Grandmaster

The server maintenance due to the all-server integration was only a week away.

I went crazy playing ranked games to raise my rank as much as possible during that time.

I didn’t lose even once in the process of finishing placements and climbing to Master.

Once I got to Master, the probability of encountering Enchanter jobs drastically decreased.

0.3% my ass, I met Enchanters so often it felt like at least 30%, but after climbing to Master, I didn’t meet them enough for 0.3% to be accurate.

It was clear that once I climbed up, everyone started thinking about their scores.

Unlike old, ordinary PC games, you can’t borrow someone else’s account or have a smurf account, so I’m taking ranked games seriously.

I guess it’s because it’s 1v1. Still, because of the connection device’s characteristics, I think even games like AOS will have less trolling and stuff, so I want to try it quickly.

I only need to win a few more matches to reach Grandmaster.

The people I meet in Platinum are honestly boring. I can easily win without even thinking.

Now that I’ve reached the top of Master, I’m starting to play with a bit of seriousness.

Especially when facing Tank types, I have to give it my all.

Other jobs can just shove attacks in as quickly and strongly as possible, regardless of where the attack lands, but Tank is different.

You have to precisely target the seams of the heavy armor. The problem is that they’re quite narrow, so you have to maintain ultra-senses.

It wouldn’t matter if they were just standing still like a scarecrow, but the opponent is a user, so they move.

Targeting the seams of heavy armor while both are moving is quite difficult.

,Heup!

,Higyak!

I quickly retreated from the huge shield in front of me.

,As expected, we have to acknowledge Arang-nim’s reflexes.

This opponent is a Knight, the most annoying job among Tank jobs.

They use a one-handed sword and a one-handed shield, and they’re a slightly Paladin-esque job that uses heals and small buffs.

Other Tanks would try to deal damage as much as possible and slowly assess the situation, but Knight is different.

If you operate slowly, you’ll definitely lose. The reason is healing.

You have to deal more damage than the heal they use every 30 seconds, but that’s quite difficult.

Just the heavy armor is annoying enough, but it’s hard to approach with a one-handed shield as well.

,Flash of Charge!

The Knight user charges in while wearing buffs.

The mind games start again from here.

If it were a simple melee job, I’d only have to think about skills, cancels, and martial arts, but Knight has one more thing added here.

That’s the shield. A small shield wouldn’t be threatening, but the Knight’s shield is big.

If the Greatswordsman user hid their intentions using their shoulder last time, the Knight completely covers their body with the shield.

Naturally, the one-handed sword isn’t visible, and you can’t see what posture they’re taking with their body. No matter how accurately ultra-senses help you judge the information in front of you, it’s useless if you can’t see it.

Seriously, how can a [Killer] without CC skills live!

One of the reasons why Assassins are overwhelmingly disadvantaged against Tanks.

Assassin jobs basically don’t have any CC skills useful for PVP. Of course, they have various good movement skills and skills instead.

The problem is that Tanks are hard to deal with if they don’t have CC skills.

The only CC skill I have is to inflict stagger by dealing damage myself. The problem is that’s hard…!

Kagagagagagang!

I poured skills onto the shield to reduce the power of the Knight’s charge, who was charging in believing in their shield.

,Damn, I can’t get used to this…!

Paaang!

As I thrust my right hand and stabbed the shield with a stab skill, my right-hand dagger and the shield bounced off each other.

The yellow effect of the one-handed sword hidden behind the shield.

One of the Knight’s main skills, the 10-hit combo skill.

A powerful skill that lacks nothing, from damage to fast attack speed.

I’m sorry, but… this kind of simple skill attack is a very welcome attack to me?

I only have my left hand, but that goes for the Knight as well.

If it’s dagger and one-handed sword without a shield, I win!

Kagagagagagang!

Perfect parrying without even an inch of error due to ultra-senses.

Attacks that are just receiving buffs from skills already have the trajectories of all jobs’ skills memorized!

The moment I decided to go for PVP Challenger, I deeply engraved the skill videos of all jobs in my brain.

If you watch it on RyuTube, you can leisurely watch it at 0.25x speed without maintaining ultra-senses, so I remembered it without difficulty.

,No, seriously crazy…! How is this possible…!

I’m sorry, but I have to do this to be able to fight a Knight!

The problem starts now.

I have to attack the seams of the heavy armor. But the Knight isn’t just standing still either.

Maybe it’s because I’m so famous, there are many rumors about me, so they already know about my attacks.

,Heu-ap!

The Knight is protecting their neck first, like now.

They’re anticipating my attack. But if they raise their arm to block their neck… then just attack their arm!

Puwook!

Pajit!

,!?

As soon as I stabbed the dagger into the wrist seam between their hand and arm, electricity traveled through the dagger and pierced my body.

,Kkyat…!

,They had a CC magic stored in the wrist seam…!?

,I’m sorry, but I already know that well from the video.

Peoeok!

,Keoheuk!

I was staggered by the paralysis CC, and I allowed the attack of the shield, which had become free from the stagger.

The attack of the large shield, which has low damage but high stagger value. And then the one-handed sword attacked my body.

As soon as the stagger was released, I quickly distanced myself from the Knight.

,Crazy, my health dropped by 40% with one CC.

My health and defense are like a bug.

I’ve been attacking the Knight like crazy until now, bringing their health down to 30%, but as I retreated, I gave the Knight time to cast a heal, and the Knight naturally recovered their health with a heal.

I made one mistake, but the situation isn’t bad yet. My health is 60%, the Knight’s is 30%, and if the heal is activated now, it’ll be 50%ㅡ

Paaat!

A number indicating the amount of healing popped up above the Knight’s head, and something that shouldn’t have come out came out after that.

That’s an exclamation mark.

,Jackpot. A critical hit is landing here.

,Don’t screw me over!!!

Due to the arena’s characteristics where stats are adjusted, the Knight’s heal only recovers 20% of the Knight’s original health.

But critical hits in LeoLe also apply to heals. The critical hit chance of Tank jobs is usually only 3%.

That’s the base critical hit chance. But it’s landing on a heal?

The Knight’s health, which should have been 50%, became 60%. It’s fortunate that critical hits in LeoLe aren’t a 2x increase, but a 1.5x increase.

Still, I can’t help but feel bad.

,If I delay any longer, I’ll lose…!

The Knight’s buff cooldown is slowly coming back. The moment I drag this out any longer, the Knight will enter a solidification phase through buffs and heals.

If that happens, I’m the one who’ll get impatient. Of course, I’m impatient now too.

Honestly, I could easily win if I awakened here, but it’s best not to use awakening if possible.

A person’s mind is basically consumed, so it’s not a good thing. Moreover, I can’t undo the awakening myself, and I don’t like my mind being chipped away by depression.

To prevent that, someone has to stay by my side and take care of me all day, but that’s a nuisance.

In other words, I just have to win here.

I closed my eyes tightly, opened them, and rushed at the Knight.

Of course, the Knight wouldn’t just stand still. That expression that already thinks they’ve won… I’ll break it.

I held both daggers in reverse grip.

Normally, reverse grip is right for dealing sure damage, but against an opponent who’s already familiar with my attack patterns, I need to receive the essence buff.

A slightly faster attack speed. I have to go at a speed that the opponent can’t react to.

The essence X2 buff is 20% attack speed and 20% skill acceleration.

From there, if you use the basic skill [Xenos], the buff effect doubles for 5 seconds. That means receiving 40% attack speed and 40% skill acceleration.

Moreover, the essence effects of other skills are increased attack speed, so you can practically gain almost double the attack speed.

Originally, it’s almost impossible to control if only attack speed increases, and the damage is low, so the efficiency is low.

But if you can’t even land an attack in the first place, it’s useless even if the damage is high. In other words, it’s right to succeed in an attack with overwhelming attack speed even if the damage is much lower.

,Quickly.

I dodged the one-handed sword’s attack and moved to the right of the Knight where the one-handed sword was.

The Knight naturally turned their body to match my gaze, and at that moment, I accurately attacked the side of the moving shield with my right-hand dagger.

Kaang!

The shield was blocked while moving. The one-handed sword still can’t move.

,Accurately and meticulously.

I used skills to continuously hit the vulnerable side of the moving shield to prevent the shield from blocking the Knight’s body with my right hand, interfering and attacking the Knight.

The Knight knew that this wouldn’t work and tried to retreat to reorganize, but that’s the worst move.

The disadvantage of heavy armor.

Movement speed.

And the narrow field of vision.

The technique I used last time.

I threw a dagger under the feet they were trying to move.

The Knight, who couldn’t properly check under their feet due to the large heavy armor, lost their balance and fell backward from the dagger I threw.

Tanks usually rarely move backward. Especially against Assassins without CC skills.

But I succeeded in that, and the Knight couldn’t check under their feet in a hurry.

It’s simple after that.

I can’t lose against a Knight who’s already fallen backward. That’s how I barely won, leaving 7% health.

,Oh, Grandmaster achieved.

I climbed to Grandmaster without losing even once.

I was about to play a match to commemorate achieving Grandmaster when Hye-sun Unni’s voice was heard.

[Arang, can you hear me?]

,What’s wrong? Ah, it’s already this time.

I usually don’t say it first, but I missed the time because I was working hard to achieve Grandmaster.

It was already time to take a shower and a half-body bath.

[You have to get a massage now.]

,Okay.

[You know we’re doing abdominal massage from today, right?]

,Yeah. I know.

Hye-sun Teacher said she would learn abdominal massage this time because I was in a lot of pain in my stomach since last period.

Originally, I’ve been getting full-body massages to prevent my body from stiffening, but today I decided to get an abdominal massage for the first time to make my stomach healthy.