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Over the years, countless videos have risen and fallen, yet some legendary ones never budge from their spots.
Those are none other than Lee Geon’s monster strategy videos.
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Of course, twenty years ago, there weren’t even professional analysts tasked with record-keeping.
The resolution is poor, barely the quality of a phone camera, yet their view counts have remained unshakably at the top for two decades.
They are among the few videos that Saints treat as their bible.
In particular, the Thousand Legs video was the only one of Lee Geon’s strategy clips that ran over ten minutes long.
The only reason Lee Geon never got paid for it was because he died; otherwise, no one could even imagine how much money those views would have racked up.
Even now, Lee Geon’s videos serve as an inspiration to countless analysts.
Unlike Saints who fight flamboyantly with skills, Lee Geon fought solely with weapons.
That’s why his videos are still praised to this day—though, well.
[Lmaoooo that’s all just Saints riding buffs lololol]
[Exactly. How the hell is that possible without buffs lmao]
[If it were, he wouldn’t be human lololololol]
It was a situation where saying such things seemed only natural.
But.
“You all just watch.”
The very person from those videos was reaching out his hand toward them.
“And hand over a decent blade, too.”
As Lee Geon casually shook his hand, the Saints were aghast.
“You’re not seriously going to fight yourself?”
The Saints were dumbfounded.
“Hey, Lee Geon says he’ll fight himself.”
“Ha. A man without even the gods’ blessing?”
And that was because, seeing him directly now, they knew for certain.
They didn’t know how it was back when those old videos were filmed, but at least right now it was clear.
‘He doesn’t even have a basic power-up buff…!’
So as the Pisces, Capricorn, and Taurus Saints stirred restlessly, a few from the Leo Saints stepped forward.
“Excuse us!”
The Leo faction liked Lee Geon far more than the other Zodiacs did.
Their Saints themselves were people obsessed with Lee Geon’s holy relics.
But.
“This is reckless!”
“Yeah. You’re in a state where you haven’t even received the Saints’ buffs right now!”
“Right. If you were buffed up like you were back then, maybe. But as a B-rank, stay back!”
“We’ll protect you, so just watch and—“
“Piss off. Who’s protecting who? Just hand over a blade, you brats.”
“But sir, doing it alone is too reckl—“
That was the moment.
Thwack!
The Saints who had been disregarding Lee Geon collapsed, vomiting blood.
Cheon Yuha had struck them.
“Yuha! What the hell are you—urk!”
In a flash, Cheon Yuha snapped a comrade’s waist, snatched something, and threw it.
“Uncle!”
What he threw was a sword.
‘!’
It was exactly the same blade length as the ones in the strategy videos.
“You’ve got a good eye.”
Lee Geon, catching it one-handed, looked satisfied.
The sword slid out of its sheath in an instant.
Shrrring!
[Common Grade Combat Knife] A-rank
The blade was shaped almost like an awl.
And when Lee Geon’s deranged smirk reflected off that blade.
‘!’
The Saints gulped.
Déjà vu.
The Lee Geon they had only seen in videos was standing right there.
The back of Lee Geon walking toward the octopus was identical.
Cheon Yuha, who had rewatched those videos thousands, tens of thousands of times, felt his heart pound.
That nonchalance.
And yet, the razor-sharp killing intent aimed at the demonic creature, the subtly quivering demonic energy—it was like a finely honed blade.
Yet they tensed up sharply.
The situation was different from when Lee Geon had caught that thing back then.
‘Back then, the numbers were small.’
Could he really catch it?
‘And alone?’
‘Without even any armor on?’
Maybe they should stop him even now.
But then it happened.
Boom!
“!”
With a deafening roar, a black wave surged, and Lee Geon vanished.
Speed of light.
It was a velocity that felt almost elastic.
Lee Geon sprinted across the sea.
The skill to swagger over the ocean was roughly equivalent to beating up a Pisces Saint and stealing it.
[Skill duration remaining: 5 minutes]
The rough waves, the horde of octopuses—all tried to block Lee Geon, but it was useless.
[Rock Wall, Grass Mowing]
“Kieeeek!”
“Kiek!”
In the places he passed at light speed, dozens of octopus legs scattered.
And those scattering octopus legs were like a procession of live-octopus sashimi.
Splash! Splash!
Bite-sized octopus legs rained down from the sky.
The Saints couldn’t close their mouths.
“H-h-he’s not buffed right now, right?”
But there was no time to be astonished.
“Over there!”
In the blink of an eye, Lee Geon had reached right in front of the Thousand Legs.
The Saints’ faces went utterly pale.
Kwoooong!
As Lee Geon drew near, the Thousand Legs let out a monstrous shriek and raised all its legs high.
“Kieeeek!”
“Danger!”
Long legs that seemed to touch the sky—from above, from the sides, from below.
They aimed for Lee Geon from all directions.
Shriiiiek!
On top of that, they were fast.
“Lord Lee Geon!”
But then their mouths fell open.
“Ha.”
With a small laugh, Lee Geon raised his sword high.
At that sight, Cheon Yuha’s eyes went wide.
That stance—she had seen it in the video.
And then, along with the sound of air being sliced, a scream rang out.
[Slicing Sashimi]
Sceeerck!
“Kieeeek!”
The octopus’s gigantic leg—upward, downward.
It was cleaved into twelve pieces.
Chunks of raw octopus plunged into the sea from all directions.
What he had severed was the most crucial tentacle among the thousand legs.
A leg that curved like a hook.
Visibly menacing and resembling a command tower.
Splash! Splash!
The nearby Saint commanders choked up. Something welled up in their throats.
The scene they had watched as children was being recreated identically before their eyes.
“It’s certain. That appears at the 4-minute mark…!”
“And with a mere A-rank blade at that…!”
Of course, it didn’t end there.
“He’s even more energetic than twenty years ago!”
Bam!
As Lee Geon kicked off the sea and leaped, people shrieked.
“Lord Lee Geon! No!”
It was because of the direction he was sprinting.
Lee Geon, looking thrilled, dove straight into the octopus’s maw.
“Lord Lee Geon!”
As if welcoming a free meal, the Thousand Legs crunched down with its hideous teeth.
Crunch!
However.
Sceeerck!
“Kieeeek!”
The inside of its mouth was sliced away.
As if having the time of his life, Lee Geon yanked something out from inside the octopus’s mouth.
“Kieeeek!”
They couldn’t identify it, but it looked like esophagus and innards. The octopus’s agonized cries rang out.
A howl on a whole different dimension from before. It sounded like a scream begging him to stop.
Goooooh—
At the same time, Cheon Yuha and the Saint commanders realized: Ah.
In truth, in Lee Geon’s video, there was a moment where the screen froze and only an unidentified, hideous shriek could be heard.
It had been a twenty-year mystery.
But now, in this moment.
They understood the identity of that noise.
‘So that’s what it was…!’
Cheon Yuha covered her mouth as if in reverence, but the Saint commanders froze at the scene that bordered on grotesque.
“Kieeeek!”
Like a demon, Lee Geon ripped out even its guts.
“Kiee… eek!”
It was clear.
‘That part was edited out.’
Honestly, Lee Geon, laughing like a devil, was even more terrifying.
And while the innard-ripped octopus writhed in agony, Lee Geon shifted the direction of his blade.
Crunch!
The sharp blade pierced through the forehead from inside.
“!”
It was the finishing blow.
Sceeerck!
As the sword traced a circle, the octopus’s body was split in two.
Boom!
At last, the giant beast’s cries vanished from the sea.
At that sight, the strength finally left the Saints’ legs.
[The hearts of nameless ones tremble]
[The admiring hearts of nameless ones begin to gravitate]
[A deep sense of reverence begins to focus on the target before their eyes]
[There is power in stories remembered for a long time, in impressive deeds, or in reverence]
[A Bible has been generated]
[Deed recorded in the 13th position, begins to be passed down by word of mouth]
[The masters of the divine constellations are flustered]
[Some masters are flustered by their wavering influence]
The Saints who witnessed it up close couldn’t close their mouths.
“Truly without a single buff…!”
“Didn’t even use a skill…!”
Reporters on land dropped their weapons and microphones alike.
They seemed to have forgotten how to speak.
And then Lee Geon turned around with a crooked smile.
“That’s how you use a blade. Got it?”
The returned legend stood there.
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“Hey, what the hell did I just see?”
Broadcasting station PDs couldn’t shut their mouths.
In fact, they had been live-broadcasting the feed relayed from Lusson Island until just moments ago.
Because the Saint commanders had departed for Lusson Island with such ambition.
And the creature Lee Geon had caught was a famous one.
If it was the Saint commanders, there was no way they’d fail to catch it.
So their hearts had been as calm as watching a movie whose ending they already knew.
But when the Saint commanders started fleeing, they had realized something truly serious was happening.
But then.
“Hey! What was that just now!”
“Crazy…! Even the Saint commanders couldn’t catch it!”
The broadcasting station handling the transmission went into an uproar.
People all over the world who had been watching the live Lusson Island raid also went into chaos.
Broadcast network channels, foreign major channels, and even minor relay channels—all were in a frenzy.
And Cheon Seongjae, who had squeezed into a minor relay channel because the user count was exploding, was trembling.
[Lusson Island Lee Geon Raid Recreation / Live Channel 1 (Viewers: 7,284,793)]
- Hey did you see that just now?
└ㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇ
└Crazy
└for real?
└ That was insane
- He didn’t use any buffs right now, right?
- Are the Saint commanders staring in stunned silence?
└A few were sobbing
- The octopus got totally deleted
- Hoodie sweatpants conqueror’s aura is insane
- He seriously doesn’t need armor. Dude literally didn’t get hit once.
- Yo who was it that said Lee Geon was all buffs
-That’s a B-rank?????
The chat log scrolling up madly didn’t even register.
Cheon Seongjae, watching the live stream at school, was frozen.
“S-Seongjae?”
“This is insane.”
“Seongjae?”
“Why the hell is Uncle there!”
Cheon Seongjae burst into tears.
The real-time capture of the octopus was nothing short of legendary.
But.
“Why the hell am I here! I should’ve seen that in person! It’s legendary! Argh that piece of shit camera can’t even get the view right!”
“It’s o-okay, Seongjae. Your noona was there, so she’ll tell you in detail.”
“#$#*&*!!!”
As if that didn’t matter at all, Cheon Seongjae grabbed Han Jimin by the collar and wailed.
And on Lusson Island.
The Saints who had experienced that series of scenes with their eyes, their noses, their skin, felt an indescribable emotion.
‘That’s the real Lee Geon.’
The Saints, and Cheon Yuha too, couldn’t close their mouths.
It was on a whole different dimension from when he caught the Fire Lord. Back then he’d only cracked it with his foot; he hadn’t used a sword.
Soon, people who had lost their words finally burst into cheers.
“My god! The Thousand Legs video really was recreated!”
“Incredible…! Absolutely overwhelming!”
But at the same time, someone was thinking.
‘The Thousand Legs video is evaluated as the relatively normal one.’
Even that, they had said, was only possible because of buffs.
And they knew.
‘The Russian Great Subjugation.’
A video that had been deleted now, and even if re-uploaded, kept getting deleted—a phantom video called Lee Geon’s possessed footage.
Even now, only things like dark routes or a person like Hugo possessed and showed it to their children.
And if the technique they had just witnessed was just basic, elementary-level motion,
‘Then just how insane must the far-from-normal subjugation battle have been?’
Then it happened.
Thud!
“!”
Lee Geon trudged over to Cheon Yuha, dragging the octopus’s carcass behind him.
The Saints retreated with frozen faces, backpedaling.
Awe. Solemnity.
As if waters were parting, the Saints stepped aside.
And at that moment.
On his way to Cheon Yuha, Lee Geon grinned as if he had spotted something.
“Oh. You had that on you?”
At his words, Cheon Yuha thought, Oh no.
What Lee Geon was referring to was the bone she had retrieved earlier.
“Your weapon got wrecked too, didn’t it. Want me to make you a weapon out of that? A stylish one.”
But then it happened.
“Lee Geon!!!”
A familiar voice rang out.
It was the Leo faction.
(To be continued in the next chapter)