Chapter 285
[Train Material Collection Quest Summary]
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There are six item slots.
And one is taken up by the collection tool.
Normally, the time it takes to get one material is random, but usually you gather about 7 in 50 minutes. Then rest for the remaining 10.
So each participant brings back and hands in around 28 materials a day.
The number Taesan handed in is about the same. 49 by the end of day two.
Singeom has 46 stored in the warehouse right now.
It doesn't say which materials are valuable.
But since most of them are designed to be gathered at roughly the same speed, everyone's just taking whatever comes up right now.
But let's take a look at these bastards.
They dropped 64 materials at once, and now they're just picking them up, returning, walking back, picking them up, and repeating?
The walking time is about 6 minutes, and the first walk and hunt took 10 minutes.
So if they go back and forth 6 times, that's 30 materials?
Per person? lololololol
30 in an hour?
120 a day??????
And if Yon gives them all to the party leader, that's 240? lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
They've turned every damn history book upside down lolololololololololololololololol
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-Ah lololol for real, they really turned it all upside down
-The key is whether it works next time too
-Would the AI nerf it so cheaply?
└It's seriously a cheap bastard though? That's just too ridiculous though?
└fr lol
└Nah, this ain't it
-Do we need to let that AI bastard taste the wrath of Korean complaints?
└Should we contact the game company?
└lololololololololololololol
[The Western 5-Man Judgment Sword guys are feeling the exact same chills we did lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol]
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It was just insane.
Absolutely insane.
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-And in the midst of that, declaring a 7-Man Judgment Sword is possible lolololololololololololololololol you crazy bastard!
└Crazy bastard crazy bastard crazy bastard crazy bastard crazy bastard
[Yon lololol real curses burst out lololololololol Ah lol seriously, he said he almost died]
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The party leader is really bad though
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-But when it succeeded, you were f*cking overjoyed. Have a drink.
└Viking's Lion's Roar lololololololololololololololol
└Valhalla!
-Is it possible to hold off 128 monsters alone?
└Anyway, it seems like only five or six can attack at once, so if you're the party leader, it's totally possible
└Then what about the 7-Man Judgment Sword?
-No lolololol you just do it every 4 seconds? Those guys are trash mobs, trash mobs
└Normally Judgment Sword is...... even to do one it takes way more than 20 seconds...... it's the ultimate skill among ultimate skills... lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
[So how many achievement points did you get?]
-A few.
└How many? (OP)
-7 points per 10
└Aw, lame
└But doesn't the party leader already have a f*ck ton?
└He already has 263 points lolololololololololol
[It's not that he 'already has a f*ck ton' lololololololol]
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The duplication starts again
7 points per 10?
At the party leader's current rate, that's 84 points a day!
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-Hmm... is that a lot? He earned 270 points combined for days 1 and 2?
└fr lol
└If you add Yon's share, it's 168 points a day. Just for reference.
└This really is duplication lololololololololol
-This is definitely getting nerfed
-No, does a real-time nerf even make sense!
└Ahem, it's a balance adjustment
└But seriously, the party leader is just going to be 1st place
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After the successful hunt, for 40 minutes, Yon followed Seo-jun without a word.
Following Seo-jun to return.
Following Seo-jun to Kresit's workshop.
When Seo-jun handed the materials over to Kresit's workshop, Yon didn't follow that action.
Instead, he gave the materials to Seo-jun.
Afterwards, Seo-jun went to the rift, so Yon followed him into the rift again, ran for 6 minutes to return to the original spot, picked up items again, and returned.
With the clock, there was no chance of them getting lost.
Since they moved based on time from the start.
Running speed could vary.
Yon had asked about how to handle that when they were planning the grand strategy.
Seo-jun's answer was simple.
He could maintain a consistent stride, so it was fine.
Others might retort asking if he's a human calculator, but Yon accepted it.
Because he had witnessed it.
Something about Seo-jun.
So, why did he just follow silently for 40 minutes?
'……What do I do?'
Because Yon had momentarily lost his mind and cursed at Seo-jun.
So he was walking on eggshells.
Since Seo-jun hadn't said anything after that, Yon was worried he might have screwed things up.
'Ha. Please.'
If only he'd say something, anything.
Contrary to that, Seo-jun just found the quiet not bad and didn't mind Yon walking on eggshells, so he simply remained silent.
Actually, Yon, who knew Seo-jun's nasty personality better than anyone after seeing that, was aware Seo-jun was secretly enjoying it, but.
'Just in case.'
He was being cautious.
Soon, break time approached.
The number of materials dropped was unfortunately 59, and they were able to pick up every single one and hand them in.
"Good work."
The two entered an empty alley again to talk.
Yon, who had worried while following Seo-jun into the alley if he might die here, finally relaxed his expression only after Seo-jun said good work.
"Boss, so you got 35 points?"
"That's right. Next time I hand in one more, I'll get 7 more points."
"Congratulations, boss. 35 points is a ton, and if the remaining two hours go like this... wow. Amazing."
Seeing Viking trying hard to lighten his mood, Seo-jun laughed.
"Yon, you did good work too. And don't worry from the next 10 minutes on."
"Yes."
"Because we might not be able to do it."
"Yes?"
Wondering if it meant they might not be able to do the history book anymore, Yon's eyes widened.
But that wasn't what Seo-jun meant.
"The AI. It's completely underhanded."
"How so?"
"Even if it's a reward I earned fair and square, it tries to block it if it seems excessive."
"Ah, really? Has that happened before? Boss, this is your first history book."
"Yeah, it happened on day 1."
"Hmm?"
"Just know that the AI is underhanded. This is all advice that's worth its weight in gold."
"Understood!"
Yon, he was a three-time history book participant.
"Alright, good."
Seo-jun chuckled.
He liked that Yon was totally fired up.
Tae-woo, no matter what, he never got fired up, so it was so boring.
They rested for a moment, then departed back into the rift.
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Seo-jun, being considerate of Yon, really started the lure-hunt alone.
32 monsters.
When they hunted together, the number they had to endure was 16, but Seo-jun was alone, so he faced 32.
Then, when it became 64, it was the same.
Yon watched the spectacle from afar, where the monsters' aggro wouldn't be drawn.
'Unbelievable.'
He's holding on well.
Using the Radiant Blessing appropriately.
Appropriately here meant using it while calculating for the next attack and even the one after that.
Seeing it from a distance, it was visible.
How he should dodge, and the subsequent attacks.
'Not that it's perfectly visible, though.'
It was roughly a bit clearer.
And that made it even creepier.
How could he grasp it all while inside that chaos?
Then Seo-jun turned his blade and began to swing his arm.
One by one, a Heresy Mark appeared, and the monsters with the Heresy Mark moved into the pack.
'Considering the Judgment Sword's range, even if they aren't all cleanly killed in one go, considering the cooldown, the surviving monsters will be killed in the very next round.'
No cause for worry arose.
A feeling he hadn't felt in a truly long time.
'A comfortable bus ride?'
It was a bus ride.
Yon looked up at the sky as if amazed.
Seven rifts had formed.
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At the point where 1 hour remained on day 3.
Seo-jun had transported 119 materials.
And at that moment, Seo-jun said he was getting a bit uneasy.
Even so, he entered the rift to hunt and started transporting materials again.
When 36 minutes had passed—11 minutes for the hunt, 25 minutes for 4 trips—as Seo-jun suspected, something happened.
"So it ends up like this."
Seo-jun had handed in 30 more this round, making it a total of 149 materials delivered, and he tried to hand in more.
But he received only one more.
[7 Achievement Points acquired.]
So, the NPC received a total of 150 materials in monster byproducts.
"Hahaha. This is enough monster byproducts! Good work!"
It gave them a signboard saying Closed for Business.
"Huh?"
Next to him, Yon was flustered, and Seo-jun nodded as if he'd expected this.
"Then let's go."
"No, boss? What's this? Considering the number, we can only assume there's some intention……. Ah, just a moment."
At that moment.
Seo-jun's capsule was forced to terminate.
"Huh?"
Waking up in the real world, Seo-jun scratched his cheek, gathered his thoughts, and pressed the button to open the capsule.
Nothing was physically wrong with him.
"The remaining time was 24 minutes?"
At this rate, it was fine to just rest.
The number of materials he collected was 150, likely similar to the combined total of Taesan + Singeom.
He had definitely caught up.
But.
'Hmm.'
Did something happen?
Exiting the capsule and going to the living room, he could tell something had happened.
"Hello."
"Hello."
Team Leader Lee.
And Oh Ji-hye.
Both were in Seo-jun's room, waiting.
"What's the matter?"
"First, is it okay if you don't log back in? Seo-jun-nim?"
At Team Leader Lee's question, Seo-jun nodded.
"Yes. Yon-nim is probably flustered, but he'll figure it out on his own."
"Then please spare us a moment."
And the two of them explained the reason for their visit and why he was forcibly logged out.
Hearing all of it, Seo-jun couldn't help but get lost in thought.
"So, if a situation demanding a momentarily high level of focus continues, like during a lure-hunt."
"Yes."
"You're saying I need to rest before it becomes dangerous?"
"Yes. Looking at the monitoring results from today, that's how it was."
"But haven't there been occasional moments in the past that required that level of focus?"
When doing lure-hunts, it certainly required high concentration.
But he had occasionally performed that level of control.
'Probably.'
He had an inkling.
"But you didn't do it continuously. At most once a day, a brief moment? It was about that much. The difficulty of enduring the monsters' attacks must be incredibly high, it seems."
Since Oh Ji-hye had personally verified most of Seo-jun's data, she knew.
Reliability was high.
"Then the conclusion is."
"Yes. If such moments continuously arise within the history book."
Though he doubted how many such moments could continuously arise.
"You might have to pause in the middle of a fight and rest for a moment. Logging out."