The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2 Novel

Chapter 14

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-This doesn't seem like a question I should answer on my own. I will report to the director and provide a response afterwards. However... I believe there will be a positive response from higher-ups.

After Park Yoon-sik left, Yoon Se-ah weakly spoke.

"Uncle. I... will take a break."

The conversation with high-ranking officials was not easy for Yoon Se-ah, who was still a high school student.

Sung JiHan nodded slightly.

"Yeah, take a rest. Uncle will start the league, so come watch Battle Tube when you have time."

"...Dad will play from the connector?"

"No. Barehanded."

"Huh... barehanded?"

Sung JiHan spoke nonchalantly, but it was not a trivial matter for Yoon Se-ah.

Yoon Se-ah urgently grabbed Sung JiHan's arm.

"Uncle! That's too dangerous! Battle Net play should be done from the connector! How painful would it be!"

"You have to get hit at least once to feel the pain. I haven't been hit once until now."

"...Mister. Why are you showing off like this?"

"It's disappointing to be called 'mister' at 27."

Sung JiHan chuckled and placed his hand on Yoon Se-ah's head.

"Be stimulated by seeing your uncle's impressive appearance. My niece."

"Really. Acting all high and mighty because you ranked first in Gangnam... I'll see through your weaknesses. Uncle."

"Yeah, yeah. Take a rest."

Sung JiHan waved his hand to Yoon Se-ah as she went back to her room, then checked his achievement points.

"It's 45,600 points. Quite a lot has accumulated."

He wondered how he had earned much more from broadcasting on Battle Tube than from playing the game.

Sung JiHan looked around the achievement store.

[Achievement Store LV.4]

Upgrade Achievement Store - 50,000P

Expand Status Window LV.1 - 10,000P

Add Class Slot LV.1 - 10,000P

Expand Inventory LV.1 - 10,000P

Add Title Slot LV.1 - 10,000P

Emergency Recovery (Item) - 10,000P

He didn't have enough points to upgrade the achievement store.

However, for Sung JiHan, upgrading the achievement store could be postponed for later.

"Let's add a class."

To obtain a new unique stat, he needed a total of two classes.

And eventually, to return to the Warrior class, he needed three.

For now, it would be good to add one.

Sung JiHan clicked on the Class Slot Add LV.1 in the achievement store.

[Class Slot Add LV.1 has been purchased.]

[10,000P will be deducted from your achievement points.]

After that message appeared, one class slot was added.

"It's that easy."

Looking at the newly created slot under the Supporter class, Sung JiHan let out a hollow laugh.

It only cost 10,000 points to get one class slot.

It's too cheap.

Sung JiHan checked the next class addition item.

[Class Slot Add LV.2 - Requires Achievement Store LV.5]

To add another class, I had to raise the achievement store level.

"Now the conditions are getting stricter."

It takes 50,000 achievement points for the store upgrade.

To unlock the LV.2 class slot, you would need tens of thousands of achievement points.

If it weren't for the achievement points obtained through Battle Tube, it would have been an unimaginable number.

"I need to actively utilize broadcasting."

Now that Yoon Se-jin has left, the attention of the entire nation is focused here.

Instead of shrinking from people's gaze, I decided to actively utilize it.

Sung JiHan touched the second added class slot.

"You can change to the basic class."

"The available classes for change are as follows:"

-Warrior

-Archer

-Mage

"Would you like to select a class?"

As expected, the change window only had the supporter option removed, everything else remained the same.

Sung JiHan smiled wryly at that.

"Baron, you can take what you used to brag about."

Baron Williams, who was ranked 1st in the world rankings in his previous life.

He was also the guild master of American First and had an SSS-grade gift.

"My two status windows... were a scam gift."

My two status windows.

This gift, as the name suggests, had the ability to split all the items in the status window into two.

Including classes and titles, even the appearing holy seat.

With double experience points and GP received, and two ability points, no player could keep up with Baron's growth speed.

He was a guild master of American First, after all, and a staunch American nationalist.

Whenever there was a guild party, he would strangely grab Sung JiHan after drinking whiskey.

"JiHan! Come here. Let's have a drink!"

"Master, if you're going to talk about last time again, I'll decline in advance."

"No! I just want to talk to you!"

He would say that and keep saying the same thing.

"JiHan... I'm sorry. You're not a true American."

"...Guild Master, I told you to stop saying that."

"Damn it! Shouldn't we have immigrated to America sooner! If we had immigrated before 2010, I would have valued you more..."

"Sigh."

"JiHan, listen to me!"

While saying that, he kindly told the story of how he obtained his unique stat.

"I'm Baron! Honestly, even when I was in Bronze, I didn't have confidence in myself. I got the SSS-grade gift of having two status windows... but I didn't even know if it was a good thing."

"That's a good thing, Master."

"Now I know! Haha! Anyway!"

"I didn't know if the gift was good, so I thought I should just be a carefree supporter, and while I was raising my sacred power with that in mind, I suddenly obtained the Gift of Fate... Shouldn't I tell this story?"

"Um... JiHan. How did you know? Did you hack me?"

"That's the fifth time you've said that."

Sung JiHan chuckled as he reflected on the past.

Baron, the guild master of American First, ranked 1st.

He may have been an American nationalist, but he wasn't a bad person after all.

"On the contrary, if I naturalize in the United States now, as he said back then, I might be valued."

The targets discriminated against by Balan's prioritization were limited to immigrants after the tutorial.

And the method of distinguishing them was simple enough to be visible.

People who immigrated before the tutorial had their nationality changed on Battle.net, but it did not change after that.

"In the end, it felt like a stamp."

Sung JiHan nodded and recalled the unique stat acquisition method Balan had told him.

"I chose the support and mage classes. Fighting upfront didn't look cool."

"First, I'll get the support and mage classes."

Following Balan, who was ranked first in the world, Sung JiHan chose his class.

Since he had already chosen the support, the next job to choose was the mage.

"You have changed to a mage."

"You have acquired the F-rank skill 'Fire'."

"You have acquired the F-rank skill 'Ice'."

Sung JiHan, who chose two jobs unrelated to strength, checked his sacred power value.

"It's 8. Without the title effect, it's 7."

What he gained from yesterday's broadcast was not just achievement points.

Although it was disappointing compared to the number of views due to the lack of advertisements, he still received a considerable amount of GP.

Using that GP, Sung JiHan purchased relics from the Battle.net market and saw their effects.

"Holding the relic to oneself. It had an effect."

By buying relics with the GP earned from the broadcast and placing them on the floor, his sacred power increased by 1.

"First, I need to reach a sacred power of 10 to meet Balan's requirements."

Sacred power 10.

That was the minimum requirement to obtain unique stats.

"Strength was quite easy to obtain."

Compared to the strength obtained in an instant, Balan's unique stats had difficult acquisition conditions.

"But it's worth it."

Sung JiHan gathered the relics he purchased in his room.

"Well, I need to quickly gain sacred power in the next game."

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"This mission is survival."

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As the sound of drums echoed from all directions, Sung JiHan immediately grasped the map.

"It's the Colosseum again this time."

The survival map, Colosseum.

It was the same map he saw during the first tutorial.

The map itself was the same as before, but there was a clear difference from back then.

Unlike the tutorial, the Colosseum in the actual game had spectators.

"...Are the spectators elves this time?"

Sung JiHan looked at the arrogant individuals sitting in the Colosseum spectator seats and clicked his tongue.

The large-eared humanoid race, elves.

Even to humans, they had a beautiful appearance that would make them sigh in admiration.

But inside, they were a gloomy and treacherous race.

"The elves caused humanity a lot of trouble."

If we were to divide the blame for the downfall of humanity, more than half of it would fall on the elves.

They were naturally divisive individuals.

"And this time, it won't be like last time."

After making up his mind, Sung JiHan looked around.

Unlike the tutorial, there were people who looked much better equipped and stronger staring at him.

"It's Sung JiHan!"

Sung JiHan, who became famous overnight.

The players looked at him with cautious eyes.

"The guy who did the tutorial just two days ago. How did he already get matched with me? My level is 16."

"He used some kind of sacred power mixed with martial arts in his broadcast. He's not an easy opponent."

Sung JiHan's appearance looked extremely pathetic.

He held a rusty iron club in one hand and a giant kitchen knife in the other, completely unbalanced. His clothes were in the form of sweatpants, offering no defense.

Compared to other players who had well-equipped gear provided by their guilds, he looked like a delicious prey to anyone who saw him.

However, people were cautious.

"I feel like I would die from just one hit."

"I think he used some kind of trick..."

"Should we watch him fight someone else first?"

As people exchanged glances and tried to figure out the summoned players.

Flash!

A player appeared near Sung JiHan.

A man with dazzling golden equipment.

As soon as he appeared in the Colosseum, he moved his mouth busily.

"Hello~ everyone! I'm BJ GeumBit. Today, we're starting our deep sea exploration together! Oh my~ Chairman! Thank you for sponsoring GP as soon as I logged into the game!"

The players who saw him furrowed their brows.

"Oh, that guy showed up too."

"Are you still doing the deep sea exploration project?"

BJ GeumBit.

A BJ who was quite famous on BattleTube with his handsome appearance like a celebrity. Just a few months ago, he was a highly anticipated Gold League player.

But.

-What will happen when Gold goes down to Bronze? To find out, I'm starting the deep sea exploration project!

He planned a project that no other BattleTuber had attempted in order to grow his BattleTube channel even more.

It was called the "Deep Sea Exploration Project."

Since that day, BJ GeumBit started intentionally losing.

"Sorry, team members~ I have to be in last place... Hehe~ I'll commit suicide!"

"Wait a minute... You crazy bastard!"

BJ GeumBit lowered his level from Gold to Silver, and from Silver to Bronze.

He stopped the losing streak only after reaching level 5.

"Now, from now on, I, GeumBit, will keep getting first place and climb up~ Worried that the skills will go to waste? Hoho! The skills I used can be restored with the 'love' of the viewers!"

And from that moment, BJ GeumBit's deep sea exploration broadcast began.

Although his level was 5, he had rich gaming experience and all the equipment from his Gold days...

There was no Bronze player who could defeat GeumBit.

"Oh my... Is this the level of Gangnam?"

"Tsk. Tsk. It's not about swinging a human sword like that."

A broadcast content that ridiculed the opponents.

No matter how promising the rookies were in Gangnam 1 Area.

BJ GeumBit, who had reached the Gold League, was a complete player, and no one could face him.

"The first place is out of reach."

"Let's avoid that guy."

All the players made up their minds not to fight against GeumBit and turned their heads to avoid his gaze.

At that moment, BJ GeumBit's eyes sparkled as he looked around.