123 < EP. 28: Grave of the Valiant. (2) >

“Wow!!! ”

“I can't believe I'm actually clearing this!! ”

Users gathered at the event cheered for the elite party of the Berserker Guild, but my feelings were very complicated.

"Butt, the name of a great hero is butt."

At that time, Hayashi, who was next to me, asked me with the same emotion or a screaming voice.

“D-sir. This is the name of the hero class character in Part Two.”

“Yes. Butt. ”

“Hiya!! Are you sure you want to do this? ”

“Well, promises are promises. ”

But there is still little hope. It's just a small difference between being a warrior and not being one.

“Grrrrrrr!! ”

On the last blow of the warrior, you lay on the ground screaming at the last stroke of Black Dragon.

“Now... is there a gin ending? ”

After clearing Normal Mode, the event of escaping from the collapsing tower plays and ends somewhat freshly with a message asking you to challenge the Hardcore Mode, but the end of Hardcore Mode took place slightly differently.

In front of the warriors who defeated the Black Dragon, Marcin, who defeated the Holy King Croel, appears.

“Huh!? Drink!!"

“Oh!! Endings are different!! As expected, the Gin Endings were hidden in Hardcore Mode!! ”

“Are you sure this is the final battle? ”

- Well done, warriors who defeated my dragons. -

The members of the Berserker Guild look nervous as they suddenly appear. Because if you go into battle like this, the result is almost like a fire.

I never thought that drink would show up on the top floor of the Maestro's Tower when I thought it was the last battle.

In retrospect, there was a similar case in the book. Some players were struck down by a sudden drink after killing the Demon King.

But their expectations were well missed.

In front of the party members who defeated the dragons, Marcin offered players new alternatives.

Alternately, a new message window appeared on the screen of the leader of the Raid Party, Osiris.

- Will you take over as' Demon King ’in response to Marcin's offer? -

The message that popped up on the screen came out of the mouths of the users gathered in the event hall.

“What, you can be a hero or a Demon King, depending on what you choose?" ”

“Amazing. What happens when you choose the Demon King here? ”

What the hell? I'm gonna be the Butt Demon King!!

Anyway, whatever that damn name is makes me less serious. But is the Demon King a better name than the name of a warrior? Err... I don't know anymore.

Taking a long sigh and looking at the side, Yuki, who was sitting with me, was smiling just before he passed out.

“The Demon King's name is Butt. Kick, Kick, Kick.”

Yeah, smile, smile.

When I turned my head to the stage with my heart set on, the players of the Berserker Guild were discussing with a very serious face.

Are you the first hero of Dragon Emblem 2? Or is it written as the Great Demon King? Neither would be an attractive choice for them.

The moment Osiris, a warrior class, was offered a position as the Demon King.

The same offer was offered to the palace and the sage classes that were partying together.

And the Berserker party made a fairly wise judgment here.

At a party of four, one warrior and one wise man is the Demon King and one corrupt wise man.

And the rest of us will finish the class change with the referee and the great sage.

‘Not a bad choice. ’

Users also had an interesting reaction to their choices.

“My colleague split in two. What happens now? ”

Drinking, while everyone was watching, disappeared into the dark with two of his henchmen, heralding a new war.

The story ends with a video of an urgent event that leaves the Judge and the Grand Sage in a collapsing tower and tells them that the Maestro Tower has all collapsed. Another message window popped up on the screen.

- Thank you for enjoying the time of darkness and the broken Sword of the Dragon Emblem Prologue. -

“Prologue!? ”

“The story you've played so far was the prologue of Dragon Emblem 2, how big is the worldview? ”

Of course, the users who only knew it was the end began to roar at the message on the screen, so I slowly got up and went onstage, just watching the event until now.

“Hello, I'm Kang Jun-hyuk, the developer of Dragon Emblem. ”

The gaze of all the people who were gathered in the event hall became calm toward me.

“Thank you to the Berserker Guild for completing the Dragon Emblem Hardcore Mode first. To be honest, after the launch of Dragon Emblem 2, I thought it would take at least 3 months to clear Hardcore Mode, but developers always miss their expectations. ”

“I can't believe you were expecting that...”

I smiled and replied to the soliloquy of the user from somewhere.

“That's what a director looks like. If the playtime feels too short for the user, they can slightly increase the content, and if they want too much, they can cut out unnecessary events like pruning branches. It's a long, boring story that's going to tire you out. So the first story of Dragon Emblem 2 is very simple and vivid. Defeat the dragon guarding the tower with your allies. Isn't that right, Berserkers Guild? ”

Then, at the last class chain, the referee archer nodded and replied.

“Well, it's nice to have your character grow or your town flourish by completing small quests, but I don't think there was a flow of epic stories from the masterpiece. ”

“You got it right. Yes, because what you've been enjoying so far is the beginning of the Drama of Dragon Emblem 2, the prologue. The last words that came to mind in the promotional footage of the Dragon Emblem I showed you earlier... Does anyone remember? ”

Some of the users in the event hall gave me a small resilience to my question.

“No way..? ”

Yes, the newly transferred users will appear as heroes in the main story of Dragon Emblem's next episode, "The Grave of the Braves."

The Dragon Emblem's Hero Classes are 8 for each job. In total, there are 16 kinds of the Demon Prince's faction...

Clear information from the Berserker Guild was immediately disseminated through the various magazines and the PC communication community. Then the users rushed to the Tower of Mars to occupy the remaining 12 hero classes.

Your character can be the lead in the next episode.

Of course, even after the registration of 16 heroes, users who had completed Dragon Emblem 2 were able to inherit their characters from the next episode, thus minimizing the range of cartridges flowing into the second-hand market.

A new type of game that is being created with users has produced a very good response to consumers, and in about 3 months after its release, it vomited the salt of selling one million copies within Japan alone.

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“A toast to achieving the Dragon Emblem Millionaire!!! ”

With the Kawaguchi delegation's toast, the sound of the cups banging rang out.

He praised the performance of the Elongated Dragon emblem and induced applause for the Pentagon staff.

“Then, shall we call Director Kang Jun-hyuk, who is the pride of our Pentagon software and is getting married next month? ”

I suddenly swallowed the champagne in the representative's comment, and I shook my hand and replied.

“I'm fine. ”

Then Morita and Hayashi, who were sitting next to me, forced me to stand up and open their mouths.

“Aigoo, don't do that, get married next month and go up and say something. Hey, what's everybody doing? I won't take you anywhere soon! ”

Eventually, I stepped up to the top like I was being handed over to my second development team members, and I looked at them in a clumsy manner. Then he applauded the first team as well as the marketing and accounting teams.

A small company that was within and outside of 10 is now a large company with 150 employees working at the head office.

I looked at the party floor, holding the microphone, until the crowds clapped more often.

“First of all, I'd like to thank the people of the second development team for working with me. Launched a new portable console and now it's about 10 months old. Raon has outperformed the NEGA within Japan and is ranked second in its penetration rate. Of course, there's a huge gap between the industry leaders, but I don't think it would be a dream to go beyond mintendo one day if everyone just worked hard like now. ”

“The gaming industry, which had lost its trust in users due to Atari shock, has now had its second peak since the Mintendo family. The console market is going to undergo a huge change in the future. There's a whole new kind of genre coming out of it. The Dragon Emblem 2 prologue is the first step in preparing for that change. ”

Maybe no one here understands what I'm saying.

I gripped the microphone and smiled.

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A few days from that.

In Mantra Soft, Korea, several types of demo cartridges were moved to Pentagon headquarters.

It was a demonstration game from a Korean gaming company that mainly develops PC games to Raon, a console breeder, who hopes to launch the games.

South Korean PC gaming industry in the '90s was extremely unstable due to illegal replication, making it extremely rare for users to buy authentic products.

Later, Laon, which was launched in 91, became quite popular in South Korea, and as its penetration rate increased, soft companies were increasingly changing routes to console gaming businesses.

Since the Pentagon and Mantra were cooperating with each other in both directions, most of the games from the Pentagon were released in Hangul, and along with the Dragon Emblem series, Final Frontier was becoming very popular in the country.

Some of the games were converted to Japanese and released, and Mantra used to send some to the Pentagon, which showed sufficient promise in the Japanese market.

“Sir, I've sent you a new demo cartridge from Korea. ”

Hayashi, who had picked up a brown paper box from the post office, told me as she unpacked the parcel.

While I was working on a portrait of a new episode of Dragon Emblem, I sighed for a moment and received a cartridge from Hayashi.

“I've been developing a lot of Raon games in Korea lately. ”

“PC prevalence increases exponentially, and the game doesn't sell at all. Turn your eyes to Raon, the console device. ”

“Illegal replication. That's not only in Korea, it's happening all over the world. In the first place, PCs were easier to replicate data than consoles. ”

“You know...”

I stopped looking at a cartridge with a happy title while looking at some game cartridges.

“Hmm? You know the game? ”

“I just got off the phone with the head of Mantra, and he said," Great game. You want to try it? ”

Hayashi muttered while reading the title of the cartridge received from me.

“The story of Actonicia...? That's a great title."

“Isn't that right?"

In Hayashi's compliment, a swirling smile was drawn on his mouth.