The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 37

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Episode 37
Episode 37
2.
Back home, Sung-hyun stared at the message for a moment, deliberating.
His classmates were gathering this weekend.
I wasn’t planning to continue school anyway.
But now that I was earning money through the game.
I needed to dedicate myself to the Eternal World.
I’d already signed a contract, after all.
It was only natural to feel a sense of responsibility.
Once you’re being paid, you can’t help but act professionally.
Besides, I had my goals.
There was Helena’s wish to fulfill, and the footsteps of Hindel to uncover.
I had no obligations or duties forcing me to do this.
But I wanted to.
It was fun, and this game had become inseparably bound to me for reasons I couldn’t quite explain.
If I used that as my guiding light, wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Sung-hyun shook his head.
I was getting lost in pointless thoughts.
I was supposed to be thinking about the gathering.
I should just tell them I’m coming.
Leaving school doesn’t mean losing touch with people.
These were friends I’d been quite close with during school.
Even if I quit, friendships are separate from that.
Sung-hyun replied that he would attend.
I should probably see my high school friends too.
I was the first one to be discharged.
Though I hadn’t heard from them yet.
They’ll probably contact me if they get leave.
Thinking he’d see them later, Sung-hyun showered and sat down at his computer.
Apparently, the Rapid rookie video his sister had shown him during dinner was causing quite a stir.
Though honestly, it didn’t feel quite real to me.
Let me check it out.
When Sung-hyun entered the Eternal World community to see the reactions.
He tilted his head in confusion.
[Wow, is this the greatest rookie ever?]
『I mean, what the—lol
I thought the Demon King himself had descended.
And what’s with that AI level?
It doesn’t even seem like they’re giving detailed commands??』
[Upvotes: 193][Downvotes: 3]
[Comments]
-For real, what is this, a Demon Lord or something?
-But seriously, what’s up with this undead AI? It looks special though.
-The undead here are on a different level;;;
-Wouldn’t that be possible if the rank is super high?
-Who’s the highest-ranked undead the Necromancer has summoned so far?
└The Immortal King!
└Was the Immortal King a Legendary rank?
└Yeah, but the Immortal King’s undead aren’t that intelligent lol.
└Then higher than that?
└???: Even higher.
Even posts that were no different from a diary were receiving nearly 200 upvotes.
Sung-hyun couldn’t comprehend it.
‘Hmm, is that so?’
He knew the video turned out well—he’d seen it himself.
He’d watched it before coming here.
It was a vivid, high-quality video, that much was true.
But was it worth this level of enthusiasm?
Sung-hyun couldn’t help but feel that way.
His experience in the Eternal World was barely two days old, after all.
But what everyone was watching in the video was just routine for him.
In another community thread, people were making a fuss about a rising star appearing in the Rapid Guild.
-Wow lol, wasn’t Rapid Guild a one-trick pony? This changes things lol.
-I wanted to tell people to chill about a beginner’s video, but after watching it, I was drooling too.
-Shouldn’t Rapid Guild be producing videos of this caliber on a large scale?
-Yeah, even I think it makes sense?
-Rapid Guild really has an outstanding talent emerging.
-Yuna doesn’t like broadcasting, so she hasn’t uploaded a single video except during live broadcasts.
For Sung-hyun, this was a phenomenon difficult to grasp.
But he acknowledged it.
‘I guess I’m pretty good at this.’
There was no denying it now.
Though he hadn’t realized he could captivate people to this extent.
It was starting to feel real.
Since he didn’t know much about meeting expectations.
He’d leave that to the guild.
All he had to do was follow their lead anyway.
Apparently, the Rapid Guild was holding a meeting about him right now.
He figured he’d just wait for that.
‘My sister and Yoo-jin’s sister will handle the administrative work on their own.’
I don’t know much about that kind of business matter anyway.
It’s best to leave it to those who know well.
With that thought, Sung-hyun logged into the Eternal World.
‘I need to level up quickly.’
I’m only at level 30 now.
There’s still a long way to go.
3.
[Welcome to the Eternal World, another realm and an eternal existence.]
[May fortune favor you, Player ‘Sung-hyun’.]
As I logged in, feeling the familiar welcome message and a sense of weightlessness.
Sung-hyun looked around in confusion.
‘Hmm, something feels off.’
The location was familiar to my eyes.
It was where I had last logged out.
Yet something felt wrong.
A sense of incongruity washed over me.
It wasn’t the feeling I usually got in Sekan Village.
I looked up at the sky.
‘Hmm.’
The weather was clear.
There was nothing that would cause such unease.
The village streets were equally unremarkable, nothing out of place.
Yet I felt it clearly.
Something foreign enveloped this village.
It wasn’t an instinctive sensation.
This feeling came from Helena’s memories.
‘Dark magic?’
I understood it clearly.
This was dark magic.
More precisely, I could sense the lingering traces of dark magic.
But dark magic traces I’d never felt before in Sekan Village suddenly appeared?
Had something happened?
Or perhaps.
‘An event?’
What I had accomplished since arriving in Sekan Village was quite a lot, but mainly capturing Demon Beast Barfur and apprehending a malicious user in Adum Cave.
Those were significant enough to have an impact.
‘Could it be because of Demon Beast Barfur?’
With that thought, Sung-hyun began walking through the streets.
Seong-hyun wanders down the street with that thought in mind.
I lifted my head abruptly, struck by an odd sense of dissonance.
Where my gaze fell, a single raven perched atop the roof.
An ordinary raven at first glance.
But my eyes could not be deceived.
This was no true raven.
From that creature, I sensed the dark aura of dark magic.
I couldn’t be certain, but wasn’t this a raven created through dark magic?
“That’s no ordinary raven.”
The moment I spoke, I readied myself to summon the Underworld and drew the sword of Hindel, the apprentice hero.
Something was approaching—I could feel it.
As I braced myself, the raven’s beak tore open grotesquely.
A human arm erupted from within.
Caw——.
The raven shrieked in agony, as though regurgitating.
Its beak gaped wider, and soon an entire figure burst forth from the creature’s maw.
A bizarre man clad in a black robe and wearing a raven mask.
Yet the dark magical aura radiating from him was truly overwhelming.
For a moment, I felt as though the very air had grown several times heavier.
No—it was no illusion.
With a crushing force that sought to suppress all things, space itself tore open to the man’s left, and a doll was hurled forth.
A beautiful doll with pallid white skin, and cradling it—a woman whose eyes were like bottomless abysses.
Her pupils devoid of focus or light, holding the doll with utmost tenderness, her long hair cascading down—a woman whose very presence was unsettling.
And to the man’s right, a scrap of flesh burst forth, bubbling and proliferating as it took human form.
A man with the appearance of a corpse.
Stitched seams covered his entire body in a human pattern, yet something about him felt inhuman—grotesque beyond measure.
As the three materialized, the concentration of dark magical power pressing down upon the space thickened further, until breathing itself became labored.
Had an ordinary person been present, the weight of the air would have suffocated them to death.
Though the situation called for immediate combat, I released the tension from my sword hand and abandoned my fighting stance.
There was one reason.
‘I sense no hostility.’
An ability I had naturally acquired through the memories and experiences of countless spirits.
It had become easier to discern the true intentions of others.
Especially thanks to Helena’s memories.
Above all, I realized that they had not unleashed their dark magical power as a threat, but rather it was simply their natural, unrestrained state.
They were opponents of truly formidable caliber.
Among those in Helena’s memories, they would rank among the most skilled.
At such a level, fleeing or fighting would be equally meaningless.
I regarded them calmly.
“Overpellis bows its head to the rightful successor.”
“….”
“Uhi-hi-hi-hi! The true master has arrived!!”
Crash—!
The Corpse Man knelt on one knee with reverence and bowed his head, while the Doll Woman lifted her dress slightly alongside her doll and bowed in salute.
And the Corpse Man.
Drove his head straight into the ground.
Should that even count as bowing?
In any case, as they expressed their loyalty and withdrew the dark magic they had wielded upon their arrival, they offered their greetings to Sung-hyun.
Sung-hyun could only stand bewildered.
They spoke of a successor, a true master—he couldn’t pretend not to understand.
When Overpellis came seeking him, he’d had his suspicions.
‘Overpellis was an organization created by Helena’s followers?’
He’d assumed the group devoted to Helena was a secret society.
Yet they were operating openly.
And that place was Overpellis itself.
Now, on his second day in the Eternal World, Sung-hyun had already heard of Overpellis.
After inheriting Helena’s memories and experiences and becoming an Overlord, he’d come to understand it.
The tower of all Dark Mages, a sanctuary one might call it—Overpellis.
And.
‘Wasn’t it said to be the strongest organization currently existing in the Eternal World?’
Unlike other towers divided by discipline, this was where all Dark Mages converged.
It boasted overwhelming military might beyond any other faction.
Black Star, the leader of Overpellis, was even known to rank among the Nine Heroes.
So who would dare suppress dark magic?
Thanks to Overpellis, a society had been created in the Eternal World where Dark Mages weren’t ostracized.
Why would such a supreme organization come seeking him?
“We have come to find the successor and deliver this to you.”
The Corpse Man spoke thus and withdrew a single letter from his breast.
A letter sealed within an elegant black envelope.
Sung-hyun accepted the envelope, which at first glance appeared far from ordinary, and blinked as he regarded them.
The Corpse Man continued.
“It is a letter that Black Star, who oversees our Overpellis, has asked us to deliver.”
“You three came all this way just to deliver this letter?”
“Please refrain from using honorifics with us. We are unworthy of such courtesy.”
“….”
“Uu-er-er-uu-er!”
The silent Doll Woman nodded in agreement, and though he couldn’t understand what the Corpse Man—whose head remained buried in the ground—was saying, it seemed to be words of assent.
Sung-hyun nodded in acknowledgment.
“I see. But you three came all this way just to deliver this?”
“Yes, that is so.”
“…?”
What? They deployed this many people just to deliver a single letter?
Is the letter really that important?
Sung-hyun examined the letter with a somewhat bewildered expression.
The raven-like man bowed his head as if urging me to open it immediately.
It would be awkward to just leave it here.
Sung-hyun promptly opened the letter.
The contents were written in an elegant, antiquated script.
『To my esteemed successor,
Overpalace exists for the purpose of constructing a palace to offer to the Overlord.
Now that a rightful successor has appeared,
we must prepare to present this palace.
Yet though our desire to offer it immediately burns as fiercely as a chimney, there remain things we have not yet obtained from you, the successor.
There are sacred arrangements bestowed by Helena, the previous Overlord and our deity.
The compass enclosed with this letter guides the successor to these arrangements whenever you obtain the appropriate power.
Please do not concern yourself and graciously accept these arrangements.
This humble Black Star humbly conveys this to you, successor.』
“…?”
Isn’t this excessively reverent?
From the letter’s contents, it seems Helena’s arrangements remain uncollected, and without gathering them all, I wouldn’t be a legitimate successor—yet they treat me with such extreme deference.
Sung-hyun grasped the compass, bewildered at how such an item could have fit inside the envelope.
[You have obtained the job-exclusive item, 『Overlord’s Compass』.]
[The 『Overlord’s Compass』 has not yet responded.]
[No job-exclusive Quest has been generated.]
[The first usage condition requires Level 50 or higher.]
‘I see.’
So it’s a tool that generates job-exclusive Quests.
I wondered how I’d find arrangements that even Helena’s memories couldn’t reveal.
So this was the system’s approach.
As Sung-hyun attempted to fold the letter,
I could see the contents hadn’t ended yet.
What’s this? There’s more?
『As a postscript, the successor of the Hero is, unlike you, a resident of this place, I’m told.
It is inconceivable that a mere Hero could ever be a burden to you, successor, but I have included this information in case you might take some interest.』
It was quite unexpected information.
A new Hero successor who is a resident of this place.
In other words,
‘There’s an NPC with the Hero job.’
A Hero.
An NPC possessing the very job I originally sought to obtain.
Curiosity surged within me.
What kind of person could it be?
Sung-hyun waited with such anticipation.
The raven man, observing Sung-hyun, produced something else.
As he did, he spoke with considerable frustration.
“I wish to bestow many things lest they hinder the successor’s growth, yet I lament that I can offer naught but this single meager item.”
“….”
“Uuuuuaaaaaahhhhh!”
Even the Doll Woman beside the raven man, cradling a doll in her arms, watched as tears of blood streamed from the doll’s eyes—she gently wiped them away—while the Corpse Man roared as if wailing in anguish.
I was already grateful for merely the compass.
Yet they apologize for being able to offer only this.
When the gift itself is cause for gratitude.
Sung-hyun regarded them with bewilderment.
The raven man, trembling as if utterly lamenting, handed over a book.
‘A skill book?’
A skill book would be a sufficiently precious gift.
Just recently, upon obtaining Corpse Explosion, I had been overjoyed.
This is more than enough.
[You receive a Legendary-grade skill book, 『Skill Book – Add More』, from Kals, Messenger of Overpalace.]
“???”
No, this surpasses sufficiency entirely.

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