Chapter 146 - Chapter 146

Chapter 146

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The rapid fire rate of the pistol Tae-woo was holding was 0.4 seconds.

While Seo-jun was approaching, the number of bullets Tae-woo fired was eight.

Since Tae-woo had fired in rapid succession without delay, it meant Seo-jun had approached in just 3.2 seconds.

Considering it was a distance that could be covered in under two seconds if one ran, Seo-jun had not particularly rushed.

However, there was a reason why it felt incredibly fast.

-Wow, lol. It was seriously a horror movie, for real lol.

-I kept this stream open besides Seo-jun's, so I saw this.

-Clip it right now!

-For a second, I thought I was playing a zombie game lol.

-A zombie approaching like that? No one could stand a chance against that lol.

-A frying pan-wielding zombie is scarier than a running zombie lol.

Tae-woo, who had witnessed the event that unfolded just moments ago with absolute clarity, shuddered as he recalled the memory.

'For the safety of humanity, we must protect that bastard at all costs so he never becomes a zombie.'

He was reading the chat while lying face down in a knocked-out state.

Tae-woo, who had luckily avoided Seo-jun's first attack due to his legs giving out, was in a near-death state after being hit with the frying pan once more even after being knocked out for being cocky.

"Everyone, what do you think is the reason that guy didn't kill me right away?"

While 3.2 seconds could be a long time in combat, it was usually a short duration.

It meant that it was far from enough time for Tae-woo's teammates to hear the gunshots, prepare themselves, and come to help.

It would have been a different story if they had come immediately after the fight broke out, though.

However, if they had rushed over immediately and left a gap in their surveillance, allowing the enemy to slip out of their line of sight, it would have been an even bigger blunder; thus, it took some time for them to arrive.

As a result, Tae-woo was finished before his teammates could even arrive.

It could not be helped. Who could have known that Seo-jun would just push his way straight in?

They had thought he only deflected bullets a few times; there had been no mention that he would deflect them while walking right up to them out in the open!

Seo-jun left him behind and vanished into the darkness.

Along with the words to wait just a moment.

Seo-jun had infiltrated their space. The positions they had secured beforehand had become meaningless.

'Still, if it's Kerill, he will surely be able to stop that guy!'

Although he felt bitter about his teammates not coming to revive him, it could not be helped.

'Besides, I have the item.'

If they could defeat Seo-jun, it would be fine even if one of them was eliminated from the game.

They will manage somehow, right?

Hahaha.

He was a Challenger support who was especially praised for his high-level brainplay, after all.

More importantly...

-The reason he left you alive? Probably just because you weren't even worth killing lololol

-So why did you fall down anyway?

-How did you dodge it? Did you really fall because you were terrified?

-Tae-woo, spill the beans already.

-Even Seo-jun was surprised because you dodged it. But in my opinion, you don't have the skills to dodge his attacks. So you definitely collapsed out of fear.

He had been terrified. And it seemed the viewers had noticed it.

Damn it.

That crazy guy had been overwhelming from the moment he appeared.

First, the enemy who had tumbled backward around the corner, and then that guy.

Was it not perfectly legal for his legs to give out?

"It's nothing like that."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

An intense battle was taking place.

He was curious to see how it would turn out. He hoped they would stop Seo-jun somehow.

Another team might have arrived. At the far end of the hallway, there was someone in the same situation as him, though they were pushed back and hard to see.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He could not see the inside either, as the underground area was filled with numerous obstacles and draped in darkness.

That was the very reason they had tried to block entry from the beginning.

[Kerill --> INeedBlackoutCurtains]

[SwordGod14 --> WetWipes]

Oh, nice.

'Were those two on Spoon's team?'

When Kerill killed the other teammate, the person who had been knocked out first died.

This was because there were no longer any teammates left to revive him.

Furthermore, since Seo-jun had knocked him out earlier, the kill message popped up as Seo-jun's.

'As expected, they came over to fight too.'

Currently, Tae-woo had a great item called a defibrillator.

It was a rare item with the highest farming probability in the hospital.

If Level 3 armor had the highest spawn rate in the camp, the hospital had this defibrillator.

The item's effect allowed the player to revive themselves from a knocked-out state.

'Should I use it now? There's no way that guy knew I had this. If he did, he would've finished me off.'

The biggest drawback of the defibrillator was that it made an incredibly loud noise the moment it was activated.

Instead of just revealing the user's location, it practically screamed to everyone, 'This bastard is using me to revive! So come get him quickly!'

'I shouldn't use it if it disrupts the fight.'

That had been the primary reason he had not used it until now; he was unsure of how the sudden variable of a loud noise would affect the battle.

Bang! Bang!

The ones holding defibrillators were Kerill and Tae-woo, which was because the B-grade AD Carry was surprisingly bad at Ground Zero.

But thinking about it again...

'Since they know I have it, if I make some noise, could we use it to our advantage?'

Should he trust the brainplay of the Challenger support?

Could they perhaps use this noise to catch Seo-jun?

The information asymmetry.

There was a high probability that Seo-jun did not even know this item existed.

In contrast, Kerill knew that he possessed a defibrillator.

[SwordGod14 --> Gwergberg]

His teammate had died. He was not just knocked out.

He felt that it would be better to start using it now rather than just lying here.

Tae-woo opened his inventory and, with one arm, struggled to press the defibrillator to activate it.

Beeeeeeeeep!

-Is he finally using it?

-The defibrillator is out!

-Why the hell did this bastard not use it until now?

-Yeah, it was a stroke of absolute luck that Seo-jun left him alive lololol

A massive siren echoed throughout the basement, and Tae-woo became locked in a lying position. The defibrillator attached itself to his body.

'Anyone, just come.'

He waited.

It would be great if he revived, and if not, it was just fate!

At that moment.

"Wow, what is this sound?"

From the opposite side of the hallway, out of the darkness at the front of the basement, Seo-jun appeared.

And then,

"Got you."

Bang!

Kerill appeared from the left.

"Oops."

However, Seo-jun had already slipped back in a frustratingly nimble manner.

"Hahaha. No, isn't that hyung way too agile? He uses the darkness so well."

Kerill addressed Seo-jun, speaking as if he were talking to Tae-woo.

"I was just playing along with all that. We could have just fought normally."

And Seo-jun replied playfully.

Seo-jun and Kerill spoke to each other naturally, as if they had already exchanged words a few times during their skirmish.

"I'm sure you were. But what if there are two of us?"

It was then.

Bang!

A bullet flew in from behind Seo-jun.

Clang!

'As expected, that bastard must have eyes in the back of his head. Either that, or he's hacking. But honestly, isn't having eyes in the back of your head basically a hack?'

Lying down while waiting to revive, Tae-woo watched in awe as Seo-jun spun around and blocked the bullet with his frying pan.

In the meantime, Kerill quickly closed in toward Tae-woo.

"No matter how much you keep deflecting them, hyung, a two-on-one is impossible, right?"

This was to surround Seo-jun from the front and back, trapping him in the middle.

'Of course! No matter how good that guy is, he can't handle two at the same time! As expected of a Challenger! I believed in you!'

With fifteen seconds left until his revival, Tae-woo felt like buying Kerill a delicious chicken dinner right away.

Seo-jun had undoubtedly roamed around, waiting for the moments when a teammate was even slightly isolated to pick them off.

But now, he was completely surrounded.

'Ah. There are two bullets coming at you, so what are you going to do? Try blocking or dodging that.'

At the very moment when Tae-woo and Kerill wore triumphant smiles, confident that even Seo-jun could not pull this off—

*Thud.*

"Does having two of you change anything? Right, Tae-woo?"

Seo-jun smirked and pulled out a new item in his left hand.

While deflecting another bullet fired by the other teammate with his right hand.

Clang!

"Is... that so?"

Seeing the new item Seo-jun had pulled out, Tae-woo raised his head with difficulty and tilted it in confusion while staring at him.

The new item Seo-jun had pulled out was a frying pan.

Since there were indeed two incoming bullets.

If he held two frying pans...

Did it really not change anything??

Was that seriously the case?

-That is dual-wielding!

-Lololol was he seriously keeping all those frying pans just to do that?

-Lmao, there are four frying pans in his inventory right now, just use them all lololol

-That guy is strong. He is unimaginably strong!

-Lololol what a crazy bastard

-Why don't you just hold one in your mouth too? lololol

Kerill circled around the boxes to corner Seo-jun.

Even in this desperate moment, the face of Seo-jun, who was holding frying pans in both hands, looked incredibly serene to Tae-woo.

"Did you really think I wouldn't anticipate a scenario like this? Come on, Mr. Kael."

"It's Kerill! Ah, hyung! How many times do I have to tell you!"

Tae-woo was certain in his heart.

That Seo-jun was getting his name wrong on purpose.

Do you really want to get under a high school student's skin that badly?

Bang!

The fight began.

***

Bang!

Fire erupted from the muzzle as a bullet made its appearance.

It was a lump of metal flying like an arrow at extreme speed—no, even faster—poised to deplete one's health.

However, if one moved first upon seeing the muzzle, it was possible to pre-emptively position a shield there to block it. It was not just possible to block it, but to dodge it as well.

'Crazy bastard.'

Just like how Seo-jun was dodging now by spinning his body.

To Tae-woo, Seo-jun was an enigmatic guy.

An enigmatic guy who appeared ordinary on the surface but, upon looking just a little deeper, revealed himself to be anything but normal.

He teased others the moment he saw even the slightest opening, making one wonder if he was thoroughly twisted as he griefed people, yet he disliked bad deeds and guided his seniors.

He used pro players as punching bags, beating them up to relieve his own stress, yet still improved their skills through his bizarre teachings.

He constantly teased Tae-woo and ordered him around, but when Tae-woo felt completely hopeless about his stream, he was the guy who blew away his anxiety with a single phrase: 'Just do it.'

Tae-woo, who had prided himself on knowing at least a little about Seo-jun, realized for the first time as he witnessed his true movements that Seo-jun had been taking it very easy on them.

In the blink of an eye, Seo-jun spun a half-turn.

And sparks flew twice from the front and back of Seo-jun.

Clang!

He had identified the attack coming from behind while spinning a half-turn and deflected it just like that.

From front and back simultaneously.

Since he had spun a half-turn using his left foot as the axis, he used his right foot as the axis next.

Spinning another half-turn in the same manner, he closed the distance to Kerill.

His body spun, and his arms followed.

And those arms naturally blocked the attack coming from behind.

Sparks and embers flew once more.

Yet, there was only a single echoing sound.

Bang!

Perhaps realizing that this would not work, Kerill delayed his attack. It was an attempt to throw off the timing.

Detecting the need for a change after just a single exchange and acting on it was truly an improvisation that only a select few outstanding individuals could pull off.

However, as if he had read the timing, Seo-jun pulled the arm that had blocked the attack from behind and blocked in front as well.

Clang!

Would it have hit if Kerill had fired just a little faster? That was impossible to know.

'If it's that guy, he definitely would have blocked that too.'

Meanwhile, Seo-jun did not stop his spinning as he advanced.

As if his body were declaring that he must keep the fingertips holding the sword—no, the frying pan—sharp, and must never lose the flow even for a single moment.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

From front and back, attacks that should have been absolutely unblockable continued to be deflected, and the path Seo-jun traversed was decorated with sparks.

'Crazy bastard.'

He was a truly crazy bastard.

Divine skill.

Its dictionary definition was a technique wielded by a god. And Tae-woo felt as though he had just witnessed that very technique.

'Still, if I revive!'

At that moment,

Seo-jun, who had almost reached Kerill, let go with his left hand.

Then, the ownerless frying pan flew toward Tae-woo due to centrifugal force.

*Urgh.*

His revival was interrupted.

Tae-woo cried out in bewilderment.

"Why did you throw that away!"

Throwing a frying pan while dealing with two opponents?

However, there was a reason.

Because Kerill timed his gunshots differently from his teammate, it had been entirely possible to block them with just one frying pan.

Kerill tried to fire simultaneously with his teammate starting from the very next shot, but the problem was Seo-jun, who had already closed in right before his eyes.

"Mr. Kael. Please take this hit for me."

Seo-jun's hand thrust forward abruptly toward Kerill, who was trying to back away.

It was an unexpected blow for Kerill, who had been bracing himself for an impact from a frying pan.

*Thud.*

Seo-jun grabbed Kerill's shoulder and pulled.

And then,

Bang!

Kerill took the bullet flying from behind instead, and the moment Kerill looked back, Seo-jun was swinging the frying pan downward.

Knocked out.

"If it's like this, one is enough. That's why I threw it."