Life Mission Chapter 13:

Life Mission
Volume 1 Chapter 13
 

Bang .

As Devereaux’s head was punctured, his flesh scattered . Cha Jun Sung, who was fighting hard, was disgusted and quickly jumped away .

Chiik .

The blood splattered to the ground . Level 2 Devereaux’s blood had toxicity . There were many of them in sizes as large as bulls – and the blood splatter was proportionate to their size .

‘That asshole… . . ’

Cha Jun Sung’s gaze became sinister . This was intentional . He had said that he would fight alone, but he had jumped in without any warning .

“Hell yea! That toad gave me 180 points just now!”

“Wow! That’s a lot . ”

“Nice! You should have like 3000 points now! Are you going to buy some equipment then?”

Three men were making a fuss out of nothing in the damp swampy area . Cha Jun Sung repressed the urge to throw a grenade at the idiots .

“Are you okay?”

“Yes . ”

A young man approached him . It was the party leader in charge of the idiots . Cha Jun Sung shrugged indifferently . These **** were useless .

Any party that he thought would be good already had full membership . Since people who matched well had come together a long time ago, Cha Jun Sung had had nowhere to fit in as a stranger .

He had finally found a party that had exceeded 1000 points over the past 15 days…and this was it .

“What do you think about coming on permanently? Hunting has become much more comfortable since Mr . Odin joined!”

Lifers did not ask names before they revealed them themselves . It was awkward to choose aliases, so they went with the names of their helpers .

“Sorry . I’ll be going now since the mission has been completed . Good luck . ”

Cha Jun Sung swallowed the swears at the tip of his tongue and returned home .

He heard the word ‘wait’ as he unilaterally ended the conversation and went back home, but he ignored it . He felt he would develop a cancer if he stayed any longer .

“Trash . The whole lot of them . ”

Eudeuk .

He had fought the Devereaux alone on behalf of the injured people . He left the other 3 people as escorts to care for the injured person, but that person went and taken his Devereaux kill in the end .

He did not want to use the word steal because it was a party, but the guy had done nothing until he stepped in at the end to take the bounty . And then what? They want me to join their team after that shit?

With the Kill-All team, it was already the 15th one he had gone through . One party per day .

His first impressions of all the parties weren’t the best, but he figured he should try a mission with them first before making a decision . Nope . He was right . They were all trash .

They only looked at points and made it a priority over their friends teammates . He knew he would have a lot of regrets if he fostered relationships with these kinds of people .

‘How is there not one normal person? In reality or in the virtual version . ’

The game had an interesting power of making a perfectly normal person into a psychopath . Cha Jun Sung met all types of people while playing the virtual version .

There were people who were probably completely normal in reality, but turned into someone who should be placed in a mental hospital right away once they entered the game .

Life Mission’s reality version was very similar to the virtual version excluding the fact that they only had one life . And it seemed the crazy transferred right on over .

This game, both in virtual reality and in reality, seemed to attract the kind of people whose gut reactions to situation were immediately to do something less than wholesome .

-[Are you feeling ok?]

“All I want to do at this point is just save like crazy for a month straight and go through body modification to go over to Class E . But I’m going to go crazy because I can’t do it, ok?”

There was something he found out while talking to Odin not too long ago . The number of times he died in the virtual version . It was 3225 – a higher number compared to others .

Cha Jun Sung had only done solo plays . He had learned as he confronted enemies beyond his capabilities . This was possible because it was the virtual version .

‘If I want to take on something like Caicus in Class C, even 10 lives are too little . If I don’t make friends, my strength will lack starting with Class E . ’

They had to meet when they had nothing to deepen their ties . If it’s a Lifer who has advanced to Level D, won’t he have all of his bases covered?

Then they become people looking for business partners that they need .

And if they become useless?

They endure it and get out . It had to be now . This moment .

‘Let’s do one more today and fold . ’

He did not experience fatigue because he was going into missions below his level . He still did not want to maintain this annoyance, so he would do one more for the day .

 

“Party, party . ”

Cha Jun Sung murmured the word party as he searched through Life World .

There were a lot of ads, but a lot of the parties were preoccupied with aspects like bribes, how many mutants each person took care of, and points . Starting out like this would only end in disaster .

“Oh?”

-[Writer: Anonymous]

-[Title: Permanent Party]

-[Content: If you’re going to say some nonsense about point bribes or mutant distribution, press escape . Solo missions are possible up to 500 points . I am only looking for comrades I can trust until the end . If you lie to get in and are caught, you’re dead . ]

These words instantly captured Cha Jun Sung’s attention . The content matched his thoughts exactly . Is he someone who finds importance in loyalty? Anyway, it was refreshing to read .

“Odin, search Underpass and send a party application . ”

-[Searching mission ‘Underpass’ . Search complete . I have sent a party application . ]

It said that he was bringing people on on a first-come, first-serve basis . He was not sure if it was good, but the ad was definitely different from what he had seen until now . He had high expectations .

-[The individual has accepted the party application . ]

-[On standby… . . If you agree, you will be sent to Class E mission Underpass . ]

Of course he agreed . He wanted to see the party leader’s face as soon as possible .

He was sick of dead ends .

‘If there a God, have pity on this person and bring upon him a winner . ’

 

 

“Hello, I am party leader Zephyrus . It’s nice to meet you . ”

“Oh, I’m Odin . ”

Cha Jun Sung lowered his head in surprise . It was in greeting but also because of his short height .

18? 19? He did not look like a middle schooler . Probably a high school student .

Whatever he was, he was not an adult . He was a pretty looking boy . Maybe because of that, the manly pose he had felt from the post disappeared .

“Are you disappointed because I’m young?”

“I can’t say I’m disappointed because age has nothing to do with skill…… but I’m surprised that a young person came into a place like this . ”

The primary selection criteria had been Life Mission account holders . It was an adult game, but some high school students entered by adjusting their birth dates .

“I’m going to catch all of the mutants in this mission, but I figure you won’t care?”

“Excuse me?”

“This is my 10th time completing Underpass, so I know this place well . ”

Cha Jun Sung thought he had heard wrong . 10th time? Does that mean this was a repeat mission? He had assumed missions could only be completed once . He learned something new today .

If Zephyrus was not lying, he would know Underpass like the back of his hand .

“It seems you didn’t know . Well, I guess they wouldn’t just tell you great information like this . ”

Zephyrus scanned Cha Jun Sung up and down . He observed carefully as though examining an object . It was not uncomfortable . Rather, he was curious of the words to follow .

“Your equipment is outstanding . I’ve seen hundreds of Lifers, but haven’t seen anyone who came even close . ”

“Thank you . ”

“Even if you get lost, it looks like you wouldn’t die . ”

“Die?”

“This place is Class E, but it’s dangerous . I gained a lot of information while basically living here . I’m sure you have information that others don’t as well? That type of equipment is impossible to get with normal methods . ”

Cha Jun Sung’s eyes rounded . Not only was Zephyrus not surprised at his equipment, he even showed some intelligent thinkin .

“Even when I think about it, I was lucky . ”

“I see . ”

He admitted it . Caicus’ appearance to make a special mission was all luck . Though it could have been unlucky if something had gone wrong slightly .

“Can I ask an uncomfortable question?”

“Sure . ”

“It seems you like to do missions solo like I do, but how far have you gone?”

“To 1500 points, but I wouldn’t suggest it because it’s ineffective . ”

“Wow!”

Zephyrus who had remained calm at Cha Jun Sung’s equipment showed surprise . He thought that someone great had come in .

“Let’s do the mission first . ”

“Oh right!”