Overgeared

"The president is expecting you.”

"Do I look like a failure?”

“Haha. Your expression is aggressive. He just expects you to return to your original position.”

“...”

Yura couldn’t say that this would never happen. Her tightly closed coral lips showed no signs of shaking and the middle-aged man bowed deeply before leaving.

Yura was reminded of the meeting with her grandfather three months ago.

"Let’s end this child’s prank and come home. It is enough to play for five years.”

"It isn’t a joke or playing around. Grandfather, don’t you know that Satisfy is a business dominating the world?”

"The business is done by those who created and are operating Satisfy. You are just one player. It is ridiculous if your pride is based on the tens of billions of won you earned as a player. You are just one of the billions of components making up the S.A Group.”

One part. A consumable that could be replaced by anyone. Yura didn’t deny it. She wasn’t Grid or Kraugel. She had realized a long time ago that she wasn’t a special person. This didn’t mean she intended to give up easily.

Home was a place where she couldn’t breathe. It was a cold and scary place. At her parents’ funeral, she couldn’t even see anyone’s tears.

‘Isn’t this better? My granddaughter is a thousand times better than my stupid son.’

She still vividly remembered these words from the funeral. It was the voice of her grandfather.

“Being my successor is far better than your current situation in terms of both wealth and honor. Don’t waste any more time and come back.”

“I don’t want to.”

“My grandfather’s grandfather founded this house and it was built up by all his descendants, including me. If it doesn’t follow the legitimate line, who will it go to? You can’t escape. Drop your futile stubbornness.”

"There is my cousin. I hope you can stop your obsession with me. I’m serious, Grandfather.”

"You want me to entrust it to that fool? Do you mean to throw away the family? Then I should take it as the responsibility of your parents, who gave birth to a scandalous person like you.”

“Huh?”

Why was he bringing up people who had died all of a sudden? The old man smiled at his confused granddaughter. "I will take you out of the family register. On the day you depart for China, I will dig up the graves of your parents buried on my land and throw them into the river.”

"Grandfather, they are your son and daughter-in-law.”

“It doesn’t matter since they are already dead.”

were losing their way. Her head was lowered

family. Outsiders can’t enter

"Grandfather!"

Go ahead. In the meantime, I will dig up

big decision. "I’m sure you have done enough research. PvP. It

honour in the highest event. PvP was the

honour than being Grandfather’s successor. I will win a gold in PvP. Then

old man’s lips twisted. “Why should I listen to your

medal in PvP, I will go home. I will actively start undergoing training to become the successor and swear that I will grow the family and

clear threat. Was this scandalous? No, not at all. The old man was pleased. In this moment, his granddaughter was exactly like him in his youth. He was a young man who threatened his own

accepted. It was because he investigated it in advance, just as Yura thought. He knew that the likelihood of Yura winning PvP was infinitely low. His granddaughter’s talent wasn’t in the game. “A gold medal in PvP. This is

***

he be

is

the rules of the 4th National Competition. One of them was a closed system for the players’ events. In the previous competitions, the list of which events

curiosity was provoked while the players struggled to find a way

was now the last day of the National Competition. People discussed where Kraugel would use his remaining two tickets. This discussion itself was funny for the public. Reporters from

subjugation event? Kraugel won’t miss something that will

be participating in PvP. I can’t imagine

off their skills and talents. The rankers who were confident in their abilities would definitely play in PvP. In particular, this year’s PvP participation rate was

there were only

right? Why

collected data on the tendencies and relationships of the players and based on this, they were convinced of Kraugel’s absence from PvP. It was

was simple. This year there was no Grid in PvP. In order to make up for last year’s defeat, Kraugel was likely to play in breaking the hero. He was going to defeat last year’s

will be

in battlefield. However, that was the only time Grid fought without his items. There were many variables in the real world. Hao might’ve been in an unusually bad condition that day. There

time, when Grid’s control wasn’t proven to be the ‘best’, it was natural to think the Hero Grid controlled by the super AI

quickly write about Kraugel, who was

***

“Focus on the Hero.”

It was an order from the top so it

the order. He instructed all staff members to focus on the Hero. Thus, the broadcast of OGC

exploring the specs of those players, while OGC analyzed

cameras were centred

sight of Grid not taking part in the National Competition this year made people feel

even in terms of normal players. This year’s Hero has high defense and health, meaning he won’t receive much damage when attacked. Still, he isn’t that slow. If an AI controls this hard and fast body, the evasion rate will greatly soar. From the player’s perspective, the Hero will be hard to knock down.

boss monster. He has excellent basic defense, combined with the blood-sucking and recovery ability. He

The problem isn’t just survival. The attack power is very high. If the player allows one attack from the Hero, they will be in a critical condition. They

die in one

why Player Tarma didn’t participate in this year’s National Competition must be due to the trauma...

with skills wouldn’t kill him. On the other hand, they would fall into a critical state just from a basic attack. From the perspective of the players, there was no answer