Former Hero, Solo Play Oriented – Chapter 99

[Boom boom boom boom!]

[Open the door! Open it!]

[What’s with the broadcast pause! What’s with the black screen!]

[I want to make a snowman together with the white kid too]

[Hng… Show more of Frederica noona]

[Show the white kid!]

[Did Mr. WeGotMarried turn this off?]

[No no the white kid’s screen went off]

[The universe turned off for a moment]

[Please… This is the only broadcast where we can communicate while watching the white kid…]

[Please tell the white kid to open the chat window!]

[The white kid probably can’t communicate since she’s in the middle of a try anyway?]

“J-just a moment everyone. Since it’s paused, it should come back soon… probably?”

GG Group’s guild master, WeGotMarried, was flustered.

Rain’s streaming screen that was transmitting fine suddenly switched to a black screen.

The GG Group party’s Mage who was doing commentary content with WeGotMarried also fell into deep thought.

“Hmm, did she stop the broadcast in front of the last Named boss? She showed up to the 2nd Named, so is she saying figure out the 3rd Named on your own?”

[She showed as much as needed. She won’t show anymore]

[Kekekekeke]

[But wait, did we see the 2nd Named?]

[The demon phantoms disappeared when she applied status effect combos, right?]

[Yeah but you need to apply the right status effects to each]

[For party play, everyone except the tank could take one each]

[But does Swordsman normally have that many status effect skills?]

[Seems she applied them through direct hits rather than skills? So amazing]

[It’s super hard to trigger stun judgments though kekeke]

[Common sense doesn’t apply to the white kid]

[Oh the screen is back]

[Wow!]

“…Oh!”

“The Named boss battle has already started.”

Rain’s broadcast screen that had been paused returned.

Clang clang clang clang!

The witch emitting cold energy and the silver-white girl clashed.

‘Witch Frederica’ was attacking Rain using ice blades circling around her body.

“This one has 50 million HP too…! Will there be a gimmick that can shave off HP at once?”

“The attacks are fast and fierce. The range is even wide too.”

“That white light pattern… it crosses almost the entire map. Looks like a pattern ranged dealers especially need to be careful of.”

Rain’s battle appearance jumping slightly, twisting her body, deflecting with her sword, and thrusting her sword between the ice blades circling the witch’s body.

The GG Group guild party all held their breath and focused on the screen.

[I really can’t copy those movements]

[Agility stat does make you faster as it increases, but it’s hard to control properly.]

[Yeah movements are supplementary, you have to do it mostly with skills.]

[True it’s not like athletes dominate all games kekeke]

[The arena ranker Deathly Death is a former boxer though…]

[That person worked really hard at the game too]

[Then what is Rain? A former swordsman? Kekekeke]

[She really might be…]

[Doesn’t sound like a joke]

“Look at that. The witch’s ice blades, they’re not just attacking but guarding too.”

“50 million HP and guards too…! Even though there don’t seem to be any blind spots, Rain-nim’s attacks keep going in.”

“She’s thrusting her sword in, avoiding the ice blade guards. Can ordinary users copy this?”

“Hmm… it would be difficult.”

“Still, with 4 people, most attacks should land. The number of ice blades is limited, and the guards become loose in patterns using multiple blades. Plus ranged attacks seem to go in without problems.”

“Melee dealers will have a hard time. It’ll be difficult for tanks to hold aggro too.”

While WeGotMarried and party members’ conversation continued, the witch’s pattern changed.

Rumble.

With vibrations, icicles fell from the ceiling, forming five cold floor signs.

“From here, it’s the special phase.”

“Th-that!”

Swish swish swish!

Rain’s form moved leaving afterimages. She stepped on all five floor signs erasing them in the blink of an eye.

The Mage asked with a dumbfounded expression.

“What just happened?”

“It looks like a similar gimmick to the Ice Ogre King’s cold floor signs from the Ice Spire Tower. They disappeared right away when Rain-nim moved.”

“Did she erase them by stepping on them? Wouldn’t she get inflicted with the Freeze status effect?”

“It seems she released the freeze with coordinate movement skills… We’ll have to rewatch it later in slow motion to see the exact skill order. I’m not sure even though I’m the same Swordsman class.”

Swish swish swish swish!

Starlight sword energy burst from Rain’s sword that erased the last floor sign at a distance, slashing the witch’s body. At the same time, she simply avoided the white light the witch shot. The witch flew at Rain with a very angry face.

“It’s the normal pattern. Is the special phase over? It’s simpler than I thought.”

“Ah, n-not yet! One ice blade is floating in the center!”

Woong!

The ice blade that detached from the witch’s body emitted strong light.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Soon, strong blade winds started raging in the center of the battle area centered on it.

The witch smiled eerily and hid her body in the ice fragment storm.

The battle situation after that proceeded with the witch’s one-sided attacks.

Continuous ranged blade patterns, an ice storm blocking approach, simultaneously two white demonic energy spheres were created and slowly started chasing Rain.

Icicles fell and cold floor signs were created. They weren’t created five at once like just now, but it looked like they would continue to be created going forward.

A parade of outrageous patterns. There’s more than one or two things to pay attention to. It’s even impossible to approach.

Everyone was at a loss for words.

Breaking the silence, WeGotMarried barely opened his mouth.

“I-is this difficulty correct? Forget solo play, even party play seems difficult…?”

“If that ice storm has similar specs to the 2nd Named boss, even ranged dealers’ projectiles will be blocked. It means there’s no way to attack at all.”

[Ice blades keep flying from range. Spheres chase. Floor signs need to be erased too]

[Storm keeps raging in the center, so can’t even approach the witch]

[Projectiles are blocked, melee dealers have no way to attack at all]

[If Starlight Sword Energy has slash judgment, that would go in. But isn’t the cooldown long?]

[Yeah and the HP is 50 million too]

[This is absolutely unclearable even with party play. They made a mistake]

[What will the white kid do…?]

* * *

[3rd Named]

[Level 48 Witch Frederica]

[HP 39,970,496 / 50,000,000 (79%)]

Clang!

I deflected the ice blade flying at me, and in the meantime stepped on and erased one created floor sign.

Swish.

I lowered my posture and sprayed Starlight Sword Energy towards the witch hiding her body in the storm.

Swish swish swish swish!

One, two, three, four. And, five. With this the freeze is released too.

Crash!

“Kyah!”

The witch was exposed defenseless to the sword energy in the storm. But she soon regained her posture and started throwing ice blades at me.

Even in ranged projectile immune state, skills with slash judgment go in. But ‘Starlight Sword Energy’ has a long cooldown. It’s impossible to shave off all of the witch’s HP with just this skill.

At the same time I avoided two white spheres approaching me closely. These are slow. There’s not even a need to use evasion skills.

Though the patterns were noisy with this and that, they’re not types that can’t be broken through. I just need to calmly respond to them one by one separately.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The problem is, as expected, the ice fragment storm raging around the witch.

“Kyahahahah!”

The witch let out an eerie mad laugh in that storm, continuously throwing ice blades at me.

How nasty.

If I can’t dispel that storm, there’s no way to deal damage other than Starlight Sword Energy.

Of course, there’s not absolutely no way to approach. I just need to recall facing the ‘Ancient Hero’s ‘Sword Dance’.

Enter with Backward Evasion, resist with Counterattack, deal damage with Flash Strike while getting out. If I use invincibility skills consecutively, I can deal damage without taking damage even in that storm.

But it’s a one-time thing. I can’t continuously input damage. Enter the storm every minute when Flash Strike comes back to shave off HP? All the remaining 40 million? Not a chance.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Then, there must surely exist a gimmick to make that storm stop.

My eyes quickly scanned the entire audience chamber.

What could it be? Is there some special object?

The cold floor signs are absorbed if left alone. The ice blades just fly at me in straight lines.

What’s left is.

Woong!

Only the two ‘white spheres’ chasing me while emitting light.

Tap tap!

Though the thought process was long, the time to put it into action was short.

While looking straight at the white spheres slowly approaching me.

Swoosh!

I made them form a straight trajectory with the ice blade flying in just then.

Pop! Pop!

The two white spheres were pierced by the ice blade and disappeared emitting strong light.

Swoosh.

Whoosh!

The storm in the center of the battle area stopped, and simultaneously white light enveloped my body.

[Attack Stack 2 (1 minute 30 seconds)]

Two 10% attack power increase buffs.

“So this was it.”

I can erase the white spheres using the ice blades.

And one attack power buff per sphere.

The 50 million HP the witch has, is it a method of shaving it off along with infinitely stacking attack power buffs?

Flash! Rumble.

At the same time the witch’s light flew in. That slash cut down the ice statues positioned behind me.

Of course I avoided it by just slightly twisting my upper body.

“Kyaah!”

Whoosh! Clang!

The witch letting out a strange cry flew at me. While blocking the ice blades she controls, I continued attacking.

You give attack power buffs with each special pattern. How kind.

I grinned at the witch through my diagonally raised sword.

“Unnie, is this all you’ve prepared?”