Closed Beta That Only I Played Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Revival Legend (2)

“Good. As of today, let us close our research on the man who achieved the max level in the third closed beta. Focus on other stuff instead. Do your best to find more of those who achieved the max level in the first and second closed betas. Try to tell them we will give them whatever they want as long as they find the guys who achieved the max level in the second closed beta in particular. I can’t stand the Shaipe guys taking away these max-level achievers in the second closed beta aside from the US governnt. Of course, I can’t allow Europe or China to recruit them either!”

“Sure.”

“If you can’t cajole them in the end, just kidnap them. If you can’t do it… then just kill them.”

“Yes, sir.”

The eting went on for a long ti.

Before the eting was over, the man at the head table cast a glance at the participant list again and said, “Last but not the least, tell those who achieved the max level in the first and second closed betas, who we manage especially, and all of those under our control that they should not be killed in the gas. If they are, there will be EXP drop as a penalty and they will be denied access for 24 hours. Besides, the addition of further killings to their status bar can bring about another penalty later.”

“Got it. I’ll give them clear instructions about party hunting in all of the dangerous hunting grounds.”

“Good. Keep it in mind that everything in the future will be decided by ‘Revival Legend.’ So, focus all your resources on ‘Revival Legend.’ Got it?”

“Yes, sir!”

The eting of Holdredge, cited as one of the three major forces along with the US governnt and the Shaipe group, finally ended.

***

A cafe located in the remote place of Mt. Kwanak in Seoul—

“Hello, welco.”

I greeted a couple with a smile as they were walking into the cafe.

Of course, at first I felt it was rather awkward and hard to serve custors.

But as ti went on, I got used to it and beca more natural at it.

Soon, the couple approached the counter.

“What would you like to order?”

“Two cups of Aricano, please.”

“Got it.”

As soon as I took their order, I naturally got the coffee machine up and running.

As the cafe was located in a remote place, I had to take care of everything ranging from receiving orders to making the coffee and serving.

I could do it all together because there weren’t many custors.

Soon I approached the couple, holding two cups of Aricano coffee.

When I got closer to them, I could overhear their conversation.

“Hey, what the heck is that ga that keeps stopping you from attending class?”

“Well, it’s a very interesting one.”

“How are you going to graduate like that? This is not an ordinary college. It’s Seoul National University! You will never be able to graduate if you keep playing like that.”

“Well, if I can’t graduate, I can quit.”

The girl frowned at her boyfriend’s confident attitude.

I glanced at the man with mixed feelings because he reminded of the old that was addicted to gas.

Anyway, their conversation continued as I placed the two cups of coffee on the table.

“So, what’s the na of the ga?”

“Revival Legend.”

At that mont, I flinched because the na of the ga he ntioned was unusual. Obviously it reminded of ‘Forgotten Legend.’.

But the man now ntioned ‘Revival Legend.’

Of course, it might not be the sequel to ‘Forgotten Legend,’ but I couldn’t help linking the two together. I wanted to confirm it on my mobile phone imdiately, but I didn’t because I was afraid that the two gas might not be related.

In the past, I used to search the ‘Forgotten Legend’ hopage in the search engine every hour.

But the extinct hopage never ca back. On such occasions, I sotis thought of posting about the strange things I experienced from Forgotten Legend on the internet.

In the end, I didn’t post them because I felt it still uncomfortable telling others like I did back then.

As ti went by, I no longer paid attention to it because I fell into the abyss.

If I had not achieved so much, I would not have felt the impact of a harsh downfall.

To be honest, as soone who found it hard to enter a provincial junior college, let alone a four-year college in Seoul, the bar was too high for to even enter Seoul National University (SNU), the nation’s top school. Nonetheless, I was still admitted.

The fact that I entered SNU at the top of the class gave an air of enormous conceitedness.

A dia outlet even wrote a report about .

That was why I worked at this remote cafe to avoid others’ attention as much as I could.

The hourly rate was low at the cafe, but I didn’t care.

Then I suddenly ca to hear about ‘Revival Legend’ from the campus couple.

I found myself torn between the desire to confirm it right now and my possible disappointnt to find that the two gas were not related.

I could not help but tremble beyond my control.

Still, I cautiously turned on my mobile phone and surfed the internet about Revival Legend.

Then a hopage appeared imdiately.

“Oh, maybe it’s not that one? Well, I don’t think it is.”

My heart was pounding hard at that mont.

I had not searched ‘Legend,’ for a long ti, ‘Forgotten Legend’ because it was the only way for to recover from the shock of having fallen into the abyss.

Anyway, I clicked on it with my trembling fingers, then the hopage screen appeared.

The first screen was different from that of the Forgotten Legend hopage.

Not caring about it, I examined it here and there because I could not make a proper judgnt, based on the first screen.

How long did I spend surfing every nook and cranny of the hopage?

My body trembled more violently than before because I realized that although its na was different, it was the sa ga I had played.

***

That night when I returned to my one-room apartnt, I connected the 2nd generation VR adaptor to the computer which I had never used since then.

Then I accessed the hopage of the ga whose na changed from Forgotten Legend to Revival Legend.

But I stopped imdiately because it suddenly occurred to why I was at it again.

It was a closed beta ga after all.

All the strange experiences that I really could not explain easily originated in the closed beta.

But the new ga called Revival Legend was open to the public, and it was currently operating normally. It had been open for more than three years.

Besides, there was nothing like a service closing like the closed beta.

Not only the ga itself, but even the company changed hands.

“Let try it anyway.”

I was absorbed into MMORPG gas, so much so that I even wished to have a traffic accident to disable my legs so that I could concentrate on playing gas.

When I ca to live alone like this, I had a natural environnt where I could turn into a ga addict.

But I didn’t beco a ga addict. To be honest, I failed to because it was not interesting to anymore.

Even the very ga that made wish I had a traffic accident didn’t interest anymore even though I thought I’d never move on from it.

I didn’t know why.

But I just guessed that the unusually strange and strong experience I had while playing Forgotten Legend made feel like all the other gas were banal.

Even without such experience, I found Forgotten Legend to be very interesting.

I was into it so much that I slept less than two or three hours a day to concentrate on the ga religiously with the goal of achieving the max level.

“Lol. I might beco a ga addict this ti.’