Chapter 1 – 1.Valendia (1)
Who is the idiot who bought the Black Cow New Game Edition and got possessed while swearing at the damn game?
It’s me.
“Fuck.”
No, did I swear while writing 5,700 characters?
Did they tell you to refund them and hand over each cash receipt?
Is it a trend now to possess people even if they buy it?
Why are you doing this to me?
My head hurt, but I couldn’t just stay like this.
At that time, the final goal quest window floating in the air disappeared, and a new quest window appeared in the air.
[Enter the academy.
Reward: Rare item box, point 2. Failure: World destruction]
“Crazy.”
No, what is the point of the world being destroyed if you fail to enter the academy?
Is it a sunfish?
I pressed my temples and looked around, enduring the pounding headache.
“Where am I?”
The scenery is probably somewhere among the fields you often see on the game screen.
It felt familiar.
However, I couldn’t tell exactly where it was.
You can see a forest nearby, and a mountain in the distance.
The rest is almost plain.
I can tell if I see a building, but I can’t even see it.
First, I had no choice but to move.
‘Previously…’ .’
Let’s check what needs to be checked first.
When it comes to gambling, it can be said to be the national rule.
‘Status window!’
As I shouted loudly in my heart, something appeared in the air.
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Name:?
Gender: Male
Abilities
Stamina: 6
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5
Magic attribute: 2
Luck: 3
Reputation:0
Possessed skills: Penetration (EX), Spear Mastery (MAX)
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‘What are you?’
I was shocked.
I chanted the status window in my mind and the status window appeared.
However.
It wasn’t the status window I expected.
‘Why do you have magic power? No, what are strength, luck, and fame in the first place? Attack power, defense, critical hit probability, and critical damage were calculated like this! Where did the level go again?’
A status window appeared that was completely different from the abilities displayed in Lucedia Phantasm.
‘S, skill window!’
Feeling anxious, I hurriedly called out the skill window.
Fortunately, the skill window was similar to Lucedia Phantasm.
Unacquired skills are painted darkly and listed in a row like a list.
I checked the skills I currently have in various skill windows.
Penetration (EX): Penetrates everything.
‘Something went wrong with the explanation?’
Penetration skill is one of the passive skills required in Lucedia Phantasm.
As the game progresses, the character’s maximum level becomes fixed. Of course, the stats are also fixed. In contrast, a new passive skill created when users complained about the increasing defense power of newly appearing monsters.
This is a skill that can ignore defense and inflict penetrating damage depending on the grade.
If you have a low F rank, you can only penetrate 5%, but if you gradually increase the grade to EX, you can ignore 100% defense and inflict penetration damage.
And as time passed, defense became meaningless and the monsters gradually became stamina pigs…
Even though it’s a new game, I chose it because it had a lot of influence in the early stages other than ignoring defense, but the description of the penetration skill became strange, as did the status window.
‘Could it be this too?’
Spear Mastery (MAX): When using a spear, the power increases by 300%. The skill of someone who has reached the pinnacle of creativity.
If it were another game, you would say that the passive attack was 3x and the balance was behind, but this is also the result of a skill reorganization that occurred when the monsters became useless stamina pigs.
Likewise.
‘It’s written here as ‘power.’
Just as the stat display changed, the skill description that originally said attack power changed to power.
Additionally, additional explanations were added at the end.
Even if you want to ask why things have changed like this, there is no one who can answer.
I checked the remaining functions.
‘Inventory.’
As I thought about it again, an inventory window appeared in the air.
What was inside was an ordinary spear, ten loaves of bread, and a canteen.
And in the upper right corner, there is a sign with a coin shape and the number 0.
This means that you have 0 gold in your possession.
‘Ha…’
I expected it, but the thousands of equipment and materials I had collected and the billions of dollars in goods were nowhere to be found.
First of all, I checked what I could now, so I took out the window from my inventory.
‘Oh.’
The moment I grabbed the spear, I felt a strange feeling.
I have never held anything like a spear in my life.
However, it felt like it fit in my hand as if I had been holding it for my entire life, and it felt like a surge of vitality.
A little of my frustration and depression went away due to the surge of vitality.
“First, we have to find a place where people live.”
After walking aimlessly for about 30 minutes, I finally saw a familiar cityscape.
‘There it is!’
It was Valendia, which can be said to be the main city in Lucedia Phantasm.
When you start the game, your character first starts in the middle of the city of Valendia.
But it was dropped 30 minutes away.
‘It’s a real shit game.’
First, let’s go into Valendia.
Just as I was thinking that, a green, child-sized monster came into view.
A monster that appears as a national rule in many games.
It was a goblin.
That’s 3 of them.
‘Even in the game, if you go just a little bit away from the village, you encounter it.’
It may be how different the abilities displayed in the status window are from the abilities displayed in Rupan.
No matter how much spear mastery and penetration I have, it’s unclear whether I can kill the goblin right now.
‘I’ll have to catch it someday, but not now.’
I tried to take a detour and pass the goblins.
The moment you step back and widen the distance.
-Kiggeung!
A goblin looked this way.
-Kake!
-Kugya! Wow!
The other two goblins are also looking this way and the goblins are running towards me.
It was already too late to run away.
‘I have no choice but to fight.’
The moment I had that thought, my body was naturally holding the spear and taking a posture.
Just like it has always been.
In addition to that.
‘What is this?’
Would it be better to call it intuition?
I could clearly see in my mind how to move and how to stab the goblin running towards me.
Beyond that, the trajectory of the spear that I can swing and throw is drawn before my eyes.
It was a phenomenon that reminded me of the expression that it was like seeing a sword from a martial arts scene.
The moment the goblin that charged first came within range, its body moved on its own.
I just swung the spear horizontally according to the trajectory.
Shout! The blade of the spear passes right through the goblin’s neck.
Then, he pulls the spear back and fires it at the solar plexus of the second goblin that arrives in range.
The blade of the spear continued to advance through the goblin’s solar plexus, as if stabbing its head.
A mechanical sound rings in my head along with the sound of a ringing sound.
[Pierced through the goblin.]
Without even paying attention to the voice, he pulled back his spear and killed the remaining goblins by hurling their spears along their trajectory.
“…”
A goblin bleeding and falling down.
I looked at my hand his, which had just wielded a spear and killed a goblin.
It was a strange feeling.
Even if it is a monster, it is a human-shaped creature. However, even if I killed him, I didn’t feel any particular qualms or panic.
Did something go wrong when I was possessed by the game?
Just as my abilities changed, what changed in my mind?
I had some doubts, but decided not to worry too much.
‘I rather like this side.’
The final quest to return home is that no-answer boss. We must defeat the Demon King of Chaos.
And to defeat the Demon Lord of Chaos, you must progress through various stories and defeat several monsters.
In addition to monsters, the enemies in the game also appear as humans, such as thieves, brigands, and apostles of chaos.
This was better than waiting for destruction without being able to defeat those guys.
From the beginning.
‘If you fail to enter the academy, the world will be destroyed.’
I had a feeling that a quest window would definitely pop up even after I entered the academy.
Among them, there may be a quest to defeat human enemies.
And if it fails, there may be another story about the destruction of the world.
Will we die like this with the destruction of the world?
Or when the moment comes to choose whether to kill the enemy and take a step forward in returning to the original world.
In the end, you will kill someone out of a dirty feeling.
Even if it was an unavoidable situation, it was obvious that it would be very bad for my mind.
‘This is much better than having that situation happen.’
I looked at the three goblins that were already dead.
All non-human monsters in Lucedia Phantasm have magic stones, which can be sold to become gold.
‘In the game, if you just defeat it, it disappears with a pop.’
The body remains. It was proof that this world does not completely run like a game.
Weapons based on monsters were mentioned countless times in in-game conversations, so I guess this is normal in the current situation.
I thought about it again when I saw the goblin’s corpse and my clothes.
‘I need money.’
Even to defeat the final boss.
My equipment was very poor now.
Dressed as an ordinary villager and with a spear.
I suddenly felt like I had to earn money as quickly as possible to buy equipment.
He approached the corpse, briefly held the spear, and stabbed the goblin.
Perhaps thanks to the penetration skill, it still penetrated the flesh smoothly when stabbed.
In fact, it takes more force to pull after stabbing.
Poke in a circular motion several times without using any force.
When I pierced the goblin’s chest and peeled off the flesh, I found a red magic stone.
The two remaining goblins did the same, exposing their chests, taking the magic stones, putting them in their inventory, and moving towards Valendia.
While walking towards Valendia and testing a few things, I learned something new.
First of all, taking items out of the inventory does not require opening the inventory window one by one.
If you think about what’s in your inventory in your head and tell it to come out, it will automatically appear in your hand.
The other thing is that if you press the dark unacquired skill in the skill window, the acquisition conditions will appear.
For example.
When you click on one of the unacquired skills.
[Screw Sting: A powerful stab with rotation. Points required to be acquired 1]
It is displayed like this.
In order to acquire a skill, you must use the points in the quest reward column.
First of all, these are the two things I have found out.
“Stop.”
When I arrived right in front of Valendia, a guard called me out.
‘The clothes are the same.’
It’s like watching a live-action cosplay of a guard NPC that you often see in games.
“It’s a face I’ve never seen before. For what purpose did you come to Valendia?”
Convey the purpose concisely.
“I am applying to enter Lucedia Academy.”
Valendia is the city closest to Lucedia Academy.
There is also a setting that prospective students frequently visit Valendia for admission, so there is nothing strange about it.
“To Lucedia Academy?”
The guard looks at you with suspicion.
“As you can see, my skills are good.”
He hid his left hand behind his back and took out the goblin magic stone from his inventory and showed it to the guard.
Only after seeing the goblin magic stone did my suspicions diminish.
No, it didn’t just decrease, it changed from suspicion to a bit of ridicule.
“Okay, try your best to get admitted. You pass.”
It would have looked like this to the guards.
They think they can enter the academy just by catching one or two goblins.
A country bumpkin overflowing with unnecessary confidence.
I don’t have to worry about what the guards think of me.
Because the goal of entering Valendia was achieved.
After passing through the gate, the bustling city of Valendia comes into view.
If this was a scene seen in VR, I would have been impressed by how realistic it was.
Recalling the memories of walking around hundreds and thousands of times in the game, I headed to the Adventurer’s Guild reception desk placed outdoors.
“May a brilliant light shine upon you! Welcome, how may I help you?”
He always recited standard lines with a kind smile and held out the magic stone to Daishi, the guild receptionist who gave users daily quest rewards.
“Cashback.”