Chapter 4 – Episode 2. Trip to Korea
When I got home and searched the Internet, I discovered one discouraging fact. If I stay in Korea for more than 1 year and 6 months as Jin Yong-tae, I have to go to the military. Go back to the military? I guess I’ll just have to live as Taira Ryuta in Korea.
And since I am not Ryuta Hata, who works for a small business, but Ryuta Taira, who works for the Taira Group, I need to get a few hidden pieces from Korea. If I get involved in the Tyra Group’s succession issue, even three of my lives are at risk, so I have to get something.
But there was one worry. I was very worried about whether the world I was possessed in would be the world in the original game, or the world in the drama, which was a reinterpretation of the original work and was criticized by people.
In the drama, of course, there were no nonsensical items found in the game, so even if I went to Korea, I wouldn’t have much to gain. In terms of the drama’s world view, it was just about going to eat Korean food that I hadn’t eaten in a week. However, if you were possessed by the world of the game, you could gain quite a lot.
Hmm, how can I find out what the worldview is here? Hmm… Yes! Shall we check the main character?
In the original game, the term ‘son’ of Megacorp’s youngest child made it meaningless to create the main character by choosing male or female gender, and in the drama, the main character was male, so if it was a female, it was 100% in the game world, and even if it was a male, there was a half chance that it was still in the game world. .
First, go to Googol and search for the Xinjiang Group family tree in Korean… Came out The child of Han Woo-jin, the fourth son of Shinkang Group founder and current chairman Han Moon-kang… Han Yu-kyung! It’s a woman! Fortunately, it was a game world view. There were no pictures, but it would be very pretty if it was the default appearance in the game… If I get a chance during this trip, I’ll check it out.
Now that I was confident, I had to decide what to get and plan my route. Before that, I need to borrow some money from my mom. I was a high school student until recently, so I didn’t have much money. I saved about 200,000 yen by working part-time jobs, but it would be nice to have more money.
“Mom! Please lend me some money. “Please take a trip to Korea before you go to work.”
“Korea? “You’re not good at Korean.”
When Jin Mi-ja came out of my room and asked curiously, I smiled triumphantly and said, thanks to the privilege of being a Korean possessor.
“I’m really good at Korean, right? (Korean)”
“Eh? “Are you better than me?”
My mother was also a second-generation Korean, so she had an awkward accent, so she couldn’t compare to me, the possessed person. She was like Heungseon Daewongun, who only knew Korean a week ago. He is now bilingual in Japanese and Korean.
“So how much do you need?”
“200,000 yen for about four days?”
“I understand~”
She was a cool, giving mother. If you add up the money you originally had, 400,000 yen, it’s roughly 4 million won, so there’s no shortage, right? This time, I’m going as a Korean, Jin Yong-tae. I have a passport that I made during a school trip to Taiwan as a high school senior, and all I have to do is reserve a plane ticket and exchange money.
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When I got off the airport, it smelled like Korea. It was just a feeling of Korea that I couldn’t explain. It was only about ten days, but since I was in Japan, the smell was somewhat unfamiliar. Or maybe Hata Ryuta, the original owner of the body, feels that way.
Incheon Airport was different from what I remembered before being possessed. It wasn’t much different, but I still felt like it was a different world. I feel strange?
I took the airport railroad and got off at Yeongjong Station. My goal was Baekunsa Temple and Yonggungsa Temple on Baekunsan Mountain. Before that, I stopped by a soup restaurant near the station and ate hot sundae soup first. Eating soup with radish radish radish on top was like heaven. After pounding my stomach at the soup restaurant, I caught a taxi and headed to Yonggungsa Temple.
Get off in front of Yonggungsa Temple and head to the stone Tower where the item is hidden. I was nervous that there might be no items for no reason. I knew that there were items in the game world, but I was worried that someone else might have eaten them.
Like Yonggungsa Temple, four dragons, one on each side, are carved on all four sides of the stone Tower’s stylobate. Among them, Yeouiju, with the dragon in its mouth on the back facing the mountain, was the item.
The name, as you can see, is Yeouiju. Gamers assumed that it was an item prepared by the developers for newbies and veterans who were struggling with the difficulty of the game. In short, it is that fraudulent.
The first ability of Yeouiju is to prevent instant death. To explain in more detail, damage exceeding 50% of the character’s physical strength was ignored once a day and the character was invincible for 3 seconds. It was a very deceptive effect as it saved you once + made you invincible for 3 seconds. Usually, when playing Megacorp’s youngest son, there are many sudden deaths due to sniping or surprise attacks, but this was an option that suppressed that.
The second is that damage below a certain level is halved, which is a good option for lowering the mortality rate of newbies. As explained, even though the damage did not cause death, it was halved, so survivability was greatly increased.
Third is strengthening potential. In the original game Megacorp, the youngest son was able to select two statuses and one of three randomly appearing characteristics every time he leveled up. This was an option that changed the randomly appearing characteristic to a higher tier characteristic. Since the trait was an ability that could only be obtained through luck, enhancing potential was also a very good ability.
Lastly, it was an option to increase experience gained, and it was exactly what it sounds like. It was a characteristic that allowed leveling up about 1.5 times faster than normal.
If you said you were using Yeouiju in a game, you might have been criticized, but this was reality. Moreover, it was a world where mega corporations without blood or tears were just being born. So, I have to take care of my life.
With Yeouiju in her pocket, she came down from Yonggungsa Temple and took a taxi again to Baekunsa Temple. Usually, at a temple, you pass through Iljumun, Cheonwangmun, and Geumgangmun, which is the main gate of the actual temple, but the reason I came to Baekunsa Temple was at Cheonwangmun, where the statues of the Four Heavenly Kings are located.
The four heavenly kings were Jigukcheonwang in the east, Gwangmokcheonwang in the west, Jeungjangcheonwang in the south, and Damuncheonwang in the north, and the item was in Gwangmokcheonwang in the west.
King Gwangmokcheon controls the dragon and holds a Yeouiju in one hand and a spear in the other hand. If you are keen, you will know that the items you get from King Gwangmokcheon are a set item with the Yeouiju from Yongwangsa Temple. When I lightly pressed the space between King Gwangmok Cheon’s feet, a space appeared and a small wooden box came out. The wooden box contained an ingestible item called Cheonwanghwan.
It was an elixir that permanently and significantly increased body-related status, provided a growth-capable trait called regeneration, and gave +1 to body-related thresholds.
Aside from the ability increase, regeneration is a characteristic that matches well with Yeouiju’s damage reduction, and it was an ability that was very suitable for Yeouiju, as she quickly recovered even after receiving reduced damage. Moreover, since it is a god trait that allows it to grow, it eventually becomes a monster that can survive with just Sylphy.
The body-related limit +1 is an option that allows you to exceed the status limit of 20 and reach 21. It is only 1 point, but if you exceed the limit, your character becomes stronger to the point where you might wonder if this is the case.
In the end, Cheonwanghwan is also a fraudulent item. In the end, there was a reason why the main character’s starting point in the game was Incheon. It was the production company’s consideration to tell the weak children to start off by eating Yeouiju and Cheonwanghwan. Of course, I was also weak, so I accepted the consideration of the Absolute One who possessed me here. I hate you for possessing me here, but thank you, Absolute One.
Having obtained these two items, 70% of the purpose of coming to Korea was achieved. I need to rest today. Because it was already evening, I went down the mountain carefully. The phone battery is also in trouble.
I came down the mountain and checked into a nearby motel. If you eat Cheonwanghwan, you will pass out for several hours in the game, so instead of eating it right away at Baekunsa Temple, you will find a motel.
In fact, the moment I searched for the Xinjiang Group family tree in Japan and found out that it was a game world, there was a word I shouted without realizing it. That taboo word… ‘Jeok Tae-chang’
“Status window.”
As Yong Yong spoke, a translucent status window appeared in front of me. Why didn’t you do it sooner? Because this world was too real. It was true that there was no status window in the world before possession, so I didn’t feel like shouting it out in this world either. If I had not been convinced by looking at the Xinjiang Group family tree, I would never have shouted the word Sangtaichang.
For your information, my mom caught me while I was making a fuss about the status window… Her mother rolled over, laughing, holding her stomach, saying that her son had belatedly developed middle ear disease, but I couldn’t make any excuses. Because it’s true that she got caught shouting in the status window. Let’s not think about the dark history anymore and just focus on the status window in front of us.
