Chapter 28 - The Young Man (2/2)
Soo Hyuk looked up from the now dark book as he closed it. But Soo Hyuk couldn’t help but panic slightly when he looked up.
“……Huh.?”
Soo Hyuk stared at the young man on the other side of his desk with a flustered expression. It was the person who greeted him previously in the library.
“Why……”
Why was the young man sitting opposite him? There were lots of spare seats around them. In fact, there was no one else inside the library currently. So why did he choose to sit opposite him?
“Ah!”
While Soo Hyuk was deep in thought, he suddenly heard a voice. He looked towards the source of the voice, which was the young man that he had been thinking about.
“So, you finished reading.”
Said the young man when Soo Hyuk made eye contact.
“……Did he wait for me?”
From the way he talked, it seemed like this was the case.
“Why though?”
He was unfamiliar to Soo Hyuk. A stranger.
“Does he need something from me?”
As Soo Hyuk was thinking, he asked the unfamiliar young man.
“Did you perhaps wait for me?”
“Yes, I waited for you to finish that book.”
The young man replied as he nodded to his question.
“Why did you wait for me?”
Soo Hyuk asked again. He was curious as to why this unfamiliar man had waited this long for him.
“So, the thing is……”
The young man started to say, he held up a book while grinning. It was a normal white book.
“The Legend of Larkan 1?”
Soo Hyuk checked the title and looked up at the young man again. Why did this person suddenly give this book to me? Sensing his suspicion, the young man said to Soo Hyuk.
“What colour do you see?”
His question was simple. It was about the colour of the book.
“You mean the glow, right?”
Soo Hyuk asked the young man, just to make sure.
“Yes.”
The man replied while nodding.
“White.”
“White?”
The young man repeated.
“Yes.”
This time, Soo Hyuk nodded.
“Is something there?”
Soo Hyuk wondered as he stared at ‘The Legend of Larkan 1’ in the young man’s hands.
“Why is he asking me that?”
While he was wondering, the young man suddenly exclaimed.
“I see. Thank you for your answer!”
“Did you wait just to ask that question?”
The young man did not immediately reply to his question.
“……Yes.”
Then, looking like he decided something, he continued.
“Perhaps.”
As soon as the young man opened his mouth again, Soo Hyuk also concentrated.
“Do you know the blue glow?”
“Yes, I know about it.”
Not only the blue glow, Soo Hyuk also knew about the red and purple colours. Soo Hyuk answered while nodding.
“Then this makes this a lot easier.”
The young man then continued.
“Actually, this book is blue for me.”
“……Really?”
Soo Hyuk was flustered again. The young man was holding ‘the Legend of Larkan 1’, and it was definitely white. But it was blue for him?
“Don’t tell me……”
Soo Hyuk suddenly thought of a possibility.
“It’s different for every user?”
Then Soo Hyuk changed his thought after considering the situation more.
“No, it can’t be like that.”
The books are different for every user? Then it was too unfair. Some users would get good quests while some would get bad ones.
In ‘Pangea’, hard work and effort was a large part of the game. There was some luck, but ultimately, you had to work hard to be good at the game. But if the quests that users could get from the library depended solely on luck, then a hardworking user might get a trash title while a casual user might get a godly item with just more work than usual. Soo Hyuk thought that this wasn’t the case as it was just too unfair.
“Then it’s special requirements?”
Soo Hyuk had read many books so far, and there was a lot of fantasy novels set in Pangea. Although it wasn’t all of them, some required certain conditions to be fulfilled to get a special item. Soo Hyuk thought that special quests also worked the same way.
“And this book.”
The young man pulled out another white book, and continued,
“It was white at first but turned blue.”
Soo Hyuk finally came to a conclusion after hearing his words.