The Tutorial Is Too Hard

[Lee Yeon-hee]

People die easily.

Much more than I thought.

The superhumans who entered the tutorial and became called Awakened and possessed all sorts of strange abilities were no different.

And I didn't feel much of an emotion for that.

“Stop him!"

Along with the shouting of the Chinese man, the shield was deployed.

Unfortunately, that shield meant nothing in front of my attack.

“Deployment.”

The seven thorns that were flying around me flew everywhere.

The thorns scattered everywhere, making loud noises, flying around at a speed that was hard to see.

Some bypass the shields, some flying through the shields and the bodies of the enemies together.

The flight was unblocked, and everything in the path was pierced and punctured.

People die.

Screams and rolls the floor in horror with holes pierced through the body.

Shock, excessive bleeding, rupture or disappearance of internal organs, one dies slowly, painfully, and no one even recognizes it.

I couldn't really feel any emotion in that scene.

Because I've seen so many scenes, it even felt natural.

The difference between what I had seen before and what I now see was that the target was different.

What had previously been killed were those who appeared in the tutorial, and those who were dying in front of me were the people of Earth.

It could be seen as a big difference.

Killing beings in a tutorial that had nothing to do with dying and coming back to life in the first place is no different than killing living beings.

But because of my familiarity with killing, I could not feel the frustration of killing.

When I was a child, my parents always told me that I shouldn't commit crimes.

You shouldn't be avoiding others.

There is no problem with the law.

Crime in modern society, murder among other things, is a moral and legal problem.

But here in the competition stage of the tutorial, even for Awakenings that transcend ordinary human beings, all of their morals and laws are meaningful.

Morality and law hold the premise that people and people are fair.

And, of course, me and those people were not equal.

“Ugh…. ”

“Cough, cough, cough. ”

There was groaning everywhere.

There were some survivors.

Of course, we were vomiting blood on the ground together, and it seemed almost certain we were going to die soon.

“Retrieve.”

In my words, the seven thorns that were flying through the air returned into my hands.

According to the user's will, he recovered seven spines flying through the air with free materials.

The thorns were only one hand long and slightly thinner than the pinky, but it was enough to puncture the human body.

The thorns fly around rapidly, shouting as if they had met a swarm of wasps, piercing their weaknesses one by one.

Enemies are rendered incapacitated by the noise and by the rapid rate at which they are not even able to see properly, as the holes are stretched out one by one in the body.

It was a very effective weapon to kill people neatly.

Now there are no obstacles to the portal you see there.

Ah, there were, of course, half a dozen fallen and dying, but no one stood in the way.

You walk towards the portal making fun of your feet without stepping on the intermediate corpses and half-corpses.

The portal glows brightly.

Before I even got on top of it.

A man appears on a bright, illuminating portal.

“You're not late. ”

The man said as if he was lucky.

I met a man a while back.

“Izard.”

“Yes, you... what was your name? Well, maybe it doesn't matter. I've come to get you.”

The reason he couldn't remember my name was simple.

Because I never told you.

It didn't matter what he said.

This guy Izaad met on the 56th floor.

When the dragon on behalf of the manager asked me what stage I wanted, I said I wanted the stage you had cleared.

Luckily, the dragon sent me to the same stage where you went.

On the stage, which was the main goal of establishing sects and gathering people's faith from the apostles' point of view, several challengers from other dimensions of Hell difficulty besides me participated.

That's where I met Izard.

“What, these scum. ”

Izard mutters profanity.

Then I flicked my finger in a loud voice.

Then the bodies on the ground begin to melt.

In an instant, the bodies become blood, evaporating and disappearing.

Even the stench of blood that remained darkened disappeared, and the people and corpses lying around were unable to find any trace of it.

Some of them are still alive, and Izard wipes them clean with the survivors and the bodies.

“Now you're clean. Tsk.”

Before coming to the tutorial, Izard had already been one of the most powerful men in his world, boasting that he was superhuman.

For some reason, he was not pleased with the talents who gained their strength in the tutorial.

To be precise, he was incapable before entering the tutorial, but hated those who had gained their strength.

I think I was lucky enough to come into the tutorial and hate getting abilities easily, but on the contrary, I did not like the idea of attacking and squinting the tutorial without any difficulty.

Naturally, he and I didn't get along.

“Why did you come? ”

Izard snorted rather than answering me correctly.

Then he pointed to the portal and said,

“I've set the coordinates. Go now. I'm waiting.”

“And you?"

“I have work to do here. ”

* * *

[Ehochi]

After Mike, the challenger surged.

I was very interested in myself, but the people who hesitated because of the name Lee Ho-jae have challenged me one by one.

Of course, not many people were able to fight properly.

There were more people who wanted to talk to me than people who wanted to fight me.

Answered questions one by one about the strategy or growth of the tutorial or to satisfy your personal curiosity.

The bored audiences who were asking me not to fight were listening to me and the challengers as if they were interesting.

I had already met 15 challengers, and I was up to 15 rounds.

The more I met the challengers, the more people challenged me over time.

In addition to questions, there were some who wanted to learn a lesson through a duel with me.

I didn't like it, but I confronted it to some degree.

I was able to deal with it more easily than I had feared, and through him I was able to point out what the other party needed to fix.

The challengers who finished the duel were usually satisfied.

“My brother wants to challenge me, too. I don't know if I can. ”

The fifteenth challenger who finished the duel with me said.

“Oh, looks like my brother's in. ”

I thought it would be good if my family came in together.

Even if we don't meet, we can rely on each other, and sometimes we meet at a contest like this.

The challenger nods.

My younger brother, who is three years younger than me, was also in the tutorial and introduced me to his name.

“Tell him to hurry up and meet his brother. ”

“Hahaha, I hope so, too, but it should be as easy as you say. ”

The challenger smiled and said.

Well, I've already made it to round 15.

You must now enter a minimum of 16 rounds to meet me, in order to win over 15 challengers.

Win 15 matches against the same tutorial challengers.

It wasn't easy.

[It's easy.]

Ignore that fox sitting on the sidelines all by himself.

“Anyway, I've been working hard to catch up with you for 20 rounds. ”

The challenger said.

If you really wanted to meet me, you had to meet me before round 20.

The nature of the duel stage was that it only lasted within the Earth's servers until round 19, but since then it has been possible to meet other dimensional challengers.

Unlike previous rounds in the district only, you will be able to compete with challengers who have entered 20 rounds in other dimensional duel stages from round 20.

It was interesting.

A duel with another dimension of being.

On Earth, we've heard that there are many challengers who have participated in the duel stage with a goal of 20 rounds.

I was looking forward to it.

The struggle between Earthlings and other dimensional challengers was also to be watched in the audience.

I didn't intend to fight in person.

I didn't like fighting anyone in the first place, nor did I want to face other dimensional challengers on the duel stage who didn't want to talk to me.

This stage was committed to the end of round 19 and told Park Jung-ah the same thing.

Park Jung-ah said he knew enough.

The fifteenth challenger said he wished he had a chance to talk, not a duel, before giving up.

I was glad to hear that.

Before coming to the race, I was worried that I might get scared or get beaten up by people, but fortunately, people's reactions were generally friendly.

Surprisingly sweet, I even heard the word "cool."

[Hey, don't you think people like me more than you?]

I spoke to Hojay.

[Because it's not.]

[No, it's nothing. They say it's nice to be so much nicer and kinder than they know. I thought the audience was scared, but they said he was better than I thought.]

[… Yes, yes, people will be happy because they like it.]

Hojae said sarcastically.

Is this guy offended?

Are you upset?

[Shit, you're groaning.]

The Hoyt cursed.

This is pissing me off.

[You're upset.]

[No.]

[Aigoo, this is so frustrating!]

[It's not.]

* * *

[Round 18 begins.]

[Izard asked Lee Ho-jae for a duel.]

[Accept?]

“Yes.”

As soon as I finished round 17, I accepted the incoming duel request.

Even though it's been 18 rounds already, it seems like more people have come this far than I thought.

[Duel will begin in 100 seconds. Please have both participants ready and waiting for the duel.]

[Competition-Duel Stage, Round 18 is about to begin.]

As soon as the stage started, a message came from Park Jung-ah.

[Jung Wook, 90th floor: Be careful.]

[Jung Woo, 90th Floor: Izard is not from Earth, that challenger.]

In fact, I could have already noticed it before Junga told me.

The opponent doesn't appear to be from Earth, just by looking at it.

There can't be anyone on Earth with silver skin that glows like minerals.

In the audience, I heard a loud rumbling sound as I was a challenger from another dimension.

I've heard that other dimensional challengers can meet after 20 rounds, but I don't know how.

[Jung Wook, 90th Floor: I think I came to the district and participated.]

Park Junga quickly solved my question.

She adds a warning.

[Jung Wook, 90th Floor: Be careful, information that you killed all the challengers you encountered going up to Round 18.]

Park told you to be careful that he's a homicidal maniac, but that wasn't a big warning.

That silver-faced lunatic was giving me a hard time as soon as he met me.

I was advertising to kill myself very publicly.

[Hey, what are you doing?]

[You're on your own.]

I tried talking to Hojay, but all I could think about was whether he was still pissed off.