Spoiler The Novel's Extra

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  1. Quecafe

    Quecafe Active Member

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    as the #1000 poster in this thread, I'll give my opinion in regards to the ending. In my opinion, it was Disappointing and unfulfilling.
     
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    Even then it solely relied on misunderstandings to narrow the gap to this awful finishing line. Although, now that I think about it, I've only ever finished 6 novels: EER, Stop Friendly Fire. Book Eating Magician. A will eternal. World of Cultivation. Five Way Heaven. A will eternal is the only one that didn't have a bad ending.

    Maybe bad endings is just a side effect of the web novel medium.
     
  3. Sami11

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    lmao, i didnt even know that the spoiler thread I started ended up being the main thread for spoilers.

    Seems like this thread has died though. Maybe Im the first and last to comment then?

    Anywah, does anybody have any spoilers for the side stories ww has yet to translate?
     
  4. Sami11

    Sami11 [Level 99 Duck]

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    Sorry I'm mentioning you, but I wanted to ask something. Currently, the Novel's Extra page says the novel is ongoing, is this true?
     
  5. M4rcosR3is

    M4rcosR3is Well-Known Member

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    tried to do a google run for it to confirm, and yeah is true, is being released new chapters, but if my google run with google translate did not fail me, it seems to be more a what-if cannon type chapter with the girls instead of real plot story going forward.
    well i think some people may call extra stories with the girls as "real plot" too and at least i'm one of those.
    but don't ask for me for spoilers, i did not buy it -read it , i only did a search on forums, comments section etc related to the novel to confirm it and piece what i could with my little research, but i got bored and stopped so this is all i can say about it.
     
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    Yea the author went on to write an epilogue of sorts about Nayun using the stone. I've only read up to the low 30s a couple of months ago; I'm waiting to binge read it.
     
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    Can you send me the link where you read it?
     
  8. amaliajun

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    Hi! I just found this thread after rummaging the forum. I'll update TNE's side story spoiler here. For those who don't know, TNE has 100 chapters of side stories. Here's some spoiler. It's not a complete spoiler because I can't find the full txt... Ah, I tend to over-explain my spoiler so it's a bit long and messy...

    The side stories had three parts/arcs. The first titled "몽중화", roughly translated as 'dream' but I think it has more meaning and refers to under illusions. The second titled "채나윤", "Chae NaYoon". I think that is clear enough. The last one is "만약의 이야기", or I translated it as "The story of what if".

    I had read chapter 1 to 31 or 380 to 409, under the first arc "몽중화" that has 44 chapters. It started with Rachel's story with her British Royal Guild. In the first few chapters, you'll wonder what actually happened as the view went to Rachel first before reaching HaJin and NaYoon. What I explain isn't chronological from the chapters so please understand.

    In this arc, the world is another alternate reality that acts as a buffer to the new reality that NaYoon hoped for with the Miracle Stone from the epilogue. This happened because NaYoon dropped the stone, causing the transfer interrupted because there's some scratch on it.

    In this buffer reality, the story changed around when HaJin dropping out of Cube. He received a system notice that Baal is dead, the Miracle Tower is completed, and HaJin can live in the novel world forever. This actually caused HaJin stressed out as he couldn't go back to his real world. Ah, please notice that HaJin in this buffer didn't remember all that story that happened before turn back time. So, the reason HaJin dropped out not because he wanted to be part of the criminal group(which I forgot the name) but because he loses his meaning to continue supporting his characters to end the novel as he couldn't go back anymore. HaJin became a multibillionaire with his "writer intervention" skill to ensure his life. He had a side hobby as an independent mercenary by the name of "Xtra".

    5 years passed since HaJin got that last system notification. The NaYoon that had the miracle stone just arrived this year. She checked HaJin from time to time inside a VR game, that I believe was actually made by HaJin's company. HaJin was really low profile and his existence completely hard to trace as he still in touch with Kim HoSeop, who runs Truth Agency this time. Rachel and HaJin crossed each other when one of Rachel's subordinates hired Xtra to protect her from Lancaster's attack. This time, Rachel wasn't that strong because she kept getting suppressed by her mentor that teaches spirit control(?).

    After HaJin got involved in Rachel's business, the system gave him "inheritance" from his 'previous life'. He got Black Lotus bow, Young Dwarf Dexterity skill, and Random Dice. Later he got the black controllable arrows too. This made HaJin wonder, what's with these Black Lotus thingy... He used the bow to conceal his identity, as guns were definitely Kim HaJin's trademark. He even made a mask with black lotus designs...

    There's an event where the world's top guilds were invited to "The Hall"(?), that was actually an intelligent dungeon... On the way, Rachel found out Xtra's identity. YeonHa too. NaYoon already knew from the start that Xtra was HaJin. In the second trial, the British Royal Guild was transferred to a scenario of an alternate world. Which seemed to be HaJin's original world, because he could found his apartment. For the reward, there's a ticket to get into the trial's world again.

    In the third trial, Rachel will meet Lancaster in a replica of her childhood's accident. Sadly, HaJin that went together with her was poisoned with a powerful poison so he went unconscious for days. Rachel and YeonHa prepared together to face Lancaster.

    That's the end of what I read.
     
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    Thank you!
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    Please, continue.
     
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    I just finished and I'm soooooo sad that Kim Suho and Shin forgot about the MC Hajin...:blobcry:Plus whatever happened to the alternative world of Jin(king complex chick) forgot her full name.He had a stone of her fake world and even got a purification stone from her younger version.Tbh I feel bad for MC's other half the guy had no family /friends.. Even his own king later on killer him off...I'm feeling so empty inside now that I finished rip. The author owes us more explanations.
     
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    Guess I'll be posting summaries for the extra stories, 2+ chapters per day.
    My English is bad and my Korean is even worse so please bear with me.
    And no, I wasn't allowed to spread the raws around so.. summary spoilers only for now I guess.

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    Chapter 1
    Dreaming (1)
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    -Three years after Rachel graduated from CUBE.
    -Rachel wakes up after seeing weird dream. Turns out she and the other guild members are now in the middle of interviewing applicant for the British Royal Guild. She's a vice-leader(?).
    -After the interview Rachel goes back to her office thinking that situation isn't looking good, applicants either don't have enough talent or aren't devoted enough.
    -Rachel is currently overwhelmed with paperwork and doesn't really know if it's the path she should've taken.
    -After doing some paperwork she accesses the site where CUBE graduates can exchange information and are looking for guilds to join. And everyone is bashing Rachel and her guild saying they it's been 3 years and they still haven't achieved anything significant compared to, for instance, Chae Nayun and Yoo Yeonha.
    -Rachel is also isn't sure if she should continue taking lessons from world's #1 spirit summoner(?) since it costs a lot for England and the lessons aren't that productive.
    -Rachel looks at the photo of CUBE members and thinks of Kim Hajin, how he dropped out after the 1st year and how eventful his life was.

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    Dreaming (2)
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    -One day, another monster attack happens in one of the parts of England. English guilds, local heroes and military are holding out well and Rachel moves out to deal with some of the monsters herself. And obliterates them almost effortlessly, she's very strong after all.
    -When moving on to suppress another group of monsters she suddenly receives a message from a guild located there.They say that monsters are dealt with. Which is very suspicious since that guild isn't strong enough to deal with a monster group that was reported.
    -She asks the guild to send a video as a proof and they do so. She notices that monsters' bodies are full of smoking bullet holes.
    -The monsters Rachel dealt with were golems and their parts are pretty cheap and monsters in the group that guild suppressed are very expensive.
    -Rachel now is in the middle of her private lesson and is getting physically punished by the tutor for the tiny mistake she made. She is also getting insulted verbally.
    -Harshly. She endures since the tutor's status in the world is high and if she talks back the tutor won't give her lessons anymore and her guild's status in the eyes ow the world will drop tremendously.
    -The lesson is over after a lot of abuse and not much teaching, Rachel cries.
    -Then Rachel receives a message from Lancaster 'After these years years... Have you already forgotten about me, Royal Family?'.
     
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    Please, continue.
     
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    Chapter 3
    Dreaming (3)
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    -Rachel tells the guild members to not spread the word about the message but they still gossip about it among themselves.
    -There's a big conference coming up so Lancaster will probably make his move there.
    -Asking Hero Association for help is out of the question since if the Royal guild can't deal with this matter they'll be ridiculed even more than they are now.
    -Rachel doesn't want to hire mercenaries for escort. But since the conference will be held in Central Asia and there's no teleport one of the senior guild members thinks they should at least hire a guide.
    -He accesses the Violet Banquet and is browsing a page of a mercenary group named 'Xtra' specialized in scouting, guiding, sniping, djinn and monster assassination, etc.
    -The 'group' seems very suspicious since it's cheap, completed only 20 missions in 5 years, has only 1 member (who never reveals his face) and sometimes takes months to reply but all the clients' reviews give the group 5/5 rating.
    -The royal guild decides to hire him as a guide and a bodyguard after all and keep it secret from Rachel (which should be easy since he doesn't reveal his face).

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    Dreaming (4)
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    - Kim Hajin pov
    - He trains earnestly, he dropped out of CUBE because he hated staying there and he can't go back to his world anymore.
    - Because one day he suddenly received a number of messages: The tower of Miracles has appeared! The ToM has been dealt with! Baal is killed and the world is safe! All episodes are over! You can stay here forever! Congratulations!
    - He kept his system and he skills.
    - Receives a message from the British Royal Guild trying to hire him.
    - Hajin thinks if he should accept. It's Rachel protection mission after all but on another hand he got tired of merc work long time ago and amassed so much money already that the sum the guild offers isn't worth anything to him now.
    - Evandel comes with her school friends, all are happy and smiling.
    - Hajin is spoiling the hell out of her, going so far as to reserve a private VVIP cinema in this building for the premiere of some movie for Evandel and her friends. Also paying the actors of the said movie who played the MC and the heroine to visit and hang out with them.
    - Then sends one of his servants to guide children to the water park on the lower floors to play.
    - Turns out this entire 107-storey skyscraper with a bunch of facilities belongs to him.
    - After being unable to return to home Hajin decided to fill the void in his heart with money and this is the result.
    - Still maintains the Truth Agency, it's bringing in a lot of money and is world-famous now.
    - Spots some gargoyles in the sky, opens the window, instantly destroys them with sniper rifle-mode aether-powered desert eagle.
    - switch to Rachel
    - She watches the news of the upcoming conference and affirms that Royal Guild must visit it even if the threat of Lancaster looms over.
    - It's time for Royal Guild entrance examination. It's made into some sort of show in arena-like place with audience tickets getting sold out, VIP places, government and royal officials watching over it, etc.
    - The first part of the examination is where applicants freely show off the skills they have.
    - The very first participant fights some wolves, he's a promising young English individual, his skill is good but suddenly he is shot between his eyes by an unknown sniper and dies. The audience panics and everyone runs away.
    - Rachel is enraged.
     
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    Is he... going to join?!!!
     
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    Ohh, so the side story is about filling the hole from the main story
    Thank you for writing the summary, i'm waiting for the next one :aww::aww::aww:
     
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    Chapter 5
    Dreaming (5)
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    - Hajin pov
    - He accepts the Royal Guild mission
    - Takes the equipment he needs. Custom-made bullets which are most powerful in the world, produced by one of the facilities he owns for example.
    - His bike can now transform into SUV or helicopter, all parts fully enchanted with top-tier spells.
    - The guy who works under Hajin as his information source sends him detailed info on the current situation in England. We know all of that, the Royal guild is under pressure, doesn't have good relationships with other guilds, is ridiculed, etc. Kim Suho was supposed to resolve that but now the world has changed.
    - And, surprise, the info on the guy who got sniped in the previous chapter says he was in contact with Lancaster and bought a magic bomb from the black market to use during the Royal Guild examination.
    - Hajin decides to settle this by killing that guy first.
    - Rachel pov
    - The examination is temporarily stopped, the investigation leads nowhere, no traces of the sniper. Rachel is furious and thinks that assassination of such a good young promising lad was probably done by Lancaster.
    - Hajin contacts the guild member who hired him through voice message magic, the guy asks Hajin if he knows who killed the lad. Hajin says he did that.
    - The guy is bewildered but Hajin sends him all the evidence his subordinate gathered.
    - Hajin tells him the bomb might still be on the corpse, the guy notices it but then he's distracted for a moment by MI6 agents who arrived and after he looks back the bomb is gone.
    - Also tells him to keep the guy's involvement with the Lancaster secret.

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    Dreaming (6)
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    - The media covers the incident with the main theory being that Lancaster is the culprit.
    - But then suddenly all tabloids explode with the news Royal Guild hiring a newbie mercenary who completed only 20 missions. Hajin told the guild guy to keep this fact secret before and the guy totally agreed that it was necessary.
    - The guy doesn't know who leaked the info.
    - Rachel goes full 'why the hell did you hire that guy?!' mode on him.
    - Rachel demands him to connect her to the merc as she wants to talk to him herself.
    - A bit of Rachel's technical illiteracy comedy stuff.
    - Hajin says he refuses to speak to anyone who isn't his client and hangs up on her.
    - The guy shares evidence with her and tells her he saw a suspicious object on the corpse but there's still no concrete evidence they can release to the media.
    - Rachel decides to cancel the merc contract.
    - The media went from 'Innocent lad killed' to 'Was the lad a terrorist?' to 'Suspicious lad' to 'Why did Royal guild hire the merc' to 'Gov't carried out an execution without trial' etc.
    - Hajin reads the news and sighs. Lancaster or his underlings were actually the ones who removed the bomb from the corpse so the evidence is gone.
    - There's a message from Rachel who tells that the contract is cancelled but the guild guy sends the message next and says to carry on since he's the one who hired Xtra after all. Also doubles the payment.
    - The information guy says that Lancaster might be close in power to Devils now.
    - Hajin doubts and suddenly receives a bunch of system messages for the first time in 4 years: You've Awakened! You've inherited the item - Black Lotus Bow, the trait - Young Dwarf's Dexterity, the skill - Random Dice!
    - Hajin contemplates if this happened because he got involved in the story between Rachel and Lancaster.
    - A bit of comedy stuff involving Hajin getting surprised by Evandel.
     
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    I wish I can read Korean.
     
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    Chapter 7
    Dreaming (7)
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    - Hajin goes to the underground facility to test the stuff he obtained through the system.
    - While Hajin wonders if he should make a bed for Evandel to test out Young Dwarf's Dexterity, his information gathering subordinate calls him and tells him to urgently check the British news.
    - 'Evidence of Xtra's involvement in the incident found!' 'Xtra's whereabouts are still a mystery!' 'The government considers asking Hero Association for assistance!'
    - Also sends Hajin records of Lancaster's faction discussion he obtained by hacking where the faction decides to pull the strings of the government to find out how the hell information about the bomb lad leaked.
    - Mass media keep bashing the guild for directly killing the applicant without trial, England's stock market plummets, etc, etc. It's obvious that Lancaster is manipulating the information behind the scenes.
    - Hajin decides to make some extra money and tells the information dude to buy stocks once they reach the lowest point. Plans to obtain a significant portion of Royal Guild's shares.
    - Rachel pov:
    - Some time later after the Royal Guild stocks plummeted the price suddenly started raising up.
    - Rachel doesn't know what happens but it's reported that someone suddenly started buying all the available shares. But then the price dips again.
    - Rachel contemplates what to do and the guy who hired Hajin comes in and gives her his resignation letter. He's a loyal and upright servant and he thinks that the current situation is kinda his fault. Even tells Rachel to tell the public that he didn't resign but that she kicked him out to fix the public opinion on her. She tries to stop him but he's adamant and walks away.
    - Rachel is mega sad and is crying.
    - Meanwhile, elsewhere:
    - Chae Nayun is looking at the Regression Crystal
    - She was so excited about it and twirled it in her hands so much after getting it that it got scratched so she had to postpone the 'real regression' and she did the 'fake regression' for now.
    - It's been 3 months since she regressed and she writes down the situation of this world in the diary: No Baal, no tower, no brother, etc.
    - She writes down that she has to find crystal fragments and save those trapped in this world, especially Rachel.
    - For now Nayun is logging into a VR fantasy mmorpg game. Her character is high-level and is very strong. While walking down she encounters Yeonha. Not willing to listen to the nonsense of her rival Nayun just blocks her (as in 'ignore player' function).
    - She notices the player named 'Extra7' who is covered in the finest p2w gear from head to toe. It turns out she started playing this game only because she found out Hajin plays it too. She doesn't feel she's ready to meet him yet so all she can do is look at him from distance and smile softly.

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    Dreaming (8)
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    - The Royal Guild is preparing to go attend the event (the conference I mentioned before, something concerning obtaining the rights for unclaimed monster hunting grounds, I'll refer to it as 'event' in the future).
    - Rachel also held the press-conference where she announced the dismissal of the loyal dude who hired Hajin. The public calmed down a bit after that.
    - As they prepare an excited guild member rushes in and tells someone sponsored them a mountain of top-notch equipment, appliances for traveling, etc. The sponsor is anonymous but there's a card which says 'From a fellow CUBE student'.
    - The sender also says he still uses the coat she gifted him in the past and it serves him well (a reference to the early chapters of the original TNE).
    - Rachel realizes who it is and is glad he's doing so well.
    - The Royal Guild and guilds from Japan and Switzerland arrive to China and move out to the event area.
    - Hajin follows them on a stealth helicopter.
    - The guild reaches the vast field with various paths.
    - The Swiss guild catches up with them and offers to travel together while indirectly ridiculing them. Rachel refuses, the Swiss guild moves on.
    - They don't know which path to take but the retired loyal dude's secretary is now in contact with Hajin and clumsily pretends she maintains contact with a local citizen and tells which path to take while she takes directions from Hajin.
    - When they take a break Rachel pressures the secretary to hand over the crystal she uses to contact Hajin.
     
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    Chapter 9
    Dreaming (9)
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    - A conversation between Xtra and Rachel, she agrees to receive his help for now but his way of speaking to her irritates her. Also, friendly reminder that she doesn't know that Xtra = Hajin.
    - While the Royal guild takes a break the members tease Rachel about who the sponsor might be. Some think that it's Shin Jonghak since spending so much money wouldn't be difficult for him.
    - Rachel seems to have some hazy and cryptic dream. Wakes up.
    - Another conversation between Xtra and Rachel. He gives her some hints but she still doesn't realize he's Hajin. As for the reason he accepted the job he claims he is Rachel's fan. He starts throwing sticks at her out of boredom. In the end they make a bet: if Rachel manages to catch/deflect at least one stick he throws he gives her full refund and owes her one wish. So far the bet isn't progressing very well for Rachel.

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    - Turns out Hajin is shooting sticks with Black Lotus Bow. He's surprised by its great performance.
    - Contemplates his and Rachel's worldviews. Decides to help Rachel grow by awakening anger inside her, hence the bet.
    - Continues to shoot sticks and tells her to use her spirit skills but her tutor said not to incorporate spirits with her rapier technique. Hajin wonders why she has to listen to such crappy tutor.
    - The Royal guild moves out. Rachel lost the bet obviously. She now takes directions from Xtra, he also teases her constantly.
    - The secretary girl wonders why such competent merc as Xtra accepted the contract and even gave them a discount. Maybe there's love involved.
    - 4 days later, Rachel still hasn't deflected a single stick. Xtra urges her to use spirit power. After she subconsciously does that he still hits her. She's devastated but Xtra cheers her on and tells that not everything can be done at once and she should keep practicing using spirit power.
    - On the way to the event location magical storm starts and very strong monsters appear. Hajin tells the guild to take cover and starts shooting the monsters.
     
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    Wtf. The forum keeps editing my last post instead of adding the new one. Anyway, I'll just post chapters 11-14 here for now.

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    Dreaming (11)
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    - Rachel protects her team from magical storm by using spirits of different elements and suffers from a strong recoil.
    - Meanwhile, some unknown assailants with an intent to target the group.
    - Hajin notices them and starts attacking with his helicopter. After losing some people they use some means to retreat instantly and Hajin can't pursue them.
    - Hajin is having a trouble with an upper-intermediate rank 1 monster in the magical storm. Wins in the end, obviously.
    - Goes to the team location (which is suspended in the air by the wind spirits atm after falling off a cliff), finds an uncounscious wounded Rachel but she opens her eyes for a moment, looks at him and faints again.
    - Hajin is sure that someone in the team is a traitor.
    - Someone is having a dream about Rachel's childhood and about Lancaster being one of the few adults she liked back then.
    - Rachel wakes up, speaks with Xtra over the communication crystal, his tone is much softer towards her now.
    - Rachel is happy she was able to protect the team (which is currently asleep due to overexposure to magic and spirit power) with her own strength.

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    - The team wakes up, they feel sorry that they were useless during the crisis. The secretary girl uses her healing and regen ability on Rachel.
    - Rachel and the secretary reveal the fact that Xtra is helping them, team discusses him for a bit.
    - Suddenly the members' smartwatch gets a message (which shouldn't be possible since there's no communication in this part of the world) that the British Royal Guild has passed the first test.
    - Meanwhile, Hajin has made a leather breastplate out of the skin of the monster he defeated and wonders how he should pass it to Rachel.
    - Hajin wonders why he had a strange dream about Rachel's childhood and Lancaster still being a good guy.
    - Suddenly also receives a smartwatch message which states that he passed the first test and earned the qualification to enter 'The Hall' as well as the team. The message states he's affiliated with the British Royal Guild.
    - Turns out it's one of the novel settings Hajin discarded when he was writing the novel.
    - Meanwhile, Aileen is looking at 'The Hall' and comments on current teams' standings. Essence of the Strait with Chae Nayun is currently the 1st place, Kim Suho's guild is 2nd, Royal Guild is 17th (which is not too bad since 200 guilds are participating).
    - The system also ranks the individual achievement points. Nayun is 1st, Suho is 2nd and Xtra is 8th.
    - Aileen and Jin Seyeon discuss why the hell is he the only mercenary who got assigned to the guild by the system.
    - 'The system' is the unassigned hunting ground itself which guilds are competing for. It's intelligent and can communicate.
    - Nayun, Yeonha and other Essence of The Strait heroes enter 'The Hall' and Aileen greets them.
    - Meanwhile Xtra urges Rachel to make her team take a break near the lake. Rachel leads the team to the mentioned lake.

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    Dreaming (13)
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    - Team is discussing Xtra and why he killed the promising lad.
    - Suddenly the team learns how to take out cards out of the certificate of passing the test that can be converted to something real, similar to Tower of Miracles cards.
    - Xtra delivers a custom-made healing elixir to Rachel with a wooden arrow. It tastes like crap.
    - Xtra explains all the details about the cards to Rachel, how to best use them, what they require to be used, etc.
    - 'The Hall' keeps sending spam-like messages about how miraclous it is and how participants should look forward to what comes next. Nayun is annoyed by the messages but thinks it must be the place where the stone shards she needs are located.
    - Yeonha who is Nayun's roommate demonstrates that she can create a cup of ramen with the certificate they got.
    - A comedy segment about Nayun wanting the ramen since Yeonha doesn't eat such things and Yeonha insisting to throw it away later herself.
    - Nayun's thoughts about how Yeonha always moves forward, always calculating something, always attending meetings, giving orders, meeting the right people, never resting and never complaining.
    - Yeonha has an expensive portable bed she's proud of. Hajin made it with Young Dwarf's Dexterity and put on sale earlier. Nayun sniffs the bed, Yeonha goes wtf and then goes to sleep.
    - Nayun looks at the Regression Crystal and thinks of the time she regressed and about the time when she will regress again.
    - Looks at the stars and thinks of all the people she met and about one person in particular.
    - The team arrives to the entrance of the huge maze.
    - Xtra guides them, everything goes smoothly until the maze starts getting creepier and creepier. Then the communication with Xtra is lost.
    - Rachel realizes that this place is the palace where one of the tragedies of England occured and countless innocents were slaughtered.
    - Assailants from earlier appear and comment on how difficult it was to deal with that annoying one (Xtra).
    - Assailants ask Rachel if she remembers them. She does, they are relatives of those who died on that massacre day, same as Lancaster.

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    Chapter 14
    Dreaming (14)
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    - The battle begins.
    - Attackers summon another magical storm, Rachel protects the team with her spirit magic.
    - Then something big and metallic falls down and becomes a shield against the magical storm. A person wearing the gas mask lands on it and tells Rachel to go, he'll take care of this.
    - Also tells her to stop having stupid thoughts of 'if I take my life, will these people forgive England?.
    - Throws a small mechanical puppy to Rachel and tells her it will guide her.
    - Rachel wants to stay and help Xtra but her team drags her off.
    - Hajin pov.
    - He comments on how the team was trapped within an isopation barrier and how he couldn't do anything outside of it and had to crash his helicopter through it.
    - The system gave him Black Lotus' Dark Arrow before and he plans to use it to defeat the attackers.
    - They ridicule him how he fell for the princess who can't love anyone in return and how she'll betray him too.
    - He doesn't listen to their bullshit and kills three with one shot with Dark Arrow. Their counterattack leaves a wound on him and he thinks it's time to use the SP he collected.
    - The team reaches 'The Hall'. They are impressed by its gaudy interior and are greeted by Aileen.
    - Aileen wonders why Xtra isn't with them. Aileen is pretty rude to Rachel, only because Rachel is much taller than her. The team is also surprised by the fact that Aileen knows Xtra should be with them.
    - The next test starts the day after 20 guilds total enter 'The Hall'.
    - Jin Seyeon is much more polite and shows the team around.
    - Rachel sits in her room and thinks about who might Xtra be. One person comes to mind but that guy was a gun user and Xtra seems to be a bow user.
    - Secretary girl comes in and tells Rachel that her mother also died on the massacre day. Tells Rachel not to blame herself and comforts her.
    - The Xtra communication crystal Rachel has starts twinkling.