Chapter 248
Morning of the update day.
Normally, update patches are done between 5 and 6 AM when there are the fewest people, but today was different. Today, the patch and maintenance were from 7 PM to 8 PM, and you could connect from 8 PM. The game company had announced this beforehand. There was only one reason.
Naturally, they wanted as many people as possible to all attempt the first try together.
[They say a special system that wasn't applied before will be applied in this raid, what could it be?]
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Maybe heroes just come and help?
While fighting?
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-Nah lol
-There's no hero in the story, what lol
-There's no character to come out
-I think all NPCs are precious in their own way
[Anyway, so you all took a day off, right?]
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Yeah?
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-You idiot. You should come home from work today and play, then take off tomorrow and the day after.
└lol true
└Sorry, but I get tired even playing just three hours a day lol I guess I'm old, I'll just play today (OP)
└May I ask your age????
└27 (OP)
└Oh come on
[Just wait for the first clear, I'm coming for it]
-What are you?
└King-job (OP)
└What's King-job wtf
└FYI, all of our party members are King-job. So damn solid (OP)
└What the hell is King-job that it's solid?
└Ah, it's unemployed lol
└Correct! (OP)
└Why, if I'm jobless, I'm jobless! Can't say it proudly!
[How long will it take?]
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Until first clear
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-Since it's the prelude of the Four Heavenly Kings, they might adjust the difficulty so first clear comes out in a day.
└One day seems too short
└Then one month?
└Why is this guy's thinking so extreme lol
-Wouldn't they make the difficulty around three days?
-1 week is a bit long
[Anyway, damn excited]
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You know that? We still don't even know the raid boss name lol
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And time passed.
[I heard this is where Sword God-nim is raiding, so I came from the League.]
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I came to worship.
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[So this is the last piece of Heavenly Demon-nim's unification of the Central Plains.]
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Huhuhu.
We'll be watching as well.
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-Unification of the Central Plains, get out lol
└Old-fashioned boomer lol, writing such boring stuff lol
-Watching my ass lol, just say you came to watch
News spread to the neighboring community Seojun had visited, and the attention of those who knew Seojun began to gather, and the update was carried out.
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7:50 PM.
The raid party members were gathered in the lobby.
7:55 PM.
They pressed the game's update button and waited.
7:57 PM.
Dangso and Sisik Corner said their bodies were trembling. They said it was a tremor of excitement, not nervousness. In Seojun's opinion, it absolutely wasn't.
7:59 PM.
He turned off Raven and everyone prepared to go in. Once inside, they could start quickly. They had finished the basic quest for the Four Heavenly Kings raid and had ended the game while gathered. Though there was no real need.
"Once inside, send party invites quickly! Quickly!"
That invitation had to be sent by Seojun.
8:00 PM.
The game started.
The game background changed. Originally, they could move freely left and right on a sandy beach. But now, it was the sky. More precisely, a giant airship floating in the sky. An airship without the top part responsible for buoyancy. It was dark and huge. It seemed to be at least the size of a playground.
"Oh. This seems to be the raid battlefield, right? Shall we look around? As far as we can move?"
Seojun looked around with interest.
-This bastard lol so damn laid-back lol
-Dangso: Stop looking around and come in quickly! Select Lunaon!
-A composure that never loses
"Then let's start."
Seojun went into Lunaon at his usual pace and selected his character.
The raid members soon appeared before his eyes. They had followed the channel immediately.
"Oh, hurry!"
"Quickly!"
It was Dangso and Sisik Corner. Sisik Corner stammered but shouted loudly. He must have summoned immense courage.
"It's fine. Surely they wouldn't let us into the server and make us able to do it right away?"
Seojun's prediction was correct. Calmly ignoring the urging, he invited the party, entered the raid content window, and as he tried to start the game, a timer was ticking.
1 minute 50 seconds.
It's adequate.
"See."
"As expected. Today, I'm following only you, Seojun!"
-Let's go!
-Seeing the raid name still as question marks, they're really ruthless, ruthless lol
-lol true, they don't even tell the concept
-The concept was an airship though?
Amid countless speculations, 1 minute 50 seconds passed in an instant. Along with the name, the appearance appeared.
[Four Heavenly Kings Raid: Red Knight Pain]
-Let's go!
-There are 2 phases in total
-The streamer really starts right away lol
That's right. Seojun was actually also paying attention to starting quickly.
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A cutscene plays. Some NPC explains that suddenly an airship descended from the sky and an emergency situation occurred. It seemed to be an NPC that was important in the story and had a fanbase among viewers. According to the explanation, they were going to investigate an airship that appeared in the sky, its front part protruding like an icicle.
The cutscene ended and control of the body returned.
And then.
"Oh."
"Where are we supposed to go?"
1 second.
2 seconds.
3 seconds.
At that moment. Seojun spotted something flying from afar at extreme speed, carrying a red aura. That something was a sword.
His body moved naturally. From the moment he saw it. Even if it was a reflex, the unconscious movement speed of someone as skilled as Seojun was different. Naturally, he swung his sword, executing a basic single slash and parried the sword.
"What?"
"Whoa."
When the attack failed, the sword went back. Its origin was the airship floating in the sky above.
-??
-I was freaking surprised lol
-What is that, it's so fast
-Is it starting by killing users?
-Wow shit. Another streamer just died instantly lol no penalty, but just died once lol
-Death verification posts are going up in real-time on Raven too! lol
-The sword flies around like a damn flying sword and kills everyone instantly lol one hit kill lol
-But why didn't these guys die?
-lol true
"Did we just survive a near-death? Is this a Jin Seojun bus? Wow shit. Jin Seojun who isn't targeting me is so reassuring."
Taewoo, who grasped the situation simultaneously with Seojun through the chat window, admired.
Subsequently, the others also roughly figured out what had happened.
"Hehehe. I couldn't react at all. Truly."
-Info) There isn't a single streamer who survived that attack just now lol
-Since everyone went in simultaneously, how can you react lol
-The developers are damn malicious lol
-Who survived amid all that?
Seojun responded to the chat window.
"Ah. Worship me."
-Kya!!
-Damn, I ended up seeing it again. The streamer cheating!
-Always cheating lol
-Crazy bastard! Crazy bastard! Crazy bastard!
100,000 viewers. And a good start. A notification had also popped up.
[Achievement Unlocked: First to Block!]
[Reward: Title 'First Savior']
-Wow crazy! lol
-Kya? Kya!
-'First' is attached to everything
-Seems like since it's the first Four Heavenly Kings raid, this concept is basic
-But thanks to this achievement, it's proven that the first person to block it is the streamer lol
-How do you block this ah lol
-I'm curious how many 'first' titles the streamer will get
"Wow, I got it too!"
"Is this a bus? I'm touched. It feels like my first time riding one."
"Well then, let's go."
"Got it! Go ahead and lead the way, Heavenly Demon!"
Morale was charged. They walked along the map.
"We'll be the first, right?"
-Yes
-Fact) It's a fact
-They all really died lol
"Arrived."
They arrived at the destination indicated on the minimap. And again, the NPC started talking. The content of the conversation was this. Every time they try to go up, a powerful sword flying around the airship keeps interfering, they say. So they ask them to deal with that sword, and in doing so, handed over an item.
[This is an Observer. It's a useful item in combat that can share vision with you adventurers. If you use the Observer well, you will be able to win the battle.]
The Observer was a new system. What was it for?
The battle began. It was common trash mobs. Undead. This time as well, they had to go to the place marked on the minimap. While killing trash mobs. That wasn't very difficult. The problem was utilizing the Observer system.
"Oh, when I think of the Observer, my vision momentarily changes."
Ppoppi Appa said, sounding surprised.
"Really? How does it change?"
Sword God 119 asked.
"You can just see what the Observer sees from above together."
"Oh. I just tried it and you can really share vision. Does that mean the raid needs a top-down view?"
"It might not just be from above."
Seojun, who had gotten a feel for it, pointed to the empty sky beside them with his finger to the raid members handling the trash mobs. There, the great sword that had raided earlier was standing still in place.
"What's that?"
"Just watch. And maybe because I'm the raid leader, a notification popped up saying I can adjust the Observer's position."
"Oh?"
"Let's keep going after killing the trash mobs."
After killing all the trash mobs in the first area, the vines blocking the way to the next area were cleared. The next was the same.
"This time the sword is on the left. Look."
The next.
"The back."
"Do you know what it means, Seojun?"
"Yeah. I think the first phase boss is that sword?"
"That sword?"
"Yeah."
-Oh god of deduction
-These guys are progressing the fastest for now lol
-The first deduction starts shiver
It was when they had dealt with the trash mobs in the fourth area and moved to the next. This time, a cutscene played, and the question mark box in the top left disappeared, revealing the identity of Phase 1.
[Red Knight's Great Sword]
-Phase 1 boss is indeed a sword
-Gonna fucking hit the sword lol
-Isn't it the first time the raid target is a weapon? As expected, first!
-Can you parry?
Whooosh!
The sword fell to the center of the field. Just before hitting the ground, the sword stopped, rotated 180 degrees so the hilt faced down, and waited for them, who were not yet in aggro range, to approach.
'Parrying is probably possible.' They might make it difficult, but if they completely deleted the system, there would have been some mention of it in some way. Through NPC dialogue or notifications.
"Let's fight it first."
They are a head-on party. They just rush in without experience and see. The goal at first is to survive as long as possible and see more patterns. There's no reason to force damage. From the moment Taewoo used a ranged snipe skill and the health bar appeared, the raid began.
"If it looks like it's attacking, dodge first!"
Sisik Corner shouted from behind and cast a movement speed buff.
They could deal damage by hitting any part of the 3-meter-long sword. The great sword showed attack patterns such as extending with its blade facing the sky, or lying sideways and rotating.
Normal attacks were strong. Even one hit would reduce health by more than half, forcing them to use potions or call for the supporter. However, until reducing the boss's health from 100 bars to 80, it was still simple enough that no one died on the first try. And the moment it reached 80 bars.
The sword left the battlefield and floated in the air beside the field where they were standing. A special pattern, a gimmick. Following his intuition, Seojun immediately shouted.
"Change the view."
Or die and try again. It's the first try. Fortunately, Seojun's intuition was correct. When they changed the view and looked down at the map from above, countless thick red lines were drawn across the circular map from countless directions. They were attack paths.
'I need to move to where there are no lines.'
Seojun found a spot. However, as they said the difficulty wasn't easy, they had to check and move faster, and while the team members were checking and moving, they were killed by the sword that began sweeping the map at incredible speed along the red lines.
"Not easy."
"Is this the first gimmick? Grasping the map was difficult. Seojun-nim survived amid that."
"Right. Seojun, how did you survive? You must have checked a bit late too? Was it close?"
For reference, the viewers who only watched Seojun's broadcast still hadn't grasped the gimmick.
-Something quickly passed on the streaming screen, what is it?
-Don't know? rue
-The streamer's screen flickered for a moment just now, didn't he check the map then?
-That was it?
-??
-Yeah, I saw Taewoo's stream, there were lines drawn on the map
-????????
-Is this bastard living alone at 0.25x speed?
"We can just attack, then see and dodge. The first pattern is easy, so let's keep going."
Seojun, the sole survivor, pressed retry. And he said to increase the tempo. However, the team members failed to solve the first gimmick consecutively, and Seojun was flustered.