My Disciples Know That I Am Strong

Episode 1. Gathering Heroes (1)

[Congratulations. I defeated the Demon King!]

I looked at the long-awaited phrase. How much time did you put in just to see this phrase.

My fists were clenched with emotion, and wind from my nose naturally leaked.

I finally cleared ‘The Three Warriors of Pretium’.

Watching the ending credits, which indicate the ending of the game, gave me a strong sense of accomplishment.

“Wow, I finally woke up. At las! Really!”

I really don’t know how many hundreds of hours I’ve spent just to see the ending of the game.

Considering that the average playing time of game reviews was less than 100 hours, I was intoxicated with a sense of accomplishment while realizing how bad I was at playing games.

Even though each character was given the highest level and all the artifact parts were collected, it took up a lot of time because there were several quarters that required control.

But in the end, I cleared it, and I felt like I could get a good night’s sleep tonight.

“hahahaha~ After all, playing for a long time is a bit tiring. Let’s get some sleep, then wake up and do some homework.”

After loosening the stiff muscles with stretching, it was the moment to end the game.

After all the ending credits went up, one sentence came to my mind.

[…] … Updating.]

“Update?”

This is my first time seeing this.

As soon as I became curious about the unfamiliar phrase, the fatigue I felt until just now completely disappeared.

[‘Hard mode’ update is complete. Please restart the game.]

“Hard mode?”

The game automatically turns off, and the desktop with a picture of nature appears as usual.

“I don’t think there was a hard mode in the review either. What?”

I was puzzled and restarted the game.

At that moment, a strong light came out from the monitor and enveloped the room.

“What, what?!”

I closed my eyes at the intense light and passed out.

* * *

“…… Where are you?”

Open your eyes. A huge tree was protecting me from the sun. After getting up, I looked around.

“You were at home until just now?”

With the far-high blue sky, a panoramic view for the first time caught my eye.

“Huh? This seems to be the garden I’ve always been to. What?”

I always come to the garden…… ?

No, it’s the first time I’ve seen it…….

“Ugh!”

I grabbed my head with a sudden headache.

My head is confused. Things I knew seemed to be jumbled up at random.

A minute passed like that.

The pain subsides gradually. I’m trying to get a sense of what it is.

My name is Hangyul Lee. A college student playing the game Pretium’s Three Heroes.

And my name from another memory is Prause.

A commoner who lives in Sekul, a village in the southern province of the Empire.

The memories of the two bind the mind.

I was confused for a moment at the sudden doubling of information, but that also gradually decreased.

“This is Sekul’s famous hill, where Sekul’s children often come.”

Sekul. It is a very familiar town name. Where did you hear

Looks through your head and comes up with a word.

A village under the capital, Pretium.

Pretium? Is that the pretium from the game?

Ah, no way.

I can’t believe it. Can not believe it.

The sound of being possessed in a game was something I had only seen in novels. It couldn’t have happened in real life.

However, the view, far from modern, seemed to tell us that this was reality, even if we didn’t want to believe it.

Moreover, the more the jumbled memories were gradually organized, the more he forced me to accept that this was reality.

“Damn it, what happened?”

I remember that when I restarted the game saying it was a hard mode update, a light so strong that I couldn’t see it came out.

But since then my memory has been cut off.

“You want to experience it yourself like a hard mode, what is it? Do you mean to meet and nurture the warriors in person and defeat the demon lord?”

It’s not much of a family.

A game should be satisfied with a game, what a real experience.

“Do it in moderation and send it back! What are you doing?!”

“Ah, Mr. Prause!”

As I’m screaming into the air, someone is calling me.

“You were here today too.”

“…… Merry?”

I unknowingly recited the other person’s name.

Merry was a girl who lived in the same secul as Praus. Although she was a girl who had not yet reached the coming-of-age ceremony, she had a modest and mature atmosphere. She must have said that she will have a coming-of-age ceremony next year.

“What happened?”

[Skill [Survival] Is activated.]

[The skill [Expression Management] Is always activated.]

Skills…… ?

She must have been taken aback by the sudden appearance of the hologram, but for some reason she was very used to it.

As Mary approached, she knelt down. Shaking her little shoulders, he planted her head on the ground.

“Ugh! Ph, Mr. Prause… ! Poetry, gaze. Sight!”

“Gaze?”

“Heo Eok! Huh!”

The hologram text disappears when I turn my head. Only then did Mary exhale heavily.

“I am really tired. Are you wary of just approaching me? Well, you’ve gotten a lot more control than before, right? In the past, I fainted every time I spewed out life…….”

She wiped the cold sweat with the back of her hand and smiled kindly.

“That means that Mr. Prause has opened his heart a lot, right?”

“…… I ask again. What happened?”

It was a very hard and heartless tone.

The reason for the strange way of speaking seemed to be because of my facial expression management skills.

The expression management skill was a special skill that did not show emotion under any circumstances. It was a trivial skill that seemed like it could be used when maintaining a poker face on a gambling board, but I couldn’t turn it on or off as I intended.

It was unconditionally always activated.

In the case of the life skill, it was the ability to sprinkle life to all living things in my field of view, and it seemed to activate just by looking at it. It seemed to have characteristics proportional to the mana in the body.

I couldn’t figure out what kind of character Prause was. I wondered why he only had such trivial skills.

“You say that every time, so you can’t even get along with the villagers.”

‘Now is not the time to worry about that.’

“Don’t worry. I have no intention of making friends with the villagers.”

…… ? What is it, this sloppy tone.

I was taken aback when words that were completely different from my thoughts came out.

“Ah, how is it? It’s already been 19 years since you lived in the village.”

Mary leans her back against a tree. I glanced at her and then looked up at her sky.

Surely, as she said, tracing my memory, this character called Prause was a native of Sekul Village.

However, no characters named Merina Prause appeared in the in-game SEKUL.

Sekul was an important area used in an episode where a large-scale battle was fought with the demonic corps commander.

If he was an important person in a place like that, he wouldn’t have been marked as villager A or villager B.

In a nutshell, it meant that the characters Prause and Mary were not related to the main characters at all and were not even extras.

Well, a character like this must have skills such as survival skills and expression management.

“So why are you here?”

“Just…… I came to see what you were doing.”

“…… Is it.”

“You play all day, but you don’t have enough money, do you?”

“Money? Money is plentiful.”

“Ah~ I see. Mr. Prause’s father went into the marquis family’s butler, right? I’ve heard he pays a lot. You seem to make a lot of money—”

‘Sorry. I have something to think about right now, so could you please go?’

“I’m sorry, but I want to be alone right now.”

She cut off her words. What is this, this horse. Makes it go down

The more you look at this facial expression management skill, the more it looks like garbage.

Actually, it’s not about managing facial expressions, is it not about talking nonsense?

“Ah…… Is that so. It looks like I was messing around again.”

Listen to Mary’s shy voice. I’m sorry for her, but there was no way to unlock her always-on skill.

“Then I’ll go down first. Mr. Prause.”

“…… Thanks. For taking care of me.”

“Ah, hehehehe… …. What.”

I spoke softly to her back as she was about to leave. Mary smiled bashfully and left.

Hmm. It may be too exciting, but that character named Mary, surely she doesn’t like Prause, right? If so, I think it would be difficult.

Now I am not the Prause you remember.

“… ….”

Anyway, now wasn’t the time to pay attention to trifles like that.

If this world was really ‘the three warriors of Pretium’, the timing was very important.

In the game, the three heroes are separated for their own reasons, but without the help of the player, the three could not get together, let alone live.

One died of starvation while begging as a beggar, one was beaten to death, and the other died from all sorts of torture while being sold at a slave auction.

Even in the game, I remember having to save and load repeatedly to bring those three people together.

However, if this place were real, there would be no save and load function like in games. Because going back to the past in reality is impossible.

You will only get one chance.

If you think about it, hard mode in games is usually a test of how far you can go with one life.

It seemed like I was able to understand the meaning of hard mode a little bit.

Anyway, it was only when the three of them got together that this story could begin.

Those three must come together to defeat all the demons pouring into the empire.

“How old was the imperial calendar when the game started?”

Obviously, the moment the three heroes became adults, the demons attacked as if they had been waiting.

I found it after searching my memory.

“It was October 1, 990. This year is also 990, and it will be October in a few days.”

Combining my memories and Prause’s memories together was quite helpful.

“I see. The location is not good, but the timing is not much different from the starting point of the game.”

I let go for an hour.

But you have to go straight to the capital of the empire.

Two of the three are in the empire’s capital, and the other is on the way.

“I need to go home, make some plans, and write down the information I know so I don’t lose my memory.”

So that they can safely defeat the demon lord.

I don’t know why I was possessed by a jerk who wasn’t even an extra, but now wasn’t the time to worry about that.