Chapter 337 Kill the Pope (7)
This being who controls the cycle of life and death in Arcadia and who was once the ruler of the Underworld.
Death.
Abandoned by the Creator first, he was forcibly imprisoned deep in a mountain range somewhere on the Arcadia continent by Asura, the owner of the Black Mist.
[I will help you avenge yourself. Instead, bring death to this world.]
An adventurer who cries after losing his precious people by the Holy Empire.
Death awakened a vengeance in his heart, who fell into despair and grief, and gave him the strength to take revenge on him who came to him. And as a result… the seal of the beginning, which was suppressing his divinity, was enduring the current situation in a more unstable form than ever before.
cooong. cooong.
Originally, the death of the beginning, which could not move because its feet were tied to a chain so short that it could not even stand up. However, now he was struggling to pull out a stake that was deeply embedded in the ground, pulling hard on a chain long enough to move around in a small hole freely.
Woo woo woo.
He pulled it for a while, but the seal emanated a soft light and squeezed him. Looking at it, the black child looked at the stake with a regretful look and licked his lips.
“Is it still…not enough…?”
A seal that had bound the black child for eons. He desperately wanted to pull the damn stake right now and expose himself to Arcadia again, but he tried hard not to be impatient.
“Just a little more…”
To his own existence, which has become stronger than ever.
The power of restraint, which was incomparably weaker than before.
He sat down again with a calm face, thinking of his apostle who was working hard for his resurrection, devouring the power of immortality of adventurers outside and devouring the power of the heavens.
Woo woo woo.
Feeling the ever-increasing divinity with your whole body as if you knew no limits.
* * *
The company responsible for the overall operation and management of everything that happens in Arcadia.
Arcadia Co., Ltd.
In this company, which has dozens and hundreds of branches established and operated around the world, the two branches that provide services in North America and Korea were responding comprehensively to this incident as a super emergency to the extent that it would be appropriate to say that it was a wartime situation.
“It is said that complaints about the character being deleted are flocking to the company building. They’re blocking it somehow, but they say it’s impossible with security personnel!”
“The media continues to request related materials. They are threatening to use the article as they please if I don’t release it right away!”
“I just sent you the data that calculated the amount of damage! Please confirm!”
“I just sent an e-mail to the expected scenario ABC about the direction of future scenario development!”
“The Customer Satisfaction Service Team has received a request for urgent dispatch of counselors!”
A battlefield in a fierce office where all sorts of documents are handed over and delivered here and there, wandering around frantically between phones ringing like crazy. Inside, everyone from low-level employees to team leaders were busy running around on their own two feet to deal with various problems that occurred while performing their duties, and the voice of General Manager Kang Tae-hun, who led all of them, filled the office.
“Call the cops, not the guards! Do you think this situation can be solved with security personnel! If you get even the slightest bit violent, take legal action right away!”
“If you write a novel, it’s a completely out of the press, not the knight once again. okay? Be sure to tell them that in the future you will be a sucker for advertisements and will not even think of getting articles from us!”
“Who sent the damage calculation data! uh? Is this right? Did you just send me the latest data from 2 hours ago?”
“If there are surplus personnel in each department, turn them into civil complaints immediately! If no one is there, have a cleaning lady sit down and let her do it!”
Director Kang Tae-Hoon, who immediately responds to and gives instructions to all kinds of problem reports pouring in from all departments.
He is in charge of the crisis management response team… No, he is the absolute general manager regardless of department or position in the case of an emergency at the Korean branch of Arcadia Co., Ltd. He has strong authority to give orders and instructions to everyone. We were doing our best to respond to this situation by mobilizing all our capabilities.
‘Huh….. It’s really no joke.’
Employees of Arcadia Co., Ltd. are clearly embarrassed by the sudden situation. Even General Manager Kang Tae-hun, who is giving work instructions to such people, was embarrassed by the unprecedented situation he was experiencing for the first time.
‘It’s a job that can be forced to delete a character. This nonsense…..’
Increased access to information at the direction of CEO Lee Mi-yeon.
Thanks to that, the employees of the crisis management and response team, including Executive Director Myung-Han Kwon, were able to read relatively detailed data about the current situation, and those who grasped the reality were astonished.
Forced deletion of character.
The birth of a user with the incredible power to permanently erase the character itself from this Arcadia at the same time as death in the name of the mortal authority.
Even a normal game would cause a stir, but in Arcadia, where capsules cost tens of millions of won just to play the game, the aftermath was so great that it was incomparable to other games.
‘This could really lead to a worldwide lawsuit….. Or rather, isn’t this kind of data deletion illegal?’
Something that could be legally problematic. In addition, looking at the situation of North American users who have already predicted a large-scale class action lawsuit, Korea was not in a very relaxed situation either.
“Aww! Why the hell is that bastard coming our way?”
“Please… please don’t touch that poor user…!”
“Ah-oh! Why the hell are those idiots going to such a dangerous place!”
Morse visits the major cities of the Holy Empire one by one and gives them eternal rest in death. Despite the fact that his notoriety had already spread here and there through Arpendia, strangely, there were madmen who always visited him.
[Yuha! Hello viewers. What am I going to do today? It is to visit the apostle of death, which is a hot topic these days, and see him in person. how is it? It must be fun, right?]
[Eh, even if the character is deleted, the game company would just leave it alone? It will definitely fix it. Even Arcadia Co., Ltd. has not been able to give an official answer, right? That’s obviously because it’s a bug. What kind of lunatics deliberately create this situation?]
[I will protect this holy empire from that Morse or whatever! Even though I’m level 30, with evil! with bullshit! I’ll stop that bastard! Subscribe and Like! please! Brothers!]
[If you donate more than 10 million won as a mission, I’ll really film the contents of exploring the Holy Empire.]
The competition for the number of subscribers in Arpandia is getting more and more difficult as the days go by.
As time goes by, they do not know if their characters will fly away in order to satisfy viewers whose standards are rising as if they are not even stimulated by mediocre general content, and to attract people’s attention and rapidly grow the channel at once. I was accepting the situation and walking toward the limb with my own feet.
“You pathetic idiots who can’t even cover their shit and pee. Leave it like that and just call and whine that your character has been deleted…”
Several streamers in Arcadia are unable to achieve this kind of performance and end up at a below-average level. Director Kang Tae-hoon gnashed his teeth as he saw those who claimed to be the prey of the apostle of death with the complacency of trying to pull it properly once and for all. Jumping among the busy staff to solve this situation, which is still unpredictable.
Today, the peaceful daily life of Arcadia Co., Ltd. employees was beginning.
* * *
The moment when General Manager Kang Tae-hoon leads his subordinates and struggles at the forefront.
Executive Director Myung-Han Kwon was earnestly requesting intervention to prevent this incident in the office of President Lee Mi-Yeon, his direct superior and the ultimate manager of Arcadia Co., Ltd.
“Boss, you need to reach out to top developers right now and ask for immediate intervention. If we don’t block the user with the hidden class of ‘Cycle Enforcer’ and if the divinity of the original death is resurrected, no one will be able to handle what will happen in the future.”
Settings about the death of the beginning, which is information that originally only President Lee Mi-yeon could have access to. However, thanks to her elevation of the executive director’s authority, he was also able to recognize in advance what the worst outcome this situation would bring.
“A patch that deletes a character once it dies is applied. This will not be a level that can be passed over as a simple apology. It will literally destroy the entire company beyond the game of Arcadia!”
The situation is trying to turn a game that worked well into an extreme hardcore game where the character is deleted even if the character dies just once a day. He couldn’t understand at all why the developers put such a setting into the game, but what he couldn’t understand even more was the attitude of President Lee Mi-yeon, who was just looking at this situation.
“Infinite freedom is good and infinite possibilities are good, boss. But aren’t all of these things that can be achieved only when the user exists? Indeed, if the divinity of death in the beginning is resurrected and death in Arcadia becomes true death in the future, there will be no one left.”
Virtual Reality Arcadia.
The reason why people are crazy about this virtual world even though they know everything is an illusion.
There were countless reasons to list them one by one, but the biggest reason Kwon Myung-han thought was one.
“The point that you can overcome and overcome any adversity, any difficulty, or hardship by bumping into and bumping into your body. A world where there are infinite opportunities to challenge once again even if you die dozens or hundreds of times. That is why people are so passionate about Arcadia.”
A heartless reality that does not tolerate a single mistake.
For those who have given up numerous choices and adventures in that reality and have been forced to make only stable choices, Arcadia, where they can make dangerous and life-threatening adventures and choices, was no different from an escape and liberation.
“Please make the best decision not to disappoint this company and everyone who enjoys virtual reality, sir!”
That’s why Kwon Myeong-han, executive director, sincerely pleaded with President Lee Mi-yeon for the sake of the company. Please, grant me direct intervention to stop this insane madness right now.
“…..”
However, at the words of Kwon Myeong-han, CEO Lee Mi-yeon didn’t say anything and just stared at him in silence. after such a long time. she asked in a low voice.
“Do you know that, manager?”
“What… do you mean?”
“I am also doing my best to prevent this situation.”
“yes….?”
President Lee Mi-yeon says that she is doing her best. However, at her words, the managing director opened his mouth with a puzzled face. Locked in her office, she does not give any instructions and just keeps silent.
However, President Lee Mi-yeon’s attitude toward such an executive director, Myeong-han Kwon, was very dignified.
“Although it’s a little different from the executive director… I’m also doing what I can for the benefit of this company. For example… is it enough to move an aircraft carrier?”
“…?”
President Lee Mi-yeon, who speaks of an aircraft carrier in an absurd way, says that she is also working hard.
Then she glanced at the monitor, examined something, and then smiled strangely and said in a confident voice.
“Do not worry too much. Because the power of the users who play this Arcadia is stronger than the executive director imagined. Someone will surely appear to stop this crisis.”
At the same time, she spoke softly to Executive Director Kwon Myeong-han, who was looking at her with an incomprehensible look.
“Of course, I don’t know if it will be a hero who will save the world or a more vicious villain.”
