The Tutorial Is Too Hard

“Hey, isn't this Molca? You guys didn't write that shit in your reports, did you? ”

Even now, I wanted to hear Lee Jun-seok say, "It was a joke, brother."

Of course, I'd be mad at you for asking what the hell this is, but it's better than admitting to a situation like this.

“It's true. It's not just from Korean servers. ”

Joon-suk's words were like a sentence.

I don't know what it is, but things are going very badly.

All tutorial challengers will be out on the same day.

Of course, the time to come out depends on when the challenger completes the 100 floors of the tutorial.

Challengers were each returning to Earth at any time.

But it's been over a decade since the advent of the tutorial.

There were already a number of rules connecting both in and out of the tutorial.

One of them was about Awakening's return.

An Awakening Awakener who returns to Earth unannounced and quietly silences himself is sometimes considered more dangerous than a monster.

The government wanted to put a minimum of collar on the Awakeners.

Even if they can't be completely controlled.

I took a fingerprint, confirmed that I had completed the tutorial a few days ago, and issued a new ID.

Such measures allowed the government to identify at least how many awakened within their country, who they were and how to contact.

These rules have been firmly established over the years.

Of course, rules are sometimes ignored.

Awakener who hates attention.

Awakener with a reason to get out of the tutorial as soon as possible.

An Awakener who wants to hide in the shadows before his identity is identified.

There were various occasions.

In most cases, however, you will leave after completing the tutorial on a certain day.

However, there was not a single Awakener who appeared in Seoul Station yesterday on the day of his return.

I think it's possible to move on.

Although the target speed and survival have increased, there are only a hundred people coming into the tutorial each month.

There are limited numbers.

Some moons are roughly ten Awakened and some do not return a single moon.

I was able to do more than that this time.

But in Beijing and Tokyo, there were reports that the Awakeners had not returned.

The same thing happened in Korea as well as abroad.

Kim Min-hyuk urgently dispatched Lee Jun-seok to check on the situation in other countries.

And the result.

“No one cleared the tutorial this time. No one in the whole world. ”

If what happened in common around the world is no longer limited to one server, it can no longer be seen as a result of coincidence.

Something went wrong in the tutorial.

“At this point, it's more accurate to say you didn't clear it. ”

“We don't know that yet. ”

The variable that came to mind immediately was the arena of competition.

I have heard that the contest has been held recently.

There was also something going on in the contest, and the representatives among the servers had several meetings.

“What if there was agreement between the challengers in my tutorial? ”

“Oh, that's too bad. Then you wouldn't be in the next car right after the race. ”

It was a reasonable thing to say.

“Most importantly, there's a benefit to not clearing the room between challengers without saying anything. It's their loss, and most of all, they can't shut down the individual challenger's clearance. ”

It is not easy to force another challenger within the tutorial.

to live in physically disconnected spaces.

Challengers who live on more than 90 floors of the residential area may not violate their free will in any way.

Although it can be intimidating or convincing, most of the remaining brains in the tutorial have lost their power.

The power of Awakenings lies only in the tutorial.

Those who hold a place in the tutorial and manage challengers are now just treated as NPCs or stolen stragglers.

“Ugh, what is it? There were four planned for this month in Korea alone. Four challengers unexpectedly fail to clear? ”

That's ridiculous.

Stages near the 100th floor are perfectly targeted.

The probability of failure was not very high, almost according to the formula.

“There's one more thing. ”

“Who?”

“It's time for you to come out, too. ”

Lee Yeon-hee arrived on the 60th floor.

This meant that Lee Ho-jae, who had been tied up on the 60th floor for a long time, began to climb the stage again.

“This is trouble, too. I'm telling you, he might not make it out. ”

I thought it would come out and I had it all ready.

It became meaningless.

‘No.'

Is it right to think that Lee Ho-jae won't make it out like the other challengers?

Kim Min-hyuk had no choice but to doubt.

He knew that Lee Ho-jae was more likely to cause problems on his own than to get caught up in any problem.

Of course, the solution was Kim Min-hyuk himself every time.

‘If this is also about him… then… ’

Kim Min-hyuk had a lot on his mind.

And...

“I don't know, damn it. You have to know something to make a guess. I don't know what to do and I have no way to interfere inside. What should we think about? ”

I gave up.

“Yeah, well, unless we have a way to get in touch with the gods or the administrators, we need to solve the problem inside. ”

Lee Jun-seok said casually.

Min Hyuk Kim always disliked that attitude, but this was the exception.

I was strangely relieved.

“Let's do what we can. This is our chance to get Seoul Station into charge. ”

“Will it work? This is going to make things harder for me. ”

“No, on the contrary. We just have to insist that we're stationed for a dangerous reason. ”

Convincing the government is simple.

Give me more credit, or scare the shit out of me if I don't do what we say.

No one knows what happened in the tutorial, and no one knows what might happen to the Seoul Station portal.

We can argue that we should garrison Awakened Awakeners in case of an incident.

“Let's call the end of the world first. ”

“I beg your pardon? ”

“Let's cancel Japan's dispatch first. From now on, everything above Class A is on hold in Seoul. ”

* * *

“Three rows of cheese kimbap. ”

On the way back to the Association, Park Min stopped by Kim Bob's house and ordered cheese kimbap.

There was no other reason.

I just went out.

To put it another way, his favorite food in the tutorial was kimbap.

Park Min was an early Awakener.

As soon as the tutorials and monsters appeared in the world, they were summoned to the first floor of the tutorial before they even recognized it.

Early tutorials that are still frequently published.

There was a particular problem, but it was the food that was so good to remember.

The only free meals offered in the tutorial were first-floor jerky.

From the moment they cleared the first floor and went up to the second floor, challengers had to settle by buying all the meals with points.

I don't know what it was like now, but when Park Min was in the tutorial, he had to save even more points and buy potions.

The majority of challengers had to beat the hare with jerky, raisin bread, etc.

Sometimes, on my birthday or other people's gifts, it was luxurious to buy a bowl of kimchi.

Of course, Park Min was also part of a wealthy group in such a tutorial.

He was the main advocate of the vigilantes.

Although he was more relaxed than others, Park also did not spend a lot of points on food.

Every time I cleared the stage, I bought him a line of kimbap, just the kind of luxury he was allowed to have.

Kim Bop was also the first food Park found after completing the tutorial and returning to Earth.

He didn't know why either.

Every time I completed a stage, I ate it, so I thought I should eat it when I finished the tutorial.

Just to make sure you realize your accomplishments.

The funny thing is, Park Min has often bought kimbap since then, and every time he feels strange emotions.

There was such a feeling that no matter how expensive the food was, I couldn't feel it.

In a difficult time, Park didn't know whether it was food that existed as a reward.

I didn't care.

Park Min received a wrapped bag of kimbap.

and asked a question.

“I ordered three less. ”

Gimbap in the bag looked more than five or six rows.

The lady who gave me the bag smiled and told me to put some more in the dummy.

It was a soft smile.

She didn't even get the price of kimbap, and Park Min eventually accepted free kimbap and went back to the association.

‘Nice uniform. ’

Park thought, looking down at my outfit.

Once upon a time, the Awakeners were trying to dress up in costumes worn by some Batman or Superman.

It's not like that anymore.

Park Min was wearing a jumper that reminded him of a subway public service agent, rather than a costume.

Even though it was a dull, seemingly trivial outfit, people recognized themselves with it.

I felt good for a long time.

It wasn't because I got free kimbap.

I was always happy when I faced people's goodwill and love.

When Park Min finished the tutorial and left for Seoul Station, he was treated as a hero.

It was worth it.

Park Min was Korea's first Awakener.

It was a busy day.

I spent years like that.

In fact, I spent more time standing in front of the camera and the microphone than I did standing in front of the monster.

But it was not a meaningless time.

It was his role to reassure and inspire hope through interviews and broadcasts.

At that time, Park Min was actually a hero.

It was a long time ago.

I took a dedicated elevator to the chairman's office.

Only after accepting the greetings of the people in the middle, I was able to enter my office and open the bag of kimbap.

* * *

“Is this kimbap?”

Park nods.

“Eat. I had too much to eat. ”

“Yes, of course. ”

Reason nods his head and reaches out to Kim Bob.

However, I waited for a while rather than putting kimbap directly in my mouth.

His mouth had other things to do.

“The Association will sway, Chairman. The foundation of the Association is Awakening. hopefully this will all be over temporarily. ”

Reason talked about reducing the influence of the association.

If this crisis that the Awakened will not return for more than a few months, it will be deadly for the Association, and if the Awakened will not be released, they will face the worst.

“I don't think so. ”

Park Min disagreed with the team leader's opinion.

“This case is good for us. ”

“Yes?”

I've always thought about Park Min.

Too many Awakenings.

“There's no way Awakening can diminish their influence. Unless the monsters in this world disappear in an instant. No, even if I did, the status of the Awakened wouldn't change. ”

Rather, if the monsters are gone, the Awakening will rise even more.

The government will try to take advantage of useless Awakenings, but it won't.

Awakenings had already occupied too high a position socially.

Evolvers, both in government and in corporations, now, on the contrary, own corporations and sit in government positions in each country and have spiderweb-like connections.

You need an Awakener to raise the price of land and gather the people.

Awakening was the flow of money, ensuring a safe life.

A powerful Awakener is now able to partly replace the role of the state.

Once the monster is gone.

Awakenings from the Hero's seat will ascend to the seat of ruler.

Of course, it's a different question of whether Awakeners have the qualifications and abilities to do so.

Awakeners won't care.

No one will be able to stop them, and the Awakeners will not hesitate to satisfy my appetite.

“The problem is not the diminishment of the influence of the Awakened. ”

Rather, other Awakenings not affiliated with the Association are a problem.

Korean Awakenings were originally divided into two groups: associations, governments.

Of course, the overseas outflow of the Awakeners was severe, so neither of them was in a predominant position to dominate the other.

But a few years ago, the game was reorganized.

Min-hyuk Kim finished the tutorial and came out.

He founded a guild as soon as he left.

A guild that would appear in that online game.

And I summoned the Korean Awakenings who were scattered all over the world.

That alone created the largest community of Awakeners in East Asia.

Within Korea, most high-ranking Awakeners from Hard difficulty level A and above were in Kim Min-hyuk's guild.

As Park Min, I couldn't figure out what to do with the many Awakenings.

When Park Min finished the tutorial, the challengers on hard difficulty were not over 50 floors.

I didn't know much about the bond between Kim Min-hyuk and Hard difficulty Awakeners.

However, one thing was clear: Kim Min-hyuk's guild became a threat to both the association and the government.

I couldn't keep up with the size of the guild even if I gathered all the Awakenings from the association and government.

If this continues, the tutorial will be closed and the Awakening will become more powerful as Park thinks, the guild will become independent, not the association.

That was the problem.

“So we need a bigger problem. We need a big bomb to refurbish the game. ”

“Have you thought about anything? ”

Reason asked, looking at Park Min.

In fact, it was the team leader's job to come up with these measures.

Despite hearing that he was incompetent, rational looked at the team leader and Park pointed to the map.

What he pointed to was near Pyongyang.

North Korea quickly collapsed after the invasion of monsters.

They were no longer able to maintain the state form.

It was more like a military bee than a country.

Military forces near the truce line will be all that remains of North Korea.

Beyond that lies the invasion of monsters and is effectively treated as a blank space.

Pyongyang, indicated by Park Min, used to be the capital of North Korea, but now it's just a vacancy occupied by monsters.

Park Min pointed to such a blank space and asked the team leader why.

“What if there was a class G here? ”