The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2 Novel

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- Masid has increased his magic power by 1, wow.

Diego Masid, who is known as the god of soccer, currently a laughingstock, has naturally increased his magic power by 1.

"Masid is still in first place."

Masid intentionally kept losing to lower his level to 1.

After changing his class to a wizard and running in the league, he was showing insane performance.

Using the relic of Arachne, which closely resembles a soccer ball, he used magic, causing everyone to be unable to resist and turn into ashes.

It's like a silver wizard coming to the bronze league with such power.

He was following Sung JiHan's overwhelming performance in the bronze league.

- Wasn't Masid a troll in the top 3? Why did he suddenly become like that?

- He's really good at using magic, lol.

- Huh... But how did he raise his stats so easily?

- Is the growth rate increase effect really useful?

- Only Im GaYoung didn't rise, lol.

- It hasn't even been a week since joining the guild. That's normal.

- It's obvious that it won't rise, but it looks abnormal there.

"By any chance, have you also raised your stats, Owner? Even if you don't want to reveal it."

"My shadow abilities have increased."

"Oh! Then everyone except GaYoung has seen the effects."

Yi HaYeon smirked as she saw Im GaYoung entering the guild office.

Im GaYoung, who had just finished a Battle.net match, frowned at Yi HaYeon's smile.

"Miss, why are you smiling like that when you see me?"

"Yeah, I was disappointed that only GaYoung's abilities didn't increase."

"...They will increase soon."

"Training even in the game, right?"

"What kind of training are you talking about?"

"Like this."

Yi HaYeon turned the monitor and showed a video of Yoon SeA's channel.

Wearing heavy armor and running around all day in survival mode.

Repeating squats hundreds of times before the zombies come up in the defense map.

Im GaYoung's head fluttered with excitement as she watched it.

"If you do that, you won't be able to fight later."

"Stats are increasing. Stats!"

"...I'll try it."

The viewers were amazed at the scene shown on the broadcast.

It's not like exercising in a Battle.net game.

That's too extreme.

- No way... Shouldn't you not distribute your stamina? Why do that exercise in that heavy armor?

- There's a decrease in reaction time, so it's okay to do it like crazy, right?

- The decrease in reaction time on Battle.net and muscle fatigue would work differently, right?

-Crazy... You have to do that much to increase.

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"Sae-ah, do you exercise every day even after the game is over?"

"Yes. I give them a heal every day."

-You exercise while receiving a heal?

-That's intense, seriously.

The growth rate must have had the greatest impact.

There seemed to be a reason why Yoon Sae-ah's stamina increased by 2 in a short period of time.

-But seriously, isn't this crazy?

-You have to level up to increase one stat, but Yoon Sae-ah increased two stats with just a heal?

-If you create such a gap in the early stages, you'll roll the snowball later, right?

-Wow, I thought it was just a nurturing guild.

-When Sung JiHan does it, of course there's an effect!

The growth rate of the growth guild was tremendous, but whether it had a real effect was a variable in the public's judgment.

However, with the public disclosure of Lee Ha-yeon's stat growth, it was proven that there was a noticeable effect on the growth rate.

"In fact, I planned to report regularly to the owner about the increase in guild members' stats once a week... but there have already been amazing results that are worthy of a nurturing guild, so I wanted to report it quickly."

While saying that, Lee Ha-yeon looked at the camera and spread her fingers.

"And to all the guild officials~ Two spots have already been reserved, and there are three spots left, so please send promising players who want rapid growth for lease! It's only 5 million GP per month!"

-5 million GP, wow.

-It's expensive, 50 billion per month.

-But if they only take 1 or 2 stats per month, it's not a loss.

-If they only take 1 or 2 stats, it's not a loss, what kind of gain is that? It's almost the same as a 1-level difference. Leveling up doesn't increase much even with diamonds.

Lease fee for nurturing promising players, 50 billion.

To the average person, it seemed like an endlessly expensive price.

But if there was confidence that they could gain any number of stat points with this, then this price was actually on the cheaper side.

"But two spots have already been reserved?"

"Yes. American First and Inminhoe each agreed to send one promising player. And..."

"And?"

Lee Ha-yeon glanced at the camera.

"There was an offer from the Divine Guards to send a lease, but I left it on hold. There's no need to talk about it here."

After the King of Swords took over the country, Koreans had intense hatred towards the Divine Guards.

"After today's broadcast, if the three spots are filled quickly, there's no need to accept it."

Thinking that way, Lee Ha-yeon smiled softly.

"There are more than five guilds showing great interest."

Without mentioning the Divine Guards, Lee Ha-yeon ended the broadcast with those words.

That day's broadcast caused a big stir in the BattleNet industry.

Because it was proven that the growth rate increase option had an effect.

-The growth rate increase option really had an effect...

-There must be a reason why Sung JiHan chose Lee Ha-yeon as the guild master.

-What is her gift?

Investigations about the standby guild began to take place in various places.

-First, we need to send our players to the remaining spots.

-5 million GP per month, isn't it too expensive?

-It hasn't even been a week and my stats have increased. Later on, 5 million GP will be considered a bargain.

Guilds that hadn't been seen in a while were now actively trying to put their promising players in.

And.

Barren, who was once the world's top promising player, changed his mind while watching this broadcast.

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For the past few days, Barren thought.

"This can't go on like this."

After the TOP 100 match, Sung JiHan became his most guarded rival.

He was effortlessly killing jungle monsters and flying around on the canyon map.

After several attempts, Barren was finally able to defeat one jungle monster.

But it was only the weakest one, and he couldn't even imagine taking on stronger monsters.

"I need to grow."

The world's top promising player.

To go beyond that and become the world's best player, he had to grow somehow.

"It's not the time to be arrogant!"

After waking up from his hangover.

With a clear head, Barren kept thinking.

The growth rate buff of the Waiting Guild has been proven to be effective.

Now he had to go.

"Robert. About sending a promising player to the Waiting Guild, I'll do it."

"Hmm. One of our guild members showed a lot of interest."

"Who?"

"Supporter Sophia."

Upon hearing those words, Barren frowned.

Supporter Sophia.

Now 19 years old, she was one of the next generation promising players of American First, following Barren.

"Do we really need to invest in a supporter? I'll go."

"Hmm. She said she really wants to go..."

"Are you going to send her? Hmm... then I'll go even if it's on my own expense."

Robert's eyes widened.

Barren was being so proactive...

"The announcement from the Waiting Guild must have had an effect."

Since it showed that his stats had increased in less than a week.

Any player would want to enjoy that growth rate increase effect.

"We can't let someone who will be the pillar of our guild go. I'll reserve one more spot."

"So, are we going together from our guild?"

"Yes, but..."

"Then we don't need to go ourselves, we can just tell their guild master to come. When can we go to Korea? Their master isn't even an active player anyway. A day or two is not enough for players like us."

It takes at least 14 hours from New York to Korea, even on a direct flight.

Adding the round trip and the time spent there, it would be difficult to play BattleNet for at least two days.

Especially since Barren was so picky that he wouldn't play the game without a BattleNet connector at his home, going to Korea meant he wouldn't be able to play BattleNet for a while.

"Understood. I'll bring it up once."

"Okay. Please do."

Meanwhile.

Next to the Sword Palace building is the office of the Korean branch of a Japanese trading company.

In the space that the recruitment manager of the New Self-Defense Force, Takeba Kazuo, was using as if it were his own home, a woman was sitting in his computer chair, rubbing her nose.

"Haam... I'm tired of Battle Tube."

She was dressed in workout clothes with no makeup on her face.

Her hair was tied up and it seemed like it hadn't been washed in a few days, as it was greasy.

Her skin was covered in acne, and the glasses she was wearing made her eyes look small like dots.

"She said she was going to buy lunch, when is she coming?"

Korururuk-

When she made a noise from her stomach, she pouted her lips and complained.

Then, not long after.

"Sorry, sorry!"

The door opened with a bang, and Takeba rushed into the office.

"What did you bring today?"

"Since you said you wanted sushi last time, I brought it for you."

"Sushi? What kind of sushi in Korea? You should eat it in your home country. Tsk tsk."

"Sorry, sorry. My goddess..."

Takeba referred to her as a goddess.

But she didn't look like a goddess at all.

At first glance, she looked just like a typical hikikomori.

"Yum yum... But it's still delicious here, right? It has a different flavor from the mainland..."

"Oh! How merciful! It's an honor to hear you say that!"

"Hmm. The more I eat, the more delicious it gets... Takeba, did you buy that for yourself? Can I have some?"

"Of course!"

At the woman's words, Takeba, who valued food more than anything else, served her the sushi without hesitation.

This was not the first or second time, and Takeba had become thinner than before.

But his eyes were shining with enthusiasm, as if they were hardened by the woman's praise.

"Ah, that was delicious. Well then, shall we talk about the target?"

"Yes. We submitted a rental offer to the New Self-Defense Force, but it seems like they won't accept it."

The rental proposal from the New Self-Defense Force that Yoo Ha-yeon was deliberately holding back.

Takeba had already predicted that the offer would be rejected.

"Hmm... It seems like they have emotions towards us, after all."

"It seems so."

"Should we have brought the daughter with us at that time? If we did, maybe the target would have thought about us and followed us. No, if that happened, the acquisition of the Sword King might have failed..."

The woman, who had been muttering to herself, suddenly started typing on the computer keyboard quickly.

She had accessed a job search site in Korea.

[Waiting Guild is recruiting video content editors.]

"Now that it's come to this, I have to infiltrate as a guild staff."

Takeba wiped the sweat off his forehead as he looked at the job posting.

"Um... It may be presumptuous, but can the goddess also do editing work? That, it seems like Battle Tube editing work."

"Hmm. Of course."

She stroked her own face.

The acne that had been stuck to her skin disappeared, and her skin became clean.

"Editing... is my specialty, after all."