Prologue: The World of Shinchang Bulpae
One day, I opened my eyes and found myself inside a novel.
I had transmigrated into the world of The Invincible Divine Spear (Shinchang Bulpae), a story about a protagonist who saves the Murim world from evil villains attempting to conquer it. And I had been thrust into that very world.
Of all things, I ended up as an extra who hadn't even been mentioned or seen... No, perhaps being an extra might have been a better situation. At least I would have made an appearance in the novel. In a typical martial arts story, I might have been able to live a decent life, but things are different in The Invincible Divine Spear.
When the wars break out, everyone dies left and right... Being this kind of extra is truly troublesome. By the latter half of the novel, there are almost no factions left alive. Why? Because they all died.
"...I'm going to die, aren't I?"
The only way to survive was to become strong.
"W-wait, young hero, let's talk about this...!"
I had to use the Sun and Moon Yin-Yang Divine Art, which makes one stronger the more they have sex with women... So, I had no choice.
It happened a little while ago.
"Whoa, you're really pulling an NTR drift here? You devilish bastard... You aren't actually going to end it like this, are you?"
Minchul closed the novel window he had been reading. The novel he was reading was a martial arts story titled The Invincible Divine Spear. It was a generic, run-of-the-mill story where a protagonist with the nowadays-common cliché of transmigrating into the Murim world receives training from a hidden master who was the greatest under heaven in a previous generation, gains various fortuitous encounters, becomes an absolute master, and saves the Murim from evil villains trying to conquer it.
It was a more common story than one might think, but when it was first serialized, it was popular because of its novel ideas. Of course, that was a thing of the past...
The popularity that had peaked due to its interesting subject matter didn't last long. By the time the middle chapters were being serialized, readers began to notice something was wrong and started dropping off, and the view counts began to plummet endlessly. It was bound to be difficult to sustain for long, given the settings that were roughly cobbled together on the fly by the author's whims and the hard-to-understand probability of events.
It was a novel where only the protagonist's journey was well-received, but soon even that became poison, and the popularity vanished in an instant. I was the only one left reading the latest chapter that had just been uploaded.
There are still so many loose ends, so why is he trying to wrap it up with such a trashy development, handing off the heroines so quickly? Is it because of the game release based on The Invincible Divine Spear and his next project?
Perhaps the overall setting was suitable for a game, as rumors were circulating that a game based on the novel was being made.
Fucking hell... You idiot author, even so...
Thinking that, I felt a sense of resentment toward the author for ruining the novel, along with the frustration of having read it until now.
It would be a while before she arrived anyway. I might as well write a review for the first time in a while.
After writing a review filled with harsh criticism, I realized quite a bit of time had passed. It was about time for her to arrive, and while I was thinking that, I saw a message notification at the top of the novel app.
Nickname: ShinchangBulpae? Isn't that the author?
Hello? KMC1541, thank you for your deep interest and affection for my novel. I have read the review you wrote with gratitude and fully understand, but with my imagination, this was the best way to progress the story. I am sorry for disappointing a loyal reader. Instead, I would like to give you a gift that I think you would like, would that be okay?
I was truly surprised that the author had sent a message directly. Did I leave a harsh review for nothing? But a gift... Because I had left a harsh review, I didn't really feel like receiving it. It would probably be better not to accept it.
Just as I was about to write a reply declining, a sentence written at the very bottom of the message caught my eye.
Reader, don't be like that, please just think of it as my heart and accept it.
What is this... What is this message that seems to know exactly what I was going to say? I felt a slight chill. I have to make sure to tell them I won't accept it. The moment I was about to refuse, a beautiful woman appeared before me. She was the person I had been waiting for.
"Hehe, Minchul, you've waited a long time, right? I'm sorry."
"No, I just got here too. Shall we go in first?"
Yeah, I can think about things like that later. Sex comes first.