Psycho in Ancient World
Copyright© 2026 by K.W
Chapter 14. Novice
Dong Bong-su returned to the Danri Family and finished his daily routine as if nothing had happened. Outwardly, he was not even slightly different from before he had left the family.
To anyone’s eyes, he was just Sosam.
A foolish, stupid mute who caught no one’s attention.
That was the Dong Bong-su visible to others.
No one noticed the change in Dong Bong-su, who had taken a step forward.
Far before his eyes, the error box of New Murim Online—visible only to him—was still blinking.
[In the Murim Online system, a Critical ERROR has ... occurred. There will be no issues with continuing the game, but... ]
Creeeak. Thud.
The door closed, and the stable once again became his private space.
Critical ERROR.
“A fatal error, huh.”
The very fact that he already existed here was itself a fatal error. How could there be any further errors beyond that? Most likely, that fatal error was also the result of a systemic discrepancy caused by his existence, which should not have been here in the first place.
He could roughly guess why that error message had appeared.
A kind of natural disaster caused by the “forced grafting” of this reality and the virtual reality known as Murim Online.
Dong Bong-su inferred that the problem had been latent all along and had finally surfaced as he leveled up.
And.
That inference was quite accurate. The laws of the 111th dimensional world, the 112th dimensional world, and Murim Online as the auxiliary dimension that connected them—these three dimensional worlds were colliding with one another upon level-up, producing a “fatal error.”
Most likely, the Critical ERROR message would appear every time he leveled up. If the differences between the three dimensional worlds had not been so great, this would not have happened in the first place, but the three were fundamentally and entirely different. Naturally, there was no way all systems could be applied as-is. In most cases, they would appear before him as distorted systems.
Dong Bong-su did not understand such deep matters precisely, but he had managed to reason to something roughly similar.
The conclusion was simple.
All of that distortion did not matter much to him.
He simply needed to keep leveling up and adapt to the newly applied system, New Murim Online. That was the path to his survival and the method by which he would grow stronger.
Dong Bong-su raised his right hand and lightly clicked the X-shaped button on the right side of the error box. The error box disappeared, and as he became level 2, several newly available or changed windows glittered with a golden light.
《Inventory, Status window, Skill window, Quest window》
Dong Bong-su first opened the inventory, which had already become quite familiar.
Inside the inventory, a sword he had never seen before, a set of clothes, a pair of leather shoes, and a hood were neatly placed in one corner.
He pulled them out and laid them out on the floor one by one.
At a glance, they all looked like they were made of shabby cloth, but their hygienic condition was pristine. It was as if they were brand-new items fresh from a factory.
In truth, these were items that should have been given to Dong Bong-su the moment he logged into New Murim Online, but due to a fatal error, he was only receiving his basic equipment now. Of course, Dong Bong-su did not know this, nor did he care to know.
If it exists, he uses it.
That was a simple and clear principle for him.
After briefly examining the items, Dong Bong-su picked up the sword first without much hesitation.
Click—.
Just from holding the sword, a sound like metal accessories being fastened rang out. At the same time, he felt something strange.
“I feel stronger?”
It was difficult to put into words.
But he could clearly sense a peculiar feeling as if his strength, stamina, and agility had all increased.
Dong Bong-su immediately placed the shabby Horse Stable Hireling clothes he had been wearing into the inventory and equipped the laid-out items onto his body. Each time he equipped one, a clicking sound struck his ears, and just like when he held the sword, he felt stronger.
“Are these items?”
He could not help but be convinced that all of this was made up of game items.
Equipment that had naturally appeared inside the inventory.
A sensation of increased abilities every time he equipped one.
Mechanical sounds he could hear, though he could not tell whether they came from his head or his ears.
Putting it all together.
The feeling of becoming stronger—
“It’s not an illusion.”
By simply 《equipping》 them, his 《stats》 had actually increased.
Click.
He closed the inventory window. Perhaps because he had finished checking it, the golden blinking light disappeared. Since he had equipped his gear, it was now time to see just how much stronger he had become.
Dong Bong-su immediately opened the status window.
There, too, there were dramatic changes.
“So the equipment is finally being recognized?”
Items were displayed in the previously empty equipment slots. The ones he was currently wearing appeared exactly as they were.
[Novice’s Sword], [Novice’s Clothes], [Novice’s Shoes], [Novice’s Hood]
First, Dong Bong-su moved his hand like a mouse cursor and hovered it over the ‘Novice’s Sword.’ A transparent window popped up beside it, displaying the description of the Novice’s Sword.
[Novice’s Sword]
Attribute: None
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