1 vs 1 (4)

,I’ll go!”

Arang raised his sword towards the user charging at him.

After the last match with pro gamer Kim Gi-hyung, it became a thing at the end of the occupation war for users to fight each other to decide a representative to face Arang in a 1-on-1.

Arang was quite fond of this. He felt like the final boss from the attention of the people and the users challenging him.

Paang!

,Keueuk…! You crazy bastard!”

The user dueling Arang gritted his teeth at Arang’s insane physicality, which he had only seen in videos, as Arang effortlessly parried his attacks.

He rushed in like crazy to land an attack, but he couldn’t touch Arang’s body.

,I can be faster, even faster…!’

The user, who wanted to land even a single effective hit on Arang, pushed past his limits.

,I can do it. It’s possible…! Here!’

The moment the user found an opening and attacked Arang’s arm, he realized he had made a big mistake.

,Ah, shit…!’

The user, who was a challenger in the arena every season, realized he had been tricked when he saw the cute Arang smiling at him.

As he thought, Arang’s arm disappeared from his sight as if it had never been there, and his attack slashed through empty air.

The user, who wasn’t a pro but prided himself on having skills comparable to a pro online, was instantly defeated by Arang’s dismemberment skill.

,Damn it, I definitely checked and rechecked the videos before coming here and committed them to memory…!’

If you ask what the most important part is when PVPing in LORE, 9 out of 10 people will say the arm.

Of course, weak points such as the head, neck, and heart are also important, but you have to attack the arm to target those weak points.

Swords, bows, staves-all weapons are moved through the hands. The key point of LORE PVP is to attack those arms to cause stiffness and prevent additional actions.

This user had been doing that while playing the LORE PVP content, the arena, for a long time.

With that habit ingrained in his body, he attacked Arang’s defenseless arm as a matter of course, but that was a shortcut to defeat.

In top-tier PVP, where you can’t waste even 0.1 seconds, he wasted his turn in the fight against Arang, and he lost his chance to block Arang’s attack and couldn’t turn things around once he was pushed back.

,Good work!”

,It was an honor…!”

Arang perfectly won the 1-on-1 and shook hands with the user he fought.

,When am I really going to get this fixed?’

It’s been three days since I used the dismemberment skill, and there’s no announcement from LORE.

Arang didn’t think they would leave it like this, no matter how difficult it was to fix.

The next day after thinking that, an announcement was posted on LORE.

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[November 25 (Monday) Legacy of Raid Emergency Maintenance Notice]

Hello, this is Legacy of Raid.

From 07:30 to 10:00 on November 25 (Monday), an emergency temporary maintenance of the game service will be carried out for 150 minutes.

Please check the information below for details.

[Maintenance time]

2024-11-25 (Mon) 07:30 ~ 2024-11-25 (Mon) 10:00 (150 minutes)

[Maintenance details]

– Emergency maintenance to stabilize the instability of the virtual world body due to traffic

An announcement was posted three days after the dismemberment skill became known to everyone, saying that they would block the dismemberment skill.

Finally, the announcement came up. I guess they contacted and talked to my parents’ company for three days.

I’m curious. How they handled this.

I entered LORE as soon as the emergency maintenance was over.

I immediately went to the Ardea nation, where there would be many people.

As expected, there were a lot of users gathered because it was after the maintenance.

First, I moved to the fountain in the square where the most users were gathered.

Maybe because I’m so famous in LORE, a few users who have their own things to do glanced at me.

But they only sent glances and didn’t pretend to know me. Maybe it’s because they’re worried I’ll feel burdened.

I didn’t care about the gazes of those users and used the now familiar dismemberment skill in front of the fountain in the square where the most traffic was gathered.

All the senses in my right arm were concentrated, and I began to feel that the movement of my arm was gradually lagging due to the traffic gathering.

,Huh? It’s fine? No, rather than fine… it feels a little heavy.’

Normally, my arm should have disappeared by now, but it didn’t disappear.

,Oh… they really fixed it?’

When I moved my right arm around, it felt like I was wearing a sandbag.

,They succeeded in blocking this. The feeling of being heavy rather than lagging means…’

Maybe LORE increased the number of traffic that the user’s body allows to prevent lagging.

The problem is that originally, the traffic gathered in the user’s body should be released and normalized as the lag occurs and the body is reset, but now, because they increased the traffic allowance, my arm feels a little heavy like this.

,But it’s funny that I’m the only one who can execute this.’

Maybe no one will feel this.

In the first place, there is no one who can control the senses in their body.

Paseuseu…

,Huh?’

From my arm, which felt very slightly heavy, particle effects that appear when something is destroyed or dies in LORE fell off my arm like dust falling off while dusting off clothes.

,This is a situation I’m seeing for the first time. Come to think of it, if the upper limit has increased… shouldn’t I check how much that upper limit is?’

I activated my extrasensory perception and gathered all the increased senses to see how much I could withstand.

,I’m just checking this. Just in case. I’m checking it!’

I kept increasing the traffic in my arm.

Now it feels like I’m wearing a 2kg sandbag.

As the traffic increased, my arm began to crack like porcelain. And after a while.

Paangㅡ!

,Huh?”

My right arm exploded into particles, just like when a user dies.

Before the patch with the emergency maintenance, it didn’t just disappear like magic, but exploded as if a bomb exploded from the inside.

Of course, it’s not a 19+ game, so it’s not expressed cruelly, but my arm just exploded into particles.

In LORE, a city means safety.

No matter what happens, you don’t die, and PVP is impossible.

Compared to other games, the monsters are grotesque and cruel, but the background and scenery are beautiful, and each city has its own beauty, so there are even users who play LORE as if they are traveling.

Bright and sparkling particles that can never be seen in such a city came out, and attention was focused in an instant.

,Oh? It’s Arang!”

,Princess-nim?!”

,Wow, it’s really the Princess-nim, isn’t it?”

,Arang, I love you!”

,Wow… she’s really fucking cute.”

,Jackpot, let’s take a screenshot!”

If it was just particles, I would have just ignored it, but since it was scattered around like fireworks, everyone around me noticed me.

There are so many users here, but almost all of them recognized me, so I felt a little better and raised my arm and waved to the users looking at me.

,Hieek!?”

,Huh? What, why is Arang-nim’s arm…?”

,Heok! A, Arang-nim!”

,What is that? Didn’t they block it with this emergency maintenance!? No, how the hell is LORE doing its job!”

,You crazy bastard!?”

,What happened to the Princess-nim’s arm just now!?”

,No, wasn’t this why they did the emergency maintenance? Wow, LORE isn’t doing its job properly.”

At the users’ reactions, I thought, ‘Why are they all so shocked?’ and then I realized that I was waving with the arm that had disappeared, realizing that the arm I was waving wasn’t visible.

,Omenya.”

I immediately released the traffic in my arm, and then my arm came back and I waved my arm again.

Because more attention was focused than I thought, so many users gathered, and if I greeted them one by one here, I thought I wouldn’t be able to do my LORE homework today, so I quickly teleported to the guild house.

As soon as I arrived at the guild house, I immediately lay down on the bed that I had made exclusively for me in the living room.

,What. They said they blocked it, but except for the fact that it has to be done a little harder, nothing has changed? Oh, right. Particles have been added.”

LORE did maintenance for 150 minutes and said they would block it, but they couldn’t block it.

As expected, it seems that it is difficult to completely block it because it is a system of the access device itself rather than a problem in LORE.

Ttiringㅡ

Familiar notification and announcement appeared in front of me.

[November 25 (Monday) Legacy of Raid Emergency Maintenance Notice]

,Heok.”

I read the announcement in detail, and it said that gameplay was impossible due to additional maintenance, and the maintenance content was, of course, additional measures for physical instability.

,I feel a little sorry for this. No, but I can’t help but want to try something I’m told not to do!”

I’m sorry that many users are inconvenienced in playing LORE because of me and that LORE employees have to do additional work, but if they say they blocked it, shouldn’t I try to see if it’s really blocked? Is it really impossible?

I’m innocent.