71. Sword Master Allegro
Koreans stand out easily in the game. Of course, this is used as an element of bragging or national features, but if you look closely at the reason why Koreans stand out in the game, there is a pretty sad reason.
‘Hyper-competitive society’, ‘extreme efficiency’, ‘playing in rank’.
If users in other countries think of games as a place of sports and harmony, Korean users think of games as a place of competition and struggle. In order to become even 1g stronger than others, they invest hundreds of millions of won and compete infinitely. It’s a bit sad reason to get stronger faster and get an edge over your opponent.
For that reason, Korean games are famous for being intuitive.
Rather than making them look around and enjoy it, it shows only one way to get stronger quickly. In the end, it makes you pour money, gives you a catharsis of strength, and then gives you a thirst for even more terrible strength again.
In that sense, Heaven’s Gate, which created Seion, also received a lot of criticism in the beginning.
After making a masterpiece game that will leave a name in the century, it seemed to be walking the same path as the gambling game of the past. To acquire skills and items, it makes them spend hundreds or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
It’s a dirty expensive subject and the odds seem like a beggar, but ironically, that stimulated people’s desire even more and made them fall into the lottery.
‘A masterpiece that will dominate the world game market for at least 10 years.’
Trying to become stronger than others in a game where success is guaranteed is like a phenomenon in which people flocked to gold mines in the Wild West era. You can preoccupy what will become money by becoming stronger faster.
Seion was like El Dorado for those who literally make a living from games.
But… … .
Now that the game has passed for half a year, that image has been diluted a lot.
There is an item draw, but in reality there are separate items that can only be obtained through hunting. The same goes for skill. Even if it’s not a draw, you can naturally get a rare grade skill by doing a quest and enjoying the game, and if you’re lucky, you can get a legendary skill for free.
It was difficult to get a job, but rather, this was a point where small or no-pay users could surpass nuclear users. No matter how much money you invest, you can only get a job through quests, and even if you get a job by spending money, you can’t keep your job unless you have the right skills.
What are the achievements like? Some specific achievements were monopolized by the frontrunners, but new achievements appeared and disappeared one after another whenever a new history was written due to interactions between NPCs at a small scale, territory to territory, and furthermore, conflicts between nations and tribes. It was Seion.
Although there were skills and items with absolute power such as legendary or mythical grades within the draw system, it was a kind of lottery-like concept. As you enjoy the game, dozens of draw tickets will drop as rewards.
And if you’re lucky, you’ll get a Legendary or Mythic rank, and even if you don’t have it, it won’t interfere with normal gameplay. Of course, it is a story of another dimension for those who want to go beyond the ordinary, but Seion does not force it. It’s just a matter of choice… … .
As if laughing at gambling games that pretended to be lottery in the past, Seion spoke to numerous users through the enormous scale of the quest.
[Solve the quest. Seion is a game where equal possibilities are open to everyone. Feel the sense of accomplishment as you solve the puzzles. If you solve more difficult quests based on that, you will be able to see that you have become stronger before you know it.]
It made more people immersed in the game.
But… … .
“Heaven’s Gate didn’t tell you something.”
I completely forgot that the quest was never easy. Even though it was a quest that was created naturally in the first place, I didn’t know that there would be a quest without a real answer.
When I first heard the news of the elf named Seriel, I didn’t think much of it. It just makes the quest a bit more advanced. degree? I didn’t think Epic Quest would break easily anyway. As a result of searching on YouTube, the Epic Quest took at least one month and the longest took several months. However, as soon as one of the high elves, who seemed to not attend the elders’ meeting, looked at me and said something like ‘Oh, he’s a good guy’, a strange quest suddenly popped up.
The high elf grabbed me and dragged me into a strange room. And so far it is like this.
[Hidden Quest] [Recognize from Sword Master Elegro.]
-compensation: ???
“… … .”
“How long should I do it?”
“Until I’m no longer funny.”
“Fuck… … .”
This elf makes curses come out through training.
High Elf… Seion’s high elf means a kind of elven nobility. It is said that they live longer and are stronger because they have a peculiarity that is not simply high in status and status, but inherited through lineage. Of course, if you live for a long time in a game that has been open for more than half a year, you will ask how long you will live, but as far as I know, Seion’s World certainly has that much history.
It was a technique called ‘time jump’, which used a near-perfect super quantum computer to make time flow quickly in the world. At the time of the announcement in Heaven’s Gate, the history inside Seion was a whopping 100,000 years, and NPCs and monsters within Seion made a history of 100,000 years through their own AI.
Users are just strangers who intervened in Seion after 100,000 years, and the huge history they created rules the world like an immutable law. That’s why Seion doesn’t have a main scenario, and that’s why even though there isn’t a main scenario, an infinite number of main scenario-level stories are created.
And what kind of existence is the famous high elf, the oldest in Seion? It’s my very subjective opinion, but the high elves were crazy. No, why is one of the less than five sword masters in Seion such a crazy old man!
[Boss] [Allegro] [???Level]
“Take it.”
Chae chae chae chae chae chae!
“Huh!”
I gave up early on counting how many times I was stabbed. You can’t understand it with your head. You just have to respond with pure reflexes. In an instant, I raised my concentration to the limit and dodged the lofty tree branches wielded by this crazy old high elf.
“You dodge well.”
“Khuhu… … .”
Did you avoid this well? Smoke rises from three holes in each shoulder. Originally, it would have been right to block it with a mud shield, but the skill itself was being nullified in this space.
[Skill cannot be used.]
I want to say something nonsense, but the skill did not manifest in this space.
This is the power of that crazy high elf old man.
“I’ve said it a few times, but stop doing useless things.”
Shu Shu Shu Shoot!
Tree branches flying again! It seems to be avoiding with only pure stats without skills, but no matter how much I accumulated stats through achievements, this is really unreasonable. It wasn’t just fast. It flies away with all the defenses I can avoid, but I really just have to avoid it purely physically.
Tarak!
Kick off the floor and throw your body backwards. If it’s a normal attack, I can avoid it with just this, but this is just a means to increase my reaction time by even 0.01 seconds. He raised his extreme concentration once again and cut off the branch.
Papa papapat! Pot Pot! Flaw!
“Kuk!”
As the twig stuck in his abdomen twirled and stabbed his wound, his vitality began to drain. He would ask if he could prune the branches, but he had already done that. The result is a tree branch that gently catches the sword, deflects it, and then picks up the wound again.
I didn’t understand at first, but I knew it when I saw the wounds on my body. Those casual branches had a terrifying twist. In reality, the branch is not rotating, but something is rotating.
“You have a lot on your mind.”
It looks like I’ll be dead soon
“Yes?”
Papapak!
I swung my sword, ignoring the tree branch digging into my chest. It’s a stupid thing to give bones and cut flesh, but this is my only option right now.
He falls backwards, causing an afterimage, and the tree branch beats me mercilessly. I continued ignoring the attack and thrust my sword at him.
“Ohh!”
The body that stabbed me became a remnant and scattered, but I continued to stab the sword out of pure will.
Put your will on your sword to pierce your opponent with all your might! This is one of the things I learned from this old man in a month.
Ting!
“This one is pretty good.”
After lightly removing my sword with all his strength, he lightly stepped back and said, I can see the corner of the mouth of the old man with long ears peculiar to elves going up. An expression as if looking at a playful grandson… … .
“Pass.”
“under… … .”
I was really flustered at first. For the first time since Seion started, I felt a sense of helplessness.
I have experienced users and monsters who are much faster and stronger than me. But they thought they would be able to surpass it one day. If your equipment gets better, your level builds up, and your skills increase, you will be able to win someday. However, this high elf named Elegro was literally a wall.
Although it can’t be said that he was doing his best because he couldn’t use skills, Elegro was the same for not using skills. And now, after a month of arguing with Elegro, I have a clear understanding of what it means to be a sword master.
‘The ultimate class.’
It is known that it exists, but exactly what kind of ability it has is shrouded in a veil, and only a few of the NPCs have reached the extreme level of sword masters. Literally, it means the owner of the sword, but they didn’t use their own aura to slice everything like it was expressed in novels or other games.
It’s just that the realm itself is a different dimension.
“I really liked the pace this time. Expect to do better next time.”
“… … .”
I just said my own words and turned around and glared at his back, but when he disappeared behind the door, I sat down on the floor. That damn high elf imprisoned me. I was imprisoned by an NPC in a game I was trying to enjoy. It’s not enough to call the GM right away, but… … .
“shit… … .”
I can’t because I have something to gain.
[Your strength has risen by +1 through the battle with the irresistible being.]
It was the reason I obediently obeyed Allegro while I was in captivity for a month. It is a system called Hidden Peace, in which only those who have it are secretly shared, which is never disclosed to the public.
“A really crazy game… … .”
Every time you risk your life against the Sword Master, your stats increase. I don’t know how long the fight with that crazy high elf will be given, but it seems like it will continue until the quest is over.
“I should rest first.”
I walked to the center of the wooden hall that had been my haven for a month and a fierce battle field.
In the middle of this place, there was a small tree with delicious fruits, and the curious thing was that if you eat this fruit, the character’s wounds will heal as if they were washed.
[The Fruit of the World Tree (Duplicate)]
-Instant health recovery +100% [Lesser Heal] [00:00:59]
It is a great buff food that recovers all health and minor wounds for 1 minute.
“It’s not a room of time and spirit… … .”
After confirming that the wound had healed, I lay down on the floor. My head is pounding. Even using the latest 5th generation capsule, this level of side effects… … . If that crazy elf had pushed me further, I would have been forced to log out.
To be honest, I want to log out and take a break, but I can’t.
Slurreung… … .
I drew my sword while lying down and gently stretched it toward the ceiling. Maybe it was because I was tired of watching it for a month, but I gradually got used to the movements of that Allegro. And I think I can follow.
hiss… hiss… … .
Imagining the tree branch he was wielding, I move the sword.
‘It’s not just fast, it’s a powerful sword that can’t be beaten… … .’
Two clues have been obtained so far. It’s willpower and rotation.
Hiss! Hiss!
I thrust my sword into the air and gritted my teeth. He said that one day he would definitely hear the sound of music coming out of that crazy old man’s mouth. And on that day, you have to grit your teeth and practice.