Awakening (2)
Jumper George Lucas.
In his late thirties, he was an American S-ranker and the head of the Enlighten Group.
Blink’s teleportation skill was his exclusive patent, and he was the only one to conquer Odin’s Top Dungeon, where no one had succeeded.
He was receiving a report from someone in the office.
“…to date, it has been estimated that 80% of the world’s 3 billion people have awakened.”
“Right. How long until 100% awakening?”
“If you look at the trend of participating in the awakening program, it is within the next five years.”
“Five years…”
Lucas looked at the city through his office window.
“Not long.”
Until that day.
* * *
Bus back home.
Sang-woo turned on the returned smartphone.
For reference, I returned my smartphone because electronic devices could be damaged when moving the portal.
When I looked at my phone, there were a lot of messages piled up.
-[kkd]: Hey, what skill did you come up with? I got 2 hunter skills
-[kkd]: Awesome?
-[kkd]: What are you up to?
-[kkd]: Hey, answer me
-[kkd]: ㅅㅅ
-[kkd]: Are you sleeping?
-[kkd]: ㅅㄱ
Most of them were sent by my best friend Kim Kyung-do, and they were only meaningless messages.
Sang-woo replied without sincerity.
-[Shark]: I don’t know.
Then the number 1 disappeared right away.
-[kkd]: Why? Did you even get a lung?
-[kkd]: Answer me quickly
-[kkd]: Awesome!
-[Shark]: ㅇㅇ
-[kkd]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha-[kkd]
: I think he must have developed the Ding Gul Ding Gul Ding Gul skill because he is always at home -[
kkd]: He must be active outside like a yumma hyung.. ..
‘Oh, that’s noisy.’
Kim Kyung-do has been a close friend since elementary school.
He was easy-going and outgoing, so he got along well with anyone, but his downside was that he talked too much.
While I was arguing with Kim Kyung-do, I arrived home before I knew it.
It was a one-room studio about 8 pyeong, and it was Sang-woo’s hideout.
The friendly sound you hear as soon as you open the front door and enter.
Weiying-.
“Are my babies doing well?”
There were two computers running in the room.
There are 4 monitors.
Inside each monitor were 16 identical game program windows, 4 each.
In the program, game characters were automatically moving and hunting monsters.
A series of actions, such as picking up an item, moving to a village, and putting it in a warehouse, are completely automatic.
Yes.
Sangwoo is running a macro with 16 characters.
15 alt characters (sub characters) and 1 main character (main characters).
It was a way to drive items and money to the main character by farming (act of collecting items or material experience points) with 15 auxiliary characters for the growth of the main character.
Because of this, I was able to show overwhelmingly faster growth compared to users who generally only raise one character.
He sat down in his computer chair and started monitoring the game in earnest.
First, I checked the money and items in the Bonca warehouse.
Money always comes in almost fixedly, but items are random.
However, there were no rare materials or equipment to be seen.
‘Today is also bad.’
There was no income whatsoever.
I tried to dispose of the japtem, but the profits fell short of expectations.
In the end, the collapsed Sang-woo lay down on the old mattress that he had used as a bed.
It’s already been 2 years since I started making money with games.
When it was popular, it was possible to touch money that exceeded most part-time jobs just by selling game money that was farmed all day.
It was because of the money he earned then that he was able to become independent as soon as he turned 20 after attending high school.
However, as the popularity of the game he played waned, the fixed income he earned gradually dwindled.
A situation where you can’t just rely on the probability that a rare item will appear forever.
‘I have to pay the tuition… Let’s find another game. Making macros is troublesome.’
macro.
It refers to an automation program that can automate almost everything that a computer does by making it into a macro.
In terms of doing the work for people, the macro matched Sang-woo’s tendency very well. I like games, but I wasn’t patient enough to endure the process of nogada. In the end, it was natural for him to fall in love with macros.
But my belly button was bigger than my stomach.
Because I had to learn various programming languages to create macros.
Of course, it was a positive result that I was able to enter Inseoul University as the result was an income that a normal high school student could not earn, and various computer licenses obtained during the course of study were a plus factor.
Because of this, his parents, who were very disapproving of Sang-woo, who at first played games and didn’t go out of the house very often, were proud of him when he told him that he was earning money, becoming independent, and paying tuition.
‘Then what do you do? This game is coming to an end.’
Nothing lasts forever, but the game market is very sensitive to trends, so it rarely lasts for long.
So whenever the game trend changes, the game that thrives and the game that fails change.
In the end, users who make money from games like Sang-woo had to change games like migratory birds to follow this trend, and this process exhausted Sang-woo.
‘Should I find a normal, stable job? It’s annoying to work…. I wish someone would do the work for me in real life…’
At that moment, Sang-woo remembered the skill he had just acquired during his awakening.
‘Alter!’
If the cloning technique really goes his way…
he decided to try it out.
Sang-woo is standing in the living room of a one-room studio.
As if going through some great ritual, after taking a few deep breaths, I used the clone technique.
‘Summon an alter ego.’
As he put his will to use the skill while thinking of the alter ego, he suddenly felt certain energy that he didn’t even know existed in Sang-woo’s body swirl around him and escape.
Perhaps it is ‘mana’, an unknown energy that is said to dwell in all things in the world.
The minute mana that escaped from Sang-woo’s body soon grew in size as it combined with the mana around him.
Mana began to glow and be visible to the naked eye.
Soon, the mana grew to the size of Sang-woo and shimmered in a blurry form like a hologram.
Eventually, the shape gradually became clearer and revealed.
‘Is that me?’
He is about 175 cm tall and moderately fleshy, so he has a chubby naked body with big eyes and a round face.
It was exactly the same as Jeong Sang-woo.
“Uh… uh.”
“…”
“… are you an alter ego?”
“yes.”
Even a slightly low-pitched voice.
It was like listening to a recording of your own voice.
And this situation made Sang-woo goosebumps.
Because it reminded me of an old German superstition.
< If you see your doppelganger, you will die. >
It was an urban legend that if you see someone who looks exactly like you, you will die.
Because of that, Sang-woo was momentarily frightened.
But then he mustered up the courage.
‘They say people die when they see someone who looks just like them… But since he’s an alter ego I created, it’s okay.’
Then, step by step, he looked at the summoned alter ego.
Since she was naked with nothing on, her round body covered in fat and even her belly fat genitals were clearly visible.
It was the look I saw in the mirror when I was taking a shower.
The difference from the mirror is that the alter ego moves around little by little and looks around.
“Hey, can I touch you?”
“yes. master.”
He also answered well.
Sang-woo heard that and touched the body of his alter ego.
Its soft texture is the same as that of human skin.
‘But is my body so weak?’
He felt embarrassed for a moment, but as Sang-woo gradually adapted to the situation, his curiosity and inquisitive mind arose.
“Can I order you now?”
“yes.”
Sang-woo, who was contemplating what to order, thought of giving a simple command to sit down.
Then, at the moment of thinking, the alter ego squatted down in the seat.
“Oh, that makes sense.”
Sang-woo admired.
It’s better if you don’t have to verbally command.
‘lie down.’
An alter ego lying on the spot.
‘stand up.’
A body that jumps up.
‘repeat.’
Then, the alter ego lies down and gets up again and again.
However, after less than 10 attempts, the alter ego began to suffer, gasping for breath and sweating like rain.
‘what. It’s an alter ego, but it’s hard at times.’
Still, Sang-woo kept watching because he was not having a hard time.
It was because I was curious about how the alter ego’s ability was related to physical strength and how sustainable it was.
But that was then.
After watching it for about 10 minutes, a message suddenly popped up.
[Your physical strength has risen by 0.001.]
‘Hmm? what is this.’
