< The player hides the past - Bethes > Episode 1. Grandfell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo
…You must look like a madman.
Still can’t help it.
After thinking about it, I opened my mouth.
Talked to me in the mirror.
“…Who am I? what is my name?”
Yes, my name is Lee Ho-yeol.
Ten to be happy in the big lake.
only three daughters
My name was given to me by my grandfather who was very happy to see me born as the youngest son of a rich family.
However, unlike the head, a completely different name comes out of the mouth.
“…Grand Fell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo.”
I don’t even know which country’s aristocratic name it is.
A monstrously long name…!
Didn’t you suddenly wake up from a past life?
“I wish it had been like that…”
No, I know it’s not a fantasy development like that.
Because my reflection in the mirror was telling me.
Oddly sharp eyes.
Noticeably toned physique.
Until the last letter that popped up in front of my eyes.
This was an awakening.
I was told that I became a player.
Yes, I could understand that far.
The problem was my image as a player and my strange name.
“No matter how you look at it, this was about 10 years ago…”
[Name: Grandfell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo]
12 years ago to be exact.
So 15 years old.
Around the time of my second illness.
The character I grew up with was clear.
I muttered involuntarily.
“…It looks like you’ve been really fucked up.”
Noble, as if you were a noble.
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Squeak—
It’s ruined.
Contrary to those feelings, my actions were full of composure.
He took out an unused teacup from the cupboard.
I brewed green tea, which I normally wouldn’t even touch.
Then we sat down at the table and sipped green tea.
“It doesn’t smell bad.”
…It’s not like filming a historical drama.
I’m talking, but my tone is awkward.
In any case, I could intuit.
That is to say, his behavior and speech changed under the influence of his awakening.
player awakening.
I just thought it had nothing to do with me.
That’s because I completely forgot.
“…to say the least, it was about 10 years ago.”
Arcana Continent Biography.
13 years ago.
A virtual reality game that has never come off the top since its release.
No, the game called another life beyond the game.
[The appearance of unidentified buildings around the world… Is it related to the end of the Arcana service?]
Such Arcana has become a reality.
[Appearance of monsters all over the world… Netizen Japan “Arcana monsters are certain.” Controversy broke out]
Arcana’s monsters appeared in that reality.
[The emergence of new people? Defeat the monstrous creature with your bare hands…]
You can hunt monsters in reality.
Players who have awakened the abilities of Arcana characters also appeared.
Even after that cataclysm, many years had passed.
Arcana Continent Electricity has become a reality.
When I first heard the news while in the military, I was stunned.
– Mr. Ha. If I knew it would be like this, I wouldn’t have folded it.
I used to imagine that while staying up all night.
Why?
Because players are literally heroes.
[Player ‘Golden Flash’ defeats the named monster ‘General Sekir’!]
[Crack clear reward alone is about 5 billion won…]
[Close interview: Player ‘Nam Tae-min’ who prevented the catastrophe]
But that was all.
– To be honest, even if I wake up, there won’t be much to see.
Because I stopped playing Arcana Continental Electric in less than a year.
There was a big practical problem there.
The price of the connector alone is a whopping 10 million won.
The monthly fee was approaching hundreds of thousands of won.
“…I’m sorry guys.”
“are you okay. father. You don’t have to feel sorry for us.”
“Sobbing. Even your mother has no face to see you.”
“Ah, what’s wrong with my real mother?”
“We and Ho-yeol have all grown up. What are you worried about?”
By the time you enter high school.
After the day I got a foreclosure ticket on my house.
I have completely turned off my interest in arcana continental electricity and games.
It’s the same when you go to high school.
Like it or not, I had no choice but to study, and the result is now.
A pretty decent home in a pretty decent job.
A leisurely daily life going back and forth to my parents’ house every weekend.
Even if you don’t have enough, you don’t have big greed, so it’s a decent life.
“…But what does this mean?”
My head is pounding.
I try to tilt the teacup.
For now, let’s put aside the fucking historical drama tone.
The important thing is that I have awakened as a player.
10 years, 12 years ago to be exact.
It is said that the character [Grandfell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo], which I developed in Arcana Continental Electric, was overlaid on me, Lee Ho-yeol.
I’ve seen such interviews often.
-The biggest change after awakening… is the feeling of assimilation with the character? It really feels like me in real life and the character in the game have merged into one. Shall we call it an illusion?
– Even if it’s possessed, it was me who was playing the character in the game. Even if I possessed the character I played, nothing would have changed much.
-Still, thanks to that, I think I can not be scared even when I see real monsters.
If there’s anything else, it’s that I played that game over 10 years ago.
Also, the fact that I was ‘extremely’ immersed in the character [Grand Fell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo] about 10 years ago must be a different point.
“It’s delicious.”
It’s to the point where it changes your taste buds.
…I’m really going to turn around.
Is this also thanks to Arcana’s character information being overlaid?
I started to remember the setting of [Granfell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo] that I had forgotten.
Of course, the massive setting I made while suffering from secondary illness.
『Grand Fell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo.
Its exact age is unknown.
He was the heir of a great family, but the family was ruined by the devil.
The only survivor of the family, Grandfell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo and younger Grandfell walked the path of a demon hunter to take revenge on the devil.
It is characterized by a graceful appearance with long, silver hair, and uses a tone of voice that conveys the nobility of its status
.
”
It was a setup that made my limbs shrivel just thinking about it.
Of course, even if I made the settings, nothing is reflected in the game.
Even if I said setting, it was all scribbled on a notebook or notepad.
Isn’t that why it’s not listed in the settings?
It’s called the ruined nobles.
It’s because I started with a level 1 beginner who had nothing to do with it.
It was just a plausible collapse setting.
Yes, there is only one truth in that long setting.
That he was on the path of a demon hunter.
[Name: Grandfell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo]
[Class: Demon Hunter]
But in the past, I was obsessed with the setting and played Arcana.
To put it simply, it was said that he played the life of Grandfel in Arcana.
Now that I think about it, there’s no such thing as a crazy person
.
It means that I can regard it as a memory that I can laugh at now.
“…Memories. I miss you.”
But the memories I wanted to forget became a reality.
Shit migraines get worse.
I’m worried that someone might see my embarrassing appearance.
…no wait.
I have to go to work tomorrow right now?!
Let’s think soberly.
Will I be able to go to work and work normally?
That’s what social life is.
It’s not easy.
There are several times a day where you have to lower your head and throw away your pride.
However, I was influenced by Grandfel’s settings and even changed my taste.
Will he be able to survive even for a day in a harsh society?
『Grand Fell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo is noble. Whoever the opponent is, he never lowers his head. His pride is heavy and unshakable. Even if it means sinking under its weight and drowning.
”
It may be that the settlement money comes out more than the monthly salary.
After a noble tea time, I came to a conclusion.
“I can’t keep my head down forever.”
This time, the words were in vain, but anyway.
To put it simply, it meant quitting my job.
I decided to live as a player from now on.
Anyone who sees it might think it’s not a sudden decision.
But I’m just making a rational decision.
lets think.
With this state of affairs, it was only natural that he would be a nuisance no matter where he went to work.
In the meantime, the bank balance will be noticeably reduced.
Damn aristocratic taste.
It’s because the cost of tea time, which I didn’t even enjoy, will be added to my expenses.
The cost of living has become even more desperate.
In the end, it is said that in order to make a living, you have no choice but to live as a player.
Of course, there is no great greed.
As I got older, I naturally came to understand the subject.
There is no longer a patient with second grade disease who
believed that he was a special person who
was overly immersed in Grandfel .
Just enough to live on.
Then, wouldn’t there be any danger to one’s life as a player?
Let’s do a search first.
I knew too little about the player’s world.
Because I didn’t live with admiring them.
I was so busy making a living that I didn’t pay much attention.
Still, I was envious of making a lot of money.
“…hmm.”
tens, hundreds, hundreds of billions.
Literally billions of players’ articles that never cease.
But even reading the article, I was bored.
『For Grand Fell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo, wealth was fleeting. Born as an heir to a great family and experiencing the end of affluence, there was no reason for him to be obsessed with wealth and glory.
”
Should I say I’m lucky?
Because I didn’t think I would risk my life blinded by greed.
But before that, there were serious problems.
“…I am weak.”
…Is it possible to properly catch a single mob like this?
I was worried about whether I would even be able to wear it at a party.
The level of monsters that appeared in reality was no joke.
To the point where I can’t deal with it at all.
-Wow, that was really close lol
-Did a party with an average level of 200 manage to capture it?
-You can see that the level is getting higher as time goes by.
-Rankers seem to rather like it? It gives a lot of experience
. It was a comment on a video.
The average level of the player party is 200.
I checked the status window.
[Name: Grandfell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo]
[Class: Demon Hunter]
[Level: 55]
Only level 55.
My level was the same as 10 years ago.
At the time, it wasn’t even a ranker, but it belonged to a fairly high level
.
After all, there was a saying that mountains and rivers change in 10 years. “Why did I
spend
so much time in vain…?”
I suddenly searched for ‘demon hunter’ in the search bar.
“I forgot for a second.”
How to raise a demon hunter…!
It was so long ago that I completely forgot about it.
At that time, demon hunters could only develop characters in a limited way.
Unlike other classes that leveled up through hunting, demon hunters had to level up through quests.
《Skill》
Natural Enemy Relations
Silver Mastery
Shooting Mastery
Simultaneous Shooting
Exorcism
Most of the quests were to defeat demons.
There was a big limit to the class called Demon Hunter.
───────
Natural Enemy Relations: Fighting power increases dramatically when fighting demons.
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It boasts overwhelming majesty when dealing with demons, but otherwise it has missing abilities. That’s why it’s a class that can’t even give out a business card in a hunting ground with an appropriate level.
That was the reality of demon hunters.
Then, isn’t it enough to hunt demons?
if anyone asks
At that time, I was able to answer that there were no demon-type monsters in Arcana.
Because the only time demon hunters could encounter demons was during quests.
Because of that, demon hunters were an unpopular job at the time.
“But that is the past.”
Yes, it was 2 years after 10 years.
It was time for the new demon hunter training method to come out.
Now that Arcana has become a reality, it may be difficult to apply the fostering method as it is in reality.
Still, I’ll be able to take a look at it.
good.
After waking up, the throbbing in my head gradually begins to clear up.
…drinking tea? no no
In any case, it is fortunate that I was born in the information age.
You can find the information you are looking for with just a move of your finger.
Type ‘demon hunter’ into the search bar.
Browsing through the search results…
“…what does this mean?”
A search result that was completely different from what I expected came to mind.
“Akkshan base destroyed? All dead.”
What happened to Arcana in the last 10 years?
.
.
.
Akshan Base.
It was the headquarters of the demon hunters.
The Akkshan base is where you complete the job transfer quest, go through the training quest, and become a demon hunter class.
However, the Akkshan base was destroyed for some reason, and even the NPCs were wiped out.
Because of that, it was impossible to change to a demon hunter.
“Is that a long time ago?”
…Wait, what about me?
Where did the demon hunter’s new training method go?
After searching all kinds of communities, I came to a realization.
“no way.”
-I miss the old days. Back then, there was a class called demon hunter
. I heard it for the first time
-ㅋㅋㅋ What a trash character the devil hunter was back then
-I raised it, then I raised it again after cassacking it lol
-It’s lighthearted, but it’s poor performance lol The more
I searched, the more convinced I was of that idea.
Apparently, there was not a single player who was currently in the Demon Hunter class.
No, it was because I had awakened as a player…
It seemed that I was the only one.
“Unbelievable.”
I resent my taste in the past.
No matter how cool it is, even if it’s a middle school two who lives and dies.
If I had thought about the performance even a little, would it have been too much?
“Your head hurts.”
Maybe it’s because I took in too much information all of a sudden.
I guess I needed a break.
That was the time when I was about to put down my smartphone.
Suddenly, a post caught my eye.
-But if I knew it would be like this, I would have continued raising demon hunters
.
What kind of story do you have?
Did you post something like that?
I clicked on the post out of curiosity.
And I was startled.
“Demons were officially added in a new update, and since then, the difficulty of the rifts has risen dramatically. If there were no demons, real players would not have lost their lives…?”
What demons added?
Are those demons active in real life too?
‘This could be…’
A possibility pops up in my head.
But it didn’t come out.
The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.
Above all, it seemed that even the players with a much higher level than me were struggling because of the demons.
But different from understanding such a subject.
I mumbled.
『Granfell Cloudy Arpheus Romeo’s pride ironically rises the most in front of the devil.』
“Consider it an honor.”
『No devil’s temptations and trials of deception can even damage the lofty pride of Grandfel.』
“I will throw you all into hell.”
