You could tell he was definitely a user who had seen the ending.
It was probably the warrior version of the ga.
The instant his leg shattered, multiple abilities burst out and started restoring his body.
They were abilities like 『Pain Endurance』, 『Hardened Blood』, and 『High-Speed Recovery』, and his recovery tick timing was set up pretty well.
Because of that, the leg that had been smashed to pieces unfolded back out in an instant and beca fine again, but that didn’t change the situation at all.
Crack!
“Aaaaagh!”
Just because you tape broken straw together doesn’t an it turns into rebar.
The next mont, light flashed in his hand. Armor clung to his body, and a sword appeared in his hand.
He raised his head while holding the blade and looked at .
Then he froze.
I froze too.
Because I was curious what he was going to try.
He didn’t try anything in particular and just stood there.
“What.”
“.......”
“What are you gonna do with that.”
“.......”
“If you don’t answer when I ask you sothing, you die.”
“Ah, yes. This is nothing special. I don’t want to do anything. The sword and armor just co out reflexively.”
“Looks like you don’t want to die. You’re getting talkative.”
“I don’t want to die.”
“Why. Because you don’t want to lose your Star Runes?”
“No. I can just give you the Star Runes, but if I die, I drop all my other items too.”
“How much could a guy lurking around the beginner zone even have.”
“I gathered it for almost ten years without dying. ...Still, it’s not much.”
He flared up for a second, then, as if he realized it felt like he was bragging about a gold ring in front of a robber, he hurriedly changed the subject.
“Let see the sword.”
“Yes.”
I checked the options on the blue longsword. The grade was [Rare]. It wasn’t an in-ga weapon.
“How much is it.”
“About 500,000 runes.”
“That’s a treasure. To you?”
“......Ah, um, it’s like honey to a bee.”
End Ocean functions as another world. I can’t use national treasures and the like that I obtained in my own world.
Only personal growth stats carry over, excluding equipnt. [Overall Combat Power].
At that point, for sure. Having sothing like this or not would make a huge difference.
“Call all your friends.”
“Yes.”
He pulled out sothing like a summon button. Then he hesitated and asked.
“What are you going to do?”
“I’m going to ask for your Star Runes.”
“Ah.”
His expression turned pitch-black.
“Looks like you’re thinking sothing stupid?”
“No, I’m not.”
“You thinking you can rush and spend it all at the shop?”
“N-no. Even if I do that, if you kill you’ll take everything anyway, so it doesn’t an much.... But there’s sothing I’m kind of worried about.”
“What.”
“We’re mostly Easy clearers so we’re weak, but that’s why we have an affiliation. We’re under Lord Balthazar. If you take this, the people above will move....”
Even now, the way he tried to act like he was worried about was pathetic.
“Tell about Lord Balthazar’s faction.”
“Ah, yes.”
From what I heard after that, ranks were divided by difficulty.
“Above Easy is Normal, above Normal is Hard. And...... you probably overca Normal difficulty, right? But the Hard difficulty people have been exploiting this place like crazy for years. They’re insanely strong.”
When I glanced down, Ran, who was hidden in my clothes, nodded. It wasn’t different from what she’d said.
“So you should stop here and just leave...”
“Yoonchan.”
“Yes, bro.”
“I’ll handle it.”
“Yes.”
“Don’t ss around. Go gather your friends.”
A few minutes later, Robin (Kim Yoonchan) brought his friends. The guys who stabbed in the back yesterday.
“Kim Yoonchan explained it properly, right. I don’t really like long conversations, so let’s keep it simple. If you do what I tell you, I’ll let you live. If you don’t like it, you can die.”
They shuffled and still narrowed their eyes. It seed like they still weren’t sure whether I was really strong.
“Spit out all the Star Runes you have. Keep your eyes nice and obedient.”
As I said that, I lightly slapped his cheek a couple tis. “Ah, damn!” Then one guy jerked his head and raised his eyes.
“Who the hell are you.”
He asked, turning toward .
“What am I supposed to be.”
“No, what the fXck are you, you piece of shit. What are you. Huh? Who are you under? Even if we’re Easy trash, we’re under Balthazar, so what the hell do you think you’re doing? You got sothing backing you up?”
He wasn’t asking who I was as a person to a person.
He was asking who I was ‘inside the system.’
Instead of answering, I raised one finger.
Then I pushed his chest with it.
There was a palm tree behind him, and his body got pinned between my finger and the palm tree.
“Ugh, uuuugh...!”
I kept pressing my finger in. With a million combat power, the [Strength] stat is enough that you can crush a steel rod like clay with your grip. That finger smashed his flesh. I didn’t stop there and kept pushing him into the palm tree.
“Uuuuuuugh!! Aagh!!”
When I started to feel a strange vibration inside his ribcage, I pulled my hand away. The palm tree had lifted slightly, roots and all.
“.......”
“Uh, uh....”
The guys next to him went stiff-faced. Because they knew that even on Normal difficulty, this kind of [Strength] was impossible.
“Hand over the runes. And go attach your islands.”
“Y-yes. ...Hey, you ten motherfXckers. Answer him, hurry up.”
Robin answered alone, then spoke while looking at his friends.
“Yes.”
“Yes...!”
I looked at Robin. Separate from the fact that he stabbed in the back, he was a funny kind of guy in how he handled things.
Smack!
“Ugh! W-why....”
I kicked the aggrieved guy. Go do what you need to do.
< Transferring Star Runes. (Fee 17%) >
Soon, the currency they’d gathered flew over in the form of small spheres and seeped into .
< Star Runes held: 1,544,252 >
At the sa ti, they moved their islands and attached them to my island that I’d had Ran summon.
About fifteen islands rged into one, and then the na changed.
[ Dante Hiacapo Island (17) ]
Because my island was so small, there weren’t really any new structures added. It was basically just a bit of land reclamation.
Instead, every structure here was now in my grasp.
From as small as a single chick in the animal farm, to as big as the motor attached under the island.
“.......”
“.......”
“.......”
In the anti, their expressions kept getting darker and darker.
It made sense.
Yesterday, I was just the guy they’d robbed.
Today, I was taking all their money and ordering them around.
And on top of that, they didn’t even know who I was, so it had to feel like they were losing their minds.
‘He said he’d been here nearly ten years.’
They said that half of the users who saw the ending didn’t co to this [End Ocean].
That made sense too. In their own world, they’d be the savior and a god.
Why would they co here and beco soone else’s servant again?
And yet, a lot of people volunteer to beco a doormat in an online ga rather than beco a god in a console ga.
Because they want to feel bonds that bloom among people who lived through the sa culture and society, and an irreplaceable sense of solidarity.
You can’t expect that from NPCs.
‘R-Robin...!’
Then, for a mont, flustered voices ca from a secluded corner of the island—guys whispering among themselves.
‘Why. Why? What is it?’
‘Look at this. Holy fXck!’
‘Huh? ...Oh, shXt!!!’
Kim Yoonchan made a sound like his breath was caught as he checked sothing, so I also spread the illusion art of 『Recognition-Blocking Shroud』 and looked over there.
It was End Ocean’s in-ga community.
My login record had been caught there, and the place was going crazy about it.
- Hell difficulty is here! Hell difficulty is here! Hell difficulty is here! Hell difficulty is here! Hell difficulty is here! Hell difficulty is here!
- Wow lmaoooooooooooooooo it’s here
- No, for real, a clearer actually showed up, holy shXt... wow, nobody’s cleared it even once for 10 years
- Hell bro! ㅠㅠㅠㅠ Wherever you are, please leave a post on the board! There aren’t just one or two of us who’ve been waiting for you like our necks are about to snap ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Hundreds of posts had gone up in an instant.
The reaction was truly explosive.
- I logged in, but where is he? Do Hell difficulty logins also start in the Sea of Beginnings?
- I’m heading to the Sea of Beginnings right now, yeah;; I’m even bringing an island to give to our bro
└ You idiot.
└ ???
└ Even Hard difficulty spams teleport and went sowhere else, do you think Hell difficulty would still be sitting there?
Next were posts wondering where I was, and while they read those, Robin and two guys tore their mouths open while pointing at where I’d been.
They’d realized it reflexively too.
“You crazy bastard. You tried to stab soone like this in the back and eat him?”
“Ha, this is driving insane. Like I wanted to pick a fight?? It’s just that he was in the Sea of Beginnings, so I...”
For an unprecedented combat power newbie to appear, and for it to happen this late—clearing the ending and showing up now—there was only one possibility.
- The savior is here, holy shXt, you Hard bastards, lol
Before long, the community’s arrows turned sowhere else.
- Balthazar, you Hard coward who’s trembling at ho, co out!!!!
- If that bastard Balthazar’s butthole is on fire right now, upvote lololololololololol
- Hell difficulty bro, you absolutely cannot team up with Balthazar. That bastard is pure trash!! He’s even stabbed Hard difficulty people in the back and killed them before!!
It was the sa old thing.
The expectation that I would catch the Hard difficulty guys who were running wild.
‘Who said I’d do it?’
The guy who’s going to hand out rice cakes isn’t even thinking about it, and they were still guzzling kimchi soup straight out of a bucket.
anwhile—
- Garlok, Balthazar, Veil, Ibamon, Raqtasiya
And then, the reaction of every single End Ocean login exploded.
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