Chapter 24 : Kills
Chapter24: 9 Kills
Having broken through one side in the three-way battle situation, now only the duo facing front remained.
Baek Woohyun, who’d put away his military dagger, picked up a spear lying on the floor—it was the legacy of the player he’d just eliminated.
Because he predicted the opposite side would soon show some reaction too.
At first, they would have watched wondering what Jeong Nayeon’s action of hurling supernatural abilities like crazy was about, but that couldn’t last long.
It was obvious how they’d come out once they realized she was mindlessly spamming supernatural abilities without any plan.
They’d surely try to eliminate Jeong Nayeon before others came due to the commotion.
If he stabbed at the opening that would inevitably be revealed in the process, he could easily settle the situation.
—Jeong Nayeon: “I used all my skills!”
Indeed, Baek Woohyun’s prediction wasn’t wrong.
The moment Jeong Nayeon pulled her body into the room to wait for her supernatural ability skills’ cooldowns, enemies began running from beyond the hallway.
Enemy players diligently moving their legs while leaning their bodies forward at a slant.
In their own way, it would have been maneuvering to be reasonably swift while minimizing external threats, but—
“······.”
Seueu—
—To Baek Woohyun, it was merely two targets approaching.
Gripping the spear in reverse and taking a throwing stance, he steadied his breathing with coldly sunken eyes.
Even though it had been quite a while since throwing a spear, he didn’t think at all he’d miss.
There was no way he, who’d fought through countless battlefields, couldn’t hit enemies of that level at merely this distance.
Soon he took a large step, and simultaneously his upper body, which had been half-leaning back taking a bow stance, rotated greatly.
His shoulder and upper arm naturally pulled forward. Following that, starting from the elbow, his hand gripping the spear whipped like a lash drawing a semicircle.
Truly a picture-perfect spear throw!
Swaeaeaek—!
The spear that left Baek Woohyun’s fingertips shot out making a chilling sound.
Since it contained superhuman strength as is, the spear’s speed was tremendously fast. Enough that the targeted enemy player couldn’t even react.
One might even think it had reached right before their nose the moment it was thrown, so what more needed to be said?
Pyeok—!
“Keuueurk!”
“Uwak?! What?!”
The enemy player hit by the spear flew bouncing with a scream at the tremendous impact. Literally, ‘flew.’ It could only be described that way.
Because they floated in midair, flew backward for quite a while, then only stopped after rolling on the floor several times.
Even that only ended in a few rolls because the spear stuck in their body hit the floor and forcibly stopped them—otherwise they might have rolled all the way to the end of the hallway.
Of course, even if they were lucky enough to only roll a few times, the result didn’t change.
Just looking at the enemy player’s state made that clear.
A spear completely penetrating their chest and even limbs broken from tumbling on the floor!
It was a terrible critical injury with no visible possibility of recovery from any angle, and a line of kill log that soon came up supported that fact.
[◇ Baek Woohyun –[Kill]-> GreatestHeavenlyLord]
“Wait, what···!”
The other enemy player shouted with a dumbfounded expression. Left alone suddenly, they blinked looking at the corpse that had once been an ally.
If they’d rather died to a suddenly poured supernatural ability, they wouldn’t have been this flustered. Hidden enemies ambushing with supernatural abilities was common.
But a spear throw. Moreover, a spear throw at a speed they couldn’t even react to.
No matter how diverse supernatural abilities were in Reverse Planet, such cases were rare. All the more so in a situation where physical enhancement element values were said to be low.
So the enemy player couldn’t help but be flustered.
Tat!
“···!”
It was exactly that moment when footsteps reached the standing enemy player’s ears. They hurriedly turned their body with an ‘Oh no!’ face.
Because they’d belatedly realized they were stupid. Showing their back before an enemy. Wasn’t it no different from saying “Please deal with me at once too!”?
‘I need to attack to create distance first!’
If the enemy player had been an ordinary player, they might have succeeded in counterattacking reasonably. They might have somehow escaped after that.
However, the enemy player’s opponent right now happened to be Baek Woohyun. The one called ‘Superhuman’ in Reverse Planet that became reality.
That was their misfortune.
“[Ice Spe—”
Seogeok!
Baek Woohyun, who’d approached close, swung his military dagger without even giving time to try anything.
The blade drawing a clear trajectory precisely severed the enemy player’s neck, even cutting off the voice shouting the skill name.
The ‘Epic’ grade armor the enemy player was wearing posed no hindrance to Baek Woohyun whatsoever.
Because the power obtained by discarding even supernatural abilities with [Perfect Being] and investing the remaining Core Elements purely in physical ability enhancement was that transcendent.
[◇ Baek Woohyun –[Kill]-> InvincibleHyeonmin]
With one new line of kill log going up, all combat ended.
It was a perfect victory where Baek Woohyun alone swept away the remaining two teams that had been in three-way battle.
“Wow, he really catches them all alone.”
Jeong Nayeon, who’d shouldered her supernatural ability amplification staff, cackled.
Honestly speaking, she’d already half-given up on survival the moment she was cornered.
Same when she called Baek Woohyun.
She’d only requested support with the feeling of grasping at straws, having long abandoned hope of surviving.
Yet he’d rather killed everyone and survived.
‘I thought at best revival might be possible—’
Jeong Nayeon acknowledged she’d underestimated Baek Woohyun’s power. There was something more to him beyond what she’d seen on the broadcast.
Well, on the broadcast he’d only had one Core Element, but now he’d perfectly implemented his build, so the performance itself he could show would be on a different dimension.
“Starting with 1 kill right away then 5 kills, adding 3 more kills here makes it a total of 9 kills? Is this for real?”
Jeong Nayeon, who’d been counting the number of enemies Baek Woohyun caught, shook her head.
9 kills, nine people.
In duo matching or team terms, it was almost five teams, and looking at participant numbers, it was a number approaching a whopping ten percent.
Normally the winning team’s kill score in ‘Survival’ mode duo matching was 5 kills if low, around 10 kills if high, yet he’d filled all that not long after starting.
Even for a regular game, it was an amazing record.
‘If it’s 9 kills at the start of the game, how many kills could he get by the end?’
What if he played the so-called ‘Lu Bu’ style, deliberately only fighting around?
Usually playing that way, one died from consecutive engagements or died futilely while cornered, but she couldn’t think Baek Woohyun would end up that way at all.
Only the scene of cutting everyone down and surviving alone to grasp victory circled in her head. Because that’s exactly what happened in the process of eliminating nine people just now.
Moreover, thinking back, this time’s kills were purely achieved by Baek Woohyun alone to the end.
Jeong Nayeon’s help was at most spamming supernatural abilities to draw some attention and buy some time.
Therefore, if she properly supported Baek Woohyun while engaging in combat, they could clearly get kills even more easily, simply, and quickly.
“Good! Let’s keep fighting to the end of this round!”
“Play Lu Bu style?”
“Don’t like it?”
“No, not bad.”
Baek Woohyun, who’d been wiping blood off his military dagger, answered while bobbing his head.
He who hadn’t felt particularly inclined toward hiding and enduring or aiming for lucky catches anyway immediately accepted Jeong Nayeon’s proposal.
Because judging by the level of enemies fought so far, it didn’t seem he’d lose even if they kept fighting.
“We need to farm first though. Just in case other people come.”
“Whatever.”
“······Well, honestly it doesn’t seem like more will come though.”
Jeong Nayeon thought smart players would already be escaping the Military Base and running away.
The only place where kill logs could go up like crazy like just now in the early game was the Military Base, and what would it mean if it was plastered purely with content killed by one person?
It was no exaggeration to say it was a warning to get out of here as quickly as possible since some crazy truck—or hacker—was rampaging.
If they were foolish or novice enough to come this way without knowing that fact, just catch them.
“Wow. Sweet, so sweet~”
Should it indeed be called the Military Base?
Even though the enemy players’ equipment would have been roughly picked up to fight quickly, there were quite many ‘Epic’ grade equipment pieces.
Jeong Nayeon, who hadn’t farmed properly while trapped cornered, collected equipment with delight, and Baek Woohyun also additionally picked up one ‘Epic’ grade longsword.
Around the time the two finished even corpse farming.
[◇ Time remaining until 1st restricted zone setting: 300 seconds]
[◇ Currently scheduled restricted zones — Zone 1: Military Base, Zone 11: Cemetery, Zone 14: Beach]
A system message appeared before them saying the Military Base would be set as a restricted zone in five minutes.
Like most battle royale genre games, Reverse Planet’s ‘Survival’ mode also had a system where the activity range narrowed as time passed, and this was exactly this restricted zone.
Five minutes wait time and five minutes warning time—randomly setting three zones as restricted zones once every ten minutes total to prevent participants from entering or leaving.
Then ultimately leaving only a very small safe zone so one couldn’t win without killing opponents.
“Since there probably won’t be more to take here anyway, let’s go somewhere else right away.”
“Okay.”
“Good! Then shall we catch everyone we see while going? Our farming turned out amazing so we can wipe out most people.”
Jeong Nayeon’s words were facts without a bit of exaggeration.
Since the two had monopolized and farmed the Military Base famous for producing all kinds of high-grade equipment, most of their equipment was ‘Epic’ grade.
Even the few mixed-in ‘Rare’ grade equipment were merely recovery items that didn’t have much impact.
Of course, Reverse Planet’s ‘Survival’ mode wasn’t a game you could win just by eating high-grade equipment well.
Because ‘Survival’ mode was where even players wrapped in ‘Legendary’ grade equipment died to ‘Rare’ grade weapons the moment they let their guard down.
But Jeong Nayeon aside, was Baek Woohyun such a person?
A monster who didn’t let his guard down easily in the first place and boasted skill on a different level from other players.
Unless those who’d survived so far did teaming (an act of not attacking each other and forming an alliance despite being able to in competitive games), Jeong Nayeon’s bold assertion had to become reality.
Even if that happened by the slimmest chance, victory or defeat would have to be determined by fighting.
“Let’s go! To sweep everything away!”
“Okay.”
And so Jeong Nayeon and Baek Woohyun rushed out of the Military Base scheduled to become a restricted zone······.
And completely blew up the game.
There was no one who could stop the two who picked fights with every player in sight.
When perfect farming combined with even more perfect skill, they became beings called ‘trucks (those who become too strong because the game goes extremely well).’
Originally, those rampaging crazily like them usually died cornered, died surrounded by those aiming for lucky catches, or otherwise ultimately died defeated in combat, but.
[◇ Baek Woohyun –[Kill]-> ManWhoOnlyLivesToday]
[◇ Baek Woohyun –[Kill]-> WomanWhoOnlyLivesTomorrow]
[◇ Baek Woohyun –[Kill]-> TheGreat]
[◇ Baek Woohyun –[Kill]-> WaitWhyAmIDying]
Nothing worked on Baek Woohyun.
Whether cornered or however many attacked, he rampaged crazily killing enemies regardless.
He became a massive flame and burned up all participants who jumped at him like moths to flame.
Enough that Jeong Nayeon beside him was later busy watching him with her mouth hanging open.
When even she, who had qualifications to pride herself as reasonably stagnant water of Reverse Planet, was like that, what more needed to be said?
Seogeok!
[Game has ended]
[Game Mode: Survival – Duo]
[Final Result: 1st / 50th place]
[Baek Woohyun – 25 K / 7 A / 0 D]
[Jeong Nayeon – 7 K / 15 A / 0 D]