YM778.TV Chapter 56 Hacking The Gamer-System
⟪You have slain Jae-sung ???, 3-star Grandmaster⟫
⟪ 1200 Coins Awarded ⟫
⟪ +1 Kill Points ⟫
|| +1 Soul Point ||
\'As I thought, killing Jae-sung gives Soul Points instead of Life Points.\' I thought through my blurry consciousness.
Due to the Gamer-System, Jae-sung won\'t die even if you kill him. He can revive by consuming a currency called \'Hearts\'.
One Heart equals one life and he can gain them through completing achievements. So, I wasn\'t worried about killing him once or twice.
That said, the Gamer System\'s method of resurrection wasn\'t invincible. There were ways to end Jae-sung for good. The easiest is to keep killing him until all his \'Hearts\' are used and then kill him one last time again, and Ta~Da~ he would be silenced for eternity.
\'I\'m completely spent but I guess this much is a given after using 11,500 Kill Points in one second.\'
As the rain continued to fall I remained standing, looking down at the demolished section of forest and Jae-sung\'s corpse. After all, my body wasn\'t moving at all!
I was feeling sluggish and lethargic like one would after the 10-days long marathon had finally ended. I couldn\'t move a muscle.
\'I want to leave already! Since the other knights will probably retreat after seeing the scale of destruction, my job is done!\'
Had I held back with Jae-sung, next I might have had to face Klein – a 4-star Grandmaster. So, I used the trump card I saved for the Port – the black pouch containing 23 Grasshopper egg sacs – that I had painstakingly collected through the forest.
Each Grasshopper sack contained roughly 500 eggs, a total of 11,500 Kill Points. When I used all of them in one second there was no way Jae-sung could\'ve blocked it even with a Saint rank Synchronized skill.
\'Though, I was almost ripped apart from the vacuum created by the shockwaves. I should be more careful about the amount of Kill Points I use per second in the future. The backlash after the enchantment ends can become dangerous.\'
<Body Strengthening>
Wrapping my body in condensed mana, I regained the ability to move my head at least.
My eyes met the Great Ape tribe\'s leader\'s gaze. He flinched and lowered his head, almost bashing it against the ground.
\'Won\'t his skull break if hits his head against the ground that hard?\' I thought, a bit overwhelmed by his fervor.
The Great Ape tribe\'s leader\'s words surprised me.
"Gr-greetings to the esteemed overlord. Wi..tnessing your might h-has opened my eyes! Please, let me follow you!"
\'I was only trying to scare him by showing off. But maybe I got overboard, tehe~\'
Before I could answer the great ape, a strange line appeared on my grimoire.
|| +1 Soul Point ||
\'Hmm? Didn\'t I already get Soul Point for killing Jae-sung?\'
|| +1 Soul Point ||
|| +1 Soul Point ||
|| +1 Soul Point ||
|| +2 Soul Point ||
|| +2 Soul Point ||
\'Don\'t tell me…?\' My eyes widened. \'I\'m absorbing the life force from Jae-sung before he gets revived!\'
|| +5 Soul Point ||
|| +2 Soul Point ||
|| +10 Soul Point ||
\'Stop! He\'ll die for real at this rate!\'
Sure, whenever I think of dealing with Jae-sung after he regresses, it gives me a headache. But without him, it\'s a game over! He can\'t die here!
It was so crucial that even the Jae-sung from the 1st timeline is useless when compared to the regressed Jae-sung, in the 2nd timeline!
|| +10 Soul Point ||
\'Oi, Grimoire! Stop absorbing Jae-sung\'s life source!\'
|| +2 Soul Point ||
|| +25 Soul Point ||
The process of absorbing the Life Force was an automatic one. It didn\'t stop no matter what I did.
As if the current situation wasn\'t messed up enough, another screen appeared before me. A flashing red screen.
For some reason, the Gamer-System\'s interface appeared before me.
➤[ The Gamer-System is warning the aggressor to stop the hacking, or appropriate measures will be taken ]
➤[ Deploying Firewall ]
➤[ Employ!@$!$1 ]
➤[ WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! ]
➤[ The aggressor possess an Attribute from the 0th layer ]
➤[ Counterattack has been deemed impossible ]
➤[ Temporarily shutting the System and ejecting the infected parts ]
➤[ 3…2…1…0… ]
Then the notifications suddenly died.
|| + 0 Soul Points ||
I blinked stupidly.
\'All I understand is that the Gamer-system took the stealing of Jae-sung\'s life force as \'Hacking\'. But it couldn\'t stop my attribute because it came from the 0th layer.\'
0th layer? Does that mean there were more layers? No, before that, there was no grading system for attributes in the novel. But it clearly wasn\'t the same here.
\'The Gamer-System removed its infected parts to stop hacking. At least, I\'m not gaining more soul points. But how many did I gain?\'
It seemed that the situation was a lot more complicated than I would solve. So, I decided to enjoy the rewards and left the complicated matters to my future self~
Soul Points: 110
\'Over 100 Soul Points? Even for Jae-sung who overstocks, a loss of 110 Hearts will make him bleed emotionally.\'
Sighing, I shrugged my shoulders inwardly.
\'I just hope the loss of a portion of the System doesn\'t become problematic in the future. Where did the discarded part even go to?\'
Well, I was more than satisfied that everything ended. What if his System loses some functions? I\'ll leave them to the protagonist! Isn\'t that his job, dealing with the problems!
I was just a villain or some extra, anyway!
\'Hahaha, all that ends well, is well.\'
At this point, I was waiting for my body to recover enough to move while I struggled to remain conscious.
"Urghh.."
While I was distracted, Jae–sung\'s corpse healed. He tried to support his body with his hands, but he fell back to the ground powerlessly.
\'What is this? I thought he was supposed to be fatigued-free after reviving. Is this because of what happened earlier?\'
It was scary how fast the butterfly effects were appearing. But who was I?
A genius at improvising! That was who I was!
"So, you survived my attack?" I spoke in a domineering tone. This wasn\'t me trying to gain a superior psychological position, because I couldn\'t move yet and wanted to make sure that Jae-sung doesn\'t continue fighting, definitely not.
"Cough…Cough… apparently I.. did.."
"Leave the forest…"
My next words were struck in my words because a golden screen appeared before me.
➤[ Congratulations, you have become the host of the Gamer-System! ]
The message made my brain fart and it stopped working.
\'This is where the discarded parts went.\'