I Woke Up as the Villain

y thank you more than a thousand times once he figured it out, Choi Mi-Na was already looking forward to that day.

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Yu-Seong was only able to be discharged fifteen days after Mi-Na had visited.

The doctor greatly praised Yu-Seong’s resilience; he was a player indeed.
Though for him, it was full of frustration because he didn’t want to waste his time in the hospital.

After spending half a month stuck in the hospital, he headed back to the dungeon and got into the car that Do-Yoon was driving.
He felt that it was time to give an answer about concerns he had put off.

‘This meets my initial expectation exactly.’

This was a pretty exciting moment.

– [Private] A Joke-loving Prankster marvels at you.
200 Karma Points are sponsored.
He says he has a skill that really suits you.
Will you learn the skill? Y/N

– The Oldest Hunter is really fond of player Choi Yu-Seong.
300 Karma Points are sponsored.
He says he very much wants to give you a skill.
Will you learn the skill? Y/N

– The Silky Beard pays tribute to player Choi Yu-Seong.
250 Karma Points are sponsored.
He wants to transfer a very strong skill.
Will you learn the skill? Y/N

– The Emperor of Great China refers to player Choi Yu-Seong as the most excellent man she has recently seen.
300 Karma Points are sponsored.
She wants to give you a skill that suits you.
Y/N

– The Red Fang of the Dark Night feels a strong longing when seeing player Choi Yu-Seong.
100 Karma Points are sponsored.
He threatens that you will regret it if you don’t receive the skill.
Y/N

– The Culann’s Hound judges that player Choi Yu-Seong’s spearmanship has a very high potential.
500 Karma Points are sponsored.
He promises that if you learn the skill, you will be able to become the strongest spearman.
Will you learn the skill? Y/N

After the incident of Demon King Worshiper along with Rachel, all the gods who were watching Yu-Seong sent messages about passing on their skills.
Most of these messages would have been sent at the end of the fierce battle with Rachel.

‘At the time, I was so out of it that I couldn’t even think of checking the messages.’ 

If he could afford to be laid-back then, Yu-Seong would have recognized Choi Mi-Na at a glance.
He properly checked and looked through the messages while he was hospitalized… Since then, Choi Yu-Seong had fallen into deep thought.

As mentioned, the reason why the lofty gods gave Karma Points and skills was that the achievements made by their sponsored humans were returned to their Karma figures and then copied to help raise their dignity.

Obviously, god’s stake in a human increased more when they passed on skills that were equivalent to their ability than when sharing some of the karma points they had.
Also, if it was possible, the first god to transfer the skill to the human would gain an advantage in the battle for shares among the other gods.
That was why, from the very beginning, Loki had begged Yu-Seong to learn his skill.

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Yu-Seong had been ignoring Loki’s messages for a while.
But now that all six gods had put up their skills, he could no longer continue to ignore this request anymore.
Even for those who were waiting, he eventually had to make a definite choice.
Now that Yu-Seong had taken the best route for his growth after much consideration, he finally decided to announce his decision.

“I have no bad intentions,” Yu-Seong spoke to himself and smiled somewhat apologetically, and replied to the six gods’ skill transfer messages.

There were two things Yu-Seong had worried about for fifteen days before he decided his current answer.
First, he had to be sure of the sponsoring gods’ true names.
Second, he had to guess the skills that the gods would give through their true names.

The first one was relatively easy.
Except for only one god with a rather difficult and unknown nickname, all the others were using nicknames that had been mentioned at least once in the original novel or had nicknames that were easy to guess.

Except for Loki, Guan-Yu, and Culann, all of whom with already clear identities, there were three remaining gods left.
Among them, the first god that Yu-Seong found the answer to was the Emperor of Great China.

‘This one never came out in the original novel, but it’s actually easy to guess.’ 

Since the nickname was ‘the Emperor of Great China’, Yu-Seong could guess that it was the name of a country’s monarch during her lifetime.
In the end, it was inevitably easy to know who she was after a little research about the rulers’ titles.

‘Sacred Divine Golden Empress Zetian.’

The nickname being used was only an abbreviation of this, and the part that Yu-Seong had to pay attention to was the last word.

‘Zetian, Wu Zetian.’ 

Better known by the name of Ze Tian Wu Hou, she was China’s first female emperor to ascend to the throne at a late age and had held power for a long time.
It was true that she had great achievements and had a reputation enough to reach Divinity, but unfortunately, Yu-Seong was not going to choose her skill.

‘There are some of her skills that I can roughly guess, but it’s not the kind that I want.’ 

What had come to mind when thinking of Wu Zetian was the strong power and dignity that held people down so that no one could surpass her.
It was certain that her intangible power would be formidable since she had ascended to the throne at a late age and had remained in emperor position for a very long time.
Perhaps Yu-Seong might have as much pressure and vibe as Choi Woo-Jae with the power of her skill.
In other words, however, Yu-Seong could have such an ability without using this skill when the time came.

‘I’m sure there are a few other great abilities since she has risen to Divinity, but…’ 

Anyway, she was removed from Yu-Seong’s options.
The Emperor of Great China was one of the candidates that he had decided to reject at the time her true name was revealed.

Recalling the memories of that time, Yu-Seong sent the very first refusal to the Emperor of Great China’s message.