Chapter. 18. World 4 (4)
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Rumble! Quack!
Flash!
One stormy night. In front of a steep cliff.
“Oooh! Do you see brothers! “A ray of light that cuts through the darkness!”
“I can see it, I can see it!”
“Light has answered our prayers!”
“Latura! Ratura!”
Men in colorful clothes and about a hundred people in shabby clothes were gathered in front of a small stone altar to pray.
“Dear brothers, how much have you suffered in this harsh world? How many years have you lived thinking that life was a process of self-destruction? Oooh everyone. Oh my poor brothers!”
“Ugh hehehehe, religious leader!”
“You shed tears for people like us!”
People began to sob to the point of losing their minds at the sight of the religious leader wiping away tears with exaggerated gestures.
The people who had been hanging out like madmen for a long time, using unintelligible words and gestures, stopped the moment the leader raised the scepter in his hand.
“everyone. There was a time when I was an ordinary person like you. “Until one day, along with the sunlight, the rays of light came to me.”
“I followed his words and went out of the city full of difficult trials, and after suffering, I arrived at a sacred place of light unknown to anyone and became the owner of this great relic! Ra-Huram, the great god of light, said that this was a scepter made from the shin bone of the legendary saint and immortal ‘Professor’ 200 years ago. “Only this Ahumtel in front of you has heard his will, so he told you to lead the world with this holy relic in your hands!!!”
“Ahumtel! Holy successor, Bishop Ahumtel!”
“I believe it! “We only believe in you!”
“Sleep quietly! quiet!!! The time has come, folks. That’s why I called you to this sacred hill! “For now the moment has come for you to throw off the bondage of eternal suffering and become a dazzling star, standing shoulder to shoulder with the saints of the high heavens.”
Huuuuung-!
As the man called the cult leader swung his ‘sacred scepter’, a bright cluster of light appeared at the edge of the storm-swept cliff, so bright that it stunged the eyes.
“O great prophet Ahumtel. “What is that divine light…”
“Of course it is the door of divine light that will lead you to a higher world. Congratulations brothers. You have been chosen by believing in this Ahumtel. Now, please come in quickly. hurry!”
“Ha, but just a moment ago, that spot was a cliff…”
“It’s blasphemous!!!! With an unbeliever’s heart like that, he will never be able to cross the gate of light! “I dare to cut off that tongue of doubt from the sacred hill and declare your sins to My Light!!”
“Oh no! Stop seeing how amazing this ignorant guy is! Let’s go! “I’m going in right now!”
“Rush in without any doubt! “You will have to recite prayers out loud as you go!”
One by one, the shabby believers gathered on the hill began to run, one by one, into the blinding light as the man was swept away by the fearsome force and atmosphere of the religious leader.
At first glance, I thought I could hear a sound like someone falling, but it was covered by the sound of a fierce storm and most people went into the light before I could hear it. I threw myself over the cliff.
“…Are they all gone?”
“Yes, Master! Everything ‘fell down’ just fine!”
“Then why don’t you put out the fire quickly! “I know how much magic gemstone a magic light projector like that consumes!”
Pang-Pabang-
At the order of the religious leader Ahumtel, the priests put their hands into the crevices of the rocks on the hill. When I turned off the switch on the pre-installed magic circuit, the sacred ‘magic light’ that had been hiding the cliff disappeared.
Shootaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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“Shit. I can’t even do this. Every time I do it, I have to scream in the rain for over two hours. “Those idiots will go if they go. Why do they have so many questions?”
“Hehehe. Teacher, didn’t you still find this ‘ritual’ quite savory? “There were quite a few donations.”
Ahumtel shook his head as he changed into dry clothes in the tent at the back of the valley.
“It’s only a small amount of money for poor idiots to donate all their possessions. “The work crew is down, right?”
“We are waiting at the bottom of the cliff in advance.”
“okay. They should be a big hit. They say it over and over again, but you have to search the corpse thoroughly, as if you were digging it up. know? In particular, you must check the spine and heart. Because ‘decisions’ often come from places like that.”
decision. Fragments. human sculpture. Or, it is called the last miracle of humanity and is a great power that saved the dying humanity along with the fragments of magic engineering.
The reason Ahumtel acted as the leader of an unworthy cult and gathered the trash from the bottom was all in order to harvest those eye-poppingly expensive ‘crystals’.
“But where did you learn to be a religious leader? “Before, you were just stealing with us.”
“Pahahaha! That’s the prayer for light that I heard all those days in the damn orphan hole! “Thanks to our priest who prayed to teach people like me, I am now using it very well.”
“Kya~ As expected, there is no skill in the world that I can’t learn and use! If you know how to do that, let’s pray sometimes! In order for there to be no disruption in the transaction, the sending party and the receiving party must be on the same page! From now on, if we pray and say, ‘I’m sending 130 people – I hope they receive it well’, it will be easier on the other side too!”
“You’re saying all kinds of crazy things. If you’re all rested, go down and pick up the corpse! “Don’t talk nonsense like praying.”
“Nimiral. Next time, let’s get one of the idiots to do some chores. “Don’t kill everyone.”
Religious leader Ahumtel. No, Ahut, the black-footed bandit leader, followed the back of his subordinate as he went down carrying a sharp dagger with his eyes, and only after he had completely disappeared did he take out his wet robes and take out the items stored in its inner pocket.
A small book carefully wrapped in waxed paper with the words ‘Word of Light’ faintly visible.
Ahut, who recalled memories of the past for a moment, shook his head and threw away the gun.
“God is freezing to death.”
Grumble!
The fire thrown into the small brazier began to burn in an instant.
“If there was a God, how could the world be like this?”
After looking at the flames for a moment, Ahut soon put on a cloak and left the tent.
Although they are trustworthy subordinates, they may change their minds once the crystals are collected from the corpse.
Shoot,
the rain equally hid even the people who had just killed over a hundred people.
A bright battle was burning through the tents fluttering in the wind.
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Tiring-!
[Time of birth – Search for ‘as soon as possible’ has ended.]
[A large-scale religious ceremony was held in the name of the Gwangmyeong Church.]
[Size: 117 people, including religious leaders]
[Format: Primitive large-scale sacrifice + Later Gwangmyeong Church Ascension Prayer Ceremony]
[Your birth conditions have been met.]
[Would you like to be born through the power of the ritual ‘Evil Ascension Ceremony’? Y / N ]
[If approved, ‘Evil Energy lv.3’ will be added to your birth due to the influence of the evil ritual.]
Puddud!
The border between GG’s world and reality. Somewhere.
At the stage just before logging in, a floating man was grinding his teeth in a terrifying sound.
“My brothers… How on earth have you been able to survive in my absence for 200 years? “How is it that everyone’s consciousness is so delicious!”
It is true that I was a little anxious. because? That damn wall-window ‘system’ that is impossible for conditional self-correction does not have a single mention of religion in the world records!
After my death, it is clear that the Gwangmyeong Church has carried out an unstoppable religious movement, but the only religious reference is ‘hiding the saint’s death.’ ‘The Church of Abundance harvested so much wheat that Teldrat suffered greatly.’ Because that’s all I got.
Still, I did it anyway. They say that even if a rich man goes bankrupt, he will survive for three generations. Could it be that the best denomination in the three worlds would not be able to last for 200 years?
[The player can select the time of birth with his/her unique authority.]
[With the player’s unique authority ‘Advent’, if the player is born in the year of the large-scale religious ceremony of the religion, he/she can inherit some of the previous character’s talents.]
[Currently Searched birth date – New Imperial Calendar 199, Gwangmyeong Church 3rd Tribe’s unique event ‘Unlimited Blood Battle Festival’ / New Imperial Calendar 204, Church of Light’s transformation ritual ‘Boo Moth’s Dance’ / New Imperial Calendar 211, Blackfoot Bandits’ unique ritual ‘Evil ‘Ascension Festival’]
“I want to beat up a dog.”
I couldn’t hold on. You idiots.
Of course, ‘Gwangmyeong Church has disappeared and no religious ceremonies will be held. It’s not the worst situation like ‘The right to descend is extinguished’, but aren’t all the large-scale religious ceremonies that pop up out of the ordinary?
‘Unlimited Blood Battle’. If you select this, ‘Berserker Beyond the Line’ will be added to your birth characteristics.
This trait makes him more obsessed with blood than a regular berserker, but this doesn’t have a time limit and is activated at all times. As far as I know, it’s a very rare trait that causes your character to go crazy and become out of control if you don’t kill more than 100 people in a month. Wow, even if you take it as the minimum, you can kill 1,000 people in 10 months. It is natural to become a public servant of humanity. If you don’t want to eat the game, of course you have to filter it.
If you choose ‘Dance of the Moth’ as your birth ritual, you will be given a talent related to spiritual energy and morale as a bonus, but in return, you will receive a super-special mine called [When you are near a light source, you will gain the effect of Suicidal Impulse Lv.9.] has been given.
The ceremony itself involved hundreds of drugged believers gathering together to say, ‘I become the light!!’ The act of throwing one’s body into a burning pyre with the same sound. As a former repeat suicide attempter, it was a start I should never have chosen.
And the next thing I chose was the ‘Evil Ascension Ceremony’.
“Evil energy. “With Lv.3 evil energy… how can we cover it?”
Trait [Evil Energy]. It is a characteristic that is usually naturally attached to dark magic characters, but to put it simply, it can be said that when entering an area infested with undead, an eerie atmosphere for no reason emanates from the human body.
In short, he becomes an inherently unlikable character. In particular, in the case of NPCs with a lawful/good nature, they are reluctant to even talk to each other except under certain circumstances, which means that making good colleagues like Charlotte or Otman in the past requires several times more effort than ordinary characters.
“Ugh, it’s not a trait that will ruin your play, but this kind of thing will keep holding you back even as you grow up…”
In a world where it’s obvious even if you don’t look at it, you’re passively disliking it. Considering how crazy the level of difficulty is, it would of course be right to pass this one and hope that the healthy Gwangmyeong believers will perform the ritual next time, but….
“…I can’t do it because I’m scared. “You can’t just run the gacha and end up ruined.”
Already 21 years have passed since 190 of the New Imperial Calendar, the starting point. In 21 years, large-scale religious ceremonies were held in the name of the Gwangmyeong Church only three times. What if I pass this time and roll again, but an even more idiotic religious ritual pops up than now? Are you going to pass that over again? Did you know that the next ceremony will be in a few years?
Tiring-!
[You chose the ‘Evil Ascension Ceremony’ as your birth ritual. Your character will be created in the year 211 of the New Imperial Calendar.]
[Due to the influence of the birth ritual, the character will be granted ‘Evil Energy Lv.3’.]
[Due to the effect of the unique authority ‘Descent’, ‘Auror Talent Lv. 3′ is granted.]
[Due to the effect of the unique authority ‘Descent’, ‘Water Magic Talent Lv. 4’ is granted.]
[Due to the effect of the unique authority ‘Descent’, ‘Muslim Lv. 6’ is granted.]
“….Okay. This is enough. This is enough. cancer! “If you think about the start of World 3, it’s almost like a cheat!”
Level 3, Level 4, Level 6. Excluding physical talent, it is not a very high number, but it is an excessive talent to be given to a young child. Since it starts quickly, we can build on that as a foundation.
[The birth age can be selected according to the unique authority ‘Favor of the Ancient Dragon’.]
[The character automatically grows as an ordinary NPC until the age selected by the player, and then hands over the body to the player as soon as the play begins, and acquires the player’s characteristics and talents. It is given.]
[How old is your character?]
“…about nine years old.”
[9 years old. Your character ‘Professor’ starts at the age of 9.]
As you go with the disadvantages, you have no choice but to give up some of your greed. If it starts around three or five years old as originally planned, a child who has just started walking will be full of evil energy, but a child who cannot even speak and is far away from the competition for succession is giving off an evil energy?
I can assure you that even rats and birds will be assassinated or abandoned without anyone noticing.
I don’t know what kind of noble family I’ll end up in, but at least my name has to be in there so I can talk about it and cover it up.
Whoa!
I could feel the sense of floating that was unique to logging in gradually fading away and getting closer to April World.
[You can select your birth point through the unique authority ‘Favor of the Elder Dragon.’]
[Please select your birth point.]
“Can you give me a map?”
[Information that may directly affect play is not provided. You can learn it through dialogue while playing or check it by acquiring recorded information -]
“I shouldn’t say anything.”
200 years. 200 years ago from the Wasteland Era, it was the 1870s, that is, the time from the death of Heungseon Daewongun and the Unyo Lake Incident until the emergence of Full Dive Virtual Reality.
This means that if you thoughtlessly cast a spell like ‘The capital of the former empire~’, you could fall into an area occupied by a Mutation Lord or something. As a unique benefit, limited peace is granted to the area, but if you fall in the middle of enemy territory, you will die immediately and the only thing you can do is to be replaced.
Of course, the damn system must have calculated all these things and decided, ‘If this is enough, I can throw it away.’
“system? The scope of the ‘unconditional short-term peace’ given as a benefit is not just the front yard of my house or the size of my village, right? “Can you tell me how much it is?”
Tiring-!
[it’s possible. This authority has the scope of a small country’s border, and its duration depends on the risk level of the area.] It
is the size of a small country’s border. You give me more than I expected. The duration depends on how dangerous the area is…
“Okay then. The birthplace within the system shall be an island whose size most closely resembles the extent of short-term peace.”
In this play, as the priority was to take the game safely for a long time, I had to use the early boost I received as a special bonus to the extreme.
If the entire island, my birthplace, becomes a peace zone, I will be able to fully utilize the benefits given to me.
[Birthplace: Island. Condition: The island that most closely resembles the scope of the player’s unique privilege, ‘Unconditional Short-Term Peace’. Searched.]
[Set as the central island of the Tarigden Archipelago in the former Free Trade Association area.]
Tiring-!
[Character creation is complete.]
This is how my second ‘Professor’ character, completed at the end of Django, was created.
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+ Name: [Professor]
+ Race: [Human]
+ Gender: [Male]
+ Age: 9 years
+ Appearance: Inherited some external characteristics due to the influence of ‘Descent’ / Born into a noble family Based on the family’s original characteristics, additional external characteristics are inherited.
+ Starting: [World 4 / Fordrag, the island at the center of the Tarigden Archipelago]
+ Origin: Traces of the most sacred human
– Trait
1. [Suitable Auror Talent]: You are a remnant of a divine being born based on a specific large-scale religious ritual. no see. Although it was not completely inherited due to the lack of direct intervention from the entity in question, superior talent is granted simply by inheriting traces of a legendary character / Auror Talent Lv. 3 is granted.]
2. [Good water-based mana talent]: Same as above / Mana talent Lv. 4 is granted.]
3. [Immense Physical Talent]: The one you are based on has a body that is several levels beyond human limitations. As you inherited his skills, you were born with a strong body. / Boneless Lv. 6 is given.
4. [Traces of an evil ritual]: You borrowed the power of an evil religious ritual to inherit traces of the past. As a result, you were born with an aura of cynicism. / Evil energy Lv.3 is granted.
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“It’s a bit shitty.”
In the first place, GG’s characters are given the same characteristics as their real-life counterparts no matter what they do, so originally, ‘Characteristics 1. You are Professor Park.’ It was a status window that should have ended with just one. At least thanks to Atlaheva and the World Tree, we were able to add some game-like characteristics to it.
Tiring-!
[Character creation is complete.]
The strange feeling of floating that was unique to logging in disappeared, and I felt like the world was getting closer, as if I was falling from a distant space.
“It’s an impossible level of difficulty… So far, it feels better than March World, but what else is there?”
With the thought of not letting down my guard, a white light engulfed me.
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“Uhmmm….”
A dull pain felt in my head.
An unfamiliar ceiling felt through blurred vision.
Clink!
The sound of someone dropping something like a vase resonates as soon as you lift your heavy eyelids.
“Master Tao! Are you out of your mind, master? Do you recognize me?”
“Oh, this is absolutely correct. “The managers did a great job.”
“young master? “There’s no way I’m having trouble with my head due to the shock…!”
As soon as she wakes up, she is so startled that she drops her things and goes to call someone else, saying that the master has become strange.
The typical ‘born as a bitch’ cliché satisfied me. In this unpredictable world, a cliché means a predictable situation.
If there is something a little different from the typical ‘born as a bastard’…
“Isn’t it a fancy bed?”
It’s not shabby, but it’s a wooden bed that can’t even be considered a bed used by nobles.
The maid’s uniform looks old at first glance in a room that has been cleaned diligently but is basically shabby.
A poor nobleman.
“Not being from a great family has its own advantages. “There is no need to worry about getting caught up in political strife, and there are many cases where the internal stability is good.”
While I was adjusting my evaluation of the new base to around 70 points, I heard pounding footsteps outside the door.
Jump up!
“Priest! Master, please take a look! “I think you hurt your head!”
“Umm…. This energy can’t be…. Master. Would you like to know who I am?”
‘hmm. After all, wouldn’t it be better to start with [Amnesia], which boasts history and tradition?’
Since I had decided to take a long look, I was going to go with as few variables as possible, so I was preparing to show the world’s stupidest expressions to the two people lined up in front of my bed.
『Puuuu-! “Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu)!!!!)
If a huge noise had not been heard outside the window at that moment, Archbishop Norman would have performed enough to fool even Archbishop Norman.
“What is that…?”
“Ugh! What should I do, priest! “You must have really become a fool!”
“This is a big deal. Even if you don’t know information such as people’s names, the fact that you can’t even recognize the magic train you used to like so much seems like a pretty serious condition…”
“Magic… train?”
Instead of acting like an idiot, I became a real idiot.
I got out of bed and walked awkwardly towards the window.
When I removed the thick curtain, the city spread out before my eyes.
thud! thud!
Slam! Slam!
A furnace of a type I have never seen before, illuminating blue heat in a city submerged in deep night.
“It’s a train! The train is coming!!!!”
“Damn it! Straug did it! “I came across those damn earthworms!”
“Bring all the Gongmanseok powder you have stored up! Just by looking at it, the engine is about to explode!!”
“burlap bag! Bring the sack first! Those bastards don’t seem to be able to stop!”
From furry beastmen, to dwarves whose height did not even reach the waist of a beastman, and even trolls, they were moving around busily carrying large sacks, but it was hard to even see the labor scene where the species had come together.
『Kiiiiiiiiiiiiic-!!!!』
Push-ik-!
What caught my eye was a huge piece of metal surrounded by people.
The fuselage, which was heated to the point of a haze, gave off hot steam as a result of the water sprayed by the workers, and those who came out after opening the thick iron door were sharing the joy of their return with the workers outside with fatigue evident at a glance.
Through the door they opened, I could catch a glimpse of the magic gem’s faint magic light and mechanical devices.
It spews blue steam out of a large chimney.
An iron track that runs through the center of the city and a huge steam locomotive appears on top of it.
No Mado Engine train.
The city constantly spewing out steam as if it were alive, the heavy train, and the sky covered in smoke. They were all pointing in one direction.
“The genre… isn’t it fantasy?”
These were worn by drivers getting off the train in the distance.
A knife at my waist.
Behind his back… if I’m not mistaken… that’s a gun.
gun. It’s a gun.
No matter how many times I rub my eyes, it’s still a gun!
“Thank you….. Thank you Roman! Thank you for releasing magic engineering into the world!!!!! Hahahaha!”
“City priest! Do something! “You are now smiling while calling out the name of your old sage!”
“The situation is serious. “It looks like the treatment will cost quite a bit, so let’s get an advance payment from the Countess first and then finish it.”
A similar steam engine powered by a horsepower engine. A city covered in hazy steam.
An old-fashioned firearm with a beautiful harmony of straight lines and curves.
A priest and a knight came to visit the patient! Magic! Auror! divinity!
….and the barren land that spreads endlessly beyond the castle walls and the track that crosses the lonely land.
“Yeah… I said I didn’t provide any information that would ‘influence’ play…!”
A system that showed me records of a world I had never experienced, but did not tell me anything that was really important.
The world I fell into was not the world I knew 200 years ago.
“….Good thing I started early. “There must be a lot to learn.”
4 World. The next era, 211 years after Professor Seongja’s death.
The world was moving toward arcane punk.
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