Chapter 3: Millions of Stabs (2)
Tutorial ga?
So everything had been only a tutorial?
Through the various floating hologram panels, a figure walked out.
“Whew, there we go.... OH?”
The figure looked at Jaehwan.
“WOW! We finally et!”
The figure was a man in a suit with the head of a lion. He even had a gentleman’s hat on him. The lionhead spoke.
“I’m surprised! You ca all the way here alone! This has never happened before!”
“...What is the aning of this nonsense?”
“Whew – what a fearso man! Still eager to fight, eh? You sure are the Walker who received the attention of all the lords of the !”
“Who the hell are you?”
“Right! Gotta mind my manners.”
The lionhead then took off his hat and bowed gracefully.
“I’m the Demon, Beastlain. I’m the master of the , which you just completed and I’m the master of World 294’s tutorial ga.”
Ga. Tutorial ga. He had not been mistaken. All of it, which wiped out mankind, had only been a tutorial. Jaehwan couldn’t say anything. He was fighting a cacophony of emotions. Part of him told him to accept reality while part of him wanted to go mad.
After a while, he ca back to his senses. No, he ca back ard with a colder look in his eyes.
Beastlain seed impressed.
“Oh? You recovered pretty quickly.”
Jaehwan expressionlessly looked at Beastlain. If he couldn’t withstand the shock, he wouldn’t have made it this far alone.
“If this is a tutorial, does that an there’s a main ga waiting for ?”
“OH HO! You sure are quick to understand! Most Walkers who manage to finish either tried slashing their sword at or went mad.”
“What’s the main ga?”
“It’s as you expect.”
Beastlain then let out a horrible, eerie laugh and snapped his fingers. Then the hologram panels imdiately showed various screens.
Jaehwan was standing within a group of many.
“What is this? This is just like a ga.”
It was the first ti Jaehwan was summoned.
Three people were forming a party. Soone started speaking.
“I’m Yoonhwan. She is Seoyul.”
It was the first ti he t Yoonhwan and Seoyul.
Jaehwan had just managed to survive through the ‘Shadow Cavern Trials’ for a month.
It was the first ti when his [Stab] had beco powerful.
Jaehwan was standing there and there were people around him.
“I’m Jaehwan. I’m from Seoul and my class is a Swordsman.”
Then he joined .
While he was fighting the boss monster Succubus, he looked at the woman next to him.
It was first ti he fell in love.
Among the bones of undead, Jaehwan wailed as he held on the woman.
He felt heartbreaking pain. It was when he lost Seoyul to the Death Knight’s attack.
People disappeared with the lights. Enraged.
It was when the [Returning Stone] was found and had disbanded.
Shout of people who just cleared it.
Day of beginning of
Monster Giltikas
When he beca alone after losing Yoonhwan.
When he just killed Frost Dragon while ago.
“This...”
Jaehwan could not speak. Everything he had done all this ti had been recorded.
“It was an epic drama that went on for 30 years! I was glad to have you! You know, if you stay here while doing the sa thing over and over again, it’s refreshing to see a story of a man like you! I’m almost certain that the lords of the would have been delighted while they looked at your story.”
Beastlain explained eagerly.
‘Who are those lords and the ?’
Jaehwan had lot to ask but he held on to it.
“What’s your point?”
“It’s simple. You can now, start the ga all over again.” Beastlain continued, “With all the mory of course. It’s the privilege only given to the man who cleared the tutorial ga! Isn’t it wonderful? It’s sothing only exists in a novel in your world! The one who starts anew with all the mory! Isn’t it great? Isn’t it tempting? How do you like it?”
Jaehwan beca dumbfounded. He said it was a reward. But wasn’t the reward of clearing the tower salvation of mankind? Or what exactly was the reward for reaching the top? Did the tower speak of it?
It did not.
The tower never said a word about a ‘Final Reward’.
It only had been mankind’s wish. They automatically thought, just like in other usual gas, if they cleared the tower, they would be granted salvation.
The purpose just appeared on top of their heads and only thing mankind was able to do was to try to get to the purpose.
And there it was. The final reward, awaiting in front of Jaehwan. Only given to Jaehwan.
“So you want to do everything I did all over again?”
“Well, you can say that. But with slight differences, of course.”
Jaehwan couldn’t understand what was going to happen. He had been fighting only to save this world. To save the world whereas everyone had abandoned it. The purpose that kept him sane as a human being. But after he was successful in clearing it, the only thing remaining was him wanting to give up on the world.
“So... you want to send back to the past.” Jaehwan’s voice grew cold, “If you’ve been watching , then you should know. I’m not going to the past.”
Beastlain beca confused.
“Past? Are you talking about the past?”
“Yes.”
Then ca the maniacal laughter.
“What’s so funny?”
“HAHAHA! RIGHT! You are absolutely right. You are the type that will never go to the past! Otherwise, you would not have made it this far. HAHAHAHA!”
Beastlain laughed maniacally for while longer. He then suddenly stopped abruptly.
“I will tell you a truth. One that is very brutal, but very accurate.”
He began explaining in a cold, eery voice.
“No item within or outside this tower, not even the one at the , can send you back in ti.”
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