Conquest Battle (6)

Kim Ji-hoon, the director of Legacy of Raid, was very much looking forward to today’s update.

After successfully running this Abyss Season, LeoRe, which was already growing, exploded in growth.

If it was famous as a VR MMORPG, now it was simply famous enough to be among the top virtual world games.

Usually, the popular genre in virtual world games is single-player games.

As the virtual world became common, people began to prefer games where they become special or overpowered, like life simulation games.

In that situation, Legacy of Raid proudly entered the ranks of virtual world games.

Of course, the journey was not easy.

Creating a virtual world game takes a considerable amount of time and difficulty.

Providing that as a real-time service game was quite a difficult journey.

However, they built a systematic system and accomplished it with a large workforce. In the beginning, they had numerous deficits, but the CEO of the company that created LeoRe told them to do whatever they wanted without caring.

Thanks to the CEO’s full support, they eventually started servicing LeoRe and reached the present day.

It was generating overwhelming profits, and by reinvesting that much, it became a more and more fun game as time went by.

And with this Conquest Battle as a starting point, they were going to open a new season, so they honed it to the extreme.

The concept of this Conquest Battle is the fear and unknown dread of the new season.

A new world. A world in danger. A completely different world.

Because the Conquest Battle expresses such a season all at once, all the team members worked hard to create it.

Kim Ji-hoon checked that numerous users were connected and enjoying the newly released Conquest Battle without any problems, and then went home.

He had been working overtime for nearly a month for this Conquest Battle, so his body was already at its limit.

He thought he had made it perfect, so he returned home with peace of mind.

A house he hadn’t been to in a long time. A bed he hadn’t laid on in a long time. Lying down without worry, he instantly went to dreamland.

Ttiririring.

“Ugh…?”

While he was sleeping comfortably, Kim Ji-hoon grabbed his head and got up at the annoying phone call he heard in his ear.

After a month of overtime, a phone call that disturbed his dreamlike rest at home for the first time in a while could only make him angry, no matter how kind-hearted he was.

But because the person calling was his subordinate, he could only sigh deeply.

Click.

“I told you never to call me unless it’s absolutely necessary. What could be so important that you’re calling me now-“

[Director-nim! We have a big problem!]

“Huh, uh…?”

At the more urgent voice than he expected, he was about to think, ‘Did someone collapse and die from overwork at the company?’ when-

[There’s a serious bug in this Conquest Battle!]

“A bug…? You’re saying there’s a bug? A bug in the Conquest Battle?”

[Yes! I’ll show you the video right now!]

Kim Ji-hoon doubted his eyes after checking the video sent by the employee.

“Iarang user…?”

She was a user deeply ingrained in his mind due to the incident that occurred at the event competition when he first learned about the Iarang user.

“Wait a minute, what is this?”

The events unfolding in the video reminded Kim Ji-hoon of the meeting he had with the QA team after creating this Conquest Battle.

==

“Hey, if this part is done like this, the boss doesn’t do anything?”

“Really? He really doesn’t do anything and only uses simple patterns? Wait a minute, but this is being done with an invincibility buff.”

“That’s true.”

“Hey, if that’s the case, isn’t that no problem?”

At the QA team’s words, Kim Ji-hoon approached them and asked what they had been talking about until just now.

“If one person takes all the debuffs, the boss doesn’t do the next gimmick?”

Kim Ji-hoon nodded at the QA employee’s words.

“There was such a problem. But it seems okay because it’s only possible in a state where you’ve received invincibility judgment.”

It was an impossible task even for the company’s own raid team that LeoRe’s QA team was running.

It was the best team that had done all the Conquest Battles and Raids that had been in LeoRe so far, and they had the best game skills and a direct influence on difficulty adjustment.

Even the employee who was said to have the best physical ability on that team couldn’t do anything and died after stacking 5 debuffs alone.

In fact, that’s normal.

There is no vision.

It’s not just closing your eyes, you can’t even feel the light.

From 5 stacks onwards, the visual part is completely turned off in the virtual world, so you can’t detect any light.

In that state, avoid the boss’s attacks, avoid other users, and eat the black debuff orbs…?

It’s absolutely impossible.

==

The teams in charge of all the combat content that QA team and LeoRe made were resting at home after the update, and then gathered at the company to have a party.

They ordered various delivery foods to see which guild would do the first clear and how users would enjoy the things they had worked hard on.

“Wow. The Mead guild is definitely fast.”

“Their gimmick understanding speed is unmatched. How long did it take us to figure it out the first time?”

“Was it 14 hours?”

“Crazy. It really took a long time. But the Mead guild figures it out perfectly in about 4 hours.”

“But Iarang’s physical ability is really amazing. She’s 15 years old and has that much physical ability. Her body hasn’t even fully grown yet.”

“Iarang’s body is growing? Wow… She’s already one of the top ten physical players in LeoRe, that’s scary.”

As time passed and the Mead guild entered the 85% gimmick, all the QA team members sighed.

“That’s really annoying.”

“I know. Making the debuff a vision restriction is really vicious.”

“Who will manage the Mead guild?”

“Usually, Wanderer and Soma are the ones to do it in this situation.”

“That’s true, but it’s not like you can just decide that.”

“That’s also true.”

“…Huh?”

The Mead guild, which had been taking WFK with accurate and fast gimmick solutions from the past until now, chose a strange method.

“You’re telling her to do that alone? Reina should know that’s impossible, right?”

“Isn’t that too harsh on Iarang?”

“Ugh… Our cute princess is doing such a hard job…!”

They were not simply a guild for clearing, but a team for QA, so they had received up to 5 stacks of debuffs and were worried about the debuffs that Iarang would receive.

As they worried, Iarang couldn’t even keep her balance as soon as she received 5 stacks of debuffs.

“Egu-gu…”

Everyone felt sorry for Iarang, who was struggling with the debuffs. But that pity didn’t last long.

“Crazy…”

Everyone didn’t react to his curse. No, they couldn’t.

The crazy actions of Iarang that were visible on the screen made them say crazy things.

“What? Is there no debuff?”

“No, it clearly says 8 stacks over there.”

“So, Iarang’s movements right now are in a state where she has no vision… Crazy.”

==

Kim Ji-hoon quickly returned to the company.

His heavy breathing and the sweat already pouring down showed how urgently he had returned to the company.

“Director Kim Ji-hoon-nim!”

“Hoo… Hoo… F, first of all, let’s do an emergency maintenance right away.”

“Understood…!”

He thought it was impossible. No, it’s right that it’s impossible.

No one could succeed, and it was a fact that even the QA team, who had developed all the combat content and difficulty adjustment in LeoRe and had become stronger by experiencing everything, had found out while using an invincibility buff.

But such a situation is created without an invincibility buff?

“First, let’s check the Iarang user’s logs to determine if the debuff is working properly.”

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t help but think that there was a problem with the debuff and the vision was not blocked.

“Director-nim, there’s no problem. Iarang user is actually receiving the debuff…”

“Is that the movement of a person with no vision? The next gimmick is set up so that it only comes out when two users have 4 stacks of debuffs with each other, right?”

“Yes… That’s right… I never thought such a thing would be possible…”

“Don’t be sorry. I didn’t think such a thing was possible either.”

While running LeoRe, he tried not to draw two of the four famous swords that users often talk about: extended maintenance and emergency maintenance.

But this Conquest Battle was a very, very serious problem.

He had no choice but to take out emergency maintenance.

“It will be very difficult to normalize this now, but I ask everyone for your help.”

Kim Ji-hoon apologized to the programmers and asked them to solve this problem within an hour.

Honestly, even the programmers who made this didn’t even make it with the thought, ‘Well, this kind of thing won’t happen anyway.’

In fact, this is no one’s fault.

It was just wrong that Iarang was doing something that no one thought was possible.

==

[September 12 (Thursday) Legacy of Raid Emergency Maintenance Notice]

Hello, this is Legacy of Raid.

From 05:10 to 06:10 on September 12 (Thursday), a temporary emergency game service maintenance will be conducted for 60 minutes.

Please check the details below.

[Maintenance Time]

2024-09-12 (Thursday) 05:10 ~ 2024-09-12 (Thursday) 06:10 (60 minutes)

[Maintenance Details]

– Emergency maintenance to fix Conquest Battle content errors

[Precautions]

You will not be able to use the game service while the maintenance is in progress, and the maintenance may end early.

Please exit the game in a safe place before the maintenance begins.

We will notify you through a notice when the maintenance is complete.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.