Ch.317[Chapter 317] Patch note 1.0.0.1 BETA

[Patch Note 1.0.0.1 BETA]

[The Alpha Test has ended, and the Beta Test will now commence.]

[We didn’t want to limit it to just 8 clans… but well, we respect autonomy.]

[The planned changes are as follows:]

[1. New Gimmick: The Reverse World has been added. The Reverse World is another term for a broken parallel world, a distorted space that only chosen ones among you can access.]

[2. New Clan: The Field Assistance Strike Team (F.A.S.T) is a special clan that will operate in this Reverse World.]

[3. The Field Assistance Strike Team will request help from the chosen ones, and those chosen among you have an obligation to assist them.]

[4. Only the Field Assistance Strike Team can detect the path to the Reverse World, and you have no other way to access the Reverse World.]

[5. And to address the question of whether the Field Assistance Strike Team is really necessary, if the Reverse World is left unresolved, reality will begin to distort.]

[6. Therefore, please cooperate with the Field Assistance Strike Team as much as possible.]

[7. Of course, it’s not all obligations. Naturally, there should be rights too.]

[8. The more the Field Assistance Strike Team requests your help, and the more you assist them, additional rewards will be provided.]

[9. No, it’s not mandatory. However, if you want to remain chosen, it might be half-mandatory.]

[10. A leveling system has been added. Levels can be increased through the Field Assistance Strike Team’s tactical records or field experience, and higher levels reduce penalties in the Reverse World.]

[11. Just in case, we’ve expanded the backup servers. Now parts of Gachaland won’t disappear if someone spills tteokbokki like last time.]

[12. Yes, I’m talking about you, Deputy Manager Kim, who asked if carbonara was okay after being told no tteokbokki in the server room.]

[13. Currently, one of the writers on the story team is going berserk. Three cups of chamomile tea didn’t calm them down, so we plan to use elephant tranquilizers.]

[14. What? The Black Scholar? Who is that… Oh. That person only writes one piece per day now. Probably.]

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Sir Dominic returned to Gachaland immediately after completing his contract with the Man in Black.

To the exact place and time from which Sir Dominic had disappeared.

Sir Dominic looked around briefly to adjust to the sudden change in environment.

Gachaland was still the same, but it seemed to have a slightly different atmosphere.

“…Huh!”

While Sir Dominic was trying to figure out what had changed in Gachaland, he heard Sir Dominica’s sharp intake of breath.

Sir Dominic slowly turned his head to look at Sir Dominica.

“Why was that place… so familiar?”

Sir Dominica was breathing heavily, clearly flustered.

Sir Dominic was about to ask if she was okay, but his attention was suddenly drawn to something above her head.

“What’s that above your head?”

Sir Dominic pointed to the text floating above Sir Dominica’s head.

Above her head was the title [First 100], which was garishly sparkling in rainbow colors.

“What about above your own head?”

Sir Dominica tilted her head at Sir Dominic’s words and pointed above his head.

“It says ‘First 100’ and it’s sparkling in platinum.”

Sir Dominic realized that he too had a colorful title floating above his head.

Sir Dominic suddenly remembered that Sir Dominica had also received a beta test invitation just like him.

Since Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica always reached similar conclusions, she probably participated in the beta test as well.

“Did you participate in the beta test?”

“Seeing you ask that, I guess you accepted too.”

Sir Dominica snorted at Sir Dominic’s question.

“If they were going to do this, they should have just made the contract openly, instead of creepily taking us to a secret space—”

“Excuse me.”

Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica turned to look at someone who suddenly interrupted from the side.

“Did you two also participate in the beta test?”

“What a terrible fate.”

And there stood Vicious Park Chunbae and Despicable Malley.

Sir Dominic instinctively looked above their heads.

There, just like above Sir Dominica’s head, the words [First 100] were shining in brass color.

“Why do yours look so brilliant? Platinum and rainbow colors!”

“Ours are the same color. Are they discriminating against us?”

Vicious Park Chunbae angrily complained about discrimination, but thanks to that, Sir Dominic could understand how these titles were displayed.

“It seems these titles are given to the 100 people who participated in the beta test, with colors differentiated by tier or something similar.”

“That makes sense. We’re 4-tier, and they’re still 1-tier.”

“What? You’re already 4-tier?”

Sir Dominica nodded at Sir Dominic’s prediction.

If the colors were divided by tier, then this stark difference in light made sense.

But Sir Dominic had another question.

Why?

Why did the Men in Black give all beta testers the same title but with different colors?

Sir Dominic pondered this, but his contemplation didn’t last long.

It was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a group of people.

“Excuse me…”

“Hmm?”

Sir Dominic turned his head toward the voice.

There stood a timid-looking woman with twin tails… who appeared even more timid due to her large glasses.

For some reason, she was wearing an officer’s uniform with a garrison cap, and both the cap and the chest of the uniform had three diamond shapes embedded in them.

“Are you perhaps… people who applied for the beta test…”

The twin-tailed woman spoke so timidly that listeners might burst out laughing, her voice so quiet that a mosquito’s buzz might have been louder.

“…Yes, we are. Who might you be?”

Sir Dominic attempted an introduction, thinking this was someone he’d never seen in Gachaland before.

Gachaland was vast, so he didn’t expect to know everyone, but even considering that, the person before him seemed very… out of place.

“Ah. I, I’m Captain Elang, one of the commanders of the Field Assistance Strike Team who’s joining now. I’m French Elang Flying Mallang… I mean, Captain Elang. Here’s my card.”

The timid officer who introduced herself as Captain Elang handed Sir Dominic a business card.

Sir Dominic immediately examined the card closely, but instead of Captain Elang or the “French Elang Flying Mallang” she had just mentioned, it read “Reroll Account 1138.”

“This seems to have a different name.”

“…? …Oh!”

Captain Elang’s face instantly turned red as she took back the card from Sir Dominic.

“I’m sorry! I gave you my old one. This is my real business card.”

Captain Elang handed Sir Dominic a new card.

While Sir Dominic was examining the new card, Captain Elang also handed one to Sir Dominica.

This time, it properly said Captain Elang.

Except for the teddy bear pattern printed in the background, it was quite a decent business card.

Sir Dominic put the card in his inventory and properly introduced himself.

“Pleased to meet you, Captain Elang. I am Sir Dominic of Ferallant.”

“I’m Sir Dominica of Ferallant.”

Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica each offered a handshake to Captain Elang in turn.

In the past, they might have greeted with knightly etiquette, but after spending a long time in Gachaland, handshakes had become more comfortable.

“D-D-D-Dominic? Sir Dominica?”

Captain Elang widened her eyes in disbelief upon hearing Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica’s names.

Her small eyes, made to look smaller by her thick glasses, widened as much as possible, which looked quite cute.

“Wow! Sir Dominic! Sir Dominica! I can’t stop exclaiming!”

Captain Elang burst into exclamations on the spot.

It wasn’t so much that she couldn’t stop exclaiming, but rather that she seemed so moved that she couldn’t say anything other than exclamations.

“Captain Elang?”

Sir Dominic, seemingly concerned about Captain Elang, carefully called out to her.

“Oh, I’m sorry, Sir Dominic. I just… seeing Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica in person, whom I’ve only seen in trailers… I mean, dreams.”

Captain Elang spoke with a voice choked with emotion.

“I see.”

“I didn’t know there were people who would be moved to tears just by seeing us.”

Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica looked at Captain Elang’s behavior with curiosity.

“By the way.”

A question suddenly occurred to Sir Dominic.

“Why would a commander of the Field Assistance Strike Team approach us?”

Sir Dominic voiced his question right there.

Captain Elang, realizing she hadn’t explained yet, wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, cleared her throat, and said:

“To scout you.”

That was an unexpectedly direct fastball compared to her timid demeanor until now.