GAMBER - Echoes of Wealth: Navigating the Dungeon's Depths

JONEL POV

This is the legendary Shop in the System. People visit here before embarking on missions in all the games, but all I brought with me were a rope, stick, and no armor! How am I going to face those monsters?

In all the systems, this shop is the best I know. Firstly, money is not a problem; I don't have any money with me, but I can withdraw, and it just appears out of nowhere. Secondly, this shop is comprehensive, offering magic items, pills, scrolls, daily life essentials, grimoires, weapons, and armor – it has seven categories.

"Grimoire?" It's a type of book that allows you to use temporary skills.

I promptly selected the grimoire category and perused the items for sale. I examined the prices, and there it was, priced at 5000:

1. [Normal] Waterball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

2. [Normal] Fireball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

3. [Normal] Rockball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

4. [Normal] Paperball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

other...

232. [Normal] Healingball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

 - 5 pcs Grimoire - Healing Ball – bought.

This healing ball caught my attention. It offers area healing and is reasonably priced for a life-saving tool.

Next, I moved to the 6000 section:

1. [Rare] Bigwaterball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

2. [Rare] Bigfireball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

3. [Rare] Bigrockball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

4. [Rare] Bigpaperball [5 uses] - can be purchased with real money or monster points.

And so forth. I believe almost every mage skill is available here, with the better and higher skills being pricier.

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JONEL POV

Eight hours later, things are not looking good. The light we need has run out, and we have no more torches. We don't know what to do once our supplies are exhausted. We have only about three days left for light. Hopefully, we can reach floor 25 soon because, according to rumors, floor 25 has its light in the dungeon. From floor 26 onwards, the surroundings are getting tougher, explaining the current difficulty on floor 26.

"Let's eat and rest for a while to regain our strength," I heard Elina say, clearly hungry.

It's been eight hours, but I still haven't checked my shop system. Why can't I find anything that can help us sleep?

'I should ask the system. It's a selling system; it's impossible that it doesn't know.'

"System, what do you have in your shop that can be used as a compass inside the dungeon to guide us back?"

"Master, the system recommends buying a Waypoint Compass. You can see where the entrance point is with a red arrow pointing down and the exit portal with a white arrow."

What? You have something like that, and I couldn't find it even after searching for over eight hours?

"Okay, give me four."

I don't know, but the system shop opened by itself and landed on an item that looked like a slightly weird compass.

[45000 pesos]

"Why is it so expensive?"

No matter how you look at it, the price seems wrong. My 20 thousand pesos are gone, almost all the 60,000 pesos if you include the item I'm wearing now. I can't touch the monster points just to buy an item; I want skills.

"System, do you have a quest guide too? Like, during urgent missions, can you provide a guide showing the way?"

I'll outsmart this system to guide us to floor 25.

["Mission: On Track"]

[Auto-on]

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ANNA POV

A sudden holographic yellow arrow appeared in my field of vision, resembling a bird hovering above. It went unnoticed unless deliberately observed.

I decided to follow it! It felt like I had lost control of my body, as if someone or something was directing my every move.

"Look at Jonel walking alone! Where is he headed?"

"Anna, where are you going?"

Anna, who had taken the lead after Jonel and was now quite a distance from the group.

"Everyone, halt whatever you're doing!"

shouted another companion. They swiftly followed Jonel and Anna, who had become invisible save for the imprints of their footsteps.

While following, Anna noticed Jonel's eyes turning a shade of red. Anna, scared and uncertain of her emotions, asked,

"Who are you? Why are you inhabiting Jonel's body?"

But Jonel remained silent, only inquiring, "Stairs?"

???

When Anna saw the stairs leading to floor 25.

"Spirit user?"

'An ability linked to an element, spirit, or any contract, but... it's like he's a demon!'

"A demon user."

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JONEL POV

JONEL POV

I pressed it, and there it was—the staircase! I turned around, confident that they were right beside me.

"Everyone, I see the stairs to floor 25!"

"Eeeeeeeeeek!"

Upon turning, Jonel noticed Anna sitting on the floor.

'eeek?'

"Where are they? Why are you sitting there? Anna?"

Anna's face tensed, caught seemingly doing something she shouldn't.

"Ah, they'll catch up; they're just having a meal."

Anna saw Jonel's eyes return to their normal color, alternating between red and normal.

'He was using mana, but it was unclear where it was coming from' she thought.

But jonel seemed to treat it like regular holograms.

["Mission: On Track"]

[Auto-on]

"What is auto-on?"

Every time I click it, it feels like my body wants to focus on something. But I reached floor 25, so my body completed the mission. I think this is another feature of the system.

"Anna, it's better to stay at the dungeon stair, but do you have any money?"

"Yeah, I have 200 thousand. Why?"

"Can you lend me half?"

"Sure, as long as you pay me back."

"Okay, I'll pay you back in a year; I don't have much money."

Even without money, I can accumulate it quickly with skills, items, and more. The system will provide; I just need to pay.

She took out a small handbag, full of money, and 200 thousand dollars.

"What the heck!"

Dollars? How am I going to pay that? What skill will I get from it?

I cried tears of joy because I finally had something to borrow!

"Do you want me to sell myself to you?"

"Yes?" She seemed confused; if I couldn't pay, I would work for her for life. She was a rich girl. Why didn't I think of this before?

Anna took a long time to decide; I saw the substantial amount of money.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" After all this time, why didn't I think of borrowing?

Notification prompt* [Do you want to insert money into the system? Yes or no]

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!"

When I looked back at the money in the handbag, it shone, and...

"Gone?"

I saw that the system could exchange dollars to pesos, with its exchange rate?

[Success, and money converted to master currency]

"13,935,040.00 pesos!"

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Jonel, Anna! Are you okay?"

The group ran to us like we were lost children.

"Did we get lost?" I asked Anna.

"Yes..."

Anna is fidgeting, with a red face. She said to me,

"Hey, Jonel, do you want me to bu- wahhh, why did you push me, Carl?"

"Are you okay, Jonel? Why did you walk like tha... Wait, Anna, don't pull my hair like that!"

"Jonel, how did you find this?"

How would I know? The system brought me here.

[Master says it was a fire spirit]

"Yeah, a fire spirit."

"So that's why! Maybe with your spirit, we can get out faster than we expected."

But as everyone created a camp to sleep, I couldn't sleep. Looking at the shop, the prices became cheap. This is the power of money laundering—truly scary. You can't know how much money really values if you have money.

[System: URGENT QUEST: The princess has taken significant damage. Better to rescue the princess. FAILED: unable to open for 1 day. REWARD: 4-elemental skill]

"What is this?" Then I will go.

A reward?

"REWAAAARD SKILL!!!!!!!!" 

Wait, I know this skill ! This skill ! This is one of the skill in the skill market... wait, skill market but i think there's no item shop or something... hmmm... 

If I know the skill shop is too much price. But why, now? maybe i'm at dungeon system. said that quest can only trigger at dungeon! 

'Leave to the higher being!'

"In any games real money is game changer, but this is real life, if i die, no. use of money but too much use of money make life easier but if thing goes hard and no money to turn the table you're dead too."

I can buy this skill, but I will not buy... better to buy the highest skill and use it, with support skill to sustain magic and escape skill.

i will do it later but now!

Better to get skill as reward than spend money.

With all the money I have, I prepare and take action into my hands to save a princess.

This is how to pick up a girl in a dungeon—with a lot of money.