VRA could not be manipulated. No, to be precise, manipulation to increase the VRA level was impossible. But the opposite was possible. In particular, a person with a very rich experience in virtual reality, such as Sanghyuk, could easily lower his VRA.
Of course, if the opponent seemed to lower the VRA on purpose, there were several ways to check whether it was manipulated. But that required equipment and experts in that area.
Of course, at this moment, Park Sang-cheol and Kim Dae-shik absolutely couldn't know that Sang-hyeok intentionally lowered the VRA, so they didn't even suspect that, and even if they did, there was no way to find out.
"75... that's the absolute lowest level."
Park Sang-cheol frowned as he looked at the numbers on the monitor. They only took children with a minimum VRA of over 150. The efficiency was not very good even if I took the children who recorded less than that for no reason.
That's why the VRA 75 was trash that you should never take with you.
"Damn, why are you laughing so much today?"
Kim Dae-sik stood up, grumbling in a voice so low that the children could not hear him. He took the VR device off Sang-hyeok's head as soon as Park Sang-cheol ended the VRA test program.
Kim Dae-shik, who had frowned and grumbled a little while ago, was smiling brightly in front of Sang-hyeok.
'I didn't know then. The devil's face hidden behind that smile...'
With this, the test was over, and of course Sanghyuk was scheduled to fail.
Sang-hyeok escapes despair. He eventually went on a completely different trajectory from his previous life, just as he had hoped.
* * * *
After Park Sang-cheol and Kim Dae-shik signed formal employment contracts with several children and left, Sang-hyeok also slowly prepared to leave the orphanage. In fact, he had already acquired a small officetel in Ilsan, so he just had to leave.
Because she had no attachments to the orphanage, she left the orphanage immediately after graduating from high school without receiving settlement subsidies. Sang-hyeok waited to receive the settlement subsidy, which he was highly unlikely to receive, but he thought it would be a wiser choice to give up neatly like this because he didn't know what kind of trouble he would face again.
Now, in about three months, the pre-open beta of Eternal Life, which Sanghyuk had been waiting for, was scheduled to begin, so it was more important to finish preparing to run as quickly as possible.
EL was a game with great guts that only lasted a week in open beta. At the time, there was a lot of talk about this, but it also meant that 'Raonsoft', the producer of EL, had confidence.
Getting out of the orphanage wasn't too difficult. Anyhow, like Sang-hyeok, kids who didn't go to college had to stand on their own right after graduating from high school.
Sang-hyeok, who simply packed his things and left the orphanage, headed straight for Ilsan. I didn't feel the need to find a good officetel, so I found the smallest and cheapest officetel in Janghang-dong, Ilsan-dong-gu.
The most important thing for Sanghyeok right now is not the officetel, but the capsule-type VR device that will be released in about two months.
Sanghyuk had already decided what to buy. He thought of purchasing Ilsung Electronics' Andromeda-X, which EL users in the past said was the best performance, regardless of price/performance.
I was prepared to spend at least 10 million won because I was planning to buy it with all the optional features in the top-of-the-line version.
A good carpenter never blames his tools, but a good carpenter can get better results with good tools. In that sense, Sanghyeok would never spare money on a VR device.
Moving to an officetel in Ilsan, Sanghyeok continued meditation and kendo while waiting for the release of EL. When EL was released, from then on, I planned to focus on reducing my sleeping time as much as possible, so I had to save up my stamina now so I could run like crazy later.
January 2028 was quite cold, but Sang-hyeok continued to build up his body by running in the lake park every morning and evening. He looked like an athlete ahead of an important game. In fact, Sang-hyeok thought that pro gamers are also professional sports players from a broad perspective.
That's why he always emphasized the importance of a healthy body to the players even when he was a coach.
Time passed and it was February.
By February, specific rumors about Eternal Life began to circulate. Of course, at this point, EL was a game with more bad reviews than good reviews.
There were a lot of things that were too secret, and it was difficult to get a good evaluation because the developer was a new developer.
Rather, at this point, several other games were getting more attention than EL. And because of the capsule-type VR device that was finally released here, many DN users did not have much time to pay attention to EL.
Naturally, Sanghyeok also visited a specialized store to purchase a capsule-type VR device.
The price was quite high since it had just been released, but there was a possibility that the high-end version would be sold out if you didn't buy it in advance, so I had no choice but to visit the store at the same time as it was released.
"Is that why you don't have anything?"
Sang-hyeok had visited the nearest large VR equipment store in Ilsan just in case. Apparently, the VR device that Sanghyuk was trying to buy was a rare item, so he couldn't find it anywhere.
"That's... I have stuff..."
Sanghyuk tilted his head as he looked at the store clerk with a puzzled look on his face.
"I have something, what's the problem?"
"sorry. In fact, we don't have a staff member who can set it up yet. It's something that requires a very complicated setting..."
"ah······."
Hearing the employee's answer, Sang-hyeok was able to recall something he had forgotten about because it was so obvious.
"There are a few people at the head office, but they are so busy right now... Once you apply for installation, you will have to wait at least a month."
Certainly, no one could install a capsule-type VR device for professionals. And at this point, the best experts in the field were likely preoccupied with dealing with some special clients.
"Then the setting is done, just install the stuff."
Capsule-type VR devices could not use DN itself unless the software was properly installed. In particular, the high-end professional aircraft that Sang-hyeok wanted required more complex settings, so an expert had to be dispatched to install and set it up unconditionally.
"I'm sorry, but this thing is very different from a headset-type VR device, so you can't just install it and use it."
"i know. Of course, you have to be an expert to set up the damage synchro rate setting, biograph check system, and VRA mixing program complexly at once. But... I know how to do that, so just install it."
"How did you do that…"
"I am also a person working in that field."
Sang-hyeok didn't bother to explain every detail, so he pretended to be an expert in that field. In fact, to be precise, he wasn't an expert on that. However, because he had been dealing with VR devices for so long, he could be said to be much better than the so-called capsule-type VR device experts.
"Ah, I see. If so, I'm really glad. We will prepare the goods right away. As I said before, the price is 14 million won including VAT."
No matter how expensive the capsule type VR device is, 14 million won was too expensive. Since the price of a capsule-type VR device manufactured as a low-end type was 1.4 million won, there was no choice but to compare it further.
In fact, this high price included the setting cost of such an expert, so it could have been a little loss, but now, rather than thinking about such a loss, it was better to install the capsule type VR device as soon as possible and adapt to it as much as possible. .
The installation was completed quickly as there were items. Even though the most important program setting was not finished, Sanghyuk could do it right now.
Sanghyuk didn't put off work and went straight into the capsule-type VR device and started setting things up. Basically, all program settings of the VR device were possible within the virtual space created by the device.
Squeak.
When Sang-hyeok entered the capsule and activated the VR device, a white room-like space was created in front of him.
This space was commonly referred to as 'D-Room'. Of course, it was not a normal D-room, but a half-room D-room that had not yet been connected to DN (Dream Network).
"First of all, from the synchro rate side..."
Upon entering the D-room, Sanghyuk immediately tapped the floor lightly. Then, a screen with complicated codes tangled up on the floor floated up.
Sang-hyeok lost everything he had and floundered in despair, then came back to his senses and put in a lot of effort to get out of the abyss of despair.
Of course, this was just one of Sang-hyeok's many efforts to try again in virtual reality games, but it was true that he was better than most VR programmers anyway.
Sanghyuk started setting up very skillfully. He was a very old version, so there were a few things that were a little vague, but as he kept touching it, his memories came to mind.
After working hard for almost three hours, he was able to finish all the settings perfectly. If it was a more familiar 7th generation capsule type VR device, I would have been able to complete the setting within an hour, but since this is a 1st generation capsule type VR device that I am not familiar with, it was inevitable that it would take a little longer.
After finishing all the settings, Sanghyuk immediately connected his D-room to DN. In the old days, it was like installing Windows on a computer and connecting to the Internet.
Since I was connected to the Internet (?) or DN, of course I needed to check if it worked. Sang-hyeok always used to play a 'virtual reality fighting game' when checking things like this.
From Sang-hyeok's standards, virtual reality fighting games were the best warm-up games. I even enjoyed playing virtual reality fighting games often because they were fun.
Although less popular than virtual reality MMORPGs, virtual reality fighting games were also games that secured a considerable fan base, so there were a lot of famous games.
Sanghyeok connected to 'Illusion Tekken 4', the most popular fighting game at the moment. In fact, when he was being rolled like a slave at the workplace in the past, whenever he had a chance to rest even a little, he accessed this fantasy Tekken game to release his stress to his heart's content.
At that time, Sanghyeok's ID was 'Mine Jin'. However, there was one fact that Sang-hyeok did not know, and that was the fact that at the time, the ID of Minesweeper was fear itself to the fantasy iron fist rankers.
In Fantasy Tekken's system, the 'ranking match' had a direct effect on the ranking, so if you lose to a user who is not a top ranker (a user outside the 1,000th place in the ranking), your score could be greatly reduced. .
In that sense, the existence of the minefield, which was a top 10,000 user but had a win rate of close to 95%, was inevitably a great fear to them.
Anyway, for that reason, Minesweeper was quite famous among Tekken Fantasy users, but he himself was completely unaware of it.
Of course, since it was the first time I was accessing Fantasy Tekken in my present life, I made all my IDs new.
As always, Sang-hyeok warmed up by playing about 10 rounds lightly. Sometimes there are people who think that there is no difference between reality and virtual reality, but that was a very wrong idea.
Virtual reality and reality are all different. Therefore, it was correct to see that the meaning of loosening the body in virtual reality is, strictly speaking, loosening the 'thought' rather than the 'body'.
VRA could also be said to be the response speed of thoughts in a broad sense. Of course, if you dig into the details, that's not the only thing that applies, but anyway, it was correct that a person with a fast reaction speed of thought could move faster and more elaborately in virtual reality.
Again, Sang-hyeok, who created an account on Fantastic Tekken under the name Mine Jin, easily recorded 10 consecutive wins and disconnected.
'Phew, it sure feels a little rusty because it's been so long.'
It's been a long time since I've enjoyed a game in such a normal (?) capsule-type VR device, so there was some awkwardness, but even so, it showed jaw-dropping controls by the standard of ordinary people.
However, Sang-hyeok's standards were not yet satisfactory.
"I'll have to log in for a while and get my old senses back."
Sanghyuk murmured softly and nodded his head.
There was still about a month left before I started EL in earnest, so I was confident enough to improve my condition to the best level.
Unlike his previous life, Sang-hyeok, who obtained 'freedom', accessed the Fantasy Tekken a little more frequently and gradually recovered his former senses. Thanks to that, the ones dying were the existing rankers of the fantasy Tekken.
After Sanghyeok, who went through a series of victories, entered the top 10,000 ranking, which is the level of random matching with the top rankers, the word 'shock and fear minefield' was often mentioned among the top rankers.
There was even a saying floating around in the community that the top rankers' performance that day was determined by how many times they didn't encounter mines.
Of course, Sanghyuk didn't even know that such words were coming and going because he hadn't even joined a fantasy Tekken community. In particular, Sang-hyeok had completely cut off whispers and other means of communication within the game, so he did not even know how he was evaluated by people.
Sang-hyeok, who developed a severe distrust in human relationships due to various experiences he had in his previous life, originally planned to prevent getting involved with anyone so that he would not get hurt.
In any case, time continued to flow in the midst of it.
And finally!
March 4, 2028, the start of the open beta for Eternal Life (EL).
EL's open beta schedule suddenly announced 15 days ago.
In fact, EL has been recognized as a game that is secretly expected among die-hard gamers, but since the open beta schedule was announced so suddenly and information about the game was released too little, there are bound to be more negative opinions at this point. There was no
However, even if everyone in the world gave negative opinions, only one person... Sang-hyeok could never have a negative thought.
Because he had already experienced how EL could grow into a great game, he was waiting for the server to open after finishing all preparations