Profit
by Afuhfuihgs
The trash mob section ended faster than I thought.
Led by Arang-i, the raid members, renowned in the LeoLe world, took down the monsters without panicking at the unfamiliar creatures and motions.
In less than 10 minutes, a huge monster that looked like a boss to anyone was in the center of the massive room.
Wings that looked over 10 meters, a long, thick tail that could attack anywhere in the entire room, horns and teeth that were twice my height – it was a dragon, no doubt about it.
But it wasn’t an ordinary dragon; its entire body was covered in moss and weeds.
[Shall we give it a shot first?]
Everyone nodded at Arang-i’s words.
[Yesol-eonni, give us the rundown.]
“U-uh, okay!”
-Look at Yesol being so nervous, lol
-No wonder, it’s her first WFK race, and she’s even doing the briefing? I’d have a heart attack, lol
-Her voice is trembling so much, lol
-You can do it!
Yesol set a timer for 15 seconds, something she had never used once while playing LeoLe.
15
14
13
The timer ticked down.
At 4 seconds.
The ranged mage started casting.
At 3 seconds.
Buffs went up.
At 2 seconds.
The main tank started running.
At 1 second.
The melee dealers started running.
As soon as it hit START!
Everyone started dealing damage to the boss.
==
The basic attack patterns of the boss, [Labyrinth’s Rest], weren’t difficult.
Its body was so big that the motions were easy to see.
The problem was that the damage was brutal because of that.
It was as if it was saying, ‘Make one mistake, lose focus once, and you’re done.’
Just getting grazed by a single attack would instantly take away 90% of your health.
Because of that, no one except the tank should ever get hit by the boss’s basic attacks.
The most important things to watch out for when facing the [Labyrinth’s Rest] boss were the tail attack and the breath pattern.
The tail attack swept across the entire map, and the tank had to block it, but the problem was that it went into a clash state, so the sub-tank, Soonchu, couldn’t do anything, and the damage was insane, so the sub-healer had to take full responsibility.
In that state, all the raid members had to attack the tail to save them.
Next, the breath.
It wasn’t an ordinary dragon breath; it was a breath full of debuffs.
The breath motion was obvious to anyone, but we tried a strategy where the tank took a hit on purpose without dodging.
The moment they got hit by the breath, they got a debuff called [Labyrinth’s Hallucination].
The problem was that we didn’t know what kind of debuff it was, and the [Labyrinth’s Hallucination] debuff had an infinite duration. On top of that, it was a crazy debuff that stacked.
‘If it’s this kind of debuff, it definitely means it’s needed for a gimmick later… but there’s still too little information.’
For now, since it was still the first try, I decided to observe the situation further.
The boss’s health reached 90%. And at that moment.
-Kugugugugugugung
[Labyrinth’s Rest has begun to change the labyrinth.]
A system message popped up.
Yesol immediately checked the screens of all the raid members to figure out what was changing.
“There are paths at 12 o’clock, 3 o’clock, 6 o’clock, and 9 o’clock!”
Paths that looked like you had to enter appeared on the walls of the giant labyrinth.
‘What should I do? There are a total of 8 raid members. The main tank and main healer have to stay, so that leaves 6 people. That means one person has to go into each place.’
“Starting from 12 o’clock, the dealers will enter in clockwise order!”
[Roger.]
Arang-i, the number 1 dealer, immediately stopped attacking the boss and ran to 12 o’clock, and the other dealers entered as Yesol told them to.
Arang-i and the dealers just ran straight down the path, and as soon as they saw the small statue at the end of the path, they realized they had to break it, so they attacked and destroyed it.
And as they were returning.
[What? The path disappeared!]
[Huh? What is this?]
[Yesol, the path disappeared!]
[Huh?]
The path back to the boss had disappeared.
The dealers were attacking the path where they should have been able to go back, but only the words “Indestructible Object” were appearing.
[It’s getting narrower!]
[Ugh!]
[I think there’s a time limit?]
[Haa…! Haa…!]
“It wasn’t one person at a time. Then two people? Split into two and clear them separately? Or do we have to guard the doors? Or…”
In the end, all the trapped dealers died, and since they couldn’t see any more patterns at the point when all the dealers were dead, they pressed the restart button.
1/9
Everyone agreed with Yesol’s restart button, and as soon as the restart alarm appeared, everyone started pressing the accept button.
Usually, in these cases, everyone would accept immediately and go to the repair shop, but nothing happened.
8/9
One person didn’t press the accept button.
Who is it?
-Wait, Arang-i’s condition is weird?
-Uh, uh? Why is Arang-i like that?
-Is Arang-i shaking severely?
Viewers started chatting about Arang-i.
[Arang-a!]
At that moment, Pinku Berry’s urgent voice calling for Arang-i echoed to everyone.
Arang-i, who had already died and moved to the repair shop, was in a strange state.
She was sitting on the floor, hugging her knees and shaking.
==
Water and fire.
I thought there would be no problem if I just watched out for those two.
And I had almost overcome water and fire by exercising a lot and getting psychological counseling recently.
So, unless I was forcibly plunged into water, I wouldn’t have a seizure or anything.
In particular, seeing water or fire magic in LeoLe didn’t cause a seizure; it just made my heart beat a little faster.
But…
As the labyrinth walls began to narrow, my thought process began to shut down, and extreme anxiety and fear covered my body like a tsunami in an instant.
In the past, I would have had a seizure with tears, snot, and saliva, but I’m an experienced person now.
If I just left it like this, it would be like before, but I calmly knelt down and curled up as much as possible so that Arang-i could feel safe right now.
Originally, lying down and calming my breathing was the best way, but my emotions right now didn’t matter.
I have to make her feel that I’m safe. That I’m not in pain. That I’m okay.
As I closed my eyes and calmed my breathing to prevent my body from having a major seizure, I felt something soft on my head and someone hugged me.
The soft chest I felt on my head was Pinku Berry-eonni’s.
Now I could recognize it right away because I used Pinku Berry-eonni’s chest as a head cushion so often.
I could hear her saying something, but I couldn’t hear it because my body wasn’t in its right mind, but seeing her stroking me, it seemed like she was telling me it was okay.
Hoo.
Seizures aren’t a big problem anymore.
Just as I have excellent control over the game, I now have excellent control over my body.
Not long after the seizure started, I regained my senses, buried my face in Pinku Berry-eonni’s chest in front of me, and enjoyed it to my heart’s content.
When I rubbed my face against her chest, Pinku Berry-eonni carefully lifted me up.
“Arang-a, are you okay?”
“Yeah. I’m completely fine now.”
“Let’s log out for now.”
“Huh? No. I’m fine. It’s our first try?”
“No. You have to log out no matter what.”
“Uh…?”
“Anna-eonni. You’re watching the broadcast right now, right?”
As soon as Pinku Berry-eonni finished speaking, a familiar warning sound rang in my ears, and a forced logout notification window appeared, and my vision turned pitch black.
==
Everyone was flustered by Arang-i’s sudden seizure and logout.
-No, is Arang-i okay?
-If it’s still this bad, shouldn’t Arang-i not play LeoLe? It breaks my heart every time I see it;;;
-It seems right to just give up on this WFK.
-fr fr If we keep trying, we’ll see that situation often, and if that happens every time, Arang-i’s mind will be exhausted
-On top of that, it’s even harming the raid members;;; Everyone probably cleared their schedules for almost a month with the intention of doing the WFK
As soon as Arang-i, the raid leader who created this raid and guild, logged out, there was no reason to stay in the raid, so everyone left the raid.
“I wonder if Arang-i is okay?”
“Yeah. I’m really worried.”
“For now, let’s rest since we don’t know when Arang-i will come back.”
“That seems right. For now, don’t put it on silent since we don’t know when we’ll start the raid.”
==
As soon as I saw the ceiling of the hospital room, Anna-eonni was hugging me.
As I felt Anna-eonni’s hands trembling slightly as she hugged me, I swallowed what I was about to say about going into LeoLe right away.
I just waited in Anna-eonni’s arms until Anna-eonni calmed down.
In the meantime, the doctor-eonni came and checked my condition and acknowledged that there was nothing wrong, but I didn’t say that I would go into LeoLe right away.
I had no choice but to decide to rest on the first day of the WFK race.
The next day, I was able to enter LeoLe on the condition that I wouldn’t enter until the labyrinth gimmick of the first boss was solved, out of consideration for me.
Soonchu-eonni, the sub-tank, had no choice but to enter instead of me.
But the gimmick was solved.
Huh?
Eeh?
The reason was simple: the debuff that appeared when you got hit by the breath was necessary to solve this gimmick.
If you had the [Labyrinth’s Hallucination] debuff, you could see a different perspective from raid members who didn’t have it when you entered the labyrinth.
“This means my seizure was a profit!”
-Thwack!
“Ack!”
I covered my head at the shock I felt on my head and looked up to see Pinku Berry-eonni with one hand on her waist and one hand in a fist that had just hit me.
Pinku Berry-eonni, who always protected me, hit, hit me…
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