Chapter 51
Tian Hu saw the message an hour after Rin sent the message .
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-President, I found Alley Leader while setting up the camp . Five people in the advance team, including me, are chasing after him . If possible, we’re going to do PK .
“Why am I only seeing this now?”
Tian Hu guessed that Alley Leader was level 80 . Meanwhile, Rin was level 155 . The level difference between the two people was almost double . There were also five people present . This was a match where victory had already been decided .
“I can see Alley Leader’s downfall . ” Tian Hu quickly entered the cube to see the progress . At this moment, Tian Hu’s smartphone rang again .
-I’m sorry, President .
Hyeonu was nervous . For hours, he had been chased by monsters and driven away by people, so he couldn’t hunt at all . In particular, the hellhound he met 30 minutes ago caused a chill to go down Hyeonu’s spine . It was fast enough to be able to chase Hyeonu while he was wearing the Black Jaguar set . Hyeonu sprinted for 10 minutes away from such a hellhound and barely escaped . He barely managed to pull himself away .
‘If this continues, I won’t be able to profit . ’
“I have to hunt at least one . ”
At this moment, something touched Hyeonu’s senses . Hyeonu grabbed a small rock from the ground and threw it hard toward a bush . The rock flew quickly, making a blue trajectory . Then it hit something . Five people appeared from behind a blue curtain in the bushes . It was a female magician who appeared to be the master of the shield and four warriors .
“What? Why are you following me?” Hyeonu asked in a venomous tone while reflecting on the current situation .
“Aren’t you Alley Leader? I want to try fighting you once . ” The answer came from the magician .
‘The followers of interest?’
“You are a person who follows attention at this level? I thought you were people focused on playing Arena if you are in the Hejin Mountains, but I guess that isn’t the case . ”
The magician’s expression didn’t change despite being called a person who followed attention . She maintained her smile the whole time .
Hyeonu wondered, “I don’t think you’re a person who follows attention . So what’s your affiliation?”
“I can’t tell you that . I just want to fight you once . ” The female magician fell silent when Hyeonu asked about her affiliation . It meant one thing—a fight .
“Are you from a guild? I don’t think there are any guilds that have a problem with me,” Hyeonu said harshly while quickly scouring his memories .
‘Who? I don’t think anyone has a problem with me . ’
Did he have trouble with someone he didn’t know about? Judging by the items they wore, they had a minimum level of 140 to 150 . Moreover, there were five of them . It was a burdensome number for Hyeonu .
“I’ll say it once again . Decide if you want to duel or fight directly,” the magician leader once again stated .
It was an answer .
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‘We will fight . Pick between a duel or PK . ’
This consistent attitude reminded Hyeonu of one thing . It was something he had experienced in other games in the past . Hyeonu was a late starter of that game and quickly rose . At that time, a large guild came to Hyeonu and said, “Join our guild . ”
Hyeonu had refused . He had no intention of joining a guild as he enjoyed playing alone . There would be restrictions when entering a guild, and Hyeonu hated it . After that, the large guild wanted to kill Hyeonu . The winner of the PK was Hyeonu . However, since that day, Hyeonu no longer played that game .
‘It is disgusting . A disgusting memory . ’
“I just remembered a very dirty time,” Hyeonu muttered in a low voice .
“What?”
Hyeonu ran forward . He went in the opposite direction of where the five people were standing .
“Catch him!”
It was then that a chase, where his life was at risk, started .
In the Hejin Mountains, there was an open field filled with rankers dominating Arena, and a player was sweating as he kept running .
‘Damn, where is it? I saw it earlier . ’
Hyeonu was able to escape by a narrow margin without being caught by his five pursuers due to a rise in his movement speed—the option attached to the Black Jaguar set .
‘Uh, I found it!’ Hyeonu was running diligently and finally discovered it . He stopped moving .
“Hah . ” Then he took a breath and rested . Actually, he wasn’t very tired . It was just a type of mind control . The place where Hyeonu stopped was different from the place where they had met . One side was blocked by a cliff . It was a dead end .
‘They’ll think I went the wrong way . ’
Sure enough, one of the five pursuers shouted while smiling, “You!!! You are good at running away, but now it is a dead end . ”
His face was full of smiles .
‘Um . . . It is going well . ’
Hyeonu had the geographic advantage . He had never lost . It would be the same today . Hyeonu felt that this situation was somewhat familiar . In front of him were players wanting to PK him . Hyeonu looked at them and stood with the longsword on his shoulder, gesturing toward the opponents with empty hands .
“Come on! Come on! You bastards . ”
A rare battle took place at a remote cliff in the Hejin Mountains .
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Hyeonu was confident . They didn't know about him .
‘I don’t know about them either . ’
However, his talent was better than theirs . This was enough . Furthermore, the specs of his character weren’t lacking . If only for five minutes . . .
The moment Hyeonu squeezed his hand, Tang-E—who was hidden among the trees—placed buffs on Hyeonu .
[You have received Bear’s Momentum . ]
[Physique has increased . ]
[Strength has increased . ]
[You have received the Forest’s Blessing . ]
[Defense has increased . ]
[Health will continue to recover . ]
At this moment, the opposing warrior player aimed a sword at Hyeonu .
[Master of Combat is activated . ]
[Your stats have increased . ]
[The stat ‘fighting energy’ has caused your stats to rise . ]
[The other party is stronger than you . ]
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[There will be an additional increase in stats . ]
Hyeonu’s skills were activated . Finally, the moment that Hyeonu swung his longsword at the opposing warrior .
[Giant’s Power has been used . ]
[Your strength stat has increased . ]
[Giant’s Nature has been used . ]
[Your strength stat has increased . ]
The giant skills were also triggered . This allowed Hyeonu to maintain overwhelming stats for five minutes . Five minutes—it was a long time for non-monster players . Hyeonu’s longsword sliced through the air and collided with the sword of the opposing warrior player . He literally split apart the sword and the other warrior .
This was a sword energy created with his 1,500 points in strength and various skills . The power was similar to the strike from a large boss monster . In other words, the opposing warrior swung his sword without using any skills and collided with the club wielded by the Snow Giant Captain . It wasn’t strange that such a result would come out . That was the difference between a straight punch and a jab roughly thrown at the opponent . However, this was Hyeonu’s idea .
So, it wasn’t the same for the warrior who was logged out without knowing anything and the four players staring in shock . From their perspective, their warrior swung his sword . There was a blue light, and their warrior was sliced apart .
“What?!!!”
“Rin, what is that?”
“He died in one blow?”
Rin was astonished . Something unbelievable had happened . Chen was one of the top five warrior players in the guild . That’s why he and his team came to the Hejin Mountains first . Yet Chen was cut and logged out with a single blow .
“Attack together . Don’t separate,” Rin ordered .
Attacking together was something that was done when they feared the result . However, Hyeonu had chosen this place as the battlefield for a reason . Trees rose high everywhere, and there was a huge cliff behind Hyeonu . In other words, if they wanted to attack Hyeonu, they had to rush forward . It was impossible for an assassin to go from the side or behind without being seen by Hyeonu .
Rin didn’t say anything else and just used buffs, “Strength, Haste . ”
They weren’t as strong as a priest’s buffs, but a magician’s buffs were still useful .
‘Isn’t that a skill?’
“It is clear that he used a skill to kill Chen . Based on its power, the cooldown must be a long time!” Jiang, one of the remaining three warrior players, cried out .
Then he immediately rushed toward Hyeonu . Xiao and Wei followed respectively .
‘That’s it . It is clearly a skill . . . ’
Once he saw Hyeonu’s sword bounce off his own sword, Jiang thought that Chen had died because of a skill . These were his last thoughts as Hyeonu’s longsword cut Jiang’s throat . Hyeonu had deliberately thrown back his sword . He used the repulsion to swing more quickly, and Jiang couldn’t stop it . Xiao and Wei revised their strategy after seeing Jiang’s death .
“He is using magic power, and it will run out soon . ”
“Aim for that . Let’s buy time . "
Then a small fireball flew from behind . It was Rin’s magic . Hyeonu swung his longsword and cut the fireball . By injecting magic power into his longsword, he could smash the magician’s spell .
‘Ah, it was hard . ’
Nevertheless, it took a lot of effort . Magic itself was powerful . Moreover, most magic was accompanied by an abnormal status effect like being burned when hit by fire, frostbite when hit with ice, bleeding when hit with wind magic, and so on . It was a walking CC (crowd control) machine .
Hyeonu looked at the female magician and then stared at Tang-E, who was eating fruit while hiding in the distance .
‘Please understand . Please,’ Hyeonu prayed . ‘Please let that bear understand what I meant . ’
Hyeonu became frustrated when the experienced level 150 players aimed to fight defensively .
‘Are these guys twins? Their coordination is so good . ’
There was no gap he could squeeze into . The giant skills had already disappeared . He couldn’t overwhelm them in strength . The equal state of the battle was maintained due to various skills . However, they had reached level 150 for a reason and noticed that Hyeonu’s attack power had decreased .
“He has weakened . ”
“Then let’s go in . ”
They rushed forward simultaneously . From the left and right, they cornered Hyeonu like a ghost . Hyeonu hurriedly blocked them without thinking . He blocked the swords that repeatedly flew at his head and abdomen . At this moment, Hyeonu detected a surge of intense magic power in the distance . It was a blazing fire . This was the magic that Rin took a long time to cast .
Wei and Xiao realized that Rin’s magic was complete and did what they had to do . They used hidden CC skills . The two of them slammed on the ground at the same time . Then a hand appeared from the earth and grabbed Hyeonu’s feet . It was a skill they had saved for this moment . If there was a disadvantage with this skill, it was that it had to be used by two people at the same time in order to be triggered . Additionally, the casters couldn’t move while using this skill .
“What is this?!!” Hyeonu panicked . A hand had suddenly appeared and grabbed his feet, preventing him from moving . In this state, he had to face those flames . He was sure that he would be logged out in one blow after being hit by this magic .
[Player ‘Gang Hyeonu’ is in a ‘bound’ state . ]
At this moment, Rin’s magic was completed . “Take this, Alley Leader!”