Chapter 148
Chapter 148
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 148
Chapter Title: Sealing the Rifts
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The rift was sturdy.
But now that I thought about it, something was off.
- How the fuck is it sturdy, you asshole?
Doesn't it need a form to be sturdy or squishy in the first place?
Even a rift that just looks like a portal clearly had a frame.
You could confirm this on days when it rained or snowed.
"Snow's piling up?"
The upper and lower parts of the rift definitely existed, except for the one leading outside.
Plus, it had been proven with chemical weapons before.
Rifts were living beings.
"Then we gotta give it the new world treatment?"
Rifts were one-way.
You could go in, but you couldn't come out.
"Then I'll just go in halfway."
But what if you only went in halfway?
I'd tested this before with the holy sword.
As long as you didn't fully enter the rift, you could come out anytime.
"If I plaster cement from inside, does it spill outside?"
Then just plaster from outside too.
[Title: Fuck no, where are you going?]
(Gallery doctor meme with half his body through the rift)
(Alba workers shocked and terrified meme)
They were bitching about the cement not setting or whatever, then suddenly shoved his body in, fuck.
No time to stop him, for real.
Am I seeing this right?
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- ?
- ???
- (Elf pottery kon grabbing his head)
The gallery doctor shoved his upper body straight into the rift and started plastering.
Excellent Doc: This place is amazing. So many ugly assholes welcoming me.
Excellent Doc: (Black background meme)
Unfortunately, the gallery couldn't capture photos from outside the rift.
All the memes he sent back, marveling at it, were completely blacked out.
About 10 minutes later, the gallery doctor came back.
More precisely, just the upper body part that had gone in returned drenched in blood.
"Hiiiik!"
- Holy fuck, this is the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life.
- What the hell kind of beast is that?
- Elfkiiiiaaaah!!!
Some alba workers who had gathered out of curiosity screamed and fell over at the sight.
Judak*: You good?
Excellent Doc: Countless Karens tried to mess up my plastering.
Excellent Doc: So I let them taste my excellent gallery spicy bullet.
There had been interference from the beasts outside, but luckily, he'd managed to convince them.
"Did you take 'em out!"
But the rift was fine.
Even after the plastering, there was no dramatic change.
- What the hell?
- Rifts appear even in water.
- Judak, you retard?
ㄴ Judak*?
ㄴ Why does he always pull out methods we never think of? Real genius?
ㄴ lmao fuck full body twist
ㄴ Permanent ban difficulty 9999
Of course, the gallery reacted hotly to me, but it was still too early.
"We don't know yet..."
Cement takes a long time to fully set anyway.
From one or two hours to a day or two.
After leaving it alone for a week like that, the cement started to harden bit by bit.
And when it fully solidified...
- Kururuk!
The rift covered in cement suddenly made a weird noise, then dried up, twisted, and crumpled.
- No way, it actually worked?
- What, it's a pushover?
- ?
The rift had a huge weakness.
"Bro, wiggle your toes."
It only had high physical defense.
*
Rifts were pushovers.
Even putting it nicely.
In the worst terms, they were reverse trash mobs with only high physical defense.
Seemed invincible until you learned the weakness, then ridiculously easy to take down.
"Set the cement and let it eat it."
There were sister products like shellac green paint made with toxic gas, arsenic, and lead.
Or just light a bonfire and point a fan at the rift to blow the smoke in.
- Kururuk.
Every time, the rift couldn't even react before drying up and twisting away.
- What, it dies even to a campfire?
- Thought it was tough, turns out it's a one-trick pony... total pushover...
"It's resolving way too easily."
Of course, since the rifts had been a long-standing problem, solving them this easily left a strange unease.
But shaking off that unease for a moment, I opened the gallery and went to the concept posts.
"Everyone must be buzzing about the rifts, right?"
The gallery was always at each other's throats.
But this time, maybe it'd be harmonious—I'd connected with that expectation.
- Elves ← What's the difference from real cats?
- Truly top 3 most disgusting race.
- How do they manage to be hated by almost every race? lmao
- Elves >>>> Humans
- Dumb idiot.jpg
- They started it first and now they're disgusted ^^
- Humans are the dumbest race lmao
"No way."
Of course, it was nonsense.
I let out a hollow laugh looking at the gallery rife with curses and hate.
Of course, appropriate hate is good.
"Curses and high-nic slicing? Welcome."
The gallery's driving force wasn't called instinct and dopamine for nothing.
As long as they kept it within bounds, I didn't care.
But this concept post was a bit different.
It wasn't just infighting between specific groups—it was full-on faction war.
- Pointy-ears get wrecked instantly lmao
- World Tree one-trick, but World Tree's gone, right?
ㄴ Nonexistent race lmao
ㄴ Yeah, never existed ^^
ㄴ (Elf digging with ears pic)
ㄴ (Human and orc kissing pic)
ㄴ Wanna throw down, fucker?
"Hmm."
The audience was maybe a few people.
Hundreds of fighters on the ring.
From petty pad-lip to all sorts of hate memes and tactical nukes flying everywhere.
"It's getting a bit extreme."
Debates and arguments were welcome, but faction wars were not.
Especially when political or racial disputes blew up, the gallery turned into a dead gallery.
"That can't happen."
I can skip meals.
I can go without water.
But I gotta gallery.
I hurriedly wrote an announcement.
[Notice: It's me]
Writer: Judak*
(Hug me elf kon)
(Hugged you human kon)
(Human and elf hugging meme)
This gallery aims for harmony among all races.
Please stop the pointless hate and faction fights.
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- Ah fuck, this ain't it!!!!!
- No fuck
- At least swap elves for orcs, fuck
ㄴ (Orc and human nude chat meme)
ㄴ You fucker
- Why would you do this...?
- Elfkiiiiaaaah!
- (Squished cat elf kon)
Luckily, the faction war that seemed endless evolved thanks to my notice meme.
"Well, two races hating each other is daily life anyway."
But sometimes it escalated into serious emotional fights like this.
Still, no point in fighting.
Racial discord is exactly what the beasts want most, so that's when Judak's presence is needed.
"Obvious, isn't it?"
You can't clap with one hand.
100% one race started it first.
And in this place, the race with strong narcissism that loves picking on others was only one.
"No need to check, it's elves."
From pre-Great War days to now, unofficial #1 most hated by all races.
The one race that broke the fantasy medieval cliché of humans being obviously hated: elves.
I figured they must've bragged about themselves as usual and happily scratched at humans.
- Judak* Go apologize to elves.
ㄴ Huh?
ㄴ We didn't do shit, you fuck!!!
ㄴ Judak* Getting mad?
ㄴ (Elf kon lying on floor bawling)
ㄴ Why... why...!
At first, they naturally denied it.
Elves swarmed my chat, clutching at my hem.
But even this was familiar.
- Judak* Wanna check?
ㄴ Judak* But elves means 1-day ban across Elrad.
ㄴ Hieeek
ㄴ Heeek
So I pulled out a bigger card.
Mainstream ban.
Usually, pulling this made elves admit fault and crumple.
But the reaction was different from usual.
- For real... for real, elves didn't start it!!!
- Lord Judak hates only us, eek!
- Lord Judak only likes humans... favoritism...
"Hmm?"
Even with soju on the line, they kept insisting innocence.
To see the truth from elves, dangle soju.
That's how the saying went.
"But elves didn't start it?"
Elves wouldn't act like this.
So I personally dug through the gallery.
First, I opened about ten gallery tabs.
From when the rift bait was dying down, up to when I spotted the concept post.
Checked every post and concept post.
That's when one title caught my eye.
[Title: Elves, please read!]
(World Tree hitting elf meme)
(Smashing Chamisul on the floor meme)
(Slowly tearing a leaf vertically meme)
lmao
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- What are you doing!!!
- H-how could this...
- You demon human, apologize right now!!!!!
"No, it's real."
Right when rift bait was peaking.
Out of nowhere, unprovoked mass attack on elves.
The memes were mostly smashing soju bottles on the floor or kicking them.
"This can't be elves."
Things elves would never do.
Not your typical elf spy pretending to be human.
But this kind of trolling happens occasionally.
The problem was this post wasn't the end.
[Title: I'm the human who wrote that last post, sorry elves...]
(Drinking somac with Chamisul meme)
(Dipping mint choco in Chamisul meme)
Crazy after eating only grass
I'll make your blood boil lmao
Beg for mercy lmao, maybe I'll let it slide?
Bored lately, time to lay down the law.
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- Hieeek!!!
- Kyaaak!
- Where do you live!!!
- Looks tasty...
ㄴ ?
That post was just the starting point, as if baiting elves nonstop.
"But how does it know so well?"
The problem was it knew too well.
Exactly which buttons would make elves freak out, posted perfectly.
Skill beyond typical trolls.
"Speech pattern's weird too."
Not quite human either.
But that pulled massive aggro.
- lmao agree
- Spot on every time
- Patriot, we support you
Passing human gallers joined in, escalating the mess, and elves countered.
Eventually, grudges piled up beyond words.
"If I force a resolution now, it'll backfire and blow up bigger?"
I could sanction the gallery right away.
But obviously, it'd just deepen real-life and inner hate between races.
Wondering how to fix this...
[43% until next level 12.]
[Unlockable Systems]
1. Real-life Gallery
2. ???
"Oh."
Perfect solution appeared right in front of me.