Closed Beta That Only I Played

Chapter 104: Unveiling 4th Virtual Reality (2)

Just like one of the top five executives said, Tylon Cole’s appearance had not changed from before. But they had no choice but to pay attention to what Tylon Cole said next in the livestream.

“I feel some power in my body that I have never felt before.”

As soon as they heard Tylon Cole’s words, one of the top five executives immediately gave an order.

“Check his current physical strength right away!”

“Yes, sir!”

The personnel attached several devices to Tylon’s body to retest his physical strength and compare it to his previous records.

About two hours passed, but nobody left the conference room.

Of course, Tylon’s physical strength testing had not finished.

But everyone in the conference room knew that his physical strength had changed because his muscle strength value increased by 7, and his grip strength also increased by 2.3kg in several hours even though he didn’t do anything.

Moreover, even his maximum lung capacity increased.

In the past, he couldn’t run even one kilometer, but now he could without any difficulty, which confirmed clearly that his physique had changed.

In other words, this was the power of the increase of 1% actualization.

Austin, the intelligence chief, said, “Tylon Cole is a melee physical type combatant in the game, so strength and stamina were his main stats. So, as you can see, his physical abilities have improved like this. In addition, we could confirm he had traces of skills on occasion during the experiments. But there appeared a message that said, ‘You can’t use your skills because of your limited ‘actualization rate.’ That’s all for now.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, we need more coins to increase the actualization rate. And if we don’t have enough coins, we need a huge amount of golden rings.”

“…”

“….”

“….”

The participants remained silent for some time upon hearing Austin’s words.

Then one of the top five executives opened his mouth to break the silence.

“Isn’t there a guy who succeeded in enhancing up to +12 in the 100 level only enhancement quest and received 12,000 coins as a reward?

“Yes, that’s right.”

“What level is he now?”

“He is level 965.”

“Hmm…”

Austin was already expecting such a question, so he answered immediately.

“Apart from him, who else has the most coins?”

“I have no idea, but the others can’t have more than 6000 coins. On average, most don’t have even 500 coins, let alone 1,000.”

“In the end, it seems the key is how many golden rings we can obtain.”

“Yes, and we also have to make Tylon Cole stronger than ever. In order to increase his actualization rate as much as possible, we have to increase our total number of golden rings.”

“Good. You can pay any price. Focus all your capabilities on collecting golden rings. However, don’t be impatient. The US Government, Shaipe, and the Chinese and Russian guys are very clever.”

“Yes, sir. I will take extreme caution, and at the same time, I’ll do my best to collect as many golden rings as possible.”

They had decided on their future course of action, but no one left the conference room because Tylon Cole in the video could bend a thin but long iron rod easily, which he couldn’t do so only a few hours ago.

Of course, they could not rule out the possibility that he pretended to be weak on purpose in the past.

That’s why they used the latest test equipment this time which would not allow him to hide his physical strength even if he wanted to.

At a cafe near the central square of Northwood Castle.

I enjoyed the tea there leisurely. I betted on Daeyu, and Daeyu had no choice but to accept my demands.

In fact, Daeyu’s Chairman Daeyoung Suh himself accepted my demands.

“Hahaha. I will accept all your demands because Daeyu is a company that fully pays a competent person,” Chairman Suh said with a hearty laugh.

He made a bright smile at me as if he didn’t regret offering me such huge benefits at all.

So, I exchanged pleasantries with him.

“Well, I don’t know if you know this, but I’ve always longed for Daeyu. That’s why I came to this place. So, I hope I’m in your great hands, Chairman Suh.”

Of course, I paid lip service to please his ears, and bowed to him deeply because I would get lots of benefits from him in the future.

***

At a hunting ground called the Tombs of the Dead.

As the name suggested, this was a place where undead monsters appeared. In general, those places where undead monsters appeared were popular among users because there were not many monsters that had as deadly and precise weaknesses as undead monsters.

For example, fire-type skills, holy-type skills, and recovery-type skills that replenished health were effective against these undead monsters.

As such, the areas where undead monsters appeared were very popular.

Of course, these kinds of skills were irrelevant to me because I was an ice-type wizard.

Nevertheless, I came to this place because although this was a place for players above level 500, I could receive more EXP than other hunting grounds at the same level.

“Asirante, No. 3 Team’s monster herding is done.”

When I recently met the sons and daughters of the chairmen of the top business groups including Daesung and Kusan, they mentioned something about monster hunting.

They told me that there were so many guys everywhere who could herd monsters, so I didn’t have to go to the trouble of chasing and hunting the monsters by myself.

At that time, I didn’t feel envious of them at all because I had too many things to envy them, and I hunted faster than them even though they used a hunting trick like herd hunting.

Moreover, I wondered if those who herded monsters with a smiling face were really happy to do so deep down, for they would feel frustrated for spending their precious time herding in a place like this.

Of course, if they were paid properly to herd monsters, they might do their best, but they didn’t pay attention to it.

As the sons and daughters of their fathers, the chairmen of Korea’s top business groups, most of them took this for granted.

Anyway, I didn’t tell them about my situation, but I decided to play a double role after disclosing my ID Asirante. But it was impossible for me to use my ID Lumen to pay the legitimate price to hire monster herders even within the Myongjin Guild.

But I could do so with my ID Asirante. Besides, these guys were not affiliated with Myongjin.

So, I asked not only to have access to this Tombs of the Dead hunting ground, famous for giving more EXP than other hunting grounds of the same level, but also for a team that would herd monsters for me, and four teams at that.

So, a total of four teams of monster herders were on the move in all directions while I stood in the middle of the hunting ground.

When they were done herding monsters to a certain extent, they reported to me about the outcomes immediately like they did a moment ago.

“Let’s go.”

Since they were not far away from me, I moved to the place where Team No. 3 had herded monsters. Soon, more than a herd of 100 undead monsters lured by about 10 people appeared.

And the team leader who noticed me shouted, “Everybody, get out!”

As soon as he shouted, the ten members of Team No. 3 rushed toward me.

Of course, more than 100 undead monsters followed behind them.

So, I opened my mouth quietly.

“Blink.”

Shung!

After I passed the ten Daeyu Guild members rushing towards me using Blink, I charged into the herd of more than 100 undead monsters and began to attack them as I always do.

“Ice Field! Multiple Thin Ice!”

Pasasasak!

A land of ice was created instantly. It was wide enough to affect the ten Daeyu Guild members who ran away first as well as over 100 undead monsters.

Of course, even though the Ice Field was so wide, the damage was still enormous.

Anyway, the ten Daeyu Guild members were still within the ice field.

But it didn’t matter because I was also a member of the Daeyu Guild for now.

“Ice Storm! Pouring Hailstone!”

Pabababak! Pitter-patter!

I immediately used two AOE skills consecutively.

Then, to exaggerate a bit, a huge snow storm-like phenomenon occurred which made it almost impossible to see even an inch ahead, for Ice Storm and Pouring Hailstone were raining down profusely at a high intensity.

Of course, I had one more skill in reserve, namely, Ice Blast.

Besides, I had already upgraded Ice Blast to level 4 along with Pouring Hailstone.

But I didn’t use it this time because the Ice Field itself, which would be the sacrifice of Ice Blast, gave me tremendous benefits.

Besides, over 100 undead monsters all disappeared, leaving behind some items.

[You have leveled up.]

The items that dropped included golden rings, various miscellaneous items, a weapon enhancement stone, and an armor enhancement stone.

If I can take all of them, it will be very advantageous for me.

Tramp, tramp.

I turned back without collecting them. Although I felt some regrets about it, I was not greedy enough to take them now. Moreover, the herding team was sweating for me out there.

If they didn’t receive any benefits, they would obviously swear at me because they had to waste their precious time for nothing for someone who just suddenly appeared

So, I decided that letting them enjoy these benefits would be more advantageous for me. And my generosity toward them paid off quickly.