Area of Senses

The day was setting.

That meant I’d been gaming all day.

Mom’s call was also to tell me to come eat dinner.

As I got out of the capsule, my sweat-soaked hair stuck to me.

An unpleasant sensation. An unfamiliar thing that shouldn’t be there kept sticking to my body.

I ran into Harang as I left the room. An uncomfortable person. Seeing my past self as it is felt like looking in a mirror.

“W-what…?”

“Harang.”

“What? Harang? Hey, you…”

Suddenly, seeing him now, his youthful face looked ugly.

Harang reacted strongly to the words that slipped out with a sigh.

Did I make a mistake? I tilted my head and looked up at him.

It was definitely my body, but the fact that I had to look up was even funny.

The small girl’s body was short.

“Call me ‘Oppa,’ you crazy bitch.”

My face crumpled at Harang’s words.

Harang, who had been watching that, headed to the living room with a look that said he’d landed a good one.

‘Oppa’? That’s something I couldn’t say unless I was crazy.

I hurried after Harang and found a lavishly set table.

I looked at the japchae (stir-fried glass noodles and vegetables) on the table. Japchae that only came out on special days like anniversaries.

Mom’s gaze turned to me.

She must have been bothered by what happened in the morning; it was definitely prepared for me.

To be exact, it was for Hayeon, this body, but I wanted to think as I pleased for now.

That’s how complicated my head was.

Regardless of those feelings, my body was screaming with extreme hunger.

I sat at the table and picked up the chopsticks.

The small, delicate hands felt awkward.

It was the moment I reached out with the chopsticks. Harang’s chopsticks, approaching as if to push mine away, snatched the japchae.

My face crumpled. I hated the sight of him snatching away my favorite side dish.

“Mom.”

“Yes?”

“Harang called me a crazy bitch.”

Silence fell over the table.

It was only natural that Harang’s expression, who had been snatching the japchae, froze.

My chopsticks seized the opportunity.

“Is that true?”

“N-no… that’s…”

Mom’s cold voice rebuked Harang.

Harang looked at me with resentful eyes.

So what?

But even so, was it because he was ‘Oppa’? As if showing off that he had lived longer than this little girl, he didn’t open his mouth in the end.

He easily admitted his crime.

The japchae came to me, but somehow, I felt like I had lost.

It was a satisfying meal.

I took my time, chewing Mom’s food thoroughly.

Faint memories came to mind in a chain, calming my heart.

“I ate well.”

“Aren’t you eating more?”

“I have, uh, plans.”

“More gaming?”

“Yes.”

My gaze went to Harang’s answer.

Having plans in a game, if it was the Harang I knew, the game he was playing would be Deron Online.

I was curious. What kind of character was Harang in this world raising?

***

After finishing the meal, I logged into Deron.

The method of lying in a capsule and playing the game was still unfamiliar.

At the last moment of logging in, because I had died at the Red Orc Front, I was logged in at a nearby resurrection point.

It was dinner time. It meant that more people were logging in after getting off work and finishing school.

This time on weekdays was when there were the most people, so the Red Orc Front area had more people moving around than before.

Being someone who disliked crowded places, I was uncomfortable here.

As I quickly walked towards the front, I saw many parties had already taken their places and were hunting.

They secured their spots and brandished weapons at those who invaded their area.

Doing directly what I used to do with a mouse and keyboard, that sight was just funny.

I walked straight along the path. Not a hunting ground where few entities respawned, but an area where many monsters respawned.

Orc scouts were moving in groups.

The suddenly increased difficulty of the hunting ground didn’t consider ordinary users.

The merciless blades of the orcs and the attacks of the huge muscles. Because of that, the users avoided the area.

It was a quiet hunting ground.

Suddenly, the feel of the sword in my hand felt excessively realistic.

The pungent smell of blood and explosives wafting from nearby stung the tip of my nose.

It must be because I had maximized sensory synchronization.

Seo Hayeon. To what extent did this girl possess talent?

With a small question in mind, I raised the sword.

The chilling sword point was aimed at a group of orcs on patrol.

The number was three.

It wasn’t a suitable number to hunt at once.

Even so, I charged.

The moment I kicked off the ground and charged towards the orcs, my senses expanded.

As if the feeling I had felt when facing the goblins for the first time wasn’t a mistake, a strange sensation once again enveloped my entire body.

Because I had turned off all system corrections, the miscellaneous things that filled my vision were not visible.

Therefore, I moved as my body told me to, following my instincts.

The body that had lightly dug in was small, so the impact area was also small.

Because I had dug in as low as possible, the attacks aimed at my head followed belatedly.

It was a character that hadn’t changed jobs. It was only natural that I couldn’t withstand the orc’s sword with my basic strength.

But if I received the game’s correction, the story would be different.

Parrying, a basic skill for beginners.

If you used the sword to parry the opponent’s attack at the exact timing, you could reduce the damage taken.

It was a skill that could only be activated for normal attacks, not skills, so it was a skill that would be forgotten later.

The orc swordsman’s sword filled my vision.

The brain that read the trajectory instructed the next action.

I raised the slightly lifted sword and received it with the flat side.

With a gigigik- sound, a flashy effect burst out.

I succeeded in activating the skill. Now it was my turn.

But there were three opponents. There was no room to attack.

The body that predicted the next attack immediately created distance.

As expected, it was fun.

Because I wasn’t wearing armor, the orcs’ attacks were fatal. That’s why the thrilling taste was alive.

Repeating approach and retreat, I became familiar with the orcs’ patterns.

When I was operating with the mouse and keyboard, I just blankly watched the character hunting.

But now it was different. The world, the era had changed.

It was a game that said I had entered the area of senses.

I couldn’t properly understand those words, but I could understand them now.

As time passed and I moved my body, I became more familiar with this little girl’s body.

It wasn’t reality, but it was the same as the body I used in reality. So it wasn’t much different.

Chwaak!

The sword that quickly approached and swung cut off the orc’s neck and sent it flying.

What compensated for the insufficient damage was the weakness system that existed in the game.

A creature with its head cut off couldn’t live. So the orc swordsman also knelt and fell.

One of the three was dead. That meant I had room to breathe.

I immediately took the next action. Avoiding the swinging sword, I jumped into the air.

It was a wrong choice. At first glance, it would have seemed so.

I wasn’t free in the air. Especially if I was a beginner without special skills.

The long outstretched leg kicked the orc’s sword surface, twisting the direction.

Thus, I was able to avoid the sword strike that grazed my shoulder.

It was a movement that would have been impossible in reality, but the body that received the game’s stat correction made the impossible movement possible.

It felt like new eyes and arms had sprouted.

It was unfamiliar, so it was uncomfortable, but in any case, I could do more than before.

That’s how it felt.

The body twisted in the air immediately prepared for the next attack.

It was an attack that utilized rotational force.

The gorgeously swung sword strike blew off the orc swordsman’s neck.

The second.

Taking the orc’s head scattering into the sky as a signal, the body rolled on the ground.

Because I didn’t think about landing, the pain transmitted through my back was considerable.

But I didn’t stop. There was pain, but it wasn’t enough to prevent me from moving, so I avoided the attack that struck down towards the ground and floated my body.

The upper body that rotated half a turn once again blew off the orc swordsman’s head.

Seogeok-!

I landed on the ground and looked at my trembling hands.

I wasn’t as out of breath as I thought. My stamina was still plentiful.

That meant I could continue the next hunt right away.

I continued hunting alone. Orc swordsmen, scouts, mages, etc. I dealt with various monsters.

Each time their heads flew off, the character steadily grew.

And so, I reached level 10.

With a flashy effect, the exhausted stamina quickly filled up.

I had met the job change requirements. Now it was time to leave this place.

I returned to the outpost and looked for the supply officer NPC.

Because I had obtained many tokens while hunting orcs, I was able to receive the items given to the supply soldiers.

[Lunarise Supply-Type Iron Sword]

Attack Power +35

Level Limit 7

It was a basic supply item for Lunarise soldiers.

It was hard to expect much from its performance.

Items with similar descriptions were lined up below.

As I equipped the equipment, a heavy weight pressed down on my body.

An uncomfortable sensation. Heavy armor wasn’t a very good choice.

The rewards were generous. I immediately paid additional tokens to receive a light leather armor set.

It was partially reinforced with iron, but most of it was made of leather.

There were several functions that were unlocked by reaching level 10.

The auction house was also a level 10 unlock function.

To register the wrongly received items in the auction house, I searched for the market price of the items.

It was a beginner area, and it was initial equipment. It would be hard to expect a high price.

“Hmm…”

But it was different from what I expected.

There was a huge difference from the price of the items that existed in my faint memories.

The price was more than 20 times higher.

The heavy armor that I thought I had received wrongly was very expensive.

Was the value determined by the defense power stat of the armor?

I put aside the small question for a moment and registered the items in the auction house.

When I registered them at a slightly lower price than the average successful bid price, they were all sold in less than a minute.

I was dazed.

A considerable amount of money for a beginner came in.

Even after deducting the auction house’s 15 percent fee.

Could it be that an internal problem had occurred in the game?

There could have been gold inflation.

But, when I brought up a site that could check the cash value of game money and checked the price, it was maintaining the old market price as it was.

No, it was even more expensive.

The money that came into my possession was 70 gold coins.

Since the cash value was 15,000 won per 10 gold coins, an amount exceeding 100,000 won came in at once.