New Channel 6

Channel 1.

"......."

The Heavenly Demon, Yeon Wol-rin, was looking through posts from other channels using her sub-manager authority.

First, Channel 2 was busy chatting about one topic, which was about the 11th floor of the labyrinth.

[A shot from the tavern taken yesterday.] [48]

[Ah... Should I go down to the 11th floor of the labyrinth too?] [42]

[Why don't you build a tavern and inn on the 1st floor?!] [45]

[Is the 11th floor of the labyrinth better in the long run?] [36]

[I heard barmaids arrived on the 11th floor today?] [37]

[You can eat your fill just by catching 2-3 monsters.] [44]

[Kya! It's great to eat my fill every single day these days.] [48]

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Yeon Wol-rin looked through the posts uploaded to Channel 2 and soon clicked on one of them.

[Title: A shot from the tavern taken yesterday.]

(Photo of about 20 people sitting at a table drinking various kinds of alcohol and eating snacks)

If we only ate beer and chicken skewers sold at the Exchange before, it's different now.

We eat snacks that the owner cooks by hand after trading with the Survivor-nim to get ingredients.

Plus, if equipment breaks, they repair it like new, and if you need anything, you can order it separately.

In my opinion, it seems they're trying to make the 11th floor the new base.

So I recommend you guys come down to the 11th floor quickly too.

Yeon Wol-rin even read the comments below.

-OO: But why are they making a new base on the 11th floor?

└Third-rate Mercenary: Because the points you earn are different.

└Only Mining Rocks: It's a well-known fact that the Survivor uses points to purchase items.

└OO: Is the Survivor-nim your friend? Call him Survivor-nim.

-Bird Hunter: Actually, there's no problem living on the 1st floor.

-OO: Because there's an Exchange. The 1st floor is fine too.

└OO: Plus, it's even safe.

-Blacksmith: Do you guys not understand what it means to be able to order the items you want?

-OO: If you really can order anything, you could even build a village.

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'He seems to have a good reputation.'

Thinking that after seeing the post and comments, Yeon Wol-rin also looked at Channel 3 and Channel 4.

Channels 3-4 were fun to watch because they had videos along with photos.

[Title: Did the Awakening ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠Stone pop up?!]

(Photo of a small, dark red stone)

I'm posting it because it did, lol.

It's a low-grade Awakening Stone, but hey, it's better than nothing.

The market price for Awakening Stones these days is no joke, either.

With this, I don't have to worry about food for a few months, lol.

[Title: Why are the bugs so quiet these days?]

(Video of an empty, half-destroyed city)

I checked, and all the bugs are gone?

Did the military do some kind of operation to deal with the bugs?

If not, it means the bugs are up to something.

Honestly, I'm scared of what might happen.

'So this is what other worlds looked like.'

Soon after, Yeon Wol-rin looked through Channels 5-7, but they didn't meet her expectations.

Channel 5 only had formal reports posted, and Channel 6 was already in a state of ruin.

Lastly, no posts were uploaded to Channel 7 either, but she could understand the situation by looking at the last post.

'It seems only one person survived in Channel 7.'

It seemed like they had found hope somehow after the Survivor spoke to them just as they were contemplating suicide.

Furthermore, after looking a bit more, Yeon Wol-rin, who confirmed that there were no survivors in Channel 7 other than monsters, pondered for a moment.

'Since that guy seems to like helping people.'

If she helped the person in Channel 7, it would probably serve as an apology for the incident that flooded the Channel 1 board this time.

'Hmm.'

Then, after checking the gallery for a while, Yeon Wol-rin was finally able to send a 1:1 chat.

[Nickname, 'Want to Regress☆' requests a 1:1 chat.]

[The other party has accepted the 1:1 chat.]

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：Huh? Who are you?>

"......."

Yeon Wol-rin frowned ever so slightly at the tone, which sounded like some street thug, but soon spoke calmly.

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：I know the situation. You're the sole survivor of that world, right?>

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：Did this bastard contact me to pick a fight? Looks like you're a sub-manager of Channel 1, so that makes you my junior, right?>

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：Junior?>

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：Yeah. You should be introducing yourself like, "Senior, I am so-and-so," but what's this? Sole survivor?>

Yeon Wol-rin was momentarily speechless at the 7th Channel Yoo Hyun-min's characteristic K-boomer tone.

If he were in front of her, she would have pressured him with her aura and told him to speak again, but that was impossible here.

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：There is no need to be so prickly. I contacted you to offer help.>

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：Help? What kind of help?>

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：I will teach you some martial arts so you can survive more easily.>

Yoo Hyun-min was interested in the word martial arts, but that was it.

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：Martial arts where you shoot energy blasts from your hands? Who learns that crap.>

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but you're letting it slip. However, I'm in a good mood today, so I'll give you one more chance.>

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：I told you I don't need it? More importantly, I told you to call me senior, didn't I? Do you want to get scolded later?>

"Ha."

Yeon Wol-rin let out a short, dry laugh.

Not only that, but she was also slightly angry.

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：How dare you try to stand above me. You don't know your place.>

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：You're the one who doesn't know your place. Should I tell Min-ho to take away your sub-manager position? Huh?>

Naturally, Yeon Wol-rin quickly realized that Min-ho referred to the Survivor.

Moreover, if she were to lose ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠her sub-manager position, it was clear that she wouldn't be able to communicate like this anymore.

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：To think a man would resort to snitching to others. I was foolish to try and show mercy.>

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：Mercy, my ass. We'll see about you later.>

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：You speak as if we'll be able to meet later.>

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：We'll know that in a few days.>

What Yoo Hyun-min believed he could meet through was [Meeting Shelter], one of the sub-manager functions.

Originally, he had planned to use that to catch other Transcendent-class monsters, but he decided to show this Heavenly Demon a thing or two before that.

<Heavenly Demon☆(1ch)：Very well. It wouldn't be bad to settle the hierarchy while we're at it.>

<Want to Regress☆(7ch)：Don't cry after getting hit once.>

That was the moment the confrontation between the two was formed.

Of course, since neither of them knew about the existence of the Arena, the confrontation was postponed for quite a while.

'Is it the 16th floor now.'

The labyrinth was more than halfway done, up to the 23rd floor.

Moreover, as we descended to around the 16th floor, the frequency of encountering monsters became more frequent.

Grrr.......

"Another monster."

"Shall I handle it?"

And perhaps because I had adapted a little, I spoke while moving one of the Taehwa 9-Style blades I had floating in the air.

I had adapted to the point where I would shoot my gun without hesitation when encountering a monster now, which I thought was a pretty good change.

'It's a hundred times better than being unable to do anything after seeing a monster.'

On top of this, I was now able to resist Sirien's fighting spirit to some extent.

I wondered how this happened, and it seemed to be because I had indirectly received the fighting spirit Sirien emitted in the Arena.

'Or it could be because of the heart of Laistal.'

While I was thinking, Rubyel shook her head as if to say never mind.

"Forget it. It's cleanest if Elisia or Riness handles it. The cleaner you handle it, the more points you get."

For reference, my Taehwa 9-Style turned the monsters into literal mush.

That part didn't matter, but the process of turning those monsters into points became difficult.

'Since I'm putting the shredded fragments into the point supply.'

Compared to that, Elisia slicing them with her sword or Riness killing them with her bow is quite clean.

On top of that, the point supply is better since you can just put the corpse in as is, and there was quite a difference in the points earned.

'If I kill it, about 200~300 points.'

Conversely, if Elisia or Riness kills it, it jumps to 500~600 points.

If you look only at this, it might feel like a loss for me to kill them with a gun.

"You don't need to be too obsessed with points."

I didn't need to, considering the points I was earning steadily even now.

Frankly speaking, even if I killed them roughly, it was enough to just lift the large pieces with my telekinesis and put them into the point supply.

"What are you talking about? You have to earn as much as you can when you can. Who knows when the monsters here will run dry."

"......."

But since she said that, I had nothing to say either.

'Come to think of it.'

The monsters in the labyrinth were limited.

Also, if we catch the Evil God, we don't know what will happen to the labyrinth, so it was better to earn as much as possible.

'The more points, the better, after all.'

In the end, Riness killed the monster cleanly by shooting an arrow.

And I used telekinesis to lift the monster Riness killed and put it into the point supply.

"The points earned from the labyrinth are becoming quite substantial."

"Right? It'll earn even more when we go down to the 20th floor."

"That means the monsters get stronger, right?"

"They get stronger, and there are more of them."

It seemed that when we go down to the 20th floor, the monsters get stronger and their numbers increase.

'Anyway, I think it's been a month since I crossed over to this world.'

While I was thinking that a lot of things had happened in that one month.

[Notice.]

[A certain amount of time has passed since all humanity in Channel 6 disappeared.]

'Huh?'

As I stopped walking for a moment at the message that appeared before my eyes, the entire ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠Hero Party turned to look at me.

"Survivor-nim?"

"Survivor. What's wrong?"

I answered while watching the reactions of Elisia and Rubyel, who looked puzzled.

"Did a message not appear in front of you?"

"Message?"

It seems it only appeared to me, the integrated channel manager.

'It might have appeared to the sub-manager, though.'

Deciding to think about that later, I focused on the message that appeared before my eyes.

[The channel is judged to be in a state of ruin from which recovery is no longer possible.]

[Therefore, a new world will be incorporated into Channel 6.]

A new world?

As soon ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠as I saw that message, I opened the gallery and entered Channel 6.

When I entered, I could see that new posts were listed as if the channel had been completely changed.

[I pray to the God of Light, Lucifer.]

[Please have pity on me and grant me at least a piece of bread.]

[My daughter is sick. So please, grant the miracle of the God of Light.]

[I am grateful to be alive under the grace of Lucifer-nim.]

[Lucifer-nim. Please watch over me again today.]

[I live another day today by the grace of the God of Light, Lucifer. Thank you.]

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"......."

It was good that a new Channel 6 was incorporated to replace the ruined previous Channel 6, but something was strange.

'What is this? This Channel 6?'

Reading the posts, they were all just thanks or prayers to the God of Light, Lucifer.

Sensing that something was different from the world until now, I first found out who Lucifer was.

'Asking a person is the fastest way for something like this.'

I doubted whether I would get a proper answer even if I asked.

But thinking it would be better than not trying at all, I chose one person and requested a 1:1 chat.

[The other party has accepted the 1:1 chat.]

<Blue Saeng-di-shu(6ch)：Who are you?>

<Survivor★(2ch)：I came from another channel. May I ask what kind of world yours is?>

<Blue Saeng-di-shu(6ch)：This world? Why do you ask that?>

<Survivor★(2ch)：As someone from the same gallery, I want us to help each other.>

<Blue Saeng-di-shu(6ch)：Suspicious. I have nothing to say to you.>

However, the other party ended the 1:1 chat first for the sole reason that I was suspicious.

'Not easy.'

So, as I looked through Channel 6 a bit more, I was able to discover one peculiar point.

'There are a lot of people with [Blue] attached in front of their nicknames.'

Looking at it, it seemed they attached it on purpose, and it seemed to have some meaning.

Not only that, but looking carefully, there was also [Green], and rarely, [Yellow].

'What does this mean?'