Chapter 2




Chapter 2

“Mr. Fuck. This isn’t a game…!”

It has three heads. It moves its scythe-sharp legs to close the distance.

Weapon. Requires a weapon.

[Special Weapon Crafting]. The blue orbs swirled in Kim’s hands, and soon a long spear formed in his grasp.

“Get off me, you sons of bitches!”

I thrust my spear forward. I desperately resisted the urge to swing it recklessly. I was afraid of needlessly provoking aggression.

Maybe the blade of the spear looked threatening, maybe he wanted to see your liver. Whatever the reason, it’s good. At any rate, it slowed its approach.

You have time to think.

“Three speeders, that’s it.

I have the tutorials memorized. I’ve re-created it close to a hundred times from my main account to my secondary account. I can’t help but remember it.

This is the first stage of the tutorial.

In a normal flow, the battle would occur after the player wakes up and returns to the platform.

But why now?

“……Did I do something?

I suddenly remembered the script. The line the agents say just before the stage starts.

– They must have been in the station. They’re a nuisance. I should have found the professor and gotten out of there before they attracted attention.

– I didn’t know that’s where the professor was, but it’s kind of a good thing, isn’t it? It seems like a good place to check to see if he’s still useful or not.

– ……Don’t say it like that. Professor, may I ask you to conduct?

“That’s pretty much what it was.

There is a moderate amount of complementarity in the brain. I don’t know it word-for-word because I skipped it when I did the recemara. But it’s probably accurate in context.

Conclusions inferred from this.

“So. I’m just running around before they get here, and that’s what attracted the aggro?

It makes sense. I can’t think of any other reason.

I never thought I’d be in this situation. I thought I’d just stay quiet and join in.

‘……No, I guess I would have done the same thing if I had expected it.’

There was no way I was going to stay in the car hoping to be rescued; this was going to happen eventually.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa!”

Kim’s hands trembled as he gripped the spearhead. Even his bulging eyes twitched constantly, as if threatening the speeder.

Let’s chill.

Keep calm and carry on. Kim brought her gaming mentality to the real world. She tried to be as objective as possible.

“I’m pretty sure it’s stage 0-1.

The simplest stage.

You’re given three agents, but you don’t have to use them all. The lowest difficulty battle where taking one out won’t hurt you.

Playing with your feet will break it.

They don’t even have any skills. Furthermore, the agents are not equipped with any special weapons. The gacha doesn’t even open because it’s a tutorial in the first place.

The opponent is a large mob.

Conversely, what hand do I hold?

Kim lowered her gaze slightly to check the window. A nondescript spear with a mix of white and black colors. It’s a weapon that comes out when you spin it 50 times.

[Mushrooming].

He’s a much-maligned character in many ways. Another offense is that it has a similar spear among its six-star weapons.

However.

‘It’s not trash. I paid for it.’

It’s actually garbage in-game. A screwed-up effect that only boosts your “Normal Attack Damage” for 3 times per battle.

Three strikes and you’re dead. Not even the toys of the dead. Players don’t call it [MooByung1Shinchang] for nothing.

But for now.

“It’s good enough.

You can. Special weapons even have stat modifiers. A good weapon can turn a three-star agent into a six-star.

I’d much rather give it to a six-star from the start, but that has nothing to do with the one-star Kim.

“Woohoo.”

My trepidation subsided a bit.

Immediately after,

– Shaaaaaah!

Three of them charged at once.

A path. A narrow passage. Two horses can pass through, but not all three.

They can’t climb walls, because their spindly legs can’t support a body as massive as mine, and they don’t have any special powers, like spewing thread.

The odds are in your favor.

“Joe, all right, come on, assholes!”

I yelled, and the speeders went wild.

It was a good reaction. The pace slowed further as they shoved each other. Drat, drat, drat! Flailing legs scraped against the wall.

Kim pulled the spear up to her armpits, and when she was sure she was in the gap.

In one breath, he threw out a spear.

Poof!

– Kaaaaaah!

The sensation of digging into the flesh was crisp. It didn’t feel thick, surprisingly. It was like poking through layers of Styrofoam.

[Invincible Lance] has 2 active special abilities.

Poof!

When I pulled the spear out, green fluid spewed out. I barely had time to dodge. Another speeder rode my kindred’s torso through the entrance.

“Ceeeeeeeee!”

Billion!

He swings his spear and strikes. The speedster was unsteady and was knocked out by a blow to the body. A shallow blow. Failed to critically wound.

1 time in the future.

– Kaaaaaah!

Even the one remaining one made it inside the cavity.

He leaps up in a single bound and lands on Kim. The leap itself wasn’t impressive, but the swinging legs were menacing.

Bam!

Kim threw herself down and hit the floor. It didn’t feel ugly. It was the most obvious thing to do, rather than an awkward dodge.

I immediately looked away.

“Wow. Did that work better than I thought?

The speeder that was about to be hit with the spear hadn’t gotten up yet. We decided it was safe to rule it out for now.

We need to deal with the remaining one first.

Tada tada tada!

A speeder approaches, stepping on stone crumbs on the floor. The space is wide open. Unobstructed. Clearly faster than before.

Go, go, go!

My heart was beating like crazy, pumping blood. The balance of my five senses was skewed like never before. My arms felt numb and my sense of smell was dulled.

On the other hand, my vision was bright. Even in the darkness, I was able to see quick movements. I could see any gap I wanted to pounce on.

Difference in reach. Good weapon selection.

– Kiiiiii……!

The speeder’s torso was impaled as it lunged. It stopped moving, its inertia gone. Kim’s red eyeballs reflected the image of Kim Yi Hyun.

That’s 3 times.

I could feel it in my body, knowing that I had used up all of my special abilities. A sense of draining energy.

‘I can’t believe how well my body is moving.

Kim Yi Hyun immediately let go of the [Invincible Spear]. Upon releasing the skill, the spear transformed into a grain of courtesy and scattered into the air.

Next.

“One more thing!”

Beep!

My tinnitus was ringing and my head was throbbing. Just like the time I tried to build a high-grade weapon without knowing what I was doing. But it wasn’t a failure.

A new [Spear of Invulnerability] has been created.

“Fuck you, baaaaaah!”

Kim stomped the ground with the tip of her spear, steadying herself before turning to face the oncoming speeder.

The adrenaline rush was overwhelming, and before I knew it, my fears were gone.

Poof!

The tremor of the speeder traveled through the spear and into his grip. It was brief. The blow, harder than the previous two, drained the speeder of life in an instant.

The last one is dead.

Even though he was sure he was doomed, he kept his eyes on the speeder just in case. Only then did Kim take his hand off the spear.

“Phew, phew!”

I was breathing like a madman. My eyes swam with blood. The stench of shit irritated my nose.

“Yuck!”

I couldn’t hold back the vomit.

The knowledge that you’ve killed a living thing. The disgusting odor. The presence of realistic monsters that CG can’t match. The recoil of forced skills and strenuous activities performed without warming up.

It was weirder not to throw up. I gagged for several minutes. Once the nausea subsided enough, I spit out the phlegm.

So, if you’re going to put it broadly.

“Haha, mob bastards.”

I felt like I was being ripped apart.

* * *

A scarlet light. And the sound of footsteps.

‘It’s coming fast.

A shadow moves across the illuminated wall. The elongated shadow gets smaller and smaller until it takes the shape of a person.

This is outside the common. Kim was sitting where the tracks break, waiting for Leila.

“Was it an hour or so? I don’t have a watch.

I tried to get up and greet them, but stopped. I’m exhausted from the battle earlier. It must have been a while, but I’m still not feeling well.

Sit down and wave your hands around.

“Here, here!”

I was going to be polite. Once I got a hold of the beast, I felt like a screw had been loosened.

“Whatever.

There’s a dead speeder in the cavity anyway. I didn’t clean it up because it was disgusting to touch, and the reason I went outside was because I couldn’t stand the smell.

You’ve taken off your bloody coat, but your shirt is still dirty. You can’t pretend to be an innocent civilian when you’ve come this far.

Tak.

The light is gone. Unlike before, the footsteps are barely audible, and only the dummy is getting closer.

Bam!

The lights flashed once more. I frowned in disbelief at the intense light directly in front of me.

Kim raised his arm to block the light. With the gaps of her splayed fingers,

“That’s a person. What are they doing in a place like this?”

I saw three familiar faces.

“Answer.”

The man at the head of the line urged.

Pablo. A four-star agent who distributes for free. His piercing eyes are powerful in real life.

But it wasn’t time to be impressed.

‘Shit, shit. You’re pulling a gun on me?

The muzzle of a gun was pointed at Kim. A common scene in movies and dramas everywhere. A cold sweat broke out as I became a party.

It’s a weapon that blows your head off equally. A different kind of power than a monster, a realistic fear.

Kim moistened his dry throat with saliva. Honestly, it wasn’t an unexpected turn of events.

Originally, I was going to feel sorry for myself. I even wrote a scenario.

I came home to find my little brother missing. I started looking for him and ended up here…….

I slapped it away. Now I don’t feel like coming over and groveling.

‘Let’s not be ……. We caught a monster.’

It’s just a threat in the first place. He’s not a psychopath who’s going to shoot you because he doesn’t know who you are.

The Celbrox Labs. Their inclinations are close to the ‘absolute’ within Polaris. Though other faction figures may view them differently.

They are the good guys, at least in the eyes of the user.

“Can we put down the guns and talk?”

“That depends on your answer.”

Communication didn’t seem to be a problem.

Kim spoke in Korean. That’s how it sounded to his ears, but Pablo understood it just fine, and the language he spat out also sounded Korean.

‘It fits my mouth. How the hell does that work?’

I was relieved. Even if you can read, if you can’t speak, you’re a lost cause. I was saved from being mute and deaf.

“What’s your question, first of all, my name is Kim.”

“That’s not a Cadillac name.”

Tulavia is an administrative region of the nation of Kadilak. A world not yet doomed. Not all nations have fallen.

I have a general idea of what “Kim” would look like.

“My mom was an immigrant, and she named you because she missed home so much.”

“Your blood is not my concern. Didn’t you hear the question? I’m giving you one more chance.”

Ironclad.

The pistol’s hammer is pulled.

“What was I doing in the middle of nowhere?”

You crazy bastard. His eyes are murderous. Is he really a psychopath? Maybe he’s getting back at me for leaving him in the mines at level 1.

It was a time of crisis.

“Mr. Pablo. You’re too raw.”

A woman stepped forward from the rear, lowering Pablo’s gun, adding softly, but firmly, “You’re not going to get away with it.

“I don’t think I’d have anything nice to say if you were that high-pressure.”

Kim’s eyes fell on the woman. It was getting on his nerves.

“Leila.

He looks like a middle school student. His physique is also dwarfed. His puffy jumper has the symbol of Rap emblazoned on his arm.

Their gazes met in the air.

Wary, but not hostile. He’s definitely warmer than Pablo.

“Can you explain to me why you’re alone in a place like this, and…….”

Leila nuzzled the area around Kim’s neck. The speedster’s still-dry blood was thickly stained on the collar of his shirt.

“Did you run into a monster?”

“It’s in there.”

“In……?”

Kim raised his index finger and pointed to the communal entrance. Leila turned her head toward it, while Pablo kept his eyes on Kim.

The other one.

The tall man doesn’t take his eyes off Kim. His face mask makes his expression unreadable. His hands are hidden in his long sleeves.

“Mr. Ghost. Can you confirm?”

“Sure.”

His gaze dropped.

They began to walk down the path that led to the common room. Kim looked at the back of the group and inwardly admired them.

That’s the ghost.

“That’s cool.

A favorite character in the game. He’s male and not a fully playable character… but I think most players have a soft spot for Ghost.

I liked it better than mine slave #1, Pavel.