Chapter 2007 – 2007. Newtype
[Sung Yu-jin
Level: 91
Strength: 130 Stamina: 130 Agility: 130 Intelligence: 120 Spirit: 130 Mana: 130]
[Available Points: 9,884]
I stared at the available points.
It was normal for the number of points not to be a round number, but today it was particularly annoying.
‘With 9,884, couldn’t they just add 200 more points to make it 10,000?’
I complained to the Game Life app in my mind. Of course, the complaint was ignored.
What could I do with 9,800 points?
‘I could do 9,800 random draws!’
9,800 times. Just thinking about it made me lazy.
‘Should I raise my stats? It looks good with everything at 130 except for Intelligence.’
There was a problem.
It cost 1,000 points to raise a stat from 120 to 121. That meant I could only raise nine stats even if I used all my points.
‘129 with just a 200-point difference. It’s too annoying. Let’s just leave it at 120. Intelligence isn’t that helpful anyway.’
I scanned through my skills and traits.
Unfortunately, there were no skills or traits worth raising. The skill I wanted to raise was Meteor Sword, but I didn’t have enough points.
[Use 10,000 points to increase the level of Meteor Sword Lv.6?]
‘Damn it.’
I felt like I was going to explode if I kept looking at it, so I turned off the Game Life app and got up. I felt hungry and headed to the kitchen. The kitchen was empty.
I don’t order food. I mostly bring food from the [Baekhwan] world. It’s several times more delicious than ordering. Most of what was in the fridge was bottled water or drinks. I filled my stomach with bottled water and a lunch box, took a shower, and sat on the living room sofa to watch TV.
I blankly watched the news. I felt a sense of déjà vu while watching the news. It felt like I had heard the same thing before. It wasn’t unusual. News often repeated important events for several days.
That was the downside of the Game Life app. The disconnect in the sense of time. Spending a long time in fictional worlds inevitably caused a disconnect with the sense of time in reality.
‘What was I doing in reality before I entered the world of God’s Atlantis? Did I have an important appointment?’
I organized my thoughts while watching the news. I wasn’t interested in the news itself, but strangely, watching the news helped me think about other things.
‘Hmm. I don’t have any important appointments.’
I didn’t make appointments often in reality anyway.
“Oh?”
Han Ah-young appeared on the news. She had a dinner meeting with the president. It was a really boring story, but the news covered it seriously. That meant there was a huge amount of interest in Han Ah-young.
‘Come to think of it, I need to screw over the Suwol Guild. Is there a good way?’
I racked my brain and came up with a method. Something that wouldn’t leave a trace. A cyber-attack using hacking.
As soon as I thought of it, I immediately picked up my smartphone and put it into action. I didn’t directly mess with the personal information of the guild master or executives. I didn’t know what they would do if I really pissed them off.
‘There are all sorts of ability users in this world. Even hacking isn’t completely safe.’
I hacked the Suwol Guild’s website and turned it into a porn site.
I chuckled and informed the community about the Suwol Guild’s website becoming a porn site. As expected, the internet instantly went up in flames. The hack would last for 30 minutes.
‘Hehe! I can dominate the internet!’
The internet was burning.
Not just in Korea. Since Han Ah-young was in the guild, the Suwol Guild was receiving attention from all over the world. They were even expected to become the number one guild in Korea. And now this happened? It was a disgrace.
The guys managing the site must be in hell. Imagining that scene made me smile happily.
At this point, the news should be reporting it as breaking news… but the news was silent. It seemed like they were doing that because if it was reported on the news, people would flock to the site.
‘Damn Korea. Controlling the media like this.’
I should terrorize the government website at the right time.
Anyway, after 30 minutes, the site returned to normal. There were few internet articles, and the internet community that was mocking the Suwol Guild quickly calmed down. An invisible hand was intervening.
‘They’re running the comment brigade like crazy.’
That was the reality of democratic Korea.
‘The Suwol Guild’s influence is bigger than I thought.’
Isn’t their influence at the level of a large corporation? It was hard for me to deal with them right now.
‘I should mess with them after I become an S-class.’
Once I become an S-class, my influence will be different.
‘To become an S-class, I need to get stronger. To get stronger, I need more points.’
200 points kept flashing in my mind. If I had just 200 more points, I could have raised the level of Meteor Sword or made my Intelligence stat 130!
It was about time to receive rewards from quests. I opened the quest menu. This time, three quests were waiting for me.
[An Old Hospital
There is an abandoned hospital here that has become a base for ghosts.
It is an abandoned hospital that has strangely changed as ghosts gather.
You, a streamer, have decided to stay in this abandoned hospital for a day with your colleagues. The ghosts have no intention of forgiving trespassers and squatters! Survive and escape from the abandoned hospital!
Quest Success Condition: Survival and Escape
Quest Success Reward: Ghost Maker
※There is a penalty.]
‘An Old Hospital is a horror game.’
It was a horror game I had played before. A horror game where the goal was to escape from a cursed abandoned hospital while avoiding ghosts.
You couldn’t kill the ghosts. It had a simple condition: if you were caught by a ghost, you died.
‘I know what the penalty is. They’ll seal my stats or skills. That’s how they’ll balance it.’
Just like the original game player.
‘Can the reward, Ghost Maker, create ghosts? That’s kind of hot.’
Could I create a really pretty virgin ghost? Or can I only create monster-like ghosts?
[Ghost Maker
You can create ghosts.
Price: 75,000
※Caution
-Points are consumed to create ghosts. Prepare enough points.]
There was no need to choose right away. There were two other quests.
[Ant King
You have become a soldier ant in the ant world.
You were jealous of the ant kings who ruled the world.
Achieve your ambition! Become an ant king and reign over the ant world!
Quest Success Condition: Become an Ant King.
Quest Success Reward: Ant Legion Summoning Ticket.
※There is a penalty.]
I frowned as soon as I read the quest details.
There were many fictional works that didn’t feature humans. Ant King was one of those works. The original was a manga, an ant fantasy story. I remembered it because the story was unique. If you asked if the manga was fun, it wasn’t. It suddenly ended around chapter 20. It was a manga that failed because it was obviously unpopular.
‘Become an ant? Screw that.’
Still, I checked the reward.
[Ant Legion Summoning Ticket
Summons an ant legion.
Price: 100,000
※Caution
-The ant legion only listens to the orders of the ant king.]
‘This is definitely that. Even if I summon them, I can’t control them because I’m not the ant king.’
I gave up on the Ant King quest.
[Newtype
Blessings have been bestowed upon the world. Humans have become stronger. Humans can now use superpowers with an energy called Force.
But along with the blessings, trials have also been bestowed. Dark beings born from the Force are constantly targeting humanity. A sinister plot is underway in Korea. Destroy the plot.
Quest Success Condition: Safety of Korea
Quest Success Reward: Leap (Lv.1)
※There is a penalty.]
“……!!”
I was shocked. Not by the quest details, but by the reward.
‘A skill appeared!’
My heart pounded with excitement. Leap. Just by the name, you could tell what kind of skill it was. I checked the quest reward with anticipation.
[Leap Lv. 1
You can leap 1.15m to a visible location.
Consumes mana and vitality.]
This was a skill I had to get!
I decided on the quest. It had to be this quest. Skills were incredibly hard to get even with random draws. If I missed this opportunity, I might never get the Leap skill again.
‘1.15m is a bit too short, isn’t it? And what’s with 1.15? Just make it 1m.’
I suddenly wondered if my Intelligence stat had affected the skill.
‘My Intelligence is 120, and it only increased by 0.15m? That’s 15cm. The efficiency is terrible.’
Intelligence was indeed a trash stat. Anyway, I decided to succeed in this quest no matter what.
‘However, the problem is Newtype. This fictional work is….’
The original was a webtoon. It was a female protagonist story, but it wasn’t a romance, so I was enjoying it.
‘The problem is that the author died suddenly of a heart attack, so only 17 chapters were released.’
17 chapters. The final boss wasn’t even revealed, let alone who the mid-boss was. The detailed settings of the work were also not revealed. There was no way to find out unless the dead author was resurrected. It was too wasteful to use the life-saving power to resurrect the dead author.
‘Newtype has too much uncertainty. Normally, I would have chosen the hospital, right? The Ghost Maker, which can create ghost sex slaves, is also a good item. And I also know the strategy for the original game, so it would be easy to proceed.’
But Leap was too tempting.
I could have sex with virgin ghosts in other worlds. But I couldn’t get the Leap skill in other worlds, could I?
[Select the ‘Newtype’ quest.]
[There is a penalty.]
[Penalty stat adjustment.]
[All stats are reduced in the ‘Newtype’ world.]
[You cannot use the inventory in the ‘Newtype’ world.]
“Wait, hold on. Inventory unusable? I want to use the Hwaryeon Flying Daggers?”
Not being able to use the inventory meant I couldn’t bring items from the Newtype world or take items from other worlds.
Of course, even if I was this inconvenienced, the Game Life app wouldn’t look out for my convenience. It had always been like that.
‘I just got the Hwaryeon Flying Daggers. I want to use the Hwaryeon Flying Daggers. It would be helpful in the Newtype world too.’
I had an idea.
“Penalty adjustment. Is that possible?”
