Chapter 2: Tutorial (1)
Hansoo’s five senses, which had been frozen from the light, quickly started to recover.
He knew.
Hansoo shook off his headache and checked his surroundings.
He needed to know exactly when in the past he had come back to.
If he had come back too late, then the whole thing would be pointless.
Through his five senses, Hansoo realized that a chaotic situation was occurring.
A hundred or so people were standing around and shouting frantically.
The surroundings resembled Gangnam train station, but it currently looked very different.
The scene looked like a time 10 years after nuclear warfare.
Some were even fighting with each other out of distress.
From this, Hansoo knew exactly to what time he had come back.
The year of his birth had been rather peculiar.
At first it was 100 at a time, and then the number continued to increase over time.
Only then did Hansoo know where the missing people had gone.
The terrain and buildings were like reality, but the contents of the world weren’t. 5 years later, all the people from the real dimension would be transported to the Otherworld, and after that, the passage that linked the Otherworld and the Abyss would open, igniting the Great War between them and the inhabitants of the Abyss.
It was something that the people of the real world had to go through before entering the Abyss.
It seemed like time had been given only because it would be boring if they died too easily. ‘Whatever, it’s good that I’ve returned to the beginning.’
If it was at the moment it opened, he would’ve been in trouble and wouldn’t have been able to do anything, but this was a very good situation.
Because no one could move before a fairy came out and started the basic tutorial, it was good to have a warmup before then.
Tabula Rasa.
‘Well, I can collect them all. Anyways, it should be here now.’ As Hansoo finished his thoughts, something fell from the sky.
Hansoo stared at the creature that appeared.
“Hello, everyone. I’m a helper, and I’m here to help you get off to a quick start.
Hansoo, who clearly knew what that satanic midget’s ‘quick start’ meant, inwardly clicked his tongue.
As the fairy appeared and a weird aura spread over the people, the seemingly uncontrollable situation slowly died down. The smiling fairy looked around as the surroundings quieted down and opened its mouth.
“Wait. Wait. What do you mean? What’s the Otherworld?”
“In this place, you are all granted infinite freedom. No matter what you do here, nobody will punish you. All the rules you’re used to following do not exist here.”
“And that’s not all. We can’t call that a chance by itself. All you no longer have any of the physical limits of the past.”
“You all can now become infinitely strong depending on what you do, like heroes from a movie.”
“I will show you a quick demonstration, since I came to hasten the progress.”
From the feeble and delicate finger, a light beam shot out and penetrated directly through the man’s heart.
“Ku…Kuuuk.” At that moment, everyone realized that the new environment was not entirely favorable towards them. “uuuuhp… uhphup.”
Then, the fairy flew towards the man’s corpse.
Above the man’s body, a translucent and shining symbol the size of a hand appeared.
“This is a
“Let’s see. This improves the strength of one’s muscles. Who… should I give this to?” Everyone hesitated.
At that point, Hansoo raised his hand.
One rune helped a tremendous amount in the beginning.
There was no reason to not raise his hand. The fairy looked at Hansoo and gave a content look.
The rune was absorbed into his body.
But the fairy looked at Hansoo with a smile.
“…” As Hansoo gave a nonchalant face, the fairy felt a bit awkward and turned around to continue talking.
The fairy looked around.
That expression was too accurate.
The fairy shrugged its shoulders as it looked around. At those words, everyone started to look around and slowly backed up.
They could all imagine what would happen in the worst situation.
“If you touch your right ear, you can see which runes you have. Humans seemed to like things in numbers, so we implemented this 15 years ago. You just need to know that the average human’s stat is 10.” Strength: 11
‘Strength was increased by 1.’
But everyone was like this at first.
As one hunted and collected runes, their mana, magic, physical defense and magic resistance would be added.
“Hmm… he would probably be around 17.”
A well-trained body.
11 and 17 were only different by about 1.5 times, but it was not that simple.
It’d be a lot for a woman to have a 3 or 4. The fairy smiled and spoke as it looked at the commotion.
The fairy touched its butt as it spoke.
Something was there.
A sharp dagger, which hadn’t existed before they arrived, came out of each person’s pocket. The fairy laughed as it watched,
The fairy disappeared into a hole that had suddenly appeared.
“…A tutorial?” Everybody was still tense from the words of a murderous being when a sound started from somewhere.
Kyaaak!
“…Goblins?” The fairy had appeared and told them something.
It seemed simple, but the words of the fairy could not be so simple.
Although there were 100 people and the goblins were only half their size, it was impossible to stand still with a calm mind. However, it seemed like the goblins had the same thoughts, as they only stared back at them fiercely but didn’t approach them.
“Don’t irritate them, and slowly move backwards.”
They all silently came to a consensus.
No matter what you could do, always run away if the opponents had sharp objects in their hands.
However, Hansoo shook his head. “…Huh?”
Somebody got frustrated and spoke out.
The man replied to those words.
“What?”
And then they shouted in frustration.
“Here too!”
At that point, somebody pointed something out.
“…What?”
They all frowned. Kiiiiiiik!
At that location, the goblins were also getting pushed towards them.
Kaaaaaak!
As they saw the goblins staring at them, the people gripped their daggers more tightly. At that moment, somebody fell to the other side.
“Uh… I don’t know. It just happened to be over here?”
And in the air where the man passed through, a number came up.
“…49?”
The number changed.
At that point, everyone had realized the truth.
The remaining 50 had to fight with those things.
“Get out of the fucking way!”
“Kyaaa!” Hansoo shook his head at this scene.
Most might die, but at least 20 would survive.
In reality, as the goblins saw the people fighting with each other, their eyes shone and they started running towards the people.
‘First, clear up the situation. Then, move to the next stage.’
As he made his decision, his whole body started wriggling around as his muscles tensed up. [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] {{comment.Poster}}
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This place had many beasts that roamed around due to the influence of the Abyss, and there were people with powers who had come here before them that roamed around.
The fairy was a very eye-catching existence, even in this abnormal place.
“I don’t like people who talk a lot.”
“Let’s stop. I like the number 100. Anyways, keep that in mind. There is nothing bad about any rune that raises any characteristic. If you want to be strong from now on, you need to collect a lot of runes. Your muscles won’t improve no matter how many pushups you do.”
At these words, everyone started touching their ears.
Normally, this would have been very reassuring, but the thought of becoming prey for items and the fact that the person next to them also had a dagger was not pleasant at all
As everyone recognized them from the movies, their faces twisted with fear.
Those things were really evil-minded. How could they just throw in a few midgets and call it a tutorial?
The wall was slowly pushing them back.
At this point, they had to fight no matter what.