Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 1 : The Hero Slaughterer (1).
Chapter 2 : The Hero Slaughterer (2).
Chapter 3 : A Class You Can Play Alone (1).
Chapter 4 : A Class You Can Play Alone (2).
Chapter 5 : A Class You Can Play Alone (3).
Chapter 6 : Secret Of The Expert (1).
Chapter 7 : Secret Of The Expert (2).
Chapter 8 : Dancing With The Skeletons (1).
Chapter 9 : Dancing With The Skeletons (2).
Chapter 10 : Dancing With The Skeletons (3).
Chapter 11 : Dancing With The Skeletons (4).
Chapter 12 : A Mess Of A Character To Others (1).
Chapter 13 : A Mess Of A Character To Others (2).
Chapter 14 : A Cave In Mt. Bima (1).
Chapter 15 : A Cave In Mt. Bima (2).
Chapter 16 : A Cave In Mt. Bima (3).
Chapter 17 : A Nail In A Pocket (1).
Chapter 18 : A Nail In A Pocket (2).
Chapter 19 : A Nail In A Pocket (3).
Chapter 20 : Danger And Chance (1).
Chapter 21 : Danger And Chance (2).
Chapter 22 : Chance And Danger (3).
Chapter 23 : 70% Luck And 30% Effort (1).
Chapter 24 : 70% Luck 30% Effort (2).
Chapter 25 : 70% Luck 30% Effort (3).
Chapter 26 : Ahimbree (1).
Chapter 27 : Ahimbree (2).
Chapter 28 : Ahimbree (3).
Chapter 29 : Lizard Swamp (1).
Chapter 30 : Lizard Swamp (2).
Chapter 31 : Lizard Swamp (3).
Chapter 32 : Corrupted Stone (1).
Chapter 33 : Corrupted Stone (2).
Chapter 34 : Corrupted Stone (3).
Chapter 35 : Skeletons Hunting Skeletons (1).
Chapter 36 : Skeletons Hunting Skeletons (2).
Chapter 37 : Skeletons Hunting Skeletons (3).
Chapter 38 : Golden Skeleton (1).
Chapter 39 : Golden Skeleton (2).
Chapter 40 : Golden Skeleton (3).
Chapter 41 : Golden Skeleton (4).
Chapter 42 : Searching For Migi (1).
Chapter 43 : Searching For Migi (2).
Chapter 44 : Searching For Migi (3).
Chapter 45 : Bad Move (1).
Chapter 46 : Bad Move (2).
Chapter 47 : Bulkas Mountain Range (1).
Chapter 48 : Bulkas Mountain Range (2).
Chapter 49 : Bulkas Mountain Range (3).
Chapter 50 : Lucky Drop (1).
Chapter 51 : Lucky Drop (2).
Chapter 52 : Lucky Drop (3).
Chapter 53 : Lucky Drop (4).
Chapter 54 : Maoongs Test (1).
Chapter 55 : Maoongs Test (2).
Chapter 56 : Maoongs Test (3).
Chapter 57 : Bear Warrior (1).
Chapter 58 : Bear Warrior (2).
Chapter 59 : Dungeon Map (1).
Chapter 60 : Dungeon Map (2).
Chapter 61 : Dungeon Map (3).
Chapter 62 : Deep Canyon Spring (1).
Chapter 63 : Deep Canyon Spring (2).
Chapter 64 : Deep Canyon Spring (3).
Chapter 65 : Skill Armament (1).
Chapter 66 : Skill Armament (2).
Chapter 67 : Skill Armament (3).
Chapter 68 Helm Ogre (1).
Chapter 69 Helm Ogre (2).
Chapter 70 Helm Ogre (3).
Chapter 71 Secret Society (1) .
Chapter 72 Secret Society (2).
Chapter 73 Secret Society (3) .
Chapter 74 Battlefield (1).
Chapter 75 Battlefield (2).
Chapter 76 Battlefield (3).
Chapter 77 Golem Upgrade (1).
Chapter 78 Golem Upgrade (2).
Chapter 79 Golem Upgrade (3).
Chapter 80 - Olfs Errand
Chapter 81 Olf'S Errand (2).
Chapter 82 The Baheim Tribe (1) .
Chapter 83 The Baheim Tribe (2).
Chapter 84 The Baheim Tribe (3).
Chapter 85 Deal With The Redbulls (1).
Chapter 86 Deal With The Red Bulls (2).
Chapter 87 Corrupted Elf (1).
Chapter 88 Corrupted Elf (2).
Chapter 89 Corrupted Elf (3).
Chapter 90 Corrupted Elf (4).
Chapter 91 Elfs Keepsake (1).
Chapter 92 Elf'S Keepsake (2).
Chapter 93 - Elfs Keepsake (3)
Chapter 94 - Waltz (1)
Chapter 95 - Waltz (2)
Chapter 96 - Waltz (3)
Chapter 97 - Cursed Domain
Chapter 98 - Cursed Domain(2)
Chapter 99 - Cursed Domain (3)
Chapter 100 - Cursed Domain(4)
Chapter 101 - Guerrillas (1)
Chapter 102 - Guerrillas (2)
Chapter 103 - Guerrillas (3)
Chapter 104- There Is No Free Lunch (1)
Chapter 105 - There Is No Free Lunch (2)
Chapter 106 - Catacombs (1)
Chapter 107 - Catacombs (2)
Chapter 108 - Catacombs (3)
Chapter 109 - How Much? (1)
Chapter 110 - How Much? (2)
Chapter 111 - Black Tree (1)
Chapter 112 - Black Tree (2)
Chapter 113 - Black Tree (3)
Chapter 114 - The Foe That Gives Generously (1)
Chapter 115 - The Foe That Gives Generously (2)
Chapter 116 - The Foe That Gives Generously (3)
Chapter 117 - Prelude To The Great Battle (1)
Chapter 118 - Prelude To The Great Battle (2)
Chapter 119 - Prelude The Great Battle (3)
Chapter 120 - Bad Ending? (1)
Chapter 121 - Bad Ending? (2)
Chapter 122 - Bad Ending? (3)
Chapter 123 - Power Of Wealth (1)
Chapter 124 - Power Of Wealth (2)
Chapter 125 - Power Of Wealth (3)
Chapter 126 - Argardo Raid (1)
Chapter 127 - Argardo Raid (2)
Chapter 128 - Argardo Raid (3)
Chapter 129 - Agardo Raid (4)
Chapter 130 - On The Eve (1)
Chapter 131 - On The Eve (2)
Chapter 132 - On The Eve (3)
Chapter 133 - Immoral Prince (1)
Chapter 134 - Immoral Prince (2)
Chapter 135 - Immoral Prince (3)
Chapter 136 - Immoral Prince (4)
Chapter 137 - If You Set It On Fire, Blessings Will Come Your Way (1)
Chapter 138 - If You Set It On Fire, Blessings Will Come Your Way (2)
Chapter 139 - If You Set It On Fire, Blessings Will Come Your Way (3)
Chapter 140 - Across The Terube Castle Wall (1)
Chapter 141 - Across The Terube Castle Wall (2)
Chapter 142 - The Frozen Land (1)
Chapter 143 - The Frozen Land (2)
Chapter 144 - The Frozen Land (3)
Chapter 145 - Frost Knight (1)
Chapter 146 - Frost Knight (2)
Chapter 147 - Frost Knight (3)
Chapter 148 - Ancient Power (1)
Chapter 149 - Ancient Power (2)
Chapter 150 - Ancient Power (3)
Chapter 151 - Death Knight (1)
Chapter 152 - Death Knight (2)
Chapter 153 - Death Knight (3)
Chapter 154 - Find The Ruins (1)
Chapter 155 Find The Ruins (2)
Chapter 156 Heard Fortress (1)
Chapter 157 Heard Fortress (2)
Chapter 158 Catch Or Be Caught (1)
Chapter 159 Catch It Or Be Caught (2)
Chapter 160 Catch It Or Be Caught (3)
Chapter 161 Catch It Or Be Caught (4)
Chapter 162 - Anugas Necklace (1)
Chapter 163 - Anugas Necklace (2)
Chapter 164 Anugas Necklace (3)
Chapter 165 Trace Of Bokan (1)
Chapter 166 Trace Of Bokan (2)
Chapter 167 Trace Of Bokan (3)
Chapter 168 Kings Tomb (1)
Chapter 169 Kings Tomb (2)
Chapter 170 Kings Tomb (3)
Chapter 171 Bone Dragon (1)
Chapter 172 Bone Dragon (2)
Chapter 173 Bone Dragon (3)
Chapter 174 Red Desert (1)
Chapter 175 Red Desert (2)
Chapter 176 Red Desert (3)
Chapter 177 Red Desert (4)
Chapter 178 Hero Slaughterer (1)
Chapter 179 Hero Slaughterer (2)
Chapter 180 Hero Slaughterer (3)
Chapter 181 Hero Slaughterer (4)
Chapter 182 Golden Conch (1)
Chapter 183 Golden Conch (2)
Chapter 184 Barbarian King (1)
Chapter 185 Barbarian King (2)
Chapter 186 Barbarian King (3)
Chapter 187 Barbarian King (4)
Chapter 188 Barbarian King (5)
Chapter 189 Barbarian King (6)
Chapter 190 Emperor Of Solo Play
Chapter 191 Epilogue
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Comedy, Completed, Sci-fi Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 192
Estimated words: 602649 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3013(@200wpm)___ 2411(@250wpm)___ 2009(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 602649 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3013(@200wpm)___ 2411(@250wpm)___ 2009(@300wpm)
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Chapter 3 : A Class You Can Play Alone (1).
A Class You Can Play Alone (1)
2010 was the era of smartphones. They changed the lives of millions of people.
But technology continued advancing, and in year 2030, the smartphone era came to an end. It was now the new era of virtual reality. Peach Corporation’s virtual reality connection device, V-Gear, gave way to the beginning of this era. For just 20,000 dollars, any household could dive into the world of virtual reality.
The smartphone era was nothing in comparison to the VR era. Virtual reality did not just absorb the technologies of the real world, as new content developed just for the virtual world.
Among them, virtual reality games were the most popular.
Game companies didn’t hesitate to invest millions or even billions of dollars into developing this new technology. As a result, they could release higher quality content than any other business in the world.
At the same time, it was the start of a war.
Due to their investments and preparedness, their games had similar quality, and none stood out as the best.
It was the beginning of a warring era.
Game companies experimented with new methods of raising their market shares, and many went bankrupt as a result. The one that put an end to this warring era was not a game company, but an AI developing company called Tobot Soft. It was with their AI program that Warlord was created.
Warlord.
With a typical fantasy setting, the game was not too different from the other games in the market. In fact, it was much tamer compared to games where the players battled in space or flew in the air with wings.
It was the scale of its world and its stability that made it unsurpassable by others.
Tobot Soft’s secret lied behind a management artificial intelligence program called M.I.
Simply put, the game wasn’t controlled by the company but an artificial intelligence program. Its initial development cost was huge, but the management cost was ground-breakingly small. At a time when the price of VR game programmers was soaring to the sky, the method proved to be especially efficient. A.I.s didn’t need a salary.
Plus, it was easy to copy and mass produce an A.I. Hiring a thousand professional programmers took at least six months, but obtaining a thousand copy of an A.I. took only about a month.
Countless A.I.s worked to control and manage the server, and as a result, Warlord became a game that surpassed any other game in existence.
March 11th, 2035, a year after the game made its debut, the player base was well over one million. By its 4th anniversary, the number rose to over ten million, worthy of the game’s title as the greatest game to ever exist.
Ten million was not a small number.
To play a VR game, one needed a VR device. Peach Corporation controlled 70 percent of the VR device market and its cheapest VR device, the Level 1 V-Gear, cost 20 thousand dollars.
In addition, one needed 2,599 dollars just to create a Warlord character. Upon creation, one could play the game free for 3 months, but afterwards, there was a monthly fee of 799 dollars.
In Korean standards, it cost 20 million won to buy the gaming device, another 3 million to make a character, and 800 thousand more every month.
There were ten million people who could meet such requirements.
An economist once said,
“If you calculate the average income of a Warlord player, it would be about 80 thousand dollars. A game with over 10 million players and an average income of 80 thousand. That’s enough purchasing power to match a country’s.”
Businesses smelled the money just as easily.
Numerous companies and corporations became sponsors of Warlord players that had fame and influence. Famous rankers, especially the official top 100 rankers, were walking advertisements, and their bodies were worth at least a billion won.
Most importantly, Warlord was fun.
Players with superhuman powers killing monsters with different skills and magic was more exciting than any movie, and the fact that a player could die at any time made the game more thrilling than any sports in the world.
Someone once said,
“The proliferation of virtual reality games had the biggest impact on sports and movie industries. No matter how thrilling a sports is, no sportman puts their life on line, but in the game world, everyone fights with their life on the line. No matter how well-made a movie is, at the end of the day, a movie is a movie. It has a set scenario, while gamers create their own scenario. A game character is one’s second life, and in this world, a movie can never beat a real life.”
In this era, one could gain the wealth and prestige of a professional soccer player or a major league star just by gaming. As a result, countless people sought to become this era’s protagonist.
However.
“Becoming a famous gamer? Only one out of every thousand can do that. Right now in Warlord, there’s only about 3,000 people who make over a 100 million won. Considering Warlord’s player base, that’s less than the top 0.01 percent. Plus, imagine the amount of money you have to spend to maintain your ranking that high. Take any one of these 3,000 people, they probably spent just as much on Warlord as they earned.”
Only a very small minority of players could enjoy the life of wealth and fame.
“Not to mention, VR games are completely different than PC games. You can’t get better by just leveling up. It’s about talent. Even though it’s an RPG game, you can’t become a ranker with just levels and items. If you start playing with that mindset, you’ll end up quiting within a month. You just have to enjoy it. Warlord is the world’s most unfair game. If you compare yourself to others, you won’t win over your inferiority complex.”
Right, virtual reality games were more unfair than any other games.
Even in PC games, there are good players and bad players. In a VR world, where everyone has superhuman powers, the difference was even clearer.
That’s not all.
In Warlord, the best way to earn money was through live broadcasts.
However, only 30 channels were given permission to broadcast Warlord-related content. In the past, when problems began to arise from gambling and swearing in private broadcasts, most countries began to require licenses for broadcasting certain content. In the case of Warlord, only 30 channels were given licenses.
That was how the Top 30 Guilds were created. Guilds that obtained broadcasting channels received no small benefits.
Furthermore, these guilds used the money and influence gained through live broadcasts and live tickets to prevent other guilds from challenging their authority. Although everyone aimed to become one of the Top 30 Guilds in the beginning, the gap between a Top 30 Guild and a non-Top 30 Guild only grew wider over time.
They were in a league of their own.
By the time Warlord entered its 4th year of service, no one could threaten to close this gap.
Except one.
The Hahoe Mask Guild.
Its members all fought wearing hahoe masks. Despite a majority of them having started a year after existing rankers, they showed incredible skills and results. In time, they even started to threaten the positions of the Top 30 Guilds.
And in the middle of this storm was Hyrkan.
His nickname, the Hero Slaughterer.
The nickname was given to him because he effortlessly slaughtered the rankers that represented Warlord.
He was a monster that defied logic.
“Hyrkan? He’s a real monster, the kind that disrupts an ecosystem. He throws a 150 km fastball, then throws a 250 km fastball right afterwards. Plus, he games harder than anyone else. That’s what VR games are all about. No matter how much time you invest, someone without talent can’t beat someone with talent. Even if someone with talent achieves something by investing time, it becomes nothing in front of greater talent. I assure you, Hyrkan is at the top in both talent and effort. If he started just a year earlier, no one would be his match.”
A monster that disrupts an ecosystem.
It was an apt description.
It was also the reason why Hyrkan was ostracized.
“Why Hahoe Mask Guild betrayed Hyrkan? It’s simple. They would’ve been ostracized by the Top 30 Guilds otherwise. At first, they all fought to recruit Hyrkan, but they soon realized it wasn’t going to happen. Hyrkan isn’t the type to bow his head in front of others. A tiger can grow up drinking a dog’s milk, but a tiger is a tiger, a dog is a dog.”
The Top 30 Guilds were already making enormous profit in their own ecosystem.
There was no way they would stand still and watch a monster like Hyrkan ruin it. Even so, they suffered more harm than good trying to take him out.
Hyrkan. Although he was nicknamed the Hero Slaughterer, he never actively sought out to kill others. It was always three or four rankers that attacked him first, and he only retaliated. Hyrkan never wanted to become a “slaughterer.”
So when Stormhunter Guild absorbed Hahoe Mask Guild and declared war on Hyrkan, the rest of the Top 30 Guilds promised their tacit support. It wasn’t anything unexpected.
“Hahoe Mask Guild is probably thankful to Hyrkan, but their inferiority complex must have been equally big. Betraying Hyrkan and joining the Stormhunter Guild or fighting against the entire Top 30 Guilds. The choice was obvious.”
No matter how amazing Hyrkan was, he wasn’t capable fight against the Top 30 Guilds by himself.
“In the end, Hyrkan was too amazing for his own good. That’s why he was betrayed from Warlord.”
Shunned by the whole world, Hyrkan was left with no choice but to quit Warlord.
Of course, all this…
“I can’t believe this is happening to me.”
Hasn’t happened as of now.
“I returned to the past…”
An Jaehyun, he returned to 2036.
With all his memories intact!
Total Chapters in book: 192
Estimated words: 602649 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3013(@200wpm)___ 2411(@250wpm)___ 2009(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 602649 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3013(@200wpm)___ 2411(@250wpm)___ 2009(@300wpm)
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