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.”

maintain her composure but it was hard. Yura’s dark eyes were losing their way. Her head was lowered as she

is the cemetery of my family.

"Grandfather!"

China? Okay. Go ahead. In the meantime, I will dig up your parents’

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

the highest event. PvP was the stage of dreams. Thousands of people dreamt of challenging it

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

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

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

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

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. His granddaughter’s talent wasn’t in the game. “A gold

***

he be

thing is the

with 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,

wasn’t a bad system. The public’s curiosity was provoked while the players struggled to find a

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

the tickets must be used for the demon king subjugation event? Kraugel won’t miss something that will allow him to win

PvP. I can’t imagine a

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

there were only

are reporters, right? Why are their levels so

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

In order to make up for last year’s defeat, Kraugel was likely to play in breaking the

be

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 unusually bad condition that day. There was also the possibility that Grid’s condition was extraordinarily good or lucky on that

the ‘best’, it was natural to think the Hero Grid controlled by the super AI would be more powerful. Could Kraugel beat that monster? It would be tough. One year’s growth

wanted to quickly write about Kraugel, who was defeated and frustrated by last

***

“Focus on the Hero.”

was Lee Gookrae’s instructions. It was an order from the top so it should be faithfully

staff members to focus on the Hero. Thus, the broadcast of OGC Station was

while OGC analyzed the video of Grid last year. Based on

were centred on

was standing on the plains. The sight of Grid not taking part in the National Competition this year made people

even in terms of normal players. This year’s Hero has high defense and health, meaning he

could be called a survival-type boss monster. He has excellent basic defense, combined with the blood-sucking and recovery ability. He also creates shields

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

in one blow last year from the flames?

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

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