Corpse Campers and the Taste of Revenge
I'm not the one getting sniped, but...
"Hana unnie, no matter how I think about it, this is so weird, right!?"
Im Ha-rin grumbled in the most aggrieved voice in the world as she pulled her hands away from the keyboard and mouse.
"Ugh! This is totally fucked up no matter how you slice it!! What the hell are these guys? What?!"
Im Ha-rin's frustration was completely justified.
"Ah, what is this... Seriously, this is such trash......"
Even Kang Min-seo, famous for her always sky-high energy, let out deep, earth-shattering sighs. The situation was that bad.
In a way, even I—who was familiar with situations like this—couldn't shake the visceral disgust crawling up my skin.
"No, seriously, why are these idiots doing this? It's not matching at all with that system unnie explained last time! Like, really! Totally! Not even a little!"
"You're talking about how killing the same person over and over doesn't give honor points, right?"
"Yes!!"
Im Ha-rin pointed at her grayed-out screen.
Taking up roughly half the screen were more than twenty Alliance players.
Their classes were all over the place—you had to wonder where they'd scraped together such a motley crew.
"Worse than those guys sniping Ramju Thunder last time, right? These ones don't even match our level."
"Well... not entirely wrong. Looking at them, not even level 50—there's level 45s in there."
"Ah! For real! I could one-shot a level 45...!"
No matter how low their levels, the CC skills raining down on our heads weren't going anywhere.
"With numbers like this, we can't do shit..."
The sudden horde of over twenty enemies had no intention of letting us off easy.
"This revenge for what happened last time? When unnie wiped their village with the streamers?"
"Dunno if it's revenge or what, but yeah—they killed all the guards and NPCs just like we did."
"Ah, this pisses me off..."
Im Ha-rin sipped her iced coffee full of ice cubes and grumbled on.
At first, it was just one or two, but like cockroaches, they multiplied until they filled half the screen.
And these guys? Just like last time, their sole purpose seemed to be killing us. Corpse camping was baseline—they slaughtered the village NPCs, and even after we ghosted out, went to the bathroom, and waited over ten minutes, they didn't budge.
With her energy completely tanked, Kang Min-seo had died five times already.
If she died a few more, I'd have to return that 100 gold she'd given me earlier under the guise of repair fees.
"Unnie, what do we do?"
"It's not like there are zero options."
"As expected of Hana unnie!! No wonder people call you the returnee genius or whatever! Right?! Unnie's the best!"
Im Ha-rin grabbed both my hands and kneaded them, her eyes sparkling way too intensely.
No, I don't hate the feel of a warm, soft, sweet-smelling high school girl's hands or anything?
"You're expecting too much. It's not that kind of method."
"What is it then?"
"You can resurrect via soul healers in other regions too."
In Lost of Fantasy, dying turns you into a ghost, no exceptions.
For normal play, you talk to the 'soul healer' NPC—only available in ghost form, visible on our screens right now—or find your corpse and hit resurrect.
"They think corpse camping is invincible for sniping us, but if we just grab a soul healer at Demon King Castle, it doesn't matter to them."
"Ah... so we're not trapped forever. That's what you mean, right?"
"Yeah, but what you were hoping for is probably one-shotting these snipers into oblivion."
Im Ha-rin pouted for a second.
"Unnie doesn't like that stuff? No, this is infuriating... We're leveling fine, they started it. We gotta revenge! Revenge!"
"I don't hate revenge either. But look right now. We lost the village. Bad numbers?"
Cold assessment: game over.
I want to smash faces too, y'know?
"20-to-3 is impossible. Even for me."
"Ugh..."
Im Ha-rin couldn't admit it, so she kicked her legs up and down, throwing a tantrum in the couple's seat.
"Aaaah~~~ This sucks~~~!!! I thought we'd hit max level with unnie today!! What is this! Seriously! They've been camping our corpses for over 30 minutes!"
"You know this, right? League of Legends has snipers like this too."
"...So unnie sees them as snipers too? Right?"
It's a famous tale, if infamous.
"Not that we need to label it, but there are fun snipers and straight-up garbage ones."
"Right right! Some show up often enough to make YouTube content out of, but others troll streamers on purpose?"
"Or keep games from ending just to trap you."
The world is wide, and snipers are plentiful.
"Anyway... No reason for these out-of-place guys to clump up and beat on us, numbers keep growing—can't level here anymore."
I want to teach 'em a lesson, but... eh, no passion for it right now.
"Don't worry. Plenty of leveling spots."
"For real?"
"Yeah, corner quests, or super-efficient dungeons if needed. Or hole up in a dungeon. Min-seo's a streamer—DPS spots fill fast for her."
"True..."
Im Ha-rin made a reluctant face, sighing in compromise with reality.
"Sucks, but... they wasted time too. Call it even."
"Yeah, no need to rage. Wait—I'll handle chat..."
On Kang Min-seo's stream screen, she'd killed the game window and was just typing on cam.
"Hoo... Today's session? Uh... I'll watch the situation another 10 mins then log or whatever."
She left that in chat, then—as a ghost from her still-dead state—actually left the party.
It wasn't meaningless.
Without our positions visible on her screen anymore, the guys who'd been pinpoint-camping started milling awkwardly... then trudged toward her spot.
"Looks like that's it."
"What? What?!"
"This game has achievements? One's first to server max level."
Achieve Server-First Level 60
I opened my achievement tab and showed Im Ha-rin.
"Once someone claims it, it's theirs forever."
"Ah, that one. Unnie knows? Demon King faction has streamers, but Alliance has a bunch too."
"Yeah, like Rice and such. Normies pick Alliance over Demon King anyway."
So here's the deal.
"Some might snipe Min-seo cuz they hate her, but others want Alliance streamers to snag 'First and Foremost'."
"Whoa, so snipers plus tryhards make this swarm? Looks like over 40 now?"
"Min-seo said she's the highest-leveled streamer? Probably just Demon King side... Anyway, even for Alliance, she was high."
Stick out, get hammered—teaming with me, optimal routes, made her prime target.
Field PVP favors numbers.
Even trash specs: chain CC, level gap irrelevant—someone dies.
"...So Min-seo sniffed it out and bailed?"
"We're supposed to level..."
Honestly, my ties with Kang Min-seo aren't deep.
Post-open beta: a few dung runs. That's it.
I ignored all friend adds, no priv chats.
Longest was today's party.
...And without whining for help.
Thought she was a burden, apologized, left first...
"Unnie... what're you doing?"
"Similar to last time... I don't lose lying down. Let's snag a ton of achievements today. Rack up honor points too."
They started this shitshow hoping their streamers shine, right?
Achievements? Yeah? Want their streamers to pop off?
"Eh? Eh? So what're we doing, unnie?"
"...Unnie, you do communities too?"
"Just lurk usually, but poke the hive like this, people swarm. Fought 'em last time—sending parties feels natural."
"Whoa, so we push their village too?"
"Nah? Push harder. Enemies have 'leaders'—kill 'em for achievements. Time to steamroll."
"Uh, where's this leader?"
"Usually in race-start villages. Like well-kill for you."
On equal-pop servers, losing your leader is mega-embarrassing.