Just some random guy dies and reincarnated in a fantasy world

A PK, or player-killer, received their comeuppance if and when someone managed to kill them. The game's karma system tracked their "guilty party" status and gradually increased the consequences of the game's death penalty. 

Currently, every member of Shining Star's raid team would pop like a pinata full of goodies as soon as they died.

Rydr wasn't aware of any of this. The enormous diver researched a lot about games leading up to playing [Frontier Online], but the super-noob avoided most of the player-killer content and guides.

The play-style failed to appeal to him when he'd suffered so much at the hands of someone who took because they could. 

In a rush, the giant knelt and swept his arm across Spectre's dropped gear to store it in his [Inventory]. It was fortunate that Rydr dumped over a ton of ore when the game warned him about over-encumbrance, or he couldn't have picked up the guild leader's belongings. 

"Rydr, we need you!"

Finished with his looting, Urginok's shout brought the giant back to his senses. Rydr stood and prepared to charge into the fray with his team to face the guild's raid team, his heart pounding. 

Urginok was on his last legs, his health bar barely visible on Rydr's HUD. The tank, despite the aid from Syrna's arrows, still faced three melee-oriented divers by himself. How the shorter man held out against, the greater numbers was a mystery, but a health bar twice the size of his opponent's probably helped.

Rydr crouched, about to hurl himself into the fight, when an earth-shattering roar assaulted everyone's senses. The sound was so singularly loud it created a shockwave that crashed into the colossus' back. Rydr's eardrums felt like a soundbar was jammed in his ear and played at max volume. 

Even his teeth chattered against each other from the soundwaves.

Forced into a stunned state, the giant diver fell onto the floor helplessly. Once stunned, a timer appeared on Rydr's HUD, but he had more pressing concerns.

*00:00:06*

The angle that Rydr tipped over at awarded him a ground-up view of an enormous, gray monster stepping into the round chamber behind him. The monster wore nothing but a giant shoulder guard and a dirty loincloth. A rope tied around its chest supported some weapon on its back, the haft visible over its other bare shoulder. 

From Rydr's view, the monster's head stretched almost to the ceiling.

Unfortunately, how the giant diver tipped over left his rear end high in the air, propped up by his knees.

Incidentally, Rydr finally caught sight of Syrna, similarly stunned, at the giant creature's feet. No sooner had Rydr registered all of this when the monster reared back and kicked Syrna in the stomach. 

*-89 HP*

The casual kick from the creature sent Syrna flying through the air, above and out of Rydr's field of view. In one lazy move, the monster nearly killed the blonde archer, who only had the 100 base health points that she started the game with.

The archer couldn't even cry out in pain because of her [Stunned] status.

Still helpless while he waited for the stun timer to wear off, Rydr's heart pounded crazily as the monster swaggered the rest of the way into the chamber towards the limp giant.

Since the colossus heard no fighting behind him, he had to assume that Urginok and the rest of the guild's raid team were all stunned as well. While that was a small relief, it changed nothing.

With nothing to do except freak out until the stun timer wore off, Rydr [Inspected] the monster. 

[(Elite) Hogoblin Warlord Lvl. 20]
HP: ???
MP: ???
Skills: ???

Rydr's mind shorted out for a moment when he saw the monster's level and stats- because he couldn't see its stats.

This creature was completely out of his league. 

The Hobgoblin Warlord chuckled evilly as it stooped down and grabbed Rydr by his hair. When it straightened up and held Rydr in front of it, the giant diver's feet dangled in the air. The creature stood half a meter taller than the diver. The task was trivial for the monster, which held the giant in the air with one arm at full extension.

Despite the reduced pain experienced in [Frontier Online], being held up with just his hair was distinctly uncomfortable. Rydr was intensely aware of the hairs being ripped from his scalp.

The whole time that the creature toyed with them, Rydr furiously tried to move his body, to lift even a finger to resist the monster. His mind railed against the helplessness. Rage and cold adrenaline coursed through his body, making his avatar twitch and shudder.

*00:00:00*

As soon as the [Stunned] status wore off, Ryd's hands flew up and grabbed the Warlord's wrist. He tried to lift himself and kick off the monster's chest.

Rydr never got the chance. Once he moved, the Warlordsmirked and spun rapidly in a circle. The diver's world blurred around him as he glared at the monster's grinning face. Gnarly teeth and rancid breath filled his senses. 

If the chamber were smaller, the giant's legs would've clipped against its walls, possibly crippling his feet, a fate the room's ten-meter diameter avoided. As is, the colossus tried to crush the Warlord's wrist in his hands while the creature spun him wildly. 

Still affected by [Reinforcement] and [Berserer's Rage], Rydr's strength squeezed the Warlord's wrist like a pneumatic press, grinding its bones against each other. Whether this affected the monster or not, Rydr never found out.

The monster let go and flung Rydr away. The colossus tried to hold onto the monster's wrist, but his hands were drenched in his own blood from the battle against Spectre.

Rydr's effort to hold on made him ragdoll through the air, disoriented and dizzy before he slammed into the chamber's wall. The breath rushed out of the giant's lungs as a bright red damage number floated over his head. Quakes traveled through the chamber from the impact point.

*-110 HP*

Unlike the kick that almost killed Syrna, Rydr's collision against the rock wall combined the Warlord's full strength and the centrifugal force from its spinning. The untreated [Alpha's Pelt] did nothing to mitigate damage for him.

Rydr's HUD flashed red, warning the diver that he was in danger even as he gasped to suck air back into his body.

*HP: 123/480*

The giant's health bar remained barely a sliver above a quarter as his body heeded gravity again and fell out of the crater, his impact left in the wall. The diver fell a meter to the ground.

Somehow, despite his ragdoll impression, Rydr was right-side-up when he met the wall, so he managed to land on his feet while he sucked in massive breaths to replace what he'd lost. Stone pelted the top of Rydr's head and shoulders, knocked loose from the crater in the wall.

The giant stumbled before he caught himself. When he looked up to find the Warlord, it still stood in the middle of the chamber, laughing raucously and grinning like a spoiled child. 

Still disoriented from the spinning and collision, the monster's image started to overlap with a similar scene from Rydr's childhood, of his tormentor laughing and giddy from the pain they caused a small child.

Rydr shook his head to dispel the image, fury pumping adrenaline through his veins. Blood fell into his eyes, stinging and turning his vision red. 

The dyed red visage of the monster's giddy face still overlapped with the other. Even though he knew that he should run away from the creature and try to escape from the mines, Rydr couldn't take it anymore.

"WIPE THAT FUCKING SMILE OFF YOUR FACE!" Rydr's shout shook the air, deafening the nearby divers who had just recovered from their [Stunned] status.

When Rydr roared at the creature, he activated everything.

 [Peerless Physique], which had its cooldown wear off during all the fighting, settled on Rydr's body in bloody red light. Unknown to the giant, his strength rose to 359. [Third Eye] was activated subconsciously and painted the chamber in the brilliant colors of the ambient mana.

The shout, powered by all of the behemoth's buffs and the almost insanity-inducing rage pumping through him, eclipsed the Hobgoblin Warlord's original war-cry. 

His super strong diaphragm, which happened to be a muscle, shot the air out of his mouth like a cannon with a mist of steam. The steam came from the extra body heat brought by [Berserker's Rage], which poured off his body.

Then Rydr braced himself against the wall and kicked off with all his strength. His joints shrieked at him as his skin started to bruise visibly on the legs—the wall, already damaged from the diver hitting it, crumbled under the giant's bare feet.

The enormous diver rocketed forward, parallel to the ground, and tackled the Warlord. The impact of their skin against each other sounded like a meaty sonic boom. The collision with the monster's stomach echoed down Rydr's neck painfully.

The Hobgoblin boss never expected its weak prey to fight back and wasn't braced when Rydr seemed to teleport into its stomach. The towering monster bent in two from the impact, breath audibly whooshing out of its mouth, before they both flew across the chamber and into the opposite wall. 

*-0*
*-60*

Even with the monster's body eating a lot of Rydr's momentum, the initial force from his super-jump wasn't abated at all.

However, Rydr's flying headbutt dealt zero damage. Only the impact against the wall affected the creature in any way. The difference in their levels was too great; the level suppression made it so the diver couldn't deal damage to the monster. Not that Rydr noticed or cared at the moment.

Despite having its breath knocked out, the monster wasn't stunned. It grabbed Rydr's shoulders and tried to force the diver away from itself so it could grab its trapped weapon.

Its confusion from the sudden attack increased when Rydr failed to move a centimeter.

Instead, the enormous diver wrapped his arms around the monster's abdomen, braced his legs, turned, and heaved the creature into the air as hard as he could.

It was the Hobgoblin Warlord's turn to have its world blur into color and motion as Rydr flung into the air. However, that wasn't enough for the colossus as he leaped after the boss, chasing it into the air.

To the side of the chamber, the rest of the divers present, including Urginok and Syrna, watched the ongoing battle numbly. Their own battle was forgotten in the wake of the two monsters' destruction. 

Even Rydr's teammates couldn't help but see their teammate, cloaked in the giant [Alpha's Pelt] and covered in blood, as a monster. The clash between the titans continued to shake the chamber, sending showers of stone and small stalactites to the floor.

Shining Star's raid team was gobsmacked. Their mouths all hung open as they witnessed the giant diver tangle with the [Elite] boss monster. Some of them even wanted to cheer on the monstrous diver when he stood up after the monster's first attack, even though he was their enemy moments ago.

Then they watched the giant diver shove the [Elite] boss around the chamber like a sack of potatoes. From there, the raid team's awe and hope quickly turned to horror. Even though the boss-like diver outmatched the Warlord's raw power, he couldn't deal any damage, which meant they couldn't deal damage either.

They tried to stand and run away, but the two monsters' battle shook the tunnels like a localized earthquake and continuously knocked them off their feet. Only one diver, one of the archers, made it to his feet and started to stagger away, like a ship in a storm.

Back inside the chamber, Rydr caught up with the Hobgoblin Warlord in midair, throwing out a super-charged uppercut into the monster's stomach. For the second time in the creature's life, it bent double over its enemy's fist like a cartoon character.

The uppercut arrested Rydr's momentum, transferring it into the monster. The Warlord's involuntary flight continued until it met the tip of a creamy white stalactite. The tip of the stalactite was forced through the joint of its bare shoulder from the raw momentum of the collision. 

The Warlord roared in pain and rage, unused to the puny ants it hunted, managing to hurt it.

*-0*
*CRIT -110*

Just as before, Rydr dealt no damage with his attack. Strangely enough, the stalactite returned the exact amount of damage Rydr was dealt before.

When Rydr landed on the chamber's floor, cracks spread out from the impact of his feet in a spiderweb. [Springform] negated any damage he might have suffered from the eight-meter freefall, so Rydr spent no time preparing his next move.

The Warlord's weight ripped the stone out of its shoulder as it fell twelve meters towards the waiting giant. Rydr waited for the right moment before he stepped out of the way and grabbed the monster by one of its feet.

Even before the creature met the ground, Rydr turned around and braced the monster's leg against his shoulder. The movement whipped the Warlord's head into the ground, dealing minimal damage, but that wasn't Rydr's goal.

The colossus roared and heaved against the Warlord's leg like a giant lever, lifting the monster into the air and slamming it back into the ground in a perfect arch.

*-70*

Without pause, Rydr continued to lift the monster into the air and slam it back and forth into the ground. Each impact shook the chamber, even as the spiderweb of cracks underneath Rydr continued to spread. 

Those stuck on the side of the cavern noticed a faint blue light start to creep out from the cracks in the chamber floor. 

Rydr lifted the Warlord above his head to slam it into the ground again when the monster's leg vanished from his grasp and sent the giant diver stumbling to the ground.

Incensed, Rydr spun around as on his knees as he tried to stand. When he turned, the Warlord was on its feet, an enormous axe held aloft as the monster brought it straight down at Rydr's face. 

Rydr's breath hissed out as he rolled to the side, the axe whistling by his face and burying itself in the ground, creating a fissure in the chamber floor. The shock from the blow bounced Rydr off the ground, despite his new bulk.

Each of the missed attacks thundered against the diver's senses in their twisted game of whack-a-mole. From the tip of each attack, a new crack split the chamber floor.

The Warlord brought its axe down repeatedly as it tried to split Rydr in half. The colossus rolled around on the floor, barely dodging the weapon, in a circle before he got his feet under him and dove at the monster's legs, sending them both to the floor.

The monster roared as it toppled, Rydr's own roar mixing with it. 

On the ground, the monster twisted, trying to free itself from the diver's grasp. Its life-saving skill, [Retreat], was on cooldown, else it would have used it again. Its other abilities required the monster to take more damage than the giant diver could deal. 

Rydr, aware that a single hit would kill him, crawled up the monster's body and straddled it, using his knees to pin the monster's arms to its side. The Warlord heaved, trying the throw the diver off, roaring in the giant's face. 

The colossus roared right back, spittle flying from his mouth as he grabbed the monster by its head and started to bash it into the ground. Rydr's roaring continued as he lifted the monster's head and smashed it into the ground again and again.

*-0*
*-30*
*-0*
*-30*
*-0*
*-30*

In the middle of his frenzy, Rydr was almost thrown off when the Warlord kneed him in the back, almost ending the diver's life in the process. His HUD flashed blood red, repeatedly blinking on the edge of his vision.

*-50 HP*
*HP 73/480*

Enraged, Rydr dug his thumbs into the Hobgoblin Warlord's eyesockets. The monster's angry roars turned into cries of agony as Rydr popped its eyes out of their sockets, even as he kept beating its head into the ground. The gelatinous orbs slipped disgustingly against Rydr's palms to dangle against the monster's cheeks.

*CRIT -100*
*CRIT -100*

Rydr lifted the monster's head to slam it into the ground again when the enormous diver vanished in a pillar of light.

The chamber was almost silent except for the monster's cries, its head falling to the ground in the absence of Rydr's attacks. 

The divers still in the chamber and closest tunnel blinked, shocked at the giant's sudden disappearance.

One of the Shining Star members, the tank that Urginok was fighting earlier, called out from his place on the ground.

"Did...did he die?" He was confused because it looked like the giant diver still had health left when he vanished.

"I...I don't know?" Urginok muttered back.

The Warlord, even though it was blinded, whipped its head around towards them as it stood up. They all gulped in tandem as the beast flashed red, releasing another ear-splitting roar, and stomped on the ground.

The chamber floor, so heavily abused by the clash of giants, suddenly collapsed under its feet. In the same instant, the floor exploded upwards as a wave of light rushed out of it and disintegrated everyone present.

Why can't it work that way?

In an era of VR gaming, the latest software allows the game to learn, to grow. Frontier Online is the first VR game to enable players to invent or modify their own skills.

Enchanted by the idea, Ryan Harringer learns that Frontier Online will allow divers to play in their sleep. For the first time in his life, Ryan will play a video game.

The first problem? Ryan must learn how to walk. The second? Guilds suck.


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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!

Year 2035. The Virtual reality game, Warlord, changed the world. An Jaehyun was one of the many who wished to change his life through the game. After dedicating his life to the game, he was met with a betrayal. A betrayal by his comrades. As a result, he lost everything. But a chance was given to him. A chance to redo everything again! "I won't play with others again. Whatever the outcome, I'll show that I can do it alone." Others rolled a dice to split the spoils of victory. An Jaehyun ate it all by himself. It was the start of An Jaehyun's solo game life.

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!

Year 2035. The virtual reality game, Warlord, changed the world. An Jaehyun was one of the many who wished to change his life through the game. After dedicating his life to the game, he was met with a betrayal. A betrayal by his comrades. As a result, he lost everything. But a chance was given to him. A chance to redo everything again! “I won’t play with others ever again. Whatever the outcome, I’ll show that I can do it alone.” Others rolled a dice to split the spoils of victory. An Jaehyun ate it all by himself. It was the start of An Jaehyun’s solo game life.

    On top of this Chaotic Continent, there are not many clansmans in Monster Night Clan, even the smallest of all races!

    Monster Night Clan is a powerful race in any Great Thousand World. From the moment of birth, Monster Night Race clansman has the strength of Innate lifeform. This race, even in Upper Realm, is a dominant player.

    Heavenly Dao is fair, just because Monster Night Clansman is strong, whether it is strength, talent, or even the appearance of the body is almost perfect.

    But they have a fatal flaw, that is, the ability to breed is very poor, the number of ethnic groups is difficult to upgrade, otherwise the strength of Monster Night Clan may have long dominated this piece of Chaotic Continent.

    Monster Night Clan is a very proud race, and it is not particularly addicted to killing, so when Luo Zheng took a group of humans into their territory, they only gave a warning to let Luo Zheng evacuate their area.

    Because of pride, Monster Night Clansman rarely fought alongside lifeforms of other races, which is why the three Monster Night Clansman were surprised to see Luo Zheng's Sword Spirit!

    "Let me see more clearly," Monster Night Race girl slashed her bones, her eyes flashing a pale blue rays of light, her pupils almost turned into a sky-like color, when her eyes focused on After Luo Zheng's Sword Spirit, his face suddenly changed dramatically!

    Wang

    Monster Night Race girl spit out a word and suddenly turned over from the treetop, the agile figure hangs gently on the branch, then knees down toward the front kneel down.

    Wang

    The other two Monster Night Clansman heard the words of the Monster Night Race girl, revealing the doubtful color. They used the same method to condense their own eyes and watched Sword Spirit around Luo Zheng. His face changed dramatically and he even went with the girl. In the same way, one knee is on the ground, and all faces are pious.

    After the ceremony, the three Monster Night Clansman slowly got up. One of them asked: "Fei'er, why is the king appearing next to the Human Race boy?"

    "I don't know," said Fei'er's Monster Night Race girl, shaking her head in confusion. "The king has never been there. There is a big secret hidden in this human being. He should not stop him!"

    "The boy is not an opponent of Demon Race War Venerable, save him, I will inform Lord Mei," said another Monster Night Clansman.

    "Well," Fei'er just nodded, as if he was stepping on a gust of wind and slamming toward the front, like a dexterous leopard, and then continually stepping on the branches of the jungle, the slender body leaping, The bone arch in the hand has corrected the direction, and the bone arrow behind it does not know when it has been placed on the bow!

    In the face of Demon Race War Venerable, Luo Zheng is backing up and letting Sword Spirit Monster Night rise!

    Great Emperor Blood Demon's great sword smashed out and made a huge black shadow in the air, heading down to Demon Race War Venerable.

    "Monster Night Clansman? Haha ! "Demon Race War Venerable sneered, a pair of red-red giant hands slammed into the hands, and even the black giant sword was caught in his hands, and then it twisted hard, even to Sword Spirit Monster Night.

    But Monster Night's sword dance is very strange, and when she is flying, she backs up, the flexible body unscrews an incredible arc, and bounces against the body's toughness, and even regains the giant sword in her hand. Head towards Demon Race War Venerable in the other direction.

    Clang
"

    It's a pity that Monster Night's sword dance is perfect, but after all, it's the absolute strength of the crush. The Demon Race War Venerable is still too strong. When Monster Night's second sword kills the past, Demon Race War Venerable looks like it. It was another boxing fight on the giant sword. The original fierce sword began to become erratic under the influence of this arrogant force.

    Because of this, Monster Night's empty doors are wide open and can no longer resist the offense behind Demon Race War Venerable.

    Seeing this scene, Luo Zheng's mind is going to call Monster Night back. She is also a Sword Spirit. She will be hurt. If Sword Spirit is damaged, it will take a long time to raise. This is Luo. What Zheng does not want to see.

    Absolutely, what I didn't expect was that at the moment, a sharp bone arrow with a sharp whistling sound flew toward the Demon Race War Venerable.

    On the arrow of the bone arrow, the myo's rune flashes, and the end of the bone arrow drags a long line of milky rays of light.

    The power of this arrow is far beyond the previous shot to Luo Zheng's.

    After all, the previous arrow was only to warn Luo Zheng, and this arrow is to attack Demon Race War Venerable.

    In the face of the bone arrow, the Demon Race War Venerable sneered, and when he reached out and grabbed it in his hand, he heard a "squeaky" sound, directly crushed by Demon Race War Venerable, and then listened to Demon Race. War Venerable sneered: "haha, arrogant Monster Night Clan, when is it allied with weak people?"

    "Monster Night Clan? It turns out that there is also Monster Night Clan on top of this Chaotic Continent! "Luo Zheng's eyebrows suddenly jumped.

    Through Slaughter Sword Mountain, Luo Zheng encountered the strange sword and unexpectedly won the Sword Spirit Monster Night. At the same time, Azure Dragon's mouth also learned that Monster Night Clan is an extremely powerful race, but he absolutely did not think of Chaotic Continent. There is also Monster Night Clan on top!

    Demon Race War Venerable After the voice fell, two Monster Night Clansman figures in the forest slowly emerged. The front is the Monster Night Race girl named Fei'er.

    As she slowly emerged from the forest, the pace of the movement seemed to hide a special rhythm, and at the same time she said in a light voice: "This human being is very special and can be sheltered by our Monster Night Clan."

    "Two Warlord of Monster Night Clan, I want to leave people behind, are you not dreaming?"Demon Race War Venerable sneer.

    Monster Night Clan can see the special features of Luo Zheng, and Demon Race War Venerable has no reason to see it.

    Luo Zheng's brows have been wrinkled.

    Although Monster Night Clan did not show too much hostility to himself, he naturally did not want to fall into the hands of any race, not to mention that these people may not have left his strength.

    I did not expect the situation on this continent to be so complicated…

    At this moment, more than 20 of them were flying in the forest not far away, and they came straight to Luo Zheng.

    "haha, these people are our fellow human beings! Doesn't it have anything to do with your Monster Night Clan and Demon Race? "A hearty, bold voice came and spoke to a middle-aged man with a beard.

    Other humans each extracted the bladed weapon and approached quickly.

    "Human Race," Luo Zheng's eyes flashed, his face showing a smile.

    These people are different from those brought by Luo Zheng. They are genuine Martial Artist!

    As long as there is a human Martial Artist, there is definitely a Great Influences in Human Race, which is definitely good news for Luo Zheng.

    However, although there are many humans in front of them, their strength is not enough. According to the strength of this Chaotic Continent, they should all be called Warlord.

    Warrior, Warlord, War Venerable…

    There are more than twenty Warlord in humans, and there are only two Warlord in Monster Night Race. As for Demon Race, there is only one Demon Race War Venerable, and the situation is still very troublesome.

    "A human being who is as timid as a mouse, have you not been shrinking?" Finally dare to show up? "Demon Race War Venerable doesn't seem to put these more than twenty human Warlords in the eye. Instead, he seems to be more jealous of the two Warlord of Monster Night Race!

    "Are we not here now?"The silver-haired youth among the Human Race is indifferently said.

    Although the area is three-legged, but demon clansman is the most tyrannical, Monster Night Clan does not mean to expand the territory, but demon clansman does not dare to easily provoke Monster Race, only human beings are the most subtle, so they have been stuck in the fortress!

    This group of humans was originally considered for a long time. In the end, there is no need to take action to assist Luo Zheng. After all, they have great risks in doing so. Once they angered Demon Race, it is very likely to break this delicate balance.

    However, after reporting the news, they quickly received the above feedback, and the human brat must be saved. Therefore, this Human Race is also an elite, and there are more than 20 people, but I did not expect it. It was Demon Race who came to War Venerable, so the situation became very troublesome.

    "You, follow them," Luo Zheng, who was caught in the middle, suddenly said to ordinary humans.

    These ordinary humans simply can't understand the situation at hand. They only listen to Luo Zheng's words. Since Luo Zheng is so commanded, hundreds of people began to slowly move toward the human side.

    They were cumbersome for Luo Zheng, and if they hadn't been delayed for a few days, Luo Zheng had already traveled thousands of miles away.

    And the Demon Race Venerable is just staring at Luo Zheng. For it, the ordinary humans who have no hands-on power are just cattle and sheep. There is not much value. The key is to leave Luo Zheng. .

Dave's party rode through the foliage and appeared at the farthest part of the occurring fight. The secondary party of the Devastator team was already in combat against the massive Boss of the area.
Dave could only describe this boss as an overgrown Monster Flower. The kind that lives in Indonesia, which is often named as the Corpse Flower.
Only this one, was purple in color, about 5 times the size of the real-world equivalent… and it had literal limbs. The massive Corpse Flower moved around like an Ent, giant living tree monsters, with wide yellow glowing eyes, with its limbs made of thorny roots.
The players could barely reach up to the monster's knees. The latter on the other hand was swatting them around like small children.
Two Paladins led the front, hardly able to maintain their position. The massive head of the Monster Flower was relentless in its assaults. It slammed down with both hands at the Paladins. Forcing them to hold their shields up to block the damage, yet the moment they had blocked the chopping assault, more roots grew from beneath them, pulling their legs aside. The roots then swung the Paladins like rags and slammed them into nearby trees or pillars.
A Pyromancer was trying his best to keep the monster in place. He kept raining down fire upon the creature, only to find his flames having little to no effect on the boss. The fire would sear and burn its flesh, but more greenery would immediately sprout from next to the wound, repairing the damage and snuffing out the flames.
Dave kept his eyes peeled for the rest of the Devastator party. Warlord, Satan Slayer, and Valentine were the best of the guild's players, and if they came to aid in this fight, they could very well gain the Node of Life. Naturally, this was something Dave didn't wish to hand over to Warlord's party, especially since he had no intention for allowing them to stick around the Underworld.
Still, for now the main Devastator party was nowhere to be seen, so he decided to enjoy the show while waiting… only Singund had something else in mind.
"Lord, isn't staying here doing nothing a giant waste of time? I say we barge in on their fun, slay the monster and the soft skins. It should quench the fire in my blood!" Singund's voice threatened to reveal their position. Dave sighed before he put a finger to his mouth, indicating for his companion to quiet down.
"No, Singund! I have told you before, there are times to fight and there are times to watch. Right now it's a case for the latter. There's no need to spend our energy on the appetizers when the main course has yet to show up. Keep focused, we will have our fun soon enough."
"As the Lord commands." Singund 'whispered' in a normal volume and smashed his fist into his chest as a salute. Dave doubted that the strength behind the smash was necessary, or if it was even painful for Singund, but if it was the High-Orc's enthusiasm didn't show it.
The Tengu dove down like a bird and landed next to Dave. He was in mid-bow as he spoke_ "Lord, the rest of the humans are approaching this area fast. They have encountered the Drow warriors, but the human leader broke their ranks with complete ease. They should arrive here in no more than five minutes."
"Yeah, Warlord has the God of War legacy, he grows stronger the more numerous his enemies are. Don't worry about them. We'll handle them. Now sit back and enjoy the show," Dave ordered.
Their position was keenly hidden behind large bushes and the pillar formation shaded them from sight. Dave's party could see the players while the others had no idea that they were being watched like prey by a predator.
Dave inspected the Boss.
***
Guk-Drasiel
Level 550
Tier: Mythic
Base damage: 150,000-200,000
Danger Level: ☠
HP: 412,555,000/ 500,000,000
PD: 100,000
MD: 200,000
Skills:
[Life Sapling] (Passive): Guk-Drasiel is endowed with the vitality of the Tree of Life. Giving him a continuous regeneration of HP equal to 0.5% of his maximum HP every 4 seconds.
[Thorn Shower]: Guk-Drasiel shoots out a volley of thorns in a circle of 20 Meters. Each thorn deals 10% of his base damage in flat value ignoring armor.
[Death Scent] Guk-Drasiel releases poisonous spores, once inhaled one will suffer a 20% reduction in their damaging abilities and will receive 20% additional damage from all sources.
[Ruinous Invader] Upon the start of combat, Guk-Drasiel will have a parasite invading one of the attacker's bodies. Guk-Drasiel will trigger the parasite's awakening once his HP falls below 50%. The parasite will take control of the host and turn it into an ally of Guk-Drasiel. Killing the controlled player will cause the parasite to double in number and infect more attackers.
Lore: Guk-Drasiel used to be a fungus that grew under the roots of Yggdrasil. Due to the Tree of Life possessing infinite vitality, the fungus that was supposed to die only weeks after its birth managed to survive for centuries. Over the years it has mutated and grew to what it is right now.
The fungus had decided to part itself from the Tree of Life in an attempt to become a Tree of Life itself. Since that time it has been captured by the Drow Lord and made into a guardian of his kingdom.
Guk-Drasiel is the reason for the greenery and life that is a rare sight in the Underworld.
***
Dave read through the Boss's notification and frowned. He was not a fan of one of the Boss's Skills. Turning an ally into an enemy was dangerous, especially if by some awful luck, the parasite managed to invade Dave himself.
Dave thought for a few moments then came to a decision. If he were to fight the Boss, he needed to have all of his allies clean of the parasite. But that was impossible unless the Devastators willingly took in the parasites.
The tree monster swatted away the two Paladins the moment they tried to stand back up, never giving them the chance to regain their footing. The Pyromancer was failing miserably in keeping the creature occupied, as his damage was most likely not even registered by the boss. Then came Hunter's turn. He shot arrows at a speed that it made Lone Arrow's [Rapid Shots] look like they had been shot in slow motion.
Yet, even all of that damage combined failed to cause Guk-Drasiel to so much as flinch. The Priest of the party healed and buffed the unlucky Paladins as much as he could… so much so that his threat level rose actually managed to rise high enough for Guk-Drasiel to take note of him. A noob mistake that no player of such level should ever make.
Guk-Drasiel stopped toying with the Paladins and instead charged at the Priest. Fortunately, they were still a team of professionals, so thank to a well-timed [Anchor Call], the creature stopped his attack mid-way and turned back to rain havoc upon the Paladin who had used the Threat Increasing Skill.
The Paladin's [Block] was still on cooldown so he was forced to take the hit head-on. Downing him to less than half of his HP and stunning him for a few seconds to top it off.
The party was desperately trying to juggle the monster's aggressiveness, but unlike a party of ten or more, the five of them were ill-equipped and ill-matched to accomplish such a feat with success.
"GOD'S FIST!" roared the well-known voice of Warlord.
Immediately after, a golden gauntlet manifested itself from above the monster. The sheer size of the gauntlet dwarfed even the massive tree monster.
The creature looked at the gauntlet with fear in its golden eyes, nevertheless, it held its hands up in a defensive manner, contending against the literal fist of a War God. Holding the gauntlet away from crushing it.
The strength behind the fist was enough to break and splinter the monster's body and crater the ground underneath it. Yet the monster was not to be trifled with. Even if Warlord's Skill was the Fist of God. It was only a manifestation and not the real thing.
The creature's screech increased in loudness and pitch. More roots burst out from under the ground and coiled themselves against the fist halting its advance.
Warlord and company emerged from the other side of the foliage and walked into the clearing.
The monster was busy contending with the fist above his body by sheer will and the power of the growing roots. Eventually, the fist got completely covered with roots and its golden light dissipated under the roots.
"You're not bad," Warlord muttered, "But you're nothing but a harmful weed, DIE!" 
Warlord raised his leg and slammed down on the ground under him. The God's Fist dissipated, causing the coiling roots to falter and slam into each other. Then a golden armored boot, twice as large as the gauntlet appeared above the creature.
Guk-Drasiel helplessly watched as the foot came down, crushing it into the ground.
An enormous numerical value appeared over the monster, downing him to half of his HP in one hit.
"Fuck," Dave cursed, "He never used that one before! Seems like you can teach an old dog some new tricks..."
It was not unusual for high rankers to hide their real Skills. If their enemies knew about all of their powers, they could prepare countermeasures. Warlord at least had this one ace up his sleeve. The question was, how many more did he have… 
The tree monster groaned and screeched in pain. The boot disappeared and the monster looked nothing like it had before.It was crushed to mush, but it still moved and was far from death. The greenery came towards it, trying to restore it back to health.
Suddenly, the Pyromancer of the party shouted, "Shit! DUCK!" Just as he finished his words, he turned his staff and shot a torrent of fire at Warlord.
"It's about to start," Dave mentioned grinning. If only he'd have some popcorn.


Three years ago Conquest was released, redefining virtual reality and gaming. 
‘An entire world on a server. Dive in and play the RPG to end all others; explore, create, conquer. LIVE!’ 
It became an overnight phenomena worldwide. 
Dave Ruster grew up without a family to speak of, he had few friends and fewer prospects. He lives in the same small town where he graduated from high school, and works long hours at a low-paying job that barely pays for rent and the food on his table. He can’t afford college, but at least he is not out on the streets. 
His life is going nowhere, stuck on a treadmill. 
Until chance, karma, or providence, call it whatever you believe in, intervenes. Suddenly, David’s circumstances change. 
Injured and unable to work, he’s about to lose what little he has. His fate balances where crisis and opportunity go hand in hand.
He can risk it all, seizing the opportunity to make circumstances work for him, potentially going further and higher than he ever dreamed. Or he can accept his fate and watch life from the sidelines 
Join Dave as he puts all his aspirations and hopes, all that he is, into the game he always wanted to play, Conquest!  
It will be a journey of adventure and discovery, victory and loss, as he strives to create a new future for himself, in-the-game and In Real Life.


**** Story is currently being proofed by our Lord Sambraga! (chapters 54+) so please bear with the mediocre quality of writing in the first chaps, it gets much better later on!****

After he passed through the dimensional portal, Lin Huang was briefly dazzled but his senses quickly returned to normal.
Lifting his eyes to look around, all he could see was a pure white world.
An endless field of snow stretched as far as the eye could see. No one knew how many years this place had been covered with frost.
The sky above was gray and misty. A light snow drifted toward the ground.
With a cold wind blowing at him directly, Lin Huang felt chilly even though he possessed Divine Fire within him.
"The temperature in this place is already close to absolute zero..."
Looking around, Lin Huang did not notice other participants. It was clear that he was the only one who had been teleported to this area.
Using Divine Telekinesis to probe his surroundings, Lin Huang frowned slightly after a while.
This particular set of ruins severely limited the probing abilities of Divine Telekinesis. Even though the power of his Divine Telekinesis was comparable to that of a True God, the probing radius had been restricted to about 100 kilometers.
"Since my Divine Telekinesis perception has been restricted, it looks like I'll have to employ other methods to find prey." As he thought about it, Lin Huang had already retrieved a Monster Card.
Once the card had been crumbled, a bald humanoid robotic man more than three meters tall quickly materialized in front of Lin Huang.
This time, the object of Lin Huang's summons was the mechanical-type Warlord.
"First, check if there are any high-rank virtual god-level monsters nearby."
After Bloody's departure, Lin Huang had handed over any exploration work to Warlord. As it turned out, Warlord was very competent at these jobs.
Warlord received the command and quickly released many snowflake-like mechanical bugs that mingled with the real snow and drifted away in all directions.
The mechanical bugs that Warlord released could disguise themselves in any form necessary and did not give off any life fluctuations. They could easily deceive most cultivators in the great world who were one level higher.
At Warlord's current Virtual God rank-8 combat strength, the mechanical bugs could escape being detected by the Divine Telekinesis of most individuals below eighth-rank True God-level.
Of course, it was still possible for a small number of cultivators with remarkable Divine Telekinesis abilities or extraordinary perception in other areas to uncover these mechanical bugs.
Almost an hour later, the mechanical bugs sent feedback on the preliminary results of the exploration. Warlord automatically generated a small-scale map and projected it.
This map covered almost three thousand kilometers of the surrounding area.
"The white dots are beginner-stage and intermediate-stage virtual god-level monsters. The yellow dots are high-level Virtual Gods, and the Virtual God rank-9s are the blinking yellow dots. The red dots are true god-level monsters; the darker the color, the stronger the aura."
"What about these green dots?" Lin Huang asked as he pointed at a green dot on the map.
"These are the participants."
"Alright, plan the best hunting route then."
Lin Huang had barely finished speaking before a white line quickly connected a large number of yellow dots on the map.
"If we take this route, we can kill 76% of the high-level Virtual Gods on this map without doubling back," Warlord explained.
"Then let's follow this route." Lin Huang nodded slightly.
After they had determined the hunting route, the two of them set off without any hesitation, hurrying in the direction of the first target.
After about three minutes, the two found the first target—a Frost Fox.
The Frost Fox looked like a snow-white fox, but it was much larger than the foxes on Earth. Not including its three long furry tails, it was usually about three meters in length.
This kind of mutated monster cultivated Frost Element divine abilities; cold places were their favorite habitat.
Not only did they possess terrifying speed, but the strength of their claws and fangs was no less than that of a god relic. They could also form ice armor over their bodies and had amazing defensive abilities.
In addition to using melee strategies, they also utilized Frost Element techniques that allowed them to engage in long-range attacks and assist in combat.
It could be said that Frost Foxes were very well-rounded opponents.
The combat strength of this particular Frost Fox was only at Virtual God rank-7, but in terms of overall ability, it would take a lot of effort even if an ordinary Virtual God rank-9 wanted to hunt it. 
However, the Frost Fox was unfortunate enough to encounter Lin Huang.
The creature had barely growled a warning before its head was instantly penetrated by a silver gleam.
Almost in the next second, the silver gleam shot backward, circled Lin Huang, and fell into his palm.
It was a silver flying dagger thick as two fingers.
Lin Huang played with the weapon in his hand for a moment and nodded in satisfaction. "This was unexpectedly handy!"
The flying dagger was one of the telekinetic weapons that Lin Huang had formed from his God Weapons.
This was the first time he had tried it out in actual combat; it was much easier to use than he had expected.
Lin Huang walked over to the corpse of the Frost Fox, skillfully retrieved an ice crystal-like white Godhead, and easily stored the beast's corpse into his space storage.
After tossing the Godhead into the Divine Fire of his inner world, Lin Huang frowned.
"It's still unable to absorb anything..."
Just like on previous occasions, the Life Palace refused to absorb the energy from the Godhead.
In the beginning, Lin Huang had thought that this refusal to absorb energy was because his combat strength had improved too rapidly and he lacked a solid foundation. However, it had been a few months since he had advanced to grade-9 Imperial-level but his Life Palace was still in a saturated state, refusing to absorb the Godhead's energy.
Although the Life Palace seemed to be completely saturated, Lin Huang could clearly sense that his Life Palace was not yet complete.
Lin Huang had also considered that perhaps the Life Palace refused to absorb the Godhead's energy because there were special advancement conditions that had to be fulfilled before it could be fully completed.
This time he had deliberately taken things into his own hands instead of directly purchasing the Godhead refinement, just to see if the advancement condition was that he had to kill the monster himself and obtain the Godhead. However, it seemed that this was not one of the conditions for advancement.
He stood where he was for a while and thought about it before turning his head toward Warlord and saying, "Modify the route; Virtual God rank-7s can be removed from the hunting targets."
Although Warlord did not know what happened, he still immediately did as he was asked. The yellow dots on the map instantly reduced by more than half.
The new route was also plotted in the next second.
After five to six minutes, Lin Huang and Warlord arrived at the location of the second hunting target.
This Virtual God rank-8 monster was an Ox Devil.
With a height of more than five meters, it was covered with fur that was several times thicker than that of an ordinary Ox Devil. The four magma-like scarlet eyes on its head stared at Lin Huang who had intruded into its territory.
A second later, however, a silver gleam flashed through the void. Before the Ox Devil could react, the silver gleam penetrated its forehead.
The light in the four scarlet eyes of the Ox Devil faded quickly as if there was no electricity. Its huge body crashed to the ground.
It was another instant kill!
Lin Huang possessed Divine Telekinesis that was as powerful as that of a True God, plus a telekinetic flying dagger that was comparable to a god sequence relic. Even without the addition of God Rule Power and Elemental Enlightenment, this was enough for him to easily kill all cultivators below true god-level.
After spending a few seconds to retrieve the Godhead from the Ox Devil. Lin Huang once again tossed the new Godhead into his inner world.
After a while, he frowned once more.
 "It's still not working…"
"Warlord, modify the route again. Remove the Virtual God rank-8s and only keep the Virtual God rank-9s!"
Warlord projected the map again a moment later.
The route had changed again, but now, out of the initial several dozen yellow dots, only four were left…


Lin Huang was a 15-year old boy from Earth, on a path to live his life in a world full of monsters. With his younger sister in his care, and given only 91 days to live, the odds were not in his favor at all... That is until, he killed a vicious vampire, purely by accident. With a twist in his tale, his life was changed completely. As he fought his way through this world with the help of his troops made of men and monsters, the boy sets his sights on a much larger ambition of becoming the greatest monster hunter in the world!

It was no longer an odd job to make money with paid videos. This was especially the case with gamers, who made money through gaming. In the past, they made most of their money by selling in-game items, but now paid videos of game play made much more money. There were countless number of game VJs who earned hundreds of millions of won a year.

The same went for Warlord. Even without live broadcast channels, Warlord-related videos ranked among the top of paid videos. Even Hollywood was threatened by Warlord!

It went without saying that everyone uploaded videos to make whatever amount they could. Even cows or dogs did. As a result, there were over ten million Warlord-related videos coming out every day. It wasn't easy to stand out in this sea of videos. The only way was to spend big money to actively advertise the videos or to have a concept that stood out among the crowd.

This was how the Hahoe Mask Guild was formed.

An Jaehyun and Kim Dongsoo. They decided to form a guild the moment they joined hands, and they contemplated on what concept to use to make their guild known. It wasn't easy. They even considered dirty concepts like wearing underwear only. What's funny was that there were people who have done this already. There was even a guild where the members all danced in their underwear after a successful raid. Although it wasn't a Top 30 Guild, it was fairly popular.

In any case, An Jaehyun was the one to suggest something.

"Why don't we wear hahoe masks?"

Hahoe mask.

"It's a very Korean-esque, don't you think?"

It wasn't a bad idea. Thankfully, no other guild had used this concept before.

There was another reason.

"Also, we're all comrades in arms. Let's not do something like distinguishing our ranks through uniforms."

Almost all famous guilds had a symbol, and they matched their uniforms around that symbol. The bigger the guild was, the more people it had. As such, they distinguished their ranks using uniforms – 1st corp, 2nd corp, 3rd corp, etc.

But An Jaehyun suggested that every guild members wear the same mask. His dream back then was for everyone to eat and live well. His suggestion was approved, and the Hahoe Mask Guild was born. The concept of wearing hahoe masks in battles worked quite well, and they garnered attention at a quick pace.

Because of this, Hyrkan couldn't throw away the hahoe mask. It was his pride and joy, almost like a son. Plus, he couldn't throw away a concept he knew would work. In fact, he had to do it before others did.

But he had forgotten about it.

With the blue werewolf corpse in front of him, Hyrkan shook his head while watching the video he just took through the hologram monitor.

'The video came out well, but…'

The battle video was amazing. His battle style was something never before seen in Warlord. It could go viral if word got around, and Hyrkan's name was naturally spread.

On the other hand, if he really wanted to make hahoe mask his concept, he couldn't release a video with his real face.

It wasn't that he feared his face becoming recognized. At this time, no one should know who he was anyways. His war against the Stormhunter Guild hadn't yet happened.

'Concepts only work when you take it and keep it.'

What was important was the concept.

Wearing a hahoe mask after showing his face already? The impact lessened greatly. Especially if the concept revolved around wearing masks, it was important always to have it on to add to the mysterious effect.

Most importantly, Hyrkan wasn't handsome enough that he would benefit in any way by showing his face. In fact, he would be happy not to get penalized. Of course, if he used anti-face recognition mode, he could blur his face out. It was basic. In Warlord, players could prevent others from taking videos of them by using the anti-face recognition mode. Without this system, Warlord would become a voyeur heaven.

Of course, if he wanted to upload the video, it was possible. He just had to put in the hahoe mask with CG work.

But hiring a professional to do this was something he couldn't do.

"Ehew."

In the end, Hyrkan decided to give up on the video. Though wasteful, he could always make another one. Although blue werewolves were a popular search topic, it didn't necessarily guarantee high viewer count.

'I was dumb.'

Moreover, it was Hyrkan's fault. He couldn't blame anyone.

And this was who Hyrkan was. He was far from the word 'perfect.' Except in games, he was below average in everything. It was why he bet devoted his life to gaming. If he were good at anything else, he wouldn't have bet his life on gaming, nor would he have been so shaken after being betrayed.

After calming himself, Hyrkan got up.

He didn't have much time.

Plus, killing the blue werewolf was a big profit in itself.

He was given an opportunity.

'Looks like I can finally use the Skeleton Fragment skill properly.'

★★★

In Warlord, completed items didn't drop after killing monsters.

Except for items received as quest rewards, most were crafted. The crafting process was largely split into three stages.

The first was to obtain the materials. To obtain the materials, players had to disassemble the monsters. The moment the monsters' HP became 0 they could be disassembled. It became much easier to skin the monster, like opening a well-packed box. If you did it randomly, the tape would get in the way, but by using a knife, it became much easier.

As soon as the leather, skin, or scales come off, the monsters begin melting. Players called it the ice-cream mode. During this process, it was possible to taste the monsters' meat. They surprisingly had various tastes, like different flavors of ice-cream. They were also cold, like a dessert after players.

Finally, after the monsters finished melting, they left behind bones and jewels.

What was important to note was that skin and bones were something obtainable from all monsters, but not jewels. Jewels had a drop rate. Some dropped them; some didn't. And these jewels were usually used to craft high-ranking items, starting from rare rank.

Furthermore, the skin and bones could be converted into coin form whenever the players wanted. If one converted the skin and bones of an apartment-sized monster, he could get enough coins to fit a 20-kilogram rice bag. It wasn't light, but it was much better than carrying around the skin and bones. Besides, no players hated getting a rice bag worth of coins. In fact, they would say 'this is all I get?' Then again, common sense would ask why they didn't just place them in the inventory.

These materials could be used to craft items with the Cube in Item Factories located in certain castles. Although the official name was Cube, players called it the slot machine. If one put it the basic materials needed to craft items and coins, a normal-rank item popped out. To get items rare or above, jewels had to be put in. After putting in the materials in the cube, one just had to shake it furiously; then an item popped out from inside.

There were times when a unique-rank item came out from the expected normal or rare rank items. There were cube addicts who bet on this small chance and continued buying materials for crafting. It was so bad that people were concerned whether there should be a law against it. Some players spent their whole time cubing like this. Of course, as it was cumbersome to constantly shake the cube, there were workshops for it as well. The workers logged in and shook the cube all day. After a month of this part-time job, you wouldn't want to play Warlord even if you could for free.

In any case, the stat of these unique-rank items were at least 25 levels higher than normal-rank items of the same level. At a time where a level 70 player was the highest, a 25 level difference was huge.

As for the Skeleton Fragment skill, it used same materials as one would for cubing. It was a simple process. You just had to hold the coin tightly in hand and use the Skeleton Fragment skill.

Then.

[You created a Skeleton Fragment using blue werewolf bones.]

[Proficiency in Skeleton Fragment increase.]

A new Skeleton Fragment could be obtained.

Hyrkan opened his hand. Instead of a human skull, the skeleton fragment now took the form of a wolf head. Hyrkan immediately threw the skeleton fragment on the ground.

A new Skeleton Warrior appeared. With its wolf-skull, the Skeleton Warrior looked much more fearsome than before. It had two fangs invoked chills, and Hyrkan liked its burning, red eyes.

Whoosh!

Hyrkan threw a surprise punch at the Skeleton Warrior, which it lightly avoided. While avoiding, it distanced itself far away from Hyrkan. Hyrkan, who had been planning on giving it a kick, smiled instead.

'It's definitely faster than before.'

The new Skeleton Warrior was undoubtedly faster than the basic one.

At the same time, he felt a bit of pressure.

'A monster for one skeleton fragment. It's no problem for small fries, but if I want to make one out of a boss monster… what a money eating skill.'

Skeleton Warriors stats changed depending on the monster used as its base. One made from a boss monster would naturally be stronger.

On the other hand, monster bones were the most frequently used crafting material.

It meant it would cost a lot.

Of course, there was no need to be stingy. What was important was making back the money spent.

Hyrkan took out his hahoe mask.

'No more mistakes.'

Hyrkan also took out a hahoe mask to give his Skeleton Warrior. He was fully prepared to push his concept.

"Hm?"

Once again, Hyrkan realized something.

'It doesn't fit because of its protruding mouth!'

That he really was a dumbass in anything other than gaming.

"Fuck, why am I so stupid?"

It was just another reason Hyrkan had to devote his life to gaming.

MrPiratedFan
*This novel is not own by me or Webnovel. 

Author: D-Dart; 디다트

Original Publisher: Munpia

Language: Korean web novel

Translator: Wuxiaworld

Year 2035. The virtual reality game, Warlord, changed the world. An Jaehyun was one of the many who wished to change his life through the game. After dedicating his life to the game, he was met with a betrayal. A betrayal by his comrades. As a result, he lost everything. But a chance was given to him. A chance to redo everything again! “I won’t play with others ever again. Whatever the outcome, I’ll show that I can do it alone.” Others rolled a dice to split the spoils of victory. An Jaehyun ate it all by himself. It was the start of An Jaehyun’s solo game life.

*This novel is not own by me or Webnovel. 
*I love this novel and decided to post it on Webnovel. 
*Credit to the Author/Writer of this Novel and translators 'Wuxiaworld', God make you stronger. 
MrPiratedFan.

In #023 city stood various delicately constructed buildings. However, these buildings were already quite ruined. The cold wind blew, carrying the howls of monsters in it. The five members of the fire hammer squad swiftly moved forward.
Actually, with Luo Feng's spiritual force, his body fitness level of 'beginner level warlord' jumps up to 'advanced level warlord' which allows him to battle against a beginner level wargod! In other words, you can treat Luo Feng as a wargod now! With Luo Feng there, as long as they are a bit careful, there's virtually no danger! Since horde leaders are rare and anything below the horde leader level instantly gives up their lives the instant they encounter Luo Feng! Even if they run into a 'rat tide' or an 'ant tide', Luo Feng can fly, which guarantees his safety!
"Look, right ahead" Luo Feng and the others were bent over on the black roof of a two story hotel as they looked towards the street in front of them which was big enough to hold four cars side by side.
On the street was a huge horde comprised of ocelot monsters. All of them were howling as they chased a fighter squad. These ocelot monsters had several two tailed ocelots and even a three tailed one.
"There's even a four tailed ocelot in the back!" said Gao Feng softly.
A two tailed ocelot is a low level commander. A three tailed ocelot is a medium level commander. A four tailed ocelot is a high level commander! A high level commander, for the usual fighter squad, is an absolute nightmare.
And ocelots have the power and cruelty of tiger type monsters and the swiftness and agility of cat type monsters. They are quite difficult to get rid of.
"This isn't too hard" Luo Feng slightly squinted.
"They're brothers from the Dojo of Limits, we gotta help them" said Gao Feng seriously. Whenever you encounter danger in the wilderness, you can send out an emergency SOS signal, which would indiscriminately send out signals to every fighter in the vicinity. If they're from the same Dojo, the signal would be red. If they're from different Dojos, the signal would be green!
Each tactical communications watch is connected to the person's fighter ID card, so the watch can automatically differentiate whether or not they're in the same Dojo.
"Captain, you guys go help, I'll cut the back" said Luo Feng softly.
"Crazy is best at fighting in a horde" Wei Qing gave a huge thumbs up. Indeed, Luo Feng, who has amazing technique, performs extremely well in chaotic battles.
Gao Feng softly said: "Go!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The group of people immediately started sprinting. Gao Feng, Wei Tie, Wei Qing, and Chen Gu immediately charged towards the escaping fighter squad, while Luo Feng started slaughtering in the middle of the street behind them! For a wargod, a monster horde holds absolutely no threat at all, unless it's a horde made out of tiny monsters like the rat tide or ant tide.
Of course, if Luo Feng doesn't use his throwing knives, this monster horde is still quite challenging.
"Pu!"
"Puchi!"
Fresh blood flew everywhere and the heads of the ocelot monsters flew up one by one. The huge bodies instantly crumbled to the ground, clogging up the street. These ocelot monsters were mostly soldier level. Only some of them were two tailed ocelots, while even fewer were three tailed ocelots. And there was only one four tailed ocelot!
Like a butterfly, Luo Feng easily floated through the monster horde.
The charge of the monsters was horrifying. Once you get hit by one, it'll be easy for the countless monsters to trample you to death! However, Luo Feng's technique was superb as he used the corpses of other monsters and even some of the sprinting ocelot monsters to block the other monsters. This also allowed him to deal with fewer monsters at a time.
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"Hm? The phone call isn't going through? No one's picking up or replying"
In Jiang-Nan headquarter city, on the top of the Dojo of Limits headquarters, chairman Zhou Zheng Yong was looking at his phone with a confused look. Wargod Yang Hui shook his head on the side: "You can't even deal with something like this, steel hand, I have to treat you with scorn for a bit". As he said that, wargod Yang Hui also dialed Luo Feng's tactical communications watch's number, "Hm, it already displayed his position: #023 city"
Using the signal of the phone, it's easy to determine the location.
Even normal cell phones have this function. "I'll just go over there directly" Wargod Yang Hui waved his hand and directly entered a dark blue jet fighter. After he closed the hatch, the jet fighter quickly soared through the air and flew out the city's defense system as it headed southeast.
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In #023 city, the emergency SOS signal broadcasted to the surrounding 20 km. Actually, when fighters in the wilderness encounter danger, fighters won't come help them if they're too far away! This emergency SOS signal, which was originally set to a radius of 23 km, was broadcasting to quite a large area.
"Hm? It's a green emergency SOS signal, so it's not people of our Thunder Dojo" four fighters were currently sitting in the sixth floor of an old, shattered hotel. "It's probably people from the Dojo of Limits. Brothers, should we go?" said a brute with a scar on his face as he looked towards the others.
A bald, handsome young man lowered his head and said: "We can't make this distance, so let's go take a look. If we can help, then we will. If it's too dangerous, then nevermind".
"Let's do what Guo said, go"
"Alright, let's go"
This North River squad, which was quite famous in Jiang-Nan headquarter city, instantly made their decision and immediately, yet carefully, went out. This North River squad had one advanced level warlord and three intermediate level warlords. However, one of the intermediate level warlords, Guo Hai, was nearing the advanced level warlord level. A fighter squad like this was indeed powerful.
However, they were quite slow in the wilderness city. They didn't dare to sprint, since they were afraid of a monster lying in ambush ahead.
"Right ahead us"
"Hmhm, ocelot monster horde. Damn, bet there's around a thousand of them" the North River squad squatted on the roof of a store and looked towards the street.
"Look over there, what a powerful guy. Just him alone attracted over half of the monsters"
"Where'd that ferocious dude come from?"
The members of the North River squad were all surprised. Even the bald young man, 'Guo Hai', widened his eyes as he looked carefully. All that was seen was a young fighter who had a hexagonal shield in one hand and a ghost blade in the other. As if a ghost, he kept dodging around with amazingly fast, yet extremely precise technique.
"HOWL~~"
"HOWL~~" The enraged monster horde crazily charged towards Luo Feng. Their claws waved like crazy and there were even a huge amount of monsters that leaped towards him. It seemed as if a wave was about to swallow up Luo Feng! However, no matter how crazily the monster horde attacked...
Luo Feng's technique was already 'artistic', as each of his steps were extremely precise. It was a pleasure to watch him sidestep and dodge. The monster horde that was seemingly crazy and enraged, was like a joke in front of Luo Feng's steps.
"Ru Wei class!"
"This is definitely the Ru Wei class technique"
The fighters of the North River squad couldn't help but to say out of surprise.
"Luo Feng? It's actually him?" frowned Guo Hai.
Of course he recognized Luo Feng. When wargod Lu Gang died and the memorial started, he was chatting about Luo Feng with the Xu family's Xu Gang while Luo Feng was chatting with Xu Xin near him. From a certain perspective..... Guo Hai and Luo Feng were rivals in love! Guo Hai liked Xu Xin, and so did Luo Feng.
"Stop watching, let's go already"
"Go!" the four members of the North River squad rushed out.
"This Luo Feng just barely became a fighter. Could it be that he's actually catching up to me?" Guo Hai's heart was filled with a fierce feeling of unsatisfaction. Guys, especially in front of their crush, don't easily accept defeat. Furthermore, he, Guo Hai, is a genius fighter that is approaching the advanced level warlord level. If you don't count in the spiritual force then, indeed, he isn't inferior to Luo Feng.
Luo Feng, like a rock, clogged up the street where the monster horde was sprinting. A huge amount of monster corpses surrounded the area! Whether they charged or leaped towards Luo Feng, there were monsters surrounding Luo Feng in absolutely every direction. However, he was hanging on in this kind of situation.
"This is a way of using the environment to assist my technique" Luo Feng dodged while attacking and was excited inside, "Using the environment and every object, whether the corpses of monsters or the bodies of the monsters that are attacking me, or even a rock..... merge myself with the environment. This is the perfect level" Luo Feng has been thinking about the 'perfect level' technique for this period of time.
He understood the reasoning behind it but, when he actually has to do it, he can't maintain the state for a long time.
"HOWL~~"
With a howl that flew up to the skies, the entire ocelot horde retreated with their leader like a receding ocean. They quickly left. Even though the ocelots were enraged and filled with hatred when they left, the ocelot leader was clear: even if the entire horde was sacrificed, they wouldn't be able to eradicate this human fighter.
"You must be the famous crazy from our Jiang-Nan headquarter city. Now that I saw it for myself, you are indeed powerful. I am the captain of the North River squad, Kang Wei" the man with a scar on his face passionately walked over.
Luo Feng smiled as he walked over. A sound then rang at this time: "Luo Feng!"
A bald young man whose battle uniform had some marks of blood on it walked over and stared at Luo Feng, "Luo Feng, I'm Guo Hai..... you should've heard my name before"
"Guo Hai?" Luo Feng looked at the young man in front of him, "You're the one who became an intermediate level warlord at the age of 21?". Of course Luo Feng remembers this name. When Xu Gang was ridiculing him back then, he mentioned two peopleһһһthe genius fighter 'Guo Hai' and the 'Wang Xing Ping' from the Wang family. They count as his rivals in love. "That's me" a smile appeared on Guo Hai's face, "You probably heard from Xu Gang"
"Hm?" Luo Feng frowned.
"We'll compete on equal terms for Xu Xin!" Guo Hai's eyes were flashing, "Luo Feng, I admit your technique is superb. You're not the kind of person who only just barely stepped into the Ru Wei class and makes mistakes every so often. Your Ru Wei class technique is almost perfect. In terms of technique, I'm inferior to you. At least for this point, I'll praise you"
By this time, the fire hammer squad members and the fighter squad of the Dojo of Limits that was saved by them came over.
"The thunder Dojo's genius fighter Guo Hai?"
Of course Gao Feng, Chen Gu, and the others knew about Guo Hai. Guo Hai was extremely famous! He was also scouted for the Thunder Dojo back then.
"However, Luo Feng, by the end of this year, I should be able to become an advanced level warlord!" Guo Hai slightly smiled, "I think a 22 year old advanced level warlord is enough for the Xu family to give their daughter's hand in marriage to me". Guo Hai was a very calm person. When he first heard of Luo Feng, Guo Hai didn't even give a second thought about him at all.
However, he felt a threat when he saw Luo Feng's performance today, which was why he said all of that!
"Even if the Xu family is willing, Xu Xin has to agree as well" frowned Luo Feng. Because of Xu Xin's identity, many people are sure to chase after Xu Xin. Who knew that he would actually meet a rival in love today.
"Hm?" Luo Feng looked towards the far away sky and saw a dark blue light flash through the sky. After that, it stopped above them. This beautiful, dark blue colored UFO-shaped fighter jet then started to descend and actually stopped on a street around a dozen meters away from Luo Feng and the others.



Year 2056, in a city in the Yuan Jiang Su Jin area. On top of a ruined, shattered six story residential apartment sits a teenager wearing a combat vest, militaristic trousers, and alloyed battle boots. On his back is a hexagonal shield and equipped is a blood-shadow battle knife. He sits there silently on the edge of the roof. At this time, the sparkling sky was shining and there was a refreshing breath within the air that blew towards him. However, there was only silence within the ruined, deserted city, with an occasional howl that makes your heart skip a beat.     

Upon hearing that, Su Bai glanced over and indeed saw a small cave behind the waterfall. A small tree was growing inside, with some green fruit. 
It seemed that the waterfall had thinned significantly because of the lack of rain today, hence revealing the small cave behind. 
Looking intently at it, a line of small fireflies appeared before his eyes. 
[Introduction]: The Tier 2 low-level Woodgrain Fruit has the effect of restoring a pet's spiritual power and increasing stamina; it can also temporarily heighten certain wood resistance for a duration.
Woodgrain Fruit Tree generally grows near the body of water and on pith ore. 
Aquamarine Stone monsters usually like to sleep beside any Woodgrain Fruit Tree, waiting for it to naturally mature before eating it. 
*****
"That's a Woodgrain Fruit Tree at low-level warlord. Be careful. There should be warlord monsters around." 
Upon hearing this, the others immediately stood up. Their pets also guarded them vigilantly. 
Even if these five worked together, they could barely defeat a warlord monster. 
"Something isn't right. We've been here for so long; any monster should have planted a sneak attack on us. Why are we still unharmed?" Chen Rouxue voiced her doubt. 
In fact, Su Bai was also curious about that. It stood to reason that a monster would have appeared long ago, but not one had shown up all this while. 
"Xiao Bai, fly up and take a look!" Chen Rouxue was reluctant to give up on such a big treasure.
"Hehe!"
Little Devil called twice and flew up, its figure blurring. 
"Roar!" 
It only flew less than halfway when a huge water column sprayed toward it. Right after, a gigantic humanoid Aquamarine Stone monster, more than two meters high, appeared in the air with a blue water stream. 
"Hehe!"
The small demon reacted with its Scary Ghost Shadow, wanting to control the stone monster. Under its attack, the Aquamarine Stone monster flashed with blue light and rendered the other's attack useless. 
With a slam from its hit, Little Devil was sent flying. Its body blurred a lot, for it was injured. 
"Xiao Bai, come back!" Chen Rouxue quickly called it. This Aquamarine Stone monster was actually immune to her pet's control effect. 
"Don't worry; that monster is injured, and it's not a minor injury. Let's deal with it carefully as we have a chance." 
Su Bai informed in a deep voice. The monster obviously looked a little sluggish and had flames and claw marks on its body. Although its spiritual power had been restored to peak state, the injuries on its body were not fully healed yet, and it had probably just had a recent fight. 
"Buddy, use Hypnotic Powder!" 
He wanted to see if it was immune to all attacks.
 "Howl!" 
The cub's thorns spread out, covering the field with dark green thorny vines. The fragrance of flowers diffused, and the thorn pollen mixed with it floated about. 
With a roar, the stone monster rolled up a curtain of water and attacked the cub. The Hypnotic Powder failed, and the stone monster swooped down again, its fist turning into a small hill as it attacked the cub. 
This wood pet was the most threatening in this battle and must be killed. 
"Dodge!" 
With a slam, the stone monster hit the center of the entire field of thorns. However, the cub's usual training had improved its dodging ability, and it managed to evade the attack before it hit.
Of course, it was also because the monster was not fast enough. 
"Vine Whip Restraint!" 
The cub immediately understood its owner's meaning, and at the exact moment he spoke, the vine whips in the field of thorns directly wound around the monster. This sudden attack gave the latter no chance to dodge. 
"Xiao Bai, use Curse!"
"Little Conch, use Water Poison Arrows!"
"Small Pangolin, Earthquake!" 
"Blade Praying Mantis, Chain Blade!" 
Thanks to their previous training, the other four managed to launch attacks almost simultaneously. The Earthquake attack, combined with Purple Jade's Vine Whip, successfully restrained the opponent, causing the other attacks to hit its body directly.
"Roar!" 
Following a bang, the monster exploded with powerful spiritual energy. It ripped apart the thorns, shattered the nearby ground, and knocked the flying Blade Praying Mantis off with a punch.
"Roar!" 
The furious monster condensed energy balls all over its body and smashed them toward the cub without mercy. Today, it would not stop until it had killed the cub. 
"Howl! (`Д ́*)"
Purple Jade madly dodged its attack, wondering why the monster was bent on chasing it. It was not the only one that had attacked it, so why was it not chasing the others, instead? 
"Ghost Claw!" 
Following Chen Rouxue's order, Little Devil laughed wildly as its dark spiritual power condensed into a ghost claw of more than ten meters long. It aimed this righteously at the Aquamarine Stone. 
"Roar!" 
The monster turned its head and smashed the ghost claw with a punch. It then spat two blue energy balls to finish off the small demon. 
"Eat my pet's Fireball!" 
Jiang Yang yelled, and his Small Pangolin slammed a fireball at the monster's face. There was no effect on it, only some water mist evaporating. 
Still, the monster's attention was successfully drawn, and it roared fiercely before spouting several energy balls. A low-level slave pet actually dared to hit it; it was simply enraged. 
"F*ck! I was just kidding. Don't chase my baby!" 
When the androgynous boy saw the monster rushing over, he turned his head and ran away in shock.
With a slam, his Small Pangolin was hit by an energy ball. Many of its scales were torn apart, and it collapsed to the ground. 
"Do it again! Its breath is getting weaker and weaker! Its weakness is its heart!
"Buddy, Super Vine Whip!" 
Su Bai yelled. Having been hit by the cub's Vine Whip and parasitic seeds, in addition to Little Devil's Curse, the monster's state was rapidly declining. 
If not for the monster's rock body and its immunity to poison attacks, it would have already been severely injured.
"Howl~" 
Two vine whips as thick as a bowl drilled out from the ground, like giant pythons, and quickly coiled around the monster's body. The cub's Super Vine Whip, enhanced by Su Bai's incorporation of light attribute balls, was so strong even the Aquamarine Stone could not break free.
"Roar!" 
The monster madly thrashed about and tore at the vines on its body like a frenzied and crazed cow, swaying the vines clinging onto it from side to side. 
"Xiao Bai, use Hypnosis!" hurriedly ordered Chen Rouxue. 
"Hehehe!"
Little Devil flew over the Aquamarine Stone monster and began singing, spreading its dark spiritual power out. This hypnotism was a waveform, so the monster could not resist it. Although it did not fall asleep, its body became sluggish. 
"Little Conch, use Water Poison Arrows and aim all at its heart!" 
"Blade Praying Mantis, Chain Blade!" 
Naturally, Chen Tingting and Yang Zhou could not let go of this great opportunity created by Su Bai. They commanded their pets to rush over with their respective attacks. 
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
A burst of Water Poison Arrows pierced the Aquamarine Stone's chest. Knowing that its chest had been hit, the monster's strong desire to survive exploded, and it broke free from its limpid state. It roared and instantly condensed several energy balls to smash Little Conch.
With three bangs, Little Conch had no time to evade and could only use its Circulating Water to defend itself. However, this instantly disintegrated in the face of an attack by a warlord monster, and the pet's shell cracked with blood as it suffered serious injuries. 
At this time, a white light flickered, then a sharp knife cut the back of the Aquamarine Stone. With the sounds of metal clashing, the blade hit the monster's crystal nucleus, which burst with fine cracks. 
"Roar!"
With a crazy roar, a terrifying tide of spiritual power gushed out of the Aquamarine Stone's body. It directly knocked Little Devil and Blade Praying Mantis out of the air. The cub, which was also implicated, lost control of its vine whips. 
After erupting with spiritual power, the Aquamarine Stone stood in place, its head raised high, its face twisted in madness and anger. 
It remained motionless. 
It was dead. 


Su Bai wakes up and finds that the world has changed drastically. He realizes he has come to a world of pets. After accepting the new setting, he is determined to become a powerful Pet Tamer.
One day, Su Bai’s pet releases a beginner skill spark. Flames flutter and the sky turns to ashes…
A water attribute beginner skill causes the boundless sea to fall from the sky, flooding thousands of miles of mountains and rivers…
One blow rips apart the claw, and endless sharp bursts explodes. One after another, worlds fall apart…
A passerby: (ﾟДﾟ≡ﾟдﾟ)!?
This is a world of pets and monsters. Every teenager will develop a soul stone in the middle of their eyebrows. 
After placing the soul stones into stones, branches, water, and any other thing, a spirit egg unique to the owner would be born.
Once the spirit is hatched, the owner will receive his own beginner spirit contract book. Then, he can embark on the road of contracting and training various spirits and monsters. 
However, Su Bai seems to be doing things a little differently…
[Tags]: Beginner spirit, pets, monsters, spirits, cultivation, evolution, daily ease, adventure

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