Chapter 190 (1/2)
Volume 7 / Chapter 190
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Life Mission’s virtual version is a game, and the reality version is like the name reality. The framework is similar, but the game and reality are clearly different.
There is no choice but the ecosystem of mutants and Lifer levels to become differentiated. However, it is not impossible to fit them together if forced to.
The reality version is marked by the alphabet, but the virtual version uses 5 advancement evaluations to judge Lifer ability. Levels 1 through 5 are separated into Beginner, Experienced, Expert, Pioneer, and Perfection.
Experts can basically be seen as somewhere between levels B and C. Pioneers are A and B, and Perfections are S and A. It is distinguished in between levels because there are huge differences following body modification, battlesuit configuration, and equipment.
Perfection in the virtual version is a level S Lifer in the reality version. Each has different terms from start to end, but it is certain that Perfections and level S Lifers can reach the peak of force.
When the virtual version was creating buzz, only 36 Lifers advanced to Perfection. They are the 36 rankers.
They can advance to Expert level with just time investment and effort, but the difficulty rises significantly once they go over from Expert to Pioneer.
So how hard would it have been to go from Pioneer to Perfection? It cannot be explained just by saying that it was difficult.
There are 3 conditions for advancing to Perfection. There is no higher place to reach once all of those conditions are met. All they have to do is look down arrogantly.
First, passive skills and occupational skills must be mastered. This is possible through labor over several days, months, years.
Second is going through the 9th stage of body modifications and owning a 9 combination battlesuit.
This is where hell comes in. There were countless Lifers with the 8th stage of body modifications and 8 combination battlesuits. Life Mission was commercialized for 10 years. There is a gap in the beginning, but the only difference is in who gets there first because there is a decided limit.
Stages 1 through 4 of body modifications are guaranteed successes in the virtual version, but the probability of the character dying becomes higher with stages 5 through 8.
Only 2 or 3 out of 10,000 people succeed in their attempts at stages 7 and 8, and the rest fail. It can be seen as absolutely diabolical. A tremendous amount with experience and proficiency were dropped. There was a backflow of blood.
But stages 5 through 8 are fine because the character does not get deleted. The character becomes deleted starting with level 9, and tens of thousands of Pioneers collapsed here. There are often cases where one person makes 2 or 3 attempts.
Imagine a character they spent day and night creating over several years being deleted. It is horrible.
There was even a lot of news of people who committed suicide or became invalids. That is the risk of body modification.
Battlesuit configuration is not as big of a deal as body modification because battlesuits only break in failure and recovery is possible with points. The 10th stage of body modifications and 10 combination battlesuits are only possible after Perfections and the probabilities only become more atrocious, while the process remains the same.
Only Cha Jun Sung got to this stage and had power that differentiated him from other rankers. When he reached the 10th stage of body modifications, he prayed to a god he does not even believe in to help him. Once these 2 conditions are satisfied, only the last encounter is left. If time and luck are necessary for the 1st and 2nd, the 3rd needs everything: time, luck, and ability. It is a hunt for level 8 mutants.
Since the population is small, it is work to find their habitats and work to kill them. It is a contradiction itself to hope for a one-on-one battle.
They go in hordes if they are at a disadvantage, so they have to expect large numbers. They could only become Perfections once they got through this hellish process.
The reality version is not much different when they look at it. They need to complete level advancement missions to become level S Lifers.
Actually, it must be harder.
The virtual version fights against level 8 with stage 9 of body modifications, but stage 8 needs to fight in the reality version. The gap between 1 level is quite large too. Could it be fortunate that they are not advancing alone but in groups?
If Cha Jun Sung wants to get to level S normally, he needs to complete a level A advancement mission. But he has the opening card. If he uses this, a store that is one level higher opens up. He only needs to complete a level B advance mission.
His body configuration already surpassed human limits when he became a mutant, and his battlesuit is already made of 10 combinations. If he matches the specifications he lacks likewith other parts, he will be done with the basic settings. He will become a Perfection.
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“It’s small. Small.”
Cha Jun Sung reads through the mission list carefully. Thinking of the missions as books, he is perusing them. That is how meticulous he is being.
One month passed since Park Jin Hyuk’s group entered a level B mission on the request of World Federation and Strategist. They are not coming back. It seems they will be late. He does not have negative thoughts. They are not weak people.
“I can see what mutant needs to be caught just by reading the mission description. I can automatically draw out the special features of each mutant.”