Field Boss.

Our teamwork, forged through shared struggles, overwhelmed [Iarang] at first.

But as time passed, it became increasingly difficult to handle.

Kkang!!!

“Switch!”

I intentionally twisted my attack, forcibly clashing sword against sword, putting both [Iarang] and me into a rigid state.

It was a strong rigidity, but Pinku, who had matched moves with me countless times, canceled my rigidity by pulling me in with the [Rescue] skill, and while [Iarang] was rigid, Belly Cover mercilessly slashed at [Iarang].

As Rapid pierced in chwarararak, causing additional rigidity, Belly Cover and I finished off [Iarang].

Thud.

[Iarang], with 0% health, collapsed, leaving behind a red wound effect all over his body.

“Hoo… it’s really amazing. The more I fight him, the trickier he gets. Now, even when I’m serious, it’s just barely enough to catch him? Even though I’ve been getting extra buffs since earlier… I think he’s become a monster?”

Belly Cover breathed roughly.

Belly Cover, who initially said, ‘What do I do! What do I do! I can’t attack…!’, now just attacked mercilessly.

It felt strange for me to attack myself, who looked like me.

But swinging a sword around shungshungshung is so fantasy-like that those thoughts quickly vanished.

==

The LEORE QA team consists of people confident in their skills.

Through numerous raids and subjugations in various situations over a long period, their teamwork and skills have also become top-notch.

But the battle unfolding before their eyes was awe-inspiring.

“It’s amazing no matter how many times I see it. How does she have such physicality at such a young age?”

“If you have both effort and talent, is that how you become like that…”

“She’s completely a resident of that world.”

Arang is already famous within LEORE Company.

Despite her young age, she’s doing many great things, and she’s also the youngest daughter of the famous Masble Company, but the scariest thing is her connection time.

Basically, connection time through the connector can be checked by all companies related to connectors.

This is because the 16-hour restriction must be shared by all companies.

And Arang has been in the virtual world for over three years.

She spends almost all her time in the virtual world, except for about an hour a day.

Moreover, everyone knows that she has been investing everything in LEORE for the past six months.

And they’ve figured out why that’s possible.

Arang, who possesses overwhelming senses and physicality and is in an environment where she can play LEORE longer than anyone else.

The performance Arang shows is admirable in every single action.

She shows crazy skills even alone, but fighting with people who have been active in the same engineering group for a long time and have good teamwork is beyond admiration; it’s absurd.

In particular, the employee in charge of melee in the QA team rubbed his eyes at the sight of Arang parrying against AI as if drinking water.

He already knew she was good at parrying. That’s why the Sword Master was even reworked.

But parrying against an AI with stats that surpass humans, not just a raid boss with fixed patterns and actions, and not even a human opponent?

Arang didn’t seem human at all.

==

Creating the field boss didn’t take long.

When Arang’s head started to ache from maintaining excessive extrasensory perception, [Iarang] surpassed Arang’s party.

Eventually, after losing to [Iarang], I stretched with a bittersweet feeling and came out of the capsule connector, returning to the conference room with Kim Jihoon.

Kim Jihoon told the QA team to test the currently created [Iarang] once.

The QA team entered the room through the connector to check the difficulty of the field boss [Iarang].

“Hoo~ Shall we see how strong he’s become?”

“Of course. Let’s win.”

“Even the Mead engineering group won with great difficulty; is it possible?”

“Hey, but it’s not the real Arang, is it?”

“Isn’t that why it’s scarier?”

“That’s true too.”

The field boss [Iarang] was drooping, with all the strength drained from his body as if the strings had been cut.

You couldn’t see his face clearly, but the aura itself was cute and doll-like.

But they know how terrifying the AI inside is.

“First of all, what everyone needs to know is that that thing is, um… no. I shouldn’t call it that thing. No, it’s not AI… ha, this is difficult.”

They clearly know it’s AI.

But because it looks exactly like Arang, it doesn’t feel like AI, and it felt like the Arang they saw earlier.

So, it felt awkward to use words that refer to something non-living, like ‘that thing’ or ‘it’.

“What should we call it?”

“Iarang?”

“Then it overlaps.”

“That’s right. Field Arang?”

“Having Arang’s name in it is confusing.”

“Pil-ah? Pil-rang? Deu-ah? Deu-rang? Field-rang? Pil-Arang? None of them roll off the tongue. Something doesn’t just pop into my head.”

“First, how about just calling it [Arang2]?”

“You have no sense…”

“Do you have any other ideas?”

“… I don’t. Okay, let’s stop chatting and do it.”

==

Kim Jihoon, who had safely sent Arang’s party back, went to the QA team, who were checking the difficulty of this field boss.

When he opened the door and entered, the QA team, who were fighting the field boss [Iarang], were visible on the screen.

“63 times?”

Kim Jihoon doubted his eyes as he looked at the screen next to the large screen, which was dedicated to analysis.

The number of party wipes was listed as 63 times.

Kim Jihoon recalled the time when he left this room with Arang. And he checked the current time.

It hadn’t even been 30 minutes.

But the number of wipes exceeded 60 times.

That means the QA team wiped at least twice a minute.

And that was the QA team, who were veterans among veterans who had directly played all of LEORE’s raids so far.

[Kkeuaak!?]

[Hey! What are you doing!]

[Isn’t this crazy!?]

[Get a grip!]

He couldn’t even fathom what kind of monster had been created.

“Hmm… what do I do with that…”

Kim Jihoon himself was curious about how strong an AI would be created if Arang put her mind to it, so he granted all her wishes.

But the result far exceeded expectations.

He wondered if there would be any users who could clear it, even if the rewards were multiplied several times.

If it’s that strong, it was obvious that users wouldn’t last long and would give up.

His head started to throb.

In LEORE, the position of the field boss is for users who can’t do raids but want to experience the feeling of a raid and want to do a raid without pressure.

But now, [Iarang]’s difficulty is on par with the final boss of a raid, or even harder when you think about it.

Raid bosses at least act according to a set pattern, but [Iarang] is different.

He attacks with different methods and patterns each time.

Because of that, the QA team is also at a loss as to how to攻略it.

‘This isn’t something to be a normal field boss. I should rather think about making it a new field boss, no, a world boss.’

Kim Jihoon pulled out an idea that he had only thought about in the past and had temporarily buried inside.

==

Today’s visit to LEORE Company was very satisfying.

It was fun to shake hands with everyone I met along the way, show them the arm separation magic ttoktakttoktak, and see their reactions.

Many things happened at LEORE Company, but the most memorable thing was what Kim Jihoon-ajusshi said about making the main quest progress according to the user.

In a few months, LEORE will become not just a god-tier game, but a world, and my heart is already pounding.

It’s a shame that I can’t do the main quest for a while, but instead, I received a lot of rewards.

There are no rewards in the game, but I received a lot of goods.

Figures, keychains, dolls, and so on, I received a lot with both hands full.

‘So, what should I do in LEORE now?’

I was going to spend time doing the main quest, but it’s blocked.

The middle school girl party is now running well without me, and raids and subjugations are just done once on Thursday, the reset day.

As I started attending school, my LEORE playtime has decreased by more than half, slowing down the consumption of content, but with the main quest stopped, there is no content to do by force.

But don’t worry.

Because I recently became healthier and checked the places I wanted to go.

The first of these is Comic World.

I was a little surprised to learn that an event that existed in the past still exists in this era.

In the past, I was too lazy to go, and there was nothing to buy, and since I was a man and not particularly handsome, I wasn’t interested in cosplay.

But now?

I’m an ultra-beautiful girl.

Moreover, I’ve already thought about what cosplay to do when I go.

Perhaps I’m the only one in Korea who can do this cosplay.

No. I think there could be others.

But among those people, would there be anyone who likes this game? I think there probably wouldn’t be.