Chapter 60
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 60
Chapter Title: Park Jun-chang's Survival Game
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I was stunned by one item in the list that popped up in front of me.
It was an amateur indie game that Jun-chang— the guy who'd just called me—had made back in his first year of college.
It was a typical 2D RPG Maker game, but seeing a game made by my friend on the list felt incredibly surreal.
"Whoa... that's wild..."
Something about it pulled at me.
For starters, I'd acted as a tester for that game, so I knew everything about the endings and all the details.
'A RPG Maker game made by my friend... It must've shown up back when I was picking my first trial too, right? But there were so many options back then...'
I hadn't even known RPG Maker games existed until Jun-chang showed it to me.
I had no clue there was such a genre, but he'd asked me to help test it, so I did.
At first, it was insanely difficult by my standards, so the creator, Jun-chang, had to dial down the difficulty multiple times.
'I told him I'd do it because testing sounded fun at first, but as it dragged on, it got fucking annoying and boring. Just endless grind loops.'
Still, my old friend was burning with passion about wanting to be a game programmer, so I'd buckled down and tested it seriously for him.
'Even the stories adults made up... I knew about it since it showed up in the list when picking my first trial, but damn, as long as there's some narrative, it all ends up in the selection menu.'
Seeing a work made by the friend I'd just talked to on the phone pop up on the list was mind-blowing.
This game wasn't like the other famous or well-known ones on the selection list.
It was just a college assignment RPG Maker game that never even got properly released to the world.
Honestly speaking, the story was fucking weird, the twists were idiotic, and it wasn't even that fun.
'...But the female characters in it—they're all based on the hot girls from our high school days, aged up to 20-year-old college freshmen...'
It hit me that I could see people from my real life reimagined virtually inside the Tower.
A strong hunch told me I might even get to fuck the girls I'd crushed on back in high school, but as 20-year-old college freshmen versions.
To check out what the trial would be and what rewards I'd get if I picked this one, I examined it closely.
Some entries only showed the trial without rewards,
but weirdly, this one revealed even the hidden trials to me completely.
'What's the criteria here?'
The other ones gave super basic trial info,
but Jun-chang's game laid out all the hidden trials.
I decided to check out some other trials first.
< (Drama) Affair and War >
= Your wife is cheating on you. Get revenge by cheating back.
= Rewards increase if you get hit with a kimchi slap. More force means extra points.
= Rewards increase if you hear your kid isn't yours while spilling juice everywhere.
= Rewards increase the more people around you cheat.
= Rewards increase during divorce proceedings. Extra points if the judge says, "See you in four weeks."
This alone was enough to make my head spin, but there was even worse shit below.
= Rewards increase if your affair partner fucks another guy, gets pregnant, and tricks you into thinking it's yours.
= Rewards increase the more you're deceived by birth secrets, NTR sex, and women's betrayals without knowing.
= But if you forgive your wife's entire past, vow to forgive future affairs too, raise the cuckold kid, and live happily ever after, you achieve perfect trial completion.
"Are you fucking insane? What the hell is this? ...Damn, this is peak trash drama level, shit..."
It looked like a completely batshit crazy trial.
I remembered catching a glimpse of it while channel surfing on TV once...
Yeah, total affair trash drama vibes...
'Is this the level of Korean dramas? Is that the "perfect completion" ending? Do women want that kind of conclusion?'
If my memory was right, it got a ton of backlash for the ending.
But dramas usually cater to their main viewers' tastes, so that ending must've been...
The primary audience for that drama apparently wanted a cuck husband who forgives his wife after her "romance," raises a kid that's not his, and hints at more "romance" ahead in a trashy finale...
"This is that whole 'adultery if others do it, romance if it's me' bullshit, right?"
It was a trial that made me wanna puke.
I looked at another one.
< (Game) Baldur's Gate 5 >
= Escape the villain's lab and survive.
"This one's fucking simple too. That's it?"
< (Web Novel) Someone Possessed My Pussy >
= Selecting this trial changes your gender to female on this floor.
= Someone possesses your pussy, making it go into heat and squirt pussy juice and squirt uncontrollably.
= Resist pussy possession attacks for one day and endure as long as possible.
"Oh, this one. It was a pretty famous smut story."
This smut was unique because it unfolded from the women's perspectives.
The presumed male protagonist had the ability to possess women's pussies.
So he'd toy with them however he wanted.
Like, the female lead's in a college lecture when suddenly her pussy goes into heat and floods with juices...
Or she's working cafe part-time and gets so horny she moans sluttily in front of customers and squirts...
Anyway, it's about female protagonists suffering pussy possession attacks from a guy playing with their pussies, their humiliations depicted in detail.
If the women keep getting pussy possessed, their lives fall apart, so... they end up yielding to the true protagonist's persuasion and threats, getting raped.
Honestly, it got me hard, so I'd jerked off to it.
"But fuck. Why do I have to become a woman? What a rip-off."
If this trial had been from a male perspective, I'd have picked it right away,
but since it was about getting humiliated as a woman, I passed hard.
< (Game) Park Jun-chang's Villa Survival Escape Game >
= All active physical attack skills are prohibited in this trial.
= Survive against the killer or escape from an isolated villa in Gangwon Province until rescuers arrive.
= Trial Reward: Survival Skills Lv.1 Set (Survival, Herbalism, Camping, Defense, Evasion, Escape, Stealth, Water Purification, Recovery, Accuracy)
= This trial has perfect completion conditions and hidden trial conditions.
'All active physical attack skills prohibited?'
But I didn't have any active physical attack skills anyway?
This penalty had nothing to do with me.
'But the rewards are insane? Ten passive skills?
The Survival Skills Lv.1 Set means all ten skills, right?
System. Show me the perfect completion conditions and hidden trial conditions too.'
= Perfect Completion Condition: Catch the culprit
= Perfect Completion Reward: Underworld Binding Rope (Item that makes it nearly impossible for criminals to escape once bound.)
= Hidden Trial Condition 1: Identify the culprit before rescuers arrive or before escaping the villa
= Hidden Trial Reward 1: Intuition Lv.1 (Sixth sense similar to precognition; greatly enhances crisis detection instincts. Not for sale in shop.)
= Hidden Trial Condition 2: Subdue or eliminate the culprit before they kill 3 or more people
= Hidden Trial Reward 2: Deduction Spoiler Lv.1 (Rarely, low chance: "This guy's the culprit" appears over the culprit's head. Not for sale in shop.)
= Hidden Trial Condition 3: Uncover the culprit's true identity
= Hidden Trial Reward 3: Stone of Transcending Space-Time (Becomes an incredible item with proper smelting, polishing, or combining. Not for sale in shop.)
= Hidden Trial Condition 4: Everyone survives
= Hidden Trial Reward 4: True Ultimate Salvation Lv.1 (Heals all wounds and status effects on one target and grants 10 seconds of invincibility. Cooldown: 240 hours. Not for sale in shop.)
'Whoa, what the hell is all this? Why are the rewards so stacked?
True Ultimate Salvation? That sounds like a fucking cheat skill.
Hey, System. If I designate myself as the target,
does it auto-activate if I'm about to die?'
< If the Tower trial participant is deemed on the brink of death or in a vegetative state, the skill auto-activates on the user outside of cooldown. However, in floors with infinite resurrection, it asks for user confirmation first. >
'Holy shit, that's basically a spare life. Damn, I have to pick this trial no matter what.
Hey. Does healing status effects include curing aging?'
< Natural aging is not healed. However, artificial aging from curses or spells is treated as a status effect and healed. >