Chapter 170: The Goal of the Kyung-joon Special Management Team, and Why
The trees surrounding SurvivalKing were no ordinary trees!
They were all arlivs, tree spirits disguised as trees!
《SurvivalKing. Our lord has ordered us to eliminate you.》
The arliv spoke in a language that humans could understand.
At the same time, silvas, who had been hiding in the branches, camouflaged by the forest’s mana and harmonized with the arlivs, began to reveal themselves one by one.
They were all green silvas, but……
“Hoo-hoo! Ho-hoo-hoo!”
(Earth magic! Wall of Earth!)
They were all capable of using earth magic.
Gu-gu-gu-gu!
A massive earthen wall began to rise around SurvivalKing and the monsters.
It was as tall as a three-story building, making it no easy feat to overcome.
Gu-gu-gu!
As the earthen wall rose in a perfect circle without any gaps, it resembled a freshly built temporary coliseum.
The list of gladiators fighting in this coliseum today is as follows:
SurvivalKing & CameraMan
VS.
Whale Forest forest horned rabbit
spotted deer
Whale Forest Wolf
Triple Horn Wild Boar
Arliv and Silva
And many others.
Moreover, the monsters were all fully armed and numerous.
Gulp.
SurvivalKing barely swallowed his dry saliva and uttered the last words of the video towards the camera.
━Sorry, CameraMan. Unfortunately, it seems our journey ends here today.
“Kyooool!”
“Cock-a-doodle-doo!”
“Awooul!”
“Cuwoo~!”
《Feel the wrath of nature~!!》
“Ho-hoo-hoo!”
Dozens, hundreds of attacks simultaneously surged towards SurvivalKing.
Thump!
And then the video ended.
Although SurvivalKing died, the reaction to the video was explosive once again.
━Loooolololol Crazy lololollololol What kind of chaos is this time lololol
━SurvivalKing died again lol
━7:27 But isn’t that group spell by the silvas totally like J4’s ult??
└Right? J4 ult lol;;
└DE↘MA↗CI↘A→!
└Earth magic lol;; Is it Naruto?
└This world these days… No, the World is going crazy…….
└This is definitely tamed by a player. No way NPCs would act like that.
As the comments speculated, the changes in Whale Forest were all orchestrated by one player.
A player named Kyung-joon.
And the price for all this fell not on Kyung-joon, but on the administrators.
━No way, even that Triple whatever, Wolf, Deer, and Rabbit party was hard enough to fight, how are we supposed to clear this with those guys added???
━Administrators~!! Do your job!!
━???Now monsters form alliances too? Wtf Aegis Protectorate is over lololol Good thing I quit this trash game^^
━Currently serving as a senior officer in the 3rd Division of the Far East Aegis Protectorate. We’re already having a tough time with the recent increase in orc raids, and I can’t even imagine what would happen if the orcs formed alliances with other tribes like those arlivs and silvas…….
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“Hahahaha!”
A man laughed heartily while checking the comments on SurvivalKing’s video.
It was Team Leader Jo, the head of the Kyung-joon Special Management Team.
“Uhahahaha! See? I told you! We didn’t do anything, but user Kyung-joon took care of everything!”
If Kyung-joon hadn’t purified the arlivs, it would have surely transformed into a massive army of mutant monsters and wreaked havoc on the Aegis Protectorate below.
Also, if Kyung-joon hadn’t rescued Ceram and the silvas, they too could have become corrupted like the arlivs.
It was Kyung-joon who simultaneously and perfectly resolved all of this.
“Haha! Uhahahaha! Kyung-joon, you amazing guy!”
While Team Leader Jo continued to chuckle, Kim Bu-ha beside him couldn’t.
“Um…… Team Leader? The user response team says they’re getting flooded with complaints from users, and they’re complaining to us too. They’re telling us to take responsibility……?
“Really? Then give them this.”
Thud.
The team leader placed a clear file on the desk.
This was also a scenario file, and the subtitle at the top read:
『Subtitle: Utilizing Players to Establish Kyung-joon’s Monster Army』
Kim Bu-ha made a face like he expected something, like this was what he had feared.
“This isn’t, by any chance, what you mentioned in passing before……?”
“Yeah, that’s it. We’ve gone through the trouble of helping him create a monster army, so we need someone to test it on, right? And players, who can’t really die, are perfect for that.”
An army needs constant training to become stronger, and real combat experience to become even stronger.
But that doesn’t mean they can just wage war on a nearby kingdom.
The moment the NPCs learn the truth about the current state of Whale Forest and Kyung-joon, they’ll immediately perceive them as a threat and try to wipe them out all at once.
“So we, the administrators, are going to help a little.”
The administrator team will personally step in and create a smokescreen to prevent the surrounding NPC kingdoms from learning the truth about Whale Forest and its surroundings.
And they’ll provide support to the players in the form of events and whatnot, allowing them to continuously fight against Kyung-joon’s monster army.
There are two benefits to be gained from this.
“First, as the file subtitle suggests, we can raise and establish user Kyung-joon’s monster army. Second, we can collectively raise the skill level of the players as well.”
There is actually an example of this.
Limurimu’s Slime Dungeon.
After Kyung-joon’s visit, the Slime Dungeon became incredibly difficult, but players are players.
They somehow managed to find a way to clear it after dying countless times, and recently there have even been reports of a few parties clearing it.
Of course, Limurimu was able to collect a lot of data and earn a lot of money in the process.
The player level went up, and thanks to Kyung-joon, Limurimu’s Slime Dungeon was essentially reborn as a higher-level dungeon.
“This time, we’re going to apply this not to a single dungeon, but to the entire ‘region’ of the Whale Forest tail. That’s what the scenario in this file is all about.”
The big picture that the Kyung-joon Special Management Team is painting is this.
First, as the name of the department suggests, they will focus on marking and raising Kyung-joon, and the players who are formed around him will also grow under that influence.
And they will ask the Operations Team to create a smokescreen so that this environment can be maintained as well as possible.
Until when?
Until the NPCs can no longer ignore the existence of Kyung-joon!
“Now, now. Then, Bu-ha, you go and submit that scenario file to the higher-ups, and I’ll smooth things over with the user response team…… And, Kang, you take the same file to the Operations Team right now and……”
The Kyung-joon Special Management Team started to get busy again.
“Um, Team Leader. Can I ask you something?”
Just then, Kim Bu-ha suddenly asked Team Leader Jo.
“It’s a question that might sound a little strange……”
“Oh? Yeah, yeah. It’s okay. What’s the question?”
Team Leader Jo readily agreed as always.
“Well…… I’ve been feeling this since the Luxemb defense battle……”
But Kim Bu-ha seemed to be having trouble putting his thoughts into words.
He hesitated for a moment before finally opening his mouth again.
“……Isn’t this, in fact, the administrators favoring one player? I mean, there are players who benefit from it, but no matter how you look at it, this is favoritism towards user Kyung-joon……”
“Well, I suppose so.”
“Isn’t this something that shouldn’t be happening in terms of game management…?”
Kim Bu-ha asked and immediately closed his mouth.
Then he waited for the team leader’s response with bated breath.
The question Kim Bu-ha asked was essentially a denial of the very existence of the 『Kyung-joon Special Management Team』.
He could have been severely scolded for it.
However…
“Hahahaha!”
Instead of scolding him, the team leader just laughed heartily.
Then, the team leader cleared his throat and spoke to Kim Bu-ha with a grin.
“Why, Bu-ha, are you asking me the same question?”
“Huh……? The same question?”
Kim Bu-ha’s eyes widened at the team leader’s unexpected response.
“The question you just asked, I actually asked the higher-ups the same thing.”
“Gasp. Is that really true?”
“Would I lie about something like this?”
The team leader put his arm around Kim Bu-ha’s shoulders and lowered his voice.
“You see, when I first proposed the Kyung-joon Special Management Team, the motto wasn’t 『Favoritism towards Kyung-joon』, but 『Checks and Balances on Kyung-joon』, remember?”
“Of course I remember. I helped make the PPT, didn’t I? That’s why it’s even more……”
“Right. That’s why it must be even stranger for you. Once the Kyung-joon Special Management Team was actually created, instead of checks and balances, all we do is favor him.”
It was fine to create the workbook item to get Kyung-joon to participate in the Luxemb defense battle.
It wasn’t like it would significantly affect the game balance anyway, and in the end, it was possible to definitely delay Luxemb from starting a war.
“But the Whale Forest incident was different. We were supposed to just observe, but in reality, we didn’t.”
Even though the Whale Forest tail is a remote area that the Aegis Protectorate doesn’t pay much attention to, they can’t just sit back and watch while a single player gathers and modifies monsters to their side.
And to make it so that they could just watch, to create an ‘environment’ where they could truly just observe user Kyung-joon, the Kyung-joon Special Management Team had to take separate measures.
That’s why neither the church, suspected to be behind the black magic stones, nor the NPCs were able to intervene with user Kyung-joon.
Or rather, they were forced to overlook it.
So, no matter how you looked at it, this was favoritism.
“Why…… What exactly is the goal of the Kyung-joon Special Management Team……?”
That’s why Kim Bu-ha couldn’t help but feel even more of a sense of dissonance.
To Kim Bu-ha’s question that struck at the heart of the matter, Team Leader Jo readily answered.
Everything he knew.
“I don’t know why. But the goal is clear.”
To provide full support to user 『Kyung-joon』, who shows the most potential as a player, and to help him establish himself in 『The World』.
That was the main goal of the Kyung-joon Special Management Team.
“Conversely, it’s also our job to make sure that other users don’t see it that way, even though we’re favoring user Kyung-joon.”
Supporting the surrounding players in their efforts to capture the Whale Forest tail.
At first glance, this seems like they’re trying to keep Kyung-joon in check rather than favoring him.
But in reality, it was intended to give Kyung-joon’s monster army a chance to train and gain practical experience.
By supporting the surrounding players to capture Whale Forest, Kyung-joon’s forces would ultimately become even stronger.
“I see…… I understand……”
Kim Bu-ha still had an uneasy look on his face after hearing the team leader’s words.
Because even though he now knew the ‘goal,’ the ‘why’ was missing.
But there was nothing he could do about it.
This ‘why’ was something that even Team Leader Jo, the head of the Kyung-joon Special Management Team, didn’t know.
But if there’s one thing he knew more than Kim Bu-ha, it’s this.
‘The only person who could launch the Kyung-joon Special Management Team without any procedures……’
It was none other than…
‘……Chairman Yoo is the only one who could do that.’
All the events that have transpired so far, perhaps everything, is the will of Yoo Geun-chul, the chairman of the Seolha Group.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
Meanwhile, Kyung-joon had unwittingly accumulated a number of things after clearing all sorts of quests, including diligently giving advice on monster concerns and clearing the epic quest 『Purify the Arliv』, which was an extension of that.
As he completed all kinds of quests, there were many things that Kyung-joon accumulated without even realizing it.
Items that monsters had picked up after defeating players were one of them.
[Territory Points: 57,830]
The territory points, which had already exceeded 50,000, were also one of them.
And now.
“Kyoool!”
“Cuwoo!”
“Awooul~!”
“Cock-a-doodle-doo!”
“Gonyang~”
“Ho-hoo-hoo!”
《We arlivs cry with joy.》
A total of several thousand monsters were lined up in front of Kyung-joon.
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