Chapter 46: Breaking the Rules (5)
by AfuhfuihgsZeronix stood with arms crossed, while Frost sat before the screen.
The two administrators of Pixelwars weren’t paying attention to the bustle of the other streamers.
They were focused entirely on one person—Silverhair.
If anyone else had tried something like this, they’d have called it idiotic and ignored it.
But Silverhair? She was different. There was a sliver of hope she might pull it off.
Frost showed that hope openly. Zeronix didn’t say it, but he was curious too.
After all, despite being an admin now, he was a streamer at heart.
And he didn’t want to miss a good show.
“Shouldn’t you be monitoring the others too, bro?”
“Ah, yeah, but, you know… I wanted to check the Kraken Greatsword’s performance.”
Frost teased, and Zeronix offered a flimsy excuse.
Silverhair had just drawn the Kraken’s Greatsword, after all.
They needed to verify its balance.
If it turned out broken, that’d be a problem.
Or so he told himself, clearing his throat awkwardly.
Inside the ancient ruins, where bomb materials could be gathered—
A random monster ambushed them the moment they entered.
A gargoyle.
Tanky and tough.
“Unlucky.”
“Yeah. They got the worst one.”
They both clicked their tongues.
Gargoyles didn’t have much HP, but their stone armor made them incredibly tough.
Since they could fly, it was hard to shake aggro, and they ignored terrain.
CRACK—!
“Wait, what?”
But Silverhair cleaved it in a single blow.
They almost couldn’t believe it—one second it was a monster, the next, rubble.
Zeronix narrowed his eyes.
“Is this a balance issue? That’s too much damage.”
Sure, the Kraken Greatsword had high attack power,
But its true strength lay in lifesteal.
It was designed for drawn-out fights, leeching HP over time.
If it could one-shot a gargoyle and still lifesteal, wasn’t that too much?
“Let’s check on Kreetzone.”
Frost pulled up Kreetzone’s feed.
He had the same sword.
“Nooo! Not there!”
“Boss, hang on—Aaargh!”
On-screen, Kreetzone and his crew were struggling in an underwater cave,
Swarmed by fish-like monsters, drenched in slime.
He was swinging the same sword, but the attacks looked pitiful.
The lifesteal kept them alive, but compared to Silverhair?
It was embarrassing.
“Turn it off. My eyes are burning.”
“Yes, sir.”
They grimaced and shut down Kreetzone’s screen.
Two grown men flailing like that—too much.
“So… no balance issue, huh.”
“Silverhair just knows how to use it.”
“Yeah. Probably exploited the gargoyle’s weak point.”
They returned to watching Silverhair, who had already gathered the bomb ingredients
and was crafting the Unstable Magic Core Bomb.
‘What’s she planning to do with that?’
As Zeronix frowned,
Silverhair hugged the bomb close and began heading somewhere.
Quick footsteps.
Destination? The Altar of the Stars.
She didn’t even glance at Elderyn—the NPC central to item exchange.
Straight to the altar.
“Ugh. That’s a waste.”
Zeronix sighed quietly.
Frost nodded, sharing the regret.
“If she’d just used the Mask of Deception properly…”
Zeronix clicked his tongue.
If Silverhair had approached certain NPCs while wearing the hidden piece,
she could’ve obtained 2 of the 10 items more easily through negotiations.
“If she’d used the mask and allied with another streamer quickly, she could’ve gone toe-to-toe with Kreetzone.”
But Silverhair completely rejected the path they had designed.
Instead, for whatever reason, she was heading to the altar with a bomb.
“She’s not thinking of blowing up the golem… right?”
Frost mumbled in disbelief.
The odds of success were below zero.
“Impossible.”
Zeronix snorted.
The golem guarding the altar—the Aegis Golem—
was a special event NPC, not a regular monster.
“It’s not even an enemy. It’s treated as an object. It doesn’t have an HP bar. It’s literally invincible—coded to be untouchable.”
He continued.
“And that bomb has zero real damage. No matter how good her control is, she can’t break the unbreakable.”
The door was completely sealed.
No access without a pass.
Silverhair’s incredible control and reflexes didn’t matter here.
This was a misunderstanding of the system.
“She underestimated the game. Pixelwars isn’t something you master overnight. She’s still missing that game sense.”
There was only one solution.
Gather all 10 materials and obtain the pass—no shortcuts.
They’d blocked every potential exploit.
Meanwhile, she was wasting precious time in front of the altar.
The other teams were already pulling far ahead.
A shame—but it was what it was.
By then, Silverhair and Raidel had arrived.
Altar of the Stars.
The majestic altar wasn’t far from town.
It didn’t need to be, since no one could pass the golem anyway.
As expected, the entrance sealing the Demon of the Stars was blocked by two massive golems.
The Aegis Golems.
Not a single gap.
Without a pass, they didn’t react.
Silverhair paused, then suddenly began slashing at the golems with her Kraken Greatsword.
Of course, no effect.
‘She must be trying something else.’
She had to know they were invincible.
The quest description said so.
Then the only reason to attack them would be to draw aggro.
But the golems—made of pure white magic stone—
stood still, completely ignoring her.
“Just in case, we made them immune to aggro too. Set their sensitivity to minimum.”
Not only invincible, but unresponsive.
They blocked the path entirely, and there was nothing players could do about it.
“…Wait.”
Zeronix froze.
“No way.”
Something clicked in his brain.
He met Frost’s wide eyes—same thought.
‘The golems have minimum sensitivity, but that bomb… its aggro rating is maxed out.’
Right then—
Silverhair casually placed the Unstable Magic Core Bomb at the golems’ feet.
Then leapt away with nimble precision.
KABOOOM—!
A deafening explosion shook the area.
The damage was negligible, but the visual effects were dramatic.
And before the smoke had even cleared—
The unthinkable happened.
Wooooooom—!
The two Aegis Golems, frozen until now,
suddenly flared with blue light in their eyes.
They had entered a hostile state!
Their gazes locked squarely on Silverhair,
who stood at a distance, waving at them with a tiny smile.
“…Holy sh*t. It actually worked.”
Zeronix clenched his fists before he realized it.
Totally unexpected.
He had chills.
“Bro, is she actually going to break through?!”
Frost’s voice rose.
He hadn’t seen this coming either.
The awakened golems stomped forward, shaking the entire altar.
As they advanced, Silverhair turned and ran.
As the golems followed—
the path they had blocked came into view!
“Ah—Raidel!”
Just then, Raidel dashed out from her hiding spot.
She picked up the Kraken Greatsword that Silverhair had seemingly discarded.
“So that’s what this was for.”
Zeronix chuckled in disbelief.
Draw the golems with the bomb.
Have your hidden teammate open the path while they’re gone.
It was brilliant.
He almost wanted to applaud.
If only it weren’t his game.
“Here I go!”
Raidel roared and swung the sword at the altar’s gate.
She used a full-force skill-enhanced slash.
BOOM—!
The earth-shaking impact resounded.
But.
The gate didn’t even crack.
“…That was within expectations.”
Like the golems, the gate was a non-destructible object.
Even if the golems left, no one could pass.
Raidel attacked repeatedly, but the gate didn’t budge.
“Now Silverhair’s in danger too.”
Before Zeronix finished speaking, one golem’s eyes fired a blue laser.
FZZZZZAP—!
The stone around the altar melted from the blast.
“The golems’ attacks are all one-shots. Even grazing hits kill.”
Unlimited HP. Unlimited attack.
Even if they’re aggroed, they can’t be killed.
FSSSSHH—!
But Silverhair—
as if she’d read the trajectory in advance—
dodged the beam with a paper-thin margin.
Fluid and precise.
Almost effortless.
“…Yeah. Her control really is something else.”
Zeronix muttered in awe, but still didn’t believe she could win.
No one could dodge like that forever.
Even if she could, the gate was indestructible. The golems couldn’t die.
Just as Zeronix said, the golems chased her with terrifying speed.
They stomped and slammed the ground with massive fists,
lasers razed the plaza in seconds.
Silverhair darted between altar pillars,
dodging, using the terrain,
even baiting the golems into attacking each other.
“Wow.”
Even Frost was stunned.
No other word fit but awe.
Though it changed nothing.
The golems were invincible.
No friendly fire.
No loopholes.
“Still, she’s lasting pretty long. If she makes it back to town, she might survive…”
SCREEEECH—
The golems suddenly froze.
“…What? A bug?”
Frost mumbled, baffled.
Zeronix stared at the screen, equally confused.
There was no reason for the aggro to drop.
Then.
Silverhair stepped forward from her evasive path.
Calm. Confident.
THOOM.
The Aegis Golems—who just seconds ago had been trying to crush her—
lowered themselves to their knees before her.
TL Note: The term “aggro” refers to how enemies in games detect and target players. The “Unstable Magic Core Bomb” was designed as a joke item with absurd aggro values, which Silverhair exploited to bypass a system-defined obstacle in a way that even the devs didn’t anticipate.
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