Prologue

Damn it.

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[Regression time round uses 2nd]

Rewinding time again, starting the 2nd regression.

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It's the 2nd time I died again, damn it. When will I ever escape this nightmare?

Prologue.

I am Kim Seongwon, an introverted person and my hobby is playing online games at night because it's the only thing that helps me escape from reality. I discovered this game called "A Thousand Regression".

An underrated game, "A Thousand Regression", was made by an unknown game company. I saw it by scrolling through random tweets on Twitter. It seems that it's an underrated game made by an unknown game company. Of course, other people weren't interested in playing a game made by an unknown company, but I didn't pay attention at all and tried the game "A Thousand Regression".

It was not what I expected. There were few people playing it, and I was the only one at the top level of the game after playing for a week. Does anyone else here play it seriously? Because I think I was the only one playing it seriously. I checked the history of other players, and they played like half a year ago, and they haven't reached the max level of the game. If I were them half a year ago, I could max out any game level because I grind daily.

The game was so underrated and kept updating for years or even months. For me, I supported the game even though the company behind it was unknown because I enjoyed playing it.

Why is no one interested in playing this game? It's actually fun and has lots of interesting things you can do! They should probably recognize this game.

I did try posting about this online a few years ago, and the comments were not good. In the end, they were all harsh, and some of them even reported it.

The few comments I read said it's a ridiculous game with a ridiculous company behind it, by the unknown game company.

I was a bit hurt at that time when I saw those comments scrolling through my phone. My favorite game that I played five years ago was getting hated comments and reviews, but I don't know why they hated it.

The game was actually not that bad, but why? Such hateful reviews? Did they even try it? If so, what's the specific reason they hated the game?

Hasn't this game received any promotion? Because I think it has now! And the creator of the game is still updating it.

As time passed, fewer and fewer players stopped playing it until I realized that I was the only one playing the game. The place I am in the game was so quiet, even the global chats, because I was the only one playing it and grinding till the end.

It's like this game was made only for me.

After many years of playing,

I received a message from "A Thousand Regression". It was an announcement about the game. It popped up in my notifications, and it was the 5th anniversary of "A Thousand Regression". I was so happy that the game was still alive and updating.

<Notification: Game maintenance will start soon! Please leave the game!>

I logged out of the game and messaged the creator of the game to say thanks.

[Dear creator-nim, thank you for the new update. I am looking forward to the 5th anniversary! But I'm still curious why you didn't put the name of your company?]

[Dear Player, I thank you for your support over 5 years! The reason why I didn't put the name of my company and kept it unknown is because I didn't want to associate it with a specific company.]

[Thanks to you, my dear Player, I was able to make this update so far. Thank you.]

[I would like to give you a special gift as a thank you for supporting the game "A Thousand Regression".]

A gift? What could it be?

[Notification: You have been given a special ability "Regression".]

Regression?

Then suddenly, a hologram appeared in front of me.

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[Greetings player!]

I have given you access to the game!

You now have the ability "Regression".

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Access to the game? What does the creator mean?

I messaged the creator, but he didn't respond to my question, leaving it unread.

[Creator-nim, what's all this? What do you mean by I now have access to the game? What's going on?]

A hologram notification appeared again in front of me.

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[Greetings player!]

The game will commence tomorrow at 19:35 p.m. I wish you luck, players!

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This is probably hallucination. I should probably get some sleep.

I didn't pay attention to the notification in front of me because I thought I was hallucinating.

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This game will come to life!

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I woke up and forgot everything that happened at night, thinking it was just hallucinations because I wasn't getting enough sleep.

I opened my phone to log in to the game, but the update wasn't done yet.

[Notification: Game is still in maintenance. Please wait until 19:35 p.m.]

I am really excited and looking forward to the next update.

But why is it taking so long? It's quite unusual that the update is taking this long. The maintenance is supposed to finish at 19:35 p.m., right? Is there a big update coming? Well, that doesn't matter! What matters is that the game is still updating, and I am looking forward to it.