I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 4
[ Precepts (1) ]
He killed Park Si-hoo.
Killed the player.
I was lost in thought for a while as I looked at the corpse of a fellow citizen I had shared through life and death and sorrow next to me.
The future void created by the player’s death. The story of [The Legend of Arhan Heroes], which involves defeating the final boss and saving the world, ended before it even began.
“Hehe, that’s amazing!”
“You killed it well. You killed it well.”
If I had at least succeeded, I would have felt guilty. He must have thought about it before killing him.
It is an obvious concern as to whether he can weigh the world against the 100,000 lives he will kill in the future.
The problem is the message window that appears while killing Park Si-hoo…
[Sub Player Corin Locke]
This is not the first time I have seen the status window. Because I saw it when I was swallowed up by Park Si-hoo’s shadow and trapped inside him.
-My
heart is pounding. How much did Park Si-hoo suck at the status window? I knew it well because I watched it from the side.
“……Status window.”
『Corin Locke (Hero)』
Oh oh oh oh…! Finally, Gat Tae-chang for me too!!
Occupation – {Cannot be viewed}
Personality – {Cannot be viewed}
Talent – {Cannot be viewed}
Auror – {Cannot be viewed} Magic
Power – {Cannot be viewed}
Trait – { None }
『Character Skills – 4』
Details – Cannot be viewed
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“Combined window?”
[You do not have system privileges.]
“Inventory!”
[You do not have system permission.]
“Skill window!”
[You do not have system permission.]
Isitpal! Would you like a taste of deleting a game?
Is this what you meant by minimal backup?
I wonder if this is too much…!
For others, the status window! If you do this, you can acquire skills, create legendary weapons, and progress through quests, so why am I like this?
Did you even say ‘nothing’ when there is nothing? Oh my, be kind.
“Cough…!”
“Ha…”
Let’s put the despair aside and save people first.
“Arisha Aden? Are you okay?”
“Uh… isn’t it okay…?”
“Uh… it seems okay.”
Seeing as he has the strength to speak out, it seems okay.
“Ugh… I can’t see you lying down.”
“Are you dizzy and can’t smell well? Are your ears ringing?”
“How are you?”
“My tongue was also twisted.”
If you can’t see, feel dizzy, and even have a twisted tongue, there is only one thing.
“I think it’s peacock frog poison.”
It is a poison commonly available in the East. There was a request to catch a peacock frog living in a well in the player’s starting village.
It was probably separated into a dock using the system window’s combination system.
Since the combination level would have been low, it is not a fatal poison, but if left unattended, it will continue to reduce HP. Even a low-level antidote had to be given.
Even if there was only a combination window, this could have been solved in 5 seconds…
but just thinking about this makes me angry.
Anyway, it will take several hours to carry him to Merkava City, so it would be better to stop the bleeding and detoxify here.
It’s not a fatal poison, so if you just stop the bleeding, you’ll wake up in pain for a few days.
“Hmm… can I give it to you now?”
-Ouch!
“Kwaaah?!”
As the wound was tightened with a belt, a pitiful scream echoed through the forest.
Hemostasis is inherently painful. It hurts so much that I die, but I have to do it if I don’t want to die.
“────!!!!”
“It’s okay. I’m a very skilled person when it comes to things like stopping bleeding from wounds.”
Well, since when did I start using the system window? If you don’t have it, you have to live as if you don’t have it.
────!!
Wow, it’s so loud and loud. I feel like a general. I feel like a general. I don’t know if you heard my voice.
-Wow!
Blood poured out. This is because the hole in Beowulf was bigger than expected.
“Huh… Euninnim…”
“Huh?”
“The will…”
“The will is a piece of cake. Ask me this.”
“……?”
It was Park Si-hoo’s wrist that was placed in Alisha’s mouth. It’s going to hurt a lot, so I’m telling you to at least bite that and hold on.
“It’s okay to bite hard, so hold on.”
“…!”
Alisha is crying as if she is in a lot of pain. As he continued to stop the bleeding, I asked Park Si-hoo, as if it really hurt so much that his wrist was dented.
It doesn’t matter because it’s not my hand.
Hemostasis of the side was roughly completed. Now all that’s left is to detoxify the poison on the back of my neck… I’ve been tumbling in this world for three years. It is possible to make a basic antidote without a system window.
There were also ingredients. The problem is that it would be nice to have something like a tin box to hold water and medicine…
“I found it.”
When I looked around, the backpack was left unattended, as expected. It’s probably the backpack that Alisha carried. He must have abandoned Park Si-hoo and ran to save him.
“Oh, there’s also a tin box.”
I put water in a tin box and mixed a few ingredients. I have a lot of camping experience, so starting a bonfire wasn’t that difficult.
“I’m making an antidote. Just be patient.”
“Ugh…”
As if the poison had still invaded his body, there was no answer and he was whimpering. Given what his will was, I think he thought he was going to die.
‘People don’t die that easily.’
While boiling the antidote, they threw Park Si-hoo’s body far away. When I looked at the wrist that had been bitten by Alisha, it had been torn so badly that all the bones were exposed.
I quickly lit a bonfire and boiled the main ingredients for the antidote when Alisha sniffed and twitched.
The smell of rathorn gallbladder isn’t usually that bad.
“Lost… Eunin…”
Arisha struggled to open her mouth and referred to me as her benefactor.
“Please tell me your name… my benefactor, Hamza…”
“I don’t know anything. Don’t try to find out.”
“yes?”
“Don’t worry, get some rest. I’ll wake you up when the antidote is complete.”
“Yes…….”
It’s good to erase my debt by revealing my identity, but it’s better to keep people as unaware as possible of what I’m going to do in the future.
Approximately 30 minutes until the antidote is complete. A cloth soaked in herbal water was placed on Alisha’s eyes.
Now, let’s sum up the situation.
It is now the beginning of the semester when tutorial quests and entrance ceremonies begin. I went back to 3 years before I died.
Incidents and accidents that will occur around the Academy in the future. The story changes as a result.
[The Legend of Arhan Heroes] was literally a game where the legend of a hero was written.
Players are heroes and have the role of saving the world. This role requires you to defeat numerous villains and the final boss.
But that player died by my hands. So who will play that role?
‘I have to do it.’
This is something I was prepared to do from the moment I decided to kill Park Si-hoo.
I had many conversations with Park Si-hoo about what would happen if I cleared the story of this game…
Aside from the fact that he was a villain, I cleared the story obediently because the world would end if I didn’t defeat the final boss. am.
When we became possessed by this world, we had no choice but to risk our lives to save the world.
So, I understand it a little bit… a little bit. The reason he killed people while singing a song about efficiency.
But that shouldn’t be the case. I shouldn’t have won like that. I shouldn’t have become a loser in order to become a winner.
“Huh…”
Fortunately, it seems like I have a system backup through a sub-player or something…
[I don’t have system permissions.] If
you’re going to do it, do it properly. I guess the status window just doesn’t exist.
Anyway, I have to act as a player.
The problem is that I don’t have any convenience devices for players.
There is no system window where you can score desired skills as points, no
inventory where you can retrieve items from anywhere, and
no item combination window needed for quests. Above all….
‘Park Si-hoo lost even with all that.’
In this game, Park Si-hoo was more familiar with [The Legend of Arhan Heroes] than I was.
Even though he used all the information he knew to monopolize the hidden pieces and experience points, he was defeated by the final boss.
It is not enough to have backups and future information that may or may not exist. I need a force outside the system.
The good news is that I am not an ordinary possessor.
3 years.
As the story progressed, he was trained in extreme battles.
I was desperate to survive as I was, and I mastered every bit of the training that Park Si-hoo did as an event to increase his skill points.
Just looking at the hero grade, which can be said to be the highest grade for a named character, it means that he has made it to the top of the list of extra subjects.
But this alone is not enough. Right now, there are a lot of hidden pieces that I cannot use, unlike the players.
I have to use something outside the system. For example…
– Jiik
wrote letters on the paper with his fingers. The letters carved on the dirt floor using blackboard and chalk are ancient characters meaning ‘wind’.
-Good luck!
A slight wind blew in the bonfire where the medicine was being boiled, and the flames shook.
done.
What I did now is rune magic.
It is an ancient letter whose letters themselves act as magic, and the only ‘magic’ I learned in the previous episode. It is a magic that even I, who is not good at magic, can do.
A dead language that can now only be found in the corners of the main library of Merkava Academy.
What I will do from now on is to engrave on my body a sentence made by combining these runes, which have power in themselves.
This is called a precept.
Obligation An oath that must be kept.
Confinement A limitation that limits oneself.
It is a long-awaited goal that must be pursued.
These three things combined are called precepts and are one of the most powerful ‘laws’ in the world. Acting as the source of superhuman strength and the cause of destruction.
This isn’t about the player’s skills or stats. It was just a setting for a powerful boss character.
Why wasn’t this good power used in the previous episode?
Because the risk was too great.
As you can see from the word precepts, these three are the source of powerful power, but if the sentences engraved on the body are discovered, they can be attacked.
Just as we did, enemies can use the precepts to set the stage for destruction.
In the previous round, where he played flawlessly, it was a power that there was no reason to use, but the situation has changed.
I bit my finger, drew blood, and started carving runes on my body.
duty. It is an oath that I must keep, and it gives me strength when I keep it.
The trick to engraving the obligations of the precepts is to be able to invoke them repeatedly.
For example, let’s say you run 50 meters every day.
Then, it acts as a rule that increases my stats every time I achieve a 50m run every day.
The stable obligation is ‘cumulative’, such as ‘not eating bird meat for the rest of your life’, but here it is necessary to increase the risk. Because I know a lot about the future.
Additionally, the strength of oaths attached to obligations varies depending on their weight.
In this world, there is ‘karma’, which explains experience points in game terms, and the karma gained from defeating a level 5 monster is different from the karma gained from defeating a level 1 monster.
Therefore, this duty must carry a burden that is heavy enough for the world to judge.
『I do not sit idly by and watch the misfortune of good people.』
-Chiiik!
“Ugh…!”
Runes, complete with sentences, were engraved on my body. Is this what it feels like to carve a piece of iron heated to a high temperature?
A heavy breathing comes out of my throat.
“Whoa… whoa….”
It’s heavy. The duty engraved on my body had that much weight.
The law of precepts applies within the caster’s cognitive range.
Even if it’s a future event that hasn’t happened yet, as long as I’m ‘aware of’ it, it’s coming to me as my karma.
The keywords are ‘good person’ and ‘misfortune’.
This game clearly distinguishes between good and evil through a stat called character personality. And it also helps me that the misfortunes of the good characters are overcome.
In this game, the good guys were named characters who faced the crisis of the world.
In other words, as you solve the game’s story, the precepts of duty will work repeatedly, giving you corresponding power.
However, there is no need to save all the good people in this world. Because the precepts are applied within the scope of what I ‘perceive’.
Even if the unfortunate person on the street passing by is a good person, the obligation does not apply unless I ‘recognize’ it.
‘After that, arrest.’
Restraint is an always-on type that raises one’s own specifications by intentionally adding unfavorable conditions to oneself.
Basically high risk-high return. Of the three precepts, it is the weakest and can be exploited as a weakness, so it may be the most important.
You create your own weaknesses. If it were an ordinary restraint, it would become a fatal bond that would bind me. But──
『I do not recognize spirits.』
-Chiiik!
“Off…!”
Spirit.
It literally means a spiritual body.
Spiritual beings that do not take a material form, such as ghosts and spirits.
In this world, the enemies of humanity that hunters must defeat, like monsters, are called demon spirits.
Even if it’s a demon, it doesn’t mean much. It’s just a case of accusing spirit entities that are hostile to humans as sinful spirits.
Spirits that are hostile to humans and those that attack humans, such as the defensive spirit bodies of ancient ruins, are lumped together as sin demons.
And in this world, spirit bodies follow one law.
Spiritual bodies interfere with each other through mutual recognition. Just as the spirit body cannot interfere with an unconscious person.
In this world, even the most untalented human being has at least some inspiration.
There may be 1 or 2 inspiration, but there is never 0.
What I have done now is to constrain this to zero.
In other words, I do not perceive the spiritual body.
It is excluded from the law of mutual recognition. Just as I cannot interfere with the spiritual body, the spiritual body cannot interfere with me either.
At best, a special case such as a spirit materialized by an elementalist could interfere with me.
I know better than anyone else the power of this redemption. It was none other than the restraint of Balthazar, the world’s strongest rune magician and boss character.
The effect is an additional 50% advantage to material beings, instead of applying a 0% hit rate to spirits.
In other words, I gain an additional 50% advantage against the material beings that occupy most of this world.
Unless it is the way I attacked Balthazar, the precepts of my restraint will not be broken.
Now the last thing left is an oath.
It is a great goal that a warrior must pursue, and its heaviness acts as a backup. It is truly a long-awaited promise. A vow to pursue a grand ambition.
There’s no need to even worry.
『I save the world.』