Time Stop Swordsman With Romantic Concept - Chapter 39



39. The game hypnotized me

39. The game hypnotized me

Returning to the dormitory, Yuseong immediately puts on the Abyssal Eyepatch and uses the mark left on the back of her hand to enter her pocket dimension.

All you can see is an empty lot and a hut.

I went into the cabin once again.

Tak-!

The light was turned on in the dark and quiet room, and Adriana was soon revealed.

Kirik-

She made a gesture like winding a wind-up doll, then she straightened her voice like a human and then she asked Yuseong.

“Here again. Anything special?”

“I just came. I want to do some sword practice.”

“Sword practice? Why here? Not in the outside world.”

It was true, but Yoosung had no intention of showing his poor sword skills to others.

But how nice is this pocket dimension, except for Adriana, who is only her own space?

The inside of the dormitory wasn’t that narrow, but it was a bit difficult to wield a long sword.

“Hmm, can I take a look?”

However, it seems that there is an unexpected onlooker.

“So you were able to get out of this cabin.”

“…… I don’t know why she thought she wouldn’t go out. I’m in charge of this entire pocket dimension. Of course you can go anywhere.”

Adriana looks a bit puzzled, perhaps because she thought it was an out-of-the-ordinary question.

‘That’s because I never came out of the cabin in the game… ….’

Yuseong thought so and replied coolly.

“About the caliber. You can do whatever you want.”

I came out of the cabin side by side with Adriana.

Then, standing in a moderately wide space, he drew out his sword.

At the same time, time stopped, but I didn’t care and swung my sword as I normally trained.

No matter how much she raises her skills, in the end, if she can’t wield them properly, nothing will happen.

Of course, there is movement correction in the skill, but if you rely only on it, mistakes can happen at the crucial moment.

I practiced slashing the enemy with all my might, thinking that time had stopped even as time passed.

“Hmm. There is no special feeling than I thought.”

This was Adriana’s impression after watching Meteor’s training for a while.

“Do you have any expectations?”

“She swung her sword at such a speed that I couldn’t even recognize it when I first saw it. Besides, I thought it was extraordinary in many ways to be able to cut me in this space. I thought it would be interesting to practice, but it doesn’t seem like it.”

“In the end, I practice every day, but there is nothing special about it.”

“Well, that’s the case.”

Ordinary, nothing special.

Even while saying that, Adriana did not avoid her seat, and she never took her eyes off the meteor.

Could it be that she is lonely?

Yuseong asked the car when he was a little worried about that kind of gaze.

“When I’m not visiting the pocket dimension, I wonder what you usually do.”

“Nothing in particular.”

“Are you saying there is nothing to do?”

“Yes. Sit still and bruise or fall asleep. If you look at the outside world, you will only find that things are getting worse.”

Yoosung felt a strange sense of deja vu in the conversation with her.

She is strangely familiar with conversations with her even though she has never experienced it.

‘Adriana…… You seem to know a little about this world for some reason.’

Why do you think of what happened in the room at that time?

Thinking that maybe it was just because of his mood, it wasn’t something to be moved on, Yooseong spoke up.

“I was curious from the first time we met. What is your true identity? I want to know what that doll body is and where its spirit comes from.”

“You are asking an unusual question. As if I know that my body and mind are separate.”

“I don’t know if it’s unusual. That body is not life, no matter who sees it.”

“No, it’s unusual. At least for me There have been people who have faced the darkness of the other dimension before you, but no one has seen my body and mind separately.”

…… Even before us?

Yoosung inadvertently opened his eyes wide.

[ Curse of the Blind is active. ]

It was dark again soon after.

Anyway, that wasn’t the point.

Yoosung closed his eyes again and inquired about the subject.

“Even before us…… Are there people who have been through this?

“Yes. They were people from a different world than you. Like twelve. I fought with all my might, but in the end I was destroyed.”

It wasn’t clear that Adriana was aware of the loop.

If you’re saying that knowing Loop, people from other worlds won’t recognize you that way.

‘This is…… I don’t know. Non-game information that only exists in this world. I must know.’

Adriana in the game never mentions her story of another world, another failed generation.

There was no such thing as rice cakes.

Unlike the world Yooseong lives in, the dialogue and choices are fixed in the game.

Yuseong, who spent 2,500 hours playing Wizardry Caliber and looked for all kinds of hidden rice cakes, really didn’t exist if he didn’t know.

“I was one of those common souls who died and wandered around the dimensional rift. Until it was discovered by the previous manager who was originally in this body. Ask me to take over as your successor or something. If I stayed as a wanderer, I would be destroyed anyway, and if I took on the role of manager, I could struggle, so I accepted.”

Up until this point, this is what has been shown in the game.

Dimension gap…… Wandering soul…….

Come to think of it, the rice cake for that has not been revealed.

“The gap in that dimension.”

“There are tens of thousands of dimensions in this world. When a being with a soul dies there, roughly one out of a million people flows into the dimensional rift. After death, all souls are reborn and reincarnated in another dimension, but if they enter a gap in the dimension, they will wander there forever and eventually disappear. Then, there are cases where you get a body in another dimension without being bleached properly…….”

Adriana’s finger pointed at the meteor.

“You are such a case. Twelve in total. You guys are beings who shouldn’t be in the dimension where you originally lived.”

Yooseong was at a loss for words for a moment.

I was surprised that there was something more serious than I thought.

Also, the words ‘existence that shouldn’t exist in the original dimension’ came to me as if it were hitting the point.

Meteors are obviously different worlds.

He was a possessor who lived in another dimension.

“Well, if I say this, it’s something you’ve never heard of before. You won’t remember anymore.”

“Certainly, but I would like to hear more.”

“Yes, if you want to hear it. I will tell you everything I know.”

I talked to Adriana for a while.

It is said that it wasn’t long before the dimensional gap appeared.

The darkness of the other dimension is something like a collection of negative energies created by souls that have been annihilated in the dimensional rift.

It’s swallowing dimensions as if it’s infected, so if it continues, all dimensions might perish.

“Right now, nothing is clear. All I can know is…… Just that there is a divine being who wants to prevent the erosion of the other dimension by making rules and regulations? Although this is just speculation between the Pocket Dimension Managers.”

“Rules and rules?”

“Yes. Come on, look. You have ‘skills’ and ‘items’, right? You can also give ‘skills’ and ‘items’ to other ‘chosen ones’ through me—”

“The Chosen One” Is the name of the “Playable character” In the game.

As in other games, champions, heroes, and so on.

It was called by users or playable characters. In the official terminology in the game, it was correct to say ‘the chosen one’.

‘Adriana knows. Skills, items, and playable characters.’

[ Are you going to raise the skills of the other chosen ones? ]

[ To gift an item to another chosen one? ]

This was Adriana’s line in the game.

If the mention of skills and items wasn’t simply a game-like permission, it was just an imitation of the ‘actual Adriana’…….

What if Wizardry Caliber wasn’t actually a simple game, but just made something that was happening somewhere ‘familiar like a game’?

It wasn’t that I hadn’t thought about this.

In fact, even if you dig a little, there are too many suspicious things about this game.

First of all, there was no one who took the name of the development team leader and director.

Nonetheless, it is an AAA title developed by a large company.

Whether it was publicity or not, it was to the point where few people knew until the release.

There were suspiciously many bugs, and the skills of the developers who said they couldn’t fix them were suspiciously low.

However, the fact that bug fixes are still being made every week is too suspicious now.

Clearly, all the development staff who would provide post-production support withdrew and it was a game that went down to Steam.

Also, there were a lot of people who were weird about the dung game topic.

And it was a game that seemed to blatantly shoot male-oriented otaku, but strangely, there were a lot of female users.

If you dare to reveal that you are a woman in the community, she will be kicked out by inducing friendship, so I tried not to show off, but if a woman who is not familiar with the community communicates, it is inevitable that it will show through somehow.

That was always a question among users.

Why are there so many people playing a game that failed a long time ago and has no support after 2 years?

[ Isn’t the real game hypnotizing certain people? ]

[ ㅇㅋ Actually, this game is like a secret experiment. Researching how to make people buy anything no matter what they do]

It was to the extent that such words were even circulated as a joke…….

Looking at it now, maybe that wasn’t a joke.

Yes, the fact that there were many sh*t makers who spent thousands of hours on a bug-heavy sh*t game wasn’t because the game was fun.

He was really hypnotizing people.

Right now, Yoosung was questioning ‘why am I playing this sh*t game?

[ Support position. Found, support…. ]

[ Finally… Success… Suitable person… Help… soon…. ]

After hearing that, I think of this.

Maybe, someone, no, quite a few people have already been through a similar situation like this.