The Return Of The Genius Ranker Of All Times [EN]: Chapter 84

84.

The God of War Online website and community are in an uproar right now.

-Special Mission! Capture Kaiser! Hey, you can be a star too!

It’s not like that old-school title really popped up.

It’s just someone’s one-line summary of the current situation.

“I heard if you catch Kaiser, you go straight to the top 100 guilds?”

“What’s the top 100 guilds? Top 10 is totally possible.”

“I heard if you catch Kaiser, you become a star right away? There are already over 10 Kaiser hunting teams in Brion.”

“Damn it, I’m in Brion too. Should I join?”

“Aren’t your specs pretty good? What are you doing not joining quickly? Lottery first prize is right in front of you, why aren’t you grabbing it? You gotta go for broke!”

Numerous people were talking about Kaiser, and just as many were aiming for him.

Eventually, competition naturally ignited.

Kaiser’s symbolism, and the rumor that he met the High Priest, turned him into a golden goose, so to speak.

No, he had become a golden goblin himself.

“First come, first served!”

“I was here first, move!”

“Hey, the Scorpion squad is already all gathered. Tell our guys to hurry up and gather too!”

Is it because of this atmosphere?

Or is it a phenomenon caused by the unprecedented ripple effect in the calm low-level zone?

Everyone moved quickly, and before long, a trend formed where whoever found Kaiser first would be the one to get him.

The thought that they might lose to Kaiser?

“What’s he gonna do alone? He doesn’t even have a guild.”

“Only the keyboard warriors will suck up to him. It’s not like that for us field workers.”

“Suck up all you want. The more you do, the more our prestige grows.”

“Wow, what should I do if I catch Kaiser?”

“First, turn on the video. If you can’t record it, it’s all for nothing.”

Such thoughts were nonexistent.

No matter how great Kaiser is, he’s just a lone individual without a guild or party to protect him.

He seems to have a guardian or companion with him, but all they do is pick up loot.

That’s manageable enough.

A porter is just a porter; if they were good at hunting, they would be hunting as a combatant.

‘With all my experience, there’s no way I can’t beat one person.’

‘There’s no way I’ll lose if five of us attack him, right?’

‘I’ll have to kill myself if I can’t catch him.’

There are no repercussions, and countless glories follow if you catch him.

Who in the world wouldn’t want to try that?

There seem to be many people who are enthusiastic about the return of a god or something, but anything with a lot of fans has just as many enemies.

However, unlike their ambitions, not many people were actually moving properly.

“Damn it!”

Or rather, they couldn’t.

“Kaiser logged out.”

“Ugh, I knew things were going too well.”

“Why would he log out of this?”

The hunters aiming for their prey were all ready, but the prey itself had disappeared.

Left in the city in vain, they had no choice but to complain.

“He’s scared too.”

“Well… how many are aiming for him? Heh heh. Why did he act tough? Thanks to him, it’s good for us.”

“He must have realized he messed up after starting it.”

“Let’s lie low just in case.”

“I think he’ll be back tomorrow. I’m going to play some pool.”

They soon split into three groups.

Some stayed in the city just in case, some logged out and waited to save play time, and finally, some gave up for today and just went out to have fun.

They were spending their time in different ways.

“Kaiser appeared!!”

At a completely unexpected moment, surprising news broke out.

“What?”

“Don’t lie. It’s only been an hour?”

“It’s the Fishy Rock Forest. Hurry up and gather again!”

“Ah, seriously, what’s with this back and forth?”

As the news spread that Kaiser had appeared in the Fishy Rock Forest, everyone rushed to the field, competing to be the first to leave.

The first team to arrive was the Scorpion team.

‘Yeah, I knew it! Opportunity comes to those who are diligent.’

Among the three groups, they were the ones who didn’t give up and waited just in case.

Among them, the first to set out as soon as they heard the news was the leader of the Scorpion team, also known as ‘Scorpion’.

And he could see it.

“It’s Kaiser!”

Kaiser was really hunting confidently in the middle of the rock forest.

A sweet opportunity came to him who moved diligently.

There were no questions about why Kaiser appeared or why he was hunting in the center, attracting attention.

To be exact, he was curious, but it didn’t really matter.

‘What a windfall.’

To Scorpion, Kaiser just looked like a shining golden box.

That’s why he moved without hesitation.

“We’re going as planned.”

“Roger!”

Swish-.

They quickly formed a formation and charged, holding Western-style swords and shields in their hands.

The plan was to push with shields and have Scorpion, who uses magic, intercept.

Fortunately, Kaiser was late in noticing them, and his reaction was slow.

It seems that Kaiser’s eyes widened only after they narrowed the distance.

‘Here I go!’

Just as Scorpion, excited by that, was about to cast ice magic.

Thump!

“Ugh!?”

“What, this orc?”

The orc that suddenly jumped in and thrashed around wasn’t strange.

Since the fierce-tempered orcs of Brion were famous for their surprise attacks from the start.

“Ah, annoying.”

But the location was the problem.

As if on purpose, it was blocking Kaiser and them.

They could just ignore it and go, but they didn’t want to create variables in this opportunity they had.

Flap flap!

Above all, that guy’s steps are unusual.

It’s not aiming for those two at best, but it’s looking at them, waving its arms and getting angry, so it seems the aggro [in-game term for drawing enemy attention] has been properly pulled.

“Get rid of that first.”

“Yes.”

They are all over level 30.

They belong to the strong in Brion, and there are many of them, so they will be able to get rid of it quickly.

Judging that way, the moment they slashed with their swords.

[You have made a preemptive attack on player ‘Kaiser’.]

[The probability of dropping items increases if you are killed by the opponent.]

“……?”

“Huh?”

An incomprehensible message popped up.

Immediately after, an eerie shadow loomed.

[A mark is created.]

“Uh?”

The subordinate who slashed the orc flinched as he heard a mid-low voice from behind.

He felt cold sweat running down his spine. Kaiser, who should have been in front, was not visible.

That means……

“K, Kais……!”

Slash-!

Dohyun, or rather Kaiser, cleanly cut off the waist of the subordinate who shouted without looking back.

Curses erupted at Dohyun’s sudden appearance.

“What the……!?”

“Damn it, kill him first!”

They were flustered by the inexplicable attack, but they were numerically superior.

Even the location was good.

He foolishly came into the middle and volunteered to be surrounded.

It would be over if they blocked the retreat with shields and made him into skewers.

Tatatat, Thwack!

“Uh?”

That thought changed in an instant.

The moment they drove him to the center and stabbed their swords in a group, Dohyun’s figure disappeared.

[The mark disappears.]

And what appeared was behind the colleague whose waist was cut off first.

Those who watched the scene had blank faces.

‘Backstab……?’

Why is Kaiser doing that?

Wasn’t Kaiser a swordsman? Turns out he’s not a swordsman but an assassin?

[Uses ‘Charge Slash’.]

As if to mock such thoughts, this time Dohyun used a swordsman skill.

Whoong, Dohyun, who rushed in quickly as if sliding, swung Cheonbyeon (Thousand Transformations) [name of Kaiser’s weapon], and Cheonbyeon (Thousand Transformations), which was in the form of a sword, changed into a spear.

Shwaak-!

“Keuh!”

One hit, two kills.

He cut through the bodies of two people at once and changed the form of Cheonbyeon (Thousand Transformations) again.

This time it was a dagger.

As if placing needles on the vitals of the fallen, he stabbed the dagger, and the screen turned black.

“Heu, Heuaap!”

A man heavily slammed his sword down towards such Dohyun.

There is no place to avoid because there are corpses scattered around, and there is no time to do so.

This time it will hit!

[Cheonbyeon (Thousand Transformations) transforms into ‘Silver Iron Shield’.]

Clang!

……As if to mock that thought, a large shield blocked his sword.

“Ah.”

The man whose hope turned into despair in an instant closed his eyes.

That was his last.

The leader of the Scorpion team, Scorpion, who lost all his subordinates in an instant, had a blank face as if his soul had left his body.

‘What happened?’

Wasn’t he a low-level who wasn’t even level 30 yet?

But what is that absurd damage and speed?

No, that’s not it. Even if it’s surprising, this side is advantageous in terms of numbers and levels.

But he overturned that with an overwhelming difference in skill.

‘This is Kaiser……’

In an instant, posts summarizing Kaiser’s achievements came to mind.

The content that was commonly included in those listing numerous achievements.

-Don’t even think about winning against Kaiser in a personal battle. It’s absolutely impossible.

Don’t even think about fighting a man who boasts an undefeated record.

Of course, I thought it was an exaggeration.

Even if it wasn’t an exaggeration, I thought it would be worth a try under the current conditions.

But that was a delusion.

That’s like…… not a person but the god of death.

“One left.”

Scorpion, who made eye contact with the god of death armed in black, opened his mouth.

“Ah ah……”

He instinctively felt that he could not escape.

Dohyun cut him down without paying attention to him who humbly accepted death.

[You have defeated player ‘Scorpion’.]

[It is recognized as legitimate self-defense, and your karma stat does not increase.]

[Would you like to loot the dropped items?]

“First, eliminate one team.”

Dohyun, who shook off Cheonbyeon (Thousand Transformations), smiled.

“Hurry! Before the Scorpion guys take it…… Huh?”

“……Uh?”

The other hunting teams who arrived at the Fishy Rock Forest one beat late stopped when they saw such Dohyun.

The corpses that clearly seemed to be the Scorpion guys.

And Dohyun standing aloof on top of those corpses.

“……What’s going on?”

“I don’t know, but let’s just take him down. He must be a little tired from fighting.”

“Do you want to be taken away while being relaxed? Take him down!”

They were a little embarrassed, but only for a moment.

They, who checked the other hyenas who would soon gather, charged straight away.

-Liza!

And an orc appeared in front of them, flapping its hands.

“Uh?”

“What, this orc.”

“Get rid of this, it’s annoying.”

Like the Scorpion team, they also chose to get rid of the orc first.

[You have made a preemptive attack on player ‘Kaiser’.]

[The probability of dropping items increases if you are killed by the opponent.]

That way, they had to see the same message as the previous guys,

“You attacked first? If you attacked, you have to die.”

“Ah……”

They met the same ending.

“Quickly! Kaiser is here…… Hmm?”

“Uh……”

And the new hyenas who came half a beat late had no choice but to shut their mouths.

I hurried because other teams were hunting Kaiser, but the opposite situation was unfolding from what I expected.

‘Look at the corpses, how many people are there.’

‘……Did he catch them all alone?’

‘Isn’t the guy who just died Kim Jinwoo? I heard he’s a super rookie that the top 100 guilds are watching.’

‘Hey, the guys who fell on the floor are all super rookies. They’re all familiar faces.’

Even the dead guys were not just small fries [insignificant opponents].

Key rookies that anyone interested in rookies would know.

A warning light flashed in their heads.

‘Let’s run away.’

‘I don’t think we can win.’

We have to run away. It was when they were about to run away with that judgment.

“Heeik!?”

“What, what’s wrong.”

The colleague next to him suddenly screamed.

When I instinctively looked back, I could see it.

The sight of a colleague arguing with an ugly orc, and the phrase floating above their heads.

[You have made a preemptive attack on player ‘Kaiser’.]

[The probability of dropping items increases if you are killed by the opponent.]

“……”

After a moment of silence, they glanced at Dohyun and asked.

“Uh…… Can’t we just go?”

Dohyun smiled and answered that shy question.

“No.”

“Ah, I thought so, right?”

They also smiled at each other, and it didn’t take long for that smile to turn into a scream.