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As soon as he crossed the boundary and took a step, he could perceive that something had changed.
And as if they had been waiting, the guards rushed at him.
Seo-jun reflexively tried to draw his sword from his inventory with his right hand.
However, his left hand flailed in empty space.
‘I wouldn't get used to it from the start.’
- hahaha
- What were you doing?
- No matter how much of a Mu-myeong-jwa he was, this wouldn't do.
- If you were just a human, it couldn't help but be difficult.
Seo-jun took awkward steps backward and awkwardly drew his sword with his right hand.
And he swung it.
*Claaaaang!*
- Oh?????
- Huh? Why... the parry?
- He parried this even though his senses were reversed? hahaha
Seo-jun smiled and swung his arm once more.
*Claaaaang!*
“Yes, I got the hang of it.”
Seo-jun quickly became accustomed to the sensation.
For Seo-jun, who controlled his body down to the millimeter, it was a matter of just applying a bit of conscious effort.
Although his reaction speed became slower.
A gap of this level could only be a major blunder in a fight against a master, but against an NPC, it was of a degree that could be sufficiently ignored.
“Ah, this game was easy.”
Just as a right-handed person would write with their left hand, Seo-jun brought his sword to meet the incoming fireball.
Although it was awkward, he slashed the line of weakness perfectly.
- Trembling
- What on earth was it that this streamer couldn't do?
- Broadcast settings
- hahaha
“Honestly, I hadn't seen a game as easy as Shadows in the City. You just had to go and fight.”
There was always a way.
Seo-jun walked slowly step by step and dealt with the magician.
*Slash.*
- Was this that thing where if your body was good, your head was comfortable, or whatever?
- hahaha
- I was seriously so f*cking jealous of his physical skills
- Was there even any other game you had played in the first place? Stop humblebragging!
Seo-jun repeat the exact same things he had done on the fourth floor, whether because he had completely adapted after that.
Putting any random miscellaneous item nearby into the test tube of a researching magician.
Closing the book of an engrossed magician and closing it without marking the page, and so on.
- Why on earth were you doing this.
- ???: I would pretend I hadn't seen you, so please just go!
- F*cking malicious hahaha
Of course, there was a reason why Seo-jun was doing this.
He was testing to see if there was anything that changed specifically depending on the reaction.
Honestly, Seo-jun possessed skills that made it not easy to feel fun through combat difficulty in a game.
In addition, if the opponent had been human, there would at least be a taste of teaching, but Assassin's Dawn was not a game where PVP was the main focus.
This was because, in the first place, this game was not made with combat as the assumption.
Detailed details.
Open world.
Seo-jun found these points fun.
It was the same for finding the lines of weakness.
“Well, unfortunately, I ended up finding the stairs to the sixth floor. Let's go right away.”
As a result of looking around the fifth floor, it felt as though he had already confirmed all the magic that could possibly appear from the fourth floor.
Of course, although it was good to search thoroughly, since when did he obsess over one or two spells?
Just because he couldn't see them didn't mean they were lines of weakness he couldn't find.
- What was unfortunate?
- The remaining magicians were breaking into a cold sweat right now and praying for you to please leave.
- Feeling unfortunate was the real madness hahaha
When Seo-jun left the sixth floor and went up the stairs, his senses returned to normal.
“So it was this kind of method.”
Seo-jun clenched and unclenched his right hand, adapting to the returned sensation as he went up the stairs.
The next floor was deceleration.
It was a debuff that slowed down the body.
As he opened the door and entered, this time he got the feeling as if steel rebars were placed on his body.
It felt as if gravity had suddenly become more than twice as strong.
He even felt fatigue throughout his entire body.
It was a debuff that others considered to have a much lower difficulty compared to the confusion of the fifth floor.
However, Seo-jun thought that, strictly in terms of combat rather than infiltration, this deceleration was a debuff no less difficult than confusion.
“Hmm. It was a bit frustrating.”
Seo-jun began to move by predicting the enemy's attacks in advance.
This was because he judged that otherwise, it would be easy to get hit while trying to dodge.
*Ruuuuumble.*
Rocks rose from the ground.
The sharp tip of the rock rapidly rushed over, aiming for Seo-jun.
And Seo-jun's sword clashed with the tip of the approaching rock at the precise timing.
The magic splitting along the line of weakness.
Seo-jun destroyed the magic and killed the magicians who stood guard.
Afterward, he quickly searched for the stairs to the seventh floor.
- Ah. Watching this made feel all sluggish hahaha
- It was fun when the kids infiltrating got slowed down, but since the kid playing Musou got slowed down, it was extremely frustrating
- Skip quickly, go go
“Yes, reflecting everyone's opinions, I would skip the sixth floor.”
If it hadn't been for the broadcast, he might have looked around leisurely, but Seo-jun did not particularly care.
Rather, while going up the stairs, Seo-jun was having other thoughts.
‘All the environments this game created would have been good for training if it had been my past life.’
Wasn't the reason the level of virtual reality users of about ten years became so high also thanks to accumulating experience without worry of death in these various environments?
It was a thought that suddenly occurred because people with high skills, which would have been out of the question with ten years of training in his past life, were active as professionals.
And the low accessibility to martial arts would have also played a part.
Unlike his past life where martial arts was the exclusive property of a special few, anyone could enter a capsule room and easily access it.
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“I had already arrived at the seventh floor.”
The debuff here was darkness.
Vision was completely blocked.
Seo-jun opened the door wide.
Seo-jun could see the stairs leading up to the eighth floor on the opposite side.
“Oh, there was no need to search for the seventh floor's stairs, though.”
Perhaps it was the consideration of the production team, who judged that searching for the stairs to the next floor in a situation where vision was invisible was impossible.
Even so, it was not easy.
Two magician NPCs visible in the middle of the long hallway.
As they had on the previous floors, they only waited for Seo-jun to cross the door.
- Did he die here?
- Honestly, darkness was way too much.
- How was he supposed to do it when nothing was visible.
- Let's just climb the outer wall even now
- Even if Spider-Man came, he couldn't do this lol
Seo-jun stared at the making-a-fuss chat window for a moment, then stepped forward with a smile.
Recalling all the senses he had collected on the previous floors, that was.
In an instant, the screen was replaced by a space with nothing but darkness.
Visible was only Seo-jun's own body.
*Huuuu.*
Within a silent world where even small breathing sounds were heard loudly.
*Whoosh.*
There was a sound of a fireball being generated.
Seo-jun slowly began to walk forward, recalling the shape of the hallway.
‘Head.’
*Whoosh.*
Seo-jun tilted his head to the left, and something brushed past where Seo-jun's head had been.
He felt a sensation of heat.
And one second later, the red magic's afterglow displayed the already passed trajectory of the magic as a solid line within the dark space.
‘Was it an effect? They made the presentation beautiful.’
*Rumble.*
Seo-jun spun his body in that state and dug into the rock popping out from the wall with his sword, splitting it.
Brown, glowing dust was scattered in the dark space.
*Swoosh.*
He threw his body forward, dodging the vines crawling on the floor.
*Whoosh!*
This time, two.
Rolling forward, Seo-jun stood up naturally, then dodged one by slightly tilting his body, and destroyed the other with his sword.
*Crackle.*
Red sparks flew.
*Crack!*
He heard the sound of freezing magic being generated right in front of him.
Seo-jun immediately swung his sword from bottom to top toward the shafts of the ice arrows that were not yet fully completed.
And capturing the sound of the magician, whose magic was destroyed, taking steps backward, he struck his sword down right next to the empty air where blue dust was falling.
“I could hear everything.”
After that, he began to run quickly.
‘Up? Down? Or both?’
It was not only the magician who just died who made ice arrows.
The magician waiting in front of the stairs had also been casting an ice arrow at the same time.
The problem was that because the sounds overlapped, Seo-jun could not capture it properly.
Seo-jun tried to run as quickly as possible and deal with him before the magic was generated.
But he was late.
*Swoosh.*
He felt a faint flow of atmosphere being drawn into the magic like a vortex.
It was a signal that the magic was completed.
Still, it was fine. As long as he felt the wind.
*Swoosh!*
‘Fortunately, they came within range. Three shots.’
Seo-jun struck his sword down while turning sideways in midair.
Two projectiles passed through the positions where Seo-jun's head and legs had been, and he felt a cold wind following.
And the arrow that flew toward his heart was blocked by Seo-jun's sword and fell to the floor.
He had grasped the position of the arrow through the movement of the wind.
He began to walk leisurely through the darkness again.
*Thud. Thud.*
Only his footsteps echoed in the dark silence.
“An assassin was originally stronger in the dark.”
- Excuse me. This was not being in the dark, you had been just blinded?
- Seriously hahaha
- Assassin? No. In the dark? No.
- Holy Roman Empire meta hahaha
- 'That country' which was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire
*Whoosh.*
A spell was cast once more right next to Seo-jun.
*Grab.*
Seo-jun grabbed the magician's arm.
“Argh!”
The casting naturally canceled.
- Spider-Man existed, and he was currently working as a streamer on Travel!
- ???: You couldn't fool me anymore
- Info) The streamer was never fooled in the first place.
Seo-jun dealt with the magician as he was, stepped onto the stairs, and looked back.
As the darkness retreated from the world of nothing but darkness, centering around Seo-jun.
The hallway Seo-jun had passed through came into view at a glance.
“Wow. Fortunately, I dodged them well.”
The things that had looked like glowing dust in the darkness were indeed all magic debris.
- Did I watch a circus or did I watch a game?
- Seriously crazy
- Those were all magic and he actually dodged them hahaha a hollow laugh came out because it was so absurd
Enthusiastic reactions came up in the chat window.
And donations began to pile up in an instant.
Originally, he had set donations not to appear while playing the game to avoid being disturbed, but since it was a brief break time now, it would be fine.
['OO' donated 10,000 won!]
[F*cking cool.]
['F*ck' donated 10,000 won!]
[F*ck!]
['Me who watched this live' donated 10,000 won!]
[Was the winner]
['Corner Room Director Bong' donated 10,000 won!]
[Why were you shooting a movie alone?]
“Now, thank you all for the donations.”
Seo-jun sat on the stairs for a moment.
“Well, but this much, what was it, sound play? Anyone could do it as long as they knew how to do it. Wasn't that right? You all did it too, right?”
He began to communicate.
- Ah, here he goes again;;;
- Honestly, if you were this good, it was fine to humblebrag, but I wanted to hit you once
- If you made a mistake even once, everyone would probably rush at you then hahaha
- How was this sound play, it was a superpower hahaha
- I... turned out I couldn't do sound play...
Sound play referred to playing more tactically, such as listening to sounds and identifying information like the enemy's location based on them.
However, what Seo-jun showed came across differently to the viewers.
It was as if.
['Is this that' donated 100,000 won!]
[Was this that thing called the visualization of hearing? My Korean language grade was 9th tier, but I understood it instantly.]
- Was the joke crazy hahaha
- No matter how I look at it, the streamer was indeed a Korean language teacher hahaha
- Synesthetic expression was crazy hahaha
- F*ck hahaha
- Mom! I was studying! Mom! I was studying! Mom! I was studying! Mom! I was studying!
Seo-jun also could not help but burst out laughing.
As expected.
Streaming was fun.