Episode 39
I’d expected it to fill up by about sixty or seventy percent, but to my surprise, Jaesugang healed me with an explosive amount of HP recovery, like a Kobuk-al ice cream after its rubber casing bursts, bringing my health all the way back to full. From his perspective, no matter how hard he struggled, if I died, he would inevitably die too, so he must have been thinking he should keep me alive first and foremost. Still, the speed was unbelievable.
Seeing 120,000-plus HP fill up in two seconds made my eyes go round, and the hope that had flickered out came back to life. I’m not going to die? And I really didn’t. It was thanks to Jaesugang’s heal filling my HP before the tankbuster came flying in, and me immediately succeeding with a perfect block.
When I checked Jaesugang’s status window to see how he had filled me to full HP so quickly, the first thing that caught my eye was the Stress debuff stacked all the way up to eight. In other words, Jaesugang had recovered all my health while taking a penalty that cut his attack power, defense, and penetration by 16% each.
……If I milk the fact that he killed me for the rest of my life after he covered for me that hard, he probably won’t play with me anymore, right? I should milk it a little less.
Since Jaesugang’s attack power had dropped significantly, I could feel that the golem’s HP was going down more slowly than before. Still, it hadn’t had much health left, and thanks to Jaesugang’s HP-scaling DoT and my steady damage, after the double tankbuster event passed, we shaved its health down very, very smoothly and finally cleared it.
The golem, its strength spent, collapsed dryly into brittle fragments. From within it, a small light-green human figure floated up into the sky. It was a spirit.
[Ha, ha, ha…… There is simply no beating you. You were like this even when you first settled here…….]
[You stole our world with that overwhelming power, and now you’ve fallen into playing heroes.]
[Had I known this was a world where we would only be used no matter how hard we struggled, I would have fled long ago.]
The light-green spirit, its final words trailing off as though steeped in sorrow, slowly vanished. I couldn’t tell whether it had died or had simply disappeared.
As the spirit disappeared, the padlock and chains that had been firmly locking the arched door turned to powder and scattered at the same time, and the door slowly pushed open, clearing a path for us. Wasn’t that the door that had “Pull” written on it?
In any case, amidst all that chaos, we succeeded in beating the first boss without even one retry. It could only be called a miracle. Under normal circumstances, it definitely should have wiped us when Jaesugang failed the minigame. It was only possible because, like a miracle, the resurrection cast had succeeded.
[Party] Kkulppang: holy crap
[Party] Kkulppang: a difficulty level where “not hard at all” and “ridiculously hard” coexist
[Party] Kkulppang: a hot iced Americano boss
[Party] Jaesugang: LOLOLOL hot iced Americano
[Party] Kkulppang: You think that’s funny?
[Party] Jaesugang: Yes^^
[Party] Jaesugang: My Stress is stacked to 8 too, so I have to laugh it off...
[Party] Kkulppang: Ah~~
[Party] Kkulppang: I’ll help you^^
[Party] Kkulppang: When Jesus is buying clothes and finds an outfit he likes?
[Party] Jaesugang: w a
[Party] Jaesugang: it
[Party] Kkulppang: Jeru-salem~ :)
[Party] Jaesugang: Ah
While Jaesugang writhed around, laughing on his own with his pride wounded, I began picking up the few items that had dropped where the golem had disappeared. Of course, since we were using a loot distribution system that randomly split items among party members, some of them went into Jaesugang’s inventory.
As I picked up the last remaining junk item, I said one thing.
[Party] Kkulppang: Still, aside from 2 mechanics, it was pretty normal and averagely fun
[Party] Kkulppang: If only someone hadn’t failed the minigame
[Party] Jaesugang: heh
[Party] Jaesugang: hehe
[Party] Jaesugang: Right
[Party] Kkulppang: The tankbuster in the last phase would’ve been the only hard part
[Party] Jaesugang: hehe
[Party] Kkulppang: Right
[Party] Jaesugang: hehe
[Party] Kkulppang: hehe
[Party] Jaesugang: I still worked hard healing even while throwing away Stress management ' ^')...!
[Party] Kkulppang: You did super well, but
[Party] Kkulppang: if you had succeeded at the minigame
[Party] Kkulppang: that wouldn’t have happened in the first place, would it?
[Party] Jaesugang: ; -;)...!
This day was the second day Jaesugang knelt before me.
[Chat]
Those hotshots from Server 3 ended up in the same party and their potential is insane
Not to mention that streamer’s tension shot way up
I heard the two of them one-try cleared the first boss with absolutely no info
Has there even been a party among the people who went to the hidden area that one-try cleared the first boss so far?
(+ KKP is really something too, going “when Jesus buys clothes, Jerusalem” and shit)
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[LV.78 Gotgam Cola]
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LV.53 Ottugi Raccoon Upvotes 2 Downvotes 1
Is this possible because it’s a Holy Knight + Medic combo, or because it’s them?
└ LV.89 Legend Upvotes 13 Downvotes 2
Definitely the latter. A Medic who roughly figures out what kind of mechanic it is and gets ready + a Holy Knight who eats every dangerous thing with sheer mechanical skill
└ LV.24 UpDownLeftRightWoong Upvotes 21 Downvotes 7
“God”
LV.64 Rose Malatang Upvotes 5 Downvotes 0
I’m leaving a comment because I can’t believe a warrior-priest pair made it through the second trash pack, took a break, and then one-try cleared the first boss, fuck. If you go as tank-healer, in the phase below 10%, the tankbuster comes out twice in a row, and the follow-up auto-attacks after that hurt like hell too, so even if I try to keep the tank alive, I get hit by autos and die. But they kept that alive and one-try cleared it?
└ LV.22 Great Eagle Head Upvotes 17 Downvotes 0
You have to hold DPS there. If your damage is high, you skip the first Flower of Mourning, and then the golem’s arms are still left, so the tankbuster comes out twice. That’s why it wipes
└ LV.78 Gotgam Cola (OP) Upvotes 11 Downvotes 2
The Medic covered the double tankbuster by making him full HP even while taking 8 stacks LOLOLOL. And before that, the Medic accidentally messed up the minigame and the Holy Knight had died. They revived him from that and still one-try cleared it
└ LV.25 Fatty Pig Upvotes 0 Downvotes 0
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└ LV.64 Rose Malatang Upvotes 3 Downvotes 1
Why didn’t JSG go to med school? If he’d become a doctor, he would’ve made a fortune
LV.49 Yang Atchi Atchi Kyung Upvotes 2 Downvotes 2
Ah fuck LOLOLOL Jerusalem is pissing me off so much LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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find unused program
bloc_moth reboot fail. (0xc??null?)
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The building we entered after passing through the arched door with the “Pull” sign hanging on it felt cooler and darker than the previous one. There was no light at the entrance, so only the artificial sunlight flowing in from the garden faintly illuminated the interior of the building, and even that grew darker the farther we went inside.
That didn’t mean the building was completely unlit. Far off at the edge of my vision, I could see a white light. A completely useless thought occurred to me: perhaps even spirits hated wasting candles, so they kept the entrance lights off in the spirit of thrift.
Once we went a little deeper inside, a story cutscene played along with a notification sound announcing that the quest had been updated. In the cutscene, I, Jaesugang, and the two NPCs behind us were shown advancing at a brisk pace from a perspective that seemed to look down on us as a third party.
While Jaesugang and I walked toward the light without exchanging a single word and looked only ahead, Abrea and Adam were a different story—one was dragging the other along one-sidedly.
Perhaps because of the psychological shock from what had happened at the first boss, Abrea remained visibly confused, and Adam, apparently not the sort of person who could leave Abrea like that, had grabbed his sleeve and was following us. It was unexpected. I’d thought he would either watch with amusement regardless of whether Abrea was confused or pay no attention to him at all.
The cutscene perspective zoomed in on Abrea and Adam. With a spirit on his head—though it seemed more like the spirit had simply settled there on its own—Abrea kept his unfocused eyes lowered to the floor, and Adam watched him expressionlessly.
I couldn’t tell whether he was worried or observing Abrea’s reaction. I could only guess that it was closer to the former when I saw Adam grip Abrea’s sleeve more tightly.
Perhaps we had reached the place with the light, because the screen had become much brighter than before. As the perspective shifted away from the strange atmosphere between the two NPCs, it showed feet suddenly coming to a stop. When we stopped, Adam and Abrea, who had been quietly following, raised their heads.
This place, where the lights were lit, was also faithful to its concept: the walls were made of mirrors. The surroundings had a luxurious atmosphere, the kind where expensive decorations might have been hung, but not even a single wall-mounted candle holder was in sight. Instead, between the mirrored walls, there was a narrow corridor. ……But was it really a corridor?
[- Adam: uirevm…… kuiruit.]
― “Oh dear, the path.”
The space where there should clearly have been a floor was empty and completely pitch-black. From where the corridor began all the way to an end that could not be seen.
Jaesugang’s character strode boldly toward the corridor. Perhaps flustered by that resolute movement, my character moved his mouth as if trying to stop him, then gave up and followed after him.