The Tutorial Is Too Hard

“Th... ”

Oh, shit.

It would be better for me to find them than to listen to the words of the minions.

You spread the wings of the folded thalaria and fly back up again.

You spread your magic to the extreme and locate Edie.

The first thing I looked at was the joint that held the dragon's legacy, which Edie was supposed to protect.

Luckily, Idi was nearby.

As soon as I checked Edie's location, I flew to you.

A crowd of minions gather at the entrance to the common area.

As you push them in one by one, you see a few minions rambling around the corner.

I'm in a hurry because of the minions who are constantly blocking my sight.

Intimidation skill was used.

The minions continue to fall to the ground, and the bustling cavities settle.

On your knees.

And only then could I check Edie's status.

Edie had a thick bandage tied around her body, and there were traces of drugs everywhere.

“Glug. Commander, are you here? ”

“What, what happened? ”

I looked around the bandaged wound.

“Glug, glug. This is embarrassing. ”

Let's take a look at the wound and find out why Edie says it's embarrassing.

A slight glance at the bandage, you see something dark twitching at the wound.

Black Energy Twitching in the Wound Area.

I've seen it many times.

On the 12th floor, on the 9th and 10th floors.

This is Edie's power skill.

“In my defense, I thought too much. Glug. The repulsive appearance of chimeras was also influenced. And as he had a peculiar limb, he used a peculiar weapon. ”

“Unique weapon? ”

“Glug, there must be chimeras lying underneath the corpses. If you have something to deal with later, be careful, Kebug. ”

None of the chimeras have used unusual weapons during the day.

Mostly ran bare handed, or only used basic forms of produce

Occasionally, the elite chimeras were as well.

In other words, the real ones raided this place, not today's battlefield.

“And…. ”

“And?”

“Glug.”

“Edie?”

“They said I don't have to live as a monster anymore with that necklace. I don't know if it's true, but those chimeras said so. And... they told me stories of an enemy who used to be Humans. From what I hear... My hands are slowing down, Kebug. ”

I got caught up.

I felt dizzy at the same time.

It was too trivial to hurt Edie like this.

Chimera, and a story involving predators and mercenaries, that necklace has the effect of taking a number of existences to the next level.

But that's the problem.

Is it possible to increase the personality of the species in nature, not just the greater power?

If possible.

What is more powerful than the Minors, Chimera?

What is the inferiority of the larvae and humans?

Is it simply changing the way you want it to look?

No, it's a meaningless assumption.

It may have a stronger power, a deeper wisdom and a subtle outer surface, but identity does not fade in that way.

Let's say a chimera completely reclaims the human body and blends into society.

If he lived a normal life, working in a family and living a normal life, no one would notice that he was a chimera.

Except yourself.

Chimera, the former self, will remain in it, and will occasionally talk to herself.

You're telling me that even as an individual, tens of millions of people can do the hard thing together?

Impossible.

There are only two ways.

Embrace yourself as a chimeric, not a monster, or burn.

The chimeras laugh at the minions who want to become mercenaries.

It's hopeless.

I think so, too.

But there's a big difference between what they want to be human.

What will God feel when he sees it?

It will be no different from what the dragon felt when he saw the minions.

“I was stabbed by my attacks, Kebug. Stupid. Maybe I saw myself in them. ”

I swallowed the horse.

Instead, I asked another question.

“... Mighty skill, right? ”

“Yes, Kebug. ”

I cleared my mind for a moment.

“I'm going to take the bandage off first. I need to... check it out. ”

You put magic around your fingertips and remove the bandages.

I took off the bandage as carefully as I could, but Edie groans to see if it was painful.

And then.

What should we do next?

I took out the elixir bottle first.

“Glug, glug. Commander.”

“Why?”

“Isn't that expensive? Don't waste it. ”

Edie's words seemed to be slipping away from my feet.

It felt like the hard ground turned into water and sank beneath it.

Edie first appeared in the boss' room on the fifth floor.

I called Edie on the 20th floor to play an important role because I believed in her.

To find another reason, I summoned her because I wanted to see her.

For the first and last time, Edie has appeared as the final gateway to the stage.

Several stages were cleared together and grew larger than the fifth floor.

The difficulty will be high on the 20th floor, but I thought Edie could handle it.

In fact, when Edie was summoned from the 12th floor, she was relaxed.

Edie has two powerful skills.

One was used on the fifth floor to evade enemy attacks by turning the body into smoke.

The other one was not used on the 5th floor, but was used on the 9th, 10th and 12th floors.

The user surrounds itself with the energy of Black Death and attacks the target.

The problem was that if the energy of death stuck to the body, there was no way to solve it.

Constrained, but close to invincible, evasive and time-consuming attackers that can be killed.

I thought I could use Edie's help not only on the 20th floor, but also on the higher floors.

The problem was her ability to do harm to herself.

I've already experimented with Edie on the 12th floor.

I cut off my fingertips and left behind the energy of death.

The elixir was useless.

I eventually had to cut off my finger and rid myself of the energy of death, then drink the elixir to regenerate my finger.

We can try to treat Edie the same way, but the area where Edie was injured was not her finger.

The long lacerations along the chest and stomach are clearly embedded deep into the internal organs.

I raised my hand and looked closely.

The wound is too deep.

A fatal wound without the energy of death.

The incision was impossible.

“Glug, this is hopeless for me. ”

That's what I saw.

I shake my head away from the thoughts in my head.

When I saw someone who was certain of death one day, I thought of one thing.

Heavy bleeding, shock, shortness of breath, paralysis, visceral rupture. People with those symptoms look like dead bodies.

He'll be dead soon, just like a corpse.

He's practically a corpse because there's no room to fight back.

I swallowed what came out of my stomach again.

After swallowing one, the other comes out.

I stole a few tears and asked.

“Does it... hurt? ”

“Glug, glug. Worried? You know, this won't cause any pain. I just feel pain like a cut. ”

I was silent for a moment.

I opened my mouth to say something, but nothing came out.

“Glug, the battle is almost over anyway. Stupidly, I was devastated by my powers, but there are other injuries. That was a close call. I could have cured it, of course, but I wouldn't have been much help from tomorrow's battle. ”

I could have cured it.

I didn't just summon edie for battle.

In fact, all the help I asked Edie for was an excuse to summon her.

Just when I came back, if we could eat and talk, that was enough.

“Glug, glug. It was better.”

I opened my mouth, hiding my trembling hands behind my back.

“Edie... Edie, don't worry too much. I'll be right back... ”

I was speaking without delay, and my head turned to the side with a deafening mate and sound.

When I woke up, I saw Edie's tail fluttering beside his face.

“Glub. Snap out of it, commander. I can't help but worry. ”

I got one in Edie's tail, but I couldn't understand her intentions.

“Captain, why are you worried about me? ”

“… What? ”

“Captain, do you think I'm afraid to die? ”

I was silent again.

“Captain, you know that. We may have turned away from it from time to time, but it hasn't changed. ”

I kept quiet.

“Captain, I'm already dead. ”

I really couldn't help but be silent.

“What about the commander? ”

* * *

After a long silence, Edie opens her mouth again.

“Kebug, let the stunned minions out first. I might suffocate if I leave it like that. ”

As Edie has said, I have put out the fainted minions.

“I've moved everything. ”

“Glug, cover the fainted ones with mofo. ”

As Edie said, I covered my fur and returned to the minions who were lying outside the common area.

“Glug, glug. ”

“I'm done. ”

“Well done, commander. Now... I want to talk to you. And at the end of that story, I'd like to leave you with a favor and a piece of advice. I don't think I have much time left, so I'll get started right away. ”

You nod.

“Glug, how do I start... I've been thinking about this, but it's a tough topic. ”

Edie hesitates for a moment and is unlucky.

“Let's pick up where we left off. Glug, I'm already dead. ”

Edie said it with a bold tone, but it slowly turned into a trench and began stabbing me.

“One soul for one life. It's a message to our tribe. But what about me? One soul has many lives. Maybe they have no life, no soul, nothing. Glug.”

“Edie……. ”

“The commander always apologized to me. I told you not to do that. Glug, I've never been killed by a commander. My death was before that. Glug.”

This is the story I told you once on the 10th floor.

“Of course I don't know how I died. However... ”

Edie's words stopped.

I spent some time with a blank expression.

The system does not allow her to say anything more.

Blood tastes better under a tightly bitten molar.

“... Glug, I must move on. Phew.”

After taking a short breath, Edie starts talking again.

“I know the captain treats everything he meets in the tutorial as if it were true. It's not just an inanimate creature that passes through for clearance, it's the truth. Like a play, like this is the real world, like we're the real life. So I am happy and sad to meet you here. Suffer by killing your enemies. Glug. If you try again, you'll still look the same. Glug.”

It was quiet.

Edie was silent for a moment.

After enough time to recognize each other's silence, Edie opened her mouth again.

“Just ignore it and you'll be comfortable. I don't have it, so I'll just cut it out without thinking and pass it on. But the commander doesn't do that. You're nervous, aren't you? Glub. The commander also died one day, just like us, and is wandering around here with only his soul left. ”

I did.

I was somewhat skeptical of my time, but I have recently felt it again.

I'm also a puppet on stage.

“I have to tell you another story. Glug.”

Edie reaches back for a moment, then raises her hand to hold my hand.

My hands were still a little shaky.

“Glug. Captain, I'm sorry, but let's face it. I am a commodity.”

A commodity.

As soon as I heard, I remembered the minions who would collapse out there.

“I am the only one who knows the commander, but I think Italtar is killing the challengers on the fifth floor, and on the other hand... ”

I couldn't have known.

I thought about it a lot and thought about it a lot.

Edie's face became dazed again.

When I was being sanctioned for speaking deliberately, I felt a stabbing headache.

But Edie didn't like it.

“… I was lucky. The commander made me aware of my situation, and I had a good time. I'm really grateful to the commander. ”

Edie lowers my hand, raises her hand.

I wiped off the tears on my face and laughed.

“Sorry, but this is the end of the story. Too bad I can't talk about it any more. Glug.”

The gods, and the system of the tutorial, do not want it.

Edie can't tell the story, even if it's circumventional, and can't remind her.

All that remains is a metaphor for what I was going to say.

“It's time for a little more humiliation. Glug.”

Yidi called me with a good smile.

“Commander.”

“… why. ”

“I like the boss. ”

Edie grunts and laughs.

“So does the commander. It might be a little different from me. At least as a friend, as a colleague. ”

I think of Edie as family.

“In that sense, I have a favor to ask and advice. Maybe I should... give you some advice first. I heard about the Captain's growth yesterday. ”

You nod.

“Glug, I think that growth is lacking. Rather, I think it's stagnant. ”

“What?"

“Glug, glug. Don't compare to others. The commander's comparative target would be only the commander himself. Does the commander really think the current growth is best? ”

My growth rate is fast enough.

The system can't keep up.

In addition, other challengers were unparalleled to me in the beginning.

But I engraved Edie's words quietly.

Last night, I let Edie know about my growth. Pretty detailed.

If she hears it and thinks it's not enough, it's not enough.

“Next time, please. Glug.”

“Tell me anything. ”

I calmed down a little and a calm voice began to appear.

“I'm sorry, there are two. ”

“Don't be sorry. More than two is fine. ”

“Glug, glug. ”

I hated Edie being embarrassed by a request rather than the burden of doing her a favor.

“How many times do I have to use the lion summon skill? ”

“… twice. ”

“... Less than I expected. I feel more embarrassed than I thought. Glug.”

“What's going on? ”

“Don't summon me anymore, commander. ”

I heard a lot of shocking things from Edie today, but it wasn't as shocking as this.

I had no choice but to ask her what she meant.

“... Edie, what does that mean? ”

Edie looks away and lowers her head.

“Edie!"

“... instead, instead. Later on, when I became the only Edie, not one of many Italtar, when all the constraints that were on me were gone, when I could exist as me, could you recall them again? ”

Then I could read Edie's face, who lowered her head.

Lizardman's face will not be hidden even if he bows his head because of his head.

“Of course, I know this is ridiculous. It's also a really useful skill for summoning a lion... ”

“Okay, Edie. I will. Don't worry. ”

I stopped speaking in a different manner than usual and replied to Edie.

Edie clears his throat for a moment and looks around the ceiling with nothing.

“Glug, glug. I'm not worried. I believe the commander will make it. All the commander needed was... Hmm, no, no. ”

“What?”

Edie keeps turning slowly to the left and to the right, avoiding my eyes.

I was quite shy.

It's the first time Edie has asked me for a favor or a request since the fifth floor.

Given the nature of the species she told you about, it must have been unusual.

“... Glug, glug. I thought we were running out of time, but we're running out of time. Although his heart rate is slowing down. Commander.”

“Why?”

“Has it calmed down a bit? ”

“Very.”

“What a peculiar commander, Kebug. Why don't we talk about us for a little while longer? ”

“Let's do it. What can I tell you? ”

“Glug, glug. No story, no story. Don't you like it?”

“Good.”

I wanted to have a conversation over something to eat, but Edie wasn't able to eat anything.

It was irrelevant.

Eating is not important.

* * *

It was not difficult to infer the meaning of Edie's words.

After all, I told you everything you wanted.

It's clear what Edie wants.

Recall her under certain conditions.

Summon her completely out of the constraints of the tutorial system.

It is not to be summoned after completing the tutorial and going outside.

If so, Italtar still exists on the fifth floor of the Tutorial Hell difficulty level.

Take her individual out of the system, or if that doesn't work, release all of the beings trapped in the tutorial.

If so, conditions are met.

I don't know how.

I still don't know much about the system.

Even if you know as much about it as you want, you will not understand how it works.

But I know exactly where I'm going.

[All the gods in the vaccine are watching you.]

Edie said my growth was lacking.

My growth is definitely not lacking.

I have already exceeded the system guidelines and am not having any major difficulties at the stage requiring party play.

Probably OK

Completing the tutorial.

But if I want more, my growth is clearly lacking.

Idi knows too much about me.

The trials Edie gave me were much more interesting than those in the tutorial.

I saw a wealthy necklace in the center of the cavity.

You hang it around your neck with a floating necklace.

Why do we have to leave the necklace behind and stop our enemies?

It's the safest place for me.

If I had the necklace myself, I wouldn't have to do the mission of dividing the power into two, and there would be the effect of attracting chimeras.

As you go outside, you see the youngsters standing dumbfounded.

I still don't like them.

I am no longer offended by projecting myself in their image.

I have heard many times why the gods have brought me here.

To be an apostle of a god.

That was it.

There was no doctor in that.

I was reborn here.

The tutorial brought new life to life when I was slowly dying of alcoholism.

It was unfortunate, but at the same time happy.

I was grateful for the tutorial.

Rather than getting out of here quickly, I worry about the second I leave.

I wanted my inner tutorial to go on forever.

So I wasn't aware of it until Edie told me.

There is a new commonality between the minions and me.

But there was another obvious difference.

Instead of listening to the prattling minions, you spread the wings of the Tallaria and soar.

Off the mountain, into the plains.

You fly over the heads of chimeras, filling the plains.

How many are there?

[All the gods in the vaccine are watching you.]

The gods were watching me, or they started falling.

Angle is vertical, velocity is full speed.

I don't know my power.

I've never tested it.

So I was always frustrated.

I don't have a worthy opponent. I've never had to draw my strength to the end.

However, the limits of power were sufficiently recognizable in other ways.

[Fortitude]

[Iron Wall]

[sensory enhancement]

[Battle Focus]

Skill was used.

I pulled out all my magic and protected myself.

Boom!

The explosion occurred as soon as it hit the ground.

Check status.

Arms, legs, head, internal organs, and magical circuits are all normal.

The durability of my body surpasses the impact force using the speed limit of the wings of the tallaria.

The chimeras near the drop point seemed to have been stunned.

Other chimeras, who were a little far away, were just staring at each other, whether they had not regained consciousness yet.

You can't do this.

“Aaahhhh!”

[soul roars]

[Spiritual Exploitation]

[Intimidation]

Even the chimeras who could not wake up from their slumber began to rush at me with their spiritual screaming skills.

Of course, it couldn't have felt threatening.

I pulled the error from the sword as long as I could.

An error was generated that was twice as long as the Longsword.

I wrapped the error around my shield and armor.

I should give up my old fighting style.

It was a strong dash forward.

The chimera that collided with the shield explodes with the sound of a thump.

After that, the chimeras were pushed back in line.

You swing the longsword as hard as you can.

With the formation of errors, the longsword was more than three times longer than the previous one cut through the giant bodies of chimeras at once.

Forward, forward.

Chimera rushed towards me, but I also rushed towards them.

I have abandoned my previous approach to keeping my distance as safe and calm as possible, conserving my magical and physical strength.

He uses his magical power and stamina gracefully and dares to run forward.

I already have enough defense.

There is no shortage of magic and stamina.

If you actively kill an enemy, it will be faster to recover from the effects of soul exploitation than to run out of magic and health.

“Ahhhh!”

I thought of summoning all the chimeras that were filling the plains, and I used the screams of the soul without rest.

Queek, and a fountain of blood gushes out.

The error, which was tightly compressed like a stone, begins to fall from the tip of the sword and armor.

The blood on the sword burns as the eagle growls.

It was like the bullet was poking me in the nose.

In the stench of blood and the screams of the enemy.

“Ahhhh!”

I'm alive.

* * *

[You have cleared the 20th Floor of the Hell difficulty tutorial.]

[Heals all status conditions and injuries.]

[You won 4,000 points as a Clear Reward.]

[You won 4,000 points as the first clear reward.]

[There are many gods who have a positive reaction to you. You have earned 3,700 points.]

[There are many gods who have a negative reaction to you. 6,300 points will be deducted.]

[All the gods in the vaccine are watching you.]

[God of slowness is pleased.]

[The God of Adventure cheers you on.]

[I'm satisfied with the God of Duels.]

[The God of Death rejoices.]

[The god of dedication mourns someone.]

The God of Life offends you.]

[The Lord of Light looks at you negatively.]

[The god of pain rejoices.]

[The God of Perforation apprehends you.]

[Gives additional rewards based on play history.]

[The god of duel wants to give you some of his power in exchange for an extra reward. Accept?]

[The God of Duel wants to grant you the fate of the Apostle.]

[The God of Adventure is bewildered.]

* * *

[You have successfully completed the 21 st Floor of Hell difficulty tutorial.]

[All the gods in the vaccine are watching you.]

[The God of Death wishes to grant you the fate of the Apostle.]

[The God of Adventure is anxious.]

[The god of slowness mocks someone.]

* * *

[You have successfully completed the 22 floors of the tutorial, Hell difficulty level.]

[All the gods in the vaccine are watching you.]

[The Perforated God is interested in you.]

[The God of Balance will see you again.]

[The God of Adventure is very nervous.]

[The god of slowness snores.]

* * *

[You have cleared the 23rd Floor of Hell difficulty tutorial.]

* * *

[You have successfully completed the 24th floor of the tutorial, Hell difficulty level.]

[There are many gods who have a positive reaction to you. You have earned 9,400 points.]

[There are many gods who have a negative reaction to you. 600 points will be deducted.]

[All the gods in the vaccine are watching you.]

[Every god in the vaccine has accepted some promises about you.]

[The God of Adventure is restless.]

[The god of slowness is a little nervous.]