Chapter 69 – Cut Line

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I covered my face with both hands and slumped down in my seat.

The self-loathing is more significant than I thought.

Arang, who should be protecting me from self-loathing, immediately hid, saying her work was done. It’s driving me even crazier because of that.

To have acted all nyan nyan with the mentality of a man in my 30s. I really want to die.

If I ever do that again, I’ll really cut off my precious thing. But it’s already gone…?

“Kyaaaa Arang is so cute!”

Soonchu hugged me and shook my body wildly, expressing her joy.

“Alright! I’ll teach you properly!”

Soonchu and I created a private room and entered the Arena.

Soonchu chose her main job, Warrior, and I, of course, entered as Assassin.

“Hmm… First, what’s important in PVP is skill canceling!”

“Skill canceling? Come to think of it, the Great Swordsman user used it too, I think.”

“That’s right. Looking at the video Arang recorded, it was probably something like this.”

Soonchu narrowed the distance to me in an instant with a charge skill, just like the Great Swordsman user.

I judged that there was enough time to use a movement skill and immediately used the skill.

“Yap~”

“!?”

Soonchu, who arrived right in front of me in an instant despite the remaining distance, canceled my movement skill, which was not far from being cast, by hitting my body with her fist like the Great Swordsman user did.

“What? How did you do that?”

“This is one of the combos that tanks use: Charge Cancel, Skill Cancel, Melee Combo.”

“What’s so complicated about it.”

“It’s simple. Approach with a charge skill, cancel the charge skill before the speed drops, use any skill that goes forward during the skill and cancel it, and use melee!”

“That’s really complicated? But isn’t the benefit of canceling two skills a loss if it’s just one melee attack?”

“That’s because Arang has unbelievable physical skills.”

“Why?”

“Alright~ I’ll explain!”

The Charge Cancel, Skill Cancel, Melee Combo is not a method that is unconditionally used from the beginning to the last combo.

When charging, if the opponent reacts late or misjudges the distance, attack with the charge skill as it is, and if the opponent reacts, change the attack position by using the next skill after canceling. If they react to that as well, the melee attack goes out last.

The advantage of this combo is that it’s almost impossible to avoid the final melee attack.

“Isn’t that a scam…? It’s hard to do anything because the skill gets canceled the moment you get hit.”

“Instead, two skills go on cooldown, so it’s not that beneficial even if it succeeds. Melee doesn’t do much damage.”

Soonchu distanced herself from me again and took the Warrior’s charge skill stance.

“Of course, that small benefit significantly increases the success rate of the next attack, so many people prefer this combo. The way to break through this is to completely widen the distance or use a CC skill the moment you grasp the charging motion. Let’s try it once.”

“Yeah. I understand.”

As Soonchu used the charge skill like before, I took a slight step forward, unlike before.

Soonchu naturally used Charge to approach me, then canceled it and tried to use a skill that went forward, although not as fast as Charge.

I used the Assassin’s thrusting skill, [Rapier], towards such Soonchu, swinging a spirit-state dagger at Soonchu.

“It looks like the distance will be insufficient, unfortunately?~”

The moment Soonchu smiled at my skill and tried to use the next skill.

Kaaang!

“Ara?”

Soonchu’s skill, which had not yet been fully cast and had not gained power, received a parry judgment when it hit the end of my thrusting skill, [Rapier].

Each of us staggered back as we were stunned.

“This distance reaches? I thought there would be only about a hand span left.”

“When Unni used the charge skill, she took a step forward with her front leg.”

“Wow… Arang, what’s going on with your combat sense and physical skills? To do this like this? No, how do you even attack an axe with a thrusting attack in the first place? You’ll fail if you miss even a little bit.”

“I don’t really know about combat sense either. But I know why my physical skills are good.”

“Really!? It wasn’t just talent?”

“Yeah. Should I tell you?”

“Yeah! Unni wants to know too!”

“Unni, do you know that?”

“Know what?”

I pointed to my eyes and said.

“That blind people become more sensitive and developed in their hearing and sense of touch.”

“I know that. Isn’t that a really famous story?”

“That’s right. It’s famous. It’s called ‘Neuroplasticity.’ In simple terms, it’s the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by interacting with the environment.”

“But why all of a sudden?”

I stretched out my arms and legs and pointed to the boundary line between my arms and legs with one hand.

The boundary line created as the Artificial Intelligence in Legacy of Raid reconstructed my body. Anyone who sees it might mistake it for a severance line, but… Isn’t it a severance line?

Well, let’s move on from this.

“The senses in the remaining parts of my body became incredibly sensitive and developed after my arms and legs were severed, but when the Legacy of Raid Artificial Intelligence created my arms and legs, it made them with the composition of my body. So not only my body, but my entire body became incredibly sensitive and developed! Hehehe!”

My body’s senses and nerves were 200% more developed than other people because I didn’t have arms and legs, but the Legacy of Raid Artificial Intelligence saw my body in its 200% state and made my arms and legs with 200% sensitivity and nerves.

Arang’s body itself is already a bundle of talent, but her talent has doubled because she doesn’t have arms and legs, and her arms and legs have returned?

It’s just cheat level.

My body moves as I think, and it moves without a delay of even 0.01 seconds.

I can understand why other users were accusing me of being a hacker and using illegal modifications in the beginning.

How long has it been since this raid came out? It’ll be the 6th week soon, but the dealers can’t clear the 1-on-1 dealer gimmick even after equipping their gear.

Maybe in order to have this level of physical skill, it would take at least a few years in a state where your arms and legs are missing until your brain adapts?

Arang has been without arms and legs for almost 4 years.

You can only call this true luck.

I’m already upset about not having arms and legs, but what if my senses and nerves hadn’t even developed? That would be tearful.

“You got stronger because you didn’t have arms and legs. You’re completely Lucky Vicky!”

Good good. I heard that I was told by Pink Berry that I was unfashionable because of the last thumbs-up incident, and recently I have been studying the latest memes before going to bed.

I think that meme was a very appropriate timing.

I was an Mister before becoming Arang, but now I’m a 15-year-old youthful girl, so I need to know these things.

Squeak.

“Soonchu Unni?”

Soonchu suddenly hugs me.

“…?”

Soonchu’s condition doesn’t look good.

What is it? She’s not crying like last time with Doctor Hyesun, and she doesn’t have a sad expression, but she spoke while smiling?

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-Arangieeeeeeeeeee

-ArangArangArangArangArangArangArangArang

-Kkiyoooooooook

-NooooooongNooooooong

-Class President, bring Arang right now! Bring her now!

Kang Hangil sighed as he looked at his broadcast chat window.

Mentions of other people are normally prohibited on the broadcast, but there seemed to be no way to stop the current momentum.

He hadn’t broadcast with Arang since the World First Kill.

That period exceeded a month, and Arang didn’t enter Legacy of Raid for about a week, so news of Arang was cut off from the people.

The only place where people could hear news of Arang was, sadly, Kang Hangil’s broadcast.

Arang is the raid leader of the raid group that achieved World First Kill and is the most famous Legacy of Raid user in Korea, known as the strongest Legacy of Raid physical player through the 1-on-1 Mak’gora video.

But she doesn’t broadcast, she doesn’t have a RyuTube, and she’s only posted one guild recruitment post on the gallery so far and hasn’t looked at it.

The only person people can hear news of Arang from is Kang Hangil, so they come and make a fuss whenever he has time.

Kang Hangil has been broadcasting while restraining the people who make a fuss.

However, news of Arang became scarce, and she didn’t log in for a week, but suddenly appeared in the Player versus Player Arena, so all the viewers who had been searching for news of Arang until now started making a fuss, demanding that he bring Arang.

He was already going crazy with Arang-related emails after the World First Kill, but with the viewers acting like this, his head was throbbing.

Of course, he doesn’t dislike these things.

Thanks to Arang, he did World First Kill, and his broadcast and RyuTube, which had been stagnant, grew in an instant as he gained recognition worldwide, not just in Korea, so he felt good.

His body is suffering, though.

He knows that now is the time for his body to suffer, so he is working hard.

When the chat demanding that he show Arang became so numerous that it was impossible to control, Kang Hangil finally sent Arang a whisper asking for help.

“Hoo… Everyone, Arang says to come to the Guild House.”

-Iyahooooo!

-As expected, Class President, I believed in you!

-Arang’s phone Kkkkk

-Arang’s contact list Kkkkk

-But honestly, you’ve benefited a lot from Arang!

-Real kkkkk

-Let’s go see Arang

-I like Pinku and Soonchu more than Arang

“As you all know, Arang is 15 years old. Everyone, be careful with your chat. I’ll ban you mercilessly if you cross the line even a little.”

-I know~

-If you do Gallery, everyone knows that fact kkkkk

-Hup!

-Zip it!

-But the truth is that it’s impossible not to want Arang kkkkk

-Real kkkkk

Kang Hangil sighed as he looked at the chat, which had finally calmed down.

‘I should ask Arang to do anything to communicate with the fans.’