𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟕𝟐
After ending the connection, I was able to receive the modified helmet and the capsule parts I had given to Illia.
Although the experiment wasn’t over yet, it was also a sign for me to resolve the current situation first.
Of course, I had no intention of refusing, so after receiving the helmet and parts, I returned home with Yua and shared the stories we hadn’t been able to tell each other. Yua also told me her stories.
Thanks to that, although it might be my misconception, I felt like the bond between Yua and me had deepened.
Anyway, what I had to do next was obvious.
I returned home, attached the capsule parts, replaced the helmet, connected immediately, and once again massacred the hostile players. Then, as soon as I achieved a decent result, I repeated the process of retreating.
[The battle between Rudin and Jerak. But the only ones suffering are the guild members.]
[Is there a way to stop the rampaging Rudin?]
[The profits Rudin has gained so far are said to be in the hundreds of millions.]
In any case, due to repeatedly attacking and retreating for several days, the number of players I killed exceeded 1,000.
And during the time I was resting, the players seemed to have continuously equipped themselves, as every piece of equipment I obtained was of a decent level. Thanks to this, my bank started to fill up with various equipment.
Most of them were enhanced, and rare grades were not uncommon.
Perhaps if I sold them all, I might be able to touch hundreds of millions.
‘The problem is that Jerak guy.’
Jerak, the name of the Skeleton Dragon Summoner player.
Naturally, it was a name I’d never heard before.
Therefore, I couldn’t understand why he was targeting me, but having come this far, I concluded that it wasn’t important and started to think about how I could end this war.
Actually, I thought the war would end if I continued to eliminate players.
[May you find what you desire in the streets illuminated by Twilight……]
I expected the result to be players, fearing the death penalty, eventually leaving the guild or not logging in. And if that happened, I planned to use the reduced numbers as an opportunity to call in the Emperor Guild, but unfortunately, that didn’t happen.
Instead, they escaped to the dungeon owned by the Emperor Guild.
It seemed like their plan was to quickly contact someone and trap me inside if I followed them into the dungeon, but ironically, that’s why they couldn’t easily attack.
To put it bluntly, if they summoned a Skeleton Dragon to block the entrance, my vision would be blocked, and I wouldn’t be able to escape with Phantom Shift.
Then the only options were to either deal with the Skeleton Dragon or defeat Jerak, but that was inevitably difficult for me in my current state.
‘And that Aizen guy hasn’t contacted me.’
However, that didn’t mean I gave up.
I changed my plans and thoroughly searched the territory and the surroundings of the dungeon, eliminating any hostile players that appeared. And accordingly, I was gradually achieving my goals.
One way or another, the surest way to end this war is to eliminate Jerak.
And to eliminate Jerak, increasing my stats was essential.
Having reached that conclusion, I used as many skills as possible while dealing with hostile players, and as a result, I could tell that I wasn’t far off.
[S+ Rank Jayer’s Guardian Shield] (LV25+1)
[A Rank Giant’s Sprint] (LV28+1)
[S Rank Elsyke’s Phantom Shift] (LV28+1)
[S+ Rank Volcus’ Thunder Strike] (LV29+1)
‘If only these four skills reach the Transcendence stage……’
Wouldn’t I be able to stand a chance against him?
For reference, Thunder Strike had reached level 30 including the increased levels, but it hadn’t entered the Transcendence stage. This wasn’t strange, as the pure level had to reach 30 to enter the Transcendence stage.
In addition, there were changes in my stats due to this skill level increase.
[Name: Rudin]
[Title: Hero of the Present World]
[Level: 162]
[Fame: 6744]
[Guild: Emperor]
[Health: 68496/68496]
[Magic Power: 29052/29052]
[Stamina: 100.0%]
[Attack Power: 10301] [Magic Attack Power: 2979]
[Defense: 9382] [Magic Defense: 6167]
[Stats] (All +20%)
Strength: 4514 Intelligence: 2004 Agility: 2946
Stamina: 2896 Magic: 2181 Skill: 876
Fighting Spirit: 744 Summoning: 1466 Command: 660
Faith: 573 Luck: 637
[Elemental Attack Power: All Attributes (30%), Water (2%), Lightning (30%)]
[Elemental Resistance: All Attributes (18%), Wind (8%), Water (57%), Lightning (20%)]
[Acquired Skills: 20/20]
These are the stats I raised by purely massacring players without hunting a single monster.
Since most of the hostile players were higher or similar in level to me, my level also rose rapidly, but even looking at these stats now didn’t make me feel proud.
This is because it was still difficult to face that Jerak guy even with these stats.
Just yesterday, I thought I might have a chance to win if I attacked before he summoned the Skeleton Knights, so I challenged him, but even Jerak without his summoned beast was not an easy opponent.
Especially the Death Zone.
No matter what I did, I couldn’t recover, but he was recovering by using potions, so it was a fight that was obviously disadvantageous to me no matter how you looked at it.
So, what I thought of was to also reach the Transcendence stage with my skills.
When entering the Transcendence stage, specific abilities were added, so my current situation involved continuously connecting for days while reducing my sleep.
‘If things go well, I think I’ll reach the Transcendence stage with Thunder Strike within today.’
And this is something I heard from Sina, but dissatisfaction was also leaking from the Emperor Guild.
The reason was that there hadn’t been any significant progress even after several days.
Thinking about it, this was all because there hadn’t been any contact from Aizen, and I didn’t know what he was doing.
At least it would have been better if he had contacted me.
‘Anyway, I should start today as well.’
Since I wanted to resolve this on my own without necessarily waiting for Aizen’s help, I immediately moved to the Emperor territory and soon spotted hostile players in the distance.
“Jayer’s Guardian Shield.”
And after using various support skills including Guardian Shield, I finally used Phantom Shift and ran towards the player in stealth mode.
“Thunder Strike!”
Kwaaaang!!━
[Skill Damage! 57,659.]
[You have killed a player of the hostile force.]
[Reward Experience……]
“Huh?”
The player who died instantly and another player staring blankly at it.
Why is the reaction so slow?
Unlike other players who reacted immediately when attacked, the sight of them staring blankly bothered me, but my shield never stopped.
Kwaaaang!!━
[You have killed a player of the hostile force……]
‘Now then.’
Leaving a phantom here, I use a Return Scroll.
The destination is, of course, my house in the capital.
Since there were also hostile players in Hispeon, the capital of the Harpe Empire, I diverted their attention with the phantom and immediately ran to the central plaza, the resurrection point.
‘As expected.’
Apart from attacking the Guild Castle a few days ago, I had been searching for and killing Emperor Guild members throughout the Harpe Empire, so they had deployed personnel in the village as well, and that’s what I was aiming for.
“Blink.”
Pat!━
And I use as many skills as possible.
“Thunder Strike!”
Kwaaaang!!━
“Damn it, it’s Rudin!”
“Run away!”
According to my goal, I swept away the personnel waiting at the resurrection point with Thunder Strike along with Phantom Shift, and after clearing them all in less than a minute, I moved to a less populated area and then moved to the Guild Castle.
[Using Return Scroll.]
Naturally, since most of the Emperor Guild members died in the territory, the resurrection point was designated as the Guild Castle, so there were inevitably far more personnel deployed here than in the capital.
Moreover, since Jerak resided here permanently, staying for long was also dangerous.
‘No, maybe it doesn’t matter?’
The reason I didn’t die despite several confrontations with Jerak was because I could sufficiently escape.
Especially since the Guild Castle was a place where I could just escape through the entrance or the room I had just arrived in, I didn’t worry much and opened the door to go outside. As soon as I encountered a few hostile players in the hallway, I immediately rushed at them.
“Ugh! It’s Rudin!”
“Quickly go and tell them!”
After eliminating the flustered guys with Thunder Strike, I used Phantom Shift again to descend to the Guild Castle hall in stealth mode.
However, they were already moving busily, perhaps having received the message of death or a notification. After briefly observing the scene, I decided without hesitation to jump down to the guild hall and eliminate the nearest players.
Thud━
“Huh?”
“Thunder Strike!”
Kwaaaang!!━
“Throw it!”
The unfortunate thing is that this wasn’t the first time I attacked like this.
So, they were somewhat prepared, and one of their preparations was a bomb item that could inflict considerable damage on me.
“Blink.”
However, having already experienced the bomb before, I easily dodged it with Phantom Shift, but since many players were gathered, stealth didn’t work.
“He’s over there!”
“Catch him! Binding magic!”
“Giant’s Sprint!”
While their attention was drawn to my location, I ran with Giant’s Sprint.
Fortunately, I was faster, so I was able to collide with them before they could take any action. I bounced them in all directions and used Phantom Shift once again to increase the number of people to fight.
“His clones are increasing! Catch him quickly!”
“Phantom Destruction!”
“Light of Truth!”
As the phantoms increased, they used skills that could deal more damage to phantoms or clones, but I wasn’t worried.
The health of the phantom, which had the effect of level 29, was similar to my current health.
Surely they would deal a lot of damage with the skills they were currently using, but I believed it could endure sufficiently.
[An unknown energy is infiltrating your body.]
[1,200 health will be depleted every 5 seconds……]
‘He’s here.’
As expected, it was a quick appearance.
Turning my head, I could see Jerak, whom I had seen dozens of times in the past few days. As usual, he was wearing a mask, but I could feel his rage welling up.
“Rudiiiin!”
Where does he get off shouting like that?
Considering I was the one who was attacked, it was a situation where I should be the one shouting, so it was absurd that he was the one shouting first.
Well, it’s not like I don’t understand.
The number of players I’ve killed so far has exceeded 1,000, so even if he didn’t know, various stories must have been exchanged.
Moreover, since he could defeat me in a head-on fight, I thought it would be even more so, but I had no intention of considering that.
‘Should I summon Ust and rampage for a while before escaping?’
[Emperor Guild’s ‘ Aizen ‘ has invited you to the guild chat.]
‘Huh?’
While I was contemplating how to inflict more damage, I received an invitation message from Aizen, who had not been in contact until now.
What has he been doing until now to contact me just now……
“I’ll kill you!”
At that moment, Jerak showed himself summoning Skeleton Knights and even using attack magic.
It seems he wants to kill me by any means necessary.
I would love to rampage a little longer, but.
“Summon.”
[Summoning Ust, who swallowed the bitter cold.]
Curious about what Aizen had been doing all this time, I summoned Ust and immediately used Phantom Shift to go upstairs. Jerak, seeing me, immediately shouted.
“He’s going upstairs! Catch him!”
“Thunder Strike!”
Although there were players who had fled upstairs, there were hardly any among the existing players who could stop me, so I easily defeated them with Thunder Strike and entered my room, closing the door.
In the first place, this was the Guild Castle owned by the Emperor Guild, and since no one could enter if the door was closed, it was the safest place in a way.
‘By the way, since he contacted me, he must have brought a solution, right?’
With that thought, I accepted the guild chat invitation and was able to hear his voice after a long time.
━I apologize. Things didn’t go as planned, so I was late.
Things didn’t go as planned?
“What about now?”
━I’ve gathered people. But 1,000 is the limit.
“……”
I don’t know where or how he did it, but it was quite an ambiguous number.
Could we face him with that many people?
I felt that it would be manageable if Aizen helped as well, but it would be better to capture him for sure.
‘And for that……’
Feeling that capturing him was more important than killing him, I thought for a moment, and in the meantime, Aizen’s voice was heard once again.
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