I Became the Snow Woman I Made

1 – Snow Woman Reborn

[58:30]

I entered the countdown. There is only about an hour left. It was necessary to pull up the final spurt. A little bit of tension in his sweaty hands.

-Giik…!

A black mass that would give you goosebumps just by looking at it on the screen let out a howl. It’s okay now that I’m used to it, but at first it was quite scary. In front of the catastrophe stood a slender beauty with blue-white hair.

The woman acted according to the movement of the mouse. Naturally, it was a playable character I controlled. I looked at the back of the girl I was attached to for a while, then entered a command.

I had to watch it later, and now I had to hurry. The final battle against the impending disaster. I’ve already seen it several times, and the heartbreaking music played along with the boring cutscenes. I was proficient enough to break even with my feet if it was a normal character, but this time I had to be serious.

Because there is not much time left, and the character selected for this game set was Quilière, who has low combat ability. It was thanks to the various high-ranking items collected from other editions that they came this far. Of course, even now, all kinds of buffs were applied.

Saaa-

When Snow Maiden Quilière uses one of her combat skills, Snowstorm, her battlefield is covered in heavy snow and fog. As a skill that changes the climate, it is classified as great magic, but it is a skill that is treated as trash because it has no killing ability unless it is a miscellaneous mob.

The only thing to praise is its scope and the atmosphere it creates. Compared to the great mage’s ultimate magic, Blizzard, it was infinitely inferior, but I was satisfied. It’s a skill that was created for that purpose in the first place.

Still, it’s a pity when a quick battle is needed. I have no choice but to resort to expedients. Ignoring the blizzard, I evaded the catastrophic counterattack by transforming into snow and took out a wand-type equipment from my inventory. It was a mythical piece of equipment that always revolved around meteor-like lights.

“…That’s embarrassing.”

If you see rankers you know on a daily basis, you must have ridiculed yourself for using mythical level weapons to defeat just one final boss. It was quite embarrassing as a body called a deceased person, but there was no way. Time left… Before the release of ‘Four Seasons War II’, another move was needed to break it.

In this extremely free game, users could create their own characters to play. Early members and die-hard fans like me have the experience of creating hundreds of characters, and among them, Snow Woman was the masterpiece that I made at the end.

A character only for Rooktall considering the infinitely lowered game difficulty due to the user’s rapid growth. It was an avatar that only caught the appearance and atmosphere without thinking about the bar skills or time attack.

Of course, the character setting was also focused on that, so it was not very suitable for capture. Basic stats as well as combat skills were very poor, so it would take half a day to catch it only with the original base. Of course, I am confident in the control, so if I can catch it, I can catch it.

“But I don’t have time.”

So I’m sorry, but please die unilaterally. With that kind of heart, I hit it with the fraudulent skill built into the wand, and soon the guy picked it up and died.

-Kieek!

Disaster dissipates with a majestic final boss and an irritating death. Seeing it made me a little sad. Still, the name is the final boss, so I should have played with it a little longer before killing it. I was in a hurry, but after I caught it, I had quite a bit of time left.

After the disaster disappeared, the dark red screen returned to its original position. Under the sunny weather, I saw a brightly shining drop item. Following the instinct of a gamer, he quickly packed his things. Since I’ve already caught a lot of names, all of them were familiar names, but only the last one was different.

[Apocalypse of Disaster]

“Huh?”

I stopped for a second and looked at it. An old book reminiscent of an ominous magic book. It was the first item I saw while playing the Four Seasons War. Was there anything like this among the drops of the final boss, Black Calamity?

There was still information that I didn’t know existed. In a moment of excitement, I picked it up and checked the description window.

〈Apocalypse of Disaster〉

·Rating: ?

·Ability: Disasters will come to an end if you give out something that can’t be replaced with anything.

·Explanation: Equivalent exchange, the first principle of all magic. The truth does not distinguish degrees and apostles.

“Oh…”

What nonsense is this? The rating was also a question mark, and there was not a single part properly explained. At first glance, it may seem like he is scorning the users, but I was rather happy. This game encourages users’ direct participation and exploration, so the better the item, the more vague the explanation.

What it was and what it was used for was something gamers had to figure out. Well, most of Koreans ask the community how to use it because of the nature of Koreans who want to do things quickly, whether it be work or games. It was early rankers like me who found out the use of those things without any hint.

I wanted to relive those days and investigate this slowly, but unfortunately I didn’t have time. This is a high-grade item from anyone’s point of view, and items above a certain level cannot be linked with ‘Four Seasons War II’. It must be a limiting condition for the balance of the game.

“Can’t you?”

Since I can’t research it leisurely, I decided to try it out right away. There was only one way to link items to the next work, and that was when using an item that had a permanent effect on the character itself.

There are very few items like that, so the probability of this happening is extremely low, but since it’s something you can’t use anyway, there’s no harm. Immediately applied the apocalypse to the snow woman Quillier. The ominous library permeated into ashes.

“…What is it?”

But nothing happened. When I checked to see if it had been discontinued, Apocalypse had apparently disappeared. It seemed that there was some kind of usage condition.

“Or is it a trigger condition?”

It is not visible, but it is applied and activated in certain situations. Various hypotheses come to mind, but there was no means to prove them right away. Anyway, there was no response and the item disappeared, so the steam leaked out.

[05:48]

I immediately turned my attention to the remaining time. In about 5 minutes, the sequel to my life’s work, The Four Seasons War, will be released. We’ve already got the data, so we can start as soon as it’s released.

“Haa…”

As soon as I thought that, my heart started beating again. It was my recent wish to buy a brain that hadn’t played the Four Seasons War, but isn’t that realized in a different way? I couldn’t calm down at the thought of feeling the excitement of the first time I fell for it again.

Four Seasons War

Four Seasons

This title, which appeared like a comet several years ago, recorded a feat of selling four million copies in just two weeks. Considering that the game company was a newcomer with nothing built up, it was a surprising achievement.

If I had to point out the reason for the box office success, most would probably point out the extreme degree of freedom, and I was like that too. Actually, the story itself is nothing special.

As the title suggests, the Four Seasons War is set in a chaotic continent that has been engulfed in war throughout the four seasons, and the main stream is to subdue the ‘black calamity’, the cause of the chaos. A chaotic world where it is easy for heroes to be born. In the Age of Warlords, players must defeat disaster by joining forces with heroes appearing everywhere.

If the player does not intervene, the continent will be destroyed by disaster, and the end will be as it is. Therefore, users have to use their own brains to grow efficiently and increase their strength.

“There were so many things we could do.”

Here, the player could be anything. In the first place, users were able to design and set up characters to play themselves, and it was possible to touch various additional elements as well as how to play the game. For example, creating non-existent NPCs or twisting some of the storylines.

This uniqueness has reached the level of creating a new genre called ‘Role Making RPG’ in the sense that players have gone beyond the realm of playing a given role in a work like other role-playing games.

It was truly an unprecedented work, and of course it mass-produced a lot of disabled people like me. There are so many things you can do that you never get tired of it, and even those who left for a while would come back as soon as a new meta came up.

“Looking back, a lot of things happened.”

I stared at the screen, reminiscing about the past. The three games that reached the ending after eliminating the disaster were back to the settings window. Three characters were standing on a square board named ‘109 Set’.

The person occupying the center is, of course, the first character, Quillier the Snow Woman. Those located on either side of her were secondary characters applied to the drugstore with a licorice-like feel. In addition to the main character controlled by the player, this game allowed two secondary characters to be introduced.

Even if it is a second, it has its own setting and background, so it can be an ally or an enemy. The two characters I applied to this edition were concepts I had played before, but unfortunately I didn’t meet them.

I didn’t have time to recruit co-workers because I had to complete my own mission to finish the game in one day as a finishing touch before release, and prior to that, I didn’t even bother to meet because it was nonsense to spend amicably with my co-workers due to Quilière’s setup. Because.

“It was quite fun playing as them.”

I looked at the two men and women full of personality. A lonely vampire and a silent one-man army, the Dark Knight. The former was taken from a vampire legend that everyone knows, and the latter was created out of a brief obsession with a romance like a quiet strongman. My taste seemed to be revealed in that all three, including the snow woman, exuded an aura of loftiness that I did not know why.

If I hadn’t been smitten with the setting of a snow woman while researching folk tales, I would have continued to come up with a different concept. After making Quilière, for some reason, I was not interested in other characters.

“Is this, love…?”

I was surprised when I looked at the time while talking nonsense. Now we are really close.

[00:23]

Every time the number changed, my heart skipped a beat. Apparently, the background of the Four Seasons War II is a thousand years before the time of the Four Seasons War. It’s a sequel and a prequel, so what else will happen here?

Since the subtitle has the sentence ‘the birth of a disaster’, is it trying to dig deeper into the disaster? Whatever it is, as long as it’s fun, it doesn’t matter as a gamer.

[00:00]

“Let’s go!”

When the time came, I clicked Run with a superhuman response. How about it, this is the physicality of a deceased person in a major game. No one responded, but instead a system window popped up.

[The game starts.]

[I found the play record for ‘War of the Four Seasons’. Do you want to link data?]

[Y/N]

I already knew this, so I clicked Yes without any hesitation. My vision went black as well as the screen went black instantly. I have no memory after that.

Perhaps a brief headache, her head throbbed. For some reason, I felt like my body was floating, so I wonder if it was dizziness. She gently touched her forehead and opened her tightly closed eyes.

“……”

It was a pure white world. The wallpaper in my room, which had been yellow since I hadn’t been there for a long time, was nowhere to be found, and there was something pure white in front of my eyes that I doubted whether it should be called a wall. Maybe because I was so surprised, I froze in an instant.

“What is this…?”

She said to herself, but as soon as she heard the voice, she stiffened once again. A beautiful voice that can hardly be attributed to a man. There was not even a trace of my thick voice, which had been with me all my life.

It made no sense. Does it make sense that my voice, which I heard just a moment ago, could change so quickly? Besides, even if it changes, it should change in moderation. It was absurd to say that such a voice came from a man. My gaze, which had been spinning around to grasp the situation, was nailed to one place like a magnet.

“……!”

There was a mirror. A full-length mirror that looks classy without any special patterns is unlikely to be in my room, but that wasn’t the problem. An all-too-familiar woman reflected in the mirror. A woman as white as snow, Snow Maiden Quilière.

“…What is this?”

The voice of the heavens shook my ears and the headache struck again. She raised her hand to touch her forehead, then stopped abruptly. Hands like drawing paper without a single blemish. My hand, which had been carelessly rolled and calloused and rough, was not there.

She stared at the hand, which was pale beyond pure white, but did not show any veins, then moved her gaze. I looked straight at the snow woman in the mirror. Rolling her eyes, moving her hands, she acted the same as her puppeteer.

The series of shocks left me speechless. He froze for a while, then spat out.

“Is this, by any chance, ice water…?”

In subculture, there are genres such as possession and reincarnation that are not formally classified, but are widespread. I’m not bragging, but I was very detailed about that, and thanks to that, I was able to accept the situation at hand relatively quickly.

“Game Possession… Besides, TS…?”

Of course, it wasn’t without shock. Who wouldn’t be taken aback when he was suddenly drawn into a game while enjoying a normal game and even changed his gender? As proof, my intestines were twisted and my heart was beating like crazy.

“But it doesn’t show.”

My heart is like an active volcano that has just started erupting, but the snow woman reflected in the mirror… I didn’t move at all. His unwavering eyes looked more than cold and ruthless, and even though he was in a very tense state, he did not break out in a cold sweat. The coolness that is reminiscent of a truly frigid climate.

Even if you get wrecked in the desert, don’t you sweat a drop? Because I was in distress, I blinked my eyes at an inadvertent thought.

“Come to think of it, where am I now?”

I jumped up and looked around again. This place was definitely inside a building, and it was a place full of pure white that seemed to imitate snow. If I fell into the game by pressing start, if I possessed the snow woman I created in the process and the settings were applied.

Perhaps this was a place I knew. The Four Seasons War II shares the same worldview as its predecessor. I went straight to the window and poked my face out, and the view outside came in at a glance. I expected it, but I couldn’t stop my mouth from opening.

“Wow…”

It was a snowfield. How else can I describe this sight other than the expression of snow-covered land. Just a strong wind and various snowflakes were blowing over the pure white, monochromatic world. A sharp wind that was incomparable to what I felt on Earth hit my face.

“It’s cool…”

But nothing happened. No matter how you look at it, it looks as sharp as flesh, but to me it was just soft. I gently put my hand on my cheek. Snow Woman’s hands must be very cold, but she doesn’t feel anything. Before that, in this weather, it is normal for the whole body to be frozen, but I was fine.

“It looks like the settings have been applied.”

There were several settings in the Snow Woman Quilière that I painstakingly created. First of all, being a snow woman, having cold immunity is a natural item, and the list of other appearances and minor settings is endless, so just pick out what you need right now.

“Extremely minimal emotional expression.”

This has already been confirmed. No matter what you mean, you can tell by the fact that the expression on your face hardly changes. Originally, I wasn’t very good at poker faces.

“I live in the snow castle of the snowfield.”

Like the above, this was also a fun setting for the character’s atmosphere. It’s just a character in the game anyway, so there was no way the emotional expression itself could be reflected realistically, and there was no such thing as putting the latter in the castle from the beginning because it shouldn’t harm the balance.

But to think they are done this way. There is only one place called Snowfield in the Four Seasons War. A land of extreme cold where humans cannot live, located in the far eastern part of the continent. As a snow woman, of course, I wanted to live in a place like this, so I decided on a place, and I added that I live in a snow castle with a bit of a snow queen feeling.

“The snowball rolled…”

Anyway, with this, it turned out that the place I was in was a new building called Snow Castle. Somehow, the road seen from the window was far away. The view from the castle made sense.

It’s a different world trip, so I’m glad I didn’t get thrown on the road. Even though I fell in the extreme cold, I don’t mind because of the cold immunity, and I don’t think I need to film a wild survival film because I have my own house.

If there is one thing I’m worried about, it’s being attacked by someone, but I didn’t have to worry too much about that either. The snowfield is an unexplored place where even most monsters cannot live, so no group of different races, including humans, live there. That doesn’t mean that no one buys it… But given the setup, it’s okay not to worry about ‘that’.

“Then what should I do now?”

One side of my heart is still restless, but my heart suddenly calmed down when I decided that there was no immediate danger. The fact that she had become a woman who hadn’t even thought of it stabbed her stomach, but she didn’t take it seriously because it was a series of shocking situations.

I’ll think about it later.

“First… Let’s take a tour of the castle.”

I only said that I live in the Snow Castle, but I did not describe in detail what was inside the castle. So, this process can be said to be essential. I don’t know how long it will last, but it’s a house I’ll live in for a while, so I had to figure out the structure.

After making a decision, he moved right away. It seemed that I was currently in the middle between the middle and upper floors, so I went up the spiral staircase at the bottom. Since it is a high castle, I wondered if the core facilities would be on top.

And that idea was right. As he made his way through the expansive castle and its decorations, he noticed a large door on one side. He carefully pushed it away, and immediately knew it was a warehouse. Things in the warehouse were messed up, but my eyes were shining.

“This is the Pegasus hairpin! This is the heavenly music box!”

This is because I immediately figured out what they really were. They were all ‘items in the game’ in my memory. However, the number of them was inexhaustible. It seemed like it would overflow even after filling the enormous warehouse up to the ceiling.

“Could this be linked to my inventory?”

It seemed that way. It’s all things I know, and unless it’s a collection of a deceased person like me, there can’t be a lot of things like this. I clicked yes when asked if I would like to link the data. Excited at the thought of being able to touch my old collection, I rummaged through this and that.

After looking around for a while, I got tired and sat down. I was happy because there were many items, but on the other hand, I was also very disappointed. I guessed it, but it seems that the high-grade items are not linked. There were sparsely useful items, but I couldn’t find anything really good.

“It’s a pity, but well… I have to be content with this much.”

Even this much is enough. If you tried to eat too much raw, it was the law to pretend. Shaking off the dust and regret, I got up and started the investigation again. The castle had its own kitchen, as well as living facilities such as cleaning tools and a bathroom. It was clear who made it, a very flexible person.

Then, it was time to reach the upper floor, which was barely left above. Opening a door, I froze with my eyes wide open. It was an amazing space.

“…A dressing room?”

Dressing room equipped with various clothes of various colors. The room was filled with plain or colorful clothes covered with clothing covers to prevent stains from burning. I didn’t care much about that in itself, but my attention was directed to the identity of the costume.

Those were the costumes I collected after many years of hard work.