Chapter 119 : Welcome Inspection Build
Chapter 119: Phantom Swordsman Build
“……!”
The enemy player’s eyes widened in great surprise at the blade flying toward his neck. It was a natural reaction since it was a surprise attack aimed at a gap in his awareness.
If it had been a low-tier PVP user, they would have been hit just like that, but the enemy player was different. After all, he was Challenger tier.
And that meant he could react instinctively even while shocked.
“[Dokkaebi Hat]! [Dokkaebi Steps]!”
The defensive technique [Dokkaebi Hat] that wrapped a layer of curtain around himself, plus the movement technique [Dokkaebi Steps] that rushed in the desired direction while leaving a faint shadow.
The enemy player pulled back while consuming all the survival skills that existed in the Dokkaebifire Build. It was a desperate struggle to somehow avoid the sword that had closed in right before his nose.
Kagak!
Fortunately, it somehow worked, and the sword Baek Woohyun swung only barely scraped the outer part of [Dokkaebi Hat].
After that, [Dokkaebi Steps] activated, allowing him to quickly pull back and widen the distance so he wouldn’t suffer a follow-up attack.
‘Almost, almost died!’
The enemy player who had hurriedly organized his stance glared at Baek Woohyun.
If he hadn’t pulled back using survival skills in a spinal reflex, by now he would have been clutching his half-severed neck.
The fact that his throat had almost been slit in the brief moment he let his guard down left his spine soaked in cold sweat.
“……”
However, ridiculously enough, Baek Woohyun, who had suddenly appeared beside the enemy player and attempted a surprise attack, wasn’t even looking at him.
He was merely looking down at his own hand holding the sword, tilting his head as if something didn’t please him.
It was an appearance that didn’t consider the enemy player at all. Additionally, it was an appearance reminiscent of when Baek Woohyun faced stream snipers in the past.
-Look at him frantically running away lol -So hilarious lol -Stream sniper trait) Hackphysical stands still but they freak out and run away alone -This is Hackphysical-style toying lol
‘Jonjoongman’ donated ‘1000 won’! [Why is Hackphysical so merciless toward stream snipers? I thought his personality would just let it go]
“If there’s a reason Hackphysical is so ruthless toward snipers— Huh!”
“Why are you surprised looking at me?”
-Huh! -‘That incident’ -? What incident?? -Jeong Nayeon’s big picture wow
Naturally, another round of mockery toward the sniping enemy player bloomed in the studio.
From their perspective, the sight of reenacting that scene was quite ridiculous.
In the midst of this, Jeong Nayeon also got dragged in and became laughing material, but that was self-inflicted, so it couldn’t be helped.
‘Did he dodge with [Phantom Movement]? No, I clearly saw him get swept up in [Dokkaebifire: Wave]?’
The confused enemy player soon came to his senses.
It was because he belatedly realized where the Phantom Swordsman Build that Baek Woohyun was currently using had invested to the point of breaking balance.
The core of the Phantom Swordsman Build was phantoms (幻影)! If everything he saw was an illusion, the current situation was cleanly explained.
‘But when on earth did it start…?’
The reason the enemy player hadn’t thought it might be a phantom was simple. Because he had never taken his eyes off Baek Woohyun even once.
Originally, phantoms are things used to cause momentary confusion in urgent situations. In static conditions like this, it was impossible.
For the enemy player who had much experience facing builds similar to the Phantom Swordsman Build, it was something he would dismiss as nonsense according to his common sense.
What’s more, what Baek Woohyun had done wasn’t just summoning one phantom.
To distinguish precisely:
Therefore, it wasn’t unreasonable that the enemy player fell into confusion from not understanding.
‘This is… Hackphysical!’
The enemy player who swallowed dry saliva glared fiercely at Baek Woohyun, who still stood in place merely clenching and unclenching his fist.
He couldn’t relax his tension at all because even that appearance might be a phantom.
A single exchange had planted tremendous tension in him.
Kkwak.
“……”
Soon, Baek Woohyun who had tightly clenched his fist raised his head. A mysterious yet ominous purple radiance rippled in his two eyes.
Fixing his gaze on the enemy player, he kicked off the ground and charged without saying anything. It was an attitude as if he wasn’t worth talking to.
At least fortunate for the enemy player was that the speed wasn’t very fast since there were no buff supernatural ability techniques and his inherent physical abilities weren’t high either.
“[Rat Fire Play]!”
The enemy player tried to check the approaching Baek Woohyun using [Rat Fire Play] with one stack charged.
However, as soon as he spun the blue flames, Baek Woohyun’s figure split into dozens.
Not only where Baek Woohyun originally was, but front, back, left, and right around the enemy player were all filled with Baek Woohyuns.
“”……””
Taat!
The dozens of Baek Woohyuns charged at the enemy player’s [Rat Fire Play] without hesitation. Like moths recklessly jumping into fire.
Actually, [Rat Fire Play] was ultimately flames, and the appearance of shattering to pieces the moment they touched the blue band wasn’t much different from that.
‘They’re all phantoms anyway! As long as I watch out for the real one—’
An anomaly entered the vision of the enemy player who was busily looking around preparing for the real Baek Woohyun’s attack.
The fragments of Baek Woohyun that had shattered touching the blue band were gathering again and combining!
“There you are! [Dokkaebifire: Bind]!”
The blue band created by [Rat Fire Play] split and became rope, and those were shot toward Baek Woohyun who had just started moving again.
As you could tell from the character Bind (縛), [Dokkaebifire: Bind] was a crowd control technique that bound the opponent while dealing minor damage with flames.
However, the rope made of blue flames couldn’t bind the Baek Woohyun the enemy player had designated as the target.
The moment it touched to bind him, the Baek Woohyun believed to be real burned away like paper catching fire and disappeared.
-Stream sniper, fooled again! -You thought it was real? It was fake~ -But fr what’s the real one?? Where on earth is Hackphysical?? -We don’t know either lol
“Looking at it this way, the Phantom Swordsman Build looks really good, is it just me?”
“It’s certainly impressive, but I think we still need to watch more. How he solidifies the winning position from here is the key.”
“Ah, that’s true. Even if we don’t know about the phantom ability, the attack and defense sides are lacking.”
‘Damn it!’
A thought similar to the conversation Jeong Nayeon and Cha Seongcheol had crossed through the enemy player’s mind.
Though he was fooled by the phantom Baek Woohyun created, since he hadn’t actually been attacked anyway, he came up with the speculation that he could sufficiently recover.
Therefore, in his view, the most urgent thing right now was shaking off Baek Woohyun who was still hiding his body.
“[Monstrous Strength and Spirits]!”
Kwaaaaaa-!
That was why the enemy player tried to use his saved ultimate technique, [Monstrous Strength and Spirits], to crush everything around him.
Since the Phantom Swordsman Build had no long-range attack techniques, Baek Woohyun must have come close, so his intent was to crush and eliminate the entire surrounding space wholesale.
Indeed, his intent worked properly, and the dozens of Baek Woohyuns that still remained were cleanly swept away by the dokkaebifire created by [Monstrous Strength and Spirits].
However.
“Ha.”
The enemy player who had acted as intended let out a hollow laugh seeing the scene [Monstrous Strength and Spirits] swept through.
He couldn’t help it.
Because, ridiculously, Baek Woohyun was standing in the same spot where he had been clenching and unclenching his fist.
All the actions of charging at the enemy player, creating dozens of clones, and making fake phantoms that looked real were phantoms shown by Baek Woohyun!
Realizing he had been thoroughly played from beginning to end, it was natural for the enemy player to only let out hollow laughter.
“…Mm.”
Of course, regardless of the enemy player’s reaction, Baek Woohyun still didn’t care at all.
He completely ignored the enemy player glaring at him and only looked at his own hand.
Strangely, his hand was bizarrely distorting and changing into grotesque forms, then repeatedly returning to its original normal appearance.
Then soon, clenching his fist with a kkwak, he raised his head.
“I understand now.”
-‘That line’ has entered lol -He declared he’s going properly jj yo -Has the stream sniper destruction signal appeared?! lol -Hackphysical who figured it out? You can’t block this!
Hwaak-!
Then, when Baek Woohyun opened his hand, pitch-black darkness spread like paint around him.
The darkness that expanded at a tremendous speed embraced him and even swallowed up the enemy player who had been frightened enough to use movement techniques to pull back.
Instead of the beach where bright sunlight had been shining, only darkness where even what was directly ahead couldn’t be distinguished filled the dueling grounds.
‘What’s this now!’
“Damn it, [Dokkaebi Hat]!”
The enemy player suddenly left in the darkness used the defensive technique [Dokkaebi Hat] as if having a fit.
Since he didn’t know when, where, or how Baek Woohyun’s attack would come, he wanted to first wrap himself in defensive technique before anything else.
If it was the Phantom Swordsman Build with weak attack power, as long as [Dokkaebi Hat] was maintained, he could survive being hit at least once.
Jjijik!
However, the transparent energy that was about to wrap around the enemy player’s entire body was caught by the surrounding darkness, then soon tore apart piece by piece with a cloth-ripping sound.
The enemy player’s eyes widened in surprise at the scene that seemed to have stopped the supernatural ability technique’s activation midway and canceled it as is.
‘The Phantom Swordsman Build had this kind of ability?!’
The shocked enemy player realized there was no time for this.
Though he didn’t know how the Phantom Swordsman Build was operated to be used like this, that wasn’t what was important right now.
If he stood there dazed without any countermeasure in this situation, Baek Woohyun who popped out from the darkness would slit his throat.
“[Rat Fire Play]!”
The enemy player tried to use [Rat Fire Play], whose stack had filled again in the meantime, as a stopgap measure.
He tried to throw and spin the flames rising from both hands as always, but this time too, the surrounding darkness didn’t stay still.
As soon as the blue flames rose, it rushed in and bit wildly, completely dismantling it as is.
It was truly an absurd outrage.
“Wasn’t the Phantom Swordsman Build clearly a build that handles phantoms? Since when could phantoms fundamentally seal supernatural ability techniques?”
“Did he use a different build instead of Phantom Swordsman Build? No. He definitely set it to Phantom Swordsman Build before starting?”
-Could the Phantom Swordsman Build seal abilities?? -No, no matter how much I search, there’s no such element -Hackphysical’s trick show wow -What if even the scene of Hackphysical setting it to Phantom Swordsman Build was actually a phantom?
The reaction on the studio side wasn’t much different from the person involved, the enemy player. They also were shocked asking if the Phantom Swordsman Build had ability-sealing capability.
It was confusion that arose because no one had directly used it since the Phantom Swordsman Build was such a trash build.
Already lacking information about the build, when Baek Woohyun showed abilities never heard or seen before, they thought, ‘Could it be a hidden ability?!’
“Damn it! [Dokkaebi Steps]!”
Taat!
The defensive technique [Dokkaebi Hat] and the starter [Rat Fire Play] for using the dokkaebifire series were all blocked, and even [Monstrous Strength and Spirits] was in cooldown.
The gritting enemy player tried to run away using [Dokkaebi Steps] to buy time. If he couldn’t attack or defend, it was right to choose evasion.
But it seemed Baek Woohyun had no intention of allowing even this.
Ttaak!
After the sound of fingers snapping rang out clearly from the darkness, a great upheaval occurred in the surroundings.
With a kuguung! suddenly rising walls blocked all directions, and ash-gray iron plates thrust into the ceiling and floor that had been all darkness.
The time it took for the seemingly endlessly spread darkness to transform into a cavity that was merely somewhat spacious was only about ten seconds or so.
The enemy player who had been watching all the changes tensely soon recognized where this place was.
“This is… the research facility?”
‘Reverse Planet’s’ starting point, the research facility.
The very place where they had to face Etinel for experiments during the tutorial.