Chapter 27
[Voice Comment Function activates!]
- True Ancestor) Foolish Mortals. Shut your noisy mouths before I sweep you all away.
Right after my arrogant taunt was uploaded with my voice.
Silence flowed through the Community for a moment.
A few seconds later.
- ?
- ?
- ???
- What’s with the Voice Comment?
At first, question marks started coming up.
And then.
- Tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble
- Tremble tremble, declaring she’ll kill everyone if they don’t shut up
- Jinjo-jwa is hardcore lololololol
- Crazy dominance lololol
Far from quieting down, the comments' already fierce firepower grew several times stronger!
The topic even shifted immediately to something else.
- True Ancestor was a woman????
- Her voice sounds young?
- The Top Community’s voice function is a System Function, so it shouldn’t be modulated.
-> Then that means she’s really a girl;;
-> Wow, crazy, I couldn’t even imagine it
Because the Voice Comment Function, which I didn’t even know existed, had activated, my real voice was completely exposed.
Furthermore, it seemed several users had entered Alert Mode.
- Fuck, I only heard her voice, so why am I breaking out in a cold sweat?
- Her voice is a kid’s, but what’s with that killing intent, tremble tremble
- She cleared the Nightmare Floor in seconds, so she doesn’t seem like a normal middle-schooler with an edgelord concept. Everyone be careful.
- Mortals? Then is she saying she’s an immortal? Is she even human? Feels sketchy.
“Ugh, crazy. What have I done…!!”
I felt like ripping my mouth off right this instant.
To throw an AoE Taunt in a place where S-Rankers from all over the World were gathered.
I had committed an unprecedentedly insane act.
However, there were also a few favorable comments.
- Wow wow wow True Ancestor-nim’s haughty voice is crazy
- Seriously, I agree.
- Did the cute-soft-squishy-chewy-sweet-toddling-hopping-baby True Ancestor appear?????
- True Ancestor-nim, please sweep me away first, please please
'…? What’s with these guys.'
They were favorable, but in a somewhat weird direction.
I had clearly thrown out a bloody warning that I would sweep them all away, but lunatics who liked hearing that had appeared.
So you’re telling me the World’s prominent S-class big shots are sitting around writing comments like this?
Wow… What a turn-off.
I stared at it with cold eyes.
Anyway, I had to fix this somehow.
I quickly placed my hands on the Comment Window.
- This is because of my Skill. It’s not my true intention.
I tried to type a comment like this.
I figured that while voice wouldn’t work, explaining it through text like when I wrote posts on Heon-gael would do the trick.
However,
“…Huh?”
I couldn’t type.
My fingers had stopped over the keyboard as if they were frozen solid.
[Exalted Dignity] was taking effect.
Even though I was writing a Community post.
“H-how come?”
Thinking about it carefully, I thought I knew the reason.
On Heon-gael, I wrote posts as the completely anonymous 'Anonymous', but here, the nickname “True Ancestor” was forcibly fixed by the system.
In other words, it meant my identity as the True Ancestor was being recognized in this Community.
This meant.
'In this Community, even when typing in chat, I’m unconditionally locked into the Exalted Dignity speech style?!'
A situation where even explaining myself had become impossible.
The best I could do was simply find and turn off the function so that [Exalted Dignity] wouldn’t arbitrarily leave another Voice Comment.
I urgently scoured the System Settings.
“Found it!”
[Voice Comment Function: OFF]
Phew. I barely managed to turn it off.
I put out the urgent fire and took a breather for now.
“Liege Lord. You look displeased. What is the matter?”
“Just give the order, Master.”
As I sighed while breaking out in a cold sweat, Katarina and Si-Yeon, who had at some point approached, asked with fierce expressions.
It seemed they had approached after hearing my bloody remark wondering what was going on.
“It is nothing. The commotion of insignificant creatures merely annoyed me for a moment.”
I forced a fake cough and made an excuse roughly.
At that, the gazes of my two Retainers naturally turned toward the Community Window in the air that I was looking at.
It seemed this screen was visible to their eyes as well.
“Hoh… Is this another message board for humans?”
“The reaction toward you is immense, Master.”
It was just as they said.
My Automatic Join Greeting Post had already been pinned as a popular post with countless upvotes.
Comments were still increasing by the dozens.
In particular, the comments from the fixed nicknames I saw earlier caught my eye.
- GodChris) Wow. The True Ancestor’s true identity was a little lady?
- Geom-Ui-Gil-Eun Kkeut-I-Eop-Go) Hoho,,, my,, Spi-rit. O-ver-flow-ing. Young-ster,,,
- Meow Meow Punch) ㅇㅅㅇ;;;
- Corpse Lover) Oh, I kinda like you~?
- Apostle of Light) How could you say such terrifying words…!
- Cheonma) Hmph. No wonder you didn’t answer This Seat’s messages; it meant there cannot be two suns under the sky. You pique my interest even more.
“Ugh…”
They’ve gotten even more interested.
The pressure was no joke.
I finally backed out of my post.
“I should look for some information first.”
In any Community, when a newbie arrives, he or she must read the notice board first.
However, there were no separate notices here.
Instead, there was a function to sort popular posts by upvotes.
While scrolling through the most upvoted posts, I happened to find one for newbies like me.
[Title: Guide Post for Newbies Entering the Climber Community for the First Time]
Poster: Sol-Peul-Jeon-Sa
I’m writing this because I see a lot of newbies coming in lately.
If you’re a newbie who just entered this Community, you probably don’t know a lot of things and feel bewildered.
I was like that at first too.
I’ll roughly organize the rules and tips here, so read carefully and let’s enjoy Community life safely.
The last line is especially the most important, so please make sure to read to the end.
1. First off, this is a Community that only people who have cleared the Nightmare Grade 4th Floor or higher can enter.
2. Since you broke through the Nightmare 4th Floor, you’re probably quite skilled too, but the guys here are mostly S-class or higher veterans, so it’s best not to act up or show off too much.
If you mess with the wrong person, you might get fucked over in reality.
3. Speech style doesn’t really matter. Casual or formal, anything is fine, and the basic atmosphere is everyone speaking comfortably. There’s the Tower’s Own Translation Function, so whatever language you type in, it’ll translate automatically. So, write comfortably.
4. You can freely talk about anything, and the purposes vary, mainly including Tower Climbing Information exchange, daily chitchat, Item Trading, etc.
5. However, if you troll too much or draw aggro by spamming, you can get a lot of downvotes.
If you receive a certain number of downvotes, your Post Cooldown will increase, and in severe cases, you might not even be able to comment on other people’s posts, so be careful.
6. Nickname settings are only available to those whose Clear Time for the 1st to 4th floors is below a certain threshold.
So you can consider the registered users here to be pretty capable guys.
7. The Voice Comment Function can be used if you speak with strong intent. But I recommend not using it if possible, because your own voice gets leaked exactly as is.
…
20. Lastly, this is the most important precaution.
Watch out for certain specific registered users unconditionally.
Since anyone can enter as long as they clear the 4th Floor, there are sometimes crazy bastards mixed in who have good skills but are a bit mentally weird.
Below is the List of Cautionary Nicknames you must avoid.
- Artist
- Sim-Yeon-Ui-Sa-Je
- Jin-Hwa-Ju-Ui-Ja
…
(Last updated 20xx.xx.xx. Updated periodically)
The posts these guys upload sometimes include images containing a Mental Attack Type Skill.
If you don’t have a Resistance Skill, you can take damage just by clicking the post, so it’s best not to click carelessly on posts with a lot of downvotes, sketchy titles, or attached files.
Still, registered users can’t change their nicknames, so as long as you watch out for the guys on that list, you should generally be safe.
If you see a new Suspicious Terror Post, let’s immediately make a new post and tell each other to be careful.
Well then, everyone have a fun climb.
“…Terror?”
They commit terror by uploading images containing mental attacks?
Is such a thing possible?
To think something exists where you take damage just by looking at a picture! I had no idea.
‘They’re truly crazy veterans.’
I realized anew that this wasn’t a place where ordinary people gathered.
Anyway, through this Guide Post, I was able to roughly acquire basic information about the Climber Community.
Especially, this person called “Sol-Peul-Jeon-Sa”.
Checking his Post List, he found a considerable amount of high-quality information regarding Tower Climbing.
I also saw quite a few strategy posts organizing the Boss Pattern or gimmicks of each floor.
‘Oh. It’s a 5th Floor strategy post!’
Fortunately, I was also able to find a strategy post for my next goal, the Nightmare 5th Floor.
Of course, I thought Katarina and Si-Yeon would be able to clear it without difficulty, but…
Anyway, since I was the one personally entering and climbing the Tower, I wanted to securely and safely gather information just in case.
‘Okay. I’ll keep this for now and read it thoroughly later.’
I added the post to my Favorites and turned off the screen.
“I should just lurk here if possible.”
I had already drawn Massive Aggro right from my first Join Greeting.
Now that I was branded as a popular Registered User among experts from all over the World, I didn’t know what tiring events I’d get swept up in if I acted rashly.
Besides, even if I wrote a comment, it was obvious that more arrogant nonsense would come out due to [Exalted Dignity] anyway.
I decided that from now on, I would quietly siphon only information from here.
Having decided my stance in the Climber Community like that, I returned home safely accompanied by my two Retainers.
* * *
At the time when the Climber Community was burning up due to the True Ancestor’s appearance.
The reality outside was also blazing fiercely.
[Title: True Ancestor’s 4th Floor results are out!!!!!]
- A 5-second 4th Floor clear??????
- Is it physically possible to clear the Nightmare 4th Floor in 5 seconds?
- Upvote if you just let out a hollow laugh now lolololol