382. Raid (1)

Raid launch day.

After a long time, LORE started a large-scale maintenance.

Maintenance starts at midnight. It ends at 4 PM. A very long maintenance time of 16 hours.

This much maintenance time is almost the same as the last server merge.

I don’t know how much anticipation they’re trying to build up by doing maintenance for this long.

Raids are coming to the game world where the system AI becomes the god of the LORE world and creates various stories.

How can you not be excited about this?

,Wow… this is seriously awesome. Does Arang really smell like this in real life?

,Hehehe. I told you so, right? I personally collected Arang’s scent with my own hands and implemented it. Of course, Anna-unni brought the machine.

,OMG, how can it smell like this? I really want to smell it in real life…

Right now, all of our guild members are gathered in the virtual world’s personal rooms.

The reason is nothing special, we’re just gathering together to chat and wait for the time to pass.

,But if we do this, shouldn’t we fucking rush to open the raid as soon as the maintenance ends? Originally, they would open the raid pre-quest a week in advance so we could enter the raid as soon as it updated.

,Maybe this time they’ll just put the raid open time an hour or two later? If it just opens, we’ll have to skip the entire story.

,Nah, no way they’d do that, right? Since the system AI is basically managing it instead of the developers, there shouldn’t be anything like that, right?

,Does the system AI even know about that stuff?

,Maybe?

==

As soon as the maintenance ended, I went to do the raid quest first in LORE, where nothing had changed.

The start of the quest was the manager of the faction you belong to.

All users don’t receive the quest in one place, but from the manager.

I quickly went to Disnye-nunna, the manager.

I went to a place where there was only a cathedral in a cosmic space.

As expected, I was the only one here.

Other users must have gone to other spaces.

There is a slight difference.

The priestesses of each manager go to the place where the manager is directly staying, and other users just meet managers who are formally copied in a white space.

As soon as I saw Disnye-nunna, I ran straight to her.

,Welcome.

,Hello. What’s going on this time?

,Yes. Miko ended up causing a big problem.

,Miko? Wasn’t she trying to stay out of trouble because she didn’t want to be kicked out of her position as manager?

,I thought so too. But now she’s trying to erase the very existence of this world.

,How on earth is she doing that?

,Using the black magician wasn’t just to stabilize this world and become the manager of this world.

Originally, only one of the five managers in this world becomes the manager of this world, and the remaining managers are stripped of their qualifications.

That’s why the faction season was created to make each of their managers become the manager of this world.

In such a faction war, an alliance was formed to knock out our Fifth World faction, the strongest faction, in advance.

When the Fifth World faction was pushed out by that alliance, I thought Miko was working with the black magician to keep the other managers in check.

Then, because of the elf sisters, I thought she was just doing it for her own fun, but that wasn’t it either.

,Miko is planning to erase this world faster than anyone else.

,…What the hell? She’s thinking the same thing as Disnye-nunna?

,No. It’s different from me.

,Huh? Different?

Isn’t it the same thing?

,I want to occupy this world, not destroy it, so that my children can live in this world.

The children that Disnye-nunna is talking about are none other than various terrible monsters wrapped in despair.

,My children can’t just live in a world with nothing either. They need animals or humans to eat, and they need air and oxygen. I just want to make it possible for my children to immigrate here. But Miko is just thinking of killing this world itself.

Disnye paused and said more seriously than ever.

,Into a world where no living thing can live.

,How on earth is she doing that?

,You know that black magic steals the energy of living things, right?

,Yes.

,I didn’t know either, but it seems that black magic can also steal the energy of this planet.

,Huh…???

The scale is getting bigger again.

No. From the beginning, the universe scale was there from the moment multiple worlds merged into one.

,Why on earth is she thinking that?

,I don’t know either. What’s scary is that Miko just told us managers these facts.

,Huh?

The more I listened, the less I understood the situation.

So, she told the managers with the most influence about her plan to destroy this world?

I don’t know what that cat bastard is thinking.

Sometimes she’s just a crazy bitch, sometimes she’s just a dopamine addict, and now she’s just mentally ill.

,I’ve already talked to the other managers. So, please work with other players to kill Miko.

,…Kill her? Is that even possible? Managers are originally-

,Legacy of Raid system AI has already announced that Miko has been stripped of her position as manager and can be killed.

,Oh… so does that mean I can finally punch that Miko in the head?

,That’s right. So please, stop Miko.

,Understood!

==

The raid opening quest was about a 10-minute cut.

I thought I came quickly, but as soon as I came out, everyone was waiting for me.

,Does everyone know the story to some extent?

,Yes. I can’t believe the raid boss this time is Miko.

,Right? But is this okay in China?

Everyone tilted their heads at Yesol’s words.

,Why?

I was curious too.

,Miko is originally a very famous mascot in China.

,Oh….

Thinking about it, the original server that Miko managed was the Asian server. In fact, the Asian server was no different from the Chinese server.

,But suddenly she’s coming out as a raid villain…? I’m afraid of what will happen to Miko-related merchandise?

,Now that I think about it, it’s a little scary?

,Okay, everyone, let’s go into the raid now.

The starting point of the raid is none other than the fountain in the center of Yggdrasil City.

It’s the fountain where I found the secret dungeon.

There was a huge empty gate above the fountain, and countless users were swarming there.

,Alright. Shall we go?

==

The first boss of the raid was naturally not Miko, but the black magician.

The problem is that the black magician is not in a normal human state.

The black magician had eight arms like a spider behind him. What’s chilling here is that I mistook them for wings when I first saw them. When I looked closer, I realized that they were not wings, but arms.

The eight arms moved in sync with the black magician’s movements, and I got goosebumps as soon as I saw them.

,Wow… I can immediately see what kind of attacks he’s going to do?

As Soonchu said, I realized that the concept of this raid would be too difficult.

The black magician, the raid boss with a total of 10 hands, including 8 arms and his original hands.

As soon as I saw him, it was directly shown that he would be spamming magic non-stop.

To think that a raid boss that seems to require parrying the most would come out in the current situation where the parrying success rate is low.

,Shall we try it first?

,Alright!

,Everyone, check your doping items.

,Checked.

,Yesol-unni. Can we see our screen well?

,I can see it well.

,What about the sponsor mark?

,The Masble logo is also visible!

,Alright. Then, main tanker.

,Preparation complete. I will raise the timer.

15.

14.

As the count went down, we did what we had to do for each count, and as soon as the word START came out, we ran forward.

The first start was naturally the magic attack of the mage.

The basics of a mage.

Cast the longest casting magic first.

During the 15-second grace period, the mage casts the strongest magic. The strongest magic requires the longest casting time, but the raid only starts when you make a preemptive strike or enter the recognition range.

Therefore, no matter how long the casting time is, there is no problem in using magic comfortably by casting it according to the count time.

The mage cast the magic when there were 5 seconds left in the 5-second casting time, and as soon as START appeared, the magic casting was completed and flew to the raid boss.

Kwaang!

As soon as the black magician was hit by the magic, we also started attacking.

First, our main tanker, the knight, uses the taunt skill to strongly bring the aggro value.

As soon as we confirmed that the black magician’s aggro target had changed to the knight, everyone started attacking.

I thought the black magician would use all his hands to use magic, but something different happened than expected.

Instead of staves appearing from the eight hands, various weapons appeared.

Attacking in an instant, shields made of mana came out of all the hands to defend the attack, and as soon as the defense was successful, the shields disappeared and the staves were instantly changed, and the staves flashed.

Kwaaaaang!!!