The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 141

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Chapter 141

Episode 141.

[Logging out.]

[The video being recorded will be automatically saved.]

Whoosh-

Dohyun nodded at the welcoming voice that greeted him as he logged out.

‘The video was saved properly too.’

So this is why people use the auto-save function.

It was much more convenient since it saved automatically even if you clicked logout right away.

Just in case, he had started recording before entering the castle, but thinking about it now, he wondered if he should have started recording from the King’s Tomb.

But after thinking for a moment, there was nothing to regret.

‘No. It was a video I couldn’t upload anyway.’

Since it was obviously filled with content related to the main quest, it was still too early to upload.

He couldn’t even catch Arragini’s shell and it ended ambiguously.

Not to mention the Shadow Lycanthrope.

‘Maybe it’s because the previous video was so large in scale… it’s hard to produce a decent video.’

Human psychology is really like that.

Before, people would applaud even if he just caught an Orc Warrior of Death and uploaded it.

But now that he had shown them Gaemin the Destroyer and even the Abyss, wouldn’t they feel disappointed if he uploaded footage of catching a regular dungeon boss?

They might still watch it well, but Dohyun himself felt disappointed first.

“The sun is up.”

Dohyun glanced at the window and muttered as if it was fascinating.

It wasn’t night yet, and the clear sky caught his eye.

‘I think this is the first time I’ve logged out and it’s still afternoon…’

Maybe because he always came out after filling the full 10 hours, this scenery felt awkward.

Originally, Dohyun’s real-life day consisted of only morning and night.

There was a good reason why Hyuna clicked her tongue every day calling him a game addict.

Clink.

After drinking a glass of water, Dohyun turned on the computer and operated the mouse.

There was one reason he had logged out.

[Kaiser TV]

[Subscribers: 5.913 million]

“Wow… it’s really unstoppable. Keu, the view count also broke 20 million… Ah, this isn’t it.”

Dohyun, who had been clicking his tongue, came to his senses and left his channel page.

He had unconsciously checked it out of habit, but this wasn’t Dohyun’s real purpose.

[Outlaw Challenge]

-Views: 4.342 million

[Outlaw VS Ahdeo]

-Views: 173.518 million

[The Absolute of Sargis]

-Views: 32.141 million

…

The battle videos with the Outlaws.

‘Since there are plenty of videos, I should reference them.’

As they say, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

Until now, he either didn’t need information, or couldn’t reference it because the situation or enemy made it impossible to check information.

But the Outlaws of Sargis had plenty of information since there was once an Outlaw Challenge.

‘There’s only one chance, so I need to be careful.’

If this strategy fails, a massacre will occur in Sargis Castle.

That means the Outlaws will invade.

He needed to thoroughly investigate what the patterns were and what the strategy methods were.

‘Let me take a look.’

As he played the video, a night field with a full moon appeared.

There, 10 players were fighting while surrounded by countless Outlaws.

This was the characteristic of Outlaw raids.

‘Because of the Outlaw legion, they form at least 2 parties, and up to 3-4 parties at most.’

In severe cases, they even use up to 5 parties, but seeing 10 people proceeding with the strategy, they seemed quite confident in their skills.

Well, that made sense.

All the players’ equipment was glittering, and at a glance it looked like they were decked out in Hero-grade gear.

Considering this was a video from over a year ago, it was amazing, but actually it was natural.

‘Is that person Ahdeo?’

A video with over 170 million views.

It was the challenge video of Ahdeo, the master of The King, currently one of the top 10 guilds.

-Stop the outlaws! The boss is ours to deal with.

-Yes, sir!

The most glittering Paladin among them.

When he shouted with his 190cm height, Pacific Ocean-like shoulders, and visuals reminiscent of some hero movie captain, positions were instantly formed.

-Arthur! Arthur! Arthur! Arthur!

His name burst out from those surrounding in a circle watching the challenge.

When he raised his fist high, the cheers grew even louder.

[…No… Army…]

And the battle began.

Since it was Ahdeo and The King’s lieutenants, the early battle proceeded fairly smoothly.

Six people excellently blocked the Outlaws, and four people proceeded with the strategy against the leader without being pushed back.

-Haaat!

Whoosh-!

Among them, what caught the most attention was Ahdeo.

Fighting while flashing brilliant golden light, he was like a hero from a hero saga.

The atmosphere was even more so because his opponent was the leader of Ghost Soldiers.

[Those who… interfere… I will… kill…]

The Leader of the Outlaws making a chilling voice while his eyes flashed in the darkness.

And Ahdeo blocking him while emitting sacred light.

It was truly a battle between light and darkness.

Cheering voices were interspersed throughout the video at that spectacular battle.

‘He’s good?’

Was the talk about his unrivaled position at the time not just empty words?

His battle sense was superior to anyone he had faced while playing Godseeker.

It wasn’t the combat power that a typical level 49 could produce, and each lieutenant’s movements were all excellent.

Should I say they were making the best moves possible with that level of specs?

There was nothing else to criticize.

‘At this level, he would have been top-tier even in Demroc.’

Indeed, he wasn’t one of the pillars of the top 10 guilds for nothing.

But that was only for a moment.

The moment the Leader of the Outlaws took out something, the tense fight was overturned in an instant.

Hissss-

-Keurgh!

-Keuuuu…

A terrible chill rippled around the leader, soon covering a 20-meter radius.

Then the lieutenants who had been facing the Outlaws groaned and froze.

They stood there like idiots, as if their bodies were out of control.

But only one person.

-Hup!

Only Ahdeo’s body wasn’t frozen.

As if he alone was immune to CC effects.

‘Hero trait…’

It felt strange seeing a trait he used to favor in someone else, but he quickly accepted it.

One of the words that symbolized Ahdeo was hero.

The fact that he was one of the nine Hero trait holders was common knowledge even Dohyun, who had only started Godseeker a few days ago, knew.

Scrape, whoosh-

Thud!

Anyway, thanks to Ahdeo buying time, the Lieutenants also broke free from the ice and rejoined the battle…

But the crisis wasn’t over yet.

Urgh-

One of the Lieutenants who had been fighting well suddenly died.

He wasn’t the only one showing abnormal symptoms.

The Lieutenants’ skin was noticeably tinged purple, and they were staggering as if they might collapse at any moment.

-Huff, huff…

Ahdeo, being a Paladin, was relatively better off, but he was only slightly better than them.

A third of his once snow-white skin had turned purple.

Ahdeo, he was slowly dying.

And the shocking message floating before him.

[Hidden Field Boss, Leader of the Outlaws ‘???’s health has reached 50%.]

[Phase 2 is activating.]

[Requiem of the Underworld is activating.]

[Instant death upon contact with the requiem.]

-…What?

Right after that, pillars of darkness burst through the ground.

The pillars contained such vicious cold that it looked chilling even through the video.

And there wasn’t just one.

-What the fuck!

-God damn!

They randomly erupted within a radius of over 20 meters, exploding one after another like landmines.

The Lieutenants who had been barely holding on against the vicious cold died in an instant.

-Holy Shit!!!

-Oh, Fuck! Fuck!!

Even the Players who had been watching got caught up in it and met horrible deaths.

A scene that turned into hell in an instant.

[You have been exposed to unbearable energy of the underworld.]

[Divine power cannot repel the energy.]

[You will take damage per second until the owner of the energy dies, and the closer you are to the owner, the more amplified the damage becomes.]

[Health is below 10%.]

Crack-

Before Ahdeo, who had luckily avoided instant death, stood the Leader of the Outlaws who had approached at some point.

-Shit…

The screen turned black with Ahdeo’s helpless curse as his view rose, his neck apparently grabbed.

It was too futile a death for the master of the Top 10 Guild The King.

-Crazy… Is that scale for real.

-Wait, something like that exists in Sargis? For real, it wouldn’t be strange even in the Empire?

-At this level, didn’t they just make it not to be defeated;;;

-Wow, I drifted here through some unknown algorithm for the Outlaw challenge and this is insane ;;; Ahdeo got completely wrecked.

Naturally, the YouTube comments were in chaos too.

Even just looking at the Korean comments scattered among various foreign language comments, they were all filled with shock.

-Wow, what did I just watch.

-Damn, even after all that I could only take half his health lmaooooo the difficulty is absolutely insane lolololol

-What the hell, Arthur Gao was acting all tough but he was nothing special in the past tsk tsk

└?? What’s with this crazy bastard?

└Ahdeo’s 50% record is the highest challenge record. Know what you’re talking about.

└Even making it to 70% health got you VIP treatment for real. From 80% and below the freezing, poison damage, difficulty goes crazy, so making it to 50% is legendary.

└For real? That’s insane. No wonder it became famous for 0% success rate total wipe endings.

└So even Demroc and the Empress couldn’t get past 50%?

└Well. I don’t know. Seems like everyone stopped challenging after Ahdeo couldn’t even use his power.

They were right.

Just in case, he searched for more videos, but it was hard to find anyone who even reached 70%, let alone 50%.

Dohyun could only let out a hollow laugh at this.

“…It’s way stronger than I thought?”

He naturally thought it would be strong, but wasn’t this beyond common sense.

Seriously, it looked even stronger than Gaemin the Destroyer.

At least the Destroyer was alone, but this guy even had an army of Soldiers.

If the Outlaws reached the King’s Tomb first, wouldn’t the gatekeeper’s existence become meaningless?

Even Dohyun, who had overcome many adversities and raised his specs considerably, gaining confidence, couldn’t be certain about this guy.

‘That’s phase 2… Then what comes after that?’

What was more frightening was that this wasn’t the Outlaw’s full power.

A boss of this difficulty level usually had up to phase 3. If phase 2 activated at just 50%, it was certain.

If phase 2 was already this much, then how powerful would phase 3 become?

“Sigh…”

He had just wanted to roughly check the strategy and get a feel for it, but this changed everything.

Dohyun, his face turning serious as he thought for a moment, soon entered the capsule again.

-What’s this, Owner. I wondered why you left so quickly today, but you’re coming back in.

-Have you returned, my lord.

-Risa Risa!

Jihad tilting his head as if it was strange, Charlie as consistent as always.

And receiving Eliza’s always cheerful greeting, Dohyun headed straight to the field.

“Oh, it’s Kaiser.”

“What, weren’t you logged out? You came back in quickly.”

“Did you go eat?”

“He’s going straight to the forest. Going to do a quest?”

Dohyun arrived at the forest receiving many gazes, though fewer than before.

-What, Owner. Going to catch the Outlaw right away?

“No.”

-Then?

Instead of answering the question, Dohyun looked up.

A pitch-black night.

And a huge full moon illuminating that night was softly lighting up the forest.

[It is a night with a full moon.]

[Due to the full moon’s energy, the Lycanthropes’ physical abilities are amplified.]

[The full moon’s energy is abundant. The Outlaws’ souls become denser.]

Clatter- Clatter-

Awoooo-

He turned his head at the sounds coming from various places.

As the message said, the Lycanthropes had grown larger, and the Outlaws also had more distinct forms.

‘Today is the third day.’

And the days when the full moon rises are a total of six days.

On the fifth day, the Lycanthropes’ buffs disappear, and when the sixth day ends, those guys vanish.

‘Three days and half a day…’

That was the time given to Dohyun.

The time to raise his specs before facing the Outlaws.

It was very tight timing, but…

‘It’s enough.’

Dohyun took out a fuse and wrapped it around Heavenly Transformation as he raised the corners of his mouth.

Three and a half days ahead.

He was planning to run at full throttle.

-…I’m getting a bad feeling. Looking at that expression, it seems like something’s about to happen again.

-Risa, Risa…

Ignoring Jihad’s muttering, Dohyun immediately threw Heavenly Transformation that had transformed into a dagger.

That night, the screams of Lycanthropes echoed throughout the Forest all day long.

And so time passed, and three days went by.

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