Chapter 69 : Mine Build
Chapter 69: Mine Build
“Wow-“
The elements needed to become a commentator are eloquence to explain well what one knows and sharp insight.
As a current commentator, Cha Seongcheol had excellent discernment, so he didn’t miss the greatness Baek Woohyun showed in the first round.
Instantly shattering the opponent’s resistance and targeting the vital point in the neck to drive them to death—it was a sight lacking nothing to be called artistic.
He naturally unpacked what he recognized with his characteristic eloquence.
“The opponent is probably bewildered right now. Huh? What? I just lost like this from getting cut by a knife once? But they had to lose. The carotid artery was precisely cut, right? Then they have no choice but to lose!”
“Vital points in reality are also vital points in ‘Reverse Planet.'”
“It’s a part often overlooked because people fight so much with abilities. The carotid artery is a vital point where you lose consciousness in seconds if completely blocked, and since it was cut, naturally the body won’t move.”
-So that’s why they collapsed
-A lot of people surprisingly don’t know this
-It’s not for nothing that pro players learn martial arts
-Anyone else scared by how cleanly he cut the carotid artery with no assistance?
“This is one of Hackphysical’s terrifying aspects. Each and every attack is astonishingly lethal! It was like that in PVE, but in PVP, it’s just beyond words.”
-For real, it’s insane
-It looks simple but there’s no way to block it;
-The moment he gets close it’s just game over lol
-Hmm… is it that much?
As Cha Seongcheol rattled off words rapidly with rising tension, those among the viewers with decent discernment also responded.
Because they had discernment, they realized faster. That even if they were there, the result would have been the same.
The claim that ‘To truly understand Hackphysical’s greatness, put yourself in the opponent’s position!’ didn’t circulate among PVP users for nothing.
Most of Baek Woohyun’s PVP ended with the enemy dying from a few simple slashes, so to those who didn’t know, it gave the impression “What, that’s nothing special?”
However, when you asked those people “Then how would you respond if you were the opponent?”, most of them became silent as a mute who ate honey.
Because when they thought about what they would do in their head, they realized they couldn’t escape from Baek Woohyun’s grasp no matter what they tried.
-Lots of Bronze-Silver-Gold scrubs saying ‘is it that much’ lol
-Everyone who doesn’t recognize Hackphysical’s greatness is low tier if you check
-Ugh, tier elitism is disgusting
-But… only low tiers can’t recognize it, that’s true…
“Now now, everyone. Don’t fight! I’ll slowly explain why the attacks Hackphysical showed in the first round were great-“
[(Anonymous) has surrendered, ending the ‘Duel’]
[Final Winner: Baek Woohyun]
[Final Loser: (Anonymous)]
-“……”
While they were chattering in the studio, the first ‘Duel’ ended with the enemy player’s surrender.
Having finished the game with just one round again, Baek Woohyun naturally queued for the next match. Swinging his blade just three times wasn’t even enough for a warm-up.
However, unfortunately for him, the second match’s development and result were almost identical. The third match, and the consecutive fourth match were the same as well.
This happened because the skill of mere Platinum tier users couldn’t stop Baek Woohyun from closing the distance.
The gap in skill was so large that exchanging blows didn’t even happen, so every match had the same development and result.
They’d somehow try one ability skill as he approached, and once that was breached, they’d allow distance and become the dagger’s sacrifice, ending it.
In that way, after losing the first round, seventy percent of opponents who felt the ‘wall’ would surrender, and the remaining thirty percent would grit their teeth and go for the second round.
The fortunate part was that the former case took only two to three minutes per match, and even the latter took only another two to three minutes at most.
It meant they progressed quickly, taking barely five minutes per match.
-Already on a 5-win streak lol
-The record is going up crazy fast lol
-If he only does Duel today, he’ll break the record
-Nah, it’ll be different when he gets to higher tiers
“That’s right. When he reaches higher tiers and meets users famous as masters and even meets pros, the pace will slow down from now. The time per match will increase.”
“What do you consider higher tier?”
“Mmm- I think it needs to be at least Grand Master. Master… isn’t an easy tier either, but compared to Hackphysical, it’s somewhat lacking.”
-If he crushes even Master, upvote
-Bronze-Silver-Gold-Plat-Diamond is proven, so adding Master-Grand Master here would be perfect
-Ah lol anyway everyone’s equal below Hackphysical lol
-Let’s go all the way to Challenger rank 1
Of course, the viewers didn’t dislike it just because it progressed quickly.
Rather, the viewers felt vicarious satisfaction, saying their insides were clearing up from the refreshing consecutive wins through rank climbing that Baek Woohyun showed.
There was romance in Baek Woohyun’s appearance climbing upward, continuously upward, while crushing opponents overwhelmingly.
The romance of climbing, different in nature from simple power fantasy.
[(Anonymous) has surrendered, ending the ‘Duel’]
[Final Loser: (Anonymous)]
[Promoted to Platinum I rank]
-“Hmm…”
“From Plat 4 straight to Plat 1.”
“If it weren’t fixed to always start at tier 4 when ranking up, and the maximum promotion limit wasn’t set to tier 1, he would have been promoted even faster.”
“True, with his current MMR being ridiculously high from the win streak, that would be the case.”
-At this rate he’ll jump through Diamond too
-Wasn’t it Master when it changes to points
-Because of MMR he’ll probably get tons of points even in Master
-The person he faced last match was Diamond 1
Meanwhile, after Baek Woohyun, who had been Gold tier, rose to Platinum tier, he achieved a 3-tier promotion, a symbol of win streaks.
He had gone from being Gold tier before the broadcast started to reaching just before conquering Platinum tier in barely an hour.
Of course, it wasn’t particularly surprising. As Cha Seongcheol said, without a few restrictions, his tier would have broken through Diamond and more.
[Will you start PVP ‘Duel’ mode game matching?]
[Yes/No]
Even Baek Woohyun himself seemed to feel no interest in the fact that he’d been promoted to Platinum 1 tier, immediately queuing for a new match.
To some, Platinum tier might be their goal, but to him it was just a very brief stage to pass through.
Well, for him with experience from ‘that side,’ even Challenger ranking 1 might not get a reaction, let alone Platinum rank.
[PVP ‘Duel’ mode game matching successful]
[Moving to arena]
-“-Huh?”
-“……”
The opponent matched for the first round at Zone 13: Slums showed a startled expression upon seeing Baek Woohyun.
At a reaction you’d only show when unexpectedly meeting someone you know, Baek Woohyun quietly observed him. There was only one type of person in PVP who would react like that.
The enemy player also seemed to realize how he must look to Baek Woohyun and hurriedly waved his hands.
-“No, no! It’s not stream sniping! Really!”
-“……”
-“I just queued and got matched! I’m Master tier! If I was sniping, I would have queued lower, right?!”
“That’s a truly desperate excuse.”
“It means he really doesn’t want to be misunderstood. Mmm- checking confirms he’s really Master. It seems the claim about not stream sniping is true.”
-What, already meeting a Master?
-I thought it was a sniper making excuses but I guess not
-He must feel like he got hit by lightning lol
-Queued up without thinking and the opponent is Hackphysical lmao
Usually, viewers would have cursed saying even stream snipers make excuses, but not this time.
Even to them, when he’d been matching with Diamond tiers until the previous match, it made no sense for a Master tier user to suddenly stream snipe.
No one would have expected the matching system to just skip a few in the upper Plat to Diamond range and match him with higher tiers.
[Time remaining until first round start – 10 seconds]
-“……”
-“Ha, damn. Just remember I’m not a sniper, at least!”
Baek Woohyun lightly brushed past the enemy player’s desperate explanation. Whether the enemy player was truly stream sniping or not wasn’t that important to him.
His thorough crushing of the stream sniper he met before was purely because that person called him a hacker.
As long as they didn’t do that, he didn’t care at all whether they sniped him or not. Any opponent would be defeated by his hands equally, so what did it matter?
[3 seconds]
[2 seconds]
[1 second]
[First round, start!]
Dash!
As always, Baek Woohyun charged forward to close distance at the start of battle!
However, the enemy player also quickly retreated to create distance. It was a natural reaction for someone who knew about Baek Woohyun and his build.
The only surprising thing was that the speed of retreat was faster than imagined. Several times faster than commonly used movement skills.
“Hackphysical chasing the retreating opponent! He’s quite fast, but the opponent is fast too! It seems they invested heavily in movement!”
“But at this rate he’ll catch up soon, right? Will they just lose like this?”
-How much did they invest in movement to be that fast
-To be able to flee against Hackphysical’s build, they must have invested a ton
-? Then how do they attack
-Well, they’ll show us from now on
-“-!”
It was then that Baek Woohyun, who had been running, suddenly widened his eyes and jerked his waist backward.
Simultaneously, something exploded with a bang! at the location where his head had been just a second ago.
There was clearly nothing in that empty air!
If he hadn’t dodged with insane reaction speed and had kept going, his head might have been blown off by the explosion.
-“Wow, he dodged that.”
The enemy player clicked their tongue watching Baek Woohyun narrowly escape danger.
Their faces showed a mix of admiration and confusion at the attack they thought was a perfect opportunity missing.
Well, anyone would react that way seeing someone dodge an invisible attack. First admiring that he dodged, then confused about how it was possible.
-“……”
“[Detonation Mine]! That’s [Detonation Mine], right?”
“Yes, that’s right. [Detonation Mine]. I wondered why the retreat was so fast—it was because of a mine build.”
-Ah damn, the most disgusting build appeared
-Please stop with mine builds, for real
-Everyone who uses that should be ripped apart
-Mine users deserve to be ripped apart
“I don’t know if I should say this, but honestly, I feel the same as you all. I just can’t like mine builds.”
“Still, thinking of it as one strategy, haha. Of course, I also hate meeting mines in ‘Duel.'”
The reaction in the studio to figuring out the enemy player’s build wasn’t very positive.
Not just the viewers, but even Jeong Nayeon and Cha Seongcheol directly stated they didn’t like it.
From the moment the build name included the character for insect , you could guess how much this build was an object of hatred.