The tip credit continued to maneuver up slowly.

State of affairs developer, design director, character illustrator…… a whole lot of names flickered as they moved throughout the monitor. I merely stared on the display vacantly. The names entered my line of sight, however none of them reached my head.

How lengthy have I been right here?

My ideas weren’t flowing correctly. It felt as if my mind had been nonetheless wandering about.

I turned my stiff head. The clock on the wall was pointing in the direction of the quantity 9. Was it 9 within the night or within the morning……? Now that I give it some thought, the world outdoors the window was vibrant. It was 9 within the morning.

I had confirmed that it was 9 o’clock not less than 3 occasions ever since I sat at my desk. In different phrases, it has been, on the very least, 36 hours since I began taking part in this sport.

“Haah.”

I couldn’t assist however smirk.

“That’s a severe gamer for you.”

I used to be about to say one thing extra, however I finished myself. The cola I had drunk straight from the plastic bottle final night time had dried up and was caught to the aspect of my mouth. As soon as I opened my mouth, which had not uttered a single world for not less than 36 hours, an disagreeable sensation washed over me. This was dangerous. If folks may scent my breath proper now, then there would undoubtedly be a petition to revise a particular legislation for dangerous breath. I might probably be made to face in court docket and make a counter-argument about it being an unfair trial, however the judges would move out due to my dangerous breath and I might be imprisoned with no trial…….

I most likely held out by having cup ramen and boiled eggs for 3 to 4 meals.

The oiliness of the cup ramen was stagnant on the bridge of my nostril, my cheeks, and my cranium. I felt like my complete physique had grow to be a big plastic bag for meals waste. The comparability isn’t utterly improper. If you happen to exclude the truth that meals waste is collected by somebody and I’m not.

“Hah.”

I scoffed once more. I turned my head again.

Lastly, the standing display of the participant character appeared on the monitor.

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Title: Lolita Mundus

Class: Adventurer (SSS+), Swordsman (SSS)

Stage: 98 ΟΟΟΟΟ Fame: 63050

Management: 94/100 Would possibly: 132/140 Intelligence: 125/125

Politics: 93/95 Appeal: 100/100 Approach: 80/81

*Titles: 1. Legendary Adventurer 2. Legendary Mercenary 3. Dungeon Breaker

*Skills: Technique SSS, Swordsmanship SSS, Operation Artwork S, Persuasion S+, Horse Using S, Aspect Magic A

*Abilities: Militia, Legislation of Nature Data and Conduct, Deadly Transfer Nullify

[Achievements: 1088]

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“Hoo.”

I leaned my head again. I buried myself into my chair and quietly gazed up on the ceiling. My mind had left my head and went contained in the monitor, so I solely had a cranium proper now. That’s how I felt.

The best stats which a participant may presumably attain.

“What number of……? The final one was the sixteenth run?”

I used to be so out of it that my phrases got here out as particular person phrases and never as full sentences. My thought course of wasn’t entering into a straight line. It was hopping round right here and there as if it had been going throughout some stepping stones. I began to murmur to myself with a view to power my line of thought collectively.

A dungeon RPG, <Dungeon Assault>.

This sport was notorious for its excessive issue curve. You couldn’t even defeat the mid-boss in your 1st playthrough, nor may you presumably dream about reaching the final boss. 2nd, third, 4th, and ultimately, after painstakingly going by means of 17 playthroughs, I barely managed to beat the final boss, the Nice Demon Lord Baal.

The Nice Demon Lord Baal’s military was highly effective. Nevertheless, there was a niche between them and myself. The hole generally known as a number of playthroughs.

Since historic occasions, nothing may beat grinding. I beat his forces after having amassed expertise and information as a participant. From Baal’s perspective, it most likely appeared like I used to be dishonest, however what are you able to do? That’s the distinction between a participant and the NPC system.

However, the emotion I felt after the second of victory wasn’t happiness. No.

It was a way of futility that was extra sticky than the oily residue that had settled on my face.

“So this 12 months’s summer time break is over as nicely, huh?”

A single room.

I’m unsure when this room was final cleaned as there have been clumps of hair rolling round. My main textbooks had been piled up right here and there, creating a number of Leaning Tower of Pisas. On the finish of my go away of absence, I made the decision to get first place in my main. The self-improvement e book I poured my allowance into with a view to buy……was at the moment making up a low hill of mud.

This wasn’t it.

I used to be crammed with ambition once I began to dwell other than my household. 

“…….”

I regarded round my room.

This was my world.

Even this small, shabby, and nugatory room was a world of its personal. Like a dried-up ball of used tissue, solely the residue of an individual’s as soon as overflowing need remained with out having completed something.

Ha! Was this not utterly completely different from the world inside my monitor?

That world doesn’t lie. If you happen to do one thing, then it’ll at all times be amassed. It received’t disappear for no motive. Leveling up as soon as will at all times be a stage up. You wouldn’t drop from stage 90 to stage 80 or lose your stats simply since you did nothing for some time. If it exists, then it’ll live on! For some motive, all the things on this world dissipates with out leaving something behind. Which one precisely is the actual world?

“……Rattling it.”

I grabbed my mouse.

『Would you want to avoid wasting your information to your subsequent playthrough?』

I naturally clicked the 『Sure』 button that had appeared on the display. I then shut my laptop computer temperamentally. 

I felt like I couldn’t assist myself for some motive. I left my home.

* * *

Late summer time.

I used to be welcomed by the humid air. In different phrases, the nice and cozy air was the one factor that might welcome me. My lungs felt as in the event that they had been crammed with steam. I entered the comfort retailer simply outdoors my home and purchased a pack of cigarettes. I paid utilizing the cardboard my mom had given me.

“Thanks to your patronage. Please come once more.”

I half-heartedly acquired the comfort retailer worker’s phrases as I left. I occupied an empty alley earlier than I pulled out a cigarette from the pack and smoked it.

My cellphone instantly began to ring. My mom was calling me. It appears the truth that I had purchased some cigarettes together with her card was despatched to her cellphone as quickly as I made my buy. I shortly threw out my cigarette.

“Hi there? Is one thing improper, Mom?”

My mom talked brightly by means of the cellphone. After all, my mom’s voice was at all times vibrant, however I may inform there was a tinge of unhappy affection in it as nicely proper now.

「No. I simply needed to know what my son was doing.」

It was time for me to begin mendacity from this level on.

“I used to be finding out for some time, however I got here outdoors to get some air. I’m unsure if it’s due to the warmth, however my head feels a bit fuzzy…….”

This sounded humorous even to me. It was solely pure that my head would really feel fuzzy. I spent many hours looking at my monitor and partying all night time with the electromagnetic waves that got here out of it. If my head had been superb in any case that, then that in itself could be wonderful.

“Yeah, that’s proper. Sure.”

Referentially, my voice at the moment had no energy in anyway in it. This wasn’t as a result of I felt sorry for mendacity to my mom, it was with a view to make my lie appear much more convincing. If there’s one factor that I’m assured in, then it’s my capacity to lie. I’m not joking. If the Olympics had a psychological class for mendacity, then I might have been exempted from army service a very long time in the past. (TL observe: In Korea, if you’re an Olympic athlete, you’re exempt from army service.)

As I predicted, my mom took her son’s voice as a purple sign that his stamina was down. Her voice grew to become gentler as she requested about how I used to be getting alongside. I continued my weak act. Sure, I’m doing superb. After all. I’ve been finding out pretty nicely. I actually had fairly the fluent tongue.

「Eat no matter you need. If there’s one thing you want to purchase, then purchase it. If you happen to’re going to drink some espresso as nicely, then drink these costly and good ones. If it’s a must to, why not go right into a refreshing cafe and examine there? that our household isn’t as unlucky as to be unable to help our son’s spending habits, proper?」

I smiled sincerely and answered.

“Sure, Mom. Then I’m going to go again inside to proceed finding out.”

The decision ended there.

There was a splendid liar right here.

I put one other cigarette in my mouth. Proceed finding out? Since when did I even examine?

I wasn’t like this at first. There was a time once I genuinely put my all into finding out. It wasn’t one of the best, however I used to be admitted into a fairly revered college. My rattling paranoia was what ruined me. The thought that I had unreasonably held again my need to have enjoyable with a view to put together for the college admission examination.

……No. It might have nonetheless been superb if I had solely fallen barely into that delusion. Nevertheless, I messed round so brilliantly and profligately that individuals would have mentioned ‘Rattling!’ in the event that they noticed me. There have been most likely solely 5 folks in the whole college to get an F in each single one in every of their programs excluding one in the course of the first semester. I used to be sure of this as I used to be sixth from the underside.

Folks hold saying to have enjoyable after you’re in college, didn’t they?

So who can blame me for messing round?

‘Huge brother, you need to get your act collectively.’

My little sister gave me a pitying look when she noticed me. My mother and father didn’t cease me. They had been individuals who had been happy so long as I acquired into a good college. My mother and father didn’t care so long as I succeeded the household enterprise and didn’t starve myself.

“Haa.”

Ultimately, that’s the sort of human I’m.

I dropped by my place to choose up my laptop computer. I then went to a close-by cafe seeking a refreshing air conditioner.

The one factor I did after sitting at a nook of the cafe was surf by means of the web. I went by means of these and people websites and laughed at texts that had no dietary worth and, as anticipated, wrote texts that additionally had no dietary worth.

Naturally, the web group wherein I resided the longest was the <Dungeon Assault Fan Website>.

As a consequence of Dungeon Assault’s excessively steep issue curve, it has gained plenty of hardcore followers. I prefer it as a result of it’s tough! I hate it if it isn’t exhausting! There have been extra perverts who thought like this on the earth than I assumed. This was the sacred place that was created after these perverts had gathered.

I put up a thread in regards to the achievement my participant character, ‘Lolita’, had completed.

Members of the location left replies the moment I put up my thread. That was quick! Do these folks solely eat and surf the net? Though I shouldn’t be the one to say this, they had been spectacular…….

-MarrowGore: No method. Have a look at his stats.

-BlackRose: That’s TekilLatte for you. The truth that his stats are all S is disgusting.

TekilLatte was the username I used.

-SelfProclaimedBoy: Hey, what number of playthroughs did you undergo?

As if I used to be ready for this very query, I responded by telling them it was my seventeenth. As soon as extra, the location members began to go away extra replies.

-BangApple: Seventeen he says. That’s loopy.

-MaYooRim: Even if you happen to approximate his playtime, he most likely reached round 5,000 hours. Fuck, I used to be critically questioning whether or not Baal’s Nice Demon Lord Citadel was created to be crushed or the builders had some psychological issues, however now I’m questioning TekilLatte’s psychological state.

-Richya: The psychological ward is at all times accepting sufferers.

GodRumBlade: Is that this the psychological ward that I solely heard about within the rumors?

-Yulberia: I’m right here for the psychological ward. (2)

-JungYookJjum: Hey, how did you seize the mage Roumei? I did what the pinned thread mentioned and beat Gaap’s dungeon, however the affection factors cap didn’t go up.

-MrTrashKim: You’re nonetheless only a shut-in gamer.

Click on.

I finished scrolling down my mouse wheel. My gaze stopped at that reply.

‘You’re nonetheless only a shut-in gamer.’

Under that reply, there have been a bunch of different sarcastic responses saying that everybody right here was a shut-in gamer. The opposite members had taken my aspect.

I used to be grateful. Nevertheless, I knew. I knew that what that individual had mentioned was true. I actually was nothing greater than a shut-in gamer.

Extra importantly.

‘I don’t care a lot about it anymore.’

Despite the fact that I noticed that I had was a shut-in gamer, I didn’t have the resolve to cease. This truth made me lower than a shut-in gamer and into an individual who was like meals waste. Meals waste that had a adequate head and tongue to make use of his mom’s card to purchase a cup of cafe mocha that was ₩6,500.

At that second, one other thread appeared on the bulletin board.

『Title: Learn this, TekilLatte. ·····Nickname: VenusPanties』

VenusPanties, this individual was a web site member that I might ceaselessly get into arguments with.

He had extra information in regards to the sport than anybody else and since his view on Dungeon Assault was completely different from mine, we collided typically. We had been the 2 shut-in avid gamers that had been acknowledged by the whole group.

If somebody had been to ask how one can beat a dungeon, then the 2 of us had been able to instantly writing down 17 other ways to beat it. In different phrases, VenusPanties and I had been people who had devoted their lives to Dungeon Assault.

Referentially, within the case of VenusPanties, they had been additionally educated with inside info which solely the sport builders ought to know, so some folks have began to suspect that they had been additionally a developer.

‘What does this individual need now?’

***

TL observe: As you’ll be able to inform, the beginning may be very completely different in comparison with the LN. I assume it was modified loads as a result of the creator had a firmer grasp on how he needed the MC to be by the point he began writing the LN.

Anyway, I’m unsure how I intend to announce these releases on my Discord server. The DD WN has plenty of chapters so pinging everybody for all of them would most likely be extreme. I’d simply put a put up in #announcement with no ping every time I end a chapter. Perhaps I’ll ping for the primary chapter of sure segments. We’ll see.

I’ll see you all within the subsequent launch