Ch 183
『Title: Please Rate My Base ㅋㅋㅋ』
Content: 『Picture』
How is the base score ㅋㅋㅋ
How is the quality of the characters ㅋㅋㅋ
-: Wow ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-: It’s just like a Friday night Itaewon Club
-『Author』: What’s a Friday night Itaewon Club like?
-: I don’t know, never been there ㅋㅋ
-『Author』: ㅋㅋ Then let’s say Hongdae Club
-: What’s different about Hongdae Club?
-『Author』: I don’t know since I haven’t been there, but wouldn’t it be different?
-: What kind of conversation is that?
-: First of all, I know that both of them have never been to a club, a fact they can be proud of
-: But if you just look at the base score, isn’t it like a Friday something level?
-: It’s even Bondales ㅋㅋㅋ How did you do it?
-: Was it okay to make Bondales your base?
-: The location is good ㅇㅇ
-: The location is so good that they flock from all directions and cause a fuss?
-: Welcome to Bondales, which has a good location and transportation, but the city size is ambiguously large, so the level of the Guards is also ambiguous~
-: You son of a bitches : Yes
-: In theory, if you set up a base in Bondales, you can cover all areas
-『Author』: Wow ㅋㅋ My insight is insane
-: But why isn’t anyone else doing it besides him?
-: He said his insight is insane
-: Seeing that he chose Bondales as his base, he must be insane
-: Can cover all areas = Suffering from Destiny Quest in all areas and getting screwed in all directions
-: I tried setting up a base in Bondales once, and it was really ridiculous
Events pop up all the time, and the characters die, so I can’t raise the base Level
-『Author』: Haha;;; Older Brother, please teach me the Game;;;ㅋ?
-: Damn, were you a Pro Gamer?
-: It’s a signature, I’m a fan
-: No, really, how did you recruit the characters and raise their Levels?
-: To get that Level, you’d have to bring at least ten 7th Rank characters
-『Author』: Yeah ㅋㅋ Older Brother has too much intelligence, so I had no choice but to push through with Quantity
If I had the resources to bring a 7th Rank character, I could bring ten 5th Rank characters, so why would I use a 7th Rank character? ㅋㅋ
Level 60 VS Level 40X10
Can’t you do this simple math? ㅋㅋ
-: Ah ㅋㅋ
-: Woooo what is this!!! If there are 10 Level 40s, that’s Level 400!?! Was that even possible!!!
-: This? Ah… this is called mathematics…
-: The world’s first 41st Rank, crazy scam
-: He’s too intelligent to play this Game, so he only chooses the best Choices ㅇㅇ;;
Yeah, hurry up and escape
-『Author』: What’s with the haters and their Unfair Play again?
-: ??? : What’s a Nightmare?
-『Author』: ? What’s a Nightmare?
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『Title: Seriously, What’s a Nightmare?』
Content: My base characters suddenly got a Nightmare and became incapacitated?
-: Sir, are those brats sleeping?
-: Leave them alone, let them have a good dream
-『Author』: No, don’t leave them alone, wake them up
The base is getting screwed
-: Did you recently mark the base status as 『Confusion』?
-『Author』: What’s that?
-: 『Oh dear』
-: Is the base stat a muscle built with Quantity?
-『Author』: No, what muscle are you talking about, I raised them so hard
-: Listening to my mom
She complains that just raising them hard doesn’t mean it’ll all work out
-: Embracing Nightmare, that thing
Just think of it as a muscle detection Event ㅇㅇ
It occurs when the base stat exceeds a certain Level
The low-Level characters get Nightmares compared to the base Level ㅇㅇ
-『Author』: Hey Developer Lee, you son of a @@@@@@
『Recruit as many comrades as possible to develop your base!』
-: Developer: That’s because it’s more fun to destroy （licking the flat of the blade with his tongue）
-: Ah, that was it
-『Author』: Ah, that was it, my ass
-『Author』: Just tell me how to get rid of the Nightmare
-『Author』: Ah, no, never mind
-『Author』: You’re going to say I can’t handle it again
-: You can get rid of it?
-『Author』: Really?
-: Just give the Nightmare-stricken character a Mental Strength Buff ㅇㅇ
-『Author』: Really? It’s surprisingly simple
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-『Author』: Hey, they’re not eating the Potion?
-: Because they’re sleeping
…
…
…
-『Author』: Why can’t I equip this Artifact?
-: Because they’re sleeping
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-『Author』: Seriously, why aren’t they getting the Buff?
-: Because they’re sleeping
-『Author』: Yeah ㅇㅇ I’m quitting
-: Fun, cool, and sexy conversation
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“For now, is this all?”
Lisir, having heard the situation from Pallag.
He immediately began to act with Klana and Pallag.
He gathered those experiencing the Abnormal Phenomenon, including Halona, in one place.
It was to examine their condition at a glance and take measures.
Lisir examined their faces.
Halona, Dray, and his secretary Maisy were familiar faces-
The rest were guests staying at Goose Manor.
“Whether it’s fortunate or not… it seems this phenomenon only occurs to those who meet certain Conditions.”
Pallag examined their faces and said.
“Certain Conditions… for example?”
“Hmm…”
Just as Pallag was choosing his words.
Klana made a Statement.
“It seems they’re targeting those in good condition.”
“In good condition…?”
Klana approached the unconscious Halona and put her hand on her.
“Their Energy is weakening moment by moment. Judging from the Situation, it’s reasonable to assume that they are having their power taken away by the one who caused this phenomenon. For example, this.”
Klana looked into Lisir’s Eyes and continued.
“This isn’t an indiscriminate attack, but a kind of Ritual ━ or hunting act ━ to gain power.”
“Hunting…”
Pallag nodded in agreement to Klana’s words.
“I also agree with her Opinion. Out of the many people in the Mansion, only these people are being targeted. A consistent Standard. I sense a specific Intention.”
“What kind of Intention?”
“How should I explain this…”
As Pallag carefully chose his words, Klana stepped forward again and spoke boldly.
“Not too weak, not too strong ━ high-quality Prey.”
“Hmm… somewhat extreme, but an appropriate Expression.”
“Not too strong… then, is that why Klana and Duke Pallag weren’t targeted? Because they’re too difficult to hunt?”
“Yes. For now, it seems best to assume so. Including you.”
That was when they were gathering their Opinions and gradually sorting out the Situation.
“Ugh…!”
“Halona!?”
Pallag was startled and approached her.
Her Eyes rolled upwards, and she had a slight seizure.
“Halona! Wake up!”
Pallag hurriedly tried to awaken her by tapping her cheeks, but she showed no reaction to external stimuli.
Lisir recalled the Expression Pallag had used to describe her condition.
“Unable to escape from sleep while awake…”
It was truly an appropriate Expression.
Their appearance, with their Eyes open and awake but without consciousness, really seemed like they were dreaming while awake.
“Wait, would it be okay if I tried?”
Pallag, as if he had been waiting for those words, was delighted.
“Yes! Lisir! Please!”
Lisir carefully examined their condition, moving between them.
Unlike the serious Situation-
A strange composure appeared on Pallag and Klana’s faces.
‘Aren’t they going to jump up the moment I touch them?’
That was the Reason they had such a rational thought （?）.
Just in time, the complexions of Halona and the other three people brightened noticeably.
It happened the moment Lisir put his hand on them.
“As expected.”
Pallag and Klana nodded in Satisfaction.
But only for a moment.
“Ms. Halona? Lord Dray? Ms. Maisy?”
“…Wait, Lisir, what’s wrong?”
Lisir waved his hand, but they showed no reaction.
“The action of the negative power that was taking away their strength seems to have disappeared… but everyone still seems to be trapped in a dream.”
“…!”
He can’t wake them up even with that Ability!?
Pallag and Klana’s faces finally became serious.
“That’s it. You can’t wake them up even with your power. It’s best to let those go.”
“K, Klana. What are you talking about.”
Lisir was horrified.
It was because Klana didn’t seem to be joking.
Of course, on the one hand, Lisir was also Understanding Klana’s reaction.
‘How can it not work…’
He, too, had vaguely held the Expectation that the problem might be solved with his Purifying Power.
‘Then-‘
Lisir began to consider the Choices he had next.
“Duke Pallag!”
“Gus?”
At that moment, the door to the room opened violently.
“I, I apologize for the suddenness…! Because of the Situation, I thought I should tell you as soon as possible! Someone is requesting a meeting with Duke Pallag! Saying that they want to talk to Duke Pallag about what’s happening in Bondales right now! If I reveal their name, Duke Pallag will recognize them━”
Pallag’s Eyes widened as he heard the visitor’s name from Gus.
“Pilgrim Chender!”
“Do you know him?”
“Of course I know him! He’s a figure who has pioneered his own path with Divine Power, and is respected by the Order’s Paladins and Heretic Inquisitors despite being a wanderer!”
“Divine Power…!”
“Yes! With his power, he might be able to wake them up! Gus! Let’s meet him right away!”
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“Duke Pallag.”
As Lisir’s Party arrived at the reception room following Gus, a middle-aged Man greeted them.
He was a Man who seemed to have carved a benevolent Expression on a stone statue.
“I apologize for the sudden visit.”
“Apology! Don’t say that, Chender! You know how delighted I am to meet you right now!”
“…”
Chender was only briefly pleased with Pallag’s welcome.
“It wasn’t a groundless Fear. Duke Pallag, has there been a problem on your side as well?”
“That’s right! Mastien’s Talent Scout is trapped in a dream!”
“Mastien’s-…”
“What about your side? Are you alright?”
“…”
Chender’s Gaze turned to a certain place.
There, a Woman was sitting demurely.
“Who is she?”
“My companion.”
“Wait. Could it be that she also━”
“That’s right. She seems to be awake at first glance, but she is unconscious.”
“…”
Pallag’s Expression darkened as he spoke with Chender.
“Have you tried to wake her up?”
“Of course.”
“The result━ I suppose it wasn’t good.”
“…That’s right.”
Chender looked at the Woman with a worried Expression.
“I have taken all the measures I can.”
“All measures…?”
Clack.
Chender placed an empty bottle on the table.
“That bottle is…!”
“It’s a sacred medicine manufactured by the Order.”
That drug, created with the Divine Power of the Clerics-
It was famous for having more efficacy than an Elixir in the area of healing the target.
The bottle that contained such a sacred medicine was now empty.
“Don’t tell me. You’ve already given her the sacred medicine?”
“…”
Instead of answering, Chender placed a new Item on the table.
It was a silver Ring that was simple yet had a strange splendor.
“It’s a Relic of the Order. The Divine Power contained within it infuses the wearer’s Mental Strength with great power.”
With the explanation, Chender put the silver Ring on the Woman’s index finger.
“…”
The Woman was only staring at the air with an unchanging Gaze.
“And━”
Chender put his finger on the Woman’s forehead.
A faint glow bloomed from the tip of his finger, gently enveloping the Woman.
“Oh…”
Lisir, who was watching the scene, involuntarily exclaimed.
The High Priest of the Order he had met in the past.
The Divine Power that Chender had created was comparable to that of the High Priest.
Perhaps it could even be considered more than that.
“Huk…!”
Eventually, Chender, who had exhausted all his power, gasped for breath.
His Expression was full of Fatigue.
It was the face of someone who expected a bleak result.
He checked the Woman’s condition, just in case.
“…”
There was no change.
The Woman’s Gaze was still directed at the air.
“Duke Pallag.”
Chender said in a somber tone.
“I ask for help.”
“…”
Good heavens.
Pallag swallowed a sigh inwardly.
To think that he would be asked for help by the very person he was trying to ask for help from.
“First, let’s move the location.”
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Chender’s Party.
That Woman was laid down next to Dray.
In that way, a total of four victims were sleeping with their Eyes open.
A sense of helplessness arose on the faces of Lisir’s Party, who were looking down at the scene at a glance.
They hadn’t even grasped a Clue to the Event yet, but the problems kept increasing.
“Hoo… Please wake up, Lord Dray…”
Lisir said with a sigh, feeling frustrated.
“L, Lisir━”
Then came a reaction.
Everyone in the place widened their Eyes.
Dray stirred and began to call Lisir’s name.
A vivid reaction that had not been seen in the victims until now.
“Is that so! Lisir! Did you enter Dray’s consciousness and wake him up!?”
“…I don’t think so.”
Lisir was dubious, but he approached Dray for now.
“Lord Dray! Lord Dray!!!”
Did that cry reach him?
Each time Lisir shouted, the light slowly returned to Dray’s Eyes.
“Li…sir?”
“Lord Dray! Are you regaining your Mind…!?”
Dray’s still blurry Eyes scanned Lisir up and down.
Then he nodded in Satisfaction.
“I knew it. You were alive.”
“Yes?”
“M, Mastien!? Have you regained your Mind!?”
Chender widened his Eyes and looked back and forth between Dray and Lisir.
“H, how━”
The one who had been wandering in a dream from which he could not escape had awakened.
Chender was feeling more bewildered than hopeful about the Situation right now.
Literally, how could he break the dream that he could not break even after using all means-
“Lord Dray! Can you talk right now?”
“…Lisir?”
“How, how did you wake up from that dream!?”
“…Ah, that was a dream?”
“Yes?”
“Until the end… I didn’t realize it. It was too realistic ━ no… what should I call this…”
He seemed to be unable to distinguish whether the place he was in was a dream or reality.
Chender’s Confusion was heightened by Dray’s appearance.
“You didn’t even know it was a dream, but you escaped from that place? How━”
“…I don’t know. I just felt a sense of incongruity ━ a sense of incongruity.”
“A sense of incongruity…?”
“Lisir died…”
“Lisir…?”
Chender’s Gaze moved.
‘Is he talking about that Man?’
In the dream-
He was a Man with a gentle Impression who would not be strange even if he died in a Nightmare.
“It’s strange… Lisir dying… So I thought… How? Why? Why did Lisir die?”
Dray continued in a dazed tone.
“The moment I had that Doubt, a Demon suddenly appeared…”
“A Demon!? Is this the work of a Demon!?”
“Yes… a Demon… He was a very terrible guy… That guy killed Lisir…”
“Th, then!? The Demon killed that Man, and after that!?”
Surely, the method of waking up from the dream is contained in this story with tremendous Content.
Chender carefully urged Dray.
Then Dray nodded and said.
“That’s what happened.”
“?”
What?
What do you mean that’s what happened?
‘Is he… not in his right Mind yet?’
Chender came to that conclusion.
He concluded that Dray, who was not yet in a sound state, was talking Nonsense ━ babbling in his sleep.
Chender closed his Eyes tightly in disappointment.
He thought he had finally grasped a Clue.
Pallag must be feeling the same way.
Chender looked at Pallag, hoping to find Solace in that Empathy.
“That’s what happened.”
The Archmage was nodding, as if he understood everything.
“…?”
Chender’s Eyes narrowed.
What?
Could it be that there was something I missed in the story just now?
Chender brightened his Expression with Hope and said.
“Duke Pallag, did you realize something from the story just now?”
“That’s right.”
“Oh…!
“Listening to Dray’s story, it seems that that dream dominates the target with Fear or Despair. If the target is free from Fear or Despair, they can wake up from the dream.”
“Does that mean━ Lord Mastien has completely overcome that dream?”
“That’s right.”
“Oh oh…!”
Demon.
That transcendental and evil Existence presents mortal beings who face it with a distant sense of Despair.
To overcome the Fear of such a Demon.
“Indeed, a Talent Scout…”
Chender expressed deep Respect to Dray, who was still in a daze.
“…Hmm?”
And, at the same time, a Doubt arose.
‘The Content of the story just now…’
No matter how much he thought about it, there was no Content in Dray’s story about overcoming the Fear of the Demon.
“Duke Pallag. Do you have any idea how Lord Dray overcame the Fear of the Demon?”
“Of course! Dray just said it. He saw the Demon killing Lisir in the dream!”
“That’s right…! To witness the death of a friend in a dream that is indistinguishable from reality! Under normal circumstances, one’s Heart would have been broken!”
“That’s it! Thanks to that, Dray was able to overcome the Fear of the Demon!”
He witnessed a scene in which a friend was brutally murdered by a Demon.
Pallag said that was how Dray overcame his Fear.
‘Am I hard of hearing?’
Chender’s head began to ache.
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