If I Don’t Earn 1 Trillion Won, My Regression Ends - Chapter 73

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Episode 73

The Hall of Persona has a total of four functions.

First, [Legend Recreation]

– Usage Condition: Watch 3 or more films starring the corresponding legendary actor

– Recommended Level: 4~5 stars

It was a technique that allowed me to select and manifest one unique ability of legendary actors who dominated the century.

For example, Audrey Hepburn’s [Everyone’s Lover] that captivates everyone around her.

Olivia Hussey’s [First Love’s Eyes] that draws out the concentration of fellow actors.

Meryl Streep’s [Language Magic] that perfectly masters any accent.

It’s an incredibly overpowered skill, but maybe because I’m only 3-star right now, the duration I can maintain it is short.

When I tried using it, it felt like forcibly attaching a Lamborghini engine to a bicycle?

The gap between my abilities and the legends’ abilities was too large for me to handle.

As guided, it seemed I’d need to be at least 4-star level for it to be manageable.

If I were to use it on set, it would be about one cut at a time. Even at most, I could only maintain it for the takes needed for one scene.

Second, [Character Synchronization]

– Usage Condition: Possess the actual script of the work

– Recommended Level: 1 star

This was literally experiencing the same experiences as the character in the script, similar to a kind of possession.

Going back and forth through a person’s entire life in the blink of an eye, in some aspects it’s a much more useful skill than [Legend Recreation].

But it was equally very, very dangerous.

I wondered if foreign scripts would work too, so I asked Haemun to get me the script for “Léon” and tested it with ‘Mathilda’… well.

It worked well. I was bedridden for almost two months. I’ll only say that much.

Currently, I possess a total of three scripts that I can synchronize with.

The recommended level is only 1 star, but I was too scared to want to touch them.

Third, [Infinite Rehearsal]

– Usage Condition: Watch at least 1 previous work by the director and main staff (cinematography, lighting, art director) of a contracted work

– Recommended Level: None

The IMAX Screen isn’t there for nothing.

By approaching the cinema side of the hall and just providing a title, I could watch any desired films at any time.

Once I fulfilled the usage conditions and said “Start rehearsal,” a virtual filming set would be constructed.

From dozens of lighting equipment humming and emitting heat to the dolly carrying the cinematographer, to the youngest staff member holding a reflector in the corner.

The atmosphere of the set was recreated without missing a single detail.

It was nothing short of a luxurious preview set where I could experience cameras, lighting, positioning, and movement in advance.

True to its name [Infinite Rehearsal], it was the only skill that could be used continuously.

10 minutes in the Persona Hall equals 1 minute in reality.

Even if I practiced for 100 minutes, only 10 minutes would have passed in reality, so phew~ I wanted to practice here for life!

Don’t I have camera phobia?

Because I freeze up like a loser just looking at camera lenses, even when filming that CF four years ago, Ham Gyeong-seok had to use the extreme measure of staying behind alone and handling the camera himself.

‘If you had this kind of skill, you should have given it to me earlier!’

Even when I first used the infinite rehearsal skill, I froze up so much I couldn’t even part my lips-

‘For two years really… I really worked so hard…’

Isn’t it telling that I memorized all the names of staff members I haven’t even properly met yet?

As a result of training like crazy, I at least escaped the state where my legs would shake just looking at a camera.

How terrible would the first day of filming have been without this skill? I didn’t even want to imagine.

Fourth, [Final Cut]

– Usage Condition: Must be my own work with a formally completed appearance contract

– Recommended Level: None

Lastly, what I consider the ultimate cheat key…

“Play Final Cut.”

Click.

Darkness fell.

Along with music filling the entire space, a film began playing on the IMAX Screen.

Small white text appeared first in the center of the black screen, typing out a date.

2003. 05. 22.

“Family History,” Haemun’s work.

〚Father. Didn’t I tell you to come home before 10 o’clock? You’re getting more and more disobedient.〛

I looked at my face appearing on the giant silver screen as if observing it.

A neat preppy look with buttons fastened tight up to the neck and curly shoulder-length hair.

It was ‘Munsul,’ the female lead of “Family History.”

Today’s date is July 9th, 2002.

So that is my movie that will be screened next May.

It’s the final completed version of the film with filming, editing, music, and color correction all finished.

To summarize, [Final Cut] was a cheat key that helped me cheat by showing me the future answer sheet like this.

Looking at the completed ‘answer sheet’ from the future, I could either take a shortcut without failure, or find shortcomings and improve further to surpass the ‘answer sheet.’

Of course, it doesn’t show the entire completed version.

There were no scenes of other actors, and even my scenes were only shown in fragments, cut off abruptly… it was fragments of a cheat sheet.

These four in total.

Each one was an ability that was nothing short of tremendous privilege for an actor.

But this much is necessary for balance!

Without these cheat keys, no matter how much I desired the path of acting, I would have been too busy looking at stock charts because of the 1 trillion won mission that my survival depended on, and couldn’t have devoted my all to this side.

The reason I could turn my attention away from money-making businesses including stocks and real estate is simple.

“Open Achievement window.”

Ding!

【Achievements in Progress】 (3/3)

– Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Actress: Mission Progress +5% [Top-tier Domestic Actor]

– Baeksang Arts Awards Grand Prize: Mission Progress +10% [Asia’s Box Office Guarantee]

– Academy Award Best Actress: Mission Progress +15% [Globally Recognized Global Icon]

“Ugh.”

At first glance, it looks generous.

If I achieve them all, isn’t it a highway pass that raises mission progress by 30%?

But… it can’t be helped, right?!

Look at that wickedly impossible difficulty level!

Blue Dragon Best Actress, fine, let’s say that’s possible.

But Baeksang Grand Prize? Oscar Best Actress?

‘Are you insane?’

For an actor to win the Baeksang Grand Prize solo was like winning the lottery – it required heavenly luck and perfect timing to align.

The cases I remember are only Misil from “Queen Seondeok,” Cheon Song-yi from “My Love from the Star,” and Woo Yeong-woo from “Extraordinary Attorney Woo.” Even Na Eun-ra (real name: Namihee), the Queen of Cannes, couldn’t win it!

Let alone an Oscarrrr? Excuse me?

“Knock knock, examiner~? I’m a native Korean from Northeast Asia. I’m not a racist, but isn’t there some kind of racial misunderstanding here? This person isn’t white, you know.”

【….】

The examiner sister silenced me with her usual silence as always…

Actually, it’s a simple calculation.

It means the system has converted the monetary value of those trophies to 50 billion, 100 billion, and 150 billion respectively.

It meant they would acknowledge that I earned 300 billion if I could just achieve them.

The difficulty level was enough to make me cry just looking at it, but thinking about it that way, it wasn’t completely unreasonable either.

Besides, I’m a regressor. If I can’t accomplish this even with all these cheat keys hanging around me, then I’m just… brain dead.

‘You decided to become a great actor, Seosing-a.’

Let’s not be scared.

What’s so frightening about Hollywood?

What’s the big deal about an Oscar trophy?

To be called a ‘great actor,’ I should at least leave handprints at the legendary Chinese Theatre, not just the Hollywood Walk of Fame that anyone who’s somewhat famous visits!

Besides, I’ll have to board a plane to the United States in a few years whether I like it or not.

Let’s just think of it as destiny.

And since these things are all sub-missions of the [Billionaire Mission], they’re all connected like chains, so it’s not like I can avoid them even if I want to.

For example, the [Family Aggregation] condition.

The Family Aggregation condition, which had been locked and mysterious all along, was also unlocked two years ago when I opened my profession stats…

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