Tutorial 1st Floor, Waiting Room (Part 1)
[One to your shoulder, heart and between your eyes. Half a beat later right ankle. Simple right?]
[What happens if you can’t dodge it? Um... It’s alright. Everyone’s like that the first ti.]
I switched through the TV channels with empty eyes.
Cody shows were boring, and the dramas were ever so predictable.
Music shows were absolutely trash.
I was in desperate need of so sort of stimuli.
A normal day, boring and stupid.
This has been going on for 2 years.
I’ve quit my career as a professional gar 2 years ago and have since set up a convenience store with my savings.
It was challenging at first with so many things to manage, but I got used to it fast. And once I got used to it, I left it all to my part ti employees and holed myself at ho.
Who cares if the part tirs rip so money off .
Life was boring.
I should’t have quit my pro gaming career.
I was the best when it ca to video gas.
There may be argunts, but at my greatest height I was called the best.
However, with the pa.s.sing of ti I was eventually deposed of that t.i.tle. Unable to deal with my loss, I decided to retire a short ti after.
Rather than live on as a loser, I had decided to quit gaming completely.
I’ve always been extrely compet.i.tive.
From hide and seek to a local soccer match, once I started to play, I had to win.
Then one day, I played a fighting video ga for the first ti in front of a local stationary store.
How angry was I, after being completely destroyed by a 6th grader.
That’s when I was absorbed into gaming.
Until my retirent 2 years ago, gaming was my life.
What would it be like if I stayed as an ex-best gar?
That life wouldn’t have been as bad as this.
My life right now is unbearably empty and boring.
Well, what could I do. What’s done is done.
I sigh as I raise a gla.s.s of soju. The gla.s.s was empty.
I try to look for another bottle in the black plastic bag as I keep muttering s.h.i.t.
Ah, have I drink them all already...
At that mont, an ergency broadcast was being played on the TV.
[... Just 30 minutes ago, multiple sinkholes such as these have suddenly appeared throughout the world. The governnt is currently investigating the cause to the sinkholes.... It has been advised not to approach near these sinkholes. This is NBS news update...]
It was a strange news update. But I was facing an even peculiar situation at that mont.
Floated words appeared in front of my eyes.
[Congratulations, you have been invited to the Tutorial World. Lee Ho Jae.]
Tutorial? Is it the tutorial, where they show you the basics of the ga?
Am I wasted to the point of seeing hallucination, or have I gone insane.
[Will you enter the Tutorial World?]
I quickly began to contemplate whether this is an opportunity for or not.
I had no regrets about my life. If anyone could give a new life, I’d welco it with both arms open.
It’s sothing that would happen in an ani or a novel, but I am seeing that possibility right in front of .
Can I lead the life I want in the new world? Where I’m the protagonist again?
“... Yes.”
An answered creeped out of my dry throat. Is this ok as an answer?
The ssage changed after my reply.
[Please select the difficulty. The dangers of the stage increase with difficulty, along with its rewards and your growth.]
There were 4 options.
Easy, Normal, Hard, h.e.l.l.
There was no need for to think.
I, Lee Ho Jae.
Have never missed out on a ga, and have never been called bad in any of them.
I am confident that I can be at least above average in terms of sports, and I was filled with talent for gas. A so called genius.
And so I chose h.e.l.l difficulty.
And then proceeded to lose my consciousness.
A rough shake woke up.
‘Hey, are you awake? You’ve slept for long enough, get up.’
An intimidating looking man was shaking to get up.
‘Are you coming to your senses? Are you ok?’
I forced my tired eyes open to look at my surroundings. I saw 3 people including the man who woke up. All of them, people that I’ve never seen before.
‘f.u.c.k... who, who are you!’
I shouted as I stumbled backwards.
This wasn’t my room.
The floor and walls were lined with clean-cut stone that seed like marble.
It was a desolate indoor s.p.a.ce with no furniture.
‘Where... where am I?’
As I opened my eyes, I was in a strange place with unfamiliar people.
‘This is the 1st floor waiting room.’
‘1st floor waiting room? What do...’
‘Hey, calm down. Let’s have a chat. Did you not see those ssages?’
The man who shook spoke with a calm tone. His face was like a rugged bear, but his voice was like a ballad singer.
‘A ssage?’
‘You know, the ssages regarding sothing about a tutorial.’
At that mont I rembered what happened before I lost my consciousness.
Is this it? Is this like teleportation? Did I enter the ga world?
My head was full of questions.
‘I saw it. I was drunk, everything was so hectic. Did all of you see the ssage and did it all lead you to co here?’
My voice was surprisingly calm and clear. Before I lost consciousness, I swear I was drunk to the absolute limit.
‘Yes.’
The man pa.s.sively replied, and the man and woman behind him nodded in agreent.
‘I wanted to know if you knew anything about this whole situation, hence why I woke you up. You probably got dragged here without knowing anything like us. Anyway, it’s only us here so shouldn’t we help each other?’
Mm...
Not a bad idea. Having allies is definitely better than being alone.
But only if I could trust these people.
‘Would you happen to have any leads about this entire situation?’
‘Well, co to think of it, before the ssages started popping up, there was an ergency news report.’
The whole group of people paid their full attention to as I said this.
Not only just the man I spoke to, the man and woman behind him approached .
‘It said a large sink-hole had appeared across the whole world out of nowhere.’
‘Are you saying we ended up in here because of the sink-hole that appeared?!’
The ugly man at the back raised his voice.
He looked like a gangster.
‘f.u.c.king, do you think that even makes any sense, you r.e.t.a.r.d?’
Mm. The gangster could be right. Maybe he was also a little too anxious about this whole situation, it was quite a touchy response.
‘I just told you what I rembered.’
Luckily, it seed the ganster didn’t want to dig into anymore. At least he isn’t completely braindead.
I shook my head a little. Sothing’s a little...
‘What is it?’
‘No... just. Before I lost consciousness I was completely drunk, I feel as though I’m just a little too normal.’
‘Ahh. It must be because of that thing. Apparently, if you enter this area your whole body gets healed. It must be it.’
‘What?? The body heals by itself?’
‘Yes. A ssage saying that appeared just before you woke up.’
Another ssage.
I feel as though I missed out on sothing important.
‘I’m sorry but can you tell the details of that ssage?’
‘ok’
‘Firstly, I will tell you about the very first ssage that appeared.’
‘Thank you’
The man who looked like a bear was surprisingly nice. I wonder, how old was he?
The man first told about beginner weapons. As soon as I heard that from the man, in my field of vision a little ssage appeared which instructed to choose a starting weapon.
As I focused on the ssage, everything went black.
The next mont, I was in an area with countless amounts of weapons which spanned around my surroundings.
It wasn’t the stone chamber I was in before. The people had also disappeared.
What kind of balance was this...
Lets calm down. If I thought of this as a ga, there was nothing weird happening at all.
I cald myself and looked around.
There were various different kinds of weapons around .
A spear, sword, bow, iron mace, that... mmm.. thing. There were also weapons that I couldn’t figure out how to use as well.
Is that even a weapon? It just looked like a plain hamr.
The bow ca with a quiver and a bunch of arrows. It must of been given as a set item.
As you play a ga, there are tis where you had to make a decision.
The decision could affect greatly in the future that is to co, so I had to chose with discretion.
Mmm... A mont of deep thought had co.
Now, what should I choose?
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