Translator: Wan ED/PR: Solarin *revised*
2. Tutorial of an unnamed supporting character (2)
The Enemies and items which appeared in the Player Maister School had ‘rarity’ ranks determined by their stats and how uncommon they were.
It meant that rarity rank reflected their stats and the rarity of their existence.
The ranks were divided into UR(Ultra Rare), SSR(Super Super Rare), SR(Super Rare), R(Rare) and N(Normal), with + and – added as necessary.
But, the impossible to measure and unknown rarity were expressed as EX(Extra).
And the item I pulled out in that disastrous situation was one of the lowest rarity items.
⟨Obtained ‘Assassin apprentice’s folding knife’. The weapon data can be read.⟩
‘It’s junk!’
At the system notification, my vision turned pitch-black.
The item card’s border color was close to black.
‘It may be not the junk I know!’
I started to spin a thinking circuit, trying to escape into delusional happiness.
Holding vain hopes, I chose to read the item data.
⟨Reading item data.⟩
[Item name] Assassin apprentice’s folding knife
[Type] Weapon
[Rarity] N-
[Proficiency] 0%
[Effect] Proficiency experience acquisition rate bonus 20%, Agility +2, Power +0.5
[Description]
A crude weapon one can buy even in a common market.
Contains the grudges of a revenger[1] and assassin apprentice, who was its previous user.
To pierce the neck of the archenemy, the revenger hones their skill without rest.
The hope and happiness circuit was shattered.
It was the junk I knew.
It was a junk of junks, which if it was the game it would make me immediately reinstall the game after forcing the shutdown by pressing the home button and starting a reset marathon.
I was left stupefied and the situation continued to flow.
I saw something wiggle on the other side which couldn’t be properly illuminated by the dim lights of the gym.
“Ru… Run…”
I heard the voice, which sounded like it was going to go out.
The punks, who were about to say something to me about opening the item box, looked in that direction.
“Uh? Isn’t that the supervisor? Hey, blood, there is blood…”
“That’s the hat[2] the supervisor was wearing.”
“Jo Uisin, you said the Enemy is coming a moment ago…”
Jang Namuk’s words to me were buried in the sound of sirens.
Weeeeeeeeei!
Kieeeeeeeeek!
Together with the siren, an eardrum-piercing high pitch sound rang out.
After the noise ended, a voice with a strange tone was heard.
— Ah, ah, mic test. Do you hear me, examiner lads[3]!
That was the real voice?!
Because PMH didn’t have voice-over[4] or anything like that, worthy of a game wreck, it was the first time I heard that voice.
I wished it was dubbed someday, but I didn’t want to hear that voice in such a manner.
— I set my pet loose in one of the practical exam grounds! I gave it the ‘Catch and play, and then kill’ command[5]… No, I bestowed a blessing!
The Player Maister Highschool’s opening was as follows:
A supporting character, without face or name, takes Eungwang Highschool’s entrance exam.
Before entering the examination ground.
They were informed that the school have absolutely no responsibility for the possible injuries occurred during the practical exam and signed an exam oath.
And the unnamed supporting character is allocated to exam group 13.
— Currently, Eungwang School’s communication functions are completely cut off, in addition, a special power was used on the Off-exam-ground barrier in the exam ground where I released my pet which makes it impossible to release for 15 minutes!
And then a bloodied supervisor appeared in the dark gym.
— Korean Republic’s prestigious school[6] superpower users, elite Players sprouts-ah, life is always a ridiculous thing!
To teach you that thing… I’m not,
For my endlessly personal and extremely private reasons!
After a broadcast with chaotic and insane content ended…
— I chose a few among the lads I plan to kill. If you want to save them, good luck searching. Over!
The legendary event that evaporated half of the over 3 million pre-registered users of Player Maister Highschool.
‘Tutorial of unnamed supporting character’ started.
⟨Warning, Enemy approaching.⟩
Weooooo!
Strangely shaped Enemy that looked to be a combination of a rhino’s head and the body of a lion, stomped on the bloodied supervisor with one foot and roared.
A shriek more powerful than the high pitch sound from the speakers had the power to pierce eardrums.
The tension suffocating my lungs.
The murderous aura pressing on my whole body.
The scent of blood stabbing my nose.
The odour of rotting animal corpse.
I clearly recognized that this situation was a reality I was in.
My survival instincts were screaming at me that it was reality right now and if I don’t handle it, I’m going to die.
I could do nothing but recognize it.
“Wh-what is that….!?”
“Demonic Beast? Hey, wait, it also has a bounty. Ah…. Ahhh…. It’s the Ung tribe[7]’s familiar!”
Jang Namuk, who seemed to possess Insight category skill, shouted.
‘Let’s start with confirming the Enemy’s information again.’
I knew it because I read the setting book, but it was necessary to be much more careful before moving.
⟨Reading ‘Rinoseron’ Enemy data.⟩
[Enemy name] Rinoseron no. 13
[Rarity] R+
[Titles] Pet category Demonic Beast species, Ung tribe’s familiar
[Blessing] Your owner commands you this ‘Catch and play, and then kill’
[Status] Complete obedience (impossible to release), cognitive abilities lowered, sensory abilities lowered, instincts strengthened
[Overall stats] Lv. 38
[Skill]
Heavy Rush Lv. 5
[Description]
A product of a certain Ung’s hobby.
Completed after 13 rounds of synthesis and remodelling.
A demonic beast that is nether a rhinoceros demonic animal or lion demonic animal.
Faithfully follows its remaining instincts and owner’s commands.
While accompanying its owner on a walk in the past, it alone destroyed a town.
Currently, under a bounty.
Because of ‘Clash of Different Worlds’ the invisible beings became visible and fiction became reality.
The things from myths and legends, natural phenomena, religious beliefs, and fictional stories became reality.
One of the beings that appeared anew at that time were the Jin people[8].
Jin people was a name for a different kind of people, who were neither humans nor Enemies.
They, who existed in this world for a long time but their interference was limited, descended to the present world in their complete forms with the Clash of Different Worlds as the trigger.
Demons, angles, dragons[9], etc, which were believed to exist only in fiction existed in reality.
Because those Jin people had various individual tendencies, they were either humanity’s allies or adversaries.
‘The Ung, who sent that bastard, is an adversary.’
The Ung had noticeably aggressive and hedonistic inclination.
Pet category Demonic Beast species R+ Rinoseron was an Enemy remodelled and trained as that Ung’s pet.
‘I was slaughtered by that bastard.’
Almost 10 years had passed, but I still remembered.
Starting from the tutorial, I was gruesomely slaughtered by powerful Enemies, for ridiculous reasons, it was a game structure truly worthy of a national game wreck.
‘Even so, I wanted to clear it.’
In the end, I couldn’t clear it.
No matter what the unnamed supporting character I operated and the NPCs did, they were broken into pieces and died.
After the barrier was lifted, the school staff and high-ranking Players at school rushed into the gym.
However, the only thing they found were bloodstains and pieces of flesh too pitiful to even call them bodies.
The faces filled with despair, expressed with intricate graphics were still vivid.
‘At that time, the longest I endured was 9 minutes.’
5 minutes using the Rinoseron’s traits.
4 minutes endured using items.
Combining, it was barely 9 minutes.
However, the barrier was only released after 15 minutes.
“Don’t move!”
At my words, Son Mingi, who was about to flee, halted.
“Rinoseron is sensitive to big movements but it has poor[10] ears and eyes! If we don’t make big movements, we will be fine for a while!”
Then I could do nothing but find another conquest way.
Survive 15 minutes.
It didn’t seem to be a long time.
However, it was enduring for 15 minutes against Demonic Beast with a clear level gap.
‘It’s a similar level of difficulty to enduring 15 minutes inside a collapsing high-rise building.’
The things I could currently use were those three middle school brats and the lowest rarity junk I pulled out.
I had to increase the number of pieces I could use.
“Open your item boxes.”
The punks, who were completely frozen, hurriedly took out palm-sized boxes from their pockets.
In my case, I summoned it from the Exclusive Menu’s item window, but it seemed different for others.
Soon Jang Namuk, Son Mingi and Yu Sang-hun all opened the exam random item box and obtained an item card.
But no punk made a relieved expression.
Jang Namuk pulled out four [Oat flower extract medicine] items.
Son Mingi pulled out three [Spider string net trap] items.
Yu Sang-hun pulled out four [Cotton scarecrow’s devotion] items.
Completely ruined.
All four, including me, should never buy lottery tickets.
‘No, Jang Namuk pulled quite well? At least among the four of us…’
The rarity was the lowest, but all three pulled out consumables.
Only I was the one to pull out a weapon.
‘I have to think.’
The physical abilities of the four, including me.
Items.
Demonic Beast Rinoseron.
15 minutes.
I came up with the next move.
“From what I saw with a skill, it’s Pet category Demonic Beast R+ Rinoseron. In addition to being the Ung’s familiar, it also has a blessing.”
As calmly as possible I explained a portion of the information confirmed through the status window.
Son Mingi swayed as if he lost strength in his legs, but Jang Namuk reflexively caught him, so he didn’t fall down.
Those punks aspired to be admitted to Eungwang School, which had the highest difficulty entrance exams in the Republic of Korea.
As they thoroughly memorized theories, they would guess the Rinoseron’s destructive power from this information alone.
“It’s at the level, where even without eyes and ears, it can turn this room into powder within 2 minutes.”
I gave the finishing blow.
“It’s fine right now because it follows the ‘catch and play, then kill’ command. However, as the time passes, it may change to the command of ‘destroy everything’.”
To speak precisely, it wasn’t ‘may change’, but ‘will change’.
Because even when I tested it with several patterns when enduring for 5 minutes, the movements certainly became different.
“I’ll speak my thoughts from now on. If you have different ideas, say it right away. Let’s decide within four minutes.”
The time remaining until the barrier was lifted, 14 minutes.
The bastard who was spacing out until a moment ago stepping out would look untrustworthy, but it was a situation they didn’t have any special moves.
The punks nodded.
* * *
“I’ll do it.”
The moment my words finished, Yu Sang-hun handed me an item card.
The ownership of Yu Sang-hun’s four [Cotton scarecrow’s devotions] changed to me.
⟨‘Cotton scarecrow’s devotions’ ownership was transferred from ‘Yu Sang-hun’.⟩
In that disastrous situation, he handed me the sole item he possessed?! He was a bold bastard.
⟨Reading item’s data.⟩
[Item name] Cotton scarecrow’s devotion
[Type] Consumable
[Rarity] N-
[Effect] Reduces damage by 30% for 15 seconds after which is destroyed.
[Description]
A scarecrow from old cloth, with the body filled with cotton.
Over a century ago, its role was to chase away birds on the corn fields.
Now it lost its position to the automatic laser scarecrows.
It seems one can hide behind its bulky body.
“Me, me too.”
Son Mingi nodded, while trembling.
Now only Jang Namuk had to agree.
As the good bastard with the best physique, he repeatedly opened and closed his mouth a few times, as if he had many of some sorts of thoughts.
“I, who can’t come up with any countermeasures, shouldn’t make a sound, but even if it turns out well, it’s a plan where there will be injuries.”
Jang Namuk held out an item card as he spoke.
“Be careful, Jo Uisin…!”
It seemed that Jang Namuk hesitated because he was worried about me.
* * *
The Rinoseron abandon the motionless supervisor and sluggishly wandered around the gym, searching for its next prey.
Even though we knew that Rinoseron’s ears almost couldn’t hear, we held our breaths and moved very slowly.
‘It would be good if the limited time ended and the barrier would be lifted so we could escape like this.’
That expectation was immediately crushed.
Rinoseron let out a shriek.
Wieeeeeee!
Its movements turned noticeably aggressive.
After I checked the Rinoseron’s status window again, the [Blessing] section was updated.
[Blessing] Your owner commands you this, ‘Destroy everything’
It was as I expected, but it seemed they thought of turning everything into powder, including this place.
⟨Warning, Enemy ‘Rinoseron’ is about to use skill ‘Heavy Rush’.⟩
*~*~*
[1] revenger — literally a spirit of revenge. But if you translate hanja literally, it means the spirit of returning (or recovered) enemy.
[2] hat — so fun fact, homonyms of hat in Korea is also ‘mother and son’ and I’m so normal about it. Other homonyms are: ‘mother’s love’, ‘word referring to both mother and older sister (noona)’, ‘pupil (eye)’, ‘in go, a move of placing a stone above a low stone of opponent, usually used to reduce opponent’s stone or attack them’.
[3] lads — literally ‘you-gun’ ‘gun’ is an honorific used towards young men.
[4] voice-over — literally ‘voice materials’.
[5] command — Dunno if it’s the word itself that is important, but the word is ‘명령 (myeong-nyeong)’. The homonyms of it are ‘a moths and butterfly larvae’ and ‘a divine/great soul/spirit which sees everything widely and brightly’(?).
[6] prestigious school — Haa, so prestigious is ‘명문 (myeongmun)’, it also can mean a prestigious/noble family. It can also mean writing of clear logic and meaning/ a phrase clearly recording something, or a good rumor spread throughout the whole world. But 문 (mun) also means door, and 명 … well I’m still finding out about that.
[7] Ung tribe — Ung stands for a hanja for a bear. (But hanja isn’t given here there is a possibility it’s meant as something else).
[8] Jin people — Jin stands for hanja 眞, meaning true.
[9] Demons, angles, dragons — Ma tribe, Cheon tribe and Yong tribe respectively.
[10] poor — literally ‘dark’.
Translator’s note: It feels to me like Rinoseron is some kind of joke on Haetae (해태), a lion-like mythical creature with horns on its head, which can tell which person is noble and which one is evil, and when it finds an evil person, it will ram them with its horn and eat them.
… I have some fun facts to make about items but *looks at the number of footnotes* I’ll leave it for the next chapter.
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