NOVEL WEB – Chapter 16
I love browsing through communities on the internet.
Communities, where all sorts of human characters gather, let me ponder various thoughts.
Seeing opinions diverge even on the same topic is quite enjoyable.
Of course, I don’t jump in to pick sides.
I’m someone who can acknowledge differences in thought.
【New Dimension Gallery】
【Title: Why Isn’t This Heal Working?】
【Posted by: Newrin (Gender: Unknown)】
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Considering I’m a Priest, shouldn’t it be around 600?
【Likes: 0 / Dislikes: 0】
Of course, excluding Heretics. That’s not a different thing; it’s just wrong.
But this person doesn’t seem to know that yet, so I should step in and explain personally.
Looking at the nickname, they’re still a newbie, so if I step in and talk, they might realize their mistake.
【Likes: 0 / Dislikes: 1】
But still, since they’re Heretics, I’ll start with a dislike.
ㅇㅇ: I think it’s because they’re a Heretic.
└Newrin: Heretic? Does the game have such a system?
└ㅇㅇ: Yep, it says the job is Priest or Paladin, but they’re all Heretics.
└Newrin: ? Really? This game is crazy, LOL.
└Newrin: So what should I do?
└ㅇㅇ: First, I think you should change your job.
└ㅇㅇ: Or just create a new character altogether.
└ㅇㅇ: Alchemist is pretty good right now.
The flow is nice.
Recently, those who are Heretics just refuse to admit their mistakes.
No matter how much they break their heads, they don’t recognize they’re wrong.
When I see that, they seem much harsher than the Heretics from the other world.
The Heretics over there would repent their sins if they just broke their heads once.
Well, that’s partly due to my incredible skills, and the situations are quite… no, completely different.
“Ah….”
Damn it.
I shouldn’t have thought about it.
The sudden wave of enlightenment is making my stomach churn.
I was already annoyed by the talk about concepts in yesterday’s broadcast.
What you don’t know is that real gods exist, and, huh? If I don’t believe in them, I’m a Head-Broken Inquisition Officer? What’s up with that?
Even if it’s just a game, the fact that believing in some strange god gives you power awakens the thorough spirit of an Inquisition Officer inside me.
If a person works this hard, at least think, “Huh? Is there really something?”
“Phew…”
No, right. Saying that they don’t know is unavoidable.
From their perspective, I must seem like a crazy woman.
Honestly, I want to spill everything like, “Actually, I’m on my second life. I lived in a Fantasy World until my birthday, then suddenly moved to Earth.”
Of course, no one would believe me, but still.
In conclusion, Iya is a bad woman.
A bad woman. After all my hard work.
Even though I did everything I didn’t want to do, you toss me aside like this?
If you’re sending me back to Earth, at least give me a nice severance pay for all the trouble.
…Having a house under my name and living expenses for 18 months is not a bad deal, right?
No. Let’s just say you’re a bad woman, Iya.
One day, you will definitely be cursed. I will break your head for sure.
You think your head won’t get broken? Just you wait, you bad woman.
As long as you’re alive, even a god’s head will break, right?
“Ugh.”
I just wasted time reflecting for no reason.
A Heretic, who looked like they would repent easily, has come.
That newbie, still here…
└ㅇㅇ: I think you should change your job.
└ㅇㅇ: Or just create a new character altogether.
└ㅇㅇ: Alchemist is pretty good right now.
└Newrin: Alchemist?
└Newrin: How good is it?
└Newrin: Where did this person go?
└Mararico: What nonsense are you talking about?!
└Mararico: Hey newbie, don’t worry about that; it’s just your proficiency issue.
└Mararico: There are so many idiots because of that Inquisition Officer.
└Newrin: Oh, is that so? Thanks.
└Mararico: Yeah, don’t feed the nonsense rumor.
└Newrin: Okay, okay.
What the heck.
What did this person do?
Why are they meddling in my conversation and ruining my plan?
└Mararico: Yeah, don’t feed the nonsense rumor.
└Newrin: Okay, okay.
└ㅇㅇ: What are you doing? Seriously.
└ㅇㅇ: Luring someone who knows nothing to some weird place.
└Mararico: What did you just say, you idiot?
└ㅇㅇ: How can you encourage someone who doesn’t know anything to become a Heretic??
└Mararico: You really are an idiot, LOL.
└Mararico: If you’re brave enough, try being level 11.
└ㅇㅇ: Seriously?
└Mararico: Yeah, I’ll be at the Kinabier statue in EllaHon Town, so come within 10 minutes, LOL.
└Mararico: Nick is Mararico.
└Mararico: Are you going to throw ten burgers at the gallery?
└Mararico: As a set, LOL.
Hmm. Ten burger sets, huh?
Even simply calculating at 8,000 won, that’s 80,000 won.
For someone who needs to save money like me, that’s definitely not a small expense.
…But.
└Mararico: Are you going to throw ten burgers at the gallery?
└Mararico: As a set, LOL.
└ㅇㅇ: How about 10 burgers to the gallery and 10 to the opponent?
└Mararico: LOL Are you confident?
If I can get those ten burger sets, it means I can save 80,000 won.
It would be great if I could get all 20, but to drag these readers as solid witnesses makes this much better.
└Mararico: LOL Are you confident?
└ㅇㅇ: I am confident.
└Mararico: Okay, come within 10 minutes, and please don’t run away.
Hmm. This is great.
Saving 80,000 won on meals is definitely a reward for all my hard work today.
But since this person might run away, I should get insurance just in case.
★
【New Dimension Gallery】
【Title: I’m on a Burger Bet with Mararico, Level 11】
【Posted by: ㅇㅇ】
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This person suddenly started a quarrel over a bet for 10 burgers to the gallery and 10 to the opponent.
Totaling 20 burgers on a Level 11 bet.
At the Kinabier statue in EllaHon Town in 10 minutes.
【Likes: 42 / Dislikes: 3】
ㅇㅇ: Oh, LOL.
Mararico: Are you really insane?
└Mararico: Who started the nonsense with that newbie?
└Post by ㅇㅇ: Wasn’t the right and wrong decided by the bet?
└Post by ㅇㅇ: Why are you all so talkative?
└Mararico: You’re in serious trouble now, you idiot, LOL.
└Post by ㅇㅇ: Don’t run away after losing, okay?
└Mararico: Don’t worry. I’ll never lose to someone like you!
Head-Broken Priest: Free burgers? Sweet~
Sigh…
★
Mararico was confident.
From Ex to F rank.
He proudly secured a B rank in New Dimension’s PVP, standing among the top 10 percent of PVP players.
Of course, in New Dimension-related communities, the perception of PVP players isn’t very positive, but still, Mararico held his head high.
He believed that the negative perception was because those unable to play were demeaning those who could.
So whenever a quarrel arose while browsing the gallery, he always confidently demanded a 1v1.
In fact, right or wrong didn’t even matter.
Winning would humiliate the opponent, and if they backed down, it would elevate his status. That alone was enough.
He never even considered the possibility of losing.
Being in the top 10 percent among countless players meant he was more than qualified to be there.
Thus… Mararico thought the same would apply this time.
Especially since his opponent wasn’t even a fixed nickname but a random?
How dare a random speak back to someone with a name in the New Dimension Gallery…
A random… talking back?
Mararico could not tolerate it.
“Phew…”
In front of the Kinabier statue in EllaHon Town, people began to gather.
It was a burger bet by Mararico, a somewhat famous user in the New Dimension Gallery.
And of course, he had invited all his acquaintances for the showdown.
As promised, the time was drawing near.
Of course, Mararico couldn’t lose.
No, he thought the guy would be too scared to show up, reluctant to spend the money.
Even if he did show up, he believed he could teach that cocky random a lesson.
So he wasn’t even nervous.
“So, who’s the opponent?”
Someone asked, but Mararico merely shrugged in response.
It was a signal that he couldn’t know who his opponent was since it was a random.
Nine minutes had passed.
Still, Mararico’s opponent did not appear.
The atmosphere began to change.
“Another random?”
“Anyone who believes a random is a fool, really.”
“Randoms can control people’s emotions!!!”
It seemed like one of those ridiculous incidents that always happened in the gallery would just end like this.
Mararico thought so too and was ready to mock his opponent.
And then.
Clank, clank.
The heavy and foreboding sound of metal clashing resonated.
Everyone standing still froze in place.
Someone thought even the air had gone cold.
At exactly 10 minutes, a Traveler in full body armor, wielding a massive Warhammer, appeared.
Everyone tried to tell themselves it couldn’t be true.
〔Inquisition Officer〕
And Mararico himself thought that name shouldn’t appear here.
But.
〔The Inquisition Officer has requested a 1v1 conversation.〕
But the system message appearing before him was declaring.
That’s… the opponent you have to fight from now on.
“Damn.”