Chapter 48: Madness
Eren Vale — or rather, Lee Min-Jae in his past life — was used to surprises.
Dying in front of the PC, exhausted after hours of grinding in an MMORPG, and waking up inside the game itself as a Tamer, the most despised class, was proof enough of that.
He knew the system like no one else. Every line of code, every mechanic, every exploit. But the message that flashed on his HUD now was different.
He was sitting against a broken pillar in the cursed temple, his body still aching from the confrontation with Sylha, when the system surprised him.
[Mission Received: Free the Spectral Monster]
[Objective: Confront the entity Sylha and uncover her connection with the Tamer’s Order]
[Ancestors. Reward: Forbidden Knowledge. Risk: Spiritual Annihilation.]
Eren frowned, the blue glow of the HUD reflecting in his eyes.
He knew how the game worked. Missions came from NPCs, world events, or updates. But this one? It was too specific.
Sylha.
Someone knew he had faced her. Someone knew he had made her retreat.
"How do they know this?" he thought, his programmer’s instinct kicking in.