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◈ I Unleashed a Gossip Gallery in Another World ◈
Chapter 6: The Witch of the West
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With no further progress on deciphering the Magic Circle, the Gossip Gallery had started to quiet down in the early hours of the morning.
But the moment the first Arena began, a massive crowd of spectators flooded back into the Gallery despite the late hour.
[Anonymous: Of all things, we're watching an arena match, the kind you'd only see in back alleys, on the Gallery lol]
[Anonymous: Fuck it lol I'm pulling an all-nighter today]
[Anonymous: Upvote if you're planning to watch your coworkers stumble into work half-asleep tomorrow lol]
[Anonymous: The Gallery is such a fucking entertaining mess right now lol]
Until now, keyboard wars and disputes between users had been strictly forbidden in the official Galleries provided by the ruling class.
This “Arena,” on the other hand, actively encouraged conflict and turned it into content.
What was more, a mod-badge wager and dogeza were on the line. Naturally, the users could not help getting excited over such a fresh development.
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[Title: But what exactly is Slave Candidate 1 supposed to be?]
Author: Anonymous (High Elf Sigria)
Even I've been stuck on this for three hours, and I'm a thousand-year-old elf lol
Reverse-engineer it in an hour my ass lololol
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Naturally, the users' attention began turning toward Slave Candidate 1, who had challenged Gossip Gallery Eraser.
Anonymous1: But seriously, where's that confidence coming from? Why'd they even challenge them to a duel?
Anonymous2: I guarantee they won't finish within an hour and will bail lol
Anonymous3: Permanent Gossip Gallery ban if they run away like a coward, go go go
At first, most users watching the Arena had a negative opinion of Slave Candidate 1.
Part of it was because Gossip Gallery Eraser, their opponent, was being treated like a hero of the Empire despite being a mod. But that was not what mattered.
Anonymous4: Who do they think they are, the Elf Queen?
ㄴAnonymous5: The fact is, even that ancient High Elf hiding in the back room gave up lol
ㄴAnonymous6: I saw some people typing like old farts earlier, so I think there were a few dragons here too lololol
ㄴAnonymous7: Every light in the Academy faculty offices is on right now lol I'll bet my balls that bastard fails
The users who had attempted the challenge and given up had subtly revealed information about themselves in posts, making it clear that the challenge was no joke.
Slave Candidate 1, meanwhile, had not revealed a single thing about themselves aside from their baseless confidence.
There was no way people would believe that some unverified random user could recreate the Magic Circle everyone else had given up on in only an hour.
[✪Slave Candidate 1: Brainwashing Magic Circle reverse-engineering progress report]
Yet only five minutes after the Arena opened, Slave Candidate 1 made a post that completely flipped public opinion.
Anonymous1: Huh?
Anonymous2: What the fuck? Are they done already?
Anonymous3: Doesn't that look like it's already ninety percent complete?
Amazingly, Slave Candidate 1's post showed a Magic Circle with the exact same structure as the one Gossip Gallery Eraser had uploaded, drawn on high-quality parchment and ready for an activation test.
Slave Candidate 1: Think I'll be done within ten minutes?
ㄴI'm sorry I failed to recognize your greatness!!!!
ㄴWho the fuck is this person?
ㄴSo there was a reason they were so confident....
By then, people had realized it.
Slave Candidate 1, who had challenged Gossip Gallery Eraser, was skilled enough to justify all that confidence.
Slave Candidate 1: Eraser, you should take your clothes off in advance~
ㄴNoble Lady Gallery Eraser: Will you go out with me?
ㄴSlave Candidate 1: Stop rubbing up on me and fuck off.
Apparently well aware of their own ability, Slave Candidate 1 casually taunted their opponent in the comments, sending everyone's anticipation even higher.
Anonymous4: Does this mean Gossip Gallery Eraser's identity is getting exposed?
ㄴAnonymous5: Nope, they'll only reveal it to that person if they lose.
ㄴAnonymous6: In other words, the master-servant relationship gets flipped lol
ㄴAnonymous7: Is this the end of the traitor who shook the Empire....
‘Looks like they haven't lost their touch.’
Gossip Gallery Eraser himself, Elrod Durgel, had watched the whole thing unfold in real time.
He snorted inwardly.
‘Not that it matters.’
He had just confirmed that the challenger had failed to notice the trap hidden inside the Magic Circle.
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“Yaaawn....”
At that same moment, in a gloomy yet antique manor located within the Western Forbidden Zone.
“It’s hard playing with people this far beneath me.”
A mysterious woman leisurely sipped tea, then dismissed the Gallery window floating before her and quietly rose from her seat.
“Let's see....”
She made her way toward a massive display case that occupied an entire annex of the manor.
‘Considering they threw the Empire into chaos all by themselves, they should be worth about this rank, right?’
The woman with flowing gray hair continued walking until she finally stopped near the far end and curled her lips into a smile.
[Gold-Rank Collectibles Exhibition Hall]
The one stroking the countless challengers preserved on display there, along with treasures anyone would covet, while wearing a sinister smile, was none other than the Witch of the West.
‘No matter what they look like, they'll be worth collecting.’
For five hundred years, she had lived through all manner of events, leaving her unable to find much interest in most things.
This time, though, the Witch of the West judged that this person was worth spending some of her precious time on.
“...I wonder how long it will take before I get bored of this new collectible.”
Her joy in life was tormenting people full of themselves until their spirits broke, then preserving them and owning them forever.
The person she had chosen this time was sure to satisfy that twisted desire for quite a long while.
‘Before I put them on display as a collectible, I'll use them as a chair for a while.’
Just as she was happily making plans, fully indulging her twisted sadism, an odd sound suddenly came from the tea table.
-Crackle....
“...Hm?”
The Witch of the West tilted her head and headed over, then immediately frowned.
‘That's strange.’
The Magic Circle undergoing its activation test was somehow throwing off sparks as its structure collapsed.
‘I definitely finished reverse-engineering it....’
She frowned for a moment, looking annoyed, then let out a small laugh.
“...Well, it wouldn't be fun if it were too easy.”
The Magic Circle's analysis was already complete.
There must have been some kind of error. If she ran the activation test again, it would definitely work this time.
-Boom!
But from the second activation test onward, real problems began to arise.
“Cough, cough....”
The Magic Circle suddenly exploded due to an inexplicable error, leaving the Witch of the West covered in choking smoke as she coughed for quite some time.
“...Again.”
She gritted her teeth and repeated the attempt.
-Kaboom!
About thirty minutes later, the Magic Circle she was trying to force into stability exploded violently on her thirteenth attempt.
Thrown against the wall, the Witch of the West breathed heavily and clenched her teeth.
“Haa, haa....”
The theory was flawless.
The Brainwashing Magic Circle incorporated thirteen high-level spells, each with a complex structure that complemented the others.
Divine power supported the fusion of those spells, while dark magic was interwoven to boost its output and stability.
Finally, if she added the sorcery of the Eastern Continent to convert the medium from mana into the natural energy possessed by whoever viewed it, the implementation should have been complete.
‘Why? Why won't it work?’
Despite following every condition perfectly, the Magic Circle kept producing an unknown error at the activation stage and exploding.
“Ugh....”
The Witch of the West ground her teeth in frustration, then saw a comment directed at her and went pale.
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: Didn't you say you'd finish within ten minutes?
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: Is the ten minutes I know somehow different from the ten minutes you know?
She had been so focused that she had forgotten.
A dogeza and the Eraser punishment were on the line in this match.
-Tremble....
The Witch of the West hurriedly checked the wall clock. With time now truly running out, cold sweat broke out as her body began to tremble.
‘I'm going to lose?’
She did not want to admit it, but she was trembling at a possibility she had never experienced before.
‘I'm... going to become someone else's collectible?’
Fear suddenly flooded her mind.
The moment she failed, she would become someone's collectible.
She, who had spent her whole life collecting others, might instead be reduced to the possession of some unknown person.
-Grit....
The Witch of the West could not accept that even in death. She forced herself to focus and began taking the Magic Circle apart again with all her strength.
“......”
How much time passed like that?
“Ah....”
The Witch of the West's terrifying determination eventually led her to discover the cause of the explosions, but she realized something else at the same time.
The Magic Circle itself was nothing more than a cookbook listing a mishmash of recipes.
To actually bring the Magic Circle into being, she needed a vessel capable of harmoniously holding all the ingredients mixed together like a stew.
‘Fuck....’
The tragic part was that no such vessel could possibly exist anywhere in the world.
Except for one thing: the Hero's Power.
That authority, which could absorb every power in the world and use it as though it were its own, was the final element the Magic Circle required.
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: I saw you had it all made earlier lol
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: Why aren't you uploading it?
“You crazy bastard....”
Only then did the Witch of the West realize the truth, her body trembling as she cursed.
Unless the Hero of the previous generation came back to life, this Magic Circle could not be completed.
Naturally, that was impossible, so the only option was to find the Hero of the current era.
But in an age this peaceful, a Hero, who only appeared in eras of chaos, could never be born.
‘What the hell are you?’
In other words, Gossip Gallery Eraser had created the Magic Circle with a power that could not exist in this era, despite not even being a Hero.
Naturally, no matter how great the Witch of the West was, she could not recreate a power that did not exist.
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: Ten minutes left lol
After realizing that shocking fact, the Witch of the West's face turned as ash-gray as her hair. She hurriedly rose and headed for the display cases.
“Ghk....”
Soon, she rushed to the case holding her most precious treasures and used the Gallery system to take a picture.
[🔒Slave Candidate 1: Take a look at this.]
With trembling hands, she wrote a post.
‘Any human would lose their mind over these.’
The Witch of the West attempted to bargain, offering treasures she had never handed over to anyone in five hundred years.
“......!”
Yet about five minutes later, Gossip Gallery Eraser's reply appeared on the Empire Village Gossip Gallery.
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[(Receipts) Slave Candidate 1, you really shouldn't do that~!]
Author: Gossip Gallery Eraser
(Photo attached.)
You bragged so confidently, and now you're trying to bribe me like this? Isn't that kind of pathetic, hmm?
If you don't want to be a mod, just say so lol
You can go down on record as the first permabanned user and never use the Gossip Gallery again for the rest of your life, right?
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“You... bastard!”
The Witch of the West spat out the curse in a voice brimming with murderous intent when her pathetic attempt at bargaining was exposed in full and posted to the Gallery.
“......”
That did not solve anything.
“...I'll kill you.”
For a while, she sat in her chair, weighing a permanent ban from the Gossip Gallery against admitting defeat.
“I'll definitely find you and kill you.”
When the promised time ran out, she murmured in a tearful voice and rose weakly from her seat.
-Slip....
About a minute later, the black witch's robes the Witch of the West treasured so dearly came undone and pooled limply on the floor.
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[🔒Slave Candidate 1: (No title)]
About five minutes after the promised time in the Arena ended, a private post from Slave Candidate 1 quietly appeared on the Empire Village Gossip Gallery.
[Gossip Gallery Eraser: Tch, not much to see.]
The citizens of the Empire, who had been holding their breath for the result, saw Gossip Gallery Eraser's post and learned who had won.
ㄴMage Gallery Eraser: I'll kill you.
ㄴGossip Gallery Eraser: I'm gonna kiww you~ lol
ㄴNoble Lady Gallery Eraser: The newbie's got a bit of an attitude, huh? Heh.
They did not even need to see the photo of the proud being who had never allowed anyone to approach her, prostrating herself face-down on the floor with a humiliated expression.
[✪(Breaking) Slave Season 2 is here lololololol]
[✪The idiots getting their beauty sleep are missing this lololololol]
[✪Is a selfie verification a requirement for becoming a Gossip Gallery mod?]
[✪Upvote if you think Gossip Gallery Eraser has a fetish for collecting mod dogeza photos lol]
The Witch of the West, one of the continent's Four Calamities, had just been added to Gossip Gallery Eraser's slave collection.
[Notice: The International Mage Gossip Gallery has been created!]
<Head Mod: Mage Gallery Eraser>
Description: A space to freely gossip about mages.
At the same time, the third Gossip Gallery had finally appeared, welcoming the arrival of the slave who would manage it.
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