Chapter 32 : Massacre
Chapter 32: Massacre
“…!”
The encounter with the next enemy happened almost immediately.
Perhaps they were in the same team as the guard killed earlier, he faced a guard who had been approaching from not far away.
He discovered Baek Woohyun and immediately raised his gun, but couldn’t pull the trigger. Because before that, the chain scythe Baek Woohyun threw had already pierced his brow.
The scythe attached to the chain end made a kwadeuk! sound and mercilessly penetrated the guard’s skull.
As a result, it was the same as the guard dying without any reaction.
However, it was difficult to say this was the guard’s fault.
Generally, whips are the only cold weapons that can break the speed of sound, and since chain scythes also inherited that form partially, the speed displayed when swung was tremendously fast.
Of course, since it had the form of a scythe attached to the chain end, the attack speed had no choice but to be slower than ordinary whips, but as long as it was in Baek Woohyun’s hands, that wasn’t much of a problem.
Because a chain scythe swung with superhuman strength could easily make up for that much loss.
Therefore, responding to this for a guard who was merely an ordinary human was rather close to impossible.
It was merely an unstoppable disaster.
‘Good.’
Thud!
Baek Woohyun, who retrieved the chain scythe, immediately kicked the ground and leaped up.
Not toward the front, but up a tree beside him.
Having climbed onto a sturdy branch with a single leap, he used the recoil to leap straight across to another tree.
He was demonstrating one of the methods Cha Seongcheol, who had been watching in the broadcast earlier, had mentioned.
However, the purpose of crossing above trees was different.
After crossing above trees a few times, as soon as an enemy appeared in his view, he pounced as if he’d been waiting.
Without any hesitation.
Slash!
A raid like a hawk snatching prey!
The guard who received an unexpected attack had his neck beheaded without any resistance. Not an exaggeration, but truly the neck and torso separated.
It happened because it contained all the force stabbing down diagonally from above.
“…! What?!” “E-enemy!”
Was it because they witnessed the scene of their comrade being beheaded before their eyes?
The response of the two guards behind was slow.
Surprised, shouting. Truly stupid, wasn’t it?
In combat where even a second was precious, that was no different from a request to be killed.
Naturally, Baek Woohyun wasn’t one to miss such an opening.
Before the headless corpse even fell, he pounced on the next enemy and terribly simply cut off their breath.
The process accomplished so naturally it seemed like something that must be done. Like a farmer harvesting crops during harvest season.
Well, the only difference was whether harvesting crops or harvesting lives, but since both were reaping, it was understandable.
“Die!”
Ratatatat!
Only then did the other guard pull the trigger, but unfortunately for him, that didn’t mean he could hit Baek Woohyun.
The danger Baek Woohyun wanted to avoid was a firing network formed by dozens of enemies, not one person’s spray. That much was entirely surmountable.
Just like right now.
Thud!
“Keu-heuk!”
Like in the research facility, Baek Woohyun ran avoiding the gun barrel and stabbed a dagger into the enemy’s heart.
At the sensation of cold metal digging into his body, the guard let out a pain-filled scream, but Baek Woohyun felt not even a bit of pity.
Rather, he twisted the military dagger with a coldly hardened face. An expression of will to forcibly widen the wound by probing it, to definitely kill him.
Because he knew the guards’ evil deeds better than anyone.
These were beasts with no value to live…
“—…”
The guard’s body, which had been trembling under the cold gaze of the reaper, soon went limp.
The time it took to get here was merely dozens of seconds.
It was surprisingly short to be considered time taken to annihilate one team consisting of three people.
No exaggeration to say it was a result ordinary players couldn’t even dare imagine.
This was close to a difference in combat style rather than simply other players’ abilities being insufficient—though this was also a reason occupying large weight.
Because generally powerful supernatural ability skills had long cooldowns attached, other players had to buy that time after killing one person.
By buying time while keeping them in check with weaker supernatural ability skills, running away appropriately, shooting guns, etc.
Then killing enemies with powerful supernatural ability skills when cooldown finished was the typical player’s combat style.
Therefore, they couldn’t show refreshing development like Baek Woohyun now even if they wanted to.
At least the small minority of players who invested in physical abilities instead of supernatural abilities might have possibility… but possibility was merely possibility.
Considering even the fact that now was the very early stage with only one Core Element, it was rather correct to say the combat speed Baek Woohyun showed was endlessly alien.
Slash!
“Geu-ak!” “Damn it!” “Shoot! Shoot!”
After that too, Baek Woohyun roamed freely through the forest eliminating guards.
Enemies who swarmed after hearing gunfire following the first roar died as soon as they encountered Baek Woohyun. Meaninglessly, merely consuming a few dozen seconds of his time.
It seemed like the forest had become a giant antlion pit.
At that, a terrible antlion pit with the terrifyingly formidable antlion called Baek Woohyun, from which one could never escape alive.
She’d bet this antlion pit would absolutely never disappear until all enemies in the forest died.
Because none other than Baek Woohyun decided so.
***
“Wow-”
“Heo.”
-Holy shit;
-Wtf lololol what is that lololol
-Where did the RePla I knew go
-Something… something’s happening…
Seeing Baek Woohyun in the video charge like lightning eliminating guards, Cha Seongcheol and Jeong Nayeon exclaimed in admiration.
Viewers’ admiration was the same. Watching chat going up at fast speed, the excitement they must be feeling was vividly conveyed.
That made sense, because no ‘Reverse Planet’ broadcast showed refreshing massacre from early stages like Baek Woohyun now.
As mentioned earlier, that was both lack of ability and also a result from difference in combat style.
But anyway, Baek Woohyun’s massacre certainly seemed to approach Jeong Nayeon and Cha Seongcheol, and viewers very attractively.
-He just calls them all without hesitation ㄷㄷ
-When bothersome to search around, make enemies come. That’s common sense, right?
-Not dying after that is ㄹㅇ legendary lol
-Reflecting on thinking he’d only kill encountered enemies
“I also thought he’d just search around killing. I didn’t know he’d just shout out loud to gather all aggro.”
“Who could have imagined? Haha.”
-ㄹㅇlol
-Thought he was crazy seeing him suddenly shout
-Was doing something else and came surprised lol
-Me too lololol
As Cha Seongcheol said, nobody watching Baek Woohyun had thought he’d deliberately gather all enemies to kill.
At most they predicted he’d move avoiding combat, or only kill those encountered.
At least after seeing Baek Woohyun’s expression, Jeong Nayeon presented the possibility of killing all, but that was a story of killing while searching around.
It didn’t mean ignoring danger to call and kill them.
In that sense, Baek Woohyun’s play was extremely alien. No exaggeration to say it was violence achieved by pushing with literally absurd physicality.
But simultaneously, that was also the scene viewers wanted to see. Because it was combat befitting Hackphysical’s name, destroying even common sense.
Like during the tutorial that could be called their first meeting, and during the clarification broadcast.
‘MyLoveCat’ donated ‘1000 won’!
[Isn’t Perfect Being too broken? Seeing it so strong from early on is absurd;;]
“No, that’s not so.”
At the viewer’s donation, Cha Seongcheol shook his head.
It was a denial he could show because he knew research content actively conducted on [Perfect Being] and conclusions reached to some degree.
He recalled with bitter smile the evaluation many builders made unanimously about [Perfect Being].
‘Rather than use this, just use supernatural abilities— was it.’
“Of course, if he used supernatural abilities he couldn’t show massacre like now, so it feels broken. Seems worth giving up supernatural abilities as penalty.”
“Certainly… that’s right. Watching Hackphysical now makes me wonder if supernatural abilities are really necessary.”
-ㄹㅇ it’s a broken element, why not include it?
-With just that he can chew everything up lol
-Builders said to absolutely never include [Perfect Being]
-Ah it’s Hackphysical’s build~ what do you know~
“But you should know, for that you must be able to face enemies armed with guns with only enhanced physical abilities alone, and multiple at that.”
Cha Seongcheol added that Baek Woohyun’s greatness was rather covered by the word ‘physicality.’
Because it’s a game, it was lumped together with one word ‘physicality,’ but the more closely examined, the more one learns that Hackphysical is a monster.
“The massacre Hackphysical shows is a result created because all combat performance abilities including weapon handling techniques are superior. Not created with just one Core Element. Moreover.”
Cha Seongcheol, who lightly raised attention, continued.
“There’s one more point not to forget, that Hackphysical is currently in no-assist state.”
“Ah, right! That’s so!”
-Thinking about it, that’s right
-I can’t fight well even with assist fuck
-Since there’s no assist at all, [Perfect Being]’s effect is better too, I just realized
-Builders didn’t say not to use it for nothing
Combat assistance, a system providing overall combat help like posture correction and motion assistance, supernatural ability usage assistance.
Just hearing the explanation, not using it seems more foolish.
But lowering assistance numbers wasn’t unconditionally bad. If so, pros wouldn’t have struggled somehow to lower assistance numbers.
When combat assistance numbers are low, instead of receiving system help, players gain freedom and power.
What this means is, the lower assistance gets, the more one can handle not supernatural ability skills but genuine supernatural abilities, and their power also increases.
In fact, supernatural ability skills like [Fireball] or [Wind Blade] may sound good as supernatural ability skills, but ultimately doesn’t it mean being able to use supernatural abilities only in that skill’s form?
If assistance numbers are low, one could be free from such constraints.
Using fire-handling supernatural ability with low assistance means being able to make swords, spears, or create spheres to explode. At that, with even stronger power.
Of course, having to execute all that relying only on one’s senses, while simultaneously directly moving the body to fight, combat difficulty would be tremendously high, but anyway one gained freedom and power.
‘MilitaryOtakuSavesWorld’ donated ‘1000 won’!
[Sad hack story) Fighting like that with no-assist means being able to do that in reality too]
-Gasp!
-What;
-Gasp
-What does that mean, military otaku
“Well… it’s not wrong. Since he’s fighting like that without system help…”
-Former special forces member?
-If I met him in reality I’d immediately bow lol
-No wonder he beat the boss suspiciously well during tutorial
-Ahem, no speculation!
‘What’s with former special forces member.’
Seeing the murmuring chat window, Jeong Nayeon chuckled. She knew Baek Woohyun wasn’t such a person, but didn’t particularly step forward to clarify.
Not only was there no reason to intervene while they argued among themselves, but she didn’t know how these stories might accumulate and return as some meme someday.
There probably wasn’t anyone who’d really believe that anyway.
As even she closed her mouth like that, viewers spouted identity-unknown nonsense.
But that didn’t last very long, because after Baek Woohyun in the video conducted massacre at almost time attack level, he finally dealt with all enemies.
It was exactly as Jeong Nayeon’s initial prediction, while simultaneously a result far exceeding prediction.