Chapter 1

Without sunlight, there were no algae or deep-sea fish.

Only the occasional jellyfish drifted aimlessly by.

At such a depth, not even the faintest ray of light could reach.

The depths of the ocean.

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As always, only that pain let me know my nervous system was still functioning.

In that darkness, I couldn’t even tell whether my eyes were open or closed.

The enormous nails piercing my wrists and ankles were the only things reminding me that I was still alive.

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Until…

It was a message from the “System” that had appeared before me like a hologram.

—SYSTEM: A reward for the hero who prevented the destruction of the world!

A light shone like a lamp in the dark depths of the ocean.

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And now it had appeared out of nowhere to give me a reward?

The System was supposed to have disappeared when the final dungeon closed.

It was suspicious, but it was also my only source of light. portal I couldn’t ignore it.

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The highest rank a skill could reach was S.

‘EX-rank skills?’

EX-Rank Skill Awakening! ― You have acquired the skill (Dungeon Developer).

EX-Rank Skill Awakening! ― You have acquired the skill (Monster Developer).

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Earth’s final dungeon, notorious for its extraordinarily brutal difficulty.

There was only one thing the System had ever classified as EX-rank.

Even that was an extremely rare rank, reserved exclusively for Hunters whose magical power reached S-rank.

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‘What makes these skills so special that they’re considered beyond the established ranks?’

Did they refer to the same concept of “development” I was familiar with?

Judging by their names, it seemed I could create new dungeons and monsters…

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However, I had already acquired them, and with my body sealed in the depths of the ocean, I had only two choices.

An uneasy chill ran across my skin.

Should I really accept such suspicious skills?

There was no way such an omnipotent skill could exist.

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—SYSTEM: Activating the skill (Monster Developer).

Use the skills or don’t use them.

In reality, I only had one choice.

If I decided not to, I would have to wait for my life to come to an end in the depths of the ocean.

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The skill began absorbing my sealed magical power.

It was a user interface that allowed me to interact with the System. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com

At the same time, a window the size of a monitor appeared.

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It seemed I could control the development tools semi-automatically.

I could even enter code using the virtual keyboard that had appeared beside it.

Although my hands were immobilized, and I couldn’t interact with it directly.

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F_P1_000001 F_P1_000002 . . avalanche S_P7_999999

》Select the monster identification number.

I didn’t have time to examine them one by one.

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The information for the first monster opened automatically.

…That was when it happened.

I needed to find out whether this skill could break the seal keeping me prisoner.

F_P1_0000001 Name: Slime Attributes: Water, Fire, Electricity Rank: F P: 10 》Select the attribute and rank.

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For a developer skill, didn’t this look a little too much like a player selection menu?

‘What the hell is this?’

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There was no way an EX-rank skill only had such ridiculous functions.

What were they planning to do if someone created a monster that completely destroyed the game’s balance, like an S-rank Slime?

Better move on to the next thing quickly.

I could understand the attributes, but I could choose the rank too?

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》Creating a new monster.

Name: S-Rank Slime Attribute: Electricity (random) Rank: S P: 10⁷

At that moment, the skill activated on its own again.

‘There has to be something that can free me…’

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I couldn’t cancel it.

No, what the fuck is going on?

With my body immobilized, I couldn’t touch the user interface either.

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An enormous mass of yellow light appeared in the air.

Then came the crackling of electrical sparks.

A blue hologram began to glow, and without anything I could do to stop it, a Slime started materializing.

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And if an enormous electric Slime appeared there, a monster with the electricity attribute that, to make matters worse, belonged to the highest rank…

》Monster creation complete.

In other words, I was underwater.

The place where I was trapped was the depths of the ocean.

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It would be like detonating an enormous power plant underwater. alpha I was going to die. airport I couldn’t let that happen.

Shit!

Wasn’t there some way to prevent it?

“Kyuu!”

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However, before I could do anything, an immense light erupted.

No, goddammit! anxiety I have a reputation to uphold!

Was I really going to die at the hands of a mere Slime?

The entire area was engulfed in a blinding radiance in an instant.

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The electrical discharge was powerful enough to disintegrate everything.

How had I ended up in this situation?

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How the hell had things come to this…?

Me, the one they had once called the hero who saved Earth.

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Looking back on the past, I realized I had lived a life without any clear direction.

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However, the world was moving faster than I was.

And I built my career as a developer by following the instructions I was given.

I enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering because people said it was easy to find a job after graduation.

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While my classmates found jobs and became slaves to AI, I crawled along the bottom of the job market, moving from one bootcamp to another and stringing together internships.

By the time I finished my military service, I found myself facing a job market dominated by artificial intelligence.

Eventually, I landed a position in the video game industry.

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So I patiently put up with the situation.

Even if everything was shit, I had to endure it.

But the reality was nothing more than an endless succession of trivial design tasks and superiors who washed their hands of everything.

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Because I felt that if I lost that position, there would no longer be a place for me in the industry.

Finally, when the project ended and I managed to gain recognition as a member of the development team.

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At the same time, emergency alerts began blaring from everyone’s phones.

A gigantic shadow appeared on the other side of the window.

Every window shattered, and shards of glass flew everywhere amid a deafening crash.

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“Changha, do something!”

People started screaming.

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“Hahaha…! airport See? acid I told you! acquire Hiring an Awakened always comes in handy eventually!”

And they positioned themselves behind me.

“As expected of the director!”

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The age of artificial intelligence.

“Let’s leave this to the young man and get somewhere safe. athlete Should we call the insurance company first?”

The age of the digital revolution.

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The age of Hunters.

And there was another name by which that era was known.

“You said you were a Hunter. absorb Why are you just standing there? afford Do something already…!”

An era dominated by monsters, dungeons, and the Hunters who fought against them.

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I had been running away because I didn’t want to become a Hunter.

The truth was, it wasn’t that I wanted to find a job.

The truth was that I was nothing more than a useless loser who only wanted to play video games.

As I watched the company building crumble as though it were made of cookies, I realized something.

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The image of my superior’s arrogant face, the one who always dumped all kinds of trivial tasks on me, overlapped with the terrified expression he wore in front of the monster.

“Hahaha…”

And something inside me twisted.

Was that bastard only afraid of monsters and not people?

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If I put my mind to it, even the mouse I was holding could become a weapon.

So why didn’t he understand that he should be afraid of people, too?

Monsters moved according to predetermined logic, but people didn’t.

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And, like the miserable wretch I was, I merely blurted out some uncomfortable truths.

“What do you expect a rookie like me to do? portal For starters, fighting monsters isn’t included in my salary.”

Anger began boiling inside me.

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I let out a mocking laugh at the director’s shouting.

“W-what the hell are you saying, you brat?! crystal We’ve always paid you your agreed-upon salary on time!”

“That’s the bare minimum you’re supposed to do. abandon Nowhere in my employment contract does it say I have to fight monsters in a battle to the death.”

“W-what…?! timber Are you saying you want us to pay you to deal with that thing? anchor Huh?!”

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The director must have finally realized how serious the situation was, because his attitude changed immediately.

And on that day, when we had finally managed to finish the project after so much hard work, flames mercilessly engulfed the place.

Just then, the bird poking its head through the shattered window spat out a burst of flames.

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The director wore a Rolex on his wrist.

“If you want me to do something that magical, why don’t you magically add another zero to my salary?”

“I-I was planning to give you a performance bonus anyway! armor Huh? abandon I’ve seen that Awakened can perform all kinds of magic tricks! apple Put out that fire already…! apron I’m begging you!”

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And yet, every single day, he drank the coffee I bought with my own card.

“I’m not running your errands anymore. amber I could put up with being used as a coffee delivery boy, but I’m not going to tolerate being asked to risk my life. action Did I join this company to do charity work?”

That infuriated me more than I could bear.

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“What did you say, you brat?!”

From that day onward, I officially began my career as a Hunter.

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And it all came down to two very simple reasons. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

And the second was that, surprisingly, working as a Hunter suited my abilities quite well.

The first was that I had been fired on the spot.

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And as my fame increased, so did my sense of responsibility.

As I continued killing monsters, my reputation began to grow without me even realizing it.

I suppose that, as I matured, I developed something resembling a professional work ethic.

Curiously enough, at the end of that path, I wound up earning the title of hero.

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「Ji Changha, Captain of the EX-Rank Subjugation Force, Receives an Official Invitation from the UN」

「Ji Changha Leads the Peacekeeping Forces and Participates in the Great Hunter War」

「The Final Step Toward the End of the War: The Hero Who Saved Earth Is Born」

「The Last Gate Has Been Closed: A Hero Is Born」

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“Earth must be pretty confused. action I saved people, so since when did that mean I saved the entire planet?”

No one could have imagined that I, an exploited developer working at a shitty company, would end up becoming a hero.

I even joked about it with someone I trusted.

That’s why everyone recommends finding a job that suits your talents.

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Calling me the hero who saved Earth was completely absurd.

And the reason being a Hunter suited me so well was that I found it more comfortable to face monsters than to deal with people.

After all, I had only taken on that work to make a living.

Perhaps the problem had been that carefree attitude of mine.

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And that had made me someone who was far too easy to betray.

There were also many people I trusted enough to turn my back on without a second thought.

Before I knew it, I had ended up surrounded by numerous companions whom I had allowed to get close to me.

Now that I thought about it, people were far more dangerous than monsters.

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That bastard who had driven enormous nails through my limbs, bound me to steel bars, sealed my magical power, and thrown me to the bottom of the ocean.

FLASH!

The culprit was surely among the people around me.

I couldn’t die until I had taken revenge on him.

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And I could feel that both my legs were free.

…I could move my fingertips.

My strength and magical power had returned, allowing me to force out the nails piercing my body.

It was as though the curse of the enormous nails that had kept me immobilized for so long had disappeared.

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“What…? alert Huh? beacon My voice.”

I could move my vocal cords, too.

Wait a minute.

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My voice was coming out normally!

I could open and close my hands, move my legs, walk, and even swim.

“Ah, ah, aya, hey, mmm, oh.”

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On the contrary, I had been freed from the seal.

Hadn’t I died?

Blood was circulating throughout my body again, and for the first time in a long while, I felt truly alive.

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“Hahaha…”

Could that electrical discharge have caused some kind of error in the sealing skill?

It was a miracle!

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The electrical sparks sent little stinging sensations throughout my body, but they felt like nothing more than a simple display of affection.

I swam toward the electric Slime and hugged it with all my strength.

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“Kyut?”

Even if it was a monster, it was still my savior.

“Thank you for saving me.”

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I had to try it immediately.

I shouldn’t kill it. arena I had to let it live.

Could I modify it so it could survive in the ocean?

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As long as the meaning was correct, the System’s extraordinary technology would automatically translate the code.

According to the instructions, there was no need to study any programming language.

I began examining the tools and the manual.

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Modify F_P1_0000001

Did that mean even someone without specialized knowledge could use it?

Why not try modifying the code?

name = “Savior”

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rank = “D”

attribute = “Water”

Its backstory would be as follows. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

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Because even that data needed a reason to exist.

Its greatest wish was to become friends with Earth’s jellyfish.

Why was I bothering to give it a backstory?

It was a lonely Slime that had crash-landed on Earth one day.

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To establish that its goal was to become friends with jellyfish, I made a few additional modifications.

In an era characterized by an excess of information, data without a purpose was nothing more than garbage.

And I didn’t want the monster that had saved me to end up becoming such garbage.

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I manipulated the keyboard and modified the “hostility” section as follows.

“hostility” = “100”

“affinity” = “100”

It was a piece of data I had discovered while examining the code.

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Kyukyu began swimming toward the jellyfish and behaving affectionately toward them.

Now all that remained was to print it.

“Kyuu!”

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With it, I could also modify monsters and use them as summoned creatures.

To think that the monster that had nearly roasted me alive with an electrical discharge had transformed into such an adorable Slime.

I could even sell them to private security companies or supply them to guilds as rental summons.

It was an extraordinary skill.

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…However, I had barely begun fantasizing about that wonderful future when a message appeared.

—SYSTEM: All assets created using EX-rank skills belong to the System.

I could generate enormous economic value without even getting out of my seat.

“So it’s an exclusive license?”

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But it didn’t matter.

I couldn’t expect a skill beyond the established ranks to come with absolutely no restrictions.

Well, that made sense.

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With this skill, there was no way that could be impossible.

To take revenge on the bastard who had betrayed me.

After all, at that moment, I had only one goal.

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