Beginner Village

In Leore, they don’t really use the term NPC.

The meaning of NPC is a character in a game that a person doesn’t directly control. In other words, it’s a general term for characters that move by AI.

In a nutshell, it can be said that they move according to behavior patterns or rules set in advance by the game developer.

But in Leore, NPCs don’t look like NPCs.

Even before the AI Big Bang patch, NPCs just looked like people.

Leore was called an innovation even among virtual world games. Entering Leore for the first time and playing in the beginner village was a shock in itself.

The beginner village, where users from level 1 to level 30 can quickly get used to Leore, is so carefully crafted that users think of it as their hometown.

Even just looking at the smiling faces of the NPCs in the small beginner village, where no one seems unhappy but there is more happiness than anywhere else, relieved stress.

In particular, I still remember the girl who always smiled and gave flowers to adventurers on the street, cheering them on.

But when that girl was eaten by the boss, shedding tears of blood and reaching out her hand begging to be saved, I couldn’t attack.

To Kang Han-gil, that girl wasn’t just an NPC created in the game, but a girl living in this world.

Moreover, if it were before the AI Big Bang patch, I would have been prepared to kill her.

Why? Because she would come back to life. Before the Big Bang patch, it was a game that could be called an RPG “game.”

Even if an NPC died, they would come back to life, always giving the same quests when users approached, and that NPC never deviated from their activity radius no matter when you went.

In other words, it was an NPC.

But it’s different now.

After the AI Big Bang patch, Leore can’t simply be called a game, it has simply become a world.

It’s not about entering a game and playing, but about living as an adventurer in a world.

If an NPC dies, they disappear from Leore as is. They really die.

That’s why Kang Han-gil couldn’t swing his sword at the girl in front of him right now.

,What kind of crazy game is this…!,

-Wow, goosebumps ㅅㅂ

-Ah, I really liked that NPC…

-I haven’t been to the beginner village, but the NPCs have changed?

-I didn’t know this ㄷㄷ

-Isn’t this a 15-year-old game? Is this okay?

-Ah, I know that kid too

-ㅁㅊ

-Is this real? Is this real?

The situation seems hopeless.

Until now, she has been continuously absorbing life force from the boss in this dungeon and is now fused with the boss.

It doesn’t seem like there’s any way to save her, but I frantically searched my mind to find that small possibility.

That short moment of thinking.

The moment a hand popped out of the girl’s mouth and headed for Kang Han-gil’s heart.

Arang’s sword split the girl’s head in half.

,What are you doing.,

Arang’s nonchalant voice washed over Kang Han-gil like cold water.

,Why is everyone suddenly like this?,

Arang, not understanding why the party members suddenly stopped attacking, began to sweep away the NPCs that came out of the weakened sea urchin boss’s body.

The sea urchin boss, with its head coming out instead of limbs, was just a punching bag to Arang.

-Arang, are you perhaps a T?

-Crazy

-Isn’t that too ruthless?

-Ooh…

,Are you worried about the NPCs here right now? Don’t you already know? That there’s no hope.,

,Damn it!,

,Everyone, I’m sorry…!,

,What the fuck!,

Starting with Reina, who closed her eyes tightly once, everyone started dealing damage again, and the sea urchin boss fell as is.

,Ahㅡ Ahㅡ,

Arang, stepping on and bursting the hand of the NPC crawling out of the fallen boss, nodded her head, seeing the word ‘Clear’ in front of her.

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[Leore Gallery]

[Level 800 Dungeon Boss Identity]

(The face of the beginner village NPC coming out of the sea urchin boss’s body)

Turns out the NPCs hanging like meat in a slaughterhouse were beginner village NPCs;;;

(The face of the girl handing out flowers from Kang Han-gil’s broadcast)

I was really shocked after seeing this scene.

I was shocked just watching it on the broadcast, I can’t imagine how shocked Han-gil, who was attacking, must have been ㄷㄷ

After seeing this, I wondered if it was true, so I went to the beginner village for the first time in a long time?

(Beginner village with many NPCs changed)

The NPCs we used to see were really gone. ㄷㄷ

All those disappeared NPCs were suffering in that dungeon right now

[Comments]

-Huh? Don’t they know that in the beginner village?

ㄴAuthor: ㄴㄴ They know. But they all think they moved to the big city

ㄴBig city? Then what’s going on?

ㄴAuthor: I don’t know. So, I’m gathering information in the beginner village for now

-Wow, what kind of thoughts do you have to have to create that sea urchin boss?

ㄴEvery time I see that boss, I feel like it resembles a character from the old masterpiece manga, Fullmetal Alchemist

ㄴAh, you mean the character Envy?

ㄴㅇㅇ

ㄴBut that’s just because it’s a manga art style, but Leore is reality, so as soon as I saw it, I couldn’t help but say ‘Ugh’

ㄴHonestly, that look is too much of a dislike in reality

[Beginner Village Truth]

Crazy.

I’m gathering information in the beginner village, and I found a crazy fact

(Video of a conversation with the village chief)

When I talk about the girl who was handing out flowers, pretending not to know anything. He says that the girl went to the Ardea country.

When I ask what reason or how she went.

He avoids answering so much.

Doesn’t this smell like something ㅈㄴ?

[Comments]

-What? Is that bastard involved?

-In the first place, does it make sense that people are going to the big city one by one in that small village, but the number of people is being filled?

ㄴIsn’t it just being filled because of the game system?

ㄴMaybe.

ㄴEh. But if you look at Leore now, there’s a reason

ㄴㅇㅈ Leore is intentionally missing now. In the first place, if the beginner village disappears, it disappears, I don’t think the AI manager would do that to forcibly maintain the population

[Arang, are you perhaps a T?]

(Arang splitting the flower girl’s face in half)

(Arang cutting off the pleading face nonchalantly)

(Arang crushing the hand reaching out to be saved with her foot)

(Shocked Pinku Berry, Kang Han-gil, Reina)

Arang, are you perhaps a T…? [Comments]

-Arang has both T and F

ㄴAuthor: ? How can she have both?

ㄴArang is F during that period and T at other times

ㄴㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴWhat is that period?

ㄴMenstruation

ㄴㅁㅊ

-If Arang is on her period that day, she’s ㅈㄴ F ㅋㅋㅋㅋ I remember when Kang Han-gil took away her Morpho in the past, she cried so much

ㄴㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Kang Han-gil almost got buried alive back then!

[Arang Version 2]

I think everyone doesn’t know much about Arang, so I’ll tell you.

First Arang.

It’s Arang, who everyone knows is brighter and more energetic than anyone else.

Arang, who always laughs and cheers up even in most things, but if you look at her actions and tone of voice in between, you can see that she’s full of T.

I don’t know if it’s because she lived in the hospital room for a long time because of her illness, but her T-like elements are quite severe

Second Arang.

This is also Arang that everyone knows.

It’s Arang during the magic day period.

If you’ve known Arang since the beginning, you’ll know that Arang during this period is just scary Arang.

In the past, she was an extremely ruthless T with no emotions or reactions like a doll, but now she has changed a lot.

She has become the ultimate F.

Even now, sometimes if a trigger is triggered, she looks like a doll without emotions again, but I don’t know the criteria.

[Comments]

-If you watch the old Arang video and then watch the current video, she’s ㅈㄴ so healthy

ㄴIt feels good to see that her body and mind have become much healthier.

ㄴIn the past, I didn’t even know when she would die

==

After clearing the dungeon, I started investigating the altar.

,Fortunately, there are no corpses left.,

Honestly, even though my favorite monster is Alien, the sea urchin boss’s appearance was terrible.

It’s not a 15-year-old game, it’s almost a 19-year-old game.

The sight of a 3M-sized maggot with limbs and a head like a sea urchin all over its body still gives me goosebumps when I recall it in my memory.

,This looks useful.,

On the floor, there were scattered trinkets that many NPCs had when they were dragged here.

While looking for something useful among them, I found a notebook and picked it up.

,Luna’s Diary?,

,Luna? Wait a minute, Arang-ah, can you give it to me?,

,Okay. But do you know who Luna is?,

,Yeah. It’s the name of the child who was called the flower girl by the users.,

When I found something useful, everyone gathered and read the diary together.

==

The contents of the diary were simple.

The village chief talked to a nobleman in the Ardea country and arranged a place where he could go to the big city of Ardea from the village.

So, he periodically selects people who want to go to the Ardea city from the village and sends them to the city.

Luna, the flower girl, also wanted to go to a bigger city.

In the end, she was selected as a person to go to the Ardea city and boarded the carriage to go to the Ardea country with a happy heart, but….

She was dragged here, absorbed of her life force, and died slowly and painfully.

,That son of a bitch…!,

Kang Han-gil, who never swore no matter what happened, uttered a swear word for the first time since Arang’s last broadcast incident.