LIGHTNOVELWORLD chapter 1
Became the illegitimate son of a large conglomerate
The sight of a familiar figure emerging from among the wrecked cars was shocking.
[…why, why you.]
The man is speechless and coughs up blood.
Barely holding on to his fading consciousness, he looked up at the woman he once loved.
[·······.]
There is nothing to say about women.
I just stood in front of him and aimed my magic.
The man let out a small groan.
[Is it because of your brother?]
He saw a line of commotion pass over her icy face.
The man smiled faintly.
His hand turned off the phone he had hidden behind his back.
[…that’s how it happened.]
[······!]
The woman’s eyes are shaking.
However, she bit her lower lip and endured it. She clenched the staff tightly in her hand and cast the spell.
Before long, a sharp gong sound pierced the man’s chest.
Soon, blood splashed out of his mouth, but the man gritted his teeth and held back a groan.
It’s because I didn’t want to show weakness until the last moment.
He licked his lips hard.
[The end with you…]
The strength in the body begins to drain.
As if his eyes were closed from drowsiness, the woman received his body as he began to collapse little by little.
Leaning on her shoulder, he vomited out the last word like hemoptysis.
[…I never thought it would be like this.]
[······ Hmmm.]
As the man’s body began to cool little by little, the woman covered her mouth.
However, the regurgitation of emotions once leaked out is not easily controlled.
The man’s body weighed down the woman like guilt.
The woman forced herself to swallow the tears that burst out.
Then, holding his body with both hands, whispered softly.
[sorry.]
“Wow, he dies again.”
The young man, who had been concentrating on the screen until late, put the mouse down with a sigh.
“Is there really no way to do anything?”
When I pressed the ESC key to get out of the main screen, several characters appeared on the screen along with the familiar title of ‘Heroes’.
Savior [Iarin] [Difficulty: Legendary] [Progression: 100%] [Accomplishment rate: 158/158]
Assassin [Hyeonsu Park] [Difficulty: Legendary] [Progression: 100%] [Accomplishment rate: 75/75]
Magician [Gillion] [Difficulty: Legendary] [Progression: 100%] [Achievement rate: 88/88]
Saint [Lucy] [Difficulty: Legendary] [Progression: 100%] [Accomplishment rate: 110/110]
Archmage [Jia Shin] [Difficulty: Legendary] [Progression: 100%] [Accomplishment rate: 92/92]
Archer [Kang Hee-jin] [Difficulty: Legendary] [Progression: 100%] [Accomplishment rate: 72/72]
Before I knew it, it was not enough to clear all the hero characters in this game on the hardest difficulty, and it had been 15 days since I had achieved all the achievements.
For him, who has long liked games with a lot of depth to dig into, ‘Hero’s Legend’ was a game that suited his taste quite a bit.
Just look at that incredible amount of achievements.
Others would have sighed, asking when he would achieve all of that, but in his eyes, a so-called achievement man, it seemed like a bonanza of gold.
In addition, the freedom of the game is also very high, so I liked the fact that even the same character could break the game in a different way every time.
Since there are only 6 such hero characters, there was a lot of room for digging into it.
Although the background settings were trite, whether it was gates, monsters, World War 3, or a world where magic was extremely developed, what is it?
For a young man, games were just fun, and his playing time had already exceeded 5,000 hours.
But at this point, no matter how many games there are to play, the content will be exhausted.
Clearing all the quests wasn’t enough, so there was no reason for him to hold on to the hero’s biography anymore, having completed all the achievements.
Nonetheless, it was for a slightly different reason that he has been sticking with the game so far.
“It’s just that I’m going to die no matter what…”
He looked into the data of ‘Choi Si-yoon’, the NPC he had chosen after unpacking the game.
[Name: Siyoon Choi]
[Occupation: None]
[Alignment: Neutral]
[mana: 1805]
[Traits: Perfect Memory, Iron Body. heavenly power]
[Skill: Lesser Engraving]
[Special note: The fourth son of the chairman of Sungma Group. Unusually, it is known that he cannot use magic since he was born.]
The Republic of Korea in the heroic biography has long since lost most of its functions as a nation after World War III.
For this reason, it is not the government agencies that dominate the major cities of the Korean Peninsula, but a few super-conglomerates, or chaebols.
Among them, Choi Si-yoon was the illegitimate son of Choi Ho-joon, the chairman of Sungma Group, which dominates the metropolitan area, and a maid.
In fact, up to this point, Siyoon Choi has not received much attention from players.
Just a diamond spoon extra that is dead when you always wake up, that’s exactly the image.
It was when Choi Si-yoon’s unpacked data was leaked for the first time that his attention toward him was reversed.
An NPC who, unlike an extra, possesses qualities that look good at first glance, such as perfect memory and shallow resolution, but are not active at all.
In addition, the setting of half a penny that cannot use magic was rather noticeable as it is a game where even passing dogs use magic.
Not only that.
As much as Hero Electric pursues a high degree of freedom, it was a commonly known game that there was no NPC that the player could not save if he wanted to.
However, the story that Choi Si-yoon will die no matter what happens is starting to circulate among the game community.
An illegitimate child who is the national rule of the main character.
Characteristics that are too unusual for an extra.
The only character who can’t use magic since birth.
In any case, death is sure.
In addition to this, the unfortunate background of being quickly eliminated in the succession fight.
In a word, the idea that the new hero of the expansion pack, which is about to be released, is Choi Si-yoon, heated up the Internet.
The young man’s gaze turned to a corner of the main screen.
[Pre-purchase the Heroic Expansion Pack ‘The Magic Gunner’!]
But what interested him was something a little different.
‘Are you saying you’ll die no matter what?’
In this game that the reviewers who used to criticize it begrudgingly admitted that the degree of freedom was not a joke?
It’s a new hero. It’s something you’ll find out when you unpack it in the upcoming expansion pack.
He cared more about this than about rice cakes.
‘Anyway, there’s nothing more to do until the expansion pack comes out, so let’s try it out to see if it’s true.’
This was the reason why he hung on to the heroic biography again for 15 days.
However, even he, who prided himself on being exceptional in terms of tenacity and persistence, had no choice but to raise both hands and feet this time.
“I can’t survive this. I will never live.”
He was the one who had tried all sorts of tricks for 15 days.
However, no matter what, another variable came out and killed Choi Si-yoon.
I could only see that this was fundamentally blocked.
He admitted the rumors were true.
‘Well… if you think about it, there are so many achievements, but none of them were related to Choi Si-yoon.’
Even though there would be at least one related quest if you are usually the four sons of a huge conglomerate that dominates Gyeonggi-do and Seoul.
It seemed clear that the developers intentionally made Choi Si-yoon die for the expansion pack.
It was only a careful guess that perhaps the main story of the expansion pack would be Choi Si-yoon’s survival route.
“It’s almost midnight already.”
Soon after 12 o’clock at night, the ‘Hero’s Expansion Pack’ would be playable.
As well as the trailer video that was released, as well as the name of the expansion pack is ‘The Magic Gunner’, the young man was also expecting a lot from the fact that this new hero’s job is a ‘gunman’ type that has never been seen before.
‘It must be Hyeja’s amount this time too, right?’
Having already finished pre-downloading, he turned off the game for a while and waited for 12:00.
‘Let’s sleep after only 2 hours of the expansion pack.’
The young man’s eyes, shaking his legs while checking the text, turned upward.
His legs stop as the clock on his smartphone reads 0:00.
The moment he grabbed the mouse and started the game as if he had been waiting, a white light suddenly flashed from the monitor and consumed everything in the room in an instant.
…as if it had been a vacant room from the beginning.
.
.
.
“Brother, wake up!”
His face contorted with a shattering headache.
As I endured the pain and struggled to open my eyes, a man’s face began to come into my eyes in the center of my vision, which gradually became clearer.
“young master?! Are you conscious?!”
In a daze, as if he had just woken up, he felt that the face in front of him was somehow familiar.
‘Where did you see it?’
“Bocchan, are you okay!?”
When the man shook his shoulders, his head hurt even more, so he raised his hand to stop the man.
Then, the man’s face turned bright and he put on a relieved expression.
“So, why are you dangerously standing on a precipice! Really, this Jang Pil-woo. I thought my heart stopped.”
‘···Jang Pil-woo? Where have you heard of it?’
At that moment, a thought flashed through his head, and he opened his eyes wide involuntarily.
‘Wait, Jang Pil-woo?’
Come to think of it, I thought this guy was familiar for some reason.
If you look closely, isn’t it the bandit-like face you saw over the monitor just before?
‘Choi Si-yoon’s seed, Jang Pil-woo…!’
Thinking that far, he hurriedly touched his face.
The blood that had just been flowing from his fingers comes out.
“I don’t think your injuries are serious, but I’ll go to the doctor just in case. Could you possibly stand up?”
“Me, over there.”
“Yes?”
“My, who am I?”
“Yeah?!”
“Who am I!”
Only then did the man, Pil-woo Jang, look at his master with a puzzled expression.
“That’s right… isn’t it Master Choi Si-yoon, the fourth son of Seongma Group Chairman Choi Ho-joon and a direct blood relative of Hanyang Choi? But why all of a sudden… no way?!”
Pil-woo widened his eyes and grabbed his shoulders.
“You can’t remember?! What, you hit your head wrong when you fell…!”
“Oh, no. Not that. He said that even if he rots, he is the chairman’s son, so I couldn’t even get up with this kind of injury.”
“…Boss, you’re not originally such a tough character, are you?”
He looked at Choi Si-yoon with doubtful eyes.
However, whether it was or not, Choi Si-yoon was just confused about how to accept the current situation.
‘I’m Choi Si-yoon?’
His gaze turned to the pool of water right next to him.
There, the handsome man with black hair and clear skin, whom he had seen tirelessly through the screen for the past month, was looking at him.