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…Seriously? You’re not even going to let me heal up first? Really? Isn’t that just a bit too—

A massive weight slams into me and I fly off the ground, bound through the air and skid across the ground, scraping up my entire chest before finally coming to a stop a few paces from where I started out. Standing up, I slowly open my eyes. There, on the other side of the road, right wher...

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<Top—Status—Community>

<04:20:02

Day 227>

<The ninth attempt will begin in

13:19:39:58>

Day two hundred twenty-seven?

That can’t be right. I only started yesterday. And yesterday was day two hundred and ten. It’s only been one day. Not 17.

I heave myself up, but as I get on my knees, my mouth opens and I puke again. A half-dige...

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I’ve got a theory. See, I didn’t notice it before because I got distracted by the soot child, but now that I’m actually looking at it—unlike the rest of the city—the castle isn’t on fire. Sniff sniff sniff sniff. If my hunch is correct, then that is where that so-called herald is.

But for once, the system actually understands me, because in order to beat this floor, I need to ...

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The world wobbles and shifts and somehow it feels wrong, even worse than the other times this has happened, because my stomach does a flip and I feel like I’m upside down but only my body is upside down and my brain is upright, but then it switches again, and my body, weak and wobbly, falls to the ground in a mess of limbs and confusion.

The first thing I notice, before I’ve even had ...

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—Lobby. You really are too predictable, system. You know that, right? And now you’ll sell my inventory, because I’m clearly not using any of it.

<To repay your debt,

your inventory has been sold

for 3 500 points.>

That’s… a very exact number. Considering that I don’t think I had anything sellable in my inventory apart from the book, that would mean that...

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A puff of perfume hits my face the second I enter. The intense light makes me squeeze my eyes shut, but on account of this not being a very strategic choice all things considered, I force myself to open them again, letting my gaze fall on the bizarre sight in front of me.

<Gorgon Medusa (Lv.47) [BOSS]>

She’s lying on her stomach, on a regal-looking bed, with a carved pipe in...

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So, in other words, that experiment was a bust. Since I can’t learn how the feeling of having magic power can be described, I can’t exactly tell when I have it myself. Isn’t that just a bummer?

Oh, that’s weird. Now that she’s dead, the gorgon’s skin is turning WHITE again. I wonder if the whole having-magic thing will make the flesh taste any different?

<You have lea...

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<Top—Status—Community>

<08:30:02

Day 203>

<The eighth attempt will begin in

6:15:29:58>

<[Help will arrive in

1:15:29:58]>

Two days left.

Dully, I turn my face to a weird bulge trying to press up against a literal mound of snake corpses. It’s been doing that for a while now, and I think it’s the third gorgon. See, i...

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I start killin’. After an hour or so, my flesh has recovered enough to where I can go into fetal position blowover if I want to, but I choose not to. This way, the snakes will go for me. Some of them have really annoying effects, and it’s starting to remind me of floor two and the ladies all over again, but none of them cause vivid hallucinations strong enough to penetrate my hallucination ...

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After a few minutes, my eyes recover enough for me to be able to see again, but I keep them closed in order to continue meditating. Since I’ve got a feeling my situation is somewhat precautious, I use moving meditation as well just to speed things up a bit.

Nevertheless, after some time, I decide to peek my eyes open anyways, just for a second, if only to orient myself.

I’m lyin...

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My body fizzles and fuzzles and bubbles and churns. There’s no air in my lungs anymore. There isn’t any air at all. Wherever I look, a status message pops up.

<Snake (Lv.40)>

I can barely move at all. The heat is horrible and enough to melt me. Oh, wait, I really am melting! Haha, isn’t that just silly?

…I think this might be it. My brain isn’t working...

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…Ughh, my head…

Actually, that was a lie, my head feels pretty alright. My tolerances must be undoing the effects of the hangover I would otherwise be having. Neat!

And since I didn’t have any money to use myself, I didn’t spend a single point during the entire conference. Ah, the perks of being poor.

I glance around at the RED lobby all around. Turning my attention to...

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With trembling hands, I reach for the cake, but before I can gouge out a piece of it, he stops me. “Come on, man, this is your birthday cake. Let’s be at least a little civilised with it, alright?” I don’t know if I can actually speak or if the food coma has made me mute, so I just nod at him dully. He smiles and brings out a small plate each, and a spoon for each of us. Then, ...

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“But, for now,” he continues, “it is worth noting that the European Server seems to be governed by a representative democracy of sorts. Each country has a single non-appointed leader, and all leaders vote together on how to act and what rules should be obeyed. In that sense, it isn’t much different from what we have.”

“Very interesting,” Bach says. “Since we don’t have e...

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“Since some here at the table may not be familiar with it, I will do my best to summarise the revelation that arrived with the new challengers this attempt,” Bach says. Somehow, her words, although light, bring a weight to the room. It feels like everyone is holding their breath. “Namely, the fact that there has been an alien invasion of Earth. I hesitate to call it this, but there isn’...

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Herring—weird name—gives a small nod, but it’s clear that he doesn’t find the situation here too calm. “I talked to Yurt just the other minute. He went off to find the others, so they should be here any moment.”

“Great!” Bach says with a clap of the hands. “No need for us to wait out here, though. How about we go inside the room and mingle a little? It’s been a while s...

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He jumps a little in his seat like he forgot I was here at all. “Oh, it’s, uh… It’s a meeting for the leadership. After the Guild of Representatives got overthrown, someone had to step in and make sure people followed the new rules, and Bach decided that that should be, well, us. According to her, we’ve already shown the drive and passion needed to lead people, so…...

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My jaw falls open and I freeze in my step. I look up at her. “Um,” I say. “I didn’t consent to…” Her eyes sharpen slightly. I turn towards her fully. “Ok um actually I’m not harassing anyone and there’s absolutely no proof that I would ever do something weird like that because as you can see I’m just a totally normal sort of guy and besides the only reason I’m here is beca...

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They just keep on coming, huh? At least my gods are staying loyal, for once. One of these days, I’m going to have a hundred gods on my case about doing this or that or even about not doing this or that. Unreasonable, the lot of them.

<To repay your debt,

your inventory has been sold

for 2 points.>

…Are my shade innards really that wor...

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And lost I was. I’ll spare you the details, but since I faithfully checked the time for the entire duration, I can speak with absolute certainty when I say that I doggy-paddled around in that river of mud for no less than thirteen days straight.

Sometimes I would actually reach a shore, but every time, it would be the wrong one, and I’d get no message about the boss stage. I got so de...

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…Yeah, thanks. Appreciated.

The second I’m back in the lobby, I collapse to the floor. Carefully, I place my head in my hands.

I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to say. Is there anything to say or do?

<To repay your debt,

your inventory has been sold

for 9 points.>

<Current debt:

61 730 points.>

Oh, yeah, there’s one...

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“G-, gee, Ho-Jae, you could’ve, um, warned me, you know?...” he says, still clutching at his head in an almost comedic fashion. We’re at the river. Since I don’t answer him, Pak So looks down at the mirror-like water. He’s sitting on a nice round rock. I’m standing to his right, just slightly behind him. If I wanted to, I could break his neck before he even knew what was ...

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Days go by. I can practically taste the paranoia in the air, surrounding the base camp like a thick cloud.

Once the defensive trench around the base camp was complete, they apparently felt confident enough to branch out into more, smaller bases in the hopes of pushing me to the point where I’m crushed between their bases and the invisible wall surrounding us. But this won’t happen, be...

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I can tell when morning comes because a loud, piercing scream emerges from the base camp.

Ah, my good work has already been discovered, huh? About time, if you ask me.

Even though there’s no real need to, I go over to the base camp, just to watch the shades scramble. Some of them are even crying, which is interesting to watch. After a while, they remove the bodies from the tent, a...

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It’s a simple plan, but in this case, I have good reason to believe it will work.

I have three weeks to kill as many as I can. This shouldn’t be any issue. It’s just that I need to kill them in such a way where I can pick them off not necessarily one by one, but rather in small groups. If they all come at me at once, I’m a goner. But since they don’t know where I am, as long as ...

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“So, um…” I say, intercepting them. “What exactly do you want me to do about it?...”

“”Obviously,”” the both of them say as one before glaring at each other, with Het continuing. “We need  you to decide,”

“Fairly!” Jirya chirps.

“Fairly, who deserves to rest here.”

I gulp. “Um, and I, uh, guess that saying b—bo...