The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 272

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Chapter 272

Episode 272.

They say people lose their reason when faced with an insurmountable wall.

‘I, I have to run away.’

‘What am I doing right now? Fighting against those monsters?’

‘I, I can’t do it.’

No pride or self-respect remained in them anymore.

Like frogs before a snake, they had lost even the will to fight.

Just when they were starting to think they might have picked the wrong fight.

“Oh? Isn’t this the bastard who cursed earlier? Perfect timing.”

“Hiiiik!”

His eyes met with the Empress, who had been cutting down anyone in her path.

His face turned pale as he stumbled backward in terror, but it was too late.

When she spoke to him, her sword was already being swung.

‘How can you cut before even finishing your words…!’

He squeezed his eyes shut, crying out internally in frustration.

Swoosh- Clang!

Something flew like lightning and deflected the Empress’s sword right before his eyes.

He felt the bone-chilling sharp wind.

When he opened his eyes, he saw an angry Raveon.

It wasn’t just Raveon.

“Hup!”

“Oh my?”

Right after, Marphad charged forward menacingly with his shield raised, and the Empress rushed to meet him as if finding it amusing.

However, charging was Marphad’s greatest specialty.

Even among tanks, no one could match the power of his charge, so there was no way the Empress, who hastily clashed without any skills, could block it.

Kwaang!

Feeling herself being pushed aside, the Empress immediately launched herself into the air to minimize the impact.

The guild members’ eyes widened at seeing the Empress, who they had thought of as a monster, stopped for the first time.

“What are you all doing!! Get your heads straight!?”

“Master Demian would be truly proud to see this.”

Raveon shouted angrily while Marphad clicked his tongue in disgust.

“Ah.”

“What was I doing…”

“I was momentarily insane. I apologize, Vice Master.”

The guild members snapped to attention at the mention of Demian’s name.

With their minds clear, they could see the situation properly.

“There are only two of them after all. If you can’t handle two people, can you still call yourselves Leon’s lions?”

One-Man Army? God of Demroc?

What did any of that matter?

In the end, they were just the same users who couldn’t move once their stamina was depleted.

Meanwhile, they still had over 70 people remaining.

“We are here. As long as we’re here, there is no defeat.”

Not only that, they had two reliable commanders.

Vice masters of a Top 10 Guild, before whom even major guild masters couldn’t present their business cards.

With them leading the way, there was nothing to fear.

“Just one man. You only need to deal with one man. If you can’t even do this, you don’t deserve to be officers, so prepare to resign, understand!?”

“Yes! We understand!!”

The saying that morale is the most important thing in an army wasn’t for nothing – their eyes changed.

No longer retreating or hesitating, they confidently closed in with their encirclement.

Aegis Guild’s tanks stood in the front row, while Leonn Guild’s dealers glared fiercely from slightly behind.

“Now this looks more promising. You should have done this from the start.”

Finally relaxing his expression, Raveon casually rested his sword blade on his shoulder.

His face was full of confidence.

Of course it was.

Marphad, the second-in-command of Aegis, the strongest tank guild, had joined forces with himself, the second-in-command of the renowned dealer guild Leonn.

‘With this combination, we wouldn’t easily lose even to other Top 10 Guild masters.’

He was confident in the high-level combination of tank and dealer.

When Raveon nodded and gave the signal, the guild members surrounded Kaiser.

‘While fighting the Empress, the guild members will deal with Kaiser and join us.’

Wasn’t this a truly perfect strategy?

Raveon grinned and gripped his sword sideways as wind gently stirred, making his body lighter.

He planned to harass them with quick speed while Marphad held them off.

“Well, look at this?”

Could she see right through his thoughts?

The Empress raised the corner of her mouth in amusement and took another step forward instead of retreating.

Her face, now much closer, flashed with killing intent.

Though her eyes carried a dangerous aura, even that seemed beautiful with her fatal appearance.

“You know that saying, right?”

Having closed the distance, she parted her small lips.

The words that came from her cherry-like lips were crude in themselves.

“Everyone has a plan. Until they get punched in the face.”

“…What?”

Having said that, she flashed her red eyes and charged straight at them.

“Marphad!”

“Right.”

Marphad stepped forward again.

Though it was a similar setup as before, the unfolding situation was completely different.

The Empress charged in to close the distance, negating the power of his charge, then dove right into his embrace to initiate extreme close combat.

Bang!

“…Kugh.”

His vision spun.

His head had turned from taking an elbow to the jaw.

Relentless attacks poured from his blind spot. From punches to kicks, even using the sword hilt – it was one-sided beating.

No matter how much he raised his shield, she found weak points like a ghost and struck them.

‘I, I can’t see her.’

In extreme close combat, her small frame couldn’t be more threatening.

He had to look down to see her, but his head kept turning, and attacks came from his blind spots.

“This annoying gnat…!”

Finally unable to bear it, Marphad tried to stomp the ground hard with his foot.

It was the activation condition for his legendary skill ‘Earthquake Wave.’

A large-formation destruction skill that created strong vibrations around him just by stomping the ground hard, breaking enemy balance.

It was quite useful even in this situation, but the Empress wasn’t one to just let it happen.

Tap.

“…A scabbard?”

She blocked his foot from hitting the ground with the scabbard in her left hand.

It wasn’t prediction.

She had clearly countered after seeing him try to swing his sword enthusiastically with his right hand just moments before.

‘…She reacted? In that brief moment?’

Just how fast were her reflexes?

“I told you. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”

“Ah….”

The stunned Marphad frantically rolled his eyes.

His eyes were protesting why Raveon wasn’t helping him and what the hell he was doing.

The reason became clear immediately.

Grrrr- Grrr-

Clang! Clank!

“The undead legion and Charlie are no joke.”

“Kaiser? Where did Kaiser disappear to!”

“There he is! He’s going to Raveon. Stop him!”

“What, what? He’s coming back… huh? He’s going again!”

More than a dozen undead legions that had been summoned at some point were causing chaos.

And Kaiser was moving freely through the gradually widening gaps in the encirclement.

Flashing here and there like Hong*dong, scattering blue lightning as he roamed everywhere, it was complete chaos.

“Damn…!”

The guild members became like dogs chasing chickens, and Raveon was also tied down.

Whenever he tried to help Marphad, Kaiser would fly over like a ghost with lightning movement to harass him, and when guild members joined in, he would retreat with hit-and-run tactics.

[You are exposed to ice energy and your movement speed decreases.]

[Due to prolonged exposure, the slowing effect is greatly amplified and the risk of frostbite increases.]

“Wait, is this really ice energy? Why is the range like this?”

“Hit-and-run, lightning movement, ice energy… Even for a mage this would be annoying, but this is a swordsman? Where’s your conscience.”

“Ugh, this is so frustrating I could die.”

He was even scattering ice energy everywhere.

Just when they managed to find an opportunity, Charlie would interfere or Eliza would spit spider webs to tie up their feet, making it frustratingly maddening.

The Empress peeked her head out to see this and grinned.

“As expected of our tank, he’s really good at drawing aggro.”

“…Tank?”

…That?

Drawing aggro, applying area CC, dodging everything that could be a proper hit while dealing damage efficiently, and that’s called a tank?

If that was a tank, then what was he, a scarecrow instead of a tank?

‘…The Top 10 Guild Alliance is being humiliated like this by just two people?’

Although this side wasn’t at full strength either, it was still a force of about a hundred people.

The composition was better if anything, certainly not disadvantageous.

So why did this situation occur?

Because the Empress was stronger than expected? Because they couldn’t coordinate their attacks?

All correct. All correct, but there was a core reason.

‘…Kaiser.’

Reading their intention to tie down Kaiser and focus fire on the Empress, he instead tied down 70 people and Raveon himself.

In a way they never could have imagined.

He had thought of the best move he could make and executed it perfectly.

‘What kind of madman could pull off something like this.’

Without a doubt, this was a method only he could accomplish.

“Let’s wrap this up. I need to go see Auntie now… wait, hold on. How many did you get? Look at you sneakily cleaning up while I was fighting?”

“It’s all skill. If you’re jealous, you should have drawn attention.”

“Ugh!”

Watching the two people casually talking about their bet even in this situation, Marphad nodded.

He realized it.

He was someone who couldn’t even draw out their seriousness.

There was an insurmountable wall between him and them.

Just like when he first saw the Master, Marphad hung his head low in terrible helplessness.

‘I’m sorry, Master….’

Did he really have the qualifications to be a Vice Master?

As doubt crept in and he slowly closed his eyes watching the Empress’s sword descending like it was blocking out the sun.

Swoosh- Bang!

A shield flying like a boomerang from behind knocked away the Empress’s sword.

At the same time, intense vibrations echoed across the ground.

[Legendary skill ‘Earthquake Wave’ has been activated.]

[If you lose balance and fall, you will fall into the status ailment ‘Groggy’.]

[Warning! Terrain may be altered.]

-Huh?

-Ri, Risa!?

-Ugh…!

Thud, thud thud. Grrrrr-

As the ground shook like an earthquake had occurred, Jihad and Charlie stopped fighting and lowered their bodies.

Suffering and the Outlaws, who had high intelligence, also crouched down, but the relatively low-intelligence undead were slow to assess the situation and fell down pathetically.

However, the Guardians didn’t fall either, they just crouched down flat and couldn’t do anything.

The situation was instantly neutralized.

“Could this be!?”

“Ah….”

On the other hand, the guild members seemed unaffected by the earthquake and got up one by one, their eyes becoming like people who had seen hope just before destruction.

Their eyes were directed toward the sun.

As if the intense sun wasn’t blinding them, they could see a faint silhouette beyond the sun in their vision.

[Legendary skill ‘Meteor Fall’ is being activated.]

—-!!

At that moment, a powerful strike flashed down.

At the ear-splitting explosion, everyone including Jihad and the guild members covered their ears.

When the dust that had settled thickly like a sandstorm cleared, what was revealed was a crater of tremendous size.

From that place that looked like a real meteor had fallen, a man was walking out.

“This is ridiculous. You were really getting beaten?”

The answer to his incredulous words came from behind.

A large, muscular white man who had caught his shield thrown like a boomerang clicked his tongue.

“Disappointing. Even if there were variables… this seems a bit too much.”

When the dust finally cleared completely, his revealed face was endlessly cold.

Perhaps because of his build that exceeded 2 meters, that alone was truly threatening.

“That’s what I’m saying. You call yourselves Top 10 Guilds after this? Take off your emblems, you bastards.”

Meanwhile, the man who had fallen like a comet was holding a sword in gleaming armor, and despite his masculine face, there was something somewhat thuggish about him.

Even at their harsh criticism, Raveon and Marphad didn’t get angry but straightened their posture.

“Ma, Master….”

“I’m sorry. I have no excuse.”

That was natural.

The beings who had just appeared were like kings to them.

The large man who had been glancing at the two tense people turned his gaze.

“What are you looking at?”

“….”

Following the frowning Empress, his gaze stopped on Dohyun and he watched silently.

Likewise, Dohyun met his eyes.

No words were exchanged between them, but Dohyun could be certain.

‘This bastard. The culprit who caused all this chaos.’

Damian Alexander.

That man was at the center of all these events.

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