Episode 3
[Notice: User registration begins.]
[Notice: 84%… 96%… 99%… 100%.]
[Notice: User Jinseong Ma has been registered.]
[Notice: Virtual reality mode synchronization starts.]
Jinseong closed his eyes.
It was the < Galaxy-M24 Apple > I ordered yesterday.
Even though I spent almost all my money, there was no turning back as long as I had already completed the installation.
Even though Jin-seong spent a lot of money, he never thought it was a waste, and he thought that money would not be a problem at all for himself who returned to 10 years ago.
There were plenty of ways he could make money, even stock coins and even real estate.
Except for the weird time limit hanging on his body.
‘This is confirmation. Confirmation of what happened to my body.’
Jinseong was lost in thought while listening to the operation sound of the Galaxy-M24 Apple.
It was literally.
How was he able to return to 10 years ago and why did the system window appear to him?
The message that he would die if he did not access the game within a week was also a message, but the voice whispered in his ear in the taxi must have been his voice.
‘Demon King Abraxas.’
It was the last boss he faced.
[Notice: Synchronization of virtual reality mode completed.]
[Notice: Access to the game Arsia Chronicle has been successful.]
[Notice: Do you want to start the game?]
“Start.”
And Jinseong’s consciousness was terrifyingly sucked into him.
* * *
[Notice:
Thousand eyes/6.0.1 – Error report
[Notice: Warning. Warning.]
[Notice: Mainstream detected.]
[Notice: Akashic Records accelerate main protocol block]
Weeing! Weeing!
San Francisco, California, USA.
Operator Chloe’s eyes widened as an alarm sounded in the control room.
The situation back then was worse than expected.
Oracle, a top-secret department located on the B13 floor of Evertail headquarters.
In an unexpected emergency, Chloe put her hand on the microphone without hesitation and soon spread it throughout < Oracle > with a sharp voice.
– Forward to all Oracle departments. code black. code black. pass it on again. Code Black!
Cord black.
It was the highest risk code for the company’s survival.
“WTF what the hell is this…?!”
“Emergency!!”
“Quickly start responding!!!!”
As Chloe’s voice resounded, the operators quickly tapped the computers.
It was unprecedented.
A desk in the control room stretched out in a fan shape and a huge main screen several meters in front.
Oracle was on the verge of paralysis on the control room screen plastered with dozens of warning messages.
Controlling the code was also limited.
“manager!!!! Please come quickly!!!”
“what’s the matter!!!”
Chloe screamed and a man jumped in a gown.
He was a man with impressive dark circles.
Hyeok Kim (Master Hyeok).
The head of Oracle’s top-secret department and the general development director of Evertale.
His gaze was fixed on the main screen, and soon he crumpled his face like a piece of paper.
“X feet.”
It was because things weren’t so good.
“The protocol blocking of the Akashic Records is accelerating as the main stream operates. If we go on like this, we might lose all control!”
Hyukjin bit his lip at Chloe’s words.
It was a completely unexpected variable.
Main stream!
Ever since the Hyper AI < Akashic Records > created AC, an unknown area that has not yet been uncovered!
Hyukjin and Oracle have achieved certain results in analyzing the world view and setting of AC while keeping a close eye on the movements of the Akashic Records.
But the main stream was different.
It was like a well-hidden reverse.
It was an area where the system and the entire game would be blown away if touched even slightly.
It was for this reason that Hyuk-jin ordered < Main Stream > to be monitored.
By the way…
[Notice: Control over the main stream is reduced to 48%]
[Notice: Control over the main stream is reduced to 36%]
….
[Warning: Control over the main stream is reduced to less than 25% decreased. The Akashic Records are taking over the server.]
Beep! beep! beep! beep! beep!
Hyukjin had no choice but to clenched his fists as he watched the control he had built so far collapse in an instant.
Even Hyukjin, who is called a genius, could not stop the movement of the Akashic Records.
“Main stream control… give up.”
“manager?!”
“hurry!!!”
“I don’t know Mr. Ai!”
bang!
When Hyukjin sighed, Chloe hit the red button.
It was a button that was locked with a key.
< Trigger >, which you would never normally press, and maybe lose control of the game forever.
And at the same time as the button was pressed, hundreds of codes were sprayed at once, and a dry voice began to resonate through the oracle.
[Notice: The authority to control the Akashic Records has been released.]
[Notice: The protocol blocking of the Akashic Records has been stopped.]
[Notice: The main stream is running.]
“…It’s a start.”
Hyukjin’s lips were tightly closed.
* * *
[Notice: You have logged in.]
[Player: Damian]
[Access date: July 29, 2020]
[Current location: Whispering Island]
[Notification: Welcome to Arcia.]
“Ugh. ”
Damian wrinkled his brow at the flickering sight.
The sensation that had just been lying in the capsule was gone.
< Field: Whispering Island >.
This island was the place where human users who started AC first descended, and it was like a cradle where they stayed until heading to the main continent.
Damian was also a place he had been through.
“…you’re really back.”
Damian inhaled air and closed his eyes.
It was a new feeling of ignorance.
Played over the past 10 years. Memories passing by like a kaleidoscope.
Damian slowly recalled all of them and engraved the name of a man that came to his mind.
‘Jung Yoo-min.’
It was a name I will never forget.
“friend. the world is Everyone has their own place. Like worms that get dirty, garbage like garbage, people from the lower classes like people from the lower classes. But do such life dropouts become heroes? this is not That’s a serious mistake. Isn’t that right?」
「What~ Anyway~. There must be bastards like you in the world to go back. Thanks to that, I cleared the dungeon like this. Catch the devil too. Isn’t it killing two birds with one stone?」
“…You bastard.”
Damian clenched his fist.
It was a terrible memory.
that mean voice. that mean face. that filthy undertone.
Recalling the leader of the expedition he once trusted, Damian felt unbearable anger boiling.
It wouldn’t have been any better if I tore off that hair iron right away.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that it was all because of him that he lost everything and became terminally ill.
Even now, back 10 years ago, it wasn’t much different.
He had absolutely no intention of forgiving Yu-min.
“Whoa…”
Damian looked up at the sky and took a long breath.
I didn’t do anything crazy.
Because there was no such thing as pathetic and stupid enough to consume emotions for something that couldn’t be undone.
And finding out what happened to him was far more important to Damian than dwelling on the past right now.
Revenge came next.
“I will find you, Jung Yoo-min. I’ll find it and make sure there’s not a single bone meal left. I’ll take everything you have how many months? No matter how many years it takes I don’t know if you’ll start playing this game again… but if you do.”
Damian gritted his teeth.
Blood oozes from his fists.
“I will make you regret starting this game for the rest of your life.”
Crunchy!
Suddenly, Damian’s eyes lit up.
* * *
“…I can’t do this.”
Damian was standing in the middle of a lush forest.
It was a sparsely populated mountain.
Originally, it should have descended to Whispering Island and landed in < Dunbarton >, a beginner village.
When I looked back now, I didn’t see a single ant baby around, let alone Dunbarton.
It was like descending to the wrong place.
“The world’s Evertail can’t catch a single bug like this?”
Damian tilted his head.
It was strange.
No matter how much it was 10 years ago, it was just the beginning of servicing games.
It was nonsense that Evertail couldn’t properly catch one of these bugs.
[Notice: Player Demian’s access log has been confirmed.]
[Notification: Countdown reset.]
[Notification: Text number – #0000000001]
[Notification: Testing begins.]
Until a message pops up in front of you. .
[Condition 1: If you do not access the game within 168 hours, you will die.]
[Condition 2: If your character dies, the player will also die.]
[Condition 3: Your character will die for a specified period of time. If the goal is not achieved, the player will also die.]
[Note: If the player arbitrarily attempts to remove the system, be careful as the character and player will die.]
“…What?”
Damian couldn’t keep his mouth shut at the message that popped up in front of his eyes.
It was absurd.
If you don’t log in within 168 hours, you die.
When a character dies, the player dies too.
If you fail the target within the specified period, you die.
Damian didn’t know if the above messages were real or not, but soon he knew they were true.
[Notice: The sensory limit is released.
]
A terrifying pain crept through his entire body.
[Notice: Sense limit release completed.]
[Notice: Player Damian’s final goal has been updated.]
[End goal: Demon King descends]
[Remaining time: 87599 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds]
“Kah… uh…! ”
Damian sat down on the floor.
It was as if he had been subjected to electric torture.
This terrifying pain that penetrates to the bone.
AC’s sensory system had a sophisticated corner that made it difficult to distinguish between virtual and real, but it did not implement all the senses 100%.
It was because it was a game anyway.
As long as it exists in a state of suspended animation within the capsule, the human body is highly likely to accept stimuli as real.
If Evertail had not restricted the function of the capsule, tens of millions of users would have suffered from aftereffects or died by now.
< Full Dive >.
This is why the technology implemented by Evertail is called innovation.
But…
“What the hell did you do to my body—!!”
As if to ridicule such Damien’s common sense, the system canceled the sensory numerical limit too easily.
The messages he had heard and seen were by no means false.
[Notice: Assign classes according to the final goal conditions.]
“Final… what…?”
Tring!
And a message floated in front of Damian’s eyes.
