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.”

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

family. Outsiders can’t

"Grandfather!"

in China? Okay. Go ahead. In the meantime, I will

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

had taken the top honour in the highest event. PvP was the stage of dreams. Thousands of people dreamt of

greater wealth and honour than being Grandfather’s successor. I will win

man’s lips twisted. “Why should I listen

win a gold 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 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 company

old man was pleased. In this moment, his granddaughter was exactly like him

It was because he investigated it in advance, just as Yura thought. He knew that the likelihood

***

will he be

is the

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

public’s curiosity was provoked while the

remaining two tickets. This discussion itself was funny for the public. Reporters from

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

in PvP. I can’t imagine a PvP event

the best stage to show 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 high because Grid was absent. At the very least,

there were only a few of

Why

came to the National Competition were veterans. They collected data on the tendencies and relationships of the players and based on this, they

no Grid in PvP. In order to make up for last year’s

will be an

that the Hero Grid 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

was natural to think the Hero Grid controlled by the super AI would

They wanted to quickly write about Kraugel, who

***

“Focus on the Hero.”

instructions. It was an order from the

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

Hero and exploring the specs of those players, while OGC analyzed the video of Grid last year. Based on Grid’s specifications last year, they devoted themselves to guessing the hero’s stats and

centred on

the plains. The sight of Grid not taking part in the

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,

called a survival-type boss monster. He has excellent basic defense, combined with the blood-sucking and recovery ability. He also creates shields under certain conditions... Oh, he

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

Player Tarma die in one blow last year from the

didn’t participate in this year’s National Competition must be due

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 Hero