Closed Beta That Only I Played

Chapter 328: There May Be Blue and Better Blue (4)

To be honest, I was rather rude, given that the Hwashin Guild was one of the three major Chinese guilds.

However, the reason why I could be so arrogant was because I acquired a whopping 14,000 stat points just before I came here.

Moreover, it matched my main stats by increasing not only my stamina and willpower, but also my intellect by more than 7000.

Anyway, after confirming that the Chinese users withdrew, I entered the level 1500 hunting ground Land of Titan.

Of course, before that, I messaged Director Sok and asked him to make sure he set up a sign clearly showing the Land of Titan was the property of Myongjin.

After that, I hunted as usual.

“Blizzard!”

Puck! Puck! Puck! Puck!

[Kheeeeeeeeh!]

[Khuuuuuuuuuuk!]

“Ice Tornado.”

Wheeeeeeeeeng-

[Kheeeeeeeeh!]

[Khuuuuuuuuuuk!]

In the past, I needed other attack skills when I didn’t use Ice Field or Thin Ice. But now I didn’t have to use any other skills to slaughter monsters other than Blizzard and Ice Tornado.

It took a little more time to kill them all, but I could still get rid of all the monsters within my striking zone with one attack.

“Hmmm…I wish I had a new hunting ground…”

Of course, hunting was still fun here.

Even though I obtained 14,000 stat points, that didn’t mean I leveled up, so my EXP was the same as before. Because of this, I found the current hunting ground was not a challenge to me anymore, so I naturally yearned for a higher level hunting ground.

Although I was thinking about this, I continued hunting hard. And soon, a message rang.

[Good morning! This is ‘Revival Legend’.

– I would like to announce something new.

: Previously, you could not create new accounts within ‘Revival Legend.’

: This time, you will no longer be able to access ‘Revival Legend’ if you are below level 100.

: Thank you.]

“?”

It was a simple message as if it was not a big deal.

But the message’s contents were far from insignificant.

Moreover, the message that nobody would be allowed to create new accounts shocked me and others. Because of that, there was a lot of confusion for a considerable period of time.

However, this time the message clearly announced that anybody below level 100 could no longer access ‘Revival Legend.’ action

Obviously, this message would be inevitably more shocking than the previous one about the ban on any new accounts within Revival Regend.

Back then, nobody could create new accounts, but this time everybody below level 100 were denied access to Revival Legend. Given the trend, it looked like the next target would be those below level 200 and level 300.

In other words, the message implied that as time passed, the number of users who could access Revival Legend would continue to dwindle, just like the 3rd closed beta that they proceeded with under the name of ‘Forgotten Legend’.

So I had no choice but to say something about this new message.

“Why are you making such a great fuss with this kind of stuff?”

In Pyongyang, North Korea, around that time.

“Are you sure those below level 100 can’t access Revival Legend?”

“Yes, sir!”

“That message rang to everyone who just logged on to Revival Legend.”

“Damn it! They should have notified us about it in advance!”

Kitaek Yu, the second most powerful person in North Korea, could not control his fury at his deputy’s briefing. Until now, he was only concerned with extorting the subordinates under his control, but he never paid attention to raising their level.

Since he didn’t climb to his current position by flattering his boss, he took the message very seriously.

So he shouted to his subordinates, “First of all, raise your level right now! Obviously, the message about the ban on those below level 200 and level 300 will also ring soon. If that happens, I will lose a lot of free labor!”

“Understood!”

“Yes, sir!”

Soon, the whole of North Korea moved quickly at Yu’s order. Of course, Yu recalled his boss Yuljung Kim, who said he would come back after a brief outing, but he stopped pondering about his boss right away.

***

At the Myongjin Shelter.

“Come to think of it, it seems that the ban on creating new accounts within Revival Legend was the start of this whole phenomenon.”

“That’s right. We should not have taken that message lightly back then. I think we made a mistake.”

Obviously, it seemed that the access ban for those under level 100 was impending ever since the message about the ban on the creation of new accounts rang.

However, the ban on creating new accounts itself was such a huge issue back then that not only I but also my father and Director Sok could not think beyond that.

But the problem was that it didn’t seem like the new ban would end there.

In other words, it was not difficult to infer that the access ban would expand to higher levels such as level 200 and level 300 after starting off with level 100.

At that moment my father, who was sitting at the head table, opened his mouth softly.

“New users are like seeds that guarantee the future of Revival Legend. But not only are they not content with stopping new seeds being sown, they even want to extract the seeds that have just been sown? Hummm…”

As he said, eliminating the influx of new users meant that Revival Legend would have no future.

That’s why all the players around the world were so shocked when they saw the message about the ban on new accounts within Revival Legend.

Everybody made a serious expression when my father mentioned it.

Watching them in a gloomy mood, I opened my mouth.

“Well, I don’t feel the 4th virtual reality, which they said would come true in the real world, seems very hopeful.”

“…”

“…”

“…”

Perhaps it seemed natural to think like that because the existence of monsters in the real world was far from realistic from the beginning.

Anyway, we wrapped up the meeting in the small meeting room and determined that we should raise our level as high as possible.

So I hunted desperately in the level 1500 hunting ground Land of Titan for several days.

To be honest, I was skeptical about how much I would gain from the 10 or 20 stat points I would obtain from raising one or two levels, but it was true that the accumulated levels until now helped me grow a lot.

A week later.

“What shall we do about Yuljung Kim?”

“…”

I didn’t answer that question. More precisely, I could not.

Obviously, the person on the inside was Kim, but on the outside, It was Captain Jungdae Lim.

At that moment somebody replied behind my back.

“Let me get rid of him.”

It was Captain Lim who took the shape of Kim.

“Can you do it?”

“Yes, I’m already ready. I’m also determined to live with my current appearance for the rest of my life. But I just want you to allow me to kill Kim.”

“Sure, please go ahead.”

Anyway, his change was forcibly made because of me, so I did not decline Lim’s request.

Of course, it was not necessarily because of Jihye Suh that I decided to kill Kim.

In fact, I had to kill Kim by all means because he would cause trouble if I spared him.