The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 181

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Chapter 181

Episode 181.

Screwed.

Was there any other word that could better describe this situation?

This was chaos beyond all chaos.

They had clearly blocked all variables before proceeding, so what the hell was this nonsense?

It made no sense why the guy who was supposed to be at the Royal Palace clearing Luliel’s Quest was here.

‘No, before that, the maximum capacity was already full, so how did he even get inside the barrier? And what kind of hero is he supposed to be?’

There were many questions, but the most absurd thing was that he fell from the sky.

What kind of entrance was that, like some hero landing or something?

And of all times, at this moment that could be called the most important after six months of grinding preparation?

No wonder the Master was going crazy and jumping around.

Jerpak felt the same way right now, but he couldn’t just stand there doing nothing.

‘A top executive got caught. This won’t do.’

Actually, this could be an opportunity.

If he handled this unexpected situation well and overcame it, he could properly win the Master’s favor.

It was difficult, but it wasn’t completely hopeless.

Jerpak knew the only way to break through this crisis.

‘The ember with mysterious power that only Luidera possesses.’

Offering that as a sacrifice to awaken the specter sleeping in the gravestone.

That was their hidden Quest to liberate the ‘Forgotten King’s Specter’ and the final stage strategy for conquering Luidera.

Originally, it should have been used as a finishing move in the final phase stage, but now wasn’t the time to worry about such things.

‘First, I need to maintain our numbers as much as possible.’

Three were already dead.

Fortunately, Luidera’s health was at 30%.

If they liberated the Forgotten King’s Specter to buy time and used the increased entry capacity to request reinforcements, it would work.

‘The problem is Kaiser… That guy’s goal must also be conquering Luidera. If it comes to it, I should consider joining hands with Kaiser.’

But Jerpak needed to know.

Why those two had entered Luidera’s habitat through a different route.

The situation was so urgent that he couldn’t think of that and hesitated, while Dohyun was also assessing the situation.

‘It seems like Hero Guild is conquering this first. Is it okay for me to butt in? Why did the hidden phase activate?’

‘It seems some condition was satisfied, Owner.’

‘Hmm, the Forgotten Specter’s Savior must be the Quest they’re working on. If I had been a little later, I wouldn’t have been able to clear the main Quest, right?’

This was the first time encountering something like this while progressing a Quest, so it was bewildering.

To think he could get entangled with other players like this.

Well, it was a game played by a billion people, so it wasn’t strange for routes to overlap.

Rather, it was lucky that he had avoided this until now.

‘Should I think of this as fortunate though?’

Rather, he should be grateful that he met them before they defeated Luidera.

If they had defeated Luidera before he obtained the Purifying Ember, he would have been trapped here with no way out.

Of course, the current situation wasn’t that great either.

To them, Dohyun was nothing but an unwelcome guest.

Normally this would be troublesome, but right now there was still an opportunity.

Slash—!

Kraaaah! Kuhek!

They were also experiencing a crisis due to the suddenly activated hidden phase.

If left alone, they would self-destruct.

‘I just need to take the Purifying Ember and that’s it. I could let them do the killing and help them out a bit, maybe we could work things out nicely… Hmm?’

Ding—

It was when Dohyun, who was equally confused, couldn’t step forward readily and was assessing the situation.

[Eye of Truth is activating.]

‘Suddenly?’

When he looked around due to the Eye of Truth that suddenly activated, he saw it.

Diagonally behind Luidera, who was slashing through Hero Guild members like crazy.

A red light seeping out from beyond a wall a little distance away.

‘That couldn’t be…’

They say when a person is urgent, the body moves first.

By the time the thought of ‘could it be’ flashed through his mind, he had already used Backstab.

[A mark is created.]

“Huh? Kaiser…!”

A member’s eyes widened as Dohyun used Backstab on Luidera to close the distance.

Hope filled his eyes with the expectation that maybe he was trying to help him, but unfortunately Dohyun didn’t even look at him.

The expression ‘not even in his consideration’ would fit better.

“Kuheoook!”

[Kyahahaha!]

Thanks to that, the man who stood there dumbfounded ended up getting slammed into the wall.

A hint of resentment and betrayal flashed in his eyes as he flew away, but Dohyun had no choice.

Flicker—

Because Dohyun’s eyes were filled with an ember redder than the red light seeping out due to the Eye of Truth.

Beyond red, it had a golden tint that naturally brought to mind the word ‘brilliant.’

Text floating above such a radiant ember.

[You have found the fire that drives away all evil, ‘Purifying Ember.’]

‘Found it!’

When he had discovered what he so desperately wanted, would some nameless Hero Guild member #1 even register in his sight!

Dohyun wasn’t that much of a saint.

‘To find it this quickly, I was lucky.’

Now he just needed to take this and get out.

Luidera was a bit disappointing, but strictly speaking, Hero Guild was conducting the conquest first.

If they failed, he could fight then, or fight together with them.

Whatever it was, that was something to think about later.

Right now, securing the Purifying Ember was the priority.

Grab.

The moment excited Dohyun immediately picked up the torch containing the Purifying Ember.

“Huk!?”

“Hmm?”

A scream-like shout burst out from behind.

“H-how did you!?”

A man with wide eyes and his mouth hanging open.

It was Jerpak.

‘How does Kaiser know about that?’

The ember with mysterious power hidden in a specific location of Luidera’s habitat.

The ember that needed to be offered as a sacrifice to awaken the Forgotten King’s Specter.

He found that in one go?

It took them a whole week just to figure out its location?

‘No, this is actually a good thing.’

Since the ember was found quickly, they just needed to offer it as a sacrifice to the gravestone.

It was the moment Jerpak was about to quickly shout to offer it as a sacrifice.

“No, why are you putting that in your inventory!”

Kaiser, who had picked up the ember, put it in his inventory before there was even time to stop him.

The confusion from this incomprehensible act was brief.

Soon after, a notification rang out.

[The Prophet’s Disciple obtains the ‘Purification Ember’.]

[The Purification Ember disappears from Luidra’s Habitat.]

[The ember’s energy that was seeping into the gravestone disappears.]

[The ‘Forgotten King’s Specter’ sleeping in the gravestone cries out that this cannot be.]

Kugugugugugu-

At the same time, the gravestone shook violently.

As the massive gravestone trembled, the ground moved violently as if an earthquake had struck.

[What is this…?]

“Wh-what?”

“Huh?”

The abnormal symptoms were enough to make not only the players but even Luidra stop fighting and turn around.

What they saw was a single man.

Kaiser, frozen in place behind the violently shaking gravestone, still in the position of putting a torch into his inventory.

And there was someone watching him more intensely than anyone else.

[How dare you… How dare you steal the ember and brazenly try to go somewhere, prophesied disciple!]

It was none other than Luidra. Luidra’s eyes burned black.

In her eyes, the raid members she had been fighting just moments ago didn’t matter at all.

Only one person.

She raised her scythe with both hands while looking only at Kaiser, who had taken the Purification Ember.

[Hidden Raid Boss ‘Luidra, Ruler of Nightmares’ designates a target.]

[Manifesting trait ‘Master of Nightmares’.]

[Forcibly summons the designated target into an inescapable nightmare marsh.]

[The currently designated target is Player ‘Kaiser’.]

Originally the nightmare room that interfered with the designated target’s mind to make them have nightmares and carved a mark.

A kind of target-limited invincibility pattern that prevented fatal damage to those with the mark.

This became an even more powerful trait that struck Kaiser.

Kwaaaaang-!

Watching the ominous dark energy engulf Kaiser, Jerpak clenched his fist.

It was fortunate in the midst of misfortune.

With this, Kaiser could never kill Luidra.

Everything was ruined, but at least he could obtain the achievement of defeating Luidra.

‘There are many viewers, and if I just manipulate the narrative well that I competed with Kaiser and won…’

Either way, the broadcast would be successful, and since things had come to this, there was hope if he could at least take away a good image.

He would have something to report to Berjhe.

It was when he was grasping at even such thread-like hope.

[Luidra’s unique space is created by the effect of trait ‘Master of Nightmares’.]

[No one except Luidra and her designated target can enter.]

[The terrible nightmare marsh can only be released when one of the two dies.]

“…?”

An incomprehensible message appeared.

And shortly after, when the black energy cleared, there was no one in the revealed place.

Neither the raid boss Luidra.

Nor Kaiser. And not even his guardians.

In the empty Luidra’s Habitat with nothing but dreamlike scenery, there were only exhausted comrades who had collapsed with dazed expressions.

-? What did I just see?

-Did the boss just get stolen?

-Crazy lol that’s fucking hilarious.

-I’ve seen all kinds of things, even boss steals, but this is my first time seeing a boss kidnapping lololol

-Isn’t this not Kaiser kidnapping the boss, but the boss kidnapping Kaiser?

-Luidra: You’ve been kidnapped.

-Today’s broadcast is seriously hilarious lol Was this supposed to be a comedy show? No wonder this shit is failing.

At the first boss kidnapping scene in Godseeker history.

Jerpak, who had been standing there helplessly regardless of chat or anything else, couldn’t hold back and vented his frustration.

“…What the hell, give me back my boss.”

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[Welcome to Luidra’s unique space.]

[You have entered the special field Nightmare Marsh.]

[The Nightmare Marsh can only be released when one of the two dies.]

[Entering the Nightmare Marsh carves a mark. Those with the mark receive mental manipulation and cannot inflict fatal damage on Luidra.]

[Mental manipulation is nullified by the effect of trait ‘Hero’.]

-Ugh… What is this, Owner.

-Hmm… This is an unsettling place.

-Risa… Risarisa.

With the guys’ voices behind him, Dohyun checked the message and looked around.

It was certainly an unsettling space as Charlie said.

If the outside space was full of chromatic colors, this place was full of achromatic colors.

This applied not just to objects and scenery but to living beings as well.

-Ugh! What is this? Why is everyone’s skin like that? Eek! I’ve turned black too!

-…Weren’t you originally black? You actually seem a bit brighter?

-Ah, right.

-Risarisa.

-Wow, Eliza looks amazing with her color changed. She looks even more imposing?

Charlie and Jihad’s guys also appeared in black and white, and everything was black and white.

[Movement scrolls cannot be used in special fields.]

‘What kind of disaster is this.’

Just in case, he tried using the other scroll he had received from Gilberun.

He tried using the city movement scroll, but of course it couldn’t be used.

Since the Hero Guild was also there, he had planned to just take the Purification Ember and run away as Gilberun advised.

But the situation was turning in an unexpected direction.

‘I didn’t hear about this kind of ability.’

If Gilberun had known, he would have mentioned it.

It seemed like the trait had changed due to a hidden phase being triggered.

He wondered what kind of quest those guys had been clearing for things to get so tangled up, but Dohyun soon shrugged his shoulders.

‘Well, I guess that’s not what’s important right now?’

Jerpak who would be outside and Berjhe who would be watching the broadcast.

Dohyun casually said something that would make their blood pressure rise if they heard it.

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