Soaring (飛上)

,What the hell-!

I plunged my sword into the user’s body before me, tasting the horror of my body continuously sinking into the swamp of death, then embraced the user closely and twisted my body greatly.

A Berserker’s greatsword grazed past me at a hair’s breadth.

The user with the sword in them couldn’t move due to the massive flinch. I grabbed that user with my left hand and threw them at the magic flying towards me.

Kwang!!!

The little HP I had left vanished due to the magic attack, and I burst into particles.

,Damn it!

The attacks of the users rushing in hastily are all detected in detail by my body.

It’s amazing.

My body’s senses react more sensitively and quickly than when I’m calm and composed.

The feelings of fear caused by claustrophobia turned into the fear of dying at the hands of the users coming to kill me as soon as I entered Leore.

As if I would really die if I died in this virtual world.

Just like in the Sword Art Online novel.

Could it be that the cells that had been sleeping woke up because of that fear?

Was I separating my senses from the act of playing comfortably, just thinking of it as a game until now?

I don’t know what’s what.

But this much is clear.

I have to kill all the users in front of me now so that I don’t die.

==

,Get your head on straight!!!

Guild Leader Zak of the current Leore Guild TOP3, Nsidera, who had been waiting for Arang to complete the quest to kill Arang, quickly joined upon hearing news of Arang’s location.

He felt sorry for Arang, but he thought Arang’s condition wouldn’t be good.

He said he was okay on the live broadcast, but since he had a seizure, his condition wouldn’t be at its best. It would be the worst, rather.

That’s what he thought.

But.

Kwaaaang!

A terrifying impact.

Each attack was so heavy because he was in World Boss state.

Sparks flew from the clashing swords, and Arang’s attack trajectory shifted slightly.

Arang’s sword, slashing Zak’s shoulder, collided with the floor and exploded.

,Damn it! I almost died.’

Fortunately, Zak was only cut on the shoulder and was able to avoid flinching, and he distanced himself from Arang with his fellow healer’s rescue skill.

At that moment, attacks from the mage class, who had been preparing to cast from afar, poured towards Arang.

But Arang parried and dodged the magic as if it were nothing, not getting hit even once, and ran towards Zak, who had fled from in front of him.

,Healers, spread out!!!

Zak quickly braced himself, shouted, and prepared for Arang’s attack.

,Damn it! Is his condition really bad!? Is he really the same person who was forcibly logged out a few days ago due to a seizure!

He was sharper and scarier than usual.

It’s not that he hasn’t felt fear while playing Leore.

The same sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and even sixth sense as reality.

He’s not talking about superhuman senses.

He just has a bad feeling. His back is cold. It feels like someone is talking behind his back. He’s just talking about things like that.

In short, there’s no difference from reality.

Rather, if everything is too sensitive, it doesn’t mean you can’t feel fear.

Real fear, not a debuff.

Even a man can’t help it.

Leore’s game design itself has a lot of fairly grotesque designs.

He doesn’t know how it got a 15+ rating.

Of course, now they’ve added brutal scenes and completely mosaic them unless you’re 19+, but the monster designs themselves are bound to make you feel fear.

That fear is felt from grotesque and terrifying bosses, not from humanoid bosses. No matter how strong that boss is, since their appearance is just that of an ordinary person, you don’t feel fear.

But.

He’s getting scared by a little girl who’s over 2M tall, muscular, and someone you’d really want to bury if you met them in real life, or rather, someone who looks like his 10-year-old niece with a height that makes you doubt she’s even 140cm.

Leore basically has instant death upon penetration of important vitals in PVP.

Of course, there is defense and HP. So, if there’s a level difference, you obviously won’t die instantly.

But if you’re the same level, you absolutely have to avoid the vitals.

That’s just for the same level, so what about a boss?

You have to be careful even if it just grazes you.

In that situation, it’s completely different from the bosses he’s faced so far.

Raid bosses use high-performance AI to make unconventional attacks, but they definitely use big patterns or gimmicks.

But not Arang.

A sword with overwhelming power that can take your life the moment it hits near a vital spot, even with a single blow, is chasing after him.

His allies’ buffs are overflowing to the point of exceeding 2 lines, but it’s still hard to block.

Zak focused all his nerves and blocked Arang’s attacks as much as possible.

Since Arang’s attack power is terrifying in World Boss state, his HP continued to be shaved off even when defending.

Of course, the healers are replenishing that HP, but Zak knew that Arang would rush at the healers if he let his guard down even a little, so he endured with the teamwork he had built up with his guild’s tanks over a long period of time.

No matter how much of Arang it is, it’s impossible to block all the attacks coming from all directions.

He’s blocking all the dangerous attacks with insane physical skills, but he’s ignoring all the minor attacks.

In other words, his HP is being depleted.

Since Arang has no means of HP recovery, if they just hold out and hold out in front, they have a good chance of winning.

,Keuheuk!!!

Arang’s attack pierced the tank’s body.

Even though the tank activated a survival skill, the sword pierced a location close to the heart, and his HP instantly dropped to 90%.

Zak swung his sword at Arang, who couldn’t move with the sword stuck in him.

Arang immediately stepped back and easily dodged Zak’s attack.

,Hiyaaaaap!!!

A rapier user, anticipating Arang’s position as he retreated, unleashed a flash-covered ultimate attack at Arang.

Even though he was in a disrupted state while pulling his body back, Arang parried it too easily.

But the skill that the rapier user attacked with is the rapier’s level 100 skill, and a combo attack that can be called the rapier’s secret technique.

It’s not just a single attack, but a combo of 10 consecutive strikes.

Moreover, the rapier user is the overwhelmingly top rapier user in Leore.

The rapier user was certain that this attack would definitely land.

A slightly reckless attack to kill the tank in an instant, a center of gravity that collapsed backward to retreat as quickly as possible to avoid the attack coming from the side, and Arang, whose posture was completely disrupted by parrying to block the attack in that state.

It was the best situation.

The moment the rapier user tried to stab Arang’s vitals with the acceleration from the skill.

The one-handed sword that Arang was holding disappeared.

It didn’t drop, it disappeared.

And then a dagger appeared.

,Job change in combat? Is that possible!?

In Leore, combat situations arise when you deal or receive damage.

But in the situation just now, there was no damage during that short time.

Arang, who parried all the attacks after attacking the tank, neither received nor dealt damage.

Of course, it would have been impossible if it were a raid, dungeon, or a designated event field, but this is just a field.

So Arang changed jobs without any problems.

And with agility stats far superior to a Sword Master, he accurately parried the rapier user’s 10-hit combo, preventing all of the rapier user’s ultimate moves from hitting.

All powerful attacks have risks commensurate with their power. The risk of after-delay.

What the rapier user saw in that after-delay was Arang’s murderous intent, with his red eyes emitting a crimson light, trying to butcher him.

Arang’s dagger, held in reverse grip, tore at the rapier user’s neck like the fangs of a beast.

==

I killed the enemies in front of me one by one.

I could target the healers first, but I didn’t. I kept the environment where the healers could heal their allies.

It was simply because I wanted to maintain this state for a long time.

,Is this that famous hysterical strength?

Hysterical strength.

It refers to the strength that humans exert beyond their limits when faced with extreme situations.

It is also used for protagonists who always awaken in life-threatening situations in comics and novels.

It seems that such strength beyond my limits is happening to me now.

Don’t give up. Don’t die. Hold on. Have more fun.

I can feel everything.

My movements, the opponent’s movements, the attacks coming from the opponent’s hands and targeting me.

Tons of information is being crammed into my brain, but my head doesn’t even hurt.

It’s similar to the awakening mode I feel every period, but.

It’s different from that.

It’s a much higher level of power.

It’s enough to make me feel like I’ve become a god.

I don’t want to forget this feeling.

With one hand, I block the ranged attacks targeting me, and with the other, I deal with the enemy in front of me.

I smiled with the corners of my mouth reaching my ears and tore at the enemies in front of me.