Chapter 73
Chapter 73
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 73
Chapter Title: The Guild Master Isn't Satisfied with Just the Game
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The broadcasters' faces were grave.
According to the Spaceking guild members, the heroes popping up were split between western and eastern origins, but the situation turned dangerous when those western heroes who'd fled into alleys reappeared.
The hosts, who'd been suppressing their anxiety, finally let out heavy sighs.
"Ha. Can't they just retreat seriously?"
"Someone was yelling in voice chat not to talk bullshit."
"Haaa...."
Click. Click.
One host fiddled nervously with the broadcast mic, turning it on and off.
There was nothing to say.
With drones launching late and cameramen pushing in, the clearer footage from multiple angles made it easier to confirm and analyze the situation.
But what good did that do?
No matter how you looked at it, it screamed total annihilation.
Even after watching and rewatching, this was too agonizing a scene to observe with a clear mind.
Cold sweat beaded on the hands of those watching.
Whether because it was live or the situation was too urgent and dire, there were no restrictions coming from the site admins.
It was essentially an emergency war zone—censoring it would just hinder the hunters, so maybe that was to be expected.
Either way, the recording would need full mosaics when it went up.
Finally, one host covered his eyes.
"Ah, damn it. I want to cut the broadcast. How are we supposed to watch that? Ugh."
"......"
"Kaisha, come on. Kaisha."
Hearing the desperate voice chat from the field calling for Kaisha, the host muttered her name over and over.
Soon, he clasped his hands together and began praying earnestly.
"Pleasepleaseplease."
One prayed, while another couldn't tear his eyes away out of a misplaced sense of duty amid the dire circumstances.
Was there any way to help?
They watched with hardened expressions.
Boom!
"?!"
One host, mid-prayer, jumped at the sound of a fist slamming the desk and looked up.
He sprang from his seat the moment he saw the field feed on the monitor.
The two let out guttural screams.
"Raaahhh!!!"
"Kyyyaaah!!"
"Uwaaaah!!!"
"Kyyyaaaaah!!!"
The hosts, who hadn't been able to breathe properly from the tension, wailed in rapture.
"She really came!!!"
"Kaisha!! Kaishaaa!!!"
It was so dramatic, they wanted to preserve it as national heritage footage and boast it to the world.
As the hosts went wild, the comment section exploded alongside them.
-Insane!!!!!!!!
-Is this real??????
-KAISHA!!!!!!!!!!!
-Uwaaaah Kaisha!!!
-WHAT?!?!!
-Top squad's here lololol
-God Kaisha!!!!!
-Timing for real????
-Momㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-lololololololololololololololololololololol
-Kaisha showed up, heroes all fucked
-Finally, she has arrived
-Hands shakingㅠㅠ
-Wow, can't believe it wow wow wow
-I'm crying I saidㅠㅠㅠㅠ screen's blurryyy
-I believed, Lady Kaisha
-Is this truly real life?
-Timing only a god could pull off, she's a god frfr
-For real...?ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-Camenㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-No for realㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-Oh my god Kaisha
-Everyone, let's camen
-Ha....camen.....
-Camenㅠㅠ
-Camen camen camen
-Kaisha's a real god....
-Noonaㅠㅠㅠㅠ smack those dog-ass heroes quickㅠㅠㅜㅜㅠㅜㅜ
-Dart and Gilgamesh coming out of the gate soon too? Insane so goodㅠㅠㅠ camenㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-Ahh for realㅠㅠ hengㅠㅠㅠㅠ
...
Camen echoed through the comments.
The hosts, regaining their senses after freaking out at the reversal, stared at the screen in disbelief.
Excitement still lit their faces.
"Wow, for real! Wow!!"
"It's over."
"I don't know if God exists, but Kaisha-nim sure does. Let's make Kaishaism the state religion."
"Ha, fuck, I'm tearing up. Thought they were all goners watching that...."
One host teared up in relief, and viewers flooded the comments with [ㅠㅠ] in fervent agreement, saying they were crying too.
* * *
Assuming the boss was down, the Dangshan Station monster gate would've closed, we crossed nervously, unsure where we'd end up.
If the path reformed, it'd probably be near Dangshan Station.
Sure enough, it was Dangshan Station—right up to expectations.
"......"
The first-string guild members who'd been delivered with me to the chaos all wore blank expressions.
Spaceking's traitors.
A few cops collapsed bleeding with shields in hand, presumed hunters, and even Fullminak's heroes fighting alongside them.
No doubt all the heroes who'd died inside the gate had burst out.
As we hunters gaped at the horror worse than a dungeon rampage.
"Kaisha-nim!!"
Elfer called my name brightly and ran over, making the traitors spread before us flinch and step back.
Seeing my hero safe, I relaxed.
"Ha, Elfer."
Glad you're unharmed.
Spaceking's betrayers emerging was horrific, but not all the dead heroes inside were enemies.
I quickly pulled myself together and muttered low as I eyed the stirring Spaceking heroes.
"[Gunfire Tearing Through Darkness]"
Naming the skill solidified it—countless bullets swirled into existence in the air.
Shwaaa—
"Uwaak! It's really Kaisha!!"
"Everyone run—!!"
The menacing skill sent heroes scattering from the cops at top speed.
The deep green-glowing bullets throbbed threateningly, growing larger. Their spin accelerated.
But not yet.
"Messiah."
Calling her unleashed a burst of golden light from Messiah.
[Divine Restoration lv87]
"!"
Stunned by the far higher skill level than expected, I looked at her.
I'd given her heaps of mana recovery potions and told her to use it every five minutes in the imperial training grounds for a week, but this fast a level-up?
The wide-area buff activated.
[All allies' stats rise 200% in the divine light, and liege and bound heroes' defense rises 300%.]
[Duration and range increase with level.]
[Current duration: 15 seconds]
A beat late, Mino bellowed at the guild members.
"Three-ends, prep!"
At my command, the ranged dealers loaded skills.
Messiah's wide-area debuff.
Confirming [World's End] on the front line, I unleashed the hovering bullets in one go.
Ratatatatang—!!
Guild members' belated ranged skills followed swiftly.
Kuboom!!
Kwarung—!!
Frontal devastation.
Asphalt roads flipped entirely; heroes in range who couldn't dodge collapsed unconscious or gravely wounded, writhing on the pavement in agony.
Feeling anew that heroes weren't mere NPCs, my breath caught briefly—but no time to hesitate.
I switched on voice chat.
"Combat ready."
Fresh from the dungeon, first-stringers reflexively opened chat, skills, inventory, etc.
All first-stringers across guilds were partied up regardless of affiliation.
About to issue orders, I paused.
"!"
Whoosh.
Unbelievably, an unidentified massive wide-area heal rained down on the wounded, fleeing, tumbling heroes.
That wasn't the kind of heal heroes could use.
Not the only one suspicious of the enormous heal and unfamiliar effects, guild members buzzed in shock.
"What the hell?"
"Traitor among the hunters?"
I glanced at the gate.
Time lag meant not all first-stringers had exited yet.
What were Dart and Gilgamesh dawdling for?
The cops grew hectic.
"Ambulances on standby nearby!"
"Vehicles can enter now! Grab the wounded!"
"This one's urgent!"
Guild members mixed in fighting turned and ran to me.
"Kaisha-nim!"
"Hueeng! Guild Master, thank you!"
"Thought we were dead!"
"Those bastards are sus! Feels like someone's backing them?!"
"The heal's one thing, but their attack power's buffed, and their movements look coordinated like they're taking orders."
"And right now, Kirin-nim's been taken hostage!"
The last bit among the frantic reports made my ears perk.
"......Wait, what?"
Fullminak's heroes had been solid allies to the end inside, none betraying, so it didn't click right away.
Another bombshell followed.
"Spaceking heroes took Kirin-nim hostage. Saw him badly hurt and bleeding out...."
"We need to rescue him fast."
At the hostage news, I whipped around to the center of the street.
It was true.
No traitors in our guild, so how'd Spaceking heroes spot and grab Kirin-nim?
Unfathomable, but rescuing the guild member came first.
"......Kali."
"Y-, yeah?"
"Cover the rear."
Glancing at the gate, I said.
"Fullminak command to Vice Master Kali."
Gilgamesh and Dart, who knows when they'd slipped out, stared at the street scene in shock, just like I had on exit.
Good, they're out.
I drew my sword and charged the hero cluster.
* * *
Gilgamesh, fresh out of the gate, gaped at the scene.
"......W-, what the fuck? How'd this happen? Why the hell are these damn heroes rampaging in reality?!"
Credit, Goldbunker's vice master who'd exited a bit sooner and grasped the basics, answered.
"They 'reverse-logged' into our world. When we logged into Babel Tower, their reverse-log finished, materializing the dead heroes right there."
"Even so, we closed the gate inside—how'd they burst out?!"
"Spit out all the materialized bastards and closed, probably."
Anyway, this was the result.
Gilgamesh walked out with Credit, most first-string hunters already out, before Dart finally emerged from the gate.
Time differences meant positioning Kaisha, Gilgamesh, Dart sequentially to secure guild members.
Dart's eyes widened at the sight.
"!"
It was a landscape to stun and fluster anyone.
Spaceking's earlier first-stringers, briefed by on-site guildies, wore shocked faces.
Dart asked Spaceking guild members.
"When'd these fuckers pop out."
"Not sure exactly. We had no clue till we heard guild deaths on the news."
"......"
Oblivious to Dart's eyes shaking from the shock, Spaceking members kept talking.
"Straight outta the gate."
"Breaking news blew up."
"Heroes tracked guildies at home, killed four—one Goldbunker, three ours...."
Actually five with the civilian, but not the time, so omitted.
Gilgamesh, half-listening nearby, bugged his eyes in shock.
"What?! Who?!"
"K-Kay-nim."
Gilgamesh sucked in a breath.
Handsome Kay, upright enough for celebrity gigs, was a guildie Gilgamesh particularly cherished.
"Why that guy...."
Gilgamesh's vision spun.
The kid dreaming of Goldbunker poster boy.
As Gilgamesh trailed off in shock, Goldbunker members shot cold glares at Spaceking guildies.
"Died with Spaceking guildies. Three at once, civilian too."
"Their heroes came at us like vengeful spirits, no holds barred."
Goldbunker spilling truth to Gilgamesh made nearby Spaceking guildies flinch and avert eyes.
Gilgamesh raked his hair wildly, messing it up.
"Ah, fuck. Fuuuuck—! Poor Kay, that bastard! Damn hero shits! What'd he do wrong?!"
"......"
Dart, silent beside, gripped his sword hilt tight and stepped toward the fight zone.
Goldbunker's networked guildies relayed updates.
"Fullminak's on high alert now."
"Spaceking heroes nabbed their Kirin-nim hostage. Kaisha-nim looks pissed knowing."
Halt.
Dart stopped; fury twisted Gilgamesh's face.
"......What? Killed our guildies, now touching Fullminak? These fuckers are truly insane?!"
Spaceking vice masters Binu and Nix, hearing Gilgamesh and Goldbunker chatter behind, reflexively glanced at Dart.
Sure enough.
Dart's eyes blazed electric blue with explosive rage.