episode_0520

Korea is the home of e-sports.

It is no exaggeration to say that in any country, there is a category in which it is no exaggeration to say that Korea is at the top. If you ask where Korea is at the top, although it will vary by generation, young people will choose ‘games’.

What about this world?

The same goes for this world.

Esports have become the pride of Korea, and Korea should always be the strongest country in e-sports.

Before 2000, world sports were conquered with a bow, but after 2000, world e-sports were conquered with mouse and keyboard.

Sometimes in forgotten temples.

Sometimes in a kingdom burning beneath flames.

Sometimes on the battlefield where the four races come together.

While Koreans were not able to achieve much in the world championships other than archery, the fact that Koreans ‘ranked first in the world’ instilled great national pride in the people.

-Isn’t a game just about shooting guns and killing people?

The atmosphere of the times was said to be.

-Games are educational.

-Phew, what?

-The game’s strategies and tactics are all export items.

As gaming was no longer a disease, its status changed and changed.

-It would be enough if it was just a game, but the story would be different if children with special abilities learned the abilities they discovered in the game in the future, right?

-uh?

-The US White House said that it would buy the barbarian warrior and wizard tech trees I had raised, as well as the game data I controlled, for 1 billion. That becomes a kind of curriculum…a curriculum.

-Now, wait a minute. This isn’t in the script right now…

-Gaming is no longer a disease. A strategy book for nurturing people with special abilities… no, it’s a textbook!

It was the United States that paid the most attention to the game.

And as advanced countries began to discover new skills in the gaming industry one by one, Korea also began to focus on gaming in order to survive in an era of cataclysm.

-Even though it’s only a keyboard and mouse now, wouldn’t people with special abilities who grew up watching battles in this game learn from those abilities?

-But is it okay to look at what gamers in the US or Europe have made and follow it?! When our children grow up in the future, are we going to make them heroes with mohawks and guns like Yankee heroes?!

-We must nurture talented people in our own way and with our own culture! Gaming is no longer a disease!

In this way, Korea began to discover ‘talented players’ in domestic games.

At that time, regardless of whether people with special abilities were born and grew up, many people were enthusiastic about the war of stars in the PC world.

-The winner of this year’s WGC is Team Korea!!

Koreans were better at PC strategy games and RTS than anyone else, and they became a new element of national culture that raised the country’s status.

The era of special abilities.

The battlefield where you fight the most spectacularly with that ability.

Although it was a special ability in a world of 0s and 1s created by grinding the fantasies and imaginations of non-talented people and the developer’s body, the battlefield where the superpowers fought attracted everyone’s attention.

-Someday, our children will use their abilities brilliantly like that…!

And among them, people became interested in ‘hero’ units or developing hero characters.

Like developing characters in RPG games, wouldn’t it be enough to teach these abilities to children who will be born one day?

Whether these children grow up to spin around on a whirlwind holding a sword in both hands or shoot an ice spear in three prongs, wouldn’t it be enough to just teach them these abilities and remove the elements that have a negative impact on their emotional development?

If we say that comics, animations, and novels have become educational materials for people with special abilities who are born and grow up.

Games have become a medium to stimulate and develop human imagination in order to provide teaching materials to people with special abilities in the world.

And while E-sports used to be a competition between adults based on games and their abilities, starting in 2012, E-sports gradually changed into ‘e-sports’.

Before 2012.

So, it was a time when people with special abilities were still children.

As game competitions developed, people with special abilities grew up and began to want to show off their abilities to each other.

-From now on!!! A battle of abilities!!! start!!! I’ll do it!!!!!!

People started going crazy.

As young children around the age of upper elementary school gained the ability to control their strength enough to avoid being killed by an opponent, those with this ability began to boast about their power.

As the age of the talented person gradually increased, the competition became more specialized and systematic.

In 2020, when people with special abilities become ‘adults’ one by one, a showdown of special abilities reminiscent of the UFC unfolds.

2022.

The first World Cup for Talented People from each country was held, gathering only people with special abilities who were 19 years of age or older.

The winner is, of course, Korea.

Since then, every year since then, Korea has not missed out on winning the talent contest.

Despite the restriction that ‘only Class A players are allowed to participate’, Korea did not miss out on winning even though only Class A talented players participated in the competition.

No matter how many people who didn’t even get a chance to play in other countries are recruited and made to play for their country’s national team.

No matter how much we change the rules of the competition and make the situation unfavorable to Korea.

Korea has always shown off its spirit of winning the Talent World Cup.

And this year.

2025.

For the first time in history, it has been decided to hold a ‘competition where up to S level can participate’.

That is the World Cup for Talented Persons, which will be held in about two months from August.

Take this World Cup trophy away from Korea.

It destroys the pride of being the home of e-sports.

That’s the leader’s plan.

Original history.

So, of course Korea wins in the ‘original’.

However, it is difficult to say that the victory was purely Korean, as the winning team was ‘Team Sejong’.

okay.

They are not heroes belonging to the country, but dreamers of their time who competed at the ‘Sejong Academy.’

The academy students who were sent out just to gain competition experience, and the main character who was brought in as a token of thought as a face madam, breaks everyone’s expectations and wins.

only.

That future no longer exists.

The winning team is neither Korea nor Sejong Academy.

Because it will be ‘America’.

That shock will come as an indescribably great blow to this country that has been marinated in soup.

To compare it to a certain game I know well.

-No, how can this be!! North America!!! A country that has never made it to the finals before!! After defeating Europe, overcoming China, and now Korea, we will win the final and lift the trophy!!!!

Surely, it would be that much of a shock.

* * *

“It pours cold water on everyone who thinks they will win of course. We plan to take away the championship cup and display it in the middle of Times Square in New York, not in the Korean Hero Association.”

The head coach has already planned everything, including the situation after winning.

“The meteorite is in Korea, but the mana flowing from the meteorite has spread so much to the Korean Peninsula, but in the end, what will people think if Korea cannot be ranked first in the world? Mr. Ymir. What is the correct answer?”

“Uh, well, wouldn’t everyone be shocked…?”

“That’s right. It would be a huge shock. I would already be so angry at losing the championship cup, but why not lose it to another country in an international competition held in the middle of the Korean peninsula? Gukppong will all die.”

The leader knows this very well.

“At first, I thought about just taking over by force. I thought it would be possible to gather all the S-class fighters from around the world and occupy Korea by force. But it brought about the end of the earth.”

“……The end?”

“Let’s destroy each other on good terms. So, you should not attack Korea carelessly, and the only way to win is to compete fairly.”

How can we suppress and control the energy of Gukbbong that is rampant in this world to lead the world in a healthy direction?

“There are two major problems in Korea today. One is that people with special abilities are forced to make sacrifices for the country. And such an organization controls Korea’s politics, economy, society, culture, and even the media.”

“Sunshade.”

“That’s right. The only things that are not under control are education and justice… Sejong Academy and the Hero Association. And one more thing.”

The commander spread his fingers.

“Public opinion.”

“…….”

“We plan to make the World Cup as big as possible. As it is thought to be an international competition where the winner is confirmed, Haeguneul will use the World Cup to carry out all kinds of marketing.”

“But if you don’t win….”

“Using porridge. There is nothing more damaging to a company than when patriotic marketing fails.”

Korea won anyway.

“I will let the sunshade give me all kinds of excitement. If you win, we’ll let you do whatever you want, such as discounts or events. And what if you don’t win? bread. It explodes. They’ll even go as far as to instigate the fact that they didn’t win because of the sun’s rays.”

On this trend, our organization, as the representative of America, is pouring cold water on it.

“Those who were persecuted and oppressed in Korea and then went abroad and returned will win over Korea. And after winning, I say this in front of people.”

After looking at Seong Ji-eun and Cheon Ju-yeon, the leader opened his mouth as if speaking on their behalf.

“I attribute this victory to America and Sunshade. Because the sun’s rays killed us, we are representing America, not Korea.”

“Oh.”

“Think about it. Everyone who was originally on our team went to the opposing team and won because of our idiots?”

Public opinion.

“Who will people blame?”

It will explode.

“Imagine that a Korean naturalized as a Japanese citizen and made Japan win. What will happen?”

Towards the shade of the sun.