Chapter 68 - Realizing his worth (2)
"I'll contact you again when I'm able to log in."
What Jini did shook Hyun.
—It made him think a lot.
He couldn't concentrate on gaming at all. Sotis, his heart sank for no apparent reason.
But slowly, he started to stabilize.
'Yes, Asrian is different from Asra—a ga no one played.'
After reaching that conclusion, Hyun began checking out so item marketplace websites.
Items he thought were worthless were selling for huge sums of money.
He learned the position an Asrian ranker had a little bit.
Of course, as ti went on, the price of gold would drop because of inflation, and that would make the price of items fall.
Maybe the items he had were worth tens... No hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Not only that…
Rankers received a lot of money by appearing on shows, comrcials, etc.
He felt like he was seeing a new world.
'I think I can be a little bit more confident. Right?'
As ti passed, he beca calr.
And from a certain mont, instead of feeling uneasy, he began feeling pride.
'Yes. Even though it was in Asra, I'm the forr ranking number one.'
After a few days, he began smiling more frequently.
He also did that while logged in to Asrian, so Ain asked him.
"Hyun, you seed to be happy. Did sothing good happen?"
"Hmm... Well, sothing like that."
Hyun, who had solely focused on gaming, started learning his position a little bit.
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The next day…
Finally, both Stardust mbers were able to log in.
Ain was late that day. so only the three of them were gathered together.
"I feel like we're receiving more attention than before..." Practice said while walking through the Knight's Hall.
Just like he'd said, they were receiving a lot of attention from the NPCs around there.
So low-ranking soldiers even bowed their heads when they saw them.
After clearing the Knight Commander's Quest, their reputation among NPCs had risen.
Hyun added so explanation.
"We're probably the first users to clear a quest from the Knight Commander. Being the first ones to do anything increases reputation."
"That ans that if your reputation increases, the NPCs’ interest in you grows too. Right? As expected from a hidden quest. And Hyun, who cleared such a quest, is incredible as well!"
"It's not like I've done it alone."
Hyun smiled bitterly at Jini's praise.
For the mont, only Ain knew that he belonged to the Abyss.
Who would think that, among the first users to spread their na through Heaven, there was one who belonged to the Abyss?
Of course, it would've been better if his reputation among the Abyss had risen.
'But this isn't bad. Right?'
Hyun tried to think positively.
If he had a good reputation among Heaven's Forces, people would be less suspicious of him, and the probability of him being outed as a mber of the Abyss would decrease too.
A few days before, he had swapped his old dark robe for a clean looking black and white one, so no one would probably mistake him again for being a Dark Priest.
The Robe of the Praying Priest was luxurious, yet classy, so it suited a user with a good reputation.
'It's here.'
They soon reached the gymnasium, which was located on the third floor of the Knight's Hall.
There was no one there.
Only the top knights were allowed there, so it was a place forbidden to most users.
They could enter there thanks to a ssage from Knight Commander Ollie.
It seed like the Knight Commander was quite surprised by how fast they'd cleared the quest.
Especially Ain. Thanks to her showing the rune of a Heavenly Being, it seed like he completely trusted her.
It was a piece of cake for Hyun to control the Knight Commander while being «Assimilated» to Ain.
That's why he let them use the place.
Just a glance was enough for Hyun to know that the place completely differed from the public gymnasium on the 4th floor.
Practice and Jini were lost for words.
"The floor and the walls are made of marble..."
"It's an enchanted marble. Most physical attacks won't be able to leave even a scratch."
"More than a gymnasium... This looks like a giant palace."
The place was full of nurous fitness equipnt, a place to spar, sowhere to rest, and a lot of magical equipnt they weren't sure what they were.
It was too much for only three people to use.
There were two reasons why Hyun had chosen that place:
The first one was that he wanted to increase the level of «Pray» in a quiet place where there wasn’t anyone around.
The second was that he wanted to teach both Stardust mbers comfortably.
'Since things have gotten like this, I should teach them properly. Right?'
The truth was that, when he had received Jini's request, he wanted to end it with just a few recomndations... But right then, that would make him feel guilty.
He couldn't ignore those two looking at him with shining eyes.
Practice invited him to eat almost every day... And he was thankful to Jini for what she did the other day.
Not only that, but they'd accepted his request.
—That they would help him when he asked it.
From what he'd seen up until then, it seed like teaching them would be helpful for him in the future.
'Well, even if I teach them properly... In reality, It's nothing that impressive.'
What Hyun wanted to teach them first were so basic movents.
Even though Asrian was a virtual reality ga, it was fundantally different from real life.
Because neither of them had experience with the previous ga, Asra Online, there was a chance that their movents were similar to those of real life.
First, Hyun asked Practice a question.
"What's your Agility?"
"Hmm? My Agility right now is... Exactly 50."
"Good. If you have 50 Agility, it should take you five seconds to run 100 ters. Right?"
"Yes, sothing like that."
In real life, those numbers would've been impressive, but in Asrian, that speed was normal.
At that mont, Hyun smiled and asked another question.
"Then, how many tis can you go back and forth a distance of one ter in 5 seconds?"
"Back and forth...?"
"If it's 100 ters in five seconds, can you do it 50 tis?"
"Wait, the calculations are weird...?!"
"That's right. The speed while running straight and changing directions can't be the sa!"
They both couldn't hide their surprise at Hyun's question.
Of course, he also knew it was impossible.
He'd asked that question because he wanted to teach them how to move in Asrian.
"Good, then how about 20 instead of 50?"
"20 tis...?"
Practice tilted his head while frowning.
It looked like he couldn't get an estimate, but Hyun relieved him of his worries.
"From here to here," Hyun said while drawing a one-ter line with a stick.
"Run back and forth from here to there as fast as possible."
Practice imdiately followed Hyun's orders.
Whish-!
The speed at which he moved from left to right was fast enough to leave an afterimage, but it didn't last long.
"Ugh...!"
It took two seconds until his feets got entangled, and he lost his balance.
He was able to move back and forth only five tis.
Practice got up and tried to do it again... But it didn't matter how many tis he tried, the result was the sa.
Ultimately, he had no choice but to laugh and click his tongue.
"Haha, I can't do it."
"That's because you rely too much on your senses."
Practice listened to Hyun's words while getting up.
What Hyun was saying was sothing he had never heard. It wasn't ntioned in the communities, and the coaches hadn’t told him either.
"As the ga progresses to the latter half, there are going to be situations that will be hard to deal with using a normal human's reflexes, so the solution is to make as few decisions and judgnts as possible... But senses are also so kind of judgnt."
To abbreviate Hyun's explanation:
The reason why Practice fell so much was that he tried to balance himself.
Even if you took 0.1 seconds to process a piece of information, that made your thought process slower, and the next movent ended up being delayed.
In real life, you could probably process the information and make a judgnt almost simultaneously, but in Asrian, it was impossible.
Then what you had to do was ignore the sense of balance on purpose!
You needed to move while thinking you were controlling a virtual character, not your real body.
Translator - Daniel Shin
Proofreader - ilafy
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"You need to put away your senses to think faster. In my case, I'm used to doing it thanks to the previous ga... But it seems most users are having trouble differentiating Asrian's movents from those of real life."
How many users were capable of not feeling discrepancy with the ga's movents?
That is where a dilemma appeared.
While moving, one couldn't help but feel that weird sensation.
Asrian had a technology that recreated sensations, that ended up becoming poisonous for gaplay.
"The problem is that your body must move as you imagine... But you can overco that with enough training."
Wiinnggg-
As Hyun pressed a switch inside a Magic Circle, dolls rose from the ground.
When they noticed, Hyun was already holding a short sword.
Paf-!
Suddenly, Hyun moved at a speed at which his body couldn't be seen.
Practice and Jini's mouths gaped after seeing the result.
In just one second, Hyun had managed to cut five dolls that were two ters apart.
He had cut exactly on their necks.
"Woah..."
"Amazing...!"
After taking a break, Hyun explained.
"You need to think about the path from start to finish and then move at once."
The theory behind the movents Hyun explained to them was comparable to typing.
While typing, rather than thinking about each separate letter, you think about the whole sentence.
The theory behind successfully chaining movents was similar to that.
After thinking of the entire process, you moved only with your thoughts.
—That's what he ant by leaving your senses behind.
"This is the basis of all movents."
When Hyun finished explaining, Practice and Jini had serious expressions on their faces.
The two seed to be lost in their thoughts for a while—they were blankly staring at the air.
Hyun waited until they finished processing what they saw; then he gave them a task.
"Let's start with the basics."
The one-ter back and forth that Practice had failed…
The goal was to do it successfully 10 tis in five seconds.
At first glance, moving back and forth seed like nothing. But it was perfect for getting used to the basic movents.
"It's hard..."
Even after listening to Hyun's explanation, Practice was having a hard ti doing it—he kept falling to the ground.
That was because his thoughts couldn't catch up to his movents.
"That's because you need to get used to it."
But Practice was still doing it better.
Hyun found sothing that surprised him.
The first two movents Practice perford were incredibly fast and reliable.
—That was because he had subconsciously learned it while trying to copy Ain.
It was the result of trying to change the direction of the movent twice while attacking.
"It's harder than what it seems..."
Jini, who was next to him, murmured.
Even though Jini was a priest, she'd raised her Agility to 30
That was because Hyun had said that even Priest or Magicians needed so Agility to increase survivability.
The low Agility stat ant that her movents were slower, so that should make things easier for her, but she was having more difficulties than Practice.
'I'm sure she'll get used to it soon.'
Hyun wasn't worried.
They were both professional gars; that ant that they were both talented people.
He was sure they would learn faster than the average person.
'Then... I should increase the proficiency bar of «Pray».'
While they were both practicing moving, Hyun was at one side of the gymnasium with his eyes closed.
Because he had «Pray» at level 6, increasing it wasn't an easy task. That was why he tried raising the proficiency bar whenever he had free ti.
That's how Hyun spent the next following days inside the Knight's Hall.
When Ain wasn't there, he prayed. When she logged in, they completed Heaven's Achievent Quests together and raised their stats.
He also didn't forget to check on Jini and Practice for at least for 10 minutes each day.
Ting.
He kept receiving the ssage that made his heart flutter for a few days.
[You've received $3,000 USD from Jinny77.]
After sending him $50,000 USD, Jini continued to send him paynts for the classes.
It had only been three days since he had begun teaching them, but that was already the second ti she'd sent him money.
If it were the Hyun from before, he would've gotten scared by the sum of money... But after receiving $50,000 USD, he could look at it with relative calm.
'I told her I didn't need the paynt for the classes... Does this an that she wants to be taught more rigorously?'
Then it may be better if he invested a little bit more ti in it.
Hyun decided to increase the ti of the classes from 10 minutes to 20.
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