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.”

it was hard. Yura’s dark eyes were losing their way. Her head was lowered as she spoke in a trembling voice, “I will send someone right now to

the cemetery of my family. Outsiders can’t

"Grandfather!"

Okay. Go ahead. In the meantime, I will dig up your

with bloodshot 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 National

the stage of dreams. Thousands of people dreamt of

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

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

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,

good. It was a clear threat. Was this scandalous? No, not at all. The old man was pleased. In this moment, his granddaughter was

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. His granddaughter’s talent wasn’t in the game. “A gold medal in PvP. This is the

***

will he be

sure thing is the

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 participating in unless they outright

a bad system. The public’s curiosity was provoked while the

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

subjugation event? Kraugel won’t miss something that will allow him to win many

PvP. I can’t imagine a

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 high because Grid was absent. At the very least, they wouldn’t die in one blow. There were naturally reporters who expected

only a

right? Why are

players and based on this, they were convinced of Kraugel’s absence from PvP. It was speculated that Kraugel would go to

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 Grid

will be

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

Grid controlled by the super AI would be more powerful. Could Kraugel beat that monster? It would be

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

***

“Focus on the Hero.”

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

Bang Songkook of OGC obediently followed the order. He instructed all staff members to focus

Hero and exploring the specs of those players, while OGC analyzed the video of Grid last year. Based on Grid’s specifications last year,

were centred on the

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

year’s Hero. Last year’s Hero had high evasion and accuracy while his defense and health was normal 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

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

in one blow last year from

The reason why Player Tarma didn’t participate in this year’s National Competition must

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. At least,