Life Mission Chapter 117:
Volume 4 / Chapter 117
TL: LightNovelCafe
“What is this? Tsk!”
Violet walked around the exhaustively large Mechanic City and complained . She came because it was opened, but there is nothing to do .
She is smart . She realized the usefulness of this place when she was listening to the explanation from her helper, Gaia .
“What is this man doing that he isn’t picking up? He doesn’t seem to be ignoring me from his reaction, but should I have taken note of everyone else’s helper names as well?”
While Violet was roaming the city, Cha Jun Sung was wrestling the Caicus in the training room .
Whenever Violet has Gaia request contact with Odin, they only get the message ‘He is not in a state to pick up at the moment . Please try again later . ’
Violet only knows Cha Jun Sung’s helper name . If she had asked for Park Jin Hyuk’s as well, she would not be so frustrated .
-[Miss, where are you? The family elites are scattered . ]
-[I’m in zone D area 29, but I’m crossing into area 28 if I walk a little more . ]
-[Hm… . . That’s 76km away from where I am . We all exchanged locations . If you let us know where you are as well, we will go find you . ]
The man who contacted her is one of the cadres from her family . He watched her grow up, so there is a lot of trust .
She looked around, found a fairly prominent building, and relayed its name with her coordinates . He said that with a generous amount of time, he would arrive in 1 or 2 hours .
Violet plopped down on the stairs at the entrance to the building . It is full of an artificial smell . There is not even a single ant .
This is in reference to real ants . There are a lot of things like trees, but no life . This is excessive cleanliness . There is bound to be aversiveness if something is too perfect .
“What little rat is watching me? Ugh, all things with **** are the same . ”
Violet curses . She is not so crude that she would curse upon a first meeting, but she cannot help it if someone is watching her in hiding .
Though she tries to think about it positively, she cannot find good intent .
“The pretty chick has a pretty mouth too . ”
“Ke ke . ”
“Ugh… . I’m too fed up with this to even get angry . I’m sure you won’t listen to me anyway, but I’ll give you a chance . Just get lost . Then, I’ll let you live . ”
2 Lifers creep out from the corner of the building Violet is sitting in front of . They are murderers . She scratched the floor with the spear in her hand .
She only scratched the surface slightly, but the stone is chipped and powder flies . It is a demonstration of force . The murderers realized that she is as powerful as she speaks .
To enter Mechanic City, one has to go through buses or be really skilled . They must have met the latter, though they do not know that she is the Empress of Light .
‘Is she for real?’
‘She doesn’t show surprise . And she’s relaxed . Her skill must be real . But there are 2 of us . If we have equivalent specifications, numbers can’t be underestimated . ’
He is not wrong . If their specifications are the same, numbers will be the determining factor . They could not even guess that Violet has a battlesuit .
It is a given . There are not even 40 people all over the world with battlesuits .
Though not exact, there is a lot of credible information if they go looking for it in Lifer World . When combined, they can paint a picture .
From what they know, there are only 4 women who have battlesuits . The rest are all men, and they are all eminent rankers .
There could be more, but they did not think that it would be right in front of their eyes .
Visually, metal armors do not look very different from battlesuits unless examined carefully . Of course, it is noticeable if someone has a really good eye .
“You seem to be pretty skilled, but you think you can handle 2 of us?”
When fighting with a female Lifer, they need to see her as a Lifer and not a woman . If she is proficient in using weapons and has gone through body modifications, she cannot be seen as a woman .
“Fuck! You’ll die? I could take 200 guys like you – no – is 200 too much? I could take 20, you dimwits . ”
Violet quickly corrected herself after she said 200 . If there are 200 people who have gone through 4th stage of body modifications, she cannot win even with a battlesuit .
“Crazy bitch! Will you be able to say that even after I have you flattened out under me?”
“What? Crazy bitch?”
Violet bolted up, using her spear as a cane . She likes the name Empress of Light, but does not like it when people call her Crazy Bitch .
She would fight even a similar level ranker said it, but this nobody is saying it .
“I won’t kill you guys . Instead, I’ll cut your **** off . ”
The spear creates wind pressure . It is a bother, but she had been bored and she now has a toy to play with . She will play with them until the family elites arrive .
“He he! Don’t worry . We don’t intend to kill you right away either . ”
“What a load of bullshit!”
Woong!
Violet wore her battlesuit . She was already wearing it, but she had deactivated the outer shell for comfort and had decreased the volume as much as possible .
It had been more difficult to determine because she had put her helmet away .
“What!”
“Battlesuit!”
“Shut up . You’re being noisy . ”
Violet put her spear forward and attacked . It is time to cut their **** off .
***
“Who are these guys?”
“I was alone when they said that they would flatten me under them, so I cut their **** off . ”
Bolton of the Florence clan, who aids Violet, covers their lower bodies from view with his hand . The 98 Lifers behind him did the same .
The murderers’ metal armors are deactivated, crying with the whites of their eyes showing . They realize their situations even though they have gone out of their minds .
“This tattoo?”
“I saw it too . They’re members of a PK guild from North America . I tried to get information from them, but they’re such underlings that they don’t know anything . ”
There is a red devil tattooed on the back of the murderers’ hands, indicating that they are members of the Blood Kingdom guild in North America .
They are mostly active in North America, but they will go anywhere where there are Lifers . There are traces of them in England as well .
They are evil people who do not discriminate with their PKs in mission and reality . They have gotten to the point where the Queen put Weapon Master Brayburke into action .
There is frequent friction with the Florence clan as well . They can guess who the leader of Blood Kingdom is . There is suspicion, but no evidence .
Brayburke told them that Dark Side and Hell Sword contacted each other . Bad habits die hard and like minds go around together in reality as well .
Bolton gave a nod . It is a command to get rid of the murderers who take part in disgusting actions . A few Lifers stepped forward and dragged them away .
They did not come forward randomly . The Lifers who were worthy of gaining points came out . If they kill the murderers, they will earn at least 100,000 points .
“It’s quiet . It looks like a modern city of the future, but there is no humanity . ”
“Right?”
It is what all of the Lifers are thinking . The members need to embrace this novelty before they can get used to it .
“Gaia . Is there still no word from him?”
-[There is a dialog signal . If you would like to connect, you may do it now . ]
“Wow! Finally!”
Violet smiled brightly and was so happy she could jump up and down . Bolton knows the basics of what is going on because he heard from her . She is going to meet the person who saved her life .
“Hurry up and connect us!”
-[Sending Odin a request to connect… . . Request complete . You are being connected with Cha Jun Sung . ]
***
Cha Jun Sung lost in a virtual battle against a top level 5 Caicus . It is a dreamlike virtual battle, but there is one thing that he realized for certain .
He decided that the level C store would not be able to handle level 6, much less the top of level 5 . For the sake of safety, 2 people need to combine their strength to take on a mid-level 5 as well .
Even if he purchases weapons and sets supporting gear, he could risk his life to get through the advance mission but the problem is what comes after that .
He does not dwell on his defeat . If he is lacking somewhere, he can gather it . If he loses confidence because he lost in the virtual version, it will be hard for him to concentrate in Life Mission .
Cha Jun Sung came out of the training room and decided on a residence in zone A area 25 after much thought . It was a trade for 10,000 points .
The building is clean but it is not to his liking . It is geographically uncomfortable .
He wants to get a place near the training room and mega tower, but that costs too much . There is a slow influx of Lifers, so it is overflowing in commercial spaces .
It will be good to watch the situation and gather points before moving .
His party members left finding the residence to him and were completely encompassed by the training room . Park Jin Hyuk in particular said that it was like doing a raid in the game .
“But Odin, can we sell this house again later? This is technically an item that I bought in Mechanic City . ”
-[… . . You can sell it . ]
Odin’s voice is strangely slow . It is like when people are hesitating to say something and have no choice but to say it in the end .
“Oh! For how much? Items in the store are blocked well so there can’t be any profiteering . ”
-[… . . There isn’t . ]
“What are you talking about? Say it properly . Why are you acting weird?”
[There is no limit . ]
“Huh?”
[Store products are infinite because they can be created in factories as long as we have the materials, but there is a limited number of buildings in Mechanic City . ]
Cha Jun Sung thought hard . He never learned real estate, but higher education is emphasized in Korea and he is a college graduate .
“They’re limited? The price is decided on when first buying from a cyborg, but that disappears when going over to Lifers?”
-[Yes . ]
Scarcity . Imagine millions of Lifers enter Mechanic City . They will surely try to find a residence, won’t they?
There is a lot of demand, but if there is a supply cap? There will be auctions and price wars .
Even in reality, there are people with useless pieces of land who suddenly become rich . There is no reason why this cannot happen in Mechanic City .
“That’s a scam . If it’s going to be like this, you should have blocked real estate like you did with the items . ”
It is an advantageous system for Lifers who have entered groups .
If large scale personnel hoard them and then sell to other Lifers at an expensive price, the profiteering system the helpers blocked becomes pointless .
“I don’t think you guys would have done this without thought . Why is it like this?”
-[It is to increase efficiency . ]
“Efficiency?”
[What are you going to do if there is something you want to buy but don’t have enough points for?]
What would he do? He would have to go through missions and gather points .
Cha Jun Sung understood right away . It means that if he wants something that is scarce and finite, he needs to catch a lot of mutants .
If he just advances and gathers the points, he can purchase an item in the store at any time . Odin is emphasizing the difference in value .
There are a lot of people in the game who invest millions of dollars to acquire a look set that changes appearance with all types of options .
Helpers used the human psychology that they want to look better than they actually are .
That is why there is no restriction on real estate as there is on items . They are to choose the one of the two that is more satisfying to them .
“Large guilds will take over . ”
-[Whether it is with items or real estate, there is no way to prevent the flow of it . If you feel iffy about it, you can make a group too . ]
Make a group? He is averse to it . He cannot manage it . People have a temperament for that as well . He needs to have the talent for it and Cha Jun Sung is hopeless on that end .
There is a point to what Odin is saying as well . Everything gets stronger as they gather and as there are more . Even on Earth where money reigns over points, groups are at an advantage .
Even if Mechanic City did not function with relation to the current system, groups have more influence than individuals do in this place .
Anyone with a complaint forms groups . If not, they stay silent like Cha Jun Sung does . There is a gap between the powerful and those who are not in any world .
“I’ll just ask one thing . Are there any restrictions? Can you dominate Mechanic City as long as you have the points and achievement points? That can’t be it, can it?”
-[There is a limit to how much real estate a Lifer can own by class . ] [The zone does not matter, but it is different based on the area and the scale of the constructed building . ]
Cha Jun Sung massaged his forehead . He understands what Odin is saying . It is just that trying to accept it makes his head hurt .
Beep beep!
The PDA blinks . It is something that happens when the request for a call comes in . There is no reason for it to be the party members . It must be Gaia .
-[Shall we pick up this time?]
“Yeah . ”
When Cha Jun Sung ended the training and came out, Odin told him that Gaia had requested contact . He did not call back however .
He is testing her out . The person who wants it more will call . Cha Jun Sung is actually in a rush, but it looks like Violet is clinging more because he saved her life .
-[Look here! How is it impossible to get in contact with you for half a day? Are you ignoring me on purpose?]
As soon as the PDA was connected, Violet attacked Cha Jun Sung . She has a hot temper . It is a relief that she did not curse at him .
-[I’m sorry . I was in the training room until now and must not have seen it . ]
It is not a lie . It is 90% truth . Excluding the one time he ignored her call when he came outside, he really had not been in a situation to pick up .
-[Mechanic City has that? The training room in Life Mission?]
-[Fascinating, isn’t it?]
This place is as if the large city of Life Mission has been moved here . Cha Jun Sung thought that it is fascinating . It is because they thought the same .
-[That’s good . I was uneasy about facing some, but you asked me to join your party, right? I’ll join on some conditions . ]
-[What are they?]
-[If you win me, the Empress of Light, I’ll lend the party my spear . ]
Cha Jun Sung was silent . Empress of Light, 3rd place ranking . In Life Mission, 1st through 10th places of the 36 rankers are the truly skilled people and the rest are just fillers .
Even within the top 10, the classification is split again into 1st through 5th and 6th through 10th .
In the virtual, he pushed Weapon Master and Blood King back with upgrades like bizarre items, skills, and the 10th stage of body modifications .
All he has now is a basic battlesuit and a bag of vibrating weapons . He cannot guarantee that he can beat her or other weak rankers .
He was not sure what Violet was saying, but he is averse because she is saying that she wants to fight . Weapons are for destruction .
-[Very well . If you tell me your location, I will go look for you with our party members . ]
-[I’m in zone D area 29 . First, come to zone D . There isn’t a training room in this area . I think I’ll need to move to a top area . ]
Cha Jun Sung entered zone D in his PDA . The distance is automatically calculated . It is pretty far . He will be able to get there quickly because the road is empty .