Lee Hojae had given up his life as a pro gamer. The competitions. The fans. The adrenaline. All behind him. He retired to a quiet existence, content to let his reflexes dull and his rankings fade.
Until one day he received a mysterious message: “Congratulations! You’ve been invited to the Tutorial World.”
Intrigued. A little bored. More than a little curious. Hojae enters the game, confident in his skills, sure that whatever challenge awaits, he can handle it.
He chooses “hell” difficulty. The hardest setting. The one that warns players they will probably die.
Then he learns he is trapped there.
No logout button. No customer support. No respawn. Just floor after floor of monsters, traps, and puzzles designed to kill anyone foolish enough to pick hell mode.
The survival rate is 0.01%. One in ten thousand. The rest die screaming.
Hojae has no choice but to climb. Floor by agonizing floor. Day by endless day. His body breaks. His mind frays. The loneliness is worse than the monsters.
But he keeps going. Not because he is brave. Not because he is heroic. Because he needs to figure out the real reason he was invited. There is something behind the tutorial. Something that the 0.01% survival rate is designed to hide.
This tutorial may be tough. But its secrets are what is truly hellacious.
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