Closed Beta That Only I Played Chapter 85
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I had already disclosed my status window, so the moment I was about to say that I had two IDs, my father stole the show.
"Juyoung, come to think of it, your ID is…"
Next to the ID label in my status window, the words "Lumen, Asirante" were written.
Of course, 'Lumen Asirante' can be seen as one ID.
But because of the comma between Lumen and Asirante, it was now impossible to deceive my parents.
"Hmm. Hmm. Well, I happen to have two IDs."
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I told them the truth, but they looked at me with strange expressions.
"Well, my original ID was Lumen. As you and Mom know, Pioneers' City has been renamed Asirante when Myongjin's 3rd and 4th Leagues moved there, so I got the other ID Asirante."
"How did you get it?"
"Why did you get it?"
It was natural that they asked such questions, but I don't know why exactly.
All I could guess was that when I first introduced myself to the quest-giver Kihanna, I said my name was Asirante. Anyway, although my family members were still confused about my two IDs, I left the Safety Zone and entered the haunt of the long-rooted saplings.
In no time a long-rooted sapling appeared.
As soon as the sapling noticed me and my family members, there was the sound of the long roots moving beneath the ground as usual.
Of course, that was the signal that the tree monster would attack us.
So, I opened my mouth quietly, like I always did.
"Ice Field! Multiple Thin Ice!"
Was it necessary to use a special skill in front of my family?
No, I didn't have to because I knew this method was the most effective.
Kong! Kong! Kong! Kong!
Soon, the sound of the long-rooted sapling's roots trying to break through the Ice Field under the ground echoed here and there.
But I knew its attack wouldn't even scratch, let alone inflict any damage to my Ice Field.
However, it seemed that my father, mother and sister noticed something other than the tree monster.
"Oh my God...level 243. This is a level 2 Ice Field. How come it's so thick regardless of how many layers of Thin Ice is reinforcing it?" my elder brother asked.
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"Brother. Look at the range of the attack too! It's enormous!"
My brother and sister didn't hide their surprise at my Ice Field.
But I didn't react to their surprise because lots of enemies that I had fought in the past showed similar reactions.
"Pouring Hailstones! Ice Spear! Multiple Ice Arrow!"
Soon, I fired my AOE skills and a single target skill toward the long-rooted saplings trapped helplessly by my Ice Field, and got rid of them one by one quickly.
Watching my attack, my sister said to my brother, "Brother. You said this is a hunting ground that even those who are level 500 wouldn't visit, right?"
"..."
I unintentionally made my brother a liar.
But my brother responded immediately, "Well, it depends. You saw Juyoung's status window, right?"
30 minutes later my whole family logged out together in the Safety Zone of the abandoned field of trees.
After getting out of the basement study, they just blinked their eyes there quietly.
My sister got up first and said, "Party! Dad, why don't we have a party among ourselves without informing Mom? If we don't have a party today, when else can we have it?"
"Let's have a party, Dad. I think it's too regrettable if we don't have one today."
"Alright, then."
Shortly afterwards, weak whiskey and other foods were prepared in the basement study.
Of course, I received a lot of questions from my sister and brother in the meantime.
Next to my brother and sister, my father listened to me answering their questions for a while as if he was very curious too.
A little later, Dad opened his mouth.
"Well, as for your two IDs, Juyoung…"
"Yes, Dad?."
"So, what you mean is that only our family knows your ID Lumen, but you are known to outsiders as Asirante?"
"Yeah, that's right."
In fact, only my sister knew my ID Lumen until now, but this time my whole family has come to know it. But that was all. Nobody else knows it. They don't know my ID, and if they do, they think my ID is Asirante.
"Then, what do you think about this idea?"
"What idea?"
"Well, advertise your ID as Asirante to the outside as the strongest man in South Korea. And advertise your ID Lumen as the youngest son Juyoung Hong of the Myongjin Group who isn't very interested in playing games."
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"..."
I fully understood what my dad meant. In other words, he wanted me to play a dual role.
I said with a broad smile, "That will be fun."
I don't have any intention of living happily by myself without caring about my family at all.
I can gladly accept some loss or sacrifice for my family because I've received much more from my father, mother, brother and sister. And that's why I told them all about my game history until now. After all, I am a member of the Myongjin Business Group too.
I was willing to do this somy family and the Myongjin group could become bigger and stronger through my activities.
And it was also true that it would be fun like I said.
***
The abandoned field of trees where the long-rooted saplings haunt.
"Ice Field. And Multiple Thin Ice!"
Pasasasak!!
I hunted as usual. Of course, I opened the field to my family.
However, I decided that this was no reason to change my existing lifestyle.
So I still immersed myself in hunting because this abandoned field was still an attractive hunting ground for me who was not even level 250 as those who were level 450-500 would not come here even if they could hunt in this place.
But there was one such user visiting this hunting ground, who uses the ID Super Beauty.
"Wow! Wow! Wow!" She kept uttering exclamations.
Of course, she didn't just marvel at it.
"Man, where in the world can you find this kind of ridiculous hunting method? This is foul. Foul!"
After the small family party held in the basement study ended at 11pm, I logged into the game. So did my sister even though she had drunk a lot of alcohol,
Anyway, I hunted until a little over 1 am with my sister, who kept incessantly complaining during the hunt.
Then I immediately logged out because I would be very busy tomorrow, I mean, today.
The next day the atmosphere at home was not bad even though something big happened yesterday both from the perspective of my family and the Myongjin Group.
It was rather good from my perspective because my father said he had no regrets whatsoever since it was the best option to drive out that guy named Sunghan Kim.
Anyway, we had breakfast together, then gathered in the basement study once again because what I revealed to them was not a light matter.
And yesterday there was something I said first.
[If you give me an accessory of the general, rare, or precious grades that has not been enhanced yet, I can enhance it immediately up to the minimum safety enhancement of 3. As for the legendary grade items, it's possible to enhance it up to +1 and +2 enhancements.]
Mutual Growth and Ice Man also drew my family's attention, but what they showed the most interest in was the God of Enhancement trait which I received as the reward for achieving the maximum level during the 3rd Closed Beta.
So I briefly explained to them about it.
That's why only golden rings were needed for me to enhance the Scorpion King's accessories, a level 400 precious grade item, to exactly +3 enhancement. So, maybe a level 400 or lower level accessory of the general or rare grades would be able to upgrade to +4 or +5 enhancement with only golden rings.
But I mentioned only the +3 reinforcement which was often regarded as the safety enhancement because even this was enormous.
In fact, unlike weapons and armor, most accessories were very hard to enhance to +3, which was the safety enhancement level, because unlike weapon and armor enhancement stones, accessory enhancement stones could only be obtained from boss monster drops.
Moreover, it required as many as +3 weapon enhancement stones to enhance a sturdy sword of a general grade from 0 to +1.
As a result, enhancing it from +1 to +2 required many more enhancement stones.
In other words, it was difficult to enhance up to +3, the safety enhancement, in the case of general and rare grade accessories because it required an exorbitant amount of enhancement stones.
But I could enhance general or rare grade accessories up to +3 enhancement automatically if I had golden rings, and I didn't need a long time to do so.
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