Arena Chapter 145 – Virtual Space Mastery (Part 2)

Chapter 145 – Virtual Space Mastery (Part 2)

A few days passed and I heard news that Arena in India has entered South Korea.

The person that called was the man from before, Krishna.

-I have procured item bags worth 5000 karma.

“Good. As soon as I receive them I will begin treatnt.”

-What is the treatnt plan?

“I don’t need to personally et with the patient. The person just needs to eat the fla of life I will provide every day.”

-Can a third party receive and deliver it?

“It doesn’t matter. I don’t know what kind of person this patient is but they can comfortably tour Korea while getting treatnt.”

-Very good. Then from now on, every day for the next 2 weeks, I will co to you and receive the fla of life.

“Do so please.”

-Then I will be there soon.

That afternoon I received 20 item backpacks.

I made one fla of life and handed it to Krishna.

Krishna carefully took it and placed it in a large glass bottle.

“Miss Ji-hye, you take so too.”

I handed her 10 item backpacks.

“I don’t want to be a burden to you that way.”

“What do you an burden. We have to make it to the end together.”

Did my words sound strange?

Cha Ji-hye’s face went a little red.

That shy expression. I hadn’t seen it in a long while.

“Then, I’ll just take six.”

“Were you just feeling shy about it just now?”

“No.”

“Aww, you were.”

“No I was not.”

“It is my wish. Acknowledge you blushed.”

“I don’t want to.”

“6 item backpacks are worth 1,500 karma. You can’t admit it that as a favor? You are very cold-hearted.”

“…… I will give you sothing else instead.”

“I don’t want to. Say you were embarrassed.”

Ah, how fun.

Not knowing what to do, her eyes darted back and forth. The more I saw it the cuter it beca and I thought I could die from it. She always had such a poker face on all the ti.

Cha Ji-hye moved her lips slightly and was about to say sothing.

But when all she had said was ‘bu…’* she shook her head.

(TN: The first syllable of embarrassed.)

“……Yep, I don’t want to.”

“Okay. Then a different prize.”

“Do I have to pay for this?”

“Yes.”

“You are a stingy man. Fine, say it.”

“Let cuddle with you for an hour.”

Cha Ji-hye’s face grew so red it looked like it was about to explode.

‘Huhu, how fun.’

I held in the laughter that was about to burst out of .

“I can give you a better prize at night.”

“Nope. I want to cuddle.”

Cha Ji-hye had never refused any sexual advances from .

“Co co, co here.”

“Ugh…..”

Cha Ji-hye ca over to and sat next to on the couch.

I made her lean her head on my shoulder. Even just this much was plenty embarrassing.

With one hand, slowly, I brushed her hair.

Pat, pat……

Because of Cha Ji-hye’s imnsely embarrassed reaction I didn’t realize the ti passing by.

One hour had long passed but we remained nonetheless.

***

I received 14 item backpacks and it ca out to 3,500 karma.

“Summon board.”

-Na: Kim Hyun-ho

-Class: 40

-Karma: 10,000

-Mission: rest until the next exam.

-Ti limit: 91 days 16 hours

I mastered several skills and still had 10,000 karma!

‘I’m just drowning in it.’

It was good I gifted Cha Ji-hye 1,500 karma.

I wanted to give her more but she refused so adamantly.

I told her I’d give her more too if she let cuddle her and her refusal beca even stronger.. Anyway……

Two weeks passed.

During that ti, I got a call from Odin. It was to tell had had acquired the majeong vehicle I had requested.

In Korean currency, it cost 12.2 billion won.

(TN: $11 million USD.)

It was ridiculously expensive but I, of course, had to buy it.

When the Arena in India patient’s treatnt was completed on the 2nd week, we rode a plane back to Denmark.

Soone rushed to greet as we arrived at the Nordic exam group headquarters.

“Hyun-ho!”

Johanna Marie swooped in and hung onto by my neck.

“Did you miss ?”

Marie asked cutely as she hugged .

Cha Ji-hye was next to and I tried my best to get Marie off.

But right at that mont, Marie must have sensed sothing because she looked back and forth between and Cha Ji-hye.

Marie’s eyes narrowed.

“Strange.”

“What, what is?”

“You two are strange!”

“We are not strange.”

Cha Ji-hye replied in her businesslike tone.

“Sothing is going on between you two!”

Argued Marie huffing.

“There is not.”

“Sothing happened!”

“Nothing happened.”

Cha Ji-hye’s solid defense.

Marie kept up her suspicious glare but she gave up since she had no way to further verify her suspicions.

Then Odin appeared.

“You’ve arrived?”

“Yes.”

“I’ve acquired the vehicle you asked for. Let’s go check it out.”

“Let’s.”

There was a parking lot in the back with several cars.

Does everyone involved in the Arena live like this?

Every single vehicle here wasn’t commonly seen on the streets.

Porsche, Ferrari, Jaguar, Mustang. Every single car was expensive and sophisticated.

But even among those, there was a supercar that caught my eye.

A unique looking two person car that looked like a concept car that would be shown at an international motor show.

There were only a seat for the driver and passenger each.

A sports car that looked no longer than 3 ters.

With elegant curves and an agile looking fra, an incredibly chic design!

“Is this it?”

“Yes.”

“Wow……”

This is the 12.2 billion won car!

“Look carefully.”

Odin opened the car’s hood.

The insides looked similar to a normal car.

But there was one clear difference.

A clear cylinder shaped case in the very center.

The material seed to be made of plastic and there was majeong placed inside.

Odin opened the cylinder lid.

“You put the majeong in here.”

“Easy.”

“Very. Easy to drive too, would you like to try?”

“I’d love to.”

I hopped into the driver’s seat.

The car was so compact but the inside was actually quite spacious.

Naturally, Cha Ji-hye opened the door to the passenger seat. But then,

“Hmph!”

Like an arrow, Marie ca in and sat down.

“Race, Hyun-ho!”

A very excited Marie. And Cha Ji-hye,

“……”

Just stared straight at .

She, who had always been so tolerant of distractors like Marie and Hyun-ji, had dissatisfaction in her eyes.

‘No compromise with the cat and cars I see.’

Even nowadays if I summoned Sylph, Cha Ji-hye would pet her and play with her for hours.

Seeing as how she bought an exotic white Lamborghini once she ca into money, she must really like cars.

I said to Marie.

“Miss Marie, I’ll give you a ride later……”

“Waahhhh!”

Marie threw a tantrum and began to cry. I hadn’t even finished my sentence!

After a quick thought I gave up my driver’s seat to Cha Ji-hye.

Cha Ji-hye sat in the driver’s seat and, with a satisfied expression, touched the steering wheel.

Marie, as if to pretend she hadn’t cried at all, made a humph face.

After Cha Ji-hye went around the Nordic exam group headquarters at a high speed my turn ca.

In summation, it was incredible.

The acceleration was more impressive than the Porsche.

Maybe it was because it used majeong but there was no engine noise. This car was like an assassin moving in the dark.

Cha Ji-hye looked like she looking at my majeong car with envy.

It was the first ti I’ve seen her wanting sothing this much since the first ti I showed her Sylph..

“Do you want it?”

“Yes.”

“Then 100 hours of cuddl……”

“No thank you.”

Pffttt.

***

The na of this majeong vehicle was Maglun MSM-2.

“Maglun?”

“It’s a car invented by the Maglun family.”

I see.

With their technological understanding majeong, they made such an incredible supercar. Very much like the Maglun family who was at the forefront of the Arena business.

“That you can take this to Arena and ride this around there, I’m very envious of you.”

Odin really does look jealous.

“Haha, right? It’s the first ti I’ve looked forward to an exam.”

“I almost wished to give up a territory for a car like that.”

“Hahaha, that bad?”

“You left how frustrated I was during the carriage ride in the Arena. All because of this lack of good transportation.”

“I did. I really wished I was in a light aircraft then.”

As I was talking I had an aha mont.

“Now that I think of it…would there not be a small plane that uses majeong as fuel?”

At my question, Odin nodded his head.

“I’m sure there is. I have heard that the Maglun family has created one of those as well.”

“If possible, could you get one of those for as well?”

“That isn’t hard but……”

“What?”

“…… I’m very jealous.”

Odin looked at as if to ask if there was any way I could bring one in for him too.

I refused of course because it wouldn’t fit. My virtual space has a limit.

We talked for a long ti about the car and we eventually moved onto talking about spy satellites.

“The spy satellite tech that can be used in Arena is nearly complete. I hear that they’re just having so trouble controlling it remotely because of the majeong.”

“But we’ll be able to take it to Arena shortly.”

“Yes. As soon as we send up the spy satellites, finding those six high priests or whatever those bastards are called will just be a ti issue. We’ll be able to find so suspicious bastards related to them to narrow down our leads. Then we can chase tail after tail until we grab all six of them.”

“The six high priests probably have sothing to do with the final mission huh?”

“Yes. Since they are at the center of the evil that is affecting the continent.”

Odin must have just thought of sothing because he continued on to say.

“But do you know that?”

“What is it?”

“The world of Arena.”

“Yes.”

“Have you never thought about how gravity and the length of a day is the sa as our worlds?”

“Ah, now that you ntion it I’ve never considered that.”

I had just chalked it up to a comfort the angels provided for the examinees.

Thinking it over carefully, it was an interesting thing.

The fact that gravity was the sa ant that mass and volu would be the sa as earth.

The fact that the length of a day is the sa as earth ant the distance from the sun was the sa. It also ant the rate that the world rotated at was the sa.

“It’s not only that. If you look at the stars, they are exactly the sa as ours as well.”

“Even the constellations?”

“Indeed. That is why I’ve co to a certain conclusion. Arena is another version of our world, thus, I wonder if it is not a parallel world.”

Parallel universes? That kind of thing?

“Basically, another form of our world.”

“Yes.”

“Knowing that, I’ve thought a lot about it.”

Said Odin.

“A point of contact, these exams and examinees, has been created between two worlds that should not et.”

“……”

“To our worlds’ various country agencies who cannot physically enter the Arena, they are researching and preparing related businesses.”

“And majeong and majeong related uses.”

“Yes. After there was a point of contact between the two worlds, the similarities between them are increasing.”

Odin continued.

“Don’t you think the two worlds are slowly rging into one?”