351. Flesh (1)

Tournament.

Actually, tournaments come with a lot of honor in addition to prize money. In the first place, I don’t need prize money right now.

Looking at the prize money amount, it was less than the allowance Mom gave me to have fun playing Leore.

I’ve won first place in countless games, but I haven’t gone pro.

That’s because I know my place well.

No matter how much I rank first in the game, the world of professionals is different.

But now I’m confident.

I’m confident I can beat anyone.

I’m definitely going to enter the tournament.

You might ask why I’m not entering the Leore tournament but entering the Space War tournament, but even if I have powers that transcend humans, there’s a slight problem with the Leore tournament.

It’s the difference in physique.

Leore is all good, but the difference in physique is big. So, in a PVP that feels like a fighting game, I’m overwhelmingly disadvantaged. Of course, I have advantages in my physical abilities to overcome that, but something doesn’t feel right.

Space War is a game where my physique doesn’t matter in the first place.

It’s a game where I fight with my troops, not my body.

Physical ability is necessary, but the most important thing is brainpower.

It’s not that Leore PVP is not fun.

There’s the fun of moving your body to fight directly, but there’s also the strong fun of predicting and figuring out everything even if the opponent does a solo show with their ass, and then crushing them.

But anyway, the Space War tournament registration has just started, so there’s still a long time before the preliminaries.

There are no particular violations of the tournament participation conditions either. I think they’ll definitely accept my participation.

,Since I can’t play other games once the tournament starts, I should prepare for the Leore raid in advance.’

All of our guild members are preparing, but it’s not like I have nothing to do.

Even though equipment abilities are balanced in raids, the options don’t change.

Good options are balanced with restrictions or stat reductions, or something like that.

Still, it’s true that there are particularly good options in raids, and it’s true that unique equipment is slightly better than basic equipment.

It’s not that you can’t clear raids with basic equipment. It’s just that if you equip unique equipment, there are many situations where it’s slightly better than basic equipment.

,I should go into Leore for a moment and check my equipment.’

==

To be honest, my equipment is completely shabby compared to other top-tier users.

Even if the equipment level is the same, there will be differences in options due to unique equipment.

I only have two unique equipment items right now.

In Leore, users can equip a total of 12 items.

7 for equipment and 5 for accessories, for a total of 12.

Among them, only 2 are unique equipment. This is such a pathetic item state that even if I were a regular user, not a first-clear-attempting user, everyone would believe it.

If I were a gamer who only plays Leore, it would be one thing, but right now I’m someone who protects multiple worlds.

Of course, there aren’t many games I play consistently. But Brown Dust is basically an idle game, and Monster Hunter doesn’t have any monster updates, so there’s nothing to do.

I’ve played Battle Arena too much recently, and it’s just Leore and Space War, but now I’m not unemployed.

I’m strictly a student.

Therefore.

The lacking unique equipment…

Let’s just buy it all with gold!

I went into the auction house with that thought, but…

,This is a disaster.’

Among the unique items listed in the auction house, I couldn’t see anything useful.

It’s not that there were no unique items, but those unique items were not combat items.

They were non-combat items. Crafting, gathering, that kind of thing.

,Sigh. Do I have to find them myself?’

It would take too long to do that. No matter how good I am, I have to practice for the tournament.

,I’ll just have to use regular items. But I should still check the auction house periodically.’

I’ll probably get ripped off as the raid time approaches, but I have so much gold that I don’t really care.

I still haven’t used the gold I was going to use at the auction house last time, so I have too much gold.

,Come to think of it, what’s happening with the Albino Elf?’

Pinkeu-nim was supposed to torture the Albino Elf to find out information about the Second World Administrator Miko, but there’s still no news.

But then again, Pinkeu-nim has been very busy recently.

Anna-ssi stepped down from her position as the head of Marsble Korea, but it’s not like she’s unemployed.

Even though she’s not the head, her parents are the heads of Marsble, so she must have a lot of things to take care of.

So, Pinkeu-nim manages everything related to the virtual world.

The story is fun, but it’s not so amazing that I’d dedicate my life to it, so once I lose interest, it feels like the flow is cut off.

,I should update my body first.’

Leore, where you have to periodically update your body.

Users who work hard to exercise to play Leore well update their bodies about once a week to create a better body in Leore.

Even if it seems like my physical abilities won’t increase any more, I update my body to increase the synchronization rate between the real and virtual worlds.

So, I updated my body today since I came in.

The moment I update, the access device scans my current body and temporarily enters my original body.

It projects my real body into the virtual world and fills in the missing parts.

I move my body for a moment after the update is complete.

,Hmm?’

Something was strange.

I should be in better condition after the update, but I feel a sense of incongruity. Something I’ve never felt before.

I don’t know what this feeling is, so I decided to move my body first.

I switched to the assassin class Sal-soo, the fastest-moving job, and stood in front of a scarecrow with two daggers.

And I tried to attack the scarecrow, but…

The daggers didn’t move as I thought.

Rather.

Stumble.

I lost my balance while using the skill and fell to the floor.

==

,Arang-ah!?’

A Munchkin Cat guild member who was watching Arang-i, who had entered Leore after a long time, was surprised to see Arang-i fall to the floor.

Skill cancellation rarely happens in Leore.

If you’re fighting a monster, it can be canceled by the monster’s powerful attack or debuff.

But right now, it’s not a monster, but a scarecrow standing still.

Leore basically has a combat correction system. It’s a system that is automatically turned on for all users who start Leore.

No matter how developed the virtual world is, how can anyone handle weapons well from the beginning?

If you think about using a skill, the skill is activated according to what the system creates.

Using skill correction doesn’t lower the skill damage. But if you use skill correction, you can’t determine the attack position of the skill yourself.

For example, if you use the 4-hit combo skill, you only attack the designated areas. You only attack the chest area, but if there is no combat correction, you can attack the desired area.

Then isn’t it obviously better to turn off combat correction? But it’s not that easy.

If you deviate from the movement that the system thinks, the skill is canceled.

It’s hard to play Leore without combat correction unless you have a certain amount of sense and physical ability.

It’s not that there’s a big difference between those who turn it on and those who turn it off, but there are situations where it’s decided whether you can successfully execute a skill at a crucial moment, so it’s good to turn off combat correction once you get used to Leore combat.

So, there’s only one case where a skill is interrupted while using it on a scarecrow with nothing.

The user has deviated from the level allowed by the system, and the skill has been canceled.

Other users would just think it was a mistake.

But I’m not just a regular user.

Arang-i, who has the best physical ability in Leore, failed.

Even to the point of falling to the floor.

This is not a minor problem. 

It’s a very, very big problem!

,Arang-ah, are you okay!? Does it hurt anywhere!? Does your head hurt!? Should I call Pinkeu-nim and Baedeopgae-nim!?’

,I’m okay.’

Arang-i got up from her seat without a word and looked at her hands, clenching and unclenching them.

Next, she lifted her legs one by one and even jumped, and then she realized.

About the sense of incongruity she felt earlier.

,Heavy.’

Arang-i felt her arms and legs were heavy.

It was a sensation she had never felt before, so she felt it as a sense of incongruity, but she realized it as she swung her weapon and moved.

This sensation is heavy. That’s what it means.

It may be light in reality, but it means that it feels heavier than the weight of her arms and legs that she used to feel.

If she used to move her arms and legs with a force of 1, now it feels like she’s moving them with a force of 1.5.

The reason why her arms and legs suddenly feel heavy is simple.

Arang-i’s body has recently become healthy to the level of a normal person.

You can still feel her ribs when you touch her chest, but she’s not like she’s been starving for months and looks like she’s going to die, but she’s gained weight to the point where you’d think, ,She’s skinny?’

Arang-i’s body has been gaining weight recently.

Especially after turning into a young girl, Arang-i’s appetite has changed a lot, and she’s been eating a lot of desserts.

She doesn’t eat much because of her small body, but the problem is that Arang-i doesn’t have arms and legs.

She should be gaining weight overall, but Arang-i doesn’t have arms and legs, so she gains weight faster compared to other people.

Even if she exercises, she doesn’t exercise for long due to the characteristic of not having arms and legs, and rather spends more time in the virtual world.

In other words, she eats rice and desserts and just lies down and plays games.

It’s natural to gain weight.

The problem is…

Inside Leore.

It scans the remaining body and creates arms and legs that match that body.

When Arang-i updates her body, it suddenly gives her arms and legs that match her body in a state where she has gained weight.

If another person gains 1kg, they gain 1kg in the virtual world, but Arang-i is different.

If she gains 1kg without arms and legs, in the virtual world, her body without arms and legs is in a state where she has gained 1kg, and the arms and legs that match it are also created in a state where they have gained weight.

In other words, the weight that increases is not 1kg, but heavier than that.

Realizing that, Arang-i shouted.

,It’s unfair!!!!!!!!!!’