Episode 589. Sounds Like a Promise (2)

The players are launched into the air with a tremendous sound.

To the sky between skyscrapers.

Not by will, but by overwhelming force.

“Uaahhhhhhhh!!!”

It was [Archmage] Jesse Heinness who saved the players, who were flailing limb from limb as they were hurled toward the skyscrapers. Jesse is no longer a nobody, but a true Adept Mage.

Magic that surpasses the limits of skill covers the city.

“Are you all right?”

“Jesse Heinness?!”

“Just a moment.”

kkattag.

With a light wave of her hand, she manipulated the twilight magic.

The players bounced into the air and came to a stop. The scene was relayed live to the Netubers who had gathered to watch the Oak Auction.

“Crazy, guys. Jesse Heinness is here too?”

“Well, the Oak Auction is definitely a big event!”

“What’s this, magic in the streets. What? Orcs running amok? Oh no, we’re going aggro, huh?”

As you can see, it was crowded.

The first place to break the news to those who couldn’t see what was going on in the crowd was in chat.

And then, the message window that popped up for those who had gotten the news.

[World Quests: Combat Races, Orcs]

The strongest fighting race on the Arcana continent.

Their suppressed wild nature was awakened.

Can you handle it, adventurer?

They are the true warriors of the Arcana Continent.

“What, what?! Is it real? I say it’s real!”

Nam Taemin avoided the chaotic streets and headed for the rooftops of the forest of buildings.

“Bro, do you have any idea what’s going on?”

Transcendent physical abilities.

Swoosh.

He leaped effortlessly from building to building. Nam Cheolmin’s voice, which hadn’t lost its composure even in this situation, was transmitted through his item, the [Small Magic Transmission Bulb].

“Just to conclude.”

Nam Cheolmin confirmed.

“It seems that the orcs’ [Wildness] stat has been activated.”

“!”

Orcs.

The reason for Nam Taemin’s pupils twitching was simple.

The existence of orcs had been forgotten for a while on the Arcana Continent.

This was because Nam Taemin knew their true value from an early age.

‘Because they were opposites, yet strangely overlapping.’

A Barbarian who is human yet chases after the wild.

Orcs are a fighting race but have suppressed their wild nature.

Thanks to this, the two forces had frequent contact points.

It meant they were bound to feel it.

“If that’s true, we’d better hurry, big brother.”

The Orc’s transcendent force.

“The orcs stabbed us in the back?”

“My God, are these things insane.”

“……Wait, it’s a world quest, shouldn’t we expect a reward?”

The players were talking amongst themselves, because yes, orcs were not completely unseen in the Arcana continent like the spirits were before the update.

“I’ve already destroyed several Orc villages.”

[Village Orc: Lv.300]

He wasn’t bluffing.

The orcs that appeared as monsters in the Arcana Continent Biography were actually of that level.

But it was a mistake.

“Get out of the way.”

Landing from a building into the city center.

Nam Taemin said to the players as they gathered their gear.

Needless to say, they didn’t back down.

No matter how much he said he was a top ranked player.

“No matter how high ranked you are, you don’t have the right to tell us to leave, do you? Let’s make some concessions once in a while, Mr. Taemin.”

“That’s right ……!”

“You’re in the spotlight enough already, aren’t you?”

It was a situation any player would have dreamed of.

To be a hero and save a city from the flooding of Arcana.

Especially with so many eyes on the situation.

Isn’t this a golden opportunity?

“A mob of three hundred level at most is nothing to be afraid of.”

“Get a grip.”

“W-What? Are you talking to me informally?!”

Nam Taemin walks over and bends down to make eye contact.

“Does that look the same to you as a Village Orc?”

Village Orcs.

Strictly speaking, they weren’t full orcs at all, more like outcasts, beings who hadn’t had the intellectual capacity to suppress their wild nature and embrace new knowledge.

And what of the Oak Auction Orcs?

True orcs, if they take up arms.

Their natural brute strength was complemented by their honed knowledge.

But unlike Nam Taemin, they did not know.

“An orc will be an orc, no matter what.”

“We’ve grown up, too, though not as much as you…….”

“We could hunt in the Zero Mountains somehow!”

Fortunately, there was no need to argue further.

Then.

Because its presence began to cover the streets.

[Orc Awakened to Wildness: Lv.800]

Level 800.

What is more overwhelming than the level, which is now just a number.

It was a pattern that experience points couldn’t describe.

Kwang.

“What the hell?! ”

The player reflexively shouted, barely keeping his shield up.

It was fine if that was all it took. The unique skill of the class, [Shield Warrior], was so specialized in defense that it could make up for the hundreds of level difference.

Sreuk.

What was problematic was the Orc’s persistent movement into blind spots that could not be blocked with such a shield. It was deceptively fast for a creature that barely exceeded two meters.

Swoosh.

It’s such an anomalous psychological warfare that it’s hard to call it a set pattern. Not surprisingly, it was the players who started to fall apart in Seoul’s city center.

Nam Taemin, he players who were complaining about him understand the topic.

“…….. Hey guys, I don’t think those are just orcs.”

“What?”

“They’re not just orcs. They’re all merchants.”

Nam Taemin gives up on the conversation at that point.

“That’s it, I’m done trying to convince them, bro.”

He wanted to keep as many players as possible out of this.

At Nam Cheolmin’s request, Taemin wants to get as many players as possible off the hook.

Nam Taemin’s vision flickers.

[Skill, ‘Call of the Wild’ is activated].

The momentum of the Barbarians, who, instead of letting the wildness take over, have taken full control of it. Nam Taemin’s eyes truly began to glow like the eyes of a beast.

He warned.

“If you get caught in the middle, don’t blame anyone.”

That’s the way a player should stand on the battlefield.

Nam Taemin lightly jumps on the asphalt floor. Then the view of the battlefield becomes visible. Indeed, what the barbarians said back when Arcana was just a game was right.

“They’re crazy, aren’t they?”

Oak Auction.

It was hard to believe they were so far removed from combat. Level 800. More than that, in Arcana Continen Biography terms.

Nam Cheolmin’s analysis was relayed to the entire Holy War Alliance.

“Consider each of them at least a mid-level boss!”

It’s mid-boss level.

As for the most recently encountered mid-boss, this is of course.

One could name the commander of the Demon Kings’ army.

Which means.

“You’re here, Mr. Taemin.”

“What are you doing late?”

“Jesse~ Leonie~ and the boys~”

This is the home ground.

Seoul, the land of the anomalies.

That meant they couldn’t let their guard down.

Rankers including Nam Taemin, Hisagi, Leonie, Jesse, and Camilla.

And then

“The players have succeeded in preempting the surrounding buildings, and even the orcs can’t dodge all the ranged attacks from the buildings.”

“It would be pointless to try to overpower them in small numbers.”

-“Now that the battle has begun, the building has a siege system in place, and it’s physically impossible for even orcs to break through the water-based advantage on each floor.”

Nam Cheolmin says.

Even players who make full use of Seoul’s building forest, which has become a land of anomalies.

It’s not arrogance, it’s a confidence.

“We can’t lose.”

No matter how many orcs poured out of that portal, armed with whatever rare gear from the Oak Auction, I wasn’t going to back down.

But.

“Why?”

Hisagi’s words brought everyone to a halt.

It was true.

Win or lose on the battlefield, it didn’t make sense.

“There was clearly no lies or deception in their words.”

There was only one possibility, then.

Claudi lord.

Where Ulrich, the head of the Oak Auction, was headed.

“……Something’s happened again, man.”

Leonie gritted her teeth.

A simple deception.

No, as I said, the orcs don’t hide their true intentions.

If so, this was a change of heart.

‘Is there a falling out between the Commander and Ulrich?’

I wonder.

Commander-in-Chief.

The personality of Hoyeol.

‘From what I know of Chief Lee.’

Jesse’s little muttering is interrupted by the cone hat.

-Even if he refuses a bribe, he is not the type of person who refuses sincerity. So then, this doesn’t start with Chief Lee’s change of heart, but it starts with Ulrich, that orc guy.

Her mind was racing, but she couldn’t dwell on it forever.

“Oooooh!!!”

Even at this moment, the wild orcs were fiercely battling the players.

Even the players who had grumbled about losing the spotlight to the rankers, including Nam Taemin, had joined in.

“It’s about situational judgment, it’s about power…”

“We have to protect Seoul first.”

“I know, I’m not that stupid, am I?”

Hundreds of levels are not attainable without that level of situational judgment, and soon enough, a group of players began to take down the Oak Auction runaway in earnest.

Levels are just a number.

More important than natural talent is dedication.

Don’t skip a day of physical training

It was a battle situation that was exactly what ‘someone’ said.

“We have the upper hand in the number!”

“Surround. Attack rather than defend!”

“Fire support from the rear!”

These orcs were born to be warriors. They were unaccustomed to the battlefield, even if they were high level. The Holy War Alliance had too much experience to match.

“Melees fall back when they are attracted by aggro.”

“That’s right, there’s nothing good about fighting!”

“Unless you’re a Nam Taemin, Hisagi, or Leonie, it’s best to play it safe and use the terrain to your advantage. It’s a siege!”

The battle turned out just as he had hoped.

The players had overwhelmed the Oak Auction.

Even if they were one of the absolutes of the Underworld.

That was decades ago, even in real time. For players who had grown up in the cataclysmic flooding of the Arcana continent, they were a foe that could be overcome.

“No matter how tough they are, they’re not as tough as demons!”

teolsseog.

Soon, a fatal wound.

One by one, the orcs begin to fall.

Finally, there was a lull in the battle.

“Whoa.”

He puts down his weapon and looks at the Oak Auction.

About a few hundred orcs.

It was similar to the size of the Oak Auction that was known beforehand.

“I don’t feel any magic reaction.”

Jesse was right.

There were no more Oak Auction troops crossing into reality through magic tools.

The players breathed a sigh of relief.

“So…….”

Are we really supposed to kill these orcs?

“Shit.”

Hesitant sword blades.

Everyone on the battlefield thought.

If only they could know the reason for their sudden change of heart.

It would help them decide.

But the reason was never given.

*

The Arcana continent.

The vastness of the Claud territory.

Somewhere.

“This.”

Ulrich appeared from among the bushes.

It was clearly Ulrich, who had been trying to kill Pride until a moment ago.

But.

“I’m sorry to see you like this, Mr. Grandfell.”

Ulrich turned to face Hoyeol who had come to him.

Pride’s existence was not announced.

For, as he had said, he was hiding his ‘reason’.

“I know how you have come to seek me out, and I suspect what you may ask of me, Mr. Grandfell, but will you, Mr. Grandfell, in your vast mercy, answer my question?”

The formal request is answered.

“I will listen, and then I will ask.”

In a cold voice.

“The responsibility for your actions.”

Ulrich bowed his head in joy.

In this moment, to an Orc who craves wisdom.

He could handle the aftermath of responsibility.

Soon, Ulrich spoke.

“Actually, Grandfell, I believe you know everything, so it’s not Grandfell I’m asking, yes, it’s ‘you’.”

Ulrich’s eyes turn to Dawn’s jacket.

“Do you know?”

Or more precisely, the [Six Sight Brooch] that adorns the jacket.

“Why is it a Six Sight Brooch that is divided into ‘six’ pieces?”

He points at Hoyeol, not Grandfell.

“A ray of light, Lee Hoyeol. It means that you know the reason.”

[Hidden Quest: To Know Its True Value].

The door to the Oak Auction, the Big Shot of the Underworld, has opened. The Arcana continent is in shambles. If you wish to know the true value of loot that no one else can properly value, visit the Oak Auction. You may find yourself facing an unexpected truth.

-Get the Six Sight Brooch appraised. (Success)

-Face the truth about the Six Sight Brooch. (Ongoing)