Is this a game?
‘Kuu! What kind of effect is this…’
Intense light that would make you blind.
Yooseong, who tried to take off his goggles while suppressing the nausea that rose up to his throat, was frozen at the sight seen through the blurry vision.
He couldn’t see his room full of clutter.
Instead, what you see is an unfamiliar room filled with beautiful and antique furniture and decorations that can only be seen in movies or dramas set in the Middle Ages.
Yuseong, who was embarrassed, found a small message window floating in a corner of his field of vision and was able to realize his situation.
[Sync in Progress]
[Engraving user’s basic skills]
‘Did the game start?’
A huge bed that you could climb on and play soccer.
A bookshelf filling up one side of the wall and books tightly packed inside it.
A huge closet and a plush looking sofa.
Yooseong, who looked around the colorful chandeliers and decorations in a curious way, noticed that there was a huge mirror right behind him and carefully raised his head.
‘…wow.’
The gray hair that reached his shoulders and the skin that looked so transparent that it was pure white.
The gentle-looking eyes and a petite body that barely exceeds 150 cm.
A faintly raised chest and a faintly curved body.
A beautiful girl with golden eyes, wearing a jet-black dress that seemed to have been woven from darkness, was looking at herself from the other side of the mirror.
‘Kheuheum.’
The corners of the girl’s lips reflected in the mirror rose faintly.
I never chose a game with a female character as the main character because of shady intentions or distorted sexual desire.
However, since it is a VR game, wouldn’t a pretty female character be better than a dark male character?
Yooseong, who was watching the beautiful girl move according to his thoughts with a sinister smile, coughed and moved his hand to his chest subtly.
‘This is by no means ill-intentioned. Just to see how little quality this game paid attention to…’
-An agh�guh??! Heard!
“It’s crazy! What is this? Why are the letters broken?”
A message window suddenly popped up in front of my eyes.
The moment I pushed the unidentified message window that kept popping up even after erasing it into a corner of my field of vision, I realized something strange.
“Ah, ah… ah?”
A thin, sweet voice that was evidently coming from his own throat.
The recent development of VR technology has reached a point where it is almost indistinguishable from reality, but it is only possible when all kinds of auxiliary equipment are equipped.
But is it possible to hear different voices when all you’re using is one pair of goggles and you’re not using a headset or microphone?
As soon as I realized one sense of incongruity, other senses of incongruity began to come one after another.
A faintly perceptible unpleasant odor.
A faint chill rises from the exposed limbs.
A strange sense of heterogeneity felt every time I moved my body.
Something is strange.
‘This isn’t a VR game, it’s like…’
thud! thud! thud!
a sudden sound.
Yuseong, who saw the door on the other side of the room swinging, stopped moving after recalling the fact he had forgotten.
You have to find a place to run or hide and move, but what you are doing now is a VR game, not a PC or mobile game where you control a character on the other side of the monitor.
Even if you walk a few steps without running on full power, your body in reality will crash into a wall or furniture and fall.
‘How does this thing move?’
Depending on my clumsy knowledge, I tried to walk in place or waved my arms like swimming, but my body didn’t budge, and even when I shouted out words like setting or stopping to check the controls, nothing came to mind.
“You’re very unkind. Originally, shouldn’t you tell me how to operate something like this?”
Contrary to the idea that once you start, you will be able to learn it naturally.
‘I’ll have to learn the commands and controls first.’
Kwajik!
Yooseong, who raised his hand to take off his goggles, stopped moving when he saw the broken door.
The game will be played again from the beginning anyway.
Before leaving, I was curious to see what the existence outside the door was.
And after a while, the moment the door was broken and confirmed the existence, Yooseong unknowingly exclaimed admiration.
“Yeah.”
it was a monster
The face and body were that of an ordinary adult male, which can be seen anywhere, but the green left arm was abnormally large and thick enough to be compared to the body, and the right arm was covered with shaggy hair like that of a beast.
Needless to say, both legs in the form of retro-joints with a lot of scales sprouted out.
“Keeg
“Oh, is this a game? Does it sound like real life?”
Even when he saw the monster rushing at him, Yooseong did not react.
Originally, I thought of dying, but in the first place, the speed of the monster is so fast that it is impossible to resist it.
Look, I only blinked once, but it came right in front of me.
‘Even if I get hit by one, it’s game over, right? Hey, it’s much more when you see it up close…’
Kwajik!
The floor soars up, the ceiling sinks down, and the surrounding landscape begins to spin frantically.
At first, I thought it was just a device error or a bug in the game.
But something was strange.
‘This is not how the world goes…’
I don’t know what happened.
I can’t breathe, as if something is stuck in my throat, and my chest feels hot as if it’s on fire.
The moment I looked down with trembling eyes, Meteor’s accident stopped.
Torn hems and torn flesh.
The organs exposed beyond it and the blood that spurts out whenever the heart beats.
“Ke… black?!”
As if the anesthesia had been released, the pain began to rush in in an instant.
Yooseong, who was groaning in a terrible pain he had never felt before in his life, tried desperately to raise his arm.
I tried to take off my goggles to somehow get out of this game according to the judgment of my remaining reason, but before that, my vision was stained black.
“Kreurreuk!”
The moment I raised my head at the sound of cutting phlegm, the world started spinning once again.
And the moment the rotation stopped, the body of a headless girl wearing a jet-black dress and the figure of a monster whose whole body was dyed red with the gushing blood came in.
Only then did Yoosung know what situation he was in.
‘My throat was cut. No, did it get ripped off?’
You figured out your situation, but that’s all.
I can’t think of any more.
And just before my consciousness was cut off, countless messages came to my mind beyond my blurry vision.
[Synchronization with ‘Aris’ completed]
[You can use ‘Aris’ skills]
[User basic skill imprinting has been completed]
[The language of the beginning. You have acquired Babel (S)]
[You have learned the status window (C)]
[You have acquired Appraisal (C)]
‘What is this…’
[‘Anyone is welcome, please help me!’ Failed to meet clear conditions]
[Retry 0 times. Failed to solve the quest]
[Introductory privileges apply]
[The number of retry attempts is not deducted]
[begins ‘Anyone is welcome, please help me!’]
—-
Dig!
“Ahhh?”
Yooseong, who had let out a thin moan, looked around blankly at the sudden change of point.
Exactly where you were when you first started the game.
Looking back, there was a beautiful girl with no scars in the mirror.
‘What was that just about? No way, the game was so realistic that my brain misunderstood that I felt real pain…’
“… there’s no way you can do that!”
No matter what, there is no way I can make such an illusion.
No, even if it was all my own illusions, there was no way I could continue playing the same game after experiencing such an experience.
However, Yooseong, who lifted his arm to take off the goggles he was wearing, froze as it was.
nothing catches
Even after frantically groping and rubbing my face, all I could feel was the soft touch and the warmth generated by the rubbing of my skin.
“·······.”
Regardless of the will, I move my trembling palm to another place.
Smooth skin instead of rough beard.
Instead of short hair that had just been cut, long hair that felt like stroking silk.
Thin limbs that don’t feel like muscles at all.
slightly raised chest.
And underneath…
-Che^4 hang gerguh?& Lick!
Again, unidentified broken texts began to appear, but this time another message immediately followed.
[The language of the beginning, Babel (S) is activated]
-Please don’t do anything strange with my body!
It feels more like a voice in my head than a message.
Yuseong, who tried to pass it off thinking it was his imagination or misunderstanding, decided to answer the voice just in case.
“… are you saying this to me right now?”
– Oh, can you hear me now?
“…similar.”
– Haaa, I’m glad. I kept talking to her from earlier, but she didn’t answer, so I was worried that a strange evil spirit might have taken over my body…
“Wait! What are you? No, more than that, where is this place and what is this situation? What is that monster? What is that pain? Is this a game? Doesn’t it look real no matter how much you think about it? Didn’t I die earlier? If all of this is real, then I’m dead now.” is alive?”
A series of questions that follow one after another.
But the answer was disappointing.
-Well, my name is Aris. When I opened my eyes, I was in this room, so I don’t know where I am or what the situation is. Well, I don’t know what you mean by game, but right now this isn’t hallucinatory magic, it’s unmistakably reality. I would rather ask if he died and then came back to life. How did you do it? Is it necromancy? No, this is more like reversing time than reviving a lion.
“What the hell are you talking about?!”
-Well, I was just answering a question…
“Did you bring me here? I don’t know what the purpose is, but quickly send me back to my original world! I’m just an ordinary person with no powers! Stop! Stop! Finish! Damn, why the hell can’t I do anything!”
– Now, wait a minute. You seem too excited right now, but please calm down.
“Does he look real now? He was killed by a monster just a while ago! And his head was blown off!”
Kwajik!
The broken door and the monster beyond.
I couldn’t joke anymore that it wasn’t a game, it was like reality.
Because this isn’t a game, it’s real life.
“Keeg
“…damn it.”
Once again, in the blink of an eye, he spat out a low curse at the monster that had reached his front.
And that was the last one.
[‘Anyone is welcome, please help me!’ Failed to meet clear conditions]
[Retry 0 times. Failed to solve the quest]
[Introductory privileges apply]
[The number of retry attempts is not deducted]
[begins ‘Anyone is welcome, please help me!’]
this is not a game