The Tutorial Is Too Hard

“Leave Hotch and Dragon alone. Take care of it.”

Serenia sits at the head of the bed and rubs a tangerine.

This secretly bothers me.

“You gonna be okay?"

The monster waves on Japan's east coast were well defended.

Nothing will ever happen again.

But that's not the end of everything.

Inform and reassure people who are curious about exactly what happened and what will happen in the future.

Hotch and Yong-yong are not obligated to do so, but as someone who knows something, they should provide a minimum explanation for those who are curious.

Of course, you can ignore them, but ignoring those who are curious only makes them more annoying later.

They also need to keep up with the Japanese government, who want to package and promote this with a successful defense and subjugation.

You're gonna have to get involved in a foreign propaganda campaign.

“It's okay.”

It's gonna suck.

I don't have to do it myself.

If Hotch finishes the job well, I will entrust the congregation to the Holy Land of Hope as planned.

“I was contacted by a cult. When do I get an appointment? ”

I heard that there is a cultivator selling my name in Gangwon Province.

My business would have been good otherwise, but my name would have been even more popular in the recent news.

“I'll leave that to Hotch. ”

Think of it as a rehearsal before you give up the followers of the god of hope.

Yes, the followers of the gods of hope were more difficult.

It will be easier to deal with rural people who were cheated by the guards than the faithful who suffer from despair by the gods of hope.

It's safer.

“Ah.”

Ceresia opened her mouth like a knife as soon as I finished peeling the tangerines.

When I try to put tangerines in one mouth, I shake my head.

“What, you want me to put one in each? ”

Ceresia nods.

It bothered me.

I just threw a bunch of tangerines into Sergia's mouth.

She glanced at me, but did not spit out the tangerines in her mouth.

I just laughed and ate.

“Ceresia, why don't you eat something other than tangerine, like strawberry? ”

Tangerines were too bothersome to peel.

“Open your legs and I'll eat strawberries. ”

Yeah, I don't want to.

It's annoying.

“So we're done, right? ”

“Some of what you did as soon as you got here. ”

Kim Min-hyuk nodded.

You look a little brighter.

I sent Hotch and Yongle to Japan, and my face was a little better while I was gone.

You're gonna be busy again.

“Call Park Min to the association. ”

“What about him? Weren't you supposed to just let it go? ”

It wasn't.

He was exploited by the God of Hope, but there is a possibility of extenuating circumstances.

But I still had to watch my hands.

“Enough to infect it and make it a puppet. ”

“… You know how to do that? ”

Of course I do.

If you target the non-personality, you can do anything that Kim Min-hyuk can imagine.

“And let's gather some Awakened Children. ”

“What about the kids? If you need Awakening, just a guild member will be enough. ”

“No, it's not enough. ”

I had enough power of my own.

Neither the group nor the 61st floor's men go out of their way.

The problem was the number.

More servants were needed to expand the force.

“I need more kids to work for me. Maybe I'll work for Hotch or you on the outside. ”

Kim Min-hyuk thought for a moment and said.

“All I can collect from my own line is the children in the guild now. Some say they'll come after the contract that's tied up now, but not much. ”

In short, we need more bait.

A lure to attract the Awakened.

“System window to assist with level up. Limited size inventory. Each item purchased in the tutorial. Is this enough bait? ”

“Enough.”

Kim Min-hyuk nodded.

“This is a tempting offer from now on. Can you support real systems and inventory? ”

There is.

I'll build the system.

Inventories are processed just by giving away part of my subspace and setting personal coordinates.

You can just get the items from the tutorial.

“But leave the kids who aren't coming. We can't take them all. ”

You don't have to drag them to people you don't care about.

“But what are you going to do with the kids? ”

Kim Min-hyuk asked.

In fact, it is useless to gather Awakened people on Earth.

Than on Earth.

“Let's get the kids out of here. ”

“Outside?”

“Other dimensions. ”

The Earth Awakeners who had completed the tutorial were all familiar with moving to another world and completing missions.

You can send an expedition beyond the Dimensional Gate if you train and nurture it.

“Another dimension? Is that possible?"

It's possible.

In fact, it is not a job to create a portal connected to another dimension with coordinates.

I've learned quite a lot of coordinates shooting around because of the God of Hope this time.

Looking for traces of the god of hope, looking for coordinates as they were.

Among them, there were some planets that could allow Earthlings to move towards stability.

Dimensional expeditions will, of course, bring immense benefits.

I only thought about new resources and literature in other dimensions.

You can colonize an undeveloped wasteland or make agreements and deals with civilized factions.

These kinds of exchanges naturally increase the influence of Earthlings on the land.

And the Earth's influence will soon lead to mine.

I open a dimensional gate and manage it.

Allows humans who use gates to offer tribute adequately and enter as followers.

“It's not an admission fee, but we could all use an exclusive. ”

Kim Min-hyuk asked.

When a new topic was given, he was rolling his head hard.

It was desirable

“Or we can divide the group altogether and bring them all into our underworld group. Just to be able to hold and manage a dimensional gate anyway……. ”

“Yes, yes, I don't care, so you make your own models. ”

“Got it.”

Min-hyuk Kim made a serious face and didn't move for a long time.

It was also convenient for someone to think about such a troublesome matter carefully instead.

I don't have to use my head.

“Brave.”

Serene Serena summons me.

“Uh, why, do you want some more tangerines? ”

“I want to eat Don Gas. ”

… Oh, right.

I want some gas.

It could be.

“Hey, hey. ”

I called Kim Min-hyuk who was seriously worried.

I had to ask several times if I was concentrating on thinking about the gate.

“Why?”

“Hey, do you want some gas? ”

I meant for you to buy it.

I bought you one as a bonus.

“I'll make it. I'll have it delivered. ”

“No, you have to buy it. ”

“… why. ”

“We're going to a temple in Seoul. There, renovating the Jamsil Stadium. They're not supposed to be there yet. So you're gonna have to buy it yourself. ”

Temples are not open to humans until dragons decorate them later.

It's a temple, after all.

It's too shabby and nothing special makes me feel discouraged.

“... Can we not eat the money? ”

“No. ”

Serena said like a knife.

Normally, it was a quiet tone that could not even be heard, but at this time, it seemed to be standing still in my voice.

“… Okay. ”

Min-hyuk sighed and left the room, dropping his shoulders.

You will know what you are thinking without having to read it.

As soon as the ones who disappeared come back, they'll complain about being annoyed again.

Ceresia stares at me as soon as Kim Min-hyuk leaves.

“Do you want some tangerines? ”

Ceresia shakes her head.

Of course it is.

Serena likes to eat, but not this much.

It was just a struggle.

Lying in bed in pain, doing bothersome errands.

It was quite humane.

It was not because I ignored the idea of returning to Earth quickly, or because I used myself harshly to complain and insist on guilt and apology to me.

Ceresia was a sword and a weapon.

I couldn't be mad at her for treating her like a tool.

Now that Serenia has sent out Kim Min-hyuk as she wanted, it's time to hear the reason.

“I didn't have to go head-to-head. ”

Yeah, it is.

That was the story, too.

To some extent, it was a thought that was expected.

When I rushed head-on with a fake, powered by the god of hope.

Ceresia talks about that time.

“But you still won. ”

Ceresia didn't even talk about it.

I know that.

The reason she's doing this is not because she's a philosopher, but because she's worried about what happens next.

“The enemy was a man who had barely set foot on the edge of his character. But the power was equal. Maybe we're ahead of you. ”

Definitely did.

Given the total amount of power, the God of Hope's power, which was swinging by a fake then, surpassed my power.

“The opponent, of course, prepared for a fight. ”

The fake chose the most natural way to press with force.

You put all your strength into a single blow so that you don't even have to block it or spill its power.

It was a good decision. It was the right one.

Even if I were in that position, I would.

“They've been planning and preparing for that moment for a long time. There was sufficient grounds for judgment. ”

“I'm sure you did.”

The god of hope in the beginning seemed to have prepared a fake for just that moment.

It was a moment of focus, burning everything from a fake standpoint.

“If I'd been drawn to a bit of a fight, I'd have been my champion. ”

“Yes.”

If you had not fought in front of us, you would have stalled.

If only the God of Hope had run away first and twisted the fight against the fake in that disappearing situation a little more.

It would have been easier to win.

That's why she's worried.

Of course, I won, but the power that the fake instant emitted was so depleted and sickened that Ceresia fell ill.

It was not a risk-free battle.

It was a story about why I accepted a frontal battle that was favorable to the opponent, both by means and by means, for victory.

There was no excuse for growth and experience, as in previous tutorials.

“Obviously, that frontal battle was the act of the god of duel. ”

“That's right.”

Perhaps the reason for the confrontation is the sympathy or sympathy for the fake.

In fact, while the fake was dying, Ceresia asked if she would identify the fake.

Ceresia always worries about this.

I don't know if the emotional gap will create a gap.

Maybe it was a very weaponized way of thinking.

At one time, my thinking was exactly the same as hers.

In fact, there is still a slight difference, not very different.

Before answering, I moved inside the temple.

It was a story no one should have to eavesdrop on.

After the move, I told Cedria.

“There are two reasons. ”

“Can I have two? ”

Ceresia asked.

I thought there were only two grounds for judgment.

I wondered if I didn't see myself as a single-celled person.

“The first one just seemed to win. No matter how advantageous the opponent is, and how prepared I am for the advantages, I will win. ”

I was confident that I could accept the battle.

I wouldn't be here if I wasn't sure.

“The second is that I couldn't back out. ”

“What do you mean? ”

Ceresia asked.

I don't know how to explain this.

“Sometimes it feels like you've won and lost. ”

I often felt it in the pro-gamer era.

Obviously, when I won, it was as annoying as when I lost.

When I tried to stop the game by mistake, not against the opponent's propaganda, in a battle with a lower class player than I usually am.

“... Does that feel like losing to you? ”

“Yes. Even if it wasn't practically defeated. ”

Serenia was silent.

I had to accept her silence, wait a moment.

The foundation of my divinity is a continuing victory.

Confidence and faith in that victory has made me who I am and what I stand for.

If I explain otherwise, I do not maintain my divinity in a situation where I cannot win.

That's the thing about confidence.

As the God of Duels cannot take someone's head for a victorious battle, and the God of Light cannot sleep in the darkness.

It was not a matter of preference, but of identity.

“… too great a penalty. ”

Serenia, who was silent for a moment, said.

She was right.

But it was that powerful.

I wanted more than just moderately strong power, I wanted overwhelming power.

For my purposes, I had to even assume that I turned all the gods of the vaccine against my enemies.

I made 60th and 61st floors my sanctuary and took that risk to aim to get all the stages of the tutorial.

“Once I hear the word 'defeat' in my mind, I may lose everything. ”

Even if I lose, if I think it's the final step to victory, I will overcome it.

But even if I win, if I feel defeated in my heart, that's it.

“But I'm sure. ”

“What certainty? ”

“I'm sure I'll make it in the end. I am confident that I will continue to stumble and stumble a few times. I'm confident I won't lose forever. ”

And I assure you,

That certainty will never break.