1. Boss Monster Killer
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[The Crucible Boss Monster has been defeated!]
[As an achievement reward, 500 system points are given.]
[The Crucible has been cleared! It is transferred to the cradle waiting room.]
The moment the boss monster laid its huge body on the floor, along with a system message, Doyoon’s body was moved to a large wooden room.
A large space more like an auditorium than a room. It seems to be able to accommodate hundreds of people.
Doyoon pulled the doorknob, but it didn’t budge. It doesn’t look like it’s time to open yet.
‘As expected, I like the real sword.’
Doyoon squeezed and closed the hand that held the long sword, savoring the sensation from earlier.
Even on Earth, he couldn’t forget the taste of his previous life, and he used to enjoy kendo as a hobby. However, it was not as good as this feeling that I have tasted in 25 years.
The feeling of cutting meat with a sharp blade. The weight of cold iron. The elasticity of air that hinders the sword path.
I finally realized that I had returned to my hometown.
‘Let’s see…’
I looked around.
The system said that this was the waiting room of a place called the cradle.
Only Doyun cleared the tutorial first, and was transferred to the waiting room first.
‘There were about three hours until the end of the Crucible.’
Sitting on a wooden chair, I gathered my thoughts while waiting for those who would soon be transferred.
‘It’s different from the return of the previous life where the mana capacity was maintained. Right now, my body is not Enoch Rouge Volnik’s, but Han Do-yoon’s body.’
In the process of crossing the dimension to the devil, the body of the previous life was torn to pieces. Only the soul remained and was transported to Earth, where it was reborn as a one-year-old baby.
‘There is no accumulated mana, and physical abilities are poor compared to the previous life. The blessing of return that I received from God is gone. I am weak now.’
Fortunately, the talents of this new-born body on Earth are not unusual. But right now, it’s nothing to see.
In order to defeat the demon king, he had to grow his body. Strength and stamina must be developed, and mana must be accumulated. Be strong.
Doyoon’s thoughts came to his colleagues from his previous life. Efficient growth is possible with their help, but…
‘It’s been 100 years, and the era is under war by a new demon lord. It is unknown how many of the guild members are still alive.’
Maybe, except for the elves, everyone died.
“…”
A heavy chain squeezes the heart. It’s a sense of loss.
‘…I couldn’t come to my senses.’
It wasn’t just memories and mana that were handed down in the 17th return.
stress.
Do-yoon’s cause of death in rounds 12 and 13 was a stress-induced heart attack.
Enoch, who was one of the three strongest players in the alliance at the time, who no one could harm, succumbed to stress. Since then, Do-yoon has learned how to survive from stress.
One of the most important rules. Don’t be too attached to past relationships.
But it wasn’t easy. When Doyoon returned with his memories passed on, his colleagues did not recognize him because their memories disappeared. Their reaction was painful.
However, at that time, I was able to meet them again and build a relationship again.
But now I can’t see them again.
When I returned home, the difference was so great.
‘…’
Doyoon shook his head vigorously.
‘It’s been a while since I came back to my hometown, so I must have been excited?’
He was self-mocking at his pathetic appearance. I focused on re-planning.
‘If you have a living comrade, it’s ideal to get help. However, in the process of approaching them, I must not reveal my identity to those around me.’
If the fact that the hero had returned spread and reached the ears of the demon king, it would be difficult to survive.
One of the best powers on the Demon King side who killed Do-yoon in the 14th round, the assassin ‘Sashin’. Even if you wake up from death, you can’t avoid its demonic grip in your current state.
‘Besides being a long-lived Dark Elf, there was no one who could stop him except for me. Maybe… he’s still alive.’
Let’s sort it out.
‘You have to be strong. In the process, it is ideal to enlist the help of a former colleague.’
‘But you shouldn’t go around revealing that you are a warrior. Until you’re strong enough.’
After thinking about it, I got a little stumped.
It took more than 100 years to catch the demon king through repeated deaths and returns. Maybe over 200 years.
But this time there is no blessing of return. I don’t know what will happen if I get in touch with God… but it’s still the same.
‘…Still, I have to do it.’
A single conviction that never wavered even in countless pains and deaths.
save this world
With that single thought alone, I walked the darkest and most difficult path. It is the same this time.
To save this world I live in, I keep moving forward. That was all for Doyoon.
“…”
About three hours later, with a flash of light, many people were transferred. These are the people who participated in the tutorial.
‘About 300 people?’
There are faces you have met in the tutorial and faces you have never seen before. Of course, we met, but there were many faces that were not here.
I also felt it during the tutorial, but not only humans but also a lot of different races were mixed. Among the dogs, there were many species that did not exist in this dimension, let alone on Earth. It seems that they are not brought only from Earth.
“Do, Mr. Doyoon!”
Doyoon’s teammates rushed in. Everyone had a look of astonishment and admiration in their eyes.
For Doyoon, who was a warrior, his eyes were terribly familiar. These are the eyes of those who covet opportunities.
“Everything, how did you do it? Just, in a flash, he swung his sword so much that he couldn’t even see it… 4, how could a person do that vicious monster…!”
“Look! Do-yoon, are you okay? Are you not hurt? I… remember? The one who turned around until the end and worried about Mr. Doyoon…”
“Do-yoon hyung! Our team, will it continue even after the Crucible is over? Yeah? Please, I’ll be really good!”
They surrounded Doyoon and made a fuss that made her head hurt. It seemed like my mind had been messed up again.
The eyes of the surroundings were focused on Doyoon. The moment I tried to stop it because it didn’t seem like a good phenomenon.
kiik-
“What, why are you so noisy?”
Someone opened the door and entered the auditorium.
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“Heh… heh… heh… heh…”
“Huuk…! Whoop…!”
The sound of sticky breathing is heard from all directions.
Morning canter for strength training. All of the Cradle’s Apostles had to run 10 laps around the field before eating breakfast.
“hurry! hurry! hurry! sooner!”
Ironically, the instructor following behind urges us to run quickly to the beat.
If there is a cadet who is excluded without completing 10 laps, the remaining cadets are filled under the guidance of the instructor.
An apostle, a name given to those who become stronger with the power of the system and aim to become heroes. And the chick apostles from another dimension live as cadets in the cradle and receive 8 weeks of education until they fulfill their duty.
Cradle, a place of learning for new apostles to adapt and grow.
The apostles of the cradle were living well in their respective worlds, and then were unexpectedly brought here. Naturally, there was a lot of confusion in the beginning.
The instructors strongly held discipline for this and even used violence when necessary.
Week 1 of the cradle focused on calming down this confusion and instilling a sense of purpose in the cadets.
And, the 2nd week starts from today.
“Ugh! omg! omg! Huh…!”
“Ooh, ooh…!”
The morning canter is over. Everyone was gasping for breath, and the races with weak stamina immediately vomited.
At first glance, it seems that the chicks are overworked, but overtraining does not leave them with aftereffects. Because healers are waiting.
“Fuck… I want to go home…”
Someone muttered in a weeping voice.
There is a reason why the cadets are rolled so much in the cradle.
“Che, my stamina has gone up! finally!”
“I got out of dog-like agility level 0!”
I have to roll my body like this, because my stats go up even slightly.
About 300 people ran through the field, but only two of them let out a sigh of joy. The rest just looked at them with envious eyes.
The ‘system’, a blessing applied for the rapid growth of apostles.
This system interface supports numbers called stats as a direct measure of individual strength, and raising these stats is extremely difficult.
At least, these are beginners with wide open possibilities for growth, so they can be raised through training, and if you go later, there is no way to even do that.
If you grow to the limit of your potential, then you have to use a special gimmick to raise your stats, which is a skill that only a few of the apostles can come into contact with.
Among the existing apostles, the person called the Lion King with the highest magical power was said to have level 9 magical power.
‘…Though I think I’m a little different.’
Doyoon looked at the system notification in front of him in silence, not showing off like the others.
[The stat ‘Agility’ has risen by 1 level.]
[The stat ‘Stamina’ has risen by 1 level.]
My body became lighter, and the fatigue accumulated in my leg muscles disappeared as if most of them evaporated.
heart rate slowed down and it got heavy The heart pumps more blood through the body than ever before. I could feel the energy flowing through my body.
[Status window]
Name: Han Do-yoon
Race: Human / Divine Beast
belong: –
Talent: Genius
stat
strength – level 5
Agility – Level 2
Stamina – Level 7
Toughness – Level 4
Magic – Level 0
Congenital traits:
[Trauma (obsession with satiety)]
[Divine Beast]
[First Războinic]
[First Guild Master]
[Acquired Genius]
Acquired traits:
[Mana Injury]
skill:
–
A total of stats rose by 2 levels at once.
Of course, Doyoon wasn’t like this every day. This is the first level up except for the fact that the physical strength went up by 1 level on the second day.
But even so, compared to the other apostles, it was an absurd level of growth. After one week, only about 1/3 of the cadets in the cradle had experienced a stat level up.
‘This body. He is incredibly talented.’
According to the instructor, the average stat of a newcomer is level 1. If one or two of these stats are level 2-3, it is evaluated as having a great talent.
If there is a cadet with a stat level of 4 from the start, his top rank in that rider is a matter of course. It was said that he was a genius who was drooling to take him from all kinds of guilds.
However, Doyoon’s average stat is a whopping level 3.6. Also, due to the acquired attribute [Mana Deformity], the magic level, which was fixed at level 0, greatly reduced the average, and this is the result.
‘Considering that this body is that of an earthling, this is an absolutely impossible figure.’
Since the soul is the soul of Enoch, I wondered if he was born as a body in this world. However, Doyoon’s body was clearly that of an earthling. Her Korean-style appearance proved it.
And it’s true that I came here, but in this place where the apostles from various dimensions gather, the evaluation of the earthlings was extremely harsh. Seriously, the evaluation was slightly better than that of the goblins in this world.
It’s not just a coincidence that you’re born with a good body. Due to a certain probability, he was born with a ridiculously good body.
‘Perhaps… a divine beast. It looks like this.’
Doyoon looked at his status window again.
Race: Human / Divine Beast
Congenital Attribute: [Divine Beast]
[Divine Beast]
(Innumerable races in the world repeat life and death. Goblins, intelligent humans, unicorns, divine beasts, dragons, and gods.
There is a class difference between them. An object’s rank is determined by the amount of karma expended during its birth.
You are of noble, nay, divine birth. A great deal of karma has been expended on your body composition. Your potential is different from that of the uncivilized, and all things in nature will respond to your aura.
All of this is not luck, but the result of karma accumulated in your soul after a long cycle of reincarnations. You are a noble soul who deserves to be worshiped by all things.)
I’m not sure exactly what karma means. However, we can roughly infer the situation.
‘Did the subjugation of the demon lord in my previous life affect the composition of my new body?’
Probably. I should ask for the exact details later when I get in touch with God.
‘By the way…’
Congenital traits:
[Trauma (obsession with satiety)]
[Divine Beast]
[First Războinic]
[First Guild Master]
[Acquired Genius]
Acquired traits:
[Mana Injury]
‘What is the criteria for congenital and acquired?’
The other thing… I gave up a lot. Even so, I didn’t understand why [Acquired Genius] was included in the congenital trait column.
However, it was not a very important issue, so Doyun did not take it seriously. You’ll have to figure it out later when you have time.
“After a good rest, let’s go to the restaurant! If you take care of yourself, your stats go up well!”
“Those who are overdoing it in the canter should go over there to Instructor Raina and get healed. Only those who can’t really breathe! If you overuse heels, your stats won’t go up.”
Do-yoon turned off the status window at the shouts of the instructors and moved to the cafeteria.
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one side of the restaurant. There, two instructors and four students were eating and talking harmoniously.
“no! What kind of tutorials do you bring such bloody monsters to!”
“Are we really dead and alive?”
“Kick kick. The cubs are tough. Are you more afraid of monsters than instructors?”
“Oh, no, that’s not…”
“Monsters are scary! And the instructors are terrible!”
“hahahahaha! Look at this bastard!”
The cadet of the Titans responded friendlyly, shaking their 2.5m tall body.
In Cradle, by default, instructors are prohibited from belonging to a specific guild. However, this is only a nominal rule, and all instructors are sponsored by their respective guilds.
Cradle, a place that attracts attention from all guilds to preoccupy high-quality talent. And instructors who are in an overwhelmingly advantageous position in the search for talent.
The instructor becomes a scout for the guild that spawns him, and works hard to send promising players to his guild.
This place is also part of that work.
He becomes friendly with promising players and arranges contracts with the guild under the pretext of helping them. It is a strategy that works best for newbies who are trembling with anxiety after falling into a new world.
‘One vampire, one titan. It’s salty from the start!’
Vampires and Titans are well-known races that are suitable for tanking.
Basically, thanks to their racial characteristics, they can be immediately put into full force with little training. Thanks to this, they are talented people who always receive love calls from small and medium-sized guilds.
Even though there are two thugs next to me, there is nothing wrong with being friendly with them. Maintaining a good reputation makes finding other prospects easier.
However, the only thing that bothered him was the target, the vampire Debussy, who was just quietly eating.
‘Anyway, vampires… Their noses are as high as their ransom, very.’
Of course, they never let their perverse feelings out.
It’s not like we’ve dealt with vampires once or twice. That, too, is just a trait peculiar to the species, and he will soon open up to us who are seasoned. The instructors thought so.
The two, an archery instructor and a ranger instructor, masterfully bonded with four new cadets.
“If you go out into society, dude! You’ll face countless things worse than that, but if you’re already frowning, what will you eat for a living? oops!”
The archery instructor pretended to be a kkondae and bruised with an exaggerated tone, and the cadets except for the vampires laughed.
“No, but apart from everything else, a praying mantis monster over 7m tall! Isn’t that real?”
“right! Did I really feel that my legs gave out as soon as I saw that?”
“Three times as tall as me…!”
At the words of the cadets, the two instructors widened their eyes.
“uh? Guys, have you met the boss monster?”
“Ah, is that a boss monster? Somehow, it was too bloody.”
The two instructors turned their heads to face each other. Then they quickly exchanged greedy glances.
Did you survive the boss monster without a single casualty?
‘Amazing, Great!’
‘These are proper jewels!’
The two swallowed their saliva. Then, forgetting to eat, leaned his upper body forward and asked them questions.
“How did you get out of there? That bastard, his mobility isn’t average, so he can’t retreat without fighting? Did you really fight the boss monster?”
“A tanker? The main tank is, of course, the Gorgon, and Debussy, were you a secondary tank? Or a dealer? yes?”
Seeing how reckless the two were, the Titan Gorgon and the vampire Debussy flinched involuntarily and pulled their bodies back.
While Debussy frowned, the other three chimed in with him as well.
“Oh no! How do you fight a monster like that?”
“I-I… I can’t stand that big scythe…!”
The two trembled and made weak sounds.
Debussy, who had been watching silently, opened his mouth.
“…That monster, when we saw it, it was already a corpse.”
“…What?”
At those words, the smiles disappeared from the faces of the two instructors.
“It was a corpse…?”
“You guys, what do you mean by that! talk in detail! hurry!”
When the ranger instructor shouted, the four students were startled.
The instructors questioned them as if interrogating them, forgetting that they had to maintain an amicable relationship with these prospects.
Having heard enough of the story, they exchanged glances. Their eyes were filled with amazement and delight.
70 years since the system was born and the cradle was opened.
‘Now in this cradle…!’
Only two of them were produced, and they became the best talents who were active as talents next to the generation of great warriors.
‘There is a boss monster killer!’
It is in this jockey.