Boom, boom, boom, boom!

"Wake up! Wake up!"

Harun, who had fallen asleep, got up from bed in amazement of the shouts of his comrades, accompanied by the sound of the trumpet. The things that caught my eye were not his usual rooms.

What, what? '

I thought it was a dream, but I was able to come up with an idea.

'Ah! This is Beyond. And now I'm at mercenary academy.'

When I woke up from my sleep a few times, I remembered everything that happened yesterday.

"Yikes!"

As I think about it, I hear the sounds of the door rushing open from outside.

Harun hurriedly gets out of bed, bouncing off the bed. I had heard from McKean yesterday, so I had to go to the training ground.

Between the three adjacent buildings, including Harun's room, there was enough space for hundreds of people to enter, but already many people stood there.

Like the landscape at the entrance ceremony, there were some people who gathered, but most people who couldn't hide their anxiety and expectations and looked around were dressed in various ways. Not only dressed like that, but also looked quite varied in age.

"Alignment! Gather in groups of 10 based on this trainee!"

I heard a loud voice and looked forward, and I saw a man with a solemn figure with a gorgeous beard. Probably an instructor.

Some noticeable young people understood his words and hurriedly stood up from the front. Then the rest of the people stood in a line behind him, somewhat tumultuous.

There were still people coming out of the three consensus dormitory buildings. I haven't looked at it in detail because I haven't seen the situation so far, but now I see that there were a lot of women.

The person who had not slept well in an unfamiliar place had to go up to the table in front of him because it was time for the people who jumped out of bed late to be invisible.

"I am instructor Schulz, who is in charge of this course."

He was a fearsome middle-aged man with enormous skill at first glance.

His slightly dry body but shooting eyes were like that of an eagle, and the strong impression he had of beating a septa and long scars engraved on his whole body like a medal caused the atmosphere to become tense at once.

He stares at the trainees for a while. No one dared face him.

Some of them were quite old, but they couldn't even get a good look at Shultz's sharp gaze.

"What a mess! It's my first day, so I'll skip it, but I'll show you hell tomorrow if I'm late. Dammit! This is the worst rider I've ever taught."

His attitude of kicking his tongue was pathetic, and the students became flustered.

"Do you really think you can get your mercenaries trained like this?"

The attitudes of the students became aging. He opened his firm face slightly to see if he liked the atmosphere.

"Great! Anyway, today is the first day and the schedule is tight, so I'll just skip to it. But remember! If you don't get through this basic training process properly, you won't be able to survive the world properly, let alone the quality of your mercenaries. This process is really the foundation of the foundation. I know many of you are mercenary wizards, or accounting or administrative mercenaries, but basic fitness is essential. No matter how powerful a wizard is, if he doesn't have basic stamina, he will be killed by Monster Bob before he can even recite the spell."

Harun was actually worried yesterday when Elser introduced him to this fundamental process. It was good that the more I trained from the ground up because of my poor physical strength, but I was worried that I would be able to live properly because I was old.

It's a basic process for mercenaries, so I thought I'd have friends of great stature. But people's side was different from what he expected. He was at the youngest of all ages, regardless of male and female.

'It was mainly for mercenaries who didn't ask for physical abilities like wizards. Thank goodness.'

Harun understood that people were not so young just then. Perhaps if it was for the mercenaries responsible for combat, the average age of those who completed these basic courses would have dropped considerably.

"Now, let me explain the schedule. I'm only going to say this once, so listen carefully and move erratically. As long as you're on this course, you're all equally educated students. Therefore, in this case, it will be called a number instead of a name. Our instructors will treat you rigorously and fairly, regardless of age or gender, to improve your fitness and gain basic knowledge. So if you're an old man or you want to be treated like a wizard or a woman, go out any time. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

The trainees answered loudly. But Schulz's face was distorted.

"I guess you still don't understand. If you don't understand, the answer is small. I have to hurry and eat breakfast, but I guess I'll skip breakfast this morning. By the way, the restaurant is closed after a certain time. It is a principle that even the academy principle has no exceptions."

Threatening the students with their meals is like this or real life.

I didn't know how my day was going.

Although I did not have physical training or training, I received training supplies such as training clothes and armor and orientation for the next three weeks of basic courses. His number to be called here instead of his name was 123. Every item had that number written on it.

In the afternoon, it was only a matter of a few lectures on how much this process was needed by current mercenaries, as well as a detailed explanation of each process.

Fortunately, unlike the usual mercenary training, they are not heavily pursued. The majority of the participants did not require such force as mercenary wizards, accountants, guild administrative mercenaries, information mercenaries, and therapists.

However, the trainees sighed deeply from the meadow. Most people have lived with little or no body. Regardless of whether it was difficult as it was assigned a significant amount of time for physical training, as well as tight group life that had to live as prescribed from wake-up time to bedtime.

"Phew, I'm going to have to assume he's dead."

"Wouldn't you feel better just for one piece of health?"

He became close to Gali, the mercenary wizard assigned to the next room, and his face became even worse as he regretted coming here over time. Well, he seemed to be old enough to be trained.

As a child, Gali became a mercenary wizard who accidentally joined the mercenary army and became a mercenary wizard who had mastered two circles, 33 this year by becoming a mercenary wizard who had mastered some magic while watching him.

Gali, who horribly dislikes using herself like other wizards, has been trying to avoid this process for a while, but has decided to come in since he saw other colleagues get hurt while stopping monsters.

"I hope so. But I don't like rolling..."

There was nothing to comfort Galy who had already become depressed so that he didn't fit in with his age. In fact, I felt stuffy when I was introduced to the training process.

However, Harun was in a different position from the other sisters.

Even if I wasn't desperate, I couldn't practice passively thinking of Elzer who gave me an unfavourable favor for the first time I met him.

Maybe it was a game, but it was Harun who decided that he should actively train as best he could.

After dinner, there was a gathering of the workers.

"Hmm, I can't trust the worker this time."

The last supervisor of the trainees was General Schultz.

He did not hide his sigh while looking at the faces of the four worker trainees standing in front of him. If they could not eat together, they were skinny and weak.

"Although you were recommended, you were admitted here on training terms instead of working because you couldn't afford to pay for your training. It's hypothetical to be so eager to learn, but I don't know if I'll be able to finish the training."

Your apprentices, full of vigor, grip their teeth as they hear this. Things were different in their own way, but their arrogance was great.

"Can you do it?"

"Yes, you can!"

The four of you gripped and answered, but you didn't expect Schulz's face to open.

"There are five big things you need to do first. Moving equipment for training to the training ground before class, cleaning up the training ground after training, and quickly taking food waste to the garbage after every meal is over."

It seemed hard just hearing all three things, but everyone was nodding their heads.

"The other two eggs are toilet cleaning and drainage cleaning, including urination. This is a miracle. I will instruct you when cleaning is needed, so you can do it then. Well, if you're lucky, you might not make it to the end of the course. But there was once in every rider. Be prepared."

Everyone frowned at the smell of the toilet and the smell of puffiness. The facial expressions became serious because I didn't think that the three previous things would be like this.

"Since your work begins tomorrow, say hello and go to bed early today. Clear!"

Instructor Schultz is out, but you people don't make it easy on him. I was confused because I didn't know how much training was going to take.

"Say hello to everyone. I'm Moggle, 26 years old, 1-Circle Wizard."

Seeing that he had suffered a lot, Moggle appeared to be lighter than 30. One circle at that age is a little late, but when you look at it, you find yourself proud of yourself.

"Harun. He's 19 years old and a wizard."

Once I entered the Wizards' quarters, I had to pretend to be a Wizard. Moggle glances at the same wizard.

"I'm Mennon. I'm learning accounting. He's 20 years old."

Menan with a soft impression looked as weak as Harun, but his eyes were clear.

"My name is Rose. I'm on my way to a therapist. He's 17 years old, Moggle and his cousin. Everyone's older than me. Take good care of my brothers."

Rose with a small body and cute face brightened Menan's face by saying that she is a lively person or older brother from the beginning.

"Since we have to start tomorrow, let's go to bed early and meet after breakfast, just like the instructor said. My brother was a working-class trainee, too, but he said it was very hard for the first month, so let's be strong. Phew, I didn't do anything special today. It's so hard."

Like Moggle said, it's my first day and I haven't even started my training yet, but I'm already tired and tired. But I was glad that Moggle had heard something from his boss about his work training. Definitely would help

The four of you shook hands lightly and broke up.

Harun was unable to log out on the second night.

I don't know if it was because I liked the place or because I was too tired, but when I sat on the bed, I reached out.

I think I closed my eyes a moment ago, but I heard the sound of the weather trumpet already.

Harun gets up from his bed bouncing, but he's still unable to move. He stretched his base to unwind overnight and was satisfied with his condition.

In real time, after 5 and a half hours of activity, I slept for about two and a half hours, but my body was fine. I'm sleeping well.

I feel like my body has adapted to Beyond's time somehow. Usually, it has 17 hours of activity and 7 hours of sleep, but here it has also been reduced to one-third.

'Will my body still not be overwhelmed?'

I was worried. In fact, he often lost consciousness and died while playing virtual reality games. Although there is a forced disconnect to prevent you from overplaying, there have been occasional deaths due to a mechanical glitch that may not return to reality.

'Tonight, let's disconnect and ask Belle.'

I'm not sure what Bell is yet, but once I have artificial intelligence, I'm sure I've gathered a lot of information about Beyond. With her, you can learn a lot about a world unlike this game.

As soon as I got up, I couldn't count and the time to run the training ground was too difficult. It was even more difficult because he had a training steel sword in his hand and a pocket full of small metal beads on his legs.

Harun checks the iron sword in his hand and the pockets on his legs as he runs.

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Beginner's Iron Sword

Rating: General

AP: 25-30

Durability: 45/50

Weight: 5kg

Description: A dull sword that is used for training. Crafted in bulk with poorly refined subway rail, it is extremely difficult to cut without blade.

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Beginner's Bag, Carrying

Rating: General

DP: 20

Durability: 62/80

Weight: 1kg

Description: Knights or warriors are accompaniments or pockets that tie to arms or legs when training muscles. It improves strength and endurance, and it becomes accustomed to long-term use, so it needs to increase weight.

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"Tsk! I'd rather not check. '

Running ten laps without waking up on a college playground was very difficult for students who had never had much time to use themselves. Moreover, the bag and steel sword weighed 7 kilograms.

Harun is exhausted without even two turns. I started to shake my legs by myself. It seemed like the ground was pulling him up like a magnet.

I felt ashamed that I was this weak, but behind him, more than half of the trainees stretch their legs free. It was literally a gathering of poor physical strength.

I gripped my teeth.

I didn't want to give up in the middle of the first day.

Of course, even if I lay here in the atmosphere, it was never an atmosphere to insult myself. It's because people are so weak and poor in stamina.

"No!"

The temptation to stop plagues him, but his pride grips him.

Others, however, were eager for a wizard or learned accounting, but he was truly nothing. They had other good things to do instead of being weak in health, but they were useless in their present state. I didn't want to give up on this little day that I expected from people.

When the loosening leg is forced to turn three times, there is a considerable number of people in front of and behind Harun. In other words, he was mediocre.

Even the previous runners were sweating and stiffening, but the faces of the trainees who followed were really messed up.

Some of the trainees had already fallen on the floor, and they had turned to walking rather than running, but their faces were all badly distorted.

"What the hell, these stupid stamina?"

"Huh-huh-huh... This is the strongest ever! This rider has some pretty well-known names as wizards and therapists, so I expected it, but it's really bad. Yikes! Instructor Schulz can hear it coming. Damn it, what kind of training are we doing with these weaklings?"

I overheard the conversation between the two assistant instructors. They did not lower their voices. But it didn't seem like he was making fun of the trainees explicitly. It was obvious that there were a lot of wizards in the process.

"Profit!"

Harun grits his lower lip for blood. He realized that he was a useless human being.

When others studied hard, they felt confused about their identity and even dropped out, so they couldn't cultivate any abilities without dreaming until they were this old, and they were so ashamed and disgusted by their poor physical strength.

My legs felt like they were close to a cloth and I couldn't breathe because my heart was about to burst. Sweats in my eyes were already covered with sweat, and I poked my eyes like a needle.

'This is not the end of training. And unlike other trainees, I have to work.'

Deep down, I heard a whisper like this. However, after thinking rationally, training time remained enormously long. And there were other things to do besides training.

If you get tired of here, it may be hard to get your work done as well as your training from today onwards. Perhaps it would be wiser to stop here adequately for the rest of the schedule.

'But it must be completed!'

The result of this temptation has been a lot of weakness and helplessness. If it were true, he might have already surrendered.

But this is virtual reality. Even if you die, you can start again. It was creating a poison that had never been given.

'You can run. We have to run. We have to change.'

Harun uses evil on himself, not looking away, but looking two or three paces ahead, he moves his heavy body as if he had lost a huge rock on his back. The heart beat horribly as if it were about to burst, and the leg muscles complained of pain as if they were breaking.

'You're not the only one. You can run, too. You can't lose here. I'm gonna live with that for the rest of my life!'

How evil he must have done to his weak shadow. At some point, I began to feel a strange sensation.

He felt very alive when he ran without falling down.

Now there were only twenty people in front of him. Many of his trainees were lying on the ground or falling back.

'I'm still running.'

In fact, it was a fresh shock to Harun, who had not been able to do anything better in his life than others, although it was nothing special to those with some physical strength.

The feeling was new and inspiring that there were so many trainees behind him.

I can't feel my legs anymore. As if the muscles were torn apart, the excruciating pain disappeared in some way. My heart, which swelled up like it was about to burst, was also very stable.

It was a strange thing to be right about myself.

Even though it is so hard, his face must have been badly distorted, his body did not collapse. Upon confirming it, it was a very fresh and new feeling to fill my heart.

Excitement!

I did.

I don't know if it's the first time, but I feel like people are saying it's fascinating. The excitement of overcoming his greatness, satisfaction and difficulty made his legs run steadily.

Harun is almost ecstatic. I couldn't think of anything. It just existed as the master of that space, that time.

It was a feeling I had never felt before. He clearly felt that he had taken over the place as the owner of a small space.

"Enough!"

Harun suddenly felt his body being forced to stop by someone else while listening to the instructor's voice and widening his eyes, blurred by sweat.

Instructor Schulz grabs his shoulder.

"Well done. You've got some nerve."

Schulz carefully grabs Harun's body, lays him on his back, and starts massaging his legs. Harun lets out a low scream with a loud breath of pain that he felt in his muscles that he had forgotten for a moment.

"Hang in there. If you don't untie me like this, I'll be stuck for days. Trainer 123!" You did very well. It's probably the first time I've run this long, but I've been in complete control of myself. "

"Ahh! Ahh!"

"Hehe, starting with number 1, you're from Wizard's Palace. In a very long time, the instructor who came out of the Wizard's Palace on the first day was glad. Oh, you're gonna have to keep squeezing for at least five minutes."

"Go, thank you."

Even though Schulz's sadness was painful enough to cry, Harun groans and thanks him. When I came to my senses, I realized how stupid he was.

However, there was a faint smile on Harun's crooked face.

'But I thought I heard something. What was it?'

But I couldn't keep thinking. While he was rubbing his bruised muscles, the pain that was hard to suppress was relentlessly attacking him.

Twenty of the trainees who had already arrived took a breather and cast a wide variety of emotions at Harun, a magician.

Do you think it's because the look is painful? The days that followed were a series of really painful days.

After barely eating breakfast, the trainees rested. Of course, Harun and the four workmen couldn't rest as comfortably as they did.

I had to take out the food waste.

Although the place to collect food waste was not far away, it was really hard to hang heavy buckets on the shoulders.

After demonstrating the steering wheel, the four men who had the iron rod had to rest every few steps. At that moment, your face distorted miserably. It was harder because of the hot weather. Although the weight of the food waste mixed with soup was also heavy, the strange smell of food rotting was truly paralyzing my nose.

Every time they passed by, the nearby trainees were busy running away. Because of the murderous smell of food rotting, their gaze at your apprentices soon became somewhat disgusting after compassion.

"Moggle, I'm dying. If I had known this would happen, I would have sat down after I paid for one or two rounds instead of finishing it."

She can't even take ten more steps, and you hear her appeal to the following Moggle.

"Huff, huff. I'd die if I gave up on the fourth wheel. This will break every bone in my body."

The wizard, Moggle, didn't seem to have the strength to speak, but he accepted Menan's words. However, when they saw the difficult appearance of Rose with less than half a rod, they could not say anything.

I couldn't bear the weight of it, so I wanted to help Rose as fragile as the Federation was, but I couldn't walk properly either. Her face is bloodshot as if it were about to burst.

'Yes, you can. We have to. Now let's get rid of that weak shadow.'

Harun casts an endless spell on himself.

'One step at a time. Then we can go like we did before.'

His weak body, which had already been killed once, was anxious to collapse already, but I lost my strength the moment I recalled my experience earlier. What one success brought was not simple.

Harun doesn't rest. Like the other three people, I took a few steps forward without stopping, not a pattern of relaxation.

Although the weight of the rod pressed down on his neck and back without pity, his will to be encouraged by one success began to dominate the flesh.

Harun, who moved so slowly, was able to get to the Hot Gates as fast as any of the four of you.

It smelled a lot worse than what I've been carrying. Suddenly, my head was pounding.

A lower limb as big as a small lake didn't make me want to spend an hour or two thinking about the murderous stench of half-stuffed food waste spouting as it rotted and the many kinds of disgusting insects that paralyzed it.

Harun takes out the food waste he's been carrying and puts his lightened rod back on his shoulders. Meanwhile, the body was full of the sound of pain, but now I have to ignore it.

After breakfast, there was a march.

The procession was organized because of the basic means of transportation of mercenaries, even though they often ride horses and wagons. Starting in the morning, the excessive trainees started spreading again during the march.

"You can do it!"

Not because it was hard and hot, but because it was really painful, Harun was covered in cold sweat. I was eager to reach out like the other trainees lying on the street.

But I had to endure it.

Earlier, it was just a fight with itself, but now it was a situation that united the expectations of the people around it.

Of course, the instructors glanced at him because he was the only finisher among the trainees from the Wizard in the morning. Their eyes had weak expectations, and some nodded their heads.

"Ugh, damn it! I can't go anymore. Please don't give up on me. It is my pride and disgust to hear that the sorcerers of our horsemen are always the weakest. Okay, Harun? Show them that wizards are tenacious."

Gali yells alongside Harun, who struggles to resist the urge to give up.

"Galy, just a little further."

"No, I can't. This is all I have, damn it."

Galey lowered his voice and sat down. I stood beside him, wanting to stop the bridge for a moment, but Harun forcefully stepped off.

The muscles were already bruised, and it was even more difficult because I felt terrible pain. On the other hand, I might be able to do it again because I had already overcome the pain that I could never overcome twice.

I did it before, but there was nothing I couldn't do. Because speed is not the problem.

Harun thought it was all about his will to make it happen. I looked not so far away, but only a few feet in front of the ground, but I stepped forward.

But not everything is made up of will. The body that had been left behind for a long time was easily out of control of its will.

'Dammit! We're almost there... but we can't go any further!'

The Mercenary Academy flag on your destination seems blurry. It's really not much longer. It was so unfair that I couldn't go anymore, but I couldn't feel my legs. It was the moment I stopped walking.

- Level's up.

- HP +1.

- Increases wisdom by 1.

-A Stamina stat is created.

What are you talking about? '

It was hard and everything seemed so real that I had forgotten at some point that this was a virtual reality game, but the audible prompt came to my mind and I checked my information.

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Name: Harun

Race: Humans

Job: -

Level: 2

Title: Mercenary Trainer

HP: 170

Mana: 180

Strength: 5 HP: 7

Knowledge: 9 Wisdom: 8

Luck: 7 Agility: 5

Stamina: 1 S.P.: 0

STATS Remaining: 2

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"When did health and wisdom become like this? '

Come to think of it, I thought I heard this sound when I went around ten times in the morning. At that time, I couldn't confirm it because it was so hard and tired. Maybe that's when the stamina and wisdom stats went up.

Harun invested two stats from level-up into luck. In fact, it was better to raise another stat for future training, but I wanted to do it for some reason. It was luck that brought me to this real-world charm.

"But is this how the stat goes up? '

In other games, stacks rise and experience accumulate, primarily through repetition of hunting and quests, resulting in a level increase. However, the game was so realistic that it was gaining levels and stats just by being trained.

I first noticed that the stat increase as the level rises is 2 per level. It was the same with other games that the associated stats rose as you repeated certain actions.

In addition, it was a new discovery that there was a close relationship between the actual will and the wisdom stat.

Of course, raising the level wasn't the goal, but I didn't think it would be necessary to be jealous of others performing hunting or quests to advance their level.

I could immediately feel the levels rising and the vitality and all the stats replenished. I wanted to die with so much difficulty until just now, but the moment I leveled up, my body regained its condition like a lie.

Harun makes a joyful smile and teases the bridge hard. If it is difficult, there is also a trick to free up the time to break the legs. The effect of starting to believe in yourself led to an increase in confidence.

Thanks to this, we left the mercenary academy and arrived at the training ground outside the castle first among the wizards. After arriving, Harun was able to relax with his gymnastics and massage his legs without clumping.

"I didn't expect it to be so bad, but it's pretty good, that guy."

"Haha, isn't he usually that dry?"

His assistants Max and Tammy smiled at each other for a long time in their own A ward. It was because the results of the trainees' training determined their performance.

In fact, each building is divided into two parts and the men and women use separate buildings. Among them, Dong A was the residence of trainees headed for the Wizard's Path.

The B consensus trainees who will learn administration and accounting and will be in charge of mercenaries, guild operations, and administration work are literally low-quality trainees compared to the C consensus trainees who will be sent to work on information on the entire continent in the future.

That's why, in Dong A, no trainee has ever completed this course well.

Even mercenaries are wizards. They had no way to train the flesh. What is normal for us to understand one spell and implement it? I tried to exercise, but I didn't have time.

"But how many circles are 123?"

"At my age, I thought I'd joined two circles. Anyway, if we're gonna get help later, let's get it right now. Wizards are a bit grumpy, that's why silver is such a definite clan. Besides, if he's that tenacious, he'll settle for a spot later."

Harun had no idea that he was considered a wizard at the time.

Instead, he was in a moment of self-immersion. Seeing his sense of accomplishment and the other trainees entering the destination and reaching out completely, he became a little overwhelmed with pride, and he soon remembered himself as different from others.

'I'm so pathetic that I was only satisfied with this. Those guys are alive right now.'

After the march, Harun reflects on himself, seeing a group of trainees with no difficulty at all. They weren't wizards, but they were highly knowledgeable trainees in one area. Whereas he is incapable of doing anything.

Until lunch time, all the trainees arrived. Of course, about a third of them were taken to the wagon by their assistants, but no injuries were sustained.

Dining outdoors felt really great. There were very few trainees who could afford to enjoy it properly.

Harun had little experience eating outside. In Union, the only places to enjoy the surrounding landscape while dining out were S or A.

It was really good for a while. Afternoon classes were hard, just like in the morning, with a full stomach and a healthy body.

There were a variety of exercises to improve health. Trainings have been designed for mountaineering and using various tools to build strength. Some courses crossed or crossed obstacles.

As I watched the demonstrations of the trainers, I kept crawling back and forth through the mountains and training grounds several times in a row.

It was still a rewarding day for Harun. The Stamina, Stamina, and Strength stats increased one by one, even though they did not level up.

It is not only impossible to assess a human's abilities in numbers, but the variation in the stat, which will be assessed by various elements in one stat, has made Harun more powerful.

The afternoon class was only over just before sunset.

"Oh my, I'm dying!"

"Are you going to live like this every day for the next three months? I can't do it."

"Hehe! There's no such thing as a woman, and it's just too much."

Complaints erupted from everywhere.

Few of the standing trainees remained exhausted, and they were lying on the ground in their training uniforms, both men and women.

For a moment there, the terrifying instructor Schulz appeared with a fierce force, and it was only a matter of time before the trainees were aligned.

"Good work, everyone! Over the next three months, we will strengthen your weak bodies in the way that they are today, while working on your basic knowledge as a mercenary. Of course, it will be difficult because I have hardly ever had this training, but I hope you will bear the expectation of the blacksmith or masters who put you through this process with their precious money. Now you can relax at home (?). I hope that the Tanga will not collapse on the way home. Clear!"

Instructor Schulz's words almost tightened both eyes. From now on, having to go back and forth on this street every day was horrible, but I couldn't go to the dormitory with the body screaming in agony with training right away.

At least Harun could not return home with his comrades. I had more work to do.

Since the lunch was taking place outdoors, the leftovers had to be put in a huge wooden barrel and later brought back to the cart when the training was over. When I went to the training ground, it was too heavy to use a horse to transport me, but I left as soon as I finished.

Because of the hard training, there wasn't much left for everyone to eat, but it was really difficult to transport the leftovers and scraps of wood to the cart.

"Shift, shift, shift!"

It was flat, but it couldn't have been hard since it was a dirt road. Menan, who just started pulling the cart, has already requested a shift.

The three of them, apart from Harun, were completely overwhelmed after breakfast this morning, making it hard to move their bodies.

"Harun, you lead the way. We'll push from behind. At least I think you have the best strength."

I thought he was going to die, but I was trained to grind his teeth, and hearing that made me feel bad. However, it was also true that Moggle's condition looked the best.

"Phew. Okay, brother."

Harun hates it, but he looks like they're all dying and even has a split voice in front of the cart.

The leader of the trainees was already in an invisible state. You may not be able to have dinner if you're so squirming.

'You can't do that.'

Now Harun believed only in Bell.

As both sides said, those many ingredients and herbs will automatically replenish your body's essential ingredients. Of course, that's only possible if he has to eat in the game.

Even though the three people with yellow faces may be sleeping or resting first, Harun's food was the top priority. It was a joint responsibility anyway, so it was inevitable. If he could not avoid it, he needed to imprint on himself that he must do it.

I bruised my shoulders, back and neck while throwing out the food waste this morning, but this time I felt tired on my shoulders, back and legs.

'Yes, it will be difficult, but your strength and endurance will improve. Hang in there. All this stuff is training for me anyway.'

When I thought that, I felt more at ease and a strength that I didn't have.

Harun drags them in front of him, and the three men behind him speed up the mini quite well. Less than a day later, Harun was satisfied with himself. Even when I thought about it, I was very patient and strong.

Moreover, I heard a cheerful voice when my legs were relieved because of the limitations.

- Strength stats increase by 1.

- Stamina stats increase by 1.

It was a gruesome advantage that he could have as a user of the game. Although the level did not go up until the break was shorted, in the case of the stat, it pleased him when the EXP was filled up in the middle.

When the meal was almost over, the four of us came back to the lodge together. The three of them were so tired that they tried to give up eating, but there was still something left to do that they had to forcefully eat. It was treated immediately after dinner.

"Does it go in your mouth?"

"Yes, I do."

Harun put the food upside down in his mouth as if it were strange to Rose. Though his mouth was neat and tasteless, it was all the nutrients he needed to make him strong and eat.

"You have to eat. You don't think about it, but eat it."

Harun tells Rose that and eats food. Luckily, it was a game, so I didn't feel pretentious or uncomfortable even though I ate it in a hurry.

When Harun finished eating with the three others in awe, he was able to finish the last work of the day safely with an iron rod hanging from the heavy food waste.

"Haak, Hak! Am I even alive?"

Moggle eventually reaches out to the platform in front of the food dump. The other three were the same. The thought of finishing it until the last day, everyone could not get up like a corpse.

"Brothers, if I don't show up tomorrow morning, I'll be sick all night and I'll be dead."

"Me, too."

Rose and Mennon cried out.

"But you have to go back to your room and massage your muscles instead of just sleeping. Because if you don't, you might wake up tomorrow morning and you might not be able to walk."

Harun advised me as he had heard from instructor Schulz. Thinking about it, I was at my best.

"I'm more surprised than I look at you. Where does that power come from in a body with nothing but bones?"

Harun smiles, looking at the dark sky, when he asks if the mogul is strange.

'Sometimes I hear this sound. Puhhh!'

"Dude, that's not from strength, that's from venom. Did you see Harun's eyes when he was struggling? It was like hellfire."

At Menan's words, everyone raised their torso and looked at Harun. Like, are you sure?

"I can't miss this opportunity. This is my last chance. If I lose to myself again, I'll be a loser for the rest of my life. I'd rather die than do that."

Harun said with a strong will, the three of them were speechless and stared at the empty sky.

Even though the story was different, their position was no different from Harun's. This training process was a very important opportunity for them as well.

"Harun, you look great. Let's get our strength together. What's the difference between us and Harun? I'm better than Harun, by the looks of my body, but I just sound like I'm dying. We're gonna have to work on that. It'll get better. Well, who wasn't as hard at first as us? Let's poison ourselves for a better future and a hope that burns hot in our hearts."

Everyone gripped their teeth and nodded without a word in response to Moggle's self-reflexism.

Upon entering the room, Harun was comforted by the new angles and companionship, he washed himself and changed his clothes. Fortunately, except for training time, freedom was guaranteed.

'You should log out today.'

It was a long day. Every muscle and bone in my body screamed in agony. It was harder when I sat down for a while and got up. All I could think about was wanting to fall into bed like this.

'Will I be able to complete the basic course with this?'

I was already worried.

Harun forced his body and mind to stretch and disconnected in three days.

Whew.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a room full of weak light. For a moment, I didn't know where I was. Is it because I'm used to Beyond's world?

"Ah!"

It was a capsule named Bell.

In one day, reality returned as if it were a dream. There were no familiar rooms or connections with many wires. However, the feeling of comfort made him feel relieved as if someone were next to him.

- It's been a day.

A clear and cute voice.

It was Belle.

"Bell?"

- Yeah, it's me. I've waited a long time.

Is that all artificial intelligence is? Her voice was vaguely filled with longing and joy because she had a self. Harun returned to reality, even though he was not human, even though he had a presence waiting for him.

- How was Beyond's world?

"That was great. It was like a reality. I don't want to come back."

- Yes, I am.

Maybe because she said she didn't want to come back, her answer was blurred.

Harun was not very affectionate, but he was more likely to recognize others' feelings because he grew up eating eyebrows.

"You wouldn't want to come back without Belle."

- Chuckle.

Suddenly, a low laugh sounded bright. Her laughter smells of joy.

Do I sound white to an AI computer now? Was it so lonely? '

For Harun, who had only met once, but always was alone, Bell felt like a loving and familiar family. I felt like I was dealing with a cute little sister with a lot of wool.

"When did Belle enter my mind? '

It's a bit confusing. I find myself strangely confident in the search for human affection for electromagnetic beings without any form.

"How's everything at home?

Is this how you came to be?

Maybe it's a question of human connection. Harun had no one to come to, and no one to call.

"Almost always……."

- Like me, I've always been alone.

"Belle?"

- I was born a long time ago.

Was it? It's been a long time since anyone's used it. And you've been awake ever since? No, did he say he had an identity?

About Bell was an unknown territory to Harun, who had no expertise. At this time, it's better to just do it.

- I hid in the shadows of Gaia without revealing myself until I knew that I belonged to the citizen, Harun.

"I see."

Clearly not the same human, but I felt a strange sense of identity and intimacy.

Humans value their existence through their relationships with colleagues. Bell, however, was not human, but could almost feel the human emotion. Harun instinctively realized that it was sharing similar feelings as he had felt.

The headache seems to be suddenly emotional.

"By the way, did you gather any information about Beyond?"

- Yeah, but their reactions were pretty intense. At first, I thought there was absolutely nothing going on.

Probably would.

Most of the users who started the game with me logged on and then shortly disconnected with excitement.

"It's a lot different than any game I've ever known. There was definitely an element of the game, but it felt like I was traveling to a fantasy world rather than a game."

-Hohoho, you've done well.

"I... experienced what I... experienced?" "

- Yes, I've been collecting intel in my own way since Captain Beyond logged on. At first, there was a lot of complaints. How the hell do you hunt? Do you have a quest? It's only been a few hours since Beyond opened, and Neckwall's servers have been buzzing with complaints and questions.

How embarrassed would he be if he didn't know how to play?

-After a day of game time, Neckwall provided additional information about Beyond, whether he was overwhelmed with complaints or planned ahead.

It's hard to imagine that a world-class supercorporation like Neckwall could not have anticipated that.

The thought of raising people's complaints and causing a commotion in Masscom caused users who were not interested in Beyond to suddenly raise their awareness.

I don't know if you've read his mind, but Bell nods in agreement.

- Maybe the captain's right. It's not a game at all, but the environments, the NPCs and the world that the users encountered were more real than the reality.

"Yes, I did."

- They said, Beyond makes it possible to experience another fantasy reality while maintaining the game-changing elements! Beyond is the world that made it possible to realize another identity without distinguishing NPC from humans!

Harun, who had correctly experienced Beyond's world for three days through game time, couldn't agree more.

The encounter with Elser was lively and realistic, and the basic training that I am experiencing at the mercenary academy. The pain in my whole body that I still feel proves that.

I did not believe another user would be trained in the same route as him. It is common for other games not to be programmed so meticulously unless it is for users. After experiencing or seeing such a realistic situation, no one would think it was a game.

-This game has already become incredibly popular with close to five million subscribers in just one release day. People who were already tired of this virtual reality game turned out to be intrigued by their complaints.

Users who connect with Beyond will feel like they are living two lives. This is not a common sense game where you level up, get items, and build your reputation to become a ranker. It is another intense and vivid life that can change endlessly depending on the way you walk, not the life that is planned to play like a play or a movie.

I hope that those who are satisfied with the life that they are living now have walked a path that they did not sometimes walk. Moreover, the majority of people who are not satisfied with the present will desperately want to experience a different life if given.

It made it possible for Beyond's world.

It is only the tip of the iceberg that is still known about Beyond, but it has made people enthusiastic just by being revealed.

- Anyone who wants to live another life should come to Beyond! 'This slogan that Neckwall is shouting is making people's blood boil.

"I will."

Once you get it right, you can't help it.

Those who are tired of simple, universal games will now immerse themselves in Beyond's world. The strong Neckwall of traditional games is also great.

- One of them involves leveling up.

Harun glances at her mouth, his eyes glowing.

- It doesn't matter if you're training in Beyond, but you don't level up in the middle of a move or a battle. Users who expect to level up during battle and are trained in any way to deal with monsters that are superior to their abilities are complaining, but Neckwall's attitude is critical.

Maybe that's true.

Suddenly, when you level up during a battle, your health and Mana fill up, reducing your Reality. If you emphasize the realism, it can be a natural setting.

- There are other quests, but they can only be done with a higher level. A simple NPC request is not a quest, but a trade. So for some reason, the user who received the quest for each bulletin board and information site hasn't shown up yet.

"I see."

Thinking that the goal might not have anything to do with others, the dragon was Harun who lightly handed it over.

- It's also worth noting that you have to use the training ground or adapt to Beyond's world to find your own way to level up. At least level 5 has been set up to get you out of town.

If so, it was already recruited in some games. As soon as I contacted them without any skills, I wanted to raise the skills of the users heading to the hunting ground to a certain level.

- The most important thing is the former system. Beyond his first job at level 10, second job at 100, and third job at 250, where the remaining job positions are within a certain distance of each other, with the exception of production.

"I heard that from the gaming assistant."

- Node cities are restricted to those former locations. However, if there are exceptions, you can transfer your skills directly from NPC or have a relationship with them if you have enough soul-points for your previous job.

"So the skill book has nothing to do with the previous job?"

- Yeah, that doesn't apply to the first job. Rarely obtained skill books from monsters or skill books sold at job locations can be used to acquire skills, but they cannot be transferred. The first job is impossible except for the two cases mentioned above. Of course, it's going to be a little different from the second job.

The question of your former position at Beyond is no longer in question. Harun asked me one more question.

"What about your active skills?"

- That's possible, but we have a minimum experience for each skill in order to activate it correctly. So I need a lot more training time than any other game.

"I see. You were right about the wandering story."

- No, there's no smoking in the chimney.

"Hmm. Reality is more important than the game element." Experience a world made up of NPCs, not just user-friendly virtual reality games. "

Bingo! Bingo! Bingo! How can it be the same as Neckwall's announcement?

Belle must have been curious.

However, the users who knew this much were probably not very good at it. What was clear was that, like any game, you should enjoy the world of Bjorn by engaging in relationships with NPCs rather than just hunting.

- And the captain has already begun his training?

"Huh? How did you know that?"

- Hehe, he was moving violently without rest. I've seen him moan and moan and moan and groan at night. And there's already quite a lot of medicinal materials going to the captain. The captain's body has begun to demand nutrients and medicines to boost the function of the body.

Well, faced with Bell, I forgot that her body is a game capsule. Isn't she perfectly connected to him from head to toe with an electromagnetic pulse? I couldn't have known.

-Just so you know, you may feel all the moments that the Captain is experiencing in the game together, but I'm just holding back because he hasn't given me his orders yet.

It was also not to deliberately feel his gaming life. Harun had no choice but to admit that Bell had a self.

"I don't know about Bell, but I don't want to show her my weakness, so I want her to stay that way until I tell her."

Privacy should be respected. I clearly realized that Bell was a person with a self, so I added that feeling.

In exchange, I'm curious, so I want you to let me go quickly.

"Got it."

Haroon — Chapter 6

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