Chapter 287: Chapter 287

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[You have cleared the 71st floor . ]

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“Hey!”

“Hi!”

Kirikiri and Yong-yong, who had run towards each other shouting the same greeting, grabbed each other’s hands and began to spin around .

How long will they be like that?

The two had been sticking to such a greeting whenever we cleared a floor . It was pleasant to see at first, but now it felt a little strange .

I watched Kirikiri and Yong-yong play for a while, then glanced back . As soon as Hochi came out of the stage, he took out a novel and started reading it .

The old lady and the old man were resting in a small space while Seregia was sprawled on the floor .

Her limbs flung out in different directions . Her figure resembled a discarded doll, rather than a man resting .

“Seregia, lie down straight and rest . ”

As usual, Seregia ignored me . I sighed at her, who seemed to suddenly be deaf and didn’t react at all .

“Do you want a futon to lie on?”

“Yes, please . ” She was good at answering questions like this . I laid down the futon, and Seregia crawled into it . Then, she stopped moving again .

I thought that she’d been living too long as an inanimate object . I was thinking about setting up a tent for her, but now that I thought about it… Nah .

It was obvious that she wouldn’t care anyway .

I walked to Kirikiri . Yong-yong rolled with Kirikiri for a while and then ran away to catch the butterfly Kirikiri had summoned . It seemed that Yong-Yong loved everything he saw for the first time .

“You didn’t summon anything like that back then . ”

“Do you like butterflies?” Kirikiri asked .

Of course I didn’t like butterflies .

“You don’t even like them . ”

“I don’t like them, but still,” I said curtly . It felt like my heart was aching .

Actually, having that heartache wasn’t entirely false . Whenever Kirikiri showed me something I didn’t know about, I felt discomfort, even at the insignificant act of summoning butterflies .

Maybe it was because of the strange power I felt from her . When I cleared the 61st floor and met Kirikiri again, I thought I could get a glimpse at her strength .

It was a miscalculation . Kirikiri had too complicated of a power to see at just a glance .

“If I had brought in butterflies before, you would have killed them,” Kirikiri said in a playful tone .

There was nothing for me to refute . If there were butterflies like that in Kirikiri’s field, I would have thought of catching and dissecting them while she was sleeping or eating cakes . In those days, it wouldn’t have been strange for me to do anything to butterflies .

“The stage was fine, wasn’t it?”

I nodded at her question . The Tutorial stage had been fine . To keep me entertained, at least .

Kirikiri had stopped me from returning to Earth immediately after our reunion, and I was recommended to clear all the stages and return home normally .

It was a result of Kirikiri’s position as a manager who had to manage the Tutorial .

Instead, Kirikiri told me what I could obtain by clearing the stages: stage information, the Tutorial’s stage-clearing compensations, and Kirikiri’s advice .

All of these were rewards that would help me . I asked the others for their understanding and decided to clear the Tutorial before going out .

There was no hurry to go back to Earth .

The 61st floor, which I wanted to escape from, had already been cleared out . Moreover, as long as I cleared the 61st floor, there was no reason to be reluctant since no other gods could watch my surroundings .

Instead, it was good that Hochi and Yong-yong had had time to adjust to a new world before we went back to Earth .

Even if I got stuck in a unique stage like the 61st floor, I could just leave anytime . Kirikiri told me that a situation like the 61st floor would not happen anymore .

Above all, targeting the Tutorial stage itself was fine . It felt weird to have come up this far . I was clearing the stages out as if I were taking a walk in an amusement park without any hardships .

Yong-yong, who was happily chasing butterflies over there, was the evidence . Yong-yong enjoyed visiting the Tutorial stages . Even on a stage that could give a mental shock, Yong-yong just laughed at it and finished it .

Somehow, I felt betrayed by that sight .

“They were meant to be hard for human beings . ”

“Because it wasn’t a level of difficulty designed for humans in the first place . ”

However, it was a difficulty level that humans could choose . It was the level of difficulty that didn’t consider the human being who came in . It was a level of difficulty where even a more powerful being than a human would suffer .

“Well, most gods don’t care about humans . ”

Yet, the gods were worshipped by humans .

It would be the same even if there were a God of Philanthropy or Love .

“Correction . There’s no such god that cares about humans . ”

There’s no such god, huh? At least there was no such god in the Pantheon .

Kirikiri looked at me all of a sudden . “Oh, that reminds me . You cried a long time ago because it’d been a long time since you saw one . ”

Talk about changing the subject . Why was Kirikiri suddenly talking about me crying when we were talking about gods?

At that moment, someone cut in .

“Crying? Who?” asked Hochi, who had just arrived .

Kirikiri pointed at me with her finger .

“Him?”

“Yes . ”

Hochi looked at me and muttered, “This guy cried? Why don’t I remember anything like that?” A shocked expression was plastered on his face . Hochi looked as though he had peeped into the secret of his birth .

Why? I didn’t put it in his memories, so he couldn’t have known about it .

“Kirikiri, would you like some cake?”

“I want to eat cake!”

I bought a cake .

Kirikiri ignored Hochi and rushed toward the cake . Hochi soon went to Kirikiri, who was eating a cake, having lost interest in the question of his memories .

“Can I have some too?”

“No!” Kirikiri exclaimed indignantly .

Hochi made a deal to share his fork in exchange for lending it, and Kirikiri accepted the agreement on the condition that he would not touch the only cherry on the cake .

Soon, Yong-yong joined forces and ate the cake, while the cherry which Kirikiri had treasured, crept into Seregia’s mouth, who had crawled there with blankets around her body .

Kirikiri was in tears and asked me to buy her another cake, but I didn’t buy her one .

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“The gods are going crazy . Who would have expected a new personality to pop out of the Tutorial . There’s a movement to make Tutorials in other Hundred Gods Temple’ dimensions, and there’s a rumor that they’re going to make each Tutorial have only one difficulty: Hell . ”

It was a mess . The Tutorial, to which the Earth belonged, was limited to the dimensions managed by the Hundred Gods Temple . Therefore, the Hundred Gods Temple participated in the design of the Tutorial and shared the right to participate .

That was until the other gods of the Pantheon intervened .

“What happened to the Hundred Gods Temple?”

“Nothing bad happened . The Pantheon Gods compensated the Hundred Gods Temple,” she said lightly .

It probably costs a considerable amount of money to act beyond the interference of the system and constraints . All the Pantheon Gods who crawled onto the 61st floor must have paid the Hundred Gods Temple, the original owners of the Tutorial .

I didn’t know the price, but it wouldn’t have been less than the apostles I had captured on the 61st floor .

Damn, this makes me mad . Are there any possible incentives?

I had quenched my curiosity, but there were still two questions left . I decided to ask the first question .

“Tell me the exact difference between the Hundred Gods Temple and the Pantheon Gods . They seem the same, and sometimes, different . ”

The concept of the Pantheon Gods itself appeared after I was trapped on the 60th floor .

It was the Pantheon Gods who had contacted Lee Yeon-hee after I was isolated on the 60th floor . Of course, I didn’t know much about them . I just thought they were gods from a different dimension .

“You can say that the Pantheon is a complete gathering of all the gods under the system . There are hundreds of groups under the Pantheon . ”

“Do all these gods belong to Hundred Gods Temple as well?”

“No, there are more gods who belong only to the Pantheon . ” Kirikiri added that there were only a few gods in the Hundred Gods Temple .

The Pantheon itself was a restraint that bound the gods with system constraints . There was another restraint called Hundred Gods Temple .

I wondered if the Hundred Gods Temple’s concept was not a private organization of gods, but a secondary restraint by bringing together exceptionally dangerous gods . It was all the more so because the gods who made up the Hundred Gods Temple had completely different personalities, let alone similar tendencies .

The presence felt by most of the Pantheon Gods on the 61st floor was quite different from that of the Hundred Gods Temple .

It was time for my second question . The gods of the Pantheon had confirmed that I had achieved a level of divinity almost comparable to theirs .

“There’s a movement to make a new Tutorial after they found out about my powers?”

It sounded like they wanted to find a new personality by making a Tutorial . It was hard to understand, considering that the reason the gods wanted a Tutorial challenger was usually to get the apostles .

“They can still get apostles with the lure of making them a subordinate-god [1] . If it doesn’t work, the apostles will be forced to eat dog-shit . ”

Is that so?

The words ‘eat dog-shit’ instantly made sense . The gods must be rejoicing . If they put ordinary humans in there and even one god came out of every 10,000 people, they might think it’s worth the try .

The gods, in general, wanted power .

When the source first appeared, they heard that it helped me achieve my powers . Even those who had already achieved their own wanted to gain more power from my source .

In the stage where the source appeared, the stage ended with the involvement of the Hundred Gods Temple . Perhaps the dispatched god was meant to retrieve the power of the source .

There was no way that the gods, who were so covetous of the source, would not covet other people’s divinity .

“It’s going to be a brutal struggle . ”

“I suppose so . ”

However, the Earth’s Tutorial aimed to help humans through Easy, Normal, and Hard Difficulty to solve the Earth’s crisis . However, if the challenger’s only purpose were to achieve his or her prestige, the story would be different .

Every challenger summoned as a Tutorial Challenger would be forced to face a hellish situation .

“Even the species with powerful powers from the beginning, unlike humans, will face such difficulties that they cannot easily break away with their abilities . You’re the only successful one we’ve had so far . ”

And I had gained divinity by breaking through a difficulty that was generally never cleared . The challenge of the new Tutorial would only have one level of difficulty, and that was Hell .

No matter how powerful it was, it was difficult to clear it . It was someone else’s business, but it wasn’t beneficial for me either .

“I don’t feel very good . ”

Kirikiri nodded . “There are still gods who are looking for you . Of course, I can’t deliver their message directly to you, but they keep asking if I can arrange a conversation . ”

“I don’t want to talk to them, so ignore it all . ”

I didn’t want to be another God’s apostle now . There was nothing to gain, not even experience .

“Have you asked all your questions?”

I nodded at Kirikiri’s question .

Kirikiri said she would grant my wish as promised when I cleared the 61st floor, and we reunited . I told her to give me some time . The wish that Kirikiri had promised had come to mind after a long time .

I’d really thought about what to ask for . But for the last time, I wanted to think about it a little more .

I wanted to clear the stages, check some more information for Kirikiri, and tell her my wish . Then, I’d clear the 71st floor .

Ten more floors were cleared to earn information, and all necessary information had been grasped by it .

“What wish should I grant?”

Somehow Kirikiri, who was pretending to be serious, felt like a mountain god . A rabbit and a mountain god, it was a combination that didn’t make sense .

But she could grant my wishes, I who was something akin to a god .

“End this Tutorial . ”

Tutorial 71st Floor (1) End

Note from Imagine:

[1] Subordinate-God most likely means something like becoming a Saint (however this is just my theory on what it means, feel free to interpret it anyway you want to for now as i doubt we’ll get an explanation on what exactly it means)

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