Skill Master

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[Two Corrupted Judges Cleared] [201]

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That middle schooler, Iarang-i, cleared it with one healer. The RyuTube owner is probably the healer?

[Crazy. There’s even a challenge these days to clear it solo with an Orc Chieftain, but now they’re saying they took down the Corrupted Judges with just one healer? LOLOL]

[How the hell is she parrying like that?]

ㄴ[It’s an illegal mod, you dumbass]

ㄴ[Are *you* the dumbass? BitJihun-i already announced it’s not]

ㄴ[You believe that? You’re just brainless, hahaha]

ㄴ[If you don’t believe the head director, who *do* you believe? Do you even believe your parents?]

[No, but seriously, just looking at her height, she’s a middle schooler, right? How is something like that even possible?]

[The healer’s skills are insane too. Because of the level correction, she probably only had basic heals, but she’s still managing to keep up]

[PinkuBerry? That nickname’s pretty familiar?]

ㄴ[Looking at the Leore log site, she was a current raider until the last expansion pack, and her skills are top-tier? Basic Bo-ttak, and even a Ju-ttak.]

[There’s a rumor that PinkuBerry is a queen bee?]

ㄴ[Really?]

ㄴ[Yeah, they say any guild PinkuBerry is in always collapses]

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After logging into Leore and checking the time, it was still 8 o’clock.

Since there was still an hour until PinkuBerry-ga came, I went to the training room in town.

I was thinking of checking out the skills I got from the 2nd job advancement.

First, the easiest to understand passive, [Sword Mastery], has increased attack power and attack speed attached to it.

It’s a simple yet quite attractive skill. It’s a skill that increases basic attack power, and it’s a pretty good stat for me, who likes attack speed.

I’m definitely going to master this.

And next is the slightly difficult [Continuous Strike].

I warmed up in front of the scarecrow and picked up the sword that came from defeating the Corrupted Judge.

As soon as I thought about using Continuous Strike, light appeared on the sword.

Chwaak!

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A completely different damage number than when I was catching goblins at level 1 appeared above the scarecrow.

Continuous Strike is a pretty tricky skill. One of the reasons is the cooldown. The cooldown for Continuous Strike is none other than 3 seconds.

The funny thing is that every time you successfully attack an enemy with the Continuous Strike skill, your attack speed increases by 3% for 3 seconds.

Which means.

I put strength in my right hand and raised it. The sword was surrounded by a blue light effect, indicating the [Continuous Strike] skill, just like before.

I put strength in my left foot, which was behind me, kicked off the ground, moved forward, extended my right arm, and swung the sword.

Chwaak!

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A sharp slashing sound spread through the training ground. But the blue light surrounding my sword didn’t disappear.

[Continuous Strike] literally means to attack continuously.

Instead of stopping my body after simply swinging the sword once, I moved the sword and my body together. Natural wrist movement.

This time, information about the body, not the eyes, comes in. Muscle movement. The range of motion the body can handle. The flow of power.

And even the Leore system.

I swung the sword within the range where Continuous Strike wouldn’t be cut off.

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And then, just as I was about to swing the sword again, the blue light disappeared.

“Difficult!”

Attack speed.

No matter what game I go to, I always liked it when attack speed increased. And that attack speed was mostly a good stat.

It was a stat that created a comfortable combat environment by quickly using skills with long casting times or reducing pre-delay or post-delay.

But in Leore, it’s a slightly overwhelming stat.

I definitely know that attack speed is good. But this [Continuous Strike] skill is strange.

It wasn’t like a PC RPG where you just shoot arrows faster because your attack speed increased.

I directly swing the sword, take a stance, and decide everything from the attack direction to the timing. In Leore, attack speed means that all of these things are compensated.

If you think about it simply, the pre-delay is reduced, the speed at which the sword is swung is increased, and the post-delay is also reduced. It seems really good.

The problem is that I have to control all of that myself.

Until now, I’ve been thinking, moving my body to execute, and moving my body. And just as the attack is about to end, I think about the next action.

The moment I try to think about the next action, the attack has already ended.

So, in that instant when I try to think about the next action, Continuous Strike ends.

Attack speed increased by 5% with [Sword Mastery] and 6% with 2 attacks of [Continuous Strike], for a total of 11%.

It’s not just that it increased by 11%, but it was 5%, then 8% after one attack, and then 11% after the next attack.

In other words, I have to control my body, which is getting faster due to the increased attack speed every time I attack.

“Wow… They said I’d need physical skill, but I didn’t think it would be this difficult…”

With each attack, my judgment, mind, and awareness must also speed up along with the increasing attack speed.

“Ugh. It feels like I can do it, but I can’t…”

The attack speed buff of [Continuous Strike] can stack up to 10 times.

That means I have to adapt to the changing attack speed 10 times.

“This is only practice, practice, practice.”

I’ve decided.

Successfully stacking [Continuous Strike] 10 times.

I don’t know how other people who have changed jobs to Sword Master use [Continuous Strike], but I will definitely master this [Continuous Strike] physically, not just systematically.

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“I, I overslept…!”

I Hayan looked at her phone with drowsy eyes and jumped up.

10:04

She woke up a whole hour later than the promised time.

I Hayan was going to wash up and go to sleep as soon as she got out of Leore, but she couldn’t contain her excitement after watching the video of Iarang-i and herself raiding the field boss.

When she came to her senses, she had already finished editing everything and uploaded it to her RyuTube. And then her memory cut off.

When she came to her senses, she was sleeping face down at her computer desk, and she instinctively checked her phone and realized she had overslept.

She quickly grabbed the connector that was charging, put it around her neck, and pressed the power button.

Her vision turned pitch black, and she quickly launched Leore in her cute room that she had decorated.

As soon as the background she had logged out of last night came into view, she immediately checked her surroundings. The small and cute figure of Iarang-i was nowhere to be seen.

‘Oh, what do I do…! The friend list!’

She immediately opened the menu window and went to the friend list. Next to Iarang-i, who was the only one left on the clean friend list, a green light was on.

‘Th, thank goodness. She’s in the training room.’

I Hayan, who had quickly arrived at the training room where Iarang-i was to apologize, couldn’t bring herself to speak to Iarang-i.

Iarang-i was standing there, holding the sword that came from defeating the Corrupted Judge together at the same height as her face.

I Hayan screamed inwardly at the serious face she had never seen before.

‘Sh, she’s so cute…?’

From Iarang-i’s point of view, it was a serious and focused expression, but with a physique younger than 15 years old and a gentle face, even a serious expression was very cute.

I Hayan, who was shouting at Iarang-i’s cuteness, was shocked by Iarang-i’s actions.

Iarang-i was attacking the scarecrow with her sword. But there was a blue light on the sword, and it got faster with each attack, and at some point, she was attacking the scarecrow at the speed of a max-level Sword Master.

A level 30 Sword Master.

I Hayan knows very well what skill Iarang-i is using right now. She has also raised other jobs when she was bored, and although not to the max level, she has raised Sword Master to level 50.

The most basic skill of the Sword Master, [Continuous Strike]

Lower damage coefficient than other one-handed sword jobs, but the only attack speed buff. At first, I thought it was good, but Sword Master users who realized that attack speed was a trap stat used [Continuous Strike] simply as a 3-second 3% attack speed buff.

It is used before skills with long casting times, or most Sword Masters don’t even use it.

But now, a young girl is using that skill to shred the scarecrow with unbelievable physical skills.

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The damage numbers that come up are dazzling. No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like level 30 DPS.

If Iarang-i reaches the max level, equips all the gear, and goes to a raid, I couldn’t imagine how monstrous DPS she would show.

After a little time passed, I ran over and grabbed Iarang-i as she was about to fall over.

“Iarang-a! Are you okay!?”

“Oh? PinkuBerry-ga’s here? Is it already 9 o’clock?”

“It’s already 10:30…”

“Oh… 10:30? You should have told me you were here, you made me wait for an hour and a half.”

“No, I overslept today and woke up at 10.”

“Really?”

“Anyway, is your head okay?”

“Huh? Why?”

“Why? You suddenly fell forward! Isn’t it because you played the game for a long time yesterday?”

“I’m fine. I’m fine. I just felt a little dizzy because I concentrated for a long time.”

“Are you really okay? It’s not good to play games for a long time when your body is still young…”

“I’m really okay. I’m super healthy! Let’s go level up quickly!”

“Hoo. Okay.”

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[Continuous Strike]

After practicing for about 2 hours, I finally succeeded. I continued attacking while maintaining 10 stacks of the attack speed buff.

It’s only difficult when you first stack it, but once you reach the maximum stack, it’s not difficult because the attack speed is maintained.

There’s no problem except that my brain hurts a little during that process.

The result of this training and training is…

There was none.

Because the monster dies after 3 [Continuous Strikes] when catching monsters…