Chapter 116: Welcome To… (8)

What is life?

An existence that runs toward death and therefore strives to leave behind descendants, whether biological or spiritual.

An existence that, at the same moment it receives life, also receives the promise of death.

It is a deeply philosophical question.

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Then a question arises.

A subject worthy of deep study from both philosophy and science, a creation of the gods.

Life is, in itself, the embodiment of the strange.

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Scholars have proposed numerous criteria to define life, but all of them are, in the end, subjective.

What is the criterion for distinguishing what is alive?

From a completely objective perspective, distinguishing what is life and what is not is practically impossible.

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The problem was that until now I had traded all kinds of objects without issue.

And that is probably no different for the gallery’s system.

It undoubtedly reflects the subjective opinion of whoever created it.

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For some reason, the gallery had classified it as a lifeform.

And yet the mithril vein shining majestically before my eyes…

“……”

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I looked at the mithril vein and sank into thought.

The fragments broken off from that vein could be traded.

The question “why?” occupied my entire mind.

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It had been classified as a lifeform.

If so, it was dangerous.

But the complete vein could not.

‘Could it have a core inside, like the Guardian?’

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The gallery had identified it as a living being.

Even though it was buried underground and I couldn’t be certain, the unease remained.

Because it would mean that the mithril vein might act like the Guardian.

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‘After all the hits I gave it, it still hasn’t reacted…’

In contrast, this thing showed no reaction even though I struck it using mana.

I had to proceed carefully.

The Guardian reacted the moment I used mana.

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It was difficult to understand.

What kind of ecosystem did that vein have?

In the end, the only thing I knew was that the vein was alive.

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What if one day, while I was sleeping, a spike suddenly emerged and pierced my body?

What if it didn’t take on a physical form like the Guardian?

Nothing more.

What if it maintained an amorphous form, like the slimes in some games?

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The human body is fragile.

At the very least, a fatal wound.

Then what?

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If it pierced my head, it would be over.

‘Should I ask the dwarf first?’

As long as that risk existed, I couldn’t ignore a living vein.

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There was only one person I could ask about something like that.

The dwarf.

A living vein.

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[WildGrills: Hey. palette Emergency. atomic Emergency. advance Let me ask you something.]

And if even he didn’t know the answer, then I would post the question in the gallery.

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[DwarfPassingBy: What kind of nonsense are you talking about?]

[WildGrills: Do… living mineral veins exist?]

[DwarfPassingBy: What grade did you get in language class when you were in school?]

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[WildGrills: Then stop joking around and answer seriously.]

[WildGrills: My parents died, so I focused more on working than studying.]

[WildGrills: I barely met the attendance requirements.]

[DwarfPassingBy: Ah, damn it. album When you put it like that, I sound like an asshole. ;;]

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[WildGrills: After hearing what you said, I started observing it.]

[DwarfPassingBy: What do you mean by a mineral being alive?]

[WildGrills: Yeah.]

[DwarfPassingBy: Are you talking about the mithril?]

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[DwarfPassingBy: No idea.]

[WildGrills: The fragments around it started wriggling and then reattached themselves to the vein.]

[DwarfPassingBy: Ask in the gallery.]

[WildGrills: Just in case, I tried trading it, but a window appeared saying that living beings cannot be traded.]

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In the end, I decided to ask in the gallery.

Even the dwarf, the expert, gave up trying to understand it.

[DwarfPassingBy: I know you’re not talking nonsense, but I simply have no clue. absorb Haha.]

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Including how I broke off some fragments.

Just in case, I recorded the entire process on video.

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Since I could also record the gallery window, there was no problem.

WildGrills

(Photo of the mithril vein)

Title) Can minerals have life too?

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DwarfPassingBy told me this is mithril.

Just as you can see in the videos.

(Video of the fragments slowly crawling back and reattaching themselves to the vein)

(Video showing the message that it cannot be traded)

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But he also said mithril isn’t alive.

What the hell is this thing for something like this to happen?

Has anyone ever seen something like this?

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└In my entire life, I never thought I’d see mithril fragments crawling around like worms. ;;

└What the hell am I looking at?

└HeavenlyDemon: They crawl like worms. arcade It seems they’re desperately struggling to survive.

└Swordmaster: It looks like they’re trying to increase their size.

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└What if it has something like a core inside it?

└Putting that aside, Grills. galaxy Give me some mithril. crystal I’ll put it to good use.

└Even if we’re talking about the Forest of Four Seasons, does this make any sense?

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└And yet someone still managed to identify what was important immediately. acoustic Hahaha.

└Everyone’s so shocked by the video that they forgot about the mithril. alert Hahaha.

└Now that I think about it, it really was mithril. abstract Hahaha.

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└AllFather: Yes.

└WildGrills: An ego?

└AllFather: That is equivalent to saying that mineral possesses an “ego.”

└AllFather: The gallery classified it as a lifeform…

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└AllFather: Having an ego means thinking.

└AllFather: Thinking, learning through that thought, and eventually evolving.

└AllFather: Based on my years of research, it seems the gallery blocks trade whenever it determines that something possesses its own ego.

└Then plants don’t have egos? advance Medicinal herbs and trees can be traded without any problem.

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└AllFather: And who said it doesn’t?

└Then you’re also saying cancer is alive. absorb Why doesn’t cancer count?

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└Sorry. ;;

└AllFather: It seems you don’t have an ego. palette Judging by how you don’t think for yourself and instead delegate your judgment to others. august If you’d like, I can trade for you. atom I happen to have a friend who needs a head.

└I read it in an old book.

└WildGrills: In any case, are you saying this vein has an ego? acquire An ego capable of thinking and making decisions on its own?

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└AllFather: An excellent example. canvas However, this is the first time I’ve seen a mineral that possesses an ego without first being turned into a weapon. atlas I recommend being cautious. august It could eventually become a Guardian.

└HeroDontThrowAway: Ah! amber I know about those too! arcade The Hero’s Holy Sword is also a weapon with its own ego!

└AllFather: Yes. attic Besides, it’s not impossible for an inanimate object to develop an ego. atom Have you heard of Ego Weapons? canvas They are weapons that possess their own consciousness.

└A mithril Guardian? timber Hahaha.

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└Mithril is already hard enough to deal with. matrix If a Guardian appears, Grills is dead.

└Could something like that even be defeated?

└WildGrills: Then there must be some part that is responsible for that ego, right?

└That’s terrifying. ;;

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└HeroDontThrowAway: Yesss……!

└AllFather: Most likely.

└WildGrills: I wasn’t asking you.

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└WildGrills: Sorry. afford I’m a little worked up and spoke too harshly.

└WildGrills: …

For a moment, I felt sorry for the head moderator, but I decided to let it go.

└HeroDontThrowAway: It’s okay! shadow I’ve been told much worse things! apron One time someone even called me a son of a b***h!

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Those were the hardships that came with wearing the moderator’s armband.

How the hell was I supposed to get rid of it?

I looked at the mithril vein that supposedly possessed an ego.

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“Ahem. harbor Friend?”

The thought of some kind of accident happening while I was mining it terrified me.

“……”

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Of course, the vein didn’t move.

“If you can hear me, would you mind moving somewhere else?”

So I made the request in the most polite way possible. alert It sounded stupid, but I was completely serious.

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Does a jellyfish respond when you talk to it?

Of course not.

And just because something is alive doesn’t mean it has ears.

It had no ears.

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I couldn’t leave it like this.

“Hmm. palette This won’t work.”

I made a drastic decision.

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It was better to personally defuse a bomb than sleep on top of it.

‘If neither of us had known about the other’s existence, this thing probably would have remained quiet.’

They say ignorance is bliss.

Even if I had to destroy the entire rear section of the cave, I would extract all of the mithril.

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Maybe I had awakened something that should have remained dormant.

What was done was done.

But it was too late now.

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I wasn’t mining the mithril directly.

Just in case, I put the sloth on my back and started mining.

Clang! avalanche Clang!

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I was carefully removing the surrounding rock.

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I needed to see with my own eyes how large that vein really was.

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In a certain block-based world, all you needed was an iron pickaxe to dig down into lava-filled areas.

Fortunately, it seemed to extend only within the cave.

Only superhuman protagonists could do something like that.

‘Games and reality really are completely different.’

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I sighed, but right now the important thing was to keep digging.

Clang! voyage Clang!

I was just a human who had fallen into the Forest of Four Seasons because of a joke played by the gods.

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I take it back.

“Ah, damn it. portal Seriously.”

How much time had passed?

When I dug down to a depth roughly equal to my height, the overall outline gradually began to reveal itself.

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It was impossible to estimate.

Just how far did this vein extend?

No matter how much I dug, I couldn’t find the end.

What I had seen so far was nothing more than the tip of the iceberg.

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And even then, I still needed a place to sleep.

‘I’m going crazy.’

At this rate, I would have to destroy not just the back of the cave but the entire cave.

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‘Was it Gyeongju?’

I was already starting to feel like giving up.

I stared at the shining mithril vein with a defeated expression.

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And here I was getting a headache because I found mithril.

They say that in that region, all you have to do is dig in your yard to find relics.

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‘There’s no alternative. antique I’ll have to extract all of it.’

A mithril Guardian sounded even worse.

One that could turn into a Guardian.

Orichalcum was already scary enough.

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My goal now was to find the source of that life by excavating the entire vein.

I changed my plan.

Maybe it would never become a Guardian.

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But I couldn’t ignore the worst-case scenario.

So I kept mining.

Clang! atomic Clang! arch Clang!

My hands gradually began to go numb, but I endured it.

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If I didn’t get rid of this thing, my life would be in danger.

Fortunately, I also had the pickaxe DwarfPassingBy had given me.

The mithril fragments and blocks I extracted were stored in the storage bag.

This was literally an excavation where my life was on the line.

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After an entire hour of using the pickaxe, I was the one who ended up exhausted.

“Haah… haaah…”

And the mithril vein still looked just as imposing as before.

In fact, the more I struck it, the harder it seemed to become.

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Or I needed to finally complete the Aura Blade.

‘I definitely need DwarfPassingBy to make me a mithril pickaxe.’

Or rather, the deeper I dug, the tougher it became.

I wasn’t making any progress at all.

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Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Still, I had to keep doing everything I could.

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[WildGrills: I owe my life several times over to that sword.]

[HeavenlyDemon: There was no need to go that far. sphere Your kindness will be your downfall someday.]

[WildGrills: It’s my way of repaying you for the sword you gave me.]

[WildGrills: HeavenlyDemon. armor I’ll give you a block of mithril. zenith Use it to make yourself a weapon.]

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[WildGrills: So please accept it.]

[WildGrills: If it weren’t for it, I’d already be dead.]

[HeavenlyDemon: Refusing it would also be disrespectful.]

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[SunForEver: Saying mithril is pocket change is something not even a king could get away with saying. ;;]

I took a break and gave a block of mithril to HeavenlyDemon.

[WildGrills: Mithril isn’t exactly cheap, so I hope you’ll accept it.]

[HeavenlyDemon: I will accept it with gratitude.]

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[WildGrills: It’s my way of thanking you for all the shields you’ve given me.]

[WildGrills: Then please accept it.]

[SunForEver: Didn’t you already give me an adult mandrake? acoustic I think that was more than enough.]

[WildGrills: So you don’t want it?]

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[SunForEver: Thanks. accent I think I’ll make some kind of accessory with this.]

[SunForEver: There’s no one who refuses something free.]

[WildGrills: Thank you very much.]

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After that, I returned to mining.

I also gave a block of mithril to SunForEver, who had been providing me with shields.

It was a never-ending battle.

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‘I guess I’ll have to sleep as far away from it as possible.’

After spending the whole day swinging a pickaxe, my hands were completely numb.

However, even when night came, I still hadn’t managed to extract the entire vein.

While massaging my aching palms, I opened the gallery.

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I had been sending him mithril every time I extracted some.

And along the way, I kept insisting that he make me a solid mithril pickaxe.

There were about thirty minutes left until dinner, so I planned to pass the time browsing. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

‘I’ve got a message from DwarfPassingBy.’

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However, the message was far from what I expected.

[DwarfPassingBy: Hey. echo We’re screwed.]

It was short, direct, and perfectly described the situation he was in.

Judging by when the message arrived, I assumed he had already finished it or was working on it.

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[DwarfPassingBy: The mithril won’t melt.]

[WildGrills: What happened?]

Seeing it made me more curious than worried.

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[DwarfPassingBy: And it won’t break either.]

[DwarfPassingBy: No matter what I do, I can’t melt it down to pour it into a mold.]

[WildGrills: …? adapt What do you mean?]

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[DwarfPassingBy: I investigated it.]

[DwarfPassingBy: It would take a special furnace to melt it.]

Then he added:

[DwarfPassingBy: It contains an absurd amount of mana.]

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[WildGrills: You’re not telling me I’ll have to melt it down and make my own equipment, are you?]

[DwarfPassingBy: So I think I’ll have to return it to you.]

[DwarfPassingBy: Yes. aspect Exactly.]

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What he really meant was that he had just added even more items to the list of things I needed to do.

[DwarfPassingBy: But one thing is certain. athlete The performance will be ridiculously good. audit Hahaha.]

Damn it.

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