115. Rapid Change
Some people sometimes refer to the Hunter’s League like this.
Ultimately, the Hunters League is a game of skill between the manager, coaches, and players.
‘Come to think of it, I think there was a guy who said something like that when I was in 2nd LTD… … .’
From an outsider’s perspective, there are actually many aspects of the game that make you think that way.
It feels like you can crush your opponents by forming special tactics with the synergy of your teammates.
Analyze the opposing team’s abilities and put in a team that can destroy them. If you fight like that, you’ll win. That’s what I think.
But the reality is completely different.
Even in this match, if the battlefield had been a place with excessively high mana, like the “Cave of Life,” it would have been difficult to control with Lee Jun-seo’s [Static Mana] skill.
Even if it wasn’t that, even if it was just [Battlefield of the Void], I might have shown off my power against LTD by targeting their weak points with my one-man sniping show, just like I showed Takumi.
Maps. Relics. And the unexpectedness of skills that you thought you knew. They’re all a bunch of variables.
That’s why I want to say this.
Hunter’s League is completely a game for players.
In a situation of unpredictable change, no matter how excellent the manager, tactician, analyst, or technical coach is, it is meaningless.
‘The only thing you can trust is your own judgment and knowledge… … .’
It was time to give LTD, who thought they had analyzed us completely, a real taste of the bitter pill.
***
“Oh, what the heck. Those guys… … they all ran away.”
“I never thought that the turrets that had been silent until then would all start operating at that exact moment… … .”
“No, that turret. My powers didn’t work anyway.”
“yes?”
After the PER team members were kicked out, they took down Lee Gil-han and the LTD team members were talking for a while.
“Sometimes, things like that happen. Such abilities. So, what are we going to do? Who is the leader here?”
“Ah. Here we go, senior. I think he went to find the relic and turn it over… … The tactics coach said that in cases like this, if you fight with the same number of relics as your opponent, you won’t lose at least.”
‘Fight by matching the number of relics… … .’
It was a fair method, since we didn’t stay still for as long as the PER guys went to find the relics.
But still, the best thing was to just throw everything away… … .
‘You shouldn’t have been easy on that guy who uses the sword.’
Of course, the situation is still 7 to 5. The opponent’s ability is not working at all.
It’s true that it’s definitely overwhelmingly advantageous, but I don’t like the fact that there’s a variable in the first place.
Well, it doesn’t really matter if the guys find some pretty good relics anyway.
“Hey. A barrier and a healer. Do you have enough mana?”
“Yes… Yes? A hillbilly?”
“Yeah. Who else is there besides you?”
Up until now, Yoo Hye-joo had been treated as an elite and was rising very quickly, but Lee Jun-seo had no way of knowing that.
Maybe that was why. Yoo Hye-joo seemed dissatisfied with the way she was being treated, and her voice seemed to be shaking slightly, but Lee Jun-seo didn’t seem to care much.
“Ah. Yes. That’s enough.”
“Me too!”
This is just a check, what’s important now is what comes next.
“Okay. Then, Captain. Have you decided what to do?”
“Yes. We will aim to defeat our opponents by gathering similar amounts of troops.”
“good.”
Once that decision was made, there was only one thing left to do.
The location of the opposing team’s PER. Measuring the direction and determining the location of the relic.
Although it wasn’t as easy and accurate to find out as PER with Lee Yeon-joo.
Since the ability to sense mana was something that all hunters had, finding the direction itself wasn’t difficult.
“Oh… … There’s a relic to the northwest. If you go further, there seems to be a PER.”
“Which do you think is closer to a relic, PER or us?”
“I think our team will be closer. It’s not that far from here… … We can just engage them right after we get them.”
“Um… … okay.”
The PER guys haven’t been around for long, so they probably haven’t gotten any relics yet, or at most just one.
Then, if our team also takes one on the way, it won’t be at a great disadvantage…
I kept feeling uneasy.
‘No… … Anyway, as long as they don’t die in one hit, it doesn’t matter what kind of relics the opponent has, even if you bring them in a bunch.’
Because there is a sanctuary and a defensive barrier here.
“Let’s go northwest!”
“Yes, senior.”
This time, I really felt like I had to strangle PER.
***
Relics are the biggest variable in the Hunter’s League, and are also a kind of lottery.
Although the types and locations of relics that appear on each map were somewhat set, there were so many types of maps that it was impossible to memorize them all.
So, it was common to find relics through mana perception.
“But if the relics were that good, wouldn’t it have been better to find them right from the start? I don’t think we’ve ever done that before.”
“Well… … finding relics relies too much on luck.”
As there are some incredibly good relics, there are also many mediocre relics of the same level.
Even if you look for an unbroken thread-like relic, it is of no use.
‘On the other hand, finding relics without team members joining is quite risky.’
When you do that, something that wasn’t there can come out, and if you start off by scattering and moving around to look for relics, you’ll be perfect prey for the team that joined first and moved around together.
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“Um… … Anyway, I get what you’re trying to say. So, did you find what you wanted?”
Han Ji-soo spoke, looking back and forth at Lee Yeon-ju, who had just joined.
“Just as you said… … I found it… … but… … .”
“You said you left it to me to find the relics, so why this?”
Lee Yeon-ju hands over a slightly bluish stone, and Ryu Jae-jun looks at her as if he doesn’t understand.
“We… can win, right?”
Kim Yu-hyeon’s pupils are shaking violently.
“What’s wrong? This is a very useful artifact, even though people don’t use it very often.”
“Well, I guess I can understand it when you say it like that… … Really. That’s… … .”
What I asked of Lee Yeon-ju. It was a relic, no, it was so common that it might be difficult to call it a relic.
“What on earth would you use the Anti-Mana Stone for… … .”
A stone with the property of disrupting mana.
It was a relic, but it was not treated as a relic.
Because to be valuable it had to be huge, like a rock.
In contrast, what Lee Yeon-ju collected were only small fragments like grains of sand.
If you put them all together, it might be the size of a small stone?
“Anyway, Yeonju has already confirmed all the other relics.”
“But why on earth did you only bring this… … .”
The team members looked even more incomprehensible.
“Of course, there was nothing that could turn the tide… … .”
“and?”
Instead of answering, he lifted the sniper rifle that was slung over his shoulder.
“Should I put in an anti-mana stone… and shoot it? … … Huh? So will it fly? The mana will all be scattered, so the bullet won’t be properly loaded with mana.”
Of course, there’s no way I wouldn’t have considered what you guys were thinking.
But now there was no time for chit-chat any longer.
The opposing team from the southeast. I felt a large number of LTD personnel approaching.
It would be much faster to show it than to tell it.
Of course, the first priority is to make sure the other person doesn’t expect it, so let the kids act naturally…
“Except for playing, try to move around busily as if you were looking for relics.”
“What?”
Han Ji-soo’s expression was rotten, but Ryu Jae-jun followed my words without saying anything.
Probably because I figured out exactly why.
“It might be because the opponent is checking us with mana sensitivity.”
“ah…….”
That way, we can make them let their guard down as much as possible.
Lee Yeon-ju and I would not have been caught if we had worn mana-sensing blockers a long time ago.
“Let’s go as we said before for the performance. Okay? And the rest of you, just go down the side road and continue towards the relics.”
Lee Yeon-ju slipped away quietly. Alone.
“Just the three of us, excluding you two… … .”
“Yeah. But don’t die. If it’s dangerous, run away. Naturally.”
“Those are really demanding.”
Han Ji-soo grumbled as she headed towards Ryu Jae-jun, Kim Yu-hyeon, and the relics.
Naturally, it wasn’t long before we had no choice but to face LTD with the relics in the middle.
The relics are also closer to LTD, and the opponent has 7 members while PER’s teammates who went towards the relics are only 3.
‘What is this… … Are they just telling me to kill myself?’
That thought lasted only a moment. Several arrows flew from the LTD side that had taken the relic.
I grit my teeth and do whatever Lee Chang-hyun tells me to do, so I try to avoid it and survive.
Even though I opened up the distance with the airbeat and turned the corner with the air anchor, the arrows chased me as if they were AI missiles.
“Ah… … By the way… … The relic over there… … was a sharpshooter’s goggles… … They say that if you wear them and shoot, the attack will be automatically tracked… … .”
“Hey… … Hey! Why are you telling me that now!”
Han Ji-soo exploded with anger, but Lee Yeon-joo didn’t respond.
“Hey! Lee Chang-hyun! Weren’t you doing something?”
“a little bit…….”
“What’s a little bit! I’m going to die. Are you crazy?”
Was it because Han Ji-soo had been a hothead in the past? The arrows followed right up to the reconnaissance’s nose. Even if you quickly dodged and blocked them, they were arrows filled with mana, so whatever you blocked was shattered.
And at the moment when the real arrow was about to pierce Han Ji-soo.
Taang -.
Lee Chang-hyun’s side was silent. A sound was heard from Lee Chang-hyun’s side, who had been hiding quietly and lying in wait.
‘What the… … Were you just going to snipe? But that… … Won’t it all get blocked by the shield? And if you miss even a little bit and don’t die in one hit, the Sanctuary skill… … .’
A moment of thought, forgetting even the arrows flying before my eyes.
The arrow that had been flying suddenly lost its power and fell to the ground.
“First, 1 kill.”
‘… … What? How? So simple?’
Han Ji-soo’s head was filled with doubt.
How did the barrier get through, and what was the healing effect of the sanctuary…?
Yeah. What if you somehow managed to break through the barrier with the Anti-Mana Stone?
Maybe put that on a bullet?
But if you hit it with a bullet, the mana will disperse and it won’t be able to exert its proper killing power.
Filled with thoughts like, “What is going on?”
“Han Ji-soo! Wake up!! Concentrate!”
Ryu Jae-jun’s voice was heard from the side.
This time it wasn’t the arrows, but the LTD’s melee dealers.
Judging from the fact that they are carrying such fancy weapons, it’s obvious that they would lose if they fought.
So, he comes to his senses again and starts running away like Ryu Jae-jun and Kim Yu-hyeon.
Again the gunshots were heard.
It was in a completely different direction.
Tatang – thud.
“This is 2 kills.”
It didn’t end there.
After running away for a while, another gunshot was heard from another direction.
Tatang – Bam!
This time, it wasn’t just a simple gunshot, but the sound of something exploding?
Han Ji-soo had absolutely no idea what was going on.
And then, at some point, when I looked back, the LTD team members chasing me were nowhere to be found.
“… … What the heck is this?”
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