Napalm. Developer Tower.
Development Team 2 Office.
The new director, Shinji, called the remaining staff together and spoke heavily.
“The service termination has been decided.”
“… … .”
The staff listened silently.
“Of course, it’s not a typical service termination. It would require prior notice to users… … It would violate several laws.”
Shinji also had a calm attitude.
It was something that had been decided a long time ago, and I tried my best to buy some time, but… … it was finally my limit.
“So, for now, we’re going to shut down the server under the pretext of an emergency fix. We’ll buy some time and then put out a termination notice.”
“How many days are left exactly?”
When one of the staff asked cautiously, Shinji nodded slowly.
“A week.”
A week… … .
A week had passed since the Milky Way had announced two weeks last time, so the expected date remained the same.
“However, I have obtained one assurance from the higher-ups.”
Shinji began to speak slowly.
“If we can normalize the game within this week… … we will reverse the service termination.”
“… … !”
Shinji slowly turned his head to the situation room monitor.
The remaining users were continuing their desperate battle.
“We have no choice but to trust the users. Please clear the Demon King’s Advent event.”
At the forefront stood a white knight.
Shinji’s eyes narrowed.
“… … But that doesn’t mean I can just sit back and pray, trusting in the users and waiting.”
Shinji turned his head again and declared while looking at the employees.
“We do what we can.”
Dong-ha, who was standing at the very front of the staff, asked nervously.
“What can we do?”
“We need to support users and contribute to resolving the event in some way.”
Although in-game support was no longer possible, Shinji had already thought of a way to support users outside of the game.
“and…….”
Shinji, whose words trailed off for a moment, smiled bitterly.
“When the game returns to normal, we need to prepare to welcome users again.”
“… … .”
Everyone looked at Shinji with surprised eyes.
Before we knew it, everyone was thinking that everything would be over in a week.
After that… I wasn’t thinking about it.
“Okay, so that’s how it is… … .”
Shinji clapped his hands, never giving up hope until the very end.
“Let’s get to work!”
* * *
Inside Wings Online.
The Allied forces reclaimed most of the Old Continent.
Now the only cities left are Punk Heat and Snow White.
There was no reason to delay. The Allied forces gathered all their forces and advanced towards Punkheat in one breath.
Now if we can just capture Punk Heat, we can have the final battle at Snow White.
And then you’ll have to fight Demon King Labo, who hasn’t been seen on the battlefield for a long time.
All the users who were advancing with Punk Hit were deep in thought, thinking about the final battle at Snow White.
Each of them ponders over how to defeat the overwhelming enemy, Demon King Labo.
……however.
That was too early to think about it.
The enemy leader standing in front of them was on a different level from the Demon King’s army bosses they had encountered so far.
* * *
Punk hit.
A city of technology built on wasteland.
“… … .”
The man in the black coat standing in front of the gate, Cain, suddenly drew out his long sword!
Then, the long sword drew a beautiful arc around and around, and then with a clank, it was sucked into the scabbard.
“… … .”
Cain looked around with a wolf-like gaze.
All the Allied forces were fallen.
Not only the users, but also the NPC army and all kinds of boss monsters.
They all went down or died without fail.
It was a total annihilation.
“Ugh… … Ugh… … .”
On the vast wasteland, the white knight was the only survivor.
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Leaning against the greatsword planted in the ground, he barely managed to stand.
All of his party members had long since fallen. The white knight looked straight ahead, breathing heavily.
Cain and the white knight’s eyes met.
“… … .”
“… … .”
After a brief staring contest, the white knight shouted.
“Retreat! Reorganize your forces in Evergreen!”
Other units that had been downed and not yet revived, or had been brought in from afar, all began to retreat at those words.
“Retreat!”
“Run away!”
“Crazy… … Is that a person… … ?”
The downed users turned into light and then disappeared.
“… … Interception stopped.”
Cain muttered softly.
Daeran, who heard those words from the castle wall, bowed and gave an order to the Demon King’s soldiers.
“Stop intercepting-!”
The defensive turrets densely built on the walls of Punkheat slowly stopped operating.
The Demon King’s army, which had been raining down attacks on the intruders, also slowly stopped attacking.
Thud. Thud.
Cain slowly approached the white knight.
The white knight took a deep breath and pulled his greatsword out of the ground.
‘I never thought I would become this strong… … .’
The white knight ground his teeth as he looked at Cain.
It was an unexpected situation.
Cain’s fighting power far exceeded expectations.
Even though they are providing incredible firepower support from the walls of Punk Hit.
Standing alone in front of the castle gate, slaughtering all the enemies that attacked.
‘Does this make sense? There were even boss monsters among them… …!’
Of course, boss monsters lose a significant amount of their bonus upon leaving their dungeon.
In most cases, it is downgraded to a monster with slightly higher specs.
‘Even so, this is too much.’
Even without that, Cain’s PVP skills were considered one of the best in the world, but with the experience he’d gained over the past few months, his skills had improved dramatically.
It was incomparable to when I was a pro gamer.
The white knight could be sure.
‘Even if you bring all the top 10 rankers of the arena, they won’t be able to touch me.’
High school student in real life age.
Cain’s potential, now at its peak, literally exploded, displaying incredible power that was beyond the pale.
“… …White Knight.”
Cain, who had come right in front of the white knight, spoke slowly.
“I’m not as good at war as Oldman.”
“… … .”
“I’m not as smart as the Doctor. I don’t know how to get people’s attention like Aggle King.”
Cain spoke bluntly, but honestly.
“It doesn’t have the variety of tools that Rabbit has, nor does it have the powerful computing power that Oasis has.”
“… … .”
“And I don’t know how to see the big picture like you.”
Swish.
The distance between the white knight and Cain is 5 meters.
Cain stopped at that point, slowly lowered his posture, and placed his right hand on the handle of the sword at his waist.
“But I am the best attacker in Nightbringer.”
With his eyes as sunken as dust, Cain spoke coldly, yet fiercely as usual.
“I ‘fight’ the best.”
“……Cain.”
“You’ve been attacking my colleagues in various ways all this time.”
Cain’s hand, which was grinning, grabbed the handle of the sword.
“Let me be clear.”
And the sword shot flew faster than the next horse.
“I am unconquerable.”
visor-!
The white knight barely managed to block the fatal blow that was fired from a distance of 5 meters.
And almost simultaneously with that tragedy, Cain rushed forward.
It was an unbelievable speed.
“Full moon. Baldo: horizon. Full moon.”
A triple horizontal slash strike struck in an instant.
Chaengchae chaeng-!
“Ugh… … !”
I blocked them all with the shield on my left arm, but that was it.
The White Knight’s kite shield, tattered from the previous battle, was shattered.
“This kind of thing-!”
The white knight stretched out his empty left arm, scattering the shattered pieces of his shield.
Before he knew it, a lightning bolt of divine power was gathering in his left hand.
“Holy Lightning!”
Holy lightning fired from close range!
‘Physical attacks are meaningless anyway!’
If you try a physical attribute attack, you can kick it away with the warrior class exclusive defensive skill ‘Sura’.
In the end, all that’s left are magic attribute attacks… … .
Chaenggrang!
With the sound of breaking glass, the Holy Lightning scattered.
Cain’s left hand was holding a small dagger. He used it to block magical attacks as if he was defending against a weapon.
The white knight let out a hollow laugh.
“Dispel Anger… … .”
Legendary dagger Dispel Anger.
Nullifies enemy magic attacks up to 5 times per day when defending with a weapon.
It was the defensive method used by Sloth, the guildmaster of the Hunter’s Cooperative.
The problem is,
Chomp!
The fact was that Cain had dozens, hundreds of those Dispel Angers.
Cain nodded, throwing the dagger he had used to defend himself against magic for the fifth time into his inventory and taking out a new Dispel Anger to equip as his secondary weapon.
“Aren’t you going to attack me anymore?”
The white knight laughed in vain.
“Where did you get that much stock… … ?!”
“Is it surprising that in a game on the verge of destruction, people are hoarding ‘only’ a few hundred legendary items? And they’re all mid-80s items.”
Cain snorted.
“We just swept away all the stock that was on the exchange.”
“… … .”
“You taught me all this too.”
The white knight gnashed his teeth. Because of that, Cain became virtually invincible.
Defend against physical attacks with ‘Sura’. Defend against magical attacks with ‘Dispel Anger’.
Of course, having the means to do so is a clear skill, but the reflexes to block each and every enemy attack are clearly a matter of skill.
And by attacking while defending at the same time, we can completely annihilate this side.
“No, but you’ve never used dual-wielding equipment or skills before!”
During that time, Cain was a one-sword warrior even if he died soon.
But in this battle, he suddenly started using auxiliary equipment. Moreover, his proficiency was so high that it was as if he had been fighting with both hands from the beginning.
Cain’s answer was simple.
“I practiced. I saw you guys.”
“… … .”
A battle with Oasis.
After almost being defeated by a healing priest using a beginner’s dagger.
Cain examined himself, reflected, and sought ways to improve.
Since then, I have been practicing new fighting techniques diligently, and I have been constantly improving them during my journey.
Finally, it was taken out into the field, and its power was transcendent.
“Thanks to you, I was able to learn a lot. People I’ve never seen before, values I’ve never seen before, fighting styles I’ve never seen before… … Thanks to you, I was able to break down my own walls.”
Cain’s voice was filled with sincere gratitude.
The white knight, who had been listening quietly, asked in disbelief.
“Even with your existing style, you’re practically the best in PVP in this game, capable of beating Aaron… … and yet you practiced while changing your style? Why?”
“Don’t ask the obvious.”
Cain, who had laughed, aimed the tip of his sword at the white knight.
“To become stronger.”
The answer was simple and clear.
Cain’s long sword split the chest of the smiling white knight apart.
* * *
“… … .”
The downed white knight was immediately resurrected and returned to Evergreen.
The users gathered at the temple all looked back at the white knight.
“White Knight!”
“You’re back!”
Their eyes looking back at the white knight were filled with infinite trust.
“Let’s start the operational meeting quickly!”
“He was certainly strong, but if you’re a white knight, you would have thought of a strategy to defeat him, right?”
In the meantime, the White Knight has defeated five Demon King’s Army bosses.
Even though we lost today, we will soon come up with a plan to catch that monster bastard.
Everyone’s eyes sparkled as they looked at the white knight with such anticipation.
“… … .”
The silent white knight slowly opened his mouth.
“……hey.”
Inside the helmet, the white knight was sweating profusely.
“How do I catch that? There’s no answer… … ?”
“… … .”
Allied users all stood firm.
“… … .”
“… … .”
An awkward silence fell on the temple where hundreds of people had gathered.
