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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈
Chapter 19: Big Hand (1)
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Sam had been grabbed by the collar.
“Ghk...! Ghk! I-I have no idea either! How he’s getting that kind of power...!”
It was unfair.
He had definitely designed everything properly.
He had no idea what was going on.
“You don’t know? There’s a famous saying in the game industry. If you don’t know?”
“...Tell me?”
“You die!”
Thud!
Ram grabbed Sam by the collar and slammed him straight into the floor.
“If you don’t know, die!”
“Waaah!”
Thud! Thud!
Ram’s tiny fists pounded Sam relentlessly.
“Die! You little punk, die!”
Honestly, they did not hurt much.
Still, Sam rolled around and pretended they did.
“Waaah!”
After Sam let her hit him for several minutes, Ram finally released him.
“Haah. Damn it.”
She stared blankly at the monitor.
“I-I seriously have no clue how that guy is using that kind of power. Ms. Ram... This really is a bug. A bug among bugs. A completely fucked-up bug.”
Sam stubbornly stood by his opinion until the end.
“Hah? So you’re saying it isn’t your fault?”
Ram glared at him again.
“They said he’s gone through being a Hero seven times! Damn it! What did I say!? I told you he wouldn’t be a joke! I should’ve swiped for more coins!”
Ram raged and regretted it.
But Sam did not think so.
“No. It has nothing to do with that. There are limits to how much Hero activity in another dimension can affect the current dimension. His combat sense and strategy might be better, but he can’t actually control mana or gain enhanced physical abilities...”
He was right.
But as with human history, loyal subjects tended not to live long.
“You little... Seriously!”
Sam was promptly grabbed by the collar and thrown down again.
Thud! Thud!
“Waaah!”
As Ram pounded Sam, cheers rang out from Fairy Corporation’s prison.
“Waaah! Just as expected of Yulian!”
It was Ham and Pam.
It was a prison, but as Story Fairies, they were allowed to watch stories.
They could watch any Story setting they wanted, but naturally, they were watching Ram’s.
“This is amazing, Ms. Pam! We haven’t even accepted the request fee yet!”
Ham jumped excitedly outside the bars.
After all, Yulian had carried out the request before receiving payment.
“Yulian said he would never do anything before the money came in...! He said that was what being a professional meant! But he did it!”
It was strange.
Ham had thought Yulian would never move before the deposit came through.
In fact, Jun-il had intended exactly that, and nothing had changed.
This was merely a coincidence.
He had never intended to interfere with the protagonist in the first place.
He had only found the Dark Mage while trying to clear a quest.
But then...
“M-Ms. Pam? What’s wrong?”
Pam, who had been watching beside Ham, suddenly fell silent.
“Just as I thought... Yulian... for me...”
She was tearing up.
She desperately bit her lip, but...
“He’s trying to save me!”
“Waaah!”
In the end, tears poured down her face.
“He treasured our bond from seven runs... I-I didn’t even know that! Because I thought two billion won was too much! Just two billion won!!”
“Ms. Pam...”
After crying her eyes out, Pam nodded.
“Tell him we’ll give it to him.”
“!”
Jingle!
Pam took out coins.
“...!”
Five hundred Heart.
That was 0.5 Afterglow, an enormous sum.
An amount she could invest because she trusted Ham, and because she trusted Yulian.
“It’s everything I have.”
Everything Pam had.
“M-Ms. Pam...! Th-that’s far too much.”
Sending two billion won into the human world did not require five hundred Heart.
“Promise Yulian two billion won, and use the rest to support him with items that may help.”
“!”
Pam was telling Ham to take measures that could benefit Yulian beyond the request fee.
“It will take a great deal of money to interfere with another Story Fairy’s setting. Be careful.”
“Y-yes! Then I’ll go formalize the request!”
“...All right.”
Pam nodded, and Ham vanished like smoke.
Poof!
Pam was left alone in the prison once again.
She turned toward the screen.
At times like this, watching a story really was best.
‘Huh...?’
Yulian had encountered someone on the rooftop.
‘Is that the protagonist?’
* * *
[Mana Punch]
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Mastery: ★
Potential: C+
Description: A skill containing someone’s memories. Gather mana and strike hard.
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Jun-il was looking at the skill window with satisfaction when he heard a voice.
“Did you kill him?”
‘What?’
Someone had somehow climbed onto the rooftop.
‘When did he get up here?’
He was tall and solidly built.
He might have looked impressive, except his clothes were torn all over and his face was smeared with black soot, making him look like a beggar.
‘Ah...’
Jun-il remembered that he was the fireball he had seen from above earlier.
“Did I kill him? You mean that?”
Jun-il figured the man meant the Dark Mage who had just died.
“That? He was a person.”
The man pointed at the corpse with a hole blown through its chest.
‘Ah...’
There seemed to be a misunderstanding.
“He made a contract with a demon. There was no other choice. He’s the one who trapped all the people here. He summoned the goblins.”
“What? A person summoned goblins? Made a contract with a demon...? You expect me to believe that?”
Then again, it might be hard to believe a guy in a cat mask.
More importantly, why was this bastard speaking so casually to him?
“Yeah. Believe it.”
Jun-il nodded, dropping honorifics as well.
- LOLLLLL
- lol
- Seriously, what are you gonna do if he doesn’t believe you~
- Yep!
- Ahahaha
But at that exact moment...
Crash!
The goblins freed from the Dark Mage’s control began to rampage.
“This is bad.”
The man went to the railing and looked down.
Residents trapped in the semi-basement apartments screamed.
“A-ahhh! S-save me!”
“Screeech!”
Crash!
The goblins shattered the windows and began striking the metal security bars.
Bang! Bang!
The bars gradually bent.
“You...”
The man glared at Jun-il again.
Whoosh!
“Did you cause this? You brought the goblins here, didn’t you?”
“What? No. What are you...”
This bastard had just said he could not believe someone could summon goblins.
Jun-il was dumbfounded.
‘Huh?’
As he met the man’s eyes, he sensed something strange.
‘But... how old is he?’
He could not pin down the man’s age.
His voice sounded like he was in his twenties.
But his face gave Jun-il no clue.
His sharp jawline and foul-tempered eyes made him look like he might be in his thirties, yet in some ways, he resembled a teenage boy.
The source was probably his expression, or perhaps his eyes.
There was something childlike in them.
Innocence?
Or foolishness?
“Aren’t you the Dark Mage? Who are you?”
He could not tell.
“Me...?”
Jun-il thought for a moment, then struck a pose.
He had to do what had to be done.
Swish.
“The Line 4 Goblin Slayer.”
“?”
Jun-il discreetly checked the Constellations’ reactions.
- Holy shit LOLLLLLLL
- I’m addicted now
- Fuck LOLLL
- That pose is seriously awful, but I want to keep watching it
Positive reactions flowed in.
But there were reactions like these too.
‘Huh?’
- Isn’t that guy the protagonist?
- Huh? He was the protagonist? LOL
- An S-rank and an F-rank meeting, damn
- Oh
- It’s Kang Hae-il
‘The protagonist?’
Jun-il’s eyes shook beneath the cat mask.
‘It was you?’
That bastard was the protagonist.
The true Hero of the world Ram had created.
Kang Hae-il.
“You’re the Line 4 Goblin Slayer? L4GS?”
And on this side was an unknown masked man.
The Line 4 Goblin Slayer.
“Yeah.”
“Y-you...”
Kang Hae-il’s expression twisted sharply.
“So you’re L4GS? That guy from Line 4...”
His reaction was not good.
Killing intent boiled up.
- ?
- ??
- Huh?
Did he have some kind of grudge?
‘What is this?’
Whoosh!
Flames began to cover Kang Hae-il’s body.
Even from a considerable distance, Jun-il could feel the heat.
Scarlet flames soared more than five meters into the air.
Jun-il could not even guess what Class he was.
It was probably some Unique Class made up at random.
“Receive judgment, you murdering bastard.”
Fwoooosh!
Kang Hae-il charged like a streak of fire.
The urethane coating on the rooftop floor melted into black lava from the sheer heat.
The heat, speed, and power.
Everything converged on one point.
The man in the cat mask.
A fist of blazing fire shot toward him.
Boom!
The sound was so thunderous that even the goblins breaking the semi-basement security bars looked up in shock.
“S-screech!?”
“Skree...!”
But then...
‘He’s gone...?!’
When the smoke cleared, the cat mask was nowhere to be seen.
“There’s a famous saying.”
Only a voice could be heard.
‘Behind me?’
Whoosh!
Kang Hae-il turned his head, and the cat mask was there.
“Too slow.”
- Ahahahahaha
- Damn
- A famous saying: too slow, LOL
- LOLLL ossoi
- Famous saying: too slow
- Nice
“You bastard...”
As Kang Hae-il twisted his upper body to throw a punch...
“Ahem.”
Scrape.
A utility knife was suddenly in front of his eyes.
The blade was nearly touching his pupil.
“...!”
“Move even a little, and your eyeball’s coming out.”
Mana rippled around the blade, murderous intent seeming ready to pierce his eye at any moment.
Kang Hae-il froze.
Gulp.
Only his Adam’s apple bobbed cautiously.
- Whoa LOL
- Is this guy stronger???
- Holy shit
- Damn
- L4GS! L4GS! L4GS!
- This is insane
Jun-il slowly observed the frozen Kang Hae-il.
‘So he’s the protagonist.’
He smelled the air.
‘The concentration is dense. He really is strong.’
The density of mana in the atmosphere was considerable.
‘If I’d taken that hit earlier, it would’ve been fatal.’
His firepower was definitely strong.
Jun-il could sense his killing intent as well. He had genuinely tried to kill him earlier.
‘But he has no finesse.’
He did not know how to use that firepower.
All he could think about was overwhelming and crushing the enemy before him with raw power.
Even if Jun-il’s firepower was lower, he would not die to this guy.
[Current Constellations Watching: 205]
After confronting the protagonist, Jun-il had become nearly twice as strong as when he killed the Dark Mage earlier.
On top of that, he excelled at psychological warfare, tactics, and deception in fights against people.
He could slice a strong-but-brainless guy like this into sashimi.
But...
‘No.’
His goal was not to kill the protagonist in the first place.
It was the opposite.
He had to keep the protagonist alive.
There was no way to keep him alive while fighting, so he had to avoid the fight.
He needed to redirect this guy’s inexplicably burning fighting spirit elsewhere.
What would work?
Jun-il recalled his first run.
‘Probably...’
That would be best.
“Didn’t you come here to save people? Other than that guy on the roof, aren’t the rest of them people too?”
Other people’s lives.
Kang Hae-il blinked at those words.
“Other people...?”
“Down there. Aren’t you going to save them?”
“!”
Hae-il’s eyes wavered.
‘As expected, he’s obsessed with saving people.’
He had identified the man’s weakness.
Jun-il taunted him.
“Do you have time to be doing this? If you leave them like that, they’ll all die.”
Crunch.
Kang Hae-il gritted his teeth.
“You... You really are exactly the kind of bastard I thought you were.”
He looked between the goblins below and Jun-il.
Then he gave off intense killing intent.
“Don’t let me see you again. You’ll die.”
Whoosh!
He was instantly enveloped in flames and leaped down to the ground.
Thud!
With a brutally forceful landing, he began burning the goblins as he headed toward the semi-basement residents.
“Phew.”
Only then did Jun-il breathe a sigh of relief.
‘That was almost an unfavorable fight.’
Jun-il could not kill him, while the guy had charged in ready to kill Jun-il. It would have been annoying in every way.
‘The Constellations’ reactions would have been terrible, too.’
The person they supported, Moon Jun-il, would be getting beaten up for reasons they did not understand.
What could be more frustrating than that?
There was nothing the Constellations hated more than frustration, so they would probably have all hit the drop-out button.
Then Jun-il would have become weaker.
In the worst case, he would die.
But now?
- Damn
- What the hell, Moon Jun-il is insane
- Nice
- I guess he’s a high-tier supporting character
- He’s fucking charismatic
- L4GS! L4GS! L4GS! L4GS! L4GS! L4GS!
- Would calling him the Line 4 Goblin Slayer... be an answer!? Would calling him the Line 4 Goblin Slayer... be an answer!?
- An F-rank beating an S-rank, damn
The Constellations cheered.
[Current Constellations Watching: 231]
Constellations continued to increase explosively.
- Switching over here
- He’s better than the protagonist
- So this is the famous L4GS?
Jun-il was absorbing the protagonist’s Constellations.
A smile naturally spread across his lips.
But then...
“Huh?”
He suddenly noticed something and frowned deeply.
“Isn’t this an experience bug? Why didn’t it go up at all?”
He had defeated the supposedly difficult Dark Mage.
But his experience had not budged.
Naturally, his level remained the same.
- ? LOL
- Seriously LOL
- What is this LOLLLLL
- I guess it doesn’t count as a monster
- Ah... LOL
- He does all the hard work, fuck LOL
- The F-rank discrimination is too much, seriously LOL
‘If I don’t reach level ten, I’m eliminated.’
It seemed Awakeners did not give experience.
He had to kill monsters or complete quests.
Fortunately, Jun-il had a quest only he could see.
‘So I have to do this after all?’
[Hidden Quest]
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Objective: Rescue VIP
Rew#@(#($@&$
*@$a38@()
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The reward was not listed there.
But experience was usually included by default.
If he cleared it, his level would rise.
Footnotes:
L4GS recreates the Korean abbreviation “Sagoseul,” formed from the initials of “Line 4 Goblin Slayer.”
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