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.”

Her head was lowered as she spoke in a trembling voice, “I will send

cemetery of my family. Outsiders can’t

"Grandfather!"

Okay. Go ahead. In the

eyes and made a big decision. "I’m sure you have done enough research. PvP. It is one of the most prestigious events in the

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

honour

man’s lips twisted. “Why should

I will actively start undergoing training to become the successor and swear that I will grow the family and company. If you don’t even give me a chance and forcefully make me your successor, I can’t guarantee what will happen to the family and the

one-sided deal he wanted was possible. However, the ending wouldn’t be good. It was a 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

I will accept the deal.” Surprisingly, the old man readily 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.

***

will he

is

every year, some changes were made to 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 knew what events a player was

wasn’t a bad system. The public’s curiosity was provoked while the

Competition. People discussed where Kraugel would use his remaining two tickets. This discussion itself was

the tickets must be used for the demon king subjugation event? Kraugel won’t miss

PvP. I can’t imagine a PvP

were confident in their abilities would definitely play in PvP. In particular, this year’s PvP participation rate was high because Grid

were only a

Why

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

This year there was no Grid in PvP. In order to make up for last year’s defeat, Kraugel was

be

Last year, Grid showed great control skills when defeating Hao in battlefield. However, that was the only time Grid fought without his items.

‘best’, it was natural to think the Hero Grid controlled by the super AI

to quickly write about Kraugel,

***

“Focus on the Hero.”

was Lee Gookrae’s instructions. It was an order from the top

followed the order. He instructed all staff members to focus

of other stations predicted the players who would participate in Breaking the Hero and exploring the specs of those players, while OGC analyzed the

were centred on the

with black hair was standing on the plains. The sight of Grid not taking

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

monster. He has excellent basic defense, combined with the blood-sucking

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 flames is immediate...

Player Tarma die in one blow last year

participate in this year’s National Competition

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 Hero this year.