Martial Arts Returnee's Game Broadcast-Chapter 393: Settling the Debt
The Silent Swordsman, unable to move.
Though Korea's Top 10 had been lost, the opportunity to defeat her would have come if anyone had gathered the courage to step forward.
However, no one seemed to realize this.
Another moment of silent tribute?What's so special about giving a moment of silence for Korea's Top 10?She’s probably giving a moment of silence because she’s disappointed.The Silent Swordsman is disappointed in you all.How do we stop disappointing her?First, you have to be stronger than Jo Il-seong, the second-generation strongest.You’ve already given up, haven’t you?You’ll never be able to, right?Just be disappointed forever!
The Silent Swordsman.
After every boss battle, she would always follow up with a five-minute moment of silence before logging off, a tradition that made people mistakenly think she was immobile.
Korea's Top 10 had fallen, but those who wanted to believe that Jo Il-seong had somehow earned her acknowledgment were simply showing their weakness.
“Even if we lost, don’t you think she still acknowledged us?”
“Are you saying our Guild Master looked as cool as the Executioner or the King of the Underworld?”
“This is as good as it gets, right?”
“I heard they don’t even give moments of silence after taking down bosses anymore. At this rate, isn’t she in the top 10% of the Ban Yo Gok bosses?”
“Agreed.”
“So what do we do now? Should we log out?”
A chaotic atmosphere.
Awakened beings who couldn’t find their bearings.
“C-Crisis! Log out quickly!!”
“What’s going on?”
“Emergency contact! The guild’s under attack outside!!”
For a moment, they were all touched by the Silent Swordsman’s tribute.
But the attack on Korea’s Top 10 led to an even bigger event.
“Uh-oh, I just felt the capsule shake...”
[<Dong Hyo Guild 2nd Attack Squad Leader> has been forcibly logged out due to external device damage.]
[<Dong Hyo Guild 2 Forward 3> has been forcibly logged out due to external device damage.]
[<Dong Hyo Guild 2 Sub Tanker 2> has been forcibly logged out due to external device damage.]
The forced logout effect spread quickly among the Ten Guilds members.
The white light began to grow, spreading from the group until it covered the sky.
“Dong Hyo Guild is under attack?”
“It’s not just Dong Hyo Guild! Yangpyeong, Jojun, Wonjoong Guilds are under attack too!”
Guild members were terrified.
To think that Korea’s Top 10, who had dominated Korean society, was now under attack at their own base.
This wasn’t the time for leisurely gaming.
A simultaneous large-scale logout effect.
The logout effect, which had been rising high into the sky, was hit by an artillery shell that caused shock damage, and most of the logouts failed.
“Who did this?!”
“Do you want to die?!”
“Are you crazy?!”
The owner of the cannon.
The player who brought in the second-generation Primitive Armored spoke from within the armored suit.
“What are you saying, idiots. You guys looked so stupid trying to put on a show, and it’s working out perfectly.”
“!!”
“You all came here to spectate anyway, didn’t you? If not now, when are we ever going to harass Korea’s Top 10 guys?”
As the armored owner spoke, an eerie heat began to spread among the players who had gathered to spectate or to provoke during the event.
The karmic debt that Korea’s Top 10 had accumulated over the years was vast.
“Let’s attack!”
“Don’t let a single one of them log out!”
“Fire shock grenades! Let’s bind them with minimal damage!”
Guild members, urgently trying to support their main base, found themselves trapped.
The large-scale operation of Korea’s Top 10 turned into a giant trap, tightening around their necks.
The Wonjoong Guild headquarters.
The guild headquarters had long been stained red with the blood and corpses of countless guild members.
Clop. Clop.
The Special Forces Unit of the Awakened Association stepped over the blood flowing down the stairs.
As they systematically executed each body, one by one, a survivor suddenly sprang from the pile of corpses.
“Dieee!”
“Air bomb.”
The air exploded before his eyes, taking his vision away, and the scream was stolen from his throat as his neck was slashed open, cutting away the last breath.
Splatter.
In the blink of an eye, the special forces finished their executions. The squad leader pressed his hand to his ear and reported.
“This is the Wonjoong Guild headquarters. 2nd floor lobby confirmed and cleared.”
The report was received by Seong Mu-gil, who had subdued So Won-jung in the guild master’s office.
“Did you hear? Wonjoong Guild is finished.”
“You’ll regret today. Korea’s Top 10 doesn’t forgive its enemies.”
“Truly grateful. Thank you for remaining dogs to the end.”
Even the claws of the disaster they had once boasted about were useless after losing their arms.
Even with his arms gone, Seong Mu-gil’s sword pierced his neck, his hateful gaze still fierce.
“If you had turned your life around in the last few years, I’d be more upset.”
So Won-jung fell with a blood-curdling sound.
He felt the sensation of his level, experience points, and mana being absorbed {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} into himself.
He had killed him.
There was no more certain proof than this sensation of confirming the death of an Awakened.
“I can’t thank the Silent Swordsman enough. She gave me the chance to kill these trash.”
“Seong-gil, we’ve only cleared three guilds. Shall we move on to the next target?”
“By now, shouldn’t we be fortifying defenses after assessing the situation?”
“Viewers of the Silent Swordsman are attacking the Korea’s Top 10 guild members in Gladiator Growth. They’re preventing logouts.”
“Hahaha! Perfect. How does she always manage to do exactly what I want?”
“So where are we hitting next? Asan or Taebaek?”
“That one’s fine.”
“Pardon?”
“The ‘main force’ is acting directly.”
The special forces commander nodded.
“That’s a relief then. The man, Gwang A-geom Lee Jeong-un, is with the main force.”
“The black-stripe executioner squad that absorbed only the elites from the list of recruits the association took. Their skill level and Lee Jeong-un’s are even beyond ours.”
The karmic debt built up by Korea’s Top 10 was immense.
The former members of the association who had gone underground as villain organizations, and one of the three guild leaders still remaining in the association who had become a spy, feeding information.
After the entire Korea’s Top 10 perished, even the guild members were trapped in the game, locked into their own curiosity.
“The next target is Ihwa Guild. Our special forces are heading to Ihwa-dong!”
The attack on Korea’s Top 10 had begun.
The Black Stripes Executioner’s raid had started.
While chaos unfolded outside the game, a war raged on the battlefield between Korea’s Top 10 guild members and the Silent Swordsman fanclub forces.
“Try tying me up if you can! I’ll kill you all and leave quietly!”
“That guy, he’s a summoner! He’s not someone we can cut down by dismembering. Kill him immediately!”
The confrontation became intense.
It led to an unexpected notification.
[Due to massive forces, the evolution speed of Minotaurus is accelerating.]
[Time remaining for evolution: 10 days, 23 hours, and 11 minutes.]
[The supply of blood and death mana to Labyrinth City is accelerating Minotaurus’ evolution.]
[Time remaining for evolution: 7 days, 1 hour, and 15 minutes.]
Minotaurus, absorbing the massive mana generated from the clash between the Silent Swordsman and Korea’s Top 10, and the ensuing large-scale war, was evolving at a terrifying speed.
‘This is problematic. While I can’t move, this chaos is unfolding.’
Though only five minutes of inaction had passed, the remaining time was now only seven days. That time was rapidly decreasing, with one minute equaling a full day’s worth of loss.
“There! The Silent Swordsman is over there!”
“Silent Swordsman, if not for you, our guild wouldn’t be facing this disaster!”
“If we’re going to die anyway, we’ll choose whose hands we die by!”
Perhaps the madness of the battlefield had overcome fear.
Even those who had lost their minds, prepared to die, appeared.
Normally, in a situation like this, they’d be stuck, unable to move!
“You’re bold♡ To challenge the Silent Swordsman with that slow body, it’s a century too soon♡”
“Is that voice... that brat from the stream?!”
“A named viewer? That guy is incredibly strong. He got over 300 kill logs in space!”
“Don’t be scared! He lost his Armored in the last event. He died once, and his spec was reset.”
“Reset or not, we’re just the same, aren’t we?”
“Push him with force!”
The named viewer Apple Lover.
Having pretended to be her in the Silent Swordsman hunt event, attracting the enemy’s attention and going down in a blaze of glory, her account was reset to blank.
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Though her specs were reset, Gladiator Growth has permanent achievements and permanent effects.
“You guys are different from me♡ Hehe~ Thinking you can win just because I’ve been reset, how much of a noob do you think you are~?”
With shared account protections and inventory.
Having retrieved the minimum required items and assets, she challenged the new meta in the Spirit Realm.
There, she succeeded in a rare contract with an SR-grade Light Spirit, hitting it big.
“Now, summon!”
With a dazzling light flashing across the entire battlefield, she made her presence known.
Hehe. There are so many lower-tiered creatures.
If they get a little dazzled, they’ll cry like bugs.
Should I make a few of them cry? Is it okay to make them all cry?
The Apple Lover chuckled as her summoned spirit, resembling herself, spoke.
“I don’t mind♡”
