The video of Kylo’s consecutive parries, which KingdomOldHand had spread on the community to vent his anger,
caused heated controversy in the [Elysium Online] community.
However.
[BEST][What VR game gets hacked within a week of opening???]
[BEST][I said it’s not hacks, you idiots]
[BEST][Original doesn’t even have hacks, so why do you think classic has hacks? lololol]
[BEST][Proof that it’s not hacks]
[BEST][So if it’s not hacks, can you guys do ten consecutive basic-attack parries as a Novice???]
Contrary to KingdomOldHand’s intentions, the community users were not simply deciding that the video was hacked.
[There’s no way it’s hacks.fact]
[If he used hacks, there should be something weird about the motion, but the movement is natural, like he’s moving on his own]
└[Right. In VR games, even aim hacks are super obvious because of movement. Even FPS aim hacks that only adjust aiming show in the motion, so in an RPG where you swing weapons, the movement not showing anything? Absolutely not hacks]
First of all, there had never been any precedent of hack programs circulating in [Elysium Online] itself. On top of that, his movements had no characteristics that could be used to conclude it was hacks.
There was only one suspicious point.
[So you can do ten consecutive Great Success parries without skills, huh?]
His absurd skill, which had gone beyond the frame of a human.
└[But if he’s seriously good, isn’t it possible???]
└[Nope]
└[The no-correction parry frame in Elysium is 4 frames, fuck. Do you think 4 frames in a VR game is a joke?]
└[I said it’s completely different from 2D or 3D games. Even in those games, 4 frames is impossible to respond to without prediction]
└[How many seconds is 4 frames?]
└[It isn’t even several seconds lol. VR games are based on 120 frames, so it’s 0.033 seconds]
└[You’re saying he aimed for that? lololol Nearly ten times in a row???]
└[That’s why it’s hacks lololol]
The problem was that absurd skill.
Unlike Kylo himself, who thought any expert could do it, in the eyes of ordinary players, it was a realm that could not possibly be reached through skill alone.
[Didn’t he use Absolute Defense?]
└[That map is the tutorial zone, so how the hell would he use Absolute Defense? Does that make sense, fuck?]
└[That’s why I’m saying maybe he pulled out Absolute Defense with hacks]
└[Ah]
└[But I don’t see the Absolute Defense effect?]
└[Judging by the effect, it’s really just the effect from a raw parry....... Not a skill.]
└[Ugh lololol]
Every time a plausible guess came out, it was refuted in repetition.
It made no sense whether seen as a hack program or as skill.
That ambiguity continued to feed the flames of the controversy.
[But if that’s real, it has to be hacks lololol. Spamming Great Success parries with no skill is actually impossible.]
[Is there no pro? Bring one in and verify it]
└[Our game doesn’t have pros. They only said they’re making them this time]
└[Why the hell didn’t they make a league when it was a god-tier game, but now they’re making pros??]
└[Just J-shit-style management lololol]
└[?? Isn’t Elysium run by a pretty big company?]
└[Joysoft, shortened to J-shit.]
└[Ah]
└[lololol There really are a lot of classic newcomers. They don’t even know the nickname J-shit lololol]
└[It’s true that bringing in newcomers makes it a god-tier game]
[I feel like I’ve seen the nickname Kylo somewhere. Does anyone know him???]
└[Isn’t he a pro from another game?]
└[I searched, but nothing comes up]
└[Maybe you just saw it somewhere?]
└[No, no. I feel like I saw it in Elysium, but I can’t really remember.......]
[The bait itself is too weird in the first place. Isn’t it an AI video?]
└[Right. The hack talk is too sudden too]
└[I ran it through an AI detector, and it says it isn’t AI synthesis]
Like that, after the exhausting argument continued and the debate gradually began veering in strange directions,another massive spark fell into the Elysium community.
[BEST][I watched the hack controversy firsthand at the scene]
A player who had seen the fight between Kylo and KingdomOldHand at the scene had appeared in the community.
[BEST][I watched the hack controversy firsthand at the scene]
[This happened in the Eighth Supply Base party zone. It was PVP that started because of an argument. But a player who looked level 1 parried everything and finished it with a combo at the end. It wasn’t a fight you’d expect to see in the tutorial zone....... It was so insane that even at the scene, people were asking if it was hacks.]
└[Is this real??]
└[Why is it real?]
└[So was it really hacks??]
└[OP][For now, the conclusion at the scene was that it wasn’t hacks. The opponent insisted it was hacks, but the PVP started because the person who lost had picked a fight in the first place]
└[lololol How did a hack controversy become “he just got destroyed” controversy lololol]
└[No, but if I got destroyed like that, I’d suspect hacks too lololol]
└[For real, he blocked consecutive skills with raw Great Success parries]
└[From the screen display, he looked level 1. If I got blocked like that by a level 1, I’d suspect it too lololol]
└[If it’s the Eighth Supply Base hidden route, that’s really early. At most, he’d be barely around class advancement]
└[Then the guy who got blocked is decent too, isn’t he? Considering he’s spamming skills at the Eighth Supply Base]
└[No, but no matter how much the opponent picked a fight, it’s weird that people saw that and concluded it wasn’t hacks]
└[Right. Anyone can see it’s hacks]
└[OP][That’s because something bigger than hacks broke out]
└[??????????????????????]
└[No, what’s bigger than hacks???]
└[No lololol What could be bigger than a hack controversy?]
└[OP][I’ll organize it and post it right away]
└[No, what is it?]
└[What the hell is it that you need to organize it before posting???]
└[If it’s bigger than hacks, what is it? lololol]
└[Something big is coming....... (for real)]
└[This is the first time I’ve been scared that something big is coming, fuck lololol]
└[lololololol]
The information that the onlooker from the scene said they would reveal heated up the community once again.
[What’s bigger than a hack controversy in an online game? lololol]
[Upvote this if you’re scared because you really don’t know what’s going to break lololol]
[What is it really?? I can’t even imagine]
While all the Elysium players who lived on the community were falling into confusion,
[Info][New hidden element revealed after the hack controversy video]
[This is hidden information released without conditions by the player who did the consecutive parries.]
The organized hidden information was uploaded to the game community.
[It was known on this board too that the Silver Medal of Honor was the maximum reward for the farming quest in the tutorial hidden zone, but it wasn’t.]
[There is another hidden route in the tutorial section that can only be progressed at level 1.]
[It is said that if you leave the quest route right after starting the game, keep surviving in the instant-death section that appears, and pick up the hidden weapon, the hidden route opens.]
[This route requires the skill to defeat both the ‘Medusius Serpent’ and the ‘Gigantes Orc Warrior’ at level 1.]
[If you defeat both bosses, you can obtain hidden items that were unknown until now.]
[(Weapon of the Lost Battlefield screenshot)]
[(Gold Medal of Honor screenshot)]
[Everyone who was at the scene of the hack controversy heard this information and went to try it themselves. I tried it a few times too, and the difficulty is insane.]
[I don’t think you can clear it unless you have the crazy skill to do consecutive parries like in that video.]
[If you’re confident in your skill, I recommend trying it yourself. It hasn’t been verified yet.]
A hidden route with absurd conditions, one that overturned the common sense of existing players.
└[????????????????]
└[No, what is this????]
└[A new hidden route in an area that’s been public for nearly ten years????]
└[Two large-class bosses at level 1?]
└[Is this insane??? No, is that possible??]
└[A Gold Medal exists???]
└[Doesn’t that medal get used even after the tutorial if it’s above silver??]
└[I’m going to do it right now, fuck]
└[Hacks weren’t the important thing, for real lololololol]
The information about the newly revealed hidden quest began heating up the [Elysium Online] game communities even more fiercely than the hack controversy.
└[Wow, what kind of person is that consecutive parry user to discover this???]
└[Is he seriously someone more skilled than a pro???]
└[What the hell is he???]
└[Something... Something is happening.......]
Hot enough to turn into an even bigger incident.
***
“XUuuEEEccEEccceeeccecc!!!!!”
The [Venom Serpent] howled at us.
It was not quite on the level of the [Medusius Serpent], but the [Venom Serpent] was also a fairly massive creature. Since it was a snake, its thickness was on the lean side, but it still seemed to be about fifty centimeters thick. Compared to a snake in reality, it was abnormally large.
It even flew, too. Judging by its appearance alone, it was quite threatening.
“A-aren’t Venom-type monsters late-game high-level zone monsters? And that one is pretty big....... Isn’t it a boss?”
Perhaps their studying had meant something, because Ivelin recognized the danger of the [Venom Serpent] and trembled.
To be honest, it was quite a difficult enemy.
First, the [Venom Serpent]’s body was liquid-type, like a slime.
If you made a physical attack against that liquid-like body, most attacks would have their damage at least halved from the start.
Second, its body was liquid-type, and it was even poisonous.
The moment you attempted a physical attack against this type of monster, it dealt elemental damage back to you. In other words, even if you hit it, you would be poisoned too.
Third, since this was the tutorial zone, attack power was fixed, and there was nothing I could do except physical attacks.
Fourth, tricks like setting it on fire were impossible too.
The moment the poison pool caught fire, the poison’s purity would become a mess and the quest completion rate would drop to the lowest value.
Fifth.
Bubble, bubble, bubble......!
Even now, new [Venom Serpents] were being born inside the poison pool.
“Uh, uh, uh....... Kylo! The [Venom Serpents] keep increasing! What do we do? Should we attack?”
“No. There’s no need. Even if we swing swords at them, they won’t take damage anyway.”
“Ah. Right......! I feel like I heard they can’t be killed without magic or enchantments, so what do we do?”
“XUEeeeecCcc!!”
While Ivelin was flustered, the first-born [Venom Serpent] lunged at us.
Fwoosh-fwoosh!
“Let’s dodge first.”
“Y-yes!”
Well, even if it was a lunge, it was still an attack where a flying snake charged straight from the front. It could be avoided with a light step.
While I was at it, I also checked on the Ivelin behind me. They barely dodged by rolling with all their strength, but they did dodge well enough.
BOOM!
Then the [Venom Serpent], having lost its target, slammed its head straight into the ground.
SPLATTER!
The [Venom Serpent]’s venomous body clung to the ground and melted.
“Look over there. The moment its body collided, about half of it spread out, right?”
I explained while pointing at the [Venom Serpent], whose body was stuck to the ground.
“Some enemies that look like liquid slimes have bodies that burst and spread out when they collide with something like that. If they burst completely like that, their HP drops by about 10%.”
“Ah! Then if we repeat this ten times.......”
“In the meantime, ten more [Venom Serpents] will be born.”
When I jokingly told Ivelin the even worse fact, their movement froze like ice. This newbie sure was generous with reactions.
SPLATTER!
In the meantime, the [Venom Serpent] stuck to the ground began wriggling again, trying to move.
“W-what do we do? The [Venom Serpent]!”
“You do this.”
I took the trump card item for dealing with the [Venom Serpent] out of my inventory.
A Supply Potion.
“A potion......?”
“If you throw this like this......!”
I threw the Supply Potion at the [Venom Serpent] stuck to the ground.
SHATTER! HSSSS!
“XUUEEEUEEEEEEeeeeeeeEEEEeeeEECC!”
Then the [Venom Serpent] screamed wildly and began convulsing.
[Hidden objective completed!]
◆ Additional Objectives
─[Hit the Venom Serpent with a Healing Potion.] (Complete)
─[Defeat the Venom Serpent.]
“W-what? Why did the monster react like that when it was hit by a potion......?”
“Because the [Venom Serpent] is also an undead-type monster.”
I explained while taking out the next potion.
“Undead-type monsters actually take damage when hit with Holy Water, recovery magic, healing magic, or potions. So if you throw a potion.......”
SHATTER! HSSSS.....!
When I threw and hit it with a second potion, thick smoke rose from the [Venom Serpent] once again.
“XU,XXxuUUuuuuu......!”
The [Venom Serpent] showed no sign of flying up again and only writhed on the ground.
“Wow!”
Ivelin exclaimed in admiration.
“To think there was a method like this besides magic and enchantments......! I didn’t see it in the guide either! Then can all undead monsters be killed with potions no matter what?”
“It’s more something that’s good to know, but it isn’t a method that can handle all undead monsters. Usually, the recovery amount goes straight in as damage, but monsters have more HP than players.”
In short, the cost-effectiveness was dogshit.
There was a reason guides did not teach it.
Unless you really wanted to pour money into a trash can, there was no reason to kill monsters by throwing potions like this. Alchemists had separate attack potions too.
“Then that monster too.......”
“Ah, this is the tutorial map, isn’t it? The monsters here have somewhat low HP compared to their strength.”
However, this was the tutorial zone. The monsters’ settings were a little different from ordinary areas.
That [Venom Serpent]’s HP was about 1,000.
A Supply Healing Potion’s HP recovery amount was 100, and since that recovery amount went straight in as damage to undead monsters, the calculation was that it could be killed with ten Healing Potions.
Ah, since it had slammed into the ground and lost 10% of its HP on its own, I could subtract one.
“Hup!”
I then took out six Supply Potions and threw them at the [Venom Serpent].
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! HSSSSSSS─!!
“XUEEEEEEECCCC!!!!!!”
The damage it had shaved off on its own with the first collision was 100. Then the damage it received from nine Healing Potions was 900.
Having received a total of 1,000 damage like that, the [Venom Serpent] screamed and disintegrated.
[Hidden objective completed!]
◆ Additional Objectives
─[Hit the Venom Serpent with a Healing Potion.] (Complete)
─[Defeat the Venom Serpent.] (Complete)
Like that, all hidden additional objectives were completed.
“This way, we can kill one with about ten potions.”
I lightly dusted off my hands and finished explaining.
This was the reason they kept giving high-grade potions in this part, where leveling was impossible and HP was fixed at around 200.
Right now, it was only because I had thrown the cheapest potions. If I had thrown high-grade potions, I could have guaranteed one kill per potion against a [Venom Serpent].
“Aha, so that’s why we could get so many potions at the supply base....... If I throw all my potions too, can we kill all those [Venom Serpents]?”
Ivelin asked while looking at the [Venom Serpents] being newly born from the poison pool. Just then, two more [Venom Serpents] had been born.
If we combined both of our potions, we could kill them all no matter how many more were born.
But.
“No.”
I shook my head.
“They keep coming out infinitely anyway, so if we try to kill them, our potions will run out first.”
On top of that, if a potion accidentally mixed into the poison pool, the poison’s purity would likewise drop and the quest completion rate would fall. I had experienced falling into this kind of trap in a similar quest.
“Uh...... Then how do we draw out the poison?”
“That’s simple.”
I chuckled and pointed past the poison pool with my finger.
“We just kill the main body of the boss monster that’s creating the [Venom Serpents].”
“Main body?”
“Watch.”
After saying that, I ran toward the true enemy that was giving birth to the [Venom Serpents].
Splash, splash-splash!
“XUEEEEECCcccc!!!”
“XXXXUuuEEEeeeEEcC!!!”
The [Venom Serpents] that had just been born, and even more newly born [Venom Serpents], all saw me and howled.
Their number was already five. Judging by the shapes surging from the poison pool, they would soon exceed ten.
“““XXUUUeeeEEeEeeeeCcccc──!!!!!!”””
The [Venom Serpents] charged all at once. Attacks that could mean instant death if even one grazed me.
But.
‘If they don’t hit me, that’s all that matters.’
All I had to do was watch carefully and dodge.
Fwoosh, fwoosh-fwoosh─!
A swarm of giant snakes flew at me, cutting through the wind. It seemed as if there was nowhere to dodge from the front, but among them were plenty of gaps I could squeeze into.
TAP!
I ran forward and began slipping into those “gaps.”
Fwoosh-fwoosh─!!
As I passed the charging heads and slipped to the side, the [Venom Serpents] flew past me just like that.
If you dodged the headbutt of a snake-type monster, all you had to watch for next was an attack where it tried to coil its body around you.
And if it was an attack charging with momentum, it would be impossible, or at least comparatively sluggish, for the monster to immediately coil around you or turn and charge again.
If there was such a clear opening, even in my current level 1 state, it was enough to slip through.
Tap-tap-tap─!
After dodging the [Venom Serpents]’ charge like that, I ran straight through the gaps between the [Venom Serpents].
THUMP!
Then I jumped over the body of the [Venom Serpent] at the middle end, ran along the side of the poison pool, and.......
‘There it is.’
On the far side of the pool. Atop a hill made of a mountain of corpses.
The true boss of this section appeared, wreathed in cursed undead flames.
“RrrrrikkkKkiikikiKikKi......!”