Never Die Extra (Edited)Volume 500
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Epilogue? Yo-Ma Great War XXX service launched!
Many people sat around the round table. The chairman turned out to be Evan, and Arisha and Belois took the seats beside him. Serena and Mirole, as well as Maybell, attended as members of Astray. As a young representative of the witches, Selune, the witch of water, also attended, and Ctheasil, the witch who managed the magic circle that covers the world, took a spot.
Other members of Astray gathered, and even Leoâs party, the legendary hero, was present. Louise, now the head of Merdin, the continentâs largest empire, was also present.
âToday, weâre here to talk about whatâs going to happen.â
As Evan calmly declared so, Bernard tilted his head.
âWhatâs going on? More weddings?â
âNo.â
âAnd who else is pregnant?â
âYou guys can get out.â
Even if they were Evanâs teachers, he tried to kick out the Leo and Bernard couple, but Belois stopped him, so he decided to let them off just this once.
âYou know Iâve been working on the dungeons lately.â
âOur Lian says youâre fixing the dungeon. Is that real?â
âItâs real.â
Leoâs eyes shone even more as Evan spoke with a serious look on his face.
âReally? Whatâs possible in the dungeon? Can you fight with the Devil?â
âGrow up, man.â
Bernard hit Leo on the head.
âThere is a dungeon backflow every three months, and if we create an infinite number of powerful monsters, mankind will perish.â
âItâs no problem if I catch them all!â
âBull-crap, you canât even beat your own student. How will you beat the Devil?â
âThatâs the real crap. You had to borrow your studentâs hand to make the Elixir!â
âGrandpas, stop it.â
Evan was serious about the arguing of the heroes who saved the world. Looking at the two, he could realize that it was true that their minds became more ignorant as they agedâŠno, itâs just like how it used to be.
âMaster Evan, is Redine not coming?â
Selune, who served as the head of the witches, asked cautiously. Evan nodded calmly.
âMother will never come to the forefront anymore. But if itâs really dangerous, she said sheâd help.â
âWhoa, sheâs not coming anymoreâŠâ
Selune was relieved somehow. Evan could see how much influence Redine had on the witches of this city.
âAnd thereâs Sharay.â
âYes, I can borrow her sometimes when I need her strength.â
If the already strong Sharay brings Redine or Arpaâs magic, she would be able to exert as much as half of Evanâs magic. But even those who gathered here didnât realize how great it was yet, so they could pass the words that had just come out lightly. Compared to when in front of Redine, even the trembling Selune took a fairly comfortable stance against the witchâs ancestor, Sharay, who looked younger than herself.
âSheâs fine. Hehe.â
âWhy are you so afraid of my mother?â
âThatâs because sheâs going to be my mother-in-law! On the contrary, Sharay is my colleague in pursuit of Master Evan!â
Selune seemed to have a different sensibility from the other witches.
âNo, Iâm not in pursuit! Iâm just grateful for godâs graceâŠâ
âOh, yeah, Sharay doesnât have to go into more detail.â
Evan agonized over whether he could get through these guys, but he couldnât shake off Selune or Sharay when Diona seemed to accept them. It was very annoying to see Bernard smiling next to him and making a face like âLook at that.â
âHmm, Evan. Youâre bringing people together to talk about the dungeonâs reorganization?â
Arisha, who became calmer after becoming pregnant, due to working hard with Evan for some time after the wedding, organized the situation as the Vice-Commander of Astray.
âItâs only a small part of it. But letâs talk about the dungeon first.â
Diona was dressed in a suit and wearing a rabbit headband. When Evan signaled, suddenly, complex images appeared on the screen hanging on the wall. What would he hide? Evan turned on the projector he brought from the modern Earth.
âWhatâs this!?â
âThis is the structure of the dungeon weâre going to make.â
âNot that, but that magic tool!â
âOf course, itâs a secret.â
Evan had the best personal computers, printers, projectors, and everything else. But there was only one of each, so he didnât mean for Bernard to covet that. If he went to Evanâs office, he was willing to let him play the PlayStation.
âLook at the screen, not the magic tool. Once weâre done organizing it, itâs up to the 20th floor.â
âHow about the difficulty of the dungeon!?â
âYes. Of course, Sherden, Pellati, and Merdin all have different monsters, but weâre going to share the difficulty in detail.â
Evan slowly explained his plan. The dungeon had been divided into 200 stages, including 100 easy floors, 70 normal floors, and 30 hard floors. When entering the dungeon for the first time, they will try to measure the level of the challenger so that they can choose the appropriate level of difficulty between easy, normal, and hard difficulty. No matter which dungeon you try first, the total amount of blessings you get when you clear all the dungeons is the same.
âYou can say that the 10,000 level has expanded to 200,000. When you enter the dungeon later, your level will be adjusted accordingly.â
âEveryone here knows what the level is, butâŠMaster, can you afford to do this?â
Shineâs question was sharp, but Evan nodded.
âWe can relax because with the death of the Devil, the left-over magic of the world that was being used to bind him was freed. Plus, thereâs a lot of faith out there. Weâre trying to pull it all together, weâre creativeâŠso thereâs nothing wrong with the dungeon reorganization.â
That wasnât the only thing. The large quantity of the Elixir that Evan invested also greatly nurtured the world. Of course, the total amount of magic that the world could bear had increased, but magic production increased even more than that. Originally, the remaining spells stuck together to create bad weather or terrible monsters.
Evan was investing in the dungeons with that very magic.
âNo, thatâsâŠâ
âCaptainâŠâ
Everyone was looking at Evan with inhumane eyes. Of course, they knew that his strength reached the end of the sky at the point of beating the Devil to death, but what Evan was discussing now was beyond the realm of just sheer destructive power. Everyone was shocked again.
âIf I donât attract it, the world will overflow with magic and create strange monsters. I have to gather it in the dungeon and control it. Donât you think itâs the right move?â
âYouâre a god. You always take care of humans.â
While everyone else felt dumbfounded, Sharay said so with a bright face.
Cattleya, who liked him, had no resistance to Evanâs divine appearance as she nagged him.
âWhen can I get into the dungeon? I can be stronger, right?â
âHuh? Youâre a Demon.â
Even if you enter the dungeon, you cannot experience Godâs blessing or level-up. Of course, since the level-up was a blessing given by the godsâ willingness to survive and overthrow the Devil. Knowing that, Shine didnât forget his duty and made a proper retort, but Evan shook his head.
âI explained the structure of the level-up, didnât I?â
âYou did.â
âWho do you think gives that blessing now?â
âUhâŠMaster?â
âThen is it possible or impossible to bless the person I want?â
ââŠâ
That alone was enough. Now there seemed to be no more surprises, but Belois calmly turned to him.
âMaster, what are you going to prepare for the future dungeon? If youâre just trying to make humans strong, thatâs too much.â
âAs expected of Lua. I was going to explain that part from now on.â
Evan flipped the screens of the presentation one after another. Everyone was shocked to see pages that explained the monsterâs level and the unit of blessing given, from easy to hard difficulty, flicker by. However, everyone was forced to tilt their heads when they saw the phrase on the screen.
âReality level? Whatâs this?â
âThereâs a level after hard difficulty, Evan?â
âExactly. Once youâve cleared all of the hard difficulty levels of the dungeon, youâll be able to challenge the reality difficulty. And this level of difficulty isâŠâ
Evan went over one more screen. Unlike the other materials, which had been very meticulous in setting up, there were many question marks. He didnât know up to what floor, and he didnât have a clear list of the monstersâ levels because itâs something he couldnât set up.
âUnlike the monsters that I create or manage, which appear from easy to hard difficultyâŠthese guys are going to capture and release those who will appear on our continent in the future.â
âWhat?â
âItâs not good if the monsters can destroy a city at any time. So, from now on, weâre going to capture them with the dungeonâs power and lock them in the dungeon.â
That sounded very innovative to the others. Although it was shocking to capture and summon monsters appearing on the continent with the power of dungeons, if he did what he said, they wouldnât have to go through the terrible things that had happened in Middle Earth due to the cracks in the world. Furthermore, the intention to grow humans was well understood.
Only when many people have cleared hard difficulty dungeons and developed their abilities would they play against these truly dangerous dungeons. However, all of this can only be established on one conditionâŠ
âEvan, wait a minute.â
Mirole responded with anxious eyes.
âSo what Evanâs saying isâŠthe crack between Middle Earth and the Spirit Realm on this continent will appear again.â
âYou mean the crack in the system? Yeah, itâll show up. Think about it; itâs never been solved in the first place.â
âWellâŠ? But you killed the DevilâŠ?â
âWhat are you talking about? The crack wasnât created by the Devil, right?â
âHuh?â
At that moment, the whole conference hall froze. Among them, only Evan continued to talk calmly.
âAt first, I thought I was the key to this crack, but I wasnât. Because I was connected to the past, to the Devil, to the curse of the world, I was only stimulating their appearance. Then, I wondered if the Devil became the key. But it wasnât that either. Because he just wanted to use that crack to get his hands on Middle Earth.â
âWell, thenâŠwhat about the cracks in this system?â
âThatâs because the magic that sealed the Devil contained the cracks in the other worlds. But the seal has already lost effect, and the crack is about to reappear.â
No, it was already showing up. In the dungeon of the reality difficulty, there were several horrible creatures that could tear down cities and countries.
âWeâve been doing it wrong since we defined the crack as an abnormal situation.â
Evan shrugged, looking tired. âItâs nothing more than that. It was supposed to come naturally in the course of the world.â
It hadnât been long since he realized that what he had been thinking was a misunderstanding. He probably didnât even know until he was recognized as a god. He believed, ironclad, that everything would be over if he just went back to reality and finished off the Devil. What made him realize the truth was⊠On Earth of his past life, it was time to identify the new scenario of the Yo-Ma Great War series.
âThis part has already been discussed with Ctheasil. We have to use the witchâs magic to bring them to the dungeon.â
âHuh, I thought everyone knew but was it just Master and me? Thatâs embarrassingâŠâ
âI knew it, too.â
Louise glared at Ctheasil, who smiled unpleasantly. Evan broke the hardened air in the conference room by clapping twice.
âYou donât have to be so surprised. Thatâs why I was preparing these measures. It doesnât matter as long as the dungeon I planned works.â
That was why witches were the main characters in the new Yo-Ma Great War series. The story of the new Yo-Ma Great War series was to realize that there was something wrong with the magic circle, which had been prepared for the past, and to find the right answer and save the future. Evan has already fixed it, more or less at this point, to cut off unnecessary sacrifices. Devil Rune? That was just a middle-ground scenario.
The real mission of Default wasnât just to calm the Devil Rune.
âI brought you together because of something else. You have to catch monsters, but managing people is a different thing.â
âPeopleâŠ?â
âIn that sense, Default. I want to ask you something.â
âYes, Master.â
Default roughly recognized the atmosphere of the conference room and replied stiffly.
âI want you to answer honestly.â
âIâll answer honestly!â
âYou donât see anything like the Status menu, do you?â
âWhatâs that?â
As expected, Default didnât know. But not long before Name left Sherden, he had unlocked it with the help of SaveâŠwho had already awakened the ability to identify other peopleâs status. In other words, Name, who was originally held by the Incubus King at a time when he was supposed to wake up, slowly began to open his eyes to the ability when he contacted Save, and only recently was he able to wake up as a main character.
However, Default wasnât like that. Was it because it was too late to awaken his skills? No, it wasnât.
âDefault wasnât the main character.â
However, in some games, players could set their names without being the main characters. It was the partner character, the so-called hero.
âDo you know you could have been born a woman, Default?â
âWhat are you talking about all of a sudden, Master?â
âThe default setting is a man. Thatâs too bad. I wanted to see the female version.â
âDefault is my nameâŠwhat? Settings? Version?â
However, Default responded like he didnât understand anything that Evan just said. Suddenly, the door burst open, and the escort driver Dain appeared.
âMaster, thereâs something strange going on in Sherden!â
âAhâŠis it starting already?â
âHuh? What?â
âYouâll find out when we go out together. I wanted to explain this in advance.â
Evan sighed and led everyone in the conference room outside. Then it was visible to their eyes: the images of humans springing up in Downtown Sherden Square.
âWow, is this the real Sherden?â
âThe real Yo-Ma Great War environmentâŠâ
âVirtual reality, feel the air! It looks so real. This is the best company in the worldâŠ!â
âBut why is this place so advanced? Itâs so different from the game CG.â
âI donât think Iâve ever seen this DLC.â
The people had various looks, but all wore the same strange underwear. Soldiers who came straight after hearing the news, heard them speaking strange words as they surrounded the humans.
âOh, but I canât log out.â
âYouâve just logged on, and why are you logging outâŠ? Oh, I canât log out either.â
âThe hell? Call GM! GM!â
âIs this a death game?â
âGuys, thereâs a lot of soldiers surrounding us. This looks dangerousâŠâ
People in long johns were talking their way into the city. With everyone speechless, Evan held a resigned expression on his face.
âFrom now on, these people will flock to each Dungeon City. The setting is that the gods called them to fight against the crisis of our worldâŠno, theyâve just been dragged in.â
At that time, people naturally turned to Evan. Since Evanâs party was also on the side of the that their eyes would be on Evan, the most beautiful of the group.
âOh, itâs Evan!â
âAre you alive!? Evan!?â
âOh, crazy, Evan is so handsome!â
âDonât log out, you crazy people!â
âIs logging out important right now? Evanâs alive!â
âOh, Evan is still alive! Youâre alive, Evan!â
Belois turned her head unnaturally like a robot and fixed her eyes on Evan.
âDear Master, are you acquainted with any of those weirdosâŠ?â
âLua, Iâm sorry. I donât know them either.â
He might know them because of his past lifeâŠbut he decided to keep his mouth shut about the existence of Evanâs fan club. It was the day when the service of Yo-Ma Great War Online (VR) began.
[We did it!