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.

naturally have a high hierarchy. It was widely speculated that it would be the backbone of the ‘system,’ managing the

Gods of the Beginning, was opposing Morpheus. To be more precise, she was resisting the ‘world’ created by Chairman Lim

must remember, right? Satisfy has a history of

closed beta service, and two times after the open beta

the S.A Group’s

that embodied the same five senses as reality, many experts

to think about it, the experts

told him the story

the timing of the closed beta was

never heard of

detailed schedule was delivered only to the

do you know this when you started

invested a

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 the S.A Group’s technological prowess has reached a new level, and Chairman Lim Cheolho’s authority within the group is

and imagination. It was

date delayed?

today that

to this, Satisfy’s worldview never reached the ‘point’ where players could intervene. The S.A Group had to postpone the release date several times. To

them, Hanul is likely to have been recovered with a

and the creation of the

Seeing how he tried to give Your Majesty a clue while leaving a message that he hates the developer, it

“The Refractive Dragon?”

dragon god who tried to prevent the destruction by appearing every time

and the will of Morpheus. The other Old Dragons

weren’t created for players to kill. Fire Dragon Trauka once hunted

also loved human

speculate that Old Dragons were ‘beings favorable to this

Tap, tap.

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

he is on the same side, right? If so, it is worth looking at the

They accepted Satisfy 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

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

divinity at the speed of light, Rebecca must be almost invincible... but

vaccine, have to be in the form of a ‘refractive’ dragon? It was because that was

judged that Grid had a chance of winning if he cooperated

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

we have a chance of winning against

“......”

the world just because of a sense of repulsion. She was afraid and wary

few people like that, even at

as mentioned

said that humanity had become one after experiencing the

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

state of affairs that Rebecca feared—it was that the inhabitants of this world would be treated as tools or

be much more serious. It was terribly

against players from the

in the world one by one. There must’ve been a time when she felt hopeful after witnessing people like Grid

won’t be hostile to her from the beginning

to let Rebecca know that her hope

and they number 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 can devastate

know anything and advised Grid to confront Rebecca.

but there was a counter called the

heavenly gods in the past and it was right to say that there was virtually no way to confront them. It was

the Old Dragons to kill Rebecca.

a great evil. Isn’t it true