Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (Web Novel KR)

[You have invested 4,000 coins into ‘Strength.’]
[Strength Lv.10 → Strength Lv.20]

[Your Strength has greatly increased!]
[Even a passing goblin will tremble in fear at your newfound power.]
Strength was, of course, essential.

[You have invested 5,800 coins into ‘Agility.’]
[Agility Lv.4 → Agility Lv.20]
[Your Agility has greatly increased!]

[Even a passing elf will glance back at your swiftness.]
Since I was hopelessly clumsy, I needed Agility high to dodge properly.
[You have invested 3,800 coins into ‘Stamina.’]
[Stamina Lv.4 → Stamina Lv.15]

Stamina needed to be at least this much.
[You have invested 1,800 coins into ‘Magic Power.’]
[Magic Power Lv.4 → Magic Power Lv.10]

Thankfully, my base stat had already been 4, so I could save a little here.
[You have spent a total of 15,400 coins.]
[Remaining balance: 1,700C]

In an instant, I was broke—but there were no regrets. Stats needed to be raised early.
It was only after facing Yoo Joonghyuk that I realized it.
I didn’t have any S-rank skills. If I wanted to survive even a single hit against monsters like him, my body itself had to endure.

[You are the third incarnation in this scenario to surpass Strength Lv.20.]
[You have received 300 coins as an achievement reward.]
[You are the third incarnation in this scenario to surpass Agility Lv.20.]

[You have received 300 coins as an achievement reward.]
Even though I had reached Strength and Agility 20 this quickly, there were still people ahead of me.
Probably other readers. Truly impressive.

Grrrrrrr.
The cry of mole crickets echoed—it meant we had entered their nesting grounds.
Beside me, Gyeong Sein and Uncle Dansoo tensed up, fumbling to prepare.

“Two as one body!”
Apparently they had worked out a formation, with Tank Gyeong Sein charging ahead while Uncle Dansoo clumsily drew his sword right behind him.
Looking serious, Gyeong Sein glanced at me.
“There’s a version for ‘three as one body!’”

“Uh… I think two as one body is fine.”
“Front! Seven of them!”
With a loud shout, Gyeong Sein dashed forward, only to be immediately swarmed and bitten everywhere.

The fragile one body quickly split into two.
“Uwaaah! It hurts! It hurts! Save me!”
Yet despite being bitten all over by the mole crickets, his absurd Stamina meant he wasn’t seriously injured.

Then Uncle Dansoo began moving in a bizarre footwork.
“Just hang in there a bit! Hi-yop!”
Judging by those uselessly flashy movements, leaving it to them would take forever.

I pulled out the thorn weapon I’d prepared and stabbed the nearest mole cricket.
Pop!
Its head burst like a ripe tomato.

Strength Lv.20 truly was a different dimension. I stabbed one head after another.
Stab! Stab! Stab! Stab!
In the blink of an eye, I had cleared five. Looking back, Gyeong Sein and Uncle Dansoo had just barely managed to kill one each.

Realizing there were no mole crickets left, Gyeong Sein stared at me in disbelief.
“Inho-ssi, were you secretly hiding your power this whole time?”
“Of course.”
“I knew it! ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) I knew it!”

[Constellation, the ‘Abyssal Black Flame Dragon,’ points at you, saying you’re boasting with pay-to-win strength.]
What can I say—this is my first time “pay-to-winning,” and it feels amazing.
We ran into a few more swarms after that, but with my Strength and Agility both over 20, they were no longer opponents.

“Wow, Inho-ssi, you’re incredible.”
“Ha, reliable indeed.”
So this is what being the protagonist feels like.

Punching down mole crickets one by one, I couldn’t help grinning.
[Constellation, the ‘Monarch of the Small Fries,’ says this is the only time you’ll ever get to play like that.]
[Constellation, the ‘Tiger Who Eats Rice Cakes,’ says the early growth stage is the most fun.]

[Constellation, the ‘Abyssal Black Flame Dragon’ agrees.]
[Constellation, the ‘Sneaking Schemer’ blinks as though reminiscing.]
I felt nostalgic.

Of course—even the constellations must have once grown by hunting mole crickets.
That thought made me think of Kim Dokja again.
“Suddenly, I really respect Kim Dokja.”

He too must have crossed the tunnel from Yaksu Station.
With stats far lower than mine.
He never feared, never backed down, and believed only in what he had read.

Could I believe in what I had written?
Gyeong Sein asked:
“Then in this worldline, there’s no Kim Dokja, right?”

“This is TWSA.”
That was my answer. But suddenly, a memory flashed—Kim Dokja’s image from my dream. One felt distant like a dream, the other was a child…
Was it really true that Kim Dokja didn’t exist here?

“But maybe… he’s watching us from above. Just like we once watched him.”
The tunnel ceiling was dark, like a night sky without stars.
Gyeong Sein looked up, then suddenly waved and shouted.

“Kim Dokja! Kim Dokja!”
He shouted several times.
Naturally, no answer came back from the void—but he looked lighter after doing it.

“Kim Dokja…”
If Kim Dokja really was watching this world, then now our positions had reversed.
Could I, too, reach the end of the scenarios like him?

I wasn’t confident. But I had Gyeong Sein, and Uncle Dansoo.
And there were other readers.
It might be impossible for one person—but together, maybe it was possible.

As Han Sooyoung had said, they might all be ‘Fragments of Kim Dokja.’
[Constellation, the ‘Sneaking Schemer,’ nods.]
How exactly did this “filtering” for constellations work?

That was when something sparkled like starlight ahead in the darkness.
“Huh?”
We hurried over. A flashlight lay on the ground—evidence someone had just been here.

And beside it—
“Here.”
We looked down into a yawning black hole at our feet.

“We found it.”
It was the Veil of Darkness.
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We entered the Veil in single file, holding hands.
Though it was clearly a passage leading downward, the moment we stepped inside, gravity shifted sideways against the wall as though by magic.
Exactly as described in ORV.

In this space filled with black ether, light lost all meaning. With not even an inch visible, we had to advance relying only on our senses.
Leading us was Uncle Dansoo, thanks to his [Multi-Species Communication].
“This way.”

He sounded uplifted, perhaps proud to finally play an important role.
Bored, Gyeong Sein struck up conversation.
“Ajusshi.”

“Yes?”
“How old are you?”
“Fifty-three this year.”

“Your original age, right?”
“Yes.”
“You can talk casually with us, you know. Inho-ssi, that’s fine, right?”

“Yeah, speak comfortably.”
I could sense him shaking his head in the dark.
“I prefer polite speech.”

…But wasn’t that just informal?
Anyway, he was a truly courteous man.
“May I ask what you did before?”

He hesitated.
“Just unemployed, right before coming here.”
I thought maybe I’d asked too much, but he continued.

“I was in the hospital.”
The moment he said “hospital,” I felt his hand gripping mine tighten slightly.
“That’s why, in some ways, this world feels like an opportunity to me.”

An opportunity.
I could guess what he meant—but probing further would’ve been impolite.
This time, he asked:

“Why do you think we were brought here?”
It was the first question anyone would wonder after transmigrating.
Gyeong Sein answered first.

“Maybe just so we can experience it ourselves?”
He said it playfully, but it wasn’t impossible.
“What about you, Inho-ssi?”

After a pause, I replied.
“Because this story needed someone to complete it.”
“Oh… I never thought that deeply. Then who summoned us, TWSA itself?”

“I don’t know.”
“Maybe the ? Kim Dokja? Yoo Jonghyuk?”
“Yoo Joonghyuk, ajusshi.”

Who had summoned us here?
At first, I thought it might be the . But now, I wasn’t sure.
Would the Company really call readers into such danger?

“Could it be Han Sooyoung? After all, she’s the author of ORV.”
At his words, I felt strange.
So readers really believed Han Sooyoung was the author of this world.

Even I didn’t feel much resistance to that thought anymore. A little pathetic.
Thinking back, ORV really was a strange novel.
I’d never thought of such a story myself. It had just… come to me one day, as if someone had struck the back of my head.

Gyeong Sein kept talking.
“Of course, in our worldline, ORV’s author was someone else…”
My palms started sweating. Thankfully, it was pitch-black.

“I wonder what happened to our author. Did they transmigrate too? Always said they were sick in notices—maybe they died already. I even sent them a message once, about how to stretch properly.”
The one holding your hand right now is that author.
“Shh. Someone’s ahead.”

At his words, we fell silent.
The black ether thinned, visibility returning.
We had reached the core of the Veil of Darkness—the ‘Roots of Darkness.’

“Someone’s fighting.”
The clash of weapons echoed faintly.
[You have entered the ‘Mole Cricket’s Treasure Vault.’]

[Someone is currently performing a sub-scenario.]
Corpses of mole crickets lay scattered, their bodies neatly cleaved in two. The work of a skilled hand.
Drawing closer, we saw dark flames burning ahead. By its glow sat a blackened box.

The Random Item Box we were searching for.
Guarding it, as expected, was the Watcher of Darkness.
The fight already seemed advanced—the enraged Watcher flailed wildly, unleashing tentacle patterns.

“Kaliduwu!”
And there—someone was fighting it alone.
“That’s the biker I saw earlier,” Gyeong Sein whispered.

A woman with sky-blue short hair and sunglasses danced in a desperate battle.
Her movements dodging tentacles were fluid and sharp, like fighting game commands executed perfectly.
What shocked me more was the faint azure-white ether flowing from her steel fists.

Gangqi Gong.
I knew it well.
“That’s it, isn’t it?” Gyeong Sein muttered.

“Yeah. No doubt.”
She was using Kim Dokja’s [Baek Cheong-Gang Gi].
So she was the one who bought up the stock.

But even with that, to fight the Watcher so evenly this early was astounding.
What had she done to grow so quickly?
I wanted to know who she was.

[You activate exclusive skill, ‘Character List!’]
[‘Character List’ cannot be used on this individual.]
[The target is both a ‘Character’ and not a ‘Character.’]

She was definitely a reader.
Maybe one of the “veterans” Gyeong Sein mentioned.
[You use ‘Reader Comment List’ on the target.]

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I froze.

Completion count: 0.
She had never once read ORV.
And yet she could fight like that?

[This reader has no record of reading Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint.]
[Additional information about the target has been updated.]
[‘List Information’ has been modified.]

I checked again.
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Completion count: 0 (12.8)

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Now, in parentheses—12.8 appeared. What the hell was that?
A chill pricked my nape.

Something sharp touched the back of my neck.
“Don’t move. Any of you move, you die.”
Goosebumps shot through me. I hadn’t sensed a thing.

“Drop your weapons and raise your hands slowly.”
Not knowing his stats or skills, the safest choice was to obey.
Anyone skilled enough to sneak behind us at this timing could strike at any moment.

Spat!
Then, in the battle ahead, something shifted. The woman, who had been dodging flawlessly, finally took a cut to her arm.
I called out.

“We can help. We’re not here to fight you.”
“We don’t need help.”
“Don’t be greedy. You know it’s hard to kill it with just your group.”

“We can handle it ourselves.”
The man behind me spoke calmly to the woman.
“Yerin-ah. Don’t panic. The pattern’s coming back. Start at the upper-right. When the gap comes, strike in combo.”

It was exactly the method Kim Dokja had used in ORV to defeat the Watcher of Darkness.
He remembered all that?
“All tentacles are down. Finish it.”

Azure-white ether surged from her fists. She meant to end it in one blow.
But that was a fatal mistake.
ORV never wrote it in detail, but the Watcher had one last hidden pattern.

An attack the editor, Ji Eunyu, had cut for being too long.
I inhaled sharply and shouted:
“Dodge! There’s one more! From below!”

No sooner had I spoken than hidden tentacles shot up from the ground.
The woman flinched—but dodged in time, then landed her finishing blow.
Graaaaaagh!

The Watcher of Darkness collapsed to its knees, defeated.
Finally noticing us, the woman turned. Her sunglasses hid her eyes, but her shock was plain.
Behind me, the man spoke.

“Turn around. Slowly.”
Hands laced on our heads, we turned.
There he stood, holding a Stonehog’s Thorn.

His face was unfamiliar—clearly an extra. But handsome enough that in TWSA terms, Yoo Joonghyuk might hesitate to stab it.
I immediately activated my skill.
[You use ‘Reader Comment List’ on the target.]

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I doubted my eyes.
Completion count: 99.8.
This… wasn’t a glitch?

The man’s strange gaze bore into me. Then he spoke a bizarre word.
“7942.”