361. Leore (4)

“Heok… Heok…”

I planted my sword into the ground, using it to support my body.

Even in my World Boss state, my stamina was hitting rock bottom.

Fighting with a completely different style than before was draining my stamina way too fast.

I didn’t realize how much stamina was consumed by dodging and blocking because I used to block most attacks with parrying.

The system is so realistic, it’s set up so my fake heart beats and it becomes difficult to breathe, even though it’s not my real heart.

My body heats up from the lack of stamina, a feeling I haven’t felt in a long time.

I desperately moved my head to the side while trying to catch my breath and rest, to replenish my stamina even a little bit faster.

Swish! Kwang!

An arrow flew to where my head had just been, embedding itself in the ground and exploding.

Ultra-long-range snipe. It was clearly aimed at my head.

‘I don’t have much difficulty dealing with them, but my stamina can’t keep up.’

Knowing this, the users who came to kill me didn’t approach me, but started attacking from a distance with ranged attacks.

If it were before, I would have just used my running stamina and approached, but it’s different now.

I clearly have to move forward using dodges and blocks. If I do that, my stamina is almost completely depleted even when I arrive in front of the opponent.

Then the users started to distance themselves from me again.

You might say, why not just approach with overwhelming speed, but the users are already aware of that too.

No matter how sensitive my senses are and how high my World Boss stats are, I can’t defy the laws of physics.

For example, I can’t run forward at high speed and then immediately turn 90 degrees without any resistance.

In other words, the faster I run forward, the closer to impossible it is to dodge.

Before, it didn’t matter because I could just parry without dodging, but now even parrying in place is almost impossible because my body and senses are not yet in sync.

Fucking sensitive senses, I think they’re bad in times like this. It’s too sensitive and my memory is annoyingly good, so it doesn’t assimilate well with the senses of my fat body.

If I hadn’t gained weight, I would have just charged in, parried all the ranged attacks, and stabbed the ranged class user’s neck with my sword.

They keep chipping away at my health and stamina from a distance, since I have no self-healing means.

It’s a pretty underhanded strategy.

But it’s a very suitable strategy for attacking me.

Everyone knows that my current physical condition is not normal.

Knowing that I can’t parry, they brought the strategy that failed last time because of one parry.

They came thoroughly prepared with a single-minded determination to catch me.

If I try to conserve my health and stamina from a distance, they immediately make me annoyed by subtly harassing me with long-range attacks.

If I get momentarily pissed off and try to approach, they immediately hit me with debuffs and CC skills.

It wasn’t just parrying, but blocking or dodging couldn’t avoid all of them.

In the first place, it’s a debuff that comes in the moment it explodes, so unless you parry it, there’s almost no way to avoid the debuff and CC skills.

The debuff and CC skill effects are greatly reduced because I’m in boss state, but they’re not non-existent.

If the users were nearby, I would have subtly lifted my skirt or made a pitiful expression and used my feminine wiles, but they’re all far away, so there’s no way.

‘Ah, should I use that?’

I started to worry.

Should I enter the awakened state?

Giving it a name that sounds like it came out of a manga is a bit chuuni, but it can’t be helped for the sake of distinction.

Awakening, split personality, Zone.

I currently have these three states.

Awakening mode is about strengthening Arang’s spirit by shocking the sensitive belly, enhancing the senses by one level.

Split personality separates Arang’s spirit from me and uses two thinking abilities. It’s a very good ability to perfectly utilize excellent physicality and senses.

Finally, Zone.

It’s about forcibly awakening a powerful trauma and forcibly putting the spirit into an extreme situation to forcibly create hysterical strength and enter the Zone.

This is a power with definite side effects, unlike Awakening and Split Personality.

It’s an ability to unleash the limit and have power beyond the usual limits, but using it gives me a terrible headache.

It’s twice as powerful as Awakening mode and the headache comes twice as fast. At this time, I don’t need period or anything, my head just hurts.

But I’ve never used it when my senses are this sensitive.

In the first place, my current state is similar to the senses I had when I was in the awakened state in the past, so all my senses have become sensitive.

I should just give up on the Zone now.

When I use the Zone now? I’ll probably experience those terrible sensations that the doctor told me about.

‘I should try using Awakening mode just once.’

First of all, I have to experience everything.

No matter how smart humans are, they only really feel it after they’ve been hit once.

I stabbed my sword into my stomach again.

Jiiiiiiing.

My stomach started to vibrate from the damage.

Random thoughts disappear.

I only made the increasing senses more sharp.

“Everyone be careful! Arang is in phase 2!”

“Oh. Is it finally starting?”

The voices of the users can be heard even from a distance.

Now the users know too much about me.

From the time I was active as a field boss, Reina, the leader of the Mead guild and the most famous female user of Leore, thoroughly researched my strategies, tactics, skills I prefer, and how I use them.

Even when I looked at the research process, I got goosebumps thinking, did I have these habits and mainly use these attacks?

I asked Reina last time why she did this.

She said that she doesn’t even research raid bosses this much, but I’m just so cute to look at that researching me isn’t boring at all, and it actually feels healing, so when she came to her senses, she had researched me this much.

She’s really crazy.

Well, she must be that crazy to create strategies in 1-second increments.

I put strength in my feet and rushed forward.

As if knowing this in advance, sharp arrows started to rain down in front of me.

‘I have to adapt anyway.’

I’m trapped in this virtual world now.

To escape this virtual world, I have to become healthy when viewed from an external perspective.

To do that, I still need to gain more weight.

At least when I look at my naked body, I shouldn’t see my ribs and I should have a slight belly.

Even though I’ve gained weight, I still think my body is just skin.

I still have a long way to go to reach a normal weight.

My weight will continue to increase and I will have to continue to change the senses of my body.

If I don’t adapt here, my senses will be completely ruined when I return to a normal weight.

“I’ll do it until it works!”

Ten arrows visible in front of me. These are not arrows fired at once, but arrows fired at a very fast speed, so it’s an attack that I wouldn’t have been hit by even one in the past.

First, I swung my sword at the arrow in the very front.

Chaeng!

Perfect timing, perfect trajectory.

The first arrow was a perfect parry.

If you’re a user with a certain level of skill, you can parry with a precise posture and accurate attack.

The problem is what comes next.

‘Keuek!’

An arrow hit my shoulder as my sword narrowly missed.

‘Don’t give up.’

Ting!

It wasn’t a clean sound, and my stamina was greatly depleted.

I have to reduce the error.

One more time.

Ting!

Once.

Ting!

Once.

Ting!

Little by little, even more.

Ting!

Now!

Paaang!

A clean and cheerful sound echoes.

I have to maintain this feeling now!

Paaang!

Paaang!

I only succeeded in 5 out of 10.

I lost a lot of damage and stamina, but the important thing is that I succeeded in 5.

But this also relied on luck to some extent.

In the past, I parried with confidence, but this time I succeeded with the feeling that it would be around here. That’s intuition.

But if that intuition continues to succeed, it becomes a sense, not intuition.

However.

Even though I barely approached, there’s no way to catch the users who are distancing themselves again.

In fact, if they distance themselves like that, I can just distance myself and teleport away, but I’m the type that grows in battle.

Especially in life-threatening situations.

The fact that the opponent is making me annoyed and angry means that the opponent is also serious.

I rushed forward again.

Arrows continue to fly towards me.

The users distance themselves again when I approach to some extent.

I kept repeating this action.

In the process, the number of users gradually increased, and they began to attack me from all directions.

‘This is a big problem…!’

Everyone saw the user’s actions earlier and started to follow suit, so everyone only attacked from a distance without approaching.

If it were a war event, monsters would have poured out and checked those users, but now I was all alone.

‘Even better.’

I gripped the Mind Reading Sword that had been with me until now again strongly and leaped towards the weakest-looking party in an instant.

Unlike the users who were tormenting me earlier, ordinary users couldn’t react to my charge.

“Euek?”

They should have analyzed my charging posture from the beginning and attacked and stopped me in the middle, but they couldn’t.

I didn’t kill the users on purpose.

I just attacked one of their arms to create a major flinch. And I immediately went into the arms of the user who couldn’t move due to the major flinch and avoided all the ranged attacks flying towards me.

To be exact, I blocked them with a meat shield.

My body and mind are gradually heating up.

Little by little, my senses are starting to match my heavier body.

This feeling of getting stronger the more I fight.

It’s the best.