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“Hehehe.”
My name is Cheon Ji-hyeon. 22 years old.
My job is as an agent for a large corporation.
Although it is a newly established company, it is a large company since I work for a full-fledged subsidiary of the Lael Group.
A high school graduate with no experience other than working part-time jobs is now a manager at a large corporation at the age of 22.
Just thinking about this makes me hum a tune these days.
Even now, after finishing my shower after work, it was the happiest moment of my day.
“Shall we study today too~”
Good feelings breed passion.
Because the work is so easy, I may have more energy left over than other office workers.
Anyway, I decided to study until I go to bed today too.
[Lotranet]
The beginning of studying begins with accessing a game community site that you have bookmarked.
As someone who was completely ignorant of games before joining the company, there was no better site for me to learn about LOST and understand the trends and issues of LOST users.
“These days, everyone only talks about the Tower of Challenge and the Castle of Destruction debuff.”
Public sentiment here is very unstable these days.
The reason, needless to say, was the difficulty and debuffs of the Tower of Challenge.
It seemed like all users were extremely angry, as even those who gave up on world events and just hunted were unable to play the game properly due to the doomsday debuff.
[Title: Honestly, don’t even start broadcasting about the 8th floor challenge or anything like that.]
Even before the world event started, the kids who were pulling the aggro by saying they would be the first to clear the level and such, are they going to make the entire world become exposed to the destruction beam for a week just because they couldn’t clear even one 8th floor?
You don’t even deserve to be sponsored.
If you have any conscience, turn off the broadcast and drag the body until the 8th floor is clear.
For the past few days, I have been seeing a lot of aggressive posts about individual broadcasters who are trying to climb to the 8th floor.
Every time I see something like this, I feel very bad.
‘It seems like Dojin is also trying to climb the 8th floor these days.’
I’m really worried because it seems like I’m doing it alone.
I read the announcement carefully and I know that there is a solo mode in the Tower of Challenge, but wouldn’t it be better if there were more people?
But trying to do it alone… … .
‘Dojin is trying to set a record for clearing the game by himself, right? Then people will be really surprised even if he doesn’t clear it first.’
I continued to study… or rather, just watch, while making predictions.
The more I thought about it, the more I thought Dojin’s choice this time was really fortunate.
“If live streaming had started, Dojin would have been cursed at too.”
Dojin getting cursed at. Just thinking about it made my nose sting, my chest tighten, and my head feel hot.
The child seems indifferent, huh? The world seems bleak, huh? That’s true, but how young… she might be!
It was all thanks to Dojin that I was able to move from a small room with no deposit to a studio with a deposit of 1,000 after receiving a special bonus, and that I was promoted to a manager at a large company at the age of 22!
It was when I was feeling angry for no reason and was getting angry.
[Title: Hey hey, the debuff disappeared?]
[Title: In-game notice has appeared. The light of the Doomsday Castle has weakened!]
[Title: Guess who woke up on the 8th floor? Is it the Spear Guild?]
[Title: The Spear guys just got wiped out in the boss room? Where else is the party that made it to the boss?]
There’s an explosion of new posts.
The content was that the destruction debuff that was spread throughout Rostania had disappeared since the 8th floor was cleared.
Startled, I clicked on this article and that article to check out the situation.
‘I guess I woke up in a team that challenged me with a party… … .’
Although I felt a little regretful, I also thought it was okay since Dojin was aiming to clear the level alone anyway.
But after a while, my smartphone vibrated.
Hmm? It’s Dojin, right?
[Sender: Jini]
[Sister, when you get back to the dorm, roughly organize the videos saved on my computer and send them to the company. I can’t send them right away because they’re being rendered. I’m tired, so I’ll sleep a little. Sorry.]
To others, it might seem like a routine, business-like text message with no particular content.
Actually, that might be true.
But for some reason, my heart started pounding.
I looked at the monitor.
The monitor shows the chaos caused by the news of the 8th floor being cleared.
And on the screen of the smartphone in my hand, there was a text message from Dojin.
“I have to go now.”
When Dojin brings up the word ‘video’, it’s almost like a sign of a major incident.
I hurriedly grabbed my car keys and ran out in my pajamas.
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Where did the party break the 8th floor?
Which country is the party in?
Spear? If it’s Spear, it’s America.
No, that’s not a spear.
Then where? If it’s famous for PVE, then Lysine?
I think La Coco has also made quite a splash with viewers.
Neither did you. One of the party members fell asleep and went out to rest.
So where is it? Whose party was it that crashed?
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The light of destruction has dimmed.
The debuff went away, and the buff came back.
That means the 8th floor has been cleared.
But there were guilds, parties, and streamers who were crazy about challenging themselves while live streaming.
There was no place to certify clear.
‘The party of the gods has been broken.’
Okay, let’s say it was woken up by a normal person.
But if you’ve achieved something this great, shouldn’t you at least get some sort of recognition?
I’ll probably upload a screenshot soon.
People waited.
However, even after a day, no news came confirming that the 8th floor had been cleared.
[8]
That was it.
When people’s curiosity was at its peak, one video was uploaded.
The video was uploaded to the channel ‘Dojin’.
The beginning of the video was quiet,
In the blank screen, only faint breathing can be heard.
Then at some point, the screen popped up.
No, what I saw on the screen was someone’s eyes opening.
Then, numerous spiders appear.
Spiders were seen crawling all over the floor, as well as the outer walls and ceiling.
This was the view from the 8th floor of the Tower of Challenge.
The situation moved so quickly that I didn’t even have time to wonder how the vision was so clear.
The screen, which appeared to be in the first person, shook violently.
Dojin started to move as soon as he grasped the situation.
I could hear the commotion made by Dojin, who was running in a direction where the spider’s net was weak, and the swarm of spiders chasing him.
The slightly faster breathing made the genre of the video on the screen seem like a thriller or horror film.
But that was only for a moment. The air changed as Dojin’s foot applied the brakes.
Golden light shimmered, a magic circle rose, and in a short time, the completed magic fell upon the swarm of shadow spiders that were busy pursuing them.
Hwaruk. Flames fill the narrow passage.
Dojin, who saw that the spider was starting to die, quickly casts the next spell. This time, it is “Summon the Evil Spirit”.
A black demon leaps forward and stops dead in its tracks.
Dojin ran again, leaving the evil spirit there.
Dojin, who was backing away, saw a swarm of foolish spiders that kept pushing themselves into the flames, mistaking them for prey chasing evil spirits.
[“Hoo.”]
The sound of deep breathing. The sound of running. The sound of breath gradually fading away.
Soon a new sound is added. It’s the sound of insects.
“Crawling Fire” turns the corner before the enemy appears and greets them.
The fire attribute magic “Crawling Fire”, which is not often used because it is difficult to control, perfectly blocks the spiders’ movement path while burning them.
But this time, Dojin did not move right away, but stopped for a moment.
[“3, 2, 1.”]
Dojin counting down in a small voice.
[“0.”]
And as soon as I spit out 0, I reached out my hand towards the ceiling.
Almost simultaneously, a sharp blade of wind flew out, unpredictable, and a spider swooped down from the ceiling as if on a string.
With a swish, the “Wind Blade” cut through the spider web that was connecting the guy’s body to the ceiling.
The spider, whose vehicle had a problem, fell to the ground without reaching its destination, Dojin.
Phew.
And then, just like in the picture, a “fireball” was fired at the guy who landed on the ground.
A two-star fire attribute magic roasted a spider nicely. No, it would have roasted it.
It was impossible to confirm because Dojin’s vision had already turned in a different direction.
Dojin, who hadn’t even confirmed the enemy’s death, was jumping around in a regular manner this time.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. 8.
A set of steps that anyone can see moving a certain distance according to a certain rhythm.
And at the end of it.
[Kiaaaaak!]
The floor flipped over and a swarm of spiders burst out.
They were waiting for their prey inside a large hole, and when the prey came close enough to them and stopped, some of them could not control their instincts and jumped out.
Dojin timed his leap backwards.
A hook-shaped spider’s foot that precariously cuts through Dojin’s front legs.
Unlike other creatures, they were special creatures with a pair of front legs that resembled the scythes of a locust.
The 8th floor’s troublemakers, nicknamed the Assassins in the Dark, are far superior to ordinary individuals in terms of body size, fighting power, and speed.
However, the mantis spiders that had been showing off their majesty were caught in the explosion as soon as they jumped out, and their chitinous shells were blown away, spraying protein lumps everywhere.
He was a victim of a cleanly thrown magic stone bomb.
As if that wasn’t enough, Dojin ran and put several identical items inside the pit as gifts.
The group of Mentis Spiders, instinctively crouching in the face of the oppression from outside, were unable to put up a proper fight and were killed by the explosion that filled the small space.
[“Whew. That’s tough.”]
Dojin takes out a mana potion and gulps it down while talking.
For high recovery efficiency, stand still and burn the tobacco.
[“3, 2, 1.”]
Then the countdown starts again. When the time you set is reached, you move immediately.
It was a movement and calculation without even a single moment of gap.
You have to go through the alleys of the 8th floor that are like a maze, defeat the swarms of spiders, and get ahead of the paths they take to attack from behind.
Dojin, who had been running wild through the eight floors, was now standing in front of the boss room.
Since I only cleared out the mobs that had to be dealt with to get to the boss room, I didn’t spend much time or use up any consumables.
This means that you have a lot of healing potions and mana potions left that can be used in boss battles.
So, what everyone watching the video was focused on was the ‘number of consumables’ Dojin had left.
This was because as the boss fight got longer, healing potions would become very necessary.
However, Dojin’s actions in front of the boss room were not the ‘saving and conservation’ chosen by the viewers of the video as well as the numerous parties challenging to clear the 8th floor.
What Dojin chose in the video was waste and more waste.
[Magic Power Enhancement Potion]
[Intelligence Increase Potion]
[Magic Circuit Reinforcement Buff Scroll]
[“Blessing of Intelligence” Buff Scroll]
[Potion to increase poison resistance]
[Mana Overload Potion]
… … .
They poured out doping drugs without sparing any effort, as they were expensive and each had side effects, making it worse to not use them at all.
After a duration of about 3 to 5 minutes, each of the recoils returns, creating an aftershock that makes it impossible to walk properly, let alone use magic.
[“Ugh… … !”]
As expected, Dojin clutches his chest as soon as he finishes doping.
It was already obvious that drug abuse had reached a point where it was wearing away his blood.
The sight of him hastily sucking on the magic potion to stabilize it was just like a drug addict suffering from withdrawal symptoms.
[“ha…….”]
Dojin, who let out a sigh, smoke, and a sense of decadence, walked towards the boss room.
