Chapter 1

Kan!

Kan!

Kan!

A hammer and iron struck, and then a sound rang out in the studio.

Kang Joo-ho laughed at the clear sound that came to his ears.

He loved this sound.

He felt like he was training not only iron but also his mind.

There were beads and torrents of perspiration all over Kang Joo-ho’s body, and his work clothes were soaked from it because of the heat coming off from the hot flames in the furnace and numerous hammerings he engaged his energy with.

Nevertheless, without wavering his smile, Kang Joo-ho continued to swing his hammer.

Right then.

“-Piyiyiyiyi kia-ang!”

The sound came from a large speaker in the corner.

Kang Joo-ho stopped hammering when he heard the sound,

He put down the hammer with a wide grin.

“finally…”

Kang Joo-ho murmured, wiped the sweat from his face with a towel, and then left for the studio.

“Are you coming out, Master?”

When he left the workshop, the deacon Yang Seok-hyun, who was waiting outside the door, slightly bowed.

“Don’t wait.”

Kang Joo-ho said to Yang Seok-hyun with a contrite expression.

“No. It’s my job.”

Yang Seok-hyun replied. A warm smile lit Kang Joo-ho’s face at his words.

“I will prepare a meal right away.”

“No. Please prepare it in 2 hours. I have something to do.”

At the end of Yang Seok-hyun’s words, Kang Joo-ho shook his head.

There was a reason to quit Mezzil earlier than usual.

“Okay. I’ll see you in two hours.”

Yang Seok-hyun bowed his head and greeted Kang Joo-ho and then left for the 2nd-floor study.

There were numerous bookshelves in the study occupied by various books.

But the reason Kang Joo-ho came to the study was not to read the book.

He’d bought the bookshelves and the books for decoration. He was never interested in whatever value the books held inside them.

He sat on the desk and muttered as he looked at the monitor’s black screen, which was turned off on the desk.

“I wish you success.”

PC game ‘Earth’ was the best MMORPG game of all time that once exceeded 70% of the market share.

Earth, which formally beat all the other games, began to fall as the virtual reality game started to dominate.

Nonetheless, Earth was particularly fun, and mainly because there was a considerable difference between playing on a monitor and having a seemingly real experience.

The moment the market share of over 70% fell to 30%, Earth’s virtual reality launch was announced.

At the announcement of the launch of Earth’s virtual reality, users started to drop at a very fast pace.

And that was because Earth had no need to be played on a computer anymore if it came out in virtual reality.

Most of the users began to fold the game and dispose of the items to recover the amount of money and time they had invested in it.

A lot of time has passed, yet the number of users still reduced to the point where they can only contain a city.

One of the few users was Kang Joo-ho.

And Kang Joo-ho was also planning to play a virtual reality of Earth.

He hasn’t yet grounded the computer Earth because there was a goal that he wanted to achieve. It was the production of equipment.

The items needed for the production were enormous enough that he has to invest for several months to save each one, such as ‘Sign of God’, ‘Source of Spirit King’, ‘Sign of Devil’, and ‘Ailes’ by attribute.

And if the users had not given up, it would have taken years to get the equipment.

No, it may not have been available after several years.

Fortunately, many users have folded, and countless items have been abandoned.

Among them were materials items that Kang Joo-ho needed.

Kang Joo-ho met a family member that had it for sale.

(Anything that didn’t come out was obtained by moving it.)

It took 180 days to collect all the equipment, a whopping six months.

After collecting the materials, Kang Joo-ho immediately went into production.

The production time was 72 hours.

Of course, there was nothing very difficult because he only had to click the production button and wait.

He liked the fact that the probability of its successful production was 50%.

“After…”

Kang Joo-ho sighed deeply.

When he turned on the monitor, he saw the results.

He reached for the monitor’s power.

Tsuat! Ugh!

As the monitor was turning on, Kang Joo-ho closed his eyes, turned his head slowly to face the monitor. Then he opened his eyes and looked at the monitor.

-Production success-

“Nice!”

Fortunately, the production was successful.

He jumped up from his seat hysterically, his features washed with joy and excitement.

Soon after, he managed to calm himself and confirmed the equipment’s options.

< Esran’s Shield [God]>

Limit: Level 1000

Durability: –

Physical Defense: 50000

Magic Defense: 50000

Physical Attack: 50000

All stats +1000

+ 19% to all resistances

The shield enshrined by Ezran’s protection will not be destroyed by any attack.

The item that Kang Joo-ho created was a new-grade item, ‘Esran’s Shield’.

Among the new ranks, Esran’s Shield was located at the top.

“Ah…”

Kang Joo-ho confirmed the options and sighed.

“19%…”

There was only one reason why Kang Joo-ho made the shield of Esran.

‘Resistance’.

The Shield of Esran was created to increase resistance.

“Give me only 1% more…”

However, Kang Joo-ho had spat out and sighed because of his resistance level.

Esran’s shield resistance ranged from a minimum of 15% to a maximum of 25%.

Kang Joo-ho wanted 20% because 20% was what it took to achieve his true goal.

“I can’t recreate.”

There was no material to rebuild Esran’s shield for more resistance.

Kang Joo-ho wore the shield with a sad face.

Then he opened the character window and clicked on the second page.

Physical Resistance: 99%

Fire resistance: 99%

Water resistance: 99%

Wind resistance: 99%

Electric immunity: 99%

Poison resistance: 99%

Light resistance: 99%

Dark tolerance: 99%

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On the second page, the status of resistance and evasion rate was listed.

“Ha!”

Kang Joo-ho confirmed his resistance and sighed.

All tolerances were 99%.

1% was too weak.

When the resistance reached 100%, there was no need to worry about any attack.

He ignored defense and immunity but got one damage from any fixed attack.

Of course, there were debuff skills that cut resistance.

But then Kang Joo-ho had several skills to eliminate debuff effects.

In other words, the only thing to worry about was fixed damage.

Earth’s most serious fixed damage was 50,000.

Kang Joo-ho’s vitality was over 200,000.

If he played well, he might never die in Earth.

“I should have made it before folding.”

Kang Joo-ho was deeply disappointed.

Demon Guild.

The guild that always bumped into Kang Joo-ho’s Immortality guild was the devil’s guild.

And if he’d made Esran’s shield when they were there, it would have been too bad to have mastered it thoroughly with 99% tolerance.

“I will definitely master you.”

Soon after, he erased the regret.

All of the devil guilds disposed of items for virtual reality and left.

In addition to Kang Joo-ho, the guild members of the Infantry Division were also going to move to Earth’s virtual reality.

Fight without knots can be concluded in Earth’s virtual reality.

“I’m going to try it now.”

Although not 100% resistance, it produced a staggering 99%.

Now he can comfortably dispose of Earth’s computer game.

But before disposing of it, he wanted to feel the power of 99% resistance.

“How long will it endure?”

Earth was already updated to the final story.

Earth’s final boss was the chaotic Greten.

It was the worst and toughest boss attack. It attacked with all features such as light, darkness, fire, water, and wind.

Kang Joo-ho intended to challenge Greten alone.

Of course, he will not be defeated.

The attack was insufficient to defeat him.

Kang Joo-ho planned to see how long he could hold Greten alone.

“I’m ready too!”

After checking the inventory, Kang Joo-ho immediately warped to the entrance to the chaos by using the warp scroll.

Then he talked to the NPC standing in front of the entrance and entered the chaos.

As soon as he entered the chaos, a myriad of monsters appeared on the monitor.

It was the Shadows of Greten that guarded Greten.

Greten’s shadow was a monster with light and dark features at level 950, and it was hard to withstand even a tanker if the resistance was not over 80%.

Of course, Kang Joo-ho, who achieved 99% of the resistance, was not a big threat.

“Kya!”

Kang Joo-ho admired and smiled.

Despite being attacked by numerous shadows, his vitality did not reduce.

He could endure enough with his skills and potions.

“This is it!”

Kang Joo-ho smiled and started attacking the shadows.

But he had invested more in defense than attack.

Therefore Shadows did not die easily.

“In Virtual Earth, we need to pay attention to the attack.”

In the virtual reality of Earth, many things changed.

It was said that the number of equipment that could be worn increased, and many things such as skills and stat effects change.

In the virtual reality of Earth, Kang Joo-ho decided to invest a little in the attack and silently captured the shadows.

After catching all the shadows and arriving at the place where ‘Greten’ was, Kang Joo-ho clicked on Greten.

Then his character ran toward Greten.

[Greten woke up.]

With the message, Greten also moved.

Soon after, Kang Joo-ho’s character met Greten.

Kang Joo-ho’s character shook the hammer constantly.

Greten attacked with a variety of claw, breath, and magic.

Five minutes passed.

They attacked each other without rest for 5 minutes.

However, Greten’s vitality was 99%, Kang Joo-ho’s character was only 50%, and only half was remaining.

If he went this way, the victory of the battle would eventually go to Greten.

“Wow, five minutes have passed.”

Kang Joo-ho was supposed to be disappointed, but instead, admiration was what came out from his mouth.

Greten came out as the final boss.

He did not evade the attack for 5 minutes, and he struck every attack, but half of his life remained and without a healer.

Kang Joo-ho, who was expected to die, smiled.

“99% is a scam too.”

Even if not 100%, 99% was enormous.

“I have achieved almost immortality.”

It could be said that although it was not a perfectly attained immortality, it was well-nigh.

Nothing was stronger than the final boss, Greten.

It was safe to say that if he had endured this much with Greten, he has achieved immortality.

Kang Joo-ho opened the inventory and used a return stone.

Now that he has confirmed the power of resistance, it was time to go back.

Kang Joo-ho returned to the city and finally checked the character window before closing the connection.

Looking at 99% of resistance, Kang Joo-ho thought.

“In Virtual Earth…”