Former Hero, Solo Play Oriented

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Review of Riding the Chris Engineering Guild Bus.txt (+368)

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First of all, starting a 3-person bus is a problem from the 1Named.

I know the three of us will struggle to break all the eggs in time.

But once that little fish wakes up, it’s basically a hell party, so we can almost say we can’t break it, right? We can’t break all the eggs and end up wandering around trying to catch the little fish, dying to area-wide attacks and stuff.

But the Chris Guild didn’t break any eggs.

I don’t know if it’s possible thanks to Chris Guild’s firepower, but they saved the cooldown of the new skills from the Training Tower and unleashed everything when the little fish woke up.

They also rounded up the little fish like art.

Calculating the party members’ movements, they gathered all the little fish in one spot and unleashed skills all at once;

Dodging area-wide attacks and pulling in the adds while doing so.

Well, this seems like something other parties could practice to sync up, but the 2Named is a different story.

The firepower is way stronger than a typical 4-person party, so as long as they keep the bleed stacks, they shouldn’t have to worry about berserking, but the speed is on a different dimension from my fixed party.

I peeked my head out from the top stairs and saw all the gears passing through the center of the combat area.

Do you think the melee DPS or tank would survive?

But they didn’t die. It didn’t seem like the bleed stacks were piling up. The bleed stacked really fast, and Balgard just melted away;

For the 3Named, all three perfectly timed their invulnerability skills during the desperate patterns, doing it beautifully.

As long as one person is alive, we can clear it, so as long as one person performs well, we could still do it, but they all didn’t make a single mistake.

Of course, there’s only one party protection skill, so they tanked it once with their bodies, but it seemed like the tank didn’t get hit at all?

Actually, that’s the biggest question.

Even if you call it the warrior’s invulnerability skill, it’s just counterattack and backward evasion. How could they not get hit?

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– Did you not take any screenshots or videos? I heard it’s super fast, but what’s the playstyle like… it’s not a piece of cake or anything.

ㄴ What does 입아온 mean? I’m a gal newbie.

ㄴ It means I’m playing Astria Online, lol.

ㄴ (Original Poster) The Chris Engineering Guild party has the in-game setting disabled for screenshots and videos. You can’t take pictures without the party leader’s permission when going into a dungeon. You can, however, watch the combat.

ㄴ But you can use external programs to record, can’t you?

ㄴ It’s possible, but do you know who Chris’s father is? He’s pretty famous, right? He might trace your IQ and hack your capsule, seriously…

ㄴ What? Is this to prevent video leaks of the bus tactics? That’s kind of suspicious. The Chris Guild got beaten by a no-name party anyway, right?

ㄴ No Name! No Name!

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– Usually, PVP geezers ride the bus a lot, so those with fixed parties don’t have much reason to ride it. But why is there a ban on screenshots?

ㄴ I once rode it to learn some tactics, and I think I know why. There’s an owner of the Orc Tusk here; a cute one with white hair and a small character.

ㄴ (Original Poster) Yeah, that cute warrior girl is the tank.

ㄴ Huh, wasn’t she supposed to be dead? Why do they run with her?

ㄴ Huh? But she’s really good. I’m a warrior too, and I wanted to learn from her, but her movements aside, her skills are strange, right? It feels different from what I use, from damage to detection. I know what skills she uses, but I can’t just follow her. In the blink of an eye, she’s casting three or four skills simultaneously. I wonder if it’s possible to do something similar in retro PC games.

ㄴ (Original Poster) She’s wearing a really cute outfit while running the bus;;; Some people might go crazy over it, so they probably banned screenshots.

ㄴ Yeah, to get permission to take screenshots, you’d have to charm the girl other than Chris. But do you have the money to ride the bus? It’s expensive since it’s early in the dungeon. It’s for the bosses, lol.

ㄴ Huh… Huh… lol, I’m going to start saving money to ride Chris’s bus.

ㄴ Woohoo! I’m going too!

ㄴ Not a person…

ㄴ We need to catch those types of guys.

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“So Cherni… and Bae Merong kicked him right in the shins.”

“Cherni uncle is so pitiful.”

“Hehe, but Bae Merong is the older sister… isn’t she your uncle too? They’re the same age, so why don’t you call him oppa?”

“Hehe…”

Since both are in their first year of university, they are probably around the same age as ‘Lee Seulbi.’

Initially feeling resistance to the word ‘oppa’ aside, if it were in that other world, I don’t think she would’ve called Bae Merong an older sister.

In this reality, I don’t feel much like an adult. If it were Lee Seulbi from that other world, she might think differently.

Even though our memories are shared, she and I are clearly different beings.

But these days, I really hated that her physical condition was affecting me too.

If I earn money, go to the hospital, and improve our living conditions, I might not have to worry as much.

After all, Lee Seulbi has to be here for Rain to be here too.

But, I thought I heard the sisters’ voices getting a little cut off.

“…Ha ha! How about it? Since I’m participating in the damage, we can go faster, right?”

“Ah, you already have an existing party.”

“These days, since we’re not matching well, we have no choice but to ride this bus.”

The warriors’ uncles frequent this place, but today’s guest was a young warrior.

Among the passengers, there were guests who supported damage without interfering with the strategy like this. Until we reached the forward base, there were mostly uncle PVP users, but these days, we have been seeing young guests more often while running the castle bus.

Some guests even asked to befriend me or tried to offer me the sweet desserts bought at the capital café. Those guests were cut off by Chris.

While we were chatting, we arrived in front of the 2Named.

Today’s guest, the warrior youth, seemed filled with enthusiasm.

“Oh, Balgard! I think I can show you something good!”

The battle began, and Balgard’s rough attacks started pouring down on me.

But right now, the firepower of the 3-person party is quite powerful. Even the warrior guest is supporting the damage. Balgard’s HP quickly hit 95%.

Kiiing!

The first gear began to move, and I was led to Balgard to stack the bleed. At that moment, the warrior guest, who was swinging his axe, suddenly changed his movement.

“Whoa!”

Smack, Crash!

He crashed into Balgard with force and slammed the ground hard with his axe.

For a moment, Balgard’s movement stopped.

A warrior’s status ailment, stun technique.

Bang!

The warrior put his body against the gear and began to “struggle” with Balgard.

“Haap!”

Rumble!

Papapapapack!

The warrior yelled, forcefully pushing Balgard’s massive body back.

As the warrior shoved Balgard’s body in the direction of the gear, he got scratched repeatedly, accumulating injuries in an instant.

“Wow, I heard warriors could do that, but seeing it in person is a first.”

“I can’t believe how much bleed stacks he piled up all at once!”

Chris and Bae Merong exclaimed in admiration.

The warrior repeated the same action when the gear came back. Balgard’s HP began to drop rapidly. One gear stacked a tremendous amount of bleed.

The warrior guest, who took damage from Balgard while stacking the bleed, quickly exhausted his HP and collapsed. But, Balgard was already in terrible shape.

Thanks to the warrior guest, I didn’t even need to lure additional gears.

Grrrr…!

Not long after, Balgard fell, and the revived warrior guest returned to the combat area with tension in his shoulders.

“Oh.”

Clap, clap, clap.

I applauded the warrior guest. He laughed heartily and raised his axe in a show of pride.

I thought warriors were only strong in PVP, but they can also contribute to dungeons like this.

On the way to the 3Named, Chris and I were cautiously advancing, trying to avoid the cocoons.

Here, we had to be even more careful. The cocoons in the top area of the 3Named were much larger and denser than in other areas.

If you touch a cocoon, much stronger monsters will pop out than the 1Named’s little fish.

The warrior guest was following behind Bae Merong.

The warrior guest seemed dangerously cheerful.

“Ha ha! Like this, … you can inflict status ailments even on Named monsters if you use it continuously!”

Hooom, hooong!

I heard the sound of an axe spinning lightly from behind. It seemed like Bae Merong was echoing his enthusiasm.

Chris turned her head slightly to check behind her.

“Please be careful here, too. It’s a gimmick monster, so … we have to proceed safely.”

“If all the guys wake up, I think our party can take them down! Whoaaah!”

Thud.

I turned my head.

The warrior guest raised his axe and stamped his foot heavily.

“LIROOOOOI! HOPKINS!”

He shouted his nickname, and his body instantly soared into the air.

Then, he landed in the center where the eggs and cocoons were densely packed.

Keek, keek, keek, keek!

Dozens of chimeras began to awaken around that center.

The wave spread throughout the tower in an instant.

All the chimeras in this area were waking up.

The warrior guest, whose spirits were high, ended up causing an accident.

Chris and Bae Merong started shouting something.

The warrior was receiving concentrated attacks from the chimeras, looking utterly bewildered. Despite the fierce swings of his axe, the chimeras weren’t going down easily.

Tatatat!

I quickly moved my body and started unleashing the Moonlight Slashes at the chimeras surrounding the warrior.

Papapack!

Their defense was beyond imagination. They were monsters made to dodge due to their gimmick. There was no way to take them down in a short time.

Before long, the four of us were busy defending against the chimeras’ concentrated attacks.

The wave of chimeras was surging like a tide.

Chris gestured towards the upper-level stairs. That way was also filled with chimeras.

Dozens? More than a hundred? There was no way to break through. The distance to the stairs still seemed to be over 20 meters.

It almost felt better to wipe out and start again from the entrance.

But.

For now, let’s go alone. I don’t want to get hurt.

If I use One Flash and backward evasion in tandem, I can reach the upper area by myself.

Twitch.

My hand trembled.

Going alone? What about leaving my comrades behind?

I shook my head.

I felt an instinctive resistance.

Ignoring the chimeras’ attacks, I began to push forward.

I thought I heard Chris shouting something behind me.

The chimeras swarmed like bees and began to gnaw at my body.

Legs, shoulders, sides.

The chimeras, big and small, sunk their teeth into various parts of my body.

“……!”

A horrifying pain shot through me, and my whole body shook.

It felt like dying quickly would be better, as the excruciating agony of having my flesh ripped apart consumed me.

Amid the pain piercing my head, and the sensation of my body rapidly dying, I grasped a feeling I’d felt before.

With the current sensation, I thought I could definitely use ‘that.’

Snap.

I took the stance for One Flash.

The technique used by the past hero that I saw at the top of the Training Tower.

Ignoring the chimeras’ teeth gnawing at my legs, I planted my feet firmly on the ground.

I felt like an unprecedented energy was flowing through me.

That energy started at my toes, travelled up my legs and waist, and spread to my fingertips.

A powerful energy was concentrated throughout my body.

The moment I pressed my foot down hard.

Flash!

Kaboom! Kaboom! Kaboom!

My body shot out like a projectile.

A storm of powerful mana surged with me.

The sturdy, resilient chimeras of Area 3 simply sliced and ripped apart in front of that absolute storm.

Thud, thud, thud.

A straight path was cleared to the upper-level stairs, raining down pieces of flesh.

Lee Seulbi’s body sent danger signals.

Just hang on a little longer.

I’ll just circle around here and let you rest.

I turned back, drenched in blood.

And I smiled at my comrades.

“I’ve opened the path.”

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