chapter 1
Prologue
The man held the sword in both hands. The vertically raised blade reflected sunlight.
[Shut up. give me strength.]
As if in response to the recitation, the blade lit up.
The man let out a breath, then kicked off the ground and leapt. The spot he hit was hollowed out, and the air trembled for a moment and followed it towards him.
A horde of monsters fills the landscape in front of them.
One of them, the blade of an ox standing on two legs, with two horns growing, extended its blade.
[Uh… … !]
The blade, which flew towards the temple of the ox’s head, cut a little of the skin.
His full-fledged attack stopped there.
The cow stretched out its arms. grabbed the man’s leg. In the air, the man was captured helplessly.
Huh, the wind disturbs him in front of him,
[──!]
Awkward, the cow robbed the man on the tree next to it, a wet towel.
Whether it was on the back or the side, the man was hit somewhere and broke something, and blood flowed back from somewhere and vomited.
The body, which had been attached to the tree for a moment, slipped.
His leg was also broken. No, it’s right that it’s broken.
He leaned over and looked up.
the sun shines It was the light that made his sword shine a little while ago. The sunlight breaks through the green clusters spread out by the trees.
and cows.
The cow looked at him through the eyes of a cow.
[…] … Baldur, Ruler of Justice and Light, I… … .]
There was a popping sound.
* * *
I looked at the monitor for a moment.
The phrase ‘GAME OVER’ was placed in the center of the screen in a simple and unpretentious way.
Hmm, I snorted. And he took a deep breath.
“Mangam!”
I remembered the price of the keyboard when I hit the shotgun, and I thought about the price of this as I threw the mouse.
His hands hovered in the air for a moment, then folded his arms.
“I’ve done everything I can think of.”
A game ‘Ethius’ where swords and magic, gods and monsters exist.
I swear, no one is as deeply into this game as I am.
Everyone shouted “Mangem” ahead of me and then escaped.
And now that I’ve finally made my Mangem declaration, I’m the dumbest gamer and the biggest victim.
“I thought it was Gaggem.”
Vibrant AI, a wide open world, attractive characters, and countless content.
At the time of opening, it was expressed that the fantasy world of another world was put into the game.
In fact, it was a balance game.
No one has seen the ending of this game except for the death of the protagonist.
Although it is a wide open world, there is a boundary that cannot be advanced because of monsters, and beyond that boundary, even ordinary mobs cannot be easily killed.
I don’t think this game was made with the intention of breaking it. The company has no intention of fixing it.
But on the contrary, it stimulated my desire for a challenge.
‘If you don’t want to fix it, there must be a way to attack it somewhere.’
Because I believed so.
Why?
“tired.”
He put his arms on the desk and buried his face.
The time has come for me to say goodbye to this game.
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The game over just before was the last move I could think of to attack this game.
It also failed, so there is no other way.
“Frondier student.”
In the end, Etius became the first game I couldn’t attack.
Since no one has been able to attack it, shall I leave it out of the discussion?
“Frondier de Roach.”
… … But what does this mean?
I heard a strange noise in my room, where it was only me.
Let’s head there.
“… … ?”
It looked like a blackboard.
It was as if a woman who looked like a teacher was in front of him, holding a textbook-like book and giving a lecture.
The teacher was looking at me now.
“Oh, me?”
I answered without knowing.
frontier? I’ve never heard of such a name.
“Then, who else but you?”
The teacher said it was natural. It seems natural to me that I am a ‘frontier’ or something.
I looked around. I saw the faces of students in school uniforms.
Some looked at me and giggled.
‘It’s not my room.’
This is a classroom My room has become a classroom. I just woke up from burying my face on the desk.
‘… … ah.’
is this a dream
Do you live crazy for the game Etius and have such vivid dreams?
“Frondier, do you know the name of this weapon?”
The teacher floated the screen on the right.
It is ‘Weezer View’, a magician that floats images in the air.
Seeing the magic skills I’ve only seen in games right in front of my eyes, it’s very emotional.
‘That one.’
I saw that it was a weapon the teacher had launched with the wizard.
it was a branch It’s not like a weapon.
‘… … Aha.’
I know roughly. what the teacher wants
But it’s a dream.
Shall I roll around a bit more ignorantly?
“It’s a branch. It’s not like a weapon.”
The laughter of the students grew louder at my words. The teacher sighed.
“After all, you didn’t attend class today at all.”
I didn’t hear it at all. should have been able to hear
“… … Teacher, was today’s class about ‘Baldur’?”
In Norse mythology, the son of Odin, Baldur, the god of light.
It is said that he died after being stabbed by a mistletoe tree branch.
The branch’s name is ‘Mystyltaine’.
In other words, I just had to look at that branch and answer Mystyltain to be right.
The teacher looked at me like a weirdo.
“… … That’s right. Frontier student, if you knew, why?”
“Teacher.”
I looked again at the branches in Wizardview.
No doubt It’s just a ‘twig’.
“Mystyltain didn’t come out like that.”
A weapon that will one day be wielded by the protagonist’s hand in the world of Etius.
I’ve seen and dealt with that weapon countless times.
Distinguishing between ‘mistletoe’ and ‘mystyltain’ is no joke.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Students and teachers looked at me in silence. It was a gaze full of displeasure, anger, and disgust.
yes it is At the beginning of the game, everyone thought that Mystiltain really looked like that.
“… … .”
Let’s see, so.
When will this dream end?
* * *
… … A week has passed since then.
I decided to admit it. This is not a dream. Whether I admit it or not, this is the reality.
I thought it was a dream, so I said something about Mystyltain for nothing, but the image only got worse.
As I walked down the hallway, I heard a voice talking towards me.
– Was he the one who was talking nonsense in class?
… … him and me in charge of him.
“Well, it seems that this body had a bad reputation in the first place.”
Now I am in a mansion. The mansion where the original owner of this body lived.
As for how I found it, as soon as after school, there was an assistant waiting in front of the front door to pick me up in the car.
I came here in a very luxurious sedan.
… … Up until this point, I had little expectations. It was because he realized that he was not the main character, but that he was the son of a noble nobleman.
Besides, I really liked the face of this body reflected in the mirror.
The black hair and eyes were so dark that they were quite luxurious, and so was their appearance.
I was deceived by this appearance until I found out my identity.
I looked at my watch on the desk in my room.
smart watch.
It is the only item brought from the original world to this place. Maybe it was because he was wearing it on his wrist, and if so, why did his clothes all change?
That is still unknown.
I wondered if this smartwatch would work, but it doesn’t just work.
Name: Frontier de Roach
Age: 17 years old
Affiliation: Second son of the Roach family, first-year Constell trainee
Race: Human
Strength: None
Skill Details >
Magic Details >
Quest >
It worked in a completely different way.
Now this is no longer a watch.
The status of Etius that I was familiar with. It was on my smartwatch.
When I saw this, I felt it. The feeling that I have fallen into another world.
As a completely foreigner from my point of view, this status was a little bit of salvation for me.
“… … Frontier de Roach.”
It was an unfamiliar name. It took me a while to come up with it.
I worked really hard on this game. While trying to find hidden elements in every nook and cranny. He was a difficult person to remember even for me.
After finally thinking about it, a sigh came out first.
—Human sloth Frontier.
It is an anchovy that is similar to a sloth. It’s just an acronym without any other meaning.
lazy but powerful,
Lazy but with something hidden,
It’s not like that.
Just a lazy, lazy character. It’s just that character.
“It’s only because of this skill set, it’s not that I don’t understand being lazy.”
In the world of Etius, only skill, magic, and divine power determine what is strong and weak, capable and incompetent.
Among them, divine power means the power that God gives.
In Etius, all kinds of mythical gods appear and give power to humans. But there are not many such people.
Humans who have received divine powers are no different from being chosen, and actually all those who have divine powers are named.
On the other hand, skills and magic can be acquired by everyone, but their power is insignificant compared to divine power. It’s not something that’s easy to get either.
Indeed, very few develop skills and magic that surpass the divine powers with hard work and talent.
Frontier has no divine powers,
No magic,
look at the skills.
Skill Details>
[Weaving]
Grade: Unique (固有)
•Description: Save and duplicate an image of an object. However, it is an illusion. It goes through the process of ‘workshop’ and ‘replication’.
– Workshop (工房): Stores woven objects in a virtual space.
– Duplicate (複製): Duplicate the object stored in the workshop.
It’s like this.
what the hell is this
I picked up a fountain pen from the desk and used ‘weave’.
The image of the fountain pen is saved, and the saved image is filled as if a thread is woven in front of the eyes.
It’s like being printed on a 3D printer.
Perhaps because of this appearance, it is called ‘weaving’.
[High-quality fountain pen of Viet Corporation] (replica)
Grade: General
•Description: A woven product that mimics a fountain pen. There is no physical entity.
I hold the real fountain pen in my left hand and the replica in my right hand.
To my eyes, they look exactly the same.
This is the weave. Duplicate objects as illusions.
The image of an object that has been ‘weaved’ in this way is stored in the ‘workshop’.
As written above, the workshop is like my virtual space where I can easily see what I have saved.
Like augmented reality, you can see it with your own eyes, so you can display weapons, tools, etc.
Therefore, weaving is possible anytime, anywhere.
Only things I have seen with my own eyes.
Even if it is a weapon that I know in my head, it is not stored in the workshop until I actually see it.
As for how many times the Frontier had already used it before I possessed it, some weapons and items were stored there.
… … It sounds so plausible just by saying this.
It’s a fantasy, so it’s all fake.
This duplicated fountain pen cannot write, let alone a single piece of paper.
Besides, it’s only visible to my eyes, so other people may not know whether I woven or not.
A fantasy that does not interfere with reality at all.
… … We decided to call this a ‘delusion’.
I have no idea what to do with this.
“It’s a skill I’ve never seen before while playing Etius.”
I’ve never seen it before, so of course the grade is unique.
In Etius, the unique grade is different from other grades.
Ratings range from the lowest ‘General’ to the highest ‘Prince’, but ‘unique’ ratings are not included here.
Instead, unique classes have different characteristics. that there is only one.
Therefore, an intrinsic rating cannot be a criterion for judging good or bad. No matter how trivial, if there is only one, a ‘unique’ rating is attached.
… … But is there such a thing as useless unique skill?
“Sloth Frontier.”
This skill seems to prove that annihilation.
From now on, I have to live the game that I couldn’t even attack as the main character, as a Frontier.
“It’s not about just living.”
I clicked the ‘Quest’ field on the smartwatch.
Quest >
[Main Quest: Destiny Shift]
•Description: You know the end of the human race. Save humanity and change fate
This quest was right there from the start as soon as I opened the smartwatch. It’s probably a quest from the moment I was possessed by Frontier.
As explained in this quest, I know the end of this game. No, I have to say that I know the end of the attack.
The end of mankind is dreadful.
In a normal game, the demon king or the final boss of that level, or a huge conspiracy, or a black screen. It’s not about perishing.
just being slaughtered by a monster Humanity’s home is gradually being taken away by the demons, and finally, they are swept away and unable to withstand the waves of the oncoming monsters.
Even the protagonist of this game, the ending is so vain.
stop that look at me
ha ha ha.
smart.
A maid’s voice was heard from across the door.
“Mr Frontier? May I come in?”
“Yeah, yes.”
Without realizing it, I replied politely. Frontier has been a nobleman since birth, so it would be awkward to talk like this.
The maid who came in looked at me a little strangely. Of course, I wouldn’t bring that thought out of my mouth.
“Frondier, a letter has arrived.”
“letter? to whom?”
I try to force myself to say it. It’ll be awkward for a while, but you’ll get used to it.
“This is Ampere.”
“… … Father?”
Ampere, the father of Frontier.
I don’t know the character Frontier, but I know Ampere. I know very well.
The northern iron wall, Ampere de Roach.
A superhuman who has never allowed a monster to invade in the territory ‘Yeranhes’ on the outskirts of the Terst Empire.
The reason I am unfamiliar with the character of Frontier is that his father, Ampere, and his eldest son, Atzier, make up almost all of the Roach family.
As a general, Ampere is comparable to the ‘Zodiac’, which is one of the twelve fingers of the continent as an individual, with the ability to lead up to a corps commander.
Atzier inherited all of his great father’s talent, and is a fraudulent character in Etius’ formula that grows on top of it.
Ampere, who is now a father, write to me.
I got the letter from the maid, nervously, and opened the seal. The letter had a simple sentence written on it.
[Frondier, your indolence is enough.
Get into the top 10 overall for the year at Constell.
If not, it is a ripple.]
I read it through and exhaled through my nose. And drank that much.
“… … Mangem!”
“What did you say?”
“it’s nothing!”
It seems that my life is going to be short, too.
I checked the smart watch when I heard a ringing, a monotonous notification sound.
[A sub-quest has been created]
[Sub Quest: Father’s Order]
•Description: Frontier’s laziness in the past has reached the limit of his father, Ampere’s patience.
Goal: To be in the top 10 overall in Constell within this semester
•Reward: You will receive the recognition of Ampere.
•If you fail, you will be excommunicated.
I know!