Broadcaster (3)

[Infected Human]

,Eue…”

Yesol, Baedeopgae, and Kang Han-gil, who are pushing the main quest with me, frowned at the sight of the NPC in front of them.

It is explained that the NPC was infected with an unknown substance flowing from the 5th World and turned into a monster.

,This is something that doesn’t even happen in the Abyss…”

When Yesol opened her mouth, everyone began to focus on her words.

I told them that Yesol-ssi was running a LeoRe story-related channel on RyuTube, and Baedeopgae-ssi had watched the summary video when he started LeoRe, and even thanked her for playing LeoRe so well.

So now, we were proceeding with the main quest through Yesol-ssi’s guide.

,Is it similar to that cordyceps from the Abyss?”

I nodded at Kang Han-gil Ahjussi’s words.

In the Abyss season, the dungeons, subjugation battles, and raids were all about infection, parasites, and manipulation.

Like cordyceps, parasites enter the body, infect it, gradually dominate it from the inside, and eventually control it. As the infection progresses over time, it wriggles out and has a grotesque appearance.

-mmmmm… mmm!!! mmmm!

Looking at the limbs, it’s human, but if it weren’t for the [Infected Human] written above this NPC’s head, you wouldn’t be able to see it as human.

,Arang-ah, it’s not right for Arang-i to see something like this.”

Seueuk.

Baedeopgae-ssi didn’t want to show me the NPC that could feel grotesque, so he came behind me and raised his hand.

He brought it to my stomach.

Huh? Weren’t you going to cover my eyes? You’re trying to touch my stomach?

Sigh.

As expected, I just ignored Baedeopgae-ssi’s unchanging love for my stomach and looked at Yesol-ssi.

,So, Yesol-unni, what do you think? I think the Abyss, which we believed to be a new area until now, was actually the 5th World.”

,Hmm… I don’t know yet. In my opinion, the creature from the Abyss didn’t indiscriminately ruin the body it was parasitizing in this way. Rather, it made it stronger. Everyone knows the reason why. It needed a strong body, a healthy body, and a body that wouldn’t break down, because it had to control the body it was manipulating. But now, this infection source is ruining the body it has infected-”

,”…”

Yesol-ssi, who had not been active and had little to say until now, became more serious than anyone else and began to immerse herself in the main quest, spitting out words rapidly, so everyone looked at her.

,Ah, I’m, I’m sorry. I, I have a habit of spouting out a lot of words when I get immersed. The main quest is so exciting that I didn’t even realize it…”

,No, Yesol-unni. Honestly, it’s better than I expected?”

Now that I’ve gotten a little closer and feel more comfortable, I saw that side of her for the first time, but I liked it very much.

After that, we were doing the main quest for about an hour when we found a knight with dark blue skin and armor.

The problem is that he’s not in a normal state, but wriggling.

We found this knight while investigating the cleared dungeon and following the flow of energy coming from the broken core, and discovered a new area.

We naturally thought it was a new dungeon, but no way, it wasn’t a dungeon, so we looked around to see what this place was and found that knight.

At first, we thought it was an ordinary NPC, but.

LV : 90 – 5th World Knight

[Field Boss]

Level Restricted Area.

As we got closer, we saw the level and the knight’s identity, and a large red circle-shaped border showing the field boss area.

A new field boss has appeared after a long time.

,I’ll be back!”

,Arang-ah!”

I immediately ran towards the field boss.

As soon as I entered the red circle, the field boss, who had been bowing his head, made eye contact with me and rushed at me.

First of all, a preemptive strike is essential, so I grabbed two daggers with precision and drew out the maximum attack speed, swinging the daggers faster than the knight’s sword that was trying to attack me.

Paaang!

,Eh?”

My dagger, which should have attacked the field boss’s body, disappeared in front of my eyes, and my arm went up.

,Parry?’

Suddenly, the field boss used parry, and I was flustered and couldn’t defend against the field boss’s next attack, and I allowed the attack to continue and died.

As soon as I was born in the guild house, I recalled the scene where the field boss parried earlier.

,That movement…’

It’s the movement I often use when parrying.

I’m sure.

I immediately used teleport to fly to the place where I died.

,Arang-ah, are you okay?”

,Yeah. I’m okay.”

I answered Baedeopgae-ssi’s words and immediately ran towards the field boss again.

Instead, this time I held the Other-Mind Sword instead of a dagger.

As soon as I entered the red circle, the field boss rushed at me again this time.

From the motion to the impact, it’s definitely the dash skill I’ve always used as a Sword Master.

Sword Master’s dash skill [Weihap].

It’s a skill that puts the sword on the shoulder and dashes, rather than a stabbing attack.

It has lower attack power than a stabbing dash, but I like it because it allows me to have many options after the dash.

,Heueup!”

With the field boss’s shout, I parried the attack that was trying to cut me from above with the Other-Mind Sword.

Paaang!

Exactly the opposite situation from before.

But even if I attacked the field boss, the opponent is a field boss, so the damage wasn’t great.

,Kuooooo!”

The field boss roars again and rushes in.

,It’s hard to fight if the field boss uses the skills of a user job.’

Like that dash earlier, I think the field boss can use all the skills of a Sword Master now.

As expected, an effect surrounded the field boss’s sword, and from the field boss’s motion, I immediately realized that it was [Square Quadler], which I like and always use as my main skill.

In the PVP arena, [Square Quadler] is not very threatening when the opponent uses it.

From my point of view, [Square Quadler] is a momentary attack, so it’s difficult to use without combat correction, and it’s easy to parry because it’s an attack with a fixed trajectory and a fixed timing.

But [Square Quadler] used by a field boss, not PVP, set off an emergency sensor in my head even before it was executed.

I activated extrasensory perception and parried the field boss’s attack that was rushing in to kill me.

Paaang!

Due to the field boss’s attack power and stamina difference, I couldn’t cancel [Square Quadler], but I was able to reduce the damage significantly.

Tingle.

My hand barely avoided being stunned.

The problem is that there are still three attacks left.

I couldn’t block the second attack of [Square Quadler] with parry this time.

Despite having extrasensory perception, the field boss showed a crazy speed, so I laid the Other-Mind Sword sideways and supported it with my left hand.

Kwaaaang!

The attack of [Square Quadler] collided with the sword, and collision effects spread in front of my eyes.

In the roar that seemed to shake the space, I checked my hand that was still moving and moved the Other-Mind Sword again to block the third attack of [Square Quadler].

Kwaaaang!

,Kuooooooo!”

The last attack of [Square Quadler] flew in with the field boss’s terrible roar.

,…!’

At that moment, I found a gap in the field boss.

That action, motion, and timing that I often make mistakes in – no, not mistakes, but things I don’t change because I’m lazy.

Those things that I could optimize further but didn’t because my head and body were lazy were shown by the field boss.

I immediately raised the Other-Mind Sword as if stabbing with a normal attack, not a skill, and attacked the field boss’s right shoulder.

The last attack of [Square Quadler], which could have killed me in an instant, disappeared in an instant and missed my neck.

I took a short right step deeply towards the field boss who was in the after-delay while using [Square Quadler].

This time, my [Square Quadler] was activated.

The Other-Mind Sword emitted a blue effect and was stuck in the field boss’s body.

Unlike before, the HP decreased visibly, but as expected of a field boss, the HP bar was no joke.

Thinking that I had seized the momentum, I moved my left foot towards the field boss this time to drive the field boss who had retreated with my [Square Quadler].

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,Wow…”

Yesol-ssi could only admire Arang-i, who was fighting the field boss 1-on-1.

The reason why Arang-i became famous was none other than because she defeated the Orc Chieftain alone as a field boss.

Yesol-ssi also knows how absurd it is because she has caught field bosses with other users.

,But what the hell is that field boss?”

Kang Han-gil was dumbfounded as he watched the field boss using Sword Master’s skills like a user.

,Isn’t this going to use skills in subjugation battles or raids later?”

,Ugh… it’s terrible just thinking about it, but there was a case where the boss used skills once.”

,Come to think of it, we had it when we did WFK.”

,But that’s not the boss using it from the beginning, but copying the data of the remaining user at the end. If you think about it, it wasn’t the boss using skills, but it felt like it was transforming into the same user. But this is just that field boss using that skill as if he knew it from the beginning…!”

Baedeopgae-ssi, who was watching the fight between Arang-i and the field boss while listening to Yesol-ssi’s explanation, opened his mouth as if he had realized something.

,I… I’ve learned something amazing. That field boss is Arang-i.”

,”… Yes?”

,The field boss’s patterns, actions, motions, and habits are all the same as Arang-i’s.”

,Huh? What are you talking about.”

,When I saw it, that field boss. It’s like Arang-i’s data has been transferred. I’m sure of it because I’ve thoroughly grasped Arang-i’s whole body and perfectly remember her habits and actions.”

,Neeeeee!?”

Yesol-ssi was more scared of Baedeopgae-ssi, who said that he had grasped Arang-i’s whole body and remembered her habits and actions, than the fact that the field boss had transferred Arang-i’s data.