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 my parents

the cemetery of my family. Outsiders can’t enter

"Grandfather!"

Okay. Go ahead.

table 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

the top honour in the highest event. PvP was the stage of

wealth and honour than being Grandfather’s successor. I will win a gold in

lips twisted. “Why should I listen to your

I will go home. I will actively start undergoing training to become the successor and swear that I will grow the family and

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

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

***

will he be

sure thing is

events. In the previous competitions, the list

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

National 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

the demon king subjugation event? Kraugel won’t miss something that will allow him

will also be participating in PvP. I can’t imagine a PvP event

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

only

reporters, right? Why are their levels

the tendencies and relationships of the players and based on this, they were convinced of Kraugel’s absence from PvP.

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

be an

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

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

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

***

“Focus on the Hero.”

instructions. It was an order from

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

exploring the specs of those players, while OGC analyzed the video

were centred on

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

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

defense, combined with the blood-sucking and recovery

survival. The attack power is very 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

die in one blow

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

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 Hero this year. At least, this was what