Black Tech Internet Cafe System

“It’s simple in the beginning.” Having finished his instant noodles at the counter, Mr. Fang was walking toward his computer. He glanced at her when passing by and said, “This is the tutorial for new players; it teaches you some basic controls, and there is a boss for new players. It’s simple.”

“Is it so? I have to fight my way to the later stages if I want to challenge something difficult?” Kellybel looked displeased, wondering why she couldn’t directly skip to the more difficult stages…

Anyway, she had to find the easy boss for new players first.

Walking out of the Cemetery of Ash, she saw a narrow mountainous path. The terrain was simple but very dim.

If she didn’t venture to the branch paths, she could easily find the path out of the cemetery. The tall and thick city walls and the huge stone arch gate guarded by a few deserted corpses formed the portal leading to the outside world.

Walking through the gate, Kellybel saw a big round square. In the center of the square was a giant wearing heavy armor which appeared to be made of neither gold nor stone. Right now, this giant was half-kneeling.

Even when half-kneeling, this giant was much taller than her.

It was silent as if it was dead.

However, the black tentacle-like things on its back seemed to be moving.

“Sir, I can go out after defeating this thing, right?” Seeing Mr. Fang sitting not far from her, Kellybel put down her virtual reality headset and called out to him.

“Right! That’s Iudex Gundyr,” Mr. Fang called out.

Many years had passed, but Mr. Fang still remembered the full name of the boss in the tutorial.

“How do I fight it?” Kellybel looked at it. “Should I pull out the sword from its chest?”

After asking that question, she slowly pulled the coiled sword from the giant’s chest with all her strength.

The giant seemed to recover its senses and slowly stood up. Kellybel could see its pitch-black and distorted demonic face and the black and cold eyes behind the grey helmet that seemed to have come from an abyss.

When it lifted the huge halberd that was almost six meters long, the warrior who seemed to have come from the ancient times and had survived many horrifying battles came back to life.

Kellybel’s heart lurched.

Gurdyr was nimbler than she expected and brandished his huge halberd, creating whistling sounds.

Looking down at her slim sword that was as small as a tooth pick, her ragged sorceress’ robe, and the small round shield which had been smashed to an unrecognizable shape, Kellybel was petrified…

With a scream, she ran toward the gate that she walked through but found that it was sealed by magic!

She hammered at the gate wildly!

Gundyr bent its knees a bit and leaped up into the sky like a cannon ball. Then, it struck down its 6-meter-long halberd with vicious force!

Boom!

…

– Ten seconds later –

A cold corpse lay on the ground, and a line of bloody words appeared on Kellybel’s screen: [You died.]

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-Ten hours later-

Having played games for an entire day, Mr. Fang stretched and stood up to get something to eat.

He glanced at Kellybel’s screen when walking past here. “??? You’re still in the novice village?”

Kellybel was at a loss for words. While gritting her teeth, she turned her head and glared at Mr. Fang with murderous spirit.