Creating Hidden Endings

chapter 5

I, too, was curious about its huge popularity and started playing the game. The game introduction that I read while downloading ‘The Return of the D-Class Hunter’ was about a D-class hunter, Lee Jehee, who became a ‘transcendent’ through the awakening skill and returned every time he died. 

As a result, the player starts playing as Lee Jaehee, a D-class who has just acquired the awakening ability. Because there is no save device in the game, we will return to the beginning when the character dies. The good news is that, following the setting of a returning ‘Transcendent,’ it restarts while keeping skill and level-up stats.

Therefore, the reward or progression line for ‘The Return of the D-Class Hunter’ changes completely depending on the current recruit, the time of death, and the progress method. Among them, the most important point is ‘when will you die.’ So, it was difficult to clear the dungeon or build a liking with the character without a strategy book shared by users. 

Thanks to this, I also died a lot on purpose while looking for a strategy book. I think I died about 300 times to develop the main character’s ability. Still, I almost quit because of my mental breakdown when I died while catching the keymaster at the last minute. 

Fuck, I should have quit back then— If so, then I probably wouldn’t have gone through what I’m going through today.

Anyway, this ‘The Return of The D-Class Hunter’ was a PC game centered on single-player. Still, at the same time, it was a cooperative game in which you were required to gather fellow NPCs. 

In other words, Lee Jehee must first recruit his ideal colleague before exploring the dungeon to develop his character. Also, it was a game that frequently prevented outbreaks that burst into events. When they discover and defeat the keymaster, the final boss, they will see the ending.

Lee Jehee was technically an S-grade in the setting. Still, he is a hunter with unmeasurable powers whose stats change based on how many times he has regressed.

In the last play where I saw the ending, the experience points accumulated through more than 300 crazy regressions continued. I took the highest stats as a swordsman and a wizard. As a regressor’s privilege, I was monopolizing all kinds of hidden skills and top-class items. 

At this point, it can be said to be the final king of the world. 

Of course, I don’t know how many times Lee Jehee has returned here, but I don’t think it will be a small number of times considering the atmosphere. 

However, as is the case with popular hero films these days, the main character, Lee Jehee, was neither a good person nor a bad person. 

Relentlessly cold to the enemy. That was Lee Jehee’s motto.

However, if he had a friendly and warm personality toward his people, then that was also not the case. This is because the present is an illusion to Lee Jehee, who may return to the past at any time.

Can such a guy show his sincerity to someone? Does the reality he’s living right now feel like his life? 

In the character introduction, it said no. Lee Jehee had no intention of living in the present with all his might. He never knows when everything will go back to reset. 

So maybe that’s why his mind is a little crazy. I know it well because I’ve played a sub-quest that kills anyone whenever I want to see how the future changes. There, collecting all the death endings gave me a hidden skill, so I was pretty excited. 

In short, he’s just a handsome crazy guy.

And I was like, “That’s a fun character when playing games.” Now that the game has become a reality, it only felt scary. I don’t know if he was hit by the ending. It meant that at any time, he could commit such a crazy act without hesitation.