Terrarium Adventure - Chapter 1

Translator: Darling | Editor: Coming soon…

Ringing.

Master! The diamond wagon is full! Empty the wagon!

During the lecture, there was a notification message and sound.

Thanks to the professor’s loud voice and me sitting all the way at the end, everyone could have heard the notification sound. I forgot to set my phone into silent mode before the lecture began.

My classmate who sat next to me paid attention to me due to notification sound. He clicked his tongue as I was pushing the message while making into a silent mode.

“Do you still use that? Aren’t you tired of it? You are really into it.”

He is scolding me while whispering at me but I ignored it. Today, I already heard it 3 times.

It’s none of your business if I play game or not. Already, the phone screen showed the game <Infinite Diamond> along with dwarfs who are constantly pickaxing at diamond mines.

After short loading, I entered into the game and the wagon was full of diamonds which were bigger than the mine.

The diamond will not accumulate until you empty the wagon.

With a red alarming message, dwarfs who had no work procrastinated and rolled under the cart.

As I touched the cart, the dwarfs stood up and made themselves into two groups where one group carried the diamonds to my inventory and other group continued to pickax at the mine.

My possessed number of diamonds, 9.,8xx,xxx,xxx,xxx… constantly increased and if I fill and empty the cart twice, I will reach the limit for the diamonds on this game.

In order to unlock the last achievement, I needed to obtain ‘999,999,999,999,999’ diamonds.

Achieved Work [???], Compensation Rate [???]

In the official fan page of this game, perhaps the developer wanted to prepare for the next update and emptied the space or made it temporarily and treated as a gimmick (Feature to attract attention). The reason I’m playing this game for more than a year is to unlock such achievement.

I can’t stay curious and once I start, I should make it until the end!

<Infinite Diamond> is one of numerous idle games which were released in the game market as ‘Infinite xx’ series made a hit.

The object of the game was to revive the village by using and producing the diamonds by becoming the master of dwarfs in the village.

If you touch rigorously, there will be diamonds which will be obtained based on number of touches however, ultimately you have to make the game to run automatically even if you turn the game off by increasing the additional option to produce diamonds.

I must hire more dwarfs at mines, increase their level, improve the quality of pickax and increase the storage space…

By doing so, I can increase the automatic productivity per second and when I turn off the game, an alarm will appear so I can log in sometimes just to move the cart full of diamonds into my inventory.

<Infinite Diamond> has been released for 1 year and the developer didn’t have high expectation and rather copied the popular trend so there was no update after 3 months since launching the game while the official fan page didn’t bother to erase spam posts.

It was just to the extent where the server existed. As the company abandoned the game, most of the users have left the game and people who remained to play the game were like me who had to achieve every goal until the end.

As users including myself stayed patiently for 1 year, it was possible to empty the diamond cart every day. Since, there is no contents update users have already have conquered all the quests.

By using the diamonds, desolate and abandoned dwarf’s village became a large empire as dwarfs have been enhanced until their maximum level.

Since we didn’t have any use for diamonds anymore, we acted like a rich man who was abundant with cash by purchasing useless items until the maximum limit or changed hair colors and clothing for dwarfs which had nothing to do with diamond production.

At this point, users who wondered ‘What should I do next?’ have left the game and people who left the game only looked toward one goal.

[???] Achievement.

Now, even the spam posts which were irrelevant to the game were rare, and just writing the message on the official fan page lead to lots of comments.

An achievement which no user has done before where a user will possess 999,999,999,999,999 amounts of diamonds.

At first, nobody knew if such achievement existed from the beginning, that’s because the compensation for achieving to possess certain amount of diamonds was diamond. So, people who had full of diamonds didn’t bother to achieve such goal.

Also, due to game’s characteristic, after a certain point the diamond production increased exponentially so the achievement increased in dozens at a time. Thus, most of the users didn’t bother to touch every single time to receive compensation.

Users who play abandoned game wouldn’t like to have hassles…

One day, one user managed to unlock all the achievements despite laziness and at last there was an achievement showing [???].

At the time, the user with most diamonds had ‘millions’ and as the user looked at the achievement requirement of ‘trillions’, they thought it was a bug, gimmick or once the achievement is unlocked the game will reset.

The objective of users who had all other achievements unlocked were determined. Become a hero by unlocking [???] achievement before anybody.

Of course, that hero will be me.

“Hey, stop playing that game and play ‘Terarium Adventure’ with me. It’s doing a close beta service and it will be officially released next month. Friends in our class already chose their nicknames and waiting for the game. Have a look at this.”

A classmate avoided the eye contact with professor and handed his phone to me. The screen was showing bright and fancy game introduction where illustrators have put their souls in.

All characters appeared pretty and handsome. It was way better than <Infinite Diamond> which was a conventional dotted graphic game.

“It’s from the same developer…”

There was something that attracted me other than hundreds of character cards, featuring famous novelists on game scenario and extensive amount of investment.

Other than fancy advertisement slogan, what got me was that this game is made from the studio which developed <Infinite Diamond>. I thought all of sudden that <Infinite Diamond> will close in near future.

“I’m going to make a guild and you should join me. We need people like you who puts effort in playing games.”

He doesn’t know how I feel. What if the server closes before I unlock [???] achievement?

My classmate continued to share his expectation towards <Terarium Adventure>and made me to enter my mobile number for advanced booking.

It was possible only because from the beginning, I hate such random card drawing games and I was into unlocking the achievement. I was also aware of the professor looking towards us.

As I became anxious, I touched before when the diamond is full inside the cart and sent to my inventory. Since I thought I can’t focus on the lecture I skipped the rest of the class.

I took a bus to home in a middle of day and went to official fan page after a long time. Users who are playing the game had same concerns.

Nobody thought that the server may close because we were just focused into unlocking [???] achievement.

Perhaps, the company is making loss because they have to maintain the server while users don’t make any payments as the users played all the content. There is no point of leaving the game which is not profitable.

As the company fulfilled 1 year of service and all they have left is to notify closing the server.

I left few comments and went back to the game screen. I went to a cash shop which I haven’t clicked for last few months.

‘Buff on increased productivity speed’. I have to send full cart twice to my inventory.

It’s pointless to spend money on a dead game… I didn’t have to think long. I paid for 2x,3x,5x,10x,20x buff items in a row.

My phone vibrated for a long time due to a text message telling me that the payment was made successfully. Dwarfs began rigorously pickaxed like the speed of bus wheel heading home. Once I get home, I will look through my phone all day.

As I was taking my shoes off, I heard an alarm notification. I quickly looked at the phone thinking that it is a notification sound to tell me that the cart is full. It was a notification sound with text message saying that I successfully made advanced booking for <Terarium Adventure>.

Thank you for booking in advance for <Terarium Adventure>, a beautiful RPG which I can develop with my own hands. Welcome Druid. Blabla…

Anyway, I was wondering when I deactivated the silent mode at that moment there was a message telling me that my cart is full.

I consistently touched the screen at the bus to fill the cart so if my prediction is correct, this is the last load. Adore me, users. I shall unlock [???] achievement first!

I was ready to take a screen capture so I left my bag on the ground and sat in front of the house. My heart is beating and I didn’t know that the loading took this long. 80%, 90%, 100%… it’s done!

The Diamond Cart is full and there is a red alarming message telling that ‘The diamonds will not be accumulated unless you empty the cart’. I think it seems right by looking at the number of diamonds I own.

As I touch the cart, dwarfs swiftly moved the diamonds to my inventory. Diamonds are filled inside the underground safe. I managed to fulfill 999,999,999,999,999 diamonds!

In fact, the game’s ‘maximum statistic’ predicted by some users were perhaps correct. The screen was filled with number 9. Now, there is a blue light on [???] achievement completion button which I waited for a long time!

Ah, how long did I look forward to this moment! I screen captured so that the number of diamonds is shown clearly and I took a screen capture of activated screen before closing the game.

I managed well to a mediocre game without world or scenario where only diamond production exists! (That’s the charm of abandoned games.)

If this was a game disc, there would be an ending when I press complete button! With trembling hand, I pressed the button. And…

Congratulations. You have completed [???] achievement.

As a reward, you have obtained ???!

What? That’s it? Just like other times, when I unlock achievement, dwarfs clap for me for few moments and they resumed pickaxing.

It’s futile. Unlike like someone’s concern, the game didn’t reset. Still, because it’s a gimmick so I couldn’t see completed game nor hidden story. What is ‘???’ and when I look at window for possessed item, there was a black cube shaped item which I saw for the first time.

Unexpectedly, there was a command called ‘use’. It seems like a bug item which didn’t have an image. Is this game really out of its shape?

I took a screen capture and pressed use. One side of cube opened and a golden key appeared. The item name was ‘Mystery Key’. It was huge that it would cover the whole game screen.

What is this? The game really played up and it has affected the phone so I wasn’t able to screen capture. The game can blow up but my phone can’t blow up.

This cost a lot! I urgently tapped the screen and pressed power button, volume button but my phone froze and wouldn’t move or turn off after key screen.

I have played this game so hard and how can this game managed to break my phone? I even paid for it! I’m getting on my nerves as I have to pay to repair my phone as warranty expired.

At that moment. My phone’s brightness turned greater by itself although I set it to the lowest due to conserving the battery. I glared at the screen while worrying that the phone really broke.

Then… It was too suspicious to say it is a screen brightness problem…It flashed…making my eyes glaring…?

When I thought how the hell is this crazy phone is making the house so bright..! I wasn’t at my house.