Chapter 187 – Invisible Man (1)
The second round opponent was China.
Among the East Asian qualifiers, the hunter superpower that runs two-top along with Japan.
… I don’t know if it’s because of the large population, but it was a party full of 10 people.
The composition of the Chinese party was quite organized around dealers.
2 tanks, 2 front line damage dealers, 2 mid line damage dealers, 2 back line damage dealers, 1 supporter, 1 healer.
There were only 6 dealers out of 10.
The Chinese party leader shook my hand and said.
“Ching Duo Duo Guan Jiao.”
What is he saying now.
I can’t even speak English, so there’s no way I can speak Chinese.
It seemed that it would be better for her to speak English like Emily, even if she was of Chinese descent.
Anyway, we shook hands with the other party and took our seats.
There were a lot of Chinese people at the Singapore stadium, so the voices cheering for the Chinese party were rather loud.
Of course, there were also people cheering us on.
Following the instructions of the instructor who served as the referee, I put my hand on the virtual space machine.
We and the Chinese party members all moved straight into the virtual space.
‘Plain meadow.’
It was the most basic map.
I use it for one-on-one sparring, and I also use it when summoning monsters and creating party tactics.
When training in virtual space, in fact, most of them used this map.
However, the basics are the most difficult.
There are no landmarks to hide the body at all.
The face of the other person is clearly visible.
In most cases, it is a map with a structure that has no choice but to go to close combat.
“Dae-seung, what about the strategy?”
Dahyun Choi asked.
I answered immediately.
“Same.”
“Yes!”
Of course, this opponent will be strong enough to be incomparable to any party I’ve had so far.
Even in the same national team party, the representative of the hunter superpower is the active duty level of another country.
Each party member must be at least an S-class prospect.
Still, there is no reason for me to step out unless the whole party is being pushed back or I am in danger of dying.
I don’t think I’ll ever get caught just because I use a skill on my opponent, but the chances of getting caught aren’t 0%.
I wonder if I’ll be a big threat if I get caught, but there might be a law to destroy my skills that I don’t even know about.
[START]
The match has begun.
As always, I bet 3000 times the sight and 3000 times the hearing on them.
“A person lacking magical powers?”
Hwang A-yeon raised her hand.
“It’s not really lacking, but just in case… !”
“Okay.”
There’s nothing I lose by charging mana.
Rather, I’m just a little worried about overcharging.
… If you overcharge, your body can’t stand it.
Hwang A-yeon’s mana was charged.
But in the meantime, Chinese party members quickly ran towards us.
It seemed like he was trying to speed things up.
“Haa—!!”
One of her opposing dealers with her longsword overtook her before her yellow zinc could get her into position.
It’s like she doesn’t even care.
He fixed his eyes only on me, as if he was only aiming for my neck.
The Chinese party seemed to have set up a plan to kill me, the leader.
It’s a victory condition even if you don’t kill the other party members and just kill the leader wearing the armband.
‘He must have thought I couldn’t do anything.’
I wondered if it was probably an analysis of the video from the first round of the Korean 1st and 2nd qualifiers.
As a result, like the other supporters, I judged that I had the skill to buff the party members, and thought that if I killed myself while ignoring the other party members, my win rate would increase.
Well, I couldn’t say it was a very wrong conclusion.
In fact, there are aspects that lead me to think that way.
Of course, I can cast a skill on this Chinese dealer and kill it myself.
However, if that happens, you have to give up the strategy of causing confusion to other parties.
So this Chinese dealer is not for me to deal with.
“Catherine, be transparent.”
“I get it!”
Instead, it creates more confusion.
Don’t let me use the tactic of attacking only me while bypassing the other party members.
Katrin came out and cast a clairvoyance spell on herself.
If you use clairvoyance magic as much as possible, you can make it completely invisible.
Of course, the clairvoyance magic alone was only invisible to the eye.
In addition, if you hit the soundproof magic in a circle, no sound will be heard even if Katrin and I move.
Instructions to the party members can be delivered by Catherine like a telecommunicationsman.
“… ?!”
The opposing dealer opened his eyes wide and turned his head left and right.
It seemed that I was greatly taken aback by the sudden disappearance of Katrin and me.
Catherine chuckled.
“You foolish human being. In this case, you can use detection magic to find out.”
… I don’t know what it’s like in the other world, but in this world you hardly learn magic.
Of course, not many people know about the detection magic itself.
He probably wouldn’t know from perspective magic in the first place.
Eventually, the opposing dealer swung his sword into the air.
We moved to another place a long time ago.
He seemed a bit pitiful.
“Please pay with your life for trying to kill Mr. Daeseung!!”
Squeak—.
Choi Da-hyun cut off the opponent’s dealer’s neck.
No, but pay with your life.
In any case, this is close to a game.
Through Katrin, I told Choi Da-hyun not to be too immersed.
It’s not a real fight, but if you lose your cool in a game like this, no, it’s not good to have blood in your head even in a real fight.
I was told to be a little calmer.
“I’m sorry. I got a little angry because I thought Daeseung was dangerous…”
Well, Choi Da-hyun didn’t do it on purpose, he did it for me.
He went up to her and stroked her hair.
“Well, it feels like being stroked by something invisible!”
When are you going to make it transparent like this and hit it?
I think it’ll be pretty fun.
Anyway, now in the game.
Now we have to focus on the game.
Even so, from now on I really have nothing to do.
You just have to stand still.
Transparent screen?
Shun-.
Irin fired arrows in succession.
Fire magic was applied to the arrowhead, so that even if the opponent avoided it, the meadow would catch fire.
It would be better to light a fire on this map to narrow the space.
Of course, when we definitely have the upper hand.
“I’m going to go magic… !!”
As if Jegal Ji-yeon had been chanting, a large magic circle appeared on the floor of the opponent’s party members.
What kind of magic was it
She couldn’t really predict what kind of attack she would do after I let her recharge.
There are so many magics that I know how to use.
I haven’t seen the light of day in the meantime, but my steady study of magic met my skill and bore fruit.
“”Ahhh—!!””
The grass suddenly grew tall.
The tip was sharp like an awl, and the edge of the grass was sharp like a sword.
And yet it bent freely like a whip.
The grass changed by Jegal Ji-yeon attacked the other party members like tentacles.
The party formation was useless.
Because the grass on the floor of the party members rose up vertically and attacked them.
Katrin nodded her head with a pleased expression.
“Even in the Pandemonium, there are only a handful of demons that handle magic like that.”
If Catherine would admit it, it must be really excellent.
I heard that among the various races in the demon realm, the succubus was particularly good at magic, and among the succubus, Catherine was almost the best.
Due to Zhuge Jiyeon’s grass magic, 6 out of 9 remaining party members died.
Now we only have to kill three more.
Otherwise, kill the party leader, the tanker, and it’s over.
Whoops, whoops.
All three of them were finished in less than 10 seconds.
Even the most promising S-class tanker could not withstand the rain of fire arrows fired by Lee Rin.
Two were set on fire, and the other was killed by a piercing through the neck.
[WIN]
Destroyed all opponent’s party.
I told Katrin to break the invisible man spell.
“Everybody did a good job.”
“Yes!” “Yes!”
While talking in turn, the virtual space returned to reality.
The Chinese national team party, who were all killed by us in the virtual space, let out a long sigh at the same time as if the timing was right.
The other party leader shook my hand and said something else in Chinese.
… Something longer than before.
I couldn’t understand what this person was talking about.
Went back to the waiting room.
And I asked if anyone understood what the other party leader said to me earlier.
“It was just okay.”
Seo Soo-ah replied.
He seemed to be able to speak both English and Chinese.
“Is that just polite?”
“Yeah, what is it? If I translate it as it is, I learned a few things, I want to compete again if there are more opportunities in the future, and I wish for a win.”
They were good words because they were Chinese.
Choi Da-hyun laughed and said.
“Maybe we should win so that the Chinese will save face too!”
“Uh? What do you mean by that?”
“This is it! Kuh… The reason we failed in the second qualifying round was because we met the winning party, the Korean party, in the tournament…”
“… Ah.”
Is it like a so-called honorable death?
Well, even if it’s like me, it would be better for the person who beat me to go up higher.
Choi Da-hyun suddenly rubbed his legs and hugged my arm.
“Ah, please be invisible like before… ♡ I want to be attacked by the invisible master… ♡”
Before I could answer, Catherine grinned and cast a clairvoyance spell on me.
***
‘It’s a big win, of all things…’
Seo Soo-ah’s cousin — Seo Go-eun passed her painkiller down her throat while watching TV in her room.
Seeing her cousin Soo-ah Seo affectionately with her engineering student Seung made her head spin.
At first, she intended to somehow punish this man who possessed Seo Su-ah.
However, the opponent is Gong Dae-seung, who is called an S-class prospect.
No matter how much Seo Go-eun was, he couldn’t touch an S-class prospect.
Especially in a situation where the grandfather, the owner of the group, has his eyes on the big win.
‘Am I really a good guy?’
Seo Soo-ah, who entered the academy as the only Awakened person in the family, decided to create the Hunter Guild, which was his grandfather’s long-cherished business.
It is important for a new guild to somehow bring in promising players.
In that sense, there was no scouting target as good as Gongdaeseung.
That’s why Seo Go-eun was suspicious.
Wasn’t Seo Soo-ah reluctantly trying to scout Dae-seung Gong by selling her body?
Or did Daeseung Gong ask for Seo Soo-ah’s body…
‘I also need to check.’
No matter how important a business is, is it important enough to ruin a person’s life?
Seo Go-eun immediately picked up her smartphone and called her secretary.
“I’m looking for a plane ticket to Singapore right away.”
