You Didn't Say It Smelled
You Didn't Say It Smelled
Me, former pro gamer Lee Han-gyeol.
Back in my prime, I was known as the Drafting Demon.
If it was an assassin character, I played an assassin.
If it was a support character, I played a support.
Melee dealer, ranged dealer, mage, late-game hyper-carry.
Because of my existence alone, the opposing team would always get tripped up right from the draft.
In other words, my character pool was just too wide; I could pick and choose whatever I needed depending on the situation.
Sticking to just one character didn't suit my temperament.
And there's no reason why it would be any different in Monolith Online.
The more cards you hold in your hand, the better.
Of course, I shouted for magic right away because of the Dantian issue, but if they're compatible, that just means I can become a physical fighter too, right?
It didn't mean I was insisting on a life dedicated solely to magic; it just meant I wasn't not going to learn magic.
I wrote that comment with that meaning in mind, but······.
[It means there's no reason not to learn magic once you've pierced the Core!!!][12]
[Why magic is greater than martial arts][8]
[Newbie, read this post][3]
[I shall teach you something even greater than that][4]
[Finger Flicking Technique? Is it because of the Finger Flicking Technique video that Martial God uploaded?][5]
The reaction was more intense than I thought.
I thought it needed to be calmed down, so I wrote a long post.
I mean, I have to create the Core first, anyway.
[Hey, calm down;;]
[Author : Amor Fati]
It's not that I'm not going to learn magic.
It's just that in many games, you can't change classes without a class change ticket, so I just wrote that comment as a half-joke.
I mean, you guys said it's hard to use magic with a Dantian and Aura Hole, right?
I just meant I wanted to learn a variety of things.
And since you said you'd train a dragon to do skywriting and even teach me how to create a Core, obviously I'm going to learn magic first.
Magic, I love it, love it, love it!
└Dungeon Thief) This newbie, the scent of a pro is off the charts!
└PoisonCoated) Wow, he didn't get NTR'd here.
└Archmage) T-that's right! You thought well. I will teach you everything with all my heart. In the first place, now that you've pierced the Core, there's no need to learn anything else first.
└Martial God) The doors of our Martial Arts Faction are always open, newbie haha.
└Archmage) BEGONE!!!!!
There was a brief flame war between the Martial Arts Faction and the Magic Faction (the Archmage's one-man show).
After the IR Gallery traffic cop, Puppet Master, cleaned things up, the Archmage taught me how to create a Core.
I didn't enter the tutorial and instead left the Tower and headed to a pharmacy.
The Doomsday Timer announcement is only visible to players who have just awakened.
Besides, since the Tower that rose in the Pacific is under information control by the U.S., it means the world hasn't descended into chaos just yet.
I bought a ton of nutritional supplements, a blood collection syringe, and a brush at the pharmacy, then returned to my studio apartment.
The Tower's messages about courage and praise were bothering me, though.
'One step back for two steps forward.'
Since there were no wounds on my back, it shouldn't be a numerical value.
Probably.
After drawing enough blood with the blood collection syringe, I carefully crushed the S-Rank Magic Stone and mixed it well, just as the Archmage said.
It crumbled more easily than I thought.
└Archmage) The first step is to engrave mana circuits on your body.
Mana circuits.
In other words, mana-exclusive blood vessels.
└Archmage) The efficiency depends on how you draw these circuits, so follow along carefully.
Thanks to the collaboration between the Archmage and Puppet Master, it wasn't difficult to draw the circuits with the special paint made by mixing my blood and mana.
"This is a bit scary."
For reference, Puppet Master had made a doll that looked exactly like me and drew the circuits on it in the meantime.
I guess this was for me to use as a reference.
The problem was that it was a mannequin that looked exactly like me.
The uncanny valley was no joke, more than I expected.
└Amor Fati) Hey, please dispose of that later....
└Puppet Master) ? Can't. I have many uses for it in the future.
└Amor Fati) ;;
└Dungeon Thief) Give it up, newbie. She's the type whose life's joy is making a collection of us IR Gallery members haha.
Anyway, I drew the circuits on my body using the video Puppet Master sent and the bathroom mirror.
I thought my back, which is hard to reach, would be the problem, but as expected, there was a way for an IR Gallery member.
└Archmage) Don't worry about the back. I designed the circuits so you don't need to draw them on your back in the first place.
└Amor Fati) No, I could just ask an acquaintance to do this, but do I really have to?
└Archmage) Nonsense. If you expose it to others so easily, it can't be called secret magic or a secret manual.
└Martial God) It doesn't matter if you regress anyway, but how do you think they'd react if you suddenly asked them to draw a picture on your back with your blood?
"True."
Isn't today the first day Monolith Online officially launched?
Later on, all sorts of crazy methods for awakening will run rampant, but not now.
As Martial God said, if I asked an acquaintance to do something like that, I'd be treated like a lunatic.
[Finished drawing!]
[Author : Amor Fati]
(A revealing photo wearing only underwear)
What do I do next?
└Archmage) Well done. After drawing the circuits, the next step is to change your constitution in earnest to accept mana.
└Archmage) Dump all the remaining nutritional supplements into the solution according to the ratio.
└Vampire Princess) Your collarbones are truly covetable.
└PoisonCoated) If Heresy Purger saved this secretly, I'd upvote.
└Solo Hero*) Newbie, I was going to ask from the first video, but why are your neck and waist like that?
└Martial God) Are you a scholar? The musculoskeletal structure of guys who sit all day usually ends up like this.
As expected, they were the two who could be called the representatives of the Martial Arts Faction.
I guess you can tell just by looking.
I sorted the nutritional supplements and replied.
└Amor Fati) That's right, I'm a pro gamer, it's a job where I sit for a long time.
└Amor Fati) But Archmage-nim. Is there any guarantee that the ingredients are the same in your world?
└Archmage) Don't worry. The translation function of this IR Gallery has gone beyond a transcendent level.
└Archmage) Above all, why would I be the Archmage for no reason? Just trust me.
└Amor Fati) OK OK.
And so, I spent quite a while racking my brain, sorting the nutritional supplements one by one.
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"Done!"
I held up the cup filled with a horrific purple liquid and took a verification photo.
Now, I just had to drink this to create that organ called a Core, right?
My heart is pounding.
Because I can see a way to take down that Orc Chieftain bastard.
[I'm going to drink it now!]
[Author : Amor Fati]
(Photo of a cup filled with a horrific purple liquid)
Mage class change quest complete!
└Archmage) Wait a moment.
└Archmage) Wait.
└Archmage) Not at home, outside.
For a moment, it seemed like a comment was posted, but it was deleted like lightning, so I couldn't check the content.
"What was that? It seemed like a comment was posted. Was I imagining it?"
Well, if it was important, they would have told me in advance from the beginning.
└Solo Hero*) Newbie, go for it right now.
See.
Even the Head Admin of the IR Gallery is telling me to drink it right away.
"There's no time to hesitate!"
I immediately held my nose and gulped it down in one go.
"Ugh!"
I expected it, but the taste was more terrible than I imagined.
No, shouldn't it be normal not to taste anything if I hold my nose?
Why does it taste like fish fermented in a sewer?
I barely managed to stop myself from vomiting.
"Gulp, guuulp!"
How much did this elixir cost, anyway?
I have no intention of wasting an elixir made by grinding up an entire S-Rank Magic Stone as vomit.
Above all, if I don't have this, I'd have to suffer for 30 years!
"Ugh!"
With superhuman patience, I licked the elixir clean without leaving a single drop.
The reaction came immediately.
Paaaat-!
The circuits I drew on my body started to glow, and a horrific chest pain assaulted me.
"Uh, ugh."
How should I describe this pain?
It feels like my upper body is being squeezed by a press.
It wasn't a level where I could endure it with mental fortitude or anything.
The only fortunate thing was that I could pass out without worry.
Since the Archmage told me not to try to endure it and just pass out, that seemed to be the right way.
I passed out, feeling something hot welling up in my chest and the sensation of something being expelled from my entire body.
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Ding!
Ding!
Ding!
└Archmage) You damn Head Admin!!!
└Solo Hero*) Hahahahahaha.
└Solo Hero*) Archmage, were you trying to use a shortcut?
└Solo Hero*) I was watching with hawk eyes.
└Martial God) Old man, even so, you have to watch this haha.
└Vampire Princess) To think you'd try to interfere with the 'real' initiation ceremony of a time-honored tradition, how impudent!
└Heresy Purger) I... I still don't really know ㅠㅠ Do we have to do this every time?
└Dungeon Thief) You don't need to clean up if you regress anyway.
└PoisonCoated) Adding one more trauma haha.
└Puppet Master) Anyway, everyone has such f*cked up personalities;;
└Solo Hero*) So, are you going to pass up this reaction that you can only see once?
└Puppet Master) ......Honestly, I do want to see it.
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Some intense malice struck my nose.
Yes, this is a kind of thing that can only be described as malice.
As the smell pierced my nose, my submerged consciousness snapped back to the surface.
"Crazy, what is this smell!"
Cough, cough.
I coughed involuntarily.
I had never smelled such an intense odor in my life.
I immediately got up and ran toward the air purifier.
It was almost in the realm of instinct.
Whoosh-!
Bang!
"Argh!"
What is this?
I just got up and ran, but I hit my head on the wall.
My body became unbelievably light.
It's not that my weight decreased, but it felt like my body reacted before my thoughts?
Furthermore.
Thump, thump.
The energy extending from my heart was flowing through my entire body like an active volcano.
Of course, what's important right now isn't that my body feels like it's going to fly away.
What was important was that I was being left in a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense drill without a gas mask.
"Argh!"
I quickly turned the air purifier to maximum output and threw open all the windows in the house.
Papapapat!
The time it took for this process, just 3 seconds!
"Phew, gasp!"
Even though it was a windy day, the smell showed no signs of dissipating easily.
'What on earth is this?'
No one said anything about a smell during the process of creating a Core!
I immediately turned on the IR Gallery, intending to give them a piece of my mind.
"No, these crazy bastards!"
[Are you guys sane?]
[Author : Amor Fati]
What are you going to do about my house!!!
The smell won't go away, f*ck.
└Archmage) I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. Even if I had a hundred mouths, I would have nothing to say.....
└Archmage) I was even using time dilation magic to look for an opportunity, but that rotten Head Admin was so fast;;
└Solo Hero*) The smell is killer, right? Hahahaha.
└Martial God) You've become healthier, haha.
└Vampire Princess) Hahahahaha.
└Heresy Purger) I'm sorry, brother...
└Dungeon Thief) Ah, this is so funny hahahaha.
└PoisonCoated) Just run to the Tower haha.
└Puppet Master) Newbie. Sorry. There has to be something like this for it to be fun to browse the gallery.....
"Sigh······."
I really didn't know this IR Gallery yet.
The newbie was deceived again today.
I was completely deceived.
"Ugh."
Anyway, the smell is truly hopeless.
I can already hear the lady from upstairs making a fuss, saying, "Oh my goodness!"
'I'm sorry, ma'am.'
She was a nice lady from upstairs who never made any noise between floors.
This is all because of the IR Gallery members.
"Next time, I'll have to go to a place like a park restroom."
This is not a smell of this world.
My senses are so sensitive that it feels twice as painful.
"Head Admin, you made a mistake."
You dared to delete the comment of my Archmage master who was trying to help me?
You were definitely from the same Martial Arts Faction as Martial God, right?
For the time being, I won't even glance at martial arts.
I've already made over five super plays by luring enemies with low HP.
Teasing them by acting like I might switch to the Martial Arts Faction is a piece of cake for me.
"Phew."
Enough with the distracting thoughts.
The Core has settled in my body, and my overall character stats have definitely jumped up.
Squeeeeze-
Just clenching my fist feels different.
This will work.
Magic aside, even just looking at my pure physicals, I can definitely counter the Orc Chieftain's first pattern.
"Orc Chieftain, just wait."
My body was itching because I wanted to test anything right away.
I turned on the IR Gallery and called for the Archmage.
[Hey, it feels like energy is boiling over in my body]
[Author : Amor Fati]
At this level, I feel like I could slaughter an Orc Chieftain, no, make it so it can't even open its mouth.
So, how do I use QWER?
└Archmage) It translates to you asking for the basic mana operation method.
└Archmage) First, enter the Tower.
"That's true, too."
Above all, I really can't stand the smell.
I immediately ran to the Tower.
It wasn't because the lady from upstairs was coming down, shouting, "Young man! Young man!"
"Enter!"