Overgeared - Chapter 994

Chapter 994

Chapter 994

“I understand the chairman’s will . Instead, I have a requirement . ”

“What is it?”

This was a chance for him to show off a connection with a chaebol family .  It might be a precious opportunity for someone else, but there were no merits for Youngwoo .  The condition he gave was completely unexpected .

“I heard that big companies and famous people are fostering rankers at a business or family level . Is it the same for Daejin?”

The word ranker naturally meant a Satisfy ranker .  The president of Daejin Motors looked around uneasily before responding in a low voice, “Of course, we have also made some developments . ” 

Chairman Lee Jinmyung didn’t appreciate his granddaughter’s enthusiasm for Satisfy, but it was because he had always regarded Yura as his successor .  Lee Jinmyung recognized the importance of Satisfy according to the trend of the times and secretly sponsored and fostered rankers at the corporate level .  Once they were fully grown and participating in big events, Daejin’s reputation would rise naturally .  Well, now, Yura’s name was sufficient .

“Have Daejin step up and encourage the rankers of the Korean companies and family members to join the Overgeared Guild . ”

“ . . . ” The president of Daejin Motors made a distorted expression .  The thought of Youngwoo eating up all the power that the companies had invested in was absurd and somewhat unpleasant . He felt that he was being treated as a pushover .

Youngwoo shook his hand . “I don’t mean to have them permanently join the Overgeared Guild . That isn’t possible . I just want to receive support from them in the form of temporary mercenaries . It will be good for both sides . We will provide at least unique-grade items made by the best blacksmiths of the Overgeared Kingdom as well as top-quality hunting grounds . ”

“I guess it is the hunting grounds on the border of Reidan which are much talked about these days . ”

“Yes, your level will rise quickly if you hunt imperial soldiers . ”

The war of attrition with the empire was gnawing at the power of the Overgeared Kingdom .  Since the empire had an army that was hundreds of times larger than the Overgeared Kingdom’s, the constant loss of soldiers would only damage the Overgeared Kingdom .

“Is your ultimate goal to fill the Overgeared army with players instead of NPCs?”

The president of Daejin Motors had little experience playing Satisfy . However, he was the president of a large company and was able to easily grasp the situation .  Youngwoo nodded while secretly admiring the president . “You saw it correctly . ” 

“Umm . . .  Yes, I understand . I’ll tell the chairman . Even so, I don’t know if the other companies will move easily . Obviously, they will demand a lot . ”

“I will coordinate it well . All you have to do is pass on my message to them . ”

Youngwoo anticipated what the companies wanted .  It was for Grid or the Overgeared members to be models for their companies, to receive items produced from the Overgeared Kingdom, or have corporate publicity signage in the Overgeared Kingdom .  Youngwoo was willing to accept them all .

‘In any case, I need a lot of money . ’

He could sleep less .  If he divided his time well, he could promote the companies . There were many blacksmiths, so he could produce as many items as they wanted .

‘I will draw on the resources and assets of the companies while the companies will borrow my knowledge and skills . ’

The deal was likely to be fully realized .  The companies’ evaluation of the Overgeared Kingdom was very high .  However, tying himself up to a large number of companies from the outset would cut his value, so he only used domestic companies .

‘A funny picture will come out . ’

The rankers were easy to control because they belonged to a company or a family .  He would gather hundreds of thousands of them in Reidan to consume the imperial troops .  Of course, this was Lauel’s big picture .

*** 

In Satisfy, darkness was the symbol of evil, and evil was the great demons .  This formula was applied to the elementals .  It was a natural outcome for the light elemental king to favor Yura, who had hunted the most number of demons among the players .

[Light Elemental King Contractor]

[You can use the highest ranked light elemental .

Current level of the highest-grade light elemental: 1

-Available Elemental Techniques-

* The energy of the elemental king is infinite . The use of the elemental doesn’t consume the resources of the contractor . ]

[Sword of Light]

[Makes the elemental into a sword of light .

The Sword of Light follows the contractor…]

[Flash]

[The light elemental will ‘instantaneously’ move to the target pointed out by the contractor .

If the target is strong, it will shine intensely…]

[Elemental King Summoning Lv . 1]

[Summons an elemental king to the present age through the light elemental .

The ability of the light elemental king is affected by the ability of the contractor .

The low skill level limits the abilities of the light elemental king .

Summoning Duration Time: 10 minutes .

Cooldown Time: 30 hours . ]

“ . . . ”

Yura hadn’t been expecting much after she was forced to postpone her visit to the World Tree due to hunting in hell .  Most of her colleagues had contracted with lower to intermediate elementals, and she thought she would be the same .  Yet it ended up being an elemental king .

She once again owed a great debt to Grid .  Her current self wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t met him in the temple in the past .  She would still be one of Yatan’s Servants, struggling against the Rebecca Church and Overgeared Kingdom .  Yura would have regreted it every day .

“I’ll become someone you can count on . ”

Step .

Today, Yura didn’t open the gate to hell .  The place she came to was the city of Reidan surrounded by the desert .

“Yura?”

On the walls, the faces of the Overgeared members—who were tired from the inexhaustible imperial army—brightened .  Yura had been focused on hell hunting since the beginning of the 4th National Competition until the present . Consequently, they hadn’t expected her to join the war so soon .  The gold medalist in Drawing the Saint Sword and silver medalist in PvP—she was a strong representative of the Overgeared Guild .  She was a power that could do the work of ~4–5 of the top Overgeared members alone .  The Overgeared members were reassured that she would be with them in the future .

After a while . . .

“Hell Leap . ”

The Overgeared members witnessed Yura’s development and realized how much they had underestimated her .  She jumped into space itself and moved to hell, leaving the gate that connected hell to the present world .  Demons popped out of the gate and into the middle of the battlefield .

 “Eh?”

There was the sudden appearance of the red dimensional door and the demons pouring from it .  The imperial soldiers were stunned by the unrealistic sight and forgot to even scream as they became food for the demons .

“You can summon demons?” Chris asked with a surprised expression .  A demon hunter could summon demons . . . ? It was a bizarre contradiction .

Yura shook her head . “I simply opened a passage . ”

Hell Leap—it was a skill that temporarily transferred her body to hell .  The user didn’t know where they would appear in hell, and the temporary transmission only lasted for one second .  Yura took one second to identify the place she appeared, recognized the presence of a sufficient number of demons in the vicinity and opened the gate while escaping from hell .  She applied the escape technique as a summoning technique .  For the imperial soldiers, it was literally a hell gate .

“Aaaack!”

“Hiik! S-Spare me . . . !”

The duration of the gate was one minute .  It was plenty of time .  Demons with the instinct of eating humans utilized the gate actively . They flew forward with full power .

“W-Wow . . . ”

Thousands of demons popped out and massacred the imperial soldiers, causing the Overgeared members to feel overwhelmed .  They worried that they would be next after the imperial army was destroyed .  However, they had Yura .  As the imperial soldiers were chewed up, the demons who turned their attention to the Overgeared members in a hungry manner were pierced by Yura’s bullets .

***

“There haven’t been too many prey these days . ”

“The Vatican is closed, so it is natural to have no guests . ”

At a mountain village near the Vatican, there was a unique village with large and small Rebecca statues in many places .  Originally it was filled with tourists wanting to visit the Vatican, but it had been dusty of late .  The Vatican was temporarily closed as the war between the Rebecca Church and Yatan Church intensified . As such, the Vatican wasn’t accepting outsiders, so no tourists were visiting the village .

“Hrmm . ”

Thanks to this, Shay was bored .  The assassins—Shay, Kerb, and Sniffer—were a vicious PK group that worked with Dong Pao—a Rebecca priest—in luring tourists to certain areas and stealing their money .  However, they were also the benefactors who informed Grid about Marie Rose’s presence and gave him Kasim . Of course, they hadn’t meant to be benefactors .

“I want to release some stress, but it isn’t working . ”

“I should pick up an assassination request today . ”

“I have done more than 100 commissions this month . I don’t like it anymore . It is annoying . I need some healing . ”

“Eh? Hey . ”

The trio sitting on the terrace of the restaurant turned their gaze toward the person at the entrance of the village .  Just by looking, it was obvious that the person had a lot of money .  It was a man wearing unusual sunglasses .  They didn’t see his face and ID because he was wearing a helmet . but based on the overall armed status, his level was in the low 200s .

“Doesn’t he look like a character made by a man with some money?”

“Yes . All the level 200 items are enhanced . ”

“He might be a gold spoon . ”

The items scattered a subtle glow .  This was proper prey .  Shay’s group exchanged sly smiles with each other and got up .  The three people came down from the terrace and were engaged in daily conversation as they passed by the unidentified man .  Yes, they passed by the prey they had been waiting for .

‘X! Leave quickly!’

The trio hastened their pace .  They had an iron rule .  This cardinal rule was that they didn’t mix with a person who hid their face and ID .  Why? In the past, they had a bad experience with Grid who concealed his identity .  They didn’t want to go through that terrible experience twice .  Since then, Shay’s group excluded unknown targets from their PK list . It was a type of phobia .

“Oh, it would be good if we could hunt pushovers like in the old days . ”

“It was almost a windfall to meet those kids . Still, what can we do when it is a one in a million case?”

They couldn’t be discouraged .  The reason why Shay’s party could PK in one area for a long time was because they were cautious .  In particular, the most important thing was their affinity with the villagers .  The villagers didn’t doubt Shay’s party, who were friendly and kind, and never thought they were bandits .  Sometimes, paladins from the Rebecca Church would come down to the village and ask about the bandits, but they never cared about Shay’s party .  This was the importance of image management .

“It is impossible today . Perhaps we should go to the guild and ask . . . ?”

The trio left the village only to freeze like a stone statue .  They noticed that the unidentified man was following closely behind them .  The man took off the helmet and black hair flowed down .  The revealed name was . . .

“G-Grid!”

Shay’s party was full of hatred .  They even wanted to kill Grid .

“This is great . Have you been doing this in the same place for many years?”

“T-That, sometimes . . . Sometimes just . . . ”

“T-That’s right! These days, we mostly work in other places . We sometimes come here for healing!”

“I-It is like a heart that misses home . . .  Hahaha . . . ”

Shay was a single digit ranker on the assassin’s ranking .  During recent times, he had fallen to the top 20, but he still had excellent skills . In particular, he had a lot of experience with PK and excelled in PK skills .  Even so, he was modest in front of Grid . He had been beaten by Grid several times and was afraid of him .  Grid suggested to them, “Go to Reidan . In that place, you can cheat, kill, and steal from the empire’s players . Won’t it be more fun to play on a bigger stage than in a village like this?”

“ . . . You want to use us as a tool of war?”

“D-Do you think we will cooperate with you?”

“Yes, if you don’t want to die . You will be killed by me and then have a kill order placed on you . ” 

“ . . . Shall we leave right now?”

“Assassination is our specialty . Isn’t that why you came to us? We’ll definitely be a great help to you . ”

“Yes, I’m looking forward to it . You will be rewarded if you play an active role . ”

Grid had to mobilize as many contacts as possible in order to deal with the empire .  Thus, Grid was wandering in search of connections, but they were mostly evil ones .  He was fortunate that he was stronger than those he had a bad relationship with .

“Next is Bubat . . .  Hmm . . . ”

After confirming the appearance of Shay’s party, Grid was ready to use the return scroll, only to stop .  Now that he was here, he became curious about ‘that’ place .  Grid failed to recall the old location and had to ask Shay, “That dungeon, where was it?”

“Dungeon? Ah, the one with the vampire duke sealed? It is a forbidden area, so it isn’t stored on the map . ”

It was a space where magic and skills were blocked because of a powerful evil influence .  That was the space where Shay’s party used to hunt the players .

“It is approximately three kilometers northeast of here . . . Hey, forget it . Just follow me . ”

It was complicated to explain in words .  Instead, Shay just moved forward, and Grid followed behind him .  Shay was making a smug smile .  He was timid, but he wanted payback .

‘No matter how great Grid is, he can’t catch up with my speed when I’m a master of swiftness . ’

Grid would try to chase Shay and be humiliated .  Shay imagined Grid’s expression and hummed .  Then he used a skill that increased his movement speed to the peak .  However . . .

“ . . . ”

Grid maintained the appropriate distance behind Shay without much difficulty . He was very agile and hd recently created a set of items that sped up his movements .  Shay started crying .  ‘Filthy bastard . Really filthy bastard . Eating everything alone . ’

He would quickly finish this side of the world and cut off all connections with Grid forever . He would leave for the other side of the continent, so he wouldn’t get involved with Grid again .

‘No, let’s go to the East Continent,’ Shay vowed repeatedly .