“Unnie Yesol, I’ll give you a ticket to date me in real life.”
Since it was my first time meeting Yesol today, I didn’t know much about her yet.
But one thing I knew for sure was that Yesol and I hadn’t met in real life…!
With a body like that, the chances of her appearance being 100% natural are 10,000%.
In Leore, you can change your appearance as you wish, but when it comes to body shape, you can’t change much to reduce the awkwardness compared to reality.
‘Seeing a pretty person always makes me feel good.’
“Huh…?”
Yesol, with her eyes wide open, froze like someone hit by a time-stop.
“Um, is it not good?”
“Ah, no! I, I like it! But is it okay…?”
As if playing freeze tag, she raised both hands in denial and then spoke softly.
“Yeah. It’s okay.”
“Th-then, I’ll go…!”
If her reaction had been bad, I was planning to just give her a broadcast ticket like Uncle Kang Hangeul, but Yesol nodded with a determined look and attacked me.
The problem was, being a healer, she didn’t have the attack power to kill me in one hit, so she had to attack me multiple times, unlike Uncle Kang Hangeul or Baedeokgae.
Still, she occasionally shouted, “I’m sorry!” and held back, eventually killing me, which left me quite satisfied.
“Alright. Then Uncle Kang Hangeul gets a ticket to appear on the broadcast, Unnie Baedeokgae gets a ticket to freely use her real-life belly, and Unnie Yesol gets to date me.”
“Ugh… I’m jealous of the date…! But I can’t miss out on Arang’s soft, squishy belly ticket either…!”
You might wonder if you have to go this far just to catch a field boss.
But every first clear comes with its own honor.
Even now, the WFK (World First Kill) of the last raid in the Abyss season still gets applause from people who see it.
If you ask why I play a game with multiplayer, of course, it’s fun to get along with other users and overcome raids together, but one of the important things is the sense of victory.
I think one of the reasons Leore is so popular is the existence of the meter.
There are pros and cons to having a meter.
I’m a user who thinks the pros outweigh the cons.
With the meter, I can get immediate feedback on how well I’m doing, and after dungeons, hunts, and raids, when I post the meter logs, I can intuitively see where I rank, which is fun.
Seeing that I’m in the top ranks, that I’m within a certain percentage, etc., it’s enjoyable because it shows that I’m strong.
Moreover, Leore allows you to fully enjoy the honor of a perfect clear (퍼클).
Especially the WFK title, which I still wear because I like it so much.
With Leore taking such good care of us, how could I resist being the first to catch a new season’s field boss?
I ran back to the field boss location with everyone.
Bam!
“Ugh!?”
“What the heck!!! Is this for real!?”
“We need heals here!”
“Hey, tanks, protect us properly!”
“You idiots, we can’t protect you if you keep running away!”
“Block properly in the middle!!!”
The sounds of battle and users’ screams echoed from afar.
When we arrived at the field boss location, we saw numerous users challenging the field boss.
There seemed to be about 20 people.
Tsk. They must have found the field boss location because of the broadcast.
This is a downside of broadcasting, but to show my cool side to many users, it’s better to have the broadcast on, so I had no choice. But they arrived faster than I thought.
I thought it would take more time to gather people and plan the strategy, but it seems our party was progressing faster than expected, so they hurried over.
“Sorry, Arang!!! We took too much time…”
“Oops. There’s the Ensidara raid party. This is bad.”
“Ensidara? That’s the same as the Mea’d raid party, the current 3rd place raid party, right…!?”
“Right. Because of us, they dropped from 2nd to 3rd. But they’re all skilled. We can’t let our guard down against them. That raid party is trying the field boss now. This is bad.”
As Kang Hangeul said, the Ensidara raid party wasn’t called the rival of the Mea’d raid party for nothing.
“With so many users, it’s much more stable. Everyone is skilled.”
I nodded at the uncle’s words.
While dealing with the field boss, curses flew, but they were steadily executing the strategy.
They must have watched Yesol’s broadcast closely because their strategies were excellent.
They intentionally formed a party with many tanks, and all those tanks were knights.
Knights are the only class with a skill to protect allies from a distance.
Because of that, they took turns blocking the field boss’s attacks, which mainly targeted the weaker healers, ignoring aggro.
Of course, the skill had a 2-minute cooldown, so they couldn’t block every attack, but it gave the healers enough leeway to heal comfortably.
“Looks like they’ll clear it at this rate.”
As Uncle Kang Hangeul said, the field boss’s HP was down to 35%, but the Ensidara users’ HP was almost full.
Earlier, our HP was all at a precarious 20-30%.
Sigh… This is a bit, no, very disappointing…?
“But we still don’t know…! We wiped in the last phase because we didn’t do well, but we didn’t know about any mechanics or patterns.”
“That’s true. I doubt the field boss will end like this.”
When the Ensidara raid party dropped the field boss’s HP to 30%, the armor shattered, revealing a boss that looked just like me.
From a distance, I couldn’t see the eyes clearly, so it really looked like me. I wondered if the boss’s appearance changed for other users trying it, but it didn’t.
“Focus now! Don’t panic just because there’s a young girl in front of you! That’s clearly a boss!”
As the Ensidara briefing user said, the perfectly coordinated Ensidara raid party calmly strategized against the field boss absorbing the boss that looked like me.
There didn’t seem to be any additional mechanics or patterns, and the field boss’s HP continued to drop until finally.
Thud.
The field boss, the 5th World Knight, knelt down, bowed its head, and stopped.
“Did we defeat it!?”
‘Huh. That means…’
One of the Ensidara raid party users said something they definitely shouldn’t have.
Clearly, the field boss’s HP was at 0%, but it wasn’t dying.
This was clearly an anomaly. It didn’t seem like a bug. Leore wouldn’t leave such a significant bug unattended.
Meaning, this was intentional.
Squirm squirm
Something started emerging from the kneeling, bowing field boss’s body.
‘Tentacles? But why do they look familiar?’
A thin tentacle squirmed and then embedded itself into the field boss’s body.
“Attack that!”
“The field boss is invincible now!”
“Tsk. No freebies, huh.”
Having to wait for a forced transformation is a bit much.
The small tentacle wriggled as if sucking, and more tentacles started to grow.
Because of this, the field boss’s body, which was crouched, was forced to stand up, revealing the true nature of the tentacles.
“What the heck is that!?”
“Isn’t that the last pattern of the raid boss?”
“Wait, wasn’t that the boss that got absorbed?”
In the previous Abyss raid, the Artamin boss extended tentacles to a giant honey pouch to recover its HP.
As those tentacles started sucking the field boss, Yesol spoke up.
“It seems like the field boss weakened, and the absorbed Artamin is now absorbing the field boss…!”
“Wait, that means…”
“Probably the Abyss Artamin boss is reviving—”
Scream!
The field boss screamed, its form crumpling, and in an instant, it was sucked in. The limbs of the Artamin boss, which had my appearance but no limbs, grew new arms and legs, and it stood up.
LV: 90 – 5th World Knight -> LV: 90 – Artamin [Arang]
“Huh?”
“Wow… It really changed.”
The field boss’s name changed. To my name.
[Sigh… I thought I was dead. How dare this knight brat do this to me?]
The new field boss kicked the remnants of the 5th World Knight and picked up the sword the knight had used.
[I’m grateful for being revived like this… but I have someone else to take revenge on, so I can’t just die, can I?]
Its voice was almost identical to mine. Just slightly echoing, perhaps for distinction.
‘But during the raid, it didn’t speak. Why is it talking now? Is it because it absorbed the knight? And is the one it needs to take revenge on me…? I did cut its neck, after all.’
Anyway, with the revived Artamin, the battle began again.
The problem was…
[Abyss Artamin]
[■■■■■■■■■■] (100%)
It was starting over from the beginning.
“Who said we defeated it earlier, come out!!!”
