Chapter 1 : Character Making

“No, why don’t you fight!”

I couldn’t stand it and screamed.

On the monitor in front of me, a bulletin board for recommending character builds for the game <THE WORLD> was displayed. I tried clicking [Arc Mage], which was ranked first in the overall ranking.

Then a blonde male character appeared.

When I saw the character builds full of mean traits such as [Multiple chant], [Mana Battery], and [Blessing of the Spirit King], I kicked the floor in frustration.

“Is this ranked number 1?”

I snorted and looked at the comment box.

-Who made this. This is so cool !!

-It has a refreshing taste ^^ Recommended!

-The best character build recommended for both newbies and old people.

Contrary to my expectations, [Arc Mage] was receiving support from users by recording 650,000 recommendations.

“Twitter.”

I clicked my tongue and scrolled down.

However, in the second and third places in the rankings, there were only wizard classes below that. It was also very diverse.

[Sorceress],

[Elementalist],

[Necromancer],

[Summoner].

I stopped scrolling when I found the only non-mage build in the top 100.

Character Build Ranking #74, [Superman Warrior]. It was a rare and ambitious build that I created with the single determination – ‘to create a warrior boom in The World‘.

The strongest warrior character who flies freely in the sky, possesses super strength and invincible body, and burns enemies with the high-heat rays emitted from both eyes.

But the comment section was disastrous.

– Puffy Pah Shung! Is there a garbage class that can’t even see the true ending?

– Only got a warrior class ??lol

The comments were mocking me.

-If you are a wizard, you can just fly, so what are you using this build for?

– There is not even a useful special move. [Flight] and [Burning Magical Eye] lack in character potential.

Comments that criticized the build.

– To be honest, Warrior is a class exclusively for newbies, but it is ugly to bite and suck without letting go.

– It’s a control, a hitbox, or a story that only the other people know about attack bulletin boards to the comments.

“You bastards don’t even know the game.”

I turned off the comment box and muttered. To be honest, there is some truth to what they were saying. In the community, it was said publicly that it was better to be a power wizard than to be a warrior. But I couldn’t quite comprehend it.

“Warrior is a class that your heart tells you to do.”

Aura, feel, look you can call it anything. The warrior had something that made a man’s blood boil. Blood and flesh splattering, shouts and screams abound, and the thrill of charging into a battlefield lined with steel weapons and armor was something that those who had never experienced couldn’t understand. I was intoxicated with that kind of warrior, and I was walking on that path.

“I will quit the game rather than playing as a wizard.”

With that said, I launched The World.

I was thinking of making this warrior character so powerful that no one can deny it.

This is so that you can see the [Genuine Ending] in which players conquer all the content they want, beyond the limits set by the game system, rather than the ending made by the developer.

I skipped the opening and immediately pressed the new game button, and I started crafting character builds with my dexterity.

“[Warrior’s Body], [Body Furnace], [Tough Skin], [Strengthen Immune System]… oops, you can’t forget the [Iron Man] too.”

I first filled in the essential traits of a warrior.

In fact, up to this point, if I add my control skills, I can say that I am a strong enough warrior character…

“This is not enough.”

I looked at the character’s remaining potential.

The [Classic of a Warrior] setting, which I carefully devised, having over 9,000 hours of playtime with only the Warrior class, boasted a powerful performance, but had a fatal flaw in that. I couldn’t choose a useful [Perk] because it ate too much potential.

But when you become a person like me, there is always a way. Would you call it a technique for advanced users?

”···great.”

I smiled and started giving [Trial] to the character. Because I had the confidence to solve any ordeal anyway.

[Chunhyeong’s weight (S): You are willing to bear the Cheonhyeong. Severe penalties are given to the character.]

[Misery beginning (A): Your journey is not smooth from the start. A miserable fate filled with humiliation and contempt awaits you.]

[Stigma of short-lived (A): You do not have a future. There is a very high probability that the character will die before becoming an adult.]

Big trials are added. The difficulty of the game would increase, but instead, the potential of the character was greatly increasing as a reward.

And as soon as my potential to choose a perk was finally met, I opened the perk checkbox.

A list of perks that I have unlocked while playing the game comes to mind. With the eyes of a hawk, I scoured through the many perks of over 30 pages.

[Privilege] is a unique ability of a character.

The world’s unique system that is weak in the beginning, but eventually becomes the root and concept of the character as it grows with the character.

Therefore, it was one of the very important factors that cannot be easily chosen.

“…but, nothing really sticks out.”

In the perks section, there were many transcendent perks such as [Metal Domination], [Master of the Sword], and [Immortal], but these were the perks I had already tried.

I was satisfied with the [Flight] that I had chosen last time.

Contrary to what the geeks complained about, it was a great perk that provided numerous sub-powers such as super-fast flight ability, gravity immunity, acceleration immunity, reflexes, and transcendental vision.

Other than that, it was one of the perks that suited the warrior very well, such as ignoring features, moving the world map quickly, and a huge evasion bonus…

”Hmm? What is this?”

When I was depressed, I discovered a new perk with the tag [NEW!!].

[Black Blood].

“You mean black blood? Ah!”

There was something that suddenly came to my mind.

Last time, while playing Superman Warrior, I remembered that a boss character I met by chance bled black.

[Howling Black Knight].

It was a hidden boss I found by chance, and the boss fight with him was quite fun, so I still have vivid memories of that.

“By the way, this guy is definitely…”

He was a typical warrior character.

Unlike other bosses, the Black Knight did not have a particularly monstrous appearance or used transcendental abilities.

However, it was just a boss character close to a so-called perfect warrior, with simple specs such as attack power and defense that were overwhelmingly superior to other boss characters, and all kinds of resistance were added to the enormous physical strength capable of firing skills.

The secret of that outstanding spec was probably hidden in the black blood that the Black Knight shed.

“It’s black blood….”

I was troubled.

[Black Blood] is definitely a privilege with a slight presence.

Compared to the deceptive and transcendent privileges such as flying in the sky and shooting destructive rays that cannot be blocked or avoided by the eyes.

However, I suddenly thought that such a simple perk would be best suited for a warrior.

In fact, the Black Knight was strong enough to be counted among the numerous bosses in [The World] without any special gimmicks.

What are the characteristics of a warrior?

It is a hand-to-hand combat based on strong physical abilities. This simplicity was certainly the greatest strength of the warrior, but at the same time it was also the greatest weakness.

So I’ve been obsessed with the idea of ​​making up for this shortcoming with a powerful perk.

“Am I wrong? Shouldn’t I have made use of the strengths rather than thinking about making up for the weaknesses?”

Even without any perks, the warrior character I manipulate is strong enough.

So what happens when such a warrior becomes stronger? Maybe it will be possible to go beyond the limits of the class of warriors?

“This is it!”

I cried out in ecstasy. And it was the moment when the perfect warrior character was given the [Black Blood] perk as a fire dragon.

I was so excited that suddenly my backbone started chilling.

I felt dizzy as if I was falling from a distant cliff, but I pressed the button to create a character by manipulating the mouse.

[Creating a character that meets the conditions…]

Only the arrow icon spinning round and round in the loading window that appeared on the monitor was full of sight.

***

Wii ing. wii ing.

The room was filled with only the noise of the computer running The World. The world’s loading screen was visible on the monitor.

“·······ugh.”

The man lay motionless on his keyboard.

beep.

Finally the loading was finished.

However, what appeared on the monitor was not the game screen of <The World>.

On a screen as dark as the other side of the universe, strange characters that were not of this world were being entered constantly even when no one was watching.

[Transmission has been confirmed.]

[I hope you enjoy the game.]

Finally, just after a brief message is printed.

The computer was powered off.

Now there was only a motionless man and a cooling computer in the room. And slowly, very slowly, dust began to build up on them.