A Lie Has Become Reality

36 – Ghost story sponsored by Najaxo (1)

After meeting Kim Ki-taek, everything went smoothly.

In the end, Kim Ki-taek decided to accept the conditions I proposed.

As a condition of returning the down payment of 2 billion won, which had been paid in advance to Ahoy, Leonplay was able to fully transfer the publishing rights of Ether or Hunter.

When I met Kim Ki-taek again to coordinate the terms of the contract, he looked at least 10 years older.

I must have suffered quite a bit. Isn’t it just a return to the accumulated karma? Frankly, it’s not something I care about.

Serious problems began to explode after receiving all the information and documents from Five Tops.

It is safe to say that the game ‘Etherna Hunter’ that Fivetops has been running so far is a completely different game from ‘Etherna X’ developed by Ahoy.

Basically, nearly 80 percent of the scripts in the game were all mistranslations. This is enough to call it damage rather than a mistranslation.

The character voice problem was more serious.

When Aetherna Hunter was just released, all character voices were re-dubbed by Korean voice actors.

But the problem was the dubbing quality.

As the most representative example, the character Ryohei is serious in everything and rarely expresses emotion. However, the newly dubbed Ryohei was reinterpreted as a high-tension character with a clear voice that did not suit him at all.

Surprisingly, this kind of miss casting is not one or two. At this level, it is safe to say that the original setting was completely destroyed.

That’s all.

Since we haven’t updated for such a long time, the gap with the Japanese server is only 6 months. At this level, like Epic of Seven, the game itself has to be turned upside down.

Fortunately, Leonplay already has the history and experience of reviving a ruined game. Also, compared to Epic of Seven, Aether and Hunter take much less time because the game itself is smaller.

“After all, it is money.”

Overhauling story mistranslations and character voices, catching up with lagging updates.

It’s not that difficult if you have enough capital backed by it.

Game companies’ revenue comes from users. And currently, more than 70% of LeonPlay’s sales are being used for reinvestment to develop quality games.

[ Notice ]

Eterna Hunter Korean server publisher change

I clicked on the notice posted on the official homepage of Aetherna Hunter.

To roughly summarize the contents, he said he was sorry for running the business like a beggar… This is a heartfelt apology from Five Tops to its users.

Although it is impossible to check the reaction because comments are blocked, the names of ‘Leon Play’ and ‘Kim Seong-woo’ have already been deified and supported in the game-related community.

“I see quite a few comments from foreigners.”

Most of the comments on the first public debate video uploaded were in Japanese and Korean.

Since the original game is a Japanese game and the subject of public opinion is the representative of a Japanese game company, this case was a fairly big topic in Japan as well.

And recently, I started to see a lot of comments in English.

Isn’t there a theme that is as stimulating and cathartic as the original winding good and punishing evil? From a foreigner’s point of view, this case must have been quite interesting.

“Kyaha-!”

I gulped down a cola I had just taken out of the refrigerator that was dripping with water.

As the coke gently ran down my tongue, a thrilling coolness spread and ran up my throat.

“Kkeok-“

Wow, this is the taste.

It’s filthy cool.

****

Peace has come after a long time.

I did not directly participate in the normalization process of Aether or Hunter.

There was no particular reason for that.

Leonplay works fine without me, and above all, it’s annoying.

“This is life… “

Less.

I briefly groaned as I personally experienced the technological revolution introduced by massage chairs.

I ordered one out of curiosity while purchasing several massage chairs in the company lounge of Leonplay. It must have been one of the best choices of my life.

I didn’t even notice the time passing when I left my body in the rattling massage chair with my head empty.

The massage chair stopped moving with a beeping sound.

After the 30-minute massage, I lay down on the sofa.

I enjoyed the present peace while staring blankly at the ceiling with the pouring sunlight.

“I’m bored.”

The development of technology has brought numerous changes to human society.

I’m sure. The invention of the Internet brought about the greatest change in human society.

And maybe hikikomori like me benefited the most.

Without leaving the house, you can communicate with people, have entertainment, and access various media by simply entering the Internet. Even daily necessities can be ordered online, and all kinds of comics and novels can be enjoyed on the Web.

I can say with confidence that I have enjoyed almost everything that can be enjoyed on the Internet.

There was a time when I was immersed in a web novel of 800 episodes and completely immersed myself in the novel for a week without eating or drinking. There was a time when he gave up his livelihood while reducing his sleeping time for an entire month in order to keep up with animation.

“Let’s read a novel.”

I slowly took out my phone from my pocket.

My heart trembled to enjoy a web novel after a long time.

I clicked on the app with a familiar icon embedded in the corner of the first page of the menu screen.

“Awesome familiar air.”

He playfully exclaimed and moved the scroll around.

Because I am an omnivorous reader, I honestly read well regardless of any genre.

Of course, the best among them is fantasy.

“Is there anything worth seeing at the top of the rankings?”

I skimmed through the top 200 works of the fantasy genre, swallowing my mouth like a hungry beast.

In the meantime, the title of a novel caught my attention.

[ Became a sleepwalker at the academy. ]

First of all, the title was interesting.

Tagged Fantasy, Munchkin, Illusion…

It’s a common combination if it’s common, but how do the keyword sleepwalking and the tag misunderstanding harmonize in a novel?

I couldn’t stand it and clicked on episode 1 right away.

“It’s already the day.”

Stooped and stared at the monitor.

The appearance of a familiar character on the screen greeted me.

This is a familiar start.

Vona Mana Possession, it must be the start of possessing into the game.

After that, as expected, the story continued with an obvious development.

The game is about to end its service, and the main character is one of the dead people who remain until the end of the game.

Ahead of the end of the game, I was looking through the stacks of safes, soaked in memories.

The main character discovered equipment with a gag concept called the ‘Dream Walker Set’.

Dreamwalker set grants all sorts of fraudulent buffs to the character when the character goes to sleep while equipped.

But what use are those buffs if the character falls asleep? In fact, it is safe to say that the Dream Walker set is a set of equipment released under the gag concept.

“Oh, you make skills with equipment here.”

The main character sacrificed the Dream Walker set using the ‘system of making skills by sacrificing equipment’.

The skill that came out like that…

—

[Sleepwalking]

Rating: EX

Type: Passive

When you enter the sleep state, your latent unconsciousness is manifested.

—

“Pu-sup-!”

Was the skill name sleepwalking?

As if I was possessed by a ghost, I scrolled down like crazy and caught each letter in my eyes.

The main character gave the Dream Walker set to acquire a skill called sleepwalking, and lost consciousness as soon as the game service ended.

And when I woke up, I saw the famous unfamiliar ceiling.

“This is f*cking fun… “

The development that was obvious at first became unpredictable as it went on.

The main character who fell into the academy in the game, his sleepwalking skill was activated whenever he fell asleep, and he went around solving cases by defeating all kinds of monsters in an unconscious state.

The illusion world between the main character who can’t remember anything and the heroines who caught a glimpse of the strength of their sleepwalking skill provided the fun of the best part.

“Everything… next episode… “

I pressed the next episode muttering.

Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5…

That’s how time passed.

****

“Next episode!!!!!”

I cried.

Because there was no next episode.

Is the writer crazy? What if we cut it off here?

Why are you so good at writing?

“Chapter 70 is over? What the f*ck does this make sense?”

I grumbled and glanced through the notice to check the upload schedule for the next episode.

“What is this? Year round… notification… ?”

A cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Isn’t it? Please say no

I tried to move my trembling fingers and clicked on the title.

[Announcement throughout the year]

Hello, I’m the writer Orion.

As a person who dreams of becoming a full-time writer, I feel gloomy at the current situation where I am letting go of my first work so irresponsibly.

I am currently on the brink financially.

So I’m going to put aside writing for a while and try to do something for my present life.

Someday, when the current situation is somewhat stable, I will come back.

Thank you so much to all the readers who have read and commented, and I’m sorry again.

Orion compensation.

“Ha!”

I burst out laughing.

A writer running away leaving the reader’s longing to burn like this?

I can’t stand it.

“There’s no way.”

I immediately entered the sponsor window for the work.

A web novel platform called ‘Noble Hill’ allows readers to directly sponsor an author’s work.

It is a method of sponsoring the artist by paying for the goods of the platform called ‘Gold’.

Are you going to stop writing because of financial difficulties?

I’m sorry, but that shouldn’t be the case.

I immediately entered the payment window and entered the payment information.

The minimum recharge amount is 10 gold, starting at 1,000 won.

When asked how much to recharge, I answered with repeated finger movements.

Tok tok tok tok-

Endlessly increasing recharge amount.

The ‘0’ at the end of the amount started breaking through the input window.

This should be enough.

“You won’t be able to publish serially because of financial difficulties?”

[ Please enter a sponsorship message to be delivered to the artist! ]

Ssiik-

I definitely need to see the next one.

I typed in the contents of the sponsorship while twisting my mouth.

＜ Give me more. ＞

As a finale, the sponsorship was confirmed by pressing the ‘yes’ button.

Teeling-!

[ Sponsored 200,000 gold for ‘I became a sleepwalker at the Academy’! ]

I want the artist to come back immediately and do 10 consecutive performances.