The Count’s Youngest Son Is A Player - Chapter 1

Episode 1

“…Sir…Sir! …please!!”

I heard a sound as if someone was calling me. The moment when I realized that my consciousness, which had been hazy like fog, was slowly returning.

“Khaaaa!!”

“Kyaak!!”

Kudangtang.

He opened his eyes and woke up screaming. Then he held his chest and exhaled harshly.

“Huh oh oh oh oh!”

Cold sweat broke out all over my body, and my heart was pumping so hard that it felt like it was going to explode.

“Ouch. Are you okay. Confucius?”

Hearing a small noise coming from next to him, he turned his head to see a small girl who looked to be no older than ten years old, sitting on the floor next to the bed, looking at him with a worried face.

‘what? ‘What happened??’

As my breathing calmed down little by little, I looked around and saw that there was nothing strange about it.

What catches your eye is a large room filled with antique furniture.

The walls are decorated with colorful decorations and paintings.

Windows made of wood.

Lastly, a girl in a maid outfit.

No matter how you look at it, it wasn’t realistic.

I thought I had died from being stabbed and suffocated, but when I opened my eyes, I found myself in a luxurious room like this?

If you were alive, wasn’t it normal to wake up in the hospital??

While he was frantically looking around with his eyes turned, the girl who had hit his butt stood up and asked again.

“Prince Raoul, are you okay? “You’re sweating a lot. Should we call a doctor?”

‘Raul??’

The moment he turns his head towards the girl with a puzzled expression.

His eyes were seeing something that shouldn’t have been seen.

[Lv3. Anna]

A small text appeared above the head of the girl in the maid outfit.

“Anna??”

“Yes, Confucius.”

The girl answered as if it were obvious, and he frowned and held his head.

It felt like I was in a world of connect.

After a while.

Now he was a boy named Raoul, sitting in front of his desk with a serious expression.

He was able to receive general information about this place through Anna, his exclusive maid.

And after seeing my changed body in the mirror, I had no choice but to accept reality.

‘I can’t believe I entered the world of Connect…’

I did not simply access the game, but was reincarnated into the body of a boy named Raoul who exists within it.

And the moment he recognized that fact, a small message window appeared in front of his eyes.

[The soul settlement has been completed. Activate closed beta system. From now on, you can use the user interface. The current number of users is 1.]

The moment he checked the system message, Raoul was trembled.

Not just being reincarnated in the game world, but being reborn with the ability to use the game system!

There were endless ways to utilize that ability floating around in my head.

‘for a moment. Closed beta? And if the number of users is 1…? ‘So you’re saying I’m the only one using the game system in this world right now?’

Raoul’s eyes deepened even further.

As a professional player who had risked his life playing games in his previous life, he couldn’t miss such a great opportunity.

‘First, I need to find out exactly who I am and where I am.’

I spent a whopping 15 years in the world of Connect. And, taking advantage of being a leader and ranker, they ran a game information site dedicated to Connect.

No matter how vast the world of Connect was, the rough information was piled up in his head.

There are a total of 6 human countries in Connect. There were two empires and four kingdoms. And dozens of cities were united with each other.

The number of noble families alone was enormous, so there were too few clues to recall them just by name. No, I thought so.

But at that moment.

[Locked user information has been confirmed. [Updating information.]

A system message was displayed, and suddenly a lot of information started pouring into my head.

“Ugh.”

I felt pain and dizziness as if I was hitting my brain directly with a hammer.

He clutched his head with both hands in excruciating pain, but as if nothing had happened, his head returned to normal and he regained memories of Raoul’s past 15 years.

“Whoa whoa.”

Raoul, who belatedly let out a rough breath, soon came to his senses and thought.

‘Count Ashton of the Kingdom of Reuben. I’ve heard it a lot somewhere… but wait a minute!’

Raoul’s complexion gradually turned pale as he looked back on a rough map of the continent and major events in his head.

“Oh my god, I remembered!”

Earl of Ashton. It was the first family to be destroyed in Connect.

* * *

2035. The rapid development of technology has created the perfect virtual reality game [Connect].

Perfect realism that is almost no different from reality.

An NPC with perfect artificial intelligence that leaves no feeling of discomfort at all.

And gorgeous sword magic superpowers that can only be experienced in games.

All of these things attracted people to the world of connect.

Bae Do-hyeon. Game nickname Crash.

He was a veteran player entering his 15th year this year and ranked in the top 100 overall.

Being in the top 100 among over 100 million players meant that you had great talent.

Moreover, considering the fact that he is a solo player who operates alone.

If the large guilds hadn’t made a secret deal with the empire five years ago and turned the Connect world upside down, they might not have lost the top spot they had maintained for 10 years.

However, Connect has already come under the control of large guilds, and among solo players, they are the only one in the top 100.

Clap, clap, clap.

Bae Do-hyeon, dressed in pitch-black leather clothes and a black cape, as if he were an assassin, walked out on the blood-stained floor.

Dozens of corpses of players wearing armor with various logos were lying around him.

In accordance with Bae Do-hyeon’s steps, dozens of weapons embedded in their bodies were pulled out of their own accord and hidden under his cloak.

Among the corpses, an old priest could be seen with his pure white priest’s uniform stained with red blood.

He was leaning on the stairs leading up to the platform and was breathing heavily.

Clink.

When Bae Do-hyeon waved his hand, several blades stuck in the priest’s body came out and rolled around on the floor of the hall.

Bae Do-hyeon poured potion on the bleeding area, but it was already too late to treat it.

“Cough… it ended up like this. “You stranger.”

The old priest spoke with a paler complexion.

However, Bae Do-hyeon did not seem to be very interested in what Shin-kwan Noh said. He just stretched out his hand and started rummaging around the old priest’s body.

“The Lord said that the savior of this world would arrive, so why did such a flock of hunting dogs flock here? Look here, stranger. How have you brought about a change in this world? Why did they burn the city and massacre innocent people? “Why did they turn the people here into slaves?”

Bae Do-hyeon’s eyebrows twitched at the old priest’s reprimanding tone.

But soon, he listened to the shouts and sounds of battle coming from afar and moved his hands even faster.

And finally, he took out a small pendant hidden in the old priest’s arms.

‘Phew, I found it. ‘I have to hurry.’

Shin-kwan Noh said while holding on to Bae Do-hyeon’s ankle with difficulty as he tried to leave.

“You are no different from them. But don’t forget. Everything will happen according to God’s will… In the end, you will pay for this sin. Cough!”

The old priest’s head finally fell to the floor as he uttered his last words, shedding bloody tears.

Bae Do-hyeon said with a bitter expression as he pulled away from Noh Shin-gwan’s hand.

“Whew. Old Man: Please direct your blame not to me, but to the Empire and the guilds that colluded with it. “They are the ones who turned this world into a mess.”

It was uncomfortable, but I didn’t have time to join in on the NPC’s lament.

‘I need to find it quickly and go out.’

Fortunately, we succeeded in overtaking the guild’s detachment. But it was obvious that the main force would arrive here soon.

I had to hurry to avoid wasting six months of hard work.

As I climbed onto the stage with the pendant in hand, a chair with colorful decorations caught my eye.

Bae Do-hyeon nodded slightly and, without hesitation, placed the pendant into the groove on the back of the chair.

As I went down the secret passage that finally appeared, they finally appeared. Three mythical items appeared for the first time in the Connect world!

“It’s as per the information. “If only I had these!”

Bae Do-hyun clenched his fists and bit his lips tightly.

Although it was late, I was filled with confidence that I would be able to beat the large guilds and empires and rise to the top of the rankings once again.

He hurriedly packed the three items into his inventory. And as I was about to leave the secret space, something suddenly caught my eye.

‘What is that?’

Something had fallen in a corner where no light could reach.

It was an urgent situation where he had to escape quickly, but Bae Do-hyun walked forward due to an unknown attraction.

“Is this… a game cartridge?”

A rectangular plastic object about the size of your palm. It was clear that game cartridges, also known as game packs, were traded at high prices among classic game collectors.

The problem was why the game cartridge ended up in a medieval virtual reality game.

At that time, I paused for a moment due to an unknown sense of discomfort.

Jijijijik.

My vision began to distort as if there was noise. Then I heard a pounding sound in my ears and my head felt like it was going to explode.

‘Ugh. ‘What’s going on?’

That moment when you rush to grab a game cartridge in an urgent situation.

Bae Do-hyun was thrown out of the world of Connect with a great shock.

* * *

“Huh, oh, oh, oh….”

Bae Do-hyun was breathing heavily, leaning against the shattered capsule device.

He was holding his stomach with one hand, and a broken neck was lying nearby in the other limp hand.

‘How did we get to this point?’

He looked down at his bloody left hand and frowned.

And I bit my lip as I felt the hot blood gushing out from under my palm.

“The cub has finally become calmer. “I’m going to go quietly anyway, so don’t struggle.”

When Bae Do-hyun struggled to raise his head, the men in black suits surrounding him came into view.

Among them, blood was dripping from the sashimi knife held by the person standing closest.

I heard the voice of one of the men standing in the back talking on a cell phone.

“Yes, Chairman. I caught it. How… shall we bring him back alive? yes yes. All right. “Then I will do it.”

The man who finished the call gave instructions.

“Hey, handle it. “Just bring the head.”

As the men approached, Bae Do-hyeon, who was sitting down, tried swinging the broken wooden pole with difficulty, but was quickly overpowered.

“I should have been a bit picky about that. Did you think that just because you knew how to play games meant you had something to do with it?? Because the fans sucked at me, there was nothing scary in the world, right? “You idiot.”

A white cloth covered his face. He was out of breath and twisted his whole body, but he could not shake off the four men.

All that came to mind in my fading consciousness was regret.

‘I thought I could finally change something… but you dirty bastards never thought you’d actually cut yourself with a knife in real life.’

Just like that, Bae Do-hyeon passed away. Without knowing what will happen to you in the future.

(Continued in the next part)