Chapter 307
Chapter 307: Otherworld Update
▷ The viewer participation just ended and you're already asking?? lmaooo △ (OP) I didn't get to participate so it doesn't count. Do it again. △ What a beautifully unhinged take~ △ (OP) You don't like it? △ No I love it! Let's go right now! ▷ Want me to tell you a way to get into viewer participation? △ (OP) Wait there's a way? Tell me quick △ "Stream sniping" △ lmaooo viewer participation is still viewer participation △ (OP) Viewer participation without the fan service easy mode is a bit…… ▷ Doesn't matter~ Even if you redo viewer participation right away you'll still lose the lottery~ Competition's only getting worse~ △ (OP) Damn;; △ That does sound about right though △ He gives feedback when he has breathing room, how are you supposed to resist
Everyone already knew that the already several-hundred-to-one odds of the viewer participation PVP would be even more brutal next time.
The people who hadn't gotten to participate were writhing in regret right now, and those who would catch wind of it late would come gunning for the next opportunity too.
Even the rarity of opportunities would play into increasing the competition rate. If you missed your chance you had no idea when the next one would come—so you had no choice but to throw your name in regardless.
On top of that, this viewer participation PVP had been more fun to participate in than to watch from the sidelines—which only made things worse.
The Handicap Match went without saying, and the Raid Match and team battle that followed had delivered what participants were calling the greatest time they'd ever had.
Was it any wonder that strategy write-ups for the already-concluded Raid Match were racking up upvotes, and people were still arguing over the team battle strategies that had decided wins and losses?
◇ Raid Boss—Hackphysical Strategy Breakdown.txt
Before getting into the actual strategies, the first thing you absolutely need to keep in mind is that the Hackphysical never moves like a normal raid boss
Yeah yeah, same for other people too I can hear you saying—but the Hackphysical is on a different level. No combat correction means the options available are just staggering
For example, the first raid party that challenged him came in with an approach that was different from a normal raid—
▷ Why is this write-up so thorough lmaooo △ (OP) Why wouldn't it be…… because it was fun…… △ The fun factor is undeniable; ▷ Will we be able to use this in the next Raid Match? △ Depends on assuming the Hackphysical doesn't read it? △ Jeong Nayeon will immediately grab it and show him lmaooo △ Stop being so active on the community!! △ Telling people not to use the fan cafe is a bit much though…… ▷ The boss patterns are way too unreasonable △ It wasn't designed to be clearable;; △ The Hackphysical being unreasonable is just baseline at this point
◇ The winning teams in team battle basically all used the same approach
What was it? Simply ignoring the Hackphysical
The handicapped Hackphysical isn't actually that strong. The image of him being insanely powerful is baked in so hard, but in practice his destructive output is weaker than you'd think
Teams that had one person just take the bullet and hold the line against the Hackphysical actually had noticeably higher win rates than teams that went 5v5 head-on
Of course if you can't actually hold the line or your main squad gets wiped, it's just over anyway lmaooo
▷ Is he actually not that strong…… I tried to hold him in team battle and got absolutely demolished…… △ Even "not that strong" doesn't mean Bronze-Silver-Gold-Plat can hold him;; △ "Weaker than you'd think" lmaooo △ Should've used a turtle build and just stalled for time △ Kat! Get that no-fun build out of here! ▷ This analysis is wrong △ (OP) Hm? What part is wrong? △ The reason the win rate is high in the first place is because those teams had someone in a tier that could actually hold a 1v1 against the handicapped Hackphysical △ Exactly, to hold a 1v1 you need to be at least Master rank of some kind △ It's the stat difference that makes the win rate work
The fan cafe Nuclear Weapons Development Laboratory had thus been completely taken over by viewer participation PVP talk, and by all appearances, that momentum would hold for quite a while.
Unless something utterly enormous—like an explosion—came along to blow away every last trace of this current heat.
And on top of that, it would need to be a topic powerful enough to reach even Nuclear Weapons Development Laboratory, which was still just a fan cafe even as its user count climbed rapidly.
If anyone had heard those conditions described, they would have tilted their head and wondered does something like that even exist?
◇ BREAKING NEWS! Reverse Planet Season 2 Update!
Astonishingly—it did.
The absurd news of the Reverse Planet Season 2 update, finally arrived at last.
Born from a national-level game as it was, it carried the destructive force to sweep away every last trending topic—and it was intimately tied to Nuclear Tourism content as well.
Though few people immediately believed the post's contents. Posts with similar titles had been clickbait traps so countless times before.
They figured it would be the same old content: you probably already know this is going to make you angry, but given the situation, what's the best choice you can make—good judgment is all I ask for.
Those who thought exactly that and clicked anyway—because there was no way they couldn't—soon felt a shiver run through them.
◇ BREAKING NEWS! Reverse Planet Season 2 Update!
[Reverse Planet Season 2: A Whole New World—Official Trailer]
Why is this actually real???
▷ What is this, why is this actually real ▷ Hm? Where's the bait? ▷ It wasn't the "good judgment" content;; ▷ No way no way no way Season 2 is HERE
The one-line post body didn't matter.
What mattered was the attached video.
Everyone could verify that the video had been posted to the official Reverse Planet channel and was the real thing.
Boom—! Boom—! Booom—!
The official trailer opened with a heavy, resonating pulse.
Like something violently stirring—or like a compressed force being released.
Or perhaps, like the sound of a beating heart.
The moment the growing vibrations made it feel like something was coming, a violet circle carved a clean hole out of the darkness.
Roaarrr—!
—"So you have slain the Lord of Storms."
A slow, unhurried voice.
Not a shred of emotion could be felt in it.
Mechanical and flat—as though synthesized by an AI.
—Magnificent. Exactly the result I desired.
The entity that revealed itself in the violet-drenched space was Abrasax-Deus.
Wrapped in deep shadows that made its face utterly unrecognizable, the violet and blue inverted eyes—marked with a wing-like pattern—gleaming.
It had seemingly been designed to prevent anyone from knowing whose form it was modeled after—but those who knew, knew. That was Baek Woohyun. The Hackphysical was the model.
And then, slowly, it crossed through the violet space. With each step, it swept aside the darkness surging more violently around it.
The resistance of the massive barrier could not stop its advance. A violet energy born from within the barrier itself kept interfering continuously.
At the end of a passage shaped like a hole, the entity finally crossed beyond the barrier.
—"With this, the hole in the dimensional barrier becomes permanent—and the Otherworld shall be fully connected to Earth."
Beyond it was a completely new world.
Instead of blue sky and white clouds—violet sky and green clouds. Instead of one sun—three suns hanging in the sky. A world like that.
A world whose scenery would fit perfectly with what was called the Otherworld back on Earth.
—"Come to this place—this Whole New World*. Apostle of the Creator."*
The trailer ended there.
From Abrasax—the Otherworld God using a Doppelganger body—to the new endgame content of the Otherworld Lord Raid, to the hole in the dimensional barrier.
The plot hooks that had been scattered continuously had finally detonated in the form of Reverse Planet Season 2.
〔iTube〕 The Reverse Planet Season 2 Update is FINALLY here!! ✪ Season 2 is insane lmaooo [General] Something huge has arrived! Season 2 Brain Speculation Roundup! ▷ The contents of this official trailer are remarkable! :)
Naturally, the places erupting over the news went far beyond just Nuclear Weapons Development Laboratory.
In truth, far beyond barely covered it. Every community with any connection to Reverse Planet—East and West alike—exploded all at once.
Even if plenty of speculation had pointed to the plot hooks implying a Season 2, the feeling of an actual Season 2 update being shoved right in your face was something else entirely—so it made sense.
Not to mention that Reverse Planet, which had until now only ever featured Earth and the Reverse World at most, was now bringing out the Otherworld as a whole new world.
It was essentially an open declaration of intent to expand from a perfectly realized Earth into the realm of fantasy—so the intense reaction was understandable.
People were already speculating about where Season 3 and Season 4 would go, if Season 1 was Earth and Season 2 was the Otherworld!
"……"
While the entire world grew loud over the sudden Reverse Planet Season 2 update, Baek Woohyun was alone in a quiet place.
Everything except the chair he sat in and the patch of ground beneath him was filled with glowing 0s and 1s in green code—a place no ordinary person could access even if they tried.
He had come to the back side of virtual space. The reason was, naturally, to meet Isaac.
"Oh, did I keep you waiting?"
Before long, the surrounding code rippled and gathered, shaping itself into a human form—which then draped itself in a human shell.
A Western man in his forties, brown-haired with blue eyes, and a sharp impression born from being somewhat gaunt. He looked like a corpse—no sense of life about him.
He was Isaac—known as Anonymous Viewer 62, the creator of Reverse Planet, the System—an existence that had long accompanied Baek Woohyun.
"I saw the Season 2 trailer."
Rather than responding to Isaac's casual greeting, Baek Woohyun cut straight to the point.
His intent was clear—no need to waste time on pleasantries with Isaac, who had already seen everything on that side.
"Haha, well, that's how it turned out. I did tell you I'd update when ready."
"When ready—so you're confident enough to win against him now?"
"That's right."
Isaac smiled and nodded.
It was the face of someone who hadn't entertained the thought of his own defeat.
Confidence born from being on the verge of regaining part of the authority scattered through Reverse City.
That was where the evenly matched fight would tip.
"With this update, a stage for me and my creation to have our final reckoning has finally been set."
"A stage for a final reckoning."
Baek Woohyun's eyes sharpened as he looked at Isaac.
"You just wanted to add the Otherworld to Reverse Planet and complete it. That was it."
"I won't deny that."
Unquestionably, the reason Isaac updated Season 2's Whole New World was less about the final reckoning with Deus and more about Reverse Planet's completeness.
He was a madman who had become a Program Specter just to keep working—whose sole purpose was to make Reverse Planet identical to that side's world.
"Regardless—the outcome of Season 2's war between Earth and the Otherworld will have a significant impact on my fight with Deus as well. So please, don't lose."
Others would probably see this Season 2 as the dimensional invasion war resuming through the hole in the dimensional barrier that Abrasax had torn open.
But that was only how those who didn't know the truth would see it. The one person and two entities who knew everything understood perfectly well that it was otherwise.
A proxy duel—with Isaac pitting Baek Woohyun against them, and Deus pitting Abrasax and the Otherworld against him. That was the true nature of Reverse Planet Season 2.
Isaac had poured all his resources in first to prepare for the fight—and to stop him, Deus had poured all of his resources in as well, leaving neither side able to back out.
"Right. I'll do my best. I don't feel like losing either."
"That's all I need."