Chapter 141
Chapter 141
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: Multidimensional Community
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I plugged the Multidimensional Community access terminal into my computer.
The moment I did, a new icon appeared on the desktop.
Clicking the icon—which looked like multiple Earths overlapping—opened an internet window with two options.
[Other-Dimensional Community Visit] / [Parallel World Community Visit]
Dimensions and parallel worlds, huh.
It reminded me of the conversation I'd had with Kim Dong-wook just recently about that exact topic.
"So, what's the difference between dimensions and parallel worlds? Aren't they both other dimensions?"
"If you think of our world as a tree, parallel worlds are other branches splitting from the same root. Dimensions are like entirely different trees—or beasts, skies, clouds, or even specific concepts—separate existences altogether."
Parallel worlds were just like ours.
They were worlds that had branched off from our original Earth due to quantum superposition breaking from slight differences in choices.
But dimensions were different.
In our dimension, magic power, internal energy, and spells couldn't exist.
That was why people who could wield such powers were classified as entities or superhumans.
Dimensions inhabited by silicon-based lifeforms.
Dimensions where the principles of darkness and light were reversed.
Dimensions where all known scientific laws were jumbled.
Dimensions where everything was the same but time flowed backward.
Dimensions inhabited by mental lifeforms, and so on.
That was what other dimensions were.
"Shall I check out the other-dimensional community first?"
I clicked the left option: [Other-Dimensional Community Visit].
[Searching for accessible other-dimensional communities.]
[Number of existing other-dimensional communities: ∞]
[Number of accessible other-dimensional communities: ∞]
[Number of other-dimensional communities using languages translatable to the current dimension's language: ∞]
[View list of other-dimensional communities supporting connection and language translation?]
[Yes][No]
[Connect to a random other-dimensional community supporting connection and language translation?]
[Yes][No]
An infinite list to browse?
I couldn't resist and hit Yes, but the screen started glitching out, and the office frog house came down.
"Infinity can't even be displayed, huh."
I raised the frog house again and reconnected to the site.
This time, I tried connecting to a random other-dimensional community that supported language translation.
[Qi Circulation Lunch: How many taps this morning?][3]
[Kangho's 1,201,212th Guy: Ah, wasn't it martial immunity? Why the hell do I have to enlist?!][25]
[Point Soy Here Carbonara One Bowl: Felt the vibe after ages, pierced the heavens. Pretty?][30]
From the titles and nicknames, it looked like a wuxia world's community.
I clicked on a random post first.
Finally got my low-grade martial artist certification after all that grind, so why do I have to go to the army? Isn't martial immunity supposed to mean martial artists don't enlist anymore? Got a summons today out of nowhere saying report next week?
Dormant Volcano Sect: How old are you?
OP: 22
Dormant Volcano Sect: Second-rate at 22? You're an idiot? Exemption cutoff is hitting second-rate before 22.
OP: Why?
Dormant Volcano Sect: 'Cause if you hit second-rate by 22, they figure you've got minimal talent. Stuck at third-rate till 22? You'll never reach first-rate, let alone Transcendent Realm, no matter how hard you try.
OP: Fuck, if I'd known, I wouldn't have learned martial arts!
The way they talked sounded less like ancient Chinese folks and more like modern people.
Photos attached to other posts confirmed they were in the same era as our world.
Off to the site again as a shitty small-company manager to clear the backlog~!
New flying sword's speed is insane? 10-min commute lol
Had to level a mountain, so I maxed out my internal energy and fired a sword beam.
Before.jpg
After.jpg
Meridians a bit twisted, but even shitty small companies insure this stuff well. All good.
That wraps my manager duties; the first-rate grunts can handle the rest.
Gonna take a week off and crash.
True Martial Arts is Fists: Whoa, bro's badass. That's a 500-meter peak, right? One shot?
OP: Learn the sword, sword's the best lol
SuperZMan: Look at him riding a flying sword 'cause his realm's lacking lmao. Real deal would've flown with Sword Flight Technique, right?
OP: True, if I was that good, I'd be at a big corp, not this shithole.
Demonic Cult Toilet Cleaner: Manifestation Realm? Aura color and power look borderline.
OP: Doping lol. Even small companies hand out elixirs for this.
Modern cameras.
Modern construction gear.
Modern clothes. So, a wuxia world that had advanced to modernity.
Did a cultural exchange with the American kids this time.
They had a sparring event, so I led the vanguard? But wtf, their martial arts are so bullshit.
Knew they used guns. Stings if it hits.
Heard they were fast, but these guys use special bullets—filthy fast, flashy moves, totally different.
Isn't gun martial arts just deflecting bullets? Turns out they developed manuals for infusing internal energy into bullets. I'm at Iron Cannon Triple Extreme, and it still punched a hole in my arm...
Conclusion: Can't mock gun kata anymore.
They advanced this much in that short time.
Fall behind and get eaten. Don't wanna peak early—stay sharp, everyone.
Grudge x10 Grace? IDK: Gets wrecked 'cause he's third-rate then talks about their average fist fighters lmao
OP: For real, it's flashy and strong now? They can infuse bullets with qi...
Mt. Baekdu Guardian: Can't underestimate the Western barbarians forever. Martial arts evolve through competition, and they compete endlessly—so should we.
OP: Agreed. But it's only 50 years since the Great Heavenly War—worried it'll spark misunderstandings and war again.
After about an hour, it was clear: a world where martial artists had driven tech forward to the modern age.
"Interesting."
Should I post something myself?
I hit the write button and tapped the keyboard, but nothing happened.
『Lee Seung-hoon, community posting is prohibited.』
"Why?"
『To preemptively prevent further accumulation of evil karma.』
"No, I'm gonna write something normal."
『Still no.』
"This is dictatorship."
『Not dictatorship—guardianship.』
Can't even post because of all this love.
"Sigh, fine. I'll just lurk."
I left the wuxia community and browsed others.
Whoa, they're ridiculously hot.
Same race but I'm a potbellied uncle and they're all sculpted hunks?
Saw a fantasy world too.
Cyberpunk worlds existed.
[Eat Some Earthworm Rice What Nigger Always Come: Wooden Horse]
[Almost Full Cup: This Post]
A world where everything was written backward.
Some dimension made my vision spin just looking at it.
"Hmm."
And between communities.
In that split-second gap when switching, my right eye activated in one world.
No, data.
Unidentifiable black data tried burrowing into my pupil during that fleeting gap but couldn't overcome my right eye's power and vanished back beyond the monitor.
"No one else should use this."
Entities are entities, after all.
While browsing more, I spotted an unexpected photo.
[Man Masturbating with Spaghetti.avi]
[Gotcha? Hehe!]
Thousand Horses: You psycho, at it again?
Once-a-Day Flashback: Where tf do you even find this shit?
The movie I made.
"Possibility" was circulating as hatebait.
『Lee Seung-hoon?』
"Probably the Seats of Justice."
The Seats of Justice were constellations that could traverse dimensions.
Maybe they used that power to link communities and spam my "Possibility" memes across other dimensions.
"Communities are full of users who won't die alone."
『What if this racks up evil karma?』
"It won't. Asked around the World Center incident's end—reposting karma falls on the reposter."
So, "Possibility" was getting abused.
I bookmarked a few dimensions I wanted to revisit later.
"Infinite dimensions, but bookmarks let me return to favorites."
Check three more and call it?
First and second were another wuxia and another fantasy.
The third was fantasy too.
A fantasy novel contest in a fantasy world—what could that be?
Curious, I skimmed the board and realized something.
[Fantasy worlds have no magic, right? Could such a world exist?]
[No magic? Hmm, probably a world more advanced in alchemy and mechanics than ours?]
[Prefer medieval fantasy over modern. Modern fantasy's too advanced—magic or no, no difference, boring.]
[Agree, fantasy means medieval fantasy!]
Their "fantasy" was a world without magic.
"Hmm."
In other words, our world.
"That sounds fun?"
Just writing historical facts as novels would be fantasy to them?
"Shall I give it a shot?"
Wonder what the reaction would be.