A Veteran of Infinite Buffs - Chapter 75

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Chapter 75

In the other highlight footage, firestorms and blizzards appeared alongside countless natural disasters—acid rain, lightning storms, river floods, and more.
It was clearly a catastrophe of serious magnitude.
Whoooosh!
Pillars of light rose in equal number to the natural disasters, returning to the Lumiere Guild members at each location, and they all began crying out in agony.
If a status window had been visible, I imagined they would have been plastered with every conceivable debuff.
‘So that’s why the fox fur played such a crucial role.’
Since my only acquaintance was Bella, I focused primarily on the footage showing her.
The disaster that befell Bella was a blizzard.
It was clearly of tremendous intensity.
Ice was forming on the accessories she wore, freezing them solid.
But as long as the fox fur was wrapped around her, she was immune to cold damage.
“Vital Sync!”
Bella activated some kind of skill.
From the name alone, it felt like synchronizing one’s own state.
Soon after, a green beam of light began spreading outward from Bella in all directions.
‘So that’s how it feels.’
Only by observing the direction the green beams traveled could I roughly grasp what skill Bella had used.
The green beams were fired toward guild members at a distance.
It was definitely a buff.
And since the result “Quest Success” had already appeared, there was a high probability it was a skill that shared her state with her guild members.
If the focus was on surviving without dying, then Bella’s current state was one where she absolutely would not die.
‘But what about the village?’
I moved on to the next short.
This time, it was a scene of Liam in crisis.
From the Training Instructor to the Knight of Pure Love, all of Liam’s celebrities were there, guiding citizens to safety.
‘The algorithm should be about the Lumiere Guild, but these people are showing up?’
The reason was revealed shortly after.
A mage was flying toward the Fountain at high speed.
‘I wanted to fly like that too. How impressive.’
The mage, draped in a robe that clearly used luxurious materials, belonged to the Lumiere Guild.
“Everyone! Liam is safe! Please gather here!”
Had they brought a way to overcome the current crisis?
Indeed, the mage who had just appeared was emitting a subtle green glow—clearly having received Bella’s buff.
“Long live South Korea! Long live Lumiere!”
After finishing three cheers that made observers cringe, the mage pulled a large orb from their possession.
It was a mysterious sphere displaying all the natural disasters mixed together in a wondrous sight.
“Our time is eternal!”
Zing!
With the mage’s cry, brilliant light radiates from the orb.
The light swiftly suppresses the ominous sky, a chaotic blend of every conceivable calamity.
The feed transitions to the next short.
It shows King Meriam and the Lumiere Guild members in an audience.
The view count approaches ten million.
Simply meeting the kings of countless NPC nations generates such staggering numbers.
However, the audio has been deliberately muted—no sound comes through.
Yet everyone could discern it.
The fact that they had received tremendous rewards.
Perhaps this would trigger a significant upheaval among the Four Major Guilds domestically.

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“Phew.”
After reviewing countless shorts, I grasped the general progression of events.
I learned that the massive hidden quest completed by the Lumiere Guild was world-class—an unprecedented quest with no known clears anywhere globally.
This explained why the absurd in-game time multiplier of 10:1 had been applied as a reward.
The fact that they had set this technology—implementable from the start—as a world quest reward revealed their understanding of how to induce excessive player immersion.
This too must be part of Mason’s grand design.
Ding.
I logged out of the device.
It was to check on the child’s condition.
And I discovered that the child had already awakened.
“Did you sleep well?”
I activated the translator and carefully offered a greeting.
And the child responded.
It was an answer I could understand without even turning on the translator.

-Thank you.

“Yes.”
I still didn’t know what would please the child.
The first thing that came to mind was a doll, but I was uncertain whether dolls represented a painful or pleasant memory for her.
Perhaps showing her the Another Dimension program would be best.
After all, there are many scenes of pure visual beauty and wonder.
Besides, if I’m looking for a channel related to Another Dimension, I can find one without flipping through many options.

—Next up, news from the Underground Demon Realm raid! The Wall of Lamentation, the gatekeeper of the Underground Demon Realm, right? In the end, Seo-gwang succeeded in subjugating Fullcan! Let’s watch the highlight footage!

Conveniently, this time it was footage of Seo-gwang’s exploits.
The boss monster called Fullcan boasted a majestic appearance worthy of a Demon King itself.
It aligned reasonably well with the hero party that the child had drawn vanquishing the Demon King.
“Want to watch this?”
After checking the translator, the child nodded and focused intently on the television screen.

—Attack Team 2! Forward!
—Forward!
—Boom!

Fortunately, the child seemed to enjoy the raid footage.
She was absorbed in it as if entranced by the screen.
While Assault Team 2 pinned down the boss, the screen switched to a group of mages.

—Now’s the moment!

They were familiar faces.
Dark Mages I had exchanged greetings with during the negotiations.

—Soul Cataclysm!
—Annihilation!
—Void Requiem!
—Necrotic Communion!

Had my conquest of that dungeon yielded some tangible progress?
Each spell wielded by the Dark Mages was far from ordinary.
To the point where I couldn’t even begin to guess at their skills.
What was certain was that the boss Fullcan was being swiftly neutralized without mounting any proper resistance.
It was hardly a scene befitting the epithet “Wall of Lamentation.”
“It’s overwhelming, I’ll admit.”
Rather, it was Seo-gwang who felt like the Wall of Lamentation.
Could he truly be called a ranker?
If I were to consider what role I could play in that battle, it would amount to joining the assault team from earlier and drawing the boss’s attention.
That was the extent of it.
“I still have a long way to go.”
Meanwhile, the Child had drawn closer to the screen and was pointing at something.
“Hmm?”
She then spoke toward the translator.

-I’d like to see it more clearly.

Had something caught the Child’s attention?
I picked up the remote and paused the screen, then began rewinding the footage slowly.

-Please pause the screen.

I decided to follow the Child’s instructions.

-A bit further back.

“Understood.”

-Yes. Right here.

The paused screen showed a commander-level figure from Seo-gwang’s forces.
It was someone I didn’t recognize.

-Please zoom in on the gloves.

“Huh? There’s a function like that?”
I examined the remote and found that it indeed had a zoom feature.
The premium television in the hospital room supported even such capabilities.
“It’s actually here. There we go. Zoomed in.”
The child stared at the gloves as though entranced, saying nothing.
At first glance, they were clearly luxurious gloves.
“Wow….”
“…Mm.”
The child was utterly captivated by the gloves.
Did she want to have them, or did she want to make them?
Since I couldn’t yet tell, I decided to wait for her next words.

-Can I try making them?

It was the latter.
But I wasn’t certain.
Whether I should grant the child’s request.
I understood she’d been making similar equipment all this time, but I couldn’t be sure if she did it because she genuinely enjoyed it.
“Do you enjoy making gloves?”

-Yes.

“I can make other things for you too. Is there anything else you’d like?”

-I’m curious about a sewing kit. I’ve only used sewing tools in games before.

“Is that so?”

-You don’t have to buy it for me. I can try making things in the Training Space anyway.

“I see.”
Sewing truly seemed to be the child’s hobby.
The child stumbled as she entered Dimension Gate II Medical.
She seemed to have no strong aversion to making things itself.
Zing—
The child stumbled as she logged into the access device.
Would it be alright to let her go in?
At least the word “Medical” was there, so I held my tongue, but my unease still lingered.

-Medical device connection confirmed. Sharing screen to assist guardian monitoring.

In that instant, the frozen raid scene shifted on its own.
Within a void of nothingness, a child appeared—far more vibrant and alive than any character I’d seen in the game.
It seemed the child was synchronized with the game character.

-Chinese detected. Applying automatic translation function.
-Tailoring mode.

This appeared to be the Training Ground.
The child had seamlessly switched to tailoring mode and was attempting to craft gloves.
It was remarkable—a feature unsupported in Dimension Gate II.

-Material inventory.

An array of leather and fabric unfurled before the child.
Though I couldn’t identify each material, extraordinary specimens caught my eye throughout the collection.
Ordinary leather wouldn’t gleam and shimmer with such lustrous radiance.
There were even translucent materials that appeared to be spiritual leather.
“Are only materials she’s handled before coming to mind?”
That deduction made sense, given that the Eccentric Merchant himself had commissioned this work.
His business was thriving, and his real-world capital was more than sufficient to procure virtually any material imaginable.
“I’m curious about the sales channels for premium crafted items, but Heaven Beyond Heaven would have gathered additional intelligence on that, wouldn’t they?”
The Eccentric Merchant was a man who approached the scale of an Empire rather than merely a Kingdom.
That alone guaranteed the quality of the items.
Quality is only perfected when all conditions are met—superior materials and exceptional craftsmanship.
“Hmm.”
After deliberating at length, gathering materials similar in color to the gloves I’d seen earlier, the child nodded and selected one.
She then cut the leather and swiftly began her work.
Snip. Snip.
The young prodigy’s tailoring process was flawless.
The precision of her work was so meticulous that most adults would struggle even to imitate it.
The cut leather rapidly took on the form of gloves.
“Is this true tailoring? This would be nearly impossible to replicate.”
My heart ached imagining what grueling training she must have endured, yet knowing she had cultivated her own unique skill brought reassurance about her future.
At least she would have no trouble earning her own livelihood.
She might even earn far greater wealth than I could in a short span of time.
It was possible precisely because I had no intention of taking the profits the child earned.

-Hmm. It’s a bit different.

Time flowed swiftly, and before long, evening had descended.
Despite the gloves being nearly complete, the child continued to pout and deliberate.

-No. Let’s make it again.

I compared the gloves the child had crafted with those of Seo-gwang’s raid commander using my phone, but to my eyes, they were nearly identical.
Moreover, with every detail preserved like this, I was certain a Legendary-grade item would emerge.
“Hmm. Are you the guardian of Lee Seo-jun? Ah, there it is on the medical device.”
A Nurse arrived to check on the child’s condition.

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