Chapter 2: Chapter 1 - Regressors Too Weak (1)
N/T: This is not my own novel or translation. I am currently machine-translating the novel, so please do not expect a flawless translation as I am using Google Translate. Also, if your brain dies reading this MTL novel, then it's not my fault. Please don't comment about the translation quality because, again, it's Google translation. If you want to complain, then complain to Google.
Chapter 1 - Regressors Too Weak (1)
"Fuck! Where are you!"
I woke up to a loud noise coming from somewhere. Is there a drunken person going on a rampage outside the house?
"Eww... It's the head... "
Grabbing my throbbing head, I carefully raised my body halfway up.
My whole body aches like crazy. Did you drink and sleep outside yesterday? No. I even remember pressing the passcode on the front door.
When I forcibly opened my eyes after removing the sticky mucus, what I saw was not a room I was used to, but a number of people like me who woke up.
My back was damp with water, so I groped around and found that the place where I was lying was a moist dirt floor. Except for the commonality of being soft, it can be seen that it is about 50,000 light years away from the bed.
Come to think of it, there are too many trees around. Too much.
"... Sup. Under."
When you take a deep breath, you can feel the clear and clean air. Should I say it tastes like phytoncide?
I don't know where this is, but it's definitely not Korea.
A large clearing surrounded by trees. A lot of people sitting in it.
"Fuck! Where is this?! I'm getting consent for this!"
Did they say that if people are too stupid, they won't be able to talk? Except for the bald man who gave out a groan, no one made a sound.
"What... Fuck... What... "
By the time the crazy old man was gasping for breath, exhausted from the grass.
Pop!
With a cute sound effect, a winged child-like being appeared.
"Hello! You lowly human beings who are wasting their lives in exasperation! Nice to meet you!"
A guy who greets you cheerfully. However, the sharp teeth that are occasionally visible whenever he speaks are as sharp as those of a predator.
When I came to my senses in an unfamiliar place, it was full of people besides me who seemed to have been dragged... Now, winged fairies are coming out too?
This situation. I'm used to it somehow No, I'm not used to it, to the point of being clichéd.
"You're the fairy of the tutorial in the webtoon... "
Someone muttered.
He's right.
Floating above your head is a tutorial fairy that everyone is familiar with.
It's the very tutorial fairy that will explode your head at the slightest irritation.
"... "
I unknowingly closed my mouth that had been stupidly open.
If I talk nonsense, I might be the unfortunate victim of my head exploding in the prologue.
There must have been many people who thought the same as me, and the atmosphere in the empty lot sank heavily.
"Uh... Hmm... Let's not come... "
The bald man with a belly, who seemed to have something to say, looked around and sat down cautiously.
People sitting in their seats like a herd of docile sheep.
As if we didn't like our behavior, the fairy in the tutorial mumbled dissatisfaction.
"... Hmm. Is there anyone who would like to speak up? Or even constructive feedback? Now, are you willing to consider it positively?"
The fairy in the tutorial walked around and made eye contact with people as if her hands were itching.
However, rather than fighting against the fairy, the people who avoid his eyes and lower their eyes.
"... Everyone seems to know us well now, right? Not like a lowly human being, are you good at grasping the subject?"
He was a guy who tried to provoke himself, but...
Unfortunately for the fairies, there was no one in the clearing who was stupid enough to offer something to blow their heads off.
"... Heeing. We have to follow the procedure."
A visibly depressed fairy. It seems that popping people's heads in tutorials was the joy of life.
"... I'll just give you the essential explanation and skip it? I don't want to do it either, but it's a procedure, so I can't help it."
The fairy slowly began to explain in a voice mixed with annoyance, sadness, and annoyance.
To sum up the fairy's words... God has grown tired of the recent arrogant behavior of humans, and Earth has risen to God's judgment.
Humanity has been driven to a position where they have to prove their usefulness, and the means is to climb this tower.
We are the chosen humans summoned to climb the tower.
It was the setting of a tower climber that I had seen many times before.
Roughly, if you don't want to go through everything, go up the tower! Because it was the content.
"So, one of you has to clear the 66th floor of this tower. Or humanity will perish. You know?"
"... "
People who nodded cautiously without speaking.
"Okay, since I've roughly finished explaining the background... Grab what you like here... "
A fairy who drops various weapons in the middle of the clearing.
"Because the system will give you a detailed explanation... Start tutorial!"
He roughly flicked his wrist and boomed! It disappeared with a cute sound effect.
Even after the fairy disappeared, there was an awkward silence.
"What the fuck... I can't even use my cell phone..."
"Isn't this a hidden camera? I saw a YouTuber making an octopus game set... Isn't it similar... "
"I hear there have been multiple disappearances recently... Aren't they related?"
Only then do people start whispering cautiously.
I was pouring out the words that I couldn't say because I was overwhelmed by the atmosphere.
"... Under. Fuck."
I also spat out a small swear word.
I was at home until I went to sleep, but when I woke up, I was summoned to the tower.
I understood in my head that the story in the novel or webtoon had become a reality, but I have to say I still can't feel it.
I tried to pinch my cheeks like a cartoon character, but I stopped because it seemed stupid.
"... Did you really enter the tower?"
If this tower is similar to the novels I've read so far... There will be various dangers lurking outside this clearing. God's malice prepared to take my life.
From now on, I must risk my life. The realization of that fact seemed to intensify the headache.
"Whoa... Think positively."
Even if you get bitten into a tiger's den, you can live as long as you wake up. Being depressed doesn't help anything. Now is the time to think and make plans for the future.
In Tower's tutorial, how do the main characters usually behave?
"... It's the Tower's tutorial."
Speaking of top tutorials, there was one entity that naturally came to mind.
An existence that is inextricably linked with the Tower. It's like taiyaki and red bean paste or hot dogs and ketchup.
"Status difference!!!!!"
As if there was a man who had the same thoughts as me, the cry of 'status window' echoed loudly in the empty lot.
"What... Why is that student... ?"
"Did you eat something wrong?"
Middle-aged women and men who did not know about 'top climbing' looked at the man as if they were crazy, but young people who knew the related cliches paid attention to the man's mouth with some expectations.
"It's up! It's up! The status window popped up!"
The man who shouted the status window screamed and cheered like a striker who scored a goal.
"Status window!"
"Changing the status!"
"Award! Womb! Window!"
And the people who saw the reaction and shouted the status window here and there as if they had been waiting.
"... Status window."
I also muttered at the status window with less attention.
[Name: Junho Kim] [LV:1]
[Characteristic]
-Regression [EX]
A transparent message window with a familiar shape floating in front of your eyes.
It is embarrassing to call it a status window. I don't think there should be at least some stats.
But there was something else that caught my attention.
"... Return?"
I forcibly moved my trembling fingers and pressed the letter [Return].
-Regression [EX]
-Return to the point when you first entered each floor. There is no limit on the number of times.
A very concise explanation.
But anyone who has read the web novel will know. The simpler the explanation, the more fraudulent the law.
"It's up!"
I couldn't contain my joy and screamed.
Death return. If you are asked to choose a fraudulent ability, it is an ability that always comes out.
Returning to the past after death was no different from saying that person was invincible.
The key is to be able to return to the past with information from the future.
I was given the opportunity to constantly become stronger.
Of course, people with the ability to return by death usually roll like crazy.
Wouldn't it be hard to roll forward? Wouldn't that be better than dying forever?
This ability is virtually invincible as long as your mental powers permit it. I am chosen.
I am the main character.
I am the hero who will conquer this tower and save the earth.
A feeling of exhilaration spread through every part of his body. It was difficult to control the tremors.
"Wow!"
I jumped up from my seat and ran toward the grass in front of me.
Goblin? Oak? Ask me to see anything.
I am invincible and my ability to return is a god.
The moment I was about to run through the grass like that.
"Ouch."
The leaves were quite sharp, and my ankle was cut by the grass, and blood dripped from it.
Okay. It's a minor wound. For now, information gathering is a priority.
I had to check what was out there.
No. Let's stay calm. I was so excited.
Then I saw that my hands were empty. I realized that I had run out without even picking up my weapon.
Go back even now, even with a sword...
"Uh?"
[Damaged.]
[Return to the moment you first entered the 0th floor.]
Bagful...
One...
I just lost my mind.
***
"Fuck! Where are you!"
My head is pounding like crazy.
Familiar voice. It's that old man
Instinctively I realized that I had regressed. Because it's something I've been through before.
But why? When did I die?
Was there poison in that thick grass?
However, it was not painful at all to die from poison, and his mind was fine until just before returning.
If so, did he return because of something other than death?
Right before returning, I remembered the message I had seen passing by.
[Damaged.]
[Return to the moment you first entered the 0th floor.]
Did you get hurt... Have I been harmed?
I don't remember hitting anyone in particular.
"No... Probably not... "
No way... Did it come back because of the slight cut in the grass?
Only a drop of blood came out?
Instinctively, I looked around the vacant lot.
Green here too.
Green too.
The moment you leave the clearing, the grass is so thick that you cannot see the ground.
It can be seen as a living prison made of grass and trees.
If... Seriously, if you could regress just by being cut by grass...
"... Fuck."
Even escaping this clearing... It seems very difficult.
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