Chapter 58

Chapter 58

Level 2 Player

Guerrilla

“Keok!”

“Aaaak!”

The arrows that suddenly flew lodged in the bodies of the players with tracking skills who were searching for the target’s traces at the very front.

The players with tracking skills whose vital points were pierced by the arrows lost their lives before they knew it.

Pukpukpuk!

The arrows did not only aim for the players with tracking skills.

Thud!

“Keok!”

“Aak!”

They intensively targeted the archers holding bows.

“Block!”

Jucheonguk, who gave the instruction to the tankers, ran with full power toward the direction the arrows were flying from.

“Guild Master!”

Melee dealers with fast movement speed followed behind Jucheonguk.

‘I’ll kill them!’

Jucheonguk gritted his teeth.

They were enemies of only 2 people. Even at the maximum, only 7. He naturally thought they would run away and did not know they would launch a preemptive attack.

Still, he prepared just in case.

He thought that if the enemy launched an ambush, they would naturally aim for healers or mages. Because just as in battles with monsters, in battles with players, the ones who play the biggest role are precisely the healers and mages. That was why he prepared halfway.

But the enemy aimed for the players who had learned tracking skills and the archers.

‘I will never let them go.’

He will catch them and tear them to pieces and kill them.

However, when Jucheonguk and the melee dealers arrived, the scene visible to the eyes was only empty bushes.

“Scatter immediately and search!”

Even if they ran away right after the arrow attack stopped, they would not have gone very far. The moment Jucheonguk gave the instruction and tried to move his body.

Saaak!

“Ugh!”

A gloomy curse energy covered the bodies of Jucheonguk and the melee dealers.

“M-my head!”

“I can’t see!”

“Huff huff! My heart!”

The melee dealers hit by the curse let out painful groans.

‘How is something like this possible?’

Meanwhile, Jucheonguk received a great shock. What they had pursued was an archer. Of course, there might be a dark-type healer mixed among the companions. However, curses are not omnipotent.

‘The range of curse skills shouldn’t be that long?’

However, even if he searched with washed eyes, the appearance of the dark-type healer who cast the curse could not be seen.

It was not simply invisible to the eyes. He could not feel the flow of mana at all either.

Then.

Kwaaaaang!

With a loud explosion, splendid fireworks rose from the rear where the tankers, healers, and mages were.

“These bastards!”

Jucheonguk’s face twisted like an evil spirit. Tankers, healers, and mages are all those with low mobility.

“Hit the mages first!”

At Jucheonguk’s shout, the scattered melee dealers gathered again and rushed toward the place where the magic attack skills had come from. There was a need to go to the healers even to dispel the curses on their bodies.

Shushushuk!

Pukpukpuk!

At that moment, arrows flew toward the backs of the moving melee dealers.

“Keok!”

“Ugh!”

12 melee dealers whose vision and movements were restricted by the curse lost their lives in an instant.

“Uaaaa!”

Jucheonguk, who had lost his reason due to anger, ran with full power toward the place where the arrows had come from. However, there was still no one there either.

Saaak!

What greeted him was only all kinds of curses.

Kwaang!

Meanwhile, successive explosions were bursting out from the place where the tankers, healers, and mages were.

“Grr!”

Jucheonguk eventually gave up pursuing the archer and had no choice but to head toward the place where the magic attack skills had come from.

However.

“Damn it!”

What remained at the place where the magic attack skills had come from was still nothing.

“Uaaaa! You rat-like bastards! I’ll kill them all! I’ll definitely tear them to pieces and kill them as painfully as possible!”

Jucheonguk let out a roar filled with anger. However, the fact that he had already missed the enemy and suffered enormous damage absolutely did not change.

***

‘The effect is better than I thought.’

Jin-su’s face brightened.

As the Blessing grew, the levels of the existing main skills rose to 522. Among them, of course, the shadow summon skill was included.

The shadow assassin is a summon affected by Jin-su’s stats and Blessing. However, the existence of levels was important. The higher the level, the more completely it could receive Jin-su’s stats and Blessing.

‘But it’s not all just receiving my stats and Blessing.’

The levels of each class skill possessed by the shadow summons are also fixed at 522. Also, the ability to hide in shadows and the ability to move within shadows, which can be called the shadow summons’ unique passive skills, also grew.

‘Being able to hide the body in shadows and move is the same, but.’

The concealment that erases traces of mana was further strengthened.

‘That’s not the end.’

Originally, shadow summons could only hide or move their own bodies into shadows. But now it was different.

‘Because they can hide or move about one more person.’

This was a groundbreaking method that guaranteed Jin-su’s movement and safety, and of course could also take care of Shin Su-a’s safety.

However, letting one’s guard down was forbidden. Even if the concealment of the ability to hide in shadows had been strengthened.

‘Because I cannot guarantee that I can deceive those who have learned high-level tracking skills or players with exceptionally excellent mana detection power.’

That was why he set the target of the first ambush attack as those who possessed tracking skills. Jin-su and the shadow archer eliminated all those who possessed tracking skills through sniping using arrows.

‘As expected, points are the best.’

Since he had plenty of points, he could make a lot of archer skills into synthesis skills. On top of that, he could also easily purchase high-level archer-exclusive items.

‘The Blessing’s level fix is definitely fraudulent.’

Jin-su lived a life far from an archer both before regression and after regression. However, the moment he acquired archer-exclusive skills and made them level 522, everything changed.

Thanks to the skill correction, Jin-su’s arrow accuracy rose to a perfect hit level. Where is that all? The destructive power also rose to the point where one arrow could cut off a boss monster’s life.

‘Sure enough, the saying that level is king is not for nothing.’

Of course, even so, Jin-su’s skill was greatly lacking compared to an archer with the same level and skills. He did not know how to read the flow of the wind, and for predictive shooting where he had to read the enemy’s movements in advance and shoot arrows in advance, the arrow accuracy dropped sharply.

‘Against stationary enemies it’s a perfect hit. But moving enemies are definitely tricky.’

However, for now this level was sufficient. Because Jin-su had learned archer-exclusive skills only a few days ago.

‘The fact that I acquired this level of skill in a short time is no different from fraud.’

Of course, he had no intention of continuing to be satisfied with the current level of archery skill.

‘If I have the leisure, I should seriously learn archery.’

Since there is also an excellent teacher called the shadow archer, increasing skill will not be difficult.

‘Well, even so, I probably can’t stand on the same line as truly talented guys.’

Still, if there is the help of the Blessing, he will at least be able to accumulate skill close to that.

The archer class is like that, and the assassin, mage, healer, and tanker classes are like that, and except for the main warrior class, he felt like he was aiming for a half-baked second place in everything.

‘That can’t be.’

Jin-su forced himself to ignore that feeling.

He had lived as second place his whole life.

This time he unconditionally wanted to become first.

‘The curse trap is also quite usable.’

One of the archer-exclusive skills Jin-su recently learned was the trap. Archers are a class with strong long-range attack power but low close combat power. The exclusive skill to make up for that is precisely the trap.

‘Originally, the limit is installing a small trap that can briefly catch the enemy’s ankle.’

The synthesis skill pulled off another one.

‘Attribute skill trap.’

Archers do not simply shoot ordinary arrows. They can launch special arrows imbued with each characteristic, such as flame arrows, ice arrows, and explosive arrows.

The attribute skill trap was a synthesis skill that could contain the attribute of the skill the archer uses in the trap.

‘If a pure archer had learned it, they would only have been able to contain the attributes applied to special arrows.’

Jin-su did not only possess pure archer skills. He possessed all the skills of healer, tanker, assassin, and mage.

‘Making warrior, assassin, and mage skills into traps failed.’

Whether it was because the attack power contained in the skills of warrior, assassin, and mage was too strong to contain in the attribute skill trap.

Or whether there was another unknown reason, he did not know...

Anyway, it failed miserably.

However, fortunately, making the healer’s curse skill into a trap could succeed.

‘A proper jackpot burst.’

The existence of the curse trap that can make curses into traps will be a considerable help in guerrilla battles like this one.

‘Well, it’s not like I can contain a complete curse.’

A decrease in power occurring while making the curse into a trap could not be helped.

‘If the level rises, I can overcome it.’

Perhaps he might be able to contain mage skills with powerful power or assassin skills with one-hit kill power.

‘Though that’s only possible when I can raise the synthesis skill level.’

Currently, there was no method itself to raise the level of synthesis skills.

‘It will appear later. It will definitely appear.’

Jin-su believed in the Blessing.

Jin-su, who forced himself to steel his heart, prepared for the next battle.

***

“These damned bastards who wouldn’t even be satisfying if I ground them alive and drank them!”

Jucheonguk let out a roar at the top of his lungs. The majority of the guild members were also sympathizing with that anger of Jucheonguk.

However, not all guild members were seized by anger.

‘It seems better to just withdraw.’

As time flowed, the excitement of some guild members subsided and their heads slowly started turning. However, they could not bring themselves to spit out even the words of retreat.

‘There’s no answer like this.’

The elites of the Hwangryong Guild prepared thoroughly after the first raid. Nevertheless, they were periodically raided and suffered considerable damage each time.

As a result, the number of elite guild members that had exceeded 100 was reduced to 49. Without even having a proper battle, the number of allies had already been reduced to less than half.

‘They might get wiped out.’

The surviving players naturally possessed superior skills than those who died. However, the problem is that the enemies are avoiding a frontal confrontation and thoroughly unfolding guerrilla tactics.

A situation where they cannot even see the enemy’s appearance and are unilaterally taking hits.

In fact, defeat was as good as confirmed.

‘The archer players capable of long-range attacks have already been wiped out.’

More than half of the mage players survived and the majority of the healers were safe, but that is all.

There is no means to track the enemy and no means to defend from a distance.

‘Mage players alone are not enough.’

The attack range of archer players is much longer than the attack skill range of mage players.

‘On top of that, after the opponent unleashes magic attack skills, they disappear as if evaporated, so counterattacks themselves have no meaning.’

The current situation was one where every time a battle broke out, they could not even see the enemy’s shadow and only the allies were unilaterally attacked and beaten.

As such things continued to repeat, the enemy remained fine while only the allies’ damage snowballed.

‘I wouldn’t know if it was a state where tracking was impossible, but.’

The players with tracking skills were wiped out in the first raid. Nevertheless, the elites of the Hwangryong Guild could easily track the enemies. Because the enemies periodically left thick residual traces of mana or footprints and the like openly.

‘This is an obvious trap.’

The traces left by the enemies were merely bait to lure them to a place where they could easily attack them.

The problem is that Guild Master Jucheonguk and the majority of the guild members are extremely excited like a boar that has been shot.

‘Let’s say it.’

Until a little while ago, he had also been excited and did not realize the fact that it was a trap. But now it was not. Even if he incurred the anger of Guild Master Jucheonguk, in order to live, withdrawing now was correct.

“Guild Mas...”

Twang!

Thud!

However, before he could even finish those words, an arrow flew and took the life of his comrade.