This Is Not a Game - This Is Not a Game chapter 177

How to be brave if you are ignorant

There are only two cases where the quest ends.

One is when the presented clear conditions are met.

Whether only the basic conditions are satisfied or the additional conditions are satisfied, only the conditions need to be satisfied.

The other is when the clear conditions cannot be met.

If you die or the goal disappears, the quest will be treated as a failure, and depending on whether you have the right to re-challenge, you will re-challenge or return to reality as it is.

If so, if you do not belong to either of them.

It’s not easy, but what if the user doesn’t meet the clear condition for the quest and the situation where the clear condition can be met continues?

The answer is simple.

The quest never ends and continues on and on.

Go on, go on, go on.

“You really mean it goes on and on? Continue until the client dies of old age?”

“Well. I can’t say for sure because there’s no user who has continued the quest for that long, but maybe so? There was a case in the past when one of the users got drunk on life in another world and continued to endure without clearing the quest. However, even after 20 years, the rate of change in fate dropped and they said that they ended up paying a lot of karma points to purchase the experience and knowledge they accumulated in another world.”

Even if you dragged the quest for 20 years, if it ended that much, it is safe to say that there is no penalty.

Of course, there were no direct penalties, but that didn’t mean there were no problems.

The first is the problem of the difference in time magnification between the original world and the other world.

Time on Earth is slow, and time in another world is running fast.

It would be fortunate if the time of the earth and the other world passed similarly.

But what if time on earth is fast and time in another world is slow?

After finishing the quest, you come back, but there will be problems such as the death of an acquaintance or the world has completely changed.

But this was nothing compared to the second problem.

“That user I was talking about earlier. Can you tell me the story behind it?”

“done. Even if you haven’t heard it, I think you know roughly.”

Pleasant adventures, heartbreaking love, and ordinary daily life.

Whatever it is, can a person who has been immersed in life in another world for more than 20 years return to Earth and adapt properly?

“Originally, he wasn’t a normal guy, but after that, he completely lost his taste. He said that he was not supposed to be here, and that he would go back to another world, so he searched through the list of quests all day long, or was soaked in drugs. Unless it’s unavoidable, the quest will be finished in a short period of time. I mean it sincerely.”

It was the first serious look of Kang Chang-seok.

And Yooseong also took Kang Chang-seok’s warning seriously.

No matter how strong your mental power is, you are a human who has lived only 20 years and a little more.

If you live in another world for 10 years or more than you have ever lived, and as a stranger, your identity will completely change.

oneself, not oneself

However, Yuseong thought that going on a quest for a long time was not necessarily dangerous.

“The problem is when the time spent in another world is too long, and if you get the balance right, I think you can use it like a room for spirit and time… … .”

Yooseong thought he had seized his chance the moment he realized that the time multiplier for this quest would make a big difference.

A chance to learn new skills and gain the melee combat experience you lack.

Yuseong, who entrusted the search to Aris, immediately requested help from the unmanned people near Dongdong Lake.

“You want to fight? am i crazy There’s nothing to gain, so why fight?”

“If you beat me, I’ll give you a gold coin.”

“Hmm, it’s a gold coin. The price of the drink was moderate, but it worked out well.”

The first was a rongin.

For the purpose of gaining experience step by step, he seduced third-rate ronin with money and fought with them.

He unlocked most of the items and fought with equal strength to the opponent, but Meteor easily won.

It was not difficult to win against second-class and first-class opponents.

The problem was from the peak of the peak.

Against the peak master, Yooseong barely managed to win after competing three hundred sums.

“Something is strange.”

Although he limited his strength and skills and was careful not to get hurt, Yoosung had no choice but to be taken aback by the unexpected struggle.

This is because Yuseong fought while predicting the opponent’s movements in real time by grasping the movement with the Sura sense and the flow of bets with the demonic eye of truth.

No matter how much there is a difference between the martial arts and the experience, it was common sense that it was impossible to predict the opponent’s movements, and that the fight had been this long.

‘It was a fight in my favor throughout. Every moment, I chose the best option according to the opponent’s movement, and there were several opportunities to finish in the middle. But why the hell did this happen?’

“… … There’s plenty of time anyway. If we keep fighting, one day we will find out why.”

They competed against masters who used various weapons such as swords, swords, spears, sticks, fists, and kak, and various types of martial arts such as strong, Yu, Kwae, Hwan, and Byeon.

[The level of martial arts has risen to C+.]

[The level of martial arts has risen to B-.]

[You have learned the skill, Power Attack (C-).]

[The Power Melee skill has evolved into the Divine Conjugation (B) skill.]

ten times, fifty times, a hundred times.

As the number of fights increased, he was able to accumulate various experiences and became stronger as he acquired new skills.

The peak master, who barely won the first three hundred battles, was able to win in two hundred and fifty battles the second time, then two hundred and then two hundred, and then a hundred.

But that was the limit.

Meteor couldn’t grow any further.

‘Why is it that someone weaker than me can defeat an opponent I’ve beaten in a contest of tens of thousands in fifty sums? Is it because of the presence or absence of weapons? No, there are swordsmen who are as strong as swordsmen. What’s the matter?’

Incomprehensible results.

Yooseong fought and fought to clear the question.

However, Yoosung couldn’t get an answer to the question until the moment Aris finally found Bidong.

* * *

The size of Dongting Lake is incomparable to that of ordinary rivers.

To add a little exaggeration, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was equivalent to the sea.

Of course, it was impossible for a person to search that wide space, and even in the water where there was no light, alone to find a bead somewhere.

More than finding a needle in the desert.

But Aris was human, but not human.

The android that Sofia put all her effort into was able to operate in space as well as underwater, and was equipped with infrared vision and various detection sensors that could see through the darkness.

Of course, searching the lake was not an impossible task.

It just took a little bit of time.

‘Yooseong-nim is too heartless.’

Aris pursed her lips as she chased away the school of fish that circled around her.

I didn’t expect anything like a pleasant adventure because I had heard about the users and the quest, but I never dreamed that I would be floating in dark water for weeks.

Fortunately, thanks to several convenient features, it was not so boring even during a long search.

Android bodies are different from human bodies in many ways.

You can play music in your head, or read a book or watch a movie by displaying text or images on your retina.

So how do you do the search?

The artificial intelligence built into Android will take care of it.

The only thing Aris could do was control the Dragon Heart’s magical power with the Demonic Eye of Truth so that it wouldn’t overheat.

‘I want to find it quickly and talk to Yooseong-nim, or see what the other world is like.’

However, there was still more than half of the area to be searched.

As she sighed and tried to move to another place, Aris stopped moving.

The numbers caught by the sensor are strange.

After ending the video on her retina and activating the Demonic Eye of Truth, Aris was stunned at what she could see.

‘What the hell is that?’

The value of the sensor remains the same and the flow of water is calm.

However, in Aris’ eyes, she could see a swirling scene of brilliant energy that she couldn’t see properly.

‘uh?’

Apparently, I headed straight for the whirlpool, but when I came to my senses, I was out on the other side.

After staring at the whirlpool for a while, Aris soon approached it again with a laughable smile.

However, unlike before, Aris did not bounce off the wrong place, but was gradually approaching the center of the vortex.

This is because they moved while grasping and adapting to the flow of energy in the vortex.

And the moment I reached the center of the vortex, the world changed.

“Teleport? hallucination?”

I was obviously underwater, but I was transported to the middle of a huge space surrounded by neatly trimmed walls and ceilings.

gulp.

Falling alone in an unknown place is unsettling, but the connection to the portable satellite that Meteor had floated has also been cut off.

Aris, who was trembling faintly and looked around, saw a large passage and six letters engraved on it.

Tongcheonshinmajimyo.

“uh? Tea, I found it!”

I finally found what I was looking for so much.

Aris, who was happy and forgot the anxiety of falling in an unfamiliar place, inadvertently lifted her head at the damp feeling on her head.

Pop! Pop! Pop!

A bizarre being with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a spider, about 4 meters tall, was sticking to the ceiling and drooling.

Aris, who was froze at the shocking sight, finally uttered a word after rummaging through her memories.

“… … Arachne?”

Kyaaa!

Seeing Arachne shoot green venom from her mouth, Aris reflexively raised her arms to cover her face.

Arachne, no, the face holder laughed at Aris.

Do you dare to block your own poison with your bare body?

Now that human will know what the pain of melting flesh and bone is.

However, at the shocking sight that followed, the faceplate had no choice but to harden like Aris had done.

“Ugh. A strange smell.”

Kiik?

Apparently, he was hit by the miasma spewing out from his 500-year-old dogma.

It’s normal to turn into blood in the blink of an eye, but it’s just a strange smell?

The face holder, who had been staring blankly at Aris, soon gnashed his teeth and started firing thicker venom.

Cheeik!

“oh! my head!”

However, the venom of the mortal was only to the point of slightly damaging the hair, and even that was quickly repaired by nanomachines.

Aris’s androids generously use all sorts of rare materials to handle the dragon heart’s magical power, and use numerous advanced technologies to realize phenomenal durability.

Wouldn’t it be the face of a thousand years old?

The venom of the 500-year-old Inmyeonjiri was not enough to melt the androids, which cost a decent amount of national budget.

Kiyi!

Realizing that the poison didn’t work, the face holder fired a spider web from the back of the head.

However, Aris did not continue to suffer.

No matter how much damage there is, I have no intention of getting hit with a spider’s web because the smelly, dirty liquid isn’t enough.

Aris, who deployed the booster and flew into the air, lifted her arm, and black particles gathered and turned into a huge rifle.

20mm large caliber railgun.

Being ignorant from ancient times is the law of being brave.

Unaware of the identity of the railgun, the face holder spewed out a spider’s web in a straight line towards Aris, and Aris fired the railgun at the face holder.

Dismissed!

Kee

With a flash of white light, the spider’s body of the face holder shattered.

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