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◈ Got a Gallery in the Wild ◈
Chapter 8: Forest of Four Seasons (3)
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The Continent-Wide Gallery could be accessed anytime, anywhere, as long as certain conditions were met.
The first condition was stable ambient mana. If the mana in the air was unstable, accessing the Gallery was difficult.
The second was being able to use mana at will. This was connected to the next condition.
Finally, one had to know the access spell formula. The calculations were simple enough that even a child could manage them.
So if the mana was unstable, someone could not use mana, and they did not even know how to access the Gallery, using it was impossible.
[Post title] What if all of this is a dream?
[Author] Wild Grylls
[Post] What if I'm actually dreaming? The Gallery and all of you are just part of my dream lol
[Post] I need to wake up already lol
└ He's finally lost it lol
└ Stay strong, bro
└ [Starlight Princess]: Stay strong.
└ Damn, if even that person is telling him to stay strong;;;
└ Bro, you should start over from day one of survival too lol
└ [PrincessChaenggu]: Is that really the Forest of Four Seasons? I can't believe ittt
└ You have to believe it. No place but the Forest of Four Seasons looks that fucked up.
└ [PrincessChaenggu]: But he spends all day on the Gallery though?
└ We're wondering that too lol
└ For real, common sense is getting smashed to pieces.
└ [Allfather]: May I use this as research material?
└ [Wild Grylls]: What are you going to use it for?
└ [Allfather]: I intend to write a paper about it.
└ [Wild Grylls]: Do whatever you want......
└ He gave up lol
Yet someone had appeared on the Gallery who ignored all those conditions.
At first, everyone assumed Wild Grylls was just another ordinary registered user. As time passed, though, he began drawing the Gallery's attention.
He suddenly found a New Moon Spirit Herb, fought and defeated a Mad Dog, and even got bitten by one while sleeping.
First every compass malfunctioned, and now he had even proven that he was in the Forest of Four Seasons. Most of the evidence was too convincing to deny.
[Post title] Isn't the snake Grylls posted weird?
[Post] Isn't that actually a Steel-Scale Snake? Aside from it being fucking huge, isn't it a dead giveaway?
└ What's a Steel-Scale Snake?
└ A snake whose scales are as hard as steel, literally. Even a Sword Expert would barely be able to catch one.
└ Is it expensive?
└ If it's processed well, it's really valuable. Think of it as cloth with the durability of iron.
└ Why is a Steel-Scale Snake that huge? It's the size of an anaconda;;;
└ How big are they normally?
└ About the size of an ordinary snake. That's why they're easy to catch, but I don't know about that one.
└ How much does one cost?
└ The minimum would probably be around 100 gold?
The snake Grylls had listed on the Auction House caused quite a stir as well. Unlike direct trades, the Auction House had a much broader user base.
Only registered users could make direct trades, but anyone could list an item or bid at the Auction House.
Then couldn't people trade drugs or other dangerous goods there? Some might ask.
Fortunately, the brutal fees made those kinds of trades uncommon.
Even if they did happen, the Head Mod would immediately permanently ban the offending user and nip it in the bud.
└ Whoa, it passed 500 gold.
└ What if it's a scam?
└ Grylls listed it for five gold and left, so he isn't responsible.
└ And who takes responsibility for something you bought at an Auction House lol?
└ Considering the fees, he listed it fucking cheap.
Even while Grylls was drowning in worry, the Auction House's excitement did not die down.
It was an auction, not an instant purchase, so it was only natural that countless users piled in.
Considering the fees, fierce competition was inevitable.
└ Hell yeah! It passed 1,000 gold!
└ A sucker showed up lol
└ But that's cheap too. Only if it's genuine, obviously.
└ Will it really be genuine?
└ If it turns out to be fake, people will go nuts saying they'll hunt Grylls down lol
└ But Grylls is in the Forest of Four Seasons. Can they even catch him?
└ True lol
└ Pleasure without responsibility.
└ Wouldn't that be no responsibility and no pleasure?
└ You're right lol
└ [Wild Grylls]: Huh? Why did it get this expensive?;;
└ The man himself appears!
└ Grylls, is that really a Steel-Scale Snake?
└ [Wild Grylls]: Dunno. I thought someone would eat it later, so I listed it right away.
└ Don't tell me it's straight from the source?
└ [Wild Grylls]: It was still wriggling right before I listed it lol
└ Aaaaaaah!
└ Gyaaaaaah!
From Grylls's perspective, he had only listed it on the Auction House to get rid of it quickly, so the attention was bewildering.
More importantly, the Steel-Scale Snake and all that did not matter to him right now.
He had no idea how he was going to survive. How could he care about the Auction House? He felt like crying.
[Post title] Upvote if Grylls wants to kill himself lol
[Post] I'll start lol
└ [Wild Grylls]: Upvote lol
└ ?????
└ Why is the OP surprised lol?
└ I didn't think he'd actually show up;;
└ Looks like Grylls has completely lost it lol
Of course he had. Every bit of hope that he could escape had vanished.
Getting lost in an ordinary forest could get someone killed. This was the Forest of Four Seasons, a place known as an inhuman hellscape.
The compasses failed, and even space itself was distorted. His chances of survival were already extremely low.
[Post title] Where is Grylls from, anyway?
[Post] Come to think of it, I'm curious where he's from. What the hell did he do to end up in the Forest of Four Seasons?
└ [Wild Grylls]: I'm from Earth, but I got drunk, woke up, and found myself here.
└ Where the hell is Earth? Never heard of it.
└ [Wild Grylls]: Another world.
└ ......?
└ You didn't enter the forest because you went insane, did you?
└ Another world lol
└ Does your world have a Gallery too?
└ [Wild Grylls]: It does. It's just divided into more categories.
└ Oh! Want to be an assistant moderator?
└ [Wild Grylls]: What's an assistant moderator? Same job as the Head Mod?
└ Yeah, but fewer powers and no pay lol
└ [Wild Grylls]: Fuck no.
└ [DontAbandonTheHero]: It's okay if I handle the hard work alone!
Maybe he had truly lost it, because Grylls answered every question sincerely(?).
Starting with the fact that he was from another world, he even told them about that world.
Naturally, the Gallery users did not seem to believe him. They simply treated him like a lunatic.
└ [SwordTasteMaster]: So that was your gimmick. Understood.
└ [Wild Grylls]: It's not a gimmick;;
└ [SwordTasteMaster]: You say a single bomb can wipe out an entire city. Who would believe that?
└ [Wild Grylls]: I find people breaking mountains even harder to believe.
└ [Heavenly Demon]: This lady can do it.
└ [PrincessChaenggu]: I can toooo.
└ [Allfather]: I can as well.
└ [DontAbandonTheHero]: I can if I put some strength into it!
└ [Wild Grylls]: Is this place nothing but monsters?;;;
└ [Passing Dwarf]: What you said sounds interesting. Do you know how to make one?
└ [Wild Grylls]: How the hell would I know?
└ [Passing Dwarf]: Then what can you do?
└ [Wild Grylls]: Eat, shit, and play around?
└ [Passing Dwarf]: Just die and become fertilizer, then.
└ [Wild Grylls]: Yeah, I guess I should......
└ [Passing Dwarf]: Ah, fuck, sorry. Don't actually die. I'll send you some liquor later.
└ LOL
└ Look at them panicking because he really seems like he'll kill himself lol
Or perhaps they thought he was a roleplayer. From their perspective, that was only natural.
Whether Grylls was from another world had nothing to do with him ending up in the Forest of Four Seasons. It was not particularly important, either.
The most important matter at the moment was the Steel-Scale Snake on the Auction House.
└ How did you catch that? You said you were an ordinary person.
└ [Wild Grylls]: It wouldn't cut even with a sword, so I just tore it apart.
└ That's an ordinary person?
└ You're saying you ripped through a steel plate with your bare hands lol
└ [Wild Grylls]: No, not to that extent. The sword had cut into it a little, so I aimed for that spot. It was huge, but I could still grab its neck with one hand.
└ And then you tore it apart like that?
└ [Wild Grylls]: Yeah.
└ Fuck, that still makes no sense.
└ Are all ordinary people from your world like that?
No matter how you looked at it, Grylls's answer did not sound like something an ordinary person would say. Still, it was not completely impossible.
People often displayed several times their normal strength when their lives were in danger. They could let it slide.
└ It stopped at 1,100 gold. Looks like it'll be sold soon?
└ How much time is left?
└ Ten minutes now.
└ Grylls set it to six hours because he just wanted to sell it quickly.
└ [Wild Grylls]: Huh? You could set the duration too?
└ He didn't know lol
└ He must've really been desperate lol
└ Still, it's better for Grylls if it sells quickly.
└ Grylls could get ripped off again like last time lol
The Steel-Scale Snake that had caused such an uproar sold for roughly 1,100 gold. It was an extremely high price.
Even accounting for the Auction House's brutal fees, Grylls had made a large sum in an instant.
[Post title] Fuck fuck fuck, I shouldn't have bought this
[Post] (Video of a snake body wriggling like crazy)
[Post] It's definitely a Steel-Scale Snake. Was it really sent straight from the source? Fuck.
└ Ugh;;; You should tag that as disturbing.
└ The way it wriggles is cute lol
└ ?
└ Sir?
└ Since it has no head, I don't think it was straight from the source lol
└ For real lol
└ It's just fresh lol
└ If it were alive, it couldn't have been listed on the Auction House anyway lol
The item had been proven genuine. At the same time, trust in Grylls increased.
He seemed to have something wrong with his head, but he was an honest person. That was the Gallery's general opinion of Grylls.
[Post title] Any survival experts here?
[Author] Wild Grylls
[Post] If there are, give me some tips. I want to live.
└ There used to be lots, but not anymore.
└ [Wild Grylls]: Why?
└ They're all dead lol
└ [Wild Grylls]: ;;;
└ Didn't some famous users enter the Forest of Four Seasons and lose contact too?
└ Yeah.
└ Grylls went in from the very beginning lol
└ Starting on hardcore mode.
└ [Wild Grylls]: You useless bastards.
As Grylls made his tearful lament, another place was in uproar as well.
The Demonic Cult was once an entity that had shaken the Central Plains to its core, the Heavenly Demon's home, and a haven for the rejected. It was watched closely not only by the martial world but by the Imperial Court of the Central Plains as well.
“Heaven! You absolutely cannot enter the Forest of Four Seasons!”
“This lady is going to save her benefactor. Why do you dare stop me? Do you truly wish to die?”
The Heavenly Demon, Yu Sowol, threatened the man before her with a cold expression. Her gaze carried enough force to tear a person apart and kill them.
That pressure was real, and it greatly affected the man before her. His insides felt as if they had been overturned and twisted into knots.
He felt as though he might faint at any moment, but he forced himself to speak.
“That is not it. It is only that the Forest of Four Seasons is such a demonic realm that even you, Heaven, would find it hard to escape.”
“Demon Brain. You know very well what realm this lady has reached.”
“Of course. You have transcended the principles of martial arts and gained the qualification to ascend.”
The moment he faced her, he had realized it. The Heavenly Demon, Yu Sowol, had entered a realm beyond all standards.
Before, she had been like the sun hanging high in the sky. Now, she seemed to have become the sky itself.
Even before that, Yu Sowol had stormed the Imperial Court alone and taken the emperor's head.
Now that she had reached an even higher realm, no being could stop her.
“Yet the Forest of Four Seasons you mentioned is nature itself, beyond even Heaven. Every force of nature has gathered there, transforming the entire region into a demonic realm.”
“Speak plainly.”
“You may think of the entire area as filled with formations. Even if one breaks a formation, nature's powerful regenerative force restores it quickly, and it changes into another form.”
Once someone entered the Forest of Four Seasons, they could never leave. Demon Brain had just explained why.
The entire region was a barrier, and even if one broke through it, another barrier with a different pattern appeared.
The entire forest was a living barrier, one that regenerated no matter how often it was breached.
No matter how strong Yu Sowol was, she would not be able to break through the Forest of Four Seasons.
“Even your mind cannot find a solution?”
“Regrettably, the reality is that this foolish mind of mine cannot read even the heavens.”
“Hmm.”
Yu Sowol stopped pressuring him and withdrew her aura.
If Demon Brain, the Demonic Cult's chief strategist, said that, there truly had to be no way.
Nothing would come from forcing the issue. Nor could she kill a strategist she trusted.
It would be better to grind Demon Brain's mind down until he found a way to conquer the Forest of Four Seasons.
“Understood. Investigate the Forest of Four Seasons. This lady's benefactor is trapped there.”
“I shall obey your command. Then what will you do from now on, Heaven?”
“This lady needs time to organize her enlightenment, and she will help her benefactor survive. Perhaps......”
Yu Sowol almost asked Demon Brain whether he used the Gallery, then stopped herself. She remembered the thoughtless shitposts she had uploaded.
The Heavenly Demon Yu Sowol did not feel even a shred of shame, but the human Yu Sowol did. She felt embarrassed.
Of course, her shitposts had been closer to diary entries. She had also included her enlightenment while she was at it.
Still, that would not do. After considering it, Yu Sowol said something else.
“If there is anything that may help with survival, make sure to advise this lady whenever you can.”
“I believe you should first advise him not to abandon hope. The will to live is the most important thing for survival.”
“This lady will keep that in mind. Anything else?”
“No.”
“Then leave now.”
At the order to leave, Demon Brain bowed his head and withdrew. Once even Demon Brain was gone, Yu Sowol was left alone in the room.
The moment Yu Sowol was alone, she naturally tried to access the Gallery, but a question suddenly occurred to her.
‘Come to think of it, he did not ask who this lady's benefactor was.’
She had not intended to tell him, but Demon Brain had not asked either. That was strange.
The question only lasted a moment before Yu Sowol accessed the Gallery. Thinking did not suit her.
Leaving the thinking to Demon Brain was enough. She had lived that way until now, so there should be no problem.
“I thought I was going to die. What a real disaster.”
In the meantime, Demon Brain let out something between a groan and a lament. His organs had been shaken so badly that a little blood leaked from his mouth.
He roughly wiped away the blood and took medicine. He felt somewhat better after that.
‘There is no one left who can stop the Heavenly Demon.’
The Heavenly Demon had become far stronger than before. She had already been monstrously powerful, and now she had gained enlightenment on top of that.
At least in the Central Plains, there would be nobody capable of stopping her. It meant the Demonic Cult could fulfill its long-cherished ambition.
‘Not yet. There is still much to put in order.’
The Demonic Cult was a haven for the rejected. In other words, there was plenty of internal discord as well.
They needed to firmly establish discipline inside before they could exert influence outside. For that reason, he intended to wait quietly for now.
‘We must keep a close eye on the Western Kingdoms as well.’
If there were only the Central Plains, it would be one thing, but they had to be wary of the Western Kingdoms too.
The moment the Demonic Cult began moving in earnest, the Central Plains would be shaken greatly, and outside powers would take an interest.
Whenever civil war arose, outside forces being drawn in was an inevitable course of events.
Some madmen deliberately invite outside forces in to preserve their own power. It happened more often than one might think.
‘The problem is how to persuade that monster......’
Demon Brain looked around and confirmed that nobody was nearby. Then he looked into the empty air.
A familiar window appeared before him. It was the same Gallery Yu Sowol used.
‘The benefactor must be Wild Grylls, right?’
In truth, Demon Brain knew Yu Sowol used the Gallery. He even knew that she was the registered user Heavenly Demon.
His Gallery history was longer than hers. It would have been stranger if he did not know.
Then why did he leave it alone?
└ [Heavenly Demon]: If things do not go well, this lady will go rescue you.
└ [Wild Grylls]: Really? Aren't you busy?
└ [Heavenly Demon]: This lady asked a close aide, and they said it is good to give hope.
└ [Wild Grylls]: Ma'am?;;
└ [Heavenly Demon]: Is there a problem?
└ We call that giving someone false hope.
└ The Heavenly Demon is kind of dumb too lol
└ Does she seem out of touch with the world?
└ Not exactly, but she thinks differently from ordinary people.
“......”
It was enough for him alone to know that embarrassing truth. Demon Brain sighed before he could laugh.
The Heavenly Demon, revered by all, was spending time on the Gallery? Even a beggar would throw down their own bowl in disbelief.
At first, even he could not believe it. Yu Sowol had become a supreme being through martial strength alone.
It was impossible to imagine such a being spending time on the Gallery.
Still, Demon Brain was one of the Heavenly Demon's close aides, and his mind was exceptional, so he noticed quickly.
The most decisive incident had been the assassination of the emperor. She had suddenly taken the emperor's head and returned. How could he not know?
The Imperial Court had concealed the truth by framing it as a simple power struggle, but Demon Brain knew what really happened.
‘What could she possibly be thinking, writing posts like these......?’
The bigger concern was the Heavenly Demon's posts. She spread the enlightenment she had gained without a thought.
Fortunately, people mocked her as an old fossil because of her peculiar way of speaking.
Yet if she had written them in a secret martial arts manual rather than on the Gallery, the Central Plains would have been overturned by the insights scattered throughout her posts.
It was similar to how posts that were practically literature occasionally appeared on the Gallery.
‘This is something I must take to the grave.’
Separate from Yu Sowol's Gallery habits, Demon Brain was also one of the Gallery's finest users.
Most of his posts insulted her. If she found out, his head would fly.
Would that make him quit the Gallery?
[Post title] I'm suddenly curious.
[Author] Smart Demon
[Post] There are people in the world who seem dumb but are actually smart. My superior is like that.
[Post] I get fucking confused about whether she has no thoughts or just doesn't think.
[Post] Is she the type with a good brain who just doesn't use it?
└ There are plenty of people like that lol
└ A lot of people just have weird standards.
└ Character matters more. Does she pay well?
└ [Smart Demon]: My boss isn't greedy for money, so she pays well lol
└ What's your boss like? A man or a woman?
└ [Smart Demon]: A woman.
└ Is she pretty?
└ [Smart Demon]: She's pretty, but she's kind of dumb, so not really my type;;
└ What's your type?
└ [Smart Demon]: Pretty and smart women.
└ You're from the Central Plains, right? How about the Zhuge Clan?
└ [Smart Demon]: Who's that? Is she pretty?
└ Show us your specs first lol
└ [Smart Demon]: Is someone from the Demonic Cult okay?
└ Of course not, you crazy demon bastard lol
└ [Smart Demon]: Too bad lol
Of course not. A dog can't quit eating shit.
Demon Brain snickered. After using his head so much, clearing it was always refreshing.
Of course, he did not empty his mind every time he used the Gallery. There was one registered user who had been making quite a fuss recently.
‘For now, keep a close eye on Wild Grylls......’
He had no intention of helping directly. Yu Sowol did not think much, but she was not oblivious.
He would pretend not to know as much as possible and simply watch Wild Grylls's movements. Yu Sowol was already watching him, after all.
Even if Wild Grylls kept talking about the Forest of Four Seasons, Demon Brain was not convinced.
He would reassess Wild Grylls after more definite evidence emerged.
[Post title] Send me home.
[Author] Wild Grylls
[Post] I miss my mom.
“......”
Grylls seemed somewhat pitiful. Should he help? Demon Brain wondered.
└ Stay strong, bro...... Is your mom doing well at home?
└ [Wild Grylls]: I'm an orphan.
└ ???
└ ;;;
└ [Wild Grylls]: But I think I'll see her soon. I'll go hug her when I do lol
└ Ah......
└ Ahh......
└ Aahhh......
└ [Wild Grylls]: What's wrong with all of you?
He really was pitiful.
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