Dusk (BL Light Novel)

[Race] Viajok Supreme Commander Honeybread has defeated Jeojajok Grand Commander Retaking a Class.

[General] Honeybread: You’ve never even met them, so how can you say for sure they’re not good?
[General] Honeybread: That newbie’s control skills are god-tier, seriously;
I hadn’t even typed my next line yet when Gang Jaegyung hit the base respawn and vanished, only to return right after. He immediately started beating me up with gusto. I didn’t feel like just taking it quietly, and besides, I wasn’t done praising the newbie, so I fought back to the bitter end.

[Race] Jeojajok Grand Commander Retaking a Class has defeated Viajok Supreme Commander Honeybread.
...I lost, but still.
[General] Retaking a Class: As the #1 Combat Medic, I can assure you

[General] Retaking a Class: There’s no one in the Medic ranks who can go toe-to-toe with me yet
[General] Retaking a Class: Bread-nim was just momentarily bewitched
[General] Retaking a Class: It happens. Since someone like me is only available on the enemy team, you got emotionally vulnerable and fell for a newbie with godlike skills, that’s all

[General] Retaking a Class: I get it
Unreal. The kind of bullshit he comes up with.
[Race] Viajok Supreme Commander Honeybread has defeated Jeojajok Grand Commander Retaking a Class.
[General] Honeybread: Are you seriously ignoring the other ranked medics right now?

[General] Honeybread: Want me to screenshot this and post it on the forums??
[General] Honeybread: Shall I????
While I was saying that, Gang Jaegyung respawned and rushed back to kill me in a panic.

[Race] Jeojajok Grand Commander Retaking a Class has defeated Viajok Supreme Commander Honeybread.
[General] Retaking a Class: I misspoke.
Seriously, he has a god-given talent for saying exactly what will get him punched.

[General] Retaking a Class: But you know
[General] Retaking a Class: The more I think about it, I really do think you were bewitched
[General] Retaking a Class: Otherwise there’s no way Bread-nim would compliment anyone but me for being a good Medic

[General] Retaking a Class: Maybe... maybe gumiho really do exist? Now that we’re in the digital age, even they can seduce people through the network... and Bread-nim got caught in the trap
[General] Retaking a Class: I mean, gumihos are supposed to eat livers, right? But they can’t touch your body over the net, so they must drain something else instead... like intelligence for psychological warfare or something...
Absolute nonsense. I cut off Gang Jaegyung’s rambling and hit the base respawn myself, heading back into the field.

[Race] Jeojajok Grand Commander Retaking a Class has defeated Viajok Supreme Commander Honeybread.
Ha, give me a break.
[General] Retaking a Class: Aren’t you scared? Let’s just forget that person ever existed.

[General] Retaking a Class: lol
After wrapping up whatever crap he was saying, Gang Jaegyung sat his character down next to mine and patiently waited for me to respawn and come back.
This was the perfect chance to re-implant the belief in him that “Newbie over Retaking a Class!” The moment I revived, I dashed straight over and beat him down. He barely put up a fight, just kind of went through the motions, like he had nothing left to say. I expected it, but it still pissed me off.
[Race] Viajok Supreme Commander Honeybread has defeated Jeojajok Grand Commander Retaking a Class.

[General] Honeybread: Don’t you dare slander my kid
[General] Honeybread: What kind of nonsense are you spouting;
[General] Honeybread: Of course I’d find a newbie I personally picked up cuter than some total stranger from the enemy faction

[General] Honeybread: And on top of that? She’s got top-tier mechanics?
[General] Honeybread: A level 43 first-timer who cleared Phase 2 of Urban Assassin on her first try?
[General] Honeybread: Clearly my adorable newbie is the better Medic~ that’s just facts^^d!

Still completely smitten with the newbie, I kept talking her up. Gang Jaegyung didn’t disappear until a while after my last message popped up. Maybe he was deep in thought or something. I’m not sure, but he definitely respawned slower than usual.
He didn’t show up again until after I’d cleared out two Jeojajok members loitering nearby. Then he finally reappeared, standing a short distance away, just staring at me.
I stared back, wondering what now, and a speech bubble popped up over his character's head.

[General] Retaking a Class: `^')!!
…What?
I blinked, staring at the speech bubble. Gang Jaegyung didn’t stop there — he even used the foot-stomping emote, like he was openly throwing a tantrum.

[General] Retaking a Class: (`^'
Next, he sent an emote of pouting and turning his head away, and right after finishing the motion of kicking the ground, he bolted off °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° in that direction. I could only watch his retreating back, baffled. He vanished completely.
What the hell. Did he seriously just throw a fit and storm off? That’s so freaking cute I could die.

Chuckling to myself, I took a screenshot of the emoji he left behind.
Title: [※Must-Read for Returners※]!! For 3rd Server Viajok Only!! Free Allowance Guide
Author: [Viajok] nT Tm
Do the main quest and head to the Atelierna or Wishar base
If you're starting from scratch, it’ll take some time. But if you skip cutscenes and grind hard, doable within 3 days.

Find “Supreme Commander” “Honeybread” at the base
There are a lot of people, so if you can’t find by name, look for someone with a purple title—it’s easier.
Hang around nearby
Receive 500,000 Am (Amos)

That’s about ₩50,000 in real money, so don’t miss it…
 
Didn’t expect this to go hot;; Sorry; It’s limited to 3rd server only
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What? Only for returners?
└ [Best Comment] [Author] Yeah, probably... All the returners who got allowance so far had the "Soldier" rank.
[Best Comment] Saw this on hot and thought it was global… so deflated. I can feel the wealth gap now.

└ Doesn’t our General do this stuff?
└ Back in early days of Server 1, people used to pool cash and support newbies too... but that’s ancient history
└ [Author] Ah';;;; Sorry I really didn’t think it’d blow up like this;;;; I’ll update the title now...

└ How could this NOT blow up?
Why’s he giving money all of a sudden?
└ I wanna know too

└ [Author] It started when some newbie asked Honeybread for teleport fees (*base travel costs). Afterwards, he said the market spike was his fault and began handing out allowances.
└ That newbie wasn’t his alt? What if he bullied them for causing the spike then gave them “financial therapy”? └ 500k Am is enough for full treatment tbh…
What the hell, give me some too

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└ Try it and let us know
└ Since there’s no “Newbie” or “Returner” tag like other games, it might work if you fake it

└ Don’t write dumb comments like this, just shut up and do it. If I lose my ₩50,000 because this gets exposed, I’ll sue you morons.
└ lmao they really deleted the comment, what a clown
└ You think he’ll keep giving 50k to the flood of sudden newbies? Dude went to a top university apparently

└ Still gives it └ ? └ ? └ Just like that? └ Yup. As long as you’re a Soldier, he gives it.
Saw the 2-year anniversary vid, he looks super young. How the hell does a kid have money to hand out 500k?
└ Kid’s loaded

└ How do you know? └ Rode in on a trident at the anniversary event lol └ If you’re not sure, go check out the Honeybread face leak └ What do I search?
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Title: Tried the “Soldier gets free money” rumor myself

Author: [Viajok] I’llCarryLemonsAndRepayMyDebt
I used an old alt I made last winter and leveled a bit, then went to see Honeybread
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Didn’t ask anything, just opened trade and gave it
But it wasn’t 500k Am, only 150k. Probably because too many people are asking now
After trading, I told him the truth and asked why he gave it anyway

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He said he’s too lazy to check and thinks it’s funny when people bring alts just to get money lol
Tried to return the money but he said to just keep it, so I thanked him, mailed it to my main, and left

If you’ve got a Soldier alt lying around, just go grab some free cash, he doesn’t care
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[Best Comment] Viajok friends, please don’t get blinded by 150k Am. Come back to the field. We can’t PvP because everyone’s alt farming. You’re pouring days into alts for ₩15,000. Come back. We love you.

└ Honestly not that many people are doing it just for the cash. More are dungeon/raid mercs who make more money fast.
└ fr lmao. With more cheap mercs around, party leaders are happy and spamming raid ads like it’s a new release.
[Best Comment] I’m a returner, was confused why low-level areas were packed. Asked if there was an event and got told to check server forums. Then people said I was cute and gave me a few thousand or tens of thousands of Am. Are they just alt farming?

└ Let me simp this newbie real quick. Slurp.
└ You’re a newbie.
└ You’re a newbie.

└ Because you're a newbie.
└ It’s because you’re a newbie. (That meme.)
└ We take the money to redistribute to other newbies

└ If you take the money meant for newbies, you should share it with the ones who earned it for you. That’s the way.
└ [Best Comment] Okay I get it but can y’all stop sending me allowances? I really appreciate the mail gifts and fashion items and pocket money, but it’s honestly starting to scare me;;;
└ Stock up now, kid... you’ll miss this someday

This game lets one character unlock all classes so barely anyone makes alts. That’s why they’re throwing money around... if this were one of those “grind alts to profit” games, they’d never give you anything.
I have pride, you know. I’m not taking pocket money from some punk kid.
└ I’m a friend of this “man of pride.” He took 150k Am with his alt and bragged about it in guild chat. That is all.

└ sonuvab— └ lmaoooooo
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