Reborn as a Weak Earthling, I Became the Most Overpowered Mage Alive-Chapter 98: Ch : Reward too good to Pass up

"I know that you are all excited for your vacation, but do keep an eye out for the mini-quests that can appear. Clearing them can give you substantial rewards. I will take my leave now."

The puppet disappeared, and they were all transported back to their starting positions.

Andrew immediately opened the screen to check his reward.

[Game 11 cleared. Stand reward of 20,000 coins issued.]

[Items in the shop will be updated.]

[The cost of essential items has been doubled.]

[The effect of essential items will increase slightly.]

"Huh-! Is this a scam? What the hell is with this dog-shit update? What do you mean the prices have doubled? Darn it-!"

Insults and curses escaped Clara’s mouth as she looked at her screen. This felt more like a punishment than a curse to her.

And what even was ’slightly’ increased? Could the system not have given her a number? The only advantage she could see was that there were more items in the store, and weapons had started to appear as well.

But those weapons were expensive and cost far too much money.

"Calm down, Clara. I am just as frustrated as you are, but I don’t think there is anything we can do about it. There is no point in making yourself more upset over this."

Lilianna pointed out from her location. Her words made Clara frown, but she did calm down.

"Well, if you say so...I still don’t like it...Ah, what about the top 10 reward? What did you get for it?"

Clara changed the topic to a hopefully more cheerful one as she turned toward Andrew and the others. She wanted to know if the top 10 had shitty rewards as well or not.

Andrew was curious as well, especially when he saw Emperor and Seraphina’s startled expressions at the reward.

[Game 11 special reward for clearing in top 10. You can add an additional skill permanently to your skill window.]

[Limitations of the skill: Can only add one skill. User must have seen the skill in action. Skill can only be copied if the original user of the skill is a lower level than you. Skill effect will be halved if the skill user’s class is different.]

There were a lot of limitations, but this reward itself was far too great. And Andrew already had the perfect skill ready to copy.

[New skill: Copy Skill Level 1 has been selected.]

[Due to the nature of the skill, new restrictions will be placed on the user. Calculating new limits of skills.]

[New Skill: Copy Skill Level 1- can only copy 2 abilities at a time (can be upgraded), the level of copied abilities will depend on the original user of the abilities (can not be higher than the original user. Limit can be lifted in the future), if the original user dies, the skill will disappear (can be lifted in the future)]

The ability Andrew had gotten was severely nerfed, but that did not make it a bad ability.

In fact, he would have chosen the same ability had he known about these restrictions beforehand. They did nothing to change his mind.

"Your expression tells me that you got something good. What reward did you get? This is so unfair. I want good rewards as well."

Clara pouted as she complained. But another ache in her back made her flinch.

"Don’t worry about it. Just focus on getting better for now. And if you want to get good rewards as well, then work hard and improve your fighting."

Andrew reminded her, and Clara pouted and threw her hands in the air.

"Ugh, I would rather not. Both I and Lilianna are the supports, so you will have to protect us. Right, Lilianna?"

Clara asked, and Lilianna nodded with an uncertain look on her face. Unlike Clara, who clearly had some offensive skills in her, Lilianna was not sure what she could even do.

The fairy worker chose that moment to open the door and remind them that food was ready. So they quickly headed out to eat something.

Once they had some energy, Clara quickly went out to check up on the crops.

"Let’s see. Most of these have survived. But we will need to prune out the plants before they start to go out of control. It looks like we will be back to working hard tomorrow."

She told everyone, and she suddenly looked excited.

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Outside the mansion, a small group had gathered, and they looked at the tall fence in front of them.

The reason they had come to Mark Dawnson’s mansion was because of one reason- Jenna Lorance.

She had continued bragging to them about being close to ’Mark Dawnson’ and asked for protection from their group. She had constantly boasted about how she was ’so useful’ to have around as a connection.

So finally, it was time to cash in on that favor.

"Miss, how do we get past the fence? Should we jump over it? Or...?"

"Of course not. We can just enter from the front door. Come and follow me..."

She told the people confidently, but inside she felt like dying. She knew fully well that Andrew won’t take her actions kindly.

But his estate was huge, and there was a lot of space. Even if she and these people were to live in the smaller houses on the estate, no one would know. And she could always make an excuse for Andrew’s absence...

"Alright, we will follow your lead for now."

Instead of the normal front gate, she took them to the back gate. There were so many gates around the estate that she doubted Mark even had time to rewire all of them and have her access removed.

But when she tried to enter, she was not able to.

[Access expired. Please redo the access confirmation to proceed.]

The message was clear, and she felt people looking over her.

"Is something wrong?"

Someone asked her with a suspicious look on their faces, and Jenna quickly shook her head.

"No, nothing is wrong. I just need one minute..."

She told them before she used her abilities to break the lock. Truth-And-Lies was a skill that allowed her to make small changes in reality based on who believed her.

For example, if she told everyone that she had an apple, and they believed her, then she would get an apple, even if she had none before.

His ability sounded broken on paper, but it was extremely limited and situational and required too much to go right. Especially since most people were so paranoid in these times.

Luckily for her, everyone behind her mostly believed that she had access to this mansion, making her ability work.

[Access granted.] 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

The gate opened, and everyone let out a relieved sigh.

"Ah, we are inside. We never doubted you even for a second, Miss Jenna."

They all praised her, and Jenna let out a relieved sigh. She had gotten another day without being caught.