One Man Army

Chapter 141 [Episode 72] The Changed Future 2

“Looking at the situation, it seems that we are going to start beta testing in two weeks.”

“So soon?”

“I don’t know the reason, but it felt like Raon Soft was in a hurry. However, because that side wants to proceed quickly, so we and the association are increasing our pace to match it.”

“I see.”

This was a changed future as expected. Originally, the beta service would have started in another three months, but the future changed and the beta service begins in two weeks.

“But, is it okay for you to just let me know this information like this?”

“What does it matter? Honestly, this information would have been passed on to users who should know it by now.”

Lee Mirae spoke while smirking. She was so cynical because of the numerous “backdoor” connections that existed inside the LGN(Live Game Network).

Sang Hyuk could understand her smile because he had witnessed and experienced these connections countless times in his previous life.

“Anyway, thank you.”

“If you are that grateful, buy me some food.”

“If it’s only food, just call me anytime. Speaking of it, it’s quite early, but should we go for dinner? Hmmm, How about sushi? There’s a good sushi restaurant around.”

“Sushi? It’s the best! Let’s go.”

It was no coincidence that Sang Hyuk suggested sushi. He knew Lee Mirae loved sushi through his memories, so he was being considerate.

After eating the expensive sushi with Lee Mirae, Sang Hyuk shared a cup of coffee with her and afterwards, they separated. Lee Mirae wanted to have a drink as well because she wanted to release some stress, but Sang Hyuk couldn’t drink because he had to go back home and return to the game.

Sang Hyuk  went straight to the DN(Dream Network) website and opened his personal account, then sorted out the numerous titles, equipment, and skills that he had earned.

The reason he did this was because of the EL Revolution’s beta service which is coming in two weeks.

“Limited mode is something that I’m not familiar with, so I’ll think about it when it opens to the public….. For now I have to pick the titles, equipments and skills that I’ll use in unlimited mode.”

As soon as EL Revolution is released, EL’s PvP content will be divided into two major categories.

Users divided it into the old PvP (Field PvP of Eternal Life) and Neo PvP (PvP in the EL Revolution System)…. and in Sang Hyuk’s previous life, Neo PvP steadily increased in popularity over time.

Actually, the old PvP attracted the interests of the guilds and unions who could be considered the “inner circle of Eternal Life” while Neo PvP was popular with the masses.

“By the way…. why so many…..”

Sang Hyuk, who was trying to organize all the things he had, was sticking his tongue out as he looked at the huge list of titles, skills, and equipment.

First he selected what looked good and after he listed them all, there were so many…

“Sigh, let’s look at them one at a time.”

Sang Hyuk, who has sorted things into multiple lists, decided to pick the titles first.

According to what he heard from Lee Mirae, the number of allowed titles was limited to five. In fact, these limitations in EL Revolution were quite unfavorable to Sang Hyuk.

He had more titles, items, and skills than anyone else, so limiting them would be a loss.

“First I have to prioritize the legendary titles and exclude the ones which don’t relate to PvP.”

Sang Hyuk had 12 legendary titles.

And he also had three special grade titles which were even more powerful than legendary titles.

Most players couldn’t even dream of possessing a single legendary title, but Sang Hyuk had an overflowing number of them in his status page. Of course, he possessed many, many more unique grade titles.

All of this was the power of monopoly. Because it was Sang Hyuk, who had ruthlessly monopolized almost all of ‘the firsts’, so he could have such a tremendous result.

“I don’t know about anything else, but I have to take this one out of the unique titles, ‘One-Hit One-Kill’

It makes no sense to not take this because the effect of the title ‘One-Hit One-Kill’, which is ‘Those who strike first win’ would maximize Sang Hyuk’s damage for First Strike. If you put it as his first pick, then the legendary or special grade titles that Sang Hyuk can choose will be reduced to four.

“This is very troublesome.”

Sang Hyuk, who was contemplating among the 15 legendary and special grade titles, finally chose four legendary titles and three special grade titles.

“Hmmm…. It’s enough to use the Shadow King in Treenark title so we’ll choose it.  So what’s left to do is pick three out of the four legendary titles.”

‘The First Solo Kill of the Weakened Shadow King’

‘The First Visitor’

‘One who Surpassed Despair by Himself (the first)’

‘Glory Itself!’

The finalists were these four legendary titles. All four titles have very useful effects. However he had no choice but to exclude one of them.

Sang Hyuk carefully contemplating and finally made a choice.

“Let’s take out The First Visitor.”

Just looking at the Sustainable Effects, The First Visitor was tremendously powerful, increasing 10% of all abilities and 20% of movement speed, but the prefix and suffix effect were useless in the EL Revolution because it was limited to the Heroic Lands.

Actually he took out The First Visitor not because it was bad, but because he couldn’t bear to get rid of the other three titles, so he had no choice but to take it out.

“Sigh, other players worry about what they can put in, but I’m thinking about what to remove…. it is surely a happy dilemma, isn’t it?”

Sang Hyuk, who chose his five titles, awkwardly smiled and muttered.

Now that he has chosen the titles, all he has left is to choose his equipment and skills.

Actually, there was no big problem in choosing the equipment.

Basically only one weapon is allowed, and armor for the head, shoulder, chest, legs, waist, gloves, back and four accessories, including a necklace, ring, and earrings (2). And only one special ornament was allowed.

As a result, the special item that Sang Hyuk usually wears, the ‘Completed Star of Glory’, cannot be worn.

Only up to five consumable items were allowed, regardless of type. Of course, it was five per game, so he could pick five again at the end of each game. Luckily, combination cards are consumable items, but exceptionally, they were also considered active skills so Sang Hyuk was able to take them separately and thus “stack the deck”.

Interestingly, if you use consumable items in EL Revolution, they’re gone from the Eternal Life server. Conversely, consumable items which are not available in Eternal Life were not available in EL Revolution.

The main weapon, of course, was the Blood Wire of the Full Moon, which was enhanced to +10. The Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King was also a good weapon, but it was hard to compare with the Blood Wire of the Full Moon.

Aura Crystal and Magic Armor were banned, so there was no need to worry about those.

Sang Hyuk, who has picked both the titles and his equipment, finally started to choose the skills.

The number of Skills he could take depended on the number of souls. He could have four skills per soul and the skills were his choice.

To make it simpler, a user with a double soul was able to choose up to eight skills, regardless of whether they were general skills or soul skills.

It didn’t matter if you chose eight soul skills or chose eight general skills. By the way, passive skills such as the skills attached to an item are applied without restriction, but for active skills attached to items, you need to register the skill so you could use it.

The settings were up to the user.

Sang Hyuk was an exceptional quadra soul user, so he could choose 16 skills.

Following the titles, the skills were a lot of trouble.

Although, he can freely choosing 16 skills unlike the others, actually Sang Hyuk quickly filled it up with what he needed.

Sang Hyuk chose five Shadow Knight skills considering his balancing. He chose the passive effects, ‘Endurance of the Giant’, ‘Giant’s Strength’ and also bloodline skill ‘Enlarge!’.

In the item skill, he chose the four-set effect of the Flash series, ‘Blink’, the item skill of the Blood Wire of the Full Moon, ‘Blood Seal’, and the item skill of the Helm of Judgement, ‘Small Sandstorm’.

And the remaining five were filled with combination cards. Card cost restrictions also existed in EL Revolution, but the combination card was still the most powerful techniques Sang Hyuk could use.

At first he thought there were a lot of slots, but when he started picking, he quickly filled those 16 up.

He didn’t even put any general skills in it.

Now as he has finished choosing all the skills, it means that all the settings he will use in EL Revolution are complete.

Actually, Sang Hyuk didn’t think this was the perfect setting. But since the settings can be changed from game to game anyway, so he thought he’d go through the games and fine tune as needed.

* * * *

After preparing for the EL Revolution, Sang Hyuk went straight to the game. The three men were rotating their logout. Of course, while he was logged out, the Ink Black Dragon was anchored in one place, unable to move.

However, there is no other way when you couldn’t find a safe anchorage. Even so, since it was the Ink Black Dragon which durability naturally restored over time, he was able to choose this way without any risk.

If it was another Sky-grade Ship, they’d have to find a safe anchorage, even if they had to overextend themselves.

When Sang Hyuk connected, Gye Baek and Dark Knight were already aboard the Sky-grade Ship.

“Oh, sorry. I’m late.”

“I also just arrived.”

Sang Hyuk was the first to stand watch for four hours, followed by Gye Baek and Dark Knight, who had taken a break for the day.

“Nothing happened, right?”

Although he knew nothing happened because they didn’t use the emergency communication network, but Sang Hyuk asked out of courtesy.

“Only some of the floating parasites tried to come up but I took care of them quickly.”

“Good, then let’s depart right away.”

Because he had one day off, he had to reach the second destination during the remaining login time.

Ink Black Dragon started moving again through the Sky-sea quickly. Sang Hyuk wanted to break through the Middle Layer faster than anyone else, so he spent the magic stones without being frugal and charged forward.

Everything went smoothly.

As per Sang Hyuk’s wish an 8th grade Sky Whale also appeared and of course the Team Rush, who are on the Ink-Black Dragon hunted that sky whale easily.

Then they were finally able to reach the second safe area. The second safe area was a small island. It was a village on an island built on the corpse of a 5th grade Sky Whale and some special skills of the Moon People prevented the corpse from disappearing.

However, it was so unstable that even a little shock could make the island sink beneath the Sky-sea.

Was that the reason? The second Blue Sky Sailing Route quest was to eliminate the dangers around the island. It wasn’t too difficult, so the three worked together and finished it that day and updated the Sky Compass.

Then the three logged out at the same time, took a break for about four hours and then connected to the game again.

Then, of course, after connecting to the Ink-Black Dragon, they re-entered the Sky-sea. Team Rush continued to run forward.

The exploration of Middle Layer had to adjust for each other’s schedules and be done as a team, so the average users couldn’t easily take on the challenges.

When most of the Blue Sky Sailing Route was unveiled and the large Sky-grade Ships, commonly referred to as the ‘Passenger Ships’, began to operate then average users would travel safely on those Sky-grade Ships, as Sang Hyuk did in his previous life

The ones who sailed their own Sky-grade Ships on the Middle Layer were the hardcore users, not the average users.

Those who enjoyed the challenge and dared to be pioneers…. By the time the Team Rush received their 14th Blue Sky Sailing Route quest, other users had finally passed through the Gate of the Open Sky and began to cross into the Sky-sea.

Most of the other teams except Sang Hyuk’s team completed their Sky-grade ships around the same time and also launched their Sky-grade Ships around the same time.

As a result, the competition was a bit intense from the Gate of the Open Sky. Unlike Hagye, the Middle Layer in particular was an area where PvP was much easier where only a few conditions needed to be met.

Moreover on many islands, known as the safe areas, there were no guards, making them a perfect hunting ground for malefactors to be active.

So, in Sang Hyuk’s past life, many malefactors became pirates to make a living.

Anyway, a lot of Sky-grade Ship passed through the Gate of the Open Sky, and the most noticeable of these, the Sky-grade Ship, no, the Sky-grade Ships, which were the seven large Sky-grade Ships with the ‘Reverse One’ flags.

Chapter 141 [Episode 72] The Changed Future 2 – End