Chapter 73
3.
Whether in the game or in real life, abnormal status debuffs are very annoying traps for users.
Doesn’t die.
In a way, it’s like a cold.
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Just as no one thinks that they have a fatal disease just because they catch a cold, no user makes a fuss about dying just because they have a slight abnormal condition.
But getting a cold in the field is more dangerous than you think.
because there is no medicine
Unlike in reality, where you can go to a nearby pharmacy and take only popular cold medicine, you have to find a healer that is hard to find in the field.
Not just a healer.
A healer with a healing skill that can recover from status ailments.
Insignificant abnormal status effects, like a cold, if left alone can eat away at the user’s body and take the user’s life.
“eww. It keeps running out of vitality.”
“Me too, please.”
Especially during battle, it’s like a parasite that eats up your stamina faster.
State abnormalities are the first priority to be resolved.
In that sense, the Hyeseong Lee raid was a raid that was thoroughly prepared for the changes in the land of plague.
Because more than 10% of the 50 users, 6 to be exact, were healers, and all of them had recovery skills that could heal even D-level abnormal conditions.
Line up in turn to recover debuffs.
It was embarrassing, but it’s hard to see this as an increase in difficulty.
“Did the phase of the field itself go over just because you caught the mid-boss?”
“I can’t guess the special field.”
“Still, I’m glad I ended up betting once.”
“I don’t know yet.”
The [Poisoning] debuff was applied just because it was on the field.
I solved it right now since I’m at the base, but if I was in battle, damage might have occurred.
For some reason, healers seem precious.
Yoo Ju-yeon also took out [Light of Recovery] after a long time.
“I didn’t even shave the boss’s blood here, so it’s like this.”
In terms of Sky Island, it is a phenomenon in which Cainel’s wings are blackened and the field itself is strengthened.
Monsters are getting stronger. You can press them with greater force, but if you run shackles that are directly applied to the user before the battle with the field boss in this way, it may be more annoying than you think.
Besides, this is just the beginning.
There is no guarantee that there is only one centurion, Barten.
The schedule to immediately go back to find the field boss was delayed for a while.
Because I had to check unexpected variables.
Most wanted it to be a one-time debuff, but unfortunately it wasn’t.
[Poison (E) effect is applied.]
“Once an hour… … .”
Exactly 60 minutes.
The debuff came along with the hologram.
It’s not terribly burdensome.
Healers have enough mana to dispel raid members’ debuffs.
The problem comes when it comes during a battle.
“I will quickly find the field boss.”
Everyone thought it wouldn’t be bad to catch a mid-boss like Barten along the way.
The boss item drop is also a drop, but it gave a lot of experience.
However, if you take one in this way, if you return one, you may end up taking the cow and missing the stand.
It was the beginning of a time attack.
* * *
The Chinese players were actively roaming the land of plague.
“Find it.”
Their target wasn’t the field boss.
“We need to find the general manager’s treasure.”
Lin Xiaoling.
China Radar Guild Beijing Area General Manager.
In fact, China’s highest authority on radar.
I received an order and entered the special field.
To find and kill the robed Pycopaths and retrieve their treasure.
The first time you encountered it, you could have killed it right away, but it is also important to solve this goal neatly and without noise.
The more people know about the existence of the treasure, the more annoying it will become.
And on Russian soil, an incident before entering the field could block the way back.
You can’t just do good for Russia by killing yourself.
I went into the field and waited, but even if I entered the same entrance, I couldn’t see the location where I fell.
After diligently wandering around, I encountered only a lot of monsters, and more than 100 people were being eaten little by little.
Then I see a hologram.
Chinese users also found something.
“That… … .”
It was like a ghost with a huge scythe.
A body floating in the air.
It looked like it was three times the size of a human, but it was covered in a robe so you couldn’t see inside.
At first glance, it looks like a grim reaper carrying only a scythe in his robe.
The problem isn’t just that ghost.
“behind… … .”
Hundreds of ghost-type monsters that seemed to have lost their souls were also following them.
It might be similar to the undead we’ve seen in the Land of Plague so far, but the burden felt by the users facing it was much greater.
“Wizards! Deal with the ghosts first!”
Those types of monsters are mostly immune to physical attacks.
It wasn’t necessarily magic, but it required a skill with mana, so users had no choice but to spend more.
Skills, including magic, poured into the ghosts.
Although they seem to have a lot of numbers, they don’t look that strong.
Originally, ghost monsters are like that.
Not hard, not strong.
But the Plaguelands ghosts were different.
Goo-!
Let the robed ghost standing in the lead swing a scythe.
“… … !”
The transparent membrane slammed and bounced off all the flying magic.
at the same time.
Kyaaa!
An ear-piercing high-pitched scream hits the battlefield.
“Quaaa!”
“what!”
“My ears!”
Users were confused by the sudden noise hitting their ears.
But the real confusion came next.
“what. what’s the matter? Wake!”
One out of 100.
The user suddenly lost his mind and his body drooped.
He did not fall down, but watched his body stretched out on the spot, and the surrounding users grabbed him to take care of him.
“uh?”
“Don’t move. I must have stiffened up.”
His stiff body did not move even when several players attached to him.
“Where have you been?”
In the meantime, the ghost with the scythe disappeared before I knew it.
“omg!”
It appeared in front of the user with a limp body and exhaled a black aura.
The scythe he raised was full of ominous energy.
Anyone can see that he was holding a posture as if he were going to cut down the sagging user.
“sh*t! Stop it!”
“Quickly evade!”
I tried to attack the ghost, but the transparent membrane around the ghost deflected most of the attacks.
Tankers stood between the sagging users and ghosts and raised their shields.
If you can’t give up on the user or attack the ghost, it’s best to block it.
Fortunately, the scythe was not swung right away.
30 seconds.
During the battle, the ghost that waited for a very long time as if being considerate of the users finally brandished the scythe.
Chinese users prepared the following.
After slashing the scythe, it was the turn of the Chinese players.
I don’t know why they watch it for such a long time, but there’s a loophole after an attack that big.
A huge scythe collides with the shield.
The shield will block the scythe.
Because it was a defense that the tanks did their best.
Kwajik!
The wings of imagination were broken at the sight of the scythe slashing past, with the shield crushed as it was.
The mighty scythe tore through everything in its path.
Not even Ben.
The crude scythe, which had not even been sharpened, tore through everything, be it a shield or a person, and splattered blood.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Only an eerie silence lingered.
More than eight users were put in to protect one user.
Even the users who were halfway nearby were killed with a single scythe.
Go-oh-!
It wasn’t even over.
The blood that was cut by the scythe and scattered in all directions is absorbed into the ghost as if being sucked in.
At the same time, another deafening scream spread across the battlefield.
Kyaaa-!
Another user’s body drooped.
And the ghost appeared in front of the user as if teleporting.
Chinese users felt it instinctively.
“Field Boss… … !”
“Eh, run away!”
A powerful shield that cannot even hit the main body.
The scythe, which is swung with a single cry, cannot be blocked even if the tanks do their best.
Many users have already died in several battles, but it was not as fatal as it is now.
Almost all of the tanks that needed to be blocked were killed in one hit, so it was hard to catch them with the remaining players.
Even the leader of the raid has already been cut by the scythe.
The rest of the users started to scatter in all directions, leaving the users who were drooping.
Other ghost monsters followed suit.
The scythe is wielded like that or not.
The sagging user was cut by the scythe without being able to resist.
Go-oh-!
The ghost that absorbed blood once again shouted once more.
Kyaaa-!
hell.
nightmare.
The nightmare that befell Chinese users continued until all Chinese users died.
A land so quiet.
Dark auras scattered around the ghost holding the scythe.
Then, the dead users began to stand up one by one.
oh oh oh oh-!
The ghost moved, looking somewhere.
* * *
This time, while walking around the field as a group, a hologram appeared.
[The centurion’s resentment melts away.]
[Step 2 plague permeates the plague land.]
“uh?”
It was a phenomenon that had already happened once, so I knew right away what had happened.
“who… … ?”
Someone caught a mid-boss monster.
The first thing that came to mind were Chinese users.
“Are those church people?”
Or Jinrikyo users.
Since there were only two groups of users, it must have been one of the two, but it was quite surprising news.
“How did you catch it?”
If it wasn’t for Yu Joo-yeon’s [Swordsman’s End], it’s a level of difficulty that might have taken a lot longer than expected and resulted in quite a few casualties.
It seemed new to me when I thought I had done it.
Whether it’s China or church people.
My curiosity was soon resolved.
“excuse me! There are users!”
because we met
A scene full of traces of battle.
Users dressed in pure white servants.
“and.”
It would be hard to believe if you hadn’t seen it.
It was hard to believe even when I saw it.
The users holding weapons that were all shining in pure white and the feast of holy power that seemed like light was pouring from the sky.
I got it right away.
They weren’t pseudo-groups who gathered just for one leader.
It was no different from a guild gathered under the name of a church.
There were even victims in the Lee Hye-sung raid, but everyone here was alive and collecting corpses.
“… … .”
The dead middle boss [Boro] was a giant spider.
It was quite stimulating to see him rummaging through a corpse covered in mucus pouring down from his thick torso.
And seeing Lee Hye-seong, he had a worried expression.
The conflict of those who have already tasted it.
The boss item may have fallen from that spider’s corpse.
is there a chance
will be calculating
Go-oh-!
That calculation never yielded an answer.
A ghost holding a scythe appeared with a ghastly sound.
[Plague Hybrid]
Because the field boss of the main quest Yu Ju-yeon was looking for appeared in front of her eyes.