31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 16)
Many things go into a person's life..
His life, including his values, aspirations, and values, is literally a record of life from the cradle to the grave, and death is the end..
“No, that's right! What happens after taking a break for a month??”
“In my opinion….”
Kang Seol felt that the surroundings were noisy and got up..
“Let's go out. It's too noisy.”
“That's right.”
The two finished paying and went out..
a dusky evening.
People who were freed from the fear of death were showing various reactions..
“Humans have committed numerous sins over the years. This is the referee!”
“Purify! need to purify!”
On the street, men and women wearing strange things were shouting like this..
I don't know what they always believed, but their actions contributed to the current chaos caused by the world's merger..
“Wow, it's noisy here too. I know a quiet place, why don't we talk there??”
“Where is it??”
“…This is my old studio..”
“All right.”
Why does the old man refer to his studio as his old studio?.
‘Are you not using it now??’
Since there is not enough information about the side quest, there is no way Snowfall could refuse the old man's offer..
As he said, Kang Seol headed to the old man’s studio..
The old man looked somewhat sad and at times seemed unharmed..
Like a person preparing his mind before receiving sad news..
“however… If you're talking about a studio, what kind of space do you work in??”
“What can I say? You'll find out when you go.”
- You know it now, sir.….
- That way of speaking lol
Snowfall followed for a moment, thought, and then blurted out..
“It's a watch workshop..”
“You have insight. Didn't you say that at the bar?.”
The old man glanced at his pocket watch again and sighed..
“That watch looks like I made it.”
The place we arrived at following the old man was in a remote place in Kongori..
It wasn't an underdeveloped slum, but it was quite far from the commercial area..
Cheolkeong.
The old man opened the tightly closed door of the workshop with the key in his hand..
“yet… It's the same.”
Cobwebbed interior, slight moldy smell.
However, the snowfall did not feel as unpleasant as I expected. I felt like I had just entered a studio that had not been maintained for a long time..
‘The watch workshop was right..’
Clocks crowded everywhere.
The work space was filled with various types of clocks, including grandfather clocks..
“Nice to meet you, my name is Bill Marcus. call me bill.”
“It's called Snowman.”
“…what?”
“Snowman… no see.”
Snowfall and Bill stopped at the same time..
‘bill?’
A somewhat familiar name.
But even though he had an exceptional memory, he couldn't remember why Bill's name sounded familiar..
‘You're doing this again.’
He remembers things from long ago perfectly, so why can't he remember them?.
I thought maybe the pocket watch side quest was something I had already experienced once..
Otherwise, Bill's name wouldn't have been so familiar to my ears..
‘the problem is… I don't remember anything at all..’
Bill turned around, looked at the clocks, and said something over his shoulder to Kang Seol..
“Right… It's such a strange thing.”
“yes?”
“Nope. Now can you tell me how you got that watch??”
Kang Seol told Bill the story of how he got this watch, a little dramatized..
He said he found this watch while searching the cliffs of a sharp rock mountain to dig up medicinal herbs. Actually, it wasn't wrong. The story behind it was just missing..
“That was it, that was it… . That's where you found it..”
“do you know anything?”
“Don't know. Now I finally know how everything happened. Would you please give me that watch??”
chin.
Snowfall handed the pocket watch to Bill..
Bill took the watch, turned it over, and looked at the engraving..
“It's definitely the watch I made. Can you see the engraving here??”
“engrave? Ah, that was the engraving..”
“I don't know if it's faded with time or because of the hardships I've endured, but my name is engraved here..”
indeed.
As Bill said, the word Bill was engraved on the back of the clock in a font that was difficult to understand..
Because it was so cloudy, I only found out about the snowfall later..
“I gave this watch to someone 20 years ago. Because of my granddaughter.”
“Granddaughter? A granddaughter??”
“My granddaughter was kidnapped by the trolls of Pointy Rock 20 years ago. The problem was that I had to climb a mountain to meet the performance schedule..”
Strongly.
snowfall felt a headache.
However, since we were talking about something important, I endured the pain and asked again..
“What happened to your granddaughter??”
“…….”
“…okay.”
“No one came forward. At that time, there were not only the monarchs and free knights, but also mercenaries and adventurers. I asked everyone, but they all told me they couldn't do it..”
The granddaughter has died, but there is still no word on the watch's owner..
Snowfall listened patiently..
“But then someone appeared. He said he would help save my granddaughter..”
“who is that?”
“It'll be engraved on the watch.”
“But the name is nowhere on the watch.….”
“That's because it's hidden inside. Now, let's see.”
click.
Bill roughly manipulated the corner of the clock to reveal a hidden space inside..
And inside, there was a nice phrase and name engraved on it..
- May the courageous have good luck in their future..
‘…Unbelievable.’
The name of the owner the watch lost was shocking..
- snowman.
Bill said, looking at the snowfall..
“20Years later, a man of similar age appeared with the same name and this watch... What is really going on?….”
Snowfall was the same as not knowing the English text..
Bill continued..
“However, the owner of the watch did not return. Same goes for my granddaughter. After that, I left Kongori and did not return for a while, but only recently returned to this city..”
“Ugh….”
“Why, why but?”
“Oh, no. I have a little headache. Let's continue.”
“The story is over. I'm just saying that there was a story like that in the past. Oh! There is a place worth stopping by… What is it like??”
“where….”
“It's my granddaughter's grave. And it's also the adventurer's grave..”
“…yes?”
Bill scratched his nose and said.
“He was the only person who came forward for my unfortunate granddaughter, and although we couldn't find her body, we at least placed a small tombstone next to it. How about together?….”
“Ugh... Whoop whoop….”
“Why are you doing this?!”
I remembered.
Everything that happened between Bill, his granddaughter, and an adventurer named Snowman..
‘were my first words….’
Actually, this wasn't the first time the nickname Snowman was used..
I used it when I first set foot in the eternal world, Pandea..
It was the first of 30 horses he raised..
his name is snowman.
It was a frost wizard..
“tomorrow… Can I come back here tomorrow??”
“Yeah, sure. I'll be waiting here at noon.”
“Thank you, then….”
“Take a break quickly.”
Snowfall left the watch workshop like that..
* * *
What on earth happened?.
‘What the hell is this….’
The words he fostered left a mark on this world..
Snowfall came as a shock to me..
‘Could it be that everything my words did remains here??’
Obviously, the world of eternity is like that..
Words and actions influence worldview.
But wasn't that just a system on the game board?.
Why do things that happened on the game board remain in reality and not on the game board??
‘It was all real?’
It may have seemed like just a game to him, but it was all real..
What this means is that this was not the end..
“omg… Heo Eok….”
Snowfall visited Kongori’s library..
“1Closes after hours. If there is a book you are looking for….”
“it's okay. I'll find it on my own.”
A book is a record of something.
And it's a good medium to capture events that have happened over the past several decades..
Snowfall quickly skimmed down the bookshelf filled with history-related books..
There were many history books there..
However, what he was looking for was something else..
‘If my first character had died 20 years ago... The point in time I came to was exactly Pandaea, 20 years after I played the game in my dream..’
So, just look at the records of the last 20 years..
That was Kang Seol’s judgment..
‘Where is it… Where are you?!’
Even though the first 10 characters did not leave much of a mark, the later 20 characters were different..
In particular, there was no way that the last 10 characters who reached the Ascension Adventure would not have their names left in history..
pop.
Kang Seol's fingers and gaze, which were scanning the title, stopped in one place..
- 10 years of turbulence.
Kang Seol picked up the book without hesitation..
It was a book with an impressive subtitle..
- Stories of superhumans who changed history.
pararock.
His hands became busy turning the pages..
The best way to find out what a book contains is to look at the table of contents, so the lecture also stopped there..
- Starting with.
1. How the Prince of Frost was born.
2. Correlation between the Prince of Frost and the Zodiac.
3. Who was the person who dug up the tomb of Emperor Leo, who shocked the continent?.
4. An immortal who disappeared at an unfortunate time.
5. The sword that cuts everything, is it real??
6. ……
……
‘…They're all my characters?’
Everything mentioned in the book was about the horses that Kang Seol fostered..
“Nonsense….”
Many things go into a person's life..
Now, in the eternal world of snowfall, Pandea, there were 30 lives and deaths of his own.…
Before he knew it, he had become the history of Pandea..
* * *
“Yeah, it's here.”
“Here's the granddaughter….”
“No. There is no body. Still, there is no body, but it is a place I commemorate, so it has its own meaning..”
Snowfall nodded and followed Bill..
Unlike yesterday, he spoke significantly less..
- Snowman is suddenly in serious mode. Does anyone know why??
- The quest was more boring than expected ㅡㅡ
- I was shocked by the death of someone with the same name haha.
- Soft! Only then will we be able to walk the path of strength in the future?…
- But you have to be a jerk.?
“Okay, this is the place..”
A grave with a suitable tombstone.
The tombstone had an inscription dedicated to her from Bill himself..
- The most lovely woman in the world.
“I think it's a good thing to honor someone. Even if it's a tombstone without a body, it always reminds me of that person..”
“okay….”
“Now, the tombstone next to you is that of an adventurer with the same name as you. I need to find the owner of the watch quickly..”
“All right.”
Snowfall approached the unfamiliar tombstone with great strides..
Snowfall, who was about to put the watch on without any response, stopped..
- A person who did not pretend not to notice difficulties.
Something hot and unknown rose up in his chest..
It was not a desire for vengeance against the gods or the excitement of exploring a new world..
The hand holding the broken pocket watch was shaking..
“…I'm sorry.”
Now, Snow Seol seems to understand why she couldn't remember Bill's name or the story behind this pocket watch..
It was all because he forgot.
It is a memory that I managed to forget by forcing the rising memories to sink below the surface..
There is a saying called fumble..
Term also known as fiasco.
When you roll a dice and get a 1 or the worst case scenario, it is called a fumble..
His first character, Snowman, lost his life in a fumble. At a young age, Kang Seol was shocked and tried to forget it..
So I forgot.
“I'm sorry, I... I found it too late.”
A clock is placed on a tombstone..
Of the thirty lives that Kang Seol experienced, one life ended like this..
At that moment, a message caught his eye..
[I found the true owner of the pocket watch.]
[Receive ability points as a reward.]
Of course, the message that I thought would end here continued beyond expectations..
“Ughhh….”
A message came to mind along with a headache..
[‘The legacy of ‘Snowman’ begins..]
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