United Front

After entering the underground labyrinth, I immediately started running towards the center.

By now, even the most oblivious users would have realized it.

That boss monsters respawn in a clockwise direction. And that nothing has appeared in the center yet.

[ChewyChubbyCow]-Yeon-[Moving to the center. If you spot any hostile alliances, please brief me on their location.]

Immediately after sending the message to the alliance guild leaders, I received replies.

[ThousandWinds]-Jihak-[The Singsing kids are sprinting to the center from 12 o’clock. We’ll buy you time, so secure your position.]

[ChewyChubbyCow]-Yeon-[Can you hold out?]

[ThousandWinds]-Jihak-[We can’t hold out for long.]

Jihak of the Thousand Winds guild was a guild leader on our alliance side.

The Thousand Winds guild has less than 100 members.

And with just over 70 members who entered here, their help won’t be significant.

Will they only be able to hold them for about a minute at best?

While exchanging information like that, I was finally able to reach the altar in the center.

Other guilds were already positioned in front of the altar, and they looked wary as soon as they saw us.

We’re outnumbered right now. We need to observe the situation for now and push back the enemies as soon as our alliance arrives.

While waiting like that, the [Requiem] guild was the first to appear.

Led by Guild Leader AreYouOutOfYourMind, or AreYouOutOfYourMind for short, it was a group of genuine psychopaths who loved engaging in conflict.

I exchange glances with AreYouOutOfYourMind, who is arriving from afar. Combining our people with theirs, we have about 300 people.

That was enough to push out the other guilds occupying the center.

“Attack! Push them out!”

It was easier to defend later if we dealt with them quickly and secured a position inside.

So, I also drew my sword and joined the fray.

The moment the Sunbeam Holy Sword was drawn, brightly illuminating the dark surroundings, the priests’ buffs poured down on my body.

Immediately after, the golden radiance that soared from the sword began to stretch out long.

It was a picture of my guild and the Requiem guild sandwiching them from both sides.

I immediately rushed out and scattered the opponent’s tank line.

The buffs and various doping potions wrapped around my body kept me from dying.

Even if my health decreased, I endured. I would never die because of the tremendous healing shower pouring down from behind.

The pain of my brain burning white began, and countless lines flashed across my eyes.

As I began to move my body as instinct dictated, the rapidly decreasing health began to slow down.

I shook the tank line guarding the front significantly. This meant that I had opened a path for other melee classes to easily charge.

As a result, the opponent’s camp, which had begun to collapse from the front, was unable to withstand the Requiem pushing in from behind and was completely annihilated.

The last enemy falls, and I stop attacking.

Although we were bound together under the name of an alliance, the Requiem users’ nicknames were displayed in red because there was no formal alliance system yet.

A major disaster would occur if anyone used an area-of-effect skill.

[AreYouOutOfYourMind]

He’s the guild master of Requiem. Judging from his tone, he seemed like an elderly middle-aged man, but his skills weren’t bad.

AreYouOutOfYourMind, wearing a wizard’s signature red robe, burst into a hearty laugh and approached me.

,Wow~ This is the first time I’ve seen you fight in person, and you’re really amazing.”

“Nice to meet you. It’s my first time seeing you in person too.”

I had to avoid people’s attention when forming an alliance, so we had only exchanged messages.

AreYouOutOfYourMind came closer and scanned my appearance, then took a step back with a slightly subtle smile.

“You made it smaller than I thought.”

“It’s the same as my real-life height.”

“Yes, yes. That was your setting. I understand. It’s a role-playing game. We have a few people in our guild who play like Yeon-nim.”

It was an honest statement without lies, but as expected, he didn’t believe me.

I crossed my arms and tilted my head.

“Aish…”

“Let’s secure our positions first. But who gets the first loot from the central boss…?”

The first loot is important. I couldn’t guarantee that I would be able to take the next looting rights, so I wanted to take the looting rights here as well.

Besides me and AreYouOutOfYourMind, the other alliance guild leaders would be thinking the same thing.

“Let’s have the people who can land the final blow take it, depending on the situation.”

“Hmm… I understand we’ll do it that way.”

There are four paths to enter the central altar.

I went to the 6 o’clock direction and secured my position.

Requiem went up to 12 o’clock to secure their position. It seemed like they meant to stay as far away from each other’s attack range as possible.

While waiting at the entrance like that, our alliance members began to arrive one by one.

Of course, it wasn’t just alliance guilds. Just like we ran to the center, other guilds were also flocking to the center.

Securing a position first was important. The structure of looking down from above had many advantages for defense.

You had to climb the stairs to get to this altar, but if a tank line holding large shields was guarding the front, it wouldn’t be easy to break through.

We poured attacks on other guilds as a warning and only let alliance guilds in.

That way, the inside of the altar became filled with our alliance.

“I don’t see the Singsing kids?”

I could hear the murmuring voices of the alliance members.

That was true. I couldn’t find the Singsing guild mark.

Could it be that they avoided the spot? The moment I thought that, a huge vibration began to spread from behind, and a large magic circle floated up.

The last king of the 12 Giants, [Chronos], had respawned.

[Kuaaaaaa!]

The raid began with Chronos’ roar.

Melee classes don’t approach. Except for the tanks who will take the aggro for a while, all the damage was entrusted to the ranged classes.

It was an unavoidable choice because the alliance system had not yet been implemented.

As hundreds of dealers focused their firepower, the boss’s health began to decrease rapidly.

Honestly, I still didn’t know the boss’s patterns. In Deron of the world I used to play, this guy would die in 10 seconds, so there was no time to see the patterns.

At best, I had only seen him use an area-of-effect attack once, hitting the ground with his giant fist.

At that moment, the people who had been watching from below the altar began to charge all at once.

It seemed like they were aiming for an easy victory.

“20 mages, guard the entrance! And the rest of you, take turns setting up landmines in front of the stairs!”

Since another alliance guild was tanking Chronos, we turned all of our tanks around to block the entrance.

I started setting up landmines behind them.

The other guild members did the same, using all their skill cooldowns to set up landmines in front of the stairs.

That’s how it was when the boss’s health was approaching 50%. From afar, I could see the Singsing’s signature pinwheel guild mark.

“Singsing is coming!”

The Singsing guild began to swarm in. But they were also in an alliance.

Next to the Singsing’s guild mark, there were two more guild marks that I had never seen before.

At first glance, their number seemed to exceed 500. The Singsing side alliance, which had rushed in quickly, began to charge towards the stairs.

However, the number of people who could go up the stairs was limited.

They immediately split into four groups and began to break through the entrance.

A faint sunlight was swirling around the bodies of everyone here.

Everyone was using the Taechuk buff without exception.

It was a fraudulent doping item that reduced damage taken by 30%, so everyone, enemies and allies alike, had taken it.

The fight began in that state.

It was a fight between those who were trying to break through and those who were trying to block them. Magic flew from all directions, and a shower of healing poured down on the tank line that was holding out.

The mages’ area-of-effect skills fell on the tanks, but they had to use their survival skills to endure to the end.

The moment they gave way, the line would be breached. They would be giving up the rear of the dealers who were conducting the raid.

The moment the boss’s health dropped to 20%, screams and cheers erupted simultaneously from the 3 o’clock direction.

“It’s breached!”

“It’s breached!”

One side of the entrance had been breached.

I immediately drew my sword and focused on 3 o’clock.

As the news spread that the entrance had been breached, the people who had been attacking in other directions began to withdraw en masse. They were trying to push in through 3 o’clock.

The boss’s remaining health was 15%. The moment the hostile alliance came in, the rate at which the boss’s health was decreasing began to slow down.

It was worth aiming for now.

I slammed the holy sword into the ground and shouted.

I had activated an area-of-effect buff skill.

[Declaration of the Sun God’s Sanctuary]

“Everyone, take out the bombs!”

The special bombs that could be made with magic engineering had fixed damage that ignored defense. But that number was insignificant.

That meant they weren’t very helpful.

But the story changes in this underground labyrinth.

All the boss monsters that respawn here have low health and high defense.

In other words, you can see tremendous efficiency with bombs.

That was also the reason why this guy would die in 10 seconds in Deron of another world.

The fixed damage in the bomb receives the effect of buffs that increase all stats.

In other words, [Declaration of the Sun God’s Sanctuary], which was activated by planting the holy sword, also increases the damage of the bomb.

“Throw them all at the boss!”

The guild members faithfully followed my orders.

They took out the magic engineering bombs that I had given them as a gift and threw them at the boss.

As nearly 100 people threw bombs at once, the explosion effects overlapped, and a tremendous sound erupted.

Pubeobeobeong!

The moment the bombs exploded, the boss’s health, which had about 10% remaining, disappeared in an instant.

The moment the giant’s corpse fell to the ground, a message that everyone in the underground labyrinth could see popped up.

[‘ChewyChubbyCow’ guild has defeated Chronos.]

The looting rights had definitely come in.

But there was no time to check it now.

I immediately pulled out the holy sword that was stuck in the ground, ran, and shouted.

“Go down from the altar and backstab Singsing!”

We caught the boss. Now all that was left was to push out the hostile alliance that had invaded this place.

The Requiem guild was firmly blocking the front line.

After exchanging glances with AreYouOutOfYourMind, I jumped off the altar with the guild members.

It wasn’t just us who jumped down. Other alliance guilds also jumped down together and began to push back the Singsing side alliance.

In an instant, the waistline of the enemy’s main force was cut off. The melee classes, who were not receiving support from healers and ranged classes, began to fall in an instant.

As the situation turned out that way, the enemy’s main force turned around and began to flee.

I smiled with the holy sword on my shoulder.

It was a great victory.