The Next Hero's
Chapter 1: The Game

5 Years ago, the world was in chaos, due to an open world game called 'The Next Hero' mmorpg games that have been downloaded by more than a hundred million people are now a reality.

More than a hundred million people who have played the game can now see the system window in front of them. And not only that thing that appears, but all the systems in the game appear, including monsters that appear through the dungeon.

This strange incident makes the player who used to play this game become a Hunter.

Actually, who can become a Hunter is not only the players who have played the game, there are also some selected people who become players suddenly, when they actually never play the game.

But even if they get the power of the system, they will start from zero to get the power, unlike the players who have played the game first.

The players who have played the game will be more won. Because they will get the items and skills they have obtained while playing the game, but not all of them will be given, they will only get 30% only, but not all of them will be given, but it was also very profitable.

And also the rank they have gained while still playing the game will appear also in the real world, only the rank they get will drop 3 levels.

For example, those who have Legend I-X rank will go down to diamond rank I, along with the level they get.

Legend X rank, is the highest rank with the condition that it must reach level 100, while Diamond I, the level that must be obtained is 50.

Only about 20 people can reach the highest rank of Legend, because the level of difficulty of this game is very difficult.

And now, those people were the ones who became rulers in various countries, because they obtained diamond rank along with many items and skills that they had obtained before when the system first appeared.

Those people built their own guild, and became the 20 largest guilds in the world.

And while players who used to have Bronze level or who are still in the tutorial and have not reached the actual game, because many people who are new to the tutorial are already afraid, because the monsters in the tutorial are terrible. They would all be at Bronze I level.

No more tutorials like before. The tutorial only selected players who have never played the game.

"Yes! Park Taewoon!" A big tall guy walks into class with his friends.

"Hei eternal bronze!" greeting the man while sitting in front of the person he called Park Taewoon, Taewoon was a handsome man who wore box glasses.

"Hey... Why is your face pouting like that?" The man slapped softly on Taewoon's cheek. "Smiling dong." Taewoon put on his forced smile.

"Hey cupu, buy us as usual!" said the man while looking through Taewoon's notebook. "You're a really diligent and smart kid, Taewoon. I borrowed this yes," he smiled and walked out carrying Taewoon's notebook.

"Huh..." Taewoon sighed softly, "when I was just ready to take notes."

"Hey Taewoon! What the hell are you doing? Go quickly and deliver the food in the usual place. I'll give you 10 minutes, watch it late!" ask the man and leave the class.

"Okay.." he said resigned and immediately went out to the canteen.

This is me Park Taewoon a pitiful 2nd grader, I am often called the petty genius and the immortal bronze.

Actually I am a player who also has power, but you heard earlier right?

I'm called the eternal bronze.

Because I was very curious about new things, I also tried to play this game. But that was only one time, because I was so scared back then.

When you log in and sign up for the game. I run a game tutorial, just started the game tutorial, I gave up for fear when I saw the big monsters in the tutorial. I logged out of the game and never touched it again.

Yes, I am one of those people who are afraid of tutorials. I deserve it, getting the nickname the cuckoo genius.

And now, I'm stuck in the immortal bronze, because I have no intention of fighting those monstrous monsters.

Actually, every player must become a Hunter and kill monsters, that's an obligation made by the government. People who become players will appear in the information system that is now owned by the government. They will also be given a lot of money, in accordance with the mission they work if they become Hunters who work under the government.

But Hunter can also not be related to the government, for example they can join the guild then the guild that pays them, or they can work alone to get the money, for example, they could sell the items they got and get 80% of the proceeds from the sale, 20% of which was the entrance tax to the dungeon.

But if working under the government and guild they will get 90% of the items obtained at once from the service of killing monsters will also be counted, he said, so working with the guild and the government was quite profitable.

Now Hunter is a very profitable but dangerous job.

Anyway being a Hunter for players is mandatory, no matter whether they want to cooperate with guilds and governments or work alone, they must become Hunters to help civil society.

But not for me, I'm different. I am a player, but I have never hunted and killed monsters. That means I'm not a Hunter. Why could?

Yes you can, because I'm a subsidiary of a conglomerate, the Mirai Company. Big company number 10 in the world, moreover I have two older brothers who are great Hunters.

They are both very different from me, they are very happy to play this game first, unlike me who does not like playing games, I also try this game because of their actions.

My older brother now has a Diamond Rank III and becomes the guild leader he built. His guild is one of the largest guilds in Korea.

While my older sister has a Diamond Rank VI, she is also a guild leader herself, and the guild is bigger than my first brother's guild.

So since I have a great brother and a great parent, I don't have to bother taking care of things like that.

Therefore I became an immortal bronze who was often bullied at school.

The reason they were so brave to bully me who was the son of this conglomerate, was very simple.

I didn't tell anyone about my family.

Therefore they consider me a weak immortal bronze. Though they did not know, that I had never once entered a dungeon and leveled up mine.

And the reason I don't show off who my family is, it's because my family doesn't care about what's going on with me either.

aside from that, I was actually afraid of those monsters, but that was then, not now.

For now, there is another reason I cannot become a Hunter despite being a player and the reason I cannot enter a dungeon.

So, it's not that I don't want to kill that monster and become strong by leveling up. Rather, I have other reasons that make me unable to become a Hunter and the reason that makes me an immortal bronze.