The perception of video/online games has changed a lot. In the past, the atmosphere of the media and society was to emphasize the risk of gaming addiction and encourage not to play a game. However, the atmosphere is very different these days. 

People recognize games as something to enjoy for fun as entertainment, not something to make people stupid. Now is the time to understand games as sports, art, and work of art. When professional gamers first appeared, some people didn’t regard it as a profession, saying being a professional gamer was just to sit in front of a monitor, tapping a keyboard, and moving a mouse around. 

However, things have been changed. Not everyone can become a professional gamer. They’re in their position after putting tremendous efforts. As there are experts or sports athletes in each area such as being soccer players, basketball players, baseball players, and volleyball players, professional gamers are specialized athletes in the game area. 

 

‘No Scope’ is a term to quote ‘carry’ mainly used in online games. And when you put ‘hard’ in front of ‘carry’, it means that a player feeds his team the carry to deal the high attack damage against the opposing team, which greatly affects the outcome of the game. 

 

The game called ‘Cyonic Vegabond’ in this webtoon is very similar to an online game we know of. Anyone can tell the game in the webtoon has a motif of ‘Ov** Wa***’. Well, it’s almost certain. ‘Cyonic Vegabond’ is an online game that has gained enormous popularity worldwide just one month after its launching. 

This game is about a power game between ordinary humans and psychics in the future city, fighting their weapons and their power. It’s a hyper fps genre game that the team wins a victory by first defeating the opposing team’s territory in the 5 vs 5 team battle. The game ranking of ‘Cyonic Vegabond’ is decided to 7 levels just like a mock examination.

 

The lowest tier is in order of Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, and Grand Master. The highest tier is the Grand Master. The tier of ‘Kang Su-ho’ who plays an important role is Grand Master. 

 

His grades are great at school. Even though his grade is top fourth in the whole school, he maintains the Grand Master tier in the Cyonic Vegabond with excellent talent and lots of efforts. He loves the online game, Cyonic Vegabond. Accidentally he meets the protagonist of this cartoon in the computer room.

 As confident as Kang Su-ho is in the top tier of the Grand Master, he finds out that this guy whom he meets in the computer room also plays the Cyonic Vegabond. He plays a one-on-one game with this guy, and this match ends up with Kang Su-ho’s massive defeat. He’s defeated at a unique record of 10-10, even though he’s the Grand Master. He’s even more shocked because this guy uses an unranked account at Level 22. He can’t believe it because the Grand Master is just defeated by an unranked use for 10 games straight. Kang Su-ho feels something strange and searches his ID in the precious record search engine. 

 

<The protagonist won the ten games.>

 

As a result of a previous record, the user 'psycopomp' is a famous ranker, namely the Legend tier, on a North American server. Only the top 300 of the Grand Masters are called Legends. As the name implies, he is the big shot in the tier of 300 strongest players. It was a natural result that Kang Su-ho was defeated. Since then, Kang Su-ho approaches the protagonist plainly. He really wants to become familiar with him. 

Since he’s highly interested in playing games, he can’t help being intrigued by this big shot who is of the same age in his year at school and can also surpass him. Persistently chasing the protagonist, Kang Su-ho succeeds in going to the PC café with him. They play a game together. Surprisingly, he doesn’t show his ability as much as the last time when he won Kang Su-ho.

 

He is a childhood friend and a ranker of Cyonic Vegabond. He is self-centered with a nasty personality. But, his skills are great. He is a case that skills and personality are inversely proportional. It’s no doubt that he’ll trip over by his nasty personality in the future. 

However, our protagonist has never beaten his friend with a trash-like personality when he plays a game. And these experiences have piled up over and over and become a kind of his trauma. So, the protagonist’s current personality becomes very timid and he always considers what others think about him. That dude is the source of evil.

 

Su-ho is the one who cares about Do-yun’s personality and sees potential from him. Convinced that Do-yun’s talent will make Do-yun become a professional gamer who will go down in the history of E-SPORT, Su-ho persuades Do-yun to make a team and participate in the competition. The webtoon to cultivate a professional gamer has just begun! At the end of the twists and turns, they make a team and participate in the amateur game competition hosted by the internet broadcasting BJ. The aftereffect makes Do-yun known as a quite famous player in the celestial world (the high ranking tier). However, his great appearance and ability raise suspicion if Do-yun is using an illegal program. Jealousy is an inevitable companion. 

The webtoon is a story about two boys; one is mentally immature but born with the best talent, and the other has excellent judgment and skill but feels the limitations of his talent. I look forward to seeing how the two will make a story in the future. As an aside, I’m also a gamer who loves playing a game and feel this webtoon is intriguing. I highly recommend.