102 – Training in the Secret Techniques of Spear Fighting with Irene

“I’ll take votes on this for two days. If it leans too heavily to one side, it might end early.”

Looking at the chat, they’re already debating among themselves about what’s better, what’s not realistic. The content is quite provocative and high in intensity, so people are often penalized by the AI.

“Uh… I’ll turn off the chat again.”

• Ah

This time, I really turn it off and look at the next item.

[Choose Your Favorite Advertisement]

Advertisements.

I’ve received many offers since long ago, but I never had the time to pay attention to them, so I just rejected them all.

But now I need a lot of money. I still haven’t properly equipped my gear, so I’m not getting the full benefit of the Illusionary Set.

Ji-hye has selected a total of 5 advertisements.

They are ranked from 1 to 5 in order of what she thought was most useful.

‘Wow, just hiring one person makes things so much easier.’

First, the first one.

Men’s underwear advertisement.

“Huh…? Why men’s underwear…?”

Since I’m a woman, shouldn’t I be filming a women’s underwear ad?

But advertising women’s underwear doesn’t seem right either…

“Ah, most of my viewers are male, so it might be okay.”

I slightly open the memo attached like a comment by Ji-hye.

[This is a money-printing, super easy advertisement! Just accept it! ]

“Oh…”

Worried that viewers might see it, I check the broadcast screen, and my face and chest are all that’s visible on the large screen.

‘Okay, that’s good.’

I lightly agree and look at the next advertisement.

Second.

Full-body onahole advertisement.

“What…!”

An onahole manufacturing company contacted me to release an onahole modeled after my vagina, anus, and the inside of my labia.

“No…”

Speechless, I look at Ji-hye’s memo first.

[Just get one body scan and you’re done! They say they’ll give you 10% of the sales amount for each one sold! It’s a complete freebie!! This is also printing money!!]

“Hoo… is that so?”

They say it’s impossible to implement the face.

[You can release a detachable face goodie with a photo! The money doubles!! Yay yay!!]

“……”

Okay, our administrative agent Ji-hye had it all planned out.

Getting a body scan once isn’t hard, so I accept.

The third advertisement is for a convenient budae jjigae (Korean stew) pack exclusively for Awakened.

‘These days, they even implement budae jjigae…’

It’s even a product with added white rice and ramen noodles, so I pressed accept as if possessed.

The fourth is an advertisement for a breast pump.

It’s said to be a full-body breast pump that comfortably and pleasantly extracts breast milk. It even has a sleep mode, so I suspect it’s completely customized for me. I’ll advertise this while I’m at it, so I accepted it.

The fifth is just a normal beverage advertisement, but I have to sing a CM song and dance, so I was going to reject it… but I couldn’t.

Two billion won.

It was too much money to refuse.

“What, I accepted all five…?”

Isn’t our administrative agent more competent than I thought?

Maybe the rest were advertisements that I would have to think a lot about or reject.

“The advertisements are over, and there’s still one more thing to do?”

This time, it’s an appearance offer.

It’s a request for interviews from broadcasting stations and YouTubers.

Only three of these were selected and uploaded.

First.

Massage shop.

“Ma, massage?”

I wondered if this was lewd and looked at Ji-hye’s memo,

[It’s operated by an Awakened who even has a professional license! If you do this, you get additional stats, although it varies slightly from person to person! It’s a complete freebie, right? Just go and get a massage and you’re done!]

‘Will they really just do a massage…?’

I searched on MuTube and found it easily.

It’s a massage called chiropractic, but it’s actually closer to bone correction surgery than massage.

With a cracking sound, they coolly adjust the body, and the person receiving it comfortably receives the massage while making cool moaning sounds.

‘Oh… I want to try it too!’

They have professional licenses and possess the relevant skills and traits, so I trust them.

I’ll schedule it after visiting the World Awakened Association.

Second.

Awakened streamer Kang Han-gil’s sparring request

“Oh… this person is?”

He’s a very famous Awakened streamer.

In Korea, he’s a male streamer with similar average viewers to me, and he’s one of the few individual streamers who has cleared the 50th floor. He’s also good at talking, and he always breaks through trials in extraordinary ways, so there are several hidden endings and true endings that he has discovered.

[This person also doesn’t have a good relationship with the large guilds. He was beaten up in the neutral zone for talking alone ㅠㅠ If the two of you join forces, it will be easier to stand up to the large guilds, and he also helped during the last protest.]

‘Okay, I have to repay the favor.’

This isn’t urgent, and if it’s sparring, it would be more fun to fight when I’m a little stronger.

I’ll just accept it for now and postpone the date for a few months.

Finally, the third.

Drinking broadcast with Jay, who does Excel broadcasts.

“Hmm…?”

Isn’t Excel broadcasting usually a slightly underground broadcast that walks the fine line between 15 and 19 gold?

‘No, wait a minute… it’s funny that I’m calling someone else’s broadcast underground.’

The problem is that social issues often arise, so the public’s perception is not good. That’s why Ji-hye wouldn’t have recommended something like this, so I checked the appearance fee and…

5 billion won!

‘Crazy. They’re spending 5 billion won on a female collaboration…? With that money, I’d rather join a guild… Ah, it’s more profitable for those people to broadcast during the time they spend going to Awakened academies and training…’

Too much… money… to refuse…

‘No.’

I send a reply to Ji-hye.

[Tell them I’ll accept if we only drink and talk on the air without having sex]

It’s too much money to refuse a chance to earn 5 billion won for free just because of a woman’s pride. With that money, I can just get a piece of equipment that raises agility by 40-50.

‘Hoo… is the backlog of work finally over…?’

“Everyone, we’re going to do something else now.”

The time I’ve been waiting for has finally come.

Irene’s SSS-grade Spear Technique Secret Book.

Moon God’s Spear Record.

‘A record of a spear that surpasses God… I’ve been so curious about it.’

I summon the first volume and read it with a reverent attitude.

• No, seriously, I came because you said you were going to do something elseㅋㅋㅋㅋ
• It is something elseㅋ
• Just don’t say anything, you bitch
• What’s with the reading;;
• What’s changed from before? Is it going from looking at the screen while muttering to yourself to shutting up and reading?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
• These guys are always angry unless they have sexㅋㅋ
• Trueㅋㅋ
• When are you going to meet Irene?
• Tell me when you’re going to do yuri, you bitch

“First of all, it said to read the secret book completely, right? I’ll just read the first volume and go to the training space. Just wait a little bit!”

Preparation is necessary for a meeting.

I’ll do the homework she gave me and confidently face her.

First, Volume 1.

First Form: Straight Heart One Spear

“This… uses divine power?”

The beginning describes the contemplation of various energies such as mana, ki, and divine power, rather than the spear technique itself, and the lengthy content that those energies are ultimately connected as one.

Most of the content doesn’t make sense to me now, but the important thing is that this spear technique doesn’t matter much what kind of energy it deals with.

What this secret book emphasizes is the utilization of energy.

It’s not a fixed amount of divine power used every time you use a skill, but the key is to control it yourself, like an aura blade or sword energy.

‘Yeah, that’s right.’

The enemies I met in the trials used aura like dogs and cows, but there aren’t that many aura users among the Awakened in reality.

That’s because of efficiency.

For example, if you look at the aura blade used by a mana user,

<Aura Blade lv.1>

Increases attack power by consuming 1% of mana per second.

The amplification of attack power is proportional to the consumed mana and skill level.

It looks very simple and good, but the biggest disadvantage is that you can’t control the amplification of attack power.

1% of the total mana is drained per second, so it’s practically a finishing move, but it’s a bit ambiguous to call it a finishing move, and the consumption is so severe that it’s burdensome to keep using it.

In addition, if you don’t steadily grow the level, the power drops miserably compared to the mana consumed.

So, to use it properly, you need to have various auxiliary skills and equipment, but there isn’t much difference between someone who has become stronger that way and someone who has become stronger by taking other skills, and it is affected by your swordsmanship skills, so you also need a swordsmanship secret book.

The most important thing is that you can’t control it as you please. It’s not like they’ve been training since childhood, gaining enlightenment like medieval people, and it’s not easy to control because they don’t have bodies that can freely manipulate mana like them.

There are people who control it, but it’s very rare. In Korea, only the Sword Saint who recently returned and his direct disciples are capable of it.

‘But this explains that control is key. When I enter the training space, will Irene create another blood point for me?’

Let’s keep reading for now.

Now it slowly shows how to use this energy to unfold the spear technique.

First Form: Straight Heart One Spear

The most pure basic of the spear.

It deals with stabbing.

‘Stab with a straight heart? The spear becomes one with the heart and stabs straight? Damn it, I haven’t studied Chinese characters since middle school.’

I’ll postpone the unnecessary interpretation of Chinese characters and read the textbook.

The book described the technique in considerable detail.

Which blood points the energy passes through and where it heads to unleash explosive power, and what are the differences between each blood point’s flow.

How the actual operation of the energy works, etc. Because it’s the first form, it was explained in great detail.

‘Technical terms… these are also explained.’

Looking at the last page of the book, there was a kind explanation of the terms used and the names of all the blood points in the human body.

‘Wow… if I were a normal Awakened, I wouldn’t have understood any of this…?’

If I hadn’t tried to use skills without a system in my past life, or if Ju-ji and Cheon-ma hadn’t pierced my blood points, I would have gone crazy with this unfamiliar secret book.

It was quite difficult for an Awakened who uses skills received from the system with a ‘click’.

‘There’s no automation… I have to move all the energy myself, and I have to swing my arm.’

I understood most, if not all, of the operating principles.

‘I roughly understand what it means to become one with the spear. I have to put my energy into the spear and move it.’

It’s like you have to operate the spear as if it were a huge blood point. Literally, you have to put virtual blood points into your spear.

‘But how…? Is this something you have to train like real medieval people or martial artists?’

If I try to move the energy in my body, it will naturally move.

Discharge and explosion are also possible.

But it’s difficult to infuse divine power into an external object and make it flow as naturally as my body. The gradually released energy scatters in the air after a while.

‘Still, it’s because it’s me that I can do this much… normal Awakened can’t even move their own energy.’

Concentrating on reading, I finish reading it in an hour.

It looks difficult, but if you master it, you can definitely exert overwhelming power even with the same specs.

How is the reward grade of a secret determined? It is related to its destructive power, but if it lacks versatility, is difficult to use, or has many restrictions on learning, the grade goes down.

That’s why Irene’s physical training secret, which is full of restrictions, only stopped at grade S.

But this spear technique secret has no skills that go out with a ‘click’, and even I have a hard time understanding it, but it has an SSS grade.

That means the destructive power is likely to be more than SSS.

“Hoo… this much should be enough for preliminary study, right? The important thing is still practice. I’ll go now.”

[First Form: Straight Heart One Spear]

Would you like to train this form? If you accept, you will be automatically moved to the subspace.

“Okay, I’m going, Irene.”

Feeling my body being sucked into the subspace, I enter Irene’s training space.

With a feeling of floating slightly, similar to moving in the tower, my vision recovers.

A white space similar to the previous physical training secret appears, and when I turn around, I see Irene sitting in a fancy chair.

“Uh… Irene?”

‘Something about the atmosphere is a little different…?’

 

“Are you the next successor?”

Her tone was very authoritative and cold.

I’m so embarrassed by the freezing atmosphere that I can’t speak.

‘I expected her to have no memory, but…’

“No answer. Did the next successor get a moron…”

She sighs, gets up from the chair, picks up the spear, and slowly approaches.

“Wa, wait a minute! Who are you?”

“You ask strange things. I’ll help you come to your senses, come at me.”

‘No, why is no questions asked coming out here…’

As she holds the spear diagonally forward and takes a stance, I take the same stance…

Whooshㅡ

“Uh…?”

Crack!

My neck was pierced.

 

“Huh!!”

I felt like my consciousness was cut off for a moment and then returned.

Instinctively touching my neck, it’s perfectly attached.

‘What is it? Clearly…’

And in front of me, I hear Irene’s cold voice.

“Take a stance, I’ll fix your sloppy mind first.”

“Wa, wait…”

Thud!!

I faced death once again.