Chapter 1 (1)
Chapter 1 (1)
"Hmm~ Is this the target for this client's request?"
A man in his mid-to-late 20s was searching for something on his phone.
"Pungun Murim. The reviews are pretty decent. Well, it was made by the godfather of this genre, so it's bound to be good."
People have their own sexual fantasies.
Virtual reality games have also catered to that trend.
They developed games that satisfy sexual fantasies, regardless of gender.
Public opinion attacked it, claiming it caused the birth rate to plummet, but it was a meaningless outcry to modern people for whom childbirth and marriage have become choices, not necessities.
'The story is... well, average. But that makes it easy to see the changes caused by player intervention.'
The man checked the story of Pungun Murim that he had searched for.
The Nine Great Sects and the Five Great Clans, the classic martial arts setting.
Power struggles between the Righteous Factions, Evil Factions, and the Demonic Cult.
Shadow organizations plotting conspiracies.
It was truly a typical world of Murim.
The one difference is that players, created through various settings, intervene in the story above.
Players have a set character created through various options, and the game boasts countless routes: helping the Righteous Factions, Evil Factions, or the Demonic Cult, working in production, opening a shop, or becoming an official.
For a martial arts game, it boasts considerable freedom and a system, and it's a game where the 'that kind' of system is well-designed to satisfy sexual fantasies.
'The request details are.......'
The man checked the text on his phone to confirm the client's requirements.
-Character must be a male in his teens to mid-20s. Martial arts level doesn't matter, but higher is better. Target character is Sword Empress Seo Yu-ran. Please corrupt her as lewdly as possible and make her submissive to the character.-
"Sword Empress Seo Yu-ran?"
Since it was his first time playing this game, the man searched for the character Sword Empress Seo Yu-ran on his phone.
She was a fairly famous character among those who enjoy martial arts games, so the search was completed quickly.
-Sword Empress Seo Yu-ran: Early 50s. A female sword master of a single-successor sect who has reached the Hwagyeong realm. She has a righteous yet somewhat old-fogey-like personality. Due to the effects of her internal energy cultivation method, she looks very young for her age.
There was other information, but this was the only part that stuck in the man's mind first.
'Aha. It's 'that' kind of thing.'
The man could roughly guess the client's identity.
In the past, there were many erotic novels set in the Murim world that involved screwing these middle-aged female masters.
In other words, the client was likely an older man with nostalgia for this kind of old-school martial arts, or a young man with a taste for older, beautiful women.
And on top of that, the primal sense of conquest for a 'male' to conquer a haughty female master with great power and fame with his own cock.
'Well, this is a decent level of request.'
The man, who had received even worse requests than this, smirked and began gathering information on Pungun Murim.
'The client is paying a ridiculous amount, probably because this character is their type. Let's finish this bitch first.'
The man's name is Son Jin-woo.
He's technically unemployed, but he makes enough to live comfortably through a significant income.
The reason he has an income despite being unemployed is thanks to virtual reality games.
It's not about selling game items or currency for real money like in game novels.
He sells the completion of sexual fantasies that busy modern people desire.
Virtual reality games were created, but unfortunately, unlike in game novels, it wasn't possible to have a difference in time ratios.
For example, a ratio where 1 minute in reality is 16 minutes in the game was impossible.
Such time ratios put too much strain on the brain, so they were discarded due to stability issues.
Thus, the limit between reality and game time is 1:2.
Naturally, for busy modern people, 2 times the time isn't enough to enjoy everything they want.
That's how people like Jin-woo came to be.
'Trainers' who earn money by selling data after satisfying the sexual fantasies desired by the client.
Son Jin-woo, who initially thought of it as a side job, ended up falling into it so deeply that he felt he had found his true calling.
He became a famous trainer overnight as his satisfaction rate exceeded 90% while training characters exactly as the clients wanted.
For him, he was just relieving his overflowing sexual desire, so he was dumbfounded that people were cheering for him.
He already had a personality that hated being ordered around by others, and since he could earn money by doing what he enjoyed by accepting requests he wanted, Jin-woo abandoned any intention of getting a regular job and devoted himself entirely to this.
They say there are many people who pour millions into mobile games that only think about blatantly sucking money out of you, so this is a natural progression in a way.
'But I'm almost new to martial arts games.......'
The problem was that Jin-woo, who had only enjoyed fantasy-genre virtual reality games, didn't have a good grasp of his first martial arts game.
However, the payment for this request was more than three times the average of other requests.
Besides that, there were other requests related to Pungun Murim.
And he was starting to want to try something new.
Because of that, Jin-woo felt it was worth 'investing' in this game.
'Every game has clear bonuses.'
Hacking the game content itself is impossible unless you are a professional programmer and hacker.
If so, he would buy another player's save data to use the clear bonuses.
If it had been a fantasy game, he would have just played it, but since he had only read a few martial arts novels, some investment was necessary to reduce wasted time.
'In the past, people just gave away clear saves.......'
In the past, people exchanged save data with each other, but now you have to buy it with money.
Virtual reality games have high satisfaction, but they require a long time.
Still, since he could earn several times the money with this investment, he shouldn't be stingy.
Thinking that, Jin-woo started scouring related sites to find save data.
"Kuh~ I named him well, even if I say so myself. Jin (to advance), Cheon (heaven). Unexpectedly, do I have a talent for this kind of thing too?"
Connecting to the virtual reality game, Pungun Murim, Jin-woo checked his sharpened appearance based on his own face in a space that was nothing but a black background for character settings, and was imprinting the stats, which were different from fantasy, into his head.
-Name: Jincheon
-Age: 19
-Realm: None
-Talent: Peerless Prodigy
-Constitution: Circulating Energy Nourishment
-Qi/Blood (Vitality): 5000
-Comprehension: 100 -Geungol: 100 -Angong: 100 -Igong: 100
-Yeongong: 100 -Ganggong: 100 -Mining: 100 -Hunting: 100
-Fishing: 100 -Herbalism: 100 -Music: 100 -Talent: 100
-Alchemy: 100 -Smelting: 100 -Cooking: 100 -Tea Ceremony: 100
-Poison Arts: 100 -Medicine: 100 -Taming: 100 -Brewing: 100
"As expected of a game with freedom, there are a lot of stats."
Comprehension 100 is a stat that is no exaggeration to say he was born to learn martial arts.
The other stats are also at a level where he can reach the absolute peak in each field just with this state.
Any higher stat would require tampering with the program.
This is the power of the save data he bought for a large sum of money.
By the way, the abilities of the talent Peerless Prodigy and the constitution Circulating Energy Nourishment are as follows.
Peerless Prodigy: The growth rate of all types of martial arts training increases by 3 times, and there are no penalties due to martial arts compatibility.
For example, let's say there are martial arts that use ice and fire.
If you learn both, there will naturally be compatibility issues.
But Peerless Prodigy ignores such problems and allows you to use both.
Circulating Energy Nourishment: Internal energy increases and becomes purer through sexual acts. Internal energy increases for both women and men. Sexual pleasure is enhanced, and the stronger the pleasure, the higher the level of internal energy increase. Resists Chae-eum Bo-yang and Chae-yang Bo-eum. Because it uses essence, the probability of pregnancy is very low.
Honestly speaking, I bought the save data because of this.
Because I need this ability to satisfy the clients' needs quickly.
By the way, those aren't all the stats.
There are stats for Internal Energy, Fist Techniques, Palm Techniques, Sword Techniques, Blade Techniques, Spear Techniques, Leg Techniques, etc.
The reason those stats don't appear above is that this game is set from the beginning with a character who doesn't know martial arts.
In other words, from now on, through the character background settings, you set the sect that will teach the player martial arts.
Righteous Factions, Evil Factions, Clans, Demonic Cult, etc., you choose the sect you want, and the player learns basic martial arts under that sect.
And likewise, through the character background settings, you come out into the world through a journey into the Jianghu for some reason.
The family is in danger, knowing the secret of birth, for desire, internal power struggles, having a wandering habit, etc.
The basic story is generated through the settings above.
Jin-woo chose the Xiaoyao Sect, a mysterious sect that can be selected as a clear bonus.
This sect has diverse and stable martial arts, and it is said that it even has events built-in where you can learn several top-tier martial arts.
'They say the production team was obsessed with someone named Jin Yong or whatever, so it received a lot of favoritism, so I guess I can look forward to it.'
Searching online, the production team of Pungun Murim was greatly inspired by the martial arts novels written by an author named Jin Yong, so the martial arts that appear in Jin Yong's martial arts novels are said to be at least top-tier among thousands of martial arts.
The Xiaoyao Sect is a sect that appears in the novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, and it was possible to get information that you shouldn't even dream of it if your Comprehension is below 80 because there are many excellent martial arts but you need high Comprehension.
Instead, if your Comprehension is supported, you can learn diverse and stable martial arts such as Fist, Sword, Blade, and Palm techniques.
'First, I need to see which martial arts suit my body.'
Jin-woo chose the Xiaoyao Sect to check what kind of martial arts he should use as his main focus for compatibility as a player, not the character's compatibility.
Since it was his first martial arts game, this kind of work was essential.
Training or whatever, he had to get used to the Murim world first.
Jin-woo intended to catch the angle to train Sword Empress Seo Yu-ran while directly experiencing the worldview and story flow of Pungun Murim.
Naturally, there are so many martial arts in the Murim world that there are hundreds of martial arts with different characteristics even for the same Fist technique, but because of that, Jin-woo planned to focus on checking the types and power of the martial arts.
"Now, then, let's start setting the background...... Gack!?"
Just as he was about to set the sect, Jin-woo lost consciousness as he received a shock as if something huge was destroying his entire body.
He wouldn't know the situation outside, but Earth was suffering from meteorites that avoided NASA's eyes and ignored the radars of each country.
One of them crashed onto the capsule he was in while falling.
Due to the meteorites that pierced through the net of cutting-edge technology, Earth would be swept into an unprecedented event that is different from anything before, but it was a story that didn't matter to Jin-woo, who had vanished from Earth.