1st Guild's D-Class Guild Leader Episode 1

 

 

 

 

 

[The long-awaited first round begins, survive unscathed, good luck.]

 

 

 

As soon as I came to my senses, a strange broadcast sound hit my ears.

 

I staggered to my feet and looked around, and I was in the jungle. Even the rustling of leaves is very realistic.

 

Where the hell is this?

 

I looked down at my body in a daze.

 

Beneath his short basic clothes, he could see his slender limbs.

 

I slumped down in front of a nearby pond to get a closer look at myself.

 

An oriental beauty face.

 

Who is this?

 

As I slowly retraced my memories, a memory flashed through my mind.

 

Oh boy...... It reminded me.

 

 

 

Name: Rudel

 

Will any of the above characters survive this round?

 

[Yes] 3% [No] 97%

 

 

 

 

 

It was a face that had just been posted on the homepage of a newly released game.

 

One of the characters in the soon-to-be-opened simulation game where users bet their game money.

 

And he was the one who voted that 97% of people would die early on because all of his stats were at the bottom of the ranks.

 

In a word, if you look at it as a character, a novel, you can say that it is an extra among extras.

 

I didn't know why he suddenly became a character in the game, but I first looked at the status window in front of me to understand the situation.

 

 

 

[Name] Rudel / [Level] 1

 

[Gender] Female / [Age] 21

 

[Intelligence]

 

 

 

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[Health] 85 / D

 

[Strength] 80 / D

 

[Dexterity] 106/D

 

 

 

 

 

Haha, they're all D-class, I don't have an answer.

 

If it had been a well in front of me, I would have thrown myself into it, but unfortunately it was a shallow pond.

 

I dropped my head down helplessly. I didn't understand why I was in the game when I was supposed to be in the real world.

 

It's also in a killing game where the slightest mistake can kill you.

 

 

 

'Do you want a joy that you can't experience anywhere else? It's all in this game.'

 

 

 

This game, which was introduced with an unusual comment, is the most popular game in Korea, with 2 million pre-orders alone before its release.

 

In fact, it was more of a viewing program, not a game.

 

Instead of playing the actual game, users had to watch the survival simulation of the characters that came to life in the game.

 

They could predict the winner of the round or bet in-game money on their favorite characters, which they could make or spend.

 

In other words, it's like a modern version of the Colosseum that you can watch in virtual reality.

 

The game has been a hot topic since the closed beta was launched, and as soon as it was released, it received tremendous praise and rave reviews from beta testers.

 

 

 

'All the characters seem to be alive and breathing.'

 

'Realistic and sensual character modeling draws gamers in.'

 

'We cry and laugh at their battles and deaths.'

 

 

 

Some voices criticized the dangers of watching VR and the brutality of the battles, but these were safely overcome through the game company's measures to control the water level.

 

It was not long before the game's release.

 

When I came to my senses, I became the character of the game, struggling to survive in the eyes of the viewers.

 

'How did I get here?'

 

I tried to think back to the events just before I came here, but it was as if most of my memory had been erased except for the game.

 

As if someone had deliberately tampered with my memory.......

 

My head hurt, but that wasn't the point.

 

Right now, the other characters would be ready to step up.

 

In order not to be killed, he had to put his troubles aside for later.

 

I look up and look back at the status window.

 

'The 97% of viewers who bet I was going to die? Tell them to you all, you just have to survive.'

 

I was convinced.

 

Originally, Rudel would have been a fragile character who wasn't much different from what viewers expected, but since I came in, she would survive until the end.

 

For viewers' betting content, some information about survival games released in advance on the homepage by the game company.

 

I couldn't peruse it and memorized it.

 

With this alone, I'm already far ahead.

 

And another video posted by one of the beta testers with the cooperation of the game company.

 

It was only uploaded on day 1, but thanks to that, I was able to get to the heart of this simulation game.

 

 

 

"Oh, this is a cruel game, isn't it? And look at the experience being counted. Character popularity vote is gacker! Even if the characters run back, if they don't get votes from off-screen viewers they don't even know, they won't be able to level up!"

 

 

 

The more popular a character is with viewers, the more advantageous it is in the game.

 

The other characters didn't know that this was in the game, so this was information that only I could use.

 

Emotions swirled through my head, but I took a slow, deep breath to calm the tremors.

 

Okay, let's survive somehow.

 

In doing so, I'm going to find out who I am and why I got into this game.

 

 

 

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With the horn sounding to signal the start of the first round, I quickly glanced through the game manuals I had been given.

 

There was nothing special about it.

 

The fact that you have to survive in the jungle for the entire first round, and a snippet description of how the game plays out as a whole, was all that was said.

 

Today is Day 1...... The game has just been released.

 

'How many viewers are looking down on me right now? There were 2 million pre-bookings, so maybe that's that much?'

 

Not. I don't think there are many people who would just be staring at the screen of an insubstantial girl sitting in the distance.

 

This character I got into was pretty pretty, but that's the way everyone is as long as they're game characters.

 

I didn't think my unremarkable appearance would be my weapon.

 

So I'm going to have to try harder.

 

So, when a character first wakes up in the first round, what is the first thing to do?

 

Find basic supply crates all over the field.

 

"Come to think of it, when I looked down at the pond earlier, I saw something inside."

 

When I checked again, I saw a brown box shimmering in the middle of the clear water.

 

I rolled up my sleeves and put my arms in it, but I couldn't reach it because it was deeper than I thought.

 

Isn't there a long shovel or something?

 

But all around him were jungle trees, and he didn't see any tools to help.

 

After all, it's just my body.

 

"If you give up on this and go out of the forest to find another box, you'll be targeted in no time, right?"

 

In the end, I decided that I had no choice, so I plunged into the waist-high pond with my face crumpled.

 

The box was embedded in the dirt and could not be pushed out with bare feet. This D-class frail body.

 

It can't be helped. All I have to do is hold my breath and tuck my head in, pulling the box out with both hands.

 

About two minutes later, I managed to rescue the box, but I had to get out of the water, soaking wet.

 

When I quickly opened the box, I found that the contents were close to a basic starter pack.

 

All they had was a tough leather robe, a pocket knife, a bag around their waist, a piece of dry bread, and water.

 

"Now that all the clothes I've been wearing are wet, I'm going to change into new ones."

 

I remembered the basic features I had read about in the game rules earlier, which were given to each character.

 

"Pause mode."

 

As soon as the command fell from my mouth, a four-square-foot blockage appeared around my body.

 

This is where the character can change clothes, wash, or run errands.

 

No matter what you do, it cannot be invaded from the outside, and it is not visible to the viewers.

 

In other words, in this game where realism is the life, it is a place prepared to control the water level.

 

Instead, there are restrictions so that the game is not affected. During combat, you cannot use pause mode, and you cannot store objects in the space.

 

The time limit is 15 minutes, and the cooldown is 2 hours.

 

I washed myself and wiped dry with a towel in a cramped bathroom-like space. Then he changed into clothes made of leather.

 

Wouldn't this give you about 1% more chance of survival? That's about 3 percent to 4 percent.

 

After the 15-minute time limit, the pause mode broke itself. I was again in the middle of the jungle.

 

He looked down at the pocket knife in his hand.

 

You have to kill someone with this knife to earn points and get rewards.

 

"If you think of your opponent as a game character, you can't kill them.......

 

If I, who was weak, recklessly showed my intention to kill the other characters, I risked being reversed.

 

Then, what you should be aiming for is the viewers' popularity vote.

 

I'll try. So that I, who don't have a horn, can win the hearts of the viewers.

 

I was in their shoes not so long ago, so I think I can do it, at least that much.

 

You have to be liked by the viewers to survive.

 

No matter how well you cut people's throats, the characters who fail to win the favor of the viewers will be rewarded very poorly.

 

I stared at the blade for a moment, then kicked it back into my waistband.

 

 

 

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As soon as I first came out of the forest, I was immediately confronted with a murder scene.

 

A character was dead with his tongue sticking out, and the character who killed him was searching for something to use in the dead man's arms.

 

A handsome boy with dark skin. She has unique eye features and curly hair.

 

Unlike me, he looked like he had a strong arm and a high strength stat.

 

Probably enough to strangle an adult man in one fell swoop.

 

As I studied the boy from a distance, a translucent window appeared in front of me.

 

Oh boy.

 

Sorry for the other participants, it seems that my privilege is not just to be informed.

 

To me, I see the stat window for other characters.