Overgeared - Chapter 630

Chapter 630

‘It wasn’t a joke?’

Hao sweated as he arrived in front of a Chinese restaurant with Youngwoo .  There was a red signboard embossed with two golden dragons .  This place had a strong Chinese atmosphere and the word ‘Yongsungkak’ on it . Hao was dismayed .

‘A Chinese person who came to South Korea is treated to Chinese food . . . ?’

If he didn’t know who Youngwoo was, Hao would’ve evaluated him as insane .  But who was Shin Youngwoo? Overgeared King Grid . The first among two billion users to become a king .

‘He must have deep intentions for guiding me to this place . ’

Youngwoo handed the menu to Hao, who had misunderstood and interpreted the actions positively .

"My recommended dishes is the stone bowl jjampong . Oh, jjampong are normally too hot for foreigners to eat? Then you can eat jajang . ”

Youngwoo normally got his delivered food from here .  But the stone bowl was too hot and he was always sad because it couldn’t be delivered .  He was happy to be able to use Hao as an excuse to visit this restaurant and eat jjampong . That’s right .  The reason Youngwoo guided Hao to this Chinese restaurant was purely because of his taste buds . There weren’t any deep intentions as Hao thought .

"I was born in Sichuan . Jjampong is a seafood soup made with chili oil and red pepper powder . I like spicy food and can eat it . ”

People from Sichuan were proud of their ability to handle spicy food . They were prouder than Koreans .  Youngwoo didn’t worry about the spiciness anymore and ordered jjampong . Youngwoo licked his lips .

"I will eat jjangmyeon . ” 

“ . . . ?”

"Toon, you are eating jajang?”

“ . . . Yes . ”

In the end, they ordered two jjampong and one jajangmyeon . Here, sweet and sour pork was given by default .  The sweet and sour pork came out first . Hao scoffed at the taste of the sweet and sour pork .

‘As I thought, it is lousy fake goods . There is too much acidity in the sauce . The fried meat has no sense of chewiness and the texture is bad . ’

Hao could confidently call himself a gourmet .  He ate 50 types of dishes every week . The Korean sweet and sour pork was inadequate to satisfy his gourmet tastes .

“This is a service . ”

The employee brought a plate of dumplings .  However, Hao had already put down his chopsticks . He thought the dumplings would be terrible after eating the sweet and sour pork . He wanted to try the jjampong recommended by Youngwoo .  Youngwoo didn’t care about Hao . He was busy eating the sweet and sour pork .

Toon focused on the dumplings . The moment that Toon took a bite of the fried dumplings .

‘What?’

Hao’s sense of smell was stimulated . The moment the dumplings were split apart, the pepper flavour spread and aroused his appetite .

‘Is it pretty good?’

Hao became interested in the dumplings again and raised his chopsticks . Then his eyes widened as he took a bite of the fried dumplings .

‘It is just a bunch of vegetables and meat . Why is this dumpling so delicious? The strong pepper flavor constantly stimulates my appetite . I can eat a few more of these dumplings . ’

Hao started to quickly eat the dumplings .  Hao ate two dumplings in the time it took Toon to eat one . Youngwoo watched with pitying eyes .

‘Hao, he has bad taste . . . How tasteless is the food he normally eats if he likes these dumplings?’

Yongsungkak’s dumplings, like most Chinese restaurants, used frozen dumplings as the base material .  It was cheap instant food ordered from a factor that could be fried in oil .  Hao ate it like it was delicious, making Youngwoo feel pity .  After a while, the jjampong finally came out . The soup simmered in the stone bowl like lava .

“I will warn you beforehand that this is really spicy . It is much hotter than the Sichuan jjampong usually sold in Chinese restaurants . ”

By default, jjampong was hot . This was stone bowl jjampong . It was a dish with a remarkably spicy taste . Hao shrugged at Youngwoo’s warning .

"I am from Sichuan and I don’t think that Korean food is spicy . ”

He would show the strong tongue and stomach of a Sichuan person! Hao burned with ambition and moved his chopsticks towards the jjampong . Then he picked up the noodles along with various seafood and vegetables . At the same time .

‘Spicy!’

Hao’s face turned red .  Hao was unaware of it, but the powder contained in large quantities in the jjampong was actually capsaicin, not red pepper powder .  It was spicier and more stimulating than the Sichuan pepper that the Sichuan people enjoyed . It was enough to burn his tongue .

But Hao couldn’t stop moving his chopsticks . Every time he ate the jjampong, the rich flavor that exploded in his mouth led him to a new world .

‘I can’t stop eating . ’

The taste of this jjampong was far from Chinese food . The different types of Chinese food that Hao ate didn’t taste like this jjampong .

‘To be exact, this is the Korean style . It’s the same as the dumplings . The Korean style dishes are generally rich in flavor . The chef’s intuition isn’t normal . ’

It was impossible to produce such a rich flavor with simple chicken broth and seafood .  The Chinese chefs in Korean obviously had some secret to maximize the richness . Hao, who ate only high-end Chinese food, was addicted to the MSG of a Chinese restaurant in a common neighborhood in South Korea .

*** 

Satisfy was another reality .  The phrase ‘Satisfy’ expressed the S . A . Group’s feeling of being the first to realize a perfect virtual reality .  They didn’t want Satisfy to stay in the small framework of the word ‘game . ’ In fact, many people accepted Satisfy as another reality .

Agnus also thought like this . Agnus didn’t distinguish between Satisfy and reality . No, he wanted to believe that Satisfy was reality .

Satisfy’s technology and Baal’s Contractor ability would surely be able to reproduce her .

“Kik . . . Kikik, it is still too hard?”

Behen Archipelago, the 62nd island .  There was a monster that transcended Lantier from the 61st island . This gave Agnus a sense of despair . Despite using all the power he got from contracting with the 1st Great Demon Baal, he couldn’t break through the 62nd island .

Clack . . .  Clack clack .

The Mumud lich looked up at the sky .  His eye holes seemed to be longing for freedom . Agnus kicked the fallen Mumud lich by his feet and declared to the fairy Bini .

“Next time it will be different . I will surely conquer the Behen Archipelago to the end and seize the legacy left behind by Pagma . ”

“H-Hik . U-Understood . So please spare me . ”

Agnus’ golden eyes were only filled with rage .  

The frightened Bini thought he would be killed and begged .  Agnus laughed at the cowardly fairy and left the Behen Archipelago . He didn’t think there would be anyone who could conquer the Behen Archipelago before him .

*** 

[Underwear Production Method Lv . 1]

You can make underwear of various cloth and leather materials .

There is a certain probability of making rare rated underwear .

There is a low probability of making rare rated underwear with options .

* When rare rated underwear are produced, all stats will permanently rise by +2 and reputation throughout the continent will rise by +30 .

[Intermediate Tailoring Technique Lv . 8] 

Equipment items can be made from various fabrics and leather materials .  

There is a rare probability of producing rare~ epic rated items .

There is a very rare probability of creating unique rated items .

* When rare rated items are produced, all stats will permanently rise by +2 and reputation throughout the continent will rise by +30 .

* When epic rated items are produced, all stats will permanently rise by +4 and reputation throughout the continent will rise by +80 .

* When unique rated items are produced, all stats will permanently rise by +12 and reputation throughout the continent will rise by +300 .

“Heok . ”

It had been several years since he became Pagma’s Descendant .  Now that his blacksmith skill had grown to a very high level, Grid received a big penalty . He couldn’t enjoy the stat-synergy effect even if he made a high rated item .  But tailoring was different . Grid’s newly acquired tailoring skill was only intermediate level and there was no penalty . If he made a high rated item with the tailoring skill, he could enjoy the same stat-synergy effect .

In addition . . .

“A production button!”

A new feature was added to the interface .  An underwear production button, cloth items production button, and leather items production button were created .  The cooldown time of the production button was 120 minutes . In the future, Grid would be able to produce underwear, cloth, and leather items with a single click of the production button . It was once every two hours .

"I can’t believe this convenient feature . . . !”

Of course, it didn’t apply to blacksmithing, but Grid was happy enough . He was thrilled to be able to raise the level of his underwear and tailoring skills much quicker and easier than expected .

“Wow, this is a jackpot no matter how I think about it . How can there be a production button?”

Making an item with one click of a button? He never imagined such a convenient function .

‘The S . A . Group wouldn’t be so kind to users . . . Heok, don’t tell me it was a bug?’

Grid didn’t know that this convenient feature was something that other production players had enjoyed for the last three years . It was thankful that he didn’t know how pitiable and poor he was .

*** 

[Production of Cloth Armor has been completed . ]

[Production of Yeti’s Underwear has been completed . ]

“It’s a normal rating . ”

On the way from Frontier to Reinhardt .  Grid produced items by clicking the production button once every two hours .  Unlike blacksmithing where he had to go through the whole process by hand, the underwear making and tailoring was incredibly easy because items were created just by clicking a production button . The problem was that the rating was only normal .

‘Damn . . . Satisfy can’t be easy . ’

It was unbelievable to produce high rated items once every two hours without any trouble . Grid came to the conclusion that this production system would never produce high rated items and was frustrated .

'Indeed, will I have to progress my tailoring skill by hand . . . ?’

The production button was useless and he would have to do it by hand . Grid reached Reinhardt in a bad mood only to receive the worst news from Lauel .

“An envoy from the Saharan Empire was sent . ”

“What? The empire? They acted like they had no interest in us, so why did they come?”

"I think it’s to gain a tribute . ”

“Are you crazy? Why do we have to give a tribute to the empire?”

The Overgeared Kingdom was just getting on track . It was only three months after the founding that the tax revenue wasn’t a deficit anymore . They had to offer a tribute at this point? Wouldn’t this completely ruin them?

"They are real bastards . ”

Grid cursed as he headed to the audience room .  The one who waited for him was a beautiful woman .  The name Mercedes was above her head . The name was in glittering gold .

‘A named NPC?’

Was this some type of ostentatious display? Mercedes briefly bowed to Grid, who was unable to hide his embarrassment .

"I have come to the Overgeared King Grid to convey the will of the Great Emperor . ”

[Mercedes’ deep eyes have looked at you . ]

[Some of your stats and skills are forcibly revealed to Mercedes . ]

[You can’t resist . ]

[Mercedes’ sharp sword energy threatens you . The strong pressure makes your mind and body shrink . All speeds are reduced by 30% and skill casting speed is reduced by 20% . ]

[You have resisted . ]

[Reflecting the status has failed . ]

One of the absolute existences scattered throughout this world finally showed up in front of Grid .