Too many comments were left. It seemed better to write another post with the questions in the main text rather than continuing to communicate in this post.
Title: What's Deung-gal again? Climber Gallery? Looking at the posts, it's Transcendent Gallery... It seems normal that I shouldn't be able to come here.
Author: Anonymous
- I suddenly lost consciousness, and when I opened my eyes, I was just here.
- I'm doing this on a device I found in the pouch an NPC was holding.
As soon as I posted, a comment was immediately left.
Re: Jujak) Deung-gal is indeed Climber Gallery. A gallery terminal in an NPC's pouch? That's literally the first time I've ever heard of that.
It was Jujak.
Re: Jujak) I'll explain more about Deung-gal later. First, this place. The Transcendent Gallery is a gallery that only beings who have reached the top of the Tower and returned to their respective homelands can enter. You entering here can be considered an extremely abnormal situation.
Re: Jujak) The Tower's difficulties are Easy, Normal, Hard, and Pandemonium. Four in total. Anyway, regardless of the difficulty, to escape the Tower, you have to kill various monsters and clear up to the 100th floor, which is the top.
Re: Jujak) You said you found yourself there when you came to, right? Then to know which difficulty Tower you're in, you have to clear the 1st floor first.
Tower.
A place where you must kill monsters and climb the floors.
After facing the number '1' and the giant ant monster, as someone who lived off subculture, I had expected it. But just because my expectation was right didn't mean I was calm.
Re: Jujak) The reason you're an alien existence in many ways is because climbers can originally never enter the Transcendent Gallery. It's a place where only Tower conquerors are allowed entry.
I see. So it's not even a gallery where veterans gather. I, a total newbie, have entered a gallery where people who reached the top of the Tower and escaped it gather.
Re: Jujak) Deung-gal is the Climber Gallery. It's a community where people from the 4 Towers can talk. You also have to reach the 30th floor of the Tower to get a Climber Gallery terminal. Don't tell me you can already enter Deung-gal too?
I quickly left a reply.
Re: Anonymous) No. Seems like only Cho-gal works.
Re: Jujak) ...Cho-gal working is even more amazing, though. Anyway, the majority of Cho-gal will be favorable to you. Including me.
After Jujak's last comment, comments from other beings started dropping again.
Re: That guy Jujak unfolded his domain for the first time in a while. It's been a long time since I got my comments blocked.
Re: Makes sense lmaooo. This is a fucking historic moment. A 1st-floor scrub climber entering Cho-gal, what is going on lol
Re: Shrine Maiden) As expected, Jujak-gong. It is the power of authority.
I wondered why only Jujak was leaving comments consecutively, but it seemed Jujak exercised his authority as the master of the gallery.
Re: How can we not be favorable to them. Unlike Deung-gal where Transcendents were only allowed to lurk, direct backseat gaming is possible now lmaooo. Drooling hard.
Re: What's the point of backseat gaming. If they die, it's over.
Re: Agh~~ Easy-mode ham!! Stop the negative thoughts! Stop the critical thinking!
Re: Sword of Light) The probability of dying even on the 1st floor is low, but depending on the difficulty, you can't say the probability is completely zero. You must be careful. Check if there are any risk factors.
Re: Lol I guess we have to worship the King-god newbie who makes even the Sword Nut say the right thing.
Taking my eyes off the gallery at the comment from Sword of Light, who was already perceived by me as the Sword Nut, I urgently surveyed my surroundings. Fortunately, no monsters were approaching, and nothing else was happening.
I wrote another post.
Title: But guys, where did you all live? Do you know the Republic of Korea?
Author: Anonymous*
- Looking at you fixed-nick users' names, you seem a bit far from modern times.
But after posting, I saw a '*' attached next to my nickname Anonymous.
Re: Jujak) Since you'll be getting attention for the time being... no, continuously anyway, I put a star on you so you can get the proper attention.
Re: Shrine Maiden) Uuu, even when I begged for them to attach just one thing for me, they didn't! You're too much!
Re: Tianmo) When this seat asked to attach the Xinjiao's emblem behind my title, you didn't even pretend to listen. How insolent, Jujak.
Re: While using a proper fixed nickname that only Hard mode conquerors can have, you're acting so high and mighty. Do you want to get beaten up by the countless Anonymouses? But the star is kinda tempting...
Re: Lmao, for real, even Anonymous looks somewhat cool with a star attached.
So using a fixed nick means they're all Hard mode conquerors.
It's quite unexpected that the Shrine Maiden using that strange way of speaking is such a great person.
Just from the comments, information about Cho-gal kept pouring in.
The additional comments were related to the topic of my post.
Replies to the question of whether they knew the Republic of Korea.
Re: Republic of Korea? Ah, you're from the same world as the guys who suddenly started entering Deung-gal recently.
Re: Seems like a 21st-century Earth Anonymous.
Re: Sword of Light) Korea, USA, Japan, UK, China... That country has a lot of nations but very few talents, a bizarre Earthling.
Um, my hometown.
It seems the rating of my hometown is low.
The evaluation is terribly harsh.
I immediately posted the question that came to mind as a comment.
Re: Anonymous*) What do you mean they started entering recently. Were there none originally?
Re: Archmage) They appeared starting from a year ago. Self-proclaimed 21st-century Earthlings. Even then, it was only Easy mode or Normal mode climbers who started being active in Deung-gal.
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I see. Then the Tower I was summoned to must be an Easy or Normal mode Tower too.
Re: Anonymous*) But is there some standard for summoning? Why did I suddenly come here?
Re: Gutter Sword Saint) The world you came from. Something might or might not have happened to 21st-century Earth. Just think of it as bad luck.
I already know very well that my luck is bad without you needing to emphasize it.
But just when I was about to ask why only those from Hardcore difficulty Towers use fixed nicks.
Skrik.
A very foul cry was heard.
"..."
Damn it.
I turned off the Transcendent Gallery for now.
I put the Transcendent Gallery terminal, which looked exactly like a smartphone, into my pocket and held the spear with both hands.
Holding my breath, I pressed my body against the right wall.
My heart beat fast.
My body fell into a state of extreme tension.
It was familiar.
It was the pressure I felt every time I was pitching in the high school baseball league until two years ago.
The reason I quit baseball when I had just turned nineteen was because a shoulder injury and my parents' divorce blew up at the same time.
The shoulder injury improved to some extent in half a year, but I couldn't return to baseball. It felt like I had drifted too far away.
I ran away back then. Using a mere half-year hiatus and the destruction of my family as excuses.
But right now, there's nowhere to run like back then.
They said the probability of dying on the 1st floor is low.
First of all, whatever appears in front of me, I have to stab it to death with the spear.
The moment my furiously beating heart barely calmed down, a black shadow covered the gray floor.
I thrust the spear forward and moved my feet.
Squelch!
An unpleasant sensation ran through both my hands.
Screech!!
The torso was definitely the same as the giant ant I had just killed. But the head was different.
It was a bizarre shape with three human heads intertwined.
I pulled out the spear that had pierced the upper torso and thrust it once more.
Squelch!
Kieaak!!
Fresh red blood stained both my hands. But I only felt urgency.
'The wounds I inflicted are healing?'
The wound from the earlier stab was healing fiercely.
If the torso has that level of regeneration, do I have to crush the heads to kill it?
The decision was made.
I aimed the spearhead at the woman's head with long hair in the center among the three heads.
At that moment, the ant's right leg moved. And it sliced through my shoulder.
"Kuaaaaagh!"
─Fuck!
It hurts like hell.
It was a searing pain as if my whole body was on fire. Low probability of dying my ass.
I'm certain. If I allow even two or three more attacks, the one dying is me. Not that three-headed ant.
Grind!
I clenched my teeth and moved my body.
Crunch!
I crushed the woman's head first. Then I crushed the bald man's head on the left in succession.
This time, I saw the ant's left leg moving.
I shoved the spear shaft forward and hastily collided with it.
Slash!
But it sliced past my side.
It was a pain as if a chunk of flesh had been torn off entirely. The pain ate away at my mind again, but I had to move.
I swatted away the sweeping right leg of the ant with the spear shaft and thrust the spearhead into the remaining head.
The body of the giant ant with human heads slowly collapsed to the side.
I finally killed it.
[Experience has increased.]
[Current Experience 70%]
[Pain Suppression Lv.1 - Skill acquired.]
[Composure Lv.1 - Skill acquired.]
[Concealment Lv.1 - Skill acquired.]
Without even a moment to feel relief or a sense of accomplishment, the wounds on my side and shoulder made their distinct presence known.
Hot blood.
I had to stop the bleeding first.
Mound.
This is the baseball mound.
I repeated that to myself, clinging to my consciousness.
Because when baseball was my everything, I stood my ground there no matter what happened.
My steps headed backward.
To the place where I found the terminal that could open the Transcendent Gallery.
Toward the corpse of the [Fleeing Citizen].
I picked up the pouch next to the corpse.
I took out the terminal, but there was definitely something left.
What my trembling hands grasped was a round potion bottle.
Inside it was a red liquid.
Just like the text that floated like a hologram above the corpse, a description of the potion bottle came to mind.
[Item: Grade 3 Recovery Potion]
[Effect: Pouring it on the wound heals it to a certain extent.]
It seemed there was no rule saying I had to die.
Trembling with both hands, I opened the cap of the potion.