<Name: Noh Pyeonghwa
Age: 20
Constellation: Agreon
Title: None
AP: 0
Overall Stats: Strength 7, Agility 16, Wisdom 20, Stamina 8, Mental Power 5, Luck 1 …View Details
Skills: 「Why So Angry? Lv.1」, 「This Bastard’s Still At It Lv.1」 …View Details
Quest: 「Main Quest: World Peace! (In Progress)」 …View Details>
“Why are the skill names like this?”
Stats and skill levels weren’t particularly important to Pyeonghwa. After all, in-game, all players’ stats were adjusted to be roughly equal.
But the skill names were something he couldn’t give up on. After a match ended, which skills participants used would be made public! Pyeonghwa huffed and pressed the ‘View Skill Details’ button.
<Passive Skill 「Why So Angry? Lv.1」
When targeted by an enraged opponent, movement speed increases by 10% for 10 seconds.
Cooldown 15 seconds
AP Required for Lv.2: 10>
<Passive Skill 「This Bastard’s Still At It Lv.1」
When a target repeats the same attack twice, HP increases by 1%.
Cooldown 20 seconds
AP Required for Lv.2: 10>
There were only two skills. Not a single active skill that needed to be manually activated, only passive skills with constant effects.
“Damn it, couldn’t you give me just one more? And what the hell, not a single attack skill?”
Making him go through all that trouble only to give him these pathetic skills. Stingy malicious bastard…. Pyeonghwa grumbled as he raised each skill to level 2.
Once leveled up, the movement speed increase rate for 「Why So Angry?」 became 10.1%, and the HP increase rate for 「This Bastard…(omitted)」 became 1.1%.
Even after raising the skill levels, the mission completion window didn’t appear. It seemed he had to use up all the points he’d collected.
To raise them to level 3 would require 50 points each. Pyeonghwa used a total of 100 points to upgrade them one stage each. This time too, the skill effects increased by 0.1% each.
255 points remained. The requirement to reach level 4 was 100 points per skill.
“There’s no point raising skills I’ll never use anyway, might as well raise stats.”
Pyeonghwa entered the stat window.
<Strength 7
Agility 16
Wisdom 20
Stamina 8
Mental Power 5
Luck 1>
“Life’s all about luck.”
Other stats could grow through training, but no one knew what criteria luck used to increase.
Things that anyone could do were less valuable than things with scarcity. Pyeonghwa decided to dump all his remaining points into luck.
<Would you like to use 255AP on Luck? Up to 100, 1AP per stat; from 101 onward, 3AP is consumed. Yes/No>
Of course it’s yes. Pyeonghwa raised his luck to 152 and smiled with satisfaction.
<Tutorial: How to Save the World 3/3 Mission Complete!>
<Calculating…….>
“Yes, finally done!”
Pyeonghwa shouted in emotion. He wanted to hurry home, wash up cleanly, and collapse on his bed.
Once he woke up, he’d have to deal with that damn constellation first. Once you made a contract, you couldn’t cancel it, but there weren’t zero people who lived without being controlled by their constellation. Just rare…….
<Congratulations! You have successfully completed the tutorial!
Noh Pyeonghwa’s play grade is 「S」.
Tutorial rewards will be distributed.>
<Fox Bead
Grade: Unique
When consumed, randomly acquire one of the nine-tailed fox’s nine skills.>
<Quiz Quiz Multitool
Grade: Unique
A multi-purpose MacGyver knife with seven functions. Check weapon types (Click!)
Each time you answer incorrectly, the grade of the selected weapon decreases. After five consecutive wrong answers, it is permanently destroyed. Cooldown 24 hours.>
<Egg Pouch (Bound)
Grade: Rare
A crossbody bag that warmly cradles a cute egg.
Changes size according to hatching rate and can become transparent.
Destroyed if anything other than an egg is placed inside.>
<I Apologize (100)
Apple-flavored carbonated drink with 0% sugar.
When consumed, heals minor external injuries. Cannot remove old scars.>
Pyeonghwa checked the item information for the ‘Fox Bead’ he received as a reward and grinned broadly. He was just short one skill, so this worked out perfectly! Even if it’s a malicious constellation, it still has some conscience!
Pyeonghwa’s heart became much more generous. He thought they might finally send him home now, but the constellation’s rewards didn’t end there.
<As a special bonus for clearing the tutorial with S-grade, you can peek at the future ■■. Would you like to view it? Yes/Nod>
“You crazy bastard! It’s Nod again?”
Conscience my ass! This is a bastard he absolutely can’t find cute. Pyeonghwa had no choice but to press ‘Yes’ while crying and eating mustard.
Future ■■ whatever, once he got back, he’d look up what the hell Nod meant first. Pyeonghwa’s vision went pitch black.
<Constellation ■■■■ defies the providence of the universe.>
<Balance is being adjusted.>
<Constellation ■■■■ is extinguished.>
<…….>
<Error code generated!>
<Showing the future ■■.>
*
“Hueok!”
Pyeonghwa’s eyes flew open, his face deathly pale. His pulse pounded violently as if he’d just run a 100-meter dash.
Huk, huk, huk…… Even breathing rapidly in gasps, he couldn’t calm down. It took considerable time for focus to return to his dazed eyes.
Dim sunlight was streaming in from outside the window. The first thing that entered his vision was the fluorescent light, turned off. He recognized that he’d returned to his room, but his teeth still chattered, making clicking sounds.
‘What did I just see?’
Pyeonghwa raised his trembling hand to clutch at his chest. As a tutorial special bonus, he’d seen the future ■■, but…… what was ■■, exactly? Even trying to recall it, his mind was hazy as if fog had settled in.
He had no memory of it, but the terrible pain that made him think dying would be better remained. It was an even more agonizing sensation than having his heart ripped out.
“Uuk, what is this…!”
Tears trickled down from his temples. Pyeonghwa gasped wetly, not even knowing why he was crying.
Damn constellation! Calling it an S-grade special bonus—shouldn’t you give something good then? If you show me something like this, what the hell am I supposed to do……!
He didn’t remember it anyway, so he wanted to dismiss all of this as the constellation’s prank. But now that he knew, he couldn’t return to when he knew nothing.
‘That bizarre quest was real!’
The world would end in a year. Absurdly, he didn’t even doubt it anymore. Pyeonghwa sniffled and retraced the quest contents.
The quest window said to collect aggro points to protect world peace. Having experienced aggro points’ fraudulent abilities in the tutorial, Pyeonghwa could easily catch on to the constellation’s intention.
“With aggro points, get stronger…?”
Then does that mean he has to face monsters like in the tutorial? Ugh, Pyeonghwa groaned lowly and shuddered. Though three years had passed, the temperature, humidity, and sensations of the day he entered that Gate were all still vivid. If he had to collect aggro points that way, he didn’t have the confidence to pull it off at all.
“Ugh…… my head hurts. I’ll think about it later.”
He was too exhausted to think deeply. Once his boiling emotions calmed down somewhat, pain rushed in from his swollen hands. Pyeonghwa groaned as he sat up.
The sun had completely set by now. When he turned on the fluorescent light to brighten the room, he could see the items he’d received as tutorial rewards. Among them, the bulkiest was the drinks—a total of four boxes stacked up, 25 cans each.
<I Apologize (100)
Apple-flavored carbonated drink with 0% sugar.
When consumed, heals minor external injuries. Cannot remove old scars.>
Pyeonghwa opened a can with one hand and drank it. The item name was what? I Apologize? He felt annoyed at being toyed with, but fortunately it was a normal apple-flavored carbonated drink.
Air bubbles popped like carbonation bursting on the affected area, and soon new flesh grew. One wasn’t enough, apparently—only after drinking two more cans did his hands return to their original healthy state.
“Ah, I’m tired…… I’ll just check the Fox Bead and sleep…….”
With half-closed eyes, he picked up the luxurious velvet box. Inside the velvet box was a small bead containing a mysterious orange glow.
Pyeonghwa unhesitatingly put the bead in his mouth and swallowed it whole. Before passing down his throat, the bead melted away like cotton candy.
<Active Skill 「Fox Transformation Lv.1」
Fox ears and tail appear, and all physical abilities increase by 30%.
When attacking, 5% chance to summon fox fire, dealing double damage to the opponent.
Duration 20 seconds / Cooldown 3 minutes
AP Required for Lv.2: 10>
“Oh…….”
It was a pretty decent physical enhancement skill that even triggered critical damage. If he hadn’t known the world was ending, he would have been genuinely happy, but he didn’t feel good at all.
Pyeonghwa staggered to the bed and flopped down face-first. He should at least change out of his tattered clothes, but he didn’t have the energy to lift a finger.
Bzzt. His phone vibrated. Pyeonghwa’s shoulders flinched, and his closed eyes opened drowsily. The only person who would text him was her.
I should reply…… If I don’t reply quickly, noona will cuss me out…… He tried to move with the power of love, but failed due to his trash stamina. Pyeonghwa buried his face in the pillow and fell into a deep sleep.
“Kueoeo……!”
<You have acquired Aggro Points.>
<You have acquired Aggro Points.>
<You have acquired Aggro Points.>
While Pyeonghwa slept, snoring, system notification windows continuously generated around him.
