Chapter 39
Translator: True Detective
## Chapter 39
**9. Henry Etta (3)**
It's a fact anyone can know just by watching the site called Dimensional Gallery for 10 minutes but.
The users using the gallery truly have a lot of anger.
Because they tend to fight every single day over truly trivial matters.
FORUM POST
Title: Big Bros right now via dimensional delivery service Three Disasters Sword Technique? Receiving this and learning it but the oral transmission is blocked in the middle? Anyone know what the problem is?- (GIF of a swordsman swinging the sword he's holding here and there)
Ordered it because it's said to be one of the basic sword techniques in the Martial Arts World but it's harder than I thought...
Please summarize it kindly enough for even a third-rate realm like me to understand
COMMENTS
User: You have to operate Qi properly
User: ↳ How???
User: ↳ From there a third-rate bug like you can't understand
User: ↳ Ah you son of a bitch
User: ↳ Lolololol
User: ↳ Honestly this is right words yeah
User: ↳ If any dog or cow could learn martial arts by looking at a secret manual why on earth would a master be needed you retard lololol
User: If you cross over to our Machine Civilization dimension we'd implant a chip in your head and make you a martial arts master in an instant what a pity
User: I'm a long-lived species but even without talent for something like swordsmanship, if you swing it for about 500 years anyone can emit Sword Aura? right??? I really don't understand haha
Like this, even in incredibly ordinary posts, those stepping killing steps with the will to kill the opponent somehow used to overflow.
Actually, considering the entire gallery, a post like the one above was nothing more than a cute level.
Because the cases where users showed killing moves, not killing steps, to sincerely kill the opponent were mostly when the issue of inter-dimensional pride was at stake.
FORUM POST
Title: What do you guys roughly think the hierarchy between dimensions is?????- Big Bro has been thinking about this for a long time
Honestly speaking, even if we are connected by sites called 'Trans-Dimensional Streaming' or 'Dimensional Gallery'
I think it's not that there is no superiority or hierarchy between each dimension
Even neighborhood back-alley thug bastards decide hierarchy among themselves
Wouldn't it be wrong not to have hierarchy among whopping dimensions??
So when you guys look is there a dimension you definitely think is more of a shit-tier than your own dimension
Ah of course excluding Earth...
COMMENTS
User: Lololol fuck look at him blatantly opening a World Cup lolol
User: This is highly advanced trolling disguised as the Number One Dimension Under Heaven Tournament...
User: ??? : Now kill each other
User: ↳ Lolololol
User: But why exclude Earth??? Honestly have to put Earth in the World Cup too
User: Honestly I saw a few things introduced as Earth-made items on Cup Noodle-Zwa's broadcast but it was fr not that great... Just one trick pony of being fascinating lololol
User: ↳ Fr honestly things made by Dwarves are more amazing yeah sturdy and don't break and reliable
User: ※Above Dwarf ground-beggar midget bastards IP detected※
User: ↳ Fr transparent so transparent lolol
User: Midgets so didn't you guys enjoy watching 「Star Wars」 and 「Outlaw」?? When Big Bro looks Earth culture is right to be excluded from World Cup you bastards lolol
User: ↳ Dwarf bastards' personality level is originally like that lol They originally have a severe inferiority complex towards Elves so they can't read the room but now they're blowing up with inferiority against Earthlings too lolol
User: ↳ You this bastard are an Elf right? The disrespectful way you talk is the inferior species Elf itself who only eats weeds and sap yeah
User: Honestly isn't 2nd place among all dimensions our Martial Arts World?? A dimension where the romance of Wuxia lives and breathes and can watch anime on HD screen
User: ↳ Martial Arts World 2nd place lolol A fucking savage dimension where they swing swords instead of talking when pissed is 2nd place lolol Cultivation World would rather be 2nd place you savage swordsmen guys lolol
User: ↳ Yes next dimension making human pills out of perfectly fine people
User: Why is it so laughable that dimensions where everyone is an ordinary person in front of a Dragon are acting up saying they are great lol
User: ↳ Dragon? Aren't they the ones who are about member number 3 of the hero harem? Extras who polymorph then always aggressively flirt with the protagonist whining yeah
User: ↳ Kya learned person lolol
User: ↳ One Dragon in harem members is a national rule indeed lololol
User: ↳ If they can polymorph into a Big Sis who doesn't starve babies I acknowledge them as 2nd place species yeah
User: ↳ Fuck I really fucking hate fucking human novelist bastards seriously...
User: ↳ Lolololol
One of the posts blatantly uploaded to the 'Real-time Popular Posts' in the Dimensional Gallery currently looked like this.
The more surprising fact is that even trolling posts inducing such World Cups were scattered all over the gallery.
To that extent, users in the gallery could be said to be 'sincere' about slandering and degrading other dimensions.
At the same time, deep in their hearts, they were hoping that bugs from other dimensions would unconditionally praise and pat their dimensions.
Just like Seo-jin received cheers from all dimensions revealing masterpieces of the century like 「Star Wars」 or 「Outlaw」 recently.
Dimension Petra... that is, the citizens of the Empire ruled by the Empress also came to harbor this hope seeing Seo-jin's success.
Just in time, didn't they have various 'novels' in full serialization in the Empire Daily?
Harboring the hope that they too could become the 2nd Cup Noodle-Zwa, they uploaded various novels to the gallery and—
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Hmm... Is it to that extent...?
Viewer: If it was before watching 「Star Wars」 I would have thought it was somewhat fun but my standards have already become too high...
Viewer: ↳ Fr to make me have fun bring at least a novel at the level of 「Outlaw」
Viewer: ↳ Bastard the cut is fucking high really lolol
If it had been before Seo-jin introduced Earth's cultural works, the Empire's novels might have achieved somewhat of a success.
Sadly, currently the eyes of Trans-Dimensional Streaming users were greatly elevated due to the inflow of Earth culture.
Eventually, just when the Empire's novels were about to disappear into history without making a big appeal to gallery users like that.
FORUM POSTS
[Among Empire-made novels this is damn fun yeah]
[Non-Imperial people try reading it pretending to be fooled it is honey jam indeed]
[Please be fooled just one last time saying this putting my pride as a dog on the line it's damn fun...]
As if an order had fallen from somewhere, posts recommending one novel came up all over the gallery.
The title of the novel was none other than 「Henry Etta」.
It was the new work in question that has been burning the entire Empire brightly recently.
Naturally, at first, gallery users were busy throwing ridicule at those posts not even hiding that it's viral marketing.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: First of all it's damn transparent so upvote lolol
Viewer: Empire bastards telling you we don't read your novels lolol
Viewer: Even so aren't they fucking pathetic works compared to Earth culture??? (Genuinely don't know)
However.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Ssssp... Nothing to eat these days so I'll be fooled one last time
Viewer: ↳ Battered wife *shiver*
Viewer: ↳ Dog Bro seems to be really hungry lololol
A few users overflowing with time and money ended up enjoying the novel called 「Henry Etta」 pretending to be fooled one last time and—
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Wow...
Viewer: Fuck... This is really an Empire-made novel???
Viewer: Did Empire bastards have a great awakening???? Really what is this????
In an instant, its reputation started spreading throughout the entire gallery.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Fr novel is damn fun though???
Viewer: Since it's a dimension overflowing with mages imagination is GOAT lolol
Viewer: I am a low-ranking warrior of Martial Arts Alliance but I too want to ride the express train bound for magic school...
Viewer: ↳ This bastard why are there so many places he wants to go to????
Viewer: ↳ Fr lololol
To the point that even the users within the Dimensional Gallery gave an evaluation of 'Overwhelmingly Positive'.
There would be no need to even mention what was happening inside the Empire, which could be called the main base.
Amidst the overwhelming hype pouring out on a whopping dimensional level, the newspaper companies of the Empire were also laying out songs of praise for 「Henry Etta」.
▷ 「Henry Etta」 Ascends to 1st place in Empire Daily history in the shortest time... What on earth is the secret?
▷ The author of 「I Was Banished from the Hero Party, Got SSS-Rank Ability and Started My Bloody Revenge!」, Count Celine.... Stages a one-man protest in front of the newspaper company saying ‘This result is manipulated’.... The newspaper company gives no response.
▷ 「Henry Etta」 Episode 1, receives ‘Overwhelming Favorable Reviews’ from readers with a successful conclusion.
▷ 「Henry Etta」 Episode 1, ‘The Philosopher's Stone’. Readers' demands to bind it into a hardcover continue.... The publisher side shows a response that they will consider it.
▷ Various magics appearing in 「Henry Etta」, actually incredibly high-difficulty magics in reality or impossible to implement?
▷ ‘Magic more magical than magic existed inside the novel.’ ‘Is focusing only on combat power truly magic?’ Students raise questions about the current magic system after reading 「Henry Etta」.
▷ The main villain in 「Henry Etta」, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. His identity was actually a black mage who reached level 9?
▷ Famous critic of the Empire, Mub-jin. Lays out a critique on 「Henry Etta」.
...
(Omitted)
What is the essence of a novel.
Needless to say, I think it is ‘Fun’.
No matter what excuses are laid out, readers know the truth.
A novel readers love is a masterpiece no matter what anyone says, and a work that makes one read it twice or thrice not satisfied with reading it just once is a blockbuster.
Lastly, I think a work that makes readers feel like they are directly immersed in the world inside the novel is a classic.
And the work called 「Henry Etta」 that this writer thinks of... it is not an exaggeration to say it is a work equipped with all these three elements.
The reason is simple.
Because while this writer was reading the novel called 「Henry Etta」 the whole time, I recalled illusions.
Vivid illusions as if boarding an express train like the protagonist Henry, entering a magic school, and learning magic.
Even knowing well that it is an illusion that can never exist in reality, this writer couldn't stop imagining this in my head the whole time reading this novel.
Leaving everything else aside, the worldview 「Henry Etta」 presents to readers is too vivid.
Not only the world of mages, but also the descriptions related to Earth coming out in the early part of the work are realistic to the point of giving rise to a delusion that perhaps the author traveled directly to Earth crossing dimensions.
Therefore, this writer can dare say.
「Henry Etta」 goes beyond the level of a simple novel and is the culture of this era itself-
“...Umm.”
Right at this point, the Empress gently closed her eyes.
The reason was simple.
Because she knew what the 'truth' was.
“...Deploy royal guards throughout the capital just in case.”
“...Royal guards? Why?”
Because... we don't know what will happen if citizens come to know about the 'truth'....
The Empress felt sincerely terrified of the future she peeked at lifting the veil.
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