Awakening

Even while raising my Berserker, I didn’t skip doing the field boss role every morning.

I spent the whole day in the dungeon with Yesol-ssi until the last train.

Without realizing it, I got so caught up that day and went crazy running dungeons, not even checking what time it was.

Thankfully, Anna came and told me it was very late and I needed to send Yesol-ssi home before it got any later, and only then did I realize.

I apologized to Yesol-ssi.

Starting with Sword Master, passing through Assassin, I finally arrived at Berserker.

Berserker, the job that sucks the most party blood in Leore.

It has a completely different damage mechanism than Sword Master and Assassin.

As befits the name Berserker, it’s a job that fights while getting hit.

A job that consumes health to use skills and has to fight while getting hit.

I understood why Berserker is said to be difficult, but also romantic, stylish, and popular with users.

First of all, even the basic skills are stylish.

Every time health is consumed, blood surrounds the greatsword like an aura.

On top of that, it’s a manly job that swings a greatsword around with one hand, not dodging, blocking, or parrying, but just taking hits head-on.

Of course, it’s not like you can just take hits all the time.

There’s a passive that reduces damage taken at certain intervals, which you have to use, and the [Madness] passive is a weird skill that increases additional damage when health is below 50%.

One of the reasons Berserker users lie down and die is because of this [Madness] passive.

To reach the high score, you have to lower your own health, but if the healer casts a wide-area heal, you have to lower your health again, and if you make a mistake even once with health below 50%, you die.

Of course, I can fully utilize it.

Because of the [Madness] passive, Berserkers can lower their own health and even recover it.

In other words, it’s an unbelievably good job where you can choose whether to go safely and slightly weaker, or dangerously and strongly.

But because it’s a job that dies all the time, the perception isn’t good, so it’s a job that even received a buff this time.

It didn’t take long to reach the Berserker level cap.

If I had to go through matching instead of a party to reach the level cap as a dealer, it would have taken quite a while.

But now I have a tank and a healer to run dungeons with, so I ran dungeons very comfortably with 1-second matching.

,I really liked the Berserker’s awakening skill.”

The fact that Berserker has the highest DPS among melee dealers was also a reason, but the main reason I wanted to do it was because the awakening skill was cool.

In Leore, it was revealed that what we had called demons until now was actually related to the 5th world, and the Berserker’s awakening skill is to become demonized like the field boss skill I used when I was a field boss.

On top of that, the demon who corrupted the Berserker pops out and slashes through space with a huge greatsword, which is quite satisfying.

,Keueung…!”

After field boss time ended, I had lunch with Anna and Pinku Berry and logged back in.

My stomach was full, my body was warmed up as a field boss, and I reached the level cap.

The awakening skill update and balance patch are tomorrow.

And the raid update is in 8 days.

Now it’s time to decide on the members.

Before, the combination was limited with only 15 people, but now that there are over 30 guild members, we can go with the best combinations.

Oh, right.

I’m thinking of running this raid like Reina’s Mead raid.

Reina’s raid is led by Reina, but Reina doesn’t do all the briefing.

There are people who don’t participate in the raid but watch the raid videos of the guild members in real time, analyze things that aren’t visible when playing, and give briefings.

I’m thinking of doing that too.

And I’m thinking of entrusting that role to Yesol-ssi.

It hasn’t even been a month since I met Yesol-ssi, and although Yesol-ssi isn’t a user who plays well, she has a good eye for situations.

I felt it while running dungeons together to reach the Berserker level cap, and her briefing skills are excellent.

Especially since she likes settings and stories very much and likes to analyze them, she was very helpful in briefing things like the skill cooldowns, synergy, and damage dealing of each party member.

The problem was that she couldn’t multitask, so there were times when the tank died because she couldn’t heal while briefing.

But what if Yesol-ssi briefed without playing? It seemed like it would be very helpful.

I should go find her while I’m thinking about it.

==

,….Eueueung?”

Yesol-ssi heard Arang-i, who was in front of her, stroking her stomach and saying something, and thought she had misheard for a moment.

,So… you’re telling me to be the raid leader?”

Yesol-ssi, who started speaking informally after meeting Arang in real life and hanging out together, checked if what she heard was correct.

,To be exact, I want you to do the analysis and strategy. And brief on things that I miss because I’m focused on playing. I’ll do the overall stuff, but I’m also human, so I’ll make mistakes.”

,Ugh… I suddenly got entrusted with such an important role that I’m a little dizzy.”

,I’m not forcing you. I just think Yesol-ssi has quite a talent in this area.”

,Talent? Me?”

,Yeah.”

,Then I’ll do it!!!”

,Oh, this is a disaster…!”

Yesol-ssi was persuaded by Arang’s pure and trusting face and then grabbed her head as soon as she was alone.

==

This time, we had an overwhelming number of foreign guild member applications.

I thought everyone would have a lot of time because the raid was released in January, but it seems that’s not the case.

Or is it because they’re busy with the new year? That could definitely be it.

When I think about it, it’s a bit strange to release the raid in January.

But well, it’s good because they release raids so often.

For now, Pinku Berry, Bae D덮gae, and Soonchu are fixed for the raid members.

Pinku Berry isn’t the best in terms of skill, but it’s easier for me when she’s there.

You could say she’s my comfort doll.

Bae D덮gae is just a god of raids.

He continues to maintain the number 1 spot in the world for Grim Reaper, and among the Grim Reaper’s skills, Shadow Veil is the best skill in Leore for managing aggro, so it’s the number 1 job for raid recruitment.

Soonchu is just good. You could say he’s like a reliable rice soup.

Who should be the other 4 people?

For now, Mr. Kang Han-gil decided to go with his own guild.

I slowly looked through the resumes.

One tank, two dealers, one healer.

It’s difficult, it’s difficult.

Should we go with this for now?

I sent mail to the 4 people I decided on.

==

The day of the awakening skill and balance update.

I wanted to do the awakening skill quickly, so I skipped, skipped, skipped.

I skipped all the power blah blah and went to Disnier-nuna to receive the power of the awakening skill.

I immediately went to the training ground and used the awakening skill on a scarecrow.

The ground rumbled and a giant of fire appeared.

A giant like Surtr from Norse mythology mercilessly struck the scarecrow with a huge greatsword.

Kwaaaangㅡ!!!

-151,000,000-

,Hiek 151 million!?”

I got goosebumps all over my body at the damage number I saw for the first time.

,No, is this okay? Suddenly this kind of damage comes out?”

Until now, I was barely hitting around 20 million with numerous buffs and doping, but suddenly a unit of 100 million came out, so I got goosebumps.

,How much did I hit just now?”

I opened the scarecrow settings window.

,7 minutes? You can only use the awakening skill after hitting non-stop for 7 minutes…”

In practice, I think it would take almost twice as long, about 14 minutes, to be able to use the awakening skill.

Wait, wouldn’t this be too advantageous for ranged? Or not? Would ranged have to hit more than melee?

I don’t know well yet because there isn’t a ranged job.

For now, the fact that the awakening skill damage is this high can also be thought of like this.

The raid this time has enormous health.

If the awakening skill damage comes out this high, I think we need to think carefully about synergy and doping.

If it’s 100 million damage with no buffs and no doping, then if buffs, doping, and synergy are all combined, I think we might be able to see 500 million.

If 6 dealers and tanks use their awakening skills, they can do about 3 to 4 billion damage in total.

The problem is…

The problem is that awakening skills don’t come up with a fixed cooldown, but increase as much as each person hits.

Even if there’s someone who fills it up quickly, they have to match it with other people.

In a typical PC RPG, they would find it almost similarly, but a virtual world RPG is different.

Here, each movement of the raid boss is fatal, so it’s not like just clicking away on the keyboard like in a PC RPG.

We need to go on a raid together once.

Since the Leoren play is changing with just one awakening skill, we need to get used to it.

I immediately called the people who were going to this raid in the guild chat.

==

It’s 4 AM Korean time now, so only foreign users have gathered.

,Eueueum…”

,It seems like it’s still early Korean time, Your Highness.”

,That’s true… Then what should we do?”

,We will follow Your Highness’s orders.”

The foreign users are so serious about RP that they really think of me as a princess and act like some kind of knight order.

It was burdensome at first, but now I’m enjoying it too.

,Let’s make a party for now.”

,Understood.”