Chapter 243
When Seojun first caught five, the viewers were busy hammering kekeke.
-Wow kekekekekeke
-Maybe they really weren’t just saying scouts are strategic weapons kekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-That’s f**king strong, right? He’s the PvP tyrant, right?
-At this rate, there’s no way we can lose the 1st round of the guild war.
-Let’s just hold the defense! How do you stop the guild master with the Dragon General buff? kekekekeke
And it was no different against ten.
-Oh? Could they lose?
-Hold up. Isn’t that bastard who just blocked wearing a rabbit mask? That’s insane.
-Seems like that was the first time the guild master’s attack was blocked.
-Could they lose because of that?
-Did everyone forget? Number 119 is here now!
-Ah kkkkkkkkk right
-The guild master, you evil bastard.
-[You son of a bitch!]
-kkkkkkkk utmost⎯⎯praise!!!
-Ah, he’s playing dirty! kkkk
-That timing was sick.
-Isn’t this hopeless? The Sword God Squad got a massive advantage, didn’t they?
-Listening to the conversation, seems not.
And at the same time, the community was all talking about the related video.
Laven was completely occupied.
[You’ve been swallowed by the Sword Gods!]
[Laven had already been swallowed by you since the first day of that streamer’s broadcast, what’s the fuss now lol]
[Considering the streamer’s weight class, well. Thanks for coming lol.]
[kekekekeke Even setting up this kind of event before the raid on your own—perfect]
Actually, it would have been weirder not to occupy it.
For a massive event, the current highest-weight streamer, the #1 guild in the solo line.
And an overall 3rd-place guild, plus Hyeoljeo’s crew, all joined in.
Not only that, the interest in Seojun was huge, but the interest in Supreme Lords was just as intense.
You know those people, right?
The ones who ask, as soon as they arrive, if spending tens of millions of won will let them try it out.
Asking why skins and pets are being given out for free.
Among them, the guild that all came together and firmly planted their presence in Rakel was the Supreme Lords.
The old reviews about them:
[Surprisingly, those people are good at fighting too?]
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Yeah
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-For real?
└It’s a game you can’t solve with just money.
└Still, you can’t do without money lol
[But still, seems unlikely against us?]
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Anyway, it’s not like they didn’t pay-to-win.
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-Nah lol, the opponent is also a mega whale. There’s no way they can just pay-to-win.
└But what opponent?
└In the Blood Alliance... the hunting ground isn’t a hunting ground, it’s a battlefield... Once you leave town, everyone you meet is an opponent.
[Nah. Still, seems unlikely, right?]
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I mean, they’re old! lol
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-For real, they can’t beat the reflexes of fresh young people.
-Of all games, Rakel PvP doesn’t let you pay-to-win.
└But what if their accessories are all +9 or +10?
└That’s a bit scary, but anyway, pay-to-win doesn’t work. You probably can’t reach the absolute top?
Just like that, the general perception of the Supreme Lords was that they were at least upper tier. Just that much.
But when the Supreme Lords participated in the guild war held every two weeks and countless other guild contents, reaching the absolute top tier, and at some point took 1st place, people’s perception changed.
[Wow, they’re actually damn good.]
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Their physical skill seems no different from the top-tier users of this game – –
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-If they’re server-wide 1st, it’s legit! They say there’s little difference among top players.
-Clearly, those who survived on a battlefield really are different lol. They’re mixing it up with the top ranks. Even raids, they do well.
-These people who get called director or boss in society, why are they so good at games! lol
└Just meeting them in a game is infinite honor.
└Overwhelming gratitude lol.
Right before the fight, they were already viewing the Supreme Lords as top-tier.
That’s why even more attention gathered.
[Two top-tier guilds vs. one top-tier guild + a superhuman showdown]
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Can a superhuman really pull the weight of a top-tier guild?
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-kkkkkkkkk superhuman is so funny
-He’s not human ㄷㄷㄷ
-What’s the Sword God Squad’s level?
└Definitely not top-tier. They have an internal rule that if you lack skill, you leave on your own.
└A black company ㄷㄷ
And when you look closer?
The Supreme Lords weren’t top-tier.
They were supreme.
[Total War Emergency!!!!!!!!!!]
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Sword God Squad Great Victory!
Mion Total Defeat!
Mion Total Defeat!
Mion Total Defeat!
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[These crazy uncles kekekekekeke]
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Why are they so strong? kekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekeke
The uncles are f**king strong kekekekekeke
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[Guild master, you look f**ked? kekekekekekeke]
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Can you stop that boss legion? kekekekekekeke
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[Mion just gets wrecked, by those uncles in individual skill and team play? lol]
[I’d say they were a bit lucky to face the Sword God Squad and the monster in the first round.]
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To the Sword God Squad ^^
They gave them the time to get a real lesson from the bosses later ^^ Lucky them.
If they’d gotten wrecked from the very first capture round, how crushed would their morale be?
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-For real lol
-From now on, the bosses are taking over Laven lol
-The bosses are the real deal.
-But the Sword God Squad won a great victory too, right?
└Yeah, but now it’s defense.
-Honestly, the situation seems pretty unfavorable because of the Commanders.
└The Hyeoljeo guys are stopping the guild master with the Dragon General buff? That’s really not easy to break through lol
└Bosses! We believe in you!
└Take responsibility for our employment.
└Employment? Lolol why’s that suddenly coming up.
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The siege had begun.
The defenders had already taken their positions during the waiting period.
Soon, the attacking troops were summoned right in front of the walls.
From now on, they would continuously be summoned from that front and push in.
East, West, South, North.
There, the Supreme Lords and the monster were properly mixed in.
Having predicted that the monster’s side would definitely collapse if one guild took two directions, Ppoppi Appa had insisted on this troop arrangement before the fight.
However, the monster opposed it, insisting on splitting separately, so they had prepared accordingly.
‘We lost in the end, so he acknowledged it.’
Keelkeelkeel.
Ppoppi Appa watched the enemies climbing from the North Gate, chuckling.
The enemy chose to climb up using ladders.
There were five ladders per wall. Once they fully ascended, they would gain a brief invincibility and fight the defenders on the wall.
Another way was to break the gate.
You had to gather and hit it from below for quite a while to destroy it. The advantage was that once destroyed, a wide path opened, making it easy to push in.
The downside was that it consumed that much time, making it tight to occupy.
If they had chosen that, it would have been the opposite, with a few defenders going down to interfere.
[Attack! The South is now coming up too.]
[If you spot Sword God 1, everyone report immediately.]
[Which side has no Commander at the moment?]
The method for the enemy to succeed in the attack was simple.
Either push through to the center of the castle until a certain number of people arrived, or capture the Lord even once.
On the defending side, there were special positions: the Lord and the Commanders.
The Lord could be one person chosen out of 100. They had no buffs but must not die. There were three Commanders who received the Dragon General buff.
[The side without a Commander is the West.]
[Then if Sword God 1 just doesn’t show up at the West...]
[He appeared. It’s the West.]
The time the defenders had to hold out was 30 minutes.
In exchange, because the defenders were pre-positioned and holding out, their death probability was lower, so their respawn time was 1 minute 30 seconds.
The attackers had 1 minute.
However, that could make the attackers very advantageous, and what could offset or overturn it with individual skill were the three Commanders.
But if all four directions had Commanders with the Dragon General buff, it would become too advantageous, so they could only designate three. And of all places, that key figure chose the empty spot.
It was a 1 in 4 chance.
“The enemy is lucky.”
For attackers, once they chose the direction they spawned, it was impossible to change.
Defenders spawned in the center and could go wherever they wanted, but during battle, leaving the front line itself was impossible.
Moreover, if a Commander died and then moved again, it meant the line had already been broken.
[Ah...]
[Oh no...]
[Since the Dragon General buff basically grants an unstoppable state, they were the only ones who could stop him...]
The monster’s scouts lamented in the integrated chat.
Those who had already experienced it were worried. They had pinned their hopes solely on the Commanders, but of all things, he had luckily avoided them.
But from the Supreme Lords, who had taken all the Commander roles, a different reaction came out.
[Hahaha. Hmm. Aren’t you worrying too much? We have the most guild members in the West.]
Since there was no Commander, the West had a slightly larger number of deployed people, and the ratio of Supreme Lords was higher.
[So it won’t be that easy to take us down. Keelkeelkeel.]
Pacheon Dohwang and Black Moon Sword Emperor, two of the Commanders, spoke in succession.
And the last Commander, Ppoppi Appa, also began fighting the five users who had climbed up.
“Still, I’ll say it again: don’t let your guard down and be ready to descend at any moment.”
Since it was the integrated chat, he usually spoke in polite speech, but this time, as he was addressing those two, he used informal speech.
Ppoppi Appa had gained confidence as well.
Because they, too, had seen the community and thought that against the youngsters, it wouldn’t work.
Isn’t this the scariness of framing and gaslighting?
Actually, they had easily beaten the top tiers.
‘Of course, no matter how strong we originally were, we wouldn’t be able to win against that young man.’
Wielding a greatsword freely, Ppoppi Appa thought.
Normally on this wall, they believed if they held out for about 10 minutes out of 30 and then started getting pushed, the game would go about fifty-fifty.
But now that the real Sword God had gone to the side without a Commander, it was uncertain how long they could hold.
7 minutes? 5 minutes?
[Nah, don’t worry hahaha. They’ll do well.]
The kill logs began to appear.
[Pacheon Dohwang --> Sword God 665]
[Black Moon Sword Emperor --> Sword God 478]
[Pacheon Dohwang --> Pepero]
Almost all the alerts were of the attackers dying.
It was only natural that those who had pre-positioned would win.
But in that moment.
[Sword God 1 --> Red Blood Tomahawk]
Amid the blue-effect kill logs of them catching others, red-effect kill logs of them being caught began to appear.
[Sword God 1 --> Geotbasokchok]
One by one.
With a constant rhythm, not too fast.
And thus, it was terrifying for the 40-year-old man.
[A-already?]
[Huh? No, what are they doing.]
“Looks like they’ll break through. Everyone, start to slowly fall back the front line.”
If one side was broken and the remaining three lines stayed as they were, they could be attacked from behind and, once pushed, it could go all the way to the end.
Especially dangerous if it was the North and South close to the West.
[Sword God 1 --> Television]
As expected.
It looked like they would be pushed in 2 minutes.
But that didn’t mean they could easily lose.
As they fell back and got closer to the center, they got closer to the respawn area, and since it would be them, the Commanders, who could freely mark regardless of direction.
At that moment, another urgent report came in.
[West, only Sword God 1 broke through the encirclement and came inside! The line is still being maintained!]
[The line has been restored with Sword God 1’s departure.]
[What should we do?]
“Hmm...”
It wasn’t good news.
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“Has the Lord been confirmed?”
Having descended below the wall and into the castle interior, Seojun moved and asked the scouts.
[No.]
[As a result of counting numbers, all 25 in all four directions are in battle.]
The Lord must be in a safe place.
Because if they die by mistake even once in battle, it’s over.
To figure out who that person was, the scouts who climbed the wall for the third time checked most urgently who was missing from the battle.
There were various ways to hide the Lord.
But they hadn’t hidden them at all and had put them into battle.
In that case.
‘A person confident they would never die even by accident in battle.’
That person would be the Lord.
But who on earth?
It probably wouldn’t be the West with no Commander.
“How are the support numbers deployed?”
[The support numbers are just similar.]
Hmm.
Seojun, who was heading to the South, kept pondering.
For now, there was still plenty of time.
Switching strategies to pushing in could be done when about 8 minutes had passed.
But, since they’d already decided to capture the Lord...
“Commanders? Can a Commander also be the Lord?”
[Huh?]
[Yes. It’s possible... but because of the Commander’s role, they have to keep fighting and bring the flow, so who would set a Commander as the Lord.]
Mion’s answer, simply put, is this.
Is the opponent an idiot?
But.
What if it’s the Hyeoljeo folks, whose confidence in their skill has grown?
For some reason, Seojun’s gut was telling him that.
That one of the Commanders was the Lord.
“Let’s go on a hunt.”
When Seojun arrived below the South wall, he came face to face with a man with the nickname Black Moon Sword Emperor, who had already descended upon seeing him coming.
The supporters above could descend at any time, but Seojun was alone with no support.
“Why did you come all the way down?”
“Keelkeel. Because you shouldn’t touch our main force. I’ll just comfortably send you back to the West wall. The guild master hyung-nim asked for the full course.”
“The Sword Emperor talks back?”
“......?”
One feature of the Dragon General buff was the unstoppable state.
Immunity to all crowd control.
Naturally, that man, who could move even when hit with a deflection, thought he could stop him.
Because, in the eyes of current Rakel users, his greatest weapon was CC through deflection and skill combos.
“Haha, just making a joke.”
“......”
“So, is the Lord up there?”
Seojun asked, pretending not to know.
The Black Moon Sword Emperor, who was now recognized as one of the top three within the Supreme Lords, even considered the strongest guild here, did not answer.
He just smiled in disbelief and then charged.