Ch.236[Episode 236] Oh God, Another Bug?

[Evil Park Chunbae: “Take this!” ▷▷]

[Evil Park Chunbae A used Gun Kata!]

[It doesn’t seem very effective.]

[Sir Dominic of Feralant used Shield Bash on Evil Park Chunbae A!]

[Evil Park Chunbae A took 2 damage!]

[Evil Park Chunbae A has fallen into the abnormal state of Unconsciousness!]

Sir Dominic sighed as he looked at the system windows appearing before his eyes.

The sentences appearing before his eyes seemed to show that the current battle was very intense, but…

[Sir Dominic of Feralant: “When will this boring battle ever end?” ▷▷]

[Unryu Hime: “Um… I’m not sure?” ▷▷]

Sir Dominic was feeling bored with this simple repetitive task.

It was just a continuous process of selecting attack options and designating targets.

Above all, what Sir Dominic found frustrating was that the opponent’s status wasn’t intuitive.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t see the enemy’s health or stats.

The reason that was making Sir Dominic tired was that the pixelated appearance of the opponent remained exactly the same regardless of health changes or abnormal status conditions.

[Sir Dominic of Feralant: “This kind of battle is not enjoyable at all.” ▷▷]

Sir Dominic rarely criticized battles, but he was starting to do so now.

The fact that Sir Dominic, who normally became happier the more difficult a battle was, was expressing this level of dissatisfaction showed just how boring this battle truly was.

[Unryu Hime: “Well, everyone has different tastes.” ▷▷]

Hime nodded at Sir Dominic’s words and declared an attack on the Vile Malay.

There were actually people who preferred this type of battle.

Usually, those who had aged and were physically declining before coming to Gachaland, or those who preferred strategy and tactics over physical combat, tended to like this fighting style.

[Sir Dominic of Feralant: “I can only pray that this anomaly disappears as soon as possible.” ▷▷]

Sir Dominic grumbled as he blocked Park Chunbae’s attack with his shield for the fifth time already.

Sir Dominic had only attacked twice.

[Evil Park Chunbae: “Haha! As expected, you can’t use your strength when the battle style changes, Sir Dominic! This time, our victory will be… huh?” ▷▷]

Park Chunbae was confident of victory just because his turn was faster, but suddenly he noticed something strange.

[Evil Park Chunbae: “…When did the system window disappear?”]

[Vile Malay: “Huh? The dialogue skip button is gone too!”]

Park Chunbae realized that the system window had disappeared at some point.

And for some reason, he also noticed that the background was changing from 8-bit to 16-bit, and from 16-bit to 24-bit.

“Wait! Does that mean…?”

“Th-the dialogue window has returned to normal too!”

Park Chunbae and Malay were greatly confused.

The changes were still minor, so their appearances still couldn’t escape from the pixelated form, but the fact that the resolution was gradually improving remained unchanged.

From 240 pixels to 480 pixels.

From 480 pixels to 720 pixels.

From 720 pixels to 1080 pixels.

Amid this dramatic change, Sir Dominic suddenly looked at Hime.

He wanted to ask what on earth was happening.

“What on earth is happ-“

But Sir Dominic’s words couldn’t be completed.

This was because Sir Dominic’s feet suddenly sank through the gradually changing background.

“…What is happening?”

Sir Dominic began to slowly sink into the ground as if he had stepped into a swamp.

“Wh-what is this!”

“Is it a bug?”

Sir Dominic wasn’t the only one whose body started sinking into the ground.

Park Chunbae and Malay, except for the light-bodied Hime, also had their ankles caught.

“Sir Dominic!”

Hime, who had been distracted by the change in resolution, shouted as she looked at Sir Dominic beginning to sink.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Hime ran to Sir Dominic.

And she reached out her hand toward Sir Dominic, who was already submerged up to his waist in the ground.

“Grab my hand, Sir Dominic!”

Sir Dominic instinctively reached out to Hime at her cry.

Hime, who grabbed his hand, tried with all her might to pull Sir Dominic up.

Or rather, she tried to.

“…Lady Hime?”

Sir Dominic uttered in bewilderment.

When Hime grabbed Sir Dominic’s hand and pulled with all her strength, she ended up sinking into the ground just like Sir Dominic.

“…I got caught too.”

Sir Dominic and Hime dug deeper and deeper into the ground.

Sir Dominic was already submerged up to his neck, and Hime up to her waist.

“What on earth is happening?”

Sir Dominic thought that if he was submerged this far, there was nothing more he could do.

Having resigned himself to death once, Sir Dominic decided to calmly ask Hime about what he was curious about.

About the current situation.

“I don’t know. In all my time living in Gachaland, I’ve never experienced anything like this-“

Hime spoke to Sir Dominic, seemingly confused.

“It seems like a bug. The sudden increase in resolution, and suddenly being buried in the ground like this…”

“A bug, I see.”

Sir Dominic nodded at Hime’s words.

Or rather, he tried to nod.

Until he realized that his chin was already submerged in the ground, making it impossible to move his head anymore.

“It seems I’ve reached my limit here.”

Sir Dominic tried his best to lift his head.

“When I revive, I’ll go to the Executive branch. I should demand compensation, compensation for this anomaly.”

“…You’ve really become a Gachaland person.”

Hime chuckled at Sir Dominic’s witty joke.

“Yes. Let’s go together when we revive. I should get compensation too-“

“Of cour-“

By now, they were almost completely buried in the ground.

And just as the tip of Sir Dominic’s feather decoration and the tip of Hime’s fox ears sank into the ground…

“By the way, did we apply anti-aliasing?”

“…I don’t think we did.”

Sir Dominic felt like he heard a familiar voice from somewhere…

…

At the exact time and place where Sir Dominic and Hime sank into the ground…

“…I asked because I saw jagged edges, and it was true.”

“Who cares? It’s not like we’re going to fall through the jagged edges just because we increased the resolution.”

“We did it in a hurry, so bugs might occur. Walk carefully. I’ll apply anti-aliasing for now.”

Remi and Dr. Phantom were passing through the exact spot where Sir Dominic and Hime had disappeared.

Remi and Dr. Phantom were carefully walking, avoiding areas where the image quality was breaking or crackling.

It seemed that some bugs had occurred due to the hasty increase in image quality.

Of course, neither of them minded the bugs.

They believed that the coders from System Industries, who would be dispatched soon, would solve the problem.

“Let’s get across quickly just in case. Since we temporarily increased the image quality, we don’t know when it might revert back.”

Dr. Phantom nodded at Remi’s words and began to walk a little faster.

…

And there were two people walking behind them, namely Arkus and Ogreson.

“My goodness, a magic that produces such a widespread effect…”

“As expected, those in the Hall of Warriors are indeed different.”

Arkus and Ogreson were the people who had witnessed the widespread increase in resolution caused by Remi and Dr. Phantom from the closest vantage point.

“Coding, was it?”

Arkus murmured the name of this great magic that caused such an amazing reality alteration.

Although Arkus was almost ignorant about magic, he could tell how remarkable this magic was.

“This truly is the Hall of Warriors.”

Ogreson clicked his tongue and said to Arkus.

“And Sir Dominic is in such a place…”

At Ogreson’s words, Arkus suddenly recalled Sir Dominic from Stage 1 of Area 4.

That figure, riding the divine chariot flying through the sky and looking down upon the ground, was truly the image of a divine warrior.

The fact that he displayed such a majestic presence in such an amazing place showed how great a warrior Sir Dominic was.

At least, that’s what Arkus thought.

“I desperately want to meet Sir Dominic soon.”

“But the fact that we haven’t been able to find even a trace of Sir Dominic despite searching for him all this time, doesn’t that mean there’s no hope?”

“Isn’t it obvious? Sir Dominic, the divine warrior who has ascended to the seat of angels—how could we, with human bodies, easily meet him?”

Arkus began to praise Sir Dominic as if it were only natural.

“That’s why we need to work harder to meet him. Come, let’s move. Don’t we need to move even one step more to find Sir Dominic?”

“…Alright. But please don’t look at me with those eyes. It gives me the creeps.”

Ogreson got goosebumps from Arkus’s gaze.

His eyes were like those of a fanatic worshipping Sir Dominic, a combination of the gaze of an obsessive lover, the eyes of a snake eyeing its prey, and the eyes of someone so fanatical they couldn’t see anything around them.

Anyway, Arkus and Ogreson left the place and resumed their great journey to find Sir Dominic.

Not knowing in their wildest dreams that Sir Dominic was right beneath the ground they had just stepped on.