Chapter 1

Episode 1. Prologue + Access (1)

Virtual reality game ‘Dantalian’.

It is a longevity game that has been released for 8 years.

The genre is a fantasy labyrinth escape roguelike.

It supports online services that allow interaction with other users.

Dantalian caused a perception change in the virtual reality game world at the same time as it was released.

Synchro rate 99% No repetition of the same pattern even if you try tens of millions of times.

Dantalian’s phenomenal technology was enough to drive virtual reality gamers around the world into a crucible of enthusiasm.

The fighting game ‘King of Fist’, which had previously occupied the No. 1 throne, fell to the floor after not being able to properly perform a large distance.

Dantalian, who took first place, soon reached 200 million concurrent users.

Even so, the upward curve did not fade.

An apparently abnormal trend.

What’s more abnormal than that is the fact that even though so many users have played the game for 5 years, no one has ever cleared it.

Experts have not been able to theoretically figure out why Dantalian gained astronomical popularity despite its unusual difficulty.

There was only a lot of speculation that the transcendental sense provided by the 99% synchro rate of science fiction technology was causing abnormal addiction.

***

Peruk.

The fist of the sun crushed the last skeleton’s jawbone.

-? haha Were they originally this weak?

-weird. It seems like just yesterday that my bones were shattered by a skeleton one-one-two high kick.

-Ugh haha My bone pain was smashed by the skeleton?

– If you are a normal person, you will be smashed. ᅳᅳ

-There’s no way I could be this weak; isn’t it lowered?

-Where is the balance patch in Dantalian? Haha

“I finally get a feel for it.”

Taeyang swung his arms around and inspected his body.

And countless skeleton remains scattered behind it.

It was a scene that made no sense.

-It’s a basic character without any corrections, right?

-The Tower of the Dead, the first stage on the 1st floor.

-No, what is this? Does that make sense?

– Is this the Kingpy figure?

The sun grinned.

***

A man in a suit is looking at a colorful graph with his legs crossed.

The graph containing the astronomical number of

current visitors 299999995 was showing a very slight upward trend.

The number of current visitors 299999998

The man’s long eyelashes gracefully fell down and then rose again.

Current number of visitors 300000005

“300 million.”

The red lips drew a graceful line.

The man raised his thin white finger and tapped his lips.

“This is enough... ... .”

A blue light shone in the man’s eyes.

The light was something that could not be explained by the common sense of humans living on Earth.

Before long, a magic circle filled with geometric shapes wrapped around the monitor.

The figure encroached on the monitor and invaded the wires to reach the main body of the supercomputer responsible for the server of the virtual reality game Dantalian.

Tuung.

It wasn’t long before Internet newspapers around the world published breaking news.

[trot! Virtual reality game Dantalian fatal error discovered. Death toll... ... .]

***

Transcendent Jin-Gak – Whirlpool.

Kwakjijik.

The half-man, half-demon fist wrapped itself in transcendent electromagnetic energy.

If you get hit, you’ll take painful damage and get a full combo hit.

What if you block it?

Get electrocuted due to abnormal status.

Electrocution is a painful debuff that has the effect of amplifying damage received and reducing reaction speed.

Quung.

transcendence.

The effect is triggered only when the synchro rate is maintained at 70% and the motion is performed without an error of 0.1mm.

It is a skill that has great merit as much as it is difficult.

Of course, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to deal with it.

Don’t hit, don’t block, avoid.

The best thing is to hit my skills while avoiding them.

like now.

hook.

Bow down and move forward.

It’s a move that boxers often call ‘ducking’.

A fist wrapped in lightning grazed the sun’s forehead.

Kwakjijik!

Exciting.

Even if it moved just one more piece of paper, it would have been a shot.

step forward at the same time

Follow the same path that the half-man, half-horse took just now.

Transcendence Jin-Gak – Seungryong Fist.

Pretzel support.

Unprecedented power dwelled in his right arm.

The half-man, half-horse Isaac’s face contorted as he punched in front of the sun.

food.

The sun couldn’t stand it and laughed.

For today, I thought of forgetting everything and enjoying myself.

Taeyang called his younger brother, Byeolrim.

“Take it. take it.”

It is often said that siblings are worse off than others, but Byullim and Taeyang were on the close side.

It was largely due to the loss of their parents when they were young and growing up relying on each other.

-The customer did not answer the phone, so after the beep, to voicemail... ... .

The sun pouted his lips.

“Is it broadcasting?”

There was nothing I couldn’t understand.

Byulrim’s job was a game streamer.

After giving up on the phone, Taeyang tapped his smartphone.

– My brother won the championship. ^^

Of course, no reply came.

“... ... Still, it’s the World Championship final. I’ll take a look.”

Byulrim did not want to reveal that he and Taeyang were brother and sister.

If you reveal it, it is certain that your image will be covered by the image of ‘Taeyang’s younger brother’.

That was right.

It’s an honor in the past, but Taeyang’s awareness is at the level of a celebrity.

Taeyang connected to a site specializing in games.

5 consecutive King of Fist World Championships.

Even Taeyang himself thought of it as a legendary achievement.

“what’s this.”

Taeyang’s lips protruded as he rummaged through his smartphone for a long time.

This is because the entire site was the story of Dantalian, a virtual reality game.

“What is Dantalian!”

It’s amazing that we’re going to hit 300 million concurrent users soon... ... However, this is a Korean site and I, a Korean, won the King of Feast World Championship!

How can there be no article!

Taeyang clicked on the article with a sullen face.

Soon, his eyes widened rapidly.

[Virtual reality game Dantalian fatal error found. Estimated 20 million deaths]

– A fatal error was discovered in Dantalian, a virtual reality game that is gaining sensational popularity worldwide, and an emergency was put on all over the world. Dantalian is a mega hit game with 300 million concurrent users... ... .

The sun has risen.

Dantalian.

It was a game mainly played by Byullim.

fatal error? Enough to lose your life?

Just then, the smartphone Taeyang was holding vibrated.

The caller was Hyun-hye.

A childhood friend and game streamer like Byulrim, whom I have known since childhood.

Her main game is also Dantalian.

“hello?”

Perhaps because of the tension, her lips were dry.

-Are you in touch with Byeolrim?

“I just finished the contest.”

A moment of silence ensued.

the sun asked impatiently.

“I saw the Dantalian article. Is Byulrim currently online?”

-I don’t know.

Taeyang felt the blood run cold in his head in an instant.

Byeollim was the only blood of Taeyang.

The last blood and blood saved from the fire that engulfed the entire family in childhood.

In my memory, Taeyang’s father grinned.

-Believe. son!

Sun shook her head nervously and opened her mouth.

“I’ll go straight to Sangam-dong now. I’m sorry, but let me do one favor.”

-I’ll go to Byeolrim’s first and check it out. is that it?

Even if you don’t say it first, you understand it perfectly.

At times like these, I was grateful for Hyeon-hye’s quick notice.

“request. Check it out and call me right away.”

After hanging up the phone, the sun, whose face was as white as a sheet of paper, spurred out of the room.

***

Taeyang and Hyeonhye were sitting in Byulrim’s room, depressed.

In a short time, the situation was well understood.

People figured out that if you die in the game, you actually die.

heart will stop It was terrible.

The only thing the survivors could do was to take the user who had become a corpse out of the capsule.

It was also found that the broadcasts of the streamers who were broadcasting did not stop, and through this, it was possible to communicate with users in the game.

Currently, the problem has not been resolved at all.

The governments of each country hurriedly blocked the download of Dantalian, but it was meaningless.

Because the astronomical population of 300 million was connected.

Some people shouted that the entire amount of virtual reality capsules should be recovered to prevent additional visitors, but virtual reality capsules play the same role as computers in the 21st century, so the regulation of recovering capsules was practically impossible.

The world belatedly sought out Dantalian officials to hold them accountable.

The situation on this side was even more surprising.

The chairman is missing, and the CEO hanged himself at home without a will.

It was reported that a team leader-level person on vacation in Hawaii was shot by a robber, and another person on a business trip to Brazil was lynched and killed by the mafia.

In addition, even the high-ranking executives of Dantalian Co., Ltd. or those who ‘was’ disappeared or died.

If you are a member of the rank of team leader or higher, no one is missing.

It is an extremely unrealistic story to say that it happened in the modern society of the 21st century.

Hyunhye carefully opened her mouth.

“The streamers told me the outside news inside. Don’t worry, there’s a high chance that Byulrim will be with people like that. If you see that there is a biological reaction, you’re not dead... ... .”

“Byeolrim is also a streamer. Why doesn’t Byulrim turn on the broadcast?”

“It looks like you didn’t turn on the broadcast and only played games. The broadcast that was originally on continues to be broadcast, but they say you can’t control the new transmission program from within the game.”

“What is it... ... .”

The sun held my head, which had become a magpie, with both hands.