“Hmm”
As soon as the maintenance ended, I logged in and examined which skills had changed by referring to the ‘Patch Notes’.
After this patch, invincibility skills for each class were strengthened and added.
For Yin-Yang Masters, personal ‘Protection Talisman’ changed to 5 seconds duration, ignoring 5 instances of damage, and for Mages, the number of invincibility instances for party ‘Ice Prison’ and personal ‘Flame Barrier’ increased.
Rangers also got an invincibility skill including a stack-type movement skill, and Fighters got a party protection skill. Fighters didn’t get additional invincibility skills, but they originally had a stronger tendency to endure through damage reduction skills rather than invincibility skills.
Warrior’s ‘Nimble Move’ branched into Left Nimble Move and Right Nimble Move. Additionally, the invincibility time was extended.
Overall, it can be said that a major change occurred in the invincibility skills of each class.
The invincibility skills strengthened by the management as if doing a favor will play a big role in reducing the difficulty up to the ‘Ice Palace of the Frozen Land’ dungeon.
I smiled slightly.
That means.
“The dungeons coming out in the future will be planned to be more difficult.”
As skills for avoiding patterns have generally become more abundant and increased, special patterns will be difficult too.
Enrage patterns that can’t be overcome with invincibility skills will probably come out frequently too.
“For Swordsmen…”
[Counterattack(A)]
[Take the opponent’s rear (Cooldown 8 seconds)]
[(D Rank) Invincible during casting]
[(C Rank) Switches to ‘Sword Drawing Stance’ when used]
[(A Rank) Branches into Counterattack(Left), Counterattack(Right)]
Similar to Warrior’s Left Nimble Move and Right Nimble Move, one more Counterattack that turns right was added. And the invincibility time of ‘Backward Evasion’ increased.
It didn’t seem like my play would change much.
Maybe I can use the item’s ‘Cooldown Reset’ function more actively?
They didn’t touch the coefficients of other skills. In terms of damage balance for each class, did they think there wasn’t much to touch?
After confirming the changes to invincibility skills, I closed the patch notes I had brought up in front of me.
“So, what should I do now?”
I was sitting behind the ‘Ice Palace of the Frozen Land’, blankly staring at the ‘lake that doesn’t freeze’.
Personal farming is over.
I ground all accessories with unwanted options and turned them into ‘Ice Palace Essence’.
As I monopolized accessories through solo play, the number of essences for enhancing accessories was sufficient.
Chris is still farming.
4-person farming actually takes longer than solo play because each person needs to run until they get the accessories they want. Of course, putting aside whether any user other than me can solo play at this point.
Since ‘Ice Palace Essence’ is needed to enhance this dungeon’s equipment, farming time will be a bit longer.
“I want to run buses with Chris unnie quickly.”
I stretched out my finger to the snow field and tried drawing Chris’s face.
Face. Draw one circle.
Hair. A few straight lines on both sides.
Swish swish swish!
I hurriedly erased the drawing.
Chris unnie is much prettier than this.
It’s disrespectful to draw unnie’s pretty face with my poor drawing skills.
Should I go in and farm while feeding all the accessories to unnie? No. If I enter Chris’s party, one of the four won’t be able to farm.
Pull out only Chris and let her monopolize items through solo bus? Who will the remaining three run with?
Is it best to keep running solo and sell the ‘Ice Palace Mistress’s Soul’?
The soul price is still good, but it felt somewhat lacking to run just looking at that.
Should I run solo buses?
But the marketability of solo buses isn’t great in early dungeons. If farming has progressed to some extent, you can take multiple passengers with non-overlapping needed items and just feed them the accessories they need, but now is the point where all users need accessories for all parts. They even need essence.
There’s no way they would ride a bus where they can’t monopolize items while paying expensive bus fees.
Though it would be inefficient, should I run 1:1 buses taking just one customer?
I opened the chat interface and started composing an area message.
Oh right, and unblocked whispers too.
Clang clang. Boom!
“Wow…! I only saw it in videos, but you really clear it solo!”
“Kyaah! Do you know Rain-nim is the only one running buses right now!?”
“Ahem. I only paid a small bus fee for the purpose of the first clear quest, but will anything drop for this old man too?”
“Thank you.”
I bowed my head to the customers after completing the first Ice Palace bus.
The young man who first whispered me paid the full bus fee and received all the items.
The woman in her early twenties and middle-aged man only paid a small amount in exchange for achieving the first clear quest.
I turned off screenshot and video recording using the ‘Party Leader Function’ Chris taught me.
My dungeon play is also a product. I can’t show it through videos taken by others.
If you want to see, at least increase the view count on my YouTube account videos.
But in the second bus, I realized that the marketability of my solo bus lies elsewhere too.
“Can I hold your hand? I paid a lot of gold.”
“I want to pat your head!”
“U-umm.”
I know my appearance is pretty.
But I didn’t know there would be so many people wanting to ride the bus just to see my face.
And for some reason, women were approaching more than men, even though I’m a woman.
Is my face especially appealing to women?
“I’m sorry.”
This game has high freedom regarding touch between users. Maybe because it’s an adult game or something.
If you attack through definite skills, there’s no penalty for counterattacking. But regarding ordinary touch, it was somewhat ambiguous.
I know everything too.
Among the women wanting to touch me, there seemed to be some with impure intentions.
What about Chris unnie?
I can trust her. She’s absolutely not someone who would harm me. I feel good when she touches my body too.
But I feel aversion to others.
Of course, what satisfaction could they get with ordinary users’ synchronization rate of about 20% in-game, but I who is directly touched am 100%. It doesn’t feel good.
Trying hard to avoid the gazes of female users licking their lips, I completed the second bus too.
In the third bus, trouble finally broke out.
“Aaah~! A monster~!”
Thud.
I avoided the full-body attack of a woman very intentionally rushing at me.
I frowned.
“This is troublesome.”
“Tch.”
The elf race Ranger woman with green hair clicked her tongue while sprawled on the floor.
This bus passenger unnie is very blatant.
She’s a pretty unnie, but compared to Chris unnie, she’s a firefly before the sun.
Being patted by an unnie with such impure intentions would absolutely not feel good.
She harassed me all the way to the 3rd Named boss. She tried to approach and lightly grab my hand, or put her hand on my head.
Swish.
Eventually, she crossed the line.
She dared to try putting her hand on my butt.
“Eek…!”
This time I was really angry.
I can endure stealing mobs in the field or attacking me.
But my body belongs to Chris. I have no intention of letting just anyone touch it.
No matter if they’re a customer paying for the bus, wrong is wrong.
Swish.
I put my hand on Astaroth’s sheath, then suddenly remembered there’s an ‘Admin Call’ function.
Chris, who felt uneasy about my lack of decisiveness in this regard, taught me various self-help measures.
She said to use this function when encountering people with malicious intentions.
Beep.
I brought up the interface window and left a message in customer service.
Flash!
Not long after, along with a golden light, a fifth person appeared in the 4-person dungeon.
“Gasp…!”
“Who is it?”
The other woman and young man customers following behind were startled. The elf female user fidgeting her hands right next to me paused.
The fifth person who appeared in the dungeon. She was.
“Hello~ This is Admin Summer~ …Oh my? Miss Rain?”
Is she wearing a Mage robe? With colorful robes fluttering and blonde hair, she appeared and greeted with a bright smile while making a V-sign near her eyes.
As she was striking that entrance pose, she made a surprised expression seeing me.
No, why are you surprised?
I’m more surprised.
Doesn’t the ID of the person who made the inquiry show up?
She was clearly ‘Team Leader Han Yeoreum’ in charge of Hana Games’ marketing department.
Wasn’t this person from the marketing department?
Why is she playing the role of admin here?
I was about to ask her my questions, but realized I had something to say first.
I glared at the elf woman next to me and tattled on what she had done.
“This unnie tried to touch my body without consent? My, my butt too!”
“Wh-what!”
She looked at the video recording device floating behind me. This personal equipment that can take screenshots and videos also had a replay function for a certain time before.
After checking the video, she made a very angry expression.
“Just because I’m an admin doesn’t mean I’m overwhelmingly stronger than users in-game or anything. Still, I have a few absolute authorities. One of them is.”
She pointed her staff at the pale-faced green-haired female elf user and smiled brightly.
“The authority to cut off the connection between the Astria continent and the outside world. Ranger, ‘Archer White Rabbit’-nim, according to Operating Policy Article 4 Clause 2, ‘In case of causing inconvenience to other customers in a manner that deviates from social norms’, 1st suspension, 7-day ban~ Please make your appeal through customer service on the ‘A.O’ official site~”
“W-wait a moment! Aaah!”
Swish.
The elf woman disappeared from the game after leaving a short scream.
“Wow.”
I stared blankly at the spot where she had disappeared.
Admins have completely tyrannical authority, huh.