It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 274

Chapter 274: Player Jumping Event (1)

Kyung-joon had planned to introduce a probability-based random box to The World through this player jumping event!

Surely, gacha was a shortcut to a ruined game for users.

But from the game company’s perspective, seeing the incredible sales figures, it was bound to be hailed as a god-tier game.

‘But The World has hardly had any probability-based items until now. The innocent NPCs of the fantasy medieval era wouldn’t sell such vicious gacha items, and we, the administrators, have never deliberately held such Pay-to-Win events……’

Indeed.

If Kyung-joon had his way, it would certainly lead to a tremendous increase in sales and player growth in the short term.

However, The World has been praised as the most realistic and lifelike god-tier game, despite its difficulty.

If this event is implemented, it’s obvious that The World’s management will be heavily criticized for being greedy.

Even if the higher-ups approve and want to proceed with it.

‘That’s not going to happen.’

Team Leader Jo, who had some affection for the game, couldn’t accept this.

“Mr. Kyung-joon. Please reconsider, and regarding the random box, let’s……”

As Team Leader Jo tried to stop Kyung-joon and spoke again.

“Oh? I think it might be surprisingly okay……?”

Kim Bu-ha suddenly agreed with Kyung-joon’s opinion.

Smirk.

Seeing that, Kyung-joon smiled.

“Mr. Kim Bu-ha seems to have figured it out.”

“Yes, well……”

Kim Bu-ha scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.

“What? What’s so good about it?”

When Team Leader Jo was bewildered and asked what was going on.

Kim Bu-ha turned over Kingyear’s random equipment box and showed it to Team Leader Jo.

“Look at the price tag here, Team Leader.”

A sticker with the price was attached to the box.

“The price is almost the same as the price of two rare breads sold by the World’s Best guild. It’s a bit more expensive…… but it’s only about 10% more.”

“Oh…… it’s true?”

“You might feel a little uncomfortable about the fact that bread appears because you want to get equipment…… but if you think of it as buying a chance to get equipment at a slightly higher price of 10%, it might be surprisingly okay……”

Kim Bu-ha hit the nail on the head.

Kyung-joon added further explanation to this.

“That’s right. In reality, if you think of using the rare bread obtained from gacha in training or dungeons, it’s definitely not a loss. It’s not like the gacha is so expensive that ordinary people can’t buy it, and there’s plenty of room to see it as a legitimate investment.”

And.

“This herb potion is similar. More than half the probability is that you’ll only get two out of 2~100, but it’s definitely not a dud. Look.”

Kyung-joon opened Ceram’s mysterious random herb potion box and showed the contents.

[Ceram’s Mysterious Herb Potion]

▶Herb potion that can only be completed if accurately matched to Ceram’s recipe, down to the second decimal place. A mysterious potion made considering all possible reactions between various herbs and tree sap.

▶『Power Ritual』: If your Strength is greater than your Intelligence, your Strength increases by 50% and your Intelligence decreases by 50%.

▶『Intelligence Ritual』: If your Intelligence is greater than your Strength, your Intelligence increases by 50% and your Strength decreases by 50%.

▶Duration: 10 minutes

▶Item Grade: Unique

“T, tThis is…!”

“F, Fifty percent… C, Crazy…”

“How about it? With this, instead of being angry that only two came out, you should be happy that more could come out, right?”

Team Leader Jo and Kim Bu-ha couldn’t take their eyes off it.

Simply increasing stats by 50% was amazing, but.

They couldn’t help but be even more surprised because of the ‘side effect that wasn’t a side effect’.

Kyung-joon continued.

“If you’re going to build a strength character, you wouldn’t care about intelligence anyway, and if you’re an intelligence character like a wizard, as long as you can wield a weapon, it doesn’t matter if your strength is low. Originally, I tried to make the potion without any side effects, but then the effect was too low.”

Most doping potions made by other players or NPCs usually didn’t have side effects, but their effects were mostly limited to a 10~20% increase.

Even a 20% increase was a significant effect, so everyone was satisfied and used it, and it sold incredibly well.

However.

Kyung-joon thought differently.

Instead of suppressing side effects and weakening the existing effect.

He thought of a way to make the side effects irrelevant, thereby strengthening the existing effect without suppressing it.

A true paradigm shift! A change in perspective!

One.

What was even more impressive here was the fact that he put this logic into practice, not just in words.

“H, How did you implement this……?”

“Our Ceram worked very hard. That’s why I put Ceram’s name on the box instead of mine.”

Of course, if it weren’t for the genetic mana studies developed by Kyung-joon and the knowledge of magical healing researched with Teina, this potion would never have been developed.

However.

If it weren’t for Ceram’s effort to learn all the theories and hypotheses organized in this way and to finally implement them after hundreds and thousands of trials and errors, this potion would never have been possible.

“This is the true meaning of 『jumping』 in the player jumping event I planned. I’m not going to have players climb up from the bottom step by step. I’m going to attach boosters to their backs from the bottom and make them soar like crazy.”

Attaching boosters to the backs of those who will come up later.

That’s education.

And that’s how our humanity has evolved to the point where we can connect to the virtual world.

The world doesn’t develop solely through talented individuals.

The world truly changes when talented individuals pioneer the way and disseminate it to those below through 『education』.

“Whether or not you have talent for hunting, it doesn’t matter.”

So, while there’s the saying that someone has talent.

There’s no saying that someone lacks talent.

“According to my plan, anyone, regardless of age or gender, children or adults, can reach level 100 within 24 hours. They will also acquire the skills to match that level. This is what I call the 『Player Jumping Event』.”

If someone can’t reach even the so-called ‘average’ no matter how much they learn.

It’s definitely not due to a lack of talent.

It’s undoubtedly a flaw in education.

“……”

Team Leader Jo couldn’t speak easily.

‘When did Kyung-joon start planning this……? It’s such a big picture that I couldn’t figure it out even while monitoring…… Could it be from the very first phone meeting……?’

No.

Kyung-joon wasn’t just planning the big picture.

“Well, even if the vision is great, what’s important is whether or not the realistic requirements to achieve it are met…… If we’re going to do something bigger, we have to include gacha like this. You need money to do anything, right?”

“If it’s about funds, our management team can also……”

“No, no. I’m talking about ‘liyan’, not won.”

“……”

He was taking care of even the realistic aspects.

“There’s a limit to how much you can ask from them, even if they’re the administrators, right?”

Certainly.

Even if you have a lot of money in reality, you can’t just convert it to liyan as you please.

The administrators have a limited amount of liyan, and most of it is used for players’ cash-to-liyan conversion.

That’s why, even during the Luxemb Defense, they had to receive financial support from the Luxemb Kingdom.

“Think of it as directly earning operating expenses in ‘liyan’ and reinvesting it. It’s gacha for that purpose, you know?”

For more proper management.

The administrators needed to generate revenue directly.

“Let’s try to achieve this goal. The World: 1 Billion Users! Something like that.”

1 billion would mean reaching almost 10 times the current number of users.

Gulp.

Team Leader Jo swallowed dryly at the grand and ambitious goal.

No, it was because.

That grand goal seemed actually achievable.

“But if this project fails……”

“You two will probably be fired from the administration right away.”

Kyung-joon said something chilling with a smile.

“Are you suggesting this knowing that?”

“That’s why you two have to trust me completely. Starting with……”

Kyung-joon took out two pieces of paper from his inventory.

“Including you two, all members of the Special Management Team should register as residents of my territory and level up through this event starting today. By applying the feedback we get and testing again, we can reduce the chances of the event failing, right?”

“Hmm……”

Team Leader Jo crossed his arms and pondered for a moment.

“Sigh…… I guess I’ll have to go into the game after finishing overtime and do overtime of overtime……”

He eventually nodded, as if there was no other choice.

“T, Team Leader……!”

Kim Bu-ha’s face turned pale at Team Leader Jo’s chilling remark, which made it sound like his life was completely over.

Anyway.

“Now, let me ask you again.”

Kyung-joon held out the two pieces of paper he had taken out earlier right in front of Kim Bu-ha and Team Leader Jo.

They were the Study Territory’s Position Appointment Tickets, which stated the salary and duties within the territory.

“Now, is this a god-tier game or a ruined game?”

“……”

The two hesitated to speak, but.

In the end.

“I, It’s a god-tier game…”

They said it.

And so.

<Resident of Study Territory>

▼Jo Hyun-woo GM

<Resident of Study Territory>

▼Kim Bu-ha GM

Kim Bu-ha and Team Leader Jo became residents of the Study Territory.

And at the same time.

“Then let’s start working right away. Tell me if you’re sleepy. I have coffee that will keep you awake no matter how sleepy you are.”

“……”

It was the moment when the Kyung-joon Special Management Team was being managed by Kyung-joon instead.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

About a week later.

Kyung-joon, who had rapidly progressed with the construction using a combined monster force of over 4,000 and the Special Management Team’s Administrator Privileges and funds.

<The World Beginner>

▼Boo-Kae-Mi-Goo-Ning (Player)

“Wow…… crazy. There was something like this in the Beginner’s Village? When did they build this…… This is insane……”

BJMiguning, who had logged in with her alt account, couldn’t help but admire the scene of the player jumping event.

Perfectly organized sections, following precise lines, covered the grasslands like solar panels.

And surrounding them, an incredible number of towers were lined up in a row, not too far apart.

[Boo-Kae-Mi-Goo-Ning’s Broadcast Chat Window]

━Wow~~ Kyung-joon’s territory~~ Crazy~~

━Is this a territory or a workshop?? lololol

━Damn lololol It looks like a new city lololol

━Kyung-joon’s new city lololollololol

“……By the way, I heard they built all of this in a week.”

━1 week loool Otherworldly construction;; Insane;;

━I’m an architect, and a week is usually the time it takes to build one house, but here they’re building a city.

Miguning’s viewers couldn’t help but be amazed by Kyung-joon’s incredible architectural skills and type in the chat.

What Kyung-joon did always seemed like something from another world to them.

“By the way, I heard monsters built all of this.”

━Monsters?

━Yeah, monsters built it.

━No, how can monsters build? They destroy.

━Really?

“Yes. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. I heard it was about 4,000 during the briefing.”

━4,000 oooo

━Wait, usually tamers can’t handle more than 10 monsters, right?

“Uh… I said that too, but they said they’re not tamed, they’re residents?”

━Residents?? Monsters?

━What the hell is that

People couldn’t easily believe the crazy talk about accepting monsters as residents.

As Miguning and her viewers were chatting.

Creak.

The door of the event chairman’s office opened and a handsome man came out.

<Resident of Study Territory>

<Deputy General Manager of Player Jumping Event>

▼Kim Elsa (Player)

“Hello…… Thank you for participating in the alpha test of the Player Jumping Event…… Yawn~ Thank you……”

“Oh, yes… Hello.”

A man with a very tired expression, dark circles covering his under-eye area.

He was Yoo Seol-ha, who had been in charge of the overall practical management of the Player Jumping Event.

“But Kyung-joon…… didn’t he come? Actually, I came to get my stolen unique mandolin back before the alpha test……”

Kyung-joon hadn’t yet returned Miguning’s unique mandolin that he had picked up during the Luxemb Defense.

“Yawn…… Yes. That son of a…… no, that piece of…… no, that damn b@stard left all the practical work to me and went to Arc-en-Ciel or whatever it’s called.”

“A, Arc-en-Ciel…?

“Yes…… He went to take over a company…… no, a magic tower…… Die, Lee Kyung-joon.”

“Y, Yes…?

“Oh, right…… The unique mandolin…… Is it…… Fantasy Pine Mandolin or something?”

“Huh?! Yes, that’s right!”

Miguning’s face brightened for a moment at the thought of getting her stolen mandolin back after half a year, but.

“But he said he’ll give it back after you properly experience the alpha test.”

“……”

Kyung-joon wasn’t that easy.

“Haha, that b@stard, right? Don’t you think so? Haha… Hahaha… Ah, I want to sleep… Lee Kyung-joon should be dead…”

“……”

Miguning couldn’t easily comfort Kim Elsa, feeling the sticky hatred in every word she spoke.

‘H, How could he drive a person to this point? How could such a handsome and refined person become like this……?’

She was simply horrified by Kyung-joon’s ruthlessness, which pushed people to their limits.

“Let’s start the test right away……”

“Ah, yes.”

Kim Elsa listlessly proceeded with the alpha test.

“We’ll start with the basic training from level 1 to 10…… I’ll introduce the instructor.”

As soon as Kim Elsa finished speaking.

Hop.

The training instructor who would be in charge of the player’s training appeared.

“Kkyulook! Hello! Weak human kkyu! I am the great and mighty forest horned rabbit who will brainwash you to level 10! Kkyulook!”

━What the hell is that;;;

━No, what is that again…

━??????Why is the monster talking????

━Why is everything that Kyung-joon does the opposite of what I know?

The viewers were convinced that this was another world where common sense didn’t apply.

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