The 100th Regression of the Max-Level Player - Chapter 104

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The Maxed-Out Player’s 100th Return – Episode 104
104. Yamtti’s Past
“Is this really how you’re going to work, Kim Ye-dam?”
Whoosh—
The report scattered across Kim Ye-dam’s face.
‘Damn it, I spent two hours straight writing that report.’
I wanted nothing more than to spit in my boss’s face right then and there, but I held back.
I had to endure if I wanted to keep my paycheck.
“Go rewrite it.”
“….”
“Why aren’t you answering? Don’t you want to work? Then submit your resignation and leave.”
“No, sir. I’ll rewrite it.”
“Oh, before you go, could you make me a coffee? You can’t write reports, but you make coffee perfectly, don’t you?”
“Yes.”
Kim Ye-dam bit her lower lip hard as she headed to the break room, returning with a cup of coffee she’d spit into.
“Here you are, Director.”
“Thanks. Mmm, it’s delicious as always. Why are you staring blankly? We don’t have time—hurry up and rewrite that report.”
“Yes.”
That day, Kim Ye-dam rewrote the report five more times.
It was the first time I’d ever seriously thought about killing someone.
‘Work keeps piling up while this director bastard just keeps….’
The drink I had after work tasted like honey, but the last night of December felt like hell.
‘New Year’s coming soon, and I’m stuck doing this nonsense. Seriously.’
Even if I wanted revenge on my director, there was nothing a mere employee like me could do.
What strength could I have as a woman? What wealth?
An orphan with a struggling family background, I was barely scraping by on my own.
‘If only I’d won the lottery at a time like this.’
With that thought, I drank and fell asleep, only to wake up in the Grassland.
No, before that—I saw an Angel in my dream.
‘Something about surviving until round 20…’
It sounded so unbelievable that I’m still bewildered.
I thought it was a dream, and when suddenly asked to choose a nickname, I picked Yamtti.
It didn’t have any particular meaning—it was the nickname of a female streamer I’d always admired.
Soon after, an Angel appeared from the sky and spoke.
[If each of you defeats just 100 goblins, you can return to Earth.]
At those words, Kim Ye-dam let out a scoff.
‘What a realistic dream.’
But it didn’t take long to realize the truth.
Green blood and a scene of complete chaos.
Screams echoing everywhere, a devastation reminiscent of war itself.
A sight far too vivid and realistic to be a dream jolted Kim Ye-dam awake.
‘This… this is real. It’s really real.’
Kill one hundred goblins, or die.
I etched that single fact into my mind and struggled to slay the goblins.
But killing a living creature proved far more difficult than I’d anticipated.
Worse still, all I had in my hands was a goblin’s short dagger.
‘What do I do? How can I…’
Then, a rune suddenly blazed through my mind—the very first one I’d received from a random rune fragment.
[Rune of Enchantment]
-Effect: Seduce and dominate humans merely by making eye contact or physical contact with them. Can dominate up to 5 targets, usable only on the opposite sex.
Duration is infinite, and enchanted humans remain loyal to their master. Cannot be used on monsters or Angels.
‘Right, I had this!’
I utilized the rune to dominate a nearby male player.
“Um, excuse me!”
“Yes?”
The method of domination was simple.
The moment I gazed at him with the intent to seduce.
A faint pink light flickered across his pupils, and a message of domination appeared.
[Player ‘Ho Gu-nam’ has been enchanted.]
【Currently Enchanted Humans】
1. Ho Gu-nam (Player)
2. (None)
3. (None)
4. (None)
5. (None)
[Calling a number along with the command word ‘Enchantment Release’ will free the desired human from enchantment.]
Ho Gu-nam stared at me with a vacant expression.
“Is there anything you’d like me to do, Master?”
“Ah…”
My bewilderment lasted only a moment.
“P-please protect me from the goblins!”
“Understood, Master.”
At my urgent command, Ho Gu-nam moved instantly.
Whoosh—
“Shriek!”
“Screech!”
The player bound by the Rune of Enchantment obeyed my every word.
Watching this devoted guardian, I realized I should recruit more.
‘It said I can dominate up to five, didn’t it?’
I began dominating every human within reach.
“Take the hit up front!”
“Block the goblin’s dagger with your body!”
“You there! Guard my side!”
Whatever command I gave, they obeyed.
Once I created human meat shields, catching goblins became far easier.
‘I… I survived. I passed the first round.’
The Enchantment Rune proved just as effective in reality.
“Kim Ye-dam! What time is it and you’re only now coming in…?”
On the day she came to the company to submit her resignation letter, the director who had tormented Kim Ye-dam became her subordinate.
“Crawl like a dog. Apologize to me for what you’ve done wrong.”
“Woof woof, understood. I’m sorry, master.”
The director crawled through the company all day without caring about the stares around him.
The master’s commands were absolute.
‘That superior who always seemed so difficult to deal with—it was so easy to make him submit like this.’
I had long forgotten what sympathy felt like.
Watching the director crawl toward me like a dog, I couldn’t help but sneer.
“Now go ahead and kill yourself. Disappear from my sight.”
“Understood, master.”
I never heard from him again, but I didn’t need to know what happened to the director.
“Haha, haha, hehehehe.”
After that day, my laughter never stopped.
‘Anyone, absolutely anyone can kneel beneath my feet!’
In an instant, I had climbed from the bottom of human existence to its very peak.
The hellish reality I once knew had transformed into a life worth living.
The Enchantment Rune was powerful.
Anyone who met my gaze would grovel and obey, bending to my will.
If I told them to transfer money, they transferred it. If I demanded what I wanted, they gave it without hesitation.
‘Hehe, I was right to quit my job. I can live just fine without it, can’t I?’
I could have as much money as I wanted, and even more than that.
“From now on, this apartment is mine, so you stay in that room and don’t come out.”
“Understood, master.”
I could even break into someone else’s home and live as if it were my own.
‘Seducing one wealthy man is nothing.’
I seduced a man living alone in a 100-pyeong Han River View Apartment.
Living in a tens-of-billions-won apartment as if it were my own, I thought to myself.
‘The world is so unfair. In the same Seoul, some people live in semi-basements while others live in the sky.’
It wasn’t that I was blaming the unfairness.
My position had completely reversed now.
I was simply murmuring to myself that such heights existed in this world.
‘I want to live like this for much longer.’
To achieve that, I had to endure the rounds.
The problem was that the Enchantment Rune didn’t directly help with hunting.
‘If I could dominate monsters, hunting would have been so much easier.’
But it wasn’t bad in its own way.
By bringing along players who could serve as meat shields, I could hunt more safely than anyone else.
Later, I would even monopolize experience points by having humans suppress the monsters first, then finishing them off myself.
‘Turns out it has incredible utility?’
Because of this, I could grow faster than others.
In the third round, I could even change jobs to Tamer.
It was a job where you captured monsters and used them as your limbs—the perfect job for her, who couldn’t seduce monsters.
As Kim Ye-dam continued down this path of growth, one day she belatedly discovered a weakness of the Enchantment Rune.
“W-what are you? Who are you to be in someone else’s home!?”
“Huh?”
Somehow, she had erased the homeowner’s name, and the enchantment broke.
Since she had used the humans once and discarded them, she hadn’t known that the enchantment would break if they were removed from the list.
And she also didn’t know that once someone was enchanted, they could never be enchanted again.
“Ah, so I can’t enchant and release the same target repeatedly.”
After killing the homeowner and disposing of the body by erasing traces, Kim Ye-dam sat on the sofa and pondered.
‘So if I want to keep using a human as my limbs, I shouldn’t carelessly break the enchantment?’
Having discovered this new fact, she became more cautious with the enchantment.
‘It’s a shame there’s only room for five.’
Still, the Enchantment Rune was undeniably broken.
It made the Zone Representative’s authority seem undesirable by comparison.
‘Because enchantment can dominate not just players, but any human.’
Level or job change status didn’t matter.
Even an opponent stronger than me didn’t matter.
If I wanted, I could even dominate the President with enchantment.
With that ability—equal to or far superior to the Zone Representative’s authority—I dominated people.
With the Tamer ability, I used monsters as my limbs.
All living creatures were beneath me.
‘Things are getting boring.’
Then, Kim Ye-dam learned about a cafe called Player Cafe.
‘Players change the world? I like that phrase. And many players have joined.’
Liking the cafe, she decided to take the interview test.
But then she was shocked to learn she had to participate in murder.
But that was all.
For her, who had already committed murder, participating was no difficult task.
‘Hmm, if I play this right, I could dominate the human who founded this cafe.’
After building more trust and being appointed to an executive position, she suggested holding meetings not just through video chat, but also offline.
Finally, she was able to face the human called the Chairman in reality.
“Oh my, you’re the Chairman who founded the Cafe? Hello there?”
“Hello. You must be Yamtti?”
“Hehe, yes. Nice to meet you.”
The moment Kim Ye-dam made eye contact while smiling, she dominated the Chairman.
[Ordinary person ‘Song Jae-gyeom’ has been charmed.]
‘Huh? Wait, an ordinary person?’
Players show up as players in front of me, but an ordinary person?
Bewildered, I had him introduce himself and discovered an absurd fact.
“I am Song Jae-gyeom, the eldest son of Song Baek-hyun, Chairman of the LC Group. I am 30 years old and an ordinary person.”
“Not a Player?”
A paradoxical situation where the founder of a Cafe that only accepts Players is not himself a Player.
It was ridiculous, but for Kim Ye-dam, it didn’t matter at all.
‘Whether he’s a Player or not, I can manipulate the Chairman of Player Cafe however I want!’
It started from that moment.
“Don’t call me master in front of others. Act like you’re an early member just like the other executives.”
“Understood.”
Conspiring with the Chairman and posing as an executive of Player Cafe while controlling it—
Though inferior to Oseong Group, the LC Group was also a massive corporate behemoth worth astronomical sums.
With the eldest son of such a corporation as my slave, I had no need to worry about money.
“But Chairman, why did you create the Cafe?”
“At first, since I couldn’t become a Player, I thought I’d gather Players instead… but now my main purpose is to expand my influence and surprise my father.”
“Ah, so you want to be recognized by your father.”
“Yes. You could say it’s a surprise gift of sorts. But before that, I will kill Ma Gyeong-rok.”
“Ma Gyeong-rok?”
“The eldest son of Oseong Group. He’s the one my father always compares me to. That’s why I must kill him first. If I don’t kill him, I’ll be compared to him for the rest of my life.”
Though dominated by the Charm Rune, it merely increased his affection toward me from zero to a hundred.
These people still had thoughts of their own.
Therefore, they didn’t act like emotionless puppets.
Even under domination like this, the existing resentment and inferiority complex remained intact.
‘He’s been sharpening his blade behind the scenes.’
Kim Ye-dam understood that heart well.
She’d wanted to stab her manager with a knife more times than she could count.
“I understand your intention. I’ll help you kill Ma Gyeong-rok.”
“Really?”
“But when your influence becomes far greater than it is now. When your power becomes so overwhelming that Ma Gyeong-rok has no choice but to apply to Player Cafe.”
Kim Ye-dam smiled wickedly.
“Then let’s kill him.”

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