Chapter 71, Flexing
The Gallery Master had brought four flex posts in total.
The first one he uploaded was about his house.
The people invited to the Regression, Possession, Reincarnation Gallery were all fairly well-off, so there wasn't much of a reaction to a post about a house.
Most of the reactions were simply welcoming the Gallery Master back after exactly five days.
Of course, even that alone was enough to make more than ten notifications ring every second.
But anyway, that was the general reaction.
This was a place filled with monsters who could erase mountain ranges with a single gesture.
Why would they react much to something as trivial as a house?
[Rate my new house]
[Author: Anonymous]
[At the end of this journey, I obtained a space called the Inner World. Inside it, you can ignore things like the laws of physics and build whatever you want.
I was thinking about what kind of house to build, but the tastes of my companions were completely different, so I wondered what to do.
Then I realized I could just put everything in.
But the problem was that the space would become too huge.
That's where the Mirror of the Other Side I saw back at the Company gave me an idea.
So this is what we ended up with.
(Photo of an enormous library.jpg)
(GIF of opening one of the books inside the library.jpg)
(GIF of getting sucked inside after opening the book.jpg)
(Photo of an extremely flashy cyberpunk city.jpg)
(Photo of an extremely flashy Joseon-style palace.jpg)
(Photo of a snowy field.jpg)
I connected completely different spaces together and made it so we can visit whichever one we want through books in the library.
I don't really understand how it works, but the owner of the Inner World said it probably wouldn't be that difficult and made the whole thing in an hour.
Everyone in the group is satisfied now.
Rate my new house.]
└ Is this guy insane?
└ We agreed to call that an otherworld, not a house.
└ Normal house, contains dozens of city-sized worlds connected together and has a bunch of insane functions.
└ Damn, that's fucking amazing. Should I try making one too?
└ Your world doesn't have busted shit like Mysteries, so impossible, lol.
└ I'm an Archmage though. Still impossible?
└ You'd need a Magus specializing in space, not an Archmage, and even then it'd probably be impossible. The budget would be insane too.
└ The Gallery Master's house is cooler than my workplace...
└ Where do you work?
└ Imperial Palace.
└ Holy shit, lol.
└ How is that even possible? Can some mage explain the principle?
└ Can you tell me how to reach the Life-and-Death Realm on the first day I pick up a sword?
└ Like hell something like that exists.
└ Exactly. What you're asking is basically the same thing.
└ ?
└ I'm saying it's completely impossible.
└ For real. According to the Gallery Master's explanation, that Inner World ignores all kinds of laws we've discovered so far. How the hell would anyone explain that? lol
└ Is it really that extreme?
└ "Is it really that extreme?" My ass. If you make a subspace that doesn't exist in the real world with spatial magic, the energy required to maintain it increases exponentially for every unit of area. That thing is city-scale. Even if you ground up dozens of Magi, it still wouldn't be possible.
└ What about an Archmage?
└ Those people could probably do it. From Archmage onward, they're basically gods, just like martial artists in the Life-and-Death Realm.
└ I'm in the Life-and-Death Realm, so why can't I do that...?
└ That's your fault for choosing the sword, lol.
Anyway.
That was how it went.
There wasn't that much of a reaction.
At least, not compared to the posts that came afterward.
Wow.
I stared at the more than one thousand notifications piled up and couldn't help being impressed.
I skimmed through them.
Most of the comments were written in an aggressive tone.
It didn't bother me.
I had posted them expecting exactly this kind of reaction, so it actually made me smile.
I temporarily disabled notifications because they were coming in so fast, then entered the Gallery and checked the general reaction.
Surprisingly, the first post got the weakest reaction.
Honestly, I had expected the post about the house to cause the biggest uproar.
Apparently, I had underestimated the Gallery users.
Their reaction to the posts about my companions was even stronger than their reaction to me acquiring a house that practically contained several different worlds.
Smiling, I read through the comments.
[Wow, one of my companions reached Seraph. Does she have talent?]
[Author: Anonymous]
[(Photo of Lee Yeonhee spreading her wings.jpg)
(GIF of Lee Yeonhee waving her hand and rapidly restoring a dead forest.jpg)
One of my companions reached Seraph less than half a month after becoming an angel. How good is that?]
└ Life is a fucking trash game.
└ I'm seriously pissed. Is this balance real?
└ One person trains for 500 years to reach Cherub, another reaches Seraph in half a year, lol. Balance is fucked.
└ No, seriously, isn't that going too far? Even with Mysteries, does that make any sense?
└ Then does it make sense for some reincarnator to obtain infinite regression just because they found one book? lol
└ Ah, fair point.
└ Don't accept that, lol. Both of those are completely ridiculous, lol.
└ Maybe it's because I'm a mage, but I didn't really feel much after seeing this post. Actually, fuck that. Isn't Seraph around Archmage level? If I imagine someone reaching Archmage in half a year, I'd be furious.
└ If you're mad, just be born in the same world as the Gallery Master, lol.
└ Honestly, if you were born there, you'd probably die in one day, lol.
└ For real, lol. The Gallery Master's regression Mystery can't possibly be the only regression-type Mystery in that world. Could you handle enemies with infinite regression coming after you? lol
└ When you put it that way, it actually makes sense.
└ Being able to awaken divine power and reach Seraph in half a year = enemies who reached Seraph in half a year can come after me too.
└ If it's that easy for me to reach Seraph, then the enemies can reach Seraph just as easily and attack me, lol.
└ Turns out the balance was fair after all~
[Got a new sword, but it seems kinda bad? What do you guys think?]
[Author: Anonymous]
[(Photo of Fragment of Faith.jpg)
They say it's a sword that can cut whatever I want, but it can't even cut Mysteries properly. Doesn't it seem kind of bad? What do you guys think?]
└ Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
└ I want to kill the Gallery Master... It is my lifelong wish.
└ You got a sword I couldn't obtain even if I died trying in my world, and you're posting this bullshit?
└ Sorry to say this when we just met, but are you insane?
└ Congratulations, you won a prize and I need to send it to you. Could you tell me where you live? Haha.
└ Damn, I want that so badly. I'd even become the Gallery Master's subordinate for it.
└ If I could get that, I'd become his slave, not just his subordinate.
└ If the Gallery Master is reading this, contact me. I am genuinely willing to sign a slave contract.
└ Wow... that's seriously a fucking broken Mystery. And that's not even one of those 900-series Mysteries?
└ Just how powerful are the 900-series Mysteries supposed to be...?
└ Judging from the Gallery Master's posts, that thing seems almost like an Archmage's magic artifact or a True Immortal's treasure.
└ It could probably be on the same level as a divine relic of a top-tier Cthulhu god.
└ But wasn't there also a Dragon in the 900-series? I don't know about western dragons, but I've met an eastern dragon before and it was weak as hell.
└ This is true. Honestly, that sword the Gallery Master got seems way more useful than a Dragon.
└ Only to you...
└ Please think about the power balance, lol. Aren't you at the Peak of Ascension? What isn't weak to you? lol.
└ A monster equal to the Peak of Ascension exists? That's basically an instant world-ending event, lol.
The posts bragging about Lee Yeonhee's achievement and the sword also caused huge reactions.
If anything, they got even more attention than the post about my house.
But they still couldn't compare to the reaction caused by the remaining post.
The one about Eriel.
[Got a new companion, what do you think? She's an angel, kind, and pretty]
[Author: Anonymous]
[(Picture of Eriel smiling and making a V sign.jpg)
To summarize, she's the landlord of the building I live in, a Throne, the person who gave me a blessing, the person who handed over the house to me without asking for anything in return, the person living together with me, my companion, and someone who only looks at me.]
└ I... sometimes... cry...
└ You probably cried four times just today, lol.
└ Wow... I just read the Gallery Master's summary of this journey, and all I can do is curse. I seriously want to beat someone up.
└ Who?
└ Both the Order that tormented our noona and the Gallery Master.
└ She's not our noona, she's the Gallery Master's noona, lol. Don't include us.
└ For real, lol. No matter how much you cry "noona, noona," she's only going to look at the Gallery Master, lol.
└ I want to be like the Gallery Master.
└ Fuck, I can never be happy.
└ I did want the Gallery Master to be happy, but not this happy.
└ How many women does this guy have around him?
└ One swordswoman, one mage, two angels. Four total.
└ Wow... not even a flower in each hand, but two angels. Holy shit. The Gallery Master is officially my role model from today onward.
└ Why did you leave out cute little Bias and Lucy?
└ You Gallery freak...
└ The average life of a normal Regression, Possession, Reincarnation Gallery user.
└ Looking at it like this, I'm seriously jealous.
└ I want to be like the Gallery Master.
└ Seriously, no matter how much I think about it, I feel like the only thing I'm better at than the Gallery Master is swordsmanship.
└ He's probably going to catch up in swordsmanship soon too, lol. He fought a first-rate swordswoman and won.
└ Fuck, now he's taking swordsmanship too.
└ At least he doesn't have me, James, the twenty-third only son of the Luzria family.
└ Bro...
└ I want to be like the Gallery Master.
└ I'm an Archmage, and I'm seriously thinking about researching cosmetic magic. If I get a face like the Gallery Master's, maybe I can live that kind of top-tier life too.
└ The world,,,is not,,,all about looks,,, looks only,,,allow you,,,to start,,,relationships,,, but when it comes,,,to developing,,,them,,,personality,,,is more,,,important,,, if you polish,,,your heart,,,one day,,,you will surely,,,meet someone,,,who understands you,,,
└ This guy probably isn't handsome.
└ I'm the Gallery Master, and this is wrong. Looks are everything.
└ Fuck, some people save the world as Heroes and are still forever alone, while this guy's number of women increases while he's doing nothing.
└ I want to be like the Gallery Master.
└ Fine, fuck, I want to be the Gallery Master too, fuck fuck.
└ What I wanted was clues and information about Mysteries, not flex posts...
└ The Gallery Master perfectly adapting to the Gallery, bad ending.
└ Where's the good ending?
└ The Gallery Master will show us soon, hehe.
└ I'm the Gallery Master. There is no such thing.
└ I'm the Gallery Master, and the Gallery Master doesn't talk like that.
└ Please, Gallery Master, if you have any conscience at all, show us the good ending too...
└ Information about Mysteries, clues about the world, posts summarizing exciting journeys, cute pictures of Confirmation Bias and Lucy.
└ For real, if he just gave us that, I'd have no other wish.
└ No chance. Here comes another flex post.
└ Prediction for the next post, "My companion became an Archmage, is this growth speed fast?"
└ Ah, I seriously want to beat him up.
It seemed the chaos in the Gallery was still far from settling down.
