Ch. 55 Reina and Emma
by AfuhfuihgsChapter 55 – Reina and Emma
This season’s final Abyss Raid.
The Mead Guild was more prepared than ever.
As it was the last Raid of the season, everyone was highly motivated to end it with a bang.
The sponsor had also promised a bonus for achieving WFK, so their preparations were thorough.
As soon as the patch went live, they started the Raid, strictly allocating 16 hours of available access time per day to manage their stamina and push forward.
They progressed through Bosses 1, 2, and 3 faster and more flawlessly than ever.
They made quick decisions and accurate calculations to break through the gimmicks and patterns, and from then on, they advanced without a single mistake.
After clearing the 3rd Boss since the WFK Race started, everyone took a long break before tackling the final Boss.
LEORE always makes the last Boss of the season much more difficult than the others, so they took a slightly longer break.
During that time, they checked the progress of other Raid Groups.
Reina naturally assumed that her Mead Guild would be far ahead this time, too.
After all, they had achieved WFK three times in a row, and the current Mead Guild was in top condition.
But things were a little different than she expected.
“A… rang… A… rang?”
It was the name of a Raid Group she had never seen before.
A slightly cheesy Raid Group name, but contrary to that, their skills were considerable.
“There’s almost no difference between us?”
A Raid Group she had never seen before. Most of the user nicknames in the Raid Group were unfamiliar.
There were only one or two nicknames she recognized from the Leore Log, but the user [Lee Arang], listed as the Guild Leader, was completely new.
“Oh, that’s the Soma Specialist who suddenly appeared.”
“Soma Specialist?”
Sam, a friend who was nominally the Guild Leader of Mead (though Reina was the actual leader, specializing in gimmicks, patterns, and briefings), came over and recognized the Lee Arang user.
“Yeah. This user has been playing Leore for about 2 months? They’ve raised the Soma meter to almost 50%. There’s even talk that Soma was revamped because of this user.”
“Soma was suddenly revamped this time because of this user?”
“Yeah. The meter shows such an overwhelming difference that you might mistake them for a Pure Dealer.”
“I only knew the nickname, but looking at the Character Customization, they seem like a young player. Judging by their height, they seem to be 15 years old, right on the Leore age limit? Wow. A Guild Leader at that age? And they’re chasing us so closely?”
‘Cute…’
Reina couldn’t help but think that Arang, running around diligently with such a small body and short legs, was adorable.
Reina, now nearing 30, was quite obsessed with cute things, to the point where her room was filled with cute dolls and various cute Leore merchandise.
Arang immediately caught Reina’s attention.
She wanted to meet Arang, but both of them were too busy at the moment, focused on the WFK race.
“What the fuck…”
“This gimmick is trash.”
30% gimmick. The Mead Guild couldn’t figure out the Crazy Flailing Pattern.
Aggro was randomly grabbed, and just when they were about to land a hit, it would suddenly switch and attack indiscriminately, making it impossible to respond.
If that was all, they would have brute-forced it, but the stacking Debuffs made it impossible.
While they were wasting time like that, news came that the Arang Arang Guild was breaking through the Crazy Flailing Pattern.
They had passed the dreaded 20% mark and were now looking at 10%.
Mead didn’t watch the Arang Arang Guild’s broadcast.
The fact that the Arang Arang Guild had broken through the Crazy Flailing Pattern meant that it was possible. They believed the Mead Guild could figure it out on their own.
So the Mead Guild eventually found the solution with its own strength.
Of course, around that time, the Arang Arang Guild achieved WFK.
The Mead Guild also eventually broke through the Crazy Flailing Pattern, proving that their three consecutive WFKs were no fluke.
But the final 1v1 Maggora was a problem.
Unable to see any possibility of clearing it, they eventually looked up the Arang Arang Guild’s broadcast.
Reina watched Arang’s Maggora video.
Arang was serious and exuded charisma, but her soft face and stumpy body made her look more like a girl doing cute antics than someone cool.
Yet, despite her cute appearance, she displayed perfect Physical Skill that left the other Guild Members speechless.
All the Dealers had tried Maggora, proving that Arang’s crazy Physical Skill was hard to comprehend.
In particular, the Soma Guild Member who tried it himself, thinking the Soma job was comfortable in Maggora like Arang, said that even after watching Arang’s video, he couldn’t understand it at all.
Reina, who maintained perfect concentration no matter what happened during a Raid Try, was slightly shaken by seeing Arang this time.
‘I want to meet her. I want to meet her, have her wear all the clothes I have, and take pictures!’
Reina started thinking about how to meet Arang. And she didn’t have to think for long.
There were plenty of reasons to justify meeting her.
Reina realized that the user Arang from the Arang Arang Guild’s broadcast resided in Korea, and she saw it as fate.
‘It’s fate to meet Arang!’
She had already planned to go to Korea, the home of Leore, to buy a lot of Leore goods after the Raid, and now Arang was residing there.
Reina, as the Mead Leader, decided to talk to Arang, the Guild Leader of the Arang Arang Guild that won this time, to see if there was anything to learn or fix, under the guise of a friendly exchange.
As soon as they cleared the Raid, she contacted a Guild Member who knew someone in Korea and asked if they could contact Arang.
Fortunately, she got in touch with Arang, who agreed to Reina’s request, and the meeting was arranged.
As soon as the meeting was set, Reina immediately added to the luggage she was piling up for her trip to Korea.
She bought another carrier and immediately started filling it with clothes that would suit Arang.
Reina had been diligently collecting pretty and cute clothes, so the carrier filled up quickly.
The clothes Reina was going to give to Arang weighed more than the luggage she was taking to Korea.
Reina finally came to her senses after packing everything.
‘If I give her clothes as a gift at our first meeting and ask her to wear them and ask if I can take pictures… that would be too much, right?’
Reina often took pictures of cute people cosplaying. Imagining Arang in the clothes she had collected, taking pictures of cute Arang in a cute place, naturally brought a smile to her face.
‘I have to get permission no matter what. I know it’s a nuisance, but I have to succeed.’
At that moment, Emma, Reina’s housemate, best friend, and a member of the Mead Guild, sighed as she looked at Reina, who was smiling slyly.
It was fun and exciting to go on a trip to Korea, but she was slightly annoyed at Reina, who was just smiling when they were going to meet the Guild Leader of the Guild that had stolen WFK.
‘She had WFK stolen by a brand new Guild… Ugh… Reina has been unable to resist cute things since she was a child…’
In fact, Leore doesn’t restrict body shape much in Character Customization, but you can change your face to the point of plastic surgery.
Arang’s current appearance was also the result of Character Customization, and the woman inside might be an ugly woman who is anything but cute.
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The meeting with Reina, the Leader of the Mead Guild, was scheduled faster than expected.
Reina had already been planning a trip to Korea after this WFK was over, even before the message was conveyed to me.
She had already finished preparing to depart for Korea, and the plane ticket was booked, so it was just a matter of whether I had time.
Reina said she would arrive in Korea this Friday and asked if it would be okay to meet on Saturday, the next day.
I naturally said yes.
Oh, and she asked if she could bring her friend and fellow Raid member, and I naturally agreed.
Of course, she reassured me that her friend was also a woman.
Well, it doesn’t matter if she’s a man.
What I felt while doing this Raid was that the current technology of this era is amazing beyond what I thought.
Of course, it’s the best technology at the point of creating a virtual world.
But even knowing that, I was surprised by the AI. When you talk to NPCs while doing the Main and Sub Quests, you can’t tell they’re AI at all.
They seem like people living in this Leore world.
Well, the reason I’m talking about this is because of the translation AI.
They talk to each other in their own languages, but the translation is so smooth that they can understand each other without any difficulty.
It seems like Reina is just writing and sending messages in Korean.
Hmm…
What should I ask Reina when I meet her?
There are so many things to ask that it’s a problem.
She must have a lot of know-how in operating the world’s top Raid Group.
Unlike the League of Legends pro game team I was on, which had a small number of people, the Mead Guild has 24 members.
Managing and leading that many people, and sharing stories from Raid Tactics to breaking through gimmicks and patterns, looked really neat and cool.
I can’t do that. I thought about it last time, but if it wasn’t for the Parrying luck this Raid, the Mead Guild would have definitely achieved WFK.
I’m going to ask Reina, the Leader of the Mead Guild, about all of that, absorb it, make it mine, and achieve WFK perfectly in the next season’s Raid, not just because of Parrying.
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