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Chapter 17

‘A Constellation.’

They are the absolute beings representing each star, reigning as divine entities on
the Battle Net.

‘There was not much known about the Constellation’s even in my past life.’

After the tutorial period of Battle Net ended, a Constellation section was added to
the status window of all players. However, very few players actually received
sponsorship from the Constellation.

Only those with exceptional abilities among the Diamond League and above players
were chosen by the Constellation.

‘The reason Earthlings didn’t receive sponsorship was simple.’

After the BattleNet tutorial ended in 2020, the Space League began, where
Earthlings performed poorly.

‘They must have thought it was a star destined to be demoted and then doomed.’

And even if the Constellation did offer sponsorship, it wasn’t of good quality.

The penalties were immense, matching the abilities they granted, causing many to
suffer greatly from the Constellations’ interference.

The sponsorship from the Constellation was truly a double-edged sword.

But Seong Jihan was prepared to handle such a sword. To him, the more sponsorship
from the Constellation’s, the better.

‘I already have a plan for one seat in the Constellation, but… I’ll definitely sell
the option to expand the Constellation slot in the achievement store.’

Considering the items seen so far in the achievement store, the possibility was
very high.

Then, the reward known as the ‘Shadow Queen’ of the Constellation, it was worth
aiming for.
‘However, the conditions are strict.’

The number of spectators in the Colosseum was the issue.

The Colosseum’s size made it relatively easy to identify the scattered audience,
but the number seemed to exceed a thousand at least.

Seong Jihan recalled the elves who had sat in the spectator seats.

‘White elves were being held captive by the dark elves.’

Superficially, the power hierarchy was clear. However, the fact that the
Constellation’s name was ‘Shadow Queen’ bothered him. Contrary to appearances,
there might be a queen among the dark elves.

‘And to provoke the elves in the audience.’

There was a powerful barrier at the border of the arena, and breaking through it
and provoking the elves in the audience was impossible with the strength of a
Bronze.

This constraint applied even to Seong Jihan, who possessed Martial power.

“Hmm.”

As Seong Jihan thought deeply while returning home after logging out.

“Uncle! Congratulations on setting a new record!”

Niece Yoon Seah came out of her room and congratulated Seong Jihan.

“New record?”

“10 kills in a survival match! It’s really amazing!”

Yoon Seah was bouncing around as if it were her own achievement.

“Oh, that. You were watching?”

“Of course! There were a lot of people. I thought there wouldn’t be anyone else, so
I wanted to be first, but there were already about a thousand people.”
“Really? That’s more than I expected.”

“Yeah. And later on, the number of viewers kept increasing, and it went over
3,000!”

3,000 viewers for a Bronze-level broadcast.

Considering the average viewership for a Gold-level broadcast was around 2,000, his
achievement was impressive enough to boast about. However, Seong Jihan’s reaction
remained calm.

Compared to his records from his past life, this number was just the beginning.

“But people wanted to sponsor GP. They were disappointed that Uncle completely
blocked sponsorships.”

“Is that so?”

Perhaps it was because he had changed the broadcast settings out of habit,
preventing sponsor messages.

In his previous life, he had plenty of GP, so he had turned off the annoying
sponsor messages that kept popping up during battles.

“But things are different now.”

Currently, GP was crucial, and even more so in the lower leagues, where a few
messages wouldn’t affect the fight much.

“I’ll have to change the settings again.”

“Yeah, but since it might interfere with Uncle’s fights… Let’s hide sponsor
messages below 10,000 GP from the players’ view! Oh, is 10,000 too cheap? If it
were in Korean Won, wouldn’t 10 million be considered cheap? Or not? Is it
expensive?”

Yoon Seah repeated her thoughts while scratching her head, seemingly carefree due
to her life as the daughter of the Sword King.

“10,000 GP… Right. Well, it’s Bronze, so there’s no choice.”

Seong Jihan had a decent grasp of the value of money, but he held some
unconventional beliefs.

“I’m glad that the messages won’t flood the screen too much.”

“True… How about 50,000?”

“No, since it’s just the beginning. Let’s be humble.”

Seong Jihan and Yoon Seah were worrying unnecessarily.

While observing Seong Jihan changing the settings for his Battle Net channel, Yoon
Seah suddenly realized something and asked with a surprised expression.

“But Uncle, what were you thinking about earlier? You had a troubled look on your
face.”

“Oh, that? There’s a quest to find the Shadow Queen among the elves in the
spectator seats.”

“A quest? There’s something like that on Battle Net?”

“Yeah, it appeared after achieving 10 kills.”

Seong Jihan replied naturally to his niece’s inquiry, who accepted it with
understanding due to the many unrevealed aspects of Battle Net.

“Hmm, the Shadow Queen.”

“There are about a thousand elves in the spectator seats, and I was thinking about
how to find her.”

“Quests like that exists, huh?”

“Considering that it’s Bronze, it seems that way.”

Nodding at his niece’s musings, Seong Jihan continued to adjust his Battle Net
channel settings.

“Uncle, do you want me to help? I don’t really have anything else to do.”

“What about school?”

“The homeroom teacher contacted me. Because of this situation, they said I can take
a week off from school.”

Perhaps due to the issue of Sword King Yoon Sejin becoming a Japanese citizen, the
homeroom teacher seemed to be considerate.

“Sure. It would be nice if you helped, Seah.”

It wouldn’t be good to spend time at home without anything to do, so having

something to focus on would be good.

Seong Jihan accepted his niece’s offer without expecting too much.

“Alright, Uncle. I’ll definitely find the Shadow Queen. Promise me one thing
later.”

“promise? What is it? Tell me now, and I’ll do it right away.”

“Nah, if you agree right away, there won’t be a sense of accomplishment. Promise me
once I find her!”

Seong Jihan was puzzled about what she was going to ask for, but he calmly nodded.

“Got it. Once you find the Shadow Queen, I’ll agree to anything.”

“Great. I need to find her right away!”

With that, Yoon Seah went back into her room.

“She’s so energetic.”

Seeing her like that, Seong Jihan chuckled and entered his own room.

He decided to temporarily put aside the epic quest that wouldn’t be easily solved.
There was something else he needed to do before that.

“As for the Unique Stat.”

Barren’s Unique Stat, who had been ranked 1st in the world.

He needed to obtain the “Force.”

The Next Day…

[You have absorbed divine power from an otherworldly relic.]

[Your Divine Power has reached 10.]

[From now on, you can only absorb divine power from relics of C-grade or higher.]

Seong Jihan rose from the pile of relics.

Although the message stated that he could only absorb divine power from C-grade or
higher relics, it didn’t matter.

He had finally achieved true Divine Power 10, excluding the title effect.

He headed to the training room located on the outskirts of the penthouse.

Perhaps because Sword King Yoon Sejin used this place for experimenting with his
sword techniques, the training room was constructed entirely from a special metal
that absorbed shock.

“Fire.”

Jihan had never used the basic magic ‘Fire’ after picking the Mage class, but he
used it in real life first instead of in the game.

It was a precarious fire that seemed like it’d flicker out at any moment.

‘As expected, I’m not suited to be a Mage.’

His Magic Power was five, and you could only use half of your abilities in real
life, so the output of the basic magic was less than that of a lighter.

“Let’s add Divine Power to this.”

Seong Jihan recalled Barren’s words.

– A thought suddenly crossed my mind while I was in Bronze killing zombies: what
would happen if I mixed Divine Power with Magic Power?
– That was only possible because it was you.

You could obtain Divine Power by picking the Support class, but Magic Power was
something you could use if you were a Mage.

The idea of infusing Divine Power into magic was something anyone could have
thought of, but only Barren, who had the ‘Two Status Windows’ gift, could bring it
into reality.

“Yeah. My great gift, Two Status Windows, immediately made this idea a reality. I
dominated the defense map every time. And I distributed my stats evenly between
Divine Power and Magic Power, one point each…”

Barren’s bleary eyes, due to his drunken state, were as bright as ever at that
moment.

“And the moment Divine Power reached 10! Oh my God! A Unique Stat came to me! Yes…
Barren’s trademark, ‘Force’!”

Force.

A new Unique Stat that emerged as Magic Power and Divine Power merged.

It was an absolute power that ruled over “Space.”

Barren’s Force, even as Seong Jihan thought about it now, was an immense power.

“If only Barren had better control, he would have shown a truly top-ranked
performance.”

However, he was terrible at that. In emergency situations, he easily panicked and

often failed to control his power, causing harm to his allies.

“Force… I’ll obtain it and show you, Barren.”

Force held numerous possibilities.

Seong Jihan planned to use it as a double-edged sword alongside his strength.

“…It won’t be easy.”

However, “Force” didn’t come easily to Seong Jihan.

Following Barren’s advice, he had increased Divine Power to 10 and incorporated it
into magic, but it didn’t blend well.

“It’s not mixing well for now.”

While he was good at using Divine Power, his magic skills were lacking. When he
tried to incorporate Divine Power, Fire disappeared in a reflex action. Even if he
managed to succeed somehow, his magic couldn’t maintain its form for long and the
flame extinguished.

“Hmm, maybe I need to raise my Magic Power.”

His Magic Power was five, and it seemed like it wasn’t properly manifesting since
it was the lowest value possible.

He could increase it since his level had increased by two thanks to the game the
day before.

“Let’s focus on what I can achieve first.”

Directly allocating points to “Force,” his future Unique Stat, was uncertain, but
spending the remaining points on Magic Power felt wasteful.

“I’ll take a break from the game today.”

Seong Jihan resolved himself and began practicing again.

* * *

“Sigh…”

From morning until night.

Seong Jihan continued attempting the fusion of Divine Power and magic, but there
were no distinct results.

“Still, there were unexpected outcomes.”

His Magic Power stat was so low that his heart’s mana quickly depleted, making
practice impossible.

“Should I use Qi?”

Waiting for his Magic Power to recover, Seong Jihan thought about drawing qi from
the Lower Dantian, the source of Inner Energy.

Although it wasn’t a method suitable for Bronze level, thanks to his experience,
Seong Jihan attempted to manipulate qi from the Lower Dantian and convert it into
mana within his heart.

“Despite the loss of qi…”

In the end, using magic was what mattered now.

Replenishing his mana with qi, Seong Jihan mechanically used magic again.

“Fire.”

Then, he needed to mix in Divine Power without dispersing it.

As Divine Power merged in, the flame flickered once again, possibly due to
insufficient mana.

“Let’s infuse Qi as a last resort.”

His Qi was almost depleted by now.

If he failed this time, Seong Jihan decided to explore other methods and drew the
qi of the Lower Dantian.

Thus, the qi from the Lower Dantian, mana from the heart, and Divine Power from the
head converged perfectly within the Fire.

At that moment,

[You’ve been successful in the temporary integration of the Three Dantians’ qi.]

“Divine Power dwelling in the Upper Dantian, Magic Power in the Middle Dantian, and
Inner Energy in the Lower Dantian have different natures of energy. However, they
hold the potential to be united as one.”

A system message appeared unexpectedly, different from the originally sought-after

“Force.”
[Do you wish to attempt integration of the Three Dantians?]

[Warning: Attempting this integration with your current level poses a significant
danger. It could harm your life.]

During the tutorial period in Battle Net, there had never been a warning message
about life-threatening risks.

Seong Jihan saw the message and smiled.

If it was dangerous enough for a warning message to appear…

‘The reward is going to be huge.’

He spoke with a voice full of confidence.

“I will attempt the Three Dantian integration.”

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Chapter 18

* * *

2 days later, in the training room…

[Failed the Three Dantian integration.]

The Attempt to integrate Three Dantian integration failed.

‘I lack both, the power and experience.’

The integration of the Three Dantian was not achieved through willpower alone. Even
though I have Martial power, it is still insufficient.

The experience from the previous life was abundant only in the Bottom dantian, the
source of power, but it was lacking for the Middle and Top dantians.

‘But…’
Seong Jihan had a bright expression despite the failure.

It was because he had gained something through this.

[Divine Power and Magic Power have been integrated and replaced by the unique stat
‘Force’.]

[Achievement unlocked: ‘Acquisition of Unique Stat.’]

[You’ve Earned 10,000 achievement points.]

He had acquired his initial goal, the Unique Stat ‘Force.’

[The connection link of the Three Dantians is maintained faintly.]

[The stats ‘Martial Power’ and ‘Force’ interact, sharing stats points.]

The relatively low value of Force stat had risen to match Martial Power.

Name: Seong Jihan

Level: 10

Affiliation: Bronze League – Gangnam 1 Area

Martial Power: 12

Force: 12

Class: Support

Class: Mage

Gift: Wanderer’s Insight (Rank F)

Title: Tutorial Conqueror – Bronze

Achievement Points: 51,200

Remaining Stats points: 2

‘I should allocate some points.’

Seong Jihan cautiously increased Martial Power by 2 and as his Martial Power
changed to 14, Force also rose to 14 accordingly.

He clenched his fist involuntarily.

‘This… is as if I gained the effects of Baron’s Gift, ‘Two Status Windows’.’

He could solve most things through the Achievement Shop, but obtaining two stat
points at once was out of the question.

With the connection link of the Three Dantians maintained and Martial Power and
Force linked, he was now able to receive 2 remaining points just like that.

If he used one stat point, two stats would increase.

‘This is a very good result.’

Of course, the best result would have been the successful integration of the Three
Dantians. But based on his experience of attempting integration over the past two
days, Seong Jihan knew that was an impossible task at the moment.

‘My proficiency in the Top and Middle Dantians is too low. I need to increase the
understanding of both Dantians while using Force.’

Above all, he needed to increase his stats.

‘They should be 100 at least.’

Both Strength and Force needed to be at 100 for the attempt at Three Dantian
integration to be possible.

‘I have a goal now.’

With a smile on his lips, Seong Jihan finished his three days of secluded training
and left the training room.

“Uncle! Are you done with training? Are you feeling okay?”

Yoon Seah, who had been waiting outside the training room, rushed over.
Since he hadn’t come out for three days, she was wondering if something was wrong
and was debating whether to go in or not. Just as she was thinking that, Seong
Jihan came out.

“As you can see, I’m doing great.”

“Looks like it. You seem to be in good condition.”

“I achieved something.”

“Aren’t you feeling sleepy or anything?”

“Nah, I’m fine. Why?”

Yoon Seah, who was observing Seong Jihan’s complexion, spoke cautiously.

“Well… you know that Manager Park Yoonsik who visited our house before, right?”

He had asked for the donation of the Sword Palace and relayed the government’s
stance, asking to stay in the penthouse a bit longer.

After requesting an auction for the items left by the Sword King, he had sent them
back.

“Why? Did he mention anything about the auction?”

“Yes. He said the higher-ups had accepted and asked if we could host the auction
tomorrow, and I said yes.”

“Tomorrow? That’s tight on time.”

“Ah, he came the day before yesterday. From that perspective, it’s three days
away.”

“I see. You did well.”

“And I looked through the items a bit…”

Seong Jihan skimmed through the list of items to be auctioned and nodded his head.
The items Yoon Seah had chosen weren’t the Sword King’s personal belongings.

They were storage devices containing his Battle Net Connector and data, as well as
analysis data of both himself and opponents—essentially, all data related to Battle
Net play.

‘Putting items like the Sword King’s personal belongings in an auction like this
could have a negative effect.’

The reason for hosting the auction was to get as much money as possible from the
Sword King, who’d left for Japan. It wasn’t to sell useless things to fans who
couldn’t let go of him.

‘She must have handled everything alone to avoid disturbing my training.’

With this much, there was no need to add more items to the auction.

“You’ve chosen the items well. You’d have received backlash if you put up something
like your father’s personal belongings.”

“Uncle, there’s no way I’d auction off such things. Even as his daughter, I feel a
bit weird when I see my dad’s stuff…” Saeah made an uncomfortable expression, then
quickly changed it.

It seemed like she didn’t want to reveal the emotions she was feeling from looking
at the things her father had left behind.

“Anyway… Uncle! I found a good Battle Tube channel.” Her voice sounded brighter
than before.

Yoon Seah’s expression shifted from gloomy to bright as she spoke, her voice now
sounding even more cheerful than before.

“Yeah? What is it?”

And Seong Jihan, pretending not to notice her change in demeanor, responded
naturally.

“Remember when you mentioned the request to find the Shadow Queen before?”

“I do.”

Not having much to do by himself, he hadn’t placed high expectations on that task
and had left it to her.
“Could it be… you’ve found some leads?”

“Hehe. Uncle, you know there are all sorts of people in the world, right?”

Yoon Seah gestured for him to follow her.

She led him to the home theater room located on one side of the penthouse.

And on the wall of the dimly lit room was a screen displaying something.

“This is…”

Seong Jihan’s eyes widened.

Inside the screen, the elves in the Colosseum’s stands were greatly magnified.

“Among the Battle Tubers, there are content creators from different races.”

“Different races… content creators?”

“Yeah. Mainly archers with Scoping-type gifts. Among these people, there are those
who specialize in recording content of their own race.”

Scoping-type gifts allowed a broader field of view and were not very useful at
lower levels but became quite valuable in higher leagues.

‘To use such a good ability to record first-person videos…’

Seong Jihan found it absurd.

Nevertheless, the Battle Tubers were looking at each elf one by one, showering them
with admiration.

“Oh wow~ This race is indeed the best. Flawless skin… ahem… Elf, please, could you
grace us with your presence just once?”

In response to his rough breathing, Yoon Seah frowned and muted the video.

“No need to hear the sound, right? It’s creepy.”

“Right.”

“There are roughly a thousand elves. Dark elves are similar in number, maybe a bit
more. Some Dark elves actually have sponsors from two Dark elf fans and some watch
the games alone without sponsors, I heard.”

“Hmm…”

Was the dark elf leading two dark elves the Shadow Queen?

Or was it the lone dark elf?

Both possibilities were plausible.

“Uncle, I’m also searching for foreign videos, so I’ll edit and show you later.”

“You know how to edit videos too? I didn’t know Seah had this kind of talent.”

“Well, that… I’ve done a bit of… fangirling in the past.”

As Yoon Seah finished her sentence, she turned off the home theater and stood up.

“Anyway! I’ll show you the clips I’ve carefully selected earlier.”

“Sure. Thanks.”

“Got it~. Since you’ve trained for three days, I’m telling you not to play games
and rest today.”

“Haha, okay.”

With those words, Yoon Seah left the home theater room to investigate.

‘Even though my body is fine.’

He couldn’t refuse his niece’s request.

Seong Jihan smirked and looked at the screen on the wall.

‘She didn’t turn off the screen.’

If he was going to take a day off, maybe he should watch the news here for a bit.

Seong Jihan looked around for the remote control and pressed various buttons.

This remote control from the past was quite different from the future’s, and he
wasn’t sure which button did what.

“Hmm?”

After pressing a button mistakenly, the black screen changed, revealing the storage
space of the home theater.

Several folder names caught Seong Jihan’s eye.

Among them was something eye-catching.

[Dad’s POTG Collection ♡♥]

POTG.

Play of the game.

The scene selected when the most impressive play is performed in international
games.

In most of Korea’s POTG from international matches, the Sword King was often
featured.

And also.

[♥Sword King Family♥ Related Videos]

[Dad’s Speech Collection]

And so on…

The storage space of the home theater was filled with videos related to Sword King
Yoon Sejin.

Seong Jihan realized something when he saw this.

‘This… seems to be videos from the past when she was a fan.’ Yoon Seah had become
proficient in video editing, an idol of fandom.

And the subject was none other than Sword King Yoon Sejin.

‘…It’s quite plausible. After all, Seah admired her father.’

He was ranked 3rd in the world and 1st in the Warrior class.

The Sword King Yoon Sejin, a name known to everyone around the world.

He had a gentle and harmonious personality and cherished his only daughter greatly.

He was a father that any child would love and admire.

‘She’s pretending to be calm.’

It probably wasn’t easy since the dad she loved and admired so much had abandoned
her.

There’s no way she’d be able to easily forget that.

Beep.

Seong Jihan turned off the screen with a determined expression and left the room.

“Seah’s birthday is coming up soon.”

Even though he had forgotten the phone number he used in Korea, he hadn’t forgotten
his niece’s birthday.

August 22nd.

That day was not only Yoon Se-ah’s birthday but it’s also… her memorial day.

“This upcoming birthday will be the day Seah receives her gift.”

People worldwide eagerly awaited their 18th birthdays because, among the few
players that awakened Gifts, they all received them on their 18th birthdays.
“I wonder what kind of gift Seah will receive. It was a subject of great interest.”

The daughter of Sword King Yoon Sejin and Saintess Seong Jiah.

Even though there was no correlation between the rank and inheritance of gifts…
Still, people’s psychology led them to expect that if both parents had exceptional
gifts, their child should too.

“This country was no different.”

Even the nation wondered if Yoon Seah would receive a remarkable gift that would
follow in the Sword King’s footsteps.

Until just before her birthday, despite public criticism, they had taken a stance
to protect her.

But when her birthday arrived…The gift Yoon Seah received was shocking.

“It was F-rank.”

An F-rank gift, which was considered not much better than having no gift at all.

That birthday, Jihan saw despair on Saeah’s face for the first time. She’d even
managed to remain calm when Sword King Yoon Saejin had left for Japan, but after
receiving an F-rank Gift on her birthday, she couldn’t maintain her façade.

‘That Gift was Saeah’s last hope, after all…’

When she was being criticized by the nation as the daughter of Sword King Yoon
Sejin, The only thing that could potentially turn the situation around was
receiving an exceptional gift but the gift she received was F-rank.

The public responded by criticizing and ridiculing her, saying that her father had
left her behind because of her talent

‘But they didn’t know the value of that gift at that time.’

Nobody knew that an F-rank Gift had the potential to surpass an SSS-rank one.

When it was revealed that the world’s ranked 2nd, from China, had the same Gift as
her, it was already too late… By that time, Yoon Saeah had already left the world.
‘But this time, things will be different.’

‘I’ll make sure that the public that blamed you for your father’s betrayal…They
will beg for your forgiveness and plead for you to stay in Korea.’

‘Definitely.’

Seong Jihan’s eyes gleamed coldly.

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