Chapter 107
Chapter 107
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 107
Chapter Title: A Week Without Judak
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The Judak Market, which opens three times a day.
Whenever the market opens, connection numbers skyrocket and crowds pour in.
Especially when there's an announcement about new items being added, half the gallery would log in at once.
[Judak Market]
[Tuna Can] - 1 Quadrillion Units
[500ml Bottled Water] - 1 Quadrillion Units
*One item per person purchase limit
- ?
- What, no way...
- Lord Judak, what went wrong?
- Why is there only one Tuna Can in the market?
That market had finally normalized.
"You coming to your senses?"
All sorts of rumors had been rampant for days.
The main ones were that I was the culprit from the outside world, wishing for destruction.
Some even claimed I was deliberately leaving the rifts alone, and so on.
Even in the modern world, people fell for fake news all the time.
Let alone in a medieval setting where a modern-style community had just dropped— it was obvious.
- Knew it, you sneaky bastard
- Fr, why leave the rifts alone tho?
- Suspicious that these items are even appearing in the first place
ㄴ Fr, aren't they brought from outside?
- Knew it since the dictatorship days ㅇㅇ
It got to the point where people were saying the market items were imported from outside, so no one should use them.
So I took care of it instead.
"I'll teach you about dictatorship."
[Initializing market items.]
[Adding 'Tuna Can' to market items.]
[Adding '500ml Bottled Water' to market items.]
The first thing I did was wipe the market clean.
Of course, not completely.
There were still plenty of races struggling with food shortages or in crisis, regardless of gallery opinion.
I kept the bare minimum food supply for them.
[Market items applied.]
Then I began the market reset.
*
[Title: Ah lol don't do it lol]
(Meme of the market with just two items)
Seriously ah lololol
So boring lol seriously lol
Ah... lol
Ah
- Broken youth
- Sigh...
- Fuck, I was just minding my own business, why...
[Title: Ah fuck why does this shit only happen to me]
This is what's happening??? Fuck this is so shitty
I'm a farmer making 1k a month
Even when the climate went totally to hell, I scrimped and saved like crazy
(Old market fridge meme)
Why? To buy this bastard
In this fucked-up world where people die every day, I was trying to live with some goal
Every time the market refreshed, I'd check it out, see how much I'd saved
I was living just for that one little goal
Why do I have to suffer because of these troll assholes and instigators?
Fuck fuck fuck... life is shit...
[Recommendations 12] [Disrecommendations 0]
- Calm down a bit, gallery bro
ㄴ It'll open again after some time, right?
ㄴ (Sobbing farmer cat con)
ㄴ Nah nah, if I were Judak I'd be done too
ㄴ Never!!! That won't happen, gallery bros lololol...
Even the usual lurkers joined the chaos, and in seconds, dozens, hundreds of posts flooded in.
Aimless swearing mixed with tactical nukes and hate images targeted at this moment were wrecking the gallery.
The gallery was starting to slip out of control.
[Admin Chat]
Pure Elf: Judak, what do we do about this?
Pure Elf: The posts are coming too fast, can't censor them one by one!
Dragon Will Die: Refresh once and the front page gets pushed to page 15...
Dragon Will Die: How the hell do we manage this?
Dragon Will Die: (Teary dragon con)
The admins handling gallery management started complaining.
And that's when it's time for step two.
Judak*: Don't do it
Pure Elf: ?
Dragon Will Die: (Dragon con stroking chin)
Judak*: Giving you all a week off, so relax and watch it burn gg
[Sent 12 packs of Caramel Popcorn 65g!]
Pure Elf: Kyakyakya!! What are you doing, boss! Let's booze!!
Dragon Will Die: Snacks and desserts are always welcome :)
Step two.
Just let the gallery run wild.
That I deliberately loosened the market to increase dependency?
Then close the market so they can't depend on it.
"That I'm too much of a dictator?"
Then pull back from management entirely so no one can call it dictatorship.
Turn it into a 365-day free-for-all chaos fest.
- Now's the time? Orc strip memes incoming!!!
- Let's fucking go lololol
- Gal freedom! Gal freedom! Gal freedom! Gal freedom! Gal freedom!
- Freedom has come, we shall be liberated, freedom has come, we shall be liberated, freedom has come, we shall be liberated
And so, malicious spam started pouring in, followed by a barrage of hate image tactical nukes.
"Wow, it blows up in an instant."
The gallery that was fine just a day ago turned into pandemonium in a flash.
But do I care?
"Step three, proceed."
[Shutting down the gallery.]
Once the mood got this far, any announcement was pointless.
They'd just get a thrill from thinking even Judak couldn't control them and rampage harder.
I grabbed a cold cola and popcorn from the fridge.
Headed back to my room, projected the screen with the beam projector, and slipped into my warm blanket.
"Winter's for movies, after all."
The shop sold movies too.
I bought about ten, whether CDs, tapes, or whatever format.
[TOP 10 10-Million Viewer Movie Collection]
"This should last a few days."
Of course, nothing beats the gallery for entertainment, but given the situation.
"Malphite, whatcha doing?"
"Perfect timing."
"Eek!"
I grabbed the passing Penny, shoved her into the blanket, and cracked open the popcorn.
Then binged all the movies I'd been meaning to watch.
Hungry? Meal kit. Tired? Sleep. Bored? Movie. Repeat.
Like that, I melted away about a week.
When I finally reopened the gallery...
[Unread notifications: 99999+]
[New barter requests: 99999+]
[New concept posts registered: 99999+]
- Fuck come back please
- A. A. A. A. A.
- lol ? What is this Lee Sin Jeong
- Gallery bros lost their minds again and found their roots ah lol
- Can't take it anymore, losing the will to live
ㄴ Yeah, just leave the gallery first~
The gallery state from a week ago, chaotic with Judak hunts and dilution tactics.
Now, re-entering, there was no more fuel left—just a smoldering ruin.
*
Exactly one week with no Judak.
The gallery, expecting announcements or explanations, initially took his absence lightly.
- Ah lol doing it again
- One hour and the market opens!!!
- So he bailed without explaining? lol
- No bans? Gal freedom! Gal freedom! Gal freedom!
Trolling exploded, turning the gallery into a public restroom in no time.
But in the end, the gallery exists because of the gallery dwellers.
Trolling needs interest as fuel to survive.
But no bans, no warnings, no attention at all, no matter the trolling or insults.
[Tuna Can] - 1 Quadrillion Units
[500ml Bottled Water] - 1 Quadrillion Units
Just the market with these two items stayed open 24/7.
- lololol bailed scared without explaining?
- Yeah~ gonna keep wrecking it~
- Gal freedom!!!
Even the gallery mocking the situation started changing after 2 days, 3 days.
Instincts faded, reason began to awaken bit by bit.
- But why does Judak need to explain?
- Thinking about it, wasn't this a real witch hunt?
- Come to think of it, those trolls were suspicious...
- What do we do if Judak doesn't come back...?
[Title: But just hypothetically...]
(Empty market meme)
(Meme of shitposts, bait, and hate left after losing momentum)
What if Judak never comes back at all?
Just saying, hypothetical
What if he just leaves forever? Like how he appeared one day and vanished?
[Recommendations 0] [Disrecommendations 15]
- Don't even say that shit
- Fuck, don't wanna imagine it
- Isn't it about time he came back?
- lol You'd come back if people kept demanding explanations and orders all day?
[Title: lol Knew it'd end like this]
(Gloomy knight frog con)
Knew it since we couldn't unite like idiots and nearly got wiped in the great war
Even when Judak gave one last chance handing out stuff, we said no, don't wanna eat
Cursed him to starve, accused him while trolling— it was predictable ㅇㅇ
Judak? Not coming back
That time Judak smiled and posted notice was the real real real last chance
I'm leaving the gallery first, you guys figure it out or keep coping ㅇㅇ
Judak and the gallery.
Was a good dream.
Gonna treat it as my last mirage before death and bounce bb
[Recommendations 1523] [Disrecommendations 670]
- Don't go, it'll fall apart without you
- Ah don't wanna live lol
- Bet the elves went –El- at Judak again
ㄴ That'd be the humans ㅇㅅㅇ
ㄴ Isn't he just fed up with elf trolling?
ㄴ (Elf con flipping middle finger)
With Judak gone, the gallery started blaming each other or losing motivation.
And those who started all these conspiracy theories had frozen faces at the unexpected turn.
"Why did it come to this?"
Inside Adrian's grand cathedral.
The Pope scanned the meeting room with a grim expression.
After the cardinal murder incident, the church's activities had sharply curtailed.
Judak was no longer easy prey to check with the cathedral's name.
More and more people were growing favorable toward Judak over time.
"We tried to reduce Judak's standing and expand our influence, but we never thought he'd just leave entirely..."
The church felt a crisis.
So they spread malicious rumors anonymously and simultaneously.
Whether true or fake didn't matter.
"He constantly denies the gods."
"Truth or lie doesn't matter!"
To give the sinner due punishment, any method was fine.
But Judak's response was beyond their expectations.
They planned to rip him apart with more fake news if he posted explanations, finding holes.
But Judak just left. Taking everything with him.
"Our food situation will..."
"We should manipulate opinion to lure him back moderately..."
Unlike the former crown prince, the cathedral's goal wasn't to kill Judak.
Hide anonymously, lower his standing moderately, and exploit him.
"Judak seems younger than we thought, unable to withstand our attacks."
"Hmm, so that's how it is?"
This time, tone down the attacks moderately and make him watch public opinion.
They were just about to revise plans when.
[New notice uploaded.]
- Oh shit
- Damn, I believed!!!
- Was right on the verge of leaving, thanks...
Suddenly, a new notice appeared in the gallery.
And those in the meeting room grew paler the more they read it.