Trapped in a Cursed Game, but now with NPCs

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Shari Azrael, an apothecary in the Dover Village.
When she was on the verge of falling victim to a horde of monsters after being constantly robbed of her painstakingly crafted potions by the heroes, she suddenly realized.

She realized that she has been trapped in a cursed, buggy game as an NPC for two years!

The only way to escape the game was to help the protagonist and Dark Lord, the [Lord of Nightmares], and his companions defeat the final boss and reach the ending!

But…

“The [Lord of Nightmares] is deeply offended by your words.”
“The [Lord of Nightmares] feels a strong urge to kill you.”

Wouldn’t it be faster to die at the hands of the protagonist, who has a broken personality, rather than reach the game’s ending?
Moreover, the quests are becoming increasingly difficult…

Is it even possible to reach an ending, you bastard game masters?!

Associated Names
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망겜 속에 갇혔다
망겜 속에 갇혔다 근데 이제 NPC를 곁들인
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Recommendations
Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead (1)
Hush Now, Saintess! (1)
A Transmigrator’s Privilege (1)
Death Is The Only Ending For The Villain (1)
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (1)
I Decided to Kidnap the Male Lead (1)
Recommendation Lists
  1. [cn/kr] random novels
  2. Came for the cover
  3. Wyglda ciekawe (Nie zakoczone)
  4. Game/system like elements
  5. Novels that seem interesting

Latest Release

Date Group Release
06/20/23 Moonlight Novels c2
06/09/23 Moonlight Novels c1
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Galaxtiaa
Galaxtiaa
September 20, 2023
Status: c92
its a really slow burn romance, but worthit experience. I really love the female lead, and her no nonsense attitude. She's doesn't have any regard for her virtual life and doesn't really care about fame, cuz girlie is gonna die if she doesn't manage to complete the game. But it is a harem, and the male lead 1 so far t is so vague hahaha, cuz it'd a slow burn. 2nd male lead is a
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a elf that she helped rescue his siblings and race from s*avery

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I also like the action scenes tho, she's op but not too op, as her skills which are max level are basic magic spells hahaha. Shes extremely smart and witty. And her dialogue with the game moderators are funny.
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Pabsss
Pabsss rated it
October 21, 2023
Status: Completed
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Done reading this. I must say that there are some parts in the plot that has similarity to the 'A Transmigrator's Privilege' because the ML repeated regression dying with different reasons, saving the earth etc. But the culprit isn't god but a demon dragon. FL having buffs and people helping her through chat window but the difference is not god but a past heroes.

It's like a downgraded version of Transmigrator's Privilege. I don't say it's bad coz it's a good story tbh but not amazing like Transmigrator's Privilege in my opinion.

It's still a novel that gives you entertainment because of characters funny bickering. Don't expect too much coz there's not much romance here. It's full of action and fantasy than romance.

I'm just a bit disappointed for the ending.

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FL struggle to survive because she want to go back to her own world and when she's back the author suddenly turn her into a criminal (FL thought the demon dragon appearing to her world and she used her own car to destroy the core and everyone thought she is crazy and destroying someone property, that's why she became a criminal). The author use it as a reason for her to put her back again to another world for the sake of the romance but it's her real body now not a character with pink hair.

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I'm not complaining coz ML and FL reunited. I was just hoping for a Kill The Villainess ending troupe when ML followed her in her real world.

The novel ended when FL and ML kiss each other.

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sofiah_chan
sofiah_chan rated it
January 28, 2024
Status: ---
It's really a slow burn romance, the art is beautiful while the translation is ok, also when I saw that it's a romance novel that the FL is transported to a game I got interested but when I started reading I was confused.

For example, FL feeding the cursed guy who is tied up with handcuffs and a whole strength potion and needs his potions to sleep and as she makes it herself she has to make him drink it.

Another thing for those who need her help, as she is the... more>> only apothecary in town, why are they treating her like a criminal and a beggar as if she owes them something? When clearly she is the one doing the favor and they could have been respectful.

FL and ML have personality but ML not so much, he only starts to show his personality and feelings more later, if I may add, and what makes me even more impatient and only left me frustrated is because FL is being treated and how she just succumbed and this just doesn't make sense, also the ML is the typical cliche character with black hair and red eyes with a sad past.

It gets very dragging in some chapters and some dialogues are unnecessarily long and repetitive and it's also from the 'she's interesting' trope.

The story is also straightforward and predictable. I don't feel that connected to the characters, I know they're NPCs, but the story hasn't yet established, from the chapters a significant twist that some deaths just get a shrug like 'Oh, they're dead? Anyway, let's go'.

The ending was very long and has such a repetitive narrative. I think some of these issues could be resolved by reading more quickly, since the novel seriously lacked meaningful descriptive text.

Spoiler

They end up defeating the final boss (the final boss is the Ancient Dragon, which is the manifestation of 'death') and the body which our FL is possessing, Apothecary Shari Azrael, dies as a price for 'killing' the dragon.

FL then meets the creators of the VR Game (the world she entered and got stuck in until now) in heaven. It turns out that the creators were the 'game managers' that she was speaking to in the chat who helped her and gave her rewards. They are actually the original incarnations of the heroes that fought the Ancient Dragon 500 years ago. (Sera = Sepithraon, Count Hayleys/Adams ancestor, Ari = Niséaliv, the first saintess, and Jinu = Xynux, the first emperor of the Zenith empire.) Ultimately, they ask FL (real name Sari Song) if she wants to either go back to her world as promised, or stay in the game world with her real body.

She chooses to go back to Korea and wakes up in hospital, but the legendary sword Lumiecar was with her. On her fourth day back in Korea, she was on her way home from work with the sword in a bag, and was trying to think about how to get rid of it. Suddenly, monsters started to appear in her area and people began to panic. When a lizard monster went near her, she impulsively grabbed Lumiecar and swung in the air,

Even though she knew she was no longer Shari Azrael but an ordinary office worker. When she opens her eyes, she finds that she proces precisely cut the lizard in half. She finds out that she can use her abilities still, and uses 'Stun' on all of the monsters. She realises that the monsters aren't actually attacking people, and are saying things like 'Find Shari Azrael'; they are looking for her. She ends up finding the source of the monsters and destroys it with Lumiecar.

The police are trying to arrest Sari as they think shes dangerous after watching her swing the sword, and threaten her to put the sword down. Sari runs away and finds herself at the Han River, where she was before she went into the other world. She realises that she worked so hard to come back, but her life really wasn't as good as she convinced herself it was. She was an orphan, struggling with money and toxic relatives, and now the police were trying to detain her.

Hearing the sirens in the distance, she regrets coming back. Then, she sees a sign in front of her, it reads 'unclaimed quest reward, would you like to use it?'. This is the option of returning to the 'game' world in her original body that was mentioned before. She didn't know the game still had an effect, but this was her final chance to use it. She accepts the reward and jumps into the river. She wakes up in the empire, and 3 years and 6 months have passed.

She finds out that Kasel never returned from the fight that day. Startled, she tries to think of ways to meet the main characters but she knows that they won't believe her since her appearance has changed. She has an idea, she goes into a secluded forest and whistles in an attempt to summon for the Thunder Bird she tamed as Shari Azrael. He responds to her call, and recognises her instantly. She gets on his back and goes to the Dark Forest, which was where the battle with the final boss was. When she was about to give up on looking for Cassel, she finds his body, covered in black liquid, which is the dragons power.

She pulls him out of it and he slowly regains consciousness. What happened was after Shari Azrael died, he knew that she went back to her original world. Everyone thinks that they killed the dragon, but you cannot 'kill' death as the worlds balance will be thrown off, but he was put to rest. Cassel makes a deal with the dragon. Death had always tried to cross into Shari's world in every life after destroying this world, but he was never succesful.

Kasel says that if the dragon lends him his power so that he can use it to can cross over to FL's world, he will let him see the world through his eyes. (Because of how long the curse has been on cassel he found he could merge with or possess 'death', so basically if he goes into the real world death can in turn merge with cassel and see the world through his eyes) Shari tells him that hes s*upid for chasing her, and she asks why he would do such a thing.

Kasel is reinstated as Crown prince (since he was missing for years, the emperor brought in his illegitimate child as heir. Emperor's is a weak bastard so as soon as Cassel comes back the emperor goes into seclusion) Kasel proposes to Shari in front of the statue of 'Shari Azrael', remembered as one of the four heroes who died in the great battle, and they kiss again and "The End".

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