The Tutorial Is Too Hard

[Welcome to the waiting room on the second floor of the tutorial.]

[1st Day 29. 4: 40]

[Time to end Wave 1: 43 hours and 20 minutes]

It's finally over, really.

I feel like something that was stuck in my heart and holding my breath is loosening.

43 hours until the end of Wave 1.

There was still time until the second car started.

If you knew this was going to happen, you should have tried that trap in front of the boss room one more time.

Who knew the boss' room would end so soon?

Waiting room on the second floor.

Even when I looked around, I couldn't see any difference from the first-floor waiting room.

It was the same stone chamber.

No, there was one obvious difference.

[Do you want to enter the stage?]

This stage will not refer to the first floor of the tutorial.

Portal to the second floor.

That means we can hit more than one floor before the end of the car.

On other difficulties, there will definitely be people attacking on the second floor.

About the first 20 days of clearing information began to be released to the community.

By then, the people who had cleared the first floor would not be sucking their fingers in the waiting room on the second floor until more than nine days later.

What if they make it to the second floor before the end of the first car?

Maybe 20 days ago, someone successfully cleared the first floor and looked beyond the second floor to the third floor.

It is possible on both Izzie and Normal difficulties.

Plus, there's the first clear reward.

It's me. I'm the only one left on Hell's difficulty. Of course I got it, but what about the other difficulty?

Everyone in the lead will be the competition for the first clear reward.

And most of that leadership will not want to expose their information to the community.

In fact, their competition has nothing to do with me, but I'm still curious.

What reward will you get if you target more than two floors at a time?

Is there an extra reward?

If you meet Kirikiri again after the attack on the second floor, I'll have to ask him about it.

After finishing my concern, I looked around the waiting room on the second floor again.

Maybe a little more level than the first-floor waiting room... Oh!

There was a bed in the dark corner.

It's upgraded in its own way.

A bed that looks like it's going to be covered in shabby stained mold.

But now is not the time for me to question that.

I threw myself onto the bed and closed my eyes straight away.

I was relaxed and buried in a soft bed sheet.

Shit. What the hell? I'm so comfortable.

I have a lot of work to do.

I still have a lot to think about.

But... let's just take a nap and get up and think again.

I can't stand to doze off.

* * *

How long have you been asleep?

[1st 29, 17: 05]

[Time to end Wave 1: 30 hours 55 minutes]

He's been asleep for about 12 hours.

I slept too much.

I have a lot of work to do.

I think I've been asleep the longest since I entered this tutorial.

Maybe it's because I'm relaxed.

I got up and sat on the bed.

Whew, there's nothing to think about.

Oh, yeah.

The first thing to think about is my mental state.

If I don't trust my own judgment and thinking, the result won't be good.

I need to make sure there's nothing wrong with my mental state.

I remembered the first time I found a healing spring a few days ago.

At that time, I challenged the boss room and instead of quickly completing the tutorial, I returned to the waiting room and challenged the trap again from the beginning.

For the growth and experience of stats and skills.

It's a very gaming mind.

It was an unparalleled way to grow, but it was my pain that was sacrificed in return.

In addition to the crisis of death.

Anyone who is willing to walk the path of pain in front of his eyes just because it is an effective way can say brave.

But if you're going to die walking that path,

If there is a higher chance of dying in vain than of surviving without dying, then there is a person who chooses that path without hesitation.

You should call him crazy.

Am I crazy?

You still can't see the real world and think of all this as a game?

And after I fell in the tutorial, my mind changed a lot.

Before I came here, I turned on the TV all day and drank only alcohol.

I no longer felt any stimulus in my life, and I couldn't get rid of the boring everyday life, so I was immersed in the spirit of every moment.

If more time had passed, he would have fallen into alcoholism.

Then I thought it didn't matter if I killed him.

I had no meaning, no will to live anymore.

But what about now?

I'm running straight ahead.

Even if his life is in danger or in great pain, he doesn't care.

I came here and felt again the excitement and expectations I had forgotten.

When I was a professional gamer, I spent all night together for one game.

And the day of the game.

The prize and honor of winning that effort, and the consequences of that will change my future. The expectations of fans who cheered for me, even the club and sponsorship.

The Pokémon fights the opposing Pokémon at all costs.

Others may call it childish play, but it was like a sword battle on a wooden leg for me.

It was a brutal and cold battle, but that was the life I loved.

Even if you were a loser, pushed to the top or crashed, if you were still on the board, if you could still feel the tension of that battle and the thrill of victory….

I only regret drinking soju every day.

And that's when the enthusiasm was given to me again.

It was only then that I realized.

Pain for me, not even death, was not that important.

My condition is no different from the sudden administration of a narcotics injection to a patient suffering from prolonged withdrawal symptoms.

Of course, you don't have to worry about side effects or anything to enjoy the pleasure.

Time to make the diagnosis.

Hmm... Not bad.

It is not a major mental defect in my head.

Rather, the status quo now helps with future growth.

This unusual passion will be the fuel for me to move forward without stopping.

When I think about it positively, I feel like my mind as well as my body are relieved.

Let's move on to the next task.

“Shop window.”

When I opened the shop window, as Kirikiri said, all useful items in combat, such as equipment and potions, were locked, leaving only food and supplies.

With the help of Kirikiri, you've already purchased everything you need.

On second thought, I took out the clothes I had bought with Kirikiri from my inventory and put them on.

I've been half-naked so far.

The clothes that were covered in blood and pierced by arrows were completely dry when the boss' room caught fire.

It was a shame to put points on plain clothing, not equipment with significant stats to help you in battle, but it was better than walking around naked.

Although it was just a comfortable, thin white cotton tee and churning pants with no effect, I felt good wearing it.

I feel like I've been assigned to civilization from a barbarian.

“Auction window.”

Oh, this is interesting.

In the auction window, other people who passed through the first floor could either buy the items in the auction or sell my items.

Most of the items in the auction now were items that were acquired as an additional reward by clearing the starting weapon or first floor.

Weapons or useless items that didn't suit me.

Among them was this.

[cat collar with rattle paper]

Description: Hates cats If you try to restrain this collar, even if you're the Cat's owner, your claws may be exposed.

Phew. This item is amazing.

I can't believe you call that an additional reward.

It's someone else's story, so you can laugh like this. If I had received something like that, I would have thrown it out.

Turning to the community, that additional reward was fairly random.

I'm sure I've successfully cleared it (according to the author himself), but I may or may not get a good item even if I barely did it.

I don't know. The message clearly states that he will be rewarded based on the playback history.

Maybe it's an excuse for the people who got the poop.

Not long ago, I don't have enough examples.

We'll figure it out later.

Now, I have one last important issue.

It is an agenda to explore the second floor until the end of the first car.