Former Hero, Solo Play Oriented – Chapter 124

[Title]

Current ‘Tree of the Abyss’ raid progress status for each party.txt (+1554)

[Content]

This is the conquest progress status for Astria Online’s first raid ‘Tree of the Abyss’.

The first weekend since the dungeon opened is passing.

Sharing the progress status as far as I know.

‘Red-White’ party cleared 2nd Named boss

‘Scada’ party progressing on 2nd Named boss

‘Kind Master’ party progressing on 2nd Named boss

‘White Bone’ party progressing on 2nd Named boss

Other parties progressing on 1st Named boss

[Comments]

-Really? How do you know?

ㄴSome people upload progress screenshots too.

ㄴYeah there are acquaintances in each party.

ㄴEven if they don’t reveal strategies yet, you can hear about progress status.

-Ah it’s frustrating, the streamers have been dying for days on the 1st Named boss so we can’t even see the 2nd Named boss, but you’re saying parties have already cleared up to the 2nd Named boss.

ㄴ Rock teacher’s party seemed like they’ll clear 1st Named boss today?

ㄴ Player Cho Hyunsoo lol

ㄴ Kekeke lol

ㄴ WeGotMarried party also saw the last phase of 1st Named boss.

ㄴ Nice~

ㄴ The WeGotMarried vs Cho Hyunsoo structure is the most fun lol

ㄴ For real lol

-Then has the Red-White party already seen the last Named boss? Wow

ㄴ No, there’s no news that they’ve seen the last Named boss yet.

ㄴ What are they stuck on?

ㄴ Dunno? Maybe they’re resting after clearing 2nd Named boss late yesterday?

ㄴ No way. They should extend attempt time to see patterns in advance and make tactics, right?

-Seems there’s an intermediate boss.

There was an intermediate boss before 1st Named boss too, so the structure is becoming clear.

Summarizing, it’s like this:

Area 1

Intermediate boss ‘Ent Tainted by Demonic Energy’

Named boss ‘Black Dragon’

Area 2

Intermediate boss ‘???’

Named boss ‘???’

Area 3

Intermediate boss ‘???’

Named boss ‘???’

ㄴ This is correct.

ㄴ Clean summary.

ㄴ The Area 1 intermediate boss Ent was Named boss level too.

ㄴ So we’re just facing 6 bosses.

ㄴ But 3 parties have progressed on 2nd Named boss, that’s 48 people just on the Korean server, but we haven’t heard news about the Area 2 intermediate boss?

ㄴ White Bone and GG Corps are guild parties, right? Don’t they release videos?

ㄴ They’re vanguard too, how can they release?

ㄴ Seems like there are areas with and without intermediate bosses.

ㄴ Since we haven’t heard news of anyone progressing on 3rd Named boss yet, I guess there will be an intermediate boss before 3rd Named boss.

ㄴ Wow but the Red-White party’s progress is overwhelming.

ㄴ For real, looks like they’ll clear up to the last Named boss in the first week lol

* * *

[Title]

I’m a ‘White Bone’ raid member. We failed on 2nd Named boss. (+2072)

[Content]

We’ve been gathering since this morning for our first attempt, but 4 hours in we still can’t get past normal patterns.

We’re the fastest progressing among GG Corps parties, but we just can’t get a grasp.

Got permission from the raid leader and uploading video.

Let’s try to solve this together.

How on earth should we do this.

(Video)

[Comments]

-Wow.

-This is crazy.

-What? Can’t see the attacks.

-Too fast.

-It’s called ‘Death Knight Jakam’?

-500 million HP lololol

-Black Dragon was 200 million lol

-Isn’t there a gimmick? Usually when HP jumps this much in the next area, you can shave it off with gimmicks, right?

ㄴ Look at the normal patterns. Does it look like we can even see gimmicks?

ㄴ It’s really too fast? The tank just has to keep blocking and counterattacking.

ㄴ Yeah there’s no time to input damage. Even melee dealers are dying to the aftereffects;

ㄴ Do we need ranged tanking?

ㄴ The White Bone Swordsman tank is just blocking too. If a Swordsman is like that, how can a ranged dealer tank lolol

-(OP) Yeah ranged tanking is impossible. You can see that if the aggro target gets far, sword energy always flies. And this sword energy is no joke. There’s almost no cast time, and it sweeps half the combat area, right? How long can you survive in front of that.

ㄴ I see; Just saw it. What’s with that sword energy?

ㄴ Sprays at the tank and behind too lolol

ㄴ Wow this is crazy, even normal attacks are AoE lol

ㄴ It’s like someone’s mom lololol

-In the end we need to adapt to see the next pattern. Still, if we attempt for a long time we should be able to do it?

ㄴ Are those patterns something you can adapt to…? I don’t think I could even after seeing it for a month.

ㄴ Even normal pattern difficulty is extreme, even if we see the special phase we still need to find the gimmick to shave HP there.

ㄴ 2nd Named boss is the wailing wall.

ㄴ Looks like WeGotMarried and Cho Hyunsoo’s parties will see 2nd Named boss today, their streams will be chaotic lol

-What about the white kid…? Doesn’t she stream?

ㄴ I cried because I wanted to see the white kid too ㅠㅠ

ㄴ Is a high-level talent like the white kid not participating in the Red-White raid party?

ㄴ Yeah this was talked about on the first attempt day too, seems certain now.

ㄴ The 2nd Named boss clear verification shot was uploaded. There were 12 people excluding the white kid.

ㄴ Or maybe she’s doing healing raids in a party with a loose raid schedule because she’s been working too hard?

ㄴ She might really be doing it alone…

ㄴ Will it suddenly be like [‘No Name’ raid party…] or something?

ㄴ Lololol

ㄴ But it’s worrying.

ㄴ If that’s true it would be crazy…? It’s not a dungeon but a raid?

ㄴ Looking at the white kid’s actions so far, it doesn’t seem like a joke.

* * *

Leaving behind the remains of the ‘Flame Spearman’ and ‘Ice Shieldman’, I stood in front of the door to the deepest part.

Creak, creak creak.

The dark stems opened the way with a bizarre sound.

Finally entering the wide circular space.

Woong.

A bizarre energy was gushing out from its center in all directions.

It’s exactly like the center of the World Tree.

However, what’s gushing out from its center is not green life energy, but purple death energy.

And, inside that purple sphere.

Woong.

A human figure revealed itself.

“…”

I quietly looked at that demon.

His clothing was a robe tightly wrapping his entire body. However, material like crow feathers covered that entire robe.

There are many demons who don’t wear proper clothing. Warrior-type demons don’t wear tops. Female-type demons do wear them, but in most cases they look quite risqué. He didn’t particularly look like a muscular warrior type. Only the horns on his head revealed that he was a demon.

Unexpectedly handsome face. As the saying goes, a gisaeng’s younger brother? If I had to compare, he looks similar to the 2nd Named boss Dark Elf ‘Quartermaster Galovan’ from the outpost.

I exclaimed with admiration and said one thing.

“Oh, a crow.”

“Kukuk, that’s not wrong. But to call me a crow when we first meet, you’re quite an outspoken guest.”

He burst into a small laugh.

Quite gentlemanly.

He slightly opened his eyes and introduced himself.

“I am Crow, in charge of the north of this world.”

Ding.

[3rd Named Boss]

[Level 53]

[Northern Army Commander Crow]

[HP ??? / ???]

I smiled brightly too.

“Oh is that so? I’m Rain.”

“The hero from a thousand years ago, the Silver Sword. I know.”

“…!”

This was a bit surprising.

Other NPCs don’t know me, but this demon knows me.

Is he a demon who has lived for over a thousand years? I don’t know demons’ lifespans properly, but all the demons I’ve met so far were new faces. Well, our hero party did eliminate all the demon leadership at the time.

The existence of ‘Ma’ is born from pure demonic energy.

Demons were originally beings that didn’t exist in Astria. If we have to say, they are invaders from another world. There is another world that could be called the demon world, and we can see that they came over from there.

They tried to invade this world again. A world they failed once. That’s probably because the god died. Destroying this world without a god might be easier than eating cake.

As I looked at him with slightly wary eyes, he continued speaking.

“I know that Lucifer fell by your hand in the past.”

The name of the Demon King I defeated flowed from his mouth.

“Is that so? Has another Demon King been born? It won’t be any different this time.”

“For beings born from Ma, the concept of Demon King doesn’t actually exist.”

He shook his head.

What does that mean? They even have a proper organization.

Or is there a being above the Demon King.

Receiving my questioning gaze, Crow showed a strange smile.

“The being you called Demon King in the past, Lucifer was originally an angel of this world. I heard that when he was leading the demons, they were also called the Demon King’s Army.”

“…!”

In my mind, the image of the two angel-shaped golems I saw in the ‘Berbeia Ancient Temple’ floated up.

Archangel Dominion, and.

Fallen Angel Baliel.

“Baliel?”

“As expected of a hero, to know that name. Yes. A being who was an angel in the past, he rebelled against the god of this world and joined the demon legion.”

Crow also made a surprised expression.

“The goddess’s mistake was dividing her power and giving it to the angels she conceived. And trying to lead this world together with those children.”

I hardened my expression.

The puzzle pieces started fitting together little by little.

Ancient dwarves.

Why did they try to protect the ‘Unquenchable Flame’ even by creating an underground labyrinth?

The angel forms the dwarves saw were revealed as golems in the Berbeia Ancient Temple.

Before I came, there was a war of angels in this world.

And when all the angels the goddess gave birth to by separating parts of her existence perished during the war, the goddess also lost her power accordingly.

It’s certain since I never saw any angels when I was active.

I, newly born in the Astria continent. The goddess gave only one holy sword and entrusted everything to me. And when everything ended, she perished. Judging from this, we can also see that the goddess’s power had already weakened extremely from the time she called my soul to this world.

If one of the god-like beings ruling the world turned enemy, it’s only a matter of time before the dimension walks the path of destruction.

However, one question remains.

Why did he fall?

A being that could be seen as an avatar of the goddess.

A god-like being born with free will, separated from the goddess.

The reason he fell.

“Why…?”

I blankly murmured a question.

“Someone like you would understand. A being belonging to neither higher dimensions nor lower dimensions.”

He smiled pure white.

Crow, a pure being of Ma.

He knew many things.

Team Leader Han Yeoreum’s words swirled in my head.

Higher dimensions, lower dimensions.

Normalization.

Simulation.

Overwriting.

The truth their mother didn’t tell them.

The truth that the world they thought was their everything was just an ant society looked down upon from higher dimensions.

Beings like chess pieces on a chessboard.

Is that what beings of lower dimensions are?