[TS] Became a Peach Saint – Chapter 252

Have ambition!

Reach for the sky!

“Reach for the moon”

This is the slogan and advertisement for a rather ordinary mobile game called “Refolder Gate.”

People describe Refolder Gate’s genre as [Village Building] [Labor] [Dungeon Exploration] [Collection] [Strategy Simulation] [Bonsai] game.

Even just hearing about it makes your head spin. Dokgo Beom-bu, the 34th-generation eldest grandson of the Dokgo family, was wrapping up his day in Refolder Gate as usual after work, upgrading buildings before tossing his phone onto the bedside table.

The most crucial point in Refolder Gate is collecting the universal currency, “Hollow Gems,” through cash purchases or miners, and then performing a Summon for Companions.

The units collected through Summoning are then deployed into various dungeons to gather in-game resources, which are used to upgrade the village buildings where the units reside.

In Refolder Gate, constructing or upgrading buildings grants the buildings themselves unit-enhancing options.

For example, there’s the Bow Statue. It’s a building that boosts the overall ability stats of bow-wielding units like Spellbows and Archers.

Various weapon statues work similarly, and continuously upgrading the restaurant building grants time-limited buffs to units based on the food served.

With these upgraded units, players explore new dungeons to gather resources and reinvest them into village upgrades.

Refolder Gate is designed with this endless rotational mechanism.

“Ugh…”

A groan naturally escaped Dokgo Beom-bu’s mouth as he lay his aching body on the bed.

“Finally, tomorrow. I even took on a side job for the Rear Guard Pickup Event. It’s gotta be an SR Sniper.”

Despite all his efforts to stockpile bullets, Dokgo Beom-bu didn’t even dare hope for an SSR unit. The odds of pulling an SSR in this game are notoriously brutal.

Having an SSR unit is nice, of course, but even without one, you can grow your units step by step from normal ones. It just takes a lot more time.

The universal currency, Hollow Gems, is also used for construction acceleration, so instead of buying items, you’re essentially buying time. That’s why players call Refolder Gate a “time grinder.”

Especially for newbies, pulling an SSR unit right at the start can be more trouble than it’s worth.

These days, due to stricter resident information regulations, each person is limited to one account.

Whether it’s websites or games, logging into any online system now requires mobile phone verification, which has effectively killed the account trading market.

Account purchases…

There’s no one to verify every time you log into the game for someone else. It’s inconvenient for both buyers and sellers.

So, what happens to a newbie who, with beginner’s luck, pulls an SSR unit at the Refolder Gate, known for its notoriously low odds, even blocking reset marathons?

With a dazzling SSR unit right in front of you, your mindset shifts to not investing resources in normal units.

Veteran players always tell newbies, “Investing in SSR as a newbie is a shortcut to ruin,” but newbies never listen.

SSRs are resource guzzlers.

“That doesn’t apply to me.”

Dokgo Beom-bu, who had just seen a newbie’s post on the community asking what to do after pulling an SSR, felt a pang of bitterness inside.

Because you can’t change your origins.

Even in reality, it’s unfair to bring up origins, and in games, it’s all about origin theory.

Even if you raise a normal swordsman like Henderson to SSR with all your effort, it’s still just SSR Henderson, and it’s true that it falls short compared to units born as SSR.

“Sigh…”

Dokgo Beom-bu turned on his phone again and clicked on the Refolder Gate official homepage’s post about probability disclosure.

SSR unit: 0.0002%

“Wow.”

Even though there’s an event tomorrow, the probabilities haven’t changed.

Dokgo Beom-bu, a hardcore player who’s been playing Refolder Gate like crazy for 8 years, firmly holds a top rank.

Even he was taken aback by the probability displayed.

1 in 500,000.

It’s practically telling you not to start with an SSR.

“A crazy game without a ceiling.”

SR units usually come out after investing around 5 to 10 million won. R units take about 3 million won.

But SSR is on a different level.

SSRs are notoriously hard to pull, to the point where people naturally call them dirty. On top of that, due to regulations on probability-based items, there’s now a daily recharge limit.

Instead of implementing a mandatory ceiling, they’ve done all sorts of nonsense. As a result, the amount of Hollow Gems you can recharge has decreased, leading to the saying that SSRs are destined by the heavens.

Due to regulations, all domestic games have moved overseas, and Refolder Gate is no exception. Overseas payments have only increased fatigue.

The reason Refolder Gate has survived as a popular game until now is just one.

A resource as essential as the all-purpose Hollow Gem. That is, time.

Even if you’re not a heavy spender, just investing time can get you smoothly through the mid-game.

A game to enjoy. That was the Refolder Gate.

Outwardly, it claimed to be.

“Ugh.”

Dokgo Beom-bu threw his phone back by the bedside and closed his eyes, looking forward to tomorrow.

His body, weighed down by exhaustion, quickly led Dokgo Beom-bu into a dream.

And he saw it.

A scene where something shapeless was reaching out to him.

Dokgo Beom-bu saw himself in his own eyes.

Even though he was watching himself, he couldn’t feel anything strange.

【───It’s irreversible】

In the dream, Dokgo Beom-bu smiled deeply and willingly took its hand.

“I can escape this tiresome life. I’m a ranker.”

The Dokgo Beom-bu representing himself was more confident than anyone else.

【───】

***

The first thing Dokgo Beom-bu saw upon waking up was a clear, bright sky.

“What, what the…?”

Dokgo Beom-bu frantically looked around and spotted a building that looked oddly familiar.

‘The gate entrance…?’

Even in his dazed state, he could guess where he was.

The reason was that the starting point of the Refolder Gate, which he had been obsessively chasing, was right in front of him.

An empty lot with nothing but the building for entering the unit’s stage.

The famous feature of the Refolder Gate, starting with nothing but an empty plot of land, was laid out before Dokgo Beom-bu’s eyes.

***

Dokgo Beom-bu denied reality.

He thought it was just a momentary nightmare he’d wake up from any second.

But even as time passed, he didn’t wake up from the nightmare, and the Refolder Gate gladly opened its hellish door for him.

The only entrance and exit in this dizzying place.

Standing in front of that door, Dokgo Beom-bu trembled, holding his phone, sinking into despair.

“No! What am I supposed to do?!”

After all his worries, the last place Dokgo Beom-bu’s thoughts landed was the community chat window.

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[CH.AS.KR111]

(KR)Dokgo Beom-bu: Guys, what do I do about this?

(KR)Five-Colored Garlic: Don’t just say the predicate, say the subject.

(KR)Dokgo Beom-bu: 2nd floor. I’m about to die. Please hurry.

(KR)Five-Colored Garlic: You think the 2nd floor is easy? It’s completely different from the usual difficulty. Just treat it like a whole different game. Did you charge your Hollow Gem?

(KR)Dokgo Beom-bu:

Dokgo Beom-bu thought he was the only one trapped at the Refolder Gate, but that wasn’t the case. There were many others here in the same situation as him.

Maybe misery loves company. At least having people in the same boat kept Dokgo Beom-bu from losing his mind and helped him compromise with reality.

Another hopeful story was that there was a way out of this place.