10.

As God Wars gained popularity, its shareholders were able to make ridiculous amounts of profits, but with great popularity also comes a great amount of questions.

“According to you, what impact will the reality created by God Wars have on the professional sports scene?”

“Can we train in any sport in real life that can help us become better in God Wars?”

Quite a few experts said that archery would help the most.

“The ranged DPS players aren’t just important in any team, but they are the core to clearing content.”

In God Wars, the Archer class was one of the core damage dealer roles.

Moreover, it was also a class that demanded a high level of ability from the players.

The act of shooting a bow was pretty much completely dependant on one’s ability, like most other things in God Wars, and a poor archer would never make a desirable team member.

Due to that reason, many archery medalists were the ones who recorded the best ranged DPS ability in the beginning of God Wars.

Not only experts, but also most players agreed that archery was the most helpful sport, in testament to this fact.

Then, what was the most beneficial sport after archery?

Unexpectedly, the most suggested sport was baseball.

“Throwing and pitching, carrying a bat and hitting something, these fundamentals of God Wars were only covered in baseball or cricket.” (pr: i feel like the author forgot about swordsman classes)

The training undergone by professional baseball players helped a lot more than anyone had expected.

Their rankings and placements were pretty good as well.

Quite a few outstanding performers amongst the magician class were former baseball players.

Midas was the same as well.

His talent that allowed him to become a pro baseball player was able to make ends meet for him and his family.

A part that needed to be addressed here was that if Midas really wasn’t that good, he wouldn’t be able to be a pro.

However, he was one of the top players in his team during his middle and high school years.

He was a one-two punch starting pitcher in his team, and even though he wasn’t the 4th batter in the batter’s box, he was a central barter who was responsible on the front and back.

During his high school time, his batting average was .331 and he had swung 3 home runs.

Thus, Midas knew how to swing the bat.

Bam!

Midas’ swing struck the goblin’s puffy eyes accurately.

Hiik!

To that accurate damage the goblin screamed and fell onto the ground.

‘It’s been a while since I feel this sensation.’

Midas, who was in front of the fallen goblin didn’t launch a second attack right away.

‘Catch the timing.’

One of the biggest mistakes that beginners made was to double down on the offensive in order to deal a great amount of damage in a short time.

That seemed like common sense to the beginners.

It was advantageous to catch a mount position to the fallen opponent, because those words always came up once looking at the martial arts contest.

It was not wrong.

‘There’s no need to attempt grinding impudently here.’

But to catch the mount position and to properly inflict damage in that situation, if one thought about the amount of hard work and training that a martial artist had gone through before being able to do that, it wasn’t something that your average Joe could achieve.

Moreover, goblins are different from humans.

A goblin had higher physical strength than most people, so subduing was pretty difficult, even for some experienced grapplers.

Then what should be done?

The answer was simple.

‘Here it comes.’

Midas was looking for the moment when the goblin would stand up. Just as the moment arrived, he took action.

Bam!

Midas struck the goblin once more with his second swing.

It was a flawless swing, a swing that had all of its strength properly put into the bat and smashed the target.

Hiik!

Because of the perfect swing, the goblin screamed in an even more frightened voice and fell to the ground.

A signal that its situation was not good.

Of course, Midas didn’t have to pay the slightest bit of attention to the goblin’s signal.

‘Its HP is decreasing pretty fast.’

All abilities and stats, including HP, were revealed to Midas’ eyes.

And then he just needed to carry out a tactics fit for the particular conditions.

‘It was something that was done by bastards without any venture.’

He had no reason to rush, and even less of a reason to overwork himself.

‘Those are bastards who don’t know anything, like me in the past.’

Moreover, Midas enjoyed the moment.

When Midas did around four home run swings, at that time the goblin’s scream became different.

Hiiiiiiiiiiik!

Longer, a scream that was full of spite was heard.

Along with the scream the goblin soon crawled on all fours and started to flee.

It was the moment when the Escape skill had activated!

‘Okay.’

But Midas was calm and he readied his fist, which held a decent sized rock, as he predicted the fleeing Goblin’s path movement.

And then he held it and squared off. (the baseball thing where they start the throwing action)

“Hoo!”

After that he threw the stone along with a short exhale.

Bam!

The rock that Midas threw flew surprisingly fast and hit the back of the goblin’s head, exactly in the middle of it.

Midas’ first hunt after getting his ability had thus concluded.

To this fact, Midas rubbed his fingers lightly.

‘It seems that today is a scratching day.’

At that time, the days when Midas lived as a baseball player and had the best condition crossed his mind.

‘Right, sometimes this kind of day comes.’

There was nothing particular in the speed of the baseball, but nevertheless it was a feeling where

‘Its the moment when the batter is seen like they’re stopping.’

He felt like the entire world had slowed down, and he was able to correctly and accurately predict everything that was going to happen. He was in complete control.

The feeling was like that when he fought against the goblin just a while ago.

‘Today I am in a good mood.’

It was a good feeling after a very long time.

As he felt it, Midas stood in front of the goblin that he caught by himself.

Because it got continuously thrashed, its bones were broken, including its skull, and its eyes were wide open, filled with bottomless suffering and malice.

To the goblin’s miserable body Midas raised his palm and chanted in a low voice.

“Loot.”

[Two items have been added to your inventory.]

[Two items have been added to your inventory.]

Soon after he had a notification that he gained some items, Midas checked the items’ details.

When used on a basic item, this material upgrades it to have special properties.

When used on a basic item, this material upgrades it to have special properties.

Goblin’s resentment.

It was a material that turned a basic item into a rare item upon using it.

Even just by seeing that it’s a rare level item, it’s already enough.

‘It’s at least 100,000 won.’

The money was enough.

Players who had strong purchasing ability would use their money generously. Its value exceeded by far what Lee Hyukjoo earned from his part-time job in God Wars.

‘I earned enough to take care of my Capsule Room fees for a long time.’

It was a windfall for the penniless Midas.

‘Hold on. How much can I actually earn from this item?’

‘At last earning something…’

After he became a pro-player, he only received money from his work payments, and as a result, never from any source outside or unrelated to his job.

No matter how much damage he dealt on a monster, killed or caught it, the items that dropped from the monster would eventually be shared with the guild or game company that he was employed in.

Whichever items he tried to lay his hands on were mysteriously reported stolen or robbed, or he was embezzled out of them shortly after being promised that those items would go to him.

‘Earning an item, it’s been so long.’

After coming to this realization, Midas was stunned for a while.

Because of the unknown feeling that touched his heart, everything became numb.

Hiik!

Something woke up Midas from his trance.

Hiik!

And that also not only one, but two distinct voices that turned Midas’ stunned face into one full of tension.

‘Oh shit!’

At that time Midas realized.

‘I was in the middle of a freaking battle!’

Midas immediately held his breath and lowered his posture.

He focused his attention to the recently appeared goblins.

‘Damn, there weren’t any goblins in my surroundings. Where the hell did these guys suddenly come from…..’

And then a little question popped up.

I thoroughly checked the surroundings and there were no goblins then, so where and why did these guys appear so suddenly? Why are they running?

‘Ah.’

It didn’t take a long time for the answer to form in his head.

It was a situation where these two had already used Escape, and were on low health. They were fleeing from players who had been trying to hunt them..

‘So they are in the middle of escaping.’

‘There is…… no player around, though?’

And that they had been succeed in escaping.

It was a common sight in God Wars.

A monster that was caught with difficulty escaped, and as one failed to chase it, it eventually wound up like someone who stared at a chicken on a roof, it could be experienced anytime.

Thus God Wars players agreed to say it.

‘As expected.’

This damned game!

This game is a trash game.

To that fact Midas smiled.

Midas’ hand held a rock.

11.

Most games were like that.

It was bad manners to kill steal. (coming in and finishing off a monster who was painstakingly brought down to low health by someone else, and going ahead and stealing all the loot. usually, the one who gets the last blow gets the title/drops/exp in such vrmmorpg novels. generally speaking though, most games now have exp distribution based on dmg dealt, and loot just falls down for anyone who dealt damage to pick up)

Because of that players who saw escaping monsters with lots of injuries couldn’t easily attack them.

“Don’t disturb an injured monster. Because if you meet the players who are chasing after it, you will start a damned fight.”

With possibilities that there would be a problem, it was common sense to avoid those kinds of things.

Midas, as expected, was the same.

He didn’t have the slightest intention to catch monsters with the players right on their trail.

But, it would be a different story if the monster’s trail was already cut off.

Of course, it was usually very hard to separate the pursuer from the pursued.

Moreover, the risk was pretty high.

What if the monster was caught by an explorer guild’s helper for their customers?

It wasn’t only a headache but it was also an insane thing to cross an entire guild just for a beginner’s area monster.

Furthermore, there was no way for a player to divide other players’ affiliation only by looking at them.

‘Okay, there’s no chaser.’

But in Midas’ situation where he could not only see the monsters, but also the location of the players, it wasn’t hard.

Bam!

Midas threw rocks toward the goblins that ran towards him without any hesitation.

Midas kept on hunting the fleeing goblins, and the notification rang for the tenth time.

It was at that time.

The most favorite alarm of all users was heard in Midas’ ears.

‘Here it comes.’

Midas’ sight was sharpening as he heard the notification.

It was because he knew it.

[The War Dragon gave you a chance to improve further.]

[The War Dragon gave you a chance to improve further.]

The moment he leveled up the first time, the moment one reached level 2 every player was able to choose one skill that was given by each God they served.

Because they could choose it directly, it was a very great opportunity.

The problem was only one.

100 cards, whose content was already decided, but was unknown to players.

After that notification ended, one hundred cards as big as a credit card appeared in front of Midas’ eyes.

‘Thank god this game is dependent on luck.’ (and has this system where the content of each card is decided and not rolling the result after having chosen a random card.)

And to the continued notification, Midas smiled.

Not an empty one, but a bright smile.

-End

(pr here, i have exams the next two weeks, so this is coming fridays chapter (3rd) is published today. the chapter for the 10th will be published on the 13-14th, and after that we’ll try to go for 2 chaps a week)