episode_0254
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[Dimension Travel Express Ticket has been confirmed.]
[I hope you have a pleasant trip.]
[You have 6 souvenirs.]
[The mileage held is 35,400 mileage.]
[Please check the amenities provided.]
[Amenities: Safety injection, appearance change]
[Do you want to register your baggage?]
[Registration refused.]
[The world I am currently traveling through is ‘The Transferor’s Guide to Climbing the Tower.’]
-Wow~ This is a place called Top! It looks like an ordinary forest… How amazing!
Maria makes a fuss as soon as she enters the travel destination. I didn’t do anything to stop her and looked around.
A vacant lot entirely surrounded by grass and trees. We woke up in a place that seemed to have been artificially created in the middle of the forest.
“It’s fascinating.”
Even if we tried to expand our senses and looked at the surroundings with eyes filled with inner energy, the place we were was clearly in the forest. When I looked up, I saw an ordinary sky with the sun rising and clouds creating shadows.
‘I can’t believe this is just one layer.’
This is something I feel every time I enter a travel destination, but I couldn’t help but feel something new every time I experienced it firsthand.
Murmur.
“W, where am I?”
“Obviously, I entered the conference room… ?”
“Hmm yum yum… Umm… ? Eh… ? What is this!?”
“Oh my God.”
“… Drugs these days are so ineffective? The fantasy seems real, right?”
People of various clothes, races, and genders were looking around with scared and embarrassed faces.
A man in pajamas was lying on the dirt floor, shaking sand from his hair, and a woman in a suit was groping in the air as if she was trying to find the door she had entered through.
There even seemed to be someone who metastasized while using drugs.
‘however… It all makes sense.’
I could clearly see that foreigners were speaking in languages other than Korean, but I could understand it all in my head.
Apparently, due to the influence of the space called the tower, they could communicate even if they spoke in different languages.
I thought it would have a similar effect to the [Language Learning Jelly] I bought at the store.
-It begins in the forest, and people are confused by the sudden transition. It’s a standard start.
‘Do you even know that?’
-Hey, do you know how many works I looked at to select candidates for the master? I’m almost an expert in this field now.
For some reason, I imagined Maria with her hands on her hips and the bridge of her nose raised high in the sky.
I asked Maria about a thought that suddenly occurred to me.
‘Now that I think about it, the things you looked at when choosing a work… ‘Have you paid for everything?’
-yes! I think it’s better not to do things like hacking until the master tells you to! We conducted a legitimate investigation using the owner’s personal information and credit card!
‘… ‘Did I give permission for that?’
Maria proudly confesses to the theft of personal information and fraudulent use of credit cards. It felt like seeing an artificial intelligence speaker at a shopping mall that paid for things on its own. Has this problem not been solved even in the science fiction world?
What Maria said was not wrong. Because I didn’t want her to run into real cyberspace without my instructions and cause trouble.
However, when I was looking for candidates for a travel destination, I paid for and looked at all the works that passed before my eyes.
Even assuming that all episodes of the work were not paid for, at least several million won would have been lost. If Maria had made a bulk purchase to conduct a detailed investigation, it would have been more…
‘… I guess I’ll have to ask for permission again before spending the budget needed for the activity.’
Maybe when you return to reality, all the extra money left over from buying a house will be gone.
-Well, there were still many works that could be viewed for free! There are also flat-rate sites, so it doesn’t cost that much money…
Maria added too late, as if she had missed it.
‘… Well, it’s money that I would have paid at some point anyway.’
It is not efficient to continue to search for travel destinations on my own in the future. If I were to entrust Maria with the task of researching the work, it was something I would have to do at some point. You’re just a little surprised by an unexpectedly large expense, and you just need to save up the money again.
‘But from now on, I’ll mainly use that flat-rate site.’
-yes…
I asked Maria while looking around.
Maria looked at thousands of works in a short period of time. She said that she now knew more about these works than I did, so she was not wrong in calling herself an expert.
Anyway, there were a variety of people, but no one I needed to pay attention to.
“… … .”
Except for the main character, who was looking around with a slightly nervous yet flushed face with inexplicable anticipation.
‘Was it Kim Jae-yoon?’
The main character of this work, ‘The Transferor’s Guide to Climbing the Tower’.
He was a man who entered the tower by chance, having obtained a copy of ‘The Tower Climber’s Guide’, which is exactly the same as the name of the work. Just like the ticket I got, he got the guide before being transferred to the tower. A virtual booklet imprinted in my mind.
You can think of his guide as a deteriorated version of my [guidebook]. In the work, its role is to inform the main character of the hidden secrets of this tower world and important things to know when conquering each floor.
In the first place, guidebook and guidebook are actually the same words.
‘Of course, the guide in his head probably contains more detailed and diverse knowledge than what was actually used in the original work.’
-The guide that the main character, Kim Jae-yoon, has is a kind of terminal.
‘Terminal?’
I tilted my head at Maria’s explanation.
-There is a setting called Akashic Records in this world. It can be said to be an intangible library where all the memories in the world are recorded. The guide is an access terminal that allows you to get a glimpse of it.
‘Right.’
I guess it’s something that is revealed in the second half, since it’s something I don’t remember from reading the first half of the story. Since not all of the contents of the guide were described in the work from the beginning, such secrets may be hidden.
But at least I already know the contents of the guide he used in the original work. In fact, all useful extracts were shared.
‘To be precise, that’s what Maria and [the guidebook] remember.’
Because this world was a travel destination I entered purely with the sole intention of being a Summoner, I didn’t even read the work properly.
If I had any questions later, I planned to ask them then.
While I was looking at Kim Jae-yoon and organizing my thoughts, a halo of light appeared in the empty space in the center of the vacant lot. A cluster of lights floating in the air like fireflies and converging in one place. A new being appeared within it.
The people’s murmur grew a little louder at the magical sight that suddenly unfolded.
Buzz, buzz…
“Quiet!!!”
Pop~
The being that immediately captured the chaotic atmosphere was a fairy.
This is what is commonly called the fairy of tutorials.
It’s usually a cliché for a person who doesn’t understand the situation to confront a fairy and have their head explode. A device to quickly raise awareness among all characters and make them focus on the tutorial.
‘Yes, like that.’
“… Isn’t this really amazing?”
The white man, who seemed to have been on drugs, approached the fairy with unsteady steps. The basketball-sized fairy floating in the air seemed formidable, so he muttered as he stretched out his hand.
“A fantasy that seems so real. Should we have this for next week’s party? More of the same thing to Philip… ”
Pow!!!
Hoodoo…
“A word to be quiet. Didn’t you hear?”
The fairy who had blown the head of the druggist who was reaching for her spoke softly. The body that had lost its hat rack flinched slightly and fell backwards.
“Grurg… ”
One woman, who happened to be covered in debris while standing nearby, closed her eyes and fainted.
“… … !”
“Huh… !”
“Heee!”
A corpse that has lost its head and is twitching, with hot blood gushing from the cross section of its neck. The people who witnessed the cruel scene held their breath in shock.
Fortunately, everyone in the vacant lot seemed to be aware of the situation, and no one screamed. Or maybe my body was frozen in extreme fear.
Of course, I was quietly watching the scene.
‘It’s pretty fast.’
I observed how they attack using high-speed thinking. As a result, the refraction of a small space occurring at the tip of the fairy’s finger could be seen. The refracted space flew like a bullet towards the druggist’s head and exploded.
It appeared that some kind of magic, like an exploding air bullet, had been used.
‘still… ‘That’s enough to avoid it.’
I have no intention of fighting a fairy unless there is a special reason, but it was just an estimate just in case.
-… really?
really.
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