Chapter 278. < Episode 89. Solo Tour (2). >
4.
You can often see those categories.
Hey, what’s so hard about that?
God Wars’ desert crossing was the same.
Some of those who have heard that the desert crossing is very difficult, what’s the difficulty? I used to say that.
Of course, such anti-questions disappeared after fighting even once in the desert, not even across the desert.
That it’s harder than you think.
There were two factors that made the desert crossing so difficult.
One was the characteristics of the desert environment.
“Do you see anything?”
“Can you see?”
Apart from the sandy field where one’s feet sink in, it was very difficult to reach a destination and move on the desert stage.
“Rather than that, are we going right? You said you had to go straight?”
There was even no night in God Wars.
It means that it is almost impossible to stubbornly move in one direction using the stars as a guide.
“How about a water beetle?”
“Not moving yet.”
So, the item needed was a water beetle compass.
water beetle.
As the name suggests, this guy, the size of an adult man’s thumb, has the personality of moving in search of water.
A water beetle compass meant putting such a water beetle in a transparent case.
When the distance to the oasis was close enough, the water beetle in the case moved in that direction to determine the direction to the oasis.
“Oh, what game is this? I really don’t understand if you’re just playing a game or you’re being punished in hell.”
“It’s a real crap game.”
“Damn, I couldn’t even quit the game because I couldn’t stop playing until now…. .
Of course, these were just in-game settings, and the important thing for players was that until Oasis came within a certain range, it was practically a drifting road.
“As expected, I should have obtained the golden scarab even if it cost a lot of money.”
In fact, unlike the water beetle, there was a golden scarab that clearly indicated the location of the next oasis.
As the name suggests, the golden scarab is a creature that moves in the direction of gold, and its recognition range is incomparably wider than that of the water beetle.
It’s like a perfect compass.
In addition, these golden scarabs could be obtained as quest rewards obtained through NPCs in each oasis.
“I have to give the explorer guild some money, but with that money, I just buy soup and eat it.”
“What is soup? With the money you need to buy golden scarabs throughout the desert crossing, you can buy a soup restaurant, right?”
The problem is that the quest is virtually monopolized by the Explorers Guild.
In any case, this was the first factor hindering the desert crossing.
“I can’t see any more monsters than that.”
The second factor was, of course, the monsters that appeared.
Even so, it was not easy to find monsters in the desert.
“They are all hiding in the ground, so it would be strange to see them.”
for hiding in the sand.
“uh? Did the ground over there just go out?”
“Damn it, everyone get ready for battle!”
Therefore, fighting in the desert was always a surprise war, and it was forced to be in a position to be surprised.
“It’s a rock scorpion!”
“Three! Three!”
In particular, on the day when even a rock scorpion or a sand snake is encountered in the desert, even a moderate pro player party cannot guarantee life or death.
“Everyone watch out for game over!”
Moreover, in the event of a game over, the last place to respawn was the oasis you visited.
“If you get hit more here, you have to return!”
This means that if the power leak is severe, you may have to return to the oasis you recently left.
This was the reason crossing the desert was difficult.
Of course, players had to find their own way to suit such an environment.
The most used method among dogs was the minesweeper method.
A melee dealer with excellent mobility goes ahead and stimulates the monsters hiding like mines with his body and pulls them out of the sand.
“Now there is a miniature ringed monkey walking alone in the desert.”
It was for that reason that he walked alone in the desert in his miniaturized state of gold.
“It is very dangerous to go alone in a desert like this.”
Needless to say, the role was extremely dangerous.
No matter how mobile a melee dealer is, it is impossible to run freely on the sandy desert.
“Especially because you don’t know what’s in the desert sand. It’s like walking through a minefield.”
Above all, it was impossible to visually determine how many monsters were around.
There was also a case where the game was over without being able to properly escape while being surrounded by a group of monsters by mistake.
It has nothing to do with gold.
Of course, Midas didn’t make Gold do anything reckless, even knowing that.
There was a corner to believe.
“But there is nothing wrong with Gold. It’s because you’re wearing elf boots.”
Elf boots!
An item that leaves no footprints and makes the desert run like flat ground is covering Gold’s feet.
In fact, because of that option, the elf’s boots, which were only level 100 items, were traded at an extremely high price.
There were only a handful of items that were more helpful than those boots in the desert.
That’s why it was in miniaturization mode.
The merit of wearing those boots is much higher.
“Ah Gold seems to have found something.”
Anyway, thanks to the elf’s boots, Gold, who was able to display the best mobility he could even in the desert, did not hesitate.
Fuck!
Without hesitation, he passed over the desert, constantly pounding the sand with the knife in his hand.
Whoa!
Immediately, a pillar rose through the sand pile.
What appeared was a huge snake.
A huge snake with skin that looks like sand.
“A great guy has appeared!”
Sand Snake!
The most hated monster to face in the desert, along with the rock scorpion.
“Now, stop explaining the tour guide for a while and start hunting from now on.”
In particular, it was very difficult to hunt because it always buried half of its body in the sand, hiding in the sand or wandering around in the sand depending on the situation.
A fierce battle is bound to be predicted.
“Gold in!”
That’s why Midas immediately called Gold to his side after blowing a comment of understanding to the viewers.
In order to fight on a stage that they have made in advance.
“Yes Master!”
Char!
Midas quickly regrouped in front of Gold, who was running with the sand snake.
That was all he could do.
Fufufu!
A magic-throwing attack was virtually meaningless against a sand snake that burrowed into the sand and moved beneath it.
“As you know, ranged attacks are meaningless against monsters that move through the sand! It’s not easy to match, and it’s meaningless to match!”
Even if you throw powerful magic, it will only explode the moment it touches the pile of sand, and that kind of attack is difficult to properly damage.
This was one of the reasons the sand snake was difficult to deal with.
In the midst of chasing and being chased, damage dealing is very limited.
So, instead of wasting magic on meaningless attacks, Midas prepared for the sand snake to meet him.
“Stand in front of the Frost Golem!”
thud!
I put two frost golems in front of me like a wall.
“Waiting for the Spirit Warriors!”
And on top of those frost golems, four lower-level ice spirit warriors stood by, each holding their own weapon.
It wasn’t for damage dealing.
Applying the frost golem’s freezing status effect and the debuff effect of the weapons held by the spirit warriors.
“master!”
Eventually, the moment Gold passed the Frost Golem, sand gushed out in front of the Frost Golem.
Char!
The sand snake reappeared and threw its head at one of the frost golems.
Quaang!
As if a rock thrown from a catapult hit the wall, the sand snake’s headbutt shattered the frost golem’s body and fell to the ground.
cooong!
At the same time, the huge body of the Frost Golem fell backwards.
In the meantime, another frost golem held the sand snake tightly with its open arms.
[The movement of the sand snake slows down.]
Only then did the abnormal status effect activate.
Swoop!
While the sand snake slowed down, the spirit warriors riding on the body of the frost golem wound the body with their own weapons.
[The sand snake falls into a bleeding state.]
[The sand snake falls into a poisoned state.]
[The sand snake falls under Patu’s curse.]
The debuff effects from the Pato series entangled the whole body of the sand snake in an instant.
Quaang!
Nevertheless, the sand snake shook off the frost golem that was hugging it with just one struggle, and wrapped itself around the entire body of the frost golem at once.
Blasphemy!
The frost golem’s body, wrapped around the sand snake, let out a scream that seemed like it would break into pieces.
Perong!
At that time, the flying fireball made a large scar on the sand snake’s body at once.
Kwang!
Kwang!
Then, two gigantic beasts, Wolf Lucky and Hyena Silver, who were in gigantic mode, bit the body of the sand snake wrapped around the Frost Golem with their sharp teeth.
Kwang!
Lucky’s shadow also bit off the sand snake’s body.
Char!
The sand snake did not show any reaction to such an attack.
It was not easy to escape from being bitten by three beasts in a situation where the whole body was already wrapped around the Frost Golem.
“For the Master!”
At that time, Gold, who took a huge leap, used the Giantization skill in miniaturization mode, and Gold, who had a huge size, hit the huge ice block, a fragment of the Frost Golem, in his hand like a dunk on the sand snake’s head.
Quaang!
The block of ice shattered, and the light faded for a moment from the sand snake’s bloody eyes.
Perong!
At that moment, the bombardment of Midas finally began.
Perong!
Start with Fireball.
Whoa!
The fire spear that followed hit the golden target of the sand snake’s head repeatedly.
“Trident!”
What came after that was none other than the Trident!
That powerful ice spear was stuck in the sand snake’s head, which was now coming to its senses.
[The sand snake freezes.]
The sand snake that naturally froze as it was. Lucky and Silver began biting off such a sand snake mercilessly.
“You bastard!”
And Gold also struck the frozen Sand Snake’s body like a hammer with his fist.
[The Familiar casts a Fire Arrow.]
[The Familiar casts an Ice Arrow.]
Then, the two familiars continuously fired their magic arrows at the sand snake like machine guns.
[The sand snake freezes.]
And the moment the trident was inserted one more time, the sand snake was once again exposed to indiscriminate attacks.
Char!
Eventually, the sand snake regained its freedom, and it now threw away the frost golem’s body with all its might, making a quick escape.
Then I buried my head in the sand at once.
“Where are you running away!”
Then Midas shouted.
“Lucky life decision!”
K-King!
Soon after, the sand snake, which had buried itself in the sand due to a life-or-death decision, raised its head again.
Once more, Gold slammed his two fists down on the head of the guy who had pushed in like that.
Quaang!
And Midas also threw the ice spear he was holding in his hand once more.
Char!
[You have killed the sand snake.]
In the midst of the repeated attacks, the sand snake collapsed to the floor after dying.
Sand snakes are a good source of protein.”
Seeing that, Midas looked at the chat window after a short comment.
– Hey, BJ Grand Mage, is this the commentary you’ve been preparing for an hour?
Then Midas answered the question that came out.
“Yes, I had a hard time preparing commentary for the solo tour for an hour. Originally, I planned to fill the audio with a talk show with the participants during the tour. But I never thought this would happen… … .
The answer filled the chat window with laughter.
– I can’t believe that the time required is the time to edit the comment.
Could it be that the time he said he needed was because of the comment?
something unexpected.
– There are things in the world where you waste an hour like this meaninglessly.
– BJ Grand Mage, would it be better to just keep your mouth shut?
– Every time you comment, 10,000 viewers fly away?
And the remarks he had spent so much time preparing were also more lame than he could have imagined.
It was for that reason that the chat window was filled with a laugh.
– So you’re saying there aren’t any tactical changes?
– Are you going like this?
On the one hand, it also meant that there was no modification in the hunting method of BJ Archmage.
Some viewers expressed anxiety about that fact.
– Well, I think it’s possible as it is, but crossing doesn’t seem easy.
– All right. At this level, eating it raw is impossible.
Obviously, BJ Grand Mage’s fighting ability was amazing.
For normal players, there are only a handful of parties that can hunt sand snakes so quickly and reliably against sand snakes that the party must be prepared to annihilate.
It was like proving his ability enough to cross the desert alone.
– At this speed, it would take a month to cross the desert?
– I’m going to take a little break.
However, it is not the overwhelming thing expected from BJ Grand Mage.
Midas responded to the viewers’ reaction.
“No, you just need to catch it this well. If you overwhelm it, this game is strange. isn’t it?”
A very fair word.
– I can’t argue with this.
– Well, if it’s stronger than this, that would be even more ridiculous.
Because of this, viewers could not refute Midas’ remarks.
Honestly, isn’t it common sense to be able to do more than this?
Of course, all of this was Midas’ preparation.
‘Okay, I’m in a good mood.’
It is Midas who wanted a solo tour from the beginning.
There is no way he could have had such confidence just by looking at him now.
‘I showed a weaker side… … .’
Now it was just taking a break.
‘It brings out the meteorite’s power at a crucial moment.’
Falling Star So that the world can be even more surprised by its powerful ability.
“Okay then, let’s keep going like this. Oh, you don’t like commentary? Shall we go to the song then? I’m accepting song requests!
So Midas started touring again.
[Azmo sponsored $10,145.]
[Azmo: Just explain. Please.]
With an hour-long commentary.
5.
– Rock Scorpion A very scary monster. But now it’s my item source.
Emma’s eyes narrowed as she watched BJ Grand Mage’s live broadcast.
She was surprised when BJ Grand Mage said that he would start his solo tour after finishing all the preparations in an hour.
‘As expected.’
But then she thought.
‘There was no visible spec-up or tactical change for an hour.’
Even if you are a BJ master mage, it is impossible to change something drastically in an hour.
‘Even given a day, it’s impossible.’
Even if more time was given, it would have been impossible.
If there was something that could change the situation in just a day or two, I would have prepared it in advance.
‘Then it’s better to move than to procrastinate.’
If I couldn’t do anything extra, it could have been better to just move than waste my time.
‘Be wise.’
From the perspective of Emma, the choice of BJ Grand Mage was a very rational and reasonable outcome rather than unconventional.
‘But that’s all in the end.’
In other words, this was all that the current BJ great mage could show.
– It will take about 9 minutes to hunt three rock scorpions.
After hearing BJ Grand Mage’s comment, Emma turned her head and looked at the other monitor.
Then, a chat came up on the monitor.
[Hunted snake: Hunting snakes waiting.]
[Hunted snake: Prepare three venomous swords of the desert king]
The poisonous sword of the desert king.
One of the Desert King’s weapons, it was a powerful item that inflicted extreme poison damage.
It was a very useful weapon in the desert.
‘If I go to a long battle, I can give enough damage.’
Because there was no weapon like this to reduce the metallurgy metallurgical power in a hit-and-run way.
How much more so, not one poisoned sword, but three?
It means that what can be done even if one is caught or two are caught.
It was a weapon of conversion prepared by the Hunting Snake Guild.
Of course, if the BJ Archmage was intact, it would be difficult to use the weapon properly.
However, BJ Grand Mage’s combat speed is within the range of common sense.
It was a situation where you could find enough gaps.
‘The location can also be determined in real time.’
Crucially, the Abyss Guild could find out the location of the BJ Archmage whenever it wanted, as well as reveal it to everyone.
‘Now the odds against BJ Grand Mage’s strength are over 70%.’
Before long, Emma, who finished her final calculations, tapped the keyboard as if she had made up her mind.
[Emma: The hunt begins.]
It was the moment the assassins moved.
