Chapter 1 - Prologue. Evan D. Sherden, Dream
Prologue. Evan D. Sherden, Dream
One day in March, that first month of spring when the flowers are in bloom and the birds are putting everything into their song, 9-year-old Evan D. Sherden, second son of the Marquis, had a very vivid and strange dream.
In this dream, Evan was an ordinary youngster living in an imaginary world called the “Earth,” and he was involved in a “role-playing ga” — a ga that lasts hundreds, if not thousands of hours.
There were many characters in this ga, each with their unique traits and abilities, but one of them in particular had the unique trait of dying very quickly.
Evan grew to have sothing of an obsession with this moribund character. Every ti the character died, Evan would reset the ga and try to prevent the character’s death by adopting different strategies. Still, no matter what he did, he was unable to stop his character from dying. To make matters worse, every ti he reset the ga it seed like his character would die ever more miserably.
These deaths were hardly heroic: his character often died by accidentally stepping on a land mine or being hit by a poisoned arrow intended for soone else. He would even die from falling over on the street. Other deaths could be even more humiliating: he’d end up drinking poison, thinking it was sothing else. But rely drinking anything too fast would be lethal to him.
Evan’s character would walk into the path of an evil troupe and rapidly succumb to their manipulative dark magic. Their magic would be fatal to him, naturally.
Ever more calamitous were the tis when Evan’s character would co across a dungeon treasure box. In his excitent, he would simply stare at the box and forget to open it. Then the box would punish his lack of haste by releasing poisonous gas that would surround him and send him to his deadly sleep.
The character was t with many a tragic fate: he often bore the brunt of unexpected counterattacks from better-equipped foes. He could be regularly observed being cruelly murdered by giant monsters as he ran towards them.
When he did catch up to the monsters, they would always punish him with their blades. There seed to be nothing Evan could do to save his character from a swift mortal judgnt.
One ti the character’s girlfriend grew jealous, and proceeded to kill him in cold blood. Talk about terminal relationship.
The magic of King Yo-ma also had a particularly cruel tendency to end the character’s life.? Here then, Evan eventually realized, was a character who seed to face an unfortunate death no matter what!
Where on Earth could all of this tragedy possibly happen to just one individual?
Evan knew the answer. So do many others. This role-playing ga of boundless freedom and relentless possibility is a massive hit on Earth. It appears in “The Deep Darkness of Dungeon City” Episode 3. Still, regardless of which route the player takes, the character would always die in vain. It looked as though this was the only possible outco, at least as far as Evan D. Sherden could see.
How many tis did this character die in this ga? There are only a few CGs for the main character and a few CGs for each boss, but Evan’s Death must have been favored by the production team. Starting with convincing analysis. It’s a ga you can’t clear until Evan dies. “The whole world is hoping for Evan’s death.” It was public belief that Evan’s presence in the ga was blocking the powers of King Yo-ma, making it impossible for anyone to enter the final battle until Evan died.
Evan was becoming sothing of a cult figure within the ga, attracting venomous comnts laden with schadenfreude. It was common to hear such sentints as: ”I love Evan running straight for death anyti, anywhere!” There were malicious comnts that reflected on the disconnect between Evan’s lively appearance and his uncanny tendency to drop dead in the most ugly of circumstances. “It’s so thrilling that a handso young man always dies in vain”. People were not exactly shy to voice their sadistic ideas on the situation: “I love it so much that I want to save the dead Evan and kill him again.” Evan was certainly attracting cult popularity among a sinister group of players.
There were even a few perverted players who conspired to secure Evan’s terrible fates ti and ti again.
“NO, that’s my story! Ahhhhhhhhh!”
“Sir, what’s the matter!”
That day, Evan, the second son of Marquis Sherden, who rules the city of Dungeon, rembered all? of his 29 years of life as a rebel. He rembered that he was a Korean Yeo Ban-Min.
Evan rembered how he had always died in vain in that ga world — the world of “The Great Battle 3: The Deep Darkness of Sherden, the Dungeon City.” These mories were fraught with despair.
*? *? *
“I can’t die.”
Evan opened his eyes in the middle of the night. The room was pitch black. Evan was sweating slightly after struggling on his bed for hours in an as-of-yet futile attempt to revive the mories of his past life. Now though, his efforts had paid off and the mories clicked into place.
“I can’t just sit still and die like this!” Evan shouted into the air, the perspiration dripping from his forehead.
Evan leapt up from his bed. His body, a body that hinted only at the passing of nine years of life, now felt utterly strange and sowhat fragile to Evan as his mind began to assimilate the mory of his previous life and reconcile it with his present reality.
But this now, this right here, this was the definitely the reality. He was Evan D. Sherden, not a Yeo Ban-Min, and this world was very similar to the world in the ga of the Battle of Yo-ma 3. Noticing the incredible similarity for the first ti, Evan realised that the inevitable must happen here as it did there. The day was on its way. That day of mortal fate put in motion. The day Evan dies in vain!
That this was certain was clear to Evan in the way the world was far too similar to the ga. He didn’t stop to consider why this was the case; he just knew that his mories were real and that they would lead to his certain death in his present reality.
“I have to co up with a solution” he thought out loud.
But how? Thinking about the countless crises ahead of him just drew a blank. But at tis like this, he must stay calm. The mory of 29 years weighed down on him, the despair of countless deaths replaying over and over in his mind. No longer was he an ordinary nine-year-old boy. “Right, I’ll just write down everything I know. Everything I rember about the ga world will be valuable information.”
He ran to his desk and sat on his chair. He turned on a lamp that operates as a mana stone, an energy source mined in Dungeon. And an unassuming notebook lying on the desk. This wasn’t just any old notebook though. This was “Free records,” an artifact commonly unearthed in Dungeon. With this, Evan could freely write whatever he wanted, modify whatever he wanted, and it even had security features so that no one else besides him could examine its contents.
When he had used it before he had thought it to be an amazing tool. But now, with the addition of his other set of mories he saw the artifact’s similarity with a computer’s docunt function.
“First of all, first of all…Yeah” Evan readied himself ntally to start the task of recounting his mories.
Evan picked up his favorite quill pen, dipped it in an ink bottle (what better writing equipnt for a marquis’ son?) and murmured in a lugubrious voice.
“Let’s record all my deaths.”
Yeo Ban-min, an ordinary young Korean man, first ca across the “Yo-ma Great War” series when he was sixteen.
Although the first work of the “Yo-ma Great War” series, “Yo-ma great war 1,” wasn’t as graphically-rich as other gas, the story’s charm was so great as to render the story’s graphical shortcomings irrelevant. Yeo Ban-min, a rather sensitive boy, fell in love with the “Yo-ma Great War.”
Having completed the ga entirely in just three days, he played the ga repeatedly and looked forward to the next series to get released.
“How could I have possibly died from a sli?” Evan thought. “That hadn’t been a good ending. It hadn’t been good at all.”
In the sequel to “Yo-ma Great War” many aspects of the ga were changed. Yeo Ban-min enjoyed spotting all the changes, even the minor changes like the alteration to the heroine’s story in the post-ga sequence.
Thanks to the success of “Yo-ma Great War 1,” the production team had been able to raise their budget to produce “Yo-ma Great War 2”. As a result, there was a huge improvent in combat convenience, especially in the graphics, that many players were thrilled to find out about.
Yeo Ban-min, of course, cleared Yo-ma Great War 2 in just one week.
“No, how could you have died in such a simple trap? That doesn’t even make sense.”
After the “Yo-ma Great war 2,” “Yo-ma Great War Zero” was released. This ga depicted the story of an ancient Taoist playing against King Yo-ma. It kept the historical setting of the previous entries in the Yo-ma Great War series, but this new instalnt allowed players to work cooperatively. There were grand dungeons and mystical magic, as before.
As you might have imagined, Yeo Ban-min cleared Zero in no ti: just 10 days. Yeo Ban-min, ever the critic of these ga’s stories, found it regrettable that they did not reveal the ancient Taoist’s identity, but everything else he found simply perfect.
“Oh, it’s good to be born handso, but why do all these won turn out to be such psychos? Forty-six endings where I’m stabbed to death by a woman? Are you kidding ?”
A few years later, when Yeo Ban-min beca a college student, Yo-ma Great War 3 was released. This had masterful graphics, loads of new abilities to use, plenty of scenarios to play through, and total freedom to users. Here was a masterpiece that improved on everything that had co before.
Those who had overlooked the previous Yo-ma Great War entry could not ignore this third instalnt in the series. Depending on how the main character is nurtured, the ending was divided into hundreds of detailed scenarios, with three-dinsional personalities given to every supporting character. The supporting characters even had the agency to go about their own lives, and their own decisions would influence the outco! Anyone who played the ga referred to it as “God” without hesitation.
“Well, the succubus…this god was pretty good. It was all downhill after that but you know…”
Yeo Ban-min also indulged in Yo-ma Great War 3. Along with playing the main character’s quest, he traveled around the dungeon city of Sherden to complete every side-quest the ga had to offer and really get to grips with everything the ga had to offer.
Particularly in this third entry in the series, the ability to connect with multiple won was expanded, so Yeo Ban-min tried his best to achieve the so-called “Harem Route Condition.” He succeeded.
“How did he die? Oh, poison… That’s such a cliché.”
A secondary character who sohow ends up dying no matter how the main character advances the story… that must be Evan D. Sherden’s character’s role. The second son of Marquis, the owner of Dungeon city, reduced to just a pawn who needed to die for the ga to finish.
“He must be the character who dies for the main character. That’s right, where’s no force like the main mber, but he’s loyal, and he was quick to get over if he worked on it a little bit. Even five endings where you’re beaten to death. Why are you shoving a warrior on a wizard and getting hit by a knife instead, you little brat! No, this is !”
Yeo Ban-min felt a kind of fate at that mont. It was in that mont that he realised his sense of duty as a gar. If the ga is this heavily dependent on its players, then there must be an ending for Evan! If the main character’s ability to overco even King Yo-ma, the ultimate king, will undoubtedly save Evan! It doesn’t matter. It eventually becos a happy ending. I’ll save Evan sohow! Now determined to carry out this mission, Yeo Ban-min began to play the ga with abandon. If Evan dies: restart, restart. If he dies, just restart….
“Getting poisoned, being assassinated, dying from a sprained foot, eting the final boss too soon, ?dying from a dungeon curse…”
Although there was a mont when Yeo Ban-min yes turned to the newer “Yo-ma Great War 4: The Secret of the New Generation,” he ended up returning to “Yo-ma Great War 3.” He still had to save Evan.
Yo-ma Great War 4 was set five years after Yo-ma Great War 3, but Evan did not appear in this fourth instalnt. Damn those producers!
“Death, Death, Death…Death. Dumped by my fiancée… suicide… what a way to go.”
But in the end, Yeo Ban-min found it impossible. It didn’t matter how much ti he invested in it. He spent six years in Yo-ma Great War 3 trying to save Evan but never managed to do it.
His last mory as Yeo Ban-min was when Evan pushed the main character out of the final match and was killed by the curse of King Yo-ma instead.
As no gar was high-levelled enough to take Evan into the final battle without killing him, Yeo Ban-min was perhaps the only one who knew the truth.
“There’s nothing I can do. He dies. That’s that.”
Evan can’t be saved.
The main character cannot save Evan.
“But I have to save him.”
I am Evan, no one else.
Evan D. Sherden.
“You have to live.”
Evan glanced through the notes of all his deaths and breathed deeply. He seed to calm down a little now.
“Okay.”
I’ll never die. Never.
“Let’s get started.”
Evan had co to a conclusion. He tapped his cheeks as a way of signaling to himself that he had made up his mind.
He would beco a character who never dies.
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