Life Mission Chapter 190:
Volume 7 / Chapter 190
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Life Mission’s virtual version is a game, and the reality version is like the name reality . The framework is similar, but the game and reality are clearly different .
There is no choice but the ecosystem of mutants and Lifer levels to become differentiated . However, it is not impossible to fit them together if forced to .
The reality version is marked by the alphabet, but the virtual version uses 5 advancement evaluations to judge Lifer ability . Levels 1 through 5 are separated into Beginner, Experienced, Expert, Pioneer, and Perfection .
Experts can basically be seen as somewhere between levels B and C . Pioneers are A and B, and Perfections are S and A . It is distinguished in between levels because there are huge differences following body modification, battlesuit configuration, and equipment .
Perfection in the virtual version is a level S Lifer in the reality version . Each has different terms from start to end, but it is certain that Perfections and level S Lifers can reach the peak of force .
When the virtual version was creating buzz, only 36 Lifers advanced to Perfection . They are the 36 rankers .
They can advance to Expert level with just time investment and effort, but the difficulty rises significantly once they go over from Expert to Pioneer .
So how hard would it have been to go from Pioneer to Perfection? It cannot be explained just by saying that it was difficult .
There are 3 conditions for advancing to Perfection . There is no higher place to reach once all of those conditions are met . All they have to do is look down arrogantly .
First, passive skills and occupational skills must be mastered . This is possible through labor over several days, months, years .
Second is going through the 9th stage of body modifications and owning a 9 combination battlesuit .
This is where **** comes in . There were countless Lifers with the 8th stage of body modifications and 8 combination battlesuits . Life Mission was commercialized for 10 years . There is a gap in the beginning, but the only difference is in who gets there first because there is a decided limit .
Stages 1 through 4 of body modifications are guaranteed successes in the virtual version, but the probability of the character dying becomes higher with stages 5 through 8 .
Only 2 or 3 out of 10,000 people succeed in their attempts at stages 7 and 8, and the rest fail . It can be seen as absolutely diabolical . A tremendous amount with experience and proficiency were dropped . There was a backflow of blood .
But stages 5 through 8 are fine because the character does not get deleted . The character becomes deleted starting with level 9, and tens of thousands of Pioneers collapsed here . There are often cases where one person makes 2 or 3 attempts .
Imagine a character they spent day and night creating over several years being deleted . It is horrible .
There was even a lot of news of people who committed suicide or became invalids . That is the risk of body modification .
Battlesuit configuration is not as big of a deal as body modification because battlesuits only break in failure and recovery is possible with points . The 10th stage of body modifications and 10 combination battlesuits are only possible after Perfections and the probabilities only become more atrocious, while the process remains the same .
Only Cha Jun Sung got to this stage and had power that differentiated him from other rankers . When he reached the 10th stage of body modifications, he prayed to a **** he does not even believe in to help him . Once these 2 conditions are satisfied, only the last encounter is left . If time and luck are necessary for the 1st and 2nd, the 3rd needs everything: time, luck, and ability . It is a hunt for level 8 mutants .
Since the population is small, it is work to find their habitats and work to kill them . It is a contradiction itself to hope for a one-on-one battle .
They go in hordes if they are at a disadvantage, so they have to expect large numbers . They could only become Perfections once they got through this hellish process .
The reality version is not much different when they look at it . They need to complete level advancement missions to become level S Lifers .
Actually, it must be harder .
The virtual version fights against level 8 with stage 9 of body modifications, but stage 8 needs to fight in the reality version . The gap between 1 level is quite large too . Could it be fortunate that they are not advancing alone but in groups?
If Cha Jun Sung wants to get to level S normally, he needs to complete a level A advancement mission . But he has the opening card . If he uses this, a store that is one level higher opens up . He only needs to complete a level B advance mission .
His body configuration already surpassed human limits when he became a mutant, and his battlesuit is already made of 10 combinations . If he matches the specifications he lacks like with other parts, he will be done with the basic settings . He will become a Perfection .
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“It’s small . Small . ”
Cha Jun Sung reads through the mission list carefully . Thinking of the missions as books, he is perusing them . That is how meticulous he is being .
One month passed since Park Jin Hyuk’s group entered a level B mission on the request of World Federation and Strategist . They are not coming back . It seems they will be late . He does not have negative thoughts . They are not weak people .
“I can see what mutant needs to be caught just by reading the mission description . I can automatically draw out the special features of each mutant . ”
He completed a level B advancement mission a day earlier . Was it easy? No, it wasn’t .
Cha Jun Sung went in alone, so he had to take on a huge volume . He fought with his mind and body while locked in the mission for over 3 weeks .
Even though he packed a lot of equipment to go in, he was a bit uneasy towards the end .
It took a long time because he had not awakened, had to go through the mission with constraints, and was exhausted . He also got hurt a lot .
“What should I do?”
As he became a level A Lifer, level A missions and store opened up .
He did not use his card however . There is only one chance to use it, so he cannot waste it . He needs to use it after careful deliberation .
The key is in points . He spent more than half of the 100 million points that Life Mission gave him while purchasing B class equipment . He filled it up again through several level B missions, but he does not have a chance in the level S store when he sees the price of equipment in A . He is not sure, but he thinks he might need 10 billion points .
“I don’t think I need to go through body modifications… . . ”
Cha Jun Sung tested how much strength he could exert without depending on his battlesuit while staying in this world where he has more freedom in his actions .
He has superhuman strength just by strengthening his body even in his human state without awakening . He could beat a super hero .
He does not know how much influence the 10th stage of body modifications has in reality, but it looks like he won’t need to do it from his current state . Lifers go through body modification in order to withstand the pressure from battlesuits . If he cannot endure it with this body, he can figure it out then .
To put it simply, this means that body modification is not the first purchase order . The first is full configuration of his battlesuit, the second is purchasing weapons .
He will not purchase weapons in level S . Firearms and heavy weapons become heavier and increase in power as they go higher in level .
However, the proximity range of swords cannot help but have limits on size . He can lift them with body modification and battlesuit strength though they are big and heavy, but they are not easy to brandish because of the body structure .
Is it the difference between shooting and brandishing?
Even in the virtual version, sword weapons are flocked in the elite level rather than legend . Cha Jun Sung’s weapon, the Ultimate Hades Blade, is elite level as well . This means that there are swords at legend level too .
The basic specifications of weapons go higher as the level increases because it is a game . The reason why he got an elite anyway is because it is +18 but also because the Overbooster and Ultimate Hades Blade have a good synergy .
[Ultimate Hades Blade]
– Ultimate Hades Blade: 1 billion points, 200 million achievement points
– Description: The ultimate sword that gets its name the **** of death, Hades . It is created with the best metal in Life Mission adamantium and falls behind other weapons in the sword line on various fronts, but it is specialized for drawing which is something a Blader cannot live without . If it is linked to the battlesuit’s system while holding the hilt, the booster explodes and brings the drawing speed up to its limit . It is the best weapon for blows and slashes .
The Ultimate Hades Blade’s guard can raise the drawing speed on its own, and 4 small boosters are built into it .
On top of that, Cha Jun Sung’s Overbooster raises the speed and though only momentaneous, it surpasses the speed of sound and supersonic speed . Even in the case of a level 9, unless it is prepared, it will miss the moment he draws it .
He used it against Evil Queen several times, but he had not used the booster .
He had made her aware with frivolous attacks . He saved his attack to stab her but used it in the end of the battle, and succeeded in cutting her in half .
A sword that is specialized in one thing rather than various but minor functions . That is the Ultimate Hades Blade and the essential weapon that Cha Jun Sung needs .
Ring!
[You have purchased the Ultimate Hades Blade . 1 billion points and 200 million achievement points will be deducted . ]
There is no room to consider it .
Cha Jun Sung did not hesitate . He thought that it was a lot and as soon as he paid the price of the weapon, the number of points he has plummeted .
He only has a couple hundred million left . He cannot use the level S store even if he opens it . He does not even have enough points to buy from the level A store .
“So it’s a matter of whether I should do a level C every few days, or whether I should just get a ton of points from level B . ”
Both have their pros and cons . The amount of points he will earn is similar, but level C is annoying because he needs to repeat it while level B is dangerous because the difficulty level is higher .
It did not take a long time for him to make a decision . Level B is more fitting for him, but he becomes disconnected from Park Jin Hyuk as the amount of time he spends inside a mission becomes longer . He does not know when they will return, but it is more comfortable to go in and out of missions if he is to keep checking . They need to discuss the direction that they will be going in from now on .