One day in March, that first month of spring when the flowers are in bloom and the birds are putting everything into their song, 9-year-old Evan D. Sherden, second son of the Marquis, had a very vivid and strange dream.

In this dream, Evan was an ordinary youngster living in an imaginary world called the “Earth,” and he was involved in a “role-playing game” — a game that lasts hundreds, if not thousands of hours.

There were many characters in this game, each with their unique traits and abilities, but one of them in particular had the unique trait of dying very quickly.

Evan grew to have something of an obsession with this moribund character. Every time the character died, Evan would reset the game and try to prevent the character’s death by adopting different strategies. Still, no matter what he did, he was unable to stop his character from dying. To make matters worse, every time he reset the game it seemed like his character would die ever more miserably.

These deaths were hardly heroic: his character often died by accidentally stepping on a land mine or being hit by a poisoned arrow intended for someone else. He would even die from falling over on the street. Other deaths could be even more humiliating: he’d end up drinking poison, thinking it was something else. But merely drinking anything too fast would be lethal to him.

Evan’s character would walk into the path of an evil troupe and rapidly succumb to their manipulative dark magic. Their magic would be fatal to him, naturally.

Ever more calamitous were the times when Evan’s character would come across a dungeon treasure box. In his excitement, he would simply stare at the box and forget to open it. Then the box would punish his lack of haste by releasing poisonous gas that would surround him and send him to his deadly sleep.

The character was met with many a tragic fate: he often bore the brunt of unexpected counterattacks from better-equipped foes. He could be regularly observed being cruelly murdered by giant monsters as he ran towards them.

When he did catch up to the monsters, they would always punish him with their blades. There seemed to be nothing Evan could do to save his character from a swift mortal judgment.

One time the character’s girlfriend grew jealous, and proceeded to kill him in cold blood. Talk about terminal relationship.

The magic of King Yo-ma also had a particularly cruel tendency to end the character’s life.? Here then, Evan eventually realized, was a character who seemed to face an unfortunate death no matter what!

Where on Earth could all of this tragedy possibly happen to just one individual?

Evan knew the answer. So do many others. This role-playing game of boundless freedom and relentless possibility is a massive hit on Earth. It appears in “The Deep Darkness of Dungeon City” Episode 3. Still, regardless of which route the player takes, the character would always die in vain. It looked as though this was the only possible outcome, at least as far as Evan D. Sherden could see.

How many times did this character die in this game? There are only a few CGs for the main character and a few CGs for each boss, but Evan’s Death must have been favored by the production team. Starting with convincing analysis. It’s a game you can’t clear until Evan dies. “The whole world is hoping for Evan’s death.” It was public belief that Evan’s presence in the game was blocking the powers of King Yo-ma, making it impossible for anyone to enter the final battle until Evan died.

Evan was becoming something of a cult figure within the game, attracting venomous comments laden with schadenfreude. It was common to hear such sentiments as: ”I love Evan running straight for death anytime, anywhere!” There were malicious comments that reflected on the disconnect between Evan’s lively appearance and his uncanny tendency to drop dead in the most ugly of circumstances. “It’s so thrilling that a handsome young man always dies in vain”. People were not exactly shy to voice their sadistic ideas on the situation: “I love it so much that I want to save the dead Evan and kill him again.” Evan was certainly attracting cult popularity among a sinister group of players.

There were even a few perverted players who conspired to secure Evan’s terrible fates time and time again.

“NO, that’s my story! Ahhhhhhhhh!”

“Sir, what’s the matter!”

That day, Evan, the second son of Marquis Sherden, who rules the city of Dungeon, remembered all? of his 29 years of life as a rebel. He remembered that he was a Korean Yeo Ban-Min.

Evan remembered how he had always died in vain in that game world — the world of “The Great Battle 3: The Deep Darkness of Sherden, the Dungeon City.” These memories were fraught with despair.

*? *? *

“I can’t die.”

Evan opened his eyes in the middle of the night. The room was pitch black. Evan was sweating slightly after struggling on his bed for hours in an as-of-yet futile attempt to revive the memories of his past life. Now though, his efforts had paid off and the memories clicked into place.

“I can’t just sit still and die like this!” Evan shouted into the air, the perspiration dripping from his forehead.

Evan leapt up from his bed. His body, a body that hinted only at the passing of nine years of life, now felt utterly strange and somewhat fragile to Evan as his mind began to assimilate the memory of his previous life and reconcile it with his present reality.

But this now, this right here, this was the definitely the reality. He was Evan D. Sherden, not a Yeo Ban-Min, and this world was very similar to the world in the game of the Battle of Yo-ma 3. Noticing the incredible similarity for the first time, Evan realised that the inevitable must happen here as it did there. The day was on its way. That day of mortal fate put in motion. The day Evan dies in vain!

That this was certain was clear to Evan in the way the world was far too similar to the game. He didn’t stop to consider why this was the case; he just knew that his memories were real and that they would lead to his certain death in his present reality.

“I have to come up with a solution” he thought out loud.

But how? Thinking about the countless crises ahead of him just drew a blank. But at times like this, he must stay calm. The memory of 29 years weighed down on him, the despair of countless deaths replaying over and over in his mind. No longer was he an ordinary nine-year-old boy. “Right, I’ll just write down everything I know. Everything I remember about the game world will be valuable information.”

He ran to his desk and sat on his chair. He turned on a lamp that operates as a mana stone, an energy source mined in Dungeon. And an unassuming notebook lying on the desk. This wasn’t just any old notebook though. This was “Free records,” an artifact commonly unearthed in Dungeon. With this, Evan could freely write whatever he wanted, modify whatever he wanted, and it even had security features so that no one else besides him could examine its contents.

When he had used it before he had thought it to be an amazing tool. But now, with the addition of his other set of memories he saw the artifact’s similarity with a computer’s document function.

“First of all, first of all…Yeah” Evan readied himself mentally to start the task of recounting his memories.

Evan picked up his favorite quill pen, dipped it in an ink bottle (what better writing equipment for a marquis’ son?) and murmured in a lugubrious voice.

“Let’s record all my deaths.”

Yeo Ban-min, an ordinary young Korean man, first came across the “Yo-ma Great War” series when he was sixteen.

Although the first work of the “Yo-ma Great War” series, “Yo-ma great war 1,” wasn’t as graphically-rich as other games, the story’s charm was so great as to render the story’s graphical shortcomings irrelevant. Yeo Ban-min, a rather sensitive boy, fell in love with the “Yo-ma Great War.”

Having completed the game entirely in just three days, he played the game repeatedly and looked forward to the next series to get released.

“How could I have possibly died from a slime?” Evan thought. “That hadn’t been a good ending. It hadn’t been good at all.”

In the sequel to “Yo-ma Great War” many aspects of the game were changed. Yeo Ban-min enjoyed spotting all the changes, even the minor changes like the alteration to the heroine’s story in the post-game sequence.

Thanks to the success of “Yo-ma Great War 1,” the production team had been able to raise their budget to produce “Yo-ma Great War 2”. As a result, there was a huge improvement in combat convenience, especially in the graphics, that many players were thrilled to find out about.

Yeo Ban-min, of course, cleared Yo-ma Great War 2 in just one week.

“No, how could you have died in such a simple trap? That doesn’t even make sense.”

After the “Yo-ma Great war 2,” “Yo-ma Great War Zero” was released. This game depicted the story of an ancient Taoist playing against King Yo-ma. It kept the historical setting of the previous entries in the Yo-ma Great War series, but this new instalment allowed players to work cooperatively. There were grand dungeons and mystical magic, as before.

As you might have imagined, Yeo Ban-min cleared Zero in no time: just 10 days. Yeo Ban-min, ever the critic of these game’s stories, found it regrettable that they did not reveal the ancient Taoist’s identity, but everything else he found simply perfect.

“Oh, it’s good to be born handsome, but why do all these women turn out to be such psychos? Forty-six endings where I’m stabbed to death by a woman? Are you kidding me?”

A few years later, when Yeo Ban-min became a college student, Yo-ma Great War 3 was released. This had masterful graphics, loads of new abilities to use, plenty of scenarios to play through, and total freedom to users. Here was a masterpiece that improved on everything that had come before.

Those who had overlooked the previous Yo-ma Great War entry could not ignore this third instalment in the series. Depending on how the main character is nurtured, the ending was divided into hundreds of detailed scenarios, with three-dimensional personalities given to every supporting character. The supporting characters even had the agency to go about their own lives, and their own decisions would influence the outcome! Anyone who played the game referred to it as “God” without hesitation.

“Well, the succubus…this god was pretty good. It was all downhill after that but you know…”

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Yeo Ban-min also indulged in Yo-ma Great War 3. Along with playing the main character’s quest, he traveled around the dungeon city of Sherden to complete every side-quest the game had to offer and really get to grips with everything the game had to offer.

Particularly in this third entry in the series, the ability to connect with multiple women was expanded, so Yeo Ban-min tried his best to achieve the so-called “Harem Route Condition.” He succeeded.

“How did he die? Oh, poison… That’s such a cliché.”

A secondary character who somehow ends up dying no matter how the main character advances the story… that must be Evan D. Sherden’s character’s role. The second son of Marquis, the owner of Dungeon city, reduced to just a pawn who needed to die for the game to finish.

“He must be the character who dies for the main character. That’s right, where’s no force like the main member, but he’s loyal, and he was quick to get over if he worked on it a little bit. Even five endings where you’re beaten to death. Why are you shoving a warrior on a wizard and getting hit by a knife instead, you little brat! No, this is me!”

Yeo Ban-min felt a kind of fate at that moment. It was in that moment that he realised his sense of duty as a gamer. If the game is this heavily dependent on its players, then there must be an ending for Evan! If the main character’s ability to overcome even King Yo-ma, the ultimate king, will undoubtedly save Evan! It doesn’t matter. It eventually becomes a happy ending. I’ll save Evan somehow! Now determined to carry out this mission, Yeo Ban-min began to play the game with abandon. If Evan dies: restart, restart. If he dies, just restart….

“Getting poisoned, being assassinated, dying from a sprained foot, meeting the final boss too soon? Dying from a dungeon curse…”

Although there was a moment when Yeo Ban-min yes turned to the newer “Yo-ma Great War 4: The Secret of the New Generation,” he ended up returning to “Yo-ma Great War 3.” He still had to save Evan.

Yo-ma Great War 4 was set five years after Yo-ma Great War 3, but Evan did not appear in this fourth instalment. Damn those producers!

“Death, Death, Death…Death. Dumped by my fiancée… suicide… what a way to go.”

But in the end, Yeo Ban-min found it impossible. It didn’t matter how much time he invested in it. He spent six years in Yo-ma Great War 3 trying to save Evan but never managed to do it.

His last memory as Yeo Ban-min was when Evan pushed the main character out of the final match and was killed by the curse of King Yo-ma instead.

As no gamer was high-levelled enough to take Evan into the final battle without killing him, Yeo Ban-min was perhaps the only one who knew the truth.

“There’s nothing I can do. He dies. That’s that.”

Evan can’t be saved.

The main character cannot save Evan.

“But I have to save him.”

I am Evan, no one else.

Evan D. Sherden.

“You have to live.”

Evan glanced through the notes of all his deaths and breathed deeply. He seemed to calm down a little now.

“Okay.”

I’ll never die. Never.

“Let’s get started.”

Evan had come to a conclusion. He tapped his cheeks as a way of signaling to himself that he had made up his mind.

He would become a character who never dies.

In a world where dungeons exist, monsters dominate, knights play an active part, wizards cast magic on a grand scale… What is the best way not to die in this world?

“Level up.”

Evan ate the watery soup that the maid brought him and quietly muttered to himself. In short, the level is the key to keep existing. As the level rises, the wizard increases the mana. The spells become dominant, and the warrior becomes more durable and more reliable. It was a straightforward equation of growth.

But Maybell, a 13-year old apprentice, heard his mumble, spoke out as if she was amazed.

“You’re going into Dungeon, Master? No way, your mother will get a heart attack.”

“I was talking to myself, Maybell.”

“You should not even think of it in your dreams, Master. You have a noble’s duty, you must enter the dungeon when you become an adult, and until then, you must get an education. Please don’t go until you grow up.”

“Yes, I got it. I know it well. Thank you for the soup.”

Evan returned the empty bowl to the maid with an inward smile. He wasn’t just talking to himself. He deliberately leaked the word “level” to induce her reaction.

And given the immediate connection of dungeons to the word “level,” it was clear that there was a flaw in the knowledge of the people in this society.

‘No, of course, I am only nine years old as Evan. I have to make a rough guess.’

But no matter what, Evan is only nine years old. There is no guarantee that his knowledge will necessarily match with the general understanding of the people in this world. That’s why he went through the process of proving check with his maid.

So, what was the fact that he was just able to confirm with his own words and the maid’s reaction, and that’s…

“The misunderstanding that level can only be gained when entering a dungeon.”

No, of course, it’s not that their perception is entirely wrong. In dungeons, the level certainly rises, and it was apparent.

When he completely conquered a floor of the dungeon with his colleagues, it would take them to the next level, whether they like it or not.

The original skills will grow, and sometimes, methods and magic that never existed before were created.

‘It’s easy to understand, easy to accept.’

When the unknown space of dungeons appeared in the world for the first time, people were terrified. There was also a rumor that the building was built by the King as a bridgehead to invade the human world from the world of monsters.

But those who entered the dungeon and conquered the dungeon became stronger by God’s blessing and began to acquire treasures that had never been heard of outside of the dungeon. What would have happened?

They shouldn’t allow people to run wild over a dungeon!

The country immediately sent a nobleman to manage the dungeon and build a city near to it, systematically possessing the dungeon and getting control over who can enter it.

The Marquis, Evan’s father, Sorine D. Sherden, was also an influential aristocrat. They had been in charge of the dungeon for generations under the orders of the King. If nothing extraordinary happens, Evan’s brother, Eric D. Sherden, will take over the duty.

Eric D. Sherden can grow to be the leading member of a warrior party. A second son was not needed.

…No, it’s not important for now.

‘But ta-da! In fact, I’m saying that level could be gained not only by going to dungeons.’

There was a different way of gaining a level, and that path is what Evan is going to take from now on!

Evan smiled, recalling the myriad of work with the main character in his previous life as a gamer. The maid caught the wicked smile that did not suit the nine-year-old boy.

“Sir?”

“Nothing, Maybell.”

Evan smiled at Maybell as if he is trying to cover up his mistake. As Evan is a good-looking guy from the series, he still has a charm that can’t be hidden even at the age of nine.

That could fascinate a thirteen-year-old maid Maybell!

“Huh, you look the best when you smile like that, sir.”

“No, Maybell. I’m afraid I can’t laugh as much as I can.”

“Why?! You look cute…great when you smile!”

At Evan’s firm answer, Maybell got startled and shouted. However, Evan could not help but think about Maybell, who appears as one of the Marquis’s maids in the main episode of the game.

Maybell, who grew up beautifully, falls in love with Evan. In the story, Maybell will appear and stab Evan in the stomach.

It was because he abandoned her for another woman.

‘There are five more storylines of other maids stabbing him with a knife-even the CG is different every time! Why did the producers make six different CGs for Evan to be stabbed to death by a maid? Evan, how much have you seduced women?’

Evan, who was born again, had no intention of getting involved in any strange relationship with the maids. Falling in love with maids will surely lead him to death!

For the same reason, it was also good not to love any other woman as much as possible. No, it’s best not to tempt in the first place!

So, he won’t smile in the future!?I will never seduce a woman! I was born as a handsome man, damn it!

“Maybell, when is my birthday?”

He tried to change the subject with tears in his heart.

Now that he has checked people’s perception of level, he got to figure out how to survive…He pushes to project number one into action.

The name of project number one is “Level Up.”

“it’s next Wednesday, Master.”

“Next Wednesday… I can’t wait until then. I’d like you to tell my father I want to see him right away.”

“Maybe he’d say no, but…All right, Master. I’ll talk to him, please don’t move until then. Because you’re still recuperating.”

He was treated like a patient because he had been struggling on the bed all day long while he regained his memory.

“Okay, I’ll just wait and see.”

Evan answered gently and sent Maybell out and thought about what he had to get from his father, Sorine D. Sherden.

‘Miraseul’s Necklace’

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It was the first artifact that Sheriden Family found in Sherden Dungeon. It was kept as a family heirloom.

But… it stayed simply as a family heirloom. No one knew how to use this artifact, so it was stuck in the family’s storage.

‘It looks gorgeous with a variety of jewels and looks like it got a lot of magic.’

In fact, there was an event to acquire this artifact in the game.

It was an event that was challenging, where you need to achieve some conditions in advance, investigate history, and get stronger.

Of course, this event also led to Evan’s death.

‘Evan and I have been busy trying to get recognition from the family. In the dungeon, he has gathered all sorts of times and offered them to the people involved in the Marquis. I have to put a lot of effort to get an artifact.’

However, the artifact cannot be given to just anyone. I had to commit brotherhood with Evan to be recognized for his artifact ownership.

Did the event end with the recognition of ownership? Of course not!

From then on, another event begins to unlock with the secrets of this artifact. At this point, Evan is still working together to help the main character, even finding a spell to invoke artifacts from the ancient documents!

“Ah, ah ah ah ah.”

Evan shuddered at the thought of the event that took place from that moment,

It was one of the five most memorable death scenes for Evan! Just to think of it gives him a trauma.

The moment Evan snapped off the Miraseul’s Necklace, the artifact burst with magic… an absurd number of slimes came out of it and covered Evan’s whole body! Just slimes! All the players who saw the event were furious.

“Slime… Miraseul! Are you kidding me, producer?”

“It’s only level one normal slime that I can bring from this artifact I’ve earned from hard work, you bastards!”

“No, and slimes even attacking the summoner! Evan, you’re bleeding! Bleeding!”

“Wow, thousands of slimes are attacking all at once…oh, I’m dying. Evan is dying. There’s never a single time in a crisis that he won’t die!”

Even at the time, Evan only knew how to invoke the artifact, and he didn’t know how to stop it, and slimes continued to swell and attack Evan.

Sticky, acidic mucus melts Evan, melts… The main character is surprised to see the scene.

The main character tries to save him, but Evan is already dead covered in Slime. Video footage of the event from beginning to end became the best of the month, decorating the main screen of the Yo-ma Great War fan website. With the title “Evan Died #36: Slime Funeral”…

‘The game scenario ends with summoning a number of Slimes that you could not get out of… in the middle and second half of the game. Naturally, players avoided that event. Evan maniacs like me were terrified,’

But at this moment, Evan was looking at the potential for growth in that artifact.

Why? Because when he was playing the game as the main character, when he swung a sword to save Evan and killed one Slime… he discovered something.

– You got 1 Experience.

Yes.

If he can catch Slime summoned with the Miraseul’s Necklace, he will be rewarded with experience.

Another level, the level of existence, without having to get in a dungeon.

He can get the experience needed!

Every human action is given a corresponding result value.

The word experience, in relation to dungeons, will immediately come to mind, but really, it is existence level that makes growing and building up experience possible.

To train in swordsmanship, to qualify in chess, to use mana, to recite spells, to mop, to study… or hunt a monster!

In all such situations, human beings, gain experience whether many or few and rise in existence levels and becomes stronger.

People think that growing in dungeon levels is what’s worth the effort, but it shouldn’t be that way. What’s more important for the player is to grow in existence levels along with the dungeon levels.

Growth in existence level is not as dramatic as compared to rising in the dungeon level, but it is miraculous enough in itself.

There is no choice but to adapt the speed of dungeon level growth depending on one’s ability, but existence level had no such limit.

Still and repetitive efforts in every single time – anyone can surely grow if they can endure a dull and tedious process.

Leveling up, especially by hunting monsters, is no exception.

That’s why people loved dungeons.

It was a place where we could be rewarded if we tried!

‘But,’ he thought, ‘Evan is still so young, so he can’t get into the dungeon yet. It’s even worse to go outside the city where wild monsters roam… but what if you summon slime from an artifact? What if slime was weak enough for a child to kill?’

The Miraseul’s Necklace could call up slimes.

At existence level 1 and dungeon level 1, both the slime and the main character only have HP (health point) 100 and MP 100, so even Evan can kill a few of them!

‘Miraseul’s necklace is an artifact that could speed up Evan’s growth. It didn’t mean much to high-level characters.’

By killing a level 1 slime, you could get 1 experience value. Such low value means nothing to high-level characters.

But for someone who is just at level 1, like Evan?

He would surely grow faster, killing slimes rather than sticking to his desk and study for ten hours!

This is how the Level-Up Project begins!

‘And if I keep doing it from now on while I am only nine years old, I could get stronger by the time a maid tries to stab me! And then – ‘

His thoughts were cut off by a maid’s voice.

“Lord, the Marquis is waiting.”

“Oh, yeah. I’ll be right there.”

It was a different maid, not Maybell. Evan jumped out of bed, dressed up, and followed her out of the room.

‘Wow, if you sell all the paintings on the wall, you’ll earn enough for the rest of your life!’ he thought, as they walked through the hallway.

It was the same hallway that he walked through just yesterday. But now that he has regained the memory of his previous life, he is fascinated by the items in the mansion. It was as expected for a mansion where the head of the city dungeon lived.

As he looked through the hallway with fresh eyes, the maid asked him quietly.

“I’ve heard from Maybell that you want a birthday present in advance.”

“Yes. There’s something I really want.”

“But don’t be too demanding. The Marquis is still busy with the backflow of the Dungeon.”

“Yes, I know.”

The dungeon backflow is a phenomenon in which the monsters of the Dungeon overflow outside.

In the early days of the Dungeon’s discovery, it was what made people call the Dungeon the ‘den of the devil’.

Destruction was inevitable, and the people living near it suffered.

However, they soon learned that dungeon backflows regularly happen every three months. As such, hunters were able to devise ‘cleaning’ – a regular schedule of hunting monsters inside the dungeon and defeating the overflows. Human adaptability!

However, this time, the cleaning was a little unfortunate, and it caused a lot of damage.

It was terrible timing to beg for something, but he can’t help it.

Because he has to grow up a little faster and survive!

‘The main character is 16 years old by the time the main episode happens. Evan is four years older than the main character, so… 20 years. He would be 20 years old by then. 11 years to go. I have to keep him safe; he should not die before the main episode!’

He has to save himself from now on! Be careful of the road, of little monsters; be mindful of the poison; be wary of people, especially the woman with the knife!

Evan focused on reviewing the precautions carefully in his head.

When he came to his senses, he had already arrived in front of the room where the Marquis is waiting for him.

The maid gently knocked on the door of the library to announce Evan’s visit. “I’ve brought Evan, master.”

Soon, beyond the door came the Marquis’ deep voice.

“Tell him to come in. You should go back to work.”

“Okay.”

The maid gently twisted the doorknob open, and backed away, opening the door for him. The series of refined and courteous movements amazed Evan. These movements were unfamiliar in his 29 years of living on Earth.

“Why are you still standing by the door, Evan?” the Marquis’ voice startled him.

“Oh, yeah. Father.”

Evan stepped into the library.

The first things he saw were the mountains, mountains, and mountains of papers piled in front of his father. Behind the mountains, he could see the Marquis’ face.

“Come closer here. The fatigue I have accumulated so far is gone just by looking at your face,” the Marquis said.

The Marquis was a middle-aged man who gave the impression that he was going to be very stubborn.

Frankly speaking, Evan does not look very much like him. They only had one thing in common – dark, deep violet eyes that noblemen have.

The rest of Evan’s features closely resembled his mother, who has dark hair, a sharp nose, and slender build.

Unbeknownst to the Marquis, Evan is very grateful that he looks more like his mother than his father.

“Father.”

“Yes, Evan. You came here yourself to beg for something?”

Marquis lifted Evan, his nine-year-old son, and sat him on his lap.

It didn’t suit the dignity of a nobleman, but why should he hide his affection?

The Marquis dotes on Evan, who looks just like his wife!

Evan was banking on this knowledge when he decided he would ask for a family heirloom.

“Well, I’d like to get my birthday present a little early.”

“You could wait for a few days, and I’ll let you have whatever you want. What’s the rush?”

“I really want the necklace I saw before.”

“The necklace? You?”

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The Marquis’ eyes opened wide at his son’s request. It was not what he expected.

A boy of this age usually wants a sword, armor, or a living animal.

But a piece of jewelry?

‘No, wait,’ the Marquis thought, confused. ‘The necklace he saw before? He is not talking about his mother or my second wife’s necklaces. So, what do we have? Come to think of it, what I just showed him one a while ago… you don’t think…’

“Is it the Miraseul’s Necklace?” he asked his son with curious eyes.

Evan nodded.

“I’d like to have that necklace with a bunch of little jewels.”

“I see. It’s not something you can take out recklessly. Didn’t I tell you about this?”

“But Father. I really want it.”

Evan looked up at the Marquis with tears in his purple eyes, eyes that were the same as his father.

A nine-year-old boy’s cuteness is powerful!

Its effect is extraordinary, and primarily when targeted at parents, its destructive power is to break through the universe!

“But Evan, no matter how insignificant the necklace may look, it is still an heirloom.”

‘I can’t easily give out the family heirloom,’ the Marquis thought with strong determination, which was gradually weakening as he looked at his son’s cuteness.

A theory came to his mind.

‘There’s a saying that the artifact chooses the right owner to have it. If the Miraseul’s Necklace chose Evan and he could bring out the true power of the necklace…’

The real ability is to summon level one slime, but the Marquis didn’t know that!

He looked at his son with a mournful expression and agonized repeatedly… then, he finally nodded.

“All right, Evan. I’ll give it to you.”

“Really? I love you!”

Evan cheered and hugged the Marquis. It doesn’t matter if the Marquis is a middle-aged man with a hairy face; he could’ve kissed a chimpanzee right now!

“But, there’s something to be careful about, Evan,” the Marquis calmed him down as he was jumping for joy.

‘Chimpanzees? No, focus,’ Evan thought. He tilted his head and asked. “What is it?”

“That’s because there’s a limit on the number of artifacts you can equip.”

All of a sudden, something like a game came up!

“The sword, armor, rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets… Up to five, regardless of the area. This is the limit to the ability of the magical armor and artifact. More than that is something our bodies cannot carry.”

“Okay…”

It was definitely the same in the game.

Therefore, when and where to wear certain artifacts is a critical issue.

The usual tactic was to carry a sword or armor and fill out the rest of the slots with artifacts.

“So if you grow up and need another artifact, take off the Miraseul’s Necklace and put it back in the storage. You don’t have to keep wearing a necklace that’s worth a lot of money.”

“Yes, I will!”

Evan’s original plan was to return it back when he could no longer raise the level with slimes. He won’t be able to level up forever with slimes that only give 1 experience point!

‘I wish I could check my existence level and skills,’ he thought, ‘but that’s impossible.’

That’s the conclusive proof that this world is not a game. With such thoughts, Evan sighed.

Anyways, what matters is that he got the Miraseul’s Necklace successfully.

Project number one, “Level-Up”, was in operation.