Author: Black Ajin
Category: Action
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Leveling with the Gods
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Chapter 7
YuWon sat down on top of the Mother Worm’s corpse. He was surrounded by a mountain of Earthworm corpses. It was the result of fighting against them for a whole hour.
“> Wow, you actually managed to slaughter all of them.”
He heard a voice. It was the Lackey.
YuWon rubbed on the ointment he had in his pocket and tossed it aside.
“It was a bit of a struggle.”
Hundreds and hundreds of Earthworms. Even though they could only crawl on the ground, they were still the ones that guarded the Mother Worm. Even YuWon couldn’t help getting a bit wounded while hunting them all.
“> Would you like for me to heal you?”
“Will that count as one of the rewards?”
“> Of course.”
“I’ll have to refuse. A tiny injury like this can be healed just by raising my Constitution.”
The Lackey seemed disappointed by YuWon’s response. It was probably scheming to reduce YuWon’s rewards, even if it was just a small bit, by using this as an excuse.
‘That took a while.’
After the carnage was over, YuWon had waited in that spot for over 30 minutes.
During that time, YuWon treated himself, restoring his health and stamina. He thought the Lackey would have visited him sooner, but it took quite a bit longer before it appeared.
‘That should mean there was a long discourse between the Lackeys.’
“> First, let me applaud you. How could a normal human being get to this point in just the 2nd Tutorial…?”
The Lackeys’ job was managing the Tutorial. In that role, they had to adequately reward or penalize beings that acted outside of the Tutorial’s design.
YuWon hunted the 2nd Tutorial’s boss, the Mother Worm. It was the matriarch of the Earthworms and the monster that preserved the ecosystem of the 2nd Tutorial.
However, YuWon killed that Mother Worm. He fully cleared the 2nd Tutorial, going against the design of the level.
“And the reward is…?”
There was no preset reward in the Tutorial’s system for hunting the Mother Worm. It was only natural. She wasn’t a creature that should have been possible to hunt in the 2nd Tutorial. It was possible to defeat an Earthworm if one was lucky, but the Mother Worm was a class of monster that required being in at least the 5th Tutorial to even encounter.
“> It seems to me that you already understand this world.”
“Somewhat. After all I’ve done, it would be weirder for me to not realize that special actions get rewarded.”
“> Is that so? Most people never actually figure that out. Though, I guess you do seem a bit special.”
The conversation started dragging on.
YuWon asked the Lackey in an annoyed tone, “So, what’s my reward?”
“> You may pick between three things.”
“What are they?”
“> The first option is the right to skip to the 5th Tutorial. Of course, this option will include the information and rewards for the 3rd and 4th Tutorials.”
It was a useless reward. YuWon had no intention to skip through the Tutorials. And the 3rd Tutorial was especially critical in his plans. It might be a good proposition for others, but YuWon had no interest in it.
‘They must think they’re being clever.’
The Lackeys probably thought that the 3rd and 4th Tutorial would be of little value to YuWon. It wasn’t rocket science. If he could achieve this much in just the 2nd Tutorial, he should be able to breeze through the 3rd and 4th Tutorial. Because of that, the Lackeys were eager to send him to a later Tutorial.
YuWon silently waited for the Lackey to explain the next reward.
“> The second reward is points. No matter the world, isn’t money the best? And in this world, points are money.”
The Lackey made a circle with his index finger and thumb.
TL/N: In Korea, the circle hand gesture means ‘money’ as well as ‘OK.’
Points equated to money and power. This wasn’t a bad reward.
“And the last option?”
“> The final one is connecting you with Olympus.”
YuWon narrowed his eyes.
This was completely unexpected.
“… Olympus?”
For Olympus to be mentioned by the mid-level management of the Tutorial…
“> You wouldn’t know this, but the Tutorial is merely the starting point. In the grand Tower, there are huge organizations as well as countless beings with god-like powers.”
This was something he never expected in a million years. This was forbidden knowledge for participants of the Tutorial.
Yet, for a Lackey of all people to reveal this information…
“> I will recommend you to Olympus. Olympus is one of the organizations that rule the Tower. If you are sponsored by them, you should be safe in the Tower, once you’ve completed the Tutorial.”
YuWon let out a small laugh. Instead of a Lackey, it was acting more like a recruiter for Olympus.
“Olympus you say…”
Chronos, the one who sent YuWon to the past, was a Ranker that belonged to Olympus. And as the Lackey described, Olympus was one of the major factions that ruled the Tower. If YuWon could borrow their power, he’d be able to climb the Tower even faster and safer, but…
“I’ll go with the second option.”
YuWon did not select the third reward.
[Distributing reward.]
[You have obtained 10000 points.]
It was a simple but enormous reward. Ten thousand points. It was an unimaginable amount to earn in the Tutorial.
YuWon was satisfied with his reward, but he was the only one who was happy.
“> Are you being serious right now?”
The Lackey was clearly displeased by YuWon’s decision, making an extremely sour face. However, YuWon had no intention to change his decision.
“I am.”
“> Please rethink this. Since you haven’t used your points yet, I’ll give you a mulligan. I’m sure you made this decision because you don’t really know Olympus very well, but you shouldn’t regret it later, and—”
“Hey, Lackey.”
“> ?”
“Can you just do your job right as the Administrator’s gopher? Are you not worried what might happen if the Administrator catches you working for Oympus?”
The Lackey’s eyes widened from YuWon’s statement.
It was because the word “Administrator” came out of YuWon’s mouth.
“This right now, the other Lackeys didn’t agree to it, right? And it most definitely wouldn’t have been approved by the Administrator.”
“> How do you…?”
“Have the other Lackeys also received a similar deal? I wonder if they’re all bought out by the same place? Or maybe some are with the Heavenly Realm? Deva perhaps? Lemegeton even?”
“> You—What in the world are you?”
The Lackey’s voice was shaking.
It was something that had never happened before. At least within the Tutorial, a Lackey held absolute power and authority. Such a powerful Lackey was now shaking in front of a mere participant.
YuWon looked a bit bitter as he spoke. “Thanks, Lackey.”
It didn’t matter which faction bought out the Lackeys. The Tutorial was a place that needed to be separate from the Tower. Yet out of everyone, Olympus being connected to the Tutorial was a problem he could not overlook.
“Thanks to you flapping your mouth, I’ve found one more thing I have to do here.”
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“The second law of the Tutorial.”
“? …?”
“‘During the Tutorial, all achievements by a participant must be compensated by a reward of equal merit.’”
YuWon looked over at the Lackey that the Administrator killed.
“Fair and square, I paid my points to call you over, and through you, I ‘hunted’ a Lackey.”
YuWon looked the Administrator in the eyes.
“What do you think about that?”
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