_ Volume 3 Episode 11
61. The first return. First wave (2)
“A duel?”
“It is a basic skill. Can you use it too?”
“It wasn’t in the skill list…
“There are a few skills that aren’t marked. A duel is one of them.”
“You know everything.”
Kang Jun-hyeok muttered with an admiring face. Taeyeon tilted her head
.
“What skill is it?”
“A skill that allows two people to face each other. No one can interfere except the quantum. It can be accepted only when the other side accepts it.”
Taesan pointed the tip of his sword at Junhyeok Kang.
“In other words, if you accept, we will have a fight between the two of us.”
“Uh…”
Junhyeok Kang withdrew with a confused face.
“Isn’t it pointless if I fight with my brother?”
The difference in stats between the two is too great. He would not be able to learn anything by fighting in the current state where he could not even follow Kang Tae-san’s movements.
“So there is a sentence at the end?”
Taesan said lightly.
“The duel takes place on a state of equality between the two sides. It’s a duel where all of the stats, attack power, and defense between each other are tailored to the opponent with low. You and I are equal in this fight.”
“What about your skills?”
“I won’t use the activated skill.”
It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty much the same. If there is anything else, it is experience and skill.
“You have no veto. receive.”
“What do you like?”
Kang Jun-hyeok accepted it with his eyes shining.
[The duel is established.]
[Kang Jun-hyeok and Kang Tae-san start a duel.]
“But can this die?”
“A normal duel would kill you, but this
is a conditional duel. Even if you run out of stamina, you won’t die.”
“That’s nice.”
Kang Jun-hyeok took out his sword while catching his breath. I fixed my posture and aimed at Taesan.
‘If the stats are the same, the odds are good enough.’
Taishan is strong like a monster. Not only did they have high stats and many skills, but they also had good sense and movement.
But that’s not bad either. No, you thought you were enough. As he broke through the labyrinth, his confidence grew stronger.
With this duel, he intended to prove to Taesan that he was not weak and that he was strong enough. Kang Jun-hyeok thought this was a kind of opportunity, and his thoughts were revealed in his expression.
Seeing Kang Jun-hyeok’s excited face, Tae-san laughed inwardly.
“I’ll go.”
Kang Jun-hyeok runs with a confident face while Lee Tae-yeon blankly watches. Quickly lower the sword.
It’s a pretty good move. At this level,
there would be little chance of losing to a player with similar stats.
Taesan moved his sword.
Kagak.
The sword tips collide. Taesan twists her wrist. Taesan’s sword gently scratches Kang Junhyeok’s blade and passes by.
A scar is drawn on Kang Jun-hyeok’s forearm.
[8 damage to Kang Jun-hyeok.]
“Huh?”
Kang Jun-hyeok hesitates. He looks down at my forearms. There are quite deep wounds
and blood is flowing.
“How are you?”
“Keep going.”
Taesan moved his sword. Kang Jun-hyeok, who had been absent-minded, hurriedly blocked it. Sword blades collide with each other.
Taesan pulls her wrist. The blade of the sword splits. As soon as it comes out to the end of the sword, stab it immediately.
hooked
Kang Jun-hyeok’s shoulder is stabbed.
“Are you not going to stop it?”
Taesan speaks languidly and moves his body
. Kang Jun-hyeok’s expression hardened. He gritted his teeth and awakened the senses of his whole body to defend himself.
Kagagak.
but can’t stop
Like a living creature, the sword ignores Kang Jun-hyeok’s defense and slices through it. In an instant, large and small scars form all over the body.
“What is it…
Kang Jun-hyeok couldn’t accept it.
Their stats are equal to each other. You can see that the first attack is blocked without a problem.
However, after that, the attack cannot be blocked at all.
Even if he concentrated his mind and tried to block it, the blade of the sword cut through his flesh before he knew it.
“Why is there such a difference…
“Because stats and skills aren’t everything.”
Taesan draws a diagonal line. Kang Jun-hyeok hurriedly blocks it. The moment the blades collide, Taesan lowers his stance and digs into Kang Junhyeok’s bottom.
As the body moves, the sword gently passes Kang Jun-hyeok’s sword and
cuts his thigh.
“You are weak.”
Kang Jun-hyeok gritted his teeth.
The moment he tries to kick Taesan, he steps on his knee to stop it. The moment he raises his arm to strike Taesan with Pommel, he seizes his wrist and subdues him. Walk your legs as it is and knock it down.
Taesan lowers his sword.
Quack.
He hit the ground right next to Kang Jun-hyeok’s face.
Taesan drew his sword and spoke lazily
.
“A method of targeting a momentary loophole in sense judgment ability. Depending on such physical factors, there is a big difference. You’re not weak, but I’m still lacking too much. Not enough to survive in Alone Mode. Besides, you haven’t even managed your stats properly yet, have you?”
They gained power outside of stats. He obtained the power to break the ground and explode the sea without training.
Since they did not make it their own through training, they
are inevitably immature in power transmission and movement.
He was able to perfectly control his body only through endless physical training, but Kang Jun-hyeok did not appear to have undergone any special training.
“But with just that, this difference…
“It’s not just like that. A very big difference.”
Taesan kicks Kang Junhyeok. He groans and grabs his stomach.
“It’s not over yet. wake up.”
Junhyeok Kang grabs the sword with a reddened face.
Thirty minutes later, Kang Jun-hyeok, who became a mop, collapses.
[Kang Tae-san’s victory.]
“You get a sense of it, right? What level are you?”
“yes. Damn it.”
Kang Jun-hyeok spat out in a limp voice.
Didn’t give me a single damage.
All of his attacks are blocked, and all of Taishan’s attacks are beaten.
My self-confidence was not destroyed, so I felt a sense of self-doubt.
“I’m not that great compared to the names in the labyrinth.”
Taesan’s victory over them was based on skill and information, but he could not press down with movement.
“Confidence is good. But keep that line. If you are now, you won’t even be able to pass the place where this guy is waiting, let alone the ordeal of Rakiratas on the 2nd floor.”
Seeing yourself objectively. It is necessary in order to survive.
Junhyeok Kang is finished. Taesan pointed at Lee Taeyeon. The woman who
had been watching blankly was startled.
” and.”
She approached, hesitantly, crying.
[Request for a duel. This duel takes place on an equal footing.]
[The duel starts.]
[Lee Tae-yeon and Kang Tae-san start the duel.]
“I don’t have to. I know enough that I am weak, so
I don’t think I will ever cross the line.”
“You have a problem with the other side. I am not too confident.”
Lee Tae-yeon and Kang Jun-hyeok had similar skills, but had opposite problems.
Taeyeon Lee is a coward.
That is an undeniable truth. Thanks to that, he survived to the end, but on the contrary, he threw away everything he could get enough of.
Her personality is suppressing her potential. Taesan readily approached and lowered his sword. Lee Tae-yeon
screams and blocks it.
“Respond.”
“Hey profit!”
Taesan’s sword moves her randomly to block it. It has a face that has no room at all, but its movement is efficient. If it was mixed with even the slightest agitation, it would have been pierced and beaten, but somehow it just got through.
Taesan instantly leans in and stretches out his hand. Lee Tae-yeon slashes her hands and punches with a scream-like spirit. Taesan grabs his wrist and throws it back as it is.
“Uak p
Looking at her scattered around, Taesan twitched her wrist.
“how is it?”
“…wow.”
Lee Tae-yeon staggers as she shakes off the dust. She looks down at my hand with a strange face.
She made moves that she herself couldn’t do.
“You are not as weak as you think.”
If I had really been a coward,
I wouldn’t have been able to clear it. She has the potential to become stronger than she was before.
“Of course, being confident is good, but don’t be too rude. If you feel like you can’t do it, you have to get out of it right away. There is no right answer.”
Taesan. Even he had no choice but to trust his senses because it was Alone mode to break through by betting on the odds.
What he taught me was how to increase the chance of survival and how to become strong.
After the rough teaching, Taesan started to share information.
“You guys still have no counters to bewitched, right? I couldn’t afford it until now, but I like learning now. If it is a skill that is used to the end depending on the utilization,
how to survive along with the skill. Teach basic information. It doesn’t tell you the perfect response, but it gives you basic hints. Kang Jun-hyeok and Lee Tae-yeon both listen with serious expressions.
“So far. You can tell the others.”
“…thank you.”
Kang Jun-hyeok expresses his gratitude with a serious face.
“I’ll listen to that after I survive to the end. You too, Lee Taeyeon. Do not die.”
Calm but sincere words.
Both look up at Mount Tai with slightly moved faces. Tae-san flinched.
“Why do you look like that?”
“No, it was warmer than I thought… I thought he was a very cold-hearted person.” “
Will
a cold-hearted guy give you all that information ?”
“haha.”
Junhyeok Kang scratched his head. It was not from information, but from his usual way of speaking or indifferent attitude.
And even Taesan wasn’t aware of that.
To him, they are all dead. And most of them will die.
No matter how hard he tries to save it, it doesn’t change. Players in Easy and Normal mode die only in the aftermath of the fight. It was an unconscious attitude to not
show emotion from the beginning .
Lee Taeyeon turned around.
“But what’s going on in there?”
Six hours have already passed. In the next six hours, the so-called wave will begin.
“I don’t know. You have to go, you know.”
Taesan woke up indifferently.
“Whoa.”
Kim Hwi-yeon wrapped her hair as if she had a headache. Depending on the importance of the role she played, she was even given a solitary confinement room, but she wanted to put it all down.
“I’m going crazy…”
“How is it?”
She hurriedly distanced herself at the sound of a voice behind her. She swallowed and laughed.
“When did you come in?”
“I like to close the windows. If your stats are high, you can just break through.”
Taishan was standing by the window, looking at her.
“okay.”
Hwiyeon murmured softly.
She was a bit awkward in Taesan.
He wasn’t hostile to her and I knew he wasn’t a bad person, but I was a little scared by his indifferent attitude and calmly killing people.
She hid her feelings and opened her mouth. That attitude
was visible in Taesan’s eyes, but he didn’t bother pointing it out.
“First of all, I’m going to divide and arrange them as much as I said they are coming in four directions. There were people who resisted and were angry about why I had to do that, but what can I do? In the end, it seems to follow.”
“Can I stop you from inside?”
“no.”
Hwiyeon shook her head.
“I think it would be best to block it from the outside, so I will leave before the quest begins.”
wave. I don’t know what it is, but just by looking at the language, it means that enemies are attacking
.
The city hall is too small for 100,000 people to move. Rather than that, I thought I would rather go outside and respond in a wide space.
And that was the correct answer. Whiyeon had been arranged in this way in previous worlds as well. Thanks to this, quite a few people were able to survive.
‘About 120,000 people survived.’
It was a good survival rate. Taesan opened his mouth.
“Leave one of them to me.”
” yes?”
“I will take care of it. Send those people somewhere else.”
“Uh uh… are you okay?”
“I’m saying it because it’s okay.”
Hwiyeon’s face was filled with complex emotions. She silently bowed her head.
“thank you. … thank you.”
“Let’s meet while alive.”
Time passed.
People waited without talking.
There were lip-biting and nail-biting. There were also luminous ones, but they were quickly overpowered.
Six hours passed like that.
Monsters appeared.
Watching them approach from the other side of the field of vision, Taesan grabbed the sword.
Level up with skill
