Episode 0. prologue
Episode 0
One
[DeSIrE]
An adult simulation game everyone knows, Desire.
It is a game that boasts an overwhelming degree of freedom and a high level of freedom.
In the early days, it was famous for its vast world view, game scale, and high-level roguelike game, but due to repeated updates, distribution was banned in some countries.
However, its popularity is so great that communities exist in countries where distribution is banned.
The key factors for its popularity are its overwhelming degree of freedom, extremely high level, and player-friendly NPCs.
In particular, the developer personals and naughty NPCs who did not reflect the ‘heavy social atmosphere’ at all, and who had a clear propensity for yagam, entertained the players.
In addition, since the AI developed in-house creates NPCs equal to the world’s population, countless posts titled ‘Today’s X’ are posted in the community.
Designer gallery of popular community site.
[＜Niel＞ Filmed while doing car X with Dark Elf ㅋㅋ]
[＜Normal＞ As always, today is Gang X (Black Mage Must Read!!!)]
[＜Furry＞ The helmsman process that started with the purchase of slaves (beware of long posts)]
[Send the Elves to Heaven with Deal X made from the branches of the ＜L＞ World Tree]
All kinds of crazy articles are coming up every time the page is refreshed.
The man staring dryly at the monitor clicks the write button at the bottom of the screen.
The man who entered the title, put in dozens of photos, and filled in the text was completed within a short time.
[How to attack the Lycan Warlord]
A title that pops out among all kinds of obscene articles.
Comments came soon.
-What are you doing, don’t eat the ban? Do you allow posts like this to come up in a pure space where each person expresses their desires?
-ㅋㅋ ㅋㅋㅋ ㅋㅋㅋ ㅋㅋㅋ f*ck, f*cking f*cking. punish It looks like there is nothing left to do, what kind of strategy is this, really f*cking hahahaha
-You said you weren’t coming for a while, so you’re a real asshole hahahahaha
Starting with the previous comment, swearing and ridicule started running all the way.
The man read the comments as if he was familiar with them.
A dry expression, it seems that he doesn’t care much.
“Your cursing has decreased a lot”
Rather, he said so.
In fact, it was worse than this when he first posted the strategy. Now, there are reactions that seem to acknowledge (?).
However, it did not give him any inspiration. The man closed the community window and ran Desire on the desktop.
The monitor went black and an opening animation came out.
He lit a cigarette and stared at the opening video he had seen hundreds of times, waiting for the game to start.
Whoa-
After three or four puffs of gray cigarette smoke, I reached the opening screen.
Soon after, when I moved to the character selection window, the monitor suddenly exploded.
[Happy birthday to ‘Lee Eun-jung’!]
When the ribbon box was opened, a message saying happy birthday and a gift had arrived in the shared inventory appeared.
The man couldn’t press the confirmation button right away and looked at the screen for a while, to be precise, at the name Lee Eun-jung.
A name that does not suit a man’s name Lee Eun-jung, the owner of those three letters is the name of a lover who promised to marry.
He is also the owner of this account he is using now.
“already… … Did that happen?”
A lover who suddenly went missing two years ago. I even quit my job and traveled all over the country looking for her, but I couldn’t find any trace.
In the end, I had to admit that she had completely disappeared, and I still have nightmares from time to time because of the loss and shock of that time.
He didn’t give up completely. The evidence was that he did not even report his death with the vague belief that he would return someday.
However, as time passed, that trust faded, and now he was just living like a disabled person.
Holding on to the games she sometimes played with.
Even that has become completely different from the game I played back then due to repeated updates.
Before she went missing, there was a time when Desire was more famous for high-level roguelike games than yagames.
“… … .”
The man, who was immersed in nostalgia for a moment, rubbed the cigarette ash hanging from the end of the cigarette as if it would fall off, and resumed the game.
The man moved to the character selection screen and scrolled down.
Hundreds of characters he created disappeared from the screen before they could be seen.
There was a progress of the game next to the character, but nothing was 100%. Most of them were 20.00%, even the part where I attacked with her.
Still, as I scrolled down, the progress increased. It was the result of his constant efforts to keep the promise we made to break this game just like she passed by.
Apart from the promise, I haven’t seen the ending yet. It was a lot more difficult than I thought.
“It took a long time.”
However, you will see the ending soon.
I broke through 95% of the wall for the first time yesterday, and only the final boss raid remains.
Although the man’s character died while dealing with the forces of the Lycan Warlord, he could play again after the respawn waiting time because he had written the resurrection stone.
During the remaining time, he looked for a character he could pass the time on.
I looked at the character window by rolling the mouse wheel up and down, but… … , there was nothing to attract.
Most of the characters with high progress were dead, so I had to raise them from the beginning, and I couldn’t remember the build-up of the characters that could be continued because they were alive.
drooling- drooling-
Even scrolling all the way down, he couldn’t decide.
“Let’s make one after a long time”
He decided to create a new character.
I clicked the [Create] button and went to the customization window.
widely-
widely-
widely-
The mouse moved freely and the screen changed.
Men have never spent a long time on character creation, and this hasn’t changed just because they’ve been creating a new character for the first time in a while.
In the first place, due to the high degree of freedom, the way to grow in the game is free. In the early stages, classes and skills can be ignored as long as you have proficiency.
And, needless to say, the proficiency of the player who is the only one among Yagame players who follows the story to break the quest.
click-click-
After the sound of a few mouse clicks.
You have moved to the [Attribute] setting window.
Characteristics are important.
Players can choose a total of 10 talents at the start, and depending on their combinations and synergies, they have a pretty big impact from early to early to mid-game.
Of course, the effects of the basic characteristics are all good, and you just need to find the high-grade characteristics while playing.
As Desire’s only proficiency player, he understands how important it is to roll an early snowball.
Because of this, he doesn’t know anything else, but he tends to pay attention to the characteristics setting.
drooling- drooling-
drooling- drooling-
However, the man grabbed the scroll bar and swiped it down.
The screen goes down infinitely.
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None of the hundreds of characteristics were selected.
At the bottom of the attribute list, there was a button called [Witch’s Cauldron], which was not an attribute.
The mouse cursor moved to the pot-shaped button.
The Witch’s Cauldron is a kind of risk-and-return system.
10 chances to input the original traits, some of which you can ‘can’ acquire better traits in exchange for putting them in the witch’s cauldron.
Of course, the probability of not doing so is much higher, so men do not use this system at all.
However, it is a character that will be briefly played during the respawn waiting time anyway.
It is not a character to grab and attack, but a disposable character for killing time.
“At least once… … ”
The man with the ending in front of his nose turned his eyes to the luck system that he had never done before.
“… It will be fine.”
If you see the ending.
So if you keep your promise to your lover, you probably won’t be holding on to this game like a dead person anymore.
It wouldn’t be bad to enjoy the game you’ve been holding onto like homework for the first and last time.
Two years after the disappearance, the anxious feeling and the difficult feeling of wanting to die have now subsided a lot.
The bank account balance is slowly showing the bottom… … Now is the time to wake up.
For that reason, he decided to go all-in, which he had never done before.
The first betting number for the first and last fun game play before seeing the ending.
It was decided to put all 10 opportunities into the cauldron.
[Please enter the number of attribute options to put in the cauldron. ＜-＞]
I deleted the – and entered 10.
click-!
The enter sound is cheerful.
[Dang~dangdang~♫]
The witch sang and began to stir her huge stick.
A witch’s cauldron in which bubbling green liquid boils.
The man stared at the monitor with an expressionless face.
It doesn’t suit the high-ranking properties coming out of that unknown liquid. Maybe it’s because it’s a game.
With that in mind, I waited for the characteristics to come out.
[This is the masterpiece of my life!!]
Paaa-!
Soon, a rainbow of light burst out of the cauldron.
Along with the witch’s bright laughter, the screen turned white and a blinding light emitted from the monitor.
After a while the light fades.
[★★★★★★★★★ Ᏹ?@*?’s soul]
For the first time on the dry face of the man, there was something that could be called an expression.
“Nine stars… is the first time.”
I picked a 9-star trait that I had never obtained in-game from the draw. The man was dazed, but soon became expressionless again.
I was surprised because it was a top-notch attribute, but the name was broken.
“Is it an error?”
In fact, it’s a low-level trait, but is there something wrong with the system? The man hovered the cursor over the character.
If it’s a real error and it’s a low-level trait, he can infer it from the trait description.
[★★★★★★★★★ Ᏹ?@*?’s soul]
▶Ᏹ?@*?’s soul dwells
It has the nature of the soul of ▶Ᏹ?@*?.
1. Pure (純粹)
＞＞＞No matter what kind of pollution and erosion, the noble spirit remains pure and noble.
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However, there is no sub-explanation about how much damage is unique to low-grade, what the cooldown is, what the conditions are, and what kind of additive or subtractive effect occurs depending on the class.
A huge range bound by ‘something’, ‘noble soul’, ‘purity’ and ‘nobleness’… … … .
Abstract descriptions that are difficult to grasp intuitively are characteristic of high-level traits.
“It’s not an error… … ”
I don’t know why only the name part was broken like that, but the man thought so. It doesn’t matter if it’s a high-ranking attribute or something… .
If you look at the ‘soul’ at the end, it seems to be related to possession or necromancy, but it seems to be a part that can only be understood after playing the game.
After organizing his thoughts like that, the man moved on to the appearance setting stage. After finishing the settings in a moderately angular way, he finally set a nickname.
After finishing all the customization process, he selected a channel and pressed the enter button.
Doo doo doo-!
A customized character and a brief introduction appeared on the loading screen along with a magnificent background sound.
The AI randomly adds a simple background to the customized character.
In fact, it is a long explanation that goes far beyond the level of adding or being simple, but it was just right for a man who had never read a long introduction to a character.
It just feels amazing that the AI has come to the point where the AI has crafted a unique story that matches its characteristics and appearance in detail.
“What 20 pages?”
Usually it’s about 2 pages, but maybe because it’s a 9-star character, the character introduction was much longer.
As always, he hit skip.
however
[Do you want to skip?]
“… ?”
A skip confirmation phrase that had never appeared before came to mind. It was strange, but the man clicked ‘yes’.
The phrase just disappeared.
As well as the 9-star characteristics appearing, the moment I thought there was a serious problem with the real game, the monitor suddenly turned off.
“uh… … ?”
And the man’s mouth opened involuntarily.
This is because his face reflected on the black screen was not originally his.
It is a familiar yet unfamiliar face.
“what-“
It didn’t take long for me to remember that the face belonged to the character I had just customized.
before he even reacts
The monitor engulfed him with another burst of strong light.
In the empty room, the chair he was sitting on turned with a squeaking sound.
2
[Loading… … .]
The moment I hear a hard mechanical sound, my mind floats rapidly.
The man wakes up and opens his eyes.
“Huh, huh… … ”
The light burst from the monitor, and the man who thought the monitor would explode at the moment gropes his face.
I don’t feel any pain or hurt, so I don’t think I’m hurt.
“Relief… … … uh?”
He let out a sigh of relief and then realized that this was not his room.
It seems to be a neat officetel, but there are strange things hanging on the walls.
Daggers, long swords, leather armor, shoulder guards, gauntlets… … .
Medieval knight… … Rather, armor and weapons that looked like sophisticated mercenaries occupied one side of the wall.
The blade of the sword stood too high to be seen as a cosplay.
To get a closer look, the man got out of bed and walked closer to the wall.
At the same time, the light from the ceiling lights swept over the blade, and his face appeared on the deep blue black surface.
The man who saw his face as if he had just brushed it off, froze in the same posture he was trying to move.
The face of the game character reflected on the black monitor before the white light exploded came to mind. The scene at that time, which I thought was just a mistake, overlapped with the face on the black surface.
He lowered his head and looked down at his body.
It can’t be said to be muscular, but there is no extra flesh to be found. What is certain is that it is absolutely not the body of a man who has lived in poverty for two years.
When I lifted the hem of the top, I saw a light six pack. The man examined his body with a hard face and raised his head.
And the moment I saw the three letters ‘Lee Si-woo’ engraved on the sword, I instinctively realized that it was the name of this body.
[Check player ‘Lee Si-woo’.]
[Load the player’s information. The first command is ‘status window’.]
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Siwoo Lee
Title: X
■ Characteristics
[★9 Ᏹ?@*?’s soul]
▶Ᏹ?@*?’s soul dwells
It has the nature of the soul of ▶Ᏹ?@*?.
1. Pure (純粹)
＞＞＞Expand
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[Check for new players]
[System optimization complete. Run the system.]
[Quest 1. Pass the selection test and enter the academy.]
▶You are facing the final stage of the selection test, the ‘actual monster opponent’.
▶The current overall ranking is 1,987/2,024, which is the top 98.17%. Only the top 50.00% can get into the academy.
▶This is a temporary accommodation for academy candidates.
▶01:00:27 left until the ‘Real Battle Monster’ test.
compensation
▶ ‘Dimension Shop’ open
failure
▶Leave the story.
“… crazy.”
He came into the game like that.
Damn, what a strat ! 👌
Wow 9 star soul at start, its not OP at all