"Every year, you always distribute the food reserves in the castle to citizens who are struggling with the dry season. You too-young Duke, why do you do that? Are you touched by your kindness in the past? Have you remembered everything?"
Sir Daniel worried about Arthur as the man closed his eyes with a smile. He thought, perhaps the young duke was touched and would remember his past because of that. Only, the knight's innocent thought was wrong.
'The owner of this body is such an idiot. Gosh, how can I live in this man's body? The physique is already weak, the power too. How can I live?'
Arthur opened his hands. "I think I'll take a rest first. A sudden pain attacked my head."
"In that case, I will retire. I will report your condition to the Lord Duke. Rest comfortably, Young Duke." That green-haired man then withdrew, exiting the room.
After Sir Daniel had disappeared from sight, Arthur got up from the bed. He looked for paper or whatever was in the drawer to write on. He found a fancy engraved pen and also a new notebook that looked untouched.
"I won't pretend to follow this fool's life." He swore as he wrote in the notebook.
Since he had opened his eyes in that world, it was inevitable that he had to accept his new identity. To his annoyance, why did he have to transmigrate into someone else's body? Why not just reincarnate so he could adapt his life to his own style? If he entered someone's body and his nature was reversed like this, he would be in trouble himself.
Arthur wrote down a few things he knew from that world. First, he wrote down the name Yoon Dalmi, as the main character who came to that world at the same time Crown Prince Xavier Gladias was performing a brainwashing ritual on the nobles at a theater.
The organizer of the theater is Count Felix Rubel, someone who may be difficult to deal with. Count Rubel will be blamed when the brainwashing ritual fails because Yoon Dalmi has enough magic power to cancel the illusion.
Illusions for brainwashing can only be performed by high-level magicians. However, Crown Prince Xavier Gladias managed to become a high-level necromancer, which is equal to a circle 6 mages. The average mages in that era only reached circle 5. That means Crown Prince Xavier Gladias did hide his power to rule the kingdom.
So, he carried out two rituals, namely brainwashing to make nobles into his puppets while collecting negative emotions. The negative emotions would be the fuel to perform the ritual of summoning the Demon Race to help him ascend to the highest level of necromancer.
Secondly, he marked the names of the protagonists and villains that would appear. However, he was now only focused on pulling Count Rubel over to his side. He wouldn't mess with the main plot just yet because it was Yoon Dalmi's only way into that world. Yoon Dalmi had always gone to a parallel dimension from Earth rather than going to another world.
Therefore, this event was important.
Arthur smiled like crazy at the thought of the scenario he had created. Of course, he was the original author of the story. He should have omnipotent power there. Indeed, since the body he took was that of an idiot, he had to reach everything from scratch. After taking the necessary notes, he put the book into the bottom drawer.
Click!
"Huh, what's this?"
Arthur stretched his hand into the drawer. There was a box that prevented the book from entering. He picked up the box and saw that it was locked tightly. The man shook the box, only a book-like sound inside.
"It seems that only the diary belongs to this body. I'll open it later." He put the box together with his notebook.
"Should I take a walk around the castle?"
***
[You can't leave the Main Quest region.]
The person carrying the sword ran towards a building where half of the building was already leaning against another building. A lot of buildings were destroyed. Even the streets were cracked. Cars and other vehicles were scattered all over the place. A lot of blood was pooling with corpses as the source of blood.
"The magic trail is over here!"
That person immediately shot up and flew into the leaning building. When he reached the top, he waited for the people who were chasing to be below him.
"That person is still around here. His strength is too great for a ranker like us."
The moment they arrived under the building, the man in hiding drew his sword blade. The violent vibrations as well as the electrical reflections coming out of the sword made the people below awaken. When they looked up, half the building had fallen on them.
Doom!
Without being able to save themselves, the people were crushed by the building. The person who destroyed the building grinned above. By stepping on a holographic screen, that person could float freely. There was also a trace of transparent glasses on his right eye that looked like a transparent VR device. A transparent red exclamation mark floated on his head.
"That's the target! Quickly kill that person!"
There were more people clustered around him. The person smiled and greeted them. "You think you can kill me?"
He pushed his blond hair back. "Even Moon Hyukjin the top 20 ranker died at my hands. Can a rookie like you kill me?"
Hearing those words, the people chasing him fell silent. It was true what that man had said. They could have died if they had just attacked the man with the flaming exclamation mark on it. The Australian continent had already been drowned by him, his words were not just talk.
"Yoon Dalmi."
Someone called out. Yoon Dalmi, a girl who looked like a man, someone with an exclamation mark on top of her head, looked back at the man who called out to her. The man was wearing equipment like thick iron armor. However, it was not the man she was concerned about, but the girl beside her.
"Yoon Dalmi, you ended up not trusting me in the end." The girl said with a smirk.
She continued, "Kim Taehoon bastard, you managed to gain the trust of me here in the end, huh?"
Kim Taehoon, the person who called out to him earlier kept a straight face. He replied, "Yoon Dalmi of this world and you are different. He wouldn't sacrifice her friends for a personal mission. Even if you manage to cross several worlds, no one would want to be your partner because you treat them like goods."
"Yes, and Kim Taehoon in the few worlds I've been to before was a bastard who would rather help other women to gain reputation, rather than his own lover." Yoon Dalmi grinned at the girl next to Kim Taehoon. "Isn't that the case, my twin?"
The girl with the same face as Yoon Dalmi shook her head and said loudly. "No! It's only natural because I'm a ranker and they're not!"
Yoon Dalmi laughed at the girl for being so naive. She used to think that way too. However, after moving from several earths with different destruction, she came to realize that Kim Taehoon on any earth was just as much of a jerk. The man hadn't changed a bit, making him want to kill Kim Taehoon in every dimension he traveled to.
There were several earths that contained dungeons that opened up and humans were awakened as hunters. In that place, Kim Taehoon always became S Rank and left Yoon Dalmi who was just an ordinary person, or awakened into a small rank hunter. Kim Taehoon was always busy with his work, even until Yoon Dalmi in another dimension was deliberately killed by his enemy, he did not grieve at all.
The earth he was on now was the kind of world that was destroyed by an alien tower and the humans became in-game rankers. Just like in other dimensions, Kim Taehoon became the top 100 ranker in the world and even number 1 in South Korea. That made Yoon Dalmi, the dimensional mover feel even more vengeful.
"Whether you're a ranker or not, aren't you jealous? Don't be a strong ass, you're a support-type ranker carried by fighter-type rankers." Yoon Dalmi mocked her and grinned in satisfaction when she saw the girl turn bright red.
"Stop it, you've been bestowed the name Adhitte, no longer Yoon Dalmi. I may not be a transcendent being, but I am the number one ranker in South Korea. It is my duty to annihilate you, the system-given living doomsday." Kim Taehoon drew the large sword on his back.
Yoon Dalmi laughed. "Let's see if this living apocalypse can be defeated as you boast or not."
[Bounty Quest Accepted!]
[Ranker of the 97th Earth of South Korea, 'Kim Taehoon' invites you to fight!]
"Oh no, you're asking me to fight? It's better to just go straight for the promotional duel. If you beat me, my two titles will be yours." Yoon Dalmi said in an angry tone.
[Ranker of 97th Earth, 3rd World Top 'Adhitte' proposes a promotion duel to ranker 'Kim Taehoon'!]
The transparent notification window was visible to the people who were there. Most of them gaped after seeing her name as a world top. Moreover, it was the 3rd world top!
They had heard that the 1st and 2nd world top fought because of this duel. However, one of them died and the winner managed to become transcendent and ascend to a higher world.
Yoon Dalmi smiled at the reaction of the people there. They were naturally heated because of the rumors about the first and second top ranker. Of course they didn't know that he had actually killed those two and manipulated the system to keep their names on the world ranker list. That's what made him the target of the system's quest and made him a fugitive.
"Let's accept, Kim Taehoon." Yoon Dalmi provoked him further by continuing to glance at his twin. He could also see the leaderboard in the sky above them.
--
[South Korea's Top Ranker.]
1. Kim Taehoon
2. Jung Jihoon
3. Han Soobin
4. Park Jitae
5. Yoon Dalmi
--
Yoon Dalmi could see her old name on the leaderboard. He knew someone who was number two, but that person was also dead because of Kim Taehoon. As a threat, Kim Taehoon already knew that Yoon Dalmi could manipulate rank.
Therefore, when the opportunity came to kill her, Kim Taehoon invited people to hunt her down after getting a quest that required killing Yoon Dalmi.
[Progress to leave 97th Earth: 95/100%]
He also saw that the status bar would soon be full. Maybe when she killed Kim Taehoon, the status bar would be full and she could destroy any trace of that world. The girl grinned as she saw Kim Taehoon thrusting out his greatsword.
"I'll kill you, Kim Taehoon."