BJ Archmage

1.

By 2020, the word virtual reality game became very familiar to people.

Soon after, in 2034, a virtual reality game that people wanted so much came into the world.

Godworth.

The game that appeared under the title of "War of the Gods" was more than people's imagination.

At the same time, the speed at which the game devours the world was more than people imagined.

In 2038, the number of players registered in the GOD exceeded 1.8 billion and the number of viewers watching game plays surpassed 5.1 billion.

It was the moment when all kinds of entertainment enjoyed by mankind, such as operas, concerts, and orchestras, as well as sports such as soccer, baseball and basketball, were eaten up by a single game.

The era of Godworth has begun.

In such an era, it was an indescribable ability and power to play games well.

[Professional player's annual salary of $300 million!]

[Two-hand, to be the highest-paid professional in history!]

Some people earn more than 300 billion won a year just because they are good at games.

[Heize Game Company, KOSDAQ goes public]

[Heize Game Company, 5 Days in a row!]

[Guardian Guild, NASDAQ listing?]

Even companies that collect players playing Godwards and make profits through them, so-called game companies and Godworth guilds, have been hailed as the hottest items on the stock market.

[What is the corporate value of Godworth's best guild beta?]]

[Beta Guild, if you give me $10 billion, I won't change it!]

The value of a guild in the game is not only hundreds of billions of won, but also more than trillion won.

That's how many leading roles appeared.

[Changing my life where Godworth was an outcast!]

[Godworth, the reason why I was a loner in my room, became a billionaire!]

There were people whose lives changed enough to be envied by Cinderella, and they got their hands on both wealth and fame as the colorful leading actors.

So many have become the main actors.

"That's too much. Isn't 300,000 won per day too much for a race with a survival rate of less than 30 percent?" You know that game over takes 80 hours, right?”

And thousands more extras were born than the number of the main actor.

- Don't do it if you don't like it.

"I'm not saying no, I'm asking for a raise. 300,000 won for level 100 and 300,000 won for level 200 are too much, right?”

Jung Hyun-woo, he was the extra.

- Hey, what do you want me to do as a broker when Sirocco Guild only gives me that much money?

The most enjoyable thing for 5.1 billion viewers who enjoy playing the game is none other than "Boss Monster Raid."

Naturally, for guilds and game companies, Boss Monster Raid was a major source of income, and constantly used to do Boss Monster Raids to generate more revenue.

What was important here was that the purpose was to generate profits.

"Damn it, if you're going to roll it up like that, at least let me join the guild. Isn't there a seat in the Shiroko guild?”

- Dude, I'm losing my seat right now. Siroko Guild members shouldn't run too hard.

Guilds and game companies should operate their groups more efficiently to generate better profits.

From that point of view, it was very inefficient to always hire all the thousands of players who went into Boss Monster Raid, sometimes over 10,000 units.

Therefore, they began to hire workers only when needed.

- You'd better just get it when you give me 300,000 won. Apparently, there's a rumor that big guilds are colluding to reduce extra ransom.

"What?"

They were so-called extras.

"No, money-making bastards will cut down on fleas' livers?"

- What can you do? You're good at games when you'really.

Of course, not a single person came to this floor dreaming of being an extra from the start.

The same was true of Jung Hyun-woo.

"Fact hits my shin, son."

In 2034, when Godworth appeared in the world, Jung Hyun-woo put everything into Godworth to become the main character.

I had confidence in myself.

'Damn it.'

The source of confidence was none other than baseball, which ruined his life.

The difference in talent between players was huge due to the nature of the game, which requires control of virtual bodies with its entire body.

The wizard was representative.

It was not difficult to use magic within Godworth.

The problem is to fit the spell.

Other games are automatically targeted, but there were restrictions on the type of magic that was targeted at GOTWORKS, and its power was not impressive.

In the end, the player has to face the target directly.

Even the so-called professional baseball players were not easy to match monsters running and running, rather running and running monsters.

- Hey, don't be too discouraged, though. Huh? You used to be a big deal too, right?

'Yes, it was pretty good at first.'

For Jung Hyun-woo, a former professional baseball player who was said to have a slow arrest but good control, the fact came as a golden opportunity.

Moreover, Chung Hyun-woo, who was released from a professional club due to his poor performance due to injury, was worth more than a thousand gold.

In fact, it wasn't bad at first.

No, it was pretty good.

Players are more than grains of sand, but the wizard who knows how to spell correctly has been a good business card for Jung Hyun-woo's former job in less situations.

More and more people are having parties with talented players, and they are associated with rankers.

thought they had entered their so-called league.

I thought the flow would not be bad.

If it wasn't for your brother's accident, it wouldn't have been like this until now.

If it weren't for the worst case of life, it wouldn't have been bad.

"That has nothing to do with it. It's just that I didn't have a clue."

But Jung Hyun-woo didn't think that day had ruined his life.

"That's the only reason I look like this. It's just this because I don't have talent, I don't have money, I don't have luck."

- No bows?

"Do you want to die?"

At that moment the atmosphere of conversation changed, and the two returned to their original theme.

- That's why you do it, right?

"You should."

- But like you said, this is dangerous. Are you sure you'really? It's obvious that the Shiroko Guild members are overdoing it.

"The probability of success on the radar is less than 30 per cent on my count."

- It's really low.

"But my chances of surviving are over 80 percent."

The eyes of Jeong Hyun-woo, who spoke, shone sharply.

"My nickname is not Die Hard for nothing."

To such Jung Hyun-woo, the man beyond the smartphone said.

- Your nickname is cockroach, isn't it?

2.

Beep!

With a brief sound, the door of the bed-sized white capsule opened and a man appeared from inside.

The 180-centimeter-tall, full-body swimsuit made the man's physique quite strong.

a well-exercised body

Such a man took off his helmet from his head.

Then the man in the cleaning suit said, handing over a candy in his hand.

"Hyun-woo, how's your work going?"

Asked by Lee Hyuk-ju, a part-time employee of the capsule room, Jung Hyun-woo said, putting the candy he gave in his mouth.

"What's good about it? I ended up doing a part-time job with a meat shield for my life of 300,000 won."

"So where are you?”

"Shiiko Guild."

"When you're a Shiroko guild, that thing? Blue-backed Lion Turtle Raid?”

"Right."

a very blunt way of speaking to the satisfaction of even the listener

Lee Hyuk-joo, however, glared at Jung Hyun-woo's words.

"Brother, I'd like to participate in a race like that because I can pay for it."

With Lee Hyuk-joo's eyes showing even his eagerness, Jung Hyun-woo smiled bitterly.

Jung Hyun-woo, he was definitely an extra.

No, not even an extra.

The guild or game company hired him once to throw him away, nothing more.

It was no different from human firewood.

"I spend all my money on part-time jobs to hire helpers, let alone boss lads."

Nevertheless, there was a flood of people in the world who dreamed of even being a disposable human firewood that was used once and abandoned.

"I don't even dream of becoming like a real brother anymore. I hope you don't spend money playing games.”

In fact, fewer than 15 million of the 1.5 billion players are living their lives through Godworth play alone.

It was evident that Jung Hyun-woo was not without talent.

"There's nothing more miserable than a clumsy talent.’

But Jung Hyun-woo knew better than anyone how much such talent, clumsy talent, makes people miserable.

Because I've experienced it.

'Because it's a stage for natural born bastards everywhere after all. Whether it's baseball or games.’

Not once, but twice.

"Yes, thank you for saying so. Make sure you work hard and succeed."

Of course, Jung didn't bother to spit in Lee's eyes.

He did not bother to sprinkle cold water on his wishes.

"Ay, is that possible? This game will already be played by the starters anyway.”

Even if he didn't, the world had already soaked Lee Hyuk-ju's dream in cold water.

"The kids who just started can't go up to rank even if they hit the lottery jackpot."

It has been five years since Godworth started its service, and already its vested interests have created a firm fence.

The late runners not only made perfect strongholds in every part of the race, but also created a huge kingdom made of them through collusion.

That's why Jung Hyun-woo dares not to dream of a new start and clings to the present reality.

"Yes, the character-raising kids now can't go up even if they're punching money. Even if you're full of talent."

That's why Jung Hyun-woo couldn't give up his character, Midas, who invested a lot of money and time over five years.

Right now, it wasn't easy to get a job.

'I spent nearly five million won choosing Efret's wizard.’

The moment Godworth creates a character, his job is decided.

The problem is that the way jobs are decided is random.

The Godworth player chose one of the 1,000 cards that appeared when he created the character, and finally his job was decided.

And there was even a class in such a profession.

Normal to Legendary.

Some even invested hundreds of millions of won in creating new characters to get a job they wanted.

'It's ridiculous to start fresh.’

Jung Hyun-woo, who recalled that fact, bit his teeth tightly.

'Yes, that's it for now. I can feed my brother and our cute Hyelin.'

He accepted his reality.

I have to do it again in three days, so please make a reservation.”

"Yes. Don't forget to give me the video of Reid instead."

"Yes, I'll give you as much video as I can with less than 10 hits on the WorthTube."

Oh, wow!

With the horse, Jung Hyun-woo chewed the candy he was eating.

Then spoke with a frown upon the spread of candy.

"Hey, what's this candy for? What's wrong with the taste?"

"Grape candy."

"Grape Party?"

"The main character in the game I saw a long time ago ate glucose candy because it's good for the brain.”

Jung Hyun-woo laughed at the answer.

"So how did the main character in the novel become a game zone? Did you get any hidden classes?”

"I was hit by a truck, and I went back to the past, and then I did a Necromance solo.”

In the explanation that followed, Chung swung his hand as if it were no longer worth talking.

"There's a whole bunch of stupid novels."

"That's why it's fun. Oh! If I could go back to the past, I would have played Godworth even by selling my organs. You're like that too, right?”

Jung Hyun-woo laughed at Lee Hyuk-joo's remark.

"Am I crazy? As soon as I get back to the past, I'm going to save all my money and sleep at home scratching my stomach in the Godsworth state. You can't go back to the past anyway, because a talented, moneyless, unlucky bastard is run over by a truck."

At the end of the sentence, Jeong Hyun-woo left the capsule room.

When Jung Hyun-woo breathed a long sigh, his breath soon covered his eyes.

A world full of ever-increasing buildings, and yet a quiet world welcomed him.

Throwing, Throwing!

And the raindrops met him.

"Ay, Mr. Vine."

Wearing the baseball cap that Jung Hyun-woo had in the rain, he put his feet out of the rainwater.

It was the moment.

Gasp!

'Huh?

A self-driving truck that lost its balance in the rain began to run to him like crazy.