Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 1



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[Achievement Accomplished: Hand of Midas]

[congratulations! I succeeded in seeing all the revealed endings of faith!]

Isaac smiled at the pleasant notification sound.

Isaac, who achieved the ending of ‘Golden Idol’, saw the whole world, including people, being colored with gold and silver treasures.

It was the result of Isaac appearing in the world as a representative of the golden idol.

I don’t know what will happen to the world now, but Isaac saw the ending, and what happened next was none of his business. This was the eighth time he had seen the ending of ‘Nameless Chaos’, a game known for its extreme difficulty.

This game, created by a production company called ‘Unknown Software’, was famous for its insane difficulty and unfriendly game structure. However, at the same time, as if in inverse proportion, it had a fanatical user base due to its ridiculous degree of freedom, open world world view, and details.

Soon darkness fell, and eight characters appeared.

Humans, Orcs, Elves, Giants, etc… … These were the characters that Isaac had created and played up to this point. Isaac looked at the characters and muttered something mixed with regret.

“Uhm… … I feel like I’ve already consumed enough of this game’s content, and there’s nothing more to do?”

Nameless Chaos is a game where players choose from eight faiths and races to achieve the goals set by their gods. The interactions and story varied greatly with each choice, so I was able to immerse myself in the game without getting bored.

However, seeing the endings of all faiths meant that I had enjoyed almost all the content. When he was hesitating to end the game with some regret, an unfamiliar message appeared in Isaac’s eyes.

[A new faith appears in commemoration of the world’s first achievement.]

[Hidden Faith: You can choose Nameless Chaos.]

“huh?”

In the box for creating a new character, there was a box for selecting a ninth faith that I had never seen before. It had a strange tentacle pattern and flashing red eyes. Isaac was taken aback by the name ‘nameless chaos’.

“… … Monster faith?”

The major faiths that exist in Nameless Chaos are called the ‘Nine Faiths’. However, only eight faiths were actually playable, and the ninth faith was not selectable.

The ninth faith, ‘Nameless Chaos’, was a faith in outer space worshiped by monsters, including strange, unintelligent tentacle monsters, maggot colonies, and writhing flesh. Thanks to this, even in the endlessly intertwined relationships between gods, nameless chaos was unconditionally treated as an enemy.

‘Is it really a hidden faith?’

Isaac searched for nameless chaos just in case, but there was no mention of him acquiring this faith on any strategy site, wiki, or forum. There was talk that it was a piece of cake because it was the only faith that could not be chosen, but that was it.

It wasn’t a surprising result. It was difficult to find anyone who had cleared Nameless Chaos due to its dreamless and hopeless worldview, excruciating difficulty level, and system in which characters were mercilessly deleted even if they died just once.

Isaac, who cleared all faith requirements, was an unusual case.

‘Now that I think about it, you said it was your first achievement… … ‘It’s obvious that there is no information.’

He immediately started creating the character.

“Let’s see… … “How can I create an interesting character?”

Since Isaac had already acquired a unique faith, he decided to make the concept work.

Nameless Chaos is a game with a variety of occupations and races, but above all, it is a game centered on faith. The priest profession would be best to utilize the concept of special faith, but I felt tired of the priest ending after seeing it too many times.

‘Shall I become a Paladin?’

When I thought about it, this seemed okay. If Nameless Chaos had the same characteristics as its concept, it would be met with hostility from all kinds of faiths. Priests do not have much survival time, but Paladins, also known as ‘Holy Beetles’, will be able to survive with persistence.

‘Anyway, you can change your job at will while playing the game. First, aim for the Paladin ending.’

Race is human.

When Isaac rolled the character creation dice, a beautiful woman with gray hair and gray eyes appeared. Although the nature of the game ensured a high degree of freedom in the character’s appearance, he did not really like the bizarre appearance of the so-called ‘old-character fashion’.

‘No matter what, the character must be pretty.’

Fortunately, most of the random character appearance sets had beautiful appearances. However, Isaac was not satisfied with that and painstakingly set up the character’s appearance. It doesn’t mean much, but Isaac’s philosophy was that the more effort he put into it, the more attached he would become to the character.

After completing the character creation process, a window for recording abilities appeared. I carefully looked at the status window divided into strength, agility, stamina, intelligence, and faith. When raising a paladin, it was better to focus on physical strength and faith. However, Isaac filled his abilities with faith, except for the abilities that were essential for wearing his initial equipment without much thought.

‘Anyway, if it’s a special faith, you should enjoy the concept.’

Since Isaac was already at his peak, I wasn’t at all worried about dying, at least in the beginning. If you grow to a certain level, the Paladin’s strong defense will ensure your survival. A priest-like paladin was what Isaac was drawing.

And then the final option appeared.

[Nameless Chaos is watching you.]

[Nameless Chaos seeks to grant you power. Please select one of the following:]

[Innards of the Dead God: Absorbs some of the stats and characteristics of the ‘gorged’ opponent.]

[Sheep crying at night: Open the door to the other world and summon your servants.]

[Under the skin: ‘devour’ the other person’s insides and use that skin as your outer shell.]

“… … .”

It was a bizarre choice. However, rather than feeling bad, Isaac was surprised by the power of those powers. In other faiths, these were top-level powers that required at least one great achievement to be achieved.

‘You give me these powers as soon as I start?’

Other faiths also give quite good powers as soon as you start, but even if you take that into account, all of these powers are powers that can be called fraud.

But Isaac thought the opposite.

Nameless Chaos is by no means a one-sided game. If I give something big as a gift, I always prepare a large candy bar behind it.

After much deliberation, Isaac chose the first power, ‘Innards of a Dead God’.

Although we do not yet know what ability ‘Predation’ is, being able to absorb the opponent’s abilities and characteristics was a powerful advantage.

Characteristics were more important than abilities. Because I couldn’t learn some traits even if I wanted to.

Even if there is a small probability that you can have those characteristics, it is more than worth it.

The moment Isaac chose the last option, his eyes began to turn white.

Now it was finally time to start the real game.

And soon, I felt dizzy.

***

[Nameless Chaos is watching you.]

The first thing I encountered were bright blue eyes.

It was beautiful eyes. The problem is that there were not just one or two pupils. To be exact, there seemed to be over a thousand of them, surrounded by red flesh, writhing muscles, and pulsating blood vessels.

It was a bizarre video that Isaac had never seen before during his eight previous plays.

He felt like he was going to faint, but he couldn’t close his eyes or avoid them.

In the end, Isaac had no choice but to engage in a snowball fight with thousands of pupils, unable to close or avoid his eyes. It was not a favorable environment.

Flash.

Nevertheless, it was the thousands of eyes that blinked first. But I didn’t feel like I won. You may not be able to hear a sound when you close and open your eyes, but it’s different when there are thousands of pupils.

[Nameless chaos instead of this fake]

An unknown sound was heard. It felt like a machine whispering right into my ear.

[We guide you to a world that really suits you.]

Isaac felt that the message and the name seemed familiar. When he tried to figure out what it was, he heard the voice again.

“… … “Come to your senses and bring the knife, Isaac!”

Wow.

The mass of snow and flesh that had covered my sight suddenly disappeared, and the sight of a burning village came into view. Isaac instantly felt dizzy from the acrid smoke and bloody smell.

bang! Rumbling… … .

The darkness of the night wavered strangely. The huge stone tower collapsed with a loud noise. Houses were burning. Dry figures were silently approaching from the flames fluttering everywhere.

“Isaac!!”

A scream-like cry was heard from somewhere. Isaac turned his head. A middle-aged man was seen struggling with three skeleton soldiers with a broken sword. Only then did Isaac realize that the man’s cry was directed at him, and that he was named Isaac.

Isaac, who was sitting down, realized that he was holding a knife in his arms and tried to get up to hand it to the man. But before he could even get up, the rusty blades of the skeleton soldiers pierced the man.

“Wow, hehe… … .”

Isaac couldn’t even get up from his seat. His head felt dizzy. When he touched his forehead, he found it covered in blood.

In a dizzying way, Isaac recalled the memory of the debris of the building falling towards him. He thought at the time that he was definitely going to die, but somehow he was alive.

‘What is this?’

What are the remains of the building? This was clearly not his memory.

Wasn’t he definitely playing a game? Isaac traced his memories with a dizzying feeling.

However, those memories were not memories of ‘Isaac’ but rather strange memories.

It was a memory of ‘Isaac’, not Isaac.

Isaac began to feel dizzy as memories of the 14-year-old came flooding back to him. The excruciating pain, burning smell, and slippery feel of blood that you can’t possibly feel in a game. And above all, memories that cannot possibly exist for oneself.

Only then did Isaac see his reflection in the glass window of the collapsed building.

Gray hair and lifeless gray eyes. He was a boy with a slender build who looked to be in his early teens at best. If the character I created before Isaac entered the game had been young, this is exactly what it would have looked like.

At that time, a strange window appeared before his eyes.

[Isaac (EX+) / Shock, exhaustion]

[Race: Human/Nephilim]

[Occupation: Child (F)]

[Ability: Dead God’s Innards, Hand of Chaos]

‘what?’

Even in his dizzy mood, Isaac had an intuition of what that meant. Isaac is the name of the character he created. But the race is Nephilim? Isaac never chose the Nephilim race.

In the game setting, Nephilim refers to a mixture of angels and humans.

A race of people who have a beautiful appearance that captivates people and have an extremely high religious ability by nature, but on the contrary, they have a weak body due to the ‘cursed blood’ characteristic of being cursed by the gods.

‘When creating a character, I heard that it was a race given with extreme probability, but why now?’

As Isaac thought so, he remembered the process of creating his character. He blindly chose a high faith, painstakingly reduced his appearance, and chose a faith that had the worst relationship with the gods. It occurred to me that all of those variables may have led to the assignment of a racial trait called Nephilim.

It was only after tracing those memories that Isaac realized.

He realized that he had truly entered the world of ‘Nameless Chaos’, where there were no dreams or hopes, and that he now had to live as the character he created, ‘Isaac’.

Siiiiit—!

A sound like a sharp gust of wind was heard from somewhere. The skeleton soldiers who had killed the middle-aged monk man had discovered Isaac and were approaching.

“Ugh… … !”

Isaac quickly began to run away. He briefly thought about raising his sword to resist, but there was no way it would be possible to fight when even standing was difficult.

However, soon after starting to run, Isaac quickly began to run out of breath.

This was due to the worst physical abilities unique to the Nephilim.

Instead, it is said that he can control people with his unknown charisma, but Isaac was doubtful whether that charm would even work on the undead.

Isaac suppressed the feeling of vomiting and moved to avoid the gaze of the skeleton soldiers as much as possible.

As he walked, he recalled the catchphrase used to promote Nameless Chaos.

[This is a world ruled by giants and gods.]

[You will die here, worthless and meaningless.]