Chapter 5 Slime is too strong (1)
Slime Habitat.
Hunting ground level 1-10.
This hunting ground inhabited by slimes is really a space for users who have just started playing the game. It is the weakest monster in Arcadia officially recognized by the game company to the extent that even the tutorial quests ask you to catch the slime as your first hunt. And the hunting grounds of such beginners were filled with users who collapsed while being dyed gray.
“You son of a bitch! Why do you keep killing me! Without hunting!”
A dark hooded man wielding an iron sword insipidly. One of the users selected as his next victim continued to run away and eventually was caught and shouted out in regret before dying. No matter how many users he had killed, his rusty iron sword and hood were stained bloody.
A very grotesque sight, even though we know that all of this is imaginary. Slowly holding an iron sword, he backed away from him and threatened him.
“Do you think the game company will just let you go if you’ve been doing this kind of bad manners since the beginning of the opening! I will definitely report you to the customer center!”
But at his words, the killer paused for a moment and then muttered to himself as if it were absurd.
“What are you talking about? This is a dog-like bullshit that someone ordered you to do.”
“what….?”
I wanted to ask what the unknown killer was saying, but he couldn’t. It was because the already heavy iron sword hit his head and killed him instantly, so only a black screen filled his eyes.
[You killed a beginner.]
[You gain 1 Probability.]
You don’t know how many times you’ve seen this message window.
Jaeyoung let out a long sigh and confirmed the results of the PK that he had sold out without sleeping for two days.
-Probability: 1025
1025 people.
It was he who broke the phenomenal record of sending over 1,000 green sprouts of Arcadia to the nether road with a rusty iron sword in two days. Perhaps, even if you look at other games that recommend PK, it is unprecedented that so many users were slaughtered at the beginning of the opening.
If you are a typical game company, you will come to yourself and grab your collar and say, ‘Are you determined to ruin our company! It was a situation where there was nothing to say even if I ran around shouting, ‘Do it properly!’, but unlike countless users who collapsed in gray and said they would report themselves to the customer center, the game company was strangely quiet.
“What on earth are you giving me this mission for?”
If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t have known. There must have been a lot of users who had already reported it and had an uproar.
“Kwauung.”
When he was immersed in thought, Jaeyoung stroked his hair as if he was cute, watching the slimes around him come closer and churn.
“Ehh, it seems like I’m getting better at hanging out with people now, but you guys hang out too.”
In the eyes of the slimes, do they become the warriors of justice who catch and kill the users who kill them? From time to time, it seemed that the influence of the message that came to mind gradually appeared as I proceeded with PK.
[Saved the slime in danger.]
[Intimacy with the slime race has increased.]
Arcadia’s official weakest slime. As if they recognized Jaeyoung as being on their side, if they stayed still, they would gather here and there and start acting aegyo. It’s like you want to play with them.
“I want to play with you… but if you don’t run away soon, the damn guys will come to catch you and have a hard time.”
Jaeyoung murmured as he saw dozens of figures running from afar. A group to kill himself was created through the Internet, probably because he had done too much. It must be that the user who just died to himself posted the location of his death on the Internet and was coming through him. Seeing them like that, Jaeyoung yawned with a relaxed face.
“At first, I overworked myself… I should take a break, right? Those bastards need to lose their energy.”
It was a mission given a time limit, so he had to move quickly, but it wasn’t too much, so Jaeyoung smiled as he watched the users rushing fiercely from afar.
“log out.”
After a while, dozens of players with stern expressions arrived at his place and found only a few slimes bouncing around and a gray corpse lying down.
* * *
Arcadia’s Customer Center.
Mi-yeon, who had just joined the Korean branch and had just started working, was burning with enthusiasm.
“Dear customer- how can I help you?”
She entered Arcadia as the first new employee to join the ranks of large corporations after overcoming the dirty and dirty job market. She was assigned to the customer center team and, perhaps because of her excessive enthusiasm, thanks to her voice full of kindness, it wasn’t long before she was already praised by the complainants. Articles were pouring in one after another.
‘This month’s job evaluation is… worth watching.’
Miyeon, who hums in anticipation that she might be chosen as the employee of the month, couldn’t hide her embarrassment at the next complaint call.
“Dear customer- how can I help you?”
[Hey, are you going to run the game now?]
“Yes?”
Hard-core complaints coming in. Miyeon was momentarily at a loss for what to say at his remark, which seemed to be very angry.
[No, as soon as the game started, I was told to hunt, so I went and was PKed by a guy wearing a strange hood and died. 24-hour access limit? It’s a paid game, so are you going to operate it like this?]
“PK…? Oops… you must have been very displeased.”
Miyeon, who has a rough knowledge of the game, understands the situation and nods her head, expressing regret. And after hearing the details of the situation from him, he responded as if he was angry.
“Oh my, I was catching slime at the beginner’s hunting ground and came and killed it suddenly? You are a really bad user.”
As if excited that Miyeon was sympathizing with her words, the complainant said what she wanted in a slightly softer voice than before.
[Anyway, please lift the 24-hour access limit as soon as possible. It’s not my fault, it’s a situation where I’ve been harmed by malicious users.]
“Uh… that part is not something I can do with my authority. I will inform the relevant departments of the situation, so could you please wait a little longer?”
[Oh yes. Thank you.]
Miyeon, who passed the complaint call with a smooth response, sighed deeply and briefly wrote down the related situation and relayed it to the top. And, feeling strangely proud of his ability to respond to civil complaints, he received the next complaint.
“Dear customer- how can I help you?”
[Hey, I just got killed by some bastard while catching slime… Do you want to run the game like this?]
“…..”
Miyeon didn’t know. I’ve heard that it’s a thick, concentrated drip coffee.
* * *
Early opening of Arcadia.
Since it hadn’t even been a month since the service started, newly discovered information in the game was posted on the bulletin board one after another and raised issues.
– Good quality weapons can be obtained cheaply. An in-depth analysis of the Archon Territory.
– You can too. A high-speed growth route after changing to a mage.
-Efficient ways to get additional stats.
People were competing to upload videos competitively because they could edit their own play videos and upload them on the Internet and provide various strategies to grow their own video channels and earn lucrative advertising fees. And a video like an appeal was uploaded to such a community.
-Looking for the ill-mannered serial killer gnome who makes the newbies cry
. And what he encountered was not a cute slime with twinkling eyes, but a murderer with a blood-stained iron sword in his hood.
A beginner who started to run away from the appearance full of malice just by looking at it. However, he was eventually caught in a chase that lasted only a few minutes, probably because of the difference in ability according to the level, and he cried out desperately, perhaps out of resentment before dying.
[ah! Let’s really stop doing this! Why is it so crazy for beginners who just started! There’s something good!]
But despite his scream-like cry, the killer didn’t say anything and just swung a heavy iron sword without mercy.
[Put-]
The video ends with a black screen with a dull sound. At the end of the video, it was written in detail that the author, full of resentment, asked for revenge, perhaps because of this killer.
-lol. The newbie killer concept dog is funny.
– Hey, is that funny? Wouldn’t it be funny if you did it once?
-When you look at the items, you look like a warrior who just changed his job… Why are you doing that from a low level?
– But it’s really bad. I see it’s aimed only at beginners who have just started.
grow grow and grow. At this time when everyone is devoted to character development, people who are half curious about the play of a unique concept who are focusing on catching other beginners’ ankles, not growth. And when the comment window was crowded with people frothing at the mouth and cursing, someone posted a tip and the situation started to get more serious.
-A vicious PK criminal. A novice killer’s ugly misdeeds.
I’m a novice who was killed by that bastard two days ago. Right after I died, I kept checking the bulletin board, but that’s not just an eccentricity, it’s a real bad user. So far, there are only 739 cases of damage reports, and seeing that they keep coming in, they are still doing that. I’m only doing that in the slime habitat, but my level doesn’t look that high, and it’s estimated that I’ve just changed jobs. I’m always waiting to kill that baby killer by organizing it, but it keeps running away like a loach. If anyone can help, please message me. And…
thanks to one of the users who was victimized by Jaeyoung persistently digging into it, people were shocked that the number of beginners he had killed so far exceeded hundreds.
-Wait a minute, you killed almost 800 people in two days?
-Is that possible? Have you ever been caught?
-No, even if only 10 beginners, no, 5 people gathered together, they would have already done it in reverse.
– But why are you doing that?
It’s a strangely high number to say that it’s a simple concept play. This is a figure that is difficult to achieve even if you do not eat, do not sleep, and kill users. Even if you are a psychopathic killer who enjoys murder, if you ask him to catch and kill this much in two days, he will say that he can’t kill because it’s difficult, so the question “Why?”
-Have you received the quest for a hidden class transfer?
– Isn’t that just a psychopath?
-Maybe it’s a broadcasting concept? Wherever you look for a deep web broadcast.
Among the many speculations about the newbie killer issue, one opinion could be drawn from community users.
– But you can’t just leave it like that, can you?
-If you killed that much, the number of evil acts would be very high.
– If it’s a holy class job, don’t you get a reward if you catch that guy?
Truly, the killing squad began to gather to catch one PK criminal. It was a large-scale killing squad that exceeded hundreds of units. And such movements were caught by the surveillance network of Alice, an artificial intelligence that observes and oversees everything related to Arcadia.
[Large mass formation detected. Analysis of related causes.]
The charm of Arcadia in virtual reality is that the story is not simply created in the game. Beyond the community, even the activities of users related to Arcadia across the Internet become a story and another content, implemented and realized in the game.
[Related Quest. Main Scenario Act. 1 Forgotten Darkness Begins.]
[Expected Scenario No. Similar to 259. Create related quests.]
By Alice, an artificial intelligence who contemplates everything.
[The quest has been created.]
On that day, all Korean users were confused by a quest that was suddenly created simultaneously.
[Quest Beginner Catch Serial Killer]
– Catch the mysterious killer who kills beginners in the slime habitat.
After the 0/1 quest was created, the community became even more noisy, but Jaeyoung’s face, who was sleeping soundly, was peaceful. He didn’t care about what happened outside the world because of him.
