[Elysion Academy]
It is the name of an RPG game with a background and setting that you would usually think of when you think of ‘academy’ in the creative genre.
It is a game with the same content as a typical academy web novel that deals with the events that take place in a virtual educational institution that exists in a world where swords and magic rule, with a culture and social system on the level of medieval Europe.
To be honest, when I first heard about this game, I was surprised that such a game existed.
Not only does it have an open world, infinite freedom, and a bizarre difficulty level, but it also has a system where you can freely create characters, well-organized job characteristics, character appearances, narratives, and various events, etc…
Isn’t it the game itself that appears as the background for the cliché of the possessed web novel world that I’ve been giving examples of.
It’s a game that appears in the cliché of a veteran who has spent thousands or tens of thousands of hours being possessed.
It was a game that even I, who wasn’t very interested in games, couldn’t help but be interested in.
So I did it. Do you need a reason other than interest to start a game?
When I actually played it, it was quite fun. It wasn’t just me who felt this way, as a fairly large community was formed, and ‘Elysion Academy’ gained immense popularity.
Also, the power of the group gathered like that was truly amazing.
In fact, it was because almost all the information related to this onion-like game, which keeps releasing new information, was released to the community around 3 years after the game was released.
Some may say that the information was released late, but this game had so many variables that it felt like it was implementing the real world.
This is also the reason why ‘most’ of the information, not all of it, was released over 3 years ago, and why the game’s difficulty level was so strangely difficult.
However, it was still fun to find out.
Various strategies and hidden elements commonly called hidden pieces were posted, as well as tables calculating event occurrence variables and articles that tore apart game data.
However, even then, not all the information was found out.
Of course, there may be information that players don’t even notice, but there is also information that definitely exists but cannot be found.
That is…
[Title: So how do you get the ‘Mortal Blade’?]
[It drops when you kill Telos?]
Newbie is cute
Ah, that’s right
Yes, I told you
(Writer)
There is no such item, Elbunga
(Writer)
?
It says it exists in the data?
It’s an item that only exists in the data Players can never obtain it
[Mortal Blade].
This item, which smells like fraud from its name, exists ‘only in the data’ in Elysion Academy.
To be exact, it is clearly stated as an item that exists in the ‘Item Encyclopedia’ system that automatically displays items owned by players in the encyclopedia like a collection.
In the Item Encyclopedia, there is a function that tells you the name of an item that the player has not obtained by checking the blank space where the item should be registered.
If you look at one of the blank spaces in the Item Encyclopedia, it is stated like this.
[Mortal Blade]
Description: ???
How to obtain: ???
The name clearly stated in the encyclopedia.
It seemed to tell anyone that this was an item that the player could obtain.
However, you can’t obtain it.
No matter what you do in the game, you can’t figure out how to obtain this item.
If the player doesn’t know anything about this weapon, you might think it’s dummy data and the developers must have mistakenly included it in the encyclopedia, but…
This item was very famous.
It’s the weapon held by ‘Telos Nehemoth’, one of the bosses of Elysion Academy.
Telos Nehemoth.
This boss is so difficult that some people say they quit the game because of the boss battle, which is evaluated as difficult due to the complicated progression caused by all kinds of variables during the story.
Patterns that are difficult to respond to, each and every attack is fatal, complex gimmicks that fail to destroy if you don’t understand all the gimmicks or lose focus even slightly, and the inevitable instant death that is triggered because of them…
This boss is so difficult that you’ll naturally say,
“How can I beat this?”
when you first meet it.
Women who have never played this game were attracted to Telos’s beautiful appearance in the community and ended up getting their heads smashed in the boss battle, which was like an annual event.
The weapon that Telos is holding is [Mortal Blade].
It was a weapon that only existed as data in this game.
At first, players thought that if they caught Telos, they would drop the weapon at some point.
No matter how difficult a boss Telos was, it wasn’t an unbeatable entity, and there was a reward for defeating it.
Perhaps the last conscience of the developer, Telos was a boss with a very weak body and a so-called ‘self-harm’.
Even if the player doesn’t attack, his health will automatically decrease.
In fact, Telos was set to have a ‘curse’ in the game and live a limited life.
That’s why it was possible to defeat Telos in boss battles by simply avoiding the player’s attacks and stalling for time.
Or, you could kill him by inflicting a barrage of damage before he could do anything.
So many players killed Telos and received rewards for killing him several times…
[Title: Is this really Telos dropping Mortal Blade?]
[No one has eaten Mortal Blade yet;;]
No matter how many times players around the world killed Telos, the Mortal Blade never appeared.
When no player appeared who claimed to have obtained the Mortal Blade, one of the people with the ability soon discovered that the Mortal Blade was not among the items dropped by Telos, and only then did people realize that this method was wrong.
After that, many players tried various methods such as contacting Telos before he became a boss in the game…
But the results were unsuccessful.
There has been no article containing information about obtaining the Mortal Blade yet.
There were rumors that the developer forgot to include it, that it was dummy data, or that it would be released as DLC later…
But as of now, it is a mystery.
So far, nothing has been known.
Anyway, the Mortal Blade itself has cooled down a lot.
As of now, in the Elysium Academy community, which is filled with all sorts of bizarre concept plays and nonsense, I found a certain article.
[Title: I don’t know how to get Mortal Blade, but I found out how to get it as a starting item]
The latest post I found in a community while browsing around without much thought after finishing the day.
Of course, I thought it was just a low-level phishing post. It wasn’t even about how to get it, but it was about being able to use Mortal Blade as a so-called starting item that you have from the start of the game.
Even if there was such a way, I thought it was just some kind of artificially created mod or something.
In reality, since you can’t get the Mortal Blade, there were quite a few people who had the ability to create a mod that put the Mortal Blade into the game.
I thought this wouldn’t be much different.
I clicked on the post.
[First, after starting the game, instead of pressing New Game, keep the NUM key on and press 4 four times. Then type Telos’ full name in English.
After that, press Shift+Tab+Enter.]
What old video game is this?
I picked it up and laughed and left a comment.
Old video game? Rather, say that you are possessed by the game.
(Author)
Oh, really?
‘Crazy guy.’
I laughed again as I watched the writer spouting nonsense at my words without a care and turned on the game.
It was just a whim. He even responded to my words as if he was admitting that they were a prank.
There was no basis for thinking that the nonsense he wrote was true.
Literally, it was a whim I tried because I had nothing else to do.
As soon as I turned on the game, I tried what the guy wrote in the information.
I pressed 4 four times while holding down the NUM key.
I typed in Telos’ full name in English.
I pressed Shift, Tab, and Enter.
Then.
“…!”
The game interface suddenly appeared on the screen. To be exact, the character creation window.
[Name: Telos Nehemoth]
[Trait: Curse of Death]
[Initial Equipment: Mortal Blade]
A simple interface with only the name, trait, and initial equipment. And a man next to him.
Silver hair that glowed softly like the moon, blood-red demonic eyes, and an artistic beauty that felt excessively neat.
…Telos?
It was exactly the same as the in-game model of ‘Telos Nehemoth’, one of the bosses of Elysion Academy.
Not only that…
‘Trait: Curse of Death… Initial Equipment…’
Mortal Blade.
The item that was impossible to obtain no matter what I did in the game was listed as initial equipment.
I clicked the initial equipment slot without realizing it.
[Mortal Blade]
[Description: A blade that embodies death itself. Even an immortal god cannot escape the predestined death.]
[Attack power:???]
[Wear condition: One cursed with death]
[Weapon unique skill]
[Curse of impossibility of life: Those who are wounded by this blade are denied all life. Those who are wounded by this blade are unable to regenerate naturally or with divine power. Wounds inflicted by the blade gradually eat away at the target, inflicting damage proportional to the target’s maximum health. The damage coefficient varies depending on the size of the wound.]
[Contempt for law: Death is an absolute concept that exists above all laws. Even the universe will eventually face inevitable death. The blade, which is a singularity itself, despises and destroys the laws of physics, including time and space, and the discipline of the world composed of mana.]
[Mortality: Through the ‘death’ contained in the blade, the target is sure to be annihilated from the root. Consumes vitality when used. The amount of life consumed varies depending on the target’s rank.]
‘Crazy’
It’s real. It’s a real mortal blade.
It’s not a crude fake made with a mod, it’s a real mortal blade.
Even when I saw the unique skill, my mouth dropped open.
It’s so fraudulent. What on earth are these skills?
I couldn’t contain my excitement for the first time in a long time and pressed the [Create] button to start the game right away.
And.
Beep
My consciousness was cut off.