Chapter 4: Precept (1)

Next to the corpse of the one who shared the same homeland as me, who had been with me through the ups and downs of my life, I deeply pondered to myself.

I killed Park Sihu.

I killed the player.

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『Huhu, jackpot!』

It would have made me a little guilty if he had succeeded in defeating the last boss, and I might have even hesitated while killing him. arctic Placing the lives of a hundred thousand people he will be killing later on and the world on each side of a scale, I might have contemplated my path.

“Well done. adopt Nice job killing him.” alien But thinking of what he had done, I commended myself.

There will be a void created due to the player’s death. timber The story of ❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱ of defeating the final boss and saving the world had ended before it could even begin.

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It wasn’t my first time seeing a status screen, because I did see it when I was swallowed by Park Sihu’s shadow and was locked inside.

『Sub-player, Korin Lork』

More importantly, what mattered the most now was the message that appeared when killing Park Sihu…

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〚Korin Lork (Hero)〛

“…Status Screen.”

– Thump thump.

My heartbeat increased. arch I knew better than anyone else how much Park Sihu had gained by using the system window.

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Personality – {Restricted}

Class – {Restricted}

Ohhh, ohhhh…! admire Finally, I have the godly status screen myself!!

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Talents – {Restricted}

Mana – {Restricted}

Aura – {Restricted}

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Specialties – {Nothing}

〚Character Skills – 4〛
Details – Restricted

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『Access denied due to insufficient qualification』

“Crafting Window?”

………

……….…..

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『Access denied due to insufficient qualification』

『Access denied due to insufficient qualification』

“Skills Tab!”

“Inventory!”

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Is this what ‘bare minimum’ meant? arrow This is just too much…!

Aish, god damn it! timber Uninstall this damn game!

Other people shout ‘Status Screen!’ to allocate skill points, craft legendary weapons and speed through quests, so why is this only happening to me!

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– Cough…!

And did you have to say ‘Nothing’ for something I didn’t have? afford Oh my, how nice of you!

Leaving aside the discouraging turn of events, I had to save her.

“Haa…”

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“Alicia Arden? altitude Are you alright?”

“Auuh… Noo…”

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“Do you feel dizzy, and is it hard to smell? orbit Are your ears also fuzzy?”

She seemed alright for the time being judging from how she could still speak.

“Uugh… Eyes, my eyes. shadow I can’t seee.”

“Yeah… Looks like it.”

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“Your tongue’s also twisted.”

“H, how did ye know?”

Blurry vision, dizziness and slurred words. arctic There was only one possibility for that.

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“It seems like the poison of a duke frog.”

5 seconds would have been enough if I had the crafting window but…

It was fairly common in the east. airport There was even a quest to find a duke frog from a well in the player’s starting village, and he must have used that using the crafting system of the system window to separate the poison.

His crafting level must have been low so it shouldn’t be lethal, but it will continue sucking her HP dry if left unattended. portal I had to feed her a simple antidote at least.

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Anyway, carrying her all the way to Merkarva City would take at least a few hours, so the best option would be to stop her bleeding and remove her poison here.

Since it wasn’t a lethal poison, she should be fine after a few days of suffering as long as she wasn’t bleeding.

“Huhuk… Am I going to diee?”

It was annoying the more I thought about it.

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A pitiful scream reverberated across the forest, but a hemostasis was supposed to hurt. anxiety Although it might be deathly painful, it had to be done in order to avoid death.

“Kuaaakk?!”

Ignoring her, I tightened a belt around her wound.

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“It’s alright. armor I’m a master at stopping blood.”

“———!!!!”

To be fair, I had never been the one to use a system window. august I had to live in my own way without it.

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– Gush!

Wow, look at her scream. arena Her voice was thunderous like the cry of a baby born to be a general. acoustic I had no idea if she even heard what I was saying.

———!!

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“Huu… B, benefactorr…”

“Let me leave, my last words…”

“Nn?”

Blood spurted out through the gaping hole created by the beowulf.

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“…?”

I placed Park Sihu’s wrist inside Alicia’s mouth. antenna It would be very painful so I wanted her to hold on to herself by biting on it.

“It’s okay to bite down as hard as you want.”

“Last words my ass. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates. atlas Bite onto this.”

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“…!”

Well, it wasn’t my hand so it was none of my business.

Alicia looked teary as if she was in a great amount of pain. audit I continued with the hemostasis and she bit down hard from the severe sense of pain as her teeth dug into Park Sihu’s wrist.

I was somewhat done with sealing the wound below her rib. advance What I had to do next was detoxify the poison and… I had been in this world for 3 years already, and knew how to make a basic antidote without the likes of a system window.

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“Found it.”

Fortunately, the ingredients were nearby so all I needed was some water and a tin to store the medicine and…

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As expected, there was a bag discarded on the floor. avalanche It was probably Alicia’s bag that she threw away before jumping in to save Park Sihu.

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“I’m making the antidote now. avalanche Hold on a bit more.”

Pouring water into the pot, I mixed in a few ingredients. auction Starting a fire wasn’t that difficult thanks to my abundant camping experience.

“Ohh, there’s a tin pot as well.”

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“Uhh…”

‘People don’t die that easily.’

She sniffed without saying anything, which was probably due to the poison still encroaching her body. arrow From how she was talking about ‘last words’ and stuff, she might be thinking she’s dying but…

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While boiling the antidote, I threw Park Sihu’s corpse away. agent Alicia had been biting on the wrist so hard that I could see the bone inside the wound.

The guts of a horned rat had a pretty nasty smell indeed.

“Uhhm… Benefactoor…”

I was in the middle of adding the key ingredients to make the antidote when Alicia sniffed and twitched her nose.

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Arduously opening her mouth, she called me her ‘benefactor’.

“You don’t need to know. zenith Don’t bother asking.”

“Y, your name… Please, tell me your namee…”

“Why?”

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Now, let’s analyze the situation.

“Okayy…”

It might have been to make her shoulder a mental debt towards me, but what I was going to do now had to be kept a secret. Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com. acquire The antidote would be finished in about 30 minutes so until then, I placed a piece of cloth wetted with medicine over her eyes.

“Don’t worry and take a good rest. arrow I will wake you up when the antidote is done.”

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Astonishing events would be occurring with the academy at the center, and many stories will be affected.

❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱ was quite literally the game of the legendary records of a hero. adapt The player was the hero tasked with saving the world and defeating countless villains as well as the final boss.

The current point in time was the tutorial quest and the time before the admission into the academy. crystal I had regressed to 3 years before my death.

And yet that player had been killed by me, so who would be the one that had to act in his stead?

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The reason he had been diligently clearing the game regardless of his evil trait was because the world would be destroyed without defeating the final boss. timber Ever since we entered this world, we had no other choice but to risk our lives in saving this world.

‘I have to do it.’

It was something I had prepared myself from the moment I decided to kill Park Sihu. apron He and I shared a few conversations about what would happen after clearing the main scenario of the game…

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“Huu…”

At the very least, it was fortunate that I would be receiving some level of support thanks to that sub-player or whatever but…

That was why… I could understand him a bit; on why he had been killing people for the sake of his efficiency.

But he shouldn’t have done that. acquire He shouldn’t have become a villain just because he wanted to beat this world.

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I wish they had done it properly if they were going to do it. auction It seemed that I shouldn’t expect anything from the system window and think of it as nonexistent.

Whatever the case, I had to take the player’s place, but the problem was that I had none of the convenient devices of a player.

『Access denied due to insufficient qualification』

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And the item crafting window which was essential for some of the quests were all gone.

The skills tab which allowed the player to choose skills;

The inventory that allowed one to take out things from anywhere;

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‘Park Sihu lost with all of that in his possession.’

But most importantly…

He knew more about the game ❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱ than I did. sphere Even after monopolizing all the hidden pieces and experience points using his overflowing amount of information, he still lost to the final boss.

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Relying on questionable support and information about the future was not enough. adopt I needed power outside of the system.

3 years.

While advancing the story, I was tempered throughout the vicious fights and struggles.

What was fortunate was that I wasn’t a normal ‘possessor’ either.

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However, that was still far from enough, and there were also plenty of hidden pieces that I couldn’t use as a non-player.

I was desperate in my own way for survival, and I didn’t skip any of the training events that were simply ways to gather skill points for Park Sihu.

Judging from how I was graded as a ‘Hero’ which was the highest rank a named character could get, one could say it was a huge growth for a random side character.

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I wrote a letter on the ground with my finger. acquire The symbol engraved with the layer of dirt as the canvas and my finger as the pen was the ancient letter meaning ‘Wind’.

– Jiik

That was why I had to use something outside of the system, for example…

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– Hwaruk!

The fire boiling the medicine wavered faintly from the breeze.

What I used just then was rune magic. zenith These were the ancient letters where the letters themselves functioned like magic. attic It was the only magic that I learned in the previous iteration, and was the only thing I could use as a dumb non-magic user.

It worked.

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What I was going to do now was arrange these rune letters which contained power on its own to engrave sentences into my body.

It was a dead language that you would now only be able to find at the corner of Merkarva Academy’s great library.

A Precept.

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Duty, a vow that had to be kept.

Pledge, the ambition that one had to be aspiring for.

These three were tied together as a Precept, and was one of the strongest ‘rules’ of this world, that either acted as the source of superhuman power or the agent of ruin. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

Restriction, a limit placed upon oneself.

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This was different from the skills and stats of a player. action It was just one of the hidden settings added to explain the power of the boss characters.

As one would be able to tell from the word ‘Precept’, these three acted as the source of tremendous power, but it was possible to work around them after reading the sentences engraved on the body.

Why did I not use such an amazing thing in the previous iteration, you may ask, and it’s because the risk was too high.

The enemy might be able to use my Precept like I did, to create a trap leading to ruination.

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The trick to engraving Duty was by writing down something that could be ‘repeatedly activated’.

Duty. alpha It was the vow that always had to be kept, and was one that would grant me power when followed.

Biting off the skin on my fingertip to let it bleed, I then started carving rune letters into my body.

There was no reason to bother risking it in the previous iteration where the player was growing without a problem, but things were now different.

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A safer duty would be for example, ‘I will not eat birds for the rest of my life’ which is done ‘cumulatively’, but it was okay to increase the risk here because I knew a lot of things about the future.

Let’s say it was running 50 meters everyday. sphere In that case, my stats would increase every time I accomplished running 50 meters everyday.

Besides, the amount of incremented power also increased depending on the weight of the vow itself.

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Similarly, this Duty had to be shouldering a heavy enough Karma in the perception of this world to give an equal amount in return.

In this world, there was something called ‘Karma’ – which was the same as experience points, except that was what it was called in this world – and the Karma you gain by defeating a Grade 5 monster was nowhere near the one you gained by killing a Grade 1 monster.

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“Kuuk…!”

Rune letters were carved onto my body as complete sentences.

〚I will not disregard the misfortune of the good.〛

– Chiiiik!

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“Huu… huu…”

This might be how it feels to have a scorching hot piece of metal engraving a letter on my body as I unconsciously uttered deep groans.

The regulations of Precept were only applied within the user’s range of cognition.

My body felt heavy – that was how heavy the ‘Duty’ engraved in my body was.

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The keywords here were ‘the good’ and ‘misfortune’.

In this game, the good and evil of a character’s personality were specified in the character screen, and good-natured characters overcoming their misfortune would be helpful for me as well, because they were the ones that would be fighting against this world’s crisis.

Even if it was about a future or an event which had yet to occur, it would come to me as my Karma as long as I was conscious of it.

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Next up was Restriction.

Put in another way, this meant the ‘Precept of Duty’ would be repeatedly applied to me as I continued solving the quests of this game, and would result in a suitable return to my power.

‘Restriction’ was a consistently activated rule that intentionally placed an unfavorable condition to oneself to permanently increase the stats.

However, there was no need to save every good person in the world, because a Precept was activated in the range of my cognition. amber Even if the unfortunate person walking down the street was a good person, my Duty would not be activated as long as I wasn’t aware of it.

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It was by nature high risk – high return. echo Because it was the most vulnerable out of the three Precepts, it might be taken advantage of as a weakness, and perhaps was the most important one of the three.

〚I do not perceive spirits.〛

Making a weakness on their own. atomic A normal ‘Restriction’ could be a detrimental one binding me like shackles, but—

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Spirits.

It literally meant astral bodies, like ghosts and elemental spirits that did not have a physical body. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors. ability Like demonic beasts, the enemy of humanity that hunters had to defeat were called demonic spirits in this world.

– Chiiiik!

“Kuugh…!”

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Spirits interfered with one another upon mutual cognition. ability An example was how spirits were unable to enter the mind of an unconscious person.

And in this world, there was one rule for spirits.

Elemental spirits that did not like humans, and defensive astral bodies of ancient ruins were all called demonic spirits as long as they attacked humans.

Well, although they were called demonic spirits, it didn’t mean anything. anxiety Every astral body that was hostile to humanity were all referred to as demonic spirits.

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What I did just then through Restriction was reducing that number to 0.

There might be 1 or 2, but there was never 0.

In this world, every human had even a tiny bit of spiritual perception no matter how ungifted they were.

In other words, I would not be able to perceive spirits. armor I will be exempt from the rule of mutual cognition and spirits will not be able to deal with me, just like how I can’t deal with them.

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I knew how strong this Restriction was more than anyone else, because this was the very ‘Restriction’ of the world’s strongest rune mage, and the boss character, Valtazar.

The only way for them to touch me, would probably be with the help of an elementalist materializing and giving bodies to those spirits.

Its effect was 0% accuracy to spirits, at the return of 50% increase in power against physical existences.

Anything else apart from the one used to play around Valtazar’s Restriction would not be able to destroy mine either.

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This was the grand ambition that warriors had to be aspiring for, and the weight of that aspiration acted as a support. adopt It was literally pledging to yourself that you would always aspire for that grand ambition.

〚I will save the world.〛

There was no need to even hesitate for this one.

Finally, what remained was the ‘Pledge.’