episode_0023

The beta test of Akare, as I thought, was a kind of appetizer.

It is good to enjoy a light meal before tasting the main course, the set menu.

So we set the beta test period to be very short.

To make the carefully prepared main dish stand out even more.

“Beta testing ends today.”

Less than five hours left until the beta test ends.

I checked the party that had made the most progress in the main story.

A large corporate party consisting of warriors, wizards, and priests.

Daehyeop Kim, Sweet, and a virtual YouTuber named Suzuka.

This was a party that went all the way to the end of the story that these three had prepared.

If we proceed a little further, we can see the highlights of the appetizers I prepared.

‘I never imagined those three would form a party.’

The three were streamers representing major corporations.

There are often cases of mergers between large companies in support positions.

Most of them tend to do solo broadcasts, focusing on one-person broadcasts.

Even more so since Daehyeop Kim and Sweet were cams and Suzuka was a YouTuber.

‘That makes it even more amazing.’

Who would have thought that a party of these three would be formed?

I recalled the Suzuka broadcast that happened a while ago.

Suzuka kept failing the Ritania quest.

Because of that, Raven (the prince) was dragged away by the Salvation Church priest several times.

After completing the quest after dozens of attempts, Suzuka burst into tears right there on the spot.

Kim, a great warrior who was playing a back game while passing by, found him and comforted him.

Suzuka knew Daehyeop Kim, and Daehyeop Kim also remembered who she was.

While they were talking like that, Daehyeop Kim was the first to suggest recruiting Suzuka.

This was an opportunity for Suzuka, and of course, Suzuka did not miss this opportunity and seized it.

In the process, Daehyeop Kim, who committed the serious crime of slandering others, had to pay the price.

However, thanks to the sacrifice(?) of Daehyeop Kim, the party composition was able to be reborn as a balanced party with tanks, damage dealers, and healers.

Of course, Suzuka’s level was lower than those of the two, so the party hunting had to be tough.

[ *Purification of Heresy (9/10) ]

– You have learned from Raven that there are hideouts of heresy throughout the Empire. Destroy all hideouts of heresy throughout the Empire and root out the evil.

– *When completing the quest, you can proceed with the ‘Immending Destruction’ quest.

The corporate party thus formed destroyed nine hideouts.

Now, if I just destroyed the last heretic’s hideout, I could complete the quest.

According to the current story, the player has received the Emperor’s trust.

Because we discovered and destroyed the hideouts of heresy that no one else had been able to do.

From the player’s perspective, it’s just collecting map fragments, which are one of the boss drops.

I just used the destination guidance function, which is one of the quest’s functions.

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[Title] Breaking News) Entering the Last Hideout of a Large Corporate Party

I wonder if I can beat it before the beta test ends

There’s only about five hours left ㅇㅅㅇ

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[Comment 3]

It’s a basic tank, deal, and heal combination, so it’ll probably just break

No matter what, it’s the last hiding place?

If the beta ends with 1% of the blood left, it’s ㄹㅈㄷ

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The consensus in the community was that the big corporate party would not be able to break out of their last hideout.

When I calculated the average clear time of other hideouts I had conquered so far, I was running out of time.

“It’s so close.”

The final hideout of the heretics, ‘Call of the Immortal’, was a dungeon where only one boss monster appeared.

It was easy to think that the clear time would be greatly shortened because no trash mobs appeared.

The boss monster of Call of the Immortal, ‘Sacrifice of the Howl’, was an extremely difficult boss.

While using all the patterns that the bosses of the previous hideouts had.

It was a raid where pure physicality was important, as the structure was such that the patterns would get stronger over time.

Above all, it was even more difficult because it was the first boss to use an instant death pattern that had never been seen before.

“It’s starting.”

I logged onto his channel to see things from Kim Dae-hyeop’s perspective.

***

[You have entered the dungeon ‘Call of the Immortal’.]

As soon as he entered the dungeon, Grandmaster Kim looked around.

An empty space, surrounded by unidentifiable pillars.

In the center of the room was a structure that appeared to be an altar.

A monster wave is coming, or a trap is triggered.

Unlike the dungeons I’ve been through before, it was very quiet.

That’s why Daehyeop Kim didn’t let his guard down even more.

“Master Daehyeop, there’s something here.”

“···I felt it too.”

The correction level of both was over 20, and Suzuka barely raised the correction level.

Perhaps because of that, Sweet and Daehyeop Kim sensed an ominous feeling at the altar.

Suzuka, who felt nothing, just had a question mark floating above her head.

-!

“Coming.”

Kukugugu-!

As the ground shook, something rose from the altar.

As a result, the altar was destroyed, and smoke mixed with dust obscured the view.

“Suzuka-san!”

“Yes!”

Suzuka held the cross and used the priest’s first awakening skill, Brilliant Light.

A beam of light shot from the cross cleared the smoke and struck the boss beyond it.

―!!!

[ BOSS Crying Sacrifice Lv.35 ]

The appearance of the boss that was revealed was very terrifying.

If you gather and mix the bosses from other hideouts that were previously destroyed, it might look like this.

It was so horrible, disgusting, and grotesque that I had such thoughts.

“Sweet-nim, your blessings have arrived!”

At Suzuka’s shout, Sweet aimed his staff forward.

“Burn it all, Fireball.”

Hwaruk-!

A larger fireball than before is fired towards the boss.

The size of the fireball was so huge that it was almost believable.

Wouldn’t this at least be able to cause some significant damage?

The three people here had the same thoughts, and the results were revealed.

“There is no damage at all?”

Sweet muttered, as if in disbelief.

“I took damage. I just recovered my health.”

“It’s difficult.”

Daehyeop Kim’s gaze swept over the common pillar once.

“No, it’ll be easier than you think.”

“Easy?”

“Yeah. I kind of figured it out.”

Clearly, Daehyeop Kim saw Sweet’s fireball before it hit.

A blue line that momentarily connects between the boss and the nearest pillar.

“Break down the pillar. That seems like a sabotage method.”

“Breaking is my specialty.”

I’ll take care of the other side and the right side.

At Sweet’s words, Daehyeop Kim used his forward leap to quickly leave the place.

The unmanned forward leap is directly affected by the correction factor.

This was something that Daehyeop Kim found out while playing the game himself.

Because of that, I invested my stats into stat correction and spent a lot of money on equipment that increased stat correction.

As if to prove its worth, Daehyeop Kim built a chain of forward leaps while moving between the pillars.

Forward leap 6 stack linkage, one-hit kill.

Kwaaang-!!!

A loud noise like the roar of a cannon echoed through the hall.

A blow that resembles the unmanned regime seen in the Hall of Heroes.

The blow shattered more than half of the pillar, creating a fist-shaped hole in it.

“Daehyeop, if you get punched seriously, you’ll go to the goal? Move, Blink.”

Sweet, who was slightly impressed, used Blink to move to the other side and chanted the Frostbite spell.

As if reproducing a scene from a trailer, all the pillars within the area froze and broke.

“Wow··· Isn’t it really cool?”

Suzuka, who had been watching the match between Kim and Sweet, used her skill as if she couldn’t lose.

Priest’s 1st awakening skill, Judgement’s Hammer.

The small cross that Suzuka was holding turned into a hammer.

Suzuka, feeling the heavy weight, swung the hammer with all her might.

Kwaaang-!

In this way, the pillars that had been supporting the community through the teamwork of the three people were completely shattered.

Jejejeok-

The ceiling began to crack because all the supporting pillars had collapsed.

Kim Dae-hyeop, sensing the change, quickly went on the attack and continued to land effective hits.

“It’s cut properly!”

I just put in a little bit of damage and my total health was reduced by 10%.

The moment I thought it was more doable than I thought.

The boss, who had been standing still, struck the ground with both hands.

Tsk tsk tsk-!

The impact caused the ceiling to split completely and collapse.

[Dungeon raid failed!]

The three people who had returned to the entrance of the hideout looked at each other.

“What kind of patterns are there?”

“Master Daehyeop, can you break this?”

“Uh… If I try, won’t I be able to break it?”

However, they were at a loss for words at the instant death pattern they were seeing for the first time.

With renewed enthusiasm, the corporate party entered the dungeon.

“Don’t break the pillars all at once, but instead rotate the skill cooldown.”

In the third failure, Daehyeop Kim gave his opinion.

After all the pillars were destroyed, it was certain that the boss’s instant death pattern would appear.

“Ah, when you lower your health to 70%, the instant death pattern doesn’t appear.”

On the sixth failure, I was able to figure out how to break the instant death pattern.

After leaving one pillar, return all skill cooldowns.

The strategy was set to break the remaining pillars with a normal attack and then immediately burst.

“Another instant death pattern appears at 50% health. Is it a channeling skill?”

When the boss’s health is reduced by more than half, the normal pattern disappears and he enters a state of mental concentration.

In that state, the boss’ flesh falls off, causing damage and mobs in the form of flesh are destroyed.

The big corporate party has been stuck in this pattern for a long time, unable to make any progress.

“This is that kid’s pattern. Salvation Church practitioner priest.”

After accurately identifying the pattern in the twelfth failure, Daehyeop Kim erased all of his previous strategies.

Attacking the boss while avoiding the flesh and ignoring the trash mobs was meaningless.

Because, like the pattern of the Salvation Church’s practitioner, all attacks were blocked by the invisible shield.

The strategy is back to square one. The three of them are racking their brains to figure out the method of destruction.

“I killed a trash mob, so my shield got lowered a bit.”

“Really”

“Yes. The viewers saw it too.”

On the twentieth failure, the exact method of destroying the second instant death pattern was discovered.

Avoiding the cut pattern, dealing with trash mobs, and destroying the shield was quite difficult.

Is there no other way? Suzuka’s keen eye for finding a way came into play.

A properly motivated corporate party entered the dungeon once again.

” Wow, what a fucking shame.”

“The berserk pattern with 5% health left is too much.”

“Still, I think I’ll wake up soon.”

Forty-second try. The corporate party, accustomed to the pattern, lost hope right before their eyes.

“With the remaining time… I can try two more times.”

53 minutes left until the beta test ends.

There was barely enough time to try two more times.

That means there are only two chances left.

“Would you like to continue working together after Akaré is officially released?”

Before entering the dungeon, Suzuka cautiously made a suggestion.

Sweet shrugged at the suggestion.

Daehyeop Kim burst into laughter as he looked at such sweets.

“Let’s do it together.”

“I also agree with Daehyeop’s opinion.”

“Really? I promised!”

The try, which could be the last, was held in a friendly atmosphere.

Common patterns that had been repeated dozens of times were now avoidable without even looking at them.

The instant death pattern that appears at certain health percentages was also successfully overcome as before.

Now the only pattern you have to watch out for is the berserk pattern.

The three of them forgot that they were broadcasting and went into the raid with extreme concentration.

So when my stamina drops below 5%, the berserk pattern begins.

A fireball explodes, burning the boss’s skin.

Use frostbite on the burned area to burn the wound.

It was a blow that would have killed more than enough people, but it was a berserk state.

The boss’s berserk effect reduced damage by 80%.

Because of that, even if an attack that would have killed him hit, the boss did not fall.

The remaining boss’ health is now less than 3%.

The brilliant light pouring down from the small cross purifies the Boss’s negativity.

Suzuka used the referee’s hammer that she had saved for this moment and threw it with all her might.

Suzuka, who had used up all her divine powers, including her healing and blessing, put her hands together and prayed.

Now the remaining boss’ health is below 2%.

“Now, I’m sick of it.”

You fucking lump of flesh.

Kim, the great swordsman who swallowed the gossip, used a forward leap.

The boss’s pattern became faster due to the berserk effect, but it was slower than that of the Great Swordsman Kimbo.

I avoided the boss’s pattern by using the change in direction of the forward leap.

It was a truly divine movement, a physical feat that overcame human limitations.

Forward leap 6 stack linkage, one-hit kill.

At that moment, the image of the regime carved into the cliffs of Geosan flashed through Daehyeop Kim’s mind.

――!!!!!

Boss, the victim of the cry let out a silent scream.

***

The moment has finally come.

While I was watching the broadcast, I immediately logged on to Akare.