Chapter 10: How to easily proceed with free tutorials (★)

[Awakened Gallery]

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[Title: The #1 thing you must get in the tutorial(★)]

Anyone who sees real-life awakened ones and thinks.

Wow! I can do that too, and starts virtual reality.

If you end up at Eftarel, I’ll give you some advice.

Get rid of that thought right away and focus on the tutorial.

And die a lot.

Literally, keep dying.

Repeat until you get used to it.

If you’re scared and avoid the mobs and go to Mobidik, it’s obvious that you’ll just turn off the game.

It’s better to die to the mobs and gain perseverance.

To those of you who are thinking, ‘This guy is too immersed, tsk tsk’.

I’m ‘serious’.

+Don’t be happy when you kill one of the black skeletons in the tutorial LOL

[Comment]

-This is for real

-For real LOL They think they’re the protagonists of a novel LOL
ㄴ The game is where I’m the protagonist…?
ㄴ There’s no such thing in Eftarel~

-The black wave is coming…
ㄴ Damn it, trauma;

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As with all games, there is a tutorial.

Eftarel was the same.

What is a tutorial?

It is a kind of guide. But it doesn’t end there.

The tutorial is more solid, accurate, and faster for the player.

It’s a device that allows you to immerse yourself in the game while taking care of all three elements.

It explains the game.
It teaches you how to operate it, and it also presents the essential goals.

And in the case of Eftarel—.

“Oh.”

It was simply designed to let you experience it firsthand.

And it makes the player despair.
In fact, many players couldn’t even get past the tutorial and turned off the game. Because it was virtual reality, the senses were too vivid.

There was a reason why the tutorial location was called the Valley of Despair.

Yujin blinked her eyes.

The story wasn’t yet.
To be precise, the story was still in progress.

Yujin was standing in the Valley of Despair, under a dark cliff. The Valley of Despair, which made many players despair, was gloomy and somber.

Her pure white hair fluttered in the cool breeze. Yujin took a step forward, looking at the enemies popping out from all directions.

With her right hand, holding a worn sword.

While feeling the intense murderous intent caught in her sensitive senses from all directions.

Meanwhile, the viewers watching the scene were excited.

-Let’s go~
-Feel despair! Feel despair! Feel despair! Feel despair!
-Is the customization your own? 13 tries.
-Are you laughing LOL? This guy is laughing LOL
-What? The difficulty is Lunatic? Oh my god, newbie LOL

For Yujin’s face to be distorted with despair.

Most virtual reality games are affected by the ‘assimilation rate’. Simply put, it could be considered the degree to which viewers watching a movie are ‘immersed’ in the movie.

Eftarel was especially so.
Even the difficulty of Eftarel is automatically set by the ‘assimilation rate’ unless you set it yourself.

Easy, Normal, Hard.

And, Lunatic.

There were four difficulties that existed in Eftarel. It wasn’t that you couldn’t directly adjust the difficulty.

If they had seen the warning message sent by the system even once, and if they had played the game even once, the players would lower the assimilation rate or adjust the difficulty.

However, Eftarel’s system.
Records most elements.

There has never been a case where a user who started for the first time cleared the game on the highest difficulty, Lunatic.

Even if it was automatically set to Lunatic, most people lowered it to Hard or Normal. Ordinary people were Easy.

A rating is left on the first clear record.
But because the game was so difficult that they had to change the difficulty.

Users laughed at Yujin.
It was rare to start with the highest difficulty from the first playthrough, that is, the very first play.

Most cases were those who overestimated their skills, rushed in without knowing anything, got a good beating, and turned tail.

However, Yujin had no way of knowing.
Because she ignored all messages such as terms and conditions or warnings.

The most difficult difficulty.
Literally a nightmare where penalties exist, such as potions that restore health or neutral areas that are not attacked by monsters disappearing.

That Lunatic difficulty was the difficulty of Eftarel that Yujin was playing now.

Of course, Yujin didn’t intend to.

And such circumstances were not important to the viewers.

What was important to them was that the newbie, who didn’t know anything, would soon be in despair.

Deeply expecting, the viewers chatted, mocking Yujin or telling her to change the difficulty now.

However, it did not reach Yujin.
Because Yujin was concentrating to the extreme, to the point where warnings to reduce the assimilation rate appeared, she couldn’t notice.

Rather, Yujin, unintentionally.

She smiled even more deeply.
The viewers took it as a reaction to their chat.

That’s why the viewers gritted their teeth. They were watching Yujin’s play with the feeling that the outcome was obvious anyway, and they were going to mock her at the end, but.

-?
-What?
-???

Yujin was far from despair.
Rather, she completely shattered the expectations of the viewers.

The pure white ray of light was Yujin’s hair that had moved far away from where she was originally standing. The fluttering white hair calmly settles down.

Behind that.
Three skeletons walking around with black smoke crumbled, collapsed, and disappeared.

The few viewers stopped chatting in embarrassment. Because it was such an overwhelming sight.

However, the embarrassment was brief.
Rather than being embarrassed by what had just happened, the viewers realized what was going to happen and began to laugh.

-Oh LOL Enter LOL
-What was that just now LOL?
-Despair is coming… Despair is coming… Despair is coming… Despair is coming…
-Okay~ Let’s really go~

Because Yujin triggered many of the event triggers that exist in Eftarel.

Yujin brushed off the sword, looking at the many black skeletons coming like a wave.

One of the gateways that made many users of Eftarel despair. It occurs when you defeat even one of the black skeletons that appear in the tutorial.

The game company, which is ‘serious’ about tormenting players, did not hide that intention even in the tutorial.

Aaaah…

The wails of those who have fallen into despair filled the valley.

Yujin took a deep breath in front of the ‘black wave’ made up of countless black skeletons.

And, she raised the worn straight sword high above her head.

It started here.
The legendary story of Eftarel that no one has ever achieved.

But it was not yet accomplished.
The viewers, who mainly flocked to small streamers, were preparing to chat, expecting Yujin to despair this time, but.

“Oh.”

-?

At Yujin’s exclamation, looking at the ‘black wave’, and Yujin’s appearance of moving forward without hesitation, one viewer expressed his question.

-?????

And in the sight that unfolded, no chat appeared on the streaming except for five question marks.

Because, the white-haired woman holding a worn straight sword.

The sight of the ‘black wave’, an event in the tutorial designed to imprint the importance of ‘survival’ and ‘evasion’ on the user’s mind, being gradually destroyed was truly shocking.

Unaware of that fact.

“Easy.”

Finally, Yujin, who broke through all the black waves, made everyone who would watch her play video in the future, as well as the few viewers, excited with a single word she uttered casually.

“Easy.”

After completely turning off the system message that kept blinking on one side of my vision, telling me to reduce the assimilation rate, I took a deep breath.

‘And, it’s fun.’

I looked at the straight sword in my hand.
A worn straight sword with chipped edges and cracks. It seemed to be screaming as if it wanted to rest at any moment.

But I didn’t let go. The straight sword trembled as if it was gnashing its teeth.

‘There’s no need to be burdened.’

That made my heart comfortable.
The journey in another world was very painful. I had to actually kill living people, and they also tried to kill me.

Every moment was like living a life with a deadline, not knowing when I would lose my life.

But now?

‘It’s fun.’

That was all.
When I finished my thoughts, I had broken through the black skeletons that were rushing like a wave and reached the end of the valley, which made me feel like a door.

The valley narrowed as I went forward.
Of course, it still looks quite wide now, but when the black skeletons were densely packed, it felt very narrow.

I was only going straight.
I didn’t know anything about the internal elements of the game except for a very small part, and I hadn’t even touched on the story or Strategy.

I wanted to feel it as it is.

Knowing the ending and running to it has its own charm, but I wasn’t like that.

Just moving forward.
As I did in another world, from some point on, I didn’t look back and I existed here now.

‘However, let’s not get too immersed.’

There’s nothing more ridiculous than not being able to distinguish between dreams and reality. That was me when I first became a woman.

The tail was attached to the sudden thought.

Me becoming a woman.

‘Demon king… damn bastards.’

It still makes me gnash my teeth just thinking about it.

Since force or alienation didn’t work at all, they came up with a crazy plan to turn me into a woman and try to conquer me.

At that time, I couldn’t transcend the Dignity yet, so I fell for it, and now that my soul is fixed in this body, I couldn’t reverse it no matter what I did.

‘…Let’s forget. Let’s forget.’

I sighed.
Yeah. That’s all in the past.

My colleagues who fell for the demon king’s coaxing and tried to violate me, who had become a woman, didn’t even exist in the first place.

I forcibly erased the distracting thoughts that were complicating my head and moved forward.

“It’s amazing.”

That was my impression as I looked around as I moved forward.
When the black skeletons, which seemed to be the enemies of the game, came rushing in front of me, I felt a momentary thrill in my body.

The eeriness that brushes the skin.
The gloom that rings in the ears.

And— this exhilarating feeling that makes my heart race.

It was to the point where I unconsciously accepted this place as reality.

‘Now, that guy…’

Finally, I set foot in the next part of the valley. The message that appeared in front of me told me that.

[The end of the valley, where despair holds its breath]

The ground was dark.
The surroundings were very wide.

When I raised my head, the open space became larger. Above the valley, the dark night sky could be seen. It seemed like it would fall at any moment.

And, right in front.

‘That guy’ was there.
On the huge, dark halberd that was stuck in the ground, which could be said to be over 2 meters.

There was a black knight leaning his body, kneeling.

Could it be that he’s exhaling?
Every time the black knight moved, a gloomy darkness flowed out of his helmet, and his height repeatedly increased and decreased.

“…Mobidik.”

Mobidik.
Eftarel, tutorial boss.

[Knight of Despair]

[Mobidik]

When I confirmed the message that appeared above the black knight’s head, it blurred and disappeared.

I know his name.
Suddenly, I felt a warmth that started from my eyes and crossed my cheeks.

“…I’ve come.”

Slowly, I raised the worn straight sword and aimed it at him.

I couldn’t tell if it was a reaction to that action, or a reaction to my words.

Eftarel’s tutorial boss.

The Knight of Despair, and.

My friend, Mobidik.
Raised his head and looked at me. The darkness inside the helmet stared at me.

I spoke to him, looking at him.

It’s me.
I’ve come.

Face, body, atmosphere.
Everything has completely changed, but the hero you knew is definitely here.

“…I didn’t expect to meet like this.”

Slowly, Mobidik raises his body.

Now I could be sure.
Among the things that the goddess prepared for me, there was also ‘comfort’ for me.

The knight who desired until the end, but did not despair until the end.

The Knight of Despair, Mobidik, pulled out the halberd that was longer than his body from the ground. I feel the vibration coming to my legs.

I felt longing.

“I, the hero. Ashilis.”

And with a smile blooming on my lips, finally shedding thin tears.

“I will surely carry your despair.”

Towards Mobidik, who mounted his words, looked at me with dark flames burning in his eyes, and finally aimed his halberd at me.

I also aimed my sword.

“Here I go.”

And, I ran straight forward.

The battle between me and Mobidik that will begin now.

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[Title: Eftarel over-immersion legend LOL(★)]

[Title: The reason why the Eftarel official site is in chaos right now LOL(★)]

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I had no idea that it would spread in this kind of content.