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.”

eyes were losing their way. Her head was lowered as she spoke in a trembling voice, “I will send someone right now to move

family. Outsiders

"Grandfather!"

National Competition will be held in China? Okay. Go

decision. "I’m sure you have done

was the stage of dreams. Thousands of people dreamt of challenging it but

PvP, I can enjoy greater wealth and honour than being Grandfather’s successor. I will win a gold in PvP. Then please acknowledge

twisted. “Why should I listen

and swear that I will grow the family and company.

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 blood

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 the

***

will he

sure thing is the demon

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 players were participating in was revealed. This year, it wasn’t disclosed. In other words, no one

The public’s curiosity was provoked while the players struggled to find a way

Competition. People discussed where Kraugel would use his remaining two tickets. This discussion itself was funny for the public. Reporters from all over the world had

used for the demon king subjugation event? Kraugel won’t miss something that

in PvP. I can’t imagine a PvP event without

their abilities would definitely play in PvP. In particular, this year’s PvP participation rate was high because Grid was absent. At the very least, they wouldn’t

only

reporters, right? Why are their

who came to the National Competition were veterans. They collected data on the tendencies and relationships of the players and based on this, they were convinced of Kraugel’s absence from PvP.

PvP. In order to make up for last year’s defeat, Kraugel was likely to play in breaking the hero. He was going

will be an

would be several times stronger than the real Grid. Last year, Grid showed great control skills when defeating Hao 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

Hero Grid controlled by the super AI would be more powerful. Could

reporters’ hands were already itchy. They wanted to quickly write about Kraugel, who was defeated

***

“Focus on the Hero.”

It was an order

obediently followed the order. He instructed all staff members to focus on the Hero.

players, while OGC analyzed the video of Grid last year. Based

were centred on the

The sight of Grid not taking part in the National Competition this

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

excellent basic defense, combined with the blood-sucking and

high. If the player allows one attack from the Hero, they will be in a critical condition. They can cope with the long movements of the sword dance but the performance of the skill is powerful and the burst of

in one blow

didn’t participate in this year’s National

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 to defeating the