Chapter 170
When you thought about it, the System wasnt just and unbiased. It just operated for a few Rules, and mankind hadnt been able to completely figure out what those were.
Lets assu that there can be Rules that contradict each other.
If I assud the Rule applying to the System right now was sacrifices to open the Gran Seoul Dungeon are necessary, then it was a fixed fact that sacrifices were needed.
But what about the thod to procure those sacrifices?
Luring and hunting by making a flash scenario that didnt exist in the past.
Was this thod really a suitable Rule for the System? Or was it rely a workaround to create sacrifices? If this was a workaround
I recalled a saying.
A problem is a problem because soone thought of it as a problem. If no one takes issue with it, it wont beco a problem.
There was so sense in it. If no one had an issue with sothing, it wouldnt beco recognized as a problem. What if the sa applied now?
The System isnt a party you can reason with.
If an Interdiate Administrator was using a cheat to make fools of the Players, you could just reason with them. They were a party you could reason with, to so extent. But not the System. Even if you tried to speak to nature, there was no way nature would listen.
Conversing with the System, huh
That was a totally different concept from physical speech. If you wanted to talk to the System, you needed a System thod. And I realized what kind of thod that was.
Judgnt of the Law.
You could talk to the System by using a setting determined by the System.
[Judgnt of the Law]
Regulations/laws created by the accord of societys majority.
Actions tacitly and universally deed good.
The Systems Rule will be temporarily set to Just. The caster will be given the rights of an Arbitrator towards all acts that defy justice. The Arbitrator officially files objections to all acts that contradict justice, can te out due punishnt within set bounds to those who contradict justice, and will be conferred the requisite power and authority.
This was the item the Lady of the Scales had gifted . I focused on one line in the description.
The Systems Rule will be temporarily set to Just.
Going off this sentence
Temporary justice.
That ant it wasntabsolute justice. That one sentence revealed that the System wasnt perfectly just by default.
The caster will be given the rights of an Arbitrator towards all acts that defy justice.
And if I used this and was given the rights of an Arbitrator, I would be able to talk to the System by way of the System.
I didnt think about it for long.
[Use Judgnt of the Law?]
I used it right away.
[Judgnt of the Law is taking effect.]
[Setting the target for Judgnt of the Law.]
[Please think of the target for Judgnt of the Law in concrete terms.]
I thought of it in concrete terms. The opening of the Gran Seoul Dungeon. The inadequate sacrifices to make that happen. Or the workaround, the crooked thod produced by the Systems blind pursuit of its goal of creating sacrifices.
[Judgnt of the Law has taken effect.]
[Judgnt of the Law has discovered a factor that contradicts justice.]
My body suddenly seed to grow light.
[You have received the rights of an Arbitrator.]
It was hard to put into words. It felt like my level instantly skyrocketedmy body was as light as a feather. It was just a feeling, but I felt powerful, like a wave of my hand could create typhoons and flas would shoot from my mouth when I spoke. Almost as if I had beco a supre being.
In an instant, I realized how I was supposed to think, how I should guide this situation.
I will correct the crooked workaround.
This one premise revealed the Arbitrators authority.
[Proclaim the Arbitrators command.]
[The Arbitrators command will beco alive and correct the injustice.]
There was still a little ti left in Cognitive Dissonance.
I shall correct the crooked workaround.
At the sa ti
[The Arbitrators command has been proclaid.]
[Correcting the injustice.]
The world instantly turned to black and white, like a field with a Pause authority in effect.
[Restructuring the field.]
A Pause authority actually did take effect. The System voluntarily used a Pause authority without the interference of any Guardians or Interdiate Administrators. Id never seen such a thing happen before.
[Reestablishing justice in accordance to the Arbitrators command.]
[The System accepts the justice.]
[The difficulty of the field will be adjusted according to the level of the current Players and the scenario difficulty (Low).]
It was as I thought. The System used a cheat to achieve its objective. I corrected that cheat with Judgnt of the Law.
The Players around
apparently heard the sa notices.
Wait, the difficulty is greatly decreasing!
The heck is an Arbitrator?
No idea. In any case, the difficultys gone down.
In the anti, a few Players ignored my warning and went into the D-Tower. Another few paced in front of the doors, so of whom turned and left.
I heard conversation all around .
Hey, do you rember the face of that insanely strong-looking Player just now?
Huh?
We should rember him if he showed that much strength, but
Yeah, his face was so ordinary that I dont rember it.
I cant rember his face at all. Kinda like
Like we had a dream?
Yeah, exactly! You know how you can rember what you dread right when you wake up but then forget it as ti goes on? Kinda feels like that.
Sa here. Its really fascinating.
Cognitive Dissonance had played its role well, it seed. If there werent any Players here with the intuition to penetrate my Cognitive Dissonance, no one would rember . They would all just be left with a fuzzy mory, a bare recollection of a Player who blocked the door and gave them a warning.
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The notices continued for .
[Scenario Outline acquired as per the Arbitrators rights.]
[The Arbitrators rights will last for as long as the current field exists.]
[The Scenario Outline will automatically expire when the current field expires.]
[Scenario Outline]
Korean server scenario #311.
Lives are required for the opening of the Gran Seoul Dungeon.
31,100 Player deaths.
Scenario progression: [Survive for 24 hours] or [At least 31,100 humans die]
All that was bolded. The condition to open the Gran Seoul Dungeon seed to be the death of at least 31,100 people within 24 hours.
It feels like soone made a rough schema of the scenario.
Outline.
A general description or plan.
The scenario definitely felt like a general description. Underneath the bold text were words in italics.
In the case of a variable related to justice, total scenario revision.
Revised field monster spawns.
City Fox: 11
City Wolf: 31
Lycanthrope: 22
Orc: 17
(Enhanced) Goblin Soldier: 1 (D-Tower 1st Floor)
Orc Warrior: 21 (D-Tower 2nd Floor)
Troll: 5 (D-Tower 2nd Floor)
Troll Soldier: 3 (D-Tower 2nd Floor)
Orc Archer: 5 (D-Tower 2nd Floor)
Fanged Mole: random spawn (D-Tower Underground 1st Floor)
Dungeonization of the Gwanghwamun D-Tower.
1st Floor: (Enhanced) Goblin Soldier
sa as the Tutorial Dungeon
2nd Floor: Hidden Piece
Find the Hidden Pathway!
Conditions to find the hidden pathway:
Once found, mana crystal is used on the escalator
Mana crystal: acquired upon destroying the green sedan on the Underground 1st Floor
Clear Crystal will be generated upon hunting all monsters on the 2nd Floor. Destroying the Clear Crystal will end the entire scenario.
3rd floor: hidden monster: Black Troll spawn
I reeled back in shock.
What the hell?
I practiced justice using my Arbitrator rights and got this. For an outline, there was quite a lot of detail.
A Black Troll will show up?
A tremor shook through my body. My heart began to thud.
Thats a Grade 4 Exotic.
Later, people would start calling valuable and rare monsters Exotics. Exotics were made up of a total of five grades. Any Exotic was worth tens of thousands of dollars just for the corpse. Even the corpse of the lowest Grade 5 and relatively frequently spawning Leon was sold for $70,000.
But the Black Troll wasnt just a Grade 5, but a Grade 4.
A Grade 4 Exotic. The Black Troll.
Black Trolls had a very high chance of dropping an item called Regeneration Serum. Of the three to four Black Trolls found worldwide every month, one to two of them would drop a Regeneration Serum.
It wasnt in my plans, but even so, that was a monster I absolutely had to kill.
I can see where it is and what Im supposed to do.
The only problem was that I was an Observer and couldnt get the Regeneration Serum if I hunted the troll myself. That ant I would have to hunt it with the Players here.
That would be a bit hard
The overall level of the Players here was simply too low. Soone would inevitably die in the process of trying to get the Regeneration Serum. I missed my Giantgod party mbers.
Oh, but wait.
I recalled one of the notices that had stread past earlier.
[The Arbitrators rights will last for as long as the current field exists.]
I was currently the Arbitrator. A sense of vigor was coursing through my veins like I had beco a supre being. Of course, I wasnt saying I was really a supre being, but it definitely felt like it.
Maybe this sort of thing will work?
I thought of it in my head. If I temporarily had the rights of an Arbitrator within this field and thus held the true power to correct the workaround in effect within this field
[The Arbitrators rights are currently intact.]
Right now, I was an Arbitrator who could not condone this workaround and injustice. I had the power to rectify, or rather, the duty to rectify without fail. I focused on that. I wasnt all that aware of it, but I was probably ditating while standing up again.
[The System acknowledges the Arbitrators duty.]
[The Arbitrators role will temporarily assu the highest priority setting.]
[Based on the highest priority setting, the restriction conditions of the Observer class will be temporarily disabled.]
[The Arbitrators role is valid only while the current field exists.]
I just attempted it with a cant hurt to try attitude because I thought it might be possible, but it really worked.
What was this feeling? This familiar, yet unfamiliar feeling of just trying sothing and succeeding in one shot?
Whatever, its good for
that it worked.
The restriction conditions of the Observer class disappeared. At least within this field, I wasnt an Observer, but an Arbitrator. And from this situation, I beca completely sure of one fact.
The penalties of the Observer class arent permanent.
They werent an absolute that could not be changed no matter what you did and tried. The penalty was bound to go away one day, maybe once I reached level 50 and had my second advancent or made a second contract with a new Guardian. Or when sothing happened afterwards.
Whatever it is I can get rid of this penalty.
When that happened, I would be able to stand tall and proud not as an observing sovereign, but as an acting sovereign. My heart continued to tremble.
I can beco stronger.
That thought echoed in my brain. I could beco truly strong. When I first ca back to the past, my goal was just to live a happy and harmonious life with my family, to be the smith of my own life, but now, a slightly different goal seed to have taken root in my heart.
Getting stronger is enjoyable.
It was like I simply ca to enjoy Playing more. In this respect, I did indeed seem to have exceptional talent, though I would only be sure once I got past level 40.
In any case, I walked forward.
[Cognitive Dissonance is no longer in effect.]
The duration of Cognitive Dissonance ended. I walked past the crowd towards the D-Tower.
Hey, the buildings supposed to be dangerous.
Dude, think about it. With all the Players here, it might actually be safer here than inside!
Hey!
A few people tried to stop , but I didnt respond. I just made my way to the doors.
[Enter the D-Tower?]
I imdiately went inside.
[Entering the D-Tower 1st Floor.]
The field changed, and I arrived on the 1st floor. I saw a few bodiesthey were the people who had rashly gone inside without heeding my warning. It was unfortunate, but there wasnt anything I could do for them. There didnt seem to be any survivors in the imdiate vicinity. I walked forward.
Curiously, there was sothing that sparked my interest.
Oh ho.
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