The Return Of The Genius Ranker Of All Times [EN]: Chapter 271

271.

“Laughing? Are you not grasping the situation?”

Lavaon frowned, unable to hide his displeasure at Do-hyun’s smirk.

Why was he suddenly laughing in the middle of a fight?

The feeling that he was being ridiculed made his murderous intent seethe.

Marfard seemed equally displeased, as he charged his massive body straight at Do-hyun, who was smirking.

Kwaang!

[‘Marfard’ uses Reckless Charge.]

[Parries Reckless Charge.]

[Successfully executed a perfect parry.]

There was no way he would fail to block such a straightforward attack.

He parried with ease, and a follow-up attack came immediately.

It was Lavaon’s sword.

[Lavaon uses Gale Assault.]

The sword, emitting a sharp aura as if cutting through the wind, sent a chill down his neck.

The energy surrounding the sword was extraordinary.

It was a Hero-grade skill, categorized as top-tier in speed, but the sword could not reach Do-hyun’s neck.

Kaang!

-How dare you point your sword at our lord.

Charlie, who had rushed in like a shooting star, blocked Lavaon’s sword.

Thanks to him, he was able to create some distance, but reinforcements weren’t only on their side.

Step, step, step, step.

The encirclement around Do-hyun was gradually tightening.

There were at least a hundred people.

Considering that they were all top-tier rankers, it was a formidable force, but Do-hyun showed no signs of distress.

Smirk.

He simply watched with his signature smirk.

“……What’s so funny? Kaiser.”

“Ah, I was just thinking it might be more manageable than I thought.”

“……There’s a limit to how much you can bluff.”

Lavaon and Marfard scowled, but Do-hyun was serious.

‘I heard that the vice-masters of the top 10 guilds are stronger than most masters of large guilds…….’

Contrary to his concerns, their specs weren’t that impressive.

Rather, Sina, whom he had faced before, was much more challenging than dealing with these two together.

His analytical skills were so advanced that even Do-hyun had to acknowledge them.

But what about these guys?

‘Just empty shells who rely on their specs to act tough.’

Each of them had specs similar to Sina, but their skills were not worth comparing.

He was even stronger now than when he faced Sina, so there was no need to say more.

The two of them were also instinctively feeling it.

‘……He’s stronger than I heard.’

‘Indeed, the title of being the top contributor to the Forgotten Tomb wasn’t earned in vain, huh?’

Kaiser, whom they had directly experienced, was by no means beneath them.

A user still in their level 80s was on par with them, who had surpassed the max level and experienced transcendence?

Their pride was hurt, but they soon calmed themselves.

‘We would win if we fought properly…… but Damian-nim wants things done for sure. This isn’t the time to waste time being prideful.’

‘Let’s go with the method of *확실하게 말려 죽이는 쪽으로 가자고* [killing him surely].’

What was most important right now was the success of the mission.

They had to cut off Kaiser’s breath for sure, as they had used up the points of the Calamity’s assault.

That would be the starting point of the massacre.

Just as they were slowly closing in like snakes, tightening the noose around him.

Bang!

A sudden roar echoed.

“Kkeueok!”

“Keuheok!”

Followed by groans of pain.

Bang! Kwaang!

“Keuheoeok!”

“Sh, shiX what the……!”

“Aaaagh!”

The source of the sound was behind them.

Something strange was happening on the side that was blocking Kaiser’s rear in the encirclement.

“?”

“What, what’s that sound?”

The tense atmosphere was broken in an instant, and question marks floated above the heads of the guild members.

But they were rankers who were recognized wherever they went.

They put aside their doubts and quickly began to grasp the situation.

“So, someone is breaking through the encirclement!”

“Which bastard is it!”

“Block them! Block them!”

“Ca, can’t block them!”

But that was it.

They couldn’t mount a proper response and were being swept away like leaves in a typhoon.

“What on earth is this…… Babylon should be tied up, so how…….”

“That’s not important, Lavaon. How many are they!”

Marfard, who had also been spacing out, snapped out of it and shouted.

Then a desperate cry was heard.

“O, one person!”

“……What?”

“One person…… you said?”

They couldn’t stop just one person, and the executives of the top 10 guilds were collapsing like paper?

In that moment, the image of a woman flashed through his mind.

‘……Could it be.’

Overwhelming force that could stop an army alone.

That was why she was called the One-Person Army.

Only that woman could do something so absurd.

As his trembling eyes turned to him, Do-hyun gave a relaxed smile as if to say that what was coming had come.

“That bastard never knows how to make a quiet entrance.”

And when he muttered that, the screams were getting closer.

The moment Lavaon and Marfard instinctively braced themselves at the sound that seemed to be coming from right behind them.

Thud, taat!

“Eok!”

The woman, who had stepped on the face of a guild member who was blocking her, leaped high.

A menacing red aura was swirling around the white-haired woman who had landed squarely between the two men and Do-hyun.

“……Ye, Empress.”

“Empress, as in that One-Person Army?”

“I definitely heard that the Empress wasn’t participating, so how……?”

The woman called the One-Person Army and Do-hyun’s longtime comrade.

The murmurs grew louder at the Empress’s arrival.

Ssssk.

But the sound stopped in an instant as the Empress’s unique red eyes swept over them.

The atmosphere became as quiet as a mouse.

It was as if a wild beast had burst into the middle of the residents, and they were overwhelmed by her overwhelming presence.

The vice-masters also just stared with stiff faces.

“Huh?”

Her one corner of the mouth was stretched long as she made eye contact with Do-hyun, who was smiling at the end of them.

“I heard it was dangerous, so I came, but you’re fine?”

“What dangerous? I was just about to have some fun.”

He gave a wry smile as he looked at her fiercely laughing, and then she straightened her back.

Then, she naturally stood with her back to Do-hyun and said.

“I can’t let you have all the fun. I’m joining in too. Any objections?”

“Not at all.”

That alone changed the situation.

The guild members, overwhelmed by her presence, could no longer narrow the encirclement, and the vice-masters also could not easily step forward.

Then, she was the first to move.

Paang!

She charged into the enemy ranks in an instant, making a sound like the air was tearing.

“Keuheok……?”

She stabbed a guild member in the chest in an instant, threw the man who was trying to counterattack with the sword still stuck in him, and then slashed the sword in an instant.

Because she was armed with all the buffs of a Berserker, it was difficult to follow even with the eyes.

Ssuk.

Finally, she pulled out the sword that had pierced his neck and turned her head back.

Her white skin and hair were covered in blood.

The users, overwhelmed by the gruesome sight, instinctively took a step back, and then she said in a light tone as if spitting it out.

“Shall we make a bet?”

“What kind of bet.”

A relaxed voice that was hard to believe was in the middle of the enemy ranks.

And Do-hyun, who took it for granted as if it were natural.

While the guild members shrank at the sight that was more alien because it was natural, they continued to talk.

“Who catches more.”

“……It seems too shameless to say that after catching them. And wasn’t that your specialty?”

“Chicken?”

Soon, Do-hyun’s eyes turned cold when he heard the magic word.

“……Call.”

“Okay.”

They turned around at almost the same time and looked around.

The guild members, who met their eyes that were gleaming as if they were looking for prey, instinctively realized.

That something was wrong.

* * *

Top 10 guilds.

A position called the pinnacle of God’s Era that everyone envied.

Being an executive there was enough to be proud of.

It meant that they had reached a position where there were almost no rivals among the 1 billion players.

At least within the guild forces, there was no one who would treat them carelessly.

As such, they had infinite pride, and they were confident in their skills.

It was only natural that they had to have that much skill as a basic requirement to become an executive.

‘Crazy…….’

‘What am I looking at?’

‘……What is this.’

But now, that pride was starting to crack for the first time.

Not just a crack, but it was on the verge of shattering into pieces.

Kwaang! Kwang!

“Blo, block them! Block them!”

“Hold on to even their legs! How can dozens of people not be able to cover one person?”

“ShiX, you try grabbing them once…… keuheok!”

The Leones Guild, which has excellent dealers, and the Aegis Guild, which is called the strongest tanker guild.

Excellent dealers and tankers who are executives there are falling like weeds.

Because they can’t stop just one Empress.

Kwaduk!

Puk! Puuk!

“Keuheok!”

“This crazy……!”

The Empress’s massacre was overwhelming.

Usually, when dozens of people rush in, they either evade or engage in a chase.

No matter how skilled they are, there is no match for being ganged up on.

That’s why so many skilled people fight while adjusting to avoid being in dangerous situations.

But that law, which was like a truth, did not apply to that woman.

“Why, why am I the only one getting hit?”

“Is that even a person? This is like a beast……. They don’t fall off!”

“Beast? Come here. I’ll kill you first.”

“Hiiiik!”

Just charge. Charge and charge again.

Like a person who can only see the front, no matter how many people rush in, they just dig into close combat.

A battle method that is no different from a dogfight, with no strategy or psychological warfare.

But when it was supported by overwhelming force, it was so powerful.

[Due to the effect of Bloodlust, you become stronger as you cover yourself in blood for 70 seconds.]

[Due to the effect of Frenzy, the damage you take increases greatly for 80 seconds, but your attack power increases greatly.]

[Due to the effect of Diehard, your physical abilities increase as much as you sacrifice your life force.]

[Sacrificed 80% of life force.]

[Due to the effect of Madness, 1% of life force is reduced per second for 90 seconds, and stats and all speeds increase in proportion to the % of current health.]

Even the Empress’s job is a Berserker [a class specializing in high-risk, high-reward combat].

Far from getting tired, she gets stronger and stronger as the fight gets longer, so she was like a runaway tank.

Then, is Kaiser’s side doing okay?

“Why the shiX isn’t my attack hitting!?”

“Why do I keep getting hit when we’re attacking together!”

“Hold on to them! We have to gang up on them to do anything.”

“How can I grab them when they don’t give me any distance? When I think I’ve narrowed it down, they use backstabs or lightning movement and make a fuss.”

“Shouldn’t we switch to the parrying legendary skill? How is that a normal skill…… keuheok!”

This side was also losing so badly that it was overflowing.

If the Empress was a top predator, a beast that was overwhelming with her physicals, Kaiser’s battle was close to the realm of art.

*柔能制剛* [róu néng zhì gāng – Gentleness subdues strength]

The dance of the willow.

Hwirik-

“Keuheok?”

Sometimes flowing with gentle swordsmanship,

[Using Reverse Heaven (逆天期) [a skill that reverses the natural order].]

[Using the 1st Form (始) [the beginning form of a martial art].]

Sometimes enduring with a heaviness like Mount Tai.

[Using Lightning Movement.]

[Using Backstab.]

Pajik-

Sometimes rushing like a ray of light and disrupting the formation.

The epitome of changeability.

The way he adapts the combat method to the situation as much as one person can do was just amazing.

They are extreme opposites to each other to be called comrades, but one thing was clear.

‘Are those the same people?’

‘……What am I fighting against right now.’

They were fighting two monsters wearing human masks right now.