Overgeared

Chairman Lim Cheolho’s desperate threat made the skinny old man smile.

“In other words, you will cooperate with us if we give you a convincing reason?”

“It won’t be easy to convince me.”

Chairman Lim didn’t hide the incident from the company. He admitted to some team and key members that he didn’t know anything. He was planning to mobilize everyone in the company in order to prevent the update from rolling out.

However, it turned out that the update would be released in ten days. Finding the people behind this incident and preventing the update was practically impossible given the short amount of time he was working with.

How could he find people who had been missing for years in just ten days? Even more, this group had quickly taken over the S.A. Group’s network and easily gained access to their communication.

Chairman Lim Cheolho was nervous. Originally, in the worst case scenario, he was prepared to shut down the entire Satisfy server. However, given this group’s abilities, he didn’t think he would be able to do that after all.

The old man’s smile got wider when he saw the conflicting emotions on Chairman Lim’s face.

“As expected, you are clever. That is why we chose you.”

“I made the choice. I was the one who identified what you were capable of when you were scattered around the world and got you involved in this project.”

“Haha. Unfortunately, the world doesn’t only revolve around you. Was it really a coincidence that the manpower you desperately needed just so happened to be on your radar exactly when you required it?”

“Are you saying that you intentionally approached me from the very beginning? Now that things have turned out like this, that seems plausible.”

Chairman Lim Cheolho smiled bitterly as he recalled visiting the scientists in different countries decades ago. His anger flared up at the thought that he had been played like a pawn from the very beginning. However, he managed to calm down. These guys weren’t opponents who should be confronted without a plan. He had to reach a consensus with them.

“Tell me why. Why are people like you so obsessed with meddling in a mere game?”

“A mere game. That is a radical statement. Isn’t Satisfy a utopia to you? By now, your family should be living happily in that utopia of yours.”

Chairman Lim Cheolho’s expression darkened the moment the topic of his family was brought up.

“Oh, right, information about your family is confidential. I’m sorry to have offended you. I just wanted to tell you that Satisfy is important to us as well.”

The old man apologized and got to the main point.

“Do you believe that virtual reality, which provides people with the same five senses as reality, was created purely through the power of science? If you are smart, you have probably had your suspicions for quite some time. A congenitally blind person can see colors and objects in Satisfy. A person who fell into a coma through an accident could manifest their consciousness to the fullest in Satisfy... How could this power be obtained only through science?”

The old man was still taunting Chairman Lim Cheolho. A person who was born blind or fell into a coma because of an accident... The chairman’s family was a perfect example. The old man’s unique way of speaking made Lim Cheolho hyper-focused on what was being said.

The chairman barely suppressed his anger, though he knew that the old man always had such a temperament. He remembered something. The thirty-three scientists who used to solve the issues that he could never solve at critical moments... Their contribution and Lim Cheolho’s had come together to create Satisfy.

He had been skeptical of them for a long time. He suspected they weren’t just geniuses who were much smarter than him. They potentially walked the path of apostles rather than the path of scientists.

situation was so surreal that he tried to ignore this thought. Ever since the completion of Satisfy, he had been living a dreamy life. Because

Of course, Satisfy wasn’t that great right after it was completed. However, it was used and refined by billions of people and rose

the hell are

bit about the asteroid approaching Earth, shall

A long conversation began.

announcement to the company that he would proceed with the update without any problems three days

at all, surprisingly. The employees’ loyalty to the company exceeded his expectations, although he knew

thirty-three scientists had been reinstated in the S.A. Group caused quite a stir in the

***

“Umm...?”

building the second capital on the Tomb of the Gods, and he was being exploited every day. As a dwarf, he was passionate and found great satisfaction in the endless stream of work.

at what he was seeing. The

there an architect better than me

noticed that the tens of thousands of bricks were more tightly bound than before. Every white brick was engraved with drawings of animals and natural scenery. It was as if he was looking at living and breathing

is so

at his residence in the palace. There was no need to rest anymore, so he put a stop to his

tower, the temples, the academy, and the barracks were in a much better state than before, and had

as he inspected

end result is

in their training. The blessing effect of the temple was nearly doubled, and the academy and barracks increased their training effect, even though

as research targets out of simple curiosity. The results turned out

smithy, which had also evolved. His production speed was slightly increased, and the probability of making higher rated items had also increased a few times. However, the biggest buff of all

meant that the chances of failure were close to zero. This had changed when he tried the body manufacturing method. The probability

accumulated so far was piled up like a mountain. If Greed had been a typical expensive material that was hard to find, creating a body in that case would have been a

gotten some fresh air, so

of almost naked portraits of himself on the wall and couldn’t think clearly for a moment. The portrait showed the real Grid from head to toe. His face flushed as he remembered the immense embarrassment he felt as he’d

use screenshots as

was too

with various colors flowed out of his mouth and seeped

process of combining divine words was complicated and confused Grid. The divine words that permeated Greed expanded

and increased his chanting speed

The Greed had turned to ashes and disappeared. Still, it was thanks to those failures that Grid knew what to do now. The divine words soon stabilized. The ones that gushed out permeated Greed again. Over time, the material emitted a mysterious glow. At first glance, it looked like the material changed its color to jade

‘Now!’

bellows while taking out a new hammer he had just made. The tool was specially created for the

Ttang!

in the furnace absorbed the heat and was divided into exactly eight equal parts, Grid changed the divine words and transferred the

Next, he crafted feet and attached them to the sticks. He blew divine words into

the bellows. This was one of the shortcuts that Judar had told him

forged the torso and the

Ttang!Ttang!Ttang!