Chapter 216 – There Are No Eternal Secrets (2)
“In the world I lived in, there was something called a game. You can think of it as a game that people play alone or with others for fun during their breaks from work. The reason I say this is because it has something to do with the game I played and you guys. .”
It finally started. I’m more nervous than I thought about saying this.
As soon as I started speaking, everyone was quiet and focused, waiting for what I said next.
“The name of the game I play is Elion… It’s a game where the goal is to create a virtual character and help that person grow. The virtual character is called a character. And that character is my current character. It was you guys in front.”
“I’m not sure what you mean. You said we were fictional characters, but now we exist like this?”
Renia looked like she didn’t understand. It’s not that I don’t understand. When suddenly someone told me that you were a virtual being, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s right!’ I don’t think I can accept it right away.
“That’s right. You guys actually exist in front of me right now. I know now that you are by no means characters. But at that time, to me, you were characters that didn’t exist in the Elion game. I couldn’t imagine meeting you like this. Because I couldn’t even do it.”
“Then… Are you saying that we were the beings of the world in the Elion game?”
I shook my head at Ellie’s words.
“I thought that was true when I first met you, Ellie. The people I raised were characters from the Elion game. But after spending time with you, I started to feel that wasn’t true.”
I took out a game item from my inventory. Then, “Gram” Appeared on the palm of my hand, which was not holding anything.
“This is called inventory, which is a common system in the games I was talking about. As you can see, you can store items in a virtual space and take them out like this. I thought your world was the world in the Elion game, so I thought it would naturally exist. “But when you guys said you didn’t know if this existed, I realized something was different from what I thought.”
“We certainly don’t know anything about the inventory that Jinu used. If there was such a good thing, I think it would have been useful for moving around.”
If an inventory system could be used in real life, there would not have been any difficulties with supplies while traveling or in war. It’s a system that can only be found in games.
“But that doesn’t mean you can put everything in your inventory. What’s also strange is that you can only put in your inventory items related to you guys, that is, things from the Elion game that I know. This confused me too. The world you lived in is the same as the Elion game. I don’t know if it’s true or not. However, things like whisper, time stop, and dash that I gained additionally after gaining the inventory ability are things that existed for granted in the Elion game. Seeing what you guys don’t know, the Elion game I played had an impact on the world you lived in, but also made the game more enjoyable. “I thought it was completely different.”
“Um… Then why did Jinu give us strength? Clearly, we received power from Jinu and became as strong as we are now.”
This time Rachel raised her hand and asked what she was curious about.
“As I said, in the Elion game, I create characters and let them grow. I don’t know exactly about this, and it’s just my guess, but if I create a character in the Elion game, it will be connected to a certain character in your world, and the character I created will grow. “I think people who are connected to something are destined to grow in the same way.”
“We are connected to a character in the game… Then, is it possible that this is the first character your master created…?”
I shook my head at Lien’s words. I thought I knew what Lien was going to say next, but that was different.
“If you ask me if the first character I created while playing the Elyon game was a character connected to Rien, that would be different. The first character I created was a completely different person. It was a character with the job of sword master who uses a sword, I guess?”
Lenia, hearing me, raised her hand. When she looks at Lenia’s face, she looks like she doesn’t understand it at all.
“Then I don’t understand. To be honest, the power that Jin-nim gave us was a power that was so ridiculous in our world. People who received the power could have become dozens of times stronger than ordinary people who grew up, but until Lien-nim came along, that was not the case. I have never heard of the fact that there were people. Before joining Lien in earnest, when I checked to see if there were other people who received this kind of power and made a name for themselves, I confirmed that there were none. Of course, I did confirm that there were people who received the power from Jinnu but had it taken back. .”
What Renia said makes sense. When I came to this world and listened to everyone’s past stories, it seemed that the person who received the power that everyone talked about had acquired a strength that surpassed the common sense of that world.
“That’s right. Perhaps the people who said their powers were taken back… Were people connected to the character I created and deleted while playing the Elion game. I also played the game Elion for quite a long time. I’ve been playing it since I was young, so I wouldn’t have aged that much. “At that time, I created a character, played with it, then deleted it, created a new character, and developed it repeatedly.”
Actually, the characters I’ve created since I was in middle school aren’t all of them here. I created many more characters than this number, but when I got tired of raising them, I deleted them and created new ones. There was also a character that I deleted while crying after losing after making a bet with my friends to delete the character.
“Then, now the character I started to develop in earnest was Lien. Aside from Elion, there is something called reality in the games of the world I lived in. This is about influencing the game, which is a virtual space, with my real money. You can get new items by buying them from people or paying in-game. It was Lien who first started this game. If you say Lien was the first character you started to properly raise, that would be correct.”
As someone who used to play games without spending any cash, I ended up playing something real for the first time. This was difficult at first, but once you did it, it wasn’t that difficult, so after the first time, I continued to do it if necessary.
“Are you saying you’re spending money on a virtual space? Hmm… That’s also interesting. Spending money on something that doesn’t exist…”
“If you listen to it, it seems that the game is not just played by the owner. As long as it is played by multiple people, even if it does not actually exist, if there is a concept of an object, I think people can exchange it.”
Fortunately, everyone understood what I was saying. I was wondering what would happen if I couldn’t explain it so well that everyone couldn’t understand it, but I’m glad I did.
“They say they charge money for such generous gifts, but I used my own money to create the characters, starting with Rien, followed by Rhenia, Ellie, Noah, Freya, Elsha, Yuria, and Rachel.”
“The order in which we met is similar to the order in which Jinu created the characters in the game. So, was it because you didn’t play the game that you felt like you lost connection with Jinu?”
I nodded at Ellie’s words.
“That’s right. I wanted to keep playing, but where I lived, there was a time when you had to be in the military for a certain period of time, and it wasn’t an environment conducive to playing games. I did take a short vacation in between and played games, but in that time. “It’s been quite a while, I guess? You guys feel like you’ve lost connection with me when I haven’t played the game for a long time.”
“At that time, we were worried that Jinu might have abandoned us, but fortunately, that didn’t happen.”
Then Lien suddenly came forward and came closer to me. She had a sad expression on Lien’s face that made her feel like tears were forming on her face.
“Lord, then… Why did you let me go for a while after you first chose me… Did you not like me…?”
Ugh… If it were me, I would have comforted him and told him that was absolutely not the case. But now that we’ve decided to tell everyone the truth, let’s tell the truth too.
“As you all know, this Elion game is not just for me, but it is also a game to play with other people. It probably wouldn’t matter if it was a game played alone, but when I played it with other people, I couldn’t help but compare the characters I raised with the characters raised by others. It disappears. And when you compare, it turns out that one of the two is better in the end. It would be okay if the difference wasn’t that big, but you know that reality isn’t that easy. There can be an overwhelming difference. Especially in Elion. “The occupations are the same as the number of occupations you know.”
If there are numerous jobs in the game, the game company must properly balance these jobs. If a character with job A is several times weaker than a character with job B, people who train job A will inevitably feel relatively deprived, and this will lead to leaving the game. Game companies will periodically update the job through balance patches. We must try to eliminate the differences between them.
“However, a problem arose while raising a character connected to Lien. In the Elion game, there are times when the abilities of each job are periodically modified, and at this time, the job is to reduce the gap between jobs by making jobs that are too weak stronger and jobs that are too strong weaker. However, since this is also done by humans, it is not perfect, and on the contrary, it happens that a weak job becomes too strong, or a strong job often falls to the bottom. And there are cases where my character connected to Lien falls completely. I did it…”
No matter how much it was nerfed, the one I was training as my main character was a fighter connected to Lien, but at that time, it was ridiculously nerfed and the dungeons were full of strange patterns that were unreasonable for close-range jobs, so I held back tears and started fighting as a fighter. I had to give up raising my family.
And I started raising my current main character, the summoner who is connected to Renia, as my main character.
