I Became a Gallery Newbie Beloved by Transcendents
Chapter 21
Title: But Why Are They Trying to Kill Another Player?
Author: Anonymous*- They must have a definite benefit to gain from killing, right?
There is definitely a benefit. Kill one player for your first murder and your level definitely increases by 2.
After that, the experience gained varies according to level, just like hunting regular monsters.
Pioneer) Otherwise, they’re either trying to kill to steal the other person’s items, or they’re mentally unstable.
There are also many pleasure killers who lived ordinary lives but suddenly fell into this strange place called the Tower where laws became useless, so they go around killing.
Archmage) Quite a lot of them.
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Han Yuseong recalled what had been discussed in the gallery before being summoned to the exchange meeting.
‘Guaranteed level increase by 2.’
That would certainly be motivation enough for a player who hadn’t committed their first murder yet to do such a crazy thing.
Baek Jin-young continued pointing his sword at Han Yuseong.
“First place down the item you got from the exchange meeting’s ranking on the ground, then stand with your hands up.”
Han Yuseong faced Baek Jin-young and opened his mouth.
“Since when were you two a team?”
Baek Jin-young, raising the corner of his mouth into a smirk, willingly provided the answer.
“We met at the last exchange meeting and added each other as friends. That’s why we were summoned together. This time.”
Baek Jin-young continued.
“When one of us doesn’t get first place, we kill the player who did and steal their item. That’s what we agreed to do for this exchange meeting. Oh, if you’re thinking of stalling for time to return to your tower, you should forget it. If you take damage when that circular white light appears, the return is canceled.”
Baek Jin-young told Han Yuseong facts that he already knew from the seniors in the Transcender gallery.
When Han Yuseong remained silent after hearing this, Baek Jin-young tilted his head.
“Are you unable to react because of fear, or are you just reluctant to give up the item you earned?”
Baek Jin-young turned his head toward Sun Haoran.
“Then we’ll have to extract it from what drops when he’s dead. Sun Haoran, kill him.”
Sun Haoran raised the corner of his mouth.
“Gladly.”
Han Yuseong knew why they looked down on him so much.
It was obvious.
< 3 >.
The number floating above his head.
Just that one number.
That must be the source of their confidence to approach without hesitation.
“I was aiming for the last hit. Why did you throw that spear and steal it? That Kobold bastard didn’t even dodge and got hit directly. That’s only because me and the others had already drained its strength.”
Baek Jin-young clicked his tongue and continued.
“Laura, I don’t understand why that woman from hard difficulty doesn’t live up to her difficulty value. She didn’t even know I was from the same hard difficulty. She’s so arrogant just because others bow to her, tsk.”
Baek Jin-young didn’t realize.
After hearing what he just said, Han Yuseong had made a decision.
Han Yuseong asked casually.
“So you’re from hard difficulty. And your friend?”
Baek Jin-young snickered.
“He’s from normal. But he’s still someone you can’t beat.”
WHOOSH-
Sun Haoran waved his spear blade in front of Han Yuseong’s eyes.
“Consider yourself unlucky, Floor 3.”
Sun Haoran said this as he stepped forward with his right foot. The spear rushed forward like an arrow.
SWISH-!
The spear shaft shot up into the air.
“…Huh?”
Sun Haoran’s bewildered voice echoed.
A light flashed once more in his vision.
This time he couldn’t make any sound.
Blood was gushing from his neck.
“KUH…KUUGH!”
Sun Haoran dropped his spear and grabbed his neck with both hands.
“KUUGHK!”
But that didn’t stop the bleeding.
Sun Haoran’s body fell to the ground and squirmed like an insect. Soon, the squirming stopped completely.
His life had been extinguished.
“……”
Baek Jin-young swallowed hard as he stared at the pool of blood flowing from Sun Haoran’s neck.
He felt utterly stupid.
As if his thinking had stopped.
A Floor 3 resident.
A player who had just cleared Floor 2 killed Sun Haoran, a Floor 7 resident.
Something incomprehensible by common sense had happened.
Baek Jin-young’s mind was filled with confusion.
Baek Jin-young looked at Han Yuseong.
In Han Yuseong’s hand was a sword that had appeared out of nowhere.
[Great Sword Karnavalt].
The sword he had just received as a reward for placing first in the exchange meeting.
Han Yuseong opened his mouth.
“I got lucky.”
Looking at the number ‘8’ floating above Baek Jin-young’s head.
“…What?”
“I said I was lucky to kill Sun Haoran.”
With those final words, Han Yuseong walked forward.
Baek Jin-young stood in front of him.   Â
It’s a strange thing.
That guy killed Sun Haoran instantly with his hand.
But it’s just the 3rd floor.
The number 3 floating above Han Yuseong’s head and the hard difficulty tower, Baek Jin-young’s place of origin, made his body move.
‘I’ll kill him.’
Mana flowed from Baek Jin-young’s mana heart.
[Magical Body Enhancement Lv.2 – Skill activated.]
Baek Jin-young swung his sword, a scimitar, diagonally upward.
A white trajectory swept toward Han Yuseong’s upper body.
‘I hit him…!’
Baek Jin-young’s certainty immediately twisted.
The scimitar ended up slicing through empty air.
THUD!
“UGH!”
Baek Jin-young looked down at his abdomen.
The handle of Han Yuseong’s sword, Karnavalt, had struck his stomach.
WHACK!
This time his head jerked backward.
Han Yuseong’s fist had connected with his chin.
Baek Jin-young, barely holding onto consciousness, swiftly gathered his sword and swung it horizontally.
Han Yuseong tracked the trajectory with gleaming eyes.
He recovered his posture immediately after taking the hit.
And then an attack that extended like lightning. Baek Jin-young’s attack was sufficiently threatening.
TING!
“Your combat sense itself doesn’t seem bad.”
Baek Jin-young’s scimitar shot up into the air.
Baek Jin-young’s right arm was raised high.
“You lack strength.”
CRUNCH!
Han Yuseong’s low kick caused Baek Jin-young’s leg to suddenly sink to the ground.
“AAAAGH!”
He approached Baek Jin-young, who was rolling on the ground clutching his left leg, and twisted up his right elbow.
CRACK! SNAP-!
He broke the shoulder joint.
“KIAAAAAAGH!”
The strangely broken right arm went limp.
The shoulder had been completely dislocated.
Han Yuseong bent down to make eye contact with Baek Jin-young, who was trembling all over while clutching his right arm.
“Can you see this?”
Since Baek Jin-young could only see Han Yuseong waving his hand in the air, he shook his head.
Could other climbers see the Transcender Gallery?
That was what the question was checking.
Han Yuseong spoke again.
“Say it with words. Don’t use actions.”
Baek Jin-young had no thought of defying Han Yuseong’s words.
“I-I just see you moving your hand in the air.”
Too deep a fear had taken root in a short time.
“You, what level are you?”
Han Yuseong decided to ask the things he was curious about one by one.
Baek Jin-young answered with a trembling voice.
“S-sixteen…”
Perhaps because he’s an Earthling from the 21st century.
His level had risen quite a bit, as Han Yuseong had expected.
“Strength, agility, stamina, magic power. In that order.”
Baek Jin-young’s lips trembled.
“If I tell you… will you spare me?”
“That depends on you.”
Baek Jin-young bit his lip for a moment, then spoke again.
“Status window… strength 38, agility 36, stamina 49, mana 21.”
Except for stamina, everything was about half of Han Yuseong’s stats.
Counting the 2 levels gained from just killing Sun Haoran, the distance between them was even greater.
“When you conquered the 8th floor, did you also form parties of at least five or six people?”
“…Why ask something so obvious?”
Han Yuseong neatly tucked everything Baek Jin-young said into his mind.
Baek Jin-young, lying down, was thinking hard.
‘This guy has no intention of letting me live.’
The guy who didn’t hesitate to kill Sun Haoran.
That guy was now staring at the empty space above, dropping his guard.
‘I must kill him.’
The decision was put into action in an instant.
SWISH!
Baek Jin-young, who had been squirming like an insect, rapidly raised his upper body. The scimitar he had dropped was somehow already in his left hand.
SLASH!
He stabbed.
Definitely at the 3rd floor guy.
But that belief was wrong again this time.
Like a ghost, the 3rd floor guy had avoided his killing intent, and in his right hand was a dagger he hadn’t seen before.
STAB.
That dagger was aimed at his neck.
Baek Jin-young’s body collapsed to the floor again.
Blood flows.
He’s dying.
During the process, Baek Jin-young thought carefully.
Who the hell was that guy?
His own mistake was clearly apparent.
< 3 >.
He had become too fixated on that cursed number.
A 3rd floor tower resident who had just cleared the 2nd floor.
Yet an extremely strong person.
At this moment when his life should be flashing before his eyes, ironically, a single scoreboard appeared.
《 2nd Floor – Score Ranking 》
1st place – Private : 1,532 points
The 2nd floor score ranking he had seen just before entering the exchange meeting and had cynically laughed at.
“…1532?”   Â
Baek Jin-young’s barely uttered words reached Han Yuseong’s ears.
“Too late, it’s meaningless in the current situation.”
At those words, Baek Jin-young opened his mouth to say more, but couldn’t speak another word.
Baek Jin-young’s body went limp as his breath stopped.
TSK.
Han Yuseong clicked his tongue.
***
Title: What do I do if a player tries to kill me? I should kill them, right?
Author: Anonymous
ă„´ Heavenly Demon) Why ask something so obvious?
ㄴ Light’s Sword) Kill them.
ă„´ Archmage) Learn what you’re curious about by your standards, then kill them.
ă„´ Priestess) Kill!
ă„´ Ice Queen) Freeze! No future troubles! Everything must be thorough!
ă„´ Dragon King of Demons) Beltui- good consensus. Kill them.
ă„´ Pioneer) Well… you have to kill them, right.
ă„´ Absolute Monarch) That’s the tower. That’s the world. You must abandon thoughts of purity.
ă„´ Closed Room Theorist) Old man. It must be Goryeol, damn it – This world consists of closed rooms
ă„´ That’s a worthless concern, for real
ă„´ Be more suspicious of players than NPCs. At least some NPCs have pure intentions
ă„´ Look at them all saying to kill without exception lololololol
