Chapter 59 Jukchang Daejeon (7)


    1st round of Jukchang Daejeon.


    The event, which attracted an astounding number of 3 million participants, ended sessfully with the explosive response of the people. And after a day of rest. People gathered again for the second round.


    [Hoh.... It turned out to be more unexpected than I thought.]


    An NPC goblin who is hosting the event.


    He muttered intriguedly above Fantastic Ind, reading a long scroll with his sses on.


    [I thought a lot of top rankers would survive... Surprisingly, there were a lot of survivors in the middle and low ranks.]


    1000 survivors survived.


    Among them, there were a lot of famous rankers that you would know just by hearing their name, but surprisingly many of them were middle- and lower-ranking yers whose names you didn''t know.


    “Jukchang! Jukchang!”


    “We are all equal in front of the bamboo spear!”


    “Oooh! Let''s unite,rades!”


    As if they were united, they had red headbands on their heads that they did not know where they got them from. Looking at them, one of the rankers muttered in disgust.


    “Ugh... those crazy guys...”


    “Why? What happened?”


    Asked by someone who heard his murmur, one ranker shook his head as if he had no answer.


    “They are really just crazy people. They''re just people who carry bamboo spears and make banzai attacks with man-in-the-middle tactics. Whether he really dies or not, once he sees people who look like rankers, he just openly rushes at them... Ugh, if he gets caught, it really hurts his head.”


    “is it so....? However, since quite a few survived, the strategy must have worked...”


    “Don''t say anything. How big were those guys originally? That is a lot less.”


    Jukchang Taiping Movement.


    Those who gathered with the determination to bring peace to the continent with bamboo spears. They made a huge force of more than tens of thousands, but after a fierce jukchang battle, their power plummeted to about 200, but now with 1,000 remaining in the second round, they were a threatening group on a scale that could not be ignored.


    [Hoh.... The lowest level of this is 43. Is it luck that a user who did not exceed 50 was on the list of sessful candidates for the first round? Or is it skill?]


    The goblin muttered unexpectedly with his eyes bright. Perhaps taken aback by his words, Angelina quietly hid behind Jaeyoung''s back with an awkward expression on her face.


    [Well... let''s find out about that through episode 2. Kikiki.....]


    Then the goblin snapped his fingers again.


    Right.


    Whoops.


    A bamboo spear that trembles as if resonating with the clear sound of finger snapping. And a strange red aura began to spread from the bamboo spear.


    “what....?”


    [First of all, before starting the 2nd Jukchang War.... I will exin two urgent changes.]


    “There are changes?”


    “What are you talking about all of a sudden?”


    People started to mumble when they heard that there was a change. However, after hearing the goblin''s words, Jaeyoung and Angelina looked at each other with strange expressions.


    [Eh... First of all, it''s not cheating, but we decided to improve some of the skills because it was judged to be too advantageous in this bamboo spear battle. First... Change the bamboo spear so that it can receive not only physical attacks, but also magic attacks. In other words, effects such as ignoring physical attacks or absolute defense cannot be applied to bamboo spears.]


    “...?”


    “Nullification of physical attacks? absolute defense? Did you have those skills?”


    “Wow... Then it must have been a real scam. Who is it?”


    The users tilted their heads at those words and became agitated. But among them, Jaeyoung made a stiff expression after hearing the goblin''s announcement.


    “Wait a minute... isn’t that a patch thatpletely attacks you?”


    Angelina put on a strange expression and whispered carefully to Jaeyoung. Angelina witnessed with her own eyes that he was immune from bamboo spears. Instead, she was furious at the fact that Jaeyoung''s biggest advantage was gone because of this patch.


    “What''s this? Where is the point of putting such a condition at will now? Is this aplete sniper patch? Wouldn''t this be against fairness?”


    It''s not a bug or a hack, but Jae-young, who survived proudly by using the game system legitimately. However, the gamepany began to thoroughly block him without acknowledging his trick.


    [Also, due to concerns about a serious bnce copse due to certain items, in the 2nd and 3rd rounds, you cannot use any equipment other than weapons among the existing equipment items, and you must fight each other only with your own skills and bamboo spears.]


    “ what....?”


    “Where is that! No equipment to wear!”


    Wearing non-weapon equipment is prohibited.


    People''s dissatisfaction with this second measure popped up here and there.


    “No, but it’s a bit harsh to not even wear armor. How are you supposed to fight!”


    Still, from the point of view of high-rankers, they received a level of equipment that could not be ignored, so it was easy to deal with the middle and low-ranking users in groups, but they judged that if this happened, it would be more disadvantageous for survival.


    “...Does this sound like you’re sniping?”


    This time, Jaeyoung muttered while looking at Angelina, but she was shocked by the ban on wearing equipment, and as if her soul had escaped, she just stared nkly at the goblin.


    [Kihehehe. Even if it''s aint, it''s already been decided, so I can''t help it.]


    The goblin shrugs as if he has no power. As if he would not listen to the users''ints, he soon started counting again.


    [ruler. Then, shall we begin the second round of Jukchang Daejeon? 5.... 4.... 3.... 2.... 1.... Start!]


    [Number of Survivors Remaining: 1000]


    Round 2 where 900 out of 1000 are eliminated. The deration of the beginning was made and the users disappeared in an instant. To their respective positions before being summoned.


    * * *


    The beginning of the Second Jukchang War.


    Team leader Jang Tae-young watching it was full of nervousness unlike before.


    “Did the patch apply properly?”


    “Uh... I guess so.”


    Team leader Jang Tae-young checks the situation of the event in real time. Next to him, Director Kang Tae-hoon, who is in charge of nning and development of Arcadia''s Korean branch, was watching the event together.


    “So... how are those two monitoring targets doing?”


    “There is not much movement yet. The two of you are just talking to each other.”


    “Yeah...if it starts to move, report it right away.”


    “yes! All right.”


    At the direct instruction of General Manager Kang Tae-Hoon, the staff started to move quickly. That''s also true because Director Kang Tae-Hoon was a person who wielded tremendous influence inside and outside the department to the extent that he could be said to be next to the executive director who was authorized within thepany, and the fact that he directly stepped forward made even team leader Tae-Young Jang nervous.


    “That manager...?”


    “Why but?”


    Team leader Jang Tae-young called Director Kang Tae-hoon in the most cautious tone. He hesitated several times as if he was awkward, then lowered his head and said.


    “I think I made a mistake the other day because I was too excited. I''m really sorry.”


    Team leader Jang Tae-young checked the performance of the equipment items worn by a user named Angelina. He went directly to the nning department and development department and almost overturned the desk and made all sorts of jokes. And it was only after Director Kang Tae-hun stepped forward that he learned all the facts.


    “No. If you think that the event you prepared with such ridiculous bnce breaking items is being ruined, you might be like that. I understand everything.....”


    “No..... I''m really sorry and I''m sorry again.”


    Team leader Tae-young Jang, who lowered his head and apologized, was next to him, and General Manager Kang Tae-hun was lost in thought. Team leader


    Jang


    Tae-young came to ask if the items Angelina was wearing made sense. Another appearance of a unique item reminded me of what I had been reported to by Yang Chang-sik the other day.


    The first unique grade item on the auction house, ‘Blood Addiction''.


    It also boasted such great performance that the word fraudulently came out of its mouth, but even after the item was confiscated due to hasty measures, the victim''s reaction was too calm.


    [Ah... just take that. You can make more simr ones and sell them.]


    The person concerned may not have known, but it is an unsettling sound that will make the listener''s heart sink ten times. And as if that promise at that time was true, the only item was in 3 different users.


    “First of all, Angelina is important, but to be able to intensively monitor the user called Dex. It''s a ghost-like existence that is beyond our monitoring authority.”


    “All right.”


    Existence outside the authority to fall into the monitoring target. Almost a very small number, but about 3 people were confirmed, and they were thoroughly veiled to the extent that even Arcadia couldn''t even find out what was going on. And one of them was Dex, who was right there on the screen.


    “If you look at the situation, it is confirmed that it is probably a production user. In the case of Angelina, given that she took an existing item and transformed it, there is a high probability that she is a production user specializing in strengthening.”


    Director Kang Tae-hun, who presumes that he has obtained a hidden ss. However, since it was just an analogy through the way he yed, not a fact that he found out by reading certain user information, he intended to draw out as much information as possible through this Jukchang Battle.


    “But... Fortunately, the head office allowed this emergency patch, so the bigger controversy seems to have ended.”


    Jaeyoung, whopletely ignores physical attack power, and Angelina, who pushes everything away with items. A patch applied by those who devised an alternative for half a day to identify and limit the exploits of these two. However, for this purpose, Executive Director Myung-Han Kwon and General Manager Kang Tae-Hoon suffered considerable losses.


    [The reason for the emergency patch is not suitable.]


    Although it is said to be an exploit, these two problems are not cheating at all in the eyes of AI Alice. However, Executive Director Myung-Han Kwon pushed ahead with this patch.


    “Am Icking administrative privileges for patching?”


    [3rd level manager Kwon Myeong-han, executive director. The authority is met.]


    “Then, I will invoke the administrator''s authority to apply this emergency patch.”


    Kwon Myeong-han, executive director, requested an emergency patch using the administrator''s authority. At that, Alice acknowledged that this patch would give unreasonable penalties to certain users, but approved it.


    [Permissions met. Execution of administrator''s authority Apply emergency patch contents.]


    “Thank you.”


    It was not the direction she wanted, but Executive Director Kwon Myeong-han expressed her gratitude for carrying out her will. But she answered him in a dry tone.


    [I used the authority of the administrator, but it is an unfair patch based on my judgment. Some penalties may be imposed ordingly.]


    Ellis leaves a bloody final word that a penalty may be imposed. It was not clear what the penalty was, but Executive Director Myung-Han Kwon had no choice but to overdo it because it was a necessary measure for this Jukchang Daejeon event to end sessfully.


    “If you go through the 3rd round in that state and survive until the end...”


    The final battle of the 3rd round of the Jukchang Daejeon will probably be watched with interest from all over the world.


    In the fierce and suffocating battle, Angelina unleashes Circle 1 magic without limit.


    Dex stabs everyone with his own bamboo spear while ignoring the bamboo spears of others.


    He chose it because he could imagine what kind of aftershock would be if the world watched the two of them. In the direction of eliminating the two at the risk of being hated by the artificial intelligence Alice.


    But none of them knew.


    Dex is at the level of destroying the bnce of the universe just by being Dex.


    That he is a game genius beyond imagination.