Closed Beta That Only I Played - Chapter 191
Chapter 191: Intruders (1)
When Daesung and Kusan formed an alliance through a political marriage, the Mirae Group could not reach out to the Daeyu Group because it was the smallest of the top five business groups and had already joined hands with China.
Thus, the only business group that they could join hands with was the Myongjin Group.
Moreover, the shelter that Myongjin built just in case was in the same Gangwon Province as Mirae. Of course, I was not sure if it was a coincidence or not.
Considering all of this, I thought it would not be bad to join hands with Mirae at least once.
If Japan takes issue with it later, I will be able to shift all the blame to Mirae with the excuse that I was a simple party member.
“Thank you! Let me move with you,” I said.
“If you move with us, we will be of great help to each other.”
When I replied in the affirmative, both Chairman Yon and Sungyop were very happy.
But I added, “But I want to move on my own for the last day.”
“Of course, you can.”
Chairman Yon flinched momentarily, but he accepted my opinion with his usual bright smile.
Anyway, we reached an agreement like that. Then, I opened my status window and invested the 500 remaining stat points into Intellect.
Although I wanted to inform my dad, brother, sister, or Director Sok about my situation, I could not message them because I was in a different region. So I remained on standby in a comfortable mood.
Since I decided to join hands with Mirae, they would make all the necessary preparations.
Two hours later, several people repeatedly logged in and out, bringing some information.
They kept discussing the securing of a safe place where everyone could log out collectively and safely. I was a bit frustrated, but put up with it without expressing my feelings because they needed a plan to make sure the 30 people could move without any incidents for a week.
When their preparations were almost done, Sungwyop Yu gave a briefing.
“Our main targets during this one week are the Region 52 users here. However, unlike Korea, all the guilds in Japan are controlled by a guild called the Mitsuya Guild. Therefore, we will inevitably run into them. As for that…”
According to the message, the participants in this special event could earn points even without doing anything or by hunting ordinary monsters.
But the message clearly mentioned that the points earned this way would be either small or very small. Instead, they would accumulate many points if they killed the users.
In other words, unless they came to Region 52 for fun, their main target would be inevitably the users here.
‘By the way, what about the NPCs?’
Honestly, what surprised me the most was that the participants would receive the most points when they killed NPCs, for I thought all along that an NPC’s role was to help users or have a cooperative relationship with them.
‘Hmm. There are users everywhere anyway.’
As their main target was the users, I didn’t think deeply about the NPCs.
After that, they mentioned their plan was to stay logged in for more than 17 hours a day, and they discussed the logout time frame and group logging before finally stepping out of the place called the ‘Dreaming Altar’.
In front of the Dreaming Altar’s Teleport Zone.
“First, we will launch a surprise attack, so nobody gets the wind of our movements. Our target is the Takehara Guild under the control of the Mitsuya Guild. They are in fierce competition with the Shunan Guild, so we can pin the blame on them. But we still need to control any information leaks, so make sure we talk to each other on the chat window as much as possible.”
“Understood!”
“Okay.”
“Good. Then, everyone, let’s move to the Shaking Land.”
At Chairman Yon’s order, everyone moved to the Shaking Land, and I followed them too.
[You have moved to the Shaking Land.]
The Takehara Guild was a huge guild in its own right.
So, at first, Yon’s party members talked about killing the general users who didn’t belong to any guild, but some opposed, arguing that it was a waste to use the only available surprise attack for such purposes. In the end, they decided to launch a surprise attack against the Takehara Guild because that was the most likely place in Japan that normal fighting would take place.
As expected, there were numerous users in the safety zone of the Shaking Ground. As soon as our group appeared in the teleport zone, one of them approached us and opened his mouth.
“This is the hunting ground of our Takehara Guild. You have to pay golden rings to hunt here.”
It was a member of the Takehara Guild.
But what surprised us was that we heard him speaking in Korean, although he must have spoken in Japanese. What we heard was not his Japanese interpreted into Korean, but exactly Korean from the beginning.
Anyway, when he said that, Sungyop stepped forward and opened his mouth in Korean. Nonetheless, they had no problem conversing in Korean.
Of course, the Japanese guy didn’t even realize that Sungyop was speaking in Korean.
“Yes, I know that. We will pay the required golden rings.”
“Good. You have to pay 1000 golden rings per hour in this Shaking Land, and you have to hunt for at least 10 hours. So, you have to pay 300000 golden rings because you have to pay 10000 golden rings per player of your 30 member party.”
He spoke in a businesslike manner as if he was annoyed to let us in.
However, Sungyop casually took out 300,000 gold rings from his pocket and handed it to the Takehara guild members who handed him something in return.
“This is a token that disappears exactly after ten hours. So, make sure to come out within 10 hours. Otherwise, you would be regarded as an illegal intruder on our hunting ground. You will pay a dear price for that, of course.”
Having said that, the Japanese man headed to another place.
We then stepped into the hunting ground of the Shaking Land.
In the center of the Shaking Land ten minutes later.
“Left! Block the monsters on the left!”
“Make my body steel. Iron Wall!”
“Reinforce the shield. Iron Barrier!”
“Will of Fire!”
“Sparkling Fire!”
A large number of Japanese users, including members of the Takehara Guild, were absorbed into hunting everywhere. They didn’t pay any attention to us.
“Shall we start now?” asked Chairman Yon.
“Sure,” I replied.
I replied in a small voice, nodding at his suggestion.
At that moment, I momentarily thought of changing the Functional Skill Ring’s selected skill back to Ice Storm, but I didn’t because if I needed to return to the Shaking Land’s Teleport Zone again to get out of this place, Ice Wave could perform better than Ice Storm.
Anyway, I, along with the tanks, flanked the Takehara Guild members absorbed into hunting.
“Hey! Don’t intrude into our zone!”
The Japanese users reacted very naturally to our actions.
However, I opened my mouth quietly without responding to them at all.
“Ice Field. Multiple Thin Ice.”
Pasasasak!
“Damn it! What the heck is this?”
“This is a hunting ground managed by the Takehara Guild!”
“Bullshit! We paid to hunt here!”
“Argh! What is this? How come my damage is…”
The Japanese users spat out angry words at my attack, but it became chaotic instantly because even though I reinforced it with Multiple Thin Ice, my Ice Field was far from a typical one.
As soon as I started attacking them, the other 29 members behind me immediately attacked as well.
“Chain Lightning!”
“Penetrating Power Shot!”
“Ice Storm!”
:
“Biting Wind Spirit’s Attack!”
“Pouring Thunderstorms!”
Puck! Puck! Puck!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Kuheeeeee!”
“Damn it!”
“These guys came to this place on purpose! Quickly contact the Takehara Guild…”
The Mirae Guild’s elite members were obviously powerful.
Of course, I wasn’t just standing blankly while they were attacking, for I needed to gain points too.
“Pouring Hail! Ice Rain!”
Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter!
Puck! Puck! Puck!
Since my Ice Storm was level 4, I first used other AOE skills, which alone began to kill the Japanese users. They were level 900-1000 because this hunting ground was reserved for users at that level.
[You have killed a level 1031 user in Region 52.
You have earned 17891 points.]
[You have killed a level 971 user in Region 52.
You have earned 14207 points.]
[You have killed a level 875 user in Region 52.
You have earned 12192 points.]
To be honest, I was worried that I might be given the same amount of points regardless of the level of the users that I killed. In that case, it would be better for me to slaughter beginner users in the place where Orcs spawned.
Fortunately, however, the higher the level of the user, the more points I earned.
As if they totally relied on the Takehara Guild, the Japanese users here fell helplessly even without counter-attacking us properly.
Of course, some of the users spectating the fight glared at us from a distance, but they didn’t charge at us as if they were not inclined to do so.
