Chapter 1: Birth of Super Rare Item Healer

A one-room semi-basement apartment.

Monthly rent.

A life with no parents and no future.

I feel bad for those who live diligently, but I wish an asteroid would hit the Earth so I could pass away without pain.

-with that thought.

I got off the shuttle bus, returned to my mold-infested home, and fell asleep as if collapsing.

Beep- beep-!

Beep- beep-!

It feels like I haven’t even been asleep for an hour.

The loud alarm sound woke me from my sweet slumber.

‘Ah, f—…’

Forcibly suppressing the irritation boiling up from my gut, I opened my phone to find an unusual disaster alert displayed on the screen.

[Unidentifiable abnormal phenomenon occurring…]

[Evacuate to a nearby shelter immediately…]

…

I stared blankly at the letters, blinking my eyes.

‘…What is this?’

Am I still dreaming?

‘Abnormal phenomenon? Evacuate to a shelter? What does this all mean?’

Before long, the phone screen automatically turned off, reflecting my face.

But in the reflection on the turned-off screen, a strange woman was staring at me with a blank expression.

‘…Whoa!’

Is this what it feels like to encounter a ghost?

Startled, I threw the phone far away.

Crack-

An ominous sound grazed my ears.

Worried about the screen’s condition, I approached where I had thrown the phone and lowered my head.

‘…Huh?’

Something is strange.

Were my clothes always this big?

‘And what’s with this white hair?’

Over my now-oversized t-shirt, silver hair that looked like it had been bleached about five times was fluttering.

I instinctively fumbled around my body.

The sensation of soft, pliable flesh was transmitted through my fingertips.

‘Uh, uh…?’

That wasn’t the only strange thing.

My skin, tanned dark from manual labor, had turned into fair, translucent skin.

The ceiling, which my head used to almost touch, was now dizzyingly high.

‘No way.’

At that moment, a certain thought struck me, and I quickly headed to the bathroom where the mirror was.

One.

Two.

Three.

As I counted to three, I raised my head and looked at the mirror.

“Wow…”

A cute, fair-skinned girl was making eye contact with me from inside the mirror.

She was a girl with green eyes, as if fresh blades of grass had melted into them.

While blankly admiring the face that looked like it came out of a fantasy game, I raised a hand and pinched one of my cheeks.

The girl in the mirror also pinches her own cheek.

Squish, squish-

A texture like pudding jelly was felt, accompanied by a tingling pain.

‘Is this really… me?’

Back when I was repeatedly rejected for jobs, I used to think, ‘I wish I was just born a girl so I could do internet streaming.’

Did that thought become a reality?

I don’t know the reason, but…

It seems that I…

have become a girl.

If I start internet streaming with this cute and adorable appearance, raking in money would be a piece of cake.

‘My life is made!’

Farewell to the tiresome manual labor.

Farewell to the factory work.

I will gladly accept this new body and start a new life…!

As I was admiring my new appearance, as if I would be sucked into the mirror,

I suddenly remembered that I had woken up because of the disaster alarm.

[Unidentifiable abnormal phenomenon occurring…]

[Please evacuate to a nearby shelter immediately…]

What if a war broke out or something?

A terrible thought suddenly began to dominate my mind.

This might not be the time to be happy about becoming a girl.

‘Where was the nearest shelter…’

I tried to check by turning on my phone, but it was completely dead.

It was already a very old phone, and it seems throwing it broke it for good.

With no other choice, I turned on my computer and opened the sea of information, the green search portal.

[South Korea will soon be destroyed.]

[Items you must pack before going to a shelter…]

[A Tibetan who predicted the end of the world in 2025 becomes a hot topic…]

The green platform was full of sensational article headlines claiming the world would soon end.

It seems a serious crisis has befallen the Earth.

I squeezed my eyes shut.

I just escaped from tiresome manual labor and all that was left was to have an easy life with internet streaming… and now it’s just suddenly going to end like this?

“No!!!”

At this rate, I can’t die peacefully out of pure frustration…

Forgetting that I had turned on the computer to find a shelter, I logged into my favorite online community.

Soon after, I began to scroll through the sensational posts that ranked high in the [Real-time Popular Posts] category.

And I was gradually able to grasp the reality that had befallen me.

‘So, an unknown gate appeared in the center of Seoul, and…’

Monsters that harm people poured out, with casualties already exceeding several thousand.

People trembling in fear began to awaken powers to fight back against them.

Thanks to a few heroes who awakened overwhelming power, the gate in Seoul could be closed.

But since we don’t know when or where another gate will appear, people who haven’t awakened should go to shelters.

And so on…

Now, to summarize all this in one sentence.

‘The world has become like a game…?’

In other words, the plan to have an easy life by internet streaming in a girl’s body is a bust?

And on the contrary, awakening power is more advantageous for sturdy men, so women, who are inherently weaker in stamina and strength, have a hard time getting good skills even if they awaken…?

‘Then wasn’t my old manual labor body much more advantageous?’

My vision went dark.

It seems.

The God of Unfairness is bestowing his blessing only upon me.

***

After the disaster alert swept the nation.

Quite a lot of time has passed.

It feels like just yesterday that the entire nation was trembling in anxiety over news and flyers that South Korea would soon be destroyed.

Destruction, my ass.

South Korea has become much more vibrant than before.

[I was a loser who just tapped on a keyboard in the corner of my room, but I bought an apartment this time.]

[Finally, my parents have smiles on their faces.. This is what it means to live a real life..]

[I rotted in Noryangjin for 10 years and thought about suicide a d*mn lot, but my life turned around thanks to a good skill. Ask me anything.]

The era had come when people who used to be cooped up in their rooms playing games went outside to enjoy a real-life game.

Of course, this was limited to ‘people who awakened good skills.’

Seeing the numerous testimonials posted in the community, many people also hoped that their lives would turn around.

However, the people who awakened skills good enough to change their lives were only in the top 20%.

After the gate appeared in the middle of Seoul.

The people of the world were divided into three groups.

First.

The vanguard group.

This refers to people who were lucky enough to awaken overwhelming combat skills.

They quickly subjugated gates, equipped themselves with rare materials received as clear rewards, and leveled up, creating an overwhelming gap with others.

People called them rankers, or heroes.

Second.

The group that solves things with money.

This refers to people who use their overflowing money to buy high-grade equipment from the vanguard or hire rankers to level up easily.

Chaebols or crypto-rich people fall into this category.

And, the final, third group.

The group that didn’t get overwhelming combat skills and doesn’t have as much money as the chaebols, so they live the same life as before.

I probably belong here.

[Shield: Grants a temporary shield to an ally.]

[Cleanse: Cures specific conditions such as curses, poison, and paralysis.]

[Blessing: Increases an ally’s stats for a certain period of time.]

Perhaps because I awakened in the body of a small, soft girl.

I can search high and low, but there are no offensive skills.

‘They’re all skills to help others…’

In the current world where combat power is more important than education, awakening as a healer doesn’t seem to have much merit.

In other words, it can be said that I belong to the 3rd group that lives a life no different from before…

…But!

The unique ability I awakened next became a ray of light for me.

[Unique Ability] – [Plant Lover – Lv.1]

[Upon contact with a plant, naturally understand its name, effects, and uses.]

[Plant growth correction +40%. Quality grade increases by one level.]

[Favorability with nature spirits/monsters +50%]

For me, whose only hobby was growing plants, I had awakened a perfectly tailored unique ability.

They say you can make a huge amount of money by making accessories or equipment if you awaken as a craftsman or a blacksmith.

But honestly, for a plant enthusiast like me, there was no better ability than this.

I could now raise my children, who take up more than half of my tiny semi-basement room, to be the strongest in the world!

‘That’s right. I just need them.’

With a satisfied smile, I gently stroked the leaves of the plants placed all around the house.

Then, a speech bubble-like thing popped up next to the plant, as if it were speaking directly.

[Monstera feels the amount of water is satisfactory.]

[The succulent wants a little more sunlight.]

[Sansevieria is feeling a deep sense of stability.]

To think a world where I can communicate directly with plants has come.

It feels like a dream.

“Hmm- hmm-hmm-”

At the thought that I could perfectly raise plants with my unique ability, a hum began to escape my lips without me realizing.

And at that time, I had no idea.

That my seemingly trivial unique ability and skills.

Would turn my life completely upside down.