Chapter 5

# 5

5. Tutorial (3)

[Ah, I’m not going?!]

“Why am I going. I’m sure I’m going to die.”

[I’m not going to die. It’s synthetic!]

Where does this bastard sell drugs?

Isel’s dainty eyes furrowed. Every time the wings behind his back fluttered, shining powder fluttered.

Isel, who had been thinking about it for a while, clapped his hands as if he remembered.

[If you synthesize, you can return to the original world! Let’s see, Han Israt where you live...]

A ledger appeared on the right side of Isel. Isel fumbled through the ledger and stopped at one place.

[In Taoni where you live!]

“Taoni?”

[Heim Peninsula in Taone! Your hometown!]

Unidentified place names appear quickly.

I replied, half astonished.

“My hometown is Gangseo-gu, Seoul.”

[seoul? Gangseo-gu? Such a place...]

Isel’s expression hardened as he looked at the ledger and me alternately.

[what what? Who are you? Why is it different from the picture? Han Israt doesn’t look like this?]

“Who is Han Israt and where is Taoni? I am Han Seo-jin. I was born in Gangseo-gu, Seoul. I don’t know who you are, but if you say something nice, send it back, huh?”

[Could you be from Earth?]

“You’re from Earth, so you’re from Mars!”

Cold sweat broke out on Isel’s forehead.

Issel began to rummage through the ledger. I couldn’t even see the movement of my hands, and my eyes rolled quickly up and down.

[How does a higher dimension exist...]

Isel muttered in an embarrassed voice and pointed at the window at the top of her field of view.

[Can you see this too?]

[Now Loading...]

“I can see it.”

[Ahhhhh! How did you handle the job! Crazy, I’m crazy!]

Issel shook his head on the spot as if head-banging. Her black hair, braided from side to side, spun like a windmill.

[Anyway, go in now! Go in!]

“No! Why me! You go in...”

[Go in!]

Issel grabbed my wrist and threw it away.

I felt like I was floating, and then I flew into the synthetase.

Iron pudduck.

The synthesizer’s door slammed shut.

I got up right away and knocked on the door. There were kicks and power throws. But the locked door did not budge.

“You, man, take it out! You son of a bitch! I won’t let you go!”

How strong is the power of a child!

I couldn’t even resist.

“Be quiet, you’re noisy.”

Shay, the female knight who was leaning against the wall, said. On the floor you stand on, a complicated and bizarre magic circle covering the entire room is engraved.

I thought about it and asked.

“You, you... where are you from?”

“Me? Arantiada.”

“Arantia? Where are you from? America? Canada?”

“American? Canadian? What are you talking about?

‘What kind of bullshit is that?’

Even if you bring a foreigner, the language will communicate better than this.

Did you say you were a foreigner?

I touched my lips. Words that just came out of me. It wasn’t Korean. Neither English nor Japanese.

It was an unknown language.

Is there such a thing as nonsense?

With a half-empty heart, I brought up the crucial question. This time, my mouth spat out an unknown language. The words I wanted to get out of my brain seemed to be filtered out.

“Are you from Taoni by any chance?”

“Yes.”

“Not Earth?”

“I don’t know of a place like that.”

In other words, did the female knight come from a place called ‘Arantia’ in ‘Taoni’?

It became dark before my eyes. There was no dog dream like this.

Above all, the finale of the nightmare awaits.

[Start master synthesis.]

[Drag and drop the hero to be sacrificed to the hero you want to synthesize! You can get experience points. The sacrificed hero will disappear.]

[Tips/Registering the hero as a favorite can prevent synthesis mistakes.]

What? You can go back to the original world?

“Isel, are you there? Answer me!”

[Why are you calling me so annoying!]

Issel appeared in an empty space.

Issel folded his wings and landed on the floor, waving his arms up and down in a frenzy.

[This crazy head! Synthesis of 4 stars from 1 star? Aren’t you brainless? Write your favourites! I told you as a tip tip tip! read tips! Oh oh oh, I’m going crazy, I’m going crazy!]

“...”

Is that how it happened?

The reason I survived was simple. The way to synthesize heroes is drag and drop. It is a form of touching and pulling the hero to be sacrificed.

‘There was a beep.’

I didn’t even know that I had dragged it wrong, so I clicked Accept Composite.

Laughter leaked out. The only thing I survived was the fact that I was lucky. Shay, on the other hand, died from a simple control miss.

[Are you sure you want to terminate the connection to the master?]

[Yes (optional) / No]

[Then, goodbye!]

A message indicating the end of the game appeared.

Isel, who struggled for a while, wiped the tears from her eyes.

[Damn it. I thought it was just starting...]

“Tell me about the situation. I’m going to turn around because I’m curious. Where is this place, how did I get here, and how to get back?”

[Hey, why am I!]

Isel kicked off the ground and flew away, sticking out her tongue.

The body slowly faded.

[If you want to know, go up the tower. Because the answer is there. Bye then!]

“Hey, you, wait!”

I waved my hand at the place where Isel was, but nothing was caught.

ran away

“...”

I was left alone in the plaza.

Both the cheeky fairy and the calm female knight disappeared.

They both seemed to know something I didn’t know. If I knew it would be like this, I would have asked Shay.

Leaving the empty plaza behind, I returned to my room.

The room still had the look of a luxury home. When I opened the cupboard above the sink, there was ramen.

Depressed, I took out the pot and boiled the water.

Electricity, water and gas run through it. I looked for an exit while the water was boiling, but couldn’t find one. It is a building that is unknown how it was formed in the first place.

I slurped my noodles.

The ramen I ate after a long time was devastatingly delicious.

I fell into bed without even tidying up.

Only then did I realize what had just happened.

Kerr.

The cry of a goblin like boiling phlegm. Bloodlined ugly eyes. Burning houses and people running away. The sound that a knife swung at me cuts through the air. The life-killing touch that penetrates your fingertips.

I wasn’t chosen That’s all.

Shay’s bitter voice played on repeat.

you are not chosen It was just bad luck. I was the human being who should have been destroyed as it was. Shay, who had disappeared surrounded by light, came to mind.

‘Nonsense.’

entered the world of the game.

Could something like this happen?

If everything is a dream when you wake up, they will laugh at you.

He was also willing to pay tribute to me for dreaming of entering the world of a game.

How could I have such a realistic dream?

But if it’s not a dream.

If everything is the same when you wake up.

If only this inorganic room and the bleak plaza outside were still the same.

If I had entered the game world as a hero, not a master.

Pulling over the blanket, I remembered.

What kind of existence am I in Pick Me Up?

5th out of 100 million masters worldwide.

No one knows more about this game than I do.

I know almost all skill and item crafting methods, efficient strategies and tactics, how to raise heroes, and hidden elements.

People call me Master of Master.

that’s me

If everything is the same when you open your eyes.

‘If that’s the case.’

I remembered right before I came over to this world.

An unidentified level 999 bug monster.

He was obviously laughing at me.

It’s him. It must have been him who brought me here.

‘You touched the wrong person.’

I sharpened my teeth.