『 “Bigdickkk: ‘Please teach me how to raise Park Su-bin.’
Alright, friend. I don’t know how big your dick is, but I can guarantee that the squishy thing inside your head is very small and cute. I’ve told you thousands of times not to raise that kind of trash character, and yet you’re asking me.
The character Park Su-bin is a structurally flawed, bugged character. You guys only see the gimmick that your stats won’t grow unless you delete the minus traits, but the truly insane part of this character lies in the SS-grade minus trait ‘Weakness,’ which forces an abnormal playstyle and has a time-limited growth period.
I won’t go on at length—search for users who have registered Park Su-bin in the Hall of Fame. Professor Lee is the only one. That’s why it’s a bug. If it can’t be used by anyone except someone like Professor Lee, then what else would you call a bug?” 』
— From GM rank #3 streamer “Charlie Adam” broadcast
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“Glorious. Absolutely glorious.”
Once I tidied up the messy reward window, it looked something like this:
※ Honor: Momentum Is Everything
※ Honor: Victory Is the Best Medicine
※ Diamond Card Pack (Trait) × 1
※ Platinum Card Pack (Growth) × 1
※ Gold Card Pack (Trait) × 4
※ Gold Card Pack (Equipment) × 1
※ Gold Card Pack (Growth) × 1
“And if I add the points I’ve gathered to this…”
※ Current Points: 67,720p
“Wait.”
Let’s do what needs to be done before moving on.
At this point, I crack open a soju first.
“Khhh~ glorious.”
Satisfaction is rising from the pit of my stomach.
All the insane suffering I’ve been through gets completely washed away—this drink is sweet.
“Let’s get this sorted.”
The reward window may seem complicated at first glance, but it can be roughly divided into two categories:
‘Honor,’ which boosts my and the guild’s overall abilities, and ‘Card Packs,’ which relate to the main content of raising characters.
“Let’s start with the simple stuff.”
Lee Shin’s finger separated the ‘Honor’ section.
※ Honor: Momentum Is Everything
※ Honor: Victory Is the Best Medicine
‘Honor: Momentum Is Everything’ is a reward given when you get promoted immediately in the first season. It’s an incredibly strong honor with the effect “30% increase in points gained during win streaks.”
It’s considered one of the must-have honors for play, the reason being that it’s one of the rare traits in GM that can be stacked.
If you combine it with the various “point increase” honors you get later, breaking 10,000 points per match is no longer a dream.
“That’s why I went through hell just to get this one.”
Compared to that, the next one was relatively easy to obtain.
‘Honor: Victory Is the Best Medicine’ is a mid-game hard-carry achievement with the effect “20% increase in raid team growth rate during win streaks.”
Though the condition of maintaining a win streak is a bit tricky and it can’t be stacked like “Momentum Is Everything,” since it’s one of the few growth-type honors in GM, its performance doesn’t lose to any other honor if you’re running a win streak.
“The early honor grind went well.”
Just having gotten these two in the first season was the best kind of start.
On a whim, I tapped my fingers twice to raise ‘Frontline Fatigue Reduction’ to Level 2.
A few thousand precious points went flying, but right now I’m point-rich. If not now, when would I use them?
• Honor
• Frontline Fatigue Reduction Lv5▲ (18%▲)
• Triple Seven: 777
• Momentum Is Everything (Points gained during win streaks +30%)
• Victory Is the Best Medicine (Raid team growth during win streaks +20%)
Stopping there, Lee Shin coolly closed the [Guild Management Window].
Sure, he could leave it open in the corner of his view like a trophy and admire it, but there’s still a long way to go.
“Next.”
After a short deliberation—he pressed the [Manager Status Window].
※ Name: Lee Shin (23 years old)
• Society (100/100) (MAX)
Politics: 0 (+50p)
Leadership: 0 (+50p)
Reputation: 0 (+50p)
Dominance: 35 (+600p)
Charm: 101 (???)
Wealth: 100 (MAX)
Da-da-da-da, an exhilarating rapid tap.
Dominance: 41 (+700p)… Dominance: 45 (+800p)… Dominance: 51 (+1000p)… 59 (+1300p)…
“Done.”
※ Name: Lee Shin (23 years old)
• Society (100/100) (MAX)
Politics: 0 (+50p)
Leadership: 0 (+50p)
Reputation: 0 (+50p)
Dominance: 60 (+1500p)
Charm: 101 (???)
Wealth: 100 (MAX)
Below, message windows starting with 【 You have met the requirement of ‘Dominance’ stat 60 】 scrolled past in droves.
They were messages saying that certain traits had been generated from stat synergies, but Lee Shin didn’t even check them and closed them.
He already knew what they were, and more importantly, that wasn’t what mattered right now.
“Really, I’ve waited a long time for this.”
How much hell had I gone through just to see this scene today?
※ Diamond Card Pack (Trait) × 1
※ Platinum Card Pack (Growth) × 1
※ Gold Card Pack (Trait) × 4
※ Gold Card Pack (Equipment) × 1
※ Gold Card Pack (Growth) × 1
I’m “cheesing” it.
In the traditional Korean folk game “War of the Stars,” this term refers to a build where you use the minimal amount of forces, tighten your core, and go for a multi-base expansion right away.
Why do you cheese? To take one step back in order to take two steps forward.
To give an example from that folk game, it’s like making a lot of resources early on, instantly teching up, and producing high-tier units.
That’s why Lee Shin had been holding back for today’s leap forward.
“And now, the star of today—Bokchi—appears.”
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※ Park Su-bin (Male. 16 years old) (101▲/200)
*Stats
Strength 10 Agility 10
Stamina 31 Intelligence 31
Wisdom 33 Magic Power 50
*Traits (6/9)
「???」, 「Weakness」, 「Timid」, 「Deficient」, 「Obsessive」, 「Beta Male」
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“Even though I erased them bit by bit, there are still five left.”
In fact, erasing just three is already an enormous feat.
If he brought in a GM player and showed them this interface, they’d probably have a fit. Is this even possible?
In League 4, basic rewards are not given out every round.
Apart from the so-called “first match” bonus, there’s essentially no normal way to obtain card packs.
Yet, saying that three were erased means—
He had to set new records every round to collect “Silver Card Packs,” and he had to maintain those records for at least 30 rounds.
Ten card packs of the same tier can be combined, so the gold card packs obtained that way would be three. Thus, the number of negative traits that could be erased was also three.
In other words, if Lee Shin hadn’t forced himself to maintain that record-breaking pace, even those three couldn’t have been deleted.
It was truly an unimaginable level of difficulty.
Is this really how it’s normally done?
I don’t know what “normal” is, but at least when it came to raising the character Park Su-bin, this was the right way.
If he didn’t push himself like this, he’d become an empty shell not worth raising. To turn him into the “ultimate weapon” Lee Shin knew he could be, the character had no choice but to be forced into an “extreme” playstyle.
But the even more dreadful fact is that this is only the beginning.
“I’ve tried to patch up the sealed stats with gear stacking and using stimulants or amplification potions, but that only works in League 4.”
The biggest difference between League 4 and League 3 is that in League 3, there are hunter vs. hunter matches.
In this situation, raising Park Su-bin is impossible.
Not “almost” impossible—impossible! The penalty removal and stat boosts possible with gear stacking and stimulants lasts at most 10 minutes.
Which means the match has to be decided within 10 minutes, but the opponent isn’t some idiot who would just let that happen.
Practically speaking, if Park Su-bin hasn’t erased all his negative traits, he might as well be a vegetable, making it hard for him to even secure a spot in the roster.
And at that point, another problem with Park Su-bin surfaces—
The SS-tier negative trait 「Weakness」.
“That’s the wall of lamentation right there.”
Not all negative traits are the same.
The previously erased traits like 「Sweet Potato」 and 「Self-Deprecating」, or 「Obsessive」 and 「Deficient」 here, could be erased with A-tier traits obtained from gold card packs (traits), but this 「Weakness」 is an SS-tier negative trait.
Meaning, to erase 「Weakness」, an SS-tier trait is required.
“That’s the reason I’ve gone all-in on Park Su-bin.”
He already has a short growth period, his stats are sealed by a negative trait, and to unlock the sealed stats, he’s blocked by this final-boss-like SS-tier negative trait 「Weakness」.
So he can’t participate in matches, his growth period is delayed again, and when you open his growth window again, you sigh at the sight of that 「Weakness」 once more.
A Möbius strip of hell.
As a side note, his nickname “Bokchi” comes from here.
From the start, one might think—why not just recruit him into a major guild right away? Then the rewards would be better, and negative traits could be erased faster.
One user thought this and recruited Park Su-bin into a major guild from the very start in easy mode, and the result?
He collapsed from the pressure.
That’s why he’s called Bokchi.
Thus, Park Su-bin is a mix of limitations, contradictions, irrationality, and abnormality.
This is why Lee Shin was so obsessed with record-breaking runs—so that somehow, he could hit a season rank of SSS.
※ Diamond Card Pack (Trait) * 1
By obtaining a diamond card pack, which contains SS-tier traits, he could erase all those damned negative traits.
“Then, if I dump all the points I’ve been holding back at once—”
“Perfect.”
After downing the rest of his soju, he immediately reached for the card pack.
【 Open Gold Card Pack (Trait)? 】
【 Open Gold Card Pack (Trait)? 】
【 Open Gold Card Pack (Trait)? 】
【 Open Gold Card Pack (Trait)? 】
【 Open Diamond Card Pack (Trait)? 】
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“Cough, cough! Cough!!”
Park Su-bin woke from his sleep coughing and looked at the clock.
His sweat-soaked, messy hair and bloodshot eyes showed that he was not in a normal state.
The point at which Park Su-bin collapsed in bed was a few days ago—
Right after enjoying the promotion celebration party, which was so delightful that “joyful” didn’t even begin to cover it—it was blissful.
Even lying in bed, his body trembled uncontrollably.
At the time, he thought it was just the thrill of the moment.
But when his fever climbed to 40 degrees and his pillow became drenched in sweat, he realized—he wasn’t okay.
Sure enough, the next day his whole body started to ache and burn with fever.
At first glance, it could have been mistaken for a common flu, but it was far from that. The aching felt like every joint in his body was being dismantled, and the fever over 40 degrees made his mind dizzy.
That was already a week ago.
Since then, Park Su-bin had been bedridden, unable to leave his bed.
Just then, the door opened. His mother, looking worried, entered the room carrying porridge.
“Su-bin, are you feeling okay?”
“Mo…m.”
“Look at your face. You’ve lost so much weight. Is your fever the same as yesterday? Any better than yesterday?”
“…Yes.”
“Did you get any sleep? You haven’t slept properly for days.”
“…A little.”
“Phew, at least that’s something. Here, I made pumpkin porridge—you like it, right? It was delicious, I even had a bowl. Just take one bite… Su-bin!!”
“…Eh?”
As Park Su-bin looked up blankly, a nosebleed began to flow.
His mother, startled, dropped the spoon she was holding and hurriedly grabbed some tissues.
“This won’t do. We’re going to the hospital. You’ll die at this rate.”
“It’s fine. Even if we go, they won’t know.”
“Still! I’m worried sick. Please, let’s go.”
“I said it’s fine… I can endure with potions.”
Of course, he’d already been to the hospital. The ER diagnosis was “fever.”
The cause was unknown—just an unexplained fever, they said.
Even the doctor holding the test results looked puzzled.
Since there was no clear solution, and the hospital wasn’t a comfortable place to stay, it was better to just take potions at home and endure.
So, after his mother, father, older sister, and younger sister each came in to check on him and left, Park Su-bin was left alone, sprawled out, staring at the spinning ceiling through his headache.
“…Nothing’s going right. Why get sick now of all times?”
Just as he said. League victory, promotion, insane performance—
Now was the time to live like the protagonist of the world and enjoy it like crazy.
The other raid members were going wild, saying they were traveling abroad with the hefty bonus given by the guild master.
But Park Su-bin’s regret had nothing to do with that.
“I was going to train…”
Bothered by how completely he’d been overshadowed by Lee Hye-jeong and Park Jeong-seok in the latter half of the league, Park Su-bin had planned to spend this off-season in the training grounds.
True to being Lee Shin’s student, Park Su-bin was brutally self-aware.
Though he could perform as long as he was loaded with gear and downing amplification potions like water, without those, he wasn’t even half a hunter.
He’d managed so far, but in the hunter-vs-hunter matches of League 3, this wouldn’t work. So he had resolved to overcome this weakness during the off-season.
But—
“So annoying…”
Park Su-bin’s vision blurred, and without realizing it, he passed out.
When he woke up again, drenched in sweat as always, a figure came into view.
“Mmm, tasty. Nom nom.”
It was Lee Shin, eating the pumpkin porridge his mother had left earlier.
Park Su-bin’s hyung, teacher, and guild master.
“…Guild… mas…ter…?”
“Hmm? You’re awake?”
With pumpkin porridge at the corner of his mouth, Lee Shin answered nonchalantly. Park Su-bin was certain—this wasn’t a hallucination.
After scraping the bowl clean, Lee Shin grinned.
“I came because I was worried. Who would’ve thought raising all your stats at once would cause this problem? My bad.”
“Hyung… my head hurts… please speak slowly.”
“Ah, it’s nothing big, don’t worry. How’s your body?”
“A little dizzy.”
“Need anything?”
“…No, I’m fine.”
“Good. I’ll be going, then.”
“Already…?”
“Yeah.”
Park Su-bin just opened and closed his mouth.
Was he really leaving? All he’d done was steal the porridge.
But Lee Shin meant it.
“I only came to check something.”
He really had come to check something.
The raised stats—
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※ Park Su-bin (Male. 16 years old) (175▲/200)
*Stats
Strength 10▶50 Agility 10▶50
Stamina 31▶50 Intelligence 31▶50
Wisdom 33▶50 Magic Power 50▶70
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And the erased traits—
*Traits (6/9)
「???」, 「Weakness」, 「Timid」, 「Deficient」, 「Obsessive」, 「Beta Male」
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*Traits (1/9)
「???」
“Rest well. If you need anything, say so.”
Just as he was about to leave, Lee Shin suddenly turned back.
“But hey, Bokchi.”
He said to Park Su-bin—
“You’ve gotten taller.”
The boy was growing.
It was spring.
