I’ll Be Taking A Break For Personal Reasons - Chapter 1
Temporary hiatus due to personal reasons. – ⓒ Cracker™
[Warning: The title is like this, but it will not be paused]
I am the only god of the third class.
Don’t pray for God.
because it’s just a name
One day I have the awakening I longed for.
But something is wrong with my awakening ability?
……The insignificant and weak ants who are slaughtered in a tiny, different world connected through smartphones
consider me a god?
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[ Temporary hiatus for personal reasons. ]
A notice on the serial writer’s hiatus has been posted on the novel serialization site.
[I will be taking a break for a while due to personal reasons.]
That’s just one line.
The notice of hiatus that came up at the moment when things were about to get interesting.
Naturally, angry comments and swear words were plastered on the bulletin board.
[Kaksama of Massacre]
: Hey, it’s a bitch! Are you taking a break again?
[Night snack Cheonwangdongjae]
: Somehow, he said he continued to publish serially. Dog hang up poop. Will you give me my habit?
[Professor Baek, who is enthusiastic]
: Sbul! Refund all tickets charged!
[Nightmare Crawling Silently]
: Rumor has it that Sicqui is taking a break from playing a strange game! everyone!
[Team leader dedicated to escaped writers]
: Oh, what kind of game is this? Going to catch it now! –+.
[My mother stepped on a cracker]
: Shibamba writer! I’m dying to cut it off here!
The author’s answer ran in the atmosphere boiling like hellfire.
[Sole Confidence]
: Everyone, can’t I save the world first and come back? ㅠㅠ
[ Due to personal reasons, I will be on hiatus for a while. ] End
ⓒ Cracker™
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[ Godmaker ]
#1.
It was a very ordinary day.
As a freelance writer, I was working at a cafe.
However, there was no progress, so I was fiddling with my phone out of habit as always.
I was deleting useless apps one by one to clean up the capacity of my cell phone that was full, but I saw an app I had never seen before.
It has no name and the icon looks like an old chest.
‘Was there anything like this?’
First of all, I touched the box thinking that I should check what app it was and then delete it.
Then the crate opened its mouth wide.
-Welcome to God-Maker.
– Depending on your disposition and play, you can be either a good or evil god.
was it a game?
However, it is a very dull window.
There is nothing but text in the black window.
By the time I got bored, the screen suddenly changed.
A small old crypt.
There was one ant.
It was also a crude ant made of 8-bit dots, just like the classic game Gallagher from half a century ago.
“What kind of stupid game is installed on your phone? Did I hit the wrong spam email?”
Furthermore, the dots that make up the ant’s lower body were crushed.
As I was looking into it, a message popped up.
-No.1× ×× ×× God× ××× ××× ×××××.
The text was smudged and could not be seen properly.
The only thing visible is the number No. 1 and God.
No.1 is this ant?
‘How is this going?’
There was only one crude ant in the window, but nothing was visible.
It’s a very unfriendly game.
I tried touching the ant to see if a menu would appear.
Knock!
“omg.”
The ants made of dots were crushed with a refreshing noise and soon disappeared like smoke.
When you’re a little flustered…
Clink!
A black coin popped out of the phone.
A 500 won-sized coin had a skull mark and the number ‘1’ engraved on it.
-No.1 is crushed!
-1 GOT Coin (Dark) has been dropped as a reward.
– The unknown god’s karma increases by 1 due to killing.
-congratulations. One step closer to the great evil god seeking supremacy and power.
“What is this?”
[Godmaker] End
ⓒ Cracker™
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[ Hello, this is Yulsin. ]
Episode #2.
Twenty years ago, when an unknown incident occurred, people went to a mental hospital or a shaman.
But now that the world has changed, the destination is different.
At the paranormal center desk, a pretty-looking receptionist with a name tag named Kim Yoo-jung on her chest called me by name.
“No. 369 Sole God.”
…Please just call me by name.
If you just say ‘Ilsin’, it’s a fairly ordinary name, but if you add the saint ‘Yu’ to it, it looks very holy and makes you want to pray.
“Kick-kick.”
“One God? Wow, what a great name.”
She blushed slightly at the people’s whispers and strode towards the person in charge.
she said with a smile.
“Congratulations, Mr. Yoo Shin. As a result of the test, it was found that God Soil has aptitude for supernatural powers.”
Perhaps I was nervous, the neck of my neck moved without realizing it.
“That’s right. Then what is your grade?”
From here, the quality of my life changes.
I don’t even want anything higher than A grade.
Even if I become a D or E grade, I will quit my life as a writer who can’t sell right away and start a new life!
As if to blow away my expectations, the staff smiled and said.
“G-class.”
The ranks of the talented are divided into 10 grades, from SSS to G, like a pyramid.
In fact, the SSS class doesn’t mean much because there are only a handful of them in the world.
And those three aren’t even human.
Anyway, that’s not what’s important.
“G-class?”
Grade G is a grade presented when a person has this ability but has little or no influence on their daily life.
“As a result of the examination, Yoo Shin-nim was judged to have a G-class ability to create substances.”
The employee handed me the test results and recited the usual manual.
“Would you like to register for a competent person license? If you register as a person with ability, you will be able to do hunting activities suitable for your level in the future.”
“Does that cost money?”
“Your registration fee is 280,000 won.”
I mean don’t do it
There are almost no gates or dungeons that G-class can enter, so it’s just a waste of money.
I sighed and looked at my results sheet.
Name: Sole God (M)
Age: 23 Years Old
Ability: Material Creation
Grade: G
Analysis: The coins created with the substance creation ability were thoroughly inspected with seven types of testers, but no special findings were found.
The result of precise analysis of the coin created by this ability:
95% carbon, 2% ammonia, 0.4% lime, 0.15% phosphorus, 0.8% potassium nitrate and fluorine, 0.75% iron, 0.24% silicon…
I asked a question.
“By the way, what is this phrase 95%?”
“Do you ask?”
The employee opened his eyes and looked at my results, then smiled.
“Ah, printing error. Where is the material called ‘Gura’? This is Guri, customer.”
Giving strength to Gura seems to be deliberately teasing.
* * *
-S-rank Hunter Baek Yoo-hyeon succeeded in subjugating the disaster grade ‘Dark Dragon’s Dungeon’! With this, humanity has come one step closer to salvation…!
Beep!
– A seductive and fatal temptation. Even an S-class hunter, Mi-na, must take this before entering the dungeon! The only choice that will protect your skin! Almondra Perfect Essence….
Beep!
– Infinite Challenge! Today’s guest is! Don’t be alarmed! Viewers! What a Double S Hunter! World star Jack White is here!
Beep!
Turn off the TV.
Even the news, commercials, and entertainment are all hunter versions.
20 years ago.
When the gates and dungeons opened and monsters that humans thought only in their imaginations poured out, mankind faced the crisis of extinction.
At that time, the ones who appeared like saviors were the hunters who had awakened their supernatural powers.
Like the protagonists of genre novels popular at the time, the world situation was quickly stabilized by their heroic performances.
Gates and dungeons were not the misfortune of mankind.
The discovery of pollution-free new energy and new materials obtained from monster by-products has advanced the development of mankind one step further.
It is not an exaggeration to say that all the infrastructure of society these days depends on monsters and the hunters who hunt them.
If you think about it, if in the old days, children’s dreams were celebrities or new tubers, wouldn’t they be hunters these days?
There is even an entrance exam academy.
Anyway, until now, I thought Hunters were people from a completely different world from me, but now that I have awakened my superpower, my stomach hurts for no reason.
Even if it’s a sphere, or even a useless ability that only makes copper.
I fiddled with the skull coin in my hand.
The current price of copper is about 6900 dollars per ton, but this copper coin I made weighs about 20 grams?
“The lottery is a piece of shit in my fortune. I just have to do what I am doing.”
I turned on my laptop instead of the TV.
I was blown away for no reason, so I was blown away by the inspection of various things at the center.
It’s a small amount of money, but you still have to write a manuscript if you want to stick it in your mouth.
And I started working with all my heart.
5 hours later.
I stared at my laptop.
The white ones are paper, and the blinking ones are big.
“Fuck.”
tore off his head
The clock is already pointing at 3:00 AM, but there is no progress at all.
I just wrote and erased and wrote and erased again.
Perhaps it was the stress, my head was pounding and my stomach twisted like weaving laundry.
I can feel the feeling of my lifespan being cut in real time.
“…let’s just get some sleep.”
In my experience, I have to hold on to it on days like this to avoid writing. In that case, it is better to sleep.
If you take a deep breath and try again with a clear mind, then you will make some progress.
Tomorrow’s me No, because it’s dawn, I went to bed leaving the manuscript to today’s me.
Of course, you don’t fall asleep right away. For writers, insomnia is a passive thing.
After about an hour of tossing and turning in the bed, my eyelids felt heavy and I tried to fall asleep.
Tring! Tring!
Just then, the alarm sounded on my cell phone that I had placed next to my bed.
Who are you at this hour?
Annoyed, I checked my phone.
It was a game alarm.
Along with the name ‘God Maker’ at the top of the phone.
-No.2× ×× ×× God× ××× ××× ×××××.
There was an unrecognizable phrase that read:
A game alarm that goes off at 4 in the morning.
Feeling furious, I firmly pressed the message to cancel its alarm setting.
However, instead of the setting screen, the game runs, and an empty cave and an ant made of crude dots come to mind.
-No.2× ×× ×× God× ××× ××× ×××××.
-No.2× ×× ×× God× ××× ××× ×××××.
Messages popped up like spam with a ringing beep.
“ha.”
Others fly in the sky and unleash heroic powers such as fire and electricity, but I think spam alarms that I can’t even understand are my superpowers.
“What the hell are you talking about, ant?”.
I asked the ant on the screen just in case, holding back my sense of shame and annoyance.
-no.2× ×× ×× god× ××× ××× ×××××.
-No.2× ×× ×× God× ××× ××× ×××××.
But all I got back was this message.
Anxiety surged more strongly.
i’m crazy At best, what are you asking an ant in this crude game?
However, there is no other menu in the game to solve this situation.
Let’s just be quiet and go to sleep.
I heard the index finger.
-No.2 is crushed!
-The unknown god’s karma increases by 1.
-congratulations. One step closer to the great evil god seeking supremacy and power.
– 1 God Coin (Dark) will be presented.
With the courtesy notification, the Gura coin was created.
Clink!
Only then did the alarm go off and I found peace.
There was no guilt whatsoever.
Isn’t this just a crude game implemented with my ability to create matter?
I went to sleep again.
But…
Tring!
-No.3× Unknown God× ××× ××× ×××××.
Another dot ant appeared.
“Fuck!”
It was killed by pressing it with lightning bolt.
A Gura coin popped out of the phone along with the message that it was one step closer to the evil god again.
Tring!
-No.4× ×× ×× God× ××× ××× ×××××.
-No.5× ×× ×× God× ××× ××× ×××××.
-No.6×….
Tring! Tring! Tring!
Now they were flocking in droves.
I tried to turn off my cell phone, but it was useless, probably because it was not just a cell phone, but a superpower that manifested itself in me.
“Fuck! These ant babies! Let’s see who wins!”
His abilities that have already awakened are a piece of cake, and he is stressed out because he has not written anything.
I gritted my teeth and pressed the dot ants with my index finger.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
“…hmm.”
But is this strangely addictive?
I think I know why people do it.
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Blinding sunlight filtered through the cracks in the windows.
“Oh, when did you fall asleep?”
It seems that I fell asleep without realizing it after being absorbed in crushing and killing the ant for a long time.
But something was a little strange.
Coins protruding from killing ants on the bed had disappeared.
There were probably hundreds of them, though.
Instead, there were three large coins the size of a baby’s palm.
Unlike the coins that had a ‘1’ engraved on it, the number ‘100’ was engraved on it.
“100?”
Then I found a notification message on my cell phone.
-Congratulations to the unknown god. You have met the opening conditions for ‘God’s Shop’.
-Open condition: Have 100 or more GOT Coins (Dark/White).
-Do you want to activate ‘God’s Shop’? (Yes/No)