Hero.

“Haa… haa…”

Did you see this crazy monster?

I barely managed to hold on, and suddenly it got faster and more ferocious. Then, a shield appeared on its body in addition to the one-handed sword, and it became a crazy bastard using both Sword Master skills and Knight skills together.

Even in a fight where every decision is directly linked to death, the skill combination of a solid Knight’s shield and a Sword Master who can fight freely was more powerful than I thought.

In front of the Undead Hero, I twisted my body to avoid the one-handed sword and slammed my greatsword down on the Undead Hero’s head.

Kaang!

The greatsword bounced off the massive shield.

My left hand bounced back, and my hand tingled from the shield block, causing stiffness, but a Berserker has two greatswords.

I swung my right greatsword at the open body caused by the shield raised to block the left greatsword, but the Hero monster, which I thought was equipped with a super-high-performance AI that had already transcended humanity, blocked it with its one-handed sword at an unbelievable speed.

Then, it pushed me away with the shield that had recovered from the stiffness and slid the one-handed sword into my abdomen.

I spread my legs as wide as possible to create a large distance from the Hero monster.

Ppoong.

I took out a potion from my inventory, put it in my mouth, and watched the Hero monster’s movements.

“Krrrreeeeuuuuuu…!”

Fortunately, the Hero monster also seemed to have a well-implemented stamina system, so it didn’t just attack all day long.

Thanks to that, I could buy a very short time to drink the potion, but in the current situation, it’s just a life extension.

I’ve been fighting for two hours, but I can’t see any way to win.

‘How am I supposed to win this?’

What I’ve figured out in the two hours of fighting is that the Hero monster is incredibly fast, and I’m barely managing to block it, and it takes about 5 seconds to recover stamina? Other than that, I have no information.

“Hoo… hoo…”

‘At this rate, I’ll lose due to lack of stamina.’

Right now, the Hero monster’s stamina recovery time is 5 seconds, and mine is 6 seconds.

I’m trying to save as much stamina as possible to make up for that 1 second, but the Hero monster will continue to maintain full stamina, and I will continue to lose stamina.

‘I have to make a move.’

I’m going to lose no matter what if I keep going like this. Then I have to make a move when I have at least a little more stamina.

It’s hard to maintain my super-senses since my period ended not too long ago, but I don’t even think about stamina anymore.

The Hero monster rushes in, holding its shield and one-handed sword after fully recovering stamina.

I cursed inwardly at its clever action of holding out the shield and hiding the position of the one-handed sword.

“Is that thing really an AI and not a person, heueupㅡ!?”

‘Shield Push!’

I reacted immediately and raised my greatsword to block, but I was blown back several meters.

As expected of a monster, its strength is ridiculous.

The moment I was flying away, the Hero monster’s one-handed sword, which rushed towards me, was surrounded by a purple effect.

‘Pentagon!’

It’s the Sword Master’s main skill, a skill that can unleash 5 consecutive attacks, and it’s a devastating 5-hit skill with an attack speed so high that it’s hard to use unless you’re one of the very few people who don’t have system buffs.

If it were a normal user’s Pentagon, I would know the fixed direction due to the combat system buff, but the opponent now is a monster that can be called the epitome of AI.

The Hero monster has been using all skills without system buffs since a while ago.

I failed to parry or block for 2 hours, but it’s different now.

A sensation as if things are turning on one by one.

A feeling that my eyes are slowing down, my whole body is tingling, and my most sensitive abdomen is getting hot.

Chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng!

The sound of iron clashing against iron echoed.

==

Arang began to gain a slight advantage against the Hero monster.

No matter how fast and powerful it is, you eventually get used to it.

Arang, who had barely managed to hold on by drinking all the health recovery potions for 2 hours, became accustomed to the Hero monster.

‘I feel like I’ve become Jamin.’

Arang fighting against Jamin. A similar situation began to occur.

When Arang fought Jamin, he was overwhelmed by speed, but due to his combat sense and experience, he was able to hold his own. This situation was now happening to Arang and the Hero monster.

It pushed Arang with insane speed and power, but Arang blocked with reflexes and eventually got used to the speed, gradually pushing back the Hero monster.

The fight began with a speed so fast that it was hard for others to even figure out where they were attacking.

Arang’s two greatswords were all blocked by the Hero monster’s shield, but the Hero monster’s attacks were reduced as much.

From the outside, it looked like Arang was winning, but the reality was different.

Both Arang and the Hero have stamina limits, but Arang’s stamina is fundamentally much smaller.

On top of that, the Hero’s stamina recovery time is faster, so the Hero wins just by holding out.

The minor attacks in their fight did chip away at each other’s health, but not enough to kill them.

Just minor damage like scraped elbows and knees.

Instead, stamina began to drain rapidly.

In a situation where Arang would run out of stamina first and enter a groggy state and die, Arang strongly struck the shield with the greatsword in his right hand.

Kaang!

Before the stiffness system coming through the greatsword reached his hand, Arang threw the greatsword upwards.

The Hero monster, not panicking at Arang’s sudden strange behavior, took a step forward to push Arang, at that moment.

Arang threw the greatsword and grabbed the Hero’s shield with his empty right hand and parried the Hero’s one-handed sword that was trying to attack with the greatsword in his left hand.

The Hero’s right hand was pushed back because it was parried by the greatsword with a one-handed sword, let alone a shield.

And Arang attacked the Hero monster with the left-hand greatsword that was not affected by the stiffness.

Of course, the Hero moved the shield to block the attack.

Arang was blocking with his hand, but he used his strength to move the shield to his right.

“Heut.”

Arang smiled at the Hero’s actions that moved as he expected.

It’s a monster that’s almost no different from a human and has been given a body superior to a human, but it’s still a monster created by the game company.

No matter how good the AI is, the monsters you face in this main story must ultimately move according to the story and have fixed input settings, that is, coded AI.

While fighting Arang, the Hero never moved the shield to protect his left flank, but moved his body or dodged or blocked left attacks with his one-handed sword.

The reason is, of course, that Arang has two greatswords and can attack on both sides.

But now, he quickly moved the left hand holding the shield to the right, parrying the greatsword coming towards his right flank with the shield.

Kaang!

The Hero parried Arang’s greatsword with the shield without dodging, unlike before.

The reason for this is simple.

He reacted that way because parrying the greatsword with the shield would give him more benefits than dodging. The reason he dodged until now was simply because Arang had greatswords in both hands.

The right hand, which was equipped with a one-handed sword, was stiffened by the greatsword parry.

In that situation, the Hero had two commands when attacked.

Just turn his body and dodge like before. Or parry with the shield.

There is one premise for the option of turning the body and dodging. That is, when the opponent has weapons in both hands.

This is because the attack coming from the left must be blocked with the shield, and the right attack must be blocked with the one-handed sword, but since the right hand is stiffened, he must turn his body and dodge.

The option to parry with the shield is executed when the opponent has no more means of attack.

This is because parrying, which can also cause stiffness to the opponent, can bring more benefits than dodging.

Since Arang threw his weapon, the Hero naturally determined that he had no more means of attack and pulled the shield to the right to parry Arang’s greatsword.

But.

“I knew it! You stupid, dumb AI!”

Takㅡ

The greatsword that went up in the air came down into Arang’s right hand with a tak.

The Hero hurriedly tried to block the greatsword suddenly appearing in his right hand, but his right hand holding the one-handed sword was unable to move because it was blocked by the shield even though it had recovered from the stiffness, and his left hand holding the shield was in a short stiffness due to the aftereffects of blocking the greatsword.

“Die!”

Arang shouted and stabbed the greatsword into the Hero’s neck.

==

“That’s it!”

The thrill of enduring, enduring, and enduring against an opponent that I thought I could never beat and finally winning!

That’s why I play games.

It’s fun to crush opponents in PVP, but I like this Soulslike dopamine that overcomes adversity and hardship the most.

“You’re so bad, you were born wrong! You AI bastard!”

My body moved on its own as dopamine exploded, and I opened the quest.

[Defeat the Hero who did everything to protect his world but failed, despaired, and eventually died alone and lonely, and whose spirit was consumed by darkness due to the curse of the world. □ ]

“Huh…? What is this. Why is it still the same? Hey… no way?”

I knew this was a defeat event.

Honestly, the Hero monster was ridiculously strong.

It’s a crazy monster that I fought for over 2 hours, so there’s no way normal users can beat this monster.

Still, I thought there would be something if I caught it… Don’t tell me it didn’t do anything?

“Seriously, they’re out of their minds…”