“Uwaaaaaak!!!”
“The crazy hack-using bastard is throwing hacks!!”
“Run!!!”
The innocent(?) onlookers began fleeing in horror because they did not want to get hit by the hack potions(?).
“That hack-using bastard is spouting bullshit!”
“As if the game company is stupid enough to ban us together!”
“Hit him! Teach him a lesson!!!”
And the not-so-innocent(?) players were thoroughly pissed off and began attacking me again.
Now that I thought about it, maybe the group that first picked a fight with me had come here intending to beat up a hack player together.
Well.
CLAAAANG─!!!
That did not mean they had the skill to catch me.
“I’ve got you now.”
WHOOSH!
After parrying the magic again with the [Requiem Sword] enchanted through [Mana Enchant], I threw a potion.
SHATTER!
“Urgh!”
Then the Magician player who had launched a ranged attack was hit square in the face again.
According to the game system, it would only cause a very small stun, but an inexperienced player would shrink back from the impact to their face far more than the stun itself.
The Magician player who had attacked me was the same.
And that huge opening created by shrinking back was no different from perfect prey.
“Hup!”
SLAAASH─!!
“Aaaaak!”
Another [Part Break] occurred, and the Magician player’s arm was sliced clean off. I landed a follow-up attack and cut the Magician player’s neck just like that.
“Next!”
Then I immediately leaped into the crowd to find the next attacker.
“Uwaaaaaak! Don’t come!”
“Please don’t throw potions!”
“It’s him!”
“Over here!”
“This guy fired Energy Bolt earlier!”
Then a very amusing situation occurred.
The players who did not want to be hit by the hack potions(?) began voluntarily reporting the bastards who had hidden and attacked me.
“Ah?! What bullshit! It wasn’t me!”
“Ah, I saw it too.”
“You little......! Aren’t you people Yang Pinpin fans too?! You’re doing this after watching Yang Pinpin get cut through the body?!”
“The bad thing is that Yang Pinpin got wrecked!”
“A loss is a loss! Wow, did you really interfere earlier because you were acting like a fanboy?”
“Ah, come on. You’re ruining the whole fandom’s image!”
While they were cutely bickering, I succeeded in approaching right in front of them.
Then what happened?
“Goodbye.”
SLAAAASH!
“Aaaak!”
Another player’s punishment ended too. Judging by the fact that no reputation warning message appeared, it was certain that he had a history of attacking me.
“Ah, damn it!!!”
Perhaps having given up on escaping amid the confusion, one swordsman player spat out a curse and charged at me.
“Acting high and mighty when you’re just a hack-using bastard!”
“I’m actually high and mighty.”
SLASH!
The match was decided in one exchange.
The incoming attack was so clumsy that simply attacking while dodging was enough to finish him.
Even if we were not at the level of level 1, both sides were still fairly low level, and the [Requiem Sword]’s attack power was so high that I could almost one-shot my opponents.
“Now, if you’re leaving, hurry up and leave already!”
I urged the other players while continuing to throw potions.
Since High-Grade Potions were a waste, I roughly threw Low-Grade Potions, but because of the fear of the hack potions(?) that had already spread, no one cared that the potions had changed.
SHATTER!
“Uwaaaaak! The potion is splashing!”
“Hurry, hurry and go!”
“The lodgings are all blocked!”
In this game, the place where you could immediately log out was usually the lodgings. However, the lodgings at the Eighth Supply Base were not very large for dozens or hundreds of people to enter at once.
Naturally, the gathered players became tangled with one another and blocked the area near the entrance.
“Hey, move out of the way!!”
“I’m first!”
“Let go! Let go! If you keep doing this, I’m reporting you!”
“You can only report if they hold on for more than a minute, right?”
While the players bickered among themselves like that, I did not miss the opening.
I had spotted the player who had fired arrows earlier in the middle.
THUMP!
After reaching the entrance of the lodgings with quick movement.
“Aaak!”
“W-wow, he’s here!”
“Uwaaaaaaaaah!!”
The other players fled in terror of getting hit by potions, and the archer player fell onto the ground.
“Urgh?!”
“It’s over.”
SLASH!
I drove the [Requiem Sword] straight into the body of the archer player who had fallen onto the ground.
THUD!
The player’s corpse fell to the ground just like that. Seeing as it did not disappear immediately, they must have a party member nearby.
But that was as far as my memory of their faces went.
‘Should I make a few more players leave?’
I activated another handful of Low-Grade Potions and threw them wildly around me.
“Uwaaaaak!”
“Dodge quickly!”
Honestly, it was a little funny. Why were they trying so hard to dodge something like this?
But it was not as if I could not understand.
VR games generally imposed fairly strict sanctions against hack programs. Naturally, no one wanted to get even slightly involved.
Of course, it was all a lie.
Well, let’s call it the fault of the bastards who brought up such pointless suspicions.
“Hup!”
SHATTER-SHATTER-SHATTER!
“Why the hell does he have so many potions?!”
“I told you, they must be duped items!!”
“That means we’re screwed if we get hit!!”
As I threw potions without hesitation, a virtuous(?) cycle occurred where the strangely large number of potions frightened the players even more.
In truth, the number of potions I had was limited, but.......
‘I still have plenty left anyway.’
With my skill, I could clear the remaining hidden quests even without potions.
That was why I had passed quite a lot of potions to Ivelin too.
Even so, I still had many potions left. They were overflowing. Enough that I could use them for pranks like this as much as I wanted.
“If you don’t dodge quickly, you might get banned?”
“Uwaaaaaak!”
SHATTER-SHATTER-SHATTER!
I only threw potions lightly, but the other players desperately tried to dodge even the droplets splashing from the potions.
‘This is pretty fun too.’
I had not raised many magic-using classes, but was it like this if you raised one?
After advancing to [Blade Master], maybe it would be good to advance into magic or a combat alchemist.
THUMP!
After driving out all the nearby players, I jumped onto a nearby hill. Then I looked down at the crowd from above.
Then.
“Here! Over here!”
“That bastard threw daggers earlier!”
“Hey! Hey! What bullshit?!”
There were even players openly looking at me and reporting targets.
It seemed half of them were doing it to escape, and half of them were doing it for fun. They were grinning as they pointed fingers.
“Thank you!”
After answering cheerfully, I threw a potion at the reported bastard.
“Uwaaaaaak!”
Would there ever be another situation where someone screamed like that because they were dodging a potion? It was truly ridiculous.
“Uwa, uwaaaa!”
The flustered player ran away and headed toward a dead end on their own. It seemed they did not know the terrain well yet.
Well, it was a good situation for me.
THUMP!
I jumped down toward the alley the player had gone into.
“I remember you. You threw a dagger earlier too, didn’t you?”
“N-no! No! You’re mistaken!”
“Really? Anyway, I’ll give you this.”
In any case, I threw a potion.
SHATTER!
I had thrown it from close range. Naturally, the potion hit the dagger player’s torso.
“Ah! Aaaaaah! Damn it!”
Perhaps anger had surged all the way to the top of the dagger player’s head, because they screamed and drew a dagger.
What kind of expression would they make later when they learned this had all been pointless?
WHOOSH!
The dagger player used a skill. In an instant, the distance between me and the dagger player narrowed.
However.
“You’re too honest.”
Maybe because he was agitated, his approach was too crude. As if the fact that he had narrowed the distance was meaningless, I could dodge the dagger player’s thrust by only slightly moving to the side.
WHOOSH!
“Urgh?!”
“Then goodbye.”
SLASH!
When I cut the dagger player who had stabbed into empty air, once again, the player collapsed in one blow.
“Uwaaaaa! It really is one hit?!”
“Hey! I told you the potion is more dangerous!”
“Damn it! Hurry!”
When I came back out toward the square, I saw players causing a commotion as they moved away.
And among them.
“Damn it, kill him! Kill him!”
There was a group running toward me while shouting. They were the players I had cut down and killed earlier.
‘They revived and came back.’
This was a base. Even if you died, you could revive in 60 seconds at most. Because this was the tutorial section, there was no revival base other than this one.
In other words.
“Just land one hit!”
The bastards who had already been hit by potions and one-shot killed had nothing left to lose, so they began charging toward me alone.
To land even one hit.
WHOOOSH!
I heard something cutting through the wind from somewhere.
An arrow.
CLANG!
I turned my body and lightly parried the incoming arrow.
Far away, I saw the archer player sniping me from on top of a building.
“Shoot! Shoot!”
Apparently, everyone I had killed had revived and come back to snipe me.
The situation had become even more interesting.
“Uryaaaaah!”
From the front, a warrior player swung an axe down. After receiving the axe with a parry, I kicked the player in the abdomen.
“Urgh?!”
“Ak?!”
“Don’t block me!”
The player pushed back by my kick collided with the other players charging in from behind.
Causing a melee like that, I cut down every opponent who showed an opening.
Slice─!
“Kkeuaaaak!”
Likewise, the body of the player who had charged at me was split in two with a single blow.
“Hiiiiiiss......!”
However, killing intent did not fade from the eyes of the player whose body had been split in two like that. At a glance, they looked ready to revive and charge back in.
And was that all?
Fwoosh!
Magic and arrows flew again from various places.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! PAANG!
After parrying the arrows in succession, I parried the final Energy Bolt and burst it apart.
Fwoosh!
However, ranged attacks kept flying in from all sorts of directions.
Maybe if I still had swords in both hands like earlier, but right now, I was holding a sword in one hand so I could throw potions, so parrying in both directions was a bit difficult.
Therefore, I did not bother receiving attacks from the left with parries and lightly moved to dodge them.
Then.
“Left!”
“His left is open!”
Pa-pa-pang!
Perhaps noticing that, the players hiding in the crowd on the left ran and launched even more ranged attacks.
“Hryaaaap!”
And three melee players charged from multiple directions, aiming for the opening.
‘Oh.’
They finally seemed to be challenging me while using their heads a bit.
It seemed they intended to exploit the opening when I parried the ranged attacks here.
But.
‘You still have a long way to go!’
I took out potions and threw them toward the ranged attacks.
SHATTER! SHATTER! SHATTER! SPLAAASH─!
The thrown potions hit the incoming arrows and Energy Bolts precisely and exploded. Then the exploded potions scattered healing effects around them.
At that.
“U-uwaaaaaak!”
“I got healed, damn it!!!”
“Aaaaaah!”
Maybe because I had blocked projectiles from quite a distance with potions. Victims screaming that they had been healed appeared one after another nearby.
WHOOSH!
Then, from different directions, the melee players swung their weapons at the same time.
A situation where dodging in any direction was difficult.
“Hup!”
I kicked off the ground and jumped in place. According to [Elysium Online]’s basic physics, even a basic character could jump to about the height of a person.
“What?!”
“Insane!”
THUD!
At the same time, the melee players attacking me could not overcome the momentum of their attacks and collided with one another.
It seemed they had not expected me to attempt jump evasion at level 1.
And the more a situation was unexpected and caught someone off guard, the more perfect an opening it created for attack.
“Hup!”
At the same time as I landed, I stabbed the [Requiem Sword] into the head of the player holding a greatsword.
SLAAASH!!
“H-hiiik!”
Even though this was a game, the sight of a head being pierced straight through was quite chilling. Another player froze while screaming.
“Ha!”
SLAAAASH─!!
I roughly swung the [Requiem Sword] lodged in the head and cut the opponent at my side.
“Urgh?!”
Because it was a rough connection, this one was not a one-shot kill. It only left a large wound on their torso.
“Damn it!”
This opponent did not yield to the damage and began attacking. I lightly countered the attack.
CLANG, CLANG, CLANG!
Our attacks clashed in succession, and a sword dance continued. Judging by the momentum, I wanted to deal with him a little longer, but.......
‘Is he aiming for my back?’
The remaining one was not in my field of vision.
‘I need to parry and redirect.’
SLASH!
I received the sword from the front, but instead of pushing it away, I used the opponent’s momentum and deflected it. The moment our positions shifted like that.
“H-huh?!”
“Urgh?!”
SLASH!
The remaining player’s sword, which had been aiming for my back just in time, stabbed into the abdomen of the player whose position had shifted.
Since they had already joined the PK, even attacks between themselves had gained attack judgment.
And using the opening created by that collision.
SLASH!
I stabbed through the bodies of the two players just like that. The [Requiem Sword] pierced straight through both remaining players.
“Your coordination was pretty good, all three of you.”
After answering briefly like that, I roughly pulled the [Requiem Sword] out of the two players I had stabbed. Then I quickly left the spot.
Immediately.
Thud-thud-thud!
No sooner had I moved away than a rain of arrows poured down where I had been.
There were still opponents attacking me.
‘Now, next?’
The moment I turned my gaze toward the players like that.
“Aaaaak!”
“Ah, move out of the way!”
“You bastard, I got hit by your arrow!”
“I can’t get out because of the lag!”
“Stop getting in the way and get lost!”
Perhaps because of the chaotic melee, before I knew it, players had begun hitting one another.
Because ranged attacks and my potions hit players who were not involved, the PK judgment had gradually begun dragging other players in!
Still, if they were not aiming for me, the “wanted criminal,” they would receive indiscriminate PK penalties, so I thought most of them would avoid the area, but.......
“Damn it!”
“I already got hit by hack potions anyway, that’s what!”
“You used me as a shield earlier!”
“Ban or whatever! I’ll just take a few days’ suspension!”
BOOM! BOOM! SLASH!
Had they all lost their temper? Now even other players were fighting each other. Death effects even bloomed from place to place.
It was the beginning of a large-scale melee reminiscent of a battlefield.
Ssssss!
Players disappearing from corpses as red particles, and players reappearing at the revival point.
Because of the players coming and going, the screen was delayed with a grinding sound.
“There! The hack-using bastard is over there!”
“Just stab him once!”
“Even one hit!”
“We only need to hit him once!”
In the meantime, there were once again more than ten players rushing toward me.
“Haha.”
What a complete mess.
But I did not refuse it and mixed in among the players, countering wildly.
Slice!
I split the torso of an opponent trying to charge at me in two,
BOOM! SLASH!!
then stabbed and killed an opponent beyond the player bursting into a death effect.
[Killed a target who was not a PVP opponent in a non-combat area.]
[Reputation decreased!]
[Killed a target who was not a PVP opponent in a non-combat area.]
[Reputation decreased!]
While I kept killing other players like that,
[Battlefield Massacrer!]
[Bloodstained Sword!]
[Defeated 50 Reincarnators through PVP!]
[Karma State changed!]
[Karma State: Wanted Criminal]
my Karma continued plunging to the bottom.
However, this fight did not bring only negative results.
[While defeating numerous Reincarnators, ghostly energy gathers on your sword!]
[Additional corrections are applied to stats while facing numerous enemies!]
[It seems you will soon be able to write a new legend!]
Amid the continued battle, new fruit was about to be borne.