Chapter 2 - An invitation from a pocket watch (2) (1/2)

Chapter 2 An invitation froe ended there

“…!”

Yeon-woo quickly exaain, just in case he could find another trace of his brother, or another

Flop

Yeon-woo sat down heavily on the sofa

He continued handling the pocket watch without saying a word

It had scratches in several places and wasits minute hand He felt like the experiences that his brother had gone through on ‘that side’ were being portrayed right in front of his eyes

Then Yeon-woo slowly rewound the knob

Click

To my older brother ill listen to this sometime in the future By the time you hear this…

His brother’s recorded voice started speaking again froain rewound the knob

By the time you hear this…

In the saain

And every time, he could hear his brother’s voice inside his head

The sa the succession process]

At that moment, a small screen popped up under his retina

Interface system

This meant he was successfully connected to The Tower

And then, his body began to change

Swoosh

So inside his lower abdomen He felt as if there was a snake curled up in his sto its head up

It was a refreshi+ng feeling, and yet, at the sa inside him

It was mana The basic element that constitutes the foundation of the world It is also the power that people fro

A cluster of h an unknown path, it spread out in all directions throughout his body

He felt so on the inside

And then,

Crackle Crunch

His body started to twist and convulse, followed by a fierce pain as if he were being torn apart

He felt like his body was being disasse ainst torture had been trained, but this was coht onto his sanity Not even a groan ca in place as he kept rewinding the pocket watch and listened to his brother’s voice again and again

By the ti altered The joints in his body were readjusting, and his ain A black substance was secreted out froave off a bad odor

All the impurities in his body had been eliminated, and his muscles and skeleton had been refined

Crack Crack

He was in such a terrible pain, but this was nothing coh

And then, what seemed like an endless process finally ca finished]

[Your awakening process is incoress: 5]

[Your current body is insufficient to complete the succession process Refine your body to complete the succession process As your body iress will also advance]

[Your current status is ‘Incoon Body(龍體)’]

[Your physical abilities have been partially improved]

[Your traits have been confiristered]

[You have acquired the qualifications of a player You can only register once inside Obelisk]

Yeon-as in no condition to concentrate on what the strange voice was saying

After that aboered in his mind

“…”

But Yeon-woo still couldn’t take his eyes off of the pocket watch

To my older brother ill listen to this sometime in the future…

As Yeon-woo rewinded the watch several times, he assimilated his brother’s memories left inside the diary

Five years worth of memories

The memories of when he met his teammates and founded Arthia The me one of the hardest floors Thetheir war

Theworn out The memories of when he kissed his love for the first time… The memories of when he wept aloud because of her betrayal And the memories of when he walked alone towards his ene in like water

As theembedded into his head, Yeon-woo could the feel happiness, sadness and all the other emotions his brother had felt

Inside, Yeon-woo had beco had ended,

“…”

[Player: Yeon-woo Cha]

Trait: Cold-blooded

Strength: 10 Dexterity: 15 Health: 12 Magic Power: 21

Skills: Draconic Eyes, Sense Strengthening, Foresight

Yeon-oke frohts As he opened his eyes, a transparent panel popped up right in front of his eyes

‘It was true Everything”

He was hoping for it to be a lie He would have prefered everything to be a dream or an illusion, but it wasn’t

It was reality

Yeon-woo’s expression sunk

Now he knew about everything his brother had gone through Who put his brother to death, and the reason why his brother had to return like that after five years

The Toas a place that could turn so more than a lawless area where everyone bites at each other’s throat

And his brother was bitten by the starving demons inside that place

If that’s the case,

“I will pay you back”

Following their rules,

“Equally to you all”

Yeon-as given his brother’s abilities as they were

A player He had acquired the minimum requirement to climb the tower

And noas time for him to come forward

Sadness disappeared from his eyes

“…”

Only cold fury remained

Yeon-woo silently stared at the transparent panel that was in front of his eyes

“So this is the ‘Status ’?”

The status as further classified into three tabs: Traits, Attributes, Skills

Traits showed the player’s personality or talents

The first trait his brother had obtained was ‘Psychos

His brother was able to overco his Psychometry to communicate with objects or skills