Epilogue

After Yuseong closed the rift, the world fell into great chaos.

The collapse of the Human Alliance that lost its center of gravity.

The emergence of powerful transcendent beings that made the monsters who had driven humanity to extinction look like ‘mere things’.

And something that played with such transcendent beings like toys.

In the face of these numerous threats, skepticism arose about whether humanity could survive at all, and despair and fear swept across the world.

However, such chaos did not last long.

Han Yuseong.

Under his achievements, humanity overcame numerous hardships and rebuilt civilization.

Yuseong united heroes and the world under his powerful force and leadership, cured people infected by Outer Gods, and distributed goggles to turn people around the world into users.

No matter how numerous and powerful the monsters were, they were helpless before billions of users growing at speeds that defied common sense.

Humanity rapidly drove out the monsters and reclaimed Earth.

But Yuseong wasn’t satisfied with just that.

Yuseong argued that Earth needed to be rapidly developed using the power of the goggles to prepare for future threats.

“We need to actively use the goggles. Besides downgraded goggles, we should mass produce and distribute original goggles.”

There was a strong argument from Yuseong behind this.

After experiencing the gods’ invasion, Yuseong realized how weak he was, how fragile humanity was.

Though they barely managed to stop them by using Outer Gods following the principle of using enemies against each other, they didn’t know when gods or comparable beings might appear again.

No matter how strong he became alone, or how many users there were with growth limits, it would be impossible to stop such crises.

“Ignore minor side effects. Martial arts, magic, supernatural abilities, technology, materials from other dimensions. Whatever it is, bring everything possible to strengthen humanity as a whole.”

As numerous users ransacked numerous worlds bringing numerous things, chaos occurred as expected.

But in the end, the advantages outweighed the disadvantages.

Martial arts and sorcery brought from murim worlds.

Magic and magical studies brought from fantasy worlds.

Technology and products of super-science brought from SF worlds.

Along with knowledge, equipment, studies, culture, and resources that didn’t exist on Earth.

As all those things harmonized into one, humanity developed at a terrifying speed.

Everyone learned martial arts and magic as if it was natural, and suits, unmanned weapons, and battleships made with cutting-edge science technology blended naturally into daily life.

What put the finishing touch on this was the birth of transcendents.

Starting with Yuseong who became the first transcendent through the Sun-Moon Ritual performed using karma gathered by all humanity, numerous transcendents were born and humanity gained confidence that they could protect themselves.

“We no longer need to fear beings from other dimensions. Now they should fear us.”

Humanity was no longer satisfied with just blocking beings from other dimensions.

After conquering Earth and expanding their influence beyond the Moon and Mars into space, humanity advanced into other dimensions to fundamentally block other dimensional beings that kept appearing and the damage they caused.

Using extremely advanced magic and technology.

They began opening dimensional gates using transcendents’ power to save worlds caught in dimensional wars and expand their influence.

An interdimensional alliance centered on Earth was born and its influence grew day by day.

Thus ended humanity’s childhood.

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[Hello viewers. I’m currently at Dragonia. Shortly, there will be a signing ceremony here for the Omphalos dimension to join the Earth Alliance. With this, the number of dimensions that have joined the Earth Alliance will finally surpass 100.]

[Though the Omphalos dimension doesn’t have special supernatural abilities or technology, it has a population of 4 billion, so the karma acquisition rate is expected to increase. According to calculations, within 3 months the 10,000th transcendent will be born, living up to the name of the Hall of Ten Thousand Gods……]

The man who once used the nickname OneLifeOneShot as a user, Kim Myung-hun, irritably pressed back.

“Damn it……”

He had no idea how things had turned out like this.

A world that would be destroyed after being caught in dimensional wars anyway.

To avoid risking his life fighting monsters and live even a little longer, he carelessly passed the goggles to someone he met online and went into hiding.

That was 5 years ago.

Humanity, which he thought wouldn’t last long before perishing, not only survived but developed rapidly to advance into other dimensions and now became a massive force encompassing numerous dimensions.

The number of affiliated dimensions was one hundred.

The number of divine status and transcendents approached ten thousand and all members became superhumans by learning martial arts and magic and raising their stats from the karma shop.

Even more frightening was that this wasn’t the end – they continued to develop, and at an increasingly faster rate.

Even if the gods who appeared in the past appeared again, the current humanity could defeat them.

Humanity no longer needed to worry about extinction.

This was good news for Kim Myung-hun who had abandoned everything and fled because he didn’t want to die.

“Damn it! Isn’t there a block function? I don’t want to see this bastard’s face!”

However, Kim Myung-hun’s mood was the worst.

In the advertisement playing before the video started, a man wreathed in brilliant light was receiving adoration from countless people.

That man’s name was Han Yuseong.

The person he had forcibly passed the goggles to right before monsters appeared.

At first he thought Yuseong wouldn’t last long before dying, but Yuseong survived and grew strong.

He became a hero standing shoulder to shoulder with other users, saved the world from numerous threats from other dimensions, and finally became the savior of the world, and furthermore, numerous dimensions.

“I could have been in that position.”

Kim Myung-hun himself knew best that this was nonsense.

Yuseong’s success was purely due to Yuseong’s excellence, and even if he had kept the goggles, he wouldn’t have measured up to Yuseong’s toenail.

But human emotions aren’t always rational.

Every time he saw Yuseong doing well with the goggles he had discarded, rage boiled up inside him.

‘Strictly speaking, he was able to become like that thanks to me giving him the goggles. If I went to find him, wouldn’t he give me something as his benefactor?’

Kim Myung-hun shook his head.

There was not even a speck of possibility of that.

Why was he still hiding in his room even though the world had become peaceful?

It was because he worried that Yuseong might come looking for him if he somehow noticed his existence.

Benefactor?

If he had properly explained everything and handed over the goggles that might be different, but he had disrupted Yuseong’s reason using abilities and forcibly sold them, so there was no way Yuseong would have good feelings toward him.

He would probably try to kill him the moment he saw him.

He didn’t want to take that risk.

Kim Myung-hun wanted to live as long as possible.

Grumble.

After watching NewTube videos and playing games in front of his computer for a long time, Kim Myung-hun picked up his smartphone at the rising hunger.

“What should I eat today.”

Since nothing particularly appealed to him, Kim Myung-hun casually ordered a menu he frequently ordered and turned his gaze to the monitor.

Ding dong!

“Huh?”

Kim Myung-hun tilted his head at the sudden doorbell.

It hadn’t even been a minute since he ordered delivery.

Thinking it must be someone’s mistake, he was about to turn his gaze back to the monitor when Kim Myung-hun froze at the doorbell ringing again and the voice that followed.

“……Who is it?”

“Delivery! You ordered chicken, right?”

“How did you get here so quickly when it hasn’t even been a minute since I ordered?”

“I learned lightness techniques so I’m pretty fast.”

“Hmm……”

This was an era where all sorts of super-science and magic tools were used in daily life and supreme martial arts manuals like Cloud Dragon Eight Forms and Diamond Immovable Body Technique circulated on the internet.

If they had pre-made food with preservation magic applied and a delivery person who learned lightness techniques departed immediately, it wasn’t completely impossible to arrive already.

Though it wasn’t completely impossible…….

‘Still, something feels off about being this fast.’

Ding dong! Ding dong!

Bang bang bang!

“Coming now!”

At the doorbell and knocking that wouldn’t stop, Kim Myung-hun finally walked toward the entrance.

It didn’t matter who was behind that door.

Though he had lost his user qualification, the power he had built up while active as a user remained intact.

If it was a real delivery person he would receive the food and if it was a robber he would teach them a lesson.

Click!

“Hello.”

“……Haah.”

“Why the sigh?”

“No, I had some strange thoughts because you came so unexpectedly fast.”

“Strange thoughts?”

“Yes. Like whether you might be a robber, things like that.”

“Me? As you can see, I’m just an ordinary person?”

“That’s true.”

The person outside the door was a delivery person so unremarkable it made his tension seem foolish.

If anything stood out, it would be their fashion.

Black leather gloves with slightly unusual decorations.

A deeply pulled hood and various accessories with a fantasy feel.

Shoes made of metal with a peculiar sheen.

In this era of exchange between countless dimensions.

With people wearing all sorts of outlandish outfits to the point of wondering if there were costume parties every day, this level was perfectly mundane, no, extremely ordinary.

‘Hmm, still ordinary looking at them again.’

So ordinary that he’d probably forget them immediately after closing the door and turning around.

“Here you go.”

“Yes.”

‘……Wait.’

The moment he was about to receive the bag the delivery person held out, Kim Myung-hun felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

A feeling like he had experienced a similar situation sometime before.

‘Right. Han Yuseong. It was exactly like this when I passed the goggles to that guy.’

A moment of silence.

And as some possibility occurred to him, Kim Myung-hun reflexively threw himself backward.

Unhesitating judgment and immediate execution, speed so fast it seemed to transcend space.

It was a lightning-fast response that even considerable experts wouldn’t be able to react to, but unfortunately his opponent was not good.

The delivery person who caught up to Kim Myung-hun so naturally dove in and buried their fist in his abdomen.

Boom!

“……Kuh!”

Though clearly flesh hit flesh, a sound like a bomb exploding rang out.

An impact that exceeded imagination.

He tried to somehow move his body to escape but couldn’t even twitch a finger.

A very familiar voice.

Why hadn’t he realized earlier.

Looking at the delivery person, no, Han Yuseong’s figure approaching through his blurry vision, Kim Myung-hun wore a dejected expression.

“I’ve been looking for you for a very long time.”

Survival, strength, wealth, honor, companions, emotions.

Everything he had gained until now was merely secondary.

Since becoming a user, Yuseong had only one goal.

To take revenge on OneLifeOneShot who had deceived him and passed on the goggles.

“Nice to see you. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

RoomDweller looked at OneLifeOneShot and smiled.

It was a bright smile full of emotion that he couldn’t make before.

– End –

Author’s Afterword:

Afterword

Hello dear readers.

This is Lundgreen.

First, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the readers who stayed with my humble writing until the end.

“This Is Not A Game,” which began in March of last year, has finally reached its conclusion.

Looking back now, there have been so many experiences along the way.

Year-long worries about performance falling short of expectations, rankings suddenly shooting up to the point of wondering if there was a bug after getting featured, unexpected censorship and story revisions because of it, tangled plot developments, a seemingly endless slump, rushed developments, deteriorating health, eye surgery…..

Though there are many shortcomings and regrets, looking back now, every moment was precious.

Being able to write, and having people take interest in and enjoy reading what I write.

What greater joy could there be for a writer?

My father who always asked how the writing was going, my mother who worried about my health every day, my gruff sibling who made sure I ate, my editor who suffered from my manuscripts arriving dangerously close to deadlines, and friends who tempted me to drink at all hours – I received help from everyone, but among them all, the greatest help came from you readers who read my work. I was able to come this far because you readers read my writing and cheered me on. I thank all the readers who stayed with “This Is Not A Game” until the end, and after taking proper rest and recovering from the slump, physical exhaustion, and eye problems, I will return with a more entertaining and improved work. Until then, I pray for the health and happiness of all readers, and this inadequate author will end here. Even saying it multiple times doesn’t feel enough, so I’ll say it once more. Dear readers! Thank you so much and I love you!

Translator Afterword:

Another novel that I finished translating. I hope that my translations were to your liking and did not make the original work look bad and you can enjoy it even though it’s translated with MTL. I wouldn’t be able to finish translating this novel without you readers, and as the author said. Thank you so much, you guys!

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