The purple monster dashed off alone near the boss zone.
“Hello?! Go together, you jerk!!”
Startled by the sudden acceleration, Hanami hurriedly ran after it, but a level 1 character’s stamina was at the bare minimum.
With her feeble stamina emptying out in no time, there was no way she could catch up.
“Ah, you really were a troll!! You’re a viewer, aren’t you?!”
Meanwhile, the other player kept running ahead while repeating those bizarre movements.
“What the heck. Does he not have stamina? Why isn’t he stopping?”
-That’s what we call Zanshin in Odinson (long message cut)
-Odinson is a timing-based fighting action (long message cut)
-Self-censored lol
-Veteran technique (simple, no prior knowledge needed)
It took her a while to catch up, wheezing from lack of stamina.
By the time she finally arrived near the boss zone, monster and monster were already in the middle of battle.
“No, if you’re going to fight, we should fight together!!”
Hanami was about to complain like that, but the words lodged in her throat.
The purple monster was beating the crap out of the six-legged monster.
-Wow
-What?
-What is that?
When Hanami fell silent, the stream audio went empty. In technical terms, this was called dead air.
For a full-time streamer, it was practically a mistake.
But neither Hanami nor her viewers noticed any problem.
-Ugh… the stench of a rotten undead corpse… uuurgh
-Is it a bug? A bug? A bug?
-The smell of stagnant water is reaching all the way here;;
-Is this that 4DX thing or whatever?
If anything, the viewers were also too busy watching in a daze.
Was it because they had just spent six whole hours watching the streamer bash her head against the boss?
The veteran’s play, thrown into even sharper contrast with the newbie, felt unreal.
-What was that just now? Did the frames skip?
-It’s called form-change canceling, kind of like normal-attack canceling…
-Clang!
-Clang!
The off-beat bite attack that had taken her about twenty tries to get the timing for was dodged by simply stepping backward.
The surprise headbutt that had wasted another twenty or so attempts was dodged by running to the side.
As for the stomp that had induced curses because of its ridiculous homing hitbox, he actually faced it head-on and knocked it away.
-Clang
Amazingly, the one sent recoiling was the boss.
No. The genre had suddenly changed, hadn’t it?
-What am I watching right now?
-12 clashes in a row;;
-So I wasn’t seeing things?
-Thung!
-Stagger triggered
-Wow ㄷㄷㄷ
-Was Gleipnir’s stagger always this easy?
-Was that a coincidence? Did he bait the pattern?
-Thung!
-He triggered it again;;;
-He baited it ㄷㄷ
-His stamina was filling crazy fast, how’d he do that
-Wow, I feel the wall
Lastly, the one-two punch that had made her suffer the most was deflected in succession with thrusts, and then the boss was staggered in return.
At this point, the gatekeeper rolling around on the ground after getting stabbed in the neck almost looked pitiful.
-ooo donated 1,000 won.
[But what was that sitting down and standing up thing? Is he teabagging the boss?]
-That’s stance-change Zanshin… never mind.
-?
-Veteran technique
-What does it mean to be a veteran?
“Is that the modern system they said was added in the new game?”
-No;;
-Modern or whatever, even his movement reeks of sewage water
-You could dodge that slam by walking?
-Why does Hanami roll and get hit while he walks and dodges?
“But guys. Isn’t that weapon kind of weird?”
-Broken Straight Sword
-Crestfallen Warrior starting item.
-He’s killing the boss with a spoon
“Is it an overpowered item?”
-The damage is overpowered, yeah.
-Overpowered in the sense that you definitely hit them but no damage goes in lol
-Wow, he’s seriously seasoned (day 5 since release)
The veteran beat the boss to death with a spoon without allowing a single hit.
His appearance had seemed unusual from the start, but he really defeated it so easily it felt empty.
Hanami, who had spent six hours banging her head against it, felt wronged.
“Anyway, thank you! Ah, how do I chat? Um, Back Guy? If you’re watching the stream, could you jump?”
No response.
Was he really just an ordinary player? Or was he a viewer staying faithful to the bit until the very end?
Either way, it was true that the veteran had helped her. To express her thanks, Hanami searched through the hotkeys.
“Mm. Is there no chat in this?”
-Not in PvE
-Only in the arena
“Wow. Every single detail of this game is dogshit?”
-Nami, your true feelings are showing lol
-Gesture hotkey is G
“G… Oh. There’s a lot of stuff here. Ah. ‘Sit’—is this maybe the one he was using earlier?”
While she scrolled down in search of a gesture suitable for thanks, the veteran came right up beside Hanami and raised both arms.
He was just standing there, but the pressure was no joke.
“Thank you… thank you… argh, why are there so many emotes?”
She hurried to convey her thanks, but she was one step too late.
The veteran immediately turned transparent and disappeared.
“Ah! I didn’t even get to say thank you!”
-So cool;;
-/[+]/
-\[+]\
The field that had been full of metallic sounds was now completely silent.
No more of her screams, no more cries from the shameless field boss, and no more sword sounds from the violently designed veteran.
All that remained in the spot where the incident had swept past like a storm were the items Gleipnir left behind.
When she picked them up, they were junk items.
-Berries x3
-lolololol
“…Seriously, what a dogshit game.”
Seeing that, the focus she had been barely holding onto snapped cleanly.
It was absurd in so many ways that all she could do was let out a hollow laugh.
“Wow… today was really something. Right?”
-Fr
-People like that really exist, huh
-A veteran incarnate;;
-Sweet WeTube material
-We-ha
-/[+]/
-\[+]\
-/[+]/
“…What’s with that emote from earlier? Are you dancing?”
-Ahem. Praise the rainbow.
-praise the rainbow
-/[+]/
“It’s a shame. I should’ve thanked him. There were just way too many gestures.”
-The pressure really was no joke
-Lol the way he stared at you, I almost pissed myself
-Multiplayer records remain in the log
-Send friend request ㄱㄱ
“Do I need to? I don’t think I’ll ever log in again.”
-Gasp
-Nooo ㅠㅠ
-Please don’t abandon it ㅠㅠ
“Ah, fine. I’ll at least add him.”
After sending the friend request, she turned off the game.
For a moment, she considered switching the tag to Just Chatting, but it felt like the momentum had already broken for the day.
More than anything, her throat hurt from screaming too much. If she wanted to take care of her voice, she’d have to schedule tomorrow’s stream a bit shorter too.
While sorting out various thoughts in her head, she tossed out topics with her mouth to buy herself time to think.
“But guys. That thing that made the thung sound was parrying, right?”
-Parry x clash o
-Odinson has both parrying and clashing.
“Ah, really?”
-lololol
-No interest lol
-0% soul
-Ah. Really.
-Hanami just wants to run away
“…Clashing! And! Parrying! What’s the difference? Wow, I’m so, so curious, you know?”
-xxx donated 10,000 won
[Parrying is done with the guard key, so even if you fail, you guard. Clashing is done with the attack key, so if you fail, you get beaten to hell.]
-In exchange, if you succeed, it also shaves off stamina
-High risk, high return
“Aha. I understand perfectly.”
-I understand perfectly!! (doesn’t)
-lololol
-So that’s how it is!! (doesn’t know how it is)
“Ah, whatever. I probably won’t ever boot it up again anyway.”
-Saw that coming lol
-lolololol
-No, without you it’s doomed!!
“Let’s see. Luca ended her stream. No wonder my viewer count went up partway through.”
-Fast rage quit lolol
-The usual shouting ㄷㄷㄷㄷ
-Extraordinary cutting of losses
-A woman better at cutting losses than anyone ㄷㄷ
-Time to take profits too
“The Boss is… huh? She’s still playing?”
-Breaking) Boss declares she’s playing until she clears it
-Boss’s eyes are flipped right now.
-Lololol sleep is dead tonight
“Ah, seriously, our unni… ahem.”
-?
-Un? ni
-I thought everyone in Florence was the same 17 years old?
“Anyway! Today, we tried Odin-dotty! Everyone worked hard watching the same screen for six whole hours.”
-Ah
-No way
-Ending-stream ment
-Na
-You can’t, Nami
“I streamed for a long time!!”
-It’s only been 6 hours ㅠㅠ
-rak
-Today’s stream is doomed
-Please don’t go ㅠㅠ
“Ah, I did a lot, what do you mean doomed?”
-The Boss is tryharding off-mic right now ㅠㅠ
“I was full-mic!! My throat hurts now!”
-Stream tomorrow?
“Tomorrow? I’ll sleep first and check my throat when I wake up?”
-It makes sense your throat hurts
-It sounds a little hoarse even now?
-You even squeezed out tears.
“Tears? Come on. You think that was real? It was all because I’m on stream.”
-Tears
-Tears
“Sss…”
After exchanging that predetermined wrestling routine a few times, Hanami wrapped up the mood.
Leaving behind her viewers wailing loudly, she ended the stream.
Then, when she stretched out, there was a cracking sound from her back and waist.
“Ah… I’m dying.”
The strength drained from her body. Hanami sank into her chair and muttered.
Thanks to her livelihood as a streamer, she had developed the occupational disease of talking to herself. But today, it seemed like she needed to restrain even that.
Every time she swallowed, her throat felt scratchy. It wasn’t an excuse; she seriously needed to take care of it.
She stretched out her hand and moved the mouse.
In the library… Manage… Remove from this drive… Are you sure you want to delete?
Without hesitation, yes.
What she had said on stream wasn’t empty talk. She had no intention of ever launching this trash game again.
It wasn’t simply because of the difficulty. The boss had been hard, but it had also had plenty of good points for the stream.
Since it was a new release, the high topicality was nice, and it made for good WeTube material.
However.
Even if the game took a while, shouldn’t it at least be made so you could clear it?
Dying for six hours straight was tolerable because she was a streamer, but even after dying that much, not seeing any possibility of clearing it was enough to make her sick of it.
It wasn’t as if she saw any chance of running all the way to the ending anyway.
When the angle to abandon it appeared, it was best to drop it cleanly.
When she quietly looked up the Boss’s stream, as expected, she saw a thumbnail of her yelling furiously.
‘It already looks noisy just from the thumbnail.’
When she went in and spammed lololol, the reaction that came back was quite delicious.
-“Hey!! Hanami!! Where’s that veteran?! Give me a veteran too!!”
Looking again, the Boss wasn’t fighting it alone.
At some point, she must have pivoted to viewer participation; four people were surrounding the boss and ganging up on it.
Oops. They had just turned into three.
-“Hey, you bastard!! What are you doing dying the moment it starts?!”
It seemed the reinforcements she had called in were somewhat lacking compared to Hanami’s reinforcement.
Every time the gatekeeper kicked backward, they went flying one by one, until only she was left.
-“Ah, this is seriously too much!! What am I supposed to do if multiplayer still one-shots me?!”
-That damage has no conscience lololol
-She hasn’t even reached phase 2 since switching to multi
-Filter your viewer participants a bit
-It’s the tutorial zone, there’s nothing to filter lol
-“Hey, you jerk!! Stop!! Can’t we use words?! Can’t we talk this out?!”
-Does she mean use horses?
-She is getting beaten up by a horse though lol
-“Agh!! Hanami!! Give me the veteran!! Me too, I want a veteran!! Why don’t I have a veteran!!”
Mm… what’s that got to do with me?
You’re the one who brought this game, unni.
Hanami turned off the stream and fled under her blanket.
For some reason, a grin kept spreading across her face.