Overgeared Chapter 630:
‘It wasn’t a joke?’
Hao sweated as he arrived in front of a Chinese restaurant with Youngwoo . There was a red signboard embossed with two golden dragons . This place had a strong Chinese atmosphere and the word ‘Yongsungkak’ on it . Hao was dismayed .
‘A Chinese person who came to South Korea is treated to Chinese food . . . ?’
If he didn’t know who Youngwoo was, Hao would’ve evaluated him as insane . But who was Shin Youngwoo? Overgeared King Grid . The first among two billion users to become a king .
‘He must have deep intentions for guiding me to this place . ’
Youngwoo handed the menu to Hao, who had misunderstood and interpreted the actions positively .
"My recommended dishes is the stone bowl jjampong . Oh, jjampong are normally too hot for foreigners to eat? Then you can eat jajang . ”
Youngwoo normally got his delivered food from here . But the stone bowl was too hot and he was always sad because it couldn’t be delivered . He was happy to be able to use Hao as an excuse to visit this restaurant and eat jjampong . That’s right . The reason Youngwoo guided Hao to this Chinese restaurant was purely because of his taste buds . There weren’t any deep intentions as Hao thought .
"I was born in Sichuan . Jjampong is a seafood soup made with chili oil and red pepper powder . I like spicy food and can eat it . ”
People from Sichuan were proud of their ability to handle spicy food . They were prouder than Koreans . Youngwoo didn’t worry about the spiciness anymore and ordered jjampong . Youngwoo licked his lips .
"I will eat jjangmyeon . ”
“ . . . ?”
"Toon, you are eating jajang?”
“ . . . Yes . ”
In the end, they ordered two jjampong and one jajangmyeon . Here, sweet and sour pork was given by default . The sweet and sour pork came out first . Hao scoffed at the taste of the sweet and sour pork .
‘As I thought, it is lousy fake goods . There is too much acidity in the sauce . The fried meat has no sense of chewiness and the texture is bad . ’
Hao could confidently call himself a gourmet . He ate 50 types of dishes every week . The Korean sweet and sour pork was inadequate to satisfy his gourmet tastes .
“This is a service . ”
The employee brought a plate of dumplings . However, Hao had already put down his chopsticks . He thought the dumplings would be terrible after eating the sweet and sour pork . He wanted to try the jjampong recommended by Youngwoo . Youngwoo didn’t care about Hao . He was busy eating the sweet and sour pork .
Toon focused on the dumplings . The moment that Toon took a bite of the fried dumplings .
‘What?’
Hao’s sense of smell was stimulated . The moment the dumplings were split apart, the pepper flavour spread and aroused his appetite .
‘Is it pretty good?’
Hao became interested in the dumplings again and raised his chopsticks . Then his eyes widened as he took a bite of the fried dumplings .
‘It is just a bunch of vegetables and meat . Why is this dumpling so delicious? The strong pepper flavor constantly stimulates my appetite . I can eat a few more of these dumplings . ’
Hao started to quickly eat the dumplings . Hao ate two dumplings in the time it took Toon to eat one . Youngwoo watched with pitying eyes .
‘Hao, he has bad taste . . . How tasteless is the food he normally eats if he likes these dumplings?’
Yongsungkak’s dumplings, like most Chinese restaurants, used frozen dumplings as the base material . It was cheap instant food ordered from a factor that could be fried in oil . Hao ate it like it was delicious, making Youngwoo feel pity . After a while, the jjampong finally came out . The soup simmered in the stone bowl like lava .
“I will warn you beforehand that this is really spicy . It is much hotter than the Sichuan jjampong usually sold in Chinese restaurants . ”
By default, jjampong was hot . This was stone bowl jjampong . It was a dish with a remarkably spicy taste . Hao shrugged at Youngwoo’s warning .
"I am from Sichuan and I don’t think that Korean food is spicy . ”
He would show the strong tongue and stomach of a Sichuan person! Hao burned with ambition and moved his chopsticks towards the jjampong . Then he picked up the noodles along with various seafood and vegetables . At the same time .
‘Spicy!’
Hao’s face turned red . Hao was unaware of it, but the powder contained in large quantities in the jjampong was actually capsaicin, not red pepper powder . It was spicier and more stimulating than the Sichuan pepper that the Sichuan people enjoyed . It was enough to burn his tongue .
But Hao couldn’t stop moving his chopsticks . Every time he ate the jjampong, the rich flavor that exploded in his mouth led him to a new world .
‘I can’t stop eating . ’
The taste of this jjampong was far from Chinese food . The different types of Chinese food that Hao ate didn’t taste like this jjampong .
‘To be exact, this is the Korean style . It’s the same as the dumplings . The Korean style dishes are generally rich in flavor . The chef’s intuition isn’t normal . ’
It was impossible to produce such a rich flavor with simple chicken broth and seafood . The Chinese chefs in Korean obviously had some secret to maximize the richness . Hao, who ate only high-end Chinese food, was addicted to the MSG of a Chinese restaurant in a common neighborhood in South Korea .
***
Satisfy was another reality . The phrase ‘Satisfy’ expressed the S . A . Group’s feeling of being the first to realize a perfect virtual reality . They didn’t want Satisfy to stay in the small framework of the word ‘game . ’ In fact, many people accepted Satisfy as another reality .
Agnus also thought like this . Agnus didn’t distinguish between Satisfy and reality . No, he wanted to believe that Satisfy was reality .
Satisfy’s technology and Baal’s Contractor ability would surely be able to reproduce her .
“Kik . . . Kikik, it is still too hard?”
Behen Archipelago, the 62nd island . There was a monster that transcended Lantier from the 61st island . This gave Agnus a sense of despair . Despite using all the power he got from contracting with the 1st Great Demon Baal, he couldn’t break through the 62nd island .
Clack . . . Clack clack .
The Mumud lich looked up at the sky . His eye holes seemed to be longing for freedom . Agnus kicked the fallen Mumud lich by his feet and declared to the fairy Bini .
“Next time it will be different . I will surely conquer the Behen Archipelago to the end and seize the legacy left behind by Pagma . ”
“H-Hik . U-Understood . So please spare me . ”
Agnus’ golden eyes were only filled with rage .
The frightened Bini thought he would be killed and begged . Agnus laughed at the cowardly fairy and left the Behen Archipelago . He didn’t think there would be anyone who could conquer the Behen Archipelago before him .
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[Underwear Production Method Lv . 1]
You can make underwear of various cloth and leather materials .
There is a certain probability of making rare rated underwear .
There is a low probability of making rare rated underwear with options .
* When rare rated underwear are produced, all stats will permanently rise by +2 and reputation throughout the continent will rise by +30 .
[Intermediate Tailoring Technique Lv . 8]
Equipment items can be made from various fabrics and leather materials .
There is a rare probability of producing rare~ epic rated items .
There is a very rare probability of creating unique rated items .
* When rare rated items are produced, all stats will permanently rise by +2 and reputation throughout the continent will rise by +30 .
* When epic rated items are produced, all stats will permanently rise by +4 and reputation throughout the continent will rise by +80 .
* When unique rated items are produced, all stats will permanently rise by +12 and reputation throughout the continent will rise by +300 .
“Heok . ”
It had been several years since he became Pagma’s Descendant . Now that his blacksmith skill had grown to a very high level, Grid received a big penalty . He couldn’t enjoy the stat-synergy effect even if he made a high rated item . But tailoring was different . Grid’s newly acquired tailoring skill was only intermediate level and there was no penalty . If he made a high rated item with the tailoring skill, he could enjoy the same stat-synergy effect .
In addition . . .
“A production button!”
A new feature was added to the interface . An underwear production button, cloth items production button, and leather items production button were created . The cooldown time of the production button was 120 minutes . In the future, Grid would be able to produce underwear, cloth, and leather items with a single click of the production button . It was once every two hours .
"I can’t believe this convenient feature . . . !”
Of course, it didn’t apply to blacksmithing, but Grid was happy enough . He was thrilled to be able to raise the level of his underwear and tailoring skills much quicker and easier than expected .
“Wow, this is a jackpot no matter how I think about it . How can there be a production button?”
Making an item with one click of a button? He never imagined such a convenient function .
‘The S . A . Group wouldn’t be so kind to users . . . Heok, don’t tell me it was a bug?’
Grid didn’t know that this convenient feature was something that other production players had enjoyed for the last three years . It was thankful that he didn’t know how pitiable and poor he was .
***
[Production of Cloth Armor has been completed . ]
[Production of Yeti’s Underwear has been completed . ]
“It’s a normal rating . ”
On the way from Frontier to Reinhardt . Grid produced items by clicking the production button once every two hours . Unlike blacksmithing where he had to go through the whole process by hand, the underwear making and tailoring was incredibly easy because items were created just by clicking a production button . The problem was that the rating was only normal .
‘Damn . . . Satisfy can’t be easy . ’
It was unbelievable to produce high rated items once every two hours without any trouble . Grid came to the conclusion that this production system would never produce high rated items and was frustrated .
'Indeed, will I have to progress my tailoring skill by hand . . . ?’
The production button was useless and he would have to do it by hand . Grid reached Reinhardt in a bad mood only to receive the worst news from Lauel .
“An envoy from the Saharan Empire was sent . ”
“What? The empire? They acted like they had no interest in us, so why did they come?”
"I think it’s to gain a tribute . ”
“Are you crazy? Why do we have to give a tribute to the empire?”
The Overgeared Kingdom was just getting on track . It was only three months after the founding that the tax revenue wasn’t a deficit anymore . They had to offer a tribute at this point? Wouldn’t this completely ruin them?
"They are real **** . ”
Grid cursed as he headed to the audience room . The one who waited for him was a beautiful woman . The name Mercedes was above her head . The name was in glittering gold .
‘A named NPC?’
Was this some type of ostentatious display? Mercedes briefly bowed to Grid, who was unable to hide his embarrassment .
"I have come to the Overgeared King Grid to convey the will of the Great Emperor . ”
[Mercedes’ deep eyes have looked at you . ]
[Some of your stats and skills are forcibly revealed to Mercedes . ]
[You can’t resist . ]
[Mercedes’ sharp sword energy threatens you . The strong pressure makes your mind and body shrink . All speeds are reduced by 30% and skill casting speed is reduced by 20% . ]
[You have resisted . ]
[Reflecting the status has failed . ]
One of the absolute existences scattered throughout this world finally showed up in front of Grid .