This Is Not a Game

Cheonma Shingo

Brilliant light and a sense of floating that I have become accustomed to.

When I opened my eyes, instead of the ruins of the collapsed building and the horde of orcs, the image of an oriental palace was in place.

‘The second, or strictly speaking, the 1001st. this time···.’

Yuseong lowered his head and looked down, sighing in relief.

I didn’t know what the problems to be solved in this world were, but once I entered the body of a man, I could feel a part of my heart lightened.

“Heavenly Demon Reigns! Thousand Demons Rejoice!”

“Kuhm!”

Yooseong cleared his throat at the voice coming from beyond the door and dragged out the time.

As soon as I was about to act according to the situation to elicit detailed information, a new message came to mind.

[An unknown force is interfering with synchronization]

[Restart the Deus Ex Machina program]

[Synchronization restart…failed…restart…failed]

[Synchronization Failed]

‘···What?’

While he was flustered by the message he had never seen before, Yoosung’s mouth moved against his will.

“What’s the current situation?”

“The hypocrites of the Murim League and the remnants of the Sado-ryeon have reached a distance! Led by the elders, even the former masters of the Heukundan, Bloodcheonsura, and Sungmagok are fighting to the death, but they can’t stop Jeongcheon Geomhwang and the Red Blood Sage! “

“Let’s back off.”

“Honorable name!”

The sound of receding footsteps.

And after a long time, the man’s mouth opened.

“So what do you think?”

-·······.

“Are you not hearing what I am saying? Or are you ignoring me?”

-… Are you sure you’re asking me now?

“It sounds too small.”

[Synchronization is in progress]

– Passed over for a moment. I’m reluctant to entrust my body to a mere pilbu, but the situation is such that I can’t help it.

“Uh, is that so arbitrary?”

– Is it?

“Are you scared?”

-It is not difficult for me, a warrior who has reached the level of a god and a magician who has reached the level of heaven.

It was a word that I had never heard of asin or tongcheon, but it was clear that it was not a state to be taken lightly just by being able to refuse a system that allows you to explore countless worlds and transcend dimensions to possess the body of another being.

Name: Haecheongyeong

Occupation: Demonic Sect leader

Level: 999

Title: Tongcheon Goddess

Strength: 955

Agility: 1122

Wisdom: 2144

Stamina: 1211

Internal: 3252

mana: 3767

Possessed Skills: Asin (S-), Tongcheon (S-), Heavenly Demon Regiment (S-), Heavenly Demon Spirituality (S-), Double Mind Gong (A+), Inviolability of All Poisons (A+), Vajrapani Buddha (A+), Five Elements Coexistence (A+), Talmyung Twelve Swords (A+)·······.

‘What are these crazy stats?!’

The moment he checked the stats that crossed four digits and the skills covered with S and A, Yoosung felt an indescribable fear.

‘I don’t like it because I have high abilities! If a person with this ability can’t solve it, how crazy can it be? world war? Demon King Resurrection? Since this is Murim, who is conquering Murim? While I was in a hurry, I clicked on something, but it seems that the rating wasn’t high enough.’

Yooseong, who checked the quest window, couldn’t help but be even more flustered.

[Cheonma Shinyo. last minute]

-Civilization Classification: B-15

-Civilization Rating: 0.99

-Difficulty: F

-The former Moorim joined forces to prevent Haecheongyeong, the 49th religious leader of the Cheonma Shinkyo. From the invasion of the Murimmaeng led by Jeongcheon Geomhwang and the Apostles led by the Red Blood Sazone, please take the time to safely complete the Ritual of the Sun and Moon, and help Haecheongyeong to board the ship.

-clear conditions

1. Endure the Sun Moon Ritual: Karma 10,000, Great Happiness x1.

Simply put, the situation is incredibly hopeless.

It was a situation where the Murim Alliance and the Sado-Ryeon, which can be said to be representative organizations of Jeong and Sa, which often appear in creative works with a Murim background, joined forces to invade.

But for such a danger…

‘The difficulty level is too low?’

[Anyone is welcome, so please help me!] had an E-level difficulty, but this one had a lower F-level and a much more generous reward, which gave off a suspicious smell for some reason.

-What I want from you is wisdom.

“wisdom?”

-If I go out on my own, it will not be difficult to deal with the two youngsters, Jeongcheon Geomhwang and Jeokhyeolsajon. However, right now, I am in a situation where I can neither leave this place nor use my strength properly because I am going through the ritual of the sun and the moon.

“Uh, can’t we do it again after stopping the ritual of the sun and the moon and blocking the enemy?”

– Once in a thousand years. At the moment when the cycles of the celestial body coincide, it is the ritual of the sun and the moon to gather the spirits of the sun, moon, and stars to create divinity. If you miss this time, you will be promised a thousand years, so you can never stop the ceremony. We need a way to stop the invaders without me stepping up.

It was only then that I could understand why Yooseong had such a low level of difficulty.

Unlike [Anyone is welcome, so please help me!], the situation is just difficult, but the difficulty level is set low because the problem can be solved with the main character’s ability alone.

-I have called several users so far, but all have failed. You want to be different.

“Now, wait. User? Did you just say user?”

– I’m talking about those who make the same job as you.

“Wait. Do you know more about those users?”

I expected to get a hint about goggles from the word user, which cannot come out in the world of nothingness and consultation, but Haecheongyeong resolutely drew a line.

-The reason I called you was not to engage in useless chatter, but to find a way to overcome this situation.

“Then will you answer my question once you find a solution?”

-Anything I know.

“Hmm.”

If you think simply, you can use your subordinates to block it, but if it was that easy, you wouldn’t have called those called ‘users’.

Yooseong has only solved one quest so far, but I realized that there is one thing in common while looking at the descriptions of many quests on the list.

That is, the difficulty of the quest was so unanswered that it could never be solved with the main character’s abilities alone.

‘No, never. Is it about 0.1%?’

It would be more accurate to say that it is difficult to be close to impossible, since I have solved it after a thousand challenges.

“Can I ask you a few questions?”

-It seems that you didn’t listen to the principal’s words properly. I’m sure you said you don’t allow useless chatter.

“It’s not a small talk, it’s a question. There is a saying that if you know the enemy and know yourself, you won’t be in danger in a hundred battles, but all I know now is that Haecheongyeong-nim can’t move from this spot and that enemies are coming to stop the Sun Moon Ritual. What solution do you come up with in the situation?”

-Kuhum, the current remaining power in Shinkyo is the first elder Lee Ho-san, a master of the Hyeongyeong, half-man, half-horse, and the master of the Hwagyeong, an iron-clad horse, mandogjima, blood and blood….

“Ah, that’s not what I want to know. What do I, who is ignorant of the art of war, know about such things?”

Even though there is no way that there would be an outstanding strategist who devoted his whole life to strategy and tactics in a place like the Heavenly Demonic Church, the fact that he set up a quest means that such a tactician also failed to stop the enemies.

But can he stop the enemy by commanding himself who knows nothing about strategy?

‘It’s absolutely impossible that way. I wonder if the opportunity to re-challenge is given infinitely like Aris did. I don’t know if newbie solvers are given special privileges, but if you think about selling quest re-challenge tickets at the Karma Shop, it’s right to think that you’ll only get one chance.’

In order to break through the 0.1% chance with just one attempt, the first step is to clearly recognize and distinguish what is possible and impossible for you.

– Then what the hell do you want to ask?

“First of all, I want to ask you exactly how many days you have to endure.”

– It’s a full moon.

“How much time is left before the enemy arrives?”

-three days.

No matter how much I thought about it, it was a situation where there was no answer, but Yoosung continued to ask questions with a nonchalant expression.

“You said that previous users failed? I’d like to hear what they came up with and how they failed.”

-Nine attempts to defeat enemies with strategic tactics failed. Episode 11 failed in trying to attract time by using abilities and objects from another world. Lastly, it was possible to solve it, but gave up twice because the balance calculation was not right. Roughly this much.

“What do you mean it doesn’t fit?”

– It means that the karma that goes into solving this problem is greater than the karma that can be obtained by solving it. Did I mention the android corps and attack satellites? If you call it, you can definitely block it, but they say it just doesn’t pay off.

“…If that’s the case, I’m sure we can win. What’s more important than that?”

-Simply put, it is a spiritual resource. It is called by various names such as karma, causality, interference, faith, and influence… But why are you asking this? Aren’t you a user?”

“Ah, Karma…”

Yooseong, who opened the inventory window at a familiar word, smiled bitterly.

[Retained karma: 0]

-Smartphone (D): 1,000

‘At most, if a smartphone is 1,000 points, I can’t even guess how many points the Android corps or attack satellites will consume.’

The karma that can be obtained by solving the quest is only 5,000 points.

Even taking into account the bonus, the belly button will definitely be bigger than the belly.

“I heard that some users gave up. Is there a way to give up the quest in the middle?”

– It seems that the question is going to the mountain. isn’t it?

“Kuh! I’m sorry!”

– I will forgive you once. but not twice

Hearing the excruciating pain coming from the corner of his head, Yoosung apologized without hesitation.

There was no point in stimulating an out-of-the-ordinary entity capable of arbitrarily stopping synchronization and controlling it.

“Is it impossible to gather all the strength of the religion to stop the enemies?”

-The numbers are roughly similar, but there are Jeongcheon Geomhwang and Jeokhyeolsazone on the other side. Even if Elder Lee Ho-san takes over one, he cannot possibly stop the other.

“Sending envoys to negotiate?”

– No matter what conditions are offered, it seems that the hypocrites of the political faction and the vassals of the sect will not allow a top-ranking student to come out of the main school.

As for the general method, people all over the world have already tried it.

What was needed now was a special method that only users from other worlds could think of.

“Taking civilians hostage and threatening them?”

– On the outside, they sing of righteousness and cooperation, but inside they are nothing different from the back alley’s barbershops, which are the Murim people. Do you think they’ll hesitate to threaten you with three or four hostages?

“Who said three or four?”

-yes?

“If you’re going to do this, you’ll have to do it hotly. Let’s take hostages and threaten people the size of a town or city. If thousands or tens of thousands of lives are at stake, wouldn’t you hesitate anyway?”

-·······.

Even Hae Chun-gyeong, the leader of the Demonic Sect, said that there was no blood or tears at the last resort that he could come up with because he was a human from another world who did not feel even the slightest sense of belonging to the Heavenly Demon Goddess, or to this world.

– Are you serious?

“Do you think I’m joking? Tell me quickly if you think it will work or not.”

-If we had a little more time, it would have been possible, but they have already entered Xinjiang. The only people to take hostages are the believers in the school, but that probably won’t work. Come to think of it, it seems like a pretty good ploy, but it’s a pity.

“then···.”

From strategies close to delusions that don’t even make you laugh out loud, to strategies with fresh concepts that you can come up with because you’re from another world, Yooseong didn’t hesitate to bring out the thoughts that popped into your head, and Haecheongyeong started to refute the reasons why they didn’t work.

Yoosung swallowed his dry saliva and opened his mouth at the voice of the Haecheongyeong, which seemed to be running out of patience and endless questions and answers until the position of the sun changed.

“Let me ask you one last question.”

-what?

After going through 999 failures in [Anyone is welcome, please help me!], Yooseong realized that this quest was impossible to overcome with ordinary or slightly special ideas.

In order to accomplish something close to impossible, you need an idea that transcends common sense and the courage and madness to push that idea to the end.

“Can you abandon the Heavenly Demon Godship for the sake of the Sun Moon Ritual?”

And fortunately, Yooseong had all three of them.

this is not a game