km long dragon. How could they still fly? Perhaps they were light enough, unlike their size.

But that was a relative concept, still not an absolute concept. Some 30m dragons, the smallest of the fallen dragons, were incredibly heavy.

One point, if the dragon was Sehwa-sized, a human child size, it should weigh around 10 kg. But if the dragon was on its original size, it could weigh up to 100 kilograms.

So they were also heavy when I just said they were also relatively light? Who am I trying to deceive here?

Uh huh, calm down. For now, I would explain the characteristics of a dragon’s bones. The Dragon Bones was a substance that is ridiculously light, considering its strength. Even compared to the lightest metal in the world, it was still the lightest. But the more mana it absorbed, the harder and heavier it would become.

So, Sehwa had different bones in the first place, so she weighed about 20kg, which was a little heavier than a human child. Beyond density, the bones became rapidly strong and heavy as it absorbed the mana until the 50th of the Mirage floor.

My princess was a special dragon among the dragons, so she couldn’t reach 100kg……

Anyway, I thought her weight was about 80kg.

She was heavier than me.