Executioner Crow

The Deron Online app had a feature that allowed you to check the auction house items and market prices in real-time.

It was a very helpful system that allowed you to check the items for sale even when you couldn’t access the game.

I stare blankly at my phone screen. As I expected, the price of Taechuk was dropping in real-time.

When I refreshed the auction house items, new Taechuk listings poured out.

Since it was an easy-to-obtain event item, a huge amount of it had accumulated in the game.

If I had sold all my Taechuk before knowing this situation…

If I had bought the cheaper Taechuk again with the gold I got…

Of course, it was just a meaningless fantasy now.

The rumor that Taechuk could not be used in raids had already started to spread. The price of Taechuk was falling uncontrollably.

The value of Taechuk was not completely lost. It was just that it could no longer be used in raids, but it would still show off its fraudulent performance in general fields and occupation war content.

The outpouring of sales right now was just a temporary phenomenon.

At least, I wanted to believe so.

“What are you looking at so intently?”

“Ah… Sohee-ya.”

Did she already come back after going to the bathroom?

Sohee was giving me a bright smile in front of me.

“I’m just… a little depressed.”

I show Sohee the phone screen and mutter.

The auction house’s price fluctuation graph was showing how much Taechuk had fallen overnight.

It dropped 50%.

The value of the 100,000 Taechuk I was holding, worth 7,000 gold, had been cut in half.

It paused for a moment at 50%, but it looked like it would fall further.

The rate at which items were piling up was faster than the rate at which people were buying Taechuk.

“It’s going to be a temporary phenomenon.”

“I know that, but…”

“It’ll recover to some extent in a week, right?”

“Really…?”

“Yeah.”

But even with Sohee’s consolation, my heart didn’t ease easily.

I groaned while looking at my phone screen.

If I had sold Taechuk before it got cheap and bought it again now, I could have made a huge profit…

It was a shame.

***

I return home and immediately log into the game.

There were about 20 minutes left until the promised time.

I looked around the auction house and sighed.

There was nothing I could do now.

The only fortunate thing was that the raid members quickly got rid of their Taechuk.

I shake off my thoughts about Taechuk, check the doping and buffs to use in the raid, and head straight to the raid dungeon.

When I arrived on time, all the raid members were gathered.

We couldn’t defeat the last boss yesterday because we didn’t have enough time, but today will be different.

“Everyone reviewed the video they filmed, right? I’ll believe that.”

I check each of the raid members’ gazes one by one.

I, too, lay in bed and replayed the recorded video until I fell asleep.

I carefully checked all night, with my eyes shining, to see if there were any changed patterns or anything I had missed.

Besides our raid party, there were other raid parties’ members wandering around at the entrance of the raid dungeon.

Seeing them made me feel anxious for no reason.

“Let’s go in.”

I enter the raid dungeon with the raid members.

Of course, I didn’t forget to jump when entering the dungeon.

As I jumped up and entered lightly, applause poured out from behind with admiration.

Is it that good to make fun of such a wonderful raid leader-nim?

I checked the raid members’ smirking smiles and turned my head away.

Since we had defeated all the named monsters except for the last boss last night, the path inside the dungeon was wide open.

We walked straight towards the last boss.

[Corrupted Sun God Solar]

The giant of black light was standing there as it was yesterday.

“Enter.”

Since I had finished all the preparations before entering the raid dungeon, I enter the boss room right away.

As the main tanker took out his shield and started to move forward, Solar’s gaze turned to the tanker.

The giant’s fist and the knight’s sword, clad in full plate, collide.

The moment the shockwave spread widely, Solar’s aggro was firmly fixed on the main tanker.

“DPS!”

The attack was already being prepared before I even shouted at the DPS team.

Splendid magic that cut through the air began to pour behind the giant, and melee DPS like me clung to the giant’s legs and swung our weapons wildly.

It was when Solar’s health reached 95%.

The black giant’s body began to shine brightly. The activation of a continuous pattern to remove melee DPS.

The melee DPS who were slashing at the giant’s ankles with me retreated with good sense.

At that moment, a black shockwave spread widely based on Solar’s body.

It was a pattern that couldn’t deal much damage to the tanker, but in the case of rogues with weak defense, half of their health would be lost in one hit.

Time passed, and when Solar’s health reached 80%, the second pattern began.

A curse lightning pattern that falls every 10 seconds.

It was the same pattern as the Holy Dragon Sunforce.

If you look at each one individually, it wasn’t a very difficult pattern.

However, if these continuously interfering patterns accumulate, users often make unexpected mistakes.

Then, the moment Solar’s health reached 70%, the black light giant’s body disappeared and was summoned to the center of the boss room.

He raised both arms high into the sky and shouted.

[I’ll show you my true solar power!]

Immediately after Solar’s line ended, a large black sun rose in the sky.

The dark, ominous sun began to scatter wide-area attacks onto the floor.

Although the place where the attack will fall is marked in advance with a red circle, the range was quite wide, so I had to focus on avoiding it.

“Don’t be greedy for DPS! Survival is the priority!”

Solar, who summoned the black sun, doesn’t do anything.

It meant that you could cram in DPS until the end of the pattern, but it wasn’t as easy as it sounded.

The black sun in the sky continued to scatter wide-area attacks, and the continuously appearing black lightning of curses was also one of the elements that tormented the DPS.

Of course, there were raid members who were dealing damage even in that situation.

They were the black mages, Hwarang, Helena, and Iyap who were continuously dealing damage over time.

The person who dealt the most powerful damage among them was Hwarang.

The muskteer, the archer’s higher job, had very short pre- and post-skill delays for all skills.

If you had loaded the prepared bullets in advance, you had the advantage of being able to shoot while moving as much as you wanted.

Hwarang didn’t stop. White bullets continued to pour out while avoiding the black lightning and the sun’s wide-area attacks.

I, too, swung my sword without giving in.

Through the berserker’s unique overwhelming mobility and innate talent, I avoid all patterns by a hair’s breadth.

No special calculations were needed. I just moved my body according to instinct and swung my sword.

I’ll take the hits I have to. Since I’m not a job with a weak body like a rogue, I could take about one hit.

Of course, I didn’t receive healing from the healer.

I had potions and the paladin job’s healing.

In other words, my sustain was quite good for a normal DPS position.

Then, the moment the black sun pattern passed, Solar began to moan while kneeling.

And then he scattered the black light containing his power in all directions.

The scattered black energy fell to the floor and began to wriggle, creating the form of a black knight.

It was Solar’s corrupted paladin summoning pattern.

I bit my lip.

If I could have used Taechuk here, I would have skipped the black sun pattern with DPS, and this paladin summoning pattern would not have appeared.

Corrupted paladins were more difficult than normal elite monsters.

Because they use healing skills and shield skills that general users can use, I had to keep my distance from the boss.

I have to die here.

That’s how I could easily get past this pattern.

The moment the sub-tanker started to gather and dribble the corrupted paladins, I used the Leap Strike skill to jump into the center of them.

Immediately after, I use the Frenzy buff and use Healing Wind.

As expected of a skill that boasts tremendous DPS, the health of the elite monsters, the corrupted paladins, began to be quickly shaved off.

However, immediately after that, a huge number of attacks flew at me.

Sharp blades sprouting from all directions grazed my arms and legs, and a sword pierced through my stomach.

It was an attack that I couldn’t withstand even if I used healing on myself, so I was bound to die.

But I endure. The [Continue Battle] skill is activated, putting me in an immortal state.

With my health fixed at 1, I immediately activate the next skill.

Kwaang!

When I swung the giant greatsword and slammed it into the ground, the paladins’ bodies floated into the air.

Immediately after, the sword strike of the [Rampage] skill is swung.

The moment the splendid blood-colored trajectory lacerates the paladins’ bodies, my vision turns gray and my body collapses.

Thanks to the berserker’s unique passive, I could deal high damage to targets with high defense.

The paladins were lying on the floor with their thick armor torn and crumpled.

Of course, they didn’t die. The remaining health was about 20%.

Helena’s meteor finished it off.

A giant meteorite falling from the sky melts the fallen paladins’ bodies at once.

After waiting in that state for about 10 seconds, my vision, which had been gray, recovered.

The healer team had used a resurrection skill on me.

The flow is good. No one has made a mistake so far.

A sigh of relief escapes, while Solar’s health is steadily decreasing.

When Solar’s health was 30% left, he used the black sun pattern again.

The same situation as before is repeated. It meant that the clear was slowly approaching.

And, immediately after the black sun pattern ended, the summoning pattern was activated again.

Black energy scattered in all directions, and corrupted paladins slowly revealed themselves.

But there was a difference from before.

Among the newly appeared corrupted paladins, there was one with a larger body than the other paladins.

It even had a name. It meant that it was a named monster, not a normal elite monster.

[Knight Commander Executioner Crow]

I quickly checked his specs.

He doesn’t have much health for a named monster. Only about twice as high as normal elite paladins.

If I use the strategy of sacrificing myself and resurrecting again like before, I will be able to get past it easily.

It’s okay if I can’t catch Crow. As long as the sub-tanker is alive, I should be able to hold him for a while.

The sub-tanker started to gather the summoned paladins like before.

Immediately after, I jumped into the beautifully gathered group of paladins.

Kwaang!

While all the paladins were in a wide-area stun, I immediately used Whirlwind to start grinding down their health.

Everything was going smoothly. That’s what I thought.

Immediately after the duration of the stun ended, the paladins’ blades began to fly.

While moving in a Whirlwind state, I managed to deflect the attacks slightly, but I couldn’t avoid them all.

The full health dropped in an instant and was fixed at 1.

The moment the Whirlwind ended, a knight scattering black light rushed out through the red whirlwind effect.

“Euyat!”

With a desperate scream, I swung my sword to block the attack, but I was the one who was knocked back.

My upper body was brightly exposed, and the named monster raised his sword high in front of me.

Executioner Crow swung his holy sword and pierced my heart.

Thwack-!

The immortality duration had not ended.

But my vision turned gray.

A special monster pattern that prevents the priest’s resurrection in this battle.

[Execution] appeared. It was a pattern that I didn’t remember.