I, Kim Woo-Jin, was once living as a designer. I lacked the brilliance to become a Van Gogh or a Millet, but I still painted—just not on canvas. My work lived in the worlds inside games, where I gave shape to people and places that existed only in code and imagination.0

[Independent Quest: Game Designer Kim Woo-Jin]0

◆ Objective : Explore0

◆ Reward : ???0

Even now, in this world, the characters I had modeled moved as if they were alive, breathing within a world I had painted by hand. Their continent was a living canvas, with every mountain and field a brushstroke of my own touch.0

“… An unconscious manifestation,” I muttered.0

If so, then is this phenomenon the result of the unconscious will of the ego, as Kim Woo-Jin? I thought.0

I stared at the gold ore, lost in thought. Its composition, shape, weight—everything about it was a perfect chunk of gold. But ever since the adventurer brought it in, it had left my mind in a state of confusion.0

“... Wow. What is all this, Professor?” Epherene asked in a hoarse voice, her breath catching as she took it all in.0

Beside Epherene, Maho and Drent stood silently, their heads nodding in agreement.0

“It is the magic circle for the mental strength test,” I replied. “In its original form, it spans over three hundred pages. But when fully unfurled, this is what it becomes.”0

The enormous magic circle spread across the mansion’s library was built upon a four-category magical theory. Its major categories were Ductility and Manipulation, while Harmony and Enchantment were its minor categories. 0

When activated through the Magitech Brainwave Explorer, enhanced by the Midas Touch, the circle would bring forth the very test that adventurers had wished...1