Chapter 25: [Round 2, Day 19. 6:30]

[Round 2, Day 19. 6:30]

Yawn

‘It seems I’m not sleeping enough, yawning as soon as I wake up.’

I did a little stretching as I got off the bed.

‘Time to start another day.’

It was impossible to tell morning, noon and night apart in this world, but I had been living a routinely life, having planned time for sleep, meals and work times in my time schedule.

Not only did it help to use my time to the fullest, by repeating a certain action in a day, it made the Tutorial into a routine which helped to increase my focus.

Of course, this idea of mine doesn’t include any professional advice, and I was merely mimicking the schedules given to me back when I was an active professional player.

Just before I retired, the team hired a physical coach, who looked after us by giving many advices including daily patterns.

I can’t even remember his name.

It would’ve been nice if I stayed on his good side and learnt a few things from him.

After the brief stretching, I did a light jogging following the walls of the Waiting Room.

After the 30 minute jog, I had a simple breakfast.

Eating something also makes you feel better.

I opened the Community as I was eating the jerkies and the riceb.a.l.l.s I bought using the points from the 1st floor.

There were a lot of funny stories that were being posted by the newcomers from the 2nd round.

It seemed so peaceful that it felt unrealistic.

How a certain idol group had come back,

how the result of president election in America was unexpected,

how there was a hidden ruling power in the Blue House exposed.

(TN: Blue House is the building for Korea’s president, equivalent to White House in America. There was a recent event where one of the president’s aides had been running the country using the president as a puppet, and it’s a reference to that.)

[Lee Hoi Chang, Floor 2: Hey, honestly that sounds like horses.h.i.t to me. We’ve been making jokes that Korea is like h.e.l.l but, that’s just too far don’t you think?]

[Jung Jin Soo, Floor 2: Yea maybe this is just a prank made by all the new kids in 2nd Round?]

[Kim Kyoung Jin, Floor 1: I’m telling you, it’s real.]

[Kim Sun Young, Floor 1: I know it sounds unbelievable… Ah, it sounds more like a lie when we try to explain it…]

Most of it was information gathered by asking one of the supervisors you can meet by clearing the Floor, like Kirikiri.

At first, n.o.body wanted to share their information, but the atmosphere had changed since then.

When you looked at it, it looked no different from watching a group of peac.o.c.ks shaking their tails to show them off.

Well it was all worth it for me, since I could easily gain new information.

But, not all information was useful.

And I was designated as one of them as well.

Mainly due to the information I released about the h.e.l.l Difficulty at the start of Round 2.

And lastly, there was a son of a b.i.t.c.h who spread false information around.

Of course, the b.a.s.t.a.r.d’s name was discredited, to prevent anyone from Round 2 to ever listening to him.

But not all the information was unreliable.

Dear G.o.d, Floor 6.

That’s amazing speed.

Like Lee Young Jin, some of those who were trying to clear the Tutorial quickly had been releasing their newfound informations they gained from the Supervisors to the Community.

They even made surveys to vote for which questions to ask, as they prepared for the boss rooms.

Most of the useful information in the Community was from these leading adventurers.

The most important information of it all was about clearing the Tutorial and how to return to our world.

They said you could return to the real world after clearing Floor 100 in the Tutorial.

But there were many who didn’t believe this information.

It would gain credibility if more adventurers asked the same question and received the same answer.

Anyway, this information was like a ray of hope to the many people in the Tutorial.

The same went for me.

It was just that, how long would it take for me to reach Floor 100, when it was so hard to even survive in this place.

It was like I was walking in a pitch dark tunnel, with no sense of time, then hearing that there just might be an exit at the end of the tunnel.

And I better focused on the present, if I wanted to see that future.

I couldn’t forget about the danger to the present from distracting myself by the gains I would have in an uncertain future.

There was information about possible bonus rewards that could be gained by clearing multiple floors in a single round.

But, many have decided that it was better to focus on growing our stats rather than the bonus points.

The main strategy to focus on growth in the lower stages remained.

And…

[Difficulty h.e.l.l, Forums (1/1)]

Not a single newcomer in h.e.l.l Difficulty had survived.

Considering how much thought and effort I had put in for their survival, I was surprisingly apathetic about it.

Was it because I felt the same thing in Round 1?

It was not odd that an average person couldn’t survive in h.e.l.l Difficulty.

If anyone else survived through the 1st floor, I would think that the G.o.ds had given their divine protection to them.

I didn’t feel sadness, but I still felt bitter.

I quickly turned the Community off before I got depressed again.

“Status”

‘Now, time to check the stats.’

After the description of Battle Focus’s hidden active skill was unlocked, I had been checking on the Status routinely to check for any changes.

Personally, I had been wishing for a description of Wind Spirit’s Blessing’s status effects and the conditions to activate it.

[Lee Ho Jae (Human)]

Lv.7

Strength : 12

Vitality : 18

Mana : 22

Skills : Battle Focus Lv.7 Willpower Lv.5 Awakening Lv.1 Night Vision Lv.2 Brighter Vision Lv.1 Charge Lv.2 Natural Regeneration Lv.2 Improved Senses Lv.4 Increased Field of Vision Lv.1 Tough Skin Lv.1 Basic Swordsmanship Lv.1 Cut Lv.1 Basic Shield Skill Lv.2 Wind Spirit’s Blessing Lv.1 Pain Resistance Lv.11 Bleed Resistance Lv.4 Stun Resistance Lv.2 Pierce Resistance Lv.2 Poison Resistance Lv.4 Paralysis Resistance Lv.6 Heat Resistance Lv.4 Burn Resistance Lv.6 Cold Resistance Lv.4 Frostbite Resistance Lv.3

Misc : The G.o.d of Adventure pities you.

At first, all it had were strength, dexterity, vitality and mana, but it has gotten quite long now.

‘If there was one thing bothering me, it’s that the G.o.d of adventure is still pitying me.’

‘What’s their problem?’

(TN: Author’s ambiguous about the gender of the G.o.ds, so I’m using gender neutral words.)

The most notable changes were Willpower’s increase and gaining of Increased Field of Vision and Tough Skin.

I thought I would find out its effect once its level increases.

It was not just seeing in a wider angle,

but closer to increasing the field of vision around the object I am focusing on.

Humans usually can’t focus on everything they see.

From their large field of view, they apply their attention and decision making on a small area of focus, but just by having it larger, I can see and judge more than others.

It’s what is often described as an athlete’s ability to ‘a.s.sess the field’ or ‘good eye’ by others.

And, it was one of the abilities I had when I was a professional gamer too.

By having a skill on top of my natural ability, its effect would be tremendous.

Tough Skin literally made my skin tougher and stronger.

It was not to the stage of not being cut by swords or pierced by arrows, but it felt tougher when I pinched it.

It felt rather disgusting if I kept feeling it.

The last changes I should mention are my resistances.

Although recently, this growth seemed to had stopped.

‘Now, my monitoring is complete, time to start my day.’

[Will you enter the Tutorial Stage?]