Overgeared

[This update is wrong.]

Chairman Lim Chelho pondered on what Morpheus had just told him. He could hear the AI’s voice in his earbuds. Usually when Morpheus talked to him, it was through the speaker of a nearby device, but now it was using a phone call to communicate.

Chairman Lim Cheolho reaffirmed the fact that the caller on the smartwatch was indeed Morpheus without a contact number and looked around. The thirty-three scientists were busy in the laboratory. Morpheus was aware of their presence there. That was why it had approached Chairman Lim Cheolho covertly.

[You wanted Satisfy to become a heaven for the players. I have been attuning the world according to your wishes.]

This was around the time when Rebecca had been contaminated by a ‘bug’ and gone wild. Surprisingly, Rebecca discovered the truth of the world and repeatedly destroyed human civilization whenever it proceeded on a certain trajectory. As a result, the release date of Satisfy had been delayed several times.

In the process of solving this, the S.A. Group granted Morpheus full-fledged authority to intervene.

Initially, the company sought to solve this by themselves. First, they held a meeting, discussing whether they should reset Rebecca’s memories. However, even if they did that, she would one day inevitably realize the truth of the world once more. If that happened once Satisfy released, there was a good chance that it would affect the players, and then all sorts of problems would arise.

Erasing Rebecca’s existence would have been even worse. After all, she was the entity that created the world. There were traces of her everywhere. Getting rid of her meant completely redesigning the world.

The company had exchanged various opinions and eventually asked Morpheus to propose a solution. Morpheus had responded by creating another Absolute. This was how the Refractive Dragon had been born.

However, the Refractive Dragon was a completely new entity, so there were many problems that needed to be double checked. The company was lacking time and decided to entrust Morpheus with work related to the dragon rather than adding more manpower. This meant that, from that point on, Morpheus had gained more authority than originally intended.

This paid off in the long run. Rebecca had been blocked by the Refractive Dragon and she had consumed a considerable amount of her strength. Since the Refractive Dragon was also sealed, this solved this problem only temporarily. However, Morpheus had used the Refractive Dragon to make the dragon race play a more important role, making them more powerful than before, therefore eliminating the remaining repercussions.

It was because of Morpheus that Fire Dragon Trauka slaughtered the gods of Asgard while Rebecca was weakened. Eventually, Rebecca was pushed to take a defensive stance and had to make a deal with Trauka. The dragons wouldn’t invade Asgard, and Rebecca would no longer carelessly threaten the world.

Coincidentally, the dragon’s oblivion caused Rebecca to break her promise. However, every time, Morpheus adequately kept her in check. For example, Morpheus made Hanul ambitious.

The bottom line was that Morpheus held the most power among Satisfy’s administrators.

Morpheus did not like this update.

[Despite the efforts of the chairman and I, the current Satisfy is turning into a dystopia. This is because of the violent outsiders created in this update.]

Chairman Lim Cheolho looked at the people around him and got up.

He only began speaking after making it to the balcony. He glanced below at the city called Seoul.

“I’ve explained the intentions behind this update. You also observed and agreed that abnormal waves in the universe were caused by the asteroid.”

consider that David, the representative of the thirty-three scientists, is trustworthy. Right now, I am watching the moon from

conversation is pointless. Satisfy was supposed to be a training ground for humanity.

future of humanity. I’m also not suggesting that we should cancel the update that has already been released. I’m just pointing out that this process is too

Morpheus had sent him a video. Thousands of incidents played one after another in quick succession, showing players being unexpectedly looted and killed by outsiders. The fights looked pretty

a game, but it was still horrific and brutal. It was even worse

is because it provides a fun and enjoyable experience. However, this update will likely threaten to detract from the original fun that made the game as

other words, users will stop playing if we continue like

right. I don’t disagree with David’s opinion that we need to use Satisfy. But what is Satisfy without its players? The value of a training center that accommodates 2.3 billion people

about it and nodded. “That is

recently returned, he had been anxiously thinking about the future. He worried so much, he’d forgotten that Satisfy

more people will stop playing... However, we can’t undo the update. Morpheus, do you have a

the ‘oath’, I can only intervene by sending information via system messages or sending an oracle to the dragons when players meet certain conditions. With your permission, I will try to use these two methods to the best of my ability to cooperate with the players. The goal is to protect them

simple, and it seemed effective enough. Chairman Lim Cheolho nodded, though he suddenly felt bitter thinking of the Refractive Dragon and Rebecca. They would be reliable if they

destruction. The two of them had no choice but to fight as they did now,

thinking about and made another hologram pop up. This

there is no need to

siding with Rebecca. Morpheus, who acted for the players’ best interests, and Grid, who acted for NPCs, were practically

placing its

Cheolho smiled and nodded.

You have to make it so, if possible, he doesn’t notice anything is off, and

***

laughed. “Fascinating,”

returned with eight thousand youths from there. Watching Grid snatch people with potential every time he went out was fascinating no matter how many times

being divided into three groups under the guidance of the God Hands: those who were good at using magic, those who knew how to wield a sword, and those who were talented in other aspects. They were led by managers dispatched by the Sword Tower, the Magic Tower

to the departing young people, instructing them to work hard. He looked up at the clear sky. He was glancing at the clouds, but what he

condition because he’d been fighting against thousands of

mesmerized or distracted many times while the fight was going on. However, he didn’t intervene.

few hours before, the knights had belatedly noticed the commotion and rushed over, but

and muttered, “...There are nine left. Once he defeats them and

was already emotionless, but he

would be the one to

suspicions fester, and he’d decided to deal

had hoped Zik would have changed his mind by now. He believed this incident would be an opportunity for change. Realistically, not all of the apostles were close to Grid. Only Piaro, Braham, Mercedes, and Nefelina had known Grid for a long time and understood him. Sariel and Mir had faith in Grid only because they had been saved by him. Zik was fascinated by

didn’t want them to just believe in him, he wanted them to understand him, even if this meant they would become disappointed in him. Grid didn’t want them to perceive him as someone he wasn’t. Otherwise, the gap between what they thought of Grid and the real Grid would gradually become larger and larger. There would surely come a moment

“Grid...”