1. The Tutorial Is f*cking Difficult (1)
[There are 30 minutes left until the mandatory tutorial retry deadline.]
[If you do not comply, new challenger benefits will no longer be provided.]
Pure white waiting room. Siwoo looked at the notification that came to mind and let out a heavy sigh.
I looked up at the ceiling out of despair, and it was pure white without any patterns. It was like drawing paper, drawing out pitch black letters from within him.
I want to rest. If only I had stayed still for the rest of my life. I don’t want to die. Friends. A world I miss. Musical scales that come to mind. Ah, mother. Mother…
The notification window that popped up at that time put a small comma in the margin of those thoughts.
[Time Remaining – 00:28:52]
‘After… Okay. I have to go. ‘I have to go again.’
Si-woo stood up with a grunt and used weak hands to gather up the items scattered around the room.
His appearance was like a cow being led to a slaughterhouse, but his eyes were so bright that it was clearly revealed that his heart had not yet been broken.
‘Challenge. Challenge yourself. If I try again, I’ll wake up someday.’
Then he might be able to escape from the boring tutorials. Thinking like that, Siwoo tried to move toward the portal, but his body stopped.
It felt empty, like he was forgetting something.
Siwoo traced his body and recalled his memories.
‘Did I miss anything? No. He brought bread, water, rope, bandages, potions, a sword, and a shield… But something… What was it… What on earth…’
Ah.
Si-woo, who remembered what he had forgotten, let out a faint sigh and pulled up the chat window that he had put away at the end of his gaze.
The people in the chat window were like close friends with Siu himself, so there was nothing like this to calm his mind before taking on the challenge. It was natural. Because the people in the chat room were Siwoo himself, possessed in another world.
Siwoo sent his thoughts through the chats that came up sparsely.
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-Tutoshiu: Going to the first floor challenge.
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Is it because we ran out of historical tutorials? The calm chat room began to burn like water poured into hot oil.
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-Akashiu: Challenge 51 on the 1st floor.
– Seonhyeop Siwoo: Seriously, if you don’t pass the prosecutor’s office yet, shouldn’t you go out and die?
-Urban Siwoo: Challenge 51 on the 1st floor.
-Urban Siwoo: Oh sh*t they overlapped
-Zombie Siu: Damn, I’m so jealous of the waiting room’s full recovery. I’m in the waiting room too.
-London City: If we don’t pass this time, let’s just commit suicide.
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As Siwoo watched the chat, he felt his stiff mouth soften a little.
A bleak waiting room with no one in it. How special is the taste of modern times that can be found in this place where all modern ties have been cut off.
If there wasn’t a chat window, it wouldn’t be surprising if he fell into depression a long time ago, so the feeling was even worse.
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-Tutoshiu: This time, you can pass the first floor without really hitting the ball. I show you.
-Akashiu: The guy who hit himself with arrows 50 times passed ㅇㅈㄹㅋㅋ He should just change to a job that only focuses on arrows.
-Seonhyeop Siwoo: A different beginning in my viewIf you chose your weapon, you have already cleared the first floor hahahaha.
-Urban Siu: ㄹㅇ The sword room is trash hahahaha. I should have just used the tower shield.
-Tutoshiu: How dare you lift that heavy thing. And don’t you think about monsters later?
-Urban Siwoo: You have to think about that.
-Tutoshiu: Don’t be a dick, if it’s fantasy, get something like mana exercises quickly and share it in the chat room.
-Urban Siwoo: Is there a mana practice method in urban fantasy?
-Tutoshiu: So you said ‘the same thing’, you idiot.
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Si-woo, who was secretly looking forward to it, felt his heart become slightly tight.
Even though he urged them several times, no one was able to learn magic or martial arts for almost a month.
I understand that everyone has their own circumstances and that the flow of time is different in each world, but it was difficult to endure for a long time when I was in a situation where I was constantly standing still.
‘But now that I think about it, I don’t think I need to endure it any longer.’
Si-woo, who suddenly felt aggrieved, began to form words. A long article pouring out a torrent of sadness. The repeated banal profanity was like a stone tower that eloquently expressed the sincerity he had built up over the past month.
And just as it was being shot into the chat room.
Another Siwoo changed the topic.
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-Game Pan Siu: But is the tutorial that intense? I don’t think it was that intense in the novel.
-Tutoshiu: First of all, I don’t have the physical strength of a protagonist.
-Tutoshiu: And this seems to be a few years before the main character entered the tutorial. It is the early days of the tutorial before the Great Agreement, so the missions are several times more intense.
-Gempansiu: That’s the grand agreement, right? You can enter by voluntarily choosing the tutorial.
-Tutoshiu: ㅇㅇ Geniuses were already taken out of various tutorials before the grand agreement, and the door was opened for the remaining middle-class people to challenge themselves, so the difficulty level was lowered a lot… This is a time where only geniuses gather, so the level of difficulty is really hard hahahaha.
-Tutoshiu: Probably, if you go to the 10th floor, you have to take 2 circles to beat it, but f*ck hahahaha, what should I do?
-Nut Pan Siu: Even if you get caught, why do you get caught in the tutorial? … In other novels, there are some who are already close to the main story or are looking for an opportunity.
-Tutoshiu: So f*ck hahahaha I never imagined that Possession would be a lucky game.
-London Siu: Still, it’s better than the worst… I think that’s okay
-Tutoshiu: That’s true hahahaha.
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Siwoo’s words that he was okay were not empty words. If not somewhere other than London City, where Cthulhu might pop out at any moment.
In addition, many of Siwoo’s complaints were to the point that he often found comfort in the thought, ‘It’s okay for me.’
Thinking about it that way, Siwoo felt like his work wasn’t that big of a deal, so he deleted the long message he had written earlier.
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-Tutoshiu: At least it’s good not to have to worry about food. I think that if I keep trying again, I might be able to beat the 100th floor someday.
-Matap Siu: What if I return to the waiting room and die instantly before I can recover?
-Tutoshiu: If you try hard and take on challenges, you will somehow survive.
-Matapsiu: Well…
-Tutoshiu: Why are you speaking ominously?
-Matap Siu: I’m a magic tower cleaner and errand boy, so I’ve seen some magic, but if you hit this wrong, you’ll die instantly hahahaha. It’s not a gun, it’s at the level of a cannon, right?
-Tutoshiu: By the time that kind of magic comes out, what will I do?There will be at least one ability. Then you can go to the 100th floor.
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However, even if he clears all the way to the 100th floor, will he be able to return to the true ‘reality’ he desires? It was something Siwoo couldn’t understand.
It would have been better to present a clear goal in the form of a task or mission, but something that possessed Siwoo only threw him here and did not give any instructions.
That’s probably why other Siwoos are forced to participate in the main story and search for Giyeon.
It was all a struggle to find any clue.
‘Okay. I need to find some clue. To really go back to reality.’
Siwoo looked around the waiting room again.
A white room with nothing in it. There is no clue here. At least that was the case considering Siwoo’s current level.
If there is a clue to returning to reality somewhere in the world, the most likely place is inside the tutorial.
In that case, I guess I have no choice but to take on the challenge. Siwoo gathered his will and sent out his thoughts.
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-Tutoshiu: Oh, I’m really going now.
-Seonhyeop Siwoo: ㄱㄱㄱㄱㄱ
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Siwoo put his chat window to the corner of his eye, straightened his curved back, and stood straight in front of the portal.
The gloom from before was no longer visible in his appearance.
Although he had no extraordinary courage, talent, or ability. A small amount of will was enough for him to challenge the tutorial.
Because the tutorial is a place that aims to raise such people to be extraordinary.
“Challenge the tutorial.”
As he hoped to take on the challenge, the shape of a dark hallway began to appear in the flickering portal.
The broken arrows and blood stains on the floor seemed like a taxidermy of Si-woo’s painful time.
However, there were too many challenges he had accumulated to just hesitate that much.
So much so that I can vividly picture in my mind how the arrow will fly.
‘Okay. Now is the time to really pass.’
Siwoo took a step forward and strengthened his resolve.
I will really pass this time.
Even if it’s just to avoid being embarrassed by other ‘me’.
Bro ☠️, dijo Cthulhu.