1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 7 Episode 18

18. Hero Wars (1)

"Is that kid that kid?"

With the help of the bodyguards, Dae-hyun Lee, who had been waiting for reporters and Ho-yeong throughout the preliminary round, managed to shake off some of the spectators who had been waiting and got into the car. did.

And the results were very surprising.

Seon Hoyoung, who gave him a futile defeat in the final of the preliminary round, was the same person he played with when he was in high school.

"Yeah, it was definitely a name like this. Why didn't you notice it right away?"

Lee Dae-hyun admired his memory.

And at the same time, fifty thousand thoughts occurred to me.

Various emotions such as anger at the person under his feet and the feeling of frustration and disappointment caused by the collapse of the image he had been managing until now were happening at the same time.

The biggest emotion was fear, followed by irritability.

He was previously the only child of a single mother, but now Hoyoung's status as a two-handed child of the people group was the cause.

It is also the grandson who is greatly loved by Baek Yun-taek, the president of the Baeksang Group.

The face of Baek Yoon-taek, who gave Ho-young a warm smile at the wedding two years ago, was still vivid.

"X foot......"

Lee Dae-hyun scratched his head.

Now he couldn't accept the fact that he had talent, family, reputation, and power under him.

Tirrilililiri-.

At that time, a phone call rang on his smartphone, and when he saw the name displayed on the LCD, Daehyun swallowed his saliva and politely answered the call with both hands.

"...Yes, Grandpa."

- Daehyun-ah, don't be short on me.

Hearing the voice of Nanjin Group Chairman Lee Hyuk-gu, Lee Dae-hyun felt his heart sink.

The fact that he was called 'Daehyun' rather than 'our grandson' meant that he now had great anger.

"Yes, yes. Please tell me."

Daehyun Lee is weak against the strong and strong against the weak.

He bows down in front of the strong, but spit from behind.

He was now feeling the feeling of a sinner standing in the courtroom.

- Until the situation calms down, go down to the villa on Jeju Island and sleep on your own. Don't even connect to the game. That is the last mercy I can give you.

"......"

It was expressed as self-restraint, but in reality, it was like saying that you should not do anything and stay locked up.

-If I was going to do something, I would have told you not to leave any evidence, and even if there was evidence, you wouldn't be caught. The cord that was barely attached to the group of people was cut like this. As an added bonus, there are rumors that this is a bribe for silence because your father made lawns for the school.

"......"

- So what's the answer? If you don't want to be self-sufficient, go to the military.

"...Yes, ...I'll take it easy."

Lee Dae-hyun clenched his fist and answered Lee Hyuk-gu's question.

A few days later, Nanjin Group issued an apology.

One of the ways was for the Nanjin group to simply deny all the stories, but the opponent was bad.

The Nanjin group neatly admitted Lee Dae-hyun's faults because unfounded denials were more likely to be poisonous.

And Lee Dae-hyun had to be locked up in a villa on Jeju Island without anyone knowing.

* * *

A week after all the preliminary rounds for the group event were over, the front of Seoul Stadium was crowded with audiences to watch Heroes' Daejeon and reporters who came out to cover the event.

The Seoul Stadium, which was remodeled three years ago and can accommodate about 8,000 people at a time, was the final stadium of the 3rd Heroes Daejeon.

And inside the stadium, in the waiting room prepared by each country, the finalists were waiting for the start of the opening ceremony.

“Seolyoung-ah, I have a question for you.”

"what?"

Ho-Young, who was quietly waiting for the opening ceremony to be over, suddenly remembered one thing and asked Seol-Young Baek, who was sitting next to her, looking at her smartphone.

"Why is the team called Experienced Newbie?"

Baek Seol-young's body twitched momentarily at Ho-young's question.

The name of the representative team in the team event is decided autonomously by each team without the name of the country attached.

In other words, the name of the Korean national team, 'experienced newbie', means that the team players decided on their own.

Hoyoung asked a question because it was strange that Seolyoung Baek chose such a team name.

"...don't ask."

"Huh?"

"Yes, yes, yes! I'll let you know!"

Hoyoung's question was answered by Kangnam Firefist and Choi Kangnam, players of the experienced newbie team.

"The team name was decided by voting after gathering all the team members. However, because the team name they wanted was different, we kept a tie of 1, so it was decided to just pick a newbie from among the candidates! Oh, by the way, the team name I nominated as a candidate it is."

Hearing the story of the strongest, Ho-young turned her head to look at Snow White, and saw that she covered her face with her hands and sighed.

"I was crazy... I should have just decided..."

Ho-young, imagining that she would be called 'Baek Seol-young of the experienced newbie team,' patted her on the back without saying a word during the finals.

Ho-young thought to herself that she was fortunate to have turned down her invitation, which came after Copy Gil's invitation.

“Seon Hoyoung, the representative of the Korean individual event, and the experienced team players of the team event, I will prepare for the entrance.”

At that time, the host staff came to the waiting room to pick up the Korean representatives.

As we moved according to his guidance, we saw the players standing in the order of entry in the hallway in front of the exit leading to the center of the stadium.

Not long after, from the exit at the end of the hallway, Initium's official theme song was heard loudly without lyrics.

As the rehearsal was conducted in advance, the players entered the stadium, and the Korean players entered the stadium in the last order.

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!"

When I came out of the stadium, the sound of shouts from the audience, which was placed in a stair-type shape around the center in a circle, stuck in my ears.

At the time when the stars were already floating in the sky, the spectators could not see the spectators well because the lights were not lit except for the stairs to avoid falling over and the small lamps installed on the chairs.

However, it was enough to guess just how many people were there just from the heat and the resounding shouts.

The competition for tickets to the opening ceremony was quite fierce as it was only during the opening and closing ceremonies that players appeared in real form in the center of the stadium.

All those who are sitting in the audience now are the victors of that battle.

When all the players entered, the opening of the 3rd Heroic Daejeon was declared, followed by the opening remarks by Tae-sung Lee, president of Neo Wars.

* * *

The morning after the opening ceremony was held, Hoyoung went to the stadium early to acclimatize before the match.

If it was a match that brought the maps of the dungeon as it was in the preliminary round, there would be no adaptation, but the final of the hero battle was a little unique.

The stadium itself becomes a map.

To be precise, a map that mimics the stadium is implemented.

It uses the augmented reality system to show the match through the glasses that the staff distributes when the spectators enter, as if they were entering the game and watching it directly rather than on an electronic display.

"Oh oh......."

Ho-young, who received the glasses as a test from the host, exclaimed purely with exclamation at the scenery in front of him.

The characters in the game of the players who first logged in and checked the map inside the stadium were reflected quite vividly.

If the movements were normal, I would have thought it was just a cosplay, but seen through the glasses, they ran as fast as in the game, jumped to an impossible height, and used their skills.

It is said that the shouts of the audience are transmitted to the players through the microphone attached to the glasses.

"Wow... that's really cool. But these glasses are going to be quite expensive, won't they be lost?"

"If you do not return or damage your glasses when you leave the stadium, you will be charged a loss equivalent to the cost of the glasses. We wrote that fact at the entrance where the general audience enters."

"I see."

“Now that there is only one hour left for adaptation, Seon Hoyoung should try logging in too, right?”

"Yes."Hoyoung followed the staff's guidance and went to the room where the capsule was prepared and connected to the game.

Then, in front of him, the appearance of the stadium he had just seen through his glasses was unfolding.

The only difference is that there are blue holograms in the shape of a human upper body in the audience seats.

Hoya looked around the stadium and checked several things and, as expected, was able to find some limitations.

He couldn't get out of the center first.

A transparent wall was erected at the entrance of the hallway leading to the audience and the range of activities was limited.

When I checked the height limit using the fly, it was possible to move up to the ceiling height.

'Then the skill range would be up to here.'

If it was high, it was high, if it was low, it was low.

Having confirmed everything to check, Hoya came down to the ground.

Then, a figure approached Hoya and held out his hand.

"I wish you well today."

"I wish you well."

Hoya held his outstretched hand without hesitation.

The person who approached Hoya was a bookmaker, the guild master of Akahane, the representative of the Japanese solo exhibition.

He was Hoya's first match in the finals.

* * *

The match between Hoya and the bookworm was the 14th match, so I had to wait for my turn for quite a while in the waiting room watching previous matches on the monitor.

Yesterday, I felt a bit lonely to be alone in the waiting room with the players of the experienced newbie team.

Still, the match I saw through the monitor was quite exciting.

When Dovan won the Spanish national team in the third match, Hoya applauded him.

In the interview that was held after the match, Doban's short-answer responses brought a lot of laughter.

After watching the match through the monitor and waiting for their turn, the host staff came to the players waiting room and took Hoyoung to the capsule room to prepare for the match.

Hoyoung, who put her butt on the capsule, waited until the host gave a signal, and started connecting according to his signal.

After the screen was dyed black, various colors were painted on the blackened paper.

-The 14th match of the 3rd Hero Battle Finals! Introducing those players!

The writer, who had already experienced two hero battles, bowed his head toward the audience seat where the hologram was floating, following the narrator's introduction from the air.

Hoya also waved his hand awkwardly toward the audience when his name was called.

While Hoya and the bookkeeper were greeting each other, the cheers did not stop, and as the commentator announced the start of the match in the midst of great cheers, a countdown number appeared in the air.

-Then, the 14th match of the 3rd Heroes Daejeon Finals is now! Start!

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