One Man Army

Chapter 132 [Episode 68] Team Rush 1

@Team Rush.

Khukhukhu.

Sang Hyuk was holding the key of the Ink-Black Dragon.

The way to control the Sky-grade Ship was simpler than he thought. It was not that difficult to control the Sky-grade Ship at least as long as you were competent enough to get a driver’s license.

Unfortunately, Sang Hyuk had never held the key of a Sky-grade Ship in his past life. Honestly, the Sang Hyuk of the past did not play much in the Middle Layer.

Sang Hyuk was only able to board a Sky-grade Ship for a few times because he had become a victim of an accident less than a year since the Skyway opened and the world was divided into Hagye, Middle Layer, and Heavenly World. ***

However, he roughly knew enough to operate his Sky-grade Ship. And because of that, he could skip the tutorial of the Sky-grade Ship operation.

Sang Hyuk grabbed the key of Ink-Black Dragon and slowly began to launch the Ink-Black Dragon into the sky. Currently Ilya (I think the author got typo and wrote Eli) was in the power room. She was making sure that the Magic Armor Dark Black Wings mounted in the power room was properly energizing and was ready to put in a ‘Magic Stone’, that was prepared beforehand, when the power gauge fell below a certain level.

Naturally, the Sky-grade Ship needed to be supplied  ‘energy’ to fly. If we talk about it like a car, the Magic Armor was an ‘engine’. And the Magic Stone was ‘fuel’.

Of course, Magic Stone was not the only fuel. If it was urgent, the power gauge went up even if he put in more advanced items.

However, the Magic Stone was the best fuel to use in terms of price and efficiency.

The person who will pilot the Sky-grade Ship and the person who will supply the power to the engine.

Ink-Black Dragon could only move with two people. Originally, Sang Hyuk was trying to make the ship more compact so that one person would be able to do both controlling and fueling… But, the ship ended up with a more complex structure than he intended, and the power supply could not be controlled remotely.

Thanks to it, the minimum number of passengers was 2 instead of 1.

In this way, the bigger and more complex the ship, then the minimum number of passengers or the recommended number of passengers are increased.

“Let’s just take a light 15-minutes flight for today.”

Flying the Sky-grade Ship to the sky was all about money.

The Ink-Black Dragon for example, to power the Ink-Black Dragon flight for one hour, it needs 30 pieces of Magic Stone even if you only used intermediate grade Magic Stones.

One piece of the intermediate Magic Stone was 100 gold, so it cost 3,000 gold for an hour of flight. It was roughly 180,000 won in cash.

In simple comparison, the fuel cost was much worse than the best sports cars. This is why it was hard for ordinary users to create a Sky-grade Ship.

Of course, because Sang Hyuk’s Ink-Black Dragon was high level, so that it devours more Magic Stones than the usual Sky-grade Ship.

If it was the Sky-grade Ship of the ‘solo’ size, which ordinary users dream of, it could fly with 10,000 won per hour for its fuel cost.

In contrast, for the quadra sized heavenly Sky-grade Ship, it needs about 500,000 won per hour, but it had about a 50 to 100 people capacity so it could not help but need that much fuel.

Sang Hyuk had been constantly gathering the Magic Stone from a long time ago because he knew this would happen. Even now, NPCs of Gold Mountain continue to steadily buy Magic Stones.

So, there would be no case of the Ship won’t fly because it lacks Magic Stones.

But today was the first time, so he was just going to check it out and end the flight shortly.

* * * *

The test flight was successful.

The overall performance was just as promised in the specifications, and he liked it. Even Ilya did a good job unlike during the dungeon attack.

Although he doesn’t know what will happen in case of an emergency during the flight, but at least it would be enough to fill the minimum number of passengers.

However, Sang Hyuk finished his test flight and started to think about the other problems.

That is…… not the minimum number of passengers, but it was a matter of getting the recommended number of passengers.

“Even with the minimum number of passengers I don’t have any problem with starting a voyage…… But when I think about it again, when I hunt Sky Whales, I definitely need a gunner and I need a way to deal with a lot of the parasites that live on a Sky Whale. Hmmm… After all…. Will that be the best?”

Actually Sang Hyuk has been having this problem for quite some time.

As originally planned, it would be correct to fill only the minimum number of passengers. Of course, it will be a little harder when hunting Sky Whales, but so far, it was somehow enough to do it alone.

It was not impossible. It was often used as an emergency vehicle if it needed.

But recently, the idea has changed a lot.

Especially after the Krakon event, he decided to receive Gye Baek and Dark Knight’s help.

“The sure thing is that both of them are trustworthy enough for me to turn my back to them and fight….”

Because of his previous experience, Sang Hyuk did not easily trust anyone. But now, if it was Gye Baek and Dark Knight, he can trust them.

It was Sang Hyuk’s style to not easily to trust someone, but once he trust them, he will keep his faith until the end.

“If I bring these two people aboard the Ink Black Dragon, then I’ve filled the recommended number of passengers……. Gye Baek’s bombardment ability is undoubtedly an asset and at the same time, Dark Knight who can deal damage well, can be a great help in dealing with the parasites.”

The benefits of getting them into Ink-Black Dragon were bigger than Sang Hyuk expected. Of course, there were disadvantages as well. But the advantages outweigh the disadvantages if things are adjusted properly.

“I don’t need any items below a certain level anyway. But Gye Baek and Dark Knight need such items. Then I give up most of what I don’t need and instead I just take with me some essential things.”

Actually Sang Hyuk was thinking of letting them join the One Guild, but because of his circumstances, it would be difficult to let them into the One Guild apart from trusting them.

To let them join in the guild, Sang Hyuk would have to give up various things and change certain things. It was not very effective.

If so, only one thing remained.

Mercenary contract. If it was that, a clear relationship could be established when all conditions were met.

“Let’s form a team with the both of them. I don’t know about the guild, but forming a team should be enough.”

The formula of ‘Raid Team = same guild’ was not really necessary.

Sang Hyuk, who put in a long period of careful hard thinking, contacted Gye Baek and Dark Knight straight away. As a result, the number of Ink-Black Dragon passengers increased from two to four.

“Wow….it was really great. Others are still in the stage of barely starting…. but my friend Sang Hyuk is really amazing.”

Gye Baek raised his thumbs and made a admiring expression.

[It is great.]

Dark Knight was thinking of himself on another world.

“Hyuu, I want to go with you badly….but let alone the Sky-grade Ship, I can not even create the Magic Armor…. I also was collecting some materials because I wanted to make the Magic Armor, but it was much harder than I thought.”

Gye Baek and Dark Knight were in a similar situation.

Both of them wanted to make Magic Armor, but they lacked the resources necessary to make Magic Armor. In fact, both of them were solo players like Sang Hyuk, so it was very hard to make Magic Armor alone.

“Well, now that I’m talking seriously, listen to me well. I’ll make an offer to both of you. If you take this offer and decide to go with me, I’m going to bring both of you to a higher place than here. Of course, it is not free and you need to help me with what i want.”

When Sang Hyuk laid out his proposal, Gye Baek opened his mouth while giving the expression that he did not even need to hear the proposal.

“First, I call. Whatever your proposal is, I call with everything.” (call, the expression to say yes or okay)

[Me too…. I want to do it together.]

Surprisingly, Dark Knight, who was always careful, answered without hearing the details.

“Hoohoo, I thank you both, but you still need to listen to the proposal. This can be a very important turning point for both of you. Do not just say ‘call’, but listen to my proposal and think about it carefully.”

Sang Hyuk laughed pleasantly and began to explain each of the things he had thought about.

He told them everything in detail, from the team composition to the mercenary contract, especially the details of the contract.

Gye Baek and Dark Knight focused on Sang Hyuk’s words and knew exactly what Sang Hyuk wanted.

When the explanation was over, Gye Baek looked at Sang Hyuk with a peculiar smile.

“I absolutely call. Ah, just in case that you misunderstand I’m not saying call without thinking like before, but I say call because I am sure after I hearing your explanations.”

[I also sincerely want to be with you!]

Dark Knight was expectedly felt the same as Gye Baek.

Honestly, Sang Hyuk’s proposal was an opportunity for both of them.

It was stupid to refuse this.

“Okay, so for now both of you purchase all the things I mentioned using the points that you got this time. I will make the Magic Armor for you.”

Magic Armor was an unconditionally necessary in the Middle Layer.

So SangHyuk was going to make the Magic Armors of at least grade 2 for both of them.

Of course, even if Sang Hyuk recognized both of them as teammates, he could not produce Magic Armor by solely using his own resources.

It was impolite to both of them and he did not have all the ingredients right now. So after they purchased the main ingredients with their official points, Sang Hyuk thought he would make the Magic Armor by providing the rest of the materials needed from his own stocks.

Especially since Sang Hyuk had the title ‘pioneer’ so his Magic Armor production ability was better than anyone else.

“Ah, and also let’s name our team as Rush.”

“Team Rush…. It’s good, right?”

[I also like it.]

Gye Baek and Dark Knight nodded simultaneously at Sang Hyuk’s suggestion.

* * * *

It did not take a long time to make their Magic Armor.

All the core materials were purchased at the first level reward shop and Sang Hyuk already had the rest anyway. And moreover since there was no need for Mana Amplification Magic Circle and Magic Engineering Furnace, Sang Hyuk was able to create two Magic Armors in just one day.

2nd grade Magic Armor [Ice Heart]

2.5 grade Magic Armor [Bloody Spiked Armor]

The two Magic Armors were completed. The Ice Heart was for Gye Baek and the Bloody Spiked Armor was for Dark Knight.

For the plus, Ice Heart got two plus attached and Bloody Spiked Armor got one.

This was an excellent result.

Of course Gye Baek and Dark Knight were delighted and satisfied. Sang Hyuk could not help but be happy because he made the Magic Armors to augment the two people’s abilities.

While Sang Hyuk was creating Magic Armor, Gye Baek and Dark Knight finished all the things that must be done in Hagye as Sang Hyuk said.

Actually, both of them were solo players, so there were hardly anything to be finished.

At most, it was all about consigning items to the auction house and getting ready the consumable items they needed for a long trip.

As Sang Hyuk said, once they advanced to the Middle Layer through the Skyway, they could not go down to Hagye for a while.

Therefore, they had to prepare enough consumable items.

The two received Magic armor and signed the mercenary contract provided by Sang Hyuk. In the end, in two days everything was ready.

All that left was to fly.

What they had to do was to board the Sky-grade Ship and learn for themselves what it was like to sail Sky-seas.

Team Rush was ready to go!

After all preparations done, Immortal, Gye Baek, and Dark Knight got on the Ink-Black Dragon to get ready for the flight.

Chapter 132 [Episode 68] Team Rush 1 – End

Editor’s Notes: This is just my theory, but that accident sounds like the part of his backstory, where his VRA dropped from 250 to less than 100…

Editor: Userunfriendly