Chapter 8
1.
The ones that showed the most fierce reaction when God Wars ca out was the group that loathed ga addiction.
They scread, shouted, and protested the mont God Wars was announced, as if they had been waiting for this day to co.
“Are you going to take responsibility for all the people who die of gaming addiction while playing that ga!?”
What was peculiar about God Wars was that it didn’t end with just a certain group’s outlash.
Many people held doubts about the safety of God Wars and the Gate Capsule despite the fact that it had been certified as perfectly safe for use through various clinical tests and sale permission from most countries and institutions across the world.
“The following restriction will be added to the use of God Wars.”
In the end, God Wars had no choice but to add a considerably tight ga use condition.
For now, it could only be played for 5 hours at a ti.
After 5 hours, one had to reconnect after logging out.
Also, it was impossible to play for more than 14 hours in a day.
On top of that, it would imdiately be shut down if an irregularity was detected with the user’s body conditions.
The irregularity they spoke of here could take various forms.
A problem with health was a matter of course, if there were also conditions like decrease in the blood sugar level, irregular heartbeats etc.
That was why professional players maintained their bodies at peak condition through dietary managent and regular health check ups if there was an important raid, like a martial artist preparing for an upcoming tournant.
‘Damn, I wanted to check that……’
It was obvious but there was no thod for Jung Hyun-woo who used a re Capsule Room to pass the given ti.
‘Because a quest logo popped out on that puppy’s head, it must not be an ordinary occasion.’
Even after 5 years since he started playing God Wars, Jung Hyun-woo had no way to solve the question in a situation that he saw for the first ti imdiately.
‘Tomorrow I will connect to the ga again, but what if it’s disappeared by then?’
Moreover quests in God Wars don’t last forever, right?
It’s the case where he doesn’t know if soone else will snatch it away while he was asleep.
More than anything that place is in the territory of an explorers’ guild that monopolizes quests.
In many ways, Jung Hyun-woo can only frown upon that.
“Hyung, this candy is for you. You’ve worked hard. You’ve used up all your ti span today, right?”
Lee Hyuk-joo who handed over the candy to him right after he ca out, spoke after seeing Jung Hyun-woo’s crumpled expression.
“Hyung, is there any problem? Your face looks so sour.”
Jung Hyun-woo answered that question while accepting the candy.
“I am building a second character. It’s weird if my mood is good for it.”
“Well, why are you building a second character all of a sudden?”
Lee Hyuk-joo got angry.
He knew that Jung Hyun-woo had recently created a new character, but was it because he was building up that character?
“Why on earth did you leave your original character?”
It must be a rare occasion for a pro-player like Jung Hyun-woo and not soone else to build a second character.
“Don’t tell you got suspended from using it?”
To the continuous questions Jung Hyun-woo’s expression beca more crumpled instead of answering them.
Lee Hyuk-joo was surprised at Jung Hyun-woo’s silence.
“Oh, oh my goodness. You really got banned?”
“Hey, shut up. Don’t go around telling it to anyone.”
“Hyu, Hyung!”
“Be silent. I am in a bad mood right now.”
Jung Hyun-woo who said that started to put on clothes right after he ca out from the Capsule.
Then he quickly did so calculations and played out so scenarios in his head.
‘I should hide the ability that I recently gained as well as I can, I should make my current situation look as bad as possible.’
One of the things that Jung Hyun-woo realized in his life was that he should not reveal his fortune to soone else.
It’s as it is.
‘He will run around the neighborhood telling everyone if he knew about this ability of mine.’
The world that Jung Hyun-woo lived in was a stage where there were people who were always overflowing with envy and jealousy.
If there was a successful person, if there was soone who is lucky, it’s a stage full of people who are dying to hug their thighs and sponged off of them no matter what or people who can’t just let themselves fall forward onto the ground.
In that kind of stage, Jung Hyun-woo didn’t have the slightest intention to bite the flesh of the delicious grilled fish which was all he wanted.
‘Until I get on the proper track to so extent, I need to endure it silently.’
As he couldn’t daringly bite that juicy flesh, he decided to be cautious until he got a thick, strong skin.
“Tomorrow I will co again so keep a free space for .”
Therefore as Jung Hyun-woo gave a look full of extre anger and rage, he turned his back after telling that to Lee Hyuk-joo.
And then, as if his endless sadness was more than anyone else’s his shoulders dropped down and he left the Capsule Room.
Lee Hyuk-joo who saw that face sighed shortly.
“Wah, Hyun-woo Hyung got fucked up pretty bad. He’s really pitiful, what a pity, he looks like he will walk on a path of thorns from now on.”
It was a mont where his acting worked well.
2.
“Uncle!”
Right after the door opened Jung Hyun-woo’s face brightened up seeing the bright smile from his nephew and spoke.
“Right, uncle ca. Have you been well?”
“Yes.”
“What did you do in the kindergarten today?”
“I drew a picture!”
“Really? What’s the picture about?”
“It’s a picture of dad and uncle!”
This short conversation imdiately brighten up a small room that was not even larger than 33m². (1 Pyong is 3.3m²)
“Really? Show it to .”
“Okay!”
And then Jung Hye-rin showed Jung Hyun-woo a picture she drew in the kindergarten.
She showed a drawing that was drawn with a tablet pen on a thin tablet PC.
“Hiya, our Hye-rin can draw so well.”
Obviously a continuous complint.
But Jung Hyun-woo’s eyes who did the complint swayed a bit.
‘She really draws well.’
The reason why it swayed was because Hye-rin’s drawing was so outstanding that it was hard to tell whether it was sothing that was drawn by a 7 year old.
‘She really draws well.’
And his Hyung in the drawing was sitting in the wheelchair as well.
Because she drew it too well it touched his heart even more and a sad smile full of bitterness was ford, but Jung Hyun-woo forcibly swallowed that bitter smile.
“Hye-rin will be an outstanding painter when you’ve grown up. Amazing.”
As he forcibly swallowed it he complinted her once more.
“No.”
“Huh?”
But his nephew refused Jung Hyun-woo’s complint.
“Hye-rin will be a player when I grow up. And then I will make uncle and dad rich.”
“What?”
“Hye-rin will be a player!”
Jung Hyun-woo closed his mouth for a while to the answer that ca out after the refusal.
“You ca?”
The one who asked him was none other than his Hyung, Jung Tae-woo.
“Yeah.”
“Hurry and set up your body code again. So you can co here without having to press the doorbell.”
As Jung Tae-woo said that Jung Hyun-woo patted Hye-rin’s head and handed over the tablet PC to Hye-rin, Hye-rin who accepted it back ran to the living room while smiling.
“Hye-rin draws so well. Was it because she resembles Hyung-soo? You should tell her to study arts.”
“That will be good.”
Hyung who said that shook his head.
“But she said that she wants to be a player.”
Jung Hyun-woo’s face got stiff hearing those words.
The fact that he couldn’t smile even though he saw his daughter’s outstanding skill in drawing.
That was Jung Hyun-woo’s brother’s position currently.
It wasn’t simply only because of money.
“It’s a generation where every person in this world is dreaming of God Wars.”
God Wars.
It was dominating the world so fast to the point where it surprised the upcoming generation of this world.
In such a thing that there are real money paying jobs within the ga as well.
Various kinds of professions started to deteriorate because of the entrance of God Wars.
It’s at such a horrible level that one can see the collapse of the entertainnt and sports industries among those jobs.
It’s to the extent that one can’t do arts unless it’s in God Wars.
It was a generation where the best painters draw pictures in God Wars, and the singers sing in God Wars to survive.
“He didn’t make God Wars for this kind of world.”
Towards that generation Jung Tae-woo sighed in a low voice along with a short reminiscence.
“Who?”
Jung Hyun-woo’s ears didn’t catch the exposition monologue well, thus Jung Hyun-woo asked the question.
“Nothing.”
Jung Tae-woo gave an evasive short answer to that question.
Jung Hyun-woo then spoke to him.
“More than that Hyung, I want to sell information about a hidden piece in the ga. Can you sell it to a broker account?”
His Hyung tilted his head to a sudden request.
“Why a broker account?”
Broker account.
To put it simply, if they didn’t get tracked, it’s an account that autonomously laundered cash.
“I got access to a hidden piece of information and I want to sell it.”
It was used a lot when one is doing a business that could cause problems in many ways.
“It’s not a bad thing to do right?”
His Hyung naturally asked a concerned question, Jung Hyun-woo giggled to the question and spoke.
“If I tell Hyung that it’s to help a really unfortunate ‘neighbor’ who got pretty damn unlucky recently due to an event that was completely beyond his control, will you believe it?”
Jung Tae-woo didn’t answer the counter question with this type of counter question
“Don’t work too hard because of .”
He just gave him an endlessly sorrowful piece of advice.
Jung Hyun-woo frowned after listening to the advice and spoke.
“I don’t even have the slightest bit of intention to work hard because of Hyung.”
Along with his words Jung Hyun-woo directed his gaze to his nephew who was drawing a new picture in the living room.
“Everything is for our cute Hye-rin.”
At that ti his Hyung put on a faint smile, Jung Hyun-woo put on a smile as well.
“I will make it for you right now.”
Not so long after his Hyung pulled his wheelchair and went near the notebook nearby.
As he saw that face Jung Hyun-woo held his intention.
‘I will change this damned house no matter what.’
For his Hyung and for his nephew.
Jung Hyun-woo who held that determination thanked God at that ti.
And then he pledged.
‘Then I will use it properly so God won’t regret it.’
I will use this chance perfectly so that God will never regret it.
With that pledge, a day passed.
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3.
“Ah, I can’t do it. My damned character got suspended! That’s why don’t call again!”
A young person with a stunned look in his face approached Jung Hyun-woo who ended the phone after shouting angrily.
“Hyung.”
Lee Hyuk-joo, because of his call Jung Hyun-woo’s middle forehead was wrinkled and he shouted temperantally.
“What?”
“The Capsule seat has been prepared.”
Then Jung Hyun-woo’s expression loosened.
Lee Hyuk-joo carefully asked him a question.
“Hyung, did you really get banned?”
Because of that question Jung Hyun-woo’s face got crumpled.
It was just that.
He didn’t answer and glared at Lee Hyuk-joo, as if he would kill him.
‘Just as I thought.’
He acted as if he was furious like that.
‘He won’t believe it if I told him once or twice.’
People are like that.
It’s extrely rare for them to truly believe what the other person said.
Jung Hyun-woo’s situation this ti was the sa as well.
A character that has been built for 5 years, a character that wasn’t different from his own life line to him, got suspended?
So he threw away that character and built a new character?
It’s sad.
But he could get a contrary question as well.
If he maybe has another secret sche, that kind of question.
Of course there’s no probability for that question to accidentally happen.
‘I can’t let there be room for suspicions.’
The problem was after so ti passed.
‘If I play the ga like this, then there’s no choice but to stick out.’
It was still amazing for Jung Hyun-woo even after he confird the ability that he had at that ti.
Moreover Jung Hyun-woo didn’t have the slightest intention to hide this ability and live like a petit bourgeois.
Of course he didn’t have the intention to reveal his nature in front of people as well.
He intended to wear a mask, and hide his face.
‘Even though I hide my nature, I shouldn’t be suspected.’
At that ti for him not to be a suspect, Jung Hyun-woo was putting a bait out.
It wasn’t funny no matter how you look at it.
‘This kind of minor sketch is important. Most sches are unraveled because of the small mistakes.’
On the other hand. It was a proof of Jung Hyun-woo’s cleverness who possessed that ability to the point where it’s surprising.
‘Quests are the sa as well.’
Sothing like the question mark that popped out on the dying puppy’s head.
‘It might be a small quest as well.’
Jung Hyun-woo didn’t put high expectations into that.
“Hyung, because everything has been prepared you can co into the Capsule.”
At that ti Lee Hyuk-joo spoke, and Jung Hyun-woo was thinking about those words.
‘Right, since when did I ever get lucky? At the utmost it would be a rare quest. It’s impossible for a legendary quest to appear at my level, right?’
And thus as he cald his gaze coldly and laughed scornfully at himself as he connected to God Wars.
4.
The most booming business due to the entrance of God Wars in the market was Capsule Rental Service Provider, or the Capsule Room.
The reason why the Capsule Room gained its power was because people who easily used a million won to make a character would still find it burdenso to buy a private Capsule Gate.
Mushrooms, rather than that expression it was more suitable to call it as a contamination and thus Capsule Room beca a part of the world.
In ordinary people’s views a part ti job in that Capsule Room was an easy job.
“Part ti job in Capsule Room, isn’t it just about putting in people when they co in and cleaning up after they leave?”
“Because people in the Capsule don’t do anything there won’t be any quarrel as well, isn’t it a really fine job?”
People would think like that after seeing it from the outside.
But a part ti job in Capsule Room was unexpectedly hard.
The reason was simple.
“Fuck! This damned trash ga!”
The fact that the ga called God Wars is not as easy as people thought.
“Heck, I paid with real money and played this ga but what’s the bullsh*t that I can’t play it for 0 hours!”
And then there’s a policy that people couldn’t use the ga for 0 hours after getting a ga over.
To say it simply there were many occasions where people who just connected to the ga for no longer than 10 minutes only able to suck their finger for 0 hours.
“Fuck really!”
And then most people who fell in that kind of situation couldn’t accept the sudden change of situation and ca out while showing an extre reaction with abusive language.
After that of course it’s a part tir duty to handle them.
“Dear custor! You can’t kick the machine with your foot!”
Lee Hyuk-joo, the reason was because he was running to a custor who kicked the Capsule Gate that couldn’t be bought even with his year’s salary.
But according to his standard with the reason of knocking the wood, it’s impossible to easily calm down the custor’s anger.
“What? Hey! Fuck do you see as a fucker as well? I can just pay for this thing!”
Clang!
On the contrary of Lee Hyuk-joo’s words the custor showed an extre reaction and violently kicked the Capsule Gate once more.
Lee Hyuk-joo worked very hard in his heart towards that face.
‘Fuck how much is that, huh!’
It was at that ti.
Beep!
As another sound of Capsule Gate was heard the heavy door started to open gradually.
An opening before the expected ti, Lee Hyuk-joo who saw that wanted to sigh.
‘It’s double!’
Misfortune on top of misfortunes, when the word of double went past Lee Hyuk-joo’s head instead of those words a sound ca out from a Capsule.
“Fuck!”
A very strong cuss word ca out, and Lee Hyuk-joo’s face started to fully stiffen.
At that ti the man who just ca out from the Capsule Room directly went to the bathroom without removing the equipnt.
And the man who went to the bathroom spat out a voice in front of the washstand without knowing.
“Holy mother of all fucks.”
The man who said that saw himself in the mirror.
And the him in the mirror with a surprised gaze, spoke to Jung Hyun-woo through his gaze.
‘A Legendary quest, is this for real?’
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