Chapter 14: Reversal of Status(3)

We dragged Yerim, who didn’t want to go out, down to the hospital’s front door, and we faced an unexpected situation.

I wondered who would risk their lives to work as a delivery person in this dangerous time, but the delivery person was also a user. Even a

Centaur race, not a normal user.

The hospital seemed to have sent some people to be wary because the huge figure filling the front of the hospital’s glass door was very

threatening. Most people only sent wary glances at the delivery person, but an ajumma in a pink coat was raising her voice and fighting with

the Centaur delivery person.

“Are those monsters attacking the hospital now? Shameless bastards who will fall into hell!”

“No! I’m just a delivery person. I don’t know how many times I’ve said it, but I have no intention of harming the people in the hospital!”

“I’m not going to listen to excuses. Get out quickly! There’s no place for monsters like you here.”

I cast a simple magic on the person who was pointing fingers and talking nonsense to the Centaur user. I never thought that a useless basic

magic that I often used when the monsters’ dying sounds were loud when hunting would be used here.

As the aura of blue mana surrounded the ajumma who was talking nonsense, no one in the hospital could hear her voice.

“You’ve already learned the second skill…”

“No, if you just manipulate mana properly, the skill activates on its own? You don’t have to learn it one by one…I don’t know why it’s so

difficult.”

“…We don’t know about other people, but it’s difficult for us.”

Leaving behind the two people’s forced admiration with unknown intentions, I met the eyes of the ajumma who was talking nonsense.

The ajumma was staring at me with wide eyes as if asking what the hell I had done. If it was before, I would have been intimidated by this

situation and bowed my head, repeating “I’m sorry”…

Who am I?

‘Fantasia Online PVP ranking 3rd’

As long as I have skills and a status window… There’s no way I’m going to be scared of this ajumma who is no different from a mob.

[Low-level Magic: Sleep]

The ajumma’s heavy body slowly collapsed with the cc skill for stomping that only works on low-level monsters. After accepting her body and

throwing her on the sofa next to her, everyone’s eyes were on me.

I could feel the gazes filled with various emotions such as shock, envy, fear, surprise, and gratitude.

Among them, the person who sent a gaze full of gratitude was, of course, the Centaur user who had been struggling until just now.

“Thank you. I was suddenly attacked like that… I thought those kinds of people had all disappeared after the news that users had awakened

the status window. What if I was a user who really supported extremism…”

I looked at the ajumma who was sleeping soundly on the sofa with pity and replied.

“Those kinds of people are the first to be naturally selected. They’ll die quickly if they go out and act like that.”

While having a simple conversation like that, I looked up at him.

His tall height, easily surpassing ordinary people, and the horns on his head really resembled the race in mythology.

While admiring the body of a Centaur user that I was seeing for the first time in reality, the huge thing in the lower body, which was unique

to horses, caught my eye.

“Ahem…”

The user, realizing where my gaze was directed, cleared his throat. Surprised by the uncomfortable feeling, I desperately looked elsewhere

and pretended that nothing had happened.

There’s no way there would be pants that fit Centaurs whose lower body is a horse, so I heard that most Centaur users don’t wear anything on

their lower body like that. It was the first time I had actually seen such a sight, so I was looking at that side because it was amazing… But it

was rude to put my eyes there just because there was nothing on his lower body.

Looking at my appearance, he smiled kindly, took off his helmet, and took out the delivery box tied to his waist. What came out of it was

neatly packaged porridge and side dishes in plastic containers.

“Are you the one who ordered abalone porridge?”

Nodding at his question, I handed over the card that Yejin gave me. I was supposed to buy it, but I couldn’t help it because she said that her

wallet had disappeared while she was being kidnapped. I’ll have to pay her back later.

“Yes, that’s right. Here’s the card.”

As soon as he received the card, the delivery man, who quickly finished the payment, returned the card and receipt and bowed.

“Payment has been completed. Enjoy your meal!”

“Goodbye.”

With that greeting, the Centaur race user disappeared from sight with a few hoof sounds. I was going to wave goodbye, but he left before I

could even raise my hand.

“…Even if I estimate roughly, it’s faster than most motorcycles. Is the era of Centaur delivery people coming?”

Yejin, who was staring blankly at his back, muttered. Then Yejin opened her mouth in agreement.

“It might really be… There’s no fuel cost or repair cost. The ability of pure physical strength is only that much… If you use skills there, the

delivery speed will be even faster, right?”

It was a question directed at me. To answer her question, I recalled an acquaintance who was raising a Centaur race character. The speed of

sprinting quickly, boasting various movement skills, was the fastest of the races in ‘Fantasia Online’.

Maybe that guy said that 20 minutes was enough to travel around the entire map. To travel around the map of Fantasia Online, it takes hours

for a normal human user to run, even using movement skills. Considering this point, their movement speed was certainly devastating. It’s a

speed that even the same users can’t catch up to.

Based on those facts, I spoke hopefully about the future prospects of the Centaur races.

“Maybe Centaur users will take over all the positions of existing delivery people. Moreover, Centaur races can run on roads? It’s inevitable

that delivery times will be drastically reduced. Thanks to that, Centaur races don’t have to worry about jobs for the time being.”

The Centaur race was one of the classes with the most extreme and dramatic changes in the body, along with the Minotaur and Lizardman

races.

As humans, whose instinct is to reject those who are different from themselves, people often called them monsters and kept them at a

distance.

Of course, users who became impossible to live everyday life, such as entering ordinary doors or riding buses, were all fired from their jobs or

voluntarily resigned under the unspoken pressure of their coworkers.

However, as this incident broke out and ordinary people became the target of attacks by extreme users, the phenomenon of users who had

transformed into Centaur races replacing motorcycle delivery people occurred. At least there would be no one to attack them, who are the

same users.

Maybe even restaurant owners who hate and reject users will eventually hire Centaur races as delivery people because customers don’t come

and they can’t use ordinary delivery people in a dangerous state outside. Fortunately, the Centaur race is a fairly popular race in the game, so

the population is quite large.

Most Centaur users have not seen it because they have relocated to rural areas without buildings to resolve the racial characteristic [Sprint

Instinct], but they were the race that boasts the largest population after beastmen, humans, and werewolves.

If they come to the city and work as delivery people, they can run on the roads as they want, so they can solve the penalty of [Sprint Instinct]

– and the restaurant owners will be able to reduce labor costs because delivery part-timers don’t have to use motorcycles.

‘Ordinary delivery people will all become unemployed.’

In addition, if this phenomenon in which ordinary people can’t go outside as they please continues, the social atmosphere in our country will

change quite quickly. Just like how Centaur users started to be used as delivery people.

“Users will be able to get jobs in the future. Ordinary people living in dangerous areas where they can’t come out will all be fired from their

jobs. Maybe users will fill their vacancies.”

“I guess so. The country will be in chaos for a while. I have to look for a job now. I can’t live on subsidies forever…”

While talking about how the society of our country will improve in the future, I walked around the hospital with the porridge. The cool winter

air passing through my lungs made my whole body feel refreshed.

I took a brief look outside the hospital while taking a simple walk, and there were really few people. This area is a busy area, so the streets

should be full of people at this time, but all sides were deserted to the point where only three or four people could be seen per block.

As the number of people decreased, most of the stores were closed or only attracting flies even if they were open.

“Other self-employed people besides restaurants will be in trouble…”

“I guess so.”

After briefly looking around the surrounding streets like that, we decided to return to the hospital after finishing our short walk. If we walked

around any more than this, our horns would freeze from the cold.

I was glad that there was no dangerous thing that I was worried about.