No matter how endless the meadow is, even if it is a special space where you can wake up right back in place and continue fighting again when you die, it took a longer time than expected to come back to life after dying 4,444 times.
Sang-hyeok hardly slept for exactly three days and only completed 4,444 deaths and challenges. If you simply count the hours, it took about 60 hours.
With the development of virtual reality technology, 'shock prevention technology' has been officially applied to all virtual reality contents except for illegal virtual reality contents, so even if you receive a big shock in virtual reality, you will actually experience very light pain or slight dizziness. I only felt
Of course, no matter how advanced the technology was, people who were not accustomed to attacking opponents or being attacked would be psychologically shocked, but game companies protected users as much as possible through various 'mental power correction technologies'.
However, no matter how much he protected him, his own 'death' gave the users a displeasure enough to say it was the worst.
So, there were some users who forcibly switched their virtual reality access state to a virtual sleep state for a while when they were put in a situation where they were likely to die through the 'skip death' setting.
Death Skip was a setting that could never be used by high-ranking gamers, but it was a widely used setting among general users.
Of course, Sang-hyeok wasn't a pervert who enjoyed dying, so he would have used Death Skip if he could. However, since that setting could not be used here in the endless meadow, he had no choice but to endure all death.
At least Sanghyeok had a lot of experience in everything that happens in virtual reality, so he was able to endure the deaths of 4,444.
And the moment he stood in front of the monster wave after overcoming the last 4,444 deaths and came back to life... Finally, the message Sang-hyeok wanted so much appeared in front of his eyes.
congratulations. You deserve this special title because you never gave up and worked tirelessly in the face of any adversity.
Acquired the only rank title [Challenger who never gives up].
"Phew, good!"
At that moment, Sanghyuk clenched his fists and muttered, then grabbed the handle of an ordinary iron sword that had never been pulled out until now.
Even at that moment, monsters resembling giant cicadas continued to fly towards Sanghyeok.
As long as the first goal, which was the most important, was achieved, I no longer had to be unilaterally bitten by monsters. At least for this moment, that fact was the happiest moment.
"From now on... I will kill you guys!"
Chaeeng, shouting out loud, Sanghyuk drew his sword and began to wield it in a very familiar way.
To put it bluntly, Sanghyeok in his previous life was a person who was so immersed in EL that it could be said that he tasted almost every taste of EL, including not only sweet, bitter, and salty, but also astringent, sour, and stinky.
Therefore, it was right to assume that there was virtually no weapon he could not handle. That's why he could handle all kinds of weapons that rose from the ground, but he swept all 20 waves with a simple iron sword.
And even the skill books that followed did not even pick them up, and they eliminated the monsters flocking to them with only the iron sword they were holding in their hands.
The reason he did this was simple.
About a year later, it became a very basic strategy for all users, but at this point, there was one secret that no one knew. was the fact that it could be obtained.
Surprisingly, all the weapons that appeared in this endless plain were rare (rare) grade items.
Now that it's only been 3 days since the game was released, even magic (magic) grade items have not yet been released, so of course, rare grade items have no choice but to have a great value.
Level has risen to [10].
congratulations. You have met the qualifications of a 'traveler'. As a 'Dimensional Traveler', you will visit the planet 'Trinak', your first destination, according to the will of Chaos.
The dimension traveler has no special obligations. Whatever you do, you are free. However, if a problem arises, the traveler will have to solve it themselves.
From now on, I hope you enjoy your eternal life in earnest.
[Hidden Reward: You have obtained the Traveler's Treasured Sword.]
flash!!
As soon as he reached level 10, Sanghyeok was immediately moved to the planet Trinach. To put it simply, Trinark Planet was the first continent that EL users would experience.
After this, new planets continued to appear in cycles of 1 to 3 years. The last additional planet in Sang-hyeok's memory was the seventh.
When the light that had been shining so brightly that I could not see for a moment disappeared, the surrounding scenery was completely changed.
The faint sound of a trumpet coming from afar and the familiar appearance of the old inn in Falcon City exactly matched a piece of old memories that existed in Sang-hyeok's memory.
The front and back of the inn were very noisy because there were people who had reached level 10 and came over here, just like Sanghyuk.
Basically, EL operated only one integrated server that could handle all users around the world. It was absolutely impossible in the old Internet environment, but in DN, there was almost no burden on the server, so almost all games were operated as an integrated server.
Of course, a channel system existed to prevent these downtown areas from becoming too congested, but it was minimally applied to only a few major congested areas.
In the end, what Eternal Life (EL) pursued was a huge world.
Near the inn, new users who started EL in the past few days were actively exchanging information with other new users.
Since it was an EL with no known information at all, users had no choice but to join forces to play the game.
Usually games naturally lead users through quests, but EL wasn't that friendly. He gave nothing to the dimensional travelers thrown into Trinach.
All he had was an old pair of clothes that could barely cover his body. There were no quests, of course.
You had to find out what to do next by talking to NPCs or by asking other players who had already gone through this process.
Of course, Sanghyuk did not talk to NPCs or other users. This time, too, he knew the exact answer, so he skipped the whole solution process and went straight to the answer.
When you become a level 10 traveler, the first thing you need to do is 'soul imprint'. This was information that players could easily find out by talking to the NPCs at the first inn they arrived at.
If you don't imprint the soul, you can't get experience at all, so this was an unconditional priority. To put it simply, soul imprinting could be seen as choosing a job.
It was a setting to create a 'Soul Hole' through imprinting on the soul, fill the hole (SH) with ancient knowledge, and then express one's power through it. .
The 'ancient knowledge' that can be imprinted on the soul is more than thousands of things that Sang-hyeok knows. But what was more interesting was that there was no limit to the number of ancient knowledge that could be imprinted on the soul.
It meant that if I wanted to, I could engrave all of those thousands. But no one imprinted so much ancient knowledge into their souls.
There was no limit to the number of imprints that could be imprinted, but instead, a very large penalty was given whenever the imprinted ancient knowledge increased, so the number of ancient knowledge that users imprinted on their souls was 1 to 5 in 99% of cases.
The penalty received whenever the imprinted ancient knowledge increased was very simple. Of course, there was no penalty for imprinting one piece of ancient knowledge into the soul. However, if you add 1 here to get 2 imprinted ancient knowledge, the amount of experience needed to level up doubles.
And here, another one was added, and when the imprinted ancient knowledge reached 3, the amount of experience needed to level up quadrupled.
8 times when 4, 16 times when 5... Since the required experience increased exponentially, in reality, it was almost impossible to grow if there were more than 5 imprints.
In particular, soul imprinting could only be done at level 10 unconditionally, and the only way to erase the ancient knowledge imprinted on the soul was to reset your level to 10 again.
In a word, it meant that he had to blow away all the karma he had acquired (up [業]: in EL, experience was called karma or karma) and start over.
In other words, it meant that once you made a choice, you had no choice but to carry it with you to the end.
As a result, there was no choice but to have a lot of debate among users about how many imprints should be engraved on the soul.
This debate lasted longer than expected, and eventually, about 5 years after the game was released, the general opinion was naturally decided.
'If you are a light user, you will definitely have one soul. If you are a hard user aiming for a ranker, it is a double or triple soul. And those who insisted on the quadr soul and the penta soul were all frustrated in the end. Judging from the fact that even the richest Middle Eastern user who boasted of ignorant talent chose Quadra Soul and eventually gave up and reset the level again, triple is the limit.'
Sang-hyeok clearly remembered how those who presented the possibilities of Quadra and Penta Soul and put them into practice ended up collapsing later.
"But... I'm going to Quadra!"
Sang-hyeok knew the limitations of quadra better than anyone else. He did not just vaguely know that it would be difficult, but he knew the exact fact that the rich man in the Middle East, who poured about 5 billion into EL, gave up in the middle because he could not overcome Quadra Soul's enormously necessary experience points.
Still, the reason why he chose quadra·······. It was because of the title of 'a challenger who never gives up' that he had earned by suffering to die in the endless grassland.
Title - 'The challenger who never gives up'
Rating – Unique (唯一)
Description – I admire your indomitable will to never give up on a challenge even in the face of countless deaths.
Effect - [Prefix: None] [Suffix: None] [Permanent Effect: Reduces the karma (up) required to level up by half.]
Because he won this title, Sanghyeok was able to challenge the quadra soul instead of the triple soul. With this title alone, it is actually a quadra soul, but it has been able to grow like a triple soul.
Of course, it was very burdensome to have four times the amount of experience needed to level up, but he was confident enough to overcome it by using all the knowledge he had.
In fact, even in Sang-hyeok's previous life, although a small number, some top rankers chose the triple soul and grew up wonderfully.
While thinking about this and that, Sang-hyeok was able to arrive at the 'Hall of the Soul'. Halls of the Spirit were located in almost every city, so anyone could easily hear them.
The step of imprinting the ancient knowledge was to first drill a hole in the soul hall where the ancient knowledge could be inserted, and insert the ancient knowledge you had acquired into the hole.
For reference, ancient knowledge could be 'growth' and 'exchange', but both were only possible through quests, so the decision to insert ancient knowledge had to be made very carefully.
And, of course, I had to choose how many soul holes to drill through the initial soul imprint. It was impossible to pierce one at the beginning and then pierce an additional one later.
Once you have drilled even one soul hole, if you want to change the number of soul holes again, you have no choice but to give up everything and reset the level to level 10 and start again.
In this case, even the ancient knowledge equipped with it was gone, so no one has ever made this choice.
Of course, since there is no information right now, various trials and errors will happen repeatedly here and there, but that was not something Sang-hyeok was concerned about.
"Traveller, I wish you the blessings of the Earth Mother Goddess and the Heavenly Lord God."
The NPC guarding the Hall of Souls gave a blessing to Sang-hyeok while talking about the names of the gods he worshiped.
'Four soul halls······. Now all that's left is to fill in the ancient knowledge I want here one by one.'
Sanghyuk, who had pierced four soul holes for free in the hall of souls, nodded slowly as he left the hall.
There were really many types of ancient knowledge equipped in the Soul Hall. Interestingly, there was no such thing as rank in ancient knowledge. Of course, there was ancient knowledge that was difficult to obtain and ancient knowledge that was easy to obtain, but it did not become a grade.
Even if you just visit the great library in a big city, you can get basic ancient knowledge at a reasonable price, but the basic ancient knowledge you get is not absolutely useless ancient knowledge.
Since ancient knowledge was something that could be grown and exchanged anyway, I was able to change it little by little to suit myself while playing the game.
To give a simple example, 'Iron Guardian', which will be recognized as the best ancient knowledge for tankers in the next five years, is one of the most easily obtainable ancient knowledge, ancient knowledge that can be obtained by growing 'Guardian Knight'. was
How to grow ancient knowledge in this way was also one of the very important information of EL. That's why, later, there were people who specialized in trading only this growth method.
Of course, it wasn't that he couldn't do anything without ancient knowledge. There were two types of EL skills. The first was a 'Soul Skill' obtained through ancient knowledge, and the second was a 'Basics Skill' that could be obtained regardless of ancient knowledge.
For reference, you could have an infinite number of soul skills depending on your ancient knowledge, but the number of basic skills you could have differed depending on your level.
It increased by one every 10 levels, but the highest level was not limited because of the infinite level setting of EL, but as the level went up, the amount of experience required to level up increased enormously, so it was impossible to learn basic skills indefinitely.
Presently, Sanghyuk was drawing a very big picture.
Maybe the picture is too big, so I could have been in the middle of the day. However, rather than looking straight in front of his eyes, Sanghyeok looked far into the future and dreamed of things no one would dare to imagine.
This was an attempt that only those who knew the future could do.
Without knowing the future, I could never paint the picture Sanghyuk is drawing now. No, I couldn't even draw a picture that was about half the size of the picture Sanghyuk was drawing now.
Sang-hyeok started sketching a huge picture that even the developers who developed this game couldn't anticipate. The legend of the one-man corps he dreams of began with this sketch.