Chapter 8
Chapter 8
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 8
Chapter Title: Executioner of the Corpse Hill
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Story mode.
A boring event where the predetermined story mechanically repeats itself.
She had once thought that way. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Do you yearn for revenge? Or is it mere pity? Or perhaps...] [You yourself...] [Are you the Executioner come to declare the end of this cursed gorge?] While investigating if Half-Demon Gorge was safe from possession or dimensional transfers.
Lines she hadn't seen in the preliminary research.
The tutorial boss with weary eyes that only showed contempt and fatigue.
His eyes were now blazing.
Burning with an unprecedented intense will and desire.
Before those eyes, Hae Eung-eung first accepted this game not as a virtual reality game, but as a virtual reality game. ⚙ INTERACTION OPTIONS ⚙ [What you desire. It is...] 1. An old dream, named revenge. 2. Breaking the chains of cruel bloodline, liberating humanity from yokai. 3. (Silently aim your weapon.) Phrases dripping with thick emotion.
Those profound sentences quite appealed to her, but the choice her heart dictated was only one. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [▶(Silently aim your weapon.)] [Is that so. Then no need for lengthy words between us.] First playthrough.
First play.
First tutorial.
For her, to whom everything was new. [Player Mode] A new tutorial route not in any strategy guides.
The sincere showdown route had appeared.
2.
The boss of Half-Demon Gorge usually has three phases.
Each phase introduces new patterns as it progresses, and once all phases are cleared, the boss battle ends. 💬 Comments — Viewer What'll be the first pattern? — Viewer Summon adds pattern — Viewer Uproot tree pattern — Viewer That's scrub-tier patterns — Viewer On higher difficulties, patterns advance one step early — Viewer At worst, it'll be the smash pattern — Viewer Even physical streamers start with smash on their best runs Summon adds pattern.
Uproot tree pattern.
Smash pattern.
The chatroom opinions narrowed to three.
However, on the battlefield they were watching.
The giant Executioner.
Bent one knee.
Placed both hands on the ground.
Took the precursor pose for the smash pattern's next move.
The charge pattern. Comments:
— Viewer: “Holy shit, it starts with a charge?”
— Viewer: “Then what’s in phase 3?”
— Viewer: “No one knows, nobody’s seen it.”
An unprecedented strategy.
Hae Eung-eung, facing the first phase.
Fwoosh!
She roughly threw the ash pouch dropped from the blood ghosts.
A thick cloud of dust rose.
The ash from two hundred blood ghosts was no small amount.
Thud thud thud.
The massive Executioner charged in a straight line, bulldozing terrain.
His charge path missed Hae Eung-eung due to the vision obstruction from the ash.
Just as the outside couldn't see in.
The inside couldn't see out either.
Hae Eung-eung cleverly overcame the vision block she created herself.
The sound of the giant Executioner charging.
Vibrations transmitted with each step.
Detecting position by sound and vibration, she slashed the leg of the passing Executioner at the precise timing.
'Tough skin like an external arts master who's trained external arts.'
She inflicted a wound, but it wasn't deep.
As expected of the infamous tutorial boss from the internet.
No wonder normal players get hit by counters after a few slashes and scream as they fall.
'But that's about it.'
The Executioner wasn't clever.
He didn't know how to use his five senses.
It started as a shallow wound, neither deep nor fatal.
But as charge attempts increased, the wound deepened.
Slash.
Slash again.
Stack effective hits.
Slashes tearing the same spot bit by bit.
Once it exceeded ten times.
Bleeding occurred at a level impossible to ignore.
Realizing he couldn't gain anything like this, the Executioner stopped his steps, and story mode activated. [Story mode] The Executioner tensed his leg greatly, contracting the muscles.
Using muscular strength to staunch the bleeding at the wound.
He picked up his execution axe. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Boldness that fears not enemies swollen huge by yokai blood.] [Precise swordsmanship that repeatedly strikes only weak points while maintaining perfect spacing.] [All of it exceeds expectations.] Bam!
Axe slammed hard into the ground. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Prove there is no falsehood in that skill.] [Show it to me head-on.] Rust flaking off the surface of the axe.
With the gleam of the axe blade. [Player mode] Phase 2 began. 💬 Comments — Viewer What??? — Viewer ? — Viewer ? — Viewer Phase 2 in under 5 mins??