Ch.6460 – The Young Master of the Study

The strategy for defeating Valum Benaons is remarkably simple.

All one needed to do was lure him to the “Central Library” field in the Remnant Materials Warehouse, where he kept his prized collections and taxidermy specimens.

If you could somehow draw him into the library, Valum would have to rely solely on the moonlight coming through small windows to fulfill his skill requirements.

Following Adella’s advice to change locations, NoName methodically lured Valum while evading the remaining forces in the warehouse.

However, the reason why clearing this game with maximum difficulty settings was impossible—whether as a healer, tank, or DPS—lay in Valum’s unusual pattern that followed.

“You think such petty tricks will work on me?”

Valum makes a great leap.

The area of ceiling that collapses is proportional to his magic power and infamy rating.

Moonlight pours in. Cruelly, all the clouds had cleared away.

And since NoName started with both magic power and infamy difficulty at 10,

“Hyaaaargh! This makes the building completely useless!”

The entire library ceiling had collapsed.

-How does the whole ceiling collapse after just one headbutt? Where’s the logic?

-Why are you looking for logic in a game? lol

-So your 30 kills with a flying staff was perfectly logical?

-NoName’s staff is truly a nightmare…

-Can’t you just find some magic to seal the ceiling again?

-Valum will just break it again gg

-Just remove whatever weird thing he puts on the ceiling every time lmao

-Ceiling obsession man lol

-Ceiling-head lol

-Not the wasp guy but the ceiling guy lol

-He obviously needs to care about it if he can’t function without moonlight

-Looking like he’s about to do Time Stop but needs moonlight like some elf, gross

Even if she tried to patch it with plaster magic through the Laurel, the warehouse keeper would immediately destroy the ceiling with all his physical might.

Even with the strongest character in existence—the crossbowman with an extreme DPS build—there wasn’t enough damage output. It was impossible to match the boss’s healing rate.

According to a DPS simulation created by a player, the maximum theoretical difficulty for clearing with extreme min-maxing was 9/10/9.

Even then, clearing could be impossible depending on the boss’s random patterns.

-With your excellent physical skills, could you try a 7/7/7 clear as a shield knight?

-Are you serious? Are you an ACK pro gamer?

-Can you play mage? That double casting earlier was insane, you’re a magic god fr

-The streamer closed the chat!!! Donate if you want to be heard

-Oh right, that’s true

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-Please play illegal mage for the next round!

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-I think 7/8/7 is possible with assassin gogogogo

The viewers naturally assumed the game would end soon.

They had zero interest in the current game and were eagerly waiting for NoName to choose her next class.

While Adella distracted him, Name cast a spell to seal the ceiling.

But the boss breaking it again was a foregone conclusion.

Attacks didn’t reduce his health. The elixir meant they couldn’t hope for mana depletion either.

With no skill cooldowns, he unleashed ultimate abilities non-stop.

“Don’t you dare touch my body!”

Adella’s health dropped to less than half in the blink of an eye.

Name reluctantly caught Adella’s flying body and helped her up.

“Hueeeeee…”

-Nice shot Valum lol

-No way? That was a solid body strike

-Watching the hateful cat get disciplined is more satisfying than beating Valum

-Half health from one hit? What kind of difficulty is this

-What the hell! I’m really bummed out :<

-What?

-A foreigner?

-What is this lol

-What

-Swang

-What what

Name’s mind cooled.

The more urgent the situation, the more calm she needed to survive.

Even if Name took Adella and left, Valum wouldn’t bother following them.

Her spiritual sense had already detected numerous forces converging.

If they left now, Valum would know their position and they’d be surrounded.

A one-on-one fight with a powerful opponent was better than facing many enemies.

This was wisdom gained from years in exile.

But how?

The open space meant she couldn’t contain the light.

She couldn’t physically seal the ceiling either.

Valum’s massive axe flew toward Name.

BOOM!

Meanwhile, he was completely at ease.

He didn’t even bother to run.

His belly jiggled as he dominated the library space.

“You can’t escape now, khuhuhu.”

He charged fiercely toward the two girls with a grotesque laugh.

Having already allowed several attacks, this time was dangerous.

“Nooooo!”

Adella, cradled in Name’s arms, rushed toward Valum in desperation.

It was the worst possible move.

Valum delivered an uppercut to her abdomen with all his physical might.

“Nyaak-!”

A death scream.

Her body hit the ceiling horribly before falling down.

‘Hit the ceiling?’

There was clearly nothing there, but Adella made a collision sound as if blocked by an invisible wall.

The viewers thought this was normal.

If players could climb to the ceiling, defeating Valum—who was bound to the library—would be simple with just archers or mages.

An invisible wall to prevent the “dog chasing chickens looking at the roof” situation.

But Name reasoned in reverse.

‘If we can’t get out, neither can you.’

Unlike the staff, Valum was bound to the World of Arsheria.

[1st Circle Higher Casting: Polarized Array]

Though she couldn’t cast magic beyond the wall, she could at the very edge.

She manipulated the arrangement of atoms at the outermost boundary of the magic-permitting space to reflect light.

“This damn glass…! I’ll just break it!”

THUD!

-Why isn’t it breaking?

-What’s he doing to the ceiling?

-Valum’s attack power coefficient is +99999 when headbutting the ceiling

-They really added a ton of those

No matter what he did, he couldn’t break it.

A membrane thinner than 0.1 micrometers.

But electromagnetic force is by no means weak.

Compared to gravity, the relative difference in strength is 10^36 times.

Electromagnetic force at the singularity where the world ends is virtually invincible.

But Name’s situation hadn’t improved. Even casting magic with a 1st Circle dimensional reduction was clearly draining her mana.

The warehouse keeper was flustered, but the tide hadn’t turned.

Name attached a chain to her staff.

‘I need to end this in 2 minutes.’

“How dare this tiny creature!”

Valum Benaons’ bulk heaved.

THUD-

‘Don’t think of him as human. This is a golem.’

Though he used psychological warfare, it didn’t vary by opponent.

Like a well-programmed golem, Valum Benaons’ movements were simple.

Each time Valum’s attack failed, shallow cuts were left on his skin.

‘Never be hasty.’

At long range, she hit him one-sidedly due to reach advantage.

At close range, she swung her mace to punish him severely.

Using centrifugal force to the extreme, she steadily accumulated effective hits.

Name targeted only Valum’s side.

Though it started as thin cuts,

Once, and then again.

The blade-embedded mace left definite lacerations.

Valum’s movements slowed.

The cruel moonlight didn’t enter the library.

“I admit it. I seem to have put down my pen for too long.”

Valum panted.

He took out half-shattered monocles from his pocket and put them on.

One shouldn’t give an enemy spouting nonsense time to counterattack.

Name’s body immediately sprang forward.

But Valum reached out to Name and cast a spell.

[Moonlight Tide]

Name’s avatar was thrown back as if hit by a truck.

-???????

-Is this Pain from Naruto? How is this pig using such magic???

-This is on another level compared to the old astronomy tower guy lol Valum sensei

-Not body slamming, not hugging and rubbing, but using magic?

-Is this… the nerd’s hidden charm?

-The nerd is lmao

-He’s secretly scholarly, his hobby is reading

-Now I get why the quest is called “Gentleman of the Library” lol

The viewers couldn’t close their mouths at this shocking fact.

But others were even more surprised.

-Wait that’s not the important part

-How did she break through to phase 3? Why isn’t he healing?

-Did she just fight without interrupting his casting?

Phase 2 of Valum Benaons, thought to be impossible to clear.

NoName had just surpassed that limit.

Name stood up again. Her remaining health: 141 out of 1592.

The boss’s remaining health: 1600.

-Is this the end? That’s too bad

-How did she clear phase 2!!!

-Of course the heal skill is on cooldown, she’ll definitely die to the next Full Moon Tide

-Isn’t this basically the first time anyone’s seen phase 3?

“Consider it an honor, mere beast, to die while basking in the glory of moonlight.”

The gentleman’s dialogue implied that being hit by his skill meant certain death.

There seemed to be no hope left.

[Full Moon Tide]

Name’s body floated up, drawn toward Valum.

“It’s over.”

-It’s over

-Mr. Valum Benaons I’ll never judge by appearance again

-This is such a broken character, what was Wearsoft thinking

-Good health, unlimited cooldown buffs, and now magic too

-Full Moon Tide is instant death

-Why did it suddenly switch from fantasy to wuxia style?

-Because Wearsoft’s major shareholder is a Chinese company

-Adult circumstances can’t be helped

-Would healing work?

-It’s on real cooldown…

Name released the magic she was maintaining on the ceiling.

The moonlight that had been hitting the useless coating poured in.

“Kuhahahahaha! Giving up?”

All of Valum’s skill cooldowns reset, and from 5 seconds after the moonlight poured in, his health would recover 10% every second.

Or at least, it would have.

[Synthesis: Lanthanide Neodymium]

[Cast: Melting]

[Cast: Molding]

[Cast: Sintering]

[Cast: Magnetization]

Even with dimensional reduction, 4th Circle magic couldn’t be used.

So Name took a detour.

A hexahedron.

She assumed an arbitrary 4-dimensional figure by adding one point to a regular tetrahedron.

She calculated the solid angle obtained by triple integration and substituted the results into each corresponding magic circle.

Each of the five vertices is surrounded by six faces.

Thirty second-order linear differential equations were solved in just 2 seconds.

Finally, she used all her remaining mana to synchronize with the Laurel.

-Something… something is happening!!!

-Four magic circles?

-What are you doing, streamer!!!

Neodymium, boron, and iron sintered and alloyed in a 2:1:14 ratio to create the strongest permanent magnet existing on Earth.

The attraction of Valum’s “Full Moon Tide” combined with the neodymium magnet’s pull.

“What the…!”

The position was perfect.

Wasn’t Valum standing right in front of a steel safe?

Whether the Full Moon Tide hit detection would come first, or the neodymium drill would pierce Valum’s body,

KWABOOM-

The future was easily predictable for all 2,000 viewers.

Along with a massive explosion, the familiar quest clear sound played.

[You have defeated the Gentleman of the Library/Warehouse Keeper · Valum Benaons.]