Prologue

Note: This is an edited MTL.

10 years after a game is released, players are bound to stagnate and rot.

Since there is no new content about it, players start to do strange things, such as wearing only one card or raiding the boss with the fastest record.

It reaches a level where you have to suck it up and reuse the existing content of break-through dungeons.

There are even worse players who even touch the so-called “characters” that no one else ever touches.….

That’s who I was.

‘Aether World’, the game…

It was originally released as a female-oriented dating simulation game, but thanks to its gorgeous fighting style and infinite content, this unique game attracted more male players who were able to play countless characters.

Some characters were easy and boasted the best performance, while there were characters whose performance was the worst, having such a level of difficulty that even a 10-year veteran wouldn’t dare to touch them.

That’s right.

I was a pervert who raised the character ‘Baek Yu-Seol’ for 10 years with the worst difficulty, worst performance, with more disadvantages than advantages, and I do not even understand why.

In the setting of the Aether World where everything was made of magic and everyone could use magic, Baek Yu-Seol, couldn’t use magic, was not popular at all, and even his presence was treated as an extra.

Of course, this didn’t mean that Baek Yu-Seol can’t use magic at all.

There was only one magic he could use, the magic of ‘Blink’.

Blinking magic could be learned by any wizard, but very few people used it because of the huge penalty of a long cool down, high magic consumption, and a 2-second stiffness after use.

Is that all?

Blinking moved you ‘randomly’ to a distance ranging between 3m and 10m, and even the direction of movement was ‘random’.

If you’re unlucky, you could be thrown to the ground or killed instantly by hanging on a ceiling or wall.

In other words, it was a character who couldn’t use any magic other than “blinking”, a garbage skill that was dead because no one learned it or used it.

Of course, there were advantages.

Baek Yu-Seol was a character who had trained ‘Blinking’ to the maximum limit. The direction can now be adjusted forward, the range is also fixed, and the 2-second stiffness disappeared. In addition, there was no magic sticker in the first place, so you don’t have to worry about mana consumption. But that’s the end of it.

The end is that you can use Blink, a garbage skill from the beginning, a little better.

Blinking was a very fast-movement skill, so the moment you pull it against the wall after failing to adjust the distance, you will die instantly due to the tremendous speed and recoil.

In a cramped place full of enemies, he becomes a half-beast who can’t do anything at all.

For that reason, distance control was almost essential, but since it was not easy to control, who would raise a trash character who could only use blink in a game where it was easy and quickly possible to use wrap magic?

Numerous stagnant players took on the challenge, and they all fell off.

But even as everyone gave up, I practiced blinking over and over again, and in the end, I was able to completely control it.

Realizing the blinking characteristic of rapidly advancing, he was able to cancel the skill in the middle of blinking, allowing him to ‘adjust the distance’.

This was easy to say, but in fact, blinking completed movement in 0.1 seconds, so it was something not anyone could easily control.

I fell in love with this flashing character that had to solve everything with just one control and deal with other wizard characters, and I spent most of my time concentrating on the content ‘ㅁ\” with other users.

10 years to do that.

[Defeated the final boss, Black Night Thirteen March.]

I ended up killing the final boss I didn’t even know existed.

“what?”

I was just performing a sudden quest to find the ‘female heroine’ who had suddenly disappeared, but didn’t a black dragon with a huge name appear without question?

“Final boss?”

No, but in the first place, was there anything worthy of being called the final boss in a female-oriented game?

Wasn’t it the kind of ending where you usually get married to one male protagonist?

“It’s the first time I’ve done something like this, so I don’t know.”

Of course, I was holding onto this game for 10 years.

When I saw the boss for the first time, I thought I had to hit it for a long time to die.

It’s a shame because I was wearing two relic-grade artifacts of the legends and had raised my stats to the maximum limit.

“What the hell is this guy doing?”

The Black Dragon.

Still, he was the final boss, so I was curious about what kind of guy he was, so I read the story roughly.

The story was like this.

In the world full of wizards, there was a group of people called ‘Black Demons’ who lived in hiding and acted in this world behind the scenes. It was said that their ultimate goal was to cover this world with a hidden world, that is, the ‘Persona Gate’.

And finally, when the Black Demons completely covered the world with the Persona Gate, what appeared was The Black Demon Dragon.

I wasn’t very interested in the story.

No matter what the NPCs did or didn’t do, I was just enjoying alchemy making and magical engineering myself, so I never thought such a thing was happening.

“Wow. The setting has just been reworked.”

When I looked at the map belatedly, 90% of the continent was eroded by Persona Gate and devastated, and the background of the game, Stella Academy’, was dyed red, its atmosphere dark and gloomy.

I had no idea because I was playing around with other players on the PVP integrated server.

I wondered what the reaction would be if I took a screenshot and uploaded it, so I went to the Aether World community after a long time.

‘What is this?’

The few remaining players’ posts were exploding for the first time in a long time.

[Title: Oh, what a crap game. I lost all my game data because a Black Dragon suddenly appeared.]

[Title: What is Black Demon Dragon? I can’t connect to the game, it says the character is deleted.]

[Title: Wow, it’s hot right now here.]

The community was full of posts saying it was ridiculous that the character was deleted when they returned after a long time.

“what.”

I guess the final boss wasn’t just for me, so is it that the Black Dragon appeared simultaneously in all game data?

“It’s so amazing.”

But there was one strange thing.

I tried to rummage through the bulletin board for a while, but there was no article anywhere saying that they had defeated the Black Dragon.

No matter how much I was loaded with items of ancient relics, I was just a trash character, and there were a lot more players who properly nurtured a character who was equal to or stronger than me.

That said, it is normal that the Black Dragon should have died dozens of times.

At that time, I saw a post by a famous ranked player, and my eyes widened.

[Title: No, guys, isn’t this the boss that we originally put out to catch?]

[Content: Black Dragon] ‘Magical resistance 99% passive’, ‘Magic absorption’ and ‘Magic release’ repeat infinitely without a cooldown, how do you even catch him? We should inquire about if it is a bug]

“Oh, I see…There was something like that.”

Of course, it would be a bit unfair to have the ability to nullify magic in the magical world.

But it’s different for me. Blinking was just a movement skill, so I had no choice but to learn an exceptionally rare weapon skill.

In other words, I was the only player in this game who raised physical attack power rather than magic attack power, and I am also the only player who succeeded in hunting Black Horse tombs.

“Wow. Looks like I was the only one who caught it.”

Filled with excitement, the moment I cast a wide-area aggro under the title [Black Demon Dragon Solo Certification.jpg] to the community and attach a screenshot.

Beep–

“Uh, uh…?”

Suddenly, with a ringing sound that covered the world, the power was drained from the body, and the world began to spin around.

[With the wrong ending, 90% of the Aether World is destroyed.]

‘Wha…What…………’

The ceiling became apparent and my vision narrowed

Everything in this world seemed far away.

[But you are the player closest to the ‘True Ending.]

‘I just caught him…

A bizarre voice that sounds like something bragging about, but it felt strangely distant.

[Please, reach the ‘True Ending’.]

The world had gone dark.