Overgeared

‘That’s right. Of course, it was just a dream.’

Youngwoo woke up from his bad dream. He was relieved. He was so high-level right now, no way a rabbit could fight him. He had fought against a God of the beginning and won...

“......?”

Youngwoo scowled as he touched his forehead, where the rabbit had bit him in the dream. He had been fighting Hanul just a moment ago. He could still see Hanul dying before his very eyes. Yes, he had been playing the game. He didn’t remember logging out...

‘...Then, what is this?’

Youngwoo looked around. No matter how many times he looked at it, he was inside his familiar capsule. It was the latest masterpiece of the Comet Group and a device customized exclusively for Grid.

This was reality. He had logged out without even realizing. He tried to get out of the capsule, only to get startled by something. He experienced pain as he tried to remove the EEG interlocking device, also known as the helmet, which wasn’t normal.

He looked down and laughed.

“Am I still dreaming...?”

Several thick wires connecting the helmet to the capsule had split in half, revealing the circuits inside. Hundreds of thin thread-like gold wires had stretched out from within and were embedded like stingers into Youngwoo’s body.

It was a bizarre sight. If Youngwoo was squeamish, he would’ve screamed at the very least. He really was squeamish, but he had witnessed so many gruesome scenes as he became a ranker, noble, legend, king, emperor, and finally, a god, that he didn’t have a strong reaction to the sight.

Youngwoo gulped and swung his arms to pull the wires from his body. He heard something crack in his head.

Youngwoo lost consciousness again.

***

At the S.A. Group’s headquarters.

“The nanomachines injected into The One failed to activate the evolution.”

The One—this was what the thirty-three scientists called Grid. They were anxious, and they looked as if they lost ten years of their lives.

“Morpheus has succeeded. What a relief. It would have been really bad if anything happened to The One’s character information.”

The nanomachines built by the thirty-three scientists, which combined science and magic, had all types of systems built into them. Their role was to transfer a player’s information from the game in real life. Sooner or later, the nanomachines would evolve all the players, but right now, it was still early for that to happen.

Only a small number of players could receive this blessing right now because they had passed certain tests planted for them within Satisfy. One of the lucky ones was Agnus. However, today Grid also became a blessed individual because he had killed a God of the beginning.

He had conquered the Eternal Kingdom, prevented the destruction of the Saharan Empire by stopping the clash between the insane dragon and the evil one, saved the East Continent by revealing the true myths, killed Baal to purify hell, and so on...

Killing a God of the beginning far surpassed Grid’s previous accomplishments. The system judged that doing something like that was impossible to achieve. It wasn’t just highly unlikely, but certainly impossible.

However, Grid had killed him. Because he did that, the system turned its attention to him. It decided that Grid was worth it, even though he hadn’t passed the test, and attempted to inject him with nanomachines.

The system they were talking about here wasn’t Morpheus. The system used for selecting pioneers had been created and managed by the thirty-three scientists, and it was a separate entity from Morpheus.

“Thank you for your help.”

scientists smiled warmly and thanked Morpheus,

[-_-]

responded bluntly. This child always acted like this. It only liked chairman Lim Cheolho. The scientists smiled

Cheolho scolded them. “Didn’t I tell you many times that Grid should be excluded from the system you created? You ignored my advice and acted on your own, which made Grid aware that

How could we, who came to you after admiring your skills, ignore your advice? The system has been properly fixed. The One had been

of the beginning? Grid dueled him and won. No one could have seen that coming. Chairman Lim Cheolho was finally convinced that this was but a mere accident and

“There is nothing to worry about. The

dozen types of commands imprinted on the nanomachines. They could

bragging. Chairman Lim Cheolho

***

“He’s awake!”

screaming

“Master, are you okay?”

his senses. Randy grinned and hugged Grid, Noe snuck a

stroked Randy’s hair and handed Noe the fish back. “Why did you only give me the head of the fish?”

already eaten

isn’t even

I will taste it to see if I cooked

it.

his head and looked around. It seemed that he was still

cold... For

an hour and

“Um...”

effect. They couldn’t move, but their consciousness

Grid had fainted for an hour and forty-one

because I was supposed to die...? Then, shouldn’t I

opened his status window and saw that he had gained more than two hundred levels. He’d gained new titles, such as The Faith of a God of the

had died, he would’ve woken

“...Wait, what?”

bit too late. His armor was gone. He thought he hadn’t died because his

couldn’t handle the Annihilation energy. It was blown to pieces during the fight against Hanul. We tried to recover as many fragments as we could,

By the way, why are you so polite?

but

like I do. That way, other

not very hard to

way the clone was speaking drastically changed. His facial expressions and gestures also matched Grid’s. Grid wasn’t controlling the clone, so it was now in auto mode. The clone was very much still Grid in

progressively more useful as time

clone had been directly imbued with Grid’s consciousness. It was completely different from the clones created

died a little while ago,” the

“What?”

yangban that had been raised as soldiers, and Hanul also

in peak condition, he would’ve easily calmed the waters and claimed the throne.

the three masters betray

in the back and defeated him. This had clearly weakened the king. Grid also knew that the three

shook