Chapter 141

Anna, who had spent a long time only working, started Leore to share a hobby with Arang.

Afraid of the combat part, she decided to level up a life skill job recommended by her friend Sunchoo.

Playing Leore with a life skill job was fun.

In reality, when I study or work, it’s not numerically visible, and I only feel my growth when I look back after spending time diligently. But Leore, or rather, games, were different.

It was more fun than I thought to see immediate rewards for my efforts, studies, and work.

Moreover, in reality, I have no talent for cooking, but here, I don’t have to cook directly; I just press skills according to the situation, and a great dish is completed.

Anna has now maxed out her Chef and Alchemist levels.

The reason, of course, is to make doping items for Arang in Leore.

Although she started to share a hobby with Arang, Anna has now become immersed in Leore.

Wearing clothes she could never wear in reality, seeing fantastical landscapes, and watching herself grow stronger brought a smile to her face.

Anna smirked as she looked at the elixir, a doping item she had made.

“Finally succeeded! I haven’t received a high grade yet, but it won’t be long now.”

The red elixir sloshing in a plastic test tube-like bottle.

It’s an elixir that gives a damage buff to the person who consumes it.

When making elixirs, dishes, or life skill items, the effects become stronger if the quality is good.

The elixir Anna made now was an ordinary one that couldn’t receive those enhanced effects.

But since it was the first time she made the highest-level doping elixir in Leore entirely on her own, Anna praised herself.

“Since I can finish the Final Job Quest, the important thing now is equipment, right?”

The final job quest for the life skill job was elixir crafting.

Completing the quest allows you to receive the final skill and meet the conditions to wear the final equipment.

“The final equipment, according to the creator, has to be bought, right?”

With the current equipment, no matter how lucky or skilled you are, you can’t make high-quality items.

Combat job equipment is obtained through raids and hunts, but life skill equipment has to be crafted.

Only a blacksmith can craft it, so users like Anna, who haven’t leveled up a blacksmith, have to buy equipment made by blacksmiths.

Anna currently needs Chef and Alchemist equipment.

Naturally, a lot of gold is required to get the final life skill equipment.

“Let’s see.”

Anna opened the Auction House to check the final Chef and Alchemist equipment and tilted her head.

“It’s cheaper than I thought.”

Anna checked the gold she had and the gold price of the equipment on the Auction House.

In Leore, there are 12 pieces of equipment and accessories in total, and 13 including weapons.

The current price of equipment on the Auction House is about 200,000 gold per piece.

In cash, that’s 200,000 won.

Anna currently has 50 million gold.

Cash trading is against Leore’s terms of service, but it’s not illegal, and there hasn’t been a single RPG game without cash trading.

Not that Anna has done cash trading.

But why does she have so much gold?

It’s simple.

Anna is a very famous figure in all industries that use the access devices or servers made by Mars, including the gaming industry.

She can’t not be famous.

If she wanted to, it wouldn’t be hard for her to ruin a company.

Even though Anna has stepped down from her position as the Korean representative of Mars, her influence is still very high.

When people heard that Anna was making a dedicated access device after stepping down, everyone was interested in her moves.

And everyone knew why she was doing it.

Arang. Knowing that Anna’s younger sister enjoys Leore, people who heard that Anna made an access device to play games with her sister looked for Anna in Leore.

In fact, they couldn’t help but know.

Anna didn’t change her character customization and made her nickname her own name, like Arang.

Because of this, people who knew Anna tried hard to become her game friends.

Especially when Anna was a newbie, they tried hard to help her like a veteran, and Anna thought they were just kind users helping a beginner like her.

And as Anna adapted to Leore, she realized that the users who had been helping her weren’t just doing it out of kindness.

Users who approached her not just as a friend but to gain something.

In the past, she would have been sad, but now that she’s matured, it’s different.

‘I’ll enjoy it.’

Since she’s no longer the Korean representative and just an ordinary user, Anna comfortably accepted what was given and enjoyed it, getting all her final equipment in a day.

While diligently living her Leore life after joining Arang’s guild, Anna became interested in the Conflict Map, a guild war content.

With so much gold, she could have just bought it from the Auction House for Arang, but she didn’t want to do that.

Because in Leore, every crafted item has the creator’s nickname on it.

Thinking of giving Arang a gift, Anna entered the Conflict Map, remembered the points Sunchoo told her to be careful of, and while diligently gathering, she met someone.

A tall, ordinary-looking man who clearly wasn’t from the Munchkin Cat guild.

‘Isn’t this our Arang’s guild territory? Should I not have come alone? But… he doesn’t seem hostile. Rather…’

Anna frowned as she looked at the man staring at her.

It wasn’t hostility but desire.

‘This feels bad.’

Normally, she wouldn’t feel bad if someone looked at her, but the way this man looked at her felt like pure lust.

“Hello~”

The man approached with a casual smile.

“This is Munchkin Cat guild territory.”

“Ah, is it? Do you need a friend to play with?”

The man came closer, looking at Anna from head to toe with a deep gaze, and Anna laughed at his audacity.

“No, I don’t. Could you just leave?”

Anna tried to ignore him and walk away.

“Hey. When a man talks, you should listen obediently.”

Anna suddenly felt a stiffness in her legs and fell to the ground.

“Sigh… First, there was that girl Ihayan, and now why are there so many rude people these days.”

“Ihayan?”

“Do you know Ihayan? I think her nickname was Pinkubelly. Anyway, that girl and you, where do you leave your manners? Ah, or is that your taste?”

“Sigh… You’re not just rude, you’re a beast.”

“Your mouth is like a rag. I thought I’d try to seduce you because of your good body, but I don’t need it anymore.”

With that, the man attacked and killed Anna.

Guild House living room.

‘Sigh… With so many users, there are bound to be beasts like that. But…’

Anna, who respawned in the Guild House, recalled what the beast had said.

‘When he first mentioned Ihayan, I just brushed it off, but since he even mentioned her nickname, he must know Hayaan.’

To Anna, Pinkubelly is a friend and a family-like younger sister.

She can’t just let that beast who insulted Hayaan and spoke as if he had done something to her in the past go.

First, she thought she should talk to Hayaan, but just as she was about to contact her.

“Unnie!!!”

Arang arrived.

“Ah? Arang.”

Anna, as always, picked up Arang in front of her.

Naturally, Arang nestled into Anna’s arms and closed her eyes, but realizing this wasn’t the time, she opened them wide.

“Unnie. You just died in the Conflict Map, right?”

“Ah? How did you know?”

“When a guild member dies in the Conflict Map, the log stays in the guild.”

“Ah, I see.”

“Who killed you, unnie?”

Anna found the very angry Arang cute and smiled, stroking her cheek.

“Um…”

“Unnie?”

Anna wondered if she should tell Arang what she had just learned.

‘No. Arang shouldn’t get involved with that beast. I don’t want to show or let her hear such things. First, I should talk to Hayaan and the creator.’

“It’s my fault for going alone. That’s what those places are like.”

“That’s true, but we can still take revenge.”

“Unnie is fine. Don’t worry about me.”

“How can I not worry about you, who couldn’t even whisper until recently?”

“That, that’s because the creator didn’t tell me…!”

“Sunchoo unnie messed up.”

“Right.”

Anna changed the subject without mentioning the beast that killed her.