Chapter 152 : The Superhuman's Vision
Chapter 152: The Superhuman’s Vision
[Please enter the starting point teleporter]
[*If you do not enter the teleporter within the remaining time, your game participation will be automatically canceled]
[Time remaining until game start: 60 seconds]
“······.”
Baek Woohyun’s appearance, choosing Zone 1: Military Base right away without caring about sniping at all, also contributed to the panels’ relief.
If the one who has to fight is that confident, there’s no reason for those watching to waver asking if it’s okay, right?
[Time remaining until game start: 0 seconds]
[─Starting the game]
Whiiing-
When the countdown displayed by the system ended, the door of the cylindrical capsule closed.
Following the now-familiar light floating sensation, when the capsule called a teleporter was dismantled, the outside scenery had completely changed.
The neat battle preparation room was nowhere to be seen, and an abandoned, deteriorated military base greeted Baek Woohyun.
“First of all.”
Baek Woohyun, who had quickly looked around, opened his mouth. Since he rarely talked like this when no one was around, his expression was somewhat awkward.
In “Superstar N (meaning Nuclear~)” and “Hack Disciple” that he had done before, there were other people next to him anyway.
In a way, this might be his true first solo broadcast.
“I’ll finish farming quickly.”
After coughing lightly, Baek Woohyun began searching the building he was teleported to. Farming was the top priority in “Survival” mode, after all.
Looking around and checking, there seemed to be no other people caught by his senses, so his movement going in and out of rooms was quite bold.
-“He’s really farming without hesitation.”
-“Isn’t it confidence that even if an enemy appears, he’ll just kill them?”
-“This is exactly Mr. Cheater-like play.”
-It’s not a military base, it’s like he’s looting some outer building lol
-I’m careful even when opening one room
-There are a lot of kids camping, so that’s actually right
-Originally, if your body is lacking, your head suffers ㅇㅇ
The reaction from the studio watching was to this extent.
Well, they didn’t know that Baek Woohyun had sharpened his senses and swept through a radius of several dozen meters, so it was understandable.
“······.”
Baek Woohyun’s movement paused at the conversation content heard through the connected voice call, but he didn’t open his mouth to explain.
They hadn’t asked him why he was farming so boldly, and he thought it was awkward to butt into what they were talking about among themselves.
It’s not like he could suddenly explain in detail what he had done, right?
‘I’ll answer when they ask later.’
Separately from that, Baek Woohyun’s farming results after clearing all the buildings and coming down to the first floor were quite excellent.
He obtained an Epic-grade longsword, an equally Epic-grade Breaker, and additionally got Rare-grade protective gear and consumables.
Although he didn’t get a Legendary-grade Breaker like in the previous broadcast, this could be said to be among the top results in Zone 1: Military Base.
Of course, this was only when looking at it based on him as the standard.
If it were an ordinary person, the moment an Epic-grade longsword and Breaker appeared, they would have judged that this wouldn’t work and tried to run away.
In “Reverse Planet,” close-range weapons like longswords were just tools for style, niche weapons, and Breakers were toys even worse than that.
“···An enemy is coming.”
After fastening the longsword with its sheath to his waist and finishing loading the Breaker, Baek Woohyun glanced at the closed door with his inverted eyes.
Although not as much as when he first concentrated─it probably didn’t look like that at all─and examined his surroundings, he was steadily vigilant of his surroundings with his sharpened senses.
It was thanks to this that he instantly recognized an enemy approaching straight toward him.
-“Enemy? Where’s the enemy?”
“Coming this way from over there. Ah, they’ve stopped now.”
-“Hmm.”
Jeong Nayeon from the studio let out a groan.
She furrowed her brow and concentrated as if trying to see through the direction Baek Woohyun pointed.
Of course, she, who didn’t have the ability to see through the firmly closed door and thick wall, really saw nothing at all.
If she could see through things, she would have become famous as a psychic long ago, so it was natural.
‘No, wait. Since it’s seeing through things in virtual reality, would she have been accused of hacking?’
Like Baek Woohyun, who was actually accused of hacking.
Jeong Nayeon, who shook her head, turned her gaze to the chat window.
As if the viewers also lacked the ability to see through things, question marks were running rampant there.
-? What the hell is he seeing
-No matter how much I look, I don’t see anything
-To call it nonsense, he’s Hackphysical… Hmm…
-In the midst of that, the stopping while coming seems like sniping from watching the broadcast, doesn’t it? lol
‘Come to think of it, Woohyun did this often.’
There were more than a few similar cases to now that came to Jeong Nayeon’s mind.
Right during the “Reverse Planet” tutorial that became the trigger for getting on broadcast, didn’t Baek Woohyun figure out not only the location of distant enemies but even their numbers?
Even though it was a time when he only had [Perfect Being] and couldn’t even activate detection-type elements.
Back then, he showed such amazing abilities, and right after, the fact that he was a Colosseum Ranker was revealed, so it was glossed over······.
-“Woohyun, what exactly do you see?”
Jeong Nayeon, unable to overcome her curiosity, asked.
“Rather than seeing, it’s closer to sensing presence. Since it’s blocked by walls, there are limits to what I can confirm with vision alone.”
-“Sensing… presence?”
-“Could you please give us a detailed explanation of what that means!”
Was Baek Woohyun’s story quite interesting?
Cha Seongcheol, who had been listening quietly, butted in and shouted.
Since it wasn’t a difficult task, Baek Woohyun calmly laid out an explanation.
“When manifesting [Perfect Being], all physical abilities increase and the senses also become sensitive beyond their limits, so I use that to detect presence.”
-“······.”
-“······.”
Despite the relatively kind explanation, Jeong Nayeon, Cha Seongcheol, and the studio personnel couldn’t say anything.
They know that physical abilities increase when manifesting [Perfect Being]. They also know that the senses become much more sensitive than before, so you hear better, see better, and feel better.
But they couldn’t understand at all how to use that to detect the presence of distant enemies. How exactly do you detect presence?
‘No, what even is presence in the first place?’
‘Obviously I don’t know!’
“Hmm.”
At the thick doubt oozing from the silence beyond the voice communication, Baek Woohyun scratched his cheek.
Since he had mastered the method of detecting presence right after manifesting his supernatural ability in “that place,” it was ambiguous for him to explain in more detail.
For him, this was practically like explaining how to breathe. If you adapted to the increased physical abilities, you could naturally detect presence like breathing.
‘How should I explain for them to understand?’
Baek Woohyun, who had been pondering for a moment, opened his mouth.
“Living beings, especially humans, inevitably make various sounds while moving. From breathing sounds and heartbeat sounds to the sounds of clothes rustling or feet stepping on the ground.”
-“···? Yes?”
“If you concentrate your senses sharpened by manifesting [Perfect Being] and other physical enhancement elements, you can easily distinguish such ‘artificial sounds’ within a range of a few meters at minimum to several dozen meters at maximum.”
-“Oh···.”
“I usually call that presence, and I detected it to find out about the enemy’s approach.”
-“No, I mean, so. Uh···.”
“How about it? Quite simple, right?”
Even though it was an explanation several times kinder than before, no one in the studio could answer properly.
It was because their heads refused to understand what they heard.
Figuring out enemy positions by hearing breathing sounds, heartbeat sounds, and even the sounds of clothes rustling. And that from several dozen meters away.
‘Does that make sense?’
But they couldn’t flatly deny it either.
Because Baek Woohyun was actually showing it right before their eyes.
Where else could there be clearer evidence than this?
In the end, the studio panels could only look at Baek Woohyun as if seeing a mysterious creature they were witnessing for the first time in their lives.
‘ㅇㅇ’ donated ‘1000 won’!
[What do you mean how about it, quite simple lol Are you by any chance Bob Ross?]
-What… what the hell is this?
-How do you hear breathing and heartbeat sounds lololol
-Even if you hear them when concentrating, how do you distinguish them damn does that make sense
-And from several dozen meters away? lol
-“Indeed.”
-“Amazing!”
‘RobotMania’ donated ‘10000 won’!
[I know this. This is that New Type or something, right?]
-ㄹㅇ At this level, recognized as a Coordinator
-What’s that, you otakus
-Again starting with stories only they know
-At least it’s certain he’s not the same humanity as me
The viewers also seemed to be feeling similar impressions to the panels, as not only the chat window but even the donations were making a fuss asking if that made sense.
From their reactions, it was certain that what Baek Woohyun said would be posted on communities and heat up as a hot topic for a while.
‘Why are they reacting like this?’
Baek Woohyun felt puzzled in his own way.
Although his presence detection ability had fully blossomed after awakening his supernatural ability in “that place,” he had been getting the hang of it to some extent even before that.
Originally, presence detection was a skill that had to be necessarily acquired to survive in the free-for-all of “Colosseum” where surprise attacks from behind frequently occurred.
Although not to the level of several dozen meters like now, at least to the point where he could tell when someone came from behind.
-“Most Colosseum Rankers can detect presence?”
-“Then that means Player Battler could too.”
-“Even if I don’t know what kind of game Colosseum is, it’s too terrifying!”
-What exactly is a Colosseum Ranker…
-You again, Colosseum!
-A place where you can’t survive if you can’t detect presence ㄷㄷ
-So this is why they immediately scouted anyone who was a Colosseum Ranker
Even after talking about that fact, rather than being understood, only doubts about “Colosseum” amplified among the panels and viewers.
What kind of demon realm is that place that presence detection skill is essential and if you don’t master it, you all die without even becoming a ranker?
Cha Seongcheol joked that at this rate, he’d even sense killing intent, but naturally lost his words at Baek Woohyun’s answer that he could.
“···Anyway, according to what I sense, the enemy─”
Baek Woohyun, who finally gave up on saying more, drew his longsword and then talked about the enemy’s number and location.
The content was that the distance was roughly twelve meters away, the number was one person, and judging by them crouching, they would probably ambush when he came out.
It would have been surprising with such detail as if he had directly experienced it from the future, but the panels and viewers just reacted with “I see.”
Because it was so amazing, they became calm instead. It was fair to say that just as Baek Woohyun gave up on being understood, they also gave up on understanding.
“I’ll go for now.”
Even after saying with his own mouth that the enemy was waiting for him to come out, Baek Woohyun boldly opened the door.
It was natural behavior for him, who hadn’t backed down even when over a dozen people came teaming and rushing in, though he attacked first.
He had the confidence to face forward and smash one ambushing enemy.
“[Hundred Bolts of Lightning]!”
Rumble!
-Starting with ultimate right away?
-He was right that stopping while coming was because of sniping
-Ah, sniper scum die!
-If you’re going to do it anyway, at least make it fun
Lightning bolts pouring down as if waiting the moment Baek Woohyun stepped outside!
At the enemy’s action of suddenly throwing in a skill classified as an ultimate, the chat window filled with curses poured out by viewers.
The panels also had unpleasant expressions, just not saying it directly.
Kwaaaaak.
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But Baek Woohyun himself didn’t care at all.
Adding superhuman strength to the hand gripping the longsword, he glared at the lightning bolts approaching and aiming at him.
With pure white eyes burning like flames, signaling that [Perfect Being] was activated to the extreme, he finally moved.