BJ Archmage Chapter 1: 1-10, a 13 tzameti fanfic

Jung Hyeonwoo who had no talent, no money and no luck. "Why do I see the information inside the game?" He started to see the things that are not supposed to show up since he got electrocuted by lightning.

Prologue.

It's always been like that.

"The ones who rule the world are one of three categories."

No matter where or when, they have always been the same.

"One, the talented bastards. Two, the rich bastards. Three, the lucky bastards."

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The ones who had innate talent, the ones who had money that wouldn't run out, and the ones who had immense luck.

Reality was their garden, where only they were able to do as they pleased.

It was the reason why reality was harsh.

"Also, these three don't fight each other and get along pretty well."

The fact that there weren't many cases where they fought against each other made it even worse

The ones with talent and the ones with money were friendly to each other and created a fence for themselves whereas the ones with luck somehow got their own fenced area that others wouldn't be able to enter even if they begged.

"The ones who have become ancient beings after gathering and settling there cannot be changed no matter what."

The stronghold they created did not dare allow challenges from people of lower standing.

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"God Wars is like that too, right?"

God Wars, a virtual reality game that swallowed the world after its release in 2034, was the same as well, with its1.8 billion people in the world playing it and 5.1 billion people watching the gameplay.

"The people ruling God Wars are the same."

As it stopped being a simple game to become a way of life, the ones ruling God Wars were also decided.

"They either had the most talent, the most money, or the most luck."

Talent, money, and luck.

There was just one, a single exception to this.

"If a speeding truck were to crash into a telephone pole, and that telephone pole would electrocute you, giving you the power to see all hidden informations in the game, there might be a way."

Jung Hyun-woo, he who was called Midas in God Wars was the sole exception.

Chapter 2

Around the year of 00, Virtual Reality games began trending on the global scale.

Soon after, in 034, the virtual reality game that the world had been waiting for finally appeared.

God Wars.

The game that held the title of a war between gods surpassed the imagination of the people, as it took the world by storm and firmly took over it.

In 038, the number of registered players was 1.8 billion while the number of viewers surpassed 5.1 billion.

This became known as the moment in history when all kinds of entertainment from sports such as soccer, baseball and basketball, to opera, concert and orchestras were all taken over by a single game.

The era of God Wars had started.

In such an era, being good at the game called God Wars was a formidable skill to have.

[Professional player's yearly salary reaches 300 million dollars!]

[Two Hand] becomes the professional with the highest salary!]

A single person had managed to earn a yearly salary of over 300 billion won just because they were good at the game.

[Haze game company, starts stocks on COSDAC]

[Haze game company, stock value increasing 5 days in a row!]

[Goblin Guild, propelling plans to start stocks in NASDAQ?]

On top of that, the so called game companies gathered players who played God Wars and earned a profit off of them and became the hottest items on the stock market.

[The value of God Wars' greatest guild Beta?]

[Beta guild: Its members won't change guilds even for 10 billion dollars!]

It became an era where the value of a single guild in a game surpassed hundreds of billions of won, and sometimes even reached the trillions.

As such, many leading figures appeared.

[God Wars changed my life as an outcast!]

[God Wars is the reason I, a long time shut-in, managed to become a millionaire!]

People whose lives had changed so dramatically that even Cinderella would be jealous appeared and became able to grasp wealth and fame by gaming.

Many people grew in fame and power in that way.

"This is too much. Isn't a daily salary of 300,000 won too low for a raid with a survivability rate lesser than 30%? 80 hours of hard work just disappears once it's game over, right?"

Also, extras that were more than tens of millions more in number than the main rankers appeared.

- Don't do it if you don't like it.

"It's not that I don't like it, I'm just asking for a raise. Isn't only offering 300,000 won for a level 100 and the same 300,000 for a level 00 going too far?"

Jung Hyun-woo was that extra.

- Hey, Ciroco guild is only giving that much so what do you want a broker like me to do?

What the 5.1 billion viewers enjoyed the most was none other than boss monster raids.

Of course, boss monster raids being the main profit of guilds and game companies, they were farming them without rest.

After all, the most important thing to them was generating benefits.

"Damn it, if they're going to wrung me dry then they could at least admit me into the guild. Are there no seats left in Ciroco guild?"

- Hey, it's a situation where even existing seats are disappearing. It's not like Ciroco guild members are overdoing themselves to run raids you know.

To earn a greater profit than guilds or game companies, one had to manage groups more efficiently.

Looking at it from this point of view, it was inefficient to permanently employ all thousands to tens of thousands of players.

Because of that, they started employing them only when they were needed.

- It'd be a good idea to go while they still give 300,000 won. There's a rumor going around that large guilds are colluding to lower the price of extras.

"What?"

He was one of those extras.

"The guys that earn big are going to cut the already low pay?"

- What can you do? Be good at the game if you don't like it.

Of course, there was not a single person that dreamed of being an extra, and Jung Hyun-woo was the same.

"Bastard, hitting the sore spot with facts."

In 034, when God Wars was revealed to the world, Jung Hyun-woo had poured everything he had into it to become a main character.

He had quite some confidence too.

'Damn it.'

The source of his confidence was none other than baseball, a sport he used to play but that had ruined his life.

Virtual reality, as the words suggest, meant controlling a virtual body, which only made the gap in talent appear more noticeably.

Magician was the prime example of this.

It was not difficult to use magic in God Wars, the problem was landing it.

Other games had auto targeting, but in God Wars, spells that could be targeted had limitations, and their power was mediocre as well.

In the end, it meant that players had to manually aim at the target.

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On top of that, they didn't just have to land the spells, but also needed to run around to kite running monsters, which wasn't easy even for professional baseball players.

- Hey, don't feel so down, yeah? You used to be pretty good at one point, didn't you?

'Yeah, it went pretty well in the beginning.'

As a former professional baseball player who had been been evaluated to have good control in exchange for low speed, it came as a golden chance.

On top of that, to Jung Hyun-woo, who had been expelled from his professional team after an injury, it was more than just a golden chance.

He wasn't part of the worst players in the beginning.

No, he was actually quite good.

There were more players than grains of sand, but in a situation where only a small number of magicians that could properly land their magic, Jung Hyun-woo's record was on the good side.

There were many times when he partied with players with good abilities, and he used those to get a few connections with rankers.

He had thought that he entered their league.

He thought that his flow wouldn't be bad.

- If it wasn't for this accident you had, you wouldn't be like this……

Indeed, if it wasn't for his life's worst event, it wouldn't have turned out bad.

"That doesn't matter anyway. It's just that I didn't have anything at that time."

But Jung Hyun-woo didn't think that he ruined his life that day.

"The reason I'm in this situation looking like this is just because of that. It's just because I have no talent, no money, and no luck."

- And you have no penis either?

"You want to die?"

The mood of their conversation softened and they returned to the original topic.

- So you'll do it, right?

"I have to."

- But this is dangerous and you know it. Are you going to be alright? No matter how one looks at it, anyone can tell that Ciroco guild is overdoing themselves.

"The chance the raid will succeed is less than 30% according to my calculations."

- It's really low.

"However, the chance I'll survive is over 80%."

Jung Hyun-woo's eyes became sharp as he said so.

"My nickname isn't die-hard for nothing."

The one man on the other side of the phone said to such Jung Hyun-woo.

- Isn't your nickname cockroach?

Beep!

With a short sound, the white capsule the size of a bed opened and a man's figure appeared.

he man's 180 cm high figure looked quite sturdy as he was wearing a full body swimming suit.

One could see that this body had done some sports.

The man took off the helmet on his head.

A man in cleaning clothes approached him and handed him a candy.

"Hyun-woo hyeong, did work go well?"

Jung Hyun-woo replied to the Capsule Room part time worker Lee Hyuk-joo while putting the candy in his mouth.

"As if it would go well. In the end, I'll be risking my life working part time as a meat shield for 300,000 won."

"So where is it this time?"

"Cicoro guild."

"CIcoro guild? You're participating in the Blue Back Lion Turtle raid?"

"That's right."

A cold attitude that would make even the person hearing it feel down.

However, Lee Hyuk-joo's eyes shined brightly at Jung Hyun-woo's words.

"Hyeong, I don't care if I have to pay for it, I really want to join such a raid."

Jung Hyun-woo couldn't help but make a bitter expression at Lee Hyuk-joo's desperate look.

Jung Hyun-woo, he was definitely an extra.

No, he couldn't even be called an extra.

Guilds and game companies hired him just to throw him away after using him once, he was nothing more than a disposable tool.

He was no different than being human fuel.

"I'm investing all the money I got from my part time job to be able to be hired as a helper to not even a boss raid but a normal hunt."

Despite this, the world was overflowing with people that dreamed of becoming human fuel that would be thrown away after a single use.

"I don't even dream to become like hyeong. I just want to not use money while playing."

In reality, among the 1.5 billion players, professional players that make a living out of playing God Wars numbered less than 15 million.

It was proof that Jung Hyun-woo didn't entirely lack talent.

'There's nothing more miserable than having mediocre talent.'

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But Jung Hyun-woo knew better than anyone just how miserable mediocre talent a person could be.

Because he experienced it.

'No matter where it is, it's a stage made for those with talent. Whether it's baseball or video games.'

It wasn't just once but twice.

"Yeah, thanks for at least saying it like that. You work hard as well and succeed by leveling up."

Of course, Jung Hyun-woo didn't discourage Lee Hyuk-joo.

There was no need to put out the fire of his dream.

"Eh, would that even be possible? The people who started first would end up eating up everything anyway."

Even if he didn't do so, the world seemed to have already drowned Lee Hyuk-joo's dream after all.

"Even if people pour in money from winning a lottery, they wouldn't be able to become a ranker."

It has now been 5 years since God Wars started service so God Wars' vested rights class had already created a clear line.

They had already created a perfect stronghold tough enough to prevent later starters from even daring to cross and even went as far as to collude with each other to create an entire kingdom.

That was the exact reason why Jung Hyun-woo couldn't change his current situation without being able to start anew.

"Yeah, people that are raising their characters now will never be able to rise to the top even by pouring in money, even if they have talent."

Jung Hyun-woo had poured in 5 years of money and time into his character, which was why he couldn't give up so easily.

It was difficult to even get a job in God Wars.

'I used almost 5 million won when choosing Magician of Ifrit after all.'

The character's job is decided from the moment a character is created in God Wars.

The problem is that the method the job is decided is random.

God Wars players had to choose one among 1,000 cards when creating a character, which was when the job got decided.

Also, there were the sub-classes within the job.

From Normal to Legendary tier.

As such, to be able to get the job one wanted, there were even people that invested hundreds of millions to keep creating characters.

'Starting over would be out of question.'

Jung Hyun-woo thought about that fact and grit his teeth.

'That's right, this is the only thing for me right now. The thing that can feed my brother and our cute Hye-rin.'

He accepted his own reality.

"I have to do it again 3 days later so leave a reservation for me."

"Yes. But please don't forget to give me the raid video for it."

"Okay, I'll give you the video so hopefully you can finally get 10 views on Wartube."

Crunch!

With those words, Jung Hyun-woo crunched up the candy he was eating.

Afterwards, he talked while frowning at the taste of the candy that spread in his mouth.

"Hey, what kind of candy is this? What's up with the taste?"

"It's a glucose candy."

"Glucose?"

"I saw it in a game novel in the past, the main character ate glucose candies because it was good for the brain."

At that answer, Jung Hyun-woo prevented himself from mocking him.

"So how did the main character of that novel become the game's greatest? Did he gain some hidden class or something?"

"Hmm, I think he got hit by a truck and returned to the past to play solo as a necromancer?"

At that explanation, Jung Hyun-woo waved his hand as if there was no point to the conversation.

"That's such a retarded novel."

"That's why it's fun. Ah! If I could return to the past then I would really play God Wars, even if it meant going as far as to sell my organs. Hyeong is the same right?"

At Lee Hyuk-joo's words, Jung Hyun-woo held back his laughter.

"Am I crazy? The moment I'd return to the past, I would gather money and go all in on shares related to God Wars, then sleep in my house while scratching my belly. A guy with no talent, no money, and no luck shouldn't go to the past anyway."

With those words, Jung Hyun-woo left the Capsule Room.

Jung Hyun-woo let out a long sigh while his breath covered his sight.

A world that was quiet despite the absurd quantity of skyscrapers welcomed him.

Drip, drip!

Falling raindrops greeted him.

"Arg, damn. It's raining."

Jung Hyun-woo lowered his baseball cap at the rain and moved his foot towards it.

But at that moment.

Screeech!

'Hm?'

A speeding truck that lost its balance in the rain was rushing towards him like crazy.

Translator: KyleXaus

Chapter 3

Jung Hyun-woo wasn't the type that liked to study.

The only reason he, who was annoyed just by hearing analysis, calculation, and statistics, got familiar with it was because he became a Korean professional baseball player.

"The speed of the ball is 15 km/h at most. You're not the type to throw over 100 balls and from what I've seen, your body can very well crumble if you exert it too much. The only talent you have is control over the ball. If you want to survive in the professional world you need to use your head well."

He learned the way to survive in the professional world from the coach he met at his debut and learnt to enjoy playing with numbers from then on.

He analyzed batters and started a battle of probability after turning all their actions into numeric values.

Of course, the result wasn't entirely good, but playing with numbers wasn't bad either

'If only my shoulder didn't pop back then.'

Before he could even play with numbers properly, his shoulder began dysfunctioning.

'More importantly, why am I suddenly thinking about such things. Ah, there's a truck coming at me right now. Is this that thing that comes before dying? Where memories flash by like traffic? No, but what's the probability that a person dies in a car accident from being crashed into by an unmanned self driving car?'

The fact that he was thinking about probabilities while in a desperate situation where a truck was coming at him at high speed after losing balance on the road was

'Completely messed up.'

Going further, he was able to remember the fact that the average number of people dying due to a self driving car in one year was less than the number of people that got first place in lotteries.

'Make me win the lottery instead.'

It was only up to that.

Screeech!

The truck crashed into Jung Hyun-woo and his accident ended at that moment.

A tremendous explosion rang out.

Afterwards, the surroundings were covered in thick dust.

It was as if time and space had stopped.

"Hah."

Jung Hyun-woo scoffed a short breath.

"Did, did I survive?"

With those words, once Jung Hyun-woo turned his sight to the side, he could see that the huge truck had passed by him and hit a pole.

Had the truck not turned the steering wheel a bit more, the scene would have been way more gruesome.

After having narrowingly escaped death, Jung Hyun-woo finally spat out his feelings.

"Fuck!"

It was swearing that couldn't be rougher, but reasonable nonetheless.

Wouldn't it be weird to say something good when he almost died in a nonsensical way?

"Fuck! Ahhh, ahhh!"

He didn't stop swearing as the words came out of his mouth in an explosive manner, as his mind was trying to calm itself down.

"Ahhh, fuck!"

He forgot the falling rain and wiped the sweat on his head after taking his hat off.

"Haha, ahaha!"

Then came laughter, and with that that together a smile of madness.

Jung Hyun-woo unconsciously collapsed on the ground.

After doing so, he gained some time to think and soon remembered the conversation he had with Lee Hyuk-joo.

The conversation about the game fantasy novel the main character regressed after getting hit by a truck.

"Wow, I almost got regressed."

As he remembered the conversation back then, a laugh that thought it was absurd came out.

A smile slowly appeared on Jung Hyun-woo's face.

'Ah, I wonder if I'll get compensation money from this? I wonder how much would it be?'

It was a smile of happiness at the thought that he might get compensation for this accident.

'I think it will be more than I think……'

As he was filled with such thoughts, Jung Hyun-woo collapsed just like that.

The cause was electrocution.

There was no one that liked hospitals, and Jung Hyun-woo was no exception.

Actually, he hated hospitals.

After his shoulder got messed up during his professional baseball period, he almost began living in there, which made him hate them even more.

After that, because his brother and his wife got into an accident, hospitals were hell to Jung Hyun-woo.

A place he didn't want to go even if he died.

"Urg……"

That was why, the moment Jung Hyun-woo opened his eyes, he was able to tell it was a hospital.

'Hos, hospital? Why?'

Of course, he didn't know how he ended up in a hospital.

His head was hurting to the point of breaking and his memory was in a chaotic state.

"Urg……"

More than anything, his body, his senses were weird.

'What, what is it?"

It was as if time had become slower, like looking at the world through a slowed down video.

At the strange sensation he felt for the first time, Jung Hyun-woo started feeling unknown confusion and fear.

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"Young man, you're awake."

A deep voice made him return to normal.

"Hah!"

Jung Hyun-woo who threw out a sound like that of his breath exploding raised his body.

He could then see an old man.

He seemed to be about 60 years old, and the hair that was cleanly brushed back as well as the thick rimmed glasses made him look like a professor.

This was a hospital so he should be a doctor.

That was why Jung Hyun-woo didn't doubt a bit as he asked a question.

"How many days was I asleep for? What's the date today?"

At his question, the old man answered with a stiff expression.

"It's March 9th of 204."

"Yes?"

At that moment, Jung Hyun-woo's expression became blank.

After understanding the situation, Jung Hyun-woo's expression changed to astonishment and spoke.

"Wa, wait a minute. It's 204 right now? Not 208?"

The old man nodded once after closing his eyes instead of answering.

At that figure, Jung Hyun-woo's eyes started trembling.

'Did, did I really return to the past?'

Returning to the past.

Was a situation that could only be seen in novels happening to him right now?

'Wa, wait. Then what should I do? What should I do first?'

At the nonsensical situation, Jung Hyun-woo was obviously in a state of panic.

Badump badump badump!

Even during all this, his heart that felt instinctively that a golden chance arrived started beating strongly as it got excited.

"Patient Yang Hyun-soo!"

The voice of a nurse organized Jung Hyun-woo's chaos.

"How many times have we said that you can't just talk to patients as you want!"

At the nurse's sharp voice, Jung Hyun-woo tilted his head.

'Patient?'

With those words, Jung Hyun-woo inspected not the old man's face but his clothes.

He was only then able to see that the clothes the old man was wearing was none other than neat and tidy patient clothes.

At that moment, a robot came between the old man and Jung Hyun-woo.

The robot that looked like a monitor was placed on top of a trash can, on the monitor of that robot was a man wearing a doctor gown.

- Patient Jung Hyun-woo, you have gotten up.

It was the moment the real doctor appeared.

On the way home after leaving the hospital, Jung Hyun-woo's expression was extremely bad.

"God damn alzheimer old man."

A monologue that I would have spoken inside of my head normally, but Jung Hyun-woo said it to himself like a wild animal growling.

The proof that he wasn't feeling good in various ways.

'What's up with my luck?'

It couldn't be helped.

'A truck came at me.'

He experienced an accident of almost crashing with a truck.

'The moment I thought I survived I got electrocuted.'

After that, he unluckily got electrocuted and had to go to a hospital.

'On top of that, a crazy old man with alzheimer.'

It didn't stop there and even got one upped by an alzheimer patient.

'I already don't have much money……'

On top of that, he paid the hospital money himself.

Thanks to that, his bank account was now a four digit number.

After recalling the events that happened in the course of half a day, Jung Hyun-woo grit his teeth.

'Look forward to how much compensation money I'm going to rip off of you people.'

He would make them pay for this fury in any method possible!

The place Jung Hyun-woo stopped his steps after walking while resolving to do so was in the middle of a building forest.

A place where buildings rose high up in the sky with glass windows densely filling the building walls, the buildings were so densely packed that it would be difficult for light to shine on the buildings.

It was the neighbourhood Jung Hyun-woo lived in.

'Damned place.'

Of course, it was a place that deserved to be called a farm rather than a housing area.

A farm used to store humans using cheap rent as the pretext.

It was the rock bottom that was allowed in Korean society for those that didn't have anything.

'I will get out of here somehow.'

It was a place Jung Hyun-woo had to leave even a day faster as well as the reason Jung Hyun-woo was struggling so much.

After resolving once more, Jung Hyun-woo passed the front gate and stood in front of apartment 21.

He then took the elevator and stood in front an endless row of doors.

Room 201.

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After confirming that number, Jung Hyun-woo held the doorknob tightly.

[It is not a registered body code.]

A message could immediately be heard.

"Hm?"

Surprised, Jung Hyun-woo looked at his palm and checked the room number again.

'What, what is this bullsh*t? It's my house though?'

After confirming the situation once more, Jung Hyun-woo put his hand on it again.

[It is not a registered body code.]

The same message could be heard.

Jung Hyun-woo raised his head at that moment.

'Did I come to the wrong building?'

He thought about his surrounding situation in his head on his way here.

In his head, he had passed the exact same figured buildings.

It was a place where it wouldn't be weird even if one got lost.

Creek!

At that moment, the door opened from the inside.

"Uncle!"

After that, a cute short haired little girl around 7 greeted Jung Hyun-woo while shouting cheerfully.

Jung Hyun-woo finally made a smile.

"Oh, were you doing well Hye-lin?"

"Yeah!"

Jung Hye-lin.

Jung Hyun-woo's one and only niece.

"What about dad?"

"I'm here."

Behind that niece, was one of two only blood relative, his brother Jung Tae-woo.

Looks similar to Jung Hyun-woo but he was a man that looked much more handsome than Jung Hyun-woo.

A severe difference that would make one shake their heads at Jung Hyun-woo if they were put next to each other.

However, that fact wouldn't enter one's eye.

There was only one thing that one could see, the fact that Jung Tae-woo was in a wheelchair.

"I heard you went to the hospital? Did something happen?"

At Jung Tae-woo's words full of worry, Jung Hyun-woo replied indifferently.

"How bad could the illness of a game maniac be? It's nothing much."

"Are you hurt somewhere?"

Jung Hyun-woo shook his head several times at Jung Tae-woo's continuous words.

"I'm telling you, it's nothing much. If I really had a problem I would have been hospitalized, not

coming here completely fine."

Jung Hyun-woo who said so remembered the tragedy that occurred a certain day 4 years ago.

His brother who had become the family head at the age of 14 just because of the reason that he was 5 years older after their parents passed away in an accident, after going through various hardships, his brother had finally found hope but he had to go through another large loss.

'There's no need to say it separately.'

Jung Hyun-woo who remembered that tragedy didn't feel the need to recite the day he went through.

He didn't add another page to his brother's head that was already full of bad memories.

"More importantly, it seems that body code cognition device is broken?"

Jung Hyun-woo changed the topic naturally.

Jung Tae-woo stared at his younger brother carefully and then answered.

"It's broken? Does it not work?"

"Yeah."

"There's no way it would be so though?"

There was certainty in Jung Tae-woo's voice.

He had been a good programmer formerly which is the reason why he could have such certainty.

Jung Hyun-woo laughed at Jung Tae-woo's certainty.

"Why can't it be? A machine can break."

"The algorithm used in this neighbourhood's security system is the same algorithm used in the Gate Capsule. Maybe it would make sense if the machine itself broke but the chance of a body code not working is only one in a million."

It didn't work twice in that specific probability of one in a million though? Was what Jung Hyun-woo was going to say but his faced stiffened.

"Wait."

"Why?"

"So you're saying that the security system of our house's front entrance is used in the gate capsule as well?"

Gate Capsule.

The virtual reality connection device for God Wars.

Body code is used for such a Gate Capsule.

"That's right."

Of course, it meant that it wouldn't be possible to connect to one's character if the body code was different.

That fact didn't change once until now.

That was the reason.

"Hy, hyeong, wait. Wait a minute. I'm going to a nearby capsule room for a bit."

Jung Hyun-woo had an incredibly bad premonition.

And that premonition soon turned into reality.

Chapter 4

Someone had said so.

Kim Min-soo was one of these 'plus'.

From the beginning, he was different from other people.

He had extremely sharp logic from a young age and developed various virtual reality programs at the age of 20. 1à years later, he went as far as creating the Gate Capsule, a machine that could perfectly emulate reality, as well as the content he intended to use it with, the game God Wars.

He had achieved a surprising revolution among revolutions of mankind without anyone's help.

Afterwards, the Gate Capsule manufacturing company, Plus Corp. and God Wars production company Alpha Corp. became the first and second richest companies in the world.

The value got even higher as Kim Min-soo got an incurable disease at the age of 32, making any other company not even comparable to them.

"No, I'm suddenly unable to connect to the game. Both my personal identification code and my fingerprint are correct so why am I unable to connect? It says that it's because the body code is different but why would that code change? Isn't it used because our irises and fingerprints don't change? Take care of it by hiring a lawyer you say? No, what's that supposed to…… Huh? Eh!"

It was to the point that they could ignore the chattering of a human from a mere small Asian country.

"Did they hang up?"

It took about 3 minutes for Jung Hyun-woo to realize that they were gone. He wanted to call again, but he knew it would be useless.

'They would just say the same thing again……'

'What kind of nonsensical situation is this?'

In the first place, this situation itself wasn't supposed to ever be happening.

'How could the body code change?'

The body code was a perfect self identification method in the modern world as it was the codified version of the body's innate signals.

Fingerprints couldn't be used if the finger was cut off and pupil recognition couldn't be used if the eyeball disappeared, but the body code was a method that could prove a person's identity because it didn't disappear even if the limbs were cut off, eyeballs gouged out, and teeth were pulled out.

Until now, it had not been counterfeited or falsified, which is why it was currently being used in all areas, including in the Gate Capsule.

The only key to accessing an ID in God Wars was through the body code.

'Damn, even I wouldn't believe it.'

The fact that his body code had changed, if acknowledged by the customer support team, meant the presence of a huge security problem.

God Wars was a place that valued security more than any other place.

In an era where a ranker's value was worth way over tens of billions won, a problem with that ranker's character would be a huge loss for the company.

To be honest, Jung Hyun-woo himself knew that what he was saying was an unreasonable request.

'Why suddenly?'

On top of that, from his perspective, it was a matter that he couldn't understand as it had been fine until just one day ago.

'Don't tell me?'

No, it wasn't like he couldn't understand.

'No, no way?'

It wasn't like there was nothing that came to mind.

'Electrocution?'

If there was something that affected him since his last connection, the only thing was being electrocuted.

The moment that fact rose in his mind, the inside of Jung Hyun-woo's head went white.

'Oh my god.'

If that really was the truth, then that meant that what happened wasn't a simple happening but Jung Hyun-woo's body code changing.

'Ah, no.'

It was obvious, but there wasn't even a 1% chance that Alpha Corp. that operates God Wars would personally step up to solve the problem.

The only method would be for Jung Hyun-woo to hire a lawyer and obtain his rights as they had said.

'It's absolutely nonsensical.'

It meant that a teenager whose bank account was going dry had to face Plus Corp. and Alpha Corp's law team that could even turn a serial killer into a Nobel Prize winner.

Jung Hyun-woo collapsed at such a distant fact.

Strength left his legs.

Jung Hyun-woo who had collapsed like that, covered his face with his two hands.

The hands that covered his face were trembling uncontrollably.

'Ah.'

After collapsing, not a single thought appeared in Jung Hyun-woo's mind.

"Ah."

Only a sigh full of despair.

How long did he sigh for?

A message arrived on Jung Hyun-woo's smartphone.

[The raid schedule has been set! I attached the file.]

The moment he saw that message, Jung Hyun-woo was able to realize this fact more clearly.

'Ah……!'

The fact that what he invested his everything in had turned to dust in a day.

God Wars.

An unknown world that one can't know the ends of. In there, a player can experience things beyond reality.

"God Wars is a world greater than reality!"

Many didn't spare their compliments for the God Wars world.

However, the game was full of irrationality as well.

Among that, the greatest irrationality were the early starters, the fact that it was impossible to break down the stronghold of the huge powers that have already become the rulers.

As it reached 5 years since the game service started, the top 1% became untouchable existences and they pretty much dominated God Wars as they monopolized all wealth and honor.

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Because of this, the world called them the Children of God, the Chosen Ones.

Of course, even if it wasn't them, there were plenty of people among those that started early and have a higher level, better items and skills than others who received pretty good treatment.

Jung Hyun-woo, the reason he was able to feed two people as a professional player was due to this as well.

'It's over.'

To put it differently, excluding his game character Midas he didn't have anything.

'It's all over.'

A normal person that lost everything he had and fallen on the ground, weak and trivial, and not able to do anything.

'Like that time, everything is over.'

On top of that, it was the second time.

'Like that time……'

When he had received the notification of release from the club, he quit baseball that he had done his entire life.

'Damn it.'

Of course, it was different from that time.

There was a place he could rely on even after quitting baseball he had done his entire life.

At the time, his brother wasn't in a wheelchair but a pretty well off programmer that had married and lived with his wife and daughter, and stayed as Jung Hyun-woo's sturdy backer after all.

That brother had pulled up Jung Hyun-woo who had fallen to rock bottom.

But it was different this time.

'Hyeong.'

On the contrary, a situation where even his brother who was relying on him fell to the ground together due to Jung Hyun-woo losing everything.

'Hye-rin.'

Also, even his cute niece had fallen into sh*t.

As his train of thought reached that point, Jung Hyun-woo clenched his teeth.

It was an expression.

'That's right, there's no such thing as a choice.'

He had to give up what he had been doing until now and do something else, however, it was expression that showed realization that he didn't have the leisure nor capability in him.

It was the truth.

He had only done baseball in elementary, middle, and high school, spent his early 20s doing baseball and spent 5 years after that solely on the game.

Now, if Jung Hyun-woo who had entered the late 20s gave up gaming, he would truly be a incompetent that couldn't do anything.

More than anything, it was definitely the era of God Wars.

People earned money and worked part time to play God Wars.

No, there was no need to look for part time jobs from far away.

Part time jobs were overflowing within God Wars after all.

'Let's at least work as a miner.'

Miner.

People that mined ores or medicinal plants that were needed to craft items in God Wars.

In an era where machine did everything, it was the only thing that machines couldn't do which is why the salary was quite high.

To put it differently, it was like treating a human like a machine.

'I might lose my mind but……'

Work that was stressing to the point that most would lose their minds within a month.

'I have to earn money right now.'

Jung Hyun-woo who thought up to that point, didn't lower his head anymore.

'Thankfully, I still have another character creation card.'

He stood up.

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"You're creating a new character?"

"Yeah."

"Why?"

At Lee Hyuk-joo's question, Jung Hyun-woo didn't bother telling him his miserable reality.

"Just open the Gate Capsule."

He only showed that he wasn't in a very good mood through his low tone.

"Ah, yes."

At that look, Lee Hyuk-joo didn't ask any further.

At that moment, Lee Hyuk-joo threw a question.

"But do you have a character creation card?"

Jung Hyun-woo frowned at the question.

'Bastards that are starved for money.'

It was possible to create as many characters as one wanted in God Wars.

It wasn't a problem for a single player to create 100 million characters.

The problem was that the character creation card cost a whooping 880,000 won.

Of course, they had justification.

As long as the character was created, the game usage payment of 330,000 is given for free for three months.

From that perspective, it was a great benefit.

'The yearly profit from character cards is higher than Benz's profit.'

The problem is that one cannot select the job they want, the so called random box structure.

'There are guys that used over hundreds of millions of won on just this.'

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It was to the point that there was not a low number of people that used mind boggling amounts of money to get a good job.

'The amount of money the rank 3 Azumo used to first get the Archmage job was over 100 million won.'

The amount of money the player called Azumo used to get one of the five legendary rank jobs, Archmage, was a legend in various ways.

The number of people that got the Archmage job after that was about 81 currently.

Jung Hyun-woo couldn't leave the bridle of gambling himself.

'I used 5 million won to get the Magician job as well.'

He had used close to 5 million won to get the Magician job as well.

'I had used relatively less since it was an event period.'

Even then he had used relatively less thanks to the 21 event.

Of course, that didn't matter to Jung Hyun-woo at the moment.

'I'm glad I just left the Character Creation Card that was left over back then.'

Thanks to not using or selling the leftover Character Creation Card back then, there was still one left and it was possible to use it as a code unlike an account.

'The job can be whatever.'

Also, to him who was determined to be a miner the job didn't matter.

"Hyeong, it's ready. Go into capsule 11."

Jung Hyun-woo restarted the game like that.

A silver tray, what Jung Hyun-woo encountered once on top of that was a bunch of light.

It was an amazing scene.

Amazing to the point that it was hard to believe that this was a virtual space.

A scene that made one accept why people said that God Wars was a world beyond reality.

However, Jung Hyun-woo who came across that scene didn't have an expression of surprise anywhere.

'It's a crappy scene every time I see it.'

The fact that this was the stage he would have to live in like a dog, not better or worse.

What made Jung Hyun-woo even more depressed was the fact that there wasn't a character anywhere on the stage.

If it was like usual, there would have been his main character and the various other characters he created after all.

It was proof that everything he built up in the last 5 years had disappeared.

'Ah.'

To Jung Hyun-woo who was sighing at that fact, God Wars asked.

[Are you going to participate in the war of gods?]

"Yes."

Jung Hyun-woo answered to that question.

Then, a second question came.

[What is your name?]

"Midas."

At that question, a window appeared in front of Jung Hyun-woo's eyes.

[Midas]

- Level: 1

- Faith: None

- Job: None

- Stats: Strength (5) / Endurance (5) / Intelligence (5) / Magic Power (5)

The moment the status window appeared.

At that moment, an endless number of cards started appearing around Jung Hyun-woo.

The cards of the same size all showed their backs and the cards that looked like a wall made one feel confined and cozy.

[Select the god you will follow. Then the god will be your power.]

The final message could then be heard and Jung Hyun-woo replied to that message.

"Hm?"

Together with the answer, Jung Hyun-woo rubbed his eyes with his two hands clenched into fists.

He then looked around once more.

After that, Jung Hyun-woo replied.

"Wa, wait a minute."

"Hm?"

To Lee Hyuk-joo, a Capsule Room part timer, there wasn't much to his work.

It was to make a seat before capsule users entered and to clean it after they come out.

Beep!

To him, there was nothing special about the notification that told him it was time to clean.

"Huh? Hyeon-woo hyeong?"

However, the fact that the sound came from the capsule Jung Hyun-woo who had only entered the capsule a few minutes ago surprised him.

"Why did you suddenly come out? Is it a sudden number two signal?"

Instead of answering to that question, Jung Hyun-woo immediately went to the bathroom.

At that figure Lee Hyuk-joo let out a light laugh.

"It is a number two."

Leaving Lee Hyuk-joo's sudden burst of laughter behind, Jung Hyun-woo who arrived in the bathroom stared at himself in the mirror.

He threw a question at the him in the mirror.

'Why can I see the content of the cards?'

Jung Hyun-woo, it was a moment he experienced the miracle that came to him.

Translator: KyleXaus

Chapter 5

Ranked 98th in the Draft, his coach had told him that he was ranked 98th in the Draft, barely within the professional world.

"It was probably okay to do it laxly in high school since it's against high schoolers but pros are different. You are the weakest entity here. Most players in the professional world, even pitchers can hit home runs against you balls."

That you were the professional world's weakest.

"There's no answer for you even if you do your best with that power. That's why, use your head if you want to survive. Research more than others, analyze and contemplate. Find out the best pitch you can throw against the batter."

That, the only way you can survive is by using your head.

"Especially if you think that there's something fishy, dig into it. That's the only crack you can crawl through."

That I should react strongly to any change or sensation.

Of course, Jung Hyun-woo had ignored that advice at first.

I am different!

I will show a different figure in the professional world!

I will break everyone's expectations and enter the Major League!

I had thrown the balls with my all while having such determination.

The conclusion was what everyone had expected.

"See, what did I tell you? Didn't I tell you, you were the weakest here?"

Jung Hyun-woo only realized how trivial of an existence he was after getting beaten harshly by not the main team, but their opponent's reserve team and was thus removed from even the reserve team, only then taking the coach's words to heart.

If there was something off, he would not let it pass but research, analyze, and contemplate.

It was the same now.

'It's not my imagination. I can really see the information on the cards.'

At the situation that Jung Hyun-woo didn't even imagine in his dreams, he strived to understand his situation rather than begin to panic.

He continuously went through the character selection process to see exactly what kind of situation he was in.

'There's no telling if what I'm seeing is real but,'

He would only be able to know once he selected a card and confirmed it.

'If it indeed is real……'

If it were to be real then what should he do?

Jung Hyun-woo meticulously pondered what would come after.

'Since a problem with my body has occurred, should I consult a doctor?'

Either way, a problem with his body had definitely occurred and Jung Hyun-woo didn't have the slightest bit of clue as to what it was nor knew what to do with it.

The natural consultant would be a doctor.

'If I were to consult, it would be one of two.'

'The one in charge of me would either become a neurology department or psychiatry department.'

One would be where they treated Jung Hyun-woo as a mental person.

'Or, they would acknowledge my ability and go into "treatment".'

The other one was where they would understand the situation that happened to Jung Hyun-woo and try to find a cure to it.

'There's nothing good.'

If he was treated as mentally unstable then he wouldn't be able to get a proper job and in the latter case, he would end up as an experiment subject.

'What's certain is that I won't be able to play God Wars again once this ability is known. Most of the players would try to prevent me from playing it by using the law.'

God Wars was that kind of game.

'There's no way the original players would allow a guy with such abilities to play the same game together.'

It was like a masterpiece that couldn't be left out of human civilization.

A place where a large number of men and women of power and wealth, and fame built strongholds befitting the current era.

They couldn't allow a mutant to descend on that stage.

There were many instances.

'Some were even PKed just because it was a legendary job one couldn't get even after trying thousands of times'

The chance of winning a lottery was miniscule but there would always be one.

The random job selection that is one of God Wars systems is nonsensical to most but some end up becoming the lucky ones.

Also, a part of them show off their good luck.

However, the result of their showing off is usually miserable.

There were many cases where they were PKed just because they had a job that was difficult to get and there were quite a few that had to delete their characters because progress became impossible.

'They would have fun looking at it too.'

Some were using this absurd, depraving method as an opportunity to eat popcorn.

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'Whether I die this way or that way, only I need to know about it if I want to play.'

In such a world, there was nothing good about letting the world know about oneself.

On top of that, this was basically a cheat.

Was it okay to see a profit with such a dishonest method?

Wouldn't it pierce one's conscience?

A cheat to the point that it would cause such questions to pop up.

'Hye-rin, uncle will buy you pretty clothes."

He had no such conscience within his mind.

'Well then, should I go get that job?'

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The moment Jung Hyun-woo heard that message, he turned his head to look at the 1,000 cards in front of him.

The cards that all looked the same.

However, they were different in Jung Hyun-woo's eyes.

'They're different from the color.'

For now, the color of each card was different in Jung Hyun-woo's eyes.

There were cards that shone yellow among the cards without color and there were a few cards emitting red light.

'The ones without color are of normal rarity, the yellow ones are rare, and the red ones are uniques.'

However, Jung Hyun-woo's line of sight went to a single place.

'The golden light is legendary.'

The legendary golden card.

Only one card among the 1,000 cards in front of him took Jung Hyun-woo's attention.

Moreover, it wasn't just one.

'Ah, Archmage!'

Archmage.

It was a job that could utilize all magic in God Wars as the price of serving the War Dragon.

Currently, there were only 9 types of Legendary classes and it was the class among them that Jung Hyun-woo wanted.

'Finally!'

It was the job that came out after attempting character creation for the 19th time.

At that fact, Jung Hyun-woo unconsciously made a slight smile.

'To come out in 19 tries.'

It's often said so, that mathematicians didn't buy lottery tickets.

It's because although normal people know that the chance of winning is low, they don't know exactly how low it is but mathematicians know that it's low to the point that it's unproductive to even try and buy one.

Right now, Jung Hyun-woo's case was like that.

He knew that it was difficult to obtain a Legendary class.

'It really is a trash game.'

It was beyond anyone's imagination that they could look at the rarity of the classes in this way.

'Certainly, that's why they receive such treatment.'

This was also why Jung Hyun-woo wanted the Archmage job.

'Just by having the Archmage job, the treatment would be different.'

Damage dealing, excluding super star level melee attackers, were mostly done by ranged attackers such as magicians and archers in God Wars and the treatment for useful magicians was not bad because of this.

The problem was that most magicians could only learn magic of a single attribute.

Because of this, no matter how skilled, in a battle against a monster with high fire resistance, there would be no choice but for a fire magician to be left out.

However, there was no such restriction for Archmages.

'Since all attributes could be learned.'

The characteristic of an Archmage was that one could learn all magic!

'They can be make an appearance in all contents.'

That meant that it was possible to attend in Contents Business, that was the main business with battle at the core, at any time.

That was the main point.

An actor that could appear in any movie was much more valuable than an actor that couldn't be used in an important film after investment.

It was easier to gain popularity.

'There's an overflowing value in investing.'

Even if it wasn't so, it was enough of an issue as it was a legendary class.

'Azumo said so as well.'

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The one that made the Archmage popular was none other than the player to first get the Archmage job, Azumo.

As a Prince of Arabia, he had over 10 trillion won of private assets and he who had been the group owner as a pro gamer immediately invested a massive amount of money to get the Archmage job the moment God Wars came out.

After splurging a total of 10 billion won, he was finally able to succeed in getting the Archmage job.

In the process, he said this despite the fact that he had gotten several other legendary class jobs.

'This job is the one that makes me feel like I used the money well.'

That the Archmage class was the only class worth investing in.

Of course, if it was put differently, it meant that it was a job that needed investment on the level of even Azumo using some money.

'That is the reason why the nickname attached to him is the money eating hippopotamus.'

When Jung Hyun-woo arrived at that fact, he momentarily pondered.

'…… Should I pick something else?'

A serious contemplation, however, he didn't ponder for that long.

'Well, I can just make a new one if I don't like it.'

After a bit of pondering, Jung Hyun-woo picked that card.

[You have become an Archmage.]

He could hear the message and at the same time, the status window appeared once more.

- Level: 1

- Faith: War Dragon

- Job: Archmage

- Stats: Strength () / Endurance () / Intelligence () / Magic Power ()

The changed status window entered his eye.

Also, a message could be heard.

'It's the tutorial I see.'

It was the moment the first phase of the game began.

The light that filled Jung Hyun-woo's, now Midas', eyes started disappearing together with the message.

After that light disappeared, a space of about 100 pyeong (330

"Cool, the thirtieth person is here."

29 players could be seen who filled the interior of the room.

Just that, the people there didn't place much interest in Midas' appearance.

"Everyone came right?"

"Now the tutorial starts!"

What they were interested in was the tutorial that would start with Midas' appearance.

It wasn't that difficult.

Like every other game, God Wars had a tutorial stage for those that first start.

If 30 people gather, they would be presented to a stage full of monsters where they would be able to experience monsters without death penalties.

"Damn, for the game to start after dying once mandatorily."

"This game is a trash game I tell you."

The experience they spoke of here was usually death.

God Wars was an RPG game where level rose through hunting monsters.

The experience they get flustered by the most when first playing the game is the experience of getting killed by monsters after all.

"Now then, let's quickly die."

"We have to start the game quickly after dying."

Of course, a part of the ones here were those that had already experienced dying numerous times and those people had no thoughts on surviving for long.

Midas was the same.

He was also planning on giving himself to the monsters the moment the tutorial started.

[A new quest has been added to the Quest window.]

'There's no need to waste time in the tutorial.'

He was planning on starting the real game after dying quickly.

'Hm?'

He was definitely planning on doing so.

- Quest Rank: None

- Quest Information: Survive against the orcs that appear on the field.

! Quest Reward: Tutorial Master title will be given if you survive for over 71 minutes

! Tutorial Master Title Reward: Rune (All Stats 10)

'I can see the quest's hidden rewards as well?'

He had been planning on doing the same as the others before seeing the black words on the Quest window in front of his eyes.

Chapter 6

In God Wars, when you clear a quest, hunt powerful monsters with exceptional ability, or discover something new , and make an achievement, a title is given and a rune comes as a title reward.

The rune that's given permanently raises a player's stats.

This was the decisive reason God Wars became a game for top level players, those with something special to them. They were able to use their skills to reach the top.

They didn't allow the challenge of late starters as they had already achieved stats far superior to those at the same level through those runes early on.

Going further, the top level players exchanged information among each other on how to receive stats which made their stronghold at the top impregnable.

They had secret trades with information and items that only they knew of.

'Tutorial Master?'

But, one of these secrets had appeared in front of Midas' eyes.

'There was something like this?'

Tutorial Master.

It was a title that even Midas who played God Wars quite a bit longer than average had heard for the first time.

What was more surprising was the effect it granted.

'All stat rune? On top of that 10 points each?'

The bonus points given for one level is 5 points in God Wars.

Thinking about that, it was an unbelievable merit.

'Physical aspect points are vital to magician types.'

Especially to magician classes, Strength and Endurance were more precious because they had low health by default, and due to the fact that they needed to invest in intelligence so they could be effective in a fight.

To the magician classes that had no choice but to use bonus points from leveling up to raise Intelligence and Magic Power, the Endurance and Strength stats they received through runes like this often had a large influence on their survival.

Of course, the conditions for obtaining them were also extremely stringent.

'More importantly, surviving for 71 minutes huh……'

Surviving for 71 minutes in tutorial mode was very difficult.

As said before, the tutorial mode was designed to make the players experience game over.

It meant that they had no choice but to die even if they struggle.

In reality, normal players would only be able to survive for about 10 minutes even if they try to survive to the best of their abilities.

Surviving for 71 minutes wasn't easy.

'It's really cheap.'

On top of that, the number 71 minutes itself was pretty evil.

'Maybe if it was an hour…'

Let's try surviving for an hour since there's a possibility there's a title.

However, a reward doesn't appear after an hour.

'Even if one were to stay for another 10 minutes, 11 minutes is a bit wrong.'

Even if one were to survive for those cruel 10 minutes, a reward wouldn't appear in front of the hard-working player.

They would have to survive for another minute for the reward.

Something everyone would try to receive with all their might if they knew.

However, it was something no one would try if they didn't.

'Okay.'

That was why Midas prepared.

'Let's try it.'

At that moment, a message could be heard.

With that message, the walls that were trapping the 30 players broke down and light started pouring in.

A lush, green forest could be seen across the light.

It was the moment the field appeared.

It was also the moment orcs appeared.

An era where God Wars became the standard of all human values in the world.

In such an era, many wanted to play God Wars with each of their own hopes, dreams, or objectives and they were always told the same thing.

"God Wars, it's insanely difficult."

"Hey, don't do it. You would just be wasting your parent's hard-earned money."

The moment they realize this fact first is in the Tutorial Mode.

A stage where the real game would only start once you die.

On that stage, the players realize how difficult it is to survive from monsters that have overwhelming stats.

"Fuck, this is crazy!"

Also, they realize that dying is incredibly difficult as well.

One wouldn't be able to survive easily, nor would be able to let oneself get killed easily. It was similar to a hell for the new players.

"You want me to die from this kind of monster?"

Orc.

With a height of over 180cm, a mass of ripped muscle that makes anyone with a similar height ashamed of themselves…

It was a monster quite familiar to modern people.

Orcs were more well known through movies, games, novels and various other media than dinosaurs (Note: what about zero two) that actually existed after all.

However, getting killed by such a familiar monster was a completely different story.

"Damn it! I can't do it!"

"M-me too……"

It couldn't be helped that those who came across this fact become overwhelmed by fear and dread unconsciously.

"Ahh!"

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Beginners ran away like that.

On the contrary, the experienced people were different.

"Let's hurry up."

"There's no need to waste time."

They had already experienced this game and ran towards the orcs without hesitation as they had seen the Game Over screen several times already.

And they willingly gave their life to the incoming orc's fist.

There were even some that aimed their own heads exactly on the incoming fist as to achieve a clean Game Over.

"Wow, he aimed at the head properly."

"He's pretty skilled huh?"

There were a few that let out exclamations at that fact.

That was the scene of the tutorial.

At the stage where one could only leave by dying, the experienced died faster than anyone while the beginners faced inevitable death after running around.

Of course, that was only the difference between the experienced and non-experienced.

The talent and skills one possessed usually appeared in a different way.

"Huh? Look at that person! It seems he's trying to fight the orcs?"

"He's fighting the orcs in tutorial mode?"

This was about the players that took a posture to get ready for battle against the orcs that appeared, rather than running away.

"Is that possible?"

It was a retarded thing to do.

The players starting the tutorial were all level 1, they had no stats or skills.

"That orc is a level 20 monster right?"

On the other hand, the normal orcs that appeared in front of them were monsters that could only be killed by players that were at least over level 20.

It was a difference similar to that of a cat and a tiger.

This was why it was the best method to show the difference in skill.

"I will have my debut battle. I will show my skills."

To put it differently, it was a method one could use to prove one's worth.

"It seems he's recording."

"Looks like it's a professional player wannabe."

The eyes of the people gathered towards the orc that was currently appearing in front of the wannabe-pro.

'What's this?'

Midas was the same.

'A professional player wannabe?'

Midas' eyes sparkled at the appearance of the wannabe-pro, a person that lives off of being a God Wars player.

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'Certainly, there's no better business card than killing an orc in Tutorial Mode.'

There were three methods to survive in God Wars.

Having excellent talent, having a lot of money, or having good luck.

Money or luck couldn't really be verified or shown separately.

That left talent to be the only thing that could be shown.

The most befitting stage for that was indeed this Tutorial Mode.

A video record of hunting an orc in tutorial mode would become a great plus to be added to your CVs when applying for a guild or a company.

In reality, there were players that got into famous guilds or companies by hunting orcs in the tutorial.

There were standards though.

'It's possible to enter any guild by killing one, the moment you kill two one would receive support in obtaining items, and one's three main needs would be supported if three were killed.'

The treatment was different depending on how many orcs were killed.

If one were to kill three immediately, they would receive treatment as the greatest potential candidate in any guild.

'If five are killed then one would immediately debut.'

Also, if more than five are killed by chance, one wouldn't be a candidate but could debut through a guild or game company that always has a channel to showcase their rising and top ranks in Wartube.

To compare it to celebrities, it would be like appearing as the main supporting character in a billion-dollar Hollywood Blockbuster.

Killing an orc in Tutorial Mode was that amazing of an achievement.

'Well, he wouldn't be able to though.'

Of course, to put it differently, most would only end as an attempt to reach fame, as obtaining success was highly rare.

Since facing an orc was incomparable to learning martial arts or fighting a person in reality after all.

"Gah!"

As Midas had expected, the player that stood in front of the orc shouted without even being able to properly respond to the orc's sudden charge.

The player's face seemed to be full of surprise.

Midas who had seen the faces smiled to himself.

'As expected, he was a guy that didn't know about the orc's patterns.'

As said before, monsters were different from humans.

The appearance as a matter of course, but their fighting style as well!

Against such monsters, one had to use an attack method fit for them.

'The basic attack pattern of an orc's attack is a frontal charge. What are you trying to do by trying to battle it by outright standing in front of it?'

In the first place, the orc's massive body made elaborate battle in a melee fight impossible.

That's how the charging appeared.

'For now, it enters the next pattern after slamming its body.'

That was why, the beginning of all of the orc's attacks was a collision.

'After the collision, the orc starts attacking randomly and so lies an impossible to predict dogfight.'

It was pretty much impossible to read the orc's attacks and dodge them.

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The only choice was to use inborn talent, the reflex of that inborn talent to dodge.

'It's basically over after the collision.'

To put it differently, it was possible to predict the charge itself and its path.

1 hour and 11 minutes.

During that long amount of time, this was the only choice Midas could choose in order to survive in a forest full of an unknown number of orcs.

'Avoiding as much as possible.'

Dodging the orc's charge no matter what!

There was only one mission that rose in Midas' head when he determined that.

'The problem is the timing. If I could just catch the orc recognizing me and the signal of its attack……'

It was at that moment.

'Hmm?'

A green light could be seen above the orc's head in Midas' eyes.

Also, that light started turning red at some point.

'Huh?'

At that moment, the orc started dashing towards Midas.

Someone had once said.

"There is a clearing method to all games."

That applies to God Wars as well.

There was a pattern to all monsters that existed in God Wars.

Going deeper, the phase of the monster changes depending on the situation, different patterns exist for each phase, and several irregularities exist for each pattern but it was more or less the same. One could make out a basic pattern.

In other words, all monsters of God Wars had a certain exploit to their pattern and hence the method of killing it would obviously exist as well.

"Of course, that didn't mean you could kill that monster."

The problem was that it was incredibly difficult.

The reason it was difficult was simple.

It was because the control in God Wars was incredibly difficult.

Logically, there was no way moving one's body in virtual reality would be like controlling through a mouse and keyboard or through a game-pad.

If one had to kill monsters that they had only seen in their imagination on top of that?

The experiences and knowledge built up from reality up to that point would become useless.

"In the end, only the talented can kill them."

In the end, only those with talent, or those that can replace that talent with something else, such as those that have an item or skill that make that control seem pointless would be able to leave a result.

Midas, the reason he could not leave a proper result in the 5 years he had played the game was exactly because of this.

However, there was not a single instance Midas had given up despite the lukewarm treatment he received.

He had done his utmost to be able to reach at least the tip of their toes despite not having talent, money, or luck.

Of course, there was only one thing such a Midas could do.

'There is a total of 3 phases depending on the health of the orc.'

He had analyzed and researched as many attack patterns of monsters as possible, created a method to counter it that suited him and embedded that into his mind.

'Among them, the Phase 1 attack that comes when its health is above 80% is always a charge when the distance to the target is more than 4 meters.'

Midas had put in effort to the point that the imprint in his mind was worn.

'It lowers its posture the moment the distance to the target is 4 meters.'

Especially to Midas who only had the talent of hitting the target well, he held conviction that he had put in the most amount of time into grasping and analyzing the pattern of monsters amongst all the God Wars players.

'I had a nosebleed the first day of memorizing the method of the orc colony attack.'

It had been a miserable investment.

It was an investment that had proven the fact that Midas was talentless more definitely than anything.

An investment he couldn't boast to anyone about.

'To think that it would help me like this.'

However, that investment was becoming a great help at the moment.

30 minutes since the tutorial started, Midas was running away perfectly from four orcs.

What made that possible was none other than the signal light above the head of the orcs.

A light that couldn't have been seen normally, that signal was giving Midas information in real time.

'The green light is when there is no aggression.'

When the light was green, they did not show any signs of attacking and maintained a peaceful state as long as he didn't enter their perception range.

'The yellow light is an agitated state where they have found their attack target.'

In the case of the yellow light, their perception range got wider since they were moving around to find their attack target.

'The red light is proof that they have seen their attack target.'

The final red light signalled the onset of the attack.

What was interesting was that that wasn't all.

'Also, the number above its head should be its HP value.'

Through Midas' eyes, he could confirm the orc's attack pattern situation as a matter of course and could confirm its stats on top of that.

'The only item in its possession is leather.'

He was even looking through the loot item list that could be obtained through killing an orc.

A situation where the monster's real time information was being transferred to Midas.

Also, Midas' head was full of methods he could use to deal with it.

That was why Midas could say with certainty.

'I can do this.'

That he could do what he wanted to today.

'I can do it.'

For Midas, this was the moment where he had complete certainty for the first time in his long life.

Chapter 7

The people of the world had gone wild when God Wars made its first appearance.

However, there were some who feared its advent.

It was the fear that the strongholds they had built up around different industries and games would be destroyed in front of God Wars.

"Through the appearance of God Wars, Hollywood celebrities and sports stars will become side characters."

Among them, the fear that the sports and movie stars felt was beyond description.

Unsurprisingly, their fears immediately became reality.

They, who had wealth, fame, and something else beyond that, all died off like a flame upon the appearance of the God Wars powerhouses.

"On the other hand, more stars will appear now."

To put it differently,many people who were earlier nameless individuals, had now become stars through God Wars.

No, on the contrary, those that had been tied down by restrictions in reality had their talents shine brighter through God Wars.

"Because anyone would be able to become a star through God Wars if they're good at it."

War hero Sergeant First Class Hyten, who had become half paralyzed in a war had become a champion whose name heralded victory in God Wars, while Nichole who lost her voice when her neck was stabbed at a Harlem lot became a priest that sung the most beautiful of hymns.

Those that had a fate surpassing that of being worthless to being miserable came to possess wealth and fame through God Wars.

Of course, there were many that had such a dream and started God Wars, who ended up failing miserably.

"Fuck, it's really hard."

"For the orc to be that strong. Orcs were killed like cleaning trash in broadcasts."

"Wow, it's really different from looking at it."

Also, one realizes that it's an impossible dream the moment the tutorial ends.

That was the reason the tutorial existed in God Wars.

The tutorial made players realize what level they were at.

"Damn, this god forsaken game."

Through the tutorial, players realized how insignificant of an existence they are in God Wars.

The fact that they aren't even good enough to even serve those who featured in popular videos.

"They're all coming out as expected."

"There's no one enduring for over 10 minutes."

"Isn't that guy the one that fought with an orc?"

"That guy came out the fastest."

This was why those that were in the same situation gathered at one place eating the same dishes and the same rice with a bitter smile.

"Huh?"

Of course, a few among them who had good perception realized something was off.

"There's one missing?"

"One?"

"There was a person that ran away desperately you see."

The fact that one of them had yet to appear that is.

"Did he not die?"

The fact that one of them was still playing the tutorial.

Of course, it was only up to that.

"He should come soon enough."

There was no one that questioned beyond that.

In the first place, there was no reason to show interest.

"Now then, let's begin the real game now!"

"Phew mate, we're finally starting this thing. Let's GO!!"

Because the real game has started for them.

All this while, Midas was continuing the tutorial which held the world's disinterest.

Time passed like that.

Three orcs that let out cries sounding like wild monster sounds looked through the space between the trees.

Snap!

At that moment, a rustling sound reached an orc's ear.

All three orcs made the same cry as they headed for it's source.

It was at that moment.

"Hooh!"

Midas who had been at the opposite side of that sound let out short breaths as he ran.

It was a simple method.

'As expected, throwing rocks is always useful.'

After gathering the attention of monsters by throwing a rock, it was hardly difficult to run away while those monsters were making a fuss.

'Well, it's a method that's not needed for those that can fight well though.'

Of course, it wasn't a method that was used often in God Wars.

The players basically thought of themselves as hunters and the monsters they came across as their prey.

Wouldn't it be funny if they threw rocks to run away from such a prey?

To be honest, most of the players that said so would either quit the game rather than play so pathetically or select a heroic warrior job.

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'I survived quite a few times with this.'

One, Midas knew that his case was different than those who played God Wars for their entertainment.

No matter how pathetic, how miserable he was, he had to survive somehow.

Not for anyone else but for his brother and niece.

If it was for those two, Midas had the confidence to use any means or measures to survive that he knew of or could think up.

'I had engraved the method to avoid the aggro of monsters in my head.'

Midas had naturally researched the method to avoid aggro while researching the behavior patterns of monsters.

'Only I can protect myself in this world.'

Guardsmen were always stuck to magicians that were good, and the magicians received help from those guardsmen.

In terms of movies, it would be a manager or bodyguard being by the side of a main actor.

To say it differently, there was no case of a guardsman sticking to a one time use extra like Midas.

In such a situation, Midas had no choice but to look for methods to survive using his own power.

'I'm confident in running away.'

It wasn't to the point of researching but more like Midas' way of life.

'Okay, the green light turned on.'

Also, at this moment, the method Midas used to survive was giving him a chance of a lifetime.

'Aggro over!'

Midas erased his breath the moment the aggro of the orcs disappeared.

He looked around in that state.

His sight was narrow.

Tree trunks and tall grass covered his sight and it couldn't be helped that little could be seen when he was lowering his posture and peeking his head out.

However, Midas' eyes could see clearly.

The green lights shining across the trees.

'The time left now is one minute.'

At that moment, Midas started a countdown.

'59, 58.'

The second hand within his mind moved quickly.

That was Midas' specialty as well.

In a tense battle that progressed in minutes and seconds, Midas had no choice but to know the time himself as there was no one to tell him.

'4, 3, 2……'

Such Midas' countdown was accurate.

'1.'

[A rune will be given as a reward.]

The message appeared at the exact time and Midas yelled unconsciously the moment the message appeared.

"Hallelujah!"

He thanked the miracle that came to him.

Also, a greeting of congratulations came to such a Midas.

The orcs ran towards Midas.

"Ah!"

Midas' tutorial ended just like that.

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'Damn it.'

The beginners village where the players that ended the tutorial began the game.

Midas who had arrived at that place covered his face with his hands as he remorsed.

'The video is the worst.'

The reason he was remorsing was none other than the play video that he had filmed during the tutorial.

'I messed up at the end.'

Midas saved the entire 1 hour and 11 minute video that had the entire process of the tutorial.

The reason was simple enough, to leave proof.

'Well, there's no inadequacy of proof though.'

'The only thing left is to find the place where I can sell it.'

It was none other than the proof to sell the information of the method to obtain the Tutorial Master title.

It was nothing unusual in God Wars.

In a world where God Wars had become the world itself, spreading precious information was the same thing as throwing away money on the ground.

More than anything, the concept of copyright or patent didn't exist in God Wars.

The information of God Wars was God Wars', no one besides that could possess it.

It meant that it was impossible to claim rights for information getting leaked when it enters someone else's hands.

A stage where business spies ran wild.

'If I can get a good place to sell it, I can get at least a million.'

Either way, the main point was that the Tutorial Master title had a value of at least 1 million won.

'Purely from the value of the rune, even 10 million should be possible but……'

To be honest, the reward itself was beyond that.

- Level: 1

- Faith: War Dragon

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- Job: Archmage

- Stats: Strength (510) / Endurance (510) / Intelligence (510) / Magic Power (510)

A 10 point rise to all stats, the value of the effect of this rune was unbelievably high.

'Since the difficulty of obtaining it is too high, and it is limited to the tutorial.'

The problem was that the Tutorial Master title could only be obtained by newly rolled characters and that it was very difficult to obtain it. High skill was required.

No matter how valuable it was, it would be difficult for them to pay a high price for this hidden piece from the buyer's perspective.

'It's not needed for those that are already doing well.'

It didn't have any value to those that received tens of millions of won in donation just by saying a greeting in the middle of the game.

There was no possibility of those people abandoning their original character and starting a new one after all.

'But it's still something.'

For one thing, to Midas who had never earned money this way until now, it was an event he was thankful for.

'Uncle will buy ice cream that Hye-rin likes. I'll keep it a secret from hyung though.'

He would at least be able to see his niece make a smile as she ate ice cream.

Midas smiled at that thought.

'It would be difficult right now so later.'

Of course, Jung Hyeonwoo wasn't stupid.

Releasing this secret information would be giving a gift to his competitors at a cheap price.

'For now, I'll release it after raising my character's level a bit.'

He was planning on selling it when he was at least at level 100, when he wouldn't be in competition with all the late starters.

To put it differently, there was no need to think about the place to sell it at the moment.

He just had to start the game for real right now.

There was no hesitation in that process.

Because as a God Wars player 5 years in, his knowledge was better than most people's when it came to how to play.

'Now, then…'

God Wars was a difficult game to start in the beginning.

The thing that was the most annoying was none other than quests.

All quests in God Wars had a time limit and a limit to how many could take it.

To put it simply, the quests were disposable.

It meant that the NPCs didn't stay at the same place with the same lines and quests like in other games which came as a great wall to new players.

'I should receive the help of the Adventurer Guild first.'

That was why what appeared was the Adventurer Guild.

They gathered information on quests and hunting grounds for beginners and the Adventurer Guild that appeared with such a pretext became one of the 10 guilds that represented God Wars at some point though.

'It does take some money though.'

Of course, their service came at a price.

'Thinking about it, they're a bunch of thieves.'

They were basically monopolizing the service that was originally available to everyone as first come first serve with force and power and selling it for money.

As Midas had said, they could be seen as thieves.

There was not a low amount of people that had complaints about it.

However, there was an incredibly low number of people that directly showed their dissatisfaction.

'Thieves strong to the point that even burglars wouldn't meet their eyes.'

One of the top 10 guilds of God Wars.

The weight behind its name was something that normal people couldn't even begin to imagine after all.

Especially to those that lived off of God Wars, the top 10 guilds were existences that they couldn't even dare to look at.

"Huh? It's an NPC? Can't we get a quest if we talk to him?"

"Hey, ignore it."

It was the reason beginners that first started God Wars couldn't even talk properly to NPCs that were located here and there in the village of beginning.

"Ignore them?"

"The Adventurer Guild is managing it. If a quest appears by talking, it would be a big deal."

The NPCs of places where the Adventurer Guild had settled were already properties of the Adventurer Guild after all.

That was why the players wouldn't even look at the NPCs properly and all went in a single direction.

Midas also threw himself into the mob.

'Hm?'

To such a Midas, a certain thing caught his eye.

'A question mark?'

What caught Midas' eye was none other than a question mark flashing yellow.

'A quest?'

It should be a signal that shows that it's a quest.

It wasn't difficult to infer that fact.

Instead, it only left a single question.

'But why from a puppy?'

The question mark was on a dying puppy.

'What is it?'

A surprising message came to Midas.

'Ah, damn it! My time's up!'

It was a message that told him that his daily play time was over.

Chapter 8

The ones that showed the most fierce reaction when God Wars came out was the group that loathed game addiction.

They screamed, shouted, and protested the moment God Wars was announced, as if they had been waiting for this day to come.

"Are you going to take responsibility for all the people who die of gaming addiction while playing that game!?"

What was peculiar about God Wars was that it didn't end with just a certain group's outlash.

Many people held doubts about the safety of God Wars and the Gate Capsule despite the fact that it had been certified as perfectly safe for use through various clinical tests and sale permission from most countries and institutions across the world.

"The following restriction will be added to the use of God Wars."

In the end, God Wars had no choice but to add a considerably tight game use condition.

For now, it could only be played for 5 hours at a time.

After 5 hours, one had to reconnect after logging out.

Also, it was impossible to play for more than 14 hours in a day.

On top of that, it would immediately be shut down if an irregularity was detected with the user's body conditions.

The irregularity they spoke of here could take various forms.

A problem with health was a matter of course, if there were also conditions like decrease in the blood sugar level, irregular heartbeats etc.

That was why professional players maintained their bodies at peak condition through dietary management and regular health check ups if there was an important raid, like a martial artist preparing for an upcoming tournament.

'Damn, I wanted to check that……'

It was obvious but there was no method for Jung Hyun-woo who used a mere Capsule Room to pass the given time.

'Because a quest logo popped out on that puppy's head, it must not be an ordinary occasion.'

Even after 5 years since he started playing God Wars, Jung Hyun-woo had no way to solve the question in a situation that he saw for the first time immediately.

'Tomorrow I will connect to the game again, but what if it's disappeared by then?'

Moreover quests in God Wars don't last forever, right?

It's the case where he doesn't know if someone else will snatch it away while he was asleep.

More than anything that place is in the territory of an explorers' guild that monopolizes quests.

In many ways, Jung Hyun-woo can only frown upon that.

"Hyung, this candy is for you. You've worked hard. You've used up all your time span today, right?"

Lee Hyuk-joo who handed over the candy to him right after he came out, spoke after seeing Jung Hyun-woo's crumpled expression.

"Hyung, is there any problem? Your face looks so sour."

Jung Hyun-woo answered that question while accepting the candy.

"I am building a second character. It's weird if my mood is good for it."

"Well, why are you building a second character all of a sudden?"

Lee Hyuk-joo got angry.

He knew that Jung Hyun-woo had recently created a new character, but was it because he was building up that character?

"Why on earth did you leave your original character?"

It must be a rare occasion for a pro-player like Jung Hyun-woo and not someone else to build a second character.

"Don't tell me you got suspended from using it?"

To the continuous questions Jung Hyun-woo's expression became more crumpled instead of answering them.

Lee Hyuk-joo was surprised at Jung Hyun-woo's silence.

"Oh, oh my goodness. You really got banned?"

"Hey, shut up. Don't go around telling it to anyone."

"Hyu, Hyung!"

"Be silent. I am in a bad mood right now."

Jung Hyun-woo who said that started to put on clothes right after he came out from the Capsule.

Then he quickly did some calculations and played out some scenarios in his head.

'I should hide the ability that I recently gained as well as I can, I should make my current situation look as bad as possible.'

One of the things that Jung Hyun-woo realized in his life was that he should not reveal his fortune to someone else.

It's as it is.

'He will run around the neighborhood telling everyone if he knew about this ability of mine.'

The world that Jung Hyun-woo lived in was a stage where there were people who were always overflowing with envy and jealousy.

If there was a successful person, if there was someone who is lucky, it's a stage full of people who are dying to hug their thighs and sponged off of them no matter what or people who can't just let themselves fall forward onto the ground.

In that kind of stage, Jung Hyun-woo didn't have the slightest intention to bite the flesh of the delicious grilled fish which was all he wanted.

'Until I get on the proper track to some extent, I need to endure it silently.'

As he couldn't daringly bite that juicy flesh, he decided to be cautious until he got a thick, strong skin.

"Tomorrow I will come again so keep a free space for me."

Therefore as Jung Hyun-woo gave a look full of extreme anger and rage, he turned his back after telling that to Lee Hyuk-joo.

And then, as if his endless sadness was more than anyone else's his shoulders dropped down and he left the Capsule Room.

Lee Hyuk-joo who saw that face sighed shortly.

"Wah, Hyun-woo Hyung got fucked up pretty bad. He's really pitiful, what a pity, he looks like he will walk on a path of thorns from now on."

It was a moment where his acting worked well.

"Uncle!"

Right after the door opened Jung Hyun-woo's face brightened up seeing the bright smile from his nephew and spoke.

"Right, uncle came. Have you been well?"

"Yes."

"What did you do in the kindergarten today?"

"I drew a picture!"

"Really? What's the picture about?"

"It's a picture of dad and uncle!"

This short conversation immediately brighten up a small room that was not even larger than 33m. (1 Pyong is 3.3m)

"Really? Show it to me."

"Okay!"

And then Jung Hye-rin showed Jung Hyun-woo a picture she drew in the kindergarten.

She showed a drawing that was drawn with a tablet pen on a thin tablet PC.

"Hiya, our Hye-rin can draw so well."

Obviously a continuous compliment.

But Jung Hyun-woo's eyes who did the compliment swayed a bit.

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'She really draws well.'

The reason why it swayed was because Hye-rin's drawing was so outstanding that it was hard to tell whether it was something that was drawn by a 7 year old.

'She really draws well.'

And his Hyung in the drawing was sitting in the wheelchair as well.

Because she drew it too well it touched his heart even more and a sad smile full of bitterness was formed, but Jung Hyun-woo forcibly swallowed that bitter smile.

"Hye-rin will be an outstanding painter when you've grown up. Amazing."

As he forcibly swallowed it he complimented her once more.

"No."

"Huh?"

But his nephew refused Jung Hyun-woo's compliment.

"Hye-rin will be a player when I grow up. And then I will make uncle and dad rich."

"What?"

"Hye-rin will be a player!"

Jung Hyun-woo closed his mouth for a while to the answer that came out after the refusal.

"You came?"

The one who asked him was none other than his Hyung, Jung Tae-woo.

"Yeah."

"Hurry and set up your body code again. So you can come here without having to press the doorbell."

As Jung Tae-woo said that Jung Hyun-woo patted Hye-rin's head and handed over the tablet PC to Hye-rin, Hye-rin who accepted it back ran to the living room while smiling.

"Hye-rin draws so well. Was it because she resembles Hyung-soo? You should tell her to study arts."

"That will be good."

Hyung who said that shook his head.

"But she said that she wants to be a player."

Jung Hyun-woo's face got stiff hearing those words.

The fact that he couldn't smile even though he saw his daughter's outstanding skill in drawing.

That was Jung Hyun-woo's brother's position currently.

It wasn't simply only because of money.

"It's a generation where every person in this world is dreaming of God Wars."

God Wars.

It was dominating the world so fast to the point where it surprised the upcoming generation of this world.

In such a thing that there are real money paying jobs within the game as well.

Various kinds of professions started to deteriorate because of the entrance of God Wars.

It's at such a horrible level that one can see the collapse of the entertainment and sports industries among those jobs.

It's to the extent that one can't do arts unless it's in God Wars.

It was a generation where the best painters draw pictures in God Wars, and the singers sing in God Wars to survive.

"He didn't make God Wars for this kind of world."

Towards that generation Jung Tae-woo sighed in a low voice along with a short reminiscence.

"Who?"

Jung Hyun-woo's ears didn't catch the exposition monologue well, thus Jung Hyun-woo asked the question.

"Nothing."

Jung Tae-woo gave an evasive short answer to that question.

Jung Hyun-woo then spoke to him.

"More than that Hyung, I want to sell information about a hidden piece in the game. Can you sell it to a broker account?"

His Hyung tilted his head to a sudden request.

"Why a broker account?"

Broker account.

To put it simply, if they didn't get tracked, it's an account that autonomously laundered cash.

"I got access to a hidden piece of information and I want to sell it."

It was used a lot when one is doing a business that could cause problems in many ways.

"It's not a bad thing to do right?"

His Hyung naturally asked a concerned question, Jung Hyun-woo giggled to the question and spoke.

"If I tell Hyung that it's to help a really unfortunate 'neighbor' who got pretty damn unlucky recently due to an event that was completely beyond his control, will you believe it?"

Jung Tae-woo didn't answer the counter question with this type of counter question

"Don't work too hard because of me."

He just gave him an endlessly sorrowful piece of advice.

Jung Hyun-woo frowned after listening to the advice and spoke.

"I don't even have the slightest bit of intention to work hard because of Hyung."

Along with his words Jung Hyun-woo directed his gaze to his nephew who was drawing a new picture in the living room.

"Everything is for our cute Hye-rin."

At that time his Hyung put on a faint smile, Jung Hyun-woo put on a smile as well.

"I will make it for you right now."

Not so long after his Hyung pulled his wheelchair and went near the notebook nearby.

As he saw that face Jung Hyun-woo held his intention.

'I will change this damned house no matter what.'

For his Hyung and for his nephew.

Jung Hyun-woo who held that determination thanked God at that time.

And then he pledged.

'Then I will use it properly so God won't regret it.'

I will use this chance perfectly so that God will never regret it.

With that pledge, a day passed.

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"Ah, I can't do it. My damned character got suspended! That's why don't call me again!"

A young person with a stunned look in his face approached Jung Hyun-woo who ended the phone after shouting angrily.

"Hyung."

Lee Hyuk-joo, because of his call Jung Hyun-woo's middle forehead was wrinkled and he shouted temperamentally.

"What?"

"The Capsule seat has been prepared."

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Then Jung Hyun-woo's expression loosened.

Lee Hyuk-joo carefully asked him a question.

"Hyung, did you really get banned?"

Because of that question Jung Hyun-woo's face got crumpled.

It was just that.

He didn't answer and glared at Lee Hyuk-joo, as if he would kill him.

'Just as I thought.'

He acted as if he was furious like that.

'He won't believe it if I told him once or twice.'

People are like that.

It's extremely rare for them to truly believe what the other person said.

Jung Hyun-woo's situation this time was the same as well.

A character that has been built for 5 years, a character that wasn't different from his own life line to him, got suspended?

So he threw away that character and built a new character?

It's sad.

But he could get a contrary question as well.

If he maybe has another secret scheme, that kind of question.

Of course there's no probability for that question to accidentally happen.

'I can't let there be room for suspicions.'

The problem was after some time passed.

'If I play the game like this, then there's no choice but to stick out.'

It was still amazing for Jung Hyun-woo even after he confirmed the ability that he had at that time.

Moreover Jung Hyun-woo didn't have the slightest intention to hide this ability and live like a petit bourgeois.

Of course he didn't have the intention to reveal his nature in front of people as well.

He intended to wear a mask, and hide his face.

'Even though I hide my nature, I shouldn't be suspected.'

At that time for him not to be a suspect, Jung Hyun-woo was putting a bait out.

It wasn't funny no matter how you look at it.

'This kind of minor sketch is important. Most schemes are unraveled because of the small mistakes.'

On the other hand. It was a proof of Jung Hyun-woo's cleverness who possessed that ability to the point where it's surprising.

'Quests are the same as well.'

Something like the question mark that popped out on the dying puppy's head.

'It might be a small quest as well.'

Jung Hyun-woo didn't put high expectations into that.

"Hyung, because everything has been prepared you can come into the Capsule."

At that time Lee Hyuk-joo spoke, and Jung Hyun-woo was thinking about those words.

'Right, since when did I ever get lucky? At the utmost it would be a rare quest. It's impossible for a legendary quest to appear at my level, right?'

And thus as he calmed his gaze coldly and laughed scornfully at himself as he connected to God Wars.

The most booming business due to the entrance of God Wars in the market was Capsule Rental Service Provider, or the Capsule Room.

The reason why the Capsule Room gained its power was because people who easily used a million won to make a character would still find it burdensome to buy a private Capsule Gate.

Mushrooms, rather than that expression it was more suitable to call it as a contamination and thus Capsule Room became a part of the world.

In ordinary people's views a part time job in that Capsule Room was an easy job.

"Part time job in Capsule Room, isn't it just about putting in people when they come in and cleaning up after they leave?"

"Because people in the Capsule don't do anything there won't be any quarrel as well, isn't it a really fine job?"

People would think like that after seeing it from the outside.

But a part time job in Capsule Room was unexpectedly hard.

The reason was simple.

"Fuck! This damned trash game!"

The fact that the game called God Wars is not as easy as people thought.

"Heck, I paid with real money and played this game but what's the bullsh*t that I can't play it for 0 hours!"

And then there's a policy that people couldn't use the game for 0 hours after getting a game over.

To say it simply there were many occasions where people who just connected to the game for no longer than 10 minutes only able to suck their finger for 0 hours.

"Fuck really!"

And then most people who fell in that kind of situation couldn't accept the sudden change of situation and came out while showing an extreme reaction with abusive language.

After that of course it's a part timer duty to handle them.

"Dear customer! You can't kick the machine with your foot!"

Lee Hyuk-joo, the reason was because he was running to a customer who kicked the Capsule Gate that couldn't be bought even with his year's salary.

But according to his standard with the reason of knocking the wood, it's impossible to easily calm down the customer's anger.

"What? Hey! Fuck do you see me as a fucker as well? I can just pay for this thing!"

Clang!

On the contrary of Lee Hyuk-joo's words the customer showed an extreme reaction and violently kicked the Capsule Gate once more.

Lee Hyuk-joo worked very hard in his heart towards that face.

'Fuck how much is that, huh!'

It was at that time.

Beep!

As another sound of Capsule Gate was heard the heavy door started to open gradually.

An opening before the expected time, Lee Hyuk-joo who saw that wanted to sigh.

'It's double!'

Misfortune on top of misfortunes, when the word of double went past Lee Hyuk-joo's head instead of those words a sound came out from a Capsule.

"Fuck!"

A very strong cuss word came out, and Lee Hyuk-joo's face started to fully stiffen.

At that time the man who just came out from the Capsule Room directly went to the bathroom without removing the equipment.

And the man who went to the bathroom spat out a voice in front of the washstand without me knowing.

"Holy mother of all fucks."

The man who said that saw himself in the mirror.

And the him in the mirror with a surprised gaze, spoke to Jung Hyun-woo through his gaze.

'A Legendary quest, is this for real?'

Chapter 9

God Wars players all had a few things common amongst them.

One of them was that they loved the game.

There were also those who loved it simply because it was an RPG, and they loved hunting monsters and doing quests.

Then what was the interest of people who just started the game because they like the genre?

"I want to hurry and go hunting."

"They said the first monster we have to hunt is a Goblin, right?"

Most of them wanted to hunt monsters.

"I want to try to do magic. I used 5 character cards to obtain this magician class!"

"I purchased 4 character cards as well to obtain this prosecutor class!"

"I will make the most out of this game no matter what."

It wasn't that they did it only because they wanted to, it was to the extent that they thought of the money they used and their eyes were on fire to receive the reward as much as they invested soon.

Hiiing…

To such a playerbase, the dying sounds made by a poor puppy on the streets weren't even worth paying any attention to, nor would they even think about wasting their time on it.

!To cure the sickness, medicine made from a tree struck by lightning is needed.

!'Thunderstruck Tree Medicine' can be produced when the favourability level with NPC Hayden reaches level 30 or above.

!Curing the sickness of the 'Nameless wolf (Level: Legendary)' quest discovered.

'As the quest hasn't been cleared yet it still remains here, moreover it's a linked quest with a hard-to-find clue.'

Midas, it was thanks to his ability to see the quest then.

It was because no one showed any interest and sympathy towards the pitiful animal.

'But even so, I didn't even think that a Legendary quest still remained here……'

Despite that, the truth was that the quest was Legendary level.

He had no other choice but to be surprised.

A Legendary level quest.

Just like the name it was a quest with the highest level among all existing quests.

Of course the reward level was different from any other quests.

It was one of the biggest causes why people with good luck in God Wars possessed their place in the rankings.

'I didn't think that right after I started the game, I would encounter a Legendary level quest that I had never even seen after playing for more than 5 years.'

It was because lucky people in God Wars could easily surpass the effort that they, the normal people had painstakingly made for a couple months.

'This damned lucky-ass game.'

All these times that word was more like something from a foreign language to Midas.

Even as he played this game for more than 5 years, Midas had never held anything from Legendary Level or experienced it.

He encountered a unique quest only thrice,had only ever held two unique items, and only managed to obtain a unique mission once.

It wasn't just Midas who was like that, most of the Players were like that as well.

Legendary level items, skills, quests and such were beyond anything that most people could obtain or dream of, as those who had these fantastic benefits kept them to themselves.

Thus towards these RNG elements,(random number generator, any event that depends on chance (somewhat)) most Players were extremely discontent and expressed their anger.

'I really like it.'

Of course the current Midas was different.

'Ah, I really like this damn game that favours luck so much.'

The opportunity to be able to have the legend that couldn't be obtained by anyone else came knocking on his door.

'For now, let's proceed calmly.'

Midas started to move faster, to make sure that he grabbed this once in multiple lifetimes opportunity.

'Now the most important thing to do is to secure the minimum level requirements and skills.'

It was one of God Wars' truths that came into Midas' mind first.

'If I act greedily right now, everything will be ruined.'

An overwhelming greed was brought about calamity and ruin.

In reality, those words of common sense were similar to an absolute truth in God Wars (and anywhere in general).

God Wars wouldn't tolerate the greed of someone who couldn't spend a penny.

'Even accidentally leaking out the information of this Legendary quest to people will be disastrous.'

The most important amongst them was strength.

'In the end, I should do quests by myself.'

Even though there was a very valuable monster, if one didn't have enough strength needed to catch it, even though there was a good item, if there wasn't any strength to protect it, it would be snatched away before you could even see it properly.

'Graduating from the starter village requires level 13.'

Midas knew that fact more than anyone else.

'In that starter village I need to at least achieve level 10, so that I'm able to complete quests independently.'

Because of that he didn't think too long for what level did he need to go through to be able to certainly obtain something he wanted.

'For now let's purchase a quest from the Explorer's Guild.'

Midas, he started to move.

The master of the Explorer's Guild, Venture.

The reason why he established the Explorer's Guild was simple.

"I just connected to the game and people who used a million won are easier and more comfortable in the game. Should I use money, or not?"

The fact that God Wars players had a great purchasing ability.

"Much more because I purchased things for the limited stuff, I received some money and was going to give it, but would it be rejected?"

Moreover the fact that everything that exists in God Wars is limited.

Because of that many people are lining up for that and they can make money off of it.

A similar example to it was that the amusement park company sold a free pass ticket where people can directly get on the rides without having to line up with a higher price.

"I want to get a quest, but if they sell it as something that can't be received even after lining up for about 1 hour, if it's someone like me, they will probably buy it."

The things that the Explorer's Guild had their eyes on, were quests.

The amount of quests that are given by NPC are limited according to various conditions, because of that, players routinely lined up in front of NPCs in the beginning of God Wars.

At that time the Explorer's Guild started to line up.

They lined up and after they had the authority to receive the quest, they sold it to other players.

And then after some time passed, the Explorer's Guild started to change their system bit by bit.

"Isn't it more profitable to make an NPC inaccessible as 5 people than lining up as 20 players?"

In the world with the law of the jungle, they started to use the more effective method, force.

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Of course it was impossible to control all NPCs in God Wars.

By any chance, it would cost way too much, and there were many variables too.

Was it impossible for God Wars' players to just let go of those kinds misdeeds of the Explorer's Guild and just watch them?

"It's the starter village."

The Explorer's Guild had set their eyes on the starter village.

The starter village was a tutorial mode of some kind to help the players adapt to the game.

Because of that the players who have cleared the graduation quest in the starter village couldn't go back to the starter village again.

Thus, even though problematic players came it wasn't hard to block them off.

"I'm showing you the Explorer's Guild services."

At the same time the Explorer's Guild could attract people to their services related to the starter village.

It's some kind of pop-up store.

That kind of hard work of the Explorer's Guild came to fruition perfectly after 5 years passed.

Then people who prefer to use the Explorer's Guild's services were more merrier, and just as expected the Explorer's Guild opened many events and services to those customers.

Whether it was spreading items or helping them to hunt monsters, they started to make a good image for themselves.

Their Explorer's Guild was being complimented.

Of course, Midas knew better than anyone about the Explorer's Guild's misdeeds.

'If there's another virtual reality game except God Wars, I really won't play this pure RNG based game.'

To be frank if there was one more game like God Wars, it should've appeared long ago.

'A game like God Wars doesn't interfere with my work.'

God Wars' developer, Plus Corp., wouldn't interfere with the trouble between players and it declared that they wouldn't step in to change the situation with the multitudes of explorer's guilds that were popping up left and right, trying to stake their claim on all the NPCs.

'One of the main reasons I didn't want to start over with a new character are these explorer's guilds.'

The place where these explorer's guilds could create a scene and boss people around to their liking was precisely such a starter village.

But in the end destiny didn't leave Midas alone.

"There's a new, better version of this service."

A member of an explorer guild, without knowing Midas' feelings, showed him a pamphlet and started to explain the products that they possessed.

"The cheapest service is only supplying quests, the more expensive version is the service where we would lend you an item. The most expensive service is providing a carry(someone who "carries" you through st/mission whatever you are having trouble with) that is guaranteed by our explorer's guild to assist you perfectly from the beginning till the end."

To that reality, Midas held his uncontrollable laugh inside.

'They are great, they are great.'

As what was said before, the Explorer's Guild thought of quests as business items since the very beginning, and they portrayed that product well and started to process it, turning it into a more expensive product than when it was in a normal person's hands.

Just as the member said, they provided various services.

Some of the services they provided were very convenient and affordable, surprisingly to Midas.

"Of course it's possible to have an item by using your in-game gold. Foreign currency and cryptocurrency are not accepted, payment is only possible in USD, Yen and Euro."

They even had properly thought out the payment option.

"Paying with EMIs is also possible, but I personally wouldn't recommend that. If there's a situation where you can't pay the installment, you will be forced to pay using other means."

Of course the thing that they were very certain about was how to collect the money.

They had ways to receive money from a situation where the customers of explorer's guild didn't pay back the money.

The most widely known was miner.

They ordered these miners to do the crude, repetitive and boring tasks, which were almost always mentally and physically taxing, but still paid well and were a stable source of income.

"It'll be good if you at least pay it before giving up on your character."

The only way to be free from that was to throw away the character.

'I will be able to feel it once I see it but it sweeps away real money, sweeps.'

In a world with absolute misdeed it was the secret of why the Explorer's Guild was able to protect their business firmly for more than 5 years, as they sat amongst the 10 guilds.

'If I use the VVIP service, I can power level my character right up to level 100, right? If I become a VVIP, I can be offered admission to all kinds of events and raid information for free.'

Moreover, these kinds of explorer's guilds separately arranged services for people in power or wealthy people in the real world.

'But it's said that getting a VVIP pass is harder than getting an American Express Black Card.'

There was even a rumor that all Latin American mafias and the Middle East's richest were customers of the Explorer's Guild.

Through the game's services, one held power in the real world.

'It's really a damned game.'

It was impossible to be able to disturb the Explorer's Guild position individually or by a random organization.

"So what kind of service will you purchase?"

Of course Midas was the same.

"The lowest one, I will purchase the right to do a quest under level 10 for once."

Here, he didn't rise a revolt against the Explorer's Guild.

'Let's level up first.'

It was still like that.

A blue-eyed NPC wearing a white robe was sitting in the corner, making their hair.

But Midas' sight wasn't directed to the NPC, but towards the player beside them.

Midas was having a conversation with the NPC.

"I received an errand quest from Hyden."

On saying that, Midas had a bitter smile inside.

'Would the makers of this game have imagined this kind of scenario?'

The player stood around the NPC and had just received a quest, only to sell it to some else.

It felt like Taedong River that met Kim Seondal.

A Korean folklore about a swindler named Kim Seondal who sells water from Taedong River.

Of course Midas didn't reveal his innermost thought.

"I will check the quest for a second."

"Yes."

Maintaining a perfect poker face, Midas did various short calculations in his head.

'I'm digging into Hyden.'

Following the current Midas' understanding, he was in a situation where he needed to receive medicine from Hyden to cure the nameless wolf.

And due to the linked quest for the Legendary one, he needed to increase Hyden's favorability towards him.

'Money is going away every time I do this, huh.'

To state it in another manner, it meant that if he wanted the favorability to increase upto the desired amount, he needed to give his money to the Explorer's Guild.

Quest Rank: Normal

A detail that stuck to the expectation of being a repetitive quest…

'Oho.'

But it was seen in Midas' eyes.

A hidden reward within a quest that only he could see.

Midas who confirmed it formed his smile.

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'I saved my money!'

A member from Explorer guild spoke to Midas.

"If you purchase one more Right to do a quest, I can provide you a quest related to hunting Goblins in a party, are you interested in purchasing it?"

He tried to do business.

A surprising systemized service, Midas smiled while speaking about the service.

"I'm dirt poor. It will be pretty difficult for me to scrape some up."

After speaking words with sincerity without the slightest bit of fabrication Midas turned his back around.

There was confidence in his eyes.

'For the current me, I can catch Goblins alone.'

It was a confidence that he didn't need to hunt as a party when facing Goblins.

'The ability effect that I obtained through [Tutorial Master Reward Rune].'

It wasn't a vague confidence.

'Here, I can even see the pattern, so there's no reason for not being able to catch it alone.'

Now the result of calculation after realistically analyzing his current situation and ability, his confidence showed up based on his calculation.

Midas who held that confidence headed to the hunting ground.

And in the hunting ground Midas was able to realize.

That reality was always different than speculation.

Through the tutorial players experienced two things.

The first one was that they experienced a game over.

At the same time they also experienced a battle with Orcs.

Through these two experiences the players who just started this game had mostly one reaction when they fight against Goblins.

"It seems like I can catch this."

It seems like I can do it!

Because of that confidence most players unexpectedly tried to battle, Goblins, but to the surprise of no one but themselves, it was a futile attempt.

Hiii!

Of course an easy start didn't mean the battle was easy.

"Damn why it isn't right!"

Hunting something would not be much trouble for all these players, had they not started the game all over with a new character, as when a Goblin's HP reached below a certain level they gained an Escape skill.

"Oh? Oh! It freaking running away!"

"Fucker really!"

"Damn, why is that little sh*t so quick!"

To chase and catch a Goblin who used Escape was harder than one initially thought.

"Ah, it's damn annoying!"

If one was going to catch three or four Goblins, it was not only about time but it was also very tiring and difficult to achieve.

After all, they could only stay in peak state of mind for a short time. One's concentration was not limitless.

Of course, not everyone was like that, trying to brute force a capture.

There were also players who captured them using a predetermined and effective strategy.

For example ,cases where one guessed a Goblins' physical condition and read the timing when the Goblin would gain access to their Escape skill, and then moving to block their escape path.

"Wah, look at that person."

"They are only attacking its feet!"

Or there were also cases when one fought with Goblins they destroyed the areas around the feet early so that they were unable to run away effectively.

"That player tied its feet!"

"Wah, they used a rope."

"Why are you guys acting as if this is your first time seeing these things. Quickly hunt it down so we can start proper levelling."

There were also cases where one used items like rope to tie the feet and made them completely unable to move.

It was obvious but those players weren't beginners who just started the game.

"Are they the Explorer's guild's helpers?"

"Just as expected, they are on a different level compared to us noobs."

Most of the time, one could hire someone from the Explorer's guild to carry them through monster hunting or quest completion.

"Holy sh*t, if I knew the difference between noobs and pros was this large, I would've employed a Helper from the Explorer's Guild!"

At that time, one realized why the Explorer's Guild was able to gain one victory after another even though they engaged in activities that gained people's ire, why they received the same people's money, and allowing them to become rich through selling their services.

'The helpers obviously know how to do it.'

Midas who saw that scene held his uncontrollable laughter.

'It's a touching sight.'

The Explorer's Guild brought a lot of helpers for each level.

The problem was among the helpers, all of them didn't receive treatment for leveling up.

There were cases where when the skills were all the same and they were at a level where they couldn't do any quests anymore, where they exceeded the regular level, they created a character again.

They repeatedly made characters and maintained it below level 20, and they did the helper job in the starter village.

Considering the time and money it took them to make a new character and optimize it as a helper, it wasn't a bad investment. They were able to receive good money for it.

'They are only machines.'

But in the end, could they even call themselves players?

'That isn't easy as well.'

Of course, it's better not being made to do those kinds of things as a miner than being exploited.

'Heh, it's not like I'm in a different condition than them.'

To Midas who intended to start the game as a miner, it meant that he didn't have the right to sympathize with those helpers.

Because of that he erased his uncontrollable laughter.

'Let's capture the target.'

He searched for the prey he was going to hunt by himself.

Searching for a prey was not hard.

Because in Midas' eyes a traffic light that showed the monsters' state was seen.

However even if a Goblin hid his face that traffic light obviously showed Midas the Goblin's location.

'Hm?'

At that time Midas' stare stopped on one Goblin.

'Why is it yellow by itself?'

A Goblin surrounded by a yellow aura was sitting alone in a separate location, all by itself.

Midas' stare focused on that Goblin.

'Ah.'

At last Midas was able to know the reason.

'Thank you for making this game so luck based.'

Midas thanked the RNGod once more.