Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
47. Loser Resurrection Match (7)
The transparent card turned dark as it absorbed my superpower wave.
In an instant, the card was dyed completely black.
‘… It didn’t materialize?’
Usually an item card would materialize straight away according to the Player’s will.
But Unknown Fate didn’t react straight away.
The only change was the item card’s color, the card remained in my had as it was before.
As it was a special item card, it didn’t materialize with just a simple will to materialize?
‘Unknown Fate’s name, rarity and effect is said to change depending on the user. Moreover, Mok Uram’s master said they fought by changing the item card by changing it into various weapons.’
Wasn’t ‘Unknown Fate’ changing its form reflecting the image in the item user’s mind?
I tried to come up with a detailed image of a weapon, but it wasn’t working well.
‘I want to know the most powerful weapon I currently can have.’
It seemed that just such a vague image wouldn’t do.
Should I open a weapon picture book on the side and check if it changed into the weapons of a certain rarity?
I came up with candidates in my head, but nothing exactly stood out.
“…..”
As I felt the scorching gaze and raised my head, Baek Ho-gun was quietly looking at me from the opposite side.
Right now, in Baek Ho-gun’s eyes I would be holding a card and standing dumbly.
“Is it the end of the things you wanted to test?”
“No.”
Since it came to this, I decided to seek Baek Ho-gun’s advice.
If it was Baek Ho-gun, who had a deep understanding of martial arts, was knowledgeable about weapons and spared against me several times, I thought he would come up with something.
“What do you think is the most powerful weapon among the weapons I can use?”
The first candidates I thought about were weapons using magic like rods and the Nine Iron Teeth Rake.
But somehow it didn’t feel right.
Among the rod type weapons, the UR rank rods which could be obtained from special otherworlds had a modifier ‘ancient’.
The Nine Iron Teeth Rake was naturally UR.
But I already possessed the Nine Iron Teeth Rake and the rod type weapons were possible to obtain though it would be difficult.
“I think you know your ability much better, eh? You should consider an ability that you can use the best, and only you can use.”
The ability I can use the best, and only I can use.
If I thought about it in relation to weapons, it would be the ‘Use of Everything’.
However, if I were to pick the ability that currently I can use the best, and only I can use, something came up before ‘Use of Everything’.
There were many powerful beings, which were difficult to face with pure weapons only, but I had a weapon that could deal with it.
Because I was a Player, who didn’t give up PMH to the end, I had knowledge and experience I could obtain as a gamer, and ability, which let me utilize characters I raised to the max level and this.
If I were to pick the most powerful weapon, it would be a superpower or a Gwangrim that compresses and embodies my play record as a gamer.
‘My most powerful ability or a weapon is Player’s Trajectory.’
Paaat!
The moment I came up with the Player’s Trajectory, the ‘Unknown Fate’ which turned black, emitted light again.
The light created something and moved dizzily around the item card as if engraving, and then disappeared.
As the light disappeared, the Unknown Fate was wrapped in the black superpower wave like before, but unlike before, there was a pattern.
The pattern engraved on the back of the card was very familiar.
The instant I saw that pattern, I was filled with shock.
‘No way, this… this card…!’
On the back of the card, the title logo of the game wreck ‘Player Meister Highschool’ was engraved.
I saw this logo engraved on cards a few times since coming to this world.
I immediately decided to compare the two.
⟨Using Gwangrim ‘Player’s Trajectory’.⟩
Together with the system message, my superpower wave changed into hundreds or thousands of cards and flowed out of my body.
After familiarizing myself with the usage of Player’s Trajectory I would only summon necessary cards, but this time I took them all out.
Under the night sky embroidered with the Seven Western Constellations, numerous cards shined like stars.
I stretched out my hand and caught the ‘Player’s Trajectory’s’ card which was the closest to me.
And put it side by side with the ‘Unknown Fate’s’ card which changed its appearance.
‘It’s exactly the same!’
The card size, and the PMH logo engraved on the back was the same.
“It seems that you’ve found the answer, eh?”
Baek Ho-gun looked at me, surrounded by cards, and activated his Gwangrim to summon a weapon.
Swish!
Baek Ho-gun held White Fang again.
The pure white superpower wave brimmed around him and his shadow familiar[1], Yeong-ho was summoned.
“Test it.”
Seeing how he took out White Fang and Yeong-ho at the same time, he seemed to mean to go all out straight away.
According to Baek Ho-gun’s words, I decided to test the newly obtained piece straight away.
‘If this Unknown card was the sort of the weapon I thought it was, the pieces would greatly increase their usage.’
Using Player’s Trajectory was no different from changing into that character, even if I kept Jo Uisin’s outer appearance.
But it was impossible to activated two Player’s Trajectories at the same time.
For example, Gwak Gyeong-gu’s Gwangrim, which was a superpower with powerful regeneration and defense ‘100 seconds of Grace’, and the best hiding ability, Jeon Muyeong’s Gwangrim ‘Time without Traces’ couldn’t be used at the same time.
If the limited time was sufficient, it was possible to use them one after another, in turns, but it was impossible to hide and regenerate at the same time.
However, what would happen if I activated one of the two characters through my Gwangrim, and the other through the weapon?
⟨Using target character’s Gwangrim[2] ‘White Fang Summoning of Thunder Clouds Breaker’.⟩
I first activated Baek Ho-gun’s Gwangrim through the ‘Player’s Trajectory’.
And…
⟨Using target character’s Gwangrim ‘Hongryong Summoning’.⟩
At the same time I used Yeom Junyeol’s Gwangrim ‘Hongryeong Summoning’ through the ‘Unknown Fate’.
On the card front, which was empty, though the PMH’s logo was on the back, Yeom Junyeol appeared and disappeared.
Hwish!
Behind me, who held the White Fang, a gap in space opened and a flame dragon appeared.
It would be shocking if instead of cards hovering around me and Unknown Fate, White Fang and Hongryong appeared, but Baek Ho-gun didn’t show any particular reaction.
It seemed that he wasn’t surprised at all.
I saw Baek Ho-gun’s lip’s corner raise very slightly.
‘Are you smiling?’
Baek Ho-gun immediately erased his expression and pointed the White Fang at me, while Yeong-ho moved.
Clang!
Because of the clash of Baek Ho-gun’s White Fang and the White Fang I summoned, white flash covered our visions.
Our vision was covered for a second, but Baek Ho-gun didn’t ignore the opening to use Yeong-ho and tried to dig into my shoulder.
The shadow tiger flashed its teeth and pounced on me, but right now I couldn’t respond to it.
‘If I take off my eyes right now, the White Fang’s blade will pierce my vital point.’
But right now it wasn’t only the White Fang I could use.
Claang!
With a big swing of White Fang, I pushed Baek Ho-gun back and with my gaze fixed on Baek Ho-gun like before, I snapped my fingers.
⟨Using target character’s skill ‘Remote Ignition’.⟩
Paa….!
The flames flared up, and the shadow tiger was swallowed, I increased power, attempting to also swallow Baek Ho-gun.
To avoid the flames, Baek Ho-gun made a big jump back, but I didn’t miss the gap and burrowed into it.
It looked as if I was jumping into the flames, but right now I had Dragon King God’s blessing ‘My flames won’t burn you’.
Without hesitation, I pierced the burning space and pointed at Baek Ho-gun’s neck with the White Fang wrapped in flames on the edges.
“…”
Even under my fierce attack, Baek Ho-gun couldn’t step back.
Because behind him, Hongryong coiled in flames was waiting.
Even though it was just a moment when I was pointing at the vital point, it felt very long.
“Amazing, eh?”
Yeong-ho was completely burned down in Hongryong’s flames and disappeared.
Hongryong at Baek Ho-gun’s back and me in front, aiming White Fang at him.
“You gave me a round for the first time, eh?” [3]
Baek Ho-gun was said to be under a penalty, but up till now I never won against him in a spar.
It was a ‘surprise attack using a kind of cheat called ‘Unknown Fate’’, but activated it at the same time as the Player’s Trajectory and won against Baek Ho-gun in a spar for the first time.
“Better than expected[4]. You’ve grown, eh?”
Woof! Woof woof!
Following Baek Ho-gun’s praise, Snare ran towards me.
It seemed that it was barking diligently to praise and congratulate me.
After lifting the Player’s Trajectory, I grasped the card that returned to my hand at some point, while gladly accepting Baek Ho-gun and Snare’s praising.
* * *
My dormitory room.
Like usual the room felt spacious, but today I didn’t have useless thoughts.
It was thanks to receiving recognition of my main Playable Character, and praises of Snare, who kept watching the spars.
‘It seems there are still other uses for Unknown Fate, but… right now I should clearly figure out the way to properly use this piece.’
I could activate two Gwangrims at the same time.
Like before, the time limit remained a problem, but there was nothing frightening as I could use two of my Playable Character’s abilities at the same time.
Ding.
When I was about to fall asleep, lost in the feeling of accomplishment, I saw piling up messages.
I thought about checking them when I wake up tomorrow, but it seemed that the other party thought of sending messages until they receive an answer.
Even though it was set to the silent mode, the device blinked without rest, so it seemed to be pretty urgent.
At the end of my worries, I opened the message window.
[Ok Toyeon] Benefactor-ah.
[Ok Toyeon] Benefactor-aaah…
The culprit was Ok Toyeon.
[Ok Toyeon] Benefactor-ah, benefactor-ah… Are Eun-ho’s descendants living well these days?
Not a long time ago Ok Toyeon took out her anger on me talking about a terrible prank Eun-ho’s descendants played on her.
Ok Toyeon omitted a detailed explanation and only said ‘it was a prank so horrible it’s difficult to describe with words’, but considering the situation, I guessed the prank was the corpse play that also deceived Hwang Jiho and Jeok-ho.
While Ok Toyeon gushed out with tears, it seemed that her relationship with Eun-ho’s descendants became awkward because of the great nonsense about the ‘playing a too terrible prank’.
[Ok Toyeon] Are descendants eating well, sleeping well and playing well?
[Ok Toyeon] They don’t play any strange pranks now?
[Ok Toyeon] The crazy tiger didn’t teach them anything?
[Ok Toyeon] The kind children didn’t learn any hideous games again?
I didn’t know who among the tigers at the Hwang Myeong-ho great mansion the crazy tiger was referring to, but it was probably Hwang Jiho.
[Ok Toyeon] Benefactor-ah?
[Ok Toyeon] Benefactor-aaaaah!
[Ok Toyeon] Why aren’t you checking messages?
[Ok Toyeon] The crazy tiger also doesn’t check my messages these days.
[Ok Toyeon] Did the crazy tiger also teach benefactor something strange? __ __
[Ok Toyeon] You shouldn’t learn strange things!
I guess the crazy tiger was ghosting Ok Toyeon.
If I ignored it, she would use me as an excuse and invade Eungwang District to see descendants, so I decided to reply.
After exchanging messages for a while, the conversation topic changed from Eun-ho’s descendants to the baseball story of TC Knights, who would soon be probably completely ruined.
Right now, just the beginning of September passed, but TC Knights’ options to enter the fall baseball season completely disappeared and there was nothing but a tragic number 1 remaining, so Ok Toyeon seemed to be more anxious.
It seemed that she was enduring hope torture, because the tragic number still didn’t disappear.
‘… If it’s a tragic number 1, then they have to win every remaining game in the future. It seems better to avoid playoffs.’
The TC Knights’ fans would leave their fall baseball season fan jackets in the closets again.
It would be better if Ok Toyeon would concentrate on the satellite work now since there won’t be any games starting from the mid October, when the fall baseball season starts.
Ok Toyeon asked a lot, so I promised to see a game with her someday.
When I finished exchanging messages with Ok Toyeon and was going to sleep for real.
[Caller: Jang Namuk]
In the middle of the night, a call from Jang Namuk came.
*~*~*
[1] familiar — previously called ‘family member’ or ‘kin’.
[2] target character’s Gwangrim — I believe I translated this as ‘active character’, but target character would be the proper translation for it.
[3] “You gave me a round for the first time, eh?” — ridiculous sentence, I hate it. So first of all, this sentence has no precise subject or object, so ‘you’ and ‘me’ are all guesses. I’m assuming Baek-ho means Jo Uisin made him work hard for the first time, but the literal meaning would be ‘offer a board’ or ‘create a situation for someone’.
[4] better than expected — could also mean ‘strange thoughts’.
Translator’s note: Ok Toyeon, I’m afraid it’s the other way around, the crazy tiger is very good at learning new things from people he likes.
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