Overgeared Chapter 994:
Chapter 994
“I understand the chairman’s will . Instead, I have a requirement . ”
“What is it?”
This was a chance for him to show off a connection with a chaebol family . It might be a precious opportunity for someone else, but there were no merits for Youngwoo . The condition he gave was completely unexpected .
“I heard that big companies and famous people are fostering rankers at a business or family level . Is it the same for Daejin?”
The word ranker naturally meant a Satisfy ranker . The president of Daejin Motors looked around uneasily before responding in a low voice, “Of course, we have also made some developments . ”
Chairman Lee Jinmyung didn’t appreciate his granddaughter’s enthusiasm for Satisfy, but it was because he had always regarded Yura as his successor . Lee Jinmyung recognized the importance of Satisfy according to the trend of the times and secretly sponsored and fostered rankers at the corporate level . Once they were fully grown and participating in big events, Daejin’s reputation would rise naturally . Well, now, Yura’s name was sufficient .
“Have Daejin step up and encourage the rankers of the Korean companies and family members to join the Overgeared Guild . ”
“ . . . ” The president of Daejin Motors made a distorted expression . The thought of Youngwoo eating up all the power that the companies had invested in was absurd and somewhat unpleasant . He felt that he was being treated as a pushover .
Youngwoo shook his hand . “I don’t mean to have them permanently join the Overgeared Guild . That isn’t possible . I just want to receive support from them in the form of temporary mercenaries . It will be good for both sides . We will provide at least unique-grade items made by the best blacksmiths of the Overgeared Kingdom as well as top-quality hunting grounds . ”
“I guess it is the hunting grounds on the border of Reidan which are much talked about these days . ”
“Yes, your level will rise quickly if you hunt imperial soldiers . ”
The war of attrition with the empire was gnawing at the power of the Overgeared Kingdom . Since the empire had an army that was hundreds of times larger than the Overgeared Kingdom’s, the constant loss of soldiers would only damage the Overgeared Kingdom .
“Is your ultimate goal to fill the Overgeared army with players instead of NPCs?”
The president of Daejin Motors had little experience playing Satisfy . However, he was the president of a large company and was able to easily grasp the situation . Youngwoo nodded while secretly admiring the president . “You saw it correctly . ”
“Umm . . . Yes, I understand . I’ll tell the chairman . Even so, I don’t know if the other companies will move easily . Obviously, they will demand a lot . ”
“I will coordinate it well . All you have to do is pass on my message to them . ”
Youngwoo anticipated what the companies wanted . It was for Grid or the Overgeared members to be models for their companies, to receive items produced from the Overgeared Kingdom, or have corporate publicity signage in the Overgeared Kingdom . Youngwoo was willing to accept them all .
‘In any case, I need a lot of money . ’
He could sleep less . If he divided his time well, he could promote the companies . There were many blacksmiths, so he could produce as many items as they wanted .
‘I will draw on the resources and assets of the companies while the companies will borrow my knowledge and skills . ’
The deal was likely to be fully realized . The companies’ evaluation of the Overgeared Kingdom was very high . However, tying himself up to a large number of companies from the outset would cut his value, so he only used domestic companies .
‘A funny picture will come out . ’
The rankers were easy to control because they belonged to a company or a family . He would gather hundreds of thousands of them in Reidan to consume the imperial troops . Of course, this was Lauel’s big picture .
***
In Satisfy, darkness was the symbol of evil, and evil was the great demons . This formula was applied to the elementals . It was a natural outcome for the light elemental king to favor Yura, who had hunted the most number of demons among the players .
[Light Elemental King Contractor]
[You can use the highest ranked light elemental .
Current level of the highest-grade light elemental: 1
-Available Elemental Techniques-
* The energy of the elemental king is infinite . The use of the elemental doesn’t consume the resources of the contractor . ]
[Sword of Light]
[Makes the elemental into a sword of light .
The Sword of Light follows the contractor…]
[Flash]
[The light elemental will ‘instantaneously’ move to the target pointed out by the contractor .
If the target is strong, it will shine intensely…]
[Elemental King Summoning Lv . 1]
[Summons an elemental king to the present age through the light elemental .
The ability of the light elemental king is affected by the ability of the contractor .
The low skill level limits the abilities of the light elemental king .
Summoning Duration Time: 10 minutes .
Cooldown Time: 30 hours . ]
“ . . . ”
Yura hadn’t been expecting much after she was forced to postpone her visit to the World Tree due to hunting in **** . Most of her colleagues had contracted with lower to intermediate elementals, and she thought she would be the same . Yet it ended up being an elemental king .
She once again owed a great debt to Grid . Her current self wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t met him in the temple in the past . She would still be one of Yatan’s Servants, struggling against the Rebecca Church and Overgeared Kingdom . Yura would have regreted it every day .
“I’ll become someone you can count on . ”
Step .
Today, Yura didn’t open the gate to **** . The place she came to was the city of Reidan surrounded by the desert .
“Yura?”
On the walls, the faces of the Overgeared members—who were tired from the inexhaustible imperial army—brightened . Yura had been focused on **** hunting since the beginning of the 4th National Competition until the present . Consequently, they hadn’t expected her to join the war so soon . The gold medalist in Drawing the Saint Sword and silver medalist in PvP—she was a strong representative of the Overgeared Guild . She was a power that could do the work of ~4–5 of the top Overgeared members alone . The Overgeared members were reassured that she would be with them in the future .
After a while . . .
“Hell Leap . ”
The Overgeared members witnessed Yura’s development and realized how much they had underestimated her . She jumped into space itself and moved to hell, leaving the gate that connected **** to the present world . Demons popped out of the gate and into the middle of the battlefield .
“Eh?”
There was the sudden appearance of the red dimensional door and the demons pouring from it . The imperial soldiers were stunned by the unrealistic sight and forgot to even scream as they became food for the demons .
“You can summon demons?” Chris asked with a surprised expression . A demon hunter could summon demons . . . ? It was a bizarre contradiction .
Yura shook her head . “I simply opened a passage . ”
Hell Leap—it was a skill that temporarily transferred her body to **** . The user didn’t know where they would appear in hell, and the temporary transmission only lasted for one second . Yura took one second to identify the place she appeared, recognized the presence of a sufficient number of demons in the vicinity and opened the gate while escaping from **** . She applied the escape technique as a summoning technique . For the imperial soldiers, it was literally a **** gate .
“Aaaack!”
“Hiik! S-Spare me . . . !”
The duration of the gate was one minute . It was plenty of time . Demons with the instinct of eating humans utilized the gate actively . They flew forward with full power .
“W-Wow . . . ”
Thousands of demons popped out and massacred the imperial soldiers, causing the Overgeared members to feel overwhelmed . They worried that they would be next after the imperial army was destroyed . However, they had Yura . As the imperial soldiers were chewed up, the demons who turned their attention to the Overgeared members in a hungry manner were pierced by Yura’s bullets .
***
“There haven’t been too many prey these days . ”
“The Vatican is closed, so it is natural to have no guests . ”
At a mountain village near the Vatican, there was a unique village with large and small Rebecca statues in many places . Originally it was filled with tourists wanting to visit the Vatican, but it had been dusty of late . The Vatican was temporarily closed as the war between the Rebecca Church and Yatan Church intensified . As such, the Vatican wasn’t accepting outsiders, so no tourists were visiting the village .
“Hrmm . ”
Thanks to this, Shay was bored . The assassins—Shay, Kerb, and Sniffer—were a vicious PK group that worked with Dong Pao—a Rebecca priest—in luring tourists to certain areas and stealing their money . However, they were also the benefactors who informed Grid about Marie Rose’s presence and gave him Kasim . Of course, they hadn’t meant to be benefactors .
“I want to release some stress, but it isn’t working . ”
“I should pick up an assassination request today . ”
“I have done more than 100 commissions this month . I don’t like it anymore . It is annoying . I need some healing . ”
“Eh? Hey . ”
The trio sitting on the terrace of the restaurant turned their gaze toward the person at the entrance of the village . Just by looking, it was obvious that the person had a lot of money . It was a man wearing unusual sunglasses . They didn’t see his face and ID because he was wearing a helmet . but based on the overall armed status, his level was in the low 200s .
“Doesn’t he look like a character made by a man with some money?”
“Yes . All the level 200 items are enhanced . ”
“He might be a gold spoon . ”
The items scattered a subtle glow . This was proper prey . Shay’s group exchanged sly smiles with each other and got up . The three people came down from the terrace and were engaged in daily conversation as they passed by the unidentified man . Yes, they passed by the prey they had been waiting for .
‘X! Leave quickly!’
The trio hastened their pace . They had an iron rule . This cardinal rule was that they didn’t mix with a person who hid their face and ID . Why? In the past, they had a bad experience with Grid who concealed his identity . They didn’t want to go through that terrible experience twice . Since then, Shay’s group excluded unknown targets from their PK list . It was a type of phobia .
“Oh, it would be good if we could hunt pushovers like in the old days . ”
“It was almost a windfall to meet those kids . Still, what can we do when it is a one in a million case?”
They couldn’t be discouraged . The reason why Shay’s party could PK in one area for a long time was because they were cautious . In particular, the most important thing was their affinity with the villagers . The villagers didn’t doubt Shay’s party, who were friendly and kind, and never thought they were bandits . Sometimes, paladins from the Rebecca Church would come down to the village and ask about the bandits, but they never cared about Shay’s party . This was the importance of image management .
“It is impossible today . Perhaps we should go to the guild and ask . . . ?”
The trio left the village only to freeze like a stone statue . They noticed that the unidentified man was following closely behind them . The man took off the helmet and black hair flowed down . The revealed name was . . .
“G-Grid!”
Shay’s party was full of hatred . They even wanted to kill Grid .
“This is great . Have you been doing this in the same place for many years?”
“T-That, sometimes . . . Sometimes just . . . ”
“T-That’s right! These days, we mostly work in other places . We sometimes come here for healing!”
“I-It is like a heart that misses home . . . Hahaha . . . ”
Shay was a single digit ranker on the assassin’s ranking . During recent times, he had fallen to the top 20, but he still had excellent skills . In particular, he had a lot of experience with PK and excelled in PK skills . Even so, he was modest in front of Grid . He had been beaten by Grid several times and was afraid of him . Grid suggested to them, “Go to Reidan . In that place, you can cheat, kill, and steal from the empire’s players . Won’t it be more fun to play on a bigger stage than in a village like this?”
“ . . . You want to use us as a tool of war?”
“D-Do you think we will cooperate with you?”
“Yes, if you don’t want to die . You will be killed by me and then have a kill order placed on you . ”
“ . . . Shall we leave right now?”
“Assassination is our specialty . Isn’t that why you came to us? We’ll definitely be a great help to you . ”
“Yes, I’m looking forward to it . You will be rewarded if you play an active role . ”
Grid had to mobilize as many contacts as possible in order to deal with the empire . Thus, Grid was wandering in search of connections, but they were mostly evil ones . He was fortunate that he was stronger than those he had a bad relationship with .
“Next is Bubat . . . Hmm . . . ”
After confirming the appearance of Shay’s party, Grid was ready to use the return scroll, only to stop . Now that he was here, he became curious about ‘that’ place . Grid failed to recall the old location and had to ask Shay, “That dungeon, where was it?”
“Dungeon? Ah, the one with the vampire duke sealed? It is a forbidden area, so it isn’t stored on the map . ”
It was a space where magic and skills were blocked because of a powerful evil influence . That was the space where Shay’s party used to hunt the players .
“It is approximately three kilometers northeast of here . . . Hey, forget it . Just follow me . ”
It was complicated to explain in words . Instead, Shay just moved forward, and Grid followed behind him . Shay was making a smug smile . He was timid, but he wanted payback .
‘No matter how great Grid is, he can’t catch up with my speed when I’m a master of swiftness . ’
Grid would try to chase Shay and be humiliated . Shay imagined Grid’s expression and hummed . Then he used a skill that increased his movement speed to the peak . However . . .
“ . . . ”
Grid maintained the appropriate distance behind Shay without much difficulty . He was very agile and hd recently created a set of items that sped up his movements . Shay started crying . ‘Filthy **** . Really filthy **** . Eating everything alone . ’
He would quickly finish this side of the world and cut off all connections with Grid forever . He would leave for the other side of the continent, so he wouldn’t get involved with Grid again .
‘No, let’s go to the East Continent,’ Shay vowed repeatedly .