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Chapter 14
[Translator – Zain]
Chapter 14
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– This doesn’t seem like a question I should answer on my own. I’ll report to Director Kook and then provide a response. However… I think higher-ups will probably give a positive answer.
After Park Yoonsik left, Yoon Seah spoke weakly.
“Uncle, I’ll… take a rest for a bit.”
The conversation with high-ranking officials didn’t seem easy for Yoon Seah, who was just a high school student.
Seong Jihan nodded slightly.
“Sure, take a nap. I’ll be starting the league, so come watch Battle Tube when you have time.”
“You playing on the…. Dad’s connector?”
“No. Barehanded.”
“Huh… barehanded?”
Seong Jihan said it nonchalantly, but it was a serious matter for Yoon Seah.
Yoon Seah grabbed Seong Jihan’s arm urgently.
“Uncle! That’s too dangerous! Battle Net play should be done on the connector! You know how painful it could be!”
“Well, you have to take a hit at least to feel the pain. I haven’t been hit even once so far.”
“…Mister, why have you become so showy?”
“It’s a bit disheartening to be called ‘mister’ at 27 years old.”
Seong Jihan chuckled and patted Yoon Seah’s head.
“Get motivated by seeing your cool uncle, Niece.”
“Geez, winning first place in Gangnam and showing off… I’ll see through your weaknesses, Uncle.”
“Yeah, yeah. Take a rest.”
As Yoon Seah went back to her room, Seong Jihan waved her goodbye and checked his achievement points.
“It’s 45,600 points. Quite a collection.”
He wondered how he had earned more points by broadcasting on Battle Tube than by playing the game.
Seong Jihan looked around the achievement store.
[Achievement Store LV.4]
[Upgrade Achievement Store – 50,000P
Status Window Expansion LV.1 – 10,000P
Class Slot Addition LV.1 – 10,000P
Inventory Expansion LV.1 – 10,000P
Title Slot Addition LV.1 – 10,000P
Emergency Recovery (Item) – 10,000P]
Upgrading the achievement store required a bit more points than he had. However, upgrading the store could be postponed for Seong Jihan.
“Let’s add a class.”
To acquire a new unique stat, he needed a total of 2 classes. Eventually, to return to the Warrior class, he needed 3.
For now, it would be wise to add one.
Seong Jihan selected the Class Slot Addition LV.1 in the achievement store.
[Class Slot Addition LV.1 has been purchased.]
[10,000P will be deducted from your achievement points.]
After the message appeared, a new class slot was added.
“It’s so easy.”
Seeing the new slot below the Support class, Seong Jihan let out a bitter laugh.
It only took 10,000 points to gain one class slot. It’s too cheap.
Seong Jihan checked the next class addition item.
[Class Slot Addition LV.2 – Requires Achievement Store LV.5.]
To add another class, he needed to raise the achievement store level once more.
“Now the conditions seem to be getting tougher.”
Store upgrade costs 50,000 achievement points. And to get Class Slot Addition LV.2, he would need tens of thousands of points, probably.
“If it weren’t for the achievement points earned through Battle Tube, it would have been an unimaginable figure.”
“I need to actively use the broadcasting feature.”
Now that Yoon Sejin was gone, the nation’s attention was focused on me.
Rather than shrinking from people’s gaze, he had decided to use it actively while the public’s interest was on him.
Seong Jihan touched the newly added second class slot.
[You can switch to the base class.]
[The classes available for switching are as follows:
-Warrior
-Archer
-Mage]
[Would you like to select a class?]
As expected, the switching window only removed the Support option, leaving the rest unchanged.
Seong Jihan looked at it and chuckled.
“Barren, I will choose what you used to brag about all the time.”
Barren Williams, the world ranking 1 in the previous life.
The guild master of American First, he possessed an SSS-rank gift.
“My two status windows… is a cheating gift.”
Two status windows. True to its name, this gift doubled all the items in the status window—classes, titles, even the future Sanctum section.
With the doubled experience points and GP, and two sets of ability points, no player could match Barren’s growth speed.
He was a staunch American-first advocate as the founder of the American First guild, but oddly enough, he would grab Seong Jihan when he got drunk during guild parties.
“Jihan! Come here. Let’s have a drink!”
“Master, if you’re going to talk about the past again, I’ll pass.”
“I won’t! I just want to talk with you!”
He kept saying the same things.
“Jihan… I feel sorry for you. You’re not a true American.”
“Master, I told you to stop saying that.”
“Argh! Shouldn’t you have immigrated to America sooner? If you had immigrated before 2010, I would have appreciated you more…”
“Sigh.”
“Jihan, listen to me!”
While saying that, he kindly told how he had acquired the unique stat.
“I’m Barren! Honestly, when I was in Bronze, I lacked self-confidence. Even though I got the SSS-level gift of having two status windows… I didn’t even know if it was good.”
“That’s a good thing, Master.”
“I know, I know! Haha! Anyway!”
“Because you didn’t know if the gift was good, you decided to just stick with an easy Support. While you were raising your sanctity, you suddenly got a connection… Weren’t you going to say that?”
“Jihan… how did you know? Did you hack me?”
“This is the fifth time you’ve told me this.”
Seong Jihan looked back at the past and chuckled.
Barren Williams, the guild master of American First and world ranking 1.
Although he was an American-first advocate, he wasn’t actually a bad person.
“Actually, following his words, if I were to naturalize in the US now, I might become more influential.”
Barren’s prejudice was limited to immigrants after the tutorial.
And the criterion for this distinction was remarkably simple.
People who immigrated before the tutorial had their nationality changed on Battle Net, but those who immigrated afterward didn’t.
“Later, that felt like a stigma.”
[Translator – Zain]
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