1. Prologue & Kindness Nursery
“Gilma! It was a big deal.”
“What big deal?”
“A little while ago, the Terra guys played 100 million won roulette at the ruler.”
“Heh, Terra Gilma is crazy. I don’t have anywhere to spend the money, so I turn it on the ruler. If it were me, I would have bought more mercenaries with that money… … .”
A middle-aged man called Gilma sneered and said. Now, after an hour, the territory of the Terra Guild will be in his hands. For the sake of this day, they prepared for the war with great efforts for three months. And now it’s time to pick that sweet fruit. However, the guild master of the Terra Guild, who had to prepare for their attack, did something crazy. However, the subordinate’s words later destroyed his smile. I was so shocked that I couldn’t even hear what my subordinates were saying.
“… is coming.”
“What?”
“The roulette hit the jackpot, and now the ruler master is coming here!”
“What? no way?”
“Yes! That’s right.”
He couldn’t come to his senses as if his soul had been blown away by the sound of being the ruler’s master.
“Gilma-nim!”
“Rain, damn it! hey! Arm your guild members quickly! I’m talking to the Top Gear Guild… … !”
The guild master frantically began to give instructions, but… … .
Shuuu-
It came to his mind so quickly.
“Uh… … .”
Above the sunset sky, a ray of light is slowly pouring towards them.
“What crazy!”
Gilma, who confirmed the falling ball of light, spat out a low curse and tried to escape. However, the moment he moved, the streams of light pouring down began to split, and at some point split into dozens and began to pour down on him and his surroundings.
“Aaaagh!”
“Keoouk!”
Those who were next to the guild master and were swept away by the bombing collapsed screaming.
It happened so quickly that people are just watching the scene with blank expressions.
After a while, a man landed on the site that had been devastated by bombing. He looked around as if appreciating the horrors he had inflicted, then looked at the screen floating in the air and said,
“The mission to kill 10 people including Gilma was successful~ Thank you for 5 million won! Aigo Myok, thank you for the big donation of 1 million won! The reaction… … .”
“retreat!”
“Everyone leave!”
The man looked at dozens of people running away with his back turned and said with a carefree expression.
“I will finish cleaning up.”
* * *
[Love Nursery School]
I stared blankly at the sign slowly disappearing over the hill. It’s a procedure that comes out when you turn 19, so I thought it would be calm, but when I shut up, I feel depressed.
“I’ll meet someone, so wait here.”
My mom, whose exceptionally long hair is memorable, never returned, leaving me in front of the orphanage. The nursery school life started like that. Hard work and sad work brutally dug through his rotten heart due to the sadness of being abandoned by his mother, but now that he is 19 years old and leaves, the orphanage has disappeared from his sight as the last scene that will not be forgotten until he dies.
“Na Jung-hyun, what are you thinking?”
“I’m contemplating whether chasing a horse is really something I’m good at. The director was worried.”
“What am I?”
A black snake wriggles whenever the forearm that controls the steering wheel wriggles.
“Your brother had a lot of accidents. Maemisan Masangdo is still a legend.”
“What? Has your head grown a bit now?”
“It is true. The director said he was really serious… … .”
“why? Are you afraid I’ll bully you? I washed my hands. Hey.”
“So. If you don’t trust me, you will. Can I list your achievements once? Bring some memories to life? From the Maemisan 17:1 myth?”
“shut up. Hey. Rather, what are you going to do now?”
“What are you doing… I need to look at the Albanian factory first.”
“Didn’t Mr. Kim recognize you?”
“He looked for a few factories, but except for the dormitory, the money was too little… If I live with my brother, I won’t have to worry about housing, so I’ll have to look for a place that makes more money.”
“Don’t you want to study more? If you say you are studying, I will actively help you.”
“I’ll take your heart.”
“Your heart is a piece of shit, dude. There is a time to study too. I gave up early because my head was originally stone, but you should think about studying now.”
Originally, I didn’t talk so much, but I guess I’m worried. Actually, when I was in the orphanage, Sang-do hyung took special care of me. Even if it’s because of my younger brother, whom I broke up with, I’m grateful for that thought.
After about an hour, we arrived in front of the shabby villa. It is a light green five-story villa with small cracks visible everywhere.
“Is this your brother’s house?”
“okay. It’s on the 4th floor, but the building is a bit old, but the top is wide. Let’s go up.”
“yes.”
I picked up a small clothes bag from the trunk of the car. The older brother, who was about to go ahead, tilts his head.
“Was that one of your luggage?”
“I shared everything with my younger siblings.”
“What are you going to write?”
“Don’t worry, we have everything.”
At my words, my older brother nodded and started climbing the stairs of the villa ahead of me. Upon reaching the 4th floor and opening the rusty iron door, it revealed a rather clean appearance. The smell of grass stings my nose as if it was newly papered.
“Have you dominated?”
“okay. Hey. He threatened that his brother was coming.”
“I am thrilled. brother”
“It’s cracking. There are three rooms, the room next to the kitchen is the storage room, the main room over there is mine, and the room over here is yours. I’m watching. I need to go to the bathroom.”
My brother disappeared into the bathroom next to the main room, probably in a hurry, and I opened the door to the room he said.
“Wow… … .”
There is a desk that smells like new and a single bed. It’s a strange feeling to me, who was used to always inheriting what others used. After I left my luggage and came out to the living room, I slowly started looking around the house.
“What does this brother eat for a living?”
The kitchen is really simple, probably because it is a house where a man lives alone. Same for refrigerator speed. If we live together from now on, I think I will be in charge of things like meals. After I managed to look around the kitchen, I finally opened the door to the room my older brother said was a storage room.
“uh?”
One side of the room was stacked with various exercise equipment, probably used by my brother, and on the other side was a huge machine that took up half of the room. The top of the round oval is a lid that covers half of it, and the inside is a mechanical device with a soft cushion.
“Why is the capsule here?”
Virtual reality games have become commonplace, and it is said that there is at least one in most houses because game companies make contracts and sell them at low prices, but the older brother he knew was never a person who played virtual reality games.
“The early 3rd generation J-TEC is old… Was it illegally modified? I have everything, but there is no VR gear.”
I was able to find out the approximate specs because I had worked part-time in the previous workshop. It was while I was looking around the capsule.
“Are you familiar with this?”
As if he had finished his work, his older brother suddenly appeared from behind with a refreshing look on his face.
“It’s a surprise!”
“Why are you surprised?”
“If you’re like my brother, wouldn’t you be surprised to see your face?”
“… … .”
My brother’s face twisted at my words. I want to refute it, but I know from experience that the job that best suits your face is a detective or a gangster.
“If you look at it, do you know? … .”
“Where did you get this?”
“I picked it up when I was doing collection work in the past.”
“Choosing? You said you washed your hands like that.”
Suddenly, this taste is frowned upon.
“Not now. I want to take care of it too, but the loss because of this is so great that I still have it to eat mustard while crying.”
I heard from my brother that he went to collect the money, but the person involved in the collection died of a heart attack a few days ago. The cause of death was a heart attack during the game, in short, a sudden death. The reason for the debt was also that he played games and eventually reached the 3rd financial sector, but the parents of the deceased said that they had no money and called for money, and told them to give them something that could be money, so they told them to open the capsule that ate their son. My son died, but I couldn’t force him to give me money, so I took a real capsule and went to the eldest brother who introduced me to the collection work.
“Sniff, so you’re saying there was a body lying here?”
I feel uncomfortable just looking at it, perhaps because it was used by a dead person.
“What can I do? It’s not a penny or two. But the guy at the second-hand shop gave me about 1 million won, so I’ll clean it up soon.”
“How much did you lose?”
“Five million won.”
“Hmm, I don’t think 1 million won is a bit… I’ll have to check the condition, but if it’s okay, I’ll get half of it?”
“half?”
“Uh, about 250… Of course, assuming that it was restored as pure as possible… … .”
My brother’s eyes widened. I thought I would get 100, but it turned out to be 2.5 million won.
“Can you?”
“I can do it, but I don’t have the most important VR gear parts.”
As I pretended to put it on my head, my older brother nodded and said,
“It’s in the bedroom. I kept it in the master bedroom because dust shouldn’t sit on it.”
“okay? Then bring it.”
“hang on.”
After a while, my older brother came in with a black helmet. Opaque goggles are attached, so various electronic parts can be seen inside the helmet, and a slot is attached to the top of the head to connect external devices with wires.
“This has also been remodeled. But if you fix it well… what?”
While looking around the VR gear, I fixed my eyes on the external device slot attached to the ear.
click-
When you press the lock, a golden USB sticks out.
“Do you have an account core?”
“What is an account core?”
“It’s used at the Rise Mara workshop, and it’s used to save the guest account you’ve worked on.”
Resema is a process of repeatedly resetting the game to draw good ones from the free draw system at the beginning of the game.
“Is that expensive?”
“No, it’s a USB that’s used on the market, so there’s no way it’s expensive.”
“Is that so?”
At my answer, my brother sighed as if he had lost steam. Whether my brother was disappointed or not, I pulled out the account core and looked around. There is masking tape attached to one side, and there is a combination of numbers and alphabets that are presumed to be passwords written on it. I went to my room with the account core and pulled out my laptop and plugged it into the USB slot.
“What are you doing?”
“I want to know what is in here.”
“What would you like to hear?”
“If you hear something good, it’s great.”
“Great?”
“yes. If there is even a good character in Risemara… Hundreds or even tens of millions of won is possible.”
“Thousands?”
My brother’s eyes widened. Thousands of money is not a problem. When my brother’s eyes were half-turned, I let out a sigh and blew the air out of his lungs at once.
“If you turn to the circuit of hope, it sounds like that… It’s probably the character information of the previous owner.”
“That’s right.”
“Oh, so don’t expect too much… Oh, bro, do you know what game the original owner was playing?”
“You ask what are you doing? Seion.”
“Also… … .”
I nodded my head at the word seion. I was guessing. It has been half a year since its release, but it is the undisputed No. 1 MMORPG in the world, and it is a game enjoyed by as many as 500 million people. There are so many users who use the game that now it is a game that is reported frequently in the news because the economy within the game even affects reality.
“Are you Seion too?”
“I play games because I have money. I quit after quitting my part-time job at the workplace.”
“You know that well?”
“I learned both at the workshop. If the machine breaks down, you have to repair it yourself. Anyway, be quiet. Check inside.”
“I get it.”
Silenced my brother, I turned on my laptop and checked the account core. When asked for the password, when I entered the password attached to the core, a single file appeared.
“There is something in it.”
“I have?”
“uh. Looking at the date, it’s about a month after Seion opened. But to find out what this is, you need to access the game.”
“You can connect. Got a problem?”
“I have to take out all the illegal modifications and look at the system, but it’s annoying.”
“No, do something for your brother.”
“I absolutely hate it.”
My brother’s eyes narrowed as I shook my head.
“If you sell it for 2.5 million won, I’ll give you 10% off.”
“I’ll think about it at 30%.”
“hey… … .”
The biceps of both arms wriggling. This is dangerous.
“15%”
“call.”