I Entered a Gacha Game That Had Been Abandoned for 10 Years

10 – Territory Development (2) (Revised)

In an instant, Kim Hyun-woo looked at the bandits who had been crushed under the logs, unable to even scream, and sighed as if relieved.

‘Is it over somehow?’

Naturally, the reason he came up with this method was purely coincidental.

In Arteil, when summoning resources, Kim Hyun-woo simply moved his finger to the desired tile, and it would appear as mobile graphics.

But in this world, within the territory range, Kim Hyun-woo could summon any materials he wanted anywhere, and so he had tried it on a whim, and it had succeeded.

However,

“Hmm.”

Kim Hyun-woo glanced down subtly.

What he saw was a massive pile of logs in extraordinary numbers.

‘In reality, summoning around 10 logs would have been sufficient to deal with the bandits.’

Along with the thought of “just in case” and the fear that if this attack failed, it would be a disastrous ending, Kim Hyun-woo had summoned too many logs, resulting in the area around the rural village being filled with a chaotic pile of logs.

‘Even so, I made too many.’

Despite having such thoughts, Kim Hyun-woo’s expression did not furrow.

The log was a resource with many uses, and since, in any case, all resources had to be initially converted into blue stones unless they could be imported or harvested from outside immediately, there was no loss.

Therefore, Kim Hyunwoo, who had been gazing at the mountain of logs for a while, turned his gaze to Yeongjimin, who was staring blankly in the distance.

“Alex.”

He spoke, looking at one of the Yeongjimin who was staring at him beyond his gaze.

“Oh, yes…!”

As soon as Kim Hyunwoo spoke, a man in his mid-30s quickly emerged and approached Kim Hyunwoo.

Kim Hyunwoo, who had been representing Yeongjimin with various stories until the hero who would handle internal affairs came in after hearing about the red eyes a few days ago, felt puzzled.

“So fast?”

Although Alex, who used to move as slowly as Yeongjimin’s labor efficiency, was now moving very quickly, Kim Hyunwoo raised his head, but soon shrugged and told Alex to use the logs here as resources rather than the logs behind the Yeongji.

After dealing with all the thieves, Kim Hyunwoo turned his body to leave.

The Yeongjimin who had been standing there, watching more than 40 thieves being slaughtered in one go, said,

“What just happened?”

“Look, did you see? The logs just fell from the sky.”

“How did it happen?”

They began to murmur in confusion at first.

“Is it a wizard?”

“How is that magic?”

“But the logs fell from the sky…?”

“Isn’t that impossible even with magic?”

“Is that so?”

“I heard that magic is like creating things like that. I heard it’s impossible-“

While expressing various opinions about the mysterious technology(?) shown by the lord, the Yeongjimin, who had just gathered, did not take long to start making strange sounds.

“Our lord, he’s not really amazing, is he?”

“Come to think of it, the lord who led Lartania ten years ago was the lord you mentioned, right? Initially, he suddenly disappeared, and the territory changed like this-“

“Indeed, ten years ago, the Lartania territory was so strong that it could not be matched anywhere around-“

Strange sounds began to stick to the Yeongjimin’s words.

“Thinking about the rumors ten years ago-“

“I was in the Hallsia territory back then, but even then, there were rumors that the lord of Lartania was an amazing person.”

At the end of another round of absurd rumors that were not true even at the time, heard ten years ago, they began to distort in the memories of the Yeongjimin.

After about 30 minutes had passed.

“Could the Lord be like a disciple of the gods?”

“The gods, disciples?”

Among the residents of the territory, a strange misconception about Kim Hyun-woo was beginning to take root.

And around that time, as Kim Hyun-woo returned to the lord’s castle and let out a sigh, he suddenly felt a strange sense of discomfort.

“Come to think of it, did I kill a person?”

It was precisely a discomfort about his own emotions.

While saying this might make sense, Kim Hyun-woo, who was in the game, was naturally an ordinary person.

Not a psychopath, just an ordinary guy who graduated from a local high school, completed a vocational college, served as a sergeant in the military, and worked diligently at a furniture factory.

Of course, there was a period in the middle where he went crazy for Arteil and worked part-time instead of studying for two years in high school. But the key point here is that Kim Hyun-woo considered himself ordinary.

In other words, even if he didn’t know in the game, killing others in this place, which had become reality, would naturally strike a blow to his mental state from a moral perspective.

Certainly, it would be like that.

“Why am I so unaffected?”

When Kim Hyun-woo thought about it himself, he felt unaffected.

Not to the extent of having a near-death experience, like the protagonists in those novels that come out somewhere in China, but he simply thought, ‘Oh, I just killed someone.’

So.

“Could I be a psychopath, by any chance?”

Kim Hyun-woo, who began to doubt his own ordinariness(?), soon found the truth.

—–

Hero

Name: Kim Hyun-woo

Title: X

Star: ?? Star

Stats

Strength: 9 Agility: 10

Intelligence: 6 Luck: 9

Magic Power: 1

-Special Traits-

Unshakeable Mind: Regains composure of the mind quickly in any situation.

Incomprehensible String of Characters: A jumble of characters that is difficult to understand and seems to have no relevance whatsoever.

Unexpectedly, it was the hero’s window that Kim Hyun-woo had never opened even once until now.

“Was it because of this?”

Kim Hyun-woo looked at the skill window, and although he reassured himself that he was not a psychopath, his slightly odd expression remained unresolved.

The reason was the broken word written below the skill window.

“What is this?”

Kim Hyun-woo, who had never seen the ability window even once, turned it on and off several times, but the broken word, of course, was not restored.

Kim Hyun-woo, who was pondering about the meaning of the broken word, soon turned off his thoughts.

After all, there was no time for him to worry about such things.

Therefore, the next day, with a satisfied expression just confirming that he was not a psychopath.

“As expected, is it better to grasp the basics?”

Kim Hyun-woo was talking with Loria.

The topic of the conversation was, of course, the management of the territories.

[To increase the labor efficiency of the territory to the extent of 70%, it would be good to recruit a hero responsible for the internal affairs, such as constructing a tavern as you mentioned, or recruit individuals with relevant skills. However, in the current situation, that seems impossible. Therefore, the plan to strengthen the basics through force doesn’t seem like a bad idea.]

Kim Hyun-woo decided to establish discipline to quickly form the basic shape of the territory before the development of the territory reached a certain level, as thieves would consistently attack before that.

[However-]

“But?”

[It doesn’t seem necessary at this point.]

“Huh? What do you mean?”

[Open the construction window.]

Kim Hyun-woo made a puzzled expression at Loria’s words. However, he soon opened the construction window as instructed.

“…Huh?”

Soon, Kim Hyun-woo could see it.

[Labor Efficiency: 84%]

The labor efficiency, which was only 50% until yesterday, had suddenly risen to 84%.

“…Suddenly?”

Looking at the labor efficiency that skyrocketed with a surprised expression, Kim Hyun-woo was puzzled.

[Congratulations. You have obtained your first title.]

[First Title: ‘King of the Logs’]

[A commemorative event reward is provided for obtaining the first title!]

As soon as he opened the territory window, an alert window popped up as if it had been waiting for him.

“…What’s this now?”

Kim Hyunwoo unconsciously muttered with a perplexed expression.

[As far as I know, it seems to be a title obtained during the process of dealing with thieves by Lord Yeongju yesterday. However, according to what I know, the phrase ‘Apostle of God’ was originally mentioned first, but…]

“Then why ‘King of Logs’ instead of ‘Apostle of God’?”

[I don’t know about that either.]

Kim Hyunwoo felt a complex and subtle emotion as he looked at the subtly reticent Loria.

In fact, the fact that a title had been obtained was not a bad thing.

According to Loria’s words, thanks to him dealing with mercenaries yesterday, the loyalty of the Yeongji residents had increased, labor efficiency had improved, and on top of that, they could receive event rewards.

‘Still, King of Logs is a bit…’

Kim Hyunwoo, who was aware of how logs were referred to in the other world as an internet ghost, felt a slightly strange emotion, but since everything had been resolved well, Kim Hyunwoo decided to quietly accept that title.

After Kim Hyunwoo became the Log King and exactly one day passed.

“…Sent from the Sertova territory?”

“Yes.”

From the Sertova territory, someone had come.

Moreover.

“Lord Sertova asked me to deliver a gift.”

“…A gift?”

“Yes. It’s wine.”

With a gift in hand.

And Kim Hyunwoo, who had unknowingly harbored doubts about the sudden favor of the Sertova territory, couldn’t help but stiffen as he looked at the wine delivered by the envoy of the territory.

The wine brought as a gift from the Sertova territory was a reasonably priced wine produced in the old continent territory of Starpan. It was traded at a fairly high price in the market.

However, the reason for Kim Hyunwoo’s expression strangely stiffening was.

—-

Starpan Wine.

It is wine produced in the Starpan territory of the old southern continent. It is being traded at a quite expensive price in the market.

※ Caution, this wine contains colorless and odorless non-lethal poison.

Non-lethal poison manufacturer: Absolute ruler of darkness.

“…?”

Ten years ago, the fame of the hero he had raised with Merilda from the 1st rank was engraved in the notification window of that wine.