Chapter 74
Chapter 74
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 74
Chapter Title: The Guild Master Isn't Enough with Just the Game
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Suddenly, as Kaisha and the rest of the first unit appeared, the traitors—who had been attacking the hunters and police while certain of their victory—were thrown into panic.
“Damn it!”
The heroes who had been fighting in front of the police fled toward the center of the boulevard.
The leaders of the eastern and western factions, who had been facing off in the center, glanced at each other upon spotting the first unit emerging from the gate.
Then, as if by prior agreement, they both turned toward the police.
All eyes among the heroes in the center focused on Kaisha.
Tension hung thick in the air.
“Let’s deal with the common enemy first.”
“Agreed.”
Kaisha, sword in hand, charged toward the center at tremendous speed, her affiliated heroes following close behind.
One of the rebels, gripped by fear at the sight of Kaisha, hurriedly looked for a hostage.
“?!”
But the hostage was gone.
Before the hero could shout upon realizing the shocking truth, Kaisha’s skill slammed into the area ahead.
Boom!
Kaisha’s sword struck the ground.
“Scatter!”
Rumble rumble boom—!!
The activated swordsmanship skill shot straight through to the center of the boulevard, completely tearing up the asphalt road.
Kaisha’s eyes gleamed sharply.
Unlike her somewhat Western-looking game character, her real-life appearance seemed much softer, but her unique aura of intimidation remained unchanged.
“Elfer!”
As Kaisha shouted Elfer’s name, Elfer immediately unleashed an AoE skill.
[Forest’s Wrath lv99]
Arrows formed in midair and rained down, causing the clustered heroes to scatter.
Boom boom boom—!
Kaisha, who had deliberately scattered the heroes ahead and thrown them into chaos, glanced somewhere briefly before quickly averting her eyes.
Clang!
Right after blocking Leonhardt’s sword once, Kaisha’s other affiliate, Pheun Whistle, rushed in and swung his blade.
Whoosh!
Leonhardt dodged Whistle’s sword and unleashed a finisher, which Whistle countered with a shield finisher.
Boom! Bang!
Rumble rumble boom—!!
More skills flew in and crashed onto the sturdy shield.
From behind, Elfer’s arrows poured down, and another affiliate hero, Rianon’s vast lightning AoE struck the front lines hard.
Crackle crackle,
Boom!!
Messiah, who had arrived a bit later from the rear, cast a buff skill on the allies.
One tank and two ranged dealers.
A versatile affiliate lord who could carry in any role, plus the excellent supporter Messiah.
It was a solid composition.
As a brief opening appeared, Kaisha’s eyes flicked toward somewhere again.
“…….”
Amid the wrecked and abandoned vehicles on the road, Hellcannon was carrying a hostage on his back and fleeing somewhere.
There was no small amount of anxiety wondering if he might do something rash, but for now, she had no choice but to trust him.
Kaisha had once received help from Hellcannon inside the gate, so even after hearing negative things about him from Dart and Gilgamesh, her trust in him came first.
Crack.
“?!”
At the sound of cracking, Kaisha and Whistle turned in surprise to look at the shield.
A crack in a finisher-level shield?
“Rear support, huh.”
Kaisha muttered.
Just as the guild members had said, someone was definitely aiding the heroes.
Otherwise.
Boom!
There was no way the skills of heroes without a primary affiliate lord could grow stronger than before.
Another green barrier formed inside Whistle’s shattered shield, blocked the skills, and vanished.
Kaisha, having swiftly blocked the attack, charged forward.
[“Covering fire incoming!”]
Kali’s voice came through the guild voice chat, followed by a barrage from the rear.
Boom—!
Rumble rumble boom!!
The guild members and allied heroes had quickly regrouped behind the vanguard Kaisha and advanced in good formation.
Kali said.
[“We brought every guild member on site besides the first unit.”]
“Good work.”
[“What about Kirin-nim?”]
“He should be fine.”
Instead of telling Kali that she’d seen Hellcannon taking Kirin-nim away, Kaisha simply replied like that.
[“I’ll send in a few physical melee DPS who are confident in close quarters, and keep rear support to ranged. Doesn’t seem safe to send more guild members to the front.”]
This wasn’t a game—it was reality, and the battlefield swarming with flying swords was extremely dangerous right now.
She had to prevent guild members from getting hurt.
“Do that.”
The enemy heroes, who had scattered and were trying to regroup, were hit by the onslaught and scattered even further.
“Shields up!”
“Focus fire on Kaisha!”
Spaceking’s heroes charged toward Kaisha, who had pushed into the center of the dense enemy lines.
Kaisha raised her hand.
As she invoked [God’s Majesty] by channeling her neural power in the heart of the enemy formation, a heavy pressure crashed down—boom!—kicking up a massive gust.
Kaisha’s hair whipped in the wind, her eyes blazing a sharp green, causing the enemy heroes to flinch and fall back.
An overwhelming pressure, as if they had foolishly made an untouchable being their enemy.
Kaisha said lowly.
“You fools.”
God’s Majesty instilled fear in NPCs through intense effects and tangible weight on the skin, and on the battlefield, it allowed users to quickly create distance against NPCs.
The weight it imposed varied with neural power, leaving the heroes in the area gasping under immense pressure.
Without missing the opening, the guild members unleashed everything they had.
Like the other heroes, Leonhardt—who had frozen under Kaisha’s overwhelming presence—suddenly snapped out of it and shouted.
“Don’t be afraid! Gods more powerful than Kaisha are aiding us!”
Kaisha whipped her head around.
“!”
Their eyes met, and she charged at Leonhardt with fierce intensity.
Kaisha’s preemptive strike.
Boom—!!
“Urk!”
Leonhardt blocked the sword, his body suddenly enveloped in an unidentified light.
Kaisha’s eyes narrowed.
As she attacked Leonhardt, who had shouted about receiving support from another god, she keenly probed his power.
Then, she lightly taunted him.
“Gods stronger than me? There’s no god in this world more powerful than I.”
Leonhardt’s eyes wavered slightly at Kaisha’s well-founded confidence—she had even defeated Spaceking’s guild master Dart in the end.
But he glanced somewhere, then steadied his shaking gaze.
“Nonsense!”
Clang! Claaang!
Leonhardt parried the sword and shouted confidently.
“Then how do you explain the divine support and messages I receive? I’m growing stronger! Stronger than you!!”
Divine support. And messages.
Kaisha, who had provoked Leonhardt to draw out that small clue, smiled coldly without a hint of surprise.
“You think you’re the only one getting stronger?”
“!”
In truth, neither Kaisha nor the rest of the first unit had reached max level yet, so they would continue to grow.
Boom!
After shaking Leonhardt’s resolve and striking hard with a skill, Kaisha casually brushed back her hair, feigning leisure.
Leonhardt’s body shuddered under her quietly piercing gaze.
Kaisha soon furrowed her brow, turned, and slashed down another foe charging at her.
Slash!
Only after cutting him did it hit her.
Ah, this isn’t a game—it’s reality.
Kaisha was once again struck by how real the sensation of slicing a person with a sword felt, but in a kill-or-be-killed situation, she couldn’t hesitate.
Seeing Kaisha falter for a moment, Kali said over voice chat.
[“That Dart bastard’s going berserk too, so just let loose. Even if it’s not you, someone’s gotta take down these heroes anyway.”]
Kaisha looked up.
Over there, Dart and Spaceking’s guild members—having arrived unnoticed—were hunting down the fleeing heroes one by one.
Dart in particular, swinging his sword madly, looked utterly broken.
“……Is capturing them alive that tough?”
Reading Kaisha’s discomfort, Kali replied.
[“For now, it’s impossible. Once their numbers thin out a bit, let’s think about ways to capture some.”]
The guild members’ damage barrage continued.
Perhaps feeling cornered, more heroes charged at Kaisha.
Leonhardt, who had briefly frozen at Kaisha’s confidence, muttered.
“Let’s see about that.”
Kaisha, slashing down the heroes charging like madmen, glanced at Leonhardt.
After felling the last one, no more came.
Everyone looked to Leonhardt.
An ominous aura.
“Which god is stronger.”
Leonhardt’s body glowed white.
Flash!
Kaisha flinched and took a step back as an even brighter, more radiant white light burst forth.
Confident eyes.
“Which is more righteous.”
An inexplicable energy emanated from Leonhardt as he spoke.
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As intense light erupted from Leonhardt, the guild members stirred greatly.
“What the hell is that?”
“Something’s really there, huh.”
“Kaisha-nim won’t be in danger, right?”
The tank and ranged DPS lines were keeping safe distance from the enemy heroes, who were little more than murderers now.
Among them, tanks Hyunwoo and Mura at the front flinched and looked up.
“Whitey, right?”
“Looks like it.”
Hyunwoo and Mura said quietly.
Korea’s third faction referred to the two major constellation factions as “whitey” and “blacky” in code.
Whitey or blacky, they were both scum, and enemies of the third faction.
Leonhardt’s body was layered with various incarnation buffs. Several constellations were presumed to be supporting him.
“Those star bastards are putting in some effort.”
“They wanna test Kaisha-nim.”
Mura replied to Hyunwoo.
Word that the third faction was raising users through a VR game had already reached both factions’ ears.
Now, the constellation forces of each world would test the users unleashed into the world.
Permissions for constellations to approach users had only gradually been allowed after Babel Tower’s appearance, making the lower world beings released through gates prime prey for the constellations.
As Leonhardt’s light grew ever stronger, Hyunwoo and Mura frowned slightly.
“……Dangerous.”
Like a filament in a bulb burning out from excessive voltage.
Common sense dictated that such excessive support for a human from a lower dimension meant pumping him with power to use as a pawn and discard.
Heroes contracting with constellations in this world suffered lifespan drain from the contract’s burden on their bodies.
Midgard’s heroes were optimized for affiliation contracts with users.
Unaware of this, Leonhardt was lost in the thrill of the mysterious power granted to him.
As the light from the constellations bursting from Leonhardt’s body grew excessively intense, Mura looked at Kaisha with slight concern.
“Kaisha-nim won’t lose, right?”
“Hard to imagine, but she hasn’t hit max level yet either. If it gets too dangerous, should we step in?”
Mura nodded.
It wasn’t a wise choice for the third faction, which needed to stay hidden as much as possible, but if their hidden card Kaisha was in peril, they’d step in no matter the cost.