62 - Deception
[Nightmare 10/10/10 Part 1 Boss: Jin Chronicle]
Author: Anon – That priest who cleared Valrum earlier, right?
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On Sunday evenings, when the most people flocked online, the ACK Pro tournament happened to feature boring matches between weak teams, leaving viewers bored out of their minds.
It started with a post in the 'Healer Class' tab by a famous user.
A streamer was challenging Nightmare 10/10/10 as a priest.
People dismissed it as typical streamer bait for views—no one even clicked.
Just as the post was about to get buried, more poured in like wildfire.
A post or two wouldn't grab attention. But the nonstop mentions piqued curiosity—people clicked half-expecting a scam.
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She'd seen foreign streamers brute-force boss fights with weird magic before. But this blonde woman's spells were faster, more precise.
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One attack shaved off a quarter of the boss's HP.
So they asked: Who's this girl?
Enchanted, people followed the link. There, in the WoA Gallery-famous 'Adella' stream with the mystery female streamer, they faced Part 1's final boss, Jin Chronicle.
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Adella trembled like a leaf. Her ears flattened back, tail drooped long. Classic fear response.
[▶ Chat – OFF]
NoName took viewer suggestions and shut off chat. No telling how brutal this fight would be.
"So you're the culprit behind this mess. Still clinging to delusions, tsk tsk... If you'd stayed hidden in the sewers, you might've avoided your dog's death."
Jin spat thorny words casually.
"You're the one who drove me out, aren't you...!"
"No, you weren't worthy. That spot was always for the hero. And besides."
Jin extended his hand. The laurel wreath cherished in NoName's arms flew out resonating. The Laurel of Life from Sisiela.
"So many thieving alley cats coveting others' things, huh?"
Jin Chronicle donned the crown. It scattered into thousands of light orbs, absorbing into him.
Remnant Academy Vice Principal · Jin Chronicle (0/1)
"I never permitted you my child's place anyway."
Jin Chronicle's pocket watch gleamed.
"Dodge!"
Viscous killing intent. NoName rushed Adella, rolling with her across the ground.
Ku-goo-kwang-!
Impossible to gauge the magic. Light flashed from the watch, a searing beam slashing the earth straight.
Boss name overhead—the fight had begun long ago.
Insta-death gimmick. Unfair asymmetric power—one hit ends the game. From now on, NoName's party had to fight the boss while minding the cooldown laser.
"Is this Yggdrasil's true power...? Looks like you lowly fools know nothing of the laurel's essence."
Jin Chronicle, synced with the laurel, laughed nonstop. Academy vice principal, but always second-in-command.
Orders from above to steal the laurel, skipped lectures without notice—academy slapped him with heavy discipline.
But curiosity won. An item worth betraying the academy was in his grasp. As a scholar before professor, pure intrigue.
He knew of laurels, but their value? Questionable. Brilliant Jin Chronicle unlocked the truth swiftly.
"Passport to another dimension. Know the path, wield infinite magic."
Not far-fetched to reshape world and history.
"Yggdrasil worships reason's faithful, huh."
Red beam from watch again. X-shape, then T.
NoName clutched half-mad Adella, hopping safe zones.
"Forest Keeper. Think you can hide the truth forever? When we realize everything we've learned, all humanity's knowledge is false, vain, evil, depraved."
The death beam replaced the full moon.
"Hoping we'd despair and collapse?"
Dodging Jin Chronicle's attacks alone wouldn't win. Beam power ramped up, laurel mastery grew per second.
How to beat the timer? Exploit gaps between attacks, stack damage steadily—that's textbook.
Part 1 boss tests 'evasion' and 'positioning'. Master your character's mobility, learn handling superior foes.
Crucial: swift judgment, no hesitation. Delay weakens, doesn't stall.
Viewers pegged NoName's limit dodging forever. Soon 4, 5, then 10 beams—even precog couldn't physically evade.
"Total noob."
NoName's first words.
"Finally handling magic, got cocky?"
Irritation slipped out unwittingly, but viewers debated politely.
"Bravado, Forest Keeper? Done playing."
NoName's stacked damage on boss: under half. Jin's lasers: system-limit max, one-shots each.
Strike hard after learning limits, teach to know blocks. Self-analyzed laurel limits inevitable.
NoName saw through boss magic. Not laser.
Normal lasers lack ground-slicing power, diffraction limits range theoretically.
Suspicious no embers on grass despite split earth. NoName bent, touched split ground: post-rain muddy.
"You wield water magic."
Verbose, but Jin Chronicle stuck to habits. Lasers (LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) unnatural for newbie mages.
Micro-particle replication propulsion transmutation. Accelerate/rotate water particles to max for cutting, repeat 'replicate-vanish' till impact via watch-embedded circle.
Like electromagnetic waves (electric/magnetic fields cause-effect straight-line), parallel cluster circles auto-generate seeming laser-straight.
Hollow trick once known. Just high-pressure water cannon. Sympathy to reflector-spammers.
NoName stood firm, awaited next.
"I'll exterminate Yggdrasil's progeny."
Like Valrum, Jin's final line.
System highlighted skill AoE red. 25m radius circle. 1s cast. Unavoidable.
NoName's eyes softly closed. Recited runes inwardly.
Viewers watched narrowed-eyed.
Ferocious mana wave crashed, but [Counter: Elemental Decomposition] 18-directional monohydrogen monoxide decomposition formula nullified the "laser" emptily.
[Counter: Elemental Decomposition]