Overgeared

Grid had always wondered—why didn’t the Goddess take back her blessing?

Every time he struggled and realized the value of the inherent blessing, confusion grew and anxiety took hold.

He could feel a bad stench from within the depths of his body. The curse of the Goddess, in the guise of a blessing, festered and clung fiercely to his destiny. He wanted to shake it off right away. It felt like a time bomb that could explode at any time, so he gradually became nervous. He even had a habit of calculating how many more gods he would have to harm before the Goddess showed her true colors.

‘...It wasn’t a curse or a bomb.’

He remembered the voice of the Goddess he heard when he first visited the Vatican a long time ago.

A voice that was infinitely warm, yet somehow sad. At the time, he simply thought it was a pity for those who had suffered under the corrupted pope.

Thus, it was more questionable. Why did the Goddess turn away from people even though she had compassion for them? Additionally, why did she lead to the end of the world?

There was so little information that he couldn’t guess it at all. It was impossible for him to understand the psychology of the Goddess.

If she was going to destroy humanity again, why did she give the divine messages to help so many people? The Goddess’ warmth was too ‘real’ for her to be regarded as a common and obvious villain from the cliches. The outside was different from the inside. Grid had experienced it himself.

The double-sided portrait seen in Marie Rose’s castle.

The heavenly gods on the side of the demons during the Great Human and Demon War.

The attitude of Yatan, whom he met in the hell of the past, and so on.

Based on the clues that he gradually gathered, he reminded himself of the possibility that Rebecca could be the darkness behind the apocalypse, but he was unable to define her as ‘evil.’ He came to the conclusion that he had to meet her in person. Then today—

‘She isn’t evil.’

Grid was finally convinced. Despite the world message ‘the world has overcome the crisis of destruction’ that appeared the moment Bunhelier disappeared with the Goddess, Grid couldn’t harbor any animosity toward her.

Rather, he pitied her. A being who was aware that this world was a game—it was because of this awareness that she led the world to destruction. It was an insight and understanding that was only possible for Grid because he was a player.

“Just now... Reinhardt would’ve been destroyed if it wasn’t for Bunhelier.” On the other hand, Braham had an intuition as a resident of this world. There was deep malice in his voice, which trembled with anger and fear. “This has made it clear. Rebecca is the darkness behind the apocalypse that has been repeated. She... is the enemy of our world. She must be exterminated.”

It was a confidence that went beyond opinion.

Grid let it flow in one ear and out the other as he summoned a unicorn. “Overgeared Corn, you must’ve seen the Goddess as well.”

A final verification was needed.

“Is she a maiden?”

A maiden—in the dictionary sense, it referred to an unmarried woman. It didn’t matter much. However, it was different when intertwined with divinity. For some reason, in myths, a virgin meant a holy being. Therefore, a creature like a unicorn was obsessed with virgins...

Overgeared Corn nodded enthusiastically. There was a very ecstatic expression like it was recalling Rebecca’s holy figure. That was enough. Grid wiped the unicorn’s spittle from his face and smiled slightly.

“...You have finally become crazier.” Braham watched the virginity verification in a puzzled manner and couldn’t hide his disgust.

‘He isn’t calling me crazy. He said I am even crazier.’

Grid was deeply hurt by Braham’s radical words, but he wasn’t nervous. It was enough to gradually resolve the misunderstanding.

***

“With this, one thing is certain. Rebecca isn’t Morpheus.”

This was Lauel’s conviction after grasping all the circumstances.

Morpheus—it was a product of quantum mechanics. After repeatedly making the impossible possible, it opened the era of virtual reality. If Chairman Lim Cheolho created Morpheus and designed Satisfy, then Morpheus implemented and managed Satisfy.

within Satisfy would naturally have a high hierarchy. It was widely speculated that it would be the backbone of the ‘system,’ managing the players while ruling as a God of the

from expectations. Rebecca, the best of the Gods of the Beginning, was opposing

an early player, so you must remember, right? Satisfy has a history

times after the closed beta service, and two times after the open beta service—the S.A Group committed the atrocity of pushing back the game’s

the S.A Group’s

early for a game that embodied the same five senses as reality, many experts

it, the

and Lauel told him the

the closed

never heard

time, the detailed schedule was delivered only to

“How do you know this when

invested a

he was a

that the release date was pushed back because there was a problem within the S.A Group or a lack of technology... where am I going with this? Looking back, it was a completely different reason. It isn’t an exaggeration to say that

was another world that was so

release date delayed?

today that

Satisfy’s worldview never reached the ‘point’ where players could intervene. The S.A Group had to postpone the release date several times. To put it simply, the Gods of the Beginning, who had been thought to be Morpheus so far, were actually the cause of the

likely to have

the creation of the great myth,

Majesty a clue while leaving a message that he hates the developer, it seems he hasn’t fully recovered yet... Rebecca wouldn’t have killed

“The Refractive Dragon?”

tried to prevent the destruction by appearing every time the world reached

the backbone of the vaccine and the will of Morpheus. The other Old Dragons must’ve also been

created for players to kill. Fire Dragon Trauka once hunted the heavenly

loved

reason to speculate that Old

Tap, tap.

tapped on the table and thought about it. Then he slowly came

safe to assume that he is on the same side, right? If so, it is worth looking at

as ‘another world’ rather than just a game, and equated NPCs with humans. They had no choice but to confront Rebecca, who was trying to destroy the world out

indirectly mentioned it today. If it wasn’t for Bunhelier, the world would’ve been

the way she shot divinity at the speed of light, Rebecca must be almost invincible... but she will be inferior to Your Majesty riding

in the form of a ‘refractive’ dragon? It was because that was the only way he could

counter to light—Lauel judged that Grid had a chance

is wrong.” Grid’s expression was bitter as he shook

if we have a chance of winning against Bunhelier, not

“......”

right? Rebecca didn’t destroy the world just because of a sense of repulsion. She was afraid and wary that players wouldn’t treat the inhabitants of this world as

quite a few people like that, even

was as

Guild were unique. It was said that humanity had become one after experiencing the Great Human and Demon

with certain NPCs and valued them, but they didn’t identify all NPCs as people. They thoroughly distinguished between the game and reality in order to avoid a

Rebecca feared—it was that the inhabitants of this

situation used to be much more serious. It was terribly sad for Grid, but it wouldn’t change much in

Rebecca wasn’t against players from the

in the world one by one. There must’ve been a time when she felt

I won’t be hostile to her from

let Rebecca know that her hope was

as many as four. Among them, it is right to identify Bunhelier as the Refractive Dragon. Can you handle them? The Breaths they release casually

pretended not to know anything and advised Grid to confront Rebecca.

but there was a counter

They were powerful enough to hunt the heavenly gods in the past

Dragons to kill Rebecca. It was a very simple matter of turning

the first place, Rebecca is a great evil. Isn’t it true that she