Chapter 126
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Translator: 8uhl
Chapter: 126
Chapter Title: Awakening the Bone Lord Wyvern
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Jeong Hoon released the bowstring he had drawn.
Pew-shooook!
The arrow shot out, piercing the wyvern's vital spotits throat.
"Kkieek!"
The wyvern with a hole in its throat plummeted to the ground and met its end.
- Whoa... he took down all of them...
- Honey1, be honest. What are you?
- Identity reveal for 200,000 won!
- 200,000 won, plus 400,000 more!
- Just say your job for an extra 500,000!
The chat exploded with offers to pay just for revealing his identity.
"Alright, let's keep going."
Jeong Hoon simply ignored them without a second thought.
- Lol, look at him ignoring it
- Gritting his teeth and pretending not to know
- 1 million won!
- I'll give 2 million! Tell us something!
As the amounts climbed into the millions, Kim Bong-gu's eyes went wide.
"H-Hyung-nim? If we add it all up, that's over 10 million won?"
"You'd sell out for that? Feel insulted. How unique is this?"
Jeong Hoon grinned and nodded toward the portal leading to the next nest.
"Huh?"
"You almost died and I barely saved you, so do it right this time."
It meant to properly handle the aggro role.
A wyvern nest was far from small.
Each one spanned over 10,000 pyeong in area.
It was telling him to draw the wyverns' attention while stepping through footwork in that vast space.
"I-I'll do my best."
"You'd better."
- Honey3 getting scolded
- For real, he got shredded. Got surrounded by wyverns right after entering and beat down
- If it weren't for Honey1, he'd have died without doing shit?
- Honey3, get your head in the game. If you don't wanna die
- Fail again and you'll get hit.
Kim Bong-gu, reading the chat, had to suppress the boiling rage inside.
'These little shits, what the hell are they saying?'
At first, he'd been tense.
Obsessed with impressing them.
But after nearly dying once to a wyvern, they saw him as a pushover?
"Hyung-nim... I'll make it work this time."
Fine.
You bastards.
I'll show you I'm not someone you can look down on.
Kim Bong-gu steeled his resolve and hopped through the portal.
Tsk tsk. That won't turn a cat into a tiger.
Muk-ho tossed a light remark as he watched Kim Bong-gu go.
Second nest.
Contrary to Muk-ho's expectation, Kim Bong-gu's movements had done a complete 180.
He first drew the wyverns' aggro, then used footwork to create distance before immediately activating Stealth.
The wyverns were level 190, so the stealth was quickly detected.
The wyvern uses Claw Raise.
The wyvern raised its claws, pressuring Kim Bong-gu.
Unlike before, Kim Bong-gu didn't deploy footwork. Instead, he used his pre-prepared Shadow Mark skill to teleport and widen the gap again.
What? The guy can actually do it?
'Impressive he got caught flat-footed at first with a skill like that...'
Jeong Hoon agreed with Anima's words.
There was something wrong if a Dark Fighter couldn't even hold aggro against wyverns.
In the meantime, Jeong Hoon raised Anima, drew the bowstring, and picked off wyverns one by one.
Once all were defeated, Kim Bong-gu returned with a smug face.
"How was that? You acknowledge me now?"
Kim Bong-gu asked not Jeong Hoon, but the chat.
- Acknowledged, you did well this time
- Does he need to get chewed out to awaken?
- Got a unique kink
- Honey3 gets stronger from abuse...(memo memo)
No, why did the conversation veer that way again?
As Kim Bong-gu tried to protest, Jeong Hoon cut in.
"Alright, time for a honey tip."
The mention of a honey tip sent the chat into a frenzy.
- Honey tip?
- What's it gonna be?
- Ready to memo.
What Jeong Hoon pulled out was a shovel.
It had been a while since he'd used one.
"Here."
"Huh?"
He handed one to Kim Bong-gu, who tilted his head.
"We're gonna collapse this nest now."
"Collapse the nest?!"
No one had ever thought of collapsing the nest.
Players had always hunted all the wyverns, then moved through the portal right in front of them to the next nest and cleared it that way.
- Huh? Why collapse the nest?
- He's insane?
- No how is that a honey tip
- Maps can't collapse lol
- Bet 50,000 won nothing changes
- 100,000 from me!
- 100, plus 200 more!
- Cheapskates... going big with 500!
Viewership had now surpassed 30,000 in real time.
Jeong Hoon's lips curled up slightly.
"Alright, start from the center."
The wyvern nest was called a nest, but it wasn't much different from a regular fieldjust a massive chunk of land over 10,000 pyeong floating in the sky.
That meant he could dig into it with a shovel.
"W-Wait! What if we fall?!"
Kim Bong-gu's face paled as he tried to stop him.
"Hm? That's why we have potions."
Jeong Hoon pulled a potion from his inventory and handed it over.
A potion granting flight magic.
However, it came with severe side effects after one hour, so no one drank it.
Kim Bong-gu, who had already suffered them once, looked like he was dying inside.
"No... seriously..."
"That was a joke just now. Trust methis is how you access the new route."
He said collapse the nest, but it wouldn't actually fully collapse.
'Second nest. Damage over a certain portion, and the boss awakens. Its heart is buried in this second nest.'
It was the path to the hidden route.
Jeong Hoon picked up the shovel and started digging.
Plop plop.
The deeper he dug, the more dirt clumps broke off and fell.
The falling dirt vanished midway before reaching Merhen below.
Undeterred, Jeong Hoon kept digging, creating a small hole in the center of the nest.
Through the hole at the bottom, Merhen's capital was faintly visible.
- Whoa... that's disgustingly high?
- It really won't fall?
- What the hell is this honey tip?
- Don't say it's a bungee spot bullshit?
Even the viewers started showing puzzled reactions.
"Just wait."
Jeong Hoon braced his legs to avoid falling and gradually widened the hole.
"Ugh..."
Kim Bong-gu shoveled diligently beside him.
"Alright, that's good. We can stop."
Jeong Hoon called it.
They'd damaged the nest enoughsurely "that guy" had noticed by now.
- What?
- Nothing happened, why stop?
- Got scared lol
- No honey tip after all...
The chat filled with disappointment.
Warning! Warning!
The sleeping Bone Lord Wyvern grows enraged.
The existing route is deleted.
Defeat Raid Boss: Bone Lord Wyvern.
With the messages, the third nest and beyond began deleting sequentially, and all the distant wyverns vanished.
- ?
- What?
- Bone Lord Wyvern?
- What's that monster?
- Boss here is supposed to be Blood Wyvern?
As viewers panicked, the distant ground began rapidly collapsing.
"Let's move to the portal."
Jeong Hoon and Kim Bong-gu portaled back to the first nest to observe.
Rumble.
It took just 10 minutes for the second nest to fully collapse.
From the ruins, a black gate formed, and a massive wyvern slowly emerged.
Unlike regular wyverns, it was entirely bone except for the heart in its chest.
Lv.220 Bone Lord Wyvern
Psssh-
The capsule door opened, and Lee Na-yeon stepped out.
With Hoyoung's support focused on leveling, she had reached level 103.
'Leveling is insanely fast.'
It had to be.
With top gear and overwhelming skill, she repeatedly decapitated monsters in 1-2 shots.
Plus, running dungeons with Hoyoung Guild for quick EXP.
No way leveling could be slow.
But past level 100, the pace had noticeably slowed.
Precisely, the EXP required for level up had doubled.
'It's fine! Hoyoung will keep helping hard, so just enjoy the game, ma'am!'
Still, Yeo Min-ji's constant check-ins made the game fun.
Her son, on the other hand, had touched her with a birthday gift but now lived in his capsule, too busy to come out...
She'd prepared food before entering her capsule, but it was untouched.
Meaning he was skipping meals for the game.
'Ma'am, it's okay. New World is like thatpeople skip meals when busy.'
Nice packaging, but worry was inevitable.
Lee Na-yeon cautiously opened Jeong Hoon's door.
The capsule door remained firmly shut.
"Sigh, I'll give him an earful when he comes out."
She couldn't disturb her son mid-game.
Heading to the living room for a break, her phone rangYeo Min-ji.
Ma'am! Did you see the stream?!
"Stream?"
Whose?
Hoon's stream! It's blowing up!
Blowing up?
Lee Na-yeon quickly hung up and clicked the NewTube link Yeo Min-ji sent.
Channel was definitely HoneyTube, right?
Real-time viewers: 43,000.
Meaning 43,000 people watching the LIVE broadcast.
"My god..."
Worlds apart from last time.
The Bone Lord Wyvern was a different boss from the previous ones.
New World had regular bosses and raid bosses.
'Its HP is absurdly high.'
Regular bosses let you shave 20-30 HP with vital hits, but raid bosses barely lost 1 even with heavy attacks.
Of course, Sophia, a level 480 Black Mage, had toyed with it solo.
- No way... digging the nest spawns a hidden boss?
- Insane never thought to dig the nest
- That's why it stayed hidden...
- Wow, who knew it'd go like this.
- Hey, the betters! Not paying up?
- Pay up quick; don't welch
Donations rained down.
Already over 5 million won.
"H-Hyung-nim... why the hell did that spawn?"
Kim Bong-gu pointed at the Bone Lord Wyvern with his shovel.
"This nest is its tomb."
Bone Lord Wyvern's tomb.
Beneath this nest lay its corpse.
To forcibly awaken its spirit, you had to damage part of the nest.
Interesting. Damaging the nest a bit awakens the spirit.
'First time I've seen something like that.'
Muk-ho and Anima looked intrigued.
Not that surprising, really.
'Think of the common theme so farit's simple.'
New World focused heavily on 'destruction.'
That explained many differences from regular games.
A signal to destroy everything.
So perhaps this nest hid such a signal?
"Honey3, you melee it up close."
"Huh?! No... how am I supposed to hit a flying one?"
The Bone Lord Wyvern flapped its bony wings outside the nest, airborne.
- Yeah, how's Honey3 gonna hit it?
- Got fleeced a bit, but new show to watch.
- Clear this for 10!
- 10, plus 20 more!
- 20's chump change. 100 bet.
- Ah, damn;; was gonna go Sky Field... can't now
- Where's Pegasus? Stuck out of Sky Field
Pegasus would be absent for a while after the royal quest clear.
It'd arrive in four days, so viewers' challenges would wait that long.
'With the potion, they could make it.'
Anyway, the Bone Lord Wyvern's entry method was now public would start non-stop.
The rewards were that sweet.
The Bone Lord Wyvern uses 'Lord's Oppression.'
As it activated its ability, Jeong Hoon's body stung, weighed down like a thousand tons.
His legs trembled, a deathly terror crushing him.
"Urk!"
Kim Bong-gu groaned.
Jeong Hoon, meanwhile, was fine.
Uses Divine Grace.
Divine Grace from holy power freed him from Lord's Oppression.
He quickly cast it on Kim Bong-gu too, removing the debuff.
Kim Bong-gu's color returned to normal.
"See that portal?"
Jeong Hoon nodded toward the Bone Lord Wyvern's back.
A small portal shimmered on it.
"Hoo... yeah."
"It's linked to the one in front of the nest. Use it to get on and deal damage."
"...Me?"
"You got no ranged skills. And it's brainlessmaster the patterns, and it's easy."
"Still..."
"Here, drink this and go."
Just in case, he handed over the potion.
Kim Bong-gu chugged it with a rotten face and dashed to the portal.
Terror gripped him, but better than facing that viper's wrath later.
"Alright, guess I'll get started too."
Jeong Hoon infused mana into his Merhen earrings.
Designate a skill.
An attack skill he could designate.
Jeong Hoon picked Absolute Destruction without hesitation.
Absolute Destruction shaved 2 HP regardless of the target's amounta insane ability.
Boost its 2 proc chance to 6, anding the Bone Lord Wyvern would be a breeze.
'Absolute Destruction' proc chance rises by an additional 4 for 1 hour.
After using the earrings.
Black Field activates.
All stats corrected by 1.2x.
Black Field reduces all stats of monsters invading the territory by 3.
Black Field on top.
All stats rise 15.
Damage reduction 20 applied.
Duration: '1 hour'.
Finally, the stat amp ring.
He'd pulled every possible card and finished prepping.