One Man Army – Episode 4: [Chapter 3] Getting out of despair (1)
Over ti, Sang Hyuk’s gathering of dicinal herbs was even speeding up, as a result, Sang Hyuk could get more gold than he expected. However, he didn’t have any gold on hand.
Sang Hyuk looked at auctions and bought items as much gold as he got…. . The item that Sang Hyuk had been buying for a few months was called ‘Sealed Crystal’.
This item used to be called, between Sword & Magic users, a trash drawing item at the mont.
The reason why it was called like that was because they mostly got junk, which was useless, if you opened a Sealed Crystal.
He got an Enhancent Stone sotis, the probability was low and a normal Enhancent Stone which was not expensive, no one wanted to get an Enhancent Stone opening a crystal.
For these reasons, there were lots of Sealed Crystals at the auction. Even though users
didn’t get lots of Sealed Crystals because the drop rate of Sealed Crystals wasn’t that high, the problem was that they filled up the auction without anybody consuming them.
Sang Hyuk purchased Sealed Crystals as much as possible while regulating the market price. Because there were a lot of users who sold and bought items by their avocation, he shouldn’t let them notice soone buying lots of Sealed Crystals.
As most auction rchants had a high sense, the price of Sealed Crystal could surge up if they knew soone was stocking up on Sealed Crystals.
Sang Hyuk kept collecting Sealed Crystals carefully.
The reason why Sang Hyuk collected Sealed Crystals was….. an important changing point which was included in 4th big scale patch of Sword & Magic.
The rising price of Sealed Crystals which made users astonished by the developnt…Indeed, the content of patch could be simply expressed as a sentence, it caused a trendous ripple.
‘You will get a Blessed Enhancent Stone from Sealed Crystal with the low rate from now.’
These were not precise, but it was likely to this sentence. Because Sang Hyuk played Sword & Magic after the 4th big scale patch. He didn’t know exactly about the truth because he heard rumors from around at community boards on the Internet.
However, the important thing after the patch was the fact that the Sealed Crystal might produce a Blessed Enhancent Stone.
A Blessed Enhancent Stone was entirely different from a normal Enhancent Stone. A Blessed Enhancent Stone was an extrely expensive item and can be traded with cash.
A normal Enhancent Stone was about 20 dollars cash value, and a Blessed Enhancent Stone was an item with a value of about 2,000 dollars. That ant it was non comparable.
Even though everybody said that it was too low a probability, people who logged into the ga and opened Sealed crystals could get a Blessed Crystal after ten Sealed Crystals. After all, people guessed that the developnt turned into an ergency patch, so people could get once a hundred.
Sang Hyuk wasn’t sure about the fact because he hadn’t experienced in person either. But, even if people could get one by opening one hundred Sealed Crystals, collecting them could be a big benefit anyway.
The market price of Sealed Crystal was about 5 dollars now.
As such, even though people got one Blessed Enhancent Stone, opening a hundred Sealed Crystal was still a big benefit.
That’s why this collecting Sealed Crystals could be a jackpot enoughly as people ntioned, it could be a super jackpot if they got more Blessed Enhancent Stones.
Sang Hyuk’s goal was to collect 3,000 Sealed Crystals. Of course it wasn’t easy, Sang Hyuk did work hard climbing cliffs to collect dicinal herbs.
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Ti flew so fast, it was already spring after a year.
September 11, 2027.
Finally ‘the Advent of Volloyan’, which was the 4th big scale patch of Sword & Magic, started as Sang Hyuk had expected.
Sang Hyuk was already ready to log in as soon as the patch finished.
Sang Hyuk had collected 3,116 Sealed Crystals after 7 months.
If he could get a Blessed Enhancent Stone after opening the Sealed Crystals as with the rumor, Sang Hyuk might easily be able to get 300 Blessed Enhancent Stones roughly and their values were about 600,000 dollars.
Of course he didn’t expect getting that much, anyway he expected to get at least a few ten thousand dollars.
Sang hyuk already logged into the ga no sooner after finishing the patch.
He realized that the rumor he heard wasn’t 100% correct after opening a few hundreds Sealed Crystals. But, it wasn’t totally wrong either.
A Blessed Enhancent Stone, which supposed to be appear once every hundred Sealed Crystals, was appeared once every forty. Maybe it was correct but people saying that they got one every ten was overwhelming.
Anyway Sang Hyuk opened 3,110 Sealed Crystals, all he had in an instant and he got 74 Blessed Enhancent Stones exactly.
While it was sowhat different from 300, of which he could have earned 150,000 dollars through encashing them. He could still get 130,000 dollars after deducting all the commissions. It was huge money for a high school student without having any skills for 6 months.
He was satisfied with the amount of money as he decided to be independent from the orphanage and earn money himself.
“Let finish the ga as he was supposed to finish up here.”
Sanghyuk no longer wanted to waste ti for Sword & Magic. Sang had better prepare to for EL slowly.
6 months from now, Eternal Life (EL)’s service which Sang Hyuk had been waiting for, planned to start. If he kept playing Sword & Magic for the 7 months, he might be able to make a lot of money, but he wanted to rest enough and be ready physically and ntally for EL.
Sang Hyuk made a clean finish just a few days after he made the decision. Sang Hyuk sold everything of what could be sold and he had exactly 137,400 dollars in his account.
This money was really big money for Sang Hyuk who had a few hundreds dollars only a few days ago. If Sang Hyuk was a normal high school student, he could spend the money here and there on trivial things.
As Sang Hyuk wasn’t a normal high school student, he wasn’t excited with the money and acted the sa like before. He had better not be noticeable now.
‘I don’t rember an exact date, but soti in November. So, I should live like a poor man still until November.’
The thing he was waiting for. That was the mont the scum would co visiting and make him depressed.
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Sang Hyuk also sold the headphone VR machine after finishing up the Sword & Magic. After all, a new capsule VR machine was released after launching EL, so he had better sell it before the price went down.
Sang Hyuk suddenly started learning ditation after finishing up. When Sang Hyuk was a director, he read a research which said people who could control their mind themselves had a higher VRA range compared to others not doing it.
Thus, it ant that ditation was helpful to increase one’s VRA range. Anyway, the VRA of Sang Hyuk was already high enough to be close to the threshold, but he stayed on the ball.
He already had the experience of one’s VRA range, which could be fall down for several reasons. Thus, he really cared about VRA maintenance.
Sang Hyuk learnt not only ditation but also Kendo. The reason why he started Kendo wasn’t that he wanted to learn the way of using a sword and use it for the ga.
With imagination, learning Kendo in real life should be helpful for the virtual reality ga, however, reality and virtual reality wasn’t connected that simply.
Even though soone who did Kendo well in real life, he might not be able to brandish a sword in virtual reality with low VRA. Oppositely, soone who wasn’t any good in sports might have exceptional physical ability with high VRA.
That was the reason why VRA was called as a new style talent.
The reason why Sang Hyuk learnt Kendo was to learn how to control his mind and sustain a healthy body, not to learn how to control the sword.
When he was leading a director’s life, he had seen lots of pro gars who ruined their bodies after too much obsession about virtual reality, resulting in them not being able to log into virtual reality anymore.
Therefore, he always thought he had to be healthy to beco a pro gar. For this reason, Sang Hyuk learnt Kendo to maintain his physical fitness.
Once again, ti flew by.
And…November 27, 2027.
Two guys like devils, who Sang Hyuk never forgot, visited the orphanage.
‘Park Sang Cheol, Kim Dae Sik.’
Sang Hyuk rembered their nas clearly.
*Crunch* he gnashed his teeth the mont he saw them again. But, he had to be patient now.
‘I will endure this mont. But, I will never ever skip it.’
He really wanted to report to the police and get them caught right now, the problem was that these bitches moved the workplace around, so he couldn’t report yet because he didn’t know where it was going to be at.
And, people, who got caught by police at this mont, got released easily with the power of money. So, that wasn’t a great idea.
‘My way…. I will steal the most important thing from you guys and I will crush you guys cruelly. That’s my punishnt for you.’
So, Sang Hyuk was thinking of punishing them his way without any police help. Of course it took ti, he had to wait for the mont patiently.
Park Sang Cheol and Kim Dae Sik deceived children with flowing speeches. And, they started the VRA test imdiately… Unfortunately, the children all tried to get as high VRAs as they could, like Sang Hyuk did before.
Sang Hyuk wanted to let the children know about Park Sang Cheol and Kim Dae Sik’s true faces and stop them from being deceived, but, he couldn’t do it. It could make the situation worse because even the staff at the orphanage helped the bitches.
Anyway, the children probably wouldn’t believe Sang Hyuk’s word. Sang Hyuk used to stay at another orphanage in Uijeongbu and he moved to this place a year ago after that one closed. So, he didn’t have any friends in this orphanage.
Firstly, because Sang Hyuk wasn’t outgoing enough to hang out with anyone, he beca an outsider. For those reasons, Sang Hyuk didn’t have anything to do at this point.
Sang Hyuk closed his eyes and ditated to control his mind. And, he walked up slowly during his turn and wore the VR machine on his head.
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Translator : Joyce Gim
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