He Became Yeong-Sik， the Villain in a Romance Game Where the Sexes Are Reversed. 8

Chapter 8 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Demon

“Tsk… As for the difficulty level…”

Meanwhile, the princess, Prisian, who Eugene mistakenly believes is the heroine of the route the protagonist is currently riding, is trying to get her head to somehow win the protagonist’s sympathy.

Jeol Yu-jin, who entered the hidden dungeon to obtain the martial arts book of Lord Yuma, was in a situation where he was shaking his head because of the level of difficulty of the dungeon, despite knowing this.

‘It’s a dungeon that can only be entered without having mastered any special abilities, but it’s a dungeon that’s almost impossible to conquer unless you’ve mastered any special abilities…’

No matter how you think about it, isn’t this a dungeon designed to kill the conqueror? The good news is that it is close to impossible to conquer, but not impossible.

‘A gimmick dungeon would be better…’

However, it was malicious that in order to overcome the near-impossible odds, what the dungeon required was not gimmicks such as special rules, but pure control, and now that the game had become a reality, the overall physicality of the body.

If you don’t know, you should look it up! If it was a gimmick like that, it would have been possible to overcome the dungeon as close to eating as possible, as long as one had prior experience in breaking through the dungeon through game knowledge.

In the case of fishing maps, if you have experience conquering the map more than once, you will no longer get caught fishing.

However, it could be said that what this dungeon, which delivers Guyumagong’s military service as a reward, required was purely physical.

… Unless you have physical strength that has been honed to the limit, this is a dungeon that requires pure physical ability that goes beyond the limits of a criminal by learning special abilities.

If you have learned the ability, it is a dungeon that can be easily overcome by simply strengthening your body, but conversely, if you have not learned the ability, it requires a level of sense that has been eroded and refined to the limit.

… And if Jeol Yu-jin was simply an ordinary person with a wealth of gaming knowledge, this type of dungeon would naturally have been the most troublesome.

No matter how well you know the strategy, it would have been impossible for an ordinary person to break through the dungeon as long as the dungeon required pure physical skills rather than a way to unlock a complex gimmick.

If it were possible for an ordinary person to break through this dungeon, to put it another way, it would mean that the person in question was a talented person with a level of sense that would make the sky cry.

… And unfortunately, Jeol Yu-jin realized that she was not the talented type.

No, even if he was a talented type, it was meaningless as his body was Strahl’s body and not Jeol Yu-jin’s own body.

Since he was in Stral’s body, Eugene’s physical talent had no choice but to follow Strahl’s talent, and this Stral spirit’s talent was the type that had officially hit rock bottom both physically and intellectually.

… In other words, if Eugene had been an ordinary person who simply liked games before being possessed by this spirit called Stral, the dungeon where this Old Yumagong’s martial arts book rests would have been his tomb.

“If only I were an ordinary person.”

… However, Eugene, the Earth’s Jeol Yu-jin, was by no means an ordinary unemployed person. An Earth where people with supernatural abilities exist and a demon that they must fight against exists at the back of the world.

The eldest son of a family that made a living by exterminating demonic beings such as monsters and demons on Earth through supernatural abilities.

He inherited the job of exorcising demons from his parents, and after going through all kinds of hardships since childhood, he built up his reputation and became one of the ten strongest people on Earth.

… Due to the effects of suffering all kinds of hardships since childhood, he became an absolute person and no one could touch him anymore, so he gave up half of his job as an exorcist and became an unemployed person who only played games in seclusion at home.

However, this did not mean that the experience that Jeol Yu-jin had accumulated in the behind-the-scenes world to grow into a person with special abilities that was known to everyone at the mere mention of his name was lost.

… And that experience allows him to handle even the body of Stral Youngsik, who has no talent at all, to the limit, giving him the ultimate physical strength that allows him to break through the dungeon where the old martial arts book sleeps without strengthening his special ability.

Whick! Quaaaaang!

Something passes by Jeol Yu-jin’s earlobe at subsonic speed. The moment something, an object no bigger than a fingernail in size, collided with a wall a short distance away, a huge explosion occurred.

If Jeol Yu-jin had not been observing the surroundings with his sixth sense beyond his five senses by lightly scattering essence around him through his awakened essence sense…

And thanks to that, if he hadn’t reacted immediately and tilted his head to the side the moment that object was fired, it would have collided with Eugene’s head and blown up his earthen pot with an explosion.

Chrrrr! Jijijijijik!!

In other words, Eugene has just crossed the threshold of death. But that was not the end of his crisis.

A huge chain shoots out from beneath Eugene’s feet, targeting his ankles as he runs at a light hop speed.

Even just looking at the chain, there was a bluish-blue thunderbolt in the air that seemed to cause death at the moment of electric shock.

If it were a normal person, it wouldn’t be surprising if he was so agitated by the fact that he had almost died a while ago that he allowed his ankle to be chained and then electrocuted his entire body and died.

However, Eugene is extremely calm and jumps towards the wall without even slowing down his running speed, then kicks the wall once and leaps to avoid the trap that was targeting his ankle.

Grrrr!!

“Under…”

And that was the moment when Eugene avoided the chains of lightning. As if Eugene had predicted where he would land, a huge pillar of flame erupted from the place where he was about to land.

Whilick! Widely!

Eugene lets out a sigh filled with regret, as if he already knew about the appearance of the pillar of flame, and tumbles backwards to avoid the pillar of flame.

Sigh!

Of course, as if he had been waiting for Eugene, the chain of thunderbolts that he had avoided attacked him again, but Eugene just calmly played with his feet.

‘I knew it, but the difficulty level is really shit.’

Lightly jump to the side and then use the recoil at the moment of landing to jump to the wall again.

Just step on the wall, move backwards out of the range of the chains, and wait for the rising flame pillar to disappear from a little distance away.

The place where Eugene is currently standing is the only safe section in this dungeon.

Of course, if he stays in this section for more than 5 minutes, the walls on both sides of this maze-shaped dungeon will narrow and they will try to turn him into a rat.

But to put it another way, it is okay to take a break here for about 5 minutes.

Eugene, who knew that fact, sighed as he wiped the sweat running down his chin as he waited for the column of flame rising before his eyes to disappear.

‘And Stral, this guy’s body is more trash than you thought, right?’

As if it were not for nothing that the rare magic of Guyumagong was hidden, the difficulty level of the dungeon was truly outrageous considering the entry conditions.

No matter how you think about it, the traps in the dungeon full of murderous intent to kill the conqueror who miraculously entered without any special abilities were traps, but what made Jeol Yu-jin more angry than anything else was none other than the body of Stral, whom he had possessed.

‘In the sense that it is a world where men and women are reversed, Stral Zenon Youngsik can be said to be the Stral Zenon Lady from the perspective of the Earth I was on.’

In short, she is as pitiful as a young lady in a common romantic fantasy… It was said that it was natural for the modifier to be attached to it.

Of course, by the standards of this world, from the perspective of Eugene, who comes from a world where men and women are reversed, how pitiful is the man? This was said, but what can the common sense of this world do about such things?

The good news was that even though men and women were reversed, it was not a world where men wore skirts.

Even if it is a game with a gender reversal setting, who would like it if a man, rather than a pretty girl, wears a skirt or dresses up?

Of course, there may be no demand base at all, but it is also true that the scale is much smaller than the general demand base.

As such, the creators of the game also took this into consideration and applied the gender reversal setting to a level that players could accept.

Things like applying the sexual desire originally possessed by men to women, or, no matter how you look at it, women, who have thinner bones than men, are physically superior to men.

Realistically speaking, it was a ridiculous setting. In a world where men and women are reversed, everything is reversed. It was a funny story that some things were reversed and some things were not.

However, most people understood that this was inevitable in order to sell games and satisfy the male demand base, so they overlooked it.

‘Well, just looking at it, I can only think that the game Orbital World itself is a strange setting in that it is assumed to be a simulation of a world.’

But that’s also the position when viewing Orbital World as a simple game. No matter how you look at it, Eugene, who has become possessed by the world of Orbital World, is real. How can this world exist? I couldn’t help but think that.

But Eugene just erased such questions from his mind. In the first place, there was a situation where there was even a transcendent being releasing an object that was supposed to be a simulation of one world as a game in another dimension.

Eugene even possessed the body of a villain named Stral, Young-sik, due to his transcendent existence.

In such a situation, it was not strange to say that this world, which was presumed to be the background of the game Orbital World, was created by someone’s hand.

And it would not be strange to hear that during the creation process, the creator added settings that suited his taste.

… What is important now is that among the setting of gender reversal, which is applicable in some fields and not in others, that setting is applied to Stral’s body.

“In other words, this body does not have the physical specifications of an ordinary young man, but rather the specifications of a noble lady who grew up in a greenhouse.”

Well, in this world, a noble lady corresponds to a noble young man in the world where Eugene lived, so in some cases, she could have the physical specifications of a knight.

The only problem was that the standard for a noble lady that Eugene spoke of was not the standard of this world, but the standard of the Earth where he originally lived. Together…

“Really, not only my body but also my talent for other abilities has hit rock bottom…”

… As acknowledged in the official setting, Stral Yeongsik’s immediate specifications were trash, but the growth limit afterward was also trash.

If there’s one thing worth noting, is that just as it is common sense that rival noble ladies are beautiful, when the main character takes the princess route, the rival villain, noble lady Stral, also has an outstanding appearance?

As I said, the gender reversal war of words, which may not be applicable in some fields, conveniently did not apply to the aesthetic standards of men and women, so being good-looking meant being good-looking even by Eugene’s standards.

‘The problem is that no matter how you think about it, other than being handsome, everything about it is inferior to my original body.’

As evidence, Strahl’s body was singing for help even though it had only just broken through the entrance to the dungeon.

Trembling limbs. Breathing that doesn’t seem to calm down even after a short rest. Sweat pouring down like a waterfall. A heart that’s beating like it’s going to explode.

All of those physical reactions were telling us that Strahl’s body was pushing its limits.

… Even though he only moved his body to a level that would not be considered a walk if it were Eugene’s body.

Well, if I hadn’t noticed the omen along the way, a beam of light was shot that would have pierced me, and I rolled on the floor in a hurry…

A barrage of arrows rained down, and he caught the arrow that was fired, and then hit the arrow that followed him…