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prologue

10 years after a game was released, the community was bound to stagnate and rot.

Since no new content came out, players started doing strange things, such as raiding a boss wearing a single pair of pants, breaking the record for clearing a dungeon the fastest, or replaying existing content again and again.

There were even players who touched the so-called ‘characters’ that no one else ever dared to.….

That’s who I was.

The game ‘Aether World’ was originally released as a female-oriented dating simulation game, but thanks to its gorgeous fighting mechanics, its nearly infinite content, and its countless playable characters, this unique game had managed to attract plenty of male players.

Some characters were easy to control and boasted the best performance, while there were others whose performance was the worst, increasing the difficulty to such a level that even 10-year veterans wouldn’t dare to touch them.

That’s right.

I was a pervert who had been playing with the character ‘Baek Yu-Seol’ for 10 years, the one with the highest difficulty, worst performance, and the most disadvantages. I didn’t even understand why.

In the setting of the Aether World where everything was made of magic and everyone could use magic, Baek Yu-Seol, who couldn’t use magic, was not popular at all and was just treated as an extra.

Of course, this didn’t mean that Baek Yu-Seol couldn’t use magic at all.

There was only one magic he could use, ‘Blink’.

Although blinking magic could be learned by any wizard, very few used it. That was because its long cool down, its high magic consumption, and the 2-second stiffness it provoked after use were huge penalties.

Was that all? No.

Blinking moved you ‘randomly’ to a distance ranging between 3m and 10m, and even the direction of movement was ‘random’.

If you were unlucky, you could instantly die by crashing into either the ground, the ceiling, or any nearby wall.

Baek Yu-seol was a character who couldn’t use any magic other than ‘blinking’, a garbage skill no one ever learned or used.

Of course, there were some advantages. As he had trained ‘Blinking’ to the maximum limit, the direction and the range could be adjusted, and the 2-second stiffness disappeared. In addition, he didn’t have any magic, so you didn’t need to worry about mana consumption. Unfortunately, that was the end of it.

In conclusion, you could use Blink, a garbage skill from the beginning, a little better.

Blink was a movement skill that made you extremely fast, so fast that if you smashed against a wall after failing to adjust the distance, you would die instantly due to the tremendous impact.

As such, when fighting enemies in narrow places, Baek Yu-seol usually became completely worthless.

For that reason, being able to control the range of the blink was almost essential, but it was also an extremely difficult task. And, who would raise a trash character who could only use blink in a game where wrap magic was easy to learn and use?

Numerous players took on the challenge, but they all ended up giving up.

While everyone else quit, I continued practicing blink over and over again, and in the end, I was able to completely master it.

Realizing that blink was a skill where you rapidly advanced, I learned how to cancel the skill in the middle, which allowed me to ‘adjust the distance’.