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The Mar­tial God Who Re­gressed Back To Level 2

Chap­ter 101-200
1. Vol­ume 2
1. Chap­ter 101
2. Chap­ter 102
3. Chap­ter 103
4. Chap­ter 104
5. Chap­ter 105
6. Chap­ter 106
7. Chap­ter 107
8. Chap­ter 108
9. Chap­ter 109
10. Chap­ter 110
11. Chap­ter 111
12. Chap­ter 112
13. Chap­ter 113
14. Chap­ter 114
15. Chap­ter 115
16. Chap­ter 116
17. Chap­ter 117
18. Chap­ter 118
19. Chap­ter 119
20. Chap­ter 120
21. Chap­ter 121
22. Chap­ter 122
23. Chap­ter 123
24. Chap­ter 124
25. Chap­ter 125
26. Chap­ter 126
27. Chap­ter 127
28. Chap­ter 128
29. Chap­ter 129
30. Chap­ter 130
31. Chap­ter 131

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32. Chap­ter 132

33. Chap­ter 133
34. Chap­ter 134
35. Chap­ter 135
36. Chap­ter 136
37. Chap­ter 137
38. Chap­ter 138
39. Chap­ter 139
40. Chap­ter 140
41. Chap­ter 141
42. Chap­ter 142
43. Chap­ter 143
44. Chap­ter 144
45. Chap­ter 145
46. Chap­ter 146
47. Chap­ter 147
48. Chap­ter 148
49. Chap­ter 149
50. Chap­ter 150
51. Chap­ter 151
52. Chap­ter 152
53. Chap­ter 153
54. Chap­ter 154
55. Chap­ter 155
56. Chap­ter 156
57. Chap­ter 157
58. Chap­ter 158
59. Chap­ter 159
60. Chap­ter 160
61. Chap­ter 161
62. Chap­ter 162
63. Chap­ter 163
64. Chap­ter 164
65. Chap­ter 165
66. Chap­ter 166
67. Chap­ter 167
68. Chap­ter 168

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69. Chap­ter 169

70. Chap­ter 170
71. Chap­ter 171
72. Chap­ter 172
73. Chap­ter 173
74. Chap­ter 174
75. Chap­ter 175
76. Chap­ter 176
77. Chap­ter 177
78. Chap­ter 178
79. Chap­ter 179
80. Chap­ter 180
81. Chap­ter 181
82. Chap­ter 182
83. Chap­ter 183
84. Chap­ter 184
85. Chap­ter 185
86. Chap­ter 186
87. Chap­ter 187
88. Chap­ter 188
89. Chap­ter 189
90. Chap­ter 190
91. Chap­ter 191
92. Chap­ter 192
93. Chap­ter 193
94. Chap­ter 194
95. Chap­ter 195
96. Chap­ter 196
97. Chap­ter 197
98. Chap­ter 198
99. Chap­ter 199
100. Chap­ter 200

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Vol­ume 2

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Chap­ter 101
"Dis­carded... you say?"

Seong Ji­han ques­tioned, won­der­ing if he mis­un­der­stood Ariel.

Dark elves, a race he had never seen in his past life.

He only found out about their ex­is­tence af­ter un­der­tak­ing a quest re­lated to
the Shadow Queen this time.

But to be dis­carded?

Amongst their own kind?

"You would do the same, wouldn't you? Even if it went through a per­fect
process, if there's a de­fect in a prod­uct, you'd sim­ply dis­card it."

"You mean, if they don't look like that, they are con­sid­ered de­fec­tive?"

"Yes. The Great World Tree, our cre­ator, sees it that way."

Ariel said with a cor­ner of her mouth turn­ing up in a cyn­i­cal tone.

"The World Tree is the cre­ator?"

"Yes. Elves are orig­i­nally born from the fruits of the World Tree."

"...Born from fruits?"

"Yes. Orig­i­nally, that form doesn't even have re­pro­duc­tive or­gans. It's nei­‐
ther male nor fe­male."

That form.

She re­ferred to it as "that form".

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Ariel con­tin­ued, call­ing the elf fig­ure she con­jured with such a term.

"But for some rea­son un­known to us, only 10% or less of the fruits yield a
nor­mal form. The rest ei­ther have a dif­fer­ent skin color like me, pos­sess un­‐
nec­es­sary re­pro­duc­tive or­gans for elves, or... even if they lack skin color
and re­pro­duc­tive or­gans, they just don't look right."

"So, all of them are dis­carded?"

"Yes, ex­actly. They are buried alive, to be used as fer­til­izer for the Great
World Tree. It hap­pened to me too."

Ariel re­called her past with a dis­tant look.

"Grow­ing in­side the fruit, I ac­quired ba­sic knowl­edge, but... un­til I was to
be buried alive, I never thought of re­sist­ing. To me back then, the World
Tree was an ab­so­lute be­ing."

"I see."

"The shad­ows saved me when I died like that."

"The shad­ows?"

"Yes... The souls of the 90% who weren't cho­sen by the World Tree and
were buried alive com­bined to be­come the shad­ows."

"So, the Dark Elves are..."

"Yes. Our race is a col­lec­tive of souls that failed to be­come elves. We

evolved a step fur­ther from our spirit forms to re­gain our phys­i­cal forms."

Ariel swiftly raised her arm, and un­like usual, her body be­came translu­cent.

"I can re­vert back to a spirit form like this at any time."

"So, the orig­i­nal form of the Dark Elves was a ghost."

"Yes, specif­i­cally, a ghost un­der the Shadow Queen."

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"You men­tioned sur­viv­ing even if only the neck re­mains?"

"That's right. If the head of a spirit form shat­ters, even a Dark Elf will cease
to ex­ist."

Say­ing this, Ariel re­verted her body back to its orig­i­nal form.

"Re­turn­ing to the orig­i­nal topic about elves... the elves who emerge in that
nor­mal form are strong and have tena­cious vi­tal­ity. They re­gen­er­ate as long
as a tiny piece of flesh re­mains."

"Is that so?"

Seong Ji­han pre­tended to be sur­prised, but he re­called his past mem­o­ries.

The elves he met in the Space League had an in­cred­i­bly strong life force, al­‐
most like cock­roaches.

"Yes. In my per­spec­tive... they are a su­pe­rior race."

"You said Dark Elves are in­ter­me­di­ate to high. So, the elves are stronger."

"We don't re­gen­er­ate from just a piece of flesh."

"..."

"And they be­long to the World Tree Al­liance, trained as bat­tle ma­chines."

World Tree Al­liance.

Seong Ji­han re­mem­bered them clearly.

The last time Earth joined the Space League, the elf plan­ets af­fil­i­ated with
the al­liance took all the top five po­si­tions.

"Prob­ab­ ly, once your tu­to­rial ends, you'll meet them. Your planet is quite a
tempt­ing tar­get for the World Tree Al­liance."

"Are you re­fer­ring to Earth?"

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"Yes. Among hab­it­able plan­ets, there aren't many with such a size."

"But from what you're say­ing, the elves seem very pow­er­ful... Doesn't that
make our lev­els mis­matched? You called hu­man­ity the low­est-tier race.
Would we meet right af­ter the tu­to­rial ends?"

Even though Seong Ji­han knew about Earth be­ing in the same Space
League as the five elf plan­ets, he feigned ig­no­rance and asked.

This was a doubt he had for a long time.

Hav­ing hu­mans and elves in the same league felt like hav­ing bronze play­ers
mixed with plat­inum or di­am
­ ond play­ers.

"That's what makes the World Tree Al­liance so dread­ful."

At Seong Ji­han's ques­tion, Ariel gave a bit­ter smile.

"They ex­ploit the Bat­tleNet sys­tem to par­tic­i­pate in the new­com­ers' Space

League. In short, it's like cre­at­ing an 'alt ac­count' here."

Al­ter­nate ac­count.

A term mean­ing a newly cre­ated ac­count or char­ac­ter other than the orig­i­nal
one.

Why was this term be­ing men­tioned here?

"They col­o­nize a new planet to par­tic­i­pate in the Space League anew."

"All that ef­fort? Is it even pos­si­ble?"

"I'm not sure about the de­tails, but the key is plant­ing a new World Tree. In
terms of your uni­verse... right. They plant the World Tree on a place like the
moon and make it hab­it­able for life for a while."

Seong Ji­han was flab­ber­gasted.

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Why are the World Tree Al­liance guys so ea­ger to par­tic­i­pate in the Space
League?

And then,

"Wouldn't they get pe­nal­ized by Bat­tleNet for do­ing that?"

"Ev­ery sys­tem has its flaws. The World Tree Al­liance knows them well."

"Hmph."

It's like a pro us­ing an alt ac­count to wreak havoc in a be­gin­ner's game.

So that's why the rank­ings of the Space League in my past life looked like
that.

"That's why, Seong Ji­han, the name of your mar­tial art is cru­cial."

"What does that have to do with any­thing all of a sud­den?"

"If the Shadow Queen finds a clue to en­hance her fi­nal power, she can
counter the World Tree Al­liance."

"The Shadow Queen will counter them?"

"Yes. The Queen and the World Tree Al­liance are mor­tal en­em ­ ies. Ini­tially,
the main body be­came the con­stel­la­tion, one of the plan­ets dom­i­nated by
the World Tree Al­liance. The Queen started a rev­o­lu­tion, burn­ing the World
Tree and trans­form­ing it into the planet of the Dark Elves."

The en­emy of my en­emy is my friend.

Ariel's eyes sparkled.

"We don't care how you got that mar­tial art. We're just cu­ri­ous about how
the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God, the con­stel­la­tion hunt­ing the con­stel­la­tion,
mod­i­fied the power of the Shadow Queen."

"Hmm..."

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"I know you can't un­leash it yet, but just know­ing the name, the Queen can
in­fer. She can find clues to ad­vance her power."

She seemed ea­gerly an­tic­i­pat­ing the name of Seong Ji­han's ul­ti­mate mar­tial
art, the Dark Shadow Tech­nique.

Through the name, she in­tends to seek clues to fur­ther en­hance the Shadow
Queen's ul­ti­mate power.

But,

"It's the Shadow Di­vine Sword."

"...What?"

"Shadow Di­vine Sword. The name of the ul­ti­mate mar­tial art."

Hear­ing the name, Ariel's face con­torted.

"Re­ally? A sword?"

"Yes."

"You're not jok­ing?"

"Why would I joke about this?"

"Sigh..."

With a dis­ap­pointed ex­pres­sion, she took a deep breath.

"The Shadow Di­vine Sword, af­ter all, isn't it just like the Shadow Sword,
Eclipse?"

"I don't know the specifics."

"...Okay. Still, we'll have to re­port and see."

"Al­right. When I grow stronger, I'll show you the Shadow Di­vine Sword."

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"Sigh... I won­der when that'll be."

Ssssss~

The dis­ap­pointed Ariel was sucked back into Seong Ji­han's arm and dis­ap­‐
peared.

Seong Ji­han gave a bit­ter smile.

'Well, I do know more, ac­tu­ally.'

He had more in­for­ma­tion about the Shadow Di­vine Sword.

Af­ter all, he had used it in his past life.

'But I can't tell her at this level.'

As a mere Sil­ver Rank Seong Ji­han, he still had much to gain from Ariel be­‐
fore re­veal­ing the dif­fer­ences be­tween the Shadow Di­vine Sword and the
Eclipse.

'The Shadow Queen still has time un­til she's de­ceived...'

He de­cided to in­form her once he grew stronger and opened his in­ven­tory.

--- --- ---

[Veil of the Void (Grade: S)]

[A veil be­stowed to the apos­tle of the void.

When the veil is com­pletely worn, it tem­po­rar­ily iso­lates you from the
world, mak­ing you in­vis­i­ble.

Mov­ing even slightly will negate the in­vis­i­bil­ity ef­fect.

You can evade at­tacks of SS grade or lower, but if you re­main hid­den for
too long, you could be buried in the void.]

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--- --- ---

"'Iso­lated from the world?' From the item de­scrip­tion alone, it's hard to
grasp ev­ery­thing," Seong Ji­han de­cided to use it him­self.

When he took it out of his in­ven­tory, what he held was a veil of void.

It felt like thick cloth to the touch, but it was com­pletely trans­par­ent and in­‐
vis­i­ble to the eye.

"Hmm... is it like an in­vis­i­ble cloak?"

I should give it a try.

Seong Ji­han, hold­ing the Veil of the Void, went to find Yoon Seah.

In the room next to the train­ing room, where the Bat­tleNet Con­nec­tor was
in­stalled, "Seah, what are you do­ing?"

"Un­cle~~! I'm al­ready level 20. It's crazy!"

She was still sit­ting at the Bat­tleNet Con­nec­tor, un­able to hide her ex­cite­‐
ment.

"20?"

"Yeah. I gained 14 lev­els to­day!"

Even if she got car­ried by Seong Ji­han, it was a crazy growth rate that
seemed un­be­liev­able.

The hunt­ing of Count Naseed played a sig­nif­i­cant role in achiev­ing this re­‐
sult.

'I'm level 49 my­self.'

Thanks to this game, he lev­eled up at su­per speed, and now only one level
was left for him to qual­ify for the pro­mo­tion match.

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"Hehe. I'm cur­rently search­ing for which equip­ment to buy."

Us­ing the money she re­ceived from the Sword King, Yoon Seah had given
up on buy­ing real es­tate and was now fully in­vested in equip­ping her­self.
She was deeply en­grossed in shop­ping.

"I've got a new item to use. Want to see?"

"Huh? What is it?"

"Here."

Swoosh.

Seong Ji­han draped the Veil of the Void over his head.

Then, he felt like a thick cloth was wrap­ping around his body.

"Un­cle? Where are you?"

Yoon Seah's voice started to sound in­cred­i­bly fast.

For Seong Ji­han, it didn't feel like he had draped any­thing, he just felt like
he was stand­ing as usual, but Yoon Seah couldn't per­ceive Seong Ji­han at
all.

'Is the flow of time dif­fer­ent?'

Yoon Seah moved in­cred­i­bly fast right be­fore his eyes.

It felt like watch­ing a video played at more than dou­ble the speed.

'I won­der, if I move, will it wear off?'

As soon as Seong Ji­han moved slightly, Yoon Seah's eyes widened.

"Huh?"

"Do you see me?"

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"Yeah. Sud­denly, un­cle popped out of thin air."

"Hmm..."

Is this... use­ful?

Look­ing sus­pi­ciously at the Veil of the Void, Seong Ji­han thought, 'This
item is clearly tai­lored for sur­vival and stealth.'

It was the com­plete op­po­site of a war­rior's style, which re­quires con­fronting

en­em
­ ies head-on.

Of course, it could be a means of sav­ing one's life in dan­ger, but 'I don't
think I'll be in dan­ger.'

Even when fight­ing Count Naseed, didn't Seong Ji­han not get hit even
once?

There were no threats for the time be­ing, as far as he knew.

'Should I give it to Seah?'

Though Seong Ji­han con­tem­plated giv­ing the seem­ingly use­less Veil of the
Void to Yoon Seah, 'First, I need to ver­ify its claim about be­ing buried in the
void.'

He was slightly both­ered by the last part of the item de­scrip­tion.

Af­ter fully an­al­yz­ing the Veil of the Void, he will de­cide whether to give it
to Yoon Seah or not.

'If I keep us­ing it, I'll be buried in the void, right?'

Two days later.

[You fin­ished the Sil­ver League in 1st place by win rate.]

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[You have earned the ti­tle 'King of Sil­ver'.]

[You are qual­i­fied to par­tic­i­pate in the Top 100 pro­mo­tion match.]

Through­out reach­ing level 50,

'...Why isn't it ac­ti­vat­ing?'

Even though Seong Ji­han had been wear­ing the Veil of the Void all day,
both in re­al­ity and in the game, he couldn't feel any side ef­fects.

"Oh, but if it's like this, It's a bit dif­fi­cult to de­cide whether to give it to
Seah or not."

He needed to be cer­tain about the side ef­fects be­fore hand­ing the item to
Yoon Seah.

For now, he thought he should keep it for a while.

[Your level far ex­ceeds the stan­dards of the Sil­ver League.]

[You are also qual­i­fied to par­tic­i­pate in the Gang­nam Gold League pro­mo­‐
tion match.]

[Which pro­mo­tion match would you like to choose?]

An ad­di­tional sys­tem mes­sage popped up.

Be­cause Seong Ji­han showed such over­whelm­ing power, de­spite be­ing in

Sil­ver, the sys­tem was ask­ing if he wanted to par­tic­i­pate in the Gold pro­mo­‐
tion match.

[*Note: If you choose the Top 100 pro­mo­tion match, you will re­ceive a
penalty for bal­anc­ing with other play­ers.]

Seong Ji­han laughed as if he found it ridicu­lous.

If they were go­ing to main­tain bal­ance so well, they should have stopped
the World Tree Al­liance.

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'If I have to choose be­tween the two pro­mo­tion matches... ob­vi­ously...'

Seong Ji­han didn't hes­i­tate and chose.

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Chap­ter 102
[You have se­lected the Top 100 Pro­mo­tion Match.]

Seong Ji­han's choice was the Top 100.

'If I com­pete in the Gold pro­mo­tion match, I'll be pro­moted straight to the
plat­inum league.'

Skip­ping Gold and mov­ing di­rectly to plat­inum would mean faster growth,
but then he would miss out on the achieve­ment quests and other re­wards
avail­able in the Gold League maps.

From Seong Ji­han's per­spec­tive, it was some­thing he couldn't af­ford to

miss.

'By the time the tu­to­rial ends, I need to be in plat­inum.'

The pro­mo­tion match date was set for Sep­tem­ber 25th. If he ad­vanced to
Gold by then, he would have three months from Oc­to­ber to De­cem­ber. Dur­‐
ing that pe­riod, he needed to main­tain a steady growth rate while stay­ing in
the plat­inum league.

'That way, dur­ing the open­ing match of the Space League, Earth won't lose.'

Al­though Seong Ji­han, who had re­turned from a dis­tant fu­ture, didn't re­‐
mem­ber much about the game at this time, he dis­tinctly re­mem­bered the
first open­ing match that took place right af­ter Earth joined the Space
League.

It was the first game against the elves that brought shock and hor­ror to hu­‐
man­ity.

In or­der to change the out­come of that match, Seong Ji­han needed to be in

plat­inum, a rank be­low di­am
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[You re­ceive a penalty for bal­ance ad­just­ment.]

[The map used for the pro­mo­tion match will change from the sur­vival map
'Colos­seum' to the spe­cial de­fense map, 'Tomb of the Raided Con­queror'.]

[The team ca­pac­i­ties for 'North' and 'South' teams will change from 50 vs.
50 to 10 vs. 90.]

[Player Seong Ji­han will be­long to the north­ern team in the Top 100, and
the re­main­ing team­mates will be de­ter­mined from ranks 91 to 100.]

[The en­em
­ ies com­ing from the north­ern di­rec­tion that the north­ern team de­‐
fends will be strength­ened.]

Re­duc­ing team size, hav­ing play­ers ranked from 91 to 100 on the same
team, and strength­en­ing the op­po­nents--- this bal­ance ad­just­ment was quite
rig­or­ous.

See­ing this, Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

'The Bat­tleNet is re­ally thor­ough, isn't it?'

Though the map con­di­tions turned quite un­fa­vor­able for him, he seemed
quite re­laxed.

'Af­ter all, it's just a sil­ver pro­mo­tion match.'

He was rather in­trigued by this unique map. Maybe there was a spe­cial
achieve­ment quest to be un­locked here.

As soon as Seong Ji­han chose to par­tic­i­pate in the Top 100 match, an un­ex­‐
pected event oc­curred.

[An emer­gency an­nounce­ment from the Bat­tleNet bet­ting server.]

[The map for the Sil­ver League Top 100 has changed due to player 'Seong
Ji­han's choice. The bet­ting server will re­set the ex­ist­ing bet­ting fig­ures and
start new bets.]

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[With the map change of the Sil­ver League Top 100 match, the match
sched­ule is moved for­ward by a day. It will be sched­uled at 6 pm on Sep­‐
tem­ber 24th, based on the world's top league, New York League.]

[Please re­fer to the bet­ting web­site for de­tailed changes.]

An an­nounce­ment from the Bat­tleNet's in­te­grated bet­ting server in­di­cated

that the dy­nam­ics of the Sil­ver Top 100 match had changed.

'The sched­ule even changed? A spe­cial de­fense map... what's go­ing on?'

As Seong Ji­han pon­dered, there was a loud noise.

"Un­cle! What's go­ing on? A sud­den an­nounce­ment says the Top 100 match
has changed!"

"Mm, you saw?"

"It's not just me! It's chaos! Any­one who ever par­tic­i­pated in Bat­tleNet bet­‐
ting re­ceived the no­ti­fi­ca­tion!"

"What? Se­ri­ously?"

This seems to be es­ca­lat­ing...

Seong Ji­han thought calmly, then sud­denly his ex­pres­sion hard­ened.

"Hold on. Seah?"

"Yeah?"

"You said any­one who ever par­tic­i­pated in Bat­tleNet bet­ting got the no­ti­fi­‐
ca­tion?"

"Yes! From the U.S. to Africa, ev­ery­one!"

"You saw it too, right?"

"Uh...?"

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"Don't tell me... Did you bet?"

At this, Yoon Seah shifted her gaze eva­sively.

"....Uh. Well... about that..."

"Phew... I thought some­thing was off. You've been spend­ing so much on

equip­ment lately."

The equip­ment Yoon Seah had re­cently ac­quired as she lev­eled up looked
no­tice­ably ex­pen­sive, rang­ing be­tween B to A grade.

Al­though buy­ing good equip­ment was es­sen­tial for play­ing on Bat­tleNet,

and Seong Ji­han didn't think of Yoon Seah's shop­ping as over­spend­ing, it
still struck him as odd.

'So that's why she said she had plenty of money even when I of­fered to buy
her things.'

"You... When did you start?"

"Ah, well, just... Just! Out of cu­rios­ity... Just a bit... Only a lit­tle!"

"How much?"

"Uh, what?"

"How much did you bet?"

Yoon Seah cau­tiously raised one fin­ger.

"100 mil­lion won?"

"Hey. You're way un­der­es­ti­mat­ing~."

"1 bil­lion won?"

"...No."

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"...Don't tell me, 10 bil­lion won?"

"Hehe!"

Yoon Seah cheek­ily stuck out her tongue and scratched her cheek.

It was an af­fir­ma­tion.

"Sigh."

Seong Ji­han let out a deep sigh in dis­be­lief.

'She wasn't like this be­fore.'

In his pre­vi­ous life, Yoon Seah showed no in­ter­est in gam­bling.

How did she change so much?

'Maybe I've been too suc­cess­ful lately.'

In the past, even though Seong Ji­han had a high win rate, he con­stantly lost
and won money.

To Yoon Seah, he was just a gam­bling ad­dict, not an ex­em­plary case.

But this time's Seong Ji­han was dif­fer­ent.

He was nail­ing ev­ery pre­dic­tion and rapidly grow­ing his wealth.

'I should've been more care­ful.'

Of course, Yoon Seah who started even when told not to was also in the
wrong.

But Seong Ji­han felt the blame was more on him.

Af­ter see­ing him mak­ing so much through bet­ting, wouldn't one get cu­ri­ous
and try?

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"Sigh. I showed a bad side of me."

"No, no. Un­cle, you're al­ways my idol. I just fol­lowed you."

"Who did you learn to gam­ble from?"

"Hehe..."

"So, how much did you win?"

"Uh... About 700...?"

"700 bil­lion won?!"

"Yes. Hehe."

Seong Ji­han looked at Yoon Seah in dis­be­lief.

"Even if you fol­lowed my bet­ting, 5 times was the max­i­mum, right?"

"Ah. I got 5 times the amount by fol­low­ing your Top 100. And you said
Japan would keep win­ning, right? So, I made a bit there."

"...Wait, Seah. Did I tell you that Japan would keep win­ning?"

"Ah... I over­heard you talk­ing to Hayeon."

So, she caught that info.

She has sharp ears.

Seong Ji­han shook his head in dis­be­lief.

"Sigh..."

"Hehe. Un­cle, for­give me just this once~!"

"Now that it's come to this, set aside 500 bil­lion won. You need a safety net
in case ev­ery­thing falls apart."

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"Of course!"

"And just fol­low my bets. Don't do it on your own. You could get ad­dicted.
Re­ally."

Hav­ing ex­pe­ri­enced mak­ing money through bet­ting.

Just telling her not to do it wouldn't be con­vinc­ing.

He should make sure she only goes for the sure bets he picks.

"Of course!"

"Right. If you get too into bet­ting, you might end up like Hayeon. Oh, and
don't go against my bets like Hayeon. You might lose ev­ery­thing."

"I ob­vi­ously know that. It's a sure-win."

"A sure-win?"

What does that mean?

When Seong Ji­han looked puz­zled, Yoon Seah whis­pered into his ear.

"It means 'bet­ting against Hayeon is a sure-win'."

"...What is that?"

"If you bet the op­po­site of what Hayeon picks, you win money. Gayeong
told me."

Seong Ji­han re­mem­bered his past life upon hear­ing the mean­ing of "sure-
win."

"Zero, who did you bet on this time?"

"Why? Are you guys bet­ting against me?"

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"Of course! Bet­ting against you has a 75% win rate, they say."

"Yes, Zero! Why don't you go against your in­stincts and fol­low us? Against
Zero. We even made up our ter­mi­nol­ogy, right?"

"So, you're say­ing you bet against it, huh?"

"Oh, re­ally? So, who did you bet on?"

"Buzz off! I'm not telling!"

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Even dur­ing the "Amer­ica First", all guild mem­bers used to re­fer to Zero's
bet­ting.

'It feels the same as back then.'

Seong Ji­han said with a chuckle.

"Yes, if my bet­ting dif­fers from Hayeon's, just fol­low me."

"Of course. Haha... So, who did you bet on, Un­cle?"

"Of course, I bet on my­self. I'm the top in all the in­di­ca­tors."

Even though the Top 100 map was bal­anced.

Seong Ji­han's con­fi­dence was bound­less.

"Of course... right?"

"Why are you wor­ried?"

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"Hehe. No way! I'm go­ing all-in on you, Un­cle!"

"Yoon Seah, your voice is trem­bling?"

"No... What... The Bat­tleNet sys­tem may have bal­anced things, but I don't
care at all!"

But the way she said it, it seemed she cared a lot.

"Haha... If you're not so sure, go down to the guild and check Hayeon's bet­‐
ting."

"Oh! Is there such a method?! Great! I'll go and spy!"

Upon hear­ing Seong Ji­han's words, Yoon Seah ex­cit­edly headed down­stairs.

Sep­tem­ber 22nd.

The af­ter­math of Seong Ji­han's se­lec­tion for the Sil­ver Top 100 pro­mo­tion
match was more in­tense than ex­pected.

-- Bat­tleNet bet­ting site made a pub­lic an­nounce­ment... is this real?

-- Seong Ji­han is crazy. He even changed the date for the pro­mo­tional match
-- we need to tune in at 7 a.m. based on New York time!

-- Hey, but 10 mem­bers against 90... wouldn't he fail to rank first?

-- Hey, don't you know Seong Ji­han's lim­i­ta­tions? Please, if you're Ko­rean,
bet on Seong Ji­han!

-- I'm not Ko­rean. I'm Chi­nese.

-- Typ­i­cal Chi­nese; sell­ing out their coun­try for money.

-- Get­ting my money back is more im­por­tant than pa­tri­o­tism!

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Since join­ing Bat­tleNet, Seong Ji­han al­ways be­came the cen­ter of at­ten­tion.

This time, how­ever, he was at­tract­ing the at­ten­tion of gam­blers more than
the gen­eral pub­lic.

-- Do you guys know what Bat­tleNet is? It's a cos­mic hy­per-tech­nol­ogy sys­‐
tem! It just had a bal­ance patch. It's 10 vs 90, who should we bet on?

-- Se­ri­ously... Seong Ji­han has won too much. He's ranked first too many
times. It's okay if he gets beaten once. How can a hu­man al­ways win? They
need to rest some­times.

-- Crazy. I can't be­lieve it. Big Bro Ji­han even won against a Di­am
­ ond
Rank! Do you want to crit­i­cize with­out know­ing any­thing? What's with the
10 vs 90? Even if it was 1 vs 99, Big Bro Ji­han would def­i­nitely rank first!

-- This is why mis­guided fan­dom is a prob­lem.

-- Those from 'The First' shouldn't bet.

Con­trary to the Ko­rean pub­lic's over­whelm­ing sup­port for Seong Ji­han.

In com­mu­ni­ties re­lated to Bat­tleNet bet­ting, many ex­perts pre­dicted that

Seong Ji­han would lose this time.

Be­cause the one that ad­justed the bal­ance was Bat­tleNet!

Even with­out a con­nec­tion, one can ac­cess Bat­tleNet, and even with­out
elec­tric­ity, one can watch chan­nels on TV.

It's that ad­vanced hy­per-tech­nol­ogy sys­tem from Bat­tleNet that ad­justed the
bal­ance.

-- He will lose this time. He def­i­nitely will!

-- Se­ri­ously, how many times did Seong Ji­han rank first?

-- It's only right for him to be de­feated at least once.

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-- Se­ri­ously, if the sys­tem reg­u­lates, you can't win. That's how the world
works.

This sen­ti­ment was even stronger abroad.

Be­cause more peo­ple trusted the sys­tem over Seong Ji­han's great­ness.

-- This time Seong Ji­han loses. How can he re­sist the sys­tem?

-- Bar­ren... the 1 mil­lion dol­lars I lost last time... I trust you to get it back
this time...

-- If the sys­tem sets it up? Bar­ron will def­i­nitely rank first, right?

Since the Bat­tleNet sys­tem ac­tively patched for bal­ance, he couldn't con­‐
tinue dom­i­nat­ing.

"Boss, the odds... are high."

Seong Ji­han's first-place odds were four times.

Con­sid­er­ing his re­mark­able past per­for­mance, it was an ex­treme un­der­val­u­‐

a­tion.

How could the pub­lic not choose the per­son who de­feated a Di­am
­ ond Rank
and sin­gle-hand­edly cap­tured Count Naseed as the first?

"Can you never win against the sys­tem..."

Lee Hayeon gazed out of the guild mas­ter's of­fice with melan­cholic eyes.

A pres­ti­gious lo­ca­tion over­look­ing the Gang­nam area.

"Miss, I brought the wine."

"Thank you, Gayeong."

Lee Hayeon looked at the bright lights of Gang­nam's night and sipped her
wine.

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Now... It was time to make a choice.

"Boss... I'm sorry."

The Bat­tleNet sys­tem, which changed the world in an in­stant.

That pow­er­ful en­tity di­rectly ad­justed the bal­ance.

It pre­cisely tar­geted Seong Ji­han, who had never missed first place.

The an­swer to where to bet was clear.

"Sigh, Gayeong, it breaks my heart."

"What does?"

"As a guild mas­ter, I should be bet­ting on the boss... but my in­stincts as an

ex­pert tell me oth­er­wise."

Lim Gayeong looked at Lee Hayeon with in­cred­u­lous eyes.

'Who is... an ex­pert?'

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Chap­ter 103
"...You call your­self an ex­pert, Miss?"

"Of course! The money I've lost on bet­ting... Ahem! And the time I've in­‐
vested in it."

Just be­cause you've lost a lot of money and time doesn't make you an ex­‐
pert.

Lim Gayeong ad­vised Lee Hayeon with a sigh.

"Why not just bet for Seong Ji­han? You've earned a lot do­ing that."

"Yes, I made a lot from the Ja­pa­nese vic­to­ries and the Ko­rean losses. But...
I've won too much. It's about time for the Boss to lose, sta­tis­ti­cally speak­‐
ing."

The ini­tial amount Lee Hayeon had lost was con­sid­er­ably re­cov­ered thanks
to fol­low­ing Seong Ji­han's bets. How­ever, as she re­cov­ered, she be­came
more and more anx­ious.

"Peo­ple can't keep win­ning like this."

How could there be an end­less streak of vic­to­ries in this cruel world of

gam­bling? Even if you've boasted a 100% win rate so far, this world can
turn against you at any time.

And Lee Hayeon be­lieved that this was the time when Seong Ji­han wouldn't
come in first.

Buzz!

[Please bet on me again for this Top 100.]

A mes­sage from Seong Ji­han rang on Lee Hayeon's smart­phone.

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"Boss. It's too late..."

If he was con­fi­dent, he would've mes­saged ear­lier.

'Such a de­layed mes­sage ac­tu­ally gives me more as­sur­ance.'

Hav­ing al­ready made up her mind, Lee Hayeon sipped the re­main­ing wine
and ap­proached the com­puter.

At that mo­ment,

"Oh! Sis­ter~ You're here?"

Yoon Seah opened the door to the guild mas­ter's room.

"Yes, Yoon Seah. What brings you here?"

"Oh, Sis­ter. Hehe. I just felt there were still peo­ple in the guild, so I came.
But, have you been drink­ing?"

"Yes. I had a dif­fi­cult choice to make..."

Lee Hayeon, the ex­pert when it came to mak­ing bets, said with teary eyes.

"What kind of choice?"

"Well... it's a bit awk­ward say­ing it in front of you..."

"Come on! Tell me, Sis­ter!"

As Yoon Seah cheer­fully ap­proached, Lee Hayeon re­luc­tantly showed her

the mon­i­tor.

Her bet­ting his­tory, where she chose China's ris­ing star, Heav­enly De­mon
Wang Lin, as the first-place win­ner, was dis­played.

"It's a se­cret from the Boss, right?"

"Of course~ But why did you choose Wang Lin in­stead of Bar­ren?"

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"Well, Bar­ren is strong, but he seems a bit un­re­li­able."

Per­haps it was be­cause of his dis­grace­ful per­for­mance dur­ing the pre­vi­ous

Count Naseed raid.

Al­though Mages like Bar­ren had the ad­van­tage in de­fense maps, Lee
Hayeon be­lieved that Wang Lin from China was the top can­di­date to win.

The odds for both were al­most sim­i­lar, so it wouldn't be strange if ei­ther of
them ranked first.

But just the sim­i­lar­ity it­self was a hu­mil­i­at­ion for the usual Bar­ren.

"I see~"

"Re­mem­ber, it's a se­cret from the Boss, okay?"

"Of course, Sis­ter. My lips are sealed!"

Yoon Seah, in­di­cat­ing her sealed lips, looked at Lim Gayeong.

"Sis­ter Gayeong."

"Yes?"

Honey?

With­out mak­ing a sound, Yoon Seah ex­ag­ger­at­edly puck­ered her lips.

Nod!

Lim Gayeong sim­ply nod­ded in re­sponse.

"Yes. Honey."

"...What honey? What are you two sig­nal­ing about?"

For some rea­son, it felt an­noy­ing.

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When Lee Hayeon in­quired, Yoon Seah ca­su­ally re­sponded.

"Oh. She said there's a tip that helps when do­ing weights."

"Oh, there's some­thing like that?"

"Yes, Miss."

Lee Hayeon tilted her head in con­fu­sion.

Al­though she felt un­easy, if the two of them said so, it must be true.

"Okay. Make sure you learn well by watch­ing what Gayeong does."

"Sure. Sis­ter. Hehe."

Feel­ing guilty that Lee Hayeon was wor­ried about her, Yoon Seah couldn't
help but feel a bit sorry.

How­ever, she thought,

'Please take care of it.'

Al­though she felt apolo­getic, the stakes were too high to miss out.

Yoon Seah went all in with full con­fi­dence on Seong Ji­han.

"Miss, thank you al­ways."

Lim Gayeong also bet all of her GP.

Sep­tem­ber 25th, 6 a.m.

"Un­cle! Time for break­fast."

Seong Ji­han, roused by Yoon Seah's call, was taken aback by the lav­ish
spread on the ta­ble.

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When did she even start pre­par­ing this?

The ta­ble was laden with side dishes.

Fur­ther­more, the menu con­sisted mainly of Ji­han's fa­vorite dishes.

"Come on, I pre­pared ev­ery­thing you like! Just don't overeat!"

"Why are you do­ing this all of a sud­den?"

"It's the Top 100 match to­day. I have to cheer you on!"

She didn't act like this dur­ing the Bronze Top 100 match.

Ji­han could guess why Yoon Seah was act­ing like this.

"How much did you bet?"

Hehe.

Yoon Seah then showed her palm.

"50 bil­lion?"

"Yes!"

"Sigh... Hard to be­lieve this is the spend­ing of a teenager."

"Come on, un­cle! I heard there aren't many jack­pot games like this. Be­cause
of the Bat­tleNet bet­ting sys­tem an­nounce­ment, a lot of peo­ple are flock­ing,
right?"

The Top 100 pro­mo­tion matches were all held on the same day.

Bronze or sil­ver matches didn't at­tract much at­ten­tion.

Usu­ally, in­ter­est and money poured into the higher-level matches.

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How­ever, due to a no­ti­fi­ca­tion on the Bat­tleNet bet­ting site, the sil­ver pro­‐
mo­tion match in par­tic­u­lar was re­ceiv­ing the most bets of all the Top 100
pro­mo­tion matches.

"See­ing how you splurged, Hayeon must've bet on some­one else?"

"Yeah, sis­ter made a dif­fer­ent judg­ment with her ex­pert view. Oh, please
don't act like you knew. She told me not to tell any­one."

"Haha, I'll tease her af­ter it ends."

Con­fi­dent about the out­come, Ji­han started eat­ing.

"Speak­ing of which, don't you also have a pro­mo­tion match?"

"Yes, thanks to you, un­cle, I get to play in one in just a month."

Un­til the be­gin­ning of Sep­tem­ber, Yoon Seah only trained in the game to in­‐
crease her stamina.

But af­ter team­ing up with Ji­han, she pro­gressed rapidly and man­aged to
reach level 25, which al­lowed for pro­mo­tion.

"You are the one who needs to pre­pare more than me. Are you ready?"

"It's just a Gang­nam Area 3 pro­mo­tion match. You are more im­por­tant, un­‐
cle."

Thanks to Ji­han, Yoon Seah was able to level up quickly, but she wasn't
lack­ing in real bat­tle ex­pe­ri­ence.

With the gift of 'Late Bloomer', she could play the game twice a day, giv­ing
her as much com­bat ex­pe­ri­ence as an av­er­age bronze player.

Equipped with rare stat per­se­ver­ance and ex­cel­lent gear, it was a sure thing
that she wouldn't fail in her pro­mo­tion match.

"Speak­ing of which, 'Late Bloomer'... wasn't it said that it gets up­graded af­‐
ter play­ing 50 games on Bat­tleNet?"

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[Gift -- Late Bloomer (Rank-F -- Par­tic­i­pate 50 times in the game to up­‐

grade)]

The up­grade con­di­tions for Late Bloomer, found through Her­mes's Mon­o­‐
cle.

For Yoon Seah, who had played twice daily from day one, the 25th day
would be her 50th game.

"Yes, but to­day is a pro­mo­tion match, so I can't play twice. It's a shame."

"So, it'll up­grade when you reach sil­ver."

"That's right. Any­way..."

Yoon Seah, not wor­ried about her pro­mo­tion match at all, folded her hands
in re­quest to Ji­han.

"Un­cle, re­ally, don't worry about me! Eat well and please, please se­cure 1st
place! Got it?"

"Sigh... Thank you. Thanks."

50 bil­lion, she bet on this?

Ji­han chuck­led and picked up a piece of beef with his chop­sticks.

His hand move­ments, while pick­ing side dishes, be­came faster, even­tu­ally
blur­ring out of Yoon Seah's sight.

The food on the din­ing ta­ble dis­ap­peared in an in­stant, and Yoon Seah be­‐
came wor­ried for no rea­son.

"Ah... Un­cle, don't eat so quickly! What will you do if you get sick?"

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"What do you mean get sick? You pre­pared a feast worth 50 bil­lion won, of
course, I have to eat it all."

With swift eat­ing sounds.

In less than 10 min­utes, af­ter fin­ish­ing all the food and wip­ing his mouth,
Seong Ji­han said, "Ah, I'll be sum­moned soon. I'll se­cure the 1st place and
come back."

Wav­ing his hand to Yoon Seah, he dis­ap­peared into the game.

"Ah, se­ri­ously...! He should've left some for me!"

Yoon Seah looked at the din­ing ta­ble with a dumb­founded ex­pres­sion.

The plates, which were full of food, were now com­pletely empty.

"Sigh... I should just have a pro­tein shake."

She was too ex­hausted to cook again af­ter pre­par­ing all those side dishes.

She quickly made a pro­tein shake and be­gan pre­par­ing for her pro­mo­tion
match.

Of course,

'First, I need to watch Un­cle's match.'

Sep­tem­ber 25th, 7 am.

[The Top 100 Sil­ver Pro­mo­tion Match be­gins.]

Aligned with the World League 1st place, New York League's tim­ing, the
Top 100 Pro­mo­tion Match be­gan.

This monthly event, un­like usual times,

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-- The Sep­tem­ber Top 100 Pro­mo­tion Match...! It will start soon! This time,
it will start one day ear­lier, ex­clu­sively for Sil­ver!

For Sil­ver, the sched­ule was ad­vanced by a day.

On Chan­nel 0, world­wide,

Amer­i­can Bat­tleNet com­men­ta­tors and cast­ers who were given the priv­i­lege
of broad­cast­ing due to be­ing the World League 1st place, were chat­ting.

-- Christo­pher! I heard you rushed here from Hawaii.

-- Yes! I lost a day of my va­ca­tion! If it wasn't for Mr. Seong, I would still
be in Hawaii! Even ad­just­ing the sched­ule... In­cred­i­ble, re­ally!

-- Oh, who ex­actly is Mr. Seong that he man­aged to change the sched­ule?

-- Ha! Are you pre­tend­ing not to know? Among the view­ers watch­ing right
now, is there any­one who doesn't know Mr. Seong?

-- There might be! For those who sud­denly turned on Chan­nel 0 and were
sur­prised to see the pro­mo­tion match start­ing, can you ex­plain?

Even though Seong Ji­han's fame had spread world­wide over the past month,
The caster still asked Christo­pher to ex­plain for those who might not know
him.

-- Mr. Seong, his full name is Seong Ji­han, a great player from Ko­rea!

With that, Christo­pher's praise be­gan.

He never missed a 1st place in any game.

He de­feated the Mar­quis Nashid, won against Di­am

­ ond play­ers while be­ing
in Sil­ver.

Hav­ing the unique stats 'Force' and 'Mar­tial Power', he never wore any spe­‐
cial ar­mor ex­cept for weapons.

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Be­cause...

-- He hasn't been hit even once!

-- Oh, Christo­pher, com­pared to the last time you com­mented, you seem to
have be­come a fan!

-- Ha­haha! Af­ter watch­ing his game­play, you can't help but be­come a fan!
He is truly the most promis­ing player in the world!

-- I agree. A month ago, if I heard such words, I would've said Amer­ica has
its Bar­ren... but now, I must ad­mit. Seong Ji­han is cur­rently the most pow­‐
er­ful Sil­ver player!

On Chan­nel 0, watched by peo­ple all over the world, The caster and com­‐
men­ta­tor re­peat­edly praised Seong Ji­han.

The at­mos­phere was sig­nif­i­cantly dif­fer­ent from a month ago.

The over­whelm­ing achieve­ments that Seong Ji­han ac­com­plished in that

time were the rea­son.

-- Is it be­cause he's so pow­er­ful that even the sys­tem, the very Bat­tleNet
sys­tem, in­ter­vened?

-- They changed the sched­ule, changed the map. They ad­justed the bal­ance
to be un­fa­vor­able to Seong!

-- Haha, thanks to that, I lost a day of my va­ca­tion!

The com­men­ta­tors then be­gan an­al­yz­ing the map to be used for this pro­mo­‐
tion match.

-- This map is a spe­cial de­fense map... 'The Tomb of the Raided Con­queror.'

-- The Tomb of the Raided Con­queror! Isn't this used as a dun­geon map?
Play­ers usu­ally raid it, right?

-- Yes, most got gold bars con­verted to GP there.

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-- So this time, play­ers are de­fend­ing against tomb raiders?

In re­sponse to the caster's ques­tion, the com­men­ta­tor dis­played data he re­‐

ceived from the Bat­tleNet sys­tem.

-- Yes... that's right! How­ever, the scale of the tomb raiders is the prob­lem!

-- Who are these tomb raiders that you speak of so gravely?

-- A mas­sive Un­dead Al­liance from space. They're called 'Kill the King!'

-- Kill the King? Why such a name for an Un­dead Al­liance?

-- I don't know! I'm not fa­mil­iar with cos­mic af­fairs!

Kill the King.

The view­ers were puz­zled by this un­fa­mil­iar name and the odd nam­ing of
the Un­dead Al­liance.

'... Why are they al­ready here?'

In-game, Seong Ji­han frowned as he looked at the mis­sion de­scrip­tion that

ap­peared be­fore him.

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Chap­ter 104
[The Top 100 Sil­ver Pro­mo­tion Match be­gins.]

[You are as­signed to a spe­cial bal­anced map, 'Tomb of the Raided Con­‐
queror'.]

[The Un­dead Al­liance pur­su­ing equal­ity for all, 'Kill the King', tar­gets the
soul of the con­queror. De­fend against the on­slaught of 'Kill the King' un­til
the Con­queror awak­ens!]

The oth­er­worldly Un­dead Le­gion, Kill the King.

They held more than half the re­spon­si­bil­ity for Earth's doom.

'If the World Tree Al­liance was re­spon­si­ble for Earth's con­tin­u­ous losses in
the Space League... Kill the King was in charge of the clean-up.'

On plan­ets that rank low in the Space League, more dun­geons ap­pear.

The World Tree Al­liance had de­ci­sively crushed Earth in the league
matches.

And from the dun­geons that sub­se­quently opened, Un­dead Le­gions with
ban­ners bear­ing a golden crown pierced by three spears poured out.

'It started off easy.'

The ini­tial wave of un­dead con­sisted of just zom­bies and skele­tons.

With mod­ern fire­power, this was a man­age­able force.

But, af­ter a few re­pul­sions, the Un­dead Le­gion that ap­peared were en­tirely
dif­fer­ent.

'The in­tan­gi­ble en­emy, ghosts, couldn't be com­bated with just an army.'

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North Ko­rea's fall was mainly due to these in­tan­gi­ble mon­sters.

Of course, North Ko­rea's down­fall was partly be­cause they na­tion­ally sup­‐
pressed the growth of play­ers and were caught off guard.

Other coun­tries tried to counter the in­tan­gi­ble mon­sters by boost­ing the

power of Mage and Sup­port play­ers.

In the be­gin­ning, this ap­proach had some suc­cess, but 'They were out­num­‐
bered.'

Once a dun­geon por­tal opened, un­dead poured out with­out pause.

Ini­tially, the dun­geon por­tals re­leased not just un­dead but var­i­ous mon­sters
of dif­fer­ent types.

But at some point, only ghost le­gions hold­ing the flag of 'Kill the King' ag­‐
gres­sively emerged.

'Even­tu­ally, ev­ery re­gion had the flag of 'Kill the King' planted...'

Once dun­geons be­gan to emerge, it was the end for that coun­try.

Such a per­cep­tion ex­isted even dur­ing this tu­to­rial phase, and it was so­lid­i­‐
fied mainly due to the ghost le­gions of Kill the King.

'Fac­ing 'Kill the King' won't make this game easy.'

Seong Ji­han looked around af­ter be­ing sum­moned.

The di­rec­tion he had to de­fend was the north­ern area.

"Not in­side the tomb, but out­side."

Sturdy walls en­cir­cled the tomb in all four car­di­nal di­rec­tions.

Seong Ji­han stood on the north­ern wall, where guards made of clay, like
those he had seen in old dun­geon maps, were po­si­tioned at var­i­ous points.

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[Player 'Seong Ji­han' and 9 lower-ranked play­ers will de­fend the north,
while the re­main­ing 90 play­ers will de­fend the south.]

[The side whose gate breaks first will be de­feated and ranked at the very
bot­tom.]

One by one, party mem­bers were sum­moned to the north­ern gate.

Just like the sys­tem mes­sage in­di­cated, only nine more were sum­moned,
and no ad­di­tional per­son­nel were placed.

The in­ten­tion to sup­press the game-breaker Seong Ji­han was ev­id­ ent.

[You have com­pleted the achieve­ment 'Be­com­ing a Bal­ance Ad­juster(1)'.]

[You have earned 30,000 achieve­ment points.]

"There was an achieve­ment for this?"

Af­ter check­ing the achieve­ment mes­sage, Seong Ji­han looked at his team­‐
mates.

"Ah... To be on the same team as Seong Ji­han..."

"Sigh... We've lost..."

Play­ers from around the world who were sum­moned looked at Seong Ji­han,
clearly show­ing their dis­ap­point­ment.

Whether you win or lose in the Top 100 match, you still get pro­moted just
by play­ing.

But ev­ery­one wanted to be on the win­ning side, not the los­ing one.

"Am I re­ally ranked be­low 90? That's im­pos­si­ble...!"

Be­ing sum­moned here was es­sen­tially a sys­tem con­fir­ma­tion that they were
be­low the top 90 of the Top 100.

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No one was in high spir­its.

How­ever, the last per­son to be sum­moned ex­claimed,

"Oh! Ji­han! Hey! We're on the same side!"

Sup­porter Sophia, see­ing Seong Ji­han, jumped around with ex­cite­ment.

"Sophia? How come you're here...?"

Seong Ji­han blinked in sur­prise.

She shouldn't be ranked here, should she?

To his ques­tion, Sophia smiled brightly.

"Oh, I didn't use my stat points."

'Is it be­cause of the Oth­er­worldly Relic?'

An Oth­er­worldly Relic raises di­vine power if you hold onto it and pray.

The one who told him about this was none other than the fu­ture Sophia.

Seong Ji­han roughly guessed why she didn't al­lo­cate her stats.

"Don't you won­der why?"

As she ap­proached with sparkling eyes, she prompted him to ask the ques­‐
tion he wanted.

"I am cu­ri­ous."

"Heh. Right? You're cu­ri­ous, aren't you? Then treat me to a meal, and I'll
tell you!"

"I don't have time to go to Amer­ica."

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"I'll go to Ko­rea! It's per­fect tim­ing since there's a break af­ter the pro­mo­tion
match!"

...She's com­ing to Ko­rea just for a meal?

Seong Ji­han was flab­ber­gasted.

'When did she start hav­ing a thing for me?'

In his pre­vi­ous life, when he was part of Amer­ica First, Sophia had shown
in­ter­est in Seong Ji­han.

Back then, Seong Ji­han, pre­oc­cu­pied with other mat­ters, had ig­nored her.

But Sophia at that time was quite se­ri­ous.

'I had a rough idea why back then...'

In the game, and even in re­al­ity, he had res­cued her mul­ti­ple times, shield­‐
ing her from en­em
­ ies and be­com­ing a re­li­able pro­tec­tor.

Even if it wasn't in­ten­tional, Seong Ji­han had col­lab­o­rated with Sophia in

key mo­ments as team­mates.

Per­haps that's why, aside from Sophia, many Sup­porter and Mages from
Amer­ica First had a fa­vor­able im­pres­sion of him.

If it wasn't for Seong Ji­han, dozens would have died in real bat­tles.

'But why is she be­hav­ing this way now?'

Look­ing at Sophia wait­ing for his re­sponse, Seong Ji­han frowned, un­able to
un­der­stand.

The mys­tery re­mained un­solved un­til he found out that she had a se­vere
war­rior ma­nia.

And all these scenes of Sophia ap­proach­ing Seong Ji­han were be­ing broad­‐
casted live world­wide.

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-- ...What... the... hell...

When Sophia, be­ing part of Seong Ji­han's team, had their con­ver­sa­tion
aired, com­men­ta­tor Christo­pher was at a loss for words.

-- Christo­pher! It seems Sophia is quite in­ter­ested in Seong Ji­han! Is she

like this at home too?

That's right.

Sophia was the younger sis­ter of com­men­ta­tor Christo­pher.

-- Ah... I knew Sophia ad­mired war­riors but...

-- Ha­haha. This is the first time I've seen you so flus­tered, Christo­pher!

-- Imag­ine your pi­ous sis­ter who prays ev­ery day sud­denly meet­ing a guy
and an­nounc­ing she's go­ing to a for­eign coun­try! How should I re­act?!

-- Just sup­port your sis­ter's youth!

-- Oh, shi... You should have whis­pered that! Why in the mid­dle of a live
broad­cast...

-- She must be re­ally into him!

-- You're lucky not to have a sis­ter like that!

-- If I had a sis­ter like Sophia, it would be an honor!

Christo­pher glared at the un­yield­ing caster and took a deep breath.

Yeah, it's her choice if she likes Seong Ji­han.

But blow­ing it up on the Top 100 broad­cast?

The viewer count is al­ready over a bil­lion!

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-- Haha. I'd love to see more of Christo­pher be­ing flus­tered, but we have to
move the cam­era to the south­ern side now. Oh, the at­mos­phere seems more
tense than I thought?

For­tu­nately for Christo­pher, the broad­cast's fo­cus shifted from the north­ern
side, where Seong Ji­han was, to the south­ern side.

There were 90 play­ers over there af­ter all...

-- Yes... There's a tense at­mos­phere be­tween Bar­ren and China's Wang Lin!

-- Ooh. Yes, they're shout­ing!

The two rep­re­sen­ta­tive play­ers of the US and China drew at­ten­tion with
their con­fronta­tion.

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The one who ini­ti­ated the con­flict was China's Wang Lin.

"How do you feel?"

"...What are you talk­ing about?"

"I'm cu­ri­ous how it feels to have the high­est odds stolen from you by me."

The bearded ori­en­tal man in his early 40s ap­proached Bar­ren and taunted
him.

China's Wang Lin, known as the 'Heav­enly De­mon'.

Aside from Seong Ji­han, he was un­matched in skill among the Sil­ver Rank
war­riors.

"Did you come here to pick a fight?"

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"No. Just wanted to show the dif­fer­ence be­tween us."

Pay­out Ra­tio Low­est at 1st place.

This was a mea­sure that ul­ti­mately showed whom the masses be­lieved
would be the win­ner of this Top 100 match.

And in the end, the one as­signed the low­est pay­out ra­tio was not Bar­ren of
the U.S., but Wang Lin of China.

He stroked his beard, laugh­ing at Bar­ren.

"I shouldn't have given in then. If I knew you, with the ab­surd gift of 'hav­‐
ing 2 sta­tus win­dows,' would be this pa­thetic, I would've said some­thing."

"Get lost, you bas­tard."

"Thanks to your re­fusal to take All-Stat 1 and choos­ing to end your­self,

Mikhail and I had our re­grets less­ened. Al­though Mas­ter Seong Ji­han did
party with us for a few days, an op­por­tu­nity like that never came again."

"Are you mak­ing a fuss be­cause you missed out on All-Stat 1?"

"Well, that too. But you see."

Wang Lin pointed to his mouth from which Eng­lish was nat­u­rally com­ing
out.

"I don't like the fact that, from my mouth, in­stead of Chi­nese, Eng­lish is
com­ing out."

"Why are you ar­gu­ing with me about it? It's your league that's fall­ing be­‐
hind, isn't it?"

Broad­casts that are sent out world­wide, like the Top 100 pro­mo­tion match,
are broad­casted from the coun­try that achieved the No.1 spot in the World
League Power Rank­ings.

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And this broad­cast right also in­cluded lan­guage do­main, which means at in­‐
ter­na­tional tour­na­ments, Eng­lish, the lan­guage of the U.S., was au­to­mat­i­‐
cally used.

This was an ab­so­lute rule that ap­plied to ev­ery­one, whether Ko­rean like
Seong Ji­han or Chi­nese like Wang Lin.

"Hehe. That's why I'm say­ing this. The New York League will soon give the
No.1 spot to the Bei­jing League."

"Hah. Show your per­for­mance first. Aren't you speak­ing Eng­lish from your
mouth right now?"

"Humph! It won't be long. Soon from your mouth... right, Can­tonese will
come out."

"Can­tonese? Where is that? Could you please ex­plain it so I can un­der­‐

stand?"

USA and China.

The play­ers from the two su­per­pow­ers were fiercely com­pet­ing, and it was
be­ing broad­casted live with­out any cuts.

-- Christo­pher! Are we get­ting fired?

-- Ha­haha. While the Bei­jing League is the 2nd top league in the world, it's
still far be­hind the New York League in power rank­ing. We won't face lay­‐
offs!

-- Still, I wish Bar­ren would put in more ef­fort! Heav­enly De­mon Wang Lin
is in­deed a pow­er­ful player among Sil­vers... But Bar­ren isn't some­one to be
un­der­es­ti­mated like this!

Heav­enly De­mon Wang Lin.

He was un­de­ni­ably a strong player.

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With an SSS-grade Gift, the Heav­enly De­mon Body, he was a Chi­nese sil­‐
ver War­rior who sin­gle-hand­edly dom­i­nated the Bronze Top 100 pro­mo­tion
match two months ago.

How­ever.

The Amer­i­can com­men­ta­tors were all con­vinced that 'hav­ing 2 sta­tus win­‐
dows' was stronger than 'Heav­enly De­mon Body.'

-- Ex­actly! Hav­ing 2 sta­tus win­dows! It's a gift of a gen­er­at­ion! Bar­ren has

the po­ten­tial to be­come a su­per­star. He just got lost for a while, that's all!
He'll come back and sur­prise us!

-- I hope that's in this match.

-- With the most pow­er­ful com­peti­tor, Seong Ji­han, get­ting a bal­ance patch
to the north, now it's Bar­ren's turn!

With the North in de­spair due to a lack of play­ers,

From the per­spec­tive of the South, where the U.S. and China are com­pet­‐
ing, Boom! Boom! Boom-!

The bat­tle­field echoed with the sound of drums.

[Take down the king.]

A voice could be heard.

Ad­justed for chan­nel 0's broad­cast, the sin­is­ter voice had switched to Eng­‐
lish.

[Break the ranks!]

[All are equal!]

Kill the King.

As the oth­er­worldly Un­dead Le­gion ad­vanced,

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Skele­tons, zom­bies, and all alike,

All opened their mouths and chanted in that eerie voice.

[Bring down the con­queror!]

[Give a fair death to all!]

[Kill the King!]

That chill­ing voice didn't sound like the un­dead, but more like rev­o­lu­tion­ar­‐
ies.

[Notes:

TL/N: Un­dead Al­liance and Un­dead Le­gion are both dif­fer­ent things; Al­‐
liance refers to one of the Space League Al­liances such as World Tree Al­‐
liance, while Le­gion is a small force which in­vades Earth, such as 'Kill the
King'.]

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Chap­ter 105
Thud! Thud!

The ad­vanc­ing of the oth­er­worldly Un­dead Le­gion was dif­fer­ent in color

from the typ­i­cal un­dead.

The en­tire le­gion was tinted in dark blue, known as the Kill the King.

More­over, in place of the ab­sent eye­balls in the skull sock­ets, a blood-red

light took their place.

In many ways, an en­emy that dif­fered from the typ­i­cal un­dead troops.

[Die and come un­der our flag.]

[Be­come equal!]

They all opened their mouths at the same time.

Be it skele­ton or zom­bie.

Ev­ery­one spoke in uni­son, talk­ing about equal­ity.

'That voice... it's so tire­some.'

All be­ings are equal in front of death, so die and be­come one, said Kill the
King.

Seong Ji­han con­stantly heard that voice in his past life when Ko­rea was on
the brink of de­struc­tion.

'But, prob­ab­ ly be­cause it's the Sil­ver pro­mo­tion match, there are no ghost
troops yet.'

Seong Ji­han looked at the ad­vanc­ing Kill the King troops.

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The ba­sic com­po­si­tion of the en­emy le­gion con­sisted of skele­tons and zom­‐
bies, the weak­est among the un­dead.

Of course, these dark blue-tinted un­dead were much stronger than the usual
ones.

But com­pared to the ghosts, they were much eas­ier to deal with.

"Sophia. Buff me."

"Yes!"

Seong Ji­han re­ceived all sorts of buffs from Sophia, who pos­sessed the
Trin­ity, and took out the Phoenix's Ar­row.

Al­though the Phoenix's Ar­row was in­fe­rior to the Shadow Sword Eclipse,
there was noth­ing bet­ter for con­tain­ing the ex­tremely ef­fec­tive Thun­der
power against un­dead.

"Ariel. Block the en­emy from the ram­parts."

And in­stead of the Eclipse, which couldn't con­tain the thun­der, he sum­‐
moned Ariel.

"So, they are the Kill the King? I've only heard the name, but it's my first
time see­ing them."

The sum­moned Ariel looked down at the wall with her arms crossed.

A sub­tle dis­com­fort ap­peared on her face as she watched the un­dead.

"It's a chill­ingly chaotic dark magic... yet there's a strange unity hid­den
within it."

"Re­ally?"

"Mas­ter. I can't ab­sorb that dark magic. If I did, the Shadow Sword's power
would get tan­gled."

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"Just deal with them then."

"Un­der­stood."

Leav­ing Ariel on the ram­parts, Seong Ji­han jumped down with the
Phoenix's Ar­row in hand.

Thump!

As he landed lightly on the ground,

[Be­come equal!]

A part of the Un­dead Le­gion ad­vanced to­wards him.

Un­like the zom­bie horde that only charged in­stinc­tively like dur­ing the 10
Tower bat­tles, these en­em
­ ies pressed in sys­tem­at­i­cally, per­fectly co­or­di­‐
nated.

They moved as one, their for­ma­tions were quite dis­ci­plined, but.

'Af­ter all, they're just un­dead.'

Har­ness­ing the en­ergy of the thun­der, Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally swung the
Phoenix's Ar­row.

Name­less Di­vine Art, Triad of Mar­tial Mas­tery -- To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion.

Screeech!

In one strike.

The ap­proach­ing un­dead were all split in half in an in­stant.

From the gaps, white flames arose.

[Aaah...!]

In a short time, hun­dreds of un­dead turned to dust and van­ished.

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Then.

Pause~

The en­tire un­dead le­gion sud­denly stopped mov­ing.

From the skele­tons that had sep­ar­ ated to face Seong Ji­han, To the main
force try­ing to cross the ram­parts while ig­nor­ing him.

All of them froze, their red eyes flash­ing as they stared only at Seong Ji­han.

[King!]

All at once, they ut­tered a sin­gle word.

King.

Upon wit­ness­ing Seong Ji­han's strike,

They called him the King.

[The one who will be King!]

With that, the move­ment of the Un­dead Le­gion changed.

The dis­ci­plined man­ner re­sem­bling elite sol­diers dis­ap­peared.

[Kill the King!]

Ev­ery­one started to charge, shout­ing to kill the king, rush­ing madly to­wards
Seong Ji­han.

Un­dead swarm­ing in like a tidal wave.

They seemed to run hap­haz­ardly, but there was no gap in their for­ma­tion.

When zom­bies from ten tow­ers swarmed, they of­ten tan­gled and tram­pled
over each other.

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Such a thing was not seen amongst them.

How­ever.

'They're not my match.'

Whoosh!

When Seong Ji­han cast his skill once again, hun­dreds of un­dead were set
aflame at once.

The at­tack dis­played by Seong Ji­han seemed too easy.

From the view­point of the re­lay stone, it was just a hor­i­zon­tal slash, a very
sim­ple at­tack.

As the ar­row lightly traced a few arcs,

[Kill the King!]

The cries to kill the king be­gan to di­min­ish.

Whoooosh!

The bat­tle­field be­gan to blaze with white flames.

It was a dom­i­nat­ing sight, es­pe­cially con­sid­er­ing he was ranked third in

odds.

And his one-man show was be­ing broad­casted live around the world
through Chan­nel 0.

-- Christo­pher... what ex­actly is that at­tack? It seemed like a sim­ple swing

of the spear, but it's dec­i­mat­ing the Un­dead Le­gion?

-- Ha­haha! It's a com­mon move by Seong. It's a hor­i­zon­tal slash, just wip­‐
ing out the likes of those un­dead with ease!

If Christo­pher was merely a fan a month ago,

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Now he was an avid fan of Seong Ji­han's broad­casts, pro­vid­ing a non­cha­‐

lant com­men­tary amidst the caster's ex­cite­ment.

-- But that Un­dead Le­gion is gen­uinely strong. Play­ers on the south­ern side
seem to have a hard time against the un­dead...

As if on cue, the re­lay screen showed the south­ern walls.

On the south side, where 90 play­ers were po­si­tioned, the at­mos­phere was
much dif­fer­ent from the peace­ful north, with fierce bat­tles un­fold­ing.

"Light­ning Storm!"

Rum­ble...!

As Bar­ren raised his hand to the sky, dark clouds rapidly filled the at­mos­‐
phere.

This was 'Light­ning Storm,' a wide-area magic Bar­ren re­cently mas­tered for
this pro­mo­tion bat­tle.

As he pointed down­wards, in­tense light­ning con­tin­u­ously poured down.

Its power was too great to just be con­sid­ered a Sil­ver Rank spell.

How­ever,

Thud! Thud!

Un­like when Seong Ji­han at­tacked,

These be­ings weren't felled by light­ning.

Only the dark blue un­dead's bones and skin were charred.

[Be­come equal!]

The horde cried out in uni­son, ad­vanc­ing.

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"Why won't they die?"

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Bar­ren com­plained.

Low-level un­dead mon­sters, skele­tons, and zom­bies.

Apart from their color, they looked the same. Bar­ren was per­plexed at their
re­silience.

"Fire Wave!"

Us­ing his pow­er­ful mana to cast mul­ti­ple spells in suc­ces­sion, a few en­e­‐
mies were oblit­er­ated.

But sup­press­ing the Un­dead Le­gion charg­ing to­wards the wall all at once
was too much.

-- ...The sit­u­at­ion is quite dif­fer­ent in the north. The Un­dead Le­gion over­‐
came the magic bom­bard­ment and is now ap­proach­ing the walls!

-- This is nor­mal. Watch­ing Seong's game can be mis­lead­ing, but de­fense

maps are team games! You can't de­feat an army alone!

-- Now I see why Seong re­ceived a bal­ance patch.

-- Yes, but it seems the patch still lacks a lot! We need more bal­ance ad­just­‐
ments!

As the Un­dead Le­gion climbed the walls de­spite the magic bom­bard­ment, a
fierce bat­tle en­sued.

Among them, the most no­tice­able was Wang Lin from China.

"Heav­enly De­mon God Fist!"

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Red en­ergy burst from his hand, smash­ing the sturdy skull of a skele­ton.

In­deed, fit­ting the player with the high­est odds, he was over­pow­er­ing each
en­emy amongst the Un­dead Le­gion.

-- Wang Lin is also quite pow­er­ful!

-- Yes, while other play­ers are strug­gling against the Un­dead Le­gion, with
his 'Heav­enly De­mon Body' Gift, he is quite com­fort­ably deal­ing with the
en­em
­ ies!

-- If it weren't for Bar­ren and Wang Lin, the south­ern walls might have al­‐
ready fallen.

-- Yes, that's true but...

[Be­come equal]

Bang!

The sol­dier help­ing the player, the 'Guard', was shat­tered.

"Ugh! Why are these things so strong...?!"

Whack!

One by one, the play­ers started to fall.

An Un­dead Le­gion push­ing back their foes sys­tem­at­i­cally while fa­nat­i­cally

shout­ing about equal­ity.

Re­gard­less of how pow­er­ful Bar­ren or Wang Lin were, they weren't enough
to change the tide of the bat­tle­field alone. The south­ern walls were be­ing
seized by Kill the King, start­ing from the out­skirts.

"Ah... No, no way..."

Watch­ing the TV, Lee Hayeon trem­bled, bit­ing her nails.

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Why?

'Why is this hap­pen­ing again?...'

The sys­tem in­ter­vened.

The Bat­tleNet sys­tem made a di­rect bal­ance patch.

Then why did it turn out this way?

"Wang Lin! Why is the Heav­enly De­mon so weak?!"

Wasn't the Heav­enly De­mon sup­posed to be the most pow­er­ful ex­is­tence in

the mar­tial world?

Hav­ing an SSS-grade Gift of the Heav­enly De­mon Body and only throw­ing
a light breeze is ab­surd!

"What is that?! Even a fan would have a stronger wind than that! If it's the
Heav­enly De­mon form, you should wipe them all out in one go! Such a
waste of a name!"

"Miss. That's al­ready very pow­er­ful. While other war­rior play­ers are strug­‐
gling, Wang Lin has al­ready taken down over 50."

From be­hind, Lim Gayeong, also a war­rior, cor­rected her.

Heav­enly De­mon Wang Lin.

He was show­ing re­mark­able prow­ess.

While other war­riors were eas­ily sup­pressed and killed by just one or two
un­dead, Wang Lin, in his Heav­enly De­mon form, was en­sur­ing each en­emy
was de­ci­sively de­feated.

He was un­doubt­edly a player be­yond the stan­dard of Sil­ver.

But.

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"Ugh... Boss... Boss has al­ready taken down over a thou­sand alone!"

"Ah, that's an ex­cep­tion. He's ba­si­cally in a league of his own."

Be­cause the other com­par­i­son group was do­ing in­sanely well, the bril­liance
of the Heav­enly De­mon seemed dim.

[He's fit to be a king!]

[Kill the King!]

The south­ern bat­tle­field echoed with these cries.

The dark blue un­dead sur­rounded Seong Ji­han, shout­ing "Kill the King!".

The un­dead, who never rec­og­nized Bar­ren or Wang Lin as kings, were des­‐
per­ate to kill Seong Ji­han.

No mat­ter how many they sent, the un­dead couldn't even brush against
Seong Ji­han's clothes.

'I can see the end now.'

As Seong Ji­han twirled his Phoenix's Ar­row.

Screech!

The Un­dead Le­gion was torn apart and con­sumed by flames.

In this one-sided bat­tle, he show­cased over­pow­er­ing mar­tial arts, not giv­ing

even an inch.

-- Why is only he per­form­ing like a true war­lord?

-- He's al­ways been like that, lol. Seong Ji­han is al­ways a one-man mas­‐
sacre.

-- I knew it and bet all my money on Seong Ji­han!

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-- Damn Ko­re­ans! They were the only ones who knew about this sweet
deal!

-- Nah, don't worry... We were sus­pi­cious and made our move too...

-- Trust­ing Bat­tleNet was my mis­take...

-- Hon­estly, I thought Bat­tleNet was trust­wor­thy, agree?

-- Ahhh shit­shit­shit where's the bal­ance patch?!

On the of­fi­cial Bat­tle­Tube broad­cast, view­ers poured out their re­ac­tions.

The chat was dom­i­nated by those who trusted the sys­tem and placed bets,
only to lose their money.

-- Is this some kind of joke with the bal­ance ad­just­ments? If you're go­ing to
change it like this, at least an­nounce it!

Lee Hayeon was one of them.

"Miss, you're the mas­ter of the Daegi Guild, so maybe you shouldn't be typ­‐
ing in chat like this..."

"I'm speak­ing as Lee Hayeon, an in­di­vid­ual, not as a guild mas­ter right

now! Is Bat­tleNet jok­ing? If they were go­ing to do this, they shouldn't have
an­nounced it so grandly!"

"Ah, yes."

Watch­ing Lee Hayeon re­lent­lessly crit­i­cize Bat­tleNet from morn­ing, Lim

Gayeong gave up try­ing to stop her.

In­stead, she smiled slyly, think­ing of her own bets.

'I should've started bet­ting against the Miss ear­lier.'

It was as if there was such an easy way to du­pli­cate money.

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She re­gret­ted not re­al­iz­ing sooner that she had a goose that laid golden eggs
right be­side her.

Just as the game seemed to be con­clud­ing,

[No... No... This won't do.]

The un­dead, who had been shout­ing about equal­ity, laughed eerily and then
sud­denly stopped mov­ing.

Like mar­i­onettes with their strings cut, they fell to the ground and were
quickly ab­sorbed into the earth.

Un­like the fierce bat­tle in the south, the north now had no en­em
­ ies left.

-- Oh! Is the bat­tle in the north over? Will Player Seong Ji­han se­cure the
first place once again?!

-- I'm not sure... Some­thing doesn't feel right.

Be­fore the com­men­ta­tors could fin­ish,

Boom!

The cen­tral wall be­hind Seong Ji­han sud­denly col­lapsed.

-- No, no!

-- What's hap­pen­ing all of a sud­den?!

The Bat­tleNet broad­cast cam­era quickly fo­cused on the col­lapsed wall.

There,

The sight of the cen­tral wall, com­pletely crushed un­der a gi­ant hand­print,
was fully re­vealed.

"Oh. Oh... What, what is this?! Could it be an­other bal­ance patch?!"

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Chap­ter 106
The north­ern wall was shat­tered in an in­stant by a gi­gan­tic hand made of
black iron.

Seong Ji­han had seen it be­fore.

'It's the iron hand I saw in the 10 tow­ers. Was it called the Black Hand?'

Apos­tle of De­struc­tion, 'Black Hand'.

He hadn't en­coun­tered this mon­ster in his pre­vi­ous life.

The be­ings called apos­tles var­ied greatly in power.

Some were as mod­er­ate as the Count Naseed of the Val­ley of the End map,
and oth­ers as mighty as the Apos­tle of the Apoc­al­ypse ca­pa­ble of de­stroy­ing
na­tions.

'It prob­ab­ ly isn't as strong as the Apos­tle of the Apoc­al­ypse.'

Seong Ji­han, wield­ing his Phoenix's Ar­row, charged straight to­wards the
bro­ken wall.

And there,

Ariel was al­ready con­fronting the gi­gan­tic Black Hand.

[Heh-heh-heh-heh! Why is a Shadow Elf here?]

"Quiet."

In the cen­ter of the Black Hand's palm,

There was a set of lips, the size of a hu­man head, shin­ing bright crim­son.

It seemed mois­tur­ized and glossy as if lip­stick had been ap­plied.

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[Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh! I should be louder!]

The voice that came from there was as grat­ing as nails on a chalk­board, and
so in­suf­fer­ably ar­ro­gant that it in­stantly in­duced a strong aver­sion.

[Heh-heh-heh! Heh-heh-heh!]

Swoosh!

The gi­gan­tic palm came down to squash Ariel like a bug.

Bang!

Ariel couldn't dodge the fast-ap­proach­ing hand and was pinned down.

But the Black Hand, hav­ing cap­tured her, let out a dis­ap­pointed noise.

[Argh... a true Shadow Elf! An­noy­ing!]

No won­der,

When the Black Hand raised its hand again, the shadow that had spread on
the ground rose and took Ariel's form once more.

For Ariel, who could trans­form her body into a shadow, the Black Hand's
phys­i­cal at­tacks were in­ef­fec­tive.

How­ever,

The same was true for Ariel's at­tacks on the Black Hand.

The shadow of the Black Hand rose and trans­formed into a sword, pierc­ing
through it, but...

"So hard..."

Clang!

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The Black Hand was in­cred­i­bly hard, Ariel's shadow sword couldn't even
scratch it, as they both shared the same dark na­ture.

Nei­ther could harm the other.

To break this dead­lock, out­side in­ter­ven­tion was nec­es­sary.

And then,

"He's here."

Zzzzzap!

Light­ning rained down on the back of the Black Hand.

The thun­der spread rapidly across the en­tire iron hand.

It was the Thun­der­bolt Strike un­leashed from Seong Ji­han's Phoenix's Ar­‐
row.

[Eeek! Eeeeeek...!]

The Black Hand, which showed no re­ac­tion to Ariel's shadow sword, now
groaned in pain.

The pe­cu­liar sound com­ing from its red lips was so unique that the com­‐
men­ta­tors men­tioned it.

-- Uh. Christo­pher! That sound is truly one of a kind!

-- It's like nails on a chalk­board! It's giv­ing me goose­bumps!

-- I can't imag­ine the hard­ship of the play­ers who have to hear it di­rectly.

-- That hand... While its body is made of iron, its mouth seems quite vul­ner­‐
a­ble! I wish it would keep quiet!

[This power... Hah. Hah.]

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Swish!

The Black Hand, whose lips were trem­bling, briefly turned trans­par­ent and
then re­turned to its iron form.

Then, the lips on its palm shifted to the back of the hand, fac­ing Seong Ji­‐
han who had struck from be­hind.

[That is... heh-heh-heh... some­one sur­pass­ing a king!]

The Black Hand let out an ex­cla­ma­tion, sens­ing the en­ergy from the Thun­‐
der­bolt Strike of the Phoenix's Ar­row.

It seemed to rec­og­nize the power of the thun­der­bolt.

[Catch him be­fore he grows stronger!]

Swish!

The Black Hand turned trans­par­ent again.

From Seong Ji­han's keen senses, the iron hand had com­pletely van­ished.

'...How did it do that?'

'Could it be a kind of trans­par­ent magic?'

Think­ing so, Seong Ji­han scat­tered thun­der into the air, but noth­ing caught
on.

And a mo­ment later.

Swish!

[Gr­rrr... Come with me!]

The hand that had been in­vis­i­ble sud­denly sprung out, try­ing to grip Seong
Ji­han's body tightly.

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The Black Hand that dis­ap­peared in an in­stant, leap­ing freely through

space.

It seemed noth­ing could ob­struct it.

How­ever.

[Grr, Grrr...! What is this power!?]

Be­fore fully grip­ping Seong Ji­han, the hand's move­ment halted.

The Black Hand seemed blocked by some­thing in the air.

The black fin­gers curled, un­able to get any closer to Seong Ji­han.

'Thank­fully, it can't pen­et­rate the Force's Ab­so­lute Do­main.'

The Ab­so­lute Do­main of the Force.

This ex­panded realm, grow­ing with the power level, didn't eas­ily get pushed
by the Black Hand.

'Still, I was al­most caught.'

How did it com­pletely erase its pres­ence?

Seong Ji­han de­cided he must re­strain it with all his might now that it has
shown it­self.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Light­ning Body Zzzt!

Seong Ji­han's body be­gan to turn trans­par­ent, with light­ning ris­ing all over.

The Light­ning Body, align­ing with the en­ergy of light­ning.

To uti­lize the other mar­tial arts of the Di­vine Thun­der De­cree more pow­er­‐
fully, one must be in the state of Light­ning Body.

[Grr... Huh? What. What. What! Al­ready do­ing that?]

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See­ing Seong Ji­han in his Light­ning Body, the Black Hand pan­icked.

[Gr­rrr! Must~ catch you! Awaken, Kings!]

On the third fin­ger of the iron Black Hand, a pure white cloud be­gan to
form.

No, upon closer in­spec­tion, it wasn't a cloud but a col­lec­tion of spir­its.

The swirling spir­its in­side had twisted faces.

All of them wore crowns.

[You'll join them here. Gr­rrr!]

Whoosh!

The third fin­ger dis­persed.

When gath­ered, the spir­its didn't seem like much.

But when spread out, each of them showed their ex­tra­or­di­nary pres­ence.

Af­ter all, if they were 'Kings' ac­knowl­edged by Kill the King, They would
all be sig­nif­i­cant fig­ures.

'They're still losers. No need to pay them any mind.'

With­out blink­ing an eye, Seong Ji­han fo­cused solely on the Black Hand's
mouth, re­leas­ing light­ning.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt

[Grr... Gr­rraack...!]

The Light­ning Body's Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt.

It was dif­fer­ent in mag­ni­tude.

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The Black Hand's mas­sive mouth was en­tirely blocked by the white light­‐
ning.

And then.

Zzzz!

[Ow. Ow. Ow! Why keep shoot­ing...!]

This time, the Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt was con­tin­u­ous.

Light­ning con­tin­u­ously emit­ted through the end of the Phoenix's Ar­row

com­bined with the fun­da­men­tal flames, scorch­ing and burn­ing the Black
Hand's mouth.

[Gr­rraack... Block it! Kings!]

The spir­its try­ing to am­bush Seong Ji­han quickly latched onto the light­ning
fol­low­ing the Black Hand's com­mand.

Whoosh!

When the un­dead met the su­pe­rior light­ning, the ex­tra­or­di­nary spir­its
couldn't hold on for long and dis­ap­peared.

[Grr. Grrr... Fine. Wait!]

Per­haps find­ing a brief mo­ment of op­por­tu­nity due to that, The Black Hand
turned trans­par­ent again.

Seong Ji­han's Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt aimed for the mouth again, but...

Zap!

The light­ning just missed, brush­ing past the void.

"Tsk!"

Seong Ji­han clicked his tongue.

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'How on earth does he dis­ap­pear?'

Through­out his past life's ex­pe­ri­ences, he had faced count­less en­em

­ ies.

But none had ever erased their pres­ence so per­fectly, only to reap­pear.

It's as if he went to an­other world and came back.

'...That guy too, right? He was an Apos­tle, wasn't he?'

Com­pared to Count Naseed, who was eas­ily cap­tured by Seong Ji­han,

Black Hand was quite the headache.

For a mo­ment, he thought about the com­mon­al­ity be­tween the two, then his
mind wan­dered to the item he ob­tained from Count Naseed.

'The Veil of the Void. It seems to have a sim­i­lar ef­fect as what that guy
uses...'

Of course, its ef­fect wears off when you move, and al­though Black Hand's
stealth was more ef­fec­tive com­pared to the Veil of the Void which al­lows
the user to evade SSS-grade at­tacks, 'Let's try us­ing it.'

Since in this cur­rent sit­u­at­ion, he had noth­ing to lose.

Seong Ji­han took out the Veil of the Void from his in­ven­tory and used it.

And then,

"Now... This time..."

From the world in­side the veil, Seong Ji­han was able to spot a fig­ure wear­‐
ing a black robe.

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The Black hand, who made pe­cu­liar noises and was un­pre­dictably cun­ning.

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His laugh was eerily strange and it was clear he wasn't an or­di­nary op­po­‐
nent.

'At first glance, he seems more nor­mal than ex­pected. A hu­man species per­‐
haps?'

Though much of his fea­tures were con­cealed by the robe and one couldn't
get a clear view, the size was sim­i­lar to a hu­man.

Only the edges of his face were vis­i­ble, ex­tremely pale, with no dis­tinct fa­‐
cial fea­tures in sight.

"Well, let's go back then..."

Mut­ter­ing to him­self, he played with an iron glove on his white hand and
tilted his head.

"Where did this guy go?"

Due to Seong Ji­han's use of the Veil of the Void, he couldn't find him.

Con­fused, he looked around sev­eral times and clicked his tongue.

"It's in­con­ve­nient not be­ing able to use my abil­i­ties... Hey, you, bring me
your soul."

From his pale hand, smoke be­gan to emerge.

A ghost ap­peared.

Ini­tially small, the ghost grew as the smoke gath­ered, and Seong Ji­han rec­‐
og­nized it.

'It's the Con­queror from the Con­queror's Mau­soleum.'

A gi­ant man rid­ing a horse with a beard.

He didn't look as ma­jes­tic as when Seong Ji­han saw him in the Con­queror's
Mau­soleum.

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[...Un­der­stood.]

Rather, his de­meanor seemed rather sub­dued to­wards the fig­ure in the robe.

'Wasn't the mis­sion ob­jec­tive to pro­tect the soul of the Con­queror? But he's
al­ready there, isn't he?'

Had the Con­queror's soul al­ready been cap­tured by Kill the King?

Then why did they come here?

Seong Ji­han pon­dered as he watched the dis­ap­pear­ing soul of the Con­‐

queror.

Soon af­ter the Con­queror's soul dis­ap­peared,

An­other iden­ti­cal soul ap­peared, and he silently ob­served the sit­u­at­ion.

[Black Ma­gi­cian. Can you re­vive me?]

This newly ap­peared soul of the Con­queror, un­like the one who brought
him, was full of con­fi­dence.

He re­ferred to the robed fig­ure as the Black Ma­gi­cian and asked con­fi­‐
dently.

"Ah, yes. Do you want to live again? You've al­ready con­quered the con­ti­‐
nent. You left the world too early."

[It's not for such a triv­ial rea­son that I want to be re­vived.]

"Then what?"

[My em­pire is crum­bling. I need to set it right.]

"You jus­tify with even more triv­ial rea­sons. Look at the ghost you brought
here."

The robed fig­ure ca­su­ally pointed to the side.

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The newly ar­rived soul of the Con­queror turned and looked sur­prised.

[What, why... why am I there?]

"You from the orig­i­nal world have al­ready been con­sumed by me. This is a
fic­tional world recre­at­ing that mo­ment. You are... yeah, a fake."

[That's im­pos­si­ble...!]

"And your real soul here told me his true in­ten­tions. Hey, want to say it?"

When the robed fig­ure pointed at the real soul, he slowly opened his mouth
with a dark ex­pres­sion.

[...You're right. I sim­ply wanted to live longer. My will to live never faded,
which is why I ex­isted as a spirit in the tomb.]

[You...! How dare you, a fake, be­lit­tle me!]

[Be­ing de­ceived by the prom­ise of re­vival and com­ing here. Even if it's me,
it's re­ally fool­ish. Even­tu­ally, you'll be ab­sorbed into me.]

[Ha! Did you re­ally think I was fooled and came here?]

The newly ar­rived spirit of the Con­queror raised his bow in anger.

[I had al­ready sus­pected it was a trap. I merely played along to crush the in­‐
truder with my own hands!]

Fwoosh!

The spirit of the new Con­queror flared up in a blind­ing white.

The White Flames, which were also recorded in the Phoenix's Ar­row, were
erupt­ing end­lessly.

The power that seemed like it could burn this al­ter­nate world at any mo­‐
ment.

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How­ever, the robed fig­ure re­mained calm.

"Hey, he seems pretty strong, doesn't he? Does the fake seem stronger?"

[There are no sys­tem con­straints in this world.]

"Just play with that guy. I need you to buy time un­til I catch that other one."

Seong Ji­han de­duced that the 'other one' the robed fig­ure was re­fer­ring to
was him­self.

Af­ter all, this place was in­side the Bat­tleNet game.

Even if he was cap­tured and died here, it nat­u­rally had noth­ing to do with
his real self.

'But for some rea­son, it doesn't feel like it would end just like that if I were
caught right now.'

This op­po­nent felt dis­tinctly dif­fer­ent from the NPCs he had en­coun­tered
be­fore.

He was sim­i­lar to Ariel, aware that this was Bat­tleNet.

"Where is the guy who used light­ning ear­lier?"

The robed fig­ure fum­bled with his gloves, seem­ing ir­ri­tated.

Be­side him, two iden­ti­cal spir­its were pulling up white flames and en­gag­ing
in an in­tense bat­tle.

[For a fake, you har­ness quite a bit of power!]

[Huh... Who's the fake here? All talk.]

And as their bat­tle in­ten­si­fied,

In­side the Veil of the void, the Phoenix's Ar­row held by Seong Ji­han started
to grad­u­ally heat up.

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'What's this...'

See­ing this, his eyes sparkled.

'I can make use of this.'

[Notes: There has an er­ror in the trans­la­tion of Dark Elves. To be ex­act, the
species Ariel be­longs to. Pre­vi­ously, it was men­tioned Ariel is a Dark Elf as
we thought that only 2 species of Elves were present, the fairer ones and the
dark ones but af­ter fur­ther de­tails be­ing un­cov­ered in Chap­ter 101, Ariel
should be­long to the third species: The Shadow Elves.]

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Phoenix's Ar­row.

Al­though its rank is A-grade, when used as an ac­tual spear, its per­for­mance
sur­passes the S-grade level.

De­spite hav­ing only five op­por­tu­ni­ties, it boasted even more po­tent strength
when thrown.

If one were to rank it, it could ri­val the power of SS-grade.

'But as those two spir­its fight here, the Phoenix's Ar­row is be­ing en­hanced.'

If things con­tinue this way, it might aim for the power of SSS-grade.

Of course, the item it­self might not reach that level of per­for­mance.

But, com­bined with Seong Ji­han's strength, it could cer­tainly man­i­fest the
power of SSS-grade.

'And if it's SSS-grade, I can strike the en­ti­ties of this shadow world.'

From the de­scrip­tion of the 'Veil of the Void' item worn by Seong Ji­han, it
said at­tacks be­low SS-grade can be evaded.

Which means, of course, that an SSS-grade at­tack would hit its mark.

Of course, it's just the na­ture of the Veil of the Void; he can still re­sist the at­‐
tack, but...

'I have to at least try.'

He couldn't just get caught like this.

[You... a mere im­i­ta­tion, how did you ob­tain that power?]

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[Sub­mit peace­fully, fake.]

Whooooosh!

As the white flames in­ten­sify, and the heat em­an­ at­ing from the Phoenix's
Ar­row reaches its peak, 'Now!'

Seong Ji­han, from within the veil, lifted the ar­row.

As he did, his cam­ou­flage was dis­pelled, and the robed en­tity in the shadow
world widened its eyes.

"H-how are you here...?"

Be­fore it could fin­ish, Seong Ji­han re­turned to the orig­i­nal world.

Where the robed en­tity stood was empty, but with­out hes­i­ta­tion, he threw
his ar­row, not at where the en­tity stood, but to­wards the sky.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Di­vine Judge­ment Sssh!

Seong Ji­han's right hand was in­stantly charred black.

The burn spread rapidly up his arm, sear­ing ev­ery nerve.

Though he hadn't con­nected through the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor, an in­tense

pain con­sumed him.

'It was a suc­cess.'

Rather than winc­ing in pain, he looked up at the sky with a smile.

A cir­cu­lar hole opened in the azure sky.

Within it, a space filled with blind­ing white light was re­vealed.

"Damn... you fool!"

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The Black Hand swiftly ap­peared be­fore Seong Ji­han, at­tempt­ing to seize
him.

One could feel the in­tense de­ter­mi­na­tion, think­ing that cap­tur­ing him was
all that mat­tered.

But be­fore the hand could touch him,

Flash!

From the space in the sky, a light blinked, and the iron hand was im­me­di­‐
ately en­gulfed in ra­di­ant light.

Up close, it seemed merely cov­ered in light, but from a dis­tance, it looked

like a mas­sive spear made of light had im­paled the Black Hand.

'Got it.'

Among the Di­vine Thun­der De­cree mar­tial arts, the Di­vine Judge­ment was
para­mount.

This mar­tial art, which sum­moned a spear of light from the heav­ens, was
the best at re­mov­ing evil en­ergy.

In re­al­ity, at his cur­rent Sil­ver rank, he wouldn't even dare to use this su­pe­‐
rior skill.

How­ever, thanks to Sophia's buff and the en­hanced Phoenix's Ar­row, he

man­aged to use it, even if it cost him an arm.

Swoooosh!

Smoke rose from the Black Hand's metal­lic body.

"How can this..."

From there, the robed en­tity he saw in the shadow world emerged.

Its black robe, seem­ingly catch­ing the light, was burn­ing.

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And then,

From the burn­ing robe, a mys­te­ri­ous space was re­vealed, from which a pure
white smoke emerged.

No, it wasn't just smoke.

More ac­cu­rately, the horde of souls that Kill the King con­trolled was spew­‐
ing out un­con­trol­lably.

Wit­ness­ing this un­be­liev­able sight, the robed fig­ure burst into a mad laugh­‐
ter.

"Haha. Ha­haha. Ha­ha­haha!!"

"......."

"You're not a king! Yes... not a king!"

Soon, the robe burst into flames.

His ex­is­tence van­ished with­out a trace, and in­stead, the souls that sprang
out clus­tered to­gether.

They soon be­came legs, a torso, and arms.

A mass made up of count­less souls.

It had limbs and a body.

But a mass with­out a head.

'Was the robe... a means to sup­press his power?'

Seong Ji­han dripped cold sweat as he looked at the op­po­nent.

The size of the en­tity formed from clus­tered spir­its was im­mense.

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Its gi­gan­tic feet seemed like they could crum­ble the walls at any mo­ment,
and its head­less neck reached the sky.

A scale of a dif­fer­ent di­men­sion.

It seemed even larger than the Apos­tle of Apoc­al­ypse, Be­he­moth.

[Ha­haha! Here, I've found the be­ing to be the 'head'!]

A mas­sive red pair of lips ap­peared on the chest of the now-re­vealed en­emy.

It roared joy­fully at Seong Ji­han.

Then, the re­main­ing north­ern walls in­stantly turned to dust.

All other en­ti­ties around, ex­cept for Seong Ji­han, turned into dust and dis­‐
ap­peared.

A force com­pa­ra­ble to a nat­u­ral dis­as­ter.

Even the Seong Ji­han of his pre­vi­ous life wouldn't stand a chance against
this foe.

Then,

Sud­denly, the world stopped.

[An anom­aly has been de­tected in the Bat­tleNet sys­tem.]

A sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared.

[The 'Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star' has in­truded into the game through il­‐
le­git­i­mate means.]

[Start­ing the ex­pul­sion process.]

'That's a Con­stel­la­tion?'

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See­ing the sys­tem mes­sage iden­ti­fy­ing the op­po­nent as the 'Con­stel­la­tion of

the Dead Star', Seong Ji­han couldn't hide his sur­prise.

It was his first time see­ing the mas­ter of a star.

'It seems too weak to be called a Con­stel­la­tion.'

It was the strong­est among the mon­sters he'd seen so far, but the ghostly
mass seemed in­ad­eq­ uate to hold the ti­tle of 'Con­stel­la­tion'.

'That can't be its full strength.'

Seong Ji­han thought as he closely ob­served the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead

Star.

The spir­its that made up the body, when seen from afar, looked merely like
clus­tered smoke.

But on closer in­spec­tion, ghosts wear­ing crowns were all grotesquely in­ter­‐
twined, wear­ing ag­o­niz­ing ex­pres­sions.

Kill the King.

Col­lect­ing the souls of kings to form its body?

'The scale is dif­fer­ent, prob­ab­ ly be­cause it's an oth­er­worldly Un­dead Le­‐

gion.'

The en­tire body and limbs were made up of king spir­its, form­ing the Con­‐
stel­la­tion of the Dead Star.

How­ever, the top part was dif­fer­ent.

The neck was abruptly cut off in the mid­dle, with no head formed.

Re­call­ing the Con­stel­la­tion's ear­lier words, Seong Ji­han thought, 'Does it

want me to be the head?'

Un­der no cir­cum­stances did he want to be part of that.

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While Seong Ji­han was think­ing,

The sys­tem ac­tively ex­pelled the Con­stel­la­tion.

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No mat­ter if it was a Con­stel­la­tion, per­haps it couldn't re­sist the sys­tem.

The left arm made of spir­its flew off.

Even though the world was still, the lips on the torso moved ac­tively.

[Ah. Got it. I'll go. But be­fore I do, I have a word for him!]

Boom! Boom!

Hear­ing those words, as if pro­voked, the sys­tem quickly blew off both its
legs.

The tow­er­ing im­age of the Con­stel­la­tion dis­ap­peared.

Only the torso and right arm re­mained.

[Ah, se­ri­ously... It's the sys­tem's fault for show­ing weak­ness! Why are you
do­ing this to me?]

As if rep­re­sent­ing all thieves in the world, even as its body was break­ing,
the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star con­tin­ued to blab­ber.

See­ing the un­masked yet flip­pant Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star, Seong Ji­‐
han made a brief com­ment.

'So even that kind of guy can be­come a Con­stel­la­tion.'

Boom! Boom! Boom!

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The right arm dis­ap­peared, and the Con­stel­la­tion's torso rapidly shrank.

Sud­denly, the lips and that area were the only re­mains of the Con­stel­la­tion
of the Dead Star.

Sud­denly, he spat some­thing out of his mouth.

[Ah. Got it. I'll give this to you. So, just have a lit­tle chat with that one,
okay?]

What he spat out was the soul of the con­queror, who had just sub­mit­ted to
the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star.

Then, for a mo­ment, the sys­tem's ex­pul­sion pro­ce­dure halted.

[The player Seong Ji­han is given the choice to lis­ten to the story of the Con­‐
stel­la­tion.]

[If you lis­ten to the story, you will re­ceive a tremen­dous re­ward from the re­‐
deemed soul of the con­queror.

Through the sys­tem's men­tal pro­tec­tion, any men­tal con­tam­i­na­tion the op­‐
po­nent can in­flict will be com­pletely blocked.

The con­queror's soul is the core soul that con­sti­tutes the throat of the Con­‐
stel­la­tion of the Dead Star. His power will be sig­nif­i­cantly weak­ened.

If player Seong Ji­han lis­tens to the story, ad­di­tional re­wards will also be
given from the Bat­tleNet sys­tem di­men­sion.]

The sys­tem mes­sage had a slightly dif­fer­ent tone than usual.

It felt like it would be good if he lis­tened to the story.

'Is it that im­por­tant to re­lease the con­queror's soul from the Con­stel­la­tion?'

If it con­sti­tutes the throat, he must have been a sig­nif­i­cant king.

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and nod­ded.

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Then,

[Oh. Our head. Im­pres­sive! You im­me­di­ately ac­cepted the pro­posal?]

The Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star played with its lips to­wards Seong Ji­han.

"What's the story?"

[Head! Join me! You be the head! I'll be the heart! If you, who pos­sesses the
power of thun­der, join, we will be com­plete!]

"I don't want to."

[Think about it! You can be­come a COn­stel­la­tion! And that of a 'Dead Star',
one of the most pow­er­ful in the uni­verse! If we com­bine, we can make ev­‐
ery­thing equal!]

Con­stel­la­tion? That thing?

Seong Ji­han never dreamt of be­com­ing the head of a ghost group.

"Just go."

[No. Don't you know what a Con­stel­la­tion is? How amaz­ing it is... Geez!
You can live for­ever! As the mas­ter of a star! Boom­ing around!]

"Live for­ever with a noisy guy like you? That's hell."

[But you'd be the king of that hell! Okay, it's un­fa­mil­iar now. Right. We
haven't be­come too close? Okay, let's start with names. What's your name?
Oh right. I should in­tro­duce my­self first, for this kind of thing. Okay.
Hmm...]

The Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star ram­bled on.

[In this world... Karl Marx and Lenin have sim­i­lar ide­olo­gies to me! Okay.
I'm Karl Marx Lenin! You can spe­cially call me Kar­lein! Wow, you're the
first I've al­lowed to use a nick­name! Hon­ored?]

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He sure talks a lot.

Seong Ji­han re­solved once more to never fuse with him.

"Okay. I've heard enough, now go."

[Huh? Why? Head, you're not fus­ing?]

Seong Ji­han, not want­ing to re­ply, lightly raised his mid­dle fin­ger.

Then the lips made a fuss.

[Oh my! That ges­ture... In this world, it means you want to merge with me,
right?! I knew it~ You re­ally wanted to be with me, right? Okay, come into
my mouth?]

Shreeek!

Kar­lein opened his mouth wide and flicked his tongue.

He's re­ally hard to com­mu­ni­cate with.

"Now that I've heard the story, can you get rid of him?"

As Seong Ji­han said this,

The ex­pul­sion process of the sys­tem be­gan as if it had been wait­ing.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The body around the lips flew away.

The red lips be­gan to wrin­kle.

[Ah. It hurts! I'm go­ing. I said I'm go­ing!]

Un­able to with­stand the sys­tem's on­slaught, the lips, trem­bling, bid their fi­‐
nal good­bye to Seong Ji­han.

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[Head! I'll come to see you next time! I'll find you some­how!]

[A strong penalty is im­posed on the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star.]

[The Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star is pro­hib­ited from ac­cess­ing this

world.]

A Bat­tleNet sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared in re­sponse to his words.

[Try to stop me! The head! Is! Mine!]

Leav­ing be­hind a fi­nal state­ment filled with ob­ses­sion, Kar­lein dis­ap­peared.

And the world that had stopped be­gan to move again.

At the same time,

[I-I... Am I re­ally free?]

The con­queror's soul, spat out by the throne, looked at its body with dis­be­‐
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[It's true... My con­nec­tion with him is sev­ered.]

The Con­queror's soul, with a touched ex­pres­sion, grasped his own spir­i­tual
form.

[Thank you. Truly, thank you! I can fi­nally per­ish!]

Was his time with the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star re­ally that hor­ren­dous?

As soon as he was freed, he im­me­di­ately tried to oblit­er­ate his own soul.

The Con­queror's soul be­gan to turn trans­par­ent in an in­stant, try­ing to van­‐

ish.

But then.

[Ah. The re­ward... Yes. I must give it! All of it!]

It seemed a sys­tem mes­sage had popped up, urg­ing him to be­stow the re­‐
ward even in death. He halted his own oblit­er­at­ion.

[But there's too much of me tainted by that bas­tard...]

With a dis­sat­is­fied look, the Con­queror's soul reached into his own body in
var­i­ous places.

Then, he pulled out a pure white flame from his chest.

[Is this the weapon you used? Yes... My Phoenix's Ar­row.]

The Phoenix's Ar­row, which be­came a medium for the 'Di­vine Judge­ment',
was stuck in the ground, burnt com­pletely black.

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The Phoenix's Ar­row, now un­us­able due to the loss of its five cast­ing
chances, was ap­proached by the Con­queror's soul.

[By the first Khan's com­mand; O Phoenix, spread your wings.]

Whoooosh!

The Phoenix's Ar­row, as if to turn it com­pletely to ashes, was wrapped in a

pure white flame.

One by one, as the flames in­ten­si­fied, the Phoenix's Ar­row not only re­‐
turned to its orig­i­nal form, but grew even big­ger.

The en­larged Phoenix's Ar­row then trans­formed.

"A flag...?"

The ar­row changed into a form adorned with a phoenix at its tip.

The cloth form­ing the flag was made of pure white flames.

The en­ergy em­an­ at­ing from the Phoenix Flag now held a heat sev­eral times
more in­tense than be­fore.

[Phoenix Flag. This is all that the tainted me can of­fer. Thank you, my sav­‐
ior.]

With that, be­side the Con­queror's soul, which was be­com­ing trans­par­ent in
an in­stant, the in-game ver­sion of the Con­queror's soul, who had been
watch­ing with dis­taste, spoke.

[You, how could you give the Phoenix Flag... As a de­scen­dant of the
Phoenix, one must al­ways pos­sess it!]

[You try be­ing in my place. If there's sal­va­tion, I would give up ev­ery­thing,

liver and in­testines in­cluded.]

[Ha!]

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[So... it's fi­nally my time to per­ish! Ha­haha! Thank you! Thank you!]

In such a hurry.

Af­ter giv­ing the Phoenix Flag, the Con­queror's soul set him­self on fire.

Even in his an­ni­hi­la­tion, a broad smile graced his lips, re­veal­ing his sheer
joy.

Be­fore he com­pletely van­ished, he left a word of ad­vice to Seong Ji­han.

[Never... get in­volved with him. No mat­ter what sweet words he ut­ters,
never... ap­proach him.]

"I have no in­ten­tion of do­ing so."

[Keep that thought, even in death. The Dead Star... it's a place far more ter­‐
ri­fy­ing than you can imag­ine.]

Fwish!

With those words, the Con­queror's soul com­pletely van­ished.

It sig­naled the end of the Sil­ver pro­mo­tion match that took place in a spe­‐
cial map.

[Player Seong Ji­han has sub­dued the spe­cial boss 'Black Hand'.]

[With the vic­tory of the North­ern team, the game will end soon.]

Mean­while,

There was an up­roar in the com­men­ta­tor's booth about this out­come.

Mo­ments ago.

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-- What... What just hap­pened? Christo­pher! Seong Ji­han has dis­ap­peared!

Can you ex­plain?!

-- Well... This is the first time I've seen such a scene...

-- I re­mem­ber you say­ing some­thing sim­i­lar dur­ing the bronze rank-up

match a month ago! If a com­men­ta­tor says that, you might not get your
salary!

-- Haha! Looks like I might get fired be­cause of Seong. But other com­men­‐
ta­tors wouldn't know ei­ther. If they had to com­men­tate on Seong's matches,
they'd prob­ab­ ly get fired too!

Fol­low­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of Black Hand, Seong Ji­han's fig­ure had van­‐
ished with­out a trace, leav­ing the com­men­ta­tors clue­less.

Since they couldn't broad­cast the void, all they could see was an empty
space.

-- What about the South...

-- Ah, only Bar­ren and Wang Lin re­main!

-- A mass as­sault surely does won­ders.

-- Well, we've seen the South's sit­u­at­ion, shall we re­turn to the North?

On the south­ern bat­tle­field.

The top of the wall had been com­pletely oc­cu­pied by the un­dead, with only
Bar­ren and Wang Lin re­main­ing.

With all their might, they held against the Un­dead Le­gion.

How­ever, the cam­era briefly showed the fierce bat­tle, and then im­me­di­ately
shifted the cam­era's fo­cus.

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-- Hey, where did Seong go? He dis­ap­peared; what is hap­pen­ing?

-- Oh right! Seong Ji­han had a pri­vate chan­nel! It's still on, let's switch to
that for a mo­ment! Ah...!

In­tend­ing to broad­cast from Seong Ji­han's chan­nel, the caster gasped upon
see­ing the new screen.

[This scene can­not be viewed in the tu­to­rial.]

Bat­tleNet, the com­bat game.

Here, even with the most bru­tal scenes un­fold­ing, there had never been a
"view­ing un­avail­able" warn­ing.

But now, this mes­sage ap­pears...

-- Christo­pher, is this the first time we've seen this mes­sage? Have you seen
this be­fore?

-- Well... this is the first time for me as well.

-- Are we get­ting used to such sur­prises?

-- Ha! But maybe the boss will let this one slide? We're see­ing quite dif­fer­‐
ent scenes to­day!

A sit­u­at­ion akin to a broad­cast­ing er­ror.

To by­pass the sit­u­at­ion, the caster filled the time with con­cern over Christo­‐
pher's job se­cu­rity.

Soon af­ter,

-- Oh! Seong Ji­han reap­peared!

-- But... he's throw­ing his spear into the sky?!

Sud­denly ap­pear­ing, Seong Ji­han threw the ar­row in the sky.

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It trans­formed into a gi­ant spear of light that pierced through the Black
Hand.

-- Seong!! Ji­han!! He tears apart his op­po­nent!!

-- Seong has gone mad! Doesn't Bat­tleNet need more bal­ance ad­just­ments?!

-- It's as if a judg­ment is be­ing de­liv­ered from the heav­ens! It's sur­pris­ing

he's even in a sil­ver pro­mo­tion match!!

The caster and com­men­ta­tor shouted at the top of their lungs.

The spear of light de­scend­ing from the sky held such grandeur that it over­‐
awed all who watched.

But then, as Black Hand dis­ap­peared and a fig­ure in a robe emerged, the
screen sud­denly turned dark, show­ing only one white mes­sage: [This scene
can­not be viewed in the tu­to­rial.]

-- ...Christo­pher? What's this? Can you ex­plain?

-- I don't know! I gen­uinely don't! Bring some­one here who knows!

-- Well, sadly, I think there's no one!

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Af­ter a few min­utes,

-- The south­ern cam­era feed isn't tran­si­tion­ing ei­ther!

-- It's to­tally frozen! This is a mas­sive broad­cast­ing blun­der!

-- It's not our fault, of course! It's Bat­tleNet's mis­take!

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-- So even cos­mic hy­per-tech­nol­ogy can make mis­takes!

While the caster and com­men­ta­tor were chat­ting,

[Player Seong Ji­han has sub­dued the spe­cial boss 'Black Hand'.]

[With the vic­tory of the North­ern team, the game will end soon.]

Two mes­sages ap­peared on the dark screen.

And then the game ended.

-- What... it's over just like that?

-- Yes, it seems so. It says it's over!

The caster and com­men­ta­tor, equally puz­zled, wit­nessed the abrupt end of
the game.

They had broad­cast count­less Top 100 pro­mo­tion matches, but this was a
first.

Per­haps a sim­i­lar broad­cast glitch oc­curred last month dur­ing Seong Ji­han's
Top 100 pro­mo­tion match.

But then, only the screen went dark; they never saw the "view­ing un­avail­‐
able" mes­sage...

-- Why did the pro­mo­tion match end like this...?

-- How on earth did Seong sup­press Black Hand?!

-- Christo­pher, if you ask me, who do I ask?

The one sup­posed to com­ment and an­al­yze was rais­ing ques­tions about to­‐
day's game.

The in­ter­net was equally chaotic.

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-- What the heck hap­pened? What did Seong Ji­han do?

-- I have no idea. I was watch­ing the pro­mo­tion match through Seong Ji­‐
han's chan­nel, and at some point, it just kept show­ing "view­ing un­avail­‐
able."

-- Shouldn't we com­plain about this broad­cast­ing er­ror?

-- To whom?

-- ESPN.

-- It's clear that it's Bat­tleNet's is­sue, not theirs lol.

View­ers, who were de­bat­ing the cause of the broad­cast glitch, were all the
more riled up when Seong Ji­han used the Di­vine Judg­ment, an­other "view­‐
ing un­avail­able" mes­sage ap­peared, and the game ended.

-- What? It's over?

-- Is this re­ally the end? Seong Ji­han won? An­other vic­tory?

-- Of course, he won. Didn't you see the hole in the sky ear­lier? He's a crazy
mon­ster. How can Sil­ver even use such a thing?

-- Aaaaah! What's up with Bat­tleNet? They said they'd bal­ance it! How can
they ad­just the bal­ance like this? Bat­tleNet can be viewed even when there
is no elec­tric­ity but they can't bal­ance a game prop­erly?

-- This is all due to the majesty of Seong Ji­han...

-- We should just be­lieve and fol­low. Tsk tsk... Don't ques­tion his lim­its. If
you're Ko­rean, please bet on Seong Ji­han!

-- But the user's ID is 'Daegi Guild Mas­ter Lee Hayeon'... HOXY...

"Sure, Guild Mas­ter! I'm the Guild Mas­ter! The Guild Mas­ter of Daegi
Guild! Why is the Guild Mas­ter not bet­ting on the Boss, and los­ing all the
as­sets!"

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"Ah... Miss, just stop it."

Lee Hayeon, about to type in fury, was quickly stopped by Lim Gayeong.

"Ahh... I'm crazy... I should've just trusted Boss. Why did I lose my mind..."

Lee Hayeon buried her face in front of the key­board, tears shim­mer­ing.

If she had just fol­lowed the pre­dic­tion Seong Ji­han had pro­vided, she would
have re­cov­ered all the money she lost and be­come even richer.

Why didn't she prop­erly fol­low? What a mess.

"Why use your brain?! Just fol­low the Boss! Why are you think­ing, Lee
Hayeon!"

'That's what I'm say­ing.' Lim Gayeong thought, push­ing the key­board away
from Lee Hayeon.

You only re­al­ize the right an­swer af­ter los­ing money.

Look­ing at the de­spon­dent Lee Hayeon, Lim Gayeong felt pity, even though
she had bet the op­po­site way.

'It's bet­ter this way.'

The young lady shouldn't gam­ble.

She's al­ready squan­dered all her as­sets, but she's still heav­ily in­volved in
the Daegi Guild with Seong Ji­han.

If she just works hard in that field, she'll re­cover all the money she lost in
no time.

Tak­ing this event as a les­son, peo­ple should live more hon­estly...

[Due to a flaw in to­day's Bat­tleNet sys­tem, we deeply apol­o­gize for any in­‐
con­ve­nience.]

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[Due to an in-game er­ror, fair bet­ting was not achieved.]

[Com­pen­sa­tion will be given to those who bet in this game through the Bat­‐
tleNet bet­ting sys­tem.]

[Bets on player Seong Ji­han will be paid out as is, but bets on other play­ers
will be re­funded in GP.]

"...What?"

Lee Hayeon, who had her head down, sud­denly shot up.

What's this about?

They're com­pen­sat­ing?

"Of course, Bat­tleNet...! Right! Ev­ery­one makes mis­takes! But it's how you
fix them!"

"Wow, if they pay out to those who bet on Seong Ji­han, the GP loss would
be huge..."

"It's not my money! I don't care!"

Lee Hayeon, feel­ing like she's come back from the dead, brought back the
key­board Lim Gayeong had pushed away.

-- Aaaaahㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Bat­tleNet! I love you!!

-- Bat­tleNet is a god! Bat­tleNet is a god! Bat­tleNet is a god!

-- The com­pen­sa­tion is re­ally here? This is crazy ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-- This is the pin­na­cle of hy­per tech­nol­ogy! The epit­ome of god games!!

-- Wow... to­day's game is spec­tac­u­lar in so many ways.

"I... I was right af­ter all!"

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"No, you were wrong. Very wrong, Miss. Bat­tleNet saved you once, so just
stop it now."

"No, this is a sign to con­tinue..."

Look­ing at the dazed Lee Hayeon, Lim Gayeong sighed.

Even af­ter get­ting com­pen­sated to­day, it won't be long be­fore she loses all
her as­sets.

'Sigh, I should earn more.'

It's in­evitable.

Think­ing she'd have to keep on milk­ing the sit­u­at­ion, Lim Gayeong shook
her head.

Mean­while, Seong Ji­han...

[Due to a flaw in to­day's Bat­tleNet sys­tem, we deeply apol­o­gize for any in­‐
con­ve­nience.]

[A spe­cial re­ward will be given to the player 'Seong Ji­han'.]

Given the mag­ni­tude of the in­fil­tra­tion by a Con­stel­la­tion, Seong Ji­han was

able to re­ceive a re­ward mes­sage that was com­pletely dif­fer­ent from his
usual game­play.

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Chap­ter 109
The ini­tial re­ward given was the ba­sic pro­mo­tion match re­sult.

[You have won in the Top 100 Pro­mo­tion Match.]

[You re­ceive 5 mil­lion GP as a re­ward.]

[Your level in­creases by 5.]

[You have ac­quired the ti­tle 'King of Kings -- Sil­ver'.]

Just as when he had pre­vi­ously won first place in Bronze, Seong Ji­han
checked out the ti­tle 'King of Kings' he had ob­tained.

['King of Kings -- Sil­ver']

[A ti­tle given to the win­ner of the Top 100 Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle.

In the Gold League, all stats in­crease by +5, and an ex­pe­ri­ence boost of
50% is ap­plied.]

"The in­crease in stats is the same as Bronze."

Bronze had a +5, and so did Sil­ver.

It seemed to hold no more value than just chang­ing the ti­tle from Bronze to
Sil­ver.

Seong Ji­han im­me­di­ately switched the ti­tle and con­tin­ued to ex­am­ine the
sys­tem mes­sages.

[You have cleared the spe­cial achieve­ment 'Face a Con­stel­la­tion.]

[You re­ceive 100,000 achieve­ment points as a re­ward.]

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[You have cleared the spe­cial achieve­ment 'In­flict­ing Dam­age to a Con­stel­‐

la­tion'.]

[You re­ceive 200,000 achieve­ment points as a re­ward.]

While he did not see the achieve­ment for win­ning the Top 100, as he had al­‐
ready cleared it dur­ing the Bronze, the points given by the Con­stel­la­tion re­‐
lated achieve­ments were sub­stan­tial.

A ti­tle, 300,000 achieve­ment points, and even the Phoenix Flag.

The re­wards pour­ing in from just one match were in­cred­i­ble.

"So, what's the spe­cial re­ward?"

Seong Ji­han was more in­ter­ested in the spe­cial re­ward promised by Bat­‐
tleNet.

[No­tice from Bat­tleNet.]

[To­day's in­ci­dent oc­curred due to our fail­ure to de­tect the in­tru­sion of an ex­‐
ter­nal force, Con­stel­la­tion of the 'Dead Star', dur­ing the map change to a
spe­cial map.]

[We apol­o­gize once again for the in­con­ve­nience caused to player Seong Ji­‐
han and have pre­pared a spe­cial re­ward.]

Fi­nally, it's be­ing given.

Seong Ji­han crossed his arms and waited a mo­ment for the ad­di­tional mes­‐
sage.

[All stats in­crease by 5.]

[Your level ad­di­tion­ally rises by 10.]

[You have ac­quired the spe­cial stat, 'Seal of Thun­der'.]

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['Seal of Thun­der' en­hances the power of thun­der and of­fers strong re­sis­‐
tance against men­tal cor­rup­tion. For ev­ery 20 points in the stat, you can
grant one player the Seal of Thun­der.]

[Play­ers granted the Seal of Thun­der gain strong re­sis­tance against men­tal
cor­rup­tion and can har­ness the power of Thun­der.]

Seong Ji­han opened his sta­tus win­dow.

Just like the 'Shadow Sword', the 'Seal of Thun­der' oc­cu­pied two lines of the
sta­tus win­dow. Given its size, it was pre­sumed to be a rare stat.

"But, just like the Shadow Sword, it's com­pli­cated."

Out of the three ad­vanced tech­niques of the Name­less Di­vine Arts, he had
ob­tained stats that re­in­forced two of them, Dark Shadow Tech­nique and Di­‐
vine Thun­der De­cree, by go­ing through the Top 100 pro­mo­tion bat­tles
twice.

More­over,

"The Dark Shadow Tech­nique is re­lated to the World Tree Al­liance, and Di­‐
vine Thun­der De­cree seems re­lated to Kill the King..."

The two great pow­ers re­spon­si­ble for the near-de­struc­tion of Earth, the
World Tree Al­liance and Kill the King. The World Tree Al­liance com­pletely
neu­tral­ized the Earth in the Space League, while Kill the King, emerg­ing
from a dun­geon, wielded a mas­sive army of ghosts, lead­ing to global dev­as­‐
ta­tion.

"In my past life, I thought the two mar­tial arts were just op­po­sites in terms
of their at­tributes."

He had al­ways thought of Dark Shadow Tech­nique as dark­ness-based and

Di­vine Thun­der De­cree as light­ning mar­tial arts. He never imag­ined their
con­nec­tion to ei­ther the World Tree Al­liance or Kill the King.

"I'll have to gather more power and find out more."

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Still, the most im­me­di­ate con­cern was Mar­tial Power.

Once he reached level 100 and achieved the uni­fi­ca­tion of the three dan­‐
tians, he might be able to use the fi­nal ad­vanced mar­tial art tech­nique.

So, Seong Ji­han de­cided to fo­cus on in­creas­ing his power as much as pos­si­‐
ble, with­out al­lo­cat­ing stat points to the two rare stats, Shadow Sword and
Seal of Thun­der.

"But giv­ing +5 to all stats on a rare stat? Judg­ing by these re­wards, if I had
been cap­tured by the Black Hand, I would have been in real trou­ble."

If he had died at the hands of Black Hand and ended the game, there would
be no rea­son to give such ex­trav­ag­ ant re­wards.

Seong Ji­han re­al­ized that this was the most dan­ger­ous mo­ment since he had
re­gressed.

"I'm still not ready."

With his robe torn re­veal­ing his true form, the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead
Star, Kar­lein, had demon­strated over­whelm­ing power.

And that wasn't even his full strength.

As long as such an in­di­vid­ual tar­geted him, call­ing him "head", he needed

to be pre­pared to counter it.

Al­though the Bat­tleNet sys­tem de­nied ac­cess to this world for the Con­stel­‐
la­tion of the Dead Star, "If it's breached this time, wouldn't it be the same
next time?"

Rather than hav­ing high hopes, Seong Ji­han re­solved to be­come stronger as
soon as pos­si­ble.

Sud­denly!

"Un­cle! How's your arm? Is it okay?"

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"Yeah, it's fine."

"Whew, I was star­tled! Why does your arm al­ways get hurt ev­ery time you
com­pete in the Top 100?"

Look­ing at Seong Ji­han's un­harmed right arm, Yoon Seah breathed a sigh of
re­lief.

Then, glanc­ing at the back of his hand, her eyes widened in sur­prise.

"What's this?"

On the back of Seong Ji­han's right hand was a pure white crown drawn.

The mark re­sem­bled the crown that was pierced on the Kill the King's flag.

The line draw­ing the crown seemed to flow like elec­tric­ity.

He im­me­di­ately re­al­ized it was re­lated to his Seal of Thun­der.

'In Bronze, it was the left hand, and in Sil­ver, some­thing ap­pears on the
right.'

Now that he thought about it, wasn't there some­thing about be­ing able to
be­stow the mark of light­ning when the Seal of Thun­der stat reached 20?

Seong Ji­han checked his Seal of Thun­der stat in his sta­tus win­dow.

'25, huh?'

Ini­tially, un­like other stats that started with 5, did this start with 10?

With the re­cent re­ward of +5 to all stats and two ti­tle ef­fects, his Seal of
Thun­der stat was now 25.

"That's great. I'll give you a seal too."

"Huh? A seal?"

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"Yeah. I've never done it be­fore, but it shouldn't hurt."

"...Re­ally?"

"Maybe? But how do I do it?"

As Seong Ji­han pon­dered look­ing at the mark, Yoon Seah stared at him anx­‐
iously.

'It won't hurt, right?'

[Touch the back of the tar­get's hand with your mark to grant the 'Seal of
Thun­der'.]

Upon see­ing the sys­tem mes­sage, Seong Ji­han grabbed Yoon Seah's hand
and im­me­di­ately placed it on the mark.

Zap!

"Ouch... it hurts!"

Yoon Seah shud­dered from the sud­den elec­tric shock.

Didn't he say it wouldn't hurt? Was that a lie?

"Sorry."

On the back of Yoon Seah's hand, a crown ap­peared, iden­ti­cal to Seong Ji­‐
han's but slightly smaller.

"So... what's this?"

"It's called the Seal of Thun­der. Any­way, it's a good thing."

When Seong Ji­han ex­plained as per the sys­tem mes­sage, Yoon Seah's eyes
sparkled with ex­cite­ment.

"I can wield the power of elec­tric­ity with this?"

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"Yeah, I'm not en­tirely sure about the de­tails though."

"I fig­ured, es­pe­cially af­ter you said it wouldn't hurt."

With that, Yoon Seah waved at Seong Ji­han.

"Un­cle~ Then, I'll prac­tice us­ing this. I have to use it in to­mor­row's pro­mo­‐
tion match!"

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Seong Ji­han, look­ing at his niece who came and went like the wind, chuck­‐
led.

Fi­nally, he de­cided to check the Phoenix Flag that the spirit of the con­‐
queror gave him.

"In­ven­tory."

Seong Ji­han opened his in­ven­tory and checked the item's de­scrip­tion.

[Phoenix Flag (Grade: SSS)]

[The flag used by the first Khan of the Wind Em­pire, a de­scen­dant of the
Phoenix.

Holds the flames of the Phoenix when thrown.]

[Spe­cial Ef­fect: When the flag is planted on the bat­tle­field, it boosts the
stats of all nearby party mem­bers and al­lies by 25%.]

[Ad­di­tional Ef­fect: If the user is a guild owner or guild mas­ter, it in­creases

all the guild op­tion lev­els by +4.]

"SSS?"

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Seong Ji­han doubted his eyes.

He hadn't ex­pected much from this item, but what's with this in­sane grade?

'Hav­ing the flames of the Phoenix when thrown means that when used as a
weapon, it's prob­ab­ ly of SS-grade qual­ity.'

An SS-grade weapon.

While it wasn't shock­ingly valu­able, it was in­deed rare.

Still, among the cur­rent Di­am

­ ond play­ers, many pos­sessed weapons of SS
grade.

But what was gen­uinely as­ton­ish­ing were the spe­cial and ad­di­tional ef­fects
the Phoenix Flag held.

'Just plant­ing the flag gives a 25% buff...'

When the flag was planted on the bat­tle­field, al­though it couldn't be used as
a weapon, the 25% buff it granted to all team mem­bers was in­cred­i­bly ef­‐
fec­tive.

If a bet­ter weapon than the Phoenix Flag was ever ob­tained, it would be
best to plant the flag first dur­ing bat­tle. Plus...

'Guild Op­tion Level +4?'

Guild op­tions.

The cur­rent guild op­tions were: Guild Mem­ber Ex­pan­sion, Stat In­crease,
and Growth Rate In­crease -- three in to­tal.

They had in­vested ev­ery­thing into the growth rate in­crease.

So, does it mean the guild mem­ber ex­pan­sion and stat in­crease were both
boosted by +4?

Seong Ji­han quickly checked the guild op­tions.

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[Guild Mem­ber Ex­pan­sion (5/10) -- LV.5]

[Stat In­crease (All stats +5) -- LV.5]

[Growth Rate In­crease (+150%) -- LV.15]

These buffs were ap­plied just by pos­sess­ing the Phoenix Flag.

In par­tic­u­lar, the stat in­crease, which was pre­vi­ously ap­plied at only +50%
in Sil­ver, ef­fec­tively didn't raise any stats.

How­ever, for the cur­rent Gold-ranked Seong Ji­han, it was pro­vid­ing an ad­‐
di­tional +5 to his stats.

'So that's why the Seal of Thun­der stat was 25.'

He had as­sumed that the start­ing Seal of Thun­der stat was 10, but it seemed
to have started at 5, just like the other stats.

The guild's stat in­crease had cov­ered that.

'With this level of ef­fi­ciency, it feels a waste to call it SSS tier. It should
per­haps be a tier higher.'

Seong Ji­han looked at the Phoenix Flag, dis­play­ing its in­sane ef­fi­ciency,
with a deep smile on his lips.

The re­wards he gained from the re­cent Top 100 match, due to Bat­tleNet's
mis­take, were im­mense.

'I'm look­ing for­ward to the next Top 100.'

They had been so gen­er­ous with the re­wards in bronze and sil­ver, what
would it be like in gold?

With ex­cite­ment, Seong Ji­han went to the pent­house train­ing grounds where
Yoon Seah was prac­tic­ing.

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The pro­mo­tion match was to­mor­row, and he wanted to help her with the
Seal of Thun­der. But...

"Huh? Un­cle, you came to help? But it's pretty easy."

Zzzz!

Elec­tric­ity sparked from the ar­row Yoon Seah held.

"Wait, you al­ready mas­tered it?"

"Yeah. I just fol­lowed the feel­ing from the seal, and it was done quickly. It
hurt, but it was worth it."

Yoon Seah cheer­fully shot the ar­row, and the tar­get was im­me­di­ately dis­fig­‐
ured by the light­ning.

"Oh. But I can't con­trol its power yet... I need more prac­tice."

She only re­leased that much elec­tric­ity and couldn't con­trol its power? How
quickly did she mas­ter the light­ning seal?

Seong Ji­han was as­ton­ished.

"Seah, are you... a ge­nius?"

"I don't want to hear that from you."

"I'm off the charts. You can't cat­eg­ o­rize me as a ge­nius."

"Wow. You're say­ing that about your­self."

Yoon Seah jok­ingly cringed.

"Un­cle, I'm okay. Rest. You over­did it to­day."

"Over­did it? I just lost an arm."

"That's why I told you to rest! Just sleep!"

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Com­ing to help Yoon Seah awaken her Seal of Thun­der, Seong Ji­han was
in­stead kicked out by his niece.

'...Seah seems more tal­ented than I thought.'

Seong Ji­han smiled warmly. In his pre­vi­ous life, he wished he had rec­og­‐
nized her po­ten­tial ear­lier.

It felt re­gret­ful that such tal­ent was wasted.

'But what should I do now?'

Once he was told to rest, he had noth­ing to do. Seong Ji­han, with­out re­al­iz­‐
ing, went to the sec­ond train­ing room.

The next day.

"Un­cle! I won! Hehe."

Yoon Seah, hav­ing com­peted in the pro­mo­tion match in Gang­nam Area 3,

was all smiles as she re­ported her vic­tory to Seong Ji­han.

See­ing her gen­uinely happy face, Seong Ji­han also smiled in re­sponse.

It felt grat­i­fy­ing to see his niece suc­ceed, un­like in his pre­vi­ous life.

"Oh, by the way, my Gift has changed a bit."

"Re­ally?"

"Yes, look at this..."

But,

When Yoon Seah showed off her up­graded Gift,

The de­lighted Seong Ji­han's eyes nar­rowed.

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'...Hold on.'

The F-grade Late Bloomer, which had turned into E-grade af­ter 50 games,
had a con­di­tion that mud­dled Seong Ji­han's thoughts.

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Chap­ter 110
[An­other vic­tory! Seong Ji­han ef­fort­lessly con­quers the TOP 100!]

[10 vs 90? Even if it were 1 vs 99, the out­come wouldn't have changed.]

[An un­prece­dented broad­cast­ing ac­ci­dent on Bat­tleNet! 'This scene can­not

be viewed in the tu­to­rial.' What on earth hap­pened?]

[Want to earn money? Bet on Seong Ji­han! Ko­re­ans laugh­ing all the way.]

['Lim­i­ta­tion -- what does that mean?' Seong Ji­han just 2 months af­ter his de­‐
but.]

Ko­rean por­tal sites were flooded with news re­lated to Seong Ji­han.

Even a day af­ter the match, there was no sign of Seong Ji­han-re­lated ar­ti­‐
cles di­min­ish­ing.

"Wow. Un­cle, it's chaos even over­seas?"

"Prob­ab­ ly be­cause of the broad­cast­ing in­ci­dent."

Es­pe­cially this time, due to the un­prece­dented broad­cast­ing ac­ci­dent on

Bat­tleNet, for­eign por­tal sites were no dif­fer­ent.

The num­ber of sub­scribers to Seong Ji­han's chan­nel sur­passed 2 mil­lion just

a day af­ter this match.

And it seemed to be grow­ing fast enough to aim for 3 mil­lion soon.

"Oh, by the way... Sophia is com­ing to Ko­rea?"

"Sophia? What are you talk­ing about?"

"Look at this."

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Yoon Seah showed Seong Ji­han a news ar­ti­cle.

['I'm com­ing to Ko­rea for a meal!' Sophia. Posts a photo taken in­side an air­‐
plane.]

Sophia, mak­ing a V sign in­side the plane.

Her ex­pres­sion was in­no­cently cheer­ful.

"No... She didn't men­tion any­thing to me?"

"She did talk, dur­ing the match. She seemed re­ally in­ter­ested in you, judg­‐
ing from the broad­cast."

Say­ing that, Yoon Seah nar­rowed her eyes.

"Also, Un­cle, she's the same age as me, you know? 19."

"...She's a teenager?"

She was in her twen­ties the last time they met in his pre­vi­ous life.

Her ap­pear­ance hasn't changed much since then, so he had no idea about
her age.

"So, on the day you treat her, I'll leave the house. Just don't go out and sleep
else­where. What if you get caught by the pa­parazzi?"

"Hey, what do you mean 'leave'? I'm not in­ter­ested."

"Even though she's that pretty?"

Sophia had a face that per­fectly matched the West­ern beauty stan­dard, with
blonde hair and blue eyes.

That's prob­ab­ ly why she's en­joy­ing su­per­star-level pop­u­lar­ity even though

she hasn't been in Amer­ica First for long.

The same was true for her pop­u­lar­ity in Ko­rea.

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-- Wow, Seong Ji­han is cross­ing lines again.

-- Sophia is off-lim­its, dude!

-- What's he do­ing bring­ing a teenager?

-- She's the one com­ing, you know?

-- If she's 19, isn't that fine?

-- There's a prob­lem! There just is!

The com­ments on Seong Ji­han's ar­ti­cles felt dif­fer­ent than usual.

"Be­ing pretty and be­ing in­ter­ested are two dif­fer­ent things."

"...Un­cle, you don't hap­pen to like men, do you?"

"What are you talk­ing about?"

Do I have to doubt my own sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion just be­cause I said I'm not in­‐
ter­ested in Sophia?

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and shook his head.

"More im­por­tantly, let's check your Gift again."

"Ah, be­cause of the up­grade con­di­tions?"

"Yes."

Yoon Seah showed Seong Ji­han her Gift, which had been up­graded to E-
grade.

The ef­fect of the up­graded Gift she showed was sim­ple but pow­er­ful.

[Gift -- Late Bloomer (Grade: E -- Up­grade con­di­tion not met)]

[Up­grades the ba­sic Bat­tleNet sys­tem by one level.]

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[F rank ef­fect: In­crease game par­tic­i­pa­tion by 1 per day Nat­u­ral sta­tus

growth rate in­creased by 100%]

[E rank ef­fect: Ad­di­tional stat ef­fect changed to +2]

[To up­grade the Gift to the next level, spe­cial con­di­tions must be met.]

The ad­di­tional stat changed from +1 to 2.

This was sim­i­lar to Bar­ren, who gained +2 stats through two sta­tus win­‐
dows.

In the early stages, the dif­fer­ence isn't sig­nif­i­cant.

But once you reach over level 200, the gap in at­tain­able stat points grows
im­mensely, which was a tremen­dous ben­ef­ it.

'If E rank is this pow­er­ful... I can't even imag­ine how it'll be later on.'

'Late Bloomer' seemed al­ready bloomed.

It wasn't un­rea­son­able for Seong Ji­han to think so given its po­ten­tial.

How­ever.

[Con­di­tions for Up­grade to D rank]

[Be the sole owner of the Late Bloomer Gift on the planet. (Cur­rently 2)]

[Among the Late Bloomer Gift hold­ers, be the first to reach the Gold Player
rank.]

[One of the two con­di­tions must be met.

When one per­son's Late Bloomer Gift is up­graded to D rank, the other per­‐
son's Late Bloomer Gift dis­ap­pears au­to­mat­i­cally.]

The up­grade con­di­tions both­ered him.

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"I didn't know there was an­other per­son with the Late Bloomer Gift be­sides
me. Who could it be?"

Yoon Seah spoke calmly while look­ing at the up­grade con­di­tions.

How­ever, Seong Ji­han's ex­pres­sion hard­ened.

'Did Xin Youhwa al­ready have Late Bloomer?'

In his pre­vi­ous life, Xin Youhwa from China had the world rank of #2.

Her rapid rise in the rank­ings was as­ton­ish­ing, and ev­ery­one was con­stantly
wor­ried about when she would sur­pass the #1, Bar­ren.

Lit­tle in­for­ma­tion was pub­licly avail­able about Xin Youhwa, so Seong Ji­‐
han didn't know much about her.

'I've heard ru­mors link­ing her with the Triad.'

The Triad, a crim­i­nal or­ga­ni­za­tion wide­spread in Hong Kong and the Chi­‐
nese-speak­ing world.

Xin Youhwa was said to be the daugh­ter of a high-rank­ing Triad mem­ber

and played a sig­nif­i­cant role in the or­ga­ni­za­tion.

Al­though she strongly de­nied it and the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment vowed to

counter such ru­mors, the Triad con­nec­tion was buried.

Still, un­fa­vor­able ru­mors about her per­sisted.

'Her skills weren't that great.'

Like the #1 Bar­ren, the #2 Xin Youhwa wasn't ex­cep­tion­ally skilled.

As an archer, she felt over­pow­er­ing be­cause of her in­flated stats rather than
out­stand­ing con­trol.

In China, many be­lieved Heav­enly De­mon Wang Lin was their true #1
player un­til his death.

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'In my pre­vi­ous life, she must've eas­ily met that con­di­tion af­ter Seah died...'

With Yoon Seah, who had the Late Bloomer, dead, she would've sat­is­fied
the first con­di­tion.

Seong Ji­han re­called the painful mem­o­ries from that time.

It wasn't un­til about a year af­ter Yoon Seah's death that Xin Youhwa be­came
well-known in Ko­rea.

In China, a ris­ing star named 'Xin Youhwa' emerged with the Gift, Late
Bloomer!

Un­til then, it was widely known as the worth­less Gift of Yoon Seah, the
traitor's daugh­ter.

But when a Chi­nese player with Late Bloomer sud­denly rose to Plat­inum
rank and rapidly moved up to Di­am
­ ond, peo­ple were shocked.

-- Wow, turns out Late Bloomer was a great Gift?

-- Why did Yoon Seah com­mit sui­cide? Such a waste lol -- Must be re­gret­‐
ting in the af­ter­life ㅠㅠ

-- That's too harsh, some­one died.

-- The guy above used to trash talk Yoon Seah lol. Pre­tend­ing to be nice
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Af­ter see­ing such com­ments on the news, Seong Ji­han, filled with dis­dain
for the pub­lic, stopped fol­low­ing news about Xin Youhwa.

If he knew he would rein­car­nate, he would've kept an eye out.

'This time, we need to keep Late Bloomer on our side.'

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It would be bet­ter for Earth if Yoon Seah has it rather than Xin Youhwa,
who's like Bar­ren.

Think­ing this, Seong Ji­han told Yoon Seah con­fi­dently, "You need to keep
par­ty­ing with me."

"Am I con­tin­u­ing to get car­ried by Un­cle?"

"Yes. We need to reach Gold be­fore the other holder of Late Bloomer. Play
one round with me and an­other one solo. Let's go with this strat­egy for the
next month."

"Got it. We can't lose the Gift!"

"Let's aim for the Oc­to­ber pro­mo­tion."

"Okay!"

At Seong Ji­han's words, Yoon Seah nod­ded with de­ter­mi­na­tion.

'I won­der where Xin Youhwa is right now.'

Con­sid­er­ing the pre­vi­ous life, Xin Youhwa prob­ab­ ly wasn't at a higher level
than Yoon Seah.

She started mak­ing her mark a few years later.

How­ever, the vari­able was the broad­cast that Yoon Seah pre­vi­ously did.

The broad­cast re­vealed that the Gift 'Late Bloomer' had value, so if Xin
Youhwa saw it, she might've started ac­cel­er­at­ing.

"If she's in Bronze, there's noth­ing to worry about, but if she's in Sil­ver...."

No mat­ter what it means, he had to pre­vent her from lev­el­ing up.

As Seong Ji­han pon­dered, he hes­i­tated.

He might not be the only one hav­ing these thoughts.

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"I should also pre­pare for how the other side re­acts."

Just like the ru­mors from his past life, if Xin Youhwa was re­lated to Traid.

There was also a pos­si­bil­ity that she might threaten Yoon Seah's life.

In prepa­ra­tion for such a sit­u­at­ion, Seong Ji­han opened his in­ven­tory and
handed the Veil of the Void to Yoon Seah.

"...What's this?"

"It's an item called the Veil of the Void."

Due to the con­di­tion that one would be buried in the void if left unat­tended
for a long time, Seong Ji­han had re­frained from giv­ing it to Yoon Seah un­til
he could de­ter­mine more about it.

How­ever, con­sid­er­ing her gift at­tribute, it seemed like a good idea to have a
refuge in case of emer­gency.

"Use it only when you're in dan­ger in re­al­ity, not dur­ing reg­u­lar game time."

"Eh, why would I be in dan­ger in re­al­ity?"

"You never know. The other player with 'Late Bloomer' might tar­get you."

"Oh... right."

"And for a month, try not to go out­side. Be cau­tious. I'll han­dle shop­ping."

"No out­ings?... To that ex­tent?"

"Just en­dure for a month."

Yoon Seah thought her un­cle was be­ing overly pro­tec­tive.

'It's just for a month.'

Right. There's no harm in be­ing care­ful.

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"Un­der­stood, un­cle."

"Good. Start­ing to­day?"

"But what about Sophia?"

"Why men­tion Sophia here?"

"Don't I need to empty the house for her?"

When Yoon Seah chuck­led, Seong Ji­han play­fully flicked his fin­ger as if
think­ing of a good idea.

"Non­sense. Ah, right. Let's go eat to­gether. I can't leave you alone."

"Eh, are you invit­ing me on your date? That's... weird."

"What date? Didn't I say I'm not in­ter­ested?"

"But you're still buy­ing her din­ner."

"She came all the way to Ko­rea, I can't just ig­nore her."

While there were no ro­man­tic feel­ings, there was still af­fec­tion from the
time they were guild­mates.

It would be rude to leave a girl who came all the way to Ko­rea hang­ing.

"I could just stay home alone..."

"What if some­one tar­gets you while you're alone?"

"What sort of at­tacker? And if I ac­com­pany you, what will Sophia think of
me?"

"Let's just eat to­gether. Oth­er­wise, I'll tell Sophia we can't meet."

Upon Seong Ji­han's in­sis­tence, Yoon Seah re­luc­tantly agreed with a hes­i­tant
face.

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"Sigh. Fine... Let's go. What an in­con­ve­nience."

In a build­ing in Hong Kong.

In the Ce­les­tial Guild of­fice oc­cu­py­ing the en­tire 44th floor, a girl was read­‐
ing a re­port.

With light makeup and a youth­ful face, the no­tice­ably short and pe­tite girl
looked too young to be an adult woman.

"Is this re­port true?"

"Yes, young lady."

The sub­ject of the re­port was Yoon Seah.

The re­port sug­gested that due to Seong Ji­han's sup­port, Yoon Seah was
likely to be pro­moted to Gold in Oc­to­ber.

The young lady smirked.

"That won't do."

"So..."

"Kill her."

"Kill, you say?"

De­spite look­ing like an in­no­cent teenager, she ca­su­ally men­tioned death.

"Yes. I don't think I can pro­mote by Oc­to­ber."

The owner of the 'Late Bloomer' Gift in China, Xin Youhwa, said with a
bright ex­pres­sion.

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"Do we re­ally need to kill her? She's quite well-known. The fo­cus will be
on us..."

A bulky, men­ac­ing-look­ing man seemed more hes­i­tant about the killing

than she did.

"Then, kid­nap her? That might be even harder than killing. Just am­bush and
kill her in one go."

"Uh..."

"Start im­me­di­ately. Kill her be­fore Oc­to­ber 25th. Def­i­nitely."

"Un­der­stood."

"Then take the men and go."

Watch­ing the man leave with his head bowed, Xin Youhwa tilted her head.

'Can they han­dle it?'

She felt un­easy about how un­cer­tain the men were.

If she just left the as­sas­si­na­tion to those guys, it wouldn't suf­fice.

She picked up her phone.

"Daddy~!"

[Yes, dear. What is it?]

"Um, I have a fa­vor to ask!"

She be­gan the call with a voice full of play­ful­ness.

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Chap­ter 111
In the Daegi Guild of­fice.

Lee Hayeon greeted Seong Ji­han with an ex­cited look on her face.

"Boss. The guild ef­fect has sud­denly changed! All op­tions in­creased by 4
lev­els... Did you do some­thing?"

"Yes. Bat­tleNet gave me a guild-re­lated item as com­pen­sa­tion for the last

in­ci­dent."

"Oh!"

Lee Hayeon's eyes sparkled.

"Now we can ac­cept 20 more guild mem­bers. Should we start right away?"

"Since the growth rate ef­fect has also in­creased, let's charge ex­tra for it."

With the guild mem­ber ex­pan­sion level in­creased, the Daegi Guild can now
ac­com­mo­date 20 more mem­bers.

With the en­hanced Stat In­crease and Growth Rate In­crease ef­fects, they
could now raise the rental fee and bring in more play­ers.

"I un­der­stand. Then, let's start with a val­u­at­ion of 7 bil­lion, and we'll pro­‐
ceed with an auc­tion."

"All twenty spots?"

"Hehe... Word has al­ready spread among the rented play­ers who ex­pe­ri­‐
enced ben­ef­ its."

Play­ers like Bar­ren, Wang Lin, and Sophia, who paid hefty rental fees, were
quite sat­is­fied with the re­sults.

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Through the Growth Rate In­crease, they gained ad­di­tional stats rang­ing
from +2 to +4.

Word of mouth spread, and many renowned guilds had al­ready been in­quir­‐
ing, of­fer­ing more money to ac­com­mo­date their play­ers.

"Even top-tier play­ers are show­ing in­ter­est."

"How top-tier?"

"Di­am
­ ond rank."

Seong Ji­han was slightly sur­prised.

Di­am
­ ond rank meant they were among the top league play­ers.

To sur­vive the fierce com­pe­ti­tion of the Di­am

­ ond League, an all-stats ad­di­‐
tional ef­fect from the guild op­tion was es­sen­tial.

And yet they would give that up to join the Daegi Guild?

"Are they fine with not fully ben­ef­ it­ing from the all-stats ef­fect?"

"Yes. They said that even with­out the all-stats ef­fect, if they can hold out in
the league and en­joy the growth rate buff ef­fect, they're con­tent."

To hold out in the Di­am ­ ond League with­out the all-stats ef­fect, one would
need an un­par­al­leled gift.

That would mean they are top-tier play­ers who dom­i­nate the league.

'Maybe the first-gen­er­at­ion rankers will gather in the Daegi Guild.'

First-gen­er­at­ion rankers.

Apart from the Sword King, Seong Ji­han didn't know much about them.

This was be­cause most of them died shortly af­ter the tu­to­rial ended and the
Space League opened.

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'They were se­verely trapped by the schem­ing of the World Tree Al­liance.'

The elves were the main cul­prits be­hind the near-ex­ter­mi­na­tion of the first-
gen­er­at­ion rankers.

The void left by their death was so large that Earth suf­fered con­tin­u­ous de­‐
feats un­til the rise of the sec­ond-gen­er­at­ion rankers like Bar­ren.

Earth, hav­ing suf­fered too many de­feats, was un­able to move up from the
bot­tom of the league.

'We need to keep as many first-gen­er­at­ion rankers alive this time.'

For that to hap­pen, the Daegi Guild needed to ac­cept not only promis­ing
rook­ies but also rankers.

Even if they were from the Di­am

­ ond League, they still had po­ten­tial to
grow.

"If Di­am
­ ond play­ers are com­ing, please ac­com­mo­date them as best as you
can."

"Un­der­stood. Boss, about the auc­tion sched­ule..."

"You can de­cide, Hayeon. I have some work to do."

"Oh, a date with Miss Sophia?"

Lee Hayeon teased with a sly glance.

"Lucky you~ I work day and night with­out a break... while you date a
blonde beauty~."

Lee Hayeon openly jeered.

Seong Ji­han had a trump card to si­lence her.

"You've earned a lot from work­ing hard, right? This time was quite prof­‐
itable, wasn't it?"

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"What-what are you talk­ing about?"

"The bet I ad­vised you on."

He knew she didn't bet on him, but he pre­tended not to know.

"Oh. Uh, the bet? Well... yes? Ha­haha!"

Lee Hayeon quickly averted her gaze and changed the topic.

"More im­por­tantly, Boss! Bat­tleNet man­age­ment keeps con­tact­ing me.

They want you to ac­cept a com­men­da­tion..."

"They're still on about that?"

"Yes. They even of­fered a date of your choice. The new Di­rec­tor re­ally
wants to meet you... They were quite in­sis­tent. They even said they'd wait
for you to­day, and ap­par­ently got scolded for send­ing that mes­sage!"

If we put con­ve­nience aside for the date, there was time to uti­lize be­fore en­‐
ter­ing the Gold League.

Still, he won­dered if there was a need to go and re­ceive a com­men­da­tion.

'I should dis­cuss us­ing the pent­house more dur­ing this op­por­tu­nity,' he
thought.

The most im­por­tant thing right now is for Yoon Seah to safely spend time
un­til she be­comes a Gold Rank on Oc­to­ber 25th.

Be­ing in the thor­oughly guarded pent­house of Sword Palace was ad­van­ta­‐

geous in many ways.

Be­sides, it wasn't bad to par­tic­i­pate in such events to re­quest se­cu­rity per­‐

son­nel from the gov­ern­ment.

"Un­der­stood. Please con­vey that I will at­tend the com­men­da­tion cer­em

­ ony.
Any date works for me, so ask them to call me at their con­ve­nience."

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"Oh, re­ally?! Yes! I'll con­vey it right away!"

How tor­mented the new Man­age­ment Di­rec­tor might have been was ev­i­‐
dent as color quickly re­turned to Lee Hayeon's face.

While Seong Ji­han and Lee Hayeon were dis­cussing guild-re­lated mat­ters,
Lee Hayeon's phone buzzed.

"Ah, Sophia. Have you landed? You don't know Boss's phone num­ber?"

Wasn't this pre-ar­ranged?

How can she not know the num­ber?

"Can I give it to her?"

As Lee Hayeon moved away from her phone and whis­pered to Seong Ji­han,
he shrugged.

"Since she's al­ready here, give it to her."

"Wow. Easy de­ci­sion. You didn't give it to me like that be­fore."

"Back then, I gen­uinely couldn't re­mem­ber the num­ber."

"Still on about that..."

Lee Hayeon still didn't be­lieve Seong Ji­han's truth.

Is it even con­ceiv­able for some­one not to know their own phone num­ber?

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"Sophia, the num­ber is..."

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Af­ter giv­ing the num­ber to Sophia, Lee Hayeon ended the call and looked
at Seong Ji­han.

"Where are you head­ing?"

"A restau­rant in a nearby ho­tel."

"Hey, you've come to Ko­rea! I should take you to a unique lo­cal restau­‐
rant!"

"Then, let's go to the tra­di­tional restau­rant in the ad­ja­cent ho­tel."

Seong Ji­han had no in­ten­tion of go­ing far.

There was a lux­ury ho­tel right next to Sword Palace, so they de­cided to go
to its tra­di­tional restau­rant.

"I like it there too."

"Is it good?"

"Huh? You've never been?"

"I can't re­call."

"..."

'Why is it that he's a ge­nius in Bat­tleNet, but can't re­mem­ber the sim­plest
things?'

"It's re­ally de­li­cious. You should treat me some­time."

"Shouldn't you treat me, Hayeon, given how much you've earned?"

"Well, okay. Thanks to you, I didn't lose any­thing. I'll treat you!"

She didn't lose any­thing.

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She didn't bet against Seong Ji­han, but thanks to him, she got the Bat­tleNet
re­wards and wasn't left pen­ni­less.

Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

"Never mind. How can I take from the poor? We'll go for a guild din­ner
next time."

"Call­ing me poor? I'm Lee Seongga's daugh­ter, you know?"

"If you keep bet­ting, even if you're the daugh­ter of the Gates fam­ily, you'll
soon be­come poor."

"Wait, you knew I bet against you?"

"Of course, I knew. If you had won, you would've boasted about it."

Lee Hayeon looked away, scratch­ing her cheek.

"Ah... I trusted you, but the sys­tem was such a big vari­able... From my ex­‐
pert per­spec­tive..."

"I can hear Gayeong laugh­ing be­hind you."

"What? Why!"

"I un­in­ten­tion­ally laughed at the word 'ex­pert'. I apol­o­gize."

"Hey!"

"Thank you, Mr. Seong Ji­han. Thanks to you, I earned enough to re­tire."

Lim Gayeong, who had been silent, sin­cerely bowed her head to Seong Ji­‐
han in grat­i­tude.

"You... when did you bet?"

"Miss, I re­al­ized too late. If I bet against what­ever you're bet­ting on, it's like
print­ing money."

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"What...what?"

"But, hav­ing re­al­ized it late, I earned my re­tire­ment fund. Thank you, Miss.
I will still work, though."

"You... Oh my..."

Lim Gay­oung's op­pos­ing bet left Lee Hayeon speech­less.

"You both sort it out then."

Seong Ji­han gave them space to set­tle their dis­agree­ment.

Not long af­ter,

Ring! Ring! Ring!

A call from an un­known num­ber came to the phone.

"Hello?"

[Ji­han! I'm here!]

It was a call from Sophia.

At a tra­di­tional Ko­rean restau­rant in a Gang­nam Ho­tel.

"Oh, you brought your niece? That's great!"

At first, Sophia warmly greeted Yoon Seah, but soon af­ter, "Seah, how do I
eat this?"

"Oh, you wrap it like this."

"Ah, it's de­li­cious!"

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The two of them, be­ing of the same age, nat­u­rally got along well and had a
great time.

As the meal was com­ing to an end, Sophia, with a beam­ing smile, spoke.

"Ji­han! Aren't you cu­ri­ous about the story I told you last time?"

It was a story about an Oth­er­worldly Relic.

Even though he had heard it in de­tail from Sophia in his pre­vi­ous life,
Seong Ji­han pre­tended not to know and asked.

"Of course, I'm cu­ri­ous. But I didn't ex­pect you to come to Ko­rea. Es­pe­‐
cially with­out no­tice."

"Hehe, wasn't our prom­ise in the game enough of a no­tice?"

Sophia, stick­ing out her tongue, then spoke se­ri­ously.

"This is a se­cret. You know, right, Seah?"

"Ah, the rea­son you didn't use your stat points? What is it?"

"There's this thing called an Oth­er­worldly Relics in Bat­tleNet..."

As if she was shar­ing the most cru­cial se­cret, Sophia low­ered her voice to
tell about the Oth­er­worldly Relic.

Seong Ji­han just pre­tended to lis­ten be­cause he al­ready knew ev­ery­thing.

"Wow, re­ally? So, we can gain di­vine power with that?"

In­stead, Yoon Seah was ex­cit­edly re­act­ing on the side.

How­ever, notic­ing Seong Ji­han's lack of re­ac­tion, she asked, "Why aren't
you sur­prised?"

"I al­ready knew about the Oth­er­worldly Relic."

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"Oh my, re­ally? I thought so. I saw an old video of you hold­ing a weird
weapon. Was that the Oth­er­worldly Relic?"

When did she watch that?

Seong Ji­han nod­ded.

"If you're talk­ing about the video from my Bronze League, yes, it was."

"I knew it! My brother said he thought Ji­han had the Oth­er­worldly Relic."

"By brother, do you mean com­men­ta­tor Christo­pher?"

"Yes, that's right. He men­tioned it while watch­ing your video."

ESPN's Bat­tleNet com­men­ta­tor, Christo­pher.

Al­though he mostly used vague ex­pres­sions dur­ing broad­casts re­lated to

Seong Ji­han, he was renowned in the in­dus­try as one of the top ex­perts.

"He said he'd an­al­yze Ji­han's game­play in-depth, even if he has to use his
gift."

"Gift? Was com­men­ta­tor Christo­pher a player?"

"Well, it's a se­cret..."

Sophia, not sure if it's just to Seong Ji­han or if she's al­ways like this, eas­ily
spilled the beans.

"My brother has a sup­port­ing gift."

"What kind of sup­port­ing gift?"

"Well... It's 'Ex­plo­ration'."

She ges­tured a zip­ping mo­tion across her mouth.

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"You re­ally shouldn't tell any­one. I don't know why, but he hates men­tion­‐
ing his sup­port­ing gift. I'm only telling you and Seah be­cause I trust you.
It's a se­cret!"

"Who else did you tell?"

"Um... Di­ana, Jane, Emma..."

As Sophia con­tin­ued count­ing on her fin­gers, Seong Ji­han re­sponded with

dis­be­lief.

"You've told quite a few peo­ple. Is it re­ally a se­cret?"

"They're all trust­wor­thy! It'll be fine!"

Sophia seemed to have no con­cept of a se­cret.

Seong Ji­han im­me­di­ately asked,

"Any­way, 'Ex­plo­ration'... do you know its func­tions?"

"He didn't tell me, just said I shouldn't men­tion it to you. Al­though, he once
got drunk and com­plained he only sees item names clearer with it and
doesn't know what else to use it for."

"What's the gift's rank?"

"Mine? SS!"

"No, Christo­pher's rank."

"Oh, I think it was B..."

Sophia tried her best to share what she knew, look­ing a bit awk­ward.

Lis­ten­ing, Seong Ji­han re­called a con­ver­sa­tion he had with Ariel in the past.

-- I can't un­der­stand it. This world should also have dun­geon por­tals. Don't
you need a player with the 'Ex­plo­ration' gift to elim­i­nate them?

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Sup­port­ing gift 'Ex­plo­ration'.

It seems use­less now.

But in re­al­ity, it was the key to elim­i­nat­ing dun­geon por­tals.

If he had known about Ex­plo­ration's ca­pa­bil­ity back then, the world

wouldn't have col­lapsed so eas­ily in his pre­vi­ous life.

'And Christo­pher had that im­por­tant gift...?'

He had un­ex­pect­edly ob­tained cru­cial in­for­ma­tion.

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Chap­ter 112
As the meal was near­ing its end and dessert was about to be served, Seong
Ji­han earnestly con­sid­ered the Gift called 'Ex­plo­ration'.

'I cur­rently have no means to make Christo­pher mine.'

With Lee Hayeon, who had a growth abil­ity, there was a con­nec­tion.

By lever­ag­ing Zero's char­ac­ter­is­tics to pro­vide sure-win bets, she could be

per­suaded.

But for Christo­pher, who is cur­rently mak­ing a splash as a top com­men­ta­tor

in the US, there was no car­rot en­tic­ing enough.

'That said, I don't nec­es­sar­ily need to se­cure Christo­pher.'

This was the con­clu­sion Seong Ji­han reached while con­tem­plat­ing on per­‐
suad­ing Christo­pher.

While Lee Hayeon's growth was a nec­es­sary abil­ity for the in­di­vid­ual
growth of Seong Ji­han, Christo­pher's Ex­plo­ration was per­haps a gift needed
on a 'na­tional' scale to erad­i­cate dun­geons.

'Of course, there are ben­ef­ its in mo­nop­o­liz­ing the in­for­ma­tion and mak­ing
him mine... but spread­ing this in­for­ma­tion widely is more valu­able.'

Thus, Seong Ji­han de­cided to re­lease all the in­for­ma­tion about the Ex­plo­‐
ration at once.

If he pro­vided in­for­ma­tion to a for­eign coun­try with­out any com­pen­sa­tion

for it, there would be al­most no back­lash...

Be­sides, he had re­cently gained sig­nif­i­cant in­come from var­i­ous places, so

he wasn't lack­ing fi­nan­cially.

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More­over, there was a more crit­i­cal rea­son.

It was more im­por­tant to end the dun­geon phe­nom­en­ on that pushed the
world to the brink and el­ev­ ate the player level glob­ally.

'And to re­lay such in­for­ma­tion, Ariel would be needed.'

A Shadow Elf like Ariel was per­fect to ex­plain that the Ex­plo­ration had the
abil­ity to find dun­geon cores.

"I need to use the re­stroom."

As Yoon Seah was about to leave her seat, Seong Ji­han sum­moned Ariel.

"Go with Ariel."

"Huh... Why?"

"It might be dan­ger­ous."

"Come on, how can the re­stroom in­side a restau­rant be dan­ger­ous?"

"True. Mas­ter, this is a bit much."

"Just go and come back. Ariel will tell you an in­ter­est­ing story."

"...What? Me? What story?"

Seong Ji­han forcibly sent a con­fused Ariel with her.

'I'll be in full pro­tec­tive mode un­til Oc­to­ber.'

Watch­ing this, Sophia, who was ob­serv­ing from the side, com­mented as if
she was en­vi­ous of Yoon Seah.

"Seah is re­ally lucky."

"Why?"

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"She's draw­ing all of Ji­han's at­ten­tion."

"She's my niece."

"I have a niece at my older brother's too. She's cute, but not to that ex­tent."

"If she was your only re­main­ing fam­ily, you'd think dif­fer­ently."

Pre­par­ing for the worst-case sce­nario of­ten brings the best out­come.

'Just in case.'

That's why Seong Ji­han had to be even more metic­u­lous.

"That's it! I want to re­ceive that kind of at­ten­tion from Ji­han!"

"Given this, I do care quite a bit..."

"Not enough, don't you think?!"

De­spite Seong Ji­han's ex­pla­na­tion, Sophia seemed ut­terly un­sat­is­fied.

"Ji­han, what if I of­fi­cially join the Daegi Guild?"

"It's fine. You're pay­ing rent as part of AF."

"Why? Don't you need sup­port­ers? I am quite ca­pa­ble, you know!"

Of course, Seong Ji­han knew bet­ter than any­one that Sophia was an ex­cep­‐
tional tal­ent.

Due to her sim­ple yet pow­er­ful ef­fect of tripling buff ef­fi­ciency, she was
con­sid­ered the world's best sup­porter in his past life.

Any nor­mal guild would have wel­comed her with open arms.

"We're a nur­tur­ing guild, so we don't re­ally... have plans to ex­pand the

guild."

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Seong Ji­han seemed dis­in­ter­ested.

The an­swer that he had no plans to ex­pand the guild was a pub­lic rea­son,
but in truth, the US wouldn't let it hap­pen.

The US pays ut­most at­ten­tion to Bat­tleNet play­ers.

Un­less Seong Ji­han's Daegi Guild com­pletely re­lo­cates to the US, they will
never al­low Sophia to go to Ko­rea.

"What were you guys talk­ing about?"

Just then, Yoon Seah re­turned to her seat.

"Seah... Ji­han re­jected my re­quest to join the guild."

"Wait, what? Un­cle! Why did you re­ject Sophia?"

"There's an adult sit­u­at­ion."

"I'm an adult too! My birth­day has passed."

When Yoon Seah sat down with a sulky ex­pres­sion, Ariel, who fol­lowed
her, spoke as if she was bored.

"There was noth­ing un­usual."

"Yeah, Un­cle. What could be strange here?"

"Mas­ter. So what's this 'in­ter­est­ing story' you men­tioned?"

Fac­ing the ques­tion from the very per­son who was sup­posed to tell the in­‐
ter­est­ing story, Seong Ji­han re­sponded lightly.

"It's about the Ex­plo­ration Gift."

"Ex­plo­ration? Why?"

"That... I plan to re­veal it on Bat­tle­Tube."

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"Why would you go so far as to re­veal that?"

Ariel tilted his head in con­fu­sion, but Sophia, who had been lis­ten­ing to
their con­ver­sa­tion, ex­claimed in sur­prise.

"Ji­han! Don't tell me you're re­veal­ing that my brother has the Ex­plo­ration
Gift?"

"No, of course, we must keep that se­cret."

"Oh, then...? Is there some­thing spe­cial about the Ex­plo­ration Gift?"

See­ing the puz­zled ex­pres­sion on Sophia's face, Seong Ji­han looked at her
thought­fully.

Sophia's ap­pear­ance might at­tract more at­ten­tion.

"Are you cu­ri­ous? Want to film to­gether for Bat­tle­Tube?"

In a cor­ner of the Daegi Guild of­fice.

With light­ing and cam­eras set up, Seong Ji­han be­gan a live broad­cast.

"Hello, ev­ery­one. To­day, I'm plan­ning to broad­cast with a guest."

Seong Ji­han's chan­nel had grown into a mas­sive chan­nel with over 3 mil­‐
lion sub­scribers.

Thanks to his re­cent per­for­mance in the TOP 100 games, an un­ex­pected

surge of view­ers flocked to his sud­den broad­cast.

-- So many view­ers even for a sur­prise broad­castㅎㅎ; -- Ji­han's chan­nel

has re­ally grown. Is it still the old small chan­nel? Lol -- It's only been a
short time since he started, right? How can one grow this fast in just two
months?

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-- And his form is even more in­sane these days. He's grow­ing ev­ery day.
But sud­denly a guest?

Re­spond­ing to the view­ers' ques­tions, Seong Ji­han ges­tured to one side.

Then,

"Hello~!"

-- OMG, Sophia?

-- She re­ally came, lol.

-- Wow... An an­gel has de­scended ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-- I heard Ji­han's chan­nel of­ten fea­tures beau­ti­ful women.

-- Right, Shizuru was the best.

-- We should ex­clude her. She used charm af­ter all.

-- Then let's ex­clude Shizuru and vote for the most pop­u­lar later!

"What vote? We're not do­ing that."

Seong Ji­han quickly dis­missed the view­ers' sug­ges­tions and had a light con­‐
ver­sa­tion with Sophia.

"Sophia, what brought you to Ko­rea?"

"Of course, to see Ji­han! And I loved Ko­rean food!"

"I'm glad you liked it."

"But I couldn't taste the dessert. It was re­jected!"

-- Woah, he re­jected Sophia...

-- Did he re­ject her con­fes­sion on the same day? Lol. Why so fast?

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"What do you mean 're­jected'?"

"You told me not to join the guild. That's a re­jec­tion."

"Won't the view­ers mis­un­der­stand if you say it that way?"

"So, can I be straight­for­ward and say I like you?"

Sophia leaned closer to Seong Ji­han.

She seemed even bolder than be­fore.

"...No, it's okay."

"See!"

When Seong Ji­han swiftly de­clined, Sophia looked at the cam­era as if she
was wronged.

-- Ugh... I never hated the Bat­tleNet real-time trans­la­tion sys­tem this

much...

-- I'm so thirsty for the drama...

-- Did he turn on the broad­cast to stir up drama?

-- Christo­pher. Are you watch­ing?

-- I'm watch­ing. Sophia is an adult, she can han­dle her life. I don't know
why she's do­ing this on the broad­cast though... 🙁

-- Wait, is that the real Christo­pher??

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-- Seems like it lol.

'If I keep talk­ing to Sophia like this, I'll lose my com­po­sure.'

Be­fore the broad­cast could spi­ral fur­ther, Seong Ji­han de­cided to steer the
con­ver­sa­tion back.

"Al­right, that's not the main point. To­day, we're go­ing to talk about... you
know my sum­mon, right?"

As Seong Ji­han ges­tured, Ariel, who had been wait­ing, ap­proached.

"The tu­to­rial's re­stric­tions have loos­ened a bit, so I heard you have an in­ter­‐
est­ing story to share."

"Was the Ex­plo­ration gift such an in­ter­est­ing story?"

"If it can close the dun­geons, it be­comes in­ter­est­ing."

"Wait, you mean Ex­plo­ration can elim­i­nate a dun­geon?"

Sophia, who didn't know about the true ca­pa­bil­ity of the Ex­plo­ration gift
un­til the broad­cast, was greatly sur­prised.

-- Ex­plo­ration? Is there such a gift?

-- What does that have to do with dun­geons?

-- How can a dun­geon be closed? I thought once it ap­pears, it's over.

The at­mos­phere was one of con­fu­sion among the view­ers when Seong Ji­han
sud­denly dropped this bomb­shell.

To this, Ariel calmly pro­vided an ad­di­tional ex­pla­na­tion.

"Play­ers can lo­cate the dun­geon core in­side the dun­geon us­ing a sup­port
gift called 'Ex­plo­ration'. De­pend­ing on the dun­geon's dif­fi­culty, the re­quired
grade for ex­plo­ration dif­fers... but yes. For a low-dif­fi­culty dun­geon, if you
have ex­plo­ration of grade C or above, you can lo­cate the dun­geon core."

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"So if you do that, the dun­geon re­ally dis­ap­pears?"

"Yes. If the league rank­ing is low, it might reap­pear af­ter some time, but
there's a gap."

"Re­ally? With Ex­plo­ration? The dun­geon?"

-- Wow, dun­geons could be elim­i­nated? Even if you wiped out all the mon­‐
sters in­side, the por­tal didn't dis­ap­pear.

-- If we had this method, North Ko­rea wouldn't have col­lapsed...

-- So, is uni­fi­ca­tion with the North pos­si­ble now?

-- There are too many dun­geon por­tals there, so it seems im­pos­si­ble.

-- This re­ally needs to be ver­i­fied, right? But have you ever seen some­one
with the Ex­plo­ration gift?

-- I have a friend who re­ceived the ex­plo­ration gift and be­came a pri­vate de­‐
tec­tive. I heard he's grade C. I should tell him.

When Ariel ex­plained that dun­geons could be lo­cated through ex­plo­ration,

the chat win­dow quickly turned chaotic.

Dun­geon por­tals ap­pear in the bot­tom 10% of coun­tries.

Many na­tions had col­lapsed due to this.

North Ko­rea, just above, was one such ex­am­ple, and sev­eral re­gions in
Africa had be­come un­in­hab­it­able lands due to dun­geon por­tals.

Now it's only the bot­tom 10%.

What would hap­pen to the world if this in­creased to 20%, or 30%?

-- Isn't this ground­break­ing in­for­ma­tion?

-- Peo­ple with the Ex­plo­ration gift hit the jack­pot.

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-- I feel like this in­for­ma­tion could be sold sep­ar­ ately...

-- Why are you re­veal­ing this? You should sell it at a high price!

"It's not even in­for­ma­tion that's been cross-ver­i­fied. Since dun­geons are a
shared prob­lem for hu­man­ity, I didn't in­tend to ask for a fee for this in­for­‐
ma­tion."

Seong Ji­han added with a kind smile on his face.

"So, I would ap­pre­ci­ate it if the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion could ver­ify

this in­for­ma­tion. Do you have any other good info, Ariel?"

"Hmm..."

Ariel seemed to think for a mo­ment.

"How about this? ---------."

Some­thing was said, but only a beep was heard.

At this, Seong Ji­han said with a hint of dis­ap­point­ment, "Oh... It seems to

have been cen­sored again."

"Oh, is that so? That's too bad!"

Per­haps be­cause of Ariel's im­pec­ca­ble voice fil­ter­ing, ev­ery­one thought it

was a sys­tem lim­i­ta­tion, not re­al­iz­ing that the Shadow Elf was play­ing
tricks.

'Let's re­veal only this much for now.'

There was no need to re­veal too much knowl­edge.

They would use the sys­tem as an ex­cuse and con­trol the in­for­ma­tion ap­pro­‐
pri­ately.

Later, Seong Ji­han had a brief con­ver­sa­tion with Sophia be­fore end­ing the
broad­cast.

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"Ah, it's over al­ready?"

"It's not good to drag on for too long. Let's go. You said you booked that ho­‐
tel for ac­com­mo­da­tion, right?"

"Yes. Let's meet again to­mor­row!"

"I have an award cer­em

­ ony to­mor­row, so it might be tough."

"Darn..."

Seong Ji­han, brush­ing off Sophia's sug­ges­tion lightly, said to Yoon Seah,
"Seah, let's go to­gether to drop her off."

"Okay, un­cle."

On their way back af­ter drop­ping Sophia at a ho­tel next to Sword Palace,
[Mas­ter, I didn't men­tion it ear­lier be­cause I wasn't sure. But the woman I
saw ear­lier in the restau­rant bath­room...]

Ariel, who was back in Seong Ji­han's arm,

[From a dis­tance, she's se­cretly tail­ing us.]

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Chap­ter 113
[Tail­ing?]

Seong Ji­han was taken aback in­ter­nally.

Judg­ing from Ariel's words, it wasn't him they were af­ter, but Yoon Seah.

This was his fear com­ing to re­al­ity.

'Could it be...?'

He had been cau­tious upon dis­cov­er­ing the terms from Yoon Seah's Gift.

How­ever, even Seong Ji­han hadn't ex­pected them to ap­proach so quickly.

'As far as I know, the only other owner of the 'Late Bloomer' is Xin Youhwa
from China.'

Could they have ac­tu­ally sent some­one af­ter her?

[Should I elim­i­nate them?]

At Ariel's in­dif­fer­ent sug­ges­tion, Seong Ji­han shook his head.

If it's the per­son tail­ing them, then cap­tur­ing them would only be catch­ing a
small fry.

The cru­cial thing is find­ing out who or­dered the stalk­ing.

[Ariel, can you tail them in re­turn?]

[I can, but if they get too far, I can only hear them. Shadow stats are in­suf­fi­‐
cient.]

[We can't help that. Please do it.]

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[Un­der­stood. I'll be back.]

As Ariel van­ished,

Seong Ji­han calmly con­tin­ued his con­ver­sa­tion with Yoon Seah.

"Un­cle, should I at­tend the award cer­em

­ ony to­mor­row?"

"Of course. Stay within my Ab­so­lute Do­main un­til you up­grade to Gold."

"Ugh... Won't that be too clingy?"

"Just en­dure for a month. Af­ter that, I'll let you go with­out any reser­va­‐
tions."

Af­ter say­ing this, the mo­ment Seong Ji­han stepped into the Sword Palace's
el­ev­ a­tor, he low­ered his voice.

"Seah, we have a tail."

"Eh? A tail?"

"Ariel dis­cov­ered it and is fol­low­ing."

"...Am I the tar­get?"

"Prob­ab­ ly. Ariel said it was some­one she saw in the ladies' re­stroom. Do
you re­mem­ber?"

Scratch­ing her cheek, Yoon Seah replied,

"Uhm, not re­ally... Could it be a sub­scriber fol­low­ing out of fan af­fec­tion?"

"What kind of fan of a Sil­ver Rank?"

"Hey! You were a Sil­ver Rank just a few days ago! I'm a Bat­tle­Tu­ber with
50,000 sub­scribers in my own right."

"Any­way, let's be more cau­tious for now."

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"Got it. Se­ri­ously, a tail?"

Yoon Seah, who ini­tially didn't be­lieve Seong Ji­han, quickly turned se­ri­ous.

She had just re­vealed her Gift's con­di­tions, and al­ready some­one was tail­ing
her?

She had thought Seong Ji­han was be­ing overly pro­tec­tive, but it seems his
con­cerns were jus­ti­fied.

Not much later,

[The tar­get is heav­ily guarded. She even keeps sum­mons in the re­stroom,
and Seong Ji­han is liv­ing very close to her.]

[Un­der­stood. Do not act hastily. Con­tinue mon­i­tor­ing.]

Hav­ing re­turned to the pent­house, Ariel re­played the stalker's voice.

[Uh... It's in Chi­nese?]

[Yes. That's the only clue. I couldn't de­ter­mine who's the boss, but I've left a
trace on the stalker's shadow, so we can trace back any­time.]

Even though that's all Ariel re­ported,

From the mo­ment Chi­nese was spo­ken, Seong Ji­han had a strong hunch
about who might be be­hind this.

'It must be Xin Youhwa.'

Xin Youhwa, the world-ranked sec­ond from his past life and the owner of
China's 'Late Bloomer' Gift, was tar­get­ing Yoon Seah.

'If they're mak­ing moves like this, I feel like proac­tively tak­ing them out.'

From Seong Ji­han's per­spec­tive, he felt no re­luc­tance in killing peo­ple since

he had passed through many hard­ships in his pre­vi­ous life.

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But there was a prob­lem...

'I need to find out where Xin Youhwa is.'

China is vast.

More­over, un­like in his pre­vi­ous life, Xin Youhwa was not a fa­mous player
this time, so it was dif­fi­cult to find out her where­abouts.

'I guess I have to keep watch­ing Seah un­til she be­comes a Gold Rank.'

Seong Ji­han's brows fur­rowed.

He would have loved to take ac­tion im­me­di­ately, but find­ing a sin­gle per­son
in China was al­most im­pos­si­ble.

'It would be great if Xin Youhwa sud­denly ap­peared be­fore me.'

But the op­po­nent wasn't a fool, so that was un­likely.

Seong Ji­han nat­u­rally thought so.

Mean­while,

"They were al­ready pre­pared?"

"Yes, Miss."

"Why not just shoot them? There should be an open­ing."

"The op­po­nent has a sum­mon. It seems they didn't act reck­lessly."

Xin Youhwa frowned.

'No, they should've tried harder. What's the big deal if there's a sum­mon?
Just shoot, right?'

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How strong could a Shadow Elf be to block bul­lets that come in dozens or
hun­dreds?

They could have just charged and killed.

'They don't think it's their re­spon­si­bil­ity, do they?'

The Triad was a pow­er­ful crim­i­nal or­ga­ni­za­tion in the past.

Now they are into le­git­i­mate busi­nesses, and the vi­o­lence of the or­ga­ni­za­‐
tion has sig­nif­i­cantly re­duced com­pared to the old days.

Of course, they were still pow­er­ful against the weak, but it was a dif­fer­ent
story when deal­ing with strong op­po­nents like Seong Ji­han.

They didn't want to take risks.

'This won't work.'

The day Xin Youhwa de­cided to harm Yoon Seah was to­mor­row.

While she was plan­ning to elim­i­nate Yoon Seah with the help of her fa­ther,
a high-rank­ing mem­ber of the Triad, she heard that Seong Ji­han re­ceived a
com­men­da­tion from the Ko­rean Bat­tleNet Man­age­ment Bu­reau and chose
that day to act.

Al­though the peo­ple her fa­ther trusted were cur­rently dis­patched to Seoul, 'I
can't just leave it to them. It might be the last chance...'

See­ing that Seong Ji­han was pre­pared, Xin Youhwa grew anx­ious.

If she missed to­mor­row's op­por­tu­nity, she felt there might not be an­other.

'Late Bloomer... This Gift was orig­i­nally mine!'

The Gift 'Late Bloomer'.

The first to re­ceive it was Xin Youhwa her­self.

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When she awak­ened three years ago, she got this gift which seemed ut­terly
use­less, driv­ing her to de­spair.

But when Yoon Seah re­vealed her same gift re­cently, she re­al­ized its true
value.

'Ever since then, I strug­gled hard and made it to Sil­ver rank...!'

Thanks to the "Late Bloomer" Gift's abil­ity to play the game twice a day,
Xin Youhwa could reach Sil­ver in a month.

She even reached grade E, think­ing she would have a smooth jour­ney
ahead.

But what awaited her was a chal­leng­ing con­di­tion to up­grade to D-rank.

[Con­di­tions for Up­grade to D rank]

[Be the sole owner of the Late Bloomer Gift on the planet. (Cur­rently 2)]

[Among the Late Bloomer Gift hold­ers, be the first to reach the Gold Player
rank.]

Xin Youhwa's gift didn't ex­plain ev­ery­thing like Yoon Seah's, but it showed
the con­di­tions to up­grade to D-rank.

At first, she thought of try­ing hard to reach Gold first, but 'How dare she get
car­ried...'

Yoon Seah, who was get­ting car­ried by Seong Ji­han, could not be caught up
with.

Then, there was only one re­main­ing method.

She must be the sole per­son pos­sess­ing the Gift.

"This won't do. I have to go check it out."

"Ah, miss? You're go­ing to Ko­rea?"

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"Yes. Book a flight for me now! If I leave by this dawn, I can ar­rive be­fore
the com­men­da­tion cer­em
­ ony!"

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"If they had just taken the shot in the re­stroom, then I wouldn't have to go,
right?"

When Xin Youhwa spoke with a grim face, the man who had been re­port­ing
next to her broke out in cold sweat.

"Back then, there was a sum­mon..."

"Do you con­sider all that when de­cid­ing how to kill? If she was away from
Seong Ji­han, you should shoot no mat­ter what!"

"I... I'll re­lay it as such."

"It's set­tled. Since I'm go­ing, pre­pare a gun for me."

"Miss! It's too dan­ger­ous for you to go your­self!"

To that, Xin Youhwa gave a sar­donic laugh.

I might be fin­ished if not to­mor­row. What's the big deal about the dan­ger?

"I have to take on that much risk to com­plete the Gift."

"What if you're ex­posed be­fore you even act!"

"Will I be ex­posed? How many peo­ple know I have a Gift."

Only a hand­ful in the Ce­les­tial Guild cre­ated by the Triad knew about Xin
Youhwa's Gift.

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There's no way a for­eigner would know.

"You guys should be pre­pared for the af­ter­math."

She spoke with con­fi­dence.

The next day.

Be­cause of Seong Ji­han's brief broad­cast, the world was once again in an
up­roar.

[Can the dun­geon por­tal be elim­i­nated? Seong Ji­han's sud­den bomb­shell

state­ment!]

[Peo­ple with Ex­plo­ration Gift are get­ting scouted even by the top 10 guilds.
It's like hit­ting the jack­pot!]

[World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion an­nounces they will test if the Gift 'Ex­plo­‐
ration' truly has an ef­fect.]

[What is the iden­tity of Seong Ji­han's sum­mon, Shadow Elf?]

"Wow... ar­ti­cles about un­cle are pour­ing out ev­ery day."

In­side the limou­sine sent by the Bat­tleNet Man­age­ment Of­fice, Yoon Seah,
who had been ad­mir­ing the ar­ti­cles flood­ing in, ex­claimed.

"Given it's about the dun­geon, it's worth the fuss."

Dun­geon por­tal.

Isn't this the very rea­son why ev­ery coun­try in the world is des­per­ately try­‐
ing to main­tain their league rank­ings?

He re­vealed a way to close it on the broad­cast, it would have been strange if

there wasn't an up­roar.

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-- Thanks to Mr. Seong Ji­han, I can quit my de­tec­tive job...ㅠㅠ No need to

fol­low in­fi­delity scenes any­more.

-- Were you scouted? ㄷㄷㄷ

-- Even though I'm C-class, I re­ceived a full-time po­si­tion of­fer from the
Di­ver­gent Guild. I'm amazed at how they knew and con­tacted me within
just a day.

-- Wow, if you're C-rank, you can go else­where! Try send­ing a re­sume to

Amer­i­can First -- I can't speak Eng­lish...

-- ㅋㅋㅋㅋ This per­son is un­der­es­ti­mat­ing AF. Just send them a photo of

your C-rank Gift.

As posts from those with the sup­port­ing Gift 'Ex­plo­ration' re­ceiv­ing scout­‐
ing of­fers were pour­ing in, Yoon Seah scrolled through the ar­ti­cles on her
smart­phone.

"But Sophia's con­fes­sion is over­shad­owed. Ah... it's a bit in the en­ter­tain­‐

ment news."

"Why are you even search­ing that?"

"Sophia seemed se­ri­ous. She asked me what type you like, un­cle."

"Tell her to be­come the world's num­ber one sup­porter. Then I might like
her."

"Wow..."

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Hear­ing Seong Ji­han's words, Yoon Seah, with an in­cred­u­lous ex­pres­sion,

quickly tapped on her phone.

"Al­right. I sent it as is."

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"You sent that?"

"Oh... Un­cle. She says she'll do it. But in re­turn, you need to stay sin­gle un­‐
til then."

Is this some kind of trick?

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and nod­ded.

"I was go­ing to stay sin­gle any­way."

I have so much to do right now, where would I find time for ro­mance?

"Be care­ful to­day. I'll give you Ariel, but if some­thing feels off, make sure
to use the Veil of the Void."

"Got it."

If it weren't for the tail­ing in­ci­dent yes­ter­day, she would've thought his
worry was un­founded.

Yoon Seah seemed to have re­al­ized the se­ri­ous­ness, prac­tic­ing tak­ing out
the Veil of the Void from her in­ven­tory.

"We're here."

Bat­tleNet Ad­min­is­tra­tion Of­fice, not far from Sword Palace.

As soon as Seong Ji­han stepped out of the limou­sine, he was greeted

warmly by the staff.

"Oh, Mr. Seong Ji­han! You're here early!"

Es­pe­cially ex­cited to see him was a mid­dle-aged man stand­ing at the front
of the staff.

The pleas­antly look­ing, plump man bowed re­peat­edly to greet Seong Ji­han.

"Who might you be?"

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"Ah! It's our first time meet­ing! Nice to meet you. I'm Oh Gyuse­ung, the
new Di­rec­tor of Bat­tleNet Man­age­ment!"

"You're the di­rec­tor? You re­ally didn't have to do all this."

"Oh no, we must when we have such an es­teemed guest! Let me per­son­ally
es­cort you."

Per­haps be­cause he re­placed the pre­vi­ous di­rec­tor af­ter a scan­dal, Oh

Gyuse­ung was overly def­er­en­tial, guid­ing Seong Ji­han to the event hall.

"There's quite a crowd."

"You're re­ceiv­ing a com­men­da­tion, Mr. Seong Ji­han. Many dis­tin­guished

guests have come to honor the oc­ca­sion."

"Ah... I see."

"Orig­i­nally, the pres­i­dent wanted to per­son­ally present the com­men­da­tion,

but due to an over­seas trip, the prime min­is­ter will be at­tend­ing in their
stead. The prime min­is­ter will per­son­ally present the com­men­da­tion at this
cer­em
­ ony."

The Bat­tleNet Ad­min­is­tra­tion's Award for Ex­cel­lence. It's not just given to
any­one, but it's not some­thing so grand that the pres­i­dent or prime min­is­ter
would nor­mally at­tend.

'Why is there such a fuss with all these peo­ple?'

Yoon Seah looked un­com­fort­able, shak­ing her head in dis­be­lief.

Seong Ji­han, how­ever, seemed used to this treat­ment and nod­ded calmly.

"Let's get this over with quickly."

"Haha! Un­der­stood. I'll make sure the cer­em

­ ony is wrapped up quickly!"

As they walked deeper into the event hall, Seong Ji­han sud­denly stopped
and looked at a par­tic­u­lar spot.

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"Di­rec­tor?"

"Yes, what is it?"

"Who are those peo­ple over there?"

Where Seong Ji­han was look­ing was none other than the VIP ta­ble.

"They're dis­tin­guished guests from the Chi­nese em­bassy."

"From China?"

"Yes... they re­ally wanted to at­tend. I hope there's no is­sue."

The Di­rec­tor seemed anx­ious, watch­ing Seong Ji­han's re­ac­tion.

"No, not at all. They came to cel­eb­ rate, how thought­ful."

Seong Ji­han smiled deeply.

His gaze was fixed on one of the guests from the Chi­nese em­bassy, a
young-look­ing woman drink­ing tea, Xin Youhwa.

'Strike of luck.'

Re­ally.

He didn't ex­pect her to come seek­ing her own doom.

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It was un­ex­pected for Seong Ji­han that Xin Youhwa would be here.

She could have just sent some­one from across the sea, but she risked com­‐
ing here him­self?

'No, she must've thought it wasn't dan­ger­ous.'

She prob­ab­ ly hadn't con­sid­ered him a re­turnee, so from Xin Youhwa's per­‐
spec­tive, she would have judged that Seong Ji­han didn't know his iden­tity.

For Seong Ji­han, it was like the ic­ing on the cake.

[Mas­ter, the woman who was tail­ing us last time is also over there.]

Ariel, who had planted a shadow on the fol­lower, con­tin­ued.

Seong Ji­han spread his Force senses widely and ex­am­ined the peo­ple sit­ting
at the ta­ble.

He sensed firearms on them.

Per­haps be­cause they were a del­eg­ a­tion from the Chi­nese em­bassy, they en­‐
tered with firearms with­out rais­ing any sus­pi­cions.

Look­ing at the size and shape, they were spe­cial hand­guns de­signed to be
used against awak­en­ers.

'They're bla­tantly plan­ning to shoot.'

With their in­ten­tions clear, Seong Ji­han wanted to deal with them im­me­di­‐
ately.

But he couldn't just yet.

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What if Xin Youhwa dies as soon as Seong Ji­han en­ters the venue?

With this tim­ing, and since many peo­ple knew he had the Force, it could
raise un­nec­es­sary sus­pi­cions.

'I'll need to make it look like a sud­den death.'

Seong Ji­han gave in­struc­tions to Ariel on his left arm.

[Ariel, can you send some of your power to that woman's shadow?]

[Just the young woman?]

'Yes.'

[Easy. Do I kill her?]

'Not now. Can you make it look like a nat­u­ral death later?'

[That's also easy. She's just a low-rank species, just stop her heart.]

'Good, it's im­por­tant not to leave any trace.'

[That's my spe­cialty.]

From Seong Ji­han's arm, a part of Ariel's power was re­leased.

No­body no­ticed be­cause he pri­or­i­tized stealth.

[Done. Com­mand me when­ever. As long as she's not too far away, I can ex­‐
e­cute it im­me­di­ately.]

'If you're go­ing to dis­guise it as a heart at­tack, ex­ec­ ute when she's away
from her seat. Peo­ple might save her if she col­lapses here.'

[Should I make her go to the re­stroom then?]

'...Can you do that?'

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[An­al­yz­ing a low-rank species' body is al­ready com­pleted. Just make her

feel the urge.]

It's times like this that she truly feels like a su­pe­rior species.

Im­pressed by Ariel's skill, Seong Ji­han nod­ded.

With the plan set, he ca­su­ally con­tin­ued his con­ver­sa­tion with the Man­age­‐
ment Di­rec­tor.

"How will to­day's event pro­ceed?"

"Ah, well, about that..."

Mean­while,

From a dis­tance, Xin Youhwa, watch­ing Seong Ji­han's group, frowned.

'It's not as easy to cre­ate chaos in this venue struc­ture as I thought.'

While in Hong Kong, she wanted to act im­pul­sively, but on ar­rival, there
were many con­straints.

The Bat­tleNet Ad­min­is­tra­tion's venue in Ko­rea was un­ex­pect­edly nar­row;

she couldn't move eas­ily in and out.

'They should've killed her in the re­stroom then. Tsk.'

She deeply re­gret­ted yes­ter­day's fail­ure.

"Youhwa, I heard a bit from your fa­ther."

At that time, Wang Lim, the Chi­nese am­bas­sador to Ko­rea who was at the
same ta­ble, struck up a friendly con­ver­sa­tion with Jin Yuhwa.

"Can you not sep­ar­ ate Seong Ji­han from that woman?"

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"Oh my... Am­bas­sador. Would that be pos­si­ble for you?"

"I have some con­nec­tions with this coun­try's Prime Min­is­ter. I al­ready told
him I wanted to speak with Seong Ji­han. I'll be in an­other re­cep­tion room,
and at that time, do as you please."

Xin Youhwa's eyes sparkled.

Am­bas­sador Wang Lim, who her fa­ther had sup­ported for a long time, must
have been given a lot of money, as he was do­ing a lot to fa­vor her sit­u­at­ion.

"Un­der­stood. Sir, thank you so much!"

"Yes, also, send my re­gards to your fa­ther."

"Of course!"

The two ex­changed warm smiles.

With the at­mos­phere be­com­ing pleas­ant and some time pass­ing by, "Now,
let's be­gin the award cer­em
­ ony!"

The award cer­em

­ ony was about to be­gin.

The South Ko­rean Prime Min­is­ter took the podium.

At that mo­ment, when Seong Ji­han was wait­ing to re­ceive a com­men­da­tion,

"Why am I feel­ing like this? Did I get ner­vous even though I didn't drink
any­thing?"

Xin Youhwa sud­denly felt the need to go to the bath­room.

"I don't have any im­me­di­ate busi­ness right now; I should go and come
back."

She slowly rose from her seat and left the venue.

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In the women's re­stroom pre­pared next to the event hall, "Uh... Ugh...!"

Xin Youhwa clutched her chest in­side the re­stroom and col­lapsed.

If she had been in the event hall, peo­ple would have called an am­bu­lance,
per­formed CPR on her, and taken var­i­ous mea­sures.

How­ever, since the event had just be­gun, no one was in the re­stroom to help
her.

"..."

Ariel con­firmed that she had stopped breath­ing en­tirely and thought from
within the shad­ows, 'Truly a weak species.'

Hid­den in the shad­ows, un­til tak­ing con­trol of her heart, this woman had not
no­ticed at all.

A species with dull senses, that stops breath­ing as soon as its heart stops.

It was in­com­pre­hen­si­ble why such a species had been in­vited to the Bat­‐
tleNet.

'Giv­ing out S-rank Gifts so lib­er­ally isn't weird at all.'

Among the Earth­lings, most top play­ers had gifts of S-rank or higher. Com­‐
pared to the gifts the Shadow Elves re­ceived in the Bat­tle Net, it was a very
gen­er­ous treat­ment.

At first, she won­dered why there was such dis­crim­i­na­tion, but now her
opin­ion changed.

Con­sid­er­ing the lim­its of the hu­man race, shouldn't they be given not just S-
rank, but SS-rank or higher in the Bat­tle Net?

'Mas­ter is the strange one.'

Per­haps it was be­cause of his as­so­ci­at­ion with the 'Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God'
who hunts Con­stel­la­tions.

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Among hu­mans, only Seong Ji­han was ex­cep­tional.

If he con­tin­ues to grow like this, he would be­come a sig­nif­i­cant force in the

Space League.

'But why did he tell me to kill only this hu­man?'

She seemed in­signif­i­cant.

Ariel left Xin Youhwa and re­turned to Seong Ji­han.

On the stage of the event hall, as he was re­ceiv­ing the com­men­da­tion, "We
hope you con­tinue to work hard for our coun­try, Player Seong Ji­han."

"Thank you, Prime Min­is­ter."

He shook hands with the Prime Min­is­ter, re­ceiv­ing flashes from pho­tog­ra­‐
phers.

[Fin­ished.]

[You did well.]

With­out any vis­i­ble move­ment, Seong Ji­han re­sponded to Ariel.

[But why only her? She seemed in­signif­i­cant.]

[She had the Gift 'Late Bloomer'. She prob­ab­ ly was the brain be­hind those
with guns.]

[Ah, was she the one tail­ing Yoon Seah?]

[Yes. For­tu­nately, she came to die.]

[You fig­ured that all out?.]

In any case, while the hu­man race is noth­ing spe­cial, this hu­man stands out.

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Ariel didn't ask any more ques­tions.

He prob­ab­ ly wouldn't an­swer any­way.

Com­pared to wit­ness­ing the As­cen­sion of Black Shadow, this was a mi­nor

doubt.

"Player Seong Ji­han, do you have a mo­ment?"

Af­ter the com­men­da­tion cer­em

­ ony, the Prime Min­is­ter, with a friendly
smile, ap­proached Seong Ji­han.

"Yes, Prime Min­is­ter."

"The Chi­nese am­bas­sador has ex­pressed his de­sire to speak with you... How
about we meet him to­gether?"

While us­ing hon­orifics for the Chi­nese am­bas­sador, the Prime Min­is­ter
pleaded to go to­gether.

"Then, I'll go with my niece."

Upon hear­ing this, the Prime Min­is­ter looked around and whis­pered into
Seong Ji­han's ear.

"Ah, ac­tu­ally, there might be some sen­si­tive top­ics with him... Can your
niece wait out­side for a bit? It won't take long."

'He planned to sep­ar­ ate us.'

Seong Ji­han looked at the Prime Min­is­ter skep­ti­cally.

He didn't know what re­la­tion the Prime Min­is­ter had with China to go this
far, but it was bet­ter this way.

Since Xin Youhwa had al­ready been re­moved, stay­ing with him would pro­‐
vide a solid al­ibi.

[Ariel, stay with Seah.]

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[Un­der­stood.]

Af­ter sum­mon­ing Ariel to ac­com­pany Yoon Seah, Seong Ji­han fol­lowed the
Prime Min­is­ter to the re­cep­tion room.

There, the same peo­ple from the Chi­nese em­bassy were wait­ing for him.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Seong Ji­han."

Wang Lim, the Chi­nese am­bas­sador to South Ko­rea, greeted Seong Ji­han in
flu­ent Ko­rean and of­fered a hand­shake.

"I've been im­pressed with your re­cent ac­tiv­i­ties."

Start­ing the con­ver­sa­tion with such praise, Wang Lim's words were dif­fer­‐
ent from what the Prime Min­is­ter had pre­vi­ously dis­cussed.

"It must be great to have such an out­stand­ing player. Haha. It seems that
Ko­rea is ahead of us when it comes to promis­ing tal­ents."

"What are you talk­ing about? Only one player, Seong Ji­han, stands out.
How can the rest com­pare to China?"

They were avoid­ing sen­si­tive top­ics, just ex­chang­ing pleas­antries.

More pre­cisely, the Prime Min­is­ter was ex­ag­ger­at­ing in re­sponse to Wang

Lim's flat­tery.

If there was any sen­si­tive dis­cus­sion,

"I saw the video from yes­ter­day, Seong Ji­han. In­for­ma­tion re­lated to the
dun­geon core... I never imag­ined you'd re­lease that on Bat­tle­Tube. Don't
you re­gret it?"

"It wasn't even cer­tain in­for­ma­tion, and the dun­geon por­tal is a prob­lem
faced by hu­man­ity. I thought it was right to re­lease the in­for­ma­tion."

"I see. A bril­liant thought. But... don't you think the re­turns to you are too
lit­tle com­pared to the value of the in­for­ma­tion?"

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With that, Wang Lim handed him his busi­ness card.

"Af­ter watch­ing the video, I felt re­gret. If you have such in­for­ma­tion next
time, how about closely co­op­er­at­ing with us? China pays a suit­able price."

"Of course, of course."

Pay­ing a suit­able price?

Even now, work­ing be­hind the scenes and talk­ing like that.

"Thank you for the of­fer. I'll think about it."

Seong Ji­han took the busi­ness card and stood up.

He was there as an al­ibi, but he didn't want to see the Prime Min­is­ter flat­ter­‐
ing the Chi­nese am­bas­sador any longer.

"I'll take my leave now."

"Why not stay a lit­tle longer?"

"No, I've been here too long, and my niece is wait­ing. I've re­ceived your
card, so I'll be on my way."

"We just started to make ac­quain­tance, though..."

Wang Lim tried to buy more time, but sud­denly, Bang!

The door to the re­cep­tion room burst open.

[It's a dis­as­ter! Miss Xin Youhwa...!]

[Huh? What hap­pened?]

[She's been found dead in the re­stroom!]

[What!?]

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The two shout­ing in Chi­nese.

Seong Ji­han, who didn't un­der­stand Chi­nese, looked blankly at the two with
a grave at­mos­phere.

"Oh, no, how could this...!"

The Prime Min­is­ter seemed to un­der­stand and looked se­ri­ous.

"What are they say­ing"

"Well, they said some­one was found dead."

"Who the hell...?"

Seong Ji­han asked se­ri­ously and quickly pre­pared to leave.

"This isn't the time... I need to go to my niece."

"Oh... yes, please do!"

Wang Lim, who had been try­ing to keep Seong Ji­han back, didn't stop him
any­more due to the sud­den news about Xin Youhwa.

"Oh my! Mr. Seong Ji­han, you're here! There's a huge prob­lem now!"

When he left the re­cep­tion room, the Di­rec­tor ap­proached him, mak­ing a
fuss.

Be­side him were Yoon Seah and Ariel.

"Yes, I heard some­one was found dead."

"Yes, yes. A woman from China was found de­ceased in the ladies' re­stroom.
It looks like a heart at­tack... I don't un­der­stand what's hap­pen­ing on such a
good day."

With that, the di­rec­tor whis­pered,

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"We've pre­pared a limou­sine for your re­turn. It might be best to leave be­‐
fore it gets more chaotic."

"Thank you for your con­sid­er­at­ion. Let's go, Seah."

Yoon Seah nod­ded slowly at Seong Ji­han's words.

"...Yes, un­cle."

Yoon Seah, who had been silent on the way home, fi­nally spoke when the
car ar­rived at Sword Palace.

"My Gift, its rank has in­creased."

"Re­ally?"

"Yes, from E to D."

She then looked up at Seong Ji­han.

"...Did you do this, un­cle?"

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Beep! Beep beep!

Ex­it­ing the el­ev­ a­tor, the two of them en­tered the house.

An op­pres­sive at­mos­phere en­veloped them.

"The rise in Gift rank hap­pened when un­cle was re­ceiv­ing an award at the
venue," Yoon Seah slowly be­gan, look­ing in­tently at Seong Ji­han's back.

"Re­ally?"

"Yes. That was also when Ariel, who used to pro­tect me, wasn't around.
And... it was when the Chi­nese woman died at the venue."

Seong Ji­han turned to look at Yoon Seah.

Even with just these scant clues, could she have had a hunch?

She seemed oddly sure of her­self.

'No need to hide it, I sup­pose.'

If she hadn't no­ticed, it would have been a dif­fer­ent mat­ter.

But since she had, Seong Ji­han didn't feel the need to deny it.

"Yes. I did it."

"...Re­ally?"

"There were peo­ple from the Chi­nese em­bassy fol­low­ing you."

"...The per­son from yes­ter­day?"

Seong Ji­han gave a slight nod.

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"I con­firmed he was car­ry­ing a gun spe­cially de­signed for Awak­en­ers. I

sim­ply acted pre­emp­tively be­fore any­thing hap­pened. I just didn't ex­pect
your Gift's Rank to in­crease."

Know­ing the truth about Xin Youhwa, Seong Ji­han ex­plained the sit­u­at­ion
as such.

Af­ter hear­ing his story, Yoon Seah slowly nod­ded.

"So, you killed her."

"Yes."

Look­ing at Seong Ji­han's af­fir­ma­tion, Yoon Seah re­garded him with wor­ried
eyes.

"Is un­cle al­right?"

"What do you mean?"

"You killed some­one."

"I'm fine."

In truth, Seong Ji­han wasn't af­fected at all.

The world be­fore his re­gres­sion was no dif­fer­ent from hell, where he had
killed count­less times.

Con­sid­er­ing the path he had walked, the men­tal shock of killing wasn't
some­thing he felt, es­pe­cially not when he hadn't killed an in­no­cent, but
rather some­one try­ing to harm his niece.

He was just re­lieved, feel­ing no guilt.

But Yoon Seah seemed to feel dif­fer­ently, em­brac­ing Seong Ji­han with a
somber ex­pres­sion.

"I'm sorry."

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"Why are you apol­o­giz­ing?"

"Be­cause blood is on your hands be­cause of me..."

Even though he had changed lately,

The Seong Ji­han that Yoon Seah knew was a good per­son who hadn't been
in­volved in vi­o­lent in­ci­dents, let alone killing some­one.

And now, be­cause of her, he had killed.

She felt over­whelm­ingly guilty and couldn't face Seong Ji­han.

'She's blam­ing her­self even though I'm fine.'

See­ing the down­cast Yoon Seah, Seong Ji­han thought this.

He be­lieved he had fully adapted since his re­gres­sion, but clearly, there
were moral stan­dards where they dif­fered.

Just then,

Swoosh!

Ariel emerged from Seong Ji­han's left arm.

"The mas­ter gave the com­mand, but the blood is on my hands."

"I'm sorry to you too, Ariel. Be­cause of me..."

"Stop feel­ing bad about tak­ing down just one hu­man. You do kill peo­ple in
the Bat­tleNet, don't you?"

"That's just a game."

"Hmm. How long do you think it will stay that way?"

Ariel spoke with a mean­ing­ful tone.

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"The tu­to­rial will end soon. And once it does, the game will no longer be
just a game."

"...Then what hap­pens?"

"The game it­self op­er­ates sim­i­larly as now. But if a player runs out of GP,
they die."

"Die... for real?"

Yoon Seah ex­claimed in shock.

Peo­ple dy­ing in Bat­tleNet?

She couldn't have even imag­ined it.

"Yes. The play­ers you kill in the game... Af­ter the tu­to­rial ends in three
months, they might ac­tu­ally die if they don't have enough GP."

"Die for real? So, you need a lot of GP to avoid that?"

"At first, it doesn't cost that much. But the cost of re­vival fluc­tu­ates de­pend­‐
ing on your rank in the Space League."

"So, GP is ba­si­cally a life­line... But we can just ex­change it for dol­lars. 1GP
equals 1 dol­lar, right?"

"That will change af­ter the tu­to­rial. It's bet­ter to ex­change what you earn
now."

"So, does the GP rate fluc­tu­ate? Like an ex­change rate?"

"Ex­change rate? The fluc­tu­at­ion will be much big­ger than that."

"Wow..."

Seong Ji­han silently lis­tened to their con­ver­sa­tion, rem­i­nisc­ing about the

past.

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The in­flu­ence of the Space League rank­ings on Earth wasn't just re­lated to
the num­ber of dun­geons.

The ex­change rate of GP sky­rock­eted.

Even­tu­ally, it was hard to get 1GP even with 10 or 50 dol­lars.

The cost of re­vival af­ter dy­ing in the game soared.

'Many died in Bat­tleNet back then.'

But play­ers couldn't just quit Bat­tleNet out of fear of death.

Back then, there was no free­dom of choice like now.

Now, Bat­tleNet might be more en­ter­tain­ing.

'Af­ter the tu­to­rial, Bat­tleNet be­comes a real bat­tle­field.'

While Seong Ji­han briefly re­called the hellish past, Ariel whis­pered ad­vice
to Yoon Seah.

"It's okay dur­ing the tu­to­rial. But later on, with a weak heart, you can't sur­‐
vive in Bat­tleNet. If you're think­ing of quit­ting, bet­ter do it now. It's eas­ier."

"I won't quit."

"Then don't look so sad. Be happy. Your en­emy died, and your Gift has
grown."

She glanced at Seong Ji­han.

"Also, Mas­ter is more of a mon­ster than you think. You don't have to feel
sorry at all. Use him as much as you want."

"What do you mean my un­cle is a mon­ster?"

"As his sword, I've felt a lot in his hands. He's not some­one for you to
worry about that much."

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Seong Ji­han smirked.

"That's right, Seah. Ariel is cor­rect."

"Still..."

"If you feel sorry for me, climb up to world rank­ing 2. Even if it means us­‐
ing me fully."

"Sec­ond place?"

"Yes. I will ob­vi­ously be first."

Yoon Seah re­laxed, see­ing Seong Ji­han's un­chang­ing de­meanor.

She felt guilty for what had hap­pened, but she de­cided not to be too down
in front of the com­posed Seong Ji­han.

"Un­cle. No. I'll be the first. I'll pay back all the fa­vors you've done for me
ten­fold and be fil­ial."

"...Fil­ial piety? What kind of fil­ial piety? Peo­ple might think we have a 20-
year age dif­fer­ence."

"Hehe. That's how much I re­spect you as an el­der in the house."

Seong Ji­han shrugged, look­ing at the re­laxed Yoon Seah.

"If you're talk­ing about sur­pass­ing me, I guess the Gift's ef­fect is pretty
good? How's the up­grade?"

"Ah, that? Look at this."

Yoon Seah showed her Gift.

--- --- ---

[Gift -- Late Bloomer (Grade: E -- Up­grade con­di­tion not met)]

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[Up­grades the ba­sic Bat­tleNet sys­tem by one level.]

[F rank ef­fect: In­crease game par­tic­i­pa­tion by 1 per day Nat­u­ral stat growth
rate in­creased by 100%]

[E rank ef­fect: Ad­di­tional stat ef­fect changed to +2]

[D rank ef­fect: Upon league pro­mo­tion, up­grades the rank of an ex­ist­ing

stat by one level.]

[Spe­cific con­di­tions must be met to up­grade the Gift to the next rank.]

--- --- ---

The ef­fect of Late Bloomer Rank D up­grades the rank of a stat.

'It's truly over­pow­ered.'

How can a Gift with such an ef­fect be only D-rank?

A D-rank agility only in­creases agility stats by 10.

With such a Gift, Jin Yoo-hwa must have risen to world rank­ing 2.

Seong Ji­han asked Yoon Seah.

"Did any of your stats in­crease in rank? Or will they start to from now on?"

"Ah, when I was pro­moted from Bronze to Sil­ver, one of my stats changed
retroac­tively."

"Which one?"

"'Agility' changed to 'Pre­ci­sion'. I'm not sure about its ef­fect though."

"As for pre­ci­sion... it's an up­graded ver­sion of agility. It's a stat that elf
archers typ­i­cally pos­sess. It's the op­ti­mal abil­ity for the Archer class."

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Hear­ing this, Ariel, who was next to him, shared her knowl­edge about pre­‐
ci­sion.

"Pre­ci­sion adds to the ef­fect of agility, ad­just­ing the ac­cu­racy of pro­jec­tiles

and ex­tend­ing their range. If you try us­ing a bow, you'll feel the dif­fer­ence."

"Oh, re­ally? Ariel, is there any­thing you don't know?"

"I've also used Pre­ci­sion in the past. I was quite a marks­man for a while."

"Re­ally?!"

At that, Yoon Seah looked at Ariel with sparkling eyes, mak­ing Ariel un­‐
com­fort­able.

"Why are you look­ing at me like that?"

"Teach me some archery! Elf archery!"

"I'm not an elf. I'm a shadow elf."

"Still! The archery of a marks­man!"

"Hmm... Hu­mans and we are very dif­fer­ent in per­cep­tion."

Shadow elves and hu­mans.

The dif­fer­ence be­tween the two species was so great that Ariel seemed re­‐
luc­tant, think­ing it wouldn't work any­way.

"Just teach me once. You had noth­ing to do while you were sum­moned in
re­al­ity any­way, right?"

"...Fine, if you don't mind de­spair­ing over our species dif­fer­ence, I'll teach
you."

Con­vinced by Seong Ji­han's per­sua­sion, she re­luc­tantly agreed to teach her

archery.

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"Great!"

"Seah, what's the up­grade con­di­tion this time?"

"C-rank? The con­di­tion seems bet­ter than last time."

Yoon Seah then showed the C rank up­grade con­di­tion.

--- --- ---

[Con­di­tions for Up­grade to C rank]

[Win in the Top 100 pro­mo­tion match]

[Main­tain a win rate of over 60% and play the game more than 500 times.]

[You must sat­isfy one of the con­di­tions.]

--- --- ---

'Win­ning Top 100 seems tough.'

Hav­ing won twice in the Top 100, Seong Ji­han thought so upon see­ing the
con­di­tions.

He had gained var­i­ous ben­ef­ its since ad­vanc­ing to D-class, but com­pared to
the in­her­ently su­pe­rior SSS-class or SS-class gifts, his cur­rent abil­ity still
had flaws.

Thus, he nat­u­rally con­sid­ered the lat­ter con­di­tion.

'It's not an easy con­di­tion, but if I keep play­ing, it's achiev­able. Play­ing 500
games means...'

It would take 250 days for Yoon Seah, who can play two games a day, so
reach­ing the C-class up­grade will take some time.

"Um, Seah, let's not rush this con­di­tion, let's take our time."

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"Take our time? I'm go­ing to get pro­moted soon."

"...Top 100 is not easy. It's not about par­tic­i­pat­ing, but win­ning."

"No, no. I feel like I can do it. I've gained con­fi­dence. Once I en­ter Top 100,
I can bet all my as­sets on my­self, just like you."

"Seah... that's some­thing only I can do."

"I think I can do it too!"

Where did she get such base­less con­fi­dence from?

Maybe he had been too boast­ful in front of her.

Seong Ji­han felt like he had set a bad ex­am­ple for Yoon Seah.

"When the time comes, bet on me~ I doubt you'll get good re­turns from
your bets any­more, but bet­ting on me guar­an­tees a jack­pot!"

"...We'll see."

He sidestepped her gaze and re­sponded vaguely.

No mat­ter how pre­cious his niece was, bet­ting was a dif­fer­ent story.

He had no hobby of throw­ing money at ob­vi­ous losses.

"Ah! That's too much~! You don't trust me! Not even a penny. Un­cle."

"I'm sorry, but when it comes to bet­ting, I pri­or­i­tize abil­ity."

"Ariel! The archery of the shadow elf tribe is be­ing be­lit­tled!"

"...You haven't even learned any­thing yet."

"Come on. Let's go. Teach me quickly!"

Yoon Seah grabbed Ariel's hand and hur­riedly ran in­side the house.

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'Is she re­ally think­ing of win­ning first place?'

While it seems un­likely, her en­thu­si­asm is com­mend­able.

Seong Ji­han en­tered the house with a slight smile.

Oc­to­ber 1st.

The first game that Seong Ji­han played upon reach­ing the Gold League
was: [You are as­signed to the de­fense game, 'Lone Bridge'.]

It was the 'Lone Bridge' map, where progress had been stalled af­ter a cer­tain
point.

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Lone Bridge.

This de­fense map, col­lo­qui­ally known as "Chibi", was al­ways a hin­drance

to Seong Ji­han's re­peated at­tempts.

It wasn't be­cause Seong Ji­han lacked abil­ity.

The struc­ture of the map it­self was in­her­ently chal­leng­ing.

Af­ter deal­ing with the wave, the en­emy gi­ant tribe leader, Hojo, would in­‐
evitably ap­pear.

His gust of wind would mer­ci­lessly slash all play­ers other than Seong Ji­han.

When more than half of the play­ers were killed, a forced event would trig­‐
ger.

[You... will live.]

The bridge guardian then hurled Seong Ji­han away and self-de­struc­ted, de­‐
stroy­ing the bridge.

Thus, de­spite Seong Ji­han's best ef­forts, the bridge map re­mained un­‐
cleared.

How­ever,

Af­ter Seong Ji­han ad­vanced to Gold, he had a bit of lee­way.

'My stats have grown tremen­dously.'

At level 50, his Mar­tial Power and Force stats were at 68.

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Af­ter go­ing through the Gold pro­mo­tion match, he in­vested all the level-up
points he earned.

Cou­pled with the all-stats +5 re­ward from Bat­tleNet and the guild ef­fects of
Phoenix Flag, his stats had grown to 93.

Only 7 points left to reach his mid-term goal of 100 for the uni­fi­ca­tion of
the three Dan­tians.

'Still, us­ing the fi­nal ad­vanced tech­nique is too much.'

The third ad­vanced tech­nique of the Name­less Di­vine Arts, sur­pass­ing the
Di­vine Thun­der De­cree and Dark Shadow Tech­nique, was the ul­ti­mate
move. Even the vastly im­proved Gold-level Seong Ji­han couldn't han­dle it
reck­lessly.

'I'll have some lee­way af­ter the uni­fi­ca­tion of the three Dan­tians.'

While re­call­ing the ul­ti­mate move, Seong Ji­han greeted Sophia, who ap­‐
proached with a smile, and Yoon Seah, who was ner­vously nod­ding.

"Ji­han! Thanks for in­clud­ing me in the party!"

"Un­cle, Sophia... turns out she's older."

"Hmm, Sophia is older?"

"We talked about birth­days ear­lier. The way Amer­i­cans cal­cu­late age is dif­‐
fer­ent from us."

No won­der.

He re­mem­bered from his past life that Sophia and Seong Ji­han's sis­ter had
com­peted for an Oth­er­worldly Relic.

It seemed odd now that Sophia was said to be the same age as Yoon Seah.

"Come on, why are you fuss­ing over a year or two dif­fer­ence?"

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"Peo­ple in our coun­try are sen­si­tive about age."

"For­get it. We'll be fam­ily soon, so don't worry about it!"

"...Fam­ily?"

"If I be­come the top sup­porter, Me and Ji­han will be­come fam­ily!"

Sophia said this with a bright smile.

At those words, Yoon Seah looked stunned.

It was just an off­hand com­ment that it would be nice if Sophia be­came the
top sup­porter.

How far had she let her imag­i­na­tion run?

Seong Ji­han, a rare sight, re­sponded with a heavy sweat.

"...Let's talk af­ter you ac­tu­ally reach the top."

"Wait for it. I'll be there soon. That's why I joined the Ji­han Carry Party,
right?"

A flame burned brightly in Sophia's eyes.

Seong Ji­han's Carry Party.

This party, com­posed of Seong Ji­han, Yoon Seah, and Sophia, promised
rapid growth up to Gold.

'I wanted to in­clude Masied too, but he de­clined.'

Diego Masied, who re­cently ad­vanced to Sil­ver, po­litely de­clined Seong Ji­‐
han's party in­vi­ta­tion, want­ing to carve his own path.

[Ji­han. Thanks for the carry, but I think I won't im­prove if I join your party.
I want to grow on my own.]

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A fit­ting re­sponse from a for­mer sports star.

Seong Ji­han opened his in­ven­tory.

'I should try us­ing the Phoenix Flag now.'

Up­graded from Phoenix's Ar­row to SSS grade item, the Phoenix Flag.

At first glance, it looked very sim­i­lar to the white ar­row of Phoenix's Ar­row.

How­ever, it was big­ger than the Phoenix's Ar­row.

At the end of the flag was a white flame gath­ered, form­ing the shape of a
flag.

Whirr!

The Phoenix Flag, hold­ing sev­eral times more in­tense heat than the pre­vi­‐
ous Phoenix's Ar­row.

Even though a flag was at­tached at the end, it seemed much stronger just to
wield it com­pared to the old Phoenix's Ar­row.

Es­pe­cially since the con­di­tion of lim­ited uses was re­moved.

'Still, if there's a down­side, it's the at­tack power.'

The per­for­mance of the Phoenix Flag it­self was rated SSS grade.

How­ever, the rea­son it could be judged as SSS grade was thanks to the var­i­‐
ous ad­di­tional ef­fects that the Phoenix Flag pos­sessed.

'I re­mem­ber hear­ing that there's a spe­cial ef­fect when the flag is planted.'

As Seong Ji­han planted the Phoenix Flag into the ground, a sys­tem mes­sage
ap­peared be­fore his eyes.

[Would you like to un­furl the flag of the Phoenix at this spot?]

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"Un­furl it."

Whooosh-!

With that, the Phoenix Flag burned up from the edges and dis­ap­peared com­‐
pletely.

From within, the en­graved Phoenix emerged and be­gan to soar into the sky
on its own.

[The pro­tec­tion of the Phoenix de­scends on the bat­tle­field.]

[All stats of nearby party mem­bers and al­lies in­crease by 25%. This ef­fect
ap­plies as far as the Phoenix can be seen.]

The ra­di­ant fig­ure of the Phoenix, emit­ting light and blaz­ing bril­liantly in
the sky.

Its burn­ing form was so im­mense that it could be seen from a con­sid­er­able
dis­tance.

A 25% buff ap­plied as far as that can be seen.

'That's a sub­stan­tial range.'

On top of that, the stats in­crease ef­fect also in­cluded the caster, Seong Ji­han
him­self.

Feel­ing even lighter, he looked sat­is­fied and picked up the Phoenix Flag.

He could use the Phoenix Flag, which had burned and van­ished, as a spear
again, just like be­fore.

'An SSS grade weapon that casts a wide-area buff... I'm glad I lis­tened to
that crazy Con­stel­la­tion.'

The Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star, was it called Kar­lein?

Sim­ply for lis­ten­ing to his non­sen­si­cal ram­blings, to gain such an item.

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If he had the same op­por­tu­nity again, he would gladly lis­ten.

"Whoa, Un­cle, what is this?"

"The pro­tec­tion of the Phoenix? The buff ef­fect is huge, right?"

In­clud­ing Seong Ji­han's two party mem­bers.

"Whoa, what's this buff?"

"You're giv­ing buffs now... Whoa, these num­bers?"

"Are we get­ting car­ried too?!"

Play­ers of the de­fense game were also greatly sur­prised by the ef­fect of the
Phoenix's pro­tec­tion.

A player who breaks the game on his own now even grants buffs.

Typ­i­cal Bat­tleNet!

A game with ab­so­lutely no bal­ance.

"If it's the Phoenix's pro­tec­tion kind of buff, it'll stack with my buff."

"Re­ally?"

"Yes, let's try it."

With that, Sophia, who grants var­i­ous buffs, ap­plied hers.

Re­ceiv­ing her buff, which had tripled in ef­fect, Seong Ji­han felt his al­ready
en­hanced body get even stronger.

'With this, can we make it to Wave 2?'

Wave 2, which they couldn't progress fur­ther be­cause they couldn't stop the
strong wind.

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But this time, it seemed pos­si­ble.

"Ariel, act as a sum­moned crea­ture this time."

"It seems I'm used more as a sum­mon than a sword."

Be­cause in this map, where they had to deal with the un­dead, the shadow
sword was of du­bi­ous util­ity.

Seong Ji­han sum­moned Ariel as a hu­manoid fig­ure and placed her at the
end of the bridge.

"Sophia, give buffs to oth­ers as well. Let's try to get to the sec­ond stage this
time."

"Of course. Giv­ing buffs is what I do."

He also asked Sophia to give buffs to other play­ers.

Just then,

"So noisy!!"

Boom!

The mas­sive bridge vi­brated, and a roar that shook the heav­ens and earth
was heard.

At the same time,

Boom! Boom!

Sig­nal­ing the start of the game.

The im­pe­rial gate­keeper, Bi­jang, ap­proached the play­ers.

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"While the gate­keeper fights alone at the front, those so-called sol­diers chit-
chat in the back!"

The im­pe­rial gate­keeper, the gi­ant Bi­jang.

Rep­ri­mand­ing the sum­moned player-sol­diers had now be­come a rou­tine act.

-- He's gonna kick them out with a stomp now

-- Will Ji­han re­sist like last time?

-- Prob­ab­ ly, he's much stronger now. Seems like they could get to Wave 2.

-- No way, even if Seong Ji­han does well, if the play­ers at the back get
wiped out, it's over any­way. LOL.

-- But the buff seems good, so it won't end as quickly as last time...

The game­play for this bridge map had been stan­dard­ized to an ex­tent, so
view­ers al­ready had an idea of how the game would un­fold.

When Bi­jang, ex­as­per­ated by such weak­lings, de­cides to stomp.

Ex­clud­ing Seong Ji­han, all the other play­ers will prob­ab­ ly be driven out of
the bridge.

How­ever.

"But you... What is that phoenix?"

The gi­ant named Bi­jang, who stands al­most 4 me­ters tall, un­usu­ally com­‐
pared to his reg­u­lar be­hav­ior, asked Seong Ji­han with cau­tion.

"With that level of di­vine power, only the Im­pe­rial Guard Cap­tain might
pos­sess it... Were you newly se­lected as Jo Woong's suc­ces­sor?"

-- ???????

-- Why is Bi­jang act­ing like that?

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-- Right? It feels so out of char­ac­ter.

-- But what's with Jo Woong? Is it a par­ody of Zhuo Yun from Ro­mance of

the Three King­doms?

-- Seems like it, LOL. If you re­verse 'Bi­jang', it be­comes 'Jangbi'.

-- "Oh, was that it? Oh, then Hojo would be Heo­jeo."

-- I haven't watched Three King­doms, so I have no idea what you're talk­ing

about.

-- It's okay, LOL. The re­la­tion­ships are weird in this game any­way.

'How un­usual.'

It was sur­pris­ing for Seong Ji­han that Bi­jang, who usu­ally dis­liked him be­‐
cause of his ap­pear­ance, was act­ing this way.

How­ever, he didn't show any re­ac­tion.

In­stead.

'Maybe I should try a dif­fer­ent ap­proach this time.'

He de­cided to twist the game pat­tern.

Re­gard­less of how Wave 2 went, with their cur­rent strength, they would
have been wiped out.

More­over.

[Epic Quest]

[Earn the recog­ni­tion of the Im­pe­rial Gate­keeper and pre­vent his death.]

Due to his ap­pear­ance, Bi­jang is highly crit­i­cal of Seong Ji­han.

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In­stead of gain­ing recog­ni­tion in the tra­di­tional way, Seong Ji­han de­cided to

try a new ap­proach.

"I do be­long to the Im­pe­rial fam­ily. How­ever, I can­not re­veal specifics. I

hope you un­der­stand."

"Hmm...! I am the sworn brother of His Majesty the Em­peror. And you say
you can't tell even me?"

Wrin­kles formed on Bi­jang's face, and he be­gan to pout.

His eyes moist­ened, and it was ev­i­dent he was deeply hurt by Seong Ji­han's
re­sponse.

It seemed as if all the emo­tions he had bot­tled up re­gard­ing the Im­pe­rial

fam­ily ex­ploded.

-- Why is he sud­denly so whiny?

-- They say you cry more as you get older... Baby-like!

-- He looks so piti­ful.

-- His nearly bald head makes him look even sad­der.

Seong Ji­han felt more pity see­ing Bi­jang, who usu­ally wasn't like this.

How­ever, you need in­for­ma­tion to share in­for­ma­tion.

"Um... I'm sorry."

At Seong Ji­han's re­sponse,

Bang! Bang!

Bi­jang an­grily pounded his chest.

"How could you! Can't you even give that much of an an­swer? I'm Bi­jang!
The im­pe­rial gate­keeper!"

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"I can­not go against the Im­pe­rial fam­ily's laws. Please un­der­stand."

"Hmm...!"

When Seong Ji­han firmly re­sponded, Bi­jang showed his dis­plea­sure.

Thud! Thud!

He walked past Seong Ji­han, sig­nal­ing all the play­ers to move out.

"You rag­tag bunch. Ev­ery­one, step back!"

Bang!

He force­fully drove the re­main­ing play­ers out of the bridge.

Then he him­self,

Step! Step!

Went to the end of the bridge, sat down with his arms crossed.

"Now, then, let's see how the es­teemed guest from the Im­pe­rial fam­ily han­‐
dles this!"

-- He's up­set.

-- To­tally.

-- He was try­ing to match the rhythm but now he's left to fight alone alone,
LOL.

-- It's okay; he fought alone be­fore.

-- Didn't Bi­jang help with the Heav­enly Net Thun­der last time? There's a
dif­fer­ence with and with­out that.

-- Not a big dif­fer­ence. If it's Seong Ji­han, he can han­dle it, okay?

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-- Oh, al­right~

As the view­ers men­tioned, in the pre­vi­ous game, Seong Ji­han ben­ef­ ited
greatly from Bi­jang's Heav­enly Net Thun­der For­ma­tion.

It am­pli­fied the power of light­ning, grant­ing a sig­nif­i­cant ad­van­tage against

the un­dead.

How­ever, this time, with Bi­jang stand­ing idly, that syn­ergy ef­fect was com­‐
pletely ab­sent.

'Well, it's just Wave 1.'

But Seong Ji­han was much stronger than be­fore.

"Un­der­stood."

Seong Ji­han took his Phoenix Flag, which had dis­ap­peared, and walked to
the cen­ter of the bridge.

"Ahem, Ahem...! Even if you die out of stub­born­ness, I won't help!"

Bi­jang tried to in­tim­i­date him from be­hind, but, "Suit your­self."

With the un­dead army be­fore him, Seong Ji­han re­sponded leisurely.

[Notes:

TL/N: Some de­tails on char­ac­ters in Ro­mance of the Three King­doms:

Zhao Yun, one of the main gen­er­als of the Shu Han state in "Ro­mance of
the Three King­doms."

The name 'Jangbi' is a Ko­rean pro­nun­ci­at­ion of 'Zhang Fei', a mil­i­tary gen­‐

eral of Shu Han in the Three King­doms era of China.

Heo­jeo is not a char­ac­ter I know but the con­ver­sa­tion ap­pears to be play­‐

fully sug­gest­ing that cer­tain names sound like they might be par­o­died or

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twisted ver­sions of char­ac­ters from "Ro­mance of the Three King­doms" so it

might just be an at­tempt to see if Hojo is par­ody on a char­ac­ter any­one
knows or re­mem­bers with­out di­rectly ref­er­enc­ing any gen­uine char­ac­ter
from the clas­sic novel.]

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Chap­ter 117
De­fense Map, 'Lone Bridge' First Wave.

The main force of mon­sters cross­ing the bridge con­sisted of Death Knights,
just like be­fore.

These Death Knights were such for­mi­da­ble mon­sters among the un­dead
that they could even give the Di­am
­ ond-ranked play­ers a run for their
money, let alone the Plat­inum ones.

But now, ev­ery time Seong Ji­han's Phoenix Flag made a move, they were
swept away like fallen leaves in the wind.

-- I told you, right? When Ji­han swings, they're all swept away.

-- Ah... I hate be­ing un­able to re­fute this sit­u­at­ion...ㅜㅜ

-- Who cares about the Death Knight or any strat­egy? He's just sweep­ing
them all away. Se­ri­ously, no anal­y­sis needed for this player.

With­out the Heav­enly Net Thun­der For­ma­tion, he might not be able to sin­‐
gle-hand­edly over­power them like last time.

Any­one who had some ex­pe­ri­ence in Bat­tleNet could have an­al­yzed this.

How­ever, what was the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion?

Name­less Di­vine Art, Triad of Mar­tial Mas­tery: To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion.

With a swift mo­tion, as the Phoenix Flag slashes hor­i­zon­tally, the horde of
Death Knights in front are en­gulfed in flames.

This was an en­tirely dif­fer­ent level of power than what was shown with the
Thun­der For­ma­tion buff.

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Hav­ing lev­eled up to the Gold league, his stats had seen an in­cred­i­ble boost
com­pared to when he was in Sil­ver.

Ad­di­tion­ally, his at­tack style had also evolved from his time in Sil­ver.

'The power of the Thun­der Seal is quite po­tent.'

The stat, Thun­der Seal, that he gained from the pro­mo­tion match.

This power, which en­hances the strength of light­ning, wasn't just ap­plied
when us­ing the Di­vine Thun­der De­cree, but also when sim­ply swing­ing a
weapon.

With the ad­di­tion of ex­tremely ef­fec­tive light­ning against the un­dead, even
the for­mi­da­ble Death Knights couldn't with­stand a sin­gle blow from Seong
Ji­han.

'This is easy.'

He ef­fort­lessly cuts down the ground mon­sters and when he has the time, he
even elim­i­nates the air­borne ghost troops.

Al­though he's fo­cused mainly on the ground, he can't cover ev­ery­thing in

the air.

From the back, the vig­i­lant Bi­jang, who was watch­ing with his arms
crossed, took care of the ghosts com­ing from the other side of the cliff.

"Hm...! He may not be as good as Jo Woong, but he does have some skills!"

Bi­jang grum­bled with a dis­sat­is­fied face.

He had hoped that Ji­han would strug­gle and plead for help.

But Ji­han was too good in com­bat.

"Is this why he's rec­og­nized by the Im­pe­rial fam­ily as the mas­ter of the di­‐
vine beast..."

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Mur­mur­ing to him­self, Bi­jang looked across the bridge.

The horde of Death Knights were nearly an­ni­hi­lated by Seong Ji­han, sig­nal­‐
ing the end of the first wave of the in­va­sion.

How­ever,

From afar, there was the sound of gal­lop­ing.

Cav­alry in black ar­mor was lined up, with ban­ners flut­ter­ing in the wind,
de­pict­ing a black bird with its wings spread out.

The Black Spear Cav­alry ap­proached the bridge with an in­tim­i­dat­ing aura.

They marked the be­gin­ning of the sec­ond wave: the march of the Black
Spear Cav­alry of the Phoenix Corps.

"It seems Hojo has ar­rived... You! Step back!"

Bi­jang rose to his feet.

No mat­ter how pow­er­ful a guest from the Im­pe­rial fam­ily might be, they
can't be ex­pected to face off against Hojo, the leader of the Phoenix Corps.

But,

"It's al­right, Guardian."

"What do you mean al­right? You're up against Hojo!"

"Why would I use a knife meant for killing a cow on a chicken?"

"What, what...?!"

"I can han­dle some­one like Hojo."

Upon hear­ing this, Bi­jang in­vol­un­tar­ily squared his shoul­ders.

Am I the knife meant for a cow? And Hojo is the chicken?

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"Hm. Be that as it may. Hojo isn't an op­po­nent to be taken lightly."

Bi­jang's tone be­came gen­tler.

"He's one of the five great gen­er­als of the Wind Em­pire. Even if you're rec­‐
og­nized by the Im­pe­rial fam­ily as the mas­ter of the di­vine beast, it won't be
easy."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded slightly in agree­ment.

'That's not wrong.'

The leader of the Phoenix Corps, Hojo.

The gi­ant named Bi­jang was an in­cred­i­bly strong mid-level boss.

Even though he was from the gi­ant tribe, his skill in wield­ing a huge blade
as if it were a light sword was un­matched.

Thus, even in the Di­am ­ ond League of the game, the task of fac­ing Hojo was
al­ways left to Bi­jang.

Many teams rashly chal­lenged Hojo only to have over half of their party
mem­bers swept away by his great sword, lead­ing to the end of the game.

"But I don't think I'd lose in my cur­rent state."

In the Sil­ver rank, he wouldn't have dared to fight against Hojo.

But af­ter ad­vanc­ing to the Gold rank, he felt sig­nif­i­cantly stronger.

Even if he couldn't over­power Hojo, he was con­fi­dent he could sur­vive his

blade.

'To earn Bi­jang's ap­proval, it's worth try­ing once.'

Seong Ji­han, de­ter­mined to at­tempt var­i­ous strate­gies to com­plete the epic

quest, said, "It's rare for a Supreme Com­man­der to lead the bat­tle­field,
right? Leave it to me."

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"Hmm... How can I treat a guest of the Im­pe­rial fam­ily like an un­der­ling?"

"The Im­pe­rial Gate­keeper is def­i­nitely some­one who can."

"In­deed! Haha!"

Bi­jang chuck­led, touch­ing the tip of his nose.

Hav­ing a guest from the Im­pe­rial fam­ily ac­knowl­edge him like this eased
some of his past re­sent­ments.

"Still, it won't be easy. Al­right... Take this!"

Swoosh!

A grand spear from be­hind Bi­jang flew up into the air and flick­ered white
be­fore re­leas­ing a bolt of light­ning in front of Seong Ji­han.

In re­sponse, a spear, shim­mer­ing with light­ning, ap­peared be­fore him.

"What is this...?"

"I've im­parted some of the power of the Thun­der to you. Ab­sorb it into your
spear."

This is just a part of it?

Seong Ji­han stared at the light­ning-im­bued spear in front of him.

The spear's power seemed com­pa­ra­ble to that of the Phoenix Flag, an SS-
grade weapon.

'If this is just a part, the main body of the Thun­der­Cloud Spear is def­i­nitely
SSS-grade. I must ob­tain it by any means nec­es­sary.'

Seong Ji­han thought as he ap­proached the Phoenix Flag to the light­ning

spear.

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As he did, the Phoenix Flag be­gan to fuse with the spear, re­leas­ing sparks
and white light.

It seemed the com­bined pow­ers of Flame and Thun­der in the Phoenix Flag
couldn't fully in­te­grate.

But as the light­ning touched Seong Ji­han's right hand: [The Thun­der­cloud
Spear re­acts with your Thun­der Seal.]

The sparks started to sub­side.

The Thun­der res­onated with the crown-shaped Thun­der Seal en­graved on

Seong Ji­han's right hand.

[The power of the Light­ning am­pli­fies, and the Thun­der rec­og­nizes the
player as its mas­ter.]

[Thun­der Seal in­creases by 2.]

"Oh. It in­creased my stats...!"

The Thun­der, af­ter rais­ing Seong Ji­han's Thun­der Seal stat by 2, set­tled
peace­fully into the Phoenix Flag.

"See­ing the Thun­der so docile, you truly are wor­thy to be its mas­ter!"

As Seong Ji­han eas­ily con­trolled the Thun­der, Bi­jang opened his mouth in
ad­mi­ra­tion.

At the same time,

[You have gained Bi­jang's recog­ni­tion.]

A no­ti­fi­ca­tion ap­peared, in­di­cat­ing that the first con­di­tion of the epic quest
was met.

Seong Ji­han slightly widened his eyes look­ing at the mes­sage win­dow.

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Re­ceiv­ing recog­ni­tion al­ready?

It's so dif­fer­ent from the last time.

'I've gained a lot thanks to the Phoenix Flag.'

Per­haps it was due to the Phoenix shape of the Phoenix Flag.

Ini­tially mis­tak­ing Seong Ji­han for an Im­pe­rial guest, Bi­jang now rec­og­‐
nized him.

'Now, all I need to do is save him.'

Con­sid­er­ing how much Bi­jang judged peo­ple by their ap­pear­ance, Seong Ji­‐
han thought it would be harder to earn his recog­ni­tion than sav­ing him.

This felt like a sig­nif­i­cant step to­wards com­plet­ing the epic quest.

How­ever, things didn't un­fold smoothly.

"What on earth...!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

From across the bridge,

A gi­ant hur­riedly ap­proached.

It was Hojo, the leader of the Phoenix Corps, dressed in black ar­mor.

He was vis­i­bly ex­cited, dis­tort­ing his al­ready con­torted face even more.

"Phoenix, Phoenix! The Phoenix is here!"

Is it be­cause he's the mas­ter of the Phoenix Corps?

Hojo was ex­tremely ex­cited to see the Phoenix.

"Who is the owner of the Phoenix! Ah! Is it you?!"

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Hojo, who was look­ing around from the bridge for the Phoenix's mas­ter,
widened his eyes when he saw Seong Ji­han block­ing his path.

"Ah, no, not you. You there! What is your name!"

He again widened his eyes at the sight of Seong Ji­han block­ing his path.

"Why do you want to know?"

"Come to the Wind Em­pire! If you bring the Phoenix as it is, I will hand
over my po­si­tion as the leader of the Phoenix Corps! I will be­come the vice
leader and serve you!"

Hojo, look­ing at the bless­ing of the Phoenix soar­ing in the sky, shouted,
spit­ting out his words.

He was des­per­ately ea­ger to se­cure the Phoenix.

-- I've never seen Hojo act like this be­fore. Why is he so ex­cited?

-- Lol, wasn't he a calm char­ac­ter? 😂😂😂

-- What's go­ing to hap­pen now?

-- I don't know lol. It has long de­railed from the orig­i­nal de­fense game plot.

The game had taken a com­pletely dif­fer­ent turn from the usual 'Lone
Bridge' sce­nario, and even the long-time view­ers on Bat­tleNet couldn't pre­‐
dict the next move.

This was also the case for Seong Ji­han.

'This is the first time some­one has tried to per­suade me like this.'

With just one Phoenix Flag, he couldn't even guess how far the but­ter­fly ef­‐
fect would spread.

He was cu­ri­ous about how the game would change if he ac­cepted that pro­‐
posal, but 'Still, I should com­plete the epic quest first.'

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Seong Ji­han de­cided to first se­cure the Thun­der­cloud Spear.

"What if I refuse?"

"Then... be sub­dued qui­etly!"

Swoosh!

Hojo, as if an­tic­ip­ at­ing the an­swer, quickly drew his blade and slashed
down at Seong Ji­han.

In­deed, it was a mid-level boss-wor­thy strike that could chal­lenge even the
Di­am
­ ond rank play­ers.

Pressed by the wind pres­sure to the point where he couldn't even move,
Seong Ji­han felt 'What's hap­pen­ing?'

It was sur­pris­ing from Seong Ji­han's per­spec­tive, who was on the re­ceiv­ing
end of the at­tack.

It was weak.

Hojo's move­ment was much slower than what he had ex­pe­ri­enced be­fore.

'Did he hold back?'

Per­haps he was ad­just­ing his strength be­cause he had to sub­due, not kill.

If that's the case, it would only be right to give him a piece of his own
medicine.

Whizz!

Seong Ji­han eas­ily dodged the strike and chan­neled en­ergy into his Phoenix
Flag.

The power of the Thun­der and the Phoenix Flag com­bined, send­ing a white
flame-in­fused spear­head to­wards Hojo.

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Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt

Zzzzzap!

Per­haps due to the added power of Thun­der, the Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt was
cast faster than usual.

Hojo, not typ­i­cal of a gi­ant, tried to avoid it with ag­ile move­ment, but.

Screech!

"Ugh, aghh......!"

He couldn't beat the speed of the light­ning.

Un­able to fully evade the at­tack, Hojo was hit on his left arm by the Strik­‐
ing Thun­der­bolt.

In an in­stant, his arm was en­gulfed in flames and turned to ash.

A look of shock was ev­i­dent in Hojo's eyes.

"How... how do you have such power..."

"Rather, why are you so weak?"

Seong Ji­han tilted his head as if he wanted to ask that.

It wasn't like Hojo was a weak char­ac­ter.

Wasn't he the gi­ant race that went head-to-head with Bi­jang?

He never imag­ined that one Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt would turn his arm to ash.

'He wasn't hold­ing back out of mercy.'

Seong Ji­han, who was proud of his judg­ment skills from liv­ing as a Ranker,
could roughly guess the power dif­fer­ence be­tween him­self and Hojo based
on his past ex­pe­ri­ences.

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So, he de­cided to fight Hojo, think­ing he could with­stand him.

But to lose an arm with just one blow?

The view­ers watch­ing this scene went wild.

Es­pe­cially the view­ers in Seong Ji­han's fan club, The First, were all fired
up.

-- OMG! The First, please ac­cept new mem­bers! From now on, I'll blindly
sup­port Seong Ji­han!

-- Blindly? Nah, this is the most ra­tio­nal place.

-- What ex­actly did he do...? It seems he got a buff from Bi­jang again, but
how much...?

-- Didn't you about 'Lim­its'? Lol. Stop an­al­yz­ing and just trust and fol­low --
That's the thing. Lol. As a re­sult of blindly fol­low­ing Ji­han, I'm mov­ing to
Gang­nam ^^

"You...!"

Mean­while, Hojo's face turned red with rage.

Be­ing called weak by such a puny hu­man was the ut­most hu­mil­ia­ t­ion.

The arm that turned to ash re­gen­er­ated in an in­stant.

"I won't show any mercy!"

Hojo roared fiercely and lunged at Seong Ji­han.

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Chap­ter 118
The bat­tle be­tween Seong Ji­han and Hojo.

From any­one's point of view, the odds were clearly tilted in fa­vor of Hojo,
the leader of Phoenix Corps.

While Seong Ji­han had in­deed show­cased his in­cred­i­ble per­for­mance up till
now, he was just a player who had re­cently reached the Gold rank.

On the other hand, Hojo was a for­mi­da­ble mid-boss reign­ing on 'Lone

Bridge', a map that's even used in the Di­am
­ ond League.

In de­fense map strate­gies, the stan­dard ap­proach was to just leave the task
of deal­ing with Hojo to Bi­jang.

When their clash be­gan:

-- Uhm... Do you think Ji-Han can win?

-- How can he even think of de­feat­ing Hojo? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ But Bi­jang might
help if he just holds on for a bit.

-- Yeah, I no­ticed ear­lier that Bi­jang be­came un­ex­pect­edly friendly to­wards

Ji-Han. He prob­ab­ ly won't aban­don him -- As long as Ji-Han doesn't get
killed by Hojo be­fore that~~^^7

-- That seems tough ㅋㅋㅋㅋ.

The view­ers nat­u­rally ex­pected Bi­jang to in­ter­vene in their bat­tle.

And so did Seong Ji­han, who had chal­lenged Hojo.

'I've al­ready been ac­knowl­edged.'

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Orig­i­nally, Seong Ji­han had in­tended to face Hojo to gain Bi­jang's recog­ni­‐
tion, but he some­how ab­sorbed the light­ning, get­ting ac­knowl­edged be­fore­‐
hand.

So, he didn't re­ally need to fight Hojo, but see­ing the Phoenix made Hojo
rush at him lead­ing to the bat­tle.

Be­fore clash­ing with Hojo, Seong Ji­han or­ga­nized his thoughts.

'I should hold him off for a while, and once Bi­jang comes to help, we can
jointly de­feat him.'

He couldn't ig­nore Bi­jang, who had be­come friendly thanks to the Phoenix
Flag.

How­ever,

Things didn't go as ex­pected.

"This... This light­ning... What on earth...!"

Zzzzap!

The pow­er­ful light­ning from the Phoenix de­vice shot out, and Hojo hastily
used his sword to block it.

He man­aged to de­flect the main light­ning bolt, but the resid­ual light­ning
flowed into his hand and arm, char­ring them.

"Why... Why is it so strong!?"

His skin melted in­stantly, even the blood, flesh, and bone be­neath it dis­in­te­‐
grated.

Thanks to the Gi­ant race's rapid re­gen­er­at­ion abil­ity, his dis­ap­pear­ing arms
and hands were in­stantly re­gen­er­ated.

But Hojo looked con­fused.

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The phys­i­cal strength of the Gi­ant race isn't this weak.

It wasn't a di­rect hit from the light­ning, so it was sur­pris­ing that resid­ual
cur­rent could do this much dam­age.

"I won­der."

Seong Ji­han, seem­ingly cu­ri­ous him­self, aimed the tip of his spear at him.

Flash!

An­other bolt of white light­ning shot to­wards Hojo.

"Kuk...!"

He hur­riedly tried to block it.

Com­pared to the re­treat­ing Hojo, Seong Ji­han's Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt grew

even more pow­er­ful.

'Us­ing Di­vine Thun­der De­cree is so ef­fort­less.'

With the ad­di­tion of the rare stat "Thun­der Seal", and the merg­ing of the
Thun­der­cloud Spear, he could use the Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt as eas­ily as a
ba­sic skill.

By this point, the ex­plo­ration seemed over.

'Let's see how far I can go.'

As if just start­ing, Seong Ji­han con­sec­u­tively cast Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt.

Rum­ble!

"Ugh!"

Hojo's sword danced bril­liantly try­ing to block the light­ning.

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But he couldn't stop all of Seong Ji­han's Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt that was cast
with full force.

Di­rect hits from the Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt en­veloped him.

Fwoosh!

The af­fected parts of his body im­me­di­ately went up in white flames.

In no time, the burn­ing flesh turned to dust.

The gi­ant's body parts broke off, fall­ing to the ground.

"I can't... be­lieve this..."

Fwish~

Thanks to his re­gen­er­at­ion abil­ity, Hojo re­cov­ered his limbs.

But he had al­ready lost half his fight­ing spirit.

Just one bolt of that light­ning was enough to send parts of him fly­ing, how
could he pos­si­bly con­tinue the fight?

See­ing Hojo, who couldn't muster the courage to charge, Seong Ji­han re­‐
marked: "Are you an un­dead?"

"You... What non­sense are you spout­ing?!"

"Con­sid­er­ing how weak you are against light­ning, you seem like an un­‐
dead."

It's an ex­treme weak­ness of the un­dead: Di­vine Thun­der De­cree.

Added to this are the Thun­der­cloud Spear and the pow­er­ful white flames of
the Phoenix that's also ef­fec­tive against the un­dead.

The power thun­der emit­ted by Seong Ji­han was no dif­fer­ent from the ul­ti­‐
mate weapon against the great un­dead.

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"It doesn't look like an un­dead at all from the out­side..."

Its ap­pear­ance was just like Bi­jang, re­sem­bling a gi­ant.

There was no feel of the unique deathly aura of the un­dead.

When re­gen­er­ated, it re­turned in its full flesh and blood form.

Ex­cept for its ridicu­lous weak­ness to the light­ning, there was no ev­i­dence
that it was un­dead.

Was that why?

Hojo strongly de­nied Seong Ji­han's guess.

"What non­sense are you talk­ing about! I'm an un­dead!?"

"Well, we'll know if you die."

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Light­ning Body Siz­‐

zling...!

Seong Ji­han's body slowly be­came trans­par­ent, and white light­ning rose on
his body.

The Light­ning Body that equates him­self with light­ning.

Its ap­pear­ance was a bit dif­fer­ent from when he usu­ally used it.

"There's no need to stick to the ba­sics."

There's no need to merge with just the en­ergy of thun­der in Light­ning Body.

Ab­sorb­ing and in­te­grat­ing the White Flame of the Phoenix would be more
ef­fec­tive against the un­dead.

As Seong Ji­han's body be­came trans­par­ent, white flames be­gan to rise.

"Cough...!"

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Hojo shud­dered slightly.

He in­stinc­tively felt that this power was his neme­sis.

Swish! Swish!

Deny­ing that sen­sa­tion, Hojo fiercely swung his blade to­wards Seong Ji­han.

The gi­ant's blade strike, which dis­ap­peared and re­gen­er­ated sev­eral times,
was still pow­er­ful.

Hojo's great blade swiftly touched Seong Ji­han's head.

"This, this can't be!"

Bi­jang, who was watch­ing the bat­tle from be­hind, hur­ried for­ward, but it
was al­ready too late.

It seemed like Hojo's great blade would split Seong Ji­han's head in half at
any mo­ment.

But...

"Ugh!"

The great blade couldn't pro­ceed any fur­ther from Seong Ji­han's fore­head.

Siz­zling...!

"Ugh!"

He couldn't over­come the light­ning emit­ted by Seong Ji­han in his Light­ning

Body state.

As Hojo ap­proached Seong Ji­han, his whole body seemed to be on fire.

"This... is im­pos­si­ble...!"

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He was ex­tremely vul­ner­ab­ le to the light­ning con­ducted through the great

blade.

The gi­ant's arm dis­ap­peared and re­gen­er­ated re­peat­edly, seem­ing to let go

of the great blade at any mo­ment.

Then...

Boom!

The Thun­der­cloud Spear thrown hastily by Bi­jang from be­hind struck Hojo.

Siz­zle!

Al­though it was also a light­ning-at­tribute weapon, Bi­jang's Thun­der­cloud

Spear didn't pierce Hojo as eas­ily as Seong Ji­han's did.

In­stead, the light­ning from the Thun­der­cloud Spear was ab­sorbed into
Hojo's ar­mor and dis­ap­peared with­out any ef­fect.

"This is what it should be... How?!"

See­ing this, Hojo shouted in frus­tra­tion.

The Thun­der­bolt thrown by Bi­jang, the owner of the Thun­der­cloud Spear,

was blocked by the ar­mor.

Why was he so de­fense­less against this hu­man?

"Amaz­ing, isn't it?"

Thunk!

The White Flame of the Phoenix pierced through Hojo's body in one go.

Un­like Bi­jang's at­tack just a mo­ment ago,

The white spear pierced the gi­ant's heart with­out any re­sis­tance.

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"Why am I so weak against him?"

Hojo couldn't an­swer Seong Ji­han's ques­tion.

Whooosh...!

With his heart pierced, Hojo burned to ashes in an in­stant.

And as if to con­firm Hojo's death,

[Spe­cial Achieve­ment, 'De­feat Hojo.' has been cleared.]

[Achieve­ment points 10,000 re­warded.]

[Spe­cial Achieve­ment, 'De­feat Hojo Alone.' has been cleared.]

[Achieve­ment points 30,000 re­warded.]

Achieve­ment mes­sages popped up, and only the blade and ar­mor of Hojo,
who lost its mas­ter, fell onto the cloud bridge.

"......."

Bi­jang, who was hur­riedly com­ing to as­sist Seong Ji­han, was speech­less
upon see­ing the scene.

"Hojo...is he dead?"

Bi­jang couldn't com­pre­hend the sit­u­at­ion.

Hojo, the great leader of the Phoenix Corps.

Bi­jang, also of the gi­ant clan, knew bet­ter about Hojo's strength.

One of the five strong­est war­riors of the Wind Em­pire.

He wasn't the type to fall so pow­er­lessly to Seong Ji­han.

-- Why did Hojo die so quickly?

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-- Wasn't he orig­i­nally harder than the fi­nal boss of this map?

-- Yeah, his dam­age is high and his re­gen­er­at­ive abil­ity is in­sane; it's a com­‐
mon strat­egy to just let Bi­jang deal with him.

The view­ers watch­ing Seong Ji­han's broad­cast were equally shocked.

In the de­fense map, 'Lone Bridge', even though Hojo ap­peared as a mid-
level boss, his pat­terns were tricky and his re­gen­er­at­ive abil­i­ties were ex­‐
treme, mak­ing him tougher than the fi­nal boss from the player's per­spec­tive.

Thus, play­ers usu­ally let Hojo fight with Bi­jang, sav­ing their en­ergy to face
the fi­nal boss.

How­ever, that pow­er­ful be­ing was eas­ily shat­tered by Seong Ji­han's spear.

-- Whoa... Was Hojo re­ally an un­dead? Then he's weak to holy power?

-- No, I don't think so? From the ex­per­i­ments be­fore, he had strong re­sis­‐
tance against both holy and el­em
­ en­tal mag­ics.

-- Right, he han­dled the light­ning Bi­jang threw just fine ear­lier.

While it wasn't un­usual for Seong Ji­han's game to have un­ex­pected turns,
de­feat­ing Hojo this time was es­pe­cially in­com­pre­hen­si­ble.

Why did Hojo show a per­fect com­pat­i­bil­ity only with Seong Ji­han?

"What... how did you do that?"

"Well, if I were to guess, Hojo seemed vul­ner­ab­ le to the Phoenix's flames.

He couldn't re­sist the com­bined power of the Phoenix's white flames with
the thun­der."

"The leader of the Phoenix Corps is weak to the power of the Phoenix...
That's pe­cu­liar."

Seong Ji­han, who un­ex­pect­edly dom­i­nated, thought the Phoenix's white

flames were the vari­able.

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The com­bi­na­tion of White Flame, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree, and Thun­der­‐

cloud Spear.

Though these have ex­treme com­pat­i­bil­ity against the un­dead and their com­‐
bined ef­fect was im­pres­sive, it was un­nat­u­ral for a strong foe like Hojo to
dis­ap­pear as if he had a weak­ness.

"Se­cure the di­vine beast!"

On the other hand, the Phoenix Corps, hav­ing lost its great lord, didn't men­‐
tion any­thing about Hojo and were sin­gu­larly fo­cused on cap­tur­ing the
Phoenix float­ing in the sky.

"Charge!"

Thud thud thud thud...!

From the other side of the cloud bridge, a cav­alry unit charged in per­fect
for­ma­tion.

Watch­ing them, Bi­jang chuck­led as if he found them amus­ing.

"What au­dac­ity! Charg­ing with­out Hojo?"

Thump! Thump!

With that, Bi­jang walked in front of Seong Ji­han.

"You rest for a bit."

Hold­ing his spear, he sin­gle-hand­edly charged at the Phoenix Corps.

If the game had pro­ceeded nor­mally, Bi­jang, af­ter bat­tling with Hojo, would
be ex­hausted.

But, thanks to Hojo be­ing eas­ily sub­dued by Seong Ji­han, Bi­jang was in
prime con­di­tion.

Bang! Bang!

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Swing­ing his mas­sive Thun­der­cloud Spear like a club, Bi­jang in­stantly dec­‐
i­mated the cav­alry unit.

The Phoenix Corps num­bered in the hun­dreds, but against the nar­row
bridge ter­rain and Bi­jang's over­whelm­ing strength, they were help­less.

'He fights well.'

As Bi­jang said, their charge was fu­tile against the gi­ant.

Ev­ery time Bi­jang swung his Thun­der­cloud Spear, which was as big as a
small tele­phone pole, "Arghhh......!"

Mem­bers of the Phoenix Corps couldn't with­stand the at­tack and fell off the
cliff.

Given the dif­fer­ence in strength, it made sense to give up the charge.

"Se­cure the di­vine beast!"

The black spear sol­diers seemed to have lost their minds, fo­cus­ing only on
the di­vine beast and re­lent­lessly charg­ing like moths to a flame.

"Have they gone mad?"

Boom! Boom!

Even as Bi­jang mer­ci­lessly flung the spear sol­diers away, some­how, the
black spear sol­diers con­tin­ued to find open­ings, at­tempt­ing to ap­proach
Seong Ji­han.

How­ever.

Even if they got close, it was of no use.

Com­pared to Hojo, their ca­pa­bil­i­ties were con­sid­er­ably weaker.

Chi­ieeek!

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They were all eas­ily pierced by the Phoenix's White Flames, turn­ing into
dust and dis­ap­pear­ing.

Chi­ieeek!

'These guys also dis­ap­pear like Hojo...'

It's pe­cu­liar how those who bear the name of the Phoenix are the weak­est to
the flames of the Phoenix.

He didn't un­der­stand the rea­son for this, but for now, he con­sid­ered them as
ex­pe­ri­ence points.

As he was about to elim­i­nate all the Black Spear Sol­diers, "Wait a mo­‐
ment!"

Among the Spear Sol­diers who were reck­lessly ap­proach­ing him, one of
them sud­denly seemed to come to his senses.

Star­tled, he ur­gently said, "This... this can't be... Please spare me! I will tell
you ev­ery­thing!"

'Fi­nally, it hap­pened.'

It was an event that usu­ally oc­curred as the sec­ond wave, the as­sault of the
Black Spear Sol­diers, was near­ing its end.

The 'Black Spear Sol­dier who re­gained his san­ity'.

This was an es­sen­tial event that al­ways took place be­fore the fi­nal boss bat­‐
tle.

Through his con­fes­sion, the weak­ness of the fi­nal boss of this map was re­‐
vealed.

Us­ing this in­for­ma­tion to tar­get the boss's vul­ner­ab­ il­ity while de­fend­ing the
bridge was the ul­ti­mate bat­tle.

'This... seems eas­ier than I thought.'

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Chap­ter 119
"The Em­peror, who had passed away, sud­denly came back to life one day..."

The story told by the spear sol­dier was one al­ready fa­mil­iar to Seong Ji­han,
who had cleared this map be­fore.

It spoke of the for­mer em­peror of the Wind Em­pire who died a year ago but
sud­denly res­ur­rected.

This em­peror re­claimed his throne from his son and launched a mas­sive in­‐
va­sion against the Cloud Em­pire.

His pri­mary ob­jec­tive in do­ing so was to ob­tain the 'Di­vine Beasts'.

"The Em­peror said he sought a Di­vine Beasts to of­fer to the Phoenix that
res­ur­rected him. As you know, when we talk about Di­vine Beasts, it's the
Cloud Em­pire, right? Hence, the Em­peror broke the non-ag­gres­sion treaty
and pre­pared for a full-scale in­va­sion."

"... And he specif­i­cally or­dered that the Azure Dragon and the Phoenix be
se­cured at all costs. There was a spell on the en­tire Phoenix Corps, but it
seems I was for­tu­nate enough to es­cape it... When I saw the Phoenix, I lost
my mind."

For an NPC plead­ing for his life, this 'Awak­ened Black Spear Sol­dier' sure
was ver­bose.

The char­ac­ter seemed like a lore dump.

-- When will this damn lore end?

-- This map has the most di­al­ogue, damn it.

-- Now that Seong Ji­han sum­moned the Phoenix, there's even more di­a­‐
logue.

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-- Just tell us the boss's weak­ness al­ready!

Given that even Di­am

­ ond rankers played on this map, the view­ers were fa­‐
mil­iar with the NPC's di­al­ogue.

Al­though a few lines had been added be­cause Seong Ji­han sum­moned the
Phoenix, in essence, it boiled down to the Wind Em­pire's res­ur­rected em­‐
peror's in­va­sion.

"Hmm, is that so...? Em­peror Cho­jyo res­ur­rected us­ing the power of the
Phoenix?"

"I didn't even know a real phoenix ex­isted."

"One thing I'm cu­ri­ous about: Why did they not use the orig­i­nal phoenix
flag and in­stead use a black­bird flag? Wasn't it orig­i­nally red?"

The Phoenix's sym­bolic color was fiery red. Yet, the ban­ners and the un­dead
from the in­vad­ing Feng Em­pire all bore a black­bird.

When Bi­jang in­quired about this, the spear sol­dier replied, "Be­cause the
phoenix that ap­peared was black."

"A black phoenix?!"

"Yes. So, the Em­peror or­dered all flags within the em­pire to be changed... If
not, the phoenix's off­spring would pun­ish them."

The mo­ment the spear sol­dier men­tioned the phoenix's off­spring, a loud
flap­ping noise res­onated from the sky, and he screamed in ter­ror.

"They're here! Those crea­tures!"

Those crea­tures.

The fi­nal bosses of the One-Leg map had ap­peared.

'They're here.'

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The bosses of the One-Leg map, the Phoenix's 'Off­springs'.

Rather than a sin­gle en­tity, it was a swarm of large birds, all merged to­‐
gether.

See­ing the ap­proach­ing flock, Bi­jang mur­mured in dis­be­lief.

"...What the hell? Those sizes... They're the off­spring of the Phoenix?!"

"Yes... Those are in­deed the Phoenix's off­spring..."

"How can they be off­spring!"

Bi­jang and the spear sol­dier were both in shock, but for Seong Ji­han and the
view­ers, it was a fa­mil­iar scene.

-- He came this far In Gold...

-- Not sur­pris­ing any­more, lol.

-- Can they clear it?

-- But since Hojo is dead, it's al­most a guar­an­teed win, right?

-- Yeah, if there's no Hojo, Bi­jang will prob­ab­ ly help out.

While the Phoenix's off­spring were not weak, Hojo, the leader of Phoenix
Corps, had been a no­to­ri­ously chal­leng­ing op­po­nent in the game.

So, with his ab­sence, the game's out­come looked promis­ing.

More­over, there was an­other fac­tor as­sist­ing in coun­ter­ing the Phoenix's

off­spring.

"They look pretty strong!"

"I... I know their weak­ness!"

The spear sol­dier men­tioned a 'fa­tal weak­ness'.

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"The real one has a blue beak!"

While all the Phoenix's off­spring looked iden­ti­cal, their beak col­ors were
di­verse, each sport­ing one of five dif­fer­ent shades.

The gen­uine off­spring changed its color ran­domly with ev­ery game.

-- So the real one's blue this time.

-- Is the num­ber the same, 5?

-- Yeah, same num­ber. 25 di­vided into five col­ors.

When the real one is at­tacked, the fakes also get dam­aged and van­ish along
with it.

"There's such a weak­ness, so even though the Phoenix's off­spring is the fi­‐
nal boss of this map, it's been con­sid­ered weaker than the Hojo."

"Blue color... How do you know about that?"

"Only the chick with a blue beak ate the sac­ri­fi­cial of­fer­ings. The rest were
be­com­ing trans­par­ent from be­hind."

"Hmm, okay. Let's start the at­tack with the one with the blue beak."

"Ah, and about mix­ing the Phoenix's power into Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt, it's
best to re­frain as much as pos­si­ble..."

It seemed that due to the float­ing phoenix, the spear sol­dier was about to
add some­thing more.

At that re­mark, Seong Ji­han tilted his head.

'Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt?'

How does the NPC spear sol­dier know of the ex­is­tence of the Strik­ing
Thun­der­bolt?

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When Seong Ji­han looked at the spear sol­dier with cu­ri­ous eyes, Sud­denly,
his mouth stopped.

No, not only his mouth,

The en­tire world had stopped.

[The sys­tem de­tects an anom­aly in the NPC's di­al­ogue...]

[An unau­tho­rized ter­mi­nal of the Con­stel­la­tion has in­fil­trated the game.]

[Ex­pelling the op­po­nent.]

'What...?'

And then,

In the paused world, the spear sol­dier slowly brushed his hair back.

"Damn. I wanted to talk to 'the head' for a mo­ment."

Spear sol­dier, re­fer­ring to Seong Ji­han as 'the head'.

Such an op­po­nent was pre­dictable.

'The Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star, huh?'

How did it get in when it was pro­hib­ited from ap­proach­ing Earth?

"I briefly pos­sessed the body of an old ser­vant, but you caught on."

[Ex­pul­sion pro­ce­dure in progress. 5. 4...]

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"Ah, got it. Hey head, be care­ful with the birds! They are dan­ger­ous, so
don't get caught! Es­pe­cially, don't mix in the power of the Phoenix! The
'tree' can de­tect you!"

Spear sol­dier ur­gently warn­ing Seong Ji­han.

It was ad­vice filled with gen­uine con­cern.

"See you next time!"

With a fi­nal wave, the spear sol­dier, the only mov­ing en­tity in the paused
world, also stopped.

[Re­sum­ing the game.]

Only af­ter this sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared did the game re­sume.

"Huh... Why?"

The spear sol­dier, who had warned against us­ing the power of the phoenix,
looked puz­zled and then won­dered aloud, "Why did you stop talk­ing?"

"No, noth­ing."

-- What's up with him?

-- Was there a mis­match while adding di­al­ogue in real-time from Bat­tleNet?

-- Lol, since when did Bat­tleNet be­come such a fancy game plat­form?

-- It doesn't seem like Bat­tleNet has been per­fect since the last Top 100
game, right?

The view­ers watch­ing the game, ap­par­ently not hav­ing heard the ear­lier di­a­‐
logue, were only com­ment­ing on the spear sol­dier's stut­ter­ing.

'Bat­tleNet... Isn't it too eas­ily breached?'

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It hasn't even been a week since the end of the Top 100 match, yet an­other
in­tru­sion?

There was def­i­nitely a hole some­where in the Bat­tleNet sys­tem.

'And, was that spear sol­dier orig­i­nally a ser­vant of the Con­stel­la­tion?'

Ex­pos­i­tory spear sol­dier.

It was strange that the plead­ing sol­dier calmly ex­plained the sit­u­at­ion and
even knew the en­emy boss's weak­ness.

He thought it was just a con­ve­niently cre­ated NPC by the sys­tem, but it

seemed that wasn't the case.

'What's the prob­lem with mix­ing the Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt and the White
Flame of the Phoenix?'

If the Phoenix it­self was the prob­lem, he would have told him to put away
the float­ing Phoenix he was cur­rently us­ing as a buff.

What he pointed out was specif­i­cally mix­ing the two pow­ers.

Could this be re­lated to how the Hojo was so eas­ily de­feated ear­lier?

As Seong Ji­han was con­tem­plat­ing these re­cent events, "Mas­ter."

Ariel, who had been left at the en­trance of the bridge, ap­proached and
spoke.

"Can you use me to catch those birds?"

"Why?"

"Those crea­tures are un­der the pro­tec­tion of the World Tree and are the en­e­‐
mies who prey on our kind."

Seong Ji­han re­called the warn­ing given by Kar­lein.

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The ad­vice that the 'tree' can de­tect you.

Did the tree sig­nify the World Tree?

'In the last life, the World Tree Al­liance and Kill the King acted in tan­dem
to de­stroy the Earth... weren't they not on good terms?'

Upon re­flec­tion, they didn't have a di­rect con­nec­tion.

The World Tree Al­liance only caused Earth's league rank­ing to plum­met in
the Space League.

Kill the King had sprung from the dun­geons and erad­i­cated Earth­lings.

'Oth­er­worldly forces are also com­pli­cated.'

As Seong Ji­han was con­tem­plat­ing this,

Ariel, per­haps sens­ing his dis­com­fort, said anx­iously, "If you cap­ture that
cor­rupted phoenix with Eclipse, your Shadow Sword stat will in­crease."

"Re­ally? Then I have to catch it."

Seong Ji­han sud­denly stopped pon­der­ing.

Whether it's the World Tree Al­liance or Kill the King, If his stats would in­‐
crease, he couldn't re­sist.

Seong Ji­han reached out to Ariel.

Shhhh~

The shadow elf dis­ap­peared, and a shadow sword was held in Seong Ji­han's
left hand.

"You... What is that...?"

As the solemn shadow elf trans­formed into a sword, Bi­jang widened his
eyes in sur­prise.

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"I will han­dle it Gate­keeper. Please take care of the bar­ri­ers."

"Do you not need help?"

"Don't worry!"

Seong Ji­han firmly asked not to in­ter­vene, and even stuck his Phoenix Flag
into the ground.

"Hmm. Isn't that too reck­less? Maybe I should help..."

"I told you I'm fine!"

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Foot­work Tech­nique -- Flash­ing Sky Thun­der Steps

If he's on the ground, will Bi­jang help him?

Seong Ji­han quickly soared into the sky, us­ing his Foot­work Tech­nique.

To any­one watch­ing, he was clearly ea­ger about the stat.

-- Is he rush­ing be­cause he thinks Bi­jang will help?

-- Why did he leave the Phoenix Flag be­hind tho? LOL.

-- Di­am
­ ond rankers form teams to catch bosses like this. Isn't he be­ing too
reck­less?

-- It's Seong Ji­han, af­ter all.

-- He even de­feated Hojo~

Ki­i­iik!

As Seong Ji­han soared, shad­owy grotesque clones started to charge at him

one by one.

Maybe they deemed that a sin­gle hu­man-like Seong Ji­han didn't re­quire all
of them at once.

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The Phoenix's off­spring seemed re­laxed.

How­ever,

[This is my spe­cial­ity.]

Whoosh!

As the ex­tended shadow sword touched the Phoenix's off­spring, Be­fore

even slic­ing their skin, they started to get ab­sorbed di­rectly into the shadow
sword.

Kiik! Ki­iik!

The grotesque be­ings twisted to es­cape as they were pulled into the sword.

But they couldn't re­sist the sword's ab­sorp­tion, and were com­pletely drawn
in.

"Huh. They can't re­sist at all?"

[They are mere shells that had their 'im­mor­tal­ity' taken away by the World
Tree. They are noth­ing but shad­ows left from the orig­i­nal Phoenixes.]

Say­ing that they can't re­sist the shadow sword, Ariel spoke con­fi­dently.

[I'll keep catch­ing them.]

Ki­i­iik!

And so, af­ter eas­ily swal­low­ing ten of them with the shadow sword, [Your
Shadow Sword stat in­creased by 1.]

A mes­sage made Seong Ji­han smile.

'To­day, it's quite easy.'

Mean­while,

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Ki­i­i­iik...

Un­like be­fore, the Phoenix's off­spring hes­i­tated upon see­ing the shadow
sword.

[They are try­ing to flee. We must catch them quickly.]

'Ah, I can't let them go.'

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Dark Shadow Tech­nique -- Dark Soul Vor­tex Seong
Ji­han ap­proached the Phoenixes, us­ing the Dark Soul Vor­tex.

As the shadow sword swirled and grew in size......

Ki­i­i­i­i­iik!

One by one, the horde of mon­sters was sucked pow­er­lessly into the Dark
Soul Vor­tex.

Among them, the main body with a blue beak held out a bit longer.

[Stop this fu­tile re­sis­tance!]

As Ariel said, it didn't last long and van­ished with­out a trace.

In this man­ner, the 24th mon­ster was ab­sorbed in an in­stant.

Fi­nally, only the mon­ster with the blue beak re­mained.

Ki­i­i­iii...

Even while be­ing dis­in­te­grated by the Dark Soul Vor­tex, the last mon­ster
re­sisted for quite some time.

But it was just pro­long­ing its in­evitable fate.

Then,

Whooosh!

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The mon­ster's eyes blazed as it fixed its gaze on Seong Ji­han.

It was a pierc­ing look, as if try­ing to see through him.

But soon, flames erupted from its eyes.

From the beak of the mon­ster, words were spat out.

<"Shadow. Worth­less.">

[What?! We're worth­less?!]

Rarely show­ing such emo­tion, Ariel be­came an­gry.

The Dark Soul Vor­tex be­gan swirling even more quickly.

The mon­ster could only stare at Seong Ji­han for a short mo­ment be­fore be­‐
ing swiftly ab­sorbed.

[You lit­tle...!]

Even till the end, the Phoenix's off­spring chick con­tin­ued to pro­voke Ariel.

As the last mon­ster met its fate in the Dark Soul Vor­tex, a sys­tem mes­sage
ap­peared be­fore Seong Ji­han.

[Your Shadow Sword stat in­creased by 2.]

[You can no longer ab­sorb the power of shadow from this mon­ster.]

"Such re­stric­tions are al­ways so pre­cise."

They should fo­cus on se­cu­rity in­stead of plac­ing these kind of lim­its.

While Seong Ji­han was sat­is­fied with gain­ing Shadow Sword stats, the sub­‐
se­quent mes­sage made him slightly re­gret­ful.

Well, at least it in­creased by three.

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"Plus, the real re­ward is some­thing else."

Seong Ji­han looked down from the sky.

What he was look­ing at was the Thun­der­cloud Spear held by the Em­pire's
Im­pe­rial Gate­keeper, Bi­jang.

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Chap­ter 120
"Who are you, ex­actly?"

Bi­jang stared at Seong Ji­han with dis­be­lief.

"You ef­fort­lessly took down the mon­ster horde, against which even I had to
be pre­pared for death. And you used the power of dark­ness to do so."

Seong Ji­han was con­tem­plat­ing how to re­spond to Bi­jang's ac­cu­sa­tion when

his mouth opened in­vol­un­tar­ily.

A forced event had been ac­ti­vated.

"I can only tell you that I am af­fil­i­ated with the se­cret di­vi­sion of the Royal
As­cen­dancy, and noth­ing more."

"The se­cret di­vi­sion... I see. I thought they would fail, but they man­aged to
cul­ti­vate an ex­cep­tional tal­ent like you. So, the ex­per­i­ment was a suc­cess?"

"Yes."

Nod­ding as if con­vinced, Bi­jang pulled out the great spear from his back.

"Then I have my duty to ful­fill."

"What duty?"

"I will re­quest as­sis­tance from the neu­tral gi­ants. If they know Cho­jyo has
res­ur­rected, they will help. Mean­while, guard this bridge with this."

Zzzzzz!

From the great spear, white light­ning emerged, co­al­esc­ing into a sphere.

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"This is the essence of the Thun­der­cloud Spear. I'll tem­po­rar­ily graft it onto
your spear."

Tssssss~

The essence of Thun­der­cloud Spear in­ter­locked with the Phoenix Flag, and
it nat­u­rally ab­sorbed into the Phoenix Flag as if they had al­ways been one.

"Tsk... Thun­der­cloud, leav­ing with­out look­ing back."

Bi­jang briefly looked re­sent­ful at the Thun­der­cloud that was read­ily ab­‐
sorbed into the Phoenix Flag and turned away.

"Then, I en­trust the bridge to you."

And with that, the gi­ant Bi­jang started walk­ing away. As Seong Ji­han
watched his back, sys­tem mes­sages be­gan to flood in.

[You have fully cleared the De­fense Map, 'Lone Bridge'.]

[For rank­ing 1st, your ex­pe­ri­ence and GP ac­qui­si­tion rate in­creases by

50%.]

[For a com­plete clear, you gain dou­ble the ex­pe­ri­ence and GP.]

[You are a player who dom­i­nates the league. For ap­pro­pri­ate league place­‐
ment, ad­di­tional ex­pe­ri­ence is given.]

[Your level has in­creased by 4.]

[You've ac­quired 200,000 GP.]

[You've cleared the Epic Quest.]

[You've ac­quired 50,000 achieve­ment points as a re­ward.]

[You've ac­quired the Thun­der­cloud Spear as a re­ward.]

With that mes­sage, the lo­gout of all play­ers, in­clud­ing Seong Ji­han, be­gan.

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"Wow. In­sane."

"It's over just like that?"

"The re­wards are crazy... how much GP is that?"

The par­tic­i­pat­ing play­ers grinned from ear to ear as they looked at the re­‐
ward mes­sage ap­pear­ing be­fore lo­gout.

Thanks to get­ting car­ried by Seong Ji­han, they also re­ceived an in­sane

amount of re­wards.

For a Gold player, play­ing one good game doesn't usu­ally lead to a level-up.

De­spite do­ing al­most noth­ing in this bat­tle, they all gained at least 1 level,
with some gain­ing 2 lev­els for free.

'So this is the fa­mous Seong Ji­han's hard carry.'

'I hope we're on the same team next time.'

As ev­ery­one joy­fully logged out, Sophia turned to Yoon Seah, her face
bright with hap­pi­ness.

"Wow... our lev­els just shot up. Right, Seah?"

The two sil­vers, un­like the gold play­ers, had risen more lev­els, both lev­el­‐
ing up by 4, just like Seong Ji­han.

"Yeah. Even though I didn't re­ally do any­thing..."

Yoon Seah snapped her bow­string and spoke with a hint of dis­ap­point­ment.

Given that it was a de­fense map, she thought she might have a chance to
shoot some ar­rows, but her un­cle fin­ished it all by him­self.

"Aren't I tak­ing too much ad­van­tage of un­cle?"

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"What does it mat­ter? Seah, you can play one more game. Just show your
skills there."

"Sophia, are you okay?"

"Me? I feel great. I even con­trib­uted enough to be ranked sec­ond this time. I
gave Ji­han a buff."

Sophia chuck­led.

Since Seong Ji­han nearly fin­ished the game by him­self, it was only nat­u­ral
for Sophia, who had sup­ported him by pro­vid­ing buffs, to rank sec­ond in
con­tri­bu­tion.

"As a sup­porter, Ji­han is some­one who truly makes buff­ing worth­while."

The way Sophia looked at Seong Ji­han seemed even more in­tense than be­‐
fore.

She al­ready had a fond­ness for the war­rior class, but to­day's one-man show
by him left an even deeper im­pres­sion on her.

Af­ter log­ging out, Seong Ji­han checked his main re­ward, the Thun­der­cloud
Spear.

[Thun­der­cloud Spear (Grade: SS)]

[This form­less spear was cre­ated by the first em­peror of the Cloud Em­pire
by har­ness­ing light­ning.

When fused with other equip­ment, it can demon­strate its full po­ten­tial.

En­hances the equip­ment it's fused with and be­stows the prop­erty of light­‐
ning.

To fuse with equip­ment, the tar­get equip­ment must be at least grade SS.

Upon full recog­ni­tion as the mas­ter of the Thun­der­cloud, you will ac­quire
the skill 'Thun­der­storm Sum­mon'.

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Cur­rently fused with the Phoenix Flag.]

The Thun­der­cloud Spear, which Bi­jing had handed him, was de­signed to
show its real value when com­bined with other equip­ment.

'The Phoenix Flag as a weapon is around grade SS, but with Thun­der­cloud,
it might be us­able as an SSS grade.'

From the de­scrip­tion, it seemed there was no strict re­quire­ment to fuse it

with a spear.

"Ariel, can we fuse it with the Eclipse?"

[Thun­der­cloud? You mean the light­ning spear? Eclipse's cur­rent grade is

SS, so they might coun­ter­act each other's ef­fects if com­bined.]

"What if it's up­graded to SSS?"

[...Hmm. They wouldn't in­ter­fere with each other, but I wouldn't ex­pect any
syn­ergy ei­ther.]

"Then, I should just keep it with the Phoenix Spear."

Hav­ing set­tled his feel­ings about Thun­der­cloud, Seong Ji­han then checked
the achieve­ment points he had earned.

'I have 630,000.'

When he last ranked up in the Top100 and dealt dam­age to the Con­stel­la­‐
tion of the Dead Star, he had earned a whop­ping 300,000 achieve­ment
points.

To­day's points were a sig­nif­i­cant ad­di­tion to that.

'It's about time to use them.'

First on his list was an up­grade to the store.

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Af­ter adding an Ad­di­tional Con­stel­la­tion Slot and an Ad­di­tional Gift Slot,

Seong Ji­han pro­ceeded with the store up­grade.

While 350,000 achieve­ment points were swiftly de­ducted, he still had a lot
left, so he wasn't too wor­ried.

'I won­der what's added.'

De­spite the de­duc­tion of 350,000 achieve­ment points, he still had a sub­stan­‐

tial amount re­main­ing, so he wasn't stressed about it.

[The Achieve­ment Store has been up­graded to LV.7.]

[A 'Do­na­tion' item has been added.]

[Do­nat­ing achieve­ment points to the sys­tem might bring un­ex­pected luck!]

[Do­nate 10,000 points once a month!]

"...What?"

Seong Ji­han, who had high ex­pec­ta­tions for the new item, let out a chuckle
at the sight of the 'Do­na­tion'.

Do­na­tion? Are they jok­ing?

[The level cap for each item has been in­creased.]

[Un­lock­ing the cap will re­quire achieve­ment points.]

The sys­tem mes­sages that fol­lowed seemed more note­wor­thy.

He felt ex­tremely let down that af­ter spend­ing so many achieve­ment points,
the item he ob­tained was merely a 'Do­na­tion'.

"Why would I do it?!"

Why would dom­i­neer­ing en­ti­ties like the Bat­tleNet sys­tem need to re­ceive
achieve­ment points as do­na­tions?

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Un­til that mo­ment, he had vowed never to do­nate.

[To up­grade the Achieve­ment Store, all the lower up­grade items must be
level 3 or above.]

[To up­grade the Achieve­ment Store, you must make 5 or more do­na­tions.]

See­ing that one of the re­quire­ments for the next shop up­grade was 5 do­na­‐
tions, he fur­rowed his brow deeply.

The rich get­ting richer, he thought, it's ex­actly like this.

"I should think of it as nonex­is­tent points and just click it."

With a trem­bling fin­ger, he clicked on the do­na­tion but­ton.

[You have do­nated 10,000 points to the sys­tem!]

[En­ergy en­velops you. For a month, you ac­cu­mu­late less fa­tigue.]

He did feel a mo­men­tary light­ness with that mes­sage, but his body was the
epit­ome of health.

A slight in­crease in vi­tal­ity made no no­tice­able change.

More­over,

"...Was there a limit of one do­na­tion per month?"

More­over,

He would've pre­ferred to com­plete all 5 do­na­tions at once if pos­si­ble, but

the sys­tem, de­spite seem­ingly will­ing to ac­cept, wouldn't al­low it.

It felt like a tac­tic to curb the player's growth.

"No choice, then."

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Try­ing to sup­press his grow­ing frus­tra­tion, he de­cided to in­vest his re­main­‐

ing achieve­ment points in other items.

Af­ter all, to up­grade, growth in other items was also re­quired.

Among the long list of items,he looked at an item that changed to "All for
One" in­stead of the class item.

[All for One LV.1]

[Would you like to un­lock the limit to LV.2?]

[You need 250,000 achieve­ment points.]

The All for One grade up­grade seemed more valu­able than ex­pand­ing the
sta­tus win­dow or in­ven­tory.

He pri­or­i­tized it and in­vested the achieve­ment points.

[The limit for All for One has in­creased to LV.2.]

"An­other 250,000 needed for a level up?"

When he had 630,000 points, he thought he could buy any­thing, but with
just a few clicks, 610,000 points van­ished.

All he got was a strange do­na­tion item and the qual­i­fi­ca­tion for an All for
One up­grade.

"Ah... There's also the use­less Gift Slot and Con­stel­la­tion Slot."

Look­ing at the mere 20,000 re­main­ing achieve­ment points, he felt a mo­‐

men­tary sense of loss.

"For­get it. No re­grets."

Wasn't the achieve­ment point some­thing al­most worth­less in his past life?

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It's an achieve­ment to use them this pro­duc­tively, he de­cided to think pos­i­‐

tively.

"This month's ran­dom box has an in­creased item ap­pear­ance rate..."

The monthly chang­ing item in the ran­dom box.

For Oc­to­ber, the item was [Item].

Think­ing he might try draw­ing from it later, he closed the Achieve­ment

Store.

"More im­por­tantly."

He opened his sta­tus win­dow to check his re­main­ing points.

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His level had in­creased by 4 from this game.

There was a rea­son he could grow so quickly de­spite be­ing Gold Rank.

"There was an added sys­tem mes­sage."

[You are a player who dom­i­nates the league. To re­po­si­tion you to a league
that matches your level, ad­di­tional ex­pe­ri­ence is given.]

Even if it meant giv­ing more ex­pe­ri­ence, it was the sys­tem's way of urg­ing
him to climb up quickly.

He seemed to have been given a bonus for wreak­ing havoc on the game bal­‐
ance so much.

'If I in­vest all the re­main­ing points, my Mar­tial Power will reach 97...'

For the uni­fi­ca­tion of the three Dan­tians, he be­lieved he needed a power

level of 100.

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Now, he's very close to his goal.

'This time, I'll suc­ceed.'

Mean­while, on the same day, Oc­to­ber 1st, the North­east Asia Bat­tleNet
League match took place.

The match be­tween Ko­rea and Tai­wan un­folded.

-- Ah...! The South Ko­rean na­tional team has lost again...!

-- How many losses in a row now? Es­pe­cially with a loss to Tai­wan, we're
al­most con­firmed to be at the bot­tom of the league!

-- Ah, when will they ever get their first win...

The Ko­rean com­men­ta­tors re­layed the na­tional team's de­feat with a voice
filled with sor­row.

The South Ko­rean na­tional team still hasn't filled the void left by the de­par­‐
ture of the Sword King.

Es­pe­cially af­ter suf­fer­ing a bru­tal de­feat to Tai­wan, who used to be con­sid­‐

ered the weak­est.

"Did they lose again?"

"They even got crushed by Tai­wan..."

"They can't even com­pete at the bot­tom?"

"This is a real prob­lem..."

The cit­i­zens who watched this started to worry about the na­tional team's fu­‐
ture more than crit­i­ciz­ing them.

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"If we con­tinue to be over­whelm­ingly last, won't our world rank­ing plum­‐

met?"

"Right. Even if you look at other leagues, it's rare to find coun­tries with 0
wins like us. Our cur­rent na­tional team's per­for­mance is al­most self-de­struc­‐
tive."

"Oh my, are we go­ing to end up like North Ko­rea?"

"Even if dun­geons ap­pear, they said we can close them with the Ex­plo­ration
Gift."

"That's still in test­ing. And if a dun­geon does ap­pear, our econ­omy is

doomed."

"That's true..."

Al­though it was said that the Ex­plo­ration Gift could lo­cate dun­geon cores, it
wasn't yet con­clu­sively proven.

And just the ex­is­tence of a dun­geon is detri­men­tal to the coun­try.

"Sooner or later, Seong Ji­han has to step up!"

"Ex­actly! Why can't they just add Seong Ji­han to the na­tional team now?"

"Hey, he's just in the Gold tier. You need to be at least in Di­am
­ ond to be on
the na­tional team."

"But these days, no one else has his per­for­mance. Some­one sug­gested it be­‐
fore and got cursed out, be­ing called a The First fa­natic."

To be qual­i­fied for the na­tional team, one needed to be at least in the Di­a‐­
mond League.

But sug­gest­ing Gold-ranked Seong Ji­han was a wild idea.

"No, did you watch Seong Ji­han's game to­day? He de­feated Hojo, and over­‐
whelm­ingly so."

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"Hojo? Do you mean the one from the Phoenix Corps? That gi­ant?"

"Yes, that Hojo."

But when Seong Ji­han de­feated Hojo in to­day's game, those who were fa­‐
mil­iar with Bat­tleNet games were gen­uinely sur­prised.

"Man... even Di­am

­ ond play­ers would avoid him, right?"

"That's what I'm say­ing! He's stronger than a Di­am

­ ond!"

"No, I saw it. It seemed like Hojo didn't know his own weak­ness. He was
dom­i­nated too eas­ily."

"It's not that. It's just that Seong Ji­han is damn strong!"

"This guy, are you a The First fa­natic? I watched the game too. Hojo was
con­fused about why he was tak­ing so much dam­age."

"Yeah, I joined the fan club! At this rate, the na­tional team is hope­less. Why
not just try him out? How much longer will they be last?"

With the news that Seong Ji­han also de­feated Hojo, one of The First's new
mem­bers sug­gested try­ing him out while drink­ing.

"It's not our de­ci­sion..."

"We can. Let's start a na­tional pe­ti­tion! Al­ready gath­ered 100,000 sig­na­‐
tures!"

"...100,000?"

"Yes, let's do it now! Send­ing the link!"

"Fine, what­ever. I'll sign it, but it's not gonna hap­pen."

Friends be­gan par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pe­ti­tion af­ter be­ing con­vinced by one of

their friends' pas­sion­ate pleas.

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And so, on the day South Ko­rea suf­fered a crush­ing de­feat against Tai­wan,
iron­i­cally, the num­ber of cit­i­zens pe­ti­tion­ing for Seong Ji­han's in­clu­sion in
the na­tional team be­gan to sky­rocket.

"...What's this?"

And that was, even to the point of shock­ing the of­fi­cials at the Bat­tleNet
Ad­min­is­tra­tion Of­fice.

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Chap­ter 121
"The pe­ti­tion has al­ready sur­passed 300,000 sig­na­tures, so we hope for a
sin­cere re­sponse to the pub­lic from the Man­age­ment De­part­ment... Sigh."

Oh Gyuse­ung, the newly ap­pointed Di­rec­tor of the Bat­tleNet Man­age­ment

De­part­ment, sighed as he read the of­fi­cial doc­u­ment in his hand.

"Why the rush? If they just wait a bit, he will surely be se­lected as the na­‐
tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive. How did it be­come such a hot is­sue in just one day?"

Player Seong Ji­han.

Isn't he the most promis­ing player re­ceiv­ing world­wide at­ten­tion?

His per­for­mance has been so out­stand­ing that the Man­age­ment De­part­ment

plans to se­lect him as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive as soon as he gets pro­moted
to Di­am
­ ond.

"Just by look­ing at his growth rate, he seems like he'll be­come a Di­am
­ ond
soon."

"It seems like yes­ter­day's de­feat broad­cast has trig­gered a sense of cri­sis."

Re­spond­ing to the di­rec­tor's lament, Man­ager Park Yoon­sik, who had

brought the doc­u­ment, cau­tiously spoke.

"They suf­fered a bru­tal de­feat against Tai­wan..."

"The linch­pin of our na­tional team strat­egy, Sword King, has gone to Japan.
It was in­evitable."

The ba­sic strat­egy of the Ko­rean na­tional team was to use elite war­riors to
fend off en­emy at­tacks and buy time, then launch pow­er­ful sniper at­tacks
on the en­emy's core forces.

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This ex­treme strat­egy, heav­ily re­liant on a few war­riors for de­fense, might
seem reck­less at first glance.

But with the Sword King, it worked al­most in­vin­ci­bly.

The Sword King was so strong that even with just a few war­riors, not only
did they cover the front, but they of­ten crushed the en­emy's war­rior camp.

Mean­while, the long-range snip­ing of the archers proved ef­fec­tive.

How­ever, with the de­par­ture of the core mem­ber, Sword King, this strat­egy
started to crum­ble.

"Yes... Cur­rently, our rep­re­sen­ta­tive team's front line is very weak. Among
the com­pet­ing coun­tries in the North­east Asia League, our war­rior unit is by
far the weak­est."

"That's right. Even yes­ter­day, we were shat­tered by Tai­wan's war­riors."

There was a sar­cas­tic re­mark that all the war­rior tal­ent pos­sessed by Ko­rean
play­ers was con­cen­trated in the Sword King.

But it was true.

Ex­clud­ing Sword King, the other war­riors were in­fe­rior com­pared to war­‐
riors from other coun­tries.

Es­pe­cially in the North­east Asia League, con­sid­ered the most com­pet­i­tive in

the world, the dis­par­ity was glar­ing.

Al­though this weak­ness was masked when the Sword King was around, it
be­came ob­vi­ous af­ter he left.

"Still, isn't it a bit much to se­lect a Gold player as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­‐

tive?"

"... It's not im­pos­si­ble. When Bat­tleNet first started, even Gold and Plat­‐
inum play­ers played in na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive matches."

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"But back then, there were no play­ers who had lev­eled up to Di­am
­ ond. It's
been 10 years now."

"That may be true, but ac­cord­ing to our Na­tional Man­age­ment De­part­ment's

reg­u­la­tions, while it may not be pos­si­ble, as per the World Bat­tleNet As­so­‐
ci­at­ion's rules, it is. Hence the em­pha­sis on this in the pub­lic pe­ti­tion."

"In­deed, if the op­pos­ing na­tion se­lects a Gold player as a na­tional rep­re­sen­‐

ta­tive, they would ob­vi­ously not refuse. This is giv­ing me a headache."

Oh Gyuse­ung clasped his head with both hands.

Se­lect­ing a Gold player as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, is that even rea­son­‐

able? Hon­estly, he just wanted to buy some time.

'In just a short while, Seong Ji­han will nat­u­rally move up to the up­per
leagues.'

The cur­rent sea­son of the North­east Asia League is al­ready doomed.

With yes­ter­day's de­feat against Tai­wan, Ko­rea's last-place po­si­tion is al­most

cer­tain.

He'd rather wait for Seong Ji­han to rise nat­u­rally than hastily in­clude him
due to pub­lic pres­sure.

But,

'This re­minds me of the pre­vi­ous Di­rec­tor...'

The for­mer Di­rec­tor, who un­nec­es­sar­ily picked a fight with Seong Ji­han,
came to his mind.

Even with his strong back­ing from the po­lit­i­cal sec­tor, he couldn't main­tain
his po­si­tion un­der pub­lic scru­tiny.

"To be frank, I think se­lect­ing a Gold player might be pre­ma­ture. Maybe if

he was Plat­inum, but Gold... Plus, Seong Ji­han will soon rank up any­way."

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"I feel the same. Se­lect­ing a Gold player as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive is bur­‐
den­some for our de­part­ment. Now, 300,000 have pe­ti­tioned, but once he's
se­lected, there will be mas­sive op­po­si­tion."

"True. But I'm wor­ried. Af­ter all the ef­fort to mend ties be­tween the Man­‐
age­ment De­part­ment and Seong Ji­han, I don't want this mat­ter to cause an­‐
other rift."

Man­ager Park Yoon­sik re­called how the Di­rec­tor per­son­ally vis­ited the head
of a ma­jor guild to plead.

"Af­ter all the hard work, it'd be a pity if our re­la­tion­ship turns sour again."

"But do you think Seong Ji­han would even want to be a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­‐
tive?"

"Isn't it ob­vi­ous? Be­ing a Bat­tleNet na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive brings honor to

the fam­ily name."

"While the pe­ti­tion has sur­passed 300,000 sig­na­tures, if a Gold player be­‐
comes a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, there would be sub­stan­tial op­po­si­tion.
Maybe he'd pre­fer to join later, rather than be crit­i­cized now?"

"Hmm..."

Oh Gyuse­ung nod­ded, as if Park Yoongsik made a valid point.

"Can you find out what he thinks?"

"Me, sir?"

"Yes. Aren't you the clos­est to Seong Ji­han in the Man­age­ment De­part­‐
ment?"

"What do you mean, close?

They just met most of­ten at the man­age­ment de­part­ment, but it was al­ways
un­com­fort­able to meet in per­son.

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How­ever, when the Di­rec­tor asked, he couldn't say no.

"...Al­right."

"And, sub­tly... if he wants to join the na­tional team... not from Gold, but
higher. Yes, ask if he would like to play from at least Plat­inum."

'I shouldn't have brought it up; now I've got more work.'

Park Yoon­sik re­gret­ted men­tion­ing Seong Ji­han and bowed to the Di­rec­tor
of the Man­age­ment De­part­ment.

"...Yes, I'll look into it."

The same day.

Seong Ji­han was log­ging out af­ter clear­ing to­day's game.

'I lev­eled up once to­day.'

The game type he cleared this time was an "In­va­sion" map.

While he had made sig­nif­i­cant progress in yes­ter­day's de­fense game, the In­‐
va­sion map didn't of­fer as much ex­pe­ri­ence, so the re­ward was a bit slower.

While check­ing the re­main­ing points and cal­cu­lat­ing his level-up speed,
Seong Ji­han thought, 'At this rate, I might be able to par­tic­i­pate in the Oc­to­‐
ber pro­mo­tion match.'

The level re­quired to par­tic­i­pate in the Gold to Plat­inum pro­mo­tion match is

100.

For a player who just moved up from Sil­ver to Gold, achiev­ing that in a
month seemed im­pos­si­ble.

But with the sys­tem gen­er­ously giv­ing Seong Ji­han ex­pe­ri­ence, he felt he
could eas­ily reach level 100 by the 25th.

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'Now that I'm in Gold, the sur­vival and dun­geon maps must have changed. I
hope to get a new map.'

A new map would likely give more ex­pe­ri­ence.

Then,

Knock! Knock!

Yoon Seah's voice was heard along with a knock.

"Un­cle. I... have some­thing to say."

"Oh, come in."

Yoon Seah, who en­tered Seong Ji­han's room, looked quite se­ri­ous.

"What's up?"

"I was think­ing while play­ing the game to­day."

She be­gan cau­tiously,

"I think it's time I stop get­ting car­ried by you."

"Why? Not lev­el­ing up?"

"No, I'm lev­el­ing up great. I gained 2 lev­els to­day."

"Is there some­thing you're un­com­fort­able with?"

"Well... I feel like I'm not do­ing much. My ac­tual skills aren't im­prov­ing,
just my level."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded in un­der­stand­ing.

It made sense. In to­day's game, Yoon Seah's con­tri­bu­tion was vir­tu­ally neg­‐
li­gi­ble.

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"With your Gift, you can play two games. Isn't one of those enough for you
to play with your skill?"

"Well... maybe? I don't think I can win the Top 100 with my skills right
now."

"You were re­ally aim­ing for that?"

"Of course. I have to move my Gift to C grade, right? Win­ning the Top 100
is much faster than play­ing 500 games with a 60% win rate."

Yoon Seah spoke con­fi­dently.

See­ing her, Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

"Al­right. Since you've al­ready met the cri­te­ria to up­grade it to D grade, try
lev­el­ing up on your own."

"Okay!"

"I'll have to con­tact Sophia to dis­solve the party."

"Uh... re­ally?"

"Yes, there's no need to main­tain the party if I'm not help­ing you level up."

Upon hear­ing this, Yoon Seah scratched her cheek.

She had seen how much Sophia en­joyed par­ty­ing with Seong Ji­han. She felt
guilty for po­ten­tially caus­ing a rift.

"Uh... Un­cle, how about we just play in the party twice a week?"

"Why?"

"Oh, it just seems a waste to dis­solve the party com­pletely! Hehe."

Seong Ji­han had an inkling of why she was say­ing this but even­tu­ally
agreed.

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'It's pos­si­ble she might not main­tain a 60% win rate. I should at least help
her win a cou­ple of games.'

Yoon Seah, who now had two rare stats, could rea­son­ably achieve a 60%
win rate, but to Seong Ji­han, she still had much to im­prove.

"Okay, I'll con­tact Sophia!"

With that, Yoon Seah left the room.

Not long af­ter, he got a call from Lee Hayeon.

[Boss! A guest came from the Man­age­ment De­part­ment.]

"The Man­age­ment De­part­ment?"

[Yes. Man­ager Park Yoon­sik is here... He said he wants to talk about the na­‐
tional team.]

"Why sud­denly the na­tional team?"

[Uh... don't you know that a pe­ti­tion to se­lect you as the na­tional player has
passed 300,000 sig­na­tures?]

"What?"

Seong Ji­han was in dis­be­lief.

Why would they start a pe­ti­tion like that, and how did it get 300,000 sig­na­‐
tures?

'Did I have that many fans?'

Seong Ji­han thought so and replied to Lee Hayeon.

"I'll head down to the guild for now."

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Guild of­fice.

"...So, the Man­age­ment De­part­ment needs to re­spond to the na­tional pe­ti­‐

tion."

Seong Ji­han lis­tened as Man­ager Park Yoon­sik ex­plained the con­text of the
re­cent pe­ti­tion.

"Did we lose to Tai­wan that badly?"

"Hmm... Didn't you watch the match yes­ter­day?"

"No, I was busy train­ing."

Seong Ji­han had been fo­cus­ing solely on his prepa­ra­tion for an up­com­ing
ma­jor tour­na­ment.

Plus, he hadn't both­ered watch­ing since he ex­pected the na­tional team to

lose.

"We lost pretty badly. Com­pared to other coun­tries, Tai­wan's war­rior group
is rel­at­ively weaker, so we hoped for at least one win. But we were just
over­pow­ered."

"How can a Gold player be se­lected for the na­tional team? Isn't the na­tional
team's stan­dard Di­am
­ ond level 225 and above?"

The Di­am
­ ond tier be­gins from level 200.

But most of them felt a bar­rier at level 225.

From that point, the ex­pe­ri­ence gain drops sig­nif­i­cantly, and the ex­pe­ri­ence
loss from de­feats be­comes much big­ger.

Un­less they were ex­cep­tion­ally skilled, most Di­am

­ onds re­mained be­tween
lev­els 200 and 225.

Only those who sur­passed that bar­rier were con­sid­ered wor­thy of the na­‐
tional team.

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"Yes, you're right. In the War­rior di­vi­sion, there are some be­low that level
though..."

"There were those be­low 225?"

"Yes, due to a short­age of War­rior class play­ers..."

"That's a bit ex­treme."

He knew that the na­tional team was in a dire sit­u­at­ion, but he didn't ex­pect
play­ers be­low level 225 to be se­lected.

It's ev­i­dent that the void left by the Sword King is sig­nif­i­cant.

"...What do you think, Mr. Seong Ji­han? Would you con­sider be­ing a na­‐
tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive?"

"As I am still in the Gold Rank, it's prob­ab­ ly too..."

Seong Ji­han was about to de­cline when a thought stopped him.

'Wait. If I get se­lected as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive as a Gold Rank, won't I

get a sig­nif­i­cant amount of achieve­ment points?'

He had re­cently spent over 600,000 points, which left him nearly broke.

Be­ing a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive would surely of­fer an op­por­tu­nity to re­plen­‐

ish them.

'But I shouldn't be a bur­den on the na­tional team with my in­suf­fi­cient skills.'

His cur­rent level was 70, far from the lev­els of na­tional play­ers.

It would be shame­ful to join the team solely for achieve­ment points and end
up be­ing a bur­den.

Still...

"I'll just watch yes­ter­day's match. Only the war­rior di­vi­sion."

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He was cu­ri­ous about the cur­rent stan­dard of the na­tional team.

"Okay, it's ready!"

And so, Seong Ji­han watched the high­light reel pre­pared by Lee Hayeon
from yes­ter­day's match.

-- Oh no! They're crum­bling! The Ko­rean na­tional team...!

-- They just have to de­fend! Can't they do that!

-- Ah! An­other de­feat!

"...Why are they so bad?"

Watch­ing the na­tional war­rior team quickly get tram­pled by Tai­wanese war­‐
riors, Seong Ji­han re­al­ized that be­ing se­lected as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive
wouldn't be shame­ful at all.

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"Uh, about that..."

"Is this re­ally a game of the na­tional team?"

"...Yes. It was an of­fi­cial game played by the na­tional team yes­ter­day."

"How dis­ap­point­ing."

At Seong Ji­han's words, Man­ager Park Yoon­sik was lost for words.

When he saw the video high­light­ing only War­rior Jin, he felt it was too
much.

He had come to per­suade Seong Ji­han that it wasn't the right time for Gold
to be the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

But af­ter watch­ing the video, he thought, 'Maybe it's bet­ter to just se­lect
Seong Ji­han? They are bound to lose like this any­way.'

"Con­sid­er­ing they're na­tional-level War­riors, there should be at least one or

two peo­ple ca­pa­ble of de­feat­ing me..."

Even though Seong Ji­han had a unique stat, there was a level gap of about
150 be­tween him and them.

More­over, as one rises in rank, their class changes to a bet­ter job and they
ac­quire var­i­ous skills.

The na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives should be able to face the cur­rent Seong Ji­han.

But...

"I think I can de­feat them all?"

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Seong Ji­han calmly ob­served the move­ments of the na­tional play­ers and
stated con­fi­dently.

"Well, that's a bit..."

"To be hon­est, I was skep­ti­cal about Gold be­ing the rep­re­sen­ta­tive. But af­ter
see­ing this video, it seems fea­si­ble."

"So, do you in­tend to be­come a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive?"

"Yes. If you se­lect me, I will."

".....Al­right."

Park Yoon­sik couldn't help but re­sent the na­tional team play­ers. If only they
had played bet­ter in yes­ter­day's game!

"I un­der­stand that this might be bur­den­some from the Man­age­ment's per­‐
spec­tive. Es­pe­cially since it's about Gold Rank get­ting se­lected as na­tional
team player. We have 300,000 pe­ti­tions now, but if he ac­tu­ally gets picked,
the back­lash won't be easy to han­dle."

"That's true..."

"I don't in­tend to face crit­i­cism just to be­come a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive."

"In that case..."

"I'm think­ing of mak­ing a 'small', per­sonal ap­peal on the guild chan­nel."

"What on earth are you plan­ning to do?"

Park Yoon­sik looked at Seong Ji­han, who said he would make a 'small' ap­‐
peal, with anx­ious eyes.

But he couldn't stop him.

Who could say no to the world's most promis­ing player who is now the talk
of the global com­mu­nity?

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The re­la­tion­ship be­tween Bat­tleNet's Man­age­ment De­part­ment and Seong

Ji­han had com­pletely changed ever since the pre­vi­ous Di­rec­tor was fired.

"I un­der­stand..."

Park Yoon­sik, who had come to per­suade Seong Ji­han, could only re­spond
weakly.

[Rack­ing up Guild Points with Boss~!]

A live broad­cast was be­ing con­ducted on the guild chan­nel af­ter a long
time.

"Hello~ ev­ery­one~"

Lee Hayeon greeted with a bright smile, wav­ing at the cam­era.

-- Oh, it's been a while since the guild broad­cast.

-- See­ing Ha-Yeon cleanses my soul!

-- Please broad­cast more of­ten!

-- Guild leader, V-log please!

In the guild chan­nel, Lee Hayeon, who was sec­ond in pop­u­lar­ity only to
Seong Ji­han, made a V sign and smiled.

"A V-log sounds fun~ I'll try it out later! Now, to­day! It's the much-an­tic­i­‐
pated point in­vest­ment time!"

-- Are they al­ready re­ceiv­ing guild points?

-- The 1st of ev­ery month is the day for point set­tle­ment.

-- Daegi Guild is a new guild from last month. It's hard for a new guild to
get points...

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Guild Points.

When you first cre­ate a guild, you're given 10 points.

Af­ter that, points are given or de­ducted by Bat­tleNet's sys­tem based on the
guild's per­for­mance on the 1st of ev­ery month.

The main cri­te­ria for eval­u­at­ion in­cluded the achieve­ments of guild mem­‐
bers in the higher leagues.

Ad­di­tion­ally, the num­ber of sub­scribers to the guild chan­nel and the num­ber
of video views also added to this.

"The points we re­ceived this month are... a whop­ping... 2 points!"

-- Wasn't the Daegi Guild full of Sil­vers last month? Lol.

-- They al­ready earned points?

-- I think it's be­cause of the many guild chan­nel sub­scrip­tions.

-- Still, they got 2 points.

-- Isn't it be­cause Ji­han won in the TOP 100?

De­spite be­ing a guild that's less than a month old, the fact that they re­ceived
2 points shocked those fa­mil­iar with Bat­tleNet.

As they dis­cussed how a guild, which pre­vi­ously ac­cepted only a few mem­‐
bers, man­aged to earn 2 points so quickly.

"Al­right, let's dis­cuss where we should in­vest these points and then bring in
the Boss! Ap­plause!"

When Lee Hayeon made a clap­ping sound with both her mouth and hands,
Seong Ji­han en­tered the cam­era fo­cus.

"Hello, ev­ery­one."

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-- The one and only Ji­han bro has ar­rived!!!!!

-- I watched to­day's game too~~ It was great~~^^7. You're still dom­i­nat­ing,

huh~~

-- Well... that's ex­pected... Now... He has to be... first... al­ways...

When Seong Ji­han ap­peared, the chat that ini­tially greeted him started to
change.

-- Ji­han bro!!! Please rep­re­sent our coun­tryㅠㅠ. At this rate, we'll end up
last.

-- The First ones are here too, do­ing their usual an­tics.

-- You should chat when he can see!

-- Stop it, top play­ers.

-- What's a top player?

-- They're re­fer­ring to The First ones spam­ming the pe­ti­tion.

[TL/N: First and Top share the same char­ac­ter, hence the word­play.]

-- Se­ri­ously, the spam is in­sane. What kind of Gold rank rep­re­sents the
coun­try? To­tally over the top.

The chat was in chaos over the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive is­sue that had been
hot since yes­ter­day.

'I had asked Hayeon to bring up the topic, but it seems there's no need now.'

Orig­i­nally, af­ter film­ing the Guild Point video, he in­tended to con­clude with
up­dates on the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive topic.

But see­ing the pas­sion­ate chat, it seemed there was no need for such stag­‐
ing.

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"I'll ad­dress the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive is­sue af­ter dis­cussing the Guild
Points."

-- Woah, is he go­ing to give an of­fi­cial re­sponse?

-- Seems the Gate of Hell is about to open ㅋㅋㅋㅋ.

-- Wow, the viewer count is sud­denly sky­rock­et­ing.

-- No one cares about guild points any­more ㅋㅋㅋ.

Seong Ji­han, hint­ing at his re­sponse to the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive is­sue,

calmly brought up the Guild Point win­dow.

Guild Mem­ber Ex­pan­sion (5/10) -- LV.5

Stat In­crease (All stats +5) -- LV.5

Growth Rate In­crease (+150%) -- LV.15

-- ???? Why is the level like that?

-- Wasn't the Growth Rate In­crease just 11?

-- Have you al­ready added the points?

-- Wait, to say that, isn't the added point +12?

The view­ers were con­fused see­ing the guild win­dow Seong Ji­han dis­played.

Why is that level like that?

See­ing the chat's con­fu­sion, Seong Ji­han non­cha­lantly an­swered, "Ah, that.
It's the ef­fect of the item I got this time. Guild op­tion level +4."

-- Oh! So it's an item that in­creases the guild's op­tions!

-- Where the hell is that item?

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-- Lol, he prob­ab­ ly just earned 12 points.

-- If such an item ex­isted, Gates would spend bil­lions to buy it.

-- Guild op­tion level +4?

-- And it in­creases all the op­tions?

The view­ers, be­ing re­al­is­tic, doubted the ex­is­tence of such an item.

"Ah. When I take out this item, the guild will burn... Ah. This is how it's
done. Shall we take a look?"

In­stead of phys­ic­ ally tak­ing out the Phoenix Flag, Seong Ji­han changed the
item de­scrip­tion in his in­ven­tory to pub­lic, show­ing the specs di­rectly in the
stream.

[Phoenix Flag (Grade: SSS)]

[The flag used by the first Khan of the Wind Em­pire, a de­scen­dant of the
Phoenix.

......

[Ad­di­tional Ef­fect: If the user is a guild owner or guild mas­ter, it in­creases

all the guild op­tion lev­els by +4.]

"Due to a sys­tem er­ror last time, I re­ceived a pretty good re­ward."

-- Wow

-- In­saneㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-- Isn't that the flag? The one ev­ery­one was ac­cus­ing of be­ing ma­nip­u­lated?

-- It's the Phoenix you $%.

-- Sir~^^ Do you by any chance know any cheat codes for this game~?^^; --
Share the good stuff with us!

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Once the item's op­tions were re­vealed, the dor­mant heavy spon­sor­ships
started pour­ing in again.

Ba-ba-ba-ba-bam!

[R.E.Gates has do­nated 100,000GP.]

[Player Seong! Please sell that item to us at AF! We'll buy it for 1 bil­lion
dol­lars!]

As usual, Gates gen­er­ously do­nated 100,000 GP.

He of­fered a whop­ping 1 bil­lion dol­lars, equiv­al­ent to 1 tril­lion KRW.

-- Wow, lol. Gates popped right up. LOL

-- Who was talk­ing about 1bil­lion ear­lier? Wasn't me, right?

-- He's of­fer­ing a tril­lion LOL. Last time, Gates pro­posed 300 bil­lion to
Seong Ji­han as a con­tract fee.

-- The item is more ex­pen­sive than the owner!!!!

The chat went wild with Gates's ap­pear­ance.

Ba-ba-ba-bam!

[長思聰 has do­nated 100,000GP.]

[The Peo­ple's As­so­ci­at­ion will buy the Phoenix Flag for 2 bil­lion dol­lars.
Player Seong Ji­han, we ex­pect a wise de­ci­sion from you.]

The com­pe­ti­tion heated up even more with the ar­rival of a com­peti­tor.

-- Wow, the Peo­ple's As­so­ci­at­ion jumped in?

-- Im­me­di­ately dou­bling the of­fer, see?

-- How do you read that Chi­nese char­ac­ter?

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-- It's Jang Sisong. He's one of the top ad­min­is­tra­tors of the Peo­ple's As­so­ci­‐
a­tion... They also watched the broad­cast.

[R.E.Gates do­nated 100,000GP.]

[My apolo­gies, Player Seong. It seems I un­der­es­ti­mated the value of the

Phoenix Flag. I'll buy it for 3 bil­lion dol­lars. Please sell it!]

[長思聰 do­nated 100,000GP.]

[Then we'll buy it for 4 bil­lion dol­lars. Ad­di­tion­ally, we prom­ise to pay at

least 1 bil­lion dol­lars more than AF.]

As the bid­ding war be­tween the US and Chi­nese guilds be­gan on the guild
chan­nel, Seong Ji­han waved them off with a de­ter­mined face.

"I won't sell it, even if you of­fer hun­dreds of bil­lions of dol­lars. So, please
stop the do­na­tions."

"But... Boss, why de­cline the do­na­tions?"

"It's al­right, right?"

"...Yes, it's al­right."

-- Whoa! A Boss who re­fuses do­na­tions?

-- And in chunks of 100 mil­lion each, LOL!

-- Look at Hayeon's ex­pres­sion... She looks more re­gret­ful.

-- I'd feel the same, LOL. Miss­ing out on mak­ing for­eign cur­rency LOL.
The 100 mil­lion do­na­tion bat­tle be­tween the US and China guilds.

Seong Ji­han was now very wealthy and didn't need to worry about money.

"So... back to our main topic. Our guild is fully in­vested in growth rate. We
shouldn't for­get our main goal as a nur­tur­ing guild."

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Af­ter clos­ing the Phoenix Flag item de­scrip­tion, Seong Ji­han opened the
guild point win­dow and added +2 to the growth rate.

Growth Rate In­crease (+170%) -- LV.17

An im­mense growth rate boost, fit­ting the orig­i­nal con­cept.

Seong Ji­han show­cased this again, lightly pro­mot­ing, "As you can see, due
to the ad­di­tional ef­fect of the Phoenix Flag, we can now ac­cept 20 more
guild mem­bers. The growth rate in­crease ef­fect has im­proved, so many
guild mem­bers are see­ing stat in­crease ef­fects..."

"If you're in­ter­ested, please con­tact our guild any­time! I'll an­swer with all
sin­cer­ity!"

Fol­low­ing Seong Ji­han, Lee Hayeon en­er­get­i­cally ex­claimed.

It would've been the per­fect end to the broad­cast, but then, "Oh, about the
na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive is­sue,"

Seong Ji­han dropped an­other bomb­shell.

-- I knew it was com­ing.

-- The Phoenix Flag dis­tracted us, LOL.

-- Lit­er­ally a crazy item.

"I've seen the pub­lic pe­ti­tion to se­lect me, a Gold player, as a na­tional rep­re­‐
sen­ta­tive. I ap­pre­ci­ate the en­thu­si­asm and thought it wasn't the right time."

-- I knew he wouldn't.

-- He'll reach Di­am

­ ond soon any­way.

-- It's a shame, Ji­han ㅠㅠ

-- If he par­tic­i­pates now, he'll only get crit­i­cized. No rea­son for Ji­han to step
up.

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Given Ji­han's com­ment about tim­ing, the view­ers mostly agreed.

It'd be bet­ter to right­fully get se­lected as a Di­am

­ ond player next year than
face crit­i­cism now as a Gold player.

How­ever,

No one knew.

Of Seong Ji­han's de­sire for achieve­ment points.

"But... it was be­fore watch­ing the Tai­wan match."

-- What...?

-- There's some­thing off about the vibe, isn't there?

"But see­ing it made me re­al­ize,"

With a sly smile, Seong Ji­han pointed at him­self.

"There's no war­rior in the cur­rent na­tional team stronger than me."

Thus, Seong Ji­han stated,

"Just ar­range a match for me with the na­tional team war­riors."

He taunted the en­tire na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive team, say­ing, "I'll prove my­self
right away."

And he con­cluded his 'mod­est' ap­peal with,

"That's my stance re­gard­ing the na­tional team."

-- Wow LOL.

-- That con­fi­dence is in­sane LOL.

-- Never imag­ined he'd say that LOL.

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-- He's chal­leng­ing them all ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ-Ji­han gave them 3 sec­onds...

Na­tional team war­riors... Rush to the Han River bridge... If you're even a
sec­ond late... you'll get thrashed...

And that day's broad­cast made head­lines on ev­ery por­tal site.

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Chap­ter 123
["Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tives War­riors, all come out!" Seong Ji­han's pub­lic
dec­la­ra­tion!]

[Ex­perts on Seong Ji­han's state­ment, "Im­pos­si­ble." is over­whelm­ing... "He

can beat some of them." Mi­nor­ity opin­ion.]

[Pub­lic pe­ti­tion sur­passes 500,000 af­ter Seong Ji­han's broad­cast?! Pe­ti­tion

de­mand­ing a con­fronta­tion newly es­tab­lished, sur­pass­ing 300,000]

[Anony­mous Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive War­rior, "Not worth re­spond­ing."

Shows dis­plea­sure]

[Even a Gold ranker looks down on the Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tives... What is

the di­rec­tion for im­prove­ment?]

Seong Ji­han's provo­ca­tion was very suc­cess­ful.

The news sec­tion of the por­tal site, which was full of ar­ti­cles re­lated to the
de­feat in Tai­wan, was com­pletely turned over by Seong Ji­han's is­sue.

-- Wow, a Gold Rank is so ar­ro­gant. No mat­ter what, how can he say he can
beat the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives?

-- The na­tional reps are just that badㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ If it's an­noy­ing, they
should just fight one round, right?

-- For real, just teach the Gold a les­son, it will be fine. Why are they avoid­‐
ing?

-- Be­cause they are scaredㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-- Hon­estly, I can think of a few peo­ple who would lose, agree?

-- Ex­clud­ing Kim Dong­woo, all will loseㅋ

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-- Wel­come, Kim Dong­woo

-- Even Kim Dong­woo was re­ally bad in Tai­wanㅋㅋㅋ Ji­han will KO him
in one sec­ond.

Bang!

The leader of the Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive War­riors, Kim Dong­woo, threw

his tablet PC while read­ing the ar­ti­cle com­ments.

"Those crazy bas­tards... Are they say­ing I would lose to a Gold Rank now?"

Seong Ji­han.

He knows he's strong.

Hav­ing watched the Top 100 matches, as a War­rior class, he even ad­mired
how he could do such a thing.

How­ever, be­ing strong is one thing.

"This guy... He's go­ing to be a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive soon any­way. How

can he dis­re­spect the se­niors like this?"

How can he say that?

When he be­comes a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, he will be on the same side,

shar­ing the same fate, so how can he out­right in­sult the se­niors like this?

'This can't go on like this.'

At first, the way the Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive War­riors de­cided to re­spond to

this is­sue was to ig­nore it, say­ing it was not worth an­swer­ing.

But see­ing how pub­lic opin­ion is turn­ing, if this goes on, they might end up
be­ing ridiculed as na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives scared of a Gold Rank.

Kim Dong­woo en­tered the Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive War­riors' ex­clu­sive chat

room.

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-- Guys... This can't go on like this. If we keep ig­nor­ing, it looks like we'll
get a lot of hate com­ments.

-- See, I told you. Ig­nor­ing will only make us look bad, right? That ar­ro­gant
guy needs to be taught a les­son -- Yes, if this goes on, it's go­ing to be bad.
We need to ask the man­age­ment for a spot soon.

-- But bro... We won't lose, right? That guy is strong

-- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Jaeho is crazy, a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive scared of

a Gold Rank?

Then a video was up­loaded in the chat room.

It was a high­light video of Seong Ji­han clear­ing the 'Lone Bridge' map.

-- I was so an­noyed, I went to the chan­nel to see how strong Gold is... but
he's kinda crazyㄷㄷ; "This dum­b­ass is scared of Gold af­ter watch­ing just
one video!"

Kim Dong­woo played the video while curs­ing out loud.

Seong Ji­han, who sin­gle-hand­edly de­feated Hojo, and while fly­ing swiftly
through the sky, brought down the mon­sters.

Af­ter watch­ing the scene where the War­rior dom­i­nated the de­fense game
alone, Kim Dong­woo opened his mouth wide.

"Uh..."

He's... kind of strong?

Kim Dong­woo re­called the Sword King, who has now gone to Japan, from
Seong Ji­han's video.

Sword King Yoon Se­jin, who would sin­gle-hand­edly dis­rupt the game in
Bat­tleNet, a so­phis­ti­cated team game for na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

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This guy, like Sword King, showed po­ten­tial to be an un­con­ven­tional

player.

-- He's re­ally strong, damn.

-- That must be a cheat. Does it make sense for a War­rior to act like that?
He's not even Sword King.

-- To be hon­est, Seong Ji­han is strong. It's bet­ter to face him as soon as pos­‐
si­ble. That guy lev­els up re­ally fast too.

-- You think it's bet­ter to face him at level 70? Is that some­thing a na­tional
rep­re­sen­ta­tive should say?

-- You id­iot, do you want to lose to a Gold Rank?

A cha­t­room for na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive war­riors erupted in de­bate af­ter

watch­ing Seong Ji­han's high­light video.

Kim Dong­woo frowned and quickly sent a mes­sage.

-- Let's face him soon. If he grows more, even I won't be able to de­feat him.

While he was frus­trated, his judg­ment re­mained calm.

Hav­ing risen to the leader of the War­rior squad through skill, Kim Dong­‐
woo got chills watch­ing Seong Ji­han's power.

He wasn't sure if he could con­fi­dently win against him now. But if they de­‐
layed and that guy lev­eled up even more? They were bound to lose.

-- If Dong­woo says so... Okay.

-- I'll call the Man­age­ment De­part­ment. You guys get ready too.

Af­ter see­ing Seong Ji­han's high­light, the com­posed Kim Dong­woo called
the Man­age­ment De­part­ment im­me­di­ately.

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"It's Kim Dong­woo. I have some­thing to dis­cuss re­gard­ing Seong Ji­han's

video..."

His re­quest was to ar­range a match as soon as pos­si­ble.

Tokyo, at Ito Shizuru's man­sion.

"There's some in­ter­est­ing news from Ko­rea."

Ito Shizuru looked at the news with an in­trigued ex­pres­sion.

The wide­spread provo­ca­tion by Seong Ji­han, a Gold player, was not only a
hot topic in Ko­rea but also drew a lot of at­ten­tion on Ja­pa­nese por­tal sites.

-- Did some­thing go wrong in Seong Ji­han's brain? A Gold player pro­vok­‐

ing the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives?

-- Haven't you seen the Top 100? Seong Ji­han is strong.

-- Maybe the Ko­rean team is just pa­thetic lol.

-- What's Shizuru do­ing? Hurry up and charm him lol.

"Tsk! I don't know why such an ar­ti­cle is be­ing posted in Japan."

Sword King, who was ly­ing next to Shizuru, looked dis­pleased.

See­ing Shizuru get­ting in­ter­ested in the ar­ti­cles of his for­mer brother-in-law

was ir­ri­tat­ing.

"What does Ryuhei think? Will Seong Ji­han beat the na­tional war­rior rep­re­‐
sen­ta­tives?"

"He will win."

Sword King im­me­di­ately re­sponded. Dis­like is one thing, but his power
anal­y­sis was im­par­tial.

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"The na­tional team war­riors in Ko­rea are piti­ful. They're tal­ent­less and lazy.
They will all lose to that guy."

"It's the first time I've heard you speak well of Seong Ji­han."

"Re­gard­less of my per­sonal feel­ings, his skills are out­stand­ing. I un­der­stand

why you're in­ter­ested."

"That's good to hear. So, if Seong Ji­han be­comes a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive

and faces our coun­try, you... can you over­power him?"

"Hah! What a ridicu­lous ques­tion."

Sword King looked an­noyed, as if ask­ing if he could over­power some­one

was of­fen­sive.

"I could sever his arms and legs in 10 sec­onds. Just think­ing of him get­ting
your at­ten­tion makes me want to do that right now."

Al­though he orig­i­nally had no spe­cial feel­ings for Seong Ji­han, who was his
for­mer brother-in-law, ever since Shizuru, whom he dearly loved, showed
in­ter­est in him, Seong Ji­han be­came the most de­spised ex­is­tence for Sword
King.

"Hehe. We'll see."

As Shizuru clapped, a woman in a dark uni­form emerged from out­side the

bed­room.

Her fig­ure was sim­i­lar to Akari, who had caused a stir in Ko­rea be­fore.

The ninja re­sem­bled Shizuru, a beauty of a pale com­plex­ion.

"Did you call for me, main body?"

She was an 'avatar' that Ito Shizuru had made by mod­i­fy­ing the re­turned
Akari.

"Why did you call her?"

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"The match with Ko­rea... Is it next month?"

"Maybe. I think so."

"Please take my clone to the na­tional team match then. If you com­pletely
sup­press Seong Ji­han, she'll likely en­chant him prop­erly this time."

"You still have feel­ings for him?"

"Yes. I want to make Japan not just the num­ber one in the North­east Asia
League but the num­ber one in the World League."

Shizuru turned on the TV with a charm­ing smile and switched it to chan­nel

0.

There, a high­light of a past Top 100 match was be­ing com­mented on by

Amer­i­can com­men­ta­tors.

"I want to hear Ja­pa­nese, not Eng­lish, on that chan­nel. I'd also pre­fer the GP
ex­change to be shown in yen, not dol­lars."

"You're quite the pa­triot."

"Isn't that why I'm with you?"

"All I need is you..."

"Don't worry!"

To the Sword King, who was hes­i­tant out of jeal­ousy,

Shizuru of­fered a so­lu­tion.

"To ease your con­cerns... if I en­chant Seong Ji­han and bring him to Japan,
I'll com­pletely turn him into a woman."

"...What? Turn him into a woman?"

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"Yes. You weren't jeal­ous of Akari, were you? Let's have him un­dergo a sex
change surgery."

The Sword King was mo­men­tar­ily speech­less at Shizuru's sug­ges­tion to

change Seong Ji­han's gen­der.

"Heh... fine."

He soon smiled con­tent­edly.

The fact that Shizuru had thought of gen­der change for his sake was pleas­‐
ing.

"So, I should hope he be­comes a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive soon."

"Yes, and I'm also work­ing on stir­ring up pub­lic opin­ion in Ko­rea."

"I hope it works out."

The Sword King sin­cerely hoped that the ar­ro­gant for­mer brother-in-law
would be­come a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

[Mr. Seong Ji­han, Mr. Kim Dong­woo, the leader of the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­‐
tive can­di­dates, has pro­posed a match. He is pre­par­ing a stage to prove your
skills. Would you like to par­tic­i­pate...?]

"I will."

Seong Ji­han, upon re­ceiv­ing the call, agreed even be­fore Man­ager Park
Yoon­sik fin­ished his sen­tence.

[We will pro­ceed with the test at the Man­age­ment De­part­ment's mock bat­‐
tle­ground in two days. Ah, and Mr. Kim Dong­woo sug­gested broad­cast­ing
this test live. What do you think about that?]

"...Live broad­cast?"

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Even if he wins, it's noth­ing big. If he loses, it'd be em­bar­rass­ing to lose as a

Di­am
­ ond Rank to a Gold Rank player. And they want to broad­cast it live?

[They sug­gest broad­cast­ing it live through the Man­age­ment De­part­ment's

chan­nel and split­ting the prof­its from the broad­cast.]

"I un­der­stand."

Though it seemed more like an at­tempt to pub­licly hu­mil­i­ate him, Seong Ji­‐
han gra­ciously ac­cepted the Man­age­ment De­part­ment's pro­posal.

"Wow, un­cle... You're go­ing up against a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive?"

"Yeah, sooner than I thought."

Per­haps the ru­mors that the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives were afraid of a Gold
Rank and avoid­ing a match had been both­er­some, as the test date was set
sur­pris­ingly quickly.

"...Wouldn't it be bet­ter to level up a bit more be­fore that? Two days seem
too short."

"It's okay. I can win now."

"Still! Isn't it a bit much to face him at level 70?"

"No. I'm now at 72. And..."

Seong Ji­han smiled con­fi­dently.

"My Mar­tial Power stat has reached 100."

"...You've reached 100? Al­ready? Is that even pos­si­ble?"

"I did get some ben­ef­ its from my ti­tle."

Strength 100, a re­sult of com­bined ti­tle and guild bonuses.

'Now, I can unify the three Dan­tians.'

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From 99 to 100.

Al­though it's just one stat point dif­fer­ence, reach­ing a three-digit stat is not
merely sym­bolic.

Com­pared to 99, the in­creased strength was pal­pa­bly stronger.

'This time...'

The uni­fi­ca­tion of the three Dan­tians.

I can def­i­nitely suc­ceed.

"Seah, I think I need to train in the train­ing room."

"Ah... To pre­pare for the test? Okay!"

"No, not for them. It's for the stat."

Seong Ji­han then asked Yoon Seah,

"So even if I don't come out of the train­ing room, don't worry."

"Got it!"

"Then, I'll fin­ish quickly and be back."

With that, Seong Ji­han en­tered the train­ing room with a bright smile.

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Chap­ter 124
In the train­ing room.

[Would you like to at­tempt the Uni­fi­ca­tion of the Three Dan­tians?]

As Seong Ji­han tried to unify the Three Dan­tians, a sys­tem mes­sage spon­ta­‐
neously ap­peared.

It seemed that his level had sig­nif­i­cantly im­proved.

Un­like the last time, there wasn't any warn­ing mes­sage stat­ing, 'At­tempt­ing
this uni­fi­ca­tion with your cur­rent level poses a sig­nif­i­cant dan­ger. It could
harm your life.'

"Unify."

With those words from Seong Ji­han, he be­gan to dis­man­tle the bound­aries
be­tween the Three Dan­tians.

'This time, it will work.'

This wasn't a vague self-con­fi­dence.

The pre-con­di­tions had been dif­fer­ent this time around.

The faint bor­ders be­tween the Up­per and Mid­dle Dan­tians had blurred due
to us­ing both si­mul­ta­ne­ously, which gave him a sense of as­sur­ance.

[At­tempt­ing the Uni­fi­ca­tion of the Three Dan­tians...]

Seong Ji­han closed his eyes and be­gan to break the walls earnestly. Uni­fy­‐
ing the half-dis­solved Up­per and Mid­dle Dan­tians was easy.

'I've al­ready ac­com­plished this part.'

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His fo­cused en­ergy be­gan to res­onate be­tween the two Dan­tians, and soon,
the bound­aries van­ished.

'The Two Dan­tians above have be­come al­most one... but the Lower Dan­tian
is the prob­lem.'

The con­nec­tion with the Lower Dan­tian was ad­mit­tedly weak. While Mar­‐
tial Power and Force shared the same stats, the wall of the Lower Dan­tian
re­mained sub­stan­tial.

'I need to stim­u­late it both from in­side and out­side.'

In­side the Lower Dan­tian, he moved his in­ner en­ergy to break down the
walls.

From the out­side, he used Force to stim­u­late it.

As he at­tempted to shat­ter the ves­sel con­tain­ing his in­ner en­ergy, a tremen­‐

dous pain surged from his lower ab­domen.

'It feels like when I faced the flames of Be­he­moth.'

Seong Ji­han, who had faced nu­mer­ous tri­als in his past life, re­lent­lessly
con­tin­ued break­ing the bar­ri­ers of the Dan­tian.

Sweat drenched his body.

At times, his body felt cold as ice, while at oth­ers, it burned with heat.

His face flushed, then paled in a re­peated cy­cle.

The uni­fi­ca­tion of the Lower Dan­tian was un­de­ni­ably chal­leng­ing.

'But...'

A re­ward for his con­tin­u­ous ef­fort ap­peared as cracks be­gan to form on the
walls of the Lower Dan­tian.

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Faster than Seong Ji­han had an­tic­i­pated, he calmly con­tin­ued the uni­fi­ca­tion
process.

Af­ter a long and ex­haust­ing day...

"It's... done..."

All bound­aries had col­lapsed, and the uni­fi­ca­tion of the Three Dan­tians was
com­plete.

Now, in­stead of en­ergy gath­er­ing in the con­fined space of the Dan­tians,

Seong Ji­han's en­tire be­ing en­com­passed the en­ergy of the Three Dan­tians.

"Huff..."

Tak­ing a deep breath, Seong Ji­han opened his eyes.

He could feel the en­ergy surg­ing through­out his body with ev­ery breath.

'Worth ev­ery mo­ment of the ef­fort.'

Sat­is­fied, Seong Ji­han was about to leave the train­ing room when...

[At­tempt­ing the uni­fi­ca­tion of the Three Dan­tians...]

'What?'

De­spite hav­ing com­pleted the uni­fi­ca­tion, the sys­tem mes­sage re­mained un­‐
changed.

He halted in his tracks.

Why was it still the same af­ter the uni­fi­ca­tion?

He opened his sta­tus win­dow.

Mar­tial Power and Force both re­mained at 100, un­changed.

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'...Is this not the end?'

An er­ror in the sys­tem was un­likely.

Pon­der­ing deeply, Seong Ji­han won­dered what was miss­ing since all bar­ri­‐
ers were al­ready bro­ken.

Af­ter stand­ing idly for a mo­ment in thought, Seong Ji­han's mind ven­tured
to Force's Ab­so­lute Do­main.

'Do I need to com­plete the do­main to fi­nally fin­ish the uni­fi­ca­tion?'

Seong Ji­han un­folded the Ab­so­lute Do­main he had once re­tracted.

With this, only the up­per half of his body, specif­i­cally above the heart, was
in­volved in the flow of the Ab­so­lute Do­main.

'Even the Ab­so­lute Do­main must be fully em­bod­ied, and all the Dan­tians
must be able to han­dle it. Only then it will be true unity.'

Hav­ing found a clue, Seong Ji­han fo­cused on link­ing the com­bined Dan­tian
with the Ab­so­lute Do­main.

This, of course, wasn't easy.

'Just un­der­stand­ing the prob­lem, I've al­ready solved half of it.'

If not for the sys­tem mes­sage, he would have thought that the Three Dan­‐
tians had uni­fied.

Thus, while pon­der­ing how to con­nect the en­tire uni­fied Dan­tians and the
space com­pletely dom­i­nated by the Ab­so­lute Do­main, 'Let's merge that into
the Dan­tian as well.'

He de­cided to fur­ther ad­vance the Dan­tian that was lim­ited in­side his body.

He de­cided to ex­pand the scope of the Dan­tian, mov­ing away from the pre­‐
vi­ous method that dom­i­nated space through Force.

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'It's tough...'

This process was much more chal­leng­ing than the uni­fi­ca­tion of the Three
Dan­tians.

The Three Dan­tians were in­side the body, but this was about uni­fy­ing ex­ter­‐
nal space with the Dan­tian.

'If it wasn't for my past ex­pe­ri­ences, I wouldn't have even tried.'

If he hadn't ex­pe­ri­enced con­trol­ling the Ab­so­lute Do­main with Force, he

would've ended up only imag­in­ing it.

He uti­lized all his pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ences and pi­o­neered a new path.

An­other day passed by like this.

'...Is this the limit at this level?'

Seong Ji­han felt that the en­tire Dan­tian had ex­panded slightly.

It felt as if he was wear­ing a full-body ar­mor named 'Dan­tian'.

Of course, com­pared to the Ab­so­lute Do­main of the Force, its range had
dras­ti­cally re­duced to about 10cm.

'This can truly be called the Ab­so­lute Do­main.'

The Ab­so­lute Do­main dom­i­nated by the Force wasn't 'ab­so­lute' com­pared to

this.

The Dan­tian, which ex­panded its ter­ri­tory even out­side, was apt to say that
it dom­i­nated space.

Then,

[You have com­pleted the uni­fi­ca­tion of the Three Dan­tians.]

[Mar­tial Power and Force are uni­fied and re­or­ga­nized into a new stat...]

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[Ob­tained a Star's Abil­ity, Mar­tial Soul]

Star's Abil­ity?

'Is the star rank above unique?'

Seong Ji­han looked at the re­or­ga­nized stat, Mar­tial Soul.

The value was the same as Mar­tial Power or Force, 100.

But since the two were com­bined un­der the cat­eg­ ory of Mar­tial Soul, the
area of Ab­so­lute Do­main had dou­bled from 10cm.

'This is over­whelm­ingly pow­er­ful...'

The Star's Abil­ity called Mar­tial Soul wasn't just about sim­ply dou­bling the
Ab­so­lute Do­main area but am­pli­fied the Mar­tial Power and Force sev­eral
times.

An abil­ity that even Seong Ji­han, who had over­whelm­ingly con­quered the
league, found thrilling.

'With this, I can def­i­nitely use the third tech­nique.'

Seong Ji­han thought of the third ad­vanced tech­nique of the Name­less Di­‐
vine Arts.

With Mar­tial Soul, he could def­i­nitely use this mar­tial art.

'I might use it in the up­com­ing na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive bat­tle...'

As Seong Ji­han an­tic­i­pated how to use his new­found power, Sud­denly, a

sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared.

[The Star's Abil­ity is a power that only a sin­gle be­ing from one star can pos­‐
sess.]

['The Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God' al­ready pos­sesses Mar­tial Soul.]

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'What?'

The Star's Abil­ity, Mar­tial Soul, which only one be­ing from a star can have,
is pos­sessed by the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God?

'Does this mean... the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God is from Earth?'

He had heard that the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God, un­like other Con­stel­la­tions
tied to their ma­ter­nal stars, stayed in the star he cre­ated, 'Tuseong', and
hunted other Con­stel­la­tions.

Based on the cur­rent sys­tem mes­sage, it was spec­u­lated that the Mar­tial
God was from Earth.

'What hap­pens now?'

Since the Mar­tial God had Mar­tial Soul first, does that mean he can't pos­‐
sess the Star's Abil­ity?

As he pon­dered this,

['The Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God' sum­mons you.]

Be­fore Seong Ji­han's eyes, a pitch-black space opened.

In an in­stant, his body was sucked into it.

A des­o­late land shrouded in dark­ness.

Swooosh!

The space swirled, and a new form of Seong Ji­han emerged from it.

He first checked his con­di­tion.

'My body's fine.'

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Con­sid­er­ing he was forcibly taken by an ir­re­sistible force, he was un­‐

harmed.

His abil­i­ties, re­formed with­out a soul, re­mained in­tact.

He looked around.

It was dark ev­ery­where, but above, faint lights of var­i­ous col­ors shone
down.

When he looked up, he saw.

'Weapons....'

Var­i­ous weapons floated above in the dark space.

They seemed ran­domly placed.

How­ever, Ji­han could quickly dis­cern that each one was of ex­tra­or­di­nary
cal­iber.

'Those must be at least EX-grade.'

The Phoenix Spear he had re­cently ac­quired couldn't even com­pare; the en­‐
ergy emit­ted by these weapons was of a dif­fer­ent class.

It was as­ton­ish­ing that such im­pres­sive weapons were left unat­tended.

Lost in the ar­ray of float­ing weapons, Ji­han couldn't help but ad­mire.

Then,

"Nice to meet you, young one."

Thump! Thump!

From the dark­ness, a fig­ure ap­proached.

"You are..."

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"I am Dong­bangsak."

A kind-faced old man with white hair, wear­ing a long blue robe, spoke
while stroking his beard.

Al­though the lan­guage he spoke wasn't Ko­rean, Ji­han in­stinc­tively un­der­‐

stood.

'Dong­bangsak...'

The Dong­bangsak who lived through the three thou­sand worlds.

That name had spe­cial mean­ing to him.

"You ob­tained mar­tial Power through my brush."

Through Dong­bangsak's brush, Ji­han was able to over­write his sta­tus win­‐
dow.

"Yes, I did."

"That's why I was cho­sen as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive to con­verse with you on be­‐
half of the Mar­tial God."

"Rep­re­sent­ing the Mar­tial God...?"

"You should ide­ally meet him in per­son..."

Dong­bangsak glanced Ji­han up and down while stroking his beard.

"Even though you pos­sess the Mar­tial Soul, your level is still too low. At
your cur­rent level, you would per­ish just by mak­ing eye con­tact with a Mar­‐
tial God."

The Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God.

Death just from eye con­tact? Was he some cursed be­ing?

Ji­han tilted his head and asked, "Why was I sum­moned?"

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"To give you a choice," Dong­bangsak leaned back, speak­ing slowly.

"Will you ac­cept the Mar­tial Soul, ready for an un­cer­tain death, or will you
sur­ren­der it cleanly and ac­cept the Mar­tial God's re­ward?"

Ac­cept­ing the Mar­tial Soul means be­ing pre­pared to die?

'Is it be­cause only a sin­gle be­ing from one star can pos­sess it?'

Ji­han im­me­di­ately asked Dong­bangsak, who was be­ing po­lite, "Why must
one die when they ob­tain the Mar­tial Soul?"

"Only one be­ing can pos­sess the Mar­tial Soul. You might co­ex­ist with the
Mar­tial God for a while if you don't give it up, but..."

Dong­bangsak straight­ened up and stroked his beard again.

"Sooner or later, co­ex­is­tence will be­come im­pos­si­ble. When your level rises
sig­nif­i­cantly, the sys­tem will in­evitably pit you against the Mar­tial God.
And when that day comes, you will die."

It was a de­fin­i­tive state­ment that de­feat­ing the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God was
im­pos­si­ble.

He pointed to the sky.

"If you for­sake the pre­de­ter­mined death and sur­ren­der the Mar­tial Soul...
the Mar­tial God will be­stow one of those items upon you."

"That is..."

"It's the essence of a Con­stel­la­tion. Those weapons po­si­tioned in the sky as

Con­stel­la­tions ac­tu­ally be­long to quite high-rank­ing Con­stel­la­tions. They
be­long to Con­stel­la­tions of at least level 1,000. Since you are my dis­ci­ple,
I'll let you pick a good one."

Dong­bangsak, cer­tain that Ji­han would sur­ren­der, metic­u­lously ex­am­ined

the float­ing weapons, con­tem­plat­ing which was best.

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"That's not suit­able for hu­mans... Ah, that's the 77-foot mace, but you can't
fully har­ness its power. That one is too small..."

Dong­bangsak scru­ti­nized them as if choos­ing for him­self.

To re­solve his con­tem­pla­tion, Ji­han spoke up, "Sir Dong­bangsak, you don't
need to pick a weapon for me."

"Hm? What do you mean?"

"I want to keep the Mar­tial Soul."

At those words, all of Dong­bangsak's ac­tions halted.

"...Are you out of your mind?"

[TL/N: The whole con­text about "Star's Abil­ity, Mar­tial Soul" is still not
very clear. Few changes might be seen when we get to know more.]

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Chap­ter 125
"Why are you so keen on giv­ing up on life? You should change your
choice."

Dong­bangsak spoke with a face show­ing he didn't un­der­stand.

"Look there. At the nu­mer­ous weapons in the sky. Those are all rem­nants of
Con­stel­la­tions that were de­feated by the Mar­tial God. Con­stel­la­tions that
boasted of be­ing the mas­ters of stars and were con­fi­dent in their own
strength, all were sup­pressed by the Mar­tial God."

"Ah, I see."

"...But even if you have ob­tained the Mar­tial Soul, do you think you can de­‐
feat the Mar­tial God? It's im­pos­si­ble. If you waste the power of the Mar­tial
Soul in vain, you will end up just like them."

There was sin­cer­ity in Dong­bangsak's words.

A Mar­tial God who roams and hunts the Con­stel­la­tions.

How could a mere hu­man de­feat him?

"Are you so ob­sessed with mar­tial arts that you would re­ject all of this just
to ob­tain the Mar­tial Soul?"

"It's not quite like that."

Mar­tial Soul.

It was in­deed a tempt­ing power.

How­ever, as Dong­bangsak said, he had no de­sire to ob­tain it while an­tag­o­‐

niz­ing the in­vin­ci­ble Mar­tial God.

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Af­ter all, Seong Ji­han's goal was not the per­fec­tion of mar­tial arts, but to
en­sure that the Earth re­mains in the Space League and pre­vent the ex­tinc­‐
tion of hu­man­ity.

"So, you choose the harder path even when there's an eas­ier one?"

"It's not that ei­ther. It's just..."

Seong Ji­han looked around.

"Con­trary to what you say, Dong­bangsak, the mas­ter of this star doesn't
think that way."

"What? What do you mean? I was told oth­er­wise by the Mar­tial God..."

"This place, it's called Tuseong, right?"

"Yes, it is."

"Isn't this a star cre­ated by the Mar­tial God us­ing his Mar­tial Soul?"

Dong­bangsak looked at Seong Ji­han with a sur­prised face for a mo­ment,

then slowly nod­ded.

"...In­deed, it is."

A star, Tuseong, which orig­i­nally didn't ex­ist in the uni­verse, was ar­ti­fi­cially
cre­ated by the Mar­tial God's Mar­tial Soul.

Con­sid­er­ing that Seong Ji­han's Mar­tial Soul has an in­flu­ence of only 20cm,
it was clear how pow­er­ful the Mar­tial God's strength was.

"How did you know that?"

"I just felt it. When our Mar­tial Soul Do­mains over­lapped, I sensed it."

Look­ing at Seong Ji­han, who an­swered so eas­ily, Dong­bangsak stroked his

beard.

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"Just like that... Heh, as a mar­tial artist, I'm in­trigued by your words. Sens­‐
ing... Such senses are in­deed in­nate. It's some­thing one can't achieve
through mere ef­fort."

When did he ever painfully feel such a dif­fer­ence?

There was gen­uine envy in Dong­bangsak's voice.

"And in the over­lapped Mar­tial Soul Do­main, I heard the Mar­tial God's
will."

When Dong­bangsak of­fered the choice,

At the same time, Seong Ji­han heard the Mar­tial God's in­ten­tion through the
Mar­tial Soul.

[If you wish to de­feat me, I'll gladly wait.]

Con­trary to what Dong­bangsak said, the Mar­tial God ac­tu­ally wanted

Seong Ji­han to pos­sess the Mar­tial Soul.

And if he chose to give up the Mar­tial Soul and chose the essence of a Con­‐
stel­la­tion...

[If you want to live, you will for­ever be my ser­vant.]

He was told that he would be bound to him.

'It's bet­ter to op­pose the Mar­tial God than to be­come his ser­vant.'

The Mar­tial God's in­ten­tion was sin­cere.

Even if Seong Ji­han ob­tained the Mar­tial Soul, the Mar­tial God pub­licly
promised to wait un­til Seong Ji­han grew strong enough.

So, the an­swer was ob­vi­ous.

'Even if I die af­ter be­ing de­feated later, I'll live my life.'

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More­over, to freely ma­neu­ver in the up­com­ing Space League, he ab­so­lutely

shouldn't be tied to the Mar­tial God.

"If I ac­cept your of­fer, I was in­formed I'd be­come his eter­nal ser­vant, just
like you."

Upon hear­ing that, Dong­bangsak paused in stroking his beard.

Whoooosh!

He stroked his beard again.

"It's not bad to live as a ser­vant, de­pend­ing on who the mas­ter is."

"I don't want to live a life that's for­ever sub­or­di­nate."

"'For­ever' is what's im­por­tant. Longevity is what any be­ing with a life

wishes for. Those who haven't lived long al­ways think that im­mor­tal­ity will
even­tu­ally lead to un­hap­pi­ness."

"..."

"Once you ex­pe­ri­ence it, you'll know. How bliss­ful an eter­nal life can be."

"Weren't you mor­tal be­fore you be­came a ser­vant of the Mar­tial God?"

Bearer of End­less Wis­dom, Dong­bangsak.

He wasn't orig­i­nally im­mor­tal.

Did he gain in­fi­nite life af­ter be­com­ing a ser­vant of the Mar­tial God?

At Seong Ji­han's ques­tion, Dong­bangsak nod­ded.

"That's right. My mar­tial arts skills could sup­press ag­ing to some ex­tent, but
I wasn't com­pletely im­mor­tal."

"How did you meet the mar­tial God?"

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"You seem to be quite cu­ri­ous."

Snap!

Dong­bangsak plucked a strand of his beard.

Then, from the plucked beard, smoke arose, and it soon trans­formed into
the shape of a sword.

"When you be­come my suc­ces­sor, I'll an­swer your ques­tions."

"I doubt that will hap­pen."

"No, I quite like the idea of you as my suc­ces­sor. I can't stand by and watch
you die in vain."

Whooosh!

A mi­rage rose from Dong­bangsak's sword.

It soon formed the sym­bol of yin-yang.

"That is..."

"The god gives me quite a lot of va­ca­tions. On my most re­cent break, I

went to visit my home­town and found joy in draw­ing pat­terns on the moun­‐
tain."

"Pat­terns, draw­ing?"

The yin-yang drawn by the sword.

The in­tri­cate move­ment cre­ated by the black and white en­twin­ing.

Dong­bangsak merely de­scribed it as draw­ing pat­terns.

"Yes. But kids who saw these pat­terns kept ask­ing to be my dis­ci­ples. I
played 'leader' with them for a while."

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"Play­ing 'leader'..."

See­ing the move­ment of the yin-yang, Seong Ji­han asked with a name that
sud­denly came to mind.

"Was your name Jang Sam­bong then?"

"Oh. How did you know?"

"The place where you played 'leader' was Mount Mu­dang, wasn't it?"

"That's cor­rect. It's eas­ier to con­verse when our cul­tures over­lap. I'd like to
take you in as my suc­ces­sor even more."

Dong­bangsak looked at Seong Ji­han with sparkling eyes.

"Here's a small trick I came up with dur­ing that break."

He started to slowly spin the yin-yang.

"If you can't over­come this, chal­leng­ing the god is fu­tile."

The cir­cle started to spin.

With that, the pres­sure on Seong Ji­han in­ten­si­fied.

The yin-yang un­folded by Dong­bangsak's sword seemed to be the pin­na­cle

of mar­tial arts.

How­ever.

Rum­ble!

[Let him go.]

As the ground shook and the voice of the ab­so­lute be­ing echoed, the yin-
yang's move­ment stopped abruptly.

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Dong­bangsak dropped the sword, knelt down, and prayed look­ing at the
sky.

"I will heed your com­mand, my lord."

"When I see some­one who's at the level of Jang Sam­bong act­ing like this, I
don't want to be­come a ser­vant even more."

"Jang Sam­bong? What's so sig­nif­i­cant about that? The va­ca­tion be­fore the
last one, I was called Heav­enly De­mon."

"......"

Seong Ji­han was at a loss for words.

Wasn't that say­ing he sin­gle-hand­edly de­feated the top mar­tial arts ex­perts
from both right­eous and evil fac­tions in mar­tial arts nov­els?

"Any­way, what a pity."

Dong­bangsak spoke, swing­ing his left hand.

As his robe flut­tered, the world split in two.

Then, the pitch-black space that orig­i­nally sent him here ap­peared.

"Tell me any­time if you change your mind."

"I'll re­mem­ber the good in­ten­tions."

Seong Ji­han re­sponded dryly to Dong­bangsak, over­flow­ing with re­gret, and

took a step.

[Re­turn­ing to the orig­i­nal world.]

Soon af­ter, a sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared.

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Yoon Seah paced anx­iously out­side the train­ing room door.

'Ah... what should I do?'

Seong Ji­han, who went in say­ing he would fin­ish train­ing soon, has al­ready
been in­side for two days and the time for the test is al­most up, he showed
no signs of com­ing out.

The ve­hi­cle sent by the Man­age­ment De­part­ment has been wait­ing in the
park­ing lot be­low Sword Palace for over an hour.

Fur­ther­more, there was only 30 min­utes left for the test with the na­tional
rep­re­sen­ta­tive War­riors.

'Ugh... I can't go into the train­ing room be­cause he said it was im­por­tant
train­ing. Should I just tell them he gave up on the test?'

The na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive test wasn't more im­por­tant than train­ing... but...

The things Seong Ji­han had done these past few days weighed on Yoon
Seah's mind.

'Un­cle con­fi­dently said he could beat any na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive. Even a

live broad­cast was ap­proved...'

If he sud­denly didn't show up on the day of the match, us­ing train­ing as an

ex­cuse, even the pop­u­lar Seong Ji­han might face pub­lic ridicule and crit­i‐­
cism.

"Un­cle..."

Yoon Seah called out to him softly from out­side the train­ing room, but since
he wasn't in­side, he couldn't pos­si­bly hear her.

All she could do was ner­vously wait.

Buzz! Buzz!

Her phone vi­brated.

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[Ms. Yoon Seah, has Mr. Seong Ji­han not come out yet?]

"Ah, about that..."

[Well... there's less than 15 min­utes left. Wouldn't it be bet­ter to just can­cel
to­day's match?]

Man­ager Park Yoon­sik, who was wait­ing be­low, cau­tiously asked.

Rather than hav­ing a chaotic broad­cast be­cause Seong Ji­han didn't show up,
it might be bet­ter to can­cel in ad­vance.

[Even if you come out now and get in the car, it seems a bit late... And he
wouldn't be in con­di­tion for the match. Maybe the match should be on an­‐
other day...]

"Ah, the thing is... then..."

Just when Yoon Seah was about to post­pone,

Thud!

The train­ing room door opened.

"Seah, let me."

"Un-Un­cle!"

As soon as he re­turned to Earth, Seong Ji­han, who had over­heard Yoon

Seah and Park Yoon­sik's con­ver­sa­tion, thought, 'If Dong­bangsak hadn't
been so clingy, there would have been more time.'

Re­call­ing Dong­bangsak, who was des­per­ately want­ing Seong Ji­han to be

his suc­ces­sor, he made a sour face.

If it weren't for the Mar­tial God, the test al­most went awry to­day.

"If traf­fic is bad, I'll go on my own. Take the car slowly to the Man­age­ment
De­part­ment."

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[Ah... it's okay! We can still make it if we hurry.]

"No, run­ning is faster."

Seong Ji­han said, head­ing to­wards the win­dow.

"Un­cle?! Where are you go­ing?"

"I'm tak­ing the short­est route."

"...You do re­al­ize this isn't a game, right?"

Look­ing at Seong Ji­han who had fully opened the win­dow, Yoon Seah
spoke with dis­be­lief.

"Seah, just take the Man­ager's car."

Seong Ji­han waved his hand and jumped out of the win­dow.

"Un­cle-!"

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Foot­work Tech­nique -- Flash­ing Sky Thun­der Steps

Be­fore Yoon Seah could rush to the win­dow, Seong Ji­han, leav­ing a trail of
white flash, was al­ready soar­ing far away.

"Ah... se­ri­ously."

Yoon Seah watched Seong Ji­han be­come a dis­tant dot with a frus­trated
look.

"Huh?"

It seemed he was much faster than when they played the game to­gether last
time.

Even though in re­al­ity, play­ers are con­strained by their abil­i­ties, how could
he move faster than in-game?

'...Is it be­cause he's run­ning at full power?'

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As soon as Yoon Seah got into Park Yoon­sik's car, she turned on the TV us­‐
ing the car's panel.

"Ah, it seems Seong Ji­han might be late..."

"The other play­ers have been wait­ing since an hour ago."

"He said he's run­ning a bit late due to a train­ing ses­sion that started two
days ago."

"But still, re­gard­less of how im­por­tant train­ing is, shouldn't peo­ple keep
their ap­point­ments? Es­pe­cially when the na­tional team play­ers have been
around much longer than player Seong Ji­han. This re­ally isn't po­lite..."

The live broad­cast was al­ready crit­i­ciz­ing Seong Ji­han heav­ily.

Yoon Seah frowned, "They started broad­cast­ing even be­fore the promised
time."

"Do you think... maybe he's feel­ing pres­sured by the test?"

"Ah, there's no way."

"No mat­ter how ur­gent a player's train­ing is, it's not com­mon to shut them­‐
selves in like in mar­tial arts nov­els, is it?"

"Well, such cases are... pretty rare, right?"

Yoon Seah was in­fu­ri­ated by the broad­cast.

One of the com­men­ta­tors seemed to be at­tack­ing Seong Ji­han as if he held a

grudge.

"They're too much. Do they have a grudge or some­thing?"

"That com­men­ta­tor is known to be close with player Kim Dong­woo. Maybe

that's why."

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"Ah... I see."

Shouldn't such bi­ased com­men­ta­tors not be al­lowed to broad­cast?

Just as Yoon Seah was think­ing this,

"Wait?! Seong Ji­han has ar­rived!"

"Re­ally? I heard his car hadn't even left yet?"

"...Ap­par­ently, he ran here?"

The sur­prised voices of the com­men­ta­tors echoed.

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Chap­ter 126
Out­side the Bat­tleNet Test­ing Arena.

"Ah, that kid isn't com­ing. He must be scared."

One of the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive war­riors who was smok­ing spat on the
ground.

"Ah, I wanted to teach him a les­son. Such a pity."

"Jaeho, just mo­ments ago you were say­ing, 'What if I lose?' right?"

"Ah, brother! That was just a com­ment. How can I lose to some­one too
scared to show up?"

"Ugh... But that guy is also some­thing. What does he think he's do­ing by
call­ing ev­ery­one and then bail­ing on the day?"

Al­though there were still about ten min­utes be­fore the start of the test, the
play­ers al­ready be­lieved that Seong Ji­han wouldn't show up.

"Ah... Thank God."

The player who had spat mo­ments ago, Gu Jaeho, sighed with re­lief in­ter­‐
nally.

Be­ing the low­est level among the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive war­riors, he had
been ru­mored to be Seong Ji­han's first op­po­nent.

Un­til mo­ments ago, af­ter watch­ing Seong Ji­han's high­lights, Jaeho was
half-con­vinced he'd lose.

'It was a good idea by Dong­woo to broad­cast this, but the level of in­ter­est
was so high I thought we were doomed...'

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A Gold-ranked chal­leng­ing the Di­am

­ ond-ranked na­tional team?

This was an un­prece­dented event world­wide.

Sev­eral in­ter­na­tional me­dia teams were al­ready wait­ing in­side the test­ing
arena, and on­line, hun­dreds of mil­lions were ea­gerly await­ing the live
broad­cast.

Not just Ko­re­ans, but a num­ber driven by sig­nif­i­cant for­eign view­er­ship.

Jaeho was ner­vous at the thought of be­com­ing the first sac­ri­fi­cial lamb to
lose to a Gold-ranked in front of the en­tire world.

But the ab­sence of Seong Ji­han brought a barely con­cealed smile to his
face.

"Ha! If Seong Ji­han had shown up, I would've taken him down in one hit!"

Jaeho looked gen­uinely happy as he said this.

Just then.

"Hey, what's that?"

"What's fly­ing over there?"

Play­ers stand­ing op­po­site Jaeho pointed at the sky.

"Huh?"

Jaeho turned and blankly stared up.

Far away, some­thing was ap­proach­ing at in­cred­i­ble speed, leav­ing a white

trail.

At this ve­loc­ity, a di­rect hit could be cat­as­ trophic for any­one nearby.

"Damn, what is that?"

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"Hey! Dodge it!"

But no one thought to move.

Would you, with a speed­ing truck com­ing right at you?

The play­ers stood still, trans­fixed by the ap­proach­ing ob­ject.

Then, the 'thing' stopped abruptly in mid-air.

Re­al­iz­ing its iden­tity, the play­ers dropped their cig­ar­ ettes in shock.

"Uh... Seong Ji­han?"

The fig­ure that had rock­eted from the sky was none other than Seong Ji­han.

Wit­ness­ing this, the minds of the play­ers went blank for a dif­fer­ent rea­son.

'Did he fly from Sword Palace?'

'Wasn't he a War­rior? Can a Gold-ranker even fly like that?'

'Am I sup­posed to fight some­one like that?'

While the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive War­riors stood frozen, "Hello."

Hav­ing landed smoothly, he greeted with a light bow.

"I don't seem to be late. Let's be­gin."

With that, he beck­oned his first op­po­nent, Jaeho, and headed into the Man­‐
age­ment build­ing.

Chills ran down Jaeho's spine.

"What... Is he even hu­man?"

Sud­denly, Jaeho wasn't keen on en­ter­ing the test­ing arena.

The out­come seemed all too clear.

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"Jaeho, what are you do­ing? Aren't you go­ing?"

But as Seong Ji­han's first op­po­nent, Jaeho couldn't back out.

"I'm go­ing, brother."

With a heavy heart, he en­tered the test­ing arena as if be­ing led to slaugh­ter.

And then.

Bang!

-- Oh no...

-- Player Jaeho is down in just one move!

His omi­nous feel­ing had quickly be­come re­al­ity.

The global spot­light was on the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive test.

Many ex­perts pre­dicted that Seong Ji­han would not lose eas­ily.

-- Con­sid­er­ing the amaz­ing per­for­mance he has shown so far, he could

prob­ab­ ly beat a few of the cur­rent Ko­rean na­tional team war­riors.

-- But prob­ab­ ly not against play­ers above level 225.

-- Of course. Play­ers at level 225 are on a dif­fer­ent level. Un­less Seong Ji­‐
han has im­proved even more.

-- I agree. Hon­estly, I think if he reaches the Plat­inum Rank, he might be

able to beat one or two play­ers at level 225. But he's only Gold now, right?

-- Let's be clear. There's a def­i­nite limit for a Gold.

No mat­ter how skilled one is, there's a limit in the 'fun­da­men­tal' level.

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He will even­tu­ally lose to those above level 225.

This was the con­sen­sus among ex­perts, and most peo­ple agreed.

Then the test match be­gan.

-- Al­right, the game is start­ing!

-- This map is a sur­vival map called "Colos­seum", mod­i­fied by the man­age­‐

ment bu­reau.

-- Seong Ji­han isn't us­ing a con­nec­tor, so the game will pro­ceed through an
in­vite from the man­age­ment bu­reau.

-- Such a unique player. He doesn't even use the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor.

-- Yes. Some fans say it doesn't mat­ter since he won't get hit any­way...

-- Haha! How can a player never get hit, es­pe­cially a front-line war­rior!
Isn't that mind­set rather ir­re­spon­si­ble?

-- We'll find out soon enough! The game starts now!

Ding!

Seong Ji­han's first op­po­nent was Gu Jaeho, who had vowed to teach him a
les­son.

"Please take care of me."

"Oh, yes. Me too..."

They both bowed their heads to each other in greet­ing.

Af­ter the greet­ing, Seong Ji­han rushed to­wards Gu Jaeho.

And threw a punch.

Boom!

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Gu Jaeho, who hadn't fully pre­pared his de­fenses, had many vul­ner­ab­ il­i­ties,
but Seong Ji­han de­lib­er­ately aimed for the shield.

"Kuhack!"

Gu Jaeho, hold­ing an SS-grade shield, couldn't with­stand the blow and was
sent fly­ing, shield and all.

With just one blow, the match was over.

-- What...?

-- It's, it's an in­stant knock­out. The game is over...!

-- It's al­ready over?

While the com­men­ta­tors were con­fused, chats filled with ex­cite­ment from
view­ers poured in.

-- Gu Jaeho lolololol, was that a one-hit knock­out for real?

-- I knew he'd lose, but didn't ex­pect him to be blown away like that lololol
-- Why is he on the na­tional team? He's not even level 225.

-- That's be­cause there are no war­riors above that level.

-- Where did all the na­tional team war­riors go? -_-

-- Seong Ji­han is here lol.

The dom­i­nant re­ac­tion was that this out­come was some­what ex­pected.

It was just sur­pris­ing that it ended with a sin­gle blow.

The lower-tier na­tional team War­riors had skills that were em­bar­rass­ing for
their ti­tle since they hadn't reached level 225.

How­ever.

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Bang!

Bang!

The one-hit knock­outs mer­ci­lessly con­tin­ued.

-- Gasp...!

-- War­rior Lim Jae­jin also got knocked out in one hit!

-- He's not even us­ing a weapon... Is this even pos­si­ble?

-- He sends op­po­nents fly­ing out of the Colos­seum map with their shields!
The ver­dict... One-hit In­stant knock­out!

Lim Jae­jin, a tank-type war­rior close to level 225, was also sent fly­ing with
a sin­gle punch.

-- Uh... Seong Ji­han's next op­po­nent is Lee Yoongi, and he still isn't us­ing a
weapon!

-- Lee Yoongi's level is over 225, you know? He's a gen­uine front-line war­‐
rior for the na­tional team... Seong Ji­han! You should be care­ful from now
on!

Against Lee Yoon-Gi, who had sur­passed the level 225 bar­rier and was part
of the na­tional team's ace line, Seong Ji­han still did not use a weapon.

"Not even us­ing a weapon..."

Lee Yoongi seemed hurt in his pride and grit­ted his teeth.

"Make me use one."

Seong Ji­han shrugged.

Be­fore the uni­fi­ca­tion of the Three Dan­tians, he would have had to use a
weapon against an op­po­nent like Lee Yoongi.

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And even with a weapon, he wouldn't have achieved a one-hit knock­out like
now.

How­ever.

'Mar­tial Soul. As ex­pected, it's in a league of its own.'

Mar­tial Soul, when he truly ex­erted its power, it was in­deed on a dif­fer­ent
level.

The power, which had been di­vided be­tween Mar­tial Power and Force, was
now uni­fied, al­low­ing him to use it freely.

'The Mar­tial Soul Do­main is in­com­pa­ra­ble to the old Ab­so­lute Do­main.'

Al­though the Mar­tial Soul Do­main only ex­tended for 20cm, its ef­fi­cacy was
in­com­pa­ra­ble to the Ab­so­lute Do­main of the Force.

"And if I ex­pand this, I can use it like the old Ab­so­lute Do­main up to 40m."

In­deed, there was only one be­ing that could ob­tain the Star's Abil­ity.

It was an abil­ity com­pletely dif­fer­ent from the unique stats.

"To main­tain this abil­ity, I'll even­tu­ally have to fight against the Mar­tial
God... but that's for later."

He had de­cided not to con­front him un­til he was fully ma­tured, so that
would be a long time from now.

Right now, he just had to fo­cus on what was in front of him.

'As be­fits the owner of the Mar­tial Soul, it's over­whelm­ing.'

Seong Ji­han slowly ex­tended his fist, glar­ing at Lee Yoongi, who seemed to
want to kill him.

It was a slow move­ment.

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It wasn't re­ally an at­tack, but more like a provoca­tive ges­ture.

"You brat... Are you not tak­ing this se­ri­ously?"

See­ing that, Lee Yoongi tried to rush at Seong Ji­han.

But even be­fore his foot could take off the ground.

Boom!

"Ugh..."

Lee Yoongi's body was sent fly­ing back­ward, his in­ter­nal or­gans com­pletely
crushed.

Even with a high-grade shield.

Even with a pow­er­ful pas­sive skill like a Pro­tec­tive Bar­rier, it was of no

use.

He was deemed an in­stant kill and dis­ap­peared.

Over level 225, truly rep­re­sent­ing the na­tional ace line.

Was killed in­stantly by a punch that didn't even touch him.

-- Wh... What...

-- Huh...

In this un­be­liev­able sit­u­at­ion, even the com­men­ta­tors were at a loss for

words.

"Wow..."

"Oh. Sh*t... What was that?"

The mood of the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive war­riors, wait­ing for their turn, also
chilled like an ice field.

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-- Lee Yoongi is a pow­er­ful war­rior rank­ing within the top 7 of the na­tional
team just by level! He's un­doubt­edly an ace... and yet he was de­feated in
one hit...!

-- No. Is this... even pos­si­ble?! The punch didn't even touch him?

-- Did he shoot some kind of wind? But the re­lay cam­era didn't catch any­‐
thing! The in-game cam­era is the same as the Bat­tleNet game's cam­era, so it
should cap­ture al­most ev­ery­thing!

-- This is un­be­liev­able. I can't un­der­stand... How could Lee Yoongi...

As the caster en­er­get­i­cally de­scribed the in­stant de­feat of Lee Yoongi, The
an­al­yst seemed to be in de­nial.

-- Why is the com­men­ta­tor so bi­ased?

-- Re­ally, if Seong Ji­han does well, isn't it good for our coun­try in the end?

-- Ex­actly, why is he so up­set?

-- If we have such a player, they should be grate­ful and ap­pre­ci­ate him,

right? LOL. Is it a per­sonal grudge or some­thing?

-- NBC com­men­tary, right? Should we go to the NBC board?

View­ers, lis­ten­ing to the seem­ingly bi­ased com­men­tary, ex­pressed their

frus­tra­tions in real-time.

"Um..."

The caster nudged the an­al­yst, sig­nal­ing him to look at the mon­i­tor.

See­ing the chat room filled with 50% of the com­ments be­rat­ing the an­al­yst,
he kept his mouth shut.

'This... I can't fa­vor Dong­woo any­more.'

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Even if he had a close re­la­tion­ship with Kim Dong­woo, go­ing against the
tide would cause trou­ble.

He just de­cided to stay silent.

And the match con­tin­ued to be one-sided.

Bang!

Seong Ji­han's one-punch dom­i­nance con­tin­ued.

-- Wow, LOL, he keeps end­ing it with one punch!

-- He's too lazy to even punch now, LOL.

-- Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han!
Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han!

-- I told you, right? I said Ji­han would fin­ish in 3 sec­onds, LOL.

-- But... seems like he's even stronger than be­fore?

-- Get­ting even stronger, have you no con­science?

-- The less con­science, the bet­ter for us, LOL.

-- For real, please blow away the Sword King like that too, please ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

"Ah. Sh*t. This damn game!"

Bang!

Af­ter be­ing ejected from the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor, the sec­ond-ranked player
from the war­rior team couldn't hold back his anger and kicked the con­nec­‐
tor.

"Why is this damn... how can a Gold Rank do that?! Does that make any
sense? Ah, se­ri­ously. This is un­bear­able."

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The player's face turned red with rage, and tears even welled up in his eyes.

"Se­ri­ously, the Man­age­ment De­part­ment didn't tam­per with the sys­tem or

some­thing? Edit­ing data to fa­vor that bas­tard..."

"You know... that's im­pos­si­ble."

"Aaargh! Se­ri­ously!"

The na­tional team play­ers felt the same way look­ing at him.

Hadn't they all been hu­mil­i­ated by a sin­gle punch?

Ex­cept for one.

"Um... Player Kim Dong­woo, will you pro­ceed?"

An of­fi­cial from the man­age­ment bu­reau cau­tiously asked.

"Whew..."

Kim Dong­woo took a deep sigh.

He didn't want to do it!

The sec­ond-ranked player who just ex­ited had a level not too dif­fer­ent from
his. And see­ing how he was de­feated with a sin­gle hit, Kim Dong­woo pre­‐
sumed his fate would be the same.

But still...

"...I have to."

Be­ing the team leader, he couldn't be the only one to back out.

With a heavy heart, Kim Dong­woo sat down in the con­nec­tor.

And when Seong Ji­han faced him in-game, he thought, 'He's the na­tional
team's war­rior leader, I should show some man­ners.'

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Al­though he could have fin­ished it in one hit, he de­cided to give one more
blow.

Bang! Bang!

Af­ter tak­ing two hits, Kim Dong­woo was sent fly­ing.

"Ah! But Kim Dong­woo! He with­stood one hit!"

"...It seems like he just de­cided to hit him twice."

With the com­men­ta­tor's gloomy voice as the last thing heard, that test day
be­came leg­endary.

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Chap­ter 127
As soon as the test ended with Seong Ji­han's one punch, the in­ter­view be­‐
gan.

Orig­i­nally, ev­ery­one was sup­posed to gather for the in­ter­view, but due to
the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives be­ing en­veloped in shock and de­clin­ing the in­‐
ter­view, only Seong Ji­han stood in front of the cam­era and the an­nouncer.

"Player Seong Ji­han! Con­grat­u­la­tions on pass­ing the test first of all!"

"Thank you."

The fe­male an­nouncer gazed at Seong Ji­han, her eyes twin­kling.

Ex­cite­ment filled her eyes.

"In fact, many ex­perts pre­dicted that to­day's test would not be easy. How­‐
ever, you, Player Seong Ji­han, have shat­tered those pre­dic­tions and shown
an over­whelm­ing per­for­mance! Even though you're a Gold ranker, you've
shown such strong abil­i­ties. Is there a se­cret be­hind it?"

"I thought un­til two days ago that I wouldn't be able to eas­ily beat play­ers
above level 225. But per­haps the re­sults of my train­ing these past few days
showed, and I was able to pro­duce an un­ex­pected out­come to­day."

"Ah! I heard that you de­vote your­self to train­ing ex­cept when you're run­‐
ning Bat­tleNet. The re­sult of such ef­fort showed to­day!"

The an­nouncer high­lighted Seong Ji­han as if he were the em­bod­i­ment of ef­‐

fort.

'That's not quite it.'

Rather than ben­ef­ it­ing from train­ing, it was thanks to his stats.

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Seong Ji­han thought the an­nouncer was over­do­ing it a bit.

How­ever, the pub­lic's im­age of him wasn't quite like that.

He gave up bil­lions even when he was get­ting calls from the United States
and cre­ated the nur­tur­ing type guild.

Even though his pub­lic recog­ni­tion was now fully es­tab­lished, com­pared to
other play­ers, he min­i­mized ex­ter­nal ac­tiv­i­ties and was a hard­core player
who only fo­cused on train­ing.

That was the im­age-mak­ing that had been done.

"...You showed a re­ally in­cred­i­ble per­for­mance to­day. We look for­ward to

your ac­tiv­i­ties as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the fu­ture!"

"I just passed the test, se­lec­tion is up to the Man­age­ment De­part­ment and
the coach. I am just sat­is­fied to com­pete with the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive-
level war­riors."

"Con­sid­er­ing this re­sult, which ev­ery­one has watched, could you pos­si­bly
not be se­lected? Then, please share a word about your res­o­lu­tion for the fu­‐
ture!"

"At this level... I can tar­get the Sword King."

Calmly, Seong Ji­han, who was con­fi­dent he could tar­get the world's No. 1
war­rior, said, "And by next year, I'll take his head."

"Ah. T-take his head?"

With an ad­di­tional re­mark, the in­ter­view con­cluded.

-- Lol, look at that con­fi­dence.

-- Damn!!! He even won against the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive now. He could

take the Sword King's head next year!!!

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-- This Gold ranker is tak­ing the Sword King too lightly^^ Just be­cause he
won against our his­tor­i­cally weak­est na­tional team, he's get­ting too
haughty~~^^ I wish he gets a re­al­ity check in the match against Japan soon!

-- Dang, is there still a Sword King fan?

-- How can you con­tinue to be a Sword King fan see­ing the cur­rent state of
our coun­try?

-- In a way, that's a true fan right there lol

With the talk of tak­ing the Sword King's head, the chat, in­clud­ing those
thought to had dis­ap­peared, the Sword King fans, went wild.

Of course, most of the re­ac­tions were uni­formly wel­com­ing.

Con­sid­er­ing Seong Ji­han, who showed an over­whelm­ing abil­i­ties even as a

Gold ranker, peo­ple ex­pected that he could de­feat the Sword King as
promised next year.

Mean­while, in Tokyo, Japan.

"Hmmm...."

Ito Shizuru watched Seong Ji­han's test with a se­ri­ous face.

Even though it hap­pened abroad, it was a his­toric event where a Gold

ranker chal­lenged a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, so even the Ja­pa­nese Bat­tleNet
spe­cialty chan­nel broad­casted it live.

'Sud­denly... he be­came so strong?'

He wasn't like this when he fought with Akari, the Di­am

­ ond Rank ninja.

Al­though Akari was pushed back, she was stronger than him phys­i­cally.

But the spec­ta­cle to­day was to­tally dif­fer­ent.

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Judg­ing from the clash with the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Seong Ji­han's
power went be­yond just sup­press­ing his op­po­nent.

"This bas­tard...!"

The Sword King, hav­ing watched Seong Ji­han's in­ter­view as well, bulged
his eyes with anger next to her.

"Ryuhei. What do you think?"

"A laugh­able fel­low! Say­ing he'll take my head next year? I... I'll kill him
right away...!"

"Ryuhei. Calmly, please speak ra­tio­nally."

As Shizuru's voice grew cold, the Sword King bit his lip.

"I can def­i­nitely beat him now. But..."

"In a year, you can't guar­an­tee it. Right?"

"...Yes."

It seemed shame­ful to give such an an­swer, and the Sword King's fist quiv­‐
ered.

Still, since she wanted a ra­tio­nal an­swer, he had to con­vey just the facts.

"I can't be­lieve his growth rate. It's only been about a month since he fought
that ninja... He's grown sev­eral stages in that short time. At this rate, it
might be tough for me next year."

"As ex­pected..."

Ito Shizuru nod­ded calmly, seem­ingly hav­ing ex­pected that an­swer.

On the TV screen, Seong Ji­han, who had fin­ished the in­ter­view, was shown
meet­ing Yoon Seah, who was at the test site.

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Her gaze fol­lowed Yoon Seah, not Seong Ji­han.

"Ryuhei. Don't you want to see your daugh­ter?"

"I... just need you."

"I think it's time to bring her here."

"...What?"

Yoon Seah, whom he had or­dered to stay in Ko­rea in case the charm on the
Sword King wore off.

But the sit­u­at­ion has changed a lot since then.

The charm on the Sword King had now firmly taken hold.

'She also has a unique gift.'

Yoon Seah also, while not on the level of Seong Ji­han, had quite a unique
Gift.

'The only thing that could be con­sid­ered a weak­ness of Seong Ji­han now is
her.'

Even if Akari, who had been made into her avatar, was de­ployed dur­ing the
na­tional team game, there was no guar­an­tee that Seong Ji­han would def­i­‐
nitely be en­chanted.

So, it was nec­es­sary to se­cure his only weak­ness in prepa­ra­tion for this mo­‐
ment.

"...What do you in­tend to do with Seah?"

In re­sponse to the Sword King's ques­tion,

"I'm go­ing to raise her like my own daugh­ter."

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Shizuru said calmly, look­ing at Yoon Seah, who wasn't much younger than
her.

"In Japan."

In­side the el­ev­ a­tor of the Sword Palace.

"Un­cle. It's break­ing news!"

"Aren't you used to it by now?"

"How rushed was this ar­ti­cle? There's even a typo! It says 'Sheong Ji­han'!
They need to cor­rect it!"

Seong Ji­han, with a teas­ing smile, looked at Yoon Seah, who was ex­cit­edly
leav­ing com­ments on her phone.

Some­how, she seemed even more ex­cited than him.

"Un­cle. Shall we have a party to cel­eb­ rate be­ing se­lected for the na­tional
team?"

"Eh, what party. And I haven't been se­lected yet."

"Hey! This is ba­si­cally it! I'll use my power to­day. Just rest in your room for
a bit!"

Say­ing that, Yoon Seah, un­able to take her eyes off her phone, nudged
Seong Ji­han's back.

'Speak­ing of which, Ariel is quiet.'

Ariel, who had been at­tached to his arm when he uni­fied the Three Dan­‐
tians.

When sum­moned by the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God, she was also taken along,
so she might tell some sto­ries re­lated to the Con­stel­la­tions.

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Strangely, she was silent.

Seong Ji­han checked his left arm.

The shadow en­ergy con­cen­trated around his el­bow.

The power that had co­al­esced through the Mar­tial Soul, even af­ter the abil­i­‐
ties were re­or­ga­nized, still showed no sign of ac­tiv­ity.

Thump!

As Seong Ji­han touched it,

[...What, what is it? Why have you sealed me?]

Ariel spoke with a sur­prised voice.

"Sealed?"

[Yes... Aren't you seal­ing me now?]

"I didn't in­tend to, but come out for now."

How­ever, the shadow en­ergy writhed in Seong Ji­han's left arm, un­able to
move be­yond the ag­gre­gated range.

[Are you teas­ing me? You ask me to come out af­ter seal­ing me... That's too
much.]

"...?"

At that word, Seong Ji­han in­spected his body.

Soon af­ter.

'The do­main re­or­ga­nized by the Mar­tial Soul can­not be in­vaded.'

The shadow en­ergy, which used to roam freely within him with­out his con­‐
sent.

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But now, be­cause his body was com­pletely re­or­ga­nized by the Mar­tial Soul,
it could not move at will.

'I must al­low space up to the left arm.'

When he widened the path the shadow en­ergy could take, Ariel fi­nally
moved.

Black smoke sprouted from Seong Ji­han's arm and swiftly trans­formed into
the shape of a shadow elf.

"Haa... I thought I was go­ing to die."

She, who seemed to have grown even more,

Had grown al­most as tall as Seong Ji­han.

"Hm? Isn't this al­most like my orig­i­nal body? No, what is this... this amount
of magic power?"

Ariel, who was look­ing at her body cu­ri­ously, widened her eyes, feel­ing the
magic power flow­ing from Seong Ji­han.

"En­ergy is con­stantly flow­ing from you... What ex­actly did you do? The
Shadow Sword stat was def­i­nitely low be­fore."

"It's the re­sult of train­ing. Didn't you see it?"

"The com­bin­ing of mana pools of a lower-class race? About the time the re­‐
sult was about to come out, didn't you seal me?"

Ariel said, scan­ning Seong Ji­han.

"Now it can't even be called a mid-tier race...... Su­pe­rior. No...... Be­yond

that? That the low­est tier has come this far...... At this rate, it has sur­passed
elves and can ri­val the dragon race."

"What tier is the dragon race?"

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"Above su­pe­rior. I don't rank any­thing above that be­cause it's an un­known
ter­ri­tory. A race that ri­vals drag­ons or demigods...... And above that, I only
know there's the Con­stel­la­tions."

In­deed, 'Mar­tial Soul', a skill rep­re­sent­ing the stars, had eas­ily ex­ceeded
Ariel's grad­ing cri­te­ria in a sin­gle leap.

'I guess she doesn't know about the in­ci­dent at Tuseong.'

Orig­i­nally, he in­tended to ask ques­tions un­der the as­sump­tion that she fol­‐
lowed him there and saw ev­ery­thing.

If she saw noth­ing be­cause she was sealed at the time, there was no need to
nec­es­sar­ily tell her ev­ery­thing about what hap­pened at Tuseong.

Seong Ji­han only asked about what she might know.

"Ariel. Do you know about the ser­vants of the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God?"

"Ser­vants? Ah...... are you talk­ing about the de­scen­dants of the Mar­tial
God?"

"De­scen­dants, is it?"

"It is known that there are a to­tal of five de­scen­dants of the Mar­tial God.
When they come as emis­saries of death, that star will trem­ble in fear."

"What do they do?"

"It's sim­ple. They ask the Con­stel­la­tions, 'Will you die alone? Or will you
per­ish along with the star?'."

"You know quite a bit."

"The Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God is no dif­fer­ent from a cos­mic dis­as­ter. Ev­ery­‐

one raises their an­ten­nas at his news. But how does the mas­ter know about
the Mar­tial God's de­scen­dants?"

"I met him when you were sealed."

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With­out de­tail­ing the spe­cific cir­cum­stances, and only speak­ing about

Dong­bangsak, Ariel nod­ded her head.

"The Cos­mic Heav­enly De­mon."

"Cos­mic Heav­enly De­mon......?"

Jang Sam­bong, also known as the Heav­enly De­mon.

It seems Dong­bang Sak him­self pre­ferred Heav­enly De­mon.

"Yes. He is a de­scen­dant of the Mar­tial God. A lit­tle while ago, I told about
the ques­tion they ask, right?"

"The 'Will you die alone? Or will you per­ish along with the star?'"

"Yes. If the mas­ter of a star de­fies and de­cides to des­per­ately re­sist along
with the star, the Cos­mic Heav­enly De­mon kid­naps him right there, say­ing
it wants to avoid un­nec­es­sary sac­ri­fices."

"......Dong­bangsak is able to deal with even the mas­ter of stars?"

"He may be over­pow­ered in strength, but it seems the Cos­mic Heav­enly

De­mon has a pe­cu­liar cap­ture tech­nique."

Seong Ji­han re­called Dong­bangsak form­ing ying-yang in the Tuseong.

If the Mar­tial God had not sent help then, he would have un­doubt­edly been
trapped in the star.

"Right...... I see."

"But how ex­actly did you meet the Cos­mic Heav­enly De­mon, mas­ter?"

"It's com­pli­cated."

Swish! swish!

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When Seong Ji­han, hav­ing heard all the an­swers he wanted, ges­tured as if
say­ing that's enough, Ariel rolled her eyes.

"You just pick and choose the an­swers you want."

"That's the priv­i­lege of be­ing a mas­ter."

"Let's go. Go."

Ariel left the room.

"Ah, Ariel? Why did you grow so much?...... Should I call you 'sis­ter'
now?"

"No need. If we're go­ing by age, I'm old enough to be called grandma. Just
call me as you al­ways did."

"Okay. Do you want to cook to­gether?"

"I'll taste it."

While the two were chat­ting out­side, Seong Ji­han checked his changed abil­‐
ity.

'Mar­tial Soul is at 100.'

The Mar­tial Power and Force com­bined into Mar­tial Soul, and the sta­tus
win­dow showed no sig­nif­i­cant change.

'My Name­less Di­vine Arts skill......'

Sud­denly feel­ing some­thing, he opened the skill win­dow.

Then, the skill 'Name­less Di­vine Arts' was sur­rounded by a golden glow.

[Name­less Di­vine Arts (Grade: SS)]

[A skill trans­mit­ted only as frag­ments of the Name­less Di­vine Arts.]

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Hav­ing ac­quired 'Mar­tial Soul', which is one of the main streams of the
Name­less Di­vine Skill, a rein­te­gra­tion is in progress.

*If you mod­ify the three ad­vanced tech­niques of the Name­less Di­vine Arts
to suit your­self, or find out the name 'Name­less', you can fully awaken the
Name­less Di­vine Arts.

[Do you want to guess the name 'Name­less'?]

[The name con­sists of two char­ac­ters.]

[You are given three chances.]

'The rank has in­creased.'

With con­sid­er­ably changed skill ex­pla­na­tions and up­graded rank, us­ing

mar­tial arts seemed to be more con­ve­nient.

How­ever, what caught Seong Ji­han's at­ten­tion was some­thing else.

The sys­tem mes­sage that popped up at the end.

'Guess the name?'

Guess­ing the name seems much eas­ier than mod­i­fy­ing the three ad­vanced
tech­niques to suit him­self.

In a sit­u­at­ion prac­ti­cally with­out hints, guess­ing cor­rectly seemed nearly

im­pos­si­ble.

'The Name­less Di­vine Arts must be the mar­tial arts of the Mar­tial God af­ter
all.'

Seong Ji­han, af­ter a mo­ment of con­tem­pla­tion, at­tempted to guess the

name.

If the name of the Mar­tial God's Di­vine arts was 'God' with two char­ac­ters
over­lap­ping, it didn't seem right.

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"Mar­tial Soul Di­vine Arts?"

[In­cor­rect.]

[2 chances re­main.]

It wasn't that.

'I should save one chance for later.'

Seong Ji­han de­cided to test a sus­pi­cion he'd had since meet­ing the Mar­tial
God.

"......Ji­han Di­vine Arts?"

Yes, he tried in­sert­ing his own name.

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Chap­ter 128
There was a rea­son why Seong Ji­han put his own name into con­sid­er­at­ion.

'A Con­stel­la­tion hunt­ing its own kind... The at­ti­tude of the Wan­der­ing Mar­‐
tial God is so odd.'

Back then, when he hit Mar­tial Power 30 and ac­quired the skill Name­less
Di­vine Arts.

The Wan­der­ing War God, cau­tious of him when his uni­fi­ca­tion of Three
Dan­tians was ac­ti­vated, with­drew the Gift and also can­celed the trans­mis­‐
sion of mar­tial arts.

Even at that time, Ji­han just thought that the Mar­tial God was highly wary
of him.

'The re­sponse was com­pletely dif­fer­ent this time.'

Even though Seong Ji­han, whom he was highly cau­tious, came to Tuseong,
the Mar­tial God stopped Dong­bangsak and in­stead showed mercy, en­cour­‐
ag­ing him to gain strength.

Wasn't this re­ac­tion so dif­fer­ent from the ini­tial one?

The Mar­tial God, who mer­ci­lessly hunts down other Con­stel­la­tions by

send­ing ul­ti­ma­tums, was ex­cep­tion­ally gen­er­ous to him, and he couldn't un­‐
der­stand why.

More­over,

'I... ob­tained the Mar­tial Soul too eas­ily.'

The Mar­tial Soul, a Star's Abiltiy ob­tained through the uni­fi­ca­tion of the
Three Dan­tians.

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Even if uni­fy­ing the Three Dan­tians was a great achieve­ment, the value of
the Mar­tial Soul ex­ceeded it by far.

The Mar­tial Soul pos­sessed im­mea­sur­able po­ten­tial, so much so that even

af­ter dis­miss­ing the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, it could not be said to have
fully man­aged its power.

Had he re­ally been that tal­ented in mar­tial arts to earn such abil­ity?

'I'm not that good...'

Of course, in his pre­vi­ous life, he did rise to the po­si­tion of the strong­est
among hu­man­ity, but ob­tain­ing the Mar­tial Soul was an in­com­pa­ra­ble
achieve­ment.

Yet, ob­tain­ing the Mar­tial Soul this eas­ily made him think that there must
be some con­nec­tion be­tween the wan­der­ing War God and him­self.

So he tried in­sert­ing the name Ji­han, but...

[In­cor­rect.]

[Only the last chance re­main­ing.]

[Hint: It is re­lated to an an­cient ex­is­tence.]

'Oh, it wasn't.'

Seong Ji­han sighed in re­lief, see­ing the hint along with the no­ti­fi­ca­tion of
the wrong an­swer.

'It's for­tu­nate that it wasn't as I feared.'

See­ing that it was re­lated to an an­cient ex­is­tence, it seemed that the Mar­tial
God was an en­tity sep­ar­ ate from him­self.

'I'll have to mod­ify the three ad­vanced tech­niques to up­grade the Name­less
Di­vine Arts.'

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Since the last chance was with­out much clue, he de­cided to leave it for now.

Seong Ji­han de­cided to pur­sue the up­grade in a con­ven­tional man­ner for the
time be­ing.

'I have some­what caught the clue for mod­i­fy­ing the Di­vine Thun­der De­‐
cree.'

When it mixed with the flame of the phoenix, the power of thun­der, had be­‐
come much stronger.

The di­rec­tion for mod­i­fy­ing the mar­tial arts of the Di­vine Thun­der De­cree
seemed to be to in­te­grate it with the Phoenix Flame.

'There are no clues for the oth­ers.'

How­ever, he had no idea how to mod­ify the other two ad­vanced tech­niques.

Seong Ji­han de­cided to start chang­ing the Di­vine Thun­der De­cree one at a
time to suit him­self.

"Un­cle~ Come eat!"

"Is it ready al­ready?"

"Yeah. Ariel is good at cook­ing. With her help, it was fin­ished quickly."

"Okay. I'm com­ing."

She said she'll tasted it but she cooked too?

Seong Ji­han or­ga­nized his thoughts and left the room with a lighter heart.

Four days had passed since Seong Ji­han took the test.

In a con­fer­ence room of the Bat­tleNet Man­age­ment De­part­ment, mem­bers

of the Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Se­lec­tion Com­mit­tee gath­ered.

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The Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Se­lec­tion Com­mit­tee was mostly com­posed of

ex­ec­u­tives from the top 10 guilds in Ko­rea, so they had a cer­tain rap­port.

"Did you see the re­porters when you came in to­day?"

"Yes. There were way more than usual. It seemed to be twice as many as
when the list of na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives was an­nounced in the sec­ond half
of the year."

"Good­ness... just be­cause of one player, what a fuss."

"That player is none other than Seong Ji­han."

"Now, now. Com­mit­tee mem­bers. Please take your seats."

As the chair­man stepped for­ward, ev­ery­one took their des­ig­nated seats.

"The rea­son I have called you all here to­day is to re­vise the Na­tional Rep­re­‐
sen­ta­tive se­lec­tion cri­te­ria of the Man­age­ment De­part­ment."

"Heh, we have to re­vise the se­lec­tion cri­te­ria just be­cause of one player..."

"The pub­lic sen­ti­ment is not or­di­nary. It's been 3 days and they're mak­ing a
fuss ask­ing why the se­lec­tion is not be­ing made yet."

The se­lec­tion of Bat­tleNet Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

Since the rank in the Bat­tleNet League wasn't just a rank in en­ter­tain­ment,
but some­thing on which the fu­ture of a coun­try hinged.

The rep­re­sen­ta­tive se­lec­tion went through as sys­tem­atic and fair a process

as pos­si­ble.

So, even if Seong Ji­han showed an in­sane per­for­mance, it was nat­u­ral that it
took some time.

But the pub­lic, who saw Seong Ji­han's one-man show, didn't think so.

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"My el­em
­ en­tary school daugh­ter also scolded me, ask­ing what is daddy do­‐
ing."

"Hehe. My fa­ther, who is in a nurs­ing home, called me. He asked if there

was any rea­son not to pick Seong Ji­han. Even though I tell him he'll be
picked soon, he for­gets be­cause of his de­men­tia and con­tacts me ev­ery
day."

"Haha... That must be quite trou­ble­some."

"I won­der if there's any­one here who hasn't re­ceived such a ques­tion."

Af­ter wit­ness­ing Seong Ji­han's per­for­mance, which blew away all the na­‐
tional-level War­riors in one room, the pub­lic opin­ion, which ini­tially op­‐
posed Ji­han be­ing a rep­re­sen­ta­tive be­cause he was a Gold player, com­‐
pletely flipped, send­ing unan­i­mous sup­port.

Es­pe­cially, the pre­vail­ing opin­ion was that Ji­han should be put into the
game against Rus­sia, which will take place in a week.

"Okay. Then, let's re­vise the cri­te­ria for se­lect­ing the Ko­rean na­tional rep­re­‐
sen­ta­tives from Dai­mond Rank to Gold and above. Is there any­one against
it?"

In this sit­u­at­ion, op­pos­ing would be tan­ta­mount to be­com­ing a na­tional

traitor.

No one raised their hand.

"Al­right. So, un­der­stand­ing that ev­ery­one agrees... I will re­vise the na­tional
rep­re­sen­ta­tive se­lec­tion cri­te­ria."

Thud! Thud!

The chair­man quickly passed the agenda.

"And the next agenda is about chang­ing the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive se­lec­‐
tion list."

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"Are you re­plac­ing player Gu Jaeho with player Seong Ji­han?"

"Yes. That's right. We plan to re­place Gu Jaeho, the low­est-ranked War­rior

rep­re­sen­ta­tive, with Seong Ji­han. Is there any­one against this?"

"The re­sult is the fairest."

"No ob­jec­tions."

Gu Jaeho, who was the first to be de­feated by Ji­han with one punch, in­‐
evitably got a taste of fall­ing out of the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive se­lec­tion.

"It's the first time a meet­ing has ended so quickly."

"Shouldn't we end the los­ing streak?"

"Hmm... Can we end the los­ing streak just by choos­ing him?"

"Did you watch Ji­han's broad­cast yes­ter­day? He's now fight­ing Hojo with
his bare hands. Con­sid­er­ing his growth rate, it's worth ex­pect­ing."

"Oh, do you also watch Ji­han's broad­casts your­self, Chair­man?"

"If I don't watch them, I can't join in the con­ver­sa­tion with my kids. Hehe."

Af­ter the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive test, Seong Ji­han's chan­nel, which gained
sub­scribers steeply again, sur­passed 5 mil­lion.

In Ko­rea, less than 10 play­ers have sur­passed 5 mil­lion sub­scribers, but Ji­‐
han had reached this record even as a Gold player.

"Then, I will no­tify player Seong Ji­han that he has been se­lected as a na­‐
tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive and re­quest to stay at the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter."

"He should par­tic­i­pate in the game against Rus­sia right away."

"Hmm... But Ji­han has hu­mil­i­ated the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive war­riors so

much, can they build team­work smoothly dur­ing the train­ing camp?"

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A mem­ber ex­pressed such con­cerns, but

"Oh~ They're all pros, not kids, what could hap­pen? Don't worry. Even the
na­tional War­rior play­ers will be glad that a strong player is join­ing."

"Right. Would they want to be the low­est for­ever?"

Other mem­bers spoke dis­mis­sively as if that wouldn't hap­pen.

"Al­right. Let's hold a press con­fer­ence and wrap up to­day's sched­ule."

"Un­der­stood."

Thus, the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive se­lec­tion com­mit­tee meet­ing ended

swiftly.

And the news was con­veyed to Seong Ji­han through Man­ager Park Yoon­sik.

[The Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Se­lec­tion Com­mit­tee re­vises the se­lec­tion

rules! Now Gold play­ers can also be se­lected!]

[Seong Ji­han se­lected as a Bat­tlenet Na­tional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive! Can par­tic­i­‐

pate from the next League game against Rus­sia!]

"Un­cle! Con­grat­u­la­tions on be­ing se­lected!"

Yoon Seah en­tered the room to con­grat­u­late him af­ter see­ing the break­ing
news, and saw Ji­han, who was on the phone with a se­ri­ous ex­pres­sion.

"Do we... have to do the train­ing camp?"

[Yes... A train­ing camp is es­sen­tial for the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive match.

The map cho­sen for the game against Rus­sia is a Siege map, so a har­mo­‐
niza­tion process is needed even more.]

"It's just that I'm a bit con­cerned about leav­ing my niece alone."

[Oh! Don't worry about that. Fam­ily mem­bers can also come to the Bat­‐
tleNet Cen­ter. The fa­cil­i­ties at the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter are above a 5-star ho­tel,

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and a suite is pro­vided to each player.]

"Al­right. When should we come?"

[The train­ing camp starts in 3 days. I will come to pick you up.]

"Okay. See you then."

Yoon Seah, who lis­tened to the con­ver­sa­tion be­tween Ji­han and Park Yoon­‐
sik, waved her palm left and right.

It was a ges­ture of re­fusal.

"Ah. Un­cle. What's with that, I'm not a kid... It's okay. Why bother tak­ing
me to the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter?"

"Some­thing might hap­pen."

"Come on~ What could hap­pen! Even that stalker has dis­ap­peared, hasn't
he?"

If the stalker had been alive, it might have been dif­fer­ent.

Is there any­thing dan­ger­ous now?

'This is what you call over­pro­tec­tion.'

Think­ing so, Yoon Seah wore a mean­ing­ful smile on her lips.

"There's so much hap­pen­ing at the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter! Scan­dals among na­‐

tional team-level play­ers are said to orig­i­nate from there. Wouldn't Un­cle be
dis­ap­pointed if he brought me there and we couldn't join in?"

"That's not even funny."

"They say you have quite a bit of free time af­ter train­ing camp, right?
There's a drink­ing party ev­ery night."

Seong Ji­han made a face as if he couldn't be­lieve what he was hear­ing.

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'League losers and yet so undis­ci­plined, huh.'

Even con­sid­er­ing it's a tu­to­rial phase, if it's no­to­ri­ous enough for the gen­eral
pub­lic to know, how much of a mess must their train­ing be?

It made him ques­tion the point of train­ing camps.

"Any­way. I'm re­ally fine! Have a good time at the train­ing camp!"

"What if a mad­man barges in?"

"What... How would a mad­man get all the way up to this pent­house! They
can't even take the el­ev­ a­tor!"

Yoon Seah didn't seem in­clined to go to the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter at all.

'Well, noth­ing should hap­pen.'

With Xin Youhwa dead, there was no one left to threaten her, but Seong Ji­‐
han still wanted to make some in­sur­ance ar­range­ments.

"Where's Ariel?"

"She's rolling around on the sofa, watch­ing TV."

"What a mess."

When Seong Ji­han went to the liv­ing room, Ariel had be­come one with the
sofa.

"Mas­ter. You're back."

"Ariel. How far can you be from me?"

"Um... not very far in this phys­i­cal form. But in my smaller form, I can be
quite far."

"Good. Stay in the pent­house while I'm at the train­ing camp, even if you
have to re­duce your form."

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Since the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter was lo­cated in Gang­nam, it was not too far from
Sword Palace in terms of dis­tance.

Even in a small form, leav­ing Ariel be­hind would be a re­lief.

"Un­cle... Ariel. Isn't that the black sword? The Shadow some­thing?"

"I don't need it for prac­tice any­way."

"That's mean. Mas­ter. Say­ing it's not needed."

Ariel ver­bally protested, but with a leisurely face, she con­tin­ued watch­ing
TV.

Crunch!

Us­ing her shadow, she en­joyed a piece of heaven, eat­ing potato chips
placed on the cof­fee ta­ble in front of the sofa.

"I shall ac­cept my mas­ter's com­mand, and pro­tect Seah with my life!"

"...Un­cle. I don't think she'll be much help."

"She's quite use­ful de­spite ap­pear­ances."

It's best if a sit­u­at­ion where she needs to be use­ful doesn't arise.

Seong Ji­han thought as much and ges­tured to Ariel.

"Let's go. We have a game to play."

"Oh. I wanted to watch this pro..."

"Watch the re­play."

"I opened snacks..."

"Open more when we come back."

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"Mas­ter is so in­con­sid­er­ate, ex­cept when deal­ing with Seah..."

Swish~

Ariel, loung­ing on the sofa, even­tu­ally turned into smoke and en­tered Seong
Ji­han's arm.

"To­day isn't a day we play to­gether, right?"

"Yeah."

Yoon Seah agreed to play to­gether twice a week.

This week, they had al­ready com­pleted two games.

"I'll be back then."

And so, Seong Ji­han who logged into the game was.

[This mis­sion is Sur­vival.]

[En­ter­ing the 'Ex­per­i­men­tal Zone'.]

Hav­ing reached level 75, he en­tered a new Sur­vival map, 'Ex­per­i­men­tal

Zone'.

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Chap­ter 129
The Sur­vival Map, 'Ex­per­i­men­tal Zone'.

This map, widely uti­lized from Gold League matches for those over level
75 to Di­am
­ ond League, was known for be­ing highly in­flu­enced by luck.

One hun­dred play­ers were placed in three zones: Red, Yel­low, and Green,
with the ob­jec­tive to sur­vive un­til only 50 play­ers re­mained.

It was, in many ways, aptly named a "Sur­vival" map.

-- Oh. The Ex­per­i­men­tal Zone, huh? Fi­nally, the sur­vival map changed lol -
- I thought this map would've been se­lected ear­lier lol -- Yeah, re­mem­ber
last time when a dif­fer­ent map was picked when he went be­yond the
League. This one could have been picked.

'This is some­what un­ex­pected.'

Be­fore the game started, Seong Ji­han thought to him­self while read­ing the
chat.

In the past, higher league matches were picked be­cause of ex­ceed­ing the
limit.

Now, de­spite a much wider gap than be­fore, the sys­tem al­lo­cated maps ap­‐
pro­pri­ate for the level.

'Did it change be­cause of what hap­pened dur­ing the Top 100 match?'

Maybe it was be­cause chang­ing the map in­dis­crim­i­nately, and hav­ing the
Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star in­ter­vene, had caused trou­ble.

Al­though ex­pe­ri­ence points were dis­trib­uted, when it came to map al­lo­ca­‐

tion, it felt some­what re­strained.

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For Ji­han, who wanted fast growth, this wasn't ex­actly wel­come.

'Well, if I fol­low the stan­dard pro­gres­sion, I won't be­come a Di­am

­ ond Rank
un­til De­cem­ber.'

He de­cided to think pos­i­tively un­til 2020.

In or­der to pre­pare for the open­ing game of the Space League in 2021, he
needed to stay at Plat­inum un­til this De­cem­ber at least.

-- So, which zone were you placed in?

-- Oh, Red.

-- Ah... Un­lucky to get Red ㅠㅠ What will you do ㅠㅠ

View­ers, who knew Seong Ji­han's game­play bet­ter than the player him­self,
ex­pressed their con­cerns de­spite be­ing well aware of his prow­ess.

-- So he won't get 1st place this time?

-- ㅋㅋㅋㅋ It's Seong Ji­han, how could he not get 1st?

-- Red Zone doesn't last long, does it ㅠㅠ

Ji­han looked around.

The Red Zone of the Ex­per­i­men­tal Zone.

This place was a de­ci­sive fac­tor where luck played a sig­nif­i­cant role in the
Ex­per­i­men­tal Zone map.

'Hmm......'

The sur­round­ing scenery wasn't any­thing spe­cial.

A wide open space.

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Four­teen play­ers, sum­moned just like him, were shak­ing with anx­i­ety, look­‐
ing around.

All around the play­ers, walls com­posed of a red light tightly en­veloped the
area.

A place fit­ting to be called the Red Zone.

"Ah... Damn. So un­lucky. How did we end up here?"

"We're screwed... Is this a level down..."

Ini­tially, the play­ers who were curs­ing their luck in land­ing here, upon see­‐
ing Ji­han, trans­formed into fig­ures who seemed to have met their sav­ior.

"Oh, it's Seong Ji­han!"

"Mr. Seong Ji­han! Please lead us!"

-- ㅋㅋㅋ Do they even know this is sur­vival?

-- Lol, why are they happy? Be­ing near Ji­han means you get killed first,
right?

-- They might be count­ing on Ji­han's mercy!

-- Well... there's no mercy from Ji­han.

-- That's not true! How can Mr. Seong Ji­han be any­thing but mag­nan­i­mous!

Ji­han, watch­ing his fans give ul­ti­mate shields in the chat, let out a small
chuckle.

'Mag­nan­i­mous, huh.'

That's mil­lions of years away from him.

[The game is start­ing.]

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As the game start mes­sage ap­peared, Ji­han sum­moned his Shadow Sword
Eclipse im­me­di­ately.

Swish!

Name­less Di­vine Art, Triad of Mar­tial Mas­tery -- To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion.

As he swung hor­i­zon­tally, 14 play­ers si­mul­ta­ne­ously met their end in two

slices.

Among them,

"Ugh... That's too much..."

"We asked you to lead us..."

There were also those who asked Ji­han to lead them.

-- Mag­nan­i­mous...?

-- Glo­ri­ously im­par­tial, isn't it! He granted death to ev­ery­one! How egal­i­tar­‐

ian!

-- Kyah... That's even more first-class!

Af­ter achiev­ing 14 kills in a sin­gle in­stance, Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally opened

his mouth.

"Why are they ask­ing me to take lead in a sur­vival map?"

Sur­vival map.

A game of sur­vival of the fittest, end­ing once only 50 per­cent of the sur­‐
vivors re­main.

He couldn't un­der­stand at all why any­one would seek help from oth­ers in
that en­vi­ron­ment.

'Be­sides, I don't re­mem­ber this map, so there's noth­ing I can lead them to.'

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Ex­per­i­men­tal Zone.

Since this was a sur­vival map that was only avail­able dur­ing the tu­to­rial, he
had ab­so­lutely no rec­ol­lec­tion of how to nav­i­gate it.

So, be­ing true to the sur­vival mode, he mas­sa­cred nearby play­ers.

-- Ah. But nor­mally, to sur­vive on this map, ev­ery­one co­op­er­ates in their re­‐
spec­tive zones...

-- That's mean­ing­less in the Red Zone ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-- ㅇㅇ Isn't quickly wip­ing out the peo­ple in the Red Zone rather a good
strat­egy to rank first?

-- But it's a prob­lem if there are too few sur­vivors in the Red Zone...

Be­fore the au­di­ence could fin­ish speak­ing.

Flash! Flash!

With only one player left, a glow be­gan to emit from the red walls of the
Red Zone.

[Ex­per­i­ment sub­jects, ab­nor­mal ex­tinc­tion.]

[Pro­ceed­ing to elim­i­nate the Ir­reg­u­lar.]

With that sound, a swarm of light ap­proached Seong Ji­han in­stantly.

The pres­sure ex­erted by the red light was quite threat­en­ing even to Sung Ji­‐
han, who had ac­quired the Mar­tial Soul.

If it was be­fore, it would be so dan­ger­ous that the prob­ab­ il­ity of death

would hon­estly be higher.

'That is a lot of pres­sure.'

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Is this why the view­ers said that he won't be able to rank first be­cause he's
in the Red Zone?

Just as Seong Ji­han was about to col­lide with the ap­proach­ing red light.

'There's no time to re­lax right now.'

For the time be­ing, he found a path.

'There's space there.'

In the steadily en­croach­ing light, a slight space opened up in one place.

For a reg­u­lar player, the gap was sub­tle enough to be dif­fi­cult to no­tice.

Even the old Seong Ji­han would have found it hard to squeeze through such
a nar­row gap.

How­ever, now he had Mar­tial Soul.

Even a small crack, as long as there was a gap, could be breached.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Foot­work Tech­nique -- Flash­ing Sky Thun­der Steps

Al­though he used the same move­ment tech­nique as be­fore.

Now, un­like the pre­vi­ous times, he es­caped through the gap as if he had
tele­ported.

Zzzzzip!

The mo­ment he es­caped.

The place where he had stood was com­pletely en­gulfed by the red light.

'Pow­er­ful.'

The in­tense, over­whelm­ing light of de­struc­tion.

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The ground where Seong Ji­han and the 14 oth­ers had stood com­pletely
melted away.

At the very bot­tom, only dark steel re­mained, giv­ing an alien feel­ing.

[Elim­i­na­tion failed.]

[Pro­ceed­ing to com­plete in­cin­er­at­ion...]

And as Seong Ji­han com­pletely avoided the red light, an­other voice rang
out.

'Com­plete in­cin­er­at­ion, huh...'

Seong Ji­han looked around.

As the red light, which had been a wall, gath­ered in the cen­ter, it be­came an
open space all around.

All di­rec­tions were like ex­its from this place.

As Seong Ji­han pon­dered which di­rec­tion to choose.

[Mas­ter. Over there.]

Ariel, trans­formed into Shadow Sword Eclipse, con­veyed her in­ten­tion.

Ariel pointed to one spot at the north from the cen­ter.

'There?'

[Yes. The other spa­ces are fake.]

'How do you know?'

[If this space is truly 'that place'... then that is the exit. Go there to prove my
hy­poth­es­ is. You can't die any­way, can you? It's just a game.]

'If I die here, won't I miss out on rank­ing first?'

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[Ex­actly. Trust me a lit­tle.]

Ariel's voice, more con­fi­dent than usual.

'Al­right.'

Seong Ji­han de­cided to ac­cept her ap­peal once.

It was a de­ci­sion made be­cause he was con­fi­dent that he could sur­vive well
enough even if that path was not the cor­rect an­swer.

Whoosh!

As Seong Ji­han swiftly broke through the north,

[Com­plete in­cin­er­at­ion, com­menc­ing.]

Whooooo...!

Ex­cept for the part from which Seong Ji­han es­caped, green flames rose
from all di­rec­tions.

A power much stronger than the red lights from mo­ments be­fore.

[A green flame, I was right.]

Ariel, hav­ing wit­nessed this, spoke with a voice full of cer­tainty.

[This is, the Elf Ex­per­i­ment Zone.]

Ex­per­i­ment Zone.

This map was quite a pe­cu­liar map for Seong Ji­han.

'It only ap­peared dur­ing the tu­to­rial.'

Nu­mer­ous maps through which he had passed.

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Whether it was the colos­seum or bridge.

These kinds of games of­ten brought back pre­vi­ous maps, with some
changes, af­ter the tu­to­rial ended, when­ever the stage changed.

While the map set­tings slightly var­ied, the prior play ex­pe­ri­ence was some­‐
what rel­ev­ ant and help­ful.

But the Ex­per­i­ment Zone was a map that had not opened once since it only
ap­peared in the tu­to­rial.

'And the en­tity op­er­at­ing this place was the elves?'

The space quickly dark­ened as the green flame that shone a bit ear­lier dis­‐
ap­peared.

No mat­ter how he looked around, it was a place that does not fit the gen­eral
im­age of elves at all.

This place is as­so­ci­ated with them?

'Did the elves cre­ate this?'

[Yes. It has the same struc­ture as the Ex­per­i­ment Zone I saw. It was on a de­‐
stroyed planet.]

'A de­stroyed planet...'

[Ev­ery planet the World Tree As­so­ci­at­ion passed had a place like this. Es­pe­‐
cially this Cen­tral Zone had a wall made of red light, with a green flame ex­‐
ist­ing in it. There were more than a cou­ple of Shadow Elves who lost their
lives to that green flame while in­ves­ti­gat­ing this space.]

'A power strong enough to an­ni­hi­late Shadow Elves...'

[Even though it was com­pletely empty when we found it, those flames of
de­struc­tion still ex­isted.]

Then Ariel, with a sub­tle voice, asked Seong Ji­han.

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[Shall we take a look in­side? I want to see how this zone is ac­tu­ally op­er­‐
ated. Aren't you cu­ri­ous about what the owner is do­ing here?]

'Let's go out first.'

Seong Ji­han ex­ited the Red Zone.

Then.

[Gen­eral Achieve­ment, 'Es­cape from the Red Zone' has been suc­cess­fully
ac­com­plished.]

[Achieve­ment points 5,000 are awarded.]

[Hid­den Quest, 'Solo Es­cape from the Red Zone,' has been suc­cess­fully ac­‐
com­plished.]

[Achieve­ment points 30,000 are awarded.]

'Was it that dif­fi­cult?' Gain­ing 35,000 achieve­ment points with one play.

It was ev­i­dence that es­cap­ing the Red Zone was no easy task.

Seong Ji­han man­aged to breach it eas­ily, purely thanks to Mar­tial Soul and
Ariel.

'New maps are in­deed nice.'

As he smiled while look­ing at the achieve­ment re­wards he hadn't seen in a

while, [You have cleared a Hid­den Quest.]

[An Epic Quest will be un­locked.]

[Epic Quest]

[Dis­cover the en­tity that cre­ated the Ex­per­i­ment Zone and un­cover the pur­‐
pose of the ex­per­i­ments.]

[Re­wards: Achieve­ment points 100,000 / ?]

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An Epic Quest emerged.

Nor­mally, they give 50,000, but the re­ward was raised to 100,000 points.

On top of that, an un­known re­ward was ad­di­tion­ally pro­vided.

'I must clear it.'

He had been won­der­ing how to earn points af­ter spend­ing so much.

100,000 points.

He needed to clear it, no mat­ter what it took.

The quest says to find the en­tity...

'Are the elves in the Ex­per­i­ment Zone now?'

Seong Ji­han looked around.

Af­ter es­cap­ing the Red Zone, it was en­tirely dark with not a sin­gle light in
the empty space.

-- So this is what it looks like out­side the Red Zone. Is there noth­ing at all
now?

-- Who knows? There has to be some­one who es­caped to know -- No one

has man­aged to es­cape un­til now?

-- Yeah. Even if you're Di­am

­ ond Rank, you can sort of block the red wall
with team play, but they couldn't han­dle the green flame that popped out
ear­lier.

-- So if you get caught in the Red Zone, you just ac­cept that you stepped in
shit and die lololol -- Is that why it's so empty here? Did Bat­tleNet not cre­‐
ate con­tent, think­ing no­body would get out?

-- Does Bat­tleNet look that sloppy to you lololol

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As if to re­fute the claim that they didn't cre­ate con­tent, the des­o­late ex­ter­nal
area of the Red Zone.

Seong Ji­han could see his sur­round­ings as if it were broad day­light even in
the dark­ness.

"Re­ally, there's noth­ing here."

No mat­ter how much he looked, he couldn't find even a small trace, let
alone an elf.

'Ariel. Do you know any­thing?'

[Hmm. This space... is ac­tu­ally in­side a gi­gan­tic seed shell.]

'A seed?'

Just how big is the seed, that it can com­prise this mas­sive space?

[Yes. We called it the Seed of the World Tree. When we en­tered, we broke
the shell wall from the out­side... It looked ex­actly like this at that time.
There was this Red Zone in the cen­tral part, and the rest was com­pletely
empty.]

'Hmm... If we're in­side a seed, we should be able to see some­thing like a

shell wall here. But there's none.'

[Wall? Now that you men­tion it, we could see it when our re­search team en­‐
tered, but now it's not vis­i­ble.]

Ariel's in­for­ma­tion was use­ful un­til they es­caped the in­cin­er­at­ion, but from
this point on, she seemed to be just as clue­less.

'Let's go to the end, at least.'

Since they knew they were in­side a seed.

Seong Ji­han de­cided to sim­ply run.

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He thought that some­thing might be vis­i­ble if he went to the end of the

space.

Just as he was about to use Flash­ing Sky Thun­der Steps again.

Flash! Flash!

Above the place where the Red Zone had been, a bright white light burst
forth.

And from within it, a huge green por­tal was cre­ated.

"Uaaargh!"

"What, what is this? Why al­ready!"

And through that por­tal, peo­ple were fall­ing to the ground.

They were play­ers, play­ing the Sur­vival map just like Seong Ji­han.

-- The Red Zone got re­ar­ranged so quickly, lol. This is his­tor­i­cally quick,
isn't it?

-- Be­cause the Red Zone emp­tied out in a flash due to Seong Ji­han. It's re­‐
plen­ish­ing im­me­di­ately.

When all play­ers in the Red Zone die, 15 of the sur­vivors are ran­domly se­‐
lected and repo­si­tioned there.

The play­ers be­came sac­ri­fices of the Red Zone even be­fore they could do
any­thing be­cause Seong Ji­han es­caped too quickly.

Seong Ji­han looked at the por­tal through which they were fall­ing.

'I should try go­ing there once.'

Rather than go­ing to the end look­ing for the in­vis­i­ble wall, Seong Ji­han, de­‐
cid­ing to try chal­leng­ing the por­tal, im­me­di­ately used Di­vine Arts and
jumped into the sky.

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The por­tal was con­sid­er­ably far from the ground, but thanks to his Mar­tial
Soul, he eas­ily leaped through the space.

"...Huh?"

Be­yond the por­tal, he saw an elf.

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The scenery be­yond the por­tal was en­tirely dif­fer­ent from the Ex­per­i­ment
Zone's gloomy land­scape.

A cozy space where lush green­ery flour­ished.

'It looks like a gar­den.'

In the cen­ter stood a wooden ta­ble, in front of which a beauty, akin to a por­‐
trait, was seated.

A woman with golden hair, green eyes, and wear­ing a white robe, was
blow­ing mana into a crys­tal orb on the ta­ble.

"......Huh?"

She looked at Seong Ji­han, who popped out from the por­tal, with sur­prised
eyes. But it was only for a mo­ment.

She quickly re­gained her com­po­sure, re­veal­ing a faint smile on her lips.

"It seems we have a vis­i­tor."

As her lips slowly parted, let­ting a gen­tle voice be heard, view­ers con­tin­ued
with com­ments mixed with ad­mi­ra­tion.

-- Wow... awe­some...

-- UWOOOOOOGGGGGGGH!!!!!

-- Isn't this on the level of the Shizuru?

-- ㅇㅇ; An­other god­dess ap­pears ㄷㄷㄷ

-- This chan­nel un­ex­pect­edly of­fers lots of eye can­dyㅋㅋ

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-- But is she an Elf? Her ears are pointy.

-- She seems to be an Elf. But isn't she more beau­ti­ful than the elves we saw
in the Colos­seum?

-- Is she what they call a High Elf we only hear about in tales?

Ito Shizuru, who as­ton­ished the world with her be­yond-com­mon-sense

beauty.

Af­ter her face was re­vealed, peo­ple from both the East and the West ac­‐
claimed her to be the world's most beau­ti­ful woman.

But this Elf from the game was so beau­ti­ful that she could eas­ily ri­val
Shizuru.

And, her ap­pear­ance was a face Seong Ji­han had seen be­fore.

'That's the Elf you showed me be­fore.'

[Yes. That is a proper Elf.]

The Elf fig­ure that Ariel showed him, say­ing all elves in the World Tree Al­‐
liance looked like this, matched per­fectly with the woman in front of him.

"An ex­per­i­men­tal sub­ject es­cap­ing through the por­tal... truly an in­trigu­ing

case."

The Elf, who had been ob­serv­ing Seong Ji­han with in­ter­est, Swoosh!

Swept up the crys­tal orb with her robe sleeve and col­lected it.

Then, point­ing to the empty desk, she said, "Hu­man, would you like a cup
of tea?"

She in­vited Seong Ji­han to tea time with a gen­tle tone.

Tap! Tap!

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As she tapped the desk twice with her fin­ger, two wooden teacups sprouted
from the wooden ta­ble.

Steam wafted from the teacups, and a clear and deep-scented tea was ris­ing
from them.

-- The at­mos­phere is crazy

-- While a bloody bat­tle is tak­ing place in hell be­low, only here is it heaven
-- If you're a man, this is im­pos­si­ble to refuse -- Even if your head knows
some­thing's off, your body would still moveㅋㅋㅋㅋ

It seemed peace­ful enough on the sur­face. How­ever, [Be­ware of the scent of

the tea, Mas­ter.]

Ariel quickly sent a warn­ing from within his arm.

True to her word, as the scent of the tea spread, His con­scious­ness be­came
hazy and his mood el­ev­ ated.

'So, that was the rea­son for this all of a sud­den.'

Some­how, the al­ready beau­ti­ful Elf in front of him seemed even more at­‐
trac­tive.

Hah~

Seong Ji­han reg­u­lated his breath­ing, clear­ing the ab­nor­mal­i­ties in his body.

In a state where he could per­fectly con­trol his body with the Mar­tial Soul,
he could eas­ily foil such a petty scheme.

'I re­ally want to slice her in half in one go.'

He had a grudge against the elves from his pre­vi­ous life, so the urge to take
it out on them, even in the game, surged within him.

'But I have to com­plete the quest...'

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Seong Ji­han calmed his mind, re­call­ing the con­tents of the Epic Quest.

Dis­cover the en­tity that cre­ated the Ex­per­i­ment Zone and un­cover the pur­‐
pose of the ex­per­i­ments.

While the for­mer was al­ready solved, there were still no clues about the lat­‐
ter.

[Mas­ter, the scent of the Rain­bow Leaf is not some­thing even the most ex­‐
cel­lent war­rior can en­dure for long. How about just cut­ting that crea­ture's
throat right away?]

'No, let's go along with the flow for a while.'

Thud!

As Seong Ji­han took a seat across the wooden ta­ble, the Elf's smile deep­‐
ened upon see­ing him.

"Thank you for re­spond­ing to my re­quest."

"Hmm. Were you the one who cre­ated this place? Why did you make some­‐
thing like this?"

As soon as Seong Ji­han sat down, he asked straight­for­wardly.

He asked the ques­tion, per­haps hop­ing that if he gets an an­swer, the quest
will be cleared im­me­di­ately.

"Hehe... You're quite im­pa­tient. Let's talk slowly while hav­ing a cup of tea."

The Elf avoided the an­swer and grace­fully brought her tea cup to her lips.

"Aren't you go­ing to have some? The tea is well-brewed."

Af­ter drink­ing the tea, the Elf of­fered it to Seong Ji­han.

As soon as her words ended, the scent of the tea be­came even richer than
be­fore.

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To the ex­tent that if Seong Ji­han was at his pre­vi­ous level, he would have
been some­what af­fected.

The aroma tried to stealth­ily and per­sis­tently in­ter­vene with him.

-- Why does she keep try­ing to get him to drink the tea?

-- Some­thing seems sus­pi­cious ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The view­ers, un­af­fected by the scent, sensed some­thing strange.

[MaxLevelFirst has do­nated 10,000GP.]

[Be care­ful Seong Ji­han!! She keeps try­ing to make you drink the tea! You
have to be the first rank!!]

An ex­treme fan even do­nated 10,000 GP for Seong Ji­han, who couldn't see
the chat.

With the chan­nel sub­scribers reach­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands, there were

of­ten cases where do­na­tions ex­ceed­ing the min­i­mum amount of 10,000 GP
set by Seong Ji­han ap­peared.

This time, too, a pas­sion­ate fan threw a large amount of money, stomp­ing
their feet and urg­ing him to wake up.

'I feel a bit sorry.'

How­ever, since he had al­ready sat down and de­cided to fol­low the flow, he
had to pre­tend to go along with the other party.

Seong Ji­han de­cided to re­spond to the do­na­tion mes­sage later and reached
out to the tea cup, drink­ing it all at once.

A re­fresh­ing sen­sa­tion spread through­out his body.

'Hmm....'

In an in­stant, his body stiff­ened rigidly.

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A feel­ing as if he had lost con­trol of his body.

Of course, Seong Ji­han could re­turn it to nor­mal in one breath through his
Mar­tial Soul, but, 'Let's see what she does.'

He de­cided to leave him­self in this state for now.

"Hehe...."

The Elf looked at the stiff­ened Seong Ji­han and got up from her seat with a
ma­li­cious smile.

Then she ap­proached him and fon­dled his body.

"An Ir­reg­u­lar... The level is not very high, though."

The Elf looked at Seong Ji­han as if she found him in­ter­est­ing.

"Is this phys­i­cal abil­ity... pos­si­ble for some­one from such an in­fe­rior race?"

The Elf, who was touch­ing Seong Ji­han, dug her nails into his body.

When blood sub­tly stained the spot, she,

"...This."

Im­me­di­ately wore a se­ri­ous ex­pres­sion.

"It's ma­te­rial that needs to be sent to the lab."

She took out a crys­tal ball from within her robe, And slammed it on the
wooden ta­ble.

Pssshhh~

A green flame rose from the ta­ble,

And was ab­sorbed into the Elf.

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Af­ter paus­ing for a mo­ment, she moved again.

"&!$!#."

The voice she let out was sig­nif­i­cantly dif­fer­ent from be­fore.

If the lan­guage had been au­to­mat­i­cally trans­lated in the game ear­lier, now it
was a voice that was un­in­tel­li­gi­ble.

'Do you hap­pen to know what she's say­ing?'

[It's Elvish. "Found a su­pe­rior test sub­ject,"... she says. But how....]

Just as Ariel was about to con­tinue speak­ing in­cred­u­lously, [50 sur­vivors re­‐
main.]

[The game will end soon.]

'What. Did they all al­ready die?'

A sys­tem mes­sage about the end of the sur­vival game popped up.

No, how did the game end al­ready?

It seemed not only Seong Ji­han felt that way.

"#$&!#!#$&$!#."

[Damn in­fe­rior race. She's curs­ing, ask­ing why the sur­vival game ended so
quickly.]

Elves, with their in­sane re­gen­er­at­ion,

Wouldn't have a sur­vival game end this quickly like hu­mans.

She stuck her hand into her robe sleeve and took out a leaf the size of a
palm.

"!##@#!...."

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As the Elf rapidly chanted a spell, the leaf, glow­ing with a self-emit­ting
green light.

She pressed the leaf to Seong Ji­han's chest.

Swoooosh!

In an in­stant, the leaf was ab­sorbed into Seong Ji­han's body.

"Your mas­ter com­mands you."

Sud­denly, he started to un­der­stand and hear the Elf's lan­guage.

"Come straight here as soon as the next game starts. Turn off the broad­‐
cast."

And with that last sen­tence.

[You have achieved 1st place in the Sur­vival Map.]

A 1st place mes­sage ap­peared in the sys­tem win­dow, and he logged out im­‐
me­di­ately.

Re­turn­ing to his orig­i­nal room, Seong Ji­han swal­lowed his re­gret.

'I thought I'd com­plete the Epic Quest.'

That's the prob­lem Sur­vival maps.

It ends when 50 peo­ple die.

He de­lib­er­ately played along to un­der­stand the en­emy's in­ten­tions.

'But that leaf ear­lier...'

Seong Ji­han took off his up­per clothes.

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On his firm up­per body, right in the mid­dle of his chest.

A green leaf pat­tern was drawn.

Swooooosh!

"Are you okay, Mas­ter?"

Ariel, who had slipped out of Seong Ji­han's arm, hastily asked him.

"I'm fine."

"Hmm... Think of the Elf ear­lier. Does your heart flut­ter or any­thing?"

Ariel pro­jected the Elf's fig­ure again and tested Seong Ji­han, but.

"No. Not at all."

He did not budge.

"You re­ally are amaz­ing, Mas­ter... Even if a Shadow Elf gets marked by the
World Tree's leaf, most of them feel in­fi­nite af­fec­tion to­ward the Elf. How
are you un­af­fected?"

"This is the World Tree's leaf?"

"That's right."

Seong Ji­han stared at the leaf pat­tern on his chest in sur­prise.

The World Tree that re­moves all sta­tus ab­nor­mal­i­ties.

Whether it's a branch or a leaf, Ariel had said any­thing re­lated to the World
Tree would do.

"If I feed this to my brother-in-law, will the En­chant­ment be lifted?"

"Ah, are you talk­ing about that per­son un­der a sta­tus ab­nor­mal­ity? It can­not
be used now since it's in­te­grated with your body. But it might be pos­si­ble

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when the Elf comes to re­trieve it."

"Hmmm..."

A frag­ment of the World Tree.

He had thought it would be quite hard to ob­tain, but he caught a chance to

get it from an un­ex­pected map.

"U-Un­cle!"

Mean­while,

As soon as the broad­cast ended, Yoon Seah came run­ning, pant­ing.

"Are you okay? The game ear­lier was to­tally weird! Sud­denly, the Elf said
strange things. The at­mos­phere was so odd, and peo­ple were re­ally wor­ried!
Uh, what's that pat­tern on your chest...?"

"Ah, it's a gift from the Elf."

"What?"

"It's a leaf from the World Tree. If we use this well, we could bring your fa­‐
ther back to his senses."

At those words, Yoon Seah's eyes trem­bled in­tensely.

"...Dad?"

"Yes. If the leaf of the World Tree ap­pears in its com­plete state, it can surely
re­move the sta­tus ab­nor­mal­ity of En­chant­ment. But mak­ing him eat it might
be a prob­lem."

"Will it work if we feed it to him dur­ing the na­tional team match?"

"The league match? Of course, it will af­fect."

"Then, we can force-feed it to him later."

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To de­feat the Sword King, the world's strong­est war­rior, and then forcibly
feed him the leaf.

Seong Ji­han spoke of this tremen­dous task as if they were just go­ing out for
a drink.

"Dad... can come back to his senses..."

"Yeah. But first, we have to ex­tract this."

"Is... Is it not too much...? Un­cle. I'm okay. Even if Dad isn't..."

"No. It's me who's not okay."

Seong Ji­han said, tap­ping on the leaf pat­tern on his chest.

"I'll... Yeah, I'll give him to you as your Christ­mas gift."

In­cheon Air­port.

A woman, her hat pulled down low, stepped out, drag­ging a light suit­case.

On the out­side, she was just an or­di­nar­ily look­ing young woman.

"This isn't easy, be­ing far from the main body..."

Con­tin­u­ously mut­ter­ing in Ja­pa­nese, the woman, "Ah, I have to speak Ko­‐

rean now."

Quickly switched to Ko­rean, left the air­port, and hailed a taxi.

"Where to, ma'am?"

"Sword Palace."

"Oh... Do you mean the Sword Palace in Gang­nam?"

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"Yes, that's right. I'm go­ing to stay there for a bit."

She con­versed flu­ently in Ko­rean with the taxi driver and opened her smart­‐
phone.

"But can you stay at Sword Palace?"

"I rented an of­fice­tel for a month."

"Aha. Sword Palace, that's where that fa­mous Seong Ji­han is, right! You
might see him around since you're stay­ing for a month."

"Well, I..."

Swipe! Swipe!

As she flicked through pho­tos on her phone, she re­sponded.

Yoon Seah's face was there.

"Rather, there is some­one else I want to see more."

"Some­one else?"

"Yes. The child who will be­come my daugh­ter."

A deep smile spread across her lips.

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Chap­ter 131
"It's in­con­ve­nient with­out Takeda."

Ito Shizuru, in Akari's body, fur­rowed her brows as she un­packed her lug­‐
gage.

Takeda Kazuo was cur­rently un­der de­ten­tion, led by the Ko­rean gov­ern­‐
ment due to the pre­vi­ous in­ci­dent and was in the midst of a le­gal bat­tle,
leav­ing her with­out any as­sis­tance.

Clink!

As Akari's hand paused while or­ga­niz­ing the lug­gage, Ito Shizuru's ex­pres­‐
sion dark­ened fur­ther.

"Again with this."

When cre­at­ing an avatar us­ing the body of an or­di­nary per­son, this didn't
hap­pen.

How­ever, since she made an avatar us­ing the body of a Di­am ­ ond Ranker
this time, the con­trol oc­ca­sion­ally in­ter­rupted abruptly.

Es­pe­cially, this phe­nom­en­ on in­ten­si­fied as the dis­tance from Tokyo, where

the main body was, in­creased.

"Akari's ego must have dis­ap­peared, but... just in case, I need to be care­ful."

She re­gret­ted for a mo­ment that she should've just sent Sword King to se­‐
cretly kid­nap her.

Shizuru quickly changed her mind.

"No. If I'm un­lucky and the En­chant­ment breaks, that won't do."

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When she had placed the En­chant­ment on Sword King, the most headache-
in­duc­ing thing was noth­ing but his fa­therly love.

Ap­proach­ing him was easy.

Be­cause he re­ally liked women.

How­ever, main­tain­ing the En­chant­ment was an­other is­sue.

"Ev­ery time he went home, the En­chant­ment was half lifted."

The en­chant­ment kept try­ing to break es­pe­cially af­ter see­ing his daugh­ter's
face.

Shizuru, who did not give up, was able to ob­tain Sword King through
lengthy ef­forts.

She de­ter­mined that Yoon Seah ab­so­lutely had to stay in Ko­rea.

If she went to Japan to­gether and the En­chant­ment broke, any­thing could
hap­pen on the spot.

"I must keep the two from meet­ing as much as pos­si­ble this time I bring her
to Japan."

She should stay in a safe house in a dis­tant area, not Tokyo.

She set up her lap­top in­side the of­fice­tel, re­call­ing Yoon Seah.

"She of­ten goes shop­ping at the un­der­ground mart."

Un­like Seong Ji­han, who barely left the pent­house, Yoon Seah went out rel­‐
a­tively of­ten.

The rea­son for her out­ings was mainly to pur­chase in­gre­di­ents.

The time was usu­ally be­tween 10 and 11 in the morn­ing.

"I have to stay in the mart dur­ing that time."

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While the mart was not small, it would not be easy to run into Yoon Seah.

In any case, un­like Seong Ji­han, she could eas­ily en­chant Yoon Seah just by
mak­ing con­tact.

"As for the way back..."

Her thoughts were grad­u­ally or­ga­niz­ing.

Now, the re­main­ing plan was to check the route to re­turn to Japan with her.

Af­ter a while typ­ing on the key­board, she...

Clink!

Bit­ing her lip at the sight of a fin­ger stop­ping, she mut­tered, "...I need to
fin­ish quickly."

Her body not obey­ing was a sign that she shouldn't stay too long with this
avatar.

The day af­ter the sur­vival game ended.

"Sur­vival didn't trig­ger again right away."

Seong Ji­han, feel­ing dis­ap­pointed, cleared the In­va­sion map he played be­‐
fore.

He wanted to quickly get the Leaf of the World Tree com­pletely en­graved
into his body.

With 4 game modes be­ing as­signed ran­domly, the chance of get­ting Sur­‐
vival con­sec­u­tively was low.

"My level is 77..."

The speed of lev­el­ing up was daz­zling.

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A min­i­mum of one level up per day.

At this rate, a pro­mo­tion bat­tle seemed pos­si­ble this month.

"But the prob­lem is the Mar­tial Soul."

The stat he re­ceived at level 72, Mar­tial Soul.

He in­vested the stat points he re­ceived ev­ery level up into it dili­gently and
raised it to 104, but...

Af­ter lev­el­ing up to­day and in­vest­ing the stat points, the num­ber did not in­‐
crease to 105, it stalled.

"This is sim­i­lar to when I raised Mar­tial Power in my last life."

In his past life, when he in­vested stat points into Mar­tial Power, it didn't just
in­crease; he needed to ac­cu­mu­late a cer­tain amount of train­ing.

This time, Mar­tial Power in­creased steadily as he in­vested points, but af­ter
be­ing re­vised to Mar­tial Soul, it rose well to 104 but got stuck be­fore 105.

"I ex­pected this."

The Star's Abil­ity, Mar­tial Soul.

A few days passed since he ac­quired Mar­tial Soul, but Seong Ji­han had not
yet uti­lized this power to 100%.

While Mar­tial Power and Force were not easy pow­ers to han­dle, Mar­tial
Soul was a much higher-di­men­sional power, so he felt that even­tu­ally, the
stat would not in­crease, just like the Mar­tial Power in his pre­vi­ous life.

"It just hap­pened sooner than I thought."

In the end, is train­ing the only an­swer?

Seong Ji­han, who ar­rived at the train­ing room while swal­low­ing his dis­ap­‐
point­ment, let out a groan.

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"Ur­rrgh...."

There, he en­coun­tered Yoon Seah, who was ex­er­cis­ing.

Al­though she had al­ready achieved a cer­tain level of stat Per­se­ver­ance,

Yoon Seah, who did not stop strength train­ing, put down her bar­bell upon
see­ing Seong Ji­han.

"Haah... I'm dy­ing... Un­cle, are you ready for the train­ing camp to­mor­row?"

"Well, it's near home. What is there to pre­pare?"

"You have to pack your clothes. We're stay­ing overnight, af­ter all."

"It's fine. I'll just throw in some clothes."

"Hmm... Should I pack for you?"

"Agh. Do I look like a kid?"

A con­ver­sa­tion seemed to flip the roles of un­cle and niece for a while.

At some point, Yoon Seah, who had been steal­ing glances at Seong Ji­han,
qui­etly brought up the main point.

"Un­cle. But can I... in­vite the sis­ters when you're not here?"

"Sis­ters?... Who?"

"The guild sis­ters! Hayeon and Gayeong."

"Huh, when did you get so close?"

"I got close to Gayeong while we worked out to­gether as fit­ness bud­dies.
And I just clicked with Hayeon be­cause our con­ver­sa­tions flow well..."

Con­ver­sa­tions flow well with Lee Hayeon?

Seong Ji­han's ex­pres­sion slightly hard­ened.

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"You didn't learn gam­bling from Hayeon, did you?"

"No, no! No, un­cle, what... You think too lowly of Hayeon. She's so ca­pa­ble
and smart! Al­though she can't pre­dict matches..."

"You. Don't ever try match pre­dic­tion. You earned quite a bit, didn't you?"

"I know. I won't, I won't! I'm busy grow­ing my chan­nel these days, any­‐
way."

Seong Ji­han nar­rowed his eyes at Yoon Seah, who was flap­ping her hand as
if to show off.

This is some­what sus­pi­cious.

"...Fine. They're wel­come if they come."

"Re­ally? Okay. Hehe."

"But now that I think about it, you're the land­lord. You don't need my per­‐
mis­sion."

"Oh. Is that so? But I thought I should ask you, un­cle."

Af­ter re­spond­ing to Yoon Seah, Seong Ji­han con­veyed in his mind.

'Ariel. When you're home, lis­ten out for any gam­bling talk from Hayeon.'

[Mas­ter. Don't you trust Seah?]

'Yeah. The long talk is sus­pi­cious.'

[Un­der­stood.]

He thus en­trusted Ariel in his mind.

"Okay. Now that I have Un­cle's per­mis­sion, I'm go­ing to do a bit of shop­‐
ping."

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"Al­right."

"Also... I'm gonna buy some al­co­hol?!"

"Go ahead. You're an adult."

"Right? Hehe."

As Yoon Seah left the train­ing room with a bright smile, Seong Ji­han chuck­‐
led as if find­ing the sit­u­at­ion ab­surd.

Is it that ex­cit­ing?

'Well, I used to in­vite friends over a lot in the past, but I haven't had the
chance to do so re­cently.'

Af­ter Sword King slaugh­tered the Ko­rean rep­re­sen­ta­tive team on 15th Au­‐
gust, friends dis­tanced them­selves.

As Seong Ji­han's stocks rose again re­cently, some friends who had cut him
off started reach­ing out once more.

Yoon Seah res­o­lutely cut all of them off.

'It's bet­ter to have no friends than main­tain that kind of friend­ship.'

Rather than cling­ing to old friends, he could just make new ones.

The two peo­ple she be­friended in the guild seemed nice.

Seong Ji­han hoped that they would form a good re­la­tion­ship with each
other.

How­ever.

'Ariel. You must make sure of any gam­bling.'

[I got it!]

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'Lee Hayeon is the prob­lem. Keep a close eye on her per­sua­sion.'

[...Aren't you be­ing too wary of the Guild Mas­ter? But why en­trust such a
task to her?]

'She's ca­pa­ble in ev­ery other as­pect. Gam­bling is the prob­lem.'

Be­ing cau­tious of Lee Hayeon, known as Zero in his pre­vi­ous life, could
never be too much.

[Should I start mon­i­tor­ing now?]

'From now?'

[What if they talk on a call about gam­bling while she's shop­ping?]

'That's a bit much. It feels like an in­va­sion of pri­vacy.'

[You never know, right? And if it's not about gam­bling, I won't in­form you.]

'...Well, if that's the case.'

Seong Ji­han hes­i­tated for a mo­ment, then nod­ded.

In case his niece be­came friends with a gam­bling ad­dict and got in­volved in
bet­ting, he wouldn't have the face to meet his sis­ter even in the af­ter­life.

'I must stop this now.'

Seong Ji­han se­cretly dis­patched Ariel to tail Yoon Seah.

-- Player Seong Ji­han will en­ter the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter to­mor­row. Na­tional
team coach Noh Youngjun ex­pressed his an­tic­i­pa­tion, call­ing him an as­ton­‐
ish­ing player and promis­ing to as­sign him a suit­able role through train­ing
dur­ing the camp pe­riod...

Slurp!

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Shizuru was watch­ing the TV news while eat­ing cup noo­dles.

Ko­rean news chan­nels were ex­ten­sively cov­er­ing Seong Ji­han's en­try into
the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter.

'He's prob­ab­ ly as pop­u­lar as the for­mer Sword King by now.'

Even though Bat­tleNet's pop­u­lar­ity was ab­so­lute, all sorts of me­dia were
mak­ing a fuss just be­cause one player en­tered the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter.

Com­pared to the last time she came to Ko­rea, Seong Ji­han's sta­tus had risen
sig­nif­i­cantly.

"What if I also join in this sit­u­at­ion......."

She smiled as if she was pleased.

She didn't have any par­tic­u­lar feel­ings to­ward Ko­rea as a coun­try.

Rather, she was once a fan of a Ko­rean idol and thus learned Ko­rean to this
pro­fi­cient level.

How­ever.

"Why are all the kids I want here?"

What can you do when all the ex­cep­tional play­ers keep emerg­ing from Ko­‐
rea?

Es­pe­cially Sword King and Seong Ji­han, tal­ents who could greatly
strengthen Japan's War­rior class lineup, con­sid­ered a weak­ness for so long.

If both of them work as a dy­namic duo on the Ja­pa­nese team, wouldn't they
eas­ily snatch the vic­tory in the World League?

'Yoon Seah could also be use­ful if nur­tured.'

She imag­ined a scene where Ja­pa­nese is spo­ken pub­licly in Bat­tleNet chan­‐

nel 0.

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It would be quite re­ward­ing once that day comes.

'By the way... Seong Ji­han will be gone from to­mor­row.'

Shizuru thought­fully tossed the empty cup noo­dles into the sink.

Surely he wouldn't bring Yoon Seah, a full-grown adult, to the train­ing

camp.

'If Yoon Seah is left alone... the train­ing pe­riod is a per­fect op­por­tu­nity.'

De­cid­ing not to miss this chance, Shizuru re­solved to check the un­der­‐
ground mart lay­out once more.

And then, as she went down to the mart, she.

'Huh?'

Was able to spot Yoon Seah, who had been out of sight for sev­eral days.

"Sis~ What al­co­hol should I buy? Huh. You're buy­ing so much?"

She was on a call, cheer­fully fill­ing her cart with var­i­ous food items and in­‐
dis­crim­i­nately adding dif­fer­ent kinds of al­co­hol.

"Ah... Is al­co­hol re­ally nec­es­sary for a lec­ture on anal­y­sis meth­ods? Can

you an­al­yze while drink­ing? As ex­pected, it's half the fun..."

She seemed happy.

Shizuru smiled as if she was gen­uinely pleased to see Yoon Seah.

'I'll make you even hap­pier from now on, my daugh­ter~.'

Yoon Seah was al­ready her daugh­ter in her mind.

Shizuru hur­riedly ap­proached her.

To use the sup­port­ing gift, 'Edit', a touch was nec­es­sary.

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"The beer is......."

As Shizuru ap­proached, pre­tend­ing to buy the beer be­hind Yoon Seah,

"Ah."

She feigned stum­bling and lightly touched Yoon Seah's arm.

To any­one watch­ing, it would merely seem like an ac­ci­dent.

'Too easy.'

How­ever, with that touch, the sup­port­ing gift 'Edit' was ac­ti­vated, and when
Yoon Seah's sta­tus ab­nor­mal­ity edit­ing win­dow opened.

She quickly added En­chant­ment and Obe­di­ence.

'Now where.......'

Should she give a com­mand to this girl?

Shizuru thought it was all over, but.

Zap!

From the crown-shaped mark en­graved on Yoon Seah's hand, elec­tric­ity

surged.

[The Seal of Thun­der re­sists men­tal con­tam­i­na­tion.]

['En­chant­ment' does not fully take hold.]

['Obe­di­ence' does not fully take hold.]

'Huh? What's this?'

Shizuru fur­rowed her brows at the sud­den mes­sage.

The Seal of Thun­der?

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What is this that's re­sist­ing?

"......Huh? You......."

As Yoon Seah stared at her with a pause.

'This won't do.'

Shizuru tried to touch her hand again.

If En­chant­ment and Obe­di­ence do not fully take hold.

Just touch again and edit un­til it does.

How­ever, her at­tempt was.

Swoosh!

Blocked by a black hand ris­ing from the floor.

"You... What are you?"

Soon.

Ariel, who had been se­cretly fol­low­ing be­hind Yoon Seah, sprang up from
the floor.

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Chap­ter 132
"Shizuru...!?"

Yoon Seah hastily re­treated.

The mes­sage that had ap­peared to Shizuru was also loom­ing sim­i­lar for
Yoon Seah.

[The Seal of Thun­der re­sists men­tal con­tam­i­na­tion.]

[Can­not com­pletely re­sist 'En­chant­ment'.]

[Can­not com­pletely re­sist 'Obe­di­ence'.]

"Ugh..."

Even as she looked at Shizuru, who wore a com­mon face un­der her dis­‐
guise, Yoon Seah's heart pounded.

Al­though not en­tirely en­chanted, for some rea­son, she felt an urge to kneel
and wor­ship her.

"Yoon Seah! Snap out of it!"

Only when Ariel shouted did she star­tle and quickly with­draw.

"Oh dear, where are you go­ing?"

Thud!

Shizuru, swat­ting off Ariel's shadow hand, spoke leisurely to Yoon Seah.

The chance to eas­ily take Yoon Seah was gone.

Yet, she didn't lose her con­fi­dence in this sit­u­at­ion.

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'It's just a sum­mon, not Seong Ji­han. I can quickly de­feat it with Akari's
body.'

Swish!

Shizuru drew a dag­ger from her in­ven­tory and swung it.

The red dag­ger, ob­vi­ously ex­tra­or­di­nary, shone at first glance.

Swoosh!

Her skill with the dag­ger, com­pared to the body's orig­i­nal owner, Akari, was
con­sid­er­ably clumsy.

How­ever, as the blade flashed red,

"Uh...!"

Ariel's arm split in half, with a flame surg­ing through the gap.

Al­though she tried to re­gen­er­ate her body us­ing the power of shadow, The
fire stub­bornly burned, in­ter­fer­ing with the re­cov­ery.

"That's a good weapon."

"Thanks to many spon­sors."

Shizuru, though less skilled than Akari, com­pen­sated with items.

Be­ing nearly the top player be­hind the scenes in Japan, she was fully
equipped with ev­ery­thing money and power could buy.

'I can't stop her alone.'

Ariel quickly as­sessed the sit­u­at­ion and shouted to Yoon Seah.

"Seah. Run! And con­tact Mas­ter."

"Ah, got it...!"

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"Seah~ where are you go­ing? Come here. Don't you want to see your Dad?"

"How dare you speak of Dad...!"

"Hehe. From now on, you can call me Mom."

Call her Mom?

Yoon Seah clenched her fists.

It was like cold wa­ter be­ing poured onto her En­chant­ment-mud­dled mind.

'I ab­so­lutely can't be caught here!'

Thanks to her Seal of Thun­der, she re­sisted once, but if caught again, she
couldn't guar­an­tee what would hap­pen next.

If she were to be en­chanted and obe­di­ent and taken to Japan, She might
have to call that woman 'Mom' for real.

'It's bet­ter to die than that...!'

Yoon Seah, grit­ting her teeth and flee­ing, called Seong Ji­han.

"Un­cle! Shizuru is here in the un­der­ground mart...!"

[What?!]

Even be­fore the call ended,

"Shizuru? You should call me Mom, Seah."

Shizuru, now trans­par­ent and in a spirit form, ap­proached Yoon Seah, ig­nor­‐
ing Ariel's at­tack­ing shadow sword from be­hind.

"This. Crazy... how many items does she have?!"

The cause was an item, again.

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Al­though the clothes Shizuru wore---a t-shirt and shorts---of­fered no de­‐

fense, Thump!

Even as the shadow sword tried to pierce her chest, A tal­is­man popped out
of nowhere, block­ing the at­tack.

A sin­gle-use pro­tec­tive tal­is­man that au­to­mat­i­cally blocks an at­tack.

De­spite its phe­nom­en­ al per­for­mance, its as­tro­nom­i­cal price de­terred even

top play­ers from pur­chas­ing it.

But as Ariel at­tacked, they con­tin­u­ously popped out of Shizuru.

"I al­ready spent 50 bil­lion yen be­cause of our Seah... you should com­pen­‐
sate for this."

Swi­i­i­ish!

Shizuru, dis­solv­ing her spirit form to touch Yoon Seah, smiled tri­‐
umphantly.

There was a mo­ment of re­sis­tance, but once cap­tured, it would be the end.

Even though Yoon Seah was an out­stand­ing player, she was just a Sil­ver.

She would not es­cape from the grasp of her­self, a Di­am

­ ond Rank, any
longer.

"...In­ven­tory."

Then,

Yoon Seah hastily pulled some­thing out of her in­ven­tory and raised both
hands.

"Heh. What are you do­ing?"

At first, Shizuru, see­ing Yoon Seah act­ing strangely in mid-air, scoffed.

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"...Huh?"

As Yoon Seah's fig­ure dis­ap­peared com­pletely, Shizuru's ex­pres­sion hard­‐

ened.

What's go­ing on?

She was a fish al­ready caught.

Where did she go?

'Is it a cloak of in­vis­i­bil­ity or some­thing?'

Shizuru hastily reached to­wards where Yoon Seah dis­ap­peared, but.

'...She's gone.'

Noth­ing, there was noth­ing to grasp.

In the past, Seong Ji­han handed over the Veil of the Void to Yoon Seah in
prepa­ra­tion for Xin Youhwa's air raid.

Al­though it be­came use­less af­ter Xin Youhwa died.

"Un­cle, I don't need this any­more, right? You should take it."

"No, keep it with you. What do I have to hide from?"

He had no par­tic­u­lar rea­son to hide, so he com­pletely handed over the Veil

of the Void to Yoon Seah.

"Just, don't hide for too long. You can get buried in the void."

The hid­ing ef­fect of the Veil of the Void was out­stand­ing.

But due to the creepy penalty, Seong Ji­han in­structed to only use it in real
dan­ger.

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Af­ter read­ing the item de­scrip­tion, Yoon Seah tried not to use the Veil of the
Void un­less nec­es­sary.

The only time she ac­tu­ally used it was the first time dur­ing prac­tice.

'I was told not to move.......'

The world in­side the veil.

It was not par­tic­u­larly dif­fer­ent from the real world.

It's just that the world moved about twice as fast as usual.

Yoon Seah watched with trem­bling heart as Shizuru reached out to her, but
Swoooosh!

The hand passed through Yoon Seah's body as if through thin air, and came
back.

'Phew.'

It re­ally works. She sighed in­wardly.

'Now, do I just wait for Un­cle to come?'

Think­ing so, Yoon Seah sud­denly felt piti­ful.

'......I can't do any­thing with­out Un­cle.'

Thanks to Seong Ji­han's Seal of Thun­der and Ariel.

And thanks to the gifted Veil of the Void, she was able to es­cape the cri­sis.

If even one of these wasn't avail­able.

She might have al­ready been call­ing Shizuru "Mom" and fol­low­ing her to
Japan.

'Mom? That crazy.......'

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Think­ing of call­ing Shizuru her mom, she felt her blood surge.

How can one re­fer to one­self with such a loose-lipped man­ner?

Shizuru was the first per­son to be tar­geted of Yoon Seah's mur­der­ous in­tent.

'If I could, that woman. I want to beat her with my power.......'

Look­ing at the en­emy in front of her, Yoon Seah har­bored her grudge, but
no mat­ter how great her Gift was, she had no power at the mo­ment.

Chew­ing on her pow­er­less­ness and try­ing only to stand still, Yoon Seah,
'Uh.......'

Saw a light blue mist ris­ing in bunches from afar. A change was be­gin­ning
to oc­cur in the world in­side the veil, which was iden­ti­cal to the real world.

While watch­ing it, she re­called the penalty of the Veil of the Void.

'Could that be, the void.......'

Swish! Swish!

Shizuru reached to­wards where Yoon Seah dis­ap­peared sev­eral times and
then looked back at Ariel.

"You...... know some­thing?"

"Even if I know, should I tell?"

"Shouldn't you tell me?"

Swing­ing her dag­ger three times, Shizuru spoke.

Whooosh......!

Then, Ariel's arms and legs were all cut and be­gan to burn.

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"Con­sider it an honor for a sum­moned crea­ture like you to serve me."

Shizuru sin­cerely said that and ap­proached Ariel.

Even though her sup­port­ing gift was ex­cep­tional, it had sig­nif­i­cant lim­i­ta­‐
tions in En­chant­ment and Obe­di­ence.

So, orig­i­nally, she wouldn't have used En­chant­ment on such a sum­moned

crea­ture be­cause it would have been waste­ful.

'I need to take her quickly.'

In or­der to kid­nap Yoon Seah, Shizuru steeled her­self to use En­chant­ment

on the sum­mon as well and reached out.

Thump!

Just as she was about to place her hand on Ariel's face and cast En­chant­‐
ment, she, "Uh......"

Was as­ton­ished and gaped.

"You...... what are......"

"Do you think I will fall for the En­chant­ment of such a lower-rank­ing
species? Me?"

"The dif­fer­ence be­tween species......?"

With a face full of as­ton­ish­ment, Shizuru stared at Ariel.

Al­though it was her first time us­ing En­chant­ment on a dif­fer­ent species, the
mo­ment she opened Ariel's sta­tus win­dow, she in­stinc­tively felt an over­‐
whelm­ing dif­fer­ence in rank.

'This isn't just a dif­fer­ence in species, it's more than that!'

Is this re­ally the sum­moned crea­ture that eas­ily lost its limbs?

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She hastily re­moved her hand from Ariel, shak­ing.

"Hooh...... you do have eyes to see."

De­spite los­ing its limbs, Ariel spoke leisurely.

Shizuru bit her lip.

Sub­du­ing Ariel was im­pos­si­ble, and if she wasted more time here, Seong Ji­‐
han would ar­rive.

"......I'll have to wait till next time."

Swooosh!

Her body slowly be­came trans­par­ent.

"See you again. Daugh­ter."

Wav­ing to­wards where Yoon Seah dis­ap­peared, she con­cealed her­self.

And al­most at the same time.

"Ariel!"

Seong Ji­han ap­peared.

"Mas­ter. You came quickly."

Swooosh!

When Seong Ji­han ar­rived, Ariel, em­pow­ered by the shadow en­ergy, re­‐
stored her limbs and stood up.

"How did it go? Where's Seah?!"

"Over there."

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As Ariel pointed to the thin air and pre­tended to flip some­thing, Seong Ji­‐
han let out a sigh of re­lief.

The Veil of the Void... It was good that it wasn't taken back.

"Shizuru? Did she run away?"

"Yes. But I've at­tached a shadow to her."

Ariel hadn't been idle ei­ther.

A lit­tle while ago, when Shizuru touched Ariel, she dis­creetly at­tached a
shadow to her.

Ariel, now re­cov­ered, briefly closed her eyes and soon lo­cated Shizuru.

"In­ter­est­ingly... she's in this build­ing."

"Where?"

"On the 19th floor. Seems like she rented an of­fice­tel."

"Re­ally? Seah, let's go."

When Seong Ji­han called Yoon Seah, she popped out of the thin air.

Her face was dazed, stunned.

Snap!

"Ah...!"

When Seong Ji­han clapped his hands in front of her, she quickly came to
her senses.

"Let's go quickly. We need to sup­press Shizuru be­fore she es­capes."

Seong Ji­han had a mur­der­ous air about him.

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Yoon Seah had never seen her un­cle so an­gry be­fore.

"Am... Am I a hin­drance?"

"If a dan­ger­ous sit­u­at­ion arises, use the veil again. Leav­ing you here alone
is rather wor­ri­some."

Say­ing that, Seong Ji­han em­braced Yoon Seah's waist.

"Hold on tight."

Flash!

Seong Ji­han, mov­ing at ul­tra-high speed, ex­ited the mart.

In an in­stant, he came out of the build­ing and "Is that the place?"

He flew straight to­wards a win­dow on the 19th floor.

Crash!

Glass shat­tered.

"How... How did you know?!"

Shizuru, who was grab­bing her lap­top, looked at Seong Ji­han with a de­‐
feated ex­pres­sion.

"Why so fast...."

Be­fore Shizuru could fin­ish speak­ing, Seong Ji­han swung his black sword.

Screech!

Then, dozens of tal­is­mans sprang from Shizuru's bo­som and burned up all
at once.

Tal­is­mans that had the ef­fect of pre­vent­ing fa­tal in­juries, dozens of them
dis­ap­peared with a sin­gle strike.

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"Mon... Mon­ster!"

Seong Ji­han.

Had this hu­man be­come an even more in­sane mon­ster than be­fore?

Shizuru quickly as­sessed the sit­u­at­ion.

She can't es­cape this.

In that case...

Swoosh!

She opened the lap­top screen and threw the dag­ger she was hold­ing into it.

The red dag­ger that had eas­ily in­ca­pac­i­tated Ariel.

Then.

Whoosh!

In­stead of break­ing the screen, the dag­ger was sucked into it.

"I should send the na­tional trea­sure away."

Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with those words.

Screech!

Shizuru's body split open, and blood veins were ex­posed.

Now that all the pro­tec­tive tal­is­mans were shat­tered, there was no de­fense.

Look­ing at her own body, Shizuru, feel­ing no pain, merely com­mented,

seem­ingly re­gret­ful.

"Ah. What a waste... how I had con­trolled this body. It's dy­ing so soon."

Swooosh!

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Shizuru's face, which had been or­di­nary, be­gan to change.

Trans­form­ing into the be­witch­ing ap­pear­ance she had shown when en­chant­‐
ing Seong Ji­han be­fore, "Seah, if you want to see Dad, come to Japan. I'll
be wait­ing."

With those last words.

Her face changed back to that of the orig­i­nal owner of the body, Akari.

"Ah... I... I am... Aaaaah!"

Then, Akari, feel­ing ex­treme pain un­like Shizuru just a mo­ment be­fore,
[Wh, wh, where... is this... You're Seong Ji­han...!]

Con­trary to be­fore, she bab­bled in Ja­pa­nese.

"What is she say­ing?"

[She's ask­ing where this is. Seems like a dif­fer­ent per­son.]

"Hmm..."

It didn't seem like an act, con­sid­er­ing her in­ex­pli­ca­ble ap­pear­ance.

Swoosh!

Seong Ji­han sheathed his sword and reached out to Akari.

"Great Heal."

With that, Akari's split body be­gan to heal rapidly.

Al­though new Sup­port skills couldn't be learned All For One, he could still
use the ones he had.

And with Mar­tial Soul achieved, the ef­fect of the heal was in­cred­i­bly en­‐
hanced, so Akari, who seemed about to die any mo­ment, quickly re­turned to
nor­mal.

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[Wh, what did... you do?]

"Noth­ing much. Your body should be healthy now since you don't feel any
pain."

Seong Ji­han glared at Akari with men­ac­ing eyes.

"I need you to spill... in­for­ma­tion about Shizuru. With­out omit­ting a sin­gle
de­tail."

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Chap­ter 133
Shizuru went too far tar­get­ing Yoon Seah.

Seong Ji­han grit­ted his teeth.

'If it wasn't for Ariel, it would have been a catas­tro­phe.'

If she hadn't stalled in the mid­dle, Yoon Seah might have also fol­lowed
Shizuru.

'I can't just be a sit­ting duck.'

Of­fense is the best de­fense.

Seong Ji­han de­cided to pre­pare a coun­ter­at­tack.

What he needed for that was, of course, in­for­ma­tion.

"Let's take her im­me­di­ately and in­ter­ro­gate her. She must spill ev­ery se­‐
cret."

See­ing Seong Ji­han's stern de­meanor, Ariel, who had be­come a sword,
changed her ap­pear­ance back to a shadow elf.

"In­ter­ro­ga­tion? That's my spe­cialty. Mas­ter, may I par­tic­i­pate?"

"You... are quite co­op­er­at­ive, huh?"

"I suf­fered quite a hu­mil­i­at­ion from this woman. That red dag­ger gave me
quite a hard time."

"The dag­ger trans­mit­ted through the lap­top screen?"

"Yes. At least SS-grade... no, I'm sure it's... an SSS-grade item. That
woman, she's smeared with money all over."

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Was the mere red-glow­ing dag­ger such an ex­tra­or­di­nary weapon?

It seemed it wasn't a lie when it was called a na­tional trea­sure.

"Al­right. Let's do this to­gether."

The two be­gan dis­cussing their sin­is­ter in­ter­ro­ga­tion plan.

But then...

[Wait, wait! I'll tell you ev­ery­thing!!]

Akari, who was to be the sub­ject of the in­ter­ro­ga­tion, showed no in­ten­tion

of re­sist­ing.

"What?"

[Be­cause of Shizuru, I thought I was go­ing to live and die as a mar­i­onette

af­ter my body was taken. I will co­op­er­ate fully!]

Trem­bling!

Akari shook, clutch­ing her arms.

[And that woman... af­ter she took over my body, to ver­ify she had full con­‐
trol, she used it to kill my par­ents... and then laughed at me, say­ing I
couldn't re­sist.]

"...So she says, Mas­ter."

Tsk!

The state­ment in­vol­un­tar­ily made him click his tongue.

'She was more vi­cious than I imag­ined.'

Thus, Seong Ji­han con­versed with Akari through Ariel as a trans­la­tor.

"Place of res­i­dence?"

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[Mine? I...]

"Not yours, Shizuru's."

[Ah! Yes. She has a house in Tokyo and also in Ky­oto. Mostly in Tokyo's...]

Start­ing with her place of res­i­dence, Akari im­me­di­ately re­sponded to ev­ery

ques­tion.

She did not stop there and even spilled all of Shizuru's weak­nesses that she
knew of.

[Shizuru is ob­sessed with Akashic Pages. She even cre­ated a com­pre­hen­sive

trad­ing com­pany that only pur­chases Akashic Pages.]

"She cre­ated a com­pany just for Akashic Pages?"

[Yes. It's called SZ Com­pany. It's a global en­ter­prise spread across the
world... and also...]

Akari spilled ev­ery­thing she knew about Shizuru.

This even in­cluded mur­der in­ci­dents com­mit­ted by Akari her­self un­der

Shizuru's com­mand.

Seong Ji­han lis­tened to her story and pon­dered.

'The Akashic Pages them­selves were sus­tain­ing Shizuru.'

The Akashic Pages that en­hance the per­for­mance of Sup­port­ing Gifts.

Shizuru was us­ing her abil­i­ties be­yond their lim­its by ob­tain­ing them at ev­‐
ery op­por­tu­nity.

"The Akashic Pages are the prob­lem. I'd like to com­pletely cut off her sup­‐
ply."

"Once the tu­to­rial ends, Akashic Pages will rarely ap­pear. If we wait a few
months, they will dis­ap­pear."

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"Re­ally? But I can't stand to watch her be so tri­umphant un­til then..."

He looked at Akari.

"Can you re­peat what you've just said dur­ing a Bat­tle­Tube broad­cast?"

[...Yes. Of course. If it will harm that woman, I'll do any­thing.]

"Good. Let's get a spot ready soon. And Seah, you..."

Seong Ji­han looked at Yoon Seah, who was stand­ing be­side him with her
head bowed.

"What's the mat­ter?"

"Ah, Un­cle. I'm sorry for to­day's in­ci­dent..."

"What do you have to be sorry about? I also didn't ex­pect some­thing like
this to hap­pen."

It wasn't some­thing the vic­tim should apol­o­gize for.

He should rather be thank­ful that she was safe.

"How­ever, you'll have to stick with me un­til the mat­ter with Shizuru is re­‐
solved. Who knows what crazy thing she might do next."

"I'll stick to you like a mag­net from now on!"

"That's a good idea. But you... Were you okay us­ing the Veil of the Void?"

"Um... I did see a kind of turquoise fog bloom­ing in clus­ters from afar."

"Is that so?"

He had ex­pe­ri­enced noth­ing while he was en­veloped in it.

Had he been slightly late, even if Shizuru didn't get to her, she could have
been buried in the void.

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"And... I didn't no­tice out of shock un­til a mo­ment ago, but a class evo­lu­tion
job called Void Archer has been added."

"Void Archer?"

"Yeah. It's sparkling a lot com­pared to the other classes?"

A sparkling class?

Hear­ing this, Ariel, who was be­side them, asked.

"What color is it sparkling?"

"Gold."

"A Unique... class."

"Oh. Unique, is it? What's that?"

"Yes. It seems like you ob­tained it by wit­ness­ing the void. Void Archer... Al­‐
though it's gen­er­ally ad­vised not to get in­volved with the void."

"Why?"

"If you get in­volved there, they say you can dis­ap­pear with­out a trace any­‐
time."

"Ah."

Yoon Seah, who was ini­tially happy to hear about the Unique class, couldn't
hide her dis­ap­point­ment at Ariel's words.

"Then I should give up."

"It'd be a shame to give up the ti­tle of 'Unique'. The in­for­ma­tion about the
void is just a ru­mor af­ter all. If you want power, it might be good to choose
it."

"Re­ally? Hmm... I need to think about it."

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An un­ex­pected class ob­tained through the Veil of the Void.

Yoon Seah de­cided to con­sider a bit more whether to change her class to
this one.

Mean­while, Seong Ji­han spoke to Akari with a ges­ture.

"Then, shall we go up and broad­cast?"

[We were am­bushed.]

Seong Ji­han's chan­nel, which had gained mil­lions of sub­scribers in no time.

When the un­usual word 'am­bush' ap­peared in the ti­tle of the up­com­ing live
broad­cast video, waves of an­tic­i­pa­tion and un­ease be­gan to build.

-- What, Seong Ji­han got am­bushed?

-- Uh, what? am­bushed? all of a sud­den?

-- Wasn't there chaos in the Sword Palace un­der­ground mart ear­lier?

-- I heard Seong Ji­han fell from the pent­house...

-- Eh?? Why did he fall? Is he alive?

-- He's alive, that's why the chan­nel is still up, lol. Seems like he tried to go
down quickly.

Ru­mors about the in­ci­dent were al­ready spread­ing.

Peo­ple were just wait­ing for Seong Ji­han to start broad­cast­ing.

And soon, as the broad­cast be­gan:

-- Huh? Who is that?

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-- I've never seen that woman be­fore?

The view­ers were puz­zled.

A woman with a tense face was sit­ting in the cen­ter of the screen.

Seong Ji­han was stand­ing at the edge of the screen, arms crossed.

-- Could it be his girl­friend?

-- Did he re­ject Sophia and... go with that woman? No way, lol.

-- That per­son! She's a ninja from Japan, isn't she?

-- Oh my, is she the one who am­bushed Seong Ji­han last time?

-- Yes, yes, yes, yes. She was quite fa­mous in Japan. Af­ter be­ing de­feated
by Seong Ji­han last time, she didn't broad­cast any­more.

As the live view­ers sur­passed hun­dreds of thou­sands, many knew about

Akari's iden­tity.

-- Weren't the two en­em

­ ies?

-- Why is she sud­denly on the broad­cast?

While peo­ple were be­wil­dered:

[I am Kato Akari...]

She opened her mouth.

-- Is this the real one? Seems le­git.

-- I need to turn on the trans­la­tion fea­ture.

Ini­tially, view­ers lis­tened with­out tak­ing it too se­ri­ously.

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[To­day, I came for­ward to re­veal ev­ery­thing about Ito Shizuru, the vile
woman who is rul­ing from be­hind in Japan...]

Be­gin­ning with that state­ment,

She ex­posed ev­ery­thing she knew dur­ing the broad­cast.

Some­times ram­bling, but as she re­vealed all the in­for­ma­tion about Ito
Shizuru, The view­ers were shocked.

-- Woah... Damn, isn't this an ex­clu­sive scoop?

-- Mur­der­ing, brain­wash­ing, and even seiz­ing the player's body? What, is

she a god?

-- This edit­ing is crazy, lol. Is there any­thing she can't do? Lol.

-- Is this be­cause of Akashic Page's sup­port or some­thing?

-- Even so, she's god-tier at this point;

[And then...]

The broad­cast time had al­ready passed 30 min­utes, but Akari's mouth didn't
rest.

That's how over­flow­ing Ito Shizuru's wicked deeds were.

-- How can we be­lieve this? Is Akari just blab­ber­ing any­thing be­cause she
was threat­ened? Lol.

-- What are you talk­ing about, isn't it weird that she is in Ko­rea in the first
place? Lol.

-- For real, why is this Ja­pa­nese girl in the pent­house? Lol.

Al­though some peo­ple spoke of not be­liev­ing Akari's ex­po­sure, claim­ing

that she and Seong Ji­han were in ca­hoots, Given the cir­cum­stances, it was
an un­be­liev­able claim, and they were re­futed by other view­ers.

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[There... Ah. Aaah...!]

While talk­ing for a while, Akari

Sud­denly grabbed her head.

[How far is this crazy woman go­ing to speak...!]

Then, with a dif­fer­ent tone from be­fore, a voice burst out.

Akari's face be­gan to twist grotesquely.

Her face started to morph, turn­ing from her orig­i­nal ap­pear­ance into
Shizuru, who once boasted godly beauty.

But, the mixed ap­pear­ance of her orig­i­nal face and that face made it seem
noth­ing short of mon­strous.

-- Ew, what is that?

-- Ewwww, what is that?

-- Ah, sh*t. I can't watch hor­ror movies, and I re­gret turn­ing on the broad­‐
cast.

[Die!]

Shizuru's frag­ment, try­ing to stop Akari's rev­el­a­tion.

She tried to com­mit sui­cide by tak­ing over her body.

'She was still there?'

Seong Ji­han grabbed Akari's head.

An anoma­lous en­ergy, which wasn't there when he checked a while ago,

had been hid­ing in her head.

"Here you are."

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Shooooo~

When Seong Ji­han ex­tracted that en­ergy, smoke rose from Akari's head.

[Aaaargh...!]

Then, with a scream.

Akari's face, which had been dis­torted, re­turned to its orig­i­nal state.

Per­haps due to the re­cent com­mo­tion, she was sweat­ing pro­fusely.

"...You all saw it, right?"

She re­sumed her ex­posé.

Af­ter broad­cast­ing for over 2 hours, she fi­nally said, "If I re­mem­ber any­‐
thing else, I'll let you know."

Akari's ex­posé had ended.

How­ever, the af­ter­math of this broad­cast was just be­gin­ning.

At Shizuru's man­sion in Tokyo, peo­ple were al­ready gath­er­ing to gawk af­ter

see­ing the ad­dress dis­closed in the broad­cast.

"...Yes. Yes. Prime Min­is­ter. No, you trust me, right? It's just Akari's one-
sided claims."

"Why would I com­mit mur­der? Chair­man, did you see me as such a per­‐
son?"

Over­whelmed by the in­com­ing calls, Shizuru was at her wit's end.

While the pre­vi­ous calls were mainly out of con­cern, now they were pri­‐
mar­ily to ver­ify the truth.

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Check­ing the list of call­ers, she frowned.

'It seems only those less af­fected by the En­chant­ment are call­ing. I need to
meet and strengthen the En­chant­ment...'

For that, she would need the Akashic Page.

Think­ing of Akari, who had also ex­posed the ex­is­tence of SZ Com­pany.,

she grit­ted her teeth.

'Use­less avatar. Can't it even com­mit sui­cide?'

In­stead of rant­ing, it should've quickly ended its life.

What was the point in let­ting Akari con­tinue speak­ing af­ter be­ing sub­dued
by Seong Ji­han?

"Shizuru, are you okay?"

"...Yes, Ryuhei."

"Do you need help with any­thing?"

She looked into the con­cerned eyes of the Sword King and had a spark in
her eyes.

De­spite wit­ness­ing her and Akari's ex­posé, the un­wa­ver­ing sup­port from the
Sword King was re­as­sur­ing.

'Right... As long as I have the Sword King un­der my con­trol.'

In the Ja­pa­nese na­tional team, the Sword King's po­si­tion is para­mount.

If he con­tin­ues to sup­port Shizuru un­shaken, her cur­rent po­si­tion might wa­‐

ver but won't be over­turned.

"Ryuhei, I... I'm strug­gling..."

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With a tear­ful ex­pres­sion, she nes­tled her­self into the Sword King's em­‐
brace.

"I did ev­ery­thing for the coun­try..."

"I'm here for you."

"You'll al­ways be, right?"

Though tears flowed from Shizuru's eyes, they seemed deeper than usual.

Mean­while, at the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter,

Kim Dong­woo, the leader of the na­tional team of War­riors, was deep in
thought about how to wel­come Seong Ji­han.

'He's an­noy­ing, but... in this world, power speaks vol­umes. We need to

show our best.'

Hav­ing been over­whelm­ingly de­feated by Seong Ji­han, he was plan­ning to

in­te­grate him smoothly into the na­tional War­rior team with­out fur­ther con­‐
flicts.

'Af­ter all, what strength­ens the bond be­tween men bet­ter than booze and
women?'

Kim Dong­woo thought this as a mat­ter of fact.

"Coach, is it okay to hold a wel­come party for player Seong Ji­han?"

"A wel­come party? Given the re­cent chaos, is it a good idea?"

"With the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion, wouldn't a wel­come party be more nec­es­sary?"

"Hmm, al­right. But you're not invit­ing out­siders, right?"

Laugh­ing at the coach's worry, Kim Dong­woo waved it off.

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"Nah, not out­siders. Just a cel­eb­ ra­tion among our­selves."

"Al­right. As long as you as­sim­i­late well with­out any is­sues."

"Thank you."

With the per­mis­sion from Coach Noh Youngjun, as soon as Kim Dong­woo
stepped out, he im­me­di­ately called some­one.

"Hey, what are you do­ing to­mor­row?"

[Huh? It's a week­day. I have to do the news.]

"We're throw­ing a cel­eb­ ra­tion for Seong Ji­han. Can you bring some
friends?"

[Wow! Re­ally?! Is Seong Ji­han re­ally com­ing?]

"Yeah, if you come alone, you won't get in. Bring lots of friends."

[Oh my... Of course! If they know Seong Ji­han is com­ing, ev­ery­one will
want to see him.]

Seong Ji­han's pop­u­lar­ity in South Ko­rea was un­matched, sec­ond only to the
Sword King.

The chance to meet him would even have top celebri­ties ea­ger to at­tend.

'Look­ing for­ward to see­ing new faces.'

Kim Dong­woo thought with a sly smile.

'He doesn't seem to have a girl­friend. I should set him up with some­one.'

[Notes:

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Sit­ting duck -- some­one who is an ob­vi­ous tar­get, and whom it is very easy
to at­tack or crit­ic­ ize.]

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Chap­ter 134
Click! Click!

Re­porters had al­ready gath­ered like clouds at the en­trance of the Bat­tleNet
Cen­ter.

With ev­ery ar­rival of a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive player, they in­ces­santly

flashed their cam­eras, while mut­ter­ing com­plaints un­der their breath.

"Re­ally... An­other wasted ef­fort."

"When ex­actly is that per­son com­ing?"

There was a par­tic­u­lar per­son the re­porters were ea­gerly wait­ing for.

"Ugh... What's such a waste?"

"Oh, noth­ing..."

Even if spo­ken softly, na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive-level play­ers could hear it.

The play­ers gave the com­plain­ing re­porters a pass­ing glance of dis­be­lief

and moved on.

Af­ter about ten ar­rivals en­dur­ing the bar­rage of flashes, a large limou­sine,
as­so­ci­ated with the ad­min­is­tra­tion, boldly pulled up to the cen­ter's en­trance.

When Seong Ji­han emerged from the ve­hi­cle, a re­sound­ing shout spread
amongst the re­porters.

"It's Seong Ji­han!"

In re­sponse, the re­porters ea­gerly raised their cam­eras.

Click! Click! Click! Click!

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The dif­fer­ence in the in­ten­sity of the flashes was clear.

"Huh? Some­one else is get­ting out!"

It wasn't just Seong Ji­han who emerged from the large limou­sine.

Yoon Seah, Ariel, and Akari made their ap­pear­ances in suc­ces­sion.

"Is that woman Akari?"

"He even has his sum­mon."

"Did he bring Yoon Seah be­cause of yes­ter­day's in­ci­dent?"

Some re­porters, who had been wait­ing in ad­vance, hur­riedly ap­proached

and shoved their mi­cro­phones for­ward.

"Mr. Seong Ji­han! Please share your thoughts head­ing into the match
against Rus­sia!"

"We heard about the at­tack yes­ter­day! Since then..."

"The gov­ern­ment an­nounced they won't over­look this in­ci­dent. Your

thoughts...?"

Seong Ji­han was quickly sur­rounded by re­porters.

As his ex­pres­sion slightly tight­ened, the re­porters grew tense as well.

'He wouldn't lash out to­day, right?'

'It's his first day as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive. Surely he'd show some re­‐
straint?'

Though they knew of his fre­quent use of Force, they be­lieved that Seong Ji­‐
han would kindly give in­ter­views to­day.

But,

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That wasn't the case for Seong Ji­han.

He gen­tly raised a hand, say­ing,

"Ah, I'm quite sen­si­tive to crowds be­cause of yes­ter­day's in­ci­dent. Ex­cuse

me."

"Huh... Wh-what?!"

The re­porters sud­denly found their voices and move­ments re­stricted.

Swoosh!

A few jour­nal­ists who got too close were lifted and pushed back.

A per­fect en­forced dis­tanc­ing.

The path in front of Seong Ji­han, which had been blocked by the re­porters,
cleared.

"I'll give a de­tailed state­ment later dur­ing the in­ter­view."

Just as it seemed this se­quence of events was draw­ing to a close, An un­ex­‐

pected chal­lenge arose.

["Miss Kato! Was ev­ery­thing you said yes­ter­day true? Ito's side is ve­he­‐
mently ar­gu­ing that you ac­tu­ally framed her for mur­der!"]

["Japan is also de­mand­ing the ex­tra­di­tion of the heinous crim­i­nal who com­‐
mit­ted the mur­der! What are your thoughts?"]

A Ja­pa­nese broad­cast jour­nal­ist, speak­ing in Ja­pa­nese, ap­proached Akari in­‐

stead of Seong Ji­han.

The big­gest topic in Japan was the rev­el­a­tion made by Akari, mak­ing her a
more in­ter­est­ing story to Ja­pa­nese re­porters than Seong Ji­han.

Akari sharply glared at the jour­nal­ist.

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["What? They're ac­cus­ing me of killing my par­ents?"]

["That's the counter-ar­gu­ment from Ito's side! If not you, who would've
done it?"]

["Such ground­less ru­mors..."]

"Hold on, don't en­gage."

Seong Ji­han stopped Akari who was about to re­tort.

She had no choice but to turn her back on the re­porters, grind­ing her teeth
in frus­tra­tion.

The in­te­rior of the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter boasted a splen­dor that would make
even the finest ho­tels pale in com­par­i­son.

"Mr. Seong Ji­han! Please, this way."

Man­ager Park Yoon­sik, who had been wait­ing in ad­vance, led Seong Ji­han's
group to the top floor of the cen­ter.

"As you re­quested yes­ter­day, we've re­served three ad­ja­cent rooms for you."

"Do we have sep­ar­ ate rooms? Shouldn't I share a room with my un­cle? We
need to be close."

Yoon Seah seemed deeply af­fected by the events of the pre­vi­ous day and
wanted to stay as close as pos­si­ble to Seong Ji­han.

"If we're in ad­ja­cent rooms, I can still keep track. It's fine."

"Re­ally? Yes­ter­day we were in the same place."

"As long as the dis­tance isn't as ex­treme as from the top floor to the base­‐
ment, I can cover it."

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Af­ter re­as­sur­ing Yoon Seah, Seong Ji­han then turned to Ariel.

"You'll need to share a room with Akari for the time be­ing."

"With her? Is it for sur­veil­lance?"

"We can't be en­tirely sure yet."

"Un­der­stood."

Upon Ariel's trans­la­tion, Akari nod­ded in un­der­stand­ing.

Man­ager Park Yoon­sik, who had been ob­serv­ing their con­ver­sa­tion, cau­‐
tiously spoke up.

"The Na­tional In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice's Bat­tleNet di­vi­sion has re­quested a dis­‐

cus­sion with Miss Akari."

"The Na­tional In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice?"

Af­ter North Ko­rea's col­lapse into a dun­geon, the coun­ter­in­tel­li­gence di­vi­‐

sion of the Na­tional In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice tran­si­tioned to fo­cus on Bat­tleNet-
re­lated mat­ters.

Fol­low­ing the sud­den de­par­ture of the Sword King to Japan, and the ap­‐
pear­ance of the in­sider Akari, the agency took in­ter­est in her.

"Yes, they be­lieve a cross-check­ing of the in­for­ma­tion with Akari is es­sen­‐

tial for the me­dia bat­tle against Japan."

[...!]

Upon hear­ing Ariel's trans­la­tion, Akari's eyes flashed with anger.

"Akari, will you co­op­er­ate?"

[I will. I will do any­thing as long as I can harm Shizuru.]

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Per­haps due to the ear­lier con­fronta­tion with the Ja­pa­nese jour­nal­ist, her re­‐
sent­ment had deep­ened.

[I'll kill her...]

Hav­ing stolen her body, and us­ing it to even kill her par­ents, Akari's voice
was filled with mur­der­ous in­tent.

"She seems very keen."

"... Un­der­stood. I'll re­lay that."

'She's re­ally a Di­am

­ ond Rank as­sas­sin... Her aura is no joke.'

Sweat­ing ner­vously, Man­ager Park Yoon­sik hastily nod­ded in agree­ment.

In­side the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter on the 2nd floor, in the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive
strat­egy room, Ko­rea's top 100 play­ers had gath­ered.

"To­day, we'll be train­ing on the 'South­gate' map, which is des­ig­nated for the
1st and 2nd rounds."

South­gate.

A map where a bat­tle en­sues to pro­tect the south­ern gate of a fortress.

In one round, play­ers de­fend the fortress, and in an­other, they in­vade it.

It was the most fun­da­men­tal game used in na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive bat­tles.

'This map is ba­si­cally a tu­to­rial.'

Seong Ji­han con­cluded af­ter lis­ten­ing to the brief­ing by Coach Noh

Youngjun on the podium.

The fortress gate in the South­gate map is al­ready breached in the game.

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War­riors form lines to de­fend it.

Archers and wiz­ards de­ter the en­em

­ ies from atop the fortress.

Sup­port­ers heal their team­mates or de­buff the en­em

­ ies.

This was the ba­sic game­play of the South­gate map.

"... As you all know, this map greatly em­pha­sizes the War­rior di­vi­sion. How
long they hold the breached south gate de­ter­mines the point dif­fer­ence."

The per­for­mance of the War­rior di­vi­sion, act­ing as the gate of the fortress,
of­ten de­ter­mined the out­come of the South­gate map game.

If the War­rior line col­lapsed and the en­em

­ ies stepped in­side the gate, the
point loss would be ir­rev­o­ca­ble.

"De­spite the pes­simistic pre­dic­tions re­gard­ing our chances due to the map's
na­ture and our team's per­ceived weak­ness, I be­lieve our play­ers will shat­ter
such views. Es­pe­cially since we now have a for­mi­da­ble player on our
team."

Coach Noh Youngjun then ges­tured for Seong Ji­han to stand.

"I am Seong Ji­han. I look for­ward to work­ing with you all."

Ris­ing from his seat to of­fer a brief greet­ing, Seong Ji­han then sat back
down.

In front of the vet­eran na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Seong Ji­han's de­meanor was

quite stiff, al­most to the point of seem­ing ar­ro­gant.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

How­ever, the other rep­re­sen­ta­tives didn't mind at all and wel­comed him
with ap­plause.

Whis­tle!

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Es­pe­cially the play­ers from po­si­tions other than War­rior, they en­thu­si­as­ti­‐
cally, very en­thu­si­as­ti­cally, greeted Seong Ji­han, even with whis­tles.

"He's fi­nally here!"

"Great... Now we have a chance."

This was be­cause the War­rior di­vi­sion was no­to­ri­ously weak, of­ten re­ferred
to as an 'au­to­matic door'.

How­ever, with Seong Ji­han, who had been the cen­ter of at­ten­tion to­day,
join­ing the team, sig­nif­i­cant changes were an­tic­i­pated.

"To­day, we'll fo­cus on en­hanc­ing the team­work of the War­rior di­vi­sion."

"Yes!"

And so the prac­tice be­gan.

"Seong Ji­han!"

The leader of the War­rior di­vi­sion, Kim Dong­woo, ap­proached Seong Ji­han
with a smile, ac­com­pa­nied by an­other player.

"I owe you one from be­fore."

"Owe? We all got taken down with one punch. Hehe."

"Hey, quiet! Do you want to bring up that em­bar­rass­ing past?"

"You were the one who men­tioned ow­ing him first!"

Re­call­ing the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive se­lec­tion test where Seong Ji­han had
eas­ily de­feated them with a sin­gle punch, the War­riors were sur­pris­ingly
friendly to­ward him, likely be­cause of the over­whelm­ing de­feat they faced
back then.

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"Any­way, now that we're one team, let's prac­tice hard and syn­chro­nize our
move­ments."

"Yes, I un­der­stand."

"Haha, let's be com­fort­able with each other now. May I ask your age?"

"I'm 27."

"Oh. I'm 30. Is it al­right if we speak in­for­mally?"

Seong Ji­han gave Kim Dong­woo a thought­ful look.

He's quite friendly.

'There's no need to be dis­tant.'

Given that they were both on the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive team and, as War­‐
riors, would of­ten be grouped to­gether, it would be bet­ter if they got along
well.

Seong Ji­han gave a slight nod in agree­ment.

"Please do."

"Oh! Re­ally? Are you sure? Oh, you are!"

"Brother! I'm Lee Yoongi. Please call me in­for­mally too!"

Upon see­ing Seong Ji­han's warm ac­cep­tance, Lee Yoongi, who was stand­‐
ing nearby, ea­gerly called out to him us­ing a fa­mil­iar term.

Coach Noh Youngjun watched from a dis­tance, let­ting out a sigh of re­lief.

'I'm glad Dong­woo is good at this. We won't have any is­sues.'

He had been con­cerned about po­ten­tial fric­tion be­tween Seong Ji­han and
the War­riors due to their pre­vi­ous en­counter.

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How­ever, with Kim Dong­woo wel­com­ing him and Seong Ji­han re­cip­ro­cat­‐
ing the ges­ture, it seemed there would be no such prob­lems.

'As long as there's syn­ergy in the War­rior di­vi­sion, we'll be fine.'

Coach Noh Youngjun thought as they en­tered the game.

In the South­gate map, where up to 30 War­riors can be se­lected, he first re­‐

placed the weak­est ex­ist­ing player with Seong Ji­han.

How­ever, they faced an im­me­di­ate is­sue.

"You don't have a shield?"

"No, I've never used one in the game."

"Oh. Form­ing the tur­tle for­ma­tion re­quires a shield..."

Kim Dong­woo scratched his cheek, look­ing puz­zled.

To pro­tect the breached south­ern gate in the South­gate map, the ideal strat­‐
egy was for the War­riors to form a spe­cial for­ma­tion called 'Tur­tle For­ma­‐
tion'.

In this for­ma­tion, War­riors with shields would clus­ter to­gether, form­ing a

wall-like bar­rier, which was cru­cial.

"It's true... I've only seen you use a sword or a spear in your broad­casts."

"Uh. Let's use this shield then? Any­way, the di­rec­tor prob­ab­ ly wants to see
the ef­fec­tive­ness of the Tur­tle For­ma­tion."

Kim Dong­woo took out a spare shield from his in­ven­tory.

It was a Grade-A Kite Shield.

Seong Ji­han looked at it thought­fully.

'To fully uti­lize my abil­i­ties, I can't be con­fined to the de­fense line.'

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Among the war­riors, out­stand­ing in­di­vid­u­als like the Sword King were
given a more flex­i­ble role, un­like these main war­riors form­ing the van­‐
guard.

In his pre­vi­ous life, Seong Ji­han had shown the best per­for­mance in Amer­‐
ica First with such a free role.

Even af­ter ob­tain­ing the Mar­tial Soul, he felt he de­served that role.

"Thank you."

For now, he pri­or­i­tized blend­ing into the team.

He can prove him­self and earn that free role in due time.

He gra­ciously ac­cepted the Kite Shield.

Though he hadn't used a shield much even in his past life and wasn't quite
used to it.

"Should I stand here?"

"Yes, yes. Right there. Now, block this area..."

To­gether with the 30 War­riors, he formed a for­ma­tion.

Ini­tially, as Seong Ji­han, un­fa­mil­iar with the shield, awk­wardly took his po­‐
si­tion, Coach Noh Youngjun thought, 'Maybe we shouldn't de­ploy Seong Ji­‐
han in the 1st and 2nd rounds...'

How­ever, once the Tur­tle For­ma­tion was ac­ti­vated,

"Wha... What is this...?"

He was vis­i­bly as­ton­ished, un­able to hide his sur­prise.

[Notes:

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Au­to­matic door -- In the gam­ing com­mu­nity, es­pe­cially in com­pet­i­tive

games, call­ing some­one an "au­to­matic door" im­plies that they are so weak
or easy to de­feat that op­po­nents can just "walk through" them with­out any
re­sis­tance, sim­il­ar to how an au­to­matic door opens eas­ily for any­one ap­‐
proach­ing. It's a way to mock some­one's lack of skill or ca­pa­bil­ity in the
game.]

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Chap­ter 135
'A de­fense ef­fi­ciency of... 200%?!'

The de­fense ef­fi­ciency of the Tur­tle For­ma­tion sky­rock­eted to an in­sane

level.

Pre­vi­ously, the de­fense ef­fi­ciency of the na­tional team's War­rior for­ma­tion

barely ranged from 125 to 140%.

When com­pared to the top-tier na­tional teams whose ba­sic fig­ures hover
around 160 to 180%, it's an in­cred­i­bly low rate.

In re­al­ity, even the Ko­rean na­tional team's high­est record of 140% was
achieved un­der per­fect con­di­tions, and that too only oc­ca­sion­ally dur­ing
prac­tice.

It was typ­i­cally con­sid­ered to be around 130%.

'200% is the game's max­i­mum ef­fi­ciency for the Tur­tle For­ma­tion!'

Smack!

Coach Noh Youngjun slapped his own cheek in dis­be­lief.

"Do it again! Let's see it again!"

Could there have been an er­ror?

How could the ef­fi­ciency surge so sig­nif­i­cantly just be­cause one player was
sub­sti­tuted?

But then,

"It's still 200%!"

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"Wow, this... This ef­fi­ciency is only known to be achieved by the U.S. na­‐
tional team..."

"Is this for real? Se­ri­ously, is this for real?!"

Joy filled Coach Noh Youngjun's face.

Even if the de­fense ef­fi­ciency was the same, the U.S. team's 200% and the
Ko­rean team's 200% would still dif­fer in qual­ity.

How­ever,

'Given the cur­rent state of our team, achiev­ing this is a mas­sive ac­com­plish­‐
ment!'

The Ko­rean na­tional team, which pre­vi­ously couldn't with­stand en­emy as­‐
saults, now had a fight­ing chance with this new­found ef­fi­ciency, en­abling
their shields to func­tion prop­erly.

"It's 200%! It's ac­tu­ally 200%!"

[Huh?]

[Di­rec­tor, is that even pos­si­ble? Just be­cause one player changed?]

"Guys! Come out and see for your­selves! Wit­ness it with your own eyes!"

Coach Noh Youngjun shouted ex­cit­edly to the War­riors in the prac­tice

game.

The War­riors who had formed the Tur­tle For­ma­tion logged out with puz­zled
looks.

Af­ter check­ing the re­play, they all looked at Seong Ji­han with awe.

"Wow... What just hap­pened?"

"It's re­ally 200%?"

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How­ever, re­ceiv­ing such stares, Seong Ji­han tilted his head in con­fu­sion.

'Wasn't ev­ery­one start­ing at 200%?'

In the fu­ture ver­sion of the Bat­tleNet game, even the weak­est na­tions
achieved the max­i­mum ef­fi­ciency.

The as­ton­ish­ment over just achiev­ing a 200% MAX was in­com­pre­hen­si­ble

to him.

"Seong Ji­han, are you sure it's your first time hold­ing a shield?"

"Yes."

"Man, you're truly a cheat char­ac­ter."

"I'm just glad you're Ko­rean."

The two play­ers seemed even friend­lier than be­fore.

Not only them, but other War­riors also be­gan to gather around, try­ing to en­‐
gage in a con­ver­sa­tion with Seong Ji­han.

'He's on an­other level, like the Sword King.'

'We need to es­tab­lish a rap­port with him some­how.'

'He seems less prickly than ex­pected.'

Be­ing the best play­ers in their coun­try, they quickly rec­og­nized Seong Ji­‐
han's cal­iber.

He was at the Sword King level...

Or per­haps, even sur­pass­ing that.

"Seong Ji­han, I've been a fan of your broad­casts for a long time!"

"Wow! It's truly amaz­ing. How did you achieve 200%?"

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Sur­rounded by the War­riors, they ea­gerly tried to build a rap­port with him.

"Al­right, ev­ery­one! Let's con­tinue with the train­ing!"

Clap! Clap!

Coach Noh Youngjun clapped his hands, sig­nal­ing the re­sump­tion of train­‐
ing.

"Well, can't be helped."

"We'll greet him prop­erly dur­ing the wel­come party."

Re­gret­tably, the na­tional team War­riors had no choice but to re­turn to their
orig­i­nal po­si­tions.

"Seong Ji­han."

"Yes?"

"I no­ticed ear­lier that aside from the War­rior po­si­tion, you can play in mul­‐
ti­ple slots... You don't hap­pen to be pro­fi­cient in archery and magic as well,
do you?"

"Let's keep our con­ver­sa­tion in­for­mal."

"Right, ear­lier, I no­ticed that you can par­tic­i­pate in other po­si­tion slots too."

"Yes. I can use all four classes."

Al­though Seong Ji­han had in­vested all of his skill points into the War­rior
class through the All for One sys­tem, the other three classes re­mained.

'All it was for mo­ments like these.'

When lev­el­ing up alone, he didn't need the other classes, but they could be
strate­gi­cally use­ful in na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive-level matches. And Coach
Noh Youngjun im­me­di­ately caught onto this.

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"So, you're say­ing you can play a role fit­ting for each of those classes?"

"No, only the War­rior."

"Hmm... Even so, de­pend­ing on the map, we can po­si­tion you in a rel­at­ively
less im­por­tant slot, right?"

In the cur­rent South­gate map, the War­rior is the most cru­cial, with the role
of the archer be­ing the least sig­nif­i­cant. Thus, plac­ing Seong Ji­han in the
archer's po­si­tion as a War­rior would ef­fec­tively add one more per­son to the
30-player slot limit.

Coach Noh Youngjun ex­per­i­mented in var­i­ous ways.

"Hmm. When you're in an­other po­si­tion, the Tur­tle For­ma­tion's ef­fi­ciency is

at 185%..."

"So, it's a mat­ter of whether we sac­ri­fice that 15% dif­fer­ence or add one
more War­rior."

"We'll have to prac­tice more to de­cide which is bet­ter."

Noh Youngjun gazed fondly at the dig­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Seong Ji­han, an

in­sane player who, even when po­si­tioned as an archer hold­ing a shield, sin­‐
gle-hand­edly boosted the Tur­tle For­ma­tion's ef­fi­ciency by 50%.

'I might just keep my po­si­tion as the coach.'

Un­til a few years ago, Noh Youngjun was hailed as a mas­ter­ful coach.

But ever since Sword King trans­ferred to Japan and Ko­rea couldn't se­cure a
sin­gle win, he faced crit­i­cisms, many claim­ing he had rid­den on the Sword
King's coat­tails.

Most an­tic­i­pated he wouldn't last in his po­si­tion past this year.

'I never imag­ined such a god­send would fall from the sky.'

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De­ter­mined to cap­i­tal­ize on the wild card named Seong Ji­han, Coach Noh
Youngjun de­cided to sum­mon op­po­nents.

In the prac­tice game where the mock bat­tle took place, ac­tual na­tional rep­‐
re­sen­ta­tive matches were sub­sti­tuted with mon­ster waves.

"We held up un­til the 14th wave!"

"Wow. Wasn't the 10th wave our limit last time?"

"Yes. With the in­creased Tur­tle For­ma­tion ef­fi­ciency and Seong Ji­han's
Phoenix Flag's buff, there's def­i­nitely a no­tice­able strength boost!"

Lis­ten­ing to the en­thu­si­as­tic anal­y­sis, Coach Noh Youngjun nod­ded in

agree­ment.

The sig­nif­i­cant im­pact was ev­i­dent when Seong Ji­han ac­ti­vated his Phoenix
Flag's buff just be­fore the waves be­gan.

'At this rate, we might even match Rus­sia!'

The ad­di­tion of just one player felt like a surge in power.

And those who felt this more than the staff, were the play­ers who ac­tu­ally
par­tic­i­pated in the match.

"Wow..."

"Se­ri­ously..."

"Even af­ter the Tur­tle For­ma­tion broke, Seong Ji­han held on alone."

"If mon­sters hadn't en­tered, we might have held out for the next wave..."

"Ex­actly. Why did the game end just be­cause one mon­ster's head got in?
The judg­ment is weird."

From the 11th wave, as War­riors be­gan to fall, Seong Ji­han held his ground
firmly. It felt as if he could have held on alone un­til the next wave if not for

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the game's end cri­te­ria.

"He's in­sane..."

"It's about time we got some re­spect."

The train­ing at­mos­phere was filled with warmth and ca­ma­raderie.

Since the Sword King's trans­fer and the na­tional team's in­abil­ity to se­cure a
win, to­day's prac­tice re­sults were a bea­con of hope.

"Al­right, let's wrap up the prac­tice for to­day."

Thus, the first train­ing ses­sion with the ad­di­tion of Seong Ji­han con­cluded
with great suc­cess.

Click! Click!

At the press con­fer­ence for the na­tional team, more jour­nal­ists than usual
gath­ered.

"As you can see, our first train­ing ses­sion was highly suc­cess­ful."

"A 14th wave? Just by adding Seong Ji­han, you've sur­passed the pre­vi­ous
record by four waves?"

The in­ter­view­ing jour­nal­ist seemed to find it hard to com­pre­hend, tilt­ing his

head.

"Is that even pos­si­ble?"

"Seong Ji­han is strong, but he's just one player."

"Isn't the 14th wave sim­i­lar to China's record?"

"That's right. I be­lieve Rus­sia's record is the 13th wave."

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"Japan's Sword King man­aged to go up to the 18th wave on his own."

"That guy is off the charts."

The jour­nal­ists, dis­cussing records of other coun­tries, couldn't hide their as­‐
ton­ish­ment.

How could the Ko­rean team, which strug­gled to reach even the 10th wave,
now stand shoul­der to shoul­der with China's record just by chang­ing one
player?

"I wish we could re­lease footage of the prac­tice game, ha­haha."

"So, can we ex­pect a vic­tory in the up­com­ing match against Rus­sia?"

Coach Noh Youngjun then glanced at Seong Ji­han, who was seated next to
him.

"Yes. This guy here will do it all for us."

"Oh..."

Coach Noh Youngjun then en­thu­si­as­ti­cally praised Seong Ji­han's game­play,

ex­press­ing that he had in­te­grated well with the team.

"Seong Ji­han! Coach Noh Youngjun rarely gives such high praise, so the
ex­pec­ta­tions for you are im­mense. What's your mind­set for the up­com­ing
match against Rus­sia?"

Seong Ji­han, look­ing to­wards the jour­nal­ist he had just spo­ken to, asked,
"You men­tioned that the Rus­sian War­riors reached the 13th wave, right?"

"Yes."

"Then, it'll be an easy win. We could have gone to the 15th wave if not for
that de­mon's neck fall­ing in­wards."

Say­ing that, Seong Ji­han held up three fin­gers.

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"If Rus­sia's skills are at that level, we'll beat them 3:0."

"3... 3:0?"

"Yes."

Team Rus­sia.

Even though West­ern Rus­sia was con­sid­ered more po­tent than the East, the
East still had con­sid­er­able strength.

With China and Japan dom­i­nat­ing North­east Asia, and Rus­sia po­si­tioned
just be­low them fol­lowed by Tai­wan and Ko­rea, the East­ern Rus­sian team
was ac­knowl­edged to have enough prow­ess to be cat­eg­ o­rized as a 'strong'
team in other re­gional leagues.

But for Seong Ji­han to de­clare a 3:0 vic­tory over such a team...

'Wow. I have to in­clude this state­ment.'

'Clas­sic Seong Ji­han. Draw­ing mas­sive at­ten­tion!'

Jour­nal­ists im­me­di­ately pub­lished ar­ti­cles fea­tur­ing Seong Ji­han's bold

state­ment.

Soon af­ter, a photo of Seong Ji­han hold­ing up three fin­gers be­came the top
im­age on por­tal sites.

-- 3:0??

-- Against Rus­sia...??

-- Is it true Ko­rea reached the 14th wave? They need to re­lease the prac­tice
footage, lol.

-- Why should they? Just be­lieve it.

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-- Please, I hope we win 3:0... even 3:2 is fine.

-- Are we fi­nally go­ing to get a win?

-- It's not even Tai­wan; Rus­sia is just ridicu­lous. Just be­cause Seong Ji­han
joined, sud­denly? That doesn't make any sense, lol.

-- Yes~ It's pos­si­ble be­cause it's Seong Ji­han~~

The pub­lic's re­sponse ex­ploded in­stantly. The at­ten­tion was al­ready on

Seong Ji­han's de­but game with the team.

The news of them clear­ing up to the 14th wave, com­bined with Seong Ji­‐
han's bold 3:0 dec­la­ra­tion against Rus­sia, was bound to be a sen­sa­tion.

"Wow, the re­ac­tions are ex­plo­sive."

"It's the first time I've seen a news piece about the na­tional team with­out
hate com­ments, bro."

Af­ter the in­ter­view con­cluded, Kim Dong­woo and Lee Yoongi checked
real-time re­ac­tions on their phones, laugh­ing.

Usu­ally, any news re­lated to the na­tional team was flooded with hate com­‐
ments, but to­day, the dec­la­ra­tion and the 14th wave achieve­ment di­verted
all the at­ten­tion.

"Yeah, thanks to Ji­han. He con­sumed all the at­ten­tion. Thanks, man."

"It's just some­thing ob­vi­ous."

"3:0?"

"Yes."

"...Se­ri­ously? The Rus­sians are in­sane berserk­ers. They come charg­ing with
their eyes flipped, swing­ing axes."

"Then we'll just knock them down."

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Seong Ji­han re­sponded as if it was a straight­for­ward mat­ter.

'Wow. He's se­ri­ous.'

'It feels like watch­ing Se­jin...no, the Sword King from back then....'

When the Sword King, Yoon Se­jin, was on the na­tional team, he had a sim­i­‐
lar at­ti­tude.

That one? Just de­feat it.

When­ever Kim Dong­woo was wor­ried about how to beat the op­po­si­tion,
Sword King would brush it off so eas­ily.

Now, Seong Ji­han's de­meanor mir­rored that.

'Look­ing at him... he seems even stronger than the Sword King.'

The Sword King, Yoon Se­jin, wasn't this pow­er­ful dur­ing his gold days.

'I need to get closer to him quickly.'

For­tu­nately, he seemed more ap­proach­able than ex­pected...

Kim Dong­woo de­cided he needed to fos­ter a closer bond with him.

"Ji­han, the War­riors or­ga­nized a small wel­come party for you... How about
it? Can you join us for drinks tonight?"

Slyly look­ing around, he whis­pered to Seong Ji­han.

"We've also in­vited some celebri­ties and an­nounc­ers. Top idols too. They all
ad­justed their sched­ules be­cause they wanted to see you."

Kim Dong­woo in­vited him to a pre-planned party.

Join our Dis­cord for re­lease up­dates!

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Seong Ji­han doubted his ears.

'Celebri­ties and an­nounc­ers? This doesn't sound like a mod­est wel­come

party.'

This seemed more like a grand booze party.

And they're plan­ning such a thing when there are only a few days left be­‐
fore the na­tional match?

'This is quite dif­fer­ent from when I was in the US.'

Of course, back then, many coun­tries were ac­tu­ally col­laps­ing, and the cur­‐
rent sit­u­at­ion wasn't as tense.

The US team's sched­ule was fun­da­men­tally rig­or­ous.

'It wasn't like now, prac­tic­ing only 3-4 hours. The stan­dard was 12 hours.'

On top of that, if one's stamina dropped, not only would the B-team sup­‐
port­ers step up to take care, but there were also ses­sions for op­po­nent team
power anal­y­sis and strat­egy brief­ings.

Ev­ery game was ap­proached as if it were the start of a war.

Yet, with­out hav­ing won a sin­gle game and with war­riors who were es­sen­‐
tially at the heart of those de­feats, they wanted to throw a booze party on
the first day?

'Their mind­set has gone rot­ten.'

Al­though it was un­der the guise of a wel­come party, the ac­tual in­ten­tion
was pretty dis­taste­ful.

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Seong Ji­han waved his hand, im­me­di­ately de­clin­ing the of­fer.

"I'm fine, thanks. I have to look af­ter my niece."

"Oh, but..."

"Hey, bro! Ha Yoori is also com­ing!"

"Who is she?"

"You don't know Ha Yoori of South Ko­rea...?"

"I don't."

"Her, look!"

Lee Yoongi swiftly searched some­thing on his smart­phone and showed him
a pic­ture of Ha Yoori. The screen dis­played a top star of­ten seen in TV com­‐
mer­cials, smil­ing ra­di­antly.

"I've seen her on TV."

"Yes! De­spite be­ing so pop­u­lar, she's com­ing just to see you!"

"Tell her not to come. I can't make it."

"Ji­han... Please, just for to­day, can't you?"

Even when Ha Yoori was men­tioned, he re­fused!

Is he even a guy?

Kim Dong­woo was dumb­founded, but still, out of des­per­at­ion, showed

Seong Ji­han pho­tos of sev­eral fe­male celebri­ties, beg­ging him earnestly.

"Ha Yoori isn't the only one. She's com­ing, and she is, and her as well..."

"I can't."

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How­ever, Seong Ji­han firmly de­clined and turned away.

"I'm not free be­cause of yes­ter­day's event. Please un­der­stand."

"Ah... okay then."

Feel­ing the sud­den cold­ness from Seong Ji­han, Kim Dong­woo couldn't per­‐
suade him any fur­ther.

Once Seong Ji­han had com­pletely left the in­ter­view venue, Kim Dong­woo
fi­nally be­gan to grum­ble.

"Gosh, is he im­po­tent or what?"

"Ughhh. Given what hap­pened yes­ter­day..."

"I know... Damn it. When he be­came stern, I got goose­bumps."

"Uh... Hon­estly, I was a bit scared too. He's in­deed on a dif­fer­ent level."

Even the na­tional team war­riors, who had never felt in­tim­i­dated in the past,
felt con­fined. They had an in­stinc­tive fear that any fur­ther per­sua­sion would
jeop­ar­dize their newly formed re­la­tion­ship.

"Oh, no... It's his fault. But what are we to do now? I've in­vited some dif­fi­‐
cult-to-find peo­ple, and they're very ex­cited."

"Um..."

Lee Yoongi paused for a mo­ment be­fore de­vis­ing a strat­egy.

"Let's just say Ji­han will join later due to yes­ter­day's in­ci­dent. By the time
he joins, ev­ery­one will be tipsy and prob­ab­ ly won't re­mem­ber, right?"

"Maybe?"

"Yes. Once they're drunk, it's over. Be­sides, our specs aren't weak ei­ther
way?"

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"True that."

With that, Kim Dong­woo de­cided to host the wel­come party for Seong Ji­‐
han with­out him.

??

Mean­while, Seong Ji­han headed to the Bat­tleNet cen­ter's pri­vate prac­tice

room with Yoon Seah.

While Seong Ji­han could di­rectly log into Bat­tleNet, Yoon Seah needed a
con­nec­tor, which was the rea­son for vis­it­ing the prac­tice room.

"May I use the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor?"

"Oh, of course!"

Soon, Sophia, who was in the US, joined, and the three formed a team.

[This mis­sion's ob­jec­tive is 'In­vade'.]

[You are part of the De­monic Fac­tion.]

"Ji­han! I saw the in­ter­view. Did you re­ally hold on till the 14th wave?"

"Yes. We could've cleared the 15th, but it was un­for­tu­nate."

"Wow... I want to see the footage... But they won't re­lease it, will they?"

"Maybe af­ter the Rus­sia game. Not be­fore that, though."

While Sophia ex­pressed in­ter­est in Seong Ji­han's records, she soon turned
her at­ten­tion to Yoon Seah.

"Seah, so what have you de­cided about the class change?"

"Uh, about that..."

Sud­denly, Seong Ji­han cut her off.

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"Seah, you dis­cussed the class change with Sophia?"

"Yeah. About be­com­ing a Void Archer. I shared my thoughts with Sophia

since I was un­sure..."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded.

"Void Archer."

"You're will­ing to take the risk de­spite Ariel's warn­ing?"

"Yes. I want to be­come stronger quickly."

"Un­der­stood."

With that, Seong Ji­han nod­ded in agree­ment.

'It seems the re­cent in­ci­dent had a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on her.'

Per­haps it was due to the in­ci­dent where she was al­most kid­napped by
Shizuru.

Yoon Seah's eyes were filled with de­ter­mi­na­tion, even if it was tinged with
anger.

Her de­ter­mi­na­tion to grow stronger was pal­pa­ble, even if it meant tak­ing

such risks.

Seong Ji­han made the de­ci­sion to re­spect her de­ci­sion.

"Well, if that's your de­ci­sion, you should stick with it."

"Oh, yes! Please wait for me! Un­cle, I'm go­ing to sur­pass you."

"Be con­tent with be­ing sec­ond."

"I'll never lose to that."

"It's bet­ter than giv­ing you false hope."

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She can't beat Muhon as a Void Archer.

As the two were chat­ting, they re­ceived a mes­sage from the op­pos­ing team.

[Argh--- it's Ji­han...]

[We're un­lucky to face him to­dayㅜㅜ]

[I guess we'll just sit at our base~~^^]

The play­ers from the An­gel Fac­tion im­me­di­ately gave up and stayed at their
base upon see­ing Seong Ji­han's name.

This had be­come a com­mon oc­cur­rence since Seong Ji­han reached the gold
level.

"I'm farm­ing min­ions for lev­els."

"Got it."

"Sophia, cover Seah as well."

"Sure~ Miss, let's go~!"

"Miss?"

"You told me 'Miss' is what you call a younger sis­ter-in-law in Ko­rea."

"But, I mean..."

"It's the same thing~."

Seong Ji­han looked in­cred­u­lous at Sophia's words.

She seems more se­vere than her pre­vi­ous life.

As he pon­dered whether it was wise for the three of them to play to­gether,
the op­pos­ing play­ers started chat­ting with him from their base.

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[Ji­han! How was be­ing on the na­tional team?]

[It was full of good peo­ple.]

[I heard you're hav­ing a star-stud­ded wel­come party to­day. Are you cer­tain
you should be play­ing right now?]

[I de­clined the party be­cause of yes­ter­day's in­ci­dent. My level is the low­est,

so I need to level up.]

[So, lev­el­ing up... haha...]

[So you de­lib­er­ately played dur­ing the time Ji­han was on­line...]

The op­pos­ing play­ers felt de­jected by Seong Ji­han's re­sponse.

They had hoped that af­ter he joined the na­tional team, he might at­tend the
wel­come party and not be avail­able for games.

'I should play a bit longer to­day.'

Seong Ji­han de­cided to ex­tend the game so that Yoon Seah, who had
switched classes to Void Archer, could ad­just prop­erly.

So, in­stead of quickly farm­ing the jun­gle and buff­ing his team, he sim­ply
re­laxed and mon­i­tored the sit­u­at­ion, much like the op­pos­ing team.

Three hours passed in this man­ner.

[Just push and end it... it's tor­tureㅜㅜ]

[What are you do­ing ㅠㅠ]

Around the time when the op­pos­ing team's play­ers grew im­pa­tient, one of
them mes­saged: [Ji­han! You might want to fin­ish the game. I re­ceived a no­‐
ti­fi­ca­tion that some­thing hap­pened at the Bat­tleNet cen­ter?]

[What?]

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At the wel­come party, a ma­jor in­ci­dent had oc­curred.

"Is this true?"

Di­rec­tor Noh Youngjun trem­bled with anger.

"One of our play­ers as­saulted Ha Yoori and she's crit­i­cally in­jured...?"

"Yes... For­tu­nately, a sup­port­ive player who got the call came in time and
treated her. But she hasn't re­gained con­scious­ness."

"That damn fool! Who did this?"

"It was... Player Yoon Jeonghyun."

Yoon Jeonghyun had been the strong­est war­rior next to Kim Dong­woo be­‐
fore Seong Ji­han's ar­rival. How­ever, he was widely known for his bad tem­‐
per and fond­ness for women.

No one ex­pected him to go as far as at­tack­ing a woman, let alone a top star
like Ha Yoori.

"And Kim Dong­woo, who said they were just hav­ing a small drink­ing
party..."

"They ap­par­ently in­vited many celebri­ties for a booze party to wel­come

Seong Ji­han."

"...Was Seong Ji­han in­volved?"

"No, he was play­ing on Bat­tleNet at the time. The as­sault ap­par­ently oc­‐
curred when Ha Yoori said she would leave be­cause Seong Ji­han wasn't
there, and Yoon Jeonghyun lost his tem­per..."

"This damn id­iot!"

War­rior play­ers are hu­man weapons.

Es­pe­cially if they're at the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive level.

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To think one would at­tack a civil­ian...

It's a mir­ac­ le she's still alive.

"Any chance for a set­tle­ment?"

"About that... Ha Yoori is the younger sis­ter of player Ha Yeon­joo. And

right now, Ha Yeon­joo is livid, and we're barely hold­ing her back from
killing Yoon Jeonghyun..."

Ha Yeon­joo, the leader of the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive Archers, was the top
player in Ko­rea with the high­est level. Her po­si­tion in the na­tional team was
in­com­pa­ra­ble to Yoon Jeonghyun's.

"... Did that fool know he was at­tack­ing Ha Yeon­joo's sis­ter?"

"He claims he only held her back, and she some­how got hurt... he feels he's
been wronged."

"Damn it, the real prob­lem is that he used force against a civil­ian!"

Bang!

Di­rec­tor Noh Youngjun slammed his desk, un­able to con­tain his anger.

He had turned a blind eye to the drink­ing, but caus­ing such a mess was in­‐
ex­cus­able.

As­sault­ing a celebrity, es­pe­cially a top star like Ha Yoori?

'I want to get rid of them all...'

Noh Youngjun felt a strong urge to drink.

His rep­u­ta­tion had plum­meted af­ter con­tin­u­ous losses since the de­par­ture of
the Sword King.

Kim Dong­woo, who used to be obe­di­ent, had brazenly brought dozens of

out­siders for a party, de­fy­ing his ear­lier prom­ise.

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And now, this cat­as­ trophic event has taken place.

"So... Di­rec­tor, what should we do...?"

The an­al­yst be­side him was pac­ing anx­iously, but Noh Youngjun was de­‐
void of ideas.

The na­tional team was al­ready out of his con­trol.

Per­haps he should just re­sign and bear the full re­spon­si­bil­ity for this in­ci­‐
dent.

That was the only thought swirling in his head.

Then,

"Di­rec­tor."

Ha Yeon­joo, the leader of the Archer squad, en­tered his of­fice.

She was known as one of Ko­rea's beau­ti­ful sis­ters along­side her top-star
sib­ling Ha Yoori, and she made a fi­nal de­mand with a stern ex­pres­sion.

"Those who par­tic­i­pated in the drink­ing ses­sion to­day, dis­miss them all. Or
else, the en­tire Archer squad will boy­cott the na­tional games."

"What? All? Isn't Yoon Jeonghyun the main prob­lem? Why ev­ery­one...?"

"I can't for­give those who just stood by and watched while my sis­ter was as­‐
saulted."

"But, the match against Rus­sia is just a few days away. Dis­miss­ing all the
war­riors...?"

"Not all, just the 12 who at­tended the sec­ond drink­ing ses­sion."

Dis­miss­ing 12 war­riors or the en­tire Archer squad would boy­cott the game?

Noh Youngjun felt trapped.

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But, with Seong Ji­han's re­cent ad­di­tion, there was fi­nally hope for a win.

Now, all this mess over some ran­dom wel­come party?

"What's hap­pen­ing?"

At that mo­ment, Seong Ji­han, who had fin­ished his game, en­tered the di­rec­‐
tor's of­fice.

"Seong Ji­han..."

Ha Yeon­joo glared at him, her arms crossed.

Even though he hadn't at­tended the party, her sis­ter had at­tended and got
hurt be­cause of it. Nat­u­rally, she wasn't happy.

'Why is she act­ing like this to­wards me?'

As Seong Ji­han looked puz­zled,

"Ear­lier... that's... "

The di­rec­tor gave a brief over­view of the sit­u­at­ion.

Hear­ing it, Ha Yeon­joo grit­ted her teeth and said, "Then, I can't be on the
na­tional team with your team­mates. All the Archers share this sen­ti­ment."

Seong Ji­han re­called the mem­bers of the war­rior squad.

They weren't es­sen­tial, but they weren't com­pletely use­less ei­ther.

"Okay, can I still be on the team even if my team­mates aren't?"

"Well, you didn't at­tend the drink­ing ses­sion, so..."

"Al­right, Di­rec­tor."

Seong Ji­han spoke con­fi­dently.

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"Dis­miss the twelve of them. Ac­tu­ally, dis­miss those who at­tended the first
drink­ing ses­sion too."

"What? You... I can un­der­stand about Yoon Jeonghyun, but dis­miss­ing ev­‐
ery­one means we'll have no war­riors left! Only sec­ond-tier play­ers re­main!"

"I alone de­fended till the 14th wave ear­lier."

The di­rec­tor was ren­dered speech­less.

That was cor­rect.

"I don't want to sync up with team­mates who tar­nished my name."

"Um... well..."

"Or I can leave the team."

At that, Ha Yeon­joo looked at Seong Ji­han in sur­prise.

She had wanted to dis­miss those who at­tended the first drink­ing ses­sion, but
she hadn't ex­pected Seong Ji­han to sug­gest it him­self.

She felt guilty for hav­ing glared at him ear­lier.

Her anger sub­sided slightly.

"Al­right."

Seong Ji­han and the Archer squad vs. the trou­ble­some war­rior squad.

When weigh­ing the op­tions, the bal­ance clearly tilted to the left.

Noh Youngjun gave up on try­ing to rec­on­cile.

'Even if we lose against Rus­sia, it's bet­ter to have dis­ci­pline...'

Up un­til that mo­ment, he had given up on the up­com­ing match.

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How­ever, as time went by and the na­tional team match be­gan, -- There was
an un­for­tu­nate in­ci­dent in the na­tional team, right?

-- Yes... it's re­gret­table. Di­rec­tor Noh Youngjun took strict mea­sures and
dis­missed all the pri­mary war­rior play­ers. There was a lot of pub­lic crit­i­‐
cism.

-- Yes, many won­dered who would play the games if all the war­riors were
dis­missed. But to­day, Di­rec­tor Noh Youngjun seems more con­fi­dent than
usual.

-- In­deed. In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, he con­fi­dently stated they would win...

-- I hope that's true!

Di­rec­tor Noh Youngjun's face was filled with con­fi­dence.

The source of that con­fi­dence was due to one per­son.

'This guy is in­sane.'

At the top of the na­tional team list, he had first writ­ten the name Seong Ji­‐
han.

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Chap­ter 137
In the past few days, news re­lated to the na­tional team hasn't stopped. Peo­‐
ple were thrilled about Seong Ji­han join­ing the team and his im­pres­sive per­‐
for­mance dur­ing prac­tice.

But that night, the in­ci­dent of Ha Yoori's as­sault broke out, and the na­tional
team was get­ting a lot of crit­i­cism.

-Yoon Jeonghyun, that crazy per­son!! How dare he touch our Yoori like
that??

-Is Seong Ji­han in­sane? Why in­vite celebri­ties to a wel­com­ing party?

At first, there was crit­i­cism di­rected at Seong Ji­han be­cause it was called a
wel­com­ing party for him, sug­gest­ing his in­volve­ment in the in­ci­dent.

-No, Seong Ji­han didn't go. It was the other guys who did it, lol.

-I saw in­ter­views with celebri­ties, they were told that Seong Ji­han was com­‐
ing soon and started drink­ing. But wasn't Seong Ji­han on the Bat­tleNet un­til
then? lol -Se­ri­ously, those damn war­rior play­ers... They've lost their hu­man­‐
ity...

Since many peo­ple saw that he was play­ing Bat­tleNet dur­ing that time, the
crit­i­cism against Seong Ji­han quickly faded away.

And When Coach Noh Youngjun de­cided to send all the first-team war­riors
away be­cause of this in­ci­dent, pub­lic opin­ion was di­vided.

-Good rid­dance. How long were they go­ing to keep them around, lol.

-But cut­ting off all the first-team play­ers is go­ing too far, isn't it? Just kick
out the guy who caused the ac­ci­dent.

-Ha Yeon­joo said she'd leave if they didn't kick ev­ery­one who par­tic­i­pated.

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-Well, what can we do? Archers are the only ones left, yeah?

-Still, with­out war­riors, how will they han­dle the Rus­sians?

-They'll just lose like usual, lol.

-The Na­tion­als are not just sim­ple games. They're a mat­ter of na­tional im­‐
por­tance. But cut­ting off all the first-team play­ers be­cause of a sim­ple mis­‐
take... Is the coach in­sane? They should bring the play­ers back im­me­di­‐
ately!

-Are you Yoon Jeonghyun?

"Ah, damn it. Yoon Jeonghyun is in prison."

Kim Dong­woo, who had been kicked out of the na­tional team, cursed while
re­ply­ing to the com­ments.

All be­cause of that Yoon Jeonghyun...

"Ha Yeon­Joo is re­ally un­be­liev­able. Even if she de­manded kick­ing out Yoon
Jeonghyun, why'd they kick us all out?!?!"

Lee Yoongi, who had come to Kim Dong­woo's house, set up the drinks and
sat on the couch.

"They should have just cut the guys from the sec­ond team. Oh, and did
Seong Ji­han say he was go­ing to cut all of the first-team play­ers? That per­‐
son is the worst."

Kim Dong­woo swore while watch­ing Seong Ji­han's face on TV.

They pre­pared for his wel­com­ing party so lav­ishly. Why would he tell them
to kick us out?

De­spite be­ing like broth­ers, they felt be­trayed.

"That's right. They're sec­ond-rate any­way, and they want to try with­out us."

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"When are the girls com­ing?"

"They should be here soon. Let's drink while watch­ing the Rus­sia match."

Just a few days ago, they were the Ko­rean na­tional team, but now they
wished for Ko­rea's de­feat more than any­one else.

Let them re­al­ize the void we've left be­hind.

At that mo­ment.

Beep-beep-

"Oh, they're here."

Four women en­tered Kim Dong­woo's house.

"Oppa! They said the na­tional team got cut. Is it okay to drink like this?"

"Keep it down. Give me some soju."

"His tem­per... Wow, Seong Ji­han is so cool!"

As one of the women praised Seong Ji­han while watch­ing his in­ter­view for
the Rus­sian match on TV, Kim Dong­woo scowled.

"If you're go­ing to praise that guy, Get out of my house!"

"Why?"

"He told them to kick all of us out."

"Huh... re­ally? No way, how will they fight with­out you all, oppa?"

"Well... that crazy guy said so. So we're here to watch them get hu­mil­i­ated."

"Hehe~ But in the in­ter­view, he seemed re­ally con­fi­dent?"

"Ji­han oppa is al­ways con­fi­dent."

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"Re­ally?"

Kim Dong­woo ig­nored the girls as they chat­ted amongst them­selves and
con­tin­ued to watch Seong Ji­han's in­ter­view on TV.

--This time, Seong Ji­han, there was an un­for­tu­nate in­ci­dent in­volv­ing the
na­tional team. The lineup has changed dra­mat­i­cally. Do you be­lieve it will
be suc­cess­ful?

-Yes. It will work well. And the re­sult will be the same.

--The same...?

-Yes. Win­ning 3:0 is con­firmed.

--Wow...!

Seong Ji­han re­mained un­fazed, con­fi­dently pre­dict­ing a 3:0 vic­tory. Kim

Dong­woo couldn't help but be ir­ri­tated.

"What 3:0? The Rus­sians should beat them 0:3 to bring them back to re­al­‐
ity."

With all the first-team war­riors gone, is that even pos­si­ble? He ea­gerly
awaited the match, drink­ing heav­ily.

*****

The at­mos­phere in the Rus­sian na­tional team was fes­tive due to the scan­dal
in the Ko­rean na­tional team.

"They said they cut all the first-team war­riors? Be­cause of an ac­ci­dent be­‐
fore the game."

"I can't un­der­stand. They should've just cut the guy who caused the ac­ci­‐
dent."

"They prob­ab­ ly won't win any­way. Maybe it's to in­still dis­ci­pline?"

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The Rus­sian war­riors had al­ready won sev­eral games, and their spir­its were
high.

"Don't un­der­es­ti­mate them. Don't for­get that Seong Ji­han is there."

Vladimir Gorskikh, the leader of the Rus­sian team, cau­tioned his team­‐
mates.

"Vladimir, what can that guy do? He's just a gold."

"That's right. He was blab­ber­ing about win­ning 3:0 in the in­ter­view, but let's
show him re­al­ity this time."

In their mind they had al­ready won this game.

[North­east Asia League Match Be­gins.]

[The first match is South­gate.]

As the game be­gan,

"Di­vine Bless."

"Ab­so­lute Shield."

The war­riors, buffed by their sup­ports, formed their for­ma­tion. Un­like the
Ko­rean na­tional team's tur­tle for­ma­tion, the Rus­sian war­riors started form­‐
ing a tri­an­gu­lar shape.

At the fore­front of this tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion stood Vladimir.

-- 'Berserker' Vladimir is at the fore­front.

Vladimir pos­sessed the SS-rank Gift 'Ram­page,' a sim­ple Gift that greatly
boosted stats for a cer­tain du­ra­tion, with a fo­cus on en­hanc­ing at­tack power.

-- Ranked 6th among all war­riors, he's eval­u­ated to be even higher in terms
of at­tack power.

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--The buffs from the tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion are con­cen­trated on the van­guard,
so it will show sig­nif­i­cant de­struc­tive power...

The tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion, also known as the Wedge For­ma­tion, is one of the
war­rior for­ma­tions. This for­ma­tion fo­cused buffs on the van­guard in front.

With Vladimir, who pos­sessed Ram­page, fur­ther en­hanc­ing their strength,

the Rus­sian team aimed to dis­rupt the op­po­nent's for­ma­tion with ex­plo­sive
at­tack power.

"Let's go! For our Moth­er­land!"

"Uraraaaaa!"

Led by Vladimir, who held a mas­sive axe, the Rus­sian war­riors be­gan to
charge.

"Tar­get Elya first!"

The leader of the Ko­rean na­tional team's archers, Ha Yeon­joo, iden­ti­fied the
weak­est tar­get among the war­riors and di­rected fo­cused shoot­ing.

How­ever, rather than idling, the other Rus­sian po­si­tion play­ers ac­tively sup­‐
ported the at­tack.

Bang! Bang!

The Ko­rean team on the wall, shoot­ing from a dozen me­ters above, and the
Rus­sians be­low en­gaged in a fierce bat­tle of long-range fire­power. Spells
erupted in all di­rec­tions, and sup­port units' de­buff and de­fen­sive spells col­‐
lided chaot­i­cally.

A fierce long-range fire­power bat­tle un­folded be­tween the two teams.

"Ugh...!"

"I'll go first!"

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In the early stages, the at­mos­phere fa­vored Ko­rea. Ko­rea had stronger fire­‐
power than Rus­sia, so some of the Rus­sian war­riors fell de­spite their ef­forts
to in­ter­fere.

How­ever, Ha Yeon­joo's ex­pres­sion was dark.

"Only three...?"

Be­fore they could break into the fortress, they had to take down as many
en­emy war­riors as pos­si­ble. How­ever, the speed of Rus­sia's charge with the
tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion ex­ceeded her imag­i­na­tion.

Even though they con­cen­trated sniper fire, only three of the weak­est Rus­‐
sian war­riors had fallen.

"If they break into the fortress, there won't be any way to snipe them any­‐
more!"

South­gate Map.

There are typ­i­cally two ways to win on this map. The first is a show­down
be­tween long-range po­si­tions to de­ter­mine the out­come.

The at­tack­ing team's war­riors fo­cus on pro­tect­ing their own long-range

deal­ers, rather than en­ter­ing the fortress. They ex­change long-range at­tacks,
and the num­ber of player deaths is counted. In such bat­tles, the main ac­tors
are the long-range deal­ers. This sit­u­at­ion oc­curred when the war­rior lev­els
on both sides were sim­i­lar.

How­ever, Rus­sia be­lieved that their war­riors would al­ways win when they
clashed in com­bat.

The sec­ond win­ning for­mula is to break through the war­riors guard­ing the
fortress. This was a fairly risky tac­tic. If the num­ber of war­riors was the
same on both sides, and the war­riors guard­ing the fortress re­ceived sup­port
from the wall above, it was dif­fi­cult for the at­tack­ing team's war­riors to
match the fire­power.

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The war­riors of the at­tack­ing team would be vul­ner­ab­ le if the war­riors

guard­ing the fortress held out a lit­tle longer. As a re­sult, un­less there was a
sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence in war­rior level, most teams pre­ferred the first win­‐
ning for­mula.

Rus­sia's charge im­plied that the Ko­rean na­tional team's war­riors were of a
lower cal­iber. That view­point was shared by Ha Yeon­joo.

"No mat­ter how im­pres­sive Seong Ji­han was dur­ing prac­tice... The real bat­‐
tle is dif­fer­ent. We'll be pen­et­rated. We need to take down at least one more
be­fore that hap­pens!"

"The next tar­get is Sergei! Aim for the blue ar­mor!"

"Yes!"

With Ha Yeon­joo's first shot lead­ing the way, a con­cen­trated vol­ley of ar­‐
rows rained down. Ko­rea's unique skill of fo­cused shoot­ing al­lowed them to
de­ci­sively take down one tar­get at a time, mak­ing it their great­est ad­van­‐
tage.

Puk! Puk!

As a re­sult, two more Rus­sian war­riors fell be­fore they could reach the
fortress.

"Cap­tain, five of them are down!"

"The ef­fi­ciency of the tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion dropped around 180%!"

"It's fine, this should be enough! We can win even though we're just 5 of us
left!"

Vladimir, the Rus­sian Team's leader, chuck­led. His sweaty face and swollen
mus­cles showed that he had al­ready en­tered a state of frenzy.

"Blood Rage!"

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With a shield in one hand, he lunged to­ward the bunched-up en­emy and
swung his blood­stained, mas­sive axe.

Kwaaang!

In one strike, the for­ma­tion of the Ko­rean na­tional team was shat­tered.

"They're weak!"

Are these so-called na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tives un­able to with­stand even a sin­‐

gle blow? They're in­cred­i­bly weak. Did they re­ally have to ex­pel the first-
team war­riors over an in­ci­dent like that?

Vladimir sneered and swung his axe hor­i­zon­tally.

Chaaak!

With an­other sin­gle blow, the bod­ies of five en­emy war­riors were cut down
like logs. The num­bers were now even.

"Ha­haha! This is too easy!"

"Where's Seong Ji­han?"

The war­riors fol­low­ing Vladimir laughed cru­elly as they slaugh­tered the

Ko­rean na­tional team.

"Why was the for­ma­tion breached so eas­ily...? What was the point of this?"

They formed a de­fen­sive for­ma­tion, but did it re­ally get bro­ken through so
eas­ily? De­spite the de­fen­sive for­ma­tion, this was way too easy...

But when Vladimir heard the term 'de­fen­sive for­ma­tion,' he raised an eye­‐
brow.

"De­fen­sive for­ma­tion...?"

Wasn't it sup­posed to be a de­fen­sive for­ma­tion?

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While they had their shields up fac­ing each other to form a de­fen­sive for­‐
ma­tion, the place­ment of per­son­nel seemed strange. To form a proper de­‐
fen­sive for­ma­tion, the num­bers should be ar­ranged to fit a square for­ma­tion.

Strangely, there were many war­riors in the first row, but af­ter that, the num­‐
ber of war­riors de­creased. It was as if...

"Was this... not a tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion?"

Re­verse tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion.

If Vladimir was at the top ver­tex of the tri­an­gle, then the 1st row of Ko­rea
was at the bot­tom line.

Then, at the Ko­rean ver­tex.

The one who re­ceived all the buffs from this strange for­ma­tion...

"He's here."

As the Ko­rean na­tional team was be­ing slaugh­tered, Seong Ji­han's fig­ure
be­gan to ap­pear. He was smil­ing in the back, re­ceiv­ing the buffs from the
re­verse-tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion.

The Ko­rean na­tional team's per­for­mance af­ter be­ing re­or­ga­nized with the
sec­ond team war­riors was dis­mal. Even the first team was ini­tially weak, so
the level of these play­ers was far from im­pres­sive.

"The ef­fi­ciency of the de­fen­sive for­ma­tion... It's not even 150%."

"In­deed, the dif­fer­ence be­tween the 1st and 2nd teams seems un­avoid­able."

No mat­ter how much Seong Ji­han im­proved the ef­fi­ciency of the de­fen­sive
for­ma­tion, the other 29 play­ers couldn't sup­port it, cre­at­ing an in­sur­mount­‐
able gap with the 1st team.

"More­over, all of them are be­low level 225."

"At this rate, I'm not sure if they can with­stand Vladimir's blow."

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Vladimir, known for pos­sess­ing the most for­mi­da­ble at­tack power among
the war­riors other than the Sword King, was us­ing Berserk to swing his
mas­sive axe. Could the low-level 2nd team war­riors with­stand his blow?

The coach­ing staff was in de­spair as there seemed to be no so­lu­tion to the

sit­u­at­ion.

Then, Seong Ji­han sug­gested some­thing un­ex­pected.

"Why don't we try this?"

Hav­ing ob­served the sit­u­at­ion, Seong Ji­han pro­posed giv­ing up on the de­‐
fen­sive for­ma­tion. In­stead, he sug­gested a tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion, a charg­ing
for­ma­tion that strength­ened the player at the fore­front. It didn't match the
cur­rent sit­u­at­ion where they needed to de­fend, but given the sig­nif­i­cant dif­‐
fer­ence in lev­els, putting ev­ery­thing on Seong Ji­han might be the bet­ter
choice.

"Maybe you should stand at the front?"

"No. I'll stay at the back."

"At the back... But if the war­riors in front all fall, the buff ef­fect will dis­ap­‐
pear."

"No, I'll be able to han­dle it on my own."

De­spite the crum­bling for­ma­tion and the mas­sacre, the tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion
main­tained a buff ef­fect, al­beit re­duced to 110 per­cent.

And then...

"As the en­emy for­ma­tion widens, I'll try fin­ish­ing it with a sin­gle strike."

"A sin­gle strike... Can it work?"

"Let's give it a try."

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As the Ko­rean na­tional team fell apart, the Rus­sian war­riors be­gan to scat­‐
ter, think­ing the game was al­ready over. In re­sponse, the for­ma­tion col­‐
lapsed in an in­stant.

See­ing this, Seong Ji­han raised his spear.

"Let's be­gin."

At that mo­ment, a pow­er­ful aura be­gan to em­anate from Seong Ji­han.

"W-What is this power...!"

Star­tled by the un­usual aura, Vladimir hes­i­tated for a mo­ment.

"You fool...! What can you do alone?"

Deny­ing his own sur­prise, he shot to­ward Seong Ji­han like a can­non­ball.

The dis­tance be­tween them closed in an in­stant.

"Blood Rage!"

Vladimir's blood-red axe surged with in­tense en­ergy as if he were about to

split Seong Ji­han in half.

But, with a calm de­meanor, Seong Ji­han un­leashed a power he hadn't used
be­fore, his third awak­en­ing.

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Chap­ter 138
[Name­less Di­vine Tech­nique, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret -- Blood Cross.]

The Shadow sword 'Eclipse' cut hor­i­zon­tally with­out mercy.

And then...

"Huh...!"

Shooosh-!

The Rus­sian war­riors' ar­mor and weapons dis­in­te­grated and turned to dust.
The scat­tered metal­lic dust ap­peared to fol­low Eclipse's sword's path.

Pook!

The metal­lic par­ti­cles turned into steel and be­gan to em­bed deeply in the
ground.

Af­ter that...

Swoosh-!

A Pure Phoenix Qi fol­lowed Eclipse, cut­ting ver­ti­cally like flow­ing wa­ter.

As seen mo­ments ago, a sim­ple ges­ture of draw­ing a cross in the air ap­‐
peared to be a sim­ple at­tack. How­ever...

"Un... bel... iev­able!"

Thump! Thump!

Vladimir's heart was rac­ing like crazy. Seong Ji­han had only shown two
swings, but his Berserker mode was emit­ting a stronger warn­ing than ever
be­fore.

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It wasn't just that some of the metal used to make his axe and ar­mor had
flaws.

Swoosh-!

The life force bound to the axe quickly dis­si­pated, and that en­ergy flowed
with the rhythm of the spear, com­plet­ing Seong Ji­han's Blood Cross.

Boom!

Vladimir was thrown far away, and 'Blood Rage' dis­persed into the air, dis­‐
ap­pear­ing into noth­ing­ness.

"Iyiik!"

In­deed, the op­po­nent was for­mi­da­ble. Player Seong Ji­han, while only at the
Gold rank, had shown an as­ton­ish­ing achieve­ment. Even though he was
out­classed in terms of power, Vladimir hadn't let his guard down at all.

Orig­i­nally, it was im­pos­si­ble to wipe out the Di­am

­ ond-class na­tional team
in one go.

How­ever...

"My own Qi...!"

The Skill Ram­page ma­nip­u­lated Qi and life force to­gether. It was be­yond
his imag­i­na­tion that ev­ery­thing flew over to the other side.

Pah-!

The ground had changed.

Steel was em­bed­ded hor­i­zon­tally.

The blood was dyed ver­ti­cally.

The cross pat­tern was carved into the floor of South Gate in an in­stant us­ing
iron and blood, one stroke at a time.

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"Urgh!"

"Ugh, I can't move!"

"...!"

Vladimir, de­spite the fact that only his blood flow bound to the axe was
taken away, The other Rus­sian war­riors were in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. Blood
poured from their bod­ies like sweat, cre­at­ing pud­dles on the ground. It was
ter­ri­fy­ing to see their blood pool­ing to­gether.

See­ing this, Vladimir re­gained his senses and made a de­ci­sion.

"I'll take on Seong Ji­han! Go!"

The best way to earn points at South Gate was ul­ti­mately to cross the gate.
There was no need to risk one's life to kill the last re­main­ing op­po­nent.
While the op­po­nent was buy­ing time, even if just one other player passed
through, they could earn points!

"I'll go all out!"

Vladimir ac­ti­vated his Berserker skill with all his might and charged to­‐
wards Seong Ji­han.

[TL/N: Berserker is a stronger ver­sion of the Blood rage skill.]

Shwoosh-!

With each ap­proach, his ar­mor dis­as­sem­bled and stuck to the ground, and
the crim­son blood en­ergy weak­ened.

'This should be enough...!'

Vladimir had made up his mind to pour out ev­ery­thing he had.

Thud!

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When his axe and Seong Ji­han's sword clashed, a mas­sive shock­wave
spread out.

"Ugh...!"

Vladimir took one step back as a re­sult of this col­li­sion. His pupils di­lated.
It was Berserker mode at full power. He'd got­ten not only the team's buffs,
but also the tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion's syn­ergy. Even with his all-out as­sault, he
ap­peared to be no match for Seong Ji­han, who had used the 'Area' skill.

"No way!"

Vladimir swung his axe down­ward, dis­miss­ing the no­tion.

He struck with all his strength, but Seong Ji­han, who had used the 'Wide
Area' skill, was still equal in terms of num­bers.

"Iyiik!"

Of course, the pres­sure was less than fac­ing the Sword King. How­ever, it
was still a Gold-rank, and Seong Ji­han had plenty of room for growth even
at this level. What would hap­pen once time passed? Vladimir was be­com­ing
im­pa­tient.

"First, I'll go ahead...!"

"Al­right. Just get through!"

Un­der Vladimir's mark, some Rus­sian war­riors passed by Seong Ji­han.

They tried to stay as far away from him as pos­si­ble and moved along the
edge. Al­though it might have seemed like a ridicu­lous ac­tion to un­der­es­ti­‐
mate a Gold-rank op­po­nent when they were all elite war­riors above level
225, they were all deadly se­ri­ous.

"We must win a match against Ko­rea right now!"

"Later, we might not be able to win for real!"

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Even Rus­sia's top war­rior, Vladimir, couldn't con­tain his de­sire to win one
match be­fore Seong Ji­han grew even stronger. Nev­er­the­less...

"Hmm..."

Seong Ji­han casted a quick glance to his side.

"What are you look­ing at?"

Vladimir shouted and un­leashed his ul­ti­mate strike.

Clang! Clang!

Weapons clashed mul­ti­ple times. De­spite be­ing pushed back, Vladimir man­‐
aged to land coun­ter­at­tacks spo­rad­i­cally, pre­vent­ing him­self from be­ing
over­whelmed.

This sit­u­at­ion was enough to buy time. And...

"Al­right...!"

One Rus­sian war­rior fi­nally at­tempted to cross the point at South­gate. With
25 peo­ple charg­ing for­ward, over half of them were drawn to­wards Seong
Ji­han, leav­ing only three play­ers who reached the point. It was a crit­i­cal
mo­ment.

"Any­way, the im­por­tant thing in this game is cross­ing that line... Huh?"

Then...

Pook!

Seong Ji­han brought down the Phoenix Qi to the ground, caus­ing a vi­bra­‐
tion across the floor, which was marked with the Iron Blood Cross.

At the same time, the cen­tral point of South Gate's bat­tle­field, marked by
the cross, started turn­ing white.

"...!"

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Vladimir sensed some­thing omi­nous.

"T-This...! Run!"

The light that ap­peared to erase the cen­tral part of the Iron Blood Cross
wasn't a skill limit, as he had pre­vi­ously as­sumed.

"This is dif­fer­ent!"

Vladimir at­tempted to warn his team­mates to flee, but a flash of light struck
Seong Ji­han's spear, caus­ing a white liq­uid to seep into it.

Thunk!

The con­nec­tion ring of the Iron Blood Cross was in­stantly sev­ered.

"Kuk...!"

Then, the Rus­sian war­riors who were about to reach the point at South­gate
all turned into dust and dis­ap­peared, with­out any re­sis­tance.

"What... What's hap­pen­ing right now?!"

Vladimir's vi­sion be­came hazy. Un­til now, war­riors who could with­stand
hav­ing their blood taken away had van­ished all at once?

"What the hell is...!"

Then, a sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared be­fore his eyes.

[In­stant Death trig­gered.]

[Hu­man Species De­tected. Re­sis­tance failed.]

[Death con­firmed.]

"In­sane...!"

Those were Vladimir's last words.

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As a Berserker hold­ing his axe, he turned into dust.

The Rus­sian na­tional team's war­riors, start­ing with him, had all per­ished.

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--Ah, Seong Ji­han played well. But... the nu­mer­i­cal dis­ad­van­tage was in­‐
evitable!

--It's a shame... How­ever, there was hope in this match! We lost, but they
fought well!

The com­men­ta­tors who were lament­ing their loss and ac­cept­ing de­feat as a
fact of life when the Rus­sian play­ers were about to cross the point had no
idea what was hap­pen­ing.

--Wait, what the hell is this?!

--Why did ev­ery­one sud­denly dis­ap­pear??

--What on earth are we wit­ness­ing?

When Seong Ji­han stuck his spear into the ground, caus­ing ev­ery­one to dis­‐
ap­pear, no one could com­pre­hend the sit­u­at­ion.

"Heh... Haha..."

Coach Noh Youngjun, who had been watch­ing the game, couldn't help but
burst into laugh­ter at the cur­rent out­come.

Vladimir, a ter­ri­fy­ing berserker, had been erased with such a skill.

"There was a rea­son Ji­han didn't need the first team."

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Shoooo...

And so, the first match ended in Ko­rea's Vic­tory.

As play­ers emerged one by one from the Bat­tleNet Con­nec­tors, they all
looked sur­prised.

Even more sur­prised were the war­riors who had been block­ing South­gate
along­side Seong Ji­han.

"Wait... In­stant death? In­stant death, se­ri­ously?!"

"I don't know... What is that... It's ter­ri­fy­ing..."

Even af­ter the Rus­sian war­riors' for­ma­tion was bro­ken, some of the South
Ko­rean war­riors who sur­vived were swept away and turned to dust in the fi­‐
nal at­tack that sev­ered the Blood Cross.

They re­ceived the same sys­tem mes­sages as the Rus­sian war­riors, and they
couldn't un­der­stand it at all. What kind of crazy skill is this?

How­ever, for a mo­ment...

Flash!

Un­like other play­ers, Seong Ji­han, who en­tered the na­tional team's match
with­out us­ing the Bat­tleNet Con­nec­tor, re­turned from the void.

"Good job!"

The war­riors who had fought to­gether bent their waists 90 de­grees to greet
him. Among them, those who had ex­pe­ri­enced in­stant death even shiv­ered
slightly as they looked at Seong Ji­han.

"Ji­han, well done."

"No, it's not like that. I was lack­ing, and I al­most lost the match."

Lack­ing? Who said that?

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The play­ers who heard this were puz­zled, but Seong Ji­han thought, 'I still
have a long way to go.'

De­spite win­ning the first match, he thought "' couldn't fully uti­lize my
power, even with buffs from na­tional-level play­ers.'

The buffs granted by South Ko­rea's top play­ers. Seong Ji­han didn't show
much ef­fi­ciency to them.

'If I had drawn out all my strength, in­clud­ing the buffs, it would have been
an eas­ier vic­tory.'

Even though Rus­sian war­riors were thought to be stronger than Ko­rean

war­riors, not ev­ery­one was as strong as Vladimir in their team. The ef­fi­‐
ciency of the buffs, on the other hand, al­lowed Seong Ji­han to hold out
against them.

While the Rus­sian war­riors used all of their buff ef­fects, The buffs of the
Ko­rean team had lit­tle ef­fect on Seong Ji­han. There­fore, fin­ish­ing the match
with a sin­gle strike was im­pos­si­ble, as it hap­pened dur­ing the na­tional team
se­lec­tion test.

"I need to prac­tice us­ing it with the Shadow Sword more. With this level of
pro­fi­ciency, I can only use Blood Cross in the Mythic Realm."

The Mythic Realm.

Un­like the Heaven Thun­der Realm and Dark Shade Realm, where each
mar­tial art was united with light and dark­ness, the Mythic Realm al­lowed
each mar­tial art to play in­de­pen­dently.

How­ever, in the Mythic Realm, the five at­tributes of the mar­tial arts were
linked to the Five El­em
­ ents: wood, fire, earth, metal, and wa­ter.

'Blood Cross is a metal mar­tial art.'

Be­cause it has a metal at­tribute, it's the eas­i­est mar­tial art to use in the
Mythic Realm.

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Blood Cross re­quired two weapons, one of which was a 'spear' in the mar­‐
tial arts man­i­fes­ta­tion.

'It has to be a spear rather than a sword (as a man­i­fes­ta­tion). A spear is

needed to sever the cross's con­nec­tion lines.'

Blood cross dis­man­tles the ar­mor (Takes metal from var­i­ous ob­jects nearby)
and steals vi­tal­ity (Takes blood from nearby hu­mans). How­ever, if it only
had these ef­fects, the mar­tial arts in the pre­vi­ous two realms would be more
pow­er­ful.

The true power of the Blood Cross is re­vealed when the cross is sev­ered.

'The in­stant death ef­fect on the hu­man species re­mains.'

When the cross is sev­ered, all hu­mans die. There was no ex­cep­tion to this.

Even if the world's best tank had all kinds of buffs, there was no re­sis­tance
to in­stant death.

So, when Seong Ji­han used Blood Cross in his pre­vi­ous life...

Play­ers from other coun­tries had to run away first.

Be­cause they knew from ex­pe­ri­ence that if they stayed in that spot, they
would die no mat­ter how they de­fended.

'No one knows, so it's easy for me.'

Think­ing like that, Seong Ji­han thought about Blood Cross 'I un­der­stand it
now, In my past life I didn't use the skill through the sys­tem. This mar­tial
art is strange.'

Be­fore, when the SSS-grade skill 'Name­less Di­vine Arts' was reg­is­tered in
the sta­tus win­dow, he didn't think deeply about Blood Cross.

He just judged it as a skill that be­came avail­able as his level in­creased and
his power grew.

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How­ever, af­ter us­ing this mar­tial art, it was clear that Blood Cross was
some­what un­usual.

'Why is there a need to cre­ate a cross in the first place?'

Two lines, one of blood and the other of steel. The power that ap­peared
when it was drawn wasn't bad, but as the Rus­sian war­riors demon­strated,
there was a limit to the amount of dam­age it could in­flict on the en­emy.

There was no need to draw a cross for no rea­son.

It would be great if I could just use an at­tack that sev­ers and in­stantly kills
the hu­mans.

'There is hid­den mar­tial knowl­edge within this that I still don't un­der­stand.
It would be fan­tas­tic if you could sim­ply bring the in­stant death ef­fect and
mod­ify it...'

While Seong Ji­han was won­der­ing if there was a need to draw a cross like
this, a mes­sage ap­peared in the sys­tem: [Shadow Sword stat has in­creased
by 1.]

"Huh?"

So far, he had in­vested points in Shadow Sword, but the at­tribute that had
not in­creased even af­ter lev­el­ing up sud­denly in­creased just by at­tempt­ing
to un­der­stand Blood Cross.

'...From now on, to grow, sim­ple point in­vest­ment won't be enough.'

To raise Shadow Sword, re­search on the Mythic Realm and strength­en­ing of

Name­less Mar­tial Arts be­came es­sen­tial.

With these thoughts, Seong Ji­han pre­pared for the sec­ond round.

"Ji­han, but... What was that skill ear­lier?"

"It's a light­weight in­stant death skill. It works amaz­ingly well on hu­mans."

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What's light about an in­stant death skill? Does be­ing lighter mean you die
less?

Coach Noh Youngjun couldn't be­lieve it, but he thought, '...Since we're on
the same side.'

When it came to things that were strong on the same side, he de­cided not to
worry about bal­ance.

If it's a cheat, so be it. Win­ning is what mat­ters.

"So... In what sit­u­at­ions is this skill most ef­fec­tive?"

"It's ef­fec­tive in maps with im­por­tant points like the South Gate. By the
way, in the sec­ond round, we're on the at­tack, right?"

Seong Ji­han smiled broadly.

"Let's serve them an­other in­stant death."

Blood Cross, This mar­tial art had many weak­nesses. Once the cross is
drawn, all you have to do is run away and avoid the fi­nal blow.

How­ever...

Now, in a map like the South Gate, where the pri­or­ity was to de­fend, it was
very ef­fec­tive. And...

--Hey! Hey hey hey! The en­emy's col­laps­ing!

--Seong Ji­han's skill leaves no room for a come­back! Vladimir! Is in­stant

death sup­posed to make sense?! They're freak­ing out!

--We asked the same thing last time about the berserker skill! Ha­haha! Isn't
it all cycli­cal?

In the sec­ond match as well, Seong Ji­han eas­ily se­cured vic­tory with Blood
Cross While the mar­tial art of the Mythic Realm was un­fold­ing in Seong Ji­‐
han's hands...

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Sud­denly...

"Who dares...!"

In the Star of the Mar­tial Gods, some­one stood up.

"He's awake. No... He woke you up."

The old man in front of him, Dong­bang Sak, turned to speak.

"Long­i­nus."

[TL/N: In var­i­ous mytholo­gies and leg­ends, "Long­i­nus" is of­ten as­so­ci­ated

with the name of the Ro­man sol­dier who is said to have pierced the side of
Je­sus Christ with a spear (re­ferred to as the "Holy Lance" or "Spear of Des­‐
tiny") dur­ing the Cru­ci­fix­ion.]

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Chap­ter 139
*****

*****

Dong­bangsak turned around, and in his in­scrutable eyes, he saw a man with
a lively ex­pres­sion and white hair grip­ping a spear, ris­ing.

"...Some­one is try­ing to im­i­tate and steal my skill. How dare he? I will go
kill him."

At the men­tion of steal­ing his skill, Dong­bangsak gri­maced.

He could un­der­stand Long­i­nus's anger, but as a loyal ser­vant of the Mar­tial

God, he had to in­ter­vene here.

"Stop, Long­i­nus."

[TL/N: Long­i­nus is the name given to the un­named Ro­man sol­dier who
pierced the side of Je­sus with a lance/spear. Blood cross is his skill and it
can be used only with a spear ]

"Even you can't stop me. Es­pe­cially when it comes to my skiil!"

"Mas­ter is watch­ing over us."

"...Doesn't mat­ter."

"He pos­sesses the 'Soul'."

"..."

With those words, Long­i­nus's body sud­denly froze.

He gath­ered his life force, then slowly spoke.

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"Then he's the one who can... kill our mas­ter?"

"Well, it doesn't seem likely. Our mas­ter is quite in­dul­gent with him."

"...Is that so?"

Dong­bangsak's mas­ter, and also Long­i­nus's mas­ter.

The "Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God," told Dong­bangsak that he's quite le­nient
with Ji­han.

"Right. And at the mo­ment, he's just a Gold. Is it nec­es­sary to point the
'Spear of Di­vine Slay­ing' at him?"

"Huh. Just a Gold?"

Long­i­nus opened his eyes wide.

A mere Gold, and he man­aged to use his skill!

Ex­cite­ment filled his eyes.

"The pos­si­bil­ity is not zero."

"Right. I've been keep­ing an eye on his tal­ents, but I didn't know he'd rise to
this level."

"Kang Sang, you're quite care­free. Af­ter all, you're in the same boat as me,
right?"

"...."

Dong­bangsak, Used to be known as Kang Sang.

The hand that touched his beard paused for a mo­ment.

"I'm now called Dong­bangsak."

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"Ah, was that the name? You used many names, but you set­tled on that
one."

"Among the new names, Dong­bangsak was the best. Kang Sang... is a name
I don't like."

With that, Dong­Bangsak chuck­led heartily.

"And Long­i­nus, why do you think I'm in the same boat as you?"

"...."

"I have no re­grets about hav­ing lived for so long."Life is en­joy­able. There is
al­ways more en­joy­ment to be had no mat­ter how long you live."

"Hmm. It's the op­po­site for me...."

Long­i­nus em­braced the spear.

"I wasn't born. I want to dis­ap­pear even now. If it weren't for the Mar­tial
God... I would have al­ready fin­ished my karma."

"Tsk tsk... frus­trated, aren't you?"

Dong­bangsak shook his head in pity.

If Long­i­nus had achieved his karma, he would have died two thou­sand
years ago. Why does he want to die so quickly? Is death that re­gret­table?

"Get a smart­phone. Then liv­ing for a long time will be en­joy­able."

"...What's that?"

"You don't know what a smart­phone is?"

"The last time I woke up was 150 years ago..."

"Ah."

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I'll have to teach him from the be­gin­ning, it seems.

The joys of this world.

"Come with me to Earth once."

Dong­bangsak laughed as he looked at Long­i­nus.

Still, with one more of the Mar­tial God's ser­vants awak­ened, he felt re­‐
lieved.

The oth­ers were all asleep, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to han­dle the Mar­tial God's
or­ders alone.

"Now, I don't have to do it all by my­self."

Dong­bangsak showed Long­i­nus some news­pa­pers and promised not to put

him to sleep again.

*****

The score for Ko­rea -- Rus­sia was 2:0.

The vic­tory on the South Gate map, which was re­garded as the most dif­fi­‐
cult, en­raged the en­tire Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea.

-Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han!

Did he re­ally do it all by him­self?

-Ah... since the Sword King, it's been a while since I've felt like this...

-Did you hear what Vladimir said? Is he even mak­ing sense? Lol, the whin­‐
ing mode is so much fun, isn't it?

-- Lol, lol, lol, lol, lol. Did he get pushed back in South Gate af­ter rush­ing in
as a War­rior?

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-Af­ter cut­ting off the War­rior's First team, our per­for­mance is sky­rock­et­‐
ing!! Lolololol!

The mo­ment Blood Cross, Seong Ji­han's Skill, turned war­riors into dust.

Kim Dong­woo frowned deeply.

He lived in a top-class man­sion.

Just open­ing the front door could lead to en­coun­ters with fa­mous celebri­ties
and busi­ness­men, in a lux­ury res­i­den­tial area where prop­erty prices ex­‐
ceeded 10 bil­lion won as the start­ing point.

-Woah!

-We won! We won!

-Save me, Seong Ji­han!

Ev­ery time Seong Ji­han pierced through the en­emy, cheers erupted.

These cheers were a sound of mem­o­ries that Kim Dong­woo had pre­served
since he was a child, a sound that had spread through­out the en­tire apart­‐
ment com­plex dur­ing the 2002 World Cup.

And now, it was re­sound­ing in this man­sion.

And.

"Wow!!"

"Seong Ji­han!! Seong Ji­han!!!"

"How can this be??"

"This is in­sane..."

The four women he brought with him also.

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With their eyes fixed on the TV screen, they couldn't take their eyes off
Seong Ji­han.

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In a team-ori­ented Bat­tleNet match, he dom­i­nated the game alone.

He car­ried the game while draw­ing the Blood Cross (made of blood and
iron), caus­ing Vladimir, the 6th-ranked War­rior in the rank­ings, to scream.

It was a sit­u­at­ion sim­i­lar to when the for­mer Sword King was ac­tive.

"Damn it...!"

In fact, Kim Dong­woo was just as ex­cited when he saw that.

Wow...

How can some­one be like that? He won­dered.

But along with that, there was an­other emo­tion ris­ing.

'If I were in that po­si­tion...!'

In­stead of the 2nd team of War­riors, if he had been in that po­si­tion.

He could have re­ceived at least half the au­di­ence's cheers.

Why am I here, be­ing a viewer, and pour­ing a glass of al­co­hol?

"Now, one more win, and it's over, right?"

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"What should we do, guys?"

"Be quiet! Damn it... we're screwed. Let's just have a drink."

"YoonGi keeps try­ing to make us drink al­co­hol!"

Even amidst this, Lee YoonGi was try­ing to give al­co­hol to the girls some­‐
how.

And Kim Dong­woo couldn't even open his mouth due to his stiff ex­pres­‐
sion.

-Now, the 3rd round is Ko­rea's fa­vorite map! It's the Train map!

-The Train map! In a nut­shell, let me ex­plain the map; two trains run side
by side, and play­ers from each team shoot each other down!

-This map is where the archers of South Ko­rea shine the most!

-That's right! Our coun­try's archers are the strong­est in the world!

The South Ko­rean na­tional team, was eval­u­ated as the weak­est team in the
East Asian League.

Still, if there was a glim­mer of hope for the South Ko­rean na­tional team, it
was the archers.

Led by Ha Yeon­joo, ranked 3rd in the world archery rank­ings.

All of South Ko­rea's na­tional archers were over level 240.

--Ko­rea! We're fi­nally close to our first league win...!

The out­casts were on the verge of tears dur­ing this.

"Ugh. Why does that guy have to drink and ruin the mood?"

Lee YoonGi heard the voice and ex­pressed his an­noy­ance.

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But Kim Dong­woo drank al­co­hol heartily as his in­sides burned.

Why am I not there in that spot right now?

If only there hadn't been an ac­ci­dent back then...!

And the game.

It flowed more one-sid­edly than ex­pected.

-Ah, there's re­ally not much for war­riors to do on this map. The dis­tance be­‐
tween the two trains is very far, and un­less you're an archer or a mage, you
can't reach the Lich!

-Yes. The only thing the war­riors have to do is to take down the neu­tral
mon­sters and zom­bies that get on the train! Even if they're sec­ond-team
war­riors, it's an easy job.

-Yes. That's right. Seong Ji­han will help you with the zom­bies, so you don't
have to worry! But...

Whoosh!

Seong Ji­han, who was stand­ing in front to block the zom­bies.

Sud­denly threw his Phoenix Spear into the sky.

No mat­ter how high he threw it into the sky, the Rus­sian na­tional team's
train was too far away.

Ev­ery­one was briefly taken aback by Seong Ji­han's sud­den ac­tion.

The spear dis­ap­peared af­ter bury­ing it­self in the clouds.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt.

In the up­per sky above the Rus­sian team's train, the clouds split apart in a
cir­cu­lar pat­tern, re­veal­ing a space filled with pure white light.

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--Uh... what is that...?!

Shooooo!

A huge lance of light struck the Rus­sian team's train.

Al­though the pro­tec­tive magic the Rus­sian team sup­port­ers had pre­pared in
ad­vance was strong, It couldn't com­pletely block the Heav­enly Judg­ment.

Zzzzzz...

"What, what is this...?!"

"Heal! Heal us!"

"War­riors, what are you do­ing? Pro­tect the archers! Throw your­selves in
front to block it if you have to!"

The Rus­sian team's for­ma­tion turned into chaos.

One by one, peo­ple be­gan to die.

-Uh... Seong Ji­han!! Achieved 7 kills in an in­stant!

-W-what...! I-Is it pos­si­ble to at­tack from that long a dis­tance?

-Y-Yes, of course! Of course! Be­cause it's Seong Ji­han! It's pos­si­ble!!

And that's how he achieved a to­tal of 7 kills. While it might have been a
dream score for other war­riors, Seong Ji­han tasted it with a hint of re­gret.

'In­deed, when the op­po­nent is at the level of a na­tional team, even the strik­‐
ing thun­der­bolt can't com­pletely break them apart.'

That's why his in­stant kill skill, Blood Cross, was so great.

With a tinge of re­gret, Seong Ji­han turned to look be­hind him.

"Aren't you shoot­ing?"

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"Ah..."

Ha Yeon­joo, who had been watch­ing the fall­ing thun­der­bolts from the sky
with a va­cant look, sud­denly snapped back to re­al­ity.

"Ev-Ev­ery­one, pre­pare for snip­ing!"

With a trem­bling voice, she gave or­ders to the archers.

She couldn't help but glance at Seong Ji­han with as­ton­ish­ment.

'Even though Yoori said that Seong Ji­han is bet­ter than the Sword Em­peror
Yoon Se­Jin, it was un­be­liev­able.'

Back then, when her younger sis­ter Ha Yoori had con­fi­dently as­serted that
"Seong Ji­han is bet­ter than the Sword King," Ha Yeon­joo had scolded her,
say­ing that she didn't know be­cause she hadn't seen the Sword Em­peror in
per­son.

As a fel­low na­tional team mem­ber, Ha Yeon­joo knew that the Sword Em­‐
peror was a mon­ster, be­yond imag­i­na­tion.

How­ever.

'The Sword King used his sword to fly to the other team's train...'

At that time, the Sword King was at the high­est level, Di­am
­ ond, not Gold
like Seong Ji­han.

If Seong Ji­han were at the same level as the Sword King, how strong would
he be?

"I'll pro­vide sup­port."

With the spear back in his hand, Seong Ji­han shot light­ning to­ward the en­‐
emy team's train.

As Rus­sian play­ers fell one by one un­der the di­rect hit of light­ning, Ha
Yeon­joo couldn't help but be amazed.

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This isn't sup­port-level dam­age, is it?

'The MVP of this game is def­i­nitely Seong Ji­han.'

Ha Yeon­joo's pre­dic­tion was on point.

=The MVP of the 3rd match is Seong Ji­han!

=1, 2, 3 matches. He got the MVP in all of them!

=In that case, to­day's Play of the Game (POTG) will also...

=Of course, it's al­ready de­cided for one per­son!

Seong Ji­han's de­but game.

De­spite the con­tro­versy and ru­mors sur­round­ing the na­tional team, he ul­ti­‐
mately proved his worth through his re­sults.

=Fi­nally, it's a win for South Ko­rea!!

=It's 3:0. Seong Ji­han's pre­dic­tion has come true!

=He won the MVP for matches 1, 2, and 3, and was also named the Player
of the Day. Among Bat­tleNet play­ers, is there any­one who had a more shin­‐
ing de­but?

=You are wit­ness­ing a new leg­end be­ing born right now!

The com­men­ta­tors were singing praises for Seong Ji­han.

This was a sen­ti­ment shared by all Ko­re­ans.

A rookie who broke the streak of con­sec­u­tive losses in the league.

--Is this rookie... Gold?

--If he con­tin­ues to grow, he'll be un­stop­pable.

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And then.

"Who is that player?"

"No, is he crazy? Gold?"

"Do we need to change our game strat­egy against South Ko­rea?"

Other coun­tries in the East Asian League were alarmed.

*****

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[Spe­cial Achieve­ment Un­locked: 'Achiev­ing League Game MVP']

[Re­ceived 10,000 Achieve­ment Points as a re­ward.]

[Spe­cial Achieve­ment Un­locked: 'Player of the Day']

[Re­ceived 50,000 Achieve­ment Points as a re­ward.]

"I earned quite a bit." I needed achieve­ment points lately, so this worked out
well.

Seong Ji­han glanced at the mes­sages and con­tin­ued the 'Player of the Day'
in­ter­view. The an­nouncer, who had been con­tin­u­ously prais­ing him, was
now get­ting ready to wrap up the in­ter­view.

"Seong Ji­han, as a fi­nal ques­tion! How would you rate your per­for­mance
to­day?"

"70 points out of 100."

"Only 70 points?"

"Yes. There were some dis­ap­point­ing mo­ments."

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"What match was dis­ap­point­ing?"

"The third match. Maybe it was be­cause of the level dif­fer­ence, but I didn't
get as many kills as I had hoped. I should have com­pletely de­stroyed the en­‐
emy base."

"I see..."

The an­nouncer nod­ded in un­der­stand­ing, her voice full of con­cern.

Re­ceiv­ing the MVP in all three matches, yet still not sat­is­fied. She didn't
know how to re­act to that.

"So, I guess I have to level up again to­day."

"But don't you have a na­tional team match?"

"Yes. I just lev­eled up by 4 dur­ing the na­tional team match. I'm plan­ning to
gain one more level to­day."

"Wait, you level up dur­ing na­tional team matches?"

"It seemed like it."

With that, Seong Ji­han fin­ished the in­ter­view. Al­ready, there were nu­mer­ous
com­ments on the video.

-Is it true he lev­eled up by 4?

-He's lev­el­ing up be­cause he's de­feat­ing Di­am

­ ond play­ers???

-Just level up quickly. We'll give you plenty of ex­pe­ri­ence points, ha­haha.
He's the one de­stroy­ing the bal­ance for real.

-He's a hard worker... He be­came the Player of the Day, and he's still go­ing
for more lev­els.

-He's dif­fer­ent from those dum­b­ass war­riors lol. Af­ter to­day's game.

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Now, the pub­lic opin­ion in Ko­rea about Seong Ji­han was al­most like a re­li­‐
gion. He was now at a level where he could com­pete with the Sword King
from the past.

'Now I can't see any neg­at­ive com­ments.'

Yoon Seah chuck­led as she ap­proached Seong Ji­han, who had just fin­ished
the in­ter­view. But be­fore she could reach him, some­one was wait­ing for
him.

"Um... Seong Ji­han, May I have a mo­ment."

It was Ha Yeon­joo, the leader of the archers.

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"I'm sorry about the last time."

"What are you talk­ing about?"

"It wasn't be­cause of Seong Ji­han, But I was ir­ri­tated..."

Was she re­fer­ring to the in­ci­dent in the coach's of­fice when she glared at
him dur­ing the Ha Yoori as­sault case?

Seong Ji­han re­sponded ca­su­ally, "It's okay. It was be­cause of your younger
sis­ter, so I un­der­stand."

"That's sweet of you to say. But... can you do me a fa­vor?"

"A fa­vor?"

"Yes. I'm re­ally sorry, but could you please ac­com­pany me to visit Yoori?
She's been feel­ing so guilty and de­pressed. She thinks that our Rus­sian
match was ru­ined be­cause of her."

"But the out­come was fa­vor­able, wasn't it?"

"Well, yes, but..."

Top star Ha Yoori. Ha Yeon­joo knew well about her sis­ter's pop­u­lar­ity. She
was the most suc­cess­ful ac­tress of the 21st cen­tury, and her in­no­cent beauty
was more im­por­tant for her suc­cess than her act­ing skills, es­pe­cially in the
Asian mar­ket. Given Ha Yoori's over­whelm­ing pop­u­lar­ity among men, Ha
Yeon­joo ex­pected Seong Ji­han to agree to go with her eas­ily.

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How­ever, Seong Ji­han quickly de­clined, "I'm sorry, but I have to go level
up."

"Okay, so... you won't go?"

Ha Yeon­joo hes­i­tated for a mo­ment and then spoke up, "I'm re­ally sorry, but
I can't just let this go. Yoori feels re­ally guilty and de­pressed, think­ing that
she ru­ined the match be­cause of her. Can you please come just once?"

Seong Ji­han re­sponded with a firm re­jec­tion, and Ha Yeon­joo seemed flus­‐
tered. How­ever, some­one was watch­ing from be­hind.

"Ah, Un­cle. It's just lev­el­ing up. You can go and do it later. You should go
and visit her~"

"Oh, re­ally? You're right. But I have a lot of stuff, and You are Akari got
things on you as well."

"Stuff? It's fine. I'll pre­pare a limou­sine for you!"

Ha Yeon­joo was de­ter­mined to get Seong Ji­han so she of­fered to pre­pare a

limou­sine for him.

In­side the large limou­sine that Ha Yeon­joo had ar­ranged.

"Seah, don't be afraid to use train­ing items to im­prove your ac­cu­racy. It's
not just that you can't use it. In fact, try­ing them out al­lows you to com­pare
and ad­just."

"Ah, I see, Un­nie! I was re­ally cu­ri­ous about that..."

Ha Yeon­joo and Yoon Seah had so much to talk about that their con­ver­sa­‐
tion showed no sign of stop­ping.

Mean­while, Akari kept quiet and stayed Alert.

Seong Ji­han had lit­tle to say, so he said a few things and Thought about Ha
Yeon­joo from his pre­vi­ous life.

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She had the S-Class gift, 'Con­cen­trated Snip­ing'.

"When she hit the tar­get, there was a sig­nif­i­cant ad­just­ment ef­fect on her
team­mates' ac­cu­racy and dam­age. That's why she was so es­sen­tial for the
Ko­rean archers."

The Ko­rean archer team's main fea­ture was its con­cen­trated shoot­ing, which
ef­fec­tively in­ca­pac­i­tated op­po­nents in­di­vid­u­ally. Ha Yeon­joo's Gift was the
key to this strat­egy.

Seong Ji­han re­mem­bered how he had an­al­yzed Ha Yeon­joo's Gift when she
was a bril­liant Archer of the Space League. She was the best Archer in the
world. How­ever, her Gift was not Gold-tier back then.

"So, when she hits the tar­get, her team­mates' ac­cu­racy and dam­age re­ceive
a con­sid­er­able bonus."

Yeon­joo's Gift was the core of the Ko­rean archer team's strate­gies in team
matches.

"Af­ter she re­tired from Space League, the Ko­rean na­tional team which was
still kinda strong (Mid), plum­meted fur­ther."

The Space League matches fea­tured the best play­ers from around the world.

"The team be­came weaker af­ter she re­tired."

Ha Yeon­joo was also cho­sen to be an Archer. She died dur­ing the match
against the Elves.

In the game, death can be res­ur­rected with GP.

But... She made a big mis­take dur­ing the first sea­son of Space League,
which was or­ga­nized by the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion.

Be­cause many of the top play­ers died in their matches against the Elves,
their ab­sence had a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact later on. The dis­as­ter in the first sea­‐
son was the pri­mary rea­son the Earth's league rank­ing re­mained at the bot­‐
tom.

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"Ha Yeon­joo, this time I won't let tal­ented peo­ple die."

Since he had re­turned, he couldn't let the Stinky Elves ma­nip­u­late them
twice.

While think­ing about how to deal with the Elves in Space League, the car
sud­denly stopped in front of a hos­pi­tal.

"We've ar­rived."

"Man­ager, what is Yoori do­ing right now? Is she sleep­ing? Oh, she was
watch­ing the match? Yes, please let her know that we're com­ing up to­gether
with a guest."

Ha Yeon­joo made a call to Ha Yoori's man­ager.

"Shall we go then?"

Seong Ji­han and the oth­ers got out of the car. Im­me­di­ately, more than ten
body­guards emerged from the front and rear cars and sur­rounded them.

"You have quite a few peo­ple."

"With­out body­guards, daily life is im­pos­si­ble for me. I don't have a pres­‐
ence like you."

As Ha Yeon­joo had said, all eyes were fo­cused on her as she en­tered the
hos­pi­tal, even though it was a VIP ward with few peo­ple.

"Wow, it's Ha Yeon­joo... She looks more like a god­dess in per­son."

"Seong Ji­han is here too?!"

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"What's go­ing on? Why are they sud­denly at the hos­pi­tal?"

"Do you think they'll give us an au­to­graph if we ask for one?"

"But with body­guards, it's im­pos­si­ble to get close."

Even though it was a VIP ward and had few peo­ple, on­look­ers quickly gath­‐
ered. Among them, many were doc­tors and nurses.

"You can't do any­thing with­out body­guards now­days."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded. He had seen sim­i­lar scenes while liv­ing in the United
States.

"It was even cra­zier back then. Fans were more en­thu­si­as­tic."

In the time when Dun­geon Threats be­came a re­al­ity, play­ers were not just
sports stars but were also re­spon­si­ble for na­tional de­fense. Even with body­‐
guards, fans man­aged to ap­proach and ask for au­to­graphs or self­ies. Com­‐
pared to those days, the cur­rent re­ac­tion was rel­at­ively tame.

"Your Un­nie, YeonJu, is here. Seong Ji­han is here too, as well as his Niece
Yoon Seah."

"What? Why did they come to the hos­pi­tal all of a sud­den?"

"Man­ager, Close the door!"

The man­ager was sur­prised, and quickly closed it.

"How did you end up bring­ing him here?"

"Oh...!"

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With a se­cre­tive whis­per in Ha Yeon­joo's ear, the man­ager hur­riedly en­tered

the room.

"Wait, Man­ager. Where are you go­ing? I want to go in first!"

In a rush, Ha Yeon­joo en­tered the room.

As soon as she en­tered, Ha Yeon­joo ex­claimed loudly:

"Hey! Ha Yoori! You knew we were wait­ing! How rude, mak­ing us wait?"

"Oh, I got it, Un­nie! It's all done! I was just putting on some lip­stick!"

"Ha! What's with this 'pa­tient'... Just go with your bare face, why the heavy
makeup?"

"Geez, Be­ing a player has blessed you with great skin Un­nie! Nor­mal peo­‐
ple can't help it!"

"Fine, fine, you're beau­ti­ful."

"Hehe, thanks. I learned a lot of tips from my Un­nie."

While talk­ing to Ha Yoori, Ha Yeon­joo ap­peared with a tired ex­pres­sion.

"I'm re­ally sorry, Seong Ji­han. Let's go in now."

Is it fi­nally time to en­ter? As Seong Ji­han and Yoon Seah en­tered, Ha Yoori
stood be­side the bed and greeted them at a 90-de­gree an­gle.

Dressed in a hos­pi­tal gown, her full makeup didn't quite fit, but she looked
ab­so­lutely beau­ti­ful, just like in the TV com­mer­cials.

"It's nice to meet you for the first time, Seong Ji­han-Ssi."

"Hey! You! Why is a sick per­son stand­ing up and bow­ing to me?!"

"How dare I lie down while meet­ing you, Mr. Seong Ji­han?"

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"Ah...?" Seong Ji­han sighed weakly.

"Yes... I'm your big­gest fan! I'm ac­tu­ally 'Down­Glass' who al­ways keeps
shout­ing your name dur­ing your Bat­tle­Tube bat­tles, Maybe you don't know
about me? Ah look at me I'm blab­bing, I'm so happy I'm happy UHHH, I'm
just so happy you came to visit me, that too a hos­pi­tal visit, even If I die
now, I'll be con­tent."

At first, she tried to con­trol her tone, but she couldn't con­tain her ex­cite­ment
and started pour­ing out her words like a storm. Her body was trem­bling
with ex­cite­ment.

"For now, lie down. You're about to col­lapse."

"How dare I lie down to meet Mr. Seong Ji­han!"

"...Sigh. I wish this was a dream. This is..."

Ha Yeon­joo, af­ter let­ting out a deep sigh, ap­proached Ha Yoori and cov­ered
her with a blan­ket.

Seong Ji­han watched her and de­cided to fo­cus on the pur­pose of this hos­pi­‐
tal visit.

"Are you okay? I heard you were in an ac­ci­dent be­cause of me."

"Oh my god, no sir, It wasn't be­cause of you!!! That fool was try­ing to
make me drink force­fully, and then I got into an ac­ci­dent. Seong Ji­han-Ssi
has done noth­ing wrong! Be­sides, I'm all bet­ter now."

Ha Yoori looked at Seong Ji­han with a happy ex­pres­sion.

"Meet­ing you in per­son, my wor­ries and con­cerns have all dis­ap­peared. I

feel like I can fly to the sky."

"Isn't that dan­ger­ous..."

"Oh! Yoon Seah! I'm also sub­scribed to her chan­nel!"

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"Sub­scribed?"

"I told Un­nie about it, right? A su­per rookie is threat­en­ing her po­si­tion~!"

"A-Ahaha, U-uhm, I'm not that good yet..."

"Oh no. I'm sure of it!"

She con­fi­dently pointed at her own eyes. "I have a 'Gift' too!"

"It's called 'Emo­tions'."

"Yoori! S-Stop...!"

Ha Yeon­joo tried to cover her mouth to stop her, but her words had al­ready
piqued Seong Ji­han's in­ter­est.

A 'Gift' re­lated to sup­port... Is this what Ha Yoori pos­sesses?

"How­ever, isn't this abil­ity a bit vague?"

Emo­tions.

Seong Ji­han thought of it as an abil­ity that merely showed hid­den item de­‐
scrip­tions. Com­pared to Lee Hayeon's 'Nur­tur­ing' or Shizuru's 'Edit', its
value seemed sig­nif­i­cantly lower.

But...

"With this abil­ity, I can also gauge a player's po­ten­tial to some ex­tent!"

Ha Yoori claimed that with her Emo­tion abil­ity, she could see a player's po­‐
ten­tial.

Seong Ji­han thought to him­self, 'It has to be B-Grade at least.'

B-grade sup­port gifts were rare on Earth. Seong Ji­han's eyes gleamed.

'It seems that peo­ple should go with their gut feel­ing.'

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Wasn't that the rea­son they found such tal­ents? Seong Ji­han con­sid­ered that
he had made a wise de­ci­sion by vis­it­ing the hos­pi­tal and stared in­tently at
Ha Yoori.

"Hehe..."

She laughed, seem­ingly un­aware of Seong Ji­han's quick as­sess­ment, just

gig­gling at his ex­pres­sion.

"...Are you an id­iot?"

She didn't even no­tice her older sis­ter's re­ac­tion, to the point that she
couldn't bear to look at her.

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"Hoo..." Ha Yoori, who had been ex­cited for a while, sud­denly seemed
dizzy and took a deep breath, hold­ing her head.

"Yoori, are you okay?"

"Yeah, sis... I guess I got a bit too ex­cited."

"Phew, re­ally!"

"Un­cle... Can you please heal her?" Yoon Seah asked in a wor­ried tone.

"That sounds like a good idea."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded and cast a set of three re­cov­ery spells.

"Heal. Great Heal. Re­gen­er­at­ion."

Al­though his class had changed, he still had the heal­ing skills he ac­quired
when he chose the sup­port class.

Ha Yoori felt vi­tal­ity re­turn­ing to her body and her eyes sparkled.

"Woah aren't these the skills I only ever say on the streams? There's
strength, heal­ing magic, and ev­ery­thing! I've fi­nally ex­pe­ri­enced what I saw
on the chan­nel!"

"Don't overdo it." Seong Ji­han said in a cau­tious tone.

"Yes, yes!"

Seong Ji­han checked the time in the hos­pi­tal room.

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It was 8:30. It was al­most time to con­nect to Bat­tleNet.

"I might end up on a sur­vival map this time."

Af­ter the last in­ci­dent with the world tree, he had never been back to a sur­‐
vival map.

"If I can get the World Tree's Leaf in this game, I can ask Ha Yoori's help in
find­ing out more of its mys­ter­ies."

"Maybe play­ing the game here is bet­ter than go­ing home."

"I'm go­ing to log into the game now. Can you ap­praise an item for me when
I re­turn?" Seong Ji­han asked Ha Yoori.

[TL/N: Ha Yoori's Emo­tion gift can ap­praise player stats and even items.]

"Oh? Un­cle, are you go­ing to play the game here?"

"Um... Seong Ji­han, I think it's late..." Ha Yeon­joo was about to say some­‐
thing but...

"It's okay! It's okay! Go ahead! I'll def­i­nitely ap­praise it for you! Be­sides,
I'm go­ing to watch that broad­cast, so it won't be bor­ing for me!"

Ha Yeon­joo looked con­cerned that her still-re­cov­er­ing younger sis­ter might

stay awake un­til late, but Ha Yoori quickly en­cour­aged Seong Ji­han to go.

"Ah... what would you do?" Seong Ji­han asked Yoon Seah.

"I'm go­ing to chat with Ha Yeon­joo just like ear­lier. She'll give me ad­vice!"

"Is that okay?"

"Yes, of course."

With a smile, Ha Yeon­joo nod­ded, and Yoon Seah ca­su­ally shook hands
with Seong Ji­han.

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"Un­cle, take your time!"

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and ap­proached Akari.

"Just rest for a mo­ment."

Tap­ping her vein, he watched as Akari closed her eyes.

They hadn't es­tab­lished a com­pletely trust­ing re­la­tion­ship yet, so it was an

un­avoid­able choice.

"Well, I'll be off then."

With a whirring sound, Seong Ji­han logged into the game. As he dis­ap­‐
peared, Ha Yoori turned to her man­ager.

"Man­ager, please."

"...Al­right."

The man­ager rum­maged through her bag and took out a beam pro­jec­tor.
The VIP room's wall was cov­ered with a screen. When Ha Yeon­joo saw it,
she asked in amaze­ment.

"Um... We have a TV here, so why are you us­ing a beam pro­jec­tor?"

"The screen is too small. We need to watch Ji­han-Ssi broad­cast on a big

screen... Oh, it's start­ing. Sis, could you turn off the lights?"

"You're re­ally... sigh."

She knew that this kid was a big fan of Seong Ji­han, but she didn't re­al­ize it
was this se­ri­ous. Ha Yeon­joo let out a deep sigh while com­ply­ing.

"Even if you tell me to re­lax, I'm not the type to lis­ten."

She walked over to turn off the lights.

"I look at the stream too."

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"Sure, sis. I'll make you a fan!"

"What's this about be­ing a fan... Is Seong Ji­han an idol or some­thing?"

Ha Yeon­joo chuck­led and took her seat.

*****

[This mis­sion is a sur­vival mis­sion.]

[En­ter­ing the 'Ex­per­i­ment Zone.']

Seong Ji­han, who had logged into the game, looked around. The en­vi­ron­‐
ment was quite dif­fer­ent from the last game.

"The zone has changed."

While the last game had them trapped within red walls, this time, they
found them­selves in a lush, green for­est. For play­ers, this green zone of­‐
fered the high­est chance of sur­vival.

"Hey, Seong Ji­han!"

"You were amaz­ing to­day! De­feat­ing Rus­sia, woohoo!"

As Seong Ji­han was sum­moned, the play­ers in the green zone en­thu­si­as­ti­‐
cally cheered. From their per­spec­tive, hav­ing Seong Ji­han in the same zone
was al­most like a death sen­tence in the sur­vival game. How­ever, the ex­cite­‐
ment from the vic­tory against Rus­sia had not yet worn off, and ev­ery­one
was in high spir­its.

-Is this a sur­vival map? The at­mos­phere seems warm. We're here to watch
Su­per­star any­way, haha.

-Well, the game is done for. Let's just en­joy watch­ing Su­per­star.

-Man, we re­ally rocked in the Rus­sia match to­day. It took us a while to get
that first win in the league... Now, let's go for a win­ning streak!

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-Of course, a win­ning streak is a must. We de­feated those Rus­sian War­riors

eas­ily, but hon­estly, can we beat any other coun­try?

-Japan and China are a bit tough... At least we can beat Tai­wan, right?

-If there had been Sword King with us as well, we could have com­peted
with the U.S. too.

-Shut the hell up. The view­ers are more in­ter­ested in to­day's Rus­sia match
than your non­sense about the game.

And at least a min­i­mum of 10,000 GP in spon­sor­ships started com­ing in. It

all started with Ha Yoori do­na­tion us­ing her ID 'Down­Glass'.

['Down­glass' has spon­sored 10,000 GP.]

[Con­grat­u­la­tions on the vic­tory against Rus­sia!]

['Top of the level' has spon­sored 10,000 GP.]

[To­day's top sniper!]

.......

-What?! 10000 GP?? Re­ally!

-It's in­sane; the rush from the Rus­sia match is huge. Even though the min­i­‐
mum spon­sor­ship was 10 mil­lion won, the spon­sor­ship mes­sages keep on
pour­ing in.

"Thank you for the spon­sor­ship," Seong Ji­han replied briefly to the spon­sor­‐
ship mes­sages and thought, "I should in­crease the limit to 100,000 GP.".

In the mean­time, the game started as all 100 play­ers were sum­moned.

[The game has started.]

"Elves asked me to come, but the zone has changed," Seong Ji­han thought.
When it was the Red Zone, he could use the por­tal to visit the elves, but in

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the Green Zone, there were no clues.

Seong Ji­han looked around. There were ten play­ers gath­ered in the for­est,
in­clud­ing him­self.

"Let's start by get­ting some kills," he thought. He needed to main­tain his

record of con­sec­u­tive first-place fin­ishes on the Bat­tleNet.

Seong Ji­han sum­moned Eclipse.

See­ing this, the play­ers who had been moved by the ex­cite­ment of the Rus­‐
sia match gave up on re­sis­tance and started to scat­ter in all di­rec­tions.

"Run!"

"Let's scat­ter in all di­rec­tions!"

The dis­tance be­tween the play­ers was quite sub­stan­tial, so it was judged
that if ev­ery­one ran in dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions, at least some of them might sur­‐
vive.

How­ever.

"Let's deal with it," Seong Ji­han's words were barely fin­ished when some­‐
thing ter­ri­fy­ing hap­pened.

Swoosh...

From the shad­ows of the flee­ing play­ers, a sword emerged.

Thunk! Thunk!

Play­ers fell to the ground, fa­tally wounded in an in­stant. Nine play­ers were
elim­i­nated al­most si­mul­ta­ne­ously.

-As ex­pected, he's a de­vourer, isn't he?

-Seong Ji­han, who an­ni­hi­lated the Rus­sian na­tional team just a while ago, is
no pushover. Gold play­ers run­ning away won't change much.

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Now, even the view­ers had to ac­cept it as an in­evitable out­come.

Seong Ji­han eas­ily se­cured nine kills and then leaped into the sky. The for­‐
est was densely packed with large trees, much like a jun­gle. In the cen­ter of
the for­est, there was an area with­out any trees.

"I should go that way," Seong Ji­han thought.

He soared for­ward in the air. Be­low him, play­ers from dif­fer­ent places in
the Green Zone were fiercely com­pet­ing for sur­vival. But Seong Ji­han paid
them no mind.

"Get­ting more kills will just speed up the end of the game un­nec­es­sar­ily."

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With nine kills se­cured, first place was vir­tu­ally guar­an­teed. Seong Ji­han
reached the cen­ter of the for­est, which strangely had not a sin­gle tree. In the
mid­dle of this open space, there was a mas­sive, el­lip­ti­cal brown sphere.

"It's the seed of the World Tree, ab­sorb­ing the life force of the sur­round­ing
trees."

Seong Ji­han re­al­ized that this was the rea­son why there were no trees in this
area.

The nearby trees were rapidly dis­in­te­grat­ing, and their life force was wholly
ded­i­cated to the seed of the World Tree.

"Could the pre­vi­ous Red Zone be in­side this thing?"

No mat­ter how large the seed of the World Tree might be, it didn't seem
pos­si­ble for it to en­com­pass the en­tire Red Zone and the space be­yond.

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There seemed to be a spa­tial dis­tor­tion that was dif­fer­ent from what one
would ob­serve from the out­side.

To ex­am­ine it more closely, Seong Ji­han ap­proached the seed.

Then, some­thing ex­tra­or­di­nary hap­pened.

Whoooosh!

Light be­gan em­an­ at­ing from the leaf tat­too en­graved on Seong Ji­han's
chest. This light touched the seed's shell and trans­formed it into a green por­‐
tal.

In­side the por­tal, a young voice echoed.

"Fi­nally, you're here. Turn off your broad­cast and come in."

Seong Ji­han won­dered why this en­tity was so fix­ated on his broad­cast.

"Is it be­cause you're con­cerned about leav­ing a record on Bat­tle­Tube? But

even if that's the case, the Bat­tleNet sys­tem isn't that lax."

He pon­dered whether there was a way for the en­tity to con­firm if he was
broad­cast­ing or not.

"I don't think they have a way to check if I'm broad­cast­ing or not."

"But if it's an elf, it might be pos­si­ble."

"In that case, I should turn it off for now," Seong Ji­han de­cided.

"View­ers, I will mo­men­tar­ily stop the broad­cast."

-?????????

-Why all of a sud­den????

Click---

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Seong Ji­han, who had turned off the broad­cast in his set­tings, en­tered the
por­tal.

*****

"You've fi­nally ar­rived. Our su­pe­rior test sub­ject," the elf greeted Seong Ji­‐
han. They were speak­ing in Elvish, just like be­fore, but since Seong Ji­han
had ab­sorbed the World Tree's leaf, he nat­u­rally un­der­stood the words.

"Come this way."

In re­sponse to that voice, a flash of light ra­di­ated from Seong Ji­han's chest.
Then, his body seemed to move on its own.

"I might as well leave it alone for the time be­ing. I can re­turn to my orig­i­nal
state at any time with this level of forced con­trol."

Seong Ji­han pre­tended to fully suc­cumb to the elf's in­flu­ence.

"Your physique is im­pres­sive as al­ways..."

The elf touched Seong Ji­han's body and tasted his blood, wear­ing a de­‐
lighted ex­pres­sion.

"At this level, you might even be eval­u­ated as a top-tier Ir­reg­u­lar!"

Shu­uuu---

The elf sum­moned a green por­tal once again and said, "Fol­low me."

Seong Ji­han fol­lowed her with a blank ex­pres­sion. The elf changed por­tals
five times, each time the por­tal led to a place al­most iden­ti­cal to where the
elf had been be­fore. It felt like they were re­peat­edly mov­ing to the same lo­‐
ca­tion.

Seong Ji­han started feel­ing anx­ious, won­der­ing how long this con­stant
move­ment would last and what would hap­pen when the game ended. Just
when he was feel­ing un­easy, the elf said, "We've ar­rived."

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The space be­yond the fi­nal por­tal was en­tirely dif­fer­ent from what Seong Ji­‐
han had seen mo­ments ago. While the pre­vi­ous scenes had been typ­i­cal for­‐
est en­vi­ron­ments be­fit­ting the im­age of an elf, this time, he found him­self in
a mas­sive lab­o­ra­tory with white walls and col­umns.

"We've made con­tact."

"Start­ing col­lec­tion, su­pe­rior test sub­ject."

A wind spirit with lenses over its eyes floated around Seong Ji­han and
spoke in Elvish.

"What is this place?" Seong Ji­han won­dered.

The lenses on the wind spirit's eyes started to emit a red light, and the light
that had been scan­ning Seong Ji­han's body sud­denly stopped.

"The cur­rent equip­ment can­not an­al­yze this en­tity."

"This is a su­pe­rior en­tity. We must send it to the lab­o­ra­tory im­me­di­ately,"

the spirit said, mak­ing the elf ec­static.

"Su­pe­rior...!? I had doubts, but it re­ally is a su­pe­rior en­tity!" she ex­claimed.

"It will take the Bat­tleNet sys­tem two min­utes to de­tect it," the spirit con­tin­‐
ued. "Please re­trieve the World Tree's leaf. I will open a di­men­sional por­‐
tal."

"Un­der­stood," the elf re­sponded.

She hur­riedly placed her hand on Seong Ji­han's chest. Green light ex­tended
out, and the leaf from Seong Ji­han's chest seemed to be about to emerge.

But then, it sud­denly re­treated back into Seong Ji­han's body.

"Why isn't it go­ing out?" Seong Ji­han won­dered. The leaf started act­ing up
sud­denly.

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The elf quickly placed her hand on Seong Ji­han's chest again. Seong Ji­han
also co­op­er­ated from within.

And then, the leaf fi­nally emerged.

"Oh, it's out!" the elf ex­claimed in re­lief.

For a mo­ment, there had been an un­ex­pected hic­cup, but it ended well.
Now, all she had to do was se­cure the leaf of the World Tree.

Rus­tle!

"...Huh?"

Sud­denly, her right arm was sev­ered...

"In­ven­tory."

Seong Ji­han eas­ily snatched away the leaf from the sev­ered hand and put it
in his in­ven­tory.

"You... You..."

"Thanks, mate. I needed this."

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and turned his broad­cast back on.

"Uh, what's go­ing on here?"

"Huh... Is this the Sur­vival map?"

Just as view­ers were get­ting puz­zled by the sud­den change in the en­vi­ron­‐
ment...

"An anom­aly has been de­tected by the Bat­tleNet sys­tem."

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As soon as he turned on Bat­tle­Tube, an ur­gent sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared in

front of Seong Ji­han.

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Chap­ter 142
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*****

'Did I re­ally need to start the broad­cast to trig­ger the de­tec­tion?'

Seong Ji­han fur­rowed his brows at the mes­sage that had sud­denly ap­peared.

Even the seem­ingly flaw­less Bat­tleNet had such a flaw.

Swish...

Mean­while, the elf, whose sev­ered arm had re­gen­er­ated in an in­stant, was
look­ing at Seong Ji­han with as­ton­ish­ment.

"How... how..."

"You don't need to know."

Thud!

Eclipse con­jured by Seong Ji­han's left hand brushed past the elf's body.

It was ab­so­lutely ruth­less.

In no time, in­tri­cate blood­lines formed like spi­der silk, and she trans­formed
into a hor­ri­fy­ing fig­ure.

-He doesn't spare the elf ei­ther, damn.

-Se­ri­ously, is this guy a mon­ster? No hes­i­ta­tion at all.

-No, you shouldn't have any mercy to­wards your en­em

­ ies, right?

-But the op­po­nent is way too di­vine, though.

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Af­ter re­duc­ing an elf with the beauty of Ito Shizuru, widely re­garded as the
most beau­ti­ful woman in the world, to dust with a sin­gle stroke, some view­‐
ers spec­u­lated that Seong Ji­han might be a mon­ster.

Squirm... squirm...

As the elf's frag­ments, like crawl­ing bugs, quickly gath­ered and be­gan re­‐
gen­er­at­ing on the ground, the view­ers couldn't help but be as­ton­ished.

-??????? Wait, is it re­gen­er­at­ing? In that state?

-- Ugh, May I turn off the screen, Please? It's so gross;;; -I was eat­ing, damn
it.

-Why doesn't Bat­tleNet have a mo­saic func­tion? Urgh, it's gross.

[Ah, should I mess with that roach some more?]

Af­ter see­ing the re­gen­er­at­ing elf, Ariel was about to say some­thing, but
Seong Ji­han thought, 'No, wait... I should show this to the view­ers.'

Swish...

"You..."

From the first part of her flesh that re­gen­er­ated, the elf, with an emo­tion­less
face, spoke.

"Are even above the su­pe­rior class of test sub­jects."

Squirm... squirm...

As those words came to an end, blood droplets and flesh scat­tered on the
ground flew men­ac­ingly to­wards Seong Ji­han.

[Be care­ful! An elf's phys­i­cal form is a weapon in it­self.]

"I know," Seong Ji­han knew Ariel's warn­ing bet­ter than any­one else. He
swung his sword down­ward.

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Name­less Di­vine Arts, Triad of Mar­tial Mas­tery: Mount Tai Sup­pres­sion

Shaaaaa!

As Eclipse moved with force from top to bot­tom, the elf's frag­ments burst
and van­ished, leav­ing no trace, truly a 'dis­in­te­gra­tion.' Fur­ther­more, the elf's
face, which had been grad­u­ally re­gen­er­at­ing on the ground, was also di­‐
vided in half, with only the slen­der ears re­main­ing.

Squirm... squirm...

How­ever, from that small frag­ment, the flesh be­gan to swell rapidly. Soon,
in less than ten sec­onds, a new face emerged.

"How do you, a gold player, keep do­ing that?" The elf asked with an emo­‐
tion­less face.

-Crazy, lol!

-Is this re­ally re­gen­er­at­ion??? OMG!

-They're com­ing back from just a tiny piece??

-Even cock­roaches might be jeal­ous.

-I im­me­di­ately re­moved the elf poster; I'm scared it'll come to life in my
dreams.

-Huh? When were posters even sold?

-I made it my­self, guys.

Was it due to their re­gen­er­at­ion abil­i­ties that de­fied com­mon sense or the
grotesque­ness dis­played dur­ing the re­gen­er­at­ion process? Even men who
had fallen for the elf's beauty while watch­ing the broad­cast be­gan to see her
as a mon­strous en­tity.

"Are you a con­stel­la­tion's can­di­date for this planet? What's your name?"
The elf with only her face re­gen­er­ated main­tained her un­re­spon­sive tone.

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It felt quite dif­fer­ent from when she had brought Seong Ji­han ear­lier, full of
joy. She seemed colder and more me­chan­i­cal.

"Tell me your name."

"Num­ber 5 de­mands it. Scan."

When she looked at the wind spirit, a light em­anated from its lens.

[Scan­ning ID...]

[Scan­ning in progr...]

At that mo­ment, both wind spir­its ex­ploded si­mul­ta­ne­ously, and the lenses
van­ished into thin air.

Bang! Bang!

And it wasn't just the spir­its dis­ap­pear­ing; the en­tire space was ex­plod­ing
and be­ing deleted from all di­rec­tions.

"The sys­tem has de­tected us."

The elf gazed with an emo­tion­less face at the side where her gaze had fallen
upon a mas­sive test tube.

"Num­ber 5 com­mands you. Self-de­struct."

Bang!

At her com­mand, the test tubes ex­ploded all at once.

At that mo­ment, from the test tubes that ex­ploded si­mul­ta­ne­ously, gi­gan­tic
life forms be­gan to emerge one by one. A mish­mash of var­i­ous life forms
cre­ated a mo­saic-like ap­pear­ance.

It was a hor­ri­fy­ing sight, even more dread­ful than the flash golems seen be­‐
fore.

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-Oh, I was hav­ing din­ner! Please stop!

-Wow, how many eye­balls do they have? 17? Gross.

-I al­ready puked once. But to­day is a bit much...

-Se­ri­ously, our elf god­dess is do­ing this?

-They still call her a god­dess. Just rewind and look at her re­gen­er­at­ing her
face, Can you re­ally say that?

How­ever, this hor­ri­fy­ing spec­ta­cle wasn't the end of it.

Pew, pew, pew!

As the self-de­struct com­mand was is­sued, the mas­sive life forms swelled
and ex­ploded one af­ter an­other. Frag­ments of var­i­ous races were pro­pelled
in all di­rec­tions.

In­de­scrib­able things burst out si­mul­ta­ne­ously, and even eye­balls rolled to

Seong Ji­han's feet.

Thump!

They were all ex­pelled be­fore they could reach Seong Ji­han's body.

"They re­ally mixed ev­ery­thing up."

[Heh... mas­ter is re­mark­ably calm.]

"Well, what's the point of get­ting sur­prised?"

He had al­ready wit­nessed the ex­tinc­tion of hu­man­ity. Mix­ing in a few life

forms couldn't sur­prise Seong Ji­han.

Es­pe­cially since he al­ready knew the true iden­tity of the elf race. He sim­ply
thought, 'What crazy stuff have these peo­ple done again?'

Pew, pew!

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The gi­gan­tic life forms from the test tubes were ex­plod­ing from all di­rec­‐
tions. By the time this space was about to com­pletely col­lapse...

[The Bat­tle­Tube broad­cast is end­ing.]

[The game has been tem­po­rar­ily paused.]

The game came to a halt.

******

[Col­lect­ing ev­i­dence...]

Shu­uuu---

The pris­tine space where the lab­o­ra­tory had been dis­ap­peared in an in­stant.
Even the be­ings that had ex­ploded and stopped on their own were be­ing
sucked into some­place.

And once the lab van­ished, all that was vis­i­ble was...

"...Space?"

In the dimly lit space with stars in view, Seong Ji­han stood alone.

[De­tect­ing the 'Re­search Ves­sel' of the 'World Tree Al­liance' and dis­as­sem­‐
bling it.]

[Col­lect­ing ev­i­dence com­pletely...]

A re­search ves­sel? Could it be that the elf's space­ship from ear­lier had
turned into that? It didn't seem like there was a lack of grav­ity.

As Seong Ji­han silently watched what would hap­pen next...

[Be­gin­ning the protest with the 'Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor'...]

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[The 'Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor' has par­tially ac­knowl­edged the il­le­gal ac­tions.]

Sys­tem mes­sages started to flow.

'Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor'?'

Was this re­lated to the World Tree Al­liance? He couldn't im­me­di­ately grasp
the mean­ing of these mes­sages, but...

'All in­for­ma­tion re­lated to the World Tree Al­liance, I should re­mem­ber it.'

Seong Ji­han de­cided to re­mem­ber ev­ery­thing re­lated to the World Tree Al­‐
liance as he waited to see what kind of penalty would be im­posed on them.

[Re­vok­ing one en­try right to the Space League of the 'World Tree Al­liance'.]

"Hmm." Seong Ji­han re­called his pre­vi­ous life.

The World Tree Al­liance's elf plan­ets had oc­cu­pied ranks 1 to 5 in the Space
League. Con­sid­er­ing that time, los­ing one en­try right was a sig­nif­i­cant
penalty.

De­spite that, Seong Ji­han couldn't help but feel dis­ap­pointed and spoke up.

"Re­vok­ing one en­try right? Is that a sig­nif­i­cant pun­ish­ment? Shouldn't you

re­voke more?"

[The sin is too light to re­voke more en­try rights.]

At the same time, an­other penalty was added.

[The 'Ex­per­i­ment Zone' in the Sur­vival Map will be per­ma­nently closed.]

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['Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor' will lose the qual­i­fi­ca­tion to gen­er­ate game maps for
the next 100 years.]

The ad­min­is­tra­tor had the au­thor­ity to gen­er­ate maps as well, it seemed.

Seong Ji­han fur­rowed his brow.

While it was good that a penalty was im­posed on the 'Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor,'
the sud­den ap­pear­ance of this en­tity was caus­ing him a headache.

The World Tree Al­liance alone felt like an in­sur­mount­able wall from his
pre­vi­ous life. Were they some­how con­nected to the ad­min­is­tra­tor, a fig­ure
who seemed to be re­lated to the sys­tem?

'I need to get stronger.'

While he had proven his strength to some ex­tent on Earth, in the broader
scope of the uni­verse, he was still far from suf­fi­cient.

Think­ing about the wan­der­ing mar­tial god, at his cur­rent level, he couldn't
even beat his sub­or­di­nate, Dong­BangSak. In the Space League, he might've
taken down one of the World Tree Al­liance's plan­ets, but they still had four
re­main­ing.

'I need to fur­ther de­velop the other hu­mans.'

Just as Seong Ji­han was re­solv­ing to do so, an­other sys­tem mes­sage ap­‐
peared.

[The 'Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor' has sent a re­ward as an apol­ogy. Will you ac­cept
it?]

[Warn­ing: The re­ward may con­tain traps, so please be cau­tious.]

Even though this mes­sage came with spe­cial cau­tion, Seong Ji­han de­cided
to ac­cept the re­ward, if only to gain more in­sight into his ad­ver­sary.

[Seed of Life]

Grade: SSS

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-A seed im­bued with the essence of life.

-Upon con­sump­tion, resid­ual abil­ity points will in­crease by +10.

-There may be side ef­fects.

"In­sane per­for­mance," he mum­bled. To re­ceive an SSS-grade rat­ing, it must

be some­thing ex­tra­or­di­nary.

'Even if there are side ef­fects, I can't pass up +10.'

Seong Ji­han re­trieved the Seed of Life from his in­ven­tory.

The Seed of Life, ra­di­at­ing iri­des­cent bril­liance, had a shape rem­i­nis­cent of

an ap­ple.

'It would be safer to re­ceive 'emo­tional' sup­port from Ha Yoori be­fore con­‐
sum­ing it....' How­ever, since side ef­fects might af­fect those nearby, it's prob­‐
a­bly bet­ter to eat it in this space.

[TL/N: Ha Yoori's gift is 'Emo­tions', so I guess au­thor tried to play with

words in this sen­tence]

He took a bite.

Crunch.

Seong Ji­han took a bite of the Seed of Life, and as he con­sumed it, the part
he hadn't eaten yet dis­ap­peared as well.

[Ab­sorb­ing the Seed of Life.]

[Resid­ual abil­ity points in­creased by +10.]

With that, the mes­sage ended. It seemed there were no side ef­fects from a
sim­ple glance at the mes­sage, but...

'Some­thing has en­tered my body.'

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Seong Ji­han sensed a sub­tle en­ergy in­fil­trat­ing his body. It re­sem­bled the
World Tree's leaf that had been etched into his chest, and this en­ergy was
sub­tly mov­ing to­wards his head and heart.

'If I didn't have the name­less di­vine arts, it wouldn't have been so easy to
de­tect.'

The move­ments were so sub­tle that even in his pre­vi­ous life when he had
power and in­flu­ence, he would have been un­sure if some­thing like this was
in­side him. But at his cur­rent level, he could eas­ily con­trol the en­ergy from
the Seed of Life.

Seong Ji­han ini­tially con­sid­ered elim­i­nat­ing it, but he changed his mind.

'I should re­search this en­ergy.'

If his goal was re­search, there was no need to keep the power dor­mant.
Seong Ji­han de­cided to re­lease over 90% of the en­ergy that had in­fil­trated
him.

Shu­uuu---

As he ex­pelled the en­ergy from the Seed, a green mist em­anated from his
chest, and small seeds flew out. Each seed con­tained a dense life force, but
since they were in the vac­uum of space, they wouldn't sprout. If he had
scat­tered them on Earth, they might have grown even in mid-air.

'Eat­ing it here was a good choice. I shouldn't re­lease the re­main­ing en­ergy
on Earth.'

Seong Ji­han looked at the mes­sage box and said to him­self.

'Does that mean I've cleared the epic quest?'

[By clear­ing the Epic Quest be­yond spec­i­fi­ca­tions, you have un­der­stood the
essence of the map.]

'Un­der­stand­ing the essence... I didn't do any­thing like that tho?'

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Af­ter be­ing kid­napped by the Elf's re­search ship, he turned on the broad­‐
cast, and the sit­u­at­ion had al­ready con­cluded. In re­al­ity, the only thing
Seong Ji­han did in the game to­day was to show the view­ers the true face of
the Elf. The rest was the Bat­tleNet sys­tem au­to­mat­i­cally dis­man­tling the re­‐
search ship.

[The cre­ator of the World Tree Al­liance, the 'Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor,' col­lected
data from var­i­ous races in real-time through the game map. Dur­ing this data
col­lec­tion process, out­stand­ing in­di­vid­u­als among those who sur­passed the
lim­its of their races were ab­ducted to the Al­liance's re­search fa­cil­ity via the
re­search ship.]

Zi­i­i­ing---

Above the sys­tem mes­sage, an im­age ap­peared, de­pict­ing the gi­ant life­form
com­posed of var­i­ous races that Seong Ji­han had seen ear­lier when the test
tube shat­tered.

'I would've ended up like that if I had been caught.' Seong Ji­han thought to
him­self.

"So, shouldn't the pun­ish­ment be more se­vere?"

[No, it should not. The mis­sion given to the Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor was 'the
study of life.' Col­lect­ing data through the game map is not il­le­gal. How­ever,
ab­duct­ing play­ers af­ter tres­pass­ing in the tu­to­rial map is a clear vi­o­la­tion of
the law and has re­sulted in pun­ish­ment.]

"If this wasn't a tu­to­rial, would the Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor not be pun­ished for
kid­nap­ping play­ers from the game?"

[That is cor­rect. It is not a sub­ject of pun­ish­ment.]

Seong Ji­han ini­tially found the an­swer as­ton­ish­ing, but then he re­mem­bered
his past life.

'Af­ter the tu­to­rial, there were quite a few play­ers who went miss­ing for var­i­‐
ous rea­sons...'

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He calmed his mind while think­ing about his past life.

Bat­tleNet af­ter the tu­to­rial. That world was hell. Even in the game, with­out
GP, you would be a per­ma­nent ca­su­alty, and var­i­ous play­ers went miss­ing
for dif­fer­ent rea­sons. He couldn't keep play­ing this devil's game. He had to
sur­vive in the Space League some­how and es­cape from Bat­tleNet.

[You have per­fectly cleared the quest and un­der­stood the essence of the
map. You will re­ceive more achieve­ment points and re­wards.]

[Your level has in­creased to 5.]

[You gain 300,000 achieve­ment points.]

[You ob­tain a leaf of the World Tree.]

'One more?' Seong Ji­han checked his in­ven­tory. In ad­di­tion to what he had
ac­quired ear­lier, one more leaf oc­cu­pied his in­ven­tory.

[Sur­vival map is end­ing.]

[In or­der to change the map, there will be no sur­vival mode in the Gold
League world­wide for the next five days.]

Seong Ji­han looked at the game-end­ing mes­sage.

'I should use one of them right away.'

As soon as he re­turned, he made up his mind to use one of the two leaves.

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Chap­ter 143
*****

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"Ji­han-nim!! You were so amaz­ing to­day!"

As soon as Seong Ji­han logged out, he couldn't help but smile at Ha Yoori's
en­thu­si­as­tic wel­come.

Was there a cool scene to­day?

In fact, to­day's broad­cast prob­ab­ ly had the most in­tense mo­ments among all
the broad­casts so far.

Seong Ji­han won­dered if his thoughts were cor­rect, as the ex­pres­sions of

oth­ers, in­clud­ing Yoon Seah and Ha Yeon­joo, didn't seem very pleas­ant.

The high ten­sion was all thanks to Ha Yoori.

"To­day's broad­cast must have been tough to watch. Are you okay?"

"Oh no~ I was so thrilled when Ji­han-nim ef­fort­lessly took down the elf
with a sin­gle blow!"

"......"

You liked that scene?

"Even such a beau­ti­ful elf be­ing cut down with a sin­gle strike... that de­ter­‐
mi­na­tion is some­thing else! I sud­denly re­mem­bered what hap­pened at the
last wel­come party."

"You mean the wel­come party I didn't at­tend?"

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"Yes, that's the one. Hon­estly, I felt re­lieved in­side be­cause you weren't
there, Ji­han-nim."

"Why is that?"

'This per­son is a bit strange...?' Seah thought while look­ing at Yoori.

"I hoped you, my idol, wouldn't come to the pre-game drink­ing party, see­‐
ing reg­u­lar folks like us. So, when you didn't show up for the first round
and broad­cast the game, I was se­cretly happy."

"Well, I see."

If that's the case, why did you even come to the drink­ing party?

Seong Ji­han looked at Ha Yeon­joo with an in­de­scrib­able ex­pres­sion.

"You're quite an un­usual per­son," Seah said it out loud this time.

"Oh no, Yoori. Is some­thing wrong with your head?" Yeon­joo looked in­‐
cred­u­lous.

"What are you talk­ing about? I've al­ways thought this way! Right, Man­ager
Sis~~?"

For a mo­ment, Seong Ji­han con­sid­ered hid­ing the World Tree Leaf, think­ing
he was in some strange sit­u­at­ion.

"So, are you re­ally okay?"

"Yes...? Yes! I'm per­fectly fine!" Yoori said en­thu­si­as­ti­cally.

"I'll be­lieve you."

Seong Ji­han took out the World Tree Leaf from his in­ven­tory.

[World Tree Leaf]

Grade: S

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-A leaf from the World Tree.

A one-line, ex­tremely con­cise item de­scrip­tion.

Al­though the item's grade it­self was by no means weak.

But if it was around S-grade, she could eas­ily dis­cern more about this item
with her emo­tional abil­i­ties.

"Can you ap­praise this item for me?"

"Of course!"

"Hey, your phys­i­cal con­di­tion..." Yeon­joo was about to stop her...

"Emo­tion!"

Af­ter re­ceiv­ing the leaf from Seong Ji­han, Ha Yoori used the Gift im­me­di­‐
ately, with­out lis­ten­ing to her sis­ter's ob­jec­tions.

And not long af­ter that...

"Oh...! This is an amaz­ing item, isn't it?"

Along with Ha Yoori's ad­mi­ra­tion, the World Tree Leaf she re­ceived again
had a con­sid­er­ably dif­fer­ent de­scrip­tion.

[World Tree Leaf]

Grade: S

-A leaf from the World Tree.

-Heals ab­nor­mal­i­ties and re­stores vi­tal­ity.

-Shows max­i­mum ef­fect when con­sumed with­out pro­cess­ing, and more

than half of the leaf must be con­sumed to take ef­fect.

-When the en­tire leaf is con­sumed, the health stat in­creases by 3.

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-This ef­fect does not stack.

'Not only does it boost your health... But it works even if you eat just half?'
This item was so ex­cep­tional that it seemed like S-grade had been an un­der­‐
state­ment.

Rare items per­ma­nently in­creas­ing stats to this ex­tent were scarce.

'This is prob­ab­ ly bet­ter than any po­tion in the world.'

Seong Ji­han ges­tured to Yoon Seah.

"Seah."

"Yeah?"

"Eat this."

"What is this...?"

Yoon Seah re­ceived the leaf from Seong Ji­han, looked at the de­scrip­tion,
and her eyes widened.

"No. Un­cle, isn't this... an item with ef­fects for Dad? Why should I eat it?"

"I have one more."

Seong Ji­han took an­other leaf out of his in­ven­tory and put it back.

"You were charmed by Shizuru too, right? You didn't re­sist it com­pletely."
Seah still tried to deny it.

"Yeah? I did re­sist... with the Light­ning Mark."

"No, you should def­i­nitely eat this. Be­sides, look at the ef­fect of this leaf. It
in­creases your health by 3, right? Just eat it." Seong Ji­han still urged Seah
to eat it.

"Oh, I'm re­ally fine. Un­cle should eat it. It in­creases stats!"

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"I'm fine too."

Yoon Seah, who had been about to vig­or­ously ap­plaud Seong Ji­han's words,
glanced at Akari ly­ing in the cor­ner of the hos­pi­tal room and cau­tiously
spoke up.

"Then... let's cut it in half and share it with Akari."

"What? Why her?" Seong Ji­han ques­tioned her.

"If I wasn't able to re­sist 'Charm' com­pletely, then Akari is in the same boat,
right?"

"...Are you will­ing to give up 3 health points?" Seong Ji­han asked Seah.

"Yeah. I'll find an­other leaf for my­self later. Hehe."

No mat­ter how much Akari had turned to their side, it was still a valu­able
item to share.

"Surely, the rem­nants of Shizuru might still linger in her."

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As much as it was re­gret­table to lose 3 health points, it was bet­ter than get­‐
ting stabbed in the back later.

Seong Ji­han ap­proached Akari and re­leased the acupunc­ture.

[Uh... Mom?]

Thud!

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Akari, with the acupunc­ture re­leased, had tears stream­ing down her cheeks
with a puz­zled ex­pres­sion.

"No, Mom. It wasn't me. That wasn't me...!"

"What are you talk­ing about?"

It was an un­ex­pected sight. As he looked at Akari with such wa­tery eyes,

Ariel heaved a sigh and ex­plained the rea­son.

[She had an­other night­mare, it seems. For the past few days, she's hardly
been able to sleep. When­ever she closes her eyes, she re­calls the faces of
her de­ceased par­ents, whom she be­lieves she killed.]

"..."

[It looks like she might even at­tempt sui­cide soon.]

"If that hap­pens, re­port it to me im­me­di­ately." Seong Ji­han told Ariel.

[She hasn't at­tempted it yet.]

With her cur­rent men­tal state, it's def­i­nitely bet­ter to fol­low Seah's ad­vice
and share the leaf. Akari will be a nec­es­sary pres­ence when deal­ing with
Shizuru later.

"Seah, take half of the leaf and give it to her."

"Okay."

Yoon Seah ap­proached Akari.

"Um..."

"Aaaah! Aaaah... Ah. Was it a dream?"

"Have this."

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With­out warn­ing, Seah tore off half of the leaf and handed it to Akari, then
im­me­di­ately put the re­main­ing half in her own mouth.

"Ugh... it tastes bad."

Zap! Zap!

Then, a green light briefly flick­ered from her en­tire body. Above her head, a
black smoke rose slightly.

"Oh... it's just as you said, un­cle, Ef­fects are real!"

"Why? Did some­thing come up in the sys­tem mes­sage?" Ji­han asked Yoon
Seah "Yes. It says the ab­nor­mal con­di­tion, 'charm,' has been com­pletely re­‐
moved... Wow, I was still un­der its in­flu­ence. No won­der I kept think­ing of
Shizuru's face be­fore go­ing to sleep."

"You... should have told me about this sooner."

"It's just me! I thought it was be­cause she's so pretty... Hehe." Seah said
while laugh­ing em­bar­rass­ingly.

Seong Ji­han sighed.

'She was deeply rooted in that.'

It was a stroke of luck that he gave it to her, just in case.

Then, Akari, who had been look­ing at the leaf, shook all over when she read
the item de­scrip­tion.

"Hey... are you re­ally giv­ing such an in­cred­i­ble thing to me?"

"Yeah, be grate­ful to Seah. She gave up 3 stat points."

"Re­ally... Un­cle brought it for me, and you act like it's noth­ing. Akari, this is
all thanks to Un­cle."

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"Eat­ing this will make me feel sorry..." Akari said with her head down "It's
okay. Eat it. You need to get rid of the ab­nor­mal con­di­tion to take re­venge
on Shizuru, right?" Seah en­cour­aged her to eat it.

When Akari heard the word 're­venge' through Ariel's trans­la­tion, she low­‐
ered her gaze.

"...I see. I will be in your debt."

Crunch! Crunch!

Un­like the way Yoon Seah swal­lowed it, Akari chewed the leaf slowly, one
bite at a time.

It was truly a case of per­se­ver­ance and de­ter­mi­na­tion.

Crunch!, crunch!

Chew­ing and grind­ing, how long had the sound filled the hos­pi­tal room?

Zap!

Just like Yoon Seah a lit­tle while ago, a green light flick­ered over Akari's
en­tire body, and smoke rose above her head. How­ever, the dif­fer­ence was
that the amount of ris­ing black smoke was much greater than Yoon Seah's.

'Shizuru's traces were deeply in­grained like that.'

At the same time, her face, which had been hag­gard from the lack of sleep,
be­gan to re­gain vi­tal­ity.

"My head... feels re­freshed."

She mum­bled with a trem­bling voice and then knelt be­fore Seong Ji­han and
Yoon Seah.

"You gave me such an item so read­ily... Thank you very much. I will re­pay
this fa­vor with my life."

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"No, it's okay..."

"What are you say­ing? She must re­pay it. Do you know how valu­able this
leaf is?"

Seong Ji­han said firmly. Giv­ing up such a pre­cious health sta­tus was not
some­thing to be taken lightly.

"Help us with the NIS work in the fu­ture, be­sides that, please pro­tect Seah."

"I un­der­stand! I will pro­tect the young lady with my life!"

"Learn Ko­rean quickly too. Trans­la­tion is in­con­ve­nient." Ji­han sighed and

spoke to her.

"Yes!"

As Akari, who had be­come much health­ier, roared with en­thu­si­asm, Yoon
Seah had a some­what touched ex­pres­sion on her face.

'She's 200% sin­cere.'

"Wow, Seah! Con­grat­u­la­tions! You've got a Di­am

­ ond-level body­guard."

As Seong Ji­han played the game, Ha Yoori, who had de­cided to get along as
sis­ters, was the first to ap­plaud.

"Right. We had an in­ci­dent like this be­fore, so it's best to be as cau­tious as

pos­si­ble. If she's an as­sas­sin class, she's per­fect as a body­guard."

Ha Yeon­joo also nod­ded as if things were go­ing well.

"Okay... Akari, please take care of us."

When Yoon Seah ex­tended her hand for a hand­shake, Akari po­litely joined
her hands and shook hands.

Then, she moved to her rear, al­ready switch­ing to body­guard mode.

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"Hmm, she's more en­thu­si­as­tic than I thought.'

Seong Ji­han, who ini­tially felt re­luc­tant to give the leaf, changed his mind
when he saw this. Get­ting a Di­am ­ ond-class ninja as a body­guard with just
half a leaf was a good deal.

"Well then..."

Seong Ji­han smiled as he looked at Ha Yoori.

"Could you give me your num­ber?"

"Yes! Here you go! I wrote it down in ad­vance!" Yoori said while blush­ing.

"Hey."

See­ing her younger sis­ter hand a note con­fi­dently, Ha Yeon­joo sighed.

'I didn't ex­pect her to be this com­pe­tent... I shouldn't have brought Seong Ji­‐
han for no rea­son.'

She kinda re­gret­ted ask­ing Seong Ji­han to come for a visit af­ter the na­tional
team's match.

*****

-If you ever need to use my gift 'Emo­tions', feel free to con­tact me! I'll run
to you wher­ever you are! Oh, should I join your guild? Af­ter fin­ish­ing film­‐
ing this drama and shoot­ing 10 CFs, I won't have any sched­ules for a
while~

-Are you crazy? Ab­so­lutely not! Seong Ji­han, please. A guild, re­ally? You
know how much she suf­fered to get this far in the en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try!
She won't be able to han­dle a guild!

-It's okay! I've achieved my goal since I reached the top! I can re­tire af­ter
this!

-Quiet!

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Due to Ha Yeon­joo's des­per­ate op­po­si­tion, Ha Yoori's guild mem­ber­ship

was put on hold. Seong Ji­han, while tempted by Ha Yoori's emo­tional abil­i­‐
ties, didn't feel the need to have her join the guild. With some­one this
friendly, he could con­tact her when nec­es­sary.

"I'll go teach Akari Ko­rean!"

"Ariel, too. We need an in­ter­preter."

"Sure." Ji­han agreed.

Upon ar­riv­ing at the pent­house, Yoon Seah led the rest of the group to her
room.

'To­day has been quite event­ful.'

'From the Rus­sian na­tional team game to the clo­sure of the sur­vival map.
Just the achieve­ment points earned to­day added up to 370,000, and my level
has risen by 9. Seong Ji­han checked his level and re­main­ing points.'

'Level 89. I think I might be able to pro­mote to Plat­inum this month.'

Seong Ji­han was grow­ing at an even faster pace than be­fore, de­spite reach­‐
ing Gold. This was pos­si­ble be­cause, un­like other play­ers, be­ing in the na­‐
tional team games was an op­por­tu­nity for lev­el­ing up. Fur­ther­more, he had
gained a stag­ger­ing 19 stat points through­out the day, all thanks to the Seed
of Life.

'All right, I'm go­ing all in on points.'

There were rare stats like 'Shadow Sword' or 'Mind Essence,' but Seong Ji­‐
han didn't hes­i­tate and in­vested all his re­main­ing points in 'Shadow Sword.'

[Shadow Sword has grown to a value of 110.]

[Shadow Sword's growth limit has in­creased to 130.]

[Ex­change your mar­tial arts to suit your­self and en­hance Shadow Sword.]

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[You can­not in­vest any more points un­til Shadow Sword reaches 130.]

'In the end, there's a limit to point in­vest­ment. I'll have to start mod­i­fy­ing
my mar­tial arts.'

Seong Ji­han be­gan re­view­ing his pos­sessed mar­tial arts.

First, the ba­sic skill, 'Triad of mar­tial mas­tery,' re­mained un­touched.

'If I use Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt mixed with Pheonix Fire. It'll sig­nif­i­cantly en­‐
hance its power.'

''The dark shadow tech­nique: Dark soul ver­tex still lacks mod­i­fi­ca­tion
clues, and to­tal an­ni­hi­la­tion has reached its limit at this level.'

''I'd like to use only the Blood Cross's 'In­stant Death', but it's not pos­si­ble at
this level.'

In sum­mary, the only mar­tial art he could mod­ify right now was the 'Strik­‐
ing Thun­der­bolt.'

'I should give it a try.'

Seong Ji­han headed to the train­ing room.

It hadn't even been 10 min­utes since he had re­turned home.

***

Chi­nese Bat­tleNet Cen­ter's op­er­at­ions room.

"A sig­nif­i­cant vari­able has emerged in the up­com­ing league match against
Ko­rea."

Ev­ery­one was look­ing at the screen with se­ri­ous faces.

The vari­able in ques­tion was Seong Ji­han, the weak­est mem­ber of the Ko­‐
rean na­tional team.

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[TL/N: They're call­ing him Weak­est be­cause he's in Gold.]

The screen dis­played footage of him an­ni­hi­lat­ing the Rus­sian na­tional team.

"Even though he's a Gold rank, he de­feated Vladimir in Berserker Mode.

There isn't a war­rior in our coun­try who can go one-on-one with Vladimir
in that state."

"Isn't Shin­song Il-ry­ong ca­pa­ble?"

Shin­song Il-ry­ong, cur­rently China's top war­rior, was a mas­ter mar­tial artist
who used the mar­tial arts of the Shaolin Tem­ple through his SS-grade gift,
'Mas­ter of Shaolin.'

He ranked fourth in the global war­rior rank­ings, two places higher than
Vladimir. How­ever, com­pet­ing with a berserk Vladimir in his fren­zied state
was still chal­leng­ing.

"In­deed. Shin Se­ung Il-ry­ong falls be­hind Vladimir in Berserker Mode as

well."

Fac­ing a berserk Vladimir in equal com­bat was in­deed dif­fi­cult.

"Ugh!"

"Why do we have so few out­stand­ing war­riors in this small coun­try!"

"Fur­ther­more, I don't want to trust it... but his skills ap­par­ently have an 'In­‐
stant death' ef­fect."

"Haha! That's a real headache."

"So, to pre­pare for the Sword King... we planned to ac­ti­vate the con­tin­‐
gency for­ma­tion, '108 Arhats.'"

When they men­tioned '108 Arhats.'

"Wait , what?"

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"You're go­ing to use '108 Arhats' for­ma­tion... on a mere Gold player?"

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'108 Arhat For­ma­tion,' is the ul­ti­mate for­ma­tion per­formed by 108 Shaolin

Monks, and in the game, only Shin­song Il-ry­ong, who pos­sesses the "Mas­‐
ter of Shaolin" gift, can ex­ec­ ute it.

Un­til now, play­ers could only use the sim­pli­fied form, "Sip­pal­na­han­jin (十
八羅漢陣) or 18 Arhat for­ma­tion," but Shin­song Il-ry­ong be­came ca­pa­ble
of us­ing the ul­ti­mate for­ma­tion at level 250.

"We de­cided to bring out this hid­den card against the Sword King..."

"To think we have to use it on a mere Gold-ranked player. How em­bar­rass­‐

ing!"

The peo­ple gath­ered in the op­er­at­ions room couldn't hide their dis­ap­point­‐
ment.

The ul­ti­mate Shaolin for­ma­tion, 108 Arhat, was be­ing ac­ti­vated for some­‐
one as low as a Gold-ranked player.

"In the un­likely event that we lose to Ko­rea this time, this sea­son's league
cham­pion will be out of our hands. We must do our best."

"It may even be ben­ef­ i­cial. Be­fore us­ing it against the Sword King, we can
con­sider it as a test run by de­ploy­ing 108 Arhat through Seong Ji­han."

"Hmm, that's true... al­right. Let's use 108 Arhat on him then!"

China's op­er­at­ions team des­ig­nated Seong Ji­han as the first tar­get for the
com­pleted 108 Arhat for­ma­tion.

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"Un­der­stood. And... to en­hance the ef­fects of this 108 Arhat, we will need
sup­port from the Na­tional Se­cu­rity De­part­ment."

The Bat­tleNet op­er­at­ions di­rec­tor re­quested as­sis­tance from China's in­for­‐

ma­tion or­ga­ni­za­tion, the Na­tional Se­cu­rity De­part­ment.

"What do you need us to in­ves­ti­gate?"

"We would like you to in­ves­ti­gate any de­tails about Seong Ji­han's mar­tial
arts lin­eage, how­ever small they may be."

The op­er­at­ions di­rec­tor spoke with a proud ex­pres­sion.

"Mar­tial arts fun­da­men­tally be­long to China. If you trace his skills back,
they should be con­nected to our home­land."

"Un­der­stood. We'll start the in­ves­ti­ga­tion im­me­di­ately and mo­bi­lize all our
in­for­ma­tion or­ga­ni­za­tions op­er­at­ing within Ko­rea."

Seong Ji­han's mar­tial arts would ul­ti­mately trace back to China, and once
they in­ves­ti­gated, they'd quickly iden­tify which re­gion, which mar­tial sect,
and which in­di­vid­ual was in­volved.

"If there's any­thing that could be con­sid­ered his weak­ness, please gather
that as well."

"Un­der­stood."

Thus, China's op­er­at­ions team con­cluded its strat­egy meet­ing re­gard­ing

Seong Ji­han. They didn't seem con­cerned about the other Ko­rean na­tional
team play­ers.

***

Af­ter the Rus­sia match, Seong Ji­han's Bat­tle­Tube chan­nel started re­ceiv­ing
oc­ca­sional do­na­tions. Some fans sent mes­sages of pure sup­port, along with
do­na­tions of 10 mil­lion won.

["I'm a Ko­rean" do­nated 10,000 GP.]

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-Seong Ji­han, what's your mar­tial arts lin­eage?

'Lin­eage?' Peo­ple be­gan ask­ing strange ques­tions.

"There's no lin­eage in Bat­tleNet. What do you mean by mar­tial arts lin­‐

eage?"

Seong Ji­han, who eas­ily cleared un­dead crea­tures in the "One-Leg" map,
ini­tially an­swered these odd ques­tions with com­po­sure. But then, more
mes­sages be­gan re­quest­ing in­for­ma­tion about his mar­tial arts.

["Mar­tial Arts Ex­pert" do­nated 10,000 GP.]

-If you re­veal the ori­gins of your mar­tial arts, you could be­come even
stronger. If you tell me the name of your mar­tial arts, I'll look it up.

With these do­na­tions, the in­quiries about his mar­tial arts started to out­num­‐
ber mes­sages of sup­port.

-What's go­ing on sud­denly?

-Why do they keep ask­ing about his mar­tial arts?

View­ers were be­com­ing con­fused and cu­ri­ous about why so many peo­ple
were sud­denly de­mand­ing in­for­ma­tion about Seong Ji­han's mar­tial arts.

'Oh, don't tell me...'

Seong Ji­han re­called mem­o­ries from his past life.

Back when he was part of the United States na­tional team in the World
Cham­pi­onships and they faced China in the semi-fi­nals, many peo­ple sud­‐
denly sent do­na­tions and asked about his mar­tial arts.

"Are you Chi­nese?"

When Seong Ji­han asked straight­for­wardly, mes­sages flooded in.

["Grand Shaolin Tem­ple" do­nated 10,000 GP.]

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"Seong Ji­han is a true Banzu (Chi­nese mar­tial artist). He asked if I'm Chi­‐
nese when I in­quired about his mar­tial arts. If you're that proud, re­veal your
lin­eage."

-The man­ager blocked Great Shaolin Tem­ple, who made deroga­tory re­‐
marks.

Now, Seong Ji­han's chan­nel re­ceived care from his guild. The chat man­ager
se­lected by Lee Hayeon im­me­di­ately took ac­tion.

As a re­sult, the chat was filled with mes­sages de­mand­ing that Seong Ji­han
dis­close his mar­tial arts.

Some of the view­ers with Chi­nese flags next to their names flooded the
chat, and it wasn't un­til then that Ko­rean view­ers un­der­stood the sit­u­at­ion.

-What's go­ing on? When did the Chi­nese sud­denly start watch­ing our chan­‐
nel?

-They keep ask­ing for the mar­tial arts name; it's weird, right?

-This seems so or­ga­nized. They weren't cu­ri­ous about mar­tial arts be­fore,
but right af­ter the Rus­sia match ended, they started this.

-I'm from the Sword King fam­ily, and they did the same thing dur­ing the
Sword King's reign. They de­manded the ori­gins of dual swords­man­ship and
told us not to im­i­tate Chi­nese mar­tial arts. They tried to find out the skill
names.

As the chat be­came chaotic, the man­ager was busy block­ing com­ments that
crossed the line.

On the other hand, Seong Ji­han thought, 'This could work to my ad­van­tage.'

Lately, do­na­tions were com­ing in very fre­quently de­spite the min­i­mum do­‐
na­tion limit be­ing 10,000 GP. Seong Ji­han de­cided to use this as an ex­cuse
to raise the limit.

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"Well, this won't do. I'm rais­ing the do­na­tion mes­sage limit to 100,000 GP."
Seong Ji­han said with a small smirk.

Whoa!

-100,000 GP, that's the most ex­pen­sive in the world...

-Is this be­cause of the Chi­nese fans?

"To all those who have sup­ported me so far, I am truly grate­ful. From now
on, I will ap­pre­ci­ate your kind thoughts only."

In an in­stant, the min­i­mum do­na­tion limit in­creased ten­fold. Sur­pris­ingly,

there were no more mes­sages re­quest­ing the dis­clo­sure of Seong Ji­han's
mar­tial arts. Al­though the chat box be­came more chaotic with ar­gu­ments
be­tween Ko­rean and Chi­nese view­ers, it didn't mat­ter to the per­son play­ing
the game.

Seong Ji­han quickly for­got about the re­cent events and fo­cused on lev­el­ing
up.

How­ever, the Chi­nese in­tel­li­gence or­ga­ni­za­tion didn't give up eas­ily. In par­‐

tic­u­lar...

"Hmm. There was such an in­ci­dent at the Triad As­so­ci­at­ion?"

[TL/N: Crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tion based on China and other Chi­nese speak­ing

places.]

As they col­lected all in­for­ma­tion re­lated to Seong Ji­han, a con­spic­u­ous

piece of in­for­ma­tion came to light. It was re­lated to Xin Youhwa, who died
sud­denly from a heart at­tack dur­ing the awards cer­em ­ ony for Seong Ji­han.
Her Gift or rather the con­di­tion for de­vel­op­ing it, was quite un­usual.

[TL/N: Xin Youhwa is the sec­ond ranked player from China.]

"Did the Gift have such a con­di­tion? That one must die for it to up­grade?"

"Yes."

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"Do you have any ev­i­dence for this?"

"Well, I don't have any. But my daugh­ter died from a heart at­tack."

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"Is there no pho­to­graph of the Gift?"

"Yes..."

The head of the Na­tional Se­cu­rity Bu­reau met with Xin Youhwa's fa­ther, a
high-rank­ing mem­ber of the Triad As­so­ci­at­ion, and col­lected in­for­ma­tion.

"She went to kill Yoon Seah but ended up dy­ing from a heart at­tack..."

"Yes. But her fa­ther thinks it was just a co­in­ci­dence. She died in the re­‐
stroom while Seong Ji­han was re­ceiv­ing the award, from a heart at­tack."

The head of the Na­tional Se­cu­rity Bu­reau nod­ded.

No mat­ter how ex­cep­tional Seong Ji­han was, it would be im­pos­si­ble for

him to kill some­one who was in a com­pletely dif­fer­ent place.

"But it doesn't mat­ter. Just link it to Seong Ji­han. No mat­ter what."

"It doesn't seem to have much rel­ev­ ance to him, and we have no ev­i­dence."

"Just link it. It's just for mak­ing noise any­way."

"Un­der­stood."

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"Wow, Un­cle. This is crazy."

"What?" Seong Ji­han asked cu­ri­ously.

"I went to the un­der­ground mart to­day, and as soon as I got off the el­ev­ a­tor,
I saw these fly­ers all over the wall."

Seong Ji­han, re­veal your mar­tial arts!

A bright red flyer with large let­ters.

See­ing that, Seong Ji­han fur­rowed his brow.

"It's not the work of an in­di­vid­ual. They're try­ing to find out the mar­tial arts
sys­tem­at­i­cally, no mat­ter what."

"Yeah, it's been strange since they started spon­sor­ing with ten mil­lion won
each. Plus, there's this kind of con­tent here too."

Yoon Seah cau­tiously took out the sec­ond flyer.

-The truth about Xin Youhwa's death?

-A woman with la­tent con­di­tions meets her end in Ko­rea!

Un­like the first one, it doesn't de­mand re­veal­ing the mar­tial arts but rather
ques­tions the un­clear cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing Xin Youhwa's death.

In ad­di­tion...

"Rel­at­ives of Xin Youhwa are protest­ing out­side."

Yoon Seah turned on the TV and tuned in to the news chan­nel.

Just then, there was news cov­er­ing peo­ple gath­ered at the scene.

Re­veal the truth about Xin Youhwa's death!

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These peo­ple, who had gath­ered as rel­at­ives, were all rugged and for­mi­da­‐
ble in ap­pear­ance.

"It looks like they've gath­ered some Triad So­ci­ety folks."

"It seems so."

Con­sid­er­ing that only three days had passed since the end of the Rus­sian
com­pe­ti­tion and they were al­ready tak­ing ac­tion so quickly, it ap­peared that
the gov­ern­ment might have in­ter­vened.

"Most peo­ple are won­der­ing why they're link­ing a per­son who died of heart
fail­ure to you, but..."

Yoon Seah fur­rowed her brow as she looked at her smart­phone.

"Peo­ple keep spam­ming the com­ments, try­ing to bring up this news."

"Re­ally?"

"Yeah, they're try­ing to link you to it one way or an­other."

"Just leave it be."

Seong Ji­han chuck­led softly.

Their in­ten­tions were quite ap­par­ent.

"They're sys­tem­at­i­cally pub­lish­ing news about Xin Youhwa's death, and

later, they'll say they won't make it a pub­lic is­sue if I re­veal the mar­tial
arts."

"Un­cle, you won't ac­cept that, right?"

"Of course not. Those are the folks who'll get even more ex­cited if we bow
down."

"But why are they so in­sis­tent on re­veal­ing the mar­tial arts? What changes
if you do?"

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"Well... I'm not sure. They're quite per­sis­tent."

Seong Ji­han pre­tended not to un­der­stand their in­ten­tions while hav­ing a hid­‐
den sus­pi­cion.

'Is this about the 108 Arhat For­ma­tion?'

108 Arhat for­ma­tion.

China's for­mi­da­ble weapon that com­pletely traps a sin­gle player.

To max­i­mize the ef­fect of the for­ma­tion, you needed to know the tar­get's
char­ac­ter­is­tics in de­tail, so it seemed like they were com­ing out like this for
that rea­son.

'In my pre­vi­ous life, I couldn't es­cape from it...'

When Seong Ji­han had just joined the U.S. na­tional team.

In the World Cham­pi­ons League, the Chi­nese team he faced used 108 Arhat
for­ma­tion against him.

At that time, his skills were not yet ma­ture, so he didn't break the for­ma­tion
but strug­gled to sur­vive in­side it.

Later, af­ter fur­ther growth, he wanted to chal­lenge 108 Arhat for­ma­tion

again, but...

'By then, Shin­song had al­ready per­ished in the Space League, so it never
hap­pened.'

That's why Seong Ji­han had a lin­ger­ing re­gret about not be­ing able to de­feat
that pesky for­ma­tion.

'I should try again this time."'

To serve a blow to the an­noy­ing Chi­nese side that was ask­ing for it.

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It would be best to break their trust in the 108 Arhat for­ma­tion that they be­‐
lieved in the most.

On the TV screen, pro­test­ers who had now taken off their shirts were fac­ing
off with the po­lice.

"Seah, those peo­ple might bother you, and I can't tell if they'll be an­noy­ing
to you. Akari is get­ting in­volved, don't en­gage with them. Got it?"

"I got it, Un­cle. Just so you know, on my Bat­tle­Tube, weird peo­ple keep
com­ing and spam­ming the chat."

"Why don't you just raise your do­na­tion limit to 100,000 GP? You don't
need do­na­tions, right?"

"I don't need them, but... I guess I should do that tem­po­rar­ily un­til this sit­u­‐
a­tion calms down."

For the past few days, the in­ter­net was abuzz with dis­cus­sions about Seong
Ji­han's mar­tial arts and Xin Youhwa's death.

-These guys are just like dur­ing the Sword King's match.

-Last time, they were so an­noy­ing dur­ing the match, kept pes­ter­ing the
sword king with his skill name, Blah blah Blah?

-Their goal is to re­peat what hap­pened last time.

-We need to de­fend our moth­er­land.

It was just a war be­tween Ko­rean and Chi­nese ne­ti­zens.

Seong Ji­han's side re­mained in­dif­fer­ent to it.

And so, time passed.

The match be­tween the Ko­rean and Chi­nese na­tional teams was ap­proach­‐
ing.

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Shin­song Il-rong's man­sion.

A ro­bust man with a shaved head got up from a large bed.

"Ah, Il-rong, you're up?"

"You woke up early even though you used so much strength yes­ter­day."

Two women in the blan­kets looked at him with twin­kling eyes.

"Oh, you two should sleep more. We have guests."

Shin­song Il-rong.

Thanks to his gift, he ap­peared as a monk with a shaven head on the out­‐
side, but he en­joyed al­co­hol, women, and pre­ferred meat more than any­one
else. Orig­i­nally, be­fore his awak­en­ing, he was just an or­di­nary per­son with
no con­nec­tion to Bud­dhism. He only had to shave his head be­cause of his
gift; his in­ner self was noth­ing more than a greedy man.

"I'm sorry, Il-rong. I couldn't get any re­sponse from that guy re­gard­ing
Seong Ji­han's mar­tial arts ori­gins. He doesn't seem to re­act at all."

"It's okay. What's a kid like that gotta do with spread­ing the Bud­dha's teach­‐
ings to him?"

As he talked, emit­ting the smell of al­co­hol, Il-rong.

The gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial from the Na­tional Se­cu­rity Agency sneaked a

glance be­hind him.

Two Chi­nese fe­male celebri­ties in gowns were com­ing out.

They came from here, for bud­dha's teach­ings?

"Oh... yes..."

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The Guild Mas­ter's Of­fice at the Daegi Guild.

Lee Hayeon re­ported to Seong Ji­han with a se­ri­ous ex­pres­sion, "Boss, the
Chi­nese play­ers in our guild are sud­denly ter­mi­nat­ing their lease con­tracts."

Seong Ji­han asked, "How many are there?"

"Be­cause we had some new re­cruits this time... it's about six of them."

Due to the unique ef­fect of the Phoenix Flag, the guild's ca­pac­ity had in­‐
creased to 30 mem­bers. With six Chi­nese play­ers among them, it ac­counted
for about 20 per­cent.

"Quite a few Chi­nese play­ers, huh." Seong Ji­han said with a per­plexed ex­‐
pres­sion.

"With the re­cent open po­si­tions, most of them were won in auc­tions. They
are each be­ing paid around 10 bil­lion won per month."

"So, ev­ery month, we are los­ing 60 bil­lion won in profit?"

"Wang Lin joined us for 5 bil­lion won. So, it's ex­actly 55 bil­lion won."

"Well, we'll send them off and find re­place­ments."

"If we re­cruit new mem­bers... it might re­duce our prof­its com­pared to last
time. Are you okay with that?"

When Lee Hayeon cau­tiously raised this con­cern, Seong Ji­han nod­ded con­‐
fi­dently.

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"Yes, it's okay. No need to worry."

Seong Ji­han smiled.

Even if they suf­fered a lit­tle fi­nan­cial loss, Seong Ji­han wasn't the kind of
per­son to blink an eye to mon­et­ary loss.

"Please in­form the Peo­ple's As­so­ci­at­ion right away about our in­ten­tion to
can­cel the con­tracts."

"Of course, I un­der­stand."

Lee Hayeon made a phone call on the spot to in­form the Peo­ple's As­so­ci­a­‐
tion of the con­tract can­cel­la­tions. Af­ter­ward, she chat­ted with Seong Ji­han.

Ob­serv­ing her like this, it seemed she wasn't too con­cerned about the sit­u­a­‐
tion.

"Our chat man­ager sud­denly has a lot of work to do. He's been over­‐
whelmed with the work­load. The hate com­ments are sud­denly pour­ing into
the guild chan­nel, not just Seong Ji­han's chan­nel."

"They are per­sis­tent." Seong Ji­han grinned.

"Yes, they are. Is it re­ally that im­por­tant to find out the name of a mar­tial
art?"

She shook her head in con­fu­sion. Then, she sipped her cof­fee and sud­denly
her eyes widened when she saw a mes­sage on her tablet.

"Huh? Wang Lin wants to talk to you. He re­ally wants to have a con­ver­sa­‐
tion with you, sir."

"Is that so?"

"If you're go­ing to have a con­ver­sa­tion, I can be the in­ter­preter in the mid­‐
dle."

"...Can you speak Chi­nese?"

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"Yes, I've stud­ied it."

She was quite tal­ented. He won­dered why she only gam­bled so much in her
pre­vi­ous life.

"Then, please."

Seong Ji­han read­ily en­trusted the in­ter­pre­ta­tion to Lee Hayeon. Through a

tablet PC con­nected to a video call, there was a mid­dle-aged man with a
beard, Wang Lin, who had a some­what re­gret­ful ex­pres­sion.

[Seong Ji­han, you've ac­cepted the con­tract ter­mi­na­tion... Wouldn't it be bet­‐

ter to re­solve this am­i­ca­bly?]

"We did what you guys wanted."

[Well, I ac­tu­ally want to stay in the Daegi Guild... But ac­cord­ing to the gov­‐
ern­ment's pol­icy, I had no choice...]

Wang Lin sub­tly brought up the main point.

[In life, be­ing too stub­born of­ten leads to more losses than gains, don't you
think? Right now, the gov­ern­ment is quite an­gry, say­ing that Seong Ji­han
won't yield at all. If we go all the way here, it will only harm you. I can me­‐
di­ate to make sure things are re­solved smoothly.]

"Me­di­ate?"

[Yes. Even if you don't want to tell me about your mar­tial art or its ori­gins,
just give me the name of the mar­tial art. I'll talk to the Na­tional In­tel­li­gence
Bu­reau to make sure there's no fur­ther pres­sure.]

Is this a good cop, bad cop strat­egy that com­bines per­sua­sion and co­er­cion?
In­stead of los­ing good play­ers and fac­ing such pres­sure, it seemed he was
sug­gest­ing they come to an agree­ment now.

"But if it's just the name of the mar­tial art..."

Seong Ji­han chuck­led to him­self.

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Come to think of it...

I can tell the name of my mar­tial art, can't I?

"Al­right. If you're cu­ri­ous about the name of the mar­tial art, I'll show it to
you."

[Oh... re­ally! You've thought it through very well!]

"Here it is."

Seong Ji­han, who opened the skill win­dow, changed the dis­play to show
only the name of the skill.

"My mar­tial art's name is 'Name­less Di­vine Arts.'"

[...Name­less Di­vine Arts, you say?]

"Yes. It's only for you, Wang Lin. If the Chi­nese In­for­ma­tion Bu­reau and
the me­di­at­or can help, would you mind look­ing into the true mean­ing of
this mar­tial art? I'm cu­ri­ous too."

[Heeee! A mar­tial art with no name, what is this...!]

"And, I will pro­ceed with the con­tract ter­mi­na­tion right away. I need to add
new mem­bers as soon as pos­si­ble."

[Wait a minute! That's...!]

"Then, I'll see you next time."

Click!

Seong Ji­han ended the video call.

"Do we have re­place­ments?"

"Yes, we do, but we can't charge them as high as the Peo­ple's As­so­ci­at­ion
does for rent."

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"It's okay. In­stead of mak­ing more money in this tur­moil, let's earn a bit
less. From now on, try to get play­ers from out­side the North­east Asian
League if pos­si­ble."

"Un­der­stood."

Lee Hayeon nod­ded.

"It's def­i­nitely more com­fort­able to ac­cept play­ers from dif­fer­ent re­gional

leagues rather than those from the same league. For now, it's for the im­me­‐
di­ate profit, but if the owner is will­ing to take a loss, she doesn't mind it in
the end."

"Oh, and for this up­com­ing match against China, feel free to place bets. I'm
a bit un­cer­tain about it too."

Dur­ing the Rus­sia match, he was con­fi­dent of a 100% vic­tory. But in the
case of China, Seong Ji­han couldn't guar­an­tee a win. The op­po­nent was the
2nd-ranked coun­try in the world. Fur­ther­more, if they re­ally had the 108
Arhat For­ma­tion, even win­ning in the league matches would be un­cer­tain,
let alone a 3:0 sweep like in the Rus­sia match.

"Bet­ting, you say..."

Upon hear­ing Seong Ji­han's words, Lee Hayeon gave a wry smile and
shook her head.

"I... won't bet any­more."

"Could it be that you lost all your money dur­ing the Rus­sia match?"

"No, I didn't! I fol­lowed what you told me, and I made a lot of money back
then! I even paid off my debts!"

"Re­ally? You made money?!"

Seong Ji­han was sur­prised af­ter a long time. Zero earned money? The self-
pro­claimed God of Re­verse Bet­ting?

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"Why are you so sur­prised?"

"Well, be­cause you made money."

"Heh! Do you think I al­ways lose?" Lee Hayeon looked in­cred­u­lous.

"To be hon­est, that's what I thought. It's re­ally sur­pris­ing."

"Any­way, these days, I'm not do­ing it any­more. I'm do­ing chores at home."

"I-I'm look­ing for a hus­band..."

With a somber ex­pres­sion, Lee Hayeon spoke.

"Hus­band? Is it go­ing well?"

"We have one date sched­uled for next week and two for the fol­low­ing
month."

Stand­ing be­hind Lee Hayeon, Lim Gayeong added with a stern face.

"One with a 20-year-old man with a bald head. One weighs 120kg. One is a
per­son who has two un­of­fi­cial chil­dren."

Speak­ing even more coldly than usual, Lim Gayeong con­tin­ued.

Upon hear­ing this, Seong Ji­han tilted his head and smiled.

"Why would you see such peo­ple? If it were Hayeon, you could eas­ily find
a bet­ter hus­band."

The daugh­ter of the Lee fam­ily, a chae­bol's daugh­ter. Her ap­pear­ance is out­‐
stand­ing, pos­si­bly even com­pa­ra­ble to other celebri­ties. Her per­son­al­ity is
de­cent. To be hon­est, apart from gam­bling, she's a top-tier bride even within
the chae­bol fam­il­ies.

"Is gam­bling ad­dic­tion that deadly in a chae­bol fam­ily?"

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Well, even if it is, he couldn't un­der­stand why she would meet with such
peo­ple.

In re­sponse to Seong Ji­han's ques­tion, Lim Gayeong let out a small sigh.

"There are some fam­ily mat­ters."

"Hmm, I see."

Up un­til that point, Seong Ji­han had only been an­swer­ing with­out think­ing
too much. How­ever...

"Um... Sir, but what if I get mar­ried af­ter see­ing some­one, what hap­pens to
the guild?"

"...Can't you do both?" asked Seong Ji­han

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"I-I'm not sure if I can do both at the same time. Chae­bol fam­i­lies are quite
old fash­ioned."

When Lee Hayeon's choices be­came con­nected to the Daegi guild (MC's
Guild), the se­ri­ous­ness of the prob­lem changed.

"Where can we find an­other per­son as ded­i­cated as Lee Hayeon?"

Her gift 'Nur­tur­ing', it was a unique abil­ity that couldn't be found any­where
else. On top of that, she had been man­ag­ing the Daegi guild as the guild
mas­ter.

But if she gets mar­ried, could she leave the guild?

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Seong Ji­han im­me­di­ately said, "Don't get mar­ried."

"...Huh?"

"Frankly, I don't want you to marry, Do you want to?"

"Well, it's just that at home..." Hayeon was say­ing some­thing but...

"What's the point of in­tro­duc­ing only those kinds of men to you? Bad fam­‐
ily! Just pack up and come live with me."

Lee Hayeon looked at Seong Ji­han with an in­cred­u­lous ex­pres­sion. Just a

lit­tle while ago, he was nod­ding his head as if he were look­ing at some­one's
wife, but his at­ti­tude changed com­pletely when she men­tioned the pos­si­bil­‐
ity of step­ping down from the po­si­tion of Stand-by Guild Leader.

"Ugh... Then what, you think it's easy as you say?"

At that mo­ment, Lim Gayeong, who had been stand­ing there, sud­denly
spoke with a sig­nif­i­cant mean­ing.

"If Seong Ji­han helps with this, it's pos­si­ble."

"Hey! Wait! That's..." Lee Hayeon started blush­ing.

"How can I help?" Ji­han asked se­ri­ously.

"The way to help is..."

***

Three days be­fore the match against China, at the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter's op­er­a­‐
tions room, the South Ko­rean na­tional team coach, Noh Youngjun, fur­‐
rowed his brow deeply.

"China... They're just too strong..."

If Rus­sia had the most pow­er­ful War­riors, China boasted the world's top
play­ers in ev­ery class ex­cept War­riors. In par­tic­u­lar, China had SSS-level

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gift users among their mages and sup­port­ers. Even dur­ing the reign of the
Sword King, South Ko­rea's win rate in the Ko­rea vs. China matches
couldn't sur­pass 40 per­cent.

"So, in the end, I had no choice but to pick these guys..."

Noh Youngjun glanced at the player ros­ter. The lineup for the Ko­rea vs.
China match in­cluded first-team War­riors who had been cut from the na­‐
tional team ros­ter in the pre­vi­ous se­lec­tion, ex­cept for the player who as­‐
saulted Ha Yoori. The pres­sure from their re­spec­tive top-ten guilds to bring
back these play­ers played a part in their se­lec­tion, but it was Coach Noh
Youngjun's de­ter­mi­na­tion to some­how counter China that was the most sig­‐
nif­i­cant fac­tor.

He hoped that by cre­at­ing syn­ergy with Seong Ji­han, there might be a slight
in­crease in the chances of win­ning, even if it was still close to zero. Ne­ti­‐
zens' re­ac­tions aligned with Coach Noh Youngjun's ex­pec­ta­tions.

--Ugh, Do we re­ally need those trashes of so­ci­ety?.

--It's un­re­lated to this case, right? Let's work hard~^0^

--Isn't this too le­nient of a pun­ish­ment?

--Well, at least they didn't call the guy who as­saulted Ha Yoori. Hav­ing
them might give us a fight­ing chance against China, don't you think?

--I guess.

This was be­cause China's in­tense pres­sure to re­veal Seong Ji­han's gift had
of­fended Ko­rean pride.

They must win against those Chi­nese guys this time, even if they have to
call these trashes to so­ci­ety.

--For real, did you see what they were do­ing to Seong Ji­han? They're mak­‐
ing a big fuss try­ing to find out his gift, and it's so ridicu­lous, ㅋㅋㅋ.

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--Well, if it's a Chi­nese thing, what can you do?

--But why do they want to know that? What's go­ing to change if they do?

--I don't know, the Chi­nese guys are caus­ing a big fuss about Seong Ji­han's
gift, even though they crit­i­cize him. They're cu­ri­ous. Call up those 1st team
war­riors again, and let's some­how win against China!

Cur­rently, Ko­re­ans had this kind of mind­set.

'Hmm. It's good to be back.'

Kim Dong­woo, who was the leader of the War­riors first-string, ar­rived at
the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter op­er­at­ions room, whistling cheer­fully.

"Like they say, the Cen­ter has a good smell!"

Lee Yoongi, who al­ways ac­com­pa­nied him, fol­lowed with a grin.

"Just be­cause the pub­lic back­lash is less due to China. Don't you dare cause
any trou­ble again!" Coach told them off an­grily.

"Haha, got it. Coach, Is Seong Ji­han not here?"

"Why?"

"I want to apol­o­gize for the last in­ci­dent." Kim Dong­woo said with a slight
wry smile.

Coach Noh Youngjun blinked his eyes.

He was chased out and now he wanted to apol­o­gize? Was he re­ally go­ing to
apol­o­gize?

"Oh. Of course I want to... But he should tell us if he has a girl­friend first,
right?"

"...Girl­friend?" Coach asked with a weird ex­pres­sion.

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"Yes, Coach. Oh, don't tell me you don't know? It was all over the news to­‐
day."

Kim Dong­woo took out his smart­phone and showed the ar­ti­cle.

Spot­ted: Seong Ji­han's Girl­friend!

The ar­ti­cle fea­tured a pic­ture of a young man and a woman sit­ting closely
to­gether on a bench in Han River Park.

The photo boldly cap­tured the mo­ment just be­fore they kissed.

"Th-That girl... isn't she the Guild Mas­ter of the Di­ver­gent Guild?"

A face that any­one in the in­dus­try would rec­og­nize.

Coach Noh Youngjun im­me­di­ately iden­ti­fied the woman.

"Seong Ji­han doesn't have a way out. He got caught by patch kids."

"To be hon­est, I found that woman sus­pi­cious when she be­came a guild
mas­ter. She wasn't even a player, but she be­came a guild mas­ter, right?"

"She's pretty, though. She didn't come out even when they called celebri­ties.
There's a rea­son she's from the Lee fam­ily of Lee Sangjin."

The two War­riors had no short­age of crit­i­cism for Lee Hayeon, but Coach
Noh Youngjun's ex­pres­sion hard­ened as he read the ar­ti­cle.

"Hmm... I won­der if Seong Ji­han can han­dle this."

With all the is­sues sur­round­ing China and now even a dat­ing scan­dal,
Seong Ji­han's men­tal state might be too shaky, right?

The coach was wor­ried about Seong Ji­han, and that's why he called him to
the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter im­me­di­ately upon his ar­rival.

"Oh. I ac­tu­ally set that up."

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Chap­ter 146
*****

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The day be­fore, the true na­ture of the "method" that Lim Gayeong had men­‐
tioned in the Daegi Guild was to trig­ger a dat­ing scan­dal.

"Let's make a scan­dal be­tween Miss and Seong Ji­han."

"Hey! What are you talk­ing about?"

"Seong Ji­han, why do you think they sent Miss to the Daegi Guild from her
fam­ily?"

"Well..."

"They wanted to se­duce you with Miss and re­cruit you to the Lee fam­ily.
But now, your sta­tus has risen too much, and..."

Lim Gayeong's ex­pres­sion hard­ened.

"Miss, who be­came the Guild Mas­ter, is do­ing too well."

"Isn't it a good thing when fam­ily mem­bers do well?"

"The mis­tress doesn't like it."

Seong Ji­han had an idea about the Lee fam­ily's mis­tress's story.

'Lee Hayeon is an il­le­git­i­mate kid.'

Now, Chair­man Lee, who is re­ceiv­ing treat­ment for se­vere de­men­tia and
not ac­tive in pub­lic, was known to have a rep­u­ta­tion for lik­ing women (too

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much) when he was healthy. He had a child out­side of his mar­riage, Lee
Hayeon, who was brought into the main fam­ily be­cause she was spe­cial.

The mis­tress of the fam­ily was said to have wel­comed Lee Hayeon, who
was an il­le­git­i­mate child, but...

'The ac­tual sit­u­at­ion must have been dif­fer­ent.'

Con­sid­er­ing that she only matched strange guys with Hayeon, it didn't look
like she loved Lee Hayeon as por­trayed on the out­side.

"Gayeong, is it okay for you to say that? If you go against Mom..."

"I be­came in­de­pen­dent thanks to the young lady. It's fine."

"Huh? Be­cause of me?"

"You made money, didn't you?"

"That... yes?"

"Yes."

"Haah. How much did you earn, for heaven's sake?" Hayeon asked with a
lit­tle an­noy­ance.

"Thanks to Miss, I could in­vest with con­fi­dence in dif­fer­ent things!"

Freed from her de­pen­dence on the Di­ver­gent Guild, Lim Gayeong now had
the op­por­tu­nity to speak.

"If dat­ing ru­mors with Seong Ji­han emerge, even if it's the Lee fam­ily, they
won't be able to force you to get mar­ried to an­other guy. Then Miss can
con­tinue as the Guild Mas­ter. And..."

As Lim Gayeong added a few more words in an at­tempt to per­suade Seong

Ji­han, he re­sponded as if there was no need to lis­ten fur­ther.

"That's fine. Let's spread the dat­ing ru­mors."

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"And... Uh, yes?"

With the pres­ence of Lee Hayeon, who pos­sessed S-rank gift, it was as sim­‐
ple as that.

"Let's spread it to­day. What's the most ef­fec­tive way?"

"Well, then..."

***

Late at night, Han River Park.

"Gayeong un­nie, turn the lights up a bit! Al­right, this should do it...! Now,
both of you, please sit to­gether! Get cozy!"

Yoon Seah, who had taken on the role of a pho­to­jour­nal­ist to stir up a dat­ing
ru­mor for the day, gave var­i­ous in­struc­tions.

"It's fine if you take pic­tures ca­su­ally."

"Oh, come on, Un­cle! It's your first dat­ing ru­mor photo; it has to come out
well! It's good if Hayeon un­nie looks pretty, right?"

Among the four gath­ered here, Yoon Seah was the most ex­cited. She ges­‐
tured with her hands, giv­ing in­struc­tions.

"You look too dis­tant; get closer!"

"Al­right."

Swiftly, as Seong Ji­han ap­proached, Hayeon looked at him apolo­get­i­cally.

"I... I'm re­ally sorry. But are you okay with the dat­ing ru­mor?"

"It's okay. I'm not a celebrity. If you feel sorry, please con­tinue as the Guild
Mas­ter for a long time."

"I'll de­vote my­self to the Guild!"

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"That's the right at­ti­tude."

Yoon Seah, who was watch­ing their con­ver­sa­tion, gave them some guid­‐
ance.

"Get a bit more in­ti­mate! You still look like strangers."

"Do we need some phys­i­cal con­tact? Are we in the Joseon era or some­‐
thing?"

"Un­cle, let's put our arms around un­nie's shoul­ders a bit. It's a dat­ing ru­mor
photo; we need some­thing more con­crete!"

Click! Click!

While tak­ing pic­tures from dif­fer­ent an­gles, Yoon Seah seemed some­what
dis­sat­is­fied.

"Hmm... the pic­tures came out nicely, but I feel slightly dis­ap­pointed. It
would be bet­ter with more phys­i­cal con­tact. Should we try a staged kiss?"

"Why would we do a staged kiss for a dat­ing ru­mor? This should be

enough!" Hayeon was blush­ing very hard.

"Un­nie, we should make it clear! Let's mimic it. Or you can just kiss for
real?"

On the way here, Yoon Seah had learned about Hayeon's weak­ness and now
pres­sured her.

"Ugh..."

"Let's do it just once and then we're done. We just need to kiss, right?"

Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally asked and leaned for­ward.

"Uh..."

Hayeon blushed and quickly moved away from him.

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"What, how can you do that!"

"Miss has never done such an act in her en­tire life. The thresh­old is too
high."

Upon hear­ing the light­ing di­rec­tor Lim Gayeong's words, Hayeon glanced
at her from be­hind.

"It's be­cause of you! You've been mon­i­tor­ing who I'm dat­ing all the time!"

"Now you can date freely. Thanks to Miss, I'm in­de­pen­dent now. We'll
strictly pro­tect your pri­vacy~" Gayeong said with a glint in her eyes.

"Sis, I made a mis­take. Just hold hands, okay? I can take pic­tures of you
both hold­ing hands, right? It's cute and nice!"

When Yoon Seah sud­denly spoke in a sweet tone, Hayeon, grind­ing her
teeth, shouted, "Oh, just do it, the kiss!"

"Un­nie, it's okay, you don't have to force your­self," Seah said with a small
smirk.

"I'm fine too! Just do it now!"

Say­ing so, Hayeon ap­proached Seong Ji­han and ex­tended her lips.

"Oh, come on, not like a duck..."

Even when she ex­tended her lips, it was al­most com­i­cally ex­ag­ger­ated.

"Put your lips to­gether, re­lax."

Swiftly, Seong Ji­han wrapped his arms around Hayeon's shoul­ders and
swept her hair back.

While hold­ing the cam­era, he leaned in with their faces still close.

"What... why is he so skilled at this?"

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While Hayeon was taken aback, their lips were get­ting in­cred­i­bly close.

Click! Click!

"Okay, that's enough!"

Yoon Seah quickly fin­ished the shoot, and Seong Ji­han re­turned to his spot.

"Take a look at this. The pho­tos turned out well, didn't they?"

"Yeah, they're fine."

Hayeon still had a blush­ing face as she looked at the photo.

It was a pic­ture that un­mis­tak­ably showed Seong Ji­han and Hayeon, their
lips just about to touch.

"Uh..."

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While Seong Ji­han in the photo was lean­ing in ca­su­ally, Hayeon, with her
eyes tightly closed and feel­ing em­bar­rassed, blushed.

"You seem more ner­vous than me."

"I'll send this to DA­P­atch. Hehe."

"R-re­ally? You're go­ing to send this?"

"Yeah, this should be a real at­ten­tion-grab­ber, right? But sis... Are you re­‐
ally okay with this? If this leaks, it might mean the end of your pop­u­lar­ity
and your mar­riage prospects." Seah asked Hayeon.

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Hayeon hes­i­tated briefly at Yoon Seah's ques­tion but thought, '...It's bet­ter
than be­ing with those peo­ple.'

Once she steps into the lime­light, even if she doesn't like them, her fam­ily
will push her into a hasty mar­riage.

Rather than liv­ing like that, it's a hun­dred times bet­ter to cre­ate a dat­ing
scan­dal.

"Is Boss re­ally okay with this?" Hayeon asked Seong Ji­han with a gen­uine
ex­pres­sion.

"I'm fine with it. It's just a dat­ing scan­dal. Stay in the busi­ness for a long
time."

"Okay, let's send it!"

"Sure, I'll send it!"

Yoon Seah sent the photo to an in­ves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism out­let, claim­ing it

was a spe­cial scoop.

The next day, as ex­pected, all hell broke loose.

***

"Hehe... So, you leaked it your­self."

"Yes. We can't let the ru­mors per­sist."

"I wor­ried for noth­ing."

Di­rec­tor Noh Youngjun breathed a sigh of re­lief in­ter­nally as Seong Ji­han

seemed per­fectly com­posed. Seong Ji­han had be­come the key player of the
Ko­rean team, and if he wa­vered, their al­ready chal­leng­ing match against
China would be­come even more im­prob­ab­ le.

"Di­rec­tor, I have a ques­tion."

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"Ask me any­thing."

"If player Akari were to nat­u­ral­ize, could she rep­re­sent the na­tional team?"

"Hmm... It's pos­si­ble, but isn't she an as­sas­sin?"

"Yes, that's cor­rect."

"As­sas­sins be­long to the Archer class, so there might not be a place for her.
Our archers are al­ready over­sat­u­rated. In prin­ci­ple, you should have a level
over 225."

"I see."

In Ko­rea, the most com­pet­i­tive po­si­tion was the Archer. With a level of 211,
Akari didn't meet the ba­sic cri­te­ria.

"There are count­less tac­ti­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties with an as­sas­sin, but first, we need
to level her up."

With this thought in mind, Seong Ji­han left the di­rec­tor's of­fice. This time,
Ha Yeon­joo, the leader of the Archer team, ap­proached him.

"Seong Ji­han, are you okay? I saw the news this morn­ing..."

"I'm fine. I leaked it my­self."

"Oh, I see. So, you two are re­ally dat­ing?"

At first, she seemed con­cerned, but when Seong Ji­han men­tioned that he
had leaked it him­self, she quickly asked with cu­rios­ity.

"Yes, that's right."

"I see... Yoori has been say­ing since this morn­ing that her fan feel­ings are
still strong, re­peat­ing, 'My fan­dom is un­shaken.'"

"I got some mes­sages too."

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"What did they say?"

Seong Ji­han ma­nip­u­lated his phone and showed her a text mes­sage.

[Ji­han! Please let me join the guild too! I'm ready to team up any­time and
de­feat any­one with you! I think peo­ple need to be in the same space for
bonds to form, hehe...]

"Oh! This girl re­ally should stop mess­ing with some­one who has a girl­‐
friend now. Please tell her it's ab­so­lutely not al­lowed. Please." Ha Yeon­joo
begged Ji­han.

"Huh, Sure..."

"Sigh..."

While Ha Yeon­joo heaved a sigh of re­lief, the play­ers from War­rior's Team
ap­proached again. They were the main play­ers who re­turned to the first
team due to the coach's de­ci­sion.

"Hey, we're re­ally sorry. Last time, we didn't even know you had a girl­‐
friend and in­vited peo­ple."

"That's right. Ji­han, we truly apol­o­gize."

As Kim Dong­woo and Lee Yoongi ap­proached, Ha Yeon­joo glanced at

them briefly and then spoke to Seong Ji­han.

"I'll go in first. They are peo­ple I don't want to see."

"Okay, go ahead."

Thanks to Coach Noh Youngjun's per­sua­sive ef­forts, Ha Yeon­joo wasn't as

op­posed to their re­turn to the first team as be­fore, but she still felt un­com­‐
fort­able see­ing them, whether it was last time or now.

"Ugh, she's al­ways like this..."

"We did it with good in­ten­tions. It's un­fair. Re­ally."

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"What's the mat­ter?"

Seong Ji­han stared ex­pres­sion­lessly, mak­ing Kim Dong­woo ner­vous de­spite

hav­ing spo­ken in­for­mally just a while ago. The at­mos­phere made it
strangely un­com­fort­able to speak ca­su­ally.

"Haha... Now that we've re­turned, we need to get along again."

"Get along..."

Seong Ji­han looked at the re­turn­ing first-team War­riors. The ones who had
caused trou­ble by hav­ing a party be­fore the game. While he un­der­stood
Coach Noh Youngjun's de­ci­sion to bring them back to the first team, he
didn't par­tic­u­larly want to so­cial­ize with them.

"You watched the Rus­sia match, right? For the China match, we should fo­‐
cus on my play, just like last time."

"Oh, right. So, we'll use the Tri­an­gle For­ma­tion..."

"Yes, and then, you fig­ure it out your­selves," Ji­han said strictly.

"Oh, okay." Lee Yoongi and Kim Dong­woo nod­ded.

"Al­right then."

Seong Ji­han stepped away, and Lee Yoongi let out a deep sigh.

"Ugh, he's way more prickly than last time. I can't even call him 'hyung'
now."

"Come on, that's enough. Just be­ing back in the team is a big deal." Dong­‐
woo said with a lit­tle op­ti­mism.

"We should give him some space for a while."

"Yeah... Let's not call girls for now. If we want to have fun, we can go out."
Yoongi said to Dong­woo.

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"Right, right. Jin-hyung, we should use the Tri­an­gle For­ma­tion, shouldn't

we?"

Kim Dong­woo nod­ded as if things were fi­nally go­ing well.

"Yeah. We prob­ab­ ly won't win the China match any­way. If we use the Tri­‐
an­gle For­ma­tion, he'll be re­spon­si­ble for turn­ing things around, won't he? It
might even be bet­ter."

The leader of the War­riors was al­ready filled with a sense of de­feat. In fact,
he wasn't the only one with that mind­set. When the na­tional team play­ers
gath­ered in the strat­egy room af­ter their train­ing and an­al­yzed the en­emy's
power videos, sighs echoed from all sides.

"Ugh... China..."

"It's a top-tier team, re­ally."

"How can we beat that?"

China, the sec­ond-best team in the world, pos­sessed for­mi­da­ble power.

"China is a flaw­less team. Es­pe­cially, the strength of their mages and sup­‐
port­ers is top-notch world­wide. If there's one weak­ness, it might be the
War­riors who are rel­at­ively weaker com­pared to their class."

Look­ing at the de­spon­dent play­ers, Coach Noh Youngjun man­aged his ex­‐
pres­sion.

In fact, the coach was well aware that they had a short­age of power. But he
be­lieved that if he suc­cumbed to de­spair, it would be the end. In­stead, he fo­‐
cused on hope­ful el­em­ ents.

"Luck­ily, the first two games are on the same South Gate map as the pre­vi­‐
ous Rus­sia match. In the first game, we'll be on the at­tack."

"But in long-range matches, won't we fall be­hind?"

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"Why play a long-range match when we have Seong Ji­han? We'll use his In­‐
stant Death skill ag­gres­sively if we have to, but we must se­cure the first
game."

Seong Ji­han's marks­man­ship was un­par­al­leled in maps with spe­cific points

to de­fend, like South Gate. Noh Youngjun, the coach, be­lieved in that for
the first game, or rather, he had no other op­tion.

"And in the next game..."

Coach Noh Youngjun briefed the play­ers on the strate­gies from the sec­ond
to the fifth game. The ex­pres­sions of the play­ers changed sub­tly as they lis­‐
tened to the coach's ex­pla­na­tions.

"This... Is this a strat­egy fo­cused on Seong Ji­han?"

"This is a strat­egy sim­i­lar to when we had the Sword King."

For the China match, Seong Ji­han was the linch­pin in ev­ery game. Based on
his out­stand­ing per­for­mance in the Rus­sia match, the tac­tics of the Ko­rean
na­tional team grad­u­ally shifted to re­volve around Seong Ji­han.

"If he crum­bles, it's over."

Ex­clud­ing Seong Ji­han, the Ko­rean team's strate­gies for the China match
were vir­tu­ally non-ex­is­tent.

"If it's not Seong Ji­han, there's no chance of win­ning."

"This might be the bet­ter way..."

"Let's fo­cus on sup­port like we did dur­ing the Sword King era."

Thus, the Ko­rean na­tional team pre­pared their tac­tics with Seong Ji­han at
the cen­ter.

And time passed quickly. The day of the China match had ar­rived.

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North­east Asia League, the China match.

Most peo­ple pre­dicted China's vic­tory. De­spite Seong Ji­han's strong per­for­‐
mance in the Rus­sia match, the Chi­nese na­tional team was con­sid­ered a per­‐
fect team, rank­ing sec­ond in the world. With all pro­fes­sional sports in the
world gone and ev­ery coun­try con­cen­trat­ing its re­sources on Bat­tleNet,
China had fo­cused its vast pop­u­la­tion of 1.2 bil­lion and the world's sec­ond-
largest econ­omy to cre­ate the top Asian na­tional team.

"The North­east Asia League match is be­gin­ning."

"The first game is South Gate."

The map for the first game of the China match was South Gate.

-- The game be­gins!

-- The Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea's na­tional team starts on the siege side.

-- They've de­ployed a tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion from the War­rior camp. Seong

Ji­han is at the front.

-- They seem to be re­ly­ing on Seong Ji­han for a break­through. This strat­egy

is sim­i­lar to the one they used against Rus­sia.

The strat­egy of the Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea's na­tional team was sim­ple: an all-out
strat­egy with Seong Ji­han at the fore­front. It was a style com­pletely dif­fer­‐
ent from the usual strong Archer team of the Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea's na­tional
team, but against China, they had no other choice. There was no chance of
win­ning in long-range bat­tles.

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"Eight Tri­grams Over­lap..."

A Chi­nese player on the city wall ex­tended his hand into the air. Be­hind
him, one of the Eight Tri­grams sym­bols ap­peared.

"It's the Kun (坤) Tri­gram."

Eight Tri­grams Over­lap was an SSS-grade gift held by China's Mage player,
Je Gal­heon. De­pend­ing on the drawn Tri­gram, it greatly en­hanced the at­‐
tributes of their spells.

Je Gal­heon, who laughed upon see­ing the sym­bol for Earth, im­me­di­ately
used a spell.

"Earth­quake!"

Ku­ru­rur...!

A pow­er­ful earth­quake shook the ground and rat­tled the Ko­rean team's main
base.

"Oh, of all the tri­grams, Kun had to be drawn!"

"The power is in­sane!"

"Heal! I think I'm go­ing to die!"

As the game be­gan, the team was in dis­ar­ray. Play­ers with low health were
al­ready in crit­i­cal con­di­tion, mak­ing it chaotic to or­der sup­port magic.

In ad­di­tion:

"The ground has split?"

"It's tough to rush like this."

"Ugh, Je Gal­heon, that crazy guy..."

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The ground in front of the gate had com­pletely split, and there were very
few places to step. It be­came im­pos­si­ble for the en­tire War­rior team to
charge.

"He re­ally pulled it off prop­erly this time, Je Gal­heon."

Je Gal­heon, who was known as China's Grand Mage, had a gift called Eight
Tri­grams Over­lap. De­pend­ing on the drawn tri­gram, he was a player with
vary­ing highs and lows. When par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Space League as a rep­re­‐
sen­ta­tive of Earth, he of­ten drew weird tri­grams that didn't match the sit­u­a­‐
tion. How­ever, to­day, he lucked out from the very first spell.

"What should we do about this?"

"Main­tain for­ma­tion to pre­vent the Tri­gram's ef­fect from break­ing."

"How are we sup­posed to charge in this sit­u­at­ion?"

"But if we stay here, we're bound to lose."

Kim Dong­woo nod­ded in agree­ment with Seong Ji­han's words. If Je Gal­‐

heon's cooldown for Eight Tri­grams Over­lap came back and he used an­‐
other su­per-strong spell, it would be even harder for the Ko­rean na­tional
team to hold out.

"This is how it was in the China match..."

When the Sword King was present, they man­aged to hold their own with
his abil­i­ties, but when the bat­tle­field sit­u­at­ion didn't de­velop fa­vor­ably, they
were help­less in long-range bat­tles.

The sit­u­at­ion was the same now. The Ko­rean na­tional team had no choice
but to charge for­ward, whether they lived or died.

"Go and main­tain the for­ma­tion!"

Seong Ji­han flew with Eclipse.

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Fly­ing through the air, Seong Ji­han had a look that seemed to say they
didn't need the ground, as if soar­ing through the sky.

"So fast... Let's main­tain the for­ma­tion as he said!"

"Got it!"

Fol­low­ing Seong Ji­han's or­ders to keep the tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion in­tact, Kim
Dong­woo en­cour­aged the War­riors to ad­vance.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

-- The Chi­nese na­tional team... Seong Ji­han is their only tar­get!

-- They're not look­ing any­where else!

Their Archer team, which was not much weaker than the Ko­rean archer
team, also had much more pow­er­ful Mages at­tack­ing Seong Ji­han in uni­son.

At­tacks com­ing from all di­rec­tions were each pow­er­ful enough to be lethal.

"It seems that dom­i­nance in the As­cen­sion of Black Shadow isn't enough."

Seong Ji­han used his mar­tial arts, Name­less Di­vine Arts, Dark Shadow
Tech­nique -- Dark soul Vor­tex, cre­at­ing a gi­ant shadow whirl­wind that ab­‐
sorbed the Chi­nese na­tional team's at­tacks.

Zzzing!

Some pow­er­ful spells even pierced through the Dark Shadow vor­tex, but
weak­ened by pass­ing through the whirl­wind, they were man­age­able by
Seong Ji­han.

The Chi­nese play­ers looked at Seong Ji­han as if they couldn't be­lieve it.

"Wow... He's block­ing ev­ery­thing? Is that even pos­si­ble?"

"It's like watch­ing the old Sword King."

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"Is he re­ally in Gold?"

Long-dis­tance DPS was one of China's strong points, sec­ond only to the
United States in the world. They had no idea their at­tacks would be com­‐
pletely blocked.

"This won't work. Tar­get the oth­ers!"

"Break the tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion!"

"He'll be han­dled by Shin­song Il-ry­ong!"

First, they had to get rid of the for­ma­tion buff. The Chi­nese na­tional team
changed their tar­gets to other War­riors.

Boom! Boom!

The re­sults were dis­tinctly dif­fer­ent from be­fore.

"Ah, damn it!"

"These guys are so strong!"

War­riors, who had tried to main­tain the for­ma­tion at all costs, started fall­ing
one by one. The al­ready frag­ile tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion was on the verge of
col­laps­ing.

Ko­rean ranged class play­ers were also en­gaged in com­bat to sup­port the
War­riors, but they couldn't com­pete in fire­power.

-- China is in­deed strong. Very strong!

-- China in this state is just too dif­fi­cult to de­feat!

"We need to hurry."

Con­tin­u­ing like this would re­sult in a dis­as­trous sit­u­at­ion. Seong Ji­han, who
had been ad­just­ing his speed to main­tain the for­ma­tion, made a silent de­ci­‐
sion and in­creased his speed.

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It was cer­tain that the tri­an­gu­lar for­ma­tion buff would dis­ap­pear. There­fore,
he de­cided to en­gage en­emy War­riors be­fore the ef­fect com­pletely van­‐
ished.

Even if the for­ma­tion broke, the buff would still last for about a minute.
That's why he chose to fight the en­emy War­riors.

"Are you com­ing? Amitabha."

In front of the breached gate, a bald man dressed in yel­low robes stood with
an awk­ward com­mand pos­ture. War­rior Shin­song Il-ry­ong, the strong­est in
China.

His golden eyes sparkled.

"He even got the Huan­g­long buff."

The Chi­nese sup­port the Huan­g­long Sum­mon with an SSS-level gift. Shin­‐
song Il-ry­ong's eyes had golden eyes, a unique ef­fect when the Huan­g­long
en­hanced only one per­son.

"108 Arhat For­ma­tion."

As Shin­song Il-ry­ong chanted these words, a golden light shone from all
eight of the War­riors ex­cept him.

"I shall test Seong Ji­han."

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All nine war­riors, in­clud­ing Shin­song Il-ry­ong, turned into light and dis­ap­‐
peared. The same light also shim­mered from Seong Ji­han's body.

[You are in­vited to the 108 Arhat For­ma­tion.]

[The to­tal level and stats are lower than the to­tal of the op­pos­ing play­ers.
You can­not re­sist Arhat's sup­pres­sion.]

[Forced en­try into 108 Arhat For­ma­tion..]

See­ing the con­di­tions for forced sum­mon­ing, Seong Ji­han smiled bit­terly.
No mat­ter how much Un­honed he had, how could he sur­pass the com­bined
lev­els and stats of nine play­ers at his cur­rent level?

"But, there are only nine of them..."

When he fought as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the United States, there were def­i­‐

nitely eigh­teen of them.

With a sense of doubt, Seong Ji­han en­tered the for­ma­tion.

-Wait. What's go­ing on...! 108 Arhat For­ma­tion? Did China have some­thing
like this?

-Along with 108 Arhat For­ma­tion, an­other broad­cast­ing screen has ap­‐
peared!

-Is this... a tem­ple? It's writ­ten as "Shaolinsa"!

In­side the 108 Arhat For­ma­tion.

This place was a com­pletely sep­ar­ ate map from the South Gate map.

In a large hall with "Shaolin Tem­ple" writ­ten on it, Il-ry­ong was stand­ing,
and in the vast open space be­low, more than 100 war­riors formed a for­ma­‐
tion, sur­round­ing Seong Ji­han.

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-They're com­pletely iso­lat­ing a player! This is just out­ra­geous...!

-The Chi­nese play­ers have also been sum­moned to the 108 Arhat For­ma­‐
tion. If you look at it in terms of num­bers, it's an ex­change of 9 Chi­nese
play­ers for 1 Ko­rean player!

108 Arhat For­ma­tion.

A for­ma­tion con­sist­ing of at least 9 play­ers as the main force, when seen as

an ex­change of player num­bers, it was clear that the side de­ploy­ing the for­‐
ma­tion was at a dis­ad­van­tage.

Cap­tur­ing one player but hav­ing nine play­ers trapped was a los­ing propo­si­‐
tion.

How­ever,

-Oh no! Con­sid­er­ing that Seong Ji­han is the cen­ter of South Ko­rea's tac­tics,
this ex­change is clearly a loss!

In the case of the South Ko­rean na­tional team, the story was dif­fer­ent.

In the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion, where there was no one to trust ex­cept Seong Ji­han,
if he were to be trapped with 9 play­ers, the ad­van­tage would be with China.

"Be­fore us­ing it on the 'Sword King,' I should test it on you. Amhitabha."

Shin­song Il-ry­ong took out his Pole as if he had al­ready won, and then,
More than 100 avatars drew their Poles in the same pos­ture, all point­ing
them at Seong Ji­han.

Ex­cept for Shin­song Il-ry­ong, the other eight war­riors had their own equip­‐
ment on, and they were ac­tu­ally keep­ing their dis­tance from Seong Ji­han.

"The Ruler of the Or­tho­dox Fac­tion is Shaolin. If you use an Or­tho­dox

Tech­nique, it is im­pos­si­ble to sur­pass Shaolin."

Thump!

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When Shin­song drove his Pole into the ground,

A sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared in front of Seong Ji­han.

[108 Arhat For­ma­tion forms a for­ma­tion spe­cial­iz­ing in the Or­tho­dox Tech­‐

nique.]

[The power of the Or­tho­dox Fac­tion mar­tial art is re­stricted.]

'So that's why I've been ask­ing so many ques­tions.' Whether it's the Or­tho­‐
dox Fac­tion, the Un­ortho­dox Fac­tion, or the De­monic Fac­tion.

The rea­son for try­ing to find out the ori­gins of mar­tial arts was prob­ab­ ly
this.

It seemed that they spe­cial­ized in the Or­tho­dox Fac­tion.

"I will start the test!"

Swoosh.

As all the monks aimed their Poles, a surge of en­ergy poured to­ward Seong
Ji­han from all di­rec­tions.

Grav­ity sud­denly in­creased by dozens of times, and the pres­sure in­ten­si­fied

as if the very air was re­stricted. If it were an or­di­nary player, just stand­ing
here would crush their body.

'...Weaker than last time?' Seong Ji­han raised an eye­brow. Com­pared to

when he ex­pe­ri­enced 108 Arhat For­ma­tion with the U.S. na­tional team, the
power here was much weaker.

'But my level and abil­i­ties should be sim­i­lar to back then,' Seong Ji­han
thought, thanks to his In­her­ent skills. He had a strength equiv­al­ent to a
Gold-rank, sim­il­ar to his first full-strength class.

How­ever...

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'Maybe it's be­cause there are nine of them, but the op­pres­sion feels much
weaker.' The num­ber of mem­bers form­ing the for­ma­tion was quite less than
dur­ing the U.S. match, there were 18 dur­ing that. So it was sig­nif­i­cantly
weaker than what Seong Ji­han re­mem­bered from his past ex­pe­ri­ence.

More­over...

"Play­ers are vis­i­ble." Un­like the 100 monks (Avatars), who all looked the
same, eight play­ers were mak­ing it clear they weren't monks. This was a no­‐
tice­able dif­fer­ence from the pre­vi­ous 108 Arhat For­ma­tion, where ev­ery­one
looked sim­i­lar.

'For now, I'll take care of the play­ers.' Seong Ji­han rushed to­ward the player
who was hold­ing back.

Shhh!

At the same time, the Shaolin monks raised their Poles in uni­son to­wards
Seong Ji­han. Each of their at­tacks seemed stronger than a Di­am ­ ond-tier
player's sin­gle strike. It was all thanks to the 108 Arhat For­ma­tion's buff ef­‐
fect.

But...

"Gui Zha."

[Un­der­stood, Mas­ter.]

The shadow of a monk rose from be­hind and turned into a sheild, pierc­ing
it­self but pro­tect­ing it's mas­ter, Il-ry­ong.

Thud!

"I'll come back... again!"

The monk struck by the sword dis­ap­peared while ut­ter­ing those words. And
as soon as the death process was com­plete, new monks reap­peared on the
out­skirts of the for­ma­tion. The NPC-sum­moned monks respawned im­me­di­‐
ately, even if they were de­feated.

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"In the past, even tak­ing on a sin­gle monk was tough due to the pres­sure of
the for­ma­tion, but..." Seong Ji­han thought. The weak­ened 108 Arhat For­ma­‐
tion was dif­fer­ent. With this level of free­dom, he felt he could use his pow­‐
er­ful mar­tial arts.

The shad­ows that com­posed Seong Ji­han's Black Sword ex­tended long and
far. It shot up into the sky like it could swal­low the sun, cre­at­ing a mas­sive
shadow aura. Eclipse trans­formed into a gi­gan­tic sword in an in­stant.

"Uh..."

"Block it!"

Far away, Chi­nese play­ers who had tried to es­cape shouted at the monks,
but with a swift strike of the shad­owy greatsword, in­clud­ing NPC monks,
three Chi­nese play­ers van­ished into the sword.

Swoooosh...

How­ever, in­stead of im­me­di­ately gen­er­at­ing new dead monks, they reap­‐

peared one by one with a time de­lay. It was a phe­nom­en­ on caused by the
col­lapse of one axis of 108 Arhat For­ma­tion.

"This... this crazy guy!" Shin­song Il-rong's face turned pale. How could he
be in such per­fect shape and ex­ert full power in 108 Arhat For­ma­tion?

"Yeah, I said I was us­ing this dirty old mar­tial art!" Dis­re­gard­ing for­mal
speech and burst­ing into pro­fan­ity, he blamed China's in­for­ma­tion di­vi­sion
and rushed at Seong Ji­han.

"Great Strength Va­jra Palm!"

A mas­sive golden palm-shaped gust of wind flew to­ward Seong Ji­han, but...

"Hey, why is the for­ma­tion so weak?" Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally avoided the
gust of wind and ap­proached Il-ry­ong. "And af­ter three of them died, it got
even weaker. Don't I just need to take care of the re­main­ing play­ers?"

"You lit­tle... In­stead of run­ning your dirty mouth, fight me!"

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"No thanks. You're not dy­ing, are you?"

"What... How did you...?"

When Il-ry­ong squinted his eyes, Seong Ji­han smiled sar­cas­ti­cally.

"Haha, I know ev­ery­thing~"

In­side 108 Arhat For­ma­tion, Il-ry­ong was in­vin­ci­ble. No mat­ter how much
he was at­tacked, he wouldn't die, and his power kept in­creas­ing as the Head
of the for­ma­tion. The way to con­quer 108 Arhat For­ma­tion was to ig­nore
the in­vin­ci­ble op­po­nent and cap­ture the other play­ers mak­ing up the for­ma­‐
tion.

"You found a bit of hope and at­tacked me. But are you re­ally not dy­ing?"
Seong Ji­han asked him sar­cas­ti­cally.

"You...! You dared to at­tack...!"

"The fault lies with those who got hit. I'll go deal with the oth­ers."

"Stop right there!"

Il-ry­ong hur­riedly fol­lowed Seong Ji­han, but no mat­ter how em­pow­ered he

was, he couldn't stop Seong Ji­han with his mar­tial arts.

"No. How can this guy...?"

He fol­lowed be­hind Seong Ji­han help­lessly, watch­ing as the other play­ers

were slaugh­tered.

When the eighth player died...

[All of 108 Arhat For­ma­tion's axes have col­lapsed.]

[108 Arhat For­ma­tion is dis­band­ing.]

108 Arhat For­ma­tion, which made its de­but in the world, dis­banded help­‐
lessly. And then...

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"Now I'll fin­ish it."

As all eight play­ers died.

Seong Ji­han, the only one left, looked at the res­ur­rected Il-ry­ong with a sly
grin.

"Kyaaaah!"

The sword sliced through Il-ry­ong's neck.

"Name­less Di­vine arts, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret: Blood Cross."

In suc­ces­sion, Seong Ji­han swept away the re­main­ing Chi­nese war­riors.

"Seong Ji­han!"

"108 Arhat For­ma­tion is crum­bling!"

"The na­tional team was on the verge of an­ni­hi­la­tion, but he came at the
right time!"

"He's the only one left and com­pletely slaugh­tered the Chi­nese war­rior for­‐
ma­tion!"

The first game, which seemed like it was go­ing to end in Ko­rea's de­feat,
turned around as Seong Ji­han sin­gle-hand­edly lifted the Ko­rean na­tional
team.

"South Ko­rea wins the first game!"

"I can't be­lieve it! How can one player have this much power?"

"The Chi­nese na­tional team looks dazed!"

"That's right. We had al­ready won! There are barely 30 sur­vivors on the Ko­‐
rean na­tional team! They were com­pletely over­whelmed in the fire­power
bat­tle!"

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"Oh, the Chi­nese na­tional team has re­quested a time de­lay! The next game
will be de­layed by 20 min­utes!"

"What are they try­ing to do?"

Fol­low­ing the Chi­nese na­tional team's 20-minute time re­quest, there was a
no­tice­able change in the two sub­se­quent games.

"The Chi­nese na­tional team's player lineup hasn't changed, but... huh?!"

"What's go­ing on?! All Chi­nese war­riors have shaved their heads!"

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Chap­ter 148
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20 min­utes ago, at the Chi­nese team's Bat­tleNet Cen­ter.

The faces of the play­ers emerg­ing from the con­nec­tor were stern.

"Ha. Se­ri­ously..."

"De­feated by one guy? Are these war­riors re­ally that use­less?"

Even though play­ers from other po­si­tions openly cursed, the Chi­nese war­‐
riors couldn't say a word.

They were al­ready con­sid­ered the weak­est among the four classes in China,
and be­ing the cause of the first-game de­feat only in­ten­si­fied the in­sults.

"That's why I sug­gested shav­ing our heads."

Shin­song Il-ry­ong frowned as he looked at his fel­low war­riors.

"Be­cause 108 Arhat For­ma­tion is less suit­able, he's killing play­ers in­stead
of monks."

"I didn't think they'd be that strong..."

"When we tested it, we thought this would be enough."

Sigh...

Shin­song Il-ry­ong clenched his jaw tightly.

In truth, those words were right. When they se­cretly tested 108 Arhat For­‐
ma­tion, they thought it would be enough to neu­tral­ize the op­po­nent.

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But the re­sults were com­pletely dif­fer­ent, and now, with this level of 108
Arhat For­ma­tion, it wasn't enough.

"Is the con­ver­sa­tion over? Well, then, I guess we should shave our heads."

"Yes, Coach."

The Chi­nese coach ap­proached with a stern ex­pres­sion. Be­hind him, sev­eral
coaches hold­ing clip­pers were wait­ing.

"Uh..."

"Can't I be ex­empted? I'll look re­ally ugly with a shaved head!"

"Use a wig! They have good qual­ity ones these days."

"I wasn't in­cluded in the 108 Arhat For­ma­tion..."

"What are you talk­ing about? You should take re­spon­si­bil­ity for this. If you
had per­formed well, we wouldn't have lost the first game."

With that, all of China's war­riors had their heads shaved.

In fact, it would be dif­fi­cult to force them to do this un­der nor­mal cir­cum­‐

stances, given their high so­cial sta­tus as top-class war­riors.

Since the cause of the first-game de­feat lay with them, they couldn't rebel
against hav­ing their heads shaved.

"Waa... My face...!!!"

"Seong Ji­han... This time, I'll kill him..."

The Chi­nese war­riors, their heads gleam­ing, seethed with anger. Play­ers
from other po­si­tions couldn't help but laugh as they watched from a dis­‐
tance.

"War­riors, can you at least do it prop­erly this time?"

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"Is it even worth be­ing de­feated by Weak Ko­re­ans?"

"Back when Sword King played, they were like this too! Tsk." Other
Classes kept mak­ing fun of War­riors.

In ad­di­tion, the Chi­nese coach spoke to the war­riors who were silently en­‐
dur­ing the hu­mil­i­at­ion.

"18 peo­ple will go in for this 108 Arhat For­ma­tion."

"18 peo­ple... Isn't that a bit ex­ces­sive?"

"We can win as long as Seong Ji­han is ab­sent. Right, Je Gal­heon?"

When the Chi­nese coach turned around, a man with long hair who had been
mut­ter­ing un­der his breath nod­ded calmly.

"Yes. The baldies just need to do well. Or rather, if we get rid of Seong Ji­‐
han on the bat­tle­field, the game will be over."

"Good. Then, the war­riors will fo­cus on stop­ping Seong Ji­han. Just buy
some time, don't bother try­ing to sub­due him."

The strat­egy was to strengthen 108 Arhat For­ma­tion and keep Seong Ji­han
tied up. This strat­egy was based on the premise that a China team with 18
play­ers miss­ing could de­feat the Ko­rean team with only one player miss­ing.

While it might sound hu­mil­i­at­ing for the op­pos­ing team to hear, this tac­tic
worked ex­tremely well for Ko­rea.

***

-Oh no! 108 Arhat For­ma­tion!!! Ev­ery­one shaved their heads and came
out... It's def­i­nitely dif­fer­ent from the first game! Seong Ji­han's move­ments
have be­come slug­gish!

-Chi­nese na­tional team! 18 of their war­riors are miss­ing! The Ko­rean na­‐
tional team's war­riors need to step up! They have more than a two-to-one
ad­van­tage in num­bers...!

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Ko­rea's South Gate De­fense. Seong Ji­han, along with 18 en­emy war­riors,
dis­ap­peared within 108 Arhat For­ma­tion. The Chi­nese na­tional team's war­‐
riors were re­duced to only 12.

With such a dis­par­ity in war­rior num­bers, Ko­rea's war­riors in a de­fen­sive

stance had to launch an at­tack. How­ever...

-Oh, we're com­pletely out­matched in the fire­power bat­tle! Je Gal­heon! He

used the Eight Tri­grams Over­lap again! This time, it's Flame?, and he's
pulled out Fire!

-Hell­fire... it's blaz­ing... The ground is com­pletely on fire! Ko­rean war­riors

can't even ad­vance, let alone de­fend the gate...!

-Long-range fire­power bat­tle is way too un­fa­vor­able!

99 to 82. De­spite the 17-player dif­fer­ence, Ko­rea was over­whelm­ingly

pushed back. In ad­di­tion to Je Gal­heon's tran­scen­dent magic, there was also
an en­emy sup­porter coun­ter­ing the Ko­rean na­tional team.

"Ugh... That damn Golden Dragon!"

Ha Yeon­joo, the archer leader, ex­ploded in anger. The play­ers she des­ig­‐
nated for con­cen­trated snip­ing were not dy­ing as planned. This was be­cause
the mas­sive Golden Dragon, which cir­cled the Chi­nese na­tional team,
would fly over to pro­tect the tar­get play­ers when­ever they were cho­sen.

Be­cause of the Golden Dragon, their kill rate dropped from 10 to 5.

On the other hand, the en­emy's archers was still wreak­ing havoc on the Ko­‐
rean play­ers.

-Seong Ji­han is hold­ing strong! He elim­i­nated the 9 play­ers hid­den among

the en­emy war­riors! Now, if we can find a few more...!

-Ah. But... Kim Dong­woo has fallen! There are no war­riors to block the
gate!

-Chi­nese play­ers are en­ter­ing the gate...!

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-Oh... It's a shame... It was 99 against 82...

The com­men­ta­tors couldn't help but lament. China was known to be strong,
but to suf­fer such a crush­ing de­feat with such a nu­mer­i­cal dis­ad­van­tage was
shock­ing.

The chat win­dows of view­ers watch­ing the broad­cast were filled with re­ac­‐
tions: -This is re­ally bad, lol!

-With­out Seong Ji­han, it's over.

-Are these skills for real? Why does Je Gal­heon keep pulling out crazy
spells?

-Holy moly, Golden Dragon is amaz­ing! It im­me­di­ately pro­tected the

sniped play­ers.

*****

*****

-Hey, how did we win against China? It looks like a com­plete counter with
the archer team get­ting blocked.

-We won against them be­cause of the Sword King lol!

Even with Seong Ji­han and 18 Chi­nese play­ers in­side 108 Arhat For­ma­tion,
the re­sult turned out like this. It was a de­feat that made the first game's vic­‐
tory fade away.

And for the third match, the map was the same as the Rus­sia match, a Train
map. Just like in long-range bat­tles, the re­sult was sim­i­lar here.

-Seong Ji­han. He's go­ing to strike down from the sky as he did in the Rus­sia
match...

-China's sup­port­ers are per­fectly pre­pared! The pro­tec­tive shield im­bued

with Golden Dragon is in­cred­i­bly strong! It seems that those who re­ceived
fa­tal in­juries can still sur­vive.

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-He truly acts like an SSS-class gift sup­porter. Joo Ryung-Ryung, you're
amaz­ing...!

-Oh no! Je Gal­heon pulled out Flame again...! Hell­fire erupts from the Ko­‐
rean train! The play­ers are get­ting mas­sa­cred!

'It seems like there's no easy so­lu­tion to this.'

Seong Ji­han ob­served his sur­round­ings from the burn­ing train. While it was
ex­pected to be a fierce bat­tle against China on the Train map, he didn't an­‐
tic­i­pate get­ting pushed back so one-sid­edly.

'Maybe I should just fly over to the en­emy train.'

Seong Ji­han made a huge leap from the train. As he soared through the air,
magic spells were un­leashed.

"Stop him!"

"Fo­cus on him! Block him!"

"Re­verse Grav­ity!"

"Slow!"

Nu­mer­ous spells were cast. This time, it wasn't di­rect at­tacks but rather
slow­ing spells that aimed to im­mo­bi­lize him. They caused some in­ter­fer­‐
ence, but...

'This is noth­ing.'

They couldn't com­pletely halt Seong Ji­han's progress.

-Oh, Seong Ji­han is still ad­vanc­ing de­spite the en­emy's magic!

-Thanks to him, the en­emy's of­fen­sive against the train has weak­ened even
more! His con­tri­bu­tion to the team is truly re­mark­able!

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Thanks to Seong Ji­han fly­ing to the en­emy train, they could pre­vent the im­‐
me­di­ate an­ni­hi­la­tion of their team.

"Seong Ji­han, is com­ing at the land­ing spot! Pre­pare 108 Arhat For­ma­tion!"

"If we can get rid of Seong Ji­han, we win!"

Still, I couldn't change the game's out­come. 108 Arhat For­ma­tion was a
game-changer, a team that could com­pletely an­ni­hi­late play­ers on the field.
For a 1 per­son pow­er­house team like Ko­rea, this was the worst counter.

In the first game, the game was tough be­cause they weren't fully pre­pared.

"108 Arhat For­ma­tion"

From that point on, 108 Arhat For­ma­tion showed ex­cep­tional ef­fec­tive­ness.

"To­day, I'm draw­ing great cards! Me­teor Strike!"

Shoooong!

A mas­sive me­teor fell onto the Ko­rean train.

Al­ready de­mor­al­ized as a sup­port and mage-in­fested Ko­rean team, they

couldn't stop the me­teor im­pact.

Bam!

"The train de­rails."

En­ter­ing 108 Arhat For­ma­tion, Seong Ji­han, who was look­ing for the real
among the bald heads, frowned.

"No, it seems like we lost al­ready?"

"Game over."

"Ha­haha! Is it over al­ready? Your team is so weak. In­stead of be­ing in such

a small coun­try, why not come to our great na­tion, China?"

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Next to Seong Ji­han, Il-ry­ong, who was sup­press­ing him, logged out while
grum­bling.

This con­ver­sa­tion was broad­cast as is.

-Ugh, that Chi­nese guy is so an­noy­ing -_-

-They have 18 play­ers and act like they're so great, lololol. But our na­tional
team is re­ally bad...

-No, we don't even hope to win. Can't they at least drag it out while Song Ji­‐
han is stuck in the 108 Arhat For­ma­tion?

-Nah, it was Seong Ji­han who couldn't come out quickly, lol.

-Ah, lol. They have to sweep them in 10 sec­onds... what are they do­ing...
what are they do­ing ㅠㅠㅠ 2 out of 3 games were com­plete losses, and the
at­mos­phere in Ko­rea was no dif­fer­ent from a fu­neral par­lor.

With Seong Ji­han's card locked, it felt like a los­ing sit­u­at­ion no mat­ter what
they did. Peo­ple paid at­ten­tion to the next game.

-The 4th game is map se­lec­tion, right?

-Yeah, please, make it an in­di­vid­ual match, War­rior's In­di­vid­ual Match,

please ㅠㅠ -- Archer's In­di­vid­ual Match is okay too. As long as it's not a
mage sup­port ㅋㅋㅋㅋ -- Even in a team bat­tle, if it's 50 or fewer play­ers,
they might not be able to use 108 Arhat For­ma­tion...

The game out­come will be de­cided by luck.

In the re­gional leagues, the first three games fol­lowed pre­de­ter­mined maps
for the month.

How­ever, the 4th and 5th games were ran­domly as­signed maps.

There were var­i­ous types of maps, in­clud­ing team bat­tles with 100 play­ers
and in­di­vid­ual or small elite group bat­tles.

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Ko­re­ans hoped for the draw­ing of two hands to fa­vor a War­rior or Archer
in­di­vid­ual map. De­spite the odds, Seong Ji­han and Ha Yeonju were in­di­vid­‐
u­ally stronger than the Chi­nese play­ers. How­ever...

"The map for the 4th game is an in­di­vid­ual match, 'Mage's Tower.'"

"Only Mage class play­ers can par­tic­i­pate."

Ko­rea had no luck in the draw.

One of the most pow­er­ful ma­gi­cians in ex­is­tence, Je Gal­heon, had to face

other ma­gi­cians.

We lost, damn it.

-Where's the win from the first game? Sigh.

-Turn­ing off the TV to go to sleep~^^ Good­bye!

As soon as the map was con­firmed, Ko­re­ans in the chat started leav­ing like
a flood.

Mean­while, the Chi­nese were in a fes­tive mood.

-It's over.

-Je Gal­heon will fin­ish the game.

-Beat­ing Ko­re­ans this way wasn't very sat­is­fy­ing, but 108 Arhat For­ma­tion
showed its ef­fect af­ter I shaved my head.

-Those trash war­riors only have some use in shav­ing their heads.

-Keep work­ing hard un­til Wang Lin (Cheonma) reaches Di­am

­ ond.

Was that the rea­son?

-- The Ko­rean na­tional team has re­quested a time­out!

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-- Oh. It's an in­di­vid­ual mage match... is there any­one to re­place Je Gal­‐

heon?

-- As far as I know, there isn't... I'm cu­ri­ous about Coach Noh Youngjun's
in­ten­tions!

Even though the Ko­rean na­tional team re­quested a time­out, there were al­‐
most no ex­pec­ta­tions for what would come next.

Un­til the list of re­place­ment play­ers was re­vealed.

-- Uh, what...?

-- Wait, wait! What is this...!

-- Rep­re­sent­ing South Ko­rea, Seong Ji­han will com­pete!

***

"Ha­haha..."

Coach Noh Youngjun, watch­ing Seong Ji­han par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 4th game,
re­called what had just hap­pened.

"Coach, I'll go in."

"Ji­han... This game is for mage class only..."

"Coach, you do know that I'm an all-class, right? I can par­tic­i­pate as a

mage."

"Oh... Oh! That's right! I for­got about that! Then you can par­tic­i­pate in this
round as well!"

Noh Youngjun, the coach, had con­sid­ered Seong Ji­han's value as equal to
that of the Sword King un­til now. Even though his power might still be
weaker than the Sword King, he had eval­u­ated Seong Ji­han as hav­ing the
po­ten­tial to sur­pass him once he lev­eled up.

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But at this very mo­ment, Seong Ji­han's value was be­ing re-eval­u­ated once
again due to one over­looked fact.

"That's all I need. I can win the in­di­vid­ual matches with him!"

An all-class. In this Bat­tleNet game, it was be­cause it pro­vided an over­‐

whelm­ing strate­gic ad­van­tage.

With trem­bling eyes, Coach Noh Youngjun watched the live broad­cast of
the 4th game.

"What, what is this? How are you in this match?"

"I'm a mage too. See, watch this. Fire."

Seong Ji­han showed the ba­sic mage spell, Fire, to the sur­prised Je Gal­heon
on the screen.

"This... This is... It's a cheat! It's rigged!"

Je Gal­heon yelled when he saw it, but he couldn't stop Seong Ji­han's ap­‐
proach.

Je Gal­heon tried to re­sist with var­i­ous spells, but even with mul­ti­ple stacked
bar­ri­ers, it was im­pos­si­ble to de­feat Seong Ji­han in a one-on-one bat­tle.

Bam!

[Player 'Je Gal­heon' has been de­feated.]

The 4th game ended in less than 5 min­utes. View­ers from both coun­tries
were in a state of con­fu­sion at the com­pletely un­ex­pected game re­sult.

-???????? What's this?? Why is he play­ing as a mage?

-We lost this game... like this?

-Do we need to re­port this crazy game to the au­thor­i­ties? This is how they
man­age it!?

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-They should have rules like 'If it's a mage map, only magic fights' in sa­cred
mage du­els!

Chi­nese view­ers were an­gry about miss­ing a win­ning game.

-This game...? This? This?

-Ha­haha, Fire is so ridicu­lous! Is this real? With Seong Ji­han, is it a free

pass in in­di­vid­ual matches?

-Pray to god, 5th match is also an in­di­vid­ual match!

Ko­rean view­ers who turned off their TV when they saw Seong Ji­han came
back, and the at­mos­phere was fes­tive.

The score was tied at 2:2.

The draw­ing of the next game map be­came more im­por­tant than any­thing
else.

"Please, team match..."

"Please, in­di­vid­ual match..."

View­ers from both coun­tries were on edge, won­der­ing what was at stake for
the 5th game.

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Chap­ter 149
[The map for the 5th game is the 'In­va­sion: Cap­ture the Flag.']

[75 play­ers will be par­tic­i­pat­ing.]

"Wow!"

"It's a team match!"

Cheers erupted from the Chi­nese na­tional team.

"Well... it's a Cap­ture the Flag map."

"I guess it's tough to have two in­di­vid­ual matches in a row..."

Con­versely, the at­mos­phere among the Ko­rean na­tional team was sub­dued.
They ex­pected the 5th game to be chal­leng­ing, es­pe­cially af­ter suf­fer­ing
con­sec­u­tive de­feats in the team matches, ex­cept for the first one.

"The map size... with 75 play­ers, it's con­sid­ered a small map, right?"

"Yes, that's cor­rect."

"This doesn't look good."

Coach Noh Youngjun let out a sigh.

Cap­ture the Flag, as the name sug­gests, is a game where play­ers com­pete to
cap­ture more ran­domly gen­er­ated flags at key points on the map. The
game's out­come is typ­i­cally de­cided 30 min­utes later based on the num­ber
of flags stored in each team's main base. How­ever, this map had sev­eral dif­‐
fer­ent vic­tory con­di­tions, such as elim­i­nat­ing all play­ers from the op­pos­ing
team or de­stroy­ing the en­emy's main base.

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The rea­son for Noh Youngjun's dark ex­pres­sion was pre­cisely these vic­tory
con­di­tions.

"...In small maps, China has a 100% win rate."

"So, of all things, it had to be a small map! If it were a 100-player map, we

would have had a chance!"

Al­though it was called a small map, the size of the Cap­ture the Flag map
was sub­stan­tial. How­ever, the prob­lem was that Je Gal­heon, China's Grand
Mage, had a spell range that matched it, even from his main base, some­‐
times to the point of us­ing su­per spells.

"Yes... in small maps, even if Je Gal­heon draws a bad card, the me­teor
strike spell will reach the tar­get due to the Joo-Ryung's buff."

"How long did the games take for China?"

"On av­er­age, they took about 20 to 30 min­utes. If Je Gal­heon drew a good

card, it could end in 15 min­utes."

"Hehe... this is just un­be­liev­able!"

Con­trary to the orig­i­nal game mode of Cap­ture the Flag, when China played
the map, they uni­lat­er­ally bom­barded the en­emy's main base, and the game
ended. No mat­ter how many flags the op­pos­ing team se­cured, they couldn't
win be­cause the place where flags should be stored was blown up.

"Even if they try to dis­rupt our abil­ity to use magic..."

"It's be­cause of that damn Golden Dragon. Only Seong Ji­han can deal a
proper blow."

"It's not easy be­cause of 108 Arhat For­ma­tion"

Noh Youngjun let out a sigh. China, al­ready a strong team, be­came even
more for­mi­da­ble with 108 Arhat For­ma­tion. Of course, the for­ma­tion it­self
had many weak­nesses, so the side that re­ceived the blow could gain an
over­whelm­ing nu­mer­i­cal ad­van­tage.

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"Even if it's 74 to 57, can we win... it's quite daunt­ing."

With only one player miss­ing from the team, Noh Youngjun couldn't see a
win­ning sce­nario. This was be­cause the syn­ergy be­tween China's mages and
sup­port play­ers was over­whelm­ing. The mood among the coach­ing staff
seemed to have in­fected the na­tional team play­ers, as they all had dark ex­‐
pres­sions.

Ex­cept for one per­son. Ex­clud­ing Seong Ji­han.

"Coach, I think we can de­feat 108 Arhat For­ma­tion this time."

In the first, sec­ond, and third games, 108 Arhat For­ma­tion had been a for­‐
mi­da­ble op­po­nent. In the sec­ond and third games, they were even more
pow­er­ful due to the sup­pres­sion by the en­hanced Jin. But Seong Ji­han now
had con­fi­dence. He had the con­vic­tion that he could de­feat it.

"Re­ally? You think so?"

"Yes, so please bear with it for just 20 min­utes."

"20 min­utes..."

Surely, they could en­dure for about 20 min­utes. Noh Youngjun nod­ded with
a glim­mer of hope in his heart.

***

Cap­ture the Flag map, China's main base.

Seong Ji­han walked there alone. Even with­out form­ing a tri­an­gle for­ma­tion,
he ap­proached alone.

"That Ko­rean is so ar­ro­gant."

"Why not just kill him in­stead of us­ing 108 Arhat For­ma­tion?"

"Where's that con­fi­dence com­ing from?"

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The Chi­nese play­ers seemed to take it as an in­sult and com­plained, but

those who had been de­feated by Seong Ji­han in the fourth game urged Il-ry­‐
ong to cast his spell.

Il-ry­ong started the process to cast 108 Arhat For­ma­tion again.

Shin­song Il-ry­ong, the most in­flu­en­tial war­rior on the Chi­nese na­tional

team had a dark ex­pres­sion due to the ties score.

"It's time for 108 Arhat For­ma­tion to test Seong Ji­han."

No mat­ter how far Seong Ji­han was, as long as he was within the field of vi­‐
sion of Shin­song Il-ry­ong, 108 Arhat For­ma­tion's sup­pres­sion ef­fect was ap­‐
plied.

Once in­side the vor­tex cre­ated by Shin­song Il-ry­ong.

"Magic can­not over­come des­tiny. The Shaolin al­ways stood at the fore­front
un­der the ban­ner of Heaven"

Thud!

Shin­song Il-ry­ong struck the ground with his staff. A sys­tem mes­sage ap­‐
peared in front of Seong Ji­han.

[108 Arhat For­ma­tion forms a for­ma­tion spe­cial­ized for mar­tial arts.]

[The power of Mar­tial Arts magic from the or­tho­dox fac­tion is re­stricted.]

Af­ter the for­ma­tion was dis­rupted by the Eclipse in the first game, Shin­song
Il-ry­ong con­tin­ued to use mar­tial arts for­ma­tions.

As a re­sult, the shadow en­ergy of Seong Ji­han's Sword Eclipse drained

away and he stored it.

"Ugh, still an­noy­ing!"

"Any­way, let's go."

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With just the Pheonix Spear in hand, Seong Ji-han waited. The war­riors
hold­ing clubs all charged to­ward him.

Just like the first match, there were no stand­out play­ers; ev­ery­one looked
like reg­u­lar war­riors from Shaolin.

Seong Ji-han swung his spear hor­i­zon­tally.

"Name­less Di­vine Art, Triad of Mar­tial Mas­tery -- To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion."

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Seong Ji­han's spear di­vided the ranks of the Shaolin war­riors.

How­ever, not ev­ery­one fell be­fore Seong Ji­han's strikes. About half of them
raised their staff to block Seong Ji­han's at­tack. Nor­mally, he would have cut
through all of them eas­ily.

'His power is only about 20% of its usual strength.'

108 Arhat For­ma­tion's sup­pres­sion, even with only half its strength, was
quite for­mi­da­ble. Even half of the strong mar­tial artists were sup­pressed. In
this state, even the use of other mar­tial arts that are not part of the Mar­tial
God sys­tem was dif­fi­cult.

In ad­di­tion, the fallen mar­tial artists were quickly re­placed by new ones,
and the liv­ing ones swung their staff force­fully.

Seong Ji­han's spear moved grace­fully, block­ing all at­tacks and over­whelm­‐
ing the sur­round­ings. How­ever, the mar­tial artists' tac­tics seemed end­less.

-Oh, Seong Ji­han... the mar­tial artists who have shaved their heads are con­‐
stantly pres­sur­ing him!

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-No mat­ter how many Shaolin mar­tial artists he de­feats, they keep com­ing.
Isn't this worse than zom­bies?

-Hehe, they called it 108 Arhat For­ma­tion.. but how many of them are pop­‐
ping out?

The com­men­ta­tors were ex­hausted by the re­lent­less mar­tial artists. If some­‐

one other than Seong Ji­han were in­side, they would have been over­‐
whelmed by the staff.

Yet, Seong Ji­han, even with his strength sup­pressed, was par­ry­ing all the
mar­tial artists' at­tacks and counter at­tack­ing.

A smile ap­peared on Seong Ji­han's lips.

"This kind of bat­tle has its own taste. With power re­strained, there are even
some ad­van­tages."

Since gain­ing the abil­ity of the star and the void af­ter ob­tain­ing the Mar­tial
Soul, Seong Ji­han couldn't fully con­trol his power. He felt like he was us­ing
his new­found strength rather than push­ing the lim­its of his abil­ity. But now,
with his power re­stricted, he could truly ap­pre­ci­ate how lim­it­less the po­ten­‐
tial of the star's abil­ity was.

'My strength... I can pull out more here.'

Whosh!

To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion was un­leashed again.

Swoosh!

The monks were all split in two.

The hor­i­zon­tal cut was much more pow­er­ful than a while ago.

All the mar­tial artists' staff had strong en­ergy, but this time, they couldn't
stop Seong Ji­han's strike.

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"This guy... he's in­cred­i­bly per­sis­tent!"

The Monks wore an ex­as­per­ated ex­pres­sion. It seemed like Seong Ji­han

was get­ting stronger as time passed.

He couldn't un­leash a pow­er­ful tech­nique like in the first round, but his
mas­tery of us­ing the spear was ex­cep­tional, evok­ing both jeal­ousy and awe
in Shin­song Il-ryung. Seong Ji­han wasn't just a player who had been cho­sen
to in­crease his stats. His mar­tial skills were al­ready com­plete, as if he were
a fin­ished mar­tial artist.

"Would you just die al­ready...! Palm of the Golden Bud­dha!"

Il-ryung's hand gleamed with a golden light.

Whoosh!

It was a com­pletely dif­fer­ent level from the first round, a golden ki that
shone bril­liantly flew to­ward Seong Ji­han. Ig­nor­ing the sur­round­ing mar­tial
artists, it drew a large golden hand shape as it fiercely rushed to­ward Seong
Ji­han.

The level of skill con­tained within was far from be­ing con­sid­ered so­phis­ti­‐
cated, but with the as­sis­tance of 108 Arhat For­ma­tion, the power was quite
re­strained.

'I can't block it with my ba­sic skills.'

That's why, dur­ing the sec­ond and third rounds, Seong Ji­han avoided the at­‐
tacks and looked for open­ings. At that time, he thought there would be
plenty of time.

But af­ter los­ing the sec­ond and third rounds, he re­al­ized.

'There's no room for er­ror on the na­tional team.'

The na­tional team was as frag­ile as a sand­cas­tle, and there was no room to
drag out the time.

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Seong Ji­han re­called a skill to deal with this sit­u­at­ion. While the three di­‐
vine tech­niques were un­avail­able due to power con­straints, there was one
skill he could use.

"My own mar­tial art, a fu­sion of Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt and Phoenix's

Flames. This mar­tial art was mod­i­fied from the Di­vine Thun­der De­cree, and
had a low suc­cess rate.

Thun­der­bolt's thun­der­ous power was sig­nif­i­cantly stronger than the mere

flick­er­ing flames of Phoenix.

'Re­strict­ing one's power might ac­tu­ally al­low for a proper fu­sion,' Seong Ji­‐
han thought about the arhat for­ma­tion.

The ex­ces­sive power it had was sup­pressed within 108 Arhat For­ma­tion. It
was clear that the path to un­veil­ing the ini­tial en­light­en­ment had be­come
ap­par­ent.

Name­less di­vine art, Fu­sion of Di­vine thun­der and phoenix: Crim­son Thun­‐
der can­non At the tip of the spear, a flash of red light­ning oc­curred, and a
sin­gle stream of elec­tric­ity ex­tended. The en­ergy emit­ted by this red light­‐
ning seemed much smaller and weaker com­pared to the Di­vine Thun­der
De­cree mar­tial arts Seong Ji­han was us­ing...

While the in­ten­sity of the crim­son light­ning may have ap­peared weak and
fee­ble com­pared to the Ce­les­tial Thun­der Di­vine Tech­nique Seong Ji­han
had been us­ing un­til now, it had an en­tirely dif­fer­ent na­ture.

"What...?!"

Crack!

In an in­stant, the sur­round­ings were torn apart like a scroll.

The gath­ered en­ergy re­mained a fiery red, and a sin­gle strand of Red Thun­‐
der did not stop its move­ment.

Zzzzt!

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With­out any chance to re­act, Shin­song Il-ryung was pierced by the red
light­ning, cre­at­ing a gap­ing hole in his chest. Flames erupted through the
crack.

In the blink of an eye, it seemed like his body would be con­sumed by the
flames.

"B-But we're in­side 108 Arhat for­ma­tion...!"

In­side 108 Arhat For­ma­tion, Shin­song Il-ryung, was im­mor­tal. Even if the
crim­son light­ning pos­sessed ex­tra­or­di­nary de­struc­tive power, his body
would re­gen­er­ate quickly.

That was how it should be...

"Why... Why is this hap­pen­ing...?"

Strangely, the crack was ex­pand­ing, and the flames that erupted from his
chest showed no signs of ex­tin­guish­ing.

The re­gen­er­at­ive abil­i­ties of the Chi­nese war­rior strug­gled to con­tain these

flames.

Shin­song Il-ry­ong couldn't stand against the over­whelm­ing feel­ing of his

strength dis­si­pat­ing.

Thud!

He fell to his knees, and not long af­ter that, the Red Thun­der that had
pierced his chest ex­tended even fur­ther.

To­wards the tem­ple with the in­scrip­tion "Shaolin."

Thud...!

Be­fore reach­ing the tem­ple, a thick pro­tec­tive bar­rier blocked the Red
Thun­der's path. How­ever, the crim­son light­ning tore through it, pierc­ing the
build­ing.

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Rum­bling flames erupted from all di­rec­tions, con­sum­ing the struc­ture.

The plaque bear­ing the char­ac­ters 'Shaolin Tem­ple' turned to dust in­stantly,
van­ish­ing.

The Shaolin monk avatars sur­round­ing Seong Ji­han halted their move­ments
and grad­u­ally be­came trans­par­ent.

With that, a sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared.

[The core of 108 Arhat For­ma­tion has col­lapsed.]

[108 Arhat For­ma­tion is dis­band­ing.]

'Huh, Shaolin tem­ple was re­ally the core...' Seong Ji­han thought with a
smirk on his face.

Orig­i­nally, he had only in­tended to rip through monk avatars with the Red
Thun­der­ball and in­flict some dam­age on Shin­song Il-ry­ong.

'The power of Crim­son Thun­der Can­non... It's far su­pe­rior to my ex­pec­ta­‐

tions.'

Kr­rrr...

Seong Ji­han gazed at the crum­bling tem­ple and smiled slightly.

108 Arhat For­ma­tion

Through­out this match, he had been bid­ing his time, and thanks to that, he
had found an op­por­tu­nity to en­hance his mar­tial arts fur­ther.

Per­haps that was why.

"I've slightly mod­i­fied the mar­tial arts to bet­ter suit me."

"My Mar­tial Soul in­creased by 5."

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For the first time, his Mar­tial Soul in­creased by five points in one go, de­‐
spite al­lo­cat­ing stat points in the past with­out any in­crease.

Fur­ther­more,

['Thun­der­cloud Spear' which was in­te­grated into the Phoenix Spear has
fully ac­knowl­edged you as the player.]

[You've ac­quired the skill 'Sum­mon Light­ning Cloud.]

The thun­der­cloud spear, pre­vi­ously com­bined with the Phoenix Spear,

seemed to have rec­og­nized him as its right­ful owner af­ter ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the
power of the Red Thun­der­ball.

'Now, I just need to win this match.'

He had said 20 min­utes, but it felt like it had ended in about 15 min­utes.
Re­turn­ing to the game map, he could sweep through the en­emy base and se­‐
cure the vic­tory.

That's what Seong Ji­han thought as he left 108 Arhat For­ma­tion [Your base
has been de­stroyed.]

[You've lost the game.]

A sys­tem mes­sage an­nounc­ing his de­feat in the game in­stead of one from
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Chap­ter 150
"What the... f*ck..."

Seong Ji­han, who rarely used pro­fan­ity, couldn't help but let some slip when
he saw the game de­feat mes­sage. His frus­tra­tion was pal­pa­ble.

In just 15 min­utes, he had bro­ken through 108 Arhat For­ma­tion, so why was
the home base al­ready taken?

-Oh, Seong Ji­han!

-Shh... The bread noise. It hap­pens!

The com­men­ta­tors po­litely fil­tered Seong Ji­han's ex­ple­tives, but the au­di­‐
ence was al­ready on fire.

-Wow, this match is truly eye-catch­ing, LOL.

-He only said one word, and he's be­ing an an­gel, LOL.

Seong Ji­han was the only one worth watch­ing when he broke through 108
Arhat For­ma­tion... The rest were just get­ting beaten one-sid­edly. What's up
with the na­tional team? Can't they hold their own?

Af­ter the in­tense con­fronta­tion with China came to an end in the fifth
match, the MVP of this game came to mind.

-The MVP of the fifth game is... Je Gal­heon.

-In the first and fourth game, the MVP was Seong Ji­han, and in the sec­ond
and fifth games, it was Je Gal­heon.

-In the third game on the Train map, the MVP was the Chi­nese sup­porter,
Joo Ryung-Ryung. So, to­day, Seong Ji­han and Je Gal­heon are tied for the
num­ber of MVP awards in this match.

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-So, who will be the player of the day?

-Usu­ally, the player comes from the win­ning team, but...

-We have some ex­pec­ta­tions. Seong Ji­han's per­for­mance to­day was out­‐
stand­ing!

How­ever, to the sur­prise of the Ko­rean com­men­ta­tors, Je Gal­heon, the MVP

of the win­ning team, was cho­sen as the 'Player of the day.'

-Oh... It's quite dis­ap­point­ing. Seong Ji­han sin­gle-hand­edly led the team to­‐
day, though.

-It seems like Je Gal­heon led the team to vic­tory in the end, which led to a
sig­nif­i­cant bonus.

-He did play a sig­nif­i­cant role in the five games. The Chi­nese Grand Mage,
Je Gal­heon, is truly a for­mi­da­ble player.

Re­turn­ing to the Ko­rean Bat­tleNet Cen­ter in the in-game chat, Seong Ji­han
headed to the strat­egy anal­y­sis room to re­view the re­play of the fifth match.

-Oh, Je Gal­heon! Did he get­ting 'Li?' again?

-To draw the same div­ina­tion three times in a row... Does this even make
sense in terms of prob­ab­ il­ity?

-When I cal­cu­lated it, the prob­ab­ il­ity of draw­ing the same div­ina­tion three
times in a row is less than 0.2%!

Je Gal­heon drew the div­ina­tion 'Li' three times in a row. As soon as the
game started, he launched me­te­ors and suc­cess­fully used Eight Tri­grams
Over­lap ev­ery 7 min­utes, send­ing fiery me­te­ors three times in to­tal.

Each time, the Ko­rean base was de­stroyed.

-Oh, Ko­rean war­riors are sac­ri­fic­ing them­selves to block the me­te­ors...

-They're all dy­ing! They can't stop it! They're just be­ing beaten one-sid­edly!

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The Ko­rean na­tional team, caught in a long-range me­teor shower, even­tu­‐

ally met its demise.

If Je Gal­heon hadn't drawn 'Li' three times in a row, they might have en­‐
dured a few more me­teor im­pacts, but there was no way to with­stand the
pow­er­ful sor­cerer who stacked seven sticks ap­pro­pri­ate for me­teor shower,
break­ing through the 0.2% prob­ab­ il­ity.

"No dig­nity left. I'm sorry. Ji­han..."

Coach Noh Youngjun apol­o­gized to Seong Ji­han, who was watch­ing the re­‐
play with a stiff face.

"I thought we could hold out for 20 min­utes, as you said. I never ex­pected
three me­teor show­ers to end it."

"Who could pre­dict draw­ing 'Li' three times?"

That guy. Dur­ing the Space League, he kept draw­ing blanks, but in the na­‐
tional team match, he's on fire.

Seong Ji­han looked at Je Gal­heon, who was cho­sen as to­day's player and
thought, "If we had a player like him, we could have won."

He had given his all as a solo player, but he couldn't com­pletely over­turn
the game played up to the fifth match.

Cer­tainly, to raise Ko­rea's Bat­tleNet rank­ing, they needed bet­ter play­ers to

sup­port him.

"Should I wait for Seah to grow up?"

Con­sid­er­ing the power Yoon Seah showed, she could have eas­ily grown
into a pow­er­ful player in her past life. Plus, she gained a new evo­lu­tion
class, Void Archer, so there was more hope.

'Any­way, it will be dif­fi­cult to en­ter the Cham­pi­ons League this sea­son.'

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In the sec­ond half of 2020, the Ko­rean na­tional team had been los­ing con­‐
tin­u­ously since the sea­son opened. Even if they kept win­ning from the next
game on­wards, it would be chal­leng­ing to se­cure a spot within the top two
in League 2, where qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the Cham­pi­ons League was granted.

If they had won to­day's game, there might have been some pos­si­bil­i­ties to
con­sider, but with the de­feat against China, all hope for this sea­son had van­‐
ished.

At that mo­ment, a mes­sage ar­rived, "Seong Ji­han."

The leader of the Archer team, Ha Yeon­joo, ap­proached with a stern face.
"I'm re­ally sorry for to­day. I let you down."

"There's noth­ing you could have done. The Archer team isn't very com­pat­i­‐
ble with the Golden Dragon sup­port skill they used."

"No mat­ter how well golden dragon can block ar­rows, there's no ex­cuse for
not get­ting any kills. Just the other day, Joo Ryung-Ryung wasn't this
strong... I keenly felt my own short­com­ings."

Joo Ryung-Ryung, with the SSS-grade gift 'Golden Dragon Sum­mon'. Un­til
re­cently, she was un­der­val­ued, as her Golden dragon con­trol skills were
con­sid­ered in­suf­fi­cient to war­rant her SSS-grade rat­ing. How­ever, to­day's
golden dragon con­trol was very timely, suc­cess­fully block­ing most of Ha
Yeon­joo's sniper shots.

"So... What I mean is, is there room in Daegi guild?"

"Yes, with the Chi­nese play­ers leav­ing, there is room."

"Can I join...? I want to grow more."

Per­haps due to the great pow­er­less­ness she felt in this match, Ha Yeon­joo,
the high­est-level player among Ko­re­ans right now, ex­pressed a strong de­sire
to fur­ther her growth.

"It's be­cause of this game, isn't it? Well, there's al­ways room for you in the
guild."

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Seong Ji­han briefly looked around. There were hardly any play­ers left in the
Bat­tleNet Cen­ter's power anal­y­sis room.

"Aren't they plan­ning to re­view and an­al­yze the game at all?"

More­over, among the 10 or so re­main­ing play­ers, there were no War­rior

play­ers, and they all be­longed to the low­est rank.

"It seems like the play­ers who need im­prove­ment don't even care... I should
fo­cus on sup­port­ing play­ers who are will­ing to put in the ef­fort."

He de­cided to en­cour­age play­ers like Ha Yeon­joo who showed the de­sire to

grow in­stead of rais­ing un­mo­ti­vated War­rior play­ers.

"Al­right. I'll re­serve a spot for you. I'll let the Guild Mas­ter know."

"Yes, thank you."

Af­ter Seong Ji­han and Ha Yeon­joo had their con­ver­sa­tion, some play­ers
from the anal­y­sis room came over hes­i­tantly.

"Um, Seong Ji­han... Can I also join the guild?"

These were the play­ers who had been in­spired by to­day's de­feat.

If there was any­thing to be sal­vaged from to­day's loss, it was these play­ers.

"Yes, you can join."

Seong Ji­han smiled slightly as he looked into their de­ter­mined eyes.

On the other hand, de­spite their vic­tory, the mood on the Chi­nese side
wasn't par­tic­u­larly bright.

"Il-ry­ong, how did 108 Arhat for­ma­tion get pen­et­rated so quickly?"

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Je Gal­heon, who was se­lected as the player of the day, glared at Il-ry­ong
with cold eyes. If he hadn't drawn three con­sec­u­tive 'Li' cards, the course of
the fifth game might have been turned up­side down.

[TL/N: Li card gives the skill Me­teor Strike, just how 'flame/fire' card gave
Hell­fire and earth gives earth­quake.]

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"Uh... That bas­tard is a mon­ster."

Il-ry­ong, who was sit­ting in his chair with his head bowed, shiv­ered. The
crim­son light­ning that pierced his chest had com­pletely in­ca­pac­i­tated him,
even though he was nearly in­vin­ci­ble within the 108 Arhat For­ma­tion. Even
though there were no sta­tus num­bers, the eerie sen­sa­tion of be­ing pierced
still lin­gered in his body.

"How should we ap­proach the next game? I... I don't have con­fi­dence. That
guy is go­ing to be­come stronger than the Sword King..."

See­ing Il-ry­ong, who was de­spair­ing, Je Gal­heon grit­ted his teeth.

Shin­song Il-ry­ong, the world's sec­ond-ranked war­rior and the leader of

China, was far from suf­fi­cient.

"I hope Wang Lin grows quickly."

Wang Lin, who pos­sessed the SSS-grade gift Heav­enly De­mon's Physique,
had to grow as soon as pos­si­ble to re­place Il-ry­ong.

"At least I should put Wang Lin back in the Seong Ji­han's guild to feel him
out."

Je Gal­heon, who had con­sid­er­able in­flu­ence in the Peo­ple's as­so­ci­at­ion di­‐

rectly af­fil­i­ated with the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment, thought that way. He knew
that the Peo­ple's as­so­ci­at­ion had with­drawn play­ers in or­der to dis­cover

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Seong Ji­han's mar­tial art, but he was op­ti­mistic that money can get Ji­han to
change his mind.

Mean­while, at the Gates Build­ing in the United States.

"C... bal? What does that mean?"

"You can think of it as 'What the fuck.'"

"That's the kind of word that comes out."

Robert Gates had a Ko­rean in­ter­preter with him, and he watched the en­tire
game from start to fin­ish.

In the in-game lan­guage, most of the con­ver­sa­tion was trans­lated into Eng­‐
lish, but there were still some dis­cus­sions and chat be­tween play­ers that
came out in their na­tive lan­guages when the game ended, so he had pre­‐
pared the in­ter­preter in ad­vance.

"Seong Ji­han... He's re­ally an in­sane player. An All-Class, he's Gold-ranked,

but he has that kind of power. We should have re­cruited him last time."

He wished he had made a 300 bil­lion won of­fer back then.

Robert Gates re­gret­ted his ac­tions so much.

At that mo­ment, the door opened, and a sec­re­tary en­tered.

"Sophia is go­ing to South Ko­rea again."

"Why?"

"It seems like there are ru­mors of her be­ing in a re­la­tion­ship with Seong Ji­‐
han. Since the na­tional team match is over, she said she's go­ing to see him."

"Hmm."

Robert fur­rowed his brow. At first, he thought Sophia's ac­tions were sim­ply
due to be­ing a fan of an out­stand­ing war­rior.

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"It seems more se­ri­ous than I thought."

He was start­ing to worry that if things con­tin­ued this way, she might even
es­tab­lish roots in the Ko­rean guild.

To pre­vent such a sit­u­at­ion, he needed to bring Seong Ji­han to the United

States.

"Af­ter see­ing the level of the South Ko­rean na­tional team to­day, he might
have changed his mind."

The South Ko­rean na­tional team, which had been hang­ing by Seong Ji­han's
per­for­mance alone, needed strong sup­port. Even if one player was at the
high­est level, with­out a team to back them up, they couldn't claim the cham­‐
pion's po­si­tion.

Af­ter to­day's game, Seong Ji­han was likely to have many re­al­iza­tions.

Robert Gates de­cided to in­vest in that player once again.

"Pro­vide a pri­vate jet for Sophia. And when you meet Seong Ji­han, tell him
this story."

"What story are you re­fer­ring to?"

"If he nat­u­ral­izes as a U.S. cit­i­zen and joins Amer­i­can First... tell him that
I'll give him the Guild Mas­ter po­si­tion."

"The Guild Mas­ter?"

"Yes. And I'll trans­fer at least 10% of the guild's own­er­ship to him."

"10%? Are you se­ri­ous?"

"Yes."

The world's top guild, Amer­i­can First. The own­er­ship of this guild was of
as­tro­nom­i­cal value. Giv­ing away 10% of it to a sin­gle player?

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Was Seong Ji­han re­ally worth that much?

"At 10% and the Guild Mas­ter... are you sure you want me to con­vey that
mes­sage?"

The sec­re­tary asked again just to be sure. But Robert Gates nod­ded as if it
was ob­vi­ous.

"Com­pared to his value, this is cheap."

He couldn't af­ford to make the same mis­take as be­fore. Robert was go­ing
all in to bring Seong Ji­han to the United States at this point, es­pe­cially af­ter
South Ko­rea's loss.

In­side the limou­sine, leav­ing the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter and head­ing back to
Sword Palace, Yoon Seah, who had stayed with Seong Ji­han at the Bat­‐
tleNet Cen­ter, checked her phone and smiled.

"Un­cle, Sophia is com­ing in two days."

"Why?"

"Af­ter the dat­ing ru­mors, she wanted to come right away. I told her to come
af­ter the na­tional team game ends, but she in­sisted on com­ing as soon as it's
over."

"Doesn't she have any­thing bet­ter to do?"

"Un­cle, you're her num­ber one pri­or­ity~"

As she chat­ted with Sophia, she sud­denly widened her eyes.

"Wow, Un­cle... I heard that Mr. Robert is of­fer­ing you the po­si­tion of Amer­‐
i­can First Guild Mas­ter?"

"AF Guild Mas­ter? The cur­rent world-rank­ing first place holds that ti­tle,
right?" Ji­han also seems a bit shocked at this news.

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"Ex­actly! I thought they meant Vice Guild Mas­ter, but no! It's Guild Mas­‐
ter! And on top of that..."

Get­ting ex­cited and about to con­tinue her words, Yoon Seah stopped as
Seong Ji­han brought his fin­ger to her lips.

A ges­ture for her to be quiet.

Seong Ji­han dis­creetly looked to­ward the front of the limou­sine.

"Let's dis­cuss this at home."

"Okay, okay. Sorry, I got too ex­cited."

"No, it's fine."

The chauf­feur was af­fil­i­ated with the Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion, so they had to
be cau­tious about what was dis­cussed in the car. Es­pe­cially when it came to
dis­cus­sions about of­fers from the United States, which would likely be re­‐
ported di­rectly to the as­so­ci­at­ion.

"Hmm. Maybe I can use this sit­u­at­ion to my ad­van­tage."

Seong Ji­han thought that since the sit­u­at­ion had come to this, he might as
well try to ne­go­ti­ate a fa­vor­able deal for him­self.

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Chap­ter 151
"Wow, Un­cle! Ear­lier in the car, I couldn't speak, so I was get­ting re­ally
antsy... But they said they're giv­ing you a 10 per­cent share in the guild!"

Ar­riv­ing at the pent­house, Yoon Seah ex­cit­edly showed the mes­sages ex­‐
changed with Sofia to Seong Ji­han.

"They're giv­ing 10 per­cent?"

Seong Ji­han was equally sur­prised by the gen­er­ous deal. He had sus­pected
that Robert Gates, be­sides ap­point­ing him as the guild mas­ter, might come
up with an ap­peal­ing pro­posal, but he never ex­pected a 10 per­cent share.

"Yeah. Isn't this... heckin' amaz­ing? If it's Amer­i­can First, it's the world's top
guild. Con­sid­er­ing the value of this share... Wow, this is in­cred­i­ble."

Yoon Seah looked up the cur­rent value of Amer­i­can First on the in­ter­net and
was thrilled.

How many ze­ros are there at the end?

"Still, I won't go to the United States."

How­ever, Seong Ji­han was mo­men­tar­ily sur­prised by the fact that they were
of­fer­ing a share but still had no in­ten­tion of go­ing to the United States.

"Un­cle, even though it's 10 per­cent?"

"Yeah. I have to feed the World tree's Leaf to the Sword King. If I go to the
United States, the chances of match­ing with Japan will be al­most gone."

The re­gional leagues were dif­fer­ent for the United States and Japan. For the
two coun­tries to face each other, they had to meet in the World Cham­pi­ons
League.

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In that case, it made more sense for Seong Ji­han, who was part of Ko­rea in
the same re­gional league.

"Oh... Am I crazy? Un­cle, think­ing about dad like that while I'm here get­‐
ting lost in the share..."

"10 per­cent is quite a lot."

"Thank you... Un­cle. To give that up for Dad..."

Yoon Seah seemed deeply moved, but Seong Ji­han just smiled bit­terly.

"Well, it was orig­i­nally be­cause of the na­tion­al­ity bonus."

Ini­tially, he had in­tended to stay here due to the na­tion­al­ity bonus that could
only be ob­tained in Ko­rea.

How­ever, af­ter ob­tain­ing the mar­tial soul, he no longer needed to rely heav­‐
ily on the na­tion­al­ity bonus. He was con­fi­dent that he could reach the top of
the player world rank­ings with­out the na­tion­al­ity bonus, as long as he prop­‐
erly de­vel­oped his mar­tial skills and raised the mar­tial soul stat.

But there was a catch.

'Af­ter all, I'll just be a for­eigner there.'

Through his ex­pe­ri­ence of ex­ile, Seong Ji­han had per­son­ally felt how dif­fi­‐
cult it was to fully as­sim­i­late into Amer­i­can so­ci­ety as a for­eigner.

'I al­ready have a solid foun­da­tion in Ko­rea; there's re­ally no need to go

abroad. The only is­sue might be at the na­tional team level, but... if Seah
con­tin­ues to grow and reaches Sword King's level, the sit­u­at­ion will im­‐
prove. But, That's only when we solve Ito Shizuru's scan­dals.'

Re­gard­ing the na­tional team level, there won't be any more con­cerns. So,
his de­ci­sion was not to go to the United States.

"Seah, would you re­ally feel okay just pass­ing up on this of­fer?"

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"Why? Do you have a good rea­son?"

"Be­fore, when you looked at this house, Did it stress you out... Does it still
bother you?"

In re­sponse to Seong Ji­han's ques­tion, Yoon Seah looked around the house
and slowly shook her head. While in the past, the traces of her dad's aban­‐
don­ment had made her feel suf­fo­cated and melan­cholic just by stay­ing in
the house, it was no longer the case.

"No, it doesn't. I mean, now I know why my dad did that..."

"In that case, you can re­gain the build­ing."

"Re­gain it? Don't you mean the build­ing you do­nated back then?"

"Yes, ex­actly. The sit­u­at­ion is dif­fer­ent from back then."

Back when the Sword King aban­doned his fam­ily to go to Japan, Yoon Seah
faced base­less crit­i­cism and con­dem­na­tion. But now, with Seong Ji­han
emerg­ing as the only hope for the Ko­rean na­tional team, the sit­u­at­ion had
com­pletely turned around in just a few months.

Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

It was time to re­claim the Sword Palace.

-They're try­ing to re­cruit Seong Ji­han in the United States again?

-Yes, they've of­fered him the po­si­tion of guild mas­ter.

-Huh. Guild mas­ter of Amer­i­can First... that's some­thing.

Oh Gyuse­ung, the Di­rec­tor of the Bat­tleNet Ad­min­is­tra­tion, fur­rowed his

brow. Af­ter Seong Ji­han was se­lected for the na­tional team, his per­for­mance
was re­mark­able. Still, of­fer­ing him the po­si­tion of guild mas­ter seemed a bit
ex­ces­sive.

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"Cur­rently, isn't Oliver the guild mas­ter of Amer­i­can First and the world's
top-ranked player? Would he will­ingly give up that po­si­tion?"

"Amer­i­can First is a guild heav­ily in­flu­enced by the Gates fam­ily and the
U.S. gov­ern­ment. Even if he ex­presses his re­fusal, the guild mas­ter can be
re­placed at any time."

"Oh, I see... But didn't Seong Ji­han refuse to go to the U.S. even when he
was in Sil­ver? He turned down their of­fer."

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When the United States got in­volved in a bid­ding war, which coun­try could
win? How­ever, since Seong Ji­han didn't go to the U.S. even when he was in
Sil­ver, Oh Gyuse­ung had some ex­pec­ta­tions.

"So, should we just wait and see?"

"Well... yes. That's what the man­ager in charge of Seong Ji­han sug­gested."

"You mean Man­ager Park Yoon­sik?"

"Yes, ex­actly. I told him to find out Seong Ji­han's in­ten­tions."

"But Man­ager Park is on va­ca­tion..."

"What could be more im­por­tant than this right now? Tell him to come back
right away. We'll give him time off later!"

And so, Park Yoon­sik, who had left for a va­ca­tion to the East­ern Sea, had to
re­turn to Seoul on the same day and visit Seong Ji­han.

And the re­sponse he re­ceived...

"Seong Ji­han said he hasn't looked into the mat­ter in de­tail yet."

"Well, Sophia hasn't even ar­rived yet, right? Maybe we were too hasty."

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"Yes. But... he sud­denly asked me when he should leave Sword Palace."

"Why would he bring up Sword Palace at this point?"

"Yes. He seemed cu­ri­ous about when the con­firmed date would be."

Why would he sud­denly men­tion Sword Palace?

"And... he also asked if the do­na­tion process was fin­ished or not..."

"Ah."

Oh Gyuse­ung, the head of ad­min­is­tra­tion, be­gan to have a rough idea.

"Well, what do you think? Do you be­lieve he wants to re­gain the Sword
Palace?"

"Per­son­ally, I think that's the case."

"Re­ally? If it were up to me, I'd want to re­turn it right away... But it's not
un­der our ju­ris­dic­tion."

Sword Palace was too large a build­ing for the ad­min­is­tra­tion to re­turn it
uni­lat­er­ally. This was an is­sue that had to be han­dled at the gov­ern­ment
level, not by the ad­min­is­tra­tion.

"But... what if, hy­po­thet­i­cally, the gov­ern­ment's han­dling is de­layed, and

Seong Ji­han ends up go­ing to the U.S.? Would I even keep this po­si­tion?"

In re­sponse to Oh Gyuse­ung's ques­tion, Park Yoon­sik re­mained silent. Not

say­ing no es­sen­tially meant say­ing yes. If Seong Ji­han were to em­i­grate to
the United States based on their pro­posal, the ad­min­is­tra­tion would re­sign
and a na­tional up­roar was al­most cer­tain.

"Hon­estly, play­ers like Seong Ji­han, even if you gave them a dozen Sword
Palaces, couldn't be bought. And his cur­rent rank is Gold, Gold! When he
be­comes Di­am­ ond later... he'll prob­ab­ ly sur­pass the world's best."

"I agree with that."

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"Should we let a player like that go to the U.S.?"

"Well..."

"Let's spread some ru­mors to get pub­lic opin­ion mov­ing."

"Do you mean to spread ru­mors from our ad­min­is­tra­tion?"

"Yes. Make it seem like in­for­ma­tion leaked due to an em­ployee's neg­li­‐

gence."

How did he even get into the po­si­tion as the Di­rec­tor? Shouldn't he have to
main­tain the po­si­tion for a long time? And fur­ther­more, "This is some­thing
ab­so­lutely nec­es­sary for South Ko­rea," as the coun­try needed Seong Ji­han
to stay in Ko­rea.

"If it's known that Seong Ji­han re­ceived an in­cred­i­ble of­fer in the United
States, and is try­ing to re­claim Sword Palace... but the U.S. has made an of­‐
fer that doesn't even com­pare..."

"Ah... I un­der­stand."

The di­rec­tor, hav­ing un­der­stood Seong Ji­han's in­ten­tions, de­cided to spread

the ru­mors at the ad­min­is­tra­tive level.

"Seong Ji­han is the talk of the town these days. The ru­mors will spread
quickly."

But the Di­rec­tor was un­cer­tain about how the af­ter­math of these ru­mors
would play out.

"What... What's this? An ar­ti­cle is al­ready out?"

Not even 30 min­utes had passed since the di­rec­tive was given, but look­ing
at the front page of the por­tal site news plas­tered with head­lines all about
Seong Ji­han, he couldn't help but be shocked.

[Seong Ji­han. Trans­fer­ring to Amer­i­can First!? Of­fered the Po­si­tion of

Guild Mas­ter!]

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As news ar­ti­cles be­gan to break out with head­lines like:

[World Rank­ing 1st Place Oliver States, 'I'll Gladly Step Down if Seong Ji­‐
han Takes the Guild Mas­ter Po­si­tion.']

[Robert Gates Re­marks, 'The Guild Mas­ter Po­si­tion is Just the First But­ton
of This Gi­ant Of­fer.']

With com­ments from Amer­i­can of­fi­cials added to the mix, chaos erupted in­‐
stantly: -WTF? AF Guild Mas­ter?

-Ah, so Gates was fond of him be­cause he hasn't been spon­sor­ing any­one
lately, and now sud­denly...

-WTF, WTF, WTF, WTF!

-He was do­ing so well in the China match... he was too good, it made me
ner­vous!

-The Amer­i­can re­sponse is crazy. They're wel­com­ing him even though he's
re­plac­ing Oliver as the Guild Mas­ter. 'Please come', haha!

-He's only Gold, and he's wip­ing the floor with Di­am ­ ond play­ers. More­‐
over, he's be­com­ing the core po­si­tion, which is in­sane!

Right now, AF fans are chal­leng­ing each other with 'SUNG' mark­ings on
their uni­forms, haha!

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The game was al­ready highly pop­u­lar, and the match be­tween Ko­rea and
China yes­ter­day was not only watched in both coun­tries but also be­came a
world­wide sen­sa­tion.

Par­tic­u­larly, Seong Ji­han's par­tic­i­pa­tion as a mage in the fourth game gar­‐

nered the most at­ten­tion, and all ex­perts were prais­ing his strate­gic po­ten­‐
tial: -No, se­ri­ously, it's im­pos­si­ble. We watched the China match. If Seong
Ji­han goes, it's our end!

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-The Amer­i­cans, de­spite be­ing the num­ber one ranked coun­try in the world,
are pulling off a mir­ac­ le. But the mir­ac­ le is re­ally huge...

-Yeah, se­ri­ously, the mir­ac­ le is big­ger than a flea's liver!

-For real, the mir­ac­ le's liver is big­ger than a flea's, haha!

As news of Seong Ji­han's trans­fer was flood­ing the por­tal sites: [The United
States Propos­ing a Guild Mas­ter, South Ko­rea Try­ing to Re­claim Sword
Palace.]

[Daegi Guild Tem­po­rar­ily Sus­pend­ing Player Ac­qui­si­tion. Will the Guild

leave for the United States?]

At that mo­ment, a guest was be­ing re­ceived in the wait­ing guild. It was
Sophia, the one who had sent the mes­sage that had turned Ko­rea up­side
down.

"Hayeon, look into my eyes."

Sophia rushed to find Hayeon as soon as she ar­rived, her ex­pres­sion starkly
dif­fer­ent from her usual cheer­ful de­meanor.

"Are you re­ally dat­ing Ji­han?"

Blink! Blink!

Sophia's eyes sparkled with gold.

Hayeon, look­ing at her se­ri­ous ex­pres­sion, re­sponded as if in dis­be­lief,

"No... What's with those eyes? Are you us­ing a skill or some­thing?"

"Hehe. They're eyes that re­veal only the truth. So! What's your an­swer?"

"Well... Of course, we are!"

Hayeon tried to speak as nat­u­rally as pos­si­ble while look­ing at her, but...

"As ex­pected, you're not dat­ing."

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Sophia's ex­pres­sion bright­ened. The golden glow van­ished from her eyes,
and they re­turned to their orig­i­nal blue color.

"Why did you even equip the 'Eyes of Truth'?"

"Ji­han!"

Thud! Thud!

As Seong Ji­han and Yoon Seah en­tered the guild mas­ter's of­fice, Sophia ap­‐
proached Ji­han with a cheer­ful smile.

"I knew you weren't dat­ing! I can't imag­ine you with any­one else but me."

"I-Is that why you equipped the eyes of truth?"

"Well, any­thing cer­tain is good, you know?"

"What's the 'Eyes of Truth'?"

In re­sponse to Yoon Seah's ques­tion, Sophia took out a lens from her eye
and showed it.

"It's an item that al­lows you to de­ter­mine the truth and false­hood in what
oth­ers say. It's a one-time use only."

"That sounds pretty ex­pen­sive, doesn't it...?"

"About 5 mil­lion GP?"

Yoon Seah looked at Sophia in dis­be­lief. She had spent 500 mil­lion to get a
lie de­tec­tor.

"Ji­han, I saw the news when I came to Ko­rea. There was quite a ru­mor,
wasn't there?"

"You mean the AF trans­fer ru­mors?"

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"Yes. Would you con­sider join­ing our guild as the guild mas­ter? We'll even
share 10 per­cent of AF's own­er­ship with you."

"No, I won't be go­ing."

"Even if we of­fer more own­er­ship?"

"Yes."

"Too bad..."

Upon hear­ing Seong Ji­han's firm re­sponse, Sophia gave up on fur­ther per­‐
sua­sion.

"You gave up quickly."

"I had a feel­ing he wouldn't come. If he were re­ally com­ing, he wouldn't

have spread ru­mors like this. He'd have ne­go­ti­ated qui­etly be­hind the
scenes."

She had some in­sight into Seong Ji­han's per­son­al­ity and could de­duce the
out­come of this sit­u­at­ion by the loud­ness of the ru­mors.

"Is there any­thing I can do to help?"

Upon hear­ing Sophia's of­fer, Seong Ji­han smiled.

"If you're of­fer­ing to help, should I con­sider ex­pand­ing my busi­ness?"

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Chap­ter 152
-Why hasn't Ji­han been stream­ing lately?

-Yeah, he stopped right af­ter Sophia ar­rived... it's mak­ing me anx­ious ㅠㅠ

-- He's not re­ally go­ing to the US, is he?

It had been three days since Sophia ar­rived in Ko­rea, and Seong Ji­han's
chan­nel hadn't hosted a sin­gle stream dur­ing that time. Mean­while, the me­‐
dia was abuzz with sto­ries about Seong Ji­han's of­fer from the US, and in­ter­‐
views with Amer­i­can First Guild rep­re­sen­ta­tives kept ap­pear­ing.

-He can play in any po­si­tion, and the value of Seong Ji­han, who dom­i­nates
the game by him­self, is ab­so­lute. The more we an­al­yze the data from the
China match, the more it be­comes clear that he's a player who's al­ready on a
sure shot road to the top of the world.

-What's even more amaz­ing is that he's only in Gold. There's still so much
room for growth! Please, come to the US. We don't want to face you as ri­‐
vals in the Cham­pi­ons League!

-Why is ev­ery­one go­ing crazy be­cause Ji­han isn't go­ing!!!!

-Isn't it al­ready a con­firmed fact? I heard they even of­fered him a 10 per­cent
stake in the guild.

-They're of­fer­ing him a stake too? 10 per­cent?? Isn't that in­sane?

-Yeah, at this point, he must have al­ready left, right? Damn, lol.

As the ru­mor spread that Seong Ji­han had been of­fered a 10 per­cent stake in
Amer­i­can First, peo­ple's anx­i­ety grew. Mean­while...

"Ugh, I al­most lost my 1st place to­day be­cause of do­na­tion mes­sages."

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Chi-yi-yi-yik---

Yoon Seah, who had just left the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor room, shook her head
ex­cit­edly.

"Why?"

"They kept ask­ing me if un­cle is re­ally go­ing or not, send­ing do­na­tions and
all. I said I don't know, but they were so per­sis­tent..."

"Your sis­ter Gayeong go­ing through the same thing? She's in the same
guild, so they think she might know some­thing. But Ji­han... how long is he
go­ing to stay off­line?"

Yoon Seah had a rough idea of Seong Ji­han's plans. She thought he was just
putting on a show by not log­ging in while con­duct­ing trans­fer ne­go­ti­at­ions.
But...

"Me? I don't need to. I reached level 100 al­ready." Ji­han said non­cha­lantly
"What? Al­ready?"

"Yeah, the Chi­nese guys helped me level up a lot."

To be pre­cise, it was the in­flu­ence of the five matches against China. Since
all his op­po­nents were in the Di­am­ ond tier, with some of them be­ing na­‐
tional level-tier, his level in­creased more than it did dur­ing the Rus­sian
match. He kept play­ing Bat­tleNet to make up for the level dif­fer­ence. As a
re­sult, he achieved level 100 sooner than ex­pected.

"What about you, Seah?"

"I'm at level 47."

"You could get into the pro­mo­tion match this month."

"Yeah, ever since I be­came a Void Archer, I've been con­sis­tently in the top
spot."

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Seong Ji­han re­called Yoon Seah's tran­si­tion to a Void Archer. Han­dling the
Void's power was the spe­cialty of a Void Archer. Af­ter her tran­si­tion, she
had gained a sin­gle skill, "Void Ar­row," but that one skill was an in­cred­i­ble
game-changer.

"Void Ar­row, could you use it on me one more time?"

"Un­cle, I've also grown. It could be dan­ger­ous."

See­ing her level 47 de­ter­mi­na­tion, Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

"I hope it's dan­ger­ous."

"Eek. It is... Al­right, I'll shoot, okay?"

Yoon Seah im­me­di­ately took out her bow from her in­ven­tory and, with­out
load­ing an ar­row, pointed the bow at Seong Ji­han.

"Void Ar­row."

Swoosh!

For a mo­ment, a pur­ple light flick­ered at the bow. Yoon Seah pulled the
bow­string all the way back.

Ping!

To an out­side ob­server, it looked like she was just test­ing her bow. Seong Ji­‐
han, the tar­get, smiled faintly.

"She's made more progress."

Shoo!

In front of Seong Ji­han's chest, a pur­ple clus­ter of light ap­peared. Void Ar­‐
row had the unique prop­erty of be­ing in­vis­i­ble un­til it ma­te­ri­al­ized and
flew, but when Seong Ji­han used his power, it fiz­zled out help­lessly.

Watch­ing the dis­ap­pear­ing pur­ple clus­ter, Yoon Seah nod­ded ap­prov­ingly.

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"Un­cle, I re­ally can't break through your aura, can I?"

"Can't you just make it ap­pear in­side the op­po­nent's body? If the Void Ar­‐
row shows up in­side some­one's body, it's in­stant death, isn't it?"

"Of course, I've tried it, but it didn't work that way. It's a con­cept of shoot­‐
ing ar­rows across the in­ner world, so I couldn't in­sert it into the body."

"Can it pen­et­rate pro­tec­tive bar­ri­ers?"

"Yes, if there's some­thing like a Stone Skin that en­hances the skin or ar­mor,
it can block it. Still, even if it ex­plodes nearby, it has a good ef­fect be­cause
it ap­plies the De­buff of Void Ero­sion."

The Void Ar­row, which al­lows Yoon Seah to shoot ar­rows through the in­ner
world, clos­ing the dis­tance to op­po­nents with­out in­ter­fer­ence. Since ac­quir­‐
ing this skill, Yoon Seah hadn't missed first place in any game. With her in­‐
nate stats be­ing ex­cel­lent due to her wait­ing stance and the skill's sim­ple yet
in­cred­i­bly pow­er­ful ef­fects, it was im­pos­si­ble for Sil­ver-tier op­po­nents at
her level to with­stand her.

"Hmm, no is­sues with your body?"

"No, not re­ally."

"That's a re­lief."

"But Un­cle, you reached level 100, why haven't you evolved your class?"

"I post­poned it."

"Come on, where can you find a third-rate war­rior who can take on China
alone?"

With reach­ing level 100, it was time for the sec­ond class evo­lu­tion. He had
de­layed it just in case, but Seah's sug­ges­tion made it seem like evolv­ing the
class was the bet­ter choice.

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When Seong Ji­han opened his sta­tus win­dow and touched the class, four
sec­ond-class evo­lu­tion classes were dis­played.

[War­lord]

[Mute/Voice­less]

[Seed of the Name­less God]

[Wan­der­ing War­rior]

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"War­lord and Mute are third-class jobs, and they're avail­able now. In my
past life, I chose Mute dur­ing the third-class job se­lec­tion. Seong Ji­han
passed on the first two classes and looked at the last two classes.

[Class -- Seed of the Name­less God]

-The sixth dis­ci­ple of the Name­less God, a wan­der­ing de­ity.

-In ex­change for re­turn­ing the star's abil­ity 'In­cor­po­real' to its orig­i­nal
owner, you re­ceive eter­nal life as a ser­vant of the Name­less God.

-A class spe­cially un­locked by the Great East­ern Chaos, only avail­able dur­‐
ing the sec­ond-class evo­lu­tion.

"Dong­Bangsak, he's in­volved in class evo­lu­tion as well...," Seong Ji­han

mut­tered with a frozen ex­pres­sion. He knew he wasn't a sim­ple per­son, but
he didn't know they could of­fer such spe­cial classes.

Seong Ji­han couldn't help but feel like it was al­most a power akin to the pa­‐
pacy. 'Let's dis­card this.' Seong Ji­han re­jected Dong Bangsak's of­fer and
looked at the fourth class, Wan­der­ing War­rior.

[Class -- Wan­der­ing War­rior]

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-A de­moted Wan­der­ing War­rior from a Third-Rate War­rior.

-This mar­tial artist doesn't grow at all, be­liev­ing there are no lim­its to mar­‐
tial arts.

-In­stead of train­ing the body, they are busy recit­ing the Dao of Heaven and
Earth. Oc­ca­sion­ally, such med­i­ta­tions touch the pulse of mar­tial arts.

*Evo­lu­tion Bonuses:

-Strength, Agility, and Stamina growth rate -10%.

-10% in­crease in ex­pe­ri­ence points.

-In­creased chance of in­spi­ra­tion dur­ing mar­tial arts re­search.

'A Wan­der­ing War­rior...'.

The evo­lu­tion bonuses were so bad that it couldn't even be con­sid­ered a sec­‐
ond-class evo­lu­tion. Es­pe­cially when com­pared to the Seed of the name­less
god, which guar­an­tees eter­nal life, even though it is be­com­ing a ser­vant of
the Name­less God.

How­ever, 'In­creased chance of in­spi­ra­tion' caught Seong Ji­han's at­ten­tion.

In his cur­rent sit­u­at­ion where he needed to mod­ify mar­tial arts to raise his
In­cor­po­real, a -10% growth rate in strength, agility, and stamina was not
much of a penalty. If there was a way to im­prove mar­tial arts fur­ther, this
class was the best op­tion.

Seong Ji­han chose to evolve into a Wan­der­ing War­rior.

[Class 'Third-Rate War­rior' has evolved into 'Wan­der­ing War­rior.']

[With the ef­fect of the Orb of All, class ef­fi­ciency in­creases four­fold.]

[Class -- Wan­der­ing War­rior +3]

-A de­moted Wan­der­ing War­rior from a Third-Rate War­rior.

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*Evo­lu­tion Bonuses:

-Strength, Agility, and Stamina growth rate 40%.

-40% in­crease in ex­pe­ri­ence points.

-In­creased chance of in­spi­ra­tion dur­ing mar­tial arts re­search.

-Ad­di­tional in­crease in the chance of in­spi­ra­tion for SS-grade or higher

skills.

With the ad­di­tion of the Orb of All's ef­fect, the neg­at­ive growth rate in­‐
creased four­fold, but it also in­cluded an ad­di­tional in­crease in the chance of
in­spi­ra­tion for SS-grade or higher skills. 'Strength, Agility, and Stamina
aren't in the stat win­dow any­way, so it doesn't mat­ter.' Seong Ji­han thought
it was a worth­while class evo­lu­tion and smiled.

See­ing his un­cle's ex­pres­sion, Yoon Seah asked, "What class did you
change to that's mak­ing you smile so much?"

"Wan­der­ing War­rior."

"...Huh? Third-rate? They give you that choice for the sec­ond evo­lu­tion?"

"Yeah, isn't it good?" Yoon Seah had a strange ex­pres­sion on her face. 'It's
prob­ab­ ly be­cause Un­cle has his rea­sons for what he's do­ing....' But even so,
a third-rate war­rior?

Buzzzzz!

Just then, Seong Ji­han's phone vi­brated.

[Boss, the gov­ern­ment's ne­go­ti­at­ion team that re­ceived the full au­thor­ity has
ar­rived. I will han­dle the ba­sic ne­go­ti­at­ions as you in­structed.]

It was a mes­sage from Guild Mas­ter Lee Hayeon.

"The gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials have ar­rived. The guild will be go­ing down, do
you want to come too?"

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"Sure. Sophia is play­ing games there, right?"

In the wait­ing room in­side the guild, where the Bat­tlenet con­nec­tor was lo­‐
cated, Sophia pre­tended to ne­go­ti­ate while stay­ing a few more days in Ko­‐
rea and con­nect­ing to Bat­tlenet. As a re­sult, Ko­rean fans were wor­ried
about Sophia's move­ments, show­er­ing her with sup­port­ive do­na­tions dur­ing
her broad­casts and ask­ing about the ne­go­ti­at­ion process.

"Um... Un­cle, Sophia keeps telling me to ex­pect good news. Are we go­ing
to the United States?"

"No. I just told her to make a good im­pres­sion dur­ing the ne­go­ti­at­ions."

Seong Ji­han checked Sophia's broad­cast, where she was talk­ing mean­ing­‐
fully.

"Ko­rean folks! Re­gard­less of what hap­pens later, please con­tinue to sup­port

Ji­han, as al­ways!"

With Sophia re­peat­edly speak­ing in a sug­ges­tive man­ner, she was fully

com­ply­ing with Seong Ji­han's re­quest.

"Uh... Should I tell her to tone it down a bit?"

"It's okay. Once we talk with the ne­go­ti­at­ion team, it'll be over."

In fact, with Sophia talk­ing like that, it's prob­ab­ ly why the gov­ern­ment's ne­‐
go­ti­at­ion team came quickly. Seong Ji­han chuck­led and walked to­wards the
el­ev­ a­tor.

"...Are you re­ally okay with this?"

"Yes. Boss ad­vised me not to be too greedy."

The gov­ern­ment's ne­go­ti­at­ing team rep­re­sen­ta­tive, try­ing to hold Seong Ji­‐

han back, blinked.

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'...This is re­ally not much, is it?'

Seong Ji­han's de­mands were not very sub­stan­tial. He asked for the re­turn of
the Sword Palace to Yoon Seah and a rea­son­able ad­just­ment of the tax rate
that Daegi guilds would pay to the gov­ern­ment.

"We pre­pared it as a ba­sic mea­sure for tax ex­emp­tions..."

"I wish it were like that for me too, but boss in­sists on pay­ing taxes."

"Oh..."

'Of course, we went in with tax ex­emp­tions as the base­line...'

At this level, the 1st phase ne­go­ti­at­ion pro­posal pre­pared by the gov­ern­ment
was worth much more. It in­cluded not only tax ex­emp­tions but also sub­‐
stan­tial gov­ern­ment sup­port for the Daegi guild. Ad­di­tion­ally, var­i­ous re­‐
ward funds were set up for Seong Ji­han per­son­ally.

Even so, it fell far short of the 10% Amer­i­can First Guild share.

The en­tire ne­go­ti­at­ion team, un­der the guid­ance of a sea­soned coach, had
even fin­ished a se­vere tear-in­duc­ing per­for­mance the day be­fore. It was a
sur­prise that the of­fer from the other side was so unim­pres­sive.

If this was the case, they should have come for­ward sooner.

"We are truly thank­ful, but... Are you re­ally okay with these con­di­tions?"

"Well, I'm also dis­ap­pointed, but there's no other choice. Boss is quite firm.
How­ever..."

"How­ever...?"

"He has one more con­di­tion to present here."

"W-What, please tell us!"

"Um... He said he'll tell you di­rectly. Ah, they're here now."

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The door to the meet­ing room sud­denly opened, and Seong Ji­han and Yoon
Seah en­tered the room.

"Hello."

As Seong Ji­han greeted the ne­go­ti­at­ing team, ev­ery­one in the room quickly
stood up and bowed at a 90-de­gree an­gle.

'Are we sup­posed to kneel now?'

'Should we cry?'

'No, wait a bit!'

While the ne­go­ti­at­ing team ex­changed silent sig­nals with their eyes, Seong
Ji­han, af­ter dis­cussing the re­turn of Sword Palace, pro­ceeded to state his
true de­mands.

"I've heard that the top ten guilds in our coun­try are re­ceiv­ing ad­di­tional
guild buffs from the gov­ern­ment."

"Yes... that's cor­rect."

In re­sponse to Seong Ji­han's ques­tion, the head of the ne­go­ti­at­ing team nod­‐
ded.

Ad­di­tional guild buff ef­fects su­per­vised by the coun­try. China had en­trusted
all of these to the Peo­ple's As­so­ci­at­ion, and the United States had granted
them to one ma­jor guild from each state. Ad­di­tional buffs that could be ad­‐
justed based on the cen­tral gov­ern­ment's poli­cies.

In South Ko­rea, if a guild was part of the top ten, all of them had equally re­‐
ceived ad­di­tional guild buffs.

'Could it be...?'

The head of the ne­go­ti­at­ing team felt a sense of un­ease when he heard
Seong Ji­han men­tion na­tional buffs. In­stead of ask­ing for money, could he
be...

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And soon, that un­easy hunch turned into re­al­ity.

"Of the ad­di­tional guild buffs, give us two... Specif­i­cally, fo­cus on in­creas­‐
ing the growth rate for ex­pand­ing guild mem­ber­ship."

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"This... this is..."

The rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the ne­go­ti­at­ion team's pupils shook with anx­i­ety.

De­mand­ing ex­clu­sive ac­cess to the na­tional buffs the coun­try can pro­vide to
guilds! Even for some­one with full au­thor­ity as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the ne­‐
go­ti­at­ion team, this was not an easy is­sue to ad­dress.

"To be hon­est, we can pro­vide the growth rate in­crease. How­ever, ex­pand­‐
ing the guild's mem­ber­ship..."

A higher growth rate is only re­ally nec­es­sary for spe­cial­ized guilds, not gen­‐
eral ones. How­ever, the ex­pan­sion of guild mem­ber­ship was dif­fer­ent.

The mem­ber­ship ex­pan­sion buff pro­vided by the coun­try to the top 10

guilds had in­creased their lev­els by four steps.

Four steps meant they could ac­cept an ad­di­tional 20 mem­bers, a tremen­‐

dous ef­fect.

Be­cause of this, guilds that weren't part of the top 10 had tried ev­ery­thing to
break into the top ranks due to the buffs, but they couldn't dis­rupt the solid
rank­ings from 1st to 10th due to the buff they missed out on.

"Well... the growth rate in­crease is some­thing we can pro­vide. I'm sure the
top 10 guilds won't eas­ily give it up. But the is­sue with mem­ber­ship ex­pan­‐
sion is that it re­quires them to change all their en­tries, so... it's a bit dif­fi­cult
for us to an­swer right away."

"Even if you re­ceive all the mem­ber­ship in­crease buffs, it won't in­crease
your level to 40. If you di­vide them among ten places, the ef­fect of level in­‐
crease is re­duced, and the max­i­mum you can get is about 15 to 20."

"Oh, I see."

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Even if guilds re­ceive the guild buffs for 10 places, they won't be able to
fully uti­lize the ef­fect.

Fur­ther­more, if the top 10 guilds sig­nif­i­cantly re­duce their mem­ber­ship, it

would com­pli­cate mat­ters, so the ne­go­ti­at­ion team asked for more time.

Seong Ji­han smiled faintly.

"So, shall we go to the U.S.?"

"Ah, no! I, uh... What if we ne­go­ti­ate for about half the mem­ber­ship? Even
then, the guild mem­ber­ship ex­pan­sion level would in­crease by about 10. In
re­turn, we'll give you the ne­go­ti­at­ion con­di­tions and sup­port that we've pre­‐
pared!"

"Tax ex­emp­tion? Tax ex­emp­tion is some­thing... peo­ple have to pay taxes to

live, you know."

"Oh! How can we pos­si­bly col­lect taxes from you, Seong Ji­han? Be­sides,
there's an­other prop­erty right next to here that the gov­ern­ment was plan­ning
to auc­tion off. This, and also...!"

"Hmm..."

Seong Ji­han fur­rowed his brow as if he didn't seem very in­ter­ested in the
many gov­ern­ment sup­ports, in­clud­ing tax ex­emp­tions, and only seemed to
care about guild mem­ber­ship ex­pan­sion.

"Oh, guild mem­ber­ship ex­pan­sion... This is in­cred­i­bly im­por­tant! If we give

you this, there will be a huge back­lash...!"

As the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the ne­go­ti­at­ion team stared at the un­yield­ing Seong

Ji­han, try­ing to sup­press his frus­tra­tion.

"Oppa, don't be like this," Lee Hayeon, who had been watch­ing from the
side, stepped in.

She, who usu­ally re­ferred to him as 'Boss or Owner,' called him 'Oppa' in a
gen­tle voice as she tried to dis­suade him.

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"Ex­pand­ing the num­ber of mem­bers... even if we re­ceive it all, it's just a

dif­fer­ence of five lev­els. So that's 25 peo­ple. Let's just ac­cept half as the ne­‐
go­ti­at­ion team sug­gests."

"No, I'm not de­mand­ing any­thing un­rea­son­able. They said they'd give us a
10% stake in the AF Guild in the U.S."

"Oppa... Among the Top 10 Guilds, there's the 'Di­ver­gent Guild.' We even
have it at our house. Can't you give us some con­sid­er­at­ion? The ne­go­ti­at­ion
team says they can give us about half. Good things are good, right? Oppa
also wanted to live in Ko­rea!"

"Hmm..."

When Lee Hayeon spoke with a play­ful tone, Seong Ji­han made a con­tem­‐
pla­tive ex­pres­sion for a mo­ment.

'Could it be... he's giv­ing in to the per­sua­sion?'

'If we can con­vince the guild mas­ter, there might be an open­ing!'

The rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the ne­go­ti­at­ion team re­called Lee Hayeon, who had
been dis­ap­pointed ear­lier about Seong Ji­han's pro­posed con­di­tions.

To pro­tect the ex­pan­sion of their mem­ber­ship, it was time to bring out the
cards they had orig­i­nally pre­pared.

"Our gov­ern­ment has also pre­pared these con­di­tions!"

Rather than Seong Ji­han, let's tar­get Lee Hayeon!

The rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the ne­go­ti­at­ion team brought out the ma­te­rial con­di­‐
tions they had pre­pared with­out hes­i­ta­tion.

"Oh my, you're mak­ing us feel re­ally bur­dened with all this..."

Lee Hayeon's tone had changed to 'we' be­fore any­one re­al­ized it. The rep­re­‐
sen­ta­tive of the ne­go­ti­at­ion team was con­vinced that Lee Hayeon held the
real power, so he con­tin­ued to sug­gest sup­port mea­sures with a bit­ter smile.

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"Oh... Oppa, I mean, Boss is a bit stub­born. Is this okay for him?"

"Well then, how about this? This sup­port mea­sure..."

"Ugh... I think I can say some­thing at this point."

Lee Hayeon, whose in­flu­ence had grown stronger than be­fore, man­aged to
se­cure many sup­port mea­sures from the gov­ern­ment ne­go­ti­at­ion team.

"Oh. I of­fered more con­di­tions than I thought..."

"But in­stead of caus­ing a dis­tur­bance with the Top 10 Guilds, it's bet­ter to
ne­go­ti­ate like this."

The ne­go­ti­at­ion team felt a sense of re­lief as they agreed to only pro­vide
half of the mem­ber ex­pan­sion.

"Well, this should be enough for me to def­i­nitely con­vince Boss. Oh, by the
way..."

"...what do you mean?"

'Oh, by the way...' Does she want to add more con­di­tions?'

The head of the ne­go­ti­at­ion team had been anx­ious from the start.

"Oh. Could you also des­ig­nate us as the Promis­ing Guild of the Year? Boss
val­ues the guild's growth a lot you know"

"Th-that can be done im­me­di­ately!"

"Thank you~!"

The last con­di­tion Lee Hayeon re­quested was some­thing the gov­ern­ment
had ac­tu­ally con­sid­ered do­ing ear­lier. The head of the ne­go­ti­at­ion team,
while anx­ious, de­cided to end the ne­go­ti­at­ion by agree­ing to give half of the
mem­ber ex­pan­sion and the en­tire growth rate from the guild buff, in ad­di­‐
tion to all the con­di­tions they had pre­pared.

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"Sigh. That per­son is ex­tra­or­di­nary. We've given away ev­ery­thing we pre­‐

pared."

"It's fine... it's for­tu­nate that it ended like this. Even if we add up ev­ery­‐
thing, it's not even 2% of the Amer­i­can First's stake."

"That's true."

"We need to quickly ne­go­ti­ate with the Top 10 Guilds and pre­pare for a na­‐
tion­wide an­nounce­ment. It's lucky that the ne­go­ti­at­ions ended in just one
day."

The ne­go­ti­at­ion team left with a sense of re­lief, and Lee Hayeon sighed
deeply in the con­fer­ence room.

As she rested for a mo­ment, Seong Ji­han and his group en­tered the room.

"You did well, Hayeon."

"Wow. Un­nie, your act­ing was amaz­ing. I se­ri­ously thought you two were
dat­ing."

"Miss, I was also im­pressed. I thought your tal­ent was only in hid­ing your
gam­bling habit."

"The last com­ment is a bit of an af­ter­thought, isn't it?"

Lee Hayeon shrugged her shoul­ders.

"When you sent me a mes­sage ear­lier dur­ing the ne­go­ti­at­ion process, I was
re­ally sur­prised, Boss. Ask­ing me to pre­tend we're lovers and all."

Dur­ing the ne­go­ti­at­ion process a while ago, Seong Ji­han sent a mes­sage to
Lee Hayeon.

-Half of the mem­ber ex­pan­sion buff they will get from them is suf­fi­cient.
The rest is up to Hayeon's dis­cre­tion. Try per­suad­ing him by pre­tend­ing to
be lovers.

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Lee Hayeon, known to the pub­lic as Seong Ji­han's lover. In this ne­go­ti­at­ion,
she show­cased their re­la­tion­ship while as­sist­ing in con­vinc­ing Seong Ji­han
to stay in Ko­rea. In re­al­ity, ev­ery­thing was in Seong Ji­han's hands, but from
the per­spec­tive of the ne­go­ti­at­ion team that went through the ne­go­ti­at­ion
process, it was im­pos­si­ble to be­lieve that this was what Seong Ji­han in­‐
tended.

"You did 120% bet­ter than I ex­pected. Your 'Oppa' came out with­out hes­i­ta­‐
tion."

"Re­ally? Should we con­tinue?"

"No."

"Ugh."

When Seong Ji­han firmly de­clined, Hayeon pouted. It felt like you could
prick her with a nee­dle and not get a drop of blood to come out.

"Is it over?"

At that mo­ment, Sophia, who had fin­ished her game, en­tered the con­fer­ence
room.

"Will you stay in Ko­rea af­ter all?" She asked Ji­han.

"Yes. It seems like my home­land is more com­fort­able."

"That's a shame. Ji­han, I wanted to live with you."

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"Oh. Come to think of it, if I just stay in Ko­rea, the prob­lem will be solved,
right? We can be to­gether all the time."

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"No, it's okay. Go, Sophia."

"You're go­ing too far. You keep try­ing to send me away."

Sophia com­plained to Seong Ji­han while grum­bling.

"Ji­han, didn't I say to you last time? I told you that I would like it if I be­‐
came the world's great­est sup­porter."

"I did men­tion it through Seah's com­mu­ni­ca­tion, yes."

"That's right! Any­way."

She glanced at Hayeon.

"Can you not be so ob­vi­ous about it from now on? Es­pe­cially to the Guild
Mas­ter."

"He won't no­tice."

"Why not?? What did I do wrong?"

Seong Ji­han looked at the protest­ing Hayeon and said non­cha­lantly, "Be­‐
cause gam­bling ad­dicts don't look like lovers."

"No, I'm not... a gam­bling ad­dict...!"

"Re­ally?"

Faced with Seong Ji­han's ques­tion, Hayeon couldn't con­fi­dently deny it.
Her past ex­pe­ri­ences flashed through her mind like a lantern pro­ces­sion. In­‐
stead...

"She's a gam­bling ad­dict."

Lim Gayeong, who was Hayeon's body­guard, ad­mit­ted.

With a voice filled with more cer­tainty than ever, Seong Ji­han said, "Miss,
you are in­deed one of a kind, a gam­bling ad­dict."

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"Hey!"

"Thanks to that, I've be­come a free man. But now, I hope you stop... I don't
want to see you de­te­ri­o­rate any fur­ther."

"What do you mean? I'm not a gam­bling ad­dict. It's re­ally ab­surd! I just
made some pre­dic­tions!"

Seong Ji­han, af­ter look­ing at the blush­ing Hayeon's face, turned to Yoon
Seah, who was be­side him.

"Seah, if you bet again, I'll con­fis­cate Sword Palace."

"...Al­right. Un­cle! I re­ally won't bet any­more."

"I don't trust it."

"Oh, come on! Trust me!"

Sophia sighed as she watched the ex­trav­ag­ ant party of Ko­re­ans.

"Ko­re­ans re­ally love gam­bling."

"Well... Las Ve­gas is in the United States! Gam­bling is your in­ven­tion!"

"Ji­han. I'll be­come the num­ber one sup­porter and come to Ko­rea. Will you
ac­cept me then?"

Seong Ji­han chuck­led as he looked at Sophia, who was non­cha­lantly ig­nor­‐

ing Hayeon's words.

By the time Sophia be­comes the num­ber one sup­porter, the fate of the world
would al­ready be de­ter­mined.

Whether it would per­ish or sur­vive.

"If the world is safe, it won't be hard to ac­cept any­thing."

"Is it a prom­ise?"

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With a wide smile, Sophia strength­ened her re­solve and left Ko­rea.

And soon...

[Seong Ji­han. Stay­ing in Ko­rea!]

[The ma­jor guild un­der­goes a large-scale ex­pan­sion re­or­ga­ni­za­tion! It has

been an­nounced that all in­creased mem­bers due to na­tional bonuses will be
Ko­re­ans!]

Not only in do­mes­tic me­dia but also in in­ter­na­tional news, they be­gan to
cover Seong Ji­han's de­ci­sion to stay in Ko­rea.

***

[Seong Ji­han. Stay­ing in Ko­rea!]

[The gov­ern­ment of South Ko­rea has es­tab­lished and im­ple­mented mas­sive

sup­port poli­cies. How­ever, even if you add all of this, it falls short of 1% of
the Amer­i­can First stake...!]

["The United States al­ways wel­comes you." Sophia leaves Ko­rea af­ter her
fi­nal in­ter­view.]

[The lead­ing guild fo­cus­ing on growth rate, what are their fu­ture plans?
"We will fo­cus on the growth of Ko­rean play­ers."]

To keep Seong Ji­han in Ko­rea, the Ko­rean gov­ern­ment did its best. Not
only the re­turn of Sword Palace but also tax ben­ef­ its, gov­ern­ment sup­port,
and the na­tional guild buffs. It was a com­pre­hen­sive sup­port plan for a
small coun­try like Ko­rea. How­ever...

-Seong Ji­han, you look like a beg­gar now, hehe~

-Is that all they got af­ter giv­ing back the Sword Palace?

-If I were Seong Ji­han's fam­ily, I would have told him to go to the United
States hehe -Why, what's wrong with our coun­try?

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-He's just an id­iot for ac­cept­ing sup­port like that!

Com­pared to the ex­trav­ag­ ant treat­ment top play­ers from other coun­tries re­‐
ceive, even or­di­nary peo­ple would find Seong Ji­han's ben­ef­ its from the
coun­try lack­ing. It should have been more than enough to se­cure more
wealth and honor. Seong Ji­han may be sat­is­fied, but the fans were dis­ap­‐
pointed in the sit­u­at­ion. How­ever.

'This is enough.'

Af­ter all, what mat­tered most to him was his growth rate.

'I may not be as fo­cused on the na­tional buff be­cause of Mar­tial Soul, but
Seah and other play­ers are not the same.' Seong Ji­han re­called the nu­mer­ous
promis­ing play­ers in Daegi Guild.

They were the tal­ents who would sup­port Earth's rank­ing when the Space
League opened. It was his job, as the Boss of Daegi Guild, to help these
peo­ple grow as much as pos­si­ble.

And sud­denly, on Oc­to­ber 25th, the day when the Gold TOP 100 from
around the world were se­lected and the pro­mo­tion match took place, Seong
Ji­han's name did not ap­pear.

-Why isn't Seong Ji­han here?

-Could it be that he's not Level 100 yet?

-There's no way he's not ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ He lev­eled up even as a na­tional rep­‐

re­sen­ta­tive, didn't he?

-But he didn't play the game last time be­cause of the ne­go­ti­at­ions. Maybe
he couldn't par­tic­i­pate be­cause he couldn't level up then?

-It would be a bit dis­ap­point­ing if he doesn't go to Plat­inum this time, hehe~

So on the 25th. Peo­ple were buzzing about Seong Ji­han's ab­sence, but when
it be­came Oc­to­ber 26th, ev­ery­one saw a new mes­sage they had never seen

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be­fore.

-Player 'Seong Ji­han' is in­vited to the Space League Gold TOP 25 Pro­mo­‐
tion Match.

The Space League. It was a com­pletely new world for the Earth­lings, who
were cur­rently in a tu­to­rial state.

Join our Dis­cord for re­lease up­dates!

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Chap­ter 154
When Seong Ji­han reached level 100, he re­ceived a mes­sage sim­i­lar to
those he had re­ceived dur­ing his Bronze and Sil­ver ranks.

[You've fin­ished the Gold League as the top-ranked player.]

[You've earned the ti­tle 'Dom­i­na­tor of the Gold League.']

[You've the qual­i­fi­ca­tion to par­tic­i­pate in the TOP 100 Pro­mo­tion Matches.]

The 'Dom­i­na­tor of the Gold League' ti­tle pro­vided an ad­di­tional stat boost
of +7 to all stats com­pared to the 'Dom­i­na­tor of the Gold League' ti­tle, but
Seong Ji­han re­al­ized that chang­ing ti­tles didn't af­fect his mar­tial soul.

'It seems that no mat­ter the ti­tle, my Mar­tial soul doesn't in­crease.'

He re­called the time in 108 Arhat For­ma­tion when his abil­i­ties had dra­mat­i­‐
cally im­proved, but de­spite con­tin­ued train­ing, his Mar­tial soul didn't
progress as it did then.

'Adapt­ing Crim­son Thun­der was never an easy task...'

He couldn't help but feel a sense of ur­gency as it seemed his growth had
stalled.

'But this time, they aren't ask­ing me to par­tic­i­pate in a Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle one
level above like they did be­fore.'

None­the­less, with the in­con­sis­tent progress, he felt anx­ious, as if his growth

had come to a halt.

'But this time, they didn't men­tion the Pro­mo­tion Matches one level above,
like they did last time.'

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Seong Ji­han couldn't hide his sur­prise when he no­ticed that there were no
ad­di­tional sys­tem mes­sages. Even when he was in the Sil­ver league and his
level was far lower than it was now, he had been granted qual­i­fi­ca­tion for
the Gang­nam 1 Gold League Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle.

How­ever, this time, de­spite reach­ing a higher level and even show­cas­ing his
prow­ess as a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, he didn't re­ceive qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the
Plat­inum league Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle.

'I don't plan to jump straight to Di­am

­ ond any­way, but... this is strange.'

Just as he was con­tem­plat­ing this, a sys­tem mes­sage sud­denly ap­peared.

[You've achieved vic­tory in the na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive match at the Gold

level, and ob­tained the MVP ti­tle three or more times.]

[You've ob­tained the abil­i­ties of the stars.]

[You've met the Qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the Space League Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle.]

[Will you par­tic­i­pate in the Space League Gold TOP 25 Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle?]

'...The Space League!?'

Seong Ji­han's eyes widened in sur­prise. This was the first time he had seen
a Space League Pro­mo­tion Match in all his life­times. He had no idea such a
thing ex­isted, let alone that he would be granted the qual­i­fi­ca­tion to par­tic­i­‐
pate in it.

Un­usu­ally, Seong Ji­han's eyes widened. It was a Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle for the
Space League, some­thing he had never en­coun­tered in his past life. To
make it even more sur­pris­ing, he was of­fered a qual­i­fi­ca­tion!

As if to rep­re­sent his thoughts, an ad­di­tional mes­sage ap­peared: [Cau­tion --

This is a Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle where play­ers from the tu­to­rial-com­pleted world
can also par­tic­i­pate. De­cide care­fully!]

'Of course, I should par­tic­i­pate,' Seong Ji­han de­cided af­ter ca­su­ally dis­miss­‐
ing the sys­tem's cau­tion­ary mes­sage.

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[You'll par­tic­i­pate in the Space League TOP 25 Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle.]

[The match will be held on Oc­to­ber 27th.]

[You've cleared the achieve­ment 'Promis­ing Star of Space -- Gold'.]

[You've ob­tained 500,000 Achieve­ment Points.]

[You've cleared the achieve­ment 'Cho­sen as a Promis­ing Star in the Tu­to­‐

rial'.]

[You've ob­tained 1,000,000 Achieve­ment Points.]

'1.5 mil­lion?'

Achieve­ment points poured in as soon as he made the de­ci­sion to par­tic­i­‐

pate. This amount far sur­passed all the achieve­ment points he had ac­quired
un­til now. It meant that this achieve­ment was be­yond re­mark­able.

'I should up­grade all the achieve­ment store items to level 3 with this.'

Among the nu­mer­ous items in the level 7 achieve­ment store, some were
cur­rently use­less, like the Seat of Power slots or Gift slots. How­ever, as
they would be needed when up­grad­ing the achieve­ment store later, he de­‐
cided to in­vest in them now.

'I have more points than I know what to do with, even af­ter reach­ing level
3.'

How­ever, since he hadn't ful­filled the 'Do­nate 5 times' con­di­tion to up­grade

the store level, Seong Ji­han de­cided to use the re­main­ing points to up­grade
'All For One.'

As a re­sult, 'All For One' had al­ready reached level 5. This in­creased its ef­‐
fi­ciency from the orig­i­nal 4 times to 6 times.

'Now that it's 6 times, I hope the in­spi­ra­tion ef­fect trig­gers more of­ten.'

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Seong Ji­han had be­come de­pen­dent on the in­spi­ra­tion ef­fect at a high price,
but it hadn't ac­ti­vated once yet.

'With the ef­fect up­graded this time, it might be dif­fer­ent.'

With these ex­pec­ta­tions in mind, Seong Ji­han ded­i­cated him­self to train­ing

un­til the Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle.

As a re­sult:

[Mar­tial Soul has in­creased by 5.]

Thanks to the proper ac­ti­va­tion of the In­spi­ra­tion ef­fect, he was able to raise
his Mar­tial soul to 120 while ad­vanc­ing his mar­tial arts, which al­lowed him
to en­ter the Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle.

Oc­to­ber 25th.

= Yoon Seah... dis­ap­peared again! She dodged all the at­tacks!

= No. What kind of tech­nique is that? Ar­rows dis­ap­peared, and she dis­ap­‐
peared too!

= It doesn't seem to be a sim­ple in­vis­i­bil­ity ef­fect! She had a Fire­wall cast

above her, but when it went out, Yoon Seah was un­harmed!

= Ah... Only two of them left! Oh, the in­vis­i­bil­ity ar­row ac­ti­vated again...!

Af­ter Yoon Seah pierced her op­po­nent in the TV broad­cast.

Not long af­ter that, Yoon Seah dashed into the liv­ing room, bounc­ing
around.

"Un­cle! Un­cle! I won!!"

"Oh, I was watch­ing. Con­grat­u­la­tions."

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"Hehe, when I asked you to bet on me, Un­cle avoided my gaze, right? I've
proven it with the re­sults! I'm the first place in this Sil­ver league!"

Void Archer class and the Void Shield that Seong Ji­han had given her were
a per­fect match. She could eas­ily evade dan­ger­ous en­emy at­tacks by flip­‐
ping the shield and by­pass her op­po­nent's de­fenses with Void Ar­rows.

-- What's with this fam­ily? Seong Ji­han, Seong Jiah, and Yoon Seah are on a
dif­fer­ent level. Yoon Seah prob­ab­ ly got the op­po­nent re­ally frus­trated, lol.
She can flip and dis­ap­pear, and the ar­rows are in­vis­i­ble, lol.

-- Se­ri­ously, even I was jeal­ous watch­ing, lol.

-- I'm a Yoon Seah fan, so I bet 1 mil­lion won with fan en­thu­si­asm, and I
won 100 mil­lion... Yoon Seah is a god­dess and in­vin­ci­ble!!

-- Wow, 100 times, lol.

"Wow, it was 100 times, for me? Ah... that's a shame."

"Whether it's 100 times or 1,000 times, don't even dream of bet­ting."

"Oh, I see. I won't do it, I won't do it!"

When Seong Ji­han firmly said that, Yoon Seah clapped her hands.

While she con­tin­ued to look at the com­ments, she no­ticed some­thing cap­ti­‐
vat­ing.

-- But why isn't Seong Ji­han on the bet­ting site? I'm go­ing all-in, lol. He's
not par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pro­mo­tion match this time? Is he not even level 100
yet?

When­ever Yoon Seah was men­tioned, the talk about Seong Ji­han in­evitably
came up. As the most an­tic­i­pated game on Bat­tleNet's bet­ting site, TOP 100
Pro­mo­tion Match, peo­ple thought Seong Ji­han's name would nat­u­rally be
there.

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How­ever, strangely, Seong Ji­han's name was not in­cluded in this month's
pro­mo­tion match list.

"Un­cle, no one knows the fact that you're go­ing to the Space League."

"Why bother telling them? They'll know to­mor­row."

"Yeah... You're right."

"What do you think about cel­eb­ rat­ing your vic­tory with a meal? Let's re­‐
serve a restau­rant."

At Seong Ji­han's sug­ges­tion, Yoon Seah scratched her cheek.

"Un­cle, that's... too... laid back, isn't it? Let's eat to­gether when your match
is over to­mor­row. To­day, we need to pre­pare for the Space League!"

"Okay, okay. Got it."

***

And on Oc­to­ber 26th, when news broke that Seong Ji­han would be par­tic­i­‐
pat­ing in the Space League, the en­tire world went crazy, as ex­pected.

[Seong Ji­han! The first hu­man to par­tic­i­pate in the Space League Pro­mo­tion
Match!]

[The Space League, never seen be­fore. Will the veil fi­nally be lifted?]

[Even in­ter­na­tional news is rush­ing to cover it! Seong Ji­han dom­i­nates the
front page of global me­dia!]

-- Space League?? This is in­sane!

-- I've been do­ing Bat­tleNet tu­to­ri­als for ten years, and I was cu­ri­ous about
what the Space League is all about, and now Seong Ji­han is start­ing it, lol.

-- Wow, are we go­ing to see aliens now?

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-- Wow, is it true that he made it to the front page of in­ter­na­tional news?

Ko­rean pride is soar­ing!

Cheers! One more shot of Ko­rean pride here!

-- Cheers, the di­rec­tor al­ready over­worked him­self be­cause of Seong Ji­han,

lol.

Next year, Earth would be in­cluded in the Space League -- Bronze. Ev­ery­‐
one had been cu­ri­ous about what the Space League had to of­fer. Seong Ji­‐
han's par­tic­i­pa­tion in the pro­mo­tion match in­evitably drew global at­ten­tion.

Many peo­ple stayed up all night, un­able to sleep, ea­gerly await­ing the
Space League Pro­mo­tion Match.

Then, the next day.

"I'll be back."

Seong Ji­han waved to Yoon Seah and logged into the game.

[TOP 25 Gold Pro­mo­tion Match is be­gin­ning.]

[This mis­sion is a sur­vival mode.]

[En­ter the 'God King's Throne'.]

Flash!

'God King's Throne. A map I've never seen be­fore.'

Seong Ji­han, sum­moned into the game, checked the mes­sage and looked
around. All around, the space was wide open, and in­stead of the sun, thick
clouds filled the sky. How­ever, these clouds were pierced by light, di­vid­ing
the earth into 25 sec­tions, with one of them di­rectly il­lu­mi­nat­ing Seong Ji­‐
han.

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It was as if a spot­light shone down on the player. Seong Ji­han glanced at the
other sec­tions of light pierc­ing through the clouds, il­lu­mi­nat­ing the dis­tant
ar­eas.

'Gi­ants, drag­ons... It's a gath­er­ing of colos­sal mon­sters.'

The most eye-catch­ing were the gi­ant crea­tures, such as the steel gi­ants that
ap­peared to be dozens of times his size, and the drag­ons that seemed like
small moun­tains. There were even mas­sive be­ings that ap­peared to be a fu­‐
sion of var­i­ous life forms. Rather than fel­low TOP 25 play­ers, they re­sem­‐
bled boss-level mon­sters.

'There are about 15 gi­ant en­ti­ties.'

[Rrrrr...]

[Is it you again?]

[You're squirm­ing around, lizard!]

Whether it was from a pre­vi­ous TOP 25 match or not, these colos­sal en­ti­ties
seemed to rec­og­nize each other. They emit­ted in­tense auras and faced off
against one an­other.

'Hmm... These are real boss mon­sters, that's for sure.'

These gi­ant en­ti­ties dis­played strength com­men­su­rate with their size. From
their per­spec­tive, Seong Ji­han, who ap­peared in­signif­i­cant, was not even on
their radar.

'They can fight amongst them­selves.'

While on Earth, Seong Ji­han could crush his op­po­nents with over­whelm­ing
power, here he couldn't em­ploy the same strat­egy. So, he de­cided to re­main
in­dif­fer­ent and fo­cus on re­con­nais­sance.

'Most of them are of sig­nif­i­cant size. Hu­manoids seem to be few... like that
one elf.'

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As Seong Ji­han con­tin­ued ob­serv­ing the oth­ers,

Sud­denly, near him, a man in a black robe ap­peared. Un­like the oth­ers sum­‐
moned so far, he was hu­man-sized and dressed in a robe. His face was hid­‐
den in dark­ness, but his fa­mil­iar way of speak­ing caught Seong Ji­han's at­‐
ten­tion.

"Are you... the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead star?" Seong Ji­han in­quired.

"Right on the money! That's me! My name... I mean, my name is... right, it's
Kar­lein! A nick­name made just for you!" Kar­lein said, brim­ming with en­‐
thu­si­asm.

Seong Ji­han was taken aback. "But aren't you a Con­stel­la­tion? Why are you
here?"

"Oh, this is just my avatar. Avatar."

"Avatar?"

Kar­lein looked around and ex­plained, "If you're par­tic­i­pat­ing in the TOP 25,
most are avatars of con­stel­la­tions. See that dragon over there? It's a avatar
of the 'Dragon God.' In­side that gi­ant mon­ster is the essence of the Void. I
made a sub char­ac­ter for my King of Ghosts!"

As Kar­lein pointed at dif­fer­ent en­ti­ties, Seong Ji­han re­al­ized that all the par­‐
tic­i­pants in the Pro­mo­tion Match seemed to be sub-char­ac­ters of the Con­‐
stel­la­tions. It ap­peared that most of them had cre­ated these avatars for the
TOP 25 Pro­mo­tion Match.

"But why go through the trou­ble of cre­at­ing avatars to par­tic­i­pate in this

match?"

"Well, the re­wards for the Pro­mo­tion Match are quite lu­cra­tive. I al­ready
met you, so I got my wish!"

"What's the re­ward?"

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"If you be­come my head, you'll nat­u­rally find out. Head, head!" Kar­lein
con­tin­ued his pe­cu­liar rant.

Seong Ji­han raised his hand in ex­as­per­at­ion.

"Al­right, enough. Go away."

"Head! Wait, I pre­pared a slo­gan for you! Lis­ten!" Kar­lein in­sisted.

Seong Ji­han sighed.

"What non­sense are you try­ing to pull now?"

"Head, head, would you be my head? I'll be your heart!" Kar­lein pleaded.

Seong Ji­han fur­rowed his brow.

'Why is this guy even a Con­stel­la­tion?'

"Can I just kill you right now?" Seong Ji­han asked.

"No, no, I haven't started the game yet! If we fight be­fore it be­gins, we'll re­‐
ceive penal­ties!" Kar­lein replied and pointed to the sky.

"Look at the color of those clouds over there! It seems like the Con­stel­la­‐
tion of the Cloud or the Con­stel­la­tion of the Thun­der might be com­ing... If
we stum­ble into the Con­stel­la­tion of the Thun­der, we bet­ter run for our
lives! No need to save your strength!"

"Is the Con­stel­la­tion of the Thun­der re­ally that pow­er­ful?", Seong Ji­han
asked.

"Yeah, he's the worst of the Con­stel­la­tions! They just growl at each other
and don't fight, you see," Kar­lein ex­plained as he ges­tured to­wards the
dragon and the gi­ant.

As Kar­lein con­tin­ued to en­er­get­i­cally dis­cuss the sit­u­at­ion, both the dragon

and the gi­ant, who had been eye­ing each other war­ily, turned their at­ten­tion
to­wards Seong Ji­han.

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[...The Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star?]

[Why is that guy so con­fi­dent?]

They seemed puz­zled by Kar­lein's high ten­sion but were taken aback when
they looked at Seong Ji­han.

[That fee­ble guy... he's not the Con­stel­la­tion's avatar?!]

[Whoa, he's not the avatar of the Con­stel­la­tion, but he's par­tic­i­pat­ing in the
pro­mo­tion?]

Just as the in­ter­est of the dragon and gi­ant rapidly shifted to Seong Ji­han, a
sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared: [The God for the Throne is de­ter­mined...]

[The Di­vine Con­stel­la­tion, Thun­der God, takes the throne.]

Crack! Crack!

The clouds parted, and within them, light­ning poured down like a tor­ren­tial
rain. While look­ing at the in­tense yel­low light­ning, the dragon and the gi­ant
seemed dis­ap­pointed.

[This is bad.]

[Thun­der God re­ally is com­ing...]

What could be the prob­lem with Thun­der God that even the Con­stel­la­tion's
avatars have such an at­ti­tude?

As Seong Ji­han was about to in­quire, ad­di­tional sys­tem mes­sages ap­peared.

[Pun­ish­ment for Thun­der God is ap­plied.]

[When you die, you can­not res­ur­rect.]

[Due to the 'No Res­ur­rec­tion' penalty, you have the right to for­feit the
game.]

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'No Res­ur­rec­tion...'

Seong Ji­han's eyes widened in sur­prise at the stronger penalty than ex­‐
pected.

[I pity you, Lizard.]

[I'm giv­ing up too. If I die, when will I be able to raise them again?]

Zap! Zap!

The dragon and gi­ant, who had dis­played the most in­tense de­ter­mi­na­tion
among the 25 play­ers, quickly gave up the game.

"Head, should we give up too? I can start anew, but you're the main char­ac­‐
ter."

"What's the re­ward for this game?"

"Re­wards? Ah, well..."

Un­like a lit­tle while ago, Kar­lein ex­plained the pro­mo­tion re­wards quite
read­ily.

"In that case, we should par­tic­i­pate."

Seong Ji­han de­cided to par­tic­i­pate in the game, de­spite the penal­ties.

*****

IM­POR­TANT NOTE

We re­ceived some bad news a few days ago. The new Trans­la­tor for this
novel was hos­pi­tal­ized due to an ac­ci­dent, thank­fully she only re­ceived mi­‐
nor in­juries and thank god she's okay now, but she'll not be able to fo­cus on
trans­la­tion work for a while.

A an­other Trans­la­tor will be tak­ing over the se­ries for the time be­ing.

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We're sorry for not be­ing con­sis­tent with the re­leases. We were wait­ing for
Trans­la­tor as she went com­pletely AFK on us, but we com­pletely un­der­‐
stand that she was in a bad sit­u­at­ion and wasn't able to tell us. Please send
your prayers for her and we hope that she'll re­cover soon!

Thank you for your un­der­stand­ing -- Hel Scans.

*****

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Chap­ter 155
[Reach the Di­vine Throne, and ac­knowl­edge the Thun­der God.]

[The game ends when ei­ther 5 play­ers sur­vive or a player reaches the Di­‐
vine Throne.]

Ku­ru­rur!

As a pale yel­low light de­scended from the sky, spot­lights that il­lu­mi­nated
the play­ers con­verged to­wards the cen­ter.

And then, the throne slowly re­vealed it­self.

Zzzip---

It was a mas­sive di­vine throne that com­pletely over­whelmed the dig­nity of

the drag­ons and gi­ants seen ear­lier.

Blue sparks were flick­er­ing all over the throne.

'Now I think I know why the Con­stel­la­tion's avatars are run­ning away.'

From a dis­tance, it ap­peared as if blue sparks were swirling around the

throne. But if you were to get closer, you'd re­al­ize that these sparks were
thick bolts of light­ning, much larger in girth than any or­di­nary adult. The
power con­tained within them was so for­mi­da­ble that a mere touch from
these bolts would likely oblit­er­ate most be­ings.

"Head, it's im­pos­si­ble. The Thun­der God is too strong."

[The fi­nal choice is be­ing given...]

[The Thun­der God... re­mains for­mi­da­ble.]

[I can't do it. I give up.]

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As the Con­stel­la­tion of the Thun­der was re­vealed, some of the re­main­ing

fif­teen or so play­ers gave up on the game.

Many of those who chose to give up were the gi­ant en­tity play­ers, per­haps
be­liev­ing they couldn't pos­si­bly avoid such a pow­er­ful elec­tric cur­rent.

"Oh, look. Only ten left?"

And that's how it came down to just ten play­ers.

The at­mos­phere changed sub­tly.

"Hehe. Should we just go for it? I mean, there's only five more who'll die
be­fore me."

Kar­lein said, look­ing around.

With­out even con­sid­er­ing the con­di­tions for reach­ing the Di­vine Throne, his
goal was to be among the fi­nal five.

"Al­right. Head, if you sur­vive, I'll sur­vive too!"

"Just go."

"No, no! I have to pro­tect you!"

As he spoke, Kar­lein cov­ered his face, hid­den in dark­ness.

"If you feel like you're go­ing to die, come in here any­time! Let's merge!"

'Maybe get­ting struck by light­ning and dy­ing would be bet­ter than that.'

Ig­nor­ing Kar­lein's the­atrics, Seong Ji­han sur­veyed his sur­round­ings.

The first thing that caught his eye was an elf with a longsword.

She looked the same as the elf he had seen in the pre­vi­ous ex­per­i­men­tal
area, but there was a slight dif­fer­ence in her hair color.

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Her golden hair had one strand at the front that had changed to green. She
gazed in­tently at Seong Ji­han.

[Green hair... High Elf of the World Tree Al­liance.]

'High Elf?'

[Yes. A pow­er­ful war­rior di­rectly un­der the World Tree Al­liance. The darker
the green hair, the stronger the in­di­vid­ual. Those with com­pletely green hair
pos­sess power equiv­al­ent to that of the con­stel­la­tions.]

'Wasn't the World Tree a con­stel­la­tion?'

[No... the World Tree is such a mighty pres­ence that it can't be eas­ily com­‐
pared to the Con­stel­la­tions.]

Seong Ji­han re­called what had hap­pened in the pre­vi­ous ex­per­i­men­tal area.

The 'Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor' who seemed to have sig­nif­i­cant in­flu­ence over

Bat­tleNet.

Could the World Tree be con­sid­ered an ad­min­is­tra­tor of this game be­yond

the Con­stel­la­tion level?

'These guys are such headaches.'

Why had he ended up in the same league as them?

Seong Ji­han in­wardly sighed and glanced at the sword held by the High Elf.

A sword made from the branches of the World Tree. If he could some­how
steal that here, it would be a great as­set against the Sword King.

'But for now, sur­vival comes first.'

He de­cided not to push his luck right now.

He de­cided not to push it for the time be­ing.

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At that mo­ment, the High Elf, who had been study­ing Seong Ji­han care­‐
fully, opened her lips.

-- I have de­tected the essence of life. You have suc­ceeded in the project. I
will pro­vide as­sis­tance.

Per­haps be­cause it was a con­ver­sa­tion be­tween in-game play­ers, the High

Elf's lan­guage was au­to­mat­i­cally trans­lated.

'...What?'

At first, Seong Ji­han didn't un­der­stand what she was say­ing, but the men­‐
tion of the essence of life trig­gered a mem­ory.

'Could this be re­lated to the Seed of Life the Green Ad­min­is­tra­tor gave me
be­fore?'

An SSS-grade item, the Seed of Life. It had given a resid­ual stat boost of
+10, and it had tried to in­flu­ence Seong Ji­han by in­fus­ing a strange en­ergy
into him.

Of course, due to Seong Ji­han's spir­i­tual state, the at­tempt had failed, and
over 90% had been ex­pelled, with the re­main­der sealed within his body for
re­search pur­poses.

The High Elf seemed to have some mis­con­cep­tions, and Seong Ji­han
thought that she be­lieved he was un­der their con­trol.

'Well, that's con­ve­nient. When she comes out, I should seize the right mo­‐
ment to snatch her sword.'

Seong Ji­han nod­ded slightly to­wards the High Elf.

"At your ser­vice!"

She saluted en­er­get­i­cally.

"Why is she act­ing like that?"

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"It's a long story."

"Hey, Head! Don't go near the peo­ple of the World Tree Al­liance! They're
worse vil­lains than me! If they catch you, you'll be dis­sected, and you'll be
used as an eter­nal ex­per­i­men­tal sub­ject!"

"You're quite the vil­lain your­self."

"Hehe. But you and I will be to­gether for­ever! Let's go around de­cap­i­tat­ing
kings to­gether!"

Seong Ji­han frowned as he looked at the overly en­thu­si­as­tic Kar­lein.

'How long is this guy go­ing to stay here?'

Just then, a bril­liant light burst from the Con­stel­la­tion. In the dimly lit
space, white cur­rents surged across the floor.

"Ah, it's started. Re­mem­ber, Head! If you ever feel like you're go­ing to die,
just call my name! I'll be there any­time!"

See­ing this, Kar­lein shook Seong Ji­han's hand and quickly dis­ap­peared.

Si­mul­ta­ne­ously, a crack­ling sound filled the air.

In front of the re­main­ing 10 play­ers, a mas­sive light­ning path ap­peared.

[Fol­low the path and reach the Di­vine Throne.]

The TOP 25 Pro­mo­tion Match map, the God King's Throne. The goal of the
game was sim­ple: fol­low the path and reach the Throne. How­ever...

[In the player's world, the con­cept of 'Thun­der God' is ex­tracted.]

[Rat­ing eval­u­at­ion... Top-grade.]

[No. 4212, in the 'Hu­man' world, light­ning was an ir­re­sistibly in­tense nat­u­‐
ral phe­nom­en­ on. They be­lieved that light­ning was the wrath of the gods and

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feared and wor­shiped it. Nat­u­rally, Thun­der God es­tab­lished him­self as a

king in many mytholo­gies.]

[Sum­mon­ing the rep­re­sen­ta­tive con­cept of Thun­der God... Zeus, Thor, and

In­dra are se­lected in the first round.]

[Trans­la­tor's note: The term "Thun­der God" likely refers to gods as­so­ci­ated
with thun­der and light­ning, such as Zeus in Greek mythol­ogy, Thor in
Norse mythol­ogy, and In­dra in Hindu mythol­ogy.]

'What?'

Zeus, Thor, In­dra. They all wield light­ning and were gods who made their
mark in their re­spec­tive mytholo­gies. Why are such fig­ures be­ing se­lected
here now? Seong Ji­han watched the mes­sage with an un­easy feel­ing.

['Zeus,' the king of Olym­pus, is cho­sen as the Gate­keeper.]

[Zeus blocks the path.]

A pres­ence that ob­structed the path emerged, and it was ut­terly ab­surd.

Space League TOP 25 Pro­mo­tion Match Broad­cast.

This was a mat­ter that had the whole world on edge. The day had fi­nally
come when the Space League, which had been hid­den un­der wraps, re­‐
vealed it­self for the first time.

= Christo­pher. I heard you rushed here from Hawaii again!

=Yes, I did the same last month. Thanks to Seong, I keep for­feit­ing my va­‐
ca­tions!

=And the view­er­ship num­bers are stag­ger­ing. Much higher than the Bat­‐
tleNet Cham­pi­ons League fi­nals! Can we ever ex­pect to see such num­bers
again?

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=Log­i­cally, it seems im­pos­si­ble, but who knows? Seong might break his
own records!

=Haha, it's truly an honor to be a caster for a game like this!

=I'll also in­tro­duce my­self as a caster to­day! I don't know any­thing!

The com­men­ta­tors had no in­for­ma­tion, and the pro­mo­tion match had to

pro­ceed with­out their com­men­tary. Christo­pher smiled and said he'd do his
best as a caster.

At first, the at­mos­phere was cheer­ful, but then...

=Uh... The Thun­der God's penalty... It's death?

=No way. What game ac­tu­ally kills peo­ple!

=Seong! You shouldn't be play­ing this game! You need to get out of here!

As the Thun­der God's penalty was dis­played on the screen, the broad­cast
team was taken aback. What kind of Bat­tleNet game re­sults in real deaths?

-- This is in­sane, isn't it? Se­ri­ously...

-- What kind of penalty is ac­tual death??

-- Can such things re­ally hap­pen when you reach the Space League, un­like
in the tu­to­rial...

The view­ers' re­ac­tions to this were in­tense. What kind of game penalty
could lead to "death"?

Most view­ers typed mes­sages urg­ing the play­ers to exit the game, but then,
Kar­lein ex­plained the pro­mo­tion match re­wards.

-- Wow, there are re­wards like that?

-- Do you be­lieve that crazy guy's words? Ha­haha

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-- Some­thing about an avatar of the con­stel­la­tions?

-- But what's the Con­stel­la­tion?

-- I don't know, it's their own story.

The view­ers watched with skep­ti­cism and waited for the sit­u­at­ion to un­fold.
When the game started, the of­fi­cial sys­tem re­wards ap­peared on the broad­‐
cast screen.

[Com­pleted Star Frag­ment]

-- Grade: EX

-- A frag­ment of the star that has passed 'all tests.'

-- Low­ers the Bat­tleNet game dif­fi­culty level by one step for the en­tire
planet.

-- Ap­plied im­me­di­ately upon item ac­qui­si­tion.

-- Grade EX...!

-- Low­ers the Bat­tleNet dif­fi­culty! It's an un­be­liev­able item that ap­plies

glob­ally!

The EX-grade item, the 'Com­pleted Star Frag­ment,' had ef­fects that ap­plied
glob­ally, from re­duc­ing game dif­fi­culty to in­creas­ing the ap­pear­ance rate of
Gift-bear­ing play­ers.

For Earth­lings, it was an item that they couldn't help but de­sire.

-- But it's not ben­ef­ i­cial for in­di­vid­ual play­ers! Isn't a dif­fi­culty re­duc­tion
un­nec­es­sary for him?

-- Right... Is it nec­es­sary to be pre­pared to die just to ob­tain it? Seong Ji­han!

It seems wiser to just exit...

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-Please, hyung, get out of thereㅠㅠㅠㅠ Once you die, it's over!!!!! ㅠㅠ
ㅠㅠ

-For real, what does Seong Ji­han's dif­fi­culty have to do with it? Just smash
through ev­ery­thing by your­self!

-That's right! Whether Gift play­ers come out more or not, what does it mat­‐
ter, Seong Ji­han is the most im­por­tant one!!

-- Ap­plause for Seong Ji­han's heroic de­ci­sion. It's a de­ter­mi­na­tion for the
world.

-- Ji­han-ssi, please play the game and sur­vive. Let me awaken!!!

-- Ugh, these for­eign guys are so an­noy­ing. They're not from our coun­try,
right?

-- As long as Seong doesn't die, it's fine. Why don't Ko­re­ans trust Seong?

From the Ko­rean per­spec­tive, Seong Ji­han's well-be­ing was the most im­‐
por­tant, but for­eign view­ers, per­haps en­ticed by the gen­er­ous re­wards,
seemed to se­cretly hope that Seong Ji­han would play the game for them.

And then...

-- Ah. The game is pro­ceed­ing as is!

-- Huh... Now that it's like this, we must def­i­nitely stay as a group of 5! But
this con­cept ex­trac­tion of Thun­der God... re­ceiv­ing a grade eval­u­at­ion
above is un­set­tling!

-- Ah, Zeus, Thor, In­dra... Why are they ap­pear­ing?

-- Among the three, which one is rel­at­ively weaker?

-- I don't know? Oh, Zeu... it's Zeus!

Zzzzzz...

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Along the path of the throne ex­tended to­wards Seong Ji­han, Elec­tric­ity
surged, form­ing a sin­gle fig­ure.

A gi­ant about 4 to 5 me­ters in size. With a white beard and a lion's head. His
en­tire body un­der the face was com­posed of elec­tric­ity.

Zeus, the King of Olym­pus.

Ap­pointed as a gate­keeper due to con­cept ex­trac­tion, he gazed at Seong Ji­‐

han with a lan­guid look.

"Hmm..."

Swish!

He slowly opened his mouth, bring­ing his hand to his beard.

"It's not a woman."

"What?"

Is that the first thing you say as soon as you come out?

shhh!

Zeus slightly low­ered his head and ex­am­ined Seong Ji­han's face here and
there. Then he frowned.

"He's not a young man ei­ther."

"...So?"

"Some­one who's nei­ther a woman nor a young man called me. Un­pleas­ant.
Die right away."

Zeus was driven by in­stinct. He un­re­servedly ex­pressed his dis­plea­sure and

raised both his hands to­ward the sky.

Flashes! Flashes!

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A bril­liant light burst from the clouds above.

"I don't need to wait for that."

Be­fore be­com­ing the tar­get of the first strike, Seong Ji­han drew his spear
first.

Name­less di­vine art, Heav­enly Thun­der Phoenix Flame: Crim­son Thun­der

can­non [Note: Chang­ing "Name­less di­vine art, Fu­sion of Di­vine thun­der
and phoenix: Crim­son Thun­der can­non" to "Name­less di­vine art, Heav­enly
Thun­der Phoenix Flame: Crim­son Thun­der can­non"]

At the tip of the spear, it seemed like a red elec­tric cur­rent was about to ap­‐
pear, and a red bolt of light­ning shot to­ward Zeus at the speed of light.

Com­pared to when it was sup­pressed in 108 arhat for­ma­tion, the red light­‐
ning had be­come much more in­tense.

"Huh? You're go­ing to strike me with light­ning?"

Zeus saw the Crim­son Thun­der and didn't even think about avoid­ing it. But
when the mas­sive Crim­son Thun­der passed through his body, flames burst
from within.

"What...!? You, what is this...!"

Zeus looked at the Crim­son Thun­der that pierced his own stom­ach with a
vis­i­bly be­wil­dered face. His di­vine light­ning that he couldn't con­trol!

The rift that ap­peared in his ab­domen quickly spread to the sur­round­ings,
ig­nit­ing flames. The flames de­rived from the Crim­son Thun­der re­fused to
ex­tin­guish, and they rapidly as­cended to his chest.

"Eek!"

Zeus screamed as he fran­ti­cally cut his chest hor­i­zon­tally with his hand.

As a re­sult, only his up­per body fell apart. The di­vine light­ning rose into the
sky.

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"You, I won't leave a sin­gle frag­ment!"

Was it more dis­grace­ful to be struck by the di­vine light­ning than by the

Crim­son Thun­der? Zeus, in an en­raged face, reached out from the sky.

"As­trape!"

When Zeus shouted "As­trape," a round hole pierced the black sky. In­side, a
space filled with pure white light ap­peared.

At the same time, Seong Ji­han's eyes snapped open.

This se­ries of scenes...

To him, it was all too fa­mil­iar.

'This is... Ce­les­tial Judg­ment?'

Ce­les­tial Judg­ment was one of the as­cend­ing mar­tial arts of Thun­der God.

What he was see­ing now was too sim­i­lar to that.

'So next is...!'

Ku­ru­rur!

From the rift in the sky, a gi­gan­tic spear of light ap­peared and struck Seong
Ji­han di­rectly.

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-- Is that...!?

-- It is sim­i­lar to the skill that Seong Ji­han has been us­ing! Did the Thun­der­‐
cloud spear be­long to Zeus?

-- How­ever, Zeus's tech­nique is much more grand and flashy! Thun­der

storms are rag­ing in all di­rec­tions!

Zeus's light­ning, As­trape.

It was a skill used by Seong Ji­han and was sim­i­lar to his, but it boasted an
even more spec­tac­u­lar im­pact. While Seong Ji­han's Ce­les­tial Judg­ment
ended with a down­ward strike of his spear, As­trape sum­moned light­ning
like rain from the space of light, mak­ing it ap­pear like a shower.

From the per­spec­tive of the pub­lic, Ce­les­tial Judg­ment could be seen as an

in­fe­rior ver­sion or a lower-qual­ity prod­uct com­pared to As­trape.

-- Will... he sur­vive?

-- We can't see his fig­ure on the screen...

-- Right be­fore the spear struck, Seong's body glowed white. He must have
found some way!

The com­men­ta­tor tried to pro­vide a hope­ful com­ment, but deep down, he

was pon­der­ing what to say. Af­ter all, Seong Ji­han was fac­ing off against a
god, Zeus.

How­ever...

Shu­uuu---

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As the light­ning surged and struck the ground in front of As­trape, Seong Ji­‐
han, his body en­veloped in elec­tri­cal cur­rents, stood there un­fazed.

"This is fas­ci­nat­ing. It's re­ally sim­i­lar."

Us­ing the Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Light­ning Body, his en­tire body was
seam­lessly in­te­grated with the Thun­der Power.

De­spite the light­ning storm rag­ing around As­trape, he suf­fered no harm, and
he even ap­peared re­laxed.

'Doesn't it have the same weak­nesses as the Ce­les­tial Judg­ment?'

The Ce­les­tial Judg­ment, which pos­sessed a weak­ness that made it im­mune

to dam­age from op­po­nents of the same at­tribute. Seong Ji­han, upon see­ing
Zeus's As­trape, im­me­di­ately thought of this and re­al­ized that us­ing Light­‐
ning Body would eas­ily thwart this at­tack.

'Wasn't Zeus the Thun­der God? But he seems weak...'

Seong Ji­han gazed at Zeus be­yond As­trape. Zeus, who had pre­vi­ously re­‐
gen­er­ated only his up­per body, had now com­pletely re­gen­er­ated his en­tire
body. He looked at Seong Ji­han with eyes that seemed to ex­press dis­be­lief.

"You... What's the deal with your body? Were you In­dra's avatar?"

"What does In­dra have to do with this?"

"Pre­tend­ing not to know, huh! If it's not In­dra, who could cre­ate such a per­‐
fect Light­ning Body? In­dra! How did you break free from the seal and
make an avatar?"

Zeus seemed to have con­cluded that Seong Ji­han was In­dra, bom­bard­ing
him with all sorts of ques­tions.

Fur­ther­more, it ap­peared that his hos­til­ity had less­ened since they both be­‐
longed to the Thun­der God fam­ily.

'The light­ning con­tained in the Light­ning Body seems to be­long to In­dra...'

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If the Dark Shadow Tech­nique was sim­i­lar to the power of the Shadow
Queen, then it ap­peared that the Light­ning Body is the col­lec­tion of the
skills of the tech­niques of Thun­der Gods from Earth.

"So who does this be­long to?"

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt A

bolt of light­ning came out from Seong Ji­han's Phoenix flag.

Zeus' eyes widened.

"Ah. No. Thor's..."

"I have yours too."

Flash!

When Seong Ji­han threw the spear into the sky, a rift ap­peared in the sky,
just like Zeus.

Then, a mas­sive ra­di­ant spear of light, the Ce­les­tial Judg­ment, de­scended

next to As­trape. Com­pared to when As­trape struck the ground, caus­ing a
storm of light­ning, the ef­fect was sim­pler, but it was still im­pres­sive.

"Ah... As­trape! No, this is...!"

Zeus, awestruck by the power of the Ce­les­tial Judg­ment, had an ex­pres­sion

that clearly in­di­cated his dis­be­lief. He seemed even more per­turbed than
when he was pierced by Crim­son Thun­der. It was en­tirely un­der­stand­able.

"It has evolved fur­ther..."

Ce­les­tial Judg­ment and As­trape. From the view­ers' per­spec­tive, Zeus' As­‐
trape seemed more pow­er­ful be­cause it boasted a spec­tac­u­lar ef­fect. How­‐
ever, Zeus, who di­rectly uses this power, had a com­pletely dif­fer­ent per­‐
spec­tive from or­di­nary peo­ple.

The light­ning and thun­der that ac­com­pa­nied As­trape weren't fully con­sol­i­‐
dated into one place, re­sult­ing in the scat­tered power. On the other hand, the

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tech­nique used by that hu­man had the Thun­der power per­fectly con­cen­‐
trated within the spear.

This was a level of ad­vance­ment that re­quired As­trape to evolve two or

three more times.

Zeus noted the dif­fer­ences, "Now that I think about it, In­dra's Light­ning and
Thor's Thun­der­bolts are slightly dif­fer­ent from what I know. They've
evolved fur­ther. Could it be re­lated to that... mon­ster?"

At the men­tion of the "mon­ster," Zeus's face filled with fear. Seong Ji­han
sus­pected that the mon­ster in ques­tion might be the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial god,
but he played dumb and asked, "Who is this mon­ster?"

"Why are you ask­ing when you know? A be­ing be­yond death..."

Be­fore Zeus could fin­ish his sen­tence, his chest started to emit a white and
black pat­tern, which Seong Ji­han had seen be­fore. It was the ul­ti­mate form
of Dong­bangsak's Tai­jitu.

"No... Why is the Golden Re­straint ac­ti­vated...?! Weren't you in­volved with
that mon­ster?"

"Well, I was in­volved."

"Dong­bangsak! I re­ally didn't know! I thought you guys were in­volved!

This isn't a vi­o­la­tion of the Golden Re­straint!"

[No. Golden Re­straint con­tent is not to men­tion the gods in any case.
You've clearly vi­o­lated it.]

"Oh...!"

With those words, Zeus was swiftly ab­sorbed into the Tai­jitu sym­bol.

The mighty king of Olym­pus, who had boasted of his di­vine dig­nity,
couldn't re­sist and was eas­ily over­whelmed by Dong­bangsak's Tai­jitu.

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[Haha. I un­in­ten­tion­ally ended up help­ing you. Since you've seen my kind­‐

ness... come as the 6th dis­ci­ple when you choose your next class.]

"I'll pass."

[Tsk tsk! Young­sters are so full of am­bi­tion...Save your class change for
later, and if it doesn't work out, you can al­ways change class and you'll be
warmly wel­comed as my suc­ces­sor.]

Swoosh!

And with that, the Tai­jitu of Dong­bangsak dis­ap­peared.

'I was cu­ri­ous about the iden­tity of the god, but it's a shame. The only clue I
have is that it is a be­ing be­yond death.'

A be­ing be­yond death. This alone wasn't much of a lead at the mo­ment.

Now, even if Dong­bangsak used the Tai­jitu, it didn't nec­es­sar­ily mean they
were a be­ing be­yond death.

'Let's fo­cus on the game for now.'

Seong Ji­han be­gan to walk along the path of Thun­der Waves that un­folded
be­fore him.

Elec­tric­ity crack­led be­neath his feet.

Ku­ru­ru­rur!

In the sky, mas­sive light­ning bolts struck all around.

'In a Light­ning Body state, I can sense it.'

Seong ji­han skill­fully dodged them.

In fact, if he were in a Light­ning Body state like Zeus, he might have been
able to ab­sorb some of the light­ning strikes to a cer­tain ex­tent, just as Zeus
could.

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'This is dif­fer­ent from As­tro­phe. It's best to be cau­tious, as there's no guar­‐

an­tee it will be safe.'

Un­like Zeus, who was well aware of his weak­nesses, the gi­ant light­ning ex­‐
hib­ited even greater power.

Seong Ji­han did his best to avoid it while con­tin­u­ing along the path.

And then,

[Seal of Thun­der in­creased by 2.]

"Oh..."

As Seong Ji­han walked the path of Thun­der waves, the resid­ual elec­tric­ity
he au­to­mat­i­cally ab­sorbed from the light­ning caused his stat, 'Seal of Thun­‐
der,' to be­gin grow­ing. This meant he didn't need to in­vest any re­main­ing
points into the rare stat.

Think­ing this was quite a sweet deal, Seong Ji­han de­cided to take full ad­‐
van­tage of it.

"Sum­mon Light­ning Cloud."

With ap­proval from the Thun­der­cloud spear, he gained the Sum­mon Light­‐
ning Cloud. When Seong Ji­han used it, a yel­low­ish cloud ap­peared in front
of him. Orig­i­nally meant for rid­ing, he re­pur­posed it for an­other task.

"Go over there and fill up your thun­der en­ergy."

Ziik, zii-ziik!

In an in­stant, the cloud was hit by the light­ning, and its color turned bright
yel­low. It seemed like a sin­gle strike would make the thun­der en­ergy over­‐
flow and ex­plode, so Seong Ji­han quickly re­trieved the cloud.

[Seal of Thun­der in­creased by 1.]

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'It seems less ef­fi­cient than ab­sorb­ing it di­rectly, but it's safer than get­ting
hit by those mas­sive bolts.'

Even though stats were pre­cious, he didn't want to risk his life for a mere
rare stat that wasn't unique.

Hours passed like this.

'My stats have in­creased by 20.'

Seong Ji­han con­tin­ued walk­ing on the path of Thun­der waves, steadily

gain­ing power.

Then, a mes­sage ap­peared,

[You can no longer sum­mon Light­ning Cloud to­day.]

Af­ter be­ing struck by gi­ant light­ning bolts sev­eral times, the Light­ning
Cloud burst and be­came im­pos­si­ble to sum­mon.

He had gained a lot through this process, but...

'It feels like there's no end in sight.'

Even though he ad­vanced along the path of the Thun­der waves quickly, the
dis­tance to the Di­vine throne didn't seem to be clos­ing at all.

'How­ever, stray­ing from the path feels too daunt­ing.'

Be­yond the path of the Thun­der waves, the dark and ob­scure space was
com­pletely dis­con­nected from this world.

That place is not a path ei­ther.

So, where can I go to reach the Throne?

As Seong Ji­han con­tem­plated this...

[Three play­ers have died.]

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[Seven Play­ers who couldn't find the path re­main.]

[Mis­sion 'Reach the Di­vine Throne' has failed.]

[The re­main­ing sur­vivors are dropped into the tem­ple.]

The sys­tem mes­sage con­veyed the fail­ure.

-- Oh. Seong Ji­han sur­vived af­ter all! Un­be­liev­able!

-- He be­came a light­ning man and dodged!

-- Seong Ji­han dropped the same thun­der spear next to Zeus! But Zeus
seems to value it even more?!

-- But, wait, have all the tech­niques Seong used so far been re­lated to Thun­‐
der Gods?

The con­ver­sa­tion be­tween Seong Ji­han and Zeus, was be­ing broad­casted
live to the view­ers. How­ever, fil­ter­ing be­gan in their di­al­ogue af­ter Zeus
men­tioned the "mon­ster."

-- Hey... I can't hear their con­ver­sa­tion any­more!

-- What's hap­pen­ing? They were def­i­nitely talk­ing, but is there a broad­cast­‐

ing is­sue?

-- Oh, sud­denly Zeus... dis­ap­peared!

-- That pat­tern on his chest... Ah, isn't it the Tai­jitu mark?

Since view­ers couldn't hear their con­ver­sa­tion, they as­sumed Seong Ji­han
had de­feated Zeus us­ing the power of the Tai­jitu.

-Seong Ji­han must be a mas­ter of mar­tial arts! He's from the shaman fac­‐
tion!

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-Why does hav­ing one Tai­jitu mark make him a shaman? Haven't you seen
him un­leash­ing all those light­ning strikes?

-Se­ri­ously, stop try­ing to link ev­ery­thing to China and South Ko­rea, it's an­‐
noy­ing!

-Done, now give us some re­wards, wwww, I want a gift~ wwww While the
heated key­board bat­tle of Chi­nese and Ko­rean view­ers, who were still fas­ci­‐
nated by the Tai­jitu sym­bol, was on­go­ing, a new space ma­te­ri­al­ized.

In a tem­ple built of pris­tine white mar­ble, Kar­lein greeted Seongji Han with
en­thu­si­asm.

"Head! You're alive! I be­lieved in you! But why are you so un­scathed?"

Kar­lein, who was sum­moned anew, bore the marks of a sig­nif­i­cant bat­tle,
with his robe torn in var­i­ous places and smoke em­an­ at­ing from his en­tire
body.

"Did the dif­fi­culty level in­crease by any chance? It doesn't seem like it...
But your world must have a higher level of Thun­der Gods due to its
fragility, right?"

"Yeah, there is some­thing like that."

"Hmm. Your in­tel­lect is im­pres­sive, huh? You've def­i­nitely earned the right
to merge with me!"

"But, even if we walk to­wards the Di­vine Throne, we can't seem to reach it.
Can we even clear it?"

"Well, I'm not sure. There hasn't been a case where a player reached the Di­‐
vine Throne when Thun­der Gods were sum­moned. Other gods still made an
ap­pear­ance to greet us, though."

Kar­lein, who had been mut­ter­ing about Thun­der God be­ing ex­tra­or­di­nary
on its own, pointed to the ground.

"Still, there's a way to clear this mis­sion."

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"Does that mean five peo­ple need to sur­vive?"

"Yeah. Any­way, sur­vival maps end when you stay alive, right? Soon, the
oth­ers will come, and we'll hold our ground here."

Swoosh!

Smoke bil­lowed even more in­tensely from Kar­lein's torn robe. His body,
which had been sup­pressed by the black robe, be­gan to swell, and from
within, nu­mer­ous royal spir­its emerged.

-- Kill... the... king...

-- Is an­other sac­ri­fice be­ing added...?

-- Pity... the au­thor...

Each of them emit­ted painful, eerie tones.

"So, we should merge be­fore the game ends, shouldn't we?"

In Kar­lein's ob­scured face, hid­den by dark­ness, a faint smoke rose, form­ing

lines.

Kar­lein had been de­nied en­try to Earth. To merge with Seong Ji­han through
his mind, he wouldn't have an­other op­por­tu­nity like this.

"Now, Head, let's go!"

Sssh­hhh!

As the spir­its erupted from all di­rec­tions, Seong Ji­han, as if ex­pect­ing it,
raised the Eclipse and Phoenix Flag.

'This ac­tu­ally works out well.'

He had been mum­bling non­sense for a while, but he had wanted to take this
guy out at some point. This was the chance to elim­i­nate this sub­or­di­nate
char­ac­ter avatar char­ac­ter.

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As Seong Ji­han gath­ered his strength, a voice broke the stand­off in the tem­‐
ple.

"Mother! I'll pro­tect you!"

Along with that voice...

Thud!

A dag­ger pierced through Kar­lein's robe.

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'Mother?'

Seong Ji­han was puz­zled, but he didn't show it on his face and ob­served the
sit­u­at­ion with a calm ex­pres­sion.

"Tsk... Can't you see with your eyes? How is our boss your mother!"

[Note: Chang­ing the way Kar­lein ad­dresses Seong Ji­han from 'Head' to
'Boss'.]

De­spite hav­ing his chest pierced, Kar­lein spoke as if noth­ing had hap­pened.

"He's a male! So I'm try­ing to merge with him!"

"You're quite the noisy one."

From the Eclipse, a green light flashed and strands of light spread out to­‐
wards Kar­lein's body.

The robe, which dis­ap­peared in an in­stant when touched by the green light.

From within, the King's spir­its poured out, but...

-- Ohh. This power!

-- Fi­nally, rest is upon us!

-- Pu­ri­fied...!

The spir­its were swiftly an­ni­hi­lated by the green en­ergy from the Eclipse.

"Tch, that damn sword... How an­noy­ing!"

Boom!

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As Kar­lein's robe ex­ploded and the spir­its poured out, the high elf nim­bly
moved her body back.

"You've stuffed so many rest­less souls in there!"

Whoosh!

With the robe com­pletely gone, the spir­its came to­gether to form one be­ing.

The gath­ered ghosts formed the shape of a gi­ant, and ex­plo­sive dark magic
en­ergy burst forth, truly be­fit­ting an avatar of the Con­stel­la­tions.

"Rest­less souls!? They're all kings who vol­un­tar­ily help me out!"

De­spite the over­whelm­ing pres­ence, his play­ful voice re­mained the same.

"Elf doll. I'll rip you apart first and then merge with the Boss!"

On the other hand, the high elf didn't even bother to lis­ten to Kar­lein's
words and knelt on one knee, bow­ing her head to­wards Seong Ji­han.

"Mother... I'm sorry! I've failed to sub­due the en­emy!"

Even in this ur­gent sit­u­at­ion, the high elf was be­ing overly cour­te­ous.

'Why is she call­ing me mother?'

[Hmm... it seems that high elf has mis­taken you for the 'Root of the World
Tree'. Only the root of the World Tree is called Mother by elves.]

'Root?'

[It's like the king who con­trols the el­ven or­ga­ni­za­tions of each planet. They
com­mu­ni­cate di­rectly with the World Tree and lead the World Tree Al­liance
in their re­spec­tive plan­ets.]

'So quite an im­por­tant ex­is­tence.'

[Yet I don't know why she's mis­tak­ing you for the root...]

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'Hmm... Could it be be­cause of the essence I got from the Seed of Life?'

Seong Ji­han slowly re­leased the en­ergy he had kept sealed in a cor­ner of his
body.

[Ah! You've only kept the essence of life within you. A high elf would in­‐
stinc­tively know this much, so with just this much, it's enough for her to
mis­take you for the root. Wait, sorry... you're not ac­tu­ally the root, right?]

Ariel also seemed con­flicted by how pure the sealed en­ergy was, doubt­ing
if Seong Ji­han was ac­tu­ally him­self and ask­ing for con­fir­ma­tion.

['The World Tree is space trash and should be thrown into the sun.' Say
that.]

"The World Tree is space trash and should be thrown into the sun."

[Hmm... you're right, mas­ter. Sorry about that. It's just that the aura is so
sim­i­lar to the root's.]

Seong Ji­han replied with­out hes­i­ta­tion. Hear­ing this, Ariel's wari­ness dis­ap­‐
peared from her voice.

[Let me give you a tip... If you're go­ing to pre­tend to be the root in front of
the high elf, don't speak awk­wardly and just nod. Then they'll in­ter­pret it on
their own.]

'Got it.'

[Even if your at­ti­tude is a bit awk­ward, slowly re­leas­ing the essence of life
will pre­vent any doubts.]

"To de­stroy that thing, it seems I'll have to root out the sword. Mother,
please per­mit it!"

As the high elf asked for per­mis­sion to at­tack Kar­lein, Seong Ji­han silently
nod­ded as Ariel had coached.

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As he sub­tly re­leased the essence of life into his right hand, the im­pas­sive
high elf's face bright­ened im­me­di­ately.

"Oh! To grant per­mis­sion like this... I am truly grate­ful!"

Stab!

The high elf then broke her sword in half and stabbed one of the bro­ken
halves into the ground.

The sword frag­ment seemed to be ab­sorbed into the earth, and then...

Crackle!

Green vines burst out from the ground, and count­less green flow­ers
bloomed.

While it ap­peared to be a beau­ti­fully blos­som­ing flower gar­den, "Gar­den of

the Sun, Bloom!"

Thud! Thud!

As the high elf fin­ished speak­ing, cracks ap­peared at the cen­ter of the flow­‐
ers.

Then...

Whoosh!

A pow­er­ful suc­tion force emerged from be­tween the flow­ers, pulling in

Kar­lein's ghostly gi­ant form bit by bit.

-- Rest! Fi­nally rest...!

-- Eat me too!

The king's spir­its hap­pily wel­comed be­ing ab­sorbed by the flow­ers.

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Kar­lein's phys­i­cal body was help­less against the blos­som­ing flow­ers suck­‐
ing him in from all di­rec­tions.

The gi­ant form rapidly de­creased in size.

In par­tic­u­lar, the spir­its mak­ing up Kar­lein's left arm dis­ap­peared in an in­‐

stant.

'What? That eas­ily?'

From what he had seen of their fight so far, Seong Ji­han was ready to jump
in at any mo­ment, but the avatar of the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star was
pa­thet­i­cally crum­bling away.

'Are those flow­ers that strong?'

[The Gar­den of the Sun is the strong­est power an elf can wield. It's only be­‐
cause you have the essence of life that she's not re­veal­ing her hos­til­ity.]

'It's end­ing quite lamely.'

[Hmm... How­ever strong a Con­stel­la­tion avatar is, he's be­ing over­whelmed

quite poorly. Among the Con­stel­la­tions, the Dead Star is known as one of
the strong­est ex­is­tences.]

Whoosh!

With Kar­lein's limbs com­pletely swal­lowed up by the flow­ers...

Only his torso and head fell to the ground.

As the con­nect­ing spir­its were ab­sorbed as well, his over­sized torso and
head fell to the ground and rolled around.

"....Boss, it's you. You..."

Flash!

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From Kar­lein's head that rolled near Seong Ji­han, a red light flashed within
the dark­ness shroud­ing his face.

"You... got eaten by that hag too...?"

The light that moved around like an eye­ball even­tu­ally fixed onto the
essence of life in Seong Ji­han's right hand.

"How could I have found the Boss's head... You wouldn't have used your
own power like this if you were the boss!"

The red light grad­u­ally turned black.

Kar­lein's voice, with only his head re­main­ing, grew lower and lower.

".....If I can't have it, I won't let any­one else have it ei­ther."

Scritch! scratch!

Light seeped out from the dark­ness shroud­ing Kar­lein's face.

And then...

[Die.]

The Con­stel­la­tion com­manded death.

Plop! Plop!

The green flow­ers all lost their vi­tal­ity and be­gan to wilt.

From the shat­tered dark­ness, the aura of death spread out in all di­rec­tions.

The crim­son aura, ex­ceed­ing the orig­i­nal dark magic en­ergy, was now
stretch­ing to­wards Seong Ji­han as well.

'This is no joke.'

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Un­til now, Kar­lein had shown only a friv­o­lous side un­be­com­ing of a Con­‐
stel­la­tion, but the power he was ex­hibit­ing now proved why he was called
the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star.

"Eek! M-Mother, run away...!"

The high elf couldn't even fin­ish speak­ing be­fore col­laps­ing.

De­spite her re­gen­er­at­ion sur­pass­ing that of a cock­roach, it seemed she

couldn't re­sist the power of death.

The high elf, who had reached the TOP 25, died so eas­ily.

[Mas­ter, the power of death ex­ceeds all ex­pec­ta­tions! Even the high elf
died, so why not re­veal your true iden­tity?]

'What would re­veal­ing it achieve? Should I have my head cut off?'

[Isn't hav­ing your head cut off bet­ter than dy­ing?]

'No, dy­ing is a hun­dred times bet­ter.' Seong Ji­han dis­tanced him­self.

The di­rec­tion he aimed for was be­hind him.

"What... What is this? What's go­ing on?"

"I sur­vived the Thun­der God... No!"

It was where the rest of the play­ers who had been sum­moned re­cently were.

'Well, if one more per­son dies, it's over.'

There was no need to en­gage with that dan­ger­ous power of death's au­thor­‐
ity.

One of the goals of this game was for five to sur­vive.

Would the other play­ers en­dure fac­ing that power that killed the high elf?

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'Those guys def­i­nitely can't with­stand that dis­gust­ing thing's power, can
they?'

Think­ing this, Seong Ji­han flew to­wards the play­ers as if telling them to try
get­ting hit by Kar­lein's power too, but...

[World Tree. Do you think such tricks will work?]

Flash!

The crim­son-black light, the power of death, passed right through the five
play­ers.

They sighed in re­lief but couldn't help feel­ing thrilled, in­di­rectly ex­pe­ri­enc­‐
ing the power.

"What... What is this? Is this the power of death? How do we stop it?"

"Is he an Avatar of the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star !"

"......I heard the Dead Star is the next dis­as­ter in the uni­verse af­ter the Wan­‐
der­ing Mar­tial God. How can his avatar use such power? Filthy bas­tard
prob­ab­ ly wants it to be­come a Con­stel­la­tion."

Feel­ing the dif­fer­ence in power through Kar­lein's Death Com­mand, the

Con­stel­la­tion avatars reaf­firmed the gap com­pared to them­selves.

Of course, since it was just the avatar us­ing the power of death, they could
have blocked it if the real Dead Star had come out, but...

They couldn't think of any way to stop it if the real Kar­lein used that power.

'If that guy's real body uses that, I'd die in­stantly.'

'Things were bet­ter when he was just a star frag­ment mak­ing noise...'

'So many freaks since com­ing to the Space League.'

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The avatars of the Con­stel­la­tions, who had war­ily de­cided not to even
glance at the Dead Star's side, now looked long­ingly at Seong Ji­han.

'We need him to die quickly so the game ends with 5 of us!'

Al­though the power of death had not yet reached him due to his un­ex­pect­‐
edly fast speed, it was ul­ti­mately a mat­ter of time.

'Hurry up and die!'

As the five avatars of the con­stel­la­tions fer­vently wished for Seong Ji­han's
death...

"This won't work."

Seong Ji­han gave up the es­cape. Af­ter all, there was no chance of the other
play­ers dy­ing even if he de­layed.

'No point in fight­ing against that dan­ger­ous power of death ei­ther.'

So the best choice was to stake his life here.

[Are you go­ing to re­veal your iden­tity?]

'No, it won't make a dif­fer­ence. Rather than liv­ing with that filthy head, it's
bet­ter to set­tle things here.'

'It's not fully de­vel­oped yet...'

One of the mar­tial arts that al­lowed his Mar­tial Soul to surge dur­ing the
Pro­mo­tion Match, thanks to the War­rior's in­spi­ra­tion.

At the time, it was ques­tion­able whether it could be called an adap­ta­tion,

but...

Now that the War­rior's in­spi­ra­tion ex­ploded once more, things were dif­fer­‐
ent.

'Al­right. Let's try it out.'

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Seong Ji­han smiled mock­ingly and switched out his spear and Eclipse.

He held the Eclipse in the right hand con­tain­ing the essence of life.

[Mas­ter? I'm in­com­pat­i­ble with that aura. It's the power of our neme­sis, the
World Tree...]

'Just bear with it for a mo­ment.'

[...I warned you in ad­vance.]

Seong Ji­han ig­nored that warn­ing and filled Eclipse with the essence of life.
The dark sword emit­ted a green light, re­duc­ing its size. Nev­er­the­less, both
pow­ers co­ex­isted in the same space. In that state, Seong Ji­han crossed the
sword and spear.

Seong Ji­han swung the sword and spear in an X-shape with the two forces
com­bined.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret -- Blood Cross.

Swish! swish! swish!

The mar­ble wall of the tem­ple was in­stantly torn apart, form­ing a mas­sive
cross. In the cen­ter, a hole was pierced, cre­at­ing a pure white cross. Orig­i­‐
nally carved into the ground, the Blood Cross was now cre­ated in mid-air,
shield­ing Seong Ji­han.

When the essence of life ad­hered to the white cross...

Whoosh!

A green pro­tec­tive bar­rier en­veloped Seong Ji-Han.

[Isn't this sup­posed to be an in­stant death skill?]

'Try­ing to use it de­fen­sively for once.'

[Just de­cid­ing that and mak­ing it work... is pos­si­ble?]

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'It works for me.'

[...Wow.]

Flash!

In an in­stant, the crim­son light of death reached the cross. Kar­lein, how­ever,
be­lieved that no mat­ter how much Seong Ji­han strug­gled, it would be fu­tile.
The power of death was not bound by any re­straints, so block­ing it was a
point­less en­deavor.

How­ever...

[No...! Death....]

Boom!

The power of death couldn't pen­et­rate through and bounced off.

The Blood Cross was an in­stant death skill, ex­tremely po­tent but not eas­ily
us­able in mo­bile sit­u­at­ions. Seong Ji­han had tried to mod­ify it in some way,
and that's how he suc­ceeded in rais­ing the cross into the air. But once it was
float­ing in mid-air, he couldn't pierce it with his spear.

Un­like the ground, the cross was in­cred­i­bly sturdy, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to
break. Even though it still needed fur­ther re­search and de­vel­op­ment, in this
sit­u­at­ion, the un­break­able cross ac­tu­ally worked in his fa­vor.

The un­break­able na­ture of the Blood Cross pro­vided strong re­sis­tance

against the power of death.

Boom! Boom!

As the light of death kept bounc­ing off...

[Wait. Wait a mo­ment! This is... you... could it be!]

Kar­lein's voice, which had sunk low, grad­u­ally grew brighter.

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In the end, he even tried to go into his high-pitched tone.

De­spite his com­mand be­ing blocked, he seemed happy about it.

[You! You! It's you, boss, right!? That hag wouldn't have used her own
power like that! It's you, right!? Boss, boss!!]

Seong Ji­han didn't bother re­spond­ing to Kar­lein's crazed shout­ing.

In­stead, he threw the Phoenix flag above his head.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Heav­enly Thun­der De­cree -- Ce­les­tial Judg­ment

Flash flash flash!

An enor­mous spear of light struck down upon Kar­lein's head.

Un­like usual, the Ce­les­tial Judg­ment car­ry­ing Strik­ing Thun­der­bolt com­‐

pletely pierced Kar­lein's head, set­ting it ablaze.

[It's the boss, I knew it, I be­lieved in youuu!!]

"Ah, damn it. So noisy."

[More, in­sult me moreee!]

Even as he dis­ap­peared, Kar­lein was jump­ing around hap­pily.

And then...

[See you next time, boss! Tee­hee­hee.......]

Leav­ing those words as his will, Kar­lein dis­ap­peared.

And with that...

[There are only 5 play­ers re­main­ing.]

[The Pro­mo­tion Test has ended.]

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The Pro­mo­tion Match was over.

"Phew."

Some­how, Seong Ji­han has sur­vived. As he let out a sigh of re­lief, a mes­‐
sage ap­peared.

At that mo­ment...

[The Ruler of the Di­vine Throne, 'Brahma' has taken an in­ter­est in you.]

[He wishes to be­come your spon­sor­ing Con­stel­la­tion. Will you ac­cept?]

An un­ex­pected of­fer ar­rived.

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Chap­ter 158
'Brahma's spon­sor­ship...'

Zeus, who he had fought against not long ago, didn't leave a strong im­pres­‐
sion be­fore be­ing ab­sorbed by Dong­bangsak. But Brahma, the ruler of the
Di­vine Throne, felt dif­fer­ent.

'Ariel, do you hap­pen to know what kind of ex­is­tence Brahma is?'

[Brahma of the Di­vine Throne is... a mas­sive col­lec­tive of all the Brah­mas.
Even the Brah­mas in your world are just frag­ments of him.]

'So in other words, the Brah­mas from dif­fer­ent worlds gath­ered and formed
the Brahma of the Di­vine Throne. Sim­i­lar to how the Con­stel­la­tion of the
Dead Star gath­ers dead kings as ghosts?'

[The com­po­si­tion is sim­i­lar but dif­fer­ent. While the Dead Star en­slaves the
kings, Brahma of the Di­vine Throne rep­re­sents him­self as the strong­est and
the might­i­est among the count­less Brah­mas. I heard that there is con­stant
in­ter­nal rank­ing among them.]

Then, Ariel added as if she wasn't com­pletely sure.

[But I heard... Un­like the other Di­vine Throne gods, Brahma's rep­re­sen­ta­‐
tive has never changed. He must be an ex­cep­tion­ally pow­er­ful rep­re­sen­ta­‐
tive. And I heard he doesn't like Bat­tleNet much, rarely par­tic­i­pat­ing in re­‐
lated events... yet he's propos­ing spon­sor­ship now.]

'So he saw some­thing in me.'

[But shouldn't spon­sor­ship be im­pos­si­ble in the tu­to­rial mode...?]

Hear­ing Ariel's words, Seong Ji­han asked the sys­tem.

"Spon­sor­ship would be great, but is it pos­si­ble in my tu­to­rial mode?"

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[It is pos­si­ble if Brahma pays the price due to the de­crease in Earth's dif­fi­‐
culty level.]

"It's pos­si­ble? Then I'll take it."

With the empty Con­stel­la­tion slot any­way, it was bet­ter to fill it with some­‐
thing.

As soon as Seong Ji­han in­di­cated his ac­cep­tance, the spon­sor­ship pro­‐

ceeded.

['Brahma' be­comes the spon­sor­ing Con­stel­la­tion of Player Seong Ji­han.]

[As an ef­fect of the spon­sor­ing Con­stel­la­tion, the ef­fi­ciency of light­ning

skills and In­tel­lect greatly in­creases.]

Just hav­ing Brahma oc­cupy the Con­stel­la­tion slot in­creased the ef­fi­ciency
of all light­ning abil­i­ties, but...

'That can't be all.'

Brahma seemed more pow­er­ful than other Con­stel­la­tions, so Seong Ji­han

ex­pected ad­di­tional ef­fects.

And then...

[Brahma re­views your abil­i­ties to pro­vide suit­able spon­sor­ship...]

[Upon see­ing your Mar­tial Soul, Brahma is greatly sur­prised. He pon­ders...]

Af­ter the mes­sage about Brahma be­ing shocked af­ter see­ing his Mar­tial
Soul and fall­ing into con­tem­pla­tion, there was no ad­di­tional re­sponse from
the silent Con­stel­la­tion.

[You are logged out of Bat­tleNet.]

In the end, Seong Ji­han had no choice but to log out be­fore re­ceiv­ing any
ad­di­tional spon­sor­ship from Brahma.

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[You have cleared the spe­cial achieve­ment 'Pass­ing the Space League Pro­‐
mo­tion Match'.]

[You have earned 1,000,000 achieve­ment points.]

[You have cleared the spe­cial achieve­ment 'First to re­ceive Con­stel­la­tion

spon­sor­ship'.]

[You have earned 300,000 achieve­ment points.]

[You have cleared the spe­cial achieve­ment 'Elim­i­nat­ing the Avatar of a Con­‐
stel­la­tion'.]

[You have earned 500,000 achieve­ment points.]

'An enor­mous amount of points.' In­clud­ing elim­i­nat­ing Kar­lein's avatar, an

enor­mous amount of achieve­ment points came in.

But right now, what he de­sired most wasn't these points.

[You sur­vived the TOP 25 Pro­mo­tion Match.]

[Your level rises by 20.]

[Spe­cial Re­ward, you have ac­quired the 'Com­pleted Star Frag­ment'.]

The Com­pleted Star Frag­ment.

De­spite be­ing graded EX, this item didn't ac­tu­ally have any good ef­fects for
Seong Ji­han him­self.

[Com­pleted Star Frag­ment]

-- Grade: EX

-- A frag­ment of a star that 'passed all tests.'

-- Low­ers the Bat­tleNet game dif­fi­culty level of the en­tire planet by one
level.

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-- In­creases the fre­quency of Gift-bear­ing play­ers ap­pear­ing.

-- Ef­fects ap­ply im­me­di­ately upon ac­quir­ing the item.

The Com­pleted Star Frag­ment, ben­ef­ i­cial only to the play­ers of Earth.

Thus, Ko­re­ans had been up in arms, ques­tion­ing why Seong Ji­han had ac­‐
cepted the death penalty to ob­tain this.

Es­pe­cially...

"Un­cle!! Have you gone crazy!?"

Boom!

As soon as Seong Ji­han re­turned to Earth, Yoon Seah kicked the door while
yelling at him.

"Hm. I see you were wor­ried."

"Is that all you have to say, Un­cle? Do you re­ally want me to see you die?!
How can you pro­ceed with the Death Penalty with no hes­i­ta­tion, even with
that kind of penalty in place!!"

With her eyes all puffy and swollen, Yoon Seah shouted like a mad­woman
for the first time in her life.

See­ing her like that, Seong Ji­han's gaze nat­u­rally lost its place.

"Well... Of course I knew I wouldn't die..."

"Where on earth is there 100 per­cent cer­tainty! Put your­self in my shoes for
a mo­ment. How do you think you would have felt if I had at­tempted some­‐
thing like that?"

"I'd have pulled you out of the game by your hair."

"That! Is! What! I! Want to say!"

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Snap!

Seong Ji­han's door was shat­tered and flung away by Yoon Seah's emo­tion­‐
ally charged kick.

Com­pared to a month ago, her phys­i­cal strength had in­creased sig­nif­i­cantly,

and now she was strong enough to tear apart a door like it was a sheet of pa­‐
per when she ex­erted her full power.

'The door's gone.'

Boom! Boom!

Af­ter ram­pag­ing for a while, Yoon Seah sud­denly sat down weakly, bury­ing
her face in her lap.

"Un­cle. I re­ally... I thought I was go­ing crazy ear­lier."

"I'm sorry... I didn't know it would turn out like that ei­ther."

"Un­cle. You're my only fam­ily left now...."

Sigh...

A sigh mixed with re­lief es­caped from Seong Ji­han's lips. He had nat­u­rally
thought that he wouldn't die, but he couldn't fathom the feel­ings of the only
fam­ily mem­ber he had left.

In his pre­vi­ous life as a player, he had al­ready ex­pe­ri­enced the ab­sence of

fam­ily, so he was lack­ing in un­der­stand­ing from that per­spec­tive.

"I won't do that again."

"Re­ally?"

"Yeah."

"Is it a prom­ise?"

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As Seong Ji­han nod­ded, Yoon Seah heaved a deep sigh.

"So, why did you go to such lengths, risk­ing your life, to ob­tain a dif­fi­culty-
low­er­ing item? Hon­estly, Un­cle, you don't care about dif­fi­culty, right?"

"Yeah, it doesn't mat­ter to me."

Seong Ji­han took out the Com­pleted Star Frag­ment from his in­ven­tory.

It was a rock frag­ment with a ra­di­ant blue light. To the av­er­age per­son, it
would look like an oddly col­ored rock, and they wouldn't un­der­stand why
this rock was rated as an EX-grade item.

But Seong Ji­han un­der­stood the value of this item bet­ter than any­one.

'In the past, this came out as a re­ward in the Space League.'

Dur­ing the time when Earth was trail­ing far be­hind in the Space League.

There was a mi­nor planet race com­pet­ing for last place with hu­man­ity.

With no racial mer­its com­pared to hu­man­ity, they were help­lessly be­ing

tram­pled in Bat­tleNet as a race.

But af­ter luck­ily ob­tain­ing a Com­pleted Star Frag­ment in an emer­gency

Space League mis­sion, the sit­u­at­ion changed dra­mat­i­cally.

'They barely es­caped rel­eg­ a­tion and even­tu­ally, Earth and the Orc planet
ended up in the rel­eg­ a­tion bat­tle.'

The Space League wasn't a sys­tem where in­di­vid­u­als could pull up the team
like a na­tional com­pe­ti­tion.

No mat­ter how strong Seong Ji­han was, if oth­ers didn't grow well too, they
couldn't sur­vive in this god­damn game.

That's why Seong Ji­han had fought des­per­ately, even at the cost of death
penal­ties, to ob­tain the 'Com­pleted Star Frag­ment.'

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[Due to the ef­fects of the Com­pleted Star Frag­ment, the Bat­tleNet dif­fi­culty
of NO.4212, Hu­man­ity, is low­ered.]

[As the owner of the Com­pleted Star Frag­ment, you have been granted the
au­thor­ity to read the Bat­tleNet Ad­min­is­tra­tor's re­port.]

[Would you like to read the re­port?]

'Ad­min­is­tra­tor's re­port?' And a while later...

'I should share this.'

See­ing the re­port, Seong Ji­han im­me­di­ately turned on his Bat­tle­Tube.

-Ji­han please

-Don't do this please

-Why are you try­ing to die?! It'd be so em­bar­rass­ing to die play­ing a game
This month, Seong Ji­han rose as the hope of Ko­rea through the na­tional
team matches.

See­ing him al­most die in the pro­mo­tion match, Ko­rean sub­scribers flooded
the chan­nel telling him not to do that again.

-Is this the chan­nel of the player who just played? Thanks to you, my Sup­‐
port­ing Gift rank went up. Thank you!!

-Seong is the rea­son I can get Gifts, Should I thank his coun­try?

-Seong Ji­han! Why do you hide that your sect is shaman­is­tic? Why do you
deny the essence of mar­tial arts be­longs to China!?

-For­eign... bas­tards... get out...!

-Shut up!!!!

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Peo­ple from var­i­ous na­tion­al­i­ties also jumped into the chat, cre­at­ing a huge
up­roar.

"I'm sure to­day has been shock­ing for many. But I chose this be­cause I felt
low­er­ing the dif­fi­culty was ab­so­lutely nec­es­sary."

Be­fore Seong Ji­han's words could even fin­ish, an over­whelm­ing num­ber of

sup­port mes­sages be­gan to pour in.

[Down­glass has do­nated 100,000GP.]

[I re­ally thought my heart stopped when Zeus' light­ning struck!! Don't do

that again or I'll get mad!]

Start­ing with Ha Yoori, fans reck­lessly spent with­out car­ing about the 1 bil­‐
lion limit.

[R.E. Gates has do­nated 10,000,000GP.]

[I salute your de­ci­sion to play with. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports com­ing in from all
over, there's a sud­den surge of awak­ened gift users. In­ter­est­ingly, there are
many play­ers who have awak­ened sup­port gifts. Also, many play­ers with
ex­ist­ing sup­port gifts are see­ing an in­crease in their gift grade.]

Robert Gates pro­vided an enor­mous amount of spon­sor­ship along with a re­‐

port on the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion.

'Good.'

Earth had a sig­nif­i­cantly low num­ber of sup­port­ing gifts, So, The in­crease
in peo­ple awak­en­ing them was a wel­comed change.

-Ah, re­ally... it might be a good thing if more peo­ple awaken, but there's no
ben­ef­ it for you, right? Just think about your­self, Ji­han!

-Yeah, the pop­u­la­tion is huge in places like In­dia and China, so wouldn't it
be best if just hu­mans com­peted!? More awak­ened just means -For real, the
good thing is that there are a lot of awak­ened peo­ple. In coun­tries with large

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pop­u­la­tions like In­dia and China, If there are many awak­ened in­di­vid­u­als,
wouldn't that make them the best? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Right? Low­er­ing the game dif­fi­culty doesn't even mat­ter when Ji­han's been
#1 from Bronze to Plat­inum any­way, was it even nec­es­sary?

Seong Ji­han shrugged his shoul­ders in re­sponse to the wor­ries of his Ko­rean
fans.

"Sure, if Earth doesn't par­tic­i­pate in the Space League, that would be the
case. I could keep get­ting first place all by my­self and crush other coun­tries.
How­ever...."

He shared the re­port from the Bat­tleNet ad­min­is­tra­tor he had read a while
ago, mak­ing it pub­lic for the gen­eral au­di­ence.

-What's this?

-What is this about "hu­man­ity"?

The re­port, orig­i­nally in Ko­rean for Seong Ji­han, was au­to­mat­i­cally trans­‐
lated into each viewer's na­tive lan­guage through Bat­tle­Tube.

[Re­port on NO. 4212, 'Hu­man­ity'.]

[Af­ter re­view­ing their achieve­ments in the tu­to­rial, it is ex­pected that

NO.4212 will be in the rel­eg­ a­tion zone in the Space League. Their big­gest
prob­lem is the weak­ness of the species it­self. To be clear, hu­man­ity is the
weak­est species among the Space League par­tic­i­pants. While many SSS-
grade Gifts have emerged, due to lim­i­ta­tions of the species, they can­not
even demon­strate S-rank ca­pa­bil­i­ties.]

[The like­li­hood of stay­ing in the league was 0.3 per­cent, but it has in­creased
to 3 per­cent due to the dif­fi­culty re­duc­tion. How­ever, they still have the
high­est like­li­hood of be­com­ing the low­est ranked species.]

[Vari­ables -- None. Even the play­ers who could po­ten­tially be­come vari­‐
ables have fa­tal weak­nesses.]

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[In­vest­ment value -- None. The ad­min­is­tra­tors are not re­spon­si­ble for any
losses if you in­vest in this planet. This planet will not last long.]

-What is this...

-The like­li­hood of stay­ing in the league is a mere 3 per­cent?

-And that in­creased from 0.3? LOL

The ad­min­is­tra­tor's re­port Seong Ji­han dis­closed was shock­ing.

Those who had thought there would be no prob­lem in the tu­to­rial world
were now in con­fu­sion when they saw the mes­sage about the slim chance of
stay­ing in the league and the pre­dic­tion that the planet wouldn't last long.

-...The vari­able player must be re­fer­ring to Seong Ji­han, right?

-Must be. But what's the fa­tal flaw?

-This is so frus­trat­ing

Seong Ji­han had a rough idea of what the fa­tal flaw might be.

'It's prob­ab­ ly that I'm the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God's en­emy.'

While he was liv­ing well with Mar­tial Soul now, if the Mar­tial God were to
some­how change his mood later, who knows what would hap­pen?

From the sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tor's per­spec­tive, Seong Ji­han, the player rep­re­‐
sent­ing Earth, was a time-lim­ited player who could dis­ap­pear at any time.
So, in the re­port, they had ex­pressed such a fa­tal flaw.

That's prob­ab­ ly why the re­port de­scribed him as hav­ing a fa­tal flaw.

-But are we hu­mans re­ally that weak?

-You didn't see the TOP 25? It was like a mon­ster party lol.

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-Se­ri­ously, all the hu­man-sized ones were like mon­sters. Lol. Are there only
crea­tures like that among other plan­et­ary species? Shouldn't hu­mans just
com­pete amongst hu­mans..

Men­tion­ing the weak­ness of the species specif­i­cally pointed out in the re­‐
port, peo­ple quickly agreed as they re­called the re­cent match.

The TOP 25 Space League pro­mo­tion round was a mas­sive mon­ster fest.
There were no races like hu­mans, and even the clos­est ones, the High Elf
and the Kar­lein, were more like mon­sters them­selves.

"Even though the dif­fi­culty has been re­duced, the chances of us sur­viv­ing in
the Space League are still low. So..."

Seong Ji­han smiled mock­ingly as he wrapped up the broad­cast.

"I hope ev­ery­one be­comes a bit stronger, break­ing my con­sec­u­tive #1 rank

and 100% win rate. I've gone from Bronze to Plat­inum with my records
never bro­ken once. Come on, ev­ery­one. Put in a lit­tle more ef­fort."

-But that's be­cause you're a freak­ing mon­ster bro...

-Even the aliens had their skulls cracked open. How can we break your
records? Lol!

The TOP 25 are the ones who are ac­tu­ally rec­og­nized by the uni­verse. So,
ask­ing them to break records of one of the five sur­vivors was met with in­‐
cred­u­lous re­ac­tions.

But...

"As com­posed as ever."

Watch­ing the broad­cast from her guild mas­ter's room, which was prac­ti­cally
her home now, Lee Hayeon was taken aback by a sud­den mes­sage.

[Your Gift rank has in­creased.]

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Her eyes widened in sur­prise at the sud­den mes­sage.

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Chap­ter 159
Two days ago...

Lee Hayeon was star­ing at the Bat­tleNet bet­ting site with a blank ex­pres­‐
sion. She had the screen up but was do­ing noth­ing. Watch­ing from be­hind,
Lim Gayeong fi­nally spoke up.

"Miss, aren't you go­ing to place a bet? Why are you just star­ing at the same
screen?"

"Oh..."

In re­sponse to these words, Hayeon re­gained her com­po­sure and moved the
mouse. The up­com­ing TOP 100 Pro­mo­tion Match the next day was the
high­light on the Bat­tleNet bet­ting site. Hayeon, be­ing a gam­bling pre­dic­tion
ex­pert, had planned to par­tic­i­pate sig­nif­i­cantly in this event.

As she was plan­ning her bets, she heard Seong Ji­han's voice in her head like
an au­di­tory hal­lu­ci­na­tion.

-- gam­bling ad­dicts are not seen as mem­bers of the op­po­site sex.

It was the con­cise an­swer Seong Ji­han had given when Sophia was wor­ried
about their fake dat­ing re­la­tion­ship.

'Ugh... why do I keep think­ing of those words?'

Hon­estly, even if she ad­mit­ted it to her­self, she did have a lik­ing for gam­‐
bling. Back then, she had just laughed it off. But as time passed, those
words be­gan to weigh heav­ily on her heart.

'Is it be­cause it's the first time I can't even re­ceive recog­ni­tion as a woman
from a man? Why am I feel­ing like this?'

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The in­dif­fer­ent ex­pres­sion on Seong Ji­han's face when he la­beled her a

gam­bling ad­dict over­lapped with the mon­i­tor screen more and more as time
went by. And fol­low­ing that, the re­lieved ex­pres­sion that Sophia wore...
Was it re­ally nec­es­sary to con­fess to peo­ple, even if she was a gam­bling ad­‐
dict?

In an in­stant, Hayeon's face turned red.

"Right, I should do it! Yes, I'm a gam­bling ad­dict! Gam­bling! Let's gam­‐
ble!"

"Why are you sud­denly get­ting so worked up?"

"Where was I? Should I start with the Boss first? Uh... but he's not there?"

"That's right. I heard he achieved level 100."

"Come to think of it, this time it's Seah's Pro­mo­tion Match, right? Even
though she awak­ened late, she's al­ready aim­ing for Gold, and you're still in
Sil­ver?"

"If I could play games twice a day like Seah, I'd prob­ab­ ly be level 50 too."

Yoon Seah, who had sur­passed Lim Gayeong due to her Late Bloomer gift,
now had her own in­flu­ence.

"Seah has got­ten quite strong these days too... Why are the odds so high?"

"I guess it's be­cause her Late Bloomer rank is low. But 100 times is un­ex­‐
pected. She's been on an al­most un­de­feated streak lately... Oh, it seems
there are 3 promis­ing play­ers among the other play­ers, that's why."

"Promis­ing play­ers? Who?"

"Well... that..."

Lim Gayeong, who had pre­pared in ad­vance, nom­i­nated the top three play­‐
ers. With a look that seemed to know all too well, Hayeon's eyes nar­rowed.

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"Are you bet­ting too?"

"Just knew that they were in the Sil­ver rank."

"Seems like you're up to some­thing."

"No, I'm just wait­ing for your bet, Miss."

"Why? Are you bet­ting against me?"

"Yes."

Re­ply­ing promptly, Lim Gayeong seemed to wait as if she had been wait­‐
ing.

As Lee Hayeon re­sponded promptly, her eyes shifted to a dif­fer­ent screen

show­ing three play­ers she had se­lected. Af­ter glanc­ing at the videos she had
picked, she sud­denly turned off the screen.

'Why is this so bor­ing...?'

The ex­cite­ment she usu­ally felt while an­al­yz­ing the play­ers and pre­dict­ing
who would win, which was the most en­joy­able part of the bet­ting process,
was nowhere to be found to­day.

-- Chris­tian is the player with the high­est chance of win­ning in this TOP
100, and this player...

The com­men­ta­tor's anal­y­sis in the player anal­y­sis video wasn't even au­di­‐
ble. Hayeon couldn't stop think­ing about Seong Ji­han call­ing her a com­pul­‐
sive gam­bler.

"I don't want to watch any­more."

"...Miss?"

"Enough. I'm go­ing to bet on Seah to sup­port her."

"On Seah?"

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"Yes, let's put in ten mil­lion won."

Tic-toc.

And like that, Hayeon placed her bet on Yoon Seah and turned off the
screen with­out any lin­ger­ing doubts.

"I'll go for a run," she said as she left the guild mas­ter's room.

Lim Gayeong watched her leave and won­dered, 'Why is she sud­denly like
this?'

The day be­fore the TOP 100 match, Lee Hayeon had been con­fi­dently an­a­‐
lyz­ing play­ers while en­joy­ing some soju, but now, she seemed un­in­ter­ested
in the videos, quickly made her bets, and de­cided to ex­er­cise in­stead.

Lim Gayeong couldn't un­der­stand her sud­den change in be­hav­ior.

The next day, when they watched Seong Ji­han's TOP 25 match to­gether, she
be­gan to get an idea of what might be both­er­ing Lee Hayeon.

"Ah, no!"

When Seong Ji­han was struck by Zeus's Spear, Lee Hayeon couldn't help
but shout and jump to her feet. Tears welled up in her eyes.

'Ah, I knew it! She was so wor­ried!"

Lee Hayeon yelled as Seong Ji­han mirac­u­lously sur­vived, then sat back
down with a mix­ture of re­lief and joy.

Lim Gayeong watched her with a sense of some­thing more sig­nif­i­cant go­‐
ing on.

'Could it be that Miss Lee is con­cerned about Seong Ji­han and that's why
she didn't bet?'

Is she in­ter­ested in a man?

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Lim Gayeong de­cided to be straight­for­ward and asked, "Miss, do you like

Seong Ji­han?"

"What? What are you talk­ing about all of a sud­den?"

"I found it strange that you got sick of gam­bling all of a sud­den. Is it be­‐
cause Seong Ji­han called you a gam­bling ad­dict? You've been cry­ing for a
while since he al­most died."

"Hey! Why are you say­ing that? I was just... just shocked. If the Boss
passes away, our guild is done!"

"Oh~ I see~"

"Be care­ful with your words. If you say some­thing un­nec­es­sary, I'll re­move
your buffs im­me­di­ately!"

"Sure, I un­der­stand."

Lim Gayeong replied, and with that re­sponse, she be­came cer­tain.

See­ing her act so over-the-top made her think, 'Is the Miss re­ally into him?'

In that case, from a body­guard's per­spec­tive, she had to find a way to help.
A play­ful smile crept onto Lim Gayeong's lips.

Mean­while,

Seong Ji­han re­ceived a text from Lee Hayeon.

-- Boss~ My Gift rank went up. And some ex­pla­na­tion seems to have been
added, so could you please come take a look!

'Hmm... ad­di­tional ex­pla­na­tion?'

-- I'll head over soon.

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Seong Ji­han sent a re­ply while brows­ing the in­ter­net.

-- Sup­port­ing Gift with these kinds of ef­fects ex­ists?

-- There are a lot of amaz­ing things."

-- I heard there was a func­tion to find dun­geon maps while Ex­plor­ing!

Seong Ji­han was right lol -- Nur­tur­ing? If the Gift holder be­comes Guild
Mas­ter, there's an ef­fect that greatly am­pli­fies guild growth?

In the midst of the low­ered dif­fi­culty, those who held sup­port­ing Gifts un­‐
ex­pect­edly ben­ef­ ited the most. Orig­i­nally, sup­port­ing Gifts had vague ex­‐
pla­na­tions, but with the de­crease in dif­fi­culty, there were many cases where
the sys­tem pro­vided ad­di­tional in­for­ma­tion on what the Gift did.

'This will let Hayeon learn clearly about her abil­i­ties.'

Even now, Lee Hayeon was well aware that her Nur­tur­ing abil­ity was re­‐
lated to the guild.

But that was just ab­stract knowl­edge, so get­ting the sys­tem to clearly ex­‐
plain the func­tion like this felt dif­fer­ent.

Lee Hayeon's Nur­tur­ing gift con­trib­uted over 90% to the Daegi Guild's as­‐
tound­ing growth ef­fects.

All Seong Ji­han did was in­vest all guild points into growth rate at first, and
later raise guild level with the Phoenix Flag.

'Looks like she's re­gained her ra­tio­nal­ity.'

While it didn't seem she had the best re­la­tion­ship with the Lee fam­ily...

She said they prop­erly treated her at home, so who knows.

'I need to hold onto her tightly.'

If Lee Hayeon's rank went up one more time, she would have a SSS-rank
gift.

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Even when she had A-rank in her pre­vi­ous life, she was the Nur­tur­ing Mas­‐
ter of the world's top guild.

Hav­ing in­creased two whole ranks, he had to se­cure her no mat­ter what.

"Ah, Un­cle. Are you go­ing to the guild?"

"Yeah. There's some­thing to talk about since Hayeon's Gift rank has gone
up."

"Oh, re­ally? I'm go­ing too."

"You too?"

"Yeah, Hayeon un­nie called me a lit­tle while ago and said she earned 1 bil­‐
lion be­cause of me. She said she will bow down to me. Let's go and ac­cept
her grat­i­tude. Hehe."

"Hayeon earned money...be­cause of you?"

"Yeah. She bet 10 mil­lion on me out of loy­alty."

"Ah, Loy­alty. That makes sense."

There was no way she could have earned money based on her skills alone.
With that thought, Seong Ji­han left the house with Yoon Seah to go to the
guild.

"Oh my, Young Miss Seah came too?"

See­ing Yoon Seah, Lee Hayeon wel­comed her with a big smile and tried to
give her a bow.

"Come on. Please ac­cept my bow~!"

"What are you re­ally do­ing?"

As Yoon Seah tried to stop her from ac­tu­ally bow­ing, she shrugged.

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"Un­nie, so does that mean you re­couped all your losses so far thanks to
me?"

"What? It's still far from that."

"....10 mil­lion at 100 times is 1 bil­lion, right? You call 1 bil­lion still far?"

"Yeah. How could that be enough to re­coup ev­ery­thing?"

"Un­nie, you should re­ally quit gam­bling."

At Lee Hayeon's non­cha­lant re­ply, Yoon Seah made a fed up ex­pres­sion.

"Al­right, let's get to the main point. It's about my gift..."

Lee Hayeon re­vealed her Gift.

[Gift -- Nur­tur­ing (Rank SS)]

-A sup­port­ing gift. Helps other play­ers grow quickly.

-- Can grant 'Fo­cused Growth' to 10 play­ers.

-- When us­ing 'Fo­cused Growth', the ex­ist­ing growth rate bonus in­creases
by 3 times.

-- When the Nur­tur­ing Gift holder be­comes the Guild Mas­ter, it greatly in­‐
creases the guild's growth rate bonus.

* Your Nur­tur­ing Gift is SS-rank. am­pli­fy­ing the guild growth rate bonus to
three times the orig­i­nal value and adding a 60% ex­pe­ri­ence bonus.

With the up­grade to SS grade, Lee Hayeon's Nur­tur­ing Gift had sig­nif­i­cant
im­prove­ments. The num­ber of peo­ple who could re­ceive Fo­cused growth
in­creased from 3 to 10, and the growth rate bonus went from 2 to 3 times
the orig­i­nal.

The cru­cial part of the de­scrip­tion, how­ever, lay fur­ther down, re­veal­ing
just how much Lee Hayeon's con­tri­bu­tion to the guild's growth rate en­‐

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hance­ment was.

The is­sue was in the lat­ter part.

The ad­di­tional Gift ex­pla­na­tion quan­ti­ta­tively re­vealed just how much Lee
Hayeon sup­ple­mented the guild's growth in­crease ef­fect.

"Huh!? So Un­nie Hayeon's Gift cov­ered our en­tire guild's growth ef­fects!?"

"Wow... was the Miss's abil­ity this pow­er­ful?"

As both of them were sur­prised at the ef­fects of Lee Hayeon's de­vel­op­ment,

Lee Hayeon seemed rather in­dif­fer­ent about her con­tri­bu­tion. In­stead, she
asked, "What should we do, Boss?"

Lee Hayeon her­self didn't seem to care much about her level of con­tri­bu­‐
tion.

In­stead...

"Other play­ers with Sup­port­ing Gift will prob­ab­ ly get ex­pla­na­tion too. If
com­pet­ing guilds in­crease, won't our po­si­tion weaken?"

"There are no play­ers with Sup­port­ing abil­i­ties as pow­er­ful as Lee Hayeon.

If peo­ple leave, we can just lower the rent."

"Then don't blame me if per­for­mance drops this time, okay?"

"Of course. Hayeon's con­tri­bu­tion to the guild is im­mense. Even if our per­‐
for­mance de­clines, it's fine."

"Haha, re­ally? Look­ing at it nu­mer­i­cally, it's quite good. My Gift... turned

out to be more use­ful than I thought."

Lee Hayeon made no fur­ther com­ments and even seemed to be en­cour­aged

by Seong Ji­han.

If any­thing, it was Seong Ji­han who needed to per­suade her.

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"Hayeon, with your abil­ity, which is ef­fec­tively sup­port­ing the en­tire guild,
20% share seems too small. I'll give you more."

"Share? 20% is al­ready more than enough..."

"No, I feel like I haven't treated you ac­cord­ingly un­til now. I'll give you
50% of my shares."

"Then won't I be­come Daegi Guild's Owner?"

With a 20% share and an ad­di­tional 50%, it would change the guild's owner.
Lee Hayeon shook her head, "You should re­main as the owner of the guild."

"But I should treat you fairly."

"In that case, please give me an ex­tra 20%. I won't ask for more."

So she would stay with a 40% share?

'She re­ally isn't greedy.'

Seong Ji­han thought to him­self, and he agreed to her pro­posal. "Hayeon,

take a bit more. I feel like I've fallen short."

"This should be enough."

"Use the guild GP gen­er­ously. 40% is yours, Ha-yeon. I won't say any­thing
if you use it for bet­ting."

"Us­ing guild funds for bet­ting? I won't be gam­bling any­more!"

"...Are you se­ri­ous?"

Zero is giv­ing up on gam­bling?

Did the sun rise from the west?

"I'm re­ally not go­ing to! Not any­more!"

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"You did it just yes­ter­day. On Seah."

"That... that was just out of loy­alty..."

"Oh, I see. Loy­alty, I un­der­stand."

As Seong Ji­han nod­ded with an ex­pres­sion that in­di­cated he didn't trust her
at all, Lee Hayeon turned around with a some­what em­bar­rassed ex­pres­sion.

"Gayeong, keep an eye on me from now on. Be my wit­ness. I'll re­ally quit
bet­ting!"

"....Are you se­ri­ous? I'll stick to you 24/7. I'll per­son­ally log in to check
your ac­count ev­ery day to see if you placed bets or not."

"Do it! Mon­i­tor me!"

At those words, Lim Gayeong bowed her head grate­fully to Seong Ji­han.

"Seong Ji­han, thanks to you, she's fi­nally come to her senses."

"....Why is it thanks to me?"

"You... don't say any more."

"Hehe.Okay, Not now, but I'll tell him when you re­ally quit gam­bling.
About the turn­ing point in you life."

"Ah! It's not that!"

Lis­ten­ing to their con­ver­sa­tion, Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

'What does her quit­ting gam­bling have to do with me?'

Yet he was skep­ti­cal that Zero Lee Hayeon would ac­tu­ally quit gam­bling.

'No way Zero would quit bet­ting... But at least she won't in­flu­ence Seah
while she's tem­po­rar­ily sane.'

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As long as she doesn't teach Seah how to bet.

As Seong Ji­han thought about this, he re­al­ized that he could use this ram­‐
pant sup­port Gift to his ad­van­tage, so he turned his at­ten­tion to Japan.

'Since Hayeon's mat­ter has been solved, I can now em­ploy coun­ter­mea­sures
against Ito Shizuru.'

As Seong Ji­han thought about this, he re­al­ized that he could use this ram­‐
pant sup­port­ing Gift to his ad­van­tage, so he turned his at­ten­tion to Japan.

"Hayeon."

"Yes?"

"Would you like to do a broad­cast?"

Seong Ji­han had made up his mind to use this plan to coun­ter­act Ito
Shizuru.

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Chap­ter 160
In a large man­sion in Tokyo, Japan.

"How an­noy­ing."

Ito Shizuru fur­rowed her brows at the changes in the world caused by
Seong Ji­han.

'If only my Gift rank went up too...'

Shizuru's Gift was the SSS-rank 'Edit'.

It had orig­i­nally started at S-rank, but she had barely reached SSS af­ter us­‐
ing count­less Akashic Pages.

See­ing how Sup­port­ing Gifts were get­ting mass up­grades, she had hoped
that maybe her gift would go up an­other rank from SSS, but...

There were no signs of its rank go­ing up.

In­stead, peo­ple's at­ten­tion was fo­cused on the pre­vi­ously looked down upon
Sup­port­ing Gifts, shak­ing up the sup­ply chain of Akashic Pages.

'Un­til now, I could pur­chase Akashic Pages while evad­ing reg­u­la­tions by

of­fer­ing more money...'

To keep Shizuru in check, the Ko­rean gov­ern­ment worked with var­i­ous en­‐
ti­ties to block SZ Cor­po­ra­tion's pur­chases of Akashic Pages, but...

This coun­ter­mea­sure didn't work ev­ery­where in the world.

Be­ing on the op­po­site side of the planet, they didn't care if Shizuru brain­‐
washed oth­ers, they were fine as long as more money was of­fered.

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While ex­pen­di­tures had in­creased com­pared to nor­mal, the sup­ply chain of

the Akashic Pages it­self had been main­tained.

But...

'Now that the use of Sup­port­ing Gifts has been dis­cov­ered and de­mand for
them has in­creased, the price of the Akashic pages will sky­rocket too.'

While it was still af­ford­able for now, if the price of Akashic Pages rose any
higher, even the il­lus­tri­ous Ito Shizuru wouldn't be able to han­dle it.

She could only hope the re­vealed uses of Sup­port­ing Gifts wouldn't be too
sig­nif­i­cant.

Shizuru ob­served the mar­ket sit­u­at­ion.

At that time...

[Ev­ery­one~ My 'Nur­tur­ing' gift has reached SS-rank~]

A video up­loaded by the Daegi Guild Mas­ter known to be Seong Ji­han's

girl­friend be­came the lat­est trend­ing video on Bat­tle­Tube.

'That girl had Nur­tur­ing gift!?' While he may be Seong Ji­han, she didn't
think he would just ran­domly make some girl­friend the Guild Mas­ter of his
guild. She had no idea that girl pos­sessed the Nur­tur­ing sup­port­ing Gift.

If I had known, I would've brain­washed her when in­fil­trat­ing Daegi Guild!

Shizuru clicked the video with re­gret and...

[Hello ev­ery­one~ I'm Daegi Guild Mas­ter Lee Hayeon. Since the might and
strength of Sup­port­ing Gifts have been re­vealed, I want to give you some
tips~]

Hear­ing she would give tips made Shizuru feel un­easy.

-Did the Guild Mas­ter have a Level SS Sup­port­ing Gift? Wow.

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-Yeah, it al­ways seemed odd that he made his girl­friend the guild mas­ter,
haha.

-If her Sup­port­ing Gift is SS-grade, doesn't that mean it was orig­i­nally S-
grade?

[Ah! My nur­tur­ing gift was A-rank ear­lier, but thanks to my boyfriend... I

mean Boss us­ing Akashic Pages, It went up to S-rank!]

-Wow, so the Akashic Page en­hances Sup­port­ing Gifts?

-Isn't the Akashic Page worth 300 bil­lion won? Our guild must be loaded,
lol.

-No, re­cently it went up even more, some­one bought it for 400 bil­lion. Isn't
SZ there, too? Reg­u­la­tions are use­less, damn it.

With the talk of Akashic Pages, SZ Cor­po­ra­tion also came up.

The pub­lic knew as well that de­spite reg­u­la­tions, it hadn't been very ef­fec­‐
tive as you could still pur­chase them if you paid more.

But then, Lee Hayeon dropped a bomb.

[Come, look ev­ery­one! This is the ef­fect of my Gift!]

As the ef­fects of her Nur­tur­ing Gift were re­vealed to the world, peo­ple were
shocked and speech­less.

-What's with that in­sane growth rate?

-Is Daegi Guild just filled with mon­sters? From the guild mas­ter to the
owner, or the re­cently vic­to­ri­ous Yoon Seah, why is ev­ery­one in Daegi like
that?

-No way... with that growth rate, isn't it just a mon­ster nur­tur­ing guild?

-Wait... shouldn't this be kept con­fi­den­tial?

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-With an abil­ity like that, I won­der who she'll be­come in the fu­ture...

Bam! Bam! Bam!

[R.E.Gates has spon­sored 100,000GP.]

[We for­mally pro­pose a scout­ing of­fer to the Guild Mas­ter of the Daegi
Guild. We'll of­fer a 2% AF stake for a $1 bil­lion con­tract fee.]

[Oh, no! I've re­ceived a re­cruit­ment pro­posal from Mr. Gates too...!]

Hayeon's Growth ef­fect was some­thing that would make any­one in­volved
in guilds take no­tice. Even when she was A-grade, she was the 2nd di­vi­sion
Guild Mas­ter of the Amer­i­can First. Now, as an SS-grade, she was worth
much more.

As soon as Lee Hayeon's Gift was re­vealed, Robert Gates im­me­di­ately

made a lav­ish of­fer, but...

[I've de­cided to ded­i­cate my­self to Daegi Guild. I ap­pre­ci­ate the of­fer, but
I'm sorry!]

-Wow, she re­jected it so de­ci­sively.

-What's so good about the Daegi Guild?

-She prob­ab­ ly has a sig­nif­i­cant stake as the guild mas­ter.

-2% stake of AF is prob­ab­ ly much more valu­able than the Daegi Guild
stake, lol.

[In­stead, since you made such a good of­fer, let me give you a tip. If you
raise your nur­tur­ing gift with Akashic Pages, while it may not reach this ex­‐
tent, you can achieve quite sim­i­lar ef­fects. Just reach­ing S-rank al­lows Fo­‐
cused Growth on 3 peo­ple~]

Hayeon ad­vised oth­ers to train the gifted in­di­vid­u­als us­ing the Akashic
Page.

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-By re­veal­ing such meth­ods, isn't she de­creas­ing the value of the Daegi
Guild?

-Yeah, other guilds might start op­er­at­ing their own growth guilds.

-Well, it's not like there's an un­lim­ited num­ber of spots avail­able in the
Daegi Guild. Top play­ers might go there be­cause of the higher growth rate.

-Still, it's nice of her to share those tips.

View­ers won­dered why Lee Hayeon was push­ing for rais­ing the sta­tus and
strength of sup­port­ing gift users, but...

See­ing this, Shizuru's face stiff­ened.

'This will make the Akashic Page price rise...'

No, it wasn't just a mat­ter of price. It might have been pos­si­ble to buy it at a
high price be­fore, but now due to its high de­mand it could be­come dif­fi­cult
to ob­tain.

And...

[Oh, and I know a lot of you are won­der­ing why I'm giv­ing you these tips.]

In the broad­cast, Hayeon smiled mean­ing­fully.

[The Guild owner seems con­cerned that the reg­u­la­tion of the Akashic Page
hasn't been prop­erly en­forced which has led to an in­crease in their price.
Some­one from over­seas may be try­ing to make it harder for oth­ers to ob­tain
these pages.]

Shizuru bit her lip, then held up her phone.

"Akashic Pages. Buy them now, even if you have to pay dou­ble."

[Ah, okay. Shizuru-nim...!]

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Fol­low­ing Shizuru's or­der, one of SZ Cor­po­ra­tion's mem­bers hur­ried to pur­‐

chase Akashic Pages, But...

[The reg­u­la­tions of the op­pos­ing gov­ern­ment have be­come stricter. In ad­di­‐

tion, be­cause the price has sky­rock­eted, even the goods that have al­ready
been con­tracted are not be­ing de­liv­ered. Even if we of­fer to pay them more,
they say they'll just hand it over to their na­tional guild...!]

[Bat­tleNet's man­age­ment bu­reau came af­ter re­ceiv­ing an il­le­gal trade re­port

and con­fis­cated Akashic Pages. It was a place that had been bribed.!]

[The price of Akashic Pages has sky­rock­eted by over twice re­cently, so our
pro­posal is be­ing met with deaf ears. Even with­out that, there's hardly any
sup­ply these days, and the price is soar­ing!]

"These guys are re­ally..."

Lis­ten­ing to the re­ports com­ing in from all over, Shizuru's anger flared. Al­‐
though Shizuru was in­fu­ri­ated by the ac­tions of var­i­ous gov­ern­ments that
were quick to move in on mat­ters re­lated to Bat­tleNet, she had to re­main
calm and as­sess the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion.

"Whoa...."

Af­ter tak­ing a deep breath, she made a cold judg­ment on the cur­rent sit­u­a­‐
tion.

'With the cur­rent scale, it may not be sus­tain­able to main­tain sub­mis­sion

and en­thrall­ment.'

Even if the edit was SSS-Rank Gift it would be im­pos­si­ble to keep the
brain­wash­ing on such a large scale with­out the help of Akashic Pages.

If the con­tin­ued sup­ply of Akashic Pages stopped, the brain­wash­ing would

col­lec­tively col­lapse at any mo­ment.

Shizuru checked the peo­ple she cur­rently con­trolled, sep­ar­ at­ing im­por­tant
and unim­por­tant cases.

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Draw­ing a cir­cle and di­vid­ing in­di­vid­u­als mes­mer­ized into five cat­eg­ ories,
she thought about the most im­por­tant group, the next group, and so on.

And then, 'The most im­por­tant fig­ure to me is......'

In the very cen­ter, she wrote down the Sword King's name.

Even if all the brain­wash­ing on the fig­ures in Japan's po­lit­i­cal and busi­ness
cir­cles were to be bro­ken, she had to keep the Sword King, Ito Ryuhei,
firmly within her grasp. That way, even if her in­flu­ence in Japan wa­vered,
she could main­tain her po­si­tion as the owner of the Sword King.

Her eyes shone omi­nously.

'Even if ev­ery­one be­trays me, you must re­main mine, Only mine. Sword
King.'

Speak­ing of which, she should re­in­force the brain­wash­ing once more.

She re­ceived fruits and drinks from the house­keeper and headed to the
train­ing hall lo­cated within the man­sion where the Sword King was.

Swish! Swish!

The twin swords, Gan­jang and Makya flew in the sky.

And fol­low­ing be­hind were the swords laid on the train­ing hall floor.

The Sword King was dis­play­ing his swords­man­ship by wield­ing not just
two, but a hun­dred swords.

With his eyes closed, com­pletely im­mersed in train­ing, a sharp aura, like
that of a sword flowed out from him.

"Ryuhei, I've come."

Shizuru gen­tly spoke as she placed a tray on the desk lo­cated to the side of
the train­ing hall, but...

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"Shizuru, could you wait a mo­ment? I think I've found a clue to com­plete
the hun­dred swords."

Un­like his usual de­meanor, where he would stran­gle her as soon as he saw
her, the Sword King didn't even look at her. He was en­tirely ded­i­cated to his
train­ing.

'Has he been train­ing so hard be­cause he was in­spired by Seong ji­han's

video?... It seems like he's mak­ing progress al­ready'

In­deed, the undis­puted War­rior Rank 1.

While Seong Ji­han was fiercely catch­ing up with for­mi­da­ble mo­men­tum,

the undis­puted strong­est War­rior on Earth was still the Sword King.

He was do­ing his ut­most to tram­ple over Seong Ji­han, who had been
fiercely chas­ing af­ter him, in the up­com­ing Ko­rea-Japan match.

"Then, I'll wait for you to fin­ish train­ing."

As such, the hun­dred swords floated in the air.

An hour passed like that. How­ever, while she ap­pre­ci­ated his re­li­able ded­i­‐
ca­tion, Shizuru, who watched him from the side, be­came in­creas­ingly rest­‐
less.

'How can he just keep train­ing like this with me right here?'

Nor­mally, the Sword King would em­brace her, say­ing that he couldn't fo­cus
on train­ing if she was watch­ing him., but...

He was far too fo­cused now com­pared to nor­mal.

He was now con­cen­trat­ing more than ex­pected, and even though Shizuru
usu­ally ad­mired the Sword King's ded­i­ca­tion to train, but...

'....I can't stand this.'

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With the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion of the Akashic Page's price fluc­tu­at­ing due to
Hayeon's broad­cast, and with Japan set to lose a con­sid­er­able amount of in­‐
flu­ence, Shizuru, who was now sure of this, wasn't pleased with the Sword
King in front of her, who was only fo­cus­ing on train­ing with­out even look­‐
ing at her.

So...

Swish!

Af­ter tak­ing off a layer of cloth­ing...

"Ryuhei, look at me."

"....Shizuru? Didn't I ask you to wait a mo­ment?"

"No, I can't wait."

She am­pli­fied the brain­wash­ing once more.

"Ha...."

The Sword King sighed heav­ily. He was so close to com­plet­ing the hun­dred
swords.

Why couldn't she wait a bit longer?

How­ever, his re­gret grad­u­ally faded away when he saw Shizuru's pris­tine
skin.

"I need to teach you a les­son, Shizuru."

"Yes, pun­ish me quickly."

Be­fore he knew it, a twisted smile formed on his lips.

He had com­pletely for­got­ten the en­light­en­ment from ear­lier and once again
suc­cumbed to the brain­wash­ing, be­com­ing com­pletely cap­ti­vated by her.

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Af­ter Lee Hayeon's broad­cast.

Upon re­turn­ing home, Seong Ji­han was able to see sys­tem mes­sages re­lated
to Brahma.

[The spon­sor­ing Con­stel­la­tion 'Brahma' has found a suit­able way of sup­‐

port­ing you.]

"Is it fi­nally here?"

Brahma had gone into con­tem­pla­tion about what to spon­sor, so it took a

while for him to find a suit­able abil­ity for Seong Ji­han.

[Brahma be­stows upon you the rare stat 'Hell­fire'.]

"....?"

Seong Ji­han blinked his eyes in con­fu­sion.

Hell­fire was an abil­ity that was com­pletely un­re­lated to Brahma's name.

[Brahma adds that this abil­ity was ob­tained by pay­ing a huge price to God
of Fire.]

Brahma boasted about get­ting it from the God of Fire.

'Could it be re­lated to the Crim­son Thun­der?'

The Crim­son Thun­der was cre­ated by the fu­sion of Phoenix Flame and Di­‐
vine thun­der to­gether.

See­ing the power that can fur­ther en­hance the Ce­les­tial Judg­ment, Brahma
seemed to have taken an in­ter­est and was push­ing him in that di­rec­tion.

And as Seong Ji­han ex­pected...

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[The Con­stel­la­tion Brahma re­quests you to com­bine Di­vine Thun­der and

Hell­fire to com­plete Crim­son Thun­der.]

Brahma had his eyes on the Crim­son Thun­der.

[If you com­plete Crim­son Thun­der, tremen­dous re­wards in­clud­ing the

unique stat 'Crim­son Thun­der' will be given.]

[Will you ac­cept this re­quest?]

Brahma was ready to of­fer gifts if he just com­pletes Crim­son Thun­der.

Seong Ji­han, how­ever, re­jected it out­right.

"I don't want to."

[Brahma is per­plexed by your re­sponse.]

[Brahma is an­gry, say­ing you are ar­ro­gant.]

[He threat­ens to im­me­di­ately stop the spon­sor­ship.]

Seong Ji­han snorted when he saw Brahma' threat­en­ing sys­tem mes­sages.

"What ar­ro­gance? If you don't like it, you shouldn't have spon­sored me in
the first place."

[Brahma is fu­ri­ous, say­ing he has never seen such a reck­less player.]

"Are you mad? Then scram!"

Swish! Swish!

He made a dis­mis­sive ges­ture to­wards the empty air as if chas­ing away a

fly. He re­mained un­fazed even when deal­ing with the spon­sor­ing con­stel­la­‐
tion.

"Crim­son Thun­der is some­thing I'm go­ing to com­plete; it's not some­thing

you're grant­ing. But you of­fer Crim­son Thun­der as a re­ward? Are you try­‐

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ing to scam me?"

Brahma wanted Crim­son Thun­der, but Seong Ji­han had the up­per hand in
this deal. And his judg­ment was spot on.

[Brahma asks what you want.]

The first one to give up was Brahma.

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Chap­ter 161
'Al­ready con­ced­ing?'

See­ing Brahma show such a weak side, Seong Ji­han was in­wardly sur­‐
prised.

While most play­ers would feel re­gret not get­ting more out of a Con­stel­la­‐
tion's spon­sor­ship, Seong Ji­han had an at­ti­tude of tak­ing it if given, and not
mind­ing if not. So he had in­ten­tion­ally acted strongly, but...

'He must re­ally covet Crim­son Thun­der.'

The Crim­son Thun­der's power cre­ated by fu­sion of Phoenix Flame and Di­‐
vine Thun­der clearly sur­passed nor­mal Ce­les­tial Judg­ment.

But as the God of Thun­der, Brahma should be able to cre­ate Crim­son Thun­‐
der too...

"Why does the God of Thun­der covet Crim­son Thun­der so much? Can't you
make it your­self?"

When Ji­han straight­for­wardly asked, the sys­tem mes­sages stopped ap­pear­‐

ing for a while, but then they con­tin­ued.

[Brahma states that the Crim­son Thun­der and the Thun­der God's pow­ers
can­not be mixed.]

[Only you, pos­sess­ing the abil­i­ties of a star, can fuse them]

[He asks again for you to com­plete Crim­son Thun­der, say­ing he will ful­fill
what he can within rea­son, so please fuse them.]

"What I want..."

Seong Ji­han con­tem­plated deeply about what to ask from Brahma.

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'Noth­ing's re­ally com­ing to mind.'

In the past, dur­ing the time of mar­tial power and force, he might have asked
for stat points or some­thing like that.

But now, he had sur­plus points left over since he had to mod­ify skills to
raise his Mar­tial Soul any­way.

He had enough GP to op­er­ate Daegi Guild for now as well.

'The only us­able thing might be items. But with him cov­et­ing Crim­son
Thun­der so much, it feels un­sat­is­fy­ing to just take an item for it...'

While think­ing about what to ask for, Seong Ji­han threw a ques­tion at him.

"Let's talk about what I want later. Why do you need Crim­son Thun­der so
much?"

[Brahma an­swers that it's a ques­tion he can't an­swer through the sys­tem.]

Then, a new mes­sage ap­peared in the sys­tem win­dow.

Ding!

[The spe­cial dun­geon map 'Di­vine Throne -- Brahma' opens for Player
Seong Ji­han.]

[The spe­cial dun­geon can only be en­tered by the per­mit­ted player Seong Ji­‐
han and his party mem­bers.]

[The spe­cial dun­geon can be en­tered once per week.]

[The spe­cial dun­geon is not in­cluded in the 1 game per day limit.]

'Oh?' A spe­cial dun­geon sud­denly opened.

See­ing a map ex­empt from Bat­tleNet's nor­mal re­stric­tions ap­pear, Seong Ji­‐
han re­al­ized Con­stel­la­tion Brahma was no or­di­nary ex­is­tence.

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He hadn't seen any Con­stel­la­tions ca­pa­ble of this in his pre­vi­ous life.

[Brahma says if you reach the Di­vine Throne, he will an­swer di­rectly. He
tells you to think about what you want in the mean­time.]

"Al­right."

And with that, Brahma, who had given the rare stat Hell­fire and the spe­cial
dun­geon, dis­ap­peared.

Seong Ji­han or­ga­nized the re­wards he had ob­tained from the Pro­mo­tion
Match.

He had earned 1.8 mil­lion achieve­ment points and his level had risen by 20
for sur­viv­ing the Pro­mo­tion Match.

'At this rate, I might reach Di­am

­ ond by De­cem­ber. I should pace my­self a
bit.'

He needed to be a Plat­inum player by De­cem­ber to qual­ify for the Space

League open­ing match. Seong Ji­han thought about the open­ing match from
his pre­vi­ous life that had as­ton­ished the world, the re­sult that Earth had ac­‐
cepted, and the need to turn it around for the World Tree Al­liance, who had
been their op­po­nents.

'The achieve­ment points are hard to use.'

The Achieve­ment Shop al­lowed up­grades only af­ter do­nat­ing five times.
The "All for One" cat­eg­ ory, the most use­ful one, had al­ready been up­graded
to the max­i­mum level. The other cat­eg­ ories like Sta­tus Screen Ex­pan­sion,
had no im­me­di­ate util­ity.

'Re­gard­less, I'll have to up­grade them even­tu­ally. Let's raise them to LV4
for now.'

So, he used 1.05 mil­lion achieve­ment points to up­grade all the items in the
shop to LV4. With over 700,000 points left, he con­tem­plated how to use
them.

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'Should I try open­ing a ran­dom box?'

There was a monthly chang­ing "Ran­dom Box of the Month." The items for
Oc­to­ber were re­lated to items. Seong Ji­han had not been in­ter­ested in them
un­til now, but since he had no im­me­di­ate use for his points, he de­cided to
open a box.

And...

"Huh..."

[Do­na­tion Re­set Voucher]

-- Grade: F

-- Al­lows you to do­nate to the achieve­ment store again.

-- You are a do­na­tion an­gel!

Seong Ji­han chuck­led, seem­ingly dis­ap­pointed. It was truly an item fit­ting

for F-grade, a trash item. How­ever, it had im­me­di­ate util­ity.

'Up­grad­ing the Achieve­ment Shop will be a month faster now.'

By us­ing the Do­na­tion Re­set Voucher, Seong Ji­han do­nated 10,000 points
again.

[You have do­nated 10,000 points to the sys­tem!]

[Vi­tal­ity en­velops your body. Fa­tigue will ac­cu­mu­late more slowly for one
month.]

'Now I only need to do this three more times, once a month, and it'll take
three months but...'

He didn't want to drag this out un­til next year.

'Let me pull the Do­na­tion Re­set Voucher one more time.'

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Seong Ji­han reached into the ran­dom box again.

"...What's all this, Un­cle?"

Yoon Seah asked, look­ing at the scat­tered items in the liv­ing room, her
voice filled with con­fu­sion. A long ta­pes­try and a statue with a flame en­‐
graved on it were among the items, which didn't match the rest of the house.

"Seah, don't do gacha."

"Sud­denly, what's with the gacha?"

"It's not just gam­bling that's highly ad­dic­tive..."

The ran­dom box re­quires 30,000 points each time.

The 700,000+ achieve­ment points dis­ap­peared in a flash.

'Thank good­ness I man­aged to get one more Do­na­tion Re­set voucher in the
end...'

If he hadn't had that, he might have ended up with noth­ing at all.

How­ever, most of the items that came out of the box were prac­ti­cally use­‐
less.

[Statue of Di­vin­ity]

-- Grade: C

-- A statue carved de­pict­ing di­vin­ity.

-- An aura of fire gen­tly em­anates from it, warm­ing the house­hold.

"What's this? This was an item? But... heat­ing ef­fect? Why is it a C-grade?"

"I don't know, but let's throw it away."

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"Well, it's cute. I'll use it as an in­te­rior dec­o­ra­tion. The ban­ner... I'll throw it
away."

While some small items could be uti­lized, there was no place to put the long
ban­ner in the home.

"No need to throw it. I'll get rid of it right now."

As Yoon Seah tried to or­ga­nize the ban­ner, Seong Ji­han stretched out his
hand.

And the ban­ner ripped to shreds.

The torn cloth in­stantly turned to dust and dis­ap­peared.

It seemed to dis­ap­pear faster than nor­mal, as if quite a bit of emo­tion was

mixed in.

"What else should I get rid of..."

"Hmm... Ex­cept for the two stat­ues, ev­ery­thing else looks use­less hon­estly...
Oh, isn't this a dag­ger?"

"Ah, right."

While rum­mag­ing through the junk, Yoon Seah's eyes lit up.

A crim­son dag­ger sheathed in a red scab­bard.

[Vam­pire's Fang]

-- Grade: S

-- A dag­ger made from the fangs of a vam­pire.

-- When you stab an op­po­nent with this dag­ger, the bleed­ing ef­fect is sig­nif­‐
i­cantly am­pli­fied.

-- It can ab­sorb the op­po­nent's blood to re­store your own vi­tal­ity.

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"This one looks good, doesn't it?"

"Well, it's some­what use­ful."

It wasn't an item that he would draw at the cost of over 700,000 achieve­‐
ment points, but for Seong Ji­han, who had Eclipse and the Phoenix Flag, it
was un­nec­es­sary equip­ment.

Af­ter ex­am­in­ing the dag­ger here and there, Yoon Seah looked at Akari who
was stand­ing be­hind her.

"I don't use dag­gers, so... Akari un­nie, do you want it?"

Yoon Seah spoke com­fort­ably with Akari, who now con­versed flu­ently in
Ko­rean, main­tain­ing po­lite speech.

"I, is that okay?"

"Yeah, you need a dag­ger."

At Ji­han's en­cour­age­ment, Akari was handed the vam­pire's fang dag­ger.

Akari's eyes widened af­ter read­ing the item de­scrip­tion.

"This, such a good item...! I can't ac­cept it!"

"Ugh,you're ex­ag­ger­at­ing. Un­nie's Di­am

­ ond player, so S-rank equip­ment is
ba­sic."

"But still..."

"Just use it."

With Seong Ji­han strongly rec­om­mend­ing it as well...

Akari re­ceived the dag­ger with both hands and re­peat­edly bowed her head
to Yoon Seah.

"Thank you very, very much. I'll re­pay this kind­ness with my life!"

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Pre­vi­ously, she had lost even her own­er­ship rights to Shizuru and con­tin­ued
to fol­low her blindly. Now, she was fol­low­ing Yoon Seah, even to the ex­tent
of vow­ing her life for a dag­ger. She was de­voted to her young mas­ter.

'Giv­ing up 3 Vi­tal­ity was a good deal.'

The loyal body­guard she be­came af­ter shar­ing the World Tree leaf and be­‐
com­ing a Di­am
­ ond As­sas­sin was a prof­itable trade.

Seong Ji­han, think­ing this, asked Akari, "By the way, what's your level?"

"It's 212."

"Lev­els re­ally don't rise af­ter be­com­ing Di­am

­ ond. Un­nie has been play­ing
con­tin­u­ously and her level went up by only 1."

"Well... To be­come a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, you need to reach level 225. I

need to ask Haeyon for Fo­cused Growth."

"A na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, huh..."

Akari asked in a trem­bling voice.

Akari asked with a trem­bling voice, "I heard that the archers in Ko­rea are
strong. Is there a place for an as­sas­sin like me?"

It was a valid ques­tion since as­sas­sins didn't seem very use­ful against Ko­‐
rea's strong archers, who took out play­ers with pre­cise shots.

How­ever, Ji­han had a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive.

"Even if there are strong archers, it's okay for one of them to be re­placed.
More im­por­tantly, when the as­sas­sin class is prop­erly es­tab­lished in the na­‐
tional team, it can be used for var­i­ous tac­ti­cal pur­poses."

Cur­rently, the na­tional team matches are pri­mar­ily fo­cused on head-to-head

power strug­gles. How­ever, with changes in the game map, the dy­nam­ics
could shift at any mo­ment.

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"So for now, just fo­cus on reach­ing level 225. I'll han­dle your en­try into the
na­tional team."

"Un­der­stood!"

Akari's eyes sparkled as she lis­tened to Seong Ji­han's words.

Af­ter the Top 25 match, the me­dia, which had been prais­ing Seong Ji­han,
shifted their fo­cus to the up­com­ing No­vem­ber's first match.

[No­vem­ber's first match is Ko­rea vs. Japan. Will we over­turn the hu­mil­i­a­‐
tion of Au­gust 15th?]

[The sit­u­at­ion is dif­fer­ent now! Seong Ji­han has emerged as the core of the
na­tional team.]

[Seong Ji­han vs. Sword King. Whose hand will the god­dess of vic­tory fa­‐
vor?]

[Bat­tleNet bet­ting sites are fa­vor­ing Sword King.]

-Oh, it's a pity. If Seong Ji­han had grown more and played Ko­rea vs. Japan,
the bet­ting re­sults would have been dif­fer­ent.

-I can't even imag­ine Ji­han los­ing now...

-Yeah, se­ri­ously, he's never lost an in­di­vid­ual match even if the team was
strug­gling.

-Sword King is still con­sid­ered the world's best war­rior. I watched the Japan
vs. Rus­sia match last time, and he was still amaz­ing.

-Since Seong Ji­han is still Gold, I think the Sword King will win.

-True, even on global Bat­tleNet fo­rums, there are sim­i­lar opin­ions.

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While Ko­re­ans con­tin­ued to sup­port Seong, many be­lieved it might still be

chal­leng­ing to de­feat the War­rior ranked first in the world, es­pe­cially the
Sword King.

Es­pe­cially Bat­tleNet fans world­wide...

-No mat­ter how strong Seong Ji­han is, he won't stand a chance against
Sword King.

-If this big match hap­pened next year, I would bet on Seong Ji­han -Thanks
to Seong Ji­han, I got a Gift, but now it's time for him to lose to the Japan's
Sword.

-Seong Ji­han and the Sword King. What's with the East Asia League? Why
doesn't China have such war­riors?"

-Both are tech­ni­cally Ko­rean. Is that place the land of war­riors? Is it be­‐
cause of con­scrip­tion?

-Then we should have war­riors in Is­rael too.

-Any­way, this time, the Sword King should win. Don't know about the next
one Most peo­ple bet on Sword King, but sur­pris­ingly, ex­perts were more
cau­tious in their judg­ments. Ja­pa­nese an­al­ysts, in par­tic­u­lar, had a more re­‐
served at­ti­tude.

"Hmm... he's re­ally strong."

The Ja­pa­nese coach fur­rowed his brow as he looked at Ji­han's Gold-level

data.

What the hell hap­pened in Gold?

Com­par­ing the Sword King's train­ing data and Seong Ji­han's per­for­mance,
the Sword King had a slight ad­van­tage, but...

'What he's shown so far doesn't seem to be his limit...'

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If Seong Ji­han is hid­ing some more cards, the fight be­tween the two war­‐
riors could be very close.

"Shizuru, if only she had re­cruited that per­son as well, it would have been
great. What a shame."

The Ja­pa­nese coach smiled wryly.

The Ja­pa­nese coach let out a bit­ter smile. Seong Ji­han and Ito Ryuhei, both
on the Ja­pa­nese na­tional team, would guar­an­tee a cham­pi­onship in the
Cham­pi­ons League. Look­ing at Seong Ji­han's data, he couldn't help but feel
dis­ap­pointed by Shizuru's fail­ure.

"Coach, Sword King has ar­rived."

"Oh? Go down and greet him."

"But Miss Shizuru is here too. She in­sists on de­liv­er­ing a mes­sage to you,
and she says she has a sure­fire plan to sub­due Seong Ji­han."

"For me?"

"Yes, she be­lieves there's a strat­egy to defini­tively sub­due Seong Ji­han."

Upon hear­ing this, the Ja­pa­nese coach's eyes lit up. Shizuru had a plan, and
it was some­thing he needed to hear.

"I'll go down right away."

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Chap­ter 162
"Hello, Coach."

Shizuru greeted with a smil­ing ex­pres­sion, and the Ja­pa­nese coach felt his
heart rac­ing un­con­trol­lably.

'Her beauty is on an­other level.'

She was con­sid­ered the most beau­ti­ful per­son in the world, and even though
he had seen her on broad­casts, see­ing her in per­son made him re­al­ize that
videos couldn't fully cap­ture her beauty.

Not only the coach but also the staff mem­bers couldn't help but gaze at
Shizuru with ad­mi­ra­tion.

"Ahem."

When Sword King un­com­fort­ably cleared his throat, the coach fi­nally re­‐
gained his com­po­sure.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I got lost in thought for a mo­ment."

"It's okay. I'm used to it."

"Shizuru, I told you there was no need to come."

"Hehe... Why not? It's nice to go on a date with you af­ter so long."

Shizuru leisurely smiled as she ac­com­mo­dated the Sword King's dis­com­‐

fort.

Un­like his nor­mally over­bear­ing at­ti­tude at the Japan Bat­tleNet Cen­ter, the
Sword King...

"Ugh, stop star­ing al­ready!"

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Couldn't hide his rest­less­ness when Shizuru drew at­ten­tion.

'The Sword King has com­pletely fallen.'

It's un­der­stand­able... That level of beauty and charm.

'If it were me, I might fall for her even with­out her try­ing.'

"You, stop that. You're be­ing rude to­wards the staff."

"....Al­right."

And with Shizuru's gen­tle words, the Sword King's mo­men­tum quickly de­‐
flated.

Those who saw this ex­change re­al­ized the whip was clearly in Shizuru's
hands.

"Sorry, ev­ery­one. He tends to be over­pro­tec­tive of me."

"Ah, no, it was our fault for star­ing."

"Hehe... He doesn't like me be­ing out for long ei­ther.I'll be straight­for­ward.

I have a plan to sub­due Seong Ji­han."

When Shizuru men­tioned her plan, the Ja­pa­nese coach's eyes lit up.

"What is this plan you have in mind?"

"Well, it in­volves this item."

Shizuru handed the coach a large nail that emit­ted a bright white light.

"A Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail."

"Oh, I see... A Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail. It's an item that sac­ri­fices one­self to

strengthen a team­mate's abil­i­ties, isn't it?"

A Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail.

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The Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail, graded as C, was an item that, when the player drove it
into their own heart, trig­gered an ef­fect that greatly am­pli­fied the abil­i­ties of
a des­ig­nated team­mate. How­ever, the buff ef­fect was not sub­stan­tial com­‐
pared to the penalty of the player's death, which made it an item that was
rarely used.

"Yes, the Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail has been com­pletely re­moved from the game...
But this item is dif­fer­ent. I per­son­ally mod­i­fied it."

"You mod­i­fied an item? Can you do that with items?"

The Ja­pa­nese coach asked with a sur­prised ex­pres­sion.

"Yes, I 'edited' it a bit."

"I made the buff from the Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail stack­able."

Sup­port­ing Gift Edit, could she re­ally mod­ify items too? The Ja­pa­nese
coach in­quired.

"In what way did you change the item?"

"I al­tered the stack­ing mech­an­ ism of the buffs that the Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail ap­‐
plies."

"You mean..."

Shizuru ex­plained, "What I mean is...Orig­i­nally, whether one or ten peo­ple

died, the 'Sac­ri­fice' ef­fect could only be ap­plied once. But this nail al­lows
stack­ing up to ten times."

As she spoke, Shizuru looked at Seong Ji­han dis­played on the mon­i­tors in

the strat­egy room.

"I've been keep­ing an eye on Seong Ji­han's data, and it seems that he doesn't
fully ben­ef­ it from buffs even when he re­ceives them."

"Yes, that's cor­rect."

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Seong Ji­han, even when given buffs, couldn't fully uti­lize fully un­leash the
power of Mar­tial Soul The buffs from sup­port­ers didn't have much ef­fect on
him.

"But Ryuhei, He's dif­fer­ent. He can fully use the buffs. With ten play­ers
start­ing by sac­ri­fic­ing them­selves with the Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail, His power will
be sig­nif­i­cantly en­hanced. With that, he'll be much stronger than Seong Ji­‐
han."

"That's true. He's al­ready stronger than Seong Ji­han, and stack­ing buffs on
top will cer­tainly give him the ad­van­tage. How­ever..."

The Ja­pa­nese coach glanced at the Sword King.

He was frown­ing as he glared at the Sac­ri­fi­cial Nail.

"We could de­feat Seong Ji­han with­out us­ing this... Couldn't we?"

"Sir, I know you could. But just this once, please fol­low my ad­vice."

"Bu-But still...!"

"Ryuhei, please. Hand Seong Ji­han an over­whelm­ing de­feat."

Shizuru didn't care about pre­serv­ing the Sword King's pride.

"Ugh... But...!"

The Sword King's face flushed red with anger, but...

When Shizuru qui­etly stared at him with tran­quil eyes,

"....Hah. Al­right."

Al­though Sword King was ini­tially in­fu­ri­ated, Shizuru's per­sis­tent gaze and
plea made him re­con­sider.

"Fine. I'll do it."

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The staff in the Ja­pa­nese strat­egy room couldn't be­lieve their eyes. Sword
King, the top player, had just com­pletely given in to Shizuru's sug­ges­tion.

'Shizuru's in­flu­ence on him is un­be­liev­able.'

'Was her charm that pow­er­ful?'

'Sword King has be­come com­pletely sub­mis­sive to Shizuru.'

'Even though this plan com­pletely tram­ples on Sword King's pride'

Shizuru con­tin­ued with a smile, "Thank you, Coach. I'll edit thirty Sac­ri­fi­‐
cial Nails for you. Can you win all three games with them?"

"Ah... Yes! If we elim­i­nate Seong Ji­han, Sword King alone can sweep the
Ko­rean team!"

"Great, then please make sure to win this match."

Shizuru smiled warmly.

'Sword King, your pride doesn't mat­ter this time. I need an over­whelm­ing
vic­tory.'

Af­ter the Akashic Page's price sky­rock­eted, cracks had ap­peared in

Shizuru's dom­i­nant po­si­tion in Japan.

Her ex­ten­sive in­flu­ence couldn't be main­tained any longer by just us­ing

charm.

Now, she had to demon­strate to the en­tire world that she was the owner of
the "Sword King" and en­sure that even the in­flu­en­tial fig­ures whose charm
had been weak­ened couldn't touch her.

'This plan is only for do­mes­tic use. Seong Ji­han will be eas­ily de­feated by
the Sword King's over­whelm­ing power.'

By show­ing the Sword King's over­whelm­ing power, she could main­tain her
shaken in­flu­ence as some brain­wash­ing wore off.

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Her in­ter­est had al­ways been there.

As for Seong Ji­han, if only the Sac­ri­fice ef­fect stacked, he would be eas­ily
de­feated. She had no wor­ries about that at all.

Seong Ji­han and Yoon Seah were in a limou­sine on their way to the Bat­‐
tleNet Cen­ter.

Seong Ji­han com­mented, "The Bat­tleNet Cen­ter feels like home now."

Yoon Seah replied, "Well, the na­tional team matches are al­most over. We
can't make it to the Cham­pi­ons League."

The na­tional team league would con­clude in No­vem­ber, and the top two
teams would qual­ify for the World Cham­pi­ons League. How­ever, South Ko­‐
rea's chances of mak­ing it were slim due to pre­vi­ous losses.

Since Ko­rea al­ready had ac­cu­mu­lated losses be­fore Seong Ji­han joined,
even win­ning out now wouldn't qual­ify them for the Cham­pi­ons League.

If they had won against China, there would've at least been a sliver of hope
while ex­plor­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties, but...

Af­ter that loss, pos­si­bil­i­ties for this sea­son dis­ap­peared.

Yoon Seah added, "It's a pity that Un­cle didn't be­come a na­tional team
mem­ber a bit sooner."

Seong Ji­han chuck­led, "Back then, I was just Bronze and Sil­ver. Even the
coun­try wouldn't have picked me."

Yoon Seah asked, "So, have you pre­pared a plan to fight against Dad?"

"He is pretty strong."

Over the past few days, Seong Ji­han had in­ten­sively an­al­yzed the Sword
King's game­play and coolly judged...

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'I'm a bit in­fe­rior at my cur­rent level.'

De­spite reach­ing Plat­inum and gain­ing 20 lev­els, His ac­tual im­por­tant Mar­‐
tial Soul hadn't risen.

So with his cur­rent strength, he could barely hold his ground against the
Sword King, but it would be dif­fi­cult to over­whelm him.

"Well, Dad is still ranked 1st in the world. So what, You can beat him next
time!"

"Don't de­ter­mine my de­feat al­ready. I do have some­thing pre­pared."

Yoon Seah asked, "Oh, so what's the plan, Un­cle?"

At Yoon Seah's ques­tion, Seong Ji­han re­called the Space League Pro­mo­tion
Match.

The sword held by the high elf, a World Tree branch.

It had sup­pressed the Avatar of the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star by cut­ting
it in half, but...

It had shriv­eled up and dis­ap­peared af­ter be­ing swept up by Kar­lein's power

of death as he un­leashed it.

'I briefly saw the force com­pos­ing the sword be­fore it dis­ap­peared.'

Seong Ji­han ex­plained, "Well, dur­ing that bat­tle, I felt the power of the
Branch of the World Tree. One part is the life en­ergy of the World Tree. It
was sim­i­lar to the power in­scribed in the seed of the World Tree. If I ex­tract
it, I can recre­ate a sim­i­lar power and the other was ...."

Yoon Seah asked, "what's the other?"

Seong Ji­han said, "I had a hunch about it but wasn't sure. I need to prac­tice
more."

Swish!

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Seong Ji­han sum­moned the shadow en­ergy from his left hand.

"Shadow Elves," the re­coil cre­ated by dis­pos­ing of any be­ings that didn't
con­form to the 'Elf' stan­dards set by the World Tree, and the 'Shadow Elves'
were born. Their shadow en­ergy be­came in­tensely vis­i­ble just be­fore the
Branch of World tree was de­stroyed.

How­ever, Seong Ji­han needed to be cau­tious be­cause he was deal­ing with

the power of life en­ergy and shadow en­ergy, and a mis­take could have dis­‐
as­trous con­se­quences.

Un­like Crim­son Thun­der where he fused Phoenix Flame and Di­vine Thun­‐
der, This was an even more dif­fi­cult task.

He was aware of the po­ten­tial dan­gers of mis­han­dling the power of life, as

it could po­ten­tially re­lease seeds into the world that could have cat­as­ trophic
con­se­quences. So, he ap­proached the task with cau­tion, fo­cus­ing on in-
game prac­tice.

If only I can im­ple­ment the Branch of world tree. When the Sword King
hes­i­tates and stops, I can feed him the leaves of the World Tree.'

At the mo­ment, there was a slight gap in their power, so it wasn't the right
time to ca­su­ally feed the leaves.

How­ever, if he could im­ple­ment the Branch of World Tree Sword, it would

tem­po­rar­ily clear his brother-in-law's mind, and feed­ing him the leaves
would com­pletely break the spell.

But there was a prob­lem.

"What's the method?"

"It's still un­der prepa­ra­tion."

"Ah... that's dis­ap­point­ing."

The im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Branch of the world tree was still elu­sive.

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Rather than cling­ing to this, would rais­ing Crim­son Thun­der to in­crease his
Mar­tial Soul be bet­ter?

With only about five days left un­til the Ko­rea-Japan match, it was a crit­i­cal
time. This was the time for choices and fo­cus.

"Un­cle, are you go­ing to play Bat­tleNet af­ter train­ing?"

"No, this time, I'll only fo­cus on per­sonal train­ing."

Start­ing from No­vem­ber, they could par­tic­i­pate in Bat­tleNet matches again.

How­ever, Ji­han had de­cided to tem­po­rar­ily halt his level-up and ded­i­cate
him­self to per­sonal train­ing un­til the Ko­rea-Japan match was over.

'I still have to be Plat­inum by De­cem­ber.' Us­ing the Ko­rea-Japan match as

an ex­cuse to re­frain from play­ing games for now.

With con­tin­u­ous #1 ranks, his lev­el­ing speed was ab­surdly fast, so he

needed a break.

En­ter­ing the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter, Seong Ji­han im­me­di­ately spoke upon see­ing
Coach Noh.

"Coach, can you give me some time off from team train­ing for the up­com­‐
ing match against the Sword King? I have some­thing to pre­pare."

"Ah... is that so? Un­der­stood. You can train in­de­pen­dently."

If it were any other player, such a pro­posal would never have been ac­‐
cepted. How­ever, since the one mak­ing the re­quest was none other than Ji­‐
han, Noh Youngjun ac­cepted it with­out hes­i­ta­tion.

Any­way, even if they were go­ing to have team train­ing, Ji­han was so dom­i­‐
nant on his own that he of­ten played sep­ar­ ately.

'The 1 on 1 match against the Sword King is the most im­por­tant game.'

For both Ko­rea and Japan,

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The other war­riors were just ex­tras com­pared to the clash be­tween the two.

He didn't know what prepa­ra­tions Seong Ji­han men­tioned, but...

'He's the type who does things well on his own.'

Coach Noh had end­less trust in Seong Ji­han.

On the other hand...

"Ah, hyung... I've lost my mo­ti­va­tion just think­ing about get­ting beaten by
the Sword King again."

"Ah, well, it's hard to say. Why did the Sword King have to go to Japan to
give us such a hard time?"

"Ito Shizuru is quite at­trac­tive, isn't she? I re­ally want to see her in per­son.
If I go to Japan, will she meet me?"

"Do you want the Sword King to kill you?"

"Is that so? Haha, too bad. Hey, look at this. A god­dess de­scended upon the
Ja­pa­nese strat­egy cen­ter!"

"Wow... She's f*ck­ing gor­geous."

The war­riors, Kim Dong­woo and Lee Yoongi, were leisurely eval­u­at­ing
Shizuru's face on their phones.

'Ugh, it's truly de­press­ing there are no other rais­able play­ers...'

Hasn't Ko­rean war­rior tal­ent fo­cused too much on Seong Ji­han and the
Sword King?

Coach Noh deeply sighed and clapped his hands.

"Al­right, let's start team train­ing."

"Yes~"

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And so for 5 days...

-Ji­han hasn't been play­ing Bat­tleNet even though it's No­vem­ber.

-I heard that he's cur­rently in closed-door train­ing. He doesn't leave his

room, and he's only in­side the game. He says he has some­thing to pre­pare.

-Oh... prepa­ra­tion, you say. Do you think he has a card to play against the
Sword King?

Ru­mors were ram­pant in both Ko­rea and Japan. How­ever, there were more
pos­i­tive ru­mors com­ing from Japan than from Ji­han, who was train­ing
alone.

-Ac­cord­ing to the ru­mors in Japan, they al­ready con­sider the game to be

over. Af­ter Ito Shizuru vis­ited the strat­egy cen­ter, they say they've pre­pared
tremen­dous items.

-Yes, I heard the same ru­mors. Af­ter that day, the Sword King's odds
dropped sharply. Ja­pa­nese in­vestors bet heav­ily on the Sword King.

-Ji­han should stop mak­ing mean­ing­less provo­ca­tions. We'll earn some GP in

Japan.

More pos­i­tive ru­mors cir­cu­lated in Japan where Shizuru had per­son­ally

made an ap­pear­ance.

Per­haps due to this...

It seemed like a lot of money had al­ready been poured into the Sword King,
and GP from all over the world was now fo­cused on him.

-The odds dif­fer­ence is in­sane;; Is this even nor­mal...

-Well, you can just win next time!

-Right, Seong Ji­han is still Gold!

-If he loses but fights well... This is the sce­nario lol

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While Ko­rean Bat­tleNet fans were half ac­cept­ing their de­feat be­fore the
Ko­rea-Japan match even took place, the day of the match was fast ap­‐
proach­ing.

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Chap­ter 163
=Well, it's al­most the end of the Bat­tleNet sec­ond half sea­son in 2020, and
the East Asia League is wrap­ping up too. Al­though South Ko­rea won't make
it to the Cham­pi­ons League this sea­son, we hope they can fin­ish with a pos­‐
i­tive note.

=The South Ko­rean na­tional team had a tough year, es­pe­cially with the
Sword King dom­i­nat­ing in Japan, lead­ing to a con­tin­u­ous los­ing streak. It
seemed hope­less un­til the emer­gence of Seong Ji­han, like a comet.

=Yes, for­tu­nately, thanks to Seong Ji­jan, we se­cured one vic­tory, but...

=Since then, fac­ing both China and Japan, it's been chal­leng­ing for Bat­‐
tleNet pow­er­houses. Es­pe­cially in Japan... with the pres­ence of the Sword
King.

-The sec­ond Ko­rea-Japan match of this sea­son is near too.

In the sec­ond South Ko­rea-Japan match of the sec­ond half sea­son, al­though
the sit­u­at­ion wasn't as bleak as on Au­gust 15th, the over­all ex­pec­ta­tion
leaned to­wards a pos­si­ble de­feat.

=In a clash be­tween Seong Ji­han and the sword king, who would have the
ad­van­tage on the bat­tle­field?

=Well... the Ja­pa­nese na­tional team is a well-bal­anced team. Rather than

hav­ing a spe­cific strong po­si­tion, they are all rated at least A level. How­‐
ever, their ranged fire­power is def­i­nitely su­pe­rior, so the out­come may de­‐
pend on the map.

If the South Ko­rean na­tional team is eval­u­ated with S in ranged fire­power,

C in war­riors, and A to B in sup­port, Japan has a sta­ble A to A+ level in all
as­pects. There­fore, on a typ­i­cal map, Japan has the ad­van­tage. But on a map
where the bat­tle is de­ter­mined at range, like the Train map, South Ko­rea has
the up­per hand.

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Of course, this dis­cus­sion is based on the as­sump­tion that the clash be­tween
Seong Ji­han and the Sword King doesn't de­cide the out­come.

=If Seong Ji­han and the Sword King's bat­tle de­ter­mines the vic­tory...

=Then, nat­u­rally, the win­ner would take the game!

If one of them wins, the game's out­come will be set­tled there. The com­men­‐
ta­tors dis­cussed it as if ev­ery­thing was fine.

=Seong Ji­han... the op­po­nent is the world's strong­est war­rior. As a chal­‐

lenger, we hope you ap­proach it with ease!

=That's right! Seong Ji­han is still a Plat­inum player. If he grows to Di­a­‐

mond, even­tu­ally, he will be the world's strong­est. So, view­ers, please sup­‐
port him re­gard­less of the out­come!

-Wait, why are the com­men­ta­tors talk­ing like he al­ready lost? Did they guys
bet on the Sword King win­ning?

-What are you say­ing? Though the ob­jec­tive data shows he's at a dis­ad­van­‐
tage, I've never seen Ji­han Oppa lose... He didn't even lose to China, He'll
prob­ab­ ly not lose this time too!

Not just the com­men­ta­tors, but the view­ers also had dif­fer­ent opin­ions on
Seong Ji­han's chances of win­ning.

"Seong Ji­han, don't feel too bur­dened. I'll sup­port you with all my might."

"Yeah, take it easy. The out­come isn't the most im­por­tant thing."

Al­though Lee Hayeon and Coach Noh tried to al­le­vi­ate the pres­sure on
Seong Ji­han, he was al­ready full of thoughts about land­ing ef­fec­tive hits on
the Sword King.

"No, I have to land a solid hit."

"Re­ally?"

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Con­trary to what they were think­ing, Seong Ji­han was de­ter­mined to land a
de­ci­sive blow on the Sword King.

[Mas­ter, are you re­ally go­ing to... do 'that'?]

'Oh, the re­sis­tance has less­ened up quite a bit now.' Seong Ji­han thought, re­‐
call­ing what hap­pened 5 days ago.

When he was de­bat­ing whether to con­struct a wooden sword with the

Branch of the World Tree or to com­plete the Crim­son Thun­der. An idea fi­‐
nally struck his mind.

'Let's ac­tu­al­ize the wooden sword.'

Even if he com­pleted the Crim­son Thun­der now, it would be hard to sup­‐

press the Sword King and feed him the leaves at the same time when there
was still a slight gap be­tween their pow­ers.

Rather than do­ing that, his goal was to mimic the wooden sword the High
elf used and land a strong hit on the Sword King.

Be­cause the next Ko­rea-Japan match will take place af­ter this year.

Seong Ji­han, rather than cling­ing to com­plete Crim­son Thun­der, de­cided to

fo­cus on con­struct­ing the wooden sword.

He first tried fus­ing the Power of life of the World Tree and the shadow en­‐
ergy, but...

[Uh... Please stop, Mas­ter, ev­ery time the power of life en­ters.]

Ev­ery time the power of life en­tered, Ariel's re­sis­tance was pal­pa­ble.

[This... re­ally doesn't seem right. It feels like the foun­da­tion of the Shadow
Elf is shak­ing. How about just ma­nip­u­lat­ing the power of life? Yeah. How
about ex­per­i­ment­ing with just one wooden sword?]

Ariel, want­ing to do noth­ing with the vi­tal­ity, sug­gested var­i­ous ideas.

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Seong Ji­han did try ob­tain­ing a wooden sword once and im­bu­ing it with the
power of life as she said, but...

'No, it doesn't re­sem­ble the Branch of the World Tree. The wooden sword is
not go­ing to work.'

[Th-Then how about grow­ing seeds that come out when you emit the power
of life? Let's try cul­ti­vat­ing that!]

Ariel tried var­i­ous meth­ods to avoid the power of life, but Seong Ji­han's de­‐
ter­mi­na­tion re­mained un­shaken.

"Maybe be­cause it's in­side the game, it's not grow­ing well," he said as he
tried var­i­ous meth­ods, but the green seeds grown with the help of the power
of life showed no signs of ger­mi­na­tion. In ad­di­tion, all the other meth­ods
tried did not dis­rupt Seong Ji­han's power.

"It won't work. En­dure a bit."

In the end, Seong Ji­han threw a word at Ariel and con­tin­ued the fu­sion.

[Ugh....]

Af­ter 5 days of count­less at­tempts, he suc­ceeded in blend­ing them to some

ex­tent 'Even though it still doesn't look like the Wooden Sword... Let's fight
with this for now.'

[...Didn't the Sword King say he's the best war­rior on this planet? When the
power of life en­ters, the power of the Eclipse weak­ens. Since it's not prop­‐
erly com­pleted yet, how about sav­ing it for the next op­por­tu­nity?]

Half con­ced­ing, Ariel re­sponded as such, clearly not want­ing the power of
life .

'It's fine. I only need to im­bue it at the piv­otal mo­ment.'

Seong Ji­han's mind was set on util­is­ing it this time.

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=The first map is South Gate.

=View­ers are prob­ab­ ly quite fa­mil­iar with it now. It's the map we've been in
charge of for the first and sec­ond games in the sec­ond half of this sea­son.
We're at­tack­ing.

=Yes, Ja­pa­nese team war­riors. They're block­ing the cas­tle gate. They don't
seem to be prop­erly form­ing a for­ma­tion.

=Uh... But the front-row war­riors are each hold­ing long nails in­stead of
weapons...

In front of the open cas­tle gate of South Gate.

Swish!

When the ten Ja­pa­nese war­riors si­mul­ta­ne­ously pulled out the Sac­ri­fi­cial
Nails they re­ceived from Shizuru.

"Don't do that."

The Sword King, who was stand­ing at the front, stopped them with an un­‐
pleas­ant ex­pres­sion.

"Oh, Sword King...!"

"But..."

"Leave this game to me. Shouldn't I be able to tram­ple over him with­out
any buffs?"

Al­though he agreed to fol­low her words in front of Shizuru, He had the

pride of be­ing the world's top war­rior.

'Even with­out that plan, I can eas­ily win against him.'

Us­ing Sac­ri­fice against a Plat­inum op­po­nent?

What would hap­pen to the Sword King's dig­nity?

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Al­though he was 'ob­sessed' with Shizuru, 'sub­mis­sion' had not yet taken
hold of the Sword King.

He would oc­ca­sion­ally act im­pul­sively like this.

"Ah, un­der­stood."

The war­riors also un­der­stood the Sword King's feel­ings and held back from
driv­ing in the nails.

"Then step back."

Swish! Swish!

The twin crim­son and azure swords, Gan­jang and Makya, rose be­hind
Sword King's back.

"Split."

As the Sword King stretched his hand back...

Flash!

The ap­pear­ances of the azure sword Gan­jang and crim­son sword Makya
faded, and in their place, spheres of azure and crim­son light floated be­fore
the Sword King's hand.

"Hun­dred Swords."

When the Sword King grasped the spheres of light with his hand...

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Azure and crim­son lights ex­ploded in all di­rec­tions, and one by one, swords
be­gan to take shape around him.

100 swords of azure and crim­son light.

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=Ah, that's Hun­dred Swords! See­ing this I'm re­minded of the Sword King's
MVP in­ter­view ear­lier this year!

=Yes, I re­mem­ber it too. He said he would dom­i­nate the bat­tle­field alone by

ac­tu­al­iz­ing his twin swords, Gan­jang and Makya, into a hun­dred swords.
Even though he was on the Ko­rean team back then...

=Ha­haha... He didn't re­veal Hun­dred Swords even in Oc­to­ber's match. To

think he's show­ing it to us now that we're his op­po­nent!

Swish! Swish!

The hun­dred swords si­mul­ta­ne­ously flew to­wards the Ko­rean team, and the
Sword King fol­lowed be­hind them.

"Ab­so­lute Bar­rier!"

Ko­rean sup­port­ers had cast a pro­tec­tive shield spell in ad­vance, but...

Crash!

De­spite its name, the ab­so­lute bar­rier tore apart like a pa­per scroll.

The Hun­dred Swords, each pos­sess­ing ab­so­lute power, were a force to be

reck­oned with.

'We'll be swept away if I stay here.'

The Ko­rean side, orig­i­nally on the of­fen­sive, was now in a de­fen­sive stance.
To face the Sword King, Seong Ji­han stepped for­ward.

Name­less di­vine art, Fu­sion of Di­vine thun­der and phoenix: Crim­son Thun­‐
der can­non A flash­ing crim­son light­ning bolt aimed at the Red King.

"Hmph."

The widely spread Hun­dred Swords quickly gath­ered and blocked the at­‐
tack in an in­stant.

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Zzzt!

Half of the hun­dred swords in­stantly lost their form and dis­ap­peared into
light.

"It's quite pow­er­ful."

The Sword King raised his brows and waved his hand once again.

Swish! Swish!

The swords that had melted away and scat­tered...

Be­gan to slowly re­gain their shape one by one.

Block­ing and re­gen­er­at­ing no mat­ter how many times the Crim­son Light­‐
ning de­stroyed them, the hun­dred swords blocked Seong Ji­han's path.

The Red King rode on one of the light swords and flew to­wards Seong Ji­‐
han.

Fol­low­ing closely be­hind were 99 other swords.

The Hun­dred Swords moved freely un­der the Sword King's con­trol as if
they were a part of his body.

Seong Ji­han's Phoenix flag flashed, fir­ing the Crim­son Thun­der Can­non a
few more times, but...

The Sword King al­ter­nated be­tween block­ing and dodg­ing, clos­ing the dis­‐
tance be­tween him and Seong Ji­han.

'Thanks to the Hun­dred Swords, he's much stronger than the data I've seen
be­fore.'

While he was un­doubt­edly grow­ing, the Sword King wasn't just idling.

Think­ing that it wouldn't be as easy as he ex­pected, Seong Ji­han tossed his

Phoenix flag into the sky.

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Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Ce­les­tial Judg­ment.

Zzzzt!

A gi­ant spear of light de­scended from the sky.

The point of the spear pre­cisely aimed at the spot where the Sword King
was ad­vanc­ing.

"What a trick."

As the Sword King raised his fin­ger, the ma­jor­ity of the Hun­dred Swords
flew to­wards the spear of light.

=Sword King's Hun­dred Swords... The tran­si­tion be­tween of­fence and de­‐
fence is per­fect.

=Yes, and the pil­lar of light Seong Ji­han re­vealed is also tremen­dously pow­‐
er­ful! Sword King's swords are be­ing ripped apart!

=How­ever, is he mo­men­tar­ily held back by the swords? The fall­ing speed

seems to be de­creas­ing...!

The spear that seemed to land pre­cisely on the Sword King's path...

While it did tear apart nu­mer­ous swords of the Sword King, it couldn't
block his ad­vance.

Thud!

The spear of light pierced the ground only af­ter the Sword King had al­ready
passed.

"Pre­pare for your first de­feat."

Clos­ing the dis­tance, the Sword King spoke.

Swish!

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The hun­dred swords that had re­formed af­ter be­ing de­stroyed unan­i­mously
flew at Seong Ji­han.

Watch­ing this, Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally raised a fin­ger in the mid­dle.

The Sword King's eye­brows twitched.

"A man who couldn't even look me in the eye..."

"A fa­ther who went mad for a woman and aban­doned his daugh­ter has a lot
to say."

"I have no daugh­ter."

Seong Ji­han, while non­cha­lantly lis­ten­ing to the Sword King's grum­bling,

sin­cerely con­tem­plated.

Was it right to heal this guy with the leaf of the World Tree?

Would he even be healed?

"If you want to be ac­knowl­edged as a fa­ther some­day, cut off Shizuru's

head and come back. Oth­er­wise, I won't ac­knowl­edge you."

Seong Ji­han tried to com­pro­mise, say­ing he would con­sider ac­cept­ing him

back if he did this much.

"This brat...!"

At that state­ment, the Sword King's eyes com­pletely changed.

He was in­dif­fer­ent to the story of aban­don­ing his daugh­ter, but the provo­ca­‐
tion re­lated to Shizuru hit a nerve.

"I guess I'll have to go to Ko­rea and kill you my­self."

"You talk big. Why not come for real if you're so an­noyed?"

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Seong Ji­han's mock­ing laugh­ter trig­gered a fierce glint in the Sword King's
eyes.

"Sword Sea."

The sword en­ergy of the Hun­dred Swords over­whelmed the world like a
tidal wave.

The Phoenix Flag had al­ready left, and Seong Ji­han was left with only
Eclipse in his hand.

To any­one watch­ing, Seong Ji­han was over­whelm­ingly at a dis­ad­van­tage.

How­ever...

'It's weaker than I thought...'

Seong Ji­han blinked as he looked at the sea of swords.

Sword King's hun­dred swords.

'There are lots of gaps be­tween them.'

The power was over­whelm­ing, but it wasn't flaw­less.

'Get ready, Ariel.'

[No. In this sit­u­at­ion? Mix­ing power now would weaken the Eclipse's
power. Then I'd be buried in that sea of swords.]

Cer­tainly, the gaps in the Sword Sea were so fine that even the Shadow Elf
Ariel couldn't see them.

But Seong Ji­han, pos­sess­ing the Mar­tial Soul, had the eyes to per­ceive
those gaps and the abil­ity to pen­et­rate them.

'There's a way. Let's go give that bas­tard a blow he will re­mem­ber for life.'

[......If that is what you want, Mas­ter.]

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Ariel re­sponded in a some­what re­signed tone.

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and in­fused the sword with his en­ergy.

Then...

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Foot­work Tech­nique -- Flash­ing Sky Thun­der Steps

"....!"

Seong Ji­han used the full force of the Thun­der Steps, en­ter­ing the Sword
Sea.

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Sword Sea.

The sword en­ergy con­tained in the Hun­dred Swords spread in all di­rec­tions,
cre­at­ing a sea of swords. To the eyes of an out­sider, it show­cased over­‐
whelm­ing power.

'The Sword King is in­sane. He's got­ten even stronger...!'

Be­hind Seong Ji­han, Kim Dong­woo, watch­ing from the Ko­rean camp, un­‐
con­sciously trem­bled. De­spite be­ing a Di­am
­ ond-level war­rior like Sword
King, the dif­fer­ence was stag­ger­ing.

This is why I can't muster the mo­ti­va­tion to work hard.'

Kim Dong­woo jus­ti­fied his own lazi­ness while watch­ing Seong Ji­han
charge into the sword sea.

"Is he try­ing to die by go­ing in there...?"

"I know right. To think of go­ing into that sword en­ergy, his body will prob­a­‐
bly get ripped apart im­me­di­ately..."

Among the Ko­rean rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Kim Dong­woo and Lee Yoongi were on
the stronger side, and they saw the Sword Sea un­leashed by the Sword King
as a per­fect and over­whelm­ing skill.

The surg­ing sword en­ergy that looked like waves...

Just touch­ing it seemed like it would shred their bod­ies to pieces.

But that was the sword sea from their per­spec­tive.

'Surely, there's a weak­ness here.'

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Seong Ji­han, pos­sess­ing the Mar­tial Soul, could quickly dis­cern gaps to
pen­et­rate the sword sea.

While they may have looked to oth­ers as places with dense sword en­ergy,
'The might of the hun­dred swords isn't uni­form.'

Was it be­cause of in­suf­fi­cient mas­tery?

Out­wardly it looked like sword en­ergy that over­whelmed the world, but in
truth it was ragged.

Per­haps aware of this him­self, the Sword King had ar­ranged the most com­‐
plete swords on the outer perime­ter of the sword sea, emit­ting a fierce aura.

'But the in­side near Sword King is weaker.'

A false ex­te­rior and weak in­te­rior.

That de­scribed the cur­rent state of the sword sea.

Zzzt!

Seong Ji­han's body shot for­ward like light­ning and pen­et­rated the ex­te­rior
of the sword sea.

Upon see­ing this, the Sword King sneered at first.

"Good, you've come to your death your­self."

Even if he man­aged to break through by sur­prise at first...

How could he re­sist once buried in this sea of sword en­ergy?

How­ever, con­trary to his ex­pec­ta­tions, Seong Ji­han...

"No...."

While main­tain­ing his do­main, was re­pelling the sword's en­ergy.

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His force, fused with his mar­tial power, fur­ther en­hanced his Mar­tial Soul
to ma­nip­u­late even Sword King's sword en­ergy.

'As ex­pected, the Sword King can't fully con­trol this power.'

What was the point of boast­fully nam­ing it the Sword Sea when he couldn't
even con­trol it prop­erly?

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and quickly closed the dis­tance with the Sword King.
The world filled with sword en­ergy was no longer a hin­drance to him.

"This guy...!" The Sword King opened his eyes wide. His sword en­ergy was
be­ing taken over and ma­nip­u­lated by the op­po­nent. What kind of mock­ery
was this?

And...

Swish! Swish!

The sword en­ergy con­trolled by Seong Ji­han be­came the van­guard, break­‐
ing through the Sword Sea. The Sword King's face con­torted.

'I can't stop him with sword en­ergy...'

He had used the wide-rang­ing sword sea to pre­vent Seong Ji­han from es­‐
cap­ing, but...

Now his dis­persed power was un­able to re­strain his op­po­nent in­stead.

'I need the full hun­dred swords to work.'

Swish!

The sword sea in­stantly shrank and the scat­tered en­ergy gath­ered back into
swords, unan­i­mously fly­ing at Seong Ji­han.

Re­al­is­ing the fu­til­ity of the sword sea, the Sword King had swiftly shifted
his stance.

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How­ever, con­vert­ing to the hun­dred swords took time.

"Want to get hit once, Yoon Se­jin?"

So he al­lowed Seong Ji­han's ap­proach.

"You dare speak my name...!"

"We're not in-laws any­more, are we?"

As the shadow sword Eclipse stretched out to­wards the Sword King...

Clang!

The azure sword Gan­jang, which had dis­ap­peared by split­ting into the hun­‐
dred swords, re­vealed its form once more.

Un­like usual, the trans­par­ent form of the sword, still in­com­plete due to the
sword en­ergy not fully gath­er­ing, but it was enough to block the at­tack from
the Eclipse.

"That's right, you're just an en­emy to be torn apart!"

And next to Gan­jang, the crim­son sword Makya swiftly stabbed to­wards
Seong Ji­han.

Clang! Clang!

The clash be­tween the twin azure and crim­son swords and Seong Ji­han's
Eclipse oc­curred dozens of times in an in­stant.

'In­deed, he's strong.'

Al­though he eas­ily broke through the Sword Sea, the true strength of the
Sword King was else­where.

Trained in the SSS-grade gift 'Twin Sword Mas­tery' since the Bronze era,
his daz­zling dual sword tech­nique had con­quered all en­em
­ ies who faced
him one-on-one.

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No mat­ter how Seong Ji­han had mem­o­ries from a past life and gained the
Mar­tial Soul now...

With the cur­rent dif­fer­ence in power, he couldn't over­whelm Sword King's

tech­niques.

'And if this drags on, the hun­dred swords will ar­rive.'

The semi-trans­par­ent Gan­jang and Makya...

In­di­cated that part of the hun­dred swords were still main­tained.

When he could barely de­fend against the twin sword as­sault al­ready...

If the hun­dred swords en­cir­cled him from be­hind as well, it would cer­tainly
lead to de­feat.

[Mas­ter, I can't hold on much longer. This damned power of the World Tree
is weak­en­ing Eclipse.]

'Right. It won't work.' Hear­ing Ariel was strug­gling as well, Seong Ji­han
made a de­ci­sion.

The pur­pose of this bat­tle was to land one hit with the wooden sword he had
con­structed, no mat­ter what.

'Now, I'll pour ev­ery­thing into it.'

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Dark Shadow Tech­nique -- Dark Soul Vor­tex Boom!

Seong Ji­han's shadow sword swelled in an in­stant, ex­plod­ing to­wards the

front. The over­whelm­ingly pow­er­ful shadow sword en­ergy, the Dark Soul
Vor­tex.

But this time, it was dif­fer­ent from usual.

[Argh... for real...!]

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Per­haps be­cause Seong Ji­han poured abun­dant power of life into it, within
the swollen Eclipse, there were nu­mer­ous green lines drawn. The power of
leaf that seemed to weaken the uni­fied power of the Dark Soul Vor­tex.

"This is...!"

Thud!

The Sword King hastily crossed his Dual Swords to block the Dark Soul
Vor­tex. In­side the swollen Eclipse, the green cracks be­came more pro­‐
nounced. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously, the shadow en­ergy no­tice­ably weak­ened.

The Sword King twisted the cor­ner of his mouth.

"Pa­thetic. Block­ing it once, and your sword looks like this!"

"Is that so?"

"Yeah. It's go­ing to burst soon!"

Boom!

As the Sword King said, the swollen Eclipse couldn't over­come the in­ter­nal
cracks and burst com­pletely. Within it, green cracks spread in all di­rec­tions.
At the same time, the shadow en­ergy and power of life ex­tended out­ward.

De­spite us­ing a pow­er­ful tech­nique, Seong Ji­han found his sword shat­tered.
In con­trast, Thunk! Thunk!

The Sword Sea dis­in­te­grated, and some parts of the Hun­dred swords, which
had tar­geted Seong Ji­han, had pierced his body.

"As ex­pected... Even if you re­sist, this is what hap­pens!"

Three pierc­ings in the chest, two in the ab­domen, and one in each arm. The
Hun­dred sword had pierced him. It was clear; the Sword King had emerged
vic­to­ri­ous.

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The Sword King raised his eye­brows, pre­par­ing to taunt Seong Ji­han, but
then he paused.

"Huh..."

Sud­denly, his smile van­ished.

Around him, the shat­tered shadow en­ergy and dis­in­te­grated life force
floated aim­lessly.

"Huh..."

Slowly, the Sword King dropped his twin swords.

"Wait... where is this?"

=Ah, ahh...!

=The Sword Sea has been breached, but as ex­pected, the Sword King with
twin swords is for­mi­da­ble!

=Player Seong Ji­han! You're fac­ing the top War­rior, but the Hun­dred
Swords is grad­u­ally form­ing be­hind you. It's dan­ger­ous to de­lay any longer!

=So that's it! He used a big tech­nique, but...

=Ah! The sword can't ex­tend fur­ther, and it ex­plodes!

=And at the same time, swords have pierced Seong Ji­han's body!

The Ko­rean com­men­ta­tors lamented in dis­ap­point­ment.

-Is it im­pos­si­ble to beat the 1st place af­ter all?

-Still, he did well. Right?

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-When he en­tered the Sword Sea, I thought he might ac­tu­ally make a dif­fer­‐
ence.

-Even just break­ing through the Sword Sea was a task. He did his part.

As the match un­folded, the view­ers had mixed feel­ings, half ex­pect­ing this
re­sult. The Sword King's sta­tus within the war­rior class was ap­par­ent.

Seong Ji­han had done well, and even though the out­come was some­what
ex­pected, it was still an ad­mirable per­for­mance.

"Un­cle must be in pain..."

Yoon Seah, watch­ing the match, wore a pained ex­pres­sion as she ob­served
Seong Ji­han pierced by the swords.

She used to nag Seong Ji­han about us­ing a Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor with sen­‐
sory re­duc­tion fea­tures, but he al­ways brushed it off since he never took a
hit any­way. How­ever, to­day, he's go­ing to feel some real pain.

She wasn't at all re­gret­ful about Seong Ji­han not be­ing able to feed the leaf
of the World Tree to the Sword King. Af­ter all, she didn't ex­pect her un­cle
to gain an up­per hand against her fa­ther.

So, she never thought that the ex­plo­sion of the Dark Soul Vor­tex was a part
of Seong Ji­han's plan.

[Wait a mo­ment... Ji­han... Why is my sword...]

Un­til the Sword King, with a blank ex­pres­sion, called Seong Ji­han by the
af­fec­tion­ate name "Ji­han"...

=... The Sword King's con­di­tion is strange.

=Uh, the sword stuck in Seong Ji­han's body has turned into smoke and dis­‐
ap­peared!

=Sword King, while call­ing Seong Ji­han's name, is hold­ing his head...

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=What on earth is go­ing on?

"...Dad?"

With­out any­one re­al­is­ing, nei­ther the com­men­ta­tor nor the view­ers who
were watch­ing un­der­stood what was go­ing on.

'Al­right.'

Seong Ji­han watched the Sword King's change with a calm face.

'If di­rectly hit­ting him is im­pos­si­ble...'

Seong Ji­han twisted ac­tu­al­iz­ing the wooden sword into an­other method.

Ex­plod­ing the Dark Soul Vor­tex with the power of life to in­di­rectly af­fect
Sword King.

This was pos­si­ble be­cause he had un­der­stood the prin­ci­ple of the wooden
sword to an ex­tent.

'It was a risky move, but it seems to have suc­ceeded.'

See­ing the hun­dred swords stabbed into his body dis­ap­pear, Seong Ji­han
slowly opened his mouth.

"Ito Ryuhei, aren't you go­ing to kill me?"

"Why would I... kill you?"

"We're en­em ­ ies, aren't we? You're the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Japan, and I'm the
rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Ko­rea."

"I'm the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Japan? What non­sense are you talk­ing about?"

The Sword King, an­gered by Seong Ji­han's words, then held his head again.

"Uh, wait... Ito? What is Ito? Shizuru..."

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Con­fused, the Sword King Yoon Se­jin seemed to still be un­der some spell,
maybe due to the in­di­rect ex­plo­sion of the power of life.

In such cases, an­other pu­rifi­ca­tion method should be used.

"In­ven­tory."

Step by step, Seong Ji­han opened his in­ven­tory and took out a leaf from the
World Tree. Slowly re­gen­er­at­ing his body, he ap­proached Yoon Se­jin.

If he just feeds him this, it'll be over. This trou­ble­some brother-in-law

should re­gain his senses.

'I'm sure he'll find his own way to Ko­rea, but I'll have to tell him not to
bring Ito Shizuru's head...... for now.

It's bet­ter not to com­pli­cate things by telling him to come af­ter killing her.
That might cause more trou­ble.

"Brother-in-law, eat this."

"What is this?"

"It pre­vents your head from hurt­ing."

"Ugh... Shizuru... told me not to..."

"Seah is wait­ing for her dad."

As the Sword King strug­gled with his con­fused mind, when Seong Ji­han
men­tioned Seah's name, he bit his lip hard enough to make it bleed.

"Right... Ji­han. Thank you for tak­ing care of Seah all this time. I'm grate­‐
ful."

"It was noth­ing. The kid grew up well."

"Hehe... Okay. You said this will... make it bet­ter...?"

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Seong Ji­han tried to hand over the leaf from the World Tree.

Just be­fore the leaf touched the Sword King's hand, a flash! The Sword
King's body turned into light and dis­ap­peared.

It was a phe­nom­en­ on that oc­curs when log­ging out.

"Uh..."

Seong Ji­han blinked his eyes.

It was al­most done.

The sit­u­at­ion was 90% re­solved but...

He had missed it at the last mo­ment.

***

Japan Bat­tleNet Cen­ter un­der­ground park­ing lot.

-Anom­aly de­tected in the Sword King's Bat­tleNet Con­nec­tor. The Sword

King has logged out. And... the con­nec­tor won't open!

"Stay still!"

Ito Shizuru hastily parked her car and, un­like usual, shouted loudly.

Clang! Clang!

Wear­ing heels, she ran to­wards the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter.

"...Seong Ji­han!!"

Sharp­en­ing her sword, she shouted Seong Ji­han's name.

For just in case, in­sur­ance was pre­pared for the Sword King's Bat­tleNet
Con­nec­tor. She never dreamed it would ac­ti­vate be­cause of Seong Ji­han.

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"I will def­i­nitely kill you."

Now, rather than cov­et­ing Seong Ji­han, Ito Shizuru was de­ter­mined to elim­‐
i­nate him.

"Mi-Miss Shizuru!"

"This way!"

Guided by the Ja­pa­nese staff, she ap­proached Sword King's Bat­tleNet con­‐
nec­tor.

Boom! Boom!

From within the iso­lated con­nec­tor, mas­sive vi­bra­tions could be heard.

It looked like the Sword King could burst out any mo­ment.

See­ing this, Ito Shizuru grit­ted her teeth.

"Ev­ery­one leave. I'll han­dle this."

"Ah, un­der­stood...!"

And...

=No, no...

=We can't see the Sword King...

In the sec­ond round, the Sword King did not par­tic­i­pate.

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Boom! Boom!

Look­ing at the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor that seemed like it could ex­plode at any
mo­ment, Shizuru grit­ted her teeth.

'It can't hold out for long.'

If only she had added more de­vices to the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor in case the
Sword kings' sta­tus ab­nor­mal­ity was lifted dur­ing the game.

She did add the func­tion to forcibly log out if the Sword kings' con­di­tion
im­proved dur­ing the game, but that was all.

Since she thought the Sword King was com­pletely un­der con­trol, she de­‐
cided to save the power of the Gift on the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor.

But now, it seemed like that de­ci­sion might back­fire.

'If I want to use En­chant­ment again in this sit­u­at­ion, there's only one way.'

She has to re­lease the en­chant­ment and sub­ju­ga­tion on the key fig­ures of
the Ja­pa­nese gov­ern­ment and con­cen­trate the power of the Gift on the
Sword King.

Ito Shizuru quickly thought it over.

Whose en­chant­ment to re­lease, and who to leave be­hind.

'I'll keep the prime min­is­ter and chair­man un­der it...'

Ex­cept for the core fig­ures in busi­ness and pol­i­tics, she re­leased all the en­‐
chant­ments and took a deep breath.

She could do this.

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Any­way, the Sword King who had fallen for her once al­ready...

With this level of power, she could def­i­nitely en­chant him again.

Boom!

The Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor fi­nally ex­ploded.

The Sword King slowly stood up from within.

Ex­ud­ing a re­freshed aura, he gen­tly asked Shizuru stand­ing there.

"Hmm... Who are you?"

Un­like when he was en­chanted by Shizuru, the Sword King now spoke in
Ko­rean.

Shizuru, who had learned flu­ent Ko­rean when en­chant­ing the Sword King,
replied in a smooth Ko­rean.

"Don't you... re­mem­ber me?"

"Who are you?"

'For­tu­nately it seems he doesn't re­mem­ber the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion.'

If he had re­called the strange tricks Seong Ji­han pulled in the game, he
would have cut off her head im­me­di­ately.

Since he didn't, there was am­ple op­por­tu­nity to en­chant him again.

Ito Shizuru ap­proached the be­wil­dered Sword King with a sad look, tak­ing
out a hand­ker­chief from her pocket.

"I'm... some­one Ji­han sent."

"Ji­han did...?"

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While men­tion­ing Seong Ji­han's name to lower Sword King's wari­ness, she
con­tin­ued speak­ing ca­su­ally.

"Why am I... in Japan...?"

"That's a long story."

To the con­fused Sword King, Shizuru, who could now get close, em­braced
him.

"Sim­ply put, many peo­ple, in­clud­ing the Na­tional In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice, are
mak­ing ef­forts to res­cue you from the hands of Japan."

And as she spoke, she ap­proached the Sword King.

"Why am I..."

"It's sim­ple. Be­cause you love me so much."

Shizuru, who could en­chant, cap­ti­vate and ob­sess him, ac­ti­vated ev­ery pos­‐
si­ble sta­tus con­di­tion on him.

"Ugh... It was you...!"

At first his face was full of rage, but...

But as he looked at Shizuru's tran­scen­dent beauty, his ex­pres­sion grad­u­ally

soft­ened.

She gave a tri­umphant smile.

'Suc­cess.'

With things hav­ing gone this far, it was over.

He might re­sist at first, but...

What man could defy her?

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"Ugh... This bitch...! Gan­jang! Makya!"

As the twin swords were sum­moned and pow­er­ful sword en­ergy re­leased
to­wards Shizuru...

She didn't wa­ver one bit in the face of the Sword King's at­tack.

"Aegis."

Whoosh!

A mas­sive bar­rier man­i­fested, seem­ingly to pro­tect Shizuru's body.

The rain­bow-col­ored bar­rier floated an­other pris­tine white shield to the

front, bounc­ing away all the sword en­ergy.

See­ing this, the Sword King's eyes widened.

"Ah, The Aegis Ring.... Why do you have it?"

The Aegis Ring.

It was a ring Sword King had ob­tained in Bat­tleNet, ca­pa­ble of sum­mon­ing

the ab­so­lute bar­rier Aegis for 5 min­utes.

Orig­i­nally, this ring be­longed to the Sword King's wife Seong Jiah, but...

"Oh, did I say it was your wife's? But you gave it to me as a pro­posal gift.
Hehe, don't you re­mem­ber?"

"Sh-Shizuru...!!"

"You gave it to me, and now you're an­gry. How amus­ing."

Ito Shizuru was thor­oughly en­joy­ing her­self.

"Hurry up and come back to me, Ryuhei."

Ryuhei.

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Upon hear­ing that name, the Sword Kings' face com­pletely stiff­ened.

Re­mem­ber­ing how many times Shizuru whis­pered that name to him.

The mem­o­ries of shar­ing love with her and will­ingly play­ing the role of her
ser­vant flashed through his mind like a mi­rage.

"Ha, ha­haha...."

Strength left the hands grip­ping the twin swords.

No man could defy Shizuru.

That was... the kind of be­ing she was.

The anger welling up in his chest dis­ap­peared, re­placed by a yearn­ing for

her.

He now wished to re­main by her side.

As his emo­tions rapidly shifted, Sword King was about to give up his re­sis­‐
tance when...

Swish!

'This is...!'

An un­fa­mil­iar en­ergy he had never felt be­fore be­gan swirling within his
body.

As his mind, which had been cloud­ing in front of Shizuru, cleared once
more...

-I'll raise Seah like my own daugh­ter.

Sud­denly, he re­called what Shizuru had said be­fore.

-In Japan.

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'She... even has her eyes on Seah.'

Al­though she said she would raise her like her own daugh­ter, it was clear
that Yoon Seah was merely a means to bring Seong Ji­han to her.

And af­ter cap­tur­ing Seong Ji­han...

What would hap­pen to Yoon Seah?

If she was use­less, she would be dis­posed of.

If use­ful, she would be made to serve her like him­self.

"Kuk... Kuk kuk...!"

He couldn't al­low that.

He couldn't let it hap­pen.

He couldn't let his daugh­ter fall into such a swamp.

He could not drag his daugh­ter into this quag­mire as well.

Yoon Se­jin looked at Shizuru.

An in­cred­i­bly charm­ing woman.

De­spite the anger that swelled up from the stun­ning beauty that shook the
world, his mind was cap­ti­vated.

'Yes... the prob­lem is that I can see it.'

The 'eyes' that kept mak­ing him look at that tran­scen­dent beauty.

Swish!

As the Sword King raised his sword...

"Re­belling quite a bit, aren't you? I'll have to pun­ish you later."

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Shizuru spoke leisurely, trust­ing in the Aegis shield, but...

See­ing the sword tip di­rected not at her but at Sword King him­self, her face
stiff­ened.

No, more pre­cisely, the tip was aimed at his eyes.

"W-Wait a mo­ment...!"

Stab!

With­out any hes­i­ta­tion, The Sword king pierced his own eyes with twin
swords.

Drip! Drip!

Blood flowed from Gan­jang and Makya's blades, drop­ping to the floor.

"Re­fresh­ing."

As the brisk en­ergy dom­i­nated the space once again, Ito Shizuru asked with
a trem­bling voice, "Are you... Are you crazy?"

Hear­ing that, the Sword King bared his teeth and laughed.

"Yes, I've gone crazy."

[The 'En­chant­ment' sta­tus has failed to ac­ti­vate.]

[The 'De­pen­dency' sta­tus has failed to ac­ti­vate.]

[The 'Ob­ses­sion' sta­tus has been ac­ti­vated.]

See­ing the sys­tem mes­sages, Shizuru's eyes widened.

En­chant­ment and de­pen­dency failed, but only ob­ses­sion suc­ceeded?

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'This is the worst...!'

"Ji­han told me to bring your head if I wanted to be ac­knowl­edged as Seah's

fa­ther. How­ever, I think dif­fer­ently. I don't de­serve to be for­given. And I
don't plan on leav­ing any trace of you in this world ei­ther."

Swish!

As Gan­jang traced a hor­i­zon­tal line...

Boom!

An in­tense ex­plo­sion rang out.

Power even greater than be­fore.

Per­haps be­cause he had pierced his own eyes, seal­ing his vi­sion, The Sword
King could now un­leash his power to­wards Shizuru much more sin­cerely.

"Yes. I sim­ply want to shred all your flesh to pieces and grind even your
bones into dust... That's all I de­sire."

As he spoke of shred­ding Shizuru, Sword King's mur­der­ous aura steadily

in­ten­si­fied.

Shizuru had no choice but to ad­mit that her plan had failed.

In­stead now...

Creak!

'If it goes like this, even the Aegis might shat­ter...!'

Rather than re-en­chant­ing Sword King, her own life took pri­or­ity.

'If I knew it would be like this, I should have re­leased the charm of the
Prime Min­is­ter and Chair­man and fo­cused only on se­cur­ing the Sword
King...!'

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Be­cause she had point­lessly left the prime min­is­ter and chair­man un­der en­‐
chant­ment, the Sword King brain­wash­ing pro­ce­dure didn't utilise her full
power.

She deeply re­gret­ted her de­ci­sion ear­lier.

See­ing the sit­u­at­ion, she had to flee im­me­di­ately but...

'Is there still some way... If I lose Sword King here, it's over but... Should I
free the prime min­is­ter's en­chant­ment and try again?'

Be­cause of her lin­ger­ing at­tach­ment to Sword King, she had hes­i­tated for a
mo­ment, but...

Bang!

"Aack...!"

The Aegis shield ex­ploded.

As the bar­rier col­lapsed, and the en­ergy sword grazed her face, Shizuru fi­‐
nally re­gained her senses.

Crack! Crack!

Un­like nor­mal where a light touch of sword en­ergy would just leave a cut,
cracks spread across her en­tire face.

Feel­ing her face shat­ter, Shizuru clenched her teeth.

"My face...!"

"Don't worry. I'll tear that apart for you."

Whoosh!

As the en­ergy sword pierced the Aegis shield once again, Shizuru hastily
clasped her neck­lace.

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Flash!

Her body dis­ap­peared, wrapped in light.

Hav­ing given up any lin­ger­ing at­tach­ment af­ter her face cracked, she used
the tele­port magic im­bued in the neck­lace.

Un­able to see with his lost vi­sion, the Sword King clicked his tongue af­ter
sens­ing Shizuru's pres­ence dis­ap­pear.

"Ha, she ran away. She re­ally val­ues her own life..."

How many de­fen­sive items did she keep equipped just in case?

She re­ally took ev­ery pre­cau­tion.

Just then...

"Um... Are you okay?"

Per­haps alarmed by the con­tin­u­ous ex­plo­sions, a Ja­pa­nese staff mem­ber had

en­tered from out­side to check the sit­u­at­ion.

"Hee, hehehe!"

And upon en­ter­ing the room and see­ing the Sword King with blood flow­ing
from his eyes, he freaked out and sat on the floor.

No, more than the blood­ied ap­pear­ance...

He was fright­ened by the mur­der­ous aura Sword King emit­ted.

And then...

"Hoo..."

Sens­ing his pres­ence af­ter los­ing his eyes, the Sword King made a wicked
smile.

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"Good. Luck­ily there are plenty of hostages here."

=Games 1 and 2. Ko­rea wins them both...!

=With the Sword King ab­sent, the Ja­pa­nese team could not stop Seong Ji­‐
han!

=But re­ally, what could have hap­pened to the Sword King...?

The dy­nam­ics of the games be­tween Ko­rea and Japan de­vi­ated com­pletely
from the gen­eral ex­pec­ta­tions. When the Sword King logged out, Japan,
with­out a player to stop Seong Ji­han, crum­bled dis­ap­point­ingly.

'Ha, un­be­liev­able.'

How­ever, de­spite con­sec­u­tive wins in games 1 and 2, Seong Ji­han's ex­pres­‐

sion was grim.

And for good rea­son.

He just had to ex­plode the Dark Soul Vor­tex and feed the leaf, then it
would've been over.

But with the sud­den lo­gout of the Shadow King, it was per­plex­ing.

'Edit­ing abil­i­ties... How far can they go? Con­trol­ling the Bat­tleNet Con­nec­‐
tor, se­ri­ously, it's a headache.'

At this point, shouldn't it be rated as EX rather than SSS? Seong Ji­han

blamed him­self for not sim­ply open­ing his mouth, stuff­ing the leaf with­out
talk­ing to the Sword King.

'Has brother-in-law be­come en­chanted again...?'

He prob­ab­ ly had to hurry up and get stronger, then per­son­ally go to Japan.

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See­ing the Sword King's skill, if he reached Di­am

­ ond and got his Mar­tial
Soul to around 200, he could sup­press him with­out is­sues.

Once he grew that much and force-fed the leaves to his brother-in-law, he
had to grind Ito Shizuru into dust.

As Seong Ji­han thought of Shizuru and clenched his teeth...

"Ji­han, are you okay?"

Coach Noh care­fully asked with a con­cerned ex­pres­sion.

De­spite eas­ily win­ning 2-0 against their tough op­po­nent Japan, Seong Ji­han
seemed ir­ri­tated.

The coach roughly guessed the rea­son.

'It must be be­cause of the Sword King. It seems like Ji­han did some­thing...?'

From the coach's per­spec­tive, thanks to this, they ob­tained an easy vic­tory
in the Ko­rea-Japan match. That alone was a big gain for them.

But Ji­han's per­spec­tive would ob­vi­ously dif­fer.

"If you're not feel­ing well, you can rest for the next matches."

Con­sid­er­ing Seong Ji­han's mood, Coach Noh cau­tiously sug­gested this,

but...

"No. I have to crush those bas­tards."

Seong Ji­han stood up, grit­ting his teeth.

There's no time to rest.

They need to be tram­pled.

"Well, al­right."

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Al­though Coach Noh tried to main­tain a ca­sual ex­pres­sion at that re­sponse.

He couldn't hide the joy.

Hon­estly, with Sword King and Seong Ji­han both gone, He was wor­ried
whether Ko­rea could win against Japan or not.

But with Seong Ji­han par­tic­i­pat­ing, no need to worry.

'You re­ally are a bless­ing.'

And so, the 3rd game...

=The third match seems to be a train­ing map.

=In fact, now ev­ery­one's at­ten­tion is not on the game map, but on whether
the Sword King will par­tic­i­pate or not. Oh... Sword King didn't par­tic­i­pate
again!

=Yes. If you watch the re­play of game 1, you'll see the con­ver­sa­tion be­‐
tween Seong Ji­han and Sword King was quite mean­ing­ful. It seemed like
the Sword King didn't re­call any­thing that hap­pened!

=Um... Could it be... some kind of brain­wash­ing has been lifted...?

=It's still too early to say, but... Seong Ji­han. What­ever tac­tics he used are
im­pres­sive. In the first match, it seemed like he was ul­ti­mately at a dis­ad­‐
van­tage against the Sword King!

= The ex­plo­sion of the sword, now think­ing about it, seems in­ten­tional!

=Any­way, if the Sword King doesn't par­tic­i­pate in the third match... We can
look for­ward to the game re­sult!

The voices of the com­men­ta­tors were brim­ming with en­thu­si­asm.

Though they had sensed de­feat when Seong Ji­han was los­ing to Sword
King ear­lier, How­ever, the un­ex­pected 3:0 vic­tory in the Ko­rea-Japan match
was be­com­ing a re­al­ity, and they couldn't con­tain their ex­cite­ment.

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-Wait, what the hell is go­ing on??

-Is the Sword King re­ally com­ing to his senses? Wow.

-The Ja­pa­nese play­ers all seemed quite in­tim­i­dated too. They were so lively
when the Sword King was around, but look at them now Lol.

-If by some chance the Sword King re­turns and we get Seong Ji­han and the
Sword King duo lead­ing Ko­rea, we'll sweep ev­ery­thing. Please, get your­self
to­gether, old man.

In the chat win­dow, in­stead of show­ing in­ter­est in Ko­rea's 2:0 lead, there
was a com­plete fo­cus on the Sword King.

-Seong Ji­han! We thought you would some­how save our Sword King!

-Were those guys from the Sword King fan­club still alive? Wow.

-These guys used to curse Seong Ji­han the most, but now they are sup­port­‐
ing him. They re­ally have no shame.

Es­pe­cially the Sword King fans who had been quiet re­cently were now ac­‐
tively cheer­ing Seong Ji­han af­ter be­com­ing ac­tive again.

Un­til now, they had se­cretly cheered for the Sword King in the shad­ows.

But thanks to Seong Ji­han's at­tempt, if the Sword King would just re­gain
his san­ity, they could cheer for him openly again.

-Seong Ji­han! Seong Ji­han!

-Please save Sword King!!

They ac­tively cheered for Seong Ji­han, who they had cursed the most in the
past.

And then, not even 5 min­utes into the train­ing map...

=Oh? This is strange. Seong Ji­han hasn't at­tacked yet but...

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=The Ja­pa­nese play­ers are start­ing to log out...!

Fol­low­ing Sword King's lo­gout in game 1...

The Ja­pa­nese na­tional team play­ers in game 3

"What? What's go­ing on?"

"Why are they log­ging out...!"

One by one, an un­prece­dented sit­u­at­ion of forced lo­gouts un­folded.

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Chap­ter 166
The Japan Bat­tleNet Cen­ter.

"Ugh... Ah..."

The Japan coach sat down on the floor and trem­bled un­con­trol­lably.

Swish! Swish!

Around him, the Sword King's hun­dred swords were fly­ing around, de­stroy­‐
ing the sur­round­ings.

The swords were es­pe­cially fo­cused on the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tors.

Boom!

As a small ex­plo­sion sounded from the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tor pierced by the

sword, smoke rose up.

The coach shut his eyes tightly.

'Ito Shizuru, you told me to only be­lieve in you! Why did things turn out
like this...!'

Ever since the sud­den lo­gout of the Sword King in the first round, some­‐
thing felt un­easy.

Shizuru fled, and the Sword King was com­pletely run­ning wild. The only
for­tu­nate thing was that, so far, no one had been killed.

Most of the staff had al­ready fled in fear, and the se­cu­rity guards at the Bat­‐
tleNet Cen­ter were knocked un­con­scious by the Sword King's sword.

Though he didn't seem to have any in­ten­tion of com­mit­ting mur­der yet...

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Zzzt...!

See­ing the sparks fly­ing from the var­i­ous Bat­tleNet con­nec­tors, it looked
like some­one would soon die from elec­tro­cu­tion.

"Sword King! Please stop! If this con­tin­ues, there could be an ex­plo­sion...!

The play­ers might die!"

"If they die, they die."

"Th-That's..."

"Or do you want to kill them your­self? Haha. Come to think of it, if I kill
ev­ery­one here, the Ja­pa­nese na­tional team will com­pletely col­lapse."

The Sword King bared his teeth as he laughed, gen­tly ca­ress­ing his crushed
eyes.

He gave off an in­tense aura of mad­ness.

"Pl-Please spare us..."

"How are we sup­posed to bring Shizuru here?"

"How can we pos­si­bly...!"

"It's your job to bring her here."

Swish!

Af­ter de­stroy­ing the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tors, he pulled out the play­ers one by
one.

De­spite hav­ing lost his vi­sion, the Sword King wielded the twin swords like
they were a part of his body.

It was a scene that showed why he was the world's top-ranked war­rior.

"Sword Prison."

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And as the Sword King said those words...

"What... What is this...!"

"Huh... This...!"

Glow­ing swords di­rectly stretched out to­wards the force­fully logged out
play­ers.

Match­ing the play­ers' sizes, the large swords cap­tured them within the
sword and floated over to the Sword King's side.

"This guy isn't it."

"K-Kuk...!"

Some of the cap­tured play­ers were knocked un­con­scious again when the
sword prison ex­ploded and fell to the ground.

"This one... Yes. Good."

While some play­ers re­mained trapped in­side the swords.

"What is this!"

"Sa-Save me...!"

"Stay still."

"Ugh...!"

Thanks to the Sword King's trick­ery, ev­ery­one fell un­con­scious. De­spite be­‐
ing pow­er­ful play­ers, each of them se­lected to rep­re­sent their coun­try, they
were all sub­dued by the Sword King.

Gulp!

The Ja­pa­nese coach swal­lowed his saliva.

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'This mon­ster...! Is he re­ally blind? The play­ers he cap­tured are all top-
ranked among Japan's na­tional team!'

The play­ers con­fined in the Sword Prison were the top 20 of Japan's na­‐
tional team. Even though they were blinded, the Sword King se­lected the
most valu­able hostages.

"I'll give you 12 hours. If Shizuru isn't brought here within that time, I'll
pub­licly ex­ec­ ute one per­son ev­ery 10 min­utes."

"N-No... Pub­lic ex­ec­ u­tion? That's...!"

"Then call a re­porter. Ah, no, I can't trust you."

As the Sword King ca­ressed his crushed eyes, he slowly spoke.

"Sys­tem, turn on Bat­tle­Tube."

Af­ter be­ing fas­ci­nated by Shizuru, this was the first time the Sword King
turned on his per­sonal chan­nel, a chan­nel that he had never used since com­‐
ing to Japan.

Mean­while, at the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter in Ko­rea.

"We won against their team, right?"

"That's right, sir."

Kim Dong­woo and Lee Yoongi emerged from the Bat­tleNet con­nec­tors
with bright faces.

Af­ter the Sword King logged out in the first game, the Ja­pa­nese team
seemed to have lost all fight­ing spirit.

They eas­ily won the sec­ond game due to the dif­fer­ence in power, and the
third game col­lapsed on its own with lo­gouts.

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They didn't know why things turned out like this, but in any case, they had
dom­i­nated the Ko­rea-Japan match they were wor­ried about, so the Ko­rean
team mem­bers gen­er­ally had high morale.

Of course...

"What on earth hap­pened to Japan...?"

"Forced lo­gouts in a Bat­tleNet match, this is a first..."

"Even if the power went out, it would run on gen­er­at­ors for 3 hours. And
the na­tional team con­nec­tors should run for 6 hours at least."

Ev­ery­one's at­ten­tion was fo­cused on what had hap­pened to the Japan team
rather than Ko­rea's 2-0 lead.

"Coach, any news from over there?"

"Hmm... Noth­ing yet. Though I heard peo­ple are evac­u­at­ing from the Japan
Bat­tleNet Cen­ter..."

Coach Noh was lis­ten­ing to news from the Japan side when his eyes
widened.

"What...? They're evac­u­at­ing?"

"What hap­pened?"

Af­ter win­ning MVP in three con­sec­u­tive games, Seong Ji­han ap­proached

Coach Noh with a stern face. As they looked at the mon­i­tor he was watch­‐
ing, var­i­ous break­ing news re­ports were scrolling.

-- Staff evac­u­at­ing ur­gently from the Japan Bat­tleNet Cen­ter!

-- Wit­ness tes­ti­monies emerge about the Sword King go­ing berserk...! The
one caus­ing havoc in­side is pre­sumed to be the Sword King.

Go­ing berserk? More like re­gain­ing his san­ity.

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Seong Ji­han thought this as he asked Coach Noh.

"It seems you still can't grasp the in­ter­nal sit­u­at­ion clearly?"

"Yes... It seems the Sword King did some­thing to the Bat­tleNet con­nec­‐
tors... I won­der how things will turn out..."

As the coach clenched his fist and watched the mon­i­tor se­ri­ously, a staff
mem­ber ur­gently shouted.

"Coach! I heard the Sword King's Bat­tle­Tube is open­ing!"

"What... His Bat­tle­Tube?! Put it on screen im­me­di­ately!"

"Yes, sir!"

Jjing!

The dis­played screen of the Sword King's Bat­tle­Tube shocked view­ers from
the be­gin­ning. Both eyes twisted, with blood­stains still vis­i­ble un­der­neath,
the Sword King ap­peared as if shed­ding tears of blood.

"Huh...!"

"Hi-His eyes...!"

[Hello, ev­ery­one.]

Then, the Sword King, open­ing his mouth, spoke in Ko­rean. A lan­guage he
hadn't used once since nat­u­ral­iz­ing to Japan.

[To all the fans who have sup­ported me in Ko­rea, I of­fer my sin­cere apolo­‐
gies. I lost my mind over a woman and caused a lot of trou­ble.]

The Sword King touched his eyes, which he had gouged out him­self.

[In the end, only af­ter de­stroy­ing my own eyes... Was I fi­nally able to wake
from this night­mare.]

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"Ah... He's re­gained his san­ity! Sword King! Ji­han, was this your do­ing?"

"It seems that way... Though it must not have been easy with his eyes de­‐
stroyed like that."

Per­haps Shizuru had tried to re-en­thrall him.

To stab his own eyes...

'No, his eyes... can be re­gen­er­ated. The im­por­tant thing is not fall­ing un­der
her spell again.'

Lost body parts could eas­ily be re­cov­ered.

Even if it was dif­fi­cult to ex­hibit such re­cov­ery ef­fects in re­al­ity now, af­ter
the tu­to­rial ended and the sup­port­ers' heal­ing re­sem­bled the game, it would
be fine as long as he was alive.

While calmly mak­ing such judg­ments, Seong Ji­han heard the story of the
Sword King, who had now re­turned as 'Yoon Se­jin.'

[I will take re­spon­si­bil­ity for this... I will re­solve it my­self.]

Now he heard the story of how the Sword King would han­dle things from
here on.

[I will re­port this to the Ja­pa­nese gov­ern­ment. Bring Shizuru in front of me

within 12 hours. If you don't...]

Swish! Swish!

Per­haps be­cause he lost his eyes, the Sword King who couldn't grasp how
he looked on the Bat­tle­Tube cam­era...

Roughly moved the sword prison with 20 hostages around.

Coach Noh's eyes widened as he barely made out the spin­ning hostages in­‐
side the sword prison.

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"Oh... It's Sakura... Heiji is there too... He's cap­tured play­ers with SS-rank
gifts!"

"Ex­cept for my brother-in-law, they are the play­ers picked in the top five in
Japan, aren't they? Who are they?"

"Yes... Even when the Sword King was in Ko­rea, they were quite trou­ble­‐
some op­po­nents... To take them hostage like this...

[I will kill them one by one ev­ery 10 min­utes.]

The Sword King, who had only taken top-tier play­ers as hostages, of­fi­cially
de­clared that he would kill them if Shizuru wasn't brought to him.

Coach Noh frowned.

"Hmm. Threat­en­ing mur­der... If he be­comes a mur­derer, he'll be banned by

the In­ter­na­tional Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion..."

"What hap­pens if he's banned?"

"He can't be on the na­tional team any­more and will be pro­hib­ited from par­‐
tic­i­pat­ing in in­ter­na­tional matches."

That kind of rule might ap­ply dur­ing the tu­to­rial, but...

In the sav­age age af­ter the tu­to­rial, it prob­ab­ ly won't mean jack­shit.

Even if he gets banned from par­tic­i­pat­ing,

As long as it meant up­root­ing the trou­ble­some Shizuru.

But still.

'I can't leave him like that for long.'

No mat­ter how ab­so­lute the Sword King's power is, there are clear lim­its to
where he can ex­ert his strength in re­al­ity.

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Us­ing the hun­dred swords in such a pow­er­ful man­ner now may dis­play a
for­mi­da­ble im­age, but there's al­ways the un­cer­tainty of when his en­ergy
might run out. This be­comes es­pe­cially crit­i­cal in a sit­u­at­ion where Japan
has be­come a com­plete en­emy.

As Seong Ji­han raised his phone to con­tact Man­ager Park Yoon­sik, "Un­‐
cle!"

Yoon Seah rushed into the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter.

Un-un­cle! Did you see Dad's broad­cast? Looks like he broke free from the
en­chant­ment! Did you do that, Un­cle?"

"Yes."

"Ah... As ex­pected! But dad's eyes! What about his eyes? Ah, se­ri­ously...
What kind of per­son stabs their own eyes...!"

Yoon Seah spoke rapidly with teary eyes.

De­spite por­tray­ing a strong front with­out lin­ger­ing emo­tions re­gard­ing her

fa­ther, now that the sit­u­at­ion had come to this, her true feel­ings seemed to
emerge. Con­cern for Yoon Se­jin was pal­pa­ble.

"For now, let's con­tact Man­ager Park Yoon­sik and ask him to ar­range a
flight to Japan."

"Ja-Japan? You're go­ing there...?"

"Well... you see, no mat­ter what, that's...,"

As Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally men­tioned go­ing to Japan, ev­ery­one looked at him

in sur­prise. Even if the cir­cum­stances were dire, de­cid­ing to go to Japan
with­out ob­serv­ing the sit­u­at­ion first seemed too hasty.

"For now, it won't be long be­fore he can't en­dure los­ing his vi­sion. Plus, he
needs to be fed the leaf of the World Tree."

"Uh... that's true, but isn't it dan­ger­ous?"

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"Dan­ger­ous? For me?"

Seong Ji­han's con­fi­dent de­meanor ex­uded ab­so­lute cer­tainty. Af­ter all, he

was some­one who could stop bul­lets in midair us­ing do­main con­trol. If
Seong Ji­han and the Sword King col­lab­o­rated, it would un­doubt­edly be a
dis­as­ter for the op­pos­ing side.

"Uh... But we don't know the lan­guage or ge­og­ra­phy..."

"I'll go too."

Be­hind the still wor­ried Yoon Seah, Akari, who had been silently ob­serv­ing,
stepped for­ward.

"I won't be any help in com­bat, but... I can suf­fi­ciently serve as a guide in
Japan."

"Then Seah is the is­sue."

"I'll fol­low along too--"

"No."

"Ah, fine. I'll qui­etly stay locked up at home then! So don't worry and go
with Un­nie Akari!"

At some point, Yoon Seah had latched onto Hayeon's side and waved her
hand at Seong Ji­han.

See­ing that, he smirked and picked up his phone.

"Man­ager Park Yoon­sik, please ar­range two seats on a flight to Japan."

[Ja-Japan...?]

"Yes, right now."

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The Sword King's live broad­cast in­stantly be­came a hot topic around the
world.

Es­pe­cially on the Sword King's Bat­tle­Tube, view­ers from Ko­rea and Japan
had flocked in as­tound­ing num­bers.

The view count had eas­ily sur­passed 10 mil­lion.

-Sword King, I be­lieved you would come back like this -- What hap­pened
to your eyes?

-- Bat­tleNet should have a way to re­gen­er­ate them... Let's gather money in

the Sword King's name again!

-Wow, the Sword King fan­club isn't fin­ished yet, Haha!! There are so damn
many com­ments.

-Huh... but is the hostage drama real?

-Tsk tsk. This is why you can't trust Japs...! What is our na­tional team even
do­ing? No mat­ter what, how could they be pushed around by one guy like
this!

-- The Japs are throw­ing a fit Lol

-- Feels so damn good to see this. Re­turn the Sword King im­me­di­ately and
rank last in the league from now on.

The Ko­re­ans who had been mocked by the Ja­pa­nese ne­ti­zens ever since the
Sword King went to Japan.

Now that the ta­bles were turned, they mer­ci­lessly taunted the Ja­pa­nese in
re­turn.

But still.

-But will he re­ally com­mit mass­mur­der like this?

-Will Shizuru come out? The at­mos­phere is get­ting in­tense.

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-I think the hostages will die first be­fore the JSDF sup­presses the Sword
King.

-The JSDF should hurry up and sub­due him!

-With 3 SS-rank hostages?

Al­though Japan had a spe­cial force for sup­press­ing play­ers in their Self-De­‐
fense Force, they couldn't reck­lessly try to sup­press the Sword King be­‐
cause the hostages he had cap­tured were the core pil­lars of Japan's na­tional
team.

[Ito Ryuhei, im­me­di­ately dis­arm and re­lease the hostage!]

Sur­round­ing the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter in Japan from a dis­tance, they de­manded

the re­lease of the hostage through a loud­speaker. The staff watched from
afar as the sit­u­at­ion be­came in­creas­ingly des­per­ate.

"As ex­pected, they don't seem to have any in­ten­tion of bring­ing her."

Zzzt...!

In ad­di­tion to the 20 hostages in the sword prison...

Thunk!

"Ugh...!"

When­ever the other un­con­scious play­ers showed signs of wak­ing up, he

knocked them out again.

"Now, who should I ex­ec­ ute first? Should I start with Sakura, who an­noyed
me the most in Japan?"

In front of over 10 mil­lion view­ers, the Sword King brought up death with­‐
out any hes­i­ta­tion.

As time passed, the at­mos­phere grew heav­ier.

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'At this rate, he might re­ally kill them...!'

'What is the gov­ern­ment do­ing!'

When the Ja­pa­nese staff who had been watch­ing the sit­u­at­ion from a dis­‐
tance fell into de­spair, Tick-tock. Tick-tock.

"Oh..."

"That per­son is..."

A woman en­tered the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter where the hostage sit­u­at­ion was un­‐
fold­ing.

"I'm here... Ryuhei."

The Shizuru who had hastily fled just a while ago had re­turned on her own
two feet.

And the mo­ment the Sword King heard her voice...

"All right. Die."

He si­mul­ta­ne­ously swung his swords at her.

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Chap­ter 167
A lit­tle while ago, af­ter us­ing tele­por­ta­tion to es­cape, Shizuru re­ceived a
call from the Prime Min­is­ter while ob­serv­ing the Sword King's hostage sit­‐
u­at­ion.

[Miss Shizuru, how will you pro­ceed now? If you pro­vide your opin­ion, I
will fol­low it ac­cord­ingly.]

With charm and obe­di­ence, the po­lite Prime Min­is­ter spoke. Shizuru sighed
and replied.

"Well, just wait a mo­ment. I'll pre­pare and go."

[If you go your­self, it will be dan­ger­ous...!]

"There are other ways. Just give me some time."

[Un­der­stood!]

Click.

Af­ter hang­ing up the phone, Shizuru thought.

'En­chant­ment is im­pos­si­ble now.'

Shizuru heav­ily re­lied on vi­sion for her 'En­chant­ment.' If the Sword King
hadn't stabbed his own eyes, she would have tried var­i­ous meth­ods. But
now, with his eyes gone, us­ing en­chant­ment was im­pos­si­ble.

'I have to give up on the Sword King.'

Shizuru quickly dis­carded any lin­ger­ing at­tach­ment to the Sword King.

While he was an ex­cep­tional player, the world was vast, and play­ers with
SSS-level gifts con­tin­ued to emerge. De­spite the in­tense com­pe­ti­tion be­‐

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tween the Sword King and Seong Ji­han, there were still many top-tier play­‐
ers glob­ally.

Aside from the Sword King and Seong Ji­han who would be vig­i­lant of her,
There were still top-tier tar­gets like Bar­ren Williams of Amer­ica with his
two sta­tus win­dows, or China's Wang Lin with the Heav­enly De­mon Body.

She just had to keep a low pro­file for a while, then en­chant those kinds of
peo­ple again.

How­ever...

'The prob­lem is the im­me­di­ate sit­u­at­ion.'

The fact that the Sword King was hold­ing Ja­pa­nese na­tional team mem­bers
hostage was a prob­lem. Judg­ing by his de­meanor, if the real she didn't show
up, he might start killing the play­ers.

While the na­tional team play­ers were not par­tic­u­larly im­por­tant to her, their
deaths or sur­vival in­flu­enced the coun­try's Bat­tleNet rank­ings.

'If they die, our coun­try won't main­tain its Bat­tleNet rank­ing...'

Shizuru fur­rowed her brows.

What a bunch of use­less things.

To all be­come hostages be­cause of one Sword King.

'I should have built my power base in Amer­ica.'

But it was eas­ier in her own coun­try Japan, so she had es­tab­lished her
foothold here.

If she had known the play­ers' abil­i­ties were so pa­thetic, she would have
gone to Amer­ica ear­lier, would've en­chanted peo­ple there, and set­tled down.

Shizuru bit her lip.

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'...Any­way, let's go and die for now.'

Shizuru went down to the base­ment of her man­sion.

Mul­ti­ple lay­ers of se­cu­rity de­vices were in­stalled in the un­der­ground space.

Beep! Beep!

[Fin­ger­print rec­og­nized, suc­cess!]

[Fa­cial recog­ni­tion failed!]

"Ah."

Her face was dam­aged by the Sword King.

Shizuru took out a mir­ror from the bag she brought and looked at her­self.

Not beau­ti­ful, not ugly.

A very or­di­nary and plain woman's fa­cial fea­tures were re­flected in the mir­‐
ror.

As Shizuru eval­u­ated her own face in the past, "Edit."

She changed her face again.

[Fa­cial recog­ni­tion suc­cess­ful.]

The se­cret cham­ber she en­tered in the base­ment was equipped with dozens
of mon­i­tors, and a mas­sive su­per­com­puter was run­ning, re­sem­bling a con­‐
trol room for a gi­ant server. In the cen­tral part of the un­der­ground space,
there was a per­son who looked ex­actly like Shizuru ly­ing in­side a glass con­‐
tainer.

"Ev­ery time I cre­ate a clone... I die. It's quite trou­ble­some."

Shizuru sighed in re­gret and opened the up­per part of the glass con­tainer.

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"You. Go die quickly."

Then, with a swish sound.

The clone of Shizuru in the con­tainer stood up.

'Once she dies, I'll im­me­di­ately re­lease ob­ses­sion.'

Then the Sword King would prob­ab­ ly think he was dead. No, he might try
to find Shizuru by at­tack­ing, but he wouldn't be able to reach this un­der­‐
ground space.

'I'll hide out here for a while.'

Mon­i­tor­ing the Sword King's broad­cast, Shizuru de­cided to go into hid­ing

for a mo­ment. And in the Sword King's Bat­tle­Tube, when the clone she sent
was stabbed by the hun­dred swords.

'That's it.'

She smiled.

'Now, let's re­lease ob­ses­sion.'

Once Shizuru died, and the 'ob­ses­sion' sta­tus she some­what in­curred was re­‐
leased, the Sword King would likely think he was dead. It was a flaw­less
plan. While think­ing this, she reached out to re­lease the Sword King's sta­tus
from this side.

"Oh..."

She saw a com­pletely un­ex­pected mes­sage.

[The spe­cial abil­ity of Gan­jang and Makya, 'The De­fi­ant One', has been ac­‐
ti­vated.]

[The tar­get does not ac­cept re­moval of the 'Ob­ses­sion' sta­tus.]

['Ob­ses­sion' will be main­tained.]

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"...This can't be."

Shizuru's face stiff­ened, com­pletely as­ton­ished.

Stab! Stab!

As if in­di­cat­ing that no ap­proach would be tol­er­ated, the Hun­dred Swords

pierced through Shizuru's en­tire body. The woman who was once the
world's most beau­ti­ful died, buried un­der the sword in a grue­some man­ner.

"Not enough."

The hun­dred swords did not stop at sim­ply stab­bing her.

They con­tin­ued mov­ing, bru­tally shred­ding Shizuru's body.

-Ew this is gross;

-I thought I was used to Bat­tleNet stuff but this is...

-The Sword King killed a per­son! The Bat­tleNet Ad­min­is­tra­tion should im­‐
me­di­ately re­voke his player qual­i­fi­ca­tions!

-What re­vo­ca­tion! This is jus­ti­fied re­venge!

-Ah. But does this mean we can't see Shizuru any­more... that's a shame.

-Shame my ass, this feels fuck­ing great

-But she died so mean­ing­lessly.

-I thought she would try en­chant­ing again

-Is that re­ally her?

Var­i­ous re­ac­tions were posted on the Sword King's Bat­tle­Tube about

Shizuru's death, but The blind Sword King ob­vi­ously couldn't see these
mes­sages.

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In­stead.

"To die so eas­ily...I can't be­lieve it."

"Sword King! Now re­lease the hostages! Hasn't your re­venge ended?"

"Wait."

Even af­ter shred­ding Shizuru, he didn't read­ily be­lieve in her death and con­‐
tin­ued to ob­serve the sit­u­at­ion.

Then.

[Sta­tus con­di­tion 'Ob­ses­sion' is be­ing re­leased.]

Hear­ing the sys­tem mes­sage with his lost vi­sion.

'She's re­ally... dead?'

He only now be­gan to won­der if Shizuru's death was gen­uine.

Sav­ing Ja­pa­nese play­ers as hostages and sac­ri­fic­ing her­self in their place? It

didn't sound like her.

'Could it be that I killed her be­fore she tried any­thing...?'

But since the sys­tem mes­sage had ap­peared,

He had no choice but to be­lieve she was dead.

How­ever,

[The char­ac­ter­is­tic of 'The De­fi­ant One' re­sists the re­lease of the sta­tus con­‐
di­tion 'Ob­ses­sion.']

[Will you re­sist?]

As the trait of Gan­jang and Makya, 'The De­fi­ant One', ac­ti­vated.

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The Sword King made an eerie smile.

Yeah. You wouldn't die so eas­ily.

"I re­sist."

[The 'Ob­ses­sion' sta­tus will be main­tained.]

[The tar­get of ob­ses­sion is 'Ito Shizuru'.]

Af­ter hear­ing the mes­sage, the Sword King opened his mouth with con­vic­‐
tion.

"Shizuru. Did you think it would be over by send­ing a clone and hid­ing?
Your ob­ses­sion with me... is still go­ing strong."

"What is that sup­posed to mean...!"

"A clone? Pre­pos­ter­ous! Re­lease the hostages im­me­di­ately!"

On the other side of the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter.

The Ja­pa­nese side didn't be­lieve the Sword King's words and protested, but
"Hehehe..."

Swish!

Un­der the Sword King's foot, swords gath­ered, and his body floated in the
air. The sig­na­ture skill, sword flight, of the Sword King. Along with that,
the 20 im­pris­oned play­ers also floated in the air.

"Where are you go­ing?!"

"Why are you tak­ing the hostages...!"

As the leader of the JSDF spe­cial forces shouted, the Sword King spoke
from atop the swords.

"Re­lease all ex­cept for the 20. I will take them with me."

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"What... What?!"

"That's dif­fer­ent from the prom­ise!"

"If Shizuru dies, they will also be freed."

"You...! We can't let you do that! We'll open fire!"

Al­though the spe­cial forces leader snarled, "Then let them die."

Around the Sword King were 20 sword pris­ons, as if pro­tect­ing him.

If they fired, the hostages would die be­fore the Sword King.

"Tch...!"

While grind­ing his teeth, the spe­cial forces leader could not stop the Sword
King's flight.

"Then."

Whoosh!

As the swords flew, in an in­stant, the Sword King dis­ap­peared into the sky
along with the 20 hostages.

With that tremen­dous speed, the spe­cial forces leader twisted his ex­pres­‐
sion.

'That might ac­tu­ally be bet­ter...'

No mat­ter how much they pre­pared spe­cial guns and ammo for top play­ers.

If the spe­cial forces clashed with such a mon­ster, ca­su­al­ties would have
been mas­sive.

It was for­tu­nate that the sit­u­at­ion did not es­ca­late to such an ex­treme.

"En­ter the Bat­tleNet Cen­ter."

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The spe­cial forces leader turned his eyes away from the sky and, along with
his team, en­tered the cen­ter to take care of the re­main­ing hostages.

***

Haneda Air­port, Japan.

"We've landed."

"...It's the first time I've rid­den in the cargo hold."

To se­cretly in­fil­trate Japan, Seong Ji­han and Akari boarded the cargo hold
to­gether.

"I'll ex­plain the route from Haneda Air­port. We'll turn in­vis­i­ble here, and
you'll trans­form into a shadow to sneak out..."

Be­fore get­ting on the plane, she had done some re­search and was about to
ex­plain the route to Seong Ji­han, but "No need. I'll just go openly."

"O-Openly?"

"Yeah. Once I meet up with my brother-in-law, peo­ple will know any­way."

"But still..."

"Let's go."

The mo­ment the cargo hold opened, Seong Ji­han went out openly with her.

"What, what is...!"

"Se-Seong Ji­han!"

Air­port staff were sur­prised to see them pop out of the cargo hold, but
Seong Ji­han ig­nored them and used a skill.

"Sum­mon Light­ning Cloud."

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A light yel­low cloud ap­peared above Seong Ji­han.

Zzzt. Zzzt.

Crack­ling sounds of in­tense elec­tric­ity em­anated from the sur­face of the

cloud.

"Get on."

Whoosh!

Seong Ji­han got on it and ges­tured to Akari.

"...Won't I get elec­tro­cuted?"

"It's okay for those I per­mit."

"Un­der­stood."

Jump­ing quickly onto the cloud, Akari looked down at her feet with wide
eyes. As Seong Ji­han had said, the elec­tric­ity on the cloud did not af­fect her
body.

"Where's brother-in-law right now?"

"He's cur­rently head­ing to Shizuru's man­sion."

"Let's meet up with him there. Tell me the di­rec­tions."

"Go that way."

Whoosh!

Fol­low­ing Akari's di­rec­tion, the light­ning cloud flew off swiftly.

"H-He's over there...!"

"Oh, he's gone al­ready..."

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The air­port staff hastily called the air­port po­lice, but all they could see was
Seong Ji­han leav­ing.

And then.

The news that he had ar­rived in Japan quickly spread across both Ko­rea and
Japan.

-I heard Seong Ji­han went to Japan?

-OMG!! Did he skip the MVP in­ter­view and go se­cretly?

-They said he popped out of the cargo hold.

-He's crazy, re­ally. What kind of propul­sion is that?

-Uh, but isn't it too dan­ger­ous?

-Nah, If the Sword King and Seong Ji­han join up, It's Japan who will be in
dan­ger.

While Ko­re­ans put aside their wor­ries about the Sword King af­ter hear­ing
of Seong Ji­han's de­par­ture for Japan, -Wait, Seong Ji­han... How long has it
been since the game ended?

-Let's use this op­por­tu­nity to wipe them all out! What are the spe­cial forces
do­ing?

-The spe­cial forces might be over­whelmed...

-We should protest to the Bat­tleNet man­age­ment and sus­pend their player
qual­i­fi­ca­tions!!

-Is protest­ing to the man­age­ment the only hope for Japan?

-Good. Send Seong Ji­han to prison for il­le­gal en­try and ex­ec­ ute the Sword
King for mur­der.

-But who can catch them?

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Ja­pa­nese peo­ple, de­spite their tur­moil, re­al­ized the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion was
hope­less. If the Sword King joined forces with Seong Ji­han, who could stop
them? Even if the spe­cial forces were dis­patched, the es­ti­mate didn't look
promis­ing.

-Just yes­ter­day, we were cel­eb­ rat­ing be­ing the top of the league and se­cur­‐
ing a spot in the cham­pi­onships...

-Is this... a dream? Please tell me it's a dream.

-Shizuru's man­sion is col­laps­ing!!

As the sit­u­at­ion es­ca­lated, some Ja­pa­nese view­ers found hu­mor in the

chaos, watch­ing Shizuru's man­sion be­ing bom­barded on the Sword King's
chan­nel.

-What kind of en­chant­ment did she use?

-She should've brought Seong Ji­han too!

-Thanks to this, we've con­firmed our low­est rank­ing in the league next sea­‐
son Whoosh!

Around that time, the cloud car­ry­ing Seong Ji­han and his party had al­ready
ar­rived at Shizuru's man­sion.

"Ha... Haa... We're here."

"Oh. I can see brother-in-law swing­ing his sword over there."

Bang! Bang!

As if declar­ing that not even pil­lars would be left, the Sword King bom­‐
barded Shizuru's grand man­sion with his swords.

Seong Ji­han, lead­ing the cloud, ap­proached the Sword King.

"I've come, Brother-in-law."

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Seong Ji­han re­spect­fully greeted the Sword King like be­fore. The Sword
king was vis­i­bly sur­prised to hear that voice.

"Ji...Ji­han? How did you get here so fast..."

"I just came quickly."

Ca­su­ally re­spond­ing, Seong Ji­han took out a leaf from the World Tree in his
in­ven­tory.

"For now, have this.

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Chap­ter 168
"This is... a leaf?"

"Yes. It's an item that re­moves sta­tus con­di­tions."

As the Sword King ex­am­ined the leaf of the World Tree, he shook his head
at Seong Ji­han's words.

"Then I can't eat it now. I need to main­tain this sta­tus con­di­tion."

"If it's a sta­tus con­di­tion..."

"The 'Ob­ses­sion' sta­tus. The rea­son I came to know that Shizuru is alive is
be­cause of this. And..."

The Sword King ex­tended his hand down­ward. At the spot he pointed to,
Shizuru's man­sion lay in ru­ins.

"I sup­pose this 'ob­ses­sion' is why I'm here."

"What do you mean?"

"How do you think I came to Shizuru's man­sion so soon even af­ter be­ing
blinded?"

"Does it have some­thing to do with ......ob­ses­sion?"

The Sword King nod­ded.

"The other side is fine, but my anger only flared up when I looked in this
di­rec­tion, and when I got here, I re­al­ized it was Shizuru's house."

Ob­ses­sion had be­come Shizuru's worst en­emy.

"Let's get rid of Shizuru first."

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"Yes. Thank you for the con­cern. Then..."

Swish!

The sword car­ry­ing the Sword King turned to­wards the rub­ble that was
once Shizuru's man­sion.

"Let's go down."

The Sword King landed first on the de­stroyed rem­nants of Shizuru's man­‐
sion.

"Ugh... Ugh..."

"What is this..."

In­side Shizuru's house, the ser­vants who were em­ployed and work­ing were
crouched, trem­bling.

Oddly enough, de­spite the man­sion be­ing al­most in ru­ins, they looked un­‐
harmed.

"Are you okay? These peo­ple."

"They're fine."

"Yeah. It shouldn't harm civil­ians..."

Since the Hun­dred Swords that de­stroyed the man­sion pro­tected civil­ians,
the sit­u­at­ion turned out to be pos­si­ble.

"Among you, there's no Shizuru... leave."

The Sword King, af­ter read­ing the ges­tures of the peo­ple for a mo­ment, or­‐
dered them to leave the house.

"Thank you!"

"Let's go quickly!"

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"Uh, uh... I thought I was go­ing to die!"

As soon as the Sword King spoke, peo­ple hur­riedly got up to leave the
house.

Af­ter dis­em­bark­ing from the light­ning cloud, Seong Ji­han watched this for
a bit be­fore ask­ing Akari.

"Akari, is there a place to hide in this man­sion? Even though the house is
com­pletely de­stroyed, I don't feel Shizuru's pres­ence."

"...I re­mem­ber there was an un­der­ground space in the an­nex where ex­per­i­‐
ments were con­ducted. They tried to make me into a clone there as well."

"Okay, guide us there."

"Un­der­stood."

Akari, who had once been edited as Shizuru's clone, guided the way. Seong
Ji­han and his party quickly ar­rived at the un­der­ground room where Shizuru
had been.

"There are mul­ti­ple se­cu­rity mea­sures..."

Look­ing at the mas­sive thick door, Akari spoke in an ex­hausted tone, but
"We can just break it down."

"Yes, that's the sim­plest method."

To stop two world-class war­riors, one door alone was not enough.

Crash!

Af­ter the door broke, what ap­peared was Shizuru, once again ac­ti­vat­ing the
Aegis Bar­rier, adopt­ing a sturdy de­fen­sive stance.

"Wasn't that ring my sis­ters?"

"Sorry. I lost my mind back then."

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"Sigh... Let's re­cover it again."

"Yeah. And bring that woman's head while you're at it."

Ca­su­ally talk­ing about bring­ing back a head, the two of them.

Hear­ing this from the other side, Shizuru hur­riedly shouted.

"Wait! Let's talk for a bit!"

"Noisy."

Whoosh!

The hun­dred swords si­mul­ta­ne­ously flew at Shizuru, but Boom! Boom!

"Hoho, it won't pierce through so eas­ily this time. Be­cause I 'edited' Aegis,
you see."

"Re­ally... It's an­noy­ing."

The Sword King growled in a mur­der­ous tone.

The sup­port­ing Gift 'Edit'.

Just what were the lim­its of this abil­ity?

"Seong Ji­han-ssi, what do you think of my SSS-rank Edit abil­ity? I'll use it
for you two from now on."

Shizuru smiled at Seong Ji­han.

"How about for­giv­ing me just this once in re­turn?"

"Do you think I'd do that?"

"Though we started out ad­versely, in truth... no one has re­ally suf­fered any
harm, right?"

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"Huh... No one suf­fered any harm?"

"Yeah, you're fine. Your niece is do­ing well too. Oh, right. The Sword King
suf­fered some dam­age to his eyes, but with the Edit abil­ity, dam­aged eyes
can be healed."

As Shizuru kept blab­ber­ing.

"With your pow­er­ful com­bat strength com­bined with my sup­port­ing Gift,

no forces in the world will be able to threaten us. Al­though we have been in
op­po­si­tion un­til now, if we change our think­ing a bit, we can be­come ir­re­‐
place­able al­lies."

Shizuru sent a se­duc­tive gaze to­wards Seong Ji­han as she spoke.

Seong Ji­han was flab­ber­gasted.

'Is she try­ing to en­chant me right now?'

The Edit abil­ity was cer­tainly a tempt­ing tal­ent. Con­sid­er­ing the fate that
Earth would face af­ter the tu­to­rial.

It might be bet­ter for hu­man­ity to keep that and make use of it.

How­ever,

'I just have to work harder.'

Rather than keep­ing that dan­ger­ous woman alive for the sake of the Gift, it
was bet­ter to work harder. Seong Ji­han re­solved to be more ac­tive in Bat­‐
tleNet ac­tiv­i­ties.

"Brother-in-law, dis­pose of her quickly."

"Good. I was wait­ing for that any­way."

The mo­ment Seong Ji­han's re­ply ended.

The hun­dred swords rained down to­wards Aegis.

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Thud! Thud!

Al­though Aegis had been re­in­forced, when the Hun­dred Swords of the
Sword King fiercely struck, it quickly started to crack, sig­nal­ing the be­gin­‐
ning of its de­struc­tion.

"How un­for­tu­nate... Hoho."

Yet Shizuru watched this leisurely.

"Then, Let's hope we don't meet again."

Just like when she es­caped from the Sword King pre­vi­ously, she took out a
tele­port neck­lace.

"Where do you think you're go­ing!"

The Sword King hastily struck Aegis, but

Flash!

Shizuru es­caped be­fore the re­in­forced Aegis could shat­ter.

Si­mul­ta­ne­ously,

Boom!

The gi­ant su­per­com­puter nearby emit­ted light and started to ex­plode.

Boom! Boom!

A fairly pow­er­ful ex­plo­sion, as if it was am­pli­fied by her Gift pow­ers.

But the tar­get wasn't the two war­riors.

"The sword prison might melt at this rate!"

It was the top Ja­pa­nese play­ers that the Sword King had cap­tured in his
sword prison as hostages.

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Even if she made the com­puter ex­plode with her Gift pow­ers, Seong Ji­han
and the Sword King could block it.

The rea­son was to elim­i­nate the hostages, so the JSDF spe­cial forces who
were un­able to in­ter­vene cur­rently due to the hostages would be able to take
ac­tion.

"This fire... won't go out eas­ily."

"I'll help too."

The stub­born flames that seemed tai­lored to the Sword King's swords only
ex­tin­guished one by one af­ter Seong Ji­han stepped in to help as well.

"I didn't ex­pect Shizuru to try to kill the hostage.."

"She prob­ab­ ly aimed to get the spe­cial forces in­volved af­ter the hostages
dis­ap­peared. Then it would be you ver­sus the spe­cial forces."

If the hostages dis­ap­peared and the Sword King's side clashed against the
Ja­pa­nese spe­cial forces, The ca­su­al­ties would un­doubt­edly have been enor­‐
mous.

De­spite choos­ing this method, it was prob­ab­ ly to en­able her own es­cape
more smoothly.

"She re­ally only cares about her­self..."

"Even if a mil­lion peo­ple die, as long as she sur­vives, she would read­ily
take that path. That's the kind of woman she is."

Hear­ing Akari grit her teeth from be­hind, the Sword King nod­ded.

"Yeah. Shizuru is that kind of woman. So, this time, we must elim­i­nate her.
About Ko­rea... I'll have to re­turn a bit late. Sorry Ji­han, but you'll have to
head back first."

Un­til Shizuru is elim­i­nated, the Sword King has no in­ten­tion of go­ing back
to Ko­rea.

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He said it with an apolo­getic tone to Seong Ji­han, but...

"No, I'll help too. We have to com­pletely un­root this is­sue."

"Don't you need to level up now dur­ing this im­por­tant pe­riod?"

"I can rest a bit."

Seong Ji­han, who had orig­i­nally planned to re­main in Plat­inum un­til De­‐
cem­ber any­way, De­cided to post­pone lev­el­ing up for now and fo­cus on
elim­i­nat­ing Shizuru first.

"What about the Ko­rean na­tional team?"

"We won't make it to the Cham­pi­ons League this sea­son any­way. All be­‐
cause of some­one."

"C-Cough. That's true... But what about Seah?"

"Hayeon is look­ing af­ter her. No need to worry."

"Hayeon is...? Then I can trust her."

Know­ing Hayeon well as a for­mer mem­ber of the Ko­rean na­tional team, the
Sword King nod­ded.

"Okay. Please help me. Let's elim­i­nate Shizuru this time."

"Yes."

"Well then..."

The Sword King turned his body to face the four car­di­nal di­rec­tions af­ter
ex­it­ing the base­ment.

Then, he gazed in­tently to the west.

"That way."

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"Do you know it that well?"

"Yeah, when I look in that di­rec­tion, my anger flares up."

The sta­tus ef­fect 'Ob­ses­sion' pro­vided real-time in­for­ma­tion about Shizuru's

lo­ca­tion, even though she had used tele­por­ta­tion. It con­tin­ued to show its
ef­fects.

"Let's go."

With a face full of de­ter­mi­na­tion, the Sword King set off first.

A week had passed since Shizuru's man­sion was de­stroyed.

-Where are Seong Ji­han and the Sword King? I can't tell since their Bat­tle­‐
Tubes are off.

-Dunno. Last time there was a pic of them in Nagoya, but there haven't been
any re­ports re­cently.

-I heard only 3 hostages are left now...

-The rest were re­leased. Would be a pain to chase them while be­ing chased.

Per­haps be­cause they moved too covertly,

There were only un­sub­stan­ti­ated ru­mors about Seong Ji­han's group's lo­ca­‐
tion on­line.

Noth­ing was known for cer­tain.

Con­ver­sa­tions only oc­curred when the hun­dred swords were oc­ca­sion­ally

wit­nessed.

-Oh, the hun­dred swords ap­peared in Os­aka!

-The sword bom­bard­ment started then stopped again.

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-So Shizuru slipped away again?

-Ugh, she's re­ally good at es­cap­ing, lol.

-Does she have in­fi­nite tele­por­ta­tion?

A ho­tel in Hi­roshima city.

Shizuru, who had re­verted to her orig­i­nal plain face, in­ad­ver­tently shouted
as she read the on­line com­ments.

"These crazy bas­tards... How far are they gonna chase me?!"

Se­ri­ously, Don't Seong Ji­han and the Sword King have any­thing bet­ter to
do?

Isn't this go­ing over­board?

Shizuru gnawed on her nails in frus­tra­tion.

"...This is get­ting re­ally dan­ger­ous."

Shizuru's tele­por­ta­tion neck­lace was orig­i­nally lim­ited to short dis­tances.

How­ever, it had been spe­cially mod­i­fied to es­cape from the Sword King,
and the cost of this mod­i­fi­ca­tion was sub­stan­tial. Shizuru had in­vested nu­‐
mer­ous Akashic Pages and a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of her edit­ing abil­i­ties.

The es­cape op­por­tu­nity she had earned at such great cost was a one time
use.

De­spite the re­sources spent to ob­tain this es­cape op­por­tu­nity, it had been
used 30 times in the past week alone.

"If I tele­port from here again... I'll have to undo too many en­chant­ments..."

The en­chant­ments she had placed on in­flu­en­tial peo­ple in the Ja­pa­nese gov­‐
ern­ment was al­ready more than 70% re­leased. The only ones left were the
Prime Min­is­ter and other cru­cial fig­ures.

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At that time, a call came in from the Prime Min­is­ter.

-Um, Miss Shizuru... Are you al­right?

"What are the spe­cial forces do­ing? Why do they keep hes­i­tat­ing and not
mo­bi­liz­ing?"

-We did mo­bi­lize, but the op­po­nent is mov­ing too dis­creetly... It's dif­fi­cult
to pur­sue. Ad­di­tion­ally, there are still three hostages in the fa­cil­ity, so we
can­not at­tack reck­lessly.

"Three! You could just ig­nore those three and push for­ward!"

-Those three are the most im­por­tant play­ers...

"Ha, I'm the high­est Gift-ranked per­son in Japan! Not just SS-ranked, but
the high­est! In­stead of fa­vor­ing me so much, why are you let­ting these reck­‐
less peo­ple roam freely?"

-I-I'm sorry.

"Fig­ure out some­thing right away!"

Un­like usual, Shizuru lost her com­po­sure. With nu­mer­ous es­capes in re­cent
times, her calm­ness was grad­u­ally dis­ap­pear­ing. As time passed, and the
Akashic Pages dwin­dled, she felt her in­flu­ence in Japan, which she had
built up, crum­bling away. She couldn't re­main as com­posed as when she
first es­caped.

"At this rate... I'll have to leave the coun­try."

She ca­ressed her tele­port neck­lace.

No mat­ter how she thought about it, tele­port­ing around Japan like this was
mean­ing­less.

Be­cause the Sword King would tena­ciously con­tinue pur­su­ing her.

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'Al­right. Let's con­cen­trate the power and go to Amer­ica. I still have plenty
of GP.'

Cross­ing the ocean and flee­ing from the Sword King's re­lent­less 'ob­ses­sion'
seemed like the only way. If she flew far enough, he might not fol­low. De­‐
spite Shizuru be­ing pushed to her lim­its, she at­tempted to use the tele­por­ta­‐
tion neck­lace to cross the Pa­cific.

How­ever...

'Is mod­i­fy­ing it for this dis­tance... too much af­ter all?'

The Pa­cific was vast. Even with all the re­sources she had, the neck­lace
couldn't be mod­i­fied to cover such a great dis­tance. The orig­i­nal dis­tance
lim­i­ta­tion of the neck­lace was short, so the ef­fects didn't match the re­‐
sources in­vested.

But

'I should be able to reach Guam at least...'

She felt she could some­how reach Guam, which was Amer­ica's ter­ri­tory.

Once there, she could take a flight to the main­land.

"Edit."

As Shizuru made up her mind, she be­gan edit­ing the neck­lace. How­ever, in
the midst of her edit­ing, Crash!

The hun­dred swords made a sur­prise at­tack through the ho­tel win­dow.

The Sword King's group was grad­u­ally quick­en­ing their pur­suit speed.

"Ah, se­ri­ously... Tele­port!"

Shizuru ur­gently ini­ti­ated tele­por­ta­tion us­ing the edited neck­lace.

Splash!

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How­ever, where she tele­ported to was not Guam but un­der­wa­ter.

"Ugh... I ab­so­lutely... can't die..."!

Per­haps due to rush­ing the edit, she hadn't set a proper land­ing point. Tast­‐
ing the salty wa­ter en­ter­ing her lips, Shizuru grit her teeth.

'I've come this far al­ready.'

'I can't die such an ig­no­ble death in the sea.'

'I have to... sur­vive...!'

Des­per­ately strug­gling not to die in the wa­ter, Shizuru be­lieved that if she
could get out of here some­how, there might be a way to sur­vive.

"Heuk... heuk..."

De­spite be­ing tossed by the waves, she used all the items she had pre­pared
in her in­ven­tory, hop­ing that once she got out of the wa­ter, there might be a
way to live.

"Hah... Hah..."

With her ut­most ef­fort, she mirac­u­lously man­aged to reach land.

"Phew... Phew..."

It was done.

She had come out of the wa­ter, so now she could sur­vive. As the edit­ing
abil­ity re­cov­ered, she planned to use it again to some­how make her way to
Amer­ica.

She was brim­ming with hope,

"That's where you were."

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How­ever, the most un­wel­come voice in the world reached her ears.

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Chap­ter 169
A re­mote is­land in the south of Japan.

Seong Ji­han's group was look­ing at Shizuru who had washed up on the
beach.

"That was close, Shizuru. The ef­fect of ob­ses­sion al­most dis­ap­peared, and I
thought you might be dead."

'That damned ob­ses­sion...!'

Shizuru's ex­pres­sion twisted, in­stinc­tively reach­ing for her neck­lace. How­‐

ever, be­fore her hand could touch the neck­lace, it stiff­ened and didn't move.

"You've fi­nally en­tered my do­main."

Seong Ji­han, block­ing Shizuru's move­ments, clenched his fist. Un­til now,
due to her hur­riedly tele­port­ing ev­ery time he ap­proached, he couldn't con­‐
fine her within his do­main. Fi­nally, reach­ing this un­in­hab­ited is­land, he
could nar­row the dis­tance.

"Mmmph..."

At­tempt­ing to say some­thing, Shizuru...

"Be quiet."

With a sin­gle word from Seong Ji­han, she couldn't even voice her thoughts.

"Where..."

Swoosh.

As Seong Ji­han reached out in that state, the Aegis ring slid off Shizuru's
fin­ger.

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He ob­tained the ring and checked the item de­scrip­tion.

[Aegis Ring]

Grade: SSS

-A ring that can sum­mon the ab­so­lute shield, Aegis.

-En­hanced by the power of the Akashic Page, the grade has in­creased by
one level.

-The cooldown for sum­mon­ing the shield is re­duced from 1 day to 1 hour,
and the de­fense of the shield is greatly en­hanced.

'Aegis. It was def­i­nitely SS-grade... did she en­hance the item us­ing the
Akashic Page?' Truly a tempt­ing abil­ity. How­ever, he couldn't af­ford to
keep that dan­ger­ous woman alive.

'The neck­lace is an­noy­ing too.'

Seong Ji­han de­cided to take all the items she cre­ated.

'The neck­lace can't be used any­more...'

The 'Es­cape Neck­lace' she had been wear­ing was SSS-rank, but Per­haps
due to ex­ceed­ing the base dis­tance limit this time, it was dam­aged and
could no longer be used.

In case re­pairs might al­low re­use, Seong Ji­han put the neck­lace in a cor­ner
of his in­ven­tory be­fore thor­oughly search­ing Shizuru's body us­ing his do­‐
main con­trol pow­ers.

Soon enough...

Swoosh!

From her em­brace, he could re­trieve a sin­gle book.

"Bring­ing a book while es­cap­ing hur­riedly..."

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Swish! Swish!

Even though it was in the wa­ter, the book re­mained com­pletely dry. The
faded pages flick­ered as they turned, and about ten sheets of golden shin­ing
pa­per re­mained at the end of the book.

[Akashic Pages...!]

"She still had 10 pages left."

If he had caught her ear­lier, there would have been even more left.

Seong Ji­han re­gret­fully put the book into his in­ven­tory as well.

"Ji­han, are you done?"

"Yes. I've taken ev­ery­thing worth tak­ing. It's a shame about the GP that
Shizuru owned, but there's no need to leave any room for re­gret."

To re­ceive GP trans­fer from Shizuru, Seong Ji­han needed her to open the
sys­tem and have the free­dom to give items. How­ever, grant­ing such free­‐
dom meant not know­ing what mis­chief she might cause. Seong Ji­han de­‐
cided to give up Shizuru's GP to elim­i­nate the af­ter­glow defini­tively.

"Sure. You can earn GP on your own. Then... I'll break our fate here."

Whoosh!

Hav­ing freed the re­main­ing hostages in the sword prison be­fore com­ing to
this is­land, the Sword King fully sum­moned Hun­dred swords.

Each sword emit­ted a pow­er­ful aura, seem­ingly ready to slay Shizuru on the
spot.

"Oh, wait a mo­ment. I'll ask her one thing."

Al­low­ing Shizuru only to open her mouth, Seong Ji­han ques­tioned some­‐
thing he had been cu­ri­ous about.

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"Do you know about Suc­cubus?"

In his past life.

The Apos­tle of the Apoc­al­ypse, Suc­cubus Queen, who had de­scended on

Amer­ica looked ex­tremely sim­i­lar to Shizuru.

Along with both us­ing en­chant­ment, he had guessed Shizuru must be con­‐
nected to the Suc­cubus Queen some­how, but...

"Huh? Suc­cubus? What kind of non­sense are you talk­ing about?"

Her re­sponse was a dis­mis­sive re­ac­tion.

"Why would I tell you if I knew?"

"Oh, to die pain­lessly."

"Thank you very much for your kind­ness sir. I won­der if I re­ally do or don't
know?"

Shizuru taunt­ingly asked Seong Ji­han, but

"We'll find out about it."

Crack! Crack!

When Seong Ji­han used the tor­ture method, Peel­ing Ten­dons and Wrench­‐
ing Bones, uti­liz­ing his in­ter­nal en­ergy.

"Aaargh! I don't know! I re­ally don't know any­thing!"

Un­able to en­dure the pain for even a mo­ment, she im­me­di­ately an­swered.

"I don't know any­thing about Suc­cubus! I know ab­so­lutely noth­ing about
it!"

"Why does your edited face look so sim­i­lar? Where did you get the im­age?"

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"That's a face I put my ut­most ef­forts into cre­at­ing!"

"Was your Edit­ing Gift orig­i­nally SSS-rank?"

"That's..."

When Shizuru hes­i­tated for a mo­ment in her re­sponse, her mus­cles twisted
all at once. At the same time, "Heal."

To en­sure she didn't die yet, Seong Ji­han ap­plied heal­ing.

Shizuru shed tears as she en­dured ex­cru­ci­at­ing pain, and quickly an­swered.

"Ugh...!! No. It was S-rank! I slowly raised the rank us­ing Akashic Pages!"

"How did you know about the Akashic Page?"

"Uh..."

When Seong Ji­han asked about the Akashic Page, Shizuru couldn't im­me­di­‐
ately re­spond. It seemed that she didn't re­call how she learned about the
util­ity of the Akashic Page.

"I can't re­mem­ber that."

'It seems that way.'

"I see."

He hadn't ex­pected a can­did an­swer, but she re­ally doesn't seem to know
any­thing.

Think­ing she was use­less to the very end, Seong Ji­han spoke to the Sword
King.

"That's enough."

"Yeah."

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"Wa-Wait a mo­ment. Spare m..."

Be­fore she could fin­ish ask­ing for mercy.

Stab! Stab!

The hun­dred swords mer­ci­lessly pierced Shizuru's body.

As swords pierced her from head to toe.

In­tense sword en­ergy surged from all 100 swords.

Shizuru's en­tire body was in­stantly dis­as­sem­bled.

Just a month ago, she had noth­ing to envy in the world. Now, not even her
corpse re­mained in­tact.

"The ob­ses­sion has been re­moved. And the trait of Gan­jang and Makya
didn't ac­ti­vate ei­ther."

The re­moval of the ob­ses­sion com­pletely ver­i­fied Shizuru's death.

Hear­ing this through the sys­tem mes­sage, the Sword King col­lapsed on the
beach, com­pletely drained of strength.

"Fi­nally... she's dead."

Akari, who had been watch­ing from be­hind, spoke with a trem­bling voice.

"Brother-in-law didn't give you a chance to take your re­venge."

"Ah... I'm sorry, Akari."

"No, just see­ing her die is enough. But..."

Point­ing to Shizuru's frag­ments scat­tered on the beach, Akari said, "Can I

burn those with­out leav­ing any­thing be­hind?"

"Yeah, Go ahead."

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Seong Ji­han nod­ded. Vent­ing her grudge against Shizuru like this might
make Akari feel a bit bet­ter.

"Nin­jutsu Red Flame."

While us­ing the skill, Akari burned ev­ery­thing re­lated to Shizuru.

As she con­tin­ued to watch the flames burn­ing on the beach, her eyes
widened.

"Seong Ji­han-nim...! Shizuru's blood isn't burn­ing. Rather..."

Damn, why won't she die nicely.

Seong Ji­han promptly went over to take a look.

Rather than the blood dis­ap­pear­ing amidst the flames, some­thing seemed to
be writhing.

"Hell­fire."

In ad­di­tion to Akari's flames, he used the Hell­fire ob­tained from the Brahma
God this time.

Then, in the crim­son flames, the blood that re­sisted be­gan to burn slowly,
and a red smoke rose into the sky.

Swooosh!

The smoke soon gath­ered and formed a sin­gle fig­ure.

The face of a beau­ti­ful woman, who had been edited by Shizuru all along,
ap­peared.

How­ever, there was a slight dif­fer­ence from her.

The fig­ure in the smoke had horns on both sides of her fore­head.

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Look­ing down on Seong Ji­han's group from the sky, she slowly opened her
mouth.

[Do not in­ter­fere.]

'That ap­pear­ance. It's ex­actly the same as the Suc­cubus Queen. In­deed,
Shizuru was re­lated af­ter all.'

Given the iden­ti­cal ap­pear­ance, there's no way it's not re­lated to the Suc­‐
cubus Queen. As if Shizuru dy­ing with­out know­ing any­thing wasn't un­set­‐
tling enough, now that the Suc­cubus Queen has ap­peared, Seong Ji­han was
some­what pleased.

[I'm only here to take the soul of my con­trac­tor. I will not tol­er­ate any fur­‐
ther in­ter­fer­ence.]

"Don't want to."

He was glad to see her and all, but

Well, it's nice to see her, but Seong Ji­han had to dis­rupt the Suc­cubus
Queen's ac­tions as much as pos­si­ble. In the pre­vi­ous life, she charmed all of
LA and ma­nip­u­lated Amer­ica into nu­clear bomb­ing its own cities.

[Hmm... You all must have been her en­em ­ ies. If I take her soul, she will suf­‐
fer even in death. That would ben­ef­ it you too, no?]

"Who are you to say she'll suf­fer?"

[I am the Apos­tle of Lust, Suc­cubus Queen. This child will go to my palace

and serve as my slave for eter­nity.]

An­swer­ing Seong Ji­han's ques­tion obe­di­ently, the Suc­cubus Queen read­ily

re­vealed her iden­tity.

"Suc­cubus Queen!"

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"Ito Shizuru made a con­tract with a be­ing like that...?"

While the Sword King and Akari were sur­prised by the mere ex­is­tence of
the Suc­cubus Queen, Seong Ji­han, nod­ding silently, con­tin­ued to ques­tion.

"But why, even though she made a con­tract with you, does she not know
about Suc­cubus?"

[When the con­trac­tor made the con­tract, she wished for it. She said if she
thought of me, she would will­ingly be­come my slave. She asked to erase
her mem­ory. It was a wise choice.]

"But un­con­sciously, her ap­pear­ance re­mained..."

[Yes. She was a tal­ented child. She skill­fully crafted a sim­i­lar ap­pear­ance.]

Though the Suc­cubus Queen had obe­di­ently an­swered Seong Ji­han's ques­‐
tions so far, he con­tin­ued.

"Why do you want to take her with you so badly?"

[I made a con­tract.]

"No, it's not just be­cause of the con­tract. Is it be­cause of the Gift 'Edit'?"

[...Hm. Sharp. Yes, that's right. The con­trac­tor pos­sessed an ex­tremely rare
tal­ent, even in the uni­verse. It's es­sen­tial for my palace.]

The Gift 'Edit' A tal­ent so rare even in the uni­verse. Seong Ji­han thought
Shizuru did well to get rid of her.

Swooosh...

He drew the Phoenix Flag.

"Then I'll do my ut­most to in­ter­fere."

[I don't un­der­stand why you're mak­ing such a reck­less choice.]

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"Be­cause you said she's in­dis­pens­able to you, I re­ally want to stop you
some­how."

Zzzzt...!

As crim­son light­ning surged from the Phoenix Flag.

For the first time, the pre­vi­ously com­posed Suc­cubus Queen stiff­ened her
ex­pres­sion.

[What pe­cu­liar power... In­deed.]

"Oh, re­ally? Have a taste of it then."

Name­less di­vine art, Fu­sion of Di­vine thun­der and phoenix -- Crim­son

Thun­der can­non Seong Ji­han in­ter­rupted the con­ver­sa­tion and ini­ti­ated the
at­tack. Roar­ing sounds echoed as crim­son thun­der poured out of the
Phoenix Flag. It com­pletely over­whelmed the Suc­cubus Queen, who was
noth­ing more than smoke, tear­ing her apart.

As the crim­son thun­der passed, the face of the Suc­cubus Queen, which had
dis­ap­peared af­ter be­ing struck by the sword, reap­peared, re­shap­ing it­self.

"Brother-in-law, I'll help too!"

Fol­low­ing Seong Ji­han, the Sword King si­mul­ta­ne­ously fired his hun­dred
swords how­ever...

The Suc­cubus Queen's face dis­ap­peared when struck by the swords then re­‐
gen­er­ated again.

[A de­mon's con­tract is ab­so­lute... A pow­er­ful force in­deed, but the task of

guid­ing the soul can­not be stopped. Don't bother me and leave.]

De­spite pow­er­ful at­tacks, the Suc­cubus Queen quickly re­gen­er­ated. She ex­‐
hib­ited a tena­cious vi­tal­ity, even more so than when she de­scended upon
LA.

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'Per­haps it's be­cause of her spec­tral form...? Even a crim­son thun­der should
cause sig­nif­i­cant dam­age.'

Seong Ji­han fur­rowed his brow. Should he just let her take Shizuru's soul?
How­ever, if the Suc­cubus Queen took the soul and be­came stronger, she
might re­turn to Earth. Ul­ti­mately, hu­man­ity would suf­fer the con­se­quences.

'Hmm...'

As Seong Ji­han con­tem­plated how to pre­vent the soul from be­ing taken, he
sud­denly re­called a cer­tain mar­tial art. In the Name­less Di­vine Arts, the
most am­bigu­ous tech­nique, one that was most ef­fec­tive in cap­tur­ing a spec­‐
tral, form­less en­tity.

With his cur­rent level of power, it was still in­suf­fi­cient to use, but 'The tar­‐
get isn't the Suc­cubus Queen.'

Seong Ji­han's tar­get was the soul she had to re­trieve.

"Brother-in-law, lend me your swords for a mo­ment."

"S-Sure. Here it is."

He knelt on the ground, cross­ing the Gan­jang-Makya and the Shadow

Sword, plung­ing three of them into the ground.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret -- Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing

Gods.

[This is...!]

Whooooosh!

As smoke rose from the swords, panic ap­peared in the Suc­cubus Queen's
eyes for the first time.

Amidst the sea of stars.

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Dong­Bang Sak was stroking his beard.

Kirkk!

With­out re­al­iz­ing it, he flicked off a part of his beard.

"...Long­i­nus. I un­der­stand your feel­ings."

"Hoho. You sensed it too?"

"Yes... It's not pleas­ant at all. Is this the feel­ing of be­ing robbed of
karma......"

Hoo!

As Dong­Bang Sak sighed, he looked up at the sky.

"Pa­tience... is dif­fi­cult in­deed."

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Chap­ter 170
Seong Ji­han's newly dis­played mar­tial art, Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

That mar­tial art, pos­sess­ing the earth at­tribute among the Five El­em
­ ents,
seemed to be a fail­ure at first glance.

Whooooosh...

The smoke ris­ing from the three swords didn't rise any fur­ther and set­tled
onto the ground, soon dis­ap­pear­ing.

How­ever,

[Un­be­liev­able.]

The suc­cubus queen, who was in the sky, couldn't help but gaze at a cer­tain
spot with amaze­ment. The lo­ca­tion she was ob­serv­ing was the ground
where the three swords were em­bed­ded. There, a small pat­tern was barely
vis­i­ble near the swords, ap­pear­ing as a mere doo­dle of red mark­ings when
seen from a dis­tance. Even when zoomed in, the enig­matic char­ac­ters and
geo­met­ric pat­terns made it im­pos­si­ble to grasp what it was.

Nev­er­the­less,

[...A seal against de­monic con­tracts. Im­pos­si­ble.]

The suc­cubus queen, af­ter just a brief glance, al­ready had some un­der­stand­‐
ing of Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods. A de­monic con­tract is an ab­so­lute, uni­‐
ver­sal law that even most di­vine be­ings can­not break. How­ever, a seal made
by mere hu­mans pre­vented soul in­duc­tion.

[...I can­not be­lieve it.]

The Suc­cubus Queen scru­ti­nized the Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods then
changed her tone gen­tly to­wards Seong Ji­han.

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[Al­right. Break­ing it seems im­pos­si­ble. Then... would you con­sider mak­ing

a deal? If you re­lease the soul of the con­trac­tor, I will of­fer you a sub­stan­tial
re­ward.]

Un­able to break it, ne­go­ti­at­ing seems to be her al­ter­na­tive. Seong Ji­han

pon­dered if there was any­thing to gain from the suc­cubus queen in her cur­‐
rent smoky state and re­sponded.

"If you prom­ise never to come to this planet again, I'll think about it."

[That's im­pos­si­ble. I've al­ready been as­signed here.]

"Who as­signed you?"

[I can­not dis­close that.]

Seong Ji­han fur­rowed his brow. In any case, it seems like she's com­ing
back.

In that case, he couldn't af­ford to hand over the soul.

"Al­right then, leave."

[Don't be like that... How about 10 suc­cubi? I will spe­cially be­stow girls
pre­pared to serve gods. They will fol­low you as their mas­ter un­til your
death.]

"I don't need that."

[To be so de­ci­sive... Per­haps you pre­fer the same gen­der? While they are
suc­cubus un­der­lings, I can also pro­vide in­cubi. I have a deep con­nec­tion
with them as well. Hehe.]

In­cubi, are those male demons? Seong Ji­han fur­rowed his brow and brushed
his hand.

"I don't need any­thing else."

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[Then what do you like? In the Palace of Lust, there are en­ti­ties that cater to
all your tastes. Just name it.]

"I just don't wanna see you."

[Oh, do you de­sire me? You are not yet qual­i­fied to be with me.]

Is she even lis­ten­ing prop­erly?

Seong Ji­han de­cided not to re­spond and stared at the ground.

'The scale is so small, it's closer to fail­ure.'

Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

Un­like its name sug­gest­ing it seals 10,000 ghosts,

What Seong Ji­han has just un­leashed is barely enough to con­tain one soul,
that of Shizuru.

Per­haps be­cause his in­ter­nal en­ergy level wasn't high enough yet, and he
wasn't us­ing it from the skill win­dow like in his past life.

His pro­fi­ciency in Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods was se­verely lack­ing, re­sult­‐
ing in this small scale.

'But even this much can...'

It could still demon­strate some of Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods' power.

As Seong Ji­han twisted the three swords.

Swish, swish...

The pat­tern of Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods si­mul­ta­ne­ously spun around

then [How­ever, if you be­come stronger, I might con­sider meet­ing you as an
avatar... Hmm?]

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The suc­cubus queen, who had been bab­bling for a while, rapidly be­gan to
dis­in­te­grate.

[Me too? It doesn't sim­ply end at the seal­ing for­ma­tion...!]

With those words as her last, the suc­cubus queen was com­pletely sucked
into Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods. Once she dis­ap­peared, Seong Ji­han with­‐
drew the three swords from the ground, and once again struck the pat­terns.

Bang!

As he did, the pat­terns of Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods that were drawn un­‐
der the swords burst out.

Ah­hhh!

From there, a sin­is­ter wail echoed, chill­ing to the bone.

'Un­in­ten­tion­ally, I've com­pletely an­ni­hi­lated Shizuru's soul as well.'

Though she was an en­emy, he hadn't in­tended to de­stroy even her soul by
us­ing Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

Who could blame her when she made a con­tract with the Suc­cubus Queen.

Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally re­turned Gan­jang and Makya to the Sword King then
spoke breezily.

"It's over. Let's head back now. To Ko­rea."

"...Yes. We can fi­nally go back."

The Sword King's voice was tinged with re­morse. Now he had to fig­ure out
how to face his daugh­ter, Yoon Seah, in Ko­rea. The mo­ments when he re­‐
peat­edly claimed to have no daugh­ter while rep­re­sent­ing Japan at the na­‐
tional level sud­denly flashed in his mind.

No mat­ter how in­fat­u­ated he was with Shizuru, he shouldn't have said such
things.

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"Sigh..."

As the Sword King sighed deeply in his melan­choly, Akari cau­tiously asked
Seong Ji­han.

"Um... May I ask how you plan to go back...?"

"We'll go the same way we came."

"On the cloud?"

"Yeah. Sum­mon Light­ning Cloud."

As Seong Ji­han promptly sum­moned a light­ning cloud upon say­ing that,

Akari's ex­pres­sion turned sullen.

If it wasn't for the fact that she had a di­am

­ ond-ranked physique, she prob­a­‐
bly would've vom­ited sev­eral times cross­ing the ocean on cloud.

"We're rid­ing that again across the ocean all the way to Ko­rea?"

"How else do you sug­gest we go?"

"The Na­tional In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice gave me an emer­gency con­tact method...

They said they can send trans­porta­tion at any time."

"You wanna keep wait­ing on this re­mote is­land un­til those peo­ple ar­rive?"

"No..."

Akari sighed and kicked the beach where Shizuru's corpse had been.

If you were gonna die like this, why run all the way here to cause trou­ble
for oth­ers.

Use­less to the very end.

"Let's go."

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"Yes!"

At Seong Ji­han's ges­ture, Akari stopped kick­ing the sand and got on the
cloud.

It was the end of a long and in­tense pur­suit.

Amidst the sea of stars.

"Hmm..."

Dong­bangsak, who had been look­ing up at the sky, took a deep breath and
plucked a strand of his beard. It trans­formed into a Dong­bangsak, who had
been look­ing up at the sky, took a deep breath and plucked a strand of his
beard.

It swiftly trans­formed into a sin­gle sword.

Sr­rrung!

The sword cut through the air once.

In the starry sky, a scene un­folded on a sin­gle screen. Within it, Seong Ji­han
was us­ing the Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

"Oh. Can you do that with a sword too? Dong--- No, Jang­bansa. Don't you
not need a smart­phone?" With a smart­phone in hand, Long­i­nus spoke. Af­ter
wak­ing up from a long sleep, he never let go of the smart­phone he bought
on Earth for 24 hours. Al­though us­ing a phone in a space full of in­ter­fer­ence
re­quired a con­sid­er­able amount of GP, Long­i­nus could eas­ily han­dle it.

"This is no time for jokes, Long­i­nus."

Un­like his usual smil­ing face, Dong­bangsak's ex­pres­sion was sharp.

He en­larged Seong Ji­han's Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods to look at it then fur­‐
rowed his brows.

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"Even though it's small... It's re­mark­ably sim­i­lar to what the Mas­ter did.
Un­be­liev­able..."

"That's why I'm say­ing. Do all those with in­ter­nal en­ergy do that? The Mas­‐
ter alone was plenty to steal my des­tiny."

"Your des­tiny... was Di­vine Slay­ing."

"Yes. Yours was Seal­ing Gods, right?"

Dong­bangsak's des­tiny from the Age of Pri­mor­dial Chaos, Seal­ing Gods.

That was orig­i­nally the fate hu­man­ity had given him, to di­vide the world
where hu­mans and ghosts were mixed.

Since he was born into that era, it was some­thing he had to do no mat­ter
what.

How­ever,

"The Mas­ter did it in my stead..."

"Not did it, he seized it."

The Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God seized what Dong­bangsak should have done
and made him his de­scen­dant in­stead.

"Hoho... But I con­ceded at that time. Com­pared to me, the mas­ter was an
in­com­pa­ra­ble ex­is­tence. And he granted me eter­nal life. So I will­ingly gave
up my des­tiny and be­came his de­scen­dant."

"Yes, you re­ally liked eter­nal life."

"Right. So I don't have much at­tach­ment to my des­tiny... But..."

Dong­bangsak pointed at Seong Ji­han.

"It's strangely hard to en­dure see­ing that child dis­play Seal­ing Gods. I don't
know why it makes me so an­gry."

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"I feel the same way. So, about that..."

Long­i­nus, who had fi­nally looked away from his smart­phone, pointed at
Seong Ji­han.

"Why don't we go ed­u­cate him?"

"Ed­u­cate him?"

"We can't kill an ex­is­tence that chal­lenges the mas­ter, but beat­ing is fine
right?"

De­spite just say­ing "ed­u­cate" at first, Long­i­nus' true feel­ings came out.

It seems Seong Ji­han re­peat­edly us­ing the Blood Cross had kept ir­ri­tat­ing
him.

"What non­sense are you talk­ing about? At this age, tsk..."

"Hon­estly, aren't you cu­ri­ous too? As long as you don't kill him, that's fine."

"Oh, right. It's not beat­ing. We're just go­ing to train him."

Al­though Long­in­ us teased Dong­bangsak, in the end, he re­vealed his true in­‐
ten­tions. Dong­bangsak, who had been ir­ri­tated by Seong Ji­han re­peat­edly
chal­leng­ing the mas­ter , seemed to have ex­ploded with pent-up emo­tions.

[Cease your folly.]

As the earth shook and the ab­so­lute be­ing's voice rang out.

He fur­rowed his brows and knelt.

Se­ri­ously, They can't talk shit on this damn star.

"...Un­der­stood, Mas­ter."

"I shall obey, my mas­ter."

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As Dong­bangsak and Long­i­nus replied, the earth vi­brated again.

[If you can­not awaken the third, I will take him. So re­main still.]

Hear­ing that, the two looked at each other.

The third de­scen­dant, who had al­ready been asleep for 400 years.

For Seong Ji­han to wake him, he had to seize des­tiny like this.

'There's no way he can ac­com­plish that...'

Nei­ther of them be­lieved Seong Ji­han could achieve this.

That was how im­pos­si­ble the third des­tiny was.

'The chal­lenge ends here.'

The two con­cluded Seong Ji­han's fu­ture as such.

The World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion was fac­ing a per­plex­ing is­sue. Re­cently,

the Ja­pa­nese Bat­tleNet Ad­min­is­tra­tion has been con­sis­tently rais­ing con­‐
cerns.

"The player 'Yoon Se­jin' took hostages and killed some­one, even broad­cast­‐
ing it world­wide. We can no longer give player qual­i­fi­ca­tions to such a
heinous crim­i­nal. Japan will for­mally pro­pose per­ma­nent re­vo­ca­tion of
Sword King's player qual­i­fi­ca­tions to the Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion!"

For play­ers who com­mit­ted se­ri­ous crimes like mur­der, the World Bat­tleNet
As­so­ci­at­ion had the au­thor­ity to re­voke their player qual­i­fi­ca­tions. How­‐
ever, such cases were rare, pri­mar­ily be­cause there were few in­stances of
se­ri­ous crimes, and the re­sources of na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive-level play­ers
were scarce.

More­over, most crimes could be eas­ily cov­ered up within their own coun­‐
tries. This time was dif­fer­ent. Sword King had broad­casted a hostage sit­u­a­‐

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tion and mur­der live on Bat­tle­Tube. It wasn't a sit­u­at­ion that could be eas­ily
brushed aside.

"Player Yoon Se­jin re­ceived se­vere brain­wash­ing from Ja­pa­nese play­ers,

and dur­ing the process of break­ing free, some rough be­hav­ior oc­curred. On
top of that, a mur­der charge? The per­son who died at that time was Ito
Shizuru's clone, wasn't it? How can a clone be con­sid­ered a per­son?"

The rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Ko­rean man­age­ment of­fice, dis­patched to New

York, ar­gued, but the Ja­pa­nese side coun­tered strongly.

"A clone...! No, that's not it. She was un­doubt­edly a per­son with blood
flow­ing and a beat­ing heart like us! More­over, there is an­other piece of ev­i­‐
dence that he com­mit­ted mur­der. Sev­eral peo­ple, in­clud­ing the Prime Min­‐
is­ter, said they were freed from en­chant­ment!"

The Ja­pa­nese side pre­sented the break­ing of en­chant­ment as ev­i­dence.

"...Isn't it good if the en­chant­ment is bro­ken?"

"Well, why would the en­chant­ment be bro­ken? It's be­cause Sword King
killed Ito Shizuru!"

"That's just spec­u­la­tion!"

While they were ar­gu­ing ve­he­mently, news of Seong Ji­han's party ar­riv­ing
in Jeju Is­land reached them, bring­ing a tem­po­rary halt to the global Bat­‐
tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion dis­pute.

"It has been con­firmed with their re­turn! Ito Shizuru is dead, and the mur­‐
derer is Seong Ji­han's group! In ad­di­tion to Yoon Se­jin, Japan will also pro­‐
pose the re­vo­ca­tion of player qual­i­fi­ca­tions for Seong Ji­han on charges of
aid­ing and abet­ting mur­der!"

"The Ja­pa­nese side's claim is ab­surd!"

"Is Ko­rea now sup­port­ing mur­der­ers?!"

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As the two coun­try rep­re­sen­ta­tives shouted at each other, ten­sions be­tween

the al­ready strained na­tions es­ca­lated fur­ther.

With this in­ci­dent, it seemed like the emo­tional di­vide had deep­ened. Ad­di­‐
tion­ally, "For Seong Ji­han, it might be hasty to im­pose pun­ish­ment based on
such ev­i­dence..."

"Yoon Se­jin must have his player qual­i­fi­ca­tions re­voked. Broad­cast­ing mur­‐
der on Bat­tle­Tube is clearly a se­ri­ous crime."

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from other coun­tries in the North­east Asia League sub­tly

sup­ported Japan.

'If Seong Ji­han and the Sword King join the same team...'

'The North­east Asia League is done. Ko­rea will in­evitably be the first.'

'We must some­how pre­vent this.'

And it wasn't just them. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from other pow­er­ful Bat­tleNet na­‐
tions har­bored sim­i­lar thoughts.

'If those two par­tic­i­pate in the Cham­pi­ons League to­gether next year... Even
Amer­ica won't have it easy.'

'We have to stop the Sword King from join­ing Ko­rea's na­tional team next
year.'

That was the at­mos­phere within the as­so­ci­at­ion, with wari­ness to­wards Ko­‐
rea un­der­ly­ing it.

"Ha, you're go­ing too far. Seong Ji­han risked his life for hu­man­ity in the
pro­mo­tion match, achiev­ing a dif­fi­culty down­grade as well!"

The Ko­rean rep­re­sen­ta­tive sensed this in­ter­nal at­mos­phere and vented his
frus­tra­tion, but it was not enough to change the tide.

"Ahem. That's why we're only mak­ing Yoon Se­jin an is­sue."

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"Broad­cast­ing a mur­der live is too much, no mat­ter how you put it."

It was an up­hill bat­tle for him to change pub­lic opin­ion alone.

As the mood in New York leaned to­wards re­vok­ing Yoon Se­jin's player
qual­i­fi­ca­tions, "...Fi­nally back."

Seong Ji­han and his group, who had landed in Jeju Is­land, took a flight to
Seoul.

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Chap­ter 171
In front of the Sword Palace.

Re­porters were bustling, dis­cussing the re­turn.

"He should be re­turn­ing around now..."

"Even if Seong Ji­han uses force to par­al­yze us, we have to at least take pho­‐
tos no mat­ter what."

"Par­al­yze? It'd be an honor to be par­al­yzed by Seong Ji­han-nim. Only then

can we re­porters say we've tasted some of his power."

"Yes, Re­porter Kim. If it hap­pens to me, please take a proof shot."

Not know­ing about the ex­is­tence of in­ter­nal en­ergy, they only knew Seong
Ji­han's spa­tial con­trol as "force".

Al­though the re­porters were an­noyed ev­ery time their bod­ies were par­a­‐
lyzed by force, since Seong Ji­han be­came a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive, his pop­‐
u­lar­ity sky­rock­eted. Now, get­ting par­al­yzed by him was con­sid­ered an
honor.

Swish!

And soon, a large limou­sine en­tered Sword Palace.

"It's the as­so­ci­at­ion's car!"

Click! Click! Click!

The re­porters com­pletely swarmed around the car.

"Let me pass."

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As Seong Ji­han came out of the car, he ex­tended his hand.

As if Moses parted the Red Sea, the re­porters' bod­ies floated up on ei­ther
side, cre­at­ing a path.

This was a method Seong Ji­han com­monly used when me­dia cov­er­age be­‐
came too in­tense. He didn't stop there; he even used force to sub­due the re­‐
porters. How­ever, the re­porters' re­ac­tions were odd this time.

'Why do they seem to be lik­ing it?'

Their usual re­sponse was to frown or look scared be­fore their bod­ies stiff­‐
ened. But now, they were smil­ing and ex­press­ing joy.

More­over,

"Sun­bae, please do it for me next time!"

Click! Click!

Ju­nior re­porters took pic­tures of the par­al­yzed ones.

Swoosh!

And fol­low­ing Seong Ji­han, Sword King Yoon Se­jin also got out of the car.

The sound of flashes ex­plod­ing from all di­rec­tions in­ten­si­fied.

"Yoon Se­jin-nim! Are you com­pletely re­turn­ing to Ko­rea now?"

"Do you have any in­ten­tion of re­turn­ing to the Ko­rean na­tional team?"

"How are your eyes?"

"The Ja­pa­nese Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion has sug­gested to the as­so­ci­at­ion that

you com­mit­ted mur­der! What do you think about this?"

Many ques­tions were thrown at him, but the Sword King Yoon Se­jin did not
an­swer any other than say­ing, "Mur­der charge...."

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Slowly walk­ing down the path opened by Seong Ji­han, he opened his mouth
to­wards the re­porters.

"I did not kill Ito Shizuru."

"What...?!"

"Ito Shizuru isn't dead?"

"Yes. I just re­turned be­cause I lost track of her. I failed."

"But the Prime Min­is­ter of Japan said that the en­chant­ment was lifted, and
Ito Shizuru was dead...."

"She prob­ab­ ly re­moved it to es­cape."

Speak­ing in a se­ri­ous tone, Yoon Se­jin re­called what had tran­spired just be­‐
fore.

On the flight from Jeju Is­land to Gimpo Air­port.

Man­ager Park Yoon­sik, as­signed to Seong Ji­han, had gone down to Jeju Is­‐
land and briefed them on the re­cent sit­u­at­ion.

"The Japan Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion is push­ing for re­vo­ca­tion of our qual­i­fi­ca­‐

tions?"

"Yes. Our rep­re­sen­ta­tive is ar­gu­ing ve­he­mently that it's non­sense, but pub­lic
opin­ion isn't pos­i­tive. Es­pe­cially the na­tions be­long­ing to the North­east
Asia League are strongly claim­ing your qual­i­fi­ca­tions should be re­voked,
so..."

"They're just tak­ing the chance."

Yoon Se­jin slowly opened his mouth. Al­though his beard was long, per­haps
due to not shav­ing dur­ing the long chase, the eyes he had stabbed seemed
fully healed. Af­ter eat­ing the leaf of the World Tree given by Seong Ji­han

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af­ter Shizuru's death, the orig­i­nally grue­some ap­pear­ance of his eyes had
com­pletely re­cov­ered. Of course, his vi­sion hadn't fully re­turned yet.

"I killed her for my own sur­vival... but it's also true I com­mit­ted mur­der.
Pun­ish­ment is un­avoid­able."

Even though play­ers may kill en­em ­ ies in games, com­mit­ting mur­der in re­al­‐
ity is an en­tirely dif­fer­ent mat­ter. Yoon Se­jin, who had al­ways em­pha­sized
the im­por­tance of law and reg­u­la­tions even from the early days of the Bat­‐
tleNet, seemed to ac­knowl­edge that he had com­mit­ted mur­der and was
ready to face the con­se­quences.

"The Ko­rean team will be fine with just Ji­han. I was wor­ried we might not
win when I was en­chanted in Japan be­cause of Ji­han. Whether I'm there or
not, I be­lieve the Ko­rean na­tional team will sail smoothly."

Al­ready an­tic­i­pat­ing that he won't be part of the na­tional team, Yoon Se­jin
was about to con­tinue when, "Oh, no! I killed Shizuru...! Wouldn't it be bet­‐
ter if I did that in­stead?"

"What..."

"I'll take the mur­der charges. I was use­less in Japan any­way... So I want to
do my part like this."

With a de­ter­mined ex­pres­sion, Akari of­fered to take re­spon­si­bil­ity for the

mur­der in­stead. Ob­serv­ing the at­mos­phere in­side the up­graded air­plane,
Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

"Brother-in-law, what are you say­ing? Ito Shizuru isn't dead."

"Huh?"

"Ah, that woman. She's re­ally per­sis­tent. Af­ter un­ty­ing the en­chant­ment, she
dis­ap­peared. We searched all the way to the south­ern sea of Japan, but even­‐
tu­ally, the Ob­ses­sion was cut off, and we had to re­turn home..."

Seong Ji­han snapped his fin­gers as he looked around at the peo­ple.

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Yoon Se­jin and Akari.

And Man­ager Park Yoon­sik as well.

"We failed. I lost track of Ito Shizuru, so we stopped pur­su­ing her. You un­‐
der­stand, right, Man­ager Park Yoon­sik?"

Park Yoon­sik blinked blankly for a mo­ment then quickly caught on to

Seong Ji­han's words and an­swered.

Y-yes! Ah, right. Ito Shizuru is tough, tough! It's so re­gret­table. We should
have com­pletely up­rooted her...."

"Uh... 'Dis­ap­peared' means she's dead, right?"

"Re­ally, Akari. What are you talk­ing about? We say she's 'miss­ing.' Your
Ko­rean is still a bit awk­ward."

"Ah! I-I'm sorry...."

Un­der­stand­ing Seong Ji­han's sig­nal, Akari read­ily ac­cepted it.

See­ing this, Yoon Se­jin asked in dis­be­lief.

"Ji­han... Will that work?"

"If they're al­ready mak­ing base­less claims, we just have to re­spond in kind."

Forced sit­u­at­ions call for forced mea­sures, and Seong Ji­han had plenty of
ex­pe­ri­ence deal­ing with dirty plays.

"Be­sides, we have cards to play."

"Cards?..."

"Soon, the Space League will be­gin."

"True."

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The ex­ten­sive tu­to­rial was com­ing to an end, and the of­fi­cial open­ing of the
Space League sea­son was less than two months away.

"Even if Ito Shizuru didn't die, if they con­tinue to force is­sues from their
side, we can is­sue a Space League boy­cott."

"A boy­cott of the Space League... You won't par­tic­i­pate?"

Park Yoon­sik's eyes widened.

The Space League, the dream stage cov­eted by all play­ers.

To boy­cott that from the player's side...

"A player who was stripped of his na­tional team sta­tus get­ting se­lected for
the Space League? Does that make sense? Ac­cord­ing to their ar­gu­ment, it's
aid­ing and abet­ting mur­der. They need to re­flect on their ac­tions."

"If... if they ac­tu­ally ac­cept that and you change your mind..."

"I hope it comes to that. Play­ing matches with­out the world's 1st and 2nd-
ranked war­riors will show how sig­nif­i­cant those va­can­cies are."

Seong Ji­han re­called the open­ing match of the Space League from his pre­‐
vi­ous life. The over­whelm­ing per­for­mance by the Sword King dur­ing the
open­ing se­ries. If he hadn't been there, the bat­tle against the World Tree As­‐
so­ci­at­ion would have ended in a mun­dane 3-game los­ing streak. If the side
that won that game was Earth, the MVP would un­doubt­edly have gone to
the Sword King.

"I want to show clearly which side is more re­gret­table."

Al­though he had pre­pared a lot in this life to lead the open­ing match to vic­‐
tory, if the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion came out like that, Seong Ji­han had
no in­ten­tion of be­ing in­volved in the open­ing match.

He wasn't the type to just en­dure and let things pass.

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And ac­cord­ing to the pol­icy set dur­ing this time on the plane, "Now, Japan,
stop hid­ing Ito Shizuru and make her face the ap­pro­pri­ate charges. If the
Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion un­rea­son­ably lis­tens to one side and is­sues an un­fair
pun­ish­ment, I will boy­cott the Space League."

Yoon Se­jin threw a bomb in front of the jour­nal­ists.

"S-Space League...?"

"A player boy­cotting the Space League...!"

"A player with­out na­tional team qual­i­fi­ca­tion, how will they rep­re­sent
Earth?"

"I also agree with that. Ac­cord­ing to the Ja­pa­nese side's ar­gu­ment, I'm also
an ac­com­plice to mur­der. It seems I don't have the qual­i­fi­ca­tions to rep­re­‐
sent Earth."

Those were Seong Ji­han's fi­nal words be­fore en­ter­ing the pent­house ex­clu­‐
sive el­ev­ a­tor with his group.

"Even Seong Ji­han...!"

"Please tell us a lit­tle more!"

The jour­nal­ists who hadn't stiff­ened up yet tried to ap­proach, but blocked by
the Force, they could no longer con­tinue their re­port­ing.

"No... Shizuru didn't die?"

"Boy­cotting the Space League...?"

"The reper­cus­sions could be se­ri­ous."

The re­porters un­af­fected by paral­y­sis be­gan to re­lease break­ing news.

[[Shizuru isn't dead? The Sword King crit­i­cizes Japan for hid­ing her.]]

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[Sword King and Seong Ji­han. They de­clare to boy­cott the Space League if
their na­tional player sta­tus is re­voked!]

The world once again be­gan to stir with the news of the Sword King.

-Damn, they're go­ing hard

-Boy­cotting the Space League?

-Isn't that ob­vi­ous? If their na­tional qual­i­fi­ca­tions are re­voked, telling them
to play in the Space League is fuck­ing non­sense -A while ago, there were
un­of­fi­cial re­ports from of­fi­cials sug­gest­ing that if the Sword King per­forms
well in the Space League, they might ex­empt him from los­ing his qual­i­fi­ca­‐
tions.

-So they were wor­ried they might boy­cott huh

-This kind of thing needs to be ad­dressed firmly!

-If we lose in the Space League, we'll be global out­casts, right?

Ko­re­ans wel­comed the news of the Space League boy­cott, how­ever -Boy­‐
cotting the Space League? No way!

-A Bat­tleNet player not par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Space League...!

-It's ac­tu­ally a re­lief. Even with­out Seong Ji­han and the Sword King, Earth
has plenty of tal­ent!

-No, the prob­lem is that there's no al­ter­na­tive for the War­rior class. You
have to fully pre­pare and com­pete in the Space League!

-Have you not seen Seong Ji­han and the Sword King fight? How do you ex­‐
pect to win in the league with­out those play­ers?

-Right! Isn't it too hasty to re­voke qual­i­fi­ca­tions when it's not even con­‐
firmed Shizuru has died?!

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-Do you be­lieve that? If Shizuru hadn't died, the Sword King wouldn't have
come to Ko­rea!

-Self­ish Ko­rean play­ers! Re­fus­ing to do their job with­out think­ing about

pay­ing for their sins...!

-As ex­pected of the self­ish mur­derer group, lol.

While for­eign re­ac­tions crit­i­cized the Sword King for declar­ing a boy­cott,
there was also con­cern about los­ing the two strong­est war­riors on Earth
from the Space League.

As the im­pact of the Space League boy­cott dec­la­ra­tion spread rapidly

around the world, Yoon Se­jin was meet­ing with his daugh­ter.

"Seah..."

The pent­house of Sword Palace.

Yoon Se­jin de­scended from the el­ev­ a­tor with a trem­bling heart. What
should he say in front of his daugh­ter?

'Do I even have the right to be here?'

Feel­ing he had no face to see Yoon Seah, he thought it might be bet­ter that
his eyes were gone for now.

With those heavy thoughts, he moved his heavy foot­steps.

"Dad!"

His un­seen eyes.

But his daugh­ter's voice in his ears was still cheer­ful like in his mem­o­ries.

How­ever, Yoon Se­jin, whose senses had be­come ex­tremely height­ened,

could feel it.

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Yoon Seah tak­ing deep breaths sev­eral times, com­pos­ing her­self and try­ing
hard to sound cheer­ful.

"How was... your trip?"

Trip.

She ex­pressed the re­cent events with that sin­gle word while smil­ing.

"Seah... I'm truly sorry..."

"Why are you sorry! Don't go get­ting en­chanted on pur­pose!"

Lis­ten­ing to that voice, Yoon Se­jin low­ered his head un­con­sciously.

As if noth­ing had hap­pened. As if noth­ing was dif­fer­ent from usual. See­ing

his daugh­ter, who treated him, the fa­ther who had gone out and re­turned as
if noth­ing had hap­pened, he couldn't raise his head.

Think­ing of the past when he was crazy about Shizuru and re­peat­edly said
with his own mouth that he had no daugh­ter, he couldn't face her be­cause he
felt ashamed.

"Yeah... it was an ac­ci­dent. And in the end, you came back! So it's fine..."

Forc­ing back tears, she looked at Yoon Se­jin. Fo­cus­ing her gaze on his eyes,
she slowly ap­proached him.

"Your eyes... Are they okay?"

"No. Al­though I used the leaf of the World Tree for re­cov­ery, my vi­sion
hasn't re­turned."

The leaves of the World Tree re­move ab­nor­mal­i­ties and re­store vi­tal­ity. He
con­sumed it on his way back, but his vi­sion didn't fully re­cover.

"Ah... If only you ate them a bit sooner..."

Yoon Seah ex­pressed her re­gret, but Yoon Se­jin replied calmly.

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"It's okay. I de­served it."

There was no re­gret at all in deal­ing with the con­se­quences of pierc­ing his
own eyes.

"Ah, re­ally. How can it be okay...!"

"Don't worry too much. There should be a way to re­store his vi­sion on the
Bat­tleNet."

"Re-re­ally?"

"Yeah."

"If Un­cle says that, there must re­ally be a way!"

When Yoon Se­jin left Ko­rea, in a des­per­ate sit­u­at­ion, her un­cle re­solved ev­‐
ery­thing and even brought back her en­chanted dad. Now, what­ever Seong
Ji­han said, Yoon Seah trusted him ab­so­lutely.

"But... Is that woman re­ally not dead?"

Yoon Seah cau­tiously asked, hav­ing watched the in­ter­view on TV on the

first floor. Akari, who fol­lowed her, replied qui­etly.

"She's dead. She didn't even leave a sin­gle drop of blood be­hind."

"Ah... as ex­pected. I just wanted to make sure."

"She was a dan­ger­ous woman who, if left alive, could have caused trou­ble
in the fu­ture."

"Right. Phew..."

Only now did Yoon Seah breathe a sigh of re­lief. It was ev­i­dent how much
stress Shizuru had caused her.

"Oh, right."

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Seong Ji­han, fac­ing her, took out the Aegis Ring from his in­ven­tory and
handed it to her.

"Uh, this is..."

"The Aegis ring. It's noona's keep­sake. It's a bit dirty be­cause that woman
used it, but let's wash it clean and use it since it's a SSS-rank item."

"SSS-rank?? Then I don't need to wash it. Thanks, Un­cle! Edit is use­ful at
times like this."

While Yoon Seah was sur­prised read­ing the de­scrip­tion of the mod­i­fied
Aegis Ring, Sword King, who had been silently lis­ten­ing, spoke up.

"Seah, do you need that right now by any chance?"

"No, not re­ally... I'm still ranked 1 any­way. Why, do you need it?"

Due to her Void Archer stats, she was still 1st place af­ter pro­mo­tion.

When she blinked ask­ing why, the Sword King slowly spoke.

"Hmm... I was think­ing of us­ing that ring to... look for your mother."

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Chap­ter 172
"Mom..."

Yoon Seah's eyes widened in sur­prise.

"But... mom has al­ready passed away...didn't she?"

Seong Ji­han nod­ded be­side her as well.

The death of his sis­ter.

Hadn't the whole na­tion wit­nessed it through live broad­cast?

"Yeah, while try­ing to block the dun­geon break in the north, she even­tu­ally
used the self-sac­ri­fice com­mand..."

North Ko­rea was the first coun­try in the world to be de­stroyed by a dun­‐
geon.

They re­frained from fos­ter­ing play­ers who might threaten their regime.

In the al­ready tur­bu­lent North­east Asia League, they ended up at the bot­tom
with an over­whelm­ing score.

There were a few other au­thor­i­tar­ian regimes that also avoided nur­tur­ing
play­ers.

How­ever, those coun­tries didn't rank last in league points be­cause their re­‐
gional leagues were not as tight as North Ko­rea's.

Thus, since 2011, when dun­geons be­gan to ap­pear, North Ko­rea, which had
be­come a dun­geon-in­fested area, was soon en­gulfed by the abyss.

'The Abyss emerged.'

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Up­per dun­geons formed by sev­eral dun­geon por­tals merg­ing.

The 'Abyss' en­gulfed North Ko­rea.

Un­like dun­geon por­tals, from the crim­son rifts that en­gulfed the land, ex­‐
tremely pow­er­ful mon­sters emerged.

Es­pe­cially the ghost-type mon­sters from the North Abyss couldn't be

harmed by mod­ern weapons.

Even with the en­tire army mo­bi­lized, North Ko­rea couldn't stop the en­emy.

So, North Ko­rea col­lapsed, and about five years later, near the 38th par­al­lel,
a group of sur­vivors, thought to have died, be­gan to move south.

Around the same time, the ar­gu­ment arose, mainly led by hu­man rights or­‐
ga­ni­za­tions, that North Ko­rean com­pa­tri­ots needed to be res­cued.

'Un­like the early days of Bat­tleNet, play­ers have grown a lot, and the gov­‐
ern­ment showed a pos­i­tive re­sponse to this, but...'

The re­sult was a grue­some fail­ure.

The mon­sters sum­moned to North Ko­rea con­tin­ued to pour out of the dun­‐
geon por­tals even if killed.

Es­pe­cially as you went fur­ther north, most of them were ghost mon­sters, so
the mil­i­tary couldn't ex­ert much force.

When calls to re­treat be­gan to emerge,

A player ac­ci­den­tally stepped into the Abyss area, and a new mes­sage ap­‐
peared in the sys­tem.

[The owner '??' of the Abyss is en­raged by the in­va­sion of its ter­ri­tory.]

[Dun­geon Break is ac­ti­vated. Mon­sters be­long­ing to dun­geon por­tals will

move be­yond their ter­ri­tory.]

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[De­fend against the en­emy's in­va­sion!]

Along with that mes­sage, North Ko­rean mon­sters came south on a large
scale.

Ini­tially, it started un­der the pre­text of res­cu­ing North Ko­rean cit­i­zens, but
the out­come was a ter­ri­ble dis­as­ter.

The mas­sive ghost le­gions mov­ing south.

Gold-ranked and above play­ers of South Ko­rea were mo­bi­lized to block the
38th par­al­lel.

The first in­va­sion was some­how re­pelled with al­most no ca­su­al­ties.

But as the sec­ond and third in­va­sions be­gan, ca­su­al­ties started to oc­cur.

And with the fourth in­va­sion, when a mas­sive dark­ness came down from
the north, Ko­rean so­ci­ety fell into panic.

No mat­ter how many play­ers were gath­ered, the scale was far too mas­sive
to block.

Just as it seemed the de­fense line would crum­ble,

-I'll... use my Gift.

Seong Jiah used her Gift, 'Sac­ri­fice', to its limit.

Upon do­ing so, her body lost its vi­tal­ity and turned into hard stone.

As the light burst out in all di­rec­tions, the dark­ness that surged like a tidal
wave hes­i­tated and then stopped mov­ing.

[If she's a saint... she's suit­able as a sac­ri­fice.]

With those fi­nal words, the dark­ness de­voured Seong Jiah then re­treated.

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The sac­ri­fice scene of Seong jiah, wit­nessed by the en­tire na­tion through
live broad­cast.

Peo­ple praised her as a true saint, promis­ing not to for­get her sac­ri­fice, but
for the re­main­ing fam­ily mem­bers, this in­ci­dent was noth­ing short of a
thun­der­bolt.

Af­ter that day, Sword King Yoon Se­jin, who had been dis­patched to pre­vent
the in­va­sion in other re­gions, be­gan seek­ing so­lace in al­co­hol, say­ing that
he should have been with Jiah that day.

Seong Ji­han, con­fined to his home, be­came more im­mersed in gam­bling.

Try­ing to con­sider the gloomy home at­mos­phere, Yoon Seah made an ef­fort
to act as brightly as be­fore, but the forced smiles were ob­vi­ous.

Seong Jiah's death com­pletely over­turned the Yoon Se­jin house­hold like so.

How­ever,

"How do you plan to find de­ceased noona with this ring?"

When Seong Ji­han asked, look­ing at the Aegis ring, the Sword King slowly
opened his mouth.

"I re­mem­ber what she said be­fore mod­i­fy­ing the ring. She looked at the
ring's op­tions and said it had an owner."

"Isn't it be­cause my noona was the owner of the ring?"

"No, no. It's an item that chooses a new owner when the owner dies, which
is in­ter­est­ing. She said your wife was alive, and she dared me to ask if she
could still live with me."

"I see..."

Seong ji­han's eyes sparkled.

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There was no rea­son for Shizuru, who had al­ready fas­ci­nated the Sword
King, to lie.

Does that mean my noona is alive?

Even though she turned into stone and was swal­lowed by dark­ness...

"Do you have a method in mind? To find noona?"

"I was think­ing of search­ing the dun­geons in the north."

"...Is that all?"

"Well... if we trace Jiah's relics and the ring, won't we even­tu­ally find her?"

He had asked for the ring think­ing there was some ground­break­ing method,
but This was way too half-assed, wasn't it?

"Just blindly? What if you trig­ger an­other Dun­geon Break sit­u­at­ion by step­‐
ping into an Abyss again like last time?"

"I'd have to... some­how evade it well."

"...See­ing this thought­less side, you re­ally are dad."

Yoon Seah looked at Yoon Se­jin, who was about to leave with­out any plan,
and in­stead of be­ing wor­ried, she seemed rather pleased.

He main­tained a dig­ni­fied ap­pear­ance out­side as a top War­rior player, but

At home, he was scolded daily by mom for hav­ing no thoughts at all, still
the same as be­fore.

"Please wait a mo­ment. Ariel."

How­ever, send­ing him off like this might lead to a big catas­tro­phe.

Seong Ji­han sum­moned Ariel from his arm.

"Why?"

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"How do you deal with the Abyss in your world?"

"If it's the Abyss... are you talk­ing about the merg­ing of dun­geon por­tals?"

"Yeah."

"Geez, your world re­ally knows noth­ing. No won­der you didn't even know
how to re­move dun­geon por­tals..."

Ariel spread the shadow aura into the air and drew a cir­cle.

A large cir­cle with a cen­ter.

Around it, black dots were scat­tered here and there. Among them, Ariel
pointed to one of the black dots.

"The Abyss ab­sorbs the magic power of nearby dun­geon por­tals and
strength­ens it­self. To get rid of this, it's ur­gent to elim­i­nate the nearby dun­‐
geon por­tals first."

"Hmm, the so­lu­tion was sim­ple."

"Right. In the first place, Abysses don't form on other plan­ets ex­cept dur­ing
the end times. Since dun­geon por­tals are swiftly re­moved dur­ing ex­plo­‐
ration."

"So the Abyss only forms un­der the ex­treme sit­u­at­ion of not even be­ing
able to re­move dun­geon por­tals."

"Right. That's why plan­ets where Abyss ap­pears are des­tined to see the end
soon. Only De­struc­tion."

So, that's why the dark­ness in the north was so pow­er­ful. In other worlds,
Abyss ap­pears when the game is al­most over, but here it hap­pened dur­ing
the tu­to­rial.

Hav­ing heard a brief strat­egy for deal­ing with Abyss from Ariel, Yoon Se­jin
opened his mouth with an in­ter­est­ing tone.

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"I see, this be­ing is... your sum­mon? Then, if we elim­i­nate all the dun­geons
around North Ko­rea and move for­ward..."

"To get rid of dun­geon por­tals, you need a player with the ex­plo­ration gift."

"We can some­how ob­tain them if we just pay enough GP, right? GP is..."

As the Sword King spoke con­fi­dently, his voice grad­u­ally faded.

"...Oh right, I gave it all to Shizuru..."

"You have none left?"

"I only re­ceived a mod­est al­lowance for main­tain­ing dig­nity when I ur­‐
gently needed money. I think I left only a mil­lion GP..."

While ten bil­lion may seem like a huge amount to or­di­nary peo­ple, from the
per­spec­tive of the Sword King, who pos­sessed wealth ex­ceed­ing tens of
tril­lions, it was a sit­u­at­ion where al­most ev­ery­thing he had was taken away.

"Sorry, brother-in-law, to ask this right af­ter you helped me... Could you
lend me some GP?"

See­ing the piti­ful re­al­ity of the world's top War­rior, Seong Ji­han sighed.

"I can lend you as much money as you want, but to re­move the dun­geon
por­tals in the north, we need to pre­pare prop­erly. It's not some­thing we can
do with just a player with ex­plo­ration abil­i­ties."

"Umm..."

In­ves­ti­gat­ing the dun­geon por­tal in North Ko­rea. If Seong jiah re­ally is

alive, it is a task that must be pur­sued.

How­ever, re­ly­ing solely on the Sword King seemed some­what un­easy.

Seong ji­han thought about con­tact­ing the as­so­ci­at­ion to form an in­ves­ti­ga­‐
tion team but then re­al­ized, 'Ah, right... I can use them.'

Seong ji­han's eyes flashed as if he had come up with a good idea.

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At the World Bat­tleNet Al­liance head­quar­ters lo­cated in New York.

De­bates re­gard­ing the Sword King's sit­u­at­ion were cur­rently tak­ing place
there.

"How should we han­dle the Sword King is­sue?"

"He no­ti­fied us of his ab­sence from the Space League. It's truly out­ra­‐
geous... but he is es­sen­tial for the Space League."

"Yes, you're right. With­out him and Seong Ji­han, it would be hugely dis­ad­‐
van­ta­geous. And there are no re­place­ments for them."

The rep­re­sen­ta­tives of many na­tions, while de­nounc­ing the Sword King's

de­mands, agreed that he had to par­tic­i­pate in the Space League some­how.

"But if the as­so­ci­at­ion yields to the player's threats, it won't look good at
all."

"That's right. Rather than ac­cept­ing their de­mands, wouldn't it be bet­ter to

go with­out them this time?"

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of na­tions in the North­east Asia League main­tained a hard­‐

line stance to keep the Sword King in check.

'Even if we can't per­ma­nently re­voke his player qual­i­fi­ca­tion... we need to

im­pose some level of penalty. Oth­er­wise, Ko­rea will al­ways be in first
place.'

Other coun­try rep­re­sen­ta­tives didn't have to face Ko­rea ex­cept dur­ing the
Cham­pi­ons League, but for coun­tries in the same re­gional league, play­ing
against the fic­ti­tious day match be­came in­evitable.

The psy­cho­log­i­cal pres­sure against the Seong Ji­han and Sword King duo
was in­tense.

"Go with­out those two? Is the Space League a joke for you?"

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"What if more dun­geons ap­pear? We don't know what penal­ties there might
be!"

As de­bates over the Sword King grew in­tense.

"The Sword King has pro­posed a new plan."

The Ko­rean rep­re­sen­ta­tive brought the Sword King's pro­posal.

"Al­though he did not kill Ito Shizuru, the live broad­cast of the mur­der on
Bat­tle­Tube was an in­ap­pro­pri­ate act... He pro­poses to sup­port dun­geon ex­‐
plo­ration for six months as a penalty."

"What, dun­geon ex­plo­ration..."

"The Sword King is go­ing to do that?"

Dun­geon por­tal ex­plo­ration.

Af­ter Seong Ji­han re­vealed Ex­plo­ration Gifts could re­move dun­geon por­‐
tals, The World Bat­tleNet Al­liance formed an ex­plo­ration corps to test this
out.

And through them, it was proven play­ers with Ex­plo­ration abil­it­ies could
com­pletely re­move dun­geons, but A se­ri­ous is­sue oc­curred dur­ing the re­‐
moval process.

"When de­stroy­ing the dun­geon core, ran­dom boss mon­sters would ap­pear,
right?"

"Yes, that's right. And so, many died in So­ma­lia's dun­geon por­tal in­ves­ti­ga­‐
tion team. Af­ter that, the player vol­un­teers com­pletely dried up."

Due to the boss mon­sters ap­pear­ing ran­domly when re­mov­ing the dun­geon
core, the cri­te­ria for play­ers de­manded by the in­ves­ti­ga­tion team were sig­‐
nif­i­cantly raised to level 150 or higher.

Find­ing play­ers of this cal­iber from the as­so­ci­at­ion was ex­tremely dif­fi­cult.

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From the per­spec­tive of the play­ers, be­ing called when they reached that
level was a great honor. There was no need to will­ingly face death and join
the in­ves­ti­ga­tion team.

"Hmm... it's an ac­cept­able pro­posal."

"With the Sword King par­tic­i­pat­ing in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion team, there would
be no wor­ries about com­bat."

"No mat­ter what boss mon­ster comes out, ac­ci­dents like last time won't
hap­pen."

As a pos­i­tive at­mos­phere flowed through the au­di­ence.

The Ko­rean rep­re­sen­ta­tive said, "In­stead, he has stated that he will only ex­‐
plore North Ko­rea's dun­geons."

"North Ko­rea... wasn't that where the first dun­geon break oc­curred?"

"With the Abyss present, isn't it dan­ger­ous?"

"He plans to se­quen­tially re­move the out­er­most dun­geons and as­sess the sit­‐
u­at­ion."

"If Ko­rea agrees, then it's fine for us. It's more con­ve­nient for the in­ves­ti­ga­‐
tion team to go there than to set up a base camp in a coun­try with dun­geons
oc­cur­ring in only 10% of the area."

Dun­geons that only ap­pear in the bot­tom 10% of coun­tries.

Coun­tries be­long­ing to this cat­eg­ ory orig­i­nally had poor pub­lic or­der, and
the emer­gence of dun­geons ac­cel­er­ated so­cial col­lapse, mak­ing the sit­u­at­ion
very un­fa­vor­able.

Rather than set­ting up an in­ves­ti­ga­tion base camp in such dan­ger­ous places,

hav­ing them in­ves­ti­gate North Ko­rea from the sta­ble na­tion of Ko­rea was
far bet­ter for the al­liance.

"Six months seems too short...!"

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"Hoho, please re­frain from mak­ing any more un­rea­son­able de­mands on the
Ja­pa­nese side."

"That's right. Isn't dun­geon por­tal in­ves­ti­ga­tion the most im­por­tant for hu­‐
man­ity?"

"That's true. And is it true that Shizuru re­ally died? The ev­i­dence from the
Ja­pa­nese side is weak as well."

"Umm..."

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from North­east Asian coun­tries, who were align­ing against

the Sword King, looked at each other.

'This is as far as we can go.'

'We might face a back­lash from pub­lic opin­ion.'

It was a tough sit­u­at­ion to de­mand fur­ther pun­ish­ment for some­one like the
Sword King join­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion team, es­sen­tially vol­un­teer­ing for the
pun­ish­ment.

They were now pow­er­less to de­mand any fur­ther pun­ish­ment.

"...Un­der­stood."

And so, with even the Ja­pa­nese rep­re­sen­ta­tive ac­cept­ing the Sword King's
pro­posal, The World Bat­tleNet Al­liance swiftly pro­cessed mat­ters.

The al­liance's dun­geon por­tal in­ves­ti­ga­tion corps de­parted for Ko­rea.

And they mo­bi­lized mul­ti­ple satel­lites to iden­tify ar­eas tinged pur­ple by the
Abyss.

With the al­liance fully sup­port­ing him like this,

Yoon Se­jin clicked his tongue.

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"Brother-in-law, im­pres­sive... I didn't ex­pect you to ma­nip­u­late the al­liance

like this!"

"Well, it's a sim­ple mat­ter. They also needed a dun­geon por­tal in­ves­ti­ga­‐
tion."

Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally replied and cau­tioned Yoon Se­jin.

"If you dis­cover any traces of noona, con­tact me im­me­di­ately. I will join
you right away."

"Sure, I'll def­i­nitely find her."

"Dad, don't overdo it. Come home of­ten when you have time. You can just
ride your sword and come quickly, right?"

"...Yes, Seah. I'm al­ways grate­ful and sorry."

Af­ter hug­ging Yoon Seah once, the Sword King joined up with the in­ves­ti­‐
ga­tion team.

Seong Ji­han looked at the cal­en­dar.

Start­ing from the Shizuru in­ci­dent, with the whole se­ries of events end­ing,
20 days had al­ready passed.

With this much time passed, there was no need to post­pone lev­el­ing up any
fur­ther.

'I guess I can start play­ing the game again.'

With that thought, Seong Ji­han de­cided to turn on Bat­tleNet for the first
time in a while.

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Chap­ter 173
[Sword King joins ex­pe­di­tion team for dun­geon por­tal in­ves­ti­ga­tion! Ef­fec­‐
tively be­gins serv­ing in the army.]

[Due to 6 months of sus­pended player qual­i­fi­ca­tions, the com­bi­na­tion of

Seong Ji­han and Sword King will be seen later than ex­pected in the next
sea­son.]

-Ah... He's re­ally un­fairly treated... The World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion didn't
do much when Shizuru was brain­wash­ing peo­ple, but now they're re­ally
harsh.

-But this should be enough to en­ter the Cham­pi­ons League next year.

-Just en­ter­ing the Cham­pi­ons League? We're fi­nally go­ing to rank 1st in the
league ahead of China! Ha­haha!

Ko­re­ans wel­comed the news that the Sword King would still be able to par­‐
tic­i­pate, re­lieved that his qual­i­fi­ca­tions weren't per­ma­nently re­voked.

-Oh... He's join­ing the ex­pe­di­tion team? I hope we don't get an­other Dun­‐
geon Break hap­pen­ing if they in­ves­ti­gate North Ko­rea again...

-The as­so­ci­at­ion's satel­lite is sup­posed to iden­tify the Abyss ar­eas to avoid.

-Satel­lites can see that?

-Yup, the land turns pur­ple ap­par­ently.

-Eek, back then I thought the coun­try was done for... I'll never for­get raid­ing
the con­ve­nience store when that hap­pened, haha!

With ex­pec­ta­tions and wor­ries in­ter­min­gled, when the ex­pe­di­tion team ar­‐
rived in Ko­rea and the Sword King de­parted with them, Yoon Seah smiled
at Seong Ji­han.

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"Un­cle~ You haven't been play­ing much lately. At this rate, I'll sur­pass your
level!"

"What level are you?"

"I'm 92."

"...How are you lev­el­ing up so fast?"

"I think there's a huge merit in be­ing able to play two games a day."

It had only been 20 days since the pro­mo­tion match, but Yoon Seah was
grow­ing rapidly.

She was thor­oughly en­joy­ing the ef­fects of her Late Bloomer gift.

"Your gift is C-rank now, right?"

"Yeah, the C rank ef­fect is a bit dis­ap­point­ing, though...."

Yoon Seah showed her gift to Ji­han.

From F to D, the gift ef­fects were so ex­cel­lent that there was no room for
com­plaints.

But the C rank was a bit am­bigu­ous.

-C Rank Ef­fect: Once a week, at­tempt to up­grade the skill grade.

Un­like the pre­vi­ous ones, the C-rank ef­fect has a very high level of ran­dom­‐
ness. Yoon Seah pointed at it with her fin­ger, her lips pro­trud­ing.

"I tried it three times now, and it all failed! I don't know if it's ac­tu­ally up­‐
grad­ing."

"You're talk­ing non­sense. In my opin­ion, that's the most fraud­u­lent thing."

No mat­ter how ran­dom it is, the ef­fect of up­grad­ing the skill grade.

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Say­ing such an un­rea­son­able ef­fect ex­isted, China's Xin Youhwa once

ranked 2nd in the world.

Seong Ji­han scoffed at Yoon Seah's com­plain­ing and looked at the Late
Bloomer up­grade con­di­tion at the bot­tom of the gift ex­pla­na­tion.

B-rank up­grade con­di­tions.

-Avail­able af­ter tu­to­rial com­ple­tion.

"Can't up­grade dur­ing the tu­to­rial huh."

"Yeah, it's a bit dis­ap­point­ing be­cause it feels like my growth has stopped."

"You're grow­ing at an in­cred­i­bly fast pace... Don't say that in front of oth­‐
ers. You'll get cursed."

"I know. I'm only say­ing this in front of Un­cle, who is grow­ing even faster
than me. Of course, I'll sur­pass you!"

"Oh, re­ally?"

"Yeah, you have to set high goals."

"Even if your level might ac­tu­ally be sur­passed?"

As time passed, the snow­ball rolled even big­ger.

With Void Archer, she was ef­fort­lessly se­cur­ing first place.

If it con­tin­ued like this, she might ac­tu­ally catch up in lev­els.

"Well, the ac­tual skill level is still like heaven and earth. Hehe."

"That... can't be helped. Even if you try, you can't catch up."

"You're say­ing that very firmly."

"Be­cause it's the truth."

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No mat­ter how good the Late Bloomer gift is.

It couldn't com­pare to Seong Ji­han, who pos­sessed the Mar­tial Soul.

"Grow dili­gently and be­come a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive next year."

"Got it! Let's go level up, Akari un­nie."

"Yes, Miss Seah."

As Yoon Seah and Akari left the room.

'No way I'll let that punk sur­pass me so soon.'

Seong Ji­han checked his cur­rent sta­tus.

His level was 124 now.

It seemed de­stroy­ing Shizuru's soul with Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods and
eras­ing the Suc­cubus Queen's rem­nant didn't count to­wards lev­el­ing up re­‐
quire­ments.

Af­ter the pro­mo­tion, he had lev­eled up 4 times dur­ing the Japan match, and
had been stuck there since.

Mar­tial Soul nat­u­rally rose when­ever he com­pleted a mar­tial art, And it had
ex­ploded from the stag­na­tion, reach­ing 150 af­ter us­ing Myr­iad Ghost Seal­‐
ing Gods.

'Still, I can't be sat­is­fied with this level.'

Seong Ji­han aimed to reach level 200 quickly. Think­ing that he needed to
re­sume his mar­tial arts re­search, he logged into the Bat­tleNet.

It was his first time log­ging in as a Plat­inum.

As soon as he en­tered, a new mes­sage ap­peared, dif­fer­ent from usual.

[You have sur­vived the Top 25 Pro­mo­tion Match in the Space League.]

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[The dif­fi­culty of NO.4212 'Hu­man­ity' has de­creased.]

[The player has ful­filled the open­ing con­di­tions for the hid­den op­tion of the
tu­to­rial, 'Re­hearsal.']

[Re­hearsal is a game where you can ex­pe­ri­ence the maps used there be­fore
the open­ing of Space League.]

[Would you like to play Re­hearsal?]

[While Re­hearsal is un­locked, the player 'Seong Ji­han' can­not play reg­u­lar
maps.]

'Re­hearsal?'

It seemed like a re­hearsal for a per­for­mance, just like its lit­eral mean­ing.
The Bat­tleNet's Re­hearsal game ap­peared to be just that.

There's no need to skip this.

"Yeah, I will."

As Seong Ji­han chose to un­lock Re­hearsal,

[Player Seong Ji­han is un­lock­ing Re­hearsal.]

[Only player 'Seong Ji­han' can play Re­hearsal maps.]

[Plat­inum-rank play­ers may be ran­domly matched on Seong Ji­han's team to

ex­pe­ri­ence Re­hearsal games.]

A map only he could mo­nop­o­lize like the Throne of the Heav­enly Em­peror.

Yet an­other one had ap­peared in Bat­tleNet.

[The as­signed map for the Re­hearsal game is 'Chaos Bat­tle­field.']

Look­ing at the fol­low­ing mes­sage, he fur­rowed his brows slightly.

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'Of course, it had to be this map.'

The Chaos Bat­tle­field, a map used in the Space League, was a map that hu­‐
man­ity had never man­aged to win even once in Seong Ji­han's past life. And
it made sense.

'The map it­self is too dis­ad­van­ta­geous for hu­mans.'

True to its name, chaos reigned on this map. The ter­rain was con­stantly be­‐
ing de­stroyed. En­em
­ ies would pop out from all di­rec­tions, and later on, the
sky and ground would flip. There­fore, nat­u­rally, races ca­pa­ble of flight ex­‐
celled here.

It was a bat­tle­field where main­tain­ing a for­ma­tion was im­pos­si­ble. Seong

Ji­han re­called the hu­man play­ers scat­ter­ing and get­ting an­ni­hi­lated each
time. How­ever, his per­spec­tive changed.

'Well, it's bet­ter this way.'

Af­ter all, it was just a re­hearsal. Los­ing wouldn't af­fect Seong Ji­han's rank­‐
ing in the Space League. It might be a good ex­pe­ri­ence for peo­ple to re­al­ize
how harsh the Space League was while play­ing this map.

[Match­mak­ing for 500 Re­hearsal par­tic­i­pants on the Chaos Bat­tle­field map

has be­gun.......]

And so, the match­ing process be­gan. Seong Ji­han stood on the black-stained
ground, and in a flash, other hu­man play­ers were sum­moned near him.

"Oh... So it's here?"

"Re­hearsal, how in­ter­est­ing."

"Seong Ji­han! It's Seong Ji­han again!"

"What did Seong do this time?"

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"Seong! Can I get an au­to­graph? SEONG? SUNG? How should I write it?"

Play­ers rushed to­wards Seong Ji­han, greet­ing him en­thu­si­as­ti­cally. The for­‐
eign­ers es­pe­cially seemed more ex­cited, ask­ing for his au­to­graph.

Un­like usual matches where leagues dif­fered, pre­vent­ing them from play­ing
to­gether, It seemed play­ers were matched glob­ally for this Re­hearsal map
since it re­cruited 500.

"SEONG."

Af­ter reach­ing Plat­inum in the Space League, Seong Ji­han was prac­ti­cally a
global star akin to Bat­tleNet Star. Used to such pop­u­lar­ity even in his past
life, he calmly signed au­to­graphs for the play­ers flock­ing to him.

While do­ing so, he sur­veyed the sum­moned play­ers.

'Not many are com­ing.'

As the player re­cruit­ment for this map took longer than ex­pected, Seong Ji­‐
han turned on Bat­tle­Tube.

"Hello, ev­ery­one. It's been a while."

-Oh, Bat­tle­Tube is fi­nally on!

-It's been days, se­ri­ously...I couldn't watch the broad­cast be­cause of

Shizuru... it was so empty .

-Seong Ji­han!! If you head­bang, I'll spon­sor you with the Sword King's
GP!!

[Sword­King­Fan1 do­nated 100,000 GP.]

[Thanks to you, we can cheer for the Sword King again. Re­ally grate­ful!]

[Sword­King­Fan2 do­nated 100,000 GP.]

[I was wait­ing to do­nate the mo­ment you turned it on!!]

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Like that, Sword­King­Fan1 to 11 each do­nated 100 mil­lion.

-Whoa, so many Sword­King­Fans lol

-They are no longer the Sword­King­Fans 🙂

-1.1 bil­lion... Is this real?

Seong Ji­han, look­ing at the mas­sive do­na­tions, fi­nally opened his mouth.

"Thanks for the do­na­tions. But Sword­King­Fans, I'm fine so please sup­port
my brother-in-law now. Shizuru took all his as­sets, he only has 1 mil­lion GP
left."

-1 mil­lion GP is still a lot, no?

-Con­sid­er­ing the Sword King's as­sets were in the tril­lions... Hav­ing that lit­‐
tle left, the feel­ing of loss must be im­mense.

-Ask him to turn on his broad­cast!

-We want to do­nate but can't...

"Hmm... Why isn't it turn­ing on? I'll ask him about it later."

As the Sword­King­Fans' do­na­tions ended,

"Oh cool, Seong turned it on!"

The play­ers gath­ered around him no­ticed his Bat­tle­Tube was on and
cheered, mak­ing V-signs.

"I'm ap­pear­ing on Seong's broad­cast!"

"My name's Michael, re­mem­ber me ev­ery­one!"

On Seong Ji­han's chan­nel, now firmly es­tab­lished as Bat­tleNet's hottest

broad­cast.

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They were elated to ap­pear on it.

-Uh, who're these guys?

-So many for­eign­ers??

The view­ers were an­noyed as the for­eign­ers blocked the screen, caus­ing a
ruckus.

-Um, we came to see oppa Seong Ji­han -_-Move your ugly faces and piss
off.

-Michael? Why's he act­ing so fa­mil­iar lol

-What is this, a fan meet­ing? What's go­ing on?

To the con­fused view­ers, Seong Ji­han ex­plained the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion.

"When I logged in to­day, a new spe­cial map opened up. So I im­me­di­ately

tried it out."

He then briefly ex­plained the Re­hearsal map, and said.

"Since there aren't 500 yet, Plat­inum play­ers who haven't started the game,
let's play the re­hearsal map to­gether."

Through his broad­cast, he sent out a global re­cruit­ment ad­ver­tise­ment to

Plat­inum play­ers.

-Whoa, a Re­hearsal...

-Seong Ji­han's chan­nel re­ally shows all kinds of things;;; -Se­ri­ously, he

plays a to­tally dif­fer­ent game.

-Then, like last time, will ex­trater­res­trial races ap­pear in this game?

-If those guys come out, we might get wiped out... wouldn't the play­ers ac­‐
tu­ally needs to avoid it?

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Some view­ers ex­pressed con­cerns.

Flash! Flash!

As soon as Seong Ji­han fin­ished his story, the rate of Plat­inum play­ers join­‐
ing in­creased sig­nif­i­cantly.

"A re­hearsal... it's in­ter­est­ing."

"Ex­pe­ri­enc­ing Space League be­fore Di­am

­ ond!"

Some joined to ex­pe­ri­ence the new map.

"I came pre­pared for a level down­grade. Please give me an au­to­graph to me

too!"

Some Plat­inum play­ers joined one af­ter an­other to see Seong Ji­han.

Once 500 play­ers were gath­ered,

[500 play­ers have been matched.]

[The game will start.]

[The as­signed map is 'Chaos Bat­tle­field.']

The game be­gan in­stantly.

[Re­mov­ing Bat­tleNet's shield.]

Shhh...

With that mes­sage, the wide-spread shield pro­tect­ing the 500 hu­mans on the
black land was lifted.

"Oh, we start here? I thought it was a wait­ing area."

"Chaos Bat­tle­field... the name sounds grand."

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"But it doesn't look like much...."

Un­der the sun in the sky, the end­less black land stretched out. As play­ers
looked around to grasp the map, Seong Ji­han gazed at the sky and fur­rowed
his brow.

This damn map, al­ready...!

"Ev­ery­one, pre­pare de­fenses!

"Huh?"

"Sup­port­ers, set up bar­ri­ers, and war­riors, block the sky. They're com­ing
soon."

What's in the sky?

As the play­ers looked up con­fus­edly at the clear sky, Kaaaahhh!

Along with a scream that seemed to tear their eardrums, Enor­mous flames
poured down to­wards the 500 hu­mans.

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Chap­ter 174
The tor­rent of flames sud­denly pour­ing down from the sky sent the 500
play­ers into dis­ar­ray.

"What, what is this?!"

"Quick, block it! Bar­rier!"

"War­riors, do some­thing!"

Per­haps due to the hastily matched squads, the co­or­di­na­tion was off, and
play­ers were about to be swept away by the flames be­fore even set­ting up a
de­fen­sive pos­ture.

'Can't let this hap­pen.'

Seong Ji­han quickly stabbed the Phoenix Flag into the ground to give the
'Bless­ing of the Phoenix' buff to the team, then grabbed the shadow sword
Eclipse and leapt up.

Name­less Di­vine Arts.

Dark Shadow Tech­nique.

Dark Soul Vor­tex.

As Eclipse trans­formed into a mas­sive black vor­tex, suck­ing in the flames,

Re­lief ap­peared on the play­ers' faces.

As ex­pected of Seong Ji­han.

He's the most re­li­able ally when on the same team.

But

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"O-Over there, some­thing's com­ing!"

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Along with sounds slic­ing through the wind, mas­sive crea­tures de­scended
one by one from the sky.

"Th-Those are..."

"Drag­ons... right?"

"They look a bit small for that, no?"

The dragon-shaped crea­tures with wings and lizard bod­ies, to­tal­ing 10, Sur­‐
rounded them and opened their mouths si­mul­ta­ne­ously.

And more flames poured out from there.

Un­like the first at­tack Seong Ji­han blocked, this came from ev­ery an­gle
with ex­quis­ite tim­ing, much weaker.

"Uwaaahhh!"

"Move the bar­ri­ers here...!"

"They broke through!"

The 10 breath at­tacks shat­tered the outer edges of the player troops in­‐
stantly.

'Can't block this at all.'

The breath at­tacks.

They were pow­er­ful, but the flames that ini­tially fell from the sky had over­‐
whelm­ing might.

And the 10 fir­ing from all di­rec­tions was noth­ing com­pared to the first at­‐
tack Seong Ji­han de­fended against.

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But the un­co­or­di­nated play­ers ended up half an­ni­hi­lated in the chaos.

'Have to save who­ever's left.'

Seong Ji­han re­duced the ab­sorp­tion of Dark Soul Vor­tex and ex­panded its
size in­stead.

The flames that had been pour­ing to­wards the cen­ter af­ter burn­ing the outer
play­ers Were all sucked into the black vor­tex.

[One of them is quite an­noy­ing.]

[The rest are still bugs.]

[But we're still hatch­lings, no need to take risks. Let's re­treat.]

[un­der­stood.]

The force­ful voices com­ing from all di­rec­tions were auto-trans­lated into
each per­son's lan­guage be­fore pierc­ing their ears.

And

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The young drag­ons, who had been breath­ing fire from all sides, Swiftly
flew up into the sky, dis­ap­pear­ing in an in­stant.

The drag­onkin, an­ni­hi­lat­ing over half the hu­man troops in a flash then ca­su­‐
ally dis­ap­pear­ing.

A per­fect hit-and-run mak­ing full use of the aerial species' traits.

But

'Where are they try­ing to run off to.'

Seong Ji­han didn't let them leave so eas­ily.

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He pulled out the planted Phoenix Flag and threw the spear into the sky.

Name­less Di­vine Arts.

Di­vine Thun­der De­cree.

Judge­ment of Heaven.

A mas­sive hole opened in the sky, and

A gi­ant spear crack­ling with elec­tric­ity shot to­wards the flee­ing hatch­ling
swarm.

[Ab­so­lute Bar­rier!]

[Scat­ter!]

Kaaaahhh!

The 10 hatch­lings hur­riedly used pow­er­ful de­fen­sive magic, but Couldn't

fully block the Judge­ment of Heaven, two drag­ons melted away into the
spear.

-Oh...

-As ex­pected, he's do­ing it all alone lol -At this point, aren't the re­main­ing
hu­mans just bag­gage?

-Se­ri­ously, he should've just left them and chased the dragon swarm,
would've caught them all The view­ers were in awe, say­ing as ex­pected of
Seong Ji­han, but 'Only two of them?'

Seong Ji­han him­self lamented only man­ag­ing to kill two.

The Ab­so­lute Bar­rier wasn't com­pletely use­less, it had blocked the elec­tric­‐
ity spread­ing from the spear's sur­round­ings.

Min­i­miz­ing the dam­age to just two.

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'Drag­ons are tough as ex­pected.'

In the Space League rank­ings, the planet of the su­pe­rior drag­onkin.

The species' base specs were far above those of elves, but Strangely, their
record against the World Tree Al­liance was poor, al­ways rank­ing 6th.

Of course, they were over­whelm­ingly strong against other plan­ets be­sides

the al­liance.

'Earth has never won against them be­fore.'

Hu­man­ity was al­ways pa­thet­i­cally swept away by their breaths.

Have to show a dif­fer­ent re­sult this time.

Seong Ji­han swore so and

"Score­board."

Opened up the score­board.

1st ? NO.259 Blue-Scaled Drag­onkin ? Kill Points 9243

2nd ? NO.796 ?? -- Kill Points 4451

.......

9th ? NO.4121 ?? -- Kill Points 1130

10th ? NO.4212 Hu­man­ity ? Kill Points 100

Species they hadn't en­coun­tered yet were listed as ?.

And no ranks be­low 10th on the score­board.

Mean­ing hu­man­ity was in last place.

"Why do we only have 100 points...."

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"Ah, isn't it be­cause Seong Ji­han-nim killed 2 drag­ons, which were val­ued
at 50 points each?"

"You're right. Ex­chang­ing points 1:1 with them doesn't make sense."

"Whoa, what's with the 9000 kills though... Do they live here?"

The sur­vivors opened up the score­board af­ter Seong Ji­han and dis­cussed
among them­selves.

"There were 10 drag­ons to­tal and each is worth 50 points, so doesn't that
mean 500 points are sum­moned per species?"

"That's right. But the to­tal from 1st to 10th should only be 5000 points...
How does the drag­onkin have over 10,000 kill points al­ready?"

As the peo­ple an­al­yzed the new map like that, a change oc­curred on the
score­board.

"Oh! NO.4121 above us dis­ap­peared."

"And right be­low, a new planet's team was added."

"Ah, so it keeps get­ting swapped out like this...."

On the chaotic Field of Chaos, teams get elim­i­nated then im­me­di­ately re­‐
placed with new teams.

As the peo­ple grasped how the map worked like that, [Spe­cial mis­sion for
en­ter­ing Re­hearsal.]

[Con­quer the Field of Chaos!]

[Ac­quire 10,000 kill points and your en­tire species will gain a growth bonus
for 5 years.]

[Reach­ing 10,000 points will grant +7 ad­di­tional stat points to par­tic­i­pat­ing

Re­hearsal play­ers, and spe­cial per­sonal re­wards to the species MVP.]

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[Clear the mis­sion be­fore the end of the tu­to­rial!]

A spe­cial mis­sion popped up for all play­ers.

"Oh, it's giv­ing a mis­sion too..."

"Growth bonuses and stat points as re­wards..."

"The com­pen­sa­tion is huge!"

Play­ers sen­si­tive to those level 1, 2 stat points.

Adding +7 resid­ual points to that had their eyes spin­ning.

"But how do we get 10,000 points..."

"Even those drag­ons had over 9000."

But the con­di­tions were ex­tremely de­mand­ing.

10,000 points.

They'd have to kill at least 200 hatch­lings to reach that amount.

"How many of us sur­vived?"

"Around 150, I think...."

Hav­ing lost over half in a sin­gle clash, reach­ing 10,000 points was out of
the ques­tion for hu­man­ity.

Still, the ad­di­tional +7 stats tempted them.

"But we have Seong Ji­han-nim here..."

"Couldn't he alone reach 10,000 points even if he was the sole sur­vivor?"

"That's true. This place still only sum­mons Plat­inums."

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Talk of just trust­ing and fol­low­ing Seong Ji­han be­gan flow­ing out from the
sur­vivors.

-Are they plan­ning to col­lec­tively freeload?

-Seong Ji­han was al­ready ex­ploited as a bus driver on the na­tional team,
now here too Ini­tially dumb­founded by the play­ers' words, the view­ers went
-But would they even be help­ful...

-Se­ri­ously, wouldn't it be bet­ter if the 499 died and Seong Ji­han solo played
now? Think that'd get a higher score.

To re­al­is­ti­cally say they seemed un­nec­es­sary.

'Hon­estly, it'd be eas­ier with­out them.'

The makeshift party matched ran­domly with no co­or­di­na­tion what­so­ever.

It'd be much less stress­ful men­tally and phys­i­cally to just have them die and
solo play rather than tak­ing these rag­tag troops into the chaotic Field.

His score might even turn out bet­ter in this state.

But.

'The Field of Chaos I know had a sys­tem where if sur­vivors dropped be­low
10%, the team gets elim­i­nated.'

The unique trait of the Field of Chaos map pre­vented solo play.

Even when he some­how sur­vived alone us­ing the clouds in his past life,
Once the species' sur­vivors dropped be­low 10%, the en­tire species was
force­fully elim­i­nated.

He didn't know if there were dif­fer­ences from the of­fi­cial map in Re­hearsal.

But there was likely some sim­i­lar penalty.

"Let's try to do this to­gether for now. Don't rely on me too much."

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"Un­der­stood!"

"You're right! We have to help too!"

Seong Ji­han's words mo­ti­vated them as they pre­pared for bat­tle again.

"Sup­port­ers, hands up!"

"War­riors, come this way!"

"Archers, over here!"

They some­how formed up, try­ing their best to sur­vive long in this Field of
Chaos.

"Sum­mon Light­ning Cloud."

While the play­ers pre­pared, Seong Ji­han rode the light­ning cloud into the
sky to scout the vicin­ity.

The end­less black earth stretch­ing out.

But when hu­man­ity fi­nally got into some for­ma­tion, Rum­ble...!

The east­ern earth shook and col­lapsed, a

"Grrr..."

Chimera with a patch­work of beast parts squirm­ing out from in­side ap­‐
peared.

'The nor­mal mon­sters that ap­pear in the Field of Chaos.'

The most harm­less of the chaotic mon­sters in the Field of Chaos.

And the eas­i­est to rack up points on.

Seong Ji­han no­ti­fied the peo­ple of the in­vad­ing en­emy.

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"Chimeras are com­ing from the east. Re­spond."

"Yes!"

At that, they moved to­wards the east­ern for­ma­tion with quite smooth move­‐
ments.

Hav­ing reached Plat­inum, prac­ti­cally pro level, They had quickly over­come
the ini­tial chaos, mov­ing co­he­sively.

'Not bad.'

They shouldn't get eas­ily wiped out like this.

"I'll drop down into the en­em

­ ies' cen­ter first, you guys just have to han­dle
the ones leak­ing out."

"Un­der­stood!"

"Please take care of it!"

Shooo...

Seong Ji­han fell from the sky like a me­teor to­wards the earth.

Crackle crackle...!

Elec­tric­ity in­stantly spread through the ground and "Kieeeeek..."!

The chimeras were set ablaze.

Now com­monly eval­u­ated world­wide as the 2nd strong­est War­rior.

He was rack­ing up kills with­out is­sue in a bat­tle­field with Plat­inums, as

usual.

With a sin­gle sweep of Eclipse,

Chik!

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The chimeras' bod­ies were sliced cleanly in half.

And when the Phoenix Flag was planted into the ground, red elec­tric­ity
cov­ered the land.

Fully dis­play­ing the might of a one-man army, Seong Ji­han -Slaugh­ter re­‐
ally is the best part of games -So sat­is­fy­ing~

-Goes down smooth with a beer

-Don't see any chimeras leak­ing out. Few dozen killed?

-Yeah, he can han­dle about that much.

The view­ers felt cathar­sis from Seong Ji­han's power they hadn't seen in so
long.

They didn't pay much at­ten­tion to the few mon­sters that leaked out.

Pow­er­less chimeras slaugh­tered so eas­ily by Seong Ji­han.

As if Plat­inum kids couldn't han­dle some small fry es­cap­ing.

But.

"What, what is this...!"

"Bar­rier's bro­ken!"

"Why's it so strong?!"

Small fry to Seong Ji­han were any­thing but to them.

"Grrr!"

War­riors blown away shield-first from a sin­gle chimera punch.

Sup­port­ers' de­fen­sive buffs were stacked, yet couldn't han­dle a sin­gle hit.

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"Ar­rows aren't pierc­ing ei­ther...!"

"Aim for the eyes!"

"Hit it in the eye but the ar­row bounced off!"

"What the hell, mon­sters like this ex­ist?!"

Looked so harm­less when Seong Ji­han was ca­su­ally slaugh­ter­ing them.

But this was no joke once the lid was off.

At­tacks didn't work and they were sent fly­ing, bat­tered and blood­ied from
one punch.

The for­ma­tion the Plat­inums had built up some­how was crum­bling in­‐
stantly.

"No way...."

Seong Ji­han turned back and was at a loss for words.

Strange.

These are small fry, right?

In the past Space League, ev­ery­one was happy when chimeras ap­peared,
see­ing it as a chance to earn points.

With a per­plexed look, Seong Ji­han could grasp what the is­sue was.

'...Too many low lev­els.'

The Plat­inum level range was 100 to 200.

Since it was a matched party, lev­els var­ied greatly.

Mean­while, the chimeras had to be at least 180 to be wor­thy of fight­ing.

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To lower lev­els, chimeras were not small fry but boss mon­sters.

The hu­man team with less than 50 left even be­fore Seong Ji­han could help.

[The team's sur­vivors have dropped be­low 10%.]

[You will be ex­pelled from the map in 15 min­utes.]

They re­ceived a def­i­nite elim­i­na­tion no­tice.

But since it was a Re­hearsal map,

They weren't kicked out im­me­di­ately, and were given 15 min­utes.

'...Have to be sat­is­fied just con­firm­ing the 15 min­utes to­day.'

No need to take care of the team now.

Seong Ji­han raised his weapon and pushed for­ward.

Might as well kill as many mon­sters as pos­si­ble now.

"Kie, kieeek..."!

"Kik, kik!"

Sweep­ing away the chimeras like scat­tered leaves, he headed to­wards The
glow­ing cracks in the earth where the mon­sters spewed out from.

'The cracks still have light.'

The vi­o­let glow­ing earth cracks end­lessly birthing mon­sters.

He planned to set up camp here, kill mon­sters un­til the end, but [A chaotic
fis­sure has been dis­cov­ered.]

[An epic quest will be un­locked.]

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See­ing the sud­den mes­sage, his eyes widened.

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Chap­ter 175
[Epic Quest]

-Find the 'Frag­ment of the Fallen Star' hid­den within the Chaos Rift.

-Re­ward: Achieve­ment Points 1,000,000.

-Ex­tend the Level Cap by +50.

-Ad­di­tional re­wards based on the dis­cov­ered Frag­ment of the Star.

'A Frag­ment of the Fallen Star, huh? A fallen star. I guess it refers to a
planet that got elim­i­nated in the Space League, just like Earth in my pre­vi­‐
ous life.'

The vi­o­let-hued crack in the ground, seem­ingly bot­tom­less, in­di­cated an at­‐

mos­phere of for­bid­ding. More­over, the light emit­ted from the crack wasn't
or­di­nary, rem­i­nis­cent of the deathly aura used by the Con­stel­la­tion of the
Dead Star.

'If it was a reg­u­lar Plat­inum player, they wouldn't even dare set foot in­side.'

How­ever, the crack held a unique glow.

'But com­pared to what Kar­lein spewed out, it's noth­ing.'

Whoosh!

Seong Ji­han lightly jumped into the rift.

"Kieeek, kieeek...!"

Then count­less chimeras spewed out from in­side.

'An­noy­ing.'

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Boom! Boom!

But Seong Ji­han smashed the small fry with­out even swing­ing his weapon,
just us­ing his do­main's power.

Af­ter ten min­utes passed:

-Oh... I was won­der­ing why he fell into the rift, it was just to raise his kill
count more lol -He's al­ready at 2014 points. Crazy!

-Seong Ji­han is solo car­ry­ing hu­man­ity to 7th place al­ready The kill points
for hu­man­ity had reached 2014. Out of 500 mem­bers, only Seong Ji­han had
earned points.

-Next time, should Seong Ji­han just solo-hunt in that hole to reach 10,000
points?

-No, isn't that too much of a bur­den on Seong Ji­han-nim? The team mem­‐
bers are just freeload­ing too much.

-Ji­han doesn't seem both­ered at all....

-He's just stand­ing there while mon­sters keep spew­ing out The view­ers re­al­‐
is­ti­cally said Seong Ji­han should jump into the fis­sure alone now and score
10,000 points to clear the spe­cial mis­sion, but [You have ob­tained the max­i­‐
mum points avail­able from the Chaos Rift.]

[No more kill points will be ac­crued.]

-Ugh, can't suck any­more honey.

-In the end, we'll have to fight other species to reach 10,000.

-Ah, that's true. Just look­ing at the en­tire team, it's not bad.

-Only Seong Ji­han worked hard and the team mem­bers got all the honey
De­spite gain­ing 2000 points from the chimeras, they felt dis­ap­pointed when
the sys­tem im­posed lim­i­ta­tions.

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'Hmm, I guess I can't end it all in one go with just one rift.'

Seong Ji­han was dis­ap­pointed as well.

Seong Ji­han had hoped to com­plete both the re­hearsal spe­cial mis­sion and
the epic quest at once. How­ever, he hadn't an­tic­i­pated such con­straints from
the sys­tem.

'Well, then I need to quickly find the Frag­ment of the Fallen Star now. In
the next game, I'll have to aim for 10,000 points.'

With this thought in mind, Seong Ji­han searched through the rift, but all he
found was a vi­o­let glow with noth­ing else around.

'There's not much time left.'

Sum­mon­ing the Light­ning cloud, he at­tempted to ex­plore faster, but the

land­scape re­mained un­changed as he de­scended.

How­ever, there was one change: as he went deeper, the chimeras be­low
started speak­ing.

[Kill... me....]

[I don't... know...]

The chimeras, which had ini­tially made an­i­mal­is­tic sounds, be­gan to ar­tic­u­‐
late words as Seong Ji­han de­scended fur­ther.

And un­like the chimeras spew­ing out from above.

These be­ings were like souls with­out forms.

And go­ing even deeper.

[Please... don't merge us... it hurts too much...]

[Please! Hasn't it all ended... haven't we per­ished? If we've per­ished, let us

re­main as we are...]

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[Why do you keep ask­ing about things we don't know?]

It was not the chaotic mix of chimeras from be­fore. In­stead, be­ings of dif­‐
fer­ent races spoke in­di­vid­u­ally, each ra­di­at­ing light while emit­ting pained
pleas.

Lis­ten­ing to their words trans­lated through Bat­tleNet, Seong Ji­han could

con­firm his guess was right.

'As ex­pected, these are species rel­eg­ ated from the Space League....'

Seong Ji­han re­called the last day be­fore his re­gres­sion when hu­man­ity lost
in the de­mo­tion match. He thought that ev­ery­one, ex­cept him, was lit­er­ally
"deleted." How­ever, it seemed that in places like this Chaos Rift, they con­‐
tin­ued to branch off.

'But what are they ask­ing that gets such a re­sponse?'

Apart from the usual re­quest for death, there were many re­sponses of "I
don't know" to some spe­cific ques­tions.

Seong Ji­han tried to go deeper to hear what ex­actly they didn't know, but
[15 min­utes have passed.]

[NO.4212 'Hu­mans' are be­ing ex­pelled from the Chaos Bat­tle­field.]

Time was al­ready up.

[Cal­cu­lat­ing the score for hu­mans......]

[The kill points have ex­ceeded 2000.]

[Con­grat­u­la­tions. You have earned the right to re­ceive par­tic­i­pa­tion re­‐

wards!]

[Death penal­ties are waived for all par­tic­i­pants.]

[All par­tic­i­pants are ex­empt from death penal­ties.]

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[All play­ers' lev­els in­crease by 1.]

[All play­ers re­ceive 100,000 GP..]

If they achieved only 2000 points, they re­ceived a par­tic­i­pa­tion re­ward.

-Isn't that... lame??

-Well, those team­mates who couldn't kill en­em

­ ies didn't get level downs,
right?

-Oh, right. If you look at it as a team, it's not bad.

-Seong Ji­han suf­fered, and his team­mates took all the honey, haha!

-Hon­estly, if you have a con­science, you should spon­sor 100,000 GP to

Seong Ji­han right away.

-Who saved them from de-lev­el­ing.

The 500 team mem­bers, who couldn't con­trib­ute much, not only gained a
level but also ac­quired GP.

View­ers said they should do­nate to Seong Ji­han out of con­science, but [Ad­‐
di­tional re­wards are ob­tained based on con­tri­bu­tion.]

[Player 'Seong Ji­han' has achieved 100% con­tri­bu­tion, the first in the re­‐
hearsal.]

[Level in­creased to 4.]

[Gained 4 mil­lion GP.]

[As a one-time re­ward, re­ceive 4 ad­di­tional stat points.]

-Whoa, ad­di­tional stats given too?

-This re­ward is in­sane!

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Other re­wards were not bad, but ev­ery­one's at­ten­tion was on the 4 ad­di­‐
tional stat points. Con­sid­er­ing the na­ture of Bat­tleNet games, it's al­most im­‐
pos­si­ble to ob­tain this.

-But achiev­ing 100% con­tri­bu­tion for the first time in the re­hearsal, haha!

-No, isn't that too much for the team­mates!

-No, no, it turned out well en­coun­ter­ing crap. Our bro gained ad­di­tional
stats, and view­ers who like hu­man­ity just an­kle-bit­ing are happy.

Rather than com­plain­ing, view­ers were happy the use­less team mem­bers al­‐
lowed Seong Ji­han to gain ad­di­tional stats.

Of course, Seong Ji­han's cur­rent emo­tions were use­less due to his Soul­less­‐
ness, but...

[You have achieved the spe­cial ac­com­plish­ment '100% Con­tri­bu­tion']

[You have earned 300,000 achieve­ment points as a re­ward.]

See­ing the achieve­ment points re­ward that only he could see, Seong Ji­han
smiled. In times like these, team­mates who seem un­help­ful can turn out to
be ben­ef­ i­cial. Still...

'Next time, I should be more care­ful in team se­lec­tion through match­mak­‐

ing.'

He re­called the events from a while ago. Dozens of chimeras emerg­ing,

team­mates per­ish­ing. Wit­ness­ing the col­lapse in such a des­o­late man­ner
was not some­thing he wanted to see again.

He gained the most im­por­tant one-time re­ward and ad­di­tional stats. Now, he
needed to pre­pare prop­erly and as­sem­ble a team.

De­spite leav­ing with such a light-hearted mood...

"No, this can't be..."

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"A map where you can gain ad­di­tional stats...!"

"More­over, it's 7, 7!"

The Bat­tleNet in­dus­try be­gan to buzz with ex­cite­ment as they wit­nessed the
re­hearsal game.

[Map ex­clu­sively opened for Seong Ji­han, Re­hearsal! What are the re­sults
of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing Space League in­di­rectly?]

[Tremen­dous re­wards await on the Chaos Bat­tle­field! But the en­em

­ ies are
equally chal­leng­ing.]

[A game where Seong Ji­han shines alone with 100% con­tri­bu­tion, is this
okay? The fate of hu­man­ity is vividly re­vealed.]

[Do you be­come a chimera if you're de­moted in the Space League? The
eerie cries of souls within the chaos of the rift re­veal the hor­ri­fy­ing truth.]

"Now re­porters just write ar­ti­cles di­rectly based on un­cle's games."

Yoon Seah looked at the front page ar­ti­cle on the por­tal site with eyes that
were now ac­cus­tomed to it. Al­though it had been a while since the lively
Bat­tle­Tube broad­cast, Seong Ji­han's pop­u­lar­ity stood out among all Bat­tle­‐
Tu­bers, es­pe­cially dur­ing this time when cu­rios­ity about the main game of
Space League was grow­ing as the tu­to­rial ended. When the re­hearsal game
opened, the at­ten­tion of peo­ple world­wide was in­evitable.

"But if we re­ally get de­moted... Do we be­come chimeras?"

"Is it be­cause of the di­al­ogue of souls within the rift?"

"Yeah, isn't it in­trigu­ing? All sorts of spec­u­la­tions are ram­pant now. What
does it mean not to know? Whether we re­ally face de­struc­tion if we get de­‐
moted."

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Among Yoon Seah's ques­tions, Seong Ji­han knew the an­swer to the lat­ter.
While sip­ping his cof­fee, he ca­su­ally replied, "Yes, it's true that de­struc­tion
awaits if you get de­moted."

"Huh... re­ally? How does Un­cle know that?"

"Just a hunch."

"Oh... well, if you say so."

"Right. Should I ask Ariel?"

Ariel, who was al­most like a Bat­tleNet ex­pert, shook her head when asked
about it.

"I have an idea, but... I'm not sure ex­actly what hap­pens when you get de­‐
moted."

"Re­ally? I thought you had in­for­ma­tion."

"Shadow Elves have never been de­moted."

"Uh, tough luck."

"Did you see the game ear­lier? The im­por­tance of the race is sig­nif­i­cant."

To Yoon Seah's jeers, Ariel shrugged her shoul­ders.

"But isn't it too much to play a game with the dragon race?"

"Play­ers who play games with Un­cle also talk about the same things. Aren't
you not do­ing well these days?"

"Ugh... that's true, but..."

"In the first place, Bat­tleNet is not a fair game. The ba­sic pur­pose is to in­sti­‐
gate fights be­tween plan­ets. You should con­sider your­selves lucky that there
were only 500 drag­ons miss­ing ear­lier."

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Ariel, stand­ing in front of the com­puter, con­tin­ued, "Can I re­play the

video?"

"Un­cle's Bat­tle­Tube? Yeah, go ahead."

Then, af­ter quickly skip­ping through the play­back screen, she stopped at the
scene where Seong Ji­han went deep into the chaos rift.

It was the scene of souls scream­ing be­fore be­ing fused into chimeras.

"Mas­ter, may I send this scene to the Queen?"

"The Shadow Queen?"

"Yeah. The vi­o­let en­ergy en­tan­gling that soul... it seems like it could be a
clue for the Queen to ad­vance her shadow en­ergy."

"That thing re­sem­bles the death en­ergy used by the Con­stel­la­tion of the
Dead Star."

"Is that so? May I also send your com­ments along?"

"Wouldn't do it for free."

"Of course. The Queen will pay an ap­pro­pri­ate price."

Even though she could have sent it with­out say­ing any­thing, the fact that
they were of­fer­ing a re­ward made it hard to refuse.

"Al­right, send it."

"Thank you."

Ariel spread the shadow en­ergy on the mon­i­tor, ab­sorb­ing it again.

"Then, I'll go to send it."

Ariel dis­ap­peared some­where.

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Seong Ji­han grinned as he watched his video again. When he first ex­pe­ri­‐
enced it, that was like a panel of es­ca­lat­ing death en­ergy. Was there some­‐
thing re­lated to the shadow en­ergy?

'I was too fo­cused on Shadow Eclipse.'

Since Shadow Eclipse's evo­lu­tion had stalled,

Seong Ji­han de­cided to pon­der over Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods' evo­lu­tion,
which he had ne­glected un­til now.

If he could de­velop this while rais­ing his Mar­tial soul, He could then up­‐
grade Shadow Eclipse based on that strength­ened abil­ity.

'Also, to break the Epic Quest, sit­u­at­ions like to­day, where al­lies are slaugh­‐
tered en masse, should not hap­pen. It's not just a small num­ber, but 500
peo­ple. It's a bit strange.'

To se­lect elite play­ers from the 500 Plat­inum play­ers who can with­stand the
Chaos Bat­tle­field, it was im­pos­si­ble with only Ko­rea's player pool. He
would have to se­lect play­ers from all over the world.

While con­tem­plat­ing how to solve the re­cruit­ment prob­lem, he re­ceived an

ur­gent call from Lee Hayeon, the guild mas­ter.

[Owner! The World Bat­tleNet Al­liance con­tacted me!]

It was a hastily de­liv­ered call re­lated to the Chaos Bat­tle­field.

[They said they had some­thing to dis­cuss re­gard­ing the Field of Chaos....]

The World Bat­tleNet Al­liance they had an un­com­fort­able re­la­tion­ship with

due to the Sword King is­sue.

But per­haps be­cause of the Chaos Bat­tle­field' too en­tic­ing re­wards.

It was a mat­ter of who gained the up­per hand in such sit­u­at­ions.

"Sure, let's hear what they have to say."

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The au­thor­ity to open the Re­hearsal Map alone -- Seong Ji­han de­cided to
make good use of it.

Seong Ji­han de­cided to make full use of the au­thor­ity to open Re­hearsal
maps alone.

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Chap­ter 176
Seong Ji­han's chan­nel broad­casted the re­hearsal game live. The rip­ple it
cre­ated con­tin­ued to grow. Ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the Space League game that had
been shrouded in se­crecy cap­tured the pub­lic's in­ter­est, but what truly
grabbed at­ten­tion was the re­ward for achiev­ing 10,000 kill points. It granted
all par­tic­i­pants a stat point in­crease of +7 and an im­mense re­ward of a
growth bonus for Earth play­ers for the next five years.

-Growth bonus... That's in­cred­i­ble!

-Isn't the im­me­di­ate stat point +7 more valu­able?

-No, in the long run, the 5-year growth bonus might be bet­ter.

-We need to build a proper team and some­how achieve 10,000 points!

-With Seong Ji­han, hu­man­ity just needs to sur­vive, right?

-Se­ri­ously, let's ride the bus prop­erly. Fas­ten the seat­belt, at least.

With re­wards tan­ta­mount to global bonuses, view­ers from all around the
world united their voices, em­pha­siz­ing the need to form a dream team. And
in the midst of this pub­lic sen­ti­ment, the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion nat­u­‐
rally caught wind.

"For this game, the As­so­ci­at­ion must take an ac­tive stance."

The re­wards from the Re­hearsal map were un­der heated dis­cus­sion at the
World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion.

"The re­wards from the re­hearsal map are enor­mous. For the sake of hu­man­‐
ity, we must def­i­nitely achieve 10,000 points."

"Since Seong Ji­han is so pow­er­ful, the re­main­ing 500 team mem­bers just
need to stay alive. We should se­lect play­ers fo­cused on war­riors and sup­‐

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port­ers, en­sur­ing we en­dure for good re­sults, right?"

"We need to form a team in the As­so­ci­at­ion that can syn­chro­nize with
Seong Ji­han."

"The se­lec­tion should be en­tirely done by the as­so­ci­at­ion."

The main fo­cus of the meet­ing was that the player se­lec­tion should be han­‐
dled by the as­so­ci­at­ion.

"Well, it's a bit awk­ward af­ter the in­ci­dent with Seong Ji­han and the Sword
King..."

"But we agreed to end that mat­ter am­i­ca­bly, didn't we?"

"Yes! How le­nient was the pun­ish­ment for the Sword King, end­ing with ex­‐
plo­ration in the North Ko­rean dun­geon?"

While some at­ten­dees were con­cerned about Seong Ji­han's re­la­tion­ship, the
pre­vail­ing opin­ion was that the as­so­ci­at­ion had shown le­niency, so there
was noth­ing to worry about. Es­pe­cially the coun­tries in North­east Asia that
had tried to sus­pend the Sword King from par­tic­i­pat­ing by any means---
China, Japan, and Rus­sia---all ar­gued that player se­lec­tion should be strictly
han­dled by the as­so­ci­at­ion.

"If it's left up to Seong Ji­han alone, he could dis­crim­i­nate based on na­tion­al­‐
ity when se­lect­ing play­ers."

"That's right! The As­so­ci­at­ion must se­cure player se­lec­tion au­thor­ity!"

Thus, the World Bat­tleNet as­so­ci­at­ion sent a rep­re­sen­ta­tive to Ko­rea to gain

the au­thor­ity for player se­lec­tion in the re­hearsal map. Af­ter three days, in
the Daegi guild of­fice of Sword Palace: "Plea­sure to meet you. I'm Nico­las
Joseph, Deputy Di­rec­tor of the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion For­eign Af­fairs
Di­vi­sion."

The As­so­ci­at­ion rep­re­sen­ta­tive had ar­rived.

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Nicholas Joseph, a mid­dle-aged African Amer­i­can man wear­ing glasses, ex­‐

tended a hand­shake to Seong Ji­han in flu­ent Ko­rean. De­spite his po­si­tion as
deputy di­rec­tor, Nicholas's sub­stan­tial build made him seem more like a
body­guard than a de­part­ment head.

"The As­so­ci­at­ion has great in­ter­est re­gard­ing this Re­hearsal game. You've
al­ready played three games be­fore I came to Ko­rea... but didn't achieve sig­‐
nif­i­cant re­sults."

"You watched the matches?"

"What Earth­ling isn't watch­ing your matches these days, Seong Ji­han-nim."

Nicholas chuck­led, re­veal­ing his white teeth. As he men­tioned, upon re­ceiv­‐

ing the World Bat­tleNet as­so­ci­at­ion's con­tact at the Sword Palace, Seong Ji­‐
han had tried to gather a Plat­inum elite team from the guild within the three
days be­fore Nicholas's ar­rival.

How­ever,

'It wasn't easy.'

There were two ways to gather party mem­bers for the re­hearsal game: ei­‐
ther through ran­dom match­mak­ing or by Seong Ji­han open­ing the team and
se­lec­tively choos­ing play­ers. De­spite try­ing the lat­ter for three days: [I may
be only level 170, but... I can try my best! Please pick me!]

[Wow!! It's Seong Ji­han!! I have to take a pic­ture! Hehehe!]

[Can I get an au­to­graph?]

There was chaos, and kick­ing out such peo­ple with­out hes­i­ta­tion and start­‐
ing the game only with play­ers above level 200 took quite a bit of time. And
even then: [You're not cov­er­ing me with your shield?]

[You call your­self a War­rior and can't even tank that?]

[Our co­or­di­na­tion as a team is com­pletely off...]

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Even with play­ers ap­proach­ing Plat­inum max level, the tim­ing of the team's
an­ni­hi­la­tion didn't dif­fer much. The chimeras from the Chaos Rift were
man­age­able, but dur­ing the con­fronta­tion: [Ah crap, the ground's shak­‐
ing...!]

When an earth­quake oc­curred, and rifts emerged from all sides, the for­ma­‐
tion broke, and they were slaugh­tered by the chimeras again.

With Seong Ji­han alone un­able to com­pletely block these sit­u­at­ions aris­ing
for 3 straight days, -Damn, are we see­ing hu­man­ity's lim­its here?

-Now I see why the 10,000 point re­ward is so good. It's im­pos­si­ble huh?

-Un­fair that the dragon race gets points from their racial bonus while lower
races suf­fer dis­crim­i­na­tion here too -World's still the same even in space
huh. An­noy­ing.

-Hey, don't wanna end up as a chimera too huh?

Ex­pec­ta­tions for the 10,000 points grad­u­ally faded away. Hav­ing wit­nessed
the en­tire process, Nicholas, who came to the Daegi guild, could con­fi­‐
dently open his mouth.

"At this rate, it'll be dif­fi­cult for you to ob­tain those 10,000 points."

"So?"

"Our As­so­ci­at­ion will ac­tively sup­port you, Seong Ji­han-nim. We will

gather the elites among Plat­inums and thor­oughly build team­work be­fore
par­tic­i­pat­ing, to en­sure suc­cess."

"Hmm..."

"Many play­ers ranked in No­vem­ber's pro­mo­tion match have ex­pressed their

will­ing­ness to for­feit and par­tic­i­pate in Re­hearsal in­stead. The play­ers
you've brought so far were cer­tainly skilled, but as you know, in Bat­tleNet...
whether team­work is built makes a huge dif­fer­ence. For the As­so­ci­at­ion's
found­ing ideals and hu­man­ity's sake, we will form a team ca­pa­ble of clear­‐
ing the Re­hearsal map."

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The World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion re­quested au­thor­ity to se­lect play­ers them­‐

selves like this.

'It'd be con­ve­nient to hand it over.'

Af­ter try­ing to re­cruit mem­bers him­self these past 3 days,

Frankly, hand­ing it over was 100 times more con­ve­nient for Seong Ji­han.

Of course, it'd be some­what eas­ier if the Daegi guild it­self han­dled se­lec­‐
tions, but 'It's chal­leng­ing to add this on top of guild re­spon­si­bil­i­ties...'

More­over, given the As­so­ci­at­ion's strong au­thor­ity, try­ing to op­pose them

would be dif­fi­cult. As an of­fi­cially rec­og­nized or­ga­ni­za­tion in Bat­tleNet, it
was best to work to­gether while re­spect­ing each other's rights.

How­ever,

"Is that all?"

"Par­don?"

There was no need to go out of his way to ac­com­mo­date them. Seong Ji­han
thought he should re­ceive ev­ery­thing and deal on an equal foot­ing.

"Since you asked for the au­thor­ity to se­lect the team, there should be some­‐
thing in re­turn."

See­ing he was speak­ing so openly, Nico­las sub­tly smiled.

As ex­pected of Seong Ji­han, frank as ever.

He had no hes­i­ta­tion bar­gain­ing even against an As­so­ci­at­ion rep­re­sen­ta­tive

like him­self.

"Ah, I didn't men­tion that. The As­so­ci­at­ion has de­cided to com­pletely re­‐
voke the Sword King's pun­ish­ment from be­fore. As long as he in­ves­ti­gates
North Ko­rean dun­geons un­til De­cem­ber, he can re­turn to the na­tional team
any­time af­ter­wards."

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Their sour­ing with Seong Ji­han was due to the Sword King is­sue.

So by rolling this back, they thought re­la­tions could im­prove again.

While act­ing as if they were giv­ing some­thing in­cred­i­ble, the As­so­ci­at­ion

made this pro­posal to Seong Ji­han, but 'I don't need that.'

In the first place, it was just lip ser­vice.

The As­so­ci­at­ion was al­ready pro­vid­ing in­fra­struc­ture for the Sword King's
de­sired north­ern in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Rolling this back would dis­ad­van­tage them in­stead.

Of course, the Sword King join­ing the na­tional team ear­lier meant steadily
rank­ing 1st from March on­wards, but 'One 1st place in March, one later.
Mak­ing the Cham­pi­ons League is the same.'

Seong Ji­han de­cided to take what he wanted from the As­so­ci­at­ion in­stead.

"That's fine."

"Par­don...? It's fine?"

"Yes. Brother-in-law also said he wants to in­ves­ti­gate dun­geons a bit more.

In­stead, des­ig­nate our guild as 'World Guild of the Year'."

"Uh... That's..."

Nico­las ad­justed his glasses.

World Guild of the Year.

Be­ing se­lected among the top 100 guilds world­wide gave +2 in­creases to all
guild op­tion lev­els.

Com­pared to Seong Ji­han's Phoenix Flag, the ef­fect was only half, but Lob­‐
bies to ob­tain this spot flooded the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion.

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"The se­lec­tions have al­ready been de­cided..."

"Out of the 100 spots, ex­clude one from the North­east Asian coun­tries.
Then I'll ac­cept play­ers from that re­gion into the team."

Uh... from North­east Asia?"

"Did you think I'd just join with­out rea­son? Do­ing that kind of thing?"

Nico­las couldn't re­spond to Seong Ji­han's re­tort.

China, Japan, Rus­sia, even Tai­wan.

Ev­ery­one knew just how hard those North­east Asian coun­tries pushed to get
both the Sword King and Seong Ji­han banned from the na­tional team.

"Un­der­stood... We'll in­clude the Daegi guild in the 'World Guild of the
Year.'"

Del­eg­ ated with sig­nif­i­cant au­thor­ity from the as­so­ci­at­ion, Nicholas con­fi­‐
dently agreed on their be­half.

'They re­ally want those player se­lec­tion rights.'

7 stat points was enough to make your eyes pop out.

He could have pushed for more con­ces­sions from the North­east Asian coun­‐
tries, but Seong Ji­han de­cided to let it go for now.

'If I try to com­pletely ex­clude the North­east Asian coun­tries with this, I
might face a back­lash from pub­lic opin­ion. Win­ning over the global au­di­‐
ence is more im­por­tant.'

With that thought, Seong Ji­han re­quested a few more things from the As­so­‐
ci­at­ion rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

"Oh, and we'll se­lect about 20 mem­bers from our guild as well."

"Yes, un­der­stood."

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"And..."

"And...?"

As Seong Ji­han's re­quests con­tin­ued, Nicholas wore an un­easy ex­pres­sion.

How­ever, "And make sure to put me in the lineup for the Space League
open­ing match with­out fail."

Sur­pris­ingly, this last re­quest was more in line with what the as­so­ci­at­ion de­‐
sired. Who wouldn't pick the war­rior com­pet­ing for the top spot glob­ally in
the world?

"We'll re­quest that from our side."

"I said 'with­out fail.'"

"Un­der­stood!"

Think­ing that this was the eas­i­est de­mand among them all, Nicholas con­fi­‐
dently re­sponded.

[World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion an­nounces for­ma­tion of dream team for Re­‐

hearsal!]

[Plat­inum play­ers over Level 200 for­feit the No­vem­ber 25th pro­mo­tion
match and be­gin chal­leng­ing Re­hearsal one af­ter an­other.]

[Don't at­tack, just en­dure! The classes the As­so­ci­at­ion is se­lect­ing are fo­‐
cused on War­riors and Sup­port­ers.]

[World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion also an­nounces in­clu­sion of the 'Daegi Guild'

among the 'World Guilds of the Year'.]

-So the As­so­ci­at­ion is se­lect­ing play­ers in the end.

-That's for the best. When Seong Ji­han se­lected, It was a mess. Peo­ple ask­‐
ing for au­to­graphs left and right...

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-But seems they made a deal, ex­chang­ing that for the World Guild of the
Year spot?

-Tai­wan is go­ing crazy now. The guild that was sup­posed to en­ter the World
Guild of the Year got re­jected.

-Tai­wan de­manded Seong Ji­han's qual­i­fi­ca­tions be re­voked along with the

Sword King. That's what you get for flap­ping your mouth.

-Ugh, un­for­tu­nately we can't ex­clude Japan. Their lobby power is top-notch.

"Uh... With all the ar­ti­cles about Un­cle, my vic­tory ar­ti­cle is so short!"

No­vem­ber 25th.

Hav­ing fi­nally reached Level 100, Yoon Seah pouted while look­ing at the
por­tal site's front page ar­ti­cle af­ter win­ning the TOP 100 Gold pro­mo­tion
match.

"You have ar­ti­cles too."

['Heav­enly De­mon' Wang Lin, 'My Sta­tus Win­dow' Bar­ren too couldn't get
1st place! Up­sets abound in this pro­mo­tion match!]

[Game's ru­ined! Yoon Seah, win­ner of the match, gets spammed with mal­‐
ice from across the globe on her Bat­tle­Tube.]

The Gold Top 100 Pro­mo­tion Match world­wide.

This Pro­mo­tion Match was highly an­tic­i­pated with many can­di­dates for vic­‐
tory.

With Seong Ji­han ad­vanc­ing first, and late bloomers Bar­ren and Wang Lin.

Plus rapidly lev­el­ing up soc­cer's god Diego Masied.

While many play­ers were touted as po­ten­tial win­ners,

The ac­tual win­ner was Yoon Seah.

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She played so dis­gust­ingly, re­peat­edly hid­ing and shoot­ing from the Veil of
Void, mak­ing view­ers hate her to the point of leav­ing nasty com­ments all
over the world.

[How...!! Even to his niece...!!]

Af­ter hear­ing Bar­ren's scream last, she was able to seize the win.

As a re­sult, her Bat­tle­Tube was be­ing bom­barded with neg­at­ive com­ments

from ne­ti­zens world­wide, de­spite the usual op­po­si­tion be­tween China and
the United States.

"Hehe, neg­at­ive com­ments... Isn't that a com­pli­ment? Isn't play­ing dirty in

the game praise­wor­thy?"

Yoon Seah chuck­led while watch­ing the world­wide ter­ror of neg­at­ive com­‐
ments on her Bat­tle­Tube.

Now, she was im­mune to men­tal dam­age from neg­at­ive com­ments. In­stead,
she reached a point where she laughed while see­ing them.

"Com­pli­ments in­deed. Es­pe­cially when they're curs­ing in a for­eign lan­‐

guage."

"Yeah, yeah. It feels like I've ac­com­plished some­thing."

The un­cle and niece shared a mo­ment of un­der­stand­ing about neg­at­ive com­‐
ments.

"Oh, but it's a shame~ They said they wouldn't pick Archers for the re­‐
hearsal."

Yoon Seah ex­pressed her dis­ap­point­ment while read­ing the ar­ti­cle.

She had rapidly climbed up to Plat­inum, but she couldn't par­tic­ip­ ate in the
game due to the en­try re­quire­ments.

How­ever, Seong Ji­han looked at her as if ques­tion­ing what she just said.

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"You have to come too. What are you talk­ing about?"

"Huh... I can par­tic­i­pate as an Archer? Isn't that against fair­ness?"

"I can pick 20 peo­ple as I please. Be­sides, your sur­vival abil­ity is top-
notch."

"Oh, re­ally? Are you re­ally pick­ing me?! But my level is too low, is that
okay?"

"It's okay. I'll bring a few more peo­ple be­sides you. Even if they're low
level."

Af­ter play­ing Re­hearsal these days, Seong Ji­han be­came cer­tain.

'I need to train some use­ful play­ers.'

At this mo­ment, Seong Ji­han could carry the game by him­self, but when
they en­tered the main game of the Space League, he wouldn't be able to fin­‐
ish ev­ery­thing alone.

He needed SSS-ranked Gifted play­ers from around the world to grow some­‐
how and help him.

"Re­ally? Well, it's good for me, but... I'm sorry be­cause my level is too
low."

"Weren't you fine with get­ting cursed?"

"Get­ting called a cheater is praise, but this feels a bit like nepo­tism, heh."

"Then let's level up a bit more."

"I can't play games un­til the 30th, you know?"

"Oh, we can do a spe­cial map to­gether."

"Spe­cial map?"

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"Yeah."

Seong Ji­han re­called a map that he had ob­tained from the Brahma.

[The spe­cial dun­geon map, 'Di­vine con­stel­la­tion -- Brahma', is un­locked for

Player Seong Ji­han.]

[The spe­cial dun­geon can only be en­tered by the per­mit­ted player Seong Ji­‐
han and his party mem­bers.]

[The spe­cial dun­geon can be en­tered once per week.]

[The spe­cial dun­geon is not in­cluded in the 1 game per day limit.]

I can raise my niece's level some more here.

'And I have to hear Brahma's an­swer too.'

Brahma, who didn't want to an­swer why he wanted Crim­son Thun­der back
then, Seong Ji­han de­cided to ask him af­ter a month.

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Chap­ter 177
Spe­cial Dun­geon Map, 'Di­vine Con­stel­la­tion -- Brahma.'

The par­tic­i­pat­ing play­ers in­clude Yoon Seah, Sophia, and...

"Can I re­ally join too?"

"Of course."

This time, it was Masied who par­tic­i­pated in the Pro­mo­tion Match.

"I'm get­ting more and more in­debted to the owner... I'll ded­i­cate my bones
to Daegi guild. As long as I'm not kicked out that is."

"Who'd kick out an SSS-rank Mage?"

Masied, pos­sess­ing the Gift 'God of Soc­cer'.

He now had a com­pletely dif­fer­ent, neat ap­pear­ance com­pared to be­fore.

Un­like dur­ing his Bronze and Sil­ver days, he was now con­fi­dently rec­og­‐
nized as one of the world's most promis­ing tal­ents.

He was also gain­ing pop­u­lar­ity on Bat­tle­Tube with his unique soc­cer ball
con­cept.

While his home coun­try Ar­gentina was now try­ing to bring him back by any
means, 'He doesn't want to go him­self.'

Seong Ji­han in­ad­ver­tently felt apolo­getic to­wards Ar­gentina.

If things went as usual, the wan­der­ing Masied would've had his en­light­en­‐
ment in his home­town af­ter a few more years of wan­der­ing, but Per­haps be­‐
cause Seong Ji­han had told him about the Arachne Orb this time.

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Even when ad­min­is­tra­tors from Ar­gentina came to per­suade him to re­turn.

-I can't go back. I have to re­pay Seong Ji­han.

Masied's at­ti­tude was res­o­lute.

"Don't you miss your fam­ily? You said you'd re­unite af­ter be­com­ing suc­‐
cess­ful."

"That's why I'm try­ing to bring them to Ko­rea."

"Ah... Is that so?"

Masied's whole fam­ily, in­clud­ing his wife and chil­dren, were re­sid­ing in Ar­‐
gentina. Even though Seong Ji­han thought he would go back to see them,
Masied seemed to be plan­ning to bring his fam­ily to Ko­rea in­stead.

'He'd gain cit­i­zen­ship im­me­di­ately if I told him to.'

If even Masied gained Ko­rean cit­i­zen­ship, they'd have the strong­est lineup
ex­cept for Sup­port­ers.

Even though it would be a com­plete dream team.

'No, even if Masied isn't here, we'll be num­ber one any­way.'

Adding Yoon Seah, who is grow­ing rapidly, to the lineup of Seong Ji­han
and the Sword King in the up­com­ing sea­son, Ko­rea would be num­ber one
any­way.

In this sit­u­at­ion, there was no need to forcibly bring in for­eign tal­ents and
cause in­no­cent vic­tims in Ar­gentina due to his own ac­tions.

"Mr. Masied, sorry about the pro­mo­tion match."

"What's there to be sorry about?"

"I shot you a few ar­rows while hid­ing. It was a bit fa­tal, wasn't it?"

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Dur­ing the pro­mo­tion match, Bar­ren, Wang Lin, and Masied were en­gaged
in a fierce bat­tle.

Yoon Seah, who ap­peared from the veil of void, shot ar­rows an­noy­ingly and
even­tu­ally Masied fell for that tac­tic, fin­ish­ing sec­ond in the pro­mo­tion
match.

So her Bat­tle­Tube was bom­barded by Amer­i­can, Chi­nese, and Ar­gen­tinian

ne­ti­zens.

But Masied him­self didn't look both­ered at all.

"Noth­ing nasty about Bat­tleNet. It's just ef­fi­cient com­bat."

"Hehehe, right?"

Yoon Seah's Bat­tle­Tube re­ceived ter­ror­ism from three coun­tries: Amer­ica,

China, and Ar­gentina.

How­ever, the party with Seong Ji­han, in­clud­ing Masied, faced a hur­dle as
soon as they en­tered the map.

"Is there noth­ing here?"

Ex­cept for Seong Ji­han, the three came here to level up. But there were no
mon­sters to de­feat.

The only thing there was

"Ah, that's the thing from Un­cle's broad­cast."

The path il­lu­mi­nated the dim floor, rem­i­nis­cent of the Thun­der Path from
the Di­vine Con­stel­la­tion's Throne map. Dur­ing the pro­mo­tion match on that
map, the end­less Thun­der Path was a chal­lenge. When they failed to reach
the Di­vine Throne , the re­main­ing 7 sur­vivors fell into the tem­ple, and the
game ended af­ter the chaotic ram­page of the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star.

"Is that the Throne of the Di­vine Con­stel­la­tion? It's mag­nif­i­cent."

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De­spite look­ing reach­able with Thun­der Steps from afar, He failed to close
the dis­tance un­til the game's end.

"Do we have to walk that path?"

"It won't be easy."

While the other party mem­bers, ex­clud­ing Seong Ji­han, were con­tem­plat­ing
how to break through the Thun­der Path, Zzzz...

The floor's cur­rent flashed in­tensely.

[You've ar­rived faster than ex­pected.]

From the cur­rent, a dig­ni­fied voice flowed.

Per­haps for reach­ing the Throne of the Di­vine Con­stel­la­tion, in­stead of

send­ing a sys­tem mes­sage, Brahma di­rectly con­veyed his mes­sage.

[Who are these three beg­gars?]

"Oh, we just came to level up."

[Ha, how ridicu­lous. Lev­el­ing up at the Throne of the Di­vine Con­stel­la­‐

tion...]

"It's a spe­cial dun­geon. Is that not al­lowed?"

[.......]

In re­sponse to Seong Ji­han's words, the cur­rent crack­led.

Some­thing slowly rose from the Thun­der Path.

[Get rid of these beg­gars. You come quickly. Turn off Bat­tle­Tube be­fore
you come.]

What Brahma sum­moned was a mas­sive hu­manoid form made of the Thun­‐
der.

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In ap­pear­ance, it was plain, with only the cur­rents spark­ing.

"What is this?"

[It's the rem­nant of the van­ished Thun­der God.]

"The van­ished Thun­der God?"

[You've seen it right in front of your eyes.]

"Oh, Zeus."

Lis­ten­ing and watch­ing, it did re­sem­ble Zeus in size, but only in body size.

In terms of light­ning power, it looked much weaker than the orig­i­nal god.

Still, it might be chal­leng­ing for the three who had just be­come Plat­inum.

"Is there some­thing weaker?"

[That's the weak­est.]

"Hmm..."

Should they fight it to­gether?

While Seong Ji­han was con­tem­plat­ing for a mo­ment, Yoon Seah spoke.

"Un­cle, you go first. We'll try to take it down our­selves."

"Right. We can't rely on care for­ever. Let's chal­lenge it our­selves."

"Yes, Ji­han. Just give us the Phoenix Flag buff."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded as he looked at the three who were ready to fight.

Right, I can't keep spoon feed­ing them for­ever.

"Un­der­stood."

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Seong Ji­han planted the Phoenix Flag to give the buff then Used Thun­der
Steps to fol­low the Thun­der path.

'Since he per­son­ally in­vited me this time, fol­low­ing the path should lead me
to the throne.'

It was a com­pletely dif­fer­ent sit­u­at­ion from the pro­mo­tion match. Seong Ji­‐
han's thought was rea­son­able.

How­ever, af­ter run­ning for 30 min­utes like that, "...What the heck?"

The Thun­der Path seemed end­less, and the end was not in sight, un­like last
time.

"The path is same?"

Seong Ji­han asked, think­ing Brahma was lis­ten­ing, but [.......]

No re­sponse came from him.

Hey, why's he be­ing like this when he was urg­ing me to come quickly ear­‐
lier?

'Is he telling me to fig­ure it out on my own?'

Seong Ji­han stopped us­ing the skill and pon­dered. Con­tin­u­ing to run like
this was a point­less sit­u­at­ion. He needed to find a way to reach the Di­vine
Throne some­how.

'Should I go to­wards that dark­ness?'

Next to the Thun­der path, there was a dim space. As Seong Ji­han ap­‐
proached, it re­pelled him like a solid wall. An im­pass­able dark­ness.

But Seong Ji­han, re­al­iz­ing that fol­low­ing the Thun­der path wouldn't lead to
a so­lu­tion, took out his spear.

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Name­less di­vine art, Fu­sion of Di­vine thun­der and phoenix -- Crim­son

Thun­der can­non Zi-zi-zik...!

As the crim­son light­ning pierced through, the dark­ness be­gan to crum­ble bit
by bit. How­ever, as soon as one hole ap­peared, the dark­ness wall in­stantly
re­stored its orig­i­nal form.

-Geu-eu-eu......

Oc­ca­sion­ally, eerie sounds that sent shiv­ers down the spine echoed.

'Hmm...'

If fol­low­ing the Thun­der path wasn't the an­swer, he had to find a way
through this wall. Think­ing so, Seong Ji­han took out his spear and walked
along the wall.

Af­ter about fif­teen min­utes of walk­ing,

'This place is a bit dif­fer­ent.'

Un­like just be­fore, he could find a slightly in­dented wall. And this place,
'Es­pe­cially strong cur­rents in the Thun­der path.'

It also emit­ted a pow­er­ful aura from the Thun­der path.

Seong Ji­han fired an­other Crim­son Thun­der Can­non to­wards this place.

-Geu-eu-eu......

A mas­sive groan­ing sound echoed, and the sky and the ground shook.

And when the vi­bra­tion stopped,

'Oh, the dis­tance to the throne...'

The dis­tance to the throne had shrunk a bit.

'Hit­ting the wall where the elec­tric­ity is strong nar­rowed the dis­tance.'

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Hav­ing found the method, Seong Ji­han con­tin­ued search­ing for dented ar­eas
of the wall.

Rum­ble...!

And so, af­ter the earth shook over ten times,

It grad­u­ally nar­rowed the dis­tance to the throne.

'But it's still not the end.'

The nar­row­ing dis­tance was still too short. At this rate, it would take a hun­‐
dred or even a thou­sand times to com­pletely close the gap.

'I can't keep wast­ing time here.'

In­stead of the path­break­ing method, Seong Ji­han sought a new ap­proach.

'The things mak­ing up this wall, they seem like re­sent­ful spir­its...'

The wail­ing sounds when strik­ing the wall were like venge­ful spir­its'
shrieks.

And if these were re­ally spir­its.

He had the op­ti­mal mar­tial art for that, Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

"In­ven­tory."

He took out two swords from his in­ven­tory.

S-rank swords bought to use Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

He crossed the two swords and Eclipse be­fore stab­bing them into the wall
of dark­ness.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret -- Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing

Gods.

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Swish...

A small pat­tern was drawn on the wall of dark­ness.

The pat­tern of Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods, slightly big­ger than when con­‐
fin­ing Shizuru's soul.

But com­pared to the gi­ant wall of dark­ness, it was only the size of a fin­ger­‐
nail.

To any­one look­ing, it seemed like a pat­tern that could be swal­lowed by

dark­ness.

Crack!

Even the two S-rank swords stabbed for Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods broke.

This at­tempt at the mar­tial art seemed to have failed.

But as the pat­tern of Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods slowly spun, 'It seems
more com­plete than last time.'

A smile ap­peared on Seong Ji­han's face.

-Geu-eu-eu......

-Lib­er­at­ion... is it...

Rather than the dark­ness de­vour­ing, it was the pat­tern of Myr­iad Ghost
Seal­ing Gods.

The mas­sive wall of dark­ness was sucked into Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods
in­stantly.

Un­like when us­ing the Crim­son Thun­der Can­non where it quickly re­gen­er­‐
ated, The col­lapsed wall re­mained col­lapsed this time.

And

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Rum­ble...!

The dis­tance to the throne shrank tremen­dously, in­com­pa­ra­ble to ear­lier.

[As ex­pected.......]

And

Brahma, who had been silent since walk­ing the path of the Thun­der Waves,
opened his mouth.

[Truly a fear­some seal­ing for­ma­tion. To be able to de­stroy part of the spirit

wall with that level of power. If your strength was greater, per­haps all the
spir­its could've been sucked in.]

"Do you have any in­for­ma­tion about this?"

[Ru­mors...... I've heard The Con­stel­la­tion that hunts Con­stel­la­tions, The

'Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God', has an ab­so­lute seal­ing for­ma­tion that can even
bind souls. Isn't that what you just used?]

There was no Con­stel­la­tion who didn't know about the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial
God.

As Seong Ji­han slowly nod­ded,

[I'll def­i­nitely need The Crim­son Thun­der ....]

A golden por­tal opened in front of the Thun­der path.

[Come. Any more tests are mean­ing­less now.]

***

En­ter­ing the por­tal Brahma per­son­ally opened,

Seong Ji­han could fi­nally get close to the Di­vine Con­stel­la­tion's Throne he
saw from afar.

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'That's Brahma...'

Brahma, fit­ting of the mas­sive Con­stel­la­tion, was so huge that Seong Ji­han
was only the size of his toe­nail in com­par­i­son.

But what grabbed his gaze wasn't Brahma's enor­mous size, But his body's
com­po­si­tion it­self.

'All sorts of things gath­ered...'

On Brahma's body made of elec­tric­ity, all kinds of faces were con­gre­gated.

From hu­manoid ap­pear­ances to all sorts of beast faces.

Tens of thou­sands of faces were gaz­ing at Seong Ji­han to­gether.

The chimeras from be­fore were pu­rity it­self com­pared to this.

The body of the Brahma was chaos it­self.

"Why's there so many?"

[I am the com­pos­ite of Thun­der Gods. Some of your planet's gods are in­‐
cluded among the 77,000 Thun­der Gods.]

"Like Zeus?"

[Yes... Zeus, who was ab­sorbed re­cently, was also part of me.]

All gods bear­ing the con­cept of 'Thun­der God' gath­ered to­gether.

'No won­der he's so pow­er­ful.'

Brahma, pos­sess­ing an in­tense pres­ence be­yond any other ex­is­tence he had

seen so far.

Seong Ji­han could in­stantly grasp why he re­ceived spe­cial treat­ment among
the Con­stel­la­tions the mo­ment he saw him.

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Even one Zeus was for­mi­da­ble, let alone 77,000 com­bined.

Seong Ji­han gazed at Brahma then brought up the main topic.

"So, why do you need the Crim­son Thun­der?"

[That's.......]

Tz­itz­izi...!

Elec­tric­ity erupted around Seong Ji­han.

Light­ning block­ing the gazes of the 77,000 Thun­der gods.

Then amidst the wall of elec­tric­ity, the face of a lion sud­denly popped out.

Seong Ji­han in­stinc­tively knew this was his con­ver­sa­tion part­ner un­til now.

'He's the leader among the 77,000 Thun­der Gods.'

The blue light­ning's lion, seem­ingly the most pow­er­ful among the count­less
Thun­der Gods.

Didn't know why he had to make a wall to talk when he could just speak
openly, but Seong Ji­han waited for his re­sponse.

And

[To es­cape from here, to live.]

From the ma­jes­tic lion, he heard an un­ex­pected an­swer.

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Chap­ter 178
"Es­cape? Why?"

[It's be­cause of the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God I men­tioned ear­lier.]

The blue lion in the elec­tric wall frowned.

[He's tar­get­ing me, us.]

"The Mar­tial God?"

Ex­ter­nally, Seong Ji­han re­acted as if sur­prised, but He had pre­dicted the

Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God would tar­get Brahma some­day.

'Among the three di­vine arts that ap­peared in the fu­ture, The Di­vine Thun­‐
der De­cree re­sem­bled Brahma's pow­ers.'

The Di­vine De­cree of Heav­enly Thun­der that en­com­passed all light­ning

mar­tial arts.

That was orig­i­nally based on the pow­ers held by Brahma.

This must be around the time the Mar­tial God sub­ju­gated Brahma and cre­‐
ated The Di­vine De­cree of the Name­less Arts [That's right. The con­stel­la­‐
tion that has never been de­feated once. The mon­ster that grows stronger by
de­vour­ing other con­stel­la­tions. He's fly­ing here to­wards the Con­stel­la­tion's
with his own star in tow... Say­ing he'll de­stroy the Di­vine Con­stel­la­tion's
Throne to ex­am­ine some­thing in­side.]

Seong Ji­han looked at the elec­tric-walled Di­vine Con­stel­la­tion's Throne and

won­dered.

What was there to ex­am­ine in­side that mas­sive chair?

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But from his words, the Mar­tial God's goal seemed to be the throne it­self
rather than Brahma.

"If his tar­get is the throne, can't you just flee if you know you can't win?"

[Al­though I'm Brahma's rep­re­sen­ta­tive, I can't com­pletely go against the

will of the 77,000 Thun­der gods. And, ev­ery Thun­der god was one of the
most pow­er­ful gods in their own worlds. To them, avoid­ing a chal­lenger is
unimag­in­able.]

Many Thun­der gods had reigned as god-kings in var­i­ous mytholo­gies.

To them, a chal­lenger was some­thing to nat­u­rally be tram­pled and driven

off.

Aban­don­ing the throne and flee­ing from the en­emy went against the Thun­‐
der god's pride.

So most of the Thun­der gods read­ily de­cided to face the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial
God.

"You're a Thun­der god too, how did you think to flee then?"

[I have seen...... the Mar­tial God's power from be­yond the uni­verse.]

Brahma's voice, though dig­ni­fied, slightly shook when talk­ing about the
Mar­tial God.

[That pat­tern you used ear­lier, suck­ing in souls... Even at a tiny grain size, it
con­sid­er­ably de­stroyed the spirit wall...]

He's talk­ing about Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods?

As Seong Ji­han nod­ded, the blue lion shook his head fu­ri­ously.

[The Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God used that on an en­tire planet.]

"What?"

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[That pat­tern com­pletely cov­ered a planet...! No one could es­cape from

there. Even the planet's owner's throne was no ex­cep­tion.]

'The Mar­tial God is that pow­er­ful...' He ex­pected The Mar­tial God would be
strong.

That's why he had the rep­u­ta­tion of a con­stel­la­tion-hunt­ing Con­stel­la­tion.

But to blan­ket Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods over an en­tire planet?

Hav­ing per­son­ally used it him­self, Seong Ji­han knew how pre­pos­ter­ous that
was.

'Even us­ing it as a skill in my past life, a few me­ters was the limit...'

Of course, he could ex­pand the range much fur­ther now with Spirit Em­bod­‐
i­ment.

But still, to blan­ket Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods over a whole planet?

It was un­think­able no mat­ter how he thought about it.

[That be­ing... is an un­stop­pable, dis­as­trous ex­is­tence. I per­suaded the other

Brah­mas as hard as I could, but they wouldn't lis­ten. Rather, they threat­ened
to pull me from my po­si­tion of rep­re­sen­ta­tive if I kept say­ing such things.]

"So you want to es­cape."

[That's right. I can't just wait here to die...! For now, my body is bound as a
part of Brahma. I need to trans­form into a new 'con­cept' to sep­ar­ ate from
here.]

"A new con­cept..."

[The crim­son elec­tric­ity you used... I saw hope in that. It bears the at­tribute
of thun­der, yet is clearly dis­tin­guished power. Usu­ally im­pos­si­ble to mix,
two pow­ers fused, so it's a power not bound by Brahma's con­cept. I des­per­‐
ately need that.]

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The Crim­son Thun­der Can­non was that amaz­ing?

It was just mix­ing the Phoenix's fire pow­ers and the Di­vine thun­der...

Seong Ji­han couldn't un­der­stand why the Brahma leader was over­valu­ing
his Crim­son Thun­der Can­non so much, but 'Well, no harm in ac­cept­ing if
he's will­ing to pay a lot.'

He was de­ter­mined to squeeze out as much com­pen­sa­tion as pos­si­ble from

this blue lion bear­ing his ab­domen.

"Then I'll do ev­ery­thing rea­son­able."

[Yes! What do you need? Just say it! I'm Brahma's rep­re­sen­ta­tive. I can give
you any­thing you de­sire!]

Brahma says he can do any­thing, but

"Can you re­move Bat­tleNet from Earth then? I want it to re­turn to how the
past world was."

[Re­mov­ing Bat­tleNet... That's im­pos­si­ble. Even the Mar­tial God couldn't do

that.]

"It's im­pos­si­ble huh. Then can you strengthen my abil­i­ties? I have this thing
called Spirit Em­bod­i­ment."

[That's im­pos­si­ble too. Strength­en­ing a star's abil­i­ties... How could I do

that?]

"Then what can you do?"

See­ing Brahma's un­sat­is­fac­tory gaze, he in­dig­nantly jus­ti­fied him­self.

[In the first place, aren't you de­mand­ing pre­pos­ter­ous things...! In­fi­nite GP,
SSS-rank skills, SSS-rank Gifts...! Don't you need things like that?

"Hmm... SSS doesn't do much, EX-rank would be nice."

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Right now, com­plet­ing the Name­less Di­vine Arts was more im­por­tant.

Hav­ing one or two more SSS-ranks added wouldn't make him feel much
stronger.

EX-rank, a step above SSS, would make him feel like he gained some­thing.

[EX-rank.......]

And hear­ing Seong Ji­han's words, Brahma fell deep in thought.

[That might be pos­si­ble...]

"Oh re­ally?"

[Yes. But I can't give it im­me­di­ately. Even gods need prepa­ra­tion for EX-
rank, so....]

Brahma then of­fered a con­tract.

[Thun­der God's Leader is re­quest­ing a con­tract.]

[Thun­der God's Leader will pro­vide player 'Seong Ji­han' with an EX-rank
Gift or skill.]

[In re­turn, Player Seong Ji­han will teach the con­cept of the 'Com­pleted
Crim­son Thun­der' to the Thun­der God's Leader.]

[Do you ac­cept this con­tract?]

* Note -- This is a con­tract with a god. Strong di­vine pun­ish­ment will fol­‐
low if prom­ises are bro­ken.

A con­tract where Thun­der God's Leader pro­vides the EX-rank first, then
Seong Ji­han teaches the con­cept later.

'Get­ting an EX-rank is a sweet deal.'

Seong Ji­han formed a con­tract with Thun­der God's Leader.

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[Good... I will no­tify you when prepa­ra­tions are com­plete. So hurry and
per­fect that Crim­son Thun­der can­non.]

Re­lieved af­ter form­ing the con­tract, Thun­der God's Leader heaved a sigh.

"I'll try my best. Time is tight."

[That's right...We don't know when the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God will strike.
Oh right. I will pre­pare a train­ing area here for you. Time will flow slower
in the train­ing room within the spe­cial dun­geon.]

Per­haps since they were in a hurry,

Brahma pro­vided all kinds of con­ve­niences for Seong Ji­han to com­plete the
Crim­son Thun­der can­non, aside from the promised re­ward.

He even con­sid­ered his party mem­bers.

[Ah, and those specks of dust you brought... didn't they say they needed to
level up? I'll keep sum­mon­ing Zeus's Husk. Seems like your team got
wiped out this time, so come a bit more pre­pared next time.]

"Oh, they got wiped out?"

[Yes.]

Even a god's husk was too much for those who just be­came Plat­inum, huh.

Seong Ji­han nod­ded.

"Send me to the train­ing area then. I'll start right away."

[Good mind­set. Wait a mo­ment.]

Af­ter wait­ing about 10 min­utes,

Whoosh...!

A blue por­tal was cre­ated be­fore Seong Ji­han's eyes.

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[10 days in­side here equals 1 day in re­al­ity.]

Be­ing able to train 10 days for ev­ery 1 day.

Seong Ji­han's eyes shined as he asked.

"It's a shame we can only en­ter the spe­cial dun­geon once a week. Can't we
come more for the train­ing room?"

[It's in Bat­tleNet's do­main so it's im­pos­si­ble. This is al­ready push­ing it.]

"Got it."

Seemed all-pow­er­ful at first glance, but quite a few things he can't do huh.

With that thought, Seong Ji­han stepped into the por­tal.

The next day.

Re­turn­ing home, Seong Ji­han asked Yoon Seah in the liv­ing room.

"Seah-ya, how long has it been since I en­tered?"

"One day?"

"Ah, right."

Brahma's train­ing room, splen­did ef­fects.

Seong Ji­han thought the train­ing room might be the most cost-ef­fi­cient gain
from the spe­cial dun­geon.

"Could you match up against Zeus's husk?"

"Ugh.... it was tough. For­tu­nately it's a spe­cial dun­geon so I didn't delevel

af­ter dy­ing but......."

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Yoon Seah shook her head with a tired ex­pres­sion.

"Felt like I was prop­erly ed­u­cated af­ter al­ways at­tack­ing un­der the Veil."

"Brahma said he'd sum­mon it again. Wanna chal­lenge it?"

"Oh re­ally? I'm so down! Gotta get re­venge!"

Want­ing an­other chal­lenge upon hear­ing it was pos­si­ble again, her com­pet­i­‐
tive spirit seemed to have awak­ened af­ter dy­ing for the first time in a while.

"But I didn't level up this time, so par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Chaos Bat­tle­field

might be...."

"No, it's fine. Pick­ing the 20 is com­pletely my right. Your spot is re­served."

Yoon Seah, who had just ad­vanced to Plat­inum.

Com­pared to other Plat­inums near­ing Level 200, her level was far too low.

Pick­ing her would surely draw back­lash, but

'I have to pick her even if it was some­one else with those re­sults.'

The cur­rent tal­ent pool of Earth's Plat­inum play­ers was am­bigu­ous com­‐
pared to Di­am
­ ond and be­low.

Those gifted with SSS-ranks had al­ready as­cended to Di­am

­ ond.

Even SS-ranks were hard to find.

The tal­ent pool was in quite a poor state com­pared to Di­am

­ ond and Gold.

'The 20 I have the right to se­lect will be promis­ing tal­ents to be­come pil­lars
of the fu­ture.'

And Yoon Seah per­fectly met that cri­te­ria.

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"First, I'll in­clude you, Masied, and Sophia, and give op­por­tu­ni­ties to other
promis­ing tal­ents too."

"Oh, re­ally? Who?"

"Peo­ple you know well."

Seong Ji­han went down to the guild and re­layed the peo­ple he had in mind
to Lee Hayeon.

Re­ceiv­ing the list from him, Lee Hayeon's eyes widened.

"You're se­lect­ing from these peo­ple......."

"Yes."

Seong Ji­han's list to­taled 30 peo­ple.

Some be­longed to the Daegi guild, some didn't.

Look­ing over the list care­fully, Lee Hayeon spoke up.

"May I con­tact the guild mem­bers first? I think there should still be some
guild ben­ef­ its."

"Go ahead."

"Yes! I will con­tact them right away!"

Lee Hayeon con­tacted the Daegi guild mem­bers first.

And this mat­ter swiftly spread big ru­mors in the in­dus­try.

"That damn bitch... Hid­ing like a tur­tle...!"

Bar­ren, who lost to Yoon Seah in the pre­vi­ous pro­mo­tion match, com­pletely
sank into de­spair af­ter los­ing to both un­cle and niece and drowned him­self

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in al­co­hol.

"SHIT!"

Crash!

Con­tin­u­ously re­watch­ing pro­mo­tion match videos and see­ing Yoon Seah

hid­ing in the veil, He smashed the liquor bot­tles.

Buzz buzz..

His face was hazy when he re­ceived a call on his vi­brat­ing phone.

[Bar­ren-nim. The Daegi guild con­tacted me.]

"Whad­dya want? Hehe... Are they kick­ing me out? To re­strain me?"

[No. Seong Ji­han-nim is ask­ing if you want to par­tic­i­pate in the Chaos Bat­‐
tle­field.]

"What...? Me?"

Bar­ren was flab­ber­gasted, his eyes shoot­ing wide open.

The Chaos Bat­tle­field..

He badly wanted to par­tic­i­pate, crav­ing those 7 stat points, but didn't even
dream of it due to his re­cent trou­ble with Seong Ji­han.

"Re­ally...? It's not him mess­ing with me?"

[He says if you show no in­ter­est, he'll move on to the next per­son. Do you
not want to do it?]

"Do, I wanna do it! I'll do it!"

7 stat points.

No play­ers' eyes wouldn't spin at that.

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And

"What... Bar­ren got con­tacted too? That Bar­ren who was curs­ing at Seong
Ji­han-nim?"

"Yes, Bar­ren has al­ready posted on Star­Book, 'Seong Ji­han, ac­knowl­edge

me just this once'...."

"Hmm, to think he got con­tacted...."

China's Heav­enly De­mon,

Wang Lin clicked his tongue upon hear­ing Bar­ren would par­tic­i­pate in the
Chaos Bat­tle­field "How about... me?"

"They say they're pri­mar­ily con­tact­ing Daegi guild mem­bers... But...."

"Ah, right...."

Wang Lin, who left his guild af­ter the match be­tween Ko­rea and China.

He was on bet­ter terms with Seong Ji­han than Bar­ren, but not be­ing a Daegi
guild mem­ber, He didn't re­ceive con­tact this time.

"Can't you... do some­thing about it? Like re­join­ing or...."

"I'll... re­lay it to my su­pe­ri­ors."

"It's 7 stats, 7. This is a re­ally im­por­tant is­sue!"

I knew it was a bad sign when I left the guild that time......!

Wang Lin grew very im­pa­tient.

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Chap­ter 179
"Miss, there's a guest from the Peo­ple's Guild."

"Again?"

Lee Hayeon fur­rowed her eye­brows.

Since the de­ci­sion to se­lect the 20 play­ers who would stand on the chaotic
bat­tle­field was made within the ma­jor guilds in China, peo­ple from the Peo­‐
ple's Guild had been con­tin­u­ously vis­it­ing.

"Guild Mas­ter, nice to see you again."

A mid­dle-aged man with a greasy face en­tered the guild mas­ter's of­fice with
a slick smile.

Zhang Shuzhong.

When Seong Ji­han ob­tained the Phoenix Flag, he was one of the top of­fi­‐
cials of the Peo­ple's Guild who com­peted in spon­sor­ship with Robert Gates.

Orig­i­nally, he wasn't sup­posed to come all the way to Ko­rea him­self.

"You still look beau­ti­ful to­day...! You're even more beau­ti­ful in per­son than
in videos."

Say­ing he was sup­pos­edly her fan, he came in per­son rather than send­ing an
un­der­ling.

"It's a shame that you're dat­ing Mr. Seong Ji­han. Re­ally dis­ap­point­ing."

While say­ing that, Zhang Shuzhong glanced at Lee Hayeon with a greedy
gaze.

Lee Hayeon's ex­pres­sion turned cold at the sight of the cov­etous gaze.

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An an­noy­ing guy pre­tend­ing to be a fan.

"Let's get to the point."

"Haha, it's the same as I men­tioned yes­ter­day. I want to bring in five play­‐
ers, in­clud­ing Wang Lin, back into the Daegi guild."

They leave when­ever they want, then try to nat­u­rally slither back in once
the sit­u­at­ion changes due to the Chaos Bat­tle­field.

Lee Hayeon shook her head left and right.

"I'll have to give you the same an­swer as yes­ter­day. I'm sorry, but there's no
va­cancy. Please ap­ply when there's an open­ing next time."

"Spots can be made if needed, no? Just make other coun­try's play­ers leave."

"That's con­trac­tu­ally im­pos­si­ble."

"If you re­lease the lease con­tracts with other play­ers, we'll cover all the
penal­ties. We'll also pay dou­ble the usual lease fee. Con­sider it."

So the Peo­ple's Guild is that fi­nan­cially af­flu­ent.

Zhang tried to sway her with money, but Lee Hayeon flatly re­fused.

"Thank you for the of­fer, but I have to con­sider re­la­tion­ships with other
guilds as well. It would be dif­fi­cult to ac­cept."

"Hmm... You should also con­sider the re­la­tion­ship with our guild. Wouldn't
it be nice for neigh­bors to get along well?"

"Weren't you the one who left first?"

No apol­ogy what­so­ever, just ar­ro­gantly de­mand­ing they make room as if

money could solve ev­ery­thing.

Lee Hayeon found the Peo­ple's Guild's at­ti­tude pre­pos­ter­ous.

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"Neigh­bors can have mi­nor quar­rels for a bit. But since we'll keep see­ing
each other, ul­ti­mately be­ing on good terms ben­ef­ its both sides, no? I heard
play­ers rented from Ital­ian and Aus­tralian guilds signed early, so their rental
fees are cheap. Ter­mi­nate con­tracts with them and sign with us in­stead."

Even spec­i­fy­ing which rental player's con­tracts to ter­mi­nate.

Lee Hayeon sighed and looked at Lim Gayeong.

"I'm afraid that of­fer is un­ac­cept­able. Gayeong, please es­cort him out."

"This way, please."

"Hehe... What a waste. It's a chance for mu­tual gain. How re­gret­table, how
un­for­tu­nate. I will visit again to­mor­row."

Zhang Shuzhong left the Guild Mas­ter's Of­fice still smil­ing slyly.

Not long af­ter, Lim Gayeong came back in­side.

"Was there any trou­ble?"

"He asked if I have a boyfriend. He said he has three ho­tels in down­town

Seoul and asked if I wanted to stay with him. Non­sense like that."

"Ugh, that crazy guy. I don't know why he speaks Ko­rean so well."

"His ex-wife was Ko­rean."

"He had four kids with her?"

"No, he had one child with her."

How many wives did he have then? Lee Hayeon said with frus­tra­tion, "I
don't want to meet that guy again to­mor­row... Shall we go on a busi­ness
trip?"

"I strongly agree."

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"Let's fi­nal­ize the list of 20 mem­bers and then go."

Seong Ji­han was se­lect­ing 20 mem­bers to take to the chaotic bat­tle­field.

Orig­i­nally, the list in­cluded Wang Lin's name. Re­gard­less of na­tion­al­ity, he
se­lected play­ers with the high­est growth po­ten­tial. Be­sides Wang Lin, there
were a few more play­ers se­lected by Seong Ji­han who were not from the
Daegi guild.

'I should have just cho­sen ac­cord­ing to the list given at that time...'

Lee Hayeon re­gret­ted sug­gest­ing pri­or­i­tiz­ing guild mem­bers to give them

merit. How­ever, re­gret started to creep in when Zhang Shuzhong vis­ited the
guild again.

'No, even so, he came this far... I should stick to choos­ing guild mem­bers
un­til the end!'

En­cour­aged by the in­ter­est from the Peo­ple's Guild, Lee Hayeon con­firmed
the list of guild mem­bers that day. Due to the limit on Daegi guild mem­‐
bers, the list ended with 10 Plat­inum-level tal­ents.

"Boss, the guild mem­ber list is con­firmed!"

"Yes, I'll come to see it."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded as he looked at the con­firmed list pro­vided by Lee

Hayeon.

"Is this our guild mem­ber list?"

"Yes, please se­lect the re­main­ing 10 from the list you pro­vided. Shouldn't it
be easy to choose by de­duc­ing from that?"

"That's right."

The list in­cluded 10 in­di­vid­u­als with tal­ents rang­ing from SSS to SS gifts. It
seemed col­or­ful, prob­ab­ ly be­cause promis­ing in­di­vid­u­als from all over the
world were sent to the Daegi guild. Now, with 10 more mem­bers to se­lect
from the re­main­ing tal­ents, they had to con­sider wisely.

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"Should I choose based on gifts?" Seong Ji­han took out a pen and started
cir­cling names. Hear­ing this, Lee Hayeon cau­tiously spoke up.

"Boss... Are you plan­ning to choose Wang Lin?"

"Yes, I thought of choos­ing based on gifts. It's bet­ter to take tal­ent with us."

"Ah, I see..."

"Is there a prob­lem?"

"Oh, no. Boss, can I take a few days off then?"

"Va­ca­tion?"

"Yes, not go­ing far, just rest­ing at my house in Sword Palace."

Lee Hayeon, who hadn't taken a break while com­ing to the guild ev­ery day,
ask­ing for a va­ca­tion was sur­pris­ing. See­ing Seong Ji­han's cu­ri­ous eyes,
Lim Gayeong sup­ple­mented the ex­pla­na­tion.

"Lately, a per­sis­tent mid­dle-aged man kept as­sign­ing tasks to her. She

seems to need some rest."

"Mid­dle-aged man? Who is that?"

"The Peo­ple's Guild's Zhang Shuzhong."

"Peo­ple came from the Peo­ple's Guild?"

"Yes, he's ask­ing to join the guild again, say­ing they want their peo­ple
back."

Af­ter ar­ro­gantly leav­ing when they de­manded he di­vulge the ori­gins of his
mar­tial arts, now they're ask­ing to re­join the guild to par­tic­i­pate in the
Chaos Bat­tle­field?

Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

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"Did they even apol­o­gize to me or the guild side?"

"Apol­o­gize? What apol­ogy? They just con­fi­dently told me to kick out other
guild mem­bers and make space for them, of­fer­ing more money. It seems
like they be­lieve money can solve ev­ery­thing."

Think­ing ev­ery­thing can be solved with money with­out the slight­est apol­‐
ogy.

'That won't do.'

He was just go­ing to pick by abil­ity but if they're gonna act like that, he has
no choice.

Seong Ji­han orig­i­nally in­tended to se­lect based on abil­i­ties, but if they in­‐
sist, there's no choice.

"Don't ac­cept even if they of­fer 10 times more money."

"Yes!"

"And when that man comes, just kick him out. Don't bother deal­ing with
him in­di­vid­u­ally. Hayeon is the su­pe­rior, and they are just sub­or­di­nates."

"Yes, from now on, I'll do just that!"

Af­ter Seong Ji­han reg­u­lated them like so, Lee Hayeon's eyes lit up.

As ex­pected, he didn't care one bit about them be­ing China's top guild.

She had to fol­low that stance.

"Well, then I guess I don't need a va­ca­tion!"

"You should take a va­ca­tion. Peo­ple need to rest a bit."

"No, I want to kick him out my­self. Hehe...."

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Hav­ing en­dured a lot of stress from Zhang Shuzhong, Lee Hayeon smiled.
And the next day, "G-Guild Mas­ter! What is the mean­ing of this? Chas­ing
away the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Peo­ple's Guild who came...!"

"The list has been an­nounced. Don't come again."

"H-How dare a mere Ko­rean guild dis­re­gard the Peo­ple's Guild's of­fer like
this?!"

"Yes, we're dis­re­gard­ing it."

Aside from Lee Gayeong, Lee Hayeon also brought sev­eral body­guards.

She promptly or­dered Zhang Shuzhong to be re­moved from the premises.

"Es­pe­cially from some­one like you, Zhang Shuzhong, I have no thoughts of

ne­go­ti­at­ing. How many times do you have to ogle some­one? You even sex­‐
u­ally ha­rassed Gayeong."

"Cough...! When did I ever do that...!"

He coughed awk­wardly, look­ing around at the men­tion of sex­ual ha­rass­‐

ment.

The burly body­guards were all glar­ing at him.

They didn't look in­clined to ne­go­ti­ate at all.

"...You will re­gret this."

Un­able to do any­thing, he could only spit out that one line be­fore leav­ing
the Daegi guild.

"Phew, that mid­dle-aged man fi­nally left."

"He said we'll re­gret it. What do you think he'll try?"

"Don't know, let him try what­ever."

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Re­turn­ing to the Guild Mas­ter's Of­fice, Lee Hayeon smiled re­fresh­ingly as

she swiftly scrolled her mouse wheel.

"As the Boss said, we're the boss here, right?"

[The Chaos Bat­tle­field par­tic­i­pa­tion list fi­nal­ized!]

[Were they se­lected by Gift rank? The 20 cho­sen by Seong Ji­han are all out­‐
stand­ing tal­ents.]

[Bar­ren, who had trou­ble with Seong Ji­han, is also in­cluded, earn­ing praise
for the fair list.]

[Why was SSS-grade Wang Lin ex­cluded? Chi­nese ne­ti­zens vig­or­ously

protest against Seong Ji­han!]

-These guys, who the hell do they think they are to come crawl­ing back in?

-Right, re­mem­ber how they tried all kinds of dirty tricks to see if Seong Ji­‐
han fa­vored mar­tial arts prin­ci­ples or re­sults?

-And the Chi­nese guys, they were spew­ing foam at the mouth with Japan
say­ing Seong Ji­han's na­tional qual­i­fi­ca­tions should be re­voked.

-Then they dare to say 'Pick me' now...

The list for the Chaos Bat­tle­field has been an­nounced. While the World Bat­‐
tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion mainly re­cruited war­riors and sup­port­ers with lev­els
close to 200, the 20 play­ers se­lected by Seong Ji­han were all promis­ing tal­‐
ents that any Bat­tleNet fan would rec­og­nize. In ad­di­tion to those from the
Daegi guild, play­ers were cho­sen based on gift grades, promis­ing to be­come
pil­lars of the fu­ture.

Look­ing at the list alone, it seemed fair, se­lect­ing purely based on abil­i­ties.
How­ever, there was one ex­cep­tion. The ex­clu­sion of Wang Lin, one of the
top promis­ing tal­ents, stirred con­tro­versy.

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-Seong Ji­han should not do this for the sake of hu­man­ity. Ev­ery­one should
be given a fair chance!

-Is he try­ing to re­strict Wang Lin's tal­ent al­ready? As ex­pected, his world­‐
view is nar­row.

-Re­plac­ing Wang Lin with a SS-rank Gift makes no sense!

-Seong Ji­han, quickly apol­o­gize and re­vise the list!

Es­pe­cially Chi­nese ne­ti­zens, fol­low­ing Seong Ji­han and the standby guild's
Bat­tle­Tube, even in­vaded Yoon Seah's Bat­tle­Tube to leave all kinds of ma­li­‐
cious com­ments.

-Ugh, why are shame­less Chi­nese like this?

-Would you pick them if you were in his shoes?

-And Seong Ji­han gets to de­cide the list, who're you to tell him this and
that?

Ko­rean users coun­tered these com­ments, cre­at­ing a bat­tle­field in the vir­tual

world. Seong Ji­han sighed.

"It's start­ing again."

Af­ter skim­ming through the protest com­ments, he sim­ply turned off his at­‐
ten­tion. Now that the team was fully formed, he only fo­cused on clear­ing
the Chaos Bat­tle­field.

Mean­while, in the Peo­ple's Guild meet­ing room.

"No...Why didn't it work...?"

Wang Lin en­tered the con­fer­ence room with a dis­ap­pointed ex­pres­sion.

Then Zhang Shuzhong, who led the ne­go­ti­at­ions, coughed and jus­ti­fied his
fail­ure.

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"Cough! Those bas­tards were un­be­liev­ably brazen. They out­right kicked

me, the Peo­ple's Guild's rep­re­sen­ta­tive out!"

"To think a mere Ko­rean guild would......."

"Ut­terly ar­ro­gant."

Be­liev­ing Zhang Shuzhong and de­nounc­ing the Daegi guild, The Peo­ple's
Guild started us­ing con­nec­tions to some­how se­cure a spot for top Chi­nese
tal­ent Wang Lin.

"Can't you in­clude Wang Lin's spot by re­plac­ing one of the play­ers se­lected
by the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion?"

"They set clear level re­stric­tions so that's im­pos­si­ble. It might work if Wang
Lin was Level 180 or higher but...."

"Huh, the Chaos Bat­tle­field will have ended by then."

Hav­ing just been pro­moted, there's no way Wang Lin could reach level 180.

Hear­ing this, Zhang Shuzhong spoke mean­ing­fully.

"How many of our play­ers have been se­lected so far?"

"About 60."

"Then... let's make it de­lib­er­ately dif­fi­cult for them..."

"What do you mean..."

"Un­til Wang Lin is se­lected, in­ten­tion­ally make it tough for them."

Those guys from the Daegi guild said they would make them re­gret, right?
Zhang Shuzhong pro­posed such a risky gam­ble.

"With 60 play­ers, we can eas­ily ruin the game progress. Use them for de­lib­‐
er­ate dif­fi­cul­ties un­til they ask for Wang Lin."

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"Hmm..."

"Isn't that too much of a risk?"

"Yes, if this gets ex­posed, we'll face world­wide crit­i­cism."

"Then will you just take this ly­ing down? We need to show them their
place."

Per­haps be­ing driven out by Lee Hayeon was so hu­mil­i­at­ing that Zhang
strongly ad­vo­cated for de­lib­er­ate dif­fi­cul­ties. Wang Lin, lis­ten­ing to this,
gri­maced.

'This might not work...'

Given Seong Ji­han's per­son­al­ity, there's no way he'd let this slide...

"Well... let's give it a try."

"Yes. We can't just let them off like this!"

How­ever, the Peo­ple's Guild, al­ready of a firm na­ture, de­cided to pur­sue an

ab­surd plan, be­liev­ing that their rep­re­sen­ta­tive had suf­fered dis­grace at the
hands of the Daegi guild.

Wang Lin watched with an un­easy ex­pres­sion.

'This is go­ing to be a dis­as­ter...'

Yet the only thing he could do was only ob­serve.

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Chap­ter 180
De­cem­ber.

The lat­ter half of the Bat­tleNet re­gional league sea­son had ended, and now
the Cham­pi­ons League matches were in full swing.

At this time, the pub­lic's at­ten­tion was fo­cused on the Chaos Bat­tle­field
rather than the World Cham­pi­ons League as usual.

The re­hearsal map that gives +7 stat points for reach­ing 10,000 points. Peo­‐
ple were in­ter­ested in whether the Earth ex­pe­di­tion team could ob­tain this
tremen­dous re­ward.

-Are they fi­nally form­ing a proper for­ma­tion and start­ing for real?

-+7 stats... Only war­riors and sup­port­ers are psyched.

-Hurry up and pick Wang Lin!

-They're still on about that? lol

-Will it be like this the whole De­cem­ber?

De­spite this, China's re­sent­ment over Wang Lin not be­ing se­lected showed
no signs of sub­sid­ing.

"I have the sole au­thor­ity over player se­lec­tion. I've al­ready dis­cussed it
with the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion."

Seong Ji­han dis­missed it in a sin­gle line, and pro­ceeded with dis­cus­sions

with the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion.

"Please se­lect re­serve mem­bers in ad­di­tion to the 479 al­ready picked."

"Re­serve mem­bers?"

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"Yes, some play­ers may have is­sues and need to be switched out. It'd be
good to have am­ple re­serves, around 300 ex­tra."

"Un­der­stood."

In this un­cer­tain world, re­serves were es­sen­tial to fill any va­cant spots at
any time.

That's how the ex­pe­di­tion force was com­pleted with re­serves.

"Do not worry about the at­tack. Fo­cus solely on de­fense."

"War­riors, gather in for­ma­tion to get di­vi­sion buffs."

"Sup­port­ers, don't use the shield all at once. Use it se­quen­tially from 1st Di­‐
vi­sion."

Along with ex­perts from the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion, the 500 worked
hard on train­ing to co­or­di­nate with each other.

The only one ex­cluded was Seong Ji­han, re­spon­si­ble for at­tack­ing.

And so, De­cem­ber 1st ar­rived.

Seong Ji­han opened the re­hearsal map and in­vited the promised play­ers.

"Oh, fi­nally..."

As peo­ple were sum­moned one by one,

Un­like the play­ers Seong Ji­han had matched ran­domly be­fore, They were
sur­prised for a mo­ment at be­ing sum­moned, be­fore quickly rush­ing to take
their po­si­tions and get­ting into for­ma­tion.

'This team will surely last long.'

Elite plat­inum-lev­els near­ing 200.

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More­over, with a com­plete de­fen­sive pos­ture of war­riors and sup­port­ers, it

seemed like they could eas­ily with­stand Hatch­ling's breath, even if it poured
down.

'As ex­pected, the As­so­ci­at­ion han­dles these things well.'

De­spite an­noy­ing is­sues with the Sword King, the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­a­‐
tion was per­fect for leav­ing mis­cel­la­neous tasks to.

If he tried to han­dle this him­self with just his guild, he wouldn't have gath­‐
ered such trained play­ers.

Seong Ji­han de­cided to make more use of the As­so­ci­at­ion and looked upon
the trained play­ers with sat­is­fac­tion.

Just as the forces were quickly get­ting or­ga­nized, "Oh! Seong Ji­han! Long
time no see!"

Bar­ren ap­peared with a grin­ning face.

He had har­bored a sense of in­fe­ri­or­ity to­ward Seong Ji­han, but be­ing se­‐
lected un­ex­pect­edly seemed to have greatly re­lieved the ac­cu­mu­lated emo­‐
tions.

"To choose me... what an ex­cel­lent judg­ment! Are you fi­nally ac­knowl­edg­‐
ing me as your ri­val?"

"Ri­val?"

"Right, who else could be your ri­val but me!"

What a joke.

"It would be nice if you had said that af­ter win­ning first place in the pro­mo­‐
tion match."

"Ugh... Your niece was cheat­ing!"

"But isn't the re­sult ul­ti­mately what mat­ters?"

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Yoon Seah walked up from be­hind Bar­ren and spoke.

"Beat me first be­fore call­ing your­self Un­cle Seong's ri­val, Un­cle Bar­ren."

"Tch... Just you wait. I'll com­pletely crush you in the di­am
­ ond pro­mo­tion
match."

"Even though you didn't land a sin­gle hit."

"Ugh..."

See­ing Yoon Seah, Bar­ren grit his teeth.

That be­hav­ior re­sem­bled how he acted to­wards Seong Ji­han in the past.

Seong Ji­han was al­ready up in the heav­ens as his com­peti­tor.

How­ever, it seemed that Bar­ren had de­vel­oped some emo­tions to­wards

Yoon Seah, who had hin­dered him.

"Has your force con­trol im­proved a bit?"

"Hmph, I'm not the old me. I can even write the al­pha­bet with force now."

Say­ing so, Bar­ren started carv­ing let­ters into the ground.

Al­though lop­sided like a tod­dler's scrib­bles, the ABCs could still be dis­‐
cerned.

"Oh."

See­ing that, Seong Ji­han was im­pressed.

That clumsy Bar­ren writ­ing let­ters with Force?

It's bet­ter if Bar­ren har­bors that in­fe­ri­or­ity com­plex. Even though he prac­‐
ticed in my past life, his con­trol skills didn't im­prove much. But this time,
he seems to have re­ceived a lot of stim­u­la­tion from the bit­ter­ness of de­feat.

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Bar­ren's skill had im­proved re­mark­ably, es­pe­cially in force con­trol, sur­pass­‐

ing the Bar­ren of his past life.

[Seah, he seems to have im­proved. Keep teas­ing him. It seems he thrives on

that.]

Yoon Seah nod­ded slightly in re­sponse to Seong Ji­han's mes­sage.

While Bar­ren's skill was rapidly ad­vanc­ing, a new topic arose.

"Un­cle, why didn't you pick Un­cle Wang Lin? I keep get­ting asked that a lot
lately."

Of course, Yoon Seah al­ready knew the rea­son from Seong Ji­han, but 'Need
an oc­ca­sion to ex­plain be­fore the re­hearsal game starts.'

Just say­ing it's my choice as the se­lec­tor wasn't enough for 1.4 bil­lion cit­i­‐
zens spew­ing mal­ice.

Sens­ing Yoon Seah's in­ten­tion, Seong Ji­han ca­su­ally an­swered.

"Ah, that? I was go­ing to pick him, but a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Peo­ple's guild
sex­u­ally ha­rassed one of our guild mem­bers. So I de­cided not to."

"Sex­u­ally... ha­rassed?"

"Yeah, un­til that per­son apol­o­gizes, I have no in­ten­tion of pick­ing him. If

Wang Lin hap­pened to leave the Peo­ple guild, well, the op­por­tu­nity is gone
since I've al­ready se­lected 20 peo­ple."

Seong Ji­han calmly ex­plained that he de­cided not to pick Wang Lin be­cause
of the in­sult from the Peo­ple guilds rep­re­sen­ta­tive. The huge in­flux of hate
com­ments from the 1.4 bil­lion pop­u­la­tion made the de­ci­sion easy.

Bar­ren, who lis­tened to this, re­sponded en­thu­si­as­ti­cally.

"Heh, if he lacks man­ners like that, not pick­ing him was the right choice!"

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More than just poor man­ners, Bar­ren seemed to en­joy his real ri­val Wang
Lin be­ing ex­cluded.

"That guy bab­bles a lot in front of you too. He's a guy with­out man­ners. Ab­‐
so­lutely don't pick him!"

Giv­ing a lec­ture when he's par­tially at fault too.

See­ing this, Seong Ji­han pointed at the empty spot.

"Any­way, go to your po­si­tion. If you keep wan­der­ing from your spot, I'll re­‐
place you."

"Ugh... I'm not the only one though? Your niece left her spot too."

"She's my niece."

"Fine, I'm go­ing!"

"I'll go too, un­cle!"

And so af­ter Yoon Seah sim­ply cre­ated an op­por­tu­nity for an ex­pla­na­tion,

she left.

Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

'As ex­pected.'

Who cares what mal­ice other coun­tries spew?

Hav­ing ex­pe­ri­enced hell af­ter the tu­to­rial ended, such things didn't af­fect
Seong Ji­han at all.

The fo­cus should be on some­thing else.

[The player re­cruit­ment is com­plete.]

[The game will now start.]

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[As­signed map: Chaos Bat­tle­field]

The 500 had as­sem­bled com­pletely and the re­hearsal game was be­gin­ning.

"The map's open­ing!"

"Get in de­fen­sive for­ma­tion im­me­di­ately!"

As soon as the game started, war­rior lead­ers pre­pared their de­fen­sive po­si­‐
tions. One of the first facts Seong Ji­han con­firmed through sev­eral ran­dom
matches was that at­tacks would start pour­ing in as soon as the game be­gan.

Hence why they were on guard.

[Fi­nally opened huh.]

Swoosh...!

The Chaos Bat­tle­field dark­ened as mas­sive shad­ows en­veloped it.

In the sky, 20 enor­mous metal­lic hands si­mul­ta­ne­ously smashed down at

the hu­mans.

"It's gi­ants this time huh...!"

"I wore fire re­sis­tance ar­mor ex­pect­ing the Dragon hatch­lings at­tack!"

The war­riors groaned as they raised their shields to­ward the sky. Com­pared
to the gi­ant's enor­mous hands, the shields were no larger than fin­ger­nails.
How­ever, "Shield Bind­ing!"

When hun­dreds of war­riors si­mul­ta­ne­ously used the Shield Bind­ing skill, a

mas­sive shield of light rose above the ex­pe­di­tion, re­sist­ing the gi­ant's
hands.

The "Shield Bind­ing" skill strength­ened as more peo­ple used it, and it be­‐
came even more ef­fec­tive in coun­ter­ing the at­tacks that poured in right from

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the start of the game. Of course, the dam­age dealt by the gi­ant's hands was
con­sid­er­able, and the shields made of light were show­ing signs of strain.

"Ugh...!"

"Heal...! Need heal...!"

Some of the war­riors sup­port­ing the shields be­low had their bod­ies torn
apart, and many suf­fered in­juries, but com­pared to the breath at­tacks of the
hatch­lings, there were sur­pris­ingly few ca­su­al­ties.

If it con­tin­ues like this, we can clear this map faster than ex­pected.

"Just en­dure a bit more. I'll go cut their necks now."

Seong Ji­han looked around.

10 metal­lic gi­ants had sur­rounded them and were re­lent­lessly pound­ing the
shields with their palms.

Sim­ple over­head smashes com­pared to breaths, but still very pow­er­ful done
by metal­lic gi­ants as tall as the sky.

'First...'

Whoosh!

Seong Ji­han threw the Phoenix Flag into the sky.

Swish!

The palm of the gi­ant's hand, which was in the tra­jec­tory of the Phoenix
Flag, tore apart, and blue blood flowed out. The spear reached the sky, cre­‐
at­ing a mas­sive space of bright light.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Di­vine Thun­der De­cree -- Ce­les­tial Judg­ment From

the gap in the light, a mas­sive spear de­scended to­wards the ground.

"Oh, It's Ce­les­tial Judg­ment...!"

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"See­ing this in per­son...!"

How­ever, Seong Ji­han's dis­played mar­tial art was dif­fer­ent from usual.

"Huh...?"

"What, what is this? An­other one is com­ing out?"

"This time, it's red?!"

From one hole, two spears fell. More­over, com­pared to the usual light
spears that fell, the crim­son one ex­uded an even more in­tense aura.

[I'll try to block it.]

The metal­lic gi­ant hit di­rectly by the first light spear tried to re­sist. When
the spear pierced through the top of its head, the gi­ant grad­u­ally tried to pull
it out.

Creak...

But when even its hand couldn't ex­ert strength and turned black, [An un­‐
known at­tack. Dam­age ir­repara­ble. Re­treat­ing.]

Af­ter ut­ter­ing those words,

Swoosh...!

Like a de­flated bal­loon, the body shrank in an in­stant and dis­ap­peared.

Al­though the gi­ant's form van­ished like that, per­haps be­cause of the re­treat,
the kill points for killing it were not added.

The sec­ond spear, filled with rag­ing thun­der, was dif­fer­ent.

Pierc­ing through the gi­ant's head the mo­ment it hit, Whoosh...!

Crim­son cur­rents in­stantly flowed through the metal­lic body, then rag­ing
flames rapidly en­gulfed it.

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Then, com­pletely un­like ear­lier, it spoke in a dif­fer­ent voice.

[Re­treat is im­pos­si­ble. Con­trol room down. NO.4212 Hu­man­ity. Data in­put

re­quired.]

Swoosh...!

Un­like the gi­ant who shrunk and dis­ap­peared ear­lier, This one melted away
into a clump of molten metal.

And its dis­ap­pear­ance added 100 kill points for hu­man­ity.

-Oh, 100...!

-It's the same as Hatch­ling.

-Hatch­ling died with one hit, but this one seems tougher. Shouldn't we get
more points for this?

-They fly around in­stead. They're hard to catch. It's all the same.

-True, it's be­cause it's Seong Ji­han. He makes it look easy.

Metal­lic gi­ants, eval­u­ated as be­ing equiv­al­ent to Hatch­ling. They all emit­ted

me­chan­i­cal sounds si­mul­ta­ne­ously when one of their com­rades died.

[How did a lower species come here?]

[So you had a hid­den sword.]

[Per­haps a con­stel­la­tion can­di­date. Re­treat­ing.]

They stopped strik­ing with their palms and all turned around at once.

Rather than seek­ing re­venge for their com­rade, they seemed more fo­cused
on main­tain­ing their strength.

'These guys... Are they not gonna fight back?'

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Seong Ji­han quickly ap­proached to dis­patch the rest, but Whoosh...!

Like bal­loons los­ing air, the gi­ants' bod­ies rapidly shrunk in an in­stant.

Then they com­pletely dis­ap­peared with­out a trace.

"There are all kinds of species... Check the score­board."

Since they faced them, they should be able to iden­tify what species they
were.

Seong Ji­han opened the score­board.

How­ever, the species names that came out were com­pletely un­ex­pected.

1st place -- NO.113 Pil­lar of The World Tree -- Kill Points 8782

2nd place -- NO.456 ?? -- Kill Points 3321

...

9th place -- NO.3491 ?? -- Kill Points 930

10th place -- NO.4212 Hu­man­ity -- Kill Points 100

'Pil­lar of The World Tree?'

I thought it was just one of the gi­ant races but...

Pil­lar of The World Tree?

Seong Ji­han asked Ariel, a World Tree ex­pert.

"Ariel, do you know any­thing about the Pil­lar of the World Tree?"

[Pil­lar? Why do you ask?]

"The gi­ants just now men­tioned a pil­lar."

[What?!]

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Sur­prised by Seong Ji­han's ques­tion, Ariel, in­stead, asked him in re­turn.

[Th-that's im­pos­si­ble... That gi­ant was a pil­lar? Are you sure?]

"It ap­peared like that on the score­board."

[Well... It must be cer­tain...]

Look­ing flus­tered by Seong Ji­han's ques­tion, she main­tained her si­lence for
a mo­ment be­fore an­swer­ing.

[...I will con­tact the Queen to ask. That gi­ant as a pil­lar...]

"Yeah. Do it quickly."

[It can only be done af­ter the game ends. Let's talk when we go back.]

"Al­right."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded and as­cended into the sky. To the east, there was a rift
in the land where chimeras emerged. To the west, in the dis­tance, a space
en­closed by a gi­ant cir­cu­lar bar­rier came into view.

'I don't need to go straight to the chaos rift.'

Since they only gave up to 2000 points any­way.

"Let's go west."

Seong Ji­han led the ex­pe­di­tion team to­wards the bar­rier.

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Chap­ter 181
A vast space en­closed by a gi­ant bar­rier. As the ex­pe­di­tion team ar­rived
there, they could un­der­stand why at­tacks had been pour­ing in from the be­‐
gin­ning of the game.

"Ah......."

"We could see ev­ery­thing from the out­side."

In­side the bar­rier, sev­eral pig-faced crea­tureswere sum­moned, mov­ing

around chaot­i­cally.

Their ap­pear­ance re­sem­bled the ran­dom match­ing that Seong Ji­han ex­pe­ri­‐
enced when he first played on the chaotic bat­tle­field.

While in­side, they were un­aware of what was hap­pen­ing out­side, sim­ply
mar­veling that they had been as­signed to a new game.

But the race al­ready par­tic­i­pat­ing in the bat­tle­field could see those en­em
­ ies
and pre­pare to at­tack in ad­vance.

'The dif­fer­ence be­tween re­hearsal and the of­fi­cial map is ev­i­dent here.'

In the of­fi­cial games of Space League, all races start si­mul­ta­ne­ously when
the game pro­ceeds of­fi­cially. Since the re­hearsal map had dif­fer­ent rules for
the ex­pul­sion and en­try of races, such dif­fer­ences seemed to arise.

"Seong Ji­han, what do you plan to do?"

Seong Ji­han care­fully ob­served in­side the bar­rier in re­sponse to the ques­‐
tion.

Orcs num­ber­ing close to 500.

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They seemed to be the low­est-rank­ing race, treated with only 1 point, sim­i­‐
lar to hu­mans.

"It looks like the bar­rier will open soon, so let's wait."

"Yes!"

Al­though told to wait, the ex­pe­di­tion's main team could only main­tain a de­‐
fen­sive stance.

But it was dif­fer­ent for Seong Ji­han, who was the dam­age dealer.

'I have time to pre­pare prop­erly.'

Glug!

In front of the en­emy's bar­rier, Seong Ji­han in­serted the Shadow Sword
Eclipse.

Swish swish......

Then, the shad­ows seeped into the ground, spread­ing widely and com­‐
pletely sur­round­ing the area around the bar­rier.

[With this cov­er­age, pow­er­ful at­tacks may not be pos­si­ble.]

"It's okay. I'll han­dle the cen­tral area, so just take care of the scat­tered en­e­‐
mies."

[Un­der­stood.]

Eclipse was in­stalled to deal with flee­ing en­em

­ ies. The main at­tack would
come from above in the sky.

"Sum­mon Light­ning Cloud."

Rid­ing the cloud, he as­cended into the sky.

'We're not the only ones here.'

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In ad­di­tion to hu­mans, Seong Ji­han could see two races ap­proach­ing the
bar­rier from afar.

Ap­par­ently, at­tack­ing newly sum­moned races was the eas­i­est way to in­flict
dam­age.

'They all look like bugs.'

One of the in­com­ing races was a swarm of winged gar­goyles, while the
other was a gi­ant ants, each ex­ceed­ing 10 me­ters in size.

-What, are these bug-like crea­tures also races?

-Do we fight against such be­ings in the Space League...?

-It seems that the only races sim­i­lar to hu­mans in­side the bar­rier are orc-like
ones.

View­ers who caught sight of the en­em ­ ies in Seong Ji­han's gaze re­al­ized that
var­i­ous races had par­tic­i­pated in the re­hearsal.

When the Space League opens, we'll be fight­ing guys like them too.

-Ah, fight­ing against bugs is so an­noy­ing.

-For real, why are they so bigㅡ

-The orcs are an­gels com­pared to them.......

While view­ers fully ex­pressed their dis­gust to­wards the in­sect race, While
view­ers openly ex­pressed their dis­gust to­wards in­sect races, Seong Ji­han,
who had al­ready played Space League once, calmly as­sessed the en­emy's
num­bers with­out much en­thu­si­asm.

'The swarm gar­goyle race, around 150 in num­ber. They don't seem to be a
par­tic­u­larly strong race.'

It wasn't clear what level they started with, but if they were still around 150,
it meant the race it­self wasn't that pow­er­ful.

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'Gotta wipe out all the ap­proach­ing ones.'

Seong Ji­han was de­ter­mined to earn a mas­sive amount of points here.

"Light­ing cloud, spread out here."

The Light­ning cloud, which had been a fly­ing ve­hi­cle so far, could also be­‐
come an ex­cel­lent at­tack­ing tool.

In the sky above the bar­rier, the widely spread Light­ing cloud re­ceived
Seong Ji­han's power and pre­pared to pour down light­ning.

'That takes care of that.'

With the Light­ning cloud's at­tack prepa­ra­tions fin­ished, Seong Ji­han faced
the ap­proach­ing gar­goyle race and kicked off.

[Kee! En­emy num­bers over 400! Low­est-ranked race!]

[Two preys at once!]

[Let's hunt be­fore the gi­ant ar­rives!]

The gar­goyle race en­thu­si­as­ti­cally flew in af­ter de­ter­min­ing the hu­mans'

low num­bers and low­est rank race sta­tus through the Bat­tleNet trans­la­tor.

Upon see­ing the num­ber of hu­mans, they quickly de­ter­mined them as the
low­est-rank­ing race and en­er­get­i­cally flew to­wards Seong Ji­han.

De­spite their broad spread, they aimed to crash into the hu­mans all at once.

[One of them is ap­proach­ing!]

[The speed is...... no wings ei­ther......!]

[Deal with that one first!]

While they hastily pre­pared to deal with the rapidly ap­proach­ing Seong Ji­‐
han, they couldn't pre­vent his spear from mov­ing hor­i­zon­tally in the dis­‐

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tance.

Name­less Di­vine Art, Triad of Mar­tial Mas­tery -- To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion Swish!

The gar­goyles were split in half in an in­stant. De­spite be­ing spread widely
in the sky, dozens of in­di­vid­u­als fell to the ground, torn apart..

And through the gap cre­ated, the flames of a phoenix burned ev­ery­thing,
leav­ing no re­mains even of the corpses.

The en­em
­ ies were shocked.

[What... what's this?]

[Their ex­oskele­tons split in­stantly...?]

[Scat­ter, scat­ter!]

They were plan­ning to spread widely and avoid at­tacks, but Seong Ji­han re­‐
al­ized that these crea­tures could be eas­ily dealt with us­ing ba­sic at­tacks.

Once Seong Ji­han as­sessed the en­emy's level with just one at­tack, he
jumped straight into the fray.

The Phoenix Flag, slash­ing hor­i­zon­tally for the sev­enth time.

With each move­ment of the spear, more than ten en­em

­ ies were in­cin­er­ated.

[What is this, why is there such a mon­ster here?]

[There's not even 20 per­cent of the num­bers left!]

[Wasn't this sup­posed to be a map only for Plat­inum par­tic­i­pants?!]

The en­emy's re­ac­tions vividly trans­mit­ted through the Bat­tleNet trans­la­tion

de­vice were very sim­i­lar to those of Earth's play­ers fac­ing Seong Ji­han.

-Lol the alien races are no dif­fer­ent huh?

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-Just like Ja­pa­nese, even they falls with a sin­gle blow -You Ko­re­ans......
were keep­ing this joy to your­selves.

-Let's share the good stuff, al­right?

-I hated him the most dur­ing in­ter­na­tional matches but he's the most re­li­able
here.......

The view­ers from not only Ko­rea but also the coun­tries of the North­east
Asia League, who had suf­fered from Seong Ji­han's usual mass slaugh­ter an­‐
tics, were also en­joy­ing the spec­ta­cle. De­spite be­ing the most an­noy­ing op­‐
po­nent in na­tional com­pe­ti­tions, Seong Ji­han, as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive player of
Earth, was a re­li­able force.

[Re­treat......!]

As the swarm race swiftly re­treated, the next tar­get was the gi­ant ants.
Seong Ji­han im­me­di­ately changed di­rec­tion and flew to­wards the ap­proach­‐
ing gi­ant ants.

"Be care­ful of the ground!"

"Cre­ate a bar­rier on the ground. The ants are dig­ging!"

"Uh, what is this? Ten­ta­cles?"

"Save meee!"

The at­tack of the gi­ant ants turned the hu­man forces into chaos. Nev­er­the­‐
less, with a com­bi­na­tion of war­riors and sup­port­ers, they man­aged to with­‐
stand the at­tacks from the un­der­ground en­em­ ies quite well.

'Since their num­bers are small, they should be stronger.'

Around 40 gi­ant ants were seen. Seong Ji­han in­fused more en­ergy into the
Eclipse, which was em­bed­ded in the ground.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Dark Shadow Tech­nique -- Dark Soul Vor­tex

Swooosh...

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Shad­ows per­me­ated the earth, and the color of the ground turned com­‐
pletely dark. From there, a deep shad­owy aura in­ten­si­fied.

"Oh......"

"The en­emy's of­fense has stopped......."

The move­ments of the gi­ant ants, which had been vig­or­ously at­tack­ing the
hu­man forces from the ground, si­mul­ta­ne­ously came to a halt.

Shu­u­uuu...

The shad­owy aura that had stained the ground rose into the sky, form­ing ten
black pil­lars in an in­stant. Within each pil­lar, a gi­ant ant was trapped, un­‐
able to even strug­gle.

[Crunch... Crunch... for a di­am

­ ond to come here.......]

[This is Be­yond di­am

­ ond!]

[NO.4212... Do not ap­proach them...]

[They vi­o­lated the rules of the game. We should protest to the Bat­tle Net...!]

The gi­ant ant, leav­ing a warn­ing not to ap­proach hu­mans, dis­ap­peared. In

an in­stant, ten en­ti­ties were an­ni­hi­lated.

Ku­ru­rur...

The gi­ant ants that had been rush­ing to­wards hu­man­ity with­drew along the
same path they had come.

[Mas... Mas­ter. Was your power at this level? When did you ad­vance so
much?]

"This is just it. I used Dark Shadow tech­nique af­ter a long time, and it un­‐
folded be­low my ex­pec­ta­tions."

[...This is be­low your ex­pec­ta­tions?]

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Seong Ji­han ex­pressed re­gret that the Dark Soul Vor­tex didn't work as well
as he hoped com­pared to his Mar­tial Soul. Ariel found this in­com­pre­hen­si­‐
ble.

As the at­tack of the ants con­cluded, a gi­ant was spot­ted ap­proach­ing from
the west, the same one that had re­treated when the bar­rier opened.

"Ah, there's that gi­ant from ear­lier...!"

Thud! Thud!

[It's those guys from be­fore.]

[Re­treat.]

See­ing the hu­man ex­pe­di­tion team, or more pre­cisely, Seong Ji­han. He

quickly re­traced his steps.

"The gi­ant is...... leav­ing......."

-Lol, that big gi­ant is run­ning away.

-This is... the might of hu­man­ity...

-Hu­man­ity??Seong Ji­han han­dled it all alone lol

-En­ter­ing the chaotic bat­tle­field, he de­feated three races right away -He's
like a one-man army, just like on Earth.

Per­haps be­cause the map was lim­ited to Plat­inum par­tic­i­pants, there was no
race that could with­stand Seong Ji­han's over­whelm­ing power.

"Oh, the bar­rier is open­ing!"

At that mo­ment, the bar­rier opened.

[So this is the re­hearsal map!]

[Kruk, kruk! Orcs, let's dom­i­nate this bat­tle­field!]

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The pig-faced Orc race, num­ber 500, came out from the bar­rier vig­or­ously
but "Light­ing cloud, be­gin."

Tz­izi­iziz......!

Light­ning rained down from the Light­ning cloud al­ready spread wide in the
sky.

[How easy. Yes, this is the level of the low­est-rank­ing race.]

As the Eclipse raised shadow swords from the ground to slice the Orc'
necks.

[What, what was that......?]

[At­tack­ing as soon as the game started, this is cheat­ing......!]

The en­emy race col­lapsed in­stantly.

"Look­ing at this, it re­minds me of when hu­man­ity first played re­hearsal."

"Back then we got hit with Dragon Breaths at the start too and were con­‐
fused as well."

"Wow, the points are ac­cu­mu­lat­ing quickly... We've al­ready sur­passed

1,000."

"7th place? We might be able to break through this time!"

In­clud­ing Orcs, they had al­ready en­coun­tered four races, but re­ly­ing solely
on Seong Ji­han, the hu­man ex­pe­di­tion eas­ily de­feated them all. If things
con­tin­ued like this, aim­ing for 10,000 points didn't seem im­pos­si­ble. Most
peo­ple were de­lighted with this sit­u­at­ion, but there were those who couldn't
smile.

"Cap, Cap­tain. Could this be, are we fin­ish­ing to­day?"

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"Uhm, umm......."

The Plat­inum war­riors for­merly of the Peo­ple's guild 2nd Di­vi­sion looked
at each other.

The way the game was pro­gress­ing seemed too smooth, whether it was
deal­ing with gi­ants or re­pelling gi­ant ants.

'Seong Ji­han re­ally is in­sane.'

'No way, he's a Plat­inum player.......'

'It doesn't make sense.'

From de­feat­ing gi­ants, ants, and even Orcs, Seong Ji­han seemed in­hu­man.
If they con­tin­ued like this, clear­ing the game seemed pos­si­ble.

The Peo­ple's guild war­riors thought.

'...Stats points are tempt­ing, but we have to fol­low or­ders from above.'

The Peo­ple's guild was not a sim­ple guild.

It was an or­ga­ni­za­tion rep­re­sent­ing China, es­tab­lished and led by the coun­‐

try.

They could not defy or­ders from there.

'440 peo­ple are re­main­ing.......'

The Peo­ple's guild cap­tain checked the num­ber of peo­ple.

De­spite the ex­pec­ta­tions of many deaths due to the ant at­tack, Seong Ji­han's
re­sponse was so quick that there were still a con­sid­er­able num­ber of sur­‐
vivors.

'We have about 50 peo­ple on our side. Even if we with­draw, we can main­‐
tain about 10% of our strength.'

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Main­tain­ing 10% was cru­cial; fall­ing be­low that would re­sult in elim­i­na­tion
from the game. Strangely, the re­main­ing force seemed quite solid. If this
con­tin­ued, the game would end just like that.

"Um...... should we just com­mit sui­cide now?"

"No, wait. That would be too ob­vi­ous!"

"But if the game ends like this, won't we be kicked out of the guild?"

"Not nec­es­sar­ily. Wait for an op­por­tu­nity. We've only earned about 1,000
points!"

'Oh-ho'

The Chi­nese war­riors whis­pered to each other in hushed tones, try­ing not to
be heard. How­ever, Seong Ji­han, who had ex­panded his senses to their
max­i­mum to de­tect the en­emy's po­si­tion in the Chaos Bat­tle­field, could
hear them from above.

'I never ex­pected the Peo­ple's guild to back out so eas­ily in the first place.
So that was their in­ten­tion.'

The Earth's rep­re­sen­ta­tives de­lib­er­ately ru­in­ing their team in a Space

League game?

'These guys...... can be help­ful.'

Seong Ji­han smiled.

The game was pro­gress­ing far too eas­ily with de­fen­sive per­son­nel.

I won­dered if we might clear 10,000 points be­fore ex­plo­ration ended,

but.......

'I'll have to make good use of them.'

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Seong Ji­han de­cided to pre­pare a flam­boy­ant place for them to die.

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Chap­ter 182
-Is it re­ally end­ing to­day?

-With the team not drag­ging Seong Ji­han down, points are go­ing up real
quick -For real, we've al­ready hit 5,000 points. Isn't it just a mat­ter of go­ing
to de­feat the Chimera for 8,000 points?

The pro­gres­sion of the game was ex­cep­tion­ally smooth. For Seong Ji­han,
who had far sur­passed the Plat­inum level, the only weak­ness was the team
penalty.

Given his abil­ity to sin­gle-hand­edly crush all three races, there was no one
who could stand against him. The new­com­ers who en­coun­tered Seong Ji­han
and got an­ni­hi­lated im­me­di­ately fled at the mere sight of hu­mans.

[NO.4212... Avoid them. That race has a mon­ster in it.]

[To en­counter a Con­stel­la­tion can­di­date's race in this game, how un­lucky.]

The races de­feated by Seong Ji­han were busy es­cap­ing just see­ing hu­man­‐
ity.

[What, what is this? Why is he so strong?!]

[I thought only plat­inum... could par­tic­i­pate...]

[how could there be such an ex­is­tence... in the Space League...?]

Par­tic­i­pants, dream­ing big and join­ing the chaotic bat­tle­field, dis­ap­peared

as soon as the bar­rier van­ished, suc­cumb­ing to Seong Ji­han's over­whelm­ing
at­tacks.

"These guys are eas­ier than I thought."

"I know right? I re­ally think we'll clear it to­day."

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"It was a bit pre­car­i­ous at first, but now... it's noth­ing dif­fi­cult."

They only suf­fered a bit of dam­age from the gi­ant's palm and the ant's at­‐
tacks. Still, over 400 mem­bers of the ex­pe­di­tion team re­mained.

'Where do I in­vest the +7 stats when I get them?'

'Glad I stayed in plat­inum in­stead of pro­mot­ing.'

'Seong re­ally re­ally is a mon­ster. I feel sorry for the North­east Asian League
play­ers.'

Now, most were ex­pect­ing the chaotic bat­tle­field to come to an end to­day.

At that mo­ment,

Rum­ble...!

"Ah, an­other earth­quake."

"Isn't it the same as be­fore, with the gi­ant ants pop­ping up?"

"It doesn't seem like an en­emy... just, this map is a bit weird."

The ex­pe­di­tion team halted their ad­vance due to the sud­den earth­quake. It
was a pretty pow­er­ful tremor, but since the ex­pe­di­tionary force was at a
Plat­inum level or above, there were no ca­su­al­ties.

How­ever, the ground shook so vi­o­lently that move­ment be­came re­stricted.

Rum­ble...

"It's last­ing longer this time..."

"Yeah. It didn't last more than 5 min­utes last time."

"Could it be that real en­em

­ ies are com­ing?"

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Un­like usual, the earth­quake con­tin­ued for an ex­tended pe­riod. While peo­‐
ple were just think­ing it was odd, sud­denly...

Boom! Boom!

"Whoa! What, what's that?!"

"That's a rift...."

A pow­er­ful ex­plo­sion oc­curred in the nearby land. The ground erupted, and
the chaos rift slowly be­gan to form. From within, chimeras started emerg­ing
one by one.

Seong Ji­han, watch­ing this, re­called mem­o­ries from his past life.

'When the chaos rift starts form­ing due to an earth­quake, the sky and the
ground will soon be re­versed....'

The ter­rain would be de­stroyed, and the world would flip be­fore re­turn­ing
to nor­mal. The chaotic bat­tle­field was over­whelm­ingly ad­van­ta­geous for
fly­ing races.

Un­til now, the game had been too easy for hu­man­ity to per­ceive these
changes. But now, things are dif­fer­ent.

'Orig­i­nally, I should pro­tect the main base here....'

Seong Ji­han, who had no in­ten­tion of end­ing the game so soon, made the
op­po­site choice.

"There are no en­em

­ ies nearby, so let's head to where the rift ap­peared."

"Got it."

"If the chimeras at­tack, just fo­cus on de­fense. I'll go in­side the rift and get
some points."

"Un­der­stood!"

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Seong Ji­han rushed alone to­ward the newly formed rift. Chimeras ap­peared
in an in­stant as he wielded his spear and sword, swiftly cut­ting through the
horde.

Sur­viv­ing chimeras that stayed out of the at­tack range briefly glanced at
Seong Ji­han, then turned and charged to­wards the ex­pe­di­tionary force's
main base.

A mon­ster that judged it was bet­ter to charge at a horde of over 400 peo­ple
rather than rush­ing at Seong Ji­han alone. It seemed ir­ra­tional, but it was
mak­ing a very ra­tio­nal de­ci­sion.

"Shield bind­ing to the front!"

"I'll use the bar­rier as well!"

War­riors and sup­port­ers took a de­fen­sive stance. "Heh... It stings a bit, but
it's fine. Fi­nally, I'll get to at­tack."

"I'll step up with ranged sup­port."

Other promis­ing play­ers from dif­fer­ent classes cho­sen by Seong Ji­han tried
to make their own at­tacks.

"I'll take sec­ond place in points af­ter Seong! Fire Wave!"

Bar­ren, us­ing his sig­na­ture Fire Wave, un­leashed a wave of in­tense flames
to­wards the chimeras. The fiery waves cov­ered the chimeras in­stantly.

Roar!

Chimeras en­gulfed in flames, their en­tire bod­ies burn­ing. "Huh...! It's noth­‐
ing spe­cial."

Bar­ren smiled con­fi­dently as he watched the chimeras burn­ing in the Fire

Wave.

"They keep mov­ing even when on fire?"

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"Huh......."

How­ever, the chimeras, ei­ther re­sis­tant to or im­mune to fire, strongly re­‐

sisted the Fire Wave.

"I should be the one get­ting 2nd af­ter un­cle. Void Ar­row."

Yoon Seah, wield­ing her bow, used the Void Ar­row skill. Un­like Bar­ren, she
couldn't per­form wide area at­tacks, but with each twang of the bow­string,
chimeras stopped mov­ing and fell.

Pre­cisely tak­ing care of them one by one, Yoon Seah caught Bar­ren's at­ten­‐
tion.

Watch­ing from the side, Bar­ren bit his lips.

'At this rate, I might lose to his niece again.'

"I'll show you.......! Just watch, Yoon Seah!"

"Sure, give it a try."

"I'll join in too."

"Oh, Un­cle Masied might be more threat­en­ing."

With that, the promis­ing play­ers Seong Ji­han brought started elim­i­nat­ing
chimeras in their own ways.

"We can hold out."

"I know right? We even blocked the gi­ant's palms, this much is noth­ing."

The trained Lv 200 war­riors eas­ily fended off the Chimeras.

The game pro­gressed too smoothly.An in­cred­i­bly easy game.

"Cap­tain, should we just...... com­mit sui­cide now?"

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"Why's it al­ways sui­cide! They can suf­fi­ciently block these Chimeras even
if we die."

"But at this rate, they might re­ally clear it...!"

While the war­riors from the Peo­ple's guild were feel­ing un­easy, a sys­tem
mes­sage ap­peared, an­nounc­ing a change in the game.

[The chaos rift is ex­pand­ing, and the heav­ens and the earth are over­turn­ing.]

The change was sud­den.

"Uh, uh...."

The sky and the ground flipped in an in­stant. Play­ers who were stand­ing on
the ground be­gan to fall into the sky.

Whooosh!

Al­though the world had quickly re­turned to its orig­i­nal state af­ter be­ing in­‐
verted, "What, what's go­ing on? We're... in the sky!

"The damn Chimeras can fly too?!"

"Cough, cough...!"

The ex­pe­di­tion team was now float­ing in mid-air. The de­fen­sive pos­ture
was com­pletely re­leased for a mo­ment, and the ex­pe­di­tionary force was at­‐
tacked by the Chimera.

Un­like a mo­ment ago, ca­su­al­ties in­creased rapidly.

"Let's use Shield Bind­ing again!"

"Let's hurry!"

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Just as the ex­pe­di­tion team tried to some­how re­cover from this sit­u­at­ion,
[10 sec­onds later, grav­ity will re­turn to nor­mal.]

The world, which had been over­turned, weak­ened grav­ity, sud­denly re­‐
turned to nor­mal.

The weak­ened grav­ity from the world flip­ping soon re­turned.

"If it's like this, we'll fall...!"

"Flight magic, can ev­ery­one use it?"

"It's dif­fi­cult in 10 sec­onds!"

"Then let's use Shield Bind­ing to­wards the ground!"

The ex­pe­di­tion team des­per­ately tried to pre­vent a free fall. At the crit­i­cal
mo­ment when the main ex­pe­di­tion team was in the great­est dan­ger, the war­‐
riors from the Peo­ple's guild, the Chi­nese war­riors, ex­changed glances.

'Now's the time!'

'Let's com­mit sui­cide.'

"Shield Bind­ing!"

Shield Bind­ing. A skill that sum­mons a gi­ant shield when more than 150
war­riors gather to­gether. Un­til a mo­ment ago, whether the war­riors of the
Peo­ple's guild par­tic­i­pated or not, Shield Bind­ing was well main­tained.

But now, with the sky and the ground flipped, it was dif­fer­ent. The per­fect
gath­er­ing of war­rior power was not achieved, so if a few fell, the Shield
Bind­ing sit­u­at­ion would not be main­tained prop­erly.

The war­riors of the Peo­ple's guild seized this op­por­tu­nity.

"Ch-Chimera...! Argh!"

"Ah, the shield fell...!"

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Some de­lib­er­ately let them­selves get at­tacked by Chimeras.

While some float­ing in the air pan­icked and dropped their shields to the
ground.

The Chi­nese war­riors hin­dered team unity through var­i­ous acts.

"Shield Bind­ing didn't cast prop­erly!"

"Oh no...!"

Boom! Boom!

Many play­ers plunged to their deaths.

"Ah, I didn't die..."

"Huh?"

To­wards the col­lapsed hu­man­ity, not just Chimeras, but [He's not here.]

[Let's kill them be­fore he comes here.]

The pow­er­ful races chased away by Seong Ji­han ear­lier si­mul­ta­ne­ously

charged the hu­mans.

Boom!

A gi­ant sum­moned abruptly struck the ex­pe­di­tion team.

And a gi­ant ant grabbed hu­mans from un­der­ground and swal­lowed them.

-Hell... What is this;

-Were those guys hid­ing and fol­low­ing us? Why are they sud­denly all com­‐
ing out?

-We're too pow­er­less with­out Shield Bind­ing....

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-Wow, I thought it was all over

As view­ers lamented the ex­pe­di­tion pushed to the brink of an­ni­hi­la­tion af­ter

the world flipped, 'Is this the end?'

Seong ji­han de­scended to the bot­tom of the chaos rift.

[Ugh, ugh....]

[Don't know... I don't know...!]

[Show mercy... to the de­ceased....]

A world dyed in pur­ple.

As the Chimeras syn­the­sized, voices of lost souls, echo­ing from ev­ery­‐

where, spread through­out.

Both the sur­face and hell were turned up­side down, and this place was no
less than hell.

Seong Ji­han re­called the epic quest.

[Epic Quest]

-Find the 'Frag­ment of a Dead Star' hid­den within the chaotic rift.

Re­ward -- Achieve­ment Points: 1,000,000

-- Max Level Cap in­creased by 50.

-- Ad­di­tional re­wards de­pend­ing on the frag­ments found.

With re­wards so tremen­dous,

There was no sign of the frag­ment at the bot­tom of the rift.

At this rate, he might not find the frag­ment be­fore the re­hearsal ended in
De­cem­ber.

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'No, this won't work. First, I need to clean up the sur­round­ing en­vi­ron­ment.'

Seong Ji­han took out two more swords from his in­ven­tory.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret -- Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing

Gods.

As the swords shat­tered, small sym­bols ap­peared on the ground.

Swoosh...!

The moan­ing souls from all around were sucked in.

[Ah... no way?]

[The shack­les of chaos... are re­leased...!]

[Fi­nally I can dis­ap­pear!]

Even while be­ing sucked in, the souls re­joiced.

The world, pre­vi­ously filled with pur­ple smoke, was pu­ri­fied in an in­stant.

The Chimeras that had been charg­ing from all di­rec­tions came to a halt.

In­deed, among An­ni­hi­la­tion God's skills, none sur­passed Myr­iad Ghost

Seal­ing Gods in han­dling souls.

'This is the limit.'

The amount of souls in the rift ex­ceeded what could be con­trolled even with
his mar­tial soul.

Boom!

As the sym­bol of Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods ex­ploded, the ab­sorp­tion of

souls stopped.

Nev­er­the­less,

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[Sal­va­tion, sal­va­tion has come!]

[Oh sav­ior, here we are...!]

The at­ti­tude of the Chimeras' souls, just plead­ing to be saved ear­lier, com­‐
pletely changed.

Call­ing Seong Ji­han their sav­ior, they gath­ered in one spot.

Swoosh...

The ground opened.

A hid­den space un­de­tected even with his mar­tial soul was re­vealed.

[Please com­pletely oblit­er­ate us!]

As Seong Ji­han en­tered the con­cealed space, a mas­sive pur­ple-hued cube

floated in mid-air.

An even stronger deathly en­ergy than be­fore flowed out, al­most com­pa­ra­ble
to what Kar­lein pos­sessed.

'I can't just en­dure this with mar­tial soul.'

Seong Ji­han used the same method as when he faced Kalrein.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret -- Blood Cross.

A pure white cross with a hole in the mid­dle.

Orig­i­nally de­signed for of­fense, this mar­tial art had been in­creas­ingly used
for de­fense lately.

Af­ter im­bu­ing it with the life en­ergy gained from The World Tree,
Whoosh...!

A green pro­tec­tive bar­rier com­pletely en­closed him, block­ing the deathly

en­ergy.

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[As ex­pected of the sav­ior...!]

[He's en­dur­ing it!]

[He's not dy­ing!]

They cheered, now filled with hope.

[Please de­stroy that thing. Oh sav­ior...!]

With new­found hope, they pleaded for Seong ji­han to break the cube.

This sit­u­at­ion re­quired care­ful con­sid­er­at­ion. One look and he knew he had
to use the Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

'Us­ing both An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­crets will com­pletely drain my soul...'

Even for Seong Ji­han, the tremen­dously con­sum­ing An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­‐
cret wasn't easy to dou­ble cast.

Us­ing Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods here would surely drain him.

Since he planned more fights later, he should with­draw here.

If only the ex­pe­di­tion force ended here, he could go all out with­out wor­ries.

'The sky flipped but they're still hold­ing out? Hmm... Is the Peo­ple's guild
war­riors not mak­ing any move?'

While Seong Ji­han was con­flicted,

[Team's sur­vival rate has dropped be­low 10%.]

[You will be ex­pelled from the map in 15 min­utes.]

A timely sys­tem mes­sage ap­peared.

The sys­tem mes­sage in­formed Seong Ji­han that the team had been wiped
out.

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'Per­fect.'

With the game com­ing to an end, he could go all out now.

Seong Ji­han took out two more S-rank swords from his in­ven­tory and ap­‐
proached the cube.

He plunged the swords into the cube and used the Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing
Gods, Crackle...!

As cracks formed on the cube.

['Chaos Seal­ing Stone' is crum­bling.]

['Frag­ment of a Dead Star' re­veals it­self.]

The goal of this epic quest, the Frag­ment of the Dead Star, ap­peared from
within the cube.

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Chap­ter 183
The Chaos Seal­ing Stone turned golden, re­veal­ing the Frag­ment of a Dead
Star. It ap­peared as a rugged, rigid metal­lic mass, rather or­di­nary in its ex­‐
ter­nal ap­pear­ance to be called a frag­ment of a star. Seong Ji­han felt a sense
of doubt about whether this was in­deed the real Frag­ment of the Dead Star.

[Epic Quest has been cleared.]

[Re­wards will be granted.]

[1,000,000 achieve­ment points have been ob­tained.]

[Max­i­mum level limit in­creased by 50.]

'Right.'

Seong Ji­han sighed in re­lief as the quest com­ple­tion no­ti­fi­ca­tion ap­peared.

'Putting the team to­gether took a while, but it was easy once I went down.'

Re­flect­ing on the process of break­ing the seal at the bot­tom of the Chaos
Rift, Seong Ji­han con­sid­ered it a rel­at­ively quick task. How­ever, no other
player had been able to clear it as eas­ily. The pow­er­ful death en­ergy em­a­‐
nat­ing from the Chaos Rift made sur­vival vir­tu­ally im­pos­si­ble for any
player within.

'But I re­mem­ber there was an­other re­ward...'

De­spite the ad­di­tional achieve­ment points and the level limit in­crease,
Seong Ji­han felt a sense of dis­ap­point­ment. While con­tem­plat­ing, he re­‐
ceived an­other mes­sage.

[A frag­ment rel­eg­ ated from the Bronze League.]

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[NO.4212 'Hu­man­ity' has over 50% sync rate with the dead race. You may
ab­sorb the Frag­ment of a Dead Star.]

[Would you like to ab­sorb the Frag­ment of the Dead Star?]

Warn­ing*** Un­fore­seen side ef­fects may oc­cur

A star of a race rel­eg­ ated from Bronze, with over 50% sync rate with hu­‐
man­ity.

'So, they were the low­est-tier race, huh?'

Think­ing that, Seong Ji­han pressed yes.

He de­cided to take the risk of side ef­fects since the gains so far felt lack­ing.

Sud­denly...

Whoosh...!

The small metal piece, the Frag­ment of the Dead Star, was in­stantly sucked
into Seong Ji­han's body.

[Here is...!]

[It's warm.]

[This form, it's sim­i­lar to our race!]

Voices of in­tense souls be­gan to echo.

Un­like the souls fused into Chimeras while wail­ing, Each soul ex­hib­ited a
pow­er­ful pres­ence.

[Let's steal this body!]

[Right... I can't re­main trapped in that cold prison for­ever!]

[Hehe, hehehe... I'll be the first to use it for a year!]

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[No way, me first!]

The alien en­ergy that en­tered Seong Ji­han's body tried to spread into four
di­rec­tions in­stantly, at­tempt­ing to take con­trol of him. For a typ­i­cal player,
this would re­sult in an im­me­di­ate and in­tense pos­ses­sion by the pow­er­ful
souls. How­ever, for Seong Ji­han, who gained com­plete con­trol over his
body af­ter ac­quir­ing Mar­tial Soul, such an at­tempt had no ef­fect.

'Are they in­sane?'

With the en­ergy em­an­ at­ing from the seed of life pro­vided by the elves,
Seong Ji­han ef­fort­lessly con­trolled the sit­u­at­ion. At­tempts by the souls to
rebel were eas­ily thwarted.

[Wait a mo­ment...]

[Why isn't he mov­ing...]

[H-hey, it's just a joke. Just a mo­ment. Hey, don't take it se­ri­ously. Thanks
for sav­ing me!!]

[Yes, yes! We won't eat you. Give us an­other body in­stead! We'll give you
in­for­ma­tion! How our star per­ished...! We'll show you the end of the
world!]

"Enough."

Hadn't Seong Ji­han al­ready wit­nessed the end of the world him­self? He
couldn't risk re­leas­ing these dan­ger­ous be­ings to ob­tain in­for­ma­tion from
an­other hu­man. Seong Ji­han sim­ply dis­pelled the for­eign en­ergy within
him.

[How... from there... how did you...!]

[For me, a con­stel­la­tion can­di­date...!!]

With these part­ing words, the soul group dis­ap­peared.

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Seong Ji­han quickly sup­pressed the re­bel­lion and gazed at the shat­tered
Chaos Seal­ing Stone with a dis­sat­is­fied ex­pres­sion.

'Ab­sorb­ing this won't bring any sub­stan­tial gains.'

I should just quickly clear the Chaos Bat­tle­field map.

While he was mak­ing this judg­ment, a mes­sage ap­peared.

[The star's abil­ity strength­ens Mar­tial Soul by ob­tain­ing the Frag­ment of a

Dead Star.]

[Mar­tial Soul's growth rate in­creases.]

[You have in­di­rectly ex­pe­ri­enced the pro­found en­light­en­ment held un­til the
end by the 'con­stel­la­tion can­di­date' of the dead race.]

[You can in­vest 10 points into Mar­tial soul.]

"What...?"

Seong Ji­han's eyes widened.

Achiev­ing a mil­lion achieve­ment points and an in­creased level limit seemed

triv­ial com­pared to the true re­ward that was pre­sented.

De­cem­ber 15th.

The at­mos­phere of the re­hearsal ex­pe­di­tion team that vig­or­ously set out was
grad­u­ally damp­en­ing.

-Oh, an­other fail­ure??

-Please stop drag­ging Brother Ji­han down

-Sigh... Ev­ery time the sky and ground flip, its game is over.

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-Didn't they add mages with flight magic and pre­pare items?

-The war­riors keep com­plain­ing that they are not fa­mil­iar with the map....

-And adding mages weak­ened our de­fenses...

Even on the first day, it seemed like they would clear the game within a
week, but af­ter two weeks of con­tin­u­ous play, there was no sign of clear­ing.
The main prob­lem was still how to deal with the re­ver­sal of sky and ground.
Whether us­ing flight magic or pre­par­ing shield bind­ings fac­ing the ground
to with­stand the im­pact of free fall, the hands and feet weren't co­op­er­at­ing
well, re­sult­ing in many ca­su­al­ties. To make mat­ters worse, at this cru­cial
tim­ing, a sur­prise at­tack was car­ried out by the fly­ing race.

Once the main base was de­stroyed by more than half.

Ul­ti­mately, be­fore reach­ing 10,000 points, the main base couldn't hold on.

To re­solve this, nu­mer­ous meth­ods were de­vised, and among them was the
sug­ges­tion to seek Seong Ji­han's help dur­ing the time sky flips.

-If I pro­tect the main base, my power will be ex­hausted. I can't use my
strength un­lim­it­edly.

Seong Ji­han ex­pressed his re­luc­tance. In fact, what he was do­ing now was
equiv­al­ent to the work of 500 peo­ple. To ask for more in this sit­u­at­ion was
too much, even if they were bus pas­sen­gers.

So, The World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion could not ask any more of Seong Ji­‐
han and bus­ied them­selves find­ing the cause in­stead.

-I've an­al­yzed it, and it seems that the Asian player was the first to fall. We
need to ad­just the player ra­tio by re­gion, fo­cus­ing on those with bet­ter con­‐
trol.

-There's a lot of talk about these Asian guys who are rid­ing the bus with
Seong Ji­han -But the Chi­nese war­riors seem to die quickly...

-That's racism!

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-What racism? I'm Asian too;.

Clev­erly or­ches­trated trolling by the Peo­ple's guild Their ac­tions had not yet
been clearly re­vealed, but in the up­per ech­el­ons of the Peo­ple's guild, they
were pon­der­ing how to han­dle this is­sue.

How­ever,

The Peo­ple's Guild lead­er­ship was wor­ry­ing about how to han­dle this is­sue.

"The move­ment of global pub­lic opin­ion is un­usual. If it be­comes known

that we ru­ined the game, we'll face a strong back­lash."

For 15 days, the Chaos Bat­tle­field had been live-streamed world­wide.

Dur­ing these 2 weeks, the spot­light was fo­cused solely on Seong Ji­han.

As the world's strong­est player re­spon­si­ble for hu­man­ity's ex­pe­di­tion.

How­ever, he was ul­ti­mately a piti­ful war­rior whose al­lies kept dy­ing and
fail­ing the game.

-...Sigh.

In the past week, ev­ery time the mes­sage "Team sur­vivors are be­low 10%,
team will be ex­pelled from the map in 15 min­utes" ap­peared, Seong Ji­han
would gaze into the air with a va­cant ex­pres­sion, and the short sighs be­‐
came a big topic.

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠ He sighed again ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-- Sorry Ji­han...

-- But some­how... it's kind of dif­fer­ent and cool to see him sweep through
­ ies as usual and then see him like this, don't you think? ㅎㅎ......
en­em

-Well, even his ba­sic face is a scam

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Con­stantly show­ing the im­age of hu­man­ity's last war­rior sur­viv­ing un­til the
end caused his fans to ex­plode world­wide re­gard­less of gen­der or age.

Seong Ji­han's chan­nel al­ready had many sub­scribers, thought to have

reached its limit, but grew ex­plo­sively once again through this op­por­tu­nity.

"If our ac­tions are ever re­vealed in this sit­u­at­ion, we may face se­vere con­‐
dem­na­tion world­wide."

"Shouldn't we stop the sui­cides now...?"

"I haven't been sleep­ing well lately from fear of our deeds be­ing ex­posed
here..."

The mod­er­ate fac­tion of the Peo­ple's guild sug­gested cov­er­ing up at this

point, but...

"Ah, should we bow down to such crit­i­cism?"

"Did we even make any un­rea­son­able de­mands to the Daegi guild in the
first place? Didn't they un­justly ac­cuse Zhang Shuzhong of sex­ual ha­rass­‐
ment with pre­pos­ter­ous lies?"

"Zhang Shuzhong was in the wrong! He did what he used to do in the coun­‐
try, but in a for­eign land..."

"How dare you! Watch your words! Do you plan to in­sult your fel­low coun­‐
try­man be­liev­ing their lies?!"

The hard­lin­ers com­pris­ing the Peo­ple's guild ma­jor­ity were stub­born.

"Let's send some­one back to the Daegi guild! Say we'll strongly sup­port
them in-game if they add Wang Lin to the team, no in­ten­tional deaths."

"...Are you se­ri­ous? Are we go­ing to ex­pose our­selves as the cul­prits to

them?"

"Who said we should say it like that! We can talk in­di­rectly about dif­fer­ent
sup­port go­ing on now. Men­tion that we'll pro­vide more Fight Magic Scrolls.

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Let's be sub­tle."

"Al­right. With­out our Peo­ple's guild power, they won't be able to clear the
mis­sion ei­ther. It's a mat­ter of mu­tual ben­ef­ it. Let's play along."

"That's right..."

Fac­ing the ma­jor­ity opin­ion of the hard­line fac­tion, the mod­er­ate fac­tion
couldn't op­pose it.

They just said.

"Then, we'll send our ne­go­ti­at­ion rep­re­sen­ta­tive. We shouldn't cause trou­ble

like last time."

"Hehe... Zhang Shuzhong said he wants to be the rep­re­sen­ta­tive...."

"No, are you try­ing to cause prob­lems again?!"

"Al­right, I get it. You han­dle it!"

And so the ne­go­ti­at­ion team sent to the Daegi guild, It was more cour­te­ous
than the pre­vi­ously sent Zhang Shuzhong.

"So, in short... If I add Wang Lin in the team, you'll pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant sup­‐
port to the ex­pe­di­tion, cor­rect?"

"Yes, that's cor­rect. We'll also in­clude an apol­ogy for the past in­ci­dent."

"Hmm..."

Upon hear­ing the rather at­trac­tive pro­posal from the fe­male of­fi­cial of the
Peo­ple's guild, Lee Hayeon con­veyed it to Seong Ji­han.

[Boss, how should I re­spond?]

Un­aware of the Peo­ple's guild trolling since their sui­cide at­tempts were per­‐
fectly covert, Lee Hayeon found their of­fer it­self quite at­trac­tive.

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[The pro­posal it­self is not bad...]

She found the con­di­tions they pre­sented quite ap­peal­ing.

How­ever,

'I can't just let it pass like this.'

Seong Ji­han had no in­ten­tion of ac­cept­ing what­ever con­di­tions they of­fered.

'Time to wrap this up soon.'

He had col­lected 6 frag­ments so far.

The level limit can no longer be in­creased here.

Most im­por­tantly, he could in­vest ad­di­tional points into Mar­tial Soul.

Mar­tial Soul's stats al­ready al­most reached 200.

'The ex­pe­ri­ence of alien races was quite en­light­en­ing.'

The pro­found en­light­en­ment held by the dead race's con­stel­la­tion can­di­‐

dates.

Though the en­light­en­ment from in­di­rectly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing them was, in truth,

too short.

Only about a minute af­ter an­ni­hi­lat­ing the souls.

He could briefly feel their most pow­er­ful ex­er­tion of might.

How­ever, as there was only one war­rior among them who used their power
like Seong Ji­han, much re­mained in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to him.

Mages, sup­port­ers, and archers were pre­dom­i­nant, mak­ing cer­tain as­pects

elu­sive.

How­ever,

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'Con­trol­ling the bod­ies of dif­fer­ent races did broaden my hori­zons..'

The three-armed race, the four-eyed race, and the winged race---all of their
ex­pe­ri­ences were dras­ti­cally dif­fer­ent from what hu­man­ity could feel.
Though their pro­found in­sights had briefly touched Seong Ji­han, the very
sen­sa­tion of us­ing the bod­ies of dif­fer­ent races ex­panded the po­ten­tial paths
for the Mar­tial Soul's growth.

And so, He used the ad­di­tional points and raised it to ex­actly 200.

[The star's abil­i­ties can no longer be strength­ened through 'Frag­ments of

Dead Stars'.]

Since Seong Ji­han had re­ceived this mes­sage yes­ter­day, he had firmly de­‐
cided to end the game on the chaotic bat­tle­field.

Be­fore con­clud­ing the game, he planned to show the Peo­ple's guild a some­‐
what bit­ter taste of his at­tempt. "Bat­tle Mar­ket," he opened the mar­ket and
pur­chased the item he had been con­tem­plat­ing.

[First-per­son per­spec­tive sen­sory shar­ing ticket]

-An item that shares the user's per­spec­tive and senses through video, al­low­‐
ing it to be broad­cast on Bat­tle­Tube.

-A one-time use item, and the limit for each ticket is 30 min­utes.

A ticket that can share ev­ery­thing the user sees and hears. To fully cap­ture
the sound of the Peo­ple's guild chat­ter­ing among them­selves, the ex­ist­ing
Bat­tleNet broad­cast­ing sys­tem was in­suf­fi­cient. It had to en­cap­su­late Seong
Ji­han's full sen­sory ex­pe­ri­ence.

'Thanks, Peo­ple's Guild.'

Thanks to them, the game didn't end too soon, and he could fully ab­sorb the
star's power from the Frag­ment of the Dead star. So, it was time to re­cip­ro­‐
cate.

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Chap­ter 184
On De­cem­ber 15th, the day of the re­hearsal game.

The start of the game was sim­i­lar as usual.

[Crazy... What is this guy...!]

The species en­coun­ter­ing hu­man­ity for the first time charged in af­ter just
look­ing at their ap­pear­ance, only to be com­pletely smashed by Seong Ji­han.

[NO.4212...! That's the race he's in. Avoid them.]

The species who met hu­man­ity early in the pre­vi­ous re­hearsals fled with all
their might just see­ing them.

"It feels even harder to raise points than be­fore..."

Yoon Seah looked at the es­cap­ing en­em

­ ies with a re­gret­ful face.

The race that had suf­fered a de­feat from Seong Ji­han never tried to fight.

Just see­ing hu­mans from a dis­tance, they would es­cape with all their might.

"They run away as soon as they see Seong Ji­han. There should be more
races com­ing in."

"That's right. More­over, there are many en­em

­ ies tar­get­ing us dur­ing the
time the sky flips."

Wait­ing for the mo­ment of the Re­ver­sal, when the sky and the earth are
over­turned. At the time when hu­man­ity was in chaos, more than one race
car­ried out sur­prise at­tacks.

Of course, Seong Ji­han showed a pow­er­ful re­sponse even at this time.

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"No mat­ter what, it's too much for my un­cle alone..."

Dur­ing the mo­ment of the Re­ver­sal, it was im­pos­si­ble for Seong Ji­han to
take care of all the ex­pe­di­tion teams.

No, in fact.

'Even though it's pos­si­ble to take care of ev­ery­thing...I'm pre­tend­ing that it

is im­pos­si­ble.'

He had the abil­ity, but wanted to make it look im­pos­si­ble since there were
still things to gain from the chaotic rifts.

So Seong Ji­han de­cided they had to main­tain this state for a while.

"At this rate, we re­ally might not clear it huh?"

"Nah, we'll def­i­nitely clear even­tu­ally."

So she was more at ease than Sophia who was gen­uinely wor­ried about
clear­ing, but 'If we keep this up, the en­em
­ ies' re­sponses will get quicker I
think....'

Around the 15th, she was a bit wor­ried.

"I hope they re­spond well dur­ing the world flip."

Thus, the game con­tin­ued.

When the points of the ex­pe­di­tion team reached about 5,000.

"The world is turn­ing...!"

"Ev­ery­one, get ready!"

The time for the Re­ver­sal, which re­peat­edly tripped up the ex­pe­di­tion team,
was ap­proach­ing.

And, as usual.

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"Cap­tain... shall we start again to­day...?"

"Yes, it seems like they are try­ing to ne­go­ti­ate. We shouldn't clear the game
be­fore that."

"But will Seong Ji­han ac­cept the ne­go­ti­at­ion? If he knows what we did..."

"The mod­er­ates went. They won't bla­tantly re­veal it."

The Peo­ple's guild play­ers were about to at­tempt sui­cide again.

Swish...!

Be­hind them.

A small shadow in the shape of a sword rose and dis­ap­peared with­out them
notic­ing.

[Chaotic Rift has ex­panded, and the world is over­turned.]

Rum­ble...!

When the heav­ens and earth flipped, send­ing the en­tire ex­pe­di­tion team
float­ing in the air.

Seong Ji­han, stand­ing far away.

'It's time.'

He tore the First-per­son per­spec­tive sen­sory shar­ing ticket pur­chased from

the bat­tle mar­ket.

Then

-Huh...?

-What's this?

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Changes oc­curred in the live broad­cast of Seong Ji­han's video broad­cast

world­wide on the Bat­tle­Tube.

The first thing view­ers saw was a multi-view­point per­spec­tive.

-Wha...! Why are so many screens pop­ping up sud­denly?!

-Looks like I'll need 20 mon­i­tors set up.

-That's not Oppa Seong Ji­han's screen, right?

In­stead of one screen from Seong Ji­han's view­point, The screen was di­vided
into 20.

To al­low or­di­nary peo­ple to fully feel Seong Ji­han's nor­mal senses, Even
this much was in­suf­fi­cient.

But also cap­tur­ing his five senses com­pletely was im­pos­si­ble due to or­di­‐
nary peo­ple's lim­i­ta­tions.

How­ever,

"Al­right, let's start again. Fall to the ground."

"Ma­gi­cians, use grav­ity re­in­force­ment in­stead of re­verse grav­ity."

"Sup­port­ers, use dis­pelling magic in­stead of bar­ri­ers."

"Quickly... Die!"

-What? Fall to the ground he says...

-Sui­cide? In this sit­u­at­ion?

-Who is this...?

And as if to sat­isfy the view­ers' cu­rios­ity.

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Swish...!

The sword-shaped shadow abruptly sprouted from the Peo­ple's guild play­‐
ers' backs.

[Mas­ter, I just have to il­lu­mi­nate them, right?]

"Right."

When Seong Ji­han and Ariel's voices were heard.

The Peo­ple's guild play­ers ap­peared on the 20 screens.

As they each tried to at­tempt sui­cide while float­ing in the air, those play­ers
"Wha, what is this?"

"The shadow sword...!"

With sur­prised faces, they looked at the sword.

As for who owned the Shadow Sword.

There was no one on Earth who didn't know by now.

'No way...'

'We've been caught...!'

The faces of the Peo­ple's guild play­ers turned con­tem­pla­tive.

Seong Ji­han, fac­ing the view­ers watch­ing his broad­cast, calmly opened his
mouth.

"The world flip. It's been two weeks since this phe­nom­en­ on oc­curred. The
as­so­ci­at­ion has un­der­gone suf­fi­cient train­ing, and we all did well dur­ing
prac­tice. How­ever.""

Swish...

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The Shadow Sword, which was ini­tially as small as a fin­ger­nail, grad­u­ally

grew.

The blade reached the point of stran­gling the neck.

"I won­dered why only the ac­tual games failed."

"I... This is...!"

"T-This is a per­sonal mis­take!"

"I-I ac­tu­ally wanted to level up more on this map...!"

Play­ers des­per­ately tried not to be as­so­ci­ated with Peo­ple's guild, claim­ing

it was a per­sonal in­dul­gence.

But.

Such ex­cuses were in vain, as the mark of Peo­ple's guild was proudly at­‐
tached to their ar­mor and robe hems.

-In­ten­tional sui­cide...!

-Whoa... so the Peo­ple's guild has been in­ten­tion­ally hin­der­ing the clear un­‐
til now?

-Why...? Are they crazy?

-How many peo­ple are dy­ing in the clear right now... and there are so many
Peo­ple's guild play­ers in the ex­pe­di­tion team, right?

The re­hearsal map that of­fered an in­cred­i­ble bonus of 7 stat points.

All play­ers were ea­ger to clear it as soon as pos­si­ble and in­vest in it.

And now, these play­ers in­ten­tion­ally hin­dered it un­til now?

Even af­ter watch­ing the video, peo­ple couldn't be­lieve this event.

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And then...

-Ah, don't tell me it's be­cause they didn't add Wang Lin last time?

-...Re­ally? They ru­ined the ex­pe­di­tion just be­cause of that?

-There's gotta be some­thing else. Why would they die for no rea­son?

-Se­ri­ously, it's ridicu­lous! They're all gain­ing stat +7 ben­ef­ its any­way.

-Pre­pos­ter­ous ac­cu­sa­tions! Their ac­tions have noth­ing to do with the Peo­‐

ple's guild!

-But all 20 who tried to com­mit sui­cide are from the Peo­ple's guild, right?

Re­call­ing the re­cent con­flicts be­tween Seong Ji­han and Peo­ple's guild, peo­‐
ple were hor­ri­fied.

Could the Peo­ple's guild re­ally have trolled by in­ten­tion­ally ru­in­ing the
game just be­cause they didn't add Wang Lin to the party...?

"It's no use now."

Seong Ji­han touched his neck with his fin­gers.

Then, the shadow sword that had grown in front of the 20 peo­ple be­gan to
move si­mul­ta­ne­ously.

Swish!

The Peo­ple's guild play­ers' necks were sev­ered si­mul­ta­ne­ously.

-Whoa...

-Seong Ji­han killed them...

-Ah, he's killing his al­lies!

-What the hell is this?

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The Chi­nese view­ers, who were quiet un­til a while ago, went wild as all the
Peo­ple's guild play­ers were ex­ec­ uted.

With a cold face, Seong Ji­han, putting his weapons in the in­ven­tory and
clench­ing his fist, closed his eyes.

[Now is the time.]

[We have to re­duce num­bers here!]

When the world re­versed and re­turned af­ter the Earth had turned up­side
down, in the sit­u­at­ion where the de­mon race was at­tack­ing the ex­pe­di­tion
team that had fallen to the ground.

Seong Ji­han stood alone on the light­ning cloud, qui­etly look­ing at the bat­‐
tle­field.

When he fi­nally stepped for­ward.

"Ah... un­cle, thank you!"

"Seong! Thanks to you, I sur­vived!"

His close ac­quain­tances like Yoon Seah and Sophia, who were in cri­sis,
thanked him.

"Hey! What about me...!"

He com­pletely ig­nored oth­ers like Bar­ren.

[Team's sur­vival rate has dropped be­low 10%.]

[You will be ex­pelled from the map in 15 min­utes.]

When the team an­ni­hi­la­tion mes­sage ap­peared with less than 10% ex­pe­di­‐
tion sur­vivors re­main­ing.

Seong Ji­han, who had kept silent with eyes closed, opened his mouth.

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"From now on, I will ex­pel all Peo­ple's guild play­ers from the ex­pe­di­tion
team. How­ever, if the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion con­tin­ues in­clud­ing
Peo­ple's guild play­ers on the ros­ter..."

He firmly fin­ished speak­ing.

"Re­hearsal games will never open again."

And so, the game on that day came to an end.

It caused a mas­sive im­pact world­wide.

[The rea­son why the re­hearsal hasn't been cleared un­til now... Shock­ing rev­‐
e­la­tions un­fold!]

[Why did the Peo­ple's guild com­mit such acts? Clues are found in Seong Ji­‐
han's men­tion of Wang Lin at the be­gin­ning of the month.]

[Heav­enly De­mon Wang Lin says he is com­pletely un­aware of this and

firmly de­clined in­ter­views.]

[The Peo­ple's guild com­pletely de­nies this, claim­ing it arose from in­di­vid­‐
ual's de­vi­at­ions.]

[The World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion ex­pects agree­ment on ex­pelling the prob­‐

lem­atic play­ers.]

As usual, Seong Ji­han found him­self at the cen­ter of nu­mer­ous news re­‐
ports. How­ever, this time, the im­pact was sig­nif­i­cant.

=It has al­ready been a week since re­hearsal games stopped open­ing. The
World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion tried me­di­at­ing be­tween player Seong Ji­han
and the Peo­ple's guild, but has re­peat­edly failed.

Then Daegi Guild rep­re­sen­ta­tive Lee Hayeon ap­peared in the news.

She an­swered the re­porter's ques­tions with a cold ex­pres­sion.

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=Our side's de­mand is sim­ple. Please ex­clude all play­ers from the Peo­ple's
guild and re­lated par­ties. We will not ac­cept any­thing be­sides that.

And next, the con­trast­ing World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

=At­tribut­ing the mis­takes of in­di­vid­u­als to the en­tire Peo­ple's guild is dis­ap­‐

point­ing. We can­not help but feel let down by player Seong Ji­han. Ex­clud­‐
ing the en­tire Peo­ple's guild will also neg­at­ively im­pact clear­ing the re­‐
hearsal mis­sion.

We hope to re­solve this by re­plac­ing the play­ers who caused this ir­reg­u­lar
in­ci­dent, and se­lect­ing proper elites. The Peo­ple's guild also ac­knowl­edges
their in­suf­fi­cient player man­age­ment, and has agreed to do­nate 500 flight
magic items.

=So does that mean the Peo­ple's guild won't be ex­cluded?

=Yes... that is cur­rently the case. We ex­pect player Seong Ji­han to make a
gen­er­ous de­ci­sion for the greater good.

The Peo­ple's guild oc­cu­pied con­sid­er­able in­flu­ence within the As­so­ci­at­ion.

Thus the As­so­ci­at­ion could not ac­cept Seong Ji­han's de­mand.

And al­though Seong Ji­han gained world­wide sup­port af­ter the Peo­ple's
guild sui­cide at­tempts were ex­posed, One coun­try was an ex­cep­tion.

"Hey, Un­cle. Look at this."

=Mean­while, pub­lic opin­ion is heated in China. News­pa­per ed­i­to­ri­als are

at­tack­ing him, say­ing Seong Ji­han pinned crimes on the Peo­ple's guild.

Af­ter the news an­chor's brief­ing,

Scenes of peo­ple burn­ing piles of things ap­peared.

=Seong Ji­han's fans in China also ex­pressed huge dis­ap­point­ment, hold­ing

events burn­ing Seong Ji­han prod­ucts af­ter los­ing faith in him due to this in­‐
ci­dent.

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-I be­came his fan af­ter see­ing Seong Ji­han's ac­tiv­i­ties, but com­pletely lost
in­ter­est af­ter this. How can he blame the en­tire Peo­ple's guild for in­di­vid­u­‐
als' mis­takes?

-I agree. Peo­ple shouldn't do that!

-This broad­cast in­sulted our coun­try!

The items for fans, in­clud­ing Seong Ji­han's pic­tures, were burn­ing in heaps.

Yoon Seah watched with a look of dis­be­lief and asked Seong Ji­han, "Un­cle,
did you sell prod­ucts too?"

"Would I do that?"

"Then, are they burn­ing what they made them­selves?"

"That's prob­ab­ ly it. Well, let them burn."

Watch­ing his own face burn­ing, Seong Ji­han smiled wryly.

He never ex­pected such a re­ac­tion from his fans.

"But Un­cle... are you re­ally not do­ing the re­hearsal?"

"Why, do you want to?"

"No, well. Hehe. Los­ing 7 stat points is a bit re­gret­table but your po­si­tion
takes pri­or­ity!"

But Yoon Seah still sub­tly glanced at Seong Ji­han.

Per­haps be­cause she be­came a sea­soned player, she seemed to covet the stat
+7.

"The ex­pe­di­tion won't hap­pen if the as­so­ci­at­ion doesn't change the list."

"Right... that's how it should be! We can't yield here!"

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"But I'll still have to give you your stat bonus."

"Yeah... that means..."

Seong Ji­han pointed to him­self with his fin­ger.

"I pow­ered up re­cently."

" ..... from there?"

"Yeah."

Since the as­so­ci­at­ion was urg­ing them to reach an agree­ment.

They thought that with­out them, the game would even­tu­ally not be cleared.

How­ever,

"Now I can clear the re­hearsal through match­mak­ing."

As his Mar­tial soul reached 200, the sit­u­at­ion has com­pletely changed.

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Chap­ter 185
"You can clear the re­hearsal with match­mak­ing...?"

Yoon Seah asked in sur­prise.

"Ah, of course un­cle can smash them all no mat­ter what other races ap­pear,
but... we hu­mans would get in the way."

"I'm at a level now where that won't hap­pen."

Mar­tial Soul 200.

This abil­ity, com­pleted through the frag­ments of a dead star, boasted over­‐
whelm­ing power.

'Now I'm def­i­nitely stronger than my pre­vi­ous life.'

Al­though he was 7th in the world rank­ings in his past life, in re­al­ity he was
the strong­est on Earth.

He won­dered when he would catch up to that level, and through this

Chaotic Bat­tle­field he was def­i­nitely able to sur­pass it.

'Level 183... With this I prob­ab­ ly won't be­come a Di­am

­ ond even af­ter clear­‐
ing the Chaotic Bat­tle­field.'

The of­fi­cial open­ing match of the Space League on Jan­u­ary 1st.

There, Seong Ji­han had to be 'Plat­inum'.

He could have gone up to Di­am

­ ond and fought en­em
­ ies as Earth's rep­re­sen­‐
ta­tive, but.

'There's no way to deal huge dam­age to them.'

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Re­call­ing the shock­ing in­ci­dent that oc­curred in the open­ing match of his
pre­vi­ous life.

Seong Ji­han once again made up his mind to re­main Plat­inum this year.

"I do feel a bit sorry for the peo­ple who worked hard un­til now, they trained
for a long time."

"The peo­ple from the ex­pe­di­tion?"

At Yoon Seah's words, Seong Ji­han re­called the ex­pe­di­tion mem­bers who
worked quite hard re­cently.

They were prob­ab­ ly grind­ing their teeth be­cause they couldn't clear early
due to the Peo­ple's guild's sui­cide chaos.

'I'll have to take care of them.'

They in­vested time and ef­fort so he couldn't just give the stat bonuses to
some ran­dom match­mak­ing play­ers in­stead of the ex­pe­di­tion team.

"I'll have to con­tact the ex­pe­di­tion mem­bers. And ask if they'll come for
match­mak­ing."

"Ah, that's pos­si­ble with match­mak­ing?"

"Yeah. I de­cide the re­hearsal game team com­po­si­tion."

"So in the end, the ex­pe­di­tion with­out the Peo­ple's guild?"

"It'll change more if some don't come."

"Who wouldn't come?"

With the +7 stat points, they even gave up on the pro­mo­tional matches.

"Will they at­tend on Christ­mas Eve?"

"Christ­mas Eve... it's al­ready that time?"

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"Yeah, the day af­ter to­mor­row."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded as if it worked out well.

"Okay. Then let's set it that day."

In or­der to re­main Plat­inum in De­cem­ber,

Seong Ji­han de­cided to end the re­hearsal on the 24th.

Christ­mas Eve of 2020.

With the re­hearsal game is­sues amid the ap­proach­ing Space League open­‐
ing, "Ev­ery­one, it's been a while."

When Seong Ji­han turned on his Bat­tle­Tube, count­less view­ers flocked in.

-Oh....

-The broad­cast is on!

-It's the re­hearsal wait­ing room.

-Did he fi­nally reach an agree­ment with the As­so­ci­at­ion?

Peo­ple won­dered about the re­hearsal game re­sum­ing like this, but "I haven't
reached any agree­ment with them. To­day, I will end the re­hearsal game with
match­mak­ing."

-Th...through match­ing...?

-No way. Al­lies keep dy­ing and the game ends ev­ery time.

-How can we break through with ran­dom match­ing?

Most peo­ple re­acted wor­riedly when Seong Ji­han said match­mak­ing.

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With al­lies drop­ping be­low 10% sur­vivors each time, end­ing around 6,000-
7,000 points.

"It's pos­si­ble now. Ah, and the orig­i­nal ex­pe­di­tion mem­bers worked hard
un­til now, so I plan to pri­or­i­tize them for match­mak­ing. Ex­clud­ing the Peo­‐
ple's guild of course."

-Giv­ing ex­pe­di­tion pri­or­ity is bet­ter I guess.

-Yeah, lots of war­riors and sup­port­ers.

-Oh, but that leaves 60 spots from the Peo­ple's guild right...?

-Get­ting in those 60 spots would be a jack­pot for who­ever's picked!!

-Right? Is this a Christ­mas present?

-Is there a level limit?

"No lim­its on level, class, any­thing. Any­one can join."

At Seong Ji­han's leisurely dec­la­ra­tion,

The eyes of Plat­inum play­ers world­wide flipped over.

-Please start a bit later! I'll wrap up my Christ­mas Eve date and drive over.

-For real, the +7 stats are way more pre­cious than some date.

-You're not even guar­an­teed to clear the game this time...

-No, no. See­ing Seong Ji­han so con­fi­dent, it seems like some­thing's go­ing
to hap­pen..

That's how the team for­ma­tion be­gan.

"I'm Den­nis, a mem­ber of the ex­pe­di­tion team from Ire­land!"

"Okay, please wait."

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As if they'd been wait­ing, ex­pe­di­tion mem­bers started en­ter­ing one by one,

and "439 mem­bers of the ex­pe­di­tion team have all par­tic­i­pated. Now, let's
pro­ceed with the ran­dom se­lec­tion of 60 spots."

As Seong Ji­han started the game like this,

-Seong Ji­han! To pro­ceed with the game like this...! The al­liance will never
over­look this!

-To pro­ceed with the game ex­clud­ing the Peo­ple's guild. Is it re­ally go­ing to
be like this?

The World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion and Peo­ple's guild strongly protested

through Bat­tle­Tube, but He lightly ig­nored them and con­tin­ued the ran­dom
match­ing.

"I... I'm very sorry about last time. But please, just once...!"

"Leave."

"Seong Ji­han! I'm Wang Lin! Please give me one chance..."

"I won't ac­cept play­ers from that guild. Go away."

Var­i­ous hap­pen­ings oc­curred, like prob­lem­atic ex­pe­di­tion mem­bers from

the Peo­ple's As­so­ci­at­ion try­ing to sneak in, And Heav­enly De­mon Wang Lin
at­tempt­ing to cling on be­fore be­ing forcibly re­moved, but "That's ev­ery­‐
one."

He was even­tu­ally able to com­plete the 500 player com­po­si­tion.

'The ran­domly added 60, didn't even check their lev­els and ac­cepted all be­‐
sides that guild.'

'Will we re­ally be able to clear it..?'

Among the com­pletely ran­domly se­lected 60 were play­ers who just reached
Plat­inum at level 100-some­thing.

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And many were Archer classes most use­less for sur­vival.

With team­work harder to co­or­di­nate than the orig­i­nal ex­pe­di­tion, clear­ing

the mis­sion would be dif­fi­cult right?

The ex­pe­di­tion's wor­ries weren't un­rea­son­able.

"Don't de­fend from now on."

But Seong Ji­han was non­cha­lant.

[All play­ers have gath­ered.]

[Com­menc­ing game.]

[As­signed map: Chaos Bat­tle­field]

And so the game be­gan.

As al­ways, the mo­ment the map opened,

The con­cen­trated at­tack of species wait­ing in am­bush poured out.

Swoosh...!

The at­tack this time was green smoke breathed out by mas­sive snakes, Con­‐
tain­ing strong tox­ins that im­me­di­ately threat­ened the ex­pe­di­tion.

"Cast Shield Bind­ing...!"

To block the pow­er­ful poi­son at­tack, the ex­pe­di­tion team tried to es­tab­lish
de­fenses like be­fore, how­ever "It's fine."

Swish...!

Seong Ji­han, hold­ing the eclipse shadow sword, took out two more swords
from his in­ven­tory And stabbed them into the ground.

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Name­less Di­vine Arts, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret -- Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing

Gods.

The Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing God's pat­tern was barely vis­i­ble when Mar­tial
Soul was low.

But the pat­tern Seong Ji­han drew now was dif­fer­ent.

The Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods was large enough for 10 peo­ple to stand on
densely cov­ered ground.

And un­like usual, the three swords didn't break, re­main­ing in­tact.

Af­ter the pat­terns were all drawn with the swords.

Seong Ji­han smiled slightly at the ex­pe­di­tion.

"Rest a bit, it'll be over soon."

Swoosh...!

Right af­ter he fin­ished speak­ing.

"Huh?"

"Wha, what is this?"

The pat­terns shone and the en­tire 499 ex­pe­di­tion mem­bers started get­ting
sucked into them.

'No need to only use Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods to con­fine souls.'

Like how he also used Blood Cross as a shield.

Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods didn't have to only be used to dom­i­nate en­e­‐
mies' souls.

Us­ing it like this to sim­ply con­tain al­lies hin­der­ing them, block­ing death
penal­ties, was fine too.

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Of course.

'I couldn't have mod­i­fied it with­out Mar­tial Soul's growth.'

With Mar­tial Soul at 150, Seong Ji­han strug­gled just to draw the pat­terns.

But now it has grown to 200, he clearly had leisure to use Myr­iad Ghost
Seal­ing Gods for pur­poses be­sides its orig­i­nal use.

Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods which should've con­fined souls and an­ni­hi­lated
them Just qui­etly con­tained play­ers now.

That 50 point dif­fer­ence in Mar­tial Soul made a tremen­dous dif­fer­ence.

"Uwaaaaah...!"

Be­fore the toxic gas could reach them, Seong Ji­han's Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing
Gods sucked in the en­tire 499 ex­pe­di­tion mem­bers.

Af­ter tidy­ing up the bur­dens to­gether, Seong Ji­han.

[...What is this?]

[An in­ter­nal con­flict?]

[The sum­moned race seems strange this time.]

Faced the gi­ant snake species look­ing at him strangely, and picked up his
Phoenix Flag.

"Give me your kill points."

In re­sponse to the words ut­tered by a life­form that was less than 1/10 of its
size, the gi­ant snake swarm opened its mouth wide.

[A mad­man it was.]

[Quickly take care of him. We need to move lo­ca­tions.]

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[Got it.]

As the smoke was about to emerge again from the snake's mouth, Seong Ji­‐
han's fig­ure dis­ap­peared in an in­stant.

Whoosh!

In the en­tire body of the snake that had opened its mouth, a red cur­rent
surged.

Whoosh...!

The gi­ant snake burst into flames and dis­ap­peared in an in­stant. The dis­ap­‐
pear­ance of one hap­pened so quickly that there was no time to scream.

[What... what is this?]

When the gi­ant snake, un­able to com­pre­hend the sit­u­at­ion, mo­men­tar­ily

shrank its body, "You guys give 25 points per one, huh?"

Seong Ji­han ap­peared in front of them, ex­tend­ing his spear once again.

Name­less di­vine art, Fu­sion of Di­vine thun­der and phoenix -- Crim­son

Thun­der can­non The crim­son thun­der re­leased from the spear spread like a
tidal wave, knock­ing down the en­tire group of gi­ant snakes, num­ber­ing up
to 19.

[This power is...!]

[Un­bear­able...!]

[We've lost this bat­tle­field it seems...]

[NO. 4212...! I'll re­mem­ber it....]

When Seong Ji­han led the hu­man ex­pe­di­tion in the chaos bat­tle­field for a
while, many en­em ­ ies knew about NO.4212. How­ever, the snake species,
un­fa­mil­iar with hu­mans and com­ing af­ter a long time, had no knowl­edge
about it.

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Af­ter the snakes were an­ni­hi­lated by Crim­son Thun­der in an in­stant, Seong

Ji­han glanced at the Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

"Please rest for a bit. I'll quickly end this and come back."

Swish!

Seong Ji­han's fig­ure dis­ap­peared, and soon af­ter...

[This guy! He's still here...]

[What, he got stronger!]

[I-I can't es­cape. He's so fast...!]

Screams from mem­bers of other species echoed in the dis­tance.

Chaos Bat­tle­field.

A map where species worth 500 points gath­ered for team play.

But the game to­day com­pletely dif­fered.

[Is this guy... a boss mon­ster?]

[No! He's from a race! NO.4212!]

[At that level... he's worth 500 points alone!!]

[Is hu­man­ity... a new di­vine ex­is­tence?]

Was it be­cause Seong Ji­han's might was so over­whelm­ing?

The species fac­ing him mis­took Seong Ji­han for a godly race.

-Whoa... this map was so easy?

-Seal­ing the bur­dens makes it end in one go...

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-But Seong Ji­han seems stronger, right?

-Yeah, he's shoot­ing crim­son thun­der in bar­rages now.

View­ers fa­mil­iar with Seong Ji­han's broad­casts could sense that he had up­‐
graded an­other level. De­spite not play­ing games lately and be­ing in a seclu­‐
sion, how did he be­come even stronger?

'Chaos Bat­tle­field. It was in­deed a grate­ful map.'

Rum­ble...!

As the ground vi­brated, a chaos rift ap­peared. Seong Ji­han gazed af­fec­tion­‐
ately at it.

The frag­ments of dead stars hid­den within the Rifts.

Thanks to those, his Mar­tial Soul which hadn't been grow­ing well had
grown tremen­dously.

He would've wanted to keep stay­ing here min­ing star frag­ments if Mar­tial

Soul's growth didn't stop now.

'But growth has ceased now, so I should end it now.'

And the Space League open­ing match was ap­proach­ing soon, so he had to
pre­pare for that too.

Seong Ji­han looked at the score­board.

1st -- NO.4212 Hu­man­ity -- Kill Points 9994

Just 6 more points to hit 1st place and end Chaos Bat­tle­field.

Seong Ji­han went around look­ing for prey and

[Oh, run...!]

[It's him!]

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The gar­goyle species he mas­sa­cred be­fore.

The en­em
­ ies who im­me­di­ately turned away see­ing him.

How­ever,

"How many points were you guys again?"

[What, how did he sud­denly...!]

The ones who had only grown to plat­inum couldn't es­cape from Seong Ji­‐
han, who had grown even stronger.

"Okay. Just the six of you come out. I'll spare the rest."

[What non­sense is that...!]

[We're only 2 points! You just need to deal with the three of us!]

[Hey! What are you say­ing!]

[Who are you to say we should die?! It's just a game, we have to pre­serve
our strength!]

[This punk...!]

Snap!

Seong Ji­han be­headed the gar­goyle mak­ing a fuss alone and checked the
score­board.

"Re­ally 2 points each huh."

[.......]

"Then just 2 come out."

[I, I'll go...!]

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"Again?"

The gar­goyle who talked re­al­is­ti­cally ear­lier vol­un­teered, but with no other
vol­un­teers af­ter, Seong Ji­han looked around at them be­fore be­head­ing the
gar­goyle most heav­ily in­jured.

[Kuk...!]

"It'll be bet­ter for you guys once we leave, right?"

[Ye, yes! Let's hurry!]

As the re­al­ist gar­goyle hur­riedly rushed him,

"You guys left your friend very well."

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and moved to­wards where Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing
Gods was in­stalled.

And pulling out the Eclipse sword among the 3 swords stabbed into the
ground.

Swish...!

Smoke seeped from the ground and

"Oh..."

"What, what is this?"

The play­ers trapped in Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods be­gan pour­ing out in
bun­dles.

With clue­less ex­pres­sions, they looked at each other then "Now, ev­ery­one."

See­ing Seong Ji­han call them, they looked his way to­gether.

"You've worked hard. Here's your Christ­mas present, now."

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Boom!

Once he fin­ished speak­ing, the gar­goyles' bod­ies ex­ploded.

[You've achieved 10,000 kill points.]

[You've con­quered Chaos Bat­tle­field.]

[You've cleared a spe­cial mis­sion.]

[En­tire race gains growth bonus for 5 years.]

[Ad­di­tional 7 stat points given to par­tic­i­pat­ing play­ers.]

The same mes­sage popped up for all play­ers who qui­etly re­mained trapped
in Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

"Uh..."

"We, we cleared it?"

"When?"

Af­ter first go­ing blank from the mes­sage, just for a mo­ment.

"Whoa, crazy!!"

"7 points...! They re­ally came!"

"Whoa!!I got picked ran­domly to­day so I got in... jack­pot!!"

The play­ers who gained ad­di­tional points went nuts.

Just re­main­ing docil­ity trapped then re­leased, yet What was this ab­surd re­‐
ward?

-Wow, this is amaz­ing! lol

-The ex­pe­di­tion team was quite tough, but look at them!!

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-Those who got picked hit jack­pot luck

-Peo­ple's guild kept say­ing they'd strug­gle with­out their play­ers -Clear­ing it
in just one day~

And Seong Ji­han's re­ward mes­sage was sim­i­lar to other play­ers', How­ever

There was an ad­di­tional line at the end.

[Se­lected as the race MVP, ad­di­tional MVP re­wards will be given!]

'MVP re­ward...,' con­sid­er­ing how much he gained on this map.

They even gave a gift un­til the end.

Seong Ji­han faintly smiled col­lect­ing his re­ward, Mean­while, from the Star
of the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God.

[Hmmm....]

See­ing the changed form of Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods Seong Ji­han used,
the star's owner [As ex­pected... It's still use­ful.]

Ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion.

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Chap­ter 186
[Did you see it, Dong­bang Sak?]

"...I saw it."

At the Mar­tial God's ques­tion, Dong­bang Sak knelt down and an­swered.

Un­like his usual re­laxed ex­pres­sion, he was stiff with a cold ex­pres­sion.

He seemed quite shocked at the changes to Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

[He did show po­ten­tial. So, I do in­tend to let him grow fur­ther.]

"He could not awaken the third skill, yet you will take him in?"

At the Mar­tial God's words, Long­i­nus next to Dong­bang Sak asked in a sar­‐
cas­tic tone.

Re­call­ing how the Mar­tial God said he would per­son­ally take in Seong Ji­‐
han last time if he could awaken the third skill when first us­ing Myr­iad
Ghost Seal­ing Gods.

[Yes. What he just showed is more im­por­tant than man­i­fest­ing the third
skill.]

But the Mar­tial God ca­su­ally over­turned what he said be­fore, as if it was
ob­vi­ous.

The mod­i­fi­ca­tion to Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods was a much more im­por­‐
tant is­sue to him than Seong Ji­han us­ing the third An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret.

[Long­i­nus, you said last time you wanted to ed­u­cate him, right?]

"Ah, yes... ed­u­cate... that's right."

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Of course he meant he wanted to beat him up badly, not ac­tu­ally ed­u­cate,

but Long­i­nus nod­ded awk­wardly and

[Then do it.]

"Is it re­ally... okay?"

[He needs en­em

­ ies to grow. You guys are quite suit­able.]

Swish...!

Be­fore the two kneel­ing dis­ci­ples, the im­age of Earth ap­peared.

[Earth's tu­to­rial is near­ing its end soon. You will be able to in­ter­vene freely
soon.]

"Then...!"

[But in­ter­ven­tion is lim­ited to within the Bat­tleNet.]

"Hmm, so we can't beat... I mean ed­u­cate him in re­al­ity?"

"Long­i­nus. If we go that far, we may face the sys­tem's reg­u­la­tions too."

"That's quite dis­ap­point­ing."

Long­i­nus sighed.

What mean­ing was there in beat­ing him up only in-game?

We need to show him in re­al­ity.

Hear­ing that, the Mar­tial God whis­pered one more thing.

[If one of you makes him sub­mit, I will grant you a wish.]

"A... wish, you say?"

[Yes, Long­i­nus. In your case, death.]

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[For Dong­bang Sak, I will pass on Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods to you.]

At the Mar­tial God's words, the two's eyes com­pletely changed.

At first, no mat­ter how an­noy­ing Seong Ji­han was, the thought was just to
dis­ci­pline the brat prop­erly.

But now the sit­u­at­ion has com­pletely changed since the wishes they de­sired
could be granted by the Mar­tial God.

"Dong­bang Sak, I'll go first."

"Hehe, where are you go­ing? You have to be my dis­ci­ple com­pan­ion for
life. It's me who will learn some skills from this op­por­tu­nity."

"Life you say... how dread­ful..."

The two dis­ci­ples, who be­came sin­cere, fer­vently wished for the Earth's tu­‐
to­rial to end soon.

Only then could they in­ter­vene.

[Seong Ji­han has con­quered the re­hearsal alone!]

[Christ­mas Eve's gift! What is the iden­tity of the growth bonus given to the
en­tire Hu­man­ity race?]

[The World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion con­grat­u­lates Seong Ji­han for clear­ing

the game, but in­ter­nally they are sim­mer­ing.]

[The Peo­ple's guild re­leases a fu­ri­ous state­ment de­mand­ing Seong Ji­han's

dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion! But gains no sym­pa­thy.]

Re­ac­tions were heated re­gard­ing the re­hearsal game dra­mat­i­cally cleared on

Christ­mas Eve af­ter long con­flicts.

Es­pe­cially re­gard­ing the clear­ing method.

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-Wow... Was it that easy to clear?

-He just locked up those an­kle-bit­ing guys and cleared it neatly, lol.

-Peo­ple's guild kept in­sist­ing they needed flight magic items, but he showed
clearly they were un­nec­es­sary.

See­ing Seong Ji­han us­ing the Myr­iad Ghost Seal­ing Gods to con­fine play­‐
ers and cleanly clear the re­hearsal, peo­ple couldn't help but ad­mire.

-But doesn't Seong Ji­han seem even stronger now? The other races were
busy run­ning away, lol.

-Se­ri­ously, he's on a com­pletely dif­fer­ent level... Why is he so strong?

-He prob­ab­ ly lev­eled up dur­ing this time. Didn't he start at around level 100
right af­ter pro­mot­ing?

-There's still more room for growth... Dang.

Al­though he over­whelmed na­tional team play­ers even dur­ing the Gold.

Now, Seong Ji­han seemed like an un­beat­able en­tity on Earth.

His sta­tus was el­ev­ ated even fur­ther due to the game be­ing clear, to the ex­‐
tent that it couldn't be taken lightly even by the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­a­‐
tion.

"Should we just leave player Seong Ji­han be? He openly de­fied the as­so­ci­a­‐
tion and cleared the game!"

"Af­ter ig­nor­ing the as­so­ci­at­ion's me­di­at­ion and clear­ing the game like this...
Shouldn't he be ex­cluded from the list of rep­re­sen­ta­tive play­ers?"

Af­ter the game was cleared, in an emer­gency meet­ing held, mem­bers of the
Peo­ple's guild and their af­fil­i­ated as­so­ci­at­ion mem­bers ar­gued that Seong Ji­‐
han's player qual­i­fi­ca­tion should be re­voked.

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"What are you talk­ing about? Didn't we al­ways set­tle with an agree­ment
with­out proper pun­ish­ment for the Peo­ple's guild?"

"Pun­ish­ment you say? It was done prop­erly! Didn't the Peo­ple's guild play­‐
ers who sui­cided get sent to the re­serves?!"

"You call get­ting sent to the re­serves pun­ish­ment...?"

"The Space League open­ing match is right be­fore us, yet you want to dis­‐
qual­ify Seong Ji­han? Are you se­ri­ous?"

"Es­pe­cially since your guild's bi­ased op­er­at­ion was the prob­lem. The as­so­‐
ci­at­ion should con­grat­u­late the game clear and not make an is­sue out of it
again."

"Oh good­ness... the Space League is im­por­tant now..."

"That's why. If only they hadn't caused is­sues, it would've ended well. Tsk
tsk."

"Even though they of­fered a Stat +7, he de­clined."

"Seong Ji­han had the re­hearsal game host­ing rights from the start any­way.
What's the is­sue with him clear­ing it him­self?"

As­so­ci­at­ion mem­bers of guilds Seong Ji­han cared for on Christ­mas Eve ac­‐
tively pro­tected him.

'There might be more bonuses we can only gain thanks to Seong Ji­han like
this re­hearsal...'

'We shouldn't need­lessly clash with Seong Ji­han. We need to get closer.'

And so the As­so­ci­at­ion's pun­ish­ment was ren­dered use­less by the op­pos­ing

mem­bers.

At this time.

'This is...'

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Seong Ji­han was check­ing his re­hearsal MVP re­ward.

[MVP Re­ward -- 'Space League Pre­mium Mem­ber­ship' is granted.]

[Space League Pre­mium Mem­ber­ship]

Rank: SSS

-- 6 month Space League pre­mium mem­ber­ship.

-- XP and GP gain in­creases 100% dur­ing the mem­ber­ship pe­riod.

-- For 6 months, you may choose be­tween 'Spot­light' and 'Hide­out'.

-- If you pos­sess the mem­ber­ship, there is a 30% chance of ex­clu­sion from

the op­pos­ing team's ban list.

[Spot­light]

-- Ad­ver­tises the player's out­stand­ing mem­ber­ship through­out the Bat­tleNet.

Can at­tract more at­ten­tion from the Con­stel­la­tion's and re­ceive spon­sor­ship
glob­ally.

[Hide­out]

-- As a dis­tin­guished mem­ber, hides one's in­for­ma­tion. Does not at­tract at­‐

ten­tion from Con­stel­la­tion's, and it be­comes dif­fi­cult for the op­pos­ing team
to ob­tain in­for­ma­tion about the mem­ber. It takes a long time to build a rep­u­‐
ta­tion on Bat­tleNet.

The Space League pre­mium mem­ber­ship.

De­spite hav­ing no di­rect stat boosts or only a 6 month du­ra­tion, The ef­fects
were con­sid­er­able.

Es­pe­cially, what caught Seong Ji­han's at­ten­tion was not func­tions like Spot­‐
light or Hide­out but the last line about be­ing ex­cluded from the ban list.

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'Not get­ting banned with a 30% chance. That's an in­cred­i­ble ef­fect.'

In Space League, a ban was one of the op­tions that emerged when the of­fi­‐
cial open­ing took place. This fea­ture al­lowed you to block spe­cific op­po­‐
nents or maps, but there were var­i­ous re­stric­tions on us­ing the ban card.

In a 5-on-3 vic­tory game, it had its lim­its, even for spe­cific tar­gets, about
two times. How­ever, for a player as unique as Seong Ji­han, it was un­known.

They could fo­cus ban cards on him even tak­ing huge penal­ties.

'Be­ing able to avoid that with 30% prob­ab­ il­ity is a tremen­dous ef­fect.'

Even in his Mar­tial God days, he oc­ca­sion­ally got banned.

Now, much stronger than be­fore, it was ob­vi­ous that ban cards would be
con­cen­trated on him.

Be­ing able to avoid that made this an item with at least SSS-rank value.

The 6 month du­ra­tion was prob­ab­ ly why it got rated ex­actly SSS.

'Be­tween Spot­light and Hide­out, I should choose the lat­ter.' The in­ter­est of
Con­stel­la­tion's and global spon­sor­ship didn't have much value in the cur­rent
sit­u­at­ion.

Rather, at this mo­ment, he needed to hide as much as pos­si­ble from the

races af­fil­i­ated with the same Space League.

[Would you like to ac­ti­vate the Hide­out func­tion?]

[Once ac­ti­vated, it can­not be un­done.]

"Ac­ti­vate it."

[The Hide­out func­tion is ap­plied.]

[The user's in­for­ma­tion will not be re­vealed to ex­ter­nal plan­ets, and they
will be ex­cluded from the Con­stel­la­tion's sup­port list.]

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He im­me­di­ately ac­ti­vated the Hide­out func­tion and stored the mem­ber­ship

in the in­ven­tory.

Knock! knock!

"Un­cle~! Dad's here! He's on the 1st floor now."

"Oh, he came quickly."

Sword King Yoon Se­jin, work­ing with the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion or­‐
ga­niz­ing dun­geon raids.

He and his team took va­ca­tion un­til the year end with Christ­mas ar­riv­ing.

"Yeah, dad has to par­tic­i­pate in the Space League open­ing match too."

The open­ing match will be held a week later. There was no in­for­ma­tion re­‐
leased about it, so the World Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion couldn't gather play­ers
for prac­tice. In­stead, they only asked promis­ing play­ers likely to par­tic­i­pate
in the open­ing match to standby a week be­fore.

"Did you re­serve the 7th floor?"

"Yeah, I told Hayeon Un­nie to come along. So, I thought about re­serv­ing
the en­tire restau­rant, but I only re­served one room."

It was Yoon Se­jin's reg­u­lar restau­rant, and the whole fam­ily used to visit
there like an an­nual event dur­ing Christ­mas. And to avoid dis­tur­bance, they
used to re­serve the en­tire restau­rant, but...

"Why didn't you book it all?"

"We need to take pic­tures, you know. Hehe, there have been a lot of talks
lately about whether Un­cle and Hayeon Un­nie are re­ally dat­ing."

"Well, it's just talk from peo­ple around."

"Her guild keeps nag­ging her to re­turn, say­ing it's an­noy­ing. She even
sighed about it last time."

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Seong Ji­han chuck­led.

Did her old guild, Di­ver­gent, still have lin­ger­ing feel­ings for Lee Hayeon?

"Then we'll click the pic­ture to­day and con­tact Di­ver­gent guild di­rectly."

"Right. Gotta pro­tect Hayeon Un­nie . The growth buff is crazy for real."

"What level are you now?"

"177. Think I'll reach Di­am

­ ond next month!"

"You re­ally are lev­el­ing up fast."

Seong Ji­han was as­ton­ished at Yoon Seah's ex­plo­sive growth.

He just reached 190 to­day af­ter clear­ing the Chaos Bat­tle­field smash­ing
alien races.

'Any­way, play­ing two games a day re­ally is a cheat code.'

Feel­ing she might truly sur­pass his level at this rate,

Seong Ji­han pre­pared to head to the restau­rant.

The restau­rant 'Pierre' on the 7th floor of Sword Palace.

On Christ­mas Eve, it was al­ways fully booked be­cause the Sword King
would rent the whole place, but this year, reser­va­tions were avail­able.

"As ex­pected, it seems like the Sword King won't be com­ing this year."

"No, my cousin is the man­ager here, and he hooked me up! They made a
reser­va­tion!"

"Ah, if the Sword King made a reser­va­tion, he would've rented the whole
place, right? Just one room?"

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Near the re­stroom of the restau­rant, a group of mid­dle-aged women loi­‐

tered, look­ing to­wards the counter and chat­ting with each other. Even when
the Sword King faced na­tion­wide crit­i­cism, they re­mained core fans.

When they got in­for­ma­tion that the Sword King had re­served Pierre, they
tried ev­ery­thing to re­serve a seat and wit­ness the Sword King in per­son.

"Um... guests, you need to go in­side now."

"Just wait a mo­ment!"

Since all the rooms were re­served, the group of Sword King fans waited
anx­iously near the re­stroom, hop­ing for the Sword King to show up any
mo­ment.

"It's...it's Seong Ji­han!"

"Guild mas­ter Lee Hayeon is there too...!"

"Oh... and be­hind them is the Sword... Sword King!"

As Seong Ji­han and his party en­tered, they were greeted by en­thu­si­as­tic
fans.

"Sword King!!"

"Seong Ji­han! I'm a fan! Can I get an au­to­graph?!"

The Sword King fans ap­proached Seong Ji­han as well with very friendly
faces, re­quest­ing au­to­graphs.

Al­though they treated him hos­tilely like en­em

­ ies un­til re­cently, Af­ter he
knocked sense into the Sword King, Seong Ji­han be­came al­most like a sec­‐
ond fa­vorite to the Sword King fans.

'Didn't ex­pect the Sword King fans to like me this much.'

See­ing the en­thu­si­as­tic milfs*, Seong Ji­han smiled wryly.

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[PR/N: It was 'mid­dle-aged women' in­stead of 'milfs'🧐]

It was a group that made him shud­der re­call­ing their ac­tions in his past life,
but The sit­u­at­ion com­pletely changed now, so his re­sponse had to change as
well.

"Here you go."

Whoosh! Whoosh!

"Thank you, Sword King!"

"Seong Ji­han, you're the best!"

But he still had no in­ten­tions of treat­ing them too nicely, So he just care­‐
lessly gave au­to­graphs and hur­ried into the pre­pared room with his group.

"I'm sorry. Be­cause of me."

"No, brother-in-law. Since we didn't rent the en­tire restau­rant, we have to

en­dure it."

"Yeah... you're right. Did you get the pic­ture you wanted?"

"Yeah dad. The em­ploy­ees took it too. Hayeon Un­nie was stuck­ing right
next to me."

"Good."

In the el­ev­ a­tor, the Sword King sat down with a nod, feel­ing the warm at­‐
mos­phere from the fans.

"Did ev­ery­thing go well?"

"Are you talk­ing about dun­geon ex­plo­ration? There were many events
while clear­ing four dun­geons, How­ever..."

Be­fore the ap­pe­tizer was served, the Sword King took a sip of wa­ter and
took out a ring from his pocket.

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"Noth­ing sur­prised me as much as the ring's re­ac­tion."

"The ring... re­acted?"

Seong Ji­han and his party were sur­prised. If the ring re­acted, does it mean...

"Yes... it's re­ally pos­si­ble Jiah is some­where in North Ko­rea."

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Chap­ter 187
"Mom... is alive? Re­ally?"

Yoon Seah asked with an un­be­liev­ing ex­pres­sion.

Seong Jiah us­ing sac­ri­fice then turn­ing to stone, con­sumed by dark­ness, was
still vivid in her mind.

So, when Yoon Se­jin men­tioned go­ing to ex­plore North Ko­rea, Her ex­pec­‐
ta­tions weren't that high but...

"No, it's too early to con­clude. The ring re­acted slightly, that's all."

"How did it re­act?"

"When clear­ing the fourth dun­geon, the ring it­self vi­brated strongly."

Say­ing that, Yoon Sae­jin took out the neck­lace with the ring hang­ing on it.

"It wasn't the vi­bra­tion felt when clear­ing dun­geons. It was a move­ment
orig­i­nat­ing from the ring it­self."

"Oh... the color of that ring changed a bit."

"Right... I couldn't tell since I cant see"

Pre­vi­ously shin­ing pure white, the ring now had traces of black­ish pur­ple.

"May I see it for a mo­ment?"

"Go ahead."

Seong Ji­han re­ceived the ring and care­fully ob­served traces of light.

The aura was sim­i­lar to dark magic power but felt slightly dif­fer­ent some­‐
how.

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"Ariel. Do you know any­thing about this en­ergy?"

[Hmm... I can't tell with just this much ei­ther. Doesn't seem like shadow en­‐
ergy.]

"Hmm..."

Per­haps be­cause the re­main­ing magic power on the ring was too lit­tle, even
Ariel the shadow elf didn't know.

"It seems dif­fer­ent from the death aura I saw on the chaos bat­tle­field..."

As Seong Ji­han was un­able to dis­cern the en­ergy, Yoon Seah who had been
ob­serv­ing in­tently next to him swiftly snatched the ring.

"Oh, this... seems re­lated to the Void?"

"Void?"

"Yeah, I'm a Void Archer. I'm fa­mil­iar with the power of the Void."

Say­ing so, Yoon Seah drew her bow and re­leased a Void Ar­row. The pur­ple
light flick­ered for a mo­ment, then the ar­row dis­ap­peared, be­com­ing trans­‐
par­ent.

"Come out now."

As Yoon Seah swung her bow, the dis­ap­pear­ing ar­row reap­peared.

"It re­ally is huh?"

In­deed, the power felt from her ar­row was sim­i­lar to the ring's en­ergy.

Now cer­tain this en­ergy was void,

Flash!

The light from the ring and the Void Ar­row res­onated.

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A brief sound em­anated from the ring.

=Yoon...

Just say­ing 'Yoon,' the voice was cut off.

With just that, it was pos­si­ble to iden­tify whose voice it was.

"Huh!? This... Mom!?"

"...Yes. It sounds like my sis­ter's voice."

Is my sis­ter re­ally some­where in North Ko­rean ter­ri­tory?

Af­ter hear­ing the voice, Seong Ji­han couldn't stay still.

"Brother-in-law, I'll help with dun­geon clear­ing too."

"No... it's okay for now. We need to clear the dun­geon with the ring, and it's
not a lack of force in clear­ing. We ac­tu­ally need more sup­port for other
things."

"Is that so? Is there a short­age of Ex­plo­ration Gift play­ers in the Al­liance
In­ves­ti­ga­tion team?"

"The sup­port from the in­ves­ti­ga­tion team is fine, but the prob­lem is the
play­ers with the 'Ex­plo­ration' sup­port­ing gift. It's not as easy to find dun­‐
geon cores as I thought. More­over, the ex­plo­ration abil­i­ties of the play­ers
sent to Ko­rea are at B to C lev­els."

On top of that, af­ter find­ing one, it took time to or­ga­nize dun­geon-re­lated

in­for­ma­tion and up­load it to the al­liance.

Even when the Sword King per­son­ally swept away dun­geon mon­sters, the
progress didn't seem to ad­vance smoothly, and there was a rea­son for this.

"If you have a player with ex­plo­ration... should I give it a try?"

"Is this voice... the guild mas­ter?"

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"Yes, that's right."

Per­haps be­cause it was Christ­mas, Lee Hayeon came dressed more pow­er­‐
fully than usual. Lis­ten­ing qui­etly to the con­ver­sa­tion, she de­cided to join in
on the cur­rent topic.

"I heard that Di­ver­gent Guild, which used to se­cure a lot of ex­plo­ration
abil­i­ties, is now mak­ing fun of them be­cause they have nowhere to use
them. I'll bor­row some­one from there."

"Wouldn't the Di­ver­gent guild pester you for that? Say­ing you should re­turn
to the guild and all."

"It's okay, Boss. If they bother us, we can con­tact other top guilds. Di­ver­‐
gent guild is not the only guild that has se­cured peo­ple with ex­plo­ration
gifts."

Lee Hayeon an­swered with a re­laxed face. Be­ing the guild mas­ter of a top
guild and hav­ing dealt with world-class fig­ures, she wasn't par­tic­u­larly wor­‐
ried about Ko­rean top guilds now.

"Then, please do. Ah, and we will scout ex­cel­lent ex­plo­ration play­ers from
this side. You can use as much GP as you want."

"Yes, Boss. In Ko­rea, B-rank is the high­est, but..."

"B-rank is the high­est? Didn't the sup­port­ing gift grade in­crease last time?
The dif­fi­culty was low­ered."

"Yes, that's why B-rank is the high­est now. I'll try to fo­cus on scout­ing A-
rank by turn­ing our at­ten­tion to over­seas, as there may be more tal­ented in­‐
di­vid­u­als there."

Since his sis­ter Seong Jiah's voice came out,

Seong Ji­han de­cided to or­ga­nize an in­ves­ti­ga­tion team di­rectly from the

guild rather than just rely on the As­so­ci­at­ion sup­port team.

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There was a pile of GP that had ac­cu­mu­lated be­cause there was no place to
use it at the mo­ment, so it was time to use it.

More­over,

"I'll also pro­vide Akashic Pages to A-rank abil­ity hold­ers. That should be
en­tic­ing enough."

"Oh, Akashic Pages...? The price of those has been sky­rock­et­ing lately..."

"I hap­pen to have some."

Seong Ji­han de­cided to uti­lize the Akashic Pages ob­tained from Shizuru.

"Un­cle, if you'll use Akashic Pages can I ask some­one I know to join too?"

"Who?"

"Sofia's brother. I heard he raised his ex­plo­ration abil­ity to A-rank due to

the dif­fi­culty re­duc­tion."

If it was Sofia's brother, it was Christoph, who fre­quently ap­peared as a

com­men­ta­tor dur­ing in­ter­na­tional Bat­tleNet matches. He held a firm po­si­‐
tion in the Bat­tleNet in­dus­try glob­ally, so whether he would ac­cept the pro­‐
posal was un­known.

"Sure. Let's ask."

"Yeah. With Akashic Pages as bait, he might be in­ter­ested."

"...Thank you for the sup­port."

"It's my sis­ter's is­sue, of course."

"Are you re­ally sure I can't go?"

"Yes. Sweep­ing through the in­side of the dun­geon is easy for me."

"If there's any­thing you need help with, feel free to con­tact me any­time."

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At Seong Ji­han's words, Yoon Sae­jin slowly nod­ded.

"Of course. I hope the open­ing match ends quickly."

"Ah, the open­ing match...! I com­pletely for­got be­cause of mom's is­sue.

Ariel, do you know what games will un­fold?"

Yoon Seah asked Ariel who was well-versed in the Bat­tleNet.

De­spite the con­straints of the tu­to­rial, Ariel had tried to pro­vide as much in­‐
for­ma­tion as pos­si­ble within her knowl­edge.

[Open­ing match? That's up to you guys to de­cide. Just think of it as a game

where you fight and kill, like usual in Bat­tleNet. True to the essence of Bat­‐
tleNet. How­ever...]

"How­ever?"

[Now, you can re­ally die.]

"...Re­ally die? In the game?"

At Ariel's words, Yoon Seah's face stiff­ened.

"Do you mean like when Boss cleared the pro­mo­tion match? Death as a
penalty?"

[Yes. To de­ci­sively lower the rank of the op­po­nent's race be­low yours,
killing the en­emy's core player is the best way.]

"Well that's true but..."

"Dy­ing in a game... It's hard to be­lieve."

Per­haps due to hav­ing been im­mersed in Bat­tleNet as a game for ten years,
de­spite Ariel's words, those who heard them couldn't truly grasp the re­al­ity.
Ex­cept for Seong Ji­han.

'Count­less play­ers died dur­ing the open­ing match...'

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To those who couldn't be­lieve it.

The in­ci­dent that truly made them re­al­ize that real play­ers could die was the
dis­as­ter of the Space League open­ing match.

With traps set up from the first game, the World Tree Al­liance was wait­ing.
Hu­man­ity, caught off guard, faced great con­fu­sion from the be­gin­ning.

'It's time to re­turn the fa­vor this time.'

With not much time left un­til the open­ing match.

He in­ten­tion­ally re­mained in Plat­inum this year to grow for this day.

Seong Ji­han's eyes sank coldly as he thought about the open­ing match
game.

[Sword King joins the Daegi guild!]

[Daegi Guild is re­cruit­ing peo­ple with ex­plo­ration gifts. The ba­sic salary is
5-10 times the ex­ist­ing salary. Akashic Pages for A-ranks?]

Af­ter the Christ­mas meet­ing, the Daegi Guild im­me­di­ately be­gan search­ing
for ex­plo­ration abil­i­ties. With a gen­er­ous in­vest­ment us­ing the money they
had saved up un­til now, they of­fered ex­tra­or­di­nary con­di­tions, at­tract­ing a
flood of peo­ple to the guild.

-Wow, these con­di­tions are in­sane...?

-They're giv­ing an Akashic Page? Wow, I heard it's worth more than 500
bil­lion these days.

-Yeah, nowa­days, with the pop­u­lar­ity of nur­tur­ing gifts, each guild is call­‐
ing it a bar­gain to cre­ate a sec­ond team.

-Giv­ing that to ex­plo­ration abil­i­ties... Isn't there a sig­nif­i­cant re­ward for

clear­ing dun­geons?

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-Yeah, there might be some­thing. The Sword King has been ex­plor­ing dun­‐
geons a lot lately, so maybe that's why they're in­vest­ing like this...

Peo­ple won­dered what he saw in his dun­geon ex­plo­rations to make such an

in­vest­ment.

How­ever,

-But what about the open­ing match lineup??

-The list of 2,000 peo­ple was re­leased.

-What kind of game are they play­ing with so many peo­ple?

-When is it com­ing next year?

The hottest is­sue still re­mained the Space League open­ing match draw­ing
near.

Af­ter a decade-long tu­to­rial, Earth is fi­nally en­ter­ing the main game.

Hu­man­ity is more op­ti­mistic than wor­ried about the world af­ter the tu­to­rial.

They couldn't wait to watch the open­ing match.

Mean­while,

[Ji­han! I heard from Seah!]

Seong Ji­han was on a video call from Sophia.

"Ah, about the ex­plo­ration is­sue?"

[Yep~ Brother re­fused say­ing he would never do ex­plo­ration work un­til

now... But when I talked about the Akashic Page, he showed in­ter­est!
Brother, come talk to Ji­han!]

[Player Seong, nice to meet you. I'm Christo­pher.]

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As if wait­ing, com­men­ta­tor Christo­pher popped his face into the video call.

He looked at Seong Ji­han with twin­kling eyes.

[As a fan, it's an honor to meet you! My lit­tle sis­ter said some­thing about
my ex­plo­ration gift, and un­til now, you've kept the se­cret well. Thank you.]

[You talk too much. You can tell Ji­han any­thing! We're go­ing to be fam­ily
soon an­way.]

[He has a girl­friend, Player Seong... sigh... My sis­ter is too young. I'm
sorry.]

[No, that's...! I can't say that.]

[...Any­way, Player Seong. I heard from So­phie but still can't be­lieve it, so
let me con­firm. Do you re­ally plan to pro­vide Akashic Pages?]

"That's right."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded.

"But it's not for sell­ing them off. It has to be used to strengthen your abil­i­‐
ties."

[Of course! I didn't want to use my ex­plo­ration abil­ity un­til now be­cause it
looked dan­ger­ous. but us­ing it un­der Sword King's pro­tec­tion should be
fine. I'll have to take a break from com­men­tary for a while.]

Al­though firmly es­tab­lished as a com­men­ta­tor in Bat­tleNet cir­cles, It

seemed Christo­pher didn't want his sup­port gift go­ing to waste, show­ing a
pos­i­tive at­ti­tude.

"Will you come im­me­di­ately then?"

[Ah... I still want to fin­ish com­men­tary for this open­ing match. It's some­‐
thing I re­ally wanted to do as a com­men­ta­tor. Since the Sword King is also
par­tic­i­pat­ing in the open­ing match, shouldn't the sched­ule be fine even if I
come af­ter fin­ish­ing?]

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"Yes, there's suf­fi­cient time."

[But it's re­ally a shame! If Player Seong had be­come a Di­am

­ ond, you could
have par­tic­i­pated in all the matches...]

As the Space League open­ing match ap­proached, in­for­ma­tion about the

open­ing match be­gan to be grad­u­ally re­leased through the sys­tem.

One no­tice­able thing was par­tic­i­pa­tion re­quire­ments for matches 1 to 5.

[Only Di­am
­ onds or higher can par­tic­i­pate in the Space League.]

Among them, the no­tice­able con­di­tion was the par­tic­i­pa­tion re­quire­ment for
matches 1 to 5.

-Ah damn, Plat­inum couldn't par­tic­i­pate huh.

-Seong Ji­han can't par­tic­i­pate in the open­ing match!

-This is like a boomerang for not lev­el­ing up be­cause of Shizuru.

-What about not prop­erly lev­el­ing up be­cause of the Peo­ple's guild?

-Any­way, It can't be helped

One of the most pow­er­ful play­ers on Earth, Seong Ji­han, couldn't par­tic­i­‐
pate, and peo­ple ex­pressed their re­grets.

[But there are still 100 Plat­inum play­ers on the re­serve lineup. Maybe
there's a chance?]

Sophia, stand­ing be­side him, also spoke with a dis­ap­pointed ex­pres­sion.

Seong Ji­han smiled slightly.

"I have a good feel­ing."

[A... feel­ing?]

"Yes. I feel like I'll be the MVP of this open­ing match."

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Wait, you can't be MVP with­out par­tic­i­pat­ing in the game. You have to play
to get MVP.

Christo­pher looked puz­zled, but Seong Ji­han spoke con­fi­dently.

"I'll give you a present when you come to Ko­rea, so bet on me for MVP."

Seong Ji­han spoke with a face full of con­fi­dence.

[But you need to be able to par­tic­i­pate to re­ceive MVP...]

Is it re­ally ok go­ing to Ko­rea be­liev­ing this guy?

Christo­pher be­came anx­ious whether he made the right choice.

And a few days later, on Chan­nel 0.

=Ev­ery­one! The day has fi­nally ar­rived...!

The day of the open­ing match has ar­rived.

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Chap­ter 188
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Jan­u­ary 1st, 2021.

[NO.4212 Hu­man­ity's tu­to­rial ends.]

[Hu­man­ity is now part of the Space League -- Bronze League.]

It's been 10 years since the ad­vent of Bat­tleNet.

Hu­man­ity has com­pleted the long tu­to­rial and is now fac­ing the main game.

[Changes af­ter en­ter­ing main game are as fol­lows]

As if a game un­der­went mas­sive up­dates with long patch notes.

Sys­tem mes­sages end­lessly ex­plained the changes.

-When will we fin­ish read­ing this;;

-Why did so many things change, huh?

-Wait. Some­one will prob­ab­ ly sum­ma­rize it hehe

At first, peo­ple were over­whelmed by the vast amount of in­for­ma­tion up­‐

loaded.

How­ever, soon Bat­tleNet ex­perts stepped for­ward to or­ga­nize the com­plex

patch notes.

Most of the changes oc­curred in the in-game, tak­ing up 70% of the con­tent,
while global changes ac­counted for 30%.

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But what caught the at­ten­tion and con­cern of or­di­nary peo­ple was mostly
the lat­ter.

[Dun­geon por­tals will now ap­pear more fre­quently.]

[De­pend­ing on the rank­ing in the Space League, the range of coun­tries

where dun­geon por­tals ap­pear will ex­pand.]

[To avoid fall­ing to the lower ranks, main­tain your rank in the league!]

Cur­rently, dun­geon por­tals are only cre­ated in the lower 10% of Bat­tleNet
rank­ings.

Un­less it's a case like boy­cotting Bat­tleNet par­tic­i­pa­tion com­pletely like

North Ko­rea, re­sult­ing in penal­ties lead­ing to de­struc­tion.

Dun­geon por­tals did not ap­pear na­tion­wide, al­low­ing coun­tries to some­how

main­tain their ex­is­tence.

But now, in the main game, the fre­quency of dun­geon por­tal cre­ation is de­‐
ter­mined by the rank­ing in the Space League.

Cer­tainly, the sense of cri­sis that the world has changed was pal­pa­ble.

And then,

[GP is no longer linked to dol­lars and is sub­ject to ex­change rate fluc­tu­a­‐

tions based on the rank­ing in the Space League. If the rank­ing drops to the
de­mo­tion zone, there will be a sig­nif­i­cant penalty in the ex­change rate.]

Even the price that was fixed at 1 dol­lar per GP un­til now fluc­tu­ated.

Re­ac­tions to this change were var­ied among those in­volved with GP.

-Wow, GP sky­rock­eted lolololol. I bought a full load be­cause I had a bad

feel­ing about the tu­to­rial end­ing!

-Where did those guys who said GP would be­come worth­less af­ter the tu­to­‐
rial go??

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-Fck I lis­tened to those guys and ex­changed all my GP yes­ter­day... I wanna

go back to yes­ter­day -How much is GP now?

-1.4 dol­lars, It sky­rock­eted 40% right af­ter the tu­to­rial ended.

-Why is it ris­ing so much?

-Check patch notes. Now, if you don't have GP, it's the era where play­ers
die.

The fac­tor that caused the GP ex­change rate to sky­rocket, in ad­di­tion to the
change in the fixed ex­change rate sys­tem, was the changes in the game.

[Bat­tleNet game deaths will now deduct GP.]

[If you don't have GP, you will face death.]

With this tremen­dous penalty, play­ers were buy­ing more GP in ad­vance,

caus­ing the rate to steadily rise.

The GP, which was 1.4 dol­lars since the changes, had al­ready sur­passed 2
dol­lars in less than a cou­ple of hours.

-Wow, this is no joke. From the first day...?

-We must win the open­ing match. Then the GP rate will sta­bi­lize, and dun­‐
geon por­tals won't ap­pear.

-So, who's the op­po­nent?

-20 teams in the Space League ex­cept us shown as '??'. It's like the re­‐
hearsal.

When Seong Ji­han con­ducted re­hearsal games,

En­emy species faced were shown as '??', never seen be­fore.

Cur­rent en­em
­ ies in Space League Bronze League were in­vis­i­ble for now
too.

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In this state, with­out any in­for­ma­tion, the hu­man­ity's rep­re­sen­ta­tive team

that started the open­ing match.

[In 3 hours, the open­ing match will be­gin.]

Three hours be­fore the open­ing match, they were rack­ing their brains.

'Geez... what a headache...'

Earth's rep­re­sen­ta­tive team coach Davis sighed deeply.

Cur­rently in charge at Amer­i­can First, he had been the coach since 2018 and
had led the team to vic­tory in the World Cham­pi­ons League for three con­‐
sec­u­tive years.

Al­though it was good to be rec­og­nized for such achieve­ments when he was

ap­pointed as the coach of the Earth's rep­re­sen­ta­tive team, 'Didn't ex­pect this
much trou­ble...'

The open­ing match of Bat­tleNet en­ter­ing the main game re­quired sig­nif­i­‐
cant prepa­ra­tion.

Es­pe­cially,

'Who knew things like bans and se­lect cards would be added....'

Ban and se­lect cards were added af­ter en­ter­ing the main game.

The ban card pre­vented a pow­er­ful player from the op­pos­ing team from
par­tic­i­pat­ing in the game, and the se­lect card in­creased the chance of a des­‐
ig­nated map ap­pear­ing in each match.

De­pend­ing on how these two cards were strate­gi­cally used, it was pos­si­ble
to de­feat the op­po­nent with a dis­ad­van­ta­geous lineup or, con­versely, lose
with an ad­van­ta­geous lineup.

'The op­tions within the cards are di­verse.'

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In a hurry, Davis sum­moned all the As­so­ci­at­ion's strate­gic an­al­ysts.

They ur­gently dis­cussed how to use these cards in the open­ing match.

"We have too lit­tle in­for­ma­tion about the op­po­nent."

"The most ver­sa­tile ban card would be this right?"

The cho­sen ban card held the op­tion pro­hibit­ing 3 ran­dom play­ers among
the op­pos­ing race top 10 from par­tic­i­pat­ing.

Com­pletely un­in­formed about the en­emy.

Rather than guess­ing a spe­cific #1, safely cut­ting out 3 to start was safest.

And in the se­lect cards choos­ing maps,

All maps used in pre­vi­ous tu­to­rial games ap­peared.

"I think it would be bet­ter to play the games we've been play­ing so far."

"De­spite gath­er­ing 2,000 play­ers, we never fought large scale bat­tles."

"Re­cent maps we played like South­gate would be most ef­fec­tive right?"

"The re­hearsal showed many fly­ing species too... would siege maps have
mean­ing?"

"If we're be­ing picky, there aren't many de­cent maps. South­gate is bet­ter
than train­ing maps."

"Yeah. Let's pri­or­i­tize South­gate. Any­way, even if we choose it, the prob­a­‐
bil­ity will in­crease, right?"

"That's true."

And so Earth's rep­re­sen­ta­tive team de­cided to pri­mar­ily use se­lect cards for
the South­gate map.

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While do­ing ev­ery­thing the rep­re­sen­ta­tive team could, "Wait... why is

Player Seong Ji­han not on the re­serve list and on the main?"

Coach Davis frowned as he watched the player list, notic­ing Seong Ji­han's
pres­ence.

Al­though Seong Ji­han's skills were ex­cel­lent, Space League matches were
only open to Di­am
­ ond and above.

Putting him on the main list was point­less.

"Seong Ji­han is a Plat­inum! He should be on the re­serve list!"

"Oh, well..."

In re­sponse to the coach's protest, a Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion of­fi­cial spoke

with a trou­bled ex­pres­sion.

"We made a prom­ise to in­clude him in the list no mat­ter what hap­pens in
the As­so­ci­at­ion dur­ing the re­hearsal game."

"But he cleared the re­hearsal game alone, right? Is there a need for the As­‐
so­ci­at­ion to honor that prom­ise?"

"Still, ex­cept for the Peo­ple's guild, ev­ery­one ben­ef­ ited from the As­so­ci­a­‐
tion's cho­sen list... and the Sword King in­sists on in­clud­ing Seong Ji­han."

"What? Sword King?"

Davis couldn't be­lieve it.

Well, even he wanted to send a player like Seong Ji­han to the front lines if
he could.

But from the be­gin­ning, the con­di­tion for par­tic­i­pa­tion was Di­am
­ ond or
higher. Why go through the trou­ble of putting his name on the list?

"But, still, out of 2,000 spots... Wouldn't it be okay to let him take just one?"

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"Ugh...! What if the out­come is de­cided by that one spot...!"

"But the Sword King is so stub­born... The As­so­ci­at­ion has de­cided to honor
the prom­ise rather than let the is­sue es­ca­late."

"I didn't see Seong Ji­han that way... Al­right. Let's just move on from this
one spot this time."

De­spite the de­ci­sion, Coach Davis ex­pressed his dis­ap­point­ment to Seong

Ji­han, who seemed de­ter­mined to be on the list us­ing the con­nec­tion with
his brother-in-law.

It seems we have to let go of one spot.'

While hop­ing that the map se­lec­tion wouldn't fall on one of the maps in­‐
volv­ing 2,000 peo­ple, Davis, along with the coach­ing staff, con­firmed the
prepa­ra­tions for the open­ing match.

=Ev­ery­one, the day has fi­nally come...!

=The open­ing match of the Space League is about to be­gin!

The live broad­cast on Chan­nel 0 was re­ceiv­ing more at­ten­tion than ever as
Bat­tleNet en­tered the main game, em­pha­siz­ing the in­creased im­por­tance of
the Space League.

=With the end of the tu­to­rial, many new sys­tems have been added.

=Es­pe­cially note­wor­thy in this game are the ban and se­lect sys­tems!

The com­men­ta­tors briefly briefed on the newly added sys­tems and the de­ci­‐
sions of the Earth's rep­re­sen­ta­tive team.

As they talked about this, the screen flashed, and a mes­sage ap­peared,
prompt­ing them to raise their voices.

[The op­pos­ing race for the Space League match is de­cided.]

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[The op­po­nent is 'World Tree Elves -- 71.']

=Oh...!

=Fi­nally, the op­po­nent that was listed as '??' is re­vealed...!

=World Tree Elves 71...?

=While we're 'Hu­man­ity', their name seems unique!

World Tree Elves -- 71.

There was no case where the races from the re­hearsal game were rep­re­‐
sented in such a way.

The op­po­nent for the open­ing match had an un­usual name.

Flash!

As the World Tree Elves grad­u­ally re­vealed them­selves on the screen, the
com­men­ta­tors couldn't help but ex­press ad­mi­ra­tion.

=Ohh... beau­ti­ful!

=It's the El­ven im­age we are fa­mil­iar with!

=That's right. Weren't elves sum­moned in the Colos­seum au­di­ence be­fore?

They're ex­tremely sim­i­lar!

Like the beau­ti­ful elves sum­moned in past Colos­seum au­di­ence, This

match's el­ven op­po­nents held ut­most beauty, both male and fe­male.

-Wow... My eyes are blessed.

-Each one looks like a su­per­model, huh?

-How do we fight these guys?

Peo­ple were ini­tially im­pressed by their ap­pear­ance, but...

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=Ah...! But, if the op­po­nent is Elves, it won't be easy. In­for­ma­tion about

Elves isn't just in the Colos­seum stands!

=There is more in­for­ma­tion about Elves? What is it, Christo­pher?

=Yes! It played once on Seong Ji­han's chan­nel. Would you like to see the
data screen?

When the Bat­tle­Tube screen played the scene where Seong Ji­han fought
Elves to ob­tain the leaf of the World Tree, view­ers tran­si­tioned from ad­mi­‐
ra­tion to gen­uine con­cern.

-Ugh, but Elves... Their re­gen­er­at­ive abil­ity is in­sane.

-Can we han­dle that...?

-We need to win the open­ing match, but I'm a bit wor­ried😟

Be­cause it was Seong Ji­han, they man­aged to de­feat them .

But can the other play­ers on the rep­re­sen­ta­tive team deal with the Elves like
that?

Peo­ple were wor­ried.

The im­por­tance of racial pref­er­ences was ev­i­dent, as seen in the chaos of

the bat­tle­field they had watched in ad­vance.

Elves with su­per-re­gen­er­at­ive abil­i­ties were per­ceived as ex­tremely dan­ger­‐

ous op­po­nents.

How­ever,

=The first match is about to be­gin.

=Start­ing from the Space League, each team's coach comes out to use op­‐
tion cards, and the game pro­ceeds.

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=For hu­man­ity, Coach Davis, and for the World Tree Elves, a fig­ure trans­‐
lated as the High Com­mis­sioner.

As the screen changed, it il­lu­mi­nated a white ta­ble that emerged from the
dark­ness.

Stand­ing at both ends of the large ta­ble were Coach Davis for hu­man­ity and
the beau­ti­ful Elf coach, the High Com­mis­sioner, wear­ing a white robe.

"Nice to meet you, ev­ery­one from hu­man­ity."

With a clear voice, the woman smiled and spoke.

-Even their Coach is a woman...

-Elves are just the best, re­ally...

-Just smil­ing com­pletes the beauty, se­ri­ously 😊 How can ap­pear­ance be so

de­cep­tive?

View­ers who were swept away by the Elf coach's greet­ing were busy prais­‐
ing her just a mo­ment ago.

[For the first match, please choose the ban and se­lect cards and place them
on the ta­ble.]

"Here they are."

Fol­low­ing the sys­tem's guid­ance, Coach Davis of hu­man­ity, re­gain­ing com­‐

po­sure, placed the cards he had pre­de­ter­mined on the ta­ble.

-What cards will Elves choose?

-They prob­ab­ ly lack in­for­ma­tion too.

-Oh please, just give us a fa­mil­iar map...!

In this 5-game, 3-win match-up, the first game is cru­cial.

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When all eyes are fo­cused on the cards the Elf coach will draw.

With a deep smile on her lips, the High Com­mis­sioner un­ex­pect­edly made
her choice.

"We will not use cards."

Mean­while, In Hu­man­ity's player wait­ing room where 2,000 play­ers have

been sum­moned.

"What is this...?"

"Why such a choice?"

As hu­man­ity's play­ers puz­zled over the Elf coach's choice.

'It has be­gun.'

Seong Ji­han, who doesn't have the qual­i­fi­ca­tion to par­tic­i­pate, stared at the
smil­ing High Com­mis­sioner with sunken eyes.

'Laugh as much as you want now. To­day's game... won't go as you think.'

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Chap­ter 189
***

***

=Ah, what is this...?

=The op­pos­ing team is not us­ing ban cards or se­lect cards!

=Is it still pos­si­ble to play the game like this?

Just as the com­men­ta­tors were puz­zled by the El­ven Coach's choice.

=Oh...! Ac­cord­ing to the an­al­ysts, it is pos­si­ble to play with­out us­ing the

two cards.

=By col­lect­ing three ban cards like this, they can def­i­nitely use more bans
start­ing from the 4th game!

=if they gather 3 se­lect cards, they can defini­tively choose maps!

Hav­ing ob­tained in­for­ma­tion from the As­so­ci­at­ion, the com­men­ta­tors were

able to ex­plain why the El­ven Coach made that de­ci­sion.

=Ad­di­tion­ally, if they make it to the 5th game af­ter col­lect­ing 4 cards...

there is a spe­cial ef­fect al­low­ing them to change the game op­tions as well!

=Chang­ing op­tions? What does that mean?

=No de­tailed ex­pla­na­tion was given. But since they're giv­ing up bans and
se­lects for 4 games, there prob­ab­ ly aren't many op­tions they can change.

=But gen­er­ally, isn't it best to fin­ish be­fore the 5th game? Seems us­ing ban
and se­lect cards ev­ery game would have the high­est win rate in­stead of sav­‐
ing them...

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=You're right. How do they know if they'll make it to the 5th game! There's
a chance their saved cards could go to waste!

As the com­men­ta­tors said, sav­ing cards for later games in­stead of us­ing
them in ear­lier games was an in­ef­fi­cient choice.

If they saved them for no rea­son and lost the first 3 games, the cards would
go to waste with­out be­ing used.

And,

[3 play­ers from 'World Tree Elves -- 71's top 10 are banned.]

[1st, 3rd and 5th ranked play­ers are banned. They can­not par­tic­i­pate in the
1st game.]

=Oh, 1st, 3rd and 5th ranked play­ers! The ban card picked out well!

=A good start!

[The map for the 1st game has been de­cided.]

[The 1st game will take place on 'South­gate'.]

Due to the op­po­nent not us­ing cards, hu­man­ity wel­comed the best case sce­‐
nario.

The bans pre­cisely took out the op­po­nent's top ranked play­ers.

And the game map was South­gate, the most fa­mil­iar map from the tu­to­ri­als.

=Oh! It's South­gate!

=A fa­mil­iar map ap­peared. If the op­po­nents used a se­lect card, there would
have been a 70% chance one of the cho­sen maps be­tween both sides ap­‐
peared...

=This is the best out­come for hu­man­ity! Please win the first game!

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On the South­gate map re­quir­ing 100 play­ers.

Fol­low­ing the pre­de­ter­mined lineup for when this map ap­peared among the
2,000 play­ers.

Play­ers were called up.

"I'll be back, brother-in-law."

Sword King, 1st ranked War­rior Class, was the first to stand up.

"I'm also par­tic­i­pat­ing since it's South­gate. Too bad Seong Ji­han isn't
here...."

Top Ko­rean player and 1st ranked Archer Class, Ha Yeon­joo also made the
100 play­ers par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 1st game.

"I'll be in your care as well."

"Yes, I'll def­i­nitely bring back a win!"

And so, among the 100 play­ers, 2 Ko­re­ans were in­cluded as the lineup for
the 1st game was fi­nal­ized.

"It would've been nice if Seong Ji­han was here too..."

"Too bad he isn't Di­am

­ ond."

"Then why is he even on the list of 2,000?"

"Right? He can't play any­way un­less he's Di­am

­ ond so there was no need to
in­clude him in the list."

Those not par­tic­i­pat­ing in game 1 chat­ted amongst them­selves, glanc­ing at

Seong Ji­han.

While his skills were rec­og­nized by all, They didn't un­der­stand why a Plat­‐
inum un­able to play matches was on the lineup.

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"He prob­ab­ ly just wanted to be in­cluded in hu­man­ity's first ever lineup,

right?"

"Does a top player like Seong Ji­han care about things like that?"

"If he cared then he should've ranked up to Di­am

­ ond faster...."

Var­i­ous neg­at­ive chat­ter sur­rounded Seong Ji­han but =Game, be­gin!

As the 1st game of the open­ing match kicked off, all eyes fo­cused there.

Hu­man­ity vs Elves.

Noth­ing was a greater spec­ta­cle than this first con­fronta­tion.

And,

=Ah~ Sword King! He's dev­as­tat­ing the en­emy camp! The El­ven war­riors
are try­ing to stop him but can't re­spond at all!

=World Tree Elves, if you would fall so eas­ily then why didn't you use ban
cards? This makes no sense!

The El­ven base, lo­cated at the fortress.

They took out bows, sum­moned spir­its and pre­pared de­fenses, but With
Sword King tak­ing the lead, bran­dish­ing his sword, And the other hu­man
play­ers sup­port­ing from be­hind, it in­stan­ta­neously col­lapsed.

Es­pe­cially,

=Uh, these elves... don't they seem dif­fer­ent from the elf Seong Ji­han
fought? They don't demon­strate that ab­surd re­gen­er­at­ion!

=This much should be good enough!

=Among the many races seen in the Chaos Bat­tle­field, it seems elves are
the weak­est!

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Un­like the ab­surd re­gen­er­at­ion shown on Seong Ji­han's chan­nel, The elves
here didn't ex­hibit phys­i­cal abil­i­ties much dif­fer­ent from hu­mans.

-What the? They're noth­ing spe­cial!!!

-Why is this so easy?

-Watch­ing Sword King feels so comfy. Did Ko­re­ans en­joy this them­selves?

-Non-Ko­re­ans haven't felt that joy yet. Seong Ji­han isn't join­ing.

-We haven't ex­pe­ri­enced that yet ei­ther;

-Would've known if Sword King and Seong Ji­han came out to­gether.

For­eign view­ers con­tin­u­ously praised the Sword King dom­i­nat­ing game 1.

Es­pe­cially af­ter al­ways fac­ing him as en­em ­ ies, now that he was their ally,
they en­thu­si­as­ti­cally en­joyed his per­for­mance.

They felt at ease think­ing if Seong Ji­han also joined these two war­riors
pulling hu­man­ity for­ward, there would be no wor­ries even at the Space
League.

And so,

[1st Game Ends]

[Hu­man­ity Wins]

[Sword King, Yoon Se­jin has been se­lected as the MVP for 1st Game.]

In the open­ing match's 1st game, hu­man­ity eas­ily achieved vic­tory.

The MVP award went to Sword King for dev­as­tat­ing the en­emy base.

Hav­ing per­fectly won the first game, The com­men­ta­tors spoke in more re­‐
laxed tones com­pared to the start.

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=Hu­man­ity has se­cured the first win of the open­ing match!

=In these games, the first set is crit­i­cal! World Tree Elves passed their
cards. I won­der how they'll come out in the next game?

=Shouldn't they draw cards next? If we win the 2nd and 3rd game as well,
they'll have wasted sav­ing cards...

How­ever, con­trary to the com­men­ta­tors' pre­dic­tions.

"We will not use cards."

With the same faint smile as be­fore game 1, the El­ven Coach de­clared they
would not use cards.

'De­spite los­ing the first game so ter­ri­bly, they still act care­free. Pretty sus­pi­‐
cious...'

While Hu­man­ity's Coach Davis stared at the El­ven Coach awk­wardly, 'But
we still have to use cards.'

He chose the same as last game.

Ran­domly ban­ning 3 of op­po­nent's top 10, and se­lect­ing South­gate map.

Then.

[3 play­ers from 'World Tree Elves -- 71's top 10 are banned.]

[1st, 4th and 8th ranked play­ers are banned. They can­not par­tic­i­pate in the
2nd game.]

[You have du­pli­cated use of a spe­cific ban card op­tion. You can­not use this
op­tion start­ing the next game.]

=Oh, 1st, 4th and 8th ranked play­ers! Bet­ter bans than be­fore!

=Coach Davis, to­day's your day!

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=It says this op­tion can­not be used in the next game on­wards but... we can
still ban with dif­fer­ent op­tions right?

=Yes. There's also an op­tion to ban 5 play­ers from the top 20. If we're lucky
to­day, ban­ning 5 peo­ple might be more ben­ef­ i­cial!

[The map for the 2nd game has been de­cided.]

[The 2nd game will take place on 'South­gate'.]

=Whoa, South­gate again...!

=70% chance trig­gered twice!

Hu­man­ity be­gan the 2nd game un­der even bet­ter con­di­tions than be­fore.

The game re­sult was also one-sided.

[2nd Game Ends]

[Hu­man­ity Wins]

[Bar­ren has been se­lected as the MVP for the 2nd Game.]

Since of­fense and de­fense switched with hu­man­ity as de­fend­ers in the 2nd
game.

Amer­i­can First's guild mas­ter and world #1 ranked Mage, Bar­ren took the
MVP spot.

=Bar­ren! As ex­pected of world #1!

=Just how many spells can he cast at once?!

=Truly Amer­ica's pride!

The Amer­i­can com­men­ta­tor heaped praises on home­grown su­per­star Bar­‐

ren, foam­ing at the mouth.

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See­ing the elves pa­thet­i­cally crum­bling, he won­dered if the match would

end 3:0.

=At this rate, it might end 3:0!

=Then I won­der who to­day's MVP will be!

=Since Sword King and Bar­ren each got the MVP, it comes down to who
plays bet­ter in game 3 right?

While dis­cussing so with other com­men­ta­tors, Christo­pher re­mem­bered

Seong Ji­han claim­ing he would take MVP.

'This looks like it'll clearly end 3:0 though?'

He was so con­fi­dent say­ing that so

'I bet 10,000 dol­lars on a whim but... looks like I lost it all huh'

What did he know to make that claim?

Just a guy brim­ming with con­fi­dence it seems.

'Well, I'll be get­ting the Akashic Page any­way.'

10,000 dol­lars was noth­ing com­pared to an Akashic Page.

Christo­pher de­cided to just brush it off as a hap­pen­ing.

Un­til game 3 be­gan,

The gen­eral mood looked headed to­wards a 3:0 fin­ish.

How­ever,

"We will not use cards."

The card­less El­ven Coach this time.

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[5 play­ers from 'World Tree Elves -- 71's top 20 are banned.]

[11th, 12th, 15th, 16th and 19th ranked play­ers are banned. They can­not
par­tic­i­pate in the 3rd game.]

Af­ter hu­man­ity's bans ended, she broke into laugh­ter.

"I wasn't banned this time?"

".....What do you mean?"

"The #1 sur­vived."

Point­ing at her­self, the Coach grinned.

Hear­ing that, Coach Davis re­al­ized who the pre­vi­ously banned #1 was.

"The El­ven Coach is their.... #1 player?"

"Hehe.... It's the Train map. See you ingame."

Flash!

As the Coach dis­ap­peared into the light,

Coach Davis's face hard­ened.

'I have a bad feel­ing about this...'

De­spite con­sec­u­tive losses, the still card­less elves.

And their pe­cu­liar #1 player act­ing as Coach...

Coach Davis looked at the El­ven Coach with un­known anx­i­ety, "No....!"

Soon un­able to hide his shock.

The Train Map.

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Along with South­gate, it was the game map hu­man­ity played most in rep­re­‐
sen­ta­tive matches.

Ex­pect­ing elves to ex­cel at long range, South­gate was pri­mar­ily picked un­til
now but, Af­ter games 1 and 2, con­fi­dent hu­man­ity would dom­i­nate at range
too, the Train map was cho­sen...

"The Train map is so easy."

First re­veal­ing her­self ingame.

Top ranked El­ven Coach gig­gled, reach­ing to the air.

"Spir­i­tu­al­ize."

Shuu---!

Then the bod­ies of nearby elves turned trans­par­ent.

Green en­ergy gath­ered above the Elf's hand.

That made some 30 elves dis­ap­pear.

"There, done!"

Atop her hand, the green en­ergy al­ready took shape into one form.

=Is that... a train?

=Yes, the looks are very sim­i­lar to the two trains cur­rently run­ning par­al­‐
lel...!

What she held was a train, iden­ti­cal to those on the Train map.

Tiny light blobs moved about atop the train.

The shape closely re­sem­bled hu­man­ity's train seen from afar.

"Look for­ward to a more ex­cit­ing map next."

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As she flipped the train af­ter speak­ing,

Rum­ble...!

From far away, hu­man­ity's train

In­stantly flipped over.

"What the, what's this...!"

"Why did the train sud­denly...!"

At the over­turned train,

Swarms of zom­bies rushed over.

Thud, Thud...!

The El­ven train left those hu­mans be­hind as if mock­ing them, mov­ing for­‐
ward.

So far that hu­man­ity play­ers couldn't even think to catch up.

=This is... over­turn­ing trains...?

=So this is the El­ven #1's level...?

=The game will end soon at this rate...!

The sur­viv­ing play­ers from the over­turned train tried des­per­ately re­sist­ing
the zom­bies some­how, but Af­ter los­ing the train on the Train map, that was
merely a mean­ing­less strug­gle.

[3rd Game Ends]

[World Tree Elves -- 71 Wins]

[El­ven Coach has been se­lected as the MVP for the 3rd Game.]

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Leisurely tak­ing the MVP af­ter ef­fort­lessly flip­ping the train.

The El­ven Coach re­turned to the coach­ing ta­ble, faintly smil­ing once more.

"We will not use cards."

Al­ready the 4th time re­peat­ing the same words.

But the pres­sure Coach Davis felt now was on a dif­fer­ent level than be­fore.

'We have to win the 4th game no mat­ter what. If they use their saved cards
in game 5... I don't know what'll hap­pen.'

Coach Davis watched the El­ven Coach.

When she didn't get banned as #1, that girl came out and blew up the game.

In that case.

"...Chang­ing ban card."

The cap­tain de­cided to pick an­other ban card op­tion.

[World Tree Elves -- 71's #1 player is banned. Can­not par­tic­i­pate in the 4th
game.]

Rather than ran­dom, aimed to cut out the El­ven Coach show­ing pow­er­ful
strength.

-5 bans down to 1, a bit dis­ap­point­ing...

-Nah good choice, look what hap­pened in the 3rd game.

-For real, that Coach is mad strong. Flip­ping a Train in the train map? Crazy
-Get­ting her out should make it eas­ier like games 1 and 2.

How­ever,

"Hehe...."

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See­ing Davis's de­ci­sion, the El­ven Coach let out a mock­ing laugh.

"I'm not #1 though."

"....What?"

"You're so naive. How could you be­lieve what the en­emy says?"

"Then why didn't you par­tic­i­pate in the 1st and 2nd games...?!"

I thought she couldn't come out be­cause she was banned in the 1st and 2nd
games.

But what she's say­ing now is com­pletely dif­fer­ent.

"Well, yes. We have to go through five games, af­ter all."

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Chap­ter 190
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=Both sides have 4 cards each...!

=Af­ter gath­er­ing 3 cards, they can defini­tively choose ban and se­lect op­‐
tions for the 4th game.

=And af­ter gath­er­ing 4 cards, they can change game op­tions...!

=Don't tell me the elves in­tended this from the start...? Gath­er­ing 4 cards
un­til...

Did they do it on pur­pose to change game op­tions?

-No way they planned this to force a 2-2 tie right?

-That's only pos­si­ble when you can defini­tively con­trol the win/loss of ev­‐
ery game...

-For that, the elves would need to have over­whelm­ing skills to crush us,
right?

-But if they're so strong, why go through the has­sle? They could just beat us
nor­mally.

-Just what are they try­ing to change in op­tions...?

When view­ers are con­fused be­cause they don't un­der­stand the in­ten­tions of
the elves.

=It's fine! We just have to win the 4th game!

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=Yes, that's right. That will do! We have strong play­ers! It's just that the
match-up wasn't fa­vor­able on the Train map...!

The com­men­ta­tors tried to make the sit­u­at­ion look fa­vor­able.

If they win the 4th game, no mat­ter if the op­po­nent gath­ers 4 cards.

It would end cleanly with a 3:1 vic­tory.

And

=Oh, se­lect card suc­cess!

=The 'Colos­seum' map Coach Davis chose came out again!

=70% chance trig­gered 4 times in a row!

Game 4 be­gan well.

Af­ter the trau­matic ex­pe­ri­ence against the El­ven Coach's power on Train
map, Earth's team picked a map al­low­ing close range fights, which lined up.

Of course, like with the coach, some other vari­able could pop up but, With
no in­tel on the op­po­nent, hu­man­ity had no choice but to pick maps based on
games 1 and 2 data.

=The Colos­seum map, which was fre­quently used as a sur­vival map!

=In the Space League, 50 hu­man and elf war­riors are sum­moned, en­gag­ing
in a bloody bat­tle.

=Al­though other classes can par­tic­i­pate be­sides war­rior classes, it seems

that war­riors who are good at close com­bat will be se­lected due to the nar­‐
row size of the map!

=As you saw in the 1st and 2nd games, elf war­riors were help­less against
the Sword King...!

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=Sword King win­ning this game and be­com­ing the se­ries MVP would be
great!

=Yes. It ab­so­lutely can­not go to game 5. We have to end it here!

With the op­po­nent hav­ing 4 cards, en­abling op­tion changes in 5th game.

The com­men­ta­tors em­phat­i­cally stated that they must not let the game go
that far.

How­ever,

[A Higher race, 'High Elf' joins the fight.]

[The dif­fer­ence in race is sig­nif­i­cant. Ad­just­ments will be made...]

['World Tree Elves -- 71's par­tic­i­pa­tion ad­justed to 31 play­ers.]

"High elf....?"

"What? Sud­denly."

"Race ad­just­ment... Wasn't that in the Chaos Bat­tle­field?"

In the Chaos Bat­tle­field, there were point dif­fer­ences for each race.

How­ever, when they par­tic­i­pated in the Space League in the main game,
points were cal­cu­lated for each hu­man or elf with­out any race ad­just­ments.

So, the point dif­fer­ence at that time was thought to be ad­justed only in re­‐
hearsal games.

Yet, af­ter 4 games, they sud­denly ad­justed the bal­ance.

Peo­ple be­came more anx­ious about such ad­just­ments rather than be­ing
grate­ful for them.

Just how strong are they equat­ing to 20 peo­ple!?

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In the midst of such anx­i­ety, the 4th match be­gan.

In the Colos­seum map, the prob­lem­atic High Elf re­vealed her­self.

With long blonde hair and a part of her bangs dyed green, she had a fa­mil­iar
ap­pear­ance to hu­mans.

-Uh...

-That elf, the one from Seong Ji­han's chan­nel!

-Yeah dur­ing the pro­mo­tion match! The one help­ing Seong Ji­han!

The High Elf who called Seong Ji­han mother dur­ing his Space League Pro­‐
mo­tion Bat­tle, died to the Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star.

The op­po­nent that ap­peared now looked ex­actly like her.

"High Elf...... looks ex­actly the same as dur­ing the pro­mo­tion bat­tle. Do
they all look like that?"

[Bit dif­fer­ent. Her green strands look darker right? That much should make
her con­sid­er­ably strong....]

"Enough to be worth 20 peo­ple?"

[Would've given her more than 20. 4th Game, noth­ing left but de­feat.]

Ariel made a cold judg­ment of a 4th game loss.

This was in­for­ma­tion that Holy al­ready knew.

'Last life, even my brother-in-law couldn't make her draw her swords.'

Sword King who joined Japan un­der Shizuru's charm, Par­tic­i­pated in the
4th game car­ry­ing hu­man­ity's hopes set on vic­tory but, [Is this... all?]

With that line, she re­tired, beat­ing ev­ery­one with just fists.

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Per­haps trau­ma­tized by this de­feat.

Sword King later grew enough to push High Elves back but, [I didn't want
to get dirty, but I guess I have no choice.]

When she drew her sword, he suf­fered de­feat again and While panic-
stricken, only screamed 'How can this be...!' be­fore dis­ap­pear­ing with­out a
trace af­ter that day.

The World Tree's power prob­ab­ ly freed him of the charm.

'Won­der what hap­pened to my brother-in-law af­ter.'

Seong Ji­han stared at the Sword King on the screen.

Yoon Se­jin, who still lost his vi­sion by stab­bing his own eyes.

Al­though he was able to bring him here in this life thanks to Seong Ji­han
go­ing to Japan, in the pre­vi­ous life with­out such a ally, it would have been
dif­fi­cult to com­pletely break free from Ito Shizuru's in­flu­ence 'Well he
didn't ap­pear for Japan af­ter­wards so... He must've kept his dis­tance.'

If Shizuru re­gained con­trol of Sword King, she would've fielded him as

Japan rep­re­sen­ta­tive but, Since that didn't hap­pen at all.

Pon­der­ing those mem­o­ries of his past life mo­men­tar­ily, Seong Ji­han

watched the game un­fold.

Flash! Flash!

Play­ers from both sides were sum­moned to the Colos­seum.

Two sides fac­ing each other, about to con­front each other.

"Is this... all?"

The High Elf at the fore­front of the Elf side looked down on hu­mans as if
they were in­signif­i­cant.

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"In­ven­tory."

Open­ing her in­ven­tory, she put the sword she was hold­ing into it.

=She seems to be a High Elf, but...?

=In­stead of look­ing at us, she's putting her weapon away. What's her in­ten­‐
tion?

When the com­men­ta­tors were con­fused about the elf's in­ten­tion.

Whoosh!

The ap­pear­ance of the High Elf dis­ap­peared.

Boom! Boom!

In an in­stant, the heads of hu­man war­riors ex­ploded in midair.

=Ah, no....

=What just hap­pened...!?

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Hu­man war­riors con­tin­ued to ex­plode.

Be­fore they knew it, 20 had died.

=No way... it hasn't even been 10 sec­onds, what is go­ing on!?

=I...Is the game over al­ready...!?

It seemed like the game would end in­stantly like this.

"...Fast."

Thud!

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The Sword King's twin swords flew au­to­mat­i­cally and blocked the High
Elf's fist for the first time.

"At least this is bet­ter."

Then, with a sly smile on her lips, the High Elf said, "I'll use my feet too,"
and un­leashed a bar­rage of kicks, not just punches, over­whelm­ingly over­‐
whelm­ing the Sword King.

Boom! Boom!

Ca­su­ally ex­plod­ing the sur­round­ing hu­man war­riors as well.

"Ugh......."

The Sword King, who was now the last one stand­ing, re­sisted to the end.

"Good­bye."

Boom!

In the end, un­able to with­stand the re­lent­less as­sault, the twin swords shat­‐
tered, and the head of the Sword King also ex­ploded.

=Ah...

=T-The Sword King has fallen too...!

[Game 4 has ended.]

['World Tree Elves -- 71' wins.]

['High Elf 71' has been se­lected as the MVP for 4th Game.]

The 4th Game didn't even last 10 min­utes.

"Here comes the 5th game."

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The El­ven Coach stand­ing across from the coaches' ta­bles smiled ra­di­antly.

"That player... isn't 1st place ei­ther?"

Mean­while on the other side, Coach Davis mur­mured with a dumb­founded

ex­pres­sion.

This game was a bat­tle fought with the op­po­nents' 1st place banned.

A player like that isn't 1st place among World Tree Elves?

"High Elf-nim? You fight ex­cep­tion­ally well. It's just that you're not first."

"What's that..."

"Rank and strength don't al­ways go hand in hand."

"...Why did you drag the game out un­til the 4th round?"

Coach Davis asked with a dark ex­pres­sion.

"With a player that strong, the game could have ended in just 3 rounds."

"Well, of course."

Swoosh!

The El­ven coach pulled out four cards in both hands.

"To use the cards."

"...For chang­ing op­tions?"

"Hehe..."

[En­ter­ing the prepa­ra­tion stage for the 5th game.]

[This is the last match. No ban or se­lect cards will be given.]

[Cards gath­ered un­til now may be used.]

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In the 5th game, with no ban or se­lect cards pro­vided, the last game where
they could uti­lize the cards they had col­lected.

The El­ven coach placed the cards on the ta­ble for the first time in this game.

"I'll use four ban cards to change the game op­tion... I'll change the 'De­feat
Penalty.'"

"...What!?"

A de­feat penalty? Can such a thing be changed?

"I'll add 'death' for the de­feat penalty of the rep­re­sen­ta­tive team play­ers."

"De... Death..."

To an un­ex­pected penalty, not only Coach Davis but also...

"What... Death!?"

"No way... dy­ing for los­ing games!?"

"What game kills you for los­ing!?"

All the play­ers in the na­tional team wait­ing room were shocked.

Just a while ago, they were talk­ing about be­ing se­lected for the Space
League Earth rep­re­sen­ta­tive team for the first time, an honor for their fam­‐
ily, but now...

"SHIT! No freak­ing way!"

"Just from gath­er­ing 4 cards...!"

"I, I don't wanna die...... Af­ter com­ing this far...."

"Ah, I shouldn't have joined the rep­re­sen­ta­tive team...!"

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Now com­pletely panic-stricken, greatly re­gret­ting be­com­ing Earth rep­re­‐

sen­ta­tives.

But amidst hu­man­ity's chaos,

The El­ven Coach sim­ply pro­ceeded with tasks at hand.

"Death rate set to max­i­mum."

[The high­est penalty in the Bronze League is 1/10 type. Will you pro­ceed
with this?]

"Yes."

[The los­ing team will face a 1/10 penalty. One ran­dom mem­ber out of ten
will be ex­ec­ uted.]

When the 1/10 penalty was men­tioned, there was a brief mo­ment of con­fu­‐
sion.

"One-tenth... So, only one out of ten..."

"So, not ev­ery­one is go­ing to die...?"

"Still, one out of ten... If you're un­lucky, it's still a death sen­tence!"

De­spite the shock, ev­ery­one was dumb­founded at the penalty where 200 out
of 2000 would be ex­ec­ uted. How­ever, the El­ven coach still had four un­used
cards.

"Also, I will use se­lect cards to choose the game map as 'Heav­enly Elysia'."

['Heav­enly Elysia' map has spe­cial set­tings.]

[Would you like to load all the set­tings?]

[You'll need four Se­lect cards].

"Yes."

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The view­ers could also see the choices made by the El­ven coach and the
sys­tem. Peo­ple were anx­ious about the mean­ing of need­ing four cards for
'Heav­enly Elysia' and its set­tings.

And then,

=Ah...!

=This map...! It has a dou­ble penalty ef­fect for the game...!

The com­men­ta­tors, the first to grasp the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the map, shouted
in agony.

A dou­ble penalty meant that in­stead of 10%, 20% would be ex­ec­ uted. The
other map set­tings were also ab­surd.

=In Heav­enly Elysia, where the sapling of the World Tree is... the power of
the spir­its is greatly am­pli­fied...

=I-isn't this map com­pletely ad­van­ta­geous for the elves!

Uni­lat­er­ally strength­en­ing only the elves through map set­tings. It was clear
why four se­lect cards were nec­es­sary.

"Well for your hu­man­ity, doesn't seem you need to but,"

The El­ven Coach slightly lifted her mouth cor­ners.

"This is how we deal with new­bies. Die obe­di­ently please."

"Ugh.... Ugh...."

Coach Davis was in de­spair. He thought that the Bat­tleNet af­ter en­ter­ing the
Space League wouldn't be as peace­ful as be­fore. How­ever, 'As soon as we
en­ter the Space League... 20% ex­ec­ u­tion.'

This is how elves deal with new­bies?

It gave him chills.

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Space League... It seemed more like a war than a game.

'Ev­ery­thing... fa­vors the elves....'

While Coach Davis was look­ing down at the loaded set­tings with a dis­‐
mayed ex­pres­sion, 'Huh?'

See­ing the last item, he widened his eyes.

[Heav­enly Elysia en­try re­quire­ments]

[Only Plat­inum ranked Sup­port classes may par­tic­i­pate.]

Plat­inum Sup­port.

A per­son per­fectly fit­ting this item was...

As if it were a lie, there was ex­actly one per­son on the rep­re­sen­ta­tive team.

"What is this con­di­tion about...?"

"Plat­inum, sup­port? There are races in the uni­verse that aren't as weak as
hu­mans. To pre­vent the worst-case sce­nario, we've set the op­ti­mal con­di­‐
tions."

Al­though the Heav­enly Elysia map was de­signed to fa­vor elves, the Space
League was filled with un­pre­dictable pow­er­ful races.

There­fore, the map de­signer, to pre­vent a los­ing sit­u­at­ion, re­stricted the

play­ers who could par­tic­i­pate in the Heav­enly Elysia map to Plat­inum play­‐
ers with the sup­port class.

"Well an un­nec­es­sary con­di­tion for your op­po­nent but, bring them quickly.
The Plat­inum Sup­port."

"Ha... Ha­hah...."

"Ah right, he's not on the team. He'll be ran­domly se­lected from the re­‐
serves, right?"

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At the Coach's words.

Coach Davis chuck­led as if he had given up.

"Heh, heh... Not on the team... Who could it be?"

"......."

What's with the at­ti­tude change?

While the at­ti­tude of Coach Davis changed, the El­ven Coach felt a bit un­‐
easy.

'Is he crazy?'

Dis­miss­ing it as triv­ial, they pro­ceeded with the game.

And so the game be­gan, Heav­enly Elysia.

Boom!

As soon as the game started, the en­tire body of the op­pos­ing elf ex­ploded.

"Hurry up and re­vive, elf."

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Chap­ter 191
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A lit­tle while ago.

"It's time."

In the wait­ing room, Seong Ji­han, who had been ob­serv­ing the sit­u­at­ion,
stood up.

"Brother-in-law, I'll be back."

"...Ji­han, did you know some­thing?"

Yoon Se­jin, the war­rior who had been kicked by the high elf and had just
par­tic­i­pated in the 5th game, looked at Seong Ji­han with a sur­prised ex­pres­‐
sion af­ter hear­ing the par­tic­i­pa­tion con­di­tions for the Space League with his
ears.

'He re­quested my sup­port, say­ing he had to par­tic­i­pate in the Space League

no mat­ter what...'

Some­thing def­i­nitely felt strange.

In a game where only Di­am ­ ond play­ers could par­tic­i­pate, he in­sisted on get­‐
ting in with­out car­ing about the ros­ter. The Seong Ji­han he knew wasn't
some­one who cared so much about rep­u­ta­tion.

He won­dered why he wanted to par­tic­i­pate so badly, even en­dur­ing hos­tile

glances.

"My dream just hap­pened to align well. Per­haps it's a pre­mo­ni­tion."

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Seong Ji­han replied ca­su­ally, walk­ing for­ward slowly.

The gaze of all the play­ers gath­ered on him.

"No, Seong Ji­han... Can you re­ally par­tic­i­pate?"

"Of course! He can play any class, and he meets the sup­port con­di­tions!"

"How does he fit this sit­u­at­ion so per­fectly...!"

"Oh, please...!"

Just a mo­ment ago, the play­ers who sent him un­friendly looks, won­der­ing
why Seong Ji­han was there.

Now, they all looked at him with des­per­ate eyes.

Seong Ji­han was met with earnest eyes from ev­ery­one.

And

"Player Seong Ji­han. Please take on the 5th match. Please... break their
strat­egy and give them a hard time."

Coach Davis, who had re­turned to the wait­ing room and saw Seong Ji­han
ap­proach­ing, deeply bowed his head.

Whether Seong Ji­han knew and par­tic­i­pated or whether he in­tended to par­‐

tic­i­pate with a sense of res­o­nance and the sit­u­at­ion co­in­ci­den­tally aligned
was not im­por­tant now.

In a sit­u­at­ion where 20 per­cent of the world's strong­est play­ers could face

the death penalty.

The only card that could re­verse this sit­u­at­ion was Seong Ji­han.

As Coach Davis, with al­most a des­per­ate ges­ture, was about to bow his
head deeply, Seong Ji­han stopped him.

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"Of course. But I have a re­quest."

"A re­quest..."

"If I win, ex­ec­ ute the penalty. Carry out what­ever con­di­tions the en­emy sets
with­out hes­i­ta­tion."

"A penalty that in­volves ex­ec­ u­tion, you mean death penalty?"

"Yes, no mat­ter what con­di­tions the en­emy presents, it must be ex­ec­ uted."

"...I un­der­stand."

Coach Davis nod­ded in agree­ment, his head bob­bing gen­tly.

Re­turn­ing the penalty they had de­cided on.

That was what he hoped for.

"Al­right then. Fin­ish the 5 games and come back."

Flash!

As Seong Ji­han was sum­moned and dis­ap­peared from the wait­ing room, the
play­ers watch­ing sighed col­lec­tively in re­lief.

"Seong Ji­han has been sum­moned...!"

"Phew, that proves he meets the par­tic­i­pa­tion con­di­tions."

"He's alive...!"

Ter­ri­fy­ing when en­coun­tered as an en­emy, but when he's on your side, he's
more re­li­able than any­one else.

Now, with Seong Ji­han step­ping up, it seemed they could feel a bit more at
ease about the 5 matches ahead.

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[The 5th match be­gins.]

[A player fit­ting the con­di­tions of the 'Heav­enly Elysia' map is par­tic­i­pat­‐

ing.]

[The game type is Sur­vival.]

The fi­nal match where the sur­vival rights of the rep­re­sen­ta­tive team's play­‐
ers, 20 per­cent, are at stake.

-Wow... Have we been played by the elves un­til now...?

-We could eas­ily win 1 or 2 games, but are they in­ten­tion­ally try­ing to bring
us to the 5th game to ex­ec­ ute us?

-But if you col­lect 4 cards, Use them in the 4th game; why bother com­ing to
the 5th game?

-They say the 5th game has more change­able op­tions, es­pe­cially penal­ties...

-Oh, this is in­sane...Is this the real Space League?

-I'm afraid of who will face the death penalty...

-If only our Ko­rean play­ers could sur­vive... 🙁

View­ers who didn't know the de­tails of the match con­di­tions had al­ready re­‐
signed to de­feat and fallen into de­spair. Those who trem­bled at the elf's
plan, pray­ing for their coun­try's play­ers to sur­vive some­how.

= The 5th match be­gins...!

= Rep­re­sent­ing hu­man­ity, player Seong Ji­han is par­tic­i­pat­ing!!

= That's right. Player Seong Ji­han, he was an all-class player! A player per­‐
fectly fit­ting the Plat­inum level Sup­port con­di­tions!

= If he was on the re­serve list, he would have been ran­domly se­lected, but
since he's on the rep­re­sen­ta­tive team ros­ter, he can par­tic­i­pate right away!

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= Ah... Is the sit­u­at­ion re­ally like this now!

When the list of par­tic­i­pat­ing player ap­peared, the at­mos­phere changed 180
de­grees.

-- Wow... Seong Ji­han is par­tic­i­pat­ing!!

-- Haha!! Hey, those guys who were say­ing he shouldn't be here with­out
qual­i­fi­ca­tions, why are they all silent now? 🤣

-- Wow, se­ri­ously, does he have pre­cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties? The sit­u­at­ion is

ridicu­lously per­fect😮

-Phew, turned the sit­u­at­ion around..😌

-Kill the elf!!

The strength of Seong Ji­han was ac­knowl­edged by ev­ery­one. Es­pe­cially the

Ja­pa­nese and Chi­nese view­ers who had been de­feated by him, now united
in sup­port­ing him with one heart.

-- This... is the taste of vic­tory...

-WWW, we can't be the only ones. Let the elves ex­pe­ri­ence Seong Ji­han's
power😡

-Seong Ji­han... it's a fit­ting sight for a shaman's dis­ci­ple... I'll cheer for him
to­day.

-Sh*t, Those guys were just spam­ming the chat, won­der­ing why Seong Ji­‐
han was in the rep­re­sen­ta­tive team just a mo­ment ago As Seong Ji­han en­‐
tered the Heav­enly Elysia, he looked around.

True to its name, Heav­enly Elysia was a map made up of peace­ful, ver­dant
land­scapes.

At the cen­ter of the map, high above the sky, a gi­ant tree floated.

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'Is that the sapling of the World Tree?'

The sapling of the World Tree, which strongly am­pli­fies the power of spir­‐
its.

Look­ing at it, Seong Ji­han could feel that there was a power be­yond the
power of spir­its.

'The vi­tal­ity here is over­flow­ing.'

The life force that brought the Sword King back to his senses was abun­‐
dantly present. It was em­an­ at­ing from a tree so large that call­ing it a sapling
seemed in­ap­pro­pri­ate.

'Should I ab­sorb some of that power?'

As Seong Ji­han con­sid­ered re­plen­ish­ing the nearly de­pleted life force, a

flash oc­curred. On the op­pos­ing side, a Plat­inum Sup­port was sum­moned.
De­spite be­ing la­beled a sup­port, the elf player had a bow strapped to their
back and dag­gers in both hands.

"New­bie."

Look­ing at Seong Ji­han, the elf player sup­pressed a sneer.

"You'll be given 100 chances. Dur­ing that time, try to re­sist as much as you
can."

Whoosh!

The elf dis­ap­peared, dis­play­ing move­ments too ag­ile for a typ­i­cal sup­port.
De­spite be­ing a sup­port class, this elf had been trained as a war­rior, ev­i­dent
by their swift and ag­ile move­ments, es­pe­cially fit­ting for the Heav­enly
Elysia map with en­hanced el­em ­ en­tal pow­ers.

= The en­emy is fast...!

= Is the map de­signed for the elves!?

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= Ah, Player Seong Ji­han...! If only you could pull through...!

Hav­ing suf­fered de­feats in the 3rd and 4th matches, the com­men­ta­tors ex­‐
pressed con­cern, won­der­ing if Seong Ji­han, de­spite his prow­ess, would find
it chal­leng­ing.

Thunk!

As soon as Seong Ji­han waved his hand in the air, the head of the van­ished
elf was caught.

"What the...?"

"Come."

Bang!

As he clenched his fist, the en­tire body of the elf burst forth.

To pre­vent blood from splat­ter­ing on his own body, Seong Ji­han iso­lated the
space and ut­tered a brief word.

"Hurry up and re­vive, elf."

One strike.

With­out even us­ing a weapon, the elf burst out when Seong Ji­han said so.

The com­men­ta­tors sighed in re­lief.

=Ah...!

=In­deed, it's Player Seong Ji­han! He's de­pend­able!

=This is mind-blow­ing!

And soon af­ter,

Swoosh...

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The op­pos­ing elf res­ur­rected from where they orig­i­nally stood.

Boom!

"Again."

Boom!

"Again."

Seong Ji­han con­tin­ued to burst the elf re­peat­edly.

With­out a hint of mercy, he kept killing the res­ur­rect­ing elf.

Not a sin­gle viewer raised an eye­brow at this mer­ci­less act.

-Kill them!! Kill them more!!

-Ugh, when will they stop res­ur­rect­ing, these guys -_-

-The stress from the 3rd and 4th matches is com­pletely gone, lol.

-Does this mean the other side is go­ing to face the death penalty?

-Yes, yes, it's a man­ual for han­dling new­com­ers. Make the elves ex­pe­ri­ence
it.

The sit­u­at­ion turned around just be­fore the rookie hu­man­ity could face the
death penalty.

While ev­ery­one en­joyed watch­ing the elves die one af­ter an­other, The face
of the El­ven Coach was, for the first time since the game started, los­ing
com­po­sure.

"What in the world..."

The elf who en­tered as a Plat­inum Sup­por.

That elf was not a player who would ex­plode so help­lessly.

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Ac­cord­ing to the data from the World Tree Al­liance, they were trained as a
player ca­pa­ble of eas­ily de­feat­ing even the high­est-tier species, in­clud­ing
sup­ports of the Plat­inum level.

More­over,

'Even with the bless­ing of the World Tree...!'

De­spite be­ing a sapling, the World Tree's bless­ing be­stowed tremen­dous

power.

The elf sup­ported by this was pow­er­ful enough to sup­press even a Di­a­‐
mond-level war­rior, rep­re­sent­ing an en­emy of the high­est or­der.

But to over­power such an elf so ef­fort­lessly...!

'If we lose like this, it's go­ing to be a big prob­lem.'

Among the par­tic­i­pat­ing play­ers, 20 per­cent will face the death penalty.
This penalty was sig­nif­i­cantly more fa­tal to the elves than to the in­fe­rior
race of hu­mans. Nat­u­rally, as an elf, she had never imag­ined that this pun­‐
ish­ment would come back to haunt them, es­pe­cially con­sid­er­ing their over­‐
whelm­ing pop­u­la­tion com­pared to hu­mans. Los­ing 20 per­cent would make
it dif­fi­cult for them to cul­ti­vate new in­di­vid­u­als.

"Emer­gency sit­u­at­ion...!"

The El­ven Coach ex­claimed, re­port­ing an ur­gent sit­u­at­ion some­where.

Swoosh...

Her ap­pear­ance be­gan to change com­pletely, un­like be­fore.

'No, this ap­pear­ance is...'

Across the ta­ble, Coach Davis, who had been ob­serv­ing the rep­re­sen­ta­tive's
anx­i­ety and un­ease with de­light, widened his eyes. The trans­formed ap­pear­‐
ance of the El­ven Coach was strik­ingly sim­i­lar to the high elf seen just a
while ago. The only dif­fer­ence was the com­pletely golden hair.

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'...It looked like that when it came out on Seong Ji­han's chan­nel. What's go­‐
ing on?'

They were sup­posed to qui­etly ac­cept de­feat. What else could they pos­si­bly
be up to?

Even in over­whelm­ingly fa­vor­able cir­cum­stances, Coach Davis felt un­easy.

And then,

Ku­ru­rur...

From the sapling of the World Tree high above the sky, along with clumps
of soil, leaves fell.

"Haa, haa..."

The elf's hair, which was burst­ing out mis­er­ably, be­gan to shine green.

Thunk!

For the first time, it blocked Seong Ji­han's at­tack.

Swoosh...

"The World Tree... has be­stowed its grace!"

The com­pletely trans­formed elf, with a sim­i­lar ap­pear­ance to the high elf
from ear­lier but with green-glow­ing golden hair, rushed for­ward.

Clang! Clang!

In an in­stant, dozens of blows were ex­changed as Seong Ji­han and the elf
en­gaged in a mo­men­tary equal ex­change.

Con­sid­er­ing Seong Ji­han's tran­scen­den­tal strength, such an ex­change

shouldn't have been pos­si­ble. It demon­strated how over­whelm­ing the power

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granted by the World Tree's sapling was.

[Is that re­ally a sapling? It's an in­cred­i­ble power... The World Tree. Truly
one of the seven be­ings that dom­i­nate the uni­verse.]

"Can you re­ally re­sist against some­thing like that?"

[... Let's give it a try. It's our rea­son for ex­is­tence.]

Even the shadow elf Ariel, who was a shadow elf, was amazed by the pow­‐
er­ful abil­i­ties granted by the World Tree. Seong Ji­han gazed at the life force
pour­ing down from the World Tree above the sky.

The power de­scend­ing from the sky was much more ab­sorbable than when
it floated above. Seong Ji­han thought, 'I should take some.'

Swoosh!

Rather than fight­ing, Seong Ji­han as­cended into the sky to in­ter­cept the
power mid­way.

Shu­uuu...

Per­haps be­cause he tried ab­sorb­ing it once, the life force flowed in much
more nat­u­rally. Seong Ji­han ended up ab­sorb­ing more than he was di­rectly
pro­vid­ing to the elves.

[Ma-mas­ter... Aren't you ab­sorb­ing too much? You might be­come a slave of
the World Tree!]

Al­though Ariel was as­ton­ished by the sig­nif­i­cantly larger in­flux of life force
com­pared to when ab­sorb­ing from the Seed of Life, Seong Ji­han re­sponded
non­cha­lantly.

"It's fine."

[Try curs­ing the World Tree a bit.]

"The World Tree is just a glo­ri­fied garbage dis­posal for the uni­verse."

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[...Why are you still fine?]

Per­plexed by Seong Ji­han's non­cha­lant at­ti­tude, Ariel failed to un­der­stand

the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion.

And then...

"You, how are you ab­sorb­ing the en­ergy... no, isn't it? Mother..."

The elf who was an­gry watch­ing Seong Ji­han steal­ing away the life force,
when it reached a cer­tain level, called Seong Ji­han mother and fell into con­‐
fu­sion.

And then.

"Is this... Mother's... big plan?"

Plop!

Kneel­ing in front of Seong Ji­han, the elf couldn't hide its con­fu­sion.

"Yes, my child. It's time for you to die."

Boom!

Seong Ji­han kicked the elf and blew him away while look­ing up at the sky.

The sapling of the World Tree above the sky, ex­ud­ing an im­mense amount
of en­ergy.

Whoosh..!

The sapling, shin­ing in green light as if it didn't mind Seong Ji­han ab­sorb­‐
ing its en­ergy, con­tin­ued to in­fuse him with the life force.

As if it were a bet to see who would win.

Rather than res­ur­rect­ing the elf who had al­ready died and re­in­forc­ing him,
It seemed like it wanted Ji­han to ab­sorb more en­ergy and dom­i­nate him.

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But

'This is strange... why am I so in­dif­fer­ent?'

Is it be­cause of the Mar­tial soul?

Seong Ji­han, filled with the life force through­out his body, re­mained free
and easy.

Un­til there was no more room to con­tain it, he con­tin­ued to ac­cu­mu­late the
life force.

'Hmm...'

Look­ing at Eclipse held in his left hand, he fell into thought.

Shadow Di­vine Blade, the ul­ti­mate skill of the Shadow sword Eclipse, the
strong­est tech­nique of the Shadow Queen.

Even in his cur­rent state, more pow­er­ful than when he was Mar­tial saint, he
couldn't use the skill be­cause there were no clues to im­ple­ment it. How­ever,
now...

'It seems pos­si­ble.'

The life force gath­ered within Seong Ji­han's body gave him con­fi­dence that
he might now have the ca­pa­bil­ity to bring to life the Dark Shadow's most
pow­er­ful skill, the Shadow Di­vine Blade---some­thing he couldn't achieve
even in his prime.

"Ariel."

[What is it?]

"Didn't you men­tion be­fore that you would show me the Dark Shadow's
strong­est tech­nique once I grew stronger?"

[That... the Dark Shadow's ul­ti­mate tech­nique? Yes, I did say that.]

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"I'm go­ing to try it once, so en­dure a bit."

[Re­ally? Is it pos­si­ble now?]

Seong Ji­han nod­ded, his eyes re­flect­ing a res­o­lute de­ter­mi­na­tion.

"It's worth a try."

Seong Ji­han de­cided to test his new­found strength and the pos­si­bil­i­ties that
came with it. The Shadow Di­vine Blade, the ul­ti­mate skill of the Dark
Shadow Tech­nique---some­thing that was once a dis­tant dream---might fi­‐
nally be­come a re­al­ity.

[...I ap­pre­ci­ate you show­ing me, but why do I have to en­dure?]

"Well, that's how it is."

Boom!

The life force en­gulfed Eclipse.

[Ah, aaargh... What, what is this!]

"That's how it can be used."

With­out pay­ing at­ten­tion to Ariel's scream, Seong Ji­han ex­tended the sword
to­wards the sky.

The form of the sword dis­ap­peared, turn­ing into ex­plod­ing dark­ness.

The shadow ex­tend­ing from the Eclipse started fly­ing back­ward to­wards the
sky.

Name­less Di­vine Arts, Dark Shadow Tech­nique -- Shadow Di­vine Blade

The ra­di­ant Heav­enly Elysia, which had been sparkling, was com­pletely
im­mersed in dark­ness.

The sapling of the World Tree, float­ing in the sky, was cov­ered by the dark­‐
ness that con­sumed even the sun­light.

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=I can't see any­thing...!

=The en­tire map is cov­ered in dark­ness!

Even the com­men­ta­tors watch­ing the match were at a loss, not un­der­stand­‐
ing what was hap­pen­ing.

"This, this is... what on earth..."

With blood­shot eyes, the El­ven Coach stared end­lessly at the dark­ened
screen.

[Heav­enly Elysia is col­laps­ing.]

[The 5th match is end­ing.]

The sys­tem mes­sage an­nounc­ing the end of the game ap­peared on the dark­‐
ened screen.

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Chap­ter 192
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'It's a pity.'

Seong Ji­han looked up at the pitch-black sky and smacked his lips.

The game had stopped, say­ing the map was col­laps­ing.

How­ever, in his eyes, he could still see the sapling of the World Tree that
hadn't com­pletely dis­ap­peared yet.

'Is it giv­ing up on main­tain­ing the map be­cause it seems like it's go­ing to
break...?'

The dark­ness that ex­ploded out from the Shadow Sword had en­gulfed the
en­tire map.

The shadow en­ergy com­ing from the Eclipse didn't dis­ap­pear over time,
rather it be­came in­creas­ingly more vi­o­lent.

The sapling of the World Tree, which had been re­sist­ing, seemed to re­al­ize
that it too would dis­ap­pear if it kept hold­ing on, so It de­cided to col­lapse the
map it­self.

The heav­enly Elysia, a par­adise float­ing in the air like an is­land.

It was pos­si­ble be­cause the driv­ing force be­hind main­tain­ing this par­adise
was the World Tree sapling.

[...So this is the Shadow Di­vine Blade...]

"Yes."

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[Mas­ter's power... Was the power of shadow en­ergy that flowed end­lessly
from the mas­ter's hands al­ways this strong? Even I, a Shadow Elf, was con­‐
cerned about los­ing my sense of self.]

"No, it would not have been pos­si­ble with only my power. Ariel, don't you
un­der­stand now that you've ex­pe­ri­enced it with your own body?"

[What?]

"The in­ter­ac­tion with the vi­tal­ity."

The World Tree sapling's vi­tal­ity had com­plex prop­er­ties that even Seong
Ji­han, who had no flaws, couldn't fully com­pre­hend.

Among them, the most dif­fi­cult to un­der­stand was the har­mony with the
shadow en­ergy.

When two forces that would nor­mally push each other apart ex­ceeded a cer­‐
tain thresh­old, they am­pli­fied syn­er­gis­ti­cally be­yond com­pre­hen­sion.

The Shadow Di­vine Blade that had just en­gulfed the world was also like
that.

It was pos­si­ble be­cause, us­ing the vi­tal­ity spewed out by the sapling of the
World Tree as fuel, the shadow power spewed out end­lessly.

[I ex­pe­ri­enced it with my own body but still can't un­der­stand it at all. The
World Tree is the en­emy of us Shadow Elves. And the power it wields com­‐
pletely clashes with ours...]

"I still don't know the rea­son why ei­ther but... I got the feel­ing. When the
two pow­ers com­bine, they'll am­plify end­lessly."

[...You must have strong in­stincts to even con­sider that. Truly Re­mark­able.]

"Who knows? Was it be­cause of the en­light­en­ment ef­fect of the 'Wan­der­ing

War­rior' class?"

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The 'Wan­der­ing War­rior' class, In­creases the chances of in­spi­ra­tion/en­light­‐

en­ment dur­ing mar­tial arts re­search.

De­spite not hes­i­tat­ing to in­fuse Eclipse to the point where it ex­ploded,

spew­ing vi­tal­ity at first.

It was be­cause of his class he even thought of do­ing such an ab­surd thing.

[...Mas­ter. Can I re­port this fact to the Shadow Queen?]

Seong Ji­han nod­ded at Ariel's ques­tion.

'The en­emy's en­emy is a friend.'

The World Tree Al­liance that had tram­pled on hu­man­ity.

If he could keep them un­der con­trol, he could re­veal in­for­ma­tion about the
Shadow Di­vine Blade to the Shadow Queen from afar.

"But it won't come free. Claim proper com­pen­sa­tion from the Queen."

[I un­der­stand. Now that the tu­to­rial has ended, the Queen will also be­gin to
show more in­ter­est.]

"Yeah."

Seong Ji­han ended his con­ver­sa­tion with Ariel like that.

[The 5th match has ended.]

['Hu­man­ity' side wins.]

[Seong Ji­han is se­lected as MVP for the 5th match.]

[You have achieved the spe­cial achieve­ment 'Space League Match MVP'.]

[You have gained 1,000,000 achieve­ment points.]

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[Seong Ji­han is se­lected as the MVP for the open­ing match se­ries.]

[You have achieved the spe­cial achieve­ment 'Space League Se­ries MVP'.]

[You have gained 2,000,000 achieve­ment points.]

[You have achieved the spe­cial achieve­ment 'Map Col­lapse'.]

[You have gained 3,000,000 achieve­ment points.]

The sys­tem mes­sages ap­peared in the dark­ness.

6 mil­lion achieve­ment points earned in just one game.

He was al­ready given 2 mil­lion points as the se­ries MVP.

'Ob­vi­ously, it had to be me.'

The 5th game the elves had worked the hard­est on.

He had com­pletely over­turned it, so who else could they give MVP to?

Seong Ji­han had a cold smile on his lips.

'Now it's time for the ex­ec­ u­tion.'

He re­called the open­ing match of the pre­vi­ous life.

Hu­man­ity with­out Seong Ji­han.

The Plat­inum Sup­port sum­moned in the 5th game was a promis­ing young
fe­male Ital­ian Sup­porter.

She came to Heav­enly Elysia trem­bling with fear and got swept away by
the el­ven Sup­porter trained as a war­rior.

-- 99 left.

It didn't end with just dy­ing once.

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She con­tin­ued res­ur­rect­ing, dy­ing, and re­peat­ing.

Later, the op­pos­ing elf found the hu­man sup­porter too bor­ing to deal with.

-- How can some­one who par­tic­i­pated in Bat­tleNet be this weak? I should

dis­sect her and take a look.

Right in front of all hu­man­ity,

He com­mit­ted bru­tal hu­man ex­per­i­men­ta­tion on his op­po­nent.

Al­though quite a lot of bru­tal scenes oc­curred in Bat­tleNet, Us­ing a per­son

like this to play with had never hap­pened be­fore.

Many peo­ple who watched the broad­cast that day suf­fered trauma.

The fe­male sup­porter who died 100 times that day suf­fered tremen­dous
men­tal shock and later re­tired from the Bat­tleNet in­dus­try.

There were even sto­ries that she even­tu­ally com­mit­ted sui­cide.

'That's not all. Many top rankers died here too.'

In­clud­ing Amer­ica's #1, Bar­ren.

Count­less play­ers were ex­ec­ uted af­ter the game ended from the lot­tery
draw­ing.

Hu­man­ity, al­ready strug­gling in the harsh Space League games, Failed to

es­cape rel­eg­ a­tion with re­duced troop ca­pac­ity.

The only rea­son they didn't get rel­eg­ ated from the league was be­cause they
were rook­ies.

Ev­ery time the sea­son ended, they barely avoided de­mo­tion while tak­ing
tremen­dous penal­ties, Un­til the fi­nal 10 coun­tries re­mained and

They lost to the Orcs in the rel­eg­ a­tion match and per­ished.

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'I won't let that hap­pen this time.'

And to do that, he had to be as ruth­less as nec­es­sary.

Seong Ji­han made that res­o­lu­tion as he logged out.

"......"

The El­ven Coach watched the map col­lapse with a blank ex­pres­sion.

Heav­enly Elysia.

This map was an elf-only map made by the 'Higher Be­ings' of the World
Tree Al­liance.

Due to the ab­surdly bi­ased map set­tings, if they didn't make it to the 5th
game And have 4 se­lect cards, it would never get ran­domly picked.

'Even the top-tier races com­pletely col­lapsed there, yet...'

So far, no race had emerged that had es­caped Elysia's trap.

The en­hance­ment of el­em

­ en­tal pow­ers given by the sapling of the World
Tree com­bined with the class lim­i­ta­tion of Plat­inum Sup­port­ers was just
that fraud­u­lent.

To think such ridicu­lous things could hap­pen at the hands of in­fe­rior

races...!

'And mother's power was def­i­nitely han­dled there...'

The World Tree's vi­tal­ity.

That was a power only the cho­sen ones could wield.

Yet to think some­one from such an in­fe­rior race would use it...!

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The thor­oughly trained Elf Sup­porter called him 'mother'.

It meant the power was uti­lized per­fectly.

Just what kind of ex­is­tence was that hu­man?!

"The penalty should be in­ter­est­ing."

At that mo­ment, across the coaches' ta­bles.

Coach Davis smiled brightly as he chuck­led.

Nearly hav­ing put 20% of his play­ers on the chop­ping block as the worst
coach, Seong Ji­han com­pletely re­versed the sit­u­at­ion, mak­ing him feel like
he was float­ing on air.

Star­ing at the ex­hil­ar­ ated coach with sunken eyes, the El­ven Coach slowly
opened her mouth.

"Let's ne­go­ti­ate."

"What ne­go­ti­at­ion? You have to take re­spon­si­bil­ity for the penalty you set.
Go obe­di­ently to your ex­ec­ u­tion."

Coach Davis had no in­ten­tion of lis­ten­ing to the words of the elf.

Now that he re­al­ized just how much of a mon­ster their op­po­nents were
through this game, He couldn't miss this once-in-a-life­time op­por­tu­nity to
slash the en­emy's forces by 20 per­cent.

How­ever,

"I'll pay 1,000 tril­lion GP."

"What... 1,000 tril­lion?!"

Coach Davis was struck speech­less by the con­di­tion pre­sented by the El­ven
Over­seer.

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-...1,000 tril­lion GP?

-Wasn't $1 equal to 1 GP? That's a quadrillion dol­lars?

-It's $2 now, It even went up to $2.5 when it looked like we were gonna
lose.

-If that much gets sup­plied at once, wouldn't it make the ex­change rate even
cheaper than be­fore?

-Yeah, that's why it's so volatile right now

"On top of that, we'll sta­bi­lize the ex­change rate of GP."

-Whoa, they'll ad­just the ex­change rate too? Does that mean it'll be like the
tu­to­rial again?

-They must reaaaaally not wanna die.

-Freak­ing b*stards. Why pro­pose a penalty if you're gonna be like this ᅳᅳ

-GP be­came even more use­ful when en­ter­ing the main game of Bat­tleNet.

If they could sta­bi­lize the volatile ex­change rate while re­ceiv­ing com­pen­sa­‐
tion from them, it was quite an ap­peal­ing of­fer that tick­led their fancy.

"Ummm..."

"GP is a nec­es­sary re­source when tak­ing part in the Space League. Sup­port­‐
ing it would be more valu­able than ex­ec­ ut­ing our play­ers, whom you will
not see very of­ten this sea­son."

The El­ven Coach spoke in a calm, gen­tle voice to the coach.

=Coach Davis... is hes­i­tat­ing!

=Per­son­ally, I would choose the Penalty, just to stick it to these An­noy­ing

elves. But the re­ward is also very good!

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=In the Space League games, a race com­petes with an­other twice per sea­‐
son. Even if you ex­ec­ ute them, you'll only meet those guys one more time
this sea­son.

=For self-in­ter­est, it may be bet­ter to re­ceive the GP...

=Ah, Coach. Please re­quest a time­out to con­fer with the As­so­ci­at­ion.

=Well done. It's not some­thing you can de­cide alone!

With a heart want­ing to re­turn what was de­signed against them un­til the 5th
game, The re­ward the elves pre­sented was too big for hu­man­ity to refuse
out­right.

"This is..."

"Wouldn't it be bet­ter to ac­cept the of­fer?"

"Even if we ex­ec­ ute them, how many more times will we meet that op­po­‐
nent?"

"With GP be­ing ex­tremely volatile right now, wouldn't get­ting a sta­ble sup­‐
ply be bet­ter?"

The Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion of­fi­cials also seemed tempted by the elf's of­fer
and were about to let it slide, when Seong Ji­han, who had fin­ished the game
match and logged out, walked to­wards Coach Davis.

"Coach. Do you re­mem­ber what I said?"

"...I re­mem­ber. You in­sisted the ex­ec­ u­tion be en­forced no mat­ter what."

"Yes. But you seem to be hes­i­tat­ing now."

"I wanted that too. But the con­di­tions they pre­sented are... too good."

Seong Ji­han scoffed.

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"But I clearly said 'no mat­ter what con­di­tions come' be­fore the game
started."

"That's... true, but I'm just a mes­sen­ger for the As­so­ci­at­ion. I can't de­cide
alone."

"Is that so?"

So this is why the re­ac­tion is dif­fer­ent when go­ing in and com­ing out.

Seong Ji­han briefly glanced around at the Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion of­fi­cials

nearby.

"We want to ex­ec­ ute them too, but..."

"The com­pen­sa­tion re­ward is ex­cep­tion­ally large. The As­so­ci­at­ion is ob­li­‐

gated to sta­bi­lize the GP ex­change rate..."

"Player Seong Ji­han's con­tri­bu­tion will be re­warded sep­ar­ ately by the As­so­‐
ci­at­ion."

As if pierced by his gaze,

The As­so­ci­at­ion of­fi­cials who were scram­bling to speak up "Ha."

He smiled coldly and turned his back.

"I un­der­stand."

That one line marked his de­par­ture with­out any lin­ger­ing af­fec­tion.

Coach Davis felt apolo­getic see­ing that but,

'I want to kill them too, but I have no choice. This is for the good of hu­man­‐
ity...!'

He alone could not over­turn the Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion's de­ci­sion as a coach.

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Coach Davis re­turned to the coaches' ta­ble to speak to the El­ven Coach as
agreed by the As­so­ci­at­ion.

'Huh?'

He sud­denly found him­self un­able to move his fin­gers when he tried to

press 'Yes' to change the penalty.

'Wh-What's wrong with my body?'

As if par­al­yzed,

What the hell was go­ing on at such a cru­cial mo­ment?!

Then.

Swoosh...

His hand which was headed to­wards 'Yes', slowly moved to­wards 'No' in­‐
stead.

"Coach...?"

See­ing that, the El­ven Coach's ex­pres­sion hard­ened as if think­ing 'Could it

be'.

But Coach Davis' fin­ger slowly pressed 'No', and...

[Penalty change has been can­celed.]

[Will you en­force the penalty?]

"You...! What do you think you're do­ing...?!"

The El­ven Coach got up from her seat, los­ing her com­po­sure.

At that time, the coach's fin­ger then pressed Yes.

[The penalty will be en­forced.]

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[1/10 type will be en­forced.]

[Ac­cord­ing to the map set­tings of the 5th game, the penalty has dou­bled.]

[20% of World Tree Elves: World Tree Elves -71]

"This in­fe­rior race...!! How dare you make fun of me...?!"

The blood ves­sels in the El­ven Coach's eyes stood out as she glared at
Coach Davis.

=Wh-What is go­ing on......!

=No, Coach. Have you gone crazy.......

=Af­ter col­lect­ing dou­ble the com­pen­sa­tion, you're en­forc­ing the ex­ec­ u­‐
tion?!

The com­men­ta­tors were also at a loss with con­fused ex­pres­sions, broad­cast­‐

ing the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion.

Watch­ing this from the wait­ing room, Seong Ji­han raised the cor­ners of his
mouth.

'Where do you think you're run­ning off to?'

Shadow en­ergy was rip­pling in his left hand.

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Chap­ter 193
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***

When Seong Ji­han heard the elf's pro­posal, He judged that con­vinc­ing the
coach would be im­pos­si­ble.

Even He, the one with mem­o­ries from pre­vi­ous life, was also slightly
tempted when he first heard about the 1,000 tril­lion GP.

In the cur­rent hu­man so­ci­ety go­ing through tur­moil due to the sud­den
change in GP ex­change rates, Re­ject­ing that of­fer would be too ir­ra­tional.

'But re­duc­ing the en­emy's war po­ten­tial is more im­por­tant.'

The ex­change rate of GP would be main­tained if hu­man­ity kept steady in

the league.

More ur­gent than that was re­duc­ing the war po­ten­tial of one of the strong­est
en­em
­ ies in the league, the World Tree Al­liance.

Es­pe­cially in the Space League,

There were var­i­ous clashes with en­emy species out­side of of­fi­cial matches.

If they could elim­i­nate core war po­ten­tial like rep­re­sen­ta­tive teams, that
would be best.

That's why Seong Ji­han se­cretly in­fil­trated Ariel into Coach Davis's
shadow.

'Ariel helped out well.'

He was able to get the re­sult he wanted.

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'That aside, they're try­ing to in­stall the Golden Tree no mat­ter what, like last
time...'

In his pre­vi­ous life, there was a Golden Tree that had been in­stalled on
Earth. At that time, the elves pro­posed plant­ing it on Earth, of­fer­ing a con­di­‐
tion of a 5% re­duc­tion in penal­ties, and Seong Ji­han ac­cepted it.

'The ex­act func­tion of the Golden Tree re­mained un­known un­til the end
but...'

Con­sid­er­ing they were will­ing to re­duce pun­ish­ment to plant it, it likely

wasn't ben­ef­ i­cial to hu­man­ity.

Yet now they were of­fer­ing to in­stall it to main­tain GP ra­tios.

The elves sure were crafty.

'But I can't just let that hap­pen while I'm here.'

Flash!

The scene changed from the coach's ta­ble where the El­ven Coach was an­‐
grily mak­ing a fuss, On the des­o­late waste­land, 400 elves stood ex­pres­sion­‐
less.

"What...?"

"Is that the ex­ec­ u­tion ground?"

"Oh, the penalty is re­ally be­ing en­forced."

"Why did the coach choose that? To be hon­est, it feels nice but..."

Play­ers who joked about how could they fight such beau­ti­ful elves just be­‐
fore en­ter­ing the game had com­pletely changed their per­cep­tion dur­ing the
match. These elves had in­deed tried to kill them.

Things like ap­pear­ance no longer mat­tered.

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"If it wasn't for Seong Ji­han, we might be stand­ing there too..."

"That's why it's so hor­ri­fy­ing to even think about."

"Thank you for sav­ing us, Seong."

"That's right. Come to New York once. I'll buy you a meal."

For­eign play­ers ap­proached Seong Ji­han, giv­ing a thumbs-up. Com­pared to

the cold glances they sent when Seong Ji­han first ap­peared in the rep­re­sen­‐
ta­tive team un­til the 4th game, the re­ac­tions now were like heaven and
earth.

"Of course."

Seong Ji­han roughly ac­cepted it and ob­served the ex­ec­ u­tion of penal­ties.

The 400 elves with vary­ing ap­pear­ances.

How­ever,

[Ex­ec­ ut­ing the death penalty.]

As this mes­sage ap­peared, all 400 elves with di­verse ap­pear­ances be­gan to
change into one sin­gle ap­pear­ance.

"What...?"

"That ap­pear­ance is the same as the trans­formed El­ven Coach...!"

"That high elf had the same look too, right?"

"Seong! The elf that ap­peared in your game had that face too."

"Yes, that's right."

The golden-haired elf boast­ing un­matched beauty. They were all stand­ing
side by side with ex­actly the same ap­pear­ance.

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=What is this...?

=The elves' ap­pear­ances sud­denly all changed! Even iden­ti­cal twins

wouldn't look this alike...!

=That's right. It's like they came out of the same fac­tory!

=Ah, that green-haired elf who did well in the 4th match is among them too.

=You mean the elf who beat the Sword King bare­handed? She was quite
threat­en­ing but... with her dy­ing like this, it's fa­vor­able for hu­man­ity!

The high elf who couldn't evade the 20% prob­ab­ il­ity was now stand­ing in
the ex­ec­ u­tion site.

Un­like the oth­ers with blank ex­pres­sions, she had a frus­trated smile.

"I didn't think I'd die in a place like this."

Ku­ru­ru­rur...!

As the waste­land split open and flames erupted from within, The elves
started burn­ing up one by one.

With no change in ex­pres­sion de­spite be­ing en­gulfed in flames, -They have

no change in ex­pres­sion at all... it's like they're ro­bots, man.

-They're ac­tu­ally dy­ing though, right? Does it not hurt while burn­ing?

-That's what I'm say­ing. Look, their bod­ies are re­gen­er­at­ing???

-Seong Ji­han showed an elf re­gen­er­at­ing like crazy on his chan­nel. Now
we're see­ing it here too.

With their unique re­gen­er­at­ion, the elves re­sisted the flames but Whoosh...!

Once the color of the en­gulf­ing flames turned crim­son, they could no longer
re­gen­er­ate and started turn­ing to ash, dis­ap­pear­ing one by one.

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And the last sur­vivor,

The green-haired high elf looked up at the sky be­fore her death and said,
"Hu­mans. En­joy your short-lived vic­tory. My sis­ters will have their re­‐
venge..."

Boom!

The high elf reached out and shat­tered her own head.

As her head­less body was wrapped in crim­son flames, [The spe­cial penalty
has fin­ished be­ing en­forced.]

The elf ex­ec­ u­tion ended with the high elf's death.

"I will never for­get what hap­pened to­day."

The El­ven Coach, whose eyes were blood­shot af­ter over­see­ing the ex­ec­ u­‐
tion, grit­ted her teeth as she glared at Coach Davis.

Mean­while, as the ex­ec­ u­tion fin­ished, Coach Davis whose body could
move freely again 'Damn, why did my hand sud­denly move on its own...?'

More than the re­ac­tion of the en­emy coach flip­ping out, he was wor­ried
about the af­ter-ef­fects when they re­turned.

With a re­ward of 2,000 tril­lion GP, he ex­ec­ uted the death penalty, for­feit­ing
that im­mense prize. Per­haps be­cause of that, he sud­denly felt an­gry when
the El­ven Coach glared at him, blam­ing those elves for the cur­rent sit­u­at­ion.

"What are you get­ting pissed at me for? You're the ones who set that bull­‐
shit penalty in the first place. If you don't like it then try to win next time.
Losers should shut their mouths. And my hand moved on its own, piss­ing
me off too. Where are you get­ting an at­ti­tude from?"

"Gah...!"

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Bang!

As the El­ven Coach slammed the ta­ble with a fierce look, leav­ing a clear
hand-print and smash­ing it apart, The hu­man side's ta­ble seemed to be spa­‐
tially par­ti­tioned, as the im­pact didn't trans­fer over.

"What, so what if you break a ta­ble? You think that scares me? Take re­spon­‐
si­bil­ity for your dead 20% play­ers. Play­ing tough when you're just a coach.
Tsk tsk."

Feel­ing safe, Coach Davis was about to cuss the other out even more when
[The MVP for the open­ing match se­ries has been se­lected.]

[Hu­man­ity's player, 'Seong Ji­han', has been se­lected as the MVP.]

At the end of matches,

A scene ap­peared of the sys­tem se­lect­ing Seong Ji­han as the se­ries MVP.

"Oh yeah, ob­vi­ously!"

See­ing Seong Ji­han, the sav­ior who kept him alive ap­pear, Coach Davis im­‐
me­di­ately gave a thumbs up.

Mean­while, the El­ven Coach across the ta­ble was look­ing at the se­ries MVP
dis­play with a se­ri­ous ex­pres­sion.

"What the... why does it look like that...?"

It was clear who had been se­lected as MVP.

The one who com­pletely swept the 5th game the elves had worked the hard­‐
est on.

Who else could it be be­sides that player?

The El­ven Coach wanted to ac­cu­rately iden­tify through this MVP win­dow
the player who had ru­ined the World Tree Al­liance's plans, and Give him
eter­nal pain.

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How­ever...

Since Seong Ji­han was in hid­den sta­tus, his fig­ure wasn't clearly vis­i­ble in
the MVP win­dow ei­ther.

'His fig­ure was blurry dur­ing matches too. Could it be...!'

In the 5th match where he had swept the game.

Un­like the hu­man side's view,

His ap­pear­ance didn't show clearly from the el­ven per­spec­tive.

His face and en­tire body ap­peared blurry, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to clearly iden­‐
tify who the op­po­nent was.

Yet even in the se­ries MVP win­dow he ap­peared like this...!

"Could it be... pre­mium mem­ber­ship...?"

Among Bat­tleNet play­ers, it was a pre­mium mem­ber­ship qual­i­fi­ca­tion only

an ex­treme mi­nor­ity pos­sessed.

To think the hu­man player had that...!

'I need to find out who he is no mat­ter what.'

If left alone, this player could be­come a vari­able that ru­ins this en­tire Space
League.

'Vari­ables need to be swiftly re­moved.'

The El­ven Coach looked at Seong Ji­han's blurry fig­ure with eyes full of
killing in­tent.

Af­ter the end of the open­ing match,

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"Al­right ev­ery­one!"

"The hero of to­day's vic­tory, the se­ries MVP! We will have an in­ter­view
with Seong Ji­han, who showed an amaz­ing turn­around!"

The Amer­i­can com­men­ta­tors in charge of Chan­nel 0 ap­proached the sum­‐

moned Seong Ji­han in the wait­ing room.

"First, please say a few words of greet­ing to the view­ers!"

"Nice to meet you, I'm Player Seong Ji­han."

"You showed an out­stand­ing per­for­mance to­day! The en­tire 20% of the rep­‐
re­sen­ta­tive team was in dan­ger of ex­ec­ u­tion, but you, Seong Ji­han, sin­gle-
hand­edly turned the sit­u­at­ion around!"

"Yes, it's all thanks to me that we won the game."

In­stead of the typ­i­cal hum­ble re­sponse about the team's help, Seong Ji­han
nod­ded as if it was a mat­ter of fact.

The play­ers watch­ing this from near the wait­ing room all whis­tled and
cheered loudly.

"That's right, that's right!"

"We sur­vived thanks to Seong Ji­han!"

"We were al­most sent to the ex­ec­ u­tion site!"

"I'll say this now, but when I saw that penalty ear­lier I pissed my­self!"

The wait­ing room had be­come a party mood with all of hu­man­ity united.

The cam­eras cap­tured the gen­uine de­light on the faces of world-class play­‐
ers.

-Pissed him­self lol😂

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-It's un­der­stand­able since they al­most got dragged to death row 🤣

-All the stress from the 3rd and 4th matches is com­pletely gone, lmao.🥳

-Does this mean the other side will face the death penalty?

-Yes, yes, it's a man­ual for han­dling new­com­ers. Let the elves ex­pe­ri­ence it.
👿
"As ex­pected...! So full of con­fi­dence! Truly Seong Ji­han!"

"In fact, af­ter see­ing the list in to­day's game, there was a lot of talk. Since
the par­tic­i­pa­tion con­di­tion was Di­am
­ ond League or higher, there were many
point­ing out why he takes up a spot on the ros­ter."

"But! At the very mo­ment a spot opened up, it hap­pened to work out.
There's even talk among the pub­lic that Seong Ji­han is a prophet!"

Com­men­ta­tor Christo­pher winked at Seong Ji­han with an ex­cited face.

Thanks to Seong Ji­han's boast­ful re­mark, he had bet $10,000 on him get­ting
MVP. He had hit the jack­pot, get­ting ex­tremely lucky.

"Ah, I have these dreams some­times. Maybe be­cause I've been hit­ting the
mark sev­eral times. This re­ally felt like a prophetic dream."

"Prophetic dream... you say?"

"To­day, I dreamed of a de­feat in the fifth game, where many play­ers died.
So, on pur­pose, I went to the gal­lows, pre­pared for crit­i­cism, and asked for
a fa­vor from my brother-in-law ."

"Ah...! A prophetic dream in­deed...!"

"Is your amaz­ing per­for­mance re­lated to that dream?"

"Yes, it helped."

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If it was some­one else, they would've re­acted with "what kind of bs", but
Since it was Seong Ji­han who had been show­ing such as­tound­ing per­for­‐
mances so far.

Many peo­ple seemed in­clined to be­lieve it.

-If it's Seong Ji­han, he might've re­ally dreamed of a prophecy. Ev­ery­thing

he said turned out right.

-I see, that's why it sounded so ab­surd.

-Wow, then he prob­ab­ ly knows lot­tery num­bers too, -Hey, why lot­tery,
Seong Ji­han is a bil­lion­aire al­ready lol🤣

-But doesn't he suc­ceed in all Bat­tleNet bet­ting too?

-From now I'm bet­ting ev­ery­thing on Seong Ji­han no mat­ter what...... I'm
se­ri­ous.

"Well, well! It seems I shouldn't stand op­po­site Seong Ji­han!"

"Yes, so from now on, please fol­low what I say. Ev­ery­thing will lead to
good re­sults."

"Haha! Of course!"

Thus, the in­ter­view ended with Seong Ji­han and Christo­pher en­gag­ing in a
friendly con­ver­sa­tion.

How­ever, In the next in­ter­view with Coach Davis, the at­mos­phere was a bit
se­ri­ous.

"Coach, just what on earth hap­pened?"

"Back when the agree­ment for 2,000 tril­lion GP was made, we couldn't help
but be amazed by your ne­go­ti­at­ion skills. Yet the elf's ex­ec­ u­tion was en­‐
forced?"

"That's... my hand... sud­denly moved on its own!"

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"What kind of non­sense is that?"

"No mat­ter how much we were wronged by the elves, giv­ing up on such
tremen­dous prof­its and ac­tu­ally en­forc­ing it..."

-What kind of ex­cuse is this? Did the Coach's cat type it in a hurry? LOL

[TL/N: it was sup­posed to be a funny joke but i don't think the au­thor
thought that one out...]

-2,000 tril­lion GP, what a waste..

-Could it be that the coach had a ton of GP stock­piled? Wor­ried the value
would crash if 2,000 tril­lion en­tered the mar­ket?

-Yeah it's sus­pi­cious. Shouldn't we look into his ac­count?

-Se­ri­ously, is that the only rea­son?

-Coach, I love you ^-^ I went all in on GPs, and it al­most crashed. Phew~

On the Coach Davis side where peo­ple won­dered why he didn't ac­cept the
elf's of­fer when dis­as­ter was im­mi­nent, Seong Ji­han left the wait­ing room
af­ter re­triev­ing Ariel.

'Let them take the ver­bal abuse.'

It felt nice push­ing it onto some­one else in­stead.

And so af­ter the end of the open­ing match,

[The match is over, and the rank­ings in the Space League have been an­‐
nounced.]

[It's a tie for first place. Dun­geon por­tals will dis­ap­pear on a large scale.]

As the league rank­ings rise, so­ci­ety is once again un­der­go­ing changes.

"Brother-in-law... Can you help me out a bit?"

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The Sword King, who was plan­ning to re-ex­plore the North Ko­rean dun­‐
geons, asked Seong Ji­han for help.

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Chap­ter 194
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Tied for first place in the Space League.

Among the 20 plan­ets par­tic­i­pat­ing in the league, 10 teams tied for first
place, and 10 teams tied for last place, but the ef­fects were sig­nif­i­cant.

[As you are ranked highly in the league, your GP ex­change rate will be pre­‐
ferred.]

The price of GP ex­changed in Bat­tleNet also dropped.

[A large num­ber of dun­geon por­tals that were sum­moned have now dis­ap­‐
peared. Dun­geons will only gen­er­ate in the bot­tom 5 per­cent of coun­tries.]

The dun­geon por­tals that gen­er­ated in the bot­tom 10 per­cent of coun­tries

were dras­ti­cally re­duced to 5 per­cent.

With that, out of the ap­prox­i­mately 200 coun­tries on Earth, dun­geons would
only spawn in 10, mak­ing them eas­ier to man­age than even dur­ing the tu­to­‐
rial.

-Wow... is this the ef­fect of be­ing 1st place?

-Crazy!

-Seong Ji­han saved a lot, re­ally.

Since there was still a while un­til the next Space League match, hu­man­ity
could en­joy this merit for be­ing in joint 1st place for quite some time.

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How­ever, just as peo­ple were briefly en­joy­ing this cel­eb­ ra­tory at­mos­phere,
[Space League points will now be cal­cu­lated daily.]

[League points can be ob­tained not only through of­fi­cial league matches but
also through Bat­tleNet games.]

[The league will ex­pand. A Mas­ter League and Grand Mas­ter League will
be cre­ated above the Di­am
­ ond League.]

Changes oc­curred in Bat­tleNet again through the Bat­tleNet no­ti­fi­ca­tions

that ap­peared a day later.

The points de­ter­min­ing the Space League rank­ing are not only from of­fi­cial
league matches but also from the per­for­mance of play­ers in reg­u­lar Bat­‐
tleNet games.

Con­se­quently, hu­man rank­ings changed im­me­di­ately.

[Hu­man­ity drops from joint 1st to 8th place. World Tree Elves -- 71 shoots
up to 11th place in one go.]

["The elf ex­ec­ u­tion was ac­tu­ally ben­ef­ i­cial!" Coach Davis, who was
scolded for giv­ing up tremen­dous prof­its and en­forc­ing ex­ec­ u­tion, in­sists he
was right af­ter see­ing league changes.]

[Dun­geon por­tal range changes back to 10 per­cent of coun­tries. How­ever,

dis­ap­peared dun­geon por­tals do not respawn.]

-Damn, did the elves earn the most points out of the 10 races that lost the
open­ing match?

-Yep, they earned 202 points by them­selves. We earned around 100 a day
lol -But we can earn 10k points just by win­ning league matches. The point
dif­fer­ence is still big though...

-Don't the daily points add up even­tu­ally?

-Is Coach Davis right? Lol

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"If they didn't get ex­ec­ uted yes­ter­day, the elves would've earned more
points."

"Right, it was a good de­ci­sion to kill them."

In the pent­house liv­ing room, Yoon Seah mut­tered while look­ing at the
points re­vealed in the Space League rank­ing. The daily 500-point league
point was quite sub­stan­tial. Only six plan­ets gained more than 200 points.

The ?? marked 1st-5th ranked plan­ets and the 11th ranked World Tree Elves
-- 71.

Con­sid­er­ing the other races hadn't even ex­ceeded 150 points daily at most,
it clearly showed how strong the World Tree elves were.

Mean­while, Seong Ji­han rem­i­nisced as he looked at the points.

'The races in 1st-5th place should be elves from the World Tree Al­liance
and the drag­ons... Their point ac­qui­si­tion is dif­fer­ent than be­fore.'

In the pre­vi­ous life, the Elves in the World Elf Al­liance gained at least 240
points. Later, when play­ers ad­vanced to the Mas­ter League and Grand Mas­‐
ter League, daily point ac­qui­si­tion reached nearly 500. If the daily points
that hu­mans barely ob­tained in the last mo­ment were 200, it was a huge dif­‐
fer­ence.

That was why peo­ple were self-dep­re­cat­ing about not earn­ing as many
points as the elves af­ter the open­ing match.

But for that fig­ure to drop across the board...

'Could it be re­lated to the fact that the Elves were ex­ec­ uted?'

Since World Tree Elves -- 71 took such a big hit to their fight­ing force, did
the 5 plan­ets re­ar­range their play­ers?

He didn't know the ex­act rea­sons yet but Seong Ji­han judged this would
have quite the im­pact later on.

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Even though the point dif­fer­ence is cur­rently only a few tens, it will be­come
sig­nif­i­cantly larger dur­ing the fi­nal league set­tle­ment.

"Un­cle, what ex­actly are Con­stel­la­tions? Did you see any­thing about them
in your vi­sions?"

Yoon Seah asked, tilt­ing her head while look­ing at the newly added Con­‐
stel­la­tion slot af­ter the tu­to­rial.

Ariel, who was watch­ing TV on the sofa, an­swered in place of Seong Ji­han.

"Con­stel­la­tions are the rulers rec­og­nized by Bat­tleNet of their plan­ets. Pre­‐

cisely, they are play­ers who have reached Level 777."

"So they're Bat­tleNet se­niors?"

"Se­niors... You could see it that way too... Any­way, Con­stel­la­tions spon­sor
play­ers ac­cord­ing to their own pur­poses. They mainly spon­sor play­ers with
po­ten­tial, aim­ing to ben­ef­ it them­selves as well."

"Re­ally? Hmm... Why doesn't it spon­sor me? I'm also some­one with po­ten­‐
tial."

Seong Ji­han was so dom­i­nant last year, and Yoon Seah's growth was re­‐
mark­able enough to con­fi­dently claim to have po­ten­tial. How­ever...

"Isn't your Gift still a low rank?"

"Yeah, it's C-rank. I have to meet the 'right' Con­stel­la­tion to up­grade it to

rank B."

The up­grade con­di­tions for La­tent Con­stel­la­tion opened af­ter the tu­to­rial
ended.

She had to re­ceive a Con­stel­la­tion's spon­sor­ship to up­grade to B.

"Con­stel­la­tions don't know ev­ery­thing. They prob­ab­ ly judge based on the

player's Gift rank. If it's C-rank, they prob­ab­ ly won't show any in­ter­est."

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"Ah... Re­ally? Damn it."

Yoon Seah made a trou­bled ex­pres­sion.

Con­stel­la­tions picked spon­sor­ship tar­gets just by look­ing at Gift ranks.

Seah, who was still C-rank, was fil­tered out right away.

"If spon­sor Con­stel­la­tions keep not ap­pear­ing, I'll talk to the Shadow
Queen."

"Oh, re­ally? Is this what get­ting a job through con­nec­tions is like!"

"Don't get your hopes up too much. I'm also just at the level of mak­ing sug­‐
ges­tions to the Queen."

"Still, it's bet­ter than get­ting cut right away be­fore even sub­mit­ting my re­‐
sume. Do you have a Con­stel­la­tion, Un­cle?"

"Me? I do. Brahma"

"Wow... The Brahma from Di­vine Con­stel­la­tions? So that god was a player
too."

"Ah, Con­stel­la­tions don't nec­es­sar­ily have to be play­ers. Reach­ing Level

777 to be­come a Con­stel­la­tion is just one method."

"Is that so? The uni­verse re­ally is wide..."

While Yoon Seah and Ariel were talk­ing about Con­stel­la­tions, Beep! Beep!

The door­bell rang out­side the liv­ing room and Yoon Se­jin en­tered.

Hav­ing fin­ished the meet­ing with the ex­plo­ration team of the Bat­tleNet As­‐
so­ci­at­ion to re­sume dun­geon ex­plo­ration af­ter the open­ing match, he ap­‐
proached Seong Ji­han with a se­ri­ous ex­pres­sion.

"Brother-in-law... Can you help me out a bit?"

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"What's the mat­ter?"

"With the vic­tory in the open­ing match, the dun­geon por­tals in North Ko­rea
have dis­ap­peared on a large scale. As a re­sult, the Abyss, which draws
power from the dun­geon por­tals, has also weak­ened... "

The dun­geon por­tals, form­ing the up­per-level dun­geons, Abyss, were orig­i­‐
nally planned to be grad­u­ally cleared by Yoon Se­jin while re­duc­ing the
power of the Abyss. How­ever, due to the vic­tory of hu­man­ity in the open­ing
match, the plan was ex­pe­dited.

"Then can't we just ex­plore the Abyss di­rectly now?"

"No, it's too early for that. It seems like we should first elim­i­nate the four
gi­ant dun­geon por­tals around the Abyss. How­ever, the ex­plo­ration team
says they need more power, and they are hes­i­tant to pro­ceed with the ex­plo­‐
ration im­me­di­ately."

"Wouldn't just hav­ing brother-in-law in the ex­plo­ration team be enough in

terms of man­power?"

"It seems like they're cau­tious, prob­ab­ ly be­cause it's the first time en­ter­ing
the gi­ant dun­geon por­tals..."

Sum­moned from all di­rec­tions around the Abyss, these gi­ant dun­geon por­‐
tals re­mained large in scale even af­ter the vic­tory in the open­ing match.
While clear­ing dun­geon por­tals had been rel­at­ively easy un­til now, the size
dif­fer­ence in this case made the As­so­ci­at­ion ex­plo­ration team adopt a more
cau­tious ap­proach.

"Un­der­stood. I'll join as well then."

"Oh... Are you sure it's okay?"

"Yes. It's my sis­ter's mat­ter, so it's only nat­u­ral. Be­sides, I've also reached
the max­i­mum level."

Af­ter win­ning five games in the open­ing match, Seong Ji­han reached level
200. Now, un­til the Jan­u­ary pro­mo­tion match, he couldn't level up fur­ther.

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He had some time to spare, and Seong Ji­han de­cided to as­sist the Sword
King in find­ing his sis­ter.

"I'll join right away."

"Dad... I'm also in Plat­inum now. Can I par­tic­i­pate too?"

While Yoon Seah showed in­ter­est in the dun­geon ex­plo­ration to find her
mother, Seong Ji­han had reser­va­tions.

"We don't know what might hap­pen in the dun­geon por­tal. It would be bet­‐
ter if you waited at home. You should fo­cus on lev­el­ing up qui­etly. I'll be
back soon."

"That's right. You need to be at least Di­am

­ ond for a solo run. Just stay at
home and level up. We'll be back shortly."

Al­though Yoon Seah had con­sid­er­able skill, given the un­cer­tainty of what
might emerge from the gi­ant dun­geon por­tal, it was es­sen­tial to min­i­mize
po­ten­tial risks.

"Okay... I un­der­stand."

Dis­ap­pointed, she nod­ded as if re­luc­tantly ac­cept­ing their de­ci­sion. De­spite

her de­sire to find her mother, she wasn't a child throw­ing a tantrum.

"Well, I'll be go­ing then."

"Yeah, take care~"

Three days later, Seong Ji­han joined the ex­plo­ration team.

[Seong Ji­han joins the ex­plo­ration team! Says he'll de­vote him­self to dun­‐
geon ex­plo­ration un­til the pro­mo­tion match!]

[The ex­plo­ration team chal­lenges the gi­ant dun­geon por­tals for the first time
with en­hanced forces. Will the North Ko­rean land fi­nally be lib­er­ated?]

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Ev­ery­one's at­ten­tion fo­cused on the ex­plo­ration team's en­deavor, chal­leng­‐

ing gi­ant dun­geon por­tals for the first time in the world.

The dun­geon ex­plo­ration it­self pro­gressed smoothly.

"With player Seong Ji­han join­ing, it was in­stant."

"It feels more like we came on an ex­cur­sion than a dun­geon. Ha­haha."

The As­so­ci­at­ion ex­plo­ration team that was wor­ried about what might ap­‐
pear from the huge dun­geon por­tal.

Af­ter en­ter­ing, it was true that more pow­er­ful mon­sters than reg­u­lar dun­‐
geon por­tals oc­ca­sion­ally popped out, but Thud!

A sword stabbed into the ground.

Name­less Di­vine Skill, An­ni­hi­la­tion God's Se­cret -- Myr­iad Ghosts Seal­ing

Gods As Myr­iad Ghosts Seal­ing Gods re­vealed its pat­tern, the ghost mon­‐
sters that made up most of the en­em ­ ies got sucked into it in an in­stant.

"Ooh... All the ghosts are van­ish­ing!"

"To be able to watch Player Seong Ji­han in ac­tion up close like this... I'm
glad I joined the ex­plo­ration team!"

Even be­fore this, Seong Ji­han was al­ready a glob­ally no­table player.

But af­ter lead­ing hu­man­ity to vic­tory in the open­ing match against the
elves, his stand­ing rose an­other level.

Since he com­pletely turned around the sit­u­at­ion when 20 per­cent were

about to face ex­ec­ u­tion.

Now it wasn't just the gen­eral pub­lic, Bat­tleNet of­fi­cials and play­ers were
say­ing they were Seong Ji­han's avid fans.

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"The crim­son light­ning is com­ing out too...!"

"We have to record this!"

Snap! Snap!

Phone cam­eras flashed from all di­rec­tions.

Seong Ji­han knit his brows at how they were just tak­ing pic­tures in­stead of
in­ves­ti­gat­ing like the ex­plo­ration team was sup­posed to do.

"Ex­cuse me. When will we look for the dun­geon core?"

"Ah, well, that's..."

"We still haven't lo­cated it yet. Haha."

"It still hasn't been found? What's the gift rank?"

"It's B."

A Sup­port Gift, Ex­plo­ration, at rank B should have de­cent ef­fects even for
reg­u­lar dun­geon por­tals.

It seemed to have no ef­fect at all for mas­sive dun­geon por­tals.

'The prob­lem is prob­ab­ ly the rank. Christo­pher needs to join quickly.'

Christo­pher, the com­men­ta­tor from Chan­nel 0.

Hav­ing hit big thanks to Seong Ji­han this time, he said he would re­pay the
fa­vor and im­me­di­ately went on long-term leave, board­ing a plane for Ko­‐
rea.

'Well, he seems to be bring­ing bag­gage too... It's not as dan­ger­ous here as I

thought.'

Swish! Swish!

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The Sword King's white sword freely roamed the dun­geon, skew­er­ing
ghosts on it.

"Aaah..."

The en­em
­ ies turned into smoke and dis­ap­peared in an in­stant.

Hon­estly, with the Sword king alone, the gi­ant dun­geon seemed man­age­‐
able in terms of fire­power.

How­ever, the is­sue was ex­plo­ration.

"Since it's clear that a B-rank gift isn't enough, let's with­draw."

"Un­der­stood...."

Af­ter three days with­out suc­cess­ful ex­plo­ration of the dun­geon core, the gi­‐
ant dun­geon por­tal re­mained in­tact.

On that evening,

"Seong! I'm here! Um, I'm sorry but......."

"Ji­han! I came too~!"

"Sophia in­sisted on com­ing too so I brought her along...... Is it safe here?"

"It's safe."

The sit­u­at­ion changed once Christo­pher's group joined.

"It should be here!"

Christo­pher's ex­plo­ration, which was ef­fec­tive even in the gi­ant dun­geon

por­tal, quickly re­vealed the dun­geon core, mak­ing the three days of strug­gle
seem in­signif­i­cant.

Af­ter break­ing the dun­geon core:

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Bwoooong...!

"No, the ring...!"

Yoon Se­jin's ring vi­brated in­tensely.

The void aura Yoon Seah sensed be­fore com­pletely shrouded the ring.

And from within that.

A fa­mil­iar voice, his sis­ter's voice he knew well

=Yoon Se­jin... I will curse you...!

The voice sounded so eerie that it sent shiv­ers down his spine.

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Chap­ter 195
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"Curse, huh......."

At the end of the North Ko­rean dun­geon ex­plo­ration, hear­ing Seong Jiah's
voice was an achieve­ment, but the con­tent it con­tained was un­ex­pected.

'Noona is not the type to say such things.......'

Seong Jiah, with her gen­tle na­ture, used to ad­vise Seong Ji­han to go out and
be ac­tive.

Her usual tone was kind and gen­tle, not that of some­one who would curse
like that.

Why did she specif­i­cally men­tion Yoon Se­jin?

"Well, at least she's alive. Thank good­ness."

Yoon Se­jin touched the ring hang­ing around his neck, and smiled faintly.

The North Ko­rean ex­plo­ration had be­gun with­out much ex­pec­ta­tion.

Whether it was curs­ing or swear­ing, there was a mean­ing­ful trace of Seong

Jiah, so it turned out fine.

"As we con­tinue ex­plor­ing the other gi­ant dun­geons, we might find more."

"Christo­pher, can we go to an­other one to­day?"

"Of course! But what did she say to shock you so much?"

"She said she will curse my brother-in-law."

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"Ah...... curse, huh. Per­haps she knows about you hav­ing been to Japan?"

"Hmm......."

If she knew that he had crossed over to Shizuru's side, shouldn't she also
know about his re­turn now?

Given Seong Jiah's na­ture, if she knew Yoon Se­jin had been en­chanted only
to come back with his eyes gouged out by her.

In­stead of curs­ing him for cross­ing over, she would likely worry about how
his eyes were and how he had been through hard times.

"For now, it seems like we have to con­tinue the ex­plo­ration to know more."

"Yeah. Let's keep go­ing."

"Yes. I should call Seah too."

"Seah as well......."

"Dun­geons are not that dan­ger­ous any­way, and Seah can dis­cern the power
of the void."

By Seong Ji­han and Yoon Se­jin, the gi­ant dun­geon por­tal was swept away
more eas­ily than ex­pected.

Maybe it'd be more dan­ger­ous in other dun­geons than here.

'We have to fo­cus here now that we have a solid clue.'

As soon as Seong Ji­han came out of the dun­geon, he called Yoon Seah.

"Seah, come to the dun­geon."

[What? Re­ally? Can I come?]

"Yeah. It's less dan­ger­ous than we thought. Come with Akari. There's some­‐
thing you need to dis­cern too."

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[Why? What hap­pened?]

When Seong Ji­han ex­plained what had hap­pened a lit­tle while ago, Yoon
Seah was sur­prised.

[Wow... Mom said that to Dad? I can't imag­ine it.]

"But brother-in-law is glad she's alive."

[Hm... That's right. She must know some­thing to curse him, right? Ugh. I'm
cu­ri­ous. I should come check it out quickly! Akari un­nie! Let's get ready!]

"Yeah. I'll send the car, come quickly."

Af­ter call­ing Yoon Seah,

"Then let's go to the next dun­geon quickly."

"Al­right."

They started to ex­plore the sec­ond gi­ant dun­geon por­tal.

In the large van headed to­wards the sec­ond mas­sive dun­geon por­tal an hour
away, Sophia, who was in the same large van as Seong Ji­han, kept star­ing at
his face.

"Sophia, stop star­ing. It might make Seong Ji­han un­com­fort­able."

"Why, Oppa? I like look­ing at him. Ji­han, are you un­com­fort­able?"

"Well, I'm used to it now."

"......Haa. Seong Ji­han al­ready has a part­ner!"

"Chris, she's just look­ing, why nag?"

She wasn't usu­ally like this.

Christo­pher shook his head with a tired ex­pres­sion and changed the topic.

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"Player Seong Ji­han. Was your ex­plo­ration in North Ko­rea re­lated to the
Priest­ess Seong Jiah?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Ah... I won­dered why the Sword King was ex­plor­ing North Ko­rea."

"The Priest­ess class was only Sophia and Ms. Jiah. It's re­ally sad she dis­ap­‐
peared. I had many things I wanted to ask her"

The spe­cial sup­port class, Priest­ess.

Hu­man­ity had only two play­ers with that class: Seong Jiah and Sophia.

The Priest­ess class can use di­vine power more deeply com­pared to ex­ist­ing
sup­port classes, and their buff ef­fects are height­ened.

"But I still don't get what 'us­ing di­vine power more deeply' means... That
was the first thing I wanted to ask Ms. Jiah."

Seong Ji­han thought about his pre­vi­ous life.

At that time, Sophia couldn't find a clue about this ei­ther.

-Ji­han, did you hear any­thing from Ms. Jiah about us­ing di­vine power?

She used to ask him re­peat­edly if he re­mem­bered any­thing.

In the end, even up to the mo­ment of apoc­al­ypse, Sophia couldn't fully uti­‐
lize the Priest­ess class.

"If we find noona, you can ask her."

"Yes, Let's find her!"

"Ah, and Mr. Christo­pher. Here's what I promised."

Seong Ji­han handed over the Akashic page con­fis­cated from Shizuru to
Christo­pher.

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"Uh...! You're giv­ing it al­ready?"

"I was go­ing to give it to you any­way. Let's end the dun­geon ex­plo­ration
quickly with the help of your ex­plo­ration gift."

"Ha... As ex­pected, you are very gen­er­ous. Th-then I will grate­fully ac­cept
with­out hes­i­ta­tion...!"

Thanks to Seong Ji­han, he hit big at the start of the year.

Now, with the Akashic page worth a tremen­dous value, Christo­pher en­‐
hanced his abil­it­ies.

"Wow... S-rank ex­plo­ration! My abil­i­ties have in­creased so eas­ily!"

"Since it's S-rank now, let's fin­ish the North Ko­rean busi­ness while you're in
Ko­rea."

"Sure! Let's con­quer the Abyss too!"

Christo­pher, who be­came the world's top ex­plorer with the help of Akashic
page, bragged about con­quer­ing even the Abyss.

"Just ex­plor­ing and not par­tic­i­pat­ing... Any­one would think you're clear­ing
dun­geons alone."

"Well, this is such an im­por­tant mis­sion!"

While the Christo­pher sib­lings bick­ered, Seong Ji­han chuck­led watch­ing

them.

They are so dif­fer­ent from me and noona.

'My noona took care of ev­ery­thing for me....'

Seong Jiah, who was 10 years older than Seong Ji­han.

Af­ter their par­ents passed away, she gave up col­lege prepa­ra­tions and took
on the role of a re­spon­si­ble young head of the fam­ily.

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Think­ing back now, even my noona must have been greatly shocked then.

De­spite that, she took charge of life bravely with­out show­ing any signs of
weak­ness in front of me.

'...As my brother-in-law said, her be­ing alive is all that mat­ters.'

Whether she curses Yoon Se­jin or not.

The fact that noona is alive.

That fact it­self was im­por­tant.

Screech!

The van car­ry­ing the group stopped, and the sec­ond gi­ant dun­geon.

"Oh, Mr. Seong Ji­han. I can feel it al­ready. Right from the en­trance, I feel
the dun­geon core!"

Christo­pher, who had en­hanced abil­i­ties to S-rank, found the dun­geon core
much faster than be­fore.

And...

"Oh, and... there's some­thing on the ground, too? It didn't feel like this
when it was A-rank."

"Where?"

"Here, right here."

Christo­pher, now S-rank, cap­tured an­other clue in the gi­ant dun­geon por­tal.

On the ground he pointed to, a translu­cent dun­geon core was cun­ningly hid­‐
den.

"This... might have also been in the pre­vi­ous gi­ant dun­geon."

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"We should make a round of the other gi­ant dun­geons and check if so."

"Yes. It'd be prob­lem­atic if civil­ians think that the dun­geon is cleared, and it
pops up again."

As he found all the dun­geon cores,

"That per­son, isn't that Christo­pher, the com­men­ta­tor?"

"Eh, but... Could he have an ex­plo­ration gift? He's find­ing dun­geon cores."

"The one who found the gi­ant dun­geon ear­lier was him too. It seems he has
at least a B-rank gift."

"Wow... the com­men­ta­tor Christo­pher is a player too. This is to­tally ex­clu­‐

sive news!"

Christo­pher, known world­wide as a com­men­ta­tor on Chan­nel 0.

The Bat­tleNet ex­plo­ration team buzzed with ex­cite­ment upon rec­og­niz­ing

him.

"Haha, well, fame can't be helped! Come on. I'm Christo­pher, the world's
best ex­plorer!"

"Oh, re­ally?"

"Mr. Com­men­ta­tor, please give me your au­to­graph!"

"Of course, I'll give you one! Come here!"

Whether he made the de­ci­sion to come out as an ex­plo­ration ex­pert this

time, Christo­pher bla­tantly re­vealed him­self to the ex­plo­ration team mem­‐
bers.

Sophia sighed.

"Haa... Ji­han, I'm sorry. My brother's a bit of an at­ten­tion-seeker."

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"It's a S-rank gift, he has a right to be ex­cited. Just do your job well."

"Yes, I'll closely mon­i­tor him!"

And as Sophia headed to­wards Christo­pher,

Yoon Se­jin looked at the dun­geon core he found, nod­ding in sat­is­fac­tion.

"S-rank ex­plo­ration gift, what an im­pres­sive abil­ity...This will be over soon.

Should we break the dun­geon core?"

"Seah will ar­rive in about an hour. It's bet­ter to break it af­ter she comes. Us­‐
ing the power of the Void, we might gather more in­for­ma­tion."

"If it's an hour... That might be bet­ter. We need to se­cure the area."

"Yes, let's get things or­ga­nized."

To make sure noth­ing goes wrong. Seong Ji­han and Yoon Se­jin com­pletely
swept away the mon­sters that came out of the dun­geon and waited for a
while.

"Un­cle! Dad! I'm here!"

Yoon Seah, ac­com­pa­nied by Akari, rushed over.

"Where... what do I look for?"

"Wait a mo­ment. Let's break the dun­geon cores first."

Crack!

Yoon Se­jin, with the neck­lace, de­stroyed both dun­geon cores, and...

[All dun­geon cores of the gi­ant dun­geon are de­stroyed.]

[Based on your con­tri­bu­tion to dun­geon sub­ju­ga­tion, the max­i­mum level

limit is in­creased by 1.]

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A sys­tem mes­sage that Seong Ji­han hadn't seen be­fore ap­peared.

'Hoo... Is this the merit of dun­geon sub­ju­ga­tion?'

I merely fought mon­sters be­cause it seemed only Yoon Se­jin with the neck­‐
lace should break the dun­geon cores.

The sys­tem rec­og­nized that as a con­tri­bu­tion, in­creas­ing the level limit by

1.

'When the level limit is filled later, I should keep do­ing dun­geon sub­ju­ga­‐
tion.'

As Seong Ji­han planned for the fu­ture,

Br­rrrr...!

Yoon Se­jin's ring vi­brated again, at­tract­ing at­ten­tion.

The ring then turned com­pletely pur­ple.

"Seah, try it like last time."

"Okay!"

As Yoon Seah sum­moned the Void Ar­row again,

The ring and ar­row res­onated, and pur­ple light spread in all di­rec­tions.

And...

Uu­uuh...

The view be­fore them started to change com­pletely.

'Is this... an il­lu­sion?'

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The world, now im­mersed in pur­ple, had com­pletely changed.

Seong Ji­han soon re­al­ized this was a type of il­lu­sion.

As if be­ing pos­sessed,

Seong Ji­han could only ob­serve, while the en­tity with whom he shared vi­‐
sion moved in­de­pen­dently.

'It's easy to break the il­lu­sion but...'

He could re­turn to the real world if he wanted to, even now.

The clue to find Jiah for Seong Ji­han meant main­tain­ing the pos­sessed state
for now.

If any­thing seems off, I'll just drop out im­me­di­ately.

'But here... is it a hos­pi­tal?'

The scene he ob­served through the pos­sessed sub­ject was sim­i­lar to a large
hos­pi­tal room.

'But... it feels fa­mil­iar.'

Seong Ji­han was seized by a strange sense of déjà vu while look­ing at the
hos­pi­tal room.

I feel like I've been here be­fore.

Then...

"Uh..."

A fa­mil­iar voice flowed from the mouth of the pos­sessed sub­ject.

And some­one sud­denly popped their face next to him.

"Seah, are you okay?!"

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'...It's me?'

Seong Ji­han with deep dark cir­cles and a hag­gard face un­like now.

He looked at the pos­sessed sub­ject with an ex­tremely wor­ried face.

Seong Ji­han knew where this was when he saw that face.

'...The hos­pi­tal where Seah at­tempted sui­cide.'

The hos­pi­tal where Yoon Seah at­tempted sui­cide af­ter the at­tack from the
Sword King fan­club.

In the pre­vi­ous life, it was a place filled with mem­o­ries that tor­mented
Seong Ji­han the most.

"Un­cle..."

"Yeah."

"...Could you please bring a mir­ror?"

"...Sure."

The hand mir­ror shown by Seong Ji­han re­vealed a face tightly wrapped in
ban­dages.

"Will it..... re­cover?"

"Don't worry. I'm dili­gently look­ing for a ca­pa­ble sup­port. I'll turn you back
to your old face."

"I don't think there's any­one who can heal me...."

"Money can solve any­thing. Seah, don't worry, Un­cle hit the jack­pot."

"You al­ways say you hit big..."

Pfft.

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When Yoon Seah let out a dis­ap­pointed laugh, the vi­bra­tion spread from
Seong Ji­han's pants pocket.

"Ah, Seah, I'll be back in a sec."

"Yeah, go do your work..."

Seong Ji­han, hav­ing ap­par­ently an­swered a call, hur­riedly left the room.

Yoon Seah watched him leave the room and sighed softly, then got up.

'Ah, could it be...that time...'

Seong Ji­han felt a sink­ing feel­ing as he watched this se­ries of events.

It was the time when he re­ceived an ur­gent call about a loan and rushed out.

The most re­gret­ful mo­ment from his pre­vi­ous life.

Could it be... this is seen from Yoon Seah's per­spec­tive?

Why would this... in the void...

Then

"Ha, did you think I would die like this?"

Yoon Seah bit her lip as she looked at her­self in the mir­ror.

De­spite be­ing ter­ror­ized and hav­ing her face torn apart...

"I'll suc­ceed some­how."

Her will was un­wa­ver­ing.

'...What... So the sui­cide doesn't hap­pen here?'

Yeah. In a way, this seemed nor­mal.

Yoon Seah's de­ter­mi­na­tion was never weak.

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While Seong Ji­han watched the il­lu­sion...

"You can't do that."

Hissss...

A vague Ko­rean voice was heard from be­hind Yoon Seah.

"You must die here."

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Chap­ter 196
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Yoon Seah, un­fazed by the sud­den voice, slowly turned around.

A huge man wear­ing a hat and a black mask was stand­ing with his arms
crossed, look­ing down at her calmly.

Given the way he en­tered the room with­out any sign, it was clear he was a
player.

"...Why should I die?"

In re­sponse to Yoon Seah's re­tort, the man reached out to her.

In his hand was a yel­low tal­is­man.

"You're a brave child. Blame your Gift."

"...What? My Gift?"

"The lady says she def­i­nitely can't go to gold rank."

"What ex­actly... are you talk­ing about?"

"Things like this ex­ist."

Thud.

"Jiang­shi trans­for­ma­tion."

As soon as he at­tached the tal­is­man to Yoon Seah's fore­head, her body stiff­‐
ened.

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Her eyes lost fo­cus and her life func­tions seemed to cease as if she was
turn­ing into a jiang­shi.

[TL/N: A jiāng­shī, also known as a Chi­nese hop­ping vam­pire, is a type of

re­an­i­mated corpse in Chi­nese leg­ends and folk­lore.]

"Rise, my ser­vant."

And in such a state, Yoon Seah's body abruptly stood up from the bed and
slowly walked to­wards the win­dow.

Creak!

As Yoon Seah opened the win­dow her­self and fell out, "It's a suc­cess."

The masked man, who care­fully erased his tracks once again, clicked his
tongue.

"The lady truly can't reach gold by be­ing pushed this far... to think she re­‐
sorts to mur­der..."

With that one line, the man dis­ap­peared.

And not long af­ter,

"Seah, uh... where did Seah go?"

Seong Ji­han, who fin­ished his phone call out­side, looked around the hos­pi­‐
tal room with a puz­zled ex­pres­sion, and with that, The il­lu­sion ended.

"Uh..."

Ev­ery­one from Seong Ji­han's party, in­clud­ing Christo­pher and Sophia,

looked at Yoon Seah with a sur­prised ex­pres­sion as the il­lu­sion faded.

Es­pe­cially the most as­ton­ished one was,

"What the heck? Why did I die?"

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Yoon Seah, who had just died in the il­lu­sion.

"Why was I in the hos­pi­tal in the first place? Un­cle... Why did you take a
loan?"

"...Even I, blind as I am, saw this il­lu­sion. The man who uses jiang­shi
magic... What's he do­ing? We need to in­ves­ti­gate and elim­i­nate him right
away."

Yoon Se­jin, deeply shocked af­ter see­ing his daugh­ter killed---even if it was
just an il­lu­sion---was shak­ing un­con­trol­lably with his fist clenched.

Yoon Seah pon­dered for a mo­ment and then a hint clicked about the mur­‐
derer's words.

A lady who can't make it to gold.

Plus the Gift.

Could this be about Xin Youhwa from China that Seong Ji­han elim­i­nated
be­fore?

"Ah! Un­cle, the thing that the mur­derer men­tioned...!"

[Stop right there. It is in­deed re­lated to that late bloomer, but this isn't the
place to dis­cuss it.]

"...What could it be?"

Seong Ji­han quickly sent a tele­pathic mes­sage, stop­ping Yoon Seah from
talk­ing about late bloomers.

'This il­lu­sion... it seems to reen­act the events of my pre­vi­ous life...'

Seong Ji­han, who was also un­aware of this scene linked to the death of
Yoon Seah, bit his lip.

If he had known she was mur­dered, not a sui­cide, in his last life, He would
have killed Xin Youhwa from the be­gin­ning.

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He re­grets giv­ing her such an easy death this time.

'But how does noona know this? No, is she... re­ally my noona?'

As the il­lu­sions about his past life un­folded, Seong Ji­han's doubts only
grew.

"...Still, there are more gi­ant dun­geon por­tals to check, let's con­tinue in­ves­‐
ti­gat­ing. Christo­pher. Are you ready for the next one?"

"Yes! I can. I re­ceived the Akashic page; I must do my part!"

"Then, let's head out im­me­di­ately."

And they ar­rived at the third dun­geon por­tal.

Seong Ji­han and the Sword King, whose minds were more ur­gent now,
quickly sub­dued the in­te­rior of the dun­geon.

"Here it is!"

As soon as Christo­pher found the dun­geon core, the oth­ers from the in­ves­ti­‐
ga­tion team be­came mere spec­ta­tors, watch­ing in the back­ground.

"Wow... that was re­ally fast."

"Were gi­ant dun­geons al­ways this easy?"

"With the world's top war­riors and an S-rank ex­plo­ration ex­pert mixed in,
it's like push­ing a bull­dozer."

"Is the travel time tak­ing the long­est now?"

"Aren't we kind of use­less here?"

The ex­plo­ration team, look­ing on at Seong Ji­han's dun­geon dom­i­na­tion

with a mix of awe and de­jec­tion.

"But why are we mov­ing so fast?"

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"Maybe they have some­thing to fig­ure out about the dun­geon core."

"Per­haps the Sword King wants to fin­ish the ex­plo­ration quickly and re­turn
back."

"Oh, I see. We'll start the league again soon. If there are achieve­ments in the
ex­plo­ration, he'll prob­ab­ ly want to re­turn quickly."

"He's aim­ing for Ko­rea's Cham­pi­ons League, huh."

Un­aware of the fam­ily is­sues, the ex­plo­ration team as­sumed Seong Ji­han's
party was speed­ing things up due to the na­tional com­pe­ti­tion.

Sep­ar­ ated from the in­ves­ti­ga­tion team, Seong Ji­han's party, hav­ing found
the third dun­geon core, be­gan.

"Let's be­gin, Seah."

"Okay, Void Ar­row."

Whoosh!

As the Void Ar­row ap­peared, pur­ple en­ergy erupted.

And the party faced an­other il­lu­sion.

The dun­geon por­tal was filled with pale pur­ple mists.

Step! Step!

Sword King Yoon Se­jin, with two heads im­paled on the end of his twin
swords, was wan­der­ing aim­lessly in­side.

The own­ers of the heads, al­though de­cayed to the point it was hard to iden­‐
tify, were...

'Shizuru and... Akari?'

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Seong Ji­han roughly rec­og­nized them.

'Is this about the time when brother-in-law went miss­ing in my pre­vi­ous
life...?'

In the pre­vi­ous life, Yoon Se­jin was al­ready the strong­est war­rior and con­‐
tin­ued to grow.

Grow­ing enough to wield a wooden sword af­ter get­ting beaten with a punch
by a high elf.

So, when he faced the World Tree's Wooden Sword that day, he pan­icked
and ex­ited the game. The cur­rent il­lu­sion seemed to de­pict events af­ter that
day.

"You were... alive."

The Sword King, adorned with the Aegis ring around his neck, gazed at
some­thing within the pur­ple smoke.

Al­though the shape of the dark shad­ows ris­ing in the smoke was un­clear.

"Jiah..."

Yoon Se­jin was cer­tain it was Seong Jiah.

[Why did you come?]

"Why did I come?! Once I found out you're alive, I have to get you out...!"

[Oh, re­ally? Then come over here.]

Swoooooosh...

The black shadow grew larger, over­flow­ing with omi­nous en­ergy.

It seemed like a sit­u­at­ion where one should never en­ter.

How­ever,

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"...Al­right."

Yoon Se­jin bit his lip and stepped into the dark­ness.

And then, with a thud, the two necks im­paled on the twin swords fell, with
Akari's dis­ap­pear­ing in flames While Shizuru's head started dark­en­ing.

[I saw ev­ery­thing... Yoon Se­jin.]

"You saw..."

[Yes. That you aban­doned your daugh­ter and went to Japan. That Seah was
mur­dered... that my brother be­came a per­ma­nent ser­vant of a mon­ster...]

"..."

[I'm al­ready dead... It was okay for you to meet a new woman. To fall in
love again, even if you had to leave the coun­try. But... What about your
daugh­ter? Was Seah only my daugh­ter? Wasn't she your daugh­ter too?]

In the dark­ness, Seong Jiah's voice qui­etly reached Yoon Se­jin.

At her words, Yoon Se­jin knelt help­lessly to the ground.

"...I'm sorry. My sin is too great. That's why I tried to free you, and then
die..."

[Die? Ac­cord­ing to whose will? That's a lux­ury. You need to en­dure more
pain.]

Swoooooosh...

Like Shizuru's head,

Yoon Se­jin's body too be­gan to darken com­pletely.

[The Witch of the Void com­mands. Be­come the Apos­tle of the End, Asura,
Yoon Se­jin.]

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Flut­ter! Flut­ter!

Yoon Se­jin's body be­came lumpy, and mon­strous arms emerged from within
him.

In an in­stant, he trans­formed into not a hu­man but a mon­ster, with three

heads and six arms.

Look­ing at his trans­formed self with com­po­sure, Yoon Se­jin low­ered his
head.

[Go to China and avenge your daugh­ter. That's the only thing you must do.]

"...Yeah. If that's your will."

[I don't even want to speak with you. Go crazy. Be con­sumed by mad­ness,

be­come a mon­ster.]

"...Ah, ah­h­hahh...!"

Yoon Se­jin, burn­ing with ha­tred even as his san­ity was taken, Turned into a
com­plete mon­ster, and with that, The il­lu­sion ended.

'Was my brother-in-law... Asura?'

In the last days of hu­man­ity.

20 Apos­tles of the End were sum­moned from dif­fer­ent coun­tries. Among

them, the colos­sal mon­ster Asura was sum­moned in China.

'While the Heav­enly De­mon Wang Lin was ab­sent, China barely man­aged
to cap­ture Asura.'

Just like how the Suc­cubus Queen oblit­er­ated LA in the United States,
Asura also laid waste to sev­eral ma­jor cities in China. Among the 10 sur­viv­‐
ing coun­tries out of the 20 where the Apos­tles ar­rived, China suf­fered the

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most ca­su­al­ties, even more than the United States, which det­o­nated a nu­‐
clear bomb in LA.

'The Witch of the Void... Can that ex­is­tence cre­ate the Apos­tles of the End?
But to think that it's my sis­ter..."

The Witch of the Void had more au­thor­ity than ex­pected. And to think it
was his miss­ing sis­ter.

Seong Ji­han scowled as he pon­dered.

'And the brother who be­came a per­ma­nent ser­vant of the mon­ster... It seems
like it's about me.'

Mon­ster, could it be the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God?

Eter­nal ser­vant re­minded him of a talk about a 'seed' ev­ery time he met with
Dong­bang Sak.

'Did I al­most be­come a seed in my pre­vi­ous life?'

Even when Yoon Se­jin be­came Asura, Seong Ji­han had only re­ceived full
back­ing from the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God.

There wasn't even any men­tion of be­ing a 'seed'.

But what did Seong Jiah see to make such a con­clu­sion?

'Noona... do you have the abil­ity to fore­see the fu­ture?'

As Seong Ji­han was delv­ing into de­duc­tions about Seong Jiah, "...It would
be too cheap this way."

Thud!

Yoon Se­jin sat down, slump­ing pow­er­lessly with his head bowed.

"If some­thing un­think­able hap­pened to Seah...---some­thing I can't even

imag­ine---then it would be cheap to be treated this way..."

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"..."

"Oth­er­wise, thank her for giv­ing me the power to get re­venge. To Jiah..."

As he re­mained melan­cholic,

Smack!

"Hey! What are you talk­ing about in front of the liv­ing?!"

Yoon Seah slapped him on the back.

"Ah. Se..Seah..."

"I'm alive, aren't I? Dad! We're not in that bad end­ing sit­u­at­ion right now!"

"...That's true."

"Let's get more power and quickly re­trieve mom. Se­ri­ously! The Witch of
the Void and un­cle be­com­ing a ser­vant to a mon­ster, what's that all about?"

"Ji­han, whose ser­vant are you?"

"I am not."

There was no need to tell them the story about the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God.

Seong Ji­han chuck­led and looked around at ev­ery­one.

"Ev­ery­one still got en­ergy left?"

"Yes, Ji­han, aren't you tired?"

"I'm fine. Now, let's go raid the last dun­geon."

In the next dun­geon, will the rea­sons for me be­com­ing a ser­vant emerge?

With that thought, Seong Ji­han led the party to the fourth dun­geon.

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Mean­while,

On the star of the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God,.

Kr­rrrrr...

"Emer­gency, Emer­gency!"

As the ground shook, a per­son in full ar­mor ap­peared.

The hel­met con­cealed the face, and the voice's bright tone was that of a
woman's.

"Huh? What's this... Why did you wake up?"

"It's strange that the fourth one woke up first, not the third. In­ter­est­ing."

Long­i­nus and Dong­bang sak, who were pre­par­ing to de­scend to the ground,
looked at the abruptly awak­ened woman with cu­rios­ity.

"Jeanne... weren't you sup­posed to wake up when the end of your world was
near?"

"That's an old name. Nos­tradamus is the lat­est."

"That name is too long."

"Then just call me Pythia. I hate hear­ing Jeanne. It sounds like your name,
Kang Sang."

Dong­bang Sak chuck­led bit­terly as he stroked his beard.

The fourth Apos­tle with the power of prophecy.

Did she re­ally hate the name 'Jeanne d'Arc' that much?

"...Al­right. Pythia, why did you awaken?"

"I saw a ter­ri­ble prophecy!"

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"What is it?"

"The girl who was sup­posed to be­come the Witch of the Void in my stead
was re­leased!"

"Why is that ter­ri­ble?"

"Be­cause I have to take her place and over­see the end. I won't be able to act
as this star's nav­i­ga­tor for a while."

"I still don't un­der­stand what you're talk­ing about."

Watch­ing Phy­tia cre­ate a com­mo­tion on her own, Long­i­nus shook his head
in be­wil­der­ment.

The fourth Apos­tle with the abil­ity of prophecy. It wasn't easy to com­pre­‐
hend most of the things she said.

"More im­por­tantly... Ah, right. Per­fect tim­ing. You said you'd give me a
prophecy last time, right? Take a look at this one."

Swoosh!

Long­i­nus took out his phone, dis­play­ing Seong Ji­han's im­age.

"What do you think his fu­ture will be like? Will he be em­bar­rass­ingly

crushed by his mas­ter?"

Ex­pect­ing him to be bru­tally tram­pled by the Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God, he

showed Seong Ji­han's pic­ture to Phy­tia but, "...This one is im­mune to the
prophecy? Who is he?"

Pythia, with a grave voice, stared in­tensely at Seong Ji­han.

"A case like this... there's only the mas­ter."

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Chap­ter 197
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"Prophecy doesn't work? Even with your power?"

Dong­bang Sak raised his eye­brows in sur­prise.

The prophet Pythia had made prophe­cies dat­ing back to an­cient times. As
the fourth fe­male priest­ess of the Greek Del­phi Tem­ple, she demon­strated
chill­ing pre­dic­tive abil­i­ties through di­vine in­spi­ra­tion.

The pow­er­ful of each na­tion wanted to make her their own. When the
clutches of the pow­er­ful posed a threat to her per­sonal safety, the Wan­der­‐
ing Mar­tial God took her as his seed.

'The prophecy that was snatched from her by the Mar­tial God was her last
prophecy.'

Af­ter be­com­ing the Mar­tial God's seed and liv­ing im­mor­tal, some­times as a
man, some­times as a woman, she ac­tively par­tic­i­pated in his­tory un­der var­i­‐
ous names as hu­man­ity's great­est prophet.

How­ever, af­ter be­com­ing the Mar­tial God's seed, there was only one
prophecy she could not make -- 'The End'.

The right to see the end of hu­man­ity was de­prived from her by the Mar­tial
God.

"I won­der if this...... might have some­thing to do with 'the end'."

"Is that so? Hmm... this guy is rather pre­vent­ing the ex­tinc­tion of hu­man­ity
though. He main­tained the Bat­tleNet rank­ings this time too."

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"The end of hu­man­ity and the ex­tinc­tion you're talk­ing about are dif­fer­ent.
The ex­tinc­tion hosted by the Witch of the Void this time is car­ried out as
Bat­tleNet's penalty. Hu­man­ity's end has more di­verse pos­si­bil­i­ties."

"What kind?"

"I don't know, I can't see it. Ask the mas­ter who took away my abil­i­ties."

As if he could ask the Mar­tial God.

Long­i­nus frowned.

"...Isn't it just that he can't be seen be­cause he has the con­stel­la­tion's abil­i­‐
ties? He pos­sesses the power of a star af­ter all."

"Con­stel­la­tion? This per­son has a con­stel­la­tion too? No way... Hmmm...."

Pythia looked at Seong Ji­han with in­ter­est.

"If it's be­cause of a Con­stel­la­tion, the prophecy might work if I see him di­‐
rectly."

"See­ing di­rectly won't work. No mat­ter how the tu­to­rial is over, it's im­pos­si­‐
ble for us to in­ter­vene on Earth di­rectly."

"Is that so? Isn't there a way? It's a pity...."

From the photo it seems prophecy doesn't work so she re­ally wants to try it
di­rectly face to face.

Pythia did not hide her at­tach­ment.

See­ing her, Dong­bang Sak opened his mouth.

"There is a way."

"What is it?"

"As con­stel­la­tions, we can if we find a spon­sor to unite with us."

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"Oh... unite? Is that pos­si­ble?"

"If there's some­one with Gifts well-matched to ours, it's pos­si­ble. I found
one in Tai­wan, Long­i­nus found his in Rus­sia."

"He's called Berserker Vladimir right? I want to unite with this guy quickly
and give that punk a good beat­ing."

Bang!

As Long­i­nus made a fist and smiled sin­is­terly, Pythia grasped the sit­u­at­ion.

"Ah, it's to watch through the Bat­tleNet World Com­pe­ti­tion. Hmm... watch­‐
ing through Bat­tleNet, prophecy should be pos­si­ble right? I should find a
tar­get to unite with too."

Then clos­ing both eyes, light sparkled on Pythia's fore­head. The sparks
formed a third eye.

Swish!

The white eyes scanned around once then she opened her eyes again.

"I need to find a tar­get in the North­east Asia League right? To match with
his coun­try."

"That's right."

"The one that matches me is on the east­ern is­land coun­try."

"What, al­ready found them...?"

"Yes. I used the Di­vine Eyes."

Then Pythia slightly lifted the cor­ners of her mouth.

"Then, shall we bet who gets the first hit?"

"...You plan to fight too?"

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"Yes. It's an­noy­ing that prophecy doesn't work on him. I want to dis­ci­pline
him too."

Dong­bang Sak stroked his beard.

She's a prophet but can she fight well too?

'She has ex­pe­ri­ence act­ing as Jeanne d'Arc though...'

Then, Long­i­nus in­ter­vened.

"But what about the Witch of the Void?"

"I al­ready sent a mes­sage. Told them to crack down on witches well."

"....That's it?"

"They'll prob­ab­ ly take their pre­cau­tions, right? The new Witch of the Void
will be eas­ier to han­dle than me."

"That's true."

Com­pared to Pythia who lived a long life and ex­pe­ri­enced many hard­ships,
the new Witch of the Void would be eas­ier to use in­deed.

"Then let's leave that is­sue to them and go dis­ci­pline that brat."

"Ok~~"

And so the three ser­vants of the Mar­tial God be­gan in­ter­ven­ing in the
North­east Asia League in earnest.

The fourth dun­geon.

"Fi­nally the last one...."

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Christo­pher had a se­ri­ous ex­pres­sion upon find­ing the fi­nal gi­ant dun­geon's
core.

"Il­lu­sions re­lated to Yoon Seah ap­peared in the 2nd, Sword King in the
3rd... I won­der what will ap­pear this time."

"Will Ji­han ap­pear? But the il­lu­sions so far seem like bad end­ing lists...
Maybe it's bet­ter if noth­ing ap­pears...."

"Hmm, let's see. Seah."

"Ok."

What scene will ap­pear?

Yoon Seah sum­moned Void Ar­row with a ner­vous ex­pres­sion.

Then, like be­fore, pur­ple spreads out.

and then the last il­lu­sion ap­peared be­fore ev­ery­one.

'This is...'

A bleak land en­gulfed by dark­ness.

This was a sight Seong Ji­han could never for­get in his life­time.

[There are no more lower leagues avail­able.]

[You have been ex­pelled from the Space League.]

[NO.4212. Hu­man­ity has been clas­si­fied as a worth­less species. Dele­tion

will be­gin.]

Hu­man­ity los­ing the rel­eg­ a­tion bat­tle and be­ing deleted.

"Please... save us...."

His Amer­i­can First col­leagues were en­gulfed by dark­ness.

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[All of hu­man­ity has been deleted.]

[You are the last sur­vivor.]

In the fi­nal mo­ments.

When Seong Ji­han lay alone on the ground with his limbs en­gulfed by the
dark­ness.

[It's over.]

Flash!

A bril­liant be­ing ap­peared be­fore him.

An in­dis­tinct fig­ure sur­rounded by bril­liant, col­or­ful lights.

But see­ing him, Seong Ji­han in­stinc­tively felt, 'Is this... the Mar­tial God...?'

From the first sight, surg­ing en­mity from deep in his chest.

See­ing the be­ing of light, Seong Ji­han felt ha­tred.

It was far stronger than when he saw Shizuru who tor­mented him in this
life.

Why am I act­ing like this? It sur­prised even him­self.

[Is this your limit?]

Swish!

The be­ing of light look­ing down at Seong Ji­han.

He slowly stretched out a hand.

[Seed. En­ter my body.]

Then,

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Whooosh...!

Seong Ji­han's body in­stantly turned into light and got sucked into his palm.

The Wan­der­ing Mar­tial God gripped his now light-filled palm then Faced
the sky and drew a line with his fin­ger and, The Earth's sky, en­gulfed by
dark­ness, com­pletely split open.

The hid­den sun­light ex­ploded out, pour­ing down.

The world bright­ened in an in­stant with that one move­ment.

See­ing the power he un­leashed, one in­can­ta­tion crossed Seong Ji­han's mind.

'...Could this be the To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion Hor­i­zon­tal Sweep?'

The ul­ti­mate tech­nique of the side­ways chop in the name­less di­vine art's ba­‐
sic skill, Triad of Mar­tial Mas­tery -- To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion Hor­i­zon­tal Sweep
The Mar­tial God mim­icked that skill with a sin­gle fin­ger.

The pre­vi­ously shut sky com­pletely opened.

'To de­feat such an ad­ver­sary...'

He thought he had grown much stronger.

Yet the gap be­tween him and the Mar­tial God was still as im­mense as
heaven and earth.

As Seong Ji­han shud­dered at the Mar­tial God's power.

[...You are still lack­ing.]

Look­ing at the wide open sky, he spoke un­sat­is­fac­to­rily.

[But... the end is in sight.]

Flash!

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With that, his fig­ure dis­ap­peared.

And the il­lu­sion ended.

'So that's why noona said he was a mon­ster.....'

The Mar­tial God's power which opened the sky again.

Among op­po­nents faced so far, it was clearly over­whelm­ing.

To fight an op­po­nent of that level over a skill?

It was just sui­ci­dal com­pe­ti­tion.

'...Strange. This en­mity isn't sub­sid­ing.'

Seong Ji­han was sur­prised again by his own emo­tions.

De­spite the dif­fer­ence in power be­ing enough to give up ev­ery­thing.

Some­how,

He felt he could fight him.

'Al­right, let's win.'

Seong Ji­han strength­ened his re­solve.

And in this il­lu­sion, or­ga­nized the dif­fer­ence from his past life.

'...There was no vote this time.'

The vote which gave him a chance to chal­lenge again.

The 3 Ap­proval, 1 Op­po­si­tion vote which let him re­turn to the past did not
ap­pear this time.

What was the dif­fer­ence be­tween that time and this il­lu­sion?

As Seong Ji­han con­tem­plated this.

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"Uh... is this whole hu­mans-be­ing-erad­i­cated thing re­ally hap­pen­ing?"

"If Ji­han was the last sur­vivor, then I died too it seems."

"No... but se­ri­ously, does ex­pul­sion from the Space League mean the end of
hu­man­ity?"

"So, oppa, was Bat­tleNet al­ways this dan­ger­ous?"

"I hope the il­lu­sion... is just an il­lu­sion."

The peo­ple who saw the il­lu­sion started dis­cussing it one by one.

Maybe be­cause they saw that fu­ture of hu­man­ity's ex­tinc­tion, ev­ery­one had
the gravest ex­pres­sions yet.

How­ever,

"In the end there was just a flash of light then it ended... I won­der what hap­‐
pened?"

"Un­cle, did you see any­thing else?"

Be­sides Seong Ji­han, no one prop­erly saw the Mar­tial God's ac­tions.

"Not sure."

"But see­ing the il­lu­sion, it re­ally seems like a bad end­ing list. Sheesh... is
mom just watch­ing stuff like this trapped? It's prob­ab­ ly bad men­tally."

With il­lu­sions of her bro­ken fam­ily and hu­man­ity's ex­tinc­tion.

Even a sane per­son would go crazy watch­ing stuff like that.

"No clues about Jiah ap­peared but... now that all gi­ant dun­geons are gone,
we can en­ter the Abyss."

"Right. Let's quickly save her. Mom's prob­ab­ ly there right?"

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"Be­fore that, Ariel."

Swish...

As Seong Ji­han called Ariel, Shadow Sword dis­ap­peared and she re­vealed
her­self.

"Tell me a bit about the Abyss."

"I don't know the de­tails about the Abyss ei­ther. Since Void ma­nip­u­lates that
re­gion, it changes a lot."

"Hmm. Is there any­thing we should pre­pare?"

"With the sur­round­ing dun­geons cleared, en­ter­ing should be pos­si­ble. How

about scout­ing first? With you and the Sword King, no mat­ter what en­em ­ ies
ap­pear you can still es­cape."

"Good idea. We don't know what might jump out in the Abyss, so brother-
in-law and I should check their strength first."

No mat­ter how strong the en­em

­ ies ap­pear­ing in the Abyss, Seong Ji­han and
the Sword King could han­dle it.

Like when first ex­plor­ing the gi­ant dun­geons, the team let Seong Ji­han and
Sword King en­ter first.

"I'll...."

"You wait over there."

"Tsk, need to hurry up and be­come a di­am

­ ond."

Af­ter mak­ing Yoon Seah wait at a dis­tance, Seong Ji­han and the Sword
King en­tered the Abyss scout­ing.

Un­like the dun­geon por­tals, the Abyss was in a rift in the ground.

Pow­er­ful mon­sters popped out from the scar­let rift but "How an­noy­ing."

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Name­less Di­vine Art, Triad of Mar­tial Mas­tery -- To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion Hor­i­‐

zon­tal Sweep Im­i­tat­ing the Mar­tial God's To­tal An­ni­hi­la­tion Hor­i­zon­tal
Sweep from the ear­lier il­lu­sion, Seong Ji­han mowed down the mon­sters like
fallen leaves in au­tumn wind.

'As ex­pected, I'm not at that level yet.'

Un­like the Mar­tial God sev­er­ing the sky with a fin­ger.

At full strength, Seong Ji­han could only cut down hun­dreds or thou­sands.

Of course cut­ting hun­dreds and thou­sands was still as­ton­ish­ing to oth­ers.

But with the Mar­tial God as com­par­i­son, Seong Ji­han felt his skills more
lack­ing than ever.

'I need to train the ba­sics again.'

Like that, Seong Ji­han took the lead, wildly culling mon­sters un­til ar­riv­ing
at the Abyss' en­trance.

Seong Ji­han looked at the rift be­low, seething with crim­son en­ergy.

"Let's go in, Brother-in-law."

"Yeah."

Whoosh!

And Seong Ji­han and Sword King jumped in to­gether but [The owner of the
Abyss has changed the en­try con­di­tions for the Abyss.]

[Only play­ers be­long­ing to the Grand Mas­ter League can en­ter the Abyss.]

[You are in the Plat­inum League.]

[Un­able to en­ter the Abyss.]

Thud!

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Both bounced off the crim­son bar­rier, bod­ies flung back.

"...What? Grand Mas­ter League?"

The Mas­ter League and Grand Mas­ter League were added when Bat­tleNet
en­tered the main game.

The Abyss re­quired Grand Mas­ter rank, com­pletely block­ing the two from
even en­ter­ing.

"Are they... kid­ding me!"

The Sword King un­leashed his full power, pour­ing out his white blade
against the rift with all his might how­ever, Cling! Cling!

The bar­rier block­ing the rift ef­fort­lessly de­flected all of the sword strikes.

[Sud­den changes in con­di­tions have sig­nif­i­cantly re­duced the ac­tiv­ity range

of the Abyss.]

[The ap­pear­ing mon­sters from the Abyss are weak­ened.]

Due to the abrupt change in con­di­tions, the Abyss re­ceived its own penalty.
While from the per­spec­tive of Ko­rea, it was ad­van­ta­geous to have fewer
mon­sters com­ing from North Ko­rea, for Seong Ji­han and his party who
were try­ing to res­cue Jiah, it was a bizarre change.

"Brother-in-law... Can we break it to­gether?"

"Sure. Let's try."

The two poured all their ef­forts into shak­ing the rift, un­will­ing to give up,
but the bar­rier did not even flinch.

Af­ter three hours of such ef­forts,

"Wha...what? We can't en­ter?"

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Hav­ing heard the sit­u­at­ion, Yoon Seah's party looked at the rift with be­wil­‐
dered ex­pres­sions.

Only Grand Mas­ters can en­ter?

What's with that re­quire­ment?

"Ah se­ri­ously... Mom! I'm here! Open the door! Void Ar­row!"

Along with Seong Ji­han and Sword King's fren­zied at­tacks.

Yoon Seah also shot an ar­row try­ing to help.

Her power was far weaker than the two but

Swish...

Since it was void-at­tribute, it didn't bounce off like other at­tacks.

"Oh... it's work­ing?"

See­ing that, Yoon Seah kept shoot­ing Void Ar­rows but "...It's not work­ing."

The void ar­rows only got ab­sorbed, un­able to pen­et­rate the bar­rier.

De­spite in­vest­ing days, Seong Ji­han's party ul­ti­mately got no re­sults.

"...It's hope­less. Let's re­treat for now."

"...Yeah."

Blocked by the Abyss en­try re­quire­ments be­fore their eyes, Seong Ji­han's
party re­treated.

"We need to level up."

"Right... Grand Mas­ter League huh...."

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While ev­ery­one felt frus­trated, try­ing to meet the en­try con­di­tions, "Wait a
minute... my con­stel­la­tion is..."

Yoon Seah, who had been sulk­ing be­side them, opened her eyes as if she
couldn't be­lieve it.

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Chap­ter 198
*****

*****

[The 'Witch of the Void' has shown in­ter­est in you.]

[She wishes to be­come your spon­sor­ing con­stel­la­tion. Do you ac­cept?]

[Note: This con­stel­la­tion is not of­fi­cially reg­is­tered in the Bat­tleNet sys­tem.

Un­fore­seen side ef­fects may oc­cur.]

The Witch of the Void

Yoon Seah was well aware of who that was through the pre­vi­ous il­lu­sion.

"Could it be... Mom?"

"What's go­ing on?"

"I got a spon­sor­ship of­fer from a con­stel­la­tion! From the Witch of the
Void!"

"What?"

In the il­lu­sion, the Witch of the Void was Seong Jiah.

The idea of her as a 'con­stel­la­tion' was en­tirely un­ex­pected.

"Well... I did get a warn­ing mes­sage like this."

As she re­cited the fi­nal warn­ing mes­sage, Seong Ji­han's brow fur­rowed.

Not an of­fi­cial con­stel­la­tion.

"It's a bit dis­con­cert­ing."

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"But I want to do it. Even if the Witch of the Void isn't Mom, my class is al­‐
ready a Void Archer. It could be a big help."

"But you'd be too en­tan­gled with the void. Be­com­ing too in­volved with that
side might not be good."

"Yeah. Seah, let's try to find Jiah af­ter I reach the Grand Mas­ter League..."

Nev­er­the­less, re­gard­less of the oth­ers' con­cerns,

"Hehe... I al­ready ac­cepted."

Yoon Seah had al­ready pressed the ac­cept but­ton and was scratch­ing her
cheek.

"Hey!"

"It's okay. And... how long will we wait for Grand Mas­ter sta­tus any­way?"

Be­fore the end of her words,

Whoosh...

From Yoon Seah's body, bil­low­ing pur­ple smoke be­gan to em­anate.

[...I have al­ready agreed to co­op­er­ate. Why show this il­lu­sion? Will of the
void, do not mock me...]

The voice that leaped out of the smoke was Seong Jiah's.

Seong Jiah ap­plied to be Yoon Seah's spon­sor, her voice laden with ir­ri­ta­‐
tion as she ad­mon­ished the void.

Yoon Seah shouted at the smoke.

"Mom! Where are you? We came look­ing for you. Come out quickly!"

[Dar­ing to im­i­tate my daugh­ter...! Seah's death is cer­tain. Among tens of

thou­sands of pos­si­bil­i­ties, it never changed. Void, you grant me such power

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yet play these tricks?]

"What are you talk­ing about, re­ally! I'm very much alive. Why do you keep
killing your daugh­ter?"

[If you con­tinue to mock me like this, I will not ful­fill the witch's duty. I
will close my eyes and ears, not un­fold­ing the end.]

"No, um, could you lis­ten to your child for a mo­ment?"

The mother and daugh­ter's con­ver­sa­tion ran on par­al­lel lines.

Pre­cisely, Seong Jiah was com­pletely ig­nor­ing Yoon Seah, con­sid­er­ing her
an il­lu­sion.

'...Didn't she ap­ply to be the spon­sor­ing con­stel­la­tion? Why is she act­ing

like this?'

Seong Ji­han wedged a word into their ar­gu­ment as he watched.

"Noona. Didn't you choose to spon­sor Seah?"

[Humph...! Adding Ji­han's il­lu­sion as well. Void, this is why I don't trust
you! If you're go­ing to craft a story, at least get it right. Ji­han com­ing to his
senses while Seah is still alive? It's un­be­liev­able!]

"...Geez. I see what you think of me, Noona."

"Hehe. That's the im­age Mom saw of you, Un­cle."

"Ji­han. Was it re­ally like that?"

To Seong Jiah, Seong Ji­han was al­ways the im­ma­ture and lazy younger
brother.

With him here, she be­came even more cer­tain this had to be just an il­lu­sion.

[And cre­at­ing an il­lu­sion of my sis­ter-in-law I saw in a few fu­tures... Re­ally,

they go to great lengths.]

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"Eh? Re­ally? Sophia?"

"...Sis­ter-in-law, what's that?"

Sophia, al­though she had stud­ied hard and could speak some Ko­rean, found
the term 'sis­ter-in-law' un­fa­mil­iar.

"It means your brother's wife..."

"Wha?? Re­ally??"

Upon hear­ing Yoon Seah's ex­pla­na­tion, Sophia's eyes lit up.

"Sis­ter!! How did that fu­ture plan out? How did I se­duce Ji­han? Please tell
me!"

With­out fear, Sophia ap­proached Yoon Seah and tried to grab the smoke.

Sud­denly, she's call­ing Seong Jiah 'Sis­ter.'

Then, the pur­ple smoke writhed.

"So... Sophia... eh, re­ally, just... stay still! Med­dling in some­one else's fam­‐
ily af­fairs!"

"No! It might be my fam­ily af­fair!"

"Oh. Ah, se­ri­ously... Player Seong Ji­han. I apol­o­gize. I won't bring her next
time."

Christo­pher ex­claimed as he saw Sophia ex­change re­marks with him, and

from the smoke, a voice of dis­be­lief flowed out.

[...Strange. For an il­lu­sion cre­ated by the will of the void, it's rather
chaotic.]

"Ah, Mom re­ally, I am real! Un­cle got so much stronger~ Al­ways win­ning
first place~ Be­com­ing a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive af­ter beat­ing Dad!"

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"Hmm... Seah. I have not lost to Seong Ji­han"

"Any­way! So Dad came to his senses and got rid of that Ja­pa­nese woman
and re­turned to Ko­rea~ And it's not a bad end­ing sit­u­at­ion like be­fore!"

[Ha... As if! It can't be that Ji­han did that! He was noth­ing but a gam­bling
ad­dict be­fore be­ing se­lected by that mon­ster!]

Seong Ji­han re­al­ized firmly as his sis­ter be­rated him as a gam­bling ad­dict
and a lazy­bones.

Seong Jiah, able to see a fu­ture of the last world, clearly didn't see the
present.

"Jiah."

[Do not get in­volved in an en­joy­able il­lu­sion, Yoon Se­jin.]

"...Right, got it."

Yoon Se­jin mut­tered, only to be in­stantly shot down.

Seong Ji­han could tell that, to his sis­ter, this was an 'en­joy­able il­lu­sion.'

"Al­right. As Noona says, an en­joy­able il­lu­sion. Let's keep imag­in­ing. How

can we get you out of there?"

[...Hehe.]

Seong Jiah chuck­led.

[Oh, will of the void. Ask­ing know­ingly. The Witch of the Void over­sees the
end. If hu­man­ity es­capes the brink of the end, the witch's power weak­ens
too...]

"Are we highly ranked now?"

[Hu­man­ity? That can't be... As usual, it's a point­less il­lu­sion. Rank­ings

aren't eval­u­ated un­til mid-sea­son. Flashes of vic­tory don't as­sist much in as­‐

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sess­ment.]

Mid-sea­son will show if hu­man­ity can sur­vive or not.

Is the power of the witch over­see­ing the end weak­en­ing?

"Maybe it's faster to go to the Grand Mas­ter League."

"That's true. En­ter­ing the abyss straight­away might be faster that way."

[Hehe, to en­ter the abyss reck­lessly and dis­turb it could cause the Ko­rean
Penin­sula to ex­plode... Will of the void. To pre­tend such com­mon sense is
new to you, this il­lu­sion is well-crafted.]

"Ah... re­ally? Isn't there an­other way?"

[...Un­less Seah, who gained the power of void in the il­lu­sion, grows even
more. But that's not easy.]

While Seong Jiah talked about il­lu­sions, she pointed out key things to con­‐
sider.

When it came time to dis­cuss it, the pur­ple smoke swirling around Yoon
Seah be­gan to fade.

[Is it over now... This il­lu­sion was quite en­joy­able.]

With that farewell, the smoke dis­ap­peared.

The party looked at each other.

"Noona had a lot to say for con­sid­er­ing us an il­lu­sion."

"Mom... might she ac­tu­ally know this is real?"

"Maybe she can't re­ally talk openly about it, be­ing the Witch of the Void?"

"It's pos­si­ble. Jiah was al­ways quick-wit­ted."

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As they pon­dered,

Yoon Seah sud­denly voiced a ques­tion.

"But who ac­tu­ally spon­sored the con­stel­la­tion... it seemed even the or­ches­‐
trat­ing Mom didn't know, so who did it?"

"Who knows."

Even if Seong Jiah caught on mid­way and gave hints,

It was clear she did not ini­ti­ate the spon­sor­ship.

Then who fa­cil­it­ated the link?

'No ob­vi­ous sus­pects at the mo­ment...'

As Seong Ji­han thought deeply but lacked clues,

He de­cided to keep it in mind while con­clud­ing,

"Let's... go back for now."

The dun­geon ex­pe­di­tion was wrapped up here.

[Dis­ap­pear­ing dun­geon por­tals. Peace re­turns to North Ko­rean lands!]

[Hid­den res­i­dents are be­ing res­cued.]

[The closed abyss de­mands Grand Mas­ter Lea­guers or above?]

[Un­sung hero of North Ko­rean ex­plo­ration, Christo­pher is re­vealed as the

world's first S-rank ex­plorer.]

[The Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion rec­og­nizes Yoon Se­jin's achieve­ments, al­low­ing

him to par­tic­i­pate in na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive matches.]

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Seong Ji­han and the Sword King's dis­man­tling of dun­geon por­tals in North
Ko­rea.

Though their orig­i­nal goal was to find traces of Seong Jiah, the at­ten­tion
was on the dis­ap­pear­ance of dun­geons in North Ko­rea.

-Was it this easy?

-I thought the dun­geon break was go­ing to hap­pen again. It ended rather
peace­fully.

-If I had known it would be like this, I would have been more care­ful the
last time.

-At that time, I didn't know that peo­ple with ex­plo­ration skills could do that.

-But is it true that Christo­pher is an S-rank ex­plorer?

-he's prob­ab­ ly go­ing to quit the com­men­tary haha.

The re­sults that North Ko­rea's dun­geon ex­plo­ration team achieved through
this work were sig­nif­i­cant.

They also built a large data­base of dun­geons that threaten hu­man­ity.

Even the huge dun­geon por­tal that was thought to be dif­fi­cult to deal with
turned out to be pos­si­ble to sub­due thanks to Christo­pher's join­ing.

Is that why?

The Bat­tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion sum­moned mem­bers of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion team to

New York and praised them.

In par­tic­u­lar, the Sword Kings' ban was lifted from par­tic­i­pat­ing in the na­‐
tional team and given a large re­ward.

"Aren't you sad, Un­cle?"

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Yoon Seah was sur­prised to see her fa­ther re­ceiv­ing an award from the Bat­‐
tleNet As­so­ci­at­ion pres­i­dent on TV and turned her head to­wards Seong Ji­‐
han.

"What? re­ceiv­ing an award from the pres­i­dent?"

"Yeah. They wanted to host an awards cer­em

­ ony for you, too."

"Nah. New York is too far. It's trou­ble­some to go."

"But it's quite a me­mento..."

"They should come to Ko­rea. Why should I go there? Hon­estly, if they

hadn't lifted the ban on brother-in-law, he wouldn't have gone, would he?"

"Likely."

Yoon Se­jin, re­cently avidly play­ing the game, aim­ing for the Grand Mas­ter
League.

In Gang­nam Area 1, play­ers were trem­bling at the re­turn of the mon­strous

gamer.

-Did Yoon Se­jin join the Daegi guild?

-The Sword King doesn't need stat bonuses, right? Growth is more im­por­‐
tant.

-Not only the Sword King, but other well-known rankers are also knock­ing
on the Daegi guild's door.

-Level ex­pan­sion has all the old play­ers rac­ing for growth... The Daegi
guild might be­come a gath­er­ing spot for top play­ers.

"If the Daegi guild be­comes a gath­er­ing place for rankers rather than a
promis­ing guild, it would be a pity."

"Un­cle... aren't you wor­ried about the top play­ers join­ing up? You won't
kick me out, right?"

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"We'll see how you do. You have to be­come top-ranked first."

"I've been grind­ing the game hard any­way. Might not make it next Jan­u­ary,
but I'll catch up the fol­low­ing month!"

"Good. But has Noona con­tacted you since?"

"Oh. Af­ter that, it's been quiet... Just once. She pointed some­thing out to
me."

"What?"

"It was when I tried to evolve my class..."

Yoon Seah, a spe­cial class, Void Archer. Now in Plat­inum, she could up­‐
grade this class to Void Shooter, a higher-level ver­sion of Void Archer, and
one of the new 'Void An­al­yst.'

"Based on the ad­di­tional ef­fects, Void Shooter seemed way bet­ter. Void An­‐
a­lyst gave vague de­scrip­tions like 'fur­ther an­al­yzes the void'. So, of course,
I chose Void Shooter, but..."

"And then?"

"Sud­denly, I heard Mom's voice."

[My daugh­ter wasn't this fool­ish. She was al­ways the top stu­dent in the
class. If it's only an il­lu­sion, they haven't repli­cated... my daugh­ter's wis­‐
dom.]

Quiet un­til now, Seong Jiah crit­i­cized Seah when she at­tempted to evolve
the class.

"Ah, why? What's the is­sue, Mom? Shooter looked much bet­ter."

[...Sigh. Re­ally, even though it's an il­lu­sion, are you a fool? Look. See! Oh,
the power...]

As she tried to ex­plain some­thing, her voice dis­ap­peared.

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In­stead, Yoon Seah's class se­lec­tion win­dow shone brightly in vi­o­let only
for Void An­al­yst.

Any­one who sees this would un­der­stand that it means to choose this.

"So, what did you do?"

"I lis­tened to Mom. I chose Void An­al­yst. Well... I think Void Shooter would
have been much bet­ter."

"There must be a deeper rea­son for it. If she's the Witch of the Void, she
must know a lot about it."

"True... But other than that ad­vice, there's not much sup­port. Other con­stel­‐
la­tions pro­vide stats boost too."

Yoon Seah, dis­ap­pointed that her mom, be­ing a con­stel­la­tion, doesn't of­fer
much sup­port com­pared to other con­stel­la­tions, asked, "Un­cle, did you get a
lot from your con­stel­la­tion?"

"Well, not re­ally. Noth­ing spe­cial. I have to com­plete the mis­sion I re­ceived
to get re­wards."

Brahma made a prom­ise to re­ward him with an EX-grade re­ward when he

com­pletes the mis­sion.

How­ever, there were still sev­eral steps left to com­plete it.

'My con­stel­la­tion slot is empty, but... Maybe it's be­cause of the hide­out that
I'm not at­tract­ing much at­ten­tion.'

Seong Ji­han, who chose the hide card in Space League to con­ceal him­self,
wasn't catch­ing the eye of other con­stel­la­tions de­spite his out­stand­ing per­‐
for­mances.

Should I con­sider re­ceiv­ing spon­sor­ship from the Shadow Queen?

As he con­tem­plates keep­ing the slot open due to the con­stel­la­tion's story, an

un­fa­mil­iar name sud­denly ap­pears through the sys­tem win­dow.

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[The 'Con­stel­la­tion of the Dead Star' claims to have fi­nally found you and
shows in­ter­est.]

[He wishes to be­come your spon­sor­ing con­stel­la­tion. Do you ac­cept?]

An un­wel­come name sud­denly ap­peared through the sys­tem in­ter­face.

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***

Seong Ji­han frowned as he saw the name of The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star
on the screen.

In a hide­out state, how did this guy man­age to find and con­tact me?

'Wasn't he banned from ap­proach­ing Earth?'

Though they had met in the Space League pro­mo­tion match, now they were
on Earth. How did he man­age to by­pass the sys­tem's re­stric­tions and en­ter?
Re­gard­less, it was trou­ble­some.

'It'll be tire­some if we get tan­gled up, but... he might have in­for­ma­tion about
the Void.'

Seong Ji­han had no in­for­ma­tion about the Void.

To get a clue about it, I may need to con­tact the 'The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead
Star' no mat­ter how much he nags about 'the head!'.

But when I re­call him blab­ber­ing on about merg­ing,

'No, I can't do it.'

Seong Ji­han's hand wasn't eas­ily go­ing to press the spon­sor­ship ap­proval
but­ton.

'Let's ex­plore other ways to gather in­for­ma­tion about the Void.'

Al­though there were two empty Con­stel­la­tion slots, Seong Ji­han de­ci­sively
pressed spon­sor­ship re­fusal.

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Then,

[The 'Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star' asks you to just ac­cept his spon­sor­ship
once and presents an al­ter­na­tive.]

[He sug­gests an op­tion where the player can with­draw spon­sor­ship any­time.
There are no penal­ties for the player when with­draw­ing spon­sor­ship.]

The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star pre­sented bet­ter con­di­tions for spon­sor­ship.

Usu­ally once a Con­stel­la­tion spon­sor­ship was ac­cepted, it was al­most im­‐

pos­si­ble for the player to uni­lat­er­ally ter­mi­nate the con­tract.

But The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star was will­ing to give up that bind­ing
force, des­per­ately want­ing to be­come his spon­sor­ing Con­stel­la­tion.

'Maybe I can get in­for­ma­tion from him and then can­cel the spon­sor­ship.'

If that's the case, it's a dif­fer­ent story.

When Seong Ji­han pressed yes,

[The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star be­comes the spon­sor­ing con­stel­la­tion of

Player Seong Ji­han.]

[With the ef­fects of the spon­sor­ing Con­stel­la­tion, the ef­fi­ciency of dark el­e­‐
ment skills and abil­i­ties greatly in­creases.]

Swoosh...

Black smoke rose up in the air, then in­stantly changed into the shape of a
skull head.

"The head!! Fi­nally... you've de­cided to ac­cept me?!"

Clack! clack!

The skull clat­tered its teeth, ex­ud­ing en­thu­si­asm. At the same time, Yoon
Seah, who was watch­ing TV on the sofa, was star­tled and looked at him.

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"What... what's that? Un­cle, some­thing weird popped up!"

"Oh, this guy has some po­ten­tial! Not as much as our head, but still! Ah,
but... they've al­ready locked in on our head­quar­ters, right? Get out of here!"
Kar­lein ges­tured ex­ag­ger­at­edly, urg­ing her to go away.

Yoon Seah looked at him in­cred­u­lously. "Why is he do­ing that?"

"The head­quar­ters have locked in... What are you talk­ing about?"

"Ah~ She gives off the scent of a witch to me. Witches be­long to head­quar­‐
ters."

"Witch? Are you talk­ing about the Witch of the Void?"

"Yeah, that's right! As ex­pected of our head!"

As Seong Ji­han men­tioned the Witch of the Void, the black skull nod­ded its
head.

The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star def­i­nitely seemed to know some­thing.

Seong Ji­han im­me­di­ately asked him.

"Just what is this Void?"

"The Void? To put it in a way you guys can eas­ily un­der­stand, it's the place
that over­sees cleanup in the Bat­tleNet!"

"Clean­ing... sum­mon­ing dun­geon por­tals, is that what you mean?"

"That's right. Races re­jected by the Bat­tleNet can't re­main there for­ever, can
they?"

Creak!

The bones at the edges of the skull's mouth tore open, mak­ing a grotesque
smile.

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"It's the Void side's job to neatly clean up those guys."

"Hmm... Then what are you? You called the Void head­quar­ters, so what are
you?"

"Me? I'm in a co­op­er­at­ive re­la­tion­ship with them. In your terms... Yes. I'm a
sub­con­trac­tor, a sub­con­trac­tor."

A sub­con­trac­tor de­spite be­ing a Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star.

"The Void must have tremen­dous forces."

"Of course! They're in charge of cleanup! But! Head. If you and I com­‐
bine... we can take over that po­si­tion!"

"Is the King of the Sword Kings the king of the Void?"

"No, not that... When we com­bine, you'll find out about the King on your
own!"

"Any­way."

"Un­cle, why does that skull keep talk­ing about merg­ing? It makes me un­‐
com­fort­able."

Hear­ing the re­peated talk of merg­ing, Yoon Seah, who was lis­ten­ing to the
Void dis­cus­sion on the side, looked at the black skull guard­edly.

"What! Why?"

"It's a skull."

"Hey! If your skin was peeled off you'd look the same! Like this!"

Kar­lein was bick­er­ing with his niece.

See­ing a Con­stel­la­tion act­ing this way,

Seong Ji­han thought coldly.

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'I should can­cel this spon­sor­ship quickly.'

Al­though the in­for­ma­tion ob­tained about the Void was still in­suf­fi­cient,
Since The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star said he was a sub­con­trac­tor over
there, I shouldn't ask too much.

Al­though he didn't seem to have a good re­la­tion­ship with the Void side, in­‐
for­ma­tion could flow back at any time.

"Then, that's enough. Let's end the Con­stel­la­tion con­tract."

"Wait...what? Head! This can't be! It's too soon to part ways!"

"No, this is just right."

"Wait...! Weren't you cu­ri­ous about the Void? Right! I'll give you Void abil­i­‐
ties!"

Kar­lein hur­riedly sput­tered, wor­ried the spon­sor­ship con­tract would be ter­‐

mi­nated.

Seong Ji­han, who was go­ing to with­draw any­way re­gard­less of what Kar­‐
lein of­fered, "......Void abil­i­ties?"

Changed his mind when he of­fered Void abil­i­ties.

Void abil­i­ties that couldn't be han­dled with­out Void-re­lated classes like

Yoon Seah's.

If I could get that through this Con­stel­la­tion, it would be a huge gain even if
I had to hear some talk about merg­ing.

"Then give it to me."

"Then, just one time merg­ing and I'll...."

"If you keep talk­ing about merg­ing, then leave."

"Tch... Fine. I'll give you a quest."

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[The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star gives the player a Con­stel­la­tion quest.]

[Con­stel­la­tion Quest]

-Use the The Reaper's power to achieve 1st place in the League Pro­mo­tion
Match.

Re­ward: Void Abil­ity Stats

The quest Kar­lein gave seemed sim­ple and easy.

In the up­com­ing pro­mo­tion bat­tle at the end of Jan­u­ary, I just had to clinch
first place as usual.

How­ever,

"......The Reaper's power?"

The pre­req­ui­site con­di­tion was pe­cu­liar.

"Yes. I know why you feel re­pulsed about merg­ing with me. My at­tribute is
death. It's only nat­u­ral for a liv­ing be­ing like you to in­stinc­tively re­coil,
right?"

"No, I just don't want to do it."

"That's why! Who'd want to merge with a skull?"

"...."

"Any­way! Try wield­ing the aura of death for once! When you use it, you'll
re­al­ize how great it is!"

[Tem­po­rar­ily awak­ens the power of death un­der the in­flu­ence of the Con­‐
stel­la­tion of Dead Star]

[Class 'Reaper' is granted for a lim­ited pe­riod of one week.]

[Stat 'Death' is granted for a lim­ited pe­riod of one week.]

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[Skill 'Death Sen­tence' is granted for a lim­ited pe­riod of one week.]

bat­tle

'So, he's giv­ing me a quest to use his abil­i­ties? Quite a re­mark­able ob­ses­‐
sion.'

'But this could help my mar­tial soul grow.'

Even on the Chaos Bat­tle­field, Mar­tial soul grew by ab­sorb­ing the mem­o­‐
ries of other races.

Get­ting a han­dle on en­er­gies com­pletely dif­fer­ent from what he nor­mally

used could broaden his hori­zons.

As Seong Ji­han was ac­cept­ing the new stats in a pos­i­tive light, As Seong Ji­‐
han re­luc­tantly ac­cepted the new stats, Kar­lein ex­claimed, "Wait... why only
for a week? I tried to put it in for a year!!"

[The Bat­tleNet sys­tem de­tects an ac­cess-for­bid­den en­tity.]

[The sys­tem will no longer al­low fur­ther in­ter­ven­tion.]

[The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star is forcibly evicted by the sys­tem.]

"What the... I en­tered the main game now, can't you close your eyes about it
now? Hey!"

How­ever, his protest was in vain.

Swoosh...

The black skull turned into smoke and dis­ap­peared in an in­stant.

[The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star sends a mes­sage. It is a mes­sage from the

evicted en­tity. Would you like to read it?]

[The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star sends a mes­sage. It is a mes­sage from the

evicted en­tity. Would you like to read it?]

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Then, a cas­cade of mes­sages ap­peared in Seong Ji­han's sys­tem win­dow.

When the text lines quickly sur­passed 50 lines, Seong Ji­han made a fed up
ex­pres­sion.

"Sys­tem. Can you block that?"

[Blocked mes­sages from The Con­stel­la­tion of Dead Star.]

"Well done."

Hav­ing es­caped the noise pol­lu­tion thanks to the sys­tem, Seong Ji­han
checked the Con­stel­la­tion quest again.

Al­though the Con­stel­la­tion it­self was driven out by the Bat­tleNet sys­tem,
The quest it­self still re­mained in­tact.

"Un­cle, was that thing re­ally a Con­stel­la­tion ear­lier?"

"Yeah, it's a some­what pow­er­ful ex­is­tence."

"Ugh, but isn't a con­stel­la­tion the mas­ter of the stars? Is be­ing the mas­ter of
the stars...... less im­por­tant than I thought?"

"Your mom is a Con­stel­la­tion now, too."

"Ah, right... If some­one like that can be­come one, I should aim to be a Con­‐
stel­la­tion too!"

Con­sid­er­ing the Con­stel­la­tions she had met so far were only her mom and a
crazy guy, Yoon Seah's am­bi­tions grew bound­lessly.

"Wake up from your dream and be­come a Di­am

­ ond first."

"Just watch. I'll reach level 200 this time and par­tic­i­pate! Oh, Un­cle. Did
you see that no­tice?"

"What?"

"This time the pro­mo­tion match is linked with the Space League rank­ing."

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"Ah, that."

Seong Ji­han nod­ded.

He hadn't read the no­ti­fi­ca­tion but roughly grasped what she was talk­ing
about.

'It seems the League com­pe­ti­tion is hap­pen­ing now.'

It's the an­nual pro­mo­tional tour­na­ment that takes place two to three times a
year as an event.

Each time, hu­man­ity bat­tles in the lower ranks, los­ing and gain­ing league
points.

The 'League com­pe­ti­tion' is the main event for this Di­am

­ ond pro­mo­tion
tour­na­ment.

Jan­u­ary 25th.

Orig­i­nally, it was the day when the large-scale pro­mo­tion matches were
broad­cast on Chan­nel 0. How­ever, this year was dif­fer­ent.

= Hello ev­ery­one!

= You were all wait­ing for the usual TOP 100 pro­mo­tion match, right?

= But 2021 is dif­fer­ent, the year the Bat­tleNet main game opened. The TOP
100 pro­mo­tion match will be held to­mor­row on the 26th... To­day, a spe­cial
Di­am
­ ond pro­mo­tion match linked to the Space League will un­fold!

= An all-day broad­cast sched­ule has been set. What kind of game will they
play?

With com­men­ta­tors also not fully un­der­stand­ing, this new pro­mo­tion match
gained greater sig­nif­i­cance than usual.

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= This pro­mo­tion match is more than just climb­ing up one rank in the
league.

= Yes. We won't just play against other races, right? It's said that league
points are also at stake in this game!

= Hu­man­ity is cur­rently ranked 9th. Due to in­suf­fi­cient daily point ac­qui­si­‐

tion, the rank­ing is at the bot­tom among those who won only one match. I
hope we can win this time and raise our rank­ing again!

A spe­cial pro­mo­tion match with points at stake that de­ter­mines the league
rank­ing. Since you could gain up to 10,000 points de­pend­ing on the rank, it
was a sig­nif­i­cant fig­ure not to be ig­nored.

Peo­ple gath­ered in front of their screens like they did for the open­ing cer­e­‐
mony, pay­ing close at­ten­tion to this pro­mo­tion match.

And what par­tic­u­larly caught their at­ten­tion was,

-So many points at stake... is Seong Ji­han par­tic­i­pat­ing?

-Yeah, he's go­ing for Di­am

­ ond this time.

-Phew, that's a re­lief. The game is over, haha.

-Ji­han-nim, please 'Do it' for the 100 of us.

Seong Ji­han was in­cluded in the pro­mo­tion match list. Hav­ing led the open­‐
ing match against the Elf to vic­tory, he was now tak­ing cen­ter stage. Ev­ery­‐
one ex­pected good re­sults from him.

This was true for the play­ers par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pro­mo­tion match as well.

"Player Seong Ji­han"

"I didn't know be­ing in a pro­mo­tion match to­gether would make me this
happy!"

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"It's for­tu­nate this game isn't sur­vival. If it had been, I would've been swept
away by you in an in­stant!"

Ev­ery­one crowded around Seong Ji­han and gen­uinely wel­comed him.

If it had been any other pro­mo­tion match, they would've done their best to
avoid be­ing matched up with Seong Ji­han.

But since this was an in­ter-race com­pe­ti­tion,

Hav­ing a ca­pa­ble player like Seong Ji­han was un­con­di­tion­ally ad­van­ta­‐

geous.

How­ever, Seong Ji­han's ex­pres­sion as he re­ceived their cheers was sub­tle.

'Hmm.......'

Seong Ji­han ex­tended his right hand, and for a mo­ment, a crim­son light
flick­ered there be­fore quickly ex­tin­guish­ing.

The 'Death' stat granted by Kar­lein.

Seong Ji­han had tried to uti­lize it for a few days, but he couldn't grasp any
clues on how to use it.

'This is re­ally elu­sive... if it doesn't work in a real bat­tle, I might have to

give up on the quest.'

It might have been dif­fer­ent if he was par­tic­i­pat­ing in a pro­mo­tion match

alone, but with hu­man­ity's league points at stake, Seong Ji­han looked at the
aura of death with a doubt­ful ex­pres­sion.

[Spe­cial pro­mo­tion match, 'League Com­pe­ti­tion,' be­gins.]

He en­tered the game.

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=The League Com­pe­ti­tion be­gins.

Chan­nel 0, fo­cused mainly on the hu­man wait­ing room and Seong Ji­han, As
the game started, the screen moved to the bat­tle­field where the main game
was tak­ing place.

=The game for­mat of the com­pe­ti­tion pri­mar­ily fo­cuses on de­fense.

=The TOP 100 par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Di­am

­ ond Pro­mo­tion Match will work to­‐
gether to stop the mon­sters swarm­ing each bat­tle­field.

=The scores for each race are de­ter­mined by who stops the waves faster and
how many sur­vivors there are.

=If our team sup­presses the mon­ster waves faster, we can se­lect the op­pos­‐
ing team and send ad­di­tional mon­sters to them.

This was the first League Com­pe­ti­tion ex­pe­ri­enced by hu­man­ity.

The game for­mat was sim­ple.

The TOP 100 gath­ered to­gether to sup­press mon­ster waves and sur­vive as
much as pos­si­ble.

And when there was room, quickly de­stroy waves and sum­mon more mon­‐
sters into the en­emy camp to com­pete for rank­ings.

'The for­mat it­self is sim­ple, but... there are var­i­ous strate­gies for each as­‐
signed map.'

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Seong Ji­han re­called his past mem­o­ries.

While hu­mans played the game straight­for­wardly ac­cord­ing to given con­di­‐

tions, the World Tree Elves swiftly dom­i­nated maps and trou­bled the op­pos­‐
ing team with var­i­ous tac­tics.

=The 20 races par­tic­i­pat­ing in the League Com­pe­ti­tion are di­vided into five
groups, with hu­mans as­signed to three groups.

=The map for the three groups ad­vanc­ing to stage 5 is... the 'Gi­ant Grave­‐
yard.'

A map where un­dead mon­sters mainly ap­pear.

Among ran­domly as­signed maps, it was a rel­at­ively or­di­nary and straight­‐

for­ward one in terms of dif­fi­culty.

'How­ever... if you ex­ploit hid­den points, it be­comes a map where you can
bring hell to the op­pos­ing team.'

Al­though Ji­han didn't re­mem­ber the en­tire com­pe­ti­tion map, he re­mem­‐

bered all the strate­gies for the Gi­ant Grave­yard map.

The World Tree Elves would ex­ploit spe­cial points if they got this map,
bring­ing hell to the op­pos­ing team.

Hu­man­ity also bench­marked their strate­gies.

And in the end, the first to suc­ceed in se­cur­ing spe­cial points Was the TOP
100 Seong Ji­han be­longed to when he ranked up in his pre­vi­ous life.

'The only prob­lem is that this map only has un­dead mon­sters com­ing out.'

The con­stel­la­tion quest told him to get 1st place in the league pro­mo­tion
bat­tle us­ing the Reaper's power.

He had to han­dle only the power of death, so would that work well on un­‐
dead mon­sters?

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'Death might be able to com­pletely dom­i­nate the un­dead, or it might not

work be­cause they're al­ready dead. I'll have to try it and see.'

Swoosh...

Ji­han ma­nip­u­lated the un­con­trol­lable stat 'Death' and awaited the start of the
game.

And Soon,

Flash!

The 100 play­ers in the wait­ing room were sum­moned to the as­signed bat­tle­‐
field, The 'Gi­ant Grave­yard' map.

"So this is the Gi­ant Grave­yard map......."

"It's filled with noth­ing but tomb­stones."

"The eas­i­est points to de­fend would be... that hill over there?"

The Gi­ant Grave­yard map filled with noth­ing but sparkling white tomb­‐
stones in the des­o­late waste­land.

For­tu­nately, to the east and north there were gen­tle slopes where they could
as­sume a de­fen­sive stance.

But Seong Ji­han looked around at ev­ery­one and pointed in the op­po­site di­‐
rec­tion.

"No. Let's go south."

"South? That side is down­hill, so it might be dif­fi­cult to de­fend..."

"That's the only place with­out tomb­stones."

"Ah......! You're right!"

"Oh, Un­cle caught that right away. Did you have a pre­mo­ni­tion?"

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As Yoon Seah, who had barely made it into the Di­am

­ ond Pro­mo­tion Bat­tle
TOP 100, grinned and spoke, Seong Ji­han pointed at his own eyes,

"This is just in­tu­ition. I have a dif­fer­ent pre­mo­ni­tion."

"Oh, re­ally?!"

"Player Seong Ji­han's... pre­mo­ni­tion has ac­ti­vated again!"

"Yes. I'll let you know as the game pro­gresses."

Af­ter dra­mat­i­cally win­ning the open­ing match of the Space League, Seong
Ji­han's pre­mo­ni­tions had been a hot topic among Bat­tleNet of­fi­cials for
some time.

At first they thought he was jok­ing, but

Look­ing at Seong Ji­han's path since awak­en­ing as a player, He had al­ways

cho­sen the right an­swers among the choices.

So now quite a few peo­ple be­lieved he had the abil­ity to see the fu­ture.

"Well... it must be cor­rect if he said it. I'll go first."

Bar­ren, who had shown tremen­dous growth with his two sta­tus win­dows
and par­tic­i­pated in the TOP 100 this time, headed south first by him­self.

Al­though they were once at odds, af­ter Seong Ji­han gave him a hand in the
Chaos Bat­tle­field, He had changed to be quite am­i­ca­ble.

He greatly trusted Seong Ji­han's judge­ment.

"Al­right. Ev­ery­one, let's head south!"

And so the TOP 100 moved in uni­son,

=Oh!! Seong Ji­han, it seems your pre­mo­ni­tion will come into play in this
game too!

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=Haha. He's truly a re­li­able player! I'm re­ally glad he's on our side.

=Christo­pher, Now that you've be­come an S-rank abil­ity user, do you need
to keep com­men­tat­ing? I heard Amer­i­can First made an in­cred­i­ble deal of­‐
fer!

=Af­ter go­ing on the dun­geon ex­plo­ration with Seong and Sword King... I'd
still pre­fer to stay a com­men­ta­tor for now! Dun­geons, they're pretty scary!

=Oh, is that so? We'll have to hear about the dun­geon ex­plo­ration later
when you have time!

=There's not much to it! I just hid be­hind Seong the whole time! Oh!!... the
op­pos­ing team from the same Group 3 is ap­pear­ing!

The an­nounc­ers who had been chat­ting briefly about Christo­pher's dun­geon
ex­plo­ration Fo­cused on the ros­ter of other species as­signed to Group 3 as it
ap­peared.

=The ros­ters of the 3 races fi­nally ap­peared. First are the Orcs!

=The Orc race! A species seen in the Chaos Bat­tle­field. Player Seong swept
them up so we couldn't mea­sure their strength, but they don't seem to be a
strong race. They're cur­rently ranked 20th in the league rank­ings!

=The sec­ond race is... uh, Ma­chines... They're Ro­bots!

=The species is called Mechan, these guys didn't ap­pear in the Chaos Bat­‐
tle­field. They're ranked 15th. They're also be­low hu­man­ity!

Orcs and Mechan.

Al­though the mus­cu­lar pig-headed or­gan­isms and bipedal ro­bot race looked
pow­er­ful at first glance, In fact, their league rank­ings were be­low hu­man­‐
ity's.

It seemed hu­man­ity had an okay group as­sign­ment, but =Uh... Elves again
at the very end! Uh, this species' name is 'World Tree Elves -- 200'?

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=What, there were more World Tree Elves? Ah, the league rank­ings are
shown too. 1st...1st place!! 'World Tree Elves 200' is the top rank­ing race!

When the name World Tree Elves 200 was re­vealed last, both the com­men­‐
ta­tors and the view­ers were as­ton­ished.

-1st place in the league?

-The elves were 1st place? And there are more World Tree Elves?

-I won­dered last time since the World Tree Elves had num­bers af­ter
them.......

-WTF, does that mean they have num­bers from 1 to 200?

-Those damn elves... What kind of bugs are they?😕

-Does this even make sense? Bat­tleNet's man­age­ment is crap 😡

The World Tree Elves, who dom­i­nated hu­man­ity in the open­ing match. Al­‐
though Ji­han turned the ta­bles in the fifth game, ex­ec­ ut­ing them in re­turn,
ob­jec­tively, hu­man­ity was over­whelm­ingly in­fe­rior. But now, there's an­‐
other race from them? View­ers crit­i­cized Bat­tleNet for the state of the
game.

["Down­glass" has spon­sored 100,000 GP.]

[What do we do!! We got matched up with elves again]

A spon­sor­ship in­form­ing them of the news ar­rived on Seong Ji­han's chan­nel

broad­cast­ing the pro­mo­tion bat­tle.

"Is that so? We'll have to pre­pare prop­erly."

How­ever, con­trary to peo­ple's sur­prise,

'As ex­pected, we got matched up with elves.'

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Seong Ji­han re­acted as if he had ex­pected it.

'With five elves in the 20 teams of the league, it was bound to hap­pen. Now
that it has, we need to cap­ture the points quickly.'

The World Tree Elves, com­pletely grasp­ing the map. As they were in the
same group, they had to cap­ture the spe­cial points be­fore pass­ing Stage 3.
Oth­er­wise, they would oc­cupy them first.

'I should dis­card the power of death if I can't use it in Stage 1. I shouldn't
hold onto it sen­ti­men­tally for too long.'

The power of death, dif­fi­cult to uti­lize. Ji­han de­cided to de­ci­sively clear it

in Stage 1.

With the op­pos­ing team hav­ing elves, he couldn't af­ford to drag the time.

[Stage 1 be­gins.]

Rum­ble...!

As the game started, the ground was dug in front of the tomb, and un­dead
mon­sters be­gan to rise. Un­like com­mon skele­tons or zom­bie-type mon­sters,
the Death Knights wear­ing sturdy ar­mor at a glance emit­ted a for­mi­da­ble
aura.

Per­haps due to the Di­am

­ ond Pro­mo­tion match, the mon­sters in the wave
were over­whelm­ingly pow­er­ful from the be­gin­ning.

"Uh. Those guys... look pretty tough?"

"Don't think of them as fee­ble un­dead. Buff us, please!"

"I'll cast magic first!"

While the TOP 100 play­ers as­sumed their de­fenses,

"In the face of death, all things are equal. I, Seong Ji­han, shall pre­side over
this in the name of the Reaper."

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With a non­cha­lant ex­pres­sion, Ji­han used the skill 'Death Sen­tence.' Only
by ut­ter­ing the pre­de­ter­mined lines could he use the power of death. Next to
him, Yoon Seah, who was pre­par­ing to in­ter­cept, looked at Ji­han with a be­‐
wil­dered ex­pres­sion.

"...What are you do­ing, un­cle? Sud­denly act­ing like a mid­dle schooler?"

"Try­ing out a new skill."

"~Did that skull­head give you that? Why did you ut­ter such lines? I'm em­‐
bar­rassed."

"I don't care what lines I spout as long as it works well. I just hope it per­‐
forms prop­erly..."

Seong Ji­han gazed at the surg­ing crim­son aura from his right hand with­out
much ex­pec­ta­tion.

"......Huh?"

In­stead of di­min­ish­ing, the light not only grew larger but also sparked a sur­‐
prised look in Ji­han's eyes.

'What's this all of a sud­den?'

In re­al­ity, there was hardly any re­ac­tion. How­ever, upon en­ter­ing the game,
it sud­denly re­sponded tremen­dously .

And then,

Clank! Clank!

"......Huh?"

"Are they kneel­ing?"

The men­ac­ing Death Knight le­gion, which was charg­ing fiercely, be­gan to
kneel one by one.

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=What... What's hap­pen­ing here? All the un­dead are kneel­ing be­fore Seong
Ji­han!

=Could it be an­other pre­mo­ni­tion ac­ti­vat­ing? But Seong Ji­han seems a bit

be­wil­dered too!

=If they clear the wave like this... What will hap­pen?

The sit­u­at­ion on the bat­tle­field, with the un­dead sud­denly kneel­ing in sub­ju­‐
ga­tion, left the com­men­ta­tors and view­ers be­wil­dered. Even Seong Ji­han,
with his power of Death, watched the scene in con­fu­sion for a mo­ment.

'Why is this hap­pen­ing?'

"Fire Wave!"

Mean­while, Bar­ren who had pre­pared in ad­vance used his sig­na­ture magic
to en­gulf the un­dead le­gion in flames, but [We pledge loy­alty to the
Reaper.]

[Please give us... your com­mand.]

The Death Knights didn't care if their bod­ies were burn­ing, And asked
Seong Ji­han in uni­son to give them or­ders.

"Stay in that po­si­tion."

Seong Ji­han, still puz­zled, con­tin­ued to ob­serve them kneel­ing, and looked
at his right hand.

As he won­dered why the power surged only in the game, Seong Ji­han found
him­self per­plexed.

[You have dealt death to count­less be­ings within Bat­tleNet.]

[The power of death is fur­ther en­hanced.]

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[You have dealt death to over ten thou­sand be­ings within Bat­tleNet.]

[The power of death rec­og­nizes you as a Reaper.]

Sys­tem mes­sages ap­peared in se­quence.

'Over ten thou­sand tar­gets...Well, in the Bat­tleNet, I must have killed that
many.'

'Is this the rea­son why the power of death sud­denly erupted only in the
game?'

Seong Ji­han roughly grasped the mech­an­ ism of power of the death.

In re­al­ity, he has hardly killed any­one, so the power of death did not re­‐
spond much. How­ever, in the Bat­tleNet, Seong Ji­han has brought death to
many, and the power of death will­ingly rec­og­nized him as the Reaper.

'Can only be used within the Bat­tleNet... isn't this half-assed?'

Watch­ing the power of death ris­ing en­er­get­i­cally, Seong Ji­han coldly

smiled.

'It's not some­thing I can let go eas­ily.'

Whether in re­al­ity or in the game, he must fully con­trol this power.

Seong Ji­han de­cided to thor­oughly an­al­yze the power of death in the com­‐
pe­ti­tion and, while en­joy­ing the surg­ing deathly power, laughed coldly.

"Ev­ery­one, stand up......"

He or­dered the un­dead le­gion to rise.

"Dig up that hill."

Seong Ji­han points to the hill where the TOP 100 play­ers were ini­tially set­‐
ting up their de­fense.

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[Your com­mand...]

[We will com­ply.]

At that, the un­dead le­gion uni­formly stood up

Then, they all stand up and march to­ward the hill. The de­fense map be­gan
to change its genre right from the be­gin­ning of the match.

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