Thud thud thud thud!
Roar!
Swish, tap tap!
I darted between Ice Trolls and Ice Ogres letting out fierce roars.
There’s no need to kill all the monsters in the mob sections.
The path leading to the 1st Named boss room splits in two.
One path is largely divided into three areas.
The problem is that there’s a closed door blocking the way to the next area.
To open the door leading to the next area, you need to operate a lever in the opposite area.
A system where operating the lever on the left path opens the door in the right area.
You need to split into a 4-person party to proceed. It’s very disadvantageous for me who only has one body.
But the important thing is you don’t have to kill all the monsters. Just operating the lever opens the door on the opposite fork.
“Then.”
Quickly, just touch the lever and get out.
Swoosh!
Kaaah-!
After instantly taking care of two Ice Trolls standing on either side of the lever with Flash Strike, I lightly hit the lever with my sword and escaped towards the entrance.
The door to the 2nd area on the opposite fork should have opened. Operate the lever there, and return here again.
Like this, just two more times and.
Tap.
Having reached in front of the 1st Named boss, I looked straight at the ‘Thunder Spearman’.
Standing on the opposite side of the cliff is the ‘Earth Shieldbearer’.
The dual Named structure that first appeared in the Ancient Temple.
The first Named of the ‘Ice Palace of the Frozen Land’ is also a method where you have to face two boss entities.
At a glance, the two rings with a huge cliff in between look like independent battle areas.
Even if I take down the Spearman in front of me, it seems there’s no way to attack the Shieldbearer on the opposite side.
“This company makes patterns well.”
I trusted my experience so far.
The Shieldbearer across the cliff.
If there’s only one person to attack, it will surely come over here.
Cho Hyunsoo’s party gave me a lot of information.
Even how to solve the phenomenon of bodies stiffening at 4 stacks of ‘Electric Current’ and ‘Rock Stack’.
Clang.
I drew ‘Astaroth’.
The simulation is already over.
What remains is just verification.
Swoosh!
My body rushed towards the ‘Thunder Spearman’ at high speed.
[1st Named]
[Level 48 Thunder Spearman]
[HP 15,000,000 / 15,000,000 (100%)]
[1st Named]
[Level 48 Earth Shieldbearer]
[HP 15,000,000 / 15,000,000 (100%)]
Boom, boom, boom!
Under my feet, rock spikes kept shooting up.
As expected, there was a ranged pattern attacking the user on the opposite side when there’s no opponent on your own ring.
Tap, tap, tap.
While hopping sideways to avoid the Earth Shieldbearer’s rock spike range, and twisting my body to dodge the Thunder Spearman’s thrusting attack.
Clang!
Soon the rock attacks stopped after 4 times. While blocking the Spearman’s attack, I glanced towards the Shieldbearer across the cliff.
Thud, woong!
The Shieldbearer who had fallen down ridiculously soon jumped powerfully straightening its waist.
The expected landing point is the ‘Thunder Spearman’ battle area where I am.
I immediately used counterattack targeting the Spearman.
Crash!
The Shieldbearer that slammed down where I had been soon started swinging its shield towards me.
Both entities have entered attack range. From now on, I just need to face the Spearman and Shieldbearer together.
Deflect the spear, catch the Shieldbearer’s back when it raises its shield, Starlight Slash one, two, three. When the Spearman slams down its spear, the Shieldbearer turns its body too.
Here, Flash Strike. Swoosh! And while moving my body slightly backwards, check the movement distance of Flash Strike.
The distance from the Named bosses is 7 meters, no ranged pattern comes out, the exact end distance where I can induce their walking pattern. A kind of dribble position. But I don’t intend to stay still until they reach me.
Lower my body, grip the sword in reverse.
[Starlight Sword Energy]
[Cooldown 1 minute]
[Launches 5 sword energy imbued with starlight towards a 15m x 3m area in front (500% multiplier of Starlight Slash 4 times, 2000% multiplier 1 time]
Swish swish swish swish!
From my sword gripped in reverse, sword energy containing starlight burst out. While the giant soldiers approached me, they were exposed defenseless to my sword energy.
Crash!
And I strongly sprayed the last sword energy. Due to that reaction, my body was pushed back slightly.
Whack!
The giant soldiers’ bodies shook strongly. While their bodies paused, I approached directly and again sprayed sword strikes targeting the Shieldbearer.
Woong.
1 minute of battle time has elapsed up to here.
The two giant soldiers simultaneously crouched their bodies and entered a timed special pattern.
A buff pattern covering the entire ring. The buff type can’t be resisted with invincibility skills. Of course I don’t use evasive maneuvers either. I continue attacking.
Crackle! Swoosh!
Two types of buffs entered my body at once.
[Electric Current Stack 1 (1 minute 30 seconds)]
[Rock Stack 1 (1 minute 30 seconds)]
Buffs that increase attack power and defense respectively.
But this sweet buff turns into deadly poison the moment it reaches 4 stacks.
Then.
Just take the sweet part, and spit out the bitter.
[Electric Current Stack 2 (35 seconds)]
[Rock Stack 2 (35 seconds)]
Swish swish swish!
While feeding sword strikes equally to the two giant soldier entities, I checked the buff status.
55 seconds have passed since the second buff came in. And 5 seconds until the third buff.
This is the important part.
Currently I’m fighting 2:1 using just the left ring.
But the right battle area across the cliff can be used too.
I can’t cross over directly, but there’s a way to send the Named bosses.
During Cho Hyunsoo’s conquest, stun through the Fighter’s ‘status effect combo’ definitely worked on normal patterns.
The motion the Shieldbearer took when flying towards me initially. A strong jump after lying down and springing up.
If I inflict a ‘down’ status effect on the Named boss, I should be able to induce the ‘jump’ pattern crossing to the opposite ring.
The buff injection pattern can’t be interrupted. But the pattern right before buff injection can be interrupted with down.
Woong!
Just before the third buff comes out, the Shieldbearer’s motion of raising its shield high.
Here I lower my posture and support the ground with my arm while sweeping the Shieldbearer’s legs widely, then slash its legs while bouncing my body up.
Thud, whack! Boom!
I grinned looking down at the Shieldbearer sprawled on the floor.
Mr. Shieldbearer, you need to work out your lower body.
You fall easily even when tripped by my short legs.
Swish, crash!
Of course, the time to teabag wasn’t that long. I checked the Shieldbearer’s motion of bouncing its waist up, and quickly used counterattack while looking at the Spearman’s body thrusting its spear towards me.
The Shieldbearer’s body that sprang up strongly easily crossed the huge cliff. The Shieldbearer that instantly disappeared from my sight crouched its body after landing on the opposite ring.
At the same time, the Spearman in front of me also crouched its body.
The third buff injection pattern.
From this position, the Shieldbearer’s ‘Rock Stack’ buff only goes into the opposite ring.
Crackle, swoosh!
[Electric Current Stack 3 (1 minute 30 seconds)]
[Rock Stack 2 (30 seconds)]
“This is it.”
I smiled brightly at the battle situation flowing according to my thoughts.
The Shieldbearer will use 4 ranged patterns, then come back here again.
But when the fourth Rock Stack pattern comes out, the existing Rock Stack buff will disappear.
This solves Rock Stack.
Then, what’s the solution for the body stiffening status effect I’ll face at Electric Current Stack 4 given by the Spearman?
The battle continued.
Again, 4 ranged patterns from the Shieldbearer, then jump here.
Boom!
Soon it was time for the fourth Electric Current Stack and Rock Stack patterns to come out.
[Electric Current Stack 3 (35 seconds)]
‘Rock Stack 2’ disappeared as time passed.
Currently, the only buff I have is ‘Electric Current Stack 3’.
I lowered my posture looking at the Spearman.
This time Spearman, you go over.
Thud, whack! Boom! Woong!
After feeding down to the Spearman, the Spearman that crossed to the opposite side activated its buff there, and simultaneously the Shieldbearer remaining here activated its buff.
[Electric Current Stack 3 (30 seconds)]
[Rock Stack 1 (1 minute 30 seconds)]
With this, a rotation strategy that doesn’t allow 4 stacks of buffs has been established.
What remains is repetition.
The starlight bursting from the tip of Astaroth poured towards the Spearman and Shieldbearer.
* * *
GG Group’s guild master, ‘WeGotMarried’, couldn’t help but doubt his eyes.
Starlight and silver light were filling the entire streaming screen he was broadcasting now.
Dancing within that were just two giant soldiers with deep scars being carved into their bodies and a faint white flash.
Even the chat window was quiet as if everyone was holding their breath, with only sporadic analytical chats coming up.
[Is what we’re watching really ‘Astria Online’?]
[Seems like it]
[So this is what ‘4-person party recommended’ meant kekekeke]
[4-person is just recommended and solo is possible too?]
[But it’s too fast. Can’t see.]
[Seems we need to analyze by extracting the video and playing at 0.25x speed]
[It’s not stat power. Almost all taken care of with skills]
[I’m a Swordsman but I don’t even know what skills the white kid is using?]
[Doesn’t the body stiffen at 4 buff stacks? It’s not stiffening though?]
[She applied down and sent it over. Seems to use buff on opposite ring then come back?]
[The situation is so different from party play… I really don’t know how she’s doing it]
[So solo first clear run was possible?]
[No more than that, what’s with that sword energy kekeke A Swordsman using ranged skills!! It’s a bug!!]
[Probably the new Ice Spire Tower skill?]
[I thought even the white kid couldn’t clear it, but seeing today’s play she definitely cleared Ice Spire Tower too]
WeGotMarried including the guild master and GG Group’s 4-person advance party did not re-enter the Named battle area after reviving from their second try.
[Yin-Yang Master ‘Chris’]
-Mr. WeGotMarried, you’re broadcasting now right? My kid Rain ended up streaming the elite dungeon conquest process of ‘No Name’ party in real-time, do you want to use it as today’s broadcast content?
This was because the message from Red-White guild’s master ‘Chris’ changed WeGotMarried’s broadcast content.
But.
“Does… does this make sense?”
“We’re getting to see an incredible sight.”
WeGotMarried couldn’t help but agree with the GG Group affiliated Swordsman’s strained voice.
GG Group is strong in PVP wars, but doesn’t have that many PVE-oriented users. It’s better to learn conquest strategies than to do infinite tries.
For WeGotMarried, he thought it would kill two birds with one stone by promoting GG Group and learning conquest strategies, so he broadcast Rain’s stream with Chris’s permission, but.
[Mr. WeGotMarried… please ask the white kid to open the chat window if you can contact her…]
[Can’t we do superchat? Seems to be an account with just real-time streaming rights]
[We have no choice but to relay in this room kekekeke]
[Seems to be purely for video streaming… White kid please broadcast]
[Rain-nim let’s communicate]
Flash!
Boom boom boom.
The silver flash brushes past the giant soldiers’ bodies. Starlight sword energy slashes their bodies.
And finally, their bodies fell cut in half.
WeGotMarried let out a groan.
“C-clear!”
“With solo play…!”
At the same time, the chat window went crazy.
[Crazy she really cleared it]
[One try? Solo?]
[No this isn’t right! Other 4-person parties are struggling like crazy!]
[Astria Online’s common sense collapsed today]
[White kid! White kid!]
[Rain! Rain!]
[I’m just going to quit Swordsman… Can’t even learn or copy]
[It’s not a Swordsman problem… That user is just the problem]
[Is she Hana Games’ daughter? How does her character move like that?]
[‘Try copying’ kekekeke]
[Elite dungeon solo… was this game possible?]
[Actually solo is possible for lower dungeons after farming elite dungeons]
[But only top 0.001% users can do that]
[Is she the fastest progress now? No news about Chris’s party?]
[Is the white kid the only ‘No Name’ party member?]
[It’s just 1st Named boss so far, but she’s doing first clear run solo]
[Has she been doing first clear runs solo all this time?]
[That’s the only explanation]
[I heard rumors the white kid was running Ancient Temple solo buses…]
[I thought it was Legendary weapon power kekekek3]
[Hana Games release Legendary weapons! Even if time-limited!]
[Time-limited! Time-limited!]
[How grateful for a fate that will disappear!]
[Do you think you could do it if you had a Legendary weapon?]
[This isn’t a damage problem…]
[Host, aren’t you doing conquest analysis content?]
“I don’t know how to analyze this.”
WeGotMarried gave an awkward laugh towards the chat window.
Fortunately, GG Group party’s Swordsman approached and spoke first.
“The only thing we can take from party play is that we can send Named bosses to the opposite side through down status effects.”
“Hmm, that’s right. If two people on both sides apply down together, we can switch the positions of the two Named bosses. But we need to use time tightly. About 55 seconds after the buff pattern? If we send them over earlier they come back and use buffs, if we send them over later the buffs come out.”
“Yes. We can’t interrupt the buff injection pattern. We need to apply down between 52 and 56 seconds… these 4 seconds. Should we check the remaining buff time with status visualization mode and calculate?”
“If we send them over at 3 stacks, the 4th buff that stiffens the body…”
“Will go to the people on the opposite side. Then we can continue the conquest.”
“There’s no problem for party play. But how do we explain what we just saw?”
WeGotMarried broke out in cold sweat.
Putting aside the physical aspects we can’t copy, the sense is the problem.
Send the Shieldbearer over right before it activates 3 stack buff. Then deal with the Shieldbearer that used the buff in the air and came back while also sending the Spearman over to activate its 4 stack buff on the opposite side.
Play as if there’s a timer running in her head. She was facing two Named bosses while simultaneously calculating buff durations. Even if using status visualization mode, you need to check the time down to seconds while being busy responding to two Named bosses’ patterns.
An act that ordinary users absolutely can’t do simultaneously. Does she have two or three brains in her head?
WeGotMarried shook his head.
“I absolutely don’t have the ability to analyze Rain-nim’s play.”
“Hmm, I thought I was quite good at Swordsman, but I can only think similar thoughts as the viewers. I can only pray that the Swordsman class doesn’t get blamed.”
Wonder, collapse of common sense.
The streaming screen was now showing Rain’s back heading towards the 2nd Named area.
Though they had only seen the 1st Named battle, one thing had become certain.
Rain, she.
Lives in a different world from ordinary players.