Closed Beta That Only I Played

Soon the Safety Zone of the Poisonous zone came into view.

When I first arrived here, there were quite a few users around.

But the place was very quiet now except for five men standing at the entrance.

I walked toward them proudly without showing any tense expression.

“Good morning! My name is Sumi Ahn and I am the Managing Director of the Mirae Group.”

“Asirante, nice to meet you. My name is Insoo Sok and I am the Managing Director of the Myongjin Group.”

“I"m from Daesung…”

The managing directors of Mirae, Myongjin, Daesung, Kusan and Daeyu were there to greet me. Honestly, I didn"t expect the Daeyu director to attend this meeting because the other four groups openly ostracized the Daeyu Group.

“Oh, it"s nice to meet you all like this. I didn"t expect such powerful directors like you would come here to meet me. It looks like being famous is worth it.”

I didn"t want to give them the impression that I was rude and thoughtless simply because I acted arrogantly, so I used honorific language to address them like they addressed me.

“Well, you denied my friend request. Could you accept my friend request first?” Sumi Ahn, Mirae"s managing director said first.

Of course, I fully understood why she said that because she could not bring up any important topics with her rivals next to her. As if they had already agreed on something among themselves, the others next to her didn"t stop her.

“Sure, let me accept your friend request.”

So, I accepted all their friend requests starting off with the Mirae Group"s managing director.

[You have received a friend request for the ID Asirante.

-Would you like to accept the request?]

Of course, my ID Asirante has been disclosed to the public, so I accepted their friend request without any hesitation.

When I was done accepting their requests, Director Sok opened his mouth as if he had just met me for the first time.

“Asirante, we directors from Myongjin, Mirae, Daesung, Kusan, and Daeyu earnestly hope that you can grow greatly and become a strong user representing Korea on an international level. We can actively help you to grow and achieve that goal.”

“That"s right. We can"t tell you about it in detail, but our groups are putting a lot of effort into ‘Revival Legend". Asirante, you"re also a citizen of the Republic of Korea. We will treat you dearly so that you will never be disappointed.”

Starting with Director Sok of Myongjin, the other directors started praising me.

So much so that I would have felt dumbfounded if I had not known the hidden truth behind the game called ‘Revival Legend."

So I actually pretended to be dumbfounded at their praises.

“Eh? What the h.e.l.l are you talking about? I don"t know why you are praising me so much.”

Then, as if I had noticed something, I said as arrogantly as possible, “Ah, you don"t have to be so anxious to please me like this. Lol.”

I pretended that their earnest encouragement was something like an expression of their willingness to scout me.

The meeting wasn"t as long as I thought because it was very difficult for the managing directors of Myongjin, Daesung, Kusan, and Daeyu to reveal their true intentions when their rivals were in the same place.

So, we ended the meeting promising to meet again in the future.

When they left, they earnestly asked me to respond to their private messages.

So, I promised them to do so, then logged out because it was already 1am.

The next morning I woke up, washed, and ate breakfast, but I did not access the game as usual.

I was supposed to go to the dinner meeting for the top leaders of Mirae, Myongjin, Daesung and Kusan today, and my father asked to see me before that.

So, I left my one-room studio while holding my 3rd generation VR device.

At my house in Cheongdam-dong.

After briefly hugging my mother who welcomed me, I went straight to the bas.e.m.e.nt study.

In the bas.e.m.e.nt study, my father, my brother, my sister, and Director Sok were already seated waiting for my arrival.

A soon as I sat down, Dad opened his mouth.

“I already heard from Director Sok. Very well done, son!”

Dad praised me so much, and, of course, I knew what he was talking about.

Did he praise me because I achieved the highest round in the level 300 only arena quest?

Or did he praise me because my ID Asirante had become more widely known to the world that he initially thought?

No, he didn"t praise me for these things.

He praised me because I cunningly behaved myself in a meeting with the managing directors of Mirae, Daesung, Kusan, and Daeyu as well as Director Sok.

Dad praised me so much because he was so concerned about me in that meeting.

So I replied calmly, “I"m going to behave as carefully and prudently as possible so they never find out who I am.”

“Yeah, you should do so. I guess they"re going to try every way to win you over. In particular, they will rack their brains to find out where you live in the real world. So when you feel you are not safe, just choose to remain silent.”

“Sure, will do.”

Then, I talked with my father about other things.

Of course, I handed over a Memory Bead to him early on.

I didn"t just stupidly proceed with the level 300 only arena quest since I was given only one chance to do it.

So, recording my experiences using a Memory Bead was very important to me because it would be a great help to Myongjin.

Moreover, I did not struggle financially so I was not scared to use the Memory Bead.

And I mentioned to my family the reward I had received for clearing the 80th round, namely, the removal of Blink"s cooldown.

When I mentioned that Blink had its cooldown removed, my sister was the most surprised because she was a wizard just like me. Of course, she was a fire-type wizard.

“Wow! Are you sure? No cooldown? Does that make any sense?”

“If you are so curious, check it out because all my activities are contained in that Memory Bead. I tested Blink with no cooldown in the abandoned field of trees,” I said as if to brag about my new powerful skill.

I was so satisfied that Blink had no cooldown that I boasted about it to her even though I had never boasted about other things.

“Wow. After all, since our starting line was different, our gains are also different. Hey, Juyoung, I think you are the most adorable coveted guy within “Revival Legend.”

When she mentioned ‘the starting line," there was a moment of silence in the bas.e.m.e.nt study for what she said was true. And I would get much, much more in the future, and I would not be content with just leveling up.

For example, just like the level 100 only quest and the level 300 only quest, I"ll look forward to the level 500 only quest, and I will get a huge reward for clearing the level 500 only quest with the best record.

Anyway, that wasn"t important, so I changed the topic to my next move.

I agreed with my father that I would play a double role, and that my main targets were Mirae, Daesung and Kusan because Daeyu was definitely behind the other groups.

But my value was too high now for me to move for a small reward.

Therefore, Mirae, Daesung, and Kusan will try to offer me a tremendous premium to hire me.

Of course, if they find out about each other"s offer to me, they might have a fierce compet.i.tion to hire me first.

So I asked first, “What about drying out Daeyu"s financial resources first?”

By joining hands with China"s Yanghwa Group, Daeyu has been ostracized by the other top business groups.

So, Daeyu was the perfect candidate to be the first target.

Even if Daeyu"s deal with me falls flat, I don"t have to worry at all.

Moreover, I still remember that mean guy named Sunghan Kim.

That guy took control of 50% of the players with special traits under Myongjin, and openly threatened my father to accept his demand of getting married to my sister while also coveting Myongjin. Ironically, he now belonged to Daeyu along with those players under his control.

I thought I could suck the financial blood of Daeyu like a leech because Daeyu was still one of Korea"s top five business groups even though they now lagged behind Myongjin, Daeseong, and Kusan.

When I singled out the name of Daeyu, silence again settled in the bas.e.m.e.nt study

. But the silence didn"t last long because my elder brother and Director Sok broke it.

Sok said, “Just like Juyoung said, I think Daeyu is the best option at this point.”

Kiyoung chimed in, saying, “I agree. Even though Juyoung"s ident.i.ty might be revealed, we can cope with the situation as long as our opponent is just Daeyu. Besides, Daeyu has fallen out of favor with the other business groups. They could even be our enemy.”