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.”

thanked

[-_-]

This child always acted like this. It only

“Didn’t I tell you many times that Grid should be excluded from the system you created? You ignored my advice and acted

you after admiring your skills, ignore your advice? The system has been properly fixed. The One had been excluded from the search from the very beginning. So this... is a disaster.

No one could have seen that coming. Chairman Lim Cheolho

to worry about. The One won’t remember

a dozen types of commands imprinted on the nanomachines. They could also release hallucinogens that could stabilize a subject’s

bragging. Chairman Lim Cheolho nodded,

***

“He’s awake!”

screaming

“Master, are you okay?”

grinned and hugged Grid, Noe snuck a well-grilled

“Why did you only

eaten

fish isn’t even grilled

will taste it to see if I cooked

forget it. You can

seemed that he

cold... For how

an hour and forty-one minutes

“Um...”

but their consciousness would be fine. What’s more,

had fainted for an hour and forty-one minutes. This made no

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

felt better again. He opened his status window and saw that he had gained more than two hundred levels. He’d

he had died, he would’ve woken

“...Wait, what?”

noticed something a bit too late. His armor was gone. He thought he hadn’t died because his level was still the same, but had he

the Annihilation energy. It was blown to pieces during the fight against Hanul. We tried to recover as many fragments as

By the way, why are you so polite? We are one and the

are me, but

best to talk like I do. That way, other people can’t easily distinguish

not very hard to

also matched Grid’s. Grid wasn’t controlling the clone, so it was

more

with Grid’s consciousness. It was completely different from the clones

the way, King Sobyeol died a little while

“What?”

Kingdom’s condition was as precarious as a sandcastle. They had lost all the yangban that had been raised

had been in peak condition, he would’ve easily calmed

the three masters

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

clone shook his