Chapter 32
There was a restriction on mobility.
The enemy knew his location, but he didn’t know theirs.
Truly a disadvantageous situation.
There were few ways to overcome it.
‘Hide.’
Or lure the enemy in.
Seojun, with slow steps, slipped into a less crowded alley.
And at that moment, the shadow at his feet transformed into the shape of a hand and sprang out, grabbing his ankle.
If he hadn’t stopped immediately, he would have fallen over.
Seojun said with a flustered expression, “Oh, how many seconds does this binding last?”
It was a skill used by players in Assassin’s Dawn.
Naturally, Seojun had never used it, so he didn’t know the details.
“Nameless, remember. Excessive order hinders personal growth.”
A voice came from behind.
Before the chat message trying to convey information to him could come up, a threatening axe blade swept horizontally toward Seojun’s head.
Seojun ducked his head quickly to avoid it.
His ankle was caught, so he couldn’t turn his body.
What’s an assassin doing with an axe?
He’s not even a barbarian warrior.
Whooosh!
The axe that cut through the air where Seojun’s head had been struck the wall, shattering and gouging the red bricks.
“The binding on my ankle is gone.”
Seojun immediately spun his body, grabbed the assassin’s head with his hand, and slammed it into the wall just the same.
A stun effect was applied.
“Where do you think you’re going.”
Normally, a stun would only make them flinch for a few seconds, but perhaps because it’s during a quest, once stunned, the NPCs didn’t get back up.
‘They have to give me at least this much.’
Seojun went deeper into the alley.
-Where’s the host going?
-Isn’t a narrow place rather disadvantageous?
-How can a swallow or sparrow know the heart of a wild goose or swan? kekeke
-You don’t know either, stfu
-lolololololololol
Seojun checked above as he went deeper.
On the rooftop behind Seojun, an assassin with a hood covering everything but nose and mouth was aiming a bowstring at him.
“I knew it.”
And looking ahead, another assassin was leaping down at him.
The assassin’s blade protruding from the back of the hand and the fluttering sleeve looked like an eagle.
“First.”
He parried the falling sword.
How?
By precisely matching the tip of the sword at the right timing.
Shrrk.
The shadow, once again a hand, climbed up like a vine and grabbed his ankle.
Seojun ignored it and focused on the tip of his sword.
‘So that the direction of force is vertical.’
He gripped the sword with both hands, raised it behind his head, and swung.
Clang!
It connected perfectly.
He precisely matched the thickness of a needle.
-Oh
-Wow, how is he so good?
-A man born for parrying
Creak.
The faint sound of a bowstring being drawn was heard.
This is VR, so individual senses can be considered practically identical for everyone.
Because the set signals are directly transmitted to the brain, not through sensory organs.
Therefore, Seojun, with his low assimilation rate, might have worse hearing than others.
But Seojun catches subtle sounds better than others.
The reason is one: he knows which sound to focus on among incoming information.
Fwip!
An arrow shot out in an instant and Seojun dodged by moving his head sideways.
The arrowhead shallowly grazed Seojun’s cheek and lodged in the ground.
Shrrk.
The shadow holding his ankle disappeared.
Seojun moved again.
“There’s no end.”
To Seojun, who had experienced much worse, it was nothing, but to the viewers, it looked like an enormous crisis.
-For real
-Scary, so scary
-If it were me, I’m confident I’d die on the first ambush.
-Quick, catch the assassin squad and fail the quest, host!
A foul smell stung his nose.
The street got narrower.
Ambushes became more frequent.
Seojun threw a dagger he had looted from an assassin toward the rooftop, but they dodged swiftly.
It was difficult to hit an NPC that was fully alert.
‘I can’t speed up the dagger throw.’
And he couldn’t go up either.
Because the penalty from his injured leg blocked parkour.
“It’s blocked.”
Seojun looked at the wall blocking his path.
He had finally reached a dead end.
He couldn’t move any further.
As if the enemies knew this, they slowly, and with a sense of pressure, began to reveal themselves.
“Give up, Nameless.”
From the shadows on the floor and walls, from on top of the wall behind him, from the second floor.
Three assassins on the rooftop were aiming their bows at Seojun.
All of them were standing before him, ready to attack, waiting for the command of the assassin who had tried to talk.
-It’s a checkmate...
-Ck!
-This is an assassin!!!!! Host, you dog of the Order, who seduced Christina with your looks, die quickly!
-Assassin! Assemble!
-Did the assassin crew herd him here?
Seojun chuckled as he read the chat.
Herding, my ass.
“I came here on purpose, everyone.”
Roughly dozens of people surrounded Seojun.
Among them, the most troublesome were the snipers on the rooftop.
The assassin who looked like the leader took a step toward Seojun.
“Chaos is the confusion and fear that blooms from our ignorance. People don’t want to take responsibility and fear going outside. Chaos is the unknown. Therefore, people seek order. They want to be controlled by something that will protect them. But.”
Click.
The assassin’s blade sprang out from the sleeve.
“That method will make people careless. They will fall into a comfortable life and lose their potential. They will live a life no different from livestock fed on fodder. So.”
I see.
As expected of a game character, he was extreme.
As soon as the dialogue ended, the assassin signaled, and arrows were shot.
“Die!”
Seojun moved forward.
Thunk thunk thunk.
Three arrows lodged in the spot he had been.
Seojun rushed at the nearest assassin, parried, snatched the smoke bomb hanging from his pants, and immediately used it.
Boom!
A thick fog shrouded Seojun’s body.
A momentary lull occurred.
No, only the assassins mistakenly thought it was a lull.
“Uwaaah!”
“Kugh.”
“Where is he!”
The alley was narrow, but wide enough for several people to walk in a line.
Meaning Seojun could move freely.
While the snipers on the rooftop couldn’t get a fix and just moved their bowstrings aimlessly, something flew out of the fog.
Swaaack!
They were three throwing daggers that Seojun, having checked their positions beforehand before using the smoke bomb, threw at the snipers’ shoulders to subdue them.
‘That’s done.’
The screams of three people could be heard.
‘The most troublesome ones are taken care of.’
Now it was his time.
In the fog, only the head and shoulders of a nearby person were partially visible.
And that was enough for Seojun.
He began knocking out enemies.
Thwack!
Even if another assassin spotted him, Seojun hid somewhere again.
Thwack!
Another assassin’s head hit the wall and he fainted.
-Seojun hyung... I’m dizzy...
-Something’s there, then falls, then another falls, what is this?
-Isn’t it just the host without a smoke bomb?
-Nah, the silhouettes are visible, but the screen keeps whipping around so you can’t really tell.
When the smoke bomb’s effect disappeared, over a third of the assassins were unconscious.
And Seojun smiled and waved his hand.
“I have one more.”
-Finally visible!
-But what’s that?
-Look at his hand habit lol
-Eok lol is this real?
In his hand was another smoke bomb.
Boom!
The thick fog filled the alley again and screams rang out.
-Isn’t this a gag? lol
-Assassin Squad <--- Legendary overrated group
-Guys whose entire branch gets wiped out by just one person lol
-No matter how I think about it, Seojun hyung is an exception.
-The guys who were throwing all sorts of lame poses and trying to gank dozens-to-one just now lol
-How can an assassin lose in stealth lol
-The host is an assassin for real!
Seojun took out all the assassins in an instant.
The scattered assassins filled the alley.
Suddenly, he had this thought.
“This is chaos.”
What’s so special about chaos?
-For real lol
-He is chaos itself
-I was deeply impressed by the sight of the assassin squad becoming chaos themselves.
-Walking the talk, damn.
[Hidden quest ‘Hunt’ conditions satisfied.]
[Return to the abandoned factory and meet Arthur.]
[Affection quest ‘Mercy’ conditions satisfied.]
[Meet Christina and talk.]
A notification popped up.
“Oh, looks like I caught all the assassins. As expected, luring the enemy is the most sure and easy. Huh? Of course it was intentional.”
Indeed, it felt like the number of assassins caught was a lot, and the quest was completed.
It was fortunate things went as planned.
If one assassin remained and that one was a sniper, it would have been quite troublesome.
Now that the quest is done.
“Everyone, if I turn off the game now, is the quest progress saved?”
Seojun was thinking of ending the stream.
The timing was just right.
-????
-Why now of all times?
-Are you sane?
-No no no no no no absolutely not
-If you turn it off during quest progress, you have to start over, for real
-If you redo it, honestly it’s a pain, just go to the abandoned factory and stream a bit more
-The Christina quest only has one chance. If you turn it off here, it’s gone.
I can see right through them.
In the first place, the Christina quest is appearing for the first time, how would they know that info.
“Oh really? I’ll just do it again next time, it’s not hard.”
-Seojun hyung... are you really going to stop?
-lololololol
-Everyone’s gone crazy!
-You’re really doing this? For real?
-Hyung. I’m holding my breath again? If I die, it’s your loss?
The scroll was moving at incredible speed.
But Seojun paid no mind and shouted, “Stream off!”
* * *
The place for the viewers who lost their home was obvious.
[What happens when you collect all the fragments of order]
[Christina affection quest appearance!!!]
[Ah lol if Seojun had just shown the Christina quest reward, we’d collect the fragments of order, but he didn’t show it, so I’m not gonna collect them]
-Not won’t, can’t.
[Ending the stream right there, what a devil]
[Who’s coming with me to beat up the bastard who kissed Christina on the back of her hand (1/9999)]
[Jin Seojun you bad guy. If you’re handsome and popular, go play in real life. Please leave the game for us to enjoy.]
-For real lol
-This one seems a bit real lol
└Real!
└It’s a concept, you guys (post author)
[Assassin bastards lol they can’t get it together, right?]
-The prevailing theory in academia is that the hidden quest isn’t telling players to experience being assassinated, but is giving the opportunity to wipe out the assassin squad.
[The reason the assassin squad always loses to the Order: they’re a small business that even fails to assassinate a single person.]
-Small business lol
└Aren’t you sorry to small businesses? That place is just a thug organization.
└Info) The Order guys didn’t win properly either.
└But the Order guys lost fair and square one-on-one.
[Breaking) Nameless-nim’s YouTube video is up]
-Ah lol, waiting until tomorrow was so boring, I’m off to rewatch it right away.
-Those who haven’t seen the edited video, definitely watch it. I haven’t seen it yet either, but it’s gonna be awesome.
└For real lol
[This man, how would he fare in an online game?]