Reward.

Fighting the Hero made me realize that I wasn’t much different from my Arang self who had just awakened.

I was crushing my opponent with overwhelming physical strength, just like him.

But the problem with that approach is that it’s too straightforward.

If I think, ‘They’ll attack here because it’s open and this is a weak spot, right?’ they actually attack there. That’s how straightforward it is.

The problem is, even if I know where they’re going to attack, it’s still tough.

If I move thinking they’ll aim here, they react even to that movement and attack, so no matter what I do, it ends up being a fight where I can only follow.

If the Hero had been a person instead of a monster, they would have paid attention to the greatsword flying above, but sadly, they weren’t.

The Hero, fighting with pre-programmed coding, couldn’t handle my novel, amazing, and brilliant ideas and lost just like that.

Even I think it was an amazing decision.

To have such thoughts in a life-or-death battle where even 0.1 seconds matter is incredible.

I feel like I’ve grown not just one, but several steps since my last fight with pro-gamer Jamin.

,But anyway… what is this?”

[Defeat the Hero who did everything to protect his world but failed, despaired, and eventually died alone and lonely, unable to die from the world’s curse, his mind consumed by darkness. □ ]

The quest isn’t updating.

And there’s no exit from the main story-only map.

,Huh, don’t tell me this has turned into Sword ArX Online…!? Nah, that can’t be.’

Actually, since LORE is a game, there’s no way there wouldn’t be bugs. So, like old RPG games, there’s an emergency escape button.

It’s a button for times like this~

Press.

……….

…………

……………….

Huh?

Eh?

Press.

……….

…………

……………….

Eh?

Press. Press. Press. Press. Press.

Huh?

Nah, no way, right?

Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press.

……….

…………

……………….

Eh?

When the emergency escape didn’t work, I started to panic, but then a notification popped up in front of me.

[Emergency Escape]

Forced logout will be executed due to request.

You can no longer play the game.

Connection to the server will be terminated.

Paaat.

My vision turned pitch black, and when I opened my eyes, I was in the hospital room.

And Pinku Berry’s face appeared in front of me.

,Arang-ah, are you okay!?”

,Yeah. I’m okay.”

Actually, I was a little surprised.

I thought I was really trapped.

,Thank goodness… I was about to force a logout, but thankfully, the emergency escape worked.”

,Yeah… I was panicking because I thought the emergency escape wasn’t working…”

Anyway, I’m disappointed in LORE. Disappointed.

Even if they made it impossible to catch, they didn’t have any measures in place?

If it were me, I would have made something in case someone did catch it, but they just left it with nothing, and the main story just stopped!

Not enough romance. Romance.

==

[LORE Gallery]

[Did everyone see this?]

(Video of Arang catching the Hero uploaded on Pinku Berry’s RyuTube)

Wait, you could catch that???

It’s amazing that they focused and fought for 2 hours, but the last 5 minutes of the battle seem like they’ve really transcended humanity?

[Comments]

-Isn’t transcending humanity a given since there are stats in the first place? lol

ㄴThat’s true, but no matter how high your agility gets, humans can’t control it

ㄴYeah, that’s why even if you use cheats, there are limits because of the human brain

ㄴIt’s so amazing that they can ignore that and show that level of performance

ㄴMaybe Arang has a better brain, senses, and physical ability than us

ㄴYeah, everyone thinks that just from watching them parry

-Seriously insane.

-Too lazy to watch the whole thing, can someone give me a summary?

ㄴPinku Berry’s next RyuTube video is an edited version

ㄴKya, that’s great

ㄴGood, I was too lazy to watch and skipped ahead, but there was an edited version

[Arang Highlights]

(Arang blocking all of the Hero’s attacks in a berserk state)

(Arang squinting while blocking the Hero’s attacks)

(Arang moaning while taking attacks)

(Arang making cute shouts while attacking)

(Arang sweating profusely due to lack of stamina)

(Arang panting while drinking a potion)

(Screenshot of the potion starting from Arang’s lips and flowing down their neck)

[Comments]

-At first, I was like, “Wow…” but as it went on, it turned into “Oh…”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ This is crazy? Saved it immediately

ㄴㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋYou’re crazy too?

-Seriously amazing. I know it’s impossible, but…

ㄴLift it up

ㄴLower it.

ㄴWhere did the middle go?

[But LORE has no romance either]

(Video of nothing happening after the Hero dies)

(Arang eventually pressing the emergency escape)

(Arang finally getting the emergency escape to work after pressing it about 20 times)

I understand that it’s a defeat event, but why make us fight and then have nothing happen when we win? They should have just killed us off or something.

Of course, I know it’s ridiculous to have branching paths in an MMORPG quest, especially not a single-player one, but they should have at least shown some effort

[But Arang is also at fault]

No one has ever been able to beat the Hero monster before, it was such an impossible battle.

Even Jamin, who overwhelmed Arang, and the world’s number one pro-gamer couldn’t beat it, so it was just a WWE defeat event.

They probably set the Hero monster’s stats to be impossible for a person to beat.

But suddenly, Arang turned it into UFC ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

What are they supposed to do when a human beats a monster with stats that are impossible for a human to beat?

I would have been dumbfounded if I were the LORE director.

The Hero monster wasn’t the Hero, Arang was the Hero

[Comments]

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Seriously, how do you catch that? Are they really human? Are they suddenly going to say it was a high-performance AI or next-generation AI?

ㄴㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ No, Arang exists

-Immediately start a UFC and make LORE go bankrupt~ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴThe scary thing is that they can actually make that happen

ㄴㄹㅇ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ If they just mention it to Arang’s parents, oh my

ㄴI think they could erase a country ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴㅇㅈㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

==

I was rolling around on the huge bed, listening to the calm LORE level 1 beginner village music from the Ferde continent.

I wrapped myself in the blanket and started watching the video of the fight I had yesterday.

I didn’t record it myself, but the connector I use is connected to the monitor in my room and hospital room and is always recording, so I was able to get it.

Pinku Berry edited the video herself, and now I can call Pinku Berry the god of editing.

Honestly, at first, her skills weren’t like, “Wow! Amazing!”

But she kept studying and now she edits smoothly and well, without making the viewer feel bored.

,Even I think I look cool when I watch myself.’

And even about the emergency escape at the end.

There’s a problem now.

The main quest isn’t progressing. It’s blocked.

I came back, but the quest isn’t progressing.

I’m curious how they’re going to deal with this.

And I haven’t told anyone yet that the quest isn’t working.

Because there are a lot of LORE ruined-game fans these days.

The balance and this bug make it a game without romance, but LORE is honestly a masterpiece.

There isn’t a single cash item that affects stats while running the game.

Unless LORE is manipulating the gacha rates for avatars and race transformation orbs and intentionally hiding and omitting it from our users, it won’t fail.

,No. Considering the number of LORE users now, I don’t think it will fail anyway.’

The reason why the number of LORE ruined-game fans has been increasing recently is probably because of the gold price.

LORE has consistently maintained a gold inflation rate where 10,000 gold is officially 10,000 won.

It usually fluctuates between 9,000 won and 11,000 won.

You might think that you can’t even get the final equipment with gold, so what’s it for, but gold has always maintained its price because you can do a lot of things in the virtual world.

But I heard that the gold price has been falling recently.

10,000 gold has become about 8,000 won.

The reason is that the gold price was expected to rise as the number of gold consumption points increased with the new season, but the price fell because you could earn more gold than expected from the new content.

So, the LORE Gallery was full of negative comments such as LORE is ruined, it’s a ruined game, you can’t catch inflation, I’m quitting the game, etc.

And then they find out there’s a bug like this?

They’ll just jump on it!

I’m a little disappointed with the LORE patches, but it’s only because they’ve done so well so far.

,I can’t give the LORE ruined-game fans any bait.’

Instead, I’m ready to receive a generous reward from LORE. Hehehe.

I wrapped myself in a thick blanket in the slightly chilly guild house and watched RyuTube shorts.