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◈ I Made a Tier List the Transcendents Are Obsessed With ◈

Chapter 2: Multidimensional Transcendent Gallery

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Sometimes people say a post is loud.

At that moment, I was experiencing the height of synesthetic imagery in real time, hearing with my eyes.

[Did you really bring the real Oz? Seriously? lol]

[Wow, WanderMerch actually pulled it off lol]

[Oz, you bastard. Why the hell am I Tier A? At least tell me why, damn it.]

[Upvote if you've been waiting for this day lololololol]

[Now we don't have to go out of our way to visit the lower realm gallery.]

[So what even is Oz? Doesn't WanderMerch know?]

[Oz, get out here and post already.]

[So when are you doing a Blood Demon Realm tier list?]

The Multidimensional Transcendent Gallery.

A community I had never even heard of.

And apparently, I was quite the celebrity there.

[Oz, you fucking bastard.]

[Oz, you're finally here lol. Post your address.]

[Oz, Fellow Daoist, I hereby challenge you to a real-life duel under the laws of the Great Dao.]

"..."

Of course, notoriety was also a form of fame.

* * *

I had been dumbstruck by that parade of posts for a while, but eventually came to my senses.

Then I slowly began reading through the community's posts.

Shut up and lurk for three years!

Originally, it meant exactly that, but I was somewhat familiar with the atmosphere, so I could cut that time down considerably.

About thirty minutes passed.

"...Is this for real?"

The possibility I had doubted turned out to be true.

That was to say, unless everyone here was roleplaying.

This really was the Multidimensional Transcendent Gallery.

And one of them had dragged me in and invited me.

I had already figured out why.

"They saw all of it."

The tier lists, rankings, and hypothetical battle analyses I had posted whenever I had free time over the past three years had apparently caused a huge stir here.

[What is Oz? Why are they posting this stuff?]

At first, it seemed to have been an accidental discovery.

Going by the common sense I knew, Transcendents of this caliber had no reason to look through a community mostly used by ordinary mortals.

But apparently, one bored bastard had been browsing a lower realm community and gotten thoroughly triggered.

[But it has evidence to back it up...]

[What? How does Oz know the Great Void Meditation Diagram? Lower realm people can't know that???]

[Does this Fellow Daoist not fear the law of causality?]

The problem was that what I wrote was information lower realm mortals could not know.

Since every bit of evidence in my posts was accurate, they had apparently thought it was just some Transcendent's pastime.

But as that content piled up.

And became too extensive to ignore.

[Oz, that guy, seriously...]

[Does it make any sense that nobody has figured out who Oz is yet?]

[Even Asura says they don't know lololol.]

The entire Transcendent Gallery's discussion eventually focused on me.

To them, three years was nearly an instant, so there was no reason to be surprised that the topic had been discussed for so long.

At the same time, countless Transcendents had searched for me, until one of them finally found me.

Then why had it taken so long to find someone as insignificant as me?

Because they had not considered, even for a moment, that I might be in the lower realm.

Even if they had known, though, finding me would not have been easy.

That was because of the so-called law of causality. Simply put, Transcendents above a certain level could not interfere much with the lower realm.

In other words, to find the community user Oz in the lower realm, they would have to search all of Seoul for a Mr. Kim.

But someone had managed something even harder than that.

[WanderMerch! WanderMerch! WanderMerch! WanderMerch! WanderMerch!]

[Wandering Merchant, you're our gallery's hero!!!]

[Is Wandering Merchant your buddy? Show some respect!]

[Light Merchant! God Merchant! Top Merchant!]

The Gallery user Wandering Merchant.

Someone famous enough in the original story that I could guess their true identity from that username alone.

Of all people, they had caught my trail.

[But I don't know Oz's identity?] - Wandering Merchant

I never said I knew Oz's identity;;

I just roughly checked their login range and guessed right.

I probably couldn't do it again. I couldn't even identify their avatar, let alone their true body...

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Comments (39)

-Old Newbie) Fucking Merchant! Nice Merchant! Shit Merchant!

ㄴWandering Merchant) This guy is completely nuts;;

-Passing Immortal) Is such a thing possible? I know Fellow Daoist Merchant's abilities well, but this Venerable One finds it difficult to understand.

ㄴWandering Merchant) All I can say is that I got lucky;

ㄴI Eat Mana When Bored) Just like you to say that.

ㄴWandering Merchant) Shut it.

At least they had not uncovered my identity.

Which meant that Transcendents enraged over their tiers or strength rankings would not come to smash my head in... No, to cleave the planet I lived on in half.

"...So something like this existed."

Once I had put the whole situation together, that was my first thought.

The Multidimensional Transcendent Gallery was a setting I knew nothing about.

Calling myself the Maniac of 42 Readthroughs did not mean I knew everything.

I had only learned the true nature of things never described in the original story after transmigrating here.

This Gallery was one of those things.

The problem was that its scale was far too large for that.

Still, I could understand it to some degree.

There had not been much of the story left after the protagonist became a Transcendent, so there probably had not been time to mention a gallery like this.

"How strange."

In my three years living in this world, I had never even considered that I might meet people who appeared in the original story.

The original protagonist had not even been born yet, and my life was even poorer than that protagonist's, whose life had been described as fairly difficult.

I would probably just keep living like this, then keel over dead when the time came.

The situation was bad enough that this was not even a pessimistic outlook.

Of course, being invited to this Gallery did not change my position in any way.

But I could directly talk to characters from the story who were vividly alive.

My inner nerd could not help stirring a little.

I could not help feeling a little excited.

[Yeah, hi.] - Oz

So that was why everyone had been looking for me?

I'm a little embarrassed.

It's not like I'm some cosmic idol...

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Comments (233)

-Divine Maiden) First, explain exactly how you learned information about this Divine Maiden.

ㄴOz) What information are you talking about? What did I write? I don't remember lol.

ㄴDivine Maiden) How insolent...!!! You will answer for that crime!

ㄴOz) Chomp.

ㄴDivine Maiden) What does that mean?

ㄴOz) I bit you. lol.

ㄴDivine Maiden) ......

ㄴMoonlit Night Walk) lolololololol

ㄴTaking Dictation) This guy really is insane lololololol

ㄴWriggleWriggle) Wriggle wriggle.

-No Existence) Why am I third in the Fifth Dimension?

ㄴOz) So you're saying you can beat the two above you?

ㄴNo Existence) Of course I can lol.

ㄴOz) Go beat the Demon God next door first. You can't even get past a Gravekeeper prepared to die. In pure strength, you're only fourth place. Later.

ㄴNo Existence) Where do you live, you bastard?

ㄴSun Gatherer) lololol. You should be the gallery boss. I acknowledge you.

ㄴBeyond the Boundary) An accurate assessment, as expected of Emperor Oz. lololol.

It was simply fun to talk as though they were other people on my level, even though I could identify them just by seeing their usernames.

I knew what kind of positions they truly held.

As the first post kept receiving a flood of comments and attention, my shitty reality seemed to fade away for a while.

Yeah, this was enough.

It was not like I would obtain some life-changing lucky break just because I had trolled a community with power-scaling arguments.

That was what I thought as I snickered and typed replies.

[Upon reaching 10,000 Points, the Archive and Marketplace functions have been unlocked!]

[Upon reaching 15,000 Points, the Request Board and Sponsorship functions have been unlocked!]

[Upon reaching 25,000 Points, the Personal Message function has been unlocked! ※Default setting: All conversations blocked]

"...Hm?"

Notifications chimed one after another.

Only then did I notice the profile section at the top left.

"What?"

As the post I had uploaded passed a thousand upvotes, roughly 90,000 Points had accumulated.

But I had no idea what those Points actually were.

I had never seen anything about them while browsing the Gallery's free board.

['Point' is a prohibited keyword.]

['Po1nt' is a prohibited keyword.]

['Po1n1t' is a prohibited keyword.]

['Po1234in6969t' is a prohibited keyword.]

...So that was why I had not seen it.

In any case, to find out what those Points were, I would have to enter one of the newly unlocked boards.

[Archive]

The Archive was the first board to unlock.

I selected it.

And then.

[Crash Course! Learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art in Just Seven Days and Nights!]

[For Wanderers Beginning Herbalism: Beginner Edition]

[Creating Artificial Constellations Without Failure: Basics]

[Learning Spatial Severance for the First Time: Dotted Lines Included]

[Learning Necromancy Again: From Soul Capture to Army Formation]

[Learning Eternal Life Through Failed Cases]

[What to Do When You Encounter the Nameless Ones]

"What is this?"

What spread before my eyes went beyond anything I had imagined.

Footnotes:

“Shut up and lurk for three years” translates Korean online slang advising newcomers to observe a community before posting. Several comments also riff on the first syllable of Wandering Merchant's Korean handle.

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