Occupied territory.
This is a point that changes every 24 hours inside the Wasteland, which is a PVP zone. If you occupy this point, you can gain various benefits and great fame.
In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that Apocalypse Online itself is a fight to occupy this territory.
However, no one has yet been able to capture a territorial point during the open beta period.
Because the checks and balances between each other were so extreme.
Boooooooo-!
The last occupied area. The first thing to appear in the center of the wasteland was the giant trailer of the Uggle King and a group of Humvees.
Aggle King’s legion, arriving in trailers and Humvees beneath the sunken basin terrain, stopped their vehicles.
“Oh, is that it?”
Aggle King, who got off his special trailer, discovered a large container located in the middle of the wasteland.
The doctor who followed me nodded.
“Yes, the ‘fireworks’ I’ve been preparing for the past few days are inside.”
“Hehehe. Okay, okay. Let’s just blow it up quickly.”
The Uggle King, smiling sinisterly, approached the container while wringing his hands together.
It was then that the subordinate shouted urgently.
“Your Majesty the Aggle King! Enemies are approaching!”
“Huh? What? Who are they?”
“Blood Pledge, and… …the Union!”
“What?! Why are they moving together?!”
“I, I don’t know! Anyway, they’re surrounding us!”
Boooooooong-!
As soon as he finished speaking, the Blood Alliance’s bike legions and the Alliance’s truck legions appeared in all directions.
“What the hell!”
The aggrieved king ground his teeth.
Unfortunately, the center of the wasteland was a basin, so Aggle King and his men ended up walking into a dead end.
Clank! Clank!
Users from the blood alliance and coalition who surrounded the Uggle King legion under the basin aimed their guns in unison.
Users on the Aggler King side quickly formed cover with Humvees and trailers and crouched down.
“Uggle King! Surrender quietly!”
Oldman appeared and laughed loudly and shouted.
“Then I will spare your life. Oh, of course the occupied territory belongs to our blood alliance.”
“You’re funny! Are you going to surrender now?”
The aggle king roared.
“It’s the last day of the open beta anyway, so I’m going to fight until I die!”
At those words, Aggle King’s subordinates exclaimed, “Oh!”
“As expected, you are amazing, my lord… … !”
“Fresh kimchi… … !”
“Oh my god… … !”
“Oh, fresh kimchi… … !”
“You little punks! Only do one verse of boring jokes!”
Looking at the group of Aggle Kings meowing amongst themselves, this time it was Aaron who shouted.
“Mr. Aggle King, you have no chance of winning anyway! Surrender and hand the Doctor over to me. Then I will help you get out of that basin safely.”
“Huh… Do you really think I would believe such a thing? Aren’t you guys aiming for the occupied territory anyway?”
The angry king shouted at Oldman.
“Hey, Grandpa! Think carefully! After we’re all wiped out, the Blood Alliance and the Alliance will have to fight together!”
“… … .”
“The goal of this game is to take over the territory anyway! Wouldn’t it be better to join forces and take care of those Allied bastards first, rather than us who can be defeated at any time since they’re in the lowlands?”
But Oldman shook his head.
“No, the Union may be strong, but there are few variables in its movements. On the other hand, you are the variables themselves. If we are to eliminate you, it would be right to eliminate you first.”
“Oh, really. Is that so, Grandpa?! Where did all our old Nightbringer friendships go?!”
“Yeah~ There wasn’t anything like that originally~.”
Anyway, Aggle King had no intention of surrendering, and there was no room for negotiation.
“Prepare to fire!”
The guns of the Blood Pact and the Alliance aimed at the basin below. The users’ fingers went up to the trigger.
Aaron shouted confidently.
“firing-!”
Tutatatata-!
Gunshots and blasts erupted from all directions, accompanied by an ear-splitting roar.
The users of the Alliance and Blood Alliance surrounded the basin and began firing simultaneously.
Aggler King’s men desperately tried to hide and counterattack, but they were surrounded and in a low-lying area, so they were swept away helplessly.
“f*ck! Shit! That was deadly! That was bad!”
Aggle King, who was lying face down on the floor and dripping with cold sweat, suddenly grinned wickedly.
“Heh, but don’t think you’ll die comfortably! We have a special mercenary!”
Aaron, who was changing the magazine, frowned curiously.
“Special mercenary… … ?”
“Come out, my strongest knight!”
As he shouted, Aggle King banged on the side of the trailer.
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thud-!
The side door of the trailer opened and a man slowly walked out.
He was a young man wearing a gray trench coat, a suit underneath, and sunglasses.
It was such a famous face. Users who recognized the young man’s identity screamed in unison.
“Ka, Cain?!”
“That guy is a pro-gamer from next door!”
“… … .”
The young man just stared blankly at the bullets flying around him.
After quitting Wings Online, he moved to the FPS game Aurora Round. He was currently ranked 2nd in the world as a professional gamer.
“I logged on to this to cool my head while preparing for the competition, and suddenly that ugly guy stuck his ear in there… … .”
Cain grumbled and adjusted his sunglasses.
“I came with you to play for a few hours, but I never thought I’d get caught up in something like this.”
Oldman shouted in horror.
“When did you guys become so close?!”
“A lot of things have happened… … .”
Cain let out a heavy sigh and raised his weapon.
The one held in each hand is a pistol used as a secondary weapon.
“what…….”
“Dual pistols?”
At the same time as the users’ curious questions, Cain raised his pistol with a light movement and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Bang bang bang bang-!
“Huh?!”
“Eww!”
The flying pistol bullets pierced the users’ heads one by one.
It wasn’t even a rifle he used as his main weapon, it was just a pistol without a single scope part, and he was just aiming at them all and getting headshots.
It was crazy skill.
As if he was sweeping the area with a gun katana, Cain took out a firearm blueprint from his bosom, lit it by shooting it with his pistol, and transferred the fire from the blueprint to the cigarette in his mouth.
“after-.”
Cain, who had been blowing out a long puff of smoke, raised his dual pistols forward again.
“Everyone, come at me.”
Oldman, who had been watching, muttered in shock.
“You’re crazy… … You’re filming A Better Tomorrow. And you’re a minor, so you can smoke?!”
“I’ve been an adult for quite some time now. Do you still think I’m a high school student? … And this isn’t even real, it’s just a cool skin item, you know.”
Cain approached with leisurely steps, avoiding the enemy’s firing line, and continued to slaughter them with his dual pistols.
The dual pistols with the infinite magazine, a temporary inspection compensation part, continued to fire continuously.
He really seemed like the main character of a real Ousam movie.
Thanks to Cain’s transcendent fighting power, the Aggler King’s legions also began to gradually overcome the crisis.
Aggle King roared as he repeatedly fired shots with his sniper rifle.
“Follow Cain! Everyone, escape! Run!”
“Huh!”
“These kids!”
Oldman and Aaron, who decided that there was no answer this way, rushed to subdue Cain.
“Let’s join forces, Aaron! If we don’t finish off that Cain, we’ll be eaten!”
“I know! Let’s end it here somehow!”
As the two captains charged, Cain smirked as he took the attack.
“Ah~ Fighting like this reminds me of the old days.”
“Yes, sir. Long time no see, Mr. Cain! Let’s have a game!”
Aaron’s machine gun fired, and Cain, who tumbled to avoid the bullet, got close and fired his pistol.
But in the meantime, Oldman dug in and deployed the force field shield on his left arm to deflect the bullet.
“Let’s see who is the strongest attacker in the Nightbringer today, Cain!”
“I thought you were in good spirits, but I guess you’ve lost your memory again. That was already decided a long time ago… …!”
The three forces began to engage in a fierce battle. Sparks flew everywhere, and many users lost their lives.
So, everyone was so focused on the battle that they forgot.
Clank, clank!
A person walking slowly and stealthily approaches the container in the center of the basin.
The doctor’s presence!
The doctor unlocked the container with a deft hand.
Kugu-kung… … !
Soon the container, unlocked, began to open towards the sky.
“Oops?!”
Aaron, who had been immersed in the battle for a while, let out a scream of panic.
“No. Stop it now… …!”
“Ugh! It’s too late!”
Oldman groaned as he looked at the container entrance, which was already completely open.
All the users in the area looked at the container and their faces turned pale.
Aggle King swallowed dry saliva.
What on earth is inside? What did the doctor prepare?
Poison? Gas? Plague? Bomb?
But it was none of those.
Pubberbubung-!
Colorful fireworks began to rise upward from the container.
The firecrackers that reached the air soon began to explode in a circular pattern, lighting up the evening sky.
Bang, bang, bang… … !
“… … .”
“… … .”
“… … .”
Everyone’s mouths were wide open as they watched this unexpected fireworks show.
“Seriously, aren’t you all going too far? Treating me like I’m some kind of terrorist… … Of course, I have a history of committing crimes in other games.”
The doctor, leaning against the container, shrugged.
“This game has a well-developed crafting system, so I just made some firecrackers using gunpowder. It’s to celebrate the open beta of Mincheol’s new work.”
It was just a pure ‘fireworks display’, without any real meaning.
As they looked up at this beautiful sight, the guns in the users’ hands lowered their guns.
Everyone looked up at the fireworks and lost themselves in their own thoughts.
“Dear doctor… … .”
Aggle King looked at the doctor with a face that seemed somehow moved.
“Oh, of course.”
“Kick,” the doctor said with a small laugh.
“I never said a word about it being non-lethal.”
“… … ?!”
Immediately afterwards, a rain of sparks poured down from the sky.
The fireworks exploded magnificently, turning the ground into a barrage of sparks.
Cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies!
“Waaaaaaah!”
“What, what is this, Gyaaaaah!”
The fireworks that everyone was happily watching soon turned into a carpet bombing from hell.
Almost all users were burned and fell down.
“Doctor, yes, inooooom!”
After the firebombing ended, Oldman, his beard blackened and burnt, stood up with a roar. He was still alive.
“That’s what you were aiming for from the beginning!”
The doctor shrugged his shoulders calmly.
“I expected the occupied area to be created here, right in the center, on the last day. I wanted to take over the occupied area, so I installed this device here and waited. Haha, it turned out as expected.”
“Eeeeek! Were you trying to take over the occupied territory too?!”
“Of course. Isn’t the ‘first’ title something everyone covets?”
Then Aaron, Aggreking, and Cain suddenly rose from the ashes.
Everyone’s HP bar was at rock bottom, but their eyes were blazing.
“Doctor… … .”
“Doctor… … !”
“Doctor… … !”
The doctor broke out in a cold sweat.
“But… …you survived a bit longer than I expected.”
The doctor took a grenade out of his bosom.
“Then there’s no choice, it’s Battle Royale! Last Man Standing!”
At the same time, Oldman aimed his force field shield and electric mace, Aaron aimed his machine gun, Uggle King aimed his anti-material sniper rifle, and Cain aimed his dual pistols.
“The winner of the open beta is-!”
“It’s me-!”
Five people shouted at the same time, pointing their guns at each other.
Bang! Tata tang… … !
Gunshots rang hollowly across the sparkling basin.
* * *
“Hello, viewers! This is Youngmi Choi, a reporter for VR World News. Today, I came all the way to Bali, Indonesia to meet with a special person.”
As the reporter, who was skillfully reciting his lines in front of the camera, turned his gaze, the camera followed his gaze and focused on the man standing next to him.
“A new game developed directly by Southeast Asia’s largest game publisher, Balimoon! Meet Nam Min-cheol, the director of Apocalypse Online. Hello, Min-cheol!”
“Hello. Nice to meet you. I am Nam Min-cheol, the director of Apocalypse Online.”
Mincheol smiled and greeted the camera. The reporter skillfully led the conversation.
“Congratulations on the successful conclusion of the open beta, Mincheol.”
“Thank you. It is thanks to the support of our users.”
“I also heard that you are getting married soon. I would like to congratulate you in advance on your wedding.”
“Haha. Thank you. I will live happily.”
After a polite conversation, the reporter began asking serious questions.
“Mr. Mincheol served as director from the development of Wings Online up until Season 5.”
“Yes.”
“Will it be possible to threaten the stronghold of Wings Online, which currently holds the world’s number one spot… … How confident are you?”
Wings Online relaunched as 2.0 after the Demon King’s Advent event.
It was once pushed out of the top 10, but it slowly recovered its user base and is now back in first place.
Mincheol answered with a bitter smile.
“I think it will not be an easy challenge, but I have to give it a try.”
“Apocalypse Online is fun, but there are also criticisms that the game is too hard. Won’t this affect its success?”
“When Wings Online first came out, it was often criticized for being harder than existing VRMMOs. But didn’t it succeed? Even so, there are internal criticisms that Apocalypse Online is too hard. We’ll watch the trend and adjust the difficulty a bit… … .”
The Q&A about the game continued.
Towards the end of the interview, which lasted nearly an hour, the reporter suddenly asked a question that had not been agreed upon in advance.
“I heard there was some trouble when Mr. Mincheol left Napalm. Did you create this new work with the intention of taking revenge on Napalm?”
“… … .”
It was typical of an internet broadcaster to delve into sensitive issues without hesitation.
But Mincheol answered honestly.
“I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel sorry. But more than that… … as a creator, I want to surpass the games I’ve made with the games I’ve made.”
Mincheol shrugged his shoulders.
“That’s all. That’s why I’m approaching it with the mindset of a challenger.”
“Yes, thank you for the candid interview.”
“I am the one who is most grateful. I hope you will continue to support Apocalypse Online.”
Mincheol bowed deeply toward the screen.
The reporter looked at the screen and calmly gave a summary comment.
“In response to the emergence of a powerful dark horse, Wings Online is also preparing a major Season 9 update. It remains to be seen what will happen in the future of the Warring States period of VR world games… … .”
* * *
“Huh~ Yeah.”
Wings Online.
Inside a space exclusive to the goddess, filled with nebulae and clusters.
“I won’t give in, Master.”
The goddess, Oasis, who was watching the previous owner’s interview, smiled faintly.
“No matter what anyone says, Wings Online is the greatest masterpiece the Master has ever created.”
The oasis spun around in place.
Her long, voluminous silver hair formed beautiful curves that followed her movements.
“Welcome, New Challenger. The champion is waiting here.”
Looking at Mincheol’s face captured in the still screen, the goddess smiled mischievously.
Looking forward to another showdown with the master… … .
“Welcome back, my director.”
Yes, he whispered.
