Chapter 3 (1/2)
“Soo Hyuk.”
As soon as the message appeared, Soo Hyuk opened his mouth and answered.
[Do you want to set-up the character’s name as ‘Soo Hyuk’?]
“Yes.”
[The character’s name has been set as ‘Soo Hyuk’.]
[The character’s appearance will be set-up.]
[Scan in process.]
Once the character’s name was set-up, it went straight into the character’s appearance. And then a message appeared stating it was going to scan. A short while after, in front of Soo Hyuk, Soo Hyuk appeared. Soo Hyuk thought to himself as he looked at his character.
‘Should I continue like this?’
The only thing you can change in the appearance set-up was some height, face, skin, and hair.
‘Let’s raise only the height.’
It was not very hard to raise the height. You only needed to raise the numerical value. It was also not hard to set the skin color, but he did not want to change it.
The problem was the face and hair. A really minute setting was possible that it was feasible to become a different person altogether.
‘It would take too much time.’
However, it would take too much time to make the type of style he desired. Soo Hyuk wanted to go to the library as soon as possible, so he raised only the height to the maximum value and finished his character’s appearance set-up.
[The character has been created.]
[In order to gain access, please make contact with the character that’s been created.]
Soo Hyuk thought to himself as he saw the message stating that the character’s been created.
‘Am I unable to decide the starting point?’
The set-up was only the character’s name and appearance. The starting point was not yet decided.
‘Do I need to access in order to set it?’
By any chance, would you have to connect in order to set the starting point? Soo Hyuk raised his hand and made contact with his character.
Woosh.
At that moment, Soo Hyuk’s character twinkled. And thereafter a message appeared.
[Accessing character ‘Soo Hyuk.’]
[It will be the first connection.]
The access message along with the surrounding area was filled with darkness once again. And a short while after, a house appeared again. It was the house where his character was created.
‘What the, is the starting point random? Or is it already arranged?’
He thought he would be able to decide the starting point once he gained access, but he was wrong. By any chance, was the starting point decided at random? Or was it arranged? While having various thoughts, Soo Hyuk opened the door and came out.
“Wow, it’s amazing.”
“It’s huge?”
Soo Hyuk looked around in amazement as he saw several different users. And it was at that moment.
[Quest ‘Find Guide Kajan!’ has been created.]
[The quest can be found in the quest window.]
The message appeared and Soo Hyuk opened the quest window.
<Find Guide Kajan!>
Go find Guide Kajan in the central plaza!
Quest reward: 1 gold, 1 hard bread
‘Why is it so unfriendly?’
Soo Hyuk confirmed the quest and frowned. He thought there would be a friendly explanation but the quest did not have any particular explanation.
Exactly like what appeared on the message, the contents only stated to find Guide Kajan. Although it showed the location, how would you find the guide if you don’t know where the central plaza is?
‘Do I familiarize myself by just walking around.’
It was indeed an unfriendly quest.
“Where is the central plaza?”
“I don’t know, I should look for it now.”
“Wow, I like it because it’s unfriendly.”
“Why? Does it feel like you’re having an adventure?”
Soo Hyuk closed the quest window. And looked around his surroundings as he listened to the users’ conversations. While confirming the quest, the users increased drastically.
‘I think I need to get out of here quickly?’
Soo Hyuk began walking as he watched the quickly increasing number of users. If he stayed still like this, he felt the users would block him, making him unable to move. After Soo Hyuk was able to get away from the starting point, he began walking slowly as he looked around his surroundings.
‘It feels like I came inside a real novel.’
While reading novels, the feeling of the fantasy world he imagined exuded strongly.
“Haha, and?”
“I just did a rear-side kick! This wound is from then?”
As Soo Hyuk was walking and looking around his surroundings, he saw others approaching him from the other side and thought to himself.
‘Should I ask?’
Looking at their attire and image, they did not seem like they were users. No, it was for certain they were not users. How long has the game been open that they were wearing leather armor? They were clearly NPC. After Soo Hyuk finished his thoughts, he approached the NPC.
“Hello.”
“Huh? Who are you?”
As Soo Hyuk approached, a man wearing leather armor asked with a puzzled look on his face.
“There is something I would like to ask but would it be alright to ask?”
Soo Hyuk replied to the question the man asked.
“If it’s something that I know, I will give you the answer.”
The man shook his head as if he understood Soo Hyuk’s response. And as soon as the man shook his head, Soo Hyuk quickly opened his mouth.
“I’m trying to go to the central plaza, where do I need to go?”
The thing Soo Hyuk wanted to ask was the way to get to the central plaza.
“The central plaza? If it’s the central plaza.”
Fortunately, the man knew about the central plaza.
“You need to go straight just like this. Then it’ll come out.”
“Ah, thank you.”
Soo Hyuk was elastic when he heard the man’s response.
“Haha, no problem. Is there anything else you’re curious about?”
“There is one more thing I’m curious about.”
Soo Hyuk replied to the man’s question. Soo Hyuk was not yet done with his questions. There was still one more thing he was curious about.
“What is it?”
“Is there a library in here?”
It was about the library’s existence.