I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 43

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 043

National Team Selection (5)

Now that the multi-player tournament was over, it was time for individual matches.

Unlike the world league that progresses through regular league play and finishes with a 16-team tournament at the end, the domestic competition was just a straight league format.

There were a total of 10 matches.

Victory earned 3 points, a draw earned 1 point, and defeat resulted in -1 point.

Usually, if no conclusion was reached within 10 minutes, it was considered a draw.

The top 10 players with the highest scores would be selected.

And.

This time, Baek Jin-woo used a different strategy.

He had Hunkyo take the lead while enduring, building up Ramba’s stacks on the invisible Doldoli.

Then what?

Once enough stacks accumulated, Doldoli would slash multiple times in an instant.

Do you know what happens then?

It looks like Hunkyo is using Doldoli’s skills.

– Ah! There’s no upset! Player Baek Jin-woo! Takes another victory!

– By the way, you couldn’t see it just now either, right?

– Yes, I could vaguely see something… But I can’t tell exactly what it was! As the caster thinks, could it be a hidden skill of the summoned creature called Training Instructor?

– Whatever it is, it’s incredible!

Doldoli has two skills.

[Possessed Skills]

– Assassination: Becomes invisible for a short time. Deals 100% critical damage on first attack.

– Whirlwind: Spins the reaper’s scythe in a circle to deal area damage.

Assassination, and Whirlwind.

Here’s where Doldoli becomes overpowered.

Doldoli’s basic attacks are essentially ‘Whirlwind’.

Zero skill cooldown, meaning it’s passive.

In other words?

The more basic attacks landed, the more splash damage is dealt continuously.

But what happens when Ramba’s stacks are added to that!

‘Just deletion.’

The moment Doldoli’s invisibility wears off.

Basic attacks are unleashed at light speed, and all of the opponent’s summoned creatures are deleted with instantaneous burst damage.

‘It’s not even properly equipped with runes yet.’

Still, it dealt enough damage to easily dispatch South Korean rankers.

– Player Baek Jin-woo’s performance is both clean and aggressive, isn’t it?

– He’s never gone over 1 minute! All 5 matches played so far have been complete victories, running tied for 1st place with 1st-ranked Kang Geon-ho.

– And now! He’s matched up against Kang Geon-ho!

– That’s right, this is exciting! A showdown between two championship candidates!

And finally.

A battle against Kang Geon-ho, who was ranked 1st.

Baek Jin-woo arrived at the waiting room and glanced at him.

‘This is the first time seeing him in person.’

Kang Geon-ho was the vice guild master of Baekhoe Guild.

He was in his early thirties.

[Please prepare for player battle.]

“Please take care of me.”

Kang Geon-ho offered a greeting first, and Baek Jin-woo didn’t refuse the courtesy.

“Yes, likewise.”

As the saying goes, manners make the man.

When the opponent showed manners, Baek Jin-woo showed manners too.

Both stepped onto the square marble platform and summoned their creatures.

Naturally, Doldoli was summoned in an invisible state.

[Are you ready?]

[Y/N]

When both sides pressed Y, the protective barrier spread wide in the middle would disappear.

Then they would fight until all five summoned creatures were reverse-summoned!

‘Hmm.’

Baek Jin-woo scanned Kang Geon-ho’s summoned creatures.

Two Baektoryongs, an Earth Fairy, a Horn Eagle, and even a Druid.

Usually rankers had wide summoned creature pools, so it was impossible to know which creatures they’d bring out each match.

They would bring out different ones depending on the opponent, and change runes too.

‘At least the composition is well put together.’

It was quite good.

The Earth Fairy boosted the elemental damage of the Baektoryongs who were damage dealers and tanks, while the Horn Eagle provided attack power buffs.

Plus the Druid as a healer for sustainability.

He couldn’t tell what the runes were like, but just looking at the composition, it was well-balanced.

If Baek Jin-woo didn’t have EX-grade summoned creatures, this might have been difficult at this stage?

‘But, well.’

Now he had EX-grade summoned creatures.

Four of them, no less.

“Yes.”

There was no need to inspect further.

He immediately pressed Y.

[3]

[2]

[1]

[Player battle begins!]

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

As soon as it started, Ramba began putting stacks on Doldoli.

Wooooong!

Pokryong began accumulating Pokryong waves.

Thwack!

Hunkyo stepped forward and raised his sword diagonally.

With the determination to block everything alone no matter who came!

Wind Falcon gave Hunkyo a movement speed buff.

Rumble rumble rumble…!

The opponent wasn’t sitting idle either.

The two Baektoryongs broke through the marble floor and went underground.

Simultaneously, buffs from the Earth Fairy and Horn Eagle were applied!

“Hunkyo, the strategy is the same.”

Guard the back line and endure for 1 minute.

To do that?

Swoosh!

Pure white energy covered the sword as Hunkyo raised it high into the sky.

Sword energy!

What makes Baektoryongs good in player battles is their ability to strike the back line from underground.

However, Hunkyo possessed memories from the past Battle of Summoners.

There, he had accumulated countless experiences alongside Jinugod.

Baektoryongs?

Just attack underground and it’s over.

– Hup!

Hunkyo exhaled sharply and brought down the sword he had raised.

Then sword energy split into two branches, piercing down like spears!

Kwagagagaga!

The sword energy struck precisely at the vital points of the two Baektoryongs underground with chilling accuracy.

– Kieeeeek!

– Kieeeeeeek!

Unable to endure the pain, they burst up from the ground.

As soon as they emerged, they shook off the dirt and thrashed about frantically.

“Wh-what.”

Kang Geon-ho, who was watching this scene, was flustered.

Directly hitting Baektoryongs that were underground?

He had never seen such an absurd summoned creature before.

‘Indeed.’

That summoned creature.

It was incredible.

How shocked he had been when he first saw the footage of its performance in the Multi-player Tournament.

The sight of it overwhelming Oh Sun-young, Oh Ji-myeong, and Park Ho-seop, who were all in the top 10 rankings, with just one summoned creature!

After seeing that, he never thought he could win from the start.

‘However.’

He wanted to do his best.

Setting aside his pride as the number 1 ranked player, it was simply his sincerity as a player.

“Druid!”

Whoooong!

When the summoned creature that looked like a primitive forest druid waved its staff, a cool breeze blew.

It was a skill called ‘Forest Healing,’ a wide-area healing spell.

Its characteristic was that it provided healing effect bonuses to summoned creatures with large bodies.

– Kieek!

– Kiaaaaaaa!

The two Baektoryongs that had recovered roared toward Hunkyo in anger, but.

– ….

Hunkyo simply stood there peacefully holding his sword.

There was no need to attack first.

He only needed to hold out for exactly 1 minute.

Thanks to Ramba with her world-class graduation runes, Doldol’s stacks would accumulate to an absurd degree in just 1 minute.

And.

‘There’s no time.’

Kang Geon-ho also knew this fact.

Before the match started, Baekhoe Guild’s manager had quickly shown him Baek Jin-woo’s battle records.

‘Some strange attack will come out soon. I need to finish this before then….’

How?

There was no way.

Looking at Hunkyo holding his sword before him made his breath catch.

‘An iron fortress.’

He felt an unbreakable solidity from his opponent that seemed impervious to any attack.

But he couldn’t just stand there dazed!

“Charge!”

Kwagagagagaga!

At Kang Geon-ho’s gritted command, both Baektoryongs rushed at Hunkyo simultaneously.

However.

Tat!

With light footwork, Hunkyo leaped into the air and ran along the Baektoryongs’ hide.

– Kieeeeeeek!

The two Baektoryongs twisted their bodies and scratched each other trying to catch Hunkyo, but.

Tadatat!

Their heavy bodies were nowhere near fast enough to catch up with Hunkyo’s speed-buffed footwork.

And.

‘1 minute has passed.’

Baek Jin-woo glanced at the invisible Doldol.

– Kreuk…!

The Gale Slayer had already moved to the center of the field!

Along with the chilling grin of the reaper slowly rising.

Whirik!

The scythe spun once.

Whiririk!

It spun twice, three times, four times.

The time taken was about 1 second.

But during that time, Kang Geon-ho’s summoned creatures’ HP was being shredded rapidly.

It was absurdly and ridiculously fast.

– Just now! What was that just now!

– Didn’t you see something black?!

The commentators tried their best, but they couldn’t see more details.

Doldol, having slaughtered all enemies, had gone back into stealth invisibility.

Even if they looked, they would only see a brief glimpse of a black mass holding a scythe.

[All summoned creatures of Player ‘Kang Geon-ho’ have been reverse-summoned.]

[Player battle ends.]

Baek Jin-woo’s clean overwhelming victory!

There was no upset even in the match against the domestic ranking number 1.

At that moment.

Yu Ji-a’s expression was literally ecstatic.

It was like the expression of Mourinho, the Manchester United manager after a comeback victory.

‘As expected, Jinugod. There’s no need to doubt anymore. Jin-woo is that legendary Jinugod!’

If not him, who else could show such performance?

Instant killing three rankers in the Multi-player Tournament!

Continuing clean winning streaks against any player in individual matches.

Even Kang Geon-ho, the domestic ranking number 1, had knelt before him.

‘How is this possible?’

Yu Ji-a still couldn’t believe it.

No matter how much of a Jinugod he was, he hadn’t been properly active for that long, so how could he show such power!

Kim Byeong-jin, Hwang Tae-seop, and Park Chang-seok beside her were busy hugging each other and jumping around every time Baek Jin-woo won.

Especially Park Chang-seok.

He was rejoicing so much that his white teeth were completely visible.

Why wouldn’t he be?

Not only had he flattened the nose of Im Hee-su who usually looked down on him, but he had trampled on it.

It wasn’t just reaching the level of ranking in the top 10, but he was about to bring an overwhelming victory… and only 「Yubak」 could control such a person.

“Yu Ji-a! No, you’re the representative now! Representative Yu!”

Park Chang-seok, who had been jumping around excitedly, wiped his sweat and approached Yu Ji-a.

“Listening to you and bringing Baek Jin-woo to Yubak seems like the best decision I’ve made in my life.”

“Hehe, your insight was correct, Assemblyman.”

“I told you. I may not know about other things, but I have an accurate eye for people. Kahahaha!”

“Now all that’s left is for you to rise to success as a congressman. Jin-woo competed under your card, after all. The people will recognize that.”

If that happened, it would be a win-win for both sides.

Yubak would continue supporting Park Chang-seok.

Park Chang-seok would support Yubak with the increased power of the headquarters.

From beginning to end.

Everything was flowing exactly as Yu Ji-a had planned.

– Player Baek Jin-woo! He’s just going absolutely wild! Seven consecutive wins! At this rate, it’ll be a perfect 10-game sweep, right?

– Of course. He’s the player who defeated Kang Geon-ho, the God of Fighting, in one minute. What more needs to be said?

Meanwhile, Baek Jin-woo continued his winning streak.

– He takes the eighth match too! It’s the exact same method as before!

– There’s absolutely no way to counter it! Baek Jin-woo! Baek Jin-woo is our hope!

“Ha, hahaha…”

Yu Ji-a laughed helplessly.

Jin-woo.

Just how much more are you planning to surprise us, and in what ways?

The ninth match, and even the final match.

Baek Jin-woo remained unshaken.

He finished them all in the same way, with the same method.

Overwhelmingly.

As if saying their level was only that much, he didn’t even change his approach.

– A perfect 10-0 record! Player Baek Jin-woo! He’s finally written himself into legend!

– With this, Baek Jin-woo wins! National Team selection! And he becomes the captain too!

– Hahaha, with this level of skill… We can look forward to this World League too, right? At the very least, he’s confirmed as next year’s ranker!

Listening to the excited voices of the commentators, Yu Ji-a closed her eyes.

‘I found him.’

She felt it instinctively.

Just like her grandfather had, she had finally found the enterprise she would dedicate her entire life to building.

Yubak.

Supporting Baek Jin-woo was patriotic and the shortcut to success.

Above all, it was fun.

After the clean victory.

Yu Ji-a smiled warmly as she watched Baek Jin-woo emerge with a calm expression.

Then she made a resolution.

Just as she had until now, she would continue to support him with all her might going forward.

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