The maximum level for Season 1 of Wings Online is 50.
The developers predicted that it would take an average of 6 months to reach this max level.
Because the world is so vast and filled with things to do, we judged that the leveling speed would be slow as users would be busy doing various things.
But that prediction was too underestimated for gamers.
Battle enthusiasts who are addicted to the unique sticky feeling of Wings Online only hunt when they log into the game.
Although many other contents also provide experience points, they are ultimately just bonuses, and since the main route to gaining experience points is through battles, the levels of these battle enthusiasts have begun to soar at a frightening rate.
And the problem was that the number of these people was by no means small.
This tendency was particularly prominent in Korea. These efficiency-obsessed K-gamers ate and hunted the monsters in the game as if they were their enemies.
So, it’s been just over a month since the game was released.
The management team, including Mincheol, screamed as they watched the average user level soaring.
“Don’t just fight! There are other things to do, so look elsewhere!”
Of course I didn’t sell it.
The users at the forefront began to run towards the achievement of ‘first max level’. If they could just achieve it, it would be a chance to leave their names in the history of Wings Online, no, in the history of the VR world.
Suddenly, the entire VR world’s attention was focused on who would be the first to reach level 50 in Wings Online.
Named users competing to reach the max level began broadcasting races, and online media outlets wrote articles about them and uploaded video content.
Reaching the max level itself became a content in itself, and users who were close to the max level received support according to their nationality.
Now, the max level race has changed into a national competition.
The community started putting up a real-time experience table and starting point betting on who and which country would win.
‘1st Place’ Race in Virtual Reality… … Olympic Grammar for a New Era
“This is not what we wanted… … .”
Mincheol was left scratching his head as he read an article from a major media outlet.
“There are so many other things to do, and so many users enjoying other content, so why is everyone so focused on competing for first place!”
– Things in this world don’t always go as planned, Father.
Gaia covered her mouth and laughed.
Anyway, it’s a festival atmosphere. It’s also self-promotional.
It wasn’t a bad thing for the developer.
Behind them, Oasis was running around like crazy, crawling and scraping online articles and organizing them.
– The following are the top candidates currently being predicted by the community!
Mincheol looked at the list of first place candidates that Oasis had compiled.
The leader of the European raid group, a traditional MMORPG powerhouse, was currently in first place, followed closely by the US, China, and Korea.
‘The current number 1 is level 48… … .’
The leading competitors were all of similar level.
From now on, the direction of the race will be determined by how you plan your route and how efficiently you level up.
“Oh, but wasn’t the Korean user in first place until a few days ago? It’s changed since then?”
Currently, the number of leading users is the highest among Korean users. However, they are still a bit far from first place.
Oasis quickly searched for relevant information and answered.
– That’s… The hunting ground chosen by Korean users is the field dungeon, and I think there was a big fight there yesterday.
“Civil war?”
– Yes, there was a commotion because a PK broke out between the user groups competing for the top spot… … and it seems that the field dungeon was completely taken over by the guild that PKed first. The community was already a bit noisy yesterday because of this.
Are you saying that a single guild took over an entire dungeon?
Mincheol frowned and looked at the name of the guild.
Blood oath
“Ah, it’s these two… … .”
Even before the era of VR worlds came, they were a famous villain guild that caused a stir in every MMO game they touched.
They’ve landed on Wings Online, and it looks like they’ve done something big this time.
“Well, the conflicts and reconciliations that arise when people collide with each other… I guess that’s also the fun of MMORPGs.”
In fact, the field dungeon was created to be a place where things collide and cause chemical reactions.
I never thought that one guild would monopolize it.
– I only see conflict, but I still don’t see any harmony.
Gaia covered her mouth and laughed.
“Let’s keep the GMs on standby, and if the fighting between users seems to be getting too intense, let’s just try to calm them down. Basically, I want to let the users shape the world on their own.”
After sorting out the blood alliance issue, Mincheol compared the list of top competing users in the community with the actual data within the server.
“Users are amazing… … We’ve never shared internal data, but your guesses are almost identical to the actual data.”
– Users who are close to reaching the max level usually also stream. If you just look at those, you can quickly gather information.
The fact that you’re close to max level now means you’re pouring time into the game instead of living life.
There was a high probability that they were online broadcasters, such as streamers, and even if they weren’t, there were many famous people inside and outside of the game.
Blood alliance was also a case like this.
“hmm?”
Mincheol, who was continuously comparing the list of first place competitors organized in the community with the actual data, tilted his head in puzzlement.
“What is this user?”
– yes?
A name that never appeared in community data was ranked at the top in actual data.
– User ID… … Doctor.
Gaia said after reading the user’s data.
– You are currently hunting in the Valley of Poison. And you are playing solo.
“Valley of Poison? Solo play?”
Mincheol tilted his head in puzzlement.
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Valley of Poison.
There is a poisonous swamp that reduces your HP just by stepping on it, and a thick poisonous fog that applies a debuff just by inhaling it.
In addition, there are many malicious monsters that inflict debuffs such as petrification, incapacitation, and weakening on users.
A field created with the intention of harassing users.
It was a place that was practically filled with the intention of saying, ‘Do not come.’
During the scenario quest of the later season, a purification event occurs, and after that, it changes into the ‘Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers’, becoming a resting spot filled with flowers and greenery.
It was a fun field that changed depending on the user’s scenario progress.
But that scenario has not been opened yet.
In this gloomy valley filled with poison… …the Doctor was running around.
“Kyahahahahaha!”
Spread your arms wide and get drenched in poison, and kick the poisonous swamp on the ground with your boots and splash around.
Without a gas mask and wearing only a simple black mask, the Doctor walked around in circles, enjoying himself.
“To implement an ecosystem like this… … !”
Moss that absorbs poison.
A herbivorous monster that eats moss.
A carnivore monster that eats herbivorous monsters.
The burial cave where carnivorous monsters gather before they die.
The poison pouring out from that burial cave… … .
All fields in Wings Online have an ecosystem implemented in this way.
It was truly a product of perverted obsession and devotion.
All kinds of monsters that were attracted to the aggro gathered around the doctor who was jumping around happily because of this craftsmanship.
As expected from a vicious field created solely to harass users, all monsters attack first.
But the Doctor was not flustered, and instead spun around as if dancing, throwing the poison potion he was holding around.
Boom! Boom!
Thick orange smoke billowed everywhere.
And all the monsters that tried to pass through this smoke became paralyzed and stood stiffly in place.
As the herbivorous monster was paralyzed, a carnivorous monster that lives by eating the herbivorous monster approached.
The second potion the Doctor had sprinkled poured over it.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As they lived in the Valley of Poison, they were monsters with a fairly high tolerance for poison, but they could not withstand the poison potion the doctor sprayed and fell one by one.
The doctor hummed a tune as he collected items from the fallen monsters.
The doctor shook his shoulders in delight as he picked up one of the materials.
“Yes, the basics of game design are to place the solutions to problems that appear on the field within that field!”
Among the materials that can be collected from monsters, there is one that can neutralize the poison that spews out from here.
The doctor made an antidote and drank it coolly.
Then he threw the bottle of antidote aside with a “Kya!” sound.
“Okay, then let’s continue our poison-making experiments!”
In this way, the infinite loop is completed.
I used my alchemy skills to dig up poison from all over the valley and make poison potions. I sprayed the poison potions I made to kill monsters.
As the name suggests, the Valley of Poison was full of all kinds of poison material items that weren’t found in other fields. The doctor experimented with all kinds of combinations to create poisons, as if filling out a Pokedex.
Because a different combination was used each time, the monsters in the Poison Valley were not resistant to the poison potion. The monsters died as soon as they respawned, before they could even approach the doctor.
Then, collect antidote ingredients from dead monsters and consume them.
I continued exploring the Valley of Poison, humming a tune again.
In fact, the Doctor had no intention of leveling at all.
We were just going through the motions of testing how much freedom there was in this crafting system that allows users to create items, and we were just going through the motions of testing it on one area: poison potions.
Once you start, you have to get 100% of the Pokedex.
As that type of gamer, she was doing this with the utmost pure and unadulterated academic intention of trying to make every kind of poison potion that existed in the game… … .
The problem was leveling efficiency.
It was freakishly tall.
Even though there was no party bonus or the efficiency of multi-person hunting, I was occupying a field by myself and annihilating monsters as soon as they appeared, so my level was increasing by leaps and bounds.
But as a doctor who had no interest in levels or races for first place, he was just happy to think about the new poison potion recipe that came to mind.
* * *
As the race for first place entered its second half, the competition became increasingly fierce.
On the darknet, people started placing cash bets on the first-place races as if they were human horse races. And when real money was involved, all sorts of schemes and tricks were used to sabotage the opponents who had not bet.
Top-tier users also engaged in sabotage, assassination requests, and other types of sabotage to claim the honor of first place.
“What the hell!”
A capsule PC room used as a hideout by the guild blood alliance.
Oldman, who was currently in first place in the race and had been hunting like crazy since he had entered the latter half of level 49, screamed and jumped out of the capsule PC.
It was because the PC suddenly turned off.
“What the heck! Hey, Mr. Park! What the heck is going on! Is there a power outage in this day and age?!”
“It’s not a power outage! Some crazy guy came down from the toad house and ran away!”
“What?!”
When the flagship Oldman looked out the window, it was true.
A hooded man was seen running out of the building.
“Catch that bastard!”
“Yes, my lord!”
The enraged Blood Alliance guild members all ran outside, screaming.
“You little punk! I will definitely beat you!”
Oldman was so angry and focused on catching his opponent and getting behind him that he completely forgot he was racing.
With Oldman, a strong candidate for first place, eliminated, all users in the rankings focused their energy on leveling up.
Users who flocked to the community were on the edge of their seats as they watched the experience graphs of the rankings change hands.
“Number one, number one, I’m going for it! Number one-!”
“I’m betting everything I have, please!”
“The pursuit is coming in! The finish line is just around the corner-!”
Gamblers betting real money on the darknet clasped their hands in prayer, while internet wreckers and gaming webzine reporters busily prepared to input different IDs into pre-written videos and articles.
And at the moment when users who ranked high in the world ran and ran in their own instance dungeons and field dungeons and reached 99 percent –
Tiring!
Suddenly the user level ranking was updated.
There is… … .
Ranking 1st: User ID “Doctor.” (50Lv)
It had a name engraved on it that everyone was seeing for the first time.
