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“Ah, damn, I feel like I'm going to get caught again.”
Alpaca.
He was a streamer who averaged ten thousand viewers, hit a peak of thirty thousand viewers on the opening day of Assassin's Dawn, and maintained twenty thousand even now, a week later.
And he was one of the streamers people looked for first whenever a new game of Assassin's Dawn was released.
This was because, since the past, he had uploaded summaries of the series' stories, review videos, and recommendation videos of games that were good for beginners to get into.
Such an Alpaca was continuing a challenge of assassinating bare-handed from the very first day of the opening.
[So the rat was there! Kuhaha!]
“Ah, damn, I got cau—”
*Whoosh!*
A dagger flew toward his forehead in an instant, and his screen, which had been attached to the ceiling, went dark.
After respawning, Alpaca walked trudgingly toward the guild and said.
“Phew, once I catch Drake, District 4 is over, but it's not easy. There are too many gang members, and it would be nice if I knew for sure where this guy Drake is located within the stronghold.”
Ruler.
The Order that managed District 4 of Alteon—namely, the main villains of the game—consisted of one person per district: the Queen, the Magic Tower Master, the leader of the King's faction, and the boss of Decembler, 'Drake'.
They were characterized by the fact that although their assassination difficulties were similar to each other, they were mid-boss-level existences that were a level higher than even the key figures of the Royal District, which was the highest compared to other districts.
Among them, Decembler's boss, Drake, had a total of ten strongholds in District 4 and randomly appeared in one of them.
At this point, he had already been caught four times.
The reputation he had gathered was precarious.
From the next time, he might not be able to buy location information from the guild.
Alpaca purchased Drake's location information from the guild.
“Hmm, the theater troupe. Ha, I wonder where else in the theater troupe he is hiding. I must succeed this time.”
Alpaca slowly felt fatigue piling up and let out a deep sigh.
And he let out another sigh because of the donation that followed.
[If it's the theater troupe, just do musou. There are people playing musou bare-handed, so why are you struggling so much?]
“Thank you for the 10,000 won donation. What kind of musou joke is that? Where would such a person even be...”
- Real lol
- You have to say something that makes sense.
[It's true, he'll probably clear it soon?]
“In the first place, Drake is absolutely impossible to catch. Other NPCs aside, the Rulers in particular were made by the developers with great determination, so it's impossible.”
Alpaca was a user who liked assassin playstyles.
That did not mean he hated musou.
Because combat was also a part of Assassin's Dawn.
It was just that his skill was slightly lacking in this work.
[Haven't you looked at the community?]
“Ah. Is someone doing it in the community? If they succeed in that, I will serve that person as my master, receive their teachings, and do a 'Kyeon-wang' until I clear Drake with musou!”
Kyeon-wang was content where one did not turn off the broadcast until achieving a certain goal.
If one's skill was good, it would end within a few hours, but if not?
[lolololololol that statement.]
“Yes~ they absolutely cannot do it. Thank you for the donation. Sweet.”
Although a few people in the chat window seemed to be genuinely mocking him, Alpaca brushed it off as nothing major.
“Ah, of course, if the person who cleared it is a pro, I won't do Kyeon-wang.”
He knew that busy pros had no time to play other games, but because he felt needlessly scared, he added one more word.
- Scared???
- lolol
- Alpaca, you're pathetic!
- Just go out and die, hyung.
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Thirty minutes before Alpaca made his rash Kyeon-wang statement.
Seo-jun was entering an alley where gang members were, in order to find out Drake's whereabouts.
“Now, now, come over here and let's have a sincere conversation.”
“Let's follow him for now. Sure.”
This was because he had seen a chat saying that if he fought in public, the guards would deploy and it would become annoying.
*Splash, splash.*
As they entered the alley, a musty smell of unknown origin and the smell of stagnant water that had not evaporated assaulted his nose.
“It's nice that you listen well.”
“Indeed. Hey! Hand over everything you have first. That includes the wallet you stole earlier.”
As Seo-jun followed them deeper inside, two more gang members appeared and surrounded Seo-jun from the front and back in the narrow alley.
- He did 13-to-1, so this much is a piece of cake
- Real lol
- But doesn't Mu-myeong have any weapons? How is he planning to fight going in there.
- How is he going to get Drake's information in the first place? lolol He has no reputation, so he can't use the information guild, and to find the organization's traitor, he has to do all the related sub-quests and actions.
“Hm?”
Seo-jun paused the game for a moment as if he had discovered something strange while scrolling down the chat.
“Guys, is it hard to defeat their organization? Does it take a long time?”
- No, then we're catching a Ruler, so would it be easy???
- Real lol
“What is a Ruler?”
- Kya!!!!
- This is the streamer, newbies, are you watching?
- It reminds me of 'what is parrying'...
Chats from Winter Yellowtail, Patient on a White Horse, and Brick Extortion King appeared in order.
['NoWay' donated 1,000 won!]
[You said you'd catch him without even knowing what a Ruler is?]
“Please explain.”
In fact, Seo-jun knew about Drake.
He had familiarized himself with not only Drake but also other basic information by looking at the community.
This was because he had recognized the necessity of knowing to some extent in order to lead the broadcast.
Although meeting the Decembler gang member in the market was a coincidence.
There were two methods of targeting Drake that he had identified yesterday.
The first was to perform various assassination missions to raise his reputation to the point where they trusted he could kill Drake, and buy information from organizations or guilds like Alteon's Gaebang.
The second was to perform a sub-quest that created a safe information trading environment where they could not specify each other's identity, and buy Drake's location from a Decembler gang member.
The important element here was the fact that in both cases, information was obtained only after considering the aftermath for the information provider.
If so, could there be another method?
The community users thought so.
Because it was a game with that high a degree of freedom.
Seo-jun thought the same while reading the information posts.
However, his direction was different.
‘Can't I just beat up the gang members to the point where they can't even think about the aftermath?’
If that didn't work, he could just follow the strategy guide.
Because once he knew the location, catching him was not even a chore.
“Hmm, so what you're saying is that I have to get information? And that's hard. And catching him is also hard.”
- Yep
- You're not putting it off until tomorrow, are you?
- Looking at strategy guides is forbidden
“Seuuup. I don't do things like taking back my words.”
The chat window was flooded with 'lolol'.
Although it was something he felt every time, the viewers were the ones who enjoyed it the most when the streamer was troubled.
Seo-jun resumed the paused game, thinking like that.
“Hey, hey, the kid got scared because of your faces.”
“Indeed, why did you do business without our permission? Huh?”
The Decembler gang members giggled and exchanged trivial jokes with each other.
Seo-jun asked them.
“Do you guys know where Drake is?”
“The boss? We know. But so what? Why would we meekly...”
And when the desired answer came out, he cut off the gang member's words.
“Then that's enough.”
“?”
“First, let's get beaten. Everyone talks after getting beaten.”
“What are you talking about! Guys, kill him!”
The gang members drew daggers from their chests.
And they rushed straight at Seo-jun.
Seo-jun first kicked off the wall, leaped up, and jumped over the gang members in front of him.
Being attacked from front and back in a narrow street was more troublesome than expected.
After dodging the dagger of the rushing gang member, he grabbed his arm and slammed him down.
Keo-heok.
[Decembler Gang Member's Basic Dagger]
The gang member dropped his sword, and Seo-jun snatched the dagger that was floating in mid-air.
- No, how did he catch that?
- Reaction speed crazy
Having acquired a weapon, Seo-jun began to quickly clear out the minor mobs.
*Clang!*
“Keo-heok!”
*Clang!*
“Keu-eup.”
*Clang!*
In an instant, everyone died except for the gang member who said he knew the boss's location.
“As expected, parrying is convenient.”
- Kya
- He was indeed a master!
- Musou looks fun
- To those thinking 'Should I do it too?', let's wake up from that dream haha
The remaining gang member also rushed at Seo-jun, but.
*Clang!*
He slumped down next to his comrades' corpses and fell into a groggy state.
Seo-jun slowly approached the collapsed and terrified gang member and asked.
“Where is Drake?”
The viewers began to laugh at his bizarre behavior.
- Would that even work lolol
- Real lol
The gang member did not say anything and trembled.
Seo-jun waited for him to recover.
“Do you think I would tell you that!”
And as he stood up again.
*Clang!*
The gang member fell in the exact same spot.
“Where is Drake?”
- ??? Is this a new type of interrogation?
- Wake up from the dream lolol
“Do you think I would tell you that!”
The gang member regained his energy and shouted again.
*Clang!*
So Seo-jun delivered another parry for him.
“Where is Drake?”
- lolololol
- True madness lololol
Although the viewers did not understand his actions, Seo-jun felt that the gang member's reactions dropped slightly every time after he fell into the groggy state.
“Oh. This guy is gradually weakening.”
- Where on earth are you going?
- What are you looking at, teacher?
- No matter how much you run your delusional circuit like that, he won't spit out information. Go check the strategy guide quickly
And when he waited until he stood up after neutralizing him once more, the gang member's reaction was clearly different enough for the viewers to notice.
So Seo-jun asked him.
“Where is Drake?”
“T-That...!”
The gang member began to flee while avoiding the answer, and Seo-jun quickly approached him.
Then, the gang member recklessly brandished his dagger, and as Seo-jun neutralized him once more.
The enemy in the groggy state began to open his mouth.
- ???
- Does this make sense?
- The crazy bastards at Younghwa Soft lolol they said they discourage musou play, yet they made a route like this.
- I'm learning the game from a newbie's broadcast, is this normal?
“The largest theater troupe on 13th Street. Since he is there... please stop...”
“Oh. This actually works. But where is Drake?”
However, the gang member had no reaction.
“Well, there is no particular reaction. Like having a fit or something?”
- He's a demon lolol
- Isn't the streamer talented in gaming intellect too? Finding a new route like this, shiver
['YouFoughtThisGuy' donated 1,000 won!]
[Ettore, you fought so hard just to block a guy like this]
- Ettore re-evaluation lolololol
- He died in the line of duty...
Seo-jun turned on the map, leaving the viewers to chatter or not.
“Hmm. By the way, the dagger is too short so it's inconvenient, is there anything good?”
In Assassin's Dawn, there was no weapon that could not be used.
The fruit knife from the market fruit shop, the darts and glass bottles in the tavern, and the pins in the bowling alley could all be weapons.
- Let's earn some money and buy some weapons.
- If you buy wire, it's f*cking fun, Spy-X-Man is possible
- Pickpocketing go?
“Hmm, for me... Oh. This looks good.”
Seo-jun looked around, discovered something good, and swung it around.
[Rusted Pipe]
“This length is perfect. Then, since I've got a weapon, I will go to 13th Street now.”
13th Street was the street of culture.
And the largest theater troupe on the street of culture was the White Lotus Troupe, located about three blocks away from the market.
This practically implied that even the largest theater troupe was under the influence of the gang called Decembler.
Seo-jun arrived at the White Lotus Troupe shortly.
People loitering around, whose armament levels were too excessive to be guards, came into his sight.
‘There is no way to know where Drake is.’
He thought that they had really deployed the gang members densely.
Well, it wouldn't matter.
Because he was not planning to be assassinated.
And the viewers had not come to watch an assassination either.
“Sorry, but the performance is end—”
*Shatter!*
Seo-jun approached the main entrance without warning and smashed the glass of the main door by striking down with the pipe.
Then, Seo-jun quickly swung the pipe to strike the gang member who was drawing a machete.
The HP didn't even decrease by a tenth.
‘Not even close.’
Inevitably, he waited until they swung the machete.
*Clang!*
He read the trajectory and parried.
- Kya!
- It's fascinating every time I see it, how on earth does he never fail? lolol
*Patter, patter!*
Hearing the commotion, other gang members began to join.
But
Every time Seo-jun swung the pipe once, a clear sound was heard.
Seo-jun headed toward the stairs of the entrance while dealing with the gang members one by one.
Because that place was convenient for dealing with the descending gang members.
In the end.
Countless gang members piled up on the stairs.
Although the external patrol team occasionally ambushed him from behind, Seo-jun grasped their approach by sound, so he simply dealt with them as well.
The number of enemies piled up like that was thirty.
“Since there were as many as thirty people in a theater of this size, sigh, the developers went too far. How is anyone supposed to assassinate.”
Seo-jun, who once again clicked his tongue at the difficulty level assumed by the developers, leisurely entered inside the theater.
- ????
- Are you one to talk?
- Wow, what did I just watch? I can only let out a hollow laugh because it's so absurd
- He is the real deal...!
As Seo-jun went inside the theater, wild laughter was heard from the stage.
The opponent was waiting for Seo-jun in the exact center of the stage.
- When I watched it in another streamer's room who got caught trying to assassinate, this scene was f*cking scary, but why is it just funny now? lololol
- Ah lol so can Drake do 1-vs-30? Can he catch Ettore lol
Decembler's boss, Drake.
Fitting for a despicable gang boss, he immediately threw a knife as Seo-jun approached closely.
“Die!”
A small, thin throwing knife flying in an instant.
*Clink!*
Seo-jun immediately swung the pipe to parry the flying dagger.
- He parries that again instead of dodging???
- How did he do that
- Reaction speed top tier
“If you predict by looking at the enemy's fingertips instead of reacting after seeing it fly, it is quite easy.”
The closer Seo-jun approached, the greater the number of flying knives became.
The rapid-fire speed gradually increased, and when he reached about halfway, he began to throw with both hands simultaneously.
But Seo-jun parried them all.
With the pipe, that is.
- He parries flying things well too lolol what on earth is there that he cannot parry?
- Viewers
- Ah, that's right. He can't parry viewers lololol
Seo-jun reached in front of Drake in an instant like that.