Chapter 351
[Honestly, who do you think will win?]
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Like, really honestly.
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- The Hunter team will get wiped immediately!
- You saw that shot from that distance, right?
- But the two members of the squad leader’s team are farming way off in the distance. Is it okay to fight like this?
> Right
> Doesn’t look like they’re coming back home.
- The squad leader just showed us the base layout!
> All three attacking teams are connected
> Damn, that base design is ruthless lol
> They really went with the worst possible defensive layout; even the owner would get annoyed going back and forth lol
The fortress’s defensive layout had numerous sniper towers to protect the outer walls, and even after breaching the walls, it was built so that relentless attacks could keep coming from unfair angles.
In exchange, it was a base that confined the battlefield to the inside, not the outside.
‘This is more convenient.’
Team members who were nearby began entering the base.
It was still before the battle began. Three teams had started setting up forward bases some distance away from the Seojun’s team’s base.
“Come in at your leisure.”
Seojun spoke as he took out an enemy who’d stepped into the edge of his line of sight, trying to target one of his teammates.
[Thanks!]
The team members got into position, and Seojun waited.
The forward bases were set up with ease.
Normally, forward bases shouldn’t be built so easily and so openly.
But after assessing the fortress’s layout from a distance and realizing that the outside would not make a proper battlefield, the attacking teams leisurely began building their forward bases.
They would respawn there if killed.
[Wow, I’m nervous.]
[Taewoo, you’re nervous too?]
[Yeah.]
[Let’s watch closely.]
[Baek Doyul, you’re really dependable.]
The battle would end in an instant.
[Fighting, everyone!]
[Right, fighting, everyone!]
It’s a battle of 6 versus 25.
Just the numbers alone take your breath away, no matter how advantageous the defensive position.
Seojun moved to the tallest central tower, and once he was in place, Joam’s briefing came through.
[They’re approaching.]
Encircling from all four directions.
The perimeter of their outer wall was long.
But the central tower was tall, making it possible to cover all four directions.
Team members took their positions in the towers in each direction.
The attacking team immediately pulled out rocket launchers.
Their plan was to neutralize the sniper towers.
“Just don’t die. And do what we planned.”
From all four directions, players from different teams shouldered rocket launchers and aimed at the towers.
It was the maximum range where sniper rifle bullets wouldn’t properly reach.
- lololol Their sheer numbers are overwhelming
- They must have agreed among themselves not to hold back on weapon items
- They’re going by the book
“Everyone, ready.”
They stood openly to defend the towers.
Seojun watched from the center.
Interception.
‘I shouldn’t worry about where Baek Doyul is.’
With a slight offset in timing, four rockets flew in from different directions.
Shwoong!
Pop-pop-pop-bang!
Listening to the faint gunshots and explosions, Seojun stared at Ryan in the distance.
Their eyes met.
[Nice!]
[They intercepted them cleanly! Kyaa!]
[For players, intercepting is nothing compared to what a moderator has to do.]
The difficult part for a moderator is timing and hitting to cancel an attack. If a player is standing openly and aiming at them, intercepting itself isn’t that hard.
Of course, it’s a high-difficulty play, but these people had enough skill for that.
And then.
Ryan grinned, opened his mouth, and gave orders.
I could roughly guess what he was saying, even though reading lips through a scope was hard.
Urgent voices came through at the same time.
[One more from the north!]
[Added a launcher on the south side.]
[East is dangerous. There are two. Can you handle it, Baek Doyul?]
[Haha, the west also has two.]
“Eight in total? They farmed a lot.”
[For the record, there are three on the south side.]
- Whoa
- Their launcher farming went well
- Even if you play all day, with really bad luck you might not get a single launcher
- That’s two days’ worth of items
- Can the small fry still win this?
- Yes, Ma Wang will win
- Starting to look like a small-fry moment, nine shots already
Nine rocket launchers.
This got troublesome.
For now, I’ll gloss over the west side where Baek Doyul is.
The east side had the Ssikshikoneo and Yi Mua.
I’ll gloss over that side too.
Taewoo’s on the north.
And the south side with three launchers had Joam.
Seojun’s judgment was swift.
While quickly giving orders to Joam, he watched the south. Rather than just watching, he fired bullets.
First.
“Shoot underneath, Joam.”
Bang!
After that, a rocket was launched.
In that time, Seojun aimed at the next rocket.
If there was even a moment’s hesitation, the rocket would hit the outer wall instantly.
Without delay, Seojun’s aim locked on, and his finger pulled.
Bang!
Pop-pop-bang!
On the south side he was watching, three rockets exploded in a row.
It was a super save.
- Whoa
- Crazy
- You still calling him small fry? Still calling him small fry? Still calling him small fry?
- Kyaa!
- Yeah, Taewoo’s side got hit by a rocket launcher
- Meanwhile, Baek Doyul handled two shots too, lol, that’s insane
I could see the appalled expressions of the users on the south side.
But the attack wasn’t over.
This was only the beginning of the raid.
“The next wave is coming. Everyone focus.”
Seojun knew this well and calmly did his job.
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“Ah! The war of attrition continues!”
The rockets started coming in more irregularly, and over ten people were waiting.
They waited for the moment when the towers that could snipe them as they approached would collapse.
“How many rockets are they firing! And still, not a single one has been destroyed! It’s like the Demon King’s Castle!”
The squad leader moved the camera composition across the perspectives of over twenty people and shouted.
- Honestly, looking at how the south side still hasn’t taken a single hit, it really is the Demon King’s Castle
- Ugh, the small fry are flailing
- Their flailing is incredible, though
- The way the squad leader turns around every time the south side takes a break and helps out Taewoo on the north once is so chilling
“Exactly! The rocket launcher users on the north side shouted to pass on a message. ‘Just keep firing without a break! If you give him a timing, that person will just cover elsewhere! That’s why!’”
But they couldn’t hold out for long.
The moment the sixth rocket struck the tower they’d been targeting over and over, the protruding part above the outer wall of the north sniper tower collapsed.
Taewoo, who jumped off just before it crumbled, took fall damage but recovered his HP with a drink item and immediately ran to another tower.
“Ah! Seojun makes no mistakes! But Baek Doyul! The two-man team! Even Joam who the squad leader helps! All of them keep making mistakes!”
As time passed, mistakes piled up.
The side firing rockets had no mistakes to speak of, but the side intercepting them had to expend tremendous concentration.
In Baek Doyul’s case, handling two at once wasn’t twice as hard but exponentially more difficult.
“In the end, they all collapse! All that’s left is the central tower! Where Seojun is! Ah! Five rockets are heading there!”
They burst.
This was a problem even Seojun couldn’t solve alone.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Those whose towers had fallen naturally gathered at the center, and the remaining rockets were far too few to blow up the central tower.
“Ah, countless attacks! But they saved it! They saved the central tower! And! The siege team has exhausted all their rocket launchers! They look flustered! This is going to be a headache! Of course, they can still enter, but still!”
- This is what a Ma Wang is lololol
- You think just because the central tower remains, they can’t stop us from getting close to the wall?
- For real lol
- But doesn’t the squad leader’s side still have rockets left?
- They’re gonna suffer a lot when fighting inside
- Still, he’s more likely to end up as small fry, you idiots
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“Ah, does the other side not have any more? None?”
Lloyd, the youngest of the Hunter team, listened to his team’s conversation and asked again.
[Yeah, none. Done.]
[They said the same for the other teams too.]
[They defended stubbornly. We came after stubbornly farming items too.]
[They didn’t even counter with launchers.]
“No, what the….”
Lloyd thought they’d demolish all the towers according to plan and enter safely.
Even after seeing the rockets constantly being intercepted in midair.
“How did they shoot….”
[Shut up and get ready for entry.]
“Alright.”
Tsk.
It’s disappointing, but there was no need to be frightened just because a sniper tower remained when entering.
They weren’t the only ones capable of sniping.
Rather, with far more people aiming as they advanced, the enemy wouldn’t easily show themselves.
‘Should I just hit him?’
Lloyd was the one who had sponsored Seojun.
As a side note, his team leader told them to do as they pleased.
In any case, no one was brazen enough to act out, and they were trusted.
If anyone did, they’d just be expelled.
So was his sponsorship an act of brazenness?
It wasn’t.
After all, all provocation is admirable if you win, and petty if you lose.
And there was no way they would lose.
‘Tsk, I’ll have to be the one to hit him.’
It bothered him.
Seojun, looking down at them from the central tower.
‘Our eyes might have met for a second, is he scared?’
25 people.
Excluding the four guarding each team’s forward base, 21 would advance.
They probably couldn’t hold them off for long.
[What matters is where those two disappeared to. Has anyone seen them? Once we confirm that properly, we can go right away.]
[They’re two non-combat personnel. Buja and Ipdatkogemhaja were their names.]
[What if the two of them target the camp?]
“Just one of us here would be plenty to block them.”
Right now, the leadership was deliberating whether to assign two people to each forward base.
But as Lloyd thought, what could the two who vanished possibly do from behind?
[Let’s just go. 3, 2, 1.]
They entered each other’s range.
All at once, aiming at the towers.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Laying down suppressive fire, they closed the distance to the outer wall.
Endless gunfire resounded.
But there were no casualties yet.
For the defending team, dying now would be fatal, so they didn’t try too hard to take them down.
The real fight would be inside the outer walls.
It was just deterrence.
[Where is that bastard? Which direction is he in? Anyone who sees him, answer.]
That moment.
Not the flare user originally fighting, but Seojun appeared at the back of the central tower and fired.
“Ugh!”
With a single precise headshot between the eyes, a comrade advancing beside him died.
Bang!
Lloyd’s aim zeroed in to catch Seojun, but Seojun took him out with unwavering eyes and vanished.
They had excellent skill too, so they managed to land hits on Seojun’s suddenly appearing figure, but they couldn’t kill him.
“Huh?”
Lloyd died.
He could revive back at his original position.
During raids, they’d made a few rules to prevent chaos, and they agreed that items dropped outside the outer walls belonged to the original owner.
“Wow….”
However, after reviving at the Hunter team’s south forward base, Lloyd had a comrade next to him giving a briefing.
[South side, appeared suddenly from behind, fired two headshots, and vanished. Looks like we hit his body, but no significant damage…]
The voice he’d been hearing over the radio—system-wise—gradually became distinctly clearer in his ears.
“South side, appeared suddenly from behind, fired two headshots, and vanished. Looks like we hit his body, but no significant damage….”
“You died too, hyung?”
“Yeah, died.”
“Of all people, it had to be us two. Bad luck… wait.”
A thought suddenly flashed through Lloyd’s mind: the moment earlier when that Ma Wang-like figure standing on the tower smiled and looked down at them.
Back then, when their eyes met exactly, what if it wasn’t that he avoided his gaze because Lloyd aimed at him—
But that he’d just been assessing how many were in each direction, and their eyes met by chance?
Then the next report came in.
[North side, that person appeared similarly. And I died to a headshot. I was at full health, didn’t land a hit.]
[I died too.]
Having tasted real madness firsthand for the first time, Lloyd bit his lip hard in bewilderment.
“What kind of situation is this right now… ugh, no way….”